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Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
Vol. IX	Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, November 6, 1917	No. 12
‘GIVE TO Y. M. TILL IT HURTS’
If Our Boys, Tired and Cold Could Knock At Your Door—
If our boys, tired, cold and mud-stained, could only knock at your door tonight, how wonderfully you would minister to them. With what eagerness you would comfort and feed them. You would do this in your homes. Help the Young Men’s Christian Association to do this for you in the camps and at the front—where you cannot go. Help them by heroic giving. Some are giving thousands; others are giving tens of thousands, and large numbers are giving sums in proportion to their ability. All should have a share.
Our boys will give their lives to make America safe for you. They will make the supreme sacrifice to preserve democracy. What will you sacrifice to give them a touch of home love and cheer, to help keep the home fires burning in their hearts?
Whatever you can contribute should be given quickly. The severe bitter months are just ahead. The time is short in which to meet the urgent needs. Action must be immediate. For the sake of all that is best give—give until it costs sacrifice—give as you have never conceived possible heretofore!—give for our boys in khaki!
MALETTE’S KICK GIVES TROJANS VICTORY, 3-0
Soldiers Put Up a Hard, Rough Battle Against The Varsity
BACKFIELD MEN STAR
‘Tobe’ Oertly Gets Into Play For Cromwell’s Men — Miller Calls Signals
A field goal by Captain Malette in the second quarter of the game enabled the Southern California Trojans to defeat the Twenty-first Infantry team at San Diego Saturday by a score of 3 to 0. The contest was one of the closest, hardest-fought affairs seen in the Southwest this year.
The soldiers, not credited with having a particularly strong aggregation, surprised the invaders from Los Angeles, and scared them out of a year’s growth before the final whistle was blown.
The army men started off with a rush and tore through the Trojan line for long gains. However, Cromwell’s men stopped them before they could get within striking distance of the goal. Beale and Evans, the two freshmen stars did great work in the line at this stage of the game.
For the S. C. men, Malette made several long gains. His broken field work was a revelation to the southerners. Turk Hunter also played a great game for his team, and had a number of long runs put down to his credit. In the final period Turk intercepted a forward pass and carried the ball to the enemy’s four-yard line.
From this point the Trojans took the ball over the soldier’s goal line twice, but each time were forced back by their opponents out of sight of the referree. The final whistle blew with the varsity in possession of the ball on the infantry’s one-yard line and another down left to go.
“Shorty” Miller also played a great game in the back-fleld. In the third quarter he took a try at calling signals, and directed the team in good shape.
Ray Clark played part of the time In the backfield, and showed up strongly when it came to running interference. In the second quarter Clark signalled for a free catch of an army punt on the 35-yard line, and it was following this play that Malette booted the ball between the enemy’s goal posts for the only score of the afternoon.
“Tobe" Oertly, who starred as a freshman player last year played fullback for part of the final quarter. He got away with a nice pass to Dan McMillan during the time he was in. On the first play in which he carried tlie pigskin he struck the line so bard that the army ambulance had to be called to carry away the man he hit.
Rig Jim” Campbell retired from wlth a wrenched shoulder. fJat” Lucas was also taken from the ■ray with his ribs badly injured.
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Secretary of War is Behind Y.M.InCamps
By Newton D. Baker, Secretary of War
“For many years the Y. M. C. A. has been established as a prominent feature of army life in times of peace. The war, however, has developed for it a degree of prominence far larger and a field of usefulness far wider than even its friends could have hoped. Its capacity for mobilization on a large scale and the readiness with which it has fitted itself to the needs of tbe troops in training-camps and trenches in this great world war make it an indispensable factor in any future military plans. It provides for the social side—the home side—of the life of the soldier and its influence in rationalizing the strange environment into which this crisis has plunged our young men has been and will be most beneficient.”
HOWARD DREW, FORMER S. C. SPRINTER, IS NOW FOOTBALL STAR AT DRAKE UNIVERSITY
Howard P. Drew, holder of tbe world’s record in the 100-yard dash, and who for two years was a member of the Trojan track team, is now playing right half on the Drake University team of Des Moines, Iowa.
In a game with Grinnel, Saturday, in which Drake was defeated, 25 to 7, Drew’s playing was the feature.
The famous sprinter was a member of Skull and Dagger at U. S. C.
FORMER S. C. FOOTBALL STAR IS 2ND LIEUTENANT IN FRANCE
John Elmore, former football player at U. S. C., has been given the rank of second lieutenant in the field artillery “somewhere in France,” according to word received by his friends here. Elmore, who was a student at the college of law, said he had been in special training a month and after two more months of such service would go to the firing line.
WALTER WATSON WILL RETURN
Walter T. Watson, ’17, who left recently for American Lake, will soon return to the University to resume his work toward an A. M. degree, as he was rejected by the examining board at Camp Lewis because of defective eyesight.
Mesa Bar Quits When Y.M.’s In Camp
“Joe” writes from Camp Stewart: “I feel as if you ought to know something about the work of this life-saver—TheY. M. C. A. Since the ‘Y’ shack was opened the Mesa bar and Bill’s place are pretty well deserted. If you have loved ones at home, you just can’t resist the open ink bottles and the pens and paper. It makes you ashamed to think that the ‘Y’ is more interested in your loved ones than you are. It hands you out religion in doses a man can take. It tightens up the halter that gets loose when a man gets away from home. Who pays? I don’t know, but whoever It is, God bless them. They are the fathers of thousands of boys.’’
