p ETITIONS for the annual po-^ litical campaign of amateur and “pro politicians on the Trojan campus were due to make their appearance on the campus today. Without any particular warning the petitions* were issued today to the managers of the many office aspirants.
The Daily Trojan will not take any official stand for or against any of the candidates and will not rim the names of any of the candidates until they are officially nominated before the student body on April 30. There seems to be the attitude among some of the candidates that the “dark horse theory is a good one and prefer to keep their names out of the papers until the eleventh hour. In order to eliminate any of these political schemes the Daily Trojan will run political stories based on fact but will not mention any of the candidates names until they are officially nominated.
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VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April 21, 1926
Number 128
POLITICIANS STIR CAMPUS TO ACTIVITY
Petitions out today, many candidates have hats in ring for offices.
ELECTIONS MAY 6TH
Three men in Presidency race, two co-eds for vice-presidency.
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HERE have not been enough petitions signed for the proposed imming pool. At least five thousand aames are needed and to date only (►00 have signed the papers. The ovement for the pool has started
Coming as the usual harbinger of spring, the annual political fermentation on the Southern California campus is again stirrirvc up considerable discussion as a preliminary to the circulation of petitions today for student body officers for next year.
April 28th is the date set for calling in the petitions, nominations will take place on the 30th, and selections are scheduled for May 6th.
Politics at present is the topic for much argumentation among the various groups on the campus, and ru-I mors and whisperings are current everywhere. Names of prominent students who are likely candidates for of-body flees are on everyone’s tongue.
Present calculations indicate that three names will be placed before the student body for consideration as student body president for next year. Two candidates for the vice-presi-dency are already in the ring to vie for the honor of planning social func-tionstions for the university next year. Two jnen, both of which have had much experience in newspaper wrork, have signified their intentions
Optimists Vaudeville Show Staged at Bovard Tonight
Featured by ten acts of professional vaudeville, the Optimist Review and Vaudeville Show will be staged in Bovard Auditorium tonight at 8:15, according to an announcement made by Warren B. Bovard, president of the Optimists.
Proceeds realized from the show will be used to send a Los Angeles delegate' to a convention of Optimists to be held in Lexington, Kentucky, some time during the coming summer.
A great variety of entertainment is to be offered, including a one-act play, “Sweet Friends,” featuring Florence Pierce Reed. The Optimist Male Quartette, referred to in the notices as 1,000 pounds of harmony; musical numbers by Jack Arias and his Mexican Entertainers, Jack Cronshawe’s Orchestra, a dancing act billed as “Girls, Girls, Girls," and soprano solos by Mary Newkirk Bower form the principal part of the program.
PROGRAM FOR STUDENTS GIVEN FIRST MOTHER’S DAY CHANCE TO BUY TICKETS TO BE GIVEN
Y. M. C. A. sponsor of elaborate plans for celebration on May 5.
TRADITIONAL EVENT
Stanley Hopper heads committee to plan annual all-day entertainment.
considerable agitation the most favor- of running for the office of editor of ble aspect being the interest shown | the Daily Trojan, and there are two >y several members of the student candidates also runping for El Rodeo
dy that the pool be incorporated editor. So far. just two co-eds are ith the Student Union and kill “two ! bidding for the position of student
irds with one stone
Along with Mike Eiwood’s proposed swimming pool, came Eddie Blaine, he of the stage and campus dramatics with a violent urge for a “Little Theatre.” According to Blaine the stage on Bovard Auditorium is a mere platform and is inadequate for the proper presentation of plays. There’ are thousands of dollars worth of scenery going to waste on account of the poor arrangements of Bovard Auditorium and it is useless for motion pictures. Touchstone Theatre is entirely out of the question for any practicable use, the University has far ...outgrown Touchstone ,and would do well to definitely establish it as a lecture hall.
Now Blaine and Elwood are not the hnly ones with germs of ideas on the Student union, for a number of students havt' suggested the installation »f & dance floor and a cafateria. Now tsten folks, it will take approximate-one-half a million dollars to put up sort of a student union and the
Piily Trojans will stand behind thc ill of the student body. If the building Is to be one that will get the sup-rt of the student body every wish of e students must be taken into con-ideration for to grant the swimmers privilege and not the actors the lat-r group will naturally be opposed to Nevertheless we are glad to see me real action taken and the stu-enu up and doing.
