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United Press
World Wide News Service Z-42
Volume XXIX
Los Angeles, California, Friday, April 8, 1938
Number 116
Mohme Decorated
Debaters |To Meet uakers
Richards, Royston Oppose Penn Slaie Monday in Bovard
A traveling debate team from nsylvania state. Edwin Matz Frederick Young, will meet the Jjan team of Richard Richards id Clifford Royston at 7:30 Mon- | iy night in Bovard auditorium.
Both experienced debaters, the ( si tors are making a nation-wide, ur, having taken part in five de-ites. After meeting U.C.L.A. Tues- ' iy, they m-ill leave lor Albuquer- j ie to oppose University of New exico.
ON-DECISION DEBATE
Monday's non-decision debate will on the question: “Resolved, that! e national labor relations board ould be empowered to enforce ar- j tration on all industrial disputes.” ie Trojans will uphold the nega- j re side of the question, with the j sitors taking the affirmative.
Matz, a senior in liberal arts, has j id four years of debating experi- j ce, besides having been a mem-1 r of the Westminster Tri-State ornament championship teams of 55. 1936, 1937, he was on a team at met Hawaii and Puerto Rico, i atz has taken part in 34 varsity nensic events.
3UNG MANAGES TEAM Young likewise was on the teams at met Puerto Rico and Hawaii, vlng teamed with Matz for three an. He is a major in enginering, j d has participated in 36 forensic ! a tests. Besides being a debater,
I is manager of the team.	A medal of the Order of the German Eagle and a scroll
poth Royston and Richards have bearing the signature of Adolf Hitler were awarded to Dr. Er-nted the Trojans in numer- win T. Mohme, professor of German and head of the German debates. At the present time department in the Los Angeles German consulate Tuesday. ^ stockton participating The award was made by the German government for “furth-
Drama Group Offers 'First Mrs. Fraser'
At Wilshire Ebell
Ervine’s English comedy of divorce, is being presented by the National Collegiate Players at 8:30 o’clock tonight in the Wilshire Ebell theater. Tickets will be on sale at the box office for 50 cents.
Active and alumni members of the Lance and Lute, U.S.C. chapter of N.C.P., are cooperating to produce the play, proceeds of which will be donated to the Play Productions department of U.S.C.
MISS NEEDHAM STARS
The cast is composed of both active and alumni members of the drama organization, including Elizabeth Needham in the title role, and Lee Byron. Miss Needham.
What We Expect Our College To Be
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Construction of the Curriculum
(An Editorial)
The nature of the courses offered for study is the foundation of our ideal College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences. A carefully planned curriculum is the foundation upon which an ideal structure grows. And the curriculum is the first place where unintellectual elements may creep in, or where intellectual ones may be founded. Once there, either will reproduce its kind and flourish.
Because of the influence that the college curriculum will have on the entire atmosphere of the campus, for good or bad, it is important that curriculum aims be clearly stated, “The First Mrs. Fraser.” St John and> once stated, strictly held to. We have stated earlier in
this series that the aim of the college is to train the intellect —“to develop the intellectual competence of the student.” The plan of the curriculum may contribute to this end in the following ways:
By presenting only courses of intellectual content, thus eliminating training in minor skills.
By combining courses in such a way as to present in each case a course with sufficient content really to challenge the average student’s mind. ,
By constructing lower division courses so as to provide the student with a wide cultural background; that is, to provide him with an accurate, comprehensive, and usable knowledge of the nature and history'of man’s intellectual accomplishment. This means that the under division student will give his attentions EXCLUSIVELY to the history of human growth, from the dawn of recorded thought to the present time; he will thus be furnished with a critical apparatus that
the Pi Kappa Delta tournament, ^ich will end tomorrow. Royston honors in the Bakersfield ley last year, being outstand-l in debate and extempore. LOJANS ENTER TOURNEY Capt. Sterling Livingston and lurice Atkinson, also entered e
Dinner To Honor Episcopal Rector
been engaged in radio work and has worked in the drama department of the First Congregational church.
Byron, who appeared in several campus productions under the name of Maurice Liu, had the leading male role in “Lady Precious Stream,” the Chinese comedy w'hich was presented early this year at the Philharmonic auditorium.
