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OREGON EMERALD Official student paper of the Univer sity of Oregon, published every Tues day, Thursday and Saturday fo the college year by the Associated Stu dents. _ Entered "in the postofflce at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.50 per year. By term, $ .50. Advertising rates upon application. , Edited by LEITH F. ABBOTT Dorothy Duniway.Associate Editor Lyle Bryson.-. News Editor Nell Warwick.Asst. News Editor Harry A. Smith.Managing Editor Helen Manning.Dramatic Editor Mary Ellen Bailey.Society Editor Sports Raymond Lawrence Floyd Maxwell Special Writers Adelaide V. Lake Louise Davis Alexander G. Brown Reporters Earle Richardson, Ariel Dunn, Ja cob Jacobson, Charles Gratke, Mary Lou Burton, Eleanor Spall, Stanley Eisman, Annuniay Bronaugh, Eunice Zimmerman, Frances Qutssenberry, Es ther Fell, Wanna McKinney, Wilford Allen, MaunaLoa Fallis. Proof Readers Frances Blurock Business Manager WARREN KAYS Elston Ireland .Circulation Albert H. Woertendyke.Adv-'Mgr. Assistants Ruth Nash, Ray Vester, Betty Epp ing, Webster Ruble, Charles Jlayter. The Emerald desires that all sub scribers got their paper regularly arid on time. All circulation complaints should be made to the circulation man ager. Ills lumse phone is 185. PHONES Editor . Business Manager . Campus Office . City office. . (1(10 . 532 . 855 1318 or 103 LEST WE FORGET =n F every professor in trie University would give an examination to the studI'tits in their respec ^ tive classes asking noth D ing but logical, matter of fact questions con ^ cerning the millage tax recently passed by tne suite legisla ture it is highly probable that about 1500 students would receive a dismal “F” on their papers. And yet this millnge tax is one of the most im portant, if not the most important, measures that has ever been present ed for the development and future progress of the University. In the hurry and scurry of every day school life and the whirl of so cial functions students everywhere on the campus show a marked tend ency to forget the larger things that are before us. Right now it is a fact that, but a small percentage of «ihe students remember that there was a millage tax passed and a smaller yet percentage are really devoting any thought to the work which they must do in order to get the millage tax passed by the people next May. In the light of the great import ance of this measure such a condi tion is to be regretted. We should now shake oil' this lethargy and awake to the great opportunity that is before us. University authorities are now making extensive plans for publicity on the measure and steps for its acceptance by the people. In another month every student in the University is going to be called up on to give his undivided support and effort towards tht- movement. We must now become enthused over it. l.earn what it is all about. Ac quaint ourselves with its various ele ments so that we can be of worth in the campaign to make it pass the people. li t!u> measure is passed Dy me people a new two or three hundred thousand dollar library, auditorium, pynmasium, or class room building will be started on the campus next summer. The following: year will see another like building started, lie fore many years our intensely crowd ed condition will be alleviated and our University will be better equip ed to serve us and the hundreds that are denied higher education now be cause of a lack of accommodations in every way. When you think of everything you desire about the University think of it as being attainable after the mill age tax is passed and speak of it in these terms. Cultivate the habit of saying we will have this or that “when the millage tax is passed.’ Soon the campus will be doing it and soon the students will come to the realization of the real importance of the measure and will be ready to do anything in their power to get the measure before the people of the state in the right way. P. c. CROCKATT TELLS OF WORK IN YAKIMA OFFICE National Agency Believed Best to Handle Problems of Social U n rest j Reestablishment of the United | States Employment Bureau as a help i to the solution of the radical labor i problems was urged at a meeting of 5 social Science Club Tuesday evening last week by Peter C. Crockatt, pro fessor of economics in the Univer sity, who read a paper on the subject. Professor Crockatt has made an ex tensive study' of labor conditions throughout the country and was con nected with the federal employment service at Camp Lewis in the summer of 1918. Last summer he made a study of the labor conditions through the office of the United States Em ; ployment Bureau in Yakima, Wash inton, the second largest bureau in the state, placing an average of 700 men a week in jobs. .Yakima was also the northwest headquarters for the I. W. W.s and Professor Crockatt was enabled to study the two organi zations in their relation to each other. “People, the country over, ought to have the facts on the day-to-day workings of the typical employment office,” Professor Crockatt said in his address. “Observations too fre quently have been written from the viewpoint of men and women within the United States Employment Serv ice, or from the angle of those who may have been hurt or hindered by its work. Statistics of applications for work, jobs filled, and jobs open do not tell the story the American peo ple are interested in at this time, for the essential part of any public em ployment service is the character of the work accomplished in handling day-to-day problems in the labor ; market.” in tne opinion oi tne average citizen, an unfortunate step is being taken in the tackling of the labor problem by the discontinuance of a federal employment service. They are realizing that unemployment and con sequent labor unrest are national problems to be handled in a national manner. No agency is in a better position to estimate justly and give the information of the character of the labor supply and of individual laborers as tested by the most crucial test of all—the attitude toward work. ’ Notice There will be a meeting of the women’s educational club on Friday, February G, at 4:15, in room I in the Oregon building. All those pres ent at previous meetings are request oil to come. «>---— Sprig Hath Cub Oh Cub, Oh Cub Along With Me It was an “awful nice” day— One of those days, such as we had last week, when the balmy air and soothing sunshine make ®the old feel young and the young climb trees. Two of them made up tlje party —a senior man and a sophomore woman. The joy of the perfect day was throbbing and surging through their veins. In spring a young man’s fancy turns to the mill race, and here is where the little drama was enacted. This combination of humanity just felt too spry for anything and on the grassy meadow across the mill race and almost immedi ately behind the Commerce and Architectural buildings, they frol icked and gamboled. They play ed tag, and ring around the rosy, hide-and-seek and other games. I They revelled in the glory of their secluded spot and the call of the perfect day in spring time. How long they gamboled about they do not remember. It seem ed but a minute but in reality it was over 15 minutes that some student could control his mirth no longer and let a long “Oh! Hum” emanate from his mouth. The frolickers stopped their frolicking. Their gaze shifted from the confines of their pleas ure grounds—across the race, the railroad track and the interven ing distance and then—the win dows of the commerce building and the architecture building packed with amused students, met their gaze. Yes, it was a nice day but the blamed foliage hasn’t put ni its appearance on the trees and bush es which line the mill race yet. “The program of music visualiza tion given by the Ruth St. Denis concert dancers recently at the Egan Little Theatre was one of the most artistic terpsichorean offerings of the season. 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