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Plan Inter-Fraternity Track Meet. Trojan Men Vote For “Home Girls/’ Appoint New Play Manager. Change El Rodeo Staff. Announce Newspaper Day Speakers.
Trojans To Enter Canadian Picnic Carnival.
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The Spirit of Troy
“As I sat in that vast Oakland Auditorium and watched the Trojans fight the Bears off their feet before a crowd of California supporters—man, I thrilled! Could the Trojan students have seen the game they would have felt proud of their team.” Old Trojan’s Column.
VOL. XVIII.
Los Angeles, California, Friday, February 4, 1927
NUMBER 75
EX-COMMITTEE APPOINTS NEW PLAY MANAGER
Ray Pinker is Named To Fill Position Left Vacant By Atwill.
At a special meeting called yesterday noon, the Executive Committee appointed Ray Pinker to the position of play production manager which had been left vacant by the resignation of John Atwill. The action was taken upon the recommendation of Pinker by the. play production committee, composed of Ray McDonald. Dr. Elmer Feagan and Mary Ella Brooks.
According to the committee, Pinker was the only candidate constitutionally eligible, for the position, and had the added advantage of his experience and his scholastic record.
It was also decided to 6end flowers to Tommy Lewis, basketball star, who was injured at the California-Southern California basketball game. Lewis is at present at the Methodist hospital with a severe case of blood poisoning.
A telegram on behalf of the Executive Committee will be sent to Palo Alto to wish the team success in their coming game with Stanford.
A special meeting of the committee will be held Wednesday evening in Stowell 350 at 7:00 P. M. for the purpose of checking up on the past actions of the executive committee, and noting how far toward its goal it has traveled. Discussion concerning uncompleted plans for the good of the uniyersity will also be held-
CHANGES MADE IN EL RODEO STAFF
Assistant and Associate Editorships Are Again Filled After Brief Vacancies.
Trojan Gentlemen Prefer
Old-Fashioned Brunettes
“Home Girl’’ Leads the Field, With Flappers, Clinging Vine, and Business Girl Next; Blondes Not Popular.
BY HOWARD EDGERTON
business women, and social leaders have too many outside activities to pay the desired amount of attention to home-making.
Numerous reasons, most of them facetious, were given in favor of flapper wives, some saying that it would be much easier to get a divorce and others maintaining that they were always assured of having their wives good looking.
Business girls gained the support of those individuals who wished their homes to be run on a business basis, and a few gentlemen made this choice because they said they had a chance of being supported. Clinging vines w’ere approved because of the fact that “they made you feel so great, big, strong, and wonderful.” One student offered the philosophy that the cling ing vine type might have a tendency to cling to the home.
Do gentlemen really prefer blondes?♦ Or aren’t the males on tbe Trojan campus gentlemen? Results of the contest recently conducted in the Daily Trojan to determine what kind of women college men want to marry show that two-thirds prefer brunettes, while only one-third cast their votes for the light-headed damsels.
The old fashioned "home girl” led the field, 40 per cent of the men voting for her. Twenty-six per cent preferred the flapper, while the “clinging vine” and the business girl were tied at 17 per cent each. No votes were cast for either actresses or social leaders.
The chief reasons given for preferring the old-fashioned girl are the age-old stories of a home being the most important thing in a man’s life; many a man gave his opinion that flappers,
That Leigh Sargent, who was associate editor of the El Rodeo, will till the place of assistant editor left vacant by Frank Orme, who left college at the end of last semester, was the announcement made yesterday by Ralph Holly, editor. Dave Bryant. who has been in charge of social fraternities, will take over the work of associate editor.
Other appointments made by
Ralph Holly are:
Bruce Brown as editorial assistant; Don Edwin, editor of the schools section; Bradford Adams, junior class editor; Betty Bruce, honorary fraternities; Elliott Levine, professional fraternities; Morris Folodare, debate section; Betty Budd, publications section.
Press Club Elections Give uDeke” Houlgate OfRce Of President
Electing “Deke” Houlgate as president of the Southern California Press Club, members of that organ-oization held a special meeting in the Trojan office Thursday noon.
Other officers elected for the coming year are: Vice-president, Marjorie Hull; secretary, Bernice Palm-. er; treasurer, Leo Harris.
