'creshman advisory Th.rt Will be a very Im-■nrtant meeting of the Advisory com-Fr«e. at 4 o'clock this Jurnoon In Dean Bacon s office.
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PETITIONS Petitions of all students planning to run for student body or college offices must be In to Arthur Langton, election commissioner, by Friday in S. U. 223.
SEMI-CENTENNIAL YEAR
VOL. XXI.
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, April 8, 1930.
No. 119
fAA. ELECTION OF CABINET OFFICERS TO BE HELD TODAY
• t Hampton and Leonore Rathbun In Race For Presidency; Both Candidates Active In W. A. A.
Activities.	_
By JUANITA MILLS
With two candidates in the race for thc presidency, elec-wis of officers for the 1931 Women’s Athletic association cablet will take fdacc today. Ballot boxes have been placed in Ihe club room in thc women's gymnasium.
Janet Hampton, ’31, and Leonore Rathbun, ’32, have been ominated for thc presidency. For thc first time in several
I ,hls office IB being sought*----
.. two candidates. Junior women enlisting support for Miss
Miss Rathbun is being ted by the sopho-
meniber of
Hampton;
strongly support ei more women.
a0M|RABLE records
Doth candidates have admirable -cords. Miss Rathbun managed the \V A A- archery tournament U,|3 year, bring archery manager on the W. A. A. cabinet. She lias , High scholarship and her experience In the physical eduratlon department has marked her as a strong worker according to her supporters. She is Alpha Delta Pi.
Miss Hampton transferred Southern California from Junior college in September. At the for-Ber school she held several executive offices, including the vice-presidency of the associated women students. This semester she took over the work of hockey manger ia the middle of the season mi closed the work successfully.
Two candidates are also in the running for the vice-presidency. Again a junior and a sophomore wlll oppose each other. Jean Fox, of the junior has served as secretary of the W. A. A. since the opening of the semester. Fay Jasmann Is the representative of the sophomore class. Miss Jasmann has worked in various athletic activities. She was the winner of the Delta Psi Kappa, national physical education sorority freshman scholarship cup last year.
FRESHMAN NOMINATED
For the secretaryship, Dorothy Allen, Helen Osgood, and Margaret “Peggy" Sweet have been named. The girls are junior, sophomore, and freshman, respectively. Miss Sweet is the only freshman to be nominated for any office. All candidates have shown an interest in athletics and the result is a toss tip.
Prances Dassoff and Bessie McCollum will oppose each other for the position of treasurer. Nancy O’Brien is the lone con-didate for the office of activity recorder.
To be eligible to vote for tlie candidates, women students must have participated in some \V. A. A. activity and must have paid the V. A. A. dues. The eligibility list of voters has been posted on the (Continued on Page Four)
Group Plans Key Awards
Lambda Gamma Phi Will Honor One Commerce and One Law Student.
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Acceptance of two honor keys to be presented by the local chapter was made yesterday by Lambda Gamma Phi, national commerce and law fraternity. The awards will bo made at the close of each school year to a freshman in law and a junior in commerce, who ln the judgment of the faculty, are the most deserving of the honor.
The winners of the awards must excell in scholarship and leadership. These standards were particularly emphasized because of their prominence in the ideals and purposes of Lambda Gamma Phi.
Dean Justin Miller, faculty sponsor in the school of law, presented the offer of the fraternity to the faculty for its approval and was himself Instrumental in the sanctioning of the award by the faculty. The award will be known as the Lambda Gamma Phi honor key.
Dean Reid L. McClung, faculty I sponsor in the college of commerce and business administration, stated that the administration of the college was pleased to accept the award, and that he believed it would be an incentive for those striving for scholarship and leadership. He also stated that in his opinion, awards of this type tend to encourage a higher university scholarship average.
