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Skull and Dagger Pledges At Rally. Mussatti Will Leave To Edit “Tax Digest”. Dedicate New Musical Organizations Building. Trojan Knights Ask For Applications. Dr. Crawford Returns To Campus From East.
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l‘The concert that marked the formal opening of the new musical organizations building was splendid, well put on, and provided the climax to a worthy endeavor.” The Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 19, 1927
NUMBER 120
MUSSATTI WILL EDIT MAGAZINE
Popular Professor To Be Editor of California Tax Digest.
TO START JUNE 1
Is Member of Sigma Sigma, Skull and Dagger, and Phi Kappa Phi.
James Mussatti. professor of history, will edit “The California Tax Digest” beginning June 1 of this year, according to a definite statement made by him yesterday. This position comes after two years at Southern California as instructoi and terminates his connections with the regular session, the summer school and Metropolitan College. The decision, a choice of several altema tives, some of which would meat residence in Cambridge and New York City, was made within the last few weeks and will set at rest all rumors and questions of campus students as to his position next year and where he will be, for his residence will continue to be Los Angeles.
The magazine is published through the California Taxpayers* Association and is concerned with questions and problems of current economic conditions. In the words of Professor Mucsatti: ‘“The California Tax Digest’ is a magazine devoted to th* education of the public to an interest in tax problems and promotion oi efficiency in government.”
He is a member of the History and Political Science Club and Phi Kappa Phi. This year, as a marR of his popularity with the students, he was elected to membership in Skull and Dagger, senior, and Sigma Sigma, junior, men’s honorary organisations, in each case receiving the longest applause of those pledgea when he was presented with the pin in a student assembly.
Professor Mussatti graduated from the high school of Spring Valley, Illinois, and spent one year in Chicago University. From Chicago h* came to S. C., graduating in 1922, and returning for his M. A. degree. He taught one year at Glendale Union High School and returned to S. C. for tbe year 1925-6 as a faculty member in the department of history. He proved so efficient in aca* (Continued on Page Two)
Dedicate Music Building
With Successful Program
Many Congratulatory Messages Are Received Upon Opening Concert; Was Broadcasted Over K.M.T.R.; Dr. von KieinSmid Speaks.
Messages of congratulations and appreciation for the program that was being presented flowed in by telephone and telegraph during the broadcasting of the concert which formally opened the new musical organizations building on the Friday evening that the University closed its doors for the Easter vacation. The reports were that the music was coming in splendidly over the air.
DR. VON KLEINSMID MAXES SHORT TALK It would be hard to imagine an opening more successful. An unfortunate difficulty with the lights early in the evening led some of the guests to believe that the affair was to be called off, but the many who stayed were well repaid for their faith. Two hundred invitations were sent out by the musical organizations department. Many prominent students and alumni were present, among them Dr. von KieinSmid, who stepped to the microphone to bring a few brief greetings to the friends of Southern California who were “listening
♦in” out in “radio land.’’
The program was put on by mem-
DEAN CRAWFORD RETURNS TO S. C. FROM TRIP EAST
Dean of Women Feels Honored To Have Represented S. C. in National Convention.
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, who has just returned from trip to Washington, D. C., to attend the biennial meeting of the American As-ociation of University Women, by whom S ithern California has recently been recognized, stated yesterday that she felt it an honor to have represented the University of Southern California at this meeting because of the standard of academic work on this campus.
This gathering was composed of official delegates of various cities and states in America with the idea of furthering the position of University women. President Rhinehart of Mills College, Dean Mary Yost of Stanford University, and Dr. Crawford represented California.
•The outstanding matter of business discussed at the meeting,” stated Dr. Crawford, “was the development of international fellowships for university women graduates. We feel that the most positive steps toward international peace and understanding are in making it possible for the young university woman to study in foreign countries, and because of this feeling a number of fellowships were initiated. At an international dinner, held during the convention, the ministers and ambassadors of various countries ex pressed their desire to have the young women of their country study in America.”
TORCH AND TASSE PLANS ELECTION
Annual Pledging at Senior Chapel Holds Interest of Women’s
Honorary.
With the approaching election of members to Torch and Tassel, women's honorary organization, interest begins to center around the annual pledging which will take place at the Senior Chapel, May 26, according to Mabel Smith, president.
Membership of the organization is limited to ten active members for one year of two semesters, that is, there can be no more than ten of those elected who will remain at the University for the year following their initiation. This makes allowance for the election of ten junior women whose membership will continue for the ensuing year, in addition to the senior women who will graduate the week following.
