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THE SUXDAT OREGOXIAX, PORTLAND, FEBRUARY 3. 1918. LIVELY WEEK IS RECORDED IN HIGH SCHOOLS OF PORTLAND New Semester Starts With Heavy Enrollment of Freshmen and Semi-Academic Pastimes Get Attention of Students. Large Freshman Class Started at Lincoln. w tae-alty t aee Are Wade. risssislW Art 11 e le Rest- I m. steels M Lars Ml-Jut ee,l-r let Stasia -Sssdaey Imnr." BT MARGARET DUNIWAT. THK second term of the school year began at Lincoln Monday with the records showing an enrollment of 14 stadrnt. of which 13 ara freshmen and 3 ara students from other high eeaeola. Thla Is an eieeptlonally large naMr of freshmen for a February term. Few rluniM have been inada In lb Hnornul of tha faculty thla term. Miss Marlon Celver. aha had a Imii ef abuiic. last term, baa returned to Lincoln and la resuming bcr work as teacher of medieval, modern and Amr Icaa history. Miss Anna Cameron, who too. M :a Culver's place last tarn, ts tearblnx aacl.nl and American ble tory. fHIlnc the poattioo left vacant y X t. McCoy, who baa enlisted In tha Aviation Corpa Misa Irene Vol teacher of Industrial art. la taking months raai. Miss Jllee N. Rhodes, formerly of tb WaaMngtno High rVee faculty. Is conducting lha In dustrial art classes until VlaS Wuest returns. iia Alta Hayward. who h&a cnn. to 1'urt Karon, Mich-, baa re signed. Tha first Important event of tha new fern ovvurr.il KrWr n'ghc when lha V'aiveretty of Oraton lee Club, now an Ita nineteenth annual lour, cava a caaxart In tha school auditorium for tha beaafit of IJncola'a scholarship fund. Thla scholarship ta for : and gives tha nunbtr of tha June claaa to whom It will be awarded an opportunity to attend tha University of Oregon for no year. Tha promnnt consisted Of poptj lar anfl classic sons, stunts and shits. Tna ".l.e Club sans: five selections. Tha rest of tha programme Included severe eoloe and tha following special fea tures "Moore the Magician, by floors and Ellis: "Rurleeiue. hr John Fltnn "Character Sketch.- bv Marvell Thomp- aoo: "Interpretative lance. by Henry feickhoff. To dafrar tha etpenses of tha con Cert, taa sales wera beld Thursday and Friday, from which ibuul ll' was Blade. One of theea tags, with 3 cents tdUi tlo-ial for war lu, admitted stu dents to tha concert. Student tickets aold for 2i cents, with a war tax of S cents. A general admission tea of cents, with a S-cent war tax. was charged. Tha concert was menaced by Cheater Kelsey. of tha June class. of former stndenta now kn any branch of tha service:- Samuel L. Chernla. ar tillery. A. E. F.: 1L Dava Chernla. U. R N. T. a. I. B. Company A-t. San Francisco; John Wells, radio service, e.'ectrlral training school, Mara Island. Additional name may be left at tha Information desk. Central Library, or aent to any of tha following members or tha military Information committee i at Lincoln: Misa Leona L. Larrabea, Mtsa Laura Nortbup. Miss -tbel Marsh, see. An Impromptu debate waa irlven at tha meeting of tha Adelphlana Thurs day. Tha affirmative waa upheld by Max Pierre and Dorts Wlldman and tha negative by David iatullo and Louisa Smith. Tha negative waa award ad tha decision. e e e Lincoln played and won her first basketball game of tha seaaon Tuesday by a score of -:. defeating; tha High "school of Commerce. a e a Another Boys Bible Club will be formed this term with N. C Thornea. of ino iscnuv. aa critic. Tha ciud win be made up entirely of near members. and will work In co-operation with the riret Hoys- Bible Club, or which E. K. evhwarstrauder. of tha faculty, la critic a a a Tha cafeteria la observing; Mondays and Wrdnesdava as wheatleaa daya. In stead of Just Wednesdays, aa, formerly. e e Ruth Bruere. Janet Griffith and Killenj Hart have jeen accepted for membership In tha llakanakle Camp-fire. JAMES JOHN HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS WHO APPEARED IN A RECENT DRAMATIC PRODUCTION. etTT"ase Tha domestic art class will davota Its tima to doing Red Cross work on an extensive scale thla term. They ara planning to make Immediately three dosen convalescent robes, one dosen hospital shirts and two dosen garments for refuges children. e e e TVIphlna RnaenfeM. trma Rothrhlld. laxlne Shaffer. Harlrr Stevena. Paul rtteffen. Iavld Dunne. Zlna Wise. Bert ram Levy and Melwyn Bingham, all members of tha February. 