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Versatile? Yes; Willa New President Is , Just Carl Knopf Liked by Students i - - ........ By WINSTON H. TAYLOR ' Varwlilifv U nrnliahlv the one best 'word designed to ap ply to Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, administrator; teacher, preach er, 1 scientist, linguist, public speaker, musician, author, and, found again and again, a good friend. Understanding, on all sides of questions and disputes, is an other word the new president intends to make real on the Willamette university campus. These two aspects of Dr. Knopfs personality have Quick ly won him friends anion stu dents and faculty as he as sumes the leadership of the school In Its .100th year. Campus talk since his first official ap pearance ' nearly three weeks ago has depicted respect and a sincere liking- for the successor to popular Dr. Bruce R.. Bax ter, now a Methodist bishop. The name, much wondered about, Is pronounced without a "k" but with both the "p" and the "t." A g-oal of finding the scien- . . 1 1 . 4.m UK WIIHCI lWM -" manner in which Dr. Knopf spends his time. His profession- -al life demonstrates his wide spread Interests and skills. ' Research in archeology of the Near East is but one of his spec ialties. Involved in this is a great deal of translation of ancient languages, examination of por tions of ruins to learn of past i ... .. A. r, civilizations. At present Dr. Knopf is exploring the secrets of a record of wages paid to temple workers, in" the Sumerian lan guage and dating about 2400 BC. lis owner is uie uiuvcianjr ux Arizona. Directed Rellsious Education Another position Dr. Knopf held at University of Southern California, his alma mater, was that of professor of Biblical lit erature, in his work as director of religious education. Around religion hinges the president's total activity. He was chaplain at USC and directs the chapel ; services at Willamette. "Interested psychologically In re- ligious experience," Dr. Knopf averred he 'wants to find out what helps the most Chapel at Willamette is t reflect that attitude, for Toes- day and Thursdsy are U be esscBtially church serriees, but not in a musty" sense, he de clared. Wednesday the period Is to be devoted to a convoca tion and Friday to student as sembly. In a recent talk. Dr. Knopf stated the chapel was no place for a "three-ring circus," bat he Intends to experiment With It, continually seeking stu dent reaction. . In education for his work, Dr. Knopf has learned a number of languages, ancient and modern. But I know none of them well, . Including English," he claimed recently. Public Likes Him, Too - r Speaking in public, as that pub- lie has already perceived, is one of the demands Dr. Knopf meets welL A quick sense of humor, wide smile and variety of facial expressions add to the popularity Of a keen mind sharing itself. Aa an author. Dr. Knopf again Shows his versatility., for his books deal with religion, philoso phy and archeology, while he writes for magazines and con structs study courses as well, t , Hobbies are not foreign to jroch a busy life, though In creased labor Of Mtnmlnf aew administrative post has cut short Dr. Knopfs time for other than business. Reading is one of the neces Sities of an educator's progress as well as a bobby. Books, as yet unpacked, lined the walls of the president's office during the past week, until some were moved to university nouse and others brought Into the open, revealing an exciting array of literature. Reads to "Keep Up" - Dr. Knopf reads largely to "keep rt line -I CI Vi.iameiw naa - - i j " ""I ' . - r"M'i''"- r- i ' t . i : 1 x-tie meaning ox n muvoav pbctt ntwi w xuue iaor, fojwr ei xne vouegian,!' . - v-" " -i?ir, la tie steieat meeting place the president and lira. Knopf have generously I improvised a lever to stretch the limn iiini.jw stm-t""" ' " ' " JfmZZlJ ' "" "' .";"WJ""WV' , r Don't hold up your hands i to foment Dr. Cart Sumner Knopf, new president of Willamette university, doesnt md hav,nR shirtsleeves. He thoroughly enjoys his many hobbies, of which woodworking, in his basement shop set up in University house campus president's residence is one. w jields of interest re- In news, he strives to attain a perspective of events and their backgrounds. Mrs. Knopf Is not the only musician In WUlamette's "first family," for her husband plays the piano and accordion. He also was on the board of gov ernors of the Los Angeles Opera and Fine Arts club. A quite complete set of tools and a woodworking shop are Knoprs Joys as relaxation ana tonic, for a day of nice work, He maintains he accomplishes nothing fancy out of wood, but his work with tools is not amateur ish. Another hobby is pnotog- raphy. "Where two groups mesh, each should know why the other Is doing something, asserts Dr. Knopf is expansion of his prin ciple of understanding. . Students, Faculty "On Team" In leadership of his new charge, a small, church-related campus, Pres. Knopf plans that adminis tration, faculty and students should