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The Womans 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
DOROTHY DUNIWAY .
ADELAIDE LAKE .
ERMA ZIMMERMAN .
HELEN BRENTON .
EMMA WOOTTON HALL
MARY ELLEN BAILEY ..
Helen McDonald .
ELIZABETH AUMILLER
CLYTIE HALL FRINK ....
. Editor
. Associate Editor
News Editor and Cartoonist
. Managing Editor
.....Features
.Sports
.Woman’s Activities
..Proof
.Head of Copy Desk
ASSISTANTS
Louise Davis, Frances Cardwell, Dorothy Cox, Stella Sullivan, Elva Bagley,
Frances Stiles, Velma Rupert, Nell Warwick, Mary Ellen Bailey, Helen Man
ning, Lyle Bryson, Wanna McKinney, Eleanor Spall and Genevieve Haven.
BUSINESS STAFF
CATHERINE DOBIE .Manager
ASSISTANTS
Helen Manning, Lyle Bryson, Mary Ellen Bailey and Ruth Nash.
EVERYBODY HAPPY?
Isn’t this the very best Junior Week-end ever and aren’t you
having the best time? It is what every one is saying, even the
freshmen who scrubbed and painted End* toiled for the beauty of the
campus, even perhaps, those who were ducked in the race, for what
is a hi tie water on a warm May day?
Junior Week-end this year is returning to its normal basis.
During the war, the lack of upperclassmen with so many Oregon
men in the service, made activities and festivities of the week much
smaller than usual, and the old athletics were quite out of the
question. But this year, with the return of the/oli Oregon men has
come a strengthening of 1he Oregon spirit, for, small as we may have
been in numbers at times, we have never lost that far famed fight.
We are fortunate in having this year a particularly large guest
list of both alumni and high school students. To the alumni, we
can say only that we are just as happy to have you here (as you are
to be on the campus again. We know you’re glad to get back- Not
a letter has come from Oregon men and women overseas or serving
in the United States in the cause of democracy without an expression
of “how wonderful it will be to get back to the campus.” It is
certainly good to see and talk once more with so many Oregon men
who have added to Oregon’s honor by their service for their
country.
To the high school students, we extend a sincere welcome. Wc
hope that you will find all your dreams of Oregon realized, for we
know that you have heard much of the University. May this week
end bring to you every possible bit of happiness and joy and some
thing of our Oregon spirit.
THETA SIGMA PHI
Theta Sigma Phi, national fraternity for women in journalism,
claims among the members of its 15 chapters many women who have
the promise of brilliant literary careers. Active participation in the
profession of writing is the anticipation of every Theta Sigma Phi
whether she is interested in newspaper work, advertising, writing,
poetry or short story.
The fraternity was founded at the University of Washington in
1909 for upperclass women majoring or specializing in journalism.
Oregon’s chapter, which is Theta, was founded in 1915 and already
among her alumnae Theta chapter has a number of women active in
journalism or closely allied work. Grace Edingtou is assistant
instructor in journalism at the University of Washington. Echo
June Zahl is court reporter on the Portland Telegram. Helen t urrey
and her sister-in-law, Mrs. George Huntington Currcy, managed
and edited the Malheur county Enterprise while Mr- Currcy was
awav at war. Louise Allen is a member of the reportorial statt ot !he;
Portland Oregonian. Docile Saunders for six weeks during .Legis
lature was managing editor pt the Salem Statesman, where she is
employed as a reporter. Claire ltaley is society editor and assistant
telegraph editor on the East Oregonian and Elsie Fitzmnuriee is
a reporter on the same paper. Beatrice Locke is society editor on,
the Spectator in Portland, Alone Philips is a‘reporter on the Clack
amas County Banner in Oregon City and Emma Wootton Ilall is
doing a fine bit of journalism work in compiling the war record ol
the Lniversity.
The big event for Theta Sigma Phi each year on the Oregon
campus is the publication of the Women s Emerald, at Junior Week
end. In lIds edition are printed the names of the new' pledges ot
Theta Sigma Phi.
Theta Sigma Phi brings to women in journalism an inspiration
for the best possible work. These women as they leave their Alma
Maters and enter the field of journalism are returning this inspir
ation with splendid work which brings honor to their national
fraternity.
WORK FOR THOSE BONDS
The passage of tho *>,000.000 reconstruction bond issue to bo
voto.t on Juno :i would moan $500,000 for University of Oregon
buildings. Tho I'nivorsitv needs more adequate housing and facil
ities iu tlio soionee departments, tho schools of oouuuoi'oo and journal
ism, not to mention tho imperative need for a now library. Not a
single shelf on the library has room for another book. Every book
in t(|t> lihrarv has been shitted at least 01100 this year until e\ci\
available inch has been used. Neither is there room for comfortable
seating of the students and faculty. The University is growing
rapidly. The increase in enrollment this year has been more than
20 >,er cent. The University will continue to grow. Additional
buildings must be provided. Every loyal Oregon man and woman
should get even possible vote for this all important bond issue by
explaining the need tin* buildings on tin4 campus and vvhat tin
$500,000 can do toward building up the University and aiding in
caring for its future students
ON TO SEABECK
Nothing can mar the glory of Seabeck. Not even the unluck}
number 13 has its diabolical effect, for didn’t exactly that many
girls from Oregon attend the Y. W. C. A. conference last year, and
wasn’t it one of the very best ever? No University woman need be
in doubt what a session at the conference can do for her, for it vas
clearly depicted at April Frolic. Besides it is a wonderful place to
spend the last days of vacation, for this year comes from August 25
to September 5. Make your plans to be one of the crovd.
