Read It in The Trojan
Special Student Assembly To Be Helc* Friday. W. S. G. A. Elections Take Place To *a*r Debate Team Leaves For Arizona.
Senior Gift Committee Ponders Over Present. Wampus Needs Material For Last Issues. Trojan Knights Cope With Traffic Violators.
Southern
California
The Spirit of Troy
“Women have been urging that they be allowed the privilege of self-government for years and now that they have been granted the right it is up to every one of them to take the interest in their representatives to vote at the annual election/'	Editorial.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, March 23, 1927
NUMBER 107
DEBATE TEAM TO LEAVE FOR ARIZONA TONIGHT
Meldrim Burrill and Sam Gates Compose S. C. Team Leaving For Debate With Arizona.
DEBATE ON MUSSOLINI
Teams ^o Be Mixed, One Man From Southern California One From Arizona On Each Side.
fldrim Burrill and Sam Gates will leave tonight for Tucson, Arizo/ia, where they will debate with the University of Arizona l’r,''*iy night upon the question of Mussolini as a benefactor to Italy.
9 contest will be a novel affair in*-
it will be participated in by mixed | tmp, one S. C. speaker paired with j from Arizona against a similar
W.S.G.A. HOLDS NEW ELECTION
Polls To Be Open All Day Thursday in North Arcade.
"combination. Burrill will open the debate as first affrmative speaker and Gates will oppose him as the second speaker of the negative.
No decision will be rendered upon the contest although there will be an audience vote upon the merits of the subject as presented. This mixed debate is expected to invoke considerable interest and Southern California with a man on each side stands sure to win.
Meldrim Burrill, who wiil be paired with the Arizona speaker on the affirmative, is a junior at S. C., and in his second year on the squad. Last year he debated against Pomona and has taken part in one contest this year. Burrill has also been one of the speakers with the Deputations skit. He is considered to be a polished and capable speaker and with his pleasing platform work makes a good opening debater.
Sam Gates, who will be on the opposite side of the platform as second negative speaker, is one of the veterans of the 6quad, now being in his fourth year of inter-collegiate competition. Last year he spoke against such opponents as Colorado, Ohio Wesleyan, and too the trip to Palo Alto to debate Stanford. This year he has debated several colleges on the Mussolini question, including
WOMEN’S SQUAD TO HOLD DEBATE FRIDAY EVENING
Contest To Start At 7 :00 O'clock in Order To Avoid Conflict With Extravaganza.
Friday evening at 7 o'clock instead of 8 as was previously announced. Touchstone Auditorium will be th'.} scene of the first debate of the women’s debate squad, just lately organized, when they will meet Pasadena College in a dual debate on the subject of “Resolved, That a system of compulsory voting should be adopted in the United States.”
In order that the Extravaganza will not conflict with the debate, attempts are being made to have the musical performance postponed until 8:30, thus allowing the attendance of both.
Those taking the affirmative at S. C. are, first speaker, Doris Crook-Johnson, and second speaker, Ethel Bickford. The negative team, consisting of Carolyn Fulghum, first speaker, and Mildred Hines, second speaker, wil Itravel to Pasadena.
Dean Immel is coach of this debate, but Debate Coach Nichols will be the regular coach of the squad. Brigham I Manager of the squad is Eleanor
Young. The debate Friday will make his nineteenth forensic contest. He is considered to be a strong, forceful speaker, clever at repartee.
Any letters or telegrams of encouragement to these men as they represent S. C. before the Arizona etudent body may be sent in care of the manager of debate at the University of Arizona, at Tucson.
Veale, who arranges the intercollegiate debate schedule; Doris Crook-Johnson is captain.
Further debates are scheduled with Fullerton Junior College on April 7, University of California at Los Angeles on April 21, Whittier College, Stanford University and Mills College. The closing of the University of California early in May prevented the arranging of a contest with them.
WAMPUS CALLS COUNCIL TO HOLB
FOR MATERIAL dinner for boys
Three More Issues of Wampus, Plans; Banner Year For Humor Magazine.
“Copy, more copy,” mews Tommy Wamp. “More copy for the Low Brow number will certainly be welcome, if turned in by Thursday, March 24. the deadline.”
The Low Brow number is scheduled to appear on April 7, the Thursday before spring vacation. J There will be two other Issues of Wampus this semester, the True Confessions number and the Final number. This will make nine issues for the year, the greatest number ever put out, as eight has been the most that has been issued during a year before.
Milton Booth says that in order to put out these three more issues of Wampus, It is necessary to have a great deal more copy handed in. According to the editor of Wamp, everyone is free to hand in copy.
Boys’ Night will be observed at the Y. M. C. A. Council dinner this evening. The affair is an unnvual one, and Southern California men who are leaders of boys’ groups will be in charge. Don Newcomer is directing the plans for the evening.
