EL RODEO PICTURES
All organizations are requested to turn in money for their picture spaces in the El Rodeo immediately. The names of those organizations which are delinquent will be posted and if not paid for by Thursday, April 20,
these spaces will be forfeited, according to Hershal Bonham, Business Manager of the El Rodeo.
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JOURNALISM FRATERNITIES
Members of the three journalistic fraternities will hold a joint meeting this morning in room 229, Student Union, at Chapel hour. All members of Pi Delta Epsilon, By-Liners and the Daffy Club MUST be present. Bill Harvey, president of the By-Liners will take charge of the three organizations during the joint meeting.
VOL. XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 1?, 1928
NUMBER 114
PERIODICAL LAUDS S. C. GRADUATES
Alumni Review Gives Interesting Account of Activities of Former Trojans.
By VIRGIL PINKLEY
One of the most interesting discourses on the alumni of the University of Southern California yet published is to be found in the April edition of the Alumni Review. The article about the noteworthy performances of Trojans throughout the world deal with the success of Southern California graduates, the fields of work they have entered and where they are to be found.
During the last forty-eight years, since the university was founded, ten thousand have received degrees or certificates from S. C. Over forty thousand people have graduated in courses offered by the various colleges of the university.
MANY GRADUATES The largest number of Trojan graduates are found in California, which is the home of 9,571. Ten Trojan alumni are to be found in Mexico while a survey of Hawaii shows that thirty-two S. C. graduates are now living on the island which is commonly called the crossroad of the Pacific. In far-away Africa there are four Trojan alumni and in South America six more are to be found. Twenty-two make Asia their home.
There are 17 Trojans residing in Canada, six in Europe, and 17 in the Philippine Islands. Illinois, with 68 Trojan graduates, is second to California, while Utah is third with 30.
When the alumni associaUon, over which Frank Hadlock, Commerce ’24 serves as executive secretary and Dr. Frank W. Otto, P-S 21, E. J. Nolan, L’ 11, Dr. Charles Decker, P-S ’06, Allen T. Archer, L ’10, Honorable Jesse W. Curtis, A ’87, Mary Bowen Huff, A ’18, J. Leslie Swope, PH ’10, Dr. James McCoy, D ’06, Stewart F. Cooper, A ’18, Clarence S. Joslin, C ’22, end A. J. Hill, L ’09 are directors, is divided up acording to the schools the alumni attended, interesting data is to be found.
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Famous Confection To Be Sold At Union Fountain
The fountain in the Student Union will be the scene of a novel candy sale today with Howard Morrow, a student in the School of Speech and a professional candy maker, puts a miniature factory into operation in making his famous “Butter Brittle.” Coeds of the speech school will act as his assistants.
Everyone entering the Union from the Thirty-sixth street side will be given a free sample of “Morrow’s Famous Butter Brittle” states Mr. Morrow. He also states that he wi\l give lessons in the manufacture of this delicacy free of charge. Proceeds of the sale will go to swell the School of Speech student body fund. Mr. Morrow is donating his time and equipment for this occasion.
National Man To Visit Here
President of Eta Kappa Nu To Come To Campus Tomorrow.
Dean Biegler, of the College of Engineering, today announced that E. S. Lee, national president' of Eta Kappa Nu, honorary Electrical Engineering fraternity, will visit the Trojan campus Wednesday morning. An engineer in the General Electrical Co., at Schenectady, N. Y., Lee has come west to take part in extensive engineering tests of the airplane carrier Saratoga which will return from San Francisco in the near future. He is also visiting a number of H. K. N. chapters enroute.
Plans have been made to have Mr. Lee address students in Old College, room 3 at 9 o’clock Wednesday morning, April 18, where he will give an interesting talk on engineering features of the Saratoga. A luncheon is being planned in his honor, to be sponsored by the resident student chapter of Eta Kappa Nu and the Los Angeles alumni chapter, jointly, Wednesday noon, the place to be arranged later.
May 12 Is Set By Behlow For Junior-Senior Dinner Dance
Third Year Class Officers and Executive Committee are Called For Meeting Tomorrow Noon To Make Plans For Important Social Event.
With the setting of the date for the annual junior-senior dinner dance on May 12, Robert Behlow, president of the junior class, announces that junior class officers and members of the executive committee who fail to attend a meeting scheduled tomorrow noon in the Trojan office, will be suspended from class activities.
