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OREGON EMERALD Official student body paper of the University of Oregon, published every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of the College year by the Associated Students. Entered in the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.25 per year. EDITORIAL STAFF DOUGLAS KULLARKY ....EDITOR Helen Brenton.Associate Elizabeth Aumiller .Associate Dorothy Duniway.City Editor Erma Zimmerman, Assistant City Editor Leith Abbott .Make-Up Adelaide Lake .Women’s Editor Helen Manning.Society Pierce Cursings .............. Features Alexander G. Brown.Sports Bess Column.Dramatics Reporters. Helen McDonald, Louise Davis, Fran ces Cardwell, Dorothy Cox, Elva Bagley, Frances Stiles, Stella Sullivan, Velma Rupert, Lewis Nevin, Raymond Law rence, Wanna McKinney, Forest Watson, Lyle Bryson and Stirling Patterson. BUSINESS STAFF HARRIS ELLSWORTH ...MANAGER Elston Ireland.Circulation Catherine Dobie .Collections ASSISTANTS Warren Kays Margaret Biddle Virgil Meador Dorothy Dixon News und Business Phone (555. THAT GREEN CAP. Speaking of in inconsistencies, there could be nothing more flagrant than the wearing of a regulation United States tmuy uniform finished off at the top with a freshman green cap. The uniform is the distinctive dress of a soldier, one who serves in an army in the defense of his country and ns such il; should be respected and honored. Mil itary officers declare that the combina tion of the uniform with the badge of the first year student is degrading to the Uniform of the United States army. No objection is offered to wearing the green cap if a civilian coat is worn in combination with military trousers but to substitute the vordant cap for the ser vice hat in a full uniform is to unite the Signified with the ridiculous. The practice should be absolutely dis couraged on the campus and students can show their respect for the uniform of their country by exercising care and being consistent In the way they wear It. H. B. DONALD SMYTHE BACK FROM THE FRONT (Ooctinuod from page one.) 'Malcolm Johnston, ex-’17, was killed. Smythe had known hieutenunt Johnston at the University and they were good frlendB. "lie >vns very popular with all the men," said Smythe, "and was one of our first Mg losses." The Marines and the Engineers dug in and the French artillery was soon re turning Frlte's fire. It was here that Smythe noticed one of the many curi ous things that lie had occasion to see In those trying days. Behind one wall of an old barn which was still stauding, Smythe saw a cmv, peacefully grazing on a little grass in the midst of nil the pounding of the Mg guns. ‘‘There that cow stood,” said Sergeant Smythe “with the Gorman machine guns clipping away and the French artillery booming. The sky was lit,up with star shells and roekets. The cow didn't Boom at all concerned." What finally kappened to lUe cow he decani know, but it was there for several days No Priseners Lost Tlu> iiH'ii of Sui) tin's regiment took lunny prisoners, but not one of their tnvn nun wits over taken prisoner that knows of, tie say s. " They just would •not dive in. 1 remember one of the men, tlio hinder of mr company, went down a, ravine one day and never cuiuo buck. When we found the spot later, the ground was till trampled mid there were evident i s of a sirumtle. What happen ed to him, wo never found out exactly, but W0 heard he had been killed. 1 know that he wasn't taken prisoner.” " I'lie fieri: a us we were liithuu;: were supposed to be tin 11iek of the t’rown Prinei'n army,' add Smytho, •'but from the prisoners J saw. 1 didn't think much of them. Half of them were boys and very old men, physically infected, many Vicariup; thick ylafc» ■«. Some of them looked almost lost in their heavy trench helmets uiul 1's' V.u>a 0f them seemed enthusiastic about fighting. Among the prisoners, we found a few Polish troops, who had been pressed into service.” Vaux Attack Most Successful The most successful fighting he was In was at Vaux, Sergeant Smythe said- This attack went off exactly according to schedule. The men went over