Oregon
Emerald
VOL. 20.
EUGENE, OREGON, TUESDAY EVENING, NOV. 26, 1918.
NO. 23.
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Decision Against Book Due to
Lack of Finances and
the War ‘
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE
FAVOR PUBLICATION NOW
.Yearbook Considered Big Fac
tor of Oregon Spirit and
Record of Events,
” \, _
The Oregana will be the chief topic for
discussion at the meeting of the executive
council Wednesday afternoon at one
o’clock in L. II. Johnson’s room in the
Administration building.
At a former executive committee meet
ing it was decided not to have an Ore
gana this year because of lack of finance.
That was before the war ended and there
Was no next year to look forward to. As
normal times will probably be established
by next year, it was thought it might be
possible to print the Oregana this year.
Although as one member of the commit
tee said, “Even though the armistice is
signed, that does not mean that we have
any more money than we did before.”
Here is bow the members of the execu
tive committee feel about the Oregana.
Herald White—“The Oregon students
have supported the different activities of
the student body this year remarkably
(veil. The one big problem that confronts
the students at present is the question
of whether or not we are to have the
Oregana. It is one of the biggest factors
of Oregon spirit and is the instrument
that keeps our alumni in touch with cur
rent events at the University. It also af
fords many prep school students the op
portunity of becoming familiar with the
• dvantages at Oregon. For those reasons,
with many others, every active student,
every alumni and every faculty member
should support it to the finish and we’ll
put it across and publish an Oregona
that will bo up to the standard of pre
cious years and one of which we all can
be proud.”
Expense Is Great.
I'lla Dews—- Since it is the policy of
the executive council to decrease expense
ind increase income, it is very probable
that we . will not be able to publish the
Oregana this year. As neither the editor
nor manager elect have returned to col
lege this winter. I think it would ho in
idvisable to have t’he annual book. How
ever, if competent people can be found
to fill these places left vacant, I am in
!avor of the Oregana.”
Helen McDonald—“The annual year
book of a college is always eagerly look
ed forward to. read and remembered for
tears after. It is the permanent record
of the University and as such, is more
valuable than the University paper. Af
1’hc Emerald has assured its financial
freedom through a well subscribed-to
campaign, perhaps some means can be
worked out whereby the Oregana will be
i self-paying proposition. But until it
does, we can not count on an Oregana,
much as every student wants one. Sup
port us in any decision we may have to
rome to and we will give you an Oregana
If it lies within our power.”
Make It Smaller.
Jack Dundore—“The 1910 Oregana,
though it be a slightly smaller issue,
Should by all means he published. The
Oregana is the only compact record of
the events of the college year, and the
series which is contir” >us since 1900,
•hould not be broken. If a good editor
md manager can be found, the ‘Oregon
students’ handbook’ for this year should
be re-established.”
Willard Hollenbeck—“I am strongly in
favor of publishing the Oregana this year
is in previous years. The spirit of the
college is very low this year because
jo many customs and traditions have
already been discarder, a failure to pub
lish the Oregana this year would be dis
carding one of our most treasured cus
toms. We haven't a college feature which
advertises and creates college interest
more than the Oregana. I believe that by
cutting it down it could be successfully
*inanced.”
“Charles Huntington—“I would cer
tainly hate to see the Oregana discon
jnu.’d, but want to see it made a self
aaying proposition. It is very desirable to
have the annual year book if possible-”.
i Eugene Best Place !
in World tor Home,
Says Colonel Leader
Colonel Leader would rath°r live in
Eugene than any other place in the
whole world—and he has seeu and lived
iu many cities in all parts of the
world.
"Yes. Eugene is really the nicest
place in all the world for a home." says
the Colonel. ‘‘I have wandered about a
great deal and in all my travels, never
have I found a place with so many gen
tle folk considering the size of the com
munity.
“After all, if one can have agreeable
surroundings and agreeable people that !
is Quite enough. Of course, Eugene is
not very lively, but I could make it so," !
he said with his characteristic smile.
An English country home with polo
and cricket clubs in abundance would
make Colonel Leader perfectly happy
here. Just where either the home or the
clubs wil be does not bother him at all.