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^OACH Sam Crawford and Manager Henry Segretti take the Trojan aseball players to ^Arizona tonight for heir annual baseball series with the Wildcat institution. It makes the third »ar that Captain Adams has perform-|d on tbe Tucson diamond and during that time the Trojans have failed to [in a game.
It if customary when Trojan | teams are playing away from home for the student body, fraternities, individual students, etc., to wire the squard and let them know that a victory is expected of them. A note of encouragement from home put6 the pep and Are into the squad. Keep this in mind and 0end them a wire in care of the baseball manager of the University of Arizona ,they’ll appreciate »t.
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i It is expected that a great number j of petitions are to circulate for candidates for the executive committee. In fact, rumor has it that twenty students have their eyes on a place on this committee.
Two or three men are rumored as striving for editor of the S. C. fun I magazine, Tommy Wampus.
It is anticipated that the next few days will see political agitation :n full swing on the campus, since this year j promises lively campagns for all candidates.
SIGMA SIGMA HAS FORMAL INITIATION AT WE$TP0RT CLUB
Dinner Dance Follows Initiation of Sixteen Pledges at Beach Club Saturday.
Westport Beach Club at Surfridge will be the scene of the Sigma Sigma formal initiation and dinner dance Saturday evening, was the statement made yesterday by Ralph Holly, sec-retary-treasurer of the organization.
Initiation will be held in the afternoon for the sixteen men pledged formally in chapel six weeks ago, and the dinner dance given in the evening in their honor. Besides the initiates, ten active member* and ten alumni members are expected to reserve plates for the occasion.
The initiates are A! Behrendt. Ed-j die Blaine, Ray Brennan. Lee Conti, Freeman Hall. Jeff Cravath. Walter Heinaman, George Jordan. Grant La Mont, Ed Murray, Russ Neely. Henry Oudermeulen, Dan Smith, Bill Stewart, Arthur Syvertson, Hobbs Adams and Leo Friis. Dr. Bruce Baxter and Elmer Fagan will also be initiated as honorary members.
Ravelle Harrison, president, is in charge of Saturday’s activities.
Sigma Sigma is the junior men's honorary fraternity, its ’members chosen from the various colleges on the campus on the basis of interest in school activities and service to Southern California. Athletics, journalism, forensics, leadership and all other phases of campus life are represented in its roster of celebrities.
Architects Plan Huge Mardi Gras Spring Festival
Dance to be given at Hollywood Women’s Club on Friday night, April 30.
Plans for the annual spring Mardi Gras of the School of Architecture are well under way, according to Frank Baden, in charge oi the affair. The Mardi Gras of the architects has long been noted for being one of the unique events of the year on the S. C. campus.
Rivaling even the famous Quatres Arts Ball of Paris in gaiety, in color and costumes .this year’s affair will outdo all previous efforts. Confetti, horns, bizarre decorations, plenty of jazz and novel costumes will sound the note of merriment that the architects give vent to when dropping their more serious artistic efforts for a lighter mood.
Besides dancing and merry-making, several good burlesque skits of real merit will fill the night’s program.
Arrangements have been made to secure the Hollywood Woman’s Club for the affair on the night of Friday, April 30.
Those who were in attendance at last year's Mardi Gras will long remember it. According to Frank Baden, a limited number of tickets will be sold on the campus at $2 a piece.
Mother’s Day will be recognized on the campus on Wednesday, May 5, according to reports from the University Y. M. C. A., annual sponsor of the event. The mothers of all university men will be invited to the campus for the entire d^y, various receptions and luncheons planned as entertainment.
At 8 o’clock in the morning of Mother’s Day, carnations will be presented to all men who will wear them in recognition of the day. At 10 o’clock an appropriate chapel program has been planned. At noon the visiting mothers will be entertained at luncheons by their sons.
In the afternoon, the University Women’s Club is sponsoring a tea and reception to be held at the Women’s Residence Hall.
At 5:30 in the evening, the annual Mother and Son banquet will take place at the “Y” Hut. Elaborate preparations are being made to make this event one which will long be remembered.
Immediately following chapel today, men may address invitations to their mothers for the progTam on may 5th. The invitations, which will be mailed by the “Y,” will be found at a table in the arcade.
Stanley Hopper is chairman of the Mother’s Day committee of the “Y,” which is composed of Crawford Peake, George Peterson and Bob Webster.