the top at 0 P. M., went a half mile to the town, and took it in 45 minutes. This was the first action thut was entirely American, by American tfhops and American guns. Smythe was in I’aris when big Pertha began bombarding Paris. “The French people did t pay any attention to it,” he said. “The French papers the next day didn’t even mention it. The French just ignored it and so the German's at tempt to make any sort oP impression on the French morale was a decided failure.” Donald Smythe is the nephew of Professor E. E. De Gou, head of the de partment of mathematics. . s. Thirty May Earn Gold Stars; Officers in Both Army and Navy. Oregon has approximately 1,604 stu dents and former students of the Uni versity in the service, according to Mrs. Emma Wootton llall, who is compiling the data. Thirty of these have died while in training or in actual warfare. To the army Oregon has contributed: colonels, 1; lieutenant colonels, 2; ma jors, 7; captains, 24; first lieutenants, 00; second lieutenants,- 100; rank un known, 21; privates, 458. To the navy she has given IS officers and 85 blue jackets. In other branches of service she has. 32 marines, four in foreign ser vice, four Y. M. C. A- secretaries, three in Ited Gross service, one woman in mil itary service and one in special civil service. There are nine whose branch of service is not known by Airs. Hall or the office. Besides these she bus 00 in the service from the medical school, who are nearly all officers, and 43 from the law school. “However, nothing definite as to the rank of these men is known, as there has been no report from either of the schools for some time,’’ said Mrs. Hall. Adding the 455 men who were in the 'Students’ Army* Training Corps, brings up the grand total of 1,004 Many promotions have been made, ac cording to Mrs. Hall, and a correct clas sification cannot bo given for some time. COL. LEMH VISITS H HIGH SCHOOLS Returns from Hillsboro and Astoria, where He Talks on Military Work. Colonel Jolin lender has returned to the rumpus, after iris short trip to llills iboro and Astoria. At Hillsboro he spoke before tho liigh school assembly Thurs day morning, on the organisation of a military unit there, and inspected the already started nucleus of this organ isation. “1 gave them my ideas," said Colonel Lender, “about how such an organization could be made a practical thing, and said that they would get rifles and equip ment from the federal government, soon after the application was sent in.” Tn Astoria Colonel Lender spoke be fore the high school on tho same sub ject Friday afternoon. Mr. Elton, prin cipal of the Vstoria high school, Colonel Leader considers capable of furthering the organization of such a unit. "But us there ere s ,x camp men in Astoria at present," said Colonel Leader, “they will have no lack of instructors along military lines." The University Club of Astoria and members who had attended the O- T. C. at the Vniversitv from there, gave a ban quet for Colonel Lender at tho Weinhard Hotel, at which he spoke on Anglo American relations. liator in the evening he delivered the same address before the British Benev olence Society, at the Elks’ hall, in cel ebration of the allied victories. While ‘n Astoria the Colonel was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Tom Wootton. parents of Mrs Emma Wootton Hall and H'rothv Wootton. Next week Colonel Header will go to T* >nd on the "1'th. to Hood Iliver on the i IL. and to Eire drove later, to pro- | mote Hie organisation of military units i in ' ..h schools. Elans have alms been made to visit Baker on the 7th of Feb ruary. and Ontario on the *th. Further additions to these plans may also he j mads. A CAMPUS ACTIVITIES The presence on the campus of several prominent' guests has caused no small amount of excitement and has already formed the inspiration for many delight ful affairs. Mrs. George T. Gerlinger, regent of the University, and Mrs. Esther Allen Jobes, a prominent D. A. It. of Portland and state chairman of the American Citizenship Educational com mittee, who recently endowed the Wo men’s building with a handsome