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SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April 2, 1930.
No. 115.
POND W.S.G.A. TAXI DAY TO BEGIN MONDAY MORNING
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Girls Planning To Drive Are Asked To Sign In Office; Cars Will Be Available To And From “Dig;” Fare	Twenty-five Cents.
The second Taxi Day sponsored by thc Women’s Self-•ernnient association will be held Monday, April 7-° Taxi service will begin at 7:30 a. m. when cars will be 'ting on fraternity row to convey students to 8 o’clock Throughout the day, taxis will be available at the taxi ; which "ill be situated in front of Bovard auditorium
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.jig" in the evening and the dceW|H continue until 9:30 p.m.
TWENTY-FIVE CENTS The fare will be ten to twenty-i^ts to any part of the cam-„ and lo the various professional alleges.
fjcnlty service will be a feature , a,, aay. All faculty members Hiring transportation to and from tlMl are asked to leave their dies and adresses in the W. S.
A. box or phone the W. S. G. A. fit.
Every co ed having a car is urged , participate in Taxi Day. All iris planning to drive are asked to g, Up In the W. S. G. A. office inflating the hours they will be free *ork. All drivers are asked to nar white, and ribbons bearing le Insignia of their organization IU be given them Monday in front ol the Administration building.
SIGNS ON TAXI Signs bearing the legend “W. S.
G.A. Taxi" will be in the W. S. G.
Friday and all girls driving are asked to get them then for lltir cars. Iron men will be Placed in front of Bovard lo mark it a space for the taxis and a similar stand will be designated in the evening at the dig. it will be necessary to have a timber of posters advertising the (feat, and all girls who are interred in any way in assisting to take these are asked to be in the T. S. G. A. oflice at chapel period His morning. Activity points will Ii awarded for this service accord-i! to the work done.
Prizes will be given the house id the Individual girl who make 'Jn most money on Taxi Day. The finning house will also recenve recognition in the W. S. G. A. hand-tok of sorority activities.
Sororities are asked to have a representative with her car from mhhouse, in front of Bovard auditorium Monday noon as pictures of the co-ed drivers will be taken.
TAXI DAY Taxi Day is held each semester lor the purpose of raising money lor the W. S. G. A. loan fund which ii available each year to some
I o The Editor
Pullvlew, Florida, April 2— To the Editor of the Daily Trojan: A series of tests held in England the other day clearly demonstrated that television is here to stay. A number of homes were equipped with television screens and moving pictures of the radio performers appeared on the television receiving sets as well as their voices.
This is going a little too far. Radio exercise fans are in for quite a shock wrhen they tune in their television sets about 6:30 in the morning and get an eye-full of some 70-year-old fossil chirping out setting-up exercises while he rubs himself with liniment to keep his joints from creaking.
And what a shock to romantic stay-at-homes when they tune in on the radio bird who is always raving about doubling your mileage with Green Apple gasoline while you ride over the roads to ro* mance and find him to be a dried-up vegetarian and about as romantic looking as a bowl of spinach.
Yours for bigger eye-fulls.
MORRIE CHAIN.
Trojans Win Last Debate
Hyrum White and Ames Crawford Win 3-0 Decision from Idaho Duo
Fred Waring And Players Will Appear
“The Pennsylvanians” To Play At Student Assembly Friday Morning.
That Fred Waring and his famous collegiate musical aggregation, “The Pennsylvanians,” will appear at the rally to be held in Ilovard auditorium this Friday morning at chapel period is the announcement made by Harold Roberts, Trojan band leader. “The Pennsylvanians,” as well as being popular Victor recording artists, have been featured throughout this country and abroad in vaudeville, film prologues, musical comedies, and revues. They are at present starring in “Rah Rah Daze,” a collegiate musical show which is playing at the Mason theater.
