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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 6, 1940
NUMBER 98
sborne o Play t Rally
Meeting Will Honor Hoopsters, Icemen Before Beaver Game
Will Osborne and his band (ill play at the basketball ral-Friday evening in Bovard ^lditorium, it was announced ;sterday by the rally commit-?e.
Osborne, whe has recently ?turned from several engage-lents in the East, is playing irrently at the Casa Manana illroom.
OMPOSES POPI^AR SONGS Osborne is the composer of rhese Foolish Things" and several her popular songs. His orchestral ferings usually consist of modern weet swing."
The rally, which will begin at 130 o'clock, is in honor of SC’s lampionship basketball team and ►e ice hockey team.
[The ptp meeting will precede the J-Oregon State basketball game the Shrine auditorium. The game 111 be the first of two between Ore-[n State, northern division win-|r. and SC. southern division win-for the Pacific Coast confer-pe championship.
.AYOFFS SET FOR MONDAY play-off game is scheduled for jnday if the series is split between two teams.
egular adml.vslon price is $1.10, lile student, admission will be 40 its with activity books. Tickets on sale in the bookstore and at |e balcony of Bullock's department ire.
Neil Deasy
head' investigators
esearch News otals 2000
•arch News, the official pub-lation of the School of Research Id the Graduate School, made its pond appearance of the year on SC campus last Friday. Publish -bi-monthly under the auspices Ithe Graduate School of the uni-rsity. the News is edited by Dean rkwell Dennis Hunt, assisted by Welcome A. Tilroe. assistant [ifessor of Latin, and has a maillist of over 2000.
Jomposed of four pages, the per-lical which was originated in 1935. »tains articles written by univer-educators on many varied sub-News concerning lectures, fessors on leave, banquets, and »r information of interest to the luate can be obtained in the flet.
ie advisory editorial board in-|nat.ion of interest to the gradu-can be obtained in the leaflet. Jhe advisory editorial board in-les such members as: Dr. Emory ?ardus. Dr. Harry J. Deuel Jr., Ralph Tyler Flewelling. Dr. Al-Gaw. Dr. Milton F. Metfessel. Lawrence M. Riddle. Dean Al-Sydnev Raubenheimer. and Dr. ay S. Weatherbv.
Deuel Speaks To Pharmacists Tomorrow
Biochemistry Professor Will Explain Tests On Digestion of Fats
Dr. Harry James Deuel, professor of biochemistry, will address members of the SC chapter of the American Pharmaceutical association at the monthly luncheon meeting tomorrow at 12:10 p.m. in 304 Science hall.
Dr. Deuel will base his talk on some recent experiments on the rate of digestion of fats. He will present the same material next week at a meeting of the American Institute of Nutrition in New Orleans. Dr. Deuel will illustrate his talk with movies showing various methods of studying fat digestion in rats.
The luncheon, which is being j planned by the new membership committee headed by President James Corm. will honor new members of the organization which include:
Eugene Morrow. Fred Koyama. Dixie Taylor, Wendell Schell. Shig Masuoka, Henry Ywon. Yeiki Mat-sui. Walter Ruttgers, Morris Tanen-baum. Mike Kadoni, George Chari-ter. Max Geller, Josephine Rawlee. Nelson Tetsuse. Louis Wong. John Converse. F. C. Putnam, and Prof. Harold Bowers, local sponsor of the club.
Committee To Probe Grades
Deasy Heads Group Ordered To Investigate Officers’ Requirements
A check on the cumulative grade averages of incumbent officers of all social, professional, honorary, and service organizations under the control of the ASSC is being conducted by the organizations committee of the university under the chairmanship of Neil Deasy.
Purpose of the investigation is to make sure that the officers have maintained the 1.3 average required by a senate ruling.
FRIDAY IS DEADLINE Officers’ names must be in the committee’s hands by Friday. March 15. They may be turned in to the ASSC office or to the office secretary.
Charles Johnston
. . . announces prom theme
Juniors Pick Orchid Theme For 1940 Prom
Trojans Will Dance At Ambassador Hotel In Easter Atmosphere
Trojans will dance in an Easter atmosphere dominated by 450 orchids next week at the Junior prom, biggest formal event of the school ! year.
