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Thursday, March 26, 1936
El Ropo de Twino
World Affairs
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Tom Lawless Phil .Tuenreris. _________	Editorifl Staff	.................. Editor ........Managing Editor
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Last Chance Today
Today is absolutely the last chance for California participants in the all-important nation* primary election to register for their right to vote. Anyone who fails to apply today forfeits his party franchise.
It must be remembered that registration previous to 1936 is useless at the present time; if one has not registered this year, he should hasten to do so immediately.
On Compulsory Training
Enforcement of compulsory military training At both the Berkeley and Westwood campuses of the University of California yesterday elicited the following United Press dispatch from Berkeley:
Bitterly criticising the board of regents of the University of California, the Daily Californian, student newspaper, today art.y charged “the will of the student body had not been considered” when the governing board upheld compulsory military training.
Lawrence Refiner, editor of the publication, asserted In an editorial that the regents were “neither fair nor tolerant."
“They showed no consideration for the will of the students whose interests It is assumed they serve.” Resner said.
He pointed out that the regents' decision to continue compuiso*? R.O.T.C. training for freshman and sophomore students was in direct opposition to student sentiment as expressed in recent campus polls.
“The regents* decision was based on moral obligations, are Involved, unless this Is mesnt to serve the will of or-ptankallom like the American Legion.’*
Resner cited the Universities of Wisconsin and Minnesota and ths City College of New York as examples of institutions where optional training was in operation.
Editor Resner's points appear to have been well taken. While the compulsory military training idea can have no effect on a private institution such as
S.	C., the situation on neighboring campuses can do no less than arouse sympathy from Trojan students.
The high-handed attitude of state university authorities, as well as a few soft-cushioned publishers, is that if students at state institutions don't like conditions as they tire, they may go elsewhere. 8tate funds, it is pointed out, are used to educate students free of charge; it is therefore up to the state to impose whatever activity it pleases, the authorities reason with supposed logic.
The fallacy of this stand lies in the fact that students at state universities represent a portion of the state’s taxpayers. True, they do not represent a majority of the taxpayers, but after passing scholastic requirements, they should represent the best that the state can offer; as such, they represent the state, and are receiving only the schooling that is due them.
Beyond the cold matter of cash and carry, however, lies the broader issue of Individual liberty. It is ironic coincidence that the same reactionary forces that decry an imagined threat against personal liberty in the national administration today are almost precisely the same that applaud compulsory military training.
Students at Berkeley and Westwood have shown In well-governed ballots, by decided majorities, that they are opposed to the principle of compulsory training. The regents have deliberately overlooked this registered opinion in deciding that training must be continued—a decided abuse of liberty.
Twenty per cent of the population of the United States use eye-glasses.
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Ohio State laboratories use 5,000 frogs a year, at 15 cents apiece.
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I would rather be sick than idle.—Seneca.
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In New York city it is unlawful to carry a squirt gun.
Water-Tasters Are Included on Parisian Payroll
PARIS, —<CE>—There are many unusual workers on the payroll of
Paris. Take, for instance, the profession of water-taster.
Paris employs a considerable staff of water-tasters, and they work on a 24-hour basis. Night an* day their Job is to taste the water to make sure that the chloride used to purify it hasn’t left any sign of it* passage.
They do their tasting, not at the main Montsouris reservoir, but at the Porte d’Arceuil, where all the Paris aqueducts come together before baing emptitd into the common
reservoir. Each separate stream is taasted once every hour, and if the taster detects any suspicious taste or odor, he ♦elephones the chemical bureau, and on it* order that particular aqueduct 1* cut off while the chemists analyze a sample of the water.
They also analyze sample* even when there is no foreign laste, for each time the water-taiter performs his duty, he takes s sample and sends it to the laboratories, which thus keep a check on the efficacy of the human sense of taste. In the case of water-tstters. that
sense is nearly infallible. They don’t get the Job until extensive te*ts. in some of which the ch:m-ists have prepared traps for the cheaters, have demonstrated that their palate for water 1* of the delicatest.
Among the queer fish employed by the city, also to detect the presence of chloride in the water, are what the water department calls the “trultcs-temolns”—the witness trout. The city water passes through their aquarium, and as trout are particularly sensitive to chloride, they serve, often at the cost of their own lives, as a check on ths watar-tasters.
