INTER-FRATERNITY COUNCIL
Tonight at seven-thirty the Inter-fraternity Council will hold their regular monthly meeting in the Sigma Chi fraternity house. At this meeting all regular plans and business will be discussed for the coming month along with the finishing touches for the Inter-fraternity dance Saturday evening in the Student Union. This meeting is important and it is imperative that all members be present.
Southern
California
Trojan
BY-LI NERS MEETING
A special meeting of all members of the By-liners Club is called today at chapel hour in Professor Roy French’s office. It is imperative that all members be present as business will be taken up at that time concerning the operation of the club for the rest of the semester. All those who fail to be present will be temporarily if not permanently suspended from the organization.
BILL HARVEY, Pres.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 10, 1928
NUMBER 109
WAMP ARTIST WINS PLACE IN CONTEST
Messinger Ranks Sixth in Nati o n a 1 Competition; Two Others Get Prizes.
Marcus Messinger, on the art staff of the Wampus, has been awarded sixth place in the College Humor $2000 art contest for the best drawings submitted in black and white by any undergraduate in the United States. He will be awarded a prize of special drawing equipment. Other Wampus artists who received prizes are Bob Alexander and Harry Bowden, both of Los Angeles.
More than 10,050 drawings were submitted by 1600 artists in this nationwide contest. Each drawing was criticised by the internationally famous illustrators, James Montgomery Flagg, Arthur Wiliam Brown, Gaar Williams, and by H. N. Swanson, editor, and Tom Burroughs, art director, of College Humor magazine. The judges spoke very favorably of the quality of work that was submitted.
Flagg, speaking for the judges, said that as a whole, the cartoons were far superior to the illustrations and decorative art work, which was expected. In the case of the first fifteen winners, the judges agreed unanimously. He deplored the widespread evidence of imitative effort. “The prize winners have a style of their own, no matter how strongly they may be in sympathy with older artists. They know what they want to say in line, and they say it.”
College Humor expects to find a place for some of the work of these young artists, because it is pert of its plan to keep everlastingly in search of new artists and writers for its magazine of Youth.
WORLD-WIDE TROJAN DINNER PLANNED FOR ALUMNI DRIVE
Former Trojans Will Meet Simultaneously in Seventy-five Cities Throughout World To Celebrate Start of $10,-000,000 Endowment Campaign.
A banquet table figuratively encircling the world will be laid on the evening of April 24 when the alumni of the University of Southern California gather at dinner in more than 75 cities throughout the world for the first All-Trojan dinner in history.
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than 8,000 alumni, their husbands and
TROJAN KNIGHTS AND SQUIRES ASK FOR APPLICANTS
Petitions for membership to the Trojan Knights and Squires will be placed in the bookstore within two weeks, according to the announcement made yesterday by Eddie Oudermuelen, president of the Knights. Membership to the Squires will be limited, as in the past, to two men from each house, and all applicants will be asked to appear before the group soon after the petitions are out. Actual election of new members will take place at a later date, and only second semester frosh will be eligible for the honor, it was stated.
Membership in the Knights is limited to second semester juniors and seniors only, and sixteen vacancies are to be filled this semester, he stated.
Work on the Trojan Knight bench, in front of Bovard Auditorium, is rapidly nearing completion, and the finishing of the surface will begin as soon as the moulds are removed. Most of the construction work is being done by the Knights themselves, and an ornamental, as well as unique bench, is promised.
Fraternities Score Hazing
National Body Deplores Mock Initiations Used By Greek Letter Men.
Condoning fraternity mock initiations, “hell week” and similar action on the part of numerous Creek letter organizations, the National Inter-fraternity conference, in a ’recent letter to Karl T. Waugh, dean of the College of Liberal Arts, suggested that copies of a resolution drafted and adopted in 1920, be sent to all fraternities on the campus.
The resolution claims “these practices as slily and dangerous, as opposed to the dignity and ideals of college fraternities, and injurious to their good name, and we recommend that all fraternities take steps to eliminate any such practices ...”
