Vfee Contest Announced For Best Literary Work
lational Arts Club Offer $3000 For Paper On “The Soul of America;” Award To Be Made By Committee Members.
\ $3,000 prize contest for the*not later than April 1, 1931. The
MORTAR board Important meeting to t|e«t new members at 3:30 today in W. S. G. A. office-
SOUTHER
ALIFORNIA
DAILY!1? TROJAN
LEGISLATIVE COUNCIL The legislative council of the Associated students will meet at 7:30 o’clock tonight in the councH room, Student Union.
SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL- NO. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, May 13, 1930
No. 136
»t literary work on "The Soul of jerica" was announced by the jtdonal Arts club through Presi-_int John O. Agar, who stated that object of the award was to Unuiate the writing of a work blch will reveal the soul of nerica as distinguished from oks in which the authors thought-ssly praise or condemn the na-inal character.
The award will be made by a immittec of members of the Na-onal Arts club consisting of Wll-im Allen White, chairman, Mary istin, Hamlin Garland, Ida Tar-11, and Henry Goddard Leach. Under the rules of the contest. Iinuscripts submitted may be ln iy literary form—novel, history, *try or critical essay—but only ose presenting a constructive iv of America, as implied in the je to be given the prize-winning ork, will be considered by the immlttee.
It Is the feeling of those who are coloring “The Soul of America” latest that the post-war literature the past decade has been given gely to magnifying national ulti and to a cynical criticism of islng phases of our national life. In the deluge of such books, Mr. gar said, the underlying charac-of America, its achievements Its Ideals, have been sub-erged. He expects that the $3,000 ■ize, with all rights reserved, will rve to bring out another and der view of the aspects of our rilization which are fundamental id admirable.
RULES GIVEN The rules pertaining to the sub-lision and choice of tlie best work The Soul of America" are as Hows:
The manuscripts to be consid-ed must be from 10,000 to 100,000 srds In length.
Only those works written be-reen March 31, 1930, and April 1931, will be eligible for the corn-ititlon.
All manuscripts must be for-
manuscrlpts will ne submitted anonymously and no prize will be awarded if, in the judgment of the committee, no work Is worthy of (Continued on Page Four)
Seniors Have Nominations
Class President and Treasurer Will Be Chosen Tomorrow.
ElecUon of presisent and treasurer of the senior class of Letters, Arts, and Sciences will be held tomorrow following nominations made at a meeting yesterday noon.
Dorothy Danker and George Patterson were nominated for the office of president Phil Donovan was the only nominee for treasurer. Election of the new officers will be held tomorrow at the usual place for election of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Art Neelley, permanent president of the senior class, was in charge of the meeting. He announced that all seniors in the university are requested to pay particular attention to notices in the Trojan and that they should attend all senior meetings for the rest of the year. As this is semicentennial year, all seniors are expected to attend Ivy day ceremonies. They will wear cap and gown. Charles Neilsen, a senior in the College of Commerce, has been appointed general chairman of the Ivy day ceremonies. He was representative of the junior class at the ceremony last year.
Discussion was held concerning commencement announcements and the all-university senior ditch day, which will be held in the near future. Announcement was made that the official senior bids are on sale only in the Students’ store.
TROJAN STATUE TO BE UNVEILED ON S. C. CAMPUS
Bronze Warrior Will Make Appearance; Several Replicas Will Be Made.
Emblematic of the spirit of the University of Southern California, a bronze statue of a Trojan wor-rior on a massive pedistal of silver-gray granite will be unveiled on the S. C. campus on Friday, June 6, as a feature of the university’s one-week celebration of its golden anniversary.
Dr. Harold Stonier, of New York, educational director of the American Institute of Banking and an alumnus of Southern California, will dedicate the shrine for the Trojan alumni association, donnor of the symbolic monument.
The statue typifies "The Spirit of Troy”; it is a Trojan youth poised for action, strong of muscle, forward-looking, and superbly personifying eager, intelligent, healthy young manhood.
A ten-foot base of the heroic figure, which itself measures eight feet, is to be lettered and carved, depicting traditional and symbolic phases of college days. On one side will be portrayed academic characteristics of student life, while the other will reveal the athletic activities.