Morley Drury will be the main j speaker of the evening. It is expected | that a large number of boys from al) j types of groups will be present. Boy Scouts, Comrades, church groups and others will be represented.
Stunts wil be given by the various groups, the program being made up chiefly of this entertainment. Dinner will be served at 5:45 P. M. and the program will be concluded by 7:00 o’clock.
WANTED
Twenty ushers to usher at The “Rumpus" Friday ar.d Saturday evenings. Sign up with Mrs. Poetker in the cage in the Associated Students' Store or with Les Heilman.
Negro Debater Is on Program
Regular Y. W. Meeting On Wednesday Features Dialect Readings and Plays.
Ralph Bunch, eminent negro debater of the University of California at Los Angeles, will give readings in his southern dialect as the feature of the regular Wednesday meet-in gof the Y. W. C. A. to be held at 5 p. m.
Betty Bradstreet, Margaret Lytle, and Clara Mae Parsons will give a phase of the student friendship problem, in a short play.
Supper will be served by members, while a discussion will be led by Rosita Hopps, president of the organization.
At 3 p. m. of the same day, James Mussatti, of the S. C. History department, will lead a group in a discussion on “Arbitration.” This discussion meeting is open to any man or woman on the campus.
BOVARD ISSUES WARNING AGAINST CAMPUS STEALING
SKULL AND DAGGER ELECTS MEN
Skull and Dagger, all-university men’s honorary fraternity, will make final selections of prominent senioV men today.
The entire campus has been waiting with interest for final announcement of the new pledges. According to Leland Tallman, president of the I organization, election to Skull and | Dagger is the highest campus honor j that a man can receive, since the | membership is carefully limited to those senior men who have brought 1 unusual distinction to their Alma
Mater by a record of outstanding achievements.
Among the matters that were considered yesterday were the reports of the committees concerning the introduction of the pledges to the campus and the amendment to the constitution relative to the eligibility of campus men. Another meeting will be held today at 12:30 in the student body president’s office, at which time final selection of the new men will be made. The selection of the place of the dance will also be decided upon.
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Elections for officials of W. S. G. A. for the coming year are to be held Thursday from 9 a. m. ^o 3 p. m. in the north arcade of the Administration building, according to Eleanor Mix, president of the W. S. G. A.
Those nominated for office are as follows: president, Betty Farmer, Ruth Carr; vice-president, Gwendolyn Patton; secretary, Fern Kuhry, Helen Sauber, Marguerite Green; treasurer, Mabel Russel; social chairman, Alice Colwell; judiciary representative, Erie Shephard; sophomore representative, Martha Murdock. Evelyn Martin, Marion Edwards; junior representative, Zada Taylor, Frances Holmes; senior representative, Dorothy Goodrich. Winnie Finch.
The Amazons are to be in full charge of the polls at the coming elections. No electioneering will be allowed within ten feet of the polls.
The newly elected president w?71 represent Southern California at the national conference of Associated Women Students at the University of Illinois to be held April 20 to 24. The purpose of the conference is to give representatives from all colleges and tmiversities an opportunity to come in contact with other colleges who have women self-government associations, and to come in contact with colleges having the same problems and difficulties. Data on the point system and on loan funds will be collected.
Great Going on Student Union.
Washington Policies Show Similarity of Interests.
All-U. Rallies are Essential.
College Band a Real Asset.
Only the Occasional “Prof is Unfair.
Petty thievery has gotten so common about the campus, that the Administration has found it necessary to call in police detectives. We would much rather prevent thefts than to arrest and prosecute. We are, therefore. once more warning students that thieves are operating on the campus and asking both students and employes of the University to keep valuables locked up--don’t leave them
lying about. Petty thievery is the hardest kind to stop. The situation has become so serious that we have now had to turn it entirely over to the police department with assurance that anyone caught will be prosecuted to
the full extent of the law.
W. B. BOVARD,
Comptroller.
Moriarty To Address Club Members Today
“Returned Merchandise” is to be the subject of an address by Dr. W. D. Moriarty, professor of Economics and Advertising at the University of Southern California, before members of the Wednesday Morning Club, today at 2 o'clock. The meeting will be held at the Wednesday Morning Club house, Sitchell and Avenue 2S
Trojan Advertisers Save You Money.
Without knowing on writing this the outcome of the Executive Committee discussion on the student union plans, it seems safe to say that it looks as though Southern Cal’s dream project is soon to be under construction. We understand the board of trustees have yet to give final sanction to the plan but things are looking rosy for a student union, to be ready by next September. That is great going.
