CHAMPIONS!
S C cinched the conference baseball title by defeating U. C. L. A. Saturday afternoon on the Westwood diamond. The icore was 11 to 9.
SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
D AILY1 TROJAN
LEGISLATIVE .COUNCIL The legislative council of the Associated students will meet at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow night in thc council room, Student Union.
SEMI CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL. NO. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Monday, May 12, 1930.
No. 134
LEWIS GOUGH WINS ALL-U PRESIDENCY IN LARGEST VOTE OF TROJAN HISTORY
CO-EDS FETE WEDNESDAY
Banquet Is To Feature Year’s Activities; Presentation Of Awards.
Presentation of awards will bn the main feature of the W. S. G. A, annual spring banquet to be held Wednesday evening, May 14, st 7 o’clock in the social hall of the Student Union, according to announcement made by Grace Wright, general chairman of tho 'event.
The banquet, which Is a combination of the banquets of three large organizations, W. S. G. A., V. W. C. A., and W. A. A., will mark the ending of the school year and will be a summing up ol all the various women's activities on the campus, states the chairman
The ten most outstanding and prominent women of the graduating class will be awarded with W. S. G. A. honor scrolls. These awards, the highest that a woman can receive on the Trojan cam pus, wlll be presented by Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford.
The Pan-Hellenic scholarslp cup will be awarded to the sorority maintaining the highest average this year by Erma Willis, president of social Pan-Hellenic. The trophy Is traditional and Is awarded at the banquet each year. Pi Beta Phi was the winner last year.
ings, sweaters, and other W. A. awards will be presented by Florence Waechter, president Df W. A. A., and by Ruth Goldman. Many trophies wlll be pre-lented by this organization.
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YEH, AND A. ZILCH THANKS YOU TOO
kuthor-Candidate Offers ,No Alibis; Regrets Failure To Stuff Ballot Boxes.
I wish to thank all my opponents for the wonderful support ’’Well they gave me in Fri-iay’s ection. My especial ap* reciation is extended to the mem-ers of Omicron Tau Lamba, who rare so kind as to pay for my d and picture in Friday’s Tro-|n
Though my supporters neglected stuff the ballot boxes suffi-lently to cause my election, the rouble which they went to wrlt-*g in my difficultly spelled name H their ballots shows that the fampus and El Rodeo (in both which 1 am the outstanding Mtributor) will not go unbought. Idv.)
1 wish publicly to thank Pro-ssor Harrison for the telegram consolation which I just relived from him in Borneo. It Hows:
[agamenon zilch care
WAMPUS EL RODEO ET AL pOUTHE RN CALIFORNIA FOP REGRETS STOP AM STAYING DOWN HERE BY fTHE DAHKSKIN RIVE R
ETOP WHEN YOU ARRIVE _ ROP IN.
m	HAERiSON.
Ptowever I have swern a state* !nt to the press this morning it the report of my leaving for rneo is grossly exaggerated.
| Vith the other candidates who ran I stand with bowed head. B victors march before us. May h in his term of office next walk shoulder to shoulder 1 himself for the glory of Old a Mater.
(Signed) A. ZILCH.
Seven Polk Give Margin For Winner
Gough Is Favorite By Narrow Majorities In Many Colleges.
Seven of the eleven colleges which voted in the A. S. U. S. C. election gave the winner, Lewis Gough, a good lead which could not be cut down sufficiently by the losses in other colleges. The margins of leadership In each college were small, never more than 100 In any case. A surprise to Gough supporters was the large poll by Ritchey in Commerce, supposedly a Gough stronghold. On the other hand, Gough took senior Dental from Ritchey by a 28-vote margin. Gough also made good gains in engineering, where Ritchey, an engineer, was conceded a 90 per cent vote.
CLOSE VICTORY After a 37-vote lead which Commerce gave Betty Henninger had been cut down by a 40-vote lead which Music gave Janet McCoy, the new vice-president was never headed in the counting. A 187 majority in Liberal Arts coupled with meager majorities in some other colleges spelled the margin of victory. In every college, the comparative strength of the two candidates was nearly equal.
