The Southern California.
Pomona College Girls’ Glee Club- Thursday
Freshman - Sophomore Day Next Tuesday
Official Organ of the Associated Student*, University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 15, 1918
No. 40
R. 0. T. C. ESTABLISHED HERE
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HUGEST DRIVE EVER;
Every Man, Woman, and Child Is Going to Buy
A Bond This Time
It‘s a really, truly DRIVE this time. You may have thought It was a real drive when they raised over $7000 for the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A., or when that table in the hallway was groaning under a load of more than 2000 books. But yesterday saw the opening of a drive that will put these in the shade—a drive that will make real history—the drive to sell bonds of the Third Liberty Loan.
Have you bought your bond yet? You may as well do so today (they will take your 5 per cent at the treasurer’s office) because If you don’t do it today, you will tomorrow.
Committees have been organized in every class. They will respectfully and repeatedly interview every member of their class until the campus is as full of buttons as the Kaiser’s best suit. But the buttons will be Liberty Bond buttons, and they will be the best possible means of making the Kaiser look less festive.
In charge of the class committee are Harold Brewster, senior president; Ruby Brite, junior president; W. T. Webber and Neils Dau, respectively sophomore and freshman presidents. The graduates also have a committee, which is headed by Lloyd Halstead.
To the faculty committee already announced, Professor Edwin H. McMath has been added. The committee includes Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, Professor Tully Knoles, and Robert Honner of the treasurer’s staff.
President Bovard is chairman of the Liberty Loan committee for all the schools and colleges of Southern California.
The terms of purchase are such that a fifty-dollar bond can be obtained by an initial deposit of only $2.50; $10 due on May 28, $17.50 on July 18, and the remaining $20 on August 15, at which time the bond will be delivered and interest at 4 per cent begin to accrue. Double the above figures for a hundred-dollar bond, and quintuple them for one worth $500. These bonds are not going to depreciate ln value after the entire issue is sold, because the government will have a purchase-fun d to keep the market steady.
U. S. C., according to present indications, will account for probably 1100,000 worth of bonds.
dr. flewelling to talk
TO BOYS IN Y. M. TODAY
The regular Y. M. C. A. meeting will t>e held in chapel at 11:40 Tuesday in-itead of Wednesday.
A special treat is prepared for today. Dr. Flewelling will talk on “Christ’s Ideals and Your Ideals." Wesley Freeman will sing a solo.
NEED SOLICITORS
Word has been received from the Liberty Loan headquarters that U. S. C. men are needed to solicit for the Third Liberty I'Oan compaign, from seven to nine every evening this week.
See Sam Stagg for further information.
Tagged, Your It! And For Only A Dime
SPECIAL FEATURES ARE PREPARED FOR ’S DAY
“Tags!” You’ll hear this to the right of you.
“Tags!” They’ll scream this to the left of you.
“Tags!” A voice will growl in back of you.
"Tags!” Eyes will plead in
front of you.
So bring your dimes to-morrow, for the sooner they are festooned from your lapels, pinned to the back of your collar, and hung to your cuffs, the sooner will persecution cease. If you climb trees to evade the tagsellers to-morrow, they’ll bring you down. If you hide in dark and secluded places, they’ll ferret you out.
When you have spent a dime, you’ll be admitted to the Red Cross Festival—and anyone would hate to miss that. One dime will admit one person, but you’ll want to invest lots of dimes. This is the reason.
The number of tags you wear will represent your share in helping to make the girls in U. S. C. into Red Cross nurses. The money is all going to be used for the Red Cross Class here at U. S. C. Of course, if there are so many dimes that the Red Cross class just can’t spend them, some of them will help send the nurse to France.
Tags will find their way to the other colleges as well as to Liberal Arts.
Don’t forget—a pocketful of dimes, please.
OF
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Junior Who Enlisted in Ambulance Service Succumbs Shortly After Being Made Sergeant
Another U. S. C. boy has given his life for the cause which called him to the colors.
Solomon Zeorian, a junior at Liberal Arts last year, who enlisted in the United States Ambulance service November 1, 1917, died of pneumonia at Allentown, Pa„ March 19.
Zeorian was twenty-three years of age and had just been made a ser-genat shortly before the illness that caused his death.
Tonsilitls which he had contracted developed Into pneumonia, but the real seriousness of his condition was not realized until the illness had developed too far to be checked.
When he was told, on Sunday, March 17, that he might have a private room and a nurse, he refused, saying that everything possible was being done as It was. The following Tuesday he died.
He had expected a twenty-one day furlough as soon as he was able to travel.
Stafford Buckham of Los Angeles, his friend and constant companion, was appointed to accompany the body back to Springfield, Neb., where the parents live. There on Sunday, March 24, after regular funeral services, a military burial was held.__
Six hundred women of the University of Southern California will assemble tomorrow to celebrate Women’s Day. The women will meet at the south end of the administration building at 11:40 o’clock, and march from there into the main entrance, to chapel.
Miss Beulah Wright, dean of the College of Oratory, has prepared a delightful program. There will also be several musical numbers.
At the conclusion of the program in chapel the girls will proceed to the cafeteria which will be transformed into a lovely garden for the festivity. Miss Irene Myers, Dean of Women at Occidental and Dean Grace Berry of Pomona College, will be the guests of honor. Both will give short talks. All colleges of the University will be represented at the luncheon.
The girls will come directly from luncheon, outside to the front of the campus where the boys will be permitted to frolic with them at the Red Cross fete which will be in progress from 11:40 o’clock in the morning until six in the evening.
Girls in white Red Cross uniforms will sell Hoover candy to all who will bujff Nellita Schlotte is chairman of the candy committee and has as her assistants Marguerite Giffen, Helen Avery, Helen Hargis, Mildred Prather, Leona Kendall and Hallie Marvin.