Nominations for these officers took place at a banquet held by the Press Clittb at the Mona Lisa Cafe.
Plans for the coming year were also discussed at the meeting yesterday .including the program for Newspaper Day, which is to take place February 17.
S. C. HOCKEY TEAM TO TAKE TO ICE
Ice hockey will start full blast with the initial wrorkout scheduled for February 8, Tuesday at 5 p. m., at the Palace de Glace rink located on Melrose near Vermont avenue. Bill Shaver, star of the Moroons of the Iceland Garden’s rink league, was named as coach of the Trojan hockey team at a meeting held last night in the Palace de Glace.
The first game is slated for February 18 against Occidenta College at the Palace. Last year Oxy took a close contest from S C and the Trojans will be out to skin the Tigers. The Southern California Ice Hockey League\wili be organized immediately and will contain Occidental, Loyola, Southwestern, Southern Branch, and Southern California.
Hopes for a successful season are high with Ormond Grier, Morely Drury, Howard Elliot, Joe Woodard,| last year's captain, Roland Ben-vienue, Ted Rosenthal, Jack Cohen, and Milton Narowitz returning from last year’s squad. A few men from the East are also slated to turn out for the team. Grier is manager for this season.
All men interested in ice hockey are asked to report to Bill Hunter’s office at noon today for a short meeting.
Cecil Graves Receives Advancement on Staff Of S. C. Daily Trojan
Cecil Graves, at present head writer on the Trojan, has been promoted to daily editor for Friday in recognition of his active w^ork on the staff. He replaces Leo Harris, w’ho will be in charge Monday. Bill Jeffrey, who has been in charge on Monday, had to drop his work on account of the change in his scholastic program.
Mr. Graves is a student in the Law School. Last year he was a reporter on the Trojan, was advanced to head writer last semester, and was promoted to desk editor this semester.
INTRA-MURAL MANAGERS
TROJAN aUBS HAVE LARGE ATTENDANCE
Two alumni groups, the Kern County Trojan Club ‘and the South Bay Cities Club, held recent meetings, at which two prominent campus men participated. The San Diego Club will have a meeting in the near future.
Harold Stonier was the chief speaker at the Kern County meeting in Bakersfield last night, at the El Tejon Hotel, where about one hundred members were present.
Burdette Henney was present as yell leader at the meeting at Redondo Beach of the South Bay Cities Trojan Club, Wednesday evening, as the Elks Club. One hundred and twenty were present.
The Trojan Club in San Diego will meet on February 11 at the Cabrilo Cafe.
COLLEGE DEPICTED IN M0R0SC0 PLAY
Portraying a true glimpse of college life and activities, “The Poor Nut,” now playing at the Morosco Theatre, is attracting favorable comment from all the college graduates and undergraduates that have seen this production.
One of the features of the plav and one of the most novel in the history of the American stage, is a relay race that is run on the stage itself. A section of the college grandstand is visible, and the cheer of the crowd—the excitement of the race—and the true-to-life incidents that occur in it make this play the most thrilling of its kind ever seen on a Los Angeles stage.
The story deals with a shy but brilliant college student, a Phi Beta Kappa man, v.Tho would give his right arm to “make” Psi Sigma.. He dreams that he is a great athlete, and even writes letters to his girl friends about it. There comes a time when he has to prove his athletic ability, and the outcome of his ambitions hinges upon the winning of the relay race.
Important meeting of intra-mural managers at Coach Hunter’s office today at 12:15. All managers must be there on time.
ENGLISH LIKE SHE IS SPOKE
BY EUNICE MARTIN
Shades of little Olaf! A letter from the Philippines received recently by I>ean W. F. Skeele of the College of Music suggests the following scene: “Now mine leetle chocklate beby, said his beeg vat aunt Stacoma, seet yu down and ask de peeples iff dey vish vor yu to coma—over dere ver men be vomen and de cheeldren lap up cans—ask dem iff dey vish some musick vrom dis so-called heathen land—Yu haff had yure Eng-leesh lessons—yu haff said dem effry night—vu do sburely know dat language—and vat’c more yu know, it right—seet yu down, mine Borden beby—seet yu down upon dat stool— take yure pen and tell de teacher
dat yu tink yu come to scool. Vrite it in de best off Engleesh so dey know yu be right smart—show dem vot de teacher tought yu—dat’s mine leetle bleeding heart.”