BIEGLER LANDSLIDE In the greatest vote ever given a candidate for an opposed A. S. U. S. C. office, Winifred Biegler showed that she is undoubtedly the popular choice for secretary. Only one college, Law, went for Redfield. Paradoxically, Biegler took night Law by a 27 to 7 margin. Liberal Arts, Pharmacy, Engineering, and Music were overwhelmingly tor tne winner. After the ballots for the first college, Commerce, were counted, Biegler took a lead which steadily piled up to make a victory by 1030 votes. A supposed Redfield strong hold, Architecture, did the unex pected and turned to Biegler with ii 71 to 41 count.
HERE ARE TROY’S STUDENT LEADERS FOR 1930 *31
Adams, Retiring, Congratulates His Successors
My year of service to the student body as president is almost concluded. It is with the utmost pleasure and confidence that I will turnover the duties and responsibilities of my office to Lewis Gough, who ran such a splendid race to victory. I am positive that he will carry on the work which is allotted to him in a manner nothing but meritorious.
Each of the candidates in the election is capable of assuming the duties of office, and I can appreciate the closeness of the victory. To Lewis, I exieuu my heartiest congratulations.
To Janet McCoy and Winifred Biegler, who will constitute the remainder of the student administration next year, I say that 1 am proud to think that the student body is so wise as to elect such able officers.
(Signed) LEO ADAMS
Three able executives—these are the choice of the Associated Students for the major offices next year. The new secretary is Winifred Biegler, at the left. She is known best as women's editor of the Daily Trojan. She also has been secretary of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and has been vice-president of the Amazons. Lewis Cough's activities are listed elsewhere on this pane. Janet McCoy, incoming vice-president, has been all-university secretary during the past year. She has served on many dance and ocner committees. Misses Biegler and McCoy are both juniors, Amazons, members of Spooks and Spokes, have 2.6 and 2.5 scholastic averages, respectively, and are daughters of distinguished Trojans. Miss Biegler's father is dean of the College of Engineering. Miss McCoy's father is past president of the General Alumni association and originator of the plan of the alumnl’s building the Trojan Shrine.
JANET M’COY ELECTED; BIEGLER WINS WITH 103O-VOTE LANDSLIDE
Winner Polls 1181 Votes; Ritchey Follotvs Closely With 1054; Newman Gets 397 And Johnson 388
By RAY ZEMAN
Candidates are still growling, campaign managers are still charging ballot-box stuffing, and many rumors are afloat regarding election irregularities, but the entire university is agreed on one thing—it was the most exciting election in Trojan history.
If, for any reason, you haven’t heard the results, be assured now that Lewis Gough, Janet McCoy, and Winifred Biegler are the winners. They are safe in their posts. There were no protests to the all-university balloting.
Gough won with 1181 votes as contrasted to 1054 for Ran Ritchey, his closest competitor. Sam Newman polled 397 and Glenn Johnson 388.
$25,000 RECEIVED FOR EYE COURSES
University Raises Fund To Assume Further Optometry Study.
The recent pledging of $25,000 for the use of the School of Optometry practically assures the courses in optometry to be given at the University of Southern California according to an agreement with the trustees. This amount was raised by soliciting funds in the name of the University.
GOVERNED BY LAW
Dr. Ernest A. Hutchinson, director of the courses on optometry, says these courses will be given in compliance with the law of the state of California. The program of studies will constitute a four-year curriculum leading to the degree of bachelor of science together with a certificate of graduation in optometry. The groundwork will be laid in the freshman and sophomore years by the study of subjects that are more or less common to all schemes of professional education.
This plan corresponds to the ones in use at some of the leading universities of the country, such as, Columbia, Ohio, Rochester, and California.
OPTOMETRY STORY
In view of this proposal of teaching optometry courses, an article by Professor James P. C. Southall, one of the leading physicists of the country and now teaching at Columbia university, which appears in the 1930 Year Book of the New York State Optometry Association, is of special interest.
His article treats of a brief history of optometry. It shows how new recruits are needed to supply the demand in professional optometry. He writes that the practice of optometry is of such fundamental importance for the welfare in the - ublic that it has been regulated by law all over the United States.
President Hoover’s Home At Stanford Offered For Sale
Stanford University, May 11— (INS)—The “house on the hill," family home of President and Mrs. Hoover is for rent, it became known today.
