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UAN
Los Angeles, California, Monday, March 15, 1920
No. 70
UEDICTS CLOSE IIVALRY IN S.C. 1C. FIELD MEET
Best
uday’s Meet Promises rack Contest Since Pre-war Days—Both Teams Strong
sport dish delectable for the gods ‘ill be handed to the fans at Bovard jjeld next Saturday when the Univer-, of California clashes with the iversity of Southern California in r track and field meet. The Bears i strong in track this year. The jjans are strong in track this year. ,ure it out.
IC. S. C. has a gang of Knights of [Spiked Shoe who bid fair to make ,t entire world sit up and look -ound. The Berkeley crowd has a ’nch of huskies that heap credit on i northern institution.
Either May Win Taken any and all ways, the dope tfnses to come out either way. Either asm may win. At any rate it promts to lie the best track meet that athern California fans have seen "ce pre war days.
The sprints look like easy money r the local speedsters. “Monty” Mock is conceded first place in the tury anti furlong dashes. Schiller Isenhouer both ramble these s in a manner that generally _jes the innocent bystanders. The jt the northerners have to offer in sprints is a young man named Jden who has tripped the 100 in ,L Catelow, Campbell and Hutch-5n are fast men, but none of the r are expected to get near the , C. flyers.
Sorgo Schiller should grab the in the 440, with little trouble. It has a 50-second mark to his credit >year while the Bears’ best, Leon-, hasn’t bettered 53 flat. Captain .jn Wilson and ‘Bill” Isenhouer step the quartetr in faster time this.
Tbe 880 looks like a real race be-“Cap” Wilson and Saunders of i Bruins. Wilson has the fastest ! to his credit, i Hard Fight in Distances [The distances should be the hard-fought races of the day. “Pesky” t, he of football fame, will tread Kinders in the mile and two-mile. j%n fans feel that Noel George and Prty” Miller will contribute to the e of the institution in this race It is far from a sure thing for the r J city rambler.
,“8peed” Merchant is the big work j**e of the Californians. He heaves ^discus 114 feet, which is some ten 6t under “Swede” Evans’ heaves, "'to the shot around 40 feet, which is tod for a place, throws tbe javelin ound the 160 mark and broad jumps feet 11. The latter event seems to "Speed’s best bet. None of his rks are exceptional and every one ... been beaten by Trojan tracksters -Is year.
Marrol Grunsky will come down the north and try to teach Itog-how to run the high hurdles. 118ky has been timed in 16 flat. J’fy McDonald is the main stay in
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paddock makes school
RECORD
Monty” Paddock established a Qew track record for IT. S. C. ^steniay afternoon when he ran 311-yard lap in 33 3-5 sec-0n<*8’ bating the record of 33 4-5 naa^e by Spec Schiller several days ago.
MEL STUART LEAVES ON
FOURTH TRIP TO CHINA
BATHING SUITS KEEP MEN OUT
Charles M. Stuart, a sophomore in the engineering department of U.S.C., left last night for Tientsin, China, via Seattle, to work for his brother-in-law,
O.	D. Rasmussen, on the Tientsin Evening News, and the North China
No j Bolshevists Here, Says Reporter
To The Editor:
’Bout six days ago a story came out in local papers that professors in American institutions of higher learning were radical. The charge was attributed to H. A. Holdeman, a worthy citizen of L. A.—he hurled the charge broadcast at a university luncheon in St. Louis. Great consternation reigns on the Mississippi.
Farmers don’t know whether they want to spend good hard earned corn money to send their children to school if they are goin’ to get filled up with radicalism, bullshevism and socialism. Citizens in St. Louis are all excited, too—gosh, maybe some of their best little old profs are I. W. W. and wear a red flag around their bodies instead of the conventional pair of B. V. D.’s.
Newshounds On Trail
Great exasperation occupied the board when the report reached our fair halls of classic learning. Mr. Goodnow lined his large group of “newshounds” up and told ’em to go out and investigate the {errible charges. I’m one of the puppies in “newslioundery” and I hopped merrily forth to see what I could find.
1 peeked into every class room to see if I could find a red flag. Henry Bruce has one in his office, but it is all covered with gold letters—so it can't*be a real bullshevik emblem. I followed all of the Profs about waiting for each to blow his nose. There wasn’t a red handkerchief in the bunch, one was green and maybe he’s an insurrecto — but the rest were white—what weren’t gray.
