Stories They Tell Reporters
RESCUE WORK NEEDS MEN
Alys Sutton, junior from Louisiana,
and Gladys Lverett, freshman, nave
advice to give canoeists who are just
learning to paddle and who wear felt
hats, woolen skirts, and heavy sweaters
buttoned to the neck. This advice is
to “ keep away from the race, or take
two men of husky proportions along for
rescue work.”
Now this bit of experience was
gleaned by the girls when they went
on the race last night in above men
tioned attire and with a knowledge of
paddling which was rather a noticeably
minus quantity.
When they came back from a some
what perilous journey up to the port
age, there was a little difficulty about
landing. The canoe did quite the con
ventional and expected by tipping
neatly and thereby dumping the con
tents into the murky and chilly waters.
Mnch floundering about ensued,
much swallowing of water and screams
of “Mah sweater is pullin’ me down
and it weighs a ton, Ah know.”
The story might not have been so
humorous today had not a man nearby
heard the frantic cries and pulled out
the girls, after the weighty eweaters
had been removed. Both were dragged
to shore somehow and the canoe and
paddles went floating gaily down the
race.
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WRITERS ARE BARBAROUS
Beheading done in the shack!
It is a well known fact among all
-journalists that the copy desk is a place
for rare and sparkling humor liumoi
usually at the expenso of the slaving
head writer. Somehow it is very easy
to bo funny about someone else’s head.
Many times, in fact, you just can t. help
being witty, the mistakes are so ob
vious and the results so ridiculous.
Tracy Byers was heard to call torth
the other day in anguished tones, ‘‘Mr.
*T*>rnbull, give me back my head or say
that it is no good.” .
The question is, Which did he dor
CELEBRITIES GET MIXED
Onesar has l"'*''1 on ‘‘»,lllnlH 11,1,1
crone No, wo are not talking about the
Kappa Sigma .lug, but a man, one < nrl
Caesar, who was on the campus re
cently, a guest (ft the Fiji house.
While in the house, the phone rang
nnil Carl Caesar answered it. A voice
ilemamleil to know who it was speak
ing. The answer came “Caesar.
Again a voice ilemamleil to know who
was speaking. “Caesar.” The voice
in a rising tone again demands, again
the answer, “Caesar, I tell you this is
Caesar.”
“Well, then," answered the other
voice, ‘‘this is Napoleon." and hung
"'lint Carl Caesar had even tunmer
experiences. He went on a sorority
picnic So also did the Kappa Sigma
dog. Carl said that every time he went
to put a sandwich in his mouth, some
one in the group would yell " Caesar.
Not knowing of the existence ot the
dog Caesar, Mr. Caesar was quite put
out for a while.
YES IT WAS LOST, BUT—
It happened in archery practice the
other day. Three arrows had been
shot with careful aim by one of the
regular archers and in due time two
arrow- were picked up some five or
ton feet from the target. A prolonged
search was then made for the third
and seemingly elusive arrow. A radius
of ,'to feet was searched in \ain and
finally- it was decided to give up.
Just before leaving, the searchers
found it safely sticking straight into
the heart of the target.
And who can blame the searchers
for not thinking to look there before?
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THE CANE COMETH BACK
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There’s a new fad occurring among
the masculine members of the campus.
If it progresses as much in the few re
! mainlng weeks of school as it has in
the past two weeks, by the end of the
term it will be quite the fashion.
Some time ago Dean Eric Allen
bought a cane down town, much to his
wife’s disgust. Wednesday evening
Jimmy Sheehy sports out with a cane,
carrying it with all the ease of an
old timer. And now Jimmy tries to
say that he is making the attempt to
bring back the old traditions of
Oregon. It seems, so Jimmy claims,
that in pre-war days, all the seniors
carried canes, wore white trousers and
sombreros.
So much for Jimmy’s excuse. Dean
Allen says that he himself enjoys
carrying a cane, it gives him something
to do on his walks back and forth from
the campus, for as he takes the short
cut through cemetery ridge, he can cut
at all the weeds with his cane. He
also uses it to catch his small daughter
by tho neck. Dean Allen has made
some very beautifully hand carved ini
tials on his cane. Jimmy Shee.hy
found his cane, and doesn’t know just
who it belongs to, but unless the owner
appears soon, Jimmy is going to vie
with Dean Allen in making fancy
hieroglyphics of his own name.
Then there is Colonel Leader and his
cane.
But the newest cane that has been
discovered to be in existence is the
one in tho possession of Dr. Bovard.
But Dr. Bovard is still too timid to
bo the next one of the faculty to
spring a cane.
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CITED AND DIDN’T KNOW IT
To belong to u division which has
won a citation nearly a year ago at
Soissons, to which is affixed the signa
ture of Marshal Tetain, and not to
know about it until he read it in the
“Stars and Stripes,” official publica
tion of the A. E. F., is the experience
of Donald Smythe, who has returned
here for his degree.