Hence the following letter:
“Dear Teacher;
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“We are sending you this letter because I heard that you are the j head of College of Music and I wish I you that please send me a catalog! and all the stories of your music training because I want to be en-1 rolled if your all stories would make me pleased.
“Yours truly,
Hendricks To Give
Own Composition At Sunday Church Service
Calvin Hendrickson, S. C. composer and song writer, will give a number of his own compositions at the evening service of the Orchard Avenue Baptist Church Sunday. Among his selections will be the piano number, “Echoes,” and a vocal solo entitled “Song of Friendship.”
BRISTOL REMOVED
TO L. A. HOSPITAL
Horace Bristol, dramatic editor of the Trojan, was removed to the hospital yesterday with a fractured vertebrae. The injury was received two years ago in a football game. Since then Bristol’s back has been bothering him, but only yesterday did the doctors learn that the bone was cracked. He will probably be in the hospital for two or three months.	•
“What a bunch of liars!" said one of the Trojan staff writers upon hearing the returns from the count on the kind of women campus men here want to marry. Forty per cent of the ballots fav-oered the “old fashioned home girl" type, against seventeen per cent for the flapper, who came next in order of popularity. One man wanted to have a cross between two or three of the types mentioned. A number of the comments were interesting. But we have a feeling that the most truthful one was one who said that the kind of girl the fellow wants to marry now and the one he marries may be widely different.
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But the valuable thing we learned from this contest was not the kind of girls the Trojan men want to marry. The thing that pleased us was the fact that so manv men took an active interest in a Trojan questionnaire when opportunity was given them. Incidentally, we believe most of the coupon answers were sincere. Therefore, the campus shall have another opportunity soon to express itself on some matter of interest. The letter box has been open all year to any who have cared to write but it seems that it is much easier to drop something in a box in the arcade than to hunt up the newspaper office and hand in something. The Trojan box will be in the arcade again before long, next time on an issue of more importance and one in which the entire campus, men and women, can take part.
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“I was one of the few U. S. C. rooters,” writes an “Old Grad”, “who saw Troy play the Bear bas-ketballers in their own back yard last Friday evening. As I sat in that vast Oakland Auditorium and watched the Trojans fight the Bears off their feet before a crowd of California supporters—man. I thrilled!
“There should be no regrets in the minds of the Trojan students. Could they have seen the game they would have felt as I did— very, very proud of their team.”
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We get many of letters from alumni and outside readers, some criticising, some complimenting, some commenting on the news or the campus happenings. But when we get letters like the above we thrill, too. We haven't commented before on the northern games because we had no way of doing it sincerely. But we are glad to print the testimony of an eye - witness. Notwithstanding what we have said about the principle of scholarships and “sops” being wrong, we are always proud
of representatives who fight clean and hard, whether it be on the court, diamond, gridiron, track, debate platform, or conference table. Varsity Five, we are proud of you. We supported a winning football team ; we are back of a losing basketball team because it has the same kind of spirit.
News Writers To Visit S. C.
Alma Whitaker, Kelly, and Rathbun Will Speak To Journalists, February 17.
Mark Kelly, Alma Whitaker, and Morris M. Rathbun, prominent journalists, have been secured as speakers for the fourth Annual S. C. Newspaper Day, February 17, according to the committee in charge of the program. Trojan students interested in journalism will be hosts to reprefcenta-tives from high schools of Southern California.
Morris M. I^athbun, present publicity director of the Southern California Automobile Club, will speak on “This Publicity Business.” Mr. Rathbun is familiar with publicity, having been on the staff , of prominent eastern newspapers besides having been director of publicity for the campaign which the L06 Angeles Chamber of Commerce organized some time ago. He was at one time president of the Pacific Press Syndicate.
“Making a Good Sport Page” will be the topic of Mark Kelly, sports editor of the Los Angeles Examiner. Mr. Kelly is nationally known fdr his work on the sport page and is one of the best sport writers on the Pacific Coast.
Alrna WTiitaker, editorial and feature writer of the Los Angeles Times, will speak of “The Woman in Journalism,” calling on her own interesting and varied experiences for her talk.
