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Now You Better Study
ol. XIII
Los Angelea, California, Thursday January 19, 1922
No. 38
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LASS POLITICIANS GET BUSY
ENROLLMENT OF UPPERCLASSMEN NOW GOING ON
I Registrar Urges Upper Classmen to Complete Schedule and Make Room for Newcomers
CLASSES START FEB. 2
Slight Winter Decrease May Be I Expected, Though Rush Will Crowd Office
All students of Liberal Arts and 'ommerce College who intend re-reg-listering for next semester are urged Ito do so this week by Dr. Montgomery, registrar, as major professors and advisers will be busy enrolling new I students after January 30.
The temporary’ schedules made out |by the students this week will be »ent by the advisers to the registrar’s >ffice, where the permanent schedules 11 be made out. This system has >een instituted to do away with the a'liste of time caused by lost cards.
The fact that students are not registering as fast as was expected )rompts Dr. Montgomery to issue this rarning.
He also gives out the registration tor the semester just concluding as ibout twenty-two hundred. Judging from other years the enrollment will fall off about one-tenth of its present imount at the beginning of next semester.
New students will register January ?0, 31 and February 1 for the second semester opening. February 2. On >ne of these days the permanent enrollment card should be secured from (he office of the Registrar. Fees must (Continued on Page 2)
IS TITLE OF NEW
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One of the newer courses in the |ollege of Commerce which is not sted in the catalogue will be given ti Fridays at 8 o'clock, under the irection of Professor Ralph L. Power. |Vlen and Methods,” as the Course is ailed, will consist of fifteen lectures ly the instructor and business men of pe city, and there will be discussions the various captains of industry the ast tweiyty-five years.
The course will not include regular Issignments, but every student must lead one book on business during the ;rm. such as “The Life of Andrew Carnegie”, ‘‘Men Who are Making anerica”, “The Great Game of Busi-iess”, and others. Addition, each tudent will given an assignment to 'nterview a successful Los Angeles 3usiness man on the methods which wrought him into prominence.
Patton Student
Reverts to Type
Numbers are a great factor in determining the course of one’s life. This sounds bad, but nevertheless it is true, as the profs generally say as they weep over a flunking examination paper. The numbers that have the most to do with guiding some infuriated soul through the paths of least resistance are 13 and the number of your age.
But since enough has been said about 13: it might do a little good to say how much damage the number of your age will do. Now, for instance, if your age ranges from 1 to 6, inclusively, it would be a bad sign if somebody proposed to you because that would mean about 10 more years of battling around the world than is otherwise accredited to a pair of matrimonial gloves.
If your age is anything more than 6, why the cnances of joining the army and fighting for your life are pretty good, but after you can’t hold your false teeth any longer the same chances become leste and less until the undertaker sprinkles a few drops of perfume under your eyelids and says, "Jawn, take it out in the back yard.”
Now besides the question of how you tell your friends your age, there is another kind of number which affects all those who burn the midnight gas. Referring, of course, to the tag on your gas stove which tells everybody whether you have enough money saved up to run the auto the coming year. Or, in other words, the 1922 license plate.
TAKES ’EM UNAWARES
This question is a ticklish one because it is liable to take people unawares. This year’s number plate consists of a plate with numbers on it which range from 1 to the amount of plates they are going to make. Some wild-eyed artist living in a pup tent at Greenwich Village suggested that numbers be blue on a white field, with any pencil suggestions in the margin which might be made by theo wner if he wants to communicate with anybody riding in the rear.
To come-back to the discussion, these plates have more to do in determining the ways of human existence than any other plate known, not including spaghetti and Eskimo pie. For instance, if your number happens to be 1 you are either pinched or the driver of the city police patrol. And on down through the short numbers; such as 13 means the city ambulance and 23 the wagon that makes the daily rounds to the poor house.
The idea works that the bigger the number the more speed you can obtain. For instance, if your number runs up like John D.’s pocket change, why the cops will have a hard time telling whether a 0 is a naught or not. The road louse always has to copy down the numbers every car he catches and if the number is long enough he will get writer’s cramp so bad doing the job that he won’t be able to ride his motor, then all you have to do is to sound the gong and shoot the exhaust in his face.
WILSON GIVES SCHEDULE FOR BASKETBALL
La
Verne Crushed by Trojan Quintet by 44-1 5 Score Tuesday
GAME WITH CALIFORNIA
Pomona Game Will Probably Christen New Basketball Pavilion
|W. S. C. INAUGURATES “INSPIRATION” MEDAL SIMILAR TO TESCHKE
ftBv Pacific Intercollegiate News Service"!