But If they rick death in the municipal service, they are compensated for the risk by good fare and easy living. The water department gets them from the Trocadero aquarium when they are young and frisky, and feed them so generously that they quickly become large. When they reach that stage, they are shipped back. The department doesn't want them too strong. They resist chloride too well.
If over-healthy and thus useless trout got too numerous, the city might ungratefully make use of them to provide dinner for another variety of animal city employe— the official rat-catching cats. These cats, carefully selected as rat nim-rods. are farmed out to official buildings Infested with rats.
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Croup Proposes 'Lean Year' Plan
DES MOINES. la. —OJ.E)—Rehabilitation of American agriculture by providing against "lean years” has been proposed by the Greater Iowa commission.
The scheme Is a variant of that used by Joseph, In fighting against famine In ancient Egypt.
The plan calls for a feieral warehousing system to conserve agricultural surpluses, to be thrown on the market in times of drouth and under-production. In this way, the years of prosperity would offset years of famine, according to Otto S. Munt2, chairman of the commission.
The government. Muntz said, would pay farmers for surplus produce at pre-determined prices.
Sponsors of the plan argue it would:
1.	Stabilize price* for benefit of farmer and consumer.
2.	Conserve productivity of land by soil conservation, described by Muntz as "the natural corollary to senslb’e crop control.”
3.	Coordinate activities of the department of agriculture with those of the department of commerce.
We didn’t have such a cold winter. In ’76 in Wyoming it froze the electricity in the telephone wires, and when it thawed out ail the huge instruments were talking as hard as they could for five hours.—The Crimson White.
Stingless Bees Sent to London
LONDON.—<TJ?)—When good old Queen Umgcgumshanl arrived in London after an adventurous tourney by land, sta, and air from Rhodesia. experts had to be called in to discover whether she was dead or alive.
She and a large number of her
subjects set out from Rhodesia in an airplane. They crosscd the English channel by steamer in a specially heated first-class cabin. Then
from Victoria s-ation, London th*y were taken to their des ination In a salcn car suricunded by rugs ar.c! hot water bottles.
They have taken up residence at ths zoo in a plcce of rotting wood Th:y compose the swarm of stingless bees which the Ssuth Rhodesian government presented to the London zoo
Letters Prove Lawrence Also Was T.E. Shaw
Actual proof in the hand-writing of the late T. E. Lawrence, famed Englishman and “uncrowned king of Arabia,” that he and T. 3. Shaw were the same person, and definitely settles a controversy that has bothered historians for a nunber of years, is shown in a series cf personal letters by Lawrence now In the hands of Dr. Carl S. Knopf, professor of Biblical literature at s.c.
The letter addressed to Dr. R. P. Dougherty of Yale university who is now deceased. Is signed 'T. E. Shaw, used to bs Lawrence," and was written from Dorset, England, while hs was a private in the Royal tank corps during his three years of retirement as a leader in Arabia.
The epistle refers to a meeting appointment bstwetn Dr. Dougherty and Lawrence at the British museum. London, stating In part: . . . "Until I am actually awsy from .camp. I’m never sure of getting off. You will easily pick me out because I look very dirty and will be in blue uniform. . . . Pleass don’t reply and don’t bother to break any decent appointment to see me.'*
Dr. nKopf will review Lawrence's book "Seven Pillars of Wisdom,” published after the latter’! death at his own request and which delves Into the affairs of the British empire following Lawrence’s campaigns in Palestine against the Turk*.
Colden State Bells To Guide Mariners in Bay
SAN FRANCISCO —OLE)— The largest bells ever cast on the Pacific coast, and which can be hsard for 10 miles at sea, will be installed on San Francisco’s two new bridges across the Golden Gate 8nd San Francisco bay for the guidance of mariners.
They are expected to be unusually serviceable on foggy nights.
The largest b?U which will occupy the center of the bridges will weigh 3,000 pounds each with a diameter of 52 Inches and a height of 40 inches.
Somewhat smaller bells weighing 1,600 pounds each with a diameter of 40 inches and a height of 30 inches will be installed at other points along the spans. All will be operated electrically.
Augmenting the bells will also be the regular siren type fog-horn.