About a year ago the second en
gineers, of which Smythe was a mem
ber, were performing such sapper tasks
as cutting wire in front of an infantry
advance, digging trenches, putting in
machine gun emplacements, building
dugouts, and doing bridge and road
building, but they often took their
places in the front line with the in
fantry, going over the top, hewing their
wav through (iormuu defenses and
sharing in the glory and tin* grief ol
the combat. The “Stars and Stripes”
says, “In such instances the engineers
successfully understudied the ‘leads'
in the pageant. One of the most nota
ble of these instances was when the
second engineers, used as infantry, won
a citation front the French armies of
the North ami Northwest, a citation to
which was affixed the signature of
Marshal Detain. Here is the citation:
“The second engineers, under the
orders of Colonel Mitchell, engaged,
unexpectedly in the defensive of July
l.S, ItHS, in the middle of the night,
on terrain which was unknown and
difficult, displayed during two days,
without allowing themselves to stop
by fatigue and the difficulties of ob
tabling food and water, a remarkable
ardor and tenacity, driving back the,
enemy 11 kilometers, capturing 2,700
prisoners, 12 cannon and several hun
dred machine guns.”
About two weeks after July IS,
Smvthe was ordered back to the states
before his regiment had been advised
of the citation.
STUDIES WHILE HE SAILS
On the transport ship Manchuria is
William W. O’Hrien. correspondent
student in Knglish of tlu1 University
extension ilivision. In a letter ilnteil
Max 17, on passage from I’rance to
}x',.w York, he tells that lit has been
given the position as tin' shi|> s writer.
‘•I am prowd to say 1 have chunked
mv rating from seaman to lust elnss
yeoman in six months," In' writes,
"Hint expect to chiet woman by
.lull. Although mv Knglish eourse
has stifferetl 1 believe 1 shall have a
much better opportunity to study now
than 1 have had otherwise."
The library facilities for study are
rather peculiar on board the ship, he
said, although there are several tlious
ami books scattered among the troops
and crew most of them are fiction, and
very few which are real good liters
t ure.
O ’Rrien was a student at Washing
ton high school in Portland before on
listing in the navy, and will probably
be a student at the University later.
ZOOLOGY WORK OUTLINED
Advanced Work, in Summer School
For Ten Students Only
Rr. John I'. Bovard. head of the
/oolog\ department, plans to give |Ul
advanced course in zoology for advane
ed students, during the first summer
school. Students having had work in
•lie courses of elementary zoology will
he permitted to take this course,
though the class is limited to ten mem
hers.
“The class will take up special prol)
lems in experimental /oology,'1 said
1)r, Ron aid, “and each one will have
a definite problem to work out."
DR GILBERT NAMED
Dr. James II. Gilbert has been ap
pointed by the governor its the state
representative to the national tax
association, which will hold a meeting
in iSt. Louis very soon. 11c has not as
yet decided whether or not he will
attend. He was also a delegate last
Near \sith the state tax commission,
when the meeting was held in the east.
It Was a Dark Day
For Some Thetas;
Frosh Enjoyed It
It was a dark and chilly night on the
Theta sleeping porch, but one girl
wasn’t asleep. The reason may have
been that she had half of a borrowed
bed, or that she had a woman’s intui
tion that something was going to hap
pen. (She was not in her own bed
because something had already hap
pened—it was full of pine cones.)
Well, something did happen. All of
a sudden she heard something slipping
and looking toward the door saw two
white ghost-like forms come sliding
into the room. She thought of all the
heroines she had read of that didn’t
scream, so bit her tongue and decided
to be the heroine.
The ghostly forms came nearer and
nearer and up to the side of the bed,
and opened up a sack they carried.
The heroine had visions of kidnapped
ladies and blackmail letters. Then one
of the ghosts opened the sack over her
and something soft and light fell all
over her face. She tasted it and it
didn’t taste good. But she lay still
until the ghosts had gone and all the
house was quiet, then she hastened
down to her room and alight and a
mirror. The face that looked back at.
her was that of the queen of spades.
She had been well blackened by an
avalanche of soot.
She washed it off, cleared out her
own bed and climbed into it and said
nothing. The next morning when the'
sun shone it brought to light a most
amazing variety of Theta upperclass
men. There were solid black faced
ones, striped faced ones, and even
varigated faces in the crowd. But two
freshmen had a surprise when one
upperclassman appeared with a clean
wliito face. They wondered how they
had missed one with the soot sack.