cooperate intelligently: "All wtiA Anma 4 TXTill a44a are on a team with certain col- 1 3 I 1. S ors' coacne1 m eeriam ways, ana all should be willing to wear those colors and work the ball toward toe goaL" The campus should continue its friendly habits, "not just hello and smile," but in terms of actual cooperative integration, Dr. Knopf feels. As to the university's rela- tlon to religion, Dr. Knopf de- clares no emphasis Is to be placed on ."Methodist campus' but responsibility to that church " for support in helping to main tain an open-doored school Is to be fully remembered. , The institution Is not to make Methodists of its students, but to provide them with Christian fac tors," , he explains. In further explanation, the president calls on history to show that Willamette was placed as a "child on the doorstep" of the church and was taken in. It gained many; friends outside, has re- tained them and welcomes them, regardless of creed. : 'Adult leadership on the campus should be actively identified, by attendance and responsibility, with religion, declares Dr. Knopf, in i . an accpurau csumm si American i no tan symooue an. uer oe nettes That! accord with the school's tradition Camnus Centennial AnDroachinx 1 ooms., Alum a tuvuuv vi luiuvt o uuiuuig i Po11, fft- rAr,fcroT,ocl wuh ef- dents and faculty, with which the new president has been gener- ous, as he conducts a somewhat ,n; 4v Hearing Willamette centennial. I Br. Knopf has assumed a position much augmented during that 100 years, with the intention of do- Jng good Job, liberally, relig lously and scientifically, Tsingtao Has Mail Order View of US (AP Featws Service) TSINGTAO, North China Six teen young Americans, some of whom have never seen the Unit ed States, are getting a "mail or der" closeup view of their home land through the eyes of 40,000 boys and girls. The little Tsingtao colony goes to school 7,000 miles from the worm American continent. But in the last five months, 2,000 bulky and eventually you have the type letters and parcels have come inlof garden you want from student exchange clubs in every state in the union, from Alaska, Puerto Rico, Cuba, Ha- wan, janaaa ana me fnuippines. Hobby Collections Formed I The letters contain everything from family affairs and personal I proDiems to narratives about a big league baseball game, a school boy's first ride in an airplane, a trip to the Coulee dam and Gol den Gate bridge, and a sugaring- off in Vermont The lft-chndren of American officials and business men have vicariously participated in ' run-1 ning a harvester through acres of Minnota shorn a Wyoming ranch, picked Deli- clous apples in Oregon orchards, I gone dairying in Wisconsin, viewed New York from a sky- cQr, y. 4.t. "r,;: wr J:r: rrrzrsNiw the back. coal mining in Pennsylvania and spent a day in Hollywood on lo- cation. v . - . . . . Sc 2 i ' Sdlezou Oregon. October 19. 1941 Poge 6 DBS By ETHAN ". Have you a little doggie in your home? If so, then we have something in common this rainy Sunday morning. Ours is a blond cocker who subsists almost entirely on a diet of shoe leather, lounge cushions and sizeable hunks of the morning paper. He Is affectionately called Sir Sid.' The trouble With dogs . is that they never last long enough. I am now on my seventh .dog. We used up two when I was a child at the home of say grandparents, and in my own family there were four prior to the arrival of Sir Sid. i No two dogs we ever owned were quite alike. Rover, who be- longed to my v grandfather, was a black, and brown hound. He had the ambition of , an overfed crocodile and not quite as much character. His sense of respon sibility was nil. for when it came to guarding the premises he was an. abject loafer and a coward. At night the only sound he ever made was a mournful howl at the moon. Tip Had Ambition Tip, who succeeded him, was a brown and white cross between something and something else. Though only half "Rover's size, he had twice the ambition. On frosty I winter nights he could smell a possum clear across two ridges.. He could tree all the species of game we had. His greatest accomplishment (he T, -t.4 . . .. was ta .a sw?y little European pack-peddler, whose huge pack end short legs made turn resemble a gigantic spider. LMUnaerea Undid Skip Skipper, the first disturbance , - of mv Present household, was a flack wmte epherd. As a ; two-pound puppy he came to our hous m a PP Eme how, . managed to waddle from d tte room lounge "4 7 .7'!, grew to be a fine dog, but with an Incurable desire to catch him self an automobile. One day he caught a laundry truck. And that was the end of Skipper. Pretzel Too Friendly Next came Pretzel, a pure-bred collie. She arrived as a friendly, tail-wagging pupof two months. "Plan Wisely and Plant" Good Fall Gardening Rule By TJT.T.TE L. MADSEN Fall time is a good time to plan and plant. Those of you who are starting out with just a new place the plan on paper and carry closely. You may not be able to even the second, but keep at it We all talk of the