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OLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1940
NUMBER 93
ON HOFE SPEAKS Elections )N GERMAN IDEAS Board
Proposed
SC Language Instructor Inaugurates Semester’s Lecture Series Today
Creative and destructive ideas of the German mind will compared by Dr. Harold von Hofe when he begins the dnesday lecture series at 4:30 p.m. today with an address “The Dualism of the German Spirit” in the art and lecture m of Doheny Memorial library.
Che individual is submerged in |----—-
German political field,” Dr. von e said. “Although he lacks in-idualism in politics, he is very ividualistic in other fields.”
ERATURE TO BE CITED
r. von Hofe will quote from rman works in an effort to bring the desirable and undesirable its of the people as a whole. He 1 also compare English and ;nch literature to German writ-s.
‘I shall go below the surface of German character,” Dr. von fe added, “to explain what occa-s these people to act and pro-ce as they do.”
PERIENCES RECALLED
n describing the accomplishes of the Germans, he will at-jipt to find a common denomina-for history. The reasons for the lism of spirit will be explained.
T. von Hofe will draw from his -eriences in German social life.
?n in the United States of Ger-n parents, he was educated in Europe and America. During World war he lived in Germany.
CTURES SCHEDULED
in instructor in German at SC jce last year. Dr. von Hofe was imerly a member of the faculty the German department at rthwestem university, rhe Wednesday lectures, sponsor -bv the College of Letters, Art';, d Sciences, are held each week ring the school year. Two lec--es scheduled for March are “The gacy of ’49.” by Dr. Owen C. y, and “The Significance of the s Angeles Man,” by Dr. Aberdeen wden.
Body of Four Students To Govern ASSC Vote Planned for Future
RISE OF INTERNATIONALISM OUTLINED BY DR. HELSEL
Professor Describes Downfall of Feudalism, Growth of Nationalism at Philosophy Forum
“Compared with the rise of nationalism, internationalism is in its infancy,” remarked Dr. Paul S. Helsel, assistant professor of philosophy, at the Philosophy forum in Bowne hall yesterday. Dr. Helsel contrasted the history of nationalism I and internationalism in his lecture.
The downfall of feudalism was I---
outlined as an introduction to the munities. remarked Dr. Helsel as he 1 lecture in which an enfeebled social concluded his outline of national-order was injected with a new ele- iSm.
4Cor	r*rnviriincr mCnt’ the	bringing ™th ? \ The rise of internationalism was
ASSC constitution providing secularism and disputing the total- |
A revised by-law of the
rizes Offered or Snapshots
Bob Herten
... will introduce speakers
Commerce Group To Hear Methods Of Job-Getting
The technique of landing a job will be demonstrated before College of Commerce students meeting in a special assembly at 11 a.m. today in Touchstone theater.
Michael MacBan will play the part of the correct college gradual* who uses the right method in applying for the position he seeks. Harry Smith will demonstrate the wrong method used by the less tactful and theoretically unsuccessful job-seeker.
Plitt Smeltzer. personnel director for the Los Angeles water department, will conduct the interviews in the demonstration. Dean Reid Lage McClung also will speak to the assembly.
Bob Herten. president of the Col-
candid camera contest, spon-ed by the University bookstore, is open to students wishing to it pictures for El Rodeo cam-snapshot section. Prizes of $5 1 $3 worth of darkroom equip-nt will go to the first and second t pictures, according to Dan Me- lege of Commerce, will introduce the mara. manager of the bookstore, demonstration and the speakers, "'th negative and print should be
, . ,	, ^ ...	The object of the assembly is to
losed in an envelope with the	J
itestant’s name printed thereon	commerce majors an idea of
turned in to Mrs. Willard or what they will face when applying bert Morris in the photography for a job. according to Fred Solo-tion news stand. Student Union. mon man of the meet later than March 15.