ACTIVE MEMBERS Active members of the Lance and Lute chapter who are also in the cast include Ben Marshall, who starred in the university production of “Both Your Houses” last month; Helen Cummings, one of the leading players in “Pride and Prejudice,” last year’s commencement play; and William Poulson, who has appeared in numerous campus plays.
Jack Parker, Elinor Brown and betw’een Helen McCall complete the cast. I
i ^	^ tt j	Properties are by Helen Thompson, j
Germany and the Umted Spates. STlDIO GIVES MAKE.UP	I
smce her graduation in 1936. has jnable ^im to think in other than provincial terms.
Dr. Georg Gyssling, German consul (left), is shown awarding Dr. Erwin T. Mohme, professor of German at U.S.C. a medal of the Order of the German Eagle and a scroll bearnig the name of Adolph Hitler for his work in furthering cultural re-lati ons between Germany and the United States.
—Courtesy L. A. Examiner
Dr. Mohme Is Awarded German Medal, Scroll
By constructing the upper division curriculum so as to demand of the student a searching cogency of a SIGNIFICANT field of human knowledge. The breadth of this field will vary within limits; these will not permit the field to be so broad as to forbid intimacy, or so narrow as unreasonably to restrict the development of the student’s mind.
By planning the path to the B. A. degree so that development of language and other supplementary skills will be outside the main line of progress, and therefore not destroy its continuity.
By demanding of the student a high degree of INTELLECTUAL accomplishment, tested by comprehensive examinations at the end of the second and fourth years, and a high degree of intellectual COMPETENCE tested by his effectiveness in his chosen upper division field.
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ering cultural relations
Dr. George Gyssling, German consul, made the presentation on
Make-up facilities, under the di-
. . provided by a Hollywood studio. The
Twenty-live years of service to	behalf of hls government. The med- . costumes were designed by Adrian,
in church and community will be	al has a background of gold on weii-known motion picture stylist.
Stockton tournament, will go commemorated by a banquet at the	which is a white-enameled cross of Properties for the show were do-
Reno to take part in the Pacific Ambassador hotel. April 18. in hon-	th Kniehts of st John a German 1 nated by Paramount Pictures,
tt-ensic league tourney, April 11. or of Dr. George W. Davidson, rec-	1* . ' ’ , Stanley Scott Pembroke, who re-
, and 13. They will use the same tor of St. Johns Episcopal church	,Qg oraer- Awaraea to non , cently returne(j from a year ^
dot question, and are entered in for the past quarter of a century.	Germans who have contributed to Engjan(j where he was connected
atory, symposium, extempore, and With civic leaders throughout the	an understanding of Germany’s with London films, is in charge of
ter-dinner speakmg. ssuthem California area in at-	cuiture abroad, the Order of the the production. Prior to his work
Following the tourney in Reno, tendance. Dr. Rufus B von Klein-
is same Trojan team is to oppose Smid will pay tribute to the relig-	HI.
anford in a league debate at Palo ious official. Dr. Davidson has been three other persons in the United
Eagle has been granted to only
d
April 15. The Trojans will up-	a member of the University of Cali-
the affirmative side of the	fornia faculty since 1932. when he
lestion: “Resolved, that the Uni-	founded the U.S.C. chapter of the
States should cooperate with	Episcopal club, for which he is ad-
her nations to prevent further en-	viser. bachirient on democracy '
in England, Mr. Pembroke was a director on the New York stage.
Although tickets will be on sale at the box office, they will remain
rower Chosen resident of kull and Dagger
aye Brower, senior class presilt at the University of Southern lifomia today was announced as new president of Skull and Dag-, honorary organization.
Jlassed as the highest non-aca-nic honorary group on the Tro-i campus, membership is based service to the university and stu-lt body among U.S.C. leaders.
iember of Pni Sigma Kappa fra- ! nity. Brower w as 1937 editor of! Rodeo year book, former presi- { it of Trojan Squires, and is an ive Trojan Knight, and member < legislative groups. Majoring in tiking and finance, he will grad- ! ie from UJS.C. in June.
