SKULL and dagger
Skull and Dagger will eet in 203 Student Union ,, noon today. All active ambers must be present.
SOUTHERN
DAILY
SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Varsity debate squad meeting in room 206 today at 4 p. m. A practice debate is to be held and future debates announced. All squad members are requested to be present.
VOL. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Wednesday, April 9, 1930.
No. 120
dinner set
FOR TONIGHT IN S.U. HALL
Annual Dinner of College 0f Commerce Takes Place Tonight.
SHIP ON DISPLAY
Novel Decorations Will Include Flags Of All Countries.
Adding distinct interest and joTcltv to the annual conference limner of the college of commerce md business administration to be held In the social hall of the Student Union tonight, is a model ehip valued at $1,000, and repre-Bemting a masterpiece of fine work-manship.
The ship is of tlie three-mast ichooner type and is built to tho perfect scale of one inch to fifty i(*t, being fifty inches long and eiact in every detail, from stem to stern and from starboard to port. The replica, "Blue Boy,” ras secured from the Fellows aml Stewart shipbuilding company in Wilmington, and will be placed in the center of the banquet hall.
TICKETS SOLD Tickets for the dinner have all been 60ld, according to Dean Reid L McClung and all final arrangements have been made. The musical entertainment will be given by the Halleujah quartet singing popular melodies and negro spirituals. This colored group received favorable receptions at every performance in a recent tour of the United States. Soft instrumental music from the balcony will be heard throughout the evening.
Flags of all countries will decorate the tables, while novel decorations, symbolic of the different departments, will serve us place cards In guiding tlie 500 guests to their places' A model steam-
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PRESIDENT
HAMPTON CHOSEN NEW W.A.A. HEAD FOR COMING YEAR
Jean Fox, Dorothy Allen, Frances Dassoff To Fill Other Offices.
Walter Benedict, president of the College of Commerce, who is in charge of all committees for the annual conference dinner to be held tonight in the Student Union building.
Janet Hampton was elected president of the Women’s Athletic association yesterday over Leonore Rathbun. Miss Hampton won by a comfortable margin, garnering 32 votes. Miss Ratlibun’s vote was 21.'
The vice-president of the W. A. A was won by Jean Fox, over Fay Jasman. Dorothy Allen won the secretaryship over Helen Osgood and Margaret Sweet. Frances Dassoff was elected treasurer over Bessie McCollum. Nancy O’Brien was unanimous choice for the office of activity recorder.
Miss Florence Waechter, president of the organization for the last year, yesterday declared that the president-elect would accompany her to the convention of the N. A. A. W. convention in Wisconsin next w’eek. The two officers will leave Sunday evening.
PRESS CLUB HOLDS INITIATION TONIGHT
News Service Men To Be Guests Of Honor At Annual Dinner Of Writers.
Professor Marc N. Goodnow, and Professor Ivan Benson, of the Journalism department at S. C., and Tom Curran and George Beale of the United Press will be the guests of honor at the Press club banquet which will be held in the Student Union building this evening at 6 o’clock.
The thirteen pledges who will be initiated tonight have been active in work on the campus publications for one year or longer. They are: Ted Hawkins, Ruth Ann Byerley, Morton Morehouse, Lewis Gough, John Dorfner, Mulvey White. Stanley Ewins, Alice Doty, Frances Schulte, Peggy Krause, John McCoy, Mary Alice Parent.
I Pledges must turn iu their satirical essays by noon today accord tog to Elinore Wilhoit, president of the organization. The essays *ill be read at the banquet as a Wrt of the program.
Mr. Curran and Mr. Beale will ** the chief speakers, a film depicting the activities of the United Press will also be shown during the eveniug.
Members and pledges are reminded that the dinner will be 75 | cents a plate.
