FROSH EX-COMMITTEE
An important meeting of the Freshman executive committee is scheduled for 12:20 today in Bovard Auditorium, according to Lyman Beardsley, Freshman class president. The meeting has been called to discuss the coming underclass function, and it is imperative that all of the Freshman class officers, as well as all of the members of the executive committee be present, Beardsley stated.
VOLUME XIX.
Southern
California
Trojan
EL RODEO PICTURES
Seniors are especially urged to have their pictures taken by the middle of next week, as their section must be made up within the next month. Only three more weeks remain in which to complete all the photos for the campus, and this wiil necessitate co-operation on the part of the students as there yet remain some 700 pictures to be taken.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, January 6, 1928
NUMBER 59
EX-COMMITTEE APPROVES ENDOWMENT DRIVE FOR LIBRARY
Trojans Will Face L. A. A. C. Tonight
IN INITIAL HOME TILT OF SEASON
W.S.G.A. Picks Jan. 9 As Date For Annual Taxi Day; Frances Holmes In Charge
Taxi day, the day in which a number of Southern California women garbed in uniforms will act as taxi-drivers and will convey
____; students to any part of the campus for a small sum, has been set
Rejuvenated Club Squad Set for Monday, January 9, by the Women’s Self Government Associa-To Upset Calland’s Team; tion.	♦
Vets Return.
BY FRED CHASE
The first basketball team, at present composed of Tommy Lewis, Johnny Lehners, Lowry McCaslin. Jess I Mortensen and Captain Jack Jlruner, which unaided by substitutions romped awray with a victory over L A- A. C. last Wednesday night, is ready for its return battle with the clubmen tonight. The game begins at 8 o’clock in the basketball pavilion.
The fact that the Mercury basket-ballers were loggy from a lay-off last Wednesday, since have been whipping into top form with nighUy workouts | will probably give them a slight edeg although the Trojans were a trifle rest-heavy themselves in the game, after a week-end lay-off. A hard workout on Monday only partly put them into shape.
BEAT STANFORD The clubmen command an edge because of their recent victories over Stanford and the strong U. C. L. A. squad, and their subsequent letting down before the game with Southern California. Their logginess was evident Wednesday night and tonight with the advantage of being underdog, there is a strong possibility of returning to upset the hereto unbeaten S. C. squad in the last game.
To counteract this, Calland has been whipping his men into their best form for tonight, and drilling them in their weak points developed Wednesday, including passing, foul-shooting, basket-tossing, and more passing. Some floor work was done by the whole first squad.
On Wednesday Calland separated the second string men into two 6quads by way of sorting them into definite combinations and played them in a fttll time game. The red squad composed of Cano, Hiestand, Ferris, Bone and Duckworth defeated the grays, Nibley, Hirdler, Smith. Denny and Steponovitch, 42-34. Ferris was high point man with 16. Ferguson substituted for Smith in the second half and Harris alternated ■with Nibley and Steponovitch during the fracas.
FAST BATTLE
The battle was a fast nip and tuck affair throughout and indicated that there is excellent material for substitutions of the starting string. Anderson served as referee.
Thursday w*as the first night on which all men were in shape for scrimmage, although Lloyd Thomas was kept back because of a cut over his eye. Denny, who dislocated his shoulder on Dec. 19 during the tour, was able to play again.
All day taxis will be stationed in front of the Administration building and other University buildings and will be available at any time. Early in the morning the taxis will be at fraternity row, ready to take students around the campus.
Through the co-operation of the officials of the University police station, iron dummies have been secured to reserve a place in front of the Administration building for use as a “taxi-stand”. Students are requested not to park in the reserved section on Monday. Posters advertising Taxi Day are being placed on the campus, due to the efforts of Elsie Maxfield and Mary Herbert, who are in charge of the posters.
The purpose of Taxi Day is to raise 1 money for the Loan Fund, a fund which enables women to continue their | University careers when not financially able to do so without help from some source. The proceeds from the day’s activities will go to that cause.
Frances Holmes was elected by the W. S. G. A. cabit as chairman of Taxi Day this year. Last year when the idea of a Taxi Day was first formally introduced on tfee campus. Ruth Carr
Delta Chi Wins Petition In Suit Over Zoning Law
Technical Defect in Complain Causes Sustainment of Demurrer.
Delta Chi fraternity won the petition for the sustainment of the demurrer that was filed by its lawyer in the preliminary held before the beginning of the Christmas vacation. The hearing was held over until the twenty day period of the petition expired.
