Southern
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Trojan
TROJANS SCORE WIN
Loyola College went down to defeat in a practice baseball game on Bovard Field last night to Coach Sam Crawford s baseball nine.
The Score—	H H E
Loyola .............................................. 4 10 6
Trojans .......................-.................... 6 9 5
Mclsaacs and Lowery; Gormsen, Laranetta, Barnes.
VOL. XVII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, March 24, 1926
Number 114
MEN in authority around the University have told us that about this time of the year, that just before vacations, a current f petty thievery carries on about the campus. This statement has ien confirmed juding from the ^omplaints being made by numer-us organizations. For the past eek approximately eight cases ave been reported.
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The most damaging of the cases reported are the missing of two typewriters, one from the office of the El Rodeo and the other from the office of the University News Bureau. The two machines represent an investment of approximately $150 by the Associated Students, and it is the Student Body that will suffer by the action performed.
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Members ot the Deputations com-ittee have also fallen victims to this crime wave.” Following a recent ihowing before the University high .bool students, the Deputations Com-littee missed a large Trojan banner nd a silver loving cup that were used part of the advertising program, 'he banner was the University’s ad-rtising medium in the skit, while the up belonged and had been won by a irominent student who had donated to the committee.
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MOCK TRIAL WILL EXPOSE POLITICIANS
Skull and Dagger Pledges Unveil Campus Skeletons in Near Future.
TALLMAN IS HEAD
Road Show Try-outs Scheduled For Thursday and Friday
Court Publicity To Result in Veritable “Slaughter of the Innocents.”
The Philosophy office, the library, I kc graduate managers office and iher departments of the University ivc all made complaints. Keep on ie watch for the ones who are do-ig these things and do not hesitate
To inform the student body as to some of the failings of a great number of campus notables and organizations with political and social aspirations, the committee in charge of the annual Skull and Dagger trial is now busily employed in arranging this prosecution.
The date of the trial has been tentatively set for some Friday assembly period between the resumption of school after Easter vacation and the 30th of April.
Leland Tallman, chairman of the committee, is endeavoring to arrange with the rally committee to allow the trial to be held in Touchstone Theatre during a Friday morning assembly period. Chapel credit will be allowed for attendance at this trial upon the payment of 10c or 15c ad-
Senior Road Show tryouts will be held in Bovard Auditorium, Thursday and Friday afternoons, according to Grant La Mont, wTho will direct the show. Director La Mont wishes to see all individuals having monologues, acts, or specialties suitable for vaudeville production, with the object of taking the best of the lit Submitted and incorporating it into a fast moving show.
Each candidate for an act will give a short resume of the specialty and wrill submit his act to the management. Director La Mont says that the spring vacation will allow contestants for places in the Senior Road Show to perfect their particular theatrical attempts, and to prepare for a formal rehearsal at a future date.
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report them for it is to your own | misslon-terest.	Skull and Dagger’s trial is an an
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with anticipation by the student body
HE Daily Trojan wishes to thank j the many students that took an I ctive part in doping the California-C. track meet. It was by far the i st result that the Trojan has ever eived in a contest return, more tan 200 answers being turned in.
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Coach Dean Cromwell, who aided in *,e judging of the contest was pleased •ith the Trojan dopesters and would ve enjoyed being as optimistic as any of them were.
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The Dental College students espe-ally showed an interest in the const and succeeded in placing James R ith the winner and Carlton Poor cond. Burke Long, track manager, iled by one-half a point of making e second place.
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Since a great deal of interest was own in the contest the Daily Trojan >r a similar one later in the
Heretofore, Skull and Dagger trials have been of a razz nature, sprinkled with a goodly share of broad bur lesque. Lee Tallman promises a searching investigation that will be free from dirt, yet clever, humorous, subtle and full of withering publicity. The trial, it is intended, shall reveal many unsuspected suppressed political desires, wither budding hopes, destroy many social pretentions and imposters and provide, in brief, a modernized “slaughter of the innocents.”
The pledges of Skull and Dagger will take the part of the culprits, wit nesses and officers of the law that are to be involved in the trial. The com mittee, with Leland Tallman as chair man. is as follows: Burdette Ives I>ee Conti. Ed Murray and Sam E I Gates.
WILL DISCUSS SORORITY LIFE
Question is Referred to Committee; S. C. Hopes to Join University Women’s Association.
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Extravaganza
REHEARSALS FOR MAID OF ORLEANS NOW BEING HELD
Are all sororities to be abolished? This question is being serioilsly considered by the National Pan-Hellenic Council. The sorority question is also to be discussed by the Western Association of Deans of Women to be held in Los Angeles April 14 to 17.
