Southern
California
Trojan
SPANK CARD EX-COMMITTEE
STANFORD, (P. I. P.), April 21.—Stanford will continue to have captains for its athletic teams. The move to abolish captains was voted down after the executive committee had passed it.
The vote was^carried, 356 to 325, over-ruling the ex-committee decision.
VOL. XVII.
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Los Angeles, California, Thursday, April 22, 1926
Number 129
ELECTION RULES
<**• has been announced on the !	Riff TfTPP nnrpn student union building plan. The j I 11 [V| |V| I I I ff \r I S committee composed of Frank vl/l!lllll 1 1 LtLt JLl 1U
Hadlock, alumni, Hal Williamson, graduate school, Mike Elwood, Gladys Lee and Eldon Sncw has turned in an excellent report to	-■- tlie student body. This was done j May 4th Set for Election Edition; Knights and Amazons to Curb Electioneering.
That the rules for the coming student body elections to be held on May t> have been formulated is the announcement of Alden Ross, chairman of the election committee. These rules relate to election advertising, places of voting and the conduct of affairs on the election day.
May 4 has been set as the date for the election edition of the Daily Tro-I jan and all candidates desiring space j in that issue must make arrangements with Bill Teetzel, business manager. The candidates for president, vice-president, Trojan editor and yell king will be allowed to use 16 inches of space. The candidates for secre-
i.	All of this must tary will be permitted 12 inches, ex-definite plans are ecutive committee aspirants 10 inches, drawn up. it would be to the advan- ! Dental president 10 inches. The tage of ihe student body to spend [ amount for the president of Commerce |HM>,000 more at the outset than wait ! has not been definitely decided as yet, until the building is finished and only j according to Ross. These advertise-flnd that many of the important feat ments will be run on a cash basis, ac-ures were left out. Get everything in cording to Teetzel. that building and it’ll be cheaper in On the day of elections, the Trojan
at the executive committee meeting Tuesday evening.
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The present temporary plans call for a magnificent four 6tory structure, with social rooms, billiard parlors, cafeteria, club rooms, Faculty rooms, banquet halls, dance floor, graduate school, bowling alleys, barber shops and beauty parlors, offices of all student body and class officers, publications offices, graduate and coachers offices, and all student activities.
Now it has been proposed by some students that many other features be added to the edifi foe settled before
the long run.
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At the next regular election of the student body the students will vote on whether they want to be assessed $5 per semester toward the student union building fund. This proposition has to go through for it means that if the students signify their wish to be taxed for the building, that the alumni, and the administration will do all in their power to swell the student fund and bring the union days and months closer.
Thanks a thousand and one times to j the administration for the land offer. If the students raise the funds and j present a guarantee of the student union building, the administration has offered to donate the land, meaning the saving of approximately $100,000 to the student body.
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Thc Board of Trustees ivUl be <isked to accept the students' wish and allow the $5 to be added to the annual tuition. If thc students desire to be taxed #5, there is no logical reason why the Board of 7 rus-tees should not allow them to do so. It would be well for the Board of Trustees to take the final ballot into consideration and if *hc students desire ii so, let it be so.
ON TO THE STUDENT UNION
FOR THE REAL TROJANS!
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^ OME Interesting legislation was O carried on Tuesday night at the executive committee meeting. The one which primarily concerns the working force of the Daily Trojan is an amendment to the constitution for the nomination of the Trojan editor from the staff with the provision that the man be a senior and have served four semesters prior to election.
Knights and Amazons will be out in j force to see that there is no electioneering near the polls. Further infor-i mation offered by Ross is that each college will vote on its own campus, that the Commerce nominations will I be held at the same time as the Lib-' eral Arts nominations. The polls wrill ! be open from 8 to 3:30 and each voter : must present a student body card to be punched at the time of casting the ballot.
Tf any of the candidates desire a j representative to be present as the : ballots are counted to check up on ' the results, they may be secured by
1 seeing Ross sometime before the elec-tions.
This amendment was opposed by the men active in the publications while the remainder of the committee that does not have any definite touch with the situation as seen from the “inside” overruled it and passed the amendment. It merely means that henceforth if a senior be incapable to hold office and he is the only one eligible he will be given the position over another man that would insure the university a good publication. It means that the case will arise when not the best man or the best qualified for the office will be placed into it, and thus the flood old American axiom of “May the best man win” is relegated to the junk pile.
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Plan Style Book For Daily Trojan
Freeman Hall and John Hunt To Compile Data for Needed Pamphlet.