TECHNICAL DEFECT
The ruling was made on the basis of a technical defect in the complaint, filed by the plaintiff’s attorney. The defect was in the combination of the two charges into one action suit. According to the ruling the “common-law nuisance” charge and the single family zoning charge cannot be made in the same complaint. The counsels
for the complainants have amended was chairman, and carried the day to the complaint and wiu present it at
CLASSES OF ‘30 AND ‘31 WILL DANCE
To Combine in Fiesta Friday the Thirteenth at Edge-’ water Club.
a successful conclusion. Twenty women have offered the use of their cars i and themselves as drivers throughout | the day. Activity points will be given
the hearing in the near future.
The date for the trial is not yet definitely set and will depend upon whether the demurrer will be further
to those women who co-operate in sustained or whether it will be sat-making the day a success. Any co-ed isfactorily over-ruled by the judge in
wishing to operate a taxi or who can secure a car to be used as a taxi is asked to get in touch with Frances Holmes at the Pi Phi house as soon as possible.
Taxis will be distinguished by pla-
the case. If the demurrer is sustained the case will probably be dismissed.
If the case is brought to trial the zoning commission will probably take action, but it will all depend on the
cardds bearing the words W. S. G. A.! ruling of the court as to the status Taxi. The taxis will operate only on of the fraternity in the eyes of the the campus, which will include the; law.
fraternity and sorority houses, the j The acUon of the commission will College of Music, and all colleges on be watched with great anticipation or near University avenue. Accord-1 by the students of the university and ing to present plans, each passenger ( by the alumni and the law profession will be charged from ten to twenty-j because it is considered as a test case five cents, the amount to be deter- in state, mined by the length of the ride.
Inaugurating the first of a vries of dances, which they hope to make an annual custom, the Freshmen and Sophomores will join forces Friday, January 13th, for a joint underclass dance to be held at the Edgewater Club.
Opening the 1928 season, the Fresh-man-Sophomore dance will give the underclassmen a chance to make their social debut under auspicious circum stances.
JOINT COMMITTEE
Lyman Beardsley, president of the class of 1931, and Leo Adams, leader of the sophs, have appointed a joint committee to take charge of the affair, and they declare that many surprises in the nature of refreshments, decorations, and entertainment are being planned.
According to Leo Adams, “This will be the first time the two classes have ever come into close contact, except at those limes when the freshmen would rather ignore the sophomores entirely. The dance will go a long, way toward making a better spirit between the two classes. Incidentally, it will enable the classes of 1930 and 1931 to establish a new precedent, and to make the annual underclass dance a lasting tradition."
Lyman Beardsley, on behalf of the frosh, echoed Adams’ statement, and added, “The freshman class will show the campus that there is no animosity on their part toward the sophs, in spite of hazing. We wish to make their first joint dance a good-will affair, and we cxpects that succeeding clases will use the same method bring their members together ai the eni of the first semester.
The floor and the music at the Edgewater Club are expected to draw a large percentage of the enrollment of the two classes.
Rally Committee Will Meet in New Union Building
The regular weekly meeting ol the Rally Committee will be held Monday at 12:20 o’clock in the new offices located in the southeast corner of the Student Union building.
“It is imperative that every member of the committee be present at this meeting” stated Shields Maxwell, committee chairman, “as the plans for the year’s program are to be discused and drawn up. This gathering will be one of the most important meetings of the year and names all members failing to make their appearance will be checked.”
ELMQUIST NAMED HEAD OF CAMPAIGN COMMITTEE
Dates For $150,000 Drive Set For January 17, 18, 19; Library Selected as Objective on Advice of Campus Celebrities.
One hundred and fifty thousand dollars, with which to build a new library worthy of the University of Southern California, was decided upon by the executive committee last Tuesday at the goal | of the student endowment campaign to be held the 17th, 18th and 19th inst., \\ illiam Henley; student body president, announced yesterday.
Pi Lambda Theta Chapters Honor Visiting Alumnae
Education Sorority Entertains With Breakfast at Biltmore Hotel.
Sigma chapter of Pi Lambda Theta, national honorary education sorority, at the University of Southern California, and the Southern California alumnae chapter were hostesses to visiting members from other chapters at a breakfast given December 22 at the Biltmore.
Miss Florence Sprenger, president of Sigma chapter, was toastmistress, giving her address of welcome in poetry, while Miss Alice Chapin of the Southern California chapter read the chapter roll call. Mrs. Goddard of Sigma chapter gave an address on “The Span of the Pi Lambda Theta Spirit.” The honored guest of fhe morning was Dr. Charles Judd of the University of Chicago, a member of the national scholarship committee of the sorority, which awards yearly the Ella Victoria Dobbs scholarship to a deserving member of the organization, for the purpose of furthering research among women in the field of education.
