TROJAN STAFF
The group picture of the complete Trojan staff will be taken Friday noon, at Ward’s Photorium, in the Old College. All reporters, desk editors, and members of the sport staff and the feature staff must be present on time. It is essential that all staff members try to be present on Friday, because there can be no postponement, owing to he fact that the Photorium is being moved into its new location in the Student Union.
Southern
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NEWSPAPER DAY
There will be an important meeting of the executive committee for the Sixth Annual Newspaper Day, in Room 229, Student Union building today at 10 o’clock. Mary Main, Rita Padway, Harold Silbert, and James Grant are requested to be present without fail. Final plans for Newspaper Day will be discussed. A report must be sent into the office of the General Manager not later than tomorrow and a list of all expenses must be made at this time.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, March 6, 1928
NUMBER 92
TROJANS TRIM HUSKIES IN FIRST GAME OF SERIES
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Bridge Hall To Be Opened For Geology Classes Today
CLASSES IN NEW BRIDGE HALL OPEN
Final Touches Given New Building Last Night; Dedication to be Held.
Classes in Bridge Hall open today. Last night final touches were applied to the new structure which is another step in the intensive building program now being carried on by the university. While the building will be dedicated at a later date, today, for Trojan students, will be the opening.
Several weeks ago the new Student Union was opened, and today Bridge Hall opens for classes. The latest structure on the Trojan campus has been named after Norman Bridge, M.D., LL».D., and his wife, Mae Manford Bridge.
Shades of 1880! What a different hue the shades of the University of Southern California in 1928 are.
About fifty years ago University Avenue was surrounded by wheat fields which were popular for duck hunting.
A walk or an automobile ride down University Avenue from Jefferso* to Exposition reveals new shades. Bovard Auditorium was the first new building to be constructed cm University Avenue, the street of shades. The administration building was followed by the pharmacy and law structures.
CLASS A BUILDING The new unit in the intensive building program now being carried on by the University of Southern California Is located just south of the Iaw Building on the east side of University Avenue. It is a four story, class “A.” reinforced concrete fireproof structure and has a width and depth of 120 by 120 feet. The building is made of brick and terra
Law Enforcement Group Meets In Student Union
With a report on the United States Electoral System as the main feature of the meeting, the Law Enforcement committee, under the direction of Gwen Patton, will meet today at 12:15 in the Women’s Organization office, room 234 in the Student Union building. Phyllis Crowley, chairman of the constitutional committee will give the report.
Due to the resignation of Catherine Wright, who has served as secretary of the Law Enforcement committee, elections will be held at the meeting today for a new secretary of the organization. This announcement was made by Gwen Patton.
All women on the campus, especially those who belong to the committee or who are upper-class women, are urged to attend the meeting, states Gwen Patton. The Law Enforcement committee is open to all women who are interested in governmental agairs, and reports, which are given by the members at the meeting held every Tuesday, are based on the topics of vital importance in the affairs of the nation.
Trojan Business Staff Will Hear L.A. Ad Club Man
Earl Culp is Sponsoring A Series of Conferences To Discuss Problems.
The Trojan business staff will meet Thursday afternoon at two o'clock, in room 207 of the Student Union building, to hear Albert But-terworth speak at the first of a series of conferences.
Butterworth was the president of the Los Angeles Advertising Club cotta and has the regulation brick for the term preceding that of Har-tile roof which is a characteristic 0ld Stonier, former vicepresident of
COLLEGIANS EARN MOST OF TUITION
Survey Shows Many Students Entirely Self Supporting.
A survey of college life, based on findings made during the past semester, discloses that more than half the students registered at the University of Southern California are entirely self-supporting and that 71 per cent of all the men and 55 per cent of all the women earn at least part of their expenses.
These findings are reported in detail in the current Trojan Graphic, a publication of the University of Southern California Semi-Centennial Committee, which will be distributed this week. The information is based on a status of 6.051 Trojan students.
Of the 3,461 men registered in tht schools of the University undr survey it was found that 1,643 of them were entirely dependent on their own efforts and 830 others were partially dependent on their own efforts. In all 2472 were thus wholly or partially self-supporting, while the rest, 985 or 29 per cent., depended on others for their tuition and living expenses.
Naturally fewer women are able to work their way through college But of the 2,590 women registered it was found that 1,283 were entirely self-supporting, while 1155 women, or 45 per cent., depended on their families entirely.