The complete action of the National Intprfraternity conference is as follows:
“Whereas, it appears from reports here that hazing in fraternities still exists, arising from practices in initiations, either in real or fake initiations, either before ,or during the ceremonies of initiaUon, and
“Whereas, the Interfratemity conference has at divers times and by resolution in 1920 conference, condemned these practices.
“Therefore, be it
“Resolved, That it is the sense of this conference, that this conference condemn these practices of rough-house initiations, whether fake initiations or a part of the real initiations, whether preceding or made a part of the ceremonies, incident to initiation, at any time or in any form.
‘We consider these practices as
wives, and special friends of the University are being invited, were announced yesterday by the University of Southern California Semi-Centennial Commission.
The dinner will celebrate the inauguration of the campaign of the alumni to raise their share of the University’s semi-centennial building and endowment fund. The alumni have agreed that their quota shall be used for the erection of the University library and gymnasium and the endowment of the alumni office activities.
Alumni of the University living in Los Angeles, Hollywood, and Beverly Hills will gather for dinner on the evening of April 24 at the Hotel Biltmore, the entire banqueting room facilities of the hotel having been taken over for the event. Simultaneously dinners will be held in virtually every city in California, and in a number of the larger cities throughout the country where there are a group of graduates and former students of the University. Dinners, too, are being arranged in several cities in foreign lands where delegations of Trojans reside.
The Los Angeles dinner, which will be one of the largest collegiate functions ever held in the city, is being arranged by a committee consisting of L. K. Small, chairman, Mrs. Warren Bovard, Mrs. Ethel Copp, Miss Gladys Crail, C. W. Hall and John Woods. The program o£ the event which is not yet entirely formulated will be made of musical events by the University musical organizations and talks on the University’s program of development and its plans by leaders in the University, and among the alumni.
At the same time the dinner is being enjoyed at Los Angeles, similar functions with similar programs will be held throughout the state, in San Diego, Bakersfield, Pasadena, San Francisco, Sacramento, Long Beach, Glendale, Alhambra, Anaheim, Braw-ley, Burbank, Fresno, Fullerton, In-
silly and dangerous, as opposedd to glewood, Monrovia, Santa Ana, Santa
the dignity and ideals of college fraternities, and injurious to their good name, and we recommend that all j fraternities take steps to eliminate any such practice from their own organizations, if same be indulged in.”
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SOPRANO TO SING IN BOVARD FRIDAY
The Professional lArts Guild will present the second Los Angeles concert of Coe Martin in a new program of “Sopranologues,” augmented by Raymond McFeeters, pianist, and Vadah Olcott Bickford, lutenist. This concert will constitute the fifth event of the “California’s Own Artist Series” being given in Rovard auditorium. Friday evening, April 13 at 8:30.
These California artists will bring to their audience a program of the most unusual and rarely heard in literature and instrumentation. Unique 6tage settings and featured costumes with lighting sequence by A. H. King.
Tickets are now on sale at the Bovard box office and it 722 Beaux Arts Bldg. Admission is free to students and faculty oi S. C.
AMAZON OFFICERS TO BE INSTALLED
Southern Conference Frosh Debates Start Here Today
Freshman Southern Conference debating will open today, with two Trojan frosh teams facing squads from Whittier college. Jack Woodard and Ray Zeman will debate in Hoose 206 at 2:30 this afternoon, while Francis Brush and Garrison Seeley will face another squad at Whittier college this evening at 7:30.
All frosh debators are required to attend this afternon’s debate, according to 'Leo Adams, manager. Woodard and Zeman will uphold the affirmative of the question: “Resolved, That the United States have a department of national defense, with a secretary in the president’s cabinet.
Brush and Seeley will argue the negative of the same question against an affirmative squad of the Quakers.
JUNIOR HONORARY WILL INITIATE AT BANQUET TONIGHT
Formal Ritual For Spooks and Spokes Pledges To Be Held At Y. W. C. A.
CAMPUS MAY SECURE SURROUNDING PROPERTY
Land From Jefferson To Exposition and Hoover To Figueroa May Be Pooled By Owners and Offered To University At Reasonable Price.
