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Oregon VOLUME 21 EUGENE. OREGON. TUESDAY. JANUARY 20, 1920 NUMBER 35 If We Fail BY LEITH ABBOTT --- IF the Emerald subscription driv for six hundred new subscriber is not successful tomorrow, som morning at the end of this mont: you are going to bea member of j student body without a college news paper. Oregon, the University which prc duced a football team which fough the Harvard eleven to a standstill will be branded as a student bod; without enough “pep” to support it newspaper. The Emerald is the voice of thi Associated Students. For this rea son and the fact that the subscrip tion drive is a matter of life am death to the publication, the drivi is important to the student body. If the student body allows th< Emerald to die—and thy will decid< the fate of the' paper tomorrow— they will stand disgraced. Withou a publication with which to keej abreast with the news of the campus and campus people student activity would grow stagnant and Oregoi spirit would live only in the hallow ed chambers of. memory. • * * LAST night a glowing example ol Oregon spirit was shown by oui alumni, who, alarmed at the injurj which would be felt in our athletic department and to the school al large by the loss of Bill Hayward rallied together and offered our vet eran trainer attractions which caused him to decide to stay at Oregon They have the welfare of their alma mater at heart and even though their days at the old institution have ceased nevertheless the interest and love has never died. Are the stu dents of Oregon going to stand by ir the light of such sacrifices as this on the part of our alumni and dc nothing towards supporting as big a part of their University as its news paper essentially is? * * • ARE you one of the students whc belong to the “oyer the shoul der” class? There are far too many of this kind on the campus now They get the benefits for which the Emerald is responsible and pay no thing towards keeping it for Oregon They cannot read the Emerald “ovei the shoulder” or any other way un less they subscribe to the paper It is obviously unfair to those loyal members of the student body whc are subscribers to the paper that these several hundred students should jeopardize the life of the publication by their failure to sub scribe. The Emerald is self-supporting, and no student in any connection with the paper receives one cent oi pay. Furthermore, the matter oi subscribing is voluntary instead oi being forced by paying enlarged reg istration fees as is the case in prac tically every other institution on the -coast. * * * TODAY the drive showed the lethargy of Oregon students in re sponding to the call of an activity which is about to be extinguished because of a halting support. So licitors from everywhere lament the Jack of apparent interest in the drive. It is to be regretted that student activity is apparently on the decline. Last year an Emerald drive went over the goal set in one day and the success of the paper for that year was assured. Tomorrow an enlarged committee is going to solicit. A booth and bulletin board is being established in front of the library, as headquarters. The campaign which must be carried on with re newed vigor lest the Emerald cease publication, lest discredit and shame be the portion of the student body •for years to come. Don’t remain one t)f the unfair students. Get an Emerald receipt and an “I have subscribed” card. Be one of the 600 who saved the Emerald. • No one student "can parti- e • cipate in all student activities e • but it is the duty of every e • student to know about and en- e e courage all. This can best de e • done through the Emerald. • • (Signed) P. L. CAMPBELL. • EMERALD DRIVE LAGS; COMMITTEES CANVASS - FOR NO NEW DAMES i Many Students Are Readers i Though Not Subscribers, Says Chairman ! PAPER’S FUTURE MENACED r 5 Fraternity House Copies of Tri-Week ly Allow Members to Sponge —Support Urged 1 The exact number of subscriptions s taken in on the campus today had > not been ascertained late this after • noon by Warren Kays, business man ; ager who is directing the drive. He > places his estimate at 100 new sub > scriptions. Members of the student council and i student body at large are just be ■ ginning to realize that the drive is being carried on for the purpose of actually saving the Emerald from financial wreckage. More spirit was ’ evident on the campus tonight than there has been throughout the day. Tonight the matter is to be fully discussed at the student council meet ing. Tomorrow an enlarged commit tee will scour the campus in the hope of putting the campaign through to a success before nightfall. A bulletin board will be placed in front of the campaign headquarters in front of the Library where re turns will be posted throughout the day. No reports from separate houses have been listed. Friendly hall so licitors report, however, that Friendly hall has nearly reached the 100 per cent efficient mark. The Emerald drive appears to be lagging. Louise Davis, chairman of the campus committee conducting the canvass said in commenting on the situation: “Too many students advance the excuse that they are Emerald readers and do not need to subscribe to see the paper. They overlook the fact it is their college paper, conducted solely for their benefit, and if they do not support it there will be no house copies to sponge on.” Students in general, the members of the committee find, are slow in responding to the need of the Uni versity’s tri-weekly paper. Few seem to realize fully that the present fin ancial status of the Emerald is a real emergency and that the useful ness of the paper will be either lost or impaired in the near future un less adequate support is provided. CHARLIE FENTON, alumni secre tary cannot say too much for the good the Emerald does for the stu dents and for the interest it keeps up among the alumni in college ac tivities. She says: “Your subscription to your