A list of the jobs which college men and women are holding in Los Angeles would look like a directory of vocations. Men students in the college of liberal arts work at such varied jobs as delivering summons, tending golf links, directing Bov Scouts, barbering, preaching, usher-(Continued on Page Four)
feature of the buildings on the Trojan campus.
The steam shovel started to clear the ground for the new building, which contains forty class rooms and private offices. November 2. 1927. The four months’ work which has been spent in constructing the new building has created a building which should prove popular with the faculty and student body.
The fourth floor will be occupied by the rreology department and a fully equipped laboratory is being installed to aid in the study of science and geology. The third floor will serve the needs of the English department. Offices of professors and practice rooms will be included in the English suite. The second (Continued on Page Four)
the University. He is now manager of the Keystone Publishing company, which publishes some 28 monthly magazines, mostly trade journals. He is also in charge of the engraving work for the Star Engraving company.
The general subject of his address will be, “Business and Advertising Problems of the Smaller Paper,” and is intended to guide the Trojan business staff in solving the problem? which confront the business staff of a college daily.
Earl Culp, business manager of the Trojan, is sponsoring the affair, and he states that the meeting should clear up many of the problems which now clog the work of the business staff, and will more (Continued on Page Four)
Popularity Contest Will Prevail During Leap Week
To whom it may concern:
Je it known that the Daffy Club, composed of students of the University of Southern California, in-as much as next week is the regularly ordained Leap Week, do order that the above club will and shall hold a male popularity contest.
Rules to be formed by the said club, and winning contestants are to be picked by the said club with help of certain feminine assistants.
Therefore, on the feature page of the Trojan, from this date until the close of the contest, there will be conducted a contest column, wherein will be printed the rules and regulations and the standing of the contestants.
Eligible contestants shall be all male students of the University of Southern California, between the ages of nine and ninety.
7otes will be allotted to the contestants with regard to the number of dates, type of car employed, place of entertainment and sundry expenditures made by co-ed contestants.
The number of votes to be given for each of the above listed items will be found in the contest column of tomorrow’s Trojan.
Daffy Club Contest Committee.
ASK HENLEY TO ADDRESS DELEGATES
Student Speeches to Present Ideas to Prep Newspaper Men in Convention.
‘NATION’S TRAFFIC” HOLDS CONTEST TO INTRODUCE NEW SAFETY IDEAS
Students and members of the faculty in all departments of the University of Southern California art eligible to compete in a $10,000 traffic contest being conducted by Nation’s Traffic, the national publication devoted to street and highway traffic, published in St. Louis.
The contest is intended to induce new ideas in traffic, and making it safer should especially appeal to engineering students, but there are subjects included in the contest on which other students may prepare plans. Students and faculty members at many universities have entered plans in tbe contest.
Fifteen cash awards will be made. First’ prize will be $2,500, and the second $1,500. The next three awards
will be of $1,000 each, with the sixth prize $750, and the others ranging in amounts from $100 to $500.
Judges in the contest will be twenty traffic experts of national recognition, who will be aided in an advisory capacity by a traffic conference to be held simultanously with the awarding of the prizes. The contest closes April 30, and the committee of awards will announce tha findings in May.
A bonus of $100 will be given for the neatest and most carefully prepared manuscript and another of the same amount for the most helpful idea or suggestion. Information regarding the contest may be obtained by writing Nation’s Traffic. Title Guaranty Building, St. Louis, M.
FATHERS TO BE DINNER GUESTS
President von KieinSmid to Speak at Banquet in Student Union Hall.
Tomorrow evening the Y. W. C. A. Fathers’ and Daughters’ banquet will be held at 6:30 o’clock in the Student Union building. President R. B von KieinSmid will be the principal speaker.
The type of program to be pre sented is one of much interest. Betty von KieinSmid will act as the toast-mistress. Rosita Hopps, president of the organization; Catherine Colwell, vice-president of the Associated Student Body, and Betty Farmer, president of W. S. G. A., will give toasts to the guests which will be replied to by Dr. C. E. Parsons. The music will be furnished by the students from the College of Music. The building will be open for inspection and all those desiring to go through will be at leisure to do so following the program.
This is one of the first large social functions that has been held in the new building and it is anticipated to be a great success. The type of banquet is unusual in that the girls are entertaining their fathers. It is hoped that this will become an annual event on this campus. All University girls are invited to attend. If it is not possible to bring a father a brother, uncle or friend may be substituted.