Some of the students told me that they had profs, who were mighty radical—so gosh awful radical that they gave, lessons that made ’em study. That looked bad, right when 1 thought the professors were going to have a clean sheet. But they can't be exonerated if they intend keeping the students away from dan—from parties by making them study.
Good Reporter Won’t Quit
1 met one prof. with a sad, downcast look. His brow was furrowed and looked as if he would like to cuss a little so he could feel better. He had an evil glint in his eye and 1 pushed him into a corner. 1 asked him if he was* bullshevik and lie shook his head.
1 tried again and asked him if he was radical—he denied it. I demanded to know if he had ever committeed socialism—he sighed and answered “No.” I was about ready to give up, but I went after him again Prof. j Goodnow tea* lies us to, in his class of Newshounding so 1 ask him why the downcast look and the scowl, and he answered, “I been trying to figure out whether I would buy baby a pair of shoes with this month’s salary or whether I would pay last month’s milk bill.” He wasn’t radical just a professor out of luck or, rather, just a professor!
So. Mr. Editor, I think there isn’t any radicalism here. As for bullshe-vism—the students as well as the profs, are well supplied with that in gicdient.
Yours truly,
THE RAMBLING HOOK.
Commerce, a weekly publication devoted entirely to commerce. Stuart will sail from Seattle next Friday on the Suwa Maru, N.Y.K., and expects to arrive in China about April 15.
Stuart just received word of his appointment and his decision to leave has been rather hastily made. He has spent eight years in the Orient and has three sisters and two brothers living in Tientsin, besides other acquaintances. The voyage will mark his fourth trip to the Orient. He claims that many English-speaking people live there, and that the publications he will w-rite for are for those people.
Stuart yesterday said he hoped to return to the University soon but had no definite assurance that he would be able to do so. He is undecided as to whether to continue his engineering or to go into journalism work.
Stuart was one of the back field stars on last year’s football team and was a member of the track teanj of a year ago.
He belongs to Phi Alpha fraternity.
"Owing to the kind of swimming suits the women wear we cannot, unfortunately, let the men attend the swMmming meet to be held the latter part of April.” Mrs. Laura C. Swartz, of the women’s physical education department, told a Trojan reporter yesterday.
The reporter, a gentleman, blushed, admitted it was unfortunate, and requested the “dope” on the women’s track and field day which is held annually during the second semester.
May 6 is the date which has been selected for the event, Mrs. Swartz stated.
Many Sports
The day’s program as at present arranged calls for athletic contests of various kinds for both morning and afternoon. Finals in the tennis and' handball tournaments and a baseball game are scheduled for the forenoon. A hockey game and track events, to which men spectators will be admitted, are planned.
CONTEST CLOSE FOR HONORS IN EL RODEO RACE
Seniors and Sophomores Running Neck and Neck, According to Manager Seitter
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Revel Olson Elected Chairman of ‘ Hoover-for-President” Club Organized at U. S. C.
Will Hoover be the next president?
Maybe so, and maybe not, but at any rate, a group of more than sixty U. S. C. students have organized a “Hoover for President Club,” with the determined purpose of helping to make the former food dictator the legislative head of the nation.
The “Hoover for President Club” was organized at the assembly in the chapel last Friday. Claude Reeves, president of the student body, called the meeting to order. Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, social worker, and Mr. McKesson, former mayor of Colorado Springs, and now an attorney in Los Angeles, spoke and told why they thought Hoover should be elected pers-ident.
Elect Officers
Once organized as a club, the members proceeded to elect a staff of officials. Reuel L. Olson, of the economics department, was elected chairman, ('laude Reeves, president of the A. S.
B., was elected vice chairman. Others elected by popular vote were: Stanley Sutton, second vice chairman, and Jeannette Greene recording secretary.
The officials appointed the following assistants: Personal secretary, Grace Cooper; liaison committee, Ellsworth Charlson; program committee, ItalpM Burnight; membership committee, Geo. Garner, and publicity committee, Roy Johnson.
May Change Candidate
While the organization has been called the ‘‘Hoover for President Club,” it does not limit its presidential selection to Hoover. “We reserve the right to change our opinion whenever we see fit,” said Reuel Olson, chairman of j the club, in an interview, yesterday.
