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Los Angeles, California, Monday, February 10, 1930.
No. 78
name OF NEW legal head IS MYSTERY
Claude H. Horack Will Go To Duke University With Dean Justin Miller.
By CLYDE McCLARY
Rumors that Claude H. Horack. president of the National association of Law schools, would replace Dean Justin Miller as head of thc S. C. School of Law, were
squashed definitely today, when word was received that Horack will join the teaching staff of the law school of Duke university of North Carolina with Dean Miller.
Announcement that Miller would leave the Southern California institution to organize and become the head of tbe law school at the Duke university next fall, was received yesterday, and a definite anouneement as to who would replace him at S. C. has not been as yet forthcoming.
The university at North Carolina has been named in honor of the late "tobacco king” who left a bequest of
580,000.(100 for the perpetuation of the institution.
Dean Miller will leave the University of Southera California after a stay here of three years, during which period the law school has advanced great strides in progress as evidenced by tbe grant of a chapter of the Order of the Coif, legal honorary fraternity. HOLDS MANY HONORS Among the high lights of Dean Justin Miller’s career, he has served as District Attorney of King's County, California; as professor of law at the University of Oregon, University of Minnesota, Stanford university, University of California, and Columbia university; secretary of the Minnesota Crime Commission; editor of the Oregon law review; assistant editor of the Minnesota law review; and chairman of the Conmiitee on a research in crime and the administration of criminal justice of the Social Science Research Council.
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1ST ISSUE OF AIR JOURNAL PUBLISHED
Air Law Institute Of Northwestern University Prints Law Magazine.
Copies of the first issue of the Journal of Air Law, which were published by the Air Law Institute of Northwestern University on Jan. 29, "'ill be distributed in a few clays, according to Professor Robert Kingsley, *ho is the representative of the University of Southern California on its editorial board.
The Journal is to come out in quarterly installments in collaboration *lth the University of Southern California and the school of law of Washington University in St. Louis. Heading the editorial board is Professor fred D. Fagg, director of the Air Law institute of Northwestern University and formerly an instructor in com-I meree at S. C. Last year he was expanse professor at the University of Koenigsburg, Germany.
Kiugsley is editor-in-chief of the Southern California Law Review, pub-, ,ish^ by the School of Law of S. C. Meals with legal matters related to fields, including aviation. He is andling the material from this dis-1 cl as each of the three members ! 0 the editorial board of the Journal I “e located so they may collect ma-| from their vicinities.
artous phases of aeronautical law, r ,iroPerty law and radio law will f|OOVer0d an<1 ,lle magazine will con-Sit 1° eaC*' l88u<‘ leading articles,
o	aia, documents, case comments, mi ,rev*ew an<l a digest of leading des dealing with air law. Acord-to Professor Kingsley, there will Hoy80^16 8,Uc*ent contributions, al-Worif *8 main*y a non-student amo cr c^lcu*al'on will be mainly •i Policing lawyers and avia-| uoa companies.
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DEAN OF WOMEN WILL CONDUCT TOUR OF S. C. STUDENTS
European Countries Will Be Visited This Summer Under Direction Of Mary Sinclair Crawford
Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford next summer will conduct a group of students on a tour of Europe. Six units of credit may be earned, since the trip is under the auspices of the international work of the university.
Traveling on the continent will be done by automobile, and lectures will be given at all of the important and interesting centers. Students will in this way be able to actually see the places about which they have been studying and thus obtain a greater appreciation of them.
The itinerary will include London, Paris, Geneva, Milan, Home, Naples, Florence, Venice, the Dolomites, Oberammergau, Munich, Nurnberg, Cologne, Amsterdam and the Hague.
Several reservations already have been received. Among those who have signified their intention are Miss Dorothea Creathe, a senior at S. C. who will remain in Europe at the end of the tour to continue her I studies, and Miss Frances Merryman of l’asadena.
Earl W. Hill Talks Before School Group
Former Trojan Graduate Student Speaks On Aviation In School.
