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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (Feb. 16, 1921)
MRS. M. R. TRUMBULL SPEAKS TO WOMEN Appeal Made to Break Down Class Distinctions. Appeal Made to Break Down Class Distinctions. •Mrs. Millie R. Trumbull, secretary of the Child Iaibor Commission, nnd prom inent girls’ welfare worker, was a vis itor on the campus yesterday. Mrs. Trumbull came to rtugene especially to address the girls in the practical ethics class, to whom she spoke of the great need for better working conditions and wholesome pleasures among the working girls. She emphasized the fact that it is to the college girls that the World is looking to improve existing conditions. The worst* working conditions, ac cording to Mrs. Trumbull, exist in tcle phone offices, laundries, and in factories employing machine workers. Telephone operators work in long shifts with only 15 minute rest periods. The welfare committee is at present trying to estab lish rest periods of one hour for the telephone operators. The hours are so long, and the strain of this work such, that the average working life of the tele phone operator is only three years. “The minimum wage for machine workers in Portland,” said Mrs. Trum bull, is $K5.H0 a week. “Divide this by the sums necessary for foil, rent and carfare, and see how much is left for clothing and incidental expenses.” “A total of .‘j'5,000 gilds in Oregon are earning their own living, instead of liv ing the normal girl’s life, which is the college life,” said Mrs. Trumbull. “T( is up to the college girls to study the ex isting conditions, nnd put forth every effort to better them.” A special appeal was made by the speaker for college girls to he kind and sympathetic to those who are not in college. “Be democratic, break down the false class line, which is arising faster than you realize, and doing more harm than you can guess,” urged the speaker. "Snobbery is the curse of any country, and the world looks to. the college girl to abolish this class distinction, nnd help those who cannot help themselves." Mrs. Trumbull is a member of the Motion Picture Board of Censorship of Portland. CHANGES PLANNED IN A. S. U. 0. CONSTITUTION (Continued from Page 1.) dinfttion between the councils which linvo charge of student finances, including the executive council, the athletic council and the forensic council. According to the chairmnn of the committee, the exe cutive council is now vested with power to spend student money, sometimes spending up to .$75,000 a year. At pres ent, he says, the athletic council and the forensic council lmve no power to spend money, and he believes a better system MRS. BAYH DA^fCE STUDIO Private and Class Lessons day and evening 14£ West 7th Street Club Shoe Shine Next to th*‘ Rainbow. Good Service—Good Shine of co-ordination between the various branches would prove more economical. Experience Is Needed. The necessity for more experienced members on the council which has charge of the finances of the students is an ■ other necessity, declares the chairman of the committee. He said the commit tee intended to incorporate in the new plan a system which would carry over members of the finance board from one year to the next, iD order to provide con tinuity. 1 The new plan will probably be offer ed to the associated students in the form of amendments to the present constitu tion. according to Carl, although no de cision has yet bepn reached by the com mittee. The next meeting of the asso ciated students is scheduled fbrgthe sec ond Thursday in March. A special elec tion would likely be called a week later to vote on the amendments, phonld they be submitted to the students. CONFERENCE TITLE TO' BE DECIDED THIS WEEK <Continued from Page 1.) will piny again tonight in Pullman against the Washington State quintet anti will go from tlrere to Seattle where they will meet the Sun Dodgers on Friday and Saturday nights, while the California < ream is playing the second game of their two game series with the Aggies to night and will come here fo.v the Friday and Saturday night contests Washington is rated to heat Stanford at Seattle and in fhis case if Oregon can win over California, it will place the Demon-Yellow quintet at the top. Stan ford has five conference games yet to play, and there is every possibility of los ing one or two of these. The games this week will have a great deal of bearing on the final .percentage | of the teams and the result of the con tests is being watched with a great deal | of interest. Oregon will only get a one [ day rest after the California games be fore meeting the Idaho quintet, rated as the strongest contender for the North west eonference honors. Coaeli Kelley is ! bringing his gem-stijte hoopers hero for i one game on Monday night. STANFORD TO ADD TO LIBRARY. Eleven thousand volumes will soon be added to the Stanford library. Ceorgo T. Clark, librarian of the University, purchased the books on his recent tour \of the world. CO-EDS PLAN CIGARETTE BAN. Co-eds at the University of Illinois are planning to put a ban on cigarettes. Dope Is Given. Phone 141 City Messenger Service Messengers 39 E. 7th J. C. GRANT, Mgr. SID WOODHUUStt To Give Away DOLLAR BILLS And other favors at his VALENTINE BALLOON DANCE TONIGHT!! (Not Thursday) Fifty Toy Balloons tossed from the ‘balcony, to each there} will he attached a favor or a dollar bill JOIN THE FUN ♦ — PUNCH SERVED — Dances that are Different OLD ARMORY BLDG. 57 QUALITY DRYGOODS Phone E. 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