Tickets may be obtained at the Y. W. C. A. rooms or from any of the members of the organization Clare Mae Parsons is in charge of the affair.
Engineers Meet At Caltech For Joint Gathering
Russell Graves to Exhibit Oscilograph; Chairman of S.C. Group Gives Address.
The Southern California branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers will meet jointly with the California Institute of Technology Branch, and the Los Angeles section of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at Cal-Tech tonight.
Russell Graves, of the Trojan branch will speak on the study of vocal music with oscillograph.
The oscillograph, an instrument for the visual study of the notes, will be explained in detail by Graves, and records and slides will be displayed, giving an analysis of the voice of Dr. Waggoner, of the S. C. College of Music.
Lester Bateman, chairman of the local student branch of the A. I. E. E. will address the meeting. His topic will be "The Possibilities of Student Branches of the A. I. E. E.”
George Coffey and Osborne Hatch will provide the lighter part of the entertainment, appearing in a program of solos and duets of popular songs.
Students wishing to attend the meeting must make reservations with Professor Biegler in the Electrical Engineering Library.
William Henley, student body | president, will give the address of welcome to the delegates to the , Sixth Annual High School Newspaper 1 day, in oBvard Auditorium, Friday morning. Henley will welcome the 200 visitng prep school students, and will explain a little of the history of the annual convention.
In addition to the numerous Southern California newspapermen who will address the delegates at various times during the day, a number of student speakers will be featured on the program. Virgil Pinkley, managing editor of the Daily Trojan; Muriel Heeb, assistant editor; Bernice Palmer, feature editor; and Bill Foote, sports editor, all will give short talks on the operation of their various departments. Bill Harvey, student publicity chairman, Ralph Huston, editor of the daily, will be in charge of the afternoon session of editors, and will lead the general discussion.
Earl Culp will lead the meeting of the business managers of the high school newspapers, and will be aided by the assistants on his staff.
Dave Bryant and Hershel Bonham will be in respective charge of the annual editors and business managers, and *are preparing programs for afternoon discussions.
Luncheon for the visiting delegates is planned for 12 o’clock in Aenas Hall, and a tea dansant will be held in the same place from 3 to 5:30 in the afternoon.
Honorary Will Meet To Consider Eligible Junior Men
This noon all members of Sigma Sigma, junior men’s honorary fraternity, will meet in the office of Bill Henley in the Student Union building, to consider names of men to receive the honor of membership in the fraternity in 1928.
The three points upon which the judgment is based are:
1.	School spirit in general.
2.	Activity in the class.
3.	Scholarship.
Two men will be chosen from the College of Dentistry, and two from Law School if there are any eligibles ,in addition to the prominent men who will represent Liberal Arts.
Every year the pledges of Sigma Sigma edit the notorious Yellow Dog, which they sell on the campus. On this occasion the pledges are dressed in most ridiculous attire. These costumes are judged, and following the initiation ceremonies, a prize is awarded to the most clever at the annual formal dance.
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DEBATE SQUAD WINS DECISION
Arizona Defeated in Argument; Trojans Receive Unanimous Verdict.
Committee Plans Tea For School of Speech
Prep Newspaper Workers Submit Contest Entries
Reservations for Convention Received From Forty Southern Calif. Schools.
Southern California’s negative debate team defeated the affirmative team from the University of Arizona last Friday night in Porter hall, re ceiving a unanimous decision. J. Elwood Harmon and Meldron Dickens upheld the affirmative side against Charles Reed and Ivan Robinette of Arizona on the question: “Resolved, that American investors and their investments in foreign lands should depend for protection only on the government in which the investment is made.”
This was the first negative decision debate for the Trojan debators and makes four straight victories for the local forensic teams. More debates are being scheduled for the negative team by the debate manager and announcement of these debates will be made at a ater date.
In Friday’s debate with Arizona, Meldron Dickens was adjudged best speaker of the evening. Harmon also succeeded in outwitting his opponent and time after time both Trojan de-
Plans for the School of Speech tea to be held this Thursday from 3 to 6 in the Y. W. C. A. rooms of the Student Union are rapidly
taking form under the direction of	.. .
