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Oregon Emerald vol. 21 OREGON EMERALD, TUESDAY OCTOBER 27. 1919 NO. 11 ARMISTICE MY PLANS ILL 8E PRESENTED 18 NEXT ASSEMBLY Townpeople Ask Co-operation of Students in Observing November 11 fROSH GAME IS WANTED Manager McClain Will Try to Get Rooks or Pacific U. Team for Free Contest The presentation of plans made by downtown committees for the celebration of Armistice day will be made on Thursday morning at, as sembly by E. C. Simons, secretary of the chamber of commerce, and Luke Goodrich. “The whole-hearted co operation of all University students is desired,” said W. E. Merrell, chair man of the joint committee of the American Legion and the chamber of commerce, which met last night. The participation of University ex service men and the University band is particularly desired. The cele bration downt'own is to cover only half a day beginning at 1 o’clock in \ the afternoon with the parade. Stores i will be closed during the afternoon. \ Supplementary celebration, probably I in the form of an assembly, will be planned by the University for the imorning hours, since an entire day Ihas been granted as a vacation by Ithe faculty. “It is probable,” said pearl Onthank, secretary to tne pres ident, “that some prominent outside fspeaker will be brought here for the ‘morning assembly.” Care will he taken, however, to let these plans interfere in no way with those of the town committee. Patriotic Meeting Planned. Tentative plans are under way for patriotic gathering downtown in he armory in the afternoon, and arion McClain, graduate manager, [is working out a plan for the Univer ity freshman team to meet some utside team on that day. O. A. C. ooks will be invited over, and if it s impossible to schedule a game with them the first team of Pacific uni versity will be hrought here. The game will be free, the downtown committee providing the necessary money. About 3000 letters are being sent out to residents of Eugene, ask ing for a contribution of $1 toward he game. This plan will avoid work ng a hardship on a few business men f the city. A dance is being planned for the vening of Armistice day, but Uni ersity students have not received ermission to participate. The pre ailing sentiment seems to be, how ver, that Tuesday evening should e used for preparation of lessons for [Wednesday. [American Legion to Parade There are at least 300 ex-service men in the University this year ; and many of them are not members of the American Legion. This or ganization asks that eligible men join before Nevember 11 in order that they may march with the Legion in the big parade. Whether they are members or not, says the committee, they are asked to participate in the parade and the entire celebration. No place has yet been provided for |LTniversitv women in the parade, but it is thought they may march in the section of the parade with the wo men belonging to the auxiliary of the American Legion or the 65th artilerv. The committee from the University student body will assist the town committee in any possible way in making plans for that day. It urges that all students be present at the assembly on Thursday to hear the announcement of plans. Subscribe for the Emerald. Sugar Runs Short; Sweet Tooth Taken Out, at Friendly “Sweeten your coffee with a smile.” This is liable to be the advice given to those who eat at Friendly hall, unless the powers that be intervene and work a transformation in the sugar market. “Only one lump?” Amid the clat ter of dishes and the click of the meal-ticket punch, senior and fresh man, junior and sophomore, repeated the question with a wry face last night as the sweetening pellets were doled out in single file. Eugene is facing a sugar shortage. Curtailed production and transporta tion difficulties have resulted in a depletion of the local market. Friend ly hall is -using its reserve supply. But one sack separates the boarders from eating their cream of wheat in its natural state. This announcement was made afc supper last evening as an explanation of the sudden “one lump to a cup” ruling. Sugar bowls no longer grace the tables. “What will you have?” is not the only expression to be courted among the dead languages, for “Please pass the sugar” is, for a time at least, to be numbered among the forgotten phrases. ROOSEVELT DRIVE OVER Definite Results of Campaign to Be Announced Wednesday Actual figures for the Roosevelt drive which closed on the campus last night were not available before the Emerald went to press. Herman Lind, chairman of the committee conduct ing the drive, announced last night that a complete check on all col lections probably could not be finished before