Southern
California
Junior-Senior Dinner Dance
Tickets for the annual Junior-Senior dinner dance will be placed on sale within a few days, according to “Boots” Oudermeulen, Junior class president!
The tickets will sell for $5 per couple and will go to upperclassmen only.
VOL. XVII.
A FTER working extra hours on Thursday nights political extra of the Daily Trojan and doing our utmost to give the campus the most final and complete returns on the balloting, we were called to task Friday morning by Messrs* V. Thomas and W. Hein-1 eman of the College of Dentistry I because we did not carry the re-! suts of the Dental College student I body election.
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The two men, one of which was elected to office, practically accused us of trying to suppress the news of the election. We wish to give the men at Dental College the facts concerning this case and to clear anv such impression. The Daily Trojan is not trying to suppress any news from professional schools and if you had noticed Friday s Lookout column you would have read a cry for more representation of Dental College on the student body executive committee.
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Throughout tbe year we have been trying to link tbe colleges together and realizing that there are some 600 men at the U^ntal school our plea for them Friday should assert our stand in regard to the Dental College.
Los Angeles, Caiitorria, Monday, May i0, 1926
Number 140
UNION PLANS AWAIT NEXT CAMPUS MOVE
Action on Student Union After Students Petition President.
come:
plans
made
n the general manager's office the announcement that further lor the student union cannot be until Proposition 1, passed by
In regard to the results of the Dental election we did not have them in Friday’s edition for the following reasons:.. In the first place the people on the election c o m in i at the Dental College did not notify us of the fact. The •econd point in our defense is that the university as a whole was pri-marely concerned in the Student Body presidency, and therefore the Trojan concentrated all its work on that one office. The third point is that the counting of votes for all other offices did not begin according to the ruling and under the supervision of Professor James Musatti until 4 p. m., although we later iearned that the Denial College had announced its complete returns earlier in the afternoon.
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Since tbe elections at the othtT colleges came in on the same ballot and the results were counted at the same time that the general student body votes were counted., it was naturally and logically supposed that Dental College would be included.
The Daily Trojan has a representative at Dental College and it is through this channel that news from Dental College comes. Recently, Thomas and Heineman staged some sort of a meeting for unorganized Dental Ccllege men.
They brought the news to the Trojan office themselves, and did not give it to the Trojan representative at Den ta.1, yet when we asked them why they did not give us the election results, they blamed the Trojan and the Dental representative.
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We have friends enough in Dental College that understand that we are not trying to withhold any of their doings from the student ibody at large and wish them to |know why we did not carry their \electu>ri returns.
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HE Lookout wishes to thank the student body for thc support iven the Daily Trojan and the jour-alism organizations, in defeating roposition Number Two on the gen-ral ballot. At the time it was passed n the executive committee meeting he committee did not consider the ampus in general ?nd we are thor-ughly satisfied that ihe student body xpressed its opinion in the election il of which is as it should be on all iuestions regarding constitution hangea the student body should have e voice in the matter.
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N THE 21st of this month the University of Southern California will nter*ain the best gymnasts in the ate. Ths meet is being sponsored the A. A. U. and will decide the te titles in the various gymnastic ents, both open and college.
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Coach C. P. L. Nicholls. who is in charge of the Trojan team, captained by Everett Smiih, has an excellent group of men ready to enter the meet ard expects to take some of the first place honors, 'he team last yea- finished second in the ccilege division and is expected to finish at the top this season.
Among the stars that are going (Continued on Page Four)
the vote of a majority of the student body at the elections Thursday, is acted upon. The proposition was worded P^ans* bu I to the effect that the students petition the board of trustees for the privilege of levying a tax of $5 per student each semester for a student union fund. To date, the petition has not been presented to the board or to President von KieinSmid.
Definite plans for the actual building of the union have not been made, j but it is expected that a competent j architect may be appointed to super- ■ intend the drawing up of the plans J and the actual erection of the build- | ing. The general manager’s office has . expressed this opinion of the future ' of the union:
"The student union plan will prob-I ably be modified to embrace the advantages of an athletic clnb, having student business offices, editorial rooms, a book store, eating places and recreation rooms In the union. It has I been suggested that the University of i Michigan union has the advantages I which an S. C. nnion would most I need/’
New Wamp Editor Seeks Material
For Next Ediiio*;;
Contributors Will Not Use Pen Names; Business Manager Has Not Eeen Selected.
Although no definite plans have been made concerning the management of the Wampus for next semester, Milton Booth, the editor, is already collecting material for the first edition of next year. As the business manager has not yet been elected, it is impossile to make any definite t Milton Booth says that, “With the co-operation of the staff, 1 hope to get enough material in this last month to put out a Wampus during the first week of school. There will be no pen names used in next year’s Wampus, every contributor being expected to use his own name.” Milton Booth has been one of the most faithful contributors to the Wampus since he started the University of Southern California, and it is expected that the Campus Kitty will enjoy a thriving year under his editorship.