Members are chosen in recognition of outstanding activities and scholarships, making membership one of the highest local honors to be bestowed on University women students.
Luncheon meetings for the active members of Torch and Tassel have been arranged to be held every two weeks, the first one taking place at the Cottage Tea room today.
Prominent Engineers Will Speak On Campus
A series of seven lectures by prominent engineers of the Southern California Telephone Company has been arranged by the Electrical Engineering Department through the courtesy of G. R. Rutherford, who looks after the mutual interests of the company and the University of Southern California. These lectures are planned to give the engineering students a good picture of actual telephone engineering operations, without going into the electrical theory to any de gree.
The lectures will be given in room 34, Old College, each Wednesday at the 2:25 period, beginning on April 20. The schedule of subjects as arranged follows: Commercial Survey, April 20; Fundamental Plan, April 27; Araffic Studies, May 4; Outsido Plant. May 11; Central Office Equipment, May 25; Broadcasting, May 27.
bers of the Trojan band, orchestra, mandolin club, glee clubs, and assisting soloists. Assisting Hal Roberts at the microphone was G. Allison Phelps, “genial pholosopher of radio land.” The music was under the personal direction of J. Arthur Lewis, director of the Trojan Glee Clubs, and Hal Roberts, head of the musical organizations department.
BROADCAST OVER K.M.T.R.
The concert was broadcast by remote control from the new building over K.M.T.R., “Your Friend in Hollywood.” Roberts wa? assisted in his work by William Ward, manager of the band; Harold Grayson, assistant band manager; Lee Orndorff, librarian; Edith Lingerfelt, manager of the women’s glee club; Walter Zamenich, manager of the men’s glee club; Bert J. Teazle, director of the Southern California orchestra; and Lillian Smith, manager of the same organization.
Solo numbers were rendered by Miss Lorraine Lewis, who gave two pianologue numbers; Stillman Wells, Trojan band concert soloist; Berwyn Riske, prominent campus tenor, and (Continued on Page Four)
Wamp Deadline
Is Set For Today
With two more issues of Wampus yet to appear, the staff is working hard to complete the year’s work. Today is the deadline for the “Confidential Number,” and it is expected that much material will be turned in.
\VTith more than half a dozen trut> confessions already written, and with a cover of merit by Wing K. Tse. work on the “Confidential Number” is progressing nicely. It is planneQ to have it on sale May 3.
Editor Milton H. Booth also announces that the June number of the fun spreading cat will be known as xhe ‘Final Number” and will appear just before summer vacation. Contributors are urged to start work on it at once.
‘Boots’’ Has Real Nerve.
Pi Delta Epsilon Provides Contrast.
Look Back and Smile.
Concert Was Thing.
‘Pleasantest”
“Boots” Oudermeulen has declined his bid to Skull and Dagger, because, as he says, he believes that there are men on the campus who should have “made” the fraternity but who did not, and he has the kindness to include the writer among the number. It is not our place to say that he is right. Certainly he will not accomplish anything by his action. But we admire his nerve. Thanks, just the same, “Boots.”
MAY FETE
May fete practice will be held today at 3:15 p. m. in the Girls’ Gym.
SPELLING NOTICE
Spelling classes for the second part of the semester start today and Thursday, April 21, at 12:15 in room 206, Hoose Hall. Lists posted on the bulletin board outside the English office indicate the placement in classes. Enrollment this week is imperative.
JULIA NORTON McCORKLE,
Chairman of Freshman English
By contrast, “Boots’ ” stand is refreshing after some of the things we have witnessed on the campus. We attended a meeting of an “honor” organization just before vacation and saw a man blackballed for ro other reason in the world than personal prejudice. He had met every requirement for entrance to the organization but his one shortcoming, according to one of the men who cast the dirty ballots, was that he had made an undiplomatic remark (just one!) in an article he had written for the Trojan. About one more deal like that and we will be ready to say that Pi Delta Epsilon has served its usefulness on this campus, despite the fact that w’e were once proud of our membershiip in the fraternity.
But such material is rather personal to be run in the first column after vacation. Maybe we will iook back some day and smile at all this petty stuff. It’s worth giving up a pin or two to be able to say what you think.
And so, to more pleasant writing. About the “pleasantest” thing that has happened around here for some time was the formal opening of the musical organizations building. Hal and the rest of the company deserved every bit of the praise that came in to them. It was a plendid program, well put on, and added the climax to a worthy endeavor, the attainment of the new building. We add our congratulations to the many that came in the other night.