Sigma chapter of Pi Lambda Theta was entertained recently at the home of Miss Elizabeth Kemp in South Coronado street, the occasion being the tenth anniversary of the founding of the national sorority.
The appointment of a general committee to have charge of the drive was approved by the executive committee at the same time. Yell King Paul Elmquist was appointed general chairman; Ber-nice Palmer, secretary; Martha Wiggett, coordination chairman;
Elwood Harmon, flying squadron chairman; Morgan Cox, organization chairman; Shields Maxwell, rally chairman; “Deke” Houlgate, ways and means chairman; and Walter Peck, publicity chairman. The advisory members of the committee are: William Henley, student body president,; Ralph Huston, Trojan editor; Karmi Wyckoff, features; Ranny Draper, Law School student body; and Ross S. Lelansky, Dental student body. An elaborate division and team organization has also been worked out, to make possible a thorough canvass of the university when the campaign actually gets under way.
MANDOLIN CLUB SEEKS MEMBERS
Launching a campaign for new members, the Mandolin Club, under the management of Helen Murchison, is making plans for the future. Ames Sharp has been unanimously elected student director of the club. Time of meeting has been changed from Tuesday at 8 p.m., to Friday at 4 p.m. All who are interested are asked to report at once to the Musical organization building.
PHI KAPPA PHI PLEDGES TODAY
PRE-LEGALS HEAR HOWARD W. DAVIS
City Councilman Contrasts Public Opinion and Text Book Ideas.
Howard W. Davis, formerly member of the state legislature and at present a city councilman of Los Afl-
First Public Pledging For
Scholarship Honorary To geles, spoke to the Pre-Legal Society Be Held in Chapel.
RADIO PROGRAM TO BE TUESDAY
KFI Will Present Musical Numbers and Skits From 10 to 11 P. M.
STUDENT AD NEEDED IN CAMPAIGN FOR LIBRARY
BY RITA PADWAY
‘A university is not rated as such j on the library,
Phi Kappa Phi, all-University honorary organization, will hold public pledging in the rally today for the first time this year. This new method ot pledging is being used to give recognition to those in highest standing in all the colleges and schools of the university, according to Miss Julia McCorkle, secretary of the organization. Pledging for Phi Kappa Phi will not be held again until the Saturday immediately preceding com-
at its meeting Wednesday evening. Contrasting public opinion and “text book ideas” of how a legislature functions, Davis showed how bills are “lobbied” and carried through by political means.
“For a young lawyer, or a recent graduate of a law school, the greatest opportunity in the world is to serve a term in the state legislature,” Davis said to the pre-legals. He emphasized the fact that more and more young men are filling the legislative posts each year. He urged
by the size and number of its buildings, nor by the advanced degrees it grants, nor by the range of its instruction. A university is judged by the completeness of its equipment of laboratory, library and learned men.” Bearing in mind this quotation by Edmund J. James, president of the University of Illinois, the University of Southern California plans to devote $750,000 of the money to be raised in the endowment campaign starting Jan. 17 to the building of a library.
ALL FOR LIBRARY The total campaign is for $10,000,-000 of which $150,000 ls to be raised on the campus. The entire amount contributed by students will be sppfit
and the remaining mencement as part of the annual re- any memfoers of the society that had
$600,000 will come out of the $2,000,- union.
000 to be raised by Trojan alumni.
Tentative plans for the future library present a decided contrast to the present inadequate facilities and cramped quarters in Old College. A three story building, with individual study rooms, catalogue department, seminar rooms, a browsing room, reading, reference, and periodical rooms, additional books, and better quarters for those collections already In the library are among the principal features of the proposed library.
William Henley, student body president, will introduce Dean Rockwell D. Hunt of the Graduate School, who will present the ribbons to the honored few, and the rest of the time will be occupied with a musical pro-! gram featuring Wilson Hortshorn, organist, who will play two numbers, the first which will be, One Movement of the Fifth Symphony by Tschaikousky, the second number, Intermezzo by Abbertson.
Those students honored with Phi Kappa Phi bids are:
CoUege of Commerce—Robert
the ambition to win a place in political circles to line up earls’- with a strong political party or faction.
Carl Fetterly, president of the Pre-Legal Society, announced that the semi-annual election of officers would take place at the next meeting, to be held next Wednesday evening in Hoose 206. Plans will be laid at that time for the annual banquet.
Perhaps the most outstanding of win Einstein.
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ARISTO PLEDGES
All pledges and members of the Aristotelian Literary society must meet in front of the Administration Ed- j building this evening at 7 o’clock ' sharp for informal initiation. Dress I. for a beach party will be in order.
