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SOUTHERN
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DAI LYF TROJAN
PREPAV.E	FOR
I HOMECOMING	WEEK
SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
Los Angeles, California, Friday, December 6, 1929.
NUMBER 54
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Engineers to Inaugurate Homecoming Festivities Tomorrow Evening.
mtb the informal dance to be by the College of Engineering Loo* evening, the sixth annual Honecomlng program will be inau-telJ The celebration, starting rtk tomorrow’s dance, and terminates next Saturday, December 14. with j Homecoming parade, football garni, ul |crmal dance, is under the direction of Bob Beardsley, student chair-0u and Judge Joseph Sproul of ,1, superior court, general alumni chairman.
The program which will be pre-KBttd during the coming week is ol the most carefully planned, Ud widely publicized in the history oi organized Southern California gOBKOmlngg. Included in the list o( erects are affairs of the Colleges o( Commerce, Engineering. and Stale, fraternity and sorority open tales, a stag smoker, the Law and Dtattl golf tournaments, men's and nmen’s football dinners ,the Home-toning parade, football game, and formal dance. A complete program detents for the week will be found elsewhere In this issue of the Tro-ju.
COOPERATION DISPLAYED
Ihe spirit of co-operation between He students and alumni displayed during Homecoming is typified in tbe work of the various student and alumni committees. The personnel ot the alumni committee consists of Judge Joseph Sproul, general chair-Continued on Page Six
ROSE BOWL GAME STUDENT TICKETS WILL GO ON SALE
Applications On Hand Now In Students Store For Extra Football Tickets.
Student applications for tickets to the New Year’s day football game at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena will be available as soon as the eastern opponent ls announced, according to Arnold Eddy, assistant general manager. These ducats will be on sale in the Student Ticket office and at the down-town agency, B. H. Dyas & Co. All student applications must be accompanied by Student Activity books, stated Eddy, and each student will be allowed two additional tickets besides his regular rooter's ticket.
Over 40,000 seats have been sold for the Carnegie Tech-Southern California game December 14, at the Coliseum. There will in all probability be a complete sell-out before the game, although there are still many good seats left.
The rooters' section for this game is expected to be almost as large as that of the California game; the section at that game containing almost 4,000 students. Tickets may still be secured at the ticket office on presentation ot activity books.
All tickets for the eastern Carnegie backers were handled by the Carnegie Tech Alumni association, which has reported a sale of 3,000 tickets for the game.
Deadline for Photos Set for Greeks by El Rodeo Editor
Appointments for informal photographs for the social fraternity and sorority sections will not be granted for next week.
This announcement was issued by the editor, in order to establish the definite deadline for pictures. Students who have made appointments are advised that no postponements will be allowed. Exception is made in the case of members of Theta Psi, who, through a clerical error. were not. notified of the closing date.
Professional fraternity photographs are now being taken, and all professional organizations must make arrangements with Les Hatch, business manager, to reserve pages.
Those graduating seniors who have not yet been photographed must report to the studio at once, as the senior section will be made up immediately after the opening of Christmas vacation.
LUTION PASSED BY CAMPUS GREEKS
That the university authorities be asked to withhold grades of students who are or have been members or pledges of fraternities and who still hive bills outstanding to these fraternities was the substance of a motion passed by the interfraternity council at its meeting Wednesday Bight. If the request is granted by the administration, a situation now uistant among some fraternities of kiving considerable amounts of money due in bills outstanding will be alleviated, it is thought.
Reports by a scholarship committee headed by Hugh Andrews and a Hell Week committee headed by Glenn Johnson were read. Andrews’ rePort stressed the need of better •tody hours among fraternal groups, »nd advocated the help of the architects of the new Memorial library to planning suitable study facilities for fraternities.
FRENCH CLUB BACKS STUDEHTJATKERIB
“Cabaret Night’* Will Be Held At Y. M. C. A. Hut Tuesday Evening.