,	. ,,, _ . . — questions used in the interviews will
11 pictures submitted become the ,
perty of El Rodeo, which reserves typical of questions used by ex-right to publish them. Nega- ecutives when selecting employees ys will be returned to contestants ?r the publication of the year-k. •
hotographic quality, subject tter. and ‘campus appeal' will considered by the judges in seeing winners.” said Jimmy Rob-editor of El Rodeo.
for an elections board of four members to be chosen from the student senate was submitted to the senate last night by Edward Jones. The commissioner of elections is to be chairman of the board.
Discussion of the revised section was tabled until a subsequent meeting of the senate.
The by-law declares that the senate shall determine the number and placing of ther polling stations, and that there shall be no more than six polling stations in all.
POLLS ROPED OFF
The revised section states that an area of at least 10 feet on all sides shall be roped off around each polling station, and no one except officers and persons voting shall be allowed within this area.
Regarding counting of the ballots, it asserts that the counting shall be done under the supervision of the general manager's office a<t which time only members of the general manager's staff, faculty representatives. and members of the. elections board shall be present.
MOTION CARRIED
A motion by Jones that elections be set back to the eighth week of the second semester was carried unanimously by the senate. The motion was submitted and discussed at a double meeting of the body last week.
Petitions for candidacy, according to the new law. will be due from all candidates between 9 a.m. Monday, March 11, and 3 p.m. Wednesday March 13. Copies of the statement of candidacy will be made available in the offices of the ASSC. and are to be signed in the presence of a member of the elections board by the candidate making the state;-ment. Actual elections will take place during the week from April 1 to 6.
A petition for organization of a Trojan Polo club was submitted to the senate by Stan Decker, captain of the polo team. This was referred to the committee on organizations for further action.
itarian rule of the church. “Discovery of new physical countries symbolized the new discoveries of the mind,” continued Dr. Helsel.
then traced by Dr. Helsel, beginning with an essay by William Penn on the future peace of Europe. Jeremy Bentham was the first man to i define and discuss the term “inter -
Nationalism appeared, and with	nationalism. the War of the Roses in 1485 feudalism collapsed. Exploration and	; From the Holy Alliance and the the demand for business expansion	Concert of Europe to the Locarno were forces tending to revive na-	covenant and the Kellogg pact was tionalism.	an important period of develop-The League of Nations awoke the	ment of international unity, the world to the contrast between na-	speaker indicated. The confusion of tionalism and internationalism. No	the public mind today was stressed single cause of war is so prevalent	as a possible influence on the fu-today as the notion that a nation	ture harmony of the nations of the may ignore her duties to other com-	world.
Trojan Oakies Fail To Crash Film Premiere
An antiquated Ford clattered to a halt in front of the Four-Star theater at Wilshire and LaBrea where ihe world premiere of “Grapes of Wrath" was shown last night, and f.ve shabbily-dressed Okies deposited themselves on the sidewalk in front of the entrance. . .
A battery of photographers let go with a broadside and the air was brightened by flash bulbs as the quintet made it known that they had come “all the way from Idabell, Oklahoma to see the show.” The opening-night crowd gawked, and the five ambled to the door, but that was as far as they went — for the doorman wanted their tickets. . .
After trying all of their southern persuasive methods, the five
SENATE TO OPEN INQUIRY ON CLUBS
Committee on Organizations Will Start Collecting Lists of Present Group Officers
All honorary, service, and professional organizations chartered by the ASSC must soon submit activity reports to the senate committee on organizations, Michael MacBan, ASSC president, announced last night.
The committee, headed by Neil Deasy, will begin work im-
j mediately
to collect the reports[ 1 from the 163 ASSC chartered organ- ; | izations. No deadline for the reports had been set late last night.
