SIGMA SIGMA PLEDGES
An important meeting ol all members and pledges of Sigma Sigma, honorary junior men’s fraternity, has been called for 10 o’clock today by Eddie Oudermuelen, president of the organization. The meeting will take place in the office of William Henley, student body president. The announcement of plans for the annual dinner-dance, and discussion of copy for the Yellow Dog, which will appear Thursday, are scheduled.
Southern
California
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INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL
A special inter-fratemity council meeting has been called for 7:15 tonight at the Sigma Chi house by Ray Foote, president of the organization. All fraternity presidents are expected to be present, with their upperclass representatives, Foote said. Plans for the formal dance, which has been announced for April 13, will be discussed. Eddie Oudermuelen has been placed in charge of the postponed affair
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 27, 1928
NUMBER 106
DEBATERS WILL HOLD CONTESTS
Coast Delegates WiU Gather At S. C. Thursday for Speaking Tourney.
More than 40 delegates, representing twelve of the leading universities on the Pacific Coast, will meet here Thursday, Friday and Saturday in the annual conference of debaters, which includes the Pacific Coast championship oratorical and extempore speaking contests. Charles Wright, Trojan debate manager, and Alan Nichols, coach of the S. C. squad, are in charge of the convention.
The universities which will send delegates o the affair are Washington State college, Stanford, Oregon State college, University of Oregon, Willamette, Whitman, Nevada, Idaho, U. C. L. A., Arizona and Pomona.
Ahe oratorical contest is scheduled to take place at Pomona college at 8 o’clock Friday evening. Topics have been assigned, and represenatives of the various universities will deliver their prepared contest speeches at that time. The extempore contest wil take place in Bovard auditorium at 8:00 o’clock Saturday evening. The Trojan leaders have twice won, and wlce placed second in this event during the four years that it has been held.
Another important feature of the meeting will be the selection of topics for debate during the 1928-29 season next year. The schedule also will be drawn up.
A number of socia events have been planned for he entertainment of the delegates . Three banquets, a trips to the Fox motion picture studio, a visit to the Deauville club, and the Stanford Trojan track meet are included in the program.
Dean Crawford Home From Trip East To Pan-Hel Meeting
Stating that the local Pan-Hellenic council compares very favorably with other Pan-Hellenic associations in the United States, Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford spoke at the regular meeting of the council Monday, about her trip to Boston where she attended the National Pan-Hellenic congress.
Dean Crawford further expressed her opinions on various campus subjects, among them being the question of electioneering by girls during campus voting, a practice of which Miss Crawford does not approve.
ENGINEER HEPS PAYNE IN WORK ON RADIO STUDIO
S. C. Will Have Broadcasting Station In the S. C. Student Union.
Internationals To Meet Friday In Monster Fete
Local Y Groups Sponsor World Peace Movement; Consuls to Attend.
POLITICAL SCIENCE FUND ESTABLISHED
Political science work at S. C. is to be furthered by the establishment of a fund by Pi Sigma Alpha, honorary political science fraternity, according to Edwin Franke, president of the latter organization. At an initiation meeting held Thursday in the social hall of the Student Union, Dr. Roy A. Malcolm, head of the poliUcal science department, started a fund which will Ibe added to by PM Sigma Alpha and its friends.
Just how the fund, which is to be a permanent one. is to be used will be determined by members of Pi Sigma Alpha. It is probable that it will be appied either on a scholarship, on essay contests, or on similar work to further interest in political science.
The Thursday meeting was an initiatory one for six members. Following this, a banquet was given at the Mary Louise. Dr. Malcolm and Professor Eugene Harley, both faculty members, spoke at this banquet New initiates are Wesley LaFever, Kenneth Miller, Bob Behlow, Rodney Williams, Albert Quon and Ellis
Spachman.
Under the direction of Jack Payne, work on the Radio Broadcasting Studio that is being built on the second floor of the Student Union has already commenced and is going ahead rapidly. Payne has had several conferences with J. B. Underwood, who is the construction engineer for Don Lee, regarding the paneling of the room in order to make it absolutely sound-proof and nonresounding.