■¥• Outside of setting the date for the formal, Behlow would give out no more information on arrangements. Although he has several places in
ALUMNI CAMPAIGN FOR LIBRARY FUND OPENS AT DINNER
Plan of Majors and Captains
Will Be Carried Out Among Former Students.
FOUR SPEAKERS TO ADRESS S.C. CLASSES TONIGHT
Business Men Will Speak Before University College Classes.
Four commerce classes at University college, S. C-, will have outside speakers tonight, secured from the business world to discuss topics in their specialised field. Hon. Harry Lyons is to address tbe group in Apartment House Management, headed by Mrs. M. C. Joy, on "Legal Rights and Apartment House Legisla-Uon.”
Members of the Foreign Trade class of which H. W. Cutler is in charge will hear three speakers. W. H. Woodruff, southe.n California manager of the Firemen's Fund Insurance Co., will talk on “Protection of the Shipment;” LeRoy D. Owen, vice-president of the Westland Warehouses, Inc., and sales manager of the Central Manufacturing District is to discuss "Warehousing the Shipment” and the series will be concluded by G. M. Creutx, engaged in gen eral and admiralty law practice, who will speak on ‘*Legal Aspects of Foreign Trade Contracts.”
Before the Retail Credits and Collections class, W. W. Miller, credit manager of Bullocks, will talk on “Elements Determining the Credit Risk” and L M. Crosthwaite, credit manager of Barker Brothers, will discuss “Economics of Installment Selling”. Emery E. Olson will preside.
“Real estate finance” is to be the topic of a lecture to be given by E. R. Dewey of the Citizens Trust and SavingB Bank before tbe class in Real Estate Fundamentals, conducted by E. W. Weeks, Jr.
All of these lectures are given on the 13th floor of the Transportation building, 7th and Los Angeles Sts.
Tickets Go On Sale For Women’s Banquet
The formal banquet for the women of the university will be held in the Student Union on May 1. The event is being sponsored by the W. S. G. A.
Tickets for the annual formal will be on sale in the offices of the women’s association every day for the next two weeks. Margaret French, treasurer of the organization, will be in the office during the noon and the chapel hours every day to accommodate any one who wants tickets.
Final working instructions for the University of Southern California alumni campaign for funds to build the new library and gymnasium were given to campaign leaders last night at a dinner in the Student Union. A. J. Hill and Mrs. William D. Armstrong, chairman for Los Angeles, outlined the plans to the majors and captains who will direct the work of soliciting the 5500 or more graduates and former students of the university during the intensive period of the campaign, beginning April 24 and continuing until May 15.
Dr. Bruce Baxter also spoke to the workers, discussing the needs of the university. National representatives of the alumni campaign were present.
L. K. Small, chairman of the committee in charge of arrangements for the “All-Trojan” dinner at the Hotel Biltmore on April 24, announced plans for this event. This April 24 dinner will open the alumni campaign throughout the nation. In 75 cities and towns alumni organizations have been set up, and simultaneously with the dinner at the Biltmore there will be 75 other dinners, at which speakers will address the alumni on the needs of the university and the campaign will open.
The direction of the national campaign is entrusted to an alumni board headed by Harry Lee Martin and Mrs. Helen Meryyman Morehouse, both of Los Angeles.
mind for the scene of the junior-senior event, the junior prexy stated that it 'is up to his future dance committees to make final choice.
Approximately twelve students are to be chosen to serve in various capacities for the dance arrangements. These committee members will be picked at tomorrow’s meeting.
“As an annual event,” Behlow said, “the junior-senior dance is considered by members of both classes to be the one important social event of the year. It is usual for the junior president to expound on the features of his pet entertainment, predicting it to be the best and all that. I will only say, that with the committees functioning as I will see that they do function, we can promise an evening for upperclassmen which will not be disappointing.”
PI KAPPA SIGMA
A special flfcsiness meeting for the active members of Pi Kappa Sigma will be held in Room 254 this morning at 10:15.
Houses Turn in Stories For Final Number of Wampus
Phi Beta Phi, Alpha Chi Omega, Phi Nu Delta, and other sororities and fraternities have already handed in jokes for the “Funactics” department of the Wampus.