gift, ar rived in Eugene Monday and will be on the campus until Thursday. Mrs. Gerlin ger is the house guest of Mrs. A. C. Dixon, and Mrs. Jobes occupies the guest room at Hendricks hall. Miss Kather ine Bridge of Berkeley, California, vis iting delegate of Gamam Phi, is on the campus this week as the guest of the Gamma Phi chapter members. Many for mal and informal entertainments will be crowded into visitors free time in an ef fort to make their stay at the University a pleasant one. * * * Lewis and Clark chapter of the Daugh ters of the American Revolution, honor ed Mrs. George Gerlinger and Mrs. Es ther Allen Jobes, a prominent 'member of D. A. It. of Portland, with a delight ful tea at Hendricks hall on Monday af ternoon. Mrs. F. M. Wilkins, State Re gent of D. A. R., Mrs. Bruce L. Bogart, Chapter Regent, Mrs. Jobes, Mrs. Ger linger, Mrs. Edna Datson, Mrs. P. L. Campbell, Miss Gertrude Talbot and Dean Louise Ehrmann were in the re ceiving line. The hall was bcantifully decorated in greens and cut flowers. Mrs. Robert Mc Murphey and Mrs. L. P. Hobbs poured. Fifteen of the Hendricks hall seniors as sisted in receiving and serving. Those in charge of the affair were Mrs. Datson. Miss Mary Perkins, Sirs. Ellen Pennell and Miss Amy Dunn. * * * Pi Betn Phi entertained Sirs. Gerlinger and Sirs. Jobes at dinner on Slonday night. Additional guests were Sliss Tal mbsITWhi TO SPEAK ST T. W. Meeting Called at 4 o’clock Instead of Usual Hour of 5 P. M. Mrs. George Gerlinger, regent of the University, and .Mrs. Esther Allen Jobes, of Portland, will be special guests at the Y. W. C. A. meeting tomorrow af ternoon at 4:00 o’clock in the Bunga low. Mrs. Jobes and Mrs. Gerlulgcr are on the campus for a few days this week nnd are visiting a number of classes as well ns the different build ings. On Monday a tea was given in honor of the two visitors at Hendricks Hall, where the-women of the Lewis and Clark chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution were hostesses. Mrs. Jobes, who is a prominent I). A. It. of Portland, has recently sub scribed a liberal sum toward the wo man’s building for the University and for this reason is personally interested in the welfare of the institution- At the association meeting tomorrow’ afternoon Mrs. Gerlinger will speak to the women on some topic chosen by herself. The meeting: will necessarily be at 4:00 o’clock, because the visitors leave on the 5:25 train for Portland. The hour of meeting will unavoidably conflict with a number of classes, according to Miss Dinsdnle, hut it is hoped there wall be a large attendance. REGENTS NAME TWO FACULTY MEMBERS (Continued front page one) of the University for the past fire years. T.nst January’s enrollment was 1,114, an increase of 10 per cent over the preced ing year. However these figures do not iuclude the enrollment in the R. O. T. t\. when 050 men did a very intensive one month’s course, which has been ac credited by the faculty as worth one summer school, although not included in the regular academic enrollment. The complete statement of the enroll ment in the University as given by the registrar's report for the session 1918 1919 includes 1.839 students, divided as follows: Graduate school, (1: college of Literature, Science and Arts, 1,108; sum mer school, 189; School of Medicine, 71; School of Music, 163. Thirty-one coun ties of Oregon, twenty-one states and two foreign countries are represented in these figures. The corresponding enroll ment for the session of 1917-1918 was 1,788, showing an increase of 106 this year. The board will probably meet after the adjournment of the legislature, when de tailed matters of budgets will be consid ered. Lot, Miss Ehrmann and Mrs. Dixon. * * * Members of Gamma Phi Beta will en tertain tomorrow afternoon with a tea in honor of their visiting delegate, Miss Katherine Bridge, from Berkeley Cal. Cut flowers and greens will be used as decorations. Mrs. H. W. Weir, Miss Katharine Bridge, Dean Louise Ehrmann, Mrs. J. D. Glittery, Mrs. A. C. Dixon, Mrs. O. F. Stafford and Genevieve Dickey will be in the receiving line. * * • Kappa