Wednesday. “We have checked up on only a few places,” said Lind last night, “and in most cases things seem to be going well. Although the drive is scheduled to close on Monday some money will probably come in on both Tuesday and Wednesday.” FRENCH CLUB PROPOSED Interested Students to Organize On Wednesday Evening. All students interested in becoming members of the French club will meet Wednesday night at 7:00 in the Bun galow to form a club. Second and third year students will be the chart er members, but any one who has one or two years’ work in French and can speak so as to be under stood is eligible. It has not yet been decided how often meetings will be held but there will be at least one a week. All the conversation at the meetings will be in French. Some form of secret function may be given later. FACULTY MEN AUTHORS Dr. W. D. Smith and Dr. W. E. Milne Write for Magazines Two of the University faculty have written articles for technical and trade journals in the last few months. Dr. W. D. Smith, head of the geology department, has had the following articles appear recently: “The Geography of the Pacific’’, in the October number of “Pacific Ports” Foreign Trade Journal (Seattle). “Petroleum in Philippines” in pre paration for the February number of the Bulletin of the American Institute of Mining and Metallurgy. Engineers (New York). “Earthquakes in Oregon”, October number of Bulletin of Seismological Society of America. (Stanford Uni versity). Dr. W. E. Milne, professor of math ematics, has an article in the August number of the Journal of the United I States Artillery entitled “Equations ! of Differential Variations in Exterior I Ballistics.” I I HEHORIAL SERVICE TO BE HELD IN HONOR BE THEODORE ROOSEVELT President Campbell to Speak at Assembly; Song Fest Will Follow Memorial services commemorating the birthday of Colonel Theodore Roosevelt, which was October 27, will be held in the regular assembly next Thursday in Villard hall and all students are urged by Karl On thank and President P. L. Campbell to be present. A short talk by Pres ident Campbell about Colonel Roos evelt will be the main feature of the assembly and the remainder of the time will be spent in mass singing lead by Albert Lukken of the school of music. Services were held all over the country Monday in honor of Roos evelt’s birthday but because no as sembly was called on that day here the services are to be held Thursday. President Campbell, who was ac quainted with Roosevelt at Harvard university, will mak£ a short ad dress in his honor. Following President Campbell’s ad dress college songs are to be ,sung and everyone is urged to come with the words of these songs learned in order to become familiar with them before Homecoming week-end. There are over 800 new students enrolled in the University this year, according to Mr. Onthank, and this is an op portunity to learn the college songs. Several songs other than college songs will be sung also. Mr. Onthank annouced that al though there would be announce ments made pertaining to the pro gress of the Roosevelt memorial drive no subscriptions wiuld be so licited at that time. Judge Henry McGinn of Portland, who spoke in that city Monday night at the auditorium in honor of Colonel Roosevelt was invited to speak at the Oregon assembly Thursday but was unable to be present at that date. Details of Caring for Visitors Are in Hand; Special Trains Coming “The biggest bonfire ever,” declare Oregon’s freshmen on whom, accord ing to time-honored custtom, has fallen the task of providing the bon fire for the great Homecoming rally at Kincaid field on Friday evening, November 14. Work is to begin on the Saturday before Homecoming and will be rushed up to the eve of the great conflagration. Wood for the occasion is being brought from Springfield on special cars. As on former occasions speeches will be sought from prominent mem bers of the faculty, the coach and members of the alumni. President P. L. Campbell, Professor Howe, ‘Shy’ Huntington, Bill Hayward, Governor Ben W. Olcott, “Beauty” Robinson of Astoria, Walter Winslow, last year’s alumni president, and others have already been asked to begin preparing their speeches for the oc casion. In addition stunts will be put on by the men’s organizations in com petition for a prize. To accommo date this novel feature of the rally a platform will be erected on Kin caid field. Buildings to be Visited On Saturday morning all buildings on the campus will be opened to inspection by the University’s guests., Studei ts will be on hand to conduct parties around the campus and point out improvements and points of in terest. Following the football classic that is to dedicate the new turf