A telegram has arrived from the University of Oregon asking what policy is followed at Southern Californiia wth regard to the editor of the campus paper disagreeing with the student council or executive committee. The answer is easy. The paper is bound by the most solemn obligation to print the truth, and whatever action the student council takes should be faithfully transmitted to the student body in the spirit in which it was passed, this in the news columns. All of the sensible arguments in favor of the project should be laid before the readers. That done, the editor is at liberty to take any attitude he thinks best, providing he does it in a constructive manner.
Will Select Candidates For Knights
Petitions May Be Had in Student Store; Must Be Turned in By Friday.
Petitions for membership in the Trojan Knights will be available at the Students’ Store tomorrow nooi. and must be turned in to the nominating committee of the organization by 5 o’clock Friday, according to "Red” Dales, president.
Although it is not definitely known at this time, probably between sixteen and eighteen members are to be elected this year. Twice this number of petitions are to be picked out by the nominating committee from the total number of petitions turned in, the election of members to be from among the group of men represented by these petitions.
The organization is limited to thirty active and two honorary mem bers, while, according to the recently revised constitution of the Trojan Knights, active membership is limited to two years. All upper-classmen are eligiole for membership.
In the election of members, preference is given to those who have taken a prominent part in cam.jus activities, personal character being given an important place among the factors for consideration.
The Trojan Knights were organized in 1921. Their duties are the enforcement of traditions, the enforcement of orders of the University and student body administrations, the meeting and entertainment of visiting teams, and the assisting of the yell king.
WOMEN DEBATERS TO MEET U. C. L. A.
Compulsory Voting Will Be Subject of Third Debate of Season By Women’s Squad.
The Women’s Forensic Squad will meet the team from U. C. L A Thursday, April 21, in a dual de bate.
Those who will compose the S. C. team are Carolyn Fulghum, firjt neg ative; Mary Anderson, second negative; Doris Crook Johnson, first affirmative, and Josephine Rodriguei., second affirmative. The question will be the one used in former debates, “Resolved: That a system of compulsory voting should be adopted in the United States.’’
This will be the third debate of the season for the women’s forensic team, the other two having been with Pasadena and Fullerton Junioi Colleges. The latter contest was held April 7, and was a no decision debate.
NOTICES
All notiffR mu*t bf brought to the Trojan office at 71« Weat Jfff*r»on St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4322. S<i-tleen must be limited to 33 word*.
There will be a Student Fellowship business meeting today at 12:30 in the Y hut. Plans will be made foi the house party to be held in Carter’s Canyon over the next week end.
NEWMAN CLUB
The Newman Club will meet at Loyola College, Thursday, 8 p. m All Catholic students invited to at tend.
JUNIOR PLAY
Tryouts for the junior play will be held in Touchstone Theatre this afternoon.
PI DELTA
Members of Pi Delta Epsilon, national honorary journalistic fraternity, will hold a meeting at Twin Cedars Inn tonight at 6 o’clock, for the final election of new pledges to the organization. Plans for the annual Pi Delt homecoming will be discussed.
ALUMNI REVIEW
The staff of the Senior Edition of the Alumni Review will meet Thura. day noon for luncheon at the Blue room of the L. A. A. C. The following are asked to be present: Lee Conti, Rita Padway, Cecil Carle, Beth Baker, George Jordan, Grant Flint, M. A. Abaya, Sam Friedman, ana Ralph Holly.
PLEDGES ARE PRESENTED TO CAMPOS BY SKULL AND DAGGER AT ALL-U RALLY
Eleven Students and One Faculty Member Appear on Stage To Receive Ribbon; Five Pledges Out of Town.
“BOOTS” OUDERMEULEN TURNS DOWN BID
Scholarship Cups Presented by Dr. von KieinSmid To Los Angeles High Representatives; Deputations Skit is Presented.
Eleven students and one faculty member were pledged to Skull and Dagger, all-University honorary fraternity, at the assembly which was held on Friday morning before vacation. Of the seventeen who had been bid by the organization, five were off the campus and did not appear for their ribbons. These were Frank Ferguson, Leo Guischard, Ernest Roll, Art Syvertson, and Bill Henley.
-♦ “Boots” Oudermeulen,* senior
class president, whose name was also seen on the plaque by members of the student body as having been “pledged” to the fraternity, declined the bid. He gave as his reason that he thought politics had played too prominent a part in the choice of the men pledged.
The rest of the assembly was car ried out as announced. Coach Howard Jones was formally welcomed back to the campus by the student
Seniors Edit Alumni Paper
May Issue of Alumni Review To Have All-Senior Staff.
