Read It in The Trojan
Rebates To Be Paid By Student Store. Theta Omicron Goes National. Douglas Speaks On Washington in Rally. Sigma Sigma Makes Plans For Pledging. Deputations Committee Will Present Skit. Hailey Will Talk On Roreign Relations.
Southern
California
Trojan
The Spirit of Troy
“Today the campus congratulates Morris Badgro upon his election to the Captaincy of the 1927-28 Trojan basketball team. ‘Red’ has fought gamely and well and deserves every bit of the honor that has come to him.” “The Old Trojan."
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, February 23, 1927
RALLY TALK BY DOUGLAS
Speech Delivered By Rev. Lloyd Douglas At Bovard Auditorium.
“UNFREEZES” HERO
Attempts To Make Father of Our Country Seem a Human.
"Unfreezing Washington" was the subject matter which formed the introduction and the conclusion of the taik given yesterday by Rev. Lloyd C. Ikmglas of the First Congregational Church, in Bovard Auditorium, in the special assembly called in honor of George Washington.
In the introduction of his speech, Rev. Douglas gave some interesting citations on how the biographers of Washington had, in the past, changed little human touches in his state papers to "language of a character more befitting one who was about to become the father of a country.” The tendency of the present day is to take these statues of heroes down from their pedestals and to make them more human, continued Dr. Douglas, as evidenced by the current biographies.
Then digressing from the subject of George Washington, he described the maudlin sentimentality of the war propaganda, the propaganda given the American public after the war. the attempt of the American ■people to express their opinion on public questions by mass meetings, and the tendency of quackery to enter every profession, not excluding the ministry. He then returned to the subject of Washington and the Star Spangled Banner at the close of bi6 speech.
Of the latter he said: that although he knew that there was a grammatical error in the first verse, though he inew that the original tune was written to waltz time, and though it was not primarily written for a national anthem, yet he would ring it as long as he lived.
Pep Rallies at Meetings
Sophomore Class Attempts To Revive Spirit With Series of Rallies.
Flans for the revival of inter class pirit were made by the Sophomore Cabinet, which met yesterday.
As a first step toward this, plans ere adopted, at the last meeting,
o	put on a series of short, peppy rallies for the Sophomore class. According to Muriel Heeb and Charles bright, heads of the class rally com-ittee, these meetings will be four-ilfths entertainment and one-fifth business, with their main object to Awaken the dormant class spirit.
The first dance of the semester is Iso being planned. This will probably be held in the Southern California Gym, and a low price of ad-rission and an exceptionally fine orchestra are expected to bring out a large part of the class. Stunts and idance plans are in charge of Bertha Palmer, Les« Lavelle ,and Bob Beh-;OW.
Drama Shop Plays To Be Staged Tomorrow Evening
Variety will be the feature of the program of three one-act plays to be given by the Touchstone Drama Shop tomorrow evening in Touchstone Theatre at 8 o’clock.
“The Maker of Dreams," a fantasy by Oliphant Downs, ha& as its hero and heroine the popular Pierrot and Pierrette figures of drama, and will be presented with fantastic setting and costuming.
“The Dreamy Kid,” by Eugene O'Xiell, is a realistic play of negro life .and is said to be very different in mood and setting from “The Maker of Dreams."
“ ’Op o’ Me Thumb,” by Richard Pryce and Frederick Fenn, is a drama taking place in a laundry, and dealing with the adventures of Amanda, a little laundry worker.
“We try to please every type and variety of taste in oar programs of plays,” states Marcus Beeks, president of the Drama Shop.
Sigma Sigma Sets Program
Junior Men’s Honorary Plans Events For Future; Yellow Dog To Appear.
Meeting Monday noon. Sigma Sigma, junior men’s honorary fraternity, decided upon tentative dates for its pledging and for its annual banquet.
Committees were appointed, including that which will have charge of the Yellow Dog, the honorary’s yearly publication. This takes the form of a razz sheet. The names of those chosen for the membership committee have not yet been announced.
The date for the banquet, though not definite, will be either on the 22nd or the 23rd of April. Those on the committee to taie charge of this affair are Grant La Mont, Jeff, Cravath. and Sam Gates. According to the recently appointed committee, it will be an exceptional banquet and one which will not soon be forgotten.
Art Syvertson, president, announces that pledging will take place about March 15. Junior men who have achieved prominence in university activities are eligible for membership in Sigma Sigma.
any Organizations Are Found Delinquent In El Rodeo Payment
Many social fraternities have been found delinquent in their payments for space in the El Rodeo, according to Les Heilman, business manager.
Payment from the social fraternities was due January 1. and it will be necessary that those delinquent settle their financial obligations immediately if they expect space to be held for them.	»
One of the features of the 1927 El Rodeo is the exceptionally large and excellent sport section. The section, covering 96 pages, is one of the ost complete in El Rodeo history. Minor as well as major sports are covered. In addition, numerous pic-
res of the various teams and in-vidual players in action have been rocured.
rojan Advertisers Save You Wene>.
