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Volume XVI
Los Angeles, California, Friday, January 23, 1925
Number 44
"I TAPPfl KEGS” PLAY ENGINEERS TO HEAR R.A. GANTT “ETA BIU PI" GIRLS PROFESSOR BIEGLER TOMORROW
Chief Engineer for Southern California Telephone Company and Professor of Chemistry and Physics to Discuss Professional Problems
Sorority Basketball To Feature A. W. S. Special Chapel Program
MRS. RODMAN SPEAKS
International Traveler and Diplomat To Bring Message For College Women
The long and short of U. S. C. will be a feature of the Women’s Assembly to be held at the regular chapel hour Friday. These two factions will battle for supremacy when the “I Tappa Keg" sorority basketball team, composed o£ Edith Coats, Ida Hope Goddard, Reva Hawkins and Ada Wilcox, who represent the elite “Eta Bita Pi s. According to Lissa Baker, president of A. W. S. and in charge of the program, the costumes alone will be worth more than the price of admission”
To aid these noble athletes there are to be two well-trained rooting sections organized under the now famous Hank McCann method and presided over by two quick change artists.
Mrs. Willoughby Hodman, the speaker of the hour, has been secured thru the kindness of Mrs. von KleinSmid. Mrs. Rodman is well acquainted with world diplomats and poliUcians and has traveled all over the world, being presented at many courts and conferences. She is one of the most influential women in Los Angeles politics, and as such will be able to tell many things of interest to girls and women just preparing to take their place in world affairs.
Music will be furnished by the McDonald Girls4 Orchestra, lead by Hughie McDonald.
KAPPA DELTS TO MEET TRI DELTS
The last game in the semi-finals of the Pan-Hellenic basketball series was played last Wednesday by PI Beta Phi and Kappa Delta, the latter winning by a sore of 14 to 6.
The lineups were:
Pi Beta Phi: Headen, Campbell, Parke, I-oftus, Ross, Dennis, Chapman, Martin, Robertson and Wilson.
Kappa Delta: Joslin, Vawter, Maas, Carlysle. Chapman, Armstrong, Morgan, Williams, and Rohr.
Delta Delta Delta will meet Kappa Delta in the finals which are to be played the latter part of this week and the first of next week. The winner of the two final games will be presented the silver trophy which has been donated by the Spalding Company.
JUDGE CLARK SPEAKS
Judge Robert M. Clarke, president of the Los Angeles Bar Association will speak at the U. S. C. Law School Alumni luncheon, 12:15, Thursday, January 29th at the Clark Hotel. Justice Houser is in charge of the lunch*
DYKSTRASPEAKS AT CLUB AFFAIR
History and Political Science Club Listens to City Club Secretary
At a meeting of the History and Political Science Club held Tuesday evening. January 20, at the Zeta Tau Alpha house, Professor Clarence A. Dykstra, secretary of the l/>s Angeles City Club, explained the Owens River Valley situation, presenting, for the most part, the attitude of tho city of Los Angeles toward the projecL
Prof. Dykstra said that the trouble had been brewing for a long time, having or'ginated twenty years ago when the city of Los Angeles bought out the Federal Government, which was starting a reclamation project in the valley.
Prof. Dykstra was at one time head of the political science department of the University of Kansas. At present, in his capacity as secretary of the City Club, he is investigating civic problems in Southern California.
Following Prof. Dvkstra’s talk, Mr. Wong, a Chinese student at U. S. C. performed several sleight-of-hand tricks.
The election of officers of the club which was to have taken plaie at tli.s meeting, has been postponed until the next meeting which is to occur in the early part of next semester.
NEW SEMESTER OFFERS COURSES
ONE HUNDRED CO EDS
10 rant MEET
Attic Room in Women's Hall To Be Inaugurated As Club Room
FOR CAMPUS WOMEN
Every engineer in Southern California is expected to be on hand at 10 o’clock this morning in room 205, Hoose Hall, for the great mass meeting that has been planned, according to Burdette Ives, who is in charge of the program.
Robert A Gantt, chief engineer of the Southern California Telephone Company, has been secured as the principal speaker, and his talk has been planned so that it will be of extreme interest to every engineer or. the campus.
Mr. Gantt will outlin the possibilities afforded graduated college students in establishments such as the Southern California Telephone company, and will also explain the work done by col-c lege students during the summer months. It is expected that several good jobs can be lined up by Engineers attending today’s meeting.
