SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA.
VOL XXI.	Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, October 9, 1929.	__________17
VARSITY LEAVES FOR WASHINGTON TONIGHT
S.C., STANFORD AND CALIFORNIA SCHEDULE TRI-ANGULAR DEBATE
Tryouts for Trojan Team to Take Place on October 22; I Bear No Direct Relation With Regular Varsity Tryouts.
Seeking to promote the spirit of harmony which should exist between them, tlie University of Southern California, Stanford university and the University of California will formally renew debate relations for this year on November 21, when the re-establishment of the annual tri-angular debate between the three institutions will
take place.	1-;--
The following question will be de-	jl Qp TICKETS
FOR BIG STANFORD CLASH WILL OPEN
bated in tlie contest: "Resolved, that modern science tends to destroy the-istic faith."
TRYOUTS SCHEDULED
Han Ritchey, Trojan debate manager, Announced yesterday that all Southern California students who desire to tryout for the Trojan team, that will represent this university against the teams of the north, will have an opportunity on October 22, when the tryouts are scheduled. According to present plans the trials will take place iu Hoose 20(i at 3:15 p. in.
Each student who participates in the tryouts can choose either the affirmative or negative side of the question. The speaking order will be determined by a drawing prior to the contest. Each man will be allowed ten minutes for his constructive jirgu-ments and five minutes for the rebuttals.
VARSITY TRYOUTS LATER
The tryouts for the pre-season debate has no connection with the regular varsity debate tryouts that are scheduled to take place some time during the first two weeks of November.
“I want it to be understood,” stated Manager Ritchey yesterday, “that this tryout to determine the speakers who will represent the University of South-
RALLIES AND PARADE FOR VARSITY FOOTIP ^QUAD
Coach Howard
Jones,
Captain Nate
Reduced Prices on Tickets Given to Faculty Members and Students. Itaking his '‘Thundering Herd” north-	guard and defensive center, who, ward. Local newspapers concede the	with the Trojan football squad, leavs Herd a slight edge over their rivals	tonight to meet the for Saturday.	Husky, at Seattle.
Stanford same tickets for students, I faculty, and general public go on sale ! today, it Is announced by Arnold Eddy, | assistant general manager of the A. S. u. S. c.
Al Masters, graduate manager of Stanford University, anticipates the Stanford-Southern California game at Palo Alto to be a sell-out for the first time in the history of the game.
Every student holder of a student season ticket and every faculty member who holds a faculty season ticket is entitled to purchase a ticket for he game at a special reduced price of $1:00. Faculty members may buy : additional seats in the faculty section,
| while students may purchase as many as three seats in addition to then rooter’s ticket in the student mixed section.
In addition a large block of tickets have been placed on public sale at the ern California against the Stanford I downtown ticket offices as well as in and the University of California de- Students’ St or
Washington mark the will be in
Russ Saunders, varsity quarterback, is playing his last year on the S. C. varsity. Saturday's game will last time that Saunders i Washington-S C. line-up.
USE ACTIVITY BOOKS AS TICKETS TO PLAY
Underclass Play Will Be Presented Oct. 18; Comedy Now in Production.
baters, has no connection whatsoever with the Trojan varsity tryouts. It will be necessary for the men who make the tri-angular team to tryout again in the regular varsity tryouts, if they wish to have a place on the Trojan debate squad.”
Alan Nichols, Trojan debate coach, will select the men who will speak for Southern California in the coining contest. He will pick two affirmative speakers and two negative speakers. In all probability an alternate will be chosen, who will speak in case of the regular debaters are unable to compete
SIX TEAMS COMPETE
Each university will have an affirmative and a negative team in the con-(Continueu ou rage Four)
Gordon Pace, yell king, anticipates a rooting section in excess of 1,100 men.
The ticket department has urged that all students and faculty members planning to go to Stanford buy the nortthern game tickets immediately.
FEATURE SCHOOL IN PUBLICATION
Student activity books will be good for admission to the underclass play which is to be presented in Bovard auditorium, Friday, Oct. 18, according to William Miller, manager of university play productions.
The production, which is an annual affair undertaken by the freshmen and sophomores of the university, is a comedy in three acts. It is being directed by Marjorie Temple, a graduate student, under the supervision of W. Ray MacDonald, university play director.
| The play is Edward Laska’s "We’ve Got to Have Money,” and concerns the j activities of a young man with no use J for a college education, who proves to I his doubting friends, relatives and sweetheart that he has a few moneymaking tricks up his sleeve. His scheme is to sell tlie inventions of geniuses who would otherwise be failures. He puts over a deal or two,
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FAMED OPERA STAR WILL SING AT S. C.
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink Will Have Leading Contralto Role in "Elijah.”
Madame Ernestine Schumann-Heink, worldworld-famed opera star, will sing the contralto role in the oratorio, Elijah,'’ during the semi-centennial celebration of the University of Southern California when the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the Trojan institution is celebrated by a series of Program events in May-June, 1930.