All French students are invited to attend “Cabaret Night,” a social evening sponsored by Le Cercle Francais, on Tuesday evening, December 10, at 8 o’clock in the Y. M. C. A. hut. This is the first social affair given by the French club this year. A large attendance is expected.
Decorations and enteiiainment will be carried out in the holiday spirit. Small tableB will be placed around an open space on the floor; and be tween rounds of bridge, numbers of the program will be presented. Entertainment will be provided by outsiders as well as students on campus, and will include a play, musical numbers, and several special selections. Refreshments will be served for a small fee. Those who wish to play bridge are asked to bring their own cards, and, if possible, a card table.
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committee showed that few houses are not in favor of a form of in-°nnal initiation. All fraternities *ho have responded to a question-n&ire set out by the committee signed their willingness to accept a modified form of the now’ existant Hell Week.
Delta Epsilon Holds Initiation
Initiation of eight new members in-Pi Delta Epsilon, national honor-/y Journalistic fraternity, was held nur8da> afternoon at the Gamma Ep-!ll°n house,
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The largest edition of the Daily Trojan ever published will be distributed December 13 for the Carnegie Tech-S. C. game. Tentative plans call for a 24-page paper that will combine the news of the came. Homecoming week, and the Christmas issue. The exact size of the paper, although it Is known that the edition put out will be much larger than the 12-page paper that was published before the California game, will be announced later.
The edition will contain a six-page rotogravure section featuring Carnegie Tech football pictures, action and individual shots, and also Southern California’s team, and several snaps of the squad in play. Pictures of the campus and buildings will be included in the rotogravure section.
There will be six pages ot sports, containing all news of the football game, two pages of alumni news for Homecoming week, and the remainder of the paper will be given over to feature and news sections. The edition will contain Christmas stories, as well as It will be the last paper before the holidays.
The regular six-page Dally Trojan will be published again on January 3, with school starting on January J. The rest of the semester will continue with the publication of thc six-page paper.
TROJAN WRITERS URGED TO ENTER ESSAY CONTEST
Dissertations Due April 1, 1930, For Competition Sponsored by Phi Beta Kappa.
Unless Trojan students contribute some excellent manuscripts this year, it is feared that again S. C. will not share in the laurels of the annual prize essay contest sponsored by the Alumni association of Phi Beta Kappa.
Whittier College, Occidental College. U. C. L. A., and Redlands University were winners in the 1928-29 contest, while only one essay was submitted to the finals by a Cardinal and Gold writer.
“Apparently our students have not in the past taken enough interest in the contest, because we have not been winning. They have not taken the trouble to write for it. Such a condition is almost as bad as if had no talent at all on the campus, Dr. Frank C. Touton, secretary-treasurer of the association and vice-president of the university stated recently.
There are two considerations regarding the contest, stated Touton. “In the first place, the Phi Beta Kappa Alumni, consisting of about 1,450 members, feel that excellence of wTitiug is a worthy accomplishment for college people and that offering a prize would stimulate the expending of energy in the direction of writing.
“In the second place, the organization has a motive of self-preservation in planning the contest. It feels that Continued on Page Six
NOVEL MOTIFS ARRANGED FOR DANCE TONIGHT
Commerce Affair Will Be Held at Beverly Hills Hotel Terrace Room.
There are a few bids left for the Commerce dance which will take place tonight in the gold terrace room of the Beverly Hills hotel, it was announced yesterday by Walter Benedict, president of the College of Commerce.
Students who have not bought their bids may secure them either from the student store or from the official salesmen in the different fraternity houses.
ALL STUDENTS INVITED Every student in the university is invited to attend the College of Commerce dance regardless of the school or college to which he belongs, is the statement made by rthe chairman of the “dance corporation.”