Co-operation is Aim * Dee! i adman new S. C. President
£LECT
ONCERS MAY 13
Leland Tallman, student body president-elect, made the following statement Friday:
“My gratitude can best be expressed. i feel, by fulfillment, to the best of my ability, of ail the
responsibilities and obligations or the office oi student body president. One thing alone must guide our efforts for the coming year—and that is thc welfare or the University of Southern California. A greater university can come only through th3 co-operation of every group and individual or this university for the attainment of that end. This is the true meaning or the Trojon Spirit. I thank you for the confidence you have placed in me. It shall be my endeavor to prove worthy of it.
'•LELAND D. TALLMAN.”
Juniors Capture Several Seniors During Sneak Day
Guards Release Captives and are Bound and Tied for Their Kindness.
ELECTION IS FOLLOWEDBY
DENTS PICK NEW HEADS
Thomas Takes Presidency; Vote Two to One For Student Union.
Turning out almost 100 per cent
Roll and Barber in Race for Pres-1 s‘r,ons’ the dMltis,s electtd cap-ident; Nominations Held on
Mav 6th.
Several ambitious members of the | Junior class gathered together Thurs-I day night in an effort to catch the I leaders of the Senior class, who wrere j going on their annual Sneak day Fri-i day.
Barton Hutchins, president of the Senior class, and Burke Long, prominent man about the campus, left their domicile at 6 p. m. Thursday just in time to elude the kidnapers. Samuel Gates, Don Cameron, Oliver McEwan, Hank Johnson, Ray Elmquist. and Don Davis were tied together and put in a safe place for the night. “Dee” Tallman was captured, but got away while a chivalrous Junior was helping his girl out of Tallman’s car.
Ray Elmquist broke through the door of the prison-cell and had a long walk home through Exposition Park Kenry Johnson and Don Davis escaped while being transferred from the detention hall to a certain well known cellar on the campus.
Finally most of the Juniors got tired and went home to bed so that only Ralph Smith and Don Pierce remained to guard Sam Gates, Don Cameron and Oliver McEwan. These two Juniors became tired of being the goats and turned loose the three Seniors,
Klene is Secretary; Tallman Majority Grows; Campaign Sensational.
With or.9 of tions in the his campus again parative peace
he hardest fought elec-tory of S. C. ended, the settled down to com-and quiet. According
Elections ior the offices of president vice-president, seeretary-treasurer and I received 165 votes.
able men to lead them next year. After a bitter fight, Viriden Thomas gath-: ered 283 votes to take the presidency j w^° repaid this kindness by tieing from his opponent Leo Guischard. who
Albert Finley won
them up and leaving. Ralph Smith chewed the ropes in two along in the
sergeant-at-arms of the School of Law over Don Florence tor the vice-presi- ? wee small hours of the morning.
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Two Professors and Six Students are Admitted to Legal Frater nity.
With th pledging of eight new candidates a* the main feature, Skull and Scales, honorary legal fraternity, celebrated the occasion at a banquet held at the University Club, Seventh and Hope Streets, Thursday evening.
Skull- and Scales is the oldest legal fraternity on the S. C. Campus, having been organized in 1913. Before a candidate can be admitted, he must show certain qualities of leadership, j scholarship and desirability.
Professor W. Turney Fox and Pro- ; fessor Paul W. Jones of the Law j School faculty were botb admitted into the organization, each making a i short address upon being presented by j Frank Hennessey, who presided over i the meeting.
student body and the editorship of the School oi Law’s section of the El Bod^c- will be held Thursday, May IT..
Polls v.i’1 be open on this date from S to 1:1:30 n. and from 5:30 to 8:30
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Nomina ions for these positions were made at an assembly held Thursday noon. May 6, and the various candidates are: Earnest Roll and William Barber for president, Matilda Bardenstein and Helen Perrellj for vice-president, Sidney Cherniss for secretary-treasurer and Joseph Wine-garten for sergeant-at-arms.
Petitions will be circulated for the candidates for editorship of the El Rodeo
ENGAGE ORGANIST FOR MUSIC CLASS
dent’s chair of the college. Finley polled 2-57 votes to Florence’s 184. Doug Pack .iad no competition and was unanimously ejected secretary-treas‘ui"r.
In the matter of the amtoidment con-ceming the Siudenr Union tax, the dentists proved to be 2 to 1 in fitvor of it. The vote on tbls particular amendment was 238 for and lid against.
