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VOLUME V.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, July 30, 1926
NUMBER 10
CALIFORNIA AS COMMONWEALTH NEWBOOK THEME
Dean Rockwell D. Hunt Writes History of State From Earliest Days
IS EDITOR OF SERIES
Free Harbor Trip Tomorrow Last Big Session Excursion
Courtesy of Charles Spear, Harbor Manager, Makes Student Boat Ride Possible! To See Commercial Growth and Get View of Battleships at Anchor
Vital Points in Progress of Cali- 1 fornia Carried To Present Time
BY MATTHEW BARR Filling the need for an authentic, ! thoroughly modern history of California as an American state, Dean Rockwell D. Hunt has completed work on his latest and most important contribution to California historical literature. Dean Hunt’s history, ‘‘California: An American Commonwealth,” will be included in a five-volume set, “California and Californians,” which is expected to be issued during the fall by the Lewis Publishing Company, Chicago. In addition to being author of the second volume. Dr. Hunt is editor of the series, which is a subscription work.
The first volume of the series is the work of Mrs. Nellie Vandegrift Sanchez, and it carries the history of California from its discovery to the time of American occupation. Volumes | three, four and five will contain a
CHESTER DRAMA REPRODUCES OLD TIMEATMOSPHERE
BIG DOUBLE PROGRAM FOR ASSEMBLY NEXT TUESDAY
Assembly Tuesday morning will feature a double program of exceptional interest—Raymond Harmon, Ixjs Angeles tenor concert-opera oratorio, planning to sing before the student body, while Dr. Raymond Cummings Brooks of Pomona College will speak on “Evolution and Religion.”
Classes will be curtailed to admit of the assembly hour at 10:30 a. m., and special announcements will be made. All should be present.
series of biographical sketches of no-
Affording summer students their final opportunity of the session to take a trip inclusive of one of the distinctive features of Southern California, Kenneth K. Stonier, manager of student pub-I lications, has arranged for a trip through Los Angeles Harbor tomorrow morning, July 31. Made possible through the courtesy of Charles Spear, General Manager oi' Los Angeles Harbor, the excursion will be free of charge, except that involved in getting to and I from San Pedro. Students who wish to take the boat ride through I the harbor, viewing the points of interest and getting a true con-}
^ception of the magnitude of the commercial enterprises completed and in process of construction at the harbor, will meet at the First Street Dock, San Pedro, tomorrow morning at ten o’clock. Those taking the Pacific Electric train should leave the Sixth and Main street station by 9 o’clock.
Captain Sandberg will meet the party at that time and guide them through the harbor, superintending the boat trip to all points of interest. FEW REALIZE EXTENT Although the volume of tonnage passing through the harbor is one of the two or three greatest totals in the country, and although the citizens of Los Angeles are vaguely aware that the oil and lumber industries in particular have made a great port out of the once quiet seaport, yet the extent of this growth is recognized by comparatively few people in Southern California. Visitors to San Pedro are generally startled at the magnitude of the undertakings at the harbor which have created miles of docks during the past few years.
The full commercial significance of the great southwestern port will be visualized by the party, and in addition the boatride will include views of the incoming and outgoing steamers, a full view of the battleships and destroyers now at anchor, and intimate glimpses of some of the attractive spots of the harbor.
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CONDUCTS TRIP TO LA BREA PIT THIS AFTERNOON
ALPHA DELTA PI . BRIDGE SATURDAY
Bridge was the diversion of the aft-| ernoon when Miss Vivian Murphy entertained her sorority sisters, chapter members of Alpha Psi of Alpha Delta Pi at the University of Southern
table Californians.
Dean Hunl, who is deeply interested in the history of the state, has re* j California, at her Santa Monica sum-ceived recognition a« an authority on mer home on Saturday, July 24. California political and economic bis* j Guests were the Misses Betty Baker, tory. The value of his earlier books, I Geraldine Lester, Mary Jo Garland, “The Genesis of California’s First I Margaret Burke, Helen Sherman, Vir-Constitution.” and “California the I iam McAllister, Harriet Fullen, Mabel Golden,” was such that Dean Hunt Cunningham, Josephine Moffitt, Jo-was offered the position of president j sephine Oakes, Belle Newman, Cor of the Historical Society of Southern ! rine Beise, Hazel Ross, Jane Schle-California. a position he has held for! becker and Mesdames William Barley the past eight years.	I and William Hullinger.
IN FOUR PARTS	-
The present volume is divided into i Trip to famous La Brea pits today, four parts, each of which treats ex- Leave at 1 p. m. before Administm-(Continued on Page Four)	' tion Building.
