The Southern California
Prep Football-Bovard Field Today, Tomorrow-2:30
Junior Play Tonite Little Theater at 8
Official Organ of the Associated Student*, University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, December 7, 1917
No. 20
dan McMillan TO LEAD 1918 TROJAN ELEVEN
All-State Tackle Elected at Football Banquet Wednesday
16	PLAYERS PRESENT
Football Covered with Season's Score, 127-47, Features Feed
Dan McMillan, the fighting Trojan tackle who has been picked by the sporting critics for a berth on the all-state team, was elected captain of the 1918 varsity at the annual football banquet given at Christopher’s banquet hall by the Y. M . C. A. last Wednesday evening.
"Rabit” Malette and “Duck” Miller were also nominated, the former withdrawing from the race before the votes were cast.
The captain-elect played on the Manual Arts high school team for two years before coming to the University last fall. While with the Artisans McMillan held down the center position on the line and was named on all-city team for that position. Last year he moved over to tackle and played a star game for the freshman eleven. This season he has played a whirlwind game for the Trojan varsity. Besides being a great player, Dan has a head full of football, and should prove a good leader of his men.
Sixteen monogram men, Coach Cromwell, Clifford Henderson, student body president and Clifford Scott and Sam Stagg of the Y. M. C. A. were at the banquet.
The first course was a football served on a platter and decorated with the season’s score, 127-47 in U. S. C.’s favor.
Then came the big steaks and the rest of the feed.
Short speeches were given by captain-elect McMillan, Coach Cromwell and Cliff Henderson.
GIRLS GIVE CADETS TWO LARGE FLAGS
The national and standard flags were presented to the U. S. C. cadets at 11:40 a.m.- yesterday by Isabel Me-Euen. president of the Athena society and Cheryl Miller president of the Clionian society in behalf of the two mens’ literary societies. The men members of the faculty were the honored guests. The batallion led by Major Ralph LaPorte passed in review before the staff and many spectators after which four girls; Isabel McEuen, Cheryl Miller, Loretta Burn, Edith Howell, dressed in white, presented the flags. Isabel McEuen delivered an impressive speech, after which the company under command of Captain Art Will accepted the colors.
WAR BREAD FILM IS SHOWN AT SUPERBA
U. S. C. favorites have sprung into the limelight and will make their first appearance on the screen at the Superba this week, in the role of patriots, who demonstrate the making of war bread.
A few weeks ago the Universal Film Company, hearing that Mrs. Charles Spencer of the U. S. C. cafeteria, assisted by Miss Hough and Miss Russell, of the registrar’s office, Eleanor O’neil and Leo Clark of U. S.
C.	were to demonstrate the making of Liberty Bread, which requires very little white flour, sent out their photographers to film the demonstration.
This very interesting picture will be shown at the Superba this week. There you can see these popular film stars; Mrs. Spencer making Liberty Bread, Leo Clark cutting it, Eleanor O’neill eating it, and Miss Hough and Miss Russel standing by as spectators.
GRADUATE OF COLLEGE
OF DENTISTRY MARRIES
At a beautifully-appointed military wed(liug ceremony, Dr. N. Louis Beese-Wyer, ('ollege of Dentistry, ’17, a member of pBi Omega, was married to Miss Marguerite L. Brown, last Saturday afternoon, in Riverside. Drs. Glenn Leisure and Lowell Hutchison, also graduates of the dental college, were best man and usher, respectively.
I,r Heesmyer, l)r. Leisure and Dr. HuUhlBon are first lieutenants in the dental reserve corps.
Seniors A bsent On Sneak Day, Tuesday
Sixty U. S. C. girls, all normal, kept the same secret this week. Sixteen men also kept the same secret. The efforts of the girls are considered more noteworthy, however, as there were twice as many of them. The men and girls all belong to the same class of ’18.
The secret was not disclosed until S. C. professors called the roll Tuesday morning, when it was found that seniors were as prominent as the public library on a sunny day. Some students produced printed documents left by the senior class and said that the annual senior sneak day had arrived. For their frolic, the seniors this year went to Balboa beach.
