PHI BETA KAPPA
Entrants in the Phi Beta Kappa Essay Contest must turn in their manuscripts this week. Three copies must be submitted, signed with a nom de plume, and accompanied by a sealed envelope, with the pen name on the front, enclosing the real name of the author.
Southern
California
Trojan
AUTOMOBILES NEEDED
In order to provide transportation for the delegates to the Pacific Coast oratorical championships, Thursday and Friday, twenty-five cars will be needed by the debate squad. Men who can use their cars for this purpose Thursday evening, after 6:00 p.m., or Friday afternoon, :rom 1:00 until 5:30 p.m. leave names at debate office, or report to Duncan Coombs... Gasoline will be paid for.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, March 28, 1928
NUMBER 107
COMMEND LUNCHEON PROGRAM
Inglewood Rotary Club Enthusiastically Welcomes S. C.	Representatives. PROGRAM VARIED Stanford and California Congratulate Committee and Wish Track Team Success
Playing to the tumultuous applause of the 250 present at the Inglewood Rotary club, yesterday noon, in the Chamber of Commerce building, the deputations committee of the University of Southern California scored a tremendous hit, according to Bob Behlow, chairman of the committee.
Several enthusiastic listeners, graduates of Stanford and the University of California, congratulated the members of the committee, and wished Southern California success in the track meet Saturday.
The program was composed of a skit, a number of musical numbers, and a short speech. Sara Newman acted as toastmaster. The skit, entitled “He and She”, was enacted by Art Brearly and Avalon Daggett. Bill FTater played an accordion solo, and Louis Silva of the College of Music sang several classical selections, accompanied by Miss Parslow.
A trio composed of Harold Grayson, piano; Bill Wood, banjo; and Eli Levinson, voilin, played several novelty numbers. Elizabeth Henninger gave a three minute talk on “The College Man and his Place in Society."
Roberts Completes Plans For Musicians Trip To North
Trojan Band and Men’s Glee Club Will Give Seventeen Concerts During Eight Days’ Vacation; List of Those Going is Announced.
Final arrangements are now being completed for the Trojan Band and Men’s Glee club northern trip. The two groups, together with the Women’s Glee club, leave the campus Friday afternoon to give their first concert in Ventura Friday evening. From there the Women’s Glee club will return here while the other two continue on
* upstate.
Roberts,
Y. MX A. ELECTION TO OCCUR TODAY
Skull and Dagger Meeting Called To Consider Pledges
All active members of Skull and Dagger, all-university honorary fraternity will meet at 10:15 today in the office of William Henley, student body president, to consider new pledges.
Frank Ferguson, president; William Henley, Burdette Henney, Eld Murray, Ed House and Kenney Grumbles are the active members of the organization on the campus.
Skull and Dagger, like Sigma Sigma, intends to pledge its men earlier than usual this year. The officers believe that by granting memberships earlier in the year, the new members can accomplish more for the fraternity before they graduate. In the past it has been the custom to pledge members just before graduation.
SQUIRES ASK FOR AUTOS TO GREET S. C. OPPONENTS
Squire Prexy Asks Sorority Girls To Help Receive Stanford Athletes.
‘Final rehearsal,” said “will be held Thursday and Friday noons with the combined groups, but there will be no more night rehearsals as we want the boys to be in top shape for the grind ahead of them. In all we will contact ten towns and put on seventeen concerts in the eight days the trip will take.”
Roberts announced further that the band will appear at the opening of the new Ambassador skating rink Wednesday night to give a few tunes to the drone of the ball bearings. It will be the last time the Trojan band will be seen ln action here until sometime after the return of the groups from the north.
Those making the trip with the band are:
Trumpets: Stillman Wells, Bill Ward, Lumir Slezak, Karl Brenner, Rudolph Halm, Frank Hull.
Trombones: Wilton Wells Cecil Ca-zell, Wilfred Watson, Louis Washburn, Franklin Loffer, Russell Johnson.
Baritone: Elwood Holland.
Flute: George Oliver.
Oboe: Willard Sherman.
