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About Oregon emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1909-1920 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1920)
OREGON EMERALD Official student paper of the Unlver slty of Oregon, published every Tues day. Thursday and Saturday fo the college year by the Associated Stu dents. Entered In the postoffice at Eugene, Oregon, as second class matter. Subscription rates $1.60 per year. By term, $ .60. Advertising rates upon application. DOROTHY DUNIWAY, Acting Editor Lyle Bryson.News Editor Nell Warwick.Asst. News Editor Harry A. Smith.Managing Editor Helen Manning.Dramatic Editor Esther Fell .Society Editor Editorial Writers Earle Richardson Adelaide Lake Stanley Eisman Maybelle Leavitt ....Proof Reader Special Writers Adelaide V. Lake Louise Davii Victoria Case Reporters Earle Richardson, Ariel Dunn, Ja cob Jacobson, Charles Oratke, Mar) Lou Burton, Eleanor Spall, Stanle) Eisman, Annamay Bronaugh, Eunice Zimmerman, Frances Quisenberry Wanna McKinney, Mauna Loa Fallis Floyd Maxwell and Mildred Weeks. Business Manager WARREN KAYS Elston Ireland _ Circulation Floyd Bowles .Assistant Albert H. Woertendyke.Adv- Mgr. Assistants Raymond Vester, Betty Epping, Web ster Ruble, Ruth Nash, Lee Culbert son. Tho Emerald desires that all sub scribers get their paper regularly and on time. All circulation complaints should he made to the circulation man ager. His house phone Is 18(1. PHONES Editor . 204 Business Manager . 4114 1/ Campus Office . A55 City Office .1310 or 103 SHOW YOUR OREGON SPIRIT Almost two months remain until the final tleclfalon of the people oi Oregon on the fate of higher educa tion in the Htata. Before that time v e, as students of the University will begin to fully realize just what the defeat of tho bill would mean. But after the coming vacation week we are almost powerless to do any thing toward enlisting support for it, What work we do must he completed between now and April 5. Today Is the last Issue of the Kan era Id for the winter term. We have but one week remaining to leurn the facts about the need ol the University, the Agricultural col lege, and the Normal. These facts are matters of public interest. They must he well In mind if we expect to convince anyone as to the right of our cause. Remember that mis statement and Ignorance will create the very worst impression upon out siders. We must be accurate and to be accurate we must know the facts. Our work on the outside is largely one of personal contact. Make It a point to find out how all your friends are standing on the hill. See what their understanding of the case is. Then give them the factB. Do not overburden them with details. Your strongest arguments are simple fig ures of income and enrollment. They need no interpretation. They can not misrepresent. Be fair and cour teous to everyone. There are two sides to every iiuestion, and where you can not help your cause do not injure it. But first, before you leave the University, decide whether you are going to work, und why. This is nobody's business but your own. If you are not loyal to your alma mater and to your own Interests no one will try to make you do it. Imagine for a moment that the University faced the problem of forbidding 700 of her present students to return alter spring vacation if a certain measure failed and that you stood a tiG1, chance of being one of those 700 Would you work? Now that is exactly the problem which does confront the University, if the mllluge hill fails, fully that many old students will be denied the right to enter next fall, and a large num ber or high school students will be deprived of their only chance to complete toe r education. Will you 'v or a ? , li tho p'-oplr of Oregon can he made to see that this condition is the inevitable result of th.* failure of tile hill, i iere is no doubt that it will pass. But they do no* know it today. \ good many of them may not know it until Is actually a fact if you do not act. if you believe in Old Oregon; if you think higher education is worth while, you will throw yourself whole heartodly into the campaign. You! may not tie a campaign speaker, you may not be a gifted conversational ist. But you do have friends, and over them you have more influence than auy gifted stranger who everj lived. It is the little things which will count in the long run, and the students of Oregon, of O. A. C., and of Monmouth Normal are the ones who can pile up vote by vote a mighty wave of sentiment which will make sure the cause of higher edu cation. Remember, this is a cause in which we are placed shoulder to shoulder with the students of two other state institutions. They are working for our cause and we for theirs. But we will be judged on our share in this campaign Just as truly as if it were a football game. The old Oregon Spirit has been the pride of every student who ever at tended the University. Very few of us could be on the team which “out played Harvard”, but all of us can be of the stamp who live up to the lighest traditions of the University ive love. Our football team was as ;ood as any which have gone before, ind are not we?—E. R. A REGRETTABLE LOSS 1 Dr. Joseph Schafer, professor of history in the University since 1900, will leave Friday of next week to ! take the position of superintendent j qf the Wisconsin State Historical ; society at the University of Wiscon j sin. In going to the University of Wisconsin Dr. Schafer returns to ; his alma mater from which he gra j duated in 1894 and later received all ! of his higher degrees, j Both faculty and students regret to 'see Dr. Schafer leave the University| for he is recognized as one of the i strongest, brainiest, and most in- J 1 spiring faculty members the Univer sity has ever had and in losing him the University feels itself weakened. Wishes for success will follow Dr. j j Schafer to Wisconsin, where it is recognized that a wide (ield of op portunity awaits him. He will have; i time for research work in which he j is mucii interested and he will have' at his disposal a budget of $(10,000 a year und a library of 1,000,000 hooks and pamphlets. In addition lie will receive a salary such as the University of Oregon is unable to pay because of its financial con dition. During his time at the University Dr. Schafer has field the position of