Hallowe’en Party Tonite
The Southern California
TROJAN
Official Organ of the Axociated Student*, University of Southern California
Big Gridiron Battle Tomorrow
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, October 26, 1917
No. 9
Y. M. G A ARMY LINES UP
Trojans Get Supreme Test Tomorrow
U. S. C. AND ST. MARY’S TO MEET ON GRID.
Strongest Teams in Either School's History Will Put Up Fight Tomorrow SAINTS ARE VERY GOOD Have Already Whitewashed Four Other Northern Elevens This Season
According to dope, the U. S. C. Trojans are scheduled to run up against the real stuff tomorrow afternoon when they meet St. Mary’s on Bovard field. St. Mary’s claims to have the strongest team in the history of their school.
Walter Rheinchild, Occidental coach, who saw them practice last week, says that St. Mary’s has the strongest gridiron team in the state.
They are corning south with the avowed intention of massacreing U. S. C. worse than they were beaten by the Wlesleyans two years ago. The score then was 47-0.
TEAM IS HEAVY
Dope is not the only thing that fa vors St. Mary’s, according to the sporting statistics. In the first place they outweigh our men 13 pounds to the man, their average being 185 pounds. Their heaviest men are right tackle and center. Both weigh one-tenth of a ton. Their quarterback, the lightest man on the team, tips the scales at 152.
In addition to these features they have a guaranteed all-Kanaka Hawaiian who compares only with Malette when it comes to open field running and getting under punts in a hurry.
Here is a list of St. Mary’s deeds. Note the ciphers:
St. Mary’s, 7; Yoeman Naval School, 0.
St. Mary's, 0; OaKland Originals, 0.
St. Mary’s, 41; University of Nevada, 0.
St. Mary’s, 27; Carson Indians, 0.
St. Mary’s, 41; Fort Scott, 6.
St. Mary’s, 0; Mare Island Marines,
27.
The marines evidently lived up to their motto of “I^et the marines do it,” for they were the first team to turn the score on St. Mary’s.
Jerry Abbot, a well-known football referee of Southern California, will officiate Saturday. With Coach Cromwell’s promise of “we will put up a tough battle” on record, the game is bound to give you your moneys worth.
TRYOUTS HELD FOR GIRLS’
SWIMMING CLUB FRIDAY
NEW OFFICERS FOR UNIVERSITY CADETS
Engineers Shifted to Company A in Order to Secure Proper Position
Results of the examination for officers for the University of Southern California cadets battallion were announced at last Tuesday’s drill by Major Ralph La Porte.
Company A, which was formerly Company D, engineers, will have for its leaders, captain, Earl Burdick; first lieutenant, E. M. Lewis; second lieutenant, Henry Jordan.
Company B (formerly Company A), is captained by Arthur Will. Arthur Ziegler is first lieutenant, and Ralph Heywood second lieutenant.
Company C (formerly Company B , will be in the hands of Dan McMillan, captain; Emil Hartford, first lieutenant; Claire White, second lieutenant.
The officers of Campany D (formerly Company C), will be Bert Marston, captain; Howard Wilson, first lieutenant; Robert Chesnut, second lieutenant.
The engineers were shifted from Company D to Company A in order to have them at the right hand side of the line in battalion drill, this being the normal position of the engineering company in the regular army. The other companies were shifted to make room for them.
ELECTIONS TO STAFF
In addition to the above named officers of companies, six men were elected to positions on the staff. They are Arthur Jacoby, captain; R. P. Lucas, first lieutenant; Ray Clark, adjutant (first lieutenant); Arra Dar-lianian, second lieutenant; J. P. Blake, second lieutenant, and Charles Casey, sergeant-major.
Regarding the examination, Major La Porte said:
“The ranks were awarded according to the grade secured in the examination. The higher the mark the higher the position secured. It is possible that the personnel of the list of offi cers will change from time to time. It is not fair that a man in command should have a superior man under him.”
