Southern
California
Trojan
CHARLIE AFTER RECORD
Charles Paddock, former Trojan sprinter, will return here soon, where he will attempt to lower the 100-yard dash record. According to Paddock he expects to lower the present mark of 9.6 to 9.4 seconds-He will wear the colors of the L. A. A. C. in his attempt.
VOL. XVII
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, March 4, 1926
Number 101
Titie Desired For All-U. Circus; Prizes are Offered
ARK KELLY, sporting au-thorty of the Los Angeles aminer, devoted his famous hat Nots” column to the Tro-n yell knigs recently. In it he >held the good work done by « yell kings and pointed out | Contest sharks, attention! To the [hat a factor they played in col- campus wit, near-wit, or half-wit who giate sports. Kelly stated that submits the best name for an All-U ni-le work of the yell kings had as versity circus, coming to the campus uch bearing on the outcome of April 9 and supported by the sorori-le game as the work of the play- ties, various colleges and societies. kS. We agree with him perfect- Will be presented a genuine hand-Yet players are rewarded painted ticket to the circus and side ith varsity awards, while only show. As additional inducement, a le yell king will receive a regua- Ipair of Paris Garters (adv.) is offered
by Bull and Buller. Submit names to the “Y. W.H; the contest closes Mon-jday afternoon at 3.
The circus is to be staged at the men’s gym, and includes animals, campus freaks, hair-raising stunts, the sale of pink lemonade, popcorn, hot-dogs and peanuts. It will be preceded by a regular circus parade with clowns, ’n animals, ’n everything.
Campus wise - crackers, including several notorious Wampus kittens, are already searching among their minds for high-powered titles with the hope of winning the prize, which, those in H c arc extremely sorry for the charge promise, will be sent in plain 'o assistant yell kings that de- , wrapper.
>ted hours of work and tcnil be	__
|:t out in the cold.
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HE Senior class is progressing rapidly socially, and as a proof their campus doings, one will but ive to notice the success of the first tnior snap held last night at the Pi [eta Phi house. This was the first a series of informal gatherings for ie June graduates whereby they may stter become acquainted before their ^arture wrom Southern California.
Plans are also being made for the
HOLD RALLY FRIDAY FOR COMMERCE
Assembly Credit To Be Given For Attendance; Arrowhead Orchestra Featured.
on award this year.
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A recent ruling passed discontinues the practice of giving the two assistant yell knigs recognition in the form of the customary sweater award. With the three men In the public eye, doing a good bit toward establishing the good will of Southern California to the public, their work, according to the new ruling, does not merit a reward.
S.C. TO MEET STRONG TEAM
Bill Henley and Leland Tallman Take Affirmative in Debate Against Loyola Tonight.
Lioyola College and the University of Utah will form the opposition for nu&l Senior Road Show to be held tbe Southern California varsity debaters in debates to be held tonight and tomorrow night. The question for both debates will be: “Resolved, That war should be declared by a vote I of the people except in cases of inva-ncidentally the Sophomore class j gjQQ or rebellion.'’ also
May and with the enlargement of ^e budget for the production a real lappy up to date show is assured.
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doing a little promotion with ietr monthly series of informal wees.
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p HE University of Southern Call-fornia will offer one of the best sorting courses in the country this immer. The sport program is for a ki ration of six weeks, starting June and should call to the training larters all sporting men, coaches, (udents. etc.
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The regular enrollment fee of |$27.50 is to cover the instruction in the four classes of the major Isports. Classroom and field work •s included in the sports, baseball, |football. basketball and track.
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Bill Henley and Leland Tallman, S. C. first team on the affirmative, will go against Loyola this evening, and against Utah tomorrow. They have worked together on a number of de bates this season and are considered one of the strongest teams. Debating authorities are expecting them to de feat both of their next opponents.
The negative team for Southern California is composed of Captain Raymond Brennan and Adna Leonard. They will represent S. C. when they travel out to Sixteenth Street to appear against the speakers lrom ix>y-ola. Brennan and l^onard, by the con-I ference ruling that the negative team I travels, have not had the chance to i speak before a Southern California audience. In the one decision debate
Featuring a complete program of syncopated music arranged by Hal Williamson, the College of Commerce has scheduled its second rally of the year for Friday morning at 10 o’clock in Touchstone Theater. Assembly credit is to be given to commerce students who attend.
The seven-piece Arrowhead Orchestra, whose personnel includes Don Parker, Ormond Grier, Shirley Mow-att, Kenny Becker, Stewart Peters, Al Wright and Frank Beck, has been secured by special arrangement. Miss Gogo Belanger, KFI entertainer who has been selected as juvenile lead in this year’s Extravaganza, will present a group of characteristic blues songs, accompanying herself on the ukulele. Rook Atwood, KFI tenor soloist, has agreed to give a series of numbers.