As the College of Dentistry i,s becoming larger and mure important in the activities of the entire university, the elections of this college are close contests that are watched witb interest by the rest of the campus.
Dean Ford recently served a notice that no campaigning was necessary in the College of Dentistry elections, and this year's contest was much less hectic .than those of previous years.
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S C RIFLE RANCB
Dean Waugh Delivers Address at Dedication of Rifle Range on
ro'
Field.
Charles M. Courboin Hailed as One of the Greatest Organists of Present Day.
The S. C. College of Music has just announced the addition to the faculty A complete list of the pledges Ls as j of Charles M. Courboin, native of Ant- i
werp, Belgium, who will conduct a master class in organ playing in Bovard Auditorium during the summer session.
Courboin Ls hailed as being one of the greatest organists of the present day. When he was seven he palyed the concertos of Mozart and Haydn symphonies without an error, accord-
__ing to foreign press dispatches. In
Aristotelian Literary Society, rep- 191$ he was chosen as guest soloist resented by Barnett Eby and Paul | at Wanamaker’s in Philadelphia. His Cunningham, meets the Agoure So- recitals for that season were attend-
follows:
Brooks Gifford, Ravelle Harrison, Professor W. Turney Fox, Professor Paul W. Jones, Robert Bradley, Carl Hendricks, Sid Cherniss and PLilo Mc-Giffon.
ARIS TO MEN MEET BRANCH IN DEBATE
ciety of the University of California, lxis Angeles, in an important encounter tomorrow afternoon at 3 o'clock The debate, which is upon the proposition, “Resolved, that compulsory chapel should be abolished,” is to take place iu the Fine Arts Building on the I'. C. L. A. campus. The Aristo men are upholding the negative of the question and will be supported in their visit to the other campuses by members of ’heir own and other literary societies of Southern California.
Tickets For Junior inner Dance > On Sale Today
The farewell dinner dance to be given by the Juniors in honor of the Seniors on May 21st at the Maryland Hotel will eclipse all affairs of the past from present indications.
Committees working under Eloise Parke, chairman of the committee, are striving to overshadow the ^• st Junior Prom.
Tickets, which sell for |5, will go ru sale at Law and Dental todav.
ed by 135,000 people, setting a record for such events in America.
Perhaps bis greatest triumph was the wunning of the International Organ’I could be done by the use of deception.
PRODIGY PERFORMS AT FRIDAY RALLY
Crawford Trotter Demonstrates Methods of Fake Spiritualists;
Gets Spirit Messages.
Feats of magic and mysticism were performed by little Crawford Trotter before the entire Southern California student body which assembled for the rally staged in Bovard Auditorium Friday. The program was held under the auspices of Douglas Ewan, president of the School of Religion.
Crawford Trotter has gained wide renown as a result of his exposes of pseudo-occultism as practiced by various “fake” mediums throughout the j of the varsity team, country and the program of the rally was designed to really show' wrhat
With the co-operation of the repre sentatives of the rifle teams of many universities and high schools of the state, the rifle team of the University of Southern California dedicated its newly completed rifle range on Bovard Field Thursday at 8 p. m.
Participating in the dedication, Dean Karl T. Waugh delivered a dedicatory address President • Rufus B. von KieinSmid, who was to have been the principal speaker of the evening, was unable to be present.
The first part of the program was featured by speeches of the representatives and members. Fred Felton of the Freshman team and Miss Amanda Chamber of the women’s gave inter, esting talks. Ray B Brockman manager of the Bovard Field, also spoke about the rifle team. Sherwood Cohen expressed some of his ideas about the rifle game as an important sport.
Music was furnished by Miss Florence Hurley and Miss Strickling. Other persons also took part in the providing of the entertainment.
The universities and colleges represented at the dedication were: Stanford, Cal Tech, Pomona. Loyola and the Southern Branch. From Stanford came Crawford, captain of the Freshman rifle team, and Barnes, captain
ompetiuon in 1902 against eight competitors from various countries of Europe.
to numerous outsiders who passed the campus on Friday, the student body elections rivaled the most thrilV ing of any city, state or national election, especially in the manner of person?.; campaigning.
Iceland “D” Tallman, the “dark horse” candidate for the presidency, won over Arthur Syvertson, his closest competitor, by a vote of 1447 to 874. Willard Brown was the third entry in the presidential race and received 110 votes.
Carrying every school and college by an overwhelming majority, Tallman was never once threatened for the high position. Syvertson and Brown had their greatest following in Liberal Arts and Dental, although Tallman carried both schools by a larg*> mar jority.