Prof. Arthur Perry, ch “Usic committee of the semi-centen nial celebration, and assistant dean ot the S. C. College of Music, has just received word from Madame Scliu-®aun-Heink that she will come to Los Angeles for the Trojan Golden anni-'ersary and will sing in the oratorio. CHORUS OF 500 A 8Pecial chorus of 500 voices, made ttI> of students, alumni, and faculty ° the University of Southern Califor-a, will render the oratorio, and a stu-eut orchestra of 100 pieces will ac-”>nipany lhe chorus. The event is
Med to take place in the Shrine
suditorlum
Rehearsals begin on Tuesday, Nov. aB(l will be held every Tuesday
The new School of Merchandising--
received an important discussion in a I
recent copy of the Retailing magazine Alumnus Will Speak in an article which emphasized the fact that the Merchandising school Is a research unit within the College of Commerce, and that Los Angeles business interests have underwritten a substantial part of the school’s support for a peroid of five years. The unit has a $10,000 annual guarantee from these interests.
To Engineers Today At A.I.E.E. Meeting
Following out a program by which series of talks by prominent alumni ill be given ,the American Institute
Book Printed For Co-eds
Sorority Participants i n Campus Activities Will be Listed.
sorority handbook, to contain accounts of the activities, and pictures of participants from all the houses on the campus is to be compiled under the direction of Doris Tennant, president of W. S. G A., the promoter of the book.
Tho purpose of the handbook is to give accurate accounts of the various sorority activities and to enable new girls to see which houses enter into the university affairs and which girls are the most outstanding on the campus.
Tho Handbook of Sorority Activities will be kept in the W. S. G. A. ofllce and will be available to any girl who is interested in seeing it.
In additiou to listing the activities of
Ihe houses, lists of the members ofj”	„ the
the W. S. G. A., W. A. A., and Y. W. 1 C. A, will also be published as well as the memberships of the honorary sororities ,all-university and professional
Each sorority is entitled to as many pages in the book as they can use.
Each sorority chairman must bring all material to the W. S. G. A. oflice where the sorority handbook committee under the direction of Helen
TO SETTLE TIE VOTE
Meeting Called for Friday at 10 a. m.; Identification Cards Required.
ln order to eliminate the tie which occurred last Wednesday in the election of the president of the sophomore class of the College of Letters, Arts, and Science, a special election has been callcd by the election committee for Friday morning at 10 o'clock in Hoose 206.
The recent election resulted in a tie vote between Thomas Kuchel and Jack Green, and the election committee has decided that it is Important that a new vote be taken immediately so that the class will not be deplayed in starting organization plans, states Sam Jonas, chairman of the committee.
Hazel Redfield, recently elected vice-president of the sophomore class, will be in charge of the meeting, and will members of the election committee. In order to be sure that only members of the sophomore class will attend the meeting, the committee has announced that no one will be admitted unless he presents his identification card at the door.
Rally Will Be Held During Chapel Parade Will Begin at 6:30 Tonight^ istration Building.
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Sending off the varsity football squad wi<[ carry them victoriously through tbe Washing^,.,* ' tbe object of the big all-university rallies and ^|>€. and evening. It is the first trip 0f the year ^ eni/ Howard Jones anil his thundering herd and
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ALL-UNIVERSITY DANCE TO HAVE COLORFUL MOTIF
Flowers and Four Spotlights Will Furnish Atmosphere to Annual Formal Affair.
Formality and fall color will be the motifs of the all-university formal which is to be held in the Student Union social hall on Friday, Oct. 11. tates Dorothie Smithe, vice-president o( the Associated Students an(i head of the social committee.
four spotlights with color wheel effects will be thrown 011 the dancers as they go round the floor. I ti the cea_ ter of the room a mirror ball will be hung wliich will catch the lights anti reflect them to all corners of the room in little splashes of light. There will be no center lights in Ihe hall and the only light will be from the spotlights and tlie lamps around the w-all.
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tor the affair. It has not been devulg. ed as yet what the favors will be but they will carry out the idea of fall.
Several specialty numbers have been arranged for by the committee on entertainment. Several
of Electrical Engineers will have for | cieenewerek will take charge of it.
The office hours of the committee members will be set in a few days.
| its speaker today, William Hogue, j Electrican Engineer of the class of lt is pointed out in the article that 1926, who will deal with his exper-tlie increasing participation of busi- ’ ienee with the General Electric Co., less in education is exemplified in this ’ since his graduation, school. The planned curriculum is ex- j Mr. Hogue spent about two and tensive i . college study .university re- a half years in Schenectady in gener-search, and practical application in | al factory testing and in training actual business. Classes are offered [0r sales work. Several months ago iu four divisions of merchandising: | lie was transferred to the Los An-advertising, retailing, wholesaling, and 1 geles oflice of the General Electric marketing.	j compuiy where he is now sales en-
The guarantors of the school in- i gineer. elude: Barker Brothers; N. II. lllack- | Mr. Hogue will appear at the regu-
dnesday noon luncheon of the
stone Co.; Broadway Department Store; Bullock’s; Buffum’s; Coulter , Dry Goods Co.; II. G. Chaffee Co.; hairman of the j Dauey; Dvas Co.; J. J. Haggarty; May Co.; MacMarr stores; Millinery Stores Co, I. Magnin Co., Marston Co., San Diego; Marti Co., Long Beach; Par* melee-Dohrmann Co.; J. W. Robinson; Myer Siegel; Walker’s; Wise Co.; Whitney Co., San Diego; Piggly Wiggly (Western stores); Safeway Stores; Owl Drug Co.; Van de Camp’s; Los Angeles Advertising club; and Los Angeles Publishers’ association.
