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TROJAN STAFF MEETING
A meeting of the entire staff of the Daily Trojan will be held in the Trojan office at 10 o clock today. It is imperative that all editors, reporters, etc., attend.
The meeting will be a short one for the purpose of electing next year’s editors.
J OMORROW afternoon Coach *• Dean Cromwell will pit his three aces, Captain Bud Houser, Kenneth Grumbles and Leighton Dye against the country s foremost track and field stars in the annual Drake Relay carnival being held at Des Moines, Iowa. It was only through a special invitation from the Governor of the State of Iowa and the Mayor of the Coty of Des Moines that the Trojan athletes decided to compete.
VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 23, 1926
Number 130
COMMITTEE!5**1 s*1*1 T)
WILL MEET1 Initiate Pledges
FOR ISSUE
Formally Today
Should the three Trojans take first places they will not have garnered enough points to take the meet, but will be among the top notch schools. The three men are not going to Iowa to score a team victory but are going to show the eastern and midde western track and field followers that the west has something to offer. The three Trojans are the present inter-collegiate champions in their respective events.
Captain Bud Houser will be pushed to the limit by Kuck of Kansas in the shotput . Competition will not be so keen in the discus, but eastern fans are sure that they can stop Coptain Bud in the shot. Dye and Grumles will ha vp a tougher time of it in the high and low hurdles. A slight misstep and the race is gone, for the hurdles are the most uncertain of all the events.
There is one thing that the student body can do for thc three Trojan entrants, and that is to give them their sincere and earnest support while they are representing the Cardinal and Gold. The only way this can be done now is by wiring the coach and his three men and telling them that you arc waiting for them to come through one hundred per cent strong. Captain Bud Houser at a recent rally told you what those little messages meant to the men two thousand miles azvay from home.
Ex-Committee To Pass On! Grade Requirements; Is-; sue is Vital One.
So that a definite vote may be taken on the amendment proposed in the last executive committee meeting, that all student body candidates must have I recommended grades throughout their J college course rather than just the of the year of their can-,s stipulated in Section >f the student body con-executive committee is | to meet today at 12:30 P. M.
This particular part of the constitution states: “—Each of the above officers (excepting the General Manager of Student Activities) shall have se-
Banquet and Dinner To Be Given Tomorrow Night at Westport Beach Club.
first semest< didacy, as 1 I, Article 111 stitution, th
Plans for the Sigma Sigma, Junior i honorary fraternity, initiation serv- j ices were announced today by Sam j Gates, vice-president of the organiza- I tion. The feature of the ceremonies j will be the annual formal dinner dance j to be given in honor of the new ini- j tiates at the Westport Beach Club to- j morrow night.
The formal initiation services will j
be held today at three o’clock, when I
the pledges assemble in the debate j
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office. Formal dress is not required for the occasion, according to Gates, but all must be th'ire. Impressive
cured recommended grades in <5 per j ceremonies constitute a large part of cent of the subjects pursued during
the semester preceding candidacy; and in order to completely establish elegibiiity, one week prior to the day set for nominating, shall submit to the Executive Committee for its approval a petition signed by 50 bona fide members of the association.”
To make the petitions effective they must be turned in at Miss Flock’s office not later than 12:00 today, contrary to the previous announcement that they are to be due Wednesday, May 28.
The candidates for the following offices who must hand in the petitions this noon are: President, Vice-president, Secretary, Editor-in-chief of The Trojan; Editor of the Wampus; Editor and Manager of the El Rodeo; Manager of Debating; Manager of Play Productions, and Yell King.'
the initiation and the whole affair will be under the direction of the president of the fraternity, Ravelle Harrison.
Arrangements have been completed for the banquet and dinner dance tomorrow night, which promises to be one of the social events of the season. The patrons and patronesses will be Professor Fagan and wife, Bruce Baxter and wife and Bernard Brennan and wife. Fagan and Baxter are also numbered among the new initiates.
Election Petitions Called in By Committee Today
That pettiions for the nominations of candidates to Student Body offices must be turned in to Miss Flock’s office by 12 o’clock today was the announcement made by Piesident Donald Cameron yesterday.
At a meeting held at 12:30 today the Ex-Committee will make its final check upon the elegibiiity of the nominees.
When the elections are held on May Gth the polls will be open from S to 8:30 and each voter must present a student body card at the time of casting the ballot. Each school will vote on its own campus.