1I9. class, ara taking a post-graduate course thla terra. a e a Mien Marguerite Burnett, the libra rian, visited the llolman School Thurs day, and the Couch School i riday. to assist tha teachers of those schools In arranging their school libraries. Tha June. 11. class, has chosen for Its class play. "Qulncy Adams Sawyer." story of New Kngland life, by Charles . Atkinson. Orran Uronmin has been elected manager for the play, sad Wanda Daggett assistant manager. The cast will ba choaen soon. see Edith Anderson, tha new president ef the Trknophilae. has appointed the fallowing committees: Programme. Marguerite McCabe. chairman: Vera liano, Florence Cameron. Kdna Fergu son. Helen Parker; alumnae. Lelah Ptone. chairman: Catherine Mncev. Frances Olson: Hacard. tiertrude t;n!d- 1ngg. I -oris Wolfe: pins. Nora iiunnage; hospital work, r lorence -Cameron. Tha society will study the following subjects this term: First aid. children's literature, how to make programmes' I for rural schools, children s games, story telling, picture presentation, pos ture and enunciation, botany. Oertrude Holding. Resale Rterson and Anna Oabrlel ara new members of tha society. Mora will be accented for membership at the meeting this week. Tha new officers of tha society are: Edith Anderson, president: Edna Fer guson, vice-president: Rosalia Balmer. aecretary: Florence Cameron, treasur er; Madrlln Brown. ecrireant-at-arma see The first assembly of the new term was held Friday morning- In the Inter est of the Cardinal. Harry Pennell. editor of the Cardinal, presided. Myrtle Forthun. associate editor, apoke on the Hrribblera" Club. Lln Folts on the pros department. Chester Kelsev on tne Kka department, and Ieltrt Ober teufter on athletics. Harold Miller and orran liroseman urged the students to support Cardinal advertisers. Orran tiroesmati presented a plan to Increase enthusiasm In patronizing Cardinal ad vertisers wherebv two prises, a first and second, will be awarded, after the publication of each Issue of the Car dinal, to the two students who have traded with the greatest number of sdvertisers during the previous month. Franklin Alumni Organizes and Plan. Work. t elresse Party la llapaaed for Cas ter acattea -New Teachers Ara Seeded ta Car tear firwerfb ( tha h-raaed. sthleh Mass Maa tea Staw esta Enrolled C ess He Opera He .lvew at Aadltarlaaa. m i wm'm miwiii wwnity ypvtiitpna m n i wmn'"wvrr!"r, l 1 imp.. i"W'.u.,.?v.iii n,mtvK!wma .hymmMm iwi'wi!ffyi t , - . I P '"'S! " -ft Mil F:M---A . .... - - .vhW - ,-f- , a . v. v., . r at M -af .,v. ff.r -rw,vja VsK although there Is a Ihrge increase over last semester in the bookkeeping; and accountancy, salesmanship and college courses. Due to the large number of new students many of the typewriting classes could not accommodate the members, and a special class meeting at 8:20 A. AL has been organized, and E. O. Alien and E. E. Fin ley, of th faculty, ara in charge. Commerce enrollment Is now approximately 45 students. The results of the election of regis tration room representatives for the coming; terms are as follows: Room Kathyrne Quirk and William Shipley room 4, Alta Freeman and Charles Be quette; room 5, Marion Eastman and James Gordon; room 9, Edna Cameron and Joe Church; room 10, Helen Smith and Lynn Pickler; room 11, Grace Jacobsen and Henry Wagner; room 1 Pearl Kidd and Frank Hana; room 17, Olga David and Alf Johnson. The fol lowing rooms have not as yet mad known the returns: 1. 8. 12, 13, and 22. th) BT ANNA KARAGOZIAN. f N THE avenlnc of January IS J June '1? class gathered in the audi torium of tha school and organised an Alumni Association. Tha meeting was called to order by Arthur U. Mackenxla, chairman pro tern, and Virginia Meyer hoeffer acted as secretary. After short speech by tha chairman offlcars were elected aa follows: Arthur Mackenzie, president: Muriel Nlckols, rice-president: Virginia Mryerhoeffer. secretary: Uerdan Boeder, treasurer, and George Powell, sergeant-at-raras. Tha secrdetary waa instructed to in form absent members of Ihe June '1 class that tha association has bean formed and It waa decided that the next meeting would be held during the f.aster vacation, at which time all alumni will be welcomed Into Uta as sociation, including the February 'IS graduates. It la proposed to make tha Initiation or tha mid-year graduating class an annual occurrence at tha Kaster vaca tlon meeting of the association. Those present at the first meeting were: Arthur Mackenzie. Muriel Nick ola. Isabel Anderson. Elizabeth Favelll erdan Boeder. Htlmar Grondhal and Virginia Meyerhoeffer. Absent char ter members ara: George A. Powell, Stella F. Sullivan. Mildred L. Burdick, Lois Bailey, Lots Tomllneon. Eleanor Farmer. Helena Hardy. Norma Mon- nick and Norman Stearns. e a e The enrollment of Franklin this year Is 1000 students, which is the largest number Franklin has aver had The freshmen enrolled are ZbO. of whom lwa are taking the commercial course. Among the students taking post grad uate courses are: Veva Klwell, Mary Rector, May Hoffman. Ruth Helnrichs of February "IS class, and William Grant, of Washington High. e e e Elaborate preparations hare been made for the comic opera "Mikado, which the music department will pre sent on Wednesday, February 20. at the City Auditorium. There will be one performance. Tickets are now on