FROSH WILL MEET
Freshmen will meet in Bovard Auditorium at 12:30 today under the direction of Elwood Harmon, Junior class president. Officers will be elected, and plans for the annual battle with the Sophomores tomorrow on Bovard field will be made. It is urgent that every member of the class of 1931 be present, according to Hannon, to prepare for the struggle and to organize the class.
Southern
BIG FRIDAY RALLY
A rally for the Santa Clara game is planned by Shields Maxwell, chairman of the rally committee, in Bovard Auditorium Friday during chapel period. A snappy program, featuring Paul Elmquist, demon yell leader has been arranged. Plans for the rooting section stunts will be outlined, and every prospective Trojan rooter is urgently requested to be present at the rally.
VOLUME XIX.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, September 28, 1927
NUMBER 8
SPECIAL TRAINS SANCTIONED FOR STANFORD HUP
CHANGE IN RALLY HOURS APPROVED IN MEETING
Approval of the recommendation of the plan of the rally committee for four special trains to carry the students and alumni to Palo Alto on October 15 was the most important decision reached bv the executive committee in its meeting last evening in Stowell Hall.	*-
Other matters of importance concluded were the acceptance of the rally committee in regard to rally pe-
riods and continuing the student union committee’s power to act.
Upon the recommendation of the rally committee, the executive committee approved of the four trains as the official method of transportation for both students and alumni to the Stanford game. Efforts will be made to urge all students who are planning to go to the game to use this method, as any other means of transportation will defeat the purpose of the ad-minstration and the executive committee.
Mr. Kinch pointed out that transportation by train would be of the most benefit to the students inasmuch as travel by automobile would involve bucking heavy traffic in the narrow highway leading to Palo Alto. This is situated, he explained, in the neck of the peninsula and is at best a mean place on which to travel, When, in addition to the regular traf fic which is usually present, the foot ball crowd is going to the game, a quick passage, which will be desired by students, will be impossible. Travel by boat will involve land transportation by means of busses which necessitates making quick connections. This is not probable, he pointed out, and would delay any students attempting to make the trip by this means.
In making the approval, the executive committee accepted his suggestion that all efforts be made to encourage students to use the special trains. This will make the arrival at the game certain to be on time, which could not be guaranteed by any other means of travel.
The president was empowered appoint a sub-committee to aid (Continued on Page Four)
COLISEUM CROWDS REACH PINNACLE AT GRID CONTESTS
Sale of Student Activity Books Shows Great Increase Over Last Year.
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That interest is increasing in the University of Southern California athletics on the part of alumni and the general public is very materially reflected by a steady growth -in re ceipts from football over a period of-five years. The percent of increase is illustrated by the following:
1920-1921	____________________________ 94 percent
1921-1922	__________________________ 77 percent
1922-1923	_____________________ 80 percent
(not including New Years’ Game)
1923-1924	_______________________ 73 percent
1924-1925	_______________________ 10 percent
(Stanford game cancelled)
1925-1926	------------------------ 72 perccnt
1926-1927	................................ 29 percent
However, unless there should be a
rise in the scale of prices for football tickets, we must expect a diminishing percent of increase in the future, for the maximum capacity of the Coliseum has now been reached on reserved seat games.
The sale of Student Activity books reached the total of 2,200 last year and promises to exceed that number this present year as 1,500 have already been sold.
An estimated profit for the year 1926-1927 reaches high in the five figure column, which presages another successful year for the Trojans.
Stonier Anxious To See Men Who Found Glasses
Saturday afternoon just before the game a pair of field glasses were dropped from my automobile. They were in a black leather case. The machine was standing on Thirty-Fifth Place, just opposite the windows of my office. I am informed that the glasses were picked up by two men wearing rooters caps and that they tried to find the owner of the glasses but were unable to do so. If con* venient I should appreciate their return either to my office of to the office of the Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds.
HAROLD STONIER, Vice-President.
S.C. LIBRARIAN TO MAKE CRUISE
Charlotte Brown Will Act As Librarian on S. S. Ryndam.
Being librarian on a floating university will be the unique experience of Miss Catherine M. Brown next year. Miss Brown, at present the head librarian at Southern California, is to be in charge of the library or the “Second College Cruise Round the World,” which will sail on the S. S. Ryndam next fall.
The cruise, sponsored by the University Travel Association of New York City, was to start during this month, but has been postponed for one year. The itinerary will cover China, Japan, Siam. Java. India, Egypt, Italy and other European countries, and the- Hawaiian and Philippine Islands.