Any candidates desiring a representative to be present as the ballots are counted should see Alden Ross sometime before the elections.
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THE track men arc not only ones that need that good old word of encouragement, but there are sixteen ball players in Arizona who are not world champions and need the support perhaps to a far greater extent than the track men. Coach Sam Craw-ford and his under-dogs meet the Arizona Wildcats in a three-game series at Tucson. The team has two more games to play, having played yesterday.
FOR THIRTY SEND COACH AND HIS MEN LARS’ WORTH
CENTS YOU CAN SAM CRAWFORD A MILLION DOL-OF ENCOURAGE-
MENT, SO KINDLY DO SO.
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- PETITION is circulating the cam. pus today that primarily concerns students interested in journalism. It deals with the amendment to the constitution passed by the executive committee last Tuesday night, making the Trojan editorship limited to Seniors only, and making the requirements prior to election four semesters on the Trojan. The staff of the Daily Trojan is behind the move-
SENIOR SNAP IS REPORTED SNAPPY
Onions and Dancing Lend Air To Third Event of Upperclassmen at Zip House.
The third of the series of Senior Snaps was entirely successful, according to Bart Hutchins, president of the class. It was held at the Xi Psi Phi house, Wednesday evening, between the hours of 7:30 and 9:30.
Evelyn Ross, vice-president, was responsible for the affair. She was assisted by Dorothy Davis, who obtained the music. Sam Gates of the house committee, Bpb Green .treasurer, and Barton Hutchins, who was in charge of the entertainment. The music was furnished by Kenney Newerf’s orchestra. The chaperones were Professor aud Mrs. Frank Nagley.
The decorations and the entertainment were carried out in the Italian motif, with Bermuda onions and punch the main novelUes of the evening. A prize was given to the people who danced the most “Dagoist.” During the dancing the information concerning the annual Senior Ditch Day was circulated in the crowd. The next Senior Snap will be held two weeks from last Wednesday at the Tri Delt ! house.
ment to recall that amendment and ,
allow the constitution to stand as be- tiusky Rifle Team
Makes High Score
fore. If sufficient names are placed on the petition, the question will come up before the student body for election at the next regular election.
Students acquainted with journalism are decidedly against ths proposition adopted by the executive committee, primarily because it is unjust to the best man, lim-its the office to a certain group, does not insure the best qualified candidate for the office and in glancing over the qualifications of the past six Trojan editors it was found that five of them would have been Ineligible to hold office aocording to the new ruling, namely. Charles Paddock, Carl Farman, Teet Carle, Marquis Busby and Lee Conti.
Pon t forget to vote down the I'nendmctit at the next student body 'lection.
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON, Seattle, April 22, (P. 1. P.).—Amassing a team total of 2,976 points out of a possible 3,000 in the annual match of the National Rifle Association, Washington's varsity riflemen have established themselves as dangerous contenders for the national title. This is the highest recotded score ever fired by a University of Washington team, and is seven points higher than that which won them national laure.s last year. The 1926 champions will probably be announced next week.
PICK CHIEFS OF KNIGHTS
Thirty-two Students Will be Elected to Membership in Honorary Fraternity.
Choosing as their officers for 1926-1927 Vernon Dales, Russell Neely, Marshall Hodgson and Garth Lacey, the Trojan Knights met Wednesday evening at the Phi Delta Chi house.
The Knights also decided that thirty-two persons would be nominated for membership during 1926 -1927. These people will be nominated by a committee appointed for that purpose and the final sixteen new men will be elected at the meeting to be held next week. Burke Long, the present president, today said that over two hundred and fifty applications had been turned in before Thursday.
Vernon Dales, the new president, who will take office after the first of June, is a member of Theta Sigma Nu fraternity. He is a Senior in Liberal Arts and has been a member of the Knights for one year.
Russell Neely, the new vice-presi-dent, is a Senior at Pharmacy and has been a member of the Knights for one year. He is a member of Phi Delta Chi fraternity.
Marshall Hodgson, elected to the position of secretary, is a Senior at Liberal Arts and is a member of Phi Alpha fraternity. Garth Lacy, chosen as treasurer, is now at Liberal Arts, but next year he will be a Freshman at the School of Law. He is a member of Delta Mu Phi fraternity.
The present officers of the Trojan Knghts, which is an honorary organization whose purpose is to uphold the traditions of the university, are Burke Long, president; Ray Elmquist, secretary, and Le Roy Haynes, treasurer.