(Continued on Page Four)
SLING MUD IN YELLOW DOG ISSUE
Scandal Mongers Due For Real Treat When Paper Issues. RAKE OLD ASHES Pledges Will Sell Their Sheets on the Campus Tomorrow.
Dr. Coy Will Speak At Council Dinner at the “Y” Hut This
Evening.
Voting for the three acUve officers of the local Y. M. C. A. organization may be cast anytime today at the desk In the Y hut. Don Newcomer and Vroman Dorman are the candidates for the office of president and since the withdrawal of Adelbert Bowlzer, Walter Braun is the only candidate for secretary - treasurer. The selection of the vice-president is a singular procedure, in that the nominee for president who is defeated automatically becomes vice-president.
Only those students having Y. M.
C.	A. membership cards will be allowed to vote.
The eleetion results will be read at the council dinner today at 5:30 in the Y hut. At this dinner, Dr. Coy of the history department will speak on “The Growth of the Church in California.” Doris Crook Johnson, president of the School of Speech, will give a reading.
Plan Dinner For Pledges
Spooks and Spokes To Initiate New Members at Banquet.
Initiation for the nine pledges of Spooks and Spokes, junior women’s honorary, will be held Tuesday, April
10	in the Y. W. C. A. rooms followed by a formal banquet at the Women’s Athletic club at 7:30.
Mock initiation on campus will take place Friday when the pledges will sell home made candy to the students. The pledges will be garbed in black and orange costumes, the colors of the society, in keeping with the customs and traditions of the organization as the public ceremony corresponding to Sigma Sigma Razz selling.
Formal initiation will be conducted by Vivian Murphy, president, who will act as toastmistress at the banquet. Speeches will be one of welcome given by an active member, and the response will be from one of the new initiates. The three honorary members will also be on the program. Names of the speakers will be announced in a later isene.
This week the Squires will be the busiest group of men on the S. C. campus. Duncan Powers made the announcement yesterday that there will be an urgent need for all kinds and makes of automobiles, as Southern California is to Ibe host to various athletic teams from Stanford University. Among the events scheduled ■will be the much talked of track meet Saturday afternon, the two base ball games and the minor sports carnival.
In the past it has been the plan for all freshmen who aspire to become Squires to supply the needed transportation to all visiting teams, but on this occasion it is feared that the cars coming from that source will be insufficient.
Anyone who can use his car for any or all of these affairs will be of great assistance not only to the Squires and Knights, but to his Alma Mater as well.
A suggestion has been made, that is not only new, ibut also very novel. The aid of the sorority girls has been asked. Any girl who has a car that she can use for this purpose will come in for her share of the applause. If this suggestion is taken in the right spirit everyone concerned is sure to enjoy himself. Powers will give any additional information if seen personally or called at the Pi Kappa Alpha fraternity house.
WOMEN ATHLETES ELECT OFFICERS
Election of officers for the Womens’ Athletic associatoin held yesterday in the womens’ gym resulted in the election of Florence Waechter as president; Yuxze Lee Harrison, vice-president; Louise Hoescher, secretary; Helen Allen, recording secretary, and Betty Tufts, treasurer.
The newly elected officers will not assume their duties until next September, but they are to attend all W. A. A. cabinet meetings for the remainder of this semester in order to become acquainted with their new responsibilities.
The election was conducted under the supervision of Mary Dunstan, this year’s president.
WOMEN DEBATERS TO ARGUE FRIDAY
Debaters from the University of Utah, Miss Alice Smith and Miss Neva Clark, will uphold the affirmative of the question: “Resolved, That the American Investor and his investment should be protected only by the government in which the investment is made,” Friday afternoon, at 3:00 o’clock.
The flrst speaker on the negative will be Elizabeth Henninger, a freshman, who graduated from Santa Monica high school last year and who has been active in debating here at
S.	C. Eleanor Veale, debate manager, will be the second speaker on the negative.
The question, interpreted, means whether or not an American who invests in France should be protected only by the French government. It is a timely question as it deals with the present Nicarauguan problem.