Skull and Dagger includes among alumni Dr. Tullv	Knoles,
sident of the Colege of the Pac-;; Or Clovd H. Marvin, president George Washington University;
Ej J. Stonier, director of the can Institute of Banking; and Bouelle. former superintend-cf Los Angeles schools.
A special table will be reserved for Dr. Davidsons friends on the p^y^es for the education Trojan campus. According to pres-	.
ent plans, students will receKe a T"*"1 studcnt ln * German un" reduced rate of SI per person, while versity while a German student at-faculty members will be charged $2. tends U.S.C.
Reservation for the banquet may be made anytime today in the Uni-versity Religious conference office.! dedicating the
States, according to Dr. Gyssling.
A professor at U.S.C. since 1926.1 on sale in the Student Union book Dr. Mohme has been active in Ger- store and in the School of Speech
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ated the student exchange, which
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MEXICO BLOCKED
MEXICO CITY, April 7 — OLE)— Mexico’s nationalized pertoleum industry, blocked by a lack of tankers from supplying oil needs of Lower , California, has been forced to seek Dr. Mohme also made the speech Amerjcan gasoline for distribution Beethoven monu- j in the northwestern territory, it
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ment in Pershing square.
was announced today.
Phi Eta Sigma Contest Rules Announced
Students entering manuscripts in the freshman essay contest sponsored by Phi Eta Sigma, freshman men’s honor society were warned yesterday by Wayne Reeves, president, to abide by the following rules in order to be eligible for prizes:
1.	Only students OiKcially enrolled in the freshman class in U.S.C. may compete in the essay contest.
2.	An article, the title of which is to be of the student’s oWn choice, shall be written on the subject: “Suggested Plans to Improve this Troubled World.’’ Possible titles are: “The Need of an Educated Voting People,” or ‘‘A Plan to Reduce Accident Death.” Articles are not to exceed 1500 words.
3.	Manuscripts must be mailed through the university post office to the English department before 4:30 p.m., April 22. 1938.
4.	Entries should be typewritten or written in ink on one side of the paper. Manuscripts must bear fictitious names. Each contestant’s name in a sealed envelope shall be attached to the manuscript.
Trojan Band Leaves Tonight on Tour of Two States
nfield College Head :cepts Redlands Post
•ORTLAND. Ore.. April 7_<u.P>— e Linfield college board of trus-s today accepted the resignation | Dr. Elam J. Anderson, president,
0	was elected April 1 to a similar ition at Redlands college. Cal.
"he board appointed a" committee ided by Dr. Olaf Larsell, presilt of the board, to choose a new sident for the McMinnville. Ore.,
001	before the June. 1938. com-ncement
Br. Anderson, who came to Lin-[d ln 1932 after a career which Juded missionary education work
Elna, will succeed Dr. Clarence Hiurber at Redlands. Dr. me rmigned » jmr ago.
Jacque CoJtins. Bob Marsh, and Bob Stephens, trumpet trio of the Trojan band, which leaves Monday night for an extended Southwestern tour, will be featured in specialty numbers. The tour wil! culminate with a concert in the Long Beach municipal auditorium, Friday evening of next
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Conn To Direct U.S.C. Musicians On Week's Trip
Trojan band members, 67 in number, will leave Monday night for an extended exhibition tour which will take them as far south as Phoenix and Tempe, Ariz. Exhibition concerts. with Director Pete Conn in charge, have been planned for Redlands, Palm Springs, San Diego, and El Centro, as well as Yuma, Tempe, and Phoenix, Ariz., and several smaller towns.
Specially planned concerts, prepared by the musicians, include popular music, college songs, and classical numbers written for band rendition. Included in the band’s repertoire are numbers by soloists Jacque Collins and Earl Maddox and the trumpet trio, which includes Collins, Bob Marsh, and Bob Stephens.
Upon arrival in Phoenix. Ariz., next Thursday, the band will play for the dedication of the new Phoenix amphitheater. After the ceremony. which will take place in the afternoon, the Trojan musicians will return to Los Angeles.
' Directors of the Long Beach municipal band have invited members of the U.S.C. school band to culminate next week’s tour by playing in the Long Beach municipal auditorium Friday evening. Herbert L. Clark, director of the Long Beach musicians, will be guest conductor of the Trojan band, while Conn will lead the Long Beach musicians in a few numbers.
