Editorial Page of the
Wednesday, March 25, 1936
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Don't Miss It
If Trojan students fall to turn out en masse this evening for the Y. W. C. A. celebrity benefit program, as became apparent late yesterday afternoon, from the relatively few number of tickets sold, there will be more entertainers on the Bovard stage than students in the audience.
Should such a condition become prevalent It would not only be extremely poor publicity for the university as a whole, but would most certainly indicate a definite lack of the Trojan spirit which S. C. organizations love to tell about. Why not show a little of this publicized pep somewhere else beside the athletic field?
When men and women who are actively engaged in motion pictures, radio, and the Journalistic field, take the time to come to this campus in order to give their services for a Y. W. C. A. benefit performance, believing at the same time that the students are willing to do their part, it seems that a large, enthusiastic audience is little enough to ask.
Late announcements from the Y. W. C. A. benefit committee state that Charley Chase, Anita Louise, Lyle Talbot, and tne Duncan sisters have been added to an already interesting program. With the price of admission placed at a mere 50 cents, and with the Trojan spirit at stake, let us show Hollywood, and ourselves, that the students in this university will tum out en masse for an evening of unparalleled enjoyment.
Praise for Ice Hockey
The rapid strides made by ice hockey at the University of Southern California during the past few years have made that line of athletic endeavor a sport worthy of major recognition, in the opinion of many. Along this line is a letter received yesterday which concretely sums up the accomplishments of the skaters, andis presented in order to get the opinion of the student body with regard to ice hockey and its importance at S. C.	c
The letter follows;
Editor, Daily Trojan:
“Ice hockey at the University of Southern California has developed to the place where It no longer belongs in the realm of minor sports, and a major sport rating has become more fitting.
“The popularity of the game is demonstrated by the capacity and near capacity crowds that attend the games each Saturday night at the Polar Palace. On the campus continued enthusiasm is shown toward ice hockey. Talk of the high type of hockey played by the colleges of southern California illustrates present and suggests future popularity.
"A successful northwest tour was accomplished by this year’s team. This trip proved that hockey as played in the southern California hockey league is equally as good as, if not better than, that played by the northern University of Washington. The University of Southern California won two out of threo games with Washington, and tied the third game of the series. The University of Washington will compete at the Yosemite winter sports carnival next year, and a series for the championship of the Pacific coast is probable.
“The success of ice hockey in the east suggests a like program at such a college as the University of Southern California. That the game would be materially improved by the major sport classification has been proven by other colleges.
“The students appreciate the true worth of ice hockey here at S. C. Give the sport the recognition that it deserves.”
Spring is here. White shoes, coatless coeds, baseball in the back yards, dogs on the campus, and stories about May-day all are indications. Yes, spring is here—and so was prosperity.
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Grave markers for the French killed in the world war are of a quality good enough to last only & generation and a half. Apparently the supposition is that there will have been p-nother war by that time.
By Betty Yuncfinq "Abundance," Informs a B-rutn scribe, “Is a rural frolic!**
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All candidates nominated at last Friday’s assembly firmly denied hav» ing platforms. Nosirree, no platforms for them, by cracky! Oh.
sure; one of them had "plana;" another had “ideas;' and another had "objectives.’’ But no platforms, you understand. Ohhhh, no-o-ol • * *
And apropos of the nominations assembly, one candidate is now being called “Triple-threat.” His nominator proudly stated that he had “served as a committee of three."
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This makes him out to kt more thorn a third ms pure ms Galahad, whose strength was MS tit strength of l*M.
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Ode To Saturday, March 81
Saturday, It seems, was the first day of spring,
Which is supposed to be nloer than anything.
That, anyway.
Is what people asy.
The birds twitter, the bees hum. And Grandpa goes tound the house singing ura-ti-um-tum.
The bees hum, the birds twitter, And everyone who was low begins to feel fitter.
The lads begin strutting like heroes of Horatio Alger,
Anc people away from home begin to get nostelger.
And psople at home begin to with they were not.
And everyone Is more or less dissatisfied with his or her lot.
