CHEMICAL BOOTLEGGING
PRACTISED IN AMERICA
Dr. F. L. Shinn Tells of Danger
from Imported Goods
If the American colleges cease to
support the home chemical industry anil
purchase their supplies abroad, espedial
ly in Germany, that industry will not
be able to keep its head above water,
according to Dr. F. L. Shinn, of the
chemistry department, who in a recent
interview made this statement and sup
ported it with the following facts given
him by a traveling agent of a chemical
firm:
Eighty per cent of the glassware used
in chemistry and a great amount of the
chemicals are used by the colleges and
universities of the United States. If
the colleges of the nation shift their
orders to Europe it will mean the ruin
ation of the chemical industry in this
country. Its fate depends on the at
titude of the universities toward it.
Colleges Import Supplies
There is at the present time a heavy
importation of tier m a n products.
Princeton, Cornell, and many of the
other large schools of the East are de
manding German supplies, because they
are cheaper. The result of this whole
sale trekking of chemical trade to Ger
many is that two or three of the big
American plants have been forced to
cease operations.
The representative of the chemical
firm left statistics with Dr. Shinn that
show why the Germans can swamp our
markets with their inferior goods. The
expert German glass blower, by working
much overtime, can make $7.50 a week.
It costs him $2.50 a week to support
his wife and two children. His house
rent for the year is about $0.00.
On the other hnnd, the expert Ameri
can blower gets $15.50 a week, working
an eight-hour day. To produce a piece
of German chemical apparatus costs
about 20 cents und approximately 15
cents for shipping, whereas the manu
facture of the American product alone
costs at least $1.50.
Imported Goods Inferior
The inferiority of the German goods
nffects the laboratory work in the Uni
versities. There is much breakage of
tubes and laboratory instruments. I’ro
fessor Shinn cited the ease of the Agri
cultural College’s acceptance of bids on
its chemical supply, the contract going
to the lowest bidder. When the ma
terials came, they were found to bo of
an inferior grade and many of them
bore German trademarks. It is the
practice of the chemistry department of
the University, said Dr. Shinn, to spec
ify American niHdo goodB only in their
orders.
“They cost more,” he said, “but are
of better quality, and we ought to con
sider it a patriotic duty to buy home
products."
There is chemical bootlegging prac
ticed in this country now, he stated.
People will start up in business with
very little capital. They import cheap
German goods and then send out their
lists to the prospective buyers. They
ask the buyers to check off the articles
they wish by numbers and these num
hors are in catalogues compiled by
other chemical firms. Sometimes they
even ask for an advance payment. Ac
cording to Dr. Shinn, many are falling
victim t otliis scheme in which the
swindler soon grows rich. Unless con
gross comes to the rescue, all of the
chemical concerns in the country will
have to cease operations, he declared.
MAJOR BAIRD SELECTED
FOR RECRUITING DETAIL
Head of R. O T. 0. Will Have Charge
of Enrolling Men for Civilian
Training Camps
Ma.jof Raymond Baird, head of the
University military department, has
been chosen by the Chief of Staff, With
Division, the i’rosidio, San Francisco,
to take charge of recruiting men in
Kugene and surrounding districts to
attend the Citizens’ Military Training
Camps next summer at Camp Lewis and
Fort Worden.
The object of the training camps Is
to train young men of high type for of
ficers and non commissioned officers
who can command a company, battery,
or other unit of the organized reserves,
which is one of the three chief divisions
of the 1’nited States army.
Major Baird says of the camps:
“They are a part of our general mill
tan policy for national preparedness.
Opportunity for training will be of
fered in practically every branch of
the military service "
Expert physical direction, athletic
coaching and military training will be
combined ill the camp programs. The
military training is divided into three
courses, the Red. White, and Blue,
CLASSIFIED ADS
Minimum charge, 1 time, 26c; 2 times,
45c: 5 times, $1. Must be limited to 5
linen, over this limit, 6c eer line. Phone
961, or lesve copy with Business office of
Kmt:RAI.a, in University Press. Payment in
advance Office hours, 1 to 4 p. m.
CANOES FOR SALE New and used
canoes for sale. New canoes under
other Kugene prices Leave name and
address at Knterald office. 150 A19
LOST Red silk umbrella with a
white handle, somewhere on campus
Saturday. 149 A 19 2
which offer respectively basic and more
advanced military training.
The War Department will bear the
j expense of transportation of students
to and from camp and their mainten
ance during the training period, July 27
to August 25. Provisions are being
made to accommodate 1000 students.
Advanced training will be prescribed
for ex service men who attend.
“The recreational facilities are some
of the most attractive features of the
camp,” says Major Baird. “Rainier
Park is only five hours ride from Camp
Lewis.”
College men are especially wanted at
the camps, according to Major Baird.
Students of the University not in the
R. O. T. C. may make application to
Major Baird at his office in the bar
racks.
T MEMBERS TO ELECT
NEW OFFICERS TODAY
Polls Open 9 to 3; Banquet To
night at Osburn
The annual election of officers for
the campus Y. M. C. A. will be held
today between 9 a. m. and 3 p. m.
During those hours a clerk provided
with ballots and a ballot box will be
stationed at the entrance of the library
to receive votes.