GRECIAN KNIGHTS DON TRUNKS AND RIBBONS TO DO BATTLE IN INTER-FRATERNITY TRACK MEET
Houses Choose Sororities To Represent in Fray; Great Event Will Be Held At Coliseum on February 11.
BY BOB KRAN2
Like knights of old, men of the Greek letter houses will carry the colors of their ladies in the Inter-Fraternity Track and Field Meet to be held at the Coliseum Friday, February 11. Drawings for the sorority which each fraternity is to represent were completed
tlate vesterdav afternoon.
PLANS MADE FOR CLASS ELECTIONS
Tuesday Morning Is Set For Balloting; Urge All To Vote.
With election of class officers taking place Tuesday. February 8th, those in charge of the balloting urge all students to vote.
Booths will be open on Tuesday from 9:00 a. m. until 2:00 p. m., in the main Arcade of the Administration Building. Juniors and Seniors will vote in the north end of the hall, while Freshmen and Sophomores will vote in the south end.
The presidents of the various classes, along with the Executive Committee, will be responsible for the balloting and the tallying of the ballots. They will act under the direct supervision of the University Election Committee.
Candidates ior the Senior class are as follows:
President, “Boots” Oudermeu!^, Harold Lovejoy; vice-president, Eunice Riley, Eloise Parks; secretary, Marjorie Hull; treasurer, Crawford Peek, Les Heilman.
Those running in the Junior class are: President, Eddie Oudermeulen, Stanley Hopper, Marcus Beeks; vice-president, Ruth Carr, Mildred Martz; secretary, Jean Summerfield; treasurer. Howard Edgerton, Harold Silbert.
Candidates for the Sophomore class are: President, Charles Wright; vice-president, Muriel Heeb, Pauline Hazard; secretary, Peggy Schlah, Bernice Palmer; treasurer, Fredrick Felton, Bob Beilow.
Freshman candidates are: President, Don Moses, Sam Newman, Fred Black; vice-president, Lorene Zeig-ler, Alberta Plasterer, John Lemar; secretary, Lorraine Young, Pauline Mather, Marrian Abbott; treasurer, Rocky Kemp. Frenchy Flynn. lx>well Goode, and Al Kaser.
COMMITTEE WORKS ON HOUSING PLAN
Members Hope To Bring Organizations Into Composite Campus Unit.
Prominent Southern California authorities, headed by Dean Karl T. Waugh, are working at the present time on the problem of permanent housing for fraternities and sororities. It is the purpose of the Dean to confer with the Trustee committee of the University, with Judge William Bowen, and with President R. B. von KleinSmid concerning definite details to the proposed plan.
The choice of sororities this year was made by numbering the various sororities from one upwards, while the fraternities chose numbers from one to twenty. When the number guessed by the fraternity representative corresponded with the number assigned to the respective sorority, the lucky house was delegated to carry that sorority's colors in the coming mtiet. This system was necessary because only fourteen social sororities existed on the campus, while there are twenty fraternities. Those houses who chose numbers that did not have a corresponding sorority number will enter the meet unattached.
The track meet will take place at The University plan is to ask each the Coliseum, and it promises to group to tender an amount of money, outshine all past events in the mat-
equal to the down payment on a suitable property on the campus itself. The University will purchase this
ter of competition. Many fraternities possess unusually strong teams this year, and practically all the
property and assign it to the par-, houses have signified their intention ticular group which advances the | of entering. Four places will be money. This will aliow special priv-, counted at this meet instead of the ileges and dispensations to be customary three, in order to give a
granted these groups which they could not otherwise obtain. Tne University will help each organiza-
more equal chance to all the houses. Medals will be given to the men receiving first, second, and third
tion in the establishment of a per-1 places, while a ribbon will be award-
manent dormitory.
“The difficulty in providing permanent sorority and fraternity houses lies in the fact that most of the property which surrounds the Trojan Campus is held by private interests,” said Dean Waugh yesterday. “The University is not prepared to purchase all of these holdings, yet it desires that the campus shall contain only that which is directly connected with the college. This will make the campus not only more beautiful but a more composite unit.”
