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Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 13, 1924
Number 61
TAKE STEPS TO BEAUTIFY CAMPUS BY EXTENDING PARK
ALL-FOOLS' IMPUT TO DECIDE NEW EDITOR
Lawn. 1 rees and W alk Are to be Put in Near Old College
PLAN IMPROVEMENTS
Dr. von KieinSmid Hopes to Make This a "Perfect College Campus
That U. S. C. is at last beginning to show signs of a real campas is the result of the constant efforts of President von KieinSmid. The latest improvement which has been brought about by his support is an extension of the park which now lies on one side of the Old College to include the grounds now used as an auto park on the other side. This change should prove very popular with the students, who for some time have been protesting against having to walk across these grounds, risking a collision wtvh a healthy Ford, if they did not want to take the time to go around by the walk. Construction has already
Next Trainer to be Chosen from Those Who Turn in the Best Material
NEW COPY IS NOW DUE
New Art Editor for Next Year is Also to be Selected at This Time
Who'll be the next trainer for Tommy Wamp? The answer is, the person who submits the most and the best material for the next edition, the All Fools Number, and for all the editions during the remainder of the year. Okey King, present trainer for the funny cat, graduates this semester as do several other members of the staff, and so the meower will be without a directing hand. Okey says that the staff of Wampus is never perma-
nent for if present members do not started ' do enough work, their names are witfa the tearing up of the hedges taken from the staff and new mem-
whicb formerly enclosed the walk to the Old College, and the whole territory will shortly De planted and rejuvenated. A lawn and flowerbeds are to be put in, with a nice new gravel walk across the very middle, which will completely prevent any fair co-ed’s getting her shoes dirty, as in a recent lamentable accident. Trees and flowers are to be prominent features of the landscape, offering a pleasant combination of perfume and shade to the tired studes as they wander between classes.
Last spring it was planned to erect on the site a combination building, very much like the Journalism building, to contain the Associated Students' Bookstore and offices. Through lack of support the project failed to carry, and at the beginning of the present year the site was turned into a parking ground. As work has already started on the improvements which have been decided upon, the rehabilitation ought to be completed very soon, and will tbe the first step in the formation of % campus beautiful at U. S. C.
S. C MEN PICKED FOR HONOR COURSE
Two Engineers Selected by the Westinghouse Co. for Graduate Work
bers are eligible. All that the prospective editor has to do is to prepare a quantity of good “kitty food” and he'll have a chance for the trainer-
ship.
Another important fact is that Wampus will also need a new art editor next semester, as Lionel Banks, the present art editor, also graduates in June. All aspiring artists whether on the staff or not. will have an opportunity to try for this position by submitting drawings for the cover or inside pages to Banks.
Wamp’s next appearance, in All Fools dress, will be soon. A good deal of material is needed, preferably pertaining to the April fool idea, but not necessary. Okey says that articles of about 150 words are desirable while original jokes are always welcome. The funnier they are, the better Wamp will appreciate them, as the editor declared that there has always
PROGRESSIVE AFFAIR 10 BE FREE 10 ALL
No Charge Will be Made but Student Identification Tickets Are Necessary
TEN VAUDEVILLE ACTS
Students Urged to Wear School Clothes and Get Acquainted at Event
“Absolutely free” is the latest word from the committee who are arranging the all-university dance to be held at five different houses,
Thursday evening. March 20 from 7:30 to 11.
“No one, absolutely no one, will be admitted without his student body ticket which he received when he registered,” said Evelyn Smith in an interview yesterday. “We’re doing this in order to exclude all outsiders. This is an all University affair for the students only.”
School clothes are to be the sanctioned attire, the committee reports.
“Cords and sweaters and no fussy stuff for the co-eds.”
Monday evening at all the houses all the sorority sisters and fraternity brothers will be urged to come “en masse,” respectively, in their school clothes. As one fellow remarked, “That sure is a swell opportunity to get acquainted with an- i
other girl when you’re hopelessly Plans are rapidlT^ing formulated stuck with one girl and don't know , fQr tfae pregs club kome Comjng
how to get rid of her.	dinner to be given kpril 1st. All
Ten different vaudeville acts of	the alumni and former members of
U. S. C. talent are to make the cir-	the Press Club have special invi-
1 cuit of the houses and diversify the	tations for this dinner. The program
evening’s entertainment. While the	jg being planned by the pledges who
crowd and the vaudeville entertain-	will be responsibe for the enter-
ers are both to percolate from one	tainment. Marc N. Goodnow, head
scene of the festivity to the other,	of the Journalism department said
DOG-GONE BUTTON DOG-GONE ABSENT
•Button, Button! Who's got the button?”