Alpha Theta is entertaining Mrs. Gerlinger, Mrs. Jobes, Mrs. Dixon and Miss Louise Ehrmann at dinner this evening. Later the guests will be enter tained at the Gamma Phi Beta house with an informal musical program. * * * Alpha Phi is entertaining at dinner tonight for Colonel and Mrs. John Lead er, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. G. Thacher, Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Faguy-Cote and Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Sehroff. * * * Gamma Phi Beta held initiation in the Chapter house for their ten pledges on Saturday night. Later the initiates were honored with a banquet at the Hotel Os burn. The table was attractively deco rated with bouquets of carnations and smilax and the place cards were in the form of the Gamma Phi Beta shield. The initiates were Lillian Brock, Nndine Boh lnnder, Vivien Hopson, Helen Houghton. Madge Calkins, Helene Kuykendall. Ge neva Stebno, Ronalda Cameron, Bernice Craig and Edna Hyde. * * * Bill Snyder. Ned Fowler, Martin How ard, Franeis Jacobson. Jack Adams and W. Jay^ Mnlkey were Sunday dinner ghosts at the Delta Gamma house. * * * Lillian Brock, a member of Gamma Phi Sorority, left Sunday for Seattle, where she intends>to study the pipe organ. She is living at thc^ Gamma Phi Beta house at the University of Washington. No Law Against Combination but It’s Disrespectful, Says Col. Bowen. “The green cap worn in combination with the army uniform on the campus is disrespectful to that uniform,” said Col. W. H. C. Bowen this morning in an in terview. “However, it is a matter that cannot be dealt with by the military authorities since it is now without their jurisdiction. As long ns they were in the service, such a tiling would have been in absolute violation of the rules and regulations. Now the young men are discharged and the government gives them the use of their uniforms for the period of four months, and does not snWow they shall wear them. For myself, I do not like to see the green cap with the uniform of either the IT. S. army or navy.” Col. Bowen said that this disrespect is shown in other places also. From re cent issues of papers from San Francisco I and otheT cities the same disrespect has been commented upon. “In fact,” he continued, “there is no respect for the uniform, the flag or the government among the general public any more. Except in the very height of ex citement, they have no admiration for these things. I have seer., right at the time when the newspapers were most full of war news and the people most excited, parades wheTe men stood on the side lines with covered heads while the flag passed by. And it is my opinion that this war will have been forgotten in three years.” DRILL MEETS WITH FAVOR Upperclassmen Endorse R. 0. T, C. for Underclassmen. It was decided at a meeting yesterday afternoon of upperdass men before Pres ident P. L. Campbell and several mem bers of the faculty, that requisite three hours of drill in the R. O. T. O. for un derclassmen should be continued, accord ing to Eric W. Allen, dean of the School of Journalism. President Campbell put the matter be fore the juniors and seniors for discus sion as to what they thought should be done. A committee will meet Wednesday to take up the question of excusing men from drill who are working afternoons and who can show they are actually earn ing a reasonable subsistence, or who can prove that they sufficient other rea son to be excused SHOES West 8ti Street HOTEL BURN Favorite Resort of Student Dinner Dances Teas and Banquets a Specialty We Make Our Own Candies. The Oregana Confectionery llth Near Alder. All sorts of Pastry, Fountain Drinks and Ice Cream. “Get an Oregon Short—Thick." Two Good Bargains Quality Writing Paper, 80 sheets to package, regular 35c, Special.29^ Lakeside Lawn, 80 sheets to pkg., a good linen finish paper, regular value 50c, Special .39£ Coe Stationery Co. 041 Willamette. Us© Electricity! We Have All the Supplies You Want or Need LAMPS LIGHTING FIXTURES SHADES WIRING CONTRACTORS HEATERS COOKING DEVICES Everything Electrical The Electric Store Opposite the Rex Theatre