The speaker has recently been put in complete charge of the twenty-million dollar budget for improvements of his company, and this fact alone speaks well for Mr. Gantt’s standing in his profession. He is recognized in local engineering circles as an authority on all things electrical, as well as problems in construction.
Professor Biegler, of the chemistry and physics department of Southern California, will also address the students, telling them of the recent advancement made by research workers in this line.
“We want every Engineer to be present at this meeting,” said Burdette yesterday afternoon, “and we owe it to the speakers to have a 100 per cent attendance. There will be no interference from outside meetings at the hour named, aud there is no reason why all cannot attend. Both Mr. Gantt and Professor Biegler will have a groat deal of importance and interest to say, and it is to the interest of the students that all attend. Furthermore, the roll will be taken, and all not present will be given the usual ‘cut’.”
Helen Green Expresses High Hopes For Conference’s Success
Eligibility Rule Necessitates Senior Re-election
On account of a question being raised as to the eligibility of certain candidates running for office
in the Class of 1925, senior pom were closed at noon yesterday, and the votes already cast were thrown out.
Candidates for office in the senior class included for president, Ernest Judson, Bud Welin, and John Woods; vice president, Dorothy Haldeman, and Vivienne Meade; secretary, Dorothy Crowley; treasurer, O. K. Krause.
A special meeting has been called by George Oume, president of the class, at noon today- in Bovard Auditorium. The meeting will be open for nominations, and if any mistakes have been made, they will be rectified. A chairman will also be elected to represent the Senior Class at the Mid-Year graduating exercises held next month.
Seniors will hold their election next week.
TROJANS TO GREET PRESIDENT ON ARRIVAL FROM LONG TRIP
Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid to Reach Wilmington Tomorrow Morning After Attending Pan-American Scientific Congress in Lima, Peru
Dr. R. B. von KleinSmid, president of the University of Southern California. will return from South America tomorrow morning, docking at Pier 154, Wilmington, on the Kroonland between eight and nine o'clock.
Definite word of his arrival -was not received until yesterday, and last minute plans are being made for a welcome.
Dr. von KleinSmid has been in South American since November 1, being sent there as one of five men representing the United States in the Pan-American Scientific Congress held in Lima. Peru. He was appointed by Presi---——-cdent Calvin Coolidge.
RADIO LISTENERS! The degree of Philosopher of Hu-
ENJOY TROJAN TALENT
Twenty-Five Members of Mens Glee Club Entertain Over KHJ
GIVE POPULAR SONGS
Mrs. von KleinSmid will be there., as will over one hundred campus coeds, participating in the week-end Y. W. conference at the Women's Hall planned as a respite after final examinations to be held on February 6. and 7.
To introduce the attic room to the campus, the attic room in the Women’s Hall which has lain idle in dust and cobwebs for so many years hut which is now undergoing a complete transformation at the hands of the Y. W. C. A. and A. W. S. committees, the conference has been elaborately planned as a fitting debut for the club room.
In answer to the questions as to what its all about, questions which the absolute newness of the whole idea •was bound to raise, Clara Miller and Helen Green, secretary and president A new course is being offered next of the women’s organization give the semester on Social Statistics and Rec- following explanation, ords and known as Sociology 116, by “It’s for campus women, and cam-Dr. Erie F. Young. This course aims pus women alone, and will begin Fri-to train students in methods of analy- day afternoon, lasting through Satur-zing and presenting social facts in an day night. Everybody is coming and intelligent and interesting way. How so it will be necessary to register right to make charts, graphs, and maps il-! away at the "Y” building, says Clara lustrating social data will be treated. Miller.
The course will be given at 1:15 on "But about the attic,, that’s what M. W. F.	nobody but us can seem to under-
Another new course to be offered stand,” interjects Helen Green with an by Dr. Young next semester is entitl- enthusiasm almost overshadowing her ed “The Community,’' and is designed , presidential dignity. “It’s going to be to present methods for understanding pimply darling. With painted wicker one’s own community and for analvz- furniture, a victrola and curtains to ing the social forces of the conunun- match, and rugs and cushions on the ity so that they may both be conserv- floor it will be just the place that U. ed and set to work to new purposes, j g q co-eds have been wanting for a
lon<^ time^&s a club room.”
During the conference the at.lic will supply over-night accommodations for Friday and Saturday, tbe overflow to be taken care cf at campus houses.
The course is known as Sociology 14, and will be open to sophomores who have had an introductory course in sociology.