WASHINGTON STATE COLLEGE, [Jan. 18.—Milo “Pink” Mclvor, three-ivear man in football and basketball, Ivoted by the football squad as the man Ivho was the greatest inspiration to the Team during the season, will be the first man to have his name inscribed pn the Hoxey-Lambert Company nedal. One name will be inscribed >n the medal each year.
Whitman college
BUILDS PRESIDENT HOUSE FROM GIFT
|WHITMAN COLLEGE, Jan. 17.— lilt at a cost of more than $25,000, ^e gift of the Whitman alumni made recognition of over a quarter of (*ntury of service at Whitman Col-;e, the new president’s residence is be finished, and occupied by Dr. B. L. Penrose, and the family, some ie this month, it has been an-kunced. The new home is located on le southeast corner of the campus. |d is of Tudor-Gothic design.
[ITMAN y. w. c. a. TAKES UP DANCING AS LOCAL ACTIVITY
ITMAN COLLEGE, Jan. 17 — icing is one of the latest activities the local Y. W. C. A. Now comes announcement that this time hon-and venerable organization plans [ut on an informal, dateless, dance litman next month. Times do lge.
Games will be played with the University of California, Occidental College, Whittier, Arizona, California Tech, the Central Y. M. C. A., and the Los Angeles Athletic Club, according to the final baskbetball schedule given out by Graduate Manager Gwynn Wilson, who has been laboring on the Trojan program for many, many weary weeks. The dates are not tentative—they are final, and satisfactory to both parties, although games with U. C. S. B., Pomona, and the return game with California at U. S. C are yet to be arranged.
Wilson is trying to schedule the Pomona quintet for the christening of the new Trojan Basketball Temple on February 14. He is also holding open February 28 for the Southern Branch five, the game to be played at the new pavilion. Effort is being made to play the return game with the California Bear on March 3, as the climax and close of the casaba season.
Here follows the schedule:
Januarv 20—Central Y. M. C. A L. A. A. C.
January 24—Open
January 2S—Occidental at Oxy.
January 31—Open.
February 3—Los Angeles A. C.
L. A. A. C.
February 7—Whittier at Whittier.
February 9—Arizona at Tucson.
February 10—Arizona at Tucson.
February 14—Open (held for Po mona).
February 18
February 21 pie.
February Temple.
February Temple.
LA VERNE
TROJAN ALUMNI HOLD BANQUET FRIDAY NIGHT
Local Talent Will Supply Entertainment for Banquet to Be Held at Paulais
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MANY NOTED GUESTS
Dr. Malcolm to Preside, with All-University Turnout Expected for Occasion
LICKLEY MEMBER SOCIAL
SERVICE COMMISSION
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25—Arizona	at Trojan
DEFEATED
Prospects for the conquest of the casaba world by U. S. C.’s fighting Trojans took another optimistic turn with the subjugation of the La Verne College quintet last Tuesday night on the Los Angeles Athletic Club floor.
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Dr. E. J. Licklev, a regular member of the staff of the Department of Sociology for the past several years, has been appointed by Mayor Cryer as a member of the Social Service Commission. The members of the commission have elected Dr. Lickley president of that body. He thus fills the position which was held by Professor E. S. Bogardus for two years and Professor H. J. McClean for two years also.
Dr. Lickley has been a regular professor on the summer session faculty of the University of Southern California as well as extension lecturer in Sociology during the year. He has also recently been elected Assistant Superintendent of Schools of Los Angeles. where he has been the head of the Child Welfare Department, employing more than sixty social workers upon his staff. He holds the degree of Master of Arts of Juris Doctor from the University of Southern California.
CASH PRIZE FOR A SENIOR ALARM?
Due to the slowness of the seniors in having their pictures taken for the year book, the management of the El Rodeo is seriously thinking of offering a cash prize for whoever can devise a method of awakening the seniors, for only 140 out of 300 have either read or heard the announcements concerning senior pictures for the El Rodeo. The illiteracy test, reading, writing, and hearing, will be given to the applicants who have a solution for the problem of arousing the deaf and blind, few seniors being expected to qualify. *
FOREIGN STUDENTS TO BE WELCOMED BY ’COSMOPOLITAN CLUB
“Fifty-five members, and enough money in the treasury to make an investment in the El Rodeo.” reports the Cosmopolitan Club as a result of its first semester's activities. Plans are being made to hold a social and reception at the beginning of next semester in honor of incoming foreign students. All students on the campus who are interested in the practice and extension of the cosmopolitan idea are invited to attend.
BY BERT C. SMITH
Arrangements are complete for the banquet to be given tomorrow evening at 6:30 o’clock at Paulais, 739 South Broadway/ by the Greater Alumni Association in honor of our President, Dr. Rufus Bernard von KleinSmid, and our President Emeritus, Dr. George Finley Bovard. Reservations have been made for 350, but by the way the returns are already pouring in, the 500 mark will be reached.