When the National Pan-Hellenic Congress met, the question of whether sororities were worthwhile or not was referred to a committee. This committee is now attempting to find out what sorority life really accomplishes. The report of this committee will be made in January.
“In the meantime,” Eloine Truitt, president of the S. C. Pan-Hellenic Council, said, ‘‘it is up to the sororities to make good and to co-operate with the requirements of the university.
“S. C. was not admitted to the Association of University Women. We are now on a two-year probation and it was only through Dean Crawford's efforts that this much of a concession was granted, i *‘It is the little things that count. Girls sitting out in front of the university in cars have caused much criticism by influential persons outside the university.”
ALL UNIONS’ SHOW PROFIT
Student Organizations From 20 Colleges Report Cash Surplus On Hand.
Many points of vital interest to any university contemplating the erection of a student union have been made available to S. C. through the latest annual report of the Association of College and University Unions. This association is composed of all colleges and universities that have or are planning student unions and numbers among its members more than twenty leading universities.
The information received relates to the method of financing, cost, sources of income and management of the student union. This information was obtained by sending a questionnaire to all colleges that have unions. In the case of the majority of these colleges, the finances were obtained through the students and the alumni and, in some cases, through endowments. The approximate cost of the buildings ranged from $250,000 to $700,000 ana their source of income is provided by student fees and the various businesses that are carried on in the building.
In virtually every case the management of the union and the enterprises in connection with it are carried on by students with the aid of the alumni and a member of the faculty. These institutions are paying enterprises as, in addition to providing a center for campus life, the unions show a good cash surplus at the end of each year.
Change Date To Order Senior Announcements
The Senior class officers announce that an important extension of time has been secured for the ordering of commencement announcements. Thursday night at 4 o’clock has been set by the manufacturer's representative as the absolute and final deadline. Barton Hutchins asks that all Seniors who expect to graduate in all colleges put in their orders at once.
“February, June and August graduates will all have to order their announcements now. Up until Tuesday noon less than one-third of the class had ordered their announcements. This means that there are some 400 students that must take advantage of this last-minute extension and get their reservations made at once. We are sorry that the ordering must be closed so early, but commencement is coming and these announcements will have to be in Los Angeles in another couple weeks.” This was the statement of Barton Hutchins, president of the class, yesterday afternoon.
TROJAN WILL SUBMIT WHO’S WHO NAMES
Co-operate with Dean Waugh in Trojan Student Selections.
50 TO BE NAMED
CONTEST ENTRIES OPEN TO STUDENTS
Any Undergraduate May Submit Manuscripts; Finals Held Los Angeles.
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Entry may now be made in the 1926 National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest on the Constitution, accord- i ing to Dean Immel of the School of j
LAW STUDENTS HAVEWRITEUP
Eastern Magazine Devotes Space To New Building; Praises Women Alumnae.
Discussing the recent dedication of the law building on Southern California’s campus, ‘‘The Law Student,” a magazine published in Brooklyn, N. Y., devotes considerable space to the history of the institution, as well as i displaying a picture of the building itself.
“One feature ot particular interest in the history of the growth and development of the University of South em California,” it says in conclusion, “is that of the achievements of a number of women. No other law school in the country has graduated so many women who have actually gotten some-
Speech.
The contest is the second annual af* i wbere with the law. There is Mabel fair of its kind sponsored by the Bet- Walker Willebrandt, assistant United ter America Federation of California j states attorney-general, who, through
with offices in this city and Washing-
sheer ability, has become an almost
has been presented the musical d dramatic talent of the campus I
II lend their abilities towards the With rehearsals being held daily, ging of the annual Senior Road j	of Orleans,” a one-act play
how, due to be presented on April i Arthur Brigham, is rapidly round-3. The Road Show this year will ^ng juto form under the careful guid-ave to live down the Extravaganza, i ance 0f Eddie Blaine, and the super-as the latter show partly stole the i vision of Miss Tacie Mae Hanna. The theme of the Seniors production. J piay js to be presented soon in Touch-* • •	| stone Theater.
Heretofore the Senior Road Show j The play is replete with new ideas been a series of vaudeville acts [ in the way of stage effects ►d the Extravaganza has been a mu-
ton. The purpose of the contest is to 1
encourage and stimulate interest and 1 lnternaLi°nal figure. There are count-
HONORARY TAKES COMMERCE STARS
Beta Gamma Sigma Pledges Men Who Have Maintained “B’’ Average.