college paper is only a small part payment of the great debt you owe your University.” ADELAIDE LAKE, University his torian and member of the student council, believe “that every student should own his own Emerald and should read it carefully to keep up wtih camps activities.” DOROTHY DUNIWAY, senior wo (Continued on page 2) OREGON-IDAHO Y. M. TO HOLD MEET SOON Annual Interstate Convention Set for McMinnville January 30 to February 1 The annual interstate convention of the Y. M. C. A. in Oregon and Idaho is to be held at McMinnville on Janu ary SO and 31 and on February 1, ac cording to word received today by John Gamble,, local president. Mr. W. W. Dillon, who recently suc ceeded I. B- Rhodes as interstate sec retary, will be in charge of the con vention. Mr. Dillon is a man of much experience and attended the recent convention in Des Moines. Secretaries from the neighboring fields of work will attend the convention and one of the most unusual speakers will be Bepin Chandra Sircar of the national association council of India. Many Oregon students are plashing to attend the convention at McMinn ville. Students interested can obtain information at the Y. M. hut. The mission study courses and lec tures program which was placed be fore the students at Sunday’s Vesper service will run as announced and judging from the interest shown, they will prove to be popular with the students. U. S. OFFICIAL TO BE HERE Extension Division to Direct Public Health Service Work in 8tate Word has just been received by J. C. Almack, head of the University extension division, that a federal of ficial from the United States public health service will soon be sent from Washington, D. C., to take up the work in the state under the super vision of the extension division. He will do the alloted work in cooperation with the different state social welfare associations. The work, which will begin about the first of February, at the request of the state legislature, Will deal with the dependents, delin quents and defectives of the state. Headquarters will be in Eugene. DISCUSSIONS TO BE HELD Campua Problems and Citizenship to Be Theme of Round Table Discussion classes for the women’s houses on the campus will begin on Thursday evening and continue for the next six weeks, according to Miss Urith Dailey, secretary of the Y. W. C. A. The classes, which will be un der the/ leadership of women who are well informed on the questions con fronting the nations today, will not be religious discussions as they have been in previous years, but will be round table talks on campus problems and citizenship with reference to a Christian basis. The classes will be held for 45 minutes a week and will be of immense value to the girls in train ing them to lead classes of their own, according to Miss Dailey. The women who have consented to lead the discussion groups are Mrs. William Moll Case, Miss Mozelle Hair, Mrs. Eric Allen, Mrs. E. H. Saw yer, Miss Urith Dailey, Mrs. Kerby Miller, Miss Ida Turney, Miss Sue Badollet, Miss Katherine Beekley, Mrs. R. C. Baird, and Mrs. D. W. Morton. LEGISLATURE PASSES BILL TO GIVE OREGON $520,000 FOR BUILDING Provision For 1.2-Mill Levy to Be Voted On by People In Spring $50,000 IS APPROPRIATED Money to be Devoted to Finishing and Furnishing Women’s Building A measure submitting to the people a provision for an annual tax of 1.2 mills for the additional support of the University of Oregon and the Oregon Agricultural college, to be di vided on the basis of three-sevenths to the University and four-sevenths to the college, was passed by the special session of the legislature which has Just adjourned. At the present assessed value of property in the state the tax levy will yield about $520,000 for the University and $680,000 for the college. In addition to passing this mea sure the legislature made an appro priation of $50,000 toward the com pltion and equipment of the Women’s building. This is in addition to the appropriation of $100,000 made con tingent upon securing of $100,000 from private subscriptions to match the state appropriation. In order to secure the balance of the $100,000 appropriated by the state originally it will still be necessary to secure about $20,000 more from private sources. Approximately $80,000 has already been pledged and enough has been paid in so that $75,000 of the state’s money has been matched and contracts have been let, or will soon be let for about $100,000 worth of construction on the building. The ....$50,000 appropriation made by the legislature makes it possible to go ahead at once and let contracts for the construction and completion of the building at the earliest possible time. If all goes well with the con struction the building should be ready for occupancy by the open ing of college this coming fall, ac cording to President P. L. Campbell. This, coupled with the Joint mea sure to be submitted to the people next spring, if it carries, will put the University in running shape for a few years and will make possible a substantial building program. • STUDENT PRESIDENT • • SPEAKS • • “Without the Emerald, our • • progress as a student body of • • spirit, enterprise and loyalty, • • cannot go forward. As a stu- • • dent activity it is second to • • none. It is an absolute neces- • • sity and a part of Oregon which • • we as students cannot let die • • or be hampered in any respect. • • The campus should subscribe • • 100 per cent for the Emerald.” • • STANFORD ANDERSON • • President Associated Students. • • ••••••••••••• GIRLS HAVE CHANCE FOR VARSITY DEBATE Triangular League May Be Formed With Washington State, O. A. C. and Oregon The importance of the women’s debates, scheduled for February 3 and 5, cannot be over-estimated, ac cording to Ethel Wakefield, president .of the women’s debate league. Should a creditable showing be made and the proper amount of interest shown, she said, the organization of a women’s triangular debating league composed of