As the deadline for the final number of the Cat will be Friday, April 27, all houses are urged to send in their jokes in immediately so that each house will be represented in this new section of Wampus. The cleverest short jokes from each organization will be printed with tbe name of the organization and not that of the individual attached. It is asked, however, that those who hand in these jokes sign their names as the Wampus staff is on the look-out for new material and clever people.
Directions have already been placed in the hands of each sorority and fraternity. Anyone wishing additional information can procure the same from Jessica Heber, humor editor, or Gwen Patton, associate editor. Manuscripts may be turned in at the Wampus office, at Mr. Huse’s office, to Bryant Hale, Miss Heber or Miss Patton.
SUMMER QUARTER COURSES PLANNED
Preliminary announcement regarding the summer quarter of the School of Law has just been made by the faculty. The summer quarter will be split into two 5% week periods, one lasting from June 18 to July 24, and the other from July 25 to August 31. Full information regarding tuition and registration fees is to follow in a leaflet to be isued later this week by the Law School.
Courses which will be given during the flrst term include Bills and Notes, Prof. O. P. Cockerill, 4 units; Common Law Actions, Dr. Justin Miller, 2 units; Mortgages, Prof. Stan ley Howell, 3 units; Property II, Prof. W. E. Burby, 4units; Provision al Remedies, Prof. W. T. Fox, 2 units; and the three-unit course in Legal Clinic work which is to be conducted by J. S. Bradway, secretary of the National Association of Legal Aid Organizations.
During the second half of the summer quarter, which will last from July 25 to August 31, the following courses will be given; California Codes, Prof. G. W. Nix, 3 units; Ethics, Judge Ira F. Thompson, 2 units; Oil and Gas. Prof. C. T. Van Etten, 2 units; Research, G. E. Whitney, 2 units; Trusts, J. S. Brad way, 5 units; and Water Rrlghts, Judge ■G. W. Craig, 2 units.
Sappho Plans Novel Dance
Street Scene From Slums of Paris Will Feature Architecture Affair.
Student Constitution Will Be Voted On At Ex-Committee
Discussion of the proposed new constitution will be Ihe order of the day at the meeting of the executive committee, tomorrow night in Aeneas hall.
Preliminary work on the proposed constitution has been completed, and it will be submitted to the executive committee for consideration tomorrow.
If the committee reports favorably on the document, it will be placed before the students at a special election shortly. Should it be accepted, it will go into operation immediately.
The constitution committee, headed by Morgan Cox, has spent weeks in drafting the new frame of student government, and have modeled their work after the constitution of the United States.
MILLER WILL GO EAST FOR ALL-TROJAN FETE
Law Dean Will Address Dinner in New York; Report Due On Mode Criminal Procedure in Law Institute Confab in Washington.
In order to*Speak at the “AH Trojan” dinner in New York City, which is to open the alumni campaign for funds for the new library and gymnasium, and to attend meetings of the National Crime commission and the American Law institute, Dean Justin Miller wiH leave on another trip to the East this week-end.
-----* Dean Miller will speak at tbe alumni
dinner on April 24. Tbe dinner will be
A street scene from th% slums of Paris will be the novel setting of the benefit sport dance to be given at. 1103^ Leighton avenue by the members of Sappho, women’s professional architecture society, this Saturday evening. Tickets may be secured at the office of the School of Architecture, the cashier’s office in the Student Union or from Ida Pearl Morris.
Virginia Arnold, social chairman of the organization, is in charge of all arrangements. The purpose of this dance is to permit the furnishing of the garrett which is used as a chapter room by the members of the society, says Miss Arnold. Bridge and dancing will be features of the evening. Entertainers have also been secured.
The tickets are in the novel form of a map showing the location of the place where the dance will be held, and have been blue printed av. that they create an architectural atmosphere.
Sappho is a new organization on the campus this year. It was founded by eleven women students at the School of Architecture towards the end of last semester. Virginia Roediger is president. The purpose of the society is to give the girls the opportunity to make contracts with prominent professional women in decorative arts. Miss Runyan, in charge of the Modes and Manners Shop at Barker Brothers is a patron of the society.
Sophs to Give Sport Dance
White Flannels and Spring Dresses Will Feature Second Year Affair.