The decision of the debate will be rendered by two judges, the third vote given by the audience. The debarters are hoping to get Mrs. John C. Urquart, the president of the Law Enforcement League of California as chairman.
ALPHA CHI ALPHA
Alpha Chi Alpha wil meet at 12:15 today for luncheon at a reserved table in the west end of the student fountain on the first floor of the Student Union.
MUSIC SORORITY GIVES RECITAL
The first annual recital of Eta chapter of Pi Kappa Lambda of the College of Music, was received by a large audience Tuesday evening, March 20, at the Touchstone Theatre. Artist members of the society gave the program.
Pi Kappa Lambda Is an honorary music society of the College of Music. Only members of the faculty and a limited number of graduate students of the college being eligible for active membership. Honorary members of the society are: Olga Steeb, Mrs. Artie Mason Carter, and Alexander Stewart. The following members took part in the program: Zefer Algots Sparrow, piano; Aileen Rohrer, soprano; Alice Frazier, soprano; Florence Austin, piano; Ivy Goade, piano; Elizabeth Mottern, soprano; and Beatrice Loucks Stone, violin obligato. The accompanists were: Florence Austin and Mabel Culver Adsit.
By WILLIE LIVE
The long-awaited “Yellow Dog,” annual scandal sheet, published by the pledges of Sigma Sigma, honorary junior men’s fraternity, will appear on the campus tomorrow. The pledges have raked over the ashes of a number of campus affairs, and have found enough “dirt” to put seventeen prominent students and no less than a dozen faculty members in jail.
That all of this will be printed, is the statement of the editor or the publication, who wishes his name io remain a secret, for the results wiil be tragic to the aforesaid seventeen students and twelve faculty members. The Sigma Sigma motto is, "Truth, as long as it doesn’t hurt you,” and they intend to publish each and all of the gruesome details.
The pledges are to meet at 3:15 today in the office of Charley Wright, debate manager, room 233 Student Union. Copy for the publication must be be turned in to that office not later than noon today. The pledges will gather at the same place at 7 o’clock tomorrow morning, clad in their un couth costumes, and ready to sell the Yellow Dogs to the campus at large.
No person, and no school or college has been spared in the great organ oi truth. Monstrous scandals, and tales of intrigue, politics, and bribery about some of the leading officials of the campus will be divulged for the first time. Dental, pharmacy, liberal arts, law, engineering, architecture, speecn, commerce — every department has yielded up its secrets to the delving reporters, and polished reputations will be as mud-stained as the San Francisquita canyon after the scandal sheet has appeared on the campus.
The Yellow Dog, mong other thing3. will carry the first announcement oi Morgan Cox s choice for next year’s presidency. Cox, it is rumored, has finally settled upon the Tammany choice, and intends to let the facts be known tomorrow. The inside workings of the big political combine wiil be bared, giving whatever opposition mght develop, a chance to organize.
Bill Henley’s fiery mash notes to a prominent co-ed will be published. The inside story on how Jack Bruner bribed his way into the victory lor tne Daffy Club popularity contest; ho»v Charley Bone sank two shots against Washington; inside stuff on every fraternity and sorority; why the Night Riders don’t have campus recognition, and pages and pages of similar “dirt” will be spilled without stint.
The price, as usual, will be fifteen cents, the editors announce.
COMMERCE COMMITTEE
All-Commerce dance committee will meet this morning at 10:00 in the Commerce office. All chairmen prepare final plans to present for approval, according to Artie Neeley, so-city chairman. Eddie Oudermuelen Chuck Nielsen and Al Mainland are requested to be preBenL
Yellow Dog To Show Inner Secrets of Campus Tomorrow
“The Yellow Dog”, annual publication of the pledges of Sigma Sigma, honorary junior men’s fraternity, will appear on the campus tomorrow. The fifteen pledges of the organization have been diligently at work, unearthing the latest “dirt” on the leading campus notables, and finding a lot of old scandal that, until the present time, had not been revealed.