MUSSATTI TO LEAD DISCUSSION GROUP
Y. W. C. A. Will Sponsor Talks Upon World Affairs; Supper Meeting To Be Held Tonight.
Discussions on world affairs, to be conducted by Professor James Mussatti. are of the chief interest in the Y. W. C. A. programs for this semester.
Professor Mussatti has consented to devote every Wednesday afternoon from 3:30 to 5:30 to 8. joint meeting of the Y. W. C. A. and the Y. M. C. A. at the “Y” Hut. His plan in conducting the discussion is to devote the first half of the mteting tc the presentation and establishment of a background on the subject under consideration, and the latter half to the open discussion of this subject.
“The Monroe Doctrine—Is It Obsolete?” is the subject for the first meeting. Wednesday, March 2.
The Y. W. C. A. will hold its regular supper meeting tonight from 5:30 to 7:30. Clara Miller, the secretary, urges all members to come. The regular student discussion will be of special importance at this meeting.
The various groups will be led by Florence Nichols, Eleanor Mix, Rosita Hopps, and Florence Gillson. Freda Fisher will present a stunt.
FOREIGN TRADE TOPIC OF TALK
Member of L. A. Chamber of Commerce To Speak Before Foreign Trade Group. J. R. RIGGSlN CHARGE
Speaker Connected With and Responsible For Development of L. A. Harbor.
NUMBER 87
Discussing the opportunity for Los Angeles in foreign trade, Clarence L. Matson, of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce, is to be the speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Foreign Trade group of the College of Commerce tomorrow noon at the Italy Inn, on Figueroa street, between 35th and 36th streets.
John R. Riggs, chairman of the group, is in charge of the meeting. In commenting on the activities of the speaker, he pointed out that Mr. Matson is one of the very few persons responsible for the development of the Los Angeles harbor, and is now actively engaged in further developments of the foreign trade, being the head of the Trade Extension division of the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce as well as the head of the Cooperative Office of the United States Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
A list has been posted of the foreign trade majors on the foreign trade bulletin board in the commerce lobby. All those planning to attend the luncheon may secure their reservations by placing a check after their names on this list. Any students desiring to attend, but whose names do not appear on the list, may make reservations by signing their names at the bottom of the posted list.
HARLEY 10 DISCUSS
League of Nations, the Chinese and Nicaraguan Problems, Will Be Discussed At Meeting.
Meeting tonight at 7:30 at the Y. W. C. A. for a social evening and a short business meeting, the History and Political Science Club will hold the meeting that was postponed from last week.
Professor J. Eugene Harley of the Political Science Department, and internationally known authority on the League of Nations and world affairs, will be the speaker of the evening.
Included in his speech will be a discussion of the League of Nations, China ,the authority of the League, and intervention in Nicaragua.
A piano solo by Winnifred South, graduate student, and a violin selec-tio by Tom de Graffenreid will complete the program.
A short business meeting will precede the program, when immediate business and plans for the annual banquet will be considered. Any student who is majoring in history or political science may attend this open meeting .
ARGONAUTS WILL HEAR DR. PERRY
NOTICE
Tickets to the Friday and Saturday matinee performances of “What Price Glory?” are to be put on sale in the Arcade and the Students’ Store at the regular prices by the Women’s Self-Government Association for the benefit of the Women’s Scholarship Fund.
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
“The Moral Athlete—An Aspect of Puritanism" is the subject of the address to be given by Dr. Ralph Barton Perry at the Argonaut meeting Wednesday.
Dr. Perry is the distinguished professor of philosophy at Harvard University. He is at present giving a series of lectures at. Pomona College. His early return to his post at Harvard in the latter part of February necessarily limits his lecture engagements, the Argonaurs being especially fortunate in securing him for the lecture.
Dr. Perry is the author of “The General Theory of Value,” “The Philosophical Tendencies,” “The Present Conflict of Ideals," and numerous others .
The meeting will be held in the Philosophy Seminar room Wednesday
at 715 p. m.
PRESS CLUB
A special meeting of Press Club, to make plans for annual home-coming dinner and to discuss new members, will be held in the Trojan office Thursday at 12:15.
Today the campus congratulates Morris Badgro upon his election to the captaincy of the 1927-8 Trojan basketball team. “Red" has fought gamely and well for the university and' deserves every bit of the honor that has come to him. The student body wishes him the best of success for the next season.
