California
Wampus Cat In Initial Appearance Thursday
Vol. XV
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, December 10, 1923
Tickets Limited to Members of Junior Class Until This Week Friday When the Sale Will be Thrown Open to Entire Student Body
Exactly one hundred tickets and no more, is the decree of the executive committee of the Junior class in reference to the Junior dance which will be held at the Wilshire Country’ Club, Thursday, December 10. It has been found necessary to place this limit on the sale cf tickets because of the size of the dance floor. What the affair lacks in quantity will be made up in quality.	O
Only Juniors will be allowed to
buy tickets for the first three days of the sale, today, tomorrow and Thursday. After that they may oe purchased by anyone from the so-caLed lowly Frosh to the high and mighty Scr.'cr, in short anyone ;n the University having the necessary and essen-t al twr> dollars That is, if there are >.ny tickets left after the Juniors have *s the fact, that this dance Is to be
The well-known and always popular Arl ngton Five has been engaged to furnish the music which is always the most impor;ant feature of an affair of this kind. This orchestra will be on hand with an assortment of dance numbers that will rival Art Hickman's famous collection.
Sweaters to be Awarded at a Concert in Assembly Soon
PLAN CONCERT TOURS
Eand, at Present, “Lying Low and Saving Wood;’’ Nothing Spectati lar
Students of U. S. C. will not see their band in action before the Tour-nr.mem of Roses Parade in Pasadena, New Year's day according to a statement made by Hal Roberts, band lead rv, iu a recent interview.
Concerning future plans of th-; organization, Robarts said that the band
hopes to present a concert before the An almost equally important feature .(vr-ent body ,^emb]y go a aM
ASILOMAR WILL ONLY 100 TICKETS S.c.BAND 10APPEAR. BE SUBJECT AT F0R JUNIOR PARTY IN NEW YEAR PARADE
CHAPE TODAY
First Guns Fired Today in Publicity Campaign for Convention
PRESIDENT SPEAKS
Education. Recreation and Inspiration This Year’s Keywords
By RALPH HOLLY
Plans for U S. C.'s participation Jn the Y. M C. A gathering at Asilomar at Monterey have been completed and the first guns of publicity will be fir-jd today in Chapel when President R. B. von KieinSmid will address the student body on the significance of taking part in the convention.
Education, recreation, and inspiration are the goad words of the Asilomar this year. According to authorities in charge of the Trojan delegation, association with the men of the other universities and colleges of the Pacific Coast, will assure all of these things. Some of the doings planned are of the highest educa ional value.
Many inspirational leaders are to be present at the gathering to tell students of principles of Christian fellow sh p that they have mastered in their experience in life.
N©TED SPEAKERS Among those who will lead discussions among the delegates are Charles Campbell, formerly secretary’ of the Y. M. C A. at Yale University; Professor U., G. Dubach. of the Oregon Agricultural College; and Hon. J. Stitt Wilson, a well known California lecturer and writer.
“There will also be recreational advantages as well as educational,”
Number 31
£ JOURNAL FOR DECEMBER IS OUT
Articles by Many Well Known Writers Included in Issue
LA PORTE ELECTED PRESIDENT OF PACIFIC COAST CONFERENCE
RECEIVES MUCH PRAISE
bought what they want.
This is the first school dance to be given at the Wilshire Country Club since the fall of 1921, when the all University dance was held there. Being one of the most exclusive of the
formal for everyone, mak ng it the I first big formal event of the semester, and second only to the Junior Prom, which will take place in January, and if rumor be true, at the Biltmore. I The date for this has been changed in order to make it, as- it is in other j Q
- tc ■ will be pre3oni-r *' playeis. it / tc go on A .v-:r-K
a 4bat *imc ed o severa 4 We are p o; sho*-t concert tours du~i t;>- iho f • »y part of v*' temester whi M will elude a trip • r?«»r Diego, ani t- ips north and ti i<.nt< as far ei c as
country’ clubs it is very difficult to se- •»> uiuci iu mmc »«., n io .*»	, c.an Bevnar ! •. t, gving conec-v at
cure for college affairs and other than j colleges, the most looked-forward-to oge	sr., tiavjng no	'*
dances given by members of the or- and remembered social event of the .<At present we are working on con-
ganization.	j w hole year._ 'cert music which takes more time
; than marching pieces,’ Roberts said. | “We’re lying low and sawing wood like the football team. We’re busy, lilt we’re not do ng anything spec-tacular as far as the student body concerned.”
LICENSE NUMBER OF WAMPUS OUT THURS.