Professor Earl W. Hill, professor of transportation in the College of Commerce, gave the principal address at a special meeting of the Anaheim High School, Anaheim, on Thursday morning. Professor Hill outlined to the student body of that school the work which is being carried on at the University of Southern California in aeronautical education, what S. C. students are doing in aviation activities, and the part played by S. C., in the adoptment of their outline of aviation education to be carried on in the secondary schools of California.
Doctor Hill is chairman of the State Advisory Committee and Aeronautical Education. He told tlio high school students of the work of that body, which will probably make it possible for them to learn commercial aviation next year in their | social science group of studies. He told them of the methods of instruction which they will follow; 30 peri cent of the class time is to be devoted to question and answer discussion of the text “Airplane Transportation"; 20 per cent to lecture by teacher; 20 per cent to lectures by outside speakers; and 10 per cent to field trips to different aviation companies that thc Southern California university students make in the course of their study of commercial aviation and aviation problems. Professor Hill also told them of important events in recent aviation history.
This assembly at Anaheim high school was followed out on an aviation plan. Another speaker was A. lege. Mr. Diehl is author of the out-now the head of the aviation department of the Los Angeles Junior College. Mr. Deihl is author of the outline of study for aeronautical education to be employed in high schools with the use of Professor Hill’s text on aviation. He explained further the activity of S. C. in college aviation, and of the founding and work of Alpha Eta Rho, aviation fraternity on the Trojan Campus.
S. C. Women’s Club To Sponsor Benefit Theatrical Affair
To increase the fellowship fund of tlieir organization, the Trojan Women's club, composed of alumnae and former students of the University of Southern California, are soonsoring a benefit theater party on Tuesday evening. February 25. The President theater has been selected for the occasion and the attraction will be the well-known comedy team, Kolb and Dill, in a new play, "Give and Take."
Tickets are now on sale in the ticket office of the student store, in charge of Marie Poetker. All Trojan students are urged to attend the play and bring their friends.
Miss Margaret Airston, professor of chemistry, is president of tlie Los Angeles unit of the Trojan Women club.
Literary Fraternity To Plan Tournament
Plans for the inter-literary society debate tournament will be the chief business of the meeting to be held by Alpha Phi Epsilon, national honorary literary and forensic fraternity, in the Student Union tomorrow night.
The possibility of making this tournament intramural in its scope instead of confining it to the four campus literary socities will also le-ceive consideration.
Las year Alpha Phi Epsilon sponsored the contest for the first time, and it was won by Aristolian Literary Bociety. So successful was this activity in developing forensic talent that its contemplated expansion may take place, stated officers of the fraternity.
All campus members of Alpha Phi Epsilon are requested to attend the meeting which will be held at 8:30 tomorrow evening.
Wampus Staff Changes Near
A Wampus editorial staff and art staff meeting will bo held this morning at 9:50 in Student Union 218, the attendance at which is compulsory. The meeting will serve a dual purpose, one being to give instructions for this semester to the staff the other to present the prize to the winner of the short story contest.
Several temporary changes have been made in the assistants on the editorial staff and in positions on the staff in general. The announcements of these changes will be made at this meeting. Plans also will be revealed foi- this semester’s work and for the special assistance that is needed from various members of the staff.
Plans are being formulated by an appointed member of the staff have a Valentine’s party some time this week, the attendance of which will be by invitation of the editor in recognition of the steady and good work done by the various members of the staff. Definite arrangement are to be made later the announcement of which will be made at a future date.
TRYOUT DATES FOR PLAY SET
AU Juniors At Southern California Are Eligible To Tryout This Afternoon.
Juniors in any school or college in the university are eligible to try out this afterhoon at 4 o’clock for the annual class play, which is to be given some time in March.
Tryouts will be held in room 333, on the third floor of Old College and will be conducted by W. Ray MacDonald, university play director, and William Miller, manager of play productions.
The play wlllch has been selected for presentation is “The Enchanted April” by Kane Campbell, the dramatization of the novel by Elizabeth. It is a three act comedy with ten characters, flve men and five women.