POTT AND QUILL, NEW CLUB
Students and Faculty Women Organize
to Write
A women writers’ club, Pott and
Quill, was organized this week, with
a membership of eleven, six of whom
are faculty women and five are stu
dents who are sincerely interested in
constructive and consistent work in
short story writing, plays or poetry.
At a meeting of the club, which was
held Wednesday evening at tne home
of Lillian Auld, it was agreed that the
faculty and student members would
meet, work and contribute on the same
status, as active members, every two
weeks and that the membership would
be limited to fifteen.
Pott and Quill is made up at present
of the following members: Faculty:
Mrs. Erie W. Allen, Miss Mary Per
kins, Mrs. M. II. Parsons, Miss Julia
Burgess, Mrs. Anna Landsbury Beck,
Miss Ida Turney; students, Lillian
Auld, (iwladys Bowen, Dorothy Cox,
Roberta Sanborn and Laura Moates.
The next meeting of Pott and Quil;
which will probably be the last before
the close of the college year, will be
held Wednesday evening at 7:d0 at the
home of Lillian Auld. Plans for the
work to be done in the fall will be
discussed.
RUTH COWAN TAKES POST
Sophomore Goes to California to do
Chautauqua Work
Ruth Cowan, '21, loft this morning
for Sacramento, California, where she
will assume her duties as one of the
directors for the Ellison-White eliau
tnuqua for the summer season. She
will attend chautauqua convention at
Sacraiftonto and then will travel
around southern California selling tick
ets and doing other advance work.
Later she may go to Montana and
\evada.
ller sister. Marjorie Coweq, '14, has;
been doing work for the same Chau
tauqua for severaf years, having re
turned recently from Australia. She
is now at her home in Marshfield.
Moth girls are members of Delta Ham
imi. Kuth expects to return to school
in the fall.
FACULTY MEN APPOINTED
Governor Selects Committee for
Legislative Service
Five members of the faculty have
been appointed by the governor upon
the recommendation of the President
of the University to handle the work
at the University for the recently or
ganized legislative service and research
bureau for the state, authorized by the
last legislature. The members appoint
ed are Dean Young, Dean Hope, Dean
Morton, Professor Schafer and Profes
sor Harnett.
This committee is to gather all data
and information for the use of the
legislature and other organizations and
persons who need it from any depart
meat in-the University. This informa
tion is to be ready for the use of the
legislature at nnv time thev shall want
it.
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OPPOSITE HAMPTON’S
Y. W. RAISES $50 FOR KYOTO
Money Promised to Keep Secretary
In Japanese City
The Kyoto envelopes which were
given out at the Y. W. C. A. meeting
the afternoon that the Japanese play
“It Happens in Japan” was given in
the Y. M. hut have been called in this
week and when counted up, amounted
to $50. The money goes towards the
$150 that the University Y. W. C. A.
was to raise for helping support a sec
retary at Kyoto, Japan.
Just how the rest of the money is
to be raised, Austrid Mork, chairman
of the World’s Fellowship committee,
has not decided. As it is so near the
end of the term, the raising of the
other $100 will probably lie over until
next year.
Those helping Miss Mork to gather
in the envelopes were Isla Gilbert,
Eonalda Cameron, Margaret Jones,
Until Nash, Lois Barnett, Josephine
Connors, Margaret Thompson, and
Alice Thurston.
COTE’S PUPILS IN RECITAL
Will Give Last Program This Year At
Y. M. C. A. Hut June 5
Arthur Faguy Cote, vocal instructor
in tlie University School of Music, will
present tiis advanced pupils in recital
next Thursday evening, June 5, at the
Y. M. C. A. hut.
The program will comprise operatic
songs, song groups and duets from
operas. Those taking part will be
Melba Williams, Martha Tinker. Adah
MeMnrphey and Curtiss Peterson. This
makes the fourth and last recital of
Mr. Cote's pupils this season.
OLD STUDENTS IN SIBERIA
Paul Chesebro Here in 1914 is Now in
Medical Department
War services has taken some of the
Oregon men even into far away Si
beria. as is the ease of Paul E. Ches
ebro, a student on the campus in 1914
and before, and now with a medical
deetachment at Khabarousk, Siberia.
The letter received from him is full
of long names of the places where he
has been stationed and they range all
the way from the Philippine islands to
Siberia. He enlisted in September,
1916, with an ambulance company at
Fort McKinley in the Islands and was
there for twentv-oue mouths. In Sep
tember of 191$ he was sent to Siberii
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and spent two months there at Vlad
ivostok. He was transferred from the
ambulance company to the medical de
tachment of the 27th infantry and in
the changing lost his rank of first
class sergeant. At the time the letter
was written he had been at Kliab
arousk for the last five months, but
expected to be moved at any time to
the section of the trans-Siberian rail
road which is guarded by the American
troops.
Chesebro’s home is in Kirkwood, Cal
ifornia.