The organizations committee will hold a meeting tomorrow night in the Pi Beta Phi house to determine the form of investigation it will use in making a complete survey of the functioning of all campus organizations. A check will be made on overlapping of function and import- j An orchid corsage will be present-ance of the groups. The aim is to ed to every coed present in the stop duplication of purpose in the Fiesta room of the Ambassador club set-up.	i hotel. The orchid theme for the
FOUR AID DEASY	(important spring social event was
announced yesterday by the committee headed by Charles Johnston.
Decorations appropriate to the Easter season will be used as a
Local Fraternity Closes Negotiations With National Body
Phi Nu Delta, local fraternity on the SC campus, will become the Alpha Nu chapter of Theta Xi, a well-known national fraternity containing 40 chapters, after installation rites on April 13.
The national hook-up is the result of negotiations between Stanley Johnson, president of the local fraternity, and Clayton M.
Allen, national president of Theta Xi, who resides in Los Angeles.
Other California chapters of the organization are located at UCLA.
California, and Stanford. Theta Xi was founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic institute, Troy, N. Y., in 1864.
BACON COMMENTS
Concerning the adoption by the Phi Nu Delta of the national name, peace f0r Europe is the prediction
Frances M. Bacon, counselor of men.	-n
_ . '.	, ,. ,. ; Dr. Clayton D.
stated: ‘Theta Xi is one of the fin- !
And the w^en he speaks
Dr. Clayton Carus
. . . discusses war
Carus Reviews War Situation In Forum Today
Talk To Open Series On Current Affairs Sponsored by YMCA
War for the United States and
Dr. Coy Discusses Legacy of 49 Today
Gold Rush Transformed Sleepy California
Into Busy American State, Says Professor
‘The gold rush of ’49 changed California from a sleepy Mexican province to a busy American state.” said Dr. Owen C. Coy, professor of history, in a preview of his speech, “The Legacy of ’49.’' His lecture will be presented at 4:30 p.m., today in the art and lecture room of Doheny Memorial library.
“The history of California is var- j----
ied,” he declared. “To a southerner, it means missions, fiestas, and the Spanish influence: to a northerner, it means miners, and the discovery of gold.”
Working under Deasy on the committee are Harry Harmon. Paul Ignatius, Donna Lewis, and Peggy Price.
A clause in the constitution says that “a candidate for appointive or elective offices of any honorary, service, professional, or social society charted by the ASSC must' have maintained not less than a 1.3 average during the entire period of his college study and during the semester preceding his election or appointment.
setting -for the dance.
The SC order for 450 orchids was the largest local order in years, according to the florists handling the arrangements. Many of the city’s
est nationals in existence, honor of bearing the name is merited and deservedly won by Phi Nu Delta, which has an honorable record at SC.”
The officers of the house, besides Johnson, are John Mobus. secretary-treasurer: Roy Anderson, pledge master; and Dugan Schuepbach, pledge president.
MEMBERS LISTED
Carus will make at the Student-
Faculty forum in the social lounge of Student Union this afternoon at 3 o’clock.
Dr. Carus in his talk. “Another Guess About the War,” will contend that the failure of the United States to take the first step in negotiating new treaties with Japan has definitely been detrimental to Among the prominent alumni of friendly relations between the two Phi Nu Delta is the late Edward
iwman Relates isis in Finland
jw long Finland can hold out ut Russia will be discussed by incis J. Bowman of the his-department. who will speak on Crisis in Finland’’ before Ibers of the Faculty club in Ibeth von KleinSmid hall at today.
il the mvasx>n of Finland. Dr. ian was associate editor of the and Scandinavian. European Nation, which went out of ex-pe when Finland became in-in the present conflict, le Baltic countries on an Am-i-Scandinavian foundation fel-ip. Dr. Bowman wrote extenon the history and govem-lt« of the area._
'residents iffice Notice
order to clarify any milling that may exist rel-[r t« the extent of spring va-the following statement is
ie:
ng recess begins Wednesday, 20, at 9 p.m. Spring recess Mondav. March 25. & a.m.
R. B. VON KLEINSMID President
Civil Service Exam Will Be Given For Research Post
Dr. Emery' Evans Olson, dean of the Graduate School of Research, today announced that a civil service examination for a student research assistant in the state department will be given soon.
The position is open to men and women who will do routine technical work in various departments, working at a college or university. The starting salary will be $100 a month.