The story concerns three women, of different stations in society who are drawn together by an advertisement in a London paper to the effect that an Italian villa on the Mediterranean is for rent for the month of April. They rent the place in order to get away from their respective husbands and suitors.
When the men finally arrive at the place, as they all do eventually, a merry mix-up occurs, which furnishes some wonderful comedy situations. There is a love story running through the play which finds it climax in the last act at the villa.
CAST OF CHARACTERS
The characters are Lady Caroline Dester, a young London society woman, Ferdinand Arundel, a popular young novelist, Mrs. Lotty Wilkins, her husband Mellersh, Mrs. Rose Ar-buthnot, Francesca and Domenico, Italian servants, Mrs. Fisher, the owner of the villa, and the clerk of a women’s club.
ATHENA Will HOLD TWO OPEN MEETINGS
Athena literary society is holding open meeting to all women interested in Tuesday evenings, February It and February 18, in the faculty room on the third floor of the Student Un-oin. Every woman student on the campus who is interested in literary work is invited to attend one or both of these meetings.
The first meeting is to be a typical literary meeting at which Mrs. Louis Wann will speak, while the second meeting is to be a Mexican program at which Mrs. John Cook will give some of her interesting experiences in Mexico. The rest of the meeting will be given over to a literary program and the visiting women will be able to become better acquainted with the members of the organizzation. Refreshments will be served at both meetings.
Athena literary society is the oldest group of its kind on the campus. It was founded in 1882. It is the only-national literary society on the campus, the work of which is to make tlie women students more interested in literary works and to give them an opportunity to practice the parll-mentary rules. Membership to the organization is by invitation.
Special Agent Will Address Crime Group
Emmet Daly Of Department Of Justice Will Speak To Academy.
Emmet Daly, special agent for the department of justice at Washington,
D.	C., will speak before the regular meeting of the Southern California Academy of Criminology to bn held tomorrow in the social hall of the Student Union building. “Finger Printing as a Means of Identification” is the subpect of Daly’s address
A short talk by Dr. G. S. Porter, assistant health officer of the Los Angeles health department is also scheduled for the evening. Dr. Porter will speak on “The Relation of Health to Crime.”
The United States department of justice is the leading influence in the development of the science of finger printing in this country. It acts as a clearing house for all forms of criminal identification, and its files contain many records of criminals and their activities. Its method of classification and identification is as complete and accurate as any in the world.
Daly will draw' on his long experience with that mysterious organization which is hinted at in so many de-tecl ive thrillers, the United States Secret Service, to produce an extremely interesting and important address. He is expected to give an unusual and concrete discussion of the subject on which he is an authority.
The Southern California Academy of Criminology is composed of prominent members of the legal profession from Los Angeles and surrounding territory, and has as its purpose the scientific study of perhaps the greatest problem confronting the United States at present, the control and prevention of crime.
The University of Southern California is represented in the Academy by President von KlelnSmid and Justin Miller, dean of the Law* school. Dr. Miller last year occupied the ofllce of president of the academy, and at present holds an important position on the executive committee.
Regular meetings of the organization are held on the second Tuesday of each month. A dinner is scheduled for 6:30 following which the speakers of the evening deliver short addresses. All members of the student body and faculty of Southern California are invited to hear the speakers immediately after the banquet is completed.
TWO COLLEGES CONDUCT CLASS NOMINATIONS ON S.C. CAMPUS
Results Of Sophomore Classes From College of Commerce And College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences Will Be Announced Later.
Announcements of the results of nominations held by thc separate classcs of thc colleges of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, and the college of Commerce were made today through thc presidents of these colleges. Finals of sophomore nominations were not available.
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LETTERS, ARTS, AND SCIENCES
Y.W.C.A.T0G1VE DINNER IN HONOR OF NEW STUDENTS
Mrs. von KleinSmid Will Speak To Guests At Supper Tomorrow Night.
