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VOLUME XXXI
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1939
NUMBER 51
hree SC
Senators
Ousted
Evans, Maddox, Ramey Lose Posts For 1.5 Violation
Three members of the ASSC senate were deposed from their seats on the legislative body last night because of their failure to comply with the 1.5 grade point requirement.
Lester Evans, president of the Interfratemity council, Max Ramey, president of the School of Law, and Earl Maddox, chairman of the music executive council, lost their positions by a unanimous vote of the senate after a recommendation by the faculty scholarship committee.
Evans will retain the presidency of the Interfratemity council despite his loss of senate representation. Although constitutional laws require only a 1.3 for the head of the council, a 1.5 requirement is necessary for seating on the senate declared Helen Herweg, ASSC secretary.
SENATE PRESIDENCY LOST
Because the ASSC constitution also states that the presidents of all schools and colleges must have a 1.5, Ramey will be withdrawn as president of the School of Law as well as the student senate.
Maddox, who is also manager of the band, will forfeit his chairmanship of the musical executive coun-cal by not complying with the grade requirement.
MOTION REJECTED
A motion for the appointment of proxies to fill the vacated positions was rejected by the legislative body. Although Evans termed this action a move to “save face before the faculty scholarship committee.*’ the group over-rode his objection on the grounds that It would be contrary to const ituitonal provisions.
A minor row ocurred when members of the senate raised objection to the faculty scholarship board ruling which requires the mainten-Continued on Page Pour
MOST SYMBOLIC—Putting the finishing touches on their prize-winning decorations are Pi Phis Mary Tuttle, Harriet Fuller, Margaret McDonald, and Betty Lou Stone. Their display, entitled "The Isle of Lost Souls,” was awarded the Barker Broth ers' trophy for the wfost symbolic house decoration.
Pi KAs Win Grand Prize For Homecoming Decoration
The Pi Kappa Alpha U-boat, with its torpedo tubes flashing, scuttled the entire 28th street fleet, picked its way through the wreckage, and emerged from the house decorations battle with the grand prize stowed beneath its armor-
iclad deck plates.
—Courtesy Herald-Express
Speech Majors To Open Play
'P<
‘Outsides,’ 3-Comedy, To Be Given
Frosh To Battle Second Year Men For Golden Dink
The mud will fly thick and fast in the Memorial coliseum Saturday afternoon when the two proverbial campus rivals, the freshmen and sophomores, vie for the coveted gold “dink.” symbol of victory in the annual Homecoming brawl. With the sophomores ln possession of the trophy. Homecoming brawl officials predict a heated contest.
The event will start at 1 p.m. in the coliseum with a push-ball contest. sack race, and tug-o-war as the featured forms of self-imposed suicide. .
Gene Ellis, student chairman of the fracas, announces that the 30 team members of each class have been selected by the class presidents Tom Gabbert. representing the sophomores, and Bruce Graham. freshman leader.
An unlimited number of substitutes may be used, Ellis said. Only 30 men may represent a team at one time however.
The class queens, Doris Shaefer and Virginia Bogart, will be present to cheer their respective groups to victory, according to Ellis. Students wishing to watch the fracas are urged to be at the coliseum by 12:30 pjn. in the event that the contest is started earlier than scheduled.
President's Office Notice
In honor of Dean Laird J. Stabler, whose long and loyal membership in the faculty of the University of Southern California so greatly enriched the service of this institution, all departments of the university will be closed officially this afternoon daring the hour of service from 2 to 3 o’clock. While other departments of the university will resume active program at the termination of the service, the College of Pharmacy will be closed for the entire afternoon.
Rufus B. ron KleinSmid President
"Outsides,” a three-act comedy on college life, will have its premier performance tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. | ln Touchstone theater. The presentation is being given as a feature of Homecoming week.
The production is sponsored by the SC School of Speech as a project of the beginning dramatic class.
The script, written by Mrs. Tacie : Hanna Rew. is directed by Miss Cloyde Duval Dalzell, both members of the School of Speech faculty. Student1 director of the play ls Barbara Jane Canterbury.
PUBLISHED MANY PLAYS
Mrs. Rew has written and published many other plays, including “Pais" and “Hyacinths.” which won first place in the southern California one-act play tournament and second place in the Beverly Hills tournament.