lovely old gardens of England, the east and the south. We act as if they, too, just growed." But they ' were, 311 Planned, and n e r efre creased in beau ty as the : years went on. : , 1 On your new lot, figure out why you want a irarrian TV vaii t It just for the admiring public? Then, Put your house Lfflie Madsea KTSi W t ta. a show window. Or do you want your garden for the enjoyment of yourself, . your ', family - and friends? Do . you want to live In your garden? Then plan for a heat Utue spot In front, and your , And don't Wish afterwards that yon had the late shade at a different angle than where you have It! Plan for your shade from the beginning. This means taking a number of things Into consideration, including Ju s t where on the lot you will have the best use of the shadows cast by your own house, your neighbor's house and the trees yon plant Very careful plan ning now will save you a lot of grief and give V you much pleasure later. If there Is a vacant lot to the south of you, dont count on that too serious ly for a southern sun 'exposure. Take into consideration that Wash Tub 'Zoom-Zoom' Subs for Bull Fiddle FpRT HUACSmCA Ariz.-r- When the 368th infantry orches tra gets out its instruments it looks like ' -one of the players is going to do a little laundry.. - Lack of instruments was a bi handicap to the musicians - when they decided to organize the or chestra, especially to Set William Young, Philadelphia selectee who is a bull fiddle player. ' i " 1 - nui X OUTlK iKSPmhlAH fin rve1 GRANT She grew: up and, In a single afternoon, completely wrecked two years work I had spent on our lawn and shrubs. T , built for her a roomy chicken-wire pen back of the garage, and tossed her in. At dusk there was a scratch ing at the rear door. And there she stood, wagging that friendly taiL She'd leaped over the wire. I put another two feet on top of it. She promptly gnawed a hole through the gate. I tied her with a rope. She gnawed that, too. What could you do with a friend ly, tail-wagging dog? One day a car came along. A man opened the door and asked her to get in. She wagged her tail and got in. We were away, but the neighbors told us about it We never saw Pretzel again. Dan a Gentleman Then there was Red Dan, the Irish setter. We came home from a party one night and found him on the porch, starved and frozen. Red Dan Was a gentleman dog. He confiscated my. favorite chair and I was never able to unseat him. He had such a noble manner than made you wonder if he wasn't descended from a race of dogs that wore lace cuffs and dipped snuff. We left him in Michigan, where we are told he has no peer as a coon catcher. Taffy Could Sneeze Taffy was the name . of the cocker who preceded Sir Sid. She came to us as a convalescent, after having chased her first auto mobile. She had determination like no other .dog you ever knew, Things she didn't want to learn, she just wouldn't Other things she learned readily. She would sneeze or roll over, or play dead, for her food, but she just 'could not be taught the folly of chasing cars. We were deeply concerned about it, and one evening asked Jerrold Owen If he could tell us what to do. . "I wouldn't worry about it if I were you," Jerry salad dia bolically. "It's a habit fai dogs that never lasts long. It didn't. We buried Taffy un der the rose bush out beside the garage. Just a year ago Friday night;; . plot of ground should definitely out from there. Follow the plan finish the plan the first year or someone is likely to build there and spoil your view or your exposure. Figure out Just how much space yon can count on In light and shadow, should a house be built there? Do' you want morning sun or afternoon sun on your living room? Do you want afternoon shadows on your outdoor fire place? Plan your garden accord ingly. It really can be all figured out ahead of time. . Mrs. C T. W. says their lawn is now ready to sow to grass seed and. wants to know if it is too late. She writes that she and Mr. C T. W. hate to have a muddy front yard all winter. he says she has plenty of water to keep the grass vigorous the first year. She wants a mixture,' chiefly bluegrass. What shall she . use? How to fertilize? For Late Fall Lawn Answer: If it weren't for .the muddy garden, I would certainly advise that she wait and sow the lawn the first two weeks in April. It is a little late for sowing this fall. Whether she would have a good stand r not would depend so much upon the type of winter we will have. It might be fair. It might be poor. Bonemeal could be incorporated in , the soil to good advantage. Use a mixture of three-quarters Kentucky blu e - grass and ; one-quarter red top. Don't ; economize in purchasing seed. Buy the best you can get Get a 99 per cent purity and a 93 per cent germination if possible. Don't attempt to cover the seed. If your soil has been worked good which it most certainly should be just sow the seed and roll the surface of the sou. v ' liens Are Perking Up MEMPHIS," Tennu-iflVThe old woman who lived in a shoe was dilettante "compared with Mrs. C. H, Ramsey's hen. Without a tre mor in her duck, the hen adopted 100 baby chicks Mrs."' Ramsay bought from a hatchery. . The chicks did nicely, but the hea lost weight - ...