An ASSC constitution by-law re- j ; quires that the committee on or- j ganizations conduct a semi-annual I I investigation of student societies at SC. The by-law also requires that i ! written statements concerning group organizations, their officers and ac-retired to the Ford and headed tivities, be submitted to the com-back for Idabell (28th street.) Ok- j mittee. MacBan said.
lahoma’s representatives at the “big shindig” were Bob Peoples, Jack Marquette, and Ash Morris, Phi Psis, and Sal Mena and Roland Norris.
Hap, Hap, Happy Day Chorused As Pharmacy Students Ditch
“It’s a hap, hap. happy day” sing College of Pharmacy students* today as they abandon scheduled classes and trek to Brookside park in Pasadena.
Yes, the 25th annual College of Pharmacy ditch day is
here at last.
“Semi-officially
YMCA To Hear Knopf Discuss Grad on Spot
Flood Peril Seen in North
The Grad on the Spot” will be ! discussed by Dr. Carl Sumner '■ Knopf, supervisor of religious activities and YMCA adviser at SC, when cutting classes, hg gpeaks at the second **y” meet-the 125 pharmacy students will _ng Qf thg spring semester today, spend a full day of recreation in- Thg club wiJJ meet in the Italian eluding an old-fashioned steak-bake,	cafg 1?24 West Adams ^ule-
vard. at 5:30 p.m. President Herb
OFFICERS MUST BE LISTED
The reports to be submitted to the organizations group by student societies must state the activities of the organization during the past school year and must list present officers. The names of all officers of the 165 studant societies will be submitted to the registrar's office
baseball games, tennis matches, horseback riding, and horse shoes. Catalina island was the mecca for
Klein will be assisted in conducting the meeting by Bob Matzke and
SAN FRANCISCO. Feb. 27—<r.R>— Record-breaking rainstorms today pounded northern California for the fourth consecutive day. threatening
for so large a group, trips to the
snow-line were substituted.
x	„ ... i And so the changed location for
a repetition of the 1937 Hood dls- (hjs	d(tch ^ _
early SC pharmacy ditchers but as	Halfertv. who will lead the
the trip was considered dangerous grQup in camp ginging
asters.
no snow in the mountains.
ADVISES JOB SEEKERS
Dr. Knopf will emphasize the aft-there* Is ermath of four years of university training. He believes that the aver-
Hundreds of families moved out of Hiehlieht of the dav will be base- age graduate seeks four or five years flooded farmlands and scores of *u	between before he finds the portion best
persons were marooned by the ris- Phi chi and Phi ^ita Chi fra- suited for hls needs and declares-ing waters. Highways and railroads ternities.
were under water. No less of life The diteh day> planned several was reported, but crop and property weeks ago. is under the direction of damage mounted hourly.	Norman Applebaum. pharmacy stu-
The storm struck from the Te- dent.
from several applicants.
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Panel Payments Due for Greeks
Payments for El Rodeo social fraternity and sorority panels must be made at the comptroller's office by Friday, according to Paul Miller. El Rodeo business manager.
I Social fraternities who have not paid as yet are: Alpha Rho Chi. emical and petroleum engin- Deita Sigma Phi. Phi Kappa Tau. will hear an address by Earle Sigma Alpha Epsilon. Sigma Phi d, director of research for the Delta, and Sigma Phi Epsilon, n Oil company, when thev hold
Social sororities who have
ard To Address gineerLuncheon
IR Group Sets Luncheon Meeting For Tomorrow
The luncheon meeting of the International Relations club, formerly scheduled for today, will take place tomorrow at 12:10 p.m. in Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall. Fred May, president of the organization, extended an invitation to all students interested in the activities of this group.
Dr. Claude A. Buss, associate professor of international relations, will address the group, giving his observations on the European situation. Luncheon will be 40 cents
Interview Will Highlight Campus Broadcast
“It is not a question of whether or not the job suits the person, but rather if the person is suitable for the position.”
PROBLEMS EMPHASIZED
He will point out the difficulties and problems involved in finding employment and will picture the position in which college graduates find themselves after four years of school.