To provide for future Trojan reporters, desk editors and news editors a complete source of information on all phases of newspaper writing, a style book is now being compiled by twro staff members, Freeman Hall, managing editor, and John Hunt, new’s editor. It is to be similar to the style books used by all tbe large metropolitan dailies.
The purpose of this pamphlet, according to Freeman Hall, is to cover all points relative to general newspaper style, to punctuation and capitalization, and to definite points of policy peculiar to the Trojan. It is to be organized in such a manner as to give to the reporter chronological information for writing his story.
Some of the points covered so far by compilers of the book are: The “lead,” or first paragraph of a newrs story; the general organization of a news story; rules of punctuation, capitalization and for the use of titles and first names; instructions on headline writing.
Co-operation in the writing of the book is being given by Marc N. Goodnow and Miss Julit McCorkle, journalism instructors. Work has been going forward on it for about a week, and it is expected that three more weeks will be required to complete it.
POOR GRADES MAY KEEP CANDIDATES OUT OF ELECTIONS
Petitions Due Friday Instead of Wednesday; Basketball Team May Not Receive Awards.
"V\ ith a motion made to adjourn, the student body executive committee was thrown into a heated debate Tuesday when it was discovered that some of the intended candidates for the A.
S.	U. C. offices were ineligible. This ineligibility was based on Section 1, Article III, of the constitution, which prohibits anyone from being a candidate for a student body office whose grades for the semester preceding his nomination have not been recommended.
This discovery, brought forward by Bradford Trenham, graduate representative, was the signal for an intense and prolonged argument. Some of the members of the committee felt that, inasmuch as the people under discussion had had a good scholastic record previous to last semester, and since their lower record then was due to absence resulting fmm participation on the university’s business, they should be allowed to run any way. Accordingly, several different solutions were proposed. An amendment was finally proposed to require student body candidates to have recommended grades throughout their course, rather than just the first semester.
This amendment will be voted on at a special meeting of the executive committee to be called Friday noon at 12:30. It is understood that if the amendment fails, several candidates will be eliminated.
It w'as also decided at the meeting that the date for the petitions to be in should be changed from Wednesday. as was previously announced, to Friday noon. All petitions must be in at that time, when the eligibility of candidates will be decided upon.
Several other matters of importance were also brought up. One of these was the question of membership on the general athletic committee. It has been understood that the president of the Varsity Club should hold a place on this committee with the student body president. However, this is not embodied in the constitution, so an (Continued on Page Four)
FIND NEW TALENT FOR KFI PROGRAM
The regular weekly S. C. program over KFI to be presented from 7 to 8 tonight will include some of the premier musical talent of the Trojan student body, according to Hal Wil-rhe publication field z'oted against Uamson. radio manager.
'he amendment, namely Barton I Miss Harriette Henderson, consid-'Hutchins, editor of the W ampus I ered one of the finds in radio artistry ind News Editor of the Trojan, 5 because of the pleasing quality of her Ifartha H iggctt. Society Editor of voice and its adaptability to radio
work, will head the program. Miss Henderson, a coloratura-soprano, will present several numbers, but the repertoire will not be announced until the presentation of the program.
Miss Dorothy Bishop, prominent campus pianist, will present several pieces, among which will be “Sparks.”
he Trojan, Burdette Ives, Manager ?f El Rodeo, and the writer. The 'ommittee, however, although Hot wquatnted unth the situation thor-tughly, sazv fit to amend the con-titution above the recommendations of the people that are directly *onnected with the publications.
WOMEN SCHEDULE ATHLETIC EVENTS
Entries for Women’s Inter-sorority Swimming Meets Close at Noon Monday.
Athletically inclined women of the campus will take part in many athletic events within the next few weeks, when the following activities come into the limelight: the inter-sorority swimming meet, the inter-class baseball games and the annual gym party.
The L. A. A. C. will be the scene of the inter-sorority swimming meet to be held Wednesday at 7:30 p. m. If entry lists from every sorority are not turned in to Miss Pinder of the Woman’s Physical Education department before 12 o’clock Monday, the sorority will be disqualified. Practice will be held Friday evening from 8 to 11 p. m. and Saturday morning from 9 to 12 a. m. in the L. A. A. C. plunge. On Tuesday and Thursday evenings practice will be held at Wilkinson’s beginning at 7:30 p. m.
In the first lap of the inter-class baseball games, to be held the first week in May, the Freshmen will play against the Sophomores and the Juniors against the Seniors. The two winners will then play for the class championship. All members of the winning team will be awarded a white sweater bearing the baseball insignia and class numerals. Practices are held on Bovard Field every Monday and Wednesday from 3 to 5 p. m. and on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 4 to 5 p. m.