Regular college subjects will be offered on the cruise, which is to last eight months. Three hundred seventy-five young men will comprise the “student body” on the floating college. Charles F. Thwing, president-emeritus of the Western Reserve University, will be president of the college. Deans will include prominent educators from throughout the country.
Miss Brown expects to visit the pyramids of Egypt, the catacombs of Rome and the ruins of Pompeii, the Taj Mahal of India, Jerusalem, the Himalayas and many other points which the average librarian merely reads of.
Months of outdoor life, contact with foreign people, and international viewpoint and many other factors will feature the trip. The cruise is to be the second of its type, the Ryndam returning now from the first college cruise around the world.
Press Club Meeting Called For Tuesday
A meeting of the Press Club will be held in the Trojan office at 12:15 next Tuesday noon, according to Howard Edgerton, president. Committees for the coming year are to be apointed at that time, and the date for the first Press Club dinner will be decided upon. All members of the club are urged to be present at the meeting. A semester’s work on the staff of the S. C. Trojan and an active interest in journalism are required for election to membership in the club. Officers for this year are Howard Edgerton, president; Vivian Murphy, vice-president; Helen Sauber secretary; and Bill Ruymann, treasurer.
The meeting of La Tertulia, Spanish Club, has been changed from tonight, as announced in yesterday’s Trojan, to October 5. The place will be announced later by the Spanish department.
CHEST LEADER LAUDS PROGRAM
Community Charity Starts With Annual Financial Drive; Advantages Given.
In a statement issued today dealing with the financial side of the activities of the Los Angeles Community Chest, William Lacy, president of the Chest, listed three prime advantages of the Chest system.
First, he said, is the immunity system in soliciting, which has done away with the annoyance of continuous appeals for funds by separate agencies. Persons who sabscribe once a year to the Chest’s budget are guaranteed freedom from further solicitation by the agencies. Thus a multitude of drives, tag days and other money-raising devices have disappeared.
Second, he said, is the principle of budgetary control, which requires participating agencies to submit their individual budgets for detailed review by the budget committee of the ChesL Budgets agreed upon in this matter cannot be later changed without the consent of the federation and even the methods of financial accounting employed by the member agencies must be in accordance with standards set up by the budget committee.
Financial security for each and every member agency, and increase of each agency’s resources through reduction in overhead and greater efficiency of administration were cited as a third advantage. In pre-Chest days it often hapened that agencies failed to raise amounts required for their maintenance. The Community Chest keeps these organizations equitably supplied.
“Joint finance,” said Lacy, “affords an unique oportunity to promote a spirit of co-operation among the agencies and thus make possible more united action in dealing with all social problems.”
SOPHOMORES READ RIOT ACT TO ROMPING FROSH
Proclamation!
Upon the afU^noon of the twenty-ninth day of September, in the year of Ninteen Hundred and Twenty-Seven, the SCUM OF THE EARTH, commonly called the Freshmen, are hereby according the privilege of meeting the pride of the campus in the annual hair pulling, sand bagging, tearing of clothes and face contest on Bovard Field.
“LISTEN! Ye howling babies! If you do not accept this opportunity to meet the pride of 1930, you will be called upon some day in on unexpect ed way and at that time receive a worse drubbing than you will receive on Thursday.”
Signed,
THE SOPHOMORES
To the already irate frosh, such a contemptuous challenge issued on handbills and circulated around the campus is like a flaunting of red rag in the face of an enraged bull. Affairs between Sophs and Frosh tomorrow at 11:30 on Bovard field promise to be warm. At least such is the hope of the sophomore class yhich plans to have every able-bodied male member a participant in the fracas.
Spirited competition on the part of the greenhorns who will organize from all indications given by the “persecuted” frosh, who are anxious to retaliate for the indignities they have suffered. With such spirit demonstrated by both sides the affair promises to be one of the most “fast and furious” encounters ever held during the lifetime of the tradition.
Extensive Forensic Program Outlined for Debate Team This Year.
There is a dearth of debate material for the squad this year, according to Coach Alan Nichols and Debate Manager Charles Wright and positions are open on both the varsity and freshman teams.
Missing from the squad this year are such sterling debaters as Leland Tallman, last year’s student-body president and winner of the Pacific Coast Intercollegiate Extemporaneous Speaking Contest, and Arthur Syvertson, who placed second last year in the National Intercollegiate Orotori-cal Contest on the Constitution.
SMOKER CALLED New men who are interested in debating, are invited to the smoker of Delta Sigma Rho, national honorary debate fraternity, October 5, at 7:20 at the S. A. E. house, 625 West 2t8h St. The purpose'of the smoker is to promote the get-together among the older members, and to initiate new men into the debate atmosphere at Southern California.