--.' With this contraption he supplies an adequate "zoom zoom.' ...... " The Negro soldiers orchestra has become popular on the post and is supply ins music for H a Rated One ard M ! . -. By STUART WELCH FORT LEWIS, Oct. l$-(()-Possessbig the combined fire power of more than 45,000 Springfield rifles, the 41st Division is now one of the most deadly combatant outfits in the army. Comparing it with successful almost a i third more firepower than the average infantry i regi ment now battling "on the fields of Russia, war department figures show i Hade up of national guard troops from every village, town and city m the Pacific north west the 41st division has al most twice the ' strength of a regular triangular division m ' the United States army com parison of 22.272 to 15,245. And despite popular belief among many civilians that a square division is an outfit that has not reached the point of mod ernization attained by triangular units, ' the square divisions will have a definite task and position in any coming military crisis. Facts and figures possessed by military authorities at Fort, Lewis, and modern techniques expressed by plans. and tram- ing officers, show that the vist as a holding force, would be practically Impossible to , dis lodge. A triangular division, like the third at Fort Lewis, may have more mobility and striking force, per man, than a square division, but the 41st 'with its superior heavy artillery regiments and ad ditional units, would present an almost irresistable force . while moving, forward and an almost immovable object, while standing still. - i ' Ordnance figures Indicate the 41st packs 24 155-mm howitzers twice as many as a triangu lar division. (The Germans are reported to have only eight) It has 64 tS-mm rifles, com pared to 44 for the streamlined outfit It has more heavy mor tars, light machine guns and automatic rifles. As far as The Gar and rifles go those new semi-automatic ; wea pons which give the doughboy an estimated strength of one and one half men the 41st has 8506, compared to the third's 6329. The. eld AEF division, al though It had 6000 more men, was less efficient by exactly one-third. For 28,000 men, the World war division produced a firepower of only S0.S74. And It moved only 15 miles a day at the most, mainly by shoe leather and mules. Army experts give the! com parative artillery firepower for the divisions as follows: AEF 7200; triangular 7600; -. German 8850; square 11,800. The probable task: of the 41st during a battle weald be te move bit territory as soon aa It was captured from the enemy by a triangular division a holding force that could; bear the brunt of an enemy recover ina from the ' first attack and trying to regain lost ground. In a frontal attack by an en emy, a square division could best be used for defense, army: offic ials point out but it also; could very well be employed for at tack too, if desired. Under the command of MaJ. Gen. George A. White, of Sa lem, the 41st includes troops from Washington, Oregon,' Ida ho and : Montana. It was In ducted a year ago this fan and was acclaimed during war ma neuvers as the best national guard division in the nation. Woman Quits Foundry, Seeking New Career COLUMBUS, O- W -W h i t haired, small almost fragile, Mrs. Elsa Gunther has given up the foundry business. For 14 years she had operated the city's last hand foundry, plant that pro duced manhole covers, sanitary castings, and lawn and cemetery furniture. But the foundry was razed September 6. j She has had offers from other businesses and may take up her career anew. She's afraid she would find complete retirement dull after the foundry." ; T- i 'I x These women have proved themselves: hUhly ' ef Kcieat In dextrous Installation ef attachment fittings,' brackets and the Lie in tubular fuselage structures moving along the Yultee field's powered con veyor assembly. line. Many ! the parts they install at their various stations have been machined, riveted or assembled by women employes In fabricating and assembling departments of the Los Angeles plant All ef them contribute valuably to the mass output of basic trainers for the army . air corps,- . . ,c.. ' . v- . itting 41t m 'am. ?i of Army's armies in Europe, the 41st has Current Fall's Novels Listed ' By JOHN SELBY - As usual' at this season, the novels are falling from the press faster than even the most prac ticed reader can, read them. And some are too good to be missed. Watkln's Theme Changes .. Lawrence Edward Watkin's "Gentleman from England" is one of these; and one would not ex pect it to be the swinging, lusty story it is . if one knew, only Mr. Watkin's "On Borrowed Time." The new hovel centers about Peter, son of a dispossessed Loy alist who returns to America in 1795 to try to regain the property stolen from his father by a Phila- delphian. Peter