M hen the time comes, he will arrange
for both. Another of his ideas, he says,
is to make Eugene more like Pasadena,
lie has not started his reform yet
The Colonel wants his sons to go to
the University of Oregon and grow up
in just the same way as all the other
good little children of the neighborhood.
When John Jr. and Michael get to the
I niversity, their father wants them to
take great interest In all college sports
and college activities, and he “heads of
sports in their companies ”
Oregon Professor Assists in
Book by Historical Re
search Board.
The war iu all its phases has been told
! about in a new book “War Readings”
which is just off the press. The book is
a collection of the best of the war litera
ture and was prepared for the national
iboard of historical research by a num
ber of persons, among them Professor II.
C. Clark of the University of Oregon,
who spent last summer ir: Washington
doing research work for the board.
The stories and articles are for the
most part selected from the writings of
tactual participants the hoard selecting
the most interesting portions in order
that as a year book for schol use it
would not be too large. Stories of heroic
deeds of the men have been told, but
with a careful selection to eliminate the
horrors and details of suffering as out of
place in a volume intended for school use.
Throughout the hook are reproductions
of war posters which though they do not
illustrate the text show the spirit of the
allied countries at the time they were
issued.
The description of the bombardment
jof Antwerp is most realistic with the
details brought in to show the real reac
tions of the people to the destruction go
ing on. “Trenching at Gallipoli.” by John
Gallishaw tells of the heroic work done
in that ill-fated campaign; and “Ambu
lance Driving in France,” by Charles R.
Nordhoff gives a graphic description of
the work of the ambulance corps at the
battle fronts.
How the Italians wrenched the sum
mits of the highest peaks from the Aus
trians in spite of opposition and another
foe, the avalanches, is told by Will Ir
win, the American newspaper corre
spondent.
The story of how Sister Julie, a
French nun, ordered the Huns out. of
her home and how they retreated before
her tongue is told by Wythe Williams, in
“Stories of France at War.”
$.2000.000 INSURANCE OUT
Two Hundred Men of S. A. T. C. Take
Maximum Amount.
Two hundred men of the S. A. T. C.
have taken out insurance up to date,
making a total of $2,000,000, as report
ed at the personnel office this morning.
The writing of the insurance began last
Friday. Lieutenant W. F. G. Thacher
and Lieutenant It. S. Zimmerman are
handling the men at the rate of 20 to 150
an hour. “All of the men are taking out
insurance,” Lieutenant Thacher said this
taornr'ng.
Company I) men were all insured by
noon Saturday. 11 company started in
after aril' resterday.
SEMI S, HU
Men to Get Full Equipment at
Once and Leaves tor
Thanksgiving.
Tay day. arrival of tbo uniforms and
the1 possibility of pnsses borne for
Thanksgiving are giving the man of tbo
8. A. T. C. renewed vigor. All this iu
one week, much loss in two or three
days, is almost too good to be true, they
say.
All the clothing for all the 450 men
is here. Lieutenants and their assist
ants were busy Monday and today un
packing the hundred boxes,, containing
nil the equipment and storing the con
tents in the store at Emerald and Four
teenth streets, which will be used as a
distributing center. Here everything is
being placed on shelves according to
sizes and numbers and a back room is
fitted up as a shoe store.
Distribution of the uniforms will start
tomorrow with Lieutenant F. F. Rad
cliff in charge. The men are furnished
with woolen overcoats, woolen breeches,
shirts and blouses, army shoes and ser
vice hats.
Men Get Pay
The S. A. T. <_'. men received their
pay yesterday for the period from Oc
tober 14 to October ill, $17.00. Many
of the men were at. the University Oc
tober 1, hut the date of formal induction
was October 14- Colonel Bowen hns
written headquarters requesting that the
men who were hero October 1 and had
expressed their intention of wishing to
enroll in the corps, he paid from Octo
ber 1 to October 14, since it was no fault
of theirs that they were not inducted
until the middle of the month.
No Mileage Rate
Xo more furloughs giving the bearer
cent-a-mile mileage rate will be granted,
Colonel Bowen announced this morning
following instructions received from the
war department. The men will be given
passes, however, effective from Thurs
day morning until Monday morning at
8 o’clock. Xo passes for leaving Eu
gene will be given after the Thanksgiv
ing holidays until Christmas vacation.
