FROSH BONFIRE
All fraternities are requested to instruct their freshman pledges to be on the job in guarding the frosh bonfire all of Thursday and Friday. Every spare moment of every freshman must be spent on the spot to protect the great pile of gathered material from being destroyed beforehand, according to Burdette Henney, who is in charge.
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SOPHOMORE SWEATERS
Monday, December 5th will be the last opportunity
for Sophomores to purchase sweaters. All those who have failed to do so are urged to get them immediately. Sophomores are able to get them in the Students' Store from Mr. Smith, Silverwood’s representative.
VOL. XIX.
BEGIN COURT BATTLE TO TRY GREEKS
Chase Burns Summoned in First Move By Property Owners.
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, December 1, 1927
NUMBER 49
By LEON SCHULMAN With the serving Monday morning of a summons on Chase Burns, president of Delta Chi, there began the bitter legal battle over the eviction of the fraternity houses from Zone A.
The summons set forth the complaint of the property owners that fraternity houses are not one-familv dwellings within the meaning of the zoning ordinance, and hence, asked for a court order to restrain the continuance in operation of the Delta Chi fraternity house in Zone A.
On the same day Chase Burns, acting for the Delta Chi fraternity, through attorney Eearly Oakley filed a demurrer to the action •f the plaintiffs. As yet, the exact nature of the demurrer has not been disclosed. The hearing on the demurrer is set for December 8.
No civil suit has been filed as yet against the other fraternities whose ho«ses are located in Zone A. The fraternities, Kappa Sigma. Pi Kappa
S. C. HONORS MOTHERS OF VARSITY MEN
Decorations and Program For Banquet Arranged by So-eds.
Honoring the mothers of the footbali men, the women students and alumnae of the University of Southern California are sponsoring an unusual dinner at the Women’s Residence Hall. Friday evening at 6:30. This affair is to be one of the special events on the Homecomnig week program.
The pom-pom idea will prevail in the decorations, with various types of Cardinal and Gold ornaments about the rooms. Entertainment will consist of professional and group dancing, singing and instrumental music. It has been rumored that the committee # j in charge may be able to obtain some Facinc Coast Philological! of the motoin pictures of the S. C-Association Held Meeting Notre Dame game to show at this ban-During Vacation.
Honorary Fraternity Will Pledge Publicly in Bovard
Pi Delta Epsilon fraternity will for the fisrt time publicly pledge nine men in the Bovardd auditorium Friday morning, December 9, at 10 o’clock, at which time they will be in charge of the rally period.
The pledges will appear in convict uniforms and will be pledged by the president of the fraternity, after which they will go among the audience and sell Razz sheets, which will be just off the press.
It has been hinted that there will probably be a skit, although there has not as yet been anything definitely planned.
S. C. Professors Attend Meeting Held At Berkeley
Organizations Must Secure Float Designations Today
All organizations that intend to take part in th< Homecoming Parade. which will take place December 3, must secure the float number from Ray Broomfield at the Phi Kappa Psi house. 642 West 28th street, any time Thursday.
The name of the organization must not appear on the float. Instead of the name, the number secured from Ray Broomfield will designate the floats and aid the judges in naming the winners without prejudice or favor. Every float must be ready at 11:30 Saturday morning, since the parade is scheduled to start at 12:30.
Alpha, aud
Nu. have
adopted an attuude watchful waiting as to the outcome of the case with Delta Chi.
The City Planning Commission met F*rlday, at which time the petition of twenty property owners was presented to order the removal of all four fraternity houses from Zone A. As yet i tbe City Planning Commission has not I taken any definite action, but has sent out an Inspector to the houses to de- | temine their status as rooming clubs and boarding houses, or single-familv dwellings. Upon his report will hinge any action taken by the commission, j and will no doubt influence the court in deciding the case at bar.
The administration continues to affirm that it will back the fraternities to the limit in the effort to maintain them in their present residences. Edwin A. Meserve has been engaged by the University for its attorney, and he is making a thorough study of the case.
•ther legal authorities have suggested that though the area within which the fraternities are located was
With five members of the faculty present in official positions at the Institute of Internatoinal Relations all this week at Riverside, the University of Southern California was well represented.
Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid, president of the University, has the position of chancellor of the institute. Among the other members of the S. C. faculty there present is: Dr. Roy Malcolm, head of the Department of Political Science, who will preside over a conference on American Spheres of Influence in , the Caribbean, Friday, December 2, at 2 p.m.