A New Cover and Plenty of Cartoons Will be Important Feature
1
SOLORY ASSOC. STORE:
Intelligence Test With Answers Is a Unique Feature of
Edition	First
FROSH MAY ADOPT DISTINCTIVE GARB
Trojan Professor is Also to Represent West ini the Xational Meet*
Year Men to Vote On Ciass Shirt at a Special Meeting Today
Commerce Journal takes the place o. a text book to the merchant princes
over in the Old College—the ideal	“To wear them or not to wear
kind of text book that mixes the	them.”
hings you’d like to know about the	'Such is the quesUOn that is star-
business world with the things you	ing the Freshman class in the face,
ought to know, and spices the whole	At a clasr, meeting a week sgo
thing with jokes. There is only one	Percy Wallace, class treasurer, pro-
trouble about it, and that s that it	posed that '27 fall in line with the on’y comes out once a month. j ocher classes on thc campus an
The Peeember issue, just off the	adopt a distinctive garb, and sug-
• r?ss and obrainableat the Commerce	gested in particular that blue work
Many Unique Offerings Which Bear the Seal of the University
PRINT LIMITED NUMBER I LARGE VARIETY IN STOCK
Includes Belts, Jewelry, Book Marks, Stationery and Sport Things
Avoid the Christmas rush students
‘Kitty ’ Can be Purchased for the Small Sum of One Quarter
Y.W, Y.M. TO GET CASH FOR RECEIPTS
At the last regular meeting of the Executive Committee, it was moved seconded and canied, that the Y. W. C. A. and Y. M. C. A. be allowed to
or; oe ?.<r 30 cents, contains, among articles from other well-known writ-ets, thc opinions on various interesting subjects, of Roger Andrews, vice-president of the Citizens National Bank, E. G. Pomeroy, assistant cashier of the Security Trust and Savings, and Professor C S. Tappaan. cf the Law College. The articles by these men are alive with keen understanding of the isu- -■ whica th*v di;ci:.<>,
. give thc material on subjects i" an informal and chatty way.
Ranking with the men just mentioned, and taking up a novel matter for the third of his discusions on Business English, Ralph E. Oliver
shirts be decided upon.
It seemed probable that, if put to vote, the shirts would have been elected, but inasmuch as there seemed to be considerable opposition it was decided to lay the matter qn the table for a week and give the men a chance to get together on the question. At the last meeting there was little opportunity for discussion of the question due to other matters of importance which were brought before the class. President Bill Teetzel has called a
WILSON IS HONORED
U. S. C. Grid Schedule for 1924 Made Out at Meeting
William Ralph La Porte. Professor cf Phys cal Education at U. S. C.. was elected Pres dent of the Pacific Coast Conference Football Association at the reoular conference meeting held in cerkeley last Friday and Saturday. M*\ La Porte succeeds Prof. Duba:n of Oregon. Prof. La Porte was also elected at this time to represent the West at the National Collegiate Athletic Association and the Amateur Athletic meetings on Christmas of next year in New York.
To Gwynn Wilson. Graduate M&n-agere of U. S. C , and a delegate lrom here alopg with La Porte to ch" re-cet Conference, was given the position of Secretary of the Managers' Assoc ation by practically an unanimous vote.
SANCTION NEW YEAR’S GAME
The Conference was held last Friday and Saturday, and many impor-
rneeting for the men to be held this tan; matters were cleared up by the noon right after chapel in H 305.; var*ous collegiate rppresenta’ives. one
He is very anxious that all of the lbc most important of which was head of the Commercial department • men be there as their absence the Positive sanction of the annual in the Polytechnic High School, Long might result in the adopting of a Touinament of Rosese classic held on Beach, writes on punctuation. In a measure that would be distasteful : the first of every year in Pasadei*a. short but straight to the point article,1 to them or in the rejecting of a Tne only Qualifications which were enlivened with numerous amusing il-igarb that they would be particular- placed cn the aH°*ance were that the
lustrations, the author endeavors to jy interested in having.	' ....’.........
stress the importance of the little ar*
of U. S. C. and do your shopping at j place boxes in the student body store
re-1
The “Kitty” is coming. Verily, the cho of this howl will resound through.