PROMINENT AUTHOR AT CHAPEL TODAY
Frank Walter Allen, journalist and Lecturer to speak before Students.
Mr. Frank Waller Allen, author, journalist and prominent lecturer, will deliver an address at chapel service today. Mr. Allen is ln great demand as a speaker and it was only after considerable difficulty that Dr. Baxter was able to engage him to speak to the students. Mr. Allen will have as his topic, “Making the Ideal Real.
A student of psychology himself for the past few years, Mr. Allen has lectured before large classes and clubs on literature or psychology as they pertain to life. Ai^rng#his most popular writing are “Painted Windows” and “Brothers of Bagdad.”
SKULL AND DAGGER
Skull and Dagger members and pledges are to meet at noon today in the Wampus Office. Several important announcements of interest to the members and pledges will be made.
Rally Committee Votes To Revise Song Books
That the Trojan song books are to be revised was decided definitely at a meeting of the Rally committee yesterday. The move was taken because of mistakes in the old editions. It was also decided that the committee give a picnic Monday afternoon at one of the beaches.
The movement for a revised and reliable song book had already been sanctioned by Harold J. Stonier, executive secretary of the university; Gwynn Wilson, graduate .manager; Don Cameron, student body president,
| and was agreed to hy Dean Fiske of I the Associated Students’ Store. New ! books will be printed immediately, ac-i cording to Mr. Fiske.
PEDRO PAPER TO BE EDITED BY CONSENT OF LOWELL JESSEN
Twelve Campus Writers directed by Conti and Hall Saturday.
Complete charge of a sixteen-page eight-column paper will be the experience of twelve members of the Daily Trojan staff under the direction of Lee Conti, when the San Pedro News is taken over for one day by the journalism students.
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 of editing the Newrs will be turned over to the Trojans and the staff of the San Pedro paper is to take a vacation on Saturday.
Lee Conti, editor-in-chief of the Trojan, is to act in the same capacity on the San Pedro News. Freeman Hall, managing editor of the Trojan, will be the city editor for the day. Dave Fred will be sports editor and John Scott, Trojan editorial writer, will have the same position on the News. Ralph Holly is to edit copy on the desk. Terrel DeLapp and Maude Miller are to be headline writers, while Betty Baker, Sam Friedman, Rita Padway, Florence Middleton and Grant Flint will act as reporterv.
The San Pedro News is the third and last out-of-town paper to be edited by Trojan journalists this semester. Other trips w*re made to Corona. where Ralph Holly was in charge of the expedition, and to Monrovia. where Betty Baker was editor-| in-chief.
Outside Organizations rfiake many advance reservations for Senior Road Show; new prices prevail; Grant La Mont predicts clever acts will bring down the house.
Anticipating a sell-out for the approaching Senior Road Show, symbolic of the “Jazz Age,” the ticket committee announces, that limited reservations will be available today and can be purchased at the ticket window^n the Associated Student Store.
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year so that every student may have an opportunity to obtain desirable seats before they are offered to outsiders. The play will be produced only on the night of April 30, and late purchasers may be disappointed.
Last year, the best seats for the Senior Road Show were gone a week previous to the production because of huge blocks reserved by outside organizations connected with the University.
According to the production department, many bids have been received for blocks from campus organizations and these will be filled with preference given the first applicant. The morning mail brought orders from Metropolitan College, the Alumni Assochir tion. and several fraternities of University of California, Southern Branch.
That a new system of prices will go into effect for this production, was the statement of Manager Ellsworth Ross, who adds that “the center section of the ground floor will sell for one dol* lar, while the sides and rear will coat the purchaser seventy-five cents. The seats in the two balconies will bring I seventy-five and fifty cents each, the | first price including the lower sections. Director Grant La Mont. critic par excellence, wishes to make it known I that the acts are of professional calibre and should result in a capacity j house which should bring down the house. The plays were selected principally because of their humorous character and an evening of enjoyment should award those attending.
Italian Theme is Novelty for Senior Dance Tonight
With Bermuda onions and punch as novelties of the evening, Seniors will stage their third of a series of Snaps at the 2Sp house tonight from 7:30 to 9:30. Italian decorations and entertainments will vie for first place in winning favor with the specialty dances.