Dr. Malcolm has just returned from the northern section of the state, where he conducted investigations as to the “Fish and Game Act.” According to Dr. Malcolm, the investigations yielded a very profitable return for th* effort and time expended away from the class room.	i
Professor Eugene Harley, also of * the Department of Political Science, i will lead a round-table discussion of the question of “Limitation of Armaments.” Exercising a similar function. Dr. Emory E. Bogardus will serve as an authority on the question of I “The Basis of Race Relations.”
Taking a well-deserved place in the, discussion of “The Chinese Situation’’ Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the
quet.
Helen Klene is student chairman and Sarah Stoneham alumni chairman of the affair. Assistants on the committee are Alda Mills and Ruth Smith The Amazons will also help as hostesses at the dinner.
Beside the special guests and the alumnae the undergraduate women of the university are invited.
graduate school, will bring to bear on
of
at the time of the passage of the ordi- , that important subject, the mass nance fit property to be included in * 1 1'*	i~*~»
Zoae A. fhe character of the plot has changed through the growth of the city and the change of conditions, so that now it would be feasible and proper to remove htis land from Zone A. This would remedy the difficulties California. Representatives from Uni-of the fraternities and at the same versities, Colleges, and Societies are time he a just and equitable action of | extended invitation to become mem-the City Planning Commission.	bers.
material that he has accumulated thru extensive research work in the East.
This will make the second session of the Institute of International Relations. The session is from Nov. 27 to Dec. 3. at the Mission Inn. Riverside,
NOTICE
All program salesmen must be at thei automobile entrace of the Coliseum at 10 o'clock Saturday morning. Other ! students desiring to work as salesmen should sign up in K. K Stonier's office before Friday noon.
STUDENT VIEWS USED IN ESSAYS
Student Committee Desires Ideas on Development of University.
New buildings, more equipment schools, colleges and departments not now included in the university, a real campus, more athletic fields than we now have: such things as these art needed if the physical growth of Southern California is to keep pace with its growth in athletic, scholastic and social prowess.
It is to discover the student viewpoint in regard to these needs that the Trojan is conducting an essay contest on the needs of the university. Many have already indicated theii intention of entering the competition, and it is expected that more will do so in time to get their essays in to the judges by Tuesday, Dec. 13, the closing day of the contest A series of articles, beginning with this article to day, will appear in the Trojan from now on until the opening of Christmas vacation, as a means of acquainting the contestants with various facts which will be useful to them in writing their essays. A group of staff writers—Karmi Wyckoff, Rita Padway and Walter Peck—have been assigned to the preparation of the articles, which will treat the development of the var-
RALLY SKIT TO BE GIVEN HOME COMING IS THEME
The last of the big rally plays will be presented at the Homecoming rally Friday night. This time it will be different from the others in that it will be a musical comedy idea. The title given to the play is, “More of the Private Life of Old King Priam,” and Is a sequal to the first rally skit of the year called “Old King Prim’s Dream.” Tbe theme of Homecoming will be •■rried through with ancient ideas and modern characteristics.
The production will be in two scenes: first will be the courtyard of King Priam, the second will be King Priam's homecoming banquet. In the *ec«nd scene a chorus of nine girls **!! danoe and sing, while Harold •rayson and his band, decked out in ••sUune, will play the musical scores, lfany novel costumes are to be introduced. according to the directors, alang with the host of novelty features planned
BROTHER MASONS
There will be a luncheon Friday.
Dec. 2. for all Masons of the University at men’s dorm. It is necessarv to make reservations at Hall and Daniel. I °ius unitS 0f tbe universil>' up to ,he
(next to Alex’s). Make reservations Present and sketch possible Hnes ot now	future expansion.
__There are a number of general facts
which should be kept in mind by the contestant when fomulating his ideas for an essay. If the university’s enrollment continues to grow unchecked in the future at the rate maintained by it in the past, ten years hence will find us with a student body of twenty thousand. Because of the costs of construction, any rrogram of expan sion, in which new buildings are contemplated, must provide for the needs o! the university ten to twenty year.^ in advance, at the least. The building program, therefore, would have to make provision for an enrollment of at least twenty thousand.