cu* the halls of Troy, on Thursday the Associated Students' Book Store.1 as recepticles for cash register said Tom Harrison, director of public-	of this week. The “Kitty” is a real Dean Fisk, head of the store, has ceipts. • I ity for the University Y. M. C. A. yes-	sure enough jokester and appears amply provided many unique and use- The student store is to give a re-terday. Harrison was present at last	camouflaged as a “License Number” ful gifts for Christmas shoppers to bate of 10 per cent on all purchases, year's Asilomar and he tells of the	Editor Al Wesson says, “It’s a winning choose from. made at the store nea* the end of the i experiences that the U. S C. delegat-	number. You can’t lose on it. The A special stock of stationery is pa-, rear. However, in order to obtain this es had. Competitive games of all	cartcons alone are worth twice the tiently waiting to carry missives to rebate it will be necessary to- present 1 sorts will be part of the weekly pro-	price of admission. There is less ad- friends and relatives. Fountain pens, t^e caSh register receipt as a proof I gran. Students from U S. C. wtlT	vertising in this issue than ever be both decorative and reliable, and spec- Df purchase. Many students do not mix with students from Washington	fore. There are also about ten more ial ones for co-eds in dainty pinks wi8h to be bothered with the receipts and even from Hawaii.	drawings than i nprevious numbers, j an'1 blues are offered. Stiver and aruj would just as soon turn them over, GOOD LOCATION	it also contains more reading mat- gold pencils may also be bought. U. 3. a worthyr organization, and so the Students who have attended Asil-	ter.” C. jewelry would make an excellent Executive Committee has gone on rec-omar in previous years cons der the	The cover for the coining issue is; eift for friends here at the university, j or(j as being willing to grant permis-j experience as one of the best in their	\y Banks, and will run any profession-' Rings and pins with the U. S C. J sjon (0 any organization that is alii college career. The location of Asil-	p] joke magazine a close second. Julia j crest, and tiny pins of a jeweled S. 1 university in scope to place a box in omar is unique. It is at Monterey,	Tusk has been one of the main con- j C. would be acceptable by any co-ed . j,e student store. At the present time 300 miles north of Los Angeles, in a	tributors in high class art work. O. j on the campus. U. S. C. belts, of Jbe ys seem to be the only organiza section known for its beauty, and	King and Al have written some; which there is a large supply are also tions that come ;n this category, how-j significance to early California his-	good snappy articles a la comedy. popular. Cute little copper book marks ever if at a later time other organiza-torv.	The Wamp will be put on sale early with the University crest costing only tj0ns can qualify as being all univer-The grounds of Asilomar are open-	Thursday morning unless the print seventy-five cents, would hold milady’s cjty jn scope their claims will be coned the year around and many convcn-	hop burns up in the mean time. The place in any of the popular novels or sj^ere(j by’ the Executive Committee tions are held there under the aus-	price is twenty-five and only a limited text books. ! cn the grounds of the service of that
of distributing marks of punctuation, !
Second only to the Journal itself <s the Business Supplement which accompanies it First in interest comes *he account of the doings at the meeting of the Southern California Commerce Teachers’ Association, which recently met at San Diego. A novel “inteligence” test is offered for diversion, and best of all, the answers are given in the same issue! You don’ have to wait until “our next” makes its appearance, but you can flop right over to page 7 and correct your mistakes.
Space and time prohibit longer ex
patiations on the merits of the Commerce Journal, but suffice it to say to those who know the magazine that the December issue is the best yet, and for those to whom it remains an unknown quantity, let it be said that they are missing a real treat.
The most important business to be transacted in the meeting Thursday was the election of a new vice-president to serve in the place of Genevieve Johnson who has had to drop out of school on account of illness. Gertrude Keyes was elected by secret ballot.
pices of the Y. M C. A. and Y. W. C. A The week after Christmas is re-
number will be printed.
served for the gathering of men from D__j .	n.’.__
the various colleges on the Pacific Hand tO tlOld Lfinner
Wednesday Night at University Cafeteria
Trojan band will again be heard
The book store has an excelent dis-	organization to the student body as
play of sport goods including golf out-	a whole
fits, tennis rackets and many other	Signed,
things along the sport line.	Evelyn Smith
These are only hints of the many	, ^e(j Lewis
acceptable gifts that the book stor?	por t^e Executive Committee
has to offer.	i	--—--
Student	UMY SOCIETIES TO
Meets to Organize	HAVE DEBATES TONIGHT
The southern district of the Pa-	Every literary society is to have a
cific Coast Region of the Student	debase as its main feature of the pro-
Coast.