sale, the entire lower floor being 3S cents and the balcony 2i cents. There will be no reserved seats. rrsst New. Left ta Might edssand K gle. Maxlne Llklna. A Ilea Gllstrap and Helen Story. Second Row. Left ta Klgbt Utrrllt " httsaara. Uelbert 1) ay, Klla Klea. Merle Harrington. Willi a Vtaaaa. Kverett Dsy. Back: Row, Left ta Right Martaa Daaaasere. Caarlee Spackaaan, Marie Hoecaero. Louis D aaasaore. Opal Welmer. Joha Walt, Iella tlaswa. Kasaaell Meyer, Ktta 1'attereoa. Oscar Anderson, Jenale Slae.Mvea, Oliver Jeasap and Kelsey Cook. January St J. A. Van Groos. of the faculty, gave a talk to tha teachers Lincoln High richool on "Correlated Mathematics." Also a committee, of hu h Mr. Van Groos is a member. Is writing a book on correlated mathe matice. and If pnsslbleThe course will be started next Fall. e e e Miss Esther Tucker, the librarian, has chosen the following girls who are Interested In library work as sssistants for this semester: Esther Chspman. Helen Glover. Zella Landon. Frances Wood and Clair Chase. see On Friday evening. February is. the school gymnsstum will be the scene of a delightful St. Valentine enter tainment and dance to be given by the Home Economics Club. The girls are taking great pains In planning the programme. Chaplin Howard, of All Saint's parish. sTave an Interesting talk at the meet ing ef tha Hiah Y Club at the' T. M. C A Thursday evening. Harry Pennell. recently elected pres ident of the club, has annnanced the following committees: Programme. Os car Helmer. chairman: Chester Kelsey. Ie:bert Obarteuffer: service. Albert Woertendvke. chairman: Forrest I.lt tlefiel.l. Newton Clark: membership. Millard Rosenblatt, chairman: Victor Jttsley. Fred Olson. e e a At their meeting Thursday the Toloa elected tne following officers for neat .term: Oscar Helmer. preaident: Millard Rosenblatt, vice-president: Fred Olson, secretary: Oeorge Meraena. assistant secretare: Estelle Hansen, treasurer: Albert Woertendykc. editor; Forrest Littlsfield. sergeant-at-arms. see The employment committee, com poaed ef Misa Kmma Grieoel and Mlas Leona Larrabee. of tha faculty, la doing active work again thla term. Already a great number of students, both boys and girls, have been placed in excel lent poeitions. and applications are 'coming la every day. I e e ' Tha ThUolex!an officers for tha ne-zt IS weeks, elected Thursday, are aa fol lower Dorothy Reed, preaident: Marl anna Donhans. vice-president; Eleanor Mark, aecretary; Mildred DrusrheL as sistant secretary; Charlotte Holimtn. treasurer: Kathryn Donald, editor; Helen Stewart, sergeant-at-arms. The society wtll take up the study of modern playwrights and their plays thta term. e e Tne followinc namea were added laat week te Liatola's ever-increasing list Senor Roberto Allendes. Spanish In structor at Franklin. Is In charge of the Spanish classes of tha University of Oregon extension course. Plans are being formulated bv the students who are taking Spanish to issue a Spanish paper, for which Mr. Allendes will act aa adviser. The Dramatic Club, which Is under the super limn of Miss Pauline Mc Klvatn. will reorganize this term. Plans are being formulated to give an enter tainment for the purpose of buying supplies which are needed in the com raercial department. 1595 Students Are Registered at Jefferson High. Mass Helssaa Retarne aa Praa ef filrte Pedagogy Claaa Sfexabera Hearts) Practical Tearhlag 1ar garet See, i, Kleded Aaaialaat F-dltwr ef the Speefraaa. THr! Rodie. vice-president; Harold Gowlng, secretary; Stanley Benson, sergeant-alarms, and Cecil Johnson, treasurer, see The June, '18, class met at noon Wednesday In Dr. W. Wilder's room and selected a class pin. The design waa the ensign Just above the entrance of the Administration building. -It is ex pected that this will be a standard de sign for all class pins. A meeting will be held next Wednes day to elect class officers for the next term. Three of the students Joined the Mult nomah Guard band. They were A. Schumaker, L. Jones-and D. Spence. see The students of the electric shop are working on two single-phase motors for the school district. They are also rebuilding the motor which was on the triphammer in the blacksmith shop and which was burnt out. e e e A class In advanced algebra has been stnrted this term. It has a large enrollment. BT VALMA V. JONES. E opening of the Spring term registers JS9S at Jefferson, of which 30J are members of the incom ing freshman class. Only slight changes have been made in the faculty organization, such as the changing of registration rooms and various class arrangements. Miss llolman has re sumed her duties as dean of girls, while Miss Ingalls. acting dean during Miss llolman s leave of absence, has charge of the pedagogy girls. Miss Esther Johnson Is taking Mrs. Robert McMurry's place in the Spanish depart ment. No new