The feature song number was written by Fred Mildford, entitled “Welcome Home,’ set to the music of the musical comedy hit “Going Up.” To go with this, Paul Kiepe has worked \ out some unusual electrical effects to go in harmony with the music. Stage settings have been well taken care of under the direction of Francis Clark.
The cast is composed of all University students, namely: Charles Wright as King Priam; Francis Clark the butler; Leo Harris and Eli Levenson will be Gallagher and Shean. Burton Me-Kinnell the Towncrier, and popular , “Tiny’’ Sandholt the song and dance man. The chorus of nine is Elizabeth Collins. ;Nancy O'Brien. Dorothy Rainer, Carol Wiggs, Virginia Marlowe, Phyllis Hammond, Lauris Phillips, Bettle Westfelt, and Audrey Whe lan. The play was written by Fred Milford and Morris Chain and directed by Chain. Ralph Clare has taken ; care of the properties as manager.
NOTICE
The men’s varsity debate squad will meet in Hoose 206, today, at 4 p.m.. states forensic coach Alan Nichols The freshman squad will meet in th* same room at 5 p.m.
There will be a meeting of the Sophomore Executive Committee in H-20C today at noon. AJ1 members of the committee are to be present as the meeting is a very important one. If you are unable to attend please see Leo Adams.
Flayers To Give Chinese Lantern’ Next Friday Night
Play To Be Given December 9 in Bovard Auditorium.
Webster Hayne, cast as Tikipu, and Frances Evans, as Mee-Mee, the little slave girl who loves him, are the leads in “The Chinese Lanter” written by Laurence Housman, to be presented Dec. 9 in Bovard Auditorium, by the National Collegiate Players.
Tikipui s the drudgt working in the art school run by Olangtsi as the general errand boy who does all the menial tasks around the studio. He aspires to be a great artist, and, despite his handicap of having to work in the studio as well, achieves his goal. Lots of midnight oil is burned, not figuratively but literally, by this aspirant to the realms of art.
Mee-Mee is the little purchased girl who is to marry Yunglangtsi, the son of Olangtsi and bring him great sue cess thereby in his painting. The stars predict that this is to be fate she will bring to her husband.
This reprobate son, Yunglangtsi, a good-for-nothing who makes no effort of his own to be an artist, is portrayed by George Lawrence. He is the prototype of the modern typical college youth who graces the majority of the fiction written around those institutions, in that he fools away his time and still expects to make of himself a famous artist.
The comedy characters in this satire are Josi-Mosi* taken by Paul Kiepe, and Cosi-Mosi, portrayed by Stanley Z. Ewens.
Others in the cast are the students in the art school who tease Tikipu almost to distraction and who make obeisance to Mrs. Olangtsi every time she enters the studio, although the owner is Mr. Olangtsi.
Th y are Han Kin, by Arthur Brear-ly; Pee-ahBee, by Lucille Taylor; New-Lyn. by Ruth Burns; Hiti-Titi. by Virginia Roediger; Tee-Pee, by Avalon Daggett; Nau-Tee, by Elizabeth A. Reade and Li-lxmg. by Ethel Bickford.
Tickets for this play will go on sale next Monday morning at the students store under the care of Mrs. Marie PoetKer.
LAW CASES TRIED BY S. C. LAWYERS
More than 50 students in the S. C. Law School have acted as attorneys in practice court sessions thus far this year, according to Don Mayhew, clerk of the court. Twenty-five cases have been tried and the final seven cases will be tried next Tuesday.
Under the S. C. “moot court” system, each student tries five cases before he graduates. Freshmen act as witnesses in the cases, which are judged by actual downtown judges, from the superior and municipal courts. Mayhew states that although there has been some difficulty in getting co-ordination between the freshmen witnesses and senior attorneys, he is planning a system which will eliminate this during the next quarter.
Examinations in the law school will begin December 14 and last during the 15th and 16th. Law students will thus have to attend school for two more days than other students. The second quarter of the lawyers will open immediately after the Christmas vacation, on January 3rd.
SMOKER FOR TONIGHT IS TO BE OPEN
Charlie Keppen To Be Master of Ceremonies; Novelty Numbers Planned.
Plans for the second annual all-university smoker tonight have been completed according to Hank Rohr, chairman of the smoker, and everything is in readiness for a full evening at the Elks’ Club starting at nine.
Charlie Keppen, radio announcer of the football games at the Coliseum, will be master of ceremonies. Charlie has been very popular at his own club and said he was ready for a live evening. Those who have heard him at the games know he is always ready with a clever remark or ready to say 1 something to generate “pep.”