1-urther progress in the movement of property owners between Jefferson avenue and Exposition Boulevard from Hoover street to Figueroa street to pool their interests and offer their property at a reasonable figure to the University of Southern California for a magnificent campus that will take care of the coming needs of the Trojan institution was reported at the meeting of the University Taxpayers’ Protective League Tuesday night at the Jefferson ave-
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A JJ t F V	Response to the request for options
Men s Houses To Give Ball
Student Union Will Be Used For Formal on Friday the Thirteenth.
Installation of the Amazon officers [ for the coming semester is to be held this Friday at noon immediately following the regular Friday meeting.
The elections, which were held the Friday before vacation at the same time as the nominations according to custom, resulted in the following manner: president, Mary Main; vice-president, Rosita Hopps; secretary, Nora Hoffman; treasurer, Gwendolyn Patton; sergeant-at-arms, Martha Wiggett; and publicity chairman, Bernice Palmer.
Nominations for prospective members are to be made within two weeks probably, according to the plans of the new cabinet. Inasmuch as there are 19 senior members leaving at the end o f this semester, there will be a fairly large number chosen from the present active women on the campus. The limit of membership is thirty, but the full
quota is not a requirement there being only 28 members at the present time.
Outstanding and continued activity in campus affairs will, as usual, be the main requirement but a consideration of leadership, personality, and repuation will also constitute a large part in the selection of new members. At least ten activity points will be required for nomination but this point is not to be stressed as much this year as will the manner in which the activity has been carried out and the success and general ability of the nominee.
College Classes To Be Addressed By Business Men
Five Men in Different Fields To Speak To University College Studnets.
In touch through daily experience in the fields from which they have selected their topics, outside business men will address five university college classes this evening in the Transportation building on business problems.
Subdivision advertising will be discussed by Graham Hughes of Case and Hughes advertising company. He will appear before the real estate fundamentals class conducted by E. W. Weeks Jr.
G. C. Lawrence, credit manager of Coulter Dry Goods company, and W. W. Weir, credit manager of May Co., will point out methods used in interviewing credit applicants. This class is headed by E. E. Olson.
Foreign trade students will hear J. C. Darby, domestic and export sales manager for Bishop & Co., and J Kraack. export manager of Bradley-Wise Paint Co., with H. W. Cutler, presiding.
‘Apartment House Accounting,” is the subject announced for C. W. Horne. He will address the class in apartment house management which is under the direction of Mrs. M. O. Joy.
Dealing with knitted fabrics, a talk on manufacturing processes of wool will be given by J. W. Worth of Worth Bros., before the textile class conducted by Miss Florence Wagner, assistant buyer at Bullocks.
Formal initiation of the new members of Spooks and Spokes, honorary women’s organization, will be held in the Student Union Tuesday evening, April 10. The formal initiation will be held at 6 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Union and this will be followed by a banquet in the social hall.
The banquet will be in charge of Vivian Murphy who will also act as toastmistress. Mrs. R. B. von KleinSmid will deliver the address of welcome and Rosita Hopps will give the response to the welcome. Mrs. Pearl A. Smith and Dean Mary S. Crawford will be the honorary guests of the evening.
Those to be initiated from the junior class are: Alice Colwell, Phyllis Crowley, Percy Fraser, Rosita Hopps, Jessica Heber, ^ Gwendolyn Patton and Bernice Palmer. The sophomores are: Erie Shepard and Lorraine Young. Mrs. Pearl Aiken Smith is the honorary member to be initiated.
After the banquet election of officers for next year will be held. The present officers are Vivian Murphy, president; Mary Main, secretary; and Betty von KieinSmid, treasurer.
The formal initiation Tuesday follows the public announcement of the initiates in chapel tw-o weeks ago. Informal initiation was held on the campus a week ago when the pledges had to make candy and sell it to the student body.
FOREIGN STUDENTS MAY MEET WEEKLY
Plans are now being made to hold special international meetings weekly or fortnightly at the International house, 812 West 37th St., according to Walter Peck, house manager.
The meetings will be open to all foreign and American men students who are interested in subjects of an international nature. Interesting programs are being worked out, and it is anticipated that some speakers of note will be secured to address the meetings. Musical numbers will be included in ^very program, so that familiarity with the national music of different peoples may be obtained. All foreign student clubs on the campus, as well as the Cosmopolitan club and the foreign student advisors' office, are co-operating with the man agement of the Internatoinal house in working out programs which will be instructive as well as entertaining and of definite cultural value.