Underwood has just completed the new KHJ studio that is located in the Don Lee building and which will be dedicated in a few days. This new studio is acclaimed by critics as the most beautiful in the United States. Don Lee also announces that he is to change the strength and wave length of his station when it moves into the new studio. It is to be increased to 1000 watts, and the new wave length will enable KHJ to reach many thousands of listenersin that heretofore they have been unable to reach.
The results of a recent survey con ducted by Payne show that the best hours for the broadcasters to reach the public is between seven and eight o’clock in the evening. It is during these hours that the new S. C. studio will do most of its entertaining with band concerts, singing and popular music. Lately, the University has received many requests for educational lectures and teaching over the air. Plans are now being made so that in the afternoons there will be an hour of educational work, which will be in continuity form.
Payne wishes to announce that new talent is always wanted, and that anyone wrbo feels that he (or she) has any particular ability should report to him for a tryout.
What is expected to be the greatest and most spectacular step ever taken by the students of Southern California toward world peace will occur on International Night, March 30, at the Y. M. C. A. hut. This program is being sponsored by the campus Young Men’s and Young Women’s Christian associations.
The spirit of internationalism will be greatly aided by the fact that the guests will wear the costume of the nationality from which they are directly descended. It is hoped that a group from each of the forty-two nations represented on the campus will be present. Those representing the United States will be assigned for costuming to Helen Anderson, in charge of the Pilgrim period; to Margaret Little, director of the Colonial period; to William Leech, chairman of the Pioneer period; to Leland Jacobson, supervising the Civil War period; to Margaret French, in charge of the period of the “Gay 90’s”; and to Adelbert Bowlzer, director of the period of 1928. In obtaining invitations to** International night from the offices of the Y. M.
C. A. or the Y. W. C. A. it is desired that guests signify which foreign group or American historical group they desire to represent.
Admission without charge will be by ticket only, since attendance is limited to two hundred foreign students and one hundred American students. The thirty-two consulates in this city will be guests of honor.
\A limited number of reservations may be made by faculty members in addition to the student and consulate groups. Each guest will participate in the Grand March of tie Nations, making it imperative that he make reservations in the group of his choice at once.
Council Dance Date Is Changed To Friday, Thirteenth
The much-postponed and delayed inter-fraternity council dance will be given Friday, April 13, in. the ballroom of the Student Union building. Eddie Oudermuelen, who has been placed in charge of the new dance, announced yesterday that there would be no miscalculations in the arrangements, and that the dance will be given as scheduled.
The dance will be formal, Oudermuelen said, following the custom established some years ago, with spring flowers as decorations. Favors and programs originally planned for the event, will be discarded because they were planned especially for St. Patrick’s Day, and new ones have been ordered.
Tickets for the dance can be obtained from the council representatives of each house, and will sell for $2.50, Oudermuelen said. Plans for the event will be definitely settled at a special council meeting at the Sigma Chi house tonight at 7:15.
YELLOW DOG COPY
All copy for the Sigma Sigma Yellow Dog must be turned in to the Debate office before noon today. The deadline must be observed, in order that the paper may be out on time Thursday morning.
MEN WITH CARS
Men interested in becoming Trojan Knights or Squires are asked to see Eddie Oudermuelen at once. Transportation for the Stanford and California athletic teams- which will per from here this weekend, is needed.
LOS ANGELES ALUMNI ORGANIZE FOR ENDOWMENT FUND CAMPAIGN
CLIONIAN PLANS DEBATE TRYOUTS
At its regular meeting tonight the Clionian literary society will hold elimination tryouts for the debate between the four societies April 10.
Tbe question for the debate, sponsored by the Phi Delta Gamma, a national professional forensic organization, is resolved: That Mexican immigration to the United States should be put on an.European basis. The reward for winning this debate is a large silver cup held for the past two years by the Clionian society to whom it will belong perma nently if they win it again this year.
The flrst Tuesday after the spring vacation the Clionian society will vote on applicants for membership, who, to become members, must pass an examination on parliamentary law and make a five-minute speech without notes. Tentative plans for a fashion show, to be presented by the Dvas company to the Clionian and Athena literary societies jointly, and for the annual program to be given on Mother’s day in May have been formed.
