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.
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Oregon, as second class matter.
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Leith Abbott .Make-Up
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Nell Warwick .Society
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GREETINGS!
Welcome back to the campus Colin
V. Dyment! Wo are surely glad to see
you.
Wo got that fooling of satisfaction
and real thrills of pleasure to hear the
voice of our obi friend and to see him
again.
We are grateful to have heard of the
heroism of our brothers and follow stu
dents in Franco from Lieutenant Dy
meat, who shared their experiences and
took care of them.
Lieutenant Dyment’s address before
the assembly left the impression of un
usual exactness for detail and wuh at
the same time most comprehensive. It.
answered the desires and requirements
of relatives and friends of the boys
over there and of all who wanted to
hear an accurate and understanding
description of our soldiers in action.
And ho to Lieutenant Dyment Ore
gon extends her heartiest welcome.
REMEMBER THOSE TRADITIONS
What has happened to our Old Ore
gon traditions when freshman men are
allowed to smoke on the campus?
In the past, as now, one of the most
HU' red and carefully guarded traditions
was that of no smoking on the Oregon
campus. Hut lately freshman men have
violated this custom by lighting their
cigarettes on ami about the tennis
courts near the Library.
Ity no stretch of the imagination can
the tennis court be considered off the
cample.
The case is clear and the action taken
should be adequate and speedy. We
will uphold the sacred ami hoary tradi
tions of Oregon.
DOUGHNUT TENNIS
Comment has been excited over the
fact that in the intra mural tennis tour
naments the same rules of eligibility
do not seem to hold for both faculty
and student teams.
No varsity man is allowed to ropro
sent any student etgani atiou while on j
the team representing the faculty one-j
member is an old Oregon tennis man j
ami one is a champion of another uni- i
versify.
It gives an unriur advantage when
those seasoned nu'ii iiri' pit tod a filing t
amateurs in competing tor i trophy in
an intramural series.
Tlu» same eligibility rules should
hold for nil contestants.
CAMPUS TRADITIONS
To the Editor of the Emerald:
As an upperclassman having a deep
respect and regard for the traditions
of this University, 1 wish to place the
following matter before you in the
hope that some definite policy regard
ing it will be outlined in the Emerald.
I believe there is a tradition as
strong as that which forbids any one
but a senior to sit on the senior bench
or that fbrbidding- any one to step on
the Oregon seal, o# any one of the
numerous traditions on the campus, and
that is that freshmen shall not wear
white trousers for any purpose what
soever. Though my own opinion is that
they should be allowed to wear the
forbidden garments while playing ten
nis, the consensus of opinion is con
trary to this slight leniency and is in
favor of a strict adherence to the letter
of the law as laid down above in the
statement of the tradition. Though
my memory of how this tradition was
interpreted when I was a freshman is
rather hazy, I do remember very dis
tinctly that one of the class of 1921
was raced last year for wearing white
trousers while playing tennis. I be
lieve it would be wise for you to delve
into this matter and make some an
nouncement to be followed strictly
hereafter.
Alwo there is one other matter ot
equal, if not more, importance which
demands inmmediate attention. I refer
to smoking on the bench by the tennis
court. This is becoming quite the
thing nowadays and is done very pro
miscuously as a matter of course.. Be
ing a tennis player and also a smoker
myself, i would not bring this matter
up unless I thought it important. I
cannot see any reason at all why this
particular sport should be exempt from
the “no smoking on the campus” tra
dition. The fact that sophomores and
upperclassmen smoke here is, of course,
no reason why it is the right thing to
ilo. There are many girls who find
this smoking decidedly distasteful, but
that is a small matter, of course, com
pared with the breaking of one of our
most sacred and revered campus tra
ditions.
I should certainly like to see some
definite announcement regarding these
matters which I consider most im
portant.
CHOOSING CAST DIFFICULT
Parts for Senior Play Not Yet Filled
by Don Orput, Coach
Difficulty in choosing the cast has
somewhat slowed up the rehearsing of
the senior play, “Facing the Music.”
It will be necessary to choose junior
men to take parts, according to Harold
Newton, manager of the production.
Don Orput, who is coaching the play,
is choosing the cast, and rehearsals are
now in progress.
The cast so far as picked is:
John Smith .Curtiss Peterson
Dick Desmond .Harlod Newton
Mabel .Doris Slocum
Nort .Marion Coffey
Miss Fotheringay .Ruth Graham
Mrs. Punting .Hester Hurd
No one has been found yet to take
the parts of Sergeant Duffell, Rev.
