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Official Organ of the Aaiociated Student*, University of Southern California
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, March 15, 1918
No. 34
CROWD SEES BOYS OFF
TRAINING CAMP LIFE IS GREAT, SAY BOYS
University students from France, Panama, and the various army camps have written the letters from which the following excerpts are taken to University students. The Trojan was kindly granted permission to print portions of the letters.
“It seems ages since I left Los Angeles, but I like it very much. We work and drill hard, but it has done me worlds of good. I really have lost almost fifteen pounds, and my muscles are just twice as hard.
“We wrestle and box every Friday morning. So far I have been in three wrestling matches and won every one of them. More luck than skill on my part, I guess.
‘Was on liberty at San Francisco last week and all I did was eat. Have gone to a few parties also over here when off duty. The folks here are sure good to us boys, and entertain us at their homes every once in a while.” GALE PARMELEE, Marine Barracks, C«j. “E,” Vallejo, Cal.
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“I was put on ‘K. P.’ (Kitchen Police) yesterday.....Today I started again
at 6 o’clock and worked straight through until this afternoon, pushing a broom or mop.
“Tomorrow I have to report for fatigue duty at 7:15 a. m. That means wield a pick and shovel, or an axe, all morning. But I don’t dread that. Anything is better than K. P.
“I’m feeling fine—my »rms aren’t sore at all from the vaccination and the typhoid innoculation, and it didn’t make me sick as it did some. I have two more ‘shots in the arm’ coming and I hear that they are stronger and will make me sick, but I’m not worrying about a little thing like that.
“You ought to see the big bunch in the mess hall. Some crowd, and eat —just like they hadn’t seen food for months. No wonder the fellows all gain weight in the army. We get more than we can eat. I think I weigh several pounds more already. I'always relish the ‘chow,’ as they call it, and I can walk a mile for every meal. I am getting ‘enamored’ with army life; I really do like it.
“I’m writing this in the Y. M. C. A. building. In back of me a fellow is playing on the piano, over to one side they are playing pool, and on the other side it’s checkers. There must be a hundred fellows in this room, and every nation has a representative.
“I have my uniform now, and can’t decide whether I look better or not. “This morning the five fellows in our tent made an awful mistake—we got up at 4:15 instead of 5:15. One of the boys had one of these ‘radiolite’ watches and told us the time and made a mistake of an hour. It was absolutely dark and we didn’t discover the blunder till we had finished dressing.’’ RONALD STANNARD, Ordnance Detachment, San Antonio Arsenal, Tex.
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“I have been in France now for a few days, after stopping a while in England. There are many hedges here, which take the place of fences. The people dress differently and woodn shoes are quite common.
“You should se the French soldiers. They certainly look fine in their blue uniforms. I was down to a city near here last week. The girls are very pretty, but we can’t talk French and they can’t talk English; however, we get along pretty well.
“How is everybody at school? I certainly would like to take a stroll on the campus just about now. If I ever get back to the U. S. again, I think I will go back to college.”
TOM OWENS, Co. “K,” 162nd Infantry, A. E. F„ via New York City.
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“I got down here at Colon day before yesterday. Had a nice trip on the Carribean Sea. We are stationed on the Atlantic side of the canal at Fort Sherman. It is very pretty here. The jungle, an impassable growth of trees, ^shes and vines, comes right up to the reservation. The American part of the town Is Cristobal and the Panamanian part is Colon.
“The weather is pretty warm and I had to come over to town today to fet some cooler clothes. Yesterday we all went over to the Pacific side to Kt our mileage so we would have some money.
“We joined the ‘Strangers’ Club’ as soon as we got here. It is a good Place to meet people and get a meal when in town.
"We start to work on setting up hydroplanes Monday, and will fly soon.
LIEUT. ROBERT BURNIGHT,
7th Aero Squadron, Fort Sherman, Panama Canal Zone.
17 LIBERAL ARTS MEN
GO TO CANTONMENT
ENVIABLE RECORD
"We women of the Jefferson Street whool Red Cross Auxiliary are leaning the lesson of obedience,” said Mrs.
Campbell, Chairman of the auxil-"We have no more right to ques-ton orders than the soldier has. The “Sluing is good for us, but often the ®**on is a bitter one to learn. Some •omen just can’t see why a soldier’s ■°ck must have a Kitchener toe.” fudging from their record of work
BIG SISTER PARTY TO BE
HELD AT BETA PHI HOUSE
BAKER, BEN Zeta Kappa Epsilon Manager El Rodeo ’19 Varsity Basketball Men’s Tennis Club BOSE, ROY Gamma Epsilon Varsity Song Leader CLARK, LEO
Y. M. C. A. Worker COLLISON, J. CLYDE Phi Alpha
College of Music Faculty Editor El Rodeo ’10 COX, LESTER Delta Beta Tau Varsity Debater FRASHER, ROSCOE Delta Beta Tau Sociology Assistant Y. M. C. A. President HENDERSON, CLIFFORD Phi Alpha President A. S. B.
Varsity Basketball Captain Varsity Yell Leader Student Athletic Manager KEMP. GEORGE Delta Beta Tau Freshman Debater KENT, ARTHUR Delta Beta Tau Philosophy Assistant Harvard Fellowship McFADYEN, DWIGHT Zeta Kappa Epsilon Leading Role Junior Play Men’s Tennis Club HUNT, PAUL
(Son of Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, Head of the Economics Department.)