A program has been planned for the Y.W.C.A. supper meeting which is to be held tomorrow night in the Y.M. C.A. “hut" at 5:30 p.m. Judging by the enthusiasm of the past meetings there will be a large turnout for this first meeting of th semester. All ot the new women are invited to attend this meeting for it is ou way that they may get acquainted with older women on the campus.
One of the features of the meeting is that the first lady of the campus, Mrs. Ii. Ii. vonKleinSmid will speak to the women and will welcame the new students. Mrs. von Klein-Smid is well known for giving an interesting and inspirational mesage to the women every time she speaks.
Another feature of the meeting-will be Calvin Hendricks, winner of the Atwater-Kent contest, who will sing his prize song. In the West and Middle-west he won first place with his playing and singing and was surpassed only by one person in the-contest. In Washington D.C. he was entertained and hailed as being one of the most outstanding student musicians in the country, which has brought much honor both to him self and to the university.
Louise Miller, well known to all women on the campus for her solo and trio work on the harp will play several selections. Vilma Keener also well known, will play during the evening.
Supper is to be served by ten pledges from both Alpha Chi Omega and Delta Delta Delta sororities. The regular price of 30 cents will be charged for the dinner.
New Botany Course To Begin Next Week
Graduate work in Botany will be offered by Professor M. R. McDougall in a class on "Symbiosis," beginning next Wednesday at 3:30 p.m.
Professor M. B. McDougall gave this course for several years at the University of Illinois after completing a research in mycorhizas in various parts of the United States. “Symbiosis" aeais with ihe living together of two or more unlike organ isms and the relation of plants to the living part of environment. One of the unusual aspects of the course concerns plants that catch animals aud use them for food, for instance the "Venus fly trap," a plant that has sensitive hairs on each side of a trap at the end of its leaves.
Aviation Fraternity Holds Lunch Meeting Tomorrow
Alpha Eta Rho. aviation fraternity, will hold its regular luncheon meeting tomorrow, since many of their members will be absent Wednesday noon with the Beta Sigma Chi, transportation fraternity, harbor expedition. All members are asked to note this change of date and attend the Tuesday meeting at 12:15 in th Student Union.
Hal Shields, general passenger agent for Western Air Express, will be honored guest and speaker for the luncheon. Mr. Shields has complied with the fraternity's request to talk wiill ihem of current events in the aeronautical world, and to tell of recent history of Western Air Express. Any Alpha Eta Kho who cannot be present at this time is requested to comunicate with Richard Mogle, president.
College Plans Harbor Trip
The College of Commerce is invited to attend a field trip lo the Los Angeles Harbor on Wednesday, February 12.
The trip will consist of a very extensive inspection of the facilites offered at the harbor and will be under the direction of one of the harbor officials, who will give a detailed survey of the harbor and the operation of the channels and wharves under present conditions. All these facts will be given while the members of the venture are being taken around the inner and outer harbors in a boat provided by the Harbor Commission. It is expected that the trip will take about two hours from the time the boat leaves until it docks again at San Pedro.
The boat will leave the First Street Landing iu San Pedro at 1:20 on Wednesday, February 12. All those who wish to go must ign the list on the bulletin board in the College of Commerce.
Those who will miss classes tn Commerce will be countea present if they attend the trip, it was announced. Commerce students who wish to attend, but who have Liberal Arts classes must make their own arrangements with their professors.
This trip is being planned and arrangements are being made by the pledges of Sigma Beta Chi, who are doing this as an informal initiation.
The pledges are: Joe Burcham. Frank Bailey, Jack Marks, Bob McCormick, Jerry Duncan.
EL RODEO STAFF
There will be a meeting of the El Ilodeo advertising staff in the El Kodeo office at 10 o’clock tomorrow morning.
Squadron Members To Attend Meetings To Discuss Policies
For the purpose of formulating plans and discussing polocies to be carried out this semester, members of the Flying Squardon will atteud a luncheon this noon on the third floor of the Student Union building. Chairman Hyrum White will present as guests of the occasion Leo Adams, President of the Associated Students; Don McLarnin, President of the Interfraternity Council; and Hal Stanier, President of the professional Interfraternity Council.
