Summary of Mr. Young's Plea for Charity Games

The following paragraphs are a summary of the statement issued yesterday by Owen D. Young, chairman of President Hoover's relief committee, on the subject of the different colleges having football games for the benefit of the unemployed.

Mr. Young pointed as evidence of the feasibility of the plan to the decision of the Big Ten of the Western Conference to play post-season benefit games, a determination which was aided by the chairman. He urged that where profits of a regularly scheduled game could not be turned over to the unemployed a special game be scheduled.

Plan is Practicable

Mr. Young said that when he sought the opinion of members of college presidents on the feasibility of benefit games not all gave their approval, but so many did that he is satisfied the plan is practicable.

He emphasized a hope that the games may be made student activities throughout. He urged that "with the approval of the administrative officers, the senior class in each institution organize the students for attendance at the game and give the widest possible publicity to it as a contribution of the students to unemployment relief funds."

"I realize fully," he said, "the principle that school and college football games should not be used to raise money for charity, and I recognize as strongly the exception that should be made to the principle to meet a national emergency on the President's call.

Students Should Aid

"This is about the only kind of thing which the students of our schools and colleges can do to aid in the work which so many thousands of our citizens are volunteering to undertake. It is an excellent thing for the students to recognize the emergency and to have a part, with the rest of us, in meeting it.

"The precedent of responding to the President's call in a national emergency is a good one, and ordinary rules should give way in the face of it."

He concluded with the statement that he had no doubt of the quick and hearty response of the young men and women of America and thanked them in advance for their cooperation.