Melting Pot Concept Wrong In Practice and In Theory
Immigrant Hordes Have Weakened Stability and Tended To Undermine American Institutions, Say Students of Nation; Oligarchy in South Hits at Democracy
BY JAMES MAIN DIXON, Ph.D Professor of Comparative Literature
Nearly twenty years have gone since Israel Zangwill’s little drama, “The Melting Pot.*’ gave currency to a term that just suited the popular taste. It was taken for granted that the democratic processes at work in this country were able to mould and change the alien element that poured in, as different pieces of metal will be melted into a single gleaming mass when the pot is placed over the
fire. Through practically the en--5 ™ .... tji fctJIMr tire nineteenth century, the Am- * rll 1V1U IxUotillNIj
erican public regarded the stead- • PARTY FETES 20
ilv increasing flow of immigra-:	-
tion with tolerant unconcern.!	sorority, University of
But a change came at the close; Southern California, entertained with due in part to transformations in a rusb tea Thursday afternoon, the our social and economic situation, tost., at the home of Miss Louise in part to tne less desirable quality Mitchell, 826 South Manhattan Place.
Twenty guests were bidden, besides members of the sorority. The hostess was assisted by Miss Edna Glass and Mrs. Leland Dishman, and Miss Dorothy Durkin of Chicago presided at the tea urn.
“Noah’s Deluge” Makes Students Catch Spirit of Town Life in 1400
MRS. NOAH IN PROTEST
Shem, Noah, Noah’s Wife Play Excellent Parts in Ancient Play
BY RALPH HOLLY
Did we not feel like the good people of Chester, England? It is true that there was a spirit of the medieval in the production of -Noah s Deluge,' a miracie play presented by Gilmor Brown’s class in play production in Bovard Auditorium Tuesday morning.
AI| the simple folk of the old English town were gathered to witness one of the miraculous feats of the Supreme Being. It was the Chester Pageant of the Water leaders and Drawers of the Dee concerning the biblical interpretation of the great flood when the Lord bade his good servant Noah to build himself an ark to house his family for the period of the rainfall, which was to last forty days and nights. All the family obeyed in true patriarchial fashion, all except his independent wife, who had to be taken in the ark by force. Perhaps this measures the first murmur* ings of the unrest of women. Mr. Noah was perhaps the founder of the feminist movement.
LORD COMMANDS NOAH
The Lord from His heavenly seat above the ark commands Noah from time to time. Noah and his family collect animals which are porirayed to the simple people of Chester on charts each having a number of prim* itive drawings. The rain starts and the flood comes. And the little ark that it took Noah six hundred years
Professor Allen E. Sedgwick Will Show Students Noted Animal Trap
IS UNIQUE PHENOMENON
Multitude of Valuable Bones Reveal Early L. A. Monsters
La Brea, magic word to scientists and symbol of death for thousands of prehistoric animals cf every description, will be visited by a group from the University this afternoon. Professor Allen E. Sedgwick, head of the Department of Geology and in charge of the trip, extends a cordial invitation to everyone wishing to see the pits to meet today in front of the Administration Building at one o’clock. Transportation details have not been fully completed, and those with cars who will take other students are asked to leave their names In Professor Sedgwick’s mail box. Likewise, those desiring transportation are asked to leave word to that effect.
The Pacific Coast in general is characterized by great lack of fossil remains, very few traces of extinct animals having been found anywhere on the Pacific Slope. The La Brea asphalt pits, while not containing fossils in the strict sense of the word, are nevertheless one of the greatest repositories of ancient fauna to be found anywhere in the world. Here the direwolf, saber-toothed tiger, mas-tododon, giant vulture, and prehistoric horse all permitted themselves to he imprisoned, sucked underground to their death, and preserved in the oily trap until a later day.
BONES WELL PRESERVED
It is the remarkable state of pres-
CALENDAR
of the immigrants. Were our cherished institutions destined to be undermined? “Then (in 1909) came the symbol, like a portent in the heavens. America is a melting pot. The nations of the world are being fused into a new and choicer nation, the United States!”
This Clever symbol, says Professor | Fairchild in “The Melting Pot Mistake,” retarded restrictive measures for the time being, but since the great war it has become “so badly cracked as to be of little service.” j He then goes on to discuss in an in- j ofeive manner the bases of national | life and prosperity, the nation being the most important of the group de-larcations by which civilization pr<* ! resses. He takes up, in separate j hapters, “The Factor of Race.” “The | (Continued on Page Three)
MANY ALPHA OMICRON PI
ALUMNAE FROLIC AT BEACH
Swimming and out-of-door sports were the order of the day when members of Alpha Omicron Pi Alumnae Association conducted their monthly meeting at Santa Monica yesterday in the form of a beach party. Miss Helen Haller of the University of Southern California, president of the organization, was assisted in the arrangements by Mrs. L. A. Kistler.