RIFLES TO ARRIVE
The major expects that rifles for the company will arrive at the University within the next two weeks. The rifles will be distributed first to the compa nies doing the best work in drill, thus giving the men something to work for
Possibilities of holding another encampment similar to the one held at Seeley flats last year were also dis^ cussed Tuesday.
The examination for non-commis sioned officers will be held in the near future.
The try-outs for the swimming club were held at Brookside park Friday. According to Miss Edna Cox, the requirements for charter membership ar«: the knowledge o{ three strokes and the ability to swim fifty yards.
The club consists of: Sigrid Ehren-clou, Phyllis Kepler, Mildred Bulfincli, J-aura Crittenden and Katherine Lang-hren. Helen Frew and Anita Veal are on probation.
FRESHMEN MUST SET SCENES
FOR HALLOWE’EN SEANCE
The following freshmen are asked to report to the gymnasium during all vacant periods today for work on the Hallowe’en social: Haygood Ardis, Donald Dallas, Raymond Helback, Wesley Freeman, Raymond King, Hor ace White, Ben Levinson, Hugh Lockhart, Wayne Mullin, Harold Hamil ton.
‘The Gobble-un’s Will Get You If You Don’t Watch Out’
Tonight’s the night! The Greater University Hallowe’en Affair is to be staged in the gym tonight and every student in every college is expected to be preseht. Dentistry is going to donate, yes donate, their jazz band! Think of the music. And there’ll be hula hulas and mandarins, and ghosts, and niggers, and clowns, and ghosts, and,—.
The English department is going to haul the witches out of Macbeth and start them brewing tea in a rusty kettle down in one corner of the “gym.” And when the tea kettle is open, you’ll find a fortune awaiting for you, because the witches will stick in a spoon or a spade and fish one out for you!
Oh ,I guess not! You can’t peek in the door! Not yet! The freshmen boys are still pasting witches, brooms, bushy cats, and cobwebs around on the walls, while the girls are scouring the country for cornstalks, “punkins,” and flowers to dress up the “gym” with.
The annual Hallowe’en party is the best time in the year to meet every other student in the University. After the fuss has started, and people get ready to eat, the masks will come off and you can see your neighbor, meet him informally and at once become members of the same University happy family!
OH BOY
There will be eats. Oh, yes, even the committees are human, and have provided things to eat, not only on the conventional tables, but in tubs of water and dangling from the ceiling by cords! A contest to see who can grab the most bites is in order.
All through the evening there will be all sorts of games, which will make the staid sophomores forget their years and become children again, if only for one night.
Get out your sheets and pillowcases! Cut holes in a handkerchief! Go get your best friend! Then everybody hang on! Let’s go!
CORRECTION
The names of the following girls were omitted from the list of members of the girls glee club, as given out for publication recently: Virginia Pitkin, Emma Wyatt, Miss Schlotter.
Student Committee Named To Lead Big Fund—Drive In Fight Upon Camp—Vice
Resolved: That in these times of great world need, U. S. C. shall do its part, in fullest measure; that we, as Christian men and women and as leaders in the activities of this University, get back of this vital work and push this campaign through to a successful finish; together with the University of California, Stanford, and other great colleges and universities of this state.
Resolved: That the campaign for the army Y. M. and Y. W. work be placed in the hands of the following executive committee, who shall have entire charge of the campaign:
Clifford Henderson, President A. S. B.; Sam Stagg, President Y. M. C. A.; Ruth Watson, President Y. W. C. A.; Clifford Scott, Secretary Y. M. C. A.; Edna Sedweek, Secretary Y. M. C. A.; Ruth Burnight, President A. W. S.; Ruth Durkee, Editor Trojan.
Advisory members—Dr. Geo. F. Bovard, Prof. J. H. Montgomery, Dr. John G. Hill ,Dr. Roy Malcom, Mrs. Maryette G. Mackey, and Miss Edna Cocks.