Arrangements for the appearance were made late yesterday, and in concluding his announcement, Roberts said, “I believe Waring’s | ‘Pennsylvanians’ to be not only the most popular orchestra among collegiate circles, but also the best dance orchestra in America today. The band has but a limited period of time here at the university and all students are urged to plan to be in the audtorium at 9:45. The rally, to be presided over by Leo Adams, student body president, will start promptly at the stated time.
The history of “The Pennsylvanians” is of interest to college students in that it is identified with one of the largest universities of the east. Starting with a small four-piece orchestra in Tyrone, Pa., high school, Fred Waring, his brother Tom, and two other boys, the original members of the organization, soon were playing for local affairs in the small Pennsylvania town. This continued until all four enrolled at Penn State, where they organized an eight-piece dance orchestra. Their engagement to play at the famous Ann Arbor “Jay Hop’’ gave them their real start, and from then on they surmounted all obstacles, with the possible exception of various university examinations. Since their graduation from Penn, “The Pennsylvanians” have been starred from one end of the United States to the other, and have made several appearances abroad.
Southern California’s debate team composed of Hyrum White and Ames Crawford won the last decision contest of the 1930 forensic season by defeating the University of Idaho team 3 to 0 here Monday afternoon.
Crawford was selected as the ▼orthy girl. More than forty dol- best speaker of the four debaters lw were made on the last Taxi | and White was given second and a larger amount is hoped choice.
Idaho upheld the affirmative side Authors of contributions selected of the disarmament question. Tho for the program of the sixth an visiting speakers were Charles ' nual Apolliad to be presented in Herndon and Paris Martin. Hern- «Touchstone theater on Saturday don spoke first for the visiting I team.
The judges of the contest were:
Maude E. Knudson, vice pincipal
for Monday Lucille Huebner, vice-president ud president-elect of W. S. G. A. •* In charge of all arrangements M is being assisted by Jane Law-secretary and vice-president-Betty McDougall, secretary-tIect* an(l Juanita Wagner, treas-irer-elect.
APOLLIAD CONTEST WINNERS SELECTED
Three Plays Will Be Presented At Sixth Annual Affair On May 10.
WAMPUS CAT DUE TOMORROW MORN
Issue Of Humor Maga-»ne Uses Spring As Theme; Many Good Stories.
Spring Is the theme carried out lie March Issue of the Wampus *1 ’**'ich "ill appear on the cam-tomorrow morning.
01 the special features of tn* *s®Uo's the group of poems en-e From the Barroom Poets.’’ a 0 *>r°up which have been writ-® to Imitation of the style of *t poets and well known campus • These poems come from the “"00m ” written by Matt Barr ““ Wpk Huston.
“Talk About Dumb," another ro-by Dorothy Banker, illus-, . ^ Marvin Connell shows the .jU.' ' of il dumb woman and a te- “Lamentations by the ..	Ten” is a true confession
-ollege giri who had many Uon.T arUl slsterc- The illustra-
Adri °r story are done by Alln*ane itosso.
oac of the most typical at) le mo81 clever features which "Hi ,rS 'a *llls number is entitled “ry Noteg” and tells a love (Continued On Page four)
evening, May 10, were announced yesterday by the School of Speech.
Those whose plays have been selected for this honor are Patty of Inglewood high school; Guy C. i Bajr(ii Lojs Eby, and DeWitt Mil-Moore, debate coach at Manual j ler The story by Arthur Strock Arts high school; and William j wm jje usej a3 wej] as the essays H. Hensey, debate coach at Hoi- j by AUa B Jenkin8, and Rambna ly wood high school.	, \ya||ace Those whose poems will
The second debate this week j b(, g,ven are Gardner Warde Earle, was held last evening in Porter jjafy Gentry Cornett, Overne Ab-
Group Holds Nominations For Offices
Leonore Rathbun and Janet Hampton Will Run For President.