NOTED SAVANTS INSTRUCT SESSION
U. of Colo.:—Prominent professors from famous institutions throughout the country will instruct the summer school students during the coming summer school session of the University which will begin June 22 and
end September 2.
Among the teachers will be Harvey Gates Townsend, Ph. D., professor of education from Smith College; William R. Longley, Ph. D., professor of mathematics from Yale; and Abraham Cohen, Ph. D., professor of mathematics from John Hopkins.
Wampus Staff To Handle
Sales For Coming Issue
By MAUD
Found—at last! The antidote for the toxin of exams!
This latest sensational discovery in the realms of science has threatened to revolutionize the study of science, or at any rate the study of science at this university, as well as most other studies. Its name is Wampus, and it comes put up in an artistic red,and white package, or mailed in a plain cover, for twenty-five cents to cover the cost of printing, mailing, and the staff’s car-tickets to Canada.
It is composed of one part dynamite, two parts TNT, and a dash of nitroglycerine, the whole flavored with a sprinkling of gunpowder. Two doses are positively guaranteed to cure even the worst case of examinations, and three doses would bring to life the stone gentlemen on the tower of the Administration building, although what they would do upon revival Is uncertain, owing to the lack of elevators in the tower.
The Wampus is bigger and better than ever, as usual. Twelve new contributors make their bow to the
MILLER
public in the guise of assistants to old Doc Wamp himself. There are forty cartoons .which is ten more than last time, and six more pages of warm material.
For the first time the Wampus will be sold byr its own staff, under the direction of Sam Gates. Each college w'ill have a booth, open all day. from which the poison-chaser will be dispensed on Tuesday, January 27. Freshmen are required to have a permit from the Dean of Women or else a signed statement that they are at least eighteen years of age before they will be allowed to invest, as the strength of the medecine has been gauged by the capacity of the upperclassmen. And that is wThy it would be unsafe to keep one’s copy in a granite flask.
When the Wampus was printed, the printers gathered around the press and refused to work until they hai read the dummy from cover to cover. (No women admitted.)
But remember, the editor refuses to answer for the consequences if you take more than four doses.
LARGE’ASSEMBLV SEES JUNIOR PLAV SUCCESS
“Seven Keys” Produced Under Wing of Class of 1926
McDonald Gives '"Sign of Rose,” Hall Gives Clog
tht
Before what is believed was the largest audience ever witnessing a Junior Play, George M. Cohan's melodram-ic farce “Seven Keys to Baldpate,” was successfully presented in Bovard Auditorium last night. It was produced under the auspices of the Class of 192t>.
All the melodrama, love, murder and crooked politicians seemed to catch th* favor of the audience who had come with anticipation of a thriM. All the old fashioned hokum appealed to the expectant crowds. The seven shots were more prominent than the seven keys.
The capable cast and the excellence of the stage setting which was designed by Ray MacDonald, made for much of the success of the production.
Much credit is due to the directors, Mrs. Georgia Fink, Miss Florence Hubbard and to their assistant Miss Harriet Pearson. A detailed review will appear in Tuesday’s Trojan.
BURKE LONG NOW KNIGHT PRESIDENT
Tuesday evening, Jan. 20, the Tio-jan Knights held their meeting at the Phi Alpha House. Officers were elected for the next semester. The results of the election are as follows: Burke Long was elected president; Red Haynes vice president; and Ray Elmquist was elected secretary. The newly elected officers were initiated and work is going on at present to revise the constitution. The new officers will officiate during the coming semester.
U. S. C. STUDENTS ATTEND LECTURES
Dr. C. M. Case has just completed a series of lectures in Pasadena before the Pasadena Institute on Missions and Race Relations, which was an important Conference conducted by 24 of the leading churches at the First Presbyterian Church in the Crown City and which was attended by several students from the University of Southern California. Dr. Case’s lectures were on the relation of anthropology and ethnology to modern religious and missionary activities. The large audiences showed great enthusiasm for the new and wider view of racial and national relations which is now growing in the world.
A second series of lectures is now being undertaken by Dr. Case in Pasadena on the same subject on Sunday evenings at 6:15 and running for a period of six weeks. About 200 are enrolled in this series which is held in the First Methodist Church.
j With the twenty-five members of the
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j University of Southern California Glee j Club as entertainers radio fans receiv-j ed a real treat Wednesday evening be-i tween eight and nine o’clock when they listened in on the usual weekly program presented by the university over KHJ, the Times broadcasting station. The songsters were heartily enjoyed according to those who isteni-ed in and Unde John, announcer, who referred to them as a “rollicking jovial bunch.”