The acceptance of the key is considered a distinct honor to the fraternity due to the fact that the local chapter has been on the S. C. campus for little more than one year. The local officers of Lambda Gamma Phi are: Bertram S. Harris, president; Jack C. Greenburg, vicepresident; William Asimow, chaplain; and Nathan Cowan, treasurer.
Tap Chorus Planned For Footsteps
Nine Girls Selected For Specialty Number By Jean Maschio.
\n innovation in the way of specialty numbers lias been planned by Joan Maschio for “Footsteps,” thc annual Extravaganza whic liis to be presented in Bovard auditorium May 1, 2, and 3. Nine girls will form a tap chorus and will be featured in one of the musical numbers.
Tlie girls in the tap chorus are Gretclien Mayor, Vernice Brain, LaVerne Dugas, Helen Clark, Audrey Wallhaus, Betty Collins, Virginia Marlowe, Shirley Forsythe and Jane Foster.
There has always been a tap dance or tap duet of some sort in the Extravaganza in past years, but this is the first time anything ambitious and difficult as a whole chorus has been attempted.
AMAZONS ELECT TWO OFFICERS FOR NEW TERM
Other Leaders Will Be Chosen After Pledging Of New Members.
BY GRACE M. WRIGHT
Unanimously elected president of the Trojan Amazons, Constance Vachon will lead the all-Unive.--sity women’s honorary group during the year, 1930-1931. Winifred Biegler was re-elected vice-presi-dent. Other offices of the service organization will be elected after pledging of new members is held near the end of this month.
The two successful candidates have been active in student government on the campus for the past three years, stated Bobbie Loftus, Amazon president. Both women are juniors in the college of letters, arts, and sciences. Miss Vachon’s outstanding ach-
OFFICERS
ievement during the past year was \\ ork on the [Extravaganza is | the successful h.andling, as under-
going along smoothly and the di rectors, Miss Maschio, who is in charge of the dancing, and Max Mellinger, director of the cast, expect to work both units together beginning Thursday.
Cooperation with the orchestra will not start until the week after spring vacation. Both the cast and the choruses will rehearse during a part of the spring vacation, according to those in charge.
Several novelty numbers will be introduced in the show, among them a toe ballet, and a skeleton dance, which should prove entertaining. Another feature will be the blues number, in which Weatherstrip, the negro servant, has a nightmare and dreams that the blues have got him.
TRIP IS SPONSORED BY ALPHA ETA RHO
Grads Must Sign Up For Trip To Library
Members of the Graduate school j who are planning to take the trip to the Huntington library on April 25 are asked to sign up on the list in the arcade of the Administration building before Friday oi this week.
A block of 100 tickets has been reserved, according to Helen Tae-
S. C. WILL BE HOST TO WOMEN ENVOYS
Japanese Girl Sent By Tokio Newspaper To Show Appreciation for American Aid.
Aviation Fraternity Will Con- j cker bu’t wiu be held only until duct Inspection Of Grand Central Airport.
That 10 or 12 more students can be accommodated on Ihe tour spon-•oied by Alpha Eta Rho, aviation fraternity, to Grand Central airport, Burbank, this afternoon, was announced this morning by Paul Farr, who is in charge of the trip. Anyone wishing lo accompany the Party is requested to see Farr in the College of Commerce olllce, Old College, before noon today.
Curtiss-Wright Flying service has Placed at Grand Central o’ie of their transcontinental transport Planes for accommodation (lights for members of the Southern California group of visitors. At the air terminal the student party will be conducted on an Inspection tour of the fleld, hangars, shops, and Planes by one of the company ofli-wais, who will explain in detail to Uiem the activity, history, and future plans of the place.
Transportation to llurbank for Individuals will be arranged by
Farr
upon request, and anyone de-
•irtng to meet the group at Grand Central may do so at 3:30. The Trojan party will leave Old College *t 1:15 this afternoon. Students of commercial aviation have been re-Weited especially by Prof. Earl W. Mill to go on this tour.