MRS. MACKEY WILL ACCEPT ALL DONATIONS FOR POLISH RELIEF FUND; $21 COLLECTED
Starvation and tuberculosis are wiping out the Polish nation. It is up to the American people to save them, states an announcement received by Mrs. Maryette M. Mackey, who says that the University already has raised twenty-one dollars for this relief work. If the sum could be raised to fifty dollars it would keep one child alive for a year. There are 500,000 children in need of food and clothing, and any money subscribed for this cause will be used in a worthy manner. Those in charge of the relief measures wish to collect $.r>0,000 by Christmas. Please give all subscriptions to Mrs. Mackey.
MR. AND MRS. JAZZ AND
CHARMING DAUGHTER LOTTA OF UNIVERSITY VISIT ANAHEIM
A real U. S. C. Day with several hundred high school students indulging in U. S. C. yells and chanting “Alma Mater,” was celebrated recently at the Anaheim Union high school and junior college.
No less than six U. S. C. alumni are on the faculty of Anaheim, and they had invited Clyde Collison, likewise an alumnus and now on the factulty of the College of Music, to come down and play the piano for the students. Collison arrived to find tliat Mr. and Mrs. Jazz and their charming daughter Lotta had arrived ahead of him. The house was simply bubbling over with IT. S. C. spirit. Collison played a program of Chopin, Schumann, (Jrainger and Liszt numbers and was most enthusiastically applauded.
INTERNAL REVENUE OFFICE DISCUSSES ADMISSION TAX
(From the Patriotic News Service of
the National Committee of Patriotic
Societies, Southern Bldg., Washington, D. C.)
The National Committee of Patriotic Societies addressed an inquiry a short while ago to Commissioner Daniel C. Roper of the Department of Internal Revenue as to how the provisions of the Act of October 3, 1917, affected the various student activities in our American colleges. Commissioner Roper had the following statement especially prepared for publication in the college press:
Inquiry has been received relative to the application of the provisions of the Act of October 3, 1917, imposing tax upon admissions to college athletic, theatrical and other entertainments. The Act exempts from such tax “admissions all the proceeds of which inure exclusively to the benefit of religious, educational or charitable institutions, societies or organizations.”
As was remarked in a recent statement relating to the same provisions of law, the word “educational,” as used in such connection, has been given a rather broad construction by the courts. It has been held to Include physical and moral as well as purely intellectual training; and if a college itself managed the theatrical and other entertainments and receievd the proceeds arising therefrom, there would, of course, be no doubt that the exemption applied. However, it Is understood that, generally speaking, such entertainments are managed not by the college authorities, but by student organizations which control the expenditure of the proceeds. Any claim to exemption, therefore, must be based upon the contention that the student organizations are themselves educational institutions or that the entertainments which they manage are educational. It is doubtless true that college sports tend to arouse interest in physical development and that college theatrical and similar entertainments have some educational influence, but the same might be said of professional baseball games, for instance, and professional theatrical performances, and, of course, there was no intent to exempt the latter or the promoters thereof. After all, the principal function of college sports and other college entertainments would seem to be, as in the case of professional sports and other professional entertainments, to furnish recreation; and there appears to be no more substantial ground for exemption in one case than in the other.
It is accordingly held that the tax applies to admissions charged for entrance to college athletic and other entertainments, unless all the proceeds thereof are actually turned over to the college itself, or to some other religious, educational, or charitable institution, society or organization.
(Signed) E. C. JOHNSON,
Approved:	Solicitor.
(Signed) DANIEL C. ROPER,
Commissioner,
PREPS PLAY ON BOVARD GRID
Bovard field will be the scene of two prep football games today and tomorrow.
This afternoon’s contest will be between Manual Arts and Fullerton. Jerry Abbott will render decisions.
Tomorrow afternoon Long Beach and Pomona high schools are booked for a battle.
Beta Phi announces the pledging of Elizabeth MacCormack. Beta Phi entertained Theta Psi Monday evening.
Junior Play Presented
Before a Full House At The Little Theatre
The first performance of the junior play, “Disraeli,” at the Little Theatre Inst night speaks well for the second performance to be given tonight. The play was well acted, enthusiastically applauded and well attended. Practically every seat in the house was taken.
--♦ The drama was produced without
scenery before brown velvet curtains.