The "dream house” which President Hoover built 10 years ago and which Mrs. Hoover designed is to be leased for a long term to a "proper and suitable party,” according to the realtor in whose hands the matter has been placed. He w’ould not discuss the matter further.
Prof. Theodore Hoover, brother of the president, said all he knew of the matter was that the mansion was for rent.
The mansion crowns San Juan mands a view of San Francisco bay.
FRESHMAN CLUB
Freshman club will meet at 2; 15 p. ni. today in the Y. W. C. A. rooms in the Student Union. Doris Tennant, president of the Women’s Self Government association, will speak, and plans for the Asilomar banquet will be discussed.
Hall Residents Win Scholarship Honors
Eighteen of the residents of Aeneas hall finished their work last semester with an average of 2:00 or above. This group of stu dents constitutes approximately 15 per cent of the men in the hall. Among those with the high grades, five were graduate students, three dental students, three commerce students, and the remaining seven liberal arts students.
Individual honors for the hall went to Charles Gladstone with an average of 2.93 for the semester.
As the scholastic rating for the College of Dentistry is given in percentages, they cannot be placed with the others, so they are given separately:
Charles Gladstone ......................2.93
Edward Brady ..............................2.ss
Petru Comarnescu ......................2.79
Philip Lohman ..............................2.75
pinup Wiener ..........2.71
Stowell Lincoln .....................2.45
Jack Zidell ....................................2.32
Halstead McCormac ....................2.31
George Kerth ................................2.25
Andrew B. Loper ........................2.19
Irviug Fruchter ............................2.11
Herbert Robinson ........................2.09
Ivan B. Costin ..............................2.00
Howard Gay ...................................2.00
F. Vernon Pearce ........................2.00
Robert Smith ............................91 5-8
Alan Kelly ................................90 7-8
Jules Kaplan ............................90 2-7
H. B. Franklin Being Honored By Month Of Varied Programs
Harold 13. Franklin month is being celebrated by Fox Uptown theater. Personal appearances of stars are taking place regularly and it is understood that Mayor Porter and several superior court judges will attend a special party there Thursday night to honor Harold B. Franklin who is just entering his third year as president and general manager of Fox West Coast theaters.
The theater is presenting only big talking pictures during the month of May—including “Hell Harbor,” starring Charlie Chase from May 9 to 11, and “Honey,” starring Nancy Carrol, from May 12 to 16.
Last Wednesday Franklin W’as honored at the Los Angeles Breakfast club. Tomorrow night he will be honored at the Los Angeles Advertising club, and Thursday, May 22, a huge celebration in his honor will be held at the Western avenue chamber of commerce. Several acts will be presented. Arthur Wenzel of Fox Uptown and Willard Rickard of Fox Wilshire are in charge of this May 22 event.
On May 29, the Shriners will have H. B. Franklin as guest of honor at their luncheon at the Biltmore hotel.
NEW PRESIDENT IS VERSATILE LEADER
Few’ student body heads have an all-university experience in activities as has Lewis Gough, newly elected A. S. U. S. C. chief for 1930-31. He has had practice in organization, administration, and executive offices of the student body.
He has been business manager of the Trojan, general chairman of the lnter-fraternity formal ball, president of the junior class in Commerce, president of the Trojan Squires, secretary of the men’s council, and a member of innumerable committees.
Just elected to Skull and Dag ger, he is a member of Sigma Sigma, Trojan Knights, Alpha Kappa Psi, Alpha Delta Sigma, Pi Delta Epsilon, Legislative council, lnter-fraternity council, Ad club, and claims Theta Psi as his social fraternity.
SEMESTER EXAMS BEGIN ON MAY 31
Schedule Of Finals To Be Published As Soon As Completed.
Final examinations will begin on May 31, according to an official announcement from the registrar’s office. The examination program will be published as soon as it is completed.
All notices of unsatisfactory scholarship for the preceding twelve w'eeks were sent out on May 7, on the basis of teacher’s reports which were due in the office April 30.
On receipt of a notice of un satisfactory scholarship, the student should confer at once with the instructor in the course, as ’well as his adviser and councellor, advises Theron Clark, registrar. Francis Bacon, counselor of men, and Mary Sinclair Crawford, dean of women, are combining their efforts to assist students to raise their average. Practical advice is given which proves valuable to the student.