As soon as the bells and foghorns have been approved by the department of commerce, they will be plotted into the charts and bearings of bay pilots, with a full 1 sting of the different sound effects. Each bell will have a definite characteristic, with the number cf peals designating the bridge tower on which it is located.
The bells will be cast In San Francisco.
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Officers Shoot Ictclos
OREGON CITY. Ore. — — When highway crews could not solve the problem of removing icicles from a cliff overhanging the road, they called state police. The officers took rifles and shot clown the overhanging ice, some of the chunks weighing as much as 75 pounds.
•	Calendar
9:50 a.m.— N.8.F.A. meeting In the College of Commerce office.
10 a.m.—Dorothy Tuttle, Jane Bartholomew, Jo Gannon, Quincette Cotting, Betty Lensen, Charlotte Lesien, and Marian Tronsen meet at the Y. W. C. A. Very important. Bring tickets.
12:45 p.m.—Choral club meet at the Y. W. C. A. house.
2:30 pm.—Tryouts for play *Tn the Bag,” 125 Old College. Men wanted especially.
3:30 p.m.—Parliamentary exams for Clicnian tryouts, social hall, Student Union.
3:30 pan—Mary Walton, Ruth Koontz, Betty Hambleton meet in social hall, Student Union.
3:30 p.m.—Cllonian membership aspirants meet Mary Walton in lounge of Student Union to take parliamentary exam.
7 pjn.—Phi Beta pledges meet In women’s lounge of the social hall, Student Union.
7:15 pjr.—Phi Beta meeting, 332 Student Union.
Porter, Former Law Dean, Dies Following Illness
Dr. Frank Monroe Porter, 78, dean emeritus of the Southern California School of Law, died Tuesday at his home, 2863 Orchard avenue. following an extended illness. Dr. Porter served as dean of the Law School for 23 years.
Born in Richford, Wisconsin, August 15, 1857, Dr. Porter received his legal training at the University of Wisconsin, taking his A3, degree In 1831 and his LLJ3. degree in 1883. Starting his legal practice in Madison, V/is., in 1883, the lawyer moved to Los Angeles in 1887, where he continued his work before the bar until 1904, when he assumed the deanshlp of the S.C. School of Law, a position ne held until his retirement In 1927. He was awarded the LLD. degree by the Trojan school in 1922.
Membership In the American, California, and Los Angeles Bar associations was held by Dr. Porter, as well as in the American Law Institute and Sigma Iota Chi. He was affiliated with the University, Sunset Gun, and Los Angeles Country clubs.
Under Dr. Porter’s deanshlp, the S.C. School of Law was rated a “Class A” school by the American Bar association, and carried membership in the Association of American Law Schools. The auditorium of the legal school carries his name in memory of the many years he served the institution.
Dr. Porter is survived by one daughter, Mrs. Margaret de Do-bovey, and two grandsons, Porter and Anthony de Dubovey. Funeral services win be conducted from Bresee Bros., 855 South Figueroa street, at 11:30 today, with interment at Hollywood cemetery.
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S. C. Broadcasts 1:30-1:45 pm., KHJ. University of the Air. Superior Judge Thomas P. Waite, ‘‘Legal Aspects of Religion."
2:15-2:30 p.m., KRKD. “College Classroom.” “Business and Government,’ Dean Reid L. McCiung.
—Henry Bumstead
Number of Jobs To Be Available For S.C. Seniors
Seniors! Do you want a Job awaiting you when you graduate this June? Ben Mulvey White in the employment bureau on the fourth floor, Student Union, and get your application in early, he requests.
Many well known firms have Informed him that they will be able to place a limited number of June graduates who have the necessary qualifications. These companies consist of a large nationally-known fountain pen company, a huge steel corporation, a soap manufacturer, adn numerous other long-established and dependable business firms, all of which pay good salaries.
Draftsmen, pharmacists, architects, mechanical, and electrical engineers all are in great demand by various firms throughout the country, and If the students graduating Sn those fields will register with the bureau of employment they will stand an excellent chance of landing a Job immediately upon graduation. Students interested in salesmanship should also register with White, because he has several definite Jobs and prospects are bright for ether Jobs.