The proposed plan is noteworthy because practically every plan in use at other universities is of a similar nature. Northwestern University is employing a plan almost the same.
Notices
AH iiotic*-* mn»t be brought to the Trojan offlee at 716 Wwt Jefferson St. or phoned to HUmbolt 4522. Notices inuNt be limited to 35 wortla.
George Gleason Will Lead Various Student Discussion Meetings
Student discussion groups to be held in the “Y” Hut under the leadership of George Gleason, Y. M. C. A. secretary of Southern California, are scheduled to begin February 8. at 12:15.
The general topic for discussion is “Christ and His Relation To Us.” This subject has been divided into three sub-topics, the first of which, “Personal Relation To Christ,” will be discussed at the earliest meeting. On February 15. “Presenting Christ To Friends,” and on February 22, “How To Make Christ a Force in the Life of a Nation” are the respective, topics chosen.
Mr. Gleason, who has been secured to lead the groups, is at the present time associate general secretary of the Metropolitan Y. M. C. A. and has had charge of the “Y” work in Japan for eighteen years. Two years ago he was sent by the United States government as a representative for the Pan-Pacific Conference held in Honolulu.
ed the fourth place man. Eighteen event3 have been decided upon by the house managers, including the customary track events, the hop-skip-and-jump, and an eight man mile and four man half mile relay. Entry slips will be posted by those in charge of the affair, in Coach Bill Hunter’s office, above the Associated Students’ store .and the various houses may sign up any time between Monday morning and Wednesday noon. The entrance fee i3 two dollars.
With the drawings for sororities out of the way, steps will be taken by the inira-mural manager staff to complete all necessary arrangements for the meet. All houses have been urged by Coach Hunter to sign up immediately on Monday, so that the names appearing upon the entrance slips can be compared with the eligibility list from the coach’s office.
The list of the fraternities and the sorority colors they will carry is as follows:
Alpha Sigma Delta—Unattached.
Delta Chi—Unattached.
Delta Phi Delta—Alpha Epsilon Phi.
Delta Sigma Phi—Unattached.
Gamma Epsilon—Kappa Delta.
Kappa Alpha—PI Beta Phi.
Kappa Sigma—Zeta Tau Alpha.
Phi Alpha Mu—Alpha Delta Phi.
Phi Beta Delta—Theta Omicron.
Phi Delta Chi—Unattached.
Phi Kappa Tau—Delta Zeta.
Pi Kappa Alpha—Iota Sigma Theta.
Sigma Alpha Epsilon—Phi Ml.
Sigma Chi—Kappa Alpha Theta.
Sigma Tau—Delta Delta Delta.
Tau Epsilon Phi—Unattached.
Theta Psi—Alpha Gamma Delta.
Theta Sigma Nu—Alpha Ohi Omega.
Zeta Beta Tau—Unattached.
Zeta Kappa Epsilon—Delta Gamma.
GOLF
All men interested in golf report today in Bill Hunter’s office at 12 o’clock. This meeting is important and anyone wishing to tryout for any teams must be present.
The first regular meeting of the Inter-Fraternal Council for the second semester will be held at the Pi Kappa Alpha house, 2644 Portland street, at 7:30 p. m. Feb. 8, 1927.
PI DELT PLEDGES
There will be a meeting of the Pi Delta Epsilon pledges in the El Ro-deo offices at 9 Monday morning. (Continued on Page Two)
LAWYERS SENTENCED BY CUPID
Monday morning Professor Fox of the Law School called upon a certain girl in his class as “Mrs. Garland.” There was silence. The young woman blushed, and stammered a weak “S-i-r.” This was the signal for showers of rice on the young lady and the young man sitting beside her.
James Garland. Phi Delta Phi, and Dorothy George, Phi Delta Delta, both realized their connubial aspirations last Thursday in Santa Ana. And like a woman SHE told her roommate, and ye men all present
know the result. Mr. and Mrs. Garland first met each other shortly before Christmas ,and from then on Cupid went to night school till he convinced Dorothy that she ought to change her name.
The popular couple are planning to cross the bar together, and Garland and Garland, Attorneys in Process, will take tht place of James and Dorothy at the Southern California Law School, which bears out a fact that a life sentence can oe imposed on a couple even when they are in law school.