DAILY TROJAN WILL POLL S.C. ON DISARMAMENT
Students and Faculty Asked To Watch Tomorrow’s Paper For Questions; Will Send Returns To President Herbert Hoover
To determine what is the opinion of the student body of Southern California, the DAILY TROJAN will conduct a poll of the campus on thc naval armament question. The results of thc poll will be forwarded by air mail to President Herbert Hoover as soon as they are tabulated.
With the naval conference at London “on the home stretch,” it is necessary for the public to voicc its opinion so that the representatives of the United States across tlie waters will not yield to any plan that will not be in accord with the convictions of this nation’s international policy.
At present, to all outward appearances, the conference is deadlocked waiting for some of thc interested nations to give way. The United States may be asked to make concessions to the other nations that will bring us into world organizations, contrary to the policy which this country has maintained since its independence; only deviating from this path when the welfare of our nation is at stake such as was the case in the late war.
It is up to the university students throughout the country, who are fully capable to voice their just opinion, to say what they believe our representatives at London should do, for Secretary of State Stimson and his colleagues have in their hands the political destinies of the world that is being prepared for the students now in college to administer.
Starting on a gigantic naval building program will be necessary if the Naval Conference does not reach a disarma-1 the offices have been active iu ment agreement. President Hoover does not want it, big business does not want it. The nation needs that money to spend on internal improvements, not to be put into floating masses .if steel as a symbol of superior strength. The United States has a war debt to settle, it has veterans to care for, buildings to build, land to be reclaimed. Is it to go for naught, so that the funds be used to build battleships that speak not for peace, but as a threat to other nations to keep their distance?
It is up to the students of Southern California to do what little they can in voicing their opinion on the vital question of disarmament.
As John Dewey, of Columbia University stated, “The Paris Peace Pact has put the future of war and peace in the hands of those who form public opinion. It is highly important that the London delegation and the administration understand that the wish of the American nation is for furthering peace by means of the greatest possible reduction. All discussion which makes clear the stand of the people of the country on this point is to be welcomed. ’
Signifying a close race for the coming W. A. A. elections, Leo-nore Rathbun and Janet Hampton were nominated for the office of president of the women’s athletic association at the annual spring spread, which was carried i» an “a-la-April-fool” style this year, under the supervision of the spoli-omores with Fay Jasman In charge, and was held in the women’s gymnasium yesterday at 5 o’clock.
All nominations were made from the floor and petitions for the candidates were filed by Thursday, March 27. In order to be eligible for the office of president, the nominee had to have a scholarship average of 1.3 or more for her entire college career. Other candidates nominated were: vice-president, Jean Fox, Fay Jasman; secretary, Dorothy Allen, Helen Osgood; treasurer, Frances Dassoff, Bessie McCollum; activity recorder, Nancy O’Brien, Peggy Sweet.
PRESIDENT GIVES ACTIVITIES
"Most of those nominated for
Y.W.C.A. ANNUAL FATHER AND DAUGHTER BANQUET TONIGHT
“Our Loving Cups” To Be Theme Carried Out With Speeches And Songs At Dinner To Be Held In Women’s Residence Hall.
By \lARJORIA EDICK
Thc annual father and daughter banquet sponsored by the Y. W. C. A. will be held tonight in the Woman’s Residence hall at 6:30. “Our Loving Cups” or "A Toast to Dad” will be the theme which will be carried out with speeches and songs.
Signor Pietro Gladiatorc Gentile of radio fame, will be guest of honor. At present he is doing extensive radio broad-■	¥ casting, and is working in talk-
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hall with the team opposing the University of Washington Hyrum White and Ames Crawford again upheld the negative side of the disarmament question for Southern California. Washington was represented by John Cartano and Sidney Spear. This debate was a non-decision contest.
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ney, Grace Harmon, Grace Myers,
the negatives^ j Christina Barbagleo, and Eleanor Titus. Music for the piano chosen was that of William O'Donnell, entitled “Ikon;” for the string quartette two numbers by Kenneth Winstead; and the song, "Hills and Clouds,” by Annis Crabb.