The Yellow Dog will sell for fifteen cents, and just enough copies to provide each and every ed and co-ed will be printed. Morgan Cox’s plans for the next presidential campaign; the inside dope on how Jack Bruner won the DafTy club contest; burning love notes written from a prominent co-ed, to an equally promient ed, are only a few of the features which will be included in the paper.
Constitution Is Rewritten
Executive Committee Will Discus New Provisions To Be Made in Document.
Discussion of the new constitution for the associated student body will be the most important business before the executive committee tonight. The committee will meet at Aeneas hall at 7:30 in its regular fortnightly session.
The constitutional committee met last night to incorporate Into the doc ument the final suggestions which have been received by the chairman, Morgan Cox, since the last meeting of the executive committee two weeks ago. At that time the constitution was submitted to the executive committee for its approval with instructions that the members read it and, if any suggestions or changes were in order, to hand them to Cox before the next meeting. It was these suggestions which the committee on the document considered last night.
The new document is much shorter than the one which was submitted to vote last year and provides for a distinct and independent government of the associated student bodies. The criticism has been, heretofore, that Liberal Arts and the associated student affairs were handled by the same group of people and that this caused confusion in the business conducted. The new constitution removes the cause for this criticism as well as outlining a new government for associated students.
COMMERCE DANCE DUCATS CO FAST
Final arrangements for the College of Commerce dance that is to be held Friday evening March 30 in the Student Union social hall were completed yesterday afternoon at the committee meeting. Eddie Oudermuelen, who is handling the finances for the dance, reported that the tickets are being sold rapidly and that students from every college in the university are planning to attend the function.
Each year the College of Commerce holds a dance and in the past Art Neeley states that the Commerce dances have surpassed any all-University affair that has been held on the campus.
Wally Hickj} announced yesterday that Phil Farrel and his Harmony Boys had been engaged to provide the music for the dance. Farrel’s orchestra is noted for their excellent dance music and their own special arrangements. Farrell has only recently finished several arrangements of popular numbers that he will present for the first time at the dance Friday evening.
During the intermission and between dances several vaudeville acts have been secured to entertain the guests. At present Hicks does not care to disclose the nature of these (Continued on Page Two.)
EASTER PROGRAM FEATURED BY Y.W.
The Y. W. C. A. meeting has been changed from Wednesday to Thursday afternoon to better fit the program of the majority of students on the campus.
The meeting Thursday afternoon from 4:00 to 5:30 will be the Easter meeting of the Y. W., and a fitting program has been provided.
The principal speaker will be Allan Hunter, pastor at the Mt. Hollywood Congregational church. There will be a violin solo by Mrs. Edward Mayer, a vocal solo and a reading by Rosita Hopps, the president of the Y. W. C- A., who will also preside at the meeting.
Change Location of Student Tea
A tea for foreign students and faculty members will be given on Friday morning, from 10 to 12, in the men’s lounge on the third floor of the Student Union, adjoining the social hall. The function was to have been held in room 322, but the place has been changed to allow more room for the Pacific Forensic league, which is meeting at S. C. on Friday.
FORENSIC CONTESTANTS WILL CONVENE HERE FOR ANNUAL PACIFIC TOURNEY
Southern California Will Be Hosts To Western League of Speakers; Business Session Starts Convention; Men Participate in Extemporaneous Contest.
By FLORENCE GALENTINE
Representatives of twelve western universities and colleges will convene at S. C. for the fifth annual conference of the Pacific Forensic League, Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
¥ Pre-eminent on the conference pro-
El Rodeo More Than Half Way Done Editor Announces
Dave Bryant announces that the El Rodeo is being completed in fast time. Two-thirds of the material is ready for press with the remainder to be completed during spring vacation. The senior section and the football section has already gone to press. The El Rodeo staff is better organized and is turning out work quicker and better than any other annual in the country, Bryant said. If hopes and intents are realized very little work will be necessary after Easter vacation as the whole book will be ln the hands of the printers.
DEAN PRAISES WORK DONE BY WOMEN IN CAMPUS PROGRAMS
Dean Crawford Praises Self-Government Association After Convention Trip.