Special 1 August 6.
music assembly Friday,
TODAY
1:00 p.m.—Excursion to La Brea pits under the leadership of Professor Allen E. Sedgwick. Those wishing to go should leave their names in Professor Sedgwick's mail box in the Information Office and indicate whether they wish transportation or can provide transportation.
8:00 p.m.—U. S. C. night at the Pilgrimage Play. Tickets at reduced prices on sale at the Associated Students’ Store.
SATURDAY 10 a.m.—Trip to Los Angeles Harbor under the leadership of Mr. Ken neth Stonier. Free boat ride to points of interest. Meet at First St. Dock in San Pedro at 10 a. m. TUESDAY 10:30 a.m.—Assembly. Special mus^c by Raymond Harmon, tenor concert-opera oratorio. Lecture by Dr. Rayond Cummings Brooks of Pomona College, “Evolution and Religion.”
NEXT FRIDAY 10:00 a.m.—Concert by the Los Angeles Trio in Bovard Auditorium. Admission to the main floor and first balcony by student identification cards and complimentary tickets.
Students who have filed applications for credentials through the office of the School of Education, and who
to build, survived the elements of na-! ervation of the bones, combined with ture.	the huge number and wide variety of
The rain stops and Noah sends out1 animals and birds that perished, the emblem of peace, the dove. The ' which make La Brea pits the object rest of the story is known to us. It1 of such great interest to paleontolo-has not been so many years ago that gists and geologists. #Excavations (Continued on Page Four) 1 (Continued on Page Four)
Grid Stars Are Everything From Actors to Lumberjacks
Film Industry Supplies Vacation Work To Many Trojan Football Players. Most Athletes are Engaged in Heavy Work,
While Some Gather Coin With Less Work
BY “TEET” CARLE, ’24 Director Students' Athletic News Bureau
California may have had her little fortune scramble in '49, but that gold rush had nothing on the present search for mazuma being carried on this summer by members of the University of Southern California football team, l he boys are doing everything from moving pianos to peddling orange juice.
Onl y two of the gridsters are in the movies, Morley Drurv and Gene Dorsey, both doing “doubling” stunts. The others in the film industry are wearing overalls instead of grease paint, for various studio carpenter and prop gangs include Morton Kaer, Don Williams, Marian Morrison, Howard Failor and Bill Ford.
Heavy work predominates. Those ^tackle, is fumigating citrus orchards in the ice-peddling business are Bert Heiser, Howard Elliott and Jack Wescott. Charlie Boren, half back, is wrorking nine stories up on the Roosevelt building at 7th and Flower streets in Los Angeles.
The strong arm gangs include Ollie White, guard, who is juggling pianos in Los Angeles; Ted Gorell, guard, who is moving cabinets; Don Cruick-shank, tackle, who is stacking lumber in Riverside; Ted Sahlberg.center,
now in an Oregon lumber camp; Her-are completing all work for the ere- schel Bonham, half, acting as rousta-dentials in this session, are requested bout in the oil fields; Manual Laran-
to meet in H. 206 Friday afternoon. August 6. The time of meeting will be announced at the concert Friday morning.
Registration for the post session will begin at 1:00 p. m. on Friday, August 6, and continue on Saturday, August 7. Students who are enrolled in the summer session are requested to register Friday afternoon.
eta, full, and Kenneth Cox, tackle, who are reconstructing Bovard Field; and Clark De Groote, tackle, who is working with an oil liner.
The soil has called several of the §
grid candidates. Morris Badgro, end, is ranching in Kent, Washington. Field Thompson Is threshing wheat in Colorado. Larry Diehl, end, is packing fruit at Fresno. Eugene Beatie.
around San Bernardino. Al Behrendt, end. is gathering brawn in Ohio fields.
OTHER WORK
Contracting and building labor is being accomplished by Jesse Hibbs, tackle, in Glendale, Bill Bradbury, tackle, in Los Angeles, Toney Galindo, full, in San Diego, and Dick Ryan, half, in Glendale.
Some of the athletes are gathering coin with less physical exertion. Bill Friend, tackle, has an orange juice concession in Los Angeles. Brice Taylor, guard, is selling automobiles. Captain Jeff Cravath, center, is doing research work for an insurance company. “Dink” Templeton, half, is pumping gas at an oil station, and Bob Lee is a counsellor at Bill Hunter’s Catalina Island Boys’ Camp. John Fox,, last year’s frosh center, is the only leisure gridster. He is touring Oregon and Washington and plans to visit Alaska before the summer is over.