The “Ship of Commerce” motif will feature the dance and the programs ill carry out the idea in cardinal and gold. The programs are red suede and each da^ce on them will be named for a major course in the College of Commerce. Thus one wlll be dancing an accounting trot, an economics hop, or a marketing waltz. The design of the favors will not be announced before the dance. BREAKFAST CLUB ORCHESTRA Tommy Weber and his six piece orchestra from the Breakfast club will play for the occasion. Other entertainment will also be furnished during the course of the evening and at intermission.
Punch and wafers will be served throughout the evening by tho hotel service. Guests will be seated at individual tables and served rather than at a punch. This features an entirely new note for university dances.
All ticket sellers are requested to meet Walter Benedict at the Commerce student oflice at the close of the all-university rally for a final check-in.
Monday Dec. 9 To Inaugurate House Decorations
Fraternity and sorority decorations for Homecoming week must be displayed from Monday, December 9, until Saturday, December 14, and must be up promptly on Monday. This was the statement issued by Tom Oudermeulen and Dorothy Hollingsworth, chairmen of the house decorations committee. It is advisable for organizations to prepare their decorations on the Saturday or Sunday preceeding Homecoming week in order to assure 100 percent participation.
AU houses should consult the list of rules concerning decorations which was published in yesterday’s Daily Trojan, before attempting to put up their decorations.
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TALK ON MODERN RUSSIA GIVEN BY RETIRED OFFICER
Major-General Victor A. Yakhontoff Discusses Topic at Lecture In Bovard Auditorium. «
Sigma Beta Chi Plans Tour Of City Harbor
Sigma Beta Chi. national transportation fraternity, will meet at lunch tomorrow in Student Union 324 to make plans for a field day at Los Angeles harbor. The trip will be taken by at least 150 students from the campus, and will take the entire day.
The purpose of the trip is to take the opportunity offered by the Los Angeles harbor commlssoin for people to see the entire harbor with a lecturer to give details of the different features of interest and instruction to be found there. The definite date has not yet been set, but the fraternity hopes to be able to complete plans soon.
EDITOR OF MR BOOK TALKS Ti S.C. CLASS
More Than One Hundred Trojan Students Attend Aviation Lecture Yesterday.
Edward P. Warner, editor of the Aviation magazine, of New York City, stopped yesterday on his way from San Diego to San Francisco to lecture to Professor Earl Hill's class in commercial aviation at the University of Southern California.
Any Trojan student interested in aeronautics was invited to attend this class at 8 o’clock yesterday morning, and Warner talked to more than a hundred of the student body.
“Popular interest in aviation today is still a purely abstract one,” said Warner. “Everyone says that ‘we’ will all fly in a few years, or that 'you* will own a plane soon. When we get down to this individual in particular, to the concrete ‘you,’ his enthusiasm dies. The aircraft industry is commonly thought of either as a very narrow activity or as a rather broad group of activities.’*
The speaker stated that before saying anything intelligent on the subject of airplanes that he thought it wise to review the recent development of aviation history. \ He sketched outstanding events in aeronautical history of late years, such as the Air Commerce act of 1926 Continued on Page Six
Speaking on the topic “Modern Russia’* In Bovard auditorium, last night, Major-General Victor A. Yakhontoff, Russian Army, retired, in a lecture sponsored by the Los Angeles University of International Relations, stated in part:
“No one should overlook the difficulties which an outsdier experiences in comprehending the Russian situation. Not only because it is a tremendous country, covering one-sixth of the entire world territory, with a population of over 155,000,000 people —very diverse, but also because the country's structure and mode of living is so far from all standards known in America, especially so after changes which occured with the revolution of 1917.
“Enumerating the ditticultles one meets in getting acquainted with modern Russia, one should not overlook the influence of misrepresentations and misleading statements so common in connection with this mysterious far-away country. Having revisited my mother country after 12 years’ absence, last summor, I found I many changes and was impressed deeply by many of them. The undeniable cultural elevation of the mass of the people, the awakening of long-dormant creative energy of the mass of Russian people, the efforts to increase the efficiency of labor in different fields, and the efect of the new status of the citizen—feeling that he is the master of the country —those are the main and probably the most important observations for one who wishes to appreciate the trend of events more than the actual present situation.
