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HEALTH INSURANCE : • PLAN IS OUTLINED j?. --__ board of Regents to Act on Dr. -Sovard’s Suggestion for Infirmary. t The health insurance plan for the University of Oregon is to lie present led to the board of repents the latter part of this month for adoption during |tho spring term, at the suggestion of Dr, John F. Bovard, chairman of the faculty committee on student health, and the request of the student council. • **I believe this is one of the blggeat movements wo have started In a long time,” snid Dr, Bovard in speaking of j the iilnn.” , The payment of a small fee each term ■will Insuro the student four weeks of *tho best medical care In the University Infirmary. Tho houses will not have fo care for their members who are ill and this will relieve them. It will pre vent tho quarantine of a whole house, find by segregating the cases of illness |t Will lie possible to prevent epidemics bn th« campus, was the opinion of l)r. bovajd. Plan Will Help “The health insurance plan will also he a help to the University,” continued br. Bovard, “because the University cun Jiot afford to have a large number of stu dents absent from classes el I her because ' bf Illness or from quarantine. It' will lie much cheaper lo core for the stu dent when he first becomes ill and not lifive to suffer epidemic. “The expense to the individual will he touch lesB.” said I)r. Bovard. “If the term fee were to be placed at $2.50 per term, this sum would be much less Ilian liny hospital fee. Besides Insuring the tare of the sick," he continued, “this j^lan would protect every one. Knell student should do nil he cun to protect Ills fellow student. I "Under ttie present plan n free medl ran examination will be given each stu dent at tho beginning of each term, by a doctor. I Moro Equipment Needed I "Wheu tho health insurance plan is put Into effect, said Dr. Bovard, we hope to have a larger infirmary and more equipment. If it is adopted during tlie Spring term it will be more or less ex perimental- “We will try ourselves out” to Bald, “and see wlmt equipment Is heeded. I believe that if we can get this thing started we can well afford (o continue it. "This plan, which will provide protec tion for the individual, for the l iiiver tlty Work, and for tho University soci ety, lias been adopted by many of the larger universities, according to Dr. Bovard, and seems to be favorably re ceived by the students. Sigma Chis Out for Two Cups; May Put Name on One * Third Time. , The question now stands can the Sic am t'his lu'nt the Kappa Sics? If so,1 {lie two cups M ill go to the Sigma <'liis Ind on one of them it will lie the third (ime they will have carved their names 11m s tn a Id ng the alder trophy permanent theirs. For two years they curried off the hon ors and now they are contestants in the final game for the ehampienship this tear. Wlmt’s more, the general opinion I round the cnmi ns is that they can again {rah the prize. However, nothing inneli has been heard 1 bout the Kappa Sigs lately hut those i ho visit the g\m occasionally say that Hie Sigs are out there every day shoot iig and shooting some more, for that is (that they lack, the ability to drop the too iirge ball in the little hoop. Those who lore not in too great a rush after the |)elt-Sigma (.’hi game to get outside and (mgratulate the winners or console the lisers will know that the Kappa Sigs itieali d out on the floor immediately at fer the contest to get a little secret prac tice. Fact is, that is what they’ve been loing every day ever since tlnir last |ame. So things don’t look so bright after all I >r the Sigma t’his for with the defense me Kappa Sigs already have if they can lot the h slot it till they will worry the Ither champs considerably. Hcsiden, the kappa Sigs being the under dog, >o to Jipeak, will have the support of many of the fans. > All in all, though, much interest is ap parent on the o l t a pus over the coming thatnpicnaliip struggle which will be stag rd next Wednesday and from indie.itionit Ihe fund for the Women’s liuilding will Receive a considerehle boost fretn the amount taken in by the small admission fee of ten cents which will be charged. DEBATERS BUSY ON TRIALS Members of High School League to End Preliminaries This Week. Members of the state high school de bate league have already begun their competition for place as winner of their own district, and the finals foT these pre liminary debates will be over by the end of next week. This will leave the winners of each dis trict to be paired off for a final inter-dis trict qjnmpionship debate. The victorious teams will be grouped for the last de bates of the season by the executive com mittee of the league which is made up of President I’, L. Campbell, Robert W. Prescott., secretary of the league, Cor nelia Marvin, secretary of the state li brary. .1, A. Churchill, state superintend ent of school, and George Ilugg, principal of the McMinnville schools. MINE JUDGES HEAR CASE Chinese Blind Pigger Found Guilty by Members of Moot Court. J>.e Kong, Mind pfgger. wns convict ed Thursday of the attempted murder of Patrolman Smith. The courtroom wns not filled with In terested and