The duties will consist of assisting in gathering, tabulating, and analyzing data, compiling data for administrative reports, making independent minor surveys and special studies, and attending special training courses including graduate seminars in related subjects.
Listening Hour Presents Works of Jan Sibelius
Works of Jan Sibelius, Finnish composer, will be played at 3:15 p.m. today in the weekly Listening Hour in Bovard auditorium.
The program includes ‘ The Swan of Tuonela,” “Second Symphony,” and “Valse Triste.”
First Mock Trial Opens Tonight
‘Murder’ Case Starts Law School Sessions
The witnesses in the case of Paul Draper vs. the people, will take the stand tonight in the first mock trial of the School of Law this semester. The jury trial will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the Law building auditorium.
The pseudo-murder supposedly took place at the Aaron Burr junior high school on 45th street and Figueroa. There, the defendant is accused of luring one James Drew up onto a scaffold where a 700-pound stone, which was held up by a winch, was released and fell to crush Drew to his death.
The motive on which the prosecutor, Roland Woodruff, the student district attorney, bases his case, is Drapers love for the deceased’s wife and desire to obtain his life insurance, for James Drew had been a wealthy man. The state asks for the death penalty, claiming that the act was premeditated murder.
On the other hand, the counsel for the defense, which is led by John Weyl. assisted by Ray Kahn and Robert Feder. claims that no murder was committed, that the death of James Drew was purely accidental.
‘‘District Attorney” Woodruff declares. “Our office has one aim and that is to convict Draper for his act against Drew,” while the defense discredits Woodruff’% statement with the words. ‘This is obviously a case of political persecution.”
A junior council meeting will be held at the Sigma Nu house at 7:15 p.m. tomorrow, announced John Gripman, president.
leading florists were bidding for the i contract, and plans to import the orchids to Los Angeles from Mexico were considered at one time.
Arrangements are being made by 1 other junior class commutes to engage a “name band” for the affair.
Heads of the committees are as follows: Frank Scott and Tom Eddy, orchestra: Gene Ellis and Charles Johnston, favors, theme, and decorations: Jack Naye and Ximeno Teiada, posters; Marvin Shapiro and Frank Scott, door prizes; and Bob Mersen, bid selections.
Law School Dean Leaves for East
To take part in the annual meet- j ing of the Association of American I law schools. Dr. William G. Hale. I dean of the School of Law, left ! yesterday for Durham, N.C. He is a member of the executive committee of the association meeting from March 7 to 9.
As the western member of the ; j advisory group of the American Law institute, Dean Hale will also at- i tend the organization's conference arranged by the Bar association of New York from March 14 to 16.
Greeks Honor Educator
Dr. Charles Thompson, dean of the College of Commerce at the University of Illinois, was honored at a luncheon given at the Delta Chi house yesterday. Dr Thompson is also the national president of
Delta Chi fraternity.
Other guests at the luncheon were Dr. Reid Lage McClung, Prof. John , McDiarmid. and Sam Lindeaur.
L. Doheny, Jr.
Members of the fratemity are:
Robert Hensey, Chester Wheeler, Jeff Lyons, Malcolm Jones. Woodford Little, George Dobler. George Ellis, Charles Mobus. Virgil Becker, William Mager, Bruce Cartwright. Claude Morgan, Hon Gross, Thane Kuhlman, Jess Tarwater. Bill Crosby, Art Solveri. Don Bacon. Morton Block. Cecil Saunders. Larry Scho-enbom, and Chester Wheeler.
Varsity Debaters Enter Coast Meet At Berkeley
Earl Bolton and William Barton, members of the varsity debate squad, will leave tomorrow to attend the annual Pacific coast student
conference at the University of Cal- the student-Faculty forum, Frank-ifornia, Friday and Saturday.	lin jordan and Lee Clark.
The two-day conclave of debaters from the larger southern California today's program will conclude colleges will deal with current de- with an open discussion on the sub-
bate problems of the schools repre- of Dr- Carus’ address ** those sented.	attending the meeting.
countries. He also believes that the United States will not agree to lign or stick to any treaty with the Japanese on more than day-by-day basis.
The British and French will be unable to hold the Germans in check economically, according to Dr. ; Carus. It is his opinion that the war in Europe will come to a close sometime during this year because Germany will push outward into new economic channels and make new outside contacts without Allied intervention.