John Smith and Colonel Duncan Smith.
MANY TEACHERS NEEDED
Principals, Commercial, Military and
Athletic Instructors Wanted
The lack of suitable candidates is
the difficulty of the University Ap
pointment Bureau, according to C. A.
Gregory, professor of education, who
has charge of the bureau. Fifteen
principalships are open, but few
available applicants for the positions.
A demand is being made for men who
can tench high school subji$ts, conduct
military work and coach athletics.
The Appointment. Bureau has four or
five excellent positions of this sort
but as yet there are no applicants.
Dive or six calls have been received
for teachers of commercial subjects,
but there is only one candidate at
present. Besides these positions, there
have been a few calls for grade and
junior high school teachers which the
Bureau has been unable to meet.
Students expecting to teach during
the coining year are requested to see
Professor Gregory at once.
TO REPORT BOND SALES
R. O. T. C. Headquarters Ask Faculty
and Studonts to List Buyings
Faculty members and students who
punbase Victory bonds are requested
by Colonel \V. II. i\ Howen, command
ittg. and Lieutenant Colonel llaymond
C. Haird, assistant, to report their
sul's, riptions to the office of the lv. t>.
T. 011 the campus.
“The government is planning to give
some form of recognition to the ten
colleges in the I'nited States making
the most loyal showing," said Colonel
Haird yesterday. “It is in order to
keep track of this that we are asking
for reports. I’nless such reports are
made to us by all who subscribe, stu
•louts or members of the faculty, it
will not be possible for the Cniversity
to get tlu> credit for its patriotic ser
vice to which it is entitled. We hope
for this reason to get a report from
every person on the campus who sub
scribes. ’ ’
These reports, Colonel Haird says,
can be made either by mail, in person,
or by telephone The Its O. T. C.
headquarters number is i>57.
1916 Graduate Sees No Place Like
Oregon; War Lessons
Prove Valuable
“Hun extermination as exemplified
by the notched gun stock was not the
profession of all Oregon men who sum
mered in France last year,” said Harry
L. Kuck, former city editor of the Ore
gon Emerald and a graduate of the Uni
versity in 1916, upon his return to the
campus yesterday.
“General Pershing and the War De
partment were satisfied with what they
called our ‘bit’ though, and anyway
the old saying ‘all’s well that ends
well ’ is applicable to the nth degree in
this case.”
Mr. Kuck enlisted in Company L,
162d Infantry in March, 1917, and
crossed the Atlantic in December with
the 41st division. After being scattered
to the four winds for military police
duty from January to June, 1918, the
regiment (Old Oregon) was mobilized
at Contres, France and made a part of
the 1st Depot division.
All Companies Reduced
At that time all the privates were
sent to the front and each company
reduced to a permanent cadre of 50
‘men and six officers as a personnel to
handle drafted men from the United
States just arriving and conspicuous
mostly by their newness to the military
establishment and especially to the
handicraft of modern warfare. There
they received as much attention at the
hands of Oregon non-commissioned offi
cers in the handling of hand gren
ades, bayonetry, modern assault forma
tions, gas, etc., as the needs of the sit
uation at the front could grant. The
regiment was a clearing house for
man power and its efficiency was in di
rect proportion to the time allotted or
rather allowed by Hindenburg’s death
dealing devices at the front. “We all
thanked our lucky stars, though, when
the armistice dropped the curtain on
that never-ending routine,” said Mr.
Kuck.
Many Oregon Men in Regiment
There were many University gradu
ates and former students in the 162d
according to Mr. Knelt. He named the
following: Laird Woods, Estley R.
Parley, Carl R Fenton, Paul Hen
drieks, Bob Malarkey, Frank Miller,
Bill Rhinehart and Lawrence Dinneen,
and added that there wore several oth
ers whose names he could not recall
at the moment. Arise Cornell and Don
Cawley were located at Tours, and wero
also members of the Service of Supply
contingent, as was Alexander Bowen,
who routed troups all over that never
to-be-forgotten country for the Rail
road Transportation department.
“ I meant to echo the sentiment of all
the boys in declaring there is no place
like Oregon and no school like the
University of Oregon. I do not mean
this as a reflection on France any more
than on the eastern section of this
country.