A bronze replica of the seal of the University of Southern California and an insert of the Trojan Oath or Creed will be set at the front of the granite base. On the back of the base will be engraved a reproduction of the torch of immortality.
This base is to broaden near the ground into a platform, allowing speakers to address collegiate
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RECOUNT OF LIBERAL ARTS PROGRESS OF S. C. VOTES DECIDES SIX WINNERS ^“pmeant
The senior class of Letters, Ai ls irded to “The Soul of America land Sciences voted to enter the immittee, the National Arts club, General Alumni association of the
Gramecry Park, New York City,
JlROUP TO MEET TOMORROW NOON
rofessional Pan-Hellenic Will Hold Spring Luncheon In Student Union.
Professional Panhellenic will ild Its spring luncheon tomorrow the Student Union. The guests honor will be Mrs. Pearle Aikin nith, Dean Mary Sinclair Craw-d, and Mrs. Rufus B. von Klein-nid.
“The purpose of this annual event to familiarize all the members professional sororities with the leers and activities of their gov-aing council,” said Elba Arbo-t, president of the body, yester-
y.
Professional Pan-Hellenic is the verning body regulating rushing id standards of various organiza->ns with the purpose to stimulate erest in the field of professional brk, to be the source whereby all pfessional women will become ac-(ainted, and to sponsor all activi-in the professional field. (Official announcement of a mge ln the terms of officers will made at the luncheon. Hereto-e olllcers have been installed Eh February to hold oilice for one Now, installation will take ice each June, last semester's icers finishing out this year.
• system of rotation, each Ifesslonal sorority has its presi-M. an officer of professional Pan-lleuic. Those holding positions K are: Elba Arbogast, Lambda
ln8e, Kappa Beta Pi, vice-presi-Elizabeth Quinn, Phi Chi eta, secretary; and Alma Alvin, Heta, treasurer.
'ext semester the president of sllon Alpha, dental, will become asurer; Phi Beta, music and ®cb, will become secretary; Phi 1’heta, commerce, will become ^President, and the president of PPa Beta Pi, law, wlll serve as aident.
university as a unit. The membership fee will be paid at the time of payment for the diploma fee. Caps and gowns may be secured In room 5 of the Student Union.
Seniors are requested to attend the senior-faculty ball game to morrow afternoon on Bovard field. It is sponsored by Skull and Dagger, senior men’s honorary.
MASONIC CLUB ELECTS
Myron E. Smith is the new president of the S. C. Masonic club. Other newly elected officers are beslie B. Riggins, vice-president; Ralph E. White, secretary; Schuyler Joyner, treasurer; and Professor Joseph M. Cormack and Professor William E. Koch, faculty advisers.
Riggins is the retiring president The club’s next meeting will bo held ou May 21 at 6:30 p.m., ir the Student Union.
VERSE ANTHOLOGY TO BE PUBLISHED
Prominent S. C. Alumni Contributes To 100-Page Semi-Centennial Publication.
Crawford, Byerley, Mills, Wilhoit, Robinson, and Kuchel Given Positions of Representatives of Legislative Council of Assocated Students.
By VIRGINIA MONOSMITH
Because of irregularities in the counting of ballots last Friday for deciding the election of representatives on the Legislative Council from the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences, a recount was held yesterday by members of the Election Commission under the direction of Arthur Langton, commissioner.
Coming out as the six highest who will take the positions next year are inorder, Ames Craw-* A count of the votes cast in
ford polling 797 votes, Ruth Ann Byerley with 781 votes, Juanita Mills with 766 ballots in her favor, Elinor Wilhoit with 731 votes cast for her, Blanch Robinson with 661 votes, and Thomas Kuchel with 637 ballots.
Defeated candidates for the council positions are Britt Bowker, Guy Funai, and Margaret Lipsey. Bowker came in seventh with 580 votes, Funai in next with 535 votes, and Miss Lipsey next with 526 ballots checked for her.
