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Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, February 28, 1924
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BENTS STAGt ANNUAL MINSTRELS APRIL 4TH
Odonto Club Holds Smoker to Make Plans for Show Tuesday
IN BOVARD AUDITORIUM
Committees Arranged for Production and Rehearsal Program Mapped Out
Ondonto Club of the College of Dentistry held its first meeting in the form of a smoker Tuesday night at the Clinic Bu lding. Music, clog dancing .eating and smok ng went to make a snappy meet, and start the annual minstrel off with a lound bang.
Each year the members of the Odonto Club stage a minstrel show, the proceeds from which go toward the Student Body lioan Fund. Each previous year has seen a very meritorious show and the Fourth Annual show promises to be “bigger and better.”
Rehearsals will be held every Tuesday and Thursday night for the chorus and Monday and Wednesday nights for the orchestra. An excellent technical director in the person of W. Ray MacDonald, well known to L beral Arts students has been secured.
I^ast year the show was given at Philharmonic Auditorium to a big house. This year the show will be given at Bovard Auditorium on April 4. and it is hop^d will be given the patronage among the other college students that it well deserves.
“Dental is proud of her talent and her ability to stage such a show," Fred Olds, president of the Dental Student Body said today, “and he wants other departments of the University to see what she can do.” Officers for the club this year are: President. Harry Hancock; vice-president. Milo Sweet; business manager, Trenton Huls; publicity manager, William Wallace: orchestra director. Ted Fnk; end-man director. George Downs.
$200 LUNCHEON TO ERECT BUILDING
Univ. Womans Club Affair Assures New Wonman's Unit at U. S. C.
Glee Club to Sing at Varsity Club Dinner In Honor of Visitor
Members of the Glee Club are to sing tomorrow night at the dinner given in the University Cafternia bv the Varsity Club in honor of the visiting athletes. Presidents of high school glee clubs have been invited to attend. A short program is to be given by the club.
Friday night the singers gave a program at the Long Beach High School before a large audience. According to Noel Bradley, a member of the club, the Long Beach audience was highly appreciative and seemed to enjoy especially the character parts in the one-act musical play which was presented at the campus concert on January 23.
This act was written by Teet Carle and staged by Ray McDonald.
CALL IS ISSUEO FOR
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State Chairmen to Lead Delegations for Student Convention Named
EVENT TO OCCUR MAY 1
Official Call for Affair Gives Number of Delegates to Meet In Auditorium
State chairmen, to lead the \lelega-tions for the mock pol tical convention to be held at U. S. C. on May 1, have been notified of the call for j ter„ Dupuy the dance is bound t0 the convention. The proper call has
Varsity Club Will Be Hosts to 300 Couples at Hotel Alexandria
To Stage Annual Ball on Saturday Evening
The Varsity Club and the Frosh Numeral Club will blossom forth with their initial social affair Saturday night. Mirth 1, at the Hotel Alexandria. The affair is to be an informal dance.
Through the hord work of the committee which is composed of Gordon Campbell, chairman, “Bob” Greene. “Willie” Lewis, and ‘B.’s-
SALE OF EL CLOSES I
No Extension of Time Allowed Neglectful Persons Not Signing Up by Tomorrow
IS LARGER THAN EVER
II MAKE INVESTIGATIONS
Seventy-Five Students Make a “Vacancy Survey" in City During January
DATA FOR COM. JOURNAL
Profs. Eberle and Riggleman Direct Work for Further Statistical Study
During two weeks of January. 75 Commerce students were engaged in making a “vacancy survey” of Los Aneeles. The work was conducted under the direction of Professors George J. Eberle and John R. Riggleman of the Department of Business Statistics of the College of Commerce.
The investigation had for its purpose the determination of the number of vacancies in proportion to the number of dwellings that were available in Los Aneeles at that time.
The city was divided off into a number of strips that covered or passed through all representative districts. The investigators would pass along each street making note of the number and the kind of dwellings. This work was done largely by pairs of students nnd with the use of autos.
Apartment houses had to be entered however. Detailed information
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With more than one hundred fifty! as to the capacity of the establish-reservations made for the two hun- j ment and the number of vacancies dred dollar plate luncheon, to be held in it had to be secured from the at the Biltmore Hotel. March 3. under landlords. Some of them required the auspices of the Woman's Club of considerable explanation before they the University of Southern Cal fornia. would part with such knowledge, ihe erection of the first unit of a Worn- Hotels were also investigated in this an's Building at U. S. C. is assured. manner.