Of especial interest to Commerce students will be the announcement of the big Commerce dance which has been planned for the near future. Details of the affair are to be given at Friday’s rally.
Red Haynes, president of Commerce, made the following statement: “Everyone who attended the first Commerce pep rally will be present at Friday’s meeting, for they know of the first-class entertainment which is in store for them, while those who did not attend the initial rally will be sure to turn out for this second program to get a sample of what they missed on the previous occasion. Summing up, it is a certainty that Touchstone Theater will be crowded to the doors Friday, for this is to be the biggest program yet presented by the College of Commerce.”
Fraternity Control Passes Into Hands of President
Following a movement passed upon by the Executive Committee Tuesday night, the faculty of Southern California today breathed a sigh of relief. Social sororities and fraternities on the campus, hitherto controlled by the students and the faculty, passed definitely into the control of President R. B. von KieinSmid.
This act follows the unearthing of a movement which took place some two or three years ago. It seems that, at that time, the Student Body and the Welfare Committee had voted that Dr. von KieinSmid have complete charge of social fraternities. In some manner, known to the Executive Committee alone, the movement was dropped after it had been passed upon. .Tuesday night it was again brought up and is to be put into force in accordance with the desire of the Student Body and the faculty.
National Collegiate Players Honor Nineteen Students
I away from the campus, they defeated IHeading the course in football will (Southwestern by a vote of 2 to 1.
| Coach Howard Jones with a record I	_
having had previous experience at le. Syracuse, Ohio State, Iowa and st season at Southern California.
Dean Cromwell, the maker of Olym champions, is to instruct in track d field. His method of training me should be invaluable.
The good old diamond game is to
S. C. STUDENT ACTS ROLE OF LIFE SAVER
Last Sunday Crystal Fier was the scene of a heroic rescue made by Herbert Spencer, Zeta Kappa Epsilon. Two girls, Miss Margaret Hanover and Miss Patsy Miller, both of Holly-handled by Coach Sam Crawford, wood, were out beyond their depth iventeen years with the Detroit and being unable to swim, became ex* gers should be adequate qualifica- cited.
m for tutoring diamond aspirants. j When Spencer reached the girls,
•	• •	! Miss Hanover was completely uncon-In basketball Coach Les Turner, t scious. Upon reaching shore, the girls
o placed Boyer and Dorsey on the ! " ere immediately taken over by bath-- American squad last season, will : house officials who brought Miss Han-ndle the squad.	lover to consciousness and saw that
*	, «	they were properly taken care of.
......	. .	. I Spencer has been commended very
II ith these men Piling their re~ i . . , . . , .
. . / i . , . highly by the girls’ parents. ccttvc theories of the sports ana	_
(Kfing how it should be done, the'
structions are worth 7vhilc to any-
\e interested in sports, as spec-
tor, participant. authority. and in
ict in any capacity whatever.
Nine students who have shown particular merit in Southern California productions were pledged to the Southern California chapter of the National Collegiate Players at the Alpha Gamma Delta house Tuesday evening.
Those pledged were Sally Teschke, Josephine Campbell, Robert Raede, Pauline Klene, Edward Blaine, John Atwill, Leonard Friedson, Dorothy Taft and Ralph Holly. All of these students have been prominent in campus dramatic productions. As a part of the ceremony, a short extemporaneous act or skit was given by each pledge. Refreshments were served immediately thereafter.
In addition to the students pledged last Tuesday, the following honorary members will be initiated in the near future: Miss Tacie May Hanna, Harold J. Stonier, Dean Ray K. Immel, Dr. Allison Gaw, H. Uedell, M. Perkins and Miss Elizabeth Yoder.
There are seventeen chapters of the National Collegiate Players in the United States and membersb-'p signifies the highest attainment in collegiate drama. The Southern California organization is the thirteenth chapter
CANDY SALE BY PLEDGES
Spooks and Spokes Neophytes Required To Sell Sweet Food On Campus Today.
Dressed in costumes ot black and orange, Spookes and Spokes colors, pledges of that organization will sell candy on the campus today from 8 until 2.
“The three orders we gave the girls/’ stated Miss Claire Kauffer, president of Spookes and Spokes, "are that the candy should be good, that the price should be 10 cents a bag and that the costumes should be of black and orange crepe paper. The rest is up to them. I don’t know just what the costumes will be, but they will certainly be easy to recognize.”
Miss Eloise Parke, one of the pledges, promises that, as all known varieties of candy will be represented, everyone on the campus who has a sweet tooth will be satisfied.
