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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, TUESDAY, MAY 14, 1940
NUMBER 144
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SGA TO HONOR ROJAN WOMEN
nnual Banquet Will Make Recognition Awards or Outstanding Work During Past Year
nding an international flavor to the WSGA Recognition quet Wednesday night, members of the many nations esented on campus will receive recognition honors as well eing guests. The banquet is set for 6 o’clock in the Foyer he Town and Gown and is semi-formal.
the outstanding foreign stu- |--——
will ro an award from the f
en s Self Government associate be presented by Dr. Mildred le. professor of comparative lit-ire. Mrs. Hideko Sasaki, presi-of the Japanese Trojan Wom-club. will present the award that group to the outstanding ;nese woman on campus.
RDS LISTED
Jier awards to be made at the juet in recognition of honors by women are the Panhellenic d to the sorority with the high-icholarship average for the past ,ste»; the Mortar Board prize e freshman woman with the :st grade point average for the Phi Beta award for the out-iing music and dramatic stu-the Faculty Women’s award; the El Rodeo's recognition for years service to the year book, e WAA honor to its outstanding ber: Pi Lambda Theta's prize outstanding woman in edu-n; and the award to the woman has been outstanding in de-aTe included.
;a honors women e YWCA award to the an who has served the organ-n to the greatest extent for our years at SC; and the Town Gown all-campus award to the in or women who have proved most outstanding on the cam-for the past year are ®ther ■ds to be presented.
the first time this year the reel staff will present honors men of its staff who have con-ted the most during the past Announcement of the mem-of Phi Beta Kappa. Phi Kappa Spooks and Spokes. Amazons. Alpha Lambda Delta will also n the program. Mary Ellen ey will conduct the traditional ir Board tapping ceremony.
Dr. Mildred Struble
m . . fo present awards
Final Wampus Issued Friday
Photos To Highlight Edition of Magazine
Prof. Hampton SneW To Describe Railroads In Wednesday Lecture
Hampton K. Snell, associate professor of transportation, will discuss ’the “American Transportation Problem” at the final Wednesday lecture at 4:30 p.m. tomorrow in the art and lecture room of Doheny Memorial library.
Analyzing the individual problems in the transportation field, Professor Snell will relate them to the whole problem using the railroads as his chief “verbal experiment.”
“The American transportation problem involves all forms,” he said yesterday, “especially those pertaining to railroads, inland waterways, and highways, and those limited to interstate commerce.”
PROBLEM VIEWED
Professor Snell looks ai the problem as “merely reflecting the principle economic problem in the United States today which ifi that of too many transportation facilities for the immediate available traffic.”
He explained that the railroads in normal times purchased from one
TO GO TO WAR!”
Val Lehnberg
... heads graduate students
Troy Newsreel Will Picture Typical Coed
Skull-Dagger Pledges Shown in Initiation By Film Here Friday
Pictures of “Miss USC” for 1940 will be featured at the showing of the eighth edition of the Trojan newsreel in Bovard auditorium Friday at 12 M.
Voted the typical girl on the campus in last month’s Wampus contest, to two billion dollars worth of com- “Miss USC” will be presented with
gma Sigma ducts Pledges
ma Sigma, junior men's honor-lstalled newly-elected officers Initiated 26 members at a meet-Tiday afternoon in the Varsity fe.
jding the list of new officials nk Scott. Sigma Nu. Elected e vice-presidency was Marvin ). Zeta Beta Tau and. secre-Joe Reising. member of the rsity basketball team, it announced that all new rs will be notified of the md. place at which they may their keys and shingles by lendar notices appearing in ily Trojan.
Toing president of the group 'e Nance. Chi Phi. There will important meeting today at at the PiKA house.
ineers To See roletim Film
ufactnre of Oil Well Machin-illl be the tropic of a sound picture shown at 10 a.m. roming to members of the chapter of the American (e of Mining and Metallurg-gineers in 304 Engineering, film will be exhibited by Naramore. intemational cretary for the petroleum di-)f the AIMME. who is visit -re. All petroleum and me-il engineering majors are to the showing.