At present the organization is cooperating in regard lo the question of chapel hour, and plans to help publicize the Interfraternity formal dance, and Semi-Centennial.
The following committee members are requested to met Hyrum White at 10 this morning: Gregson Baut-zer, Walter Benedict, Ames Crawford, Hud Fetterly, Arnold Freedman, Irving Harris, Glenn Jones, Jack Marks, Rulon Openshaw, Ran Ritchey, Lumir Slezak, Ran Swanberg, and Van Tanner.
New Herediscope Given To Zoology Department
A herediscope has been recently received by the university for the use of the class in genetics under the direction of Miss Catherine Beers. This machine is used to determine the characteristics of the parents which will, under normal conditions, be transmited to the offspring in any given mating.
The device is based on the principle that the choice of a pair of allelomorphs, or characteristics actually transmited in a mating, is determined by chance. The herediscope is already in use in a number of American and foreign universities and is being distributed through the American Genetic Association at Washington D.C.
FRESHMAN CLASS:
President: Merle Staub; Frank Waterman.
Vice-president: Pat Vaine, Marian Pellet, Myra Jane McClung, Penelope Jackson, Billy Rogers.
Secretary: Adele Stanley, Lydia Barreny, Betty Gilner, Mildred Welch.
Treasurer: Margaret Dudley, Evelyn Chase.
Executive commitee: Evelyn Wells, Sara Rahls, Jimmy Kirk, Mary Walton, Jackie Clisbee, Barbara Bush.
JUNIOR CLASS President: Ray Zeman, Pat Humphreys.
Vice-president: Elinor Wilhoit, Emery Ardis.
Secretary: Virginia Monosmith, Alice Demaree.
Treasurer: Dick Miller, Jerome Ehrlich.
Executive committee: Ruth Stein, Wilma Goodwin, Gene Lynch, Glenn Johnson, Bob Allan, Francis Schulte, Dinette Zimmerman.
SENIOR CLASS:
President: Muriel Heeb, Ed Ware. Vice-president: Lorraine Young. Secretary: Louise Hoeschen, Grace Wright.
Treasurer: Katherine Ault.
Executive committee: Harriet Hauge, Polly Ross, Margaret Lytle, Emma Goodell, Lydia Hoffman, Dick Mulvin.
COLLEGE OF COMMERCE Freshman class: President: Maurice Hindin, Sam 'Levine, Clarence String-
Sophoniore class: President: Robert Hall, Robert Mendelson.
Junior class: President: Lewis Gough.
Senior class: President: Wesley Wilson. (Charles Nielsen was nominated but was ineligible because of another office.)
In the College of Commerce nominations of class presidents only were made. All nominations were held in different meeting places, and were presided over by the respective class presidents of last semester.
The eligiblity requirements for a candidate were that he have a “C” average, and that he have to his credit an average of 15 units of w'ork for each semester that he has been registered at S. C. All candidates will be checked in the registrar’s offlce as to these requirements.
TRYOUTS FOR QUILL COMMENCE TODAY
Students Desiring Membership In National Writers’ Organization Must Submit Manuscripts.
Today marks the beginning of a two-week tryout period for those aspiring to membership in Quill club, national professional organization ror writers. Those wishing to try out may submit a manuscript representative of their work during this period to members of the judging committee or may leave manuscripts in the English oflice.
Tryout material may be either prose or poetry, and should be a complete manuscript in the nature of a poem, short story or essay. Material should be signed with a pen name, and the real name of the author should be enclosed in a sealed envelope atached to the manuscript. Selection of members is based upon the merit of tryout material.
Members of the committee to judge tryouts are Louise Van de Verg, Karl Tunberg and Fred Goss. Eleanore Titus is chancellor of the club.
Meetings of the club are held on Thursdays of alternate weeks In the men’s lounge of the Student Union. At these meetings a discussion of manuscripts reac* by members is held. Faculty p ambers of the club are frequently present to give criticisms. Occasionally, prominent writers speak to the club, giving practical suggestions concerning writing.