The recount was made necessary Friday evening when it was found that after the ballots had been counted the votes as recorded by different members of tho commission did not tally. With the exception of a few of the candidates, the count for the students was quite nearly equal.
the College of Engineering for the college heads gave the office of president to Arthur Cutts, unopposed candidate, with 89 votes. George Shannahan defeated Walter von KlelnSmid for vice-president with a vote of 51 to 43. Hugh Conley was running unopposed for the secretaryship of the class and received 88 votes. For the office of treasurer, William Capp was elected with 49 votes. Henri Ledeboer and Marion Marshall, his competitors, received 3 and 42 votes respectively.
Votes cast in the college elections of the College of Music, School of Architecture, and Graduate School have not yet been recorded but will be counted to day and the results announced tomorrow.
One Hundred Students Will Participate In Semi-Centennial Feature.
E.W. HILLS RETURNS FROMJONVENTION
Aeronautical Education In High Schools Is Endorsed; Future Plans Made.
The anthology of verse, published by the university In connection with its semi-centennial activities, is now being printed and will be ready for distribution soon, according to Dr. Louis Wann, chairman of the English department.
Floy Bernice Palmer, Morgan Cox, Julia Norton McCorkle, Ethe-lyn Tyson Gaw, Snow Longley Housh, and William Van Wyck, are among the alumni who have contributed to the 100-page volume.
Some poems were chosen because they made an emotional appeal, others because they are the fine expression of worthy thought, others because of their realistic presentation of life, and others because they denote quality, insight, imagination, and truth. Form as well as material was considered.
Dr. Wann was assisted in judging the lyrics by Dr. Allison Gaw and Prof. Roy T. Thompson, colleagues in the Trojan English department.
STIMSON REVIEWS WORK OF
DELEGATES TO ARMS PARLEY
Washington, May 12—(INS)—*can be carried on by persons 3000
President Hoover at no time iu tervened with any instructions as to whfft the American naval delegates at London should or should not do, Secretary of State Stimson declared today before the senate foreign relations committee.
"If any mistakes were made,” Stimson said, “the responsibility rests with the delegates themselves.”
Stimson was the first of the treaty’s defenders to appear before the senate committees thal plan to analyze it thoroughly be-tore raiuicttliOB.
ROOM CROWDED
One of the largest crowds that ever tried to jam into a capitol committee room fought for vantage-points to hear him testify.
He said the American delegation went to London without any specific instructions from the president.
"We are profoundly grateful for that conduct for it was an intricate situation and no negotiations
miles away,” he said The mission of the Amei delegation, Stimson said, was to co-operate in terminating naval competition, assure equality be-tween the United States and British navies, assume satisfactory naval relationships with Japan and try to reduce general ton nage.
"We were concerned with the naval construction program France, Italy, and Japan only so far as the affected the British navy,” Stimson said.
■I IMITATION AGREEMENT’ Complete agreement was reached in tonnage limitation and the only problem upon which complete solution was not reached was that of British-French-Italian relations “On every major question," he said, "unanimous agreement was reached. The American delega tion knew its own mind and knew it was unanimous. That had great effect on the conference.
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Earl W. Hill, professor of aviation, and Herscheal Linville returned Saturday morning in the latter’s plane from Phoenix, Arizona, where the vocational educational convention of 11 western states took place May 8 to 10.
Endorsement of the plan for aeronautical education in public high schools of Arizona was made during the convention by the convention by the Phoenix Exchange club at a meeting of the aviation committee. It was authorized by the club to act in regard to proposals made by Professor Hill, chairman of the California state advisory committee on aeronautical education. The committee will seek co-operation of other civic and educational bodies in the state.
Professor Hill represented the aviation division of the vocational education conference to the club. Courses recommended by him are of a general and not technical nature. The aeronautical educational program proposed calls for no equipment and does not involve flying lessons.
The history, economics, operation of systems, laws regulating air travel, theories of flight, commercial application of flying, involving carrying of mail, passengers and express, are phases that Exchange club members will try to have taught in Arizona public schools, based on those courses offered in the schools of California.
Professor Hill had a conference with Governor Phillips of Arizona on the proposed introduction of the transportation study in that state, meeting with favorable consideration. The courses, if adopted, will be modeled along those taught here in the College of Commerce In aeronautics. The aviation committee of the vocational educational conference of other western states are considering the possibility of adding this phase to secondary school curricula.