Pictures and more pictures will highlight the final issue of the Wampus which will appear before the student body Friday.
A page of photos will be devoted to Theta Xi. formerly Phi Nu Delta. The Theta Xis recently changed from a local fraternity into a national organization. Its members will be pictured for the first time. •IMAGERY’ USED
A graphic section called the “psychological imagery" of two individuals will appear. One represents the imagery of the foreign student, and the other of the American student.
Arturo Bardous. a Hungarian, will give the foreign student’s interpretation. or ideology, of Chapel hour. Reed Schlieve. the American, will give the other interpretation of the same period.
In addition to the many pictures that will adorn the final issue of the magazine, several features will also be published.
FEATURES APPEAR
A satire on a war correspondent reporting are intercollegiate baseball game by Editor Lee Goodman is expected to add to the humorous interest in the edition. "Solo Flight.” a short story by Bill Lingren. will also be contained in the final issue.
The name of “Miss USC.” typical girl on campus, will be released j Friday.
Chosen Dy popular vote from among 16 girls representing the so-I cial sororities and non-orgs. she will be pictured by the Wampus photographers with the loving cup 1 she will receive on publication day.
modities. During the depression, however, they bought practically nothing. This, in turn, affected numerous industries and created a pressing problem, according to Professor Snell.
EDWARDS ON LEAVE
Snell is a visiting professor from Montana State university where he is associate professor of economics. He is taking the place of Dr. Ford K. Edwards who is on leave of absence for one year as chief adviser of the state commission in drawing up bus and trucking codes.
This address, sponsored by the College of Letters. Arts, and Sciences. will close the Wednesday lecture series for this semester. It is i open to all students, faculty members. and friends of the university.
Text by Starbuck Named on List Of Year s Best
Included in the selection of 60 outstanding textbooks by the Clinic of the American Institute of Graphic Arts was the text “Lives That Guide” by Dr. Edwin D. Starbuck, director of the SC Institute of Character Research.
Dr. Starbuck’s book was chosen among the 60 books written between March 1939 and March 1940 for its “high degree of desired standards of excellence.” The book represents a collection of biographical sketches, selected and edited by Starbuck and his staff at the institute.
The books will go on exhibition in the New York public library May 17 and two traveling exhibits will be shown throughout the country.
a loving cup by Michael MacBan, president of the ASSC. and Lee Goodman, editor of the magazine. SERVICE INITIATES SHOWN
Dressed in tails, white shirts, ties, top hats, derbies, and knickers, new pledges to Skull and Dagger will be pictured as they romped around campus last week as part of their initiation ceremonies.
They were accompanied on their brief tour of the campus by “Leo,” the horse, who pulled a coach with the members piled on top of it.
Another feature of Friday’s Newsreel will be a review of the highlights of the seven previous Trojan newsreels this past year.
TRACK MEET SHOWN
Pictures of the trip to Berkeley will be reproduced for the spectators. Shots of the Homecoming festivities and the Rose bowl game will also come in for their share of attention.
Following the regular edition of the Newsreel, complete pictures of the SC-Stanford dual track meet in the coliseum will be shown.
In response to many requests by the student body, the meet will be pictured as an added attraction. The much-discussed finish of the 440-yard race between Howard Upton and Charles Shaw will be included.
Graduates Will Hear Authors
Hughes, Douglas To Address Banquet In Foyer Tonight
The number 13 holds no jinx for the Associated Graduate students, for the group will convene for its 13th annual banquet tonight in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 6:30.
“It is a privilege to have such prominent authors as Rupert Hughes and Lloyd C. Douglas as our speakers,” said Val Lehnberg, president of the organization.