Some people go to the seashore to wade and frolic,
Some people trot off to the country and go bucolic,
Some people go to the mountains to stumble and hike.
Other people prefer the country, or what do you like?
If I go to the seashore I get red as a flame,
If I go to the desert I get the same, If I go to the country I look like a yokel.
If I go to the mountains I get poison oak, h—1!
Anyhow, It all boils dowr to this everj spring:
I spend the whole week trying to study or some such stupid thing, And when school starts I feel liko a wilted daisy Jause I've spent so much energy Just being lazy.
That’s why I say, “Nuts to March 21, and a pox On the vernal equinox!"
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Headllne-of-the-week (Dally Trojan):
Yale Professor Write My, my, what education these professors have. Now if they will only learn to read, that will put them In the same class with the Harvard professors.
—T. K. Wright.
P.S.: We shouldn’t forget the absent-minded professor of domestic science who sent the class out to a night club to learn about menus while he, himself, got stewed right in the classroom. —T. K. W.
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Last Wailing Plea Actors,-resses, please report to Ket Clare, 4:30 today, 3:30 tomorrow, 125 Old College, for play tryouts. Please Please !1 Please!!! Etc.
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R.R. noticed m cate ad in tit p~ipsr
which announced: "Cocktails, 25 cents.'1
"This reminds mu of the song," she commented, "calltd 'Cocktails jo*
T uo—Bits.’‘
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Elaine Gottlieb’s imagination took a fantastic leap yesterday in comparing Lionel “Oceanside Flash” Van Deerlin to a chimpanzee. That's what we call making a monkey out of someone; whether It'S Elaine or Lionel, we couldn t say.
• Tomorrow
By Foy Draper
Memphis, in her search to find projects on which to use part of the huge federal grants made available to cities and communities found to be strategically placed for the coming elections, has decided to spend $25,000 of the government s money on a really worthwhile project—.a dog pound uhat would be an architect’s dream, an elegant concrete building, equipped with shower baths, exercise runways, and individual suites with fresh straw beddings, changed dally. After carefully explaining that the dog hoal is not for valuable dogs, but merely for stray dogs about to be executed in the guest chamber, it seems hard to Justify the expenditure of such a sum.
PWA expendors, in their frantic haste to spend money, might do well to temporarily disregard political advantage to be gamed from expenditures of Demotrepublican money, and place the money where gam might be realised that would credit the administration when the easy-maney days at 1936 are forgotten.
Robeson Desires To Play Comedy Roles in Future
River) Robeson, Am«rican Negro singer, Is beooming weary with dignity and he wants to be a comedian.
Robeson, back in England from Hollywood, where he made a screen version of “Show Boat, ’ said he always had a hunch ho could play comedy roles, but someone else always thought differently.
"I don’t mean that I want to be a knock-about comedieoi,” he said. “That would be ridiculous, but I would like to express some of the grand humor the Negro possesses.*’ Without a trace of embarrassment the huge Negro said he supposed it Was his dignity that always led him into serious or tragic roles.
When he made the film, “Sanders of the River,” he would have liked to play Bosambo with more of the character’s comic little weaknesses.
“But I couldn’t put all the humor Into my part that Edgar Wallace Intended when he wrota the story, * Robeson said.
“I am determined now that there will be more and more humor in my roles in the future—nothing broad, but a certain subtlety.”
The singer, who h&s had two large contracts since his nival from the United States, will aj. >ear with the stage society soon _<i a play dealing with Haiti at the time of Napoleon. The author is a young West Indian.
'Essentials of Living Course Offered Men
MUSKEGON, Mich.—(CP)—There will be fewer divorce cases in this western Michigan city If the course of study added to the curriculum of the local high school proves prac* tical.
The new course is called “Essentials of Living.”
According to Fay Mack, director, husbands who are responsible for many divorces are those who do not know how to live- This new course has been designed to enlighten the man of the house how to avoid problems that lead to the divorce courts.
