OREGON EMERALD
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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
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