The meeting wil be concluded with the selection of committee chairmen who will aid in choosing representatives for the forthcoming pro-fessor-student round-table discus-
Music School in Recital
incheon meeting tomorrow at 12 in the chemical engineering lab-ry on the second floor of the neering building.
Gard will base his address on t developments in methods of erization and alkylation. The of the luncheon is 30 cents.
omorrow s Organ Program
Tomorrow’s organ recital, given Prof. Archibald Sessions, uni-rsity organist, at 12 M. in Bo-ird auditorium, will include the llowing selections:
'•elude and Fugue in F minor....
.................................. Handel
is is one of the rarely play-fugues of Handel, but is writ-ir» a strong and viril style.
rand Choeur Dialogue Gigout Gigout was one of the most minent figures of 19th century ance. A contemporary of Guil-t and Vidor, he played for •y years at St. Augustin. Bachs Aria from the Suite in will also be played.
Events of piano, violin, voice, and other musical instruments will be not presented in a student recital to-made payments include: Alpha Chi morrow at 12:30 p.m. in Recital hall. Omega. Alpha Delta Pi. Alpha Gam- School of Music building. Miss Pearl ma Delta. Delta Delta Delta. Gam- A. Macloskey. music department, an-ma Phi Beta. Kappa Alpha Theta. nounced that all interested students and Kappa Delta.	will be welcomed at the recital.
hachapi mountains near Bakersfield north to the Oregon line, and rang- | ed from the coast to the Sierra !
Nevadas. It was expected to spread into southern California.
The downpour was expected to continue at least until tomorrow night. Many areas had six inches of rain in 24-hour periods. Small craft storm warnings were up along
the coast.	The newly-installed direct wire
Flood conditions already were ser- connecting the campus with station ious in the upper Sacramento val- KRKD will be used for the second ley, with homes evacuated and per- | time this afternoon when Dick Hudsons marooned at Redding, Colusa, dleston. director of radio. inter-Gerber, Tehama. Red Bluff, and Vjews Earl W. Hill, lecturer in comother points.	mercial aviation and head of SC A cloudburst struck the San Lor- division of the Civil Aeronautics au-enzo valley in the Santa Cruz area, thority, in the new Southern Cali-pouring 8.75 inches on Boulder creek fornia radio studios at 1:30 o’clock, within 17 hours. The first program, emanating Railroad operations were delayed from campus was broadcast yester-by slides and high water in Feather day from Bovard auditorium and Housemothers of Troy wi en-river canyon and at many points consisted of an announcement of tertained by the Intel fraternity from Santa Cruz north to Oregon, future programs, both in radio and Mothers' club at a tea on Monday,
- television, and an outline of the March 4. from 2 to 4 p.m. in Elisa-
policies of the staff.	beth von KleinSmid hall.
The speakers were Robert Benson, Mrs. Thomas Doolittle, president head of the staff; Harlow Johnson, of the mothers’ group, will preside, assistant production manager; Nan- She will be assisted by Mrs. Alice cy Thompson, continuity editor; Al- Polly, president of the Housemoth-fred Seale Jr. of the television staff; ers of Troy.
Anthony Ricca, supervisor of the Mrs. J. F. Kitchen, chairman of musical scores: and Morton Sch- the Clothes Closet, sponsored
Greek Group To Entertain House Mothers
Campus Press Stricken By Leap Year
Tomorrow’s Trojan Will Be Edited By Women’s Staff
Leap year influences press! Women occupy fourth estate I Men banned from city room!
. And tomorrow's Daily Trojan goe*
to determine if the officer’s grade to press under feminine hands as averages conform to the ruling of the annual tradition of the journal-the 1.3 clause. Societies failing to ism department again threatens submit the proper reports face the man’s supremacy in the SC news-possibility of losing their charter. pap£t field.
