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About Oregon daily emerald. (Eugene, Or.) 1920-2012 | View Entire Issue (May 20, 1949)
Sprinkler Menace Falls On Campus By Bob Funk Not only must Webfoots cope with professors, eight o’clocks and Mystie salesmen, but with spring comes a new menace—sprinklers. Nowhere, but at Oregon are sprinklers so wierd. Other places -have sprinklers which go around, quickly, leaving a round, wet spot as a warninng. However, Oregon sprinklers sort of mosey around in any old direction, and the round wet spot is usually left on some hapless pedestrian. A new low in sprinkler behavior was reached Wednesday when a fe male student, weakened by mid terms, came face to face with a single-jet sprinkler on the quad. She had followed the jet around very slyly, and had just turned her back on it, triumphantly, when it suddenly turned and came back. She attempted to escape, but was overtaken. Sodden and shocked, she was revived after a time by ar tificial respiration. Sprinkler-dodging has developed | CLASSIFIED LOST — Rhinestone Bracelet at Delta Zeta Hous or Eugene hotel parking lot Saturday. Call Delta Zeta. 137 LOST—Plastic rimed glasses in a pink case between Chapman and Rennel’s Monday. Call Dorothy Haines, Gamma Hall. 137 FOR SALE—AUTO RADIO. New and used radios to fit all cars. Eugene Radio Co. 7th and Char nelton. 5410-J. 144 TYPING—Trailer at 766 E. 15th. 138 Attention Students: Would you like to make big earnings this summer, doing pleasant, clean, dignified work and receive free the best training available anywhere in the selling and business field. In ad dition to making large earnings, you will acquire knowledge and practical experience that cannot be measured in dollars and cents. Also wonderful opportunities for graduates who are interested in a position that offers large earnings and rapid advancement with the ultimate goal of a business for themselves in an exclusive terri tory. See Mr. Allen, 8:30-9:30 A.M., weekdays only, at 1698 E. 13. 138 Calling all Picnickers! Buy your— • Suntan lotions 4) Ice cream • Snacks at THE LEMON "O" 1.1th Street Across fronv Sii>ma Chi a sort of spirit of cameraderie j among students. Convoys formed | behind the Co-op yesterday as stu dents attempted to circumnavi gate a particularly nasty sprink ler in quest of cigarettes and can dy bars'. The entire operation had much of the same drama and path os found in the Berlin airlift. It seems to be the purpose of whoever sets the sprisklers to place them in strategic, rather than parched spots. Thus a great number of square feet of sidewalk are becoming well wetted, while large expanses of grass are turn ing the color of ripe wheat. The sprinklers which stop half way around and start coming back are the most difficult! They have absolutely no sense of fair play, and spend the greater part of their working hours chasing istically from concealed observa tion points. screaming people around in circles. It is suspected that the little-men who-set-the-sprinklers laugh sad In addition, students with little or no conscience have been caught luring aged professors into some damp line of fire—leaving the poor souls to sob damply while the ink runs on their notes on “The Works of Elizabeth ‘Barrett Browning” notes which had been in the family for generations. A complaint should be regis tered with someone. Everything on the campus has become sufficient ly wet, including the students, and sprinklers should be outlawed along with gas and the atomic bomb. My Aching Feet! Shoes Bought In Morning Bring Blisters at Night SEATTLE—(AP)—Feet killing you ? Maybe you’re buying your shoes too early in the day—before your feet have reached their full swollen glory. Dr. H. H. Routh, a Spokane chir opidist adds this pedal nugget to the world’s treasury of wisdom: The human foot swells during the course of the day and buying shoes late in the day gives your foot a fighting chance. He says buy shoes after, say, 3 p. m. So, girls, if the shoe salesman tries to peddle you a bill-of-goods at 2:55, put V°ur foot down—but don’t let the rascal slip a shoe on it. Dr. Routh is acting as chairman of the Washington State Natoinal Foot week. Congress Hears Talk by Brazil's President Dutra WASHINGTON, May 19— (AP) —Brazilian President Eurico Dutra told congress today that the “per fect” friendship of Brazil and the United States is a major prop to western hemisphere solidarity. Addressing a joint session of the senate and house, he declared that the 120-year-old ties between the two nations are “founded upon their identity of purposes and har mony of interests.” And he predict ed they will become ever stronger. In the international field, Dutra ! said, “this rare example of fratern nal association” is "the greatest guarantee of good understanding and comprehension among the other sister nations in this hemis phere.” He forecast that the plaudits he has received since his arrival yes terday on a state visit will be deep ly felt in Brazil, “whose people are ever sensitive to manifestations of regard from this great nation, held by them in such high esteem.” “The democracy which flourish es with so much vigor in this coun try is one of the signs of the high degree of civilization which you have achieved and in which respect for the law and for the rights of others is a main factor,” he said. DRESS UP THAT SUIT with a crisp white MANHATTAN SHIRT You are really interested in only one collar. We have it The Manhattan RANGE (wide spread lor a Windsor knott) JOE RICHARD'S MEN'S STORE 874 Willamette Phone 422 Vernon Beard Named to Head Soph Honorary Vernon Beard, member of Delta Tau Delta fraternity, was elected president of Skull and Dagger, sophomore men’s honorary, at a meeting held at the Sigma Chi house last night. Other officers named were Lar ry Meiser, vice-president; Marv Hampton, secretary; Croxton Del zell, treasurer; and Bill Clausen, sergeant-at-arms. The meeting was attended by outgoing and incoming members of the service honorary, but next year’s members voted in the new slate of officers. Dick Williams, group adviser, al so attended the meetting. Williams announced that he will resign the position of Skull and Dagger advis er in the near future, due to du lies connecieu wiui uie siuueni uir / ion. * i Outgoing members of the organi zation are Barry Mountain, presi- j dent; Steve Button, vice-president; Jim Harschner, secretary; Jim-, Cox, treasurer; and Will Urbaij, ; sergeant-at-arms. Noyes Declaims 1 Health Program BOISE, May 19— (AP)— Dr. j Harold J. Noyes, dean of the Uni-" I versity of Oregon dental school, today said dentists were “appre-_J hensive toward compulsory health insurance plans.” He spoke at the opening day ses-- ■ sions of a three-day conference of 40 dentists called by the Idaho State Dental association and the j Idaho department of public health, j Dr. Noyes said all people want a. plan developed whereby a practi- | cal and not merely a hypothetical program for meeting expenses in-' curred by bad health is feasible. - /i J Jflf • ?r Two tilings every college wan should know! A> r<r‘ • This is a senior. 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