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Vol. XIII
Los Angeles, California, Friday October 14, 1921
No. 9
TIGER-TROJAN TANGLE LOOMS
Frosh Take Pamt Off Walks’and Skm Off’buckles’
Green Hue Is Obliterated by the Peagreaners
Rebellious President Overawed By Forces of Upper Classmen.
NEW FRATERNITY ORGANIZED BY MASONS
Guy S. Claire Chosen As President; Fraternity Will Be General.
NAME IS PHI ALPHA MU
FROSH WORK PEACEFULLY Object Is to Affiliate With Acacia,
--a National Honorary
Chaffee Is Reasonable; Green	Organization.
Ones Submit to Taking j	-
Paint Off.	| The Phi Alpha Mu fraternity was - ! formally organized, with Guy S. Claire
The shades of green were fading tast|^°,s“ “Presjd“tj	hl1?
When through our Trojan halls there passed
A youth who bore that strange con-
Professor
Harley Gives
Resume of Peace Tribunal
tri vance,
A dirty mop rag.
Elbow grease plus class spirit helped the frosh class erase the traces of green paint which had been put on in the wee hours of the morning, yesterday noon. After a freshman meeting, in which the sophomores and freshmen aired their views on the high cost of paint, the lowly ones went of their own free will to remove the decorations.
The sophomore-freshmen love tilt ^vas smoothed over without the battering effects of the knuckle bruisers. The freshmen were holding an indignation meeting in one of the lecture halls, when a host of warlike sophomores broke in and demanded some action concerning the green decorations on the front walks. Through the influence of Hoy Wolf, Merle McGinnis and Howard Chaffee, the angry gang on both sides retreated and left the field of honor to the dove of peace.
Great Gobs of Green
The whole affair started Wednesday morning, when the students were given a treat by the frosh, who thought that green would be a more fitting color for decorations than the pale blue found on the windows. The sidewalks, trees, lamp posts and any other objects that the little freshen could reach were smeared with 25 numerals and gobs of green paint. But after the second sophomore came on the campus a gang of twenty-five frosh were set to work scrubbing out the traces of the bold peagreeners.
Every bit of green paint was faithfully erased by the little men, and the all-night work of putting it on was taken off the next morning by the heady teamwork of a few sophomores. The president of the freshman class was taken out of class at 8:30 and entertained until the sophomores thought htat his classes would miss him; then he was given a much-needed haircut and turned loose to find the remaining part of his wardrobe and tell the family how nicely the boys at school were taking his ideas of Bolshevism.
Further Ravages
BuT the peagreeners were not satisfied with the results of their painting party, and they staged another one Thursday morning, before the early birds had caught their worm. The paint this time was not so carefully put on, and the letetrs showed poor printing. This time the sophomores were too shocked for action, and they let the school view the poor lettering of the frosh.
It was not long before the upper class held an unofficial indignant meeting and took steps to punish the offenders. “Once is enough, but too much is out’’ was the keynote of the meeting, and a plan of action was agreed upon. After the rally the roughnecks of the sophomores were to form a union with the roughnecks of the upper classes, and in turn these forces were to lead a more peaceful crowd to the lair of the freshmen, where a good time would be had by all.
Due to the diplomacy of two upper classmen and one freshman, the boxing exhibition was not enjoyed. And. instead, the freshmen tunred out eighty strong to wash out the traces of their greenness.
at the Delta Sigma Delta house. Fri I day evening. Oct. 7. The purpose of I the new fraternity, as expressed at the gathering, is to ally itself with the Acacia, an honorary fraternity of men belonging to the Masonic order.
Dr. Gilliland, professor of history, and chairman of the committee on fraternity organizations, has the petition for the new fraternity under consideration. Indications point to an early granting of the petition.
Membership in the Phi Alpha Mu will be recruited entirely from Masons on the campus. In order to allow young men under twenty-one years of age to become affiliated with the new organization, a junior order has been established in the form of “The Square and Compass Club,” with Anthony H. Blanks, professor of oratory, as president.
Every college in the University was represented, with the exception of Dental, as previously arranged with the Trowel frat, a professional Masonic organization. The fraternity is general, and membership in it does not necessarily forbid mebmesrhip in another fraternity.
Prospective membership from students now on the campus and who have expressed a desire to join totals 85. Faculty men who are Masons may be elected to honorary membership. Professors Cooke, Banks, Lee and others have taken an active interest in the formation of the new frat, and are eligible to be thus elected.