Mr. Hughes will preside at the banquet as toastmaster while Mr. Douglas will deliver a talk on “Improved Property.” Dr. Rockwell Den-| nis Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, will extend greetings to the 25 June Ph. D. candidates.. The invocation will be delivered by the Rev. Wendell Miller of the University Methodist church.
GUEST TABLES RESERVED
Honored guests at the speakers’ table will be Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid, Mrs. Walter Harrison Fisher, Mrs. May Omerod Harris, Dr. and Mrs. Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, the Rev. and Mrs. Miller, Dean Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. Douglas, Mr. Hughes, and Lehnberg.
Graduate officers who are assisting Lehnberg with arrangements are ! Samuel Owen Lane, vice-president; Dorothy Otis, secretary; and Joseph Sparks, treasurer.
CANDIDATES NAMED Candidates for the degree of doctor of philosophy who will be introduced by Dean Hunt include Ruth Elizabeth Beckey, Harold Leland Brewster. Henry Norman Cross, Conrad Freed, Anne Louise Hirt, j Chester Myers, speech; Benicio Cat-apusan, Mildred Minter, sociology; Leo Raymond Facto, John E. Nord-skog. Keithe Peters, political ence; Esbon Read Marsh
Mass Petition Drive Opens Peace Move
A DEMAND FOR PEACE
We refuse to announce out candidacy for the position of I “Unknown Soldier.”
Call such determination “gutless” or call it the will of slackers, but nevertheless it reflects the resolution of those who ultimately will be expected to pack the rifles, man the tanks, and swing the bayonets. It is the plea of us who have no desire to leave the homes we now enjoy to lose the lives we have yet to live.
Recognition of such abject antipathy toward sacrifice in a cause in which we have no concern today impels the WSGA mass peace petition campaign. The action of the WSGA at last might stir a usually lethargic student body into a purposeful movement.
We who have endured the flaunting of war flags under the guise of patriotism now decry the efforts of those who are so willing to sacrifice our lives for us. Never will we be willing to see our 1600 graduating seniors march from the coliseum greensward with a diploma m one ha-nd and a rifle in the other.
Self-created patriots remind us of our duties to “democracy, civilization, and Christianity.” Such alleged obligations we can best achieve standing on two feet in civilian clothes on
American soil.
“We don’t want to go to war” is not a slogan but a goal. It is a protest against those who are attempting to force the hand of youth in a game which has no winner.
Present-day violations of international and moral law, and of decency and humanity are deplorable, but they offer no incentive to us who are expected to avenge them. European belligerents may slaughter their neighbors, lev^l their cities, and sink their navies, but let them do it alone. American participation could only contribute more violence to the greatest catastrophe ever known.
The drive for anti-war petitions is a campaign against the inertia produced by our believed security. Perhaps the signatures of a few thousand war-hating American students might help convince Washington executives and legislators that “We don’t want to go to war” is a demand—not a request— for peace.—S.M.G.
NAZIS HURL BACK ALLIES AS GREAT BATTLE LOOMS
By United Press
The momentum of the lightning German assault on the Walter ^ow countries, and the striking power of the Nazi air force, she c0n^nuecj.“and the present gen-
WSGA Seeks Student Veto Of U. S. Entry
Circulation of scores of “We don’t want to go to war!” petitions will begin today as the Women’s Self Government association starts a vigorous drive to protest possible American entrance into war.
Originated by the WSGA cabinet and sponsored by the entire organization, the antiwar drive is being promulgated to give thousands of college students opportunity to express their disgust with war. and to voice their desire to stay out of war.
Petitions will ultimately be sent to congress and President Franklin D. Roosevelt.
GREEKS HEAR MEMBERS
WSGA cabinet members, campaigning on behalf of the drive, spoke at several fratemity and sorority houses last night, assuring hundreds of signatures on the petitions.
"College students as a group are opposed to war.’’ Mildred Eberhard, chairman of the drive, declared, “and there is no reason why we should permit a lot of pro-war propaganda to be stuffed down our throats.”