Saturday, therefore she asks the prompt cooperation of everyone who wishes to go. Cars will leave the campus at 12:30 on the day of the trip.
Tills afternoon Southern California is to be the host to the four Japanese girl envoys of goodwill, who have been sent by Jiji Shim-po, a newspaper of Tokio, to give thanks to America for aid given their country after the earthquake of 1923.
Acting as tlie official representative of the University, President R. B. von KlelnSmid, will entertain the goodwill ambassadresses with a tea In his suite. In the party are Miss Ivimia Asino, daughter of a naval officer; Miss Sumiko Tokuda, daughter of an army officer; Miss Yoshiko Sato, daughter of Baron Sato, and Miss Yoshiko Matsudaira, cousin of Princess Chicliu. They are accompanied by Mrs. Toshiko .Matsudaira, Miss Keiko Makamura and II. Lonkamyama, of the Tokio newspaper.
Before coming to Southern California the company visited Los Angeles High school, the University of California at Los Angelea, and at noon, were the guests of Mary Pickford and Douglas Fairbanks at a luncheon at the United Artists’ Studio.
graduate chairman, of the women's football banquet during the Homecoming celebration. Other activities include work as historian of the rally committee, as chairman of the social sororities during tha community chest campaign, anil as representative to Pan-Hellenic council from the Zeta Tau Alpha house.
PROMINENT JUNIOR
As one of the prominent junior women, Miss Vachon was in charge of decoations for the junior prom and will handle the selection of programs for the junior-senior dinner dance. She has served on El Rodeo staff. Her appointment as sergeant-at-arms of the Trojan Amazons preceded her election to the highest position in that organization.
MISS BIEGLER ACTIVE
Miss Biegler’s activities have covered a wide range of student interests. As a steady worker on the Daily Trojan staff, on which she has attained the highest position possible for a woman student, that of women’s editor, at the same time maintaining a straight “A” average. Because of her interest in journalism, Miss Biegler has been honored with membership in Sigma, honorary-professional journalism sorority, of
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Final Plans For Banquet Completed
All Tickets For Commerce Affair Have Been Sold; Many Prominent Speakers.
Telephone Company To Sponsor Lecture
That the characteristics of sound and the mechanism of speaking and hearing may be demonstrated to Trojan students, the Southern California Telephone company will sponsor an illustrated lecture 011 “The Electrical Transmission of Speech and Music,” to be held in Porter liall Thursday, April 10, it was announced by Dean Phillip S. Biegler, dean of the College of Engineering.
P. L. Johnson of the chief engineer’s department of the telephone company will have charge of the demonstration which will include a film on the mechanism of speaking and hearing. Effects of improper transmission of speech and music will also be demonstrated, it was stated.
Special electrical equipment necessary to give the exhibition will be installed in the hall where the lecture will be held.
AMAZONS ELECT Constance Vachon, above, was elected president of the Trojan Amazons Friday, and Winifred Biegler, lower, was re-elected vice-president. The new officers will serve for the school year beginning next Fall.
That plans for the annual conference dinner of the college of commerce and business administration tomorrow night in the Student Union, far excel those for this event in past years was the statement made this morning by Dean Reid L. McClung. Every ticket for the banquet has been sold, sales closing yesterday morning at 10 a. m. On the program for tomorrow evening are included such speakers as Harry Culver Herman Nater, Dr. Rufus B. von-KleinSmid, and Dean McClung.
Throughout the evening soft instrumental music will be heard I from the balcony of the banquet hall. Other musical entertainment will be groups of selections by the Halleujali quartet, a colored foursome who have toured the entire United States in the past year with a favorable reception in each city. The quartet will sing blues and negro spirituals.