Walter Peck requests the following men to meet at the International house tomorrow at 12:20 in order to make plans for the series of programs:	1 Quon, Kao, Yamagata, Kano, Mur-aoka, Hahn, Song, Coz, Gonzales, Lo-los, Bird, Sarantites, Davidian, Mercado, Zazueta, Ruiz, Kaura, Handon, Landa, A. Williams, Dekker, Rojas, Janovsky, Machunka, Rivero, Levin, Spriano, Vallessuk, Silva, Fetroff. T Lewis, Bach, Zulanding, Wu, Ash-jian. Yen, Sung and Ulmar.
Spring flowers will be used in great numbers in the decoration of the social halls of the Student Union for the formal dance to be given there Friday, April 13. by the interfraternity council.
'Howard Edgerton, in charge of decorations and patrons and patronesses, states that the programs will also carry out the spring motive. The programs and favors originally planned for the dance have been cancelled and new one ordered. Edgerton states that the favors, although not of extremely formal nature, are something that every girl will be pleased with, as they embody a popular spring fad and are appropriate for spring wear.
“Although our dance is planned for Friday the thirteenth, there is no chance of its being anything but a -.uccess,” says Eddie Oudermuelen, general chairman, “as every fraternity is backing it whole-heartedly.”
Bill Ruvman, who has charge of the tickets, states that several fraternities have already reported that they have not been allotted enough tickets for those desiring to attend. Con-
has been so whole-hearted that 130 out of a possible 150 are expected to be received by Trustee Ira W. Byrnes within a few days. It was announced by Mr. Byrnes that approximately 100 are now deposited with the University branch of the Los Angeles-First National Bank. All options are sealed and the trustee expects to open them and start negotiations with university authorities before the next meeting of the league which will be held Tuesday night, April 10.
At the next meeting it is expected that Mr. Byrnes will be able to give returns on the opening of the options and to have definite figures to lay before the property owners. Judge Benjamin F. Bledsoe will act as attorney for the trustee, it was announced, and the hope was expressed that the entire matter will be settled inside of three weeks.
Mr. Byrnes, Newton Hogan, chairman of the campus committee, and officials and members of the league were enthusiastic over tha rapid progress of the movement and appreciative of the spirit of co-operation which had prompted a good response in options from property owners. Benefits of the plan to sell property in the district to the university and thus aid in development of a great cultural center in this part of Los Angeles as well as allow the property owners to escape heavy burdens of assessments that new street plans are certain to
ENGINEERS TO ELECT OFFICERS
Schedule Nominations Today For Coming Year; Voting Thursday.
By RALPH FLYNN
Nomnations for the officers of the College of Engineering for the coming year will be held at noon today in H.206. Election* will be held Thursday from 10 until 2 o’clock in the patio of the Student Union.
Nominations will be thrown open for three offices, president, secretary and treasnrer. The office of the vice-president is filled by the members of tike Engineers’ Council from one of their number.
The holding of nominations and elections is made necesary so early in the year because of the need for revision of the present Engineering constitution.
The newly elected officers after Thursday will meet with the present cabinet and will form a constitution committee which will take this matter in hand.
Now that the University has formed a College of Engineering, the old constitution is entirely inadequate, according to the members of the council, and must be rewritten to conform with the needs for a college and to meet various problems that have come up and have not been provided for in the existing document.
Only those members of the engineering student body who have paid their student body dues in full will be allowed to vote Thursdaj It will be possible to pay the dues at the polls, but dues can be paid before this time to any member of the Engineers’ Council.
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may be obtained from fraternity rep-1 resentative, each fraternity being allotted fifteen at $2.50 each.
The patrons and patronesses for the affair include: President and'lthe development of the university and
Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid, Dean and
Mrs. Waugh, Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dean and Mrs. Miller, Mr. and Mrs. Burby, Mr. and Mrs. Carus, and Mr. and Mrs. Marley.