With the disappearance of the ‘ Dog-On Button and book” about two weeks ago, an extensive search has been made to recover it and to place it safely in the h^nds of its guardian until the next Senior captures it.
Many Trojans are familiar with the history of the “Dog-On Button” which has Deen a senior class tradition for many years. The button is worn by the Senior who can succeed in making a ‘Prof' laugh in the presence of one or more senior students.
The book and button were placed in the hands of a Trojan reporter and were taken from an automobile parked in front of the Administration Building the next day. Anyone who has information concerning the button is asked to see President Oudermeulen at once.
FRESS CLUB FUN AN ALUMNI DINNER
To Have Home Coming Affair On April 1, for All the Old Members
it has been so arranged that no one will have to see the same show twice.
Gene Johnson, in charge of the music, has secured five orchestras, absolutely free, each of which are guaranteed to be the most peppy orchestra on the campus. Paul Jones dances will be in order, and as everyone is to be tagged with his
been a dearth of short jokes in the : ,agt name formality will simpiy be magazine.	non-existable. Non-fraternity and
Okey urges that all material be in sorority students are particularly by March 18 at the very latest, and urged to attend the affair, art work should be in by Friday, 16.
This will give opportunity for the humorous wTiters to prepare their.
his special province. Okey King will preside at the Pi Phi house, Hal Williamson at the Delta Gamma House. Trent Hull at the Alpha Chi house, Les Heineman at the Phi
Each member of the committee of five have been assigned a house as
“stuff" over the week-end and to get it in good shape.
that this home coming idea should give an opportunity for all old members to get together again.
The pledge committees are the general committee for arrangements composed of Dorothy Crowley, Chester Mackie and Freeman Hall and the entertainment committee, Rosalind Williamson, Grady Setzler and Aubrey Irwin. The committee in charge of place, menu, etc., is made up of Peggy Moore, Marguerite Matson and Cecil Carle.
All pledges of the club must see Kling Stoddart, treasurer concerning their initiation fees.
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IGHI
Artists Course Presents Talented Musicians Under Auspices Woman's Club
SIGMA SIGMA HOLDS FORMAL PLEDGING IN CHAPE TODAY
BENEFIT WOMEN S BLDG.
Limited Number of Tickets May be Obtained at Box Office
The Cherniavsky brothers, woifl<\ famed trio, are to appear in concert tonight in Bovard Auditorium as the next number on the Artist Course program, presented by the Women’s Club tor the benefit of the women s building.
The Cherniavsky brothers are Jan, pianist; Leo, violinist; Mischel, vio-!on:ellist. The trio began their public career in 1901 as infant prodigees, and from that time on have been delighting audiences in all parts of the world. They are said to play as if possessing a great and joyous message and brimful of eagerness to tell it..
The trio made their firat tour in R ssia and because of the extraordinary brilliance of their work made their name a household word. They achieved successes without parallel in the musical history of their country, and then, encouraged by the highest praise of critics, decided that there were other spheres to conquer. Since 1901 they have ranged over quarter of the globe, and have been acknowledged in five continents as belonging to the first rank of executive artists.
The most striking feature of the Cherniavsky work is that three powerful and temperamental artists, all individuals*, should appear to such perfection as a trio. It is said that each one is the exact complement of the other two, and that there could not be breater understanding, sympathy and unity of purpose than exists between these brothers. Musical genius is unavailing unless allied to patience and perseverance. The artistic feeling of the Cherniavskys is said to be inborn, and their fluency .skill and mathematical precision were acquired through hard and continuous
POLITICAL POT BOILS WITH GOOD RESULTS
Flor Leads Massachusetts Delegates for Calvin Coolidge
OUTLOOK IS SUCCESSFUL
Junior Men’s Honor Society Chooses Thirteen Men
YELLOW DOG COMING
Annual Publication by Sig Pledges Will Appear on March 27th
Pledges of Sigma Sigma, the Junior State Chairmen Have Outlined men’s Honor Society, which has won And Completed Their Work
Lining up the delegations in favor of certain conspicuous contestants for the nomination in the U. S. C. convention is slowly being accomplished.