dean of the extension division from 1912 to 1917 and also dean of the summer school from 1912 to 1918, when he resigned both deanships to devote more time to his research work. He was prevented from doing this, however, by the heavy influx of students and the inability of the University to provide more instruc tors. The University also owes a debt of gratitude to Dr. Schafer for the founding in 1913 of the Port land center of the University ex tension division, which has grown to be one of the most important branches of University work. A. T. O. HOSTS AT DINNER Chinese Lanterns and Parasols Pro duce Oriental Effect The Alpha Tau Omegas were hosts lust Sunday at one of a series of Chinese dinners. The dining room was decorated with Chinese lanterns and parasols. Daffodils centered the table. The guest list included Marvel Skeels, I la Nichols, Harriet Barrett, Penelope Gehr, Uorim Coolidge, Doris Sengstacken, Gertrude Whitten, Wan da Brown, Olive Sturtenburg, Mar jorie Wells and Mr. and Mrs. Clarr Pennington CONCERT TO START AT 8 LATE COMERS TO MISS HALF OF THIBAUD PROGRAM Violinist Who Will Play Here Tues day Night is One of World’s Greatest Artists The Jacques Thibaud concert in Villard hall next Tuesday evening will start promptly at 8 o’clock. II : is announced by those in charge ol ; arrangements that the doors will positively be closed at 8 o’clock sharp and that none will thereafter be admitted until the intermission in the program. It is the committee’s idea that it would be unfair* both to such a great artist and to his hearers to have fine effects spoiled by the stamping of feet down the aisles and seating a large number of late comers. Thibaud’s superiority over Kubelik, who is much better advertised, is unquestioned, according to Rex Un derwood, professor of violin in the University, who emphasized heartily that in hearing Thibaud the Eugene music-lovers will be hearing some one who ranks with the very great est. Columbia Studies Unrest A course in industrial unrest has been started at Columbia university which will include strikes and lock outs of recent years. MILLAGE TAX WILL AFFECT HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS (Continued from page one) 2. Every state in the union main tains higher education because early in their respective histories, each state set out to contribute its share to the sum of human knowledge; to the preservation of life, limb and property, which are secured best through general education; to the perpetuation of the country's free institutions. “Knowledge is the soul of a republic.’’ 3. Higher education is the public’s great defense against the tyranny of ignorance, arrogance, selfishness, caste. Strike at education in Ore gon or in any other country on this earth, and instantly begin to Rus sianize and Mexicanize that people. We may not forget that charges for public education are .premiums for the insurance of institutional life. When we consider the alternatives to public education we can realize that the tax for its support is a small premium to pay. 4. Cripple public education and the children of the rich immediately get an immeasurable handicap over the children of the poor; and at the same time snobbery, aristocracy, reaction, and a caste utterly inimical to de mocracy begin to rise. There are scores of great private institutions for the children of the well-to-do; there is but one Oregon Agricultural College and one University of Ore gon. 6. To cripple the University of Oregon, the Oregon Agricultural College and the Normal School by permitting the millage bill to be de feated, would cut deeply into the material wealth of this state and of every citizen who owns property, or who hopes to own property. Uni jj Register or You Can’t Vote; State Facts—Do Not Argue i * ^iiiimiuimiiiiitnuimiiiiniiitMiinmMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiiiimiiiiiiiwiiiiiiiiHiiiimimiimiiiiiiitiiniiiiiiiitijiiiuimniiiiiiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiuiiiiiitlitiniiluiiiiiiiiiiiiiniiiiii^ Stops in campaigning for the millage bill: • 1. Familiarize yourself with the subject. • Know the needs of all three institutions. • Remember comparisons and figures of growth in attendance and • income. • Have specific examples and reasons for need of new buildings. • Know the facts about the men being lost from the faculty. • Study the pamphlet furnished you. • 2. Register. • Register as soon as you KO home. • See that you receive a certificate entitling you to vote if • away from home. • Don’t forget the books close on April 20. • 3. (let your family and friends to register. • Tell them how simple registration is. • Realize that you are helping to save the University by such • work. • 4. Do personal work. • The millage bill will fail unless people know the facts. Reach • the people you are doubtful about. Kind out why people will not • vote for the bill. Use facts, not argument. You have plenty of • them. Every one of our friends should be a friend of the bill. • •'lake sure he is while you are home. 'York among the high • school people. They are as vitally interested as you. • 5. If asked to talk to gatherings in your town do not hesi- • tnte. You know the facts. You know the need. That is ull the • occasion demands. • »>. Size up the situation in your locality. .Much work can still • be done. If your town is against the bill it may be still won • over. • DON’T WASTE YOUR VACATION WEEK. WORK FOR OLD • OREGON. • !iuni!ioimuiiiiiiiiimii«ii:iuiu# versities and colleges by scientific experiments and resultant savings and increases in the wealth of the state, pay for themselves a good mapy times every year. Futhermore, there are thousands of easterners turning their eyes to the west who will be turned to other localities if Oregon’s voters strike at public edu cation. These people almost invari ably are the kind who demand full opportunities for their children. They are successful farmers and business men and manufacturers. They will not shy at taxes for education any more than they would fail to buy fire and life insurance. In conclusion, may I point out that it is the peculiar right and duty of students to champion the cause served by the millage bill. Students are in a position to know the facts, and hence may speak with authority. 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