Beta Gamma Sigma, national hon-
study in the Constitution of the United	women attorneys in Los Angeles
States,	! and other California cities who are
Dean Immel, who is directing the i practicing law with a degree of suc-contest at Southern California, states j cess which most men would be glad that orations must not take more than j duplicate
Houser, Kaer, Snow, Cameron, Conti, Ross, Rice Among Those Considered.
BY FREEMAN HALL
Co-operating with Dean Karl T. Waugh in the submission of the names of fifty prominent Trojans to the Century Publishing Company for the national college Who’s Who, the Daily Trojan has selected a list of students for the consideration of the Dean. The list turned in by the Daily Trojan is composed of undergraduate Trojan Junior and Senior men and women who are doing something distinctive for their university in a scholastical, political, athletic, literary or scientific field.
The Who’s Who which will be titled ‘‘Prominent Collegians—1926’* will contain biographical sketches of the outstanding men and women be* ing graduated this year and next from the American colleges and universities. Graduate students will also be included in the publication. Four hundred institutions are included in the questionnaire sent out by the publishers of the Who’s Who.
According to a letter from the Century company to Dean Waugh, Seniors and Juniors are the only students to be considered, preference being given to the last-year students. Besides achievements in athletic, literary, scholarship, political or scientific activities, “campus citizenship” is to be taken into account. Athletic prominence will be viewed conservatively in the volume, the tendency being to distribute the fifty honored places over every phase of student lif*.
“Prominent Collegians—1926” is expected to be ofT of the press by May 7th. The list of Trojan men and women must be compiled within ten days, together with their activities and addresses. Some of those who are being considered by Dean Waugh and .the Daily Trojan are: Clarence Houser, Morton Kaer, Eldon Snow, Don Cameron, Lee Conti, Ed Murray, Bill Teetzel, Adna Leonard, Julia Suski, Ellsworth Ross, Jeff Cravath, Marjorie Rice, Evalyn Ross, Grant La Mont, Claire Kaufer and Lillian Copeland.
fal comedy with a thread of a plot I iis season’s Extravaganza branched | and over lapped into the territory } the Senior Road Show. Director { (ant I^a Mont has enough ability to ; [ng out the best possible talent for Road Show and with Barton ^tchins, senior class president and lb Green will undoubtedly give the fnpus one of the best Senior Road ows it has ever enjoyed.
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irESTERDAY we told of the sportsmanship displayed by Elmer Ger-of the Bears and failed to men-Les Schwobedft the California
ler. According to the men who ran ► race with him, the Bear man dis-lyed a wonderful sporting attitude.
‘ one of the turns when he was >ed to swing wide he did not take it (many runners would have reacted, patted the Trojan runner who had :©d him wide and said “You got me boy.** Schwobeda came through l&pite of this handicap and won a Ifect race
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LOOM is beginning to hang over the Trojan camp for the Stanford-. track meet to be held in Palo on April 3rd. Ccach Dean Crom-|l and hi* assistant Tommy Davis : good reason to be with sevsral /Cocr.iuoed on Pa** ttoor)
The climax of the story is said by critics to be the most beautiful scene that has been attempted for some time on the campus. »n inis scene, which is a dream in which the image of Jeanne d’Arc is supposed to speak to a disillusioned poilu, the producers state that many possibilities are offered both in staging and in acting.
Webster Haynes, as the poilu, and I Louise Schrynemaker as Jeanne d’Arc, are the leading characters. The rest of the cast is: James Corbett, Wesley Grissinger, and Nadine Richards.
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The production of the “Maid of Or-
i leans” has been made possible through | co-operation with the Little Theater Movement which has become well
! kuoxsn in the last two years.
Pledges Mark Off
Auto Parking Lanes
Following the newest lines of thought on fraternity initiation Eta Kappa Nu. honorary electrical engineering fraternity, is making their pledges do something of value to the University and the chapter as a whole. The first menial duty of this kind was to paint white parking lanes on University Ave.
Eta Kappa Nu was founded at the University of Illinois in 1904. The ’oca! chapter came on the S. C. cam* nu? in June, 1926.
orary Commerce fraternity, announces the election and pledging of J. Bruce Browne, Don Edwin and Dallas Platt, Juniors in the College of Commerce.
During the^present school year. Beta Gamma Sigma has elected three Seniors and three Juniors: Maury Lat-ker, W. Clarke Osborn. Charles E. Berry. J. Bruce Browne, Don Edwin and Dallas Platt.