Certain state chairmen who seem to
possess the true political aptitude, j *®ys Art Met™lfeResident of the or have not been idle and have some- * san*zat^on>
much fame since its organization in 1317. will appear on the campus Thursday in the full glory of their blue and gold pledge emblems. “The men of Sigma Sigma, otherwise known as Sphinx and Snakes .may well be proud of having achieved membership,”
as the society has a worthy purpose to stimulate interest
Massachusetts” with its" thirty-four I in the University the Junior class.
1 as well as high standards of scholar-
thing to show for their labors.
delegates under the leadership of John Flor, is for Calvin Coolidge en masse. By its peculiar situation, the native state of the President controls the axis of political New England. It would not be surprising, in fact, it is more near a settled conclusion that the states forming the axels to the hub's commonwealth will work in complete cooperation. Maine, with twelve votes, New Hampshire with eight. Rhode Island with nine, Vermont with seven, Connecticut with fourteen added to Massachusetts’ certain thirty-four makes eighty-four tally marks for Coolidge.
The ability of New England to swing New York and Pennsylvania for Coolidge is not to be approximated. Massachusetts will try hard for the 161 votes which represents the combined power of the two large states. That support would be worth jiossessing.
The next strongest support shifts to a western candidate, Hiram Johnson of California. He is assured of the twenty-six votes of his home state, and from out of the Mississippi valley.
Rauth William Bush and William Allevato. members of the Engineering department of the university and of this year’s graduating class, were selected by the Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company to attend the Graduate student course, giver at the company's main factory at East Pittsburg.
It is the policy of the Westing-house company to choose graduates with a good technical training. Every year similar to the General Electric company's plan, the Westinghouse company 'sends a representative of their Educational department to talk to and select about two hundred men from the various college graduates throughout the country. These selected men report to
All Senior Program
Orders Due Monday1 Alpha house, and Buck Oudermeulen
' at the Lambda Psi house.
Orders for ^Senior commencement programs will be received at the south box office throughout the remainder of the week and on Mon day, according to the announcement made yesterday. The booth will be open from 8:30 until 10 in the morning and from 12 until 1:30 in the afternoon. Leather programs will be sold for 50c and those of paper will be sold for 18c, it was stated.
The only catch in the whole business is that the punch must be made to pay for itself, and the nominal sum of five cents a cup will be charged for the thirst quenching liquid, but a nickel will be a mere trifle!
Because of the fact that the programs will be ordered from the east, all orders must be in by Monday.
Herb Wiedoeft’s Orchestra Presented In Chapel Today
Through the courtesy of the Cin-I imagination,” Wiedoeft claims. “Jazz
PUBLISH BULLETIN ON VACANT HOUSES
College of Commerce Students Make Survey for Data In Booklet
derella Roof management and Mr. Herb Wiedoeft it has been arranged to present Herb Wiedoeft’s Cinderella Roof Orchestra in chapel at eleven o'clock today. The Los Angeles syn-copators are winning national fame
.	, . . , . through their Brunswick phonograph
the Pittsburg graduate school where	,	, v	H
records. Wudoefts contract witht
they take a course to complete their engineertraining by practical application and experience. This course also assists the man to find his particular field of specialization.
Thh= year Manager C. S. Coler from the Westinghouse department of Education. visited U. S. C and had personal interviews with each man graduating. He selected the two men mentioned because of their their high scholarship and fine personality.
The Pittsiburg factory where Bush and Allevato will attend in October started in 1886 with only 200 employee with a payroll of over four povees with a payro of over four million dollars. The Westinghouse company’s plant at East Pittsburg is devoted to the manufacture of all kinds of electrical materials and apparatus.
Have you paid your class dues this week?	„
the Brunswick Company has added a new industry to l^os Angeles, as a special recording plant is being built here for the purpose of securing the records of the famous band. Their initial Brunswick record. “Cinderella Blues.’’ written and arranged by Gene Rose, Jesse Stafford and Herb Wiedoeft is said to be the biggest dance record seller on the market at the present time.
Many have wondered at the exquisite tone of W’iedoeft’s subtle, elastic dance rhythm. It is simply a new era of jazz which the noted musician terms “symphonic syncopation.” Wiedoeft himself is a graduate of Germany's Royal Conservatory of music and he has surrounded himself with a group of highly schooled musicians. He claims that it requires a thorough musical education to interpret jazz music.