San Diego Trip Is Scheduled For Deputations Skit
Two-Day Visit to Border City Included in Schedule For Semester.
“A two-day trip to San Diego on the boat is included in the remainder of the schedule of the Deputations committee,” says Bob Behlow who is in charge. In addition to the trip to Inglewood today, where the commit tee will play before the Rotary club the program will be put on at Long Beach, Pasadena, Glendale, and San Diego. The committee has played before fifteen audiences already this year.
IA thirty-minute luncheon program centers around a three-minute talk by Elizabeth Henninger, who speaks on “The College Man and His Place in Society.” A short dramatic skit entitled, “He and She,” is given by Art Brearly and Avalon Daggett, and directed by Doris Crook-Johnson. Louis Silva, a student of the College of Music, who has just entered after completing a contract -on the Pan-tages circuit, sings classical and standard songs, while popular selections are sung by Carroll Sandholt. Dale Stoddard and Tom Bryant, the latter recently of the Biltmore orchestra, play the saxaphone and banjo. Mrs. Dorothy Cameron Chess, also of the College of Music, plays the violin, accompanied at the Steinway by Mrs. E. S. Calenth.
DANCE PLANS
MADE PUBLIC
Charity Question Is Answered By Flood Disaster
Community Chest Contributors Have Personal Part In Catastrophe Relief.
The St. Francis dam disaster, calling into swift response the Red Cross and other first aid organizations, provides a significant answer to an important issue raised last fall during the Community Chest drive, according to D. C. Mac Walters, head of the local chapter of the Red Cross.
“That issue,” he declared, "was raised by a sentimental minority which averred ‘charity’ should be a personal transaction the individual could see and feel, as when a man gives a dime to a beggar. The present catastrophe searching out one’s uttermost sense of pity and terror, can be ‘seen’ and 'felt’. And the welfare agencies which leaped instantly to the work of relief and rescue were enabled to do so because all, including the Red Cross, are sustained by the Community Chest “Every one of the 400,000 persons who contributed to the Chest last fall played a vital part in this humane first aid. ‘It takes money to make the mare go’, and the 150 or so Chest agencies ‘go’ because «e support the Chest. The year around we are too preoccupied with our own tasks to ‘see and feel’ the work that all these agencies do in keeping humanity patched up. We cannot ‘see and feel’ the thousands of daily heart-breaks they cope wih. But this great elemental tragedy, powerfully presented through an ubiquitous press, brings home to us with terror our common susceptibilty to deep and unexpected sorrow.”
Foundations have been laid for the#' organization of the alumni of the University of Southern California living in Los Angeles into a working unit which will function efficiently in the canvass for funds to build the proposed new University library and gymnasium. A. J. Hill, men’s chairman for Los Angeles, made plain yesterday in announcing the personnel of his staff for this campaign. Seven men prominent in Southern California alumni circles and well-known in the business and professional world were announced as the division leaders who will direct the work of lining up the 4,000 or more alumni of Southern California for their part in the University's semicentennial building and endowment campaign.
Each of the seven division leaders, chosen for hi« leadership and administrative ability is charged with building up a staff of eight “majors,” who will each in turn organize a staff of eight “captains.’' The captains will be required to build a working team of eight alumni. In this way it is proposed to bring every graduate and former student of the University into the campaign organization. The division leaders, who will lay the foundations of this organizatiion were announced yesterday as Hallam Anderson, M. E. Berger, Earle M. Daniels, Clifford Hughes, Dr. Richmond Lane, Linton H. Smith, and iLoyd Wright.
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S. C. ADVERTISERS TO HAVE DISPLAY
Instituting a new policy toward their advertisers, the business staff of the Trojan announces that floor space will be given companies to conduct campus commodity displays.
A half page ad has been declared the minimum requirement for an advertiser to conduct a local display. The new service has ben devised by Earl Culp and John Kumler, representing the Trojan business staff and the Ad club, respectively. They stated that the 180 square feet of space ln the center of the student store will be available for an all-day demonstration by any of their advertisers filling the one-half page requirement.