A special dance has been arranged by Miss Jean Maschio and Manuel Ruiz. Miss Maschio will also dance several popular steps. Dolly McDonald, popular singer over KFI. will entertain in her pleasing manner as will j “Tiny” Sandholt, the song and dance man of the University. Harold Grayson and his band of fourteen will be there with many novel arrangements prepared for the evening. A complete program consisting of all sorts of musical numbers and whatnots complete the evening’s fun.
As was promised there will be no long speeches. Jimmie Musatti has promised one of his usual snappy ( talks. Jimmie’s talks tare far famed | and there is no doubt that he will be j ready with another.	(
Mr. Miller, the new dean of Law j School, who comes to us with a great i reputation for his talks at such occa- j sions has promised to be ready with just the kind of a talk that will prove interesting to alumni and students.
Refreshments and details have J been arranged by John Bailey and no, expense has been spared to have ( everything of the best.
Annual Play Scripts To Be Finished Before Christmas
Scenarios for the annual Extravaganza must be turned in to Mr. Huse’s office not later than the last day before Christmas vacation. The,
name must not appear on the manuscript, but on an envelope accompanying it.
Manuscripts will be due after the holidays. Stories of a vaudeville type will not be acceptable, according to the rules which were announced in the Trojan recently and which will be repeated again before the holidays. Music and songs need not necessarily accompany the scenario or manuscript.
HOMECOMING PROGRAM IS COMPLETED
Bonfire, Dinner, and Rally To Be Held Friday Night. Co-eds.
Wamp To Appear On Campus Friday For Homecoming
Kat Released To Honor Alumni; Superior To Other Issues.
FINAL TRYOUTS SET FOR TODAY
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Women’s Debate Squad To Select Members; Tryouts Held in H. 206.
Final tryouts for the Women's De bate squad will be held today at 4:15 in Hoose 200. according to Eleanor j Veale, chairman.
“A^ll contestants must report at this time,” says Miss Veale, “as there will be no other opportunity to try out for the squad.”
The question for debate is: Resolved. That investors and investments in foreign nations should be protected only by the government in which the investment T ***»de.
There are three groups of speakers to try out and the final selection ol members of the squad will be selected fiom the results of these speeches by Coach Allan Nichols. The groups are as follows: first group, affirmative. Ruth Tlbbot, Bonnie Jean Lockwood and Elizabeth Henninger; negative, Eleanor Brody, Fern Pierson and Lor-ena Weister. Second group, affirmative, Virginia Marlowe, Lois Meyer and Sally Donnelly; negative, Mary Anderssen. Margaret Morrow and Marion Olden. The third group has only two speakers, Clara Mae Parson who will uphold the affirmative and Josephine Rodriguez who will uphold the negative.
A Kat, more or less black, will cross the path of Homecoming tomorrow, but good luck will be forecast, instead of bad, since the sprightly feline will be the Wampus Kit released especially to herald the inauguration of Homecoming.
If other Wampii were good, then this issue is truly great and is the best of them all, for according to strange rumors and frolicsome whispers, Jem-ina Ralston goes crazy, daringly ex-1 posing campus dirt to tho dire dismay J of sundry heroic figures of S. C. college life. “Dumb—Not Really!” continues on in another installment, the like of which was never seen before.
As a complete change from the co\ ( e;- design of the last issue, Bob Crosby { has produced a masterpiece of comic ( hilarity to adorn the outside of the ! Kat. Other artists and writers of com j ic gags have exceeded themselves in ‘ the production of true mirth. From ( j an avalanche of material, only the ( cream has been selected, and as a re- ( suit, the Wampus is asserted to be the greatest of them all.
To the dismay and inward squirming of a leader in the school of religion. who chooses to express his weakness to feminine wiles by an editorial in the Trojan, in the manner explain ed by Freud as to suppressed desires, I the sale of the college monthly comic magazine will be placed in the capable hands of the fair sex on the S. C campus.
Ad Club To Hold
Regular Meeting
The Advertising Club will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, Dec. 7, at 6:30 p.m. at the Twin Cedars Inn, 41st and Figueroa Sts. The principal speaker of the evening will be Dean Reid L. McClung of the College of Commerce. His subject as yet is undecided, but promises to be one of particular interest to those who are i interested in the advertising profes-1 sion.