The story concerns the life of Eva and Bill, university students, who have spent their childhood In a small town. Inside scenes of campus life and sorority problems reveal interesting sidelights on college life.
Featured in the cast are Jeanne Bluhm. Paula Jean. Bruce Roberts.
Selected as the best all-around decoration by the four judges, the design was awarded the Desmonds trophy, perpetual symbol of Home-■ coming decoration supremacy.
Only the following 11 boats out of an armada of 33 managed to escape being lost at sea: Sigma Nu, the best fratemity; Phi Mu, the best sorority; Chi Phi, the most beutiful; Phi Kappa Psi, the most humorous; Phi Beta Phi, the most symbolic; Alpha Gamma Delta, the
Buss To Speak On Orient s View of War
“Oriental Reflections of the War in Europe” will be discussed by Dr. Claude A. Buss, associate professor of international relations, at the international affairs dinner for students and faculty at 7 o’clock tonight in the Foyer of Gown.
Dr. Buss was formerly a member of the United States foreign service in China. He has traveled widely and spent most of last summer studying conditions in Europe. ROWLAND TO SPEAK Dr. Donald W. Rowland, associ-
Verbal Symbols To Be Analyzed In English Lecture
Dr. Eleazer Lecky, professor ! of English language and literature, will speak today on “Semantics — the Word’s the Thing” at the weekly lecture at 4^30 p.m. in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
Semantics, although concerned with the study of evolution of language as a whole
will be examined by Dr. Lecky as dealing with words singly and in groups.
Discussing semantics principally as a study of verbal symbols, Dr. Lecky will particularly analyze the interpretation of symbols and the understanding of their meaning. He will point out limitations of ordinary language with regard to misunderstood meaning.
ANALYZES APPROACH
Inaccuracy, vagueness, and confusion which characterize language are due to combining actual meaning with emotional feeling, the speaker feels.
In attempting to solve the problem of confusion in meaning of
Notables To Appear At Rally Tonight
Alumni Heads,
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Elmer P. Bromley
. . . rallies alumni
Pete Conn
makes music tonight
the semantic approach offers. The speaker believes that this form of confronting the problem offers the correction of certain current fallacies of thinking especially in the field of social sciences.
Although semantics has a place in bringing about understanding in the field of propaganda and generalities. Town and it is by no means a panacea, he ■ says.
TEST WORD SIGNIFICANT
“That words signify is an assumption common to all users of lan-: guage. The special business of se-manticists is to test this assumption and see how and whether words signify what they are supposed to.
most original; and Zeta Beta Tau, ate professor of history, will also i am not sure that the semanticist
The Winners
Grand Prize—Pi Kappa Alpha
Best Fraternity—Sigma Nu Best Sorority—Phi Mu Most Symbolic—Pi Beta Phi Most Beautiful—Chi Phi Most Humorous—Phi Kappa Psi
Most Original—Alpha Gamma Delta
address the group on the subject of “South American Repercussions of the War in Europe.” He has made close observations of Latin American activities for several
solves any problem, but he does h herit a good many,” Dr. Lecky says.
The speaker will investigate in detail what use may be made of the semantic approach to the problems
Sigma Chi, Alpha Rho Chi. Kappa wm follow the addresses Delta, and Alpha Delta Pi, honorable mention.
The PiKAs took possession of the
years.
Both Dr. Buss and Dr. Rowland recently represented the university °fJ*’1111'*	and Uterary crlt‘-
at a conference to discuss cultural c sm‘ relations between the United States and the Latin American countries, called by the state department in Washington.
FORUM INCLUDED
An open forum discussion led by Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid
This dinner-lecture is the second in a series of meetings devoted to the consideration of world affairs Desmonds trophy from Sigma Chi and current internat1onal problems
last year’s winner, with a neon-lighted design that utilized a scale model submarine and a destroyer. : The Washington “grayhound of the sea” cruises over an ocean-bed littered with the wreckage of other conference foes. On the horizon ; may be seen the raft-stranded Ore- j gon duck and a palatial Rose bowl steamer. Gliding beneath the surface is the smooth-running SC sub. A neon torpedo, headed for the hull of the Husky vessel, flashes from
Commerce Bids Grads Welcome
Ellsworth, Mohler Scheduled To Speak
Disney, Dyer Will Speak
Gridiron heroes of last year and the present will pass in review through the medium of motion pictures tonight when the Homecoming rally will feature SC football accomplishments.