PRINCIPAL SPEAKER Harry Culver, a young business man, will be principal speaker for the dinner. He has selected as his subject, “Selecting a Tall Ladder." A former Trojan student who is now vice-president of the Bank of Italy, Herman Nater, will speak to the commerce guests on “Two Items of Interest.” President von KlelnSmid’s topic of discussion will be “Dreams,” while McClung will talk on “Facts and Fancies Novel decorations, rather than place cards, will mark the places of the 500 assembled guests for the banquet. Flags of all countries will^decorate the tables. The (Continued on Page Four)
CAMPUS VOTES FOR PEACEFUL SETTLEMENTS AND REDUCTIONS
“Largest Naval Force” Receives Fewest Number Of Votes; Returns To Be Sent To President Hoover; Faculty Views Coincide With Student Opinions.
Peaceful settlement of international disputes and world organization tending towards an international police force as th« means of preserving international law arc thc desires of th* students and faculty at thc University of Southern California as shown by thc returns of the poll of the campus on thc naval armament question conducted by thc Daily Trojan for thc past £three school days, ending yesler-
Co-eds Meet Utah Tonight
Women Will Debate On Advisability Of Fraternities and Sororities.
Mac Donald Has Battle
French Cabinet Lauds Briand’s Work While British Face Crisis.
Paris, April 7.-(INS) — The French cabinet today gave its stamp of approval to the activities of Foreign Minister Briand at tlie London naval conference. The cabinet, in a special meetinng, commended M. Briand for “maintaining all points of France’s at tltude” at the parley.
London, April T.-(IXS)—By the force of his oratory and argument, Prime Minister J. Ramsay MacDonald weathered a dangerous storm in the house of commons.
After a brief debate, the motion of Godfrey Locker-Lampson, prominent conservative member, for adjournment of the house over MacDonald’s disarmament policies, was withdrawn amid cheering from the labor benches.
The motion was fraught with “dynamite” for the MacDonald regime and the battle which it would have started, might have resulted in the labor government being blown out of office.
TROJAN WOMEN’S CLUBS HOLD MEETING
---#	I Those interested in engineering.
Primary Aim Is To Form a Pension Fund For
speech, or music are invited to the
University
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Utah university women’s debate tea will arrive today to meet the affirmative team of Southern California women's debate squad on the much discussed question in tho minds of the American people: “Resolved: Than social sororities and fraternities in American colleges are undesirable.”
Any student or visitor is invited to witness the debate in Hoo^e 206 at 8:00 o'clock this evening. This will make the second time the women's debate squad has mot Utah in a debate and the third debate of the season. The squad has already met Glendale junior college and Wyoming university last month.
Miss Helen Peterson who Is manager of the squad, and Miss Lucille Keed, captain, will be the first and second speakers respectively on tlie affirmative side. Both women are beginning their second year of varsity debating.
Next Thursday the affirmative team will travel to Whittier college to contest their negative speakers on the same questiou. Following the close of spring vaca-(Continued on Page Four)
Y.M.C.A. WILL HOLD PRE-EASTER MEET
Dr. Dexter of Whittier College To Speak At Friday Morning Breakfast.
As a fitting close to the annual Pre-Easter week programs spoil sored by the Trojan Y. M. C. A. and featuring Dr. Bruce Baxter in a series of Easter lectures given at the regular daily cliapel hour, the Y. M. C. A. will serve a breakfast at 0:30 Friday morning with reservations open to all students on the campus.
Dr. Walter F. Dexter, president of Whittier college, has been secured to deliver the address of the morning.
In addition to the Easter breakfast, a special music program has been arranged. Calvin Hendricks, baritone soloist of national radio fame, will appear as the featured artist. Hendricks recently won renoun in the national radio singing contest conducted by the Atwater-Kent radio company. Hendricks captured the first award. Included on the special program will be solos by students on the campus. Ralph Ilowers of the Trojan band will give a few clarinet solos and William Ellfeldt, chapel organist, will entertain with selections on a portable (Continued on Page Four)
Y. W. Nominations Planned Tomorrow
Nominations of officers of the Y. W. C. A. for the coming year will be held tomorrow at 4 o’clock in the Y. W. C. A. rooms on tlie fourth floor of the Student Union.