The only exception will be pusses grant
ed on the orders of the physicians of the
S. A. T. C.
JOLLY PARTY TO BE GIVEN
Thanksgiving Eve to Re Celebrated at
Y. W. Bungalow.
All I nivorsity girls remaining in Eu
gene over Thanksgiving are urged to
attend the Thanksgiving eve party to be
given in the Y. AV. C. A. Bungalow Wed
nesday night, according to Miss Tirza
Dinsdale, general Y. AV. C. A. secretary.
The party is to be informal in every de
tail, and there are going to he just the
things to do that you love to do on t.h*'
night before Thanksgiving. There will be
a sparkling fire in the fireplace, games to
play, and story telling with the lights
turned low.
There are even rumors that there will
be apples to eat. That is enough to tell in
advance, isn’t it? Apples, a glowing open
fire and an easy chair, what more do
you want?
There are going to be lots of reserved
scats around the fireplace, says Elvira
Thurlow, who with the rest of the Y. AV.
cabinet is to be hostess at this affair,
and if you don’t come your chair will be
vacant, and that would spoil it all.
LLOYD PERKINS AT W. S. C.
In Command of 200 Students; Enjoys
“Oregon Overseas.”
In a letter received at the library
Lieutenant Lloyd Perkins, formerly a
student in the University, expresses his
thanks t<> the women editors of “Oregon
Overseas,” the bulletin published by the
editing ('ass of the University. Lieuten
ant Perkins is stationed with the S. A.
T. C. unit at Washington State College,
Pullman. Wash.
lie writes: "I am at present stationed
at AVasliington .State College with a com
mand of 200 men. The work is indeed
interesting. Wo had a severe attack of
the flu. losing some 48 men, ten of whom
were mj boys. I had tin* misfortune to
contract the flu myself hut after seven
duys pul ed through.
“Will you express my thanks to the
women editors of ‘Oregon Overseas’? It
is a fair example of Oregon spirit and a
mest welcome paper full of Old Oregon.”
Sport Program to Open Next
Week: Rivalry Keen
Among Teams.
| All comimny athletics have been post
poned until the men have fully recovered
from the effects of the recent vaccination
and inoculation, but the leaders of sports
in the companies believe the men will he
fit to resume activities next week. The
compulsory athletic hour has been aban
doned hut when the health of the men
permits, it will he put into effect again.
I'.ddio Purno, who was elected perma
nent director of activities for Company
1!. says basketball practice between the
platoons v. ”1 start Monday, if enough
men are out. Nish Chapman, head of bas
ketball in Company A. expects to lineup
a fighting sound of hall tossers within the
next few weeks. Basketball, wrestling,
boxing and swimming are the athletics
which will In- open to the men when the
activities arc resumed.
Francis Jacohberger is to pilot the II
team, lie has not yet a line on his men,
but Company I? expects as usual to put
out a scrappy lot. If the handball court
in the gymnasium is not isod by the
military authorities, it is very p-ohnhle
handball teams will he formed in the
companies. The “Gobs” arc displaying a
great amount of confidence that they
have the best, athletes in the S'. A. T. C.
Th - future of inter-company athletics
; looks bright as the men arc taking in
terest in the work and the rivalry be
tween the organizations makes, the games
full of spirit. Next \\;eel; will probably
sec the opening of considerable excitc
1 ment along athletic lines.
DR. SCHAFER DIGS FACTS
I History Professor Takes Part in Verify
ing Bolsiioviki Data.
The name of Professor Joseph Schafer,
head of the department of history at the
i'Diversity blit who is now vice-chairman
of the National Hoard for Historical Ser
vice, appears in connection with the pub
lication of “The German-Bolshevik Con
spiracy” by the Committee on Public In
formation.
The New York Evening Post doubted
the authenticity of the series of docu
ments used in the bulletin to prove that
the Bolshevik revolution in Russia was
arranged for and financially backed by
the German government. Professor Scha
fer was askofl by George Creel, chairman
of the Committee on Public Information,
to appoint a committee to examine the
documents and charges made by the New
York paper.
A copy of “The German-Bolshevik
Conspiracy” is in the library. It contains
a series of communications between the
German government and Russian Bol
shevik government and also the report
thereon made to George Creel by Edgar
Sisson, the committee’s special repre
sentative in Russia during the winter of
1917-18.