teacher has been added to the faculty to take the place of Miss Nealand. who Is ill and will not return thla term. v a a a Kenneth de Brauwere. former Jeffer son student, recently Joined the Navy and Is now stationed at the U. S. Naval Station at San Dlrgo, Cal. e e e Miss Margaret Rohse has been added to the trio of faculty advisers of the . nn ,h- uhr., i,..if mihr h. proud of the fact that it is composed of "regular seniors and for some tim will be the only senior organisation, as Public Library Notes. IF 1 to THE man hurrying to the Library "Power of Will," "Chancing Winds." A Night at An Inn." "Feeding the Family," "Microbes and Men" or any other book of present popular ap proval, should be met with a question New Semester Opens With Rush at James John. Gymnastnns la Pressed Into Service to Handle New Stndenta Sociol ogy Class la Feature of Coarse, (infer Anderson Chosen President of Seniors. the seventh-termers are not organized. e e e About SO of the eighth-term peda gogy girls are beginning their practice teaching In the various grade schools. The teachers' course requires 20 hours of observation work and 60 hours of actual teaching. The girls have thei choice of a school and teach from until 10 o'clock every morning. a e e The basketball team Is practicing every evening successfully to meet the nterscholastic schedule. "Pendy Bor geson. Jefferson's football star. Is the new captain. see By the popular vote of tha school, Margaret Scott, of the student body, was elected assistant editor of the Spectrum. Miss Scott succeeds Dewey Larson for the remainder of this term and will write the Jefferson school notes for The Oregonian. e e e Miss Brown will act as faculty ad vlser of the Spectrum this term. She takes the place of Miss Mattle Kentner, whose work last term was highly sue cessful. Benson Polytechnic School. A successful "hot dog" sale was riven by the Tloms Economics Club Wednesday during the noon hour. Those In charge were: Melha Webster. Opal Custts. Anna Karagoslan. Camilla Canfleld and Sara n ood. see At special meeting of the Science Club the following officers were elect ed for the new term: Benjamin Pop ham, president: Merle Welsh, vice president: Frances Hershner. secretary treasurer: Roy Anderson, sergeant-at-arms: Adelia Mullen, editor. Mr. Hos k In. faculty adviser, gave his plans for the trip to be taken June S to the di vide to see the total eclipse of the sun. A new feature of this term will be debating. Mr. Hoskin challenges any one to debate on "The Cat Is Superior to Man." Alma Beckley and Mildred Rice were admitted aa new members. see Owing to the large demand for pen manship a new teacher for this sub ject must be obtained. see Miss Grace Tucker Is back to Frank lin again to resume her duty as Spanish instructor. Mrs. Rnsetta Tem pleton, former domestic art Instructor, was a visitor Thursday. Other visiters were Isabel Anderson. Fred Tork and Muriel Nlckols. Eight Perfect In Attendance. The following pupils in the Keau mont School have been perfect In at tendance fnr the five months ended January 2i: Virginia Sibley. Fransetta Prldeaiix. William Taylor. Howard Taylor. Robert Flanders. Harley Sronfe. Lewis Starr and Martin Allen. Airs. B. M. Buchanan la principal. BT LAWRENCE HODGES. ft TORE than 233 new students have lYi enrolled for the semester, which is 5 per cent more than last term. The technical coarse is increasing In popu larlty among the new students. More than 100 of them having decided to take it. The large number of them will make It necessary to add several Instructors to the faculty. ... Benjamin J. Kuhns has left his po sltion as manual training teacher at the Holladay and Mount Tabor schools to become assistant to Mr. Benson In the pattern shop. Mr. Kuhns is a mem ber ef Benson's first graduating class. ... F. Strickland, an Instructor in the mechanical department of the electrical shop, is still in ths hospital. William Peck, a member of the February, '18, graduating class. Is taking hia place at present- ... The three-ton Sprague electric crane Is up and in operation In the foundry. The hoys are gradually becoming used to the regular ahop routine. see The steam-driven air compressor Is up and ready for the air receiver, which will arrive soon. The boya In the foun dry will And it far easier to chip their castings with an air-chipping hammer than by the old method. e s e City Superintendent L. R. Alderman and Dr. Francis Drake were visitors at the school cafeteria. Mr. Alderman was well pleaaed with the large enroll ment of new etudente. a e a A number of boys from the high schools have registered in the gas en gine department, with the Intention of joining the Avlatlou Corps. e e At the regular assembly Wednesday morning Principal C E. Cleveland in troduced Cyrus Lenox, the echool yell leader, to the freshmen. Lenox led tha