The program was turned over to Horace Judson, manager of the club, who did the. announcing. The opening numbers were the “Trojan Marching Song” and “Three Cheers for S. C.” These numbers were followed with “Heidleberg” from the light opera “Prince of Pilsen, the “Bold Fisherman,” and "Bugle Song.”
At the close of these numbers Uncle John asked each member to give his name over the radio. Carl Spring then sang a tenor solo “Roundup Lullaby,” -composed by Miss Gertrude1 Clark of Los Angeles. He was accompanied on the piano by Merrill Da-Fontaine. “More and More” and “Lucky- Jim” wTere the next numbers sung by members of the club.
An interesting feature of the eve-ing was the two clog dances by Harry Hall. He was accompanied on the piano by La Fontaine who played “Tbe Dance of the Ice Skaters” and the “Parade of the Wooden Soldiers.” “Kayanaugh” was the next number sung and was followed with a reading by Ray McDonald, president of the club, entitled “The Sign of the Rose.” "*The program was concluded with the men singing “All Hail” and a college yell Double T.
inanities was conferred on Dr. von-KleinSmid by the National University of Chile during his stay there, and at the close of the conference was honored with the presidency of that body.
Besides attending the congress at Lima, Dr. von KleinSmid spoke at practically every important university on the South American continent. He has traveled extensively since the close of the congress that he took part in.
Since Dr. von KleinSmid left, Dean Waugh has been handling the academic matters of the University, while Harold Stonier and Warren Bovard have been taking care of the executive affairs.
The president will be asked to speak to the Student Body at Chapel on Tuesday, according to early reports from one of the welcoming committee. It is felt that due to his late experience and travel, his talks will be of even more vital interest to the students than ever before. He will probably talk on South American Universities, and of the activities in educational work in the Southern countries.
According to Mrs. R. B. von Klein-Smid, wife of the president, the presidents’ welcome would be carried out more successfully if every stmdent who can possibly do so would go to Wilmington tomorrow to meet Dr. von-KleinSmid. Members of the S. C. faculty are urged to make the trip.
Dr. von KleinSmid will take up his active duties at once after his arrival here.
DR. J. KOLB TO ADDRESS MEETING
Dr. J. H. Kolb, nationally known authority in the field of social research wiil address the Society for Social Research of the University next Thursday. the 29th, at one o’clock in Room H 204, the sociology seminar room. Dr. Kolb hag been engaged for the past few years in making studies of social and religious conditions in 147 cities and towns in the United States and is the author of several books and pamphlets, and will speak on “Social and Religious Con*1ions in Cities.”
CLASSES ELECT NEW SEMESTER OFFICERS
Ronald Snavely Chosen To Lead Junior Class Next Semester
STEWART HEADS SOPHS
Raymond Hatfield Elected For Frosh Presidency In Close Race
W ith a record vote reported in the class elections yesterday, a new set of officers w’ere chosen to serve for th** spring semester at Southern California.
Because the questioning of the eligibility of two candidates for office in the senior class, the senior polling wa* stopped at noon by George Orme, president of the class. A special senior olase meeting will be held at noon today, with elections scheduled for next Tuesday.
Ronald Snavely was elected for president of the junior class over Ray Elmquist and Ormonde Greer, the other presidential candidate. Marjorie Rice was unanimously elected vice-president, and Jannie Lee Moore’s race for the secretaryship was not contested. Le Roy Haynes was re-elected treasurer. His opponent was Leighton Dye.
Bill Stewart was chosen to lead the sophomores next semester after a close race with Alvin Drum. Grant LaMont and Van Johnston were the other two candidates. Beth Baker won the vice-presidency by a ten point margin over Eloise Parke. Cecilia Oberlin was also a vice-presidential candidate. Gladys Lee was unanimously elected for secretary, and David Davy was elected treasurer over Lloyd Pantages.
Polling was spirited among the year-ings with Raymond Hatfield and Whity Edwards running a neck and neck race for the presiden«y. Hatfield won with a plurality of sixteen votes. Dorothy Moore was elected vice-president over Eileen Brown and Lois Hughes. Blanche Ansley was elected secretary over Georgia Pace. Paul Cunningham will handle the frosh funds next semester. Lyman Taggert and Andy Metcalf tied for second place in the race.