It will be an open general busl-ntss meetinng and nominations will be made from the floor.
Officers to be elected are, president, vice-president, recording secretary, corresponding secretary, and treasurer.
To be eligible for president a girl must have had one year on the cabinet and a “C” average is required of all candidates. Petitions must be made out and filed in the Y. W. C. A. office, by all gills planning to run, before 10:25 tomorrow. The names of the gills recommended by the nominating committee will be read.
Every member of the Y. W. C. A. is expected to attend the open meeting tomorrow. Elections will be held Friday.
day. The suggestion of the United States having the largest naval force tt could afford regardless of the actions of oilier nations received the fewest number of supporters.
POLICE FORCE
The question on "international police force” received the highest number of votes; "International agreements for consultation as a basis of naval reduction” was see-ond; "Parity with England Is secondary to naval reduction" came third: "Independent reduction regardless of the actions of others” got fourth; "Naval reduction is subordinate to parity with England” received fifth place; and "For the U. S. to build the strongest navy it can aJrord” had the fewest followers.
It is evident from the returns that tbe university students as the coming administrators of this country's destinies are whole-heartedly In favor of peaceful settlement of all international disputes through agreements and consultation. War or any tendencies toward such activities that might be suggestive of It, such as large naval forces, received little support and coincide with the attitude of the nation as a whole to reduce armaments to a minimum and concentrate its resources on internal improvements.
FACULTY VOTE
A goodly number of the faculty, Including deans and visiting professors, expressed their opinions in the form of the published ballots. They voted by a wide margin for International agreements for consultation and world organization tending towards an International police force.
The majority of ballots expressed views on the question of purity with England In relation to the naval strength of the United States. By an overwhelming majority, parity with England was put secondary to naval reduction although this was not to be disregarded as was mentioned in short notes sont in with the ballots.
An Italian student sent ln his ballot and with It a note expressing Ills disfavor with the attitude of his country in maintaining its requests for greater naval forces. He (Continued on Page Four)
HEALTH APPOINTMENT
Students in the School of Education who are expecting to receive their degrees during the summer session are advised to make early appointments for their medical examinations as the medical offices are closed in the summer.
PROFESSOR MAKES ENGLISH AID PLAN
Combined Trojan Clubs, meeting in tlie social hall of the Student Union last Saturday for luncheon, had as their guests of honor as many of the members of the Board of Women Councellors of the University as found it possible to attend.
Members ot the Board now number thirty-four. Their primary aim ic to form a pension fund tor the university so that "true scholars will not find it necessary to enter some other line of business when they finish teaching, but may continue their studies.” Each councilor contributes {l.°00 a year for a period of five years to the "Faculty Endowment Fund.” Mrs. Geo. O. Robinson, chairman of the group, hopes to include more than one hundred Interested women in the council during the semi-centennial.
By ELMA GORDON
Women’s* Mrs. Rufus B. von KlelnSmid presented the members of the council. Besides Mrs. Robinson, the members are: Mrs. Alfder E. D. Carscallen, Mrs. O. H. Churchill, Mrs. E. W. Clark, Mrs. F. W. Davey, Mrs. Frank E. Eckhart, Mrs. M. E. Eggelston, Mrs. Lyman Far-well, Mrs. Walter H. Fisher, Mrs. Paul H. Helms, Mrs. Oliver S. Hershman, Miss Jean Hill, Mrs. W. I. Hollingsworth, Mrs. W. L. Honnold, Mrs. CharleB E. Hunt, Mrs. Robert S. Ingham. Mrs. Edwin J. Marshall, Mrs. Matilda Mud-dock, Mrs. Nicholas E. Rice, Mrs. Albert C. Robbins, Mrs. Gudron W. Wattles, Mrs. Erasmus Wilson, Mrs. Willoughby Rodman, Mrs. Sloan Orcutt, Mrs. Jerrold G. Walton, and Mrs. William F. Howard.