The local employment agency has been extremely efficient in placing people who have sought employment through it. In a recent survey conducted by White, through sending out circular letters to people placed in his department, it was found that a surprisingly, high percentage has been placed in the type of work which they have prepared for and wish to be in. This is encouraging in light of the fact that for the last few years the college graduate has met extreme difficulty upon trying to find work to the field which he has prepared himself for. Based upon the results of the survey mentioned before, and his contact with business and employment conditions, White expresses the opinion that employment is definitely on the uptrend.
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Artist's Opportunity Is Best in Large City
CHICAGO —dlE)—While country towns stlU lure doctors, lawyers, and school teachers, a survey conducted at the University of Chicago shows artists, writers, art teachers, and musicians should move to large cities to make good.
This conclusion was drawn from a survey by William F. Ogbum, University of Chicago sociology professor. He is an expert analyst of occupations in cities, smn.ll towns, villages, and farm communities.
"I have found,” Dr. Ogbum said, “that in small towns there are mere doctors, lawyers and school teachers and fewer artists, less crime and more religious activity, less trade and more manufacturing, more manual laborers and fewer clerks In proportion to total population.
Cities above 300,000 have the most bookkeepers, accountants, copyists and stenographers, but they do not have the most chauffeurs, teamsters, telephone operators, motor-men or conductors,
By Adamantios Th. Polyzoides
Radio Broadcast. KHJ. Colnmbla-Doti Lc« X«tw»rk
The European crisis is fast developing into a verbal fight between ths various diplomats assembled In London and representing the council of the League of Nations. While people who are sympathetic to the Geneva organization are wondering why this meeting should be held to the British metropolis, the two main forces opposing each other are »m»re«nC from the ccnfusion of the last few days. These forces are not Prance, and most assuredly they are not Germany.
This statement, coming at this particular moment, may sound susprto-ing at first, and yet when we get down to fundamental*, we Teel that the French and the Germans are ths secondary actors, while the stars of this magnificent and expensive performance are Comrade Maxime Litvlnaff. foreign affairs commissar of the Union of the Socialist Soviet Republics on one hand, and the Honorable Anthony Eden, foreign secretary of his British majesty’s government.
Issue Is Not Between Paris and Berlin
Let us make no mistake about it. Ths greatest Issue before Europe today 1* not the back yard fight between Paris and Berlin, but the greater struggle between Great Britain and Soviet Russia.
Those who have any doubts about the real lineup of the opposing fo»w ces should read more carefully the angry answer of the Honorable Eden to the Bolshevik Lltvlnoff, made the other day when the delegate for Great Britain took the Russian to task for advising France to get busy in starting
her war against Germany.
We all remember how, at the opening stages of this controversy, France did not entirely object to a compromise. Not only that, but there hare been official statements to the effect that the French government would try to find a common ground for understanding with Germany, with the help of Great Britain. Th^t Was about a week ago.
Then, all of a sudden, the French government became obdurate; iis attitude towards Germany changed almost overnight. When the Soviet representative began to talk in a most belligerent way to London, then the whole secret was out. The Soviets want to see France start her war against Germany right away, and they are promising to send at least 1,000,000 red soldiers against Hitler, if Paris says the word.
Offer of Russian Support Stiffens France
This offer of Russian support was the one that stiffened French resistance to any compromise. From that time on, all the British counsel* of moderation fell on deaf ears so far as France was concerned. It wa* at this point that the representative of Great Birtain launched his verbal attack against the belligerent Russian, and that is where things stand now.
Viewed from this angle, the real issue to Europe today simmers d to this:
On the one side there are the powers that wish to preserve peace any price. They have every Interest to have the Versailles set-up continued, even with some modifications. They want peace in Europe, not because they are afraid of Germany, but because they know that any ms' conflict on that continent will be followed by a social revolution, and perhaps the sovistization of Europe. This eventuality would be very strong, even without the participation of Russia in the next war. But with the Soviets actively participating to the conflict, and with a red army having the free run of ths European continent, the social revolution is as good a* started. The most observant among the European statesmen know t.hi« Better than anyone else, the British foreign office knows It More 100 years ago Great Britain, single-handed, tackled Napoleon the Great, because she felt that his policy was that of spreading Che doctrines of the French revolution to every corner of Europe. The conservative England of those days saw through the danger and fought Napoleon to a stand? still until at la3t it destroyed him.