athletic field, wil be the dance in the armory on Saturday evening. This is to be an informal affair, and those in charge are working with the idea of a good time for everybody. A (Continued on page 2.) OREGON SPIRIT This week our Varsity football team is undergoing one of the most strenuous sieges of training of the season in preparation of the hard games which are to come one after another for the next month. Oregon has one of the hardest schedules from now on that could be imagined. Starting next Saturday they meet the University of Washington, then W. S. C„ followed by our clash with O. A. C. Every one of these teams is a headliner and Oregon must fight as never before if she is to emerge victorious. Our team fs hampered by the lack of support it is getting. A small squad of men and three coaches are shouldering the brunt of a series of games which is either going to make Oregon a leader or a loser in coast collegiate circles. They are putting their every effort into long hours of training and work to fight for your school and in return they are not getting an ounce of support from the students whose school they are going to defend. Students, arise from your lethargy. We cannot bask in the radiance of past deeds. This year is the new beginning of intercollegiate history on the coast. Past records are on the shelf and forgotten. This year every institution on the coast is en entering on a new era. Every one i of them has an enlarged enrollment with its corresponding increase in spirit and progressiveness. Every institution has the best football team it has had in years, and they have all set as their goal the Pacific coast intercollegiate championship. In past years Oregon was recognized as one of the leading schools in athletic prowess. That was before the war. Now with the dawning of the post helium age Oregon can be made or broken. If we are going to keep up the high reputation our school has always enjoyed we have got to work. We must show more spirit and back our football team more than we have so far this year. And this is not all wo must do. We have got to stir the sentiment and enthusiasm of our campus from one end to the other. Every student must awake to the pepless puddle we have thrown our selves into and shake off that in activity and careless attitude. Our campus must become a seething cauldron of school spirit right now. It must be kept up ever gaining In momentum until after the final game of the football season. If we don’t cur football team, weakened by lack of support and the backing of stu dent spirit, will be vanquished in eveiy contest. This is not an editorial on student b >dy spirit. This is merely the tell ng cf actual facts as they exist on our campus now. The football team is one little party of men working and training to fight for our school. The student body at large Is another group moving about in the narrow confines of their everyday school Mft It is a safe thing to say that half of our student body today does no’ realize that Oregon will next Satur day enter on the hardest schedule of games it has ever faced. Our fresh man class, though large and prom (Continued on page 6.) Neophytes in Novel Attire to Appear on Campus Wednesday No, frosh, you’re mistaken. Dress suits and silk hats are not the latest thing for campus wear during the day time. The two Chesterfields that you will see on the campus tomorrow in all the splendor of evening dress are only the latest neophytes of Sigma Delta Chi, Boh Case and Paul Farrington. According to the old traditions of the honorary fraternity, the neophytes must appear on the campus and at tend all the day’s classes in full ovening dress. That is, if it doesn’t rain. Of course if old Jupe Pluvius starts his waterworks the hoys could not be expected to expose their bor rowed, begged or stolen finery to the mercy of the heavens. The neophytes, naturally, are fer vently hoping that it will rain, while the initiates are bribing the weather man so they can gloat over the spectacle which they themselves had to endure in the past. At the time of going to press, the odds on the weather seem to favor the neophytes. LUCEIL MORROW ELECTED Eutxians Name Officers for Yean— Program to be Framed Luceil Morrow of Portland was elected president of the Eutaxian literary society at the first meeting of the term. She is a senior, an honor student in the department of English literature and a member of Scroll and Script, senior honorary so ciety for women. Irva Smith of Wal terville was chosen vice-president, May Ballack of Albany treasurer and Grace Knopp of Eugene secretary. The society studies current topics of Interest, reviews books and articles and discusses questions of the