Announce Important Cosmopolitan Meetin
O’
C0NT1UE TRYOUTS FOR FRENCH PLAY
Moody Kilgore, president of the Cosmopolitan Club, announces an important meeting to be held at 954 I West 36th Street, corner of 36th and I McClintock. on Sunday afternoon. UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, Mar<*h 7, at 4:00 o’clock.
rch 3 (P. I. P.)—Immediate recall 1 Friends of the club are urged to be.
present as this meeting marks the be-
,ack of Confidence in Executive; Recalled
C. Van Pet Harley ’26 as its repre-
I pining of the new svstem wherebv the nt&tive to the Executive Committee , club m(,ets on the fir3t gunday of each
is recommended by the debating ! month at 4:00 o’clock.
uncil Friday. Reason for lack of j According to Moody Kilgore, the
ifidence in Harley, the council said. : club is out to do big things. Since
s that he had failed to properly jts beginning some years ago, it has
present it on the Executive com- j stood for the spirit of brotherhood ] after the Little Theater Movement
Tryouts for the French play, “Maid of Orleans,” by Harold Brighouse, will continue until Thursday afternoon in Touch-tone Theater, according to Eddie Blaine, who is in charge of the production.
Men are especially urged to try out as Eddie Blaine announced, “The play will afford men excellent parts.” Also, the tryouts are open to all students, but those with a slight knowledge, or connection with the French Department are welcomed since the produc-f tion contains many French phrases.
The date of the production is set for March 26. Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford suggested the idea of the play. Attempts will be made to pattern it
PRESS CLUB TO HOLD INITIATION
Election of Officers and Initiation Will Be Held Thursday Night At Eight O’clock.
The initiatory rites of the Press Club will be given to five candidates for merd®ership Thursday night at 8
o’clock at the Alpha Sigma Delta fraternity house, located at 2620 Menlo Avenue. The initiate# are: Catherine Colwell, Leo Harris, Paul Slater. Bill Srere, Frances Howard. The speaker for the evening has not yet been announced.
Election of the year’s officers will also take place at this time. The nominating committee, composed of Marjory Hull, Dave Fred and Beth Baker, has submitted the following candidates for office: President, Paul Churchill and Don Mayhew; v^e-president, Howard Edgerton, Mynette Ritch and Don Edwin; treasurer, Rita Pad way and Don Pierce; secretary, Vivian Murphy and Bernice Palme-. The offices of treasurer and secretary have hitherto been filled by the same person. The stress of current duties have proved so strenuous, however, that it was decided to separate the offices and consequently their duties.
TICKETS FOR ALL U DANCE ARE ON SALE
Valuable Prizes Will Be Goven Winners of Contests; Penty of Pep and Punch.
There are dances, and dances; formal dances and informal dances; fraternity dances, and class dances; but there is only one All-University spring festival, and that comes off Friday night at Al Maiaikah Temple.
“Don’t feed me that old line about this being the best dance of the year,” one blase student said wearily. “We’ve heard that line before.” Well perhaps most college dances are similar, but it is not every dance committee that offers a silver loving up, a gold bracelet and silver cigarette case with the University seal as prizes for the best waltzers and foxtrotters on the floor. That is what the All-U. committee intends to do, Marporie Rice, Don Cameron, Everett and John R. Kelly having been appointed to choose the winners. These trophies are being presented through the courtesy of J. A. Meyers.
Perhaps most college dances are the usual congested mob, but then this is the first time that a college dance has ever been given in the big new ball room of Al Maikah Temple. This dance floor, one of the largest in Los Angeles, is said to hold two thousand couples, so that the limit of one thousand which has been set for this dance insures ample Charlestoning room.
Kenny Becker, who is in charge of the music, has obtained Carroll Loch-ner’s La Monica Ballroom 10-piece orchestra. The players have appeared on the Orpheum Circuit and will go back on the circuit soon.
Some dances have been spoiled by the chaperons, but the Spring Informal is in no danger of this with Dr. and Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid. Dean and Mrs. Karl T. Waugh, Colonel and Mrs. Warren Bovard, Mr. and Gwynn Wilson, and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Stonier on the list of patrons and patronesses.
"A dance without good punch is rather a frost,” says Reva Hawkins, who has charge of this part of the dance, “but that si one thing that won’t happen at the All-U. I’ll promise that.”
Walter Hodgeson, of the ticket committee. announces that tickets ar*, still on sale, at the Students Store. These tickets are equally available to students of all campus and off-campus colleges.
Four Amendments Are Proposed To S. C. Constitution
May Change Methods of Choosing Candidates For Editor of Trojan and El Rodeo
At the regular meeting ot the Executive Committee of the S. C. Student Body, held Tuesday night, four amendments to the student body constitution were moved and will come up for decision at the next meeting, weeks from last Tuesday. The resolutions affect the method by which the editors of the Trojan and “El Rodeo” are chosen.