A skit entitled “Red Carnations”-will be presented before the club, by students of the College of Speech of the S. C. campus. This skit is the same that has ben presented throughout the city by the Deputations Committee.
BY LORRAINE YOUNG
Beginning with a dinner at 4:30 and culminating with a monster bonire to b_* lit exactly at midnight, Friday night’s homecoming program will be the most ambitoius one ever attempted.
The evening's festivities are to begin with a double dinner, the men dining in the men’s gym and the women in the Women’s dormitory. Immediately following the dinner which will end by nine o’clock, an enormous rally is to be staged in Bovard auditorium. Another novel skit by Morris Chain is to be the feature of the proeram, which wil lbe completed by *ongs. yells and “fight” talks.
Following the rally, a decidedly informal all-university dance is to be held in the men’s gym. The affair is to be free to all Trojans, including homecoming alumni and present students. Ending at 11:30 to allow a half hour for the trip to the scene of the big conflagration, which is to be at the Adohr Creamery, 6200 West Pico, the dance will give way to the great climax of the entire evening, the annual frosh bonfire.
The much-hated “dinks” and armbands of the yearlings will add their merry sparks to the blaze of the great pile of material gathered by the frosh. ■while 500- enthusiastic Jresbwo par^ ade clad in pajamas. Moving pictures are also to be taken of the pictar*«que affair.
The frosh already have a pile about sixteen miles high, more or lece, and they have only been gathering material since Wednesday. A frosh guard is
arranged for every minute of th* time between now and the final moment, to protect the material from any possible bands of marauders. Any group of individuals either in or outside of rhe university bent on playing have** will be sadly disappointed.
To encourage the poor “overw»rkf d" frosh guard, several of the fronh women will be on the scene of battle during the two night preceeding, t* *erve hot coffee and sandwiches.
Schedule Exchange of Fraternity Luncheons
Exchange luncheons will be held today between fraternities according to the following schedule;
Alpha Sigma Delt.........-.........Delta Chi
Beta Phi Epsilon ..........Delta Phi Delta
Delta Sigma Phi .............-Kappa Alpha
Gamma Epsilon-----------Kappa Sigma
Phi Alpha Mu_______________Phi Kappa Psi
Phi Beta Delta.............Phi Kappa Tau
Pi Kappa Alpha--------------Sigma Chi
Sigma Alpha Epsilon-------Sigma Tau
Tau Delta Phi .......................Theta Psi
Tau Epsilon Phi ..-------Zeta Beta Tau
Theta Sigma Nu —.......Alpha Nu Delta
BIOLOGY SOCIETY HEARS DIRECTOR
Members of the Biology Society, at a meeting held a week ago Friday, heard an interesting talk by Director Hatten of the Los Angeles Museum. He spoke on Indian relics and Indian life in general. A large number of students heard Hatten’s lecture. A social hour was held in conjunction with the meeting and refreshments were served.
Miss Shaw, of the Botany department, Is president of the Biology Club, while Miss Beers is vice preside*!, and Roy Dormann is * secretary-trenaurer. These officers are representative of the Biological department as the club Is for advanced students only, of any of the biological sciences.
Some of the members of the club journeyed to Lower California over Thanksgiving vacation. Dr. McCul-lock was the leader of this rather unusual field trip.
ARTISTS TO STAGE PLAY CLASS DESIGNS SETTINGS
“The Melancholy Pierrot”, will be presented by the students and faculty of the School of Architecture in the patio of their building at 8 o’clock. Dec. 8.
The most notable feature of this production will be the setting which has been designed and executed by students under the new movie course instituted this semester.
The production is under the direction of Virginia Roediger who has had experience in the Drama Shop here. All costumes are original and picturesque and are being made by the students under the direction of Helen
j Low. The “sewing room” at the j “Architect’s Cottage” looks as though ; a rainbow had broken and thB pieces | spilled over the floor, so varied ar« the colors of material heing used ia the 1 manufacture of the costumes.
Professor Clayton Baldwin portrays the title role with Avalon Daggett of the School of Speech playing Pierrette. The character of the Fat Pierrot is played by Lloyd Ownbey and (hat of Harlequin by Francis Meehan There will also be a marquise and a marqnis portrayed by Virginia Arnold and Hei-bert Pratt. Fred Bice will p!ay u,* poet and Walter Zick has the *-guide.