Mrs. Albert Sherman Hoyt of Pasa- In some cases flats required an dena. general chairman of the Worn- entrance being made. A surprising en's Benefit Luncheon, is standing number of odors were discovered to treat for the entire luncheon in order come from such dwellings. If you that all the proceeds may be devoted want to give your olfactory nerves to the fund.	1 some stimulation, just go down near
Other members of the committee' the Los Angeles River and ring the are:	| door bell or knock on the door of
Mrs. Norman Bridge and Mrs. Rufus any flat or apartment lionise.
B von Klein?mid of Los Angeles: ; At present the data secured by Mrs. R. D. Shepherd and Mrs. Lee ihe students on this survey is be-Wollett of Hollywood: Mrs. George Martin of Pasadena; Mrs. Claus Spreekles of San Degc; Mrs. Gardiner Hammond of Santa Barbara; Mrs.
Clarence G. White of Redlands; Mrs.
E P. Clark of Riverside; Mrs. F*red Hathaway Bixby of l*mg Beach: Mrs.
Walter Pierce Watts of Covina, and Mrs Robert Garver of San Bernardino.
The Pan-Hellenic of the U. S. C. campus will be represented at this luncheon by its president. Miss Esther Buckman.
The purpose of the luncheon is set forth in the pamphlet of the Women's Club, which states that the members hope to derive enough money from the benefit luncheon wth the addition of the $65,000 already in the fund to have sufficient to lay the cornerstone of first building at once.
been issued from the office of the | general chairman. The early publica- i tion of this important document will enable the chairmen to choose their followers immediately. The call is publ shed below in full.
To the Republican National Electors
of the University of Southern
California:
In pursuance of the authority conferred upon by by the Republican National Convention of 1920, the National Committee hereby calls a Political Convention of the students of the University of Southern California as represented by delegates, to meet in Bovard Auditorium, in the City of I-os Angeles, State of California, at 10 o'clock a. m., on Thursday, the 1st day of May, 1924, for the purpose of nominating the candidates of the party to be voted for in November, 1924. for the offices of President and Vice-President of the United States; and for the transaction of such other business as may properly come before said Convention.
Representation in the Convention shall, in accordance with the rules of the National committee be as follows:
The various states tii the Union shall have two delegates for each Congressional district, one delegate for each Congressman at large, and two delegates for rach United States Senator. The territories of the Philippines, Hawaii Alaska and the District of Columbia shall have one delegate each. Alternates shall act and vote only in the absence of their delegates.
The constitutional and inherent right of each and every State Chairman to determine the qualifications and manner of election of the delegates from his state is recognized. The choice of the delegates from the territories shall be by the National (CONTINUED OX PAOE 41
be a success. Favors will be given and best of all—the Trojan eleven, the orchestra which made a name for the school at Grauman's Metropolitan a short time ago. will play.
Only three hundred tickets will be sold. Tickets are $2.00 a couple and can be obtained, according to Gordon Campbell, from either members of the clubs or at the box office in the new college.
‘The hotel Alexandria management,” said Campbell, “has just recently remodeled the hotel’s ballroom. refurnishing it very attractively. We figured that three hundred people could just dance there comfortably and so planned.”
HOLLINGWORTH IS PRESS SPEAKER
Press Club and Trojan Staff Hold Dinner at the Green Lantern
ing compiled into a complete report for the Commerce Journal. Word has reached the College of Commerce that a number of people are awaiting with particular interest the publication of the next Journal with this report in it. Those who will be vitally concerned will be realtors and people engaged in the building trades.
This survey ought to aid a great deal in showing just what the living capacity of Los Angeles is.
“When You Are Near.’
Carnival Clears $60 to Aid In Publishing Codex, U.H.S. Annual
“Keen!” This was the comment heard at the close of the Codix Carnival which was staged by tne .U. H. S. last week.
The purpose of the fete was to raise funds to finance the high school annual, the Codex. A clear profit o; $60 attests to the success of the undertaking.
The scene of the affair was the home of Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Lowe, 1101% Leighton Ave. Ruth Whitney was in charge of the carnival and was assisted by Mr. and Mrs. Whit ney, Mrs. Cline Mr. Stevens, and Dick Baldwin.
The house and gardens were gay ly decorated with streamers, festoons, and half hidden lanterns. Among the booths was a fortune teller, "donated” by the faculty, a con fetti stand, and other novelty sales booths. The A-10 English class was particulary well represented in the maintenance of these booths. A box of candy was auctioned by Messrs. Stevens aud Snell.