gets Kentucky land instead of the property, and takes the daughter of the thief as part payment But; life in Amer ica has a number of things to teach Peter, whose instruction be gins when he starts west to claim his land.: (Knopf; $2.50). Mother-Son Story j "Ellen ! Spring is Elizab e th Marion's story of how an old house and the people who passed through""i remade; the life of a woman and her son a life that was in a fair way to be wasted. There is a good deal of shrewd understanding of humanity in the book, and swifter; action than might be expected in a novel primarily of character. (Crowell; 12.50). : This One Takes Medal Eloise Liddon has won the sil ver medal in the Thomas Jeffer son Southern Award contest with a novel: called "Some Lose Their Way." The setting is Alabama, and the time 1835 and thereabouts. Into a i- rich country which is not yet finished, Miss Liddon in' serts a young actress whose loy alties are divided two "ways. She loves a young aristocrat who has saved her life, and she is married to a wealthy planter. The story is a reasonably familiar one, but the setting and the spirit of the telling rather set it apart (Dut- ton; $2.50). Former Winners Produce Two former . winners of the Dodd, Mead prize are also among the month's producers. One is Harlow Sates, with a very pleas ant novel f small town life call' ed ! "Long Week End." And the other is Margaret ; Flint whose new book is another study of Maine people, and particularly of a man whose life 1 is extraordi narily complex, although he him self would not believe it. The title is October Fires. (Both Dodd, Mead; each $2.50). 3800 Ohio Prisoners Giving Blood J Plasma To Aid Suffering COLUMBUS, O. A blood bank drawn from the veins of con victs has beeri created at Ohio penitentiary . to help supply the United States War department and England. Warden Frank D. Henderson has informed . Norman H. Davis, national chairman : of the Red Cross, that prisoners are donating their blood voluntarily under a plan devised by the prison's med ical department and that 200 to 300 pints would be supplied each six weeks. v-v "Our prison population at pres ent runs in the neighborhood of 3800 men," Henderson wrote Da vis. "It is our aim to create a blood bank' to supply fresh blood, or plasma, to the war department for storage, or to be shipped to England. The response among our population has been very encour aging." ; ...... , . "1- , . .4 I . '. n m w . w . mvu Toughest Where He Came jn j PUEBLO, ColoHJPr-T h e last chore that Al Pevny performed as a shipping clerk in a steel Tf before leaving to join the army was the crating of some outgoing bales of. wire. The first chore that Private Pevny performed for the army in a Texas camp was the un crating of those same bales of wire. Swiss Blitz Hail With Rocket Attack BERNE, Switzerland- (fi) -Swiss farmers who have been taking a beating from hailstorms for a long time recently "shot It out' with a storm that was rag ing at Spies. Usinjr "hail rock ets" that burst with loud de tonation at abiaut 4,000 feet, ' passages were t opened in the clouds for lower layers of warm air in contact, with the earth. This, being lighter, rose and mingfed with the colder strata, raising the mean temperature above that at which hailstorms form and causing rain to fall instead, Each rocket opened an "airhole" of about a kilometer in width. In nearby districts, outside the range of the hail rockets, however, heavy hail fell, destroying the crops. Field Day for Cats ASHEBORO, NC-Bill Bui la's truck overturned almost drowning Bill and his helper in the load of milk. Police were ten minutes in arriving and, Bill says the town's cat population was there five minutes ahead of them. Hubby Better Watch His Step With Her PIERRE, " SD.-KVA recent bride filling out a hunting li cense application came to "I being: first duly sworn, do here by, etc." dutifully supplied tha information, came to the signs ture line, looked at the notary and asked: -is this where I write 1 doT Model Cop Tags Self PARKERSBURG, W. Va.-(ff)-Patrolman Charles W. Clark ap peared in municipal court to an swer a summons he had issued te himself for pulling out in traffic with the result that another car ran - into his cruiser. Municipal Judge William H. Carter imposed a fine of $2. Don't Have To Worry About Tips NEW TORK-()-A hotel here has opened a "Terrier Terrace" room with a Doggie Dinner menu devoted! exclusively to canine guests.. The menu in cludes tomato Juice, lime water or cod liver oil as appetizer; ex tail, mutton,' lamb broth, or beef broth; far, entree either bones, canned corned beef, prepared fish, meat (raw or cooked); a choice of vegetables; and either dog biscuit or Ice cream as des sert. One Can Just Wonder ROANOKE, Va.-(ff)-It may be because of daylight saving time, which has caused some confusion in these parts', but Mrs. J. H. Cov- erstone reports that her night blooming cereus, after blooming twice this summer at nighj; bloomed again at 10 o'clock in the morning. ' fell wm dances.