expectant listeners; the {judges, nine of them, had n hard time explaining the points of law upon which the case was based to what few spec tators ther were. Lee Kong was not even present to hour his sentence. The poor fellow must have taken it bravely, wherever lie. was, <Jl3 the counsel for the defense, Kenneth Armstrong, seemed to enjoy the verdict immensely, praying only for a larger tiody of listeners at the next meeting of the court Those not present will admit that it is one of the queer cases of law on record. The only explanation offered is that the. case was an imaginary one, and thnt it wns one of the cases brought before the moot court, held once a week in the law library of the Oregon law school in the Oregon building. All regular law students acted ns judges: M. K. Holland wns Chief Jus tice; it. (J. Matson, clerk; Herbert 'Decker, special prosecutor for the peo ple, and Kenneth Armstrong, attorney for (lie defense. The ease, thnt of the people vs. Lee. Kong, was only one of a number of such cases which will lie tried 1 by the law students during the year. The facts iu the case were given as follows: Leo Kong runs n Mind pig. Patrol man Smith bores a hole iu I/ec's roof so lie can catch Lee selling liquor. Two minutes after Smith had finished bor ing the hole and left (lie roof, Lee re turns- Shavings on the floor call his attention to the hole, lie looks up and mistaking sunlight shining through the hole for Smith's eye, fires a bullet through the hole Intending to kill Smith. U TO ENTERTAIN SPEAKERS Tho intercollegiate oratorical contest which is to he hchi on the campus April II for the first time since Mill is going to give the l diversity an opportunity to entertain the one delegate from each id' the eight colleges in the interstate oratorical league according to Hath (irn linm, senior in the University and presi dent of the state intercollegiate debate league. The date has been set aside, on the college calendar for the contest along "ith a banquet in honor of the guests. Miss tlraham will have this matter in charge and will appoint committees to work with her in arranging for the en tertainment of the statewide guests. The judges for the contest include I'r. John lioyd, of the First Presbyterian church ot Portland; Judge \V. MeCamant, former member of the state supreme court; and Pishop Walter T. Sumner of the n rthwest Fpiseopal dioeese, who will consider the oratorieal delivery; and 11. M. Wells, and .1, O'Neill of the Univer sity of Wisconsin; and Professor Shorter of the Untrersilty of Texas, who will act as judges of composition in the contest. 18 DEBATES HELD IN ONE NIGHT; ROUND COMPLETE (Continued from page one.) Nelson 1 >o. endorf and Pres Maddock for Charles l.amh on the Sigma Chi team. Next Contest in Three Weeks. The next of the series will probably l e held on February 27 v. hen the twelve surviving teams will again compete. This "ill giio the teams three weeks to pre pare. says Prof 1{. W. Prescott of the public speaking department, one week to rest and read some, a week to read more and plan their arguments, and the last "• k to do some intensive work. Several que-Mons are being considered for the next debates, but none have been chosen as yet. i’he one chosen will most likely deal with the international situation, says l'rof'jtsor Prtyvwtt. Ill ELECTRIC SIPS Chalmer Patterson, ’18, Re^ turns from Government Service in N. Y. Work in the laboratories of the West ern Electric company of New York where the 3,000 people in the shops worked on secret processes to help defeat Germany by the use of science was the experience of Ghalmer J’atterson, ’18, who contin ued his graduate work at the University until he went east 11 months ago to take np his work with the Western Electric company. Mr. Paterson arrived home last night. In the electric laboratories where he worked the wireless telephone for use on airplanes was invented. Though the in vention is not perfected, he said, mes sages have been transmitted 10 miles from airplanes, and at the end of the war were in use by many of the machines. New Apparatus Affected. Another problem, the one upon which Mr. Patterson put the most of his time, was the making of an apparatus which within a certain range can detect the presence of a submarine. This work is not completed and so far no publication of the results obtained through their ex periments has been made, though at present there are stations on the Atlantic const, ho said, that these mnchines de tected the mund twice sent out warnings to ships of the presence of submarines. “The shore apparatus and that used on the boats is different,” he said, “and neither one has been perfected. It is for this reason and that the treaty of peace has not been signed that the firm re quested the employes not to disclose the nature of the detectors.” Western Electric Employs 3,000. The Western Electric employs 3,000 men in the laboratories and shops whose work is merely research, he explained. The apparatus necessary for any new experiment is made there in the com pany's shops. Since the firm has return ed to a pence basis, they have turned their efforts to the perfection of the multiplex telephone, whereby five con