The following studenle were elected to the executive committee of the freshmen class: Martha Wiggett (102), Carl Plate (104), Alda Mills (100), Burdette Henney (93), Paul Elmquist (88), George Lewis (88), and Wm. Henley (69).
Sophomores at the Oregon Agricultural College featured prison atmosphere at their last dance. The orchestra was garbed in tbe famous black and white symphonic suits; the dance programs were in the form of balls and chains, and the general tone of the decorations suggested the musty confines of a dismal prison cell.
UNIV. TO PLAN ALUMNI MAGAZINE
CRITERION WILL HAVE S. C. NIGHT
U. S. C. night will be held by the Criterion Theatre every Friday night of the first week of a new feature, it was announced by the theatre yesterday. The first U. S. C. night will be held tonight. “He Who Gets Slapped’ is the current attraction.
Williamette U.—The Williamette Executive Committee at its last meeting appointed a committee of students to supervise the project of editing an Alumni magazine.
The plan of the committee is to publish a pamphlet or magazine that will interest High School students in Willamette University, and also give news of particular interest to alumni,
Smith, Brown, and Johnson Lead In Student Directory
SENIORS MUST REPORT
Tuesday, February 10, has been fixed as the date for Mid-Year Graduation. All students who hope to receive certificates or diplomas, at that t'me, should report that fact to the Registrar very promptly if they have not already done so.
Theron Clark, Registrar.
Smith still leads in the popularity contest of the names in the Student Directory, for there are 32 Smiths enrolled in the College of Liberal Arts. Next in rank comes Brown with 23, closely followed by the 19 Johnsons. There are 15 Miliers, 14 Moores, 13 Greens, Williams and Wilsons, and 11 Andersons and Jones. Other names amply represented are:: Allen ,Adams Baker, r irk, Hall, Thomas and Black.
What’s in a name? It's hard to say —but judging from these represented they’re titles and names for everyone and everything under the sun.
U. S. C. isn’t entirely democratic for there are 6 Kings, a Prince, Noble, Knight and Earl who have only some Nickels and a Halfpenny to offer for a Diamond, Gold and some Plate. It’s also h'nted that there’s a Casebeer as ■well as a Beerman.
We have Schooling for a Wiseman if he uses a Crutch and a Cane and wears a Ixjng Beard and a Dye (d) Coate, but he must have Hope and
PRESS CLUB PLANS ACTIVE SEMESTER
Many Well-Known Speakers To Address Club At Dinner Meetings
Press Club will meet for the election of new officers, next Tuesday, January 27, in the Trojan office at noon. New members will also be elected at
this time.
Plans for the coming semester will be discussed. And according to Ralph Holly, president of the organization, five prominent journalists of Los Angeles and vicinity have Indicated their willingness to address the Press Club, Times, Denton Crow of the Express, among these are Alma Wlhifaker of the and Elwood Lloyd of the Herald. The first supper of the new semester, although no definite date has been set, will be toward the close of the second week after the resuming of studies.
The Press Club is an organization for both men and women journalists. Holley, Land, Hill, Plums, Beans and The requirement for membership is a Rose. Religion is represented by one semester’s successful work on the Christ, a Bishop, a Parson, Benedict, Trojan staff. The recent. Newspaper David and Solomon.	: Day was an example of the successful
There are a variety of occupations 1 enterprises which the club has put including, Carpenters, a Chamberlain, over. In conjugation with Alpha Chi Crooks, Baird, Fishers, Cooks, Millers, Alpha, Sigma. Pi Delta Epsilon .and and a Miner, Bakers, Weavers, Say- the classes in journalisms Press Club lors, Haylors and a Shepherd. There entertained one hundred and fiftv del-are enough animals to start a menag- egates from near-by high schools with erie for there is a Bear, a Bull, a a program .luncheon, and tea dance Coon, Fox. Fish and its Fin, a Seal and on January 15.
several Wolfs.	Press Club wishes to take this time
There Is no scarcity of automobiles to express its appreciation of the co-for amoner the varied makes there are operation of the Alpha Gamma Delta the Nash, Packard, Starr, Haynes, sorority, which loaned its lodge for the Hudson ,Ford, Cole and Dodge.	dance in the afternoon.
Pride.
U. S. C. is prepared for battle for there is a Field, Camps, a Spear, a Major, Cannon and Balls, Drill, a Drumm, Ryders, Power Graves and a Coffin.
Relating to nature we find: Mainland, Spring, Winter, a Stone Twig, Woods, Moors, Oaks, a Brook and its Banks, a Crop of Cane, a Field of