JONES, FRED SCOTT, CLIFFORD
Manager Book Exchange Y. M. C. A. Worker STEELMAN, SAM Y. M. C. A. Worker Aristotelian THOMAS, CECIL D.
Pharmacy Phi Delta Chi Varsity Baseball WENDT, ALVIN Delta Beta Tau Manager Debating Winner Bowen Prize WENDT, HARVEY Delta Beta Tau Varsity Debater Winner Bowen Prize
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Don’t forget the Big Sister Party to be held at the Beta Phi house, 705 W. 30th street, next Wednesday, March 20, at three o’clock. Come and get acquainted with the girls. The party is for the especial benefit of the girls who entered the University at the beginning of this semester. All freshman girls and new girls are urged to attend.
If your big sister has not found you, come anyway, and she will be waiting for you when you arrive. You will miss a good time if you do not come.
In the farewell meeting given in chapel Wednesday for the boys who left for training camp yesterday, Clifford Henderson, former student body president, paid a high tribute to his mother. He said, “All that 1 am, and all that I ever hope to be I can lay at the feet of my mother who made it possible for me to be here. U. S. C. has meant a agreat deal to me,” he continued. “1 have received more honors from the faculty and from the students than I ever deserved. I won't try to thank them. I am glad to go and help my country, although I hate to leave the University.”
Roy Bose, Y. M. C. A. secretary said: “U. S. C. has meant everything to me. It has given me the thing that we are striving to win in this war—a spirit of service.”
AU Men Are Members of Base Hospital Unit 35
They’ve gone to prepare for their brave part “Over There.” Yesterdi morning at 9 o’clock, as southbound train No. 72 pulled out of the Santa I depot, a big crowd from the University of Southern California cheered ai waved farewells to seventeen more of her youth who were being given up the great cause.
The departing men are members of Base Hospital Unit No. 35. Lea ers every one of them, their loss to the campus will be more keenly felt thi any other event of the war. There is no filling the places now left vacant.
Part of Big Evnts
It was a solemn scene that will not be forgotten by the many relatives ai friends who came to bid goodbye. Over here a group stood talking. Liti Johnnie was clinging tight to the hand of his “big soldier bruvver.” Moth was softly quiet; words never could express a mother's love. And Dad w slowly puffing his cigar. Mother had long thought of the time which now h come, but Dad, weighted down with his work, had left his thinking till no He was standing somewhat silenced, but jovially trying to keen up a bra front.
Here was an only mother bidding her son “God speed and a hope tl someday he might return.” Then there was a father and the son; the motfc was not able to come. And a father’s love, though gruff it may seem, was true as the lone mother’s.
And so the scenes, too numerous to relate, but all expressive of lo bravery, and the prayer for him who was to go over there.
Then, of course, there was the immortal sweetheart. She always is pr ent at a boodbye. One shouldn’t try to describe those scenes, however. T real part of them is the part one doesn’t see.
Rousing Send-Off
Scores of students, and a dozen or more faculty members, with Preside Bovard, were present from Liberal Arts. The old Trojan spirit had one its flare-up days and was the life of the occasion. Quickly organized je shouters out-yelled and out-sang even the brass band that was hired for t occasion by the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ committee of the city of Los Angel "Three Cheers for S. C.,” and “Alma Mater,” interspersed with a racket hacketty or so, brought responsive grins from eight or ten faces in eve window of a seven-car train. The yelling served a double purpose, for thc who yelled weren’t feeling any too hilarious.
The Soldiers’ and Sailors’ committee passed around to every soldier bronze seal of the City of Los Angeles and also a cigar which the majority fellows took in order to get in good with the officers later on.
As the climax of the celebration, Clifford Henderson was presented wl a fine wrist watch, on behalf of the student executive committee. It was p sented by the new president, Clifford J. McMillan, in appreciation of the wo Henderson has accompllshqfl as president of the student body.
Speeches, Music
Chairman Teasdale, representing the Soldiers’ and Sailors’ committi made a short speech in which he assured the fellows that those who coi not go would have them always at heart, and would some day be at the tra again to meet them when they returned victors.
As Teasdale finished, the band struck up “Over There,” and aB they co menced on "Johnny Get Your Gun,” a company of soldiers, made up largt of northern college men, who had Just arrived from intensive training at t Aviation school at Berkeley, filed in and added to the patriotic feeling alrea filling the hearts of the crowd.
One could not help but notice the carefree, happy-go-lucky spirit of t northern visitors. Their farewells were weeks ln the past. They had not care in the world. Their training had left them too ful Jof energy to ke still ty>r a minute while the band played.
Their spirit was in sharp contrast to the outgoing group. Our boys we determined and grave. Many were wiping away the tears; some were gazl out over the crowd, unconscious of the noise around them. The first brei is the hardest to make.
“Goodbye, Fellows”
Then came the command: “Attention! Line up by two’B and ad van to the train.” Quickly the last goodbyes were said, and with heads held hi| the fellows marched into the train which was to carry them into the fli phases of the struggle for a great principle and a great country.
As the train pulled slowly out, the band struck up the "Star Spangl Banner.” Over to one side another group had already begun the singing "Alma Mater.” Hats went off for two things Just them: for love of count and love of University.
The train moved slowly along the tracks, and the crowd kept pace wi it for a few moments The last thing heard was tbe yell of Cliff Henderson:
"Be sure and take good care of the Theology buildiug!”
And They’re Gone
The group of students and professors broke up rather slowly, after the
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