“Little sacrifices are not commensurate with the needs of the hour.” Taking this phrase, uttered by Rev. Dr. James A. Francis in a fiery address, as their keynote, leaders of the student-body of the University yesterday organized for the purpose of raising a possible $10,000 as the University’s contribution to the national wartime fund of the Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A.
This contribution will be a part of the great $39,000,000 fund to be raised throughout the United States in the week November 11-19. On the U. S. C. campus the “drive” will be pushed intensively during the entire week.
All the groups and organizations of the entire University are to concentrate on the big drive. Student-body President Clifford Henderson, who presided at the meeting, appointed an executive committee of representatives of the student Y. M. C. A. and Y. W. C. A., the four classes, literary and other similar organizations, fraternities and sororities, the “Trojan,” and other important elements. The committee consists of Sam Stagg, president of the Y. M. C. A., chairman; Clifford Henderson, president of the student body; Clifford Scott, secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Ruth Watson, president o fthe Y. W. C. A.; Edna Sedweek, secretary of the Y. W. C. A.; Ruth Burnight, president of the Associated Women Students, and Ruth Durkee, editor of the "Trojan.”
President George F. Bovard of the University appointed the following faculty members to serve in advisory capacity: Dr. John G. Hill, Registrar J. H. Montgomery, Dr. Roy Malcom, Mrs. Maryette Mackey, dean of women; Miss Edna Cocks.
Save Nation’s Morals “Our purpose is to give the men in the United States training camps a chance to live up to their highest ideals,” declared Chairman Stagg.
“Money given to the Y. M. C. A. is an investment in the world's greatest moral problem,” declared President Bovard. “We will not be making an investment in the sense that we will put in money and get money back. But we have the greatest opportunity in history to make an investment in the deepest and highest sense—an investment in morals.
“The University’s share will be great enough so that, while we shall know it has been a sacrifice, we shall also know that we have made a gift worthy of our institution.”
The War on Vice Dr. Francis, who left the pulpit of the First Baptist Church of Los An-
geles to devote his entire life to the work of an army chaplain in the draft camps, brought home the significance of the cause by declaring:
“I have not been within 7000 miles of the battlelronts. But at the draft camps I have seen enough to assure me that the brutalizing effect of war is beyond all telling. With might and main this country, in its own defense, must build up all possible moral safeguards, must stiffen every moral bracer, that can keep the men in the Liberty army clean.
"This war is pretty nearly the disembowelling of civilization. It is pretty nearly the dismemberment of the moral, as of the physical, forces of mankind. Depend upon it, we are called upon to day to do things we never dreamed being called upon to do; to make sacrifices we never dreamed of having to make.
“The Hritish government admits that over 200,000 of its men in France— about one-seventh of its army—is incapacitated for military service owing to venereal diseases. This means that those men have taken into their systems a poison which will not work out of their families for a hundred years. Are America's soldiers to be subjected to this deadly danger?
Keep Camps Clean “America’s army is made up of men who have homes, wives, sisters, sweethearts. It is not the intention to make hard, rough, iron soldiers of these men —they’re men, not fighting machines. They themselves want the camps kept clean. The officers want the camps clean—the government wants them clean—and the Y. M. C. A. has been delegated the task of keeping them clean. That is what the $39,000,000 is for.
“What kind of men are these men to be when they return to the civilian life after the war? That is the question. Its answer depends upon the safeguards that are thrown around them while they are in training an J at war. New conditions create new temptations. The men ln uniform are likely to lose the sense of individual responsibility ln a moral way. That is one psychological effect of military service. To prevent this we must sacrifice as we never have sacrificed before."
Dr. Francis told of the city of Toronto, which Is about the same size as Los Angeles, and which has given $39,-000,000 in donations to various war charities, and has sent 40,00 of her finest young men to the front.
To Guard the Girls The work of the Y. W. C. A. was
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