S.C. AND STANFORD CO-EDSTp DEBATE
Fraternity Problem To Be Discussed In Dual Decision Contest.
“Resolved: that social sororities and fraternities are undesirable in American colleges and universities," is the question to be debated by Troy's co-ed debaters and Stanford's co-ed debaters In a dual decision contest on Thursday, May 15, 1930, at Palo Alto and as S. C.
The affirmative team of the womens’ debate squad, which is composed of Helen Peterson and Lucile Reed, will leave today for Stanford where they will debate their negative side while Stanford’s affirmative team will travel south to meet the S. C. negative representatives.
Helen Peterson, manager of the womens’ debate squad and first speaker on the affirmative, has participated in many debates during tho year. Among the colleges and universities she has met are Whittier, Loyola, Utah, Stauford, and Glendale Junior college. Her colleague, Lucile Reed, is captain of the squad, succeeding Betty Henninger. Her score of wins is highest in the squad. She has debated Stanford university, Oregon, Le Verne college, U. C. L. A., and California.
Visitors from Stanford will be given a luncheon and dinner, on Thursday. Val Robertson and Doris Rutherford, who are beginning their first year of varsity debating, w’ill meet the Stanford team in Porter hall. Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford will preside. The affirmative team who is journeying to Palo Alto are hoping to debate Mills college during their sojourn in the north.
"Victory,1’ a symbolic pageant portraying the progress ot the University of Southern California since its founding fifty years ago will be presented by a hundred Trojan students on June 3 in Bovard auditorium, during a one-week semi-centennial celebration to be attended by alumni, envoys of educational institutions, and delegates from national and international groups.
Two chronlcleers and Gregorian chants will precede a series of spectacular episodic tableaus representing high lights of S. C.’s history. Following a processional of taper bearers to the stage, the first episode will portray the lighting the the lamp of knowledge, symbolizing the founding of the university. Other scenes will depict the first commencement, early growth, crises, mental, physical. and spiritual life of college students, foreign students gathering at Troy, collegiate sports, and the seven arts fostered by the light of the lamp of learning.
Students from each of the twenty schools and colleges Southern California will carry to the altar symbols of the contributions of their scholastic divisions: these will be received by Alice Elinor Clark, a student, depicting the Goddess of Learning.
Singing of the first Alma Mater, Tscliaikowsky’s symphony of Unrest, and the Trojan Victory song are significant musical aceompani-aments of the pantomime. William Elfeldt, a student in the S. C. College of Music, arranged the musical interpolations. Jerome Ehrllck, another student, is responsible for the scenic designs, and still other students have charge of the costumes and symbolic properties.
The golden anniversary pageant is under the supervision of Miss Florence Hubbard and Mrs. Tacie Rew of the Trojan School of Speech.
Three Women’s Societies
Will Hold Annual Fete
W. S. G. A., Y. W. C. A. and W. A. A. Will Give Banquet and Present Yearly Awards To Outstanding Women In Many Fields Of Campus Activity.
Three women's organizations,♦Union. Graduating senior and
S. G. A., W. A. A., and Y. W. C. A., will conmbine to give the annual women's formal spring banquet tomorrow at 7 p. m., in the social hall of the Student
New Squires Are Elected
Service Group Chooses 31 Underclassmen For Next Year.
Announcement of the appointment of thirty-one prominent underclassmen lo Squires was made yesterday by Sam Newman, president of the Trojan Knights. Seven men were put on the "preferred list," which means that they will take the places of any elected member who fails to return in September. These men have been named in the preferred order.
All of the students selected were chosen because of their active interest and service in campus affairs.
S. C. Music Students Entertain at Affair
Adelaide Steward anil Mary Jane Zviayiiew, muueius oi tne college oi Music, furnished the music for a banquet given at the Elk3’ club Thursday evening, May 8, at which Governor Geo. C. Young was the princip'e speaker, and Mme. Schu-mann-Heink, one of the guests of honor.
Miss Steward, pupil of Leila Ellis, played a group of piano numbers and Miss May hew a group of harp numbers.