PEARSON ENJOYS FLYING
Regrets That Closo of War Found Him
in the United States.
In a letter to Professor F. L. Shinn,
Lieutenant Alex Pearson, ex-’17, says
that he likes flying and thinks there is
nothing like it for sport. lie says that
he is ready to fly any time and has never
had fnore than he wanted. Lieutenant
Pearson is stationed at Payne Field,
West Point, Mississippi. A part of his
letter follows:
“Now the war is over and while I am
glad that it is over I regret very much
that the end found me still in the United
States. I would feel that I had done
something if I had been permitted to go
across but as it is I feel that I have been
a mere spectator of the great fight. I
wished for action right on the front as
have many, many more In my same cir
cumstances but comparatively few in our
air service have had this privilege.
“After leaving school I started out by
going to the ground school at the Uni
versity of California then Camp Dick,
I (alias, Texas, then San Diego, Califor
nia, then Dayton, Ohio, and I am now
at West Point, Mississippi, and have been
here since September 25 and will prob
ably be here until demobilization, though
of course 1 may not. I have enjoyed the
wrk thoroughly from start to finish,
though of course there have been hard
spots and some things not altogether as
one would wish them
Leading Lady Pats
Eddie’s Hair Cut
While He Blushes
‘'Bill” Hayward, trainer, was very
watchful over the Oregon football men
oil the trip south last week but Ed Durno
sat just in front of him in a San Fran
cisco theatre and he had the best time.
Eddie blushed. He didn’t, he says. But
anyway, he sat snug against the plat
form which ran through the audience
from the stage, and the leading lady, who
sang a song about love, stopped only
three places. First to receive attentions
was Eddie.
The lending lady patted the football
lair-cut, did something to Eddie’s chin
and wanted to know.
“Won’t you tell the world about me
now?”
Bather than to sit in rows, the foot
ball men for obvious reasons sat in single
file that night so some thought the lady
would stop where “Shy” Huntington sat,
hut she didn’t. It was Eddie’s night.
GGL. IIADER LEAVES
Will Organize High School
Military Classes on
Return.
Colonel and Mrs. John Leader left yes
terday for Mritiah Columbia, where they
will upend a week in looking over their
business interests. On his return. Colonel
Leader will stall at onoe the organisation
of military instruction work in the high
schools of the state. The nctttnl instruc
tion will probably not start until Janu
ary, but the work of organization will
take fully a month, the colonel said this
morning.
Colonel Lender is in charge of the work
' for the state; working with him are Col
I onel Alfred C. Sharpe, commanding offi
cer of the Oregon Agricultural college
S. A. T. C., and K. F. Cart.don, assistant
state superintendent of public instruc
tion.
Colonel Leader will go first to Astoria,
on his return from Rritish Columbia, to
organize the military training iu the
schools there. lie will next visit the
Cortland schools. The high school prin
cipals have written him asking that he
aid them in establishing the work. They
plan to use ns instructors members of
thcii faculties who have trained in of
ficers’ camps, either at the I'niversity of
j Oregon, or at central officers’ training
schools. The colonel will also go to Med
ford and Roseburg, where the demand for
miliary training in the high schools has
been urgent.
'PETE’ SEXTON NOT DEAD?
Man Killed in France Reportod Other
Than Oregon Studont.
Airs. O. 1’. Sexton, of Stockton, Califor
nia, has received a telegram from a Mrs.
Harold Sexton of Hood River in which
she stated it ns probable that it was her
husband who was recently killed in
France instead of Harold Sexton, son of
Mrs. Sexton of California. The Hood Riv
er woman gave as her reason for think
ing this that the Harold Sexton who was
killed was reported ns a cook and Iter
husband was a cook in France, while
“Pete” Sexton was in the infantry.
No word has been received by the fam
ilies from tiic men themselves since the
report but since “Pete” was in the infan
try it is thought, by his family that he
was tlie fine killed and that the mistake
was made by the war department, in stat
ing that lie was a cooTc. Investigations
are being made by both families to
straighten the matter out.
Harold Sexton, who was reported kill
ed in action in France, was u student in
the University in ’14 and ’15. He enlist
ed in the infantry in T7.