The chairman said that students should not be passive about the war situation, but that “we need to aggressively express our opinions.” MANY NAMES EXPECTED Thousands of signatures are expected to be obtained before conclusion of the drive, and it is possible that college students all over the United States may adopt this method of telling the world that they “don't want war,” Miss Eberhard said.
“The presen* college generation is the one which will have to fight,”
McAllister, Paul Elmore Quimby, is forcing Allied defenders to fall back in the initial phases history.	of what promises to be the greatest battle in history.
German forces are overrunning Holland after having driven
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Employment Bureau Lists Available Summer Jobs
Students who would like to work this summer may apply for jobs at the Employment bureau, on the second floor of the Student Union.
Men and women who have had two years of college work are wanted by the Los Angeles school system to be playground directors. Applications for these jobs
British Officer To Address Night Students
Opening the first in a series of University College Professional club round table discussions will be a talk on the international situation by Capt. J. M. de Beaufort. Captain de Beaufort, author and former British intelligence officer, will address the club at 6 p.m. today in 1 Bridge hall basement.
With the current; crisis in Europe of interest to both students and faculty members, de Beaufort said that outsiders are invited to attend. Chairman of thc rcwly-cr-rrnired forum group is Godfrey Gladston, an Oxford graduate and University college student.
Eldred R. Harrington, Kenton James Leeg. chemistry; Agapito Factora, Earl Lewis Kelley, John Richards, education; John R. Adams, English; Arthur J. Anderson, anthropology; David E. Eitzen. religion; Isabelle Grant, comparative literature; Gerard Hinrichs. philosophy; and Malcolm Heslip, economics.
Ruch To Discuss Public Opinion At Student Forum
Forum To View Religious Front
The role of the Christian Front in the last and the present war will be emphasized by Dr. Robert B. Pet-tingill, associate professor of eco- ^y the powerful Nazi air force and
ting the country in half, apparently isolating the famed “fortsess of Holland” as the Rotterdam-Amster-dam-Utrecht fortified area is called. DEFENSES FLANKED In Belgium the Fortress of Liege, backbone of the defense system, is being flanked, as is the Albert canal defense line, by German columns moving with unprecedented speed. The way for them is being cleared
nomics, at the all-U student-faculty forum tomorrow afternoon in the social lounge of the Student Union. The forum is sponsored by the Trojan YMCA.
When asked the question “Will
... . , „ .	America enter the war?” Dr. Pet-
A public opinion poll is true and tingill stated:
fair only when a true cross section | -The United States will never be	x „	_ ..
Allied troops out of Norway. In the
Low countries Germany is attempt-
the Germans claim jubilantly that “enemy resistance in the air has been broken in a number of air battles” with more than 100 Allied planes shot down in less than 12 hours fighting.
It was the devastating attacks by the German air force which forced
[ers Will Discuss Time Conditions
friends group of Quaker stu-discuss the position of the \1 in war-time at a lunch-ting today at 12 M. in 323 Union, jn will be led by Patrick advisor to the group.
must be filed in Room 840 of the Chamber of Commerce building. 1151 South Broadway. Friday. Examinations will be given May 25.
Applications will be received in the employment bureau Wednesday from 12 M. to 2 p.m. for full or part time summer iobs with a nalk tional company. Both men and women may apply for these jobs.
June 5 is the last date to file applications for Alhambra playground directors. These jobs are open only to women, and will last during July. August, and September.
ply for the position of state bacteriologist will file petitions before May 20 in room 401. State building.
The county of Los Angeles wants student personnel technicians and student research technicians. Applicants must be 21 years old and must have majored in either psychology, public administration, economics. or political science. Applications must be filed in room 102 of the Hall of Records before May 18.
Los Angeles city announces openings for the position of electrical tester, for which m.m majoring in engineering may app'y in room 1100
Men and women who wish to ap- of the City Hall by May 22.