All successful contributors of musical numbers are requested to see Miss Havell of the College of Music. All others are asked by Mrs. Tacie Hanna Rew to meet her at the School of Speech during the chapel period this week or phone for an appointment.
All contributors will be given invitations to the Apolliad program. Outstanding authors and composers will be present to offer constructive criticism of the work.
Faculty committees chosen to select the manuscripts were as follows: Dr. Allison Gaw, and Mrs. Tacie Hanna Rew, plays; Prof. Lynn Clark, and Dr. Mildred Struble, stories; Dr. Louis Wann and Miss Florence Scott, essays; Mrs. Allison Gaw, Miss Julia Norton McCorkle, poetry; and the Misses Julia Havell, Marjorie Brooks, (Continued on Page Four)
Fraternity Council Meeting Is Tonight In Student Union
Donald McLarnan, president of the Iuter-Fraternity council, announces that the regular monthly meeting of the council will be held this evening at eight o’clock in room 326 of the Student Union. The presidents of the respective fraternities, as well as the senators of the council are urged to be present, as one of the most important questions concerning fraternities will be submitted to the consideration of the council.
There will be a special meeting of the chairmen of the various committees in the same room at seven o’clock. Glenn Johnson, Hugh Andrews, Ralph Flynn, Paul Zander, Sam Newman, Willis Hirsh, Lewis Gough, and Rob Gor-tor are asked to be present at this seven o’clock meeting. The committee chairmen are asked to present typewritten reports of the work of their committee.
Drama Shop To Give Monthly Program
The regular monthly program of Drama Shop will be presented tomorrow at 3:15 p. m., in Toucli-
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There will be a number of specialties on the program, which is under the direction of Miriam Bronstetter.
Another Comedia del Arte will be produced. These comedies are impromptu playlets, the plot being worked out beforehand and the actors, chosen from the audience, supplying the words as the plot evolves.
The programs are open to all students on the campus. Admission is free.
Spanish “Bernhardt” Will Be Entertained By La Tertulia Club
Maria Conesa, beautiful Spanish actress and dancer, will be the honored guest of the La Tertulia club this evening in the social hall of the Student Union. Elieen Mason and Grace Jones will add to the program with Spanish songs.
Miss Conesa is known as the Sarah Bernhardt of Mexico and has appeared in several musical comedy successes, sne wiii euiei tain members of l.a Tertulia with dances of her native country.
The business meeting of the club will be held at 7:30 in Bridge hall, room 214, after which members will proceed to the social hall for the program.
Southern California Night Will Be Held At L. A. Boat Show
Southern California night at the Los Angeles boat show, being held in the Ambassador auditorium, will be held this evening. Sigma Chi, transportation fraternity, is sponsoring the program at the show and all students who attend are asked to secure their tickets from members of the fraternity on the campus.
This show brings together under one roof, a display rangiug as lt does from 38 foot cruisers to sea sleds and from a 19 passenger Italian flying motor boat with an 80 foot wing spread to 6 inch cruising models.
Boats displayed at the show include skimmers, sailing yachts, cruisers, speed boats, runabouts, outboards, canoes, flying motor boats, glorified rafts with nickel trimmings, seagoing runabouts, pneumatic rafts, boats that fold up, non sinkable and non tip steel boats, surf boards, sea sleds and push button boats.
This show is the first of its kind ever held in Los Angeles aud is the first one to ever rival the New York show in size or quality of its exhibits. The Los Angeles chamber of commerce and the Civic Regatta association are sponsoring the show.