OREGON MAN TO SAIL SOON
Thurston Laraway , In Navy Medical
Corps, Assigned to Duty.
Thurston Laraway, according to a let
ter received by his parents, Mr. and
Airs. AV. F. litirnway, has been assigned
to duty aboard the U. S. S. Matsonia,
| and is expecting to sail from New York
City for European wat.erH at any time.
Air. Laraway, who is in the medical re
serve corps of the navy, has been trac
ing at Hampton Roods, Va. Hood River
Olaeier, Nov. 21.
Afr. Laraway is a member of the class
I of 1019 of the University.
TESM PREPARES
Northerners Showing Up Well;
Eckman at Quarter Is
Find of Season.
OREGON’S LINE-UP SAME
AS IN BERKELEY BATTLE
Contest With 0. A. C. Hanging
Fire; Multnomah Likely
for December 14.
^ After having held the University ot
California to a fi to 0 score in Berkeley,
Saturday, the Oregon regimental eleven
arrived in Uugene early yesterday morn
ing anil yesterday afternoon started prac
fioo for the contest with the University
ol Washington next Saturday at Seattle
The game in the south was played on a
field that had the mudhole at O. A. Q
looking like the Sahara desert.
The game itself was played, for the
most part, in a downpour of rain and
with a team as heavy as was the Cali
fornia crew the Oregon team was unable
hang the Indian sign on them. The
< ulifornia team does nut appear to be
*(’ very heavy on paper, hut Carl Mnut»
•lid a little Sherlock work and found that
Siennrt. who was playing opposite him
weight d 1’ 111 pounds, while in the officio
weights given out by California he die
only ISO. The rest of the team declare
tlial the California weights were trimmer;
and that the difference in the two team*
was close to 25 pounds instead of ten
as the figures given out indicate.
i he Oregon team and couch are mak
ing no attempt to dig up an alibi. The
cards were simply stacked against Ore
gon. On a dry field the men and Hunting,
ion declare that they could have at leosi
held the (iolden Bear to a scoreless tie
i 11 n’^ sn,ne even hold enough to declare
that they could have beaten them. Be
that as it may, the California contest
is over. Oregon lost and so did the Unit
ed War Work drive, as there were fewer
than 1,000 paid admissions.
Mon Must Keep in Condition.
Tlio tusk at tho present writing is get
ting into shape for the struggle with
Washington. It is going to be hard fot
the men to keep in condition with big
Thanksgiving dinners being held next
I hursday and several dances during the
three (lays of vacation. The University
ot Washington has a good team. That
was proved by the (1 to 0 score that they
banded O. A. ('. last Saturday at Seattle
Oregon students were so busy looking to
the south that they forgot all about tho
teaai in (he north and few recognize the
strength of the Washington eleven.
Washington lias a man playing quarter
that is about the < lass of the coast. Roy
Eekmnn, 1-10 pounds of brawn nnd brain,
is calling signals for the northern insti
tuti"n and from the looks of his work
in the game last Saturday with O. A. G
he must lie a wonder, lie scored the only
touchdown of the day and did some open
field running that, brought the stands to
their feet. Washington stuck by old foot
ball in the game Saturday and are talk
ing of beating Oregon next Saturday.
Dope Favors Washington.
The Washington team beat O. A. C. by
as many points as did Oregon and. ns the
Aggies had tin- same line-up in the Se
attle game as they used at Corvallia, it
looks ns if the Washington team was
about, all Conch Tony Savage claims it
to he. “Fat” Lippman, the boy Pat
O’Rourke had such a nice time with at
O. A. 0., was missing from the O. A. O.
line-up Saturday but in every other re
spect it was thp same aa the one they
started against Oregon.
Reverting again to the contest in the
south last week-end, Francis Jacobberger
is given a great deal of praise by those
who saw the contest. The lanky Oregon
quarter did some nice work and mails
somo big gains for tho Lemon Yellow.
The California team bucked Pat
O’Rourke’s tackle time after time and
kept Put busy. lie hurt his ankle during
the game and may not he in shape to play
in the game witli Washington next week.
The rest of the team nppear to be in fair
ly good shape and should work all of tha
stiffness out in a day or two.
The one individual star of the contest
was Sprott, of California, who made over
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