The final secretarial vote garo an official count of 823 for Pauline Klene to 696 for Katherine Colwell, but after the seconds and thirds were counted for Carroll Greene and Mabel Smith, Miss Klene led with 1213 votes to 1062 for Miss Colwell. Liberal Arts and Music gave a slight majority to Colwell, but the other schools and colleges put Klene on top.
The rac*1 for Trojan editor was fairly close, with Jordan winning in the final count with 1276 votes to 1001 for Hall. Jordan received a majority from all colleges, but Pharmacy and Dental, where Hall had a slight lead.
Betty Baker led in the number of votes for the Liberal Arts executive committee with 790. Lee Conti received 714: Paul Cuhningham. 702; Dot Baker. 675; “Boots” Oudermeulen, 655: Manuel Ruiz, 571. The other contestants finished in the following order: H. T Smith, Don Pierce, Ruth Smith. Rav Foote and Pari Welch.
Tom Brooker was selected as the Engineer representative for the executive committee, while II. Patrick was elected at Architecture. In Commerce "Hank” Rohr won out with 115 votes over Bob Lee, 45; ^nry Segretti, 25; Ormonde Greer, 33?-M:iIdred (■Continued on Page Four)
SKULL AND DAGGER 21 BEN
AT DINNER DANCE
Washington Students Cls zan Their Campus
world.
Cm -W" MF STR A cnNC S h° receive(i was as follows: “William .•	j fTf>niev; Beware of blondes.” All of
RADIO PROGRAM, the effects wrere achieved by sleight-
I of-hand. mechanism and a complete understanding of the psychology of deception. The rope escape of young Trotter was achieved by similar means, as was a colour guessing stunt.
Professor Carl Knopf gave a short
speech introducing Crawford Trotter. | UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON William Henley caught a message j gf,attle> May 8> (R { P>) _With some
from the spirit wrorld. The message j 2qoo students
Thursday night S. C. presented the regular weekly radio program through the courtesy of KFI. The presentation, according to Hal Williamson, radio director, was one of the outstanding collegiate programs of the year.
The bill was headed by Ray Hatfield and his Southlanders. This snappy orchestra presented several rollicking pieces, including “Talk About My Sweetie Now,” “I Never Knew” and “Who.”
Miss Doliy McDonald, popular campus Blues artist, presented a delightful program of collegiate and blues pieces.
G::ggie Royse. another Trojan Blues singer, concluded the program. Royse, accompanied by Ray Hatfield, sang “Poor Papa” and similar numbers.
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Women’s Glee Club members are spending their time practicing for the Eisteddfod contest to be held May 14 in Bovard Auditorium. This is a mu sical concert held annually between the colleges in California. Last year, Katherine Nason of U. S. C. won the first prize, which vr.s a banner. The name Eisteddfod is Welsh and means "sitting in the contest ”
attired in work clothes, and with hoes and rakes in hand, the university campus was given its annual cleaning on Campus Day, which was celebrated last Friday. All doubt as to whether the day would be con tinued as a Washington tradition was settled in the minds of most of the faqulty members by the size of the turnout and the enthusiasm displayed by the students.
P/ashington Gets Tvjo *' National Houses
UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON,
Seattle. May 8, (P. I. P.).—Two na tional fraternities granted charters tc locals during the past week. Tau Kap pa Epsilon and Delta Sigma Phi are the fraternities that will be installed here, and the incorporation will take place before the er.d of th^> present term.
Affair is Held in Pasadena*
Haight and Tallman Sneak; Many Alumni Attend.
Twenty-one prominent campus men received their pins Saturday night at the annual Skull and Dagger initiation dinner dance. This affair was held in Pasadena at the Vista Del Arroyo Hotel and more than forty couples were present. During the banquet, speeches were given by Raymond Le-Roy Haigth, on behalf of the alumni, and Leland Tal’man for the new numbers.
Those initiated are: Burdette Ives. LeRoy Haynes, Howard Jones, Sam Gates, Jeff Cravath, Manuel Laraneta, Harold Roberts. Roswell Allison, Horace Judson, Lee Conti, Leland Tallman. Ed Murray, Hobbs Adams, Bill Teetzel, Henry Segretti. Dick Snyder, Stanley McKee, Eldon Snow, Kenny Grumbles, Leighton Dye and Mike Elwood.
Skull and Dagger is the all-university honor society for men, and to become a member is one of the highest distinctions that can be attained on the campus. Only those men are taken in who have won distinction in some manner or other. Also, the characteristics of the men are considered, thus making the organization one of the most representative groups of the university. This fraternity has been organized since 1913.
The formal dinner dance is an an nual social function of the organization. and is given in honor of the new initiates. Many of the alumni of the fraternity were present.	i^v
night, while prnctically al1 *h ? rr»~:'bers were or. hand.