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Some of the policies taken up by the Washington Daily for its editorial platform for this semester show a similarity of problems there and on this campus. Up near the top of their list comes this promise: “To assist in the staging of one or more A. S. U. W. assemblies.” This reminds us of the shouting we have been doing here in behalf of more frequent all-U. rallies and “jolly-ups.” If University spirit is worth anything such rallies are an essential, for they arc one of the best means of keeping the campus unified in its feeling.
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Another aim of the northern daily is “To assist the band in its effort to give Washington a real musical organization.” Not that our band needs particular boost-ing to get on its feet, but it shows that the services which a college band may render are appreciated elsewhere. This is all the more reason why we should be proud of our own.
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One of the Washington policies is to foster better understanding between the students and faculty. There isn't much need for that sort of thing here. In times past there have been antagonisms de* \ eloped between the Trojan and certain members of the faculty but they have usually been foolish and fruitless. Most sensible students realize that the “prof” is a friend here to help him and that it is the occasional one who fails to want the student view point.
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Of a little more lively interest is the policy: “To work for a spring election that is politically clean and lively with interest.” There isn’t a great deal that the campus paper can do. It can see to it that the voting itself is regular. For the rest it is just a matter of knowing how.crooked or straight the politicians are. Add to this the element of ignorance and credulity upon the part of tfte voters who swallow the propaganda and you have a pretty fair basis for estimating how clean and interesting any election will be.
SONGS FEATURE ‘RUMPUS’ ACTS
Two Acts and Six Scenes Will Feature Original Songs By La Mont.
BY KARMI WYCKOFF
Ten original songs by Grant La Mont and Gene Johnson and specialty dances will be the features of the “Rumpus of 1927,” consisting of two acts and six scenes, written by Earl Baldwin, author of the first Hollywood Music Box Review, which is to be presented the evenings of March 25 and 2G at 8:30 in Bovard Auditorium.
“Stairway of Love,” sung by Jo Campbell and Roy Winborn; “I’m Just Wild About You,” a duet by Grace Symmes and Wes Woodford; “Infatuation,” by Jo Campbell and the boys; “Someone,” sung by Johnny and the girls; “Football’s the Game,” an ensemble number, and ‘Hail to Clayton,” by Carroll Sand-holt and Lucille Taylor, are among the ten songs which will make the production unusual in the integrity of music. All numbers sung in the production are the original creations of Grant La Mont, who wrote the lyrics, and Gene Johnson, of Farrell and Johnson, who composed the music.
Antoinette Larsen and Jean Mas-chio, the latter a pupil of Sally Rand, dancer and screen actress, will present an aesthetic dance, and Wes Woodford will give an eccentric dance.
It is rumored that notable people of Hollywood will be present at the presentation Friday evening. Among these will be Earl Baldwin, author of the production and well known in Hollywood, who may be present with a group of his friends. Motion picture directors from the Universal lots will be hosts to their friends, it is rumored, and Sally Rand, screen actress, has indicated that she may be hostess at the production to ft group of her friends.
Knights Help Enforce Laws
Trojan Knights Efficiently Enforce Traffic Regulations On Campus.
“We have not had to give second warning tickets to any students who drive autos,” said “Red’K Dales, head of the Trojan Knights. “The students take the first warning seriously, and so while we have and wiil keep up our vigilance, we have not had to give out any second tags.”
The Knights are receiving the backing of both the administration and the student body and are working hard to do their duty. The great trouble seems to be that the students like to park in the driveways along 36th Street and also along University Avenue, but one tag has always been sufficient to drive away all the offenders. The Knights were recently complimented upon the way that they have succeeded in keeping the cars out of the red zones in front of the Administration building and the Old College, anu they promise to continue to do so.
HONORARY ANNOUNCE NEW PLEDGES AT RALLY
Sigma Sigma Will Announce New Pledges at Rally Friday Morning.
STANFORD GLEE CLUB TO APPEAR
ORIGINAL PLAYS ANNOUNCED FOR DRAMA PROGRAM
Junior Women's Honorary Spooks and Spokes To Pledge at Friday’s Assembly in Bovard.
Announcement of the new pledges of Sigma Sigma and Spooks and Spokes for the first time this year, and a concert presented by the Stanford Men’s Glee Club will be featured in the special alluniversity assembly to be held Friday morning in Bovard Auditor-
♦ ium at 9 o’clock.
Secret bids for the junior men’s honorary fraternity, Sigma Sigma, and for the junior women’s honorary fraternity, Spooks and Spokes, wil) be sent out to those elected to membership this week, but the names are to be unknown to the campus in general until Friday morning.
Forty members now comprise the Stanford Glee Club, under the management of Wilfred Davis, while heretofore the club has had a maximum membership of twenty four. During its present tour, the glee club is including several cities in this vicinity, and although this is its eighth annual tour, the dub is appearing in Los Angeles for the first time in three years.
