Arizona republican., 1919-11-30
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, Tue

son, Nov. 29-The third annual meet
ing OF the state student conference of
he Y. w. c. A. was held on the
campus from Friday to Sunday, in
elusive. This is the second time that
ne University OF Arizona association
las had the opportunity of acting as
hostess to the conference.
The Tempe Normal school was rep
resented by 20 delegates; Flagstaff two
and Phoenix Indian school. two dele
gates and the secretary, Miss Cate.
The meeting of the conference on
Saturday morning was addressed by
Miss Lorraine Andrews, town and
country secretary of the Pacific coast
lield. The theme OF her talk was built
around three watchwords Come,
Abide and Go.
Miss Andrews spoke of the need for
more hostess houses over the country
and said that she wished the Y NJ.
{. A. and the Y. W. C. A. might put
hut in every town i'm Arizona.
William Levere grand secretary Oh
the Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity
and recently returned from Y. NJ. C. A.
work in France, spoke to a crowded
assembly Monday morning. Mr.. Levere
was known to 10000 soldier boys
throughout the war as BILLY" and as
Dr. Won KleinSmid said in introducing
him: mo man was more beloved by
The soldiers with whom he came in
contact than Billy Levere." He told
OF his experiences with the American
soldiers France. saying in rart'
When the war came in 1917, I had
Just left the University of Arizona and
was on my way east. | knew that
had 20 go l tried every branch o
tho service and soon found that nobody
loves fat ann. Then somebody tolC
me of the work of the Y NJ. c. A
Not having been a religious worker,
was not sure that | would fit in, bu
they said they would send he ii the,
could find way OF getting me acros'
the Atlantic
Il waired for the 2sth division, New
England boys who constituted the frs
national guard TO reach France.
AT the window OF an old hotel look
.ng down into a dusi road CT France
there came over me 4 leel ng Of sad
ness such as | had never fclt before
had bit of the blues. Yet / knew
thet If a | could toucl a button AM
send myself back to america | woul,
not touch it,
The 26th came in a few days Gu
lirst living quarters were camouflage'
tents. The only way | had OF keepinl
mine down was by sitting on it." Pro
longed applause here for Mr.. Lever
weighs nearly ESQ pounds. lone morn
ing I came out of my tent and say
painted on it in great big letters: Bet
Theta Phi \ Kappa Sigma was wit
me and he said that many a wear
Beta would come along and be glad
dened by the sight of those thre
words.
Later we were given an old bee
garden for our Y. NJ. C. A. headuar
ters. The boys didn't like it; 90 pc
cent Of them because there was n
garden and 80 per cent because Their
was no beer. But my belief in tn
American soldier boy was that h
wanted something good to eat. o
Christmas eve, 1917. the new hut wa
completed. and in ii was a big kitchen
hired every French cook l could ge
IL OF them. ] got an American COO
and told him I'd give him half a Ger
for every doughnut he made. we [
furnish the material. | didn't want I
let them know till we had enoug
doughnuts for each boy to have tw,
We had enough dominoes over the
that II we had captured the entir
German army We could have keI
playing dice all winter. SO gave eac
boy one domino which would be GOO
for two doughnuts. And oh, to waite
that yelling, shoveling mob Of boys
\ doughnut in France, Was it DO:
sible."
One morning. James Crook. edit,
IF paper in Spartanburg, S. c., WI
was Levere's assistant, came to hi
and told him there was no bread. Bill
said; I'll come down at six in II
morning and make hot biscuits"
Mr.. Crook was southerner ar
knew what hot biscuits should b
Can you make hot biscuits?"
That was one of the things
learned TO do at college" answerc
Billy.
So, with the help OF the French pei
pie, he made hot biscuits the ne
morning, but when they were all dol
and breakfast was ready, he cou
not find his hot buiscuits. He stepp.
outside and found that the Frent
people who had never seen hot biscuit
before. had them spread out on Il
ground tanning them.
He told of seeing an enemy airplal
brought down by an allied airman, al
said that was the first time he h,
ever cheered at a funeral
Miss Mary Austin, well know
writer. author of the Land of Lift
Rain" 1.-THE Young Woman Citizen
America" and a score OF other pla
and novels. spoke to university st
dents in assembly Tuesday Miss Au
itn believes that the fundamental re
son for education remains the sar
throughout the ages. that we are g
ing to school in order TO be able
correlate our experiences later.
Miss Austin is in Tucson to atte