day. Miss Smith is outlining the program for the year’s work. UNUSUAL BOOKS RECEIVED “Young Visitors” by Child of Nine Given Library ' “Young Visitors,” a*new book which has created considerable interest in literary circles and which is sup posed to have been written by Daisy Ashfor.d, an English child of nine years, has been presented the Univer sity library by Miss Gertrude Talbot, matron of Hendricks hall. The preface of the book is written by Sir James M. Barrie, and by this it is generally conjectured that Bar rie was himself the author, although in the preface the playwright guar antees that the work was accomplish ed by the child of nine. “Young Visitors” is void of all punctuation, save for an occasional period, and the spelling is highly simplified, while little ' Miss Ash ford’s vocabulary runs considerably to such words as “thorts” and “quaer.” The main theme of her story is the portrayal of a romance. The book ends with a summing up of the matrimonial success of each character involved, except for one, an old Earl, who did not “live hap pily ever after.” The rest had fam ilies which wpuld have gladdened the heart of a Roosevelt, several pairs of twins having been men tion ?ci. Seniors Plan for Dance The members of the senior class met on Wednesday afternoon at the [call of the president, Morris Morgan, and discussed plans for a senior dance to be given some time in the | latter part of November, the exact date not having been decided upon, i The president appointed a committee | composed of Maynard Harris, chair j man, Kenneth Bartlett, Mabyl Wel ler, Helen Case and Helen Whit taker to make further plans for the affair. I OREGON 6RIDSTERS GRINDING FOR THREE BIG GAMES OF YEAR That 120 to 0 Slaughter by Washington Makes Seattle Eleven Look Strong PULLMAN TEAM MIGHTY Coach Welch Has Machine to be Feared—Stanford Victory Upsets Dope With one of the hardest games of the season before the Varsity for this Saturday, when the Oregon delegation will migrate to Seattle to meet the University of Washington, a week of hard practice is in store for the wearers of the lemori-yellow. Oregon has the three hardest games of the season coming during the next three week-ends. The Washington game this week-end is the first of the series and is followed by the clash with the Washington State team in Port land on the following Saturday after noon. The final game of the series is with O. A. C. here as the feature of Homecoming, November 15. While the Varsity enjoyed a day of rest Saturday the rest of the con ference teams saw plenty of action. The University of Washington, under Coach Claude Hunt, entertained “Nig” Borteske’s aggregation from Whitman college and during the afternoon ran up a total of 120 points on the Meth odists. Captain Dailey started the game for Washington pt one of the halves and during the first half scor ed seven touchdowns and made a couple of spectacular runs, one for 80 yards and another through a brok en field for 62. The missionaries’ baqkfleld, Corkumj Wiley, Garver and Mathews, worked hard during the afternoon and tried to support tradition and score on the University team. Eckman, who play ed quarter on the Washington team of last season, succeeded Dailey and ran the team during the last halt. Probably the greatest surprise in the conference over the week-end was the 14 to 6 victory that Stanford scored over the O. A. C. team at Corvallis. In her first game since being admitted to the Pacific Coast conference after an absence of 14 yoars and her first trip north in 20 (Continued on page 4) SECOND DANCE TO BE IN ARMORY FRIDAY Success of First Student Venture Makes Larger Floor Imperative Fifty Cents Assessed The second stu^nt body dance of4 the year will be given next Friday jvening at the armory. The first dance was well attended by students and proved to be a success in a financial way as well as affording pleasure to the dancers. TIiIb dance also showed that the gymnasiums were inadequate to take care of an average student body crowd; that the floors were not in the best possible condition, and that if these popular parties were to be continued some other place should be secured. The armory was the only solution and altho some dif ficulty was experienced in leasing it, Friday night’s dance will be held there. A seven-piece orchestra will fur nish the music for the dance, playing from the stage as to allow more dancing room. A toll of 50 cents will be placed upon $ach couple, the re ceipts being used to meet the gen eral expense and the surplus going into the student body fund. Programs will be presented at the door. The committee in charge of this dance includes Harry Jamieson, Era Godfrey and John Houston.