W. A. A. work since their stay at S. C.,” Florence Waechter, present president stated yesterday.
In giving a brief summary of the activities of the candidates, Miss Maechter told of the following points:
Leonore Rathbun, nominee for president, is a sophomore and is manager of archery; her opponent, Janet Hampton, is a junior, and was manager of hockey. Jean Fox, for vice-president, a junior, is the present secretary of W. A. A.; and Fay Johnson, for the same office is chairman of the sophomore class, represented in W. A. A. Dorothy Allen, a junior, and Helen Osgood, sophomore, for secretary, have been on most of the class teams this semester. Frances Dassoff, junior and manager of the track and field, and Bessie McCollum, are both nominees for the office of treasurer.
TEAM INTRODUCED As a feature on the program for the afternoon, members of the Kappa Alpha Theta swimming teams were introduced by Helen Rockwell, manager of the recent meet. Janet Hampton, manager of hockey, announced the names of those selected for the honorary hockey team. Those who wrere chosen by the committee as outstanding players on the honorary hockey team are:
Center forward, Norma Chapman; right inside, Nancy O’Brien: left inside, Josephine Pelphrey; left wing, Helen Washburn; right wing, Ruth Ruhnka; center half, Frances Halse; left half, Lucinda Dumke; right half, Helen Allen; right full, Dot Allen; goal keeper, (Continued on Page Four)
All members of the ticket committee of the commerce banquet will meet every day until April 9 at 9:50 in Old College, 240, announced Herb Pratt, chairman, today. Those who will officiate at the meetings are Wes Wilson, senior commerce class president, Lewis Gough, junior president, Bob Hall, sophomore, and Clarence Stringer, freshman presideut. All members of the committee ara urged to attend each of these meetings for cooperation on the dinner, and to tally daily sale of bids since the number for purchase is limited.
MAY 23 NAMED EL RODEO DATE
German Play To Be Given
Four-Act Production Will Be Presented In Touchstone Thursday.
'The Fires of St. John” will be presented tomorrow, April 3, ln Touchstone theater by Elaine But-trud, in partial fulfillment of the degree of Master of Arts.
The play is in four acts, aud was written by Hermann Sudermann. The version to be presented Thursday has been translated from the German by Charles Swickard.
Miss Buttrud, who is a member of Phi Beta, national fraternity of music and dramatic art, and a pledge to National Collegiate Players, was a winner in the Apolliad contest last year, and wTas in the cast of the School of Speech play.
To present the play for her degree, Miss Buttrud had to choose the play, pick the cast, direct, stage, manage, and advertise it.
The cast includes Francis Van Deusen, Margaret Ewart, Louise Johnson, Howard Miller, Lynn Nearpass, William Hoppe, Marion Leonard, Mary Anderson, and Miriam Brow’nsteeter. On the production staff are Thomas Graham as stage manager, Alfred Hamilton as
ing pictures.
Mrs. Pearle Aikin Smith, sponsor of the Y. W. C. A., will give the introduction and greeting. Beth Tibbot will give ''The Origin of the Cup," and will receive a response from her father.
Dr. Frank C. Touton, vlce-pre-sldent of the university, will present "The Cup of Life” and will be answered by his daughter, Harriet Louise, with "The Cup of Inspiration.”
Janet McCoy with "My College Cup,” will supplement "A Trojan's Holy Grail” by her father, Dr. James David McCoy. "Deans and Dads," or "The Brimming Cup" by Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, and "Ursa Major" or "The Big Dipper” by Rufus B. von KlelnSmid, will complete the program which will be intersperced with selections by the Co-ed Trio, composed of piano, bass viol, and violin; several numbers by Margaret Hughes on the piano and incidental music by Rowena Quentin and Gale King.
Members of the Y. W. C. A. cabinet and their fathers or escorts are to be Introduced to the guests. Group singing will also be a part of the festivities.
Decorations for the affair are designed to carry out the theme, aud will consist of loving cups a centerpiece on each (able. Flowers on the tables tnd throughout the room will carry out the spring motif.