“We are for Hoover because we believe that he is the best man for the | office. If a man better qualified for | the presidency than Hoover should arise he shall have our support. However, I believe that there is little dan ger that we shall have to change our present selection
“In the way of a campaign we intend to have numerous prominent speakers address the student body. We also expected to send speakers to the various colleges of the university.”
TELLS EXPERIENCE
“Most Americans don’t know that the British equipped most of our troops during the early days of the wrar,” said the Reverend Thomas Grice, pastor of the First Methodist Church of San Pedro and formerly chaplain in the army attached to headquarters second British army, to which
10	American divisions were assigned. The occasion was a speech given yesterday in the Y. hut. In an intetrview with a Trojan reporter the former chaplain gave out several bits of interesting information.
“When Foch was appointed commander in chief of the Allied armies he assigned most of the American divisions fighting with the French and British back to their American lines.
“I spent five months in France the first time I was over,” the speaker said in reply to a question put to him by his interviewer, “ and two months the second time.”
Gathers Statistics
When asked the circumstances he explained that his division was ordered home. At Hoboken, the port of embarkation, he was put under orders to compile a book containing statistics of the work done in the army by all the different chaplains. It was in connection with this undertaking that the Reverend Grice was again sent to France in July and August of 1919.
“No, at first the British and the Americans didn’t fraternize worth a cent. There were constant lights. The Americans and Australians used to wipe up the British regularly. After our men were in a couple of engagements this feeling wore oft and one of mutual admiration took its place. This consequently helped the whole morale tremendously. While under the British high command American divisions were put under English army rations. 'I'liis was a prolific source of dissatisfaction. Later this, too, was adjusted when our army kitchens came into action Of course, there were times when, for two or three days, our men had nothing to eat but their iron’ rations. These occurred during the big allied offensive and it was impossible for the kitchens to keep up with the fighting units.”
Pretty Lucky
“How long did it take for me to get over there? Well, just say this: I sure was born lucky. From the time
I	left San Pedro until I was in hearing of the big guns, just eight weeks had elapsed. Five of them were spent in training and three in travel.”
Final honors are still uncertain in the interclass El Rodeo subscription contest, according to Manager Carl Seitter, who announced that the sen* iors and sophomores are so close that the final count will be necessary to determine the winner. This will be announced in tomorrow’s Trojan.
At the present time over 800 copies of the book have been subscribed for in the recent tag sale, and Seitter announced that the total issue will probably be 1400.
Owing to the fact that the total number of books subscribed for will not be ready to turn in to the printer for a few days, it was announced that students may still sign up for a copy during this week and the first of next. At that time, however, the printer will have the number to be turned out and it will be impossible to get a copy except by buying it from another student. The money may now be turned in to the El Rodeo office or to practically any member of the junior class, and a copy will be assured.
Will Contain 450 Pages
The six best joshes and the group of the six best snapshots must be in by April 7 in order to be in line for the prize of one El Rodeo.
According to the plans the book will be 450 pages with a red cloth cover stamped in gold. Fifty or more organizations will be represented by one or more pages each, since this number have signified a desire to present their work in the issue.
People who have had their pictures taken at Hartsook’s are warned to go there immediately to select one which they wish to appear. Literally hundreds had not done this at the end of last week, Seitter stated, and if they are not selected soon the management will be obliged to make the choice without the care that the students themselves would use. Students having had their photos taken are also required to tell the photographer with what organization their picture is to appear.
PREDICT STRONG TEAM FOR U.S.C.
The fact that much good baseball material has been brought to light in the recent inter-fraternity games gives rise to tlie expectation on the part of Coach Henderson that the varsity baseball team will bring fame to the university during the baseball season this year.
All of the faternity teams except two have been eliminated by one defeat.
Theta Pai-D. B. T. Play Off
Theta Psi has defeated Phi Alpha and Sigma Chi, while Gamma Epsilon fell to defeat before Phi Alpha. Delta Beta Tau has a perfect record also, having defeated Zeta Kappa Epsilon. The two leading teams will hold a play-off to determine the championship soon.
Sigma Tau and Zeta Beta Tau have dropped out of tlie league and will not be represented.
The non-fraternity men will meet the College of Dentistry in the near future and the winner of this coutest will (dash with the fraternity champions for the university championship.