COLONEL BOWEN
In the'retirement of Colonel W. H. C. Bowen from active military
service as commandant of the R. 0. T. C., the University is saying
good-bye to a sincere friend, who through the period* of the S. A. T.
C- and the corps of this year, has given everything .possible to the
University men from his experience of 38 years of army life. Colonel
Bowen came here to organize and command the Students Army
Training Corps in which 500 men were enrolled. The organization
was just being thoroughly established when the signing of the
armistice brought about its demobilization in December. Colonel
Bowen then turned to the establishing of the R. 0. T. C. He has been
here in a hard year, for interest in things military declined with the
cessation of hostilities overseas, but he has brought, through his abil
ity and experience, such success to the organization that Oregon is
ranked high by national inspecting officers. Faculty and students
will not forget Colonel Bowen, and hope that he will always keep in
his heart that place which he has reserved “just for Oregon.”
The women’s edition of the Emerald directs attention to the fact
{hat it has no “fashion page,” no “helpful hints to housewives,” no
“reliable receipts,” no “advice to the lovelorn” by Beatrice Dillon
or Dorothy Fairfax, no “wailings of a wife”—none of those
“features” so often gathered “at great expense” for the delectation
of the “eternal feminine.”
Do men like to be warm or do they just like to look warm? One
of the Emerald reporters’ suggestions that men go coatless at the
start of the bright weather season has met with no response from
his fellow sufferers. And all this sunshine has brought forth only
a very few straw hats. Are men so very conservative about th^ir
dress, just lazy, or do they like to be able to feel really warm for a
few weeks after the cold season had passed?
Did you begin at the bottom of this Column and read up the way
Erma Zimmerman suggested at the State Editorial Association ban
quet as the ideal way to get enjoyment from the editorial page?
If you really want to, of course you can^even without standing
on your head, Edgar B. Piper’s interpretation of the way Miss Zim
merman perused his editorial columns.
PETE ON JUNIOR WEAK END
May 10, 1919.
Eero Joe,
Well Joe junior week-ends here. If
you want to know what a junior weak
end is just you look at a junior and
youll see. Its the part bounded by
his hat and collar. I am telling you
that the junior what thought it up
was sure weak at that end. Well
anyway its hero dnd so is everybody
else.
Everybodys come up from every
where. Theres preppers and peppers
from all over the State! Only mostly
theres peppers. When a guys got lots
of jazz they call it pepper anti most
of these preppers have got so much
pepper that you cant go by cm with
out sneezing. Tt looks suspicions to
be sneezing all the time. Folksll
think vouve got the influenzy again.
It all began on Thursday with the
canoe-l’eat. Theres no reason you
should call it a feat—just having
canoes float down the millrace all lit
up. Who wouldn’t be lit up if they
could be.
Friday was campus day. The spesh*
ulty that day was having a bunch of
spesh ally selected tellers — speshully
selected cause they were Frosh—get
out and work till they were all in a
preparation. Its good 1 knowed how
to handle a pick and a shovel cause a
feller likes to do things graceful like
when theres Indies lookin on. Then
we all lined up and got a plate and a
napkin and a pickle. That was the
campus lunch. Fat you should of
seen those folks eat. Youd a thought
they was eat in airplanes the way the
food flew.
Theres all kinds of sports goin on
down here, Joe. I Hint much for sports
though. I aint forgot the time I lost
five cents bettin on a baseball game.
1 aint the kind to grouch but it seems
to me that the team I was bettin on
might of won.
Theres lots of good lookin girls
down here. 1 ast one to go to the
junior prom with me and she. said net
if she knowed it. 1 think that was
kind of funny cause how could I take
her if she didn’e know it. She must be
holdin it again me cause I stept on
her feat at the last dance. It wasnt
my fault cause her feat was so big
and l told her so and then she got
madder than ever.
Folks all think this is a swel eele
braslnin. Maybe it is cause we are
goin to have ice cream for dinner.
Yours to a cinder
Pete.
ODE TO THE ONION
What a shy little fruit am the onion
When it grows under the ground
After it's et it’s a different tale
It simply can’t be downed!
College is something to Be worked
for all you can get out of it.
The Y. W. C. A. is selling ice cream
and chocolate bars at all events of the
week-end. The Booster’s Club with
Dorothy Reed as president is in charge
of the sales and every one is asked to
patronize them.
O. H. FOSTER
ATTORNEY AT LAW
Old U. S. National Bank Bldg.
Don’t Forget
Bob’s
Barber
Shop
Just around the corner on
East 7th St.
I
Films Kodaks
Kodak Finishing
Barclays Kodak Shop
. Corner 10th and Willamette
n -i .
Special
Junior
Week-End
* Service
We rent kodaks
Go where the particular people go
j STOP AT THE
| Hotel Smeed
WHEN IN EUGENE
GOOD MEALS
YORAN’S
Shoe Store
the store that sells
Good Shoes
’ Home-Made Candies
Victoria
Chocolates
Chocolate
Boil Btms
Lunches—Candies—Ice Cream
7th and Willamette St. Eugene, Oregon