Today’s program is sponsored by the Trojan YMCA and will be the first of a series of semi-monthly talks on current affairs. Herb Klein, president of the organization, stressed the fact that the forum is open to all students who care to attend.
Speakers for subsequent forums will be contacted by chairmen of
With the gold rush came thousands of people and the beginning of the migration westward. The American replaced the Mexican. It was then that California became an American territory in reality, he said. CONSTITUTION FORMED
The Californians, in need of government, held a convention in Monterey and formed a constitution whi^h went into effect before congress took measures to help the i state. Dr. Coy added.
"California was annexed to the United States in 1846.” he continued. “Because of the slavery question, however, congress would do nothing toward its internal organ-i ization. Through the Compromise of 1850. California finally became a state.”
Dr. Coy has been director of the California Historical association since its founding in 1915.
EDITS PUBLICATION
He is editor of the California History Nugget, a state publication for elementary and junior high schools. He is author of “History of the California County Boundaries.” “The Humbolt Bay Region.” and many 1 other books dealing with California.
I He is also editor and compiler of J“The Pictorial History of California.”
A member of the SC faculty since 1925, Dr. Coy formerly taught at the University of California, Stanford university, and Mills college.
Radio Heads Seek Talent
Barton with his colleague, Wallace Frasher. defeated the UCLA team at the LACC tournament last weekend to make the competition a tie between three SC teams for first place.
Law Assembly Postponed
Postponement of the assembly in the Law building auditorium which was scheduled for tomorrow was made yesterday. John W. Preston, former associate justice of the California supreme court will speak to the law school at a later date.
Priest Speaks At Meditation
The Rev. Father Francis B. Koeper, Newman club adviser, will be the speaker at the weekly interdenominational meditation hour in Bovard auditorium at 12:10 p.m. I today.
His topic will be “The Greatest Love,” based on the text John 15:12, ! which deals with friendship.
Student radio talent wiH be reviewed this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock as the radio-television department conducts auditions in Bovard auditorium to discover material for a series of variety shows.
The students selected from the i auditions will be cast in a series of variety shows that will go on the air in the near future. The programs are to be presented entirely by student talent.
Vocalists, instrumentalists, dramatic actors, and specialty actors are sought by the directors of the project. Harlow Johnson, assistant production manager, is in charge of the auditions.
This will be SC's first attempt to produce a series of variety shows over the air. The programs are tentatively scheduled to run a half-hour, according to Dick Huddleston, director of the division of radio.
Gamma Beta Alpha, honorary radio fratemity, is the sponsor of the broadcasts.
Arrangements can be made for a private audition at another time if j the artist is unable to attend the ; auditions this afternoon. The radio- I television office is 250 Administra- | tion.
Women Seek WAA Positions At Election
Organization Members To Vote Tuesday For Eight Nominees
Eight candidates for WAA execu-i tive offices will seek election at the voting next Tuesday. Final nominations were made at a tea yesterday afternoon in thc organization's club room. 112 Physical Education.
The list of nominees includes Erma Metz and Dorothy Maurer, president; Betty Johnson and Elaine Lackey, vice-president; Beverly June Curtis, secretary; Alta Hall and Lauralee Turner, treasurer; and Louise Reordan. activity recorded.
Qualifications for office include a 1.5 cumulative grade average and a period of service on the WAA board for the presidency, and a 1.3 average for the other offices.
Present officers are Frances Williams. president: Erma Metz, vice-president; Elizabeth Rogers, secretary; Frances Paddon. treasurer: and Marjorie Lloyd, recorder.
An eligibility list of those WAA members qualified to vote will be posted on the bulletin board by Friday, according to Miss Bernice Finger. sponsor of the group. Members of WAA include those women who have participated in a university activity during the current year or during the second semester of last year.
Quill Club Tryouts Continue Through March
Open season for writers was declared by Joseph Comstock, chancellor of the Quill club, when he announced that tryouts for membership will be conducted throughout March.
To qualify in the tryouts aspirants are asked to submit either prose or poetry compositions, signed with a pen-name, with an envelope containing the person’s true name, address, and class number to the English office, 389 Bridge.
Dr. Lynn Clark is the advisor of the group whose purpose is to foster an interest in writing on the campus and to provide a combination critic and guide for ambitious authors.