Professor Hopkin 's Uses His Napkin A nyway
The reporter who wears celluloid cuffs in order to save on Laundry bills when he is gathering news and finds himself without a notebook is no more resourceful than was Prof. Ernest J. Hopkins, head of the journal-' ism department, according to the editors of the Trojan, at some dinner, time unknown. The editors arrived at this decision when they found a paper napkin on the Trojan copy desk. This napkin was obviously as out of place as a bottle of ink at a dinner.
The editors of the Trojan turned the matter over in their minds. The bottom of the paper revealed many notes, written with a soft pencil. A “story” had “broken” at lunch. Professor Hopkins had used his napkin.
NO MONOGRAMS UNTIL 12 HOURS’ WORK ARE PASSED
Football monograms are not to be given out till scholarship grades have been determined. The above ruling was made to prevent men coming to the university for athletics only and then skipping away without completing a semester’s work and will not likely effect any of the football men seriously. In the old days a man would get all the honors and awards that he could, including sweaters and mackinaws, and then quietly leave the premises, never to be seen again. Now, a man must finish Ills regular school work, which means passing in 12 hours before he can get his trophies.
TRACK SEASON TO COMMENCE MONDAY
Track training begins Monday afternoon with Coach Cromwell on the job. Captain Noel George urges every fellow that ever wore spikes to turn out for fall training.
This departure from the usual seemed strange at first, and It was some little time before the audience became accustomed to the innovation. One feature of the play was the careful attention given to the costumes. The girls appeared in different gowns in every act. The court scene in the last act was admirable in its observance of details. Previous to the production of the play, an authority was called in to see that the costumes worn were similar to those used in England at the time Disraeli lived.
The acting of the members of the cast was impressive. Helen Hargis, in the part of Mrs. Noel Travers, acted with professional skill. Ruby Brite, as I^ady Beaconsfield, was delightful in her presentation. The leading role, Clarissa, Lady Pevensey, was acted by Zemula Pope in creditable fashion.
Among the male actors, E. Dow Hoffman, as Sir Michael Probert, and Corliss Brownell, as Hugh Meyers, deserve special metnion. Their work was above the ordinary. Henry Mahan, as Charles, will have the opportunity of watching Clifford Henderson in the same role he played last night.
The last performance in Los Angeles will be given tonight. On Saturday the play will be presented before the soldiers at San Pedro, at the request of the government officials.
The play is extremely worth-while, and all students should attend.
FORMER S. C. JOURNALISM
PROFESSOR ADDRESSES
AD CLUB IN NEW YORK
Professor Bruce Bliven, former head of the U. S. C. Journalism department and now of the editorial staff of “Printers’ Ink.” spoke recently before the Young Ad-Men’s club of New York. His subject was the national advertisers’ relations to the retailer, dealing with the subject in detail.
Recently he concluded a series of lectures on advertising, delivered at New York university.
SHOW ASILOMAR PICTURES
Btereoptican views of Asilomar and the surrounding country will be shown by Gail Seaman next Wednesday at 41:40 at the Y. M. C. A.’s regular meet ,ing iu chapel. Gail Seaman is Pacific Coast student secretary.
‘SAME SITUATION AS e; - DR.
Caesar Was Killed Because of Imperialism—Kaiserism Must Go
“The world today is confronted by the same situation that “Rome faced when Julius Caesar was killed by Brutus, Cassius and their fellow-patriots,” declared Dr. Allison Gaw, professor of English, iu a lecture before the Schubert club Tuesday night at the Hotel Alexandria.
“Shakespeare’s play, ‘Julius Caesar,* sets forth essentially the same problem that we must solve today,” he said. “In those stirring times when Caesar overawed the world the souls of men were not ready for imperialism, and Caesar was killed. So today the world will not submit to Kaiserdotn, and President Wilson’s message tells us that the end cannot come until Kaiserism Is no more.
“To make a successful democracy three elements are required—an intelligent and moral people, a body of capable and honorable leaders, and a free and efficient press to serve as the medium of communication between the two. Nations like Mexico have not the first element; Germany has not tlie second, and Russia, in which the plans and words of Kerensky never reached the great mass of the people, because there is no newspaper press highly enough developed, lacks the third."
PI BETA PHI PLEDGES
I’i Beta Phi announces the pledging of (iertrude ltothe.