Awards, chevrons, sweaters and W. A. A. pins will be presented “ -he gym party May 5th at 4 o’clock. Regular gym clothes will be the dress for the event and all university women are eligible to attend.
SKULL AND DAGGER WILL STAGE FOUR HUMOROUS TRIALS
Honorary Fraternity Will Present Comedy Trials in Touchstone Wednesday Morning.
To make definite plans for the forthcoming farce trials to be given in Touchstone Theater Wednesday at 10 a. m., the members of Skull and Dagger, all-university honorary society, met in the Wampus office yesterday at noon.
Four short trials will be given this year instead of the one long one as has been the custom in the past. The directors believe tb%t this new form will make for better entertainment and comedy, thus affording a better program than has ever been offered by skull and Dagger.
Two practices will be held in Touchstone Theater; one today at 3 p. m. and another Monday at 9 p. m. after the fraternity meetings.
Don Cameron made the following statement: “Unless every pledge participates actively in the trial and the rehearsal, initiation of the respective persons will be held up.”
An admission price orf 15 cents will be charged. Tickets may be had at the door.
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE PASSES ON PLANS FOR STUDENT UNION
Donald Parkinson, Architect, Will Draw Plans For Building; Southern California Alumni and Student Body Will Have Charge of Finances for $400,000 Project.
BY HOWARD EDGERTON
Accepting the tentative plans for a Student Union building, <and appointing a committee to continue the work already done, the student body executive committee took definite action on the Union project at its meeting Tuesday night. These plans include financing by both the alumni and student body, and arrangements for purchase of land and for designs of the building
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A summary of thi plans was given
Road Show To Be Given April 30
Three Headline Acts are on the Bill to be Presented in Bovard Next Friday Night.
A play by William de Mille, a musical review by Eddie Blaine and Wes Woodford, and a gi^nd finale termed a “carnival comedy" are the three headliners to be presented at the twelfth annual Senior Road Show, which will begin at 8:15 on April 30. “Poor Old Jim,” the play, will star Ellsworth Ross, prominent “broken bachelor” of the campus, while well known campus musical stars will lead in the other headliners.
According to Wes Woodford, who is directing the chorus, the girls show much enthusiasm. Rehearsal work has been going on at Santa Monica for the past two weeks, the meetings being held at the beach to insure a full attendance and absolute privacy. Consequently, what comes off in the show, says Woodford, will be a complete surprise to the entire campus.
Tickets for the road show go on sale today and boxoffice reports indicate a more than full house tomorrow night.
Students are urged by the management to get their tickets or reservations early, as the show is only being given one night, and seats are limited.
WAMPUS BREAKS LOOSE TUESDAY
“Travel Issue of Wampus is Scheduled To Startle Campus Early Tuesday Morning.
Acquainting the campus witu wha>. is said to be one of the liveliest issues of the Wampus this year, the staff, through Barton Hutchins, editor-in-chief, announces that the ‘ Travel” issue of the Southern California humor magazine will be available to the students Tuesday morning bright and early.
Les Heilman, circulation manager, and his cohorts will have thirty-five hundred copies for distribution.
Many critics, some of them drawing for professional publications at the present time, dropped in at the Wampus office and gave the pictures submitted by campus artists for the “Travel” issue the once over, and pronounced them as comparing favorably with the best college humor magazines of the country. The cover design by Bob Sandusky has caused considerable comment for its attractiveness and originality.
According to Hutchins, the copy in this issue will adhere strictly to travel stories, particularly those displaying originality. Some exceptional poetry wTill also be printed, which will be discriptive of for'egn countries, always keeping the witty side to the fore.
The price for this issue will be the same as that of previous issues..
FELLOWSHIP NOTICE
Canadians Interested In Real Estate Course
Thirten states and one Canadian province are represented by the students enrolled in the correspondence course in real estate of the University of Southern California, according to Mrs. S. H. Van Dusen, department head. New York, Florida, Ohio and Washington have a large number of registrants and Nova Scotia. Canada, is represented by one student.
Correspondence with these students indicates that a majority of them are planning to come to California to enter the real estate business but are desirous of studying California practices in real estate before their ar rival.
JUNIOR COMMITTEE
A meeting of the Junior class social c.. .imittee will be held at 12 o’clock todav in the Wampus office.
Members of the Student Fellowship will hold a meeting ln the “Y” hut at 4:15 P. M. today. Plans will be discussed for the house party to be held in the near future at Pacific Palisades.