BIG LEAGUE ROAD SHOW DEVELOPING
First Act Primed to “Knock 'Em” with Smith and Cowley Giving Feature Laughs.
Leading off with a combination act, starring Ray Cowley and Everett Smith, premier entertainers, the Senior Road Show promises to exceed all former efforts this year, when the doors of Bovard Auditorium are thrown open on the night of April 30 to students of the University and their friends.
It is a well known fact to theatrical folk, that the first act on any bill is the least attractive on account of the fact that the audience is usually indifferent. Most of the larger playhouses open their shows with seal, acrobats, magicians or pony actors in order to pep up the people for the succeeding skits.
Ray Cowley and Everett Smith have incorporated all these things in their opening presentation, which is said to be exceedingly amusing. According to Eddie Blaine the property of the act will consist of three bicycles, one pair of roller skates, twelve sandwiches, a half dozen bananas and two first class comedians Cowley has played with some of the leading circuits in the west, including two years on the Orpheum and three years with a Chicago Stock Company. He will be remembered by the students for his part as Janitor at the Radio Exhibition given a few weeks ago in Friday Chapel.
The culmination of the evening’s program will be the Carnival in which the entire cast will participate. It will follow the general plan of the Orpheum bills, which have proved such a great success.
Tickets went on sale yesterday and the sale was no less than phenomenal with the Seniors heading the list wheu the majority of them call for their previous reservations amounting to seven hundred ducats. All the students desirous of attending are advised to purchase their tickets immediately.
San Pedro News Is To Be Edited By Trojan Staff
College Joumaists in Field Trip
With Lee Conti as Leader; Freeman Hall City Editor.
Memners the Trojan staCT will make the third and last trip this semester for the purpose of editing outside newspapers when 16 students will journey to San Pedro tomorrow to take complete charge of the San Pedro News, a sixteen page, eight column paper.
This will be the largest paper ever edited by a group of Southern California students, and Lee Conti and his cohorts are expecting an exceedingly busy day in the harbor city. Lowell Jessen, editor of the News and former Trojan editor, who extended the invitation to take charge of the paper, has stated that every detail df editing the News will be turned over to the Trojans, while the regular staff will have a vacation.
Lee Conti, editor-in-chief of the Trojan, will act in the same capacity od the San Pedro News. Freeman Hall, managing editor of the Trojan, will be the city editor for the day. Dave Fred and Mike Elwood will handle the sports and John Scott, Trojan editorial writer, will have the same position on the News. Ralph Holly will be a copy desk editor and Maud Miller and Beth Baker will write headlines. The other staff members who are making the trip will act as reporters. They are: Sam Friedman, Rita Pad way, Florence Middleton, Fred Kendall, M. A. Abaya, Bill Jeffery, Vivian Murphy and Grant Flint.
BACHELORS* CLUB
The Bachelors' Club is going to have a rushing luncheon next Tuesday noon. Each member of the club is expected to bring one guest with him. The location of the luncheon has not been fixed, but it will probably be at the Twin Cedars lun. Meetings of the club ?re also to be held on Thursday and Friday of next week.
DENTISTS DEBATE DARWIN’S THEORY
Evolution, which for months has been stealing the headlines all over the country, will invade Dental next Wednesday morning. A debate upon that subject will take place betweei two selected teams of the sophomore class.
The subject is: “Resolved, That man has reached his present state of development thru evolution.” Joe Trimble and Archie Wilkins will defend the resolution, while Rufus Choate and Ted Scott will take the negative position.
The debate is an annual affair, a feature of the course in Comparative Dental Anatomy given by Dr. I. D.
Nokes.
WAMP TAKES WORLD TOUR
Travel Issue of Wampus To Make Appearance on Campus Tuesday.
A world tour in condensed form. That is the story of the new Wampus that is to make its appearance on the campus Tuesday morning. Anyone who has not been able to take a European trip may enjoy the full thrill by merely getting the Travel edition of the Wampus. England ( Ireland, Spain, or France, no country is neglected, according to the editorial staff of the magazine.
If you’ve been trying to learn how to eat spaghetti, buy a Wampus. If you want to learn tjie secrets of Cleopatra, buy a Wampus. Not a stone has been left unturned by Bart Hutchins and his cohorts in procuring the latest and most authentic dope on international problems.
Circulation Manager Les Heilman has enlarged his gang in anticipation of the greatest rush of the year. At least thirty-five hundred copies are expected to change hands before the sellers can get their respective breaths.