“As for the present situation, life in Russia today is far from being anything like a paradise. There is a scarcity of many commodities;
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Delinquent Organizations Must Submit Constitutions By December 12.
According to a report from the student organizations committee , the Legislative Council, and the faculty committee on student organization, the following groups have been granted their charters of recognition. The total list now numbers thirty-five such groups. The last ones to receive their granting of petitions of recognition are:
American Society of Civil Engineers.
Athena Literary society.
Chinese Student’s club.
Clionian Literary society.
Cosmopolitan club.
Delta Sigma Rho.
Gamma Alpha Chi.
Iota Sigma Pi.
Japanese Trojan Student’s club.
Mu Phi Epsilon.
Odonto club .
Newman club.
Professional Pan-Hellenic.
Religion club.
Rho Chi.
Skull and Dagger
Those groups which were listed in the Trojan issue of December 5th must submit their constitutions to the chairman of the organizations committee, Fred Pierson, before next Thursday, December 12. This is necessary so that some very definite action may be taken regarding these groups. The groups which fail to hand in the necessary data by the specified time will not be allotted their places In EL RODEO.
M6UR6E SALE
Second Edition Made Necessary By Heavy Student Demand; On Sale at Student Store.
Doctor Hill Will Speak At Methodist Church
Speaking on “Travels in Java,” Dr. John G. Hill, of the department of religious literature, will address the congregation of the University Methodist church Sunday evening at 7:30. Dr. Hill will augment his lecture with pictures he secured while traveling in the South Sea Islands this summer.
The University Methodist church is located on Jefferson and McClintock streets. All students of the university aud their friends arc invited to attend the lecture.
“Are you planning to mail your Christmas cards soon?'* If so, the answer lies in the purchase of a Trojan Directory. Names and addresses of every student in thc university are given, and the directory forms an ideal method of facilitating card addressing, its exponents declare.
More than a hundred of the “date books” were sold yesterday at the student store. If the present pace in sales is kept up, the second run of 500 books should be sold out soon. The first 500 were sold in 24 hours and a second printing was necessitated.
The directories contain the only complete list of fraternity and sorority addresses and telephone numbers. They contain detailed Information about students enrolled, and likewise have a complete list of faculty members, with their titles, addresses, and telephone numbers. Similar inforraar tion is given regarding every clerk, secretary, and offlce assistant on the university payroll.
Benny Rubin and Cliff Edwards to Appear on Program During Chapel.
Benny Rubin, noted stage and screen star, and Cliff Edwards, movie comedian and radio artist, are the principle characters on the program to be presented during chapel this morning in Bovard auditorium by the rally committee.
Rubin has taken part in many stage successes, and is famous for his “little kiddles’’ stories, his jigs, and his laughs.
FILM SUCCESSES These two comedians af peared together In a late scree*» success, “Marianne,” in which they were two of Marion Davies’ rollicking soldier boy-friends, and their scenes together are among the best in the picture.
In “So This is College,’* latest M-G-M release, Cliff Edwards strums his ukulele for his fraternity brothers, leads an orchestra, and almost walks off with the show with his songs and frolicking.
ENTERTAINMENT RALLY Since there is no game tomorrow, the rally committee took tho opportunity to present this feature entertainment. In accord with thc exuberant personalities of Rubin and Edwards, the rally will be marked by a total absence of all seriousness. Freshmen are requested to sit in the balconies in accordance with the university tradition.
BOOKS FOR SCHOOL BOUGHT BY LIBRARY
Over fifty volumes of books in a series, “Pittman’s Common Commodities and Industries,” have been purchased by the library to be used in carying out the various courses in the School of Merchandisingn. These books contain such topics as leather carpets, furniture and weaving, etc. Books on color, fashion fabrics, and similar topics have also been purchased.