Faculty members of the local chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma include Dean Rockwell D. Hunt of the Grad uate School. Dean Wallace McCook Cunningham of the College of Commerce and Professors Thurston Ross, Elmer Fagan, Doras Jeppson, Emery Olson and D. Walter Morton, former dean of the College of Commerce.
Officers of the local chapter are: President, Paul K. Webster; vice-president, Al Sw’anholm; secretary, Jens Rassmussen. and treasurer, Ed Hallman.
Chapters are now located at Wisconsin, Illinois, California, Pennsylvania. Columbia. Washington, Iowa, Northwestern, Pittsburgh. Washington University, Oregon. Minnesota. Cincinnati, Syracuse. Texas. Ohio State. Southern California and several other leading universites.
ten minutes to deliver and should be written either on the general subject of ‘‘The Constitution” or on the relation to the Constitution of Washington, Jefferson, Madison. Hamilton, Lincoln or Webster.
The orations will be judged equally upon construction and delivery. Any undergraduate student in any depart ment of the university is eligible to compete. Preliminary contests, to determine the student who will represent Southern California in the regional finals, will be held soon after the spring vacation.
The Better America Federation is offering cash prizes aggregating $5000.00 to winners in the contest First prize is $2000 in cash, while second prize is $1000. Every competitor in' the grand final contest will receive some award, the smallest, seventh place, being $300.
The grand finals will be held in Los Angeles on June 25, 1926. At this time the seven district winners, from all sections of the United States, will compete for the grand prizes.
Additional information on the con test may be secured from Dean Immel or the School of Speech office. All students expecting to enter the contest should get in communication with Dean Immel at once.
“In Los Angeles there is a women's police court, which may be said to be run' entiiely by women. In the first place, it was largely through the ef forts of one woman—Alice Titus Magill—that this court, which deals entirely with woman's wrongs and wrongdoings, was established. Mrs. Magill was for many years deputy city prosecutor, practicing in this court; within the past year she has had charge of the office practice in the city prosecutor s department.”
DRAMA TEACHERS TO HOLD MEETING
Miss Tacie Mae Hanna Represents S. C. at Berkeley Conven-tion.	-1
NOTICE
August graduates will have their names in the Senior announcements ns well as those graduating in June, i Both groups must order their announcements at once as tomorrow the time limit.
RELIGION SCHOOL HEARS DR. STUART
With Dr. W. A. Stuart, choir director of the First Baptist church n~ the feature speaker on the program, the School of Religion held its monthly meeting at the home of Professor Montgomery. 2806 Ellendale Place, last Thursday evening.
Dr. Stuart gave a unique demonstra tion of church music.
Actng in her capacity of first vice* president of the Drama Teachers’ As sociation of California, Miss Tacie May Hanna will leave for the sixth annual conference Thursday morning The convention will be held in Berkeley Thursday, Friday and Saturday under the auspices of the state board of education.
Miss Hanna is to speak on ‘Original Playwriting” on Friday. ‘‘The purpose of the organization,” stated Miss Hanna, “is to further amateur dramatics in schools and universities of California.”
In addition to addresses by mem bers of the association, several un usual presentations have been arranged. “Faustus” will be produced by Irving Pichel Thursday evening at the Playhouse in Berkeley. Friday repertory play will be produced by th«i Little Theater in Wheeler Hall.
COMMERCE SHOWS STEADY INCREASE IN REGISTRATION
Registration figures recently issued by the College of Commerce show a total of 408; of this number, 364 are men and 44 women. These figures indicate that the College of Commerce, installed as such at the beginning of the present school year, has been firmly established as a unit in the university.
A detailed survey of these figures show that at the present time there are in the College of Commerce 166 Freshmen, 99 Sophomores, 4 Juniors. 50 Seniors, 7 graduates and 23 specials.
According to the plan now in operation in Commerce, all Juniors and Seniors are required to choose and follow the requirements of one par ticular major field. The General Business group heads this list with 65 students; foreign trade is second with 24. Accounting, banking and finance are tied for third place with 12 students in each. Other groups include mar keting, 6; traffic management, 3; industrial management, 2; real estate. 2; insurance, 2, and miscellaneous, 15: thus showing a total of 143 Juniors. Seniors, specials and graduates
NOTICE, SENIOR MEN-
Bob Jones, Senior baseball man ager, wants all Senior men at the Jefferson playgrounds this afternoon at 4 p. m. to play the second game of th?-interclass series. Attention is called to the fact that the Senior ‘►lam already won one tame.