school In many of their yells. In which the freshmen Joined heartily. Mr. Cleveland alao epoke to the freahmen about the necessity of attending their classes regularly. a e e The February. !', class met In Mies Maude Matley's room Wednesday raorn- lr.gs.ind elected officers. Gwinn Bishop. the clsss president, cslled the meeting to order. Officers elected were as fol lows: Gwina Bishop, president; Vail not be surprised at the answers which he would find in old reports? Did he know that Portland has had a Public Library since 1864, whose book collection has increased from 63'jS volumes to 245,370 volumes? Did he ever join the old chess play ers who once used the quaint chess tables in the small room adjoining the Library shelf room, when the Library was housed over the Ladd & Tilton Bank rent free for years; through the generosity of Messrs. Ladd and Tilton Does it seem strange in these days of Tree" public libraries to learn that membership once was not merely matter of signing one's name, address ana rcierences. but one s cnecK as well for $100 for life membership, and later -00 for the privilege? Instead of "any reasonable number" of books drawn on one card, he would learn that in "other days" but one large volume, or two small ones, was allowed, while fines were 5 and 10 cents per day for overdue books. ould it not be a matter of interest to him to learn from recently-compiled Library statistics that out of the 35 largest cities In the United States Port land heads the list for per capita cir culation of books, the percentage being as follows: Portland 5.34'St. Louis. Cleveland 4.RII Pittsburg Cincinnati Louisville ..... Seattle I.ns Anr.les... Minneapolis ... Kurr.iio Queensbo rough Jersey City.... Milwaukee ...2 50 . ..2.4 ...2.42 ...2.41 . ..2.3 4 ...2.19 ...2.15 ...2.14 ...2.11 ...1.8T ...1.S5 ...18 2.N.Y Philadelphia 1." ....2N1iTolelo !..".! ....2.1V Providence 1.18 2.77' New Orleans 1.08 2 7.'., Baltimore LOS . ...2.87 1 .4 04I8. Paul.. .4.53' Indianapolis .. . .4 lli Washington .. . .8 ! 'Detroit ..1 77'Chlcaro . .8 n7!San Francisco. .. 3. M! Atlanta ..3..K1' Rochester ..2.HT Omaha . New York City. .2 St'CoIumbus enver .... Newark .... Kansas City. Brooklvn Oakland ... Boston The reference room has recently re ceived "Land Laws of New Zealand," Amendments and Regulations, 1914 1916." HIGH SCHOOL BOYS-NEEDED Washington Slate Milk-Testing Work Must Bo Done by Tooths. WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE. Pullman, Feb. 1. (Special.) Young men of advanced high school standing, preferably between the ages of 18 ajid o, so as not to be too near tne a rait age, must be sought to recruit the war depleted ranks of Washington state milk testers, according to Director W. S. Thornber. of the State College ex- enslon service, under whose supervi- ion the monthly testing of over 14.- 000 cows in 24 Washington cow-testing associations1 is carried on. Director Thornber says that if prop- rly trained testers were now available. as many as 20 could be put Into the field immediately, and that to the 24 cow-testing associations now in opera tion a dozen more could be added at once. Several high school superintendents who have already been reached have stated that they would, in the case of he more advanced high school atu- ents. allow high school credit for the cow-testing work under the direction ef the college, so as to enable the young men to be graduated with their high school class. Lake Qninault to Get School. ABERDEEN. Wash.. Feb. 2. (Spe- ial.) A concrete schoolhouse which will cost $16,000 Is to be built during he coming months at Leke Qumault, ituated in the heart of the forests of hfsi county, despite the fact that the uiiding will be over 20 miles from the nearest railroad station. BT ALICE GILSTRAP. ALL class schedules have again been arranged and regular work is now in progress. The number of entering freshmen was so great that It became necessary to register them in the gymnasium. Seventy desks and a small blackboard have been placed there to accommodate them. Mr. Carruth, the new instructor in mathematics and science, has been placed in charge dur ing the registration time. The room ,s also heine- used as a ereneral studv hall, a teacher being In charge during each period. The skating rink, three blocks from the high school, has been rented and is being used for basketball and all gymnasium classes. see Probably the most unusual as well as the most interesting class in the school is the sociology class, of which C. C. Thomason is instructor. The organiza tion is on a parliamentary basis. Those students desiring experience and train ing in presiding will alternate as chair men. Another division of the class par ticularly Interested . in library work will constitute a library commission to classify and assign special reading matter during the course. The