Sandwiches, tea, ice cream and cake will be served to those who are hungry. Ten cents will be the price of admission to the fete.
Laura Crittenden has prepared a splendid program for the afternoon— a Glee Club quartet; a trio, composed of Jean Wallace, Joe Riddick and Haygood ArdiB; a quartet for girls from the Spanish Club; readings by Tony Brewster and Marguerite Giffen; a ukelele quartet from the College of Dentistry, and Edna Sedweek will sing.
Ruth Burnight, A.W.8. president, wishes to have all of the girls wear white dresses, but particularly urges them not to stay away because they have no white dresses. The senior and graduate girlB will wear their capB and gowns.
All proceedB from Woman’s Day Red CrosB Fete will go toward Red Cross work.
Col. Koehler Recommends
U. S. C. for Infantry Unit
Official Recognition by Nat l Goverment Permits Granting of Commission of Second Lieutenant After 4 yr. Course
“G. F. Bovard:—Bulletin drafted this date establishing infantry unit, Senior Division, Reserve Officers’ Training Camp, your institution.
(Signed) “McCAIN."
This telegram, sent by the adjutant-general of the United States army at Washington under date of April 14, and received by President Bovard, yesterday morning, apprised U. S. C. authorities and students of the most important development in the University’s recent history—the establishment in connection with the University of a unit of the Reserve Officers' Training Corps with power to grant the second lieutenant’s commission at the end of a four-year course.
WILL GIVE COURSES E
Dr. Louise Stanley, Missouri Federal Home Economics Director, to Be Here This Summer
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MISS GRIEVE ENTERS ANNUAL TOURNAMENT
Miss Jessie Grieve, holder of the California intercollegiate tennis championship, will play in the meet that is taking the place of the Twenty-third Ojai Annual Tournament. The coming series of games will be played on the cement courts of the Los Angeles Y. M. C. A., between the dates of April 24-27, and will be for the Southern California intercollegiate championship and the Ojai lnterscholastlc and open championship. ,
Dr. Louise Stanley, Missouri State Director of Home Economics for the Federal Food Administration, is coming to the University during the summer session to give several courses in Home Economics.
Announcement to this efTect has been made by Dr. LeRroy S. Weatherby of the chemistry department, who states that Dr. Stanley bears perhaps the foremost reputation of any American woman in the field of domestic science and household economics.
Dr. Stanley holds the position of head of the Home Economics department of the University of Missouri. She is exceptionally trained, having received her degree of A. B. from Peabody College, Bachelor of Education from the University of Chicago, M. A. at Columbia, and Ph.D. with Professor Mendel, noted physiological chemist, at Yale.
Dr. Stanley’s summer courses will be given in such a way as to make them available either to housewives of no technical preparation, or to scientific students. As bearing upon the world-problem in months to come, her work at this time is of the most vital Importance.
“Household Problems” and “Food and Dietetics in Relation to the War” will be the titles of her two courses.
Twice this winter Dr. Stanley haB been called to Washington to advlBe the Food Administration. This alone is significant of her high standing In this field. Her coming to IT. S. C. is regarded as an event of the firBt importance. .
WOMEN’S HALL BUYS BOND8
The Women’s Hall of the University opened up a Liberty Ix>an campaign today and has already turned in $600 worth of bonds. Campaign Chairman Alice Ball has announced that she is Bure of selling an additional $500 worth by the end of the week.
POSITIONS FOR MEN IN FRUIT INDUSTRY
Neil Locke, former president of the University Y. M. C. A., and now secretary of the Fresno Y. M. C. A., recently wrote that be could obtain jobs for all U. S. C men who wish to work ln the fruit Industries during tfie Bummer months. He espcially emphasized the fact that a large number of experienced college men would be needed to manage and supervise tbe government labor camps.
This step was taken on the recommendation of Colonel Koehler, U.S.A. retired, who has been here for several weeks past as special instructor in military arts nnd sciences, appointed by the War Department. U. S. C. Btudents now have the same opportunities to become commissioned officers that are enjoyed by students at California and Stanford.
Major Inspects Cadets
Yesterday Major Tarbell, U. S. A., arrived unannounced on the campus and held a special inspection of the cadet battalion, together with a drill and maneuver test in the afternoon.
On Major Tarbell’s report to the War Department will rest the standing of U. S. C. in the matter of priority as to arms and equipment. Those universities ranking highest will be the first to receive such equipment, the supply being somewhat limited.
Major Tarbell expressed himself as highly pleased with the results of the rifle Inspection. Only three rifles in the entire battalion were in condition other than excellent.
The afternoon drill was designed to bring out the cadets’ knowledge of tactics as well of the details of drillw The student soldiers acquitted them-" selves splendidly.
Full War Curriculum
Full information regarding the curriculum to be followed by those seeking commissions will shortly be supplied by the Secretary of War. Since the University now becomes, to all Intents and purposed, a subsidiary West Point, It is probable that the curriculum will practically duplicate that of the famous American war-uni-versity. This will Involve only slight changes in several courses now given in mathematics, engineering and other sciences, which are quite as thorough in their scope as the corresponding courses at West Point.
A Flexible “Major”
The curriculum, however, will be arranged after a plan that makes It somewhat more adaptable than that of West Point. For the first two years, students will take the basic course, which will consist mainly of military science, with three drill periods weekly. This will Include all students, whether they plan to work for a commission or not.
The junior and senior years will contain the intensive curriculum for those students who wish to become second lieutenants upon graduation. Five hours a week will be devoted to military and little room will be left for elective work iu the last two years. Mathematics, engineering and certain
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