Definitely opening the spring social calendar, the spring sport dance, sponsored by the sophomore class, will be held Saturday evening, April 28. Ray Hatfield’s orchestra has been secured to play at the affair, which will be in the Social hall of the Student Union.
White flannels and strictly spring dresses will be in order at the dance. All formal affairs will be a thing of the past as soon as this dance begins, inasmuch as it is to be the official opener of the spring and summer social season. It will be open to all students of the university.
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, Dr. and Mrs. R. B. von KieinSmid, Dr. and Mrs. Karl Rayner, and a number of students’ parents will serve as patrons and patronesses.
Tickets for the dance may be se cured from any of the following students; Dick Halderman, Gale Daley, Victoria Sanderson, Bob Beardsley, Leo Adams, Bob Moffit, Lorraine Young and Lowell Goode. All of these students are either officers of the class or members of the executive committee. I^ater on, tickets may be placed on sale at the Students Store as well, but students are urged to get their tickets as soon as possible from the ones named above.
YEAR BOOK DATE IS SET
Bryant Announces Appearance of El Rodeo in May; Copy Due Now.
With all copy due by the end of the week, and the engraving practically completed, the El Rodeo, S. C. year book will appear on the campus about the latter part of May, is the announcement of Dave Bryant, editor of the annual publication.
The 1928 El Rodeo will feature the modern campus idea, a decided contrast to the motifs of previous years centering around classical and medieval themes. It is hinted that there will be something unique in the way of year book adornment, although further details could not be learned.
Preparations have been made to print 2875 copies, by far the largest edition of the El Rodeo to be set up. Although the same dimensions as of previous years will be adhered to, there will be 16 pages more than last year, making a total of 496 pages —a volume of no mean size!
The business staff has been equally successful with the editorial department, as collections have been progressing nicely, according to the manager, and a prosperous financial outcome is probable.
Dean McClung to Talk Before Downey Rotary
Dean R. L. McClung, of the College of Commerce, University of Southern California, will be guest speaker today at the weekly luncheon meeting of the Downey Rotary club. Convening at the women’s club house at 12:10, the club will hear the Trojan dean on “Modern Trends of Business.” “
The student body of Downey Union high school will also hear the Dean at 1:50 today in the high school auditorium.
WIER WILL SPEAK TO WOMEN’S MEET
RETA ALPHA PSI PLEDGES SIX MEN
Beta Alpha Psi, national honorary accounting fraternity, recently announced the pledging of the following men: Bob Behlow. Paul Slater, Clifford W. Twombley, Claude A. Clark, and Professor R. J. Burby. Election to membership is based upon accounting knowledge and the interest displayed in accounting, together with the intention of going into some branch of active accounting — either public or private. These men were carefully chosen and represent the best of the accounting major group, each having better than a B average in accounting courses competed.
Bob Behlow is president of the junior class and chairman of the Deputations committee, in addition to displaying a keen knowledge of accounting.
Paul Slater Is business manager of the Wampus, and is gaining practical accounting knowledge both through his work there and his connection (Continued on Page Four)
Miss Edith Wier, of the Employ ment office connected with the university, will speak to the women of the School of Commerce at a luncheon Thursday noon April 19 in the Student Union.
The subject of Miss Wier's talk is, “Choosing a Vocation.” She is the women’s adviser in the matters of vocational guidance. All women who are planning on entering the commercial field would do well to talk j it over with Miss Wier, the employ-1 ment office stated yesterday.
All women wishing to go to the luncheon meeting to hear Miss Wier and to participate in the regular monthly meeUng of the commerce women must make reservations before Wednesday noon by signing the list that is posted on the bulletin board in Old College, Vera Hoffman, vice-president of the commerce women’s organizations stated.
Co-eds To Hold Second Swimming Meet Soon
The second Panhellenic swimming meet of the school year will be held on May 1 at Bimini. Plans for the meet are not as yet all complete but the regular requirements for entrants will be observed as usual. They are that contestants have a 1.0 average for the past semester, that they have a physical examination O.K., that their W. A. A dues are paid and that each girl have at least four supervised practices. Practices are held every Thursday from 3:30 to 5:30 o’clock at Bimini. Two additional practices will qualify an entrant in the Panhellenic meet for the interclass swimming meet to beheld on May 15 at Bimini. Edith Van Orden is managing both swimming meets.