Programs which have been in t,hp past staged on Thursdays from 7 io 8 by the radio department of the university, under the direction of Jack Payne, will be presented Tuesday night over KFI from 10 to 11 p.m.
The change of policy at the radio station was the cause for the shift, in the time for the university program. The broadcast from KFI will start at noon and will continue until 11 o’clock. The entire program had to be shifted when the change was made.
The program has been extended to cover the full hour where in the past* it has only been thirty minutes long.
Many “applause letters” are being received at the radio office on the work of the students and the management of the programs. Vhe students in the programs are nearly all from the school of speech and the college of music with some few exceptions, these being the two branches of the university that can furnish the public with a type or entertainment that is a credit to th^ university and at the same time be enjoyable to the general radio public.
Music, in all of its forms, plays, suitable for the radio presentation, and readings are the three principal kinds of entertainment furnished.
Student Bureau Of Employment Sets New Mark
Number of Students Placed During Holidays Triples Last Years Record.
During the Christmas holidays approximately 1500 students found employment through the Bureau of Employment, according to a statement made yesterday by 1EL Allen Behrendt, director of the bureau.
The statement made by Behrendt shows that the increase of students working during the past vacation tripled any previous year. A year ago 500 students were given work 1 through positions secured by the bur-
The choice of a new library build eau‘ ing as the students’ objective was i Statements from employers say made after campus opinion had been that the students made from $25 to carefully sounded to determine the rel-1 $*“5 during the vacation period. Tak-ative importance of various proposed ^he lowest wage, $25, as the av-additions to the university from thei era&e minimum wage, Trojan stu-standpoint of the individual student. dents “ade $37,500 during the two Representatives from all the campus wee^s vacation just passed. Some schools and colleges were consulted s^U(lents secured work through their
individual efforts, and the total amount of their earning plus the $;)7-500 reported to the bureau, it is est] mated that the amount runs well over $50,000.
Most of the co-eds found employment in department stores and in the capacity of sales ladies. Men were placed in the post office, department stores, and in delivery services.
One department store filed a request for four collegians who were over six feet four inches tall. The request was filled. Another request was made for two men to demon strate the effect of cosmetics on the male specie.
Behrendt states that every day some freak call is received. An old lady wants a good looking man with blue eyes to read to her several homs: every day. A tired business man, wants a girl to teach him how to parable to Columbia and the Univer-j dance and states that his offices have sity of Chicago. The goal of the en- hardwood floors and that there is a tire program is $10,000,000, to care radio to furnish music. Not long for the immediate building and endow-: ag0 a jady requested that the bureau ment needs of the University of South-' supply a young man to escort hef ern California. Present plans call for daughter to a dance and that she the raising of the entire sum within would pay him $5 for his services, the next two years, so that the semi- The young man was furnished and a centennial anniversary of the founding return report of—satisfactory, was of the University can be properly cele- given by the lady, brated in 1930.	' (Continued on Page Two)
to find out what they considered to be the most essential step in the development of a greater University of Southern California, and in nearly every case they indicated that the building of a new library was the first step to be taken. Furthermore, almost all of thte essays turned in to the judges in the contest conducted by the Trojan before Christmas .emphasized the need for a newr building in which to house all the units of the library now scattered about the campus. Accordingly, the entire $150,000 to be raised by the students week after next, will be devoted to the building of a library.
The student campaign for $150,000 will be the first, of a series of drives sponsored by different groups interested in the development of a metropolitan university at Los Angeles com-
PAN-HELLENIC WILL USE FORMER RUSHING RULES
Sorority rushing rules for the second semester will be those used by Panhellenic during first semester rushing according to a statement . made by Miss Braddock, secretary to Dean Crawford. Rushing will begin the second week of the new semester, j the first affair to be scheduled being the usual formal Sunday tea.
The rules as drawn up by the Panhellenic Association are as follows:
1.	Date cards are to be sent between registration and the beginning of formal rushing. A rushee may accept only two dates on each card.
2.	Dates shall be from 4:00 to 5:45 and from 6:15 to 8:00 with the exception of Friday evening when the date may last until 10:00 o’clock, which will be the date of the formal
dinner. This dinner, however, is not
styled as preference night.
3.	There are to be no dates nor talking off campus during informal rushing. The campus includes the West side of Universty Avenue from the Old College to the Science building, also including the side streets
| runnng west of University avenue , to the depth of the buildings facing the avenue.
4.	There is to be not more than a ten minute communication between each fraternity and its rushees on the campus on any day of formal rushing.
Copies of these rules may be obtained at the office of Miss Braddock, this provision having bepn made because of the fact that Panhellenic will not ecuse infringements because of ignorance of the rules.