Newspaper Trip
Planned Saturday
As a climax to the journalism excursion trips, a group will go to Riverside on Saturday, May 17, to edit the Riverside Press. Under the direction of Ralph Flynn, Trojan editor, and Marc N. Goodnow, field work supervisor in the department of journalism, the students will take over all the editorial work of the paper, gathering the news and writing it up.
This is the largest of the tasks undertaken by journalism students this year. The Riverside Press is regularly an eighteen-page paper, inursuay, a group iiurn iliu class in advertising will go to Riverside to sell advertising for the Saturday issue of the paper.
Those who will edit the paper on Saturday are: Ralph Flynn, John McCoy, Arthur Langton, Ray Zeman, Elizabeth Hawkins, Esther Shelliamer, Rebecca Perdew, Virginia Monosmith, Dinette Zimmerman, Alice Doty, Ruth Stein, and Ruth Reading.
BACHELOR’S CLUB INITIATES PLEDGES
Banquet Preceded Ceremonies For All Alumni, Actives, and Pledges.
Initiation ceremonies for twenty-five upperclassmen and two honorary pledges were held by the Bachelor’s club on Thursday evening, May 8. The affair was held at the Greystone Inn on San Fernando boulevard.
Preceding the initiation, a banquet was held for all alumni, active members, and pledges. Present at the banquet were several of the founders and charter members of the club.
The actual Initiation ceremonies and mystic rites took place immediately after the banquet. The following is a list of the men initiated:
Dean Campbell of the College ot (Continued on Page Four)
The list includes:
Jack Smith, architecture, Theta Psi; Lester Heppy, pharmacy, Kappa Psi; Guy Bartlett, liberal arts, Kappa Sigma; Charles Clay, commerce, Delta Sigma Pi; Earl Wager, dental, Lamda Sigma Nu; James Vamas, dental, Xi Psi Phi; Lee Ewing, dental, Delta Sigma Delta; Stanley Vine, dental, Psi Lamda; John Cook, architecture, Alpha Rho Chi; Karl Busch, architecture. Alpha Chi Rho; Daniel Drown, commerce, non-org; Joe Buschard, pharmacy. Phi Delta Chi; James Booth, commerce. Pi Kappa Alpha; Herbert Bailey, commerce, Sigma Tau; Ernest Oswald, commerce. Sigma Tau; Clarence Stringer, Sigma Phi Epsilon, commerce; Quentin Reger, liberal arts, Kappa Alpha; Sam Wiley, liberar arts, Delta Chi; Gage Parker, Theta Sigma Nu, commerce; Lee Donley, liberal arts, Theta Sigma Nu; James Tarver, dental, Delta Sigma Phi; Rem-mington Mills, commerce, Phi Kappa Psi; Harry Bud Lawson, liberal arts, Phi Kappa Psi; Bill Thompson, engineering, Sigma Phi Delta; Frank Carter, engineering, Phi Sigma Kappa; Robert Schan-beck, engineering, Sigma Alpha Epsilon; George HarriB, liberal arts, /.eta Beta Tau; Ed Belasco, liberal arts, Zeta Beta Tau; Charles Van Landingham, liberal arts, Sigma Chi; Arthur Livingston, liberal arts, Phi Beta Delta; Alton Garrett, commerce, Phi Kappa Tau.
The preferred list includes: Dean Harrell, William Baxter, Max Plake, Henry Staltenberg, Calvin Carey, Bob Gardner, John Christian.
mothers of university women wlll be honored guests.
The "Trojan Shrine” wlll be the motif of the banquet. The theme will be carried out in decorations, toasts, and programs. The model of the statue to be unveiled during the semi-centennial week will be placed on the mantel behind the speakers' table. Spring flowers and many candles will be used to decorate the tables, and several small statues of Trojan warriors will be placed about the hall. Programs will have a picture of tbe Trojan Shrine on the cover, and will contain a copy of the Trojan creed. The meaning of the Shrine and tbe Insig-nias at its base will be taken an subjects of toasts.