Ethel Bickford, social chairman of bators piuvtc to t u ju ^ lei the school and Marquita Young, points of the ques; ion
Thirty more reservations have been received during the week-end for Newspaper Day, March 9. at the University of Southern California. More than forty high school papers have been entered in the Crombie Allen Trophy contest, and over 200 delegates are expected to be present at the convention.
Among requests for reservations received during the week-end were four from Muir Technical school of Pasadena, four from Chino, six from David Starr Jordan high school, eight from Van Nuys, two from Fremont, and six frcm South Pasadena.
Of the forty high school papers submitted by schools of Southern California in competition for the rombie Allen trophy, four have been selected by the journalism classes of the University of Southern Cali-forniafornia. The contest winner will now be chosen from these four by a board of judges of which Charles Dillon is chairman. The high school papers will be returned at the afternoon session of the conferences with comments and criticisms.
A ritual will be presented at the noon luncheon of Newspaper Day, symbolic of four major fundamentals of good journalism. During the afternoon conferences, Virgil Pinkley will speak on editorials and policies of high school and college papers. Pinkley is managing editor of the Trojan.
S.C. TEAM IS VICTOR 53 TO 50
Rival Squads Meet Again Tonight In Pavilion; Thomas Is Hero.
By JAKE SHUKEN Southern California defeated Washington 53 to 50 in the first game of the playoff series for the Pacific Coast conference basketball championship in the Olympic Auditorium last night. Lloyd Thomas was the hero of the tillt, saving the game for the Trojans time after time. The two squads battle tonight in the second game, in the Trojan pavillion.
The game was one of the most exciting affairs that the Olympic Auditorium has housed this season. An extra five minute period was necessary to decidethe winner.
James Hisukie guard made good on a free throw early in the game and that was the only time that the north-eners had the lead in the first half, for the Trojans started a scoring deluge that snowed the visitors under. The score at the end of the first half being 28-18 favor of S. C.
The Washington team did not seem to find itself in the opening period and the Trojans took advantage and ran up the ten point lead.
Snider, Huskie forward, started the second half by looping one for two points and was quickly followed by James, making the score 22-28. The teams worked ahead in their scoring but the visitors threw in several long shots that were beautiful, and with five minutes to go Snider tossed in another of his long arches and Washington was ahead 41-40. Washington was working the ball deep into Trojan territory and counting on many of their shots.
The score was tied when Mortenson made good a free throw. From then on until the end of the game the lead changed twelve times. The knot was tied at 47 each at t*he end of the regular time and a two minute rest was allowed and then some more fireworks started.
Snider dropped one into the basket and followed with a free throw and the Huskies were ahead 50-47. Bruner re-entered the game and sank a long toss, Lehners followed closely with another and the S. C. quintet was again ahead 51-50. Captain Jack Bruner finished off the evening with another basket that put the game on ice 53-50, which was the final score.
Snider, of Washington was high point man of the game with fifteen. Mortenson lead the Trojans with 13 digits after his name, while Thomas’ all-arount play was outstandng.
CLASS PRESIDENTS
Class presidents are requested to meet in H. 200 at 12:15 on Wednesday BILL HENLEY, President.
CALIFORNIA OFFICIAL EXTENDS
WISH FOR S. C. GOOD LUCK
chairman of the program committee According to Miss Young, there will be a very interesting program arranged and it will be necessary that guests arrive early. It is hoped that the faculty will entertain the students and much is expected ol them. The tea was postponed from last week because of the formal opening of the Student Union.
The Arizona team showed good coaching and practice but they were unable to press their points and clinch the arguments. Charles Reed was the flrst speaker of the evening and in his opening address he outlined the question and gave some of the negative points of view. Harmon spoke first for Southern California and he pre-
W. \V. Monahan, graduate manager at the University of California, extends to the University of Southern California best wishes for success in their coming basketball series with Washington for the Pacific Coast Conference title.
•Tt is the hope of the University 0if-hftmPionshiP T-’ith a	°r
.667, Monahan said that selection of
Southern California to represent the southern division in the conference play-off with Washington was the only fair solution to the problem, inasmuch as it had been informally understood at the time the schedule was drawn up jjj the event of a tie, the victor of the series between the tying teams should be entitled to represent the division.
California that the Trojans will be able to defend for the southern division of the conference the title held by California for the last four years,” Monahan said. “They have a good team, and we wish them luck.” Commenting on the situation created when Southern California defeated Stanford, thus tying the Bears and the
sented the Trojan defense in fine style. Trojans for the southern division