*	* *
It usually pays to .withhold criticisms and vindictive remarks until the whole truth is known. We suspected when we read the column in the Daily Bruin, referred to in this column Monday morning, that the sports man who actually wrote the story did not represent the feeling either of U. C. L. A. or of Bill Forbes, the Bruin editor. Accordingly, judgment was reserved until the letter was heard from. The latter called this office Monday morning, before ever he had had a chance to read the letter we directed to him, apologizing for the column and stating that it did not represent his institution or his paper. The following day a written apology appeared in his paper. Individual staff members will run wild once in a while but the editor could do no more than he did. As far as we are concerned the apology is accepted and the matter dropped.
*	* *
And while we are on the matter of student body policies it may be well to run a word of explanation regarding our criticism of the Stanford writer's opinion of the chapel mosaic. At least one student on this campus took us to include the northern student body in our last paragraph. Such was not the case, of course. We referred only to the individual writer of the column, who, we think, did take his official responsibility lightly. From that position we make no detraction.
*	* *
We are somewhat bothered by a question of courtesy just now. The problem concerns what ought to be said of the address of the Rev. Douglas yesterday. We appreciated his giving his time and thought to our program and we are sensible of the danger of being rude to a visitor by criticizing him after he has left. But a column like this, it seems, has little excuse for existence if it dodges those issues which are clearly of import to the campus. More, it is worse than valueless if it is not frank and honest.
*	* *
Several students came to the writer after the address yesterday to express themselves with regard to the pastor’s consistency. It does seem to us that there was good ground for the questioning, too. He might very well have had his fun with what he chose to refer to as “maudlin sentimentality, but why follow that with the boast that he is going to sing the national anthem in spite of its defects? It that wasn’t appealing to popular applause we never saw it. His sentiment regarding the (Continued on Page Two)
PRESENT SKIT AT LINCOLN HI
Deputations Committee Will Present Play At Local Hi Schools Today and Friday.
BETA SIGMA OMICRON ACCEPTS LOCAL GROUP
-----
President of Theta Omicron Receives Wire From National Headquarters Advising of Acceptance of Petition.
SPEAKERS ENTERTAIN SORORITY IS HONORED
National Sorority, With Thirty-two Chapters, Organized in 1888, At University of Mis-
Applications For Membership Acted Upon; Choices Announced Later.
Final instructions to the Deputations cast concerning the presentation today and Friday and consideration of applications for membership on the committee were the matters discussed by the Deputations committee in the meeting yesterday noon.
The Deputations Skit will be presented today at Lincoln High School, when the cast and two speakers will entertain the assembled student body. Friday the skit will be presented at San Fernando High School. Tentative plans for transportation and questions of directions and roads were discussed, but no definite conclusion reached.
Consideration of applications for membership on the committee were considered by the members present. From among the applications submitted several were selected for final consideration. Selection will be made from these, announcement of which will be made in a few days. The number of applications submitted was indicative of the student interest in the Deputations committee work, according to Sam Gates, chairman, who stated that he was well pleased with the number turned in.
LEADING EDUCATORS AT
Professors From Leading Institutions Will Lecture in Many Different Departments.
Not only are approximately twenty-five educational institutions from all sections of the country to be represented by fifty visiting faculty members during the 1927 summer session at the University of Southern California. according to the preliminary announcement just issued by Dean Rogers, but included in this list are many educators who have never before lectured on the Trojan campus, and also a number professors and lecturers who have already earned for themselves a summer following since their work here last summer or before.
Dr. Gilbert Giddings Benjamin, from the State University of Iowa, for instance, will again grace the Department of History at Southern California this summer.
Gilmore Brown, of the Pasadena Community Playhouse Association; Genevieve Kelso, head of the Department of Physical Education of Jefferson High School; Robert H. Lane, Clarence LeRoy Glenn, John B. Corcoran, and Vierling Kersey, of the city school system; Lila Morris O’Neale, professor of household arts of the Oregon State Agricultural College, and Bess Daniels, lecturer of the Philharmonic Orchestra, in the Department of Music, kre all to contribute to the faculty facilities of the 22nd annual Summer School at the University of Southern California this year.
soun.
Beta Sigma Omicron, national sorority, has notified Theta Omicron, local campus sorority, that it has accepted the petition of the local chapter, according to Gene Williams, president of Theta Omicron.
Theta Omicron, after three years of active petitioning .assisted by the chapter of the national at the University of California at Los Angeles, has at last realized the goal toward which the twenty-five active members of the group have striven.
Beta Sigma Omicron was established at the University of Missouri in 1888. There are at present thirty-two chapters in the national. Theta Omicron will be Alpha Theta Chapter. There is a chapter of the sorority at U. C. L. A., but none has as yet been established at Berkeley.
Lack of Shelter Drives Co-eds Into Classrooms
Recent storms and floods throughout the state, which caused thousands of dollars in property damage, made themselves felt on the S. C. campus in general and among the sororities in particular when they uprooted several trees from the Old College lawn.