Ushers Wanted to Aid In June Celebration
Students interested in meeting •one of the world’s most famous Personages wlll find a splendid opportunity in serving as ushers guides about the campus in semicentennial celebration une 2 to 6, stated Dean Karl ■ ^augh, chairman of plans. The various departments in the uni-'erslty are planning exhlbtlons to ®t*rtaln the delegates.
Carrying out the international froosphere, a luncheon with Pres-t von KlelnSmid presiding and delegates from tlie different oouutrles speaking, will be given the Los Angeles chamber of commerce at Uie Biltmore hotel June 6.
Revue Seats Are Reserved
Fraternities Urged To Apply For Tickets For Annual Extravaganza.
Fraternities and sororities desir- j ing blocks of seats for the annual Extravaganza which is to be presented in Bovard auditorium May 1, 2, and 3, are requested to make reservations as soon as possible with William Miller, manager of university play productions.
Miller will be in his oilice Friday morning of this week from 10 to 12, and after vacation will be there a part of every day. Organizations should bear in mind that the best seats will go to the lirst comers.
Tomorrow afternoon Max Mellinger will work the choruses and the cast together for the first time. He has planned to go through the entire three acts then and Friday afternoon.
The three choruses under the guidance of Jean Maschio are rehearsing every afternoon. Each group has already learned three routines, and before vacation will learn a fourth. Miss Maschio expects to practice with her groups during a part of spring vacation.
Betty Lou nenaerson will sing the leading role in “Footsteps.” She is to play the role of Babs, the young freshman pledge to the Tau Tau sorority. Others in the large cast include Ituth Ann Byerley, Margaret Thomas, Frances Hite Marie Parenteau, Fred Phleger, Frencliy Flynn, Randolph Richards James Vamvas, Ruth Wilson, William Miller, and Marion Leonard
Pledges Of Two Honorary A.S.B. PETITIONS Groups To Be Presented FOR OFFICES DUE
BY FOUR FRIDAY
Spooks and Spokes and Sigma Sigma, Junior Organizations, Will Introduce New Pledges In Rally Friday Morning.
Spooks and Spokes, junior wom-«Mield this noon, but the idea of a en's honorary organization, and Sigma Sigma, corresponding honorary organization for junior men, will hold a joint, pledging ceremony at the all-university rally to be held in Bovard auditorium Friday morning at chapel period.
Spooks and Spokes will pledge ten students, while Sigma Sigma have selected fourteen students as well as two members of the Trojan faculty for honorary membership. Bids to both organizations were sent out yesterday, but the names of prospective pledges will not be made public until the actual pledging ceremonies Friday morning.
Sigma Sigma pledging was originally scheduled for last Friday, but the appearance of Fred Wiring's “Pennsylvanians" at the rally made postponement necessary.
Spooks and Spokes planned to pledge at a meeting to liave been
joint pledging for both organizations at Friday's rally was advanced and soon accepted.
Sigma Sigma pledges have the task of the publication writing the Yellow Dog, annual scandal sheet, and will sell it on tlie S. C. campus on Wednesday, April 23. The Sigma Sigma dinner-dance will be held Saturday night, April 26.
Membership in either Spooks and Spokes or Sigma Sigma is recognized to be a great honor lo all junior classmen. ' Only Uie most prominent members of the class are offered bids, and political “pull" enters in no way into tlle selection. To be eligible for Spooks and Spokes, a girl must have a 1.75 scholastic average, and requirements for Sigma Sigma are equally high. Activity and prominence in campus affairs is a prerequisite in the case of both organizations.
E SET FOR FRIDAY NIGHT
Paul Pendarvis and Orchestra To Furnish Music For Dance In Student Union.
In every sense of the word the all-university dance to be held Friday, April 11, from 9 to 12 p.
in the Student Union social hall is to be an informal spring dance. Paul Pendarvis and his orchestra is to furnish music for the evening’s entertainment.
The informal note is being carried out in decorations for the hall which will consist of large baskets of spring flowers. Programs liave been designed and created by Myers which are in accord with the motif.