Carus Predicts U. S.-Japan War
“The present war will not last out the year, nor will American youth cross over.” claimed Dr. Clayton D. Carus, professor of foreign trade, in his speech before members of the Sigma Chi fraternity last night.
“Within the next 60 to 90 days, the United States will be at war with Japan.” The fpreign trade professor based this statement on the present crisis in which Japan finds herself
of the public is interviewed, according to Dr. Floyd L. Ruch, associate professor of psychology, who will speak on the subject of public opin- ' ion polls at the student faculty forum Thursday afternoon in the Student Lounge, Bridge hall.
“There are fwo rules.” Dr. Ruch said recently, “which must be observed to obtain accurate public sentiment. One is that the selection of a small representative cross-section which will give a true picture is much more favorable than a large number of persons whose views are not diversified.”
The second rule, as stated by Dr. Ruch. is that information must be asked along lines which the individual is capable of answering.
The use of “leading" questions should also be avoided. Dr. Ruch pointed out.
driven into war as long as the people are Christian and national, and you can put that in double quotes if you want to.”
Franklin Jordan, director of the forum series, will introduce the speaker.
Ad Club Members Return From East
Four members of Alpha Delta Sigma, national professional advertising fr-ternity. returned to the campus yesterday from Columbia. Mo„ where they attended a national convention of the fraternity.
The four men—Vernon Leif. Bob Hemming, James Lindberg. and Jack Brourink—will make a report of the convention Sunday afternoon.
ing the same tactics which won for her in Norway and in Poland. MAJOR BATTLE EXPECTED
It must be remembered, however, that the great battle now in its initial stages. The main opposing forces are not expected to join battle for at least 48 hours, and perhaps later. The titanic struggle, roaring to an ever-mounting crescendo of slaughter, may go on for many days and perhaps weeks.
More than 3.000.000 men of five nations were estimated to be engaged along a 300-mile battlefront stretching from northern Holland to the Rhine in the heart of Europe.
ANTI-WAR PETITION We Don't Want To Go to War!
(Please sign and drop in boxes located in Student Union and in Old College)
Signed.
Model Planes Shown in Harris
Three model airplanes made by Roy Alvarado. SC student, which won first, second, and third places in a national competition sponsored by the Model Aircraft company of Chicago recently, are displayed in the east showcase of Harris hall.
Alvarado’s Curtis XP-37. Seversky Pursuit 35, and Consolidated PB-2a took the top three places among the 135 models which were entered in the contest.
eration should be given a chance to voice its disapproval of war.” Other campus organizations are invited to join in the drive for petition signers, according to Miss Eberhard. and students may either sign petitions or sign the ballots provided in today’s Trojan and deposit them in the ballot box in the Student Union. No data will be required on the petitions except the name of the signer. Petitions may be turned in to the WSGA office, 235 Student Union.
PETITIONS CIRCULATED WSGA members not only will circulate the petitions, but also have made plans to appear at all the Greek houses within the next few days to obtain additional signatures.
"This is not a publicity drive or a stunt,” Miss Eberhard emphasized. ‘It is sincerely believed that we should not be forced into a war against our desire.”
Concluding, she stated “Without' becoming involved in a lot of useless talk about ‘high ideals.’ what we. as college students, need to say —and mean—is ‘we don't want to go to war!’ ”
Lost Books Reported
Students who have lost their activity books and wish to secure a copy of El Rodeo are asked to report to Marie Poetker. cashier at the Student Union bookstore.
Today s Organ Program
Archibald Sessions will present an organ program at 12 M. to-d a y in Bovard auditorium featuring the works of three composers: Noble, Guilmant, and Dupre.
Choral on the tune "St. Anne”....fsoblt
Prayer and Cradle Song............Guilmant
Cortege et Litanie..........................Duprt
Dupre, famous for his organ playing and a mar- ous master of improvisation, establishes in this number an atmosphere of mysticism and solemnity, leading to an aftermath of intense exaltation. the organ lending jubilance with a brilliant array of reeds and mixtures.