An innovation is to be sprung at this banquet. Our own talent will supply* the entertainment, but the list of speakers is to be chopped down to the lowest possible notch and His Honor Mayor George E. Cryer, President von KleinSmid and Dr. Bovard will complete the program. The alumni of the University are attending the banquet in order to meet the new president. Therefore, everything is to be made secondary to this one big event and a treat is promised those who attend.
DR. MALCOLM PRESIDES Dr. Roy Malcolm, president of the Greater Alumni Association, is to be master of ceremonies. An alumnus of the College of Law of the class of 1912, William C. Snyder, will be toastmaster. He is a real humdinger, who knows how to keep things moving and make everybody liappy. Miss Gladys Hill is to give us about two vocal selections and we are forunate in securing this talented young vocalist. Then comes the one irresistible, effervescent and ever welcome Tony Brewster, popular nionologuist, who will give us his whole repertoire and that will be going some.
Miss Eileen O’Neil has arranged a most interesting program. With the aid of Miss Julia Norton McCorkle, the banquet is to be made a real affair. with no formalities, but with enough of the real stff to satisfy the most exacting graduate and former student, even though he date back to the class of 1884.
The response has been gratifying. The alumni are rallying to this banquet as they never have before. We will have members of the older and the younger classes. E. Neal Ames is chairman of ihe banquet committee and through Ins efforts we are able to announce a price of $1.50 per plate for a real feed. Look over the menu and you’ll agree that it equals the $3.00 and $5.00 meals that a few of us have sometimes enjoyed.
ALL-UNIVERSITY Let’s make this one of the big events of the year. We want the College of Law fellows, the College of (Continued on Page 3)
POSTERS ARE GIVEN IE
Professor Ralph L. Power has pre sented to the University of Southern California College of Commerce an ex hibit comprising nearly one hundred :mmense publicity posters from European countries which he collected two years ago.
The posters are mainly from France and Great Britain, although Spain, Italy. Switzerland, and Germany are also represented. The collection was secured from railroad and steamship lines, and shows the superiority of European commercial art as applied to posters over similar efforts in the United States. This exhibit was used for display purposes and advertising talks by Professor Power in Boston, Washington, Richmond, and other eastern cities before he came to Los Angeles.
GROOM CANDIDATES
TO FILL OFFICE
Grease Political Machines in Clandestine Caucuses; Several Officers Ejected at “Primaries”; Much Stump-Oratory Preparatory to the Balloting on Friday
The time is at hand to grease the old political machine. Secret meetings and clandestine caucuses are creeping stealthily over the campus—more stealthily than “Ye Wampus Kat.” For Tuesday, at the close of chapel, each class stole into some secluded spot to discuss the class officers for the ensuing semester. And after bloody threats and stump oratory, and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth— even pea-green baby teeth—each class announced to the breathless world the names of its candidates for its respective offices. When Friday comes, “and the rosy-fingered dawn appears,” the final brawl will be staged at the College ballot box, and the “good old ship of state” will lift her anchors for another semester.
The senior meeting was a place of thought and careful consideration. “Johnnie” Robinson, Carlysle Scott and Lindley Bothwell were nominated for the office of class president, while Muriel Arkley and Mane McCauley were offered for the vice-presidency. Helen Poston and Floyd Tarr were nominated for secretary and treasurer, respectively, and the secretary of the class was ordered to cast the ballot for their election to these offices. The senior class seems to be highly pleased with its candidates, and a close race is predicted at the polls.
CLOSE RACE PREDICTED
The juniors gathered in room 305 to discuss the question. Their meeting was a very deliberate affair, three offices being filled at the “primaries.” Guy S. Claire and Paul Y. Greene were chosen the presidential candidates, while-the secretary cast the balolts for Sarah Taft Somers as vice-president, Katherine Stuart as secretary, and Rodney Wright as the treasurer. The juniors acted almost as a unit throughout the entire session, and only a prophet can guess as to the outcome of Friday s vote for the presidency. Juniors will vote in the old Y. W. C. A., from 9 until 12 o’clock.