As the paUo is a cooler place in which to serve the drinks than in the liall outside the door anil does not make so much congestion punch will be served there. The cloak room will be open as usual.
As this is an all-university affair, Dorothie Smith, vice-president of the Associated Students and head of the social committee is in full charge. The committees under her are as follow: Hazel Redfield, orchestra; Ella May Ileidy, punch and invitations; Wilma Goodwin, publicity; and Wilmer Morby, tickets.
Bids for the dance are now on sale for 51 a couple and may be bought either in the Student store or from a member of tlie ticket committee which is functioning on tlie campus as a new idea this dance under the direcUon of Wil-mer Morby, ticket manager.
W.S.G.A.T0H0LD ‘T DINNER TO END BANQUET MAY 13 ANNUAL ELECTION
NOTED EDUCATORS TRAVEL
TO S. C. FOR CELEBRATION
Representatives From Holland, Austria, Germany, Belgium, India, South Africa, and Palestine, Attend Gigantic Program ; Varied Schedule of Events Planned For Week
National aud international edu-j^sUtutlons are Dr. Charles \\ . len-
Affair Will Honor Graduating
Senior Women ; Committee
Chairmen Appointed.
Plans are being formulated for the annual May banquet of the Women’s Self-Government association which will be held Tuesday evening, Hay 13, according to Grace Wright, social chairman of W. S. G. A.
The banquet, honoring graduating senior women, will be held in the social liall of the Student Union. Bids will be $1.50, and arrangements are being made for three hundred women.
Committee chairmen have been appointed by Miss Wright and are working now on the banquet. Lucille Huebner will have charge of the printing of the bids, Jane Lawson, tlie planning of the menu, and Juanita Wagner, making of the posters. The design for the cover of the programs will be made by Virginia Arnold. Virginia Monosmith it chairman of the sale of bids and will be assisted by Juanita Wagner.
Other committee chairmen are: Miriam Brownstetter, corsages for tlie honored guests; Doris Tennant, Lucille Huebner, and Grace Wright, selection of candidates for honor scrolls; Martha Greene, chairman of decorations, assisted by Helen Johnson, Marjorie Gre-well, and Billie Rogers; Bonnie Jean Lockwood, assembling awards to be presented; Mary Alice Parent, downtown publicity; and Marion Johnston, campus publicity.
The May banquet is tlie largest social event of tlie year and every woman on the campus has the privilege of attending.
cators, college presidents, and out standing men and women will tra vel to the University of Southern California as official delegates to a semi-centennial celebration which will be held from May 29 to June 7. According to Prof. Hugh C. Willett, secretary of the committee for the fiftieth anniversary commemoration, names of 1-13 representatives of American and foreign universities and learned societies have been received.
Prof. K. H. Bouman, Univer-siteit van Amsterdam, Holland; Dr. I’aul L. Dengler, Austro-Amer-ican InsUtute of International Education, Vienna, Austria; aud Dr. Seedorf, dean of the school of math-matics at Georg August Univer-sltat, GotUngen, Germany, will come from foreign countries for Uie S. C. jubilee. Many other foreign universities will be represented by Uieir alumni who are residing in tlie United States, including tlie Universite Louvain, Belgium; University of Bombay. India; University of Captetown, Cape Province, Sonth Africa; and the Hebrew University, Jerdsalem, Palestine.
Among a group of college presidents who will represent Uieir in-
ny, Gooding college, Wesleyan Idaho; Dr. J. It. McCain. Agnes Scott college, Decatur, Georgia; and Dr. Samuel P. Capen, Uni-
;rsity of Buffalo, New York.
Other noted personages who will attend the semi-rentennlal program as off trial delegates are William Sherman Bovard, brother of Dr. Marion McKinley Bovard, first president of S. C., and Dr. George Finley Bovard, president emeritus, who is coming from Chicago as a delegate for the board of education of Uie Methodist Episcopal church; Congressman Joe S. Crail, representing Drake university, Iowa Falls, Iowa; Hon. Daniel Beecher, Los Angeles judge of the superior court, Amherst college, Massachusetts, aid Dr. Louis - . Wilson, director of the Mayo Foundation at Koclieters, Minnesota.