The events are as follows:
25 yard dash—free style; crawl to form; 25 yard backstroke; plunge for distance; -side stroke for form; diving—2 styles; relay.
one of 75 given simultaneously throughout the country by Trojan alumni, at which time tke campaign will be 'Jetinitel; initiated. Following this, os April 25, be will attend a meeting ef tbe National Crime Commission, at which time the commission is U prepare plans for its year’s work.
Leaving New York, Dean MUIer will attend the annual meeting of the American Law Institute in Washington^ D. C. Deans of all law schools, chief justices of all supreme courts, and outstanding members of the bar from all parts of the country will attend this meeting to discuss and approve the worWfbeing done on the "Restatement of the Law," the American Law Institute’s chief project. This restatement is being prepared by various committees which work throughout the year. When this final commentary on Um> law is completed, it is expected to be used by judges in the manner that Blackstone’s, Wigmore’s, Williston’s and other famous authorities’ works are used today. While not strictly a codification, the “restatement” will be used as a text when judges prepare their decisions. Its purpose is to gain a uniformity of opinion in judicious decisions.
Dean Miller is to report on that section of the work upon which he is working, the model code of criminal procedure. The committee on which Dean Miller is working comprises many famous judges, attorneys, deans and governors. It is preparing a model state code, or set of laws, on criminal law. Its work is financed by the Laura Spellman Rockefeller Memorial Foundation.
The balance of the work being done on the restatement of the law is financed by the Carnegie Foundation. The American Institute of Law has been carrying on the work on this commentary for about three years and it will probably take several more years for its completion.
Dean Miller will speak on “Tbe Defense of the Man Accused of Crime” at a meeting of the Women’s City Club in Cleveland, on April 30. He will return to Los Angeles scon after May 1.
Literary Clubs Begin Contest For Debate Cup
Cockerill Will Speak At L. A. Bar Meeting
Prof. O. P. Cockerill, dean of the University of North Dakota, and a visiting professor at the S. C. Law School, will speak before the Loa Angeles Bar Association at its monthly meeting and dinner Thursday evening, April 19.
“Equitable Conversion In California” will be the topic of Professor Cockerill’s speech. He will discuss methods of converting property by will, rights of creditors, risk of loss and like topics relating to conversion. He will deal with the subject in its particular relation to California.
Featuring the first of the inter-literary society debates, Clionian literary society will meet this evening at 7 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. The debate series is an annual affair, sponsored by Phi Delta Gamma, honorary forensic fraternity. A banquet is to be given this evening in honor of the debaters, at which time the schedule is to be drawn up.
Clionian will be represented by Helen Peterson and Elizabeth Quinn on the negative and Lois King and Inez Stanley comprise the affirmative team. Devotionals are to be in charge of Velma Bolton, and will be followed by the regular joke contest, in which Helen Bagby, Velma Bolton, Grace Cooper and Louise Eby are competing.
Athena’s representatives in the debate series are Marie Adams and Eleanor Wilke, affirmative, and Blanche Herring and Verna Perry for the negative. Their regular meeting will be heid this evening in Divinity hall.
The representatives of Aristole and ComiUa are as yet unannounced.
FORMAL OPENING OF INTERNATIONAL HOUSE IS PLANNED
Tomorrow Night is Set as Date
For Foreign Students Affair.
Formal opening of the Internation-al house, 812 W. 37th St., will take place tomorrow night at 7:34), it was learned yesterday. Elaborate plans have been made for the opening, according to Walter Peck, house manager, and it is expected that nearly all of the 570 foreign students registered in the university will be present for the occasion.
Special music has been obtained for the evening, the international motif will be emphasized. A Filipino string quartet, a Chinese flute solo, a soprano solo to be sung by a Japanese girl, a cello solo, and addresses by Dr. R. B. von KieinSmid, Horace Cutler, secretary of the Foreign Trade club of Southern California and others, are numbers on the program..
The consular corps is to be well represented, invitations having been extended to Its members some time ago. Refreshments will be served.
Albert Quon, president of the Cosmopolitan club, is co-operaUng with the management of the Internationa) house in making plans for the open Ing. All members of the faculty ami students who are interested in inter (Continued on Page Four)