Tuesday MacBan voiced approval L’ECLUSE TO EDIT PAPER of a Daily Trojan editorial advo- j^her LKcluse. regUiar
women's
eating strict enforcement of the 1.3 ^ilor. will reign supreme for the clause of the ASSC constitution. dav in the e6iU)TS chalr. usuaUy MacBan declared that the amend- occupied by Reaxis Winckler. When ment is "a valuable clause and I asked what they would do on their agree that it should be more strict- day 0ff winckler and Stanley Gor-ly enforced. The requirement of ^ov. assistant editor, declared: grade averages makes for improve- ..We.n just sit at home and wor_ ment of the quality of student body ryi»
officers, and therefore should help Enthusiastic women who are put-the honorary and professional so- tjng out tomorrow's leap year edl-cieties-	. tion declare that tomorrow they
CLAUSE CITED	“come into their own” and show
The 1.3 clause of the constitution the male staff what can be done, states that a candidate for ap-, STArF ANNOUNCED pointlve or elective offices of any ^ h (hf on,y opportunjty
the majority of women tm the Daily
Trojan staff have to experience the
actual publication of the paper from
beginning to end.
Other editors working under Miss
, . . . .. .....	L'Ecluse include MHdred Johns, desk
The 1.3 clause of the constitution	... T _ „ __
, . , . ..	editor: Jane Carroll, sports page
does not applv to social societies	... , .
.	editor; Hazel Hartzog. women s page
since these organizations are not	. .__JTj
I editor; and Margaret Ann Case.
honorary, service, professional, or social society must have maintained not less than a 1.3 average during his college career and »Jso during the r ’mester preceding his election or appointment.
chartered by interpreted.
the ASSC. MacBan
feature page editor.
Troy Debaters Enter Tourney
Banks To Discus: Motion Pictures
Men arjH'ome^ (febaterS^ Sbfl For Architects
SC will participate in the 10th I
invitational forensic tournament Lionel Banks, art director for t which starts tomorrow at Los An- motion picture studio, will address
Listening Hour Offers Requests
The Listening Hour today at 3:15 p.m. in Bovard auditorium, will be composed of an all-request program. The following requests made by students will be played:
Bach’s “Air for the G String”; Beethoven’s ‘‘Symphony No. 6 in F major”; “Allegro ma non troppo”; “Andante molto mosso”; “Allegro”: Lalo’s “Symphony Espagnole”; Tschaikow’sky’s “Nutcracker Suite.”
wartz. in charge of staff publicity.
Jewish Students To Plan Dance
by the Interfratemity Mothers’ club, says that there are still a few clothes which they will be glad to give to boys on campus. Inquiries may be made in Dr. Francis M. Bacon’s office.
Mohler Explains New War Tactics to Fliers
A dinner dance for all non-organized Jewish students will be sponsored by the Jewrish students council. Monday, at 5:30 p.m. in the men's grill, Student Union.
Life Equations' Supply Theme For Meditation
“The days of the dog-fight in war combat are past; today it is a matter of ‘hit and run’ fighting.” declared Orv Mohler. former football player and ASSC president, when he spoke yesterday before a ; luncheon meeting of Alpha Eta Rho, international aviation fratemity.
While at SC in the early thirties,
I Mohler was vice-president of the flying fratemity and was actively engnged in flying while the group was in its early stages of organization. Since his graduation in 1933, he has been working in the field of airplane motor development with the aircraft company.
Mohler, now sales manager of the Monasco Aircraft Motors company. ' told how speedy modern engines have affected the methods used in war fighting.
Th« t'remerrt et surprise is the
pre-
( The dance, under the supervision | principal factor in fighting on the of Rab&i Bernard Harrison, is plan- The “equations for living ^?aj* fronts todav according to I^oh- tied to promote friendliness among sented by Dr, Lin Yutang, writer ler. He introduced Paul White, ex- the non-°r8 students. Tickets may and interpreter of China, will be ecutive in the Monasco company be obtained from Juliette Kantor or the theme of the noonday medita-who has just recently returned Katherine Smith at the religious tion to be conducted today at 12:10 ^um^r o? uiTtTand grades receiv-
P-m: *n Bovard auditorium by Dr	Address and hone number -j Carl Sumner Knopf, supervisor of ishould alsQ ^ included_
geles City college . Debaters from junior colleges on the coast and from UCLA will also compete.