During the semi-centennial cele-braUon, the following events will be held for official delegates, Trojan alumni, students, and friends of the university: campus tours and visitations, dedication of re-cenUy completed buildings; presentation of Mendelssohn's oratorio, “ElljaJi,” by Madame Scliu-(Continueu On Page rour)
Unsold Benefit Show
Young Peruvian Adventurer to
Be On Council Dinner Program.
Annual election of officers will be combined with a program featuring Augusto Flores at the Y. M. C. A. council dinner tonight. All Y. members are urged to ballot for candidates any time during the day in the hut although time will be alloted at tonight’s meeting for voting.
Candidates have been selected by a nominating committee with the following results: president, Delbert Bowlzer, Carl Burk, Harris Robinson; vice-president, Glenn Jones, Theodore Sharpe; secretary-treasurer, Malcolm Alexander and Halstead McCormick. Results of today’s vote will be posted in tomorrow's Trojan.
As speaker for the evening, Augusto Flores, nineteen year old Peruvian is to tell the group about his hike from South America to New York. He is the only one of five Boy Scouts who started to survive the dangerous journey from La Plata to the Rio Grande. He was fifteen when he b?gan the trip and after enduring robberies, captivities, and numerous physical tortures, arrived in New York a year and a half later.
Since his arrival in New York, he has been entertained by President Herbert Hoover, Calvin Cooi-idge, and Henry Ford. He was asked by Putnam’s Sons publishing company to write an account of his trip. His book, entitled “My Hike," is now in its third edition and is rated high by literary critics. He is at the present time translating the story in.o Spanish for his own people to read.
Statements Of Candidacy Required From All Students
Running In Colleges.
All candidates for any school or college office In the university, must turn in statements of candidacy to all university election commissioner by four p. m. Friday, April 11. This announcement lias been made by student body officials and is to take precedence over any other announcements or information current before this time.
Owing to a misunderstanding 1‘ was believed that only candidates for presidents of the colleges, all university president, vice president, and secretary, legislative council representatives, and yell king were to obtain and fill out statements of candidacy. Under the new ruling candidates for the various offices in all schools and colleges must return properly fill ed out petitions.
PeUtions have been coming in very slowly during the past week, stated Art Langton, elections commissioner. It is absolutely imperative that these statements be turned in to him by four o'clock next Friday. Failure to comply with this regulation will mean loss of candidacy. The election commissioner is in room 203 of the Student Union building from 12:30 to 2 p. m., every day during this week. On Friday, the last day, he will be in this room
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Y.W. TO HOLD NOMINATIONS FOR NEW OFFICERS TODAY
Candidates Urged To File Petitions Before Meeting; All Members Urged To Attend Business Meeting In Club Room.
Nominations of officers of the Y. W. C. A. for the coming year will take place this afternoon at 4 o’clock in thc Y. W. C. A. rooms on the fourth floor of the Student Union building. It will be an open meeting for all members of the Y. W. C. A. who have paid their $1 dues this year, whether at the time of * the membership drive, or later. Oflicers to be nominated are:
Tickets Called In FROSH GET READY
FOR TWO DEBATES
E OF VERSE TO BEJSTRIBOTED
Student Contributions To Be Printed In Book For Semi-Centennial.
A. S. Candidates Must Attend Document Class
Candidates for A. S. U. S. C. Student body offices, including those of legislative council and for yell leader, must attend the classes in constitutional government to be conducted in the debate office in the Student Union Immediately after spring vacation.
Under the direction of the chairman of the constitutional committee, classes will begin at seven o'clock Monday morning, April 21, and will continue during the same hour Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday of the same week.