The amendment in regard to the Trojan editor reads as follows: ‘‘The editor shall have had at least, one year in the Department of Journalism in the University of Southern California, and shall have served five or more semesters on the staff of ‘The Southern California Daily Trojan.' The staff of the above publication shall at general meeting nominate two or more candidates for the position of editor. Such nominations shall be made at least one week before the date set for formal nominations before the student body.” This amendment, if passed, automatically exempts the candidates from the necessity «jf filing petitions as has been the custom before the adoption of the amendment.
The amendment relating to the choosing of the editor of the “El Rodeo” provides for nomination of at least two candidates at a general meeting of the annual staff, made one week prior to the date set for formal nominations and for election of one of the candidates at the regular election in May.
The third amendment provides that the publications committee shall select two or more candidates for the position of Trojan business manager and shall submit their candidates to the executive committee for decision. The last amendment provides that the publications committee shall select two or more students for the position of “El Rodeo” manager and shall submit the candidates for the consideration of the Executive Committee.
These resolutions take the place of amendments previously proposed which were laid on the table until the new amendments are decided upon. It is rumored that these amendments will come before the student body for final decision.
GAYLE SEAMEN TO
ATTEND Y. RETREAT
All Men Students Are Invited To Attend Party At Switzers Camp, Near Pasadena.
Gayle Seamon, internationally known Y. M. C. A. worker, will in all probability attend the “Y” retreat to be held at Switzer’«s over thn coming week-end. Mr. Seamon is the field secretary of the International Com-
S. C. WILL PRESENT PROGRAM OVER K.FI
Collegiate and Popular Numbers Will Be Played By Arrowhead Dance Orchestra.
The regular weekly radio program to be presented over KFI from 7:00 to 8:00 tonight will feature collegiate and popular numbers and will be headed by the Arrowhead dance orchestra. This popular band, which has ap peared on S. C- programs several times and has always drawn a great deal of favorable comment, is composed of Don Parker, pianist; Ormonde Grier, sax; Kenny Becker, sax; Shirley Mowatt, sax; Stuart Peters,
mittee of the Y. M. C. A. He has been jorums, and others.
Dean Crawford Returns From Washington, D. C.
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford will return to the campus -this evening from Washington, D. C., where she attended the annual convention of the Deans of Women of American Colleges.
The major topics discussed at the convention were; "Should the College Curriculum be Re-adjusted with Regard to Women Students?” and #rWhat of Sororities in the American College ?”
at Stanford University for the past few days and will be the main speaker at the retreat, according to George Jordan, who is in charge. The presence of Mr. Seamon at the retreat is considered a signal honor to the University Y. M. C. A.
Reservations for the trip have been coming in fast at the “Y” Hut. The men will leave . the campus Friday afternoon, returning Sunday evening. Those who are unable to go up Friday are leaving later for the Saturday evening and Sunday discussions.
No limit has been set on the number who may attend the retreat, and all men students of the university are invited to spend the week-end at Switzer’s Camp, near Pasadena. Information concerning the details of the trip may be secured at the ‘Y” Hut.
SIGMA SIGMA
Hal Williamson, radio manager, announces that students and friends of S. C. who have favorite numbers which they would like to have the Arrowhead orchestra present may have their requests filled so far as possible by phoning TRinity 5147.
“Rook” Atwood, popular campus tenor, will sing several of the pieces for which he is noted. His presentation will be entirely of popular pieces.
Al Behrent, popular gridiron whistling artist, will present several solos, among which, it is rumored, will be “Sweetheart of the Sigma Chi.”
ittee. Previous attempts to out Har-have ben made by the council.
and cooperation among students of j Those who are desirous of trying | Dean Crawford has been away since different races and nationalities. | out are asked to see either Eddie | February 16 and visited several of the
‘ they were blocked by the absence Moody Kilgore says, “Reserve the Blaine or preferably Miss Tacie May j leading eastern colleges prior to the (publication which v*ll make .its ap- '
adequate recall provisions.
date, remind your friends, and come.” . Hanna in Touchstone Theater.
time of the convention.
ARISTO
Aristo held their first meeting of the new semester Tuesday night in room 206 Hoose. After the business meeting, there was a debate on the subject, “Resolved; That speakers not in sympathy with the policies of the university shonM not be allowed Sigma Sigma pledges are requested to speak in chapel.” The debate to meet at noon at the Wampus office proved to be very interesting, r-ccord-
today. The assignments will be made inS to those who attended. The nega-
_ ' tive side won the dehate, for the stories in the \ellow Dog. n *
Plans for a canoe party to be heJrf in the near future at Westlake* Park were also discussed
pearance on the campus soon.