SLEEPY SESSIONS
The sophomores had evidently been out late the night before, for their meeting was a rather sleepy session. It took them a long while to get started, but when they once got the old machine greased up it stepped right along with solid support. O. Henry King was elected to the presidency at the primaries. Alice Sarah Nelson and Arabella Ross were noihi-nated for the office of vice-presi-dent, while the class duly elected Marian Joslyn as secretary,* and Kenneth Campbell as treasurer. The sophs wil cast their ballots for vice-president in one of the (Continued on Page 4)
“WHY WERE YOU BORN?” CRANE ASKS IN TALK
“Most Interesting Question” the World Answered by Speaker
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HAPPINESS COMMON GOAL
We Were Born to Have a Good Time in the Right Way,” Says Crane
ARIZONA TO BEGIN AWARD SYSTEM FOR JOURNALISM WORK
UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA, JaA. 18.—A bill has been laid before the House of Representatives of the University which, if passed, will grant bronze A’s to reporters on the staff. Since the editor and heads of the departments get gold and silver A’s, and i unit for each semester’s work, while ‘he staff reporters get only their practice with no other incentive, this question has been brought before the House of Representatives with the 3incere backing of the entire Wildcat staff.
TENNIS MEETING
Important Men’s Tennis Club meeting in Journalism building today immediately after chapel. PAUL V. GREENE,
President.
SENIORS HEAR NOT NOR SEE, REPORT
The time limit for the seniors to have their individual pictures taken for the El Rodeo was up yesterday, and the management reports that no special concessions will be made for seniors not having their pictures taken this week, for if they do not, they must run their chances of getting their pictures in the year book at all. Seniors may sandwich their pictures in between those of the juniors today and tomorrow. The photographer will not be here next week on account of examinations. Only 140 seniors out of 300 have either been able to read or hear for the past three weeks since that number have had their pictures taken.
By FLORENCE GILBERT
“Why Was I Born?” was the topic of Dr. Henry Crane’s chapel address given at noon yesterday. In spite of the fact that finals will come next week, and some classes are scheduled for 12 o’clock, a large number of students were present at the Wednesday address.
“Why was I born? Why were you born? I don’t know,” said Dr. Crane. “You can’t prove any of the vital things in life. You don’t know there is any God. You don’t know that it pays to be honest. You don't know that your mother loves you. You can’t prove it. You don’t know any of the great essentials of life.
“All of the things you believe do not alter facts. If you don’t believe in God that doesn’t alter the fact that there is one. It doesn’t alter the fact; it alters you.
“Let me illustrate the point. I am in love with my wife. I believe that she is true to me, but I can’t prove it. Of course I’ve never caught her in a falsehood, but I can’t prove her true.
I am a happy man, but let disbelief of my wife’s loyalty creep in and it would make a very demon of me. That’s what belief can do for you. NOTHING IS CERTAIN “The theory that you form about your destiny is going to determine your happiness. It has to be a theory; you can’t prove anything about it.
“I ask myself, ‘What are you here for, Crane?’ God has given me two guides which I think will point in the right direction. These two guides are instinct and reason. I turn to instinct and say, ‘What am I here for?’ Instinct says, ‘Crane, you were born to be happy,—just to have a good time.’ Every time there’s any suggestion that I can have a good time doing something, I feel myself just pulled toward it.”
Dr. Crane said that as in Maeterlinck’s “Bluebird,” everyone is seeking the bluebird of happiness. “They are all after the bluebird,” according to Dr. Crane. “The shop girl and the movie queen in her canary colored limousine are sisters—they're both after the bluebird.
“I believe in my instincts,” said Dr. Crane. “I believe that God gave me my instincts to help me. My instincts tell me to have a good time. They don’t tell me anything about unpleasant results of some kind of good times. So I’ll turn to my reason and ask it.
“ ‘Reason, what shall I do to have a permanent good time? What do your instincts tell you?’ They tell me that the way comes through gratifying all of my physical desires. ‘Look around you and see if you can find those who have found the secret of happiness that lasts. Look around
NEVADA PROFESSOR AND VICE-PRESIDENT DIES OF PNEUMONIA
(By Pacific Intercollegiate News Service) RENO, Nev., Jan. 18.—Professor Robert Lewers, vice-president of the university since 1906 and on the teaching staff for the last 31 years, died of pneumonia Thursday. In respect to his memory, all Friday and Saturday classes are cancelled and the two basketball games which were to have been played with Davis Farm Friday and Saturday night have been called off.
LITERARY SOCIETY
ELECTS OFFICERS
Aristotelian Literray Society elected and installed new officers at its last regular meeting, which was Tuesday evening. Robert Carlquist was elected president, with the following members for his cabinet: Harold Morrison, vice-president; Clyde Beecher, censor; Willie Delphey, secretary; Arthur Wahlquist, treasurer; James McGregor, chaplain; and Kenneth Monroe, the retiring president, as sergeant-at-arms. In the absence of Mr. Monroe. Mr. Paul Lomax presided.
Mr. Monroe’s absence from the meeting was due to serious illness, as he is at the present time in the county hospital convalescing from an operation due to injuries sustained in an accident previous to the Christmas vacation.
FOUNTAIN PEN •
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LOST: Body of a gold Conklin pen. Finder return to Huse’s office. Reward.