Plans are now going forward in regard to the E. Neal Ames cups for debating. Owing to the fact that there was no Ames Cup contest last year, there will be two cups awardsd this year, one to the winning freshman, and one to the wfnning sophomore, who was in the freshman class last year. Sophomore transfers from other schools are ineligible 'for the second cup.
Three freshmen will be selected in a preliminary debate on the afternoon of October 17, and on the following afternoon, October 18, three sophomores will be selected. In the finals, the freshmen will debate against the sophomores, and the cup winners will be selected in that manner.
The Bowen Cup contest, November 1st, is open to any undergraduate who has not previously won the cup. Among intercollegiate contests in (Continued on Page Four)
Meeting Set For Friday ys Chapel
Men Are Needed To Fill Positions On Debate Squad
Band Rehearses in Noon Workouts Under Director
Daily noon rehearsals for all band members have been in progress during the present week under the direction of Hal Roberts. No less than 68 men have reported daily, according to Manager Grayson, which constitutes something of a record. Roberts is planning on turning loose his men on the field Saturday betwen halfs at the Santa Clara tilt for a bit of marching, although the more difficult tricks will be reserved until later and more important cases.
Yell King Leads Bronco
Rally On Bovard Friday
Elmquist’s Assistants Get Chance To Lead Yells; Eleven To Try Out; Stunts are Being Planned For Saturday’s Tilt With Santa Clara.
SOLDIERS’ FIED PROBABLE SELLOUT
Knute Rockne Expects Second Army-Navy Game Crowd For S. C.-Notre Dame Game.
One hundred and eleven thousand persons will witness the Southern California-Notre Dame pig-skin classic next November 26, at Soldier’s Field, Chicago, according to Knute K. Rockne, head football mentor for the Irish Institute. That means that Coach Rockne expects Soldier’s Field to be filled to capacity.
To date 55,000 tickets have been sold, and applications for seats are still pouring into the box offices at the rate of 2,000 a day. The seats has been on sale since August 20.
According to “Rock”, the Trojans are due for a cordial reception when they arrive in Chicago. He was greatly impressed by the one given to him last year.
When asked what he thought of last years contest, he exclaimed that it was a great game and he hated to beat such a good sport as Howard Jones by a goal after touchdown margin.
Rockne does not believe that “The Thundering Herd” will be affected by the long trip East if the weather is right.
‘However,” he adds, “if it is as cold as it was for the Army-Navy game last year, U. S. C. players will be at a disadvantage because their legs will tie up.” . >
FROSH TO MEET AT NOON TODAY
Election of Officers Will Be Main Business of First Meeting.
Nominations of freshmen class officers and organisation for the Frosh-Soph tie-up will compose the business for the first-year class meeting of the year, to be held at 12:20 o’clock in Bovard Auditorium today. Offices to be filled are: president, vice-president, secretary, treasurer and four members of the class executive committee.
One week from today the polls will be open from 8:00 to 11:00 a.m., in the Arcade of the Administration Building. Between 11:00 and 12:00 the ballots will be counted and the results announced in the class meeting that noon.
At this second meeting the newly elected officers will take charge of the second meeting. At this time, according to the president of the student body, the freshmen may throw out bodily any upper classman who attempts to attend the meeting. The freshmen will be assisted in this activity by Eddie Oudermeulen and his Trojan Knights.
Elwood Harman, president of the junior class, will have charge of the meeting today when nominations and the plans for the Frosh-Soph tie-up are made. From all indications, his plans will so organize the freshmen that they will be adequate to any onslaught that the sophomores may stage. Preparation for the traditional skirmishes, the push-ball contest, the tug-of-war and the tie-up, in which the freshmen will meet the challenge of the sophomores will be fully planned for by Harman and the group leaders he will appoint in the freshmen class.
The nominations, the voting and the counting of the ballots will be under the direction of Fred Pierson, chairman of the student elections committee. He will explain in the class meeting today the steps in this process and wherein they are official and conform with the rules of the commitee.
At this Friday’s Rally the first tryouts for assistant Yell Kings will be held. The Rally Committee urges prompt attendance at the rally so that each aspirant may have an equally large group to lead.
Each of the men will lead but one yell, which may not exceed two minutes in length, since the usual fifteen minute limit for ral-
-*lies is to be observed.
The members of the executive committee, seated in the audience during the rally, will meet Friday noon to select four men from those contending. The men will be judged upon their personality, appearance, general ability, and volume of response. These four will assist Paul Elmquist, yell king, during the game with Santa Clara tffls Saturday. Finally, two of them will be chosen as permanent assistants.