Author And Critic Will Lecture At Summer Session
Richard Burton is Chairman of Award Committee of Pulitzer Fiction Prize.
its district. Harold Proctor, tenor, sang a selection from “Pagliacci” and was heard in a duet with Fred McPherson, baritone, “Watchman, What of the Night,” which was offered as an Easter week number. Mr. McPherson sang “My Friend,” dedicating it to Mr. Byrnes, and Miss Kemp, pianist, and the singers participated in several other enjoyable selections. M. R. Roland added to the enjoyment of the evening with sleight of hand performances.
That Richard Burton, chairman of the award committee of the Pulitzei prize in fiction, is to be an instructor of English at the university summer session, is the announcement &iv-en out today by Dean Rogers of the summer school. Burton is to lec ture on modern drama and the tendencies of modern fiction. Burton is the author of some twenty books; and is widely recognized as a poet, essayist and critic. He received his A. M. from Trinity college and the degree of Doctor of Philosophy from Johns Hopkins.
M. H. Bessil, Ph. D„ M. A., Ph. B., emminent geographer and engineer is. to lecture on geography during the summer session, according to an nouncements. Educated at Yale as an engineer, he has held positions with the Westinghouse electric company and the Chicago telephone company. He has been an instructor at Bryn Mawr and the University of Pennsylvania, and has done five seasons practical work with the Pennsylvania Geological survey.
The summer school, which is in session from June }8 to September 4, will offer the same variety of subjects as does the winter session, according to authorities. It was pointed out that many students will be enrolled in order to take advantage of the presence of instructors who, otherwise, would not be available.
TROJAN DEBATERS TO MEET LA VERNE
J. E. Harmon and Milton Dickens, Trojan debators, will engage La Verne college tonight at La Verne on the question: “Resolved, That American investors and their investments in foreign countries should be protected only by the government of the nation in which the investment is made.
Troy’s representatives will uphold the negative side of the question. It is <to be a decision debate.
La Verne has an exceptionally good team, according to information released from the debate office, and Harmon and Dickens will have to utilize everything they have to win the decision. La Verne holds a decision over Southwestern university, who in turn hold a decision over S. C.’s affirmative team.
Harmon ls to be first speaker, and Dickens second. They are determined to uphold the record of the negative team, which has yet to lose a debate this year.
In the nature of a return engagement, Harmon and Dickens, again upholding the negative side of the investment question, will debate Southwestern university on Thursday, April 12. This is also to be a decision debate, and the Trojan debators hope to square accounts with Southwestern, who defeated the S. C affirmative team of Capt. Stan Hopper and Bill Henley on March 23 by a 2 to 1 decision.
THREE TEACHERS TO GIVE VIEWS ON SOCIAL PROBLEMS
A three-sided discussion on “Methods of Social Research’’ will feature the special meeting of the Social Research society, that has been called for Thursday, April 12, at 3:15 in Hoose 205.
Drs. C. M. Case, E. F. Young, and El S. Bogardus are the three sociology professors that will give their individual viewpoint in the discussion.
Alpha Kappa Delta, the sociology scholarship society, will be addressed by Prof. Meyer Nimkoff on the subject of “Social Distances between Parents and Children” at the regular meeting Friday evening.
Two alumnae, Misses Mamie and Francis Thilo, will be special guests of the society at this meeting. Professor Nimkoff is a graduate student of sociology and is one of the candidates for the Ph. D. degree.
ROUND ROBIN CARD MADE FOR DEBATES
Wallace Frisbey, president of Phi Delta Gamma, National Forensic fraternity, announced today that the round robin debate tournament between the four literary societies would be postponed until Tuesday evening, April 17. The societies competing flre Clionian, and Athena, women’s literary societies, and Comita and Aristo, men's literary societies. When one of these groups wins the debate for the third time the award, a large silver cup, will come into the permanent possession of that club. In the last three years Clionian has emerged victor twice and Comita oncp.
Each society has two debate teams of two members each upholding o> posite sides of the question, Resolved, That Mexico should be put on the same immigration basis as Caucasian Europeans. As the debate is to be run off in three weeks, it will be necessary for four contests to be held each Tuesday. When everything is completed comparative scores will be sought, and. the team registering tbe most victories will be presented with the cup.