The Southern California
TRACK TOMORROW
RALLY
TODAY
Vol. X
Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 28, 1919
No. 11
TROJANS MEET STANFORD TOMORROW
OXY-TROJAN PILL-TOSSERS AGAIN PLAY FAST GAME
JAZZ RALLY 10 BE I ASSURE STANFORD'S DEFEAT SATURDAY
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The Trojan basketball team met defeat at the hands of the Oxy delegation again last night at the Pasadena Y. M. C. A. gymnasium. The score at the close of the game was 34-26.
U. S C. played a fast game during the first half and started the second in the lead. However, the size of their opponents was not in the Trojans’ favor and the struggle was unavailing.
Kuhns, as in former games, played a speedy forward position and shot the majority of the baskets, totaling S. C.’s 26 points.
The next game is with the Athletic Club at the L. A. A. C. gymnasium.
THE R.O.T.C. UPHELD BY OVERSEAS SOLDIER
To the Editor:
May I take a bit of your time with a few points which I think should be brought out in the present discussion on compulsory attendance in the R. O. T. classes.
I have recently returned from France, where 1 spent nine months with the First Gas Regiment, and 80 I feel that I am qualified to speak from the viewpoint of the soldier-student.
In the first place one of the most disheartening and angering things that the returning men meet is to see what an absolute snap some of their fellow students had ln the fulfilling of their military obligations.
Paid by the government to go to school!
Quite a difference between that and a twenty-hour day, beans, corned beef, and a nice soft mud Puddle to sleep in, for all of which you get seven dollars every month.
At the present time, when a million and a half men are still in the field, either fighting in Siberia or existing in France (for it cannot be called living), in order to protect us, some men find it uncomfortable or inconvenient to spend three hours a week enabling themselves to go as officers, not privates, when they are
needed.
I noticed no argument in “The Trojan” against the R. O. T. C. The reason is simple. There is none.
is simply that some men do not Want to take the trouble to drill.
In the military service of the nation no ,jne is exempt. Certainly no real jnan would think of sitting idly by and jetting someone else do his bit for Mm, and yet that is what was openly advocated in Tuesday’s article.
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Professor Frank W. Blackmar, Ph.D., of the University of Kansas will give two courses in Sociology in the coming summer session of the University of Southern California. Dr. Blackmar is to offer a course in "Fundamentals of Sociology’’ for teachers, students and the public, and a course in “Eugenics,” which will deal with the problems of heredity in human life. This is a special subject which is attracting much attention everywhere. The main question that Dr. Blackmar will consider in this course is: “What are the social agencies which improve or impair the inherited qualities of man?” Professor Blackmar has the unique distinction of having occupied the first chair of Sociology that was established in the United States. He is the author of “Outlines of Sociology,” which is the leading text book on Sociology in the country. He was honored last December by being elected president of the American Sociological Society. Professor Blackmar is also Dean of the Graduate School of the University of Kansas.
The first intercollegiate track meet of the 1919 season will be staged on Bovard field tomorrow afternoon when the cinder path athletes from Stanford stack up against Dean Cromwell’s flock of speedy Trojans.
U. S. C. rooters are counting on the galaxy of freshmen stars, together with Captain Gansner, Wilson and Raab, to give the visitors a nip
A “regular” student body rally is going to be held today at 12:30 in the chapel. The object is to generate a little pep and jazz for the Stanford track meet.
Tony Brewster will be there. Augustin will get some jazz out of the old organ and the R. O. T. C. will be there in a body. The class presidents and the Y. M. C. A. presidents will have something to say, while Leslie Stevens and Whitey Perkins are going to pull off some good yells.
The big number of the rally is Coach Dean Cromwell and his squad of athletes who are going to “clean up” on Stanford next Saturday.
HONOR SERVICE MEN
IS GREAT SUCCESS
For the past three days the Purple and the Gold have held their booths on opposite sides of the hall against all comers. Students passing through the halls were sure to be waylaid, for whoever escaped the whirlpool of Scylla was sure to be grasped by the long arm of Charybdis. He who flaunted not a tag of purple or gold was forced to perjure himself to get past the persistent henchmen of the bellicose Juniors.
The Juniors are jubilant over the outcome of the campaign. Five hundred subscriptions are assured, not including the College of Law; which number is in excess of any secured in previous years. Checking up of subscription blanks has not been completed, but the Purple Is ln the lead. However, the Gold is gaining and will perhaps win out In the final count.
The Juniors wish to thank students and faculty of all the colleges for their loyal and generous support.
DEBATING TEAMS ANNOUNCED
Debating Coach Palmer last night (announced that De Lia, Reams and Reeves will debate with Stanford, j while I.anderbach, Raker and Paddock will meet the University of Arizona.
Dr. James A. Francis was the principal speaker at the “Welcome Home Service” held in Y. M. C. A. hut yesterday at 11:40. The talk was most appealing to the listeners, not only because of the subject., U.
S.	C.’s Debt of Gratitude,” but because of Dr. Francis’ pleasing personality and humor in his delivery. He has spent over a year in the war camps in England, Scotland and France," and some time with the army of occupation in Germany.
Dr. Francis was associated with the Y. M. C. A. all the time he was “across." He said:
“Any man who accuses the Y. M. C. A. indiscriminately Is either a liar or an ignoramus.” He admitted mistakes were made, but said most of the talk against the association is propaganda. Too much credit cannot be given to the Y. M. C. A. for its work during the war.
Dr. Bovard announced the numbers of the program, and Reverend
E.	A. Healy gave the invocation. Professor H. C. Willet spoke a few minuteB on “Our Gold Stars.” telling of tbe appreciation of the II. S. C. students and faculty for those men from U. S. C. who have supremely sacrificed their lives in order that liberty and democracy might live.
Henry Van Dyke’s ‘‘Homecoming Song” was very well rendered by Miss Hester Billingsley of the U. S. C. College of Music.
The “Welcome Home” service was brought to a close by everyone singing Alma Mater.
CAPTAIN "OWL” GANSNER
and tuck battle from the time the first gun is fired till the last man crosses the finish line in the relay.
Gansner is in poor condition for the high hurdles, with a badly bruised leg. However, he is determined to make Lloyd Rogers, Stanford's representative in the barrier events, step to the limit of his ability to keep up with him.
Paddock and Schiller, in the dashes, compare favorably with the best sprinters of the northern institution. In the pole vault, Green, Bryant and Hutchinson, of Stanford, will compete with Chapman, McMillan, Anderson and Leadlngham. Chapman should give his opponents cause for considerable worry. Bushmeyer snould bring S. C, some points in the high jump, and Toney is expected to make Caughey, Stanford’s star weight heaver, look to his laurels.
A large bunch of Stanford rooters is expected to grace the bleachers at tomorrow’s meet. About half the student body of the Palto Alto university Is made up of Los Angeles residents, most of whom are in the city for spring vacation. These, together with the alumni, will afford the visitors some strong support.
Among the visitors who will perform tomorrow is Lilly, who runs (Continued on Page 4)