An entertaining program was provided. It consisted of a weird tomb scene, a boxing bout between ghostly warriors, and aesthetic dancing Confetti was particularly enjoyed by the crowd.
About thirty members and members-to-be of the Press Club were present at the monthly dinner which was given Tuesday evening at the Green Lantern. Mr. Everett E. Hollngs-worth, feature editor of the Los Angeles Evening Herald, was the speaker of the evening and proved an interesting and entertaining guest. This was the second time that Mr. Hollingsworth has been asked to talk to the Press Club. His subject was the “History of a News Story” and he gave some very timely advice to the young journalists who are soon to face the grim, cold newspaper world.
Teet Carle, past pres dent of the club, turned over the imaginary gavel of authority to Marquis Busby, the newly-elected leader, who acted as toastmaster for the balance of the program.
Stan Wheeler, “pledge manager” of the club welcomed the neophytes who were elected at the last meeting of the Press Club. He informed them of what would be expected of them at the next session. Before they are admitted to the Press Club it will be necessary* for them to turn in either a feature story featuring six prominent campus cit'zens or a perfectly constructed sonnet with mention of six well known students.
The other new officers of the club, Betty Moore and King Stoddard, vice-president and secretary-treasurer respectively, were also introduced. It was decided that the next banquet should be a home-coming dinner at which all the “old grads” would be present and memories of former Trojan days rev ved.
Response Not as Hearty as Was Expected but Returns Are Incomplete
Tomorrow the sa'.e on El Roueo’ closes. No extension of time will be given those students who neglect to get their orders tn by tomorrow night.
This year's El Rodeo will be the best book ever published on the U. S. C. campus. It will contain one hundred more pages than last year's book and with its oriental atmosphere and superb workmanship will be a book that should be on every library table.
“Few of the students realize ” said Kenneth Crist,” that El Rodeo is a true account of all student activities, athletic, social and academic, for the past year and is a Campus publication that they can enjoy years after they have left U. S. C.”
To date, the sales have been poor. Less than five hundred have been sold whereas the sales should now total over a thousand. If more reservations are nr.t pT-iced before tomorrow night, El Rodeo will not have a very pleasant debut on May 15.
Bool:! r. ay be icserved at the Associated Students' Book Store or at the Arcade ticket office. Only three dollars are required for reservation ; with a dollar and a half to pay on its delivery.
“Last year I would estimate over two hundred students were disappointed by not being able to buy an El Rodeo when the books came out,” said Arnold Eddy, manager of last year's annual.. “Students should get over the idea tliat extra copies are ordered every year and that they can get books when they are on sale.”
About 360 Excuses From Chapel Have Been Granted So Far
Approximately 300 petitions for absence from chapel have been granted by Dean Waugh and several hundred more are to be granted according to a statement made today by the secretary to Dean Waugh.
A list of those petitions which have already been granted is poste! on the bulletin board near the registrar’s office in Stowell Hall. This list is by no means complete and a second list will be posted the first of next week when new petitions will have had the attention of Dean Waugh.
Ho-ld Scenic Rehearsal for Annual Production in Auditorium Last Evening
DIRECTORS SATISFIED
Special Costumes. Lighting Effects. Scenery and Props on Hand for Play
The long-looked for paramount musicale of the southland’s greatest collection of talent ever blended for the privilege of an university audience, appears in Bovard Auditorium Friday night .before an estimated au-dfenie of twenty-two hundred. Accord ng to the ticket managers, sixteen hundred tickets have already | been sold, by far a greater majority to U. S. C. students.
The first dress rehearsal was held Frolicc *nst n*gkt. aml the enthusiastic cast ° 1 worked until 12:30. and they probably will scrimage and drill upon the pass formations tonight until the third wee TO FEATURE CARTOONS ; hm,r of thp morning Even Ruth
—--Shaver and Hank McCann, criterion*
Several Hundred Extra Copies of exacting directors, said that “thev Printed to Supply the Ex- satisfy.”
Rosalind Williamson reports that her Chinese aggregation now behaves more like it than the real thing itself. Special and exclusive costumes h?ve been secured from the fashion-
GOES ON SALE TODAY
Will be Take Off on
and Topic of General Campus Life
pected Demand
JUNIOR PLAY PLANS
All candidates for the Junior class the | plav are asked to meet with Miss Hubbard in Bovard Auditorium, Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock. Tryouts will not take place then, but the reading comm ttee wishes to meet those who would like to take part so that this? may be considered in choosing the plav.