Dr. Louis Wann, head of the English department and chairman of the Anthology of Verse com mittee, has announced that a volume of about one hundred pages of verse, printed in attractive form, will be ready for distribu tion at the semi-centenniel com mencement.
“The committee, consisting of Dr. Allison Gaw, Prof. Roy T. Thompson and myself, lias completed its work of selection. We shall have a highly creditable anthology representing about thirty-five graduate and undergraduate contributors. Many of the poems, varying in content nnd type from descriptive and free verse to lyrical ballads, have been published in volumes of verse or in magazines," Dr. Wann said.
Members of the committee have been working since September in collecting the manuscripts from S. C. students and alumni. It is hoped that the anthology will be a permanent milestone in the development of Troy's poetic instincts.
College Head To Address Y
Dr. Walter Dexter of Whittier Will Speak At Easter Breakfast.
Dr. Walter F. Dexter, president of Whittier college, is to give the address of the Y. M. C A. Easter breakfast to be held in the Y hut at 6:30 Friday morning, April il Dr. Dexter has been active ir Christian young people’s acUvities for the past decade and was senior chairman of the 1929 Asilomar conference. He is to speak on some current subject of interest to college men and women.
The breakfast is to climax the annual pre-Easter week programs sponsored by the Y and is planned to include various musical features in addition to Dr. Dexter's talk. Calvin Hendricks, baritone soloist, is to sing. Ralph Bowers of the Trojan band will play several clarinet solos and William Ellfeldt, chapel organist will play a number of selections on a portable organ.
Spring flowers naa plants are to be used in carrying out an Easter motif and a truly inspirational service is being arranged. RescrvaUons for the breakfast can be made by all students and faculty on the campus before Friday morning. The service will be over about 7:15 allowing students plenty of time to get to 8 o’clock classes.
president, vice-president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, and treasurer.
To be eligible for president, a girl must have been on the cabinet one year, and have maintained a "C" average. The only pre requisite for the other olllces is to have this grade average.
NOMINATIONS TO BE MADE
Nominations will be made from the floor, but before a girl is nominated it is necessary that she make out and file a petition in the Y. W. C. A. olllce before 10:25 today. At Ihe time of the assembly the report of the nominating committee headed by Janet McCoy, on the candidates recommended by the cabinet, will be read.
Every member of the organisation is asked and expected to attend as It is very important that nominations of the people who will be the representatives of the organization as a whole be carefully considered and receive plenty of support, stated Beth Tibbot, president.
ELECTION DATE SET
Everyone ls reminded that elections of the ofllcers will take place this Friday, April 11, the place of the ballot boxes will be announced later.
Beth Tibbot, president of the Y. W. C. A., will preside at the meeting today. Other present ofllcers of the Y. W. C. A. are: Helen Peterson, vice-president; Betty Mc-Dougall, recording secretary; Lois King, corresponding secretary; and Marlon Washington, treasurer.
ENGINEERS PLAN SOUND TEST HERE
Telephone Company To Give Illustrated Lectures To S. C. Students.
Proceeds from the ticket sah* for the Touchstone theater benefit, along with the remaining un-1 sold tickets, must be turned over to Howard Miller, general chairman, by noon tomorrow.
This announcement was made yesterday by Miller, who has completed arrangements for the benefit performance of ‘‘The Hero,” tomorrow night at the Hollywood Music Box. The affair is being sponsored jointly by Drama Shop, National Collegiate Players, Zeta Phi Eta, and Phi Betu, and the proceeds will be used to purchase new scenery for Touchstone theater.
Stanley Z. Ewens, president of National Collegiate Players and a member of the committee in charge, yesterday predicted a hen vv attendance at the performance in view of the advance sales.
VARSITY BASKETBALL
Senior manager Bonhomme Cahn wants to meet the members of the varsity basketball team today at 10 a.m. in the Student Manager’s office, in reference to proproposed trip to the Verdugo Hills Breakfast club tomorrow morning. Matters concerning transportation are to be discussed.