The program includes events in oratory, oratorical declamation, impromptu speaking, humorous, and dramatic declamation. It will continue from 3 to 8 p.m. Thursday and Friday, and all day Saturday. No admission will be charged.
The tournament will be a valuable preliminary for the regular intercollegiate tournament with Redlands university, and the performance of SC representatives this week may influence the selection of entrants for that event, which will take place in March, according to Paul Fraide, squad manager.
History Society Receives Requests For Membership
Phi Alpha Theta. national honorary history fraternity, is now receiving applications for membership from juniors and seniors majoring In history.
Requirements for admission include a minimum of 12 units in history completed at this university with a grade point average of 2.1 in history and 1.8 in non-history courses. Applicants should hand in a complete list of university grades listing the name of each course.
from war in Europe. White told c°uncil office, of the aviation situation in the bel-jligerent nations.
Germany’s air force is made up of many fast but poorly constructed planes. White reported.
“The Nazis include in their report a lot of Junker ships too old to be of efficient use.” White explained.
Council Plans Religion Program
The Student Council on Religion announced the following semester The planes of Great Britain also | program after its meeting yester-
religious activities, j Dr. Yutang. known for his book. ; “The Importance of Living.” lectured extensively throughout southern Salifornia and some time ago gave a series of "equations for living.”
Orv Mohler
tells oj u ar lac-tict
do not measure up to those of the United States in mechanical construction, he indicated.
Both Mohler and White were made associate members of the SC I chapter of Alpha Eta Rho.
day. The first event will be a conference at Mar Casa, Balboa. March
The information may be turned in to Prof. Della Tottor! or Prof. Frank H. Carver of the history department.
Coeds To Bowl
Non-org women attending a meeting of the bowling league today at
French Organization
French songs and a speaker will	3:30 p.m. in the Studio bowling al-
comprise the program today when	leys, will be formed into an inde-
15. 16, and 17, according to Miss Le Cercle Francais meets for lunch-	pendent team to compete with sor-
Leila Holsteter ot the YWCA. eon in Elisabeth von KleinSmid	ority and women's residence hall
An Easter retreat from March 21 social hall. The price of the lunch-	teams, according to Frances Wil-
to 24 will be held at Big Bear. jeon is 40 cents.	‘liams, WAA president.
the student assembly of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts tomorrow in Harris hall at 1:36 p.m.
The opportunities in the motion picture industry for architecture and fine arts students will be discussed by Banks, who worked in the art direction cf ‘Mr. Smith Goes to Washington” and is currently occupied in the production of “Arizona.”
An exhibition of drawings and cardboard stage set models, made by the art department for “Arizona.” are now on display in the main patio of Harris hall.
Banks graduated from Southern California in 1924. He was a member of Alpha Rho Chi.
Ed Killingsworth, president of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, announces that the college will continue to expand the assembly programs by bringing before the students speakers from the varied fields of art and architecture.
Baptists To Hear Reverend Miller
“What Should the Christian Student Be Aware of in Contemporary Society?” The Rev. Wendall Miller will lead discussion on this topic before the Roger Williams club in their noon meeting tomorrow.
Baptist students and their friends who wish to come may sign up In the religious office in the student lounge. It will be a luncheon meeting in 223 Student Union. The price of the luncheon will be 35 cents.
Registrar's Office Notice
All students who hope to receive advanced degrees or professional degrees in June, 1949, should file diploma applicatien cards at the registrar's office before Saturday, March 30, 1940, THERON CLARK, Registrar.