Nominees for the coming year are:
For president, Webster Ruble, now
business manager of the Emerald, and
Bruce McConnell, who served as chair
man of the boys’ Y. M. C. A. work
committee during the past season; for
the vice-presidency, Floyd (Doug)
Wright and Earl Shafer, coming jun
iors; for secretary, Lot Beatie and
Henry Karpenstein. Both candidates
for president will be seniors next year.
All the other candidates will be juniors.
Those entitled to vote at the coming
election will be given notice to that
effect by letters sent out by Owen Cal
laway, president of the campus “Y.”
A list of the qualified voters will be
posted at the polls and the clerk in
charge will check off the name of each
elector when he casts his ballot. Tf by
mistake any voter’s uamo should be
omitted from the voting lists he should
I drop in at the “Y” hut and let Presi
dent Callaway or Secretary L. P. Put
nam straighten the matter out.
Results of the eleetion will bo an
nounced at the annual campus “Y” ban
(|iiot to bo held at the Osburn hotel
this evening at C> o’clock. Other fea
tures will be included in the program.
Installation of officers will take place
at the banquet. President Campbell
and Lyle Bartholomew will speak and
brief reports from various “Y” com
mittees regarding the work performed
during the past season will be made.
Tickets to the banquet may be obtained
at tho “Y” hut or from representatives
in the various living organizations, at
75 cents a plate.
Next Saturday the “Y” officers will
go to Corvallis where they will meet
with “Y” officers from other Oregon
colleges in a training conference.
RARE HARMONY DELIGHTS
(Continued from page «ne)
whose reasoned interpretation and charm
of execution won plaudits from members
bf the teaching staff of the school of
music. His programmed number Grande
Vulse ile Concert (Moszkowski) was done
'with a brillance and charm that were
uumistukuble. Paul Russell, solist with
a florid tenor voice, sang the difficult
Veleste Aida from Verdi’s opera in com
Ipletoly satisfactory fashion. The baritone
soloist, Howard l’attee, was pleasing in
his singing of Serradel’s enchanting lai
Uolondrina but his phrasing was diffi
cult and his high tones were not a little
awkward. Ha Paloma was his encore.
A violin solo, "Adoration,” played by
Truman Douglass, was very well re
reived.
An Hawaiian harmony trio offered
three infectious things which won large
applause. Professor Ralph 11. Hyman,
former Oregon school of music man, now
‘director of the dub, appeared on the
stage with them and following the eon
cert was greeted warmly by friends. The
songsters were entertained by the Oregon
Glee club at a dance in the sun room of
the building after the concert. All were
enthusiastic in their praise of the Po
mona organization.
. SWIMMERS MAKE
READY TO MEET 0. A. C.
19 Candidates for Varsity; No
Selections Made
Girls’ athletics are in full swing, with
great expectations for Varsity, class,
and doughnut meets. The Varsity
swimmers will meet with O. A. C. April
29 at 2 o’clock in the new pool in the
men’s gymnasium at Corvallis. The
events will be: plunge for distance,
dives for form, 50-foot back race, free
style races for 50 feet, 100 feet, and
50 yards, and 50-foot breast stroke race
and relay race.
The Varsity teams have not been
chosen but those trying out for speed
are Helen Atkinson, Muriel Meyers,
Betty Garrett, Marie Strube, Winifred
Hopson, Helen Hoefer, Beatrice Fish,
Hazel Fahy, Agnes Schultz, Betty Kerr,
Louise Von der Ahe, Carolyn Cannon
and Helen Cantine; for plunge, Star!
Norton, Hmily Houston, Dorothy Man- ;
ville and Christine Heckman; for div
ing, Muriel Meyers, Agnes Schultz,
Dorothy Miller and Agnes Christie.
The schedule for doughnut baseball
is being worked out with about 20
games for each league. The champion
league teams will play for the Staples
cup, now held by Hendricks hall.
Tryouts are being made for class
canoe races, the final of which will be
one of the features of Field day, on
May 27.
KILPATRICK TO MAKE TRIP
Commerce Forums of Southern Towns
to Hear Business Talks
Earl Kilpatrick, director of the ex
tension division, will address the mer
chants and business men of Grants
Pass, Ashland and Medford on Mon
day, Tuesday and Wednesday of next
week.
At Grants Pass, Mr. Kilpatrick will
speak to the Chamber of Commerce
forum on the “Vanishing Hitching
Rack”; at Ashland ho will speak on
“The Disaster Test.” He has chosen
“The Future of Oregon Small Towns”
as the title for an address he will make
to the Medford Chamber of Commerce
forum and “When Farmers Come to
Town” as the title for a talk he will
give during an evening meeting of
Medford merchants.
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MYSTERY HIKE PLANNED
Saturday Destination of Group Not
Known; Dr. Packard Will Lead
“We don’t know where we’re going
but we’re on our way,” will be the
slogan of the University hikers when
they set out at 10 o’cloek Saturday
morning. Dr. E. L. Packard, head of
the geology department, will lead the
members of the Condon club and any
others who care to go, on a mystery
hike Saturday. No one but Dr. Pack
ard will know the destination. How
ever. the route will probably lead over
the hill to the southeast. Only about
10 miles will be covered.
It is hoped that the spring weather
will attract a larger crowd than usual.
Hikers are asked to furnish their own
lunches, as usual, and a cup and five
cents for coffee.
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