The following men were elected officers:
Guy S. Claire, of Liberal Arts, president; Harry Finkenstein, Law. first vice-president; R. B. Ericson, L. A., second vice-president; Ed Sherer, Law, third vice-president; L. H. Johnson, Commerce, fourth vice-president; Marshall Stewart, pre-med.. secretary; and Paul Collins. Law, treasurer.
Commerce Club Holds Vital Election Monday
President Scott Is Re-elected, But Competition Prevails for Every Other Office.
BAND BLOWS NORTHWARD
In the collection made to help defray the expenses of sending the University band to Berkeley for the big game with the Bears on Nov. 5, $386.40 was raised. The University agrees to donate $150 to the cause.
Thirty members of the Uni^rsity bard will go north to encourage the ’Varsity football men on to victory.
Chief interest in the College of Commerce at present is centering in the election of club officers which will be held next Monday. Voting will continue throughout the day, those intending to cast ballot'going to the commerce office and making out the pirated slip there. In view of the large number of campus groups represented by the different candidates, a heavy vote is expected.
Scott to Be President
C. C. Scott, president of the organization last year, has been chosen to fill the office again, by the unanimous consent of the club members. There are, however, a group of four vice-presidents to be selected, with two men running for each office.
Candidates for the first ,or foreign trade group, are Harry Silke and Horace Day.	— —-
Second Vice-President, Sales Managership: Curtis Cassil and Kennedy Ellsworth.
Third Vice-President, Finance: Murray Heichert and Frank Kranz.
Fourth Vice-President, Accounting: Harry Brown and M. M. Rinearson.
For Secretary: Violet Smith and Louise Waltz.
Treasurer: Joseph King and Mr. Boececker.
Editorship of Commerce Journal: Kling Stoddard, Ralph Bell and George Carpenter.
By 3. Eugene Harley Head of Political Science Department, U.S.C.
It is with a great deal of interest and a sense of satisfaction that the Trojan is embarking upon a very serviceable program, that I wish to co-operate with the editors in every way in the effort to lay before tne students of the University of Southern California the matter of the approaching conference at Washington on the limitation of armaments and Pacific and Far Eastern questions. The fact that the Trojan has adopted a policy which intends to place before the students such matters of vital public concern, places it at once in the front rank of live, serviceable university papers. Such a program deserves all possible support by the students and faculty of our institution. If a university is a “little democracy” the paper of that little democracy ought to serve the cause if the larger democracy of which it is a part.
Influences Favor Conference
It is significant that President Harding chose as the day for the assembling of the conference Armistice Day, November 11, 1921. It is a recognition of the services of the men in the world war. It shows that the President desires to realize some tangible results from their sacrifices. The conference will begin its sessions under auspicious influences. It will have been preceded by public discussions all over the country; it will have been the subject of sermons and prayers in many churches throughout the nation and the world; it is endorsed by the American Federation of Labor, by city clubs, newspapers, women’s clubs, and the Senate of the United States. The Republics of the Pan-American Union have graciously given over the Pan-American building at Washington for the sessions.
The delegations and personnel coming from the participating states insures a high type of discussion and thought in the meetings. The delegation from the United States will consist of Secretary of State Hughes, former Secretary of State Root, and Senators Lodge and Underwood. The two first named gentlemen may be considered in the front rank of statesmen in the United States; the other gentlemen have had experience in the consideration of international problems and ought to insure the acceptance by the Senate of the conclusions of the delegation in the conference itself.
Republican Plank important
The conference is the more interesting and significant in view of the Republican pltaform of 1920, the plank relating to international relations being said to have been drawn by Mr. Root, one of the best minds now taking part in the preliminary disarmament discussions with the others of the American delegation. The plank in question provides:
“The Republican party stands for agreement among the nations to preserve the peace of the world. We be-
lieve that such an international association must be based on international justice, and must provide methods which shall maintain the rule of public right by the development of law and the decision of imperial courts, and which shall secure instant and general international conference whenever peace shall be threatened by political action, so that the nations pledged to do and insist upon what is just and fair may exercise their influence and power for the prevention of war.”
Strong Jap Delegation
Japan will send an unusually strong delegation, which has been estimated as high as one hundred in number. The French delegation will be headed by Premier Briand, who will be presented with an LL.D. by New York University before his return to Paris. Mr. Arthur Balfour has been mentioned as the head of the British delegation, although it has not been completed. The delegations from all of the participating powers may be expected to be in keeping with the importance of the conference.