Fight Just Begun/ Says Former Chinese Flyer
“China has just begun to fight!”
That was the inside information on the war in the Orient it was told to members of Alpha Eta Rho yesterday by Kien Wong. Chinese student at SC, who has recently served in the flying corps of the army of Chiang Kai-Shek.
Wong, while in the United States doing graduate work in commercial aviation, talked at the regular noon luncheon meeting of the international aviation fratemity.
He described Japan's invasion of China as a “ruthless war of acquisition in an effort to become the nritr of Asia."
“Japan has been preparing for the war for 65 years.” Wong said. “China, on the other hand, did not want to fight and was caught unprepared by the invasion.”
Wong divided the war into three periods, and compared the casualty reports of each period to show how the Chinese army is gaining in effectiveness. In the early part of the war. before the fall of Shanghai, seven Chinese were killed to every Japanese casualty, according to Wong.
In the second period, up to the fall of Nanking, the casualty ratio changed to five Chinese deaths for every Japanese casualty. During
| the third period, marked by the fall of Hankow, there were three Chinese soldiers killed to one Japanese.
The present fighting in China is being waged in the interior and the casualty tolls of the two countries | are approximately equal, according to Wong.
“China's air force has been developed since 1929 by Chiang Kai-Shek,” Wong said. “Gasoline for the airplanes of both Japan and China is furnished by the United States at about $2 a gallon.”
Wong was an attache to the adjutant in the air force when he served in the war.
Tomorrows Organ Program
Works of Bonsett and Cesar Franck will be featured on tomorrow's regular organ program at 12:10 p.m. in Bovard auditorium. Professor Archibald Sessions, university organist, will play the following selections: Variations and Fugue on a Theme
of Purcell ............................Bonset
Jacob Bonset is a contemporary Dutch composer, now organist at the famous “Evangelical Lutheran Old Church” in Amsterdam, which dates back to the period of the Reformation.
Piece Heroique ............Cesar Franck
Cesar Franck possessed one of the most beautiful personalities recorded in the history of music-simple. devout, generous, indifferent alike to public praise and criticism, devoted to his pupils and his art. The “Piece Heroique” is built on two themes of contrasting mood, which are developed at length, with great1 daring and originality.
London Professor Explains Differences in Governments
“Under liberalism the individual is the end and the state the means. Under fascism, however, society is the end and individuals the means.” Thus Dr. Thomas Greenwood of the University of London, explained the first essential philosophic difference between dictatorships and democracies in his lecture on “The Totalitarian State” in I--—--
Bowne hall yesterday afternoon. thought, would probably be surprised
Evening Students Study for Exams
While 5-week quizzes are occupying the time of most Trojans, students of University College wiH begin burning kilowatts in preparation Jor final exams of the evening division's winter quarter.
The present session will end •March 16 after a week of finals, and seven days of vacation will ensue until new classes convene, March 36.
In the United States constitution,
at their application of it.
The second tenet of totalitarian- !
the speaker pointed out, two kinds	igm hQlds that „the collective mind
of rights are lecognized. property	hag & supreme intrinsic value.” In
rights and human rights. In the	Qther words nQ individual shall
totalitarian state property rights are	judge th(j gtate Qf greatef signifi_
paramount; human rights negligible.	cance in nt world co„ditions,
Even property rights are delegated	however is the third point made by to the state. Leaders of both Ger-
many and Italy denounce the prin-
Dr. Greenwood.
‘The state is morally absolute and
ciples of individualism laid down in	self.sufficient. It has practically
1^®®*	no obligation to its individual mem-
'The state functions as a collec-	bers. nor to any other State or race.’’
tive mind, or as the race mind.	In the light of this doctrine, the
This.” said Dr. Greenwood, “is one	leader need not keep any promise
of the four main tenets of fascism	made, for* the word of an individual
and naziism.” The idea was bor-	is not important when the good of I rowed from Hegel, who, the speaker ] the state is at stake.
Registrar's Office Notice
Part semester grades will be due at the office of the registrar o« Wednesday, March 13, 1940.
GRADUATING STUDENTS AU students who hope to receive advanced degrees or professional degrees in June. 1940. should file diploma application cards at the registrar’s office before Saturday, March 30, 1940. Proper registration and diploma application cards are vitally important to those who expect to receive degrees in June, 1940.
THERON CLARK, Registrar
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