Owen D. Young Appeal

Owen D.Young, chairman of the committee on mobilization of relief resources appointed by President Hoover, in a letter published November 17 urged Dartmouth men to attend the charity games to be held in the Yale Bowl December 5. Four elevens, representing Yale, Dartmouth, Holy Cross and Brown, are scheduled to play 20 minute games in a tournament there at that time. Mr. Young's letter follows:

"On October 14 in the capacity of chairman of the committee on mobilization of relief resources to which I have been summoned by the President's organization on unemployment relief, I issued a call to all colleges and schools in the United States having football teams to give to unemployment relief the gross receipts, less actual expenses, of one game. I asked that, if the proceeds of a regular game could not be devoted to this purpose, or a substantial percentage of the receipts of one or more games, that extra or special games be scheduled to raise these funds. I did this because I believe it is an excellent thing for the students of our colleges and schools to recognize the situation which the President has characterized as a national emergency, and to have a part, with the rest of us, in meeting it.

"The response to this call has splendidly justified my expectations. One hundred and ten colleges have completed or are completing arrangements for special games. Eighteen others have pledged themselves to give all or part of the net proceeds of regular games.

"E. K. Hall, of Hanover, chairman of the rules committee of the National Collegiate Football Association, who has taken over, at my request, direction of this project, very truly points out that 'the response of the members of the football teams, most of which have already played through long, hard schedules, has been 100 per cent. Those responsible for the administration of the schools and colleges have done their part, and not without difficulty.'

"One very important aspect of the undertaking remains to be considered.

"We must have spectators as well as players at these games. It is as spectators that the overwhelming majority of the students will have their part in achieving the purpose for which these games will be played. My call was issued to all students, not merely to the members of the football squads alone. It is to the spectators that the unemployed must look for the assistance to which they are so well entitled.

"From every point of view these games should be the most largely attended that have ever been played in this country. They will be marked by spectacular football. I am told, indeed, that it will be football beyond t hat which marked the regular schedules. In the number and the spirit of the people who attend them they ought to be great demonstrations of our determination to meet the emergency.

"In my call I asked the senior classes of the colleges and schools to organize the students for attendance at the gd'mes. Through this message I am renewing this call, as the time for the games draws near. The response of the students should be unanimous, and I call on them to make it so.

"I call, too, on the alumni to attend. I should like to know that as clubs and associations and individuals they will give every possible support. They have been having their part in meeting the emergency in other ways, and this is not at all to take the place of that participation. It is to be something over and above what they have already done or may have planned to do. We have need of every aid that can be rendered.

"Through Dartmouth I call upon the present and former students of Dartmouth College to make her contribution worthy of her traditions."