Taking part in those deliberations which deal primarily with the limitation of armaments will be the United States, Great Britain, France, Japan and Italy. When the questions affecting primarily the Pacific and the Far East are under consideration, China will take part, and Belgium, Holland, and Portugal have been invited by President Harding to participate in this phase of the discussions because of their interests in the Pacific or the Far East.
U. S. Center of World
The meeting at Washington of a conference of such importance and scope is highly significant. It signifies in the first place that the United States is one of the greatest world powers in prestige and influence; in the second place it shows that the center of gravity in world affairs has moved, and is moving, toward the United States of America. The world war has left many of the European powers which formerly were leaders, exhausted and weak from their supreme efforts. On the other hand, China, Russia and Japan loom large in the potential affairs of the world. The present freshman classes will in their mature years see the United States as the center of gravity between a rising Asia and Far East, on the one hand, and a recuperating Europe, on the other.
U. S. C. Possibilities Great The fact that the United States is fast becoming more nearly the center of gravity in world affairs is of particular interest to Californians and Pacific Coast people. They are at the gateway in this new orientation. More particularly the University of Southern California has all the favorable elements to make it a world center of learning; it ought to be a great center for the study of world questions, service abroad in social, religious, consular and diplomatic lines. It can also be a center for scientific study of international trade and commerce.
Sport Editor of Occidental Gives Opinion
Ready for Biggest Game, Tigers Realize Full Strength of Henderson s Squad.
WILL BE FIGHTING TEAM
Many Good Players in Both Line and Backfield to Be in Action.
By Don Palmer, Sporting Editor of the Occidental
The Occidental Varsity will go into the game next Saturday primed for the biggest scrap of the season. Coach Joe Pipal’s eleven relaizes the great strength of the University of Southern California’s team, and the Tigers are going into the fracas to fight as they never fought before.
At the helm of the Occidental team is Captain “Rap” Powers, for three years a letter man, and for the last two years captain. He ranks as the best center that ever donned the mole skins at Occidental. There is an abundance of excellent end material on this year’s squad. Long has been playing a great game so far this seaosn. He is a smashing tackier, and a regular demon at mussing up plays. Davidson, another letter man, is showing lots of fight again this year. Argue, J. Powers and McCloskey, from last year’s frosh aggregation are all making a strong bid for first string positions. .
Strong Around Center
Jean Cory, last year’s All-Southern guard, will be seen in action again this season. At the other guard, Dunlap, weighing 206, or Herr, will start. Both of these gents are subs from last year. The Tigers have a powerful tackle combination in Renius and Jones. Re-nius hails from the 1920 frosh team, while Jones is a letter man, making all-conference tackle last year.
Varsity quarter, “Snick” Norton recently broke his collar bone, and he is replaced by his brother, Jimmy Norton, a plucky little player with a good head. For the backs, Coach Pipal has Spangler, who will be remembered as one of the fastest 440 men in these parts last year: Walker, who can pick a hole every time; Gary, a plunging fullback from the frosh team of 1919; Lawyer, a reliable man for short gains; and Kendall, a full that hits the line with a terrific punch.
Occidental has a fighting team, and o matter how bad the odds are against them, they are not sufficient to subdue that great unconquerable Tiger spirit that shows so plainly in every contest.-
TROJAN SQUAD EASY WINNERS IS PREDICTION
Weight, Experience, Speed and Power All Give Big Edge to Locals
DEAN OUT OF GAME
Team Will Not Play at Top Speed Unless Unpexected Comes
How do you feel about the Disarmament Conference? What do you think it should do? Should the huge powers join in compelling universal reduction, or should the present state of affairs continue ?
The Trojan believes the students of U. S. C. have an opinion on the subject and that they want to know what everyone else thinks about it. For this purpose a straw vote is being held.
Tear out the blank below, check it off, sign it, and drop in one of the boxes placed about for that purpose. This effort will, if carried out, be of general interest, not only on the campus, but in educational and political circles everywhere as an expression of the opinion of college men and women on the subject.
TIME FOR TRYOUTS
I BELIEVE IN
Substantial reduction of Armaments.......................................................................
Complete reduction of Armaments..........................................................................
Present international relations....................................................................................
(Name)..................................................................................................
: (Check your choice and leave in Political Science Office, Trojan Office, or in box in new or old college lobbies.)
Every senior is expected to be at the senior meeting today at 12 o’clock, in room 206. Hoose Hall.