Included as feature numbers on the Friday program will be a solo number by Adelbert Culling, baritone, and ^ grcup of college and negro songs By the entire glee club. The accompaniment is to be played by Griffith E. Williams.
Freeman Lusk, Marjorie Hull,
and Dorothy Davis Have Plays
in Touchstone Program.
Final choice ha3 been made on the original plays by Southern California students for the Touchstone Drama Shop program. The three one-act plays chosen were the work of prominent students, and will be presented in Touchstone Theatre on April 7.
“The Escaped Convict,” a melodrama by Dorothy Davis, will be presented. At least one program of original one-act plays must be put on by the Drama Shop each year, according to the stipulations of the constitution of the organization.
Dorothy Davis, chairman of the plav-writing committee, stated that although the plays for the next program have been definitely chosen, the club still is in need of more original manuscripts for future programs.”
WRIGHT TO SPEAK TO PRE-MED GROUP
With an illustrated lecture on the ductless glands by Dr. Clifford A. Wright, Wednesday evening, the Pre-Medical Society is giving the second of a series of addresses by prominent medical men in the city.
Dr. Wright is a graduate of the former S. C. medical school, class of 1907. He has devoted his life to a study of endocrine glands and is considered an authority in medical circles. He is at present preparing a treatise on the subject which will be published in the near future. Dr. Wright is a staff physician at the Orthopedic and Los Angeles General Hospitals.
The slides which have been prepared by Dr. Wright represent a very wid-i and successful experience both as a practicing physician and as an investigator in clinical problems. They con tain some unusual conditions in glandular deformities.
GLEE CLUB MAN BREAKS HIS NOSE
Notices
All unllrri mnxl be brought •<» the rrojnn office al Tl« Went Jefferson 91. or phoned to HUmholt 4522. Notices must be limited to 33 word*.
Quill Club will meet tonight in the English office at 8 o’clock. The manuscript committee will meet at
7:30.
Receiving a severe setback at hi'; own expense, Merrill Campbell, oass singer of the Glee Club, appeared in the club office yesterday with a broken nose.
While playing tennis on the Southern California courts yesterday, Campbell made a wild lunge at the ball, and missing the white sphere, his racquet collided with his nose.
SENIORS MEET GIFT PROBLEM
Many Suggestions Offered At Senior Gift Committee, Meeting.
Selection of a Senior class gift for the University was the main to\Ac discussed at a meeting of the Senior Class Gift Committee yesterday at Y. M. C. A. hut.
“Of course we could have a drive, play, or entertainment of some kind,” said Don Bailey, chairman of the committee, “but that wouldn't be exclusively from the senior class.” Preference seemed to be for making a direct assessment on the individual members of the class.
The proposed student union building was a fruitful source of ideas when consideration was being given to the nature of the gift. A cornerstone for the new building or a set of doors, more pretentious than the original plans call for, in commemoration of the senior class. A pie<’e of furniture or a portrait for the lobby are also being considered.
Of a slightly different nature was the suggestion that the class leave a fund for the publication of a history of the University. It is believed that such a work will be undertaken soon, and the fund would contribute to its publication and circulation.
The committee is composed of Dorothy Bishop, Mike Elwood, John Stevens, Dorothy Baker, and Don Bailey.
A professor at the University of Minnesota is conducting an experiment to see whether learning can be acquired in sleep.
Commerce officers, including
group chairmen, will have group picture taken for El Rodeo at 12:15 Thursday in front of Old College.
All-University Social Committee meets at 12:30 Thursday in the office of the Student Body President. Important.
COMMERCE TO HOLD PEP RALLY
All persons in the cast going to Pomona College for return exchange assembly will meet for final re-hearsal in Bovard Auditorium at 2:30 Wednesday.
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For the second of a series of regular commerce pep rallies. Jack Payne, chairman of the Commerce Rally Committee, has arranged an all-entertainment program featuring Pat Lynn, popular blues ginger from KFI and KNX, who will accompany himself on his uke. The rally is scheduled for tomorrow morning at 8:55 o’clock in Touchstone Theatre, O. C. 119.
Co-featured on this all-musical program will be Ray Hatfield with his orchestra, who has arranged some special stunts for the rally. The meeting is to be opened by the introduction of another distinctive Commerce song, written by Walter M. Rudolph, author of one of the two original songs which were presented at the last Commerce rally.
Commenting on the especially hill program which has been assembled for the meeting, Payne called attention to the fact that since only the regular chapel period is to be devoted to the program, it is imperative that every one get into the auditorium promptly as the entertainment is to begin at 8:55 Bharp, and will continue only until 9:15.
In conclusion he stated: "Those who have become acquainted with the Commerce rallies which have been put on during the last two years know the snappy type of entertainment . which will be provided, and those who are new in the college will find the meeting an ideal place to catch some of that rapidly developing Commerce spirit.” :