BIG DELEGATION LAST YEAR
Last year U. S. C. sent about thirty men. According to Don Cameron,
Pres=dent of theU-Y and chosen leader from "not on the football field this of this year’s delegation to Asilomar,	feut Rt the banquet table. The
U. S. C. wants fifty men to represent , anquet fm thp b&nd |g tQ b(? faeld
it at the gathering	Wednesday evening at 6:15 in the
Each delegate will pay his own ex- University Cafeteria, penses, but arrangements have been President Ed. Kendall urges all Fellowschip held a meeting at Po- j gram at the regular meetings of the made to make these as small as pos- band members to be present, as a mona college over the week end for societies tonight The debate for Clion-sible. Registration fee will cost 56.00. number of surprises are to come fast the purpose of organizing. Pomona, t ian Society is: Resolved—that the Bed and meals will be $12.25. Miscel- and furious in the form of plans for Ocidental. Southern Branch and U. Univers ty of Southern California laneous expenses will come to about	years Day, when the band will S. C. were represented.	should adopt the honor system. Alice
There were thirty delegates in all, Ralph is to eive a vocal solo. The de-four being from U. S. C. Those bate for Athena Society will be: Re-from this University were Miss solved—that the American theory of Knoch. Miss Berke Miss Williams, Judicial su^rem^y should be abolished. Margaret Burkit and Donna Erickson rre to represent the affirma-
three dollars. All students interested in the oeportunity offered by Asilo-. mar are requested to report to the Y hut as soon as possible.
appear in the Tournament of Roses.
Class Presidents to ! Hold Initial Meeting Wednesday
WOMEN’S BASKETBALL
Delta Delta Delta meets Delta Gamma on the basketball court in the Women’s Gym Wednesday night at seven o'ciock.
Freshman Commission Xmas Party Thursday
Members of the Freshman Commission are giving a Christmas party Thursday, December 13, at the Alpha Chi Omega house. An enjoyable program is promised with plenty of refreshments.
All Freshman girls are urged to be present st the party. It is ex-nected that time will be spared for election of officers for the Fresh man Commission.
Bt TICKET SALE FOR GLEE CLUB OPENING CONCERT
Ticket sale for the Men’s Glee Club concert, to be given or January 23 in Bovard Auditorium, begins today when the sixty meml>ers of the Glee Club are to swarm the campus with a ticket campaign
The concert is to be the first appearance of the new members of the club before the student body. It is therefoie at;racting much interest and the entire output of tickets is expected to be sold shortly. Tickets sell for seventy^five cents.
That the concert is to be a big event on the university calendar is indicated by the fact that five hundred tickets already have been disposed of to the various fratern ties and sororities on the campus.
Divide your lunch money with the Plaza children!
and Miss Webster.
Fill the Red Stockings.
Cast of All Stars Chosen
Wednesday afternoon the newly organized Class Presidents Asociation will meet in Room 350, for the purpose of outl ning the work for the
tive side, Susan Kimball and Dorothy Cooke the negative.
The debate for Com ta Society is: Resolved—that Congress should have J the power to nudify the power of su-
Tn Plov In	preme court by reenac;ing laws de'!
1	JL lUJ' It I |J/	kJllUfJ clared unconstitutional Seltzer will,
take tbe affirmative side of the ques-
PlCTURES DUE NOW
El Rodeo pictures are coming very slow. Harry Holton says, “There will be absolutely no pictures taken after the Xmas holidays. If you want your picture in make your appointment before December ISth. Only two hundred pictures have been taken up to da;e. Material is coming in rapidly for the magazine itself, and promise to be a live isue.”
schools concerned in the game should have full management of the affair, only granting to the Tournament of Roses officials the privilege of offering the field and being the backers of the affair The conference will itself hereafter, chooste the Eastern and Western teams both. As soon as the Conference decides on the West representative, it will then invite an Eastern team and make full arrangements for the game. If the Tournament officials select a team they mst submit the name to the Conference ror indorsement or rejection.
California and Stanford were ho ly opposed to post season games. California proposed that the games be permitted, but only on college campus 3 adiums. The proposition was brought up to have such games entirely under Conference control, alone, with absolutely no outside factors n-volved. Both these ideas were turned down, signifying, on the part of Stonier and I-a .Porte cf U. S. C -vno championed the Pasadena games, a distinct victory for U. S. C.
HITS EARLY PLEDGING Another most important po nt gained by U. S. C. was the putting through cf a ruling making ineligible any man who is pledged to a fraternity before the opening of the fall semester. California protested and insisted that the rule should not be made retrogressive—that is. that it should not apply to men already pledged for next semester. While the latter qualification Am.	T"— • I , was allowed, the ruling was a distinct
A.t Banquet Tonight victory for u. s. c.
Members of the History and Politi-1 11 was thought that some of the cal Science Clubs wil banquet tonight j Northern colleges would propose a at the Casa de la Felipe, at Seventh ru*inS to curb Freshman inter-colle-
History and Political Science Club Meets
and Corondolet Streets.