Miss Margaret Airson, president (Continued on Page Four)
Press Club Initiation Set For Tomorrow
The banquet for the purpose of Initiating the 13 pledges of Press club will be held in the Student Union building on Wednesday at 6 o’clock. The guests of honor will be Prof. Marc Goodnow aud Prof. Ivan Benson. Tom Curan and George Beale of the United Press will be the chief speakers.
A reel of film, depicting tho activities of the United Press, will be shown as a part of the program. Elinor Wilhoit, president of the Press club is in charge of all arrangements for the banquet.
Pledges of the organization must turn in their satirical essays as soon as possible, according to Miss Wilhoit. Wednesday noon is the last date that they will be ac cepted.
Classes Arranged For All Candidates
Two Phases Are Worked Out By J. W. Todd of Psychology Department
Professor J. W. Todd of the psy-4-llsh-speaklng freshmen, arc unsatls-
Candidates for student body offices, for legislative council and for yell leaders must, according to the constitution, attend four constitutional classes in studeut body government which will be held at 7 a. m„ the first four days following spring vacation. These classes will be held in the debate office, and may be conducted by the chairman of the constitutional committee.
Candidates missing one meeting who fail to pass the examination upon the constitution will be ineligible. Those missing two meetings will also be ineligible. Those attending all classes who fall to take the examination may retake it. A special examination may be given upon the request of the faculty advisor.
hology department has suggested a plan for aiding foreign students in their mastery of the English language. The plan has two phases: first, a detailed scoring and "editing” by instructors and readers of each piece of written work submitted by foreign students before it is returned to them; second, an arrangement which will give each
of training in oral and written English composition during the period of liis residence at the University.
The aim of the plan is to drill these students ln the common standards of English expression. Vocabularies, declensions, conjugations and Idioms cannot be rationalized, but can be mastered only by means of persistent drill work. Toward this end, the standard beginners' course, designed for Eng
factory. These courses move at too fast a pace for the foreign student. At the end of the course, his English diction and construction are still in a rudimentary state, as the papers he submits in other courses amply demonstrate.
For the foreign student, the mastery of any subject is a double burden. He finds it necessary not only ts master thc contcnt and tensin ology of the subject, but also the English form as employed in Ills texts and the class room. Consequently, it is safe to say that the average foreign student loses sixty per cent of the text book contribution and is about forty per cent efficient in the class room. Professor Todd frequently observes foreign students industriously searching their English-Japanese or English-(Contlnued on Page Four)
LITERARY GROUPS VIE FOR HONORS
Friendly Rivalry Will Take Place Tonight At Eight O'clock.
Marking the climax to the lnter-literary debates, campus literary societies, Athena, Aristotelian, Cll-onlan and Comitia, will engage in friendly rivalry tonight at 8 o'clock for possession of the Alpha Phi Epsilon luurel, a copper plaque, which at the present time ls In the possession of the Aristotelian society.
Last Tuesday niglit Athena won the affirmative from Clionian by a 3-0 decision; but lost the negaUve to Clionian, 2-0; Aristotelian won the afllrmative from Comitia by a 3-0 decision.
Jllvalry between the Comitia and Aristotelian societies, which is of old standing, broke forth anew last Tuesday night, when Maurice Aid-rich and Leland Jacobson won a victory for Aristo, the society win-
bate, 3 0, while Maurice Aldrich and Bill Leech tied for best speakers. Aristo 1b determined to do likewise ln the negative debate with Comitia which was postponed because of absence of judges. Alice Doty of Athena and Alice Buck-waiter of Clionian were also judged as flrst speakers.
' The flnal debates will be held In I Aristotelian, Comitia, Clionian, and Athena halls tonight at 8 p. m.