By this act of Providence, several sorority groups were deprived of a campus meeting place which they had previously been in the habit of using.
With the kindly shelter of the trees removed, Southern California’s hardy co-eds have been forced to hold their outdoor sorority meetings elsewhere, or seek protection from the elements while on the campus in such unseemly places as class rooms or collateral reading rooms.
JAPANESE CONSUL TO ADDRESS CLASS
Noted Diplomat Will Discuss Japanese - American Relations Before International Law Class.
STORE WILL PAY REBATE
Student Store Rebate Checks of Last Semester Will Be Paid to Students.
STUDENT CONTRACT
Propose To Have Profits of Store Go Into Student Union Building Fund.
That rebate checks held by students for purchases made at the Associated Students’ Store last semester are to be recognized and paid rather, than applied to the student union fund, as has been suggested, was the decision made by the student store board of control at a meeting held in Henry Bruce’s office yesterday noon. It was also decided at the meeting to bring before the students at a future mass meeting the proposition of whether or not future rebates shall be applied on the same fund.
It was felt by the board that a contract was made with students at the first of the year that they were to receive checks entitling them to a ten per cent rebate at the end of the semester in order to merit their trade, at the students’ store. To withhold this money .turning it into another fund, however meritorious, was unanimously disapproved by those present, who were Henry Bruce, purchasing agent of the University, chairman; Dean Fisk, manager of the Associated Students’ Store; Gwynn Wilson, graduate manager of the student body; Leland Tallman, president of the Associated Students; George Jordan and Eleanor Mix of the executive committee.
A short discussion on the matter of the disposal of next semester’s profits from the store brought out the opinion that while the money might very reasonably be used for the union, it was only fair to consult the students on the subject.
It was also decided to take the matter of recommending to the president of the University that all student store profits be Used for the union before the campus. This, it was said, will probably be done at some future mass meeting of the student body.
Notices
All notice* matt be brought to the ITojan	*t 71# Wwt Jeflfrw*
St. or phoned to HTJmbolt 4522. Notices nannt be limited to 38 words.
The Bachelors’ Club will hold a luncheon at the Twin Cedars Inn this noon at 12:30.
Quill Club will meet this evening at So’clock in the English office, S. 252. All members are expected to bring manuscripts.
SQUIRES
Trojan Squires will meet on the front steps of Old College, Friday at
9	o’clock, for their El Rodeo picture.
The Fencing Club will meet today at 12:30 at the men’s gymnasium.
(Continued on Page Two)
In addition to speaking on consular duties, C. Ohashi. Japanese consul av. Los Angeles, will also say a few words on Japanese-American relations when he appears before Professor J. Eugene Harley’s class in International Law at 11:25 Thursday in S-353.
Mr. Ohashi's long experience in the Japanese Foreign Service, and his attendance at the Washington Conference on Limitation of Arms, well fit him to undertake the discussion of the subjects which have been chosen.
J. Eugene Harley, professor of International Relations, has extended a cordial invitation to all those who are interested to attend the meeting of the class on Thursday and hear Mr. Ohashi.
Engineers Will View Damaged L. A. Bridges Resulting From Floods
Will Present Barry Play
"You and I” Will Be Offered in Touchstone Theatre, March 4 and 5.
Inspection of all the bridges, foundations .temporary structures, and stresses over the Los Angeles river, and to view the damage caused by the recent flood waters, is the object of a trip which engineers of the University will take Friday afternoon.
Starting with the Ninth Street structure, the group will follow the course of the river to Glendale. Mor& than a dozen constructions of various types and uses will be included in the itinerary.
Touchstone Theatre will be the scene for “You and I,” which will oe presented to the student body of Southern California on the nights of March 4 and 5 by National Collegiate Players.
"You and I,” the play by Philip Barry, was produced by Richard G. Herndon and directed by Robert Milton. and was first presented in New York at the Belmont Theatre in February, 1923. Since then the play has met with much success on the continent and in this country.
The theme of the play runs in the field of student romance. The main idea c “You and I” is whether a young man should give up his free dom and career early in life to get married. The answer is woven into a smart play full of interest and human nature.
Ray MacDonald, who will direct the play, selected Touchstone Theatre
1	for the presentation. "The play is such that it requires a great deal of personal contact with the audience to be a success,” said Mr. MacDonald.
SENIOR HISTORIES
Today is positively the last day on which seniors who have not turned in their histories for the El Rodeo may do so. Cards are outside of the El Rodeo offke.
Stonier Addresses Group of Students At Local Prep School
Harold J. Stonier, executive secretary of the University of Southern California and president of the Los Angeles Advertising Club, is to speak at the Huntington Beach High School on Tuesday afternoon, February 22, at 2 o’clock, according to Mrs. M. J. Jones, principal of the *School. Mr. Stonier will also speak before the Huntington Beach Women’s Club during the afternoon.