USE OF TELEPHONE IS TO BE DEMONSTRATED
The Southern California Telephone Company will give a sw tchboard demonstration on the operation of the telephone at Assembly today. This includes the working of both the automatic and manual telephones. Hugo Kirchoffer will lead isnging. The fol-owing songs will be sung:
VICTORY MARCH Raise on high the Gold and Cardinal Trojan warriors brave and true! With hearts that thrill, with one strong will,
Ten thousand we stand, we're all with you for Southern California. Long live her glorious fame!
Our banners fly the goal is near. Our voices ring as long we cheer, Fight on! On! till the victory is won for U. S. C.
There’s a band of loyal Trojans A band of warriors bold,
With their honor they'll defend it The Cardinal and Gold.
So it’s hail to Alma Mater,
Hail to Varsity,
Hail to all loval Trojans,
Hail to U. S. C.
Wamp is out! Slipping off the high board fence .early this morning he is now prowling about doing the goose step, for the usual sum of “two bits.” Advice to the wise says, “Do ! ^le costumer. Lady Jane, in Holly-your Wampus shopp ng early.” for ac- i WOO(^ ^he SCPn?r> in the tecond act cording to the latest reports and “sup S une'lua^e^ 'n sp.e .uc . ..i.d ...-snifi-ply and demand” theories eager quar-I ^encp- an<* ,*ie Prf>ps are par exce>-
ters now exceed the number of Wampi i *ence- ^ *aa by a Freshman who
j sneaked in one rehearsal that Gene
Johnson's music even made his eve-
seeking circulation.
After many evenings of toil and pleas for suitable copy, Okey King presents the Extravagander numbe'
brows vibrate. He also added. “Shimmying peanuts. To see how that de-
of the Wampus, a take off on the | Hci?US chorus	footsteps in
trt!:!Bg the high hurdles is a real treat
Campus Frolics of ’24, and a surprise to the wit seekers of U. S. C. There i have been several hundred extra copies printed for this issue as a result of the ncreasing demand which developed with the limited supply of last month’s issue.
Among the many new features of this issue, the cartoons and sketches deserve particular mention. There are several new and original types of drawings all of which are representative of the issue and show real effort on the part of their artists and are not of the usual caricatures pre sented n similar publications. Tho cover design, by Lionel C. Banks, a tricky piece of art in two o'dor designs, has been inspired by Upton Sinclair's "Goose Step,” as well as outstanding features of the Frolics.
HOLD RECEPTION FOR GRADUATES ON MONDAY
On Monday afternoon. March 5, President Von KieinSmid and faculty will give a reception in honor of students of the graduate school at which President Samuel Fletcher Kerfoot, of Hamline University, will be the guest of honr. Dr. Kerfoot has been president of Hamline since 1912 and has been the recip ent of many honors both in the Christian ministry and in the field of education.
The reception will be held between 3:30 and 4:15 o’clock, followed by an address by President Kerfoot in Huse I Hall 206.
CHANGE OF DATE	The regular senior class is, by cour-
Important announcement is made of teSy Gf the graduating school, invited the change in date of the holding of t to attend the recept'on and hear the
the University Methodist Church Social, from Friday, Feb. 29. to Thursday, Feb. 28.
address.
“When You Are Near.”
[ for the opt cs.”
Ray McDonald, who is handling the
scenery, states there will be no long waits between acts ?s he has perfected a system of handling the sets. He has a large crew of experienced men working under him. “Wamp” Wupperman. who did the electrical work for last year’s product and for all lance and Lute plays, will be in charge of lighting effects and special effects. A special telephone w II connect the back stage with the projection room, where the spotlights will be located, so there will be no slipups in this feature of the performance.
The cast practiced the past two evenings with Hal Roberts' Hollywood Legion Band, which will plav the accompaniment for the mus cal number..- Tbe band, an innovation at U. S. C. for musical productions, will also play a short concert arranged from songs in the “Frolics” between acts. One of the intermissions will feature a Marimba duet.
An added specialty act entitled “Dope" and presented by Ellsworth Ross and Selvyn Levinson, w 11 be given during the intermission between the last two acts.
Special costumes for the entire cast were secured for the second act which will be p. scene at a Costume Ball. Elaborate sets and props have been-received for the production.
“When You Are Near.”