Co-operating with the Chamber of Commerce, several carloads of the new edition are to be sent East to speed the onrush of tourists.
According to the best information, the cover design by Bob Sandburg is the best that has adorned the Wamp since way back when.
BANQUET PLANNED FOR ACTIVE CLUB
I Featuring talks and musical num-I bers by natives of as many as eight f different countries, the Federation of Cosmopolitan Clubs and Council on International Relations will hold their fourth annual international banquet at 6:15 p. m. tonight at the Los Angeles City Club, 833 South Spring street.
The theme for the evening is the Promotion of International Under-Southern Branch of the university, re- standing. To give the students atti spectively by a graduate of the class ^U(^e toward the subject are represen of 1907, now in New York. These sug
WILL FORM UNION FUND COMMITTEE
Students Will Vote on Question of Semester Assessments to Finance Project.
Plans are rapidly taking shape for the formation of a committee consisting of members of the executive committee, alumnae, and members of the administration to form a definite plan for financing the new Student Union building. The executive committee having approved the plans for the new campus building, the whole matter rests in the hands of the student body to finance the undertaking.
The work of the new committee will consist largely of keeping the students well posted on the plans for erection through the columns of the Daily Trojan. Articles by interested and prominent students and alumni will appear in the Trojan from day to day.
The first step will be to appear before the Board of Trustees to ask for a site, and permission to place on the ballot the proposition of assessing the students $5.00 per semester for two years to finance the project. Other financial help will come fro malumni and rent from the space leased to stores and recreation parlors.
Every consideration will be given the needs of campus activities in the designing and floor plans. Only those things which will make the enterprise unwieldy will be eliminated.
As the new enterprise will be on a paying and self-maintenance basis, all stores, general offices, student body and athletic offices will pay rent for the space that they utilize. This will mean a revision of the student body budget so as to provide funds for the various offices.
The fate of the Student Union now lies in the hands of the student body when they go to the polls on electioa day. as to the .outcome of their vote to be assessed $5 00 per semester for two years.
Suggest New Names For State Colleges
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, April 22, (P. I. P.).—“Berkeley University of California" and "Los Angeles University of California” have been proposed as new names for the University of California and the
gestions were made, it is said, because of the confusion that exists between various California educational institutions. Those that are causing the confusion are: California Institute of Technology, California Aggies, Uni versity of Southern California, University of California and University of California, Southern Branch.
atives from Redlands Universit . Southern California, Occidental Co’ lege, Pomona College, the California Institute of Technology. Southern Branch, and Hollywood High school. Musical selections will also be contributed by the students.
The foreign countries to be repr -s^nted are: Assyria, Mexico. Russia France, Paly, China, and Japan.
COMMERCE RALLY ALL PROFESSIONAL
Fanchon and Marco Acts Featured on Program For College of Commerce Rally Today.
Having aranged a full hour of lively entertainment featuring two Fanchon and Marco acts and Owen Fallon and hi3 Californians, radio orchestra, the College of Commerce will present its “All Professional” program at this morning’s rally in Bovard Auditorium beginning promptly at ten o’clock Don Edwin, in charge of the program. assisted by Bruce Browne, announces that in addition to the program of orchestra and organ numbers announced yesterday, negotiations have been campleted to present two professional acts through the courtesy of Fanchon and Marco, and West Coast Theaters, Incorporated.
Clarence Thompson, tenor, now appearing at the West Coast Boulevard Theater, will sing a group of popular numbers. As a particularly unique feature. Chief Eagle Feather, also a Fanchon and Marco artist now appearing at the Boulevard, has agreed to give his hard shoe dancing act. Chief Eagle Feather is said to be the only * full-booded Indian now doing hard j sioe dancing on the American stage.
' The Chief’s a t wai one of the feature* j of th** West Coast Theaters’ program j given at the California Maid Exposi-j tion last night.
Since these acts, together with Owen I Fallon and his orchestra, and Calvin Hendricks on the organ constitute an unusually full program, the committee in charge announces that it will be im-! perative to start the show promptly ■ at ten o’clock.
Movies of California Show are to be Taken
BERKELEY, Calif.. April 22 — Hearst International and Pathe news reel cameramen, as well as photographers from local bay papers will tilru the Senior Extravaganza, “Top O* Night,” the annual Senior farce, ar tht dre33 rehearsal to be held today. It: is to be presented in the Greek Theater.