British See Threat In Russia
Today another type of revolution Is threatening Europe and the world at least from the British point of view. And this is the Russian revolu tion. The French, blinded by their Intense patriotism, with their worl outlook limited by their eastern frontier, refuse to believe that Soviet Br sia constitutes a danger for the rest of Eurcpe. They want to break th-power of Germany and every other consideration becomes secondary tr. their mind and to their policy.
Great Britain, on the other hand, knows world affairs much be and, what Is more Important, she knows When to sacrifice certain friend ships to order to preserve the peace of Europe and the tranquility of he world empire.
For this reason British statesmanship cannot wax very entlv over the prospect of the Francc-Soviet alliance. What the average Frenc man refuses to see, the British have observed very carefully, and are sha-tog their policy accordingly.
In the eyes of Great Britain, the main question before the world Is not Just another Franco-Prussian war. There is a much problem involved to this controversy, and the real issue, faced squarely, one between stability and Sovietism. Hitler may have many faults many shortcomings. That the average Briton has no use for him, we take for granted. There is just one thing that Is more abhorrent to British mind than the sight of the German dictator parading up down the Rhineland, haranguing his troops and calling upon them to ready to face the enemy, gun to hand, and that is the sight of the army parading through the heart of Europe under the folds of the flag and to the tune of the “Internationale.”
Great Britain Fears Red Influence
In the impoverished Europe of today Where the last war hae-havoc with the ideals and traditions of every race, to say nothing of money, only the red army is needed to set the whole continent aflam This is what worries Great Britain, and those are the main problems cussed behind closed doors in London all these few days, with the outsld world getting only scraps of information.
Hitler may be anything from a swashbuckler to a lunatic, but at he stands for law and order and stability, even If he tears up a treaty two, Just to l:eep the spirits of his people high. But Soviet Russia Is quit another proposition.
Supposing that war was to be declared tomorrow, the red army immediately move into Poland, on its way to the German frontier, when this happens, the chances of a Polish Soviet Republic are anythin but slim. If there are any Polish aristicrats who think that the red Will go through their country Just for the sake of crushing Nazi to order to p ace to Its stead a nice social democracy, there are many more Poles who are Just itching for a chance to do away with the present regime of dictatorship to their own country, to favor of a Soviet.
Speculations, you will say . . . and yet these speculations of today may be the grim realities of tomorrow. The British may have all the defects of the world, but they are no fools. Their government may blunder in many directions, but not to world affairs, because they are the bread and butter of every Britisher, and he knows it.
Far Eastern Question Raised
There Is another question arising among a great many of the world affairs students which concerns the Far East. Soviet Russia Is supposed to have her hands so full in that part of the world that it should avoid entering the European field right now. Why, therefore, should she be so much interested to the Franco-German Issue?
The question Is well set. But there Is a possible and, perhaps, a loglr cal answer to it.
Germany, in addition to being the greatest enemy of the Soviet system. is also an ally of Japan’s, and the latter country might be duty bound to stand by the Germans when the fur begins to fly.
If it proves to be the case, Soviet Russia would welcome a Japanese attack right now. The worst that could happen to the Soviets would be te retire before the Japanese who would enter the Russian controlled territories of China, or Mongolia, with a possible counter-attack, after Germany was disposed of. Placed between the two alternatives of starting a world revolution to Europe now, and postponing the Russo-Japanese war for some other opportunity to the future, the Soviets would rather use the golden chance of taking a foothold In Eurcpe, while the talong Is good, instead of wasting time with the Japanese, as long as it is known that thef may be taken care of at any other time to the future.
•	Off Campus
Lectures: (Today.)
Los Angeles public library, 7 p.m.—“Language Symbols of China,’ by Herbert House, executive secretary of the China society of southern
California. Lecture illustrated with slides.
Bovard administration building, rcom 206, 4:15 p-m. “Modern Literature and the Comic Spirit: The Qualifies of Modem Humor, by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, associate profesor of English language and literature.
(Tomorrow.)
Los Angeles public ilbrary, 7:30 p.m.—“Some Interesting SfcwV by Harry K. Sargent. Illustrated with slides.
Musieal events and concerts: (Tomorrow.)	_
Hollywood high school auditorium, evening—Philharmonic orchestra. Otto Klemperer conducting.
Biltmore ballroom—Pro Arte string quartet, Los Angeles chamber m sic series