class already has on hand a large amount of reference material In the way of Gov ernment bulletins, state reports, clip pings, etc. The library commission will also collect other material. All other members. of the class will act as secretaries in keeping- the minutes of all discussions, readings and resolu tions. The subject matter of the text is to be brought out through the intro duction and discussion of resolutions. To secure funds for making special trips to the state institutions a few entertainments will be piven by the class. One of these engagements al ready scheduled will be Riven at the Clinton-Kelly School on the afternoon and evening of February 13. see Several of the classes held their first business meeting of the semester on Tuesday afternoon. At this time the seniors chose Oscar Anderson as president: Marlon Dunsmore. vice- president; Winifred Walker, secretary, and Earl Keliher as treasurer. The sixth-termers elected John Wulf, presi dent; Ruth Edmondson, vice-president; Gwenyth Young, secretary, and Al verda MacNIven, treasurer. Edmund Kugel became president of the fifth term class, while Genevieve Brown, Rudy Anderson, Leland Stone and Paul Chatterton are the vice-president, sec retary, treasurer and sergeant-at- arms, respectively. In the second-term class only two officers have been elected, namely, the president, Mildred Pparhawk, and the treasurer, Jessie MacNIyen. A book exchange, which had its head quarters in the office last week, was the scene of great activities. At meeting of the room representatives the following committee was elected to have charge of the sale of books Arthur Bredenbeck, Aff Johnson and Kathyrne Quirk. e e A group of 12 vocational slides, which were taken of Commerce last term by the school photographer for Superin tendent Alderman's office were re ceived last week. e a A special class of clerical work and of Gregg shorthand .was, formed last week tinder the supervision of . N, Haroun. The class Is for students who are graduates and meets two periods each day. see W. D. Murphy has been added to Commerce's faculty. Mr. Murphy is graduate of the Monmouth Normal School and also of the University of Oregon. At present he is instructing first-term students In English and com merclal arithmetic .-Plans are up to have Mr. Murphy coach all of Com merce'a activities, as he was a star athlete on the various teams at Ore gon. see A collection of raw materials manufacturing industries has been or dered for a museum in Philadelphia. The specimens will be used in com mercial geography. eve The night school classes in math ematics and the uses of the compto meter completed their work for the term last week, and the results ob tained have proved beneficial. A new class in Pitman shorthand was or ganized last Wednesday evening in or der to meet the demands of the stu dents. see At the regular meeting of the Modo Literary Society next Wednesday the new officers for the terra will be elected. see Permission is being secured so that the gymnasium classes of Commerce may use the gym of the Shattuck School during certain days of the week. . e e A. Rafael Vejar's classes in Spanish have proved popular. The June class held Its first meeting of the new term last Thursday. A class Play is to be given the latter part of April. The committee in charge consists of Bessie Geller and Carl Sihler. Miss Genevieve Courtney and Miss Banfleld. of the faculty, have vol unteered to coach the characters. Plans were also completed for the regular school assemblies for the month of February, which are under the direc tlon of the senior class. The member in charge and the rooms which will furnish the programme are as follows February 4, Carl Sihler and room 4; February 11, Helen Levoff and room 5; February 18, Samuel Tesseler and room 10. and February 26, Alta Freeman ana room 17. The banquet held in the high school preceding the Ben Vardaman lecture on Tuesday evening waa a notable af fair, being attended by 66 prominent business men and women of St. Johns. The luncheon was prepared and served by the following members of last term's domestic science class: Gladys Faber, Earlene Walton, Berylist Tollefsen, Dorothy Rude, Johanna Vanderwall, Clara Ries, Adelaide Leer, Melba Stew art, Ruth Tlndell and Lillian Tooley. They were assisted by Nana Seely, Theresa Reich, Sarah Secor and Char lotte Kirwood, of the present domestic science class. Mr. J. N. Edlefsen acted as toastm aster. Toasts were given by Mrs. F. B. Johnson, Principal W. T. Fletcher and B. Vardaman. The James John faculty was represented by the Misses Bushnell, Clinton, Von Wint zingerode. Everts, Rundall, Chollan, H. F. Price. C. C. Thomason, F. M. Grosh- ong, A. D. Yetx and L. H. Strong. Other guests were: Messrs. and Mesdames Gllstrap, Seely, Currier, Benham, Rice, Evens, Markle, Gambee, Scales, Gaslln, Ormandy, Mulkey, Scott. Carter, and