“Jazz is the poetry of music, and. like written poetry, may be defined i as a set of symbols to stimulate the
is a development of Bach invention and is approved by a vast majority of present-day artists. To deprive the public of jazz music would be as difficult as to attempt to force modern America to forego the advantages of modern transportation for the old fashioned vehicles of antiquity.”
“I have studied closely the effect of jazz music on thousands of dancers at the Cinderella Roof,” Wiedoft said further, “and I have learned to analyze the dances’ emotions. Jazz prompts light-heartedness, spontaneous joyousnesp, helps one forget his cares and bestows a blissful sense of animation. All life is a manifestation of motion and the more rhythmic it is, the more pleasant. Symphony leaders who are specializing on sym- j phonic syncopation are placing real J American jazz music on a par with j the other forms of symphonic music of the old world. Of even greater significance is the fact that this new type of melody is distinctly our own—truly American.”
Mr. Wiedoeft and his entire organization, including Jesse Stafford, Gene Rose, Fred Biebesheimer, Jose Sau-cedo, Lawrence Abbott, Gene Seigrist, Joseph Memoli, Gay Wiedoeft and Ad W’iedoeXt will be heard in chapel to-1 day.
“Proportion of Vacant Dwellings in Los Angeles, January, 1924” is the title of a bulletin just published by the Commerce Journal. The work for this publication is the result of a survey made during January under the direction of the Committee of Business Research of the College of Commerce.
The report as it is printed contains 15 pages. Five charts and two tabulations have been used to make the subject matter as clear as possible to a reader.
During the first two weeks of January of this year sixty-one students of the class in Business Statistics of the College of Commerce worked on primary data for this survey. Because of the gyeat area of the City of Los Angeles, about 365 square miles, no attempt was made to incl de every dweling in the city in this survey. Representative strips (CONTINUED ON PAGE FOtTR>
from Missouri comes a pledge of sup-study together, often extending into port with thirty-three strong votes, the small hours of the morning, even These two states will give Johnson a in their boyhood. Revering their life- score of fifty-nine, and. although they work as a hallowed and beautiful are far apart their combined influence thing, it is not surprising that the may be felt strongly on the conven-Cherniavsky have reached th ehigh tion floor, pinnacle on which they now stand. !	^	—
The musical critic of the New York Mu Sigma PhiChangeS
Times says of .he trio: "Their en- j	Social Fraternity
semble playing shows that they have	__*
much in sympathy with this form of ; Troy greets a new social fra-art, and it was finished, also highly ^ ternity. „ Last Tuesday evening the developed in all the shades of expression and music. They are skillful, in-
telligent and sympathetic artists.” Tickets for the concert can be obtained at the Associated Students Store, the Birkel Music Company, and at the University headquarters, 525 S. Olive St. Admission is 75 cents. $1 and $1.50.
ORIENTAL SALE HELD ON THIS WEEK END
Announcement has been made by the University Methodist Church of a sale of Oriental things which will take place this week end. beginning Thursday, in a vacant storeroom at University Avenue and Jefferson Streets. This storeroom is situated between two jewelry stores on Jefferson Street. Beside the sales, lunches will be served afternoon and evening.
This sale is given under the auspices of the Women’s Bible Class of the University Church and the proceeds will be used as a “starter” for the fund for the new church. It will be cf the “Country Store” type.
The sale begins Thursday evening and continues Friday and Saturday.
Mu Sifjma Phi fraternity w^as ad mitted to the Inter-fraternity council as the last step of establishing
the Mu Sigs as a new campus social.
W’hen it wras evident that no medical college was in sight, for a number of years at least, the members decided that it was a wise move to change to a strictly social organization. Dr. Albert B. Ulrey and Professor Samuel J. Broadwell remain the faculty members. Doctors Clarence Johnson and Samuel Rittenhouse. both well known in Los Angeles, are associate members
ship and character.”
The emblem of Sigma Sigma, a phinx head surmounting two serpents, has earned for it the nickname. Sphinx and Snake.