The combined SC-Washing-ton football rally and annual interfraternity sing will get
under way at 6:40 p.m. when the doors of Bovard auditorium open to admit rooters.
The films to be shown tonight are taken from studio newsreel shot*, recorded in sound with the important plays of each game explained by a commentator.
SEATING EXPLAINED
A statement from the general alumni office announces that the first floor of Bovsrd auditorium will be reserved for alumni and that the second and third balconies may be occupied by students. Alumni officials ask that students comply with this announcement, as a courtesy to returning graduates.
Bill Floyd, student chairman of tonight’s rally, said that both student and radio talent will be on hand to greet the rooters. With Braven Dyer and Tom Breneman acting as masters of ceremony
JONES SPEAKS
Dyer will interview Coach Howard Jones and Captain Joe Shell. Other notables to be presented will be Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, Elmer B. Bromley, president of the Alumni association, and Clare McCabe, president of the University of Washington Alumni association.
Kenny Selling. Trojan yell king.
will lead student and alumni root-
^	„ .. , Trojan Squires, who will be taxi ers in several SC songs and yells,
macy at the University of Southern	^ & day ^ man theJr	by fche Tnjan band ^
California, who died Sunday from chides and be ready to deliver the direction of Pete Conn. a heart attack, will be held today students at their 8 o’clock classes. The annual interfratemity sing
HACKS TO PLY CAMPUS IN TAXI EVENT TODAY
Anything goes in the line of transportation today, for the campus will be invaded by a corps of jallopies, contraptions, and hacks vying for a chance to transport students to and words. Dr. Lecky will analyze what from classes, and later participating in a parade that will
Funeral Rites For SC Dean Held Today
University Faculty Will Join Students In Paying Tribute
Final rites for Dr. Laird J. Stabler, dean of the College of Phar-
climax the WSGA Taxi day.
All entries will pass before the reviewing stand In front of Bovard auditorium at 1 p.m. and continue up University avenue to Exposition boulevard, and then return.
PRIZE AWARDED A prize will be awarded on a basis of originality and humor and will be presented by Mary Lou Braun, WSGA president, at the Hi-Jinks on Friday night Judging the taxis will be Bill Flood, president of the Trojan Knights; Miss Cloyde Dalzell, associate professor of speech: and Mike MacBann, ASSC president. SQUIRES TURN CHAUFFERS
Ticket collectors will be members	wjjj follow immediately after the
of the sorority which the taxi is	rally, when 11 Greek houses will vie
representing. Ticket salesmen will	for trophies awarded to the house be scattered about campus during with either the best straight or
the day selling their wares at five	novelty arrangement, cents each. Fares may also be paid
Alumni of the College of Commerce will be welcomed today at a special assembly in Bovard auditor-
Jeanne Bennett, Virginia Lee Mosh er. Martin Schwartz. Juliette Kant- the torPedo tubes
PRESENT POWERHOUSE
er. Barbara Smith, and Alice Osborn.
The Sigma Nu hill billies, winners of the Biltmore hotel best frater-STl DENT PARTS LISTED	nity award, presented the Trojan
Playing the parts of students of powerhouse. A mountain stream, the university are Jack Calhoun, spilling over a rustic waterwheel Georgia Mary Sanborn. Shirley winds down through a meadow to-Louise Anderson, Yvonne Eames. wards the Rose bowl.
Ben Cossart. Man- Simonson, Mary In mid-stream, on a raft, are the
Gower. Joan Weber, Marion Elizabeth Perry, and Norman Watson.
A second performance of the production will be given on Saturday night. There is no charge for admission.
Law School Starts Third Trial Series
Beginning the third series of mock trials, the School of Law will conduct four trials simultaneously
mountain
Lansdell.
boys Nave. Banta, and Other members of the
which are held altemote Wednes days.
Reservations may be made before	at 10 a m Each year ftt Home_
11 a.m. today in the coordination	the
commerce department holds this special meeting to enable former students to meet the undergraduates.