More Spontaneuity in West
“1 was unable to find that sponta
neous, unconventional good will that
makes the west the ideal home section
of the world, exemplified by the spirit
that we old timers love to call the Ore
gon Spirit, and while 1 got well through
Montana on the transcontinental trip
home. There seems to be a new-born
feeling of confidence pervading the
University atmosphere that has sprung
up since the war which seems mighty
good in comparison with the struggling
the University has had to do to estab
lish Itself in the good graces of the
state," continued Mr. Kuck, when ask
ed how things seemed on the campus
after an overseas contract with Uncle
Sam.
'■Whatever may be said of the army,
and of course people could be arrested
for some of their private opinions if
they were publicly expressed, most erst
while soldiers have acquired a more
serious outlook upon life, espesiatly cit
izenship, and will be found to be a
power in civic and political affairs, ra
diating a more healthy influence. They
have learned the value of cooperation,
organization and right living and have
cemented friendships that will live for
ever and a day."
LITTLE BELGIAN GARMENT LOST
Who has found the front of one of
the 200 little petticoats which the girls
of the V. W. 0. A. are making for the
little children of Belgiumf If it is
not found only 100 little garments can
be sent Saturday morning as the pro
duct of the girls' labor. Gladys Hol
lingsworth, who is in charge of this
work, is very anxious that the girls
finish the work as soon as possible as
the Red Cross chapter in Eugene is
shipping the garments in a few days.
SHAVER Bll
TO GATH DATA
Oregon Engineering Graduate
Uses His Newspaper
Experience
The compiling of historical data on
the engineering prospects during the war
together with field trips over France,
has been the recent work of John Wil
lard Shaver, a graduate of the Uni
versity in 1914, who is now on duty in
the office of the chief engineer, A. E.
F,. according to a letter received on
the campus from him.
The historical-technical section of the
office of the chief engineer was formed
last September, he writes, under the
direction of R. K. Tomlin, Jr., then a
war correspondent and well known
technical writer. Other associated
with him are G. A. N. Thrall, a former
member of a Los Angeles newspaper
staff, Donald A. Thomas, of the high
wav commission technical department
of Michigan, and a master engineer.
How he received his position he tells
in a part of his letter which follows:
Uses Newspaper Experience
“Then I am the fifth member of our
happy family. And all five have had
engineer education and newspaper ex
perience. The w’ork is very interest
ing and I have been able to put to use
knowledge and experience that I never
thought I would bo able to use in the
army. I was selected for the work be
cause Captain Tomlin had noticed a
copy of “The Spiker” and requested
that the colonel of our regiment rec
ommended members of the ‘ ‘ Spiker ’
staff for duty in his office. I was
lucky.
“Our office is charged with tne com
pilation of all historical documents on
engineer achievements in France, which
is quite a task when you consider that
the personnel aggregated, at its height,
175,000 officers and men. We keep a
file of monthly operation reports from
every regiment and smaller units that
are entities, as well as operation re
ports from the chief engineer of corps
and armies. Then we have a file of
personal experience reports that we
have tried to pry loose from each of
the 4500 engineer officers in the A. E.
F. and from this mass of detail we are
nble to compile almost any sort of a
history of operations called for. Trips
were made by officers from our office
from time to time all over France, and
in that manner we added to our office
material with local color and details
that escaped the notice of officers sub
mitting reports.
Secs Several Oregon Men
‘ ‘ I have no idea when I will be home.
Our work keeps us busy from morning
till night, but I have hopes of being
able to get home before it comes time
to don my fourth golden stripe.
“I have seen quite a number of Or
egon men in and around here recently.
When I first came I found Don Caw
ley, Anse Cornell and Basil Williams.
Don was returned to the states several
weeks ago and Anse I guess is now in
Paris. Frank Stniger is located here
now and he will probably be here for
several months to come, as he relieved
an officer in G-4 who has returned to
the states.
“1 do not know whether you have
the information or not but the other
day I had a friend of mine look up
in the graves registration bureau the
location of the grave of Lieutenant
Leslie Tooze. It may be of interest to
you to know that location so I am en
closing it: “Grave No. 2, plot No. 1,
cemetery No. 1)85.’ And that cemetery
is at Epinonville, on the Meuse. 1 am
going to get up that way pretty soon
and I will try and get a picture of the
grave for your publication. I visited
the grave of John Kelley at Bordeaux,
and I think that one of the fellows in
our outfit took a picture of it. No
doubt you have heard the details of his
death so 1 will not repeat it.”
Shaver enlisted in the spring of 1917
in the 18th engineers, railway, and
trained for a time at American Lake,
lie has now been overseas 19 months,
lie writes that upon his discharge he
will probably enter technical writing in
New York.
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