“With all the impressions I have gathered since leaving this campus I have returned with renewed enthusiasm for the interest shown by the students of this university in their participation in campus activities,” Mss Mary Sinclair Crawford, dean of women at Southern California said yesterday. Dean Crawford has just returned from the east where she attended the National Panhellenic congress and the national conference of the Deans of Women held at Boston.
Particularly is the dean impressed with the fine development shown by the women of the campus especially in connection with the Women’s Self Government Association which compares favorably with the best. The executive ability and independence demonstrated in their work is typical of the modern college woman.
Dean Crawford also mentioned the fact that everywhere she went she found the name of the university known, wtih interested comments on its rapid growth. This phenomenal growth may be attributed to the fact that S. C. offers the modern courses wanted by students of today and also that it is located in the center of a growing metropolis offering many opportunities for work as well as other interests to the student.
ARCHITECTS PLAN SPRING INFORMAL
This Friday night the Architects will hold their spring informal at the Beverly Hills Women’s club. Music will be furnished by Fred Johnston’s orchestra, and special entertainment for the evening has been arranged by the committee in charge. The dance will be the first social event in Architecture this semester, having been preceded by the annual Bal Masque given last December.
Pharmacy Class Hears Talk By W. A. Seaton
W. A. Seaton, manager of the Los Angeles Drug Co., spoke before Dr. F. May Morse’s class Friday in retail organization and management. The class is composed of Pharmacy students.
Seaton, who is affiliated with the Co-operative Pharmacy association, had for his subject, “Co-operative Buying Among Western Pharmacies.”
gram, in addition to the regular business of the session, are the oratorical and extemporaneous contests to be held at Pomona and Southern California respectively.
Upon their arrival Thursday morning the delegates will register at nine o’cock and a general business meeting will be held in room 418 of the Student Union building. At that time a conference program is to be adopted, reports of standing committees given, and selection of new commit, tees made.
The six following committees are to be appointed by the president, C.
B.	Mitchell of Corvallis, Ore., to arrange details of the convention.
1.	On Extemporaneous Speaking Contest.
2.	On Oratorical Contest.
3.	On League Debates.
4.	On League Debate Questions (1928-29).
5.	League Finance.
6.	Special Matters.
Luncheon will be served to the guests at 12:15 in the Union in rooms 320, 321 and 322. Reconvening in the afternoon, the delegates are to formulate the final arrangements for the extemporaneous contest to occur March 30 in Bovard Auditorium.
Traveling to Pomona college Thursday evening, members of the conference will attend the Oratorical contest, at which time Stanley Hopper will represent S. C.
Another business meeting will be held Friday morning followed by luncheon in the Union building.
In the afternoon the convention delegates are to leave the campus for a tour of the Fox Motion Picture studios. From there they will go tp the Deauville Beach club at Santa Monica for a session.
Representatives from the different Pacific Coast institutions will compete in the Extempore Speaking contest Friday evening. Southern California’s entrant is to be Bill Henley.
The program for Saturday includes the election of League Officers in the morning, a luncheon at noon, and attendance at the track meet in the afternoon.
All Nations _ j *Join In Fete
.	S
International Night Will Be Held Friday Evening at Y. M. C. A. Hut.
—— 1 Southern California’s interest in the world peace movement of today will be stimulated by International night which is to occur Friday evening March 30 at 8 o’clock in the Y. M. C. A. hut. The program which is being sponsored by the joint Young Men’s and Younge Womens’ Christian associations of the campus, promises to be most spectacular and colorful in every detail.
Prof. H. C. Niese of the Spanish department of the university who is consul from Argentine to this country will act as master of ceremonies at International night. Professor Niese is one of about twenty foreign consuls in the city who will be at the affair on Friday evening. All are very much in favor of this plan for internationalism which is being carried out on so large a scale for the flrst time in the history of the university.
President R. B. von KieinSmid, who is to be at International night, will speak on some phase of world peace. The program itself will be made up of typical entertainment of each country represented by students of thse different groups. The Friendship Circle, similar to one which was originated at the International House of Columbia University in New York City, will be one of the (Continued on Page Two)