Kennedy Ellsworth, the first student to graduate from the College of Commerce, and Orv Mohler, former student body president and | captain of the football team, will
office, 305 Administration building.
SC Legal Group Fetes Radio Head
be the guest speakers. Ellsworth obtained his
degree
Lewis Allen Weiss, vice-president | and general manager of the Mu-tual-Don Lee broadcasting company, j
was honored this week by Delta from the college in ite early days. Theta Phi, professional legal fra- The university board of trustees ternity of SC. when honorary mem- authorized ite beginning on Janu-bership in the organization was ary 27. 1920. and at the beginning conferred upon him by the frater- of the following semester the Col-nity’s field senate.	lege of Commerce and Business Ad-
The ceremony was conducted at ministration opened, utilizing a the Beverly Hills Athletic club and group of courses in economics as
_________ _____ ________ ^ ^ t ^ the honor was conferred by Newt its basis. The topic of Ellsworths
team, present as feather merchants" Anderson, dean of the alumni sen- speech is “What1 I Learned in the are busy in the background. Two ate- and John McLaurin* dean of Colle8e of Commerce that Helps Me snags. Washington and UCLA, rear the active field senate, out of the water in the path of Weiss ls an alumnus of Chicago the raft.	I Kent College of Law and was hon-
Plans Completed For Gala Dance
ored by the group for his activities Qraduate.”
in Business.”
Mohler will discuss “How It Feels To Be a College of Commerce
Bob Herten, president of the College of Commerce, will preside at the assembly, and will introduce the speakers. All commerce classes will be excused to attend the assembly.
PHI MUS WIN
Phi Mu opened Howard Jones’ locker to win the Ambassador hotel , best sorority trophy. Tommy Trojan sails over a marine garden that has been a watery grave for the gridiron foes of Troy. An old chest, ships gear, and the symbolic fig-
ures of the teams are scattered over <-Bad Luck is Good” will be the ln different rooms at 6:30 tonight. I the ocean floor. Tall fronds of sea theme of today’s meditation service | Court procedure tor the trials is	malte the'r TOy to the sur- :‘n	auditorium from 12:10 to
identical with real nnes Tudires for	12:30 Pm- conducted by Dr. Carl
the cases are practicing attorneys nat^ ^ g.^Balfour,^wal' won SUmner Kn°Pf’ pr0feSS0r °f BlbliCaI • Adamantios Th‘ Polyzoides. lec and Los Angeles judges. Cases are
in behalf of radio jurisprudence.
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Hemrich To Play For Meditation
Polyzoides To Speak At Greek Meeting
made up from brief sets of facte given by the professor and the students complete the details.
Tonight’s cases include suite over partnership, malicious prosecution, real estat«, and breach of oantrack
literature, Jeanne Hemrich, SC stu-	turer in international relations, will
by the Chi Phis for their stately dent and one of the most accomp-	speak at the next luncheon meeting
crimson Spani>h galleon. A gold ijshed California musicians, will	of the Athanasians. Greek Orthodox
Trojan crest is fixed on the bil- play a violin arrangement of Shu-	denomination of the university
lowing red sails.	bert's “Ave Maria” as an added	Student Council on Religion, to-
A last-minute change proved to feature to the service. She will be	morrow at 12 M. Reservations may
be the winning break for the Ph; (accompanied by Prof. Archibald	be made at the religious office in . Continued on Page Four Sessions at the organ. _ 1 the Student Union social hall.
at 2 p.m. in the University Methodist church, 817 West 34th street.
Dr. Carl S. Knopf, supervisor of religious activities at SC and Dr.