The men who have reported thus far are: Duncan S. Coombs, Bob Labriola, Leslie Shepherd, “Chuck” Crawford, Mel Schlank, Jack Risbrough, Walter L. Benedict, E. Keith Scruggs, Horace H. Albert, Phil Marvin, and John Connelly. Tbere are a number of others who have had experience but who have not reported for practice as yet.
The Rally Committee further announces that the first rooters’ stunt* of this season will apear next Saturday. Paul Elmquist feels confident that the Trojan rooting section will be alert and ready to co-operate to the fullest extent at this game. This will be especially desirable due to the presence of the four new men who will assist in the leading of the stunts.
GLEE CLUB HAS ISO MEN APPEAR IN FIRST TRYOUT
From This Number New Members Will Be Chosen Later, Says Zamecnik.
One hundred and fifty men turned out for the tryouts for the Trojan Men’s Glee Club last night, which was held last night in the Musical Organizations Building on 37 th Street.
According to the manager, Walter Zamecnik, this is a good turn-out and gives promise for a glee club which will prove a success in the year’s work.
The examining board for the individual tryouts consisted of Harold Roberts, director of the musical organizations department, J. Arthur Lewis, director of the glee club, and Walter J. Zamecnik, manager of the group. The quality, range, and pitch of the voice, and the ability of the tryoutee to read music were points which were eounted in the tryouts. In addition to the individual tryouts, community singing was led by Mr. Lewis.
Speeches were given to the new men by the three officials of the organization. Harold Roberts explained the functions of the musical depart ment; while J. Arthur Lewis told of the plans for the year and the things accomplished last year. Mr. Zamecnik spoke on the glee club as an organization.
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Ad Club To Hold
Meeting Tonight
The U. S. C. Ad Club holds its first meeting this year this evening, in the form of a banquet at the Twin Cedars, at which will be discussed the plans for this year. The purpose of this club is to give students studying advertising some practical experience, in which rspect it offers marvelous opportunities.
A considerable number of contacts are made during the year with up town offices, which gives the students access to some of Los Angeles’ prominent business men. Cash prizes are offered by up-town business men to those of the advertising students who accomplish good work.
The work done by the U. S. C. Ad Club last year was very highly praised, as it was of great assistance in advertising student plays and student activities.
COLLATERAL MATERIAL IS ON CLOSED SHELVES
Y. M. COUNCIL DINNER TONIGHT
Dean Waugh and Dr. Knopf Give Talks on Catalina Conference.
The first *Y” Council dinner of the year will be held tonight at 5:30 o’clock in the “Y" Hut. Both Dean Karl T. Waugh and Dr. Karl Knopf will be present to give their impressions of the recent Catalina conference of the Y. M. C. A.
Dean Waugh and Dr. Knopf were at Catalina and they will, in their talks, attempt to outline the lines of improvement for which the “Y” will strive this year.
William Henley, A. S. U. S. C. president, will be introduced and will speak especially for the new students. Don Bailey, Y. M. C. A. field representative, and an alumnus of Southern California, will report on the national Y. M. C. A. council convention which was held recently.
At this meeting plans for the year will be discussed and revised and two cabinet officers elected to fill vacancies left when Don Stoner and Lawrence MofTett failed to return to the university this year.
Any student, whether a member of the “Y” or not, is eligible to attend the dinner and meeting.
Collateral reading books in the University library in the Old College are now on “closed shelves.” Students must ask the assistant librarians for all such books, since they are kept behind a counter.
It is believed that the new system will result in a considerable decrease in the number of books lost annually by the library. In the past, approximately eleven per cent of all collateral books have been ‘‘lost.’'
Notable among the new books recently added is Charles Lindbergh’s “We,” giving an account
yjf hfs past life and experiences, as well as a thrilling narrative of his notable trip to Paris in the Spirit of St. Louis.
The University Library now comprises approximately 70,000 volumes. This total is constantly being added to, in order to keep the library up-to-date. Included in the library is the James Harmon Hoose Library of Philosophy, located in Hoose 301. This library was established in memory of Dr. Hoose and ranks as the best library of philosophy west of Chicago.
Bachelors To Name New Vice-President
Election of a new vice-president is the principal business before the Bachelors when they gather in their first meeting of the year at Chathams grill at noon tomorrow. Paul Swanson, who was elected last year to function as assistant to Chase Burns, president of the organization, did not return to the University. Other important business relative to a proposed dance will be discussed at the luncheon at the Vermont and Washington grill, Burns said.
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