Students on probation should especially heed the warning conveyed by the cinch notice. The end of the semester is near, and since semester grades affect probation, students notified should do their utmost to improve their scholarship during the three weeks which remain before finals.
“Students not notified by notices should do their best to achieve a fine finish to the semester’s work,” stated the registrar. “It should be the aim of the student to obtain all he can from a course, rather than only grudgingly satisfy the demands of a professor. Grades are not the chief aim of education. The learning achieved, the new and interesting facts the student gleans by studying a subject are the things he will carry with him through life.
“Students hoping to make an honorary society should work steadily for most of scholastic and graduation honors depend upon a consistent high record over a period of several semesters,” concluded Mr. Clark.
Stein Is New L.A.S, Prexy
Results Of Other College Elections Will Be Continued Today.
Ruth Stein, only candidate on the ballot for presidency of the Letters, Arts, and Sciences student body, was elected to that office with a vote of 878 at the all-university election Friday.
Miss Stein received all votes except 81 cast for eleven write-in candidates including 23 waggish votes for A. Zilch and another for C. Zilch. Connie Vachon received 47 votes and Marshall Duffield 3. Others, who were written in for one vote each were Charles Chaplin, W. Rogers, Juanita Mills, P. Humphreys, Milton Stout, Hyram Smith, and Hodge Dolle.
Jean Durke, only candidate for vice-presidency, received 922 votes. Phyllis Doran and Bud Fetterly were written in for one vote each. Marjoria Edick and John Fowler were elected secretary and treasurer, respectively, in the only two contested races. Miss Edick won over Rosemary Deeman by 518 to 486 and Fowler won over Jack Marks by 501 to 480.
Ballots in the contest for rep resentatives to the legislative council, along with the entire vote for offices of the various other colleges voted on Friday, will be counted today under the supervision of Art Langton, election com-
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Gough Expresses Gratitude To Fellow Trojans
I have a deep feeling of gratitude to the students who were so kind as to support aud work for me, but that feeling is overshadowed by one of responsibility to the student body of which I have been named president. I will do anything within my nnwer tn Tnc.it the trust which has been placed in me. As to the election itself, I have nothing but praise for my opponents. The election was clean in every respect, indicating the type of men who were placed ou the ballot for chief of all the Trojans.
(Signed) LEWIS GOUGH
MANY BALLOTS VOID
Exactly 3060 votes were cast— the largest number In history. It exceeded last year’s poll by 800 ballots, reports to the contrary notwithstanding. Because of invalid marking, 39 ballots were declared void.
Janet McCoy polled 1623 votes while her opponent, Betty Henninger, received 1388. Winifred Biegler scored the most decisive victory, defeating Hazel Redfield for the office of secretary by a vote of 2016 to 986.
Fillmore Marvin, the only candidate for yell king, received 2246 votes. In the School of Law, students wrote in the name of Prof. Robert Kingsley for this office on 92 ballots. Professor Kingsley also received two votes for yell king In the Letters, Arts, and Sciences poll. Inasmuch as his total of 92 exceeds the 89 votes Fill Marvin received over at law, possibly Professor Kingsley can be considered the School of Law yell king.
PROTEST COMMERCE VOTE
An official protest was reseived against the College of Commerce election. This is in no way tie# up with the Commerce balloting for t h e all-university offices. Gough, McCoy, and Biegler are in their offices without protest. The Commerce protest affects the balloting for the individual Commerce college officers and legislative council representaUves.
As a result of the protest, the count of the vote for the College of Commerce offices will not be made until action Is taken by the legislative council tomorrow night.
Causes for this prote«t are numerous and the rumors concerning them are extensive. In all fairness to Art Langton, all-university elections commissioner, and his immediate assistants, it must be said* tliat the election was as square as he could make it Langton was in a dilemma, being unable to be at 10 different polling places at once.
A typical example of the stories that were current is the now famous oue concerning night law students, balloting in the daytime. It was alleged that Ihe law super-
included both those in day and night school; the day students were supposed to have voted under their own names, and then voted again by giving the names of night students. This was com pletely disproved when the pr were opened at night. Every r school student who wisl’ed found that his name had ni
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