HARLEY WILL TALK AT DINNER TONIGHT
S. C. Professor Will Discuss High Notes Of London Disarmament.
High notes of the London disarmament conference will be considered by Professor John E. Harley at the Y. M. C. A. council dinner tonight at 6:30 in the Y. hut. Harley is a political science professor on the campus and is recognized as being an impartial authority on current international politics.
Special music numbers are planned by George Peterson for electrician, and Helen Adkinson as I tonight’s meet in addition to com-
costume mistress.
The faculty thesis committee for Miss Buttrud's production is composed of Miss Florence Hubbard, Dr. E. T. Mohme, and Prof. W. Ray MacDonald.
Musical numbers will be sung between acts by Zaruhi Elmassian and Arlowyn Hohn, accompanied by Pauline Mather. The production is scheduled to begin at 8:15.
Matt Barr Announces Early Date For 1930 Semi-Centennial Edition.
Noon Luncheon Group Will Meet Tomorrow
LUNCHEON HELD TODAY
The Phi Kappa Sigma luncheon to be given in the basement of the Student Union in the El Rodeo section, will be held this noon at 12:15.
rofessor Tregoe’s current event luncheon group will meet tomorrow noon in room 318, Student Union building. The members of the luncheon meet at 12:30 weekly, and after an enjoyable meal, Professor Tregoe gives his report and understanding of the events of the week.
If you are anxious to keep up with the times, you are cordially invited to attend the luncheon and hear local and national news discussed by an authority. The price of the luncheon is fifty cents.
With the distribution date for the 1930 "El Rodeo,” University of Southern California yearbook, set for May 23, Matt Barr, editor-in-chief, announces that the early publication date will make the Trojan annual available to alumni, former students, delegates, noted educators, and others who will gather for the Semi-Centennial celebration, May 29 to June 7.
The book will feature the history of the university. Old pictures of early fraternity and sorority groups, views of the Trojan campus of the 80’s, and other phases of the development of the university will be •esented.
Wood-blocks executed by Vernon Morse, southland artist, will form an eight-page section of campus scenes, both of the past and the present. The blocks are done in five colors. Another colored pictorial section is to portray Los Angeles when it was a sleepy Spanish pueblo, the first Trojan campus, the present university group, and the institution of the future.
Spooks and Spokes To Vote On Pledges
Voting on new members of Spooks and Spokes, women’s honorary organization, will take place at a luncheon today at 12:15 at the Cottage tea room, according to Grace Wright, secretary. All members are urged to be present.
Sophomore and junior girls who have a scholastic average of 1.7 and who are prominent in student body activities will be considered for membership. The scholastic average necessary for membership was raised last semester, and membership iu Spuuko and Spokes is considered a great honor.
munity singing which will be led by Myron Sunde. Dinner will be served at 5:30 at twenty-five cents person. Cordial invitation is extended to all Trojan men on the campus and particularly to members of political science classes.
In connection with the voluntary contributions being received for the world student loan fund, officials of the Y state that the one hundred fifty dollar quota has not yet been reached and lntereet-ed students are invited to donate to the fund.
METEOR’ BAFFLES SLEUTHS
St. Louis, April 1—St. Louis detectives have failed to find trace of an object that attracted the entire city. A "meteor,” leaving a trail of blue light, was seen plunging earthward, but tho sleuths were unable to find trace ot it.
WIDOW OF WAGNER DIES IN GERMANY
Bayreuth, Germany, April 1— (INS)—One of the few remaining links with the “golden age” of German music was broken today with the death, at her home here, of Cosima Wagner, widow of Richard Wagner, at the age of 93.
With the passing of Cosima Wagner goes the “grande dame” of German music. The daughter of Franz Lisat, Frau Wagner lived not only through her great husband’s trials and tribulations as a pioneer in a new field of music, but also saw him raised to the pinnacle of musical mastery antd the posthumous recognition that came to Wagner was heaped upon her and her son Siegfried.
Cosima Wagner outlived her famous husband by almost a half century.