Several Los Angeles firms have taken advantage of the advertising opportunity and requests for future stands are coming in to the Trojan business oflice.
The new service is novel in college advertising circles, the two men behind the campaign pointed out, and it promises to be in demand among the concerns represented in the Trojan pages.
Women’s Honor Group Plans Noon Meeting
lAII new pledges of Spooks and Spokes, honorary sorority, and active members of the group will meet for luncheon today at the College Tea Room, Vivian Murphy, president of the organization, announced yesterday.
Plans for initiation, and the annual candy sale, when the pledges invade the campus, dressed in orange and black uniform, will be announced at the meeting. Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, honorary mem!ber of the organisation, who recently has returned from a trip east, also will be at the meeting, Miss Murphy said.
Phil Farrel’s Harmony Boys will provide the music for the annual College of Commerce dance that is to be held Friday evening, March 30, in the Student Union Social Hall. This announcement comes from Art Neeley, who is in charge of the hop. Farrel’s orchestra is very well known on and off the campus. They have provided music for many University functions.
In addition to the securing of the orchestra many special entertainment numbers have been provided for. These numbers will fill in the brief moments between dances and during the intermission, according to Wally Hicks, who is responsible for the entertainment for the evening. He also declares that there will not be one dull moment the whole time of the dance.
Dr. Reid L. McClung, dean of the College of Commerce, will be the guest of honor at the affair.
The ticket sale for the danoe has overshadowed that of any dance that has been held this year. The ducats can be secured at the Book Store, at College of Commerce office, or from any member of the committee. The College of Commerce students are warned to get their tickets early before the Liberal Art students get hold of all of them.
Committees Selected To Prepare For Pan-Hel Sport Dance
Plans have been made for the Pan-Hellenic spring sport dance to be held on May 5, probably in the Aew Student Union building. Comftittees, under the direction of anet Culberson, vice-president and social chairman of the local Pan-Hellenic council, have been appointed. The following sororities will have charge of the various duties connected with the dance: Delta Delta Delta, decorations; Kappa Alpha Theta, music; Delta Zeta, refreshments; Phi Mu, program, and Kappa Delta, tickets.
The committees are expected to report complete arrangements at the next meeting of the Pan-Hellenic council, Miss Culberson said.
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ACTOR WIU BE GUEST OF HONOR AT SPEECH BALL
William Hanley of “Excess Baggage ’ Cast, Will Judge Costumes and Award Prize.
William Hanley, star of “Excess Baggage,” which is now playing at the Figueroa Playhouse will be guest of honor at the School of Speech costume dance to be held this Friday, according to Doris Crook Johnson, president of that school. Due to the fact that Hanley will be playing that evening, he will not be able to arrive until late, but will be in plenty of time to judge the costumes and award the prize.
Every one is to come dressed to represent some character of the stage or screen and it is said that many of the students are renting costumes that have been used by stars in various productions. Sadie Thompson, Clara Bow, L#n Chaney and the hero in the “Desert Song” are expected to be represented.
Students of the School of Speech are sponsoring the dance which will be given at the Lakeside Country Club, but the privilege of attending has been offered to all Liberal Arts students. Tickets may be secured at the office in the Student Union.
Special entertainment will be offered by Miss Natalio Sterling who will dance a solo number, “Venetian Knight.” This will add to the atmosphere of the whole affair which will be that of the Madri Gras. Ray Hatfield’s orchestra will furnish the music for the occasion. Dr. and Mrs. von KieinSmid, Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean and Mrs. Immel and the members of the faculty of the School of Speech have been invited to be patrons and patronesses of the dance.
MAY CREATE LAW CLINIC ON CAMPUS
Plans Indefinite For New Legal Work; Will Offer Summer Course.
“DINKS”
WORN ONLY WEEKS
EIGHT
Comitia Society
To Meet Tonight
Comitia Literary society will meet in Stowell 252 tonight at seven o’clock. Visitors are welcome. There will be several talks as well as an open forum afterwards. Theodore Hewitt will speak on “A New Medical Invention,” Carl Reynolds will speak on “The Mexican Question,” and Lee LeBlanc will also give a short talk. The acting censor, Reginald Reindorp, is in charge of the program this evening. Plans are under way for a debate try-out, and an active program is being planned for the near future.