Mesdames Thompson, Johnson, Sterns. Brand. Shaw, Harney and Thomason, and Messrs. Drinker, Morris, Russell, Currln, Bucy, Grice. McKinney, Tlndall, Noce, Ely, Hollenbeck, Muck, Clark, Ryder Cormander, Miss G. Cormander. Margaret and Zelda Mulkey. e The junior class was represented in the regular Thursday morning musical assembly in a vocal solo by Alice Brown, who sang, "The Daughter of Mother Machree," In a most pleas ing manner. She was accompanied by "Shorty" Day on the piano and Georee Larsen on the violin. The domestic art supervisor of the schools of the city. Miss Grace Gillette, visited Commerce last Thursday and gave a very interesting talk on art and its advantages to all girls of the school. There will undoubtedly be a class in domestic art formed during the coming week. we. A minstrel show to be given for the benefit of the athletic association is being planned by the following com mittee: Henry Wagner (chairman). Harry Gilbertson, Ruth Bottler and Norman Henderson. The date for the great show will be announced later. JACKSON WOMEN HELPING Labor Problems Met Where . Cut ting Out Blight Is Necessary. Student Body Election Looms Up at Washington. Warm Campaign la Started and Other Activities of the Semester Get I'nder Way Pedagogy Club Has Country School Party Span ish Stndenta Organise. BY EUGENE KELTY. ALL of the student body activities are being started at Washington and in a short time all again will be running smoothly. The freshmen have learned where their rooms are, the June, "18-ers, are beginning to find, after a few calls from their teachers, that life isn't as soft as it promised on the first day, and all are again set tling down for hard work. Plans have already been started for the semi-annual student body election and the nominating committee has been ap pointed as follows: Mauna Loa Fallis, chairman; Al Combs and Elaine Oberg. From the number of students who have handed in their names for offices, all look for a hot campaign. Plans for the term's issue of the Lens have also been discussed and this work will soon get under way. The societies will elect their officers this week, and soon all will be going on as usual at Wash ington. see On Monday of last week, as a fitting opening for the new term, thfj girls of the Pedagogy Club held a party. The party was in the form of a country school, the girls dressing for the part xhe evening was spent as a day would be spent at the real country school, except that all of the characters car ried their parts to the ridiculous. All manners of classes were taught, and the lunch proved to be one of the most interesting parts of all the programme. Dorothea Clifford acted as the teacher and Harriet Shoemaker was the prin cipal. AH enjoyed the programme very much and voted the party a great suc cess. e a e No assembly was held on Wednesday,' as the freshmen were In the assembly halL The one held this week will prob ably be very interesting to these fresh men, as it will be their first. e e e A Spanish Club has been organized under the direction of Professor W. A. Fenstermacher and Senor Garcia in' Washington. The club is composed of the students of the third and fourth terms, and has 35 active members. The students of the lower classes are called prospective members. The members were selected on account of their previ ous grades and all chosen were much' pleased. It is the intention of Senor Garcia to have the club meet regularly in the community house for the purpose of talking Spanish and teaching the tudents the better use of it. Those chosen as members were Paul Emmett, Harold Dille, Richard Sundileaf, Phil Neer, Marcella Whltaker, Wava Farley, Charles Joice, Nelson Clark, George Hansen, Harold Lowe, Harold Clarke, Walter Robins, Robert Simington, Gladys Pilkington, Edith Anderson, Florence Gustafson. Marie Duback, Margarita Davies, Mildred Hall, Fred Small, Eline Anderson, Lloyd Bryson, John Madlung, Alice Kirby, Alfred Christopherson, Donald Sroat, Marvin Finzer, Harold Mann. Edythe Peattie, Robert McKennett, Violet Johnson and Raymond Porter. The prospective mem bers are Elmer Clark, Richard Mc- Lardy, Elliott Benjamin. Herbert Sal mon, Hobart Benson, Edwin Myers, Thomas Faucette, Gladys Smith and Zelma Derry. The work of the club soon will start and all connected with it look forward to many interesting and instructive meetings. Miss Ester Hanssen has returned after a six-months' leave of absence. She is to take the place of Miss Rhodes, who is now with Miss Ester Wuest, of the Portland schools. CORVALLIS. Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Women of Jackson County are help ing solve the labor problem by learning to cut out blight. County Agent C. C. Cate writes Paul V. Maris, state leader of county agents, that he is conducting a blight-cutting school for women and that 50 are enrolled for the course. Not only that, but they make excellent blight cutters. Classes have been organized at Med- ford. Phoenix and Central Point. Cut ting out blight is a big seasonal job in the .orchards of Jackson County, Mr. Cate says, and if it can be done by women it will relieve many men la borers for other lines of employment. Last vear 300 honor girls clad in over alls did effective work in thinning fruit, many growers reporting that their work was fully as satisfactory as that of xhe men. In some instances even superior. SCHOOLS ADOPT ORPHANS French War Victims Cared for by Many Oregon Students. High School of Commerec W1 BY CHARLES BEQTJETTE. - ITH the beginning of the Spring semester last Monday the High School of Commerce received approx imately 150 new students. There is also a goodly number of students now at Commerce jvho have entered from other high schools. More students have signed up lor the stenographic course. SALEM, Or., Feb. 2. (Special.) The rural school at the little town of Adams, in Umatilla County, has raised the money to adopt a French war orphan j and care for it the next year, so Miss Cornelia Aiarvin, ataie j-iora.ria.ii, una been advised. The school at Vanora, In Jefferson County, has also raised money to assist in caring for an orphan. Miss Marvin said that the girls in the dormitory at Monmouth Normal School, most of whom are working their way through college, have adopted 20 of the orphans, while farmers from Wasco County, at the recent farmers' meeting at Corvallis, raised enough to adopt an orphan and a half. Albany Boys Reach France. ALBANY, Or.. Feb. 2. (Special.) Two of the three sons whom C. H. Stewart, postmaster of Albany, has in the service have reaeched France. They are Captain W. E. Stewart, who is with the medical department of the 162d Regiment, formerly the Third Oregon, and Ralph Stewart, who is a sergeant in a battery of field artillery recruited at Walla Walla and Spokane, Wash. They went over in the same di vision. Judge Stewart's third son in the service is Robert Stewart, who is an electrician In the Coast Ajrtlllery Corps at Fort Canby, Wash. The June, '18, class pins are to be given out this week. The pins have been delayed a long time and all are glad that they are at last to receive the pins. see The hook store has been in charge of Don Macpherson, George Plympton and Paul Emmett this year. Many books have been sold, and the store has been great saving both to those buying books and those wishing to sell their old ones. The store charges 5 cents for each book sold and this amount is turned over to the student body fund. It is not known how much the book store took in this year, as yet, but this will be computed later this week. The basketball team played a game with Sellwood on Wednesday of last week at 8 in the evening. The Wash ington team won, 50 to 18. Harold Mann was hurt in the game, but it is hoped that he will be back again by the time for Washington to play her next interscholastic game, as his ab sence would greatly weaken the team. e The senior rooms this term are rooms 10, 14, 16 and 18. As there is a class of about 150 graduates, all the rooms are well filled. COUNTY WOMEN ORGANIZE Home Economics Commitee to En courage Conservation of Food. ROSEBTJRG, Or., Feb. 2. (Special.) The first county home economics committee in Oregon was formed in this city this week and is composed of representatives from every part of the county. The organization was perfect ed through the efforts of Miss Anna M. Turlev. state leader of the home demonstration agents, and Ruth L. Cor- bett, home demonstration agent of Lane and Douglas counties. Twenty-five representative women or the county took part In perfecting the organization and plans were outlined for work to be done throughout tne county the coming year. A county pro gramme was adopted, a part of which will be carried out in each community, the main topics of which are organiza tion, conservation of food, clothing, health and the keeping of household accounts. WIRELESS MEN ENLIST, Dozen of Radio Class at O. A. Pass Government Tests. C. OREGON AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE, Corvallis, Feb. 2. (Special.) A dozen- members of the radio class have en listed in the Navy, having fulfilled the Government regulations of sending and receiving 20 words a minute. Seven more members of the class will com plete their courses next week. Addi tional equipment is being added to care for new students who are expected shortly. Arrangements will be made to provide more opportunity for prac tice. The men having already passed the Government tests will be sent to train ing camps, probably San Francisco, and if they make good there; will be sent to Harvard to finish their training, after which they will be reported for field servict I