The pledges displaying the blue and f.old of Sigma Sigma on Thursday are:
Norman Anderson, captain of the track team; John Hawkins, elected football captain; Boyd Welin, presi.. dent of “Trojan Knight” and Bert Olson, president of Junior clahs at Dental; Bernard Brennan, debater of note from Uw; George Orme, Junior president, first semester; Ned Lewis, debate manager; John Woods, president of Junior class, second semester; Henry McCann, yell king; Ernest Judson, manager of Junior play.
The honorary members are: Mr. Clayton D. Carrus, popular professor in College of Commerce; Willis O. Hunter, assistant football coach; Ralph La Porte, head of physical education and chairman of the faculty athletic committee.
On Thursday, March 27, the Yellow Dog, accompanied by pledges in unique garb of their own choosing, will appear on the campus barking lutetily. The “Dog' is a four-page paper published every year by the pledges to Sigma Sigma, and will be sold at all colleges at the nominal sum of fifteen cents, an extra treat being provided by the carefree and suspendered pledges who will escort the Yellow Dog about the campus.
About April 5, a formal initiation banquet will be held by Sphinx and Snakes at one of Southern California's foremost hotels. The banquet is an important and muc i anticipated event on the school’s social calendar, and as such will be looked forward to with eagerness. A large alumnae attendance is expected.
Today’s chapel will see the formal presentation of blue and gold ribbons by Arthur Metcalfe, while Al Tachet will pin them on the honored men.
CAST TO MEET
The Cast and Chorus of the late Extravaganza are requested to adjourn to Bovard Auditorium at 3:15 p. m. Friday—very important.
JAPANESE IN RECITAL
Seijiro Tatsumi, American born .Japanese tenor, will give a song recital of W'estern music at Trinity Auditorium, March 15. He has received favorable comment from both American and foreign critics. Milton Seymour will be at the piano. Tickets may be secured at Berkel’s, 443 South Broadway, for one dollar.
BEAUTY CONTEST IS STAGED BY EL RODEO
U. S. C. will again have a beauty contest.
El Rodeo ’25 yesterday announced that for the first time in many years the University year book would stage such a contest. The winners of the contest will appear in a special section of the annu J devoted to features of Trojan campus life.
Each Trojanette will be allowed to submit two pictures at the El Rodeo office. The contest will close April 1, and judges will be anounced later. There will be either four or six winners, the number to be determined by the number of contestants.
Sophomores to Present One Act DeMdle / lay In Chapei
DR. W. A. BROWN IS ASSEMBLY SPEAKER
Dean Skeele is Also on for the Tuesday Chapel Program
The student body was given a rare treat last Tuesday in chapel, when Dean WTalter F. Skeele, organist from the College of Music, gave a powerful rendition of Rossini’s overture to William Tell. Judging from the tremendous applause that followed, it was the real feature ol the exercises in spite of the fact that Dr. W. A. Brown of University Church, was the speaker of the day.
In his address. Dr. Brown lamented the lost arts that have resulted from the failure of age and youth to cooperate. “The greatest destructive force to modern nations is the gulf fixed between age and youth,” was i his most striking declaration.
The Sophomore Class will present their second annual Sophomore class play during the Fast part of chapel Tuesday, March 18.
‘ Poor Old Jim,” a sketch in one act, by William C. de Mille will be given The play is being directed by Miss I’.orence Hubbard, instructor in the School of Speech, and included in the cast are Ellsworth Ross as Jim, Clare Kaufer as Marie, and Selwyn Levinson as Paul.
The play is of the lightest comedy type having many comic situations and many clever lines. Jim is a young married clubman who is very consistent in violating the eighteenth
amendment. Marie, his wife, is very anxious to break him of the drinking* habit, and so plans with Paul, the family doctor. They devise a scheme by which to cure him and therein lies a very amusing and most interesting plot.
Everett Smith, president of the Scphomore class, is managing the production, and the presentation of a Scphomore class play has been established from last year as a class tradition. The sophisticated “Sophs” are upholding their class tradition by giv-
Clionian Debates the “Spinster ” Question
“Resolved that Clionian should form a Spinster Society,” was the subject Clionian Literary Society Tuesday of a lively parliamentary drill at Clionian Literary Society Tuesday night. The question was defeated on the grounds that there are not enough eligible women on the campus. Trojan song practice and several two-
minute speeches on current national ing this one-act play which is as- and campus affairs completed the pro-sured to be a welcome divertisement gram after which new members were for all chapel goers.	j voted upon.