Oregon, Washington State college and O. A. C.. which has been planned for some time, would become a certainty. “The women have been working hard for the coming debates,” Miss Wakefield said, “and deserve full sup port from the student body.” The committee appointed for ob taining Judges, composed of Lois Hall, Marie Ridings and Grace Knopp are endeavoring to secure judges composed of townspeople, in prefer ence to the University professors, who are generally too busy to af ford the time. Miss Corabel Bien, reference li brarian, announced that a number of references upon the subject for de bate had been secured and placed on reserve. The list of references has ben placed on the bulletin board in the library. MEETING IS POSTPONED Women’s Athletic Association to Eelct New Members Jan. 27 The meeting of the Women’s Ath letic Association which was scheduled for this afternoon has been postponed until a week from today, January 27, according to Jeanette Moss, president of the association. The executive board felt that there should be more time in which to impress upon the girls that this will be positively thg last meeting at which members may be elected. All girls who have not joined are urged to hand in their names at this meeting as no letters for women’s athletics will be given out on field day except to members of the Athletic Association. This meeting on Tuesday is the first one whifth has been held this term and, according to Miss Moss, many things of interest to the women of the campus will be discussed. DELEGATES WILL REPORT Women’s League to Hear Convention Ideas on Modern Problems The women delegates to the Des Moines convention will give short in formal talks on the relation which the modern woman has to world problems to the Women’s League meeting Thursday afternoon at 5 o’clock in Villard hall, according to Louise Davis president of the League. “All the girls who had the privilege of attending the convention have come back to the University with a much broader view and a greater sense of responsibility toward the part which American women have to play in the new world today,’’ Miss Davis said. “College women in particular are the logical leaders, both for work in this country and in foreign fields.” All girls are urged by the executive board of the league to attend this meeting and to hear the message the delegation has brought back. PROPOSED WOMEN’S BUILDING FOR WHICH $50,000 APPROPRIATION WAS MADE BY STATE LEGISLATURE AT ITS RECENT SESSION r -.v' BILL NOT TO LEAVE; DECISION ANNOUNCED AT FOOTBALL FEED Veteran Trainer Says Students’ Sentiment Is Important Consideration ALUMNI OFFER AUTOMOBILE Steers Elected Captain of Next Year’s Varsity At Annual Gridster’s Banquet “Bill" Hayward, Oregons’ veteran athletic trainer and “grand old man,” will not leave the University to ac cept a more remunerative position with another institution. Such was the verdict of Bill’s decision as he gave it to the members of the foot ball team and their guests at the banquet at the Osburn hotel last evening. “Sentiment,” said Hayward, “is what played the Important part in my decision. When the fellows pulled off that rally for me at the Commer cial club banquet, it made me feel as if they really did want me to stay here with them, and I am going to stay.” Bill came to this decision last night after he had been care fully considering the proposition for the past few weeks and the verdict was met with the rousing cheer of the football men gathered about the table. Steers Varsity Captain “Bill” Steers, the might quarter back, who piloted Oregon’s eleven to the Pacific Coast championship, was elected captain of the eleven for the coming season at the banquet. Bill is the unanimous choice of prac tically every sport authority on the Pacific coast on the mythical a.l coast eleven and his brilliant work of the past season has won a namo for him throughout the country. "Shy” Huntington characterizes Bill as one of the greatest football play ers in the country. A seven-course menu was set be fore the letter men of the team at the big banquet laBt evening, and the spirit of good fellowship reigned supreme. Many of those who sat at the table last night will not be pres ent as members of the team another year, and as farewell gathering it left Its impression, tfo others it was a fitting close to a successful foot ball season and one which will not be forgotten for many a day. A Jazz orchestra furnished music for the occasion, and dancing was the order between courses and after the dinner. Everybody Has 8ay Toasts were under the dlrecton of Marion McClain, who acted as of ficial "starter." "Ken" Bartlett res ponded first with a subject which has been a source of curiosity to the Oregon girls since the team went to Pasadena, “Oregon Girls vb. Maryland ‘Ultra Elite'.” “Ken” remarked that “after all, the Oregon girls score first.” Marjorie Kay responded with the “Return Kick,” and vowed that the “Oregon girls still had faith." Professor ,Howe responded to a toast on “Reel Things, or the Truth About the Christie Queens,” to the satisfaction of the guests present, as this has been an all-important topic of fireplace conversation since the return from the south. Following this, “Bill” Steers, the newly elected captain, gave a talk on “My Crew”; he spoke of the bright outlook for next years varsity team and declared that victory was already in sight. “A General Pep Talk” was the theme of Dean Morton’s response, which was bubbling over with “pep”. E. C. Simmons,’ president of the chamber of commerce who was to have made a talk on “How I Received My De gree from O. A. C„” was unable to be present at the banquet owing to the illness of Mrs. Simmons, and as a fitting close to a verv successful banquet and one of the most elabor are affairs of its kind ever held here, “Where Do We Go from Here” whs the subject of “Bill” Hayward’s toast. “Bill’s” decision was perhaps the signal which brightened up the oe (Contlnued on page 1.)