versations may be carried on one pair of wires. Another problem they are experi menting with is an automatic telephone whereby only one central will be neces sary for as many branch lines as are needed to get a party. The Western Elec tric company during pence time is the research department of the Hell Tele phone system. Company Offers Service. When war was declared they offered their whole force and equipment to the government for reserneh work, and it was during this time that Mr. Patterson, left his position ns assistant in the physics department at the University of Oregon to offer his services to the government through the Western Electric. The chief engineer and other officials in the labora tories were granted commissions in the signal corps by the government in recog nition of the work that they were doing. From his window in the laboratory, Mr. Patterson took several pictures of troop ships leaving the New York har bor and glancing up from his work he could see the transports parked with re turning soldiers steam into the Cunard docks just below. “One time 1 saw from my window,” he said, “nine transports carrying 45,000 soldiers leave within an hour and a half for Europe.” Mr. Patterson said that in spite of the big city and the interesting work which he left he is glad to get back to Oregon. KLAMATH FALLS GIRLS WIN Dofeat Their Coos Bay Pi Beta Phi Sisters I to 0 in Basketball. The Klamath Falls girls of Pi Retn Phi defeated their Coos Hay sisters 1 to 0 this morning in one of the most in teresting games ever played on the lo cal floor. Some of the girls had never played basketball before and the teams had had no opportunity to practice. Men's rules were used. The one point was made by Clara Calkins, forward, who converted a foul. The lineup: Klamath Falls (1) Coos Bay (01 Marjorie Pelzell ... F ... Pearl Craine Clara Calkins (1)... F .. Xell Warwick Klsio Lawrence.C .. i/ouise Clausen Ella Pews.G.Velma Ross Audrey Roberts.... ,(J .. Virginia Smith Marvel Skeels Referee, Miss Gorman; umpire, Miss Perkins. MANY OUT FOR WRESTLING Although there cau be no intercol legiate wrestling or swimming this year because of a faculty ruling against it. the prospects according to Graduate Man ager Walker, are that these will be inter collegiate sports next year. According to Mr. Walker if enough in terest is shown to warrant it an inter fraternity league will be formed to de icrmine the championship on the campus. Oregon Captain in Germany Fears Transfer; Tells of Christmas Feed. Captain Walter McClure, graduate of the University in 1013, now with the first army corps in Germany, in a letter to his sister, Nellie McClure, says that his only worry is that he may be ordered to Russia. His letter was written Christ mas day. He writes. “Am resting quietly as my Christmas dinner will permit me. We had a good dinner, hut it was the regular rations, with beer and a Y, M. C. A. issue of tobacco and cookies. “There is about four inches of snow now and more falling. “We are doing a little drilling and draw our rations better,” he said. “Our shoes are repaired now and we should enjoy our stay here. The only worry now is that we may be ordered to Rus sia. That sounds reasonable, as there is trouble there and there is rumor that we leave for somewhere on December 29, but where I don't know. Possibly, United States, France, Russia or Lux emburg. “The kids here had quite a time last night. Made me wish 1 could be homo. The people here treat us fine,” Captain McClure enclosed in his let ter a copy of general orders 201 sent out by command of General Pershing through James W. McAndrew, chief of staff. The orders deal with praise for the splendid work done by the first di vision in its advance west of the Meuse between October 4 and 11, 1918. They advanced over difficult terrain which the enemy had orders to hold at all costs. Wallace’s Cigar Store, S04 Willamette. Complete line Cigars and Cigarettes, tf ANNOUNCEMENT Tire Spanish club asks all members to have their pictures taken for the Oregana by February 14. Wallace’s Cigar Store. 804 Willamette. Complete line Cigars and Cigarettes, tf Do It Now! What? Why, make an appointment for those Photos, AND REMEMBER ROMANE'S STUDIO (For Best Photos.) New Wrinkles The upper part of the face ' is what you notice first when you meet a person. A scowl there is often so dis figuring that it doesn’t Moodr’* Deep-C»irv4 Kcynoic Lenses Are Bettes matter now attractive tne person otherwise appears — the scowl spoils it all. In most cases scowls are the direct result of ey? strain. Remove the strain and the scowl disappears. Other evi dences of eye strain and occular muscular unbalance are pain in or over the eyes, on the top or back of the lead, in the neck and between the shoulders, dizzy spells, indiges tion, insomnia, inability to concentrate the mind, also a ten dency to develop goitre. SAVE YOUR EYES AND SAVE TROUBLE. SHERMAN W. MOODY Bring Your Prescriptions Here. EYE SIGHT SPECIALIST AND OPTICIAN —_rs. 881 Willamette Street factory on Premises. STUDENTS Phone Your House Orders in to the “College” Students9 Grocery Store OUR GROCERIES ARE ALWAYS FRESH. OUR GOODS ARE THE MOST UP TO DATE. 246 The Table Supply Company