ENGLISH PROFESSOR LECTURES ON DRAMA
On last Thursday morning Dr. Allison Gaw lectured at the Ebell club on the subject of “Dominant Tendencies in the Drama of Today.” After outlining the historical relations between modern English and Continental drama and the drama of Ibsen, the lecturer discussed the significant traits in the plays of Ibsen and traced their presence in the typical stage drama of contemporary date. In conclusion, the last three or four years were grouped as a period of experiment, and various types of experiment In stage-writing and production were passed in review.
On lastTuesday evening Dr. Gaw delivered before the Schubert club, ln the Hotel Alexandria, the second of the series of lectures for those interested in the writing of plays. The lecture was a study ln the guidance of the sympathies of the audience, as illustrated in the extreme case of the murderer, Othello.
I M.’S WAR WORK NECESSARY’-SEAMAN
Speaker Urges Students to Assist Y. M. C. A. in Helping Sammies
Mr. Gail seamen delivered his talk in chapel in pure simple messages. “I am here today” he said “to try and say something about what the Y. M. and Y. W. C. A. are doing, so that you may give your gifts intellegently. This can best be shown by describing American Lake to you. At Camp Lewis there are ten Y. M. C. A. buildings now. Many conveniences are offered the men by them, such as stationery, providing amusements, having Bible Classes and in many other personal ways.
“A great campaign is now under way to furnish the men with the right kind of sleeping and eating accomodations. Mrs. Vincent Astor of New York is waiting on the table in one of the eating houses in New York as an example to other women. Mrs. Theodore Rosevelt Jr. is conducting a hotel in London for the soldiers under the auspicies of the Y. M. C. A.
“To show that the Y. M. does good work is proved by the fact that when 10,000 men arrived in one town 6,000 of them were amused by the Y. M. C. A.
“The prison camps are the most terrible scenes possible. There are
6,000,000, men with no connection with home who are dirty, without clothes, amusements or hope and filled with dread and fear.
“The material Is in the country and all the human help that can be has been offered but what is lacking Is an organization with a secretary to organize things.
Another necessary item is music. Music gives hope courage, and spirit which britens a tired man.
“The men clamor for food, but when It is given them they would rather die than partake of it. In one little camp I saw a cemetery of over 5,000 graves."
This speech was delivered to start the University on its campaign to raise $10,000 to help wipe out the conditions so vividly explained by Mr. Seaman.
SOPHOMORES HOLD PICNIC THURSDAY
At last the "sophs" will hold a picnic! The great event ia scheduled to come off Thursday. The spot selected for the rejuvenation of the spirits of the mighty sophomores Is Brookside park in Pasadena.
For the benefit of those members who braved the terrors of the icy outdoor plunge on the class outing last year, It may be said that out of the experience gained when they were ignorant freshmen, came a knowledge fittingly compatible with the superior wisdom and understanding of the sophomores. The waters of the pool will be warmed ‘‘by request.”
Entertainment and stunts will be provided to make the “sophs” forget the part they play in upholding the dignity of the University. Wieners and buns will nourish their famished spirits—and then the ride home on the truck! All this can be had for something like fifty cents.
Ail sophomores are requested to sign up today, pay the assessment, and have a good time Thursday.
Y. M. C. A. IS SUPPORTED BY ALL COLLEGES
Students’ Mites Affect Rich Men’s Consciences and Make Them Contribute
WILL U. S. C. HELP?
Schools and Colleges All Over the Nation Are Urging the Drive to the Utmost
Here is some indication of the way other American universities are supporting the Y. M. C. A. in its great campaign. In all these colleges the work has just begun.
What will U. S. C. do?
Students' contributions, say those in charge, coming as they do from persons not overburdened with wealth, will have a tremendous effect on the wealthy men of the nation. That is why the student campaigns are being started first.
At Ohio University $9,000 was subscribed, with the campaign still on. One Latin-American boy gave $500. Ohio University in thirty-six hours secured $2,400—74 per cent of the student body and one hundred per cent of the faculty subscribing.
Indiana reports as follows: DePauw University, with a goal of $6,000, rain ed $6,012, with the campaign still on. Indiana Central University, with seventy enrolled, gave $500, with the campaign still on. Seventeen students in the preliminary meeting gave $250. Butler College, with 400 students en* rolled, reports $1,500 pledged and the campaign still incomplete.
The following is a partial report from Illinois. Shurtleff College, $700; Southern Illinois, $500; McKendrie College, $350 from eighty students; Eastern Illinois, with 380 students, $1,300; 150 students at Mt. Morris, $1,000, with more to come.
Cornell Going Strong
Iowa gives this report: Cornell
Cornell wires: “$3,300 at the close of the first day’s work, half of the students not yet reported. All societies giving up initiation banquets. Several pledges of $100 each, some fifties and many twenty-fives, some of the largest contributors being poor students.”
Grinnell secured $2,200 from one-third of the students. Des MolneB College, in less than one hour, had $1,500 pledged from less than 150 students. Drake University contributed over $2,000 before the convocation at which the matter was presented. Their campaign is still under way.
A committee appointed by the faculty of the Iowa State Teachers College to investigate the claims of the fund recommended to that body tUat the equivalent of three days’ pay »e given. It was then voted that the amount suggested by the committee be doubled. The faculty contribution will total well over $4,000. Students at Iowa State Teachers College are given the privilege of securing leave of absence to work for the benefit of the Friendship Fund, providing the time taken from studies does not exceed one week.
At William Woods College, Mo., sev-
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