Theses Dates Announced
Dr. Hunt Names Deadlines for Master Papers
Final thesis dates for June, July, and September candidates for master’s degrees were announced yesterday by Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean pf the Graduate School.
June candidates will observe the following dates:
April 8—Final day to present preliminary draft of thesis to committee chairman.
April 26—Final day to secure preliminary approval of thesis by faculty committee.
May 7—Final day to present final draft of thesis to committee chair man.
May 20—Final day to present two copies of thesis to the dean of the Graduate School, fully approved and ready for binding.
The fololwing dates will concern July and September candidates: April 9—September applicants file reports from thesis chairman indicating that preliminary work for admission to candidacy is satisfactory.
June 34—July candidates present final thesis to chairman.
July 20—July candidates present thesis, in final form and fully approved by the committee, to the dean.
July 25—September candidates present preliminary thesis drafts to thesis chairmen.
August 10—September candidates present to the dean preliminary approval of thesis signed by each member of the committee.
August 20—September candidates present final thesis to chairmen.
August 31—September candidates present thesis, in final form and fully approved by the committee, to the dean.
Troops Repel Paris Rioters
Leftists Protest Overthrow of Blum Popular Front Government; Machine Gun Cordon Thrown Around Senate
PARIS, April 7—(UP)—The menace of machine guns on the roof of the senate building, manned by mobile guard stormtroops, tonight repulsed several thousand rioting leftists shouting “Hang Caillaux” and protesting against the overthrow of Premier Leon Blum’s popular front government.
-* Heads of angry Communists and
Socialists Were bashed, knives flashed and ambulances clanged through the melee with injured before the demonstrators, estimated at between 3,000 and 4,000 were driven from in front of the building by the sight of machine guns, rifles, and bayonets of 5.000 police and mobile guards. SENATE PROTECTED The machine-gun cordon was ordered around the senate by 3enate President Jules Jeanneney, under his emergency constitutional powers after the Leftists swarmed about shouting “hang Caillaux!”
During mid-afternoon, three hours before the rioting broke out, Caillaux, veteran “cabinet buster” and chairman of the senate finance committee had delivered a death blow in committee to the Blum Leftist government. The finance group rejected Blum’s drastic financial program by a vote of 25 to 6. BLUM TO MEET FOES Blum, determined to go down fighting, will meet his foes on the floor of the senate at 4 p.m. Friday. His program, including demands for dictatorial powers, is sure to be defeated and his entire cabinet is expected to resign before nightfall.
He probably will be succeeded as premier by War Minister Edouard Daladier. whose last term as premier in 1934 was vividly recalled by tonight’s rioting along the left bank of the Seine.
DRIVEN FROM OFFICE
Daladier, defense minister in the last three popular front cabinets, was driven from office after the bloody riots in the Place de la Concorde on February 6, 1934. because he ordered mobile guards to fire with machine guns on War veterans and others parading in protest after the Stavlsky financial scandal. After the February riots Dala-con tinned on page five
Students Plan AnnualDinner
Legislative Council Names 17 To Arrange Commerce Banquet
Seventeen College of Commerce students were named by the commerce legislative council yesterday to formulate plans for the annual banquet to be held by the college on May 6 in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Henry Flynn, newly-elected ASUSC president, will head the com mettee group of more than ten committees in the position as gen eral chairman. To act as host and hostesses will be Art Manella and Betty Jane Bartholomew of the reception committee.
Other committee chairmen elec ted yesterday include Dick Keefe coordination; Rod Hansen, contact Dorothy and Shirley Meeker, decoration; Avery Fisher and Norman Martin, tickets; Bill Flood, publicity; Bob Divine, awards; Dick Hal-pem, entertainment; Leonard Man dell and Bill Waters, program; Mar tha Thome and Eileen Evans, correspondence; and Leonard Rosen Daily Trojan publicity.
To make further plans for the banquet, all committee chairmen are requested to meet in the College of Commerce office during assembly period this moming, Ster ling Smith, president of the college said yesterday.