Wendell Miller, pastor, will offi- ,
... on the car. ciate at the services. Also taking position in line is to be determ-part will be President Rufus B. von ^ drawing lots> Muriel Lind-
KleinSmid; Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt.	strom Taxi day chairman, announc-
dean of the Graduate School, Dr.	pd yesterday. Virginia Mosher, who
Leroy S. Weatherby, head of the	}s ^ charge of tickets. has asked
SC chemistry department1; and Dr.	a girl frQm gach house to ride her “Let’s make this the biggest danct
W. L. Hardin, who will represent	g^^ty-g taxi to collect money and in Trojan Homecoming history!”
the American Chemical society.	tickets.	This exclamation, coming from
Active Dallbearers will be William The trophy to be awarded to the Judge Frank M. Smith, general Daniels Charles Swiesrett Dr Rov house selling the most tickets is a Homecoming chairman, summarizes S ChrLst Prof Alva Hall Prof perpetuating cup now held by ZTA. the hopes and plans of the student H. R. Bowers, and Prof. J.’Frank LOAN FUND AIDED	commits
_ ith	| Money collected from the sale of
fares is to go to the WSGA loan Honorary pallbearers at today’s fund for needy students, services will include the dean’s as- A fee jjve cents will take a sociates at SC. members of the j stUdent anywhere on campus, and board of trustees. Instructors from rides wili ^ available until 3 p.m. other universities, and leaders of women assisting Miss Lindstrom
the drug and chemical profession. are; Virginia Mosher. Mary Frances ^a”~of~’the"~dance^
They are Lucien Brunswig, Lud- Tuttle, Paula Jean, Mildred Eber- , wig Schiff, A. W. Hotz. William hard and Margaret Salskov.	SC and Washington football
Conger Morgan. Harvey Henry, Dr. _______. players have been invited to attend
Roger Truesdail. Dr. Henry W. en Bogardus. Dr. Stuart J. Bates. as well as prominent SC alumni. Bruce, Dr. Albert S. Raubenheim- M j Holmes Margaret Adair. Ray- The presentation of the gold er. Francis A. Walsh. Dr. Lewis E. mQnd Gciler and	Tully C. I “dink” to the winner of the Frosh-
Ford, H. M. Lineman, George I.	Soph brawl will be a special feature
Cockran, Dr. Robert Vivian, Dr. J. student representatives include of the dance. 3oth class queens will W. Oakley, Dr. Arthur W. Nye.J. No,an clark Brendon Dixon, Hugh be present to represent their classes.
Bob Herten. student chairman, announces that bids for the event, resembling football tickets, may be purchased at the ticket office in the Student Union, and from fraternity house members. The admission will be $1.50 and the dance la to be informal.
dance committee.
With the music of Skinnay Ennis, the Fiesta room of the Ambassador hotel as the place, anc Saturday night as the time, students and alumni are assured of a memorable evening, according to J. Barton Hutchins, alumni chair-
Leslie Swope. Dr. Roy Malcolm, Dr. Gardner. Thomas Jones. James Ralph Tyler Flewelling.	Com, William Bevens. Meyer Pas-
Hugh C. Willett, Dr. Emory SteplT kil, and Virginia Bacon.
Speech of Last Year Recalls Dean Is Still A Trojan'
“Work in labs—do research—then apply your engineering theories!” The speaker was concluding an address to the SC Chemical Engineers’ society.
Rumor had it on campus that this was the last semester of active participation at the university for 74-year-old professor. None could find it in the eager , --
words of the speaker.
As he continued to speak the audience remembered the stories they heard of how he pioneered in the university’s chemical research department and aided in the production of the nation’s olive oil, citrus oils, natural gas. crude oil, and the cracking of gasoline.
Those who listened thought the pronouncement of his retirement was in the offing, but found no support to that theory as the lecturer spoke on. Most of all the students recalled the fact that of all those
Tomorrow's Organ Program
Allegro and Fugue from
the Third Sonate ....Mendelssohn
Mendelssohn composed six Son-
I .	, ,	, ... I ates for the organ. The Allegro
who have rendere service	(	rd s in a mQSt strik_
er education OTthe SC campus, tJija j	^
gentleman stood foremost in tne ...	. , . . ,
5	! rhythm, and leads to a fugata
group’	which is a masterpiece of coun-
When the speaker left the plat- terpoint and architcture, ani-
form a year ago. he had dispelled mated with intense life.
all reports of his retirement and
i confirmed the fact that he would 1
J still be active in Trojan campus af- |
fairs.
Sunday evening. November 26, Dr. Laird J. Stabler, dean of the College of Pharmacy, left the platform of life—still a Trojan.
El Amor Brujo ................ de Falla
Fisherman’s Song Pantomime
These two excerpts are taken from the Spanish composer's famous ballet, “Wedding by Witchcraft.”