Awards will be presented during the evening for scholastic, athletic, and activity achievements. Erma Willis, president of social Pan-Hellenic association, will award the Pan-Hellenic scholarship cup to the sorority which has maintained the highest scholastic average during the past year. The awarding of the trophy Is traditional at the banquet. Rho Chi will award a cup to the freshman woman who has maintained the highest average in the College of Pharmacy. Pi Lambda Theta, educational sorority trophy will also be awarded.
W. A. A. awards will be presented by Florence Waechter, president, and by Ruth Goldman. They consist of rings, sweaters, and trophies to individual gills, and plaques to the house winning athletic championships.
Mrs. Pearl Aikin Smith will award the Y. W. C. A. cup to the girl who bas contributed the most to the Y. W. C. A. during the past year. Thc Town and Gown cup will also be awarded to the girl making tbe greatest contribution to the university during the past year. Honor BcrollB wlll be presented to the 10 most outstanding women on the campus. This award 1b made each year (ConUnued on Page Four)
SQUIRES
A luncheon meeting of all new and old Squires will be held today in room 324, Student Union, at noon.
BUSINESS WOMEN TO SPEAK
AT COMMERCE WOMEN’S DAY
Many prominent business wo-*Jessup, Los Angeles Board of
men from various professional fields have been secured to speak to Trojan women and high school delegations at the first annual Commerce Women’s day to be held on this campus Saturday, May 17.
These women will address roundtable gatherings of which there will be nine, having for their subjects nine of the majors offered in the S. C. College of Commerce and Business Administration.
The following are the topics and the speakers:
Aviation: Miss Gertrude Mason, assistant trarnc manager, western Air Express.
Accounting: Miss Beatrice Cook, secretary to the residence man ager, Haskins and Sells.
Advertising: Mrs. Lulu Eckles, advertising manager, Bullocks' Wilshire.
Banking and finance: Miss Evelyn Davis, secretary, Security First National bank.
Commercial teaching: Miss Eva
Education.
Retail buying: Miss Florence Wagner, buyer, Bullock's.
Secretarial work: Miss Jane Humphreys, office manager, Dock-weiler, Dockweiler, and Finch.
Trade and transportation: Miss Louise Wetherall, traffic manager, Kuhl, Warren, and company.
No selection of a speaker has been made as yet for insurance.
These speakers will discuss their vocations with reference to qualifications necessary for entrance into the profession, possibilities of advancement, possibilities for entering other business through training in that line, and salaries.
QUESTIONS IN ORDER
Following the address, questions may be asked about the profession, and a Phi Chi Theta member will be present to answer questions pertaining to courses offered at S. C. on that line.
A general meeting in Porter (Continued on Page Four)
SENIOR EDITION OF REVIEW DISCUSSED
Magazine Prepared Under the Direction Of Ralph Flynn.
By ELMA GORDON
The traditional senior edition sf the Southern California Alumni Review came off the press last Thursday.
The magazine was prepared this month under the direction of IHalph Flynn, Dally Trojan editor, and contributions were written by members ot the senior class who have distinguished themBelves as leaders during their four years on the campus.
An outstanding exception to senior contributions is a letter written from London by Virgil Pinkley concerning llie death ot Jimmy Spence. Piukley was editor of the Trojan last year and Jimmy Spence was business manager.
The May Issue of the review ls unusual in that it contains more than thirty cuts of prominent senior men and women. The pictures chosen to accompany Dorothy Banker's article "True Sons of Troy" are of Doris Tennant, Leo Adams, Isobel Loftus, and Francis Tappaan.
Athletes of 1930 chosen by Ralph Huston to illustrate his article are: Nate Barragar, John lA'liners, Jess MorteUBen, and Jess Hill. Many others of the outstanding senior athletes who have contributed to Trojan athletic fame are mentioned in the story.
MANY PICTURES Pictures of Dorothie Smith, Lorraine Your-, lima nrifflth and Grace Wright accompany Isobei IxjflUB' story "Helens of Troy." These four merely represent the many senior women whose activities during the last four years on the Trojan campus are reviewed by Miss Loftus.
Activities of the senior men are recalled by Paul Slater in "Met of Troy.” Those who are outstand-(Continued on Page Four)