As the outstanding event in the college, the banquet will be highlighted by speeches by noted business men from the various parts of the United States and by a “Better Business Girl” contest for the outstanding girl in the college in scholarship and activities.
Engineers Leave For Boulder Dam
Students of the College of Engineering will leave this afternoon for Boulder City, where they will make an inspection of the Boulder dam power plant, which, according to Dean Philip S. Beigler, will be one of the most powerful electrical power concentrating units in the world when completed.
First stop on the trip will be made ( at Victorville, where students will
Flying Clubs To Compete In Coast Meet
The first annual Pacific Coast intercollegiate flying meet Will be held at Palo Alto Friday, April 16. with aviators from the University of Southern California, Stanford, University of California, and San Jose State Teachers college entered.
There will be competition in bomb dropping for accuracy--using sand bags instead of explosives, spot landing, and acrobatic flying.
From U.S.C. six members of the Flying club sponsored by Alpha Eta Rho, national aviation fraternity, will enter. Along with Bob De-vine, president, they are Richard Owen. Jack Goodwin, Rolland Has-treiter. Bud Wittenberg, and Tom Sommermeir.
Following the meet, there will be a dinner in San Francisco and presentation of awards and trophies. Permanent trophies will be given by the Ryan Aeronautical company of San Diego and the Aircraft associates of Long Beach. The United Airlines and the Western Air Express are donating round trips between San Francisco and Los Angeles as other awards.
TORNADO HITS ALABAMA
GORDO, Ala., April 7 — (IIP)— Eleven persons were reported killed late today when a tornado struck this section near the Alabama-Mis-sissippi line.
Marco Polo Is Subject of Carter Program
With a review of the story of Marco Polo, as related in current books. Mrs. Mary Duncan Carter, director of the School of Library Science, will continue her broadcasts Monday at 3:45 p.m.
Seven books dealing with the famous explorer, as well as the motion picture, “Marco Polo,” will receive comments. Mrs. Alice Field, of the Will Hays censorship office, is to be guest speaker and will tell something of the filming of the current motion picture.
An exhibit is being planned in the Student Union bookstore to create further interest in the weekly programs. Many libraries, from Seattle to San Diego, receive weekly book lists and invite their patrons to listen to the program.
Travels of Marco Polo” by Polo. Messr. Marco Polo,” and “Marco's Millions” Will form the keynote of the broadcast. Helen Lackey and Henry Lash, wil act as assistants to Mrs. Carter in the broadcast, while Dorothy Spenser is preparing the script.
Graduation Requirements Listed
All students expecting to complete the work for a degree at the end of any session must check , their own record for graduation see the southwestern Portland ce- sufficiently early to allow time ment company. They will remain in enough for them to finish all I the town overnight and go to Boul- lacking requirements, der City tomorrow afternoon. Frank n0 student will be released from Long, U.S.C. graduate in ’34. and Edward Wendt ’35. plant electrical! engineers will act as guides.
any requirement for his degree as printed in the University Bulletin unless he can present writ-
__—---j ten evidence that his release from
HITLER THREATENED	that requirement has been offi-
VIENNA, April 7 -(IIP)- Threats cially approved by the proper au-
Cinema Forum To Meet Tonight
Prof. Max van Lewen Swarthout director of the School of Music, will preside at the last forum to be sponsored this semester by the department of cinematography. The meeting will take place tonight at 7:30 o’clock in the sound recording stage of Paramount studio, 5451 Marathon street.
“Conjuring Drama with Sound and Music,” subject for the evening, will be illustrated with scenes from current pictures of the two speakers, who represent the studio.
Boris Morros, head of the music department of the studio, will discuss “Music in Motion Pictures,” and Loren Ryder, head of the technical department, will speak on "Sound in Motion Pictures."
were made against the life of Adolf Hitler tonight as the pre-plebiscite campaign on union of Germany %nd Austria neared a climax.
thority.
Theron Clark, Registrar April 4, 1938.
READING WARNS STRIKERS
DETROIT. April 7 —(T’.P)—Mayor Richard W. Reading tonight warned 2700 striking street car operators who have paralyzed Detroit’s rail transport system that even bloodshed would not alter his resolution to “give the people transportation.”