Bishop L. Birney Speaks On Great Possibilities of China
Philean Society Meets At Y Hut On Friday
Members of the Philean Literary Society are to meet in the Y hut Friday afternoon The program for the afternoon will be:
Short Sketch of Longfellow's Life. L ilian I>evenson.
The Chief Characteristics of Longfellow's Poetry, Tsong May Yong.
What today has meant to the world. Ruth Coates.
Reading, Eleanor Price.
W hen You Are Near.”
“People here in the United States are likely to think of China as a land of bandits,” said Bishop L. G. Birney in an address in Chapel Tuesday. “On the contrary, a visitor to that land is ten times as safe as he is at home on the streets of Los Angeles. Ch:-cago or New York. The huge train robbery which occurred recently there was an exact imitation of the way it is done in America. The Chinese are noted for their ability in imitat on. In America you are living in very thin glass houses.”
Bishop Birney emphasized the need for Christian educat on in China. “China is now where Japan was a generation ago,” he said. “She Is
now where one missionary can do the work that it will take twenty to do if we neglect this opportunity as we did in Japan. The poss bilities of China as a world power exceed those of Japan many times over, and there is practically nothing China cannot do if aid is given to her. The youth of America, in seeking for an opportunity for service, can find none greater than that offered by China, this great land of possibilities.”
Following the address Salvatore Tomaso gave a short musical program assisted by his daughter. Mr. Tomaso has organized mandolin clubs in many un versities and appeared here with that purpose in view.
UNCALLED PROOFS WORRY EL RODEO
Over one hundred proofs of individual pictures for the El Rodeo have not been called for acord-ng to Harry Holton, business manager of the year book. They may be had at the Gentry Studios, 324 South Broadway.
If the owners of the pictures fail to attend to the selection of the best proofs, the staff will do it for them within a few days.
Word also comes from the El Rodeo office that Senior records are not coming in satisfactorily. Seniors should give their high school, college, major subject, and a list of all activ ties.
Leave the records in the ticket booth of the Associated Students Store.
Six Sandwiches Necessary For Bid to Bachelor Dance
Courageously entering the very the man to feed the hungry lady, the heart of the realm of the co-ed, the old order will be reversed, and every Cozy Den, the Wampus Bachelors | chaperone will bring six sandwiches held a lunch and business meeting preferably to be made by the mothe yesterday noon, to complete plans for of the honored co-ed. Bachelor Har-their first dance to be given at the old Williamson was appointed to drav Gamma Epsilon house. March 6.	up a list of girls eligible to receive
During the first few minutes of the ^i^s to the affair, meeting backsliding brothers were j Beginning w th Monday, March 3, warned to watch their conduct with the Wampus Bachelors will turn pes-the fair sex. A motion was made and simists and resort to th« old standbys, carried to investigate the eligibility suspenders. Any bachelor refusing t~> of Bachelor Gordon Campbell. An marr his shiek appearance with such oath was made by all the bachelors plebian dress will have his belt represent to retain their state of single j moved by force.
blessedness.	| The new bachelor song written by
Every existing formality of the , Bachelor Okey King is as follows: dance will be blasted at the bachelor’s “We are the bachelors, affair. Every man will bring a reliable i lady chaperone. Dancing will be care- j fully watched as the cheek-to-cheek style tends to weaken the resistance of the ever susceptible male. Inasmuch as t is the merry, little custom f i
The jolly, jolly bachelors.
We are brave but we love our liberty,
And no matter what weather, w^ always stand together. Bachelors of U. S. C.”
MOVIE ACTOR TO BE AT “ROUND UP”
Douglas MacLean To Be Present at Commerce Stage Party This Evening
Douglas MacLean will take the leading role this evening at the Commerce “Round Up” just as he has taken a similar position in many Goldwyn pctures. The popular screen actor has been secured to speak and perform for the occasion by Lyman Johnson, President of the Commerce Club.
The “Round Up” is to be held at the Sigma Alpha Epsilon House. 2711 Budlong Avenue. Every man in the College of Commerce is welcome. Good eats, music, boxing and surprise stunts will be included.
Walter Sykes and Roland Parker are in charge of the events. They promise that the “Round Up” will not degenerate nfo an ordinary smoker.
While the men are listening to the eloquence of Douglas MacLean and the faculty members of the College of Commerce this evening, the women of the College will hold their c»\ n R'uind I p at the Phi Mu Hcuse, 3522 South Figueroa.
Jessie Haynes. Vice-President of the Commerce (lub, is in charge. She has an interesting program planned and urges al! women n Commerce to
“show up.”