There are 100 enrolled in “Essentials of Living’’ class?s. Thsy are taught problems that their futuie wives face—food values, laws of health, recreation problems and the effect of food on health and temper.
Jesse James To Carry Arms BEVERLY HILLS.— 0> - Jesse James has been granted a permit to carry a firearm in the city limits. He denied any relationship with the notorious Missouri outlaw.
a Calendar
12:20 pm.—Meeting of student board of University Religious conference at Cottage tea room.
4:30 pm.—The foilowintf please report to Elaine Gottlieb, speech office: Jack Dorrent. Marthella Hartigan, George Fa ires, Marion Leonard, and Fred* Honggtas.
• I Saw Stars
By Chuck Cochard
Arthur Murray, president of the
National Institute of Social Dancing, selects the six best dance teams featured in motion picture productions.
‘They’re largely responsible for the dance eras* that’s sweeping the nation now, and it’s up to them to Join in the celebration,** Mi*. Murray said. “Of course, another important factor is that times are getting better and psople are inclined to trip the light fantastic more often than during the past few years. * The six movie dance teams selected by Mr. Murray as being the best in their respective classes are: Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire, variety impressionistic, for "Follow the Fleet.”
Ruby Keeler and Paul Draper, Interpretative tap, for their work in “Colleen."
The DeMarco®, ballroom, for “In Caliente.”
Carole Lombard and George Raft, rhumba, for “Rhumba.”
Louise Fazenda and Huh Herbert, burlesque comedy.
Joan Blondell and Jack Oakie, eccentric, for “Colleen.”
This national institute has 1,300 branches throughout the United States and In this way can provide constant reports o nconditions.
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A sure sign that Jack Oakie and
Venita Vardon are married is the young lady’s daily visits to a Hollywood dentist.
For years, whenever anyone asked Jack why he never married, the comedian used to repeat this quip: ••Well, brother. I’ll tell you. Soon as a man takes a wife ~he has to get her teeth fixed.'’
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Coming attractions: Loretta Young and Robert Taylor start work soon at 20th Century-Fox in “Private Number.” . . “Cain and Mabel.” a musical based cn the story by H. C. Witmsr, will be Marion Davits’ next picture for Cosmopolitan. . . . Jce Pennsr has beep signed to a long-term contract by RKG Radio. . . . Jean Blondell will be Edward G. Robinson's leading woman in his forthcoming First National picture, “Bullets or Ballots. ’
. . . Gladys Swarthont’s next production icr Paramount will be “The New Divorce,” in which Herbert Marshall and Cary Grant will appear opposite her. . . . The next Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers musical, which is scheduled to enter production at the RKO next month, will be called “Never Gonna Dance."
.. . “The Gay Desperado” has been bought by Pickferd-Lasky as a starring vehicle for Nino Martini. . . . Cecilia Parker will play opposite Richard Arlen in Columbia’s second Harold Bell Wright production, “The Man With the Iron Door.” . . . From London We hear that Elizabeth Bergner Is recuperating nicely frc*n the effects of her recent ap-p usitis operation. . . . Ann So them is the latest Hollywood beauty to follow the example of Jean Harlow m abandoning the gold standard and going brunette. . . . Constance Bennett is attempting a screen comeback by way of London.
. . . Ida Lupino leaves Hollywood soon to visit London and her papa, who is a well known stage comic there.
—Henry Bunstetd
Silica Dust May Be Death Cause Scientist Avers
TOLEDO—(HE)—Experiments have proved to the satisfaction of James H. Boyd, scientist and lawyer, that silicate dust, breathed into the lungs eventually may cause death by strangulation.
The congressional investigation Into alleged silicosis deaths on the Gauley Bridge, West Virginia, project, recalled to Boyd cases in which he represented victims of silicosis In Ohio courts several years ago.
Although Boyd carried the cases from the Ohio Industrial commission to the Ohio supreme couit, his clients Were net compensated.
Chemists, whom Boyd retained, found means of showing that Inhalation of dust into the lungs caused a condition of tissue consolidation which could result in death.