Through special arangement with the refernpce library, students of line color, and design under Mrs. Ada Collins Holme can make a practical application of the principles studied by decorating Lhe library showcase. They also decorate a showcase in the Student Union and a window down town.
Each week three stuaents take charge of the trimming. They draw up a plan, submit lt for the approval of both Miss Holme and the library, select the material, and arrange lt in the show’ case.
| LATE NEWS I
SAN* FRANCISCO, Dec. 5—Reduc tion of the rediscount iat£ from 5 per cent to i 1-2 per cent was made by directors of the San Francisco Federal Reserve Bank today.
WASHINGTON, Dec 5—The Administration’s $160,000,000 tax reduction bill finished half of its journey today when it w as passed by a vote of 282 to 17 in the House. It now
KAPPA ZETA
Kappa Zeta meeting vill be held today at 7 p. m. Announcement of | goes to the Senate, new* pledges and the date for initia- i	* * <
tion will be made at that time. j Members of the faculty athletic
committee declined to make any com-' ment regarding the choice of a New Year’s Day opponent following their meeting last night. When the eastern team’s acceptance is received the information will be published.
Statements in the city newspapers saying that Gwynn Wilson and oth?r officials are “dickering with Pitt” or with Perdue or other eastern institutions have been false. The general athletic committee had taken no action in selecting an opponent at its meeting Wednesday. The only
business transacted at the time was the formal acceptance of the bid for the game. Final iipproVHl of details of the contract and the selection of an opponent were left until last night.
Rumors which seemed to have the best foundation indicated that either Pittsburgh or Purdue would play the game, although Tulane and Ttnnes-see were mentioned as posibilities. Notre Dame was considered out of the picture because of Knute Rock-ne’s stand against thc contest.
Wamp Business Staff To Meet at 10 O'clock
FIVE FINALISTS IN SPEECH CONTEST
Chosen from fourteen contestants entered in the semi-finals of Phi Delta Gamma speech contest, five speakers will compete in the finals to be held Monday in Touchstone theater at 4 p. m. The selected speakers are: Francis Van Dusen, Robert Goldman, Juanita Mclntire, Edward Neuhoff, and Joe Micciche.
The contestants were picked from the 5a and 5b speech classes by professors and students enrolled in these subjects. A silver cup, donated by the professional forensic fraternity sponsoring the contest, will be presented to the winner.
A great deal of interest has been shown in this contest and both Alan Nichols, debate coach, and William Leech, president of Phi Delta Gamma have expressed their appreciaiiuu of the high grade of work done by all the contestants. A good sized audience witnessed the semifinals, but an even larger turnout is expected for the finals.
It has been the policy of Phi Delta Gamma to sponsor some form of oratorical contest each year, although
All members of the business stau of the Wampus are requested to attend a meeting this morning during chapel hour in the Wampus offlce. Thorsten Halldin. business manager of the publication, has called this meeting in order to discuss the January issue of the Wampus, and to present new ideas to the stafT.
With the January issue, the Wampus will increase its size to approximately 60 pages. Thii increase in size will necessitate a larger business staff in order to cover the extra advertising. Any men students who are interested in making a little money during Christmas recess should see Halldin, as there are several positions open on the advertising staff which will give anyone willing to work for a few days valuable experience as well as the liberal commission which is paid to all sellers for the advertising which they sell.
TICKET WORKERS
The following ticket sellers and staff men should report to Jim Rein-hard at gate 29 by 12 o'cloi ::
Tickct sellers; McRann. Carlquijt, Daniels, Linkmeyer, Strebel, Welch.
Staff men; Laisne, Pate, Tuttle, and Dudley.
Instructions are that everyone must be on time if they wish to work, unless prior arangement otherwise are made. All regular ticket
sellers and staff men not working the exact nature of the competition ! will be admitted to the game free at is never duplicated.	^ [gate 29.