The May issue of the Alumni Review will be edited by the senior class. The senior edition besidfc containing regular alumni news wiii include several features about class.>body and scholarship cups were pre-
activities and a preview outline ol the future plans of the Class of ’27.
Seniors who have been prominent in journalism fields will comprise the staff. Lee Conti will act as editor and assisting him will be Cecil Carle, Rita Padway, Betty Baker, George Jordan, Grant Flint, M. A. Abaya, Sam Friedman, and Ralph Holly.
Copies of this senior edition wih be sent to all members of tbe class, to alumni members, and to the various Trojan clubs throughout the United States. Definite plans for the forthcoming edition will be made at a meeting at the Blue room of the L. A. A. C. Thursday noon.
COMBINED CLUBS TO GIVE COMEDY
Men’s and Women’s Glee Clubs Will Present “Aye, Aye, Sir/’ At Playhouse.
“Aye Aye, Sir,” a musical comedy, is to be presented by the combined glee clubs of Southern California, accompanied by the S. C. Little Symphony Orchestra, on April 29 and 30 at the Playhouse, according to BoW Ames, director.
The play was written by Bob Ames and Louis La Rondelli. Mr. La Rondelli was for a long time connected with Gilbert and Sullivan “Aye Aye, Sir,” is a story with a local plot. The first two acts take place on the S. S. Sallj, bound tot Honolulu, and the last act at the Moana Hotel at Waikiki beach. The leads are being played by Berwyn Riske and Helen Sauber, the comed> leads by Phil Hohmann and Edith Lingerfelt.
Tickets for “Aye Aye, Sir,” will go on sale Wednesday at the Students’ Store.
Plans Completed
For Law Dance
Plans for the Freshman Law dinner dance are nearing completion. The Ambassador will be the scene of the first year frolic Friday evening, April 22nd.
The sale of guest tickets will close Tuesday the 19th, as it is necessary to make arrangements in advance for the proper number, also a schedule of orchestra playing during the dinner.
The Freshman Law dance is an annual event and this year’s affair will be one of the best yet, according to Ernest Roll, president of Law, who has put a great deal of work on the project.
FROSH DEBATERS
All frosh debaters are to meet today in H-206 at 3:30 p. m. Short meeting, but important.
SIGMA SIGMA
All Sigma Sigma members and pledges are asked to report at the El Rodeo office today noon at 12:30 sharp. Important business must be transacted.
sented by Dr. von KieinSmid to the representatives of Los Angeles high school, and by Harry Silke, past Trojan student body president and alumni member of Alpha Kappa Psi. to Dave Bryant. The first cup was awarded to the high school whose graduates in the freshman class at the University had the highest grades during their first year here. Dave Bryant, Bernice Palmer, and Jessica Heber were the three. Tbe Alpha Kappa Psi cup is awarded annually to the freshman making the highest grades in the College of Commerce during his first year.
The deputations cast also presented the skit which has been produced in many Southern California high schools.
WOMEN TO BE . GIVEN MEMBERSHIP VOTES CONVENTION
Beta Gamma Sigma Decides To Include Women in Organization at National Convention.
“Women students may be admitted hereafter to Beta Gamma Sigma, national commerce honorary fraternity,” reports Don Edwin, student president of the College of Commerce, who has just returned from the biennial convention of the fraternity held at the University of Cincinnati.
This change, according to the S. C. delegate, will come as the result of the consideration of taking Gamn.a Epsilon Pi, the women’s organization, into Beta Gamma Sigma, thus patterning after Phi Beta Kappa, which is open to women as well as men.
Consideration was also given to the fact that there are not sufficient women majoring in business courses to constitute a strong national fraternity of their own. The vote of the convention was a tie, so the matter of accepting women members was left to the decision of the executive committee.
With a 100 per cent representation from the chapters of Beta Gamma Sigma, twenty-six delegates attended the Cincinnati convention, representing collegiate groups all over the country. Mr. Edwin of Southern California presented one of two student talks at the gathering. He also acted as chairman of the committee on “Exchange,” national publication of Beta Gamma Sigma. Don visited nine university campuses while in the east.
The next convention of the honorary commerce fraternity will meet in Chicago in 1930, the conference having decided to convene with three years Intervals hereafter. Offlceis elected at the April convention include: president, Roswell McCrea of Columbia University; vice-president, Ira Cross of the University of California; executive secretary-treasurer, William Gordon of the University of Pennsylvania.