The Daily Alaska Empire

PITY POOR HOLLYWOOD.

Hollywood's gone and done it again! If it isn't blamed for one thing it's another.

Last week the editor of the University of Southern California's "Daily Trojan" said the Trojan's defeat by Washington State College can be traced back to Hollywood. He said some of the Trojan grid men were "Toys of some henna-haired beauty or film magnate," and that a Hollywood paper said half of the first string players were employed part time in the studios.

Coach L. M. "Biff" Jones also told the squad last week, while enroute East, "the talk back home is that this team has gone Hollywood, if there is any truth in this it will show up against Pitt, if we lose I'll be ashamed of all of you."

Pittsburgh trounced the Trojans 20 to 6 in Saturday's game, and of course it must have been haughty Hollywood's fault. A smart new alibi for coaches. And the long-suffering film colony just received a world-wide spanking for snappy pictures too!

Amateur rules of course disqualify a football player if he accepts money for playing football.

However, most large universities endeavor to find part-time jobs for good football men, who need help, or couldn't attend a university without financial aid. Many part-time, odd jobs, in and out of football season are available in the studios, and just why it should be wrong for football men to be working in the studios instead of picking up towels around the college gym, or running an elevator, or being a "bouncer" in a cafe or the hundred and one other occupations that college students engage in to earn their way through is not quite clear.

Further, part-time jobs in studios with the possible connections they offer after graduation for real good, steady jobs, are undoubtedly most desirable to ambitious students, and go a long way to help lift the mortgage on the old homestead for the folks back home.

After all it is the football players that pack those millions of dollars in gate receipts into million dollar stadiums, every week during the season, that the work of previous players have built. After three or four years of being a football hero, with plenty of breaks and bruises thrown in, the player graduates into a somewhat indifferent and cold world, and starts looking for a job, if he hasn't been shrewd enough to get himself set while in the spotlight.

Maybe some of these present Trojans the editor is disturbed about have gone too much "Hollywood."

But we'll venture to say that the publicity resulting from the "criticism" will bring a thousand stalwarts to volunteer their football ability to the U. S. C. football squad upon which Hollywood evidently looks with favor, and offers jobs, even if these volunteers wouldn't give a snap for a "henna-haired screen beauty."