Staff Will Nominate Candidates For Editor of Wampus
Candidates for next year’s editor of the Wampus will be nominated today noon at a meeting of the Wampus staff. As this meeting will be of vital importance to the future of the Wampus, Editor Bart Hutchins urges that every member of the Wampus staff come to his office today at noon ?n order to carry on the nominations with the best results.
PLAN DINNER FOR PROFESSOR ULREY
Faculty Member Will Give Results of Research and Study in Eastern Colleges.
In recognition of his twenty-five years as a member of the Southern California faculty and his return from eight months of research at eastern institutions, a dinrer will be given for Professor Albert B. Ulrey by the Biology' department Thursday at 6:30 in the Women’s Residence Hall. The committee in change expects 150 guests to attend.
Representing the older aspect of the department, President Emeritus Warren B. Bovard will give a talk on Professor Ulrey’s services to Southern California and his contributions to science. This will be followed by an address by Presu‘ent. Rufus B. von KieinSmid on the later history and development of biology in its relations to the other courses and activities of the university.
In his message tf the faculty and alumni. Professor Ulrey will tell of the results of his research and study in the eastern universities. In addi- j tion to the talks by the three more j experienced men. a number of prom : inent alumni who have made success- j ful records in their chosen fields of j biology will devote two minutes to j discussions of subjects related to that j of science.
Making for variety in the program j will be musical selections by Berwyne J Riske. With words which tell stories about sponges, starfish and other inhabitants of the West Coast, the songs are of a “Biological” nature. The verses were composed and set to popular tunes by the biology students on their trips to Wood's Hole, where | they sing them around the campfires. \ Invitations have been sent to all biology alumni and friends of Professor Ulrey. Others eligible to attend are members of the Biology Honor Society and Kappa Zeta, professional , pre-medical fraternity. Directed by ; Miss Catherine Beers, instructor, and Paul Greely, assistant, the staff of Bi-
out yesterday by the Student Union committee, composed of Hal Williamson, chairman; Gladys Lee, Frank Hadlock, Johnny Woods, Eldon Snow and Mike Elwood. The summary follows:
1.	Land. A resolution from the student executive committee to the board of trustees for a plot of land for the Student Union.
2.	Assessment of student body. A resolution from the student executive committee to the board of trustees asking that they, the board of trustees, grant permission for the student body executive committee to place on the ballot at election time an amendment to the Constitution of the Associated Student Body of the University of Southern California assessing each regular and special student the sum of $5.00 per semester for the Student Union for a period of two school years.
3.	Sketches are to be obtained from Donald Parkinson, architect, which will contain the following: a basement, in which there will be bowling alleys and billiard tables; a first floor, containing the book store, soda
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Commerce To Give Pep Rally Friday
College of Commerce Will Have Charge of Program; Owen Fallon’s Orchestra Engaged.
Featuring Owen Fallon and his Californians, KMTR radio orchestra, together with a number or other high class professional musical acts, including Woods and Witty, banjoista, the College of Commerct will present one of its typical musical rallies in Bovard Auditorium tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock.
Although arranged and sponsored by the College of Commerce under the direction of Don Edwin, assisted by Bruce Browne, this rally is to be a regular all-university assembly which is being put on in order to enable all the schools and colleges in the university to enjoy one of the pep rallies which Commerce has put on from time to time in Touchstone Theater during the present school year.
Owen Fallon's orchestra will headline the bill and will be supported by Calvin Hendricks playing popular songs and ballads on the organ, and Witty and Woods in banjo duets similar to those given by the same couple in this year’s Extravaganza These banjiists are well known for their lively solos and duets and have appeared in a number of popular dance orchestras, including that which appeared at the recent Auto Show. Calvin Hendricks has appeared at a number of previous Commerce Rallies, and hi« organ numbers are expected to b** a particularly unique feature of the entertainment.
HONOR SOCIETIES WILL HOLD PICNIC
At the executive meeting of the History and Political Science Honor So ciety held Wednesday noon in the Political Science office, a motion was accepted to the effect that the annual club picnic will be held at Monte Vista Park on Friday, May 7th, following a statement pertaining to the good qualities of this place for 3nch an event by Dr. Roy C Malcolm of Political Science department.
The picnic, which ls to be in the fo-m of a barbeone dinner, after which entertainment will be in the form of pirniMng. will be made more entertaining by thf possibilities for horseshoes, p’ayng baseball and trour fishing.
Before the advent of the club members. a party will be sent out to com-
ology department is making the plans piete such arrangements as se nrln* for the dinner.	trVs stores and certain provisimw.