U. C. L A., Ix>s Angeles, Mar. 26 (P.I.P.)—Freshmen at U. C. L A will only be required to wear their “dinks” for eight weeks instead of the entire year, was the decision of the Traditions committee here last week.
Freshmen, although a few have been unruly, have fairly well adhered to the rule that they must wear their little blue caps, said the committee chairman.
Dr. Knopf To Speak As Lenten Feature
The second of three Lenten addresses '.by Dr. Carl S. Knopf, profes sor of biblical literature at the University of Southern California, will be given tomorrow evening, at the Church of the Messiah, when his topic will be “The Songs of a Hopeful Heart.”
MASONS NOTICE
Regular luncteon will be held in the new Students Union Building today at 12:15 in Room 322.
BY RAY ZEMAN
Plans for the establishment of a legal clinic in the S. C. Law School, working on the order of dental and medical clinics for the poor, are still indefinite.
Dean Justin Miller states that although a course in legal clinic work is to be given in the law school during the summer session of this year, actual plans for the carrying on of the clinic, as outlined in an earlier Trojan, are still in the offing.
Should the clinic be established on the order of present -plans, it would prove of inestimable value to tbe students in the Law School, because it would make possible actual experience with real cases. Poor people would bring their cases to the clinic and the students would do all the filing of the necessary legal papers, compiling of the briefs, and similar work. Every detail except the actual pleading of the case in court would be completed :by the students. The pleading would be done by some cooperating legal aid organization, inasmuch as the California law requires that a lawyer be admitted to the bar before he plead a case in court.
GOOD EXPERIENCE
A clinic would give the students actual experience with real cases and not with practice cases as are arranged by the practice court at present. Practice court work, although valuable, always has about it some considerable unreality. Cases taken from real life, as in the legal clinic, are just as real as those handled in lawyers’ offices.
The plan has been used very satisfactorily in a few of the leading eastern law schools. The size of Los lAngeles makes it almost imperative that such a (Continued on Page Fqur)
COACH TO PRESIDE AT DEBATE LUNCH
A luncheon will be held today in rooms 321 and 322 of the Student Union for all members of the debate squad. The squad will meet in the debate office on the second floor of the Student Union and will then go to the luncheon.
Coach Alan Nichols will preside at the luncheon which is the first one held this season. All members of the squad should be present, is the statement that comes from Charles Wright, debate manager, because at this time plans will be completed for entertaining the delegates of the Pacific Forensic League convention, which will be held here on Thursday, Friday and Saturday of this week.
Southern California lost a close debate last Friday night to Southwestern College, two to one. Captain Stanley Hopper and William Henley defended the affirmative side of the Foreign Investment question for the Trojans against two of the leading debators from Southwestern.
DR. CARR PUBLISHES NEW BOOK
ON “THE UNIQUE STATUS OF MAN’
“The Unique Status of Man” is* the tide of a new book by Dr. H. Wildon Carr, visiting professor in philosophy at the University of Southern California from the University of London.
Published by the MacMillan Company. the book contains six lectures by the internationally known philosopher, delivered under the auspices of the New Era Foundation of the University of Southern California, established by the University in 1918 to emphasize the contribution of education to the attainment of Christian character.
Chapter headings, giving V.c title of each lecture, include “The Form of the Freewill Problem,” “The Metaphysical Form of the
Freewill Problem,” ‘^Empiricism and the Rise of the Idea of Nab< ural Religion,” “Mechanism and Scientific Materialism,” “Mind and Nature and the Principle of Relativity,” “The Positive Conception of Freedom Implied in Living Activity.”
Dr. Carr is a Fellow of the University of London and the Royal Society of Literature. His chief writings are “Changing Backgrounds in Religion and Ethics,” "The Philosophy of Change,” “The Philosophy of Benedetto Croce,” “The General Principle of Relativity,” "A Theory of Monads," and “The Scientific Approach to Philosophy.” He is the translator of Gentile’s "Theory of Mind as Pure Act” and Bergson’s i “Mind-'Energy.”