Two Teams To Meet Redlands University During Easter Vacation.
Members of the freshman debate squad will participate in two debates during the spring vacation. Art Livingston and Sid Levine will form a negative team which will meet Redlands university ou tho Mexican immigration question, on Wednesday, April 1G. On April 17, Ed Lee and Dick Tilden will meet a negative team from Redlands on the same question. It will be a decision affair, carried on in the Oxford style.
Randall Swanberg, manager of the squad, requests that all members be present at the next meeting to De held OU TIiuibuuj at 4:00 p.m.
The following are requested to be present without tail, Swanberg said: Art Livingston, Sid l^evine, Ed Lee, Dick Tilden, Irving Fruchter, Don Prosser, Dale Norman, Bob Gerdner, John Jacobs, and Alfred Coleman.
TROJAN KNIGHTS
A Trojan Knight meeting will be held at 10 o'clock in 203 Student Union.
ARCHITECTS PLAN ARABIAN
NUMBERS FOR MARDI GRAS
Male Dancing Chorus, Morrie Chain Skit To Be Featured ; Fred Johnson Writes Theme Song For Oriental Dance On April 25
A dancing chorus and a skit byj Morrie Chain will be two features of the entertainment at the annual Mardi Gras to be given by the School of Architecture on April 2f> at the Breakfast club.
Glenn Edmunds’ Hotel Alexandria orchestra wlll furnish music for tlie event. Tickets will go on sah* tomorrow at the Student Store at $3.00 a couple.
The theme of the evening's entertainment will be au Arabian Idea, which Morrie Chain is following in his skit. A male dancing chorus is being directed by ji representative from the First National studio, and it will present a number entitled “Arabian Night ies.”
Fred Johnson has written an original theme song for the evening, which will carry the idea of "One Night in Bagdad,” as the dance might be called.
As the dance Is to be a costume affair, prizes will be given for the most original ideas. The committee wiil post suggestions tor costumes in the collateral li-
brary. The committees’ wish this year is to have the students use more originality In designing the costumes than has been done in the past.
Decorations are being made by the entire school of architecture.
The Southern California Student Branch of the American Institute of Electrical Engineers has arranged with the Southern Califor-nit Telephone company for a sound transmission demonstration on Thursday, April 10, at 11:25 a. m. This demonstraUon, which is entiUed, “Electrical Transmission of Speech and Music,” will be conducted in room 302 of the law building.
Items listed on the program are an illustrated lecture cm the characteristics of sound and the mechanism of speaking end hearing; presentation of a film on the me-chanismof speaking and hearing; and demonstraUon of the effects of improper t ransmission of speech and music.
Mr. P. L. Johnson of the chief engineer’s department will be in charge of the demonstraUon and it is hoped all engineering students and otliers wiio may be Interested w^ll attend.
GERMAN SOCIETY TO GIVE AFFAIR
May 3 Final Date Of M.A. Thesis Approval
Each candidate for the master’s degree in June, 1930, must have his thesis unanimously approved by the thesis committee, as to content matter, by May 30.
A report, signed by the chairman of the thesis committee, certifying that the thesis has beeu unanimously approved, must be in the office of the dean of the graduate school, administration building, room 108, on or before May 3.
Candidates whose reports are not in at this date are dropped from the June list without notification.
Supplementing their successful performante last year, the German club is presenting a series of films on "Picturesque Germany" in the auditorium of the law building on Thursday evening at 8 o’clock.
Films liave been secured from i he German railroad ofnee in new York through tlle courtesy of George lteinick of the Ueinlck travel bureau. They will show scenes in Dresden and Saxon Switzerland, Frankfort and the Valley of Main, nnd Nuremberg and vicinity.
During the intermission Nlel Mc-Kle will offer piano selections from Liszt and Mendelssohn. I. Bartlett aud W. Dublin, accompanied by Miss M. Scbwimmer, will give violin selections.