The San Francisco call., 1905-03-22
KEEP THE COIN
At UNIVERSITY
Opposition Thus Replies
to Plan Which Provides
Help for the Japanese
FOOTBALL MAN TO AID
Captain Force on One Side
of Fight, With Editor
Loeb at Opposite End
FOOTBALL MAN TO AID
Berkeley once San Francisco Cali,


PAS Center Street. March 21.
The proposed contribution Of $500
by the University of California for the
building OF dormitories which Chris
! tian Japanese students may use in
schools at Kioto. Japan, has become a
bone of contention at the university
which threatens to take on the impor-
tance Of an International complication
before 1t is settled
The Y. M. C. A. leaders at the uni
yersityi are back of the project. it hav-
ing been fathered by them. Against the
scheme to get the big contribution
from the university folk are a number
Of prominent college leaders, who won
notable addition to their ranks to-day
in j. p. Loeb, editor OF the Daily Cali
fornian. Loeb is a power, and his edi-
torial columns to-day bristle with ar
guments calculated to throw water on
the plan to build dormitories for the
Japanese in japan.
On the other side, however, looms up
large the gigantic figure of James A
Force. captain Of the varsity football
team, who has given his official sane
ton to the Y. M. c. A. project.
LOEB'S VIEWS.
Loeb declares that it ought to be
stated at once whether it Is proposed
to make the S2500 contribution an off,
cfal donation or whether II Is to-be a
private benefaction. Loeb couches his
argument in the following words:
The status of the movement is not clear. II
1t is an unofficial and private enterprise. not
undertaken in the name OF the university. the
question is. one of private opinion not a mat
ter of public nature which is to be taken up
by the students as members of the university
Against the Japanese hostel fund. as private
charity organized by individual students ana
supported by private contributions, we have
nothing to say. But If the plan IS to have the
students of the University of California make
a gift TO the University Of KiotO the only
proper way to work is through the executive
committee. Theoretically perhaps IL Is more
beautiful to give freely to the distant Oriental
than TO ourselves. or to people OF own
State nation. This is a matter of private
conviction not to be affected by argument or
petitions. But the student body must put q
practical limit TO its altruism, and should not
officially countenance any effort which will take
a large of money out OF its reach and
make even more difficult, the task OF raising
funds for the Improvement of California or the
life of her students.
Captain Forces views on the subject
are as follows:
/ am in sympathy with California's Japan
ese enterprise. The movement undertaken by
one of the hugest altruistic undertakings ever
presented TO the student body. Every student
subscribing to this fund viii certainly be do
ing worthy act toward his university.
A. A. Bullock. a strong supporter of
the dormitory idea, has put himself on
record with the following explanation:
We do not consider that this is a charity
any more than the Cecil Rhodes scholarships
are. Neither can II be classed as missionary
in the narrow sense because its avowed pur-
put before that great student body the one
thing they need-a pure. moral home.