All Seniors are urged to attend the Snap, as fun and informality will be the prevailing notes. The dance is being fostered to further the feeling of friendliness and cooperation among all the members of the class, and to make possible the meeting of new friends and old.
Evelyn Ross, vice-president of the Senior class, is the general manager of the affair. Helping her to make it a success are: Dorothy Davis, who is in charge of the music; Sam Gates- of- the- house commTttee, Bob Green, treasurer, and Barton Hutchins, who has charge of the ertertainment.
Kenney Newerf’s orchestra will furnish the music.
Skull And Dagger Scandle Play To Show On Monday
Evening Performance to be given At 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
Rehearsals for the Skull and Dagger “dirt” trial will be held today at 3 p. m. in Bovard Auditorium, according to Burdette Ives. Rovard Auditorium will open its doors to the throngs of students Monday evening at 8:30 p. m., when the members of the ancient order will present their “filth.” All campus organizations are asked to dismiss their meetings early Monday in order to give their members a chance to view the spectacle which is an annual one on the University of Southern California campus. Leland Tallman promises that the show will be one worth while attending.
The trial is being written by Lee Conti, editor of the Trojan; Sam Gates, debate manager, and Burdette Ives of El Rodeo fame. The contents of the aforementioned trial will not be divulged until the evening of the performance.
The admission will probably be 10 or 15 cents, with no reserved seats, and the first come first served theory will hold for that evening. All Skull and Dagger pledges and members are asked to meet at \2 o'clock in the Wampus office today to receive their parts for the trial.
CUM CO-OPERATE ON BANQUET PLAN
Dr. Carr to Speak at Y. Af. Council Dinner
, Some of the most forceful speakers
in Southern California will be heard
at the Students’ International Banquet
to be given Friday evening, April 23.,
at the Los Angeles City Club, 833 So.
Spring Street, according to Moody
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Dr. Carr, a visiting professor of phil-' f ;
politan Club, which is assisting in this
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| The Federation of	Cosmopolitan : Clubs and The Council	of International Relations, of which	Dr. R. B.’von
TRAVEL EDITION OF WAMPUS OUT FRIDAY MORNING
Alphabetage Contest decision to be announced, and prize to be awarded for composition.
With impatient meowing. Tommy Wamp is in his new Travel garb straining at his tether awaiting the eerie hour on Friday when he is to be unleashed. At that time the winner of the contest understood only by the intelligencia and Er<flish majors, will be heralded and rewarded with a hidebound book. Over 150 of the mysterious contributions have been submitted to Leon Wolpe, Alphabetage Contest Editor. The judges are said to be traveling at a brisk clip in order to give each a fair review.
Campus Travels, Advice to Travelers, etc, compose a few of the best eye-strainers., “To set off the unusually fine literary g»ms,” said Bart Hutchins, ediror, "’vill be an unsurpassed quantity of art work that is of an exceptionally original and unique nature.” Bob Sandburg, rumor has itr is the artist responsible for a cover design of unusual merit.
Irfiprecedented sales have been predicted. since all tourists in the city have pledged themselves to purchase a Travel Wamp to cheer up the dismal journey home, and thus make traveling with a Travel Issue a real pleasure. The ambitious salesmen of Tommy’s business staff yesterday claimed that severa' carloads of be>-whiskered feline were being shipped eastward to tickle the funny-bones of tourists westward bound, and make them all the more impatient for the Lass number that will make its debut in May.
osophy from London University will be the main speaker at the “Y” Council dinner and meeting this evening.
Wesley Beans will present a group of
vocal numbers.	,
Dr. Carr is known throughout the | KieinSmid is president, are offering a
country as an authority on philosophy. I splendid program for the evening’s en-He is a member of the Southern California faculty this year through an exchange agreement between this university and the London institution.
tertainment which will be of particular interest to students of international affairs and to foreign students Tickets a~e now at the hook store.
Dinners will be served promptly at The theme of the evening will be 5:30 p. m. at the “T ” Hut. Reserva- j the promotion of in*ernational under-tions need not be made in advance. J standing.
ENGINEERS VISIT GOODYEAR PLANT
An inspection trip to the Goodyear tire and rubber plant in this city will be made today by *he American Society of Civil Engineers#
The engineers will leave at 1 n. nr. this afternoon from the engineers” building. This is one of n number of such inspection tours to be mad»* by the engineers. All engineers ar° Trv-vited to go on this trip.