Working on Boyd’s cases, chemists incinerated at high temperature a sample of the consolidated, or hardened, lung. In a lung tissue weighing 20 grams were found eight grams of dust particles, according to Boyd.
The dust had spread through the lungs, producing a black pigmentation, Boyd said, and had cause d the consolidation of lung tissue, decreasing the lung area and. according to the analysis, resulting finally in death by asphyxiation.
S.C. Law Students To Open Mock Civil Trial
The gavel will be heard and the Judge will call the court into session in the Law building tonight for the civil trial in which Miss Daisy Bsll is seeking to regain damages from the Modern Beauty salon. The plaintiff is asking retribution for alleged injuries suffered whUe a patron of the salon.
Pleading the case of the plaintiff arc two legal students of 3. C„ Warren Schultz and James Soest. They will attempt to show that thsir client received injuries while obtaining a permanent wave in the defendant’s place of business.
Taking th* role of defendant in the mock trial will b’ Phyllis Norton Cooper, and Janette Whitler will act as the beauty operator in the case. The defense attorneys also are t%a senior law students. Gilbert Stuckey and Jack Crzwford and they will have as a witness in their plea. Daniel Schnobel. who is to act in the capacity of a doctor.
S. C. Broadcasts
12:43rl p.m, KHJ. Civic center broadcast. George Hjelte, dxector of department of playgrounds and recreation, Los Angeles.
2:15-2:30 pm., KRKD. “College Classroom.” “Community Service Through Story Telling.” Mis. Ta-cie Hanna Rew’s radio speech class.
10:15-10:30 p.®.-, KFI. Olympic games preview. The Olympics and International Good WIU." Lloyd E. Webster interviews George Navarro, Humerto Gonzalez; and Nila Althin.
a Student Opinion
From the Columns of College Newspaper*
^Oklahoma J>»uy>
Add to the cost of the world war to the American government a figure—the $2,300,000,000 necessary for payment of the soldiers* bonus. Th total, then, to date, reaches 545,200,000,000-the price we pav in m-acy
for the foolish extravagance of our latest war.
When President Harding, on July 2, 1921, declared the war officially snded. government expense sheets showed it had already coat us $25,728 -
000.000. This included such items as compensation and hospitals for wounded veto;;ns and programs for teaching them trades.
Each lew years has seen new exp;nse Items added, as expenditures of
the veterans* administration and interest on the war debt. By the end June, 1S35, the total stocd at S42i»00.000,000. Now, with the soldiers* to be paid, the bill for our little skirmish reaches a new and appalling
high.
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The Race Is On
(Okiifcoma Dally)
Oreat Britain has Joined the world armament race by announcing a
defense expansion program so vast and flexible that no attempt was mads to estimate the cost.
The air force is the center of expansion, but huge Increases for the army and navy, together with plans for mobilizing industry also were disclosed.
This announcement has been interpreted as a warning to Japan, Italy, and Germany that Great Britain refuses to allow them to build beyond her in defense articles.
Tnis new policy seems to be the result of a considerable study of comparative strength of other countries in relation to Oreat Britain.
Exactly what effect this will have upon other powerful nations is uncertain, but this one thing is certain; the building of war Implements goes on and on and this is not the pathway to peace.
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Hand Waver	1
(Dakota Student)
I am a hysterical hand waver. 2 love to gather in public places, crowded buses, pool rooms, on street comers, lean against buildings, and tell what’s wrong with the world and what s to be done about It. It’s not that I am so much Interested in reform or in finding solutions foe problems, but look at the chance It gives me to get to the public eye! To have my feUow men listening as the words pour forth! Of course, I may not what I’m saying myself but that’s a small matter, at least I’m something, and if my good lungs hold up I can drown out the timidly pro] testing voice of that small fellow over there who knows somethin? aboufl the subject.
They’re awfully aggravating, anyhow—these factual people—always, wanting to look something up before they start arguing, handicapping a I man by doing research. They aren’t good enough sports to start from scratch, oh no!, and they have to butt in with statements like “It* a matter of fact, not of argument. Let’s look It up” First thing a fellow knows they’re spoiling all the fun by checking up on figures and quotations that you’d Just given out as a bit of oolor to liven the argument up a bit.