MURRAY B. HEICHERT,
White—“Did you favor the Honor System at the recent election?” Green—“I sure did. Why, I voted for it five times.”—Panther.
MEN
Working at the football games must apply to Earle F. Hazelton for their money within two weeks after the game or forfeit it. He will be in the High School office every day from 10 to 11, and on Monday, Wednesday and Friday from 11 to 12.
Effusions of any sort, essays, plays, tales, poems, will be accepted for the Quill Club try-outs, if typed and submitted to Dr. Allison Gaw, 258 Administration Building, before Oct. 25, it was decided at this week’s meeting of that organization. Additional time in which to prepare manuscripts was thought necessary to allow for late enrollments, and to enable students , to compete who were unable to do so within the former limit of Oct. 10.
Majors in engineering, medicine, history, and departments not allied with the English department, are especially invited to membership. “Quill is an all-University group.” said Dr. Gaw to a representative of the Trojan yesterday, “and though the English class can teach a man rhetoric, he needs the interests more directly touching life to furnish subjects for his technique. For example, the dental student can essay the ululations of the human jowl with far greater realism than the student of Sir John Suckling. The botany major knows and cares for the orchid with far truer spirit than Alexander Pope. We want tradespeople and research workers in Quill, lawyers full of living dramas, for literature is made from bloody life.”
NOTICE
Members of the A. W. S. Cabinet will meet in room 14 of the Old College at 12:30 today. Please be there. MILDRED HEINZE, President.
Patterson Field will become the scene of the annual blood feud between U.S.C. and Occidental tomorrow. The kick-off is scheduled to land on the Oxy pants at 2:45. Look for shooting stars and a terrible growl at this hour.
Give Oxy her Tiger again and she might prove dangerous. Just now she’s running around without claws, and is as harmless as a kitten. Ask an Oxy man about it, however, and he will probably tell you that the kitten will turn out to be a pole-cat. Here’s hoping it turns out to be as scrappy as the old striped Tiger used to be, because the whole town is sick and tired of these walkaways and would like to see a real game.
Oxy-U.S.C. games date back into the years, and until reecntly it has been the big game of the year for each school. But since Gloomy Gus Henderson and the papier-mache Tiger have some to dwell within the halls of Bovard, the Eagle Rock institution has been left so far behind that it is hard to work up schoo lspirit before the game.
Oxy Loses But Fights
Oxy lost to Whittier last Saturday, and a few days before that dropped a game to the Sub-Base eleven, which team the Trojans stepped on Wednesday night. The result of tomorrow’s game can be nothing but a U.S.C. victory, but the Tigers always puts up a husky scrap against Pomona and U.S.C. It is expected that, crippled as they are, they will give a good account of themselves.
U.S.C. defeated the Tigers last year. 49 to 7, and from all indications, the score should run higher than that tomorrow. Oxy is crippled, beaten and all but eliminated. U.S.C. is stronger than in 1920. But many an expected walkaway has turned into a close game and even defeat.
Dean Hurt Henderson announces that Captain Charley Dean will be out of the game with an injured shoulder. The hurt is (Continued on Page 2)
DEAN SKEELE IN ORGAN RECITAL
Playing Under Favorable Conditions to Feature Sunday Vespers Once Each Month.
The vesper service next Sunday will take the form of an organ recital by Dean W. F. Skeele of the College of Music, official organist of the University. It is the plan to have these recitals once a month, probably the third Sunday. Some of them will be given by Dean Skeele, and some by other organists under the auspices of the American Guild of Organists. The organ can also be heard to advantage at the regular vesper services. Dean Skeele will play for 15 or 20 minutes as a regular feature of the service.
The Auditorium is furnished with one of the notable organs of the West, an instrument richer in the variety and beauty of its tonal effects and more impressive in its full organ than any other organ in Southern California. It is a rare privilege to hear such an instrument, and it is hoped students will avail themselves in large numbers of the opportunity these Sunday vespers afford to hear the organ under conditions so much more favorable than the regular assemblies afford.
Sunday’s Program
Wedding Hymn............Woodman
Oriental Serenade.......Rene Becker
The Sursum Corda Gloria Patri An Evening Collect
Chromatic Fantsaei............Thilee
May Night.........Palmgren-Dunkley
Capriccio.................. Mathews
Scripture, Hymn and Prayer 169
Serenade...........Schubert-Lemare
Overture to William Tell...........
...................... Rossini-Buck
Benediction