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FLYING oSJUADRON MEETS
The following members of the Flying Squadron must report to Hyrum White, chairman at 9:50 today in Student Union 233: Glenn Jones, Sam Jonas. John Crawford, Gordon Glenn, Gregson Bautzer, Irving Harris. Arnold Freedman. Don Prosser, Lionel ,ewis, Lee Symonds, Richard Tllden. Theron Freese, Robert Gardner. This meeting is of vital importance, according to the chairman, and all members must be present.
Second Frosh-Co-ed Meeting Scheduled To Choose OfRcen
ers can also store from 3c * The TroJ*". the parade. ^ j charge of t#1' s , thf good crowd *J, . popular student soloists of the campus j^usiasm Iu ^ will sing and there will be other en- g0 directly tei-tainment features.	, Pacific statl^^
Thursday and Friday noon the fly. | At tlle s'j ' iBg squadron will go to every frater- "*'! be .KIa8,f nity house and distribute bids. Tli(> ass H,ll,1ts bids will a'*0 be on sale in the Stu-|and slngiD* jent Store at $2 apiece.
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There still remain on the campus IEUCCess> is''' • 47 organizations which have failed to |lnaa- chalfl11^ hand their petitions to the chairman of the Organizations committee for approval. These orgliani z:i[|ons have no social, pledging or publication privileges. The list of these groups
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take» to the year a 1 Sam New-committee.
First freshmen women’s meeting was held in the Y.W.C.A. rooms last Mon. day when the regular organ!SH*ion of the club took place and l.oniinatlons for officers were made. Doris Tennant, freshman advisor, took charge of the meeting and explained some of the work to be accomplished by the group during the year.
Those nominated for offices were: president, Catherine Rohr and Florence Le Baron; vice-president, Valentine Black; secretary, Virginia Woodard, Dorothy Van Dyke and Margaret Ogden; und treasurer, Penelope Jackson.
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NOTICE
Chance to make tariff to help defray expenses to the big game. Salesmen for Wampus sign list ou Wampus door, 328 Student Union, or see Thorsten Halldin, business manager, not later than Thursday night.
Wrigley Field, Chicago, ill., Oct. 8— ,ong-legged Howard Ehmke "set the Chicago Cubs on their ears,” by a score of 3 - 1 in the first game of the World Series. Ehmke set a new' world eries record in fanning 13 batters. In cldently this is the last season in base, ball for Ehmke.
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Chicago, 111., Oct. 8—The masked pilots of the endurance plane attempting to shatter the present refuling sustained flight record of 420 hours, passed their 200th hour in the air last
night. Their identity is still unreveal-
Agreement was reached yesterday fternoon between the major oil com-allies and the executive committee of the independent oil operators on the program for the operation of the gas aving plan for oil fields, according to announcement made by Judge E. D.
Reiter, head of the independents.
Harold J. Stonier, formerly an officer of the University of Southern California, and now vice-president of the J ment.
American Bankers Institute, will speak today at the Breakfast Club on the subject, "Getting acquainted with bankers.’’ Mr. Stonier attended the re-nt convention of the American Bankers Association in San Francisco.
Washington, D. C. Oct. 8—President Hoover announced today to the press that Secretary of the Treasury Mellon would retain his post until 1933. This suppressed rumors that Mr. Mellon would leave the treasury depart-
has been handed to the counselor of | nien, the dean of woruen and the editor of the Trojan.
Legislative act number 9 0f the Associated Students of the University of Southern California lias given the organizations committee the power and privilege to enforce certain rules and regulations pertaining to group organization 011 tho canipus and ,17,.y expect to rigidly enforce these laws. The policy is to also enforce constitutional provisions governing the estab ishment of those organizations under the new jurisdiction of this commit-e.
council at work
Members who were selected by the Legislative council last night to work on this committee are: Lucille Ilueb-ner, Herbert Pratt, Ualph Flynn, Jane Lawson and Fred Pierson, chairman.
Tills committee will start work ini mediately to gather data on the various organizations, to be presented at the next meeting of the Legislative council for the granting 0f tlie charters of recognition.
The 17 organizations which have been declared non-exlstant may petition the organizations committee for their reinstatement anil recognition by securing petitions from Fred Pierson in S. U. 203 from 10 to 10:25 and 2 to 4 every day. Those persons interested in knowing the status of the various organizations can also see the chairman at this time.
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