It’s getting so there's always somebody to the crowd that isn’t satisfied with hand Waving and nice loud talking with long (maybe a little mispronounced or misused) words. They want to sit down quiet-like and “seek a solution."
No good ol’ argumentative spirit any moce. that's what!
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We Aren't So Young
CDally Kaaaaa)
College students are a gay, mischievous, careless lot These charge^ have been against youth ever since Francis Bacon said “youth la too
thuslastlc.’*
But we college students are not so Immature as the average
thinks. Let the average person visit our campus and look at the student The vast majority of them go about their dally business With more and though than the average business man. They know how to Some of them know how to think. And persons generally who know things are not apt to rush tote and out of their affairs without ation.
After all, today’s adults were yesterday’s youth. This elementary known to every first grader. Is forgotten by youngsters and by oldster*, is one of the eternal varieties Which need to be eternally reinstated.
Collegiana
The Varsity, student newspaper of the University of Toronto, one difference between Canadian and United States advertising me It tells of a sign on a plumbing truck in Toronto that says, “Lord Good, Plumbers.” Furthermore, its is averred that. In the United it would have read The Good Lord Plumbing company."
This reminds us that we saw a pie truck cruising about the streets Los Angeles the other day, with a sign on It that read: “Godlores Plea! we all?
Don’t we all?
Out of the dark of night
Like a gleaming star you came.
Halting my headlong flight
With the brilliance of your flame; Sending a mad desire
Pulsating through my brain.
Damn these stop-lights, anyhow.
When you’re trying to catch a train.
—D*&y IlttnL
Men got a taste of women's basketball at Southern Methodist
when the varsity cagers met the Delta Psi Kappas, girl athletes. The me had to play under women’s ru’es. The gals, evidently fearing that the tn« could still wallop them, forced upon their opponents the wearing ot gloves during the game.
Possibly this was a safety-first move taken by the weaker sex witnessing the men in some of the rough-and-tumble basketball frequently engaged in.
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Why I never joined a sorority:
1.	I wanted to think for myself and not be led around by a bqpch
of sisters.
2.	I never went in for women s organizations at home.
3.	I didn’t want a lot of fraternity men calling me at night.
4.	I never had a date with a inan *h my life, and I didn't want *• start. ,	_
5.	I hated the thought of having to live in elese quarter* with a let of the sisters.
6.	I didn't like the idea of rooming with one girl for a whofc semester.
7.	I don't look wel] in sleeveless, low-cut gowns.
a I am a male.	—Ferris Weekly.
• Off Campus
Lectures: <T°d*y->
Los Angeles public library. 7:30 p.m.-,'The AdT.inist ration at Jostlee and Improvement Thereof series—'Uncle Sara's Devil Island,* bf Milford Springer, attorney-at-law.	*
(Tomorrow.)
Bovard Administration building, room 206, 4:15 p-m.—"Modern Literature and the Comic Spirit: the Qualities of Modern Humor,” Dr. Frank C. Baxter, associate profesor of English language and literature. Los Angeles public library, 7:30 pm.—"Language Symbols ef China,** by Herbert C. House, executive secretary China society of southern California.
Musical events and concerts: (Friday.)
Hollywood high school auditorium, evenings Philharmonic orcbettta,
Otto Klemperer, conductor.
Biltmore ballroom—Pro Arte string quartet, Los Angeles dumber music society.
Art exhibits and paintings:
La Miniature, 645 Prospect Crescent, Pasadena—Mrs. Georg*. M. Millard opens her home and gallery to a public exhibit of the original works of William Blake.
The print roans—An exhibit of Whistler etchings snd holographs.
Los Angeles museum—California society of miniature painters’ 19th annual exhibit.
Assistance league—The undersea paintings of Frank S. aYtes EbeU aslon—Twenty-six paintings by 10 southland painters; 23 by Ell Harvey.