John Dickenson, well-known lawyer, who was attorney general official during the W’orld War, will be the
giate games, but this got no where. Instead California was made to explain why she alowed her frosh football men to take part in inter-c’?ss
Choice pickings for real dramaUc alent among the members of Lance present year to be undertaken by that and Lute, the honorary dramatic fra-body. This will be the initial meet- ternity which has made great progress ing of the Association as it just re- within the last two years, has n ade ceived its offic al recognition from possible the assembling of a real tbe Executive Committee last week, “galaxy’ of campus stars to take parts
The organisation is composed of all in “The Show Shop' to be produced Thompkins............Mort McMillan
present class presidents together w th by Lance and Lute sometime in Jan- Jerome Beldon____Howard Bridegroom
uary
that found in the usual commercial (.on and wenz the negative. Mem comedy.	berg Qf ^rjStotelian Society will de-
Tryouts recently held by Miss Mil- bate tbe question; Resolved—that It dred \ oorhees, who will diract the jg more advantageous to belong to a piece, resulted in this all-star arrange- fraternity than to be a non-frat man.
Albert Kiss and Simeon Kemper will take the opposing sides.
ment:
Sadie..................Phoebe Sische
all former class presidents now attending the University. The organi-,
Max Rosenbaum.......S. D. Seamans
TO GIVE ORGAN RECITAL
As one of the requirement.- for a
Rehearsals are well under way snd Effie Brinkley..........Attabelle Ross bachelor’s degree from the College of
ration will, of course, contain the all plans set to make the “Show Shop’ Tohnnie Brinkley......Henrv McCann Music, Miss Cleo Carrol Johnstone
present Class Presidents, Wheeler, this season's campus hit, according to Mrs. Dean...............Ruth Seaver will give an organ recital at St. Ath-
Orme, Cameron and Teatzle, with	the “Lance and Luters.’
eight or so other former officers, in	“The Show Shop” is an extremely
all the probable number of members	clever comedy with many charact0’’ will be about twelve. All Class pres- parts and fardal situations. The p'.ay
idents and former class presidents are	avoids the ‘ slap-stick" however, and
Bettina Dean..........Bonnie Palmer anas us’ Church, 846 Echo Park Ave-
Night Clerk..............Paul Palmer ; nue, Wednesday evening, December
Cranby Smith........Warner Grassell 12. Miss Johnstone will be assisted
Miss Donahue...........Clare Raui’er by her sister. Irma Leigh Johnstone, a
Miss Farrington...... ...Elsie Miils pupil of Mrs. Thilo Becker. The
nrged to be present at this meeting, presents a better grade of humor than M ss Toby...............Ruth Canary] public is invited
“Student Movements in China will be the last discussion of a series arranged by the Y. M. C. A. and the Y. W. C. A. and it will be held at the Y hut Wednesday, December 12, at 7 p. m.
Isabel Thorburn, daughter of late Bishop Thorburn of China will lead the discussion. Miss Thorburn has recently returned from China where Bhe has spent many years actively engaged in publication work for the Y. W. C. A. She will tell some
main speaker of the evening. His sub-1 ' ames before the season began, in ject has not yet been announced, but! the face of a rulinS which prohib ts will concern some phase of American 1 a51 pre-season practice of any kind. politics.1 Dr. Malcolm will give a! California agreed to put the curb on short talk and Miss Alice King will this Practice; however, they will allow give several piano selections.	; th-ir frosh team to play the winning
j James Mussatti, president of the °;?3' ,earn the beglnnin9' ot ,he i Club, says that thirty-five or forty, sras0'!-
members expect to attend the banquet I WANT FROSH RULE D OP D this evening	Several of the non-conference col-
____ j ieges along the Pacific Coast allow
freshmen to play on the varsity squads. The ruling has been that if thp-3e men of the non-conference colleges go to a conference college the second year they are ineligible for two years, the penalty being a double one—one year for transfering and one year for playing on another varsity. Idaho proposed that this ruling be dropped. U. S. C. supported Idaho but the ruling remained unchanged by ?. 3 to 5 vote.
Stanford proposed that Frosh rnl«»s should not apply to minor sports, :he idea being to allow men engaged in. minor sports to appear with Olympic Club and such organizations The proposition lost, however; the Conference felt that minor sports should live up to the standards of major sports. (CONTINUED ON PAGE 2)
Discuss Student Movement In China at Meeting Friday
of her experiences at the meeting. Harold Berry and Maude Stavely will ,be the student speakers.
“This is one of the most interesting of the student movements in the world, and the Y. W. is particularly anxious that students of U. S. C. will come to know more Dout the students in whose country we have placecr a professor in person,” said Elizabeth Kemp, president of the Y. W. C. A.
W. K. Tse will close tbe program with a solo.