SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILYmTROJAN
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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, March 18, 1941
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Ensemble Plays Devotional Music
Program at 10:10 a.m. Follows Religious Theme;
E. Stanley Jones Speaks at Assembly Tomorrow
Universally loved music played by the Allan Hancock ensemble will follow the Religious Emphasis week theme today at 10:10 a.m. in Bovard auditorium with a program of devotional music. This is the second event in the 7-day period set aside for emphasizing religion on campus.
The ensemble will play “Jesus,
Sigmund Romberg — speaks to music and radio groups.
Romberg Talks on BMI Fight With ASCAP
Radio, Music Groups Honor Composer Tonight With Dinner
The case for ASCAP in the broadcast music dispute will be the subject of Sigmund Romberg, noted composer of light opera, when he | explains the grievances of his organization at a meeting of radio, cinema, and music students in the recital hall of the School of Music at 8 o'clock tonight.
“His statements will have particular significance," Richard Huddleston, radio division director, comments, “because of the recent supreme court decree forcing ASCAP to temporarily give in to the anti-trust proceedings.” FRATERNITIES’ GUEST
Romberg will appear under the sponsorship of Gamma Beta Alpha, national radio fraternity, and Phi Mu Alpha, national music fraternity, who will present at a later date Harry Engle, west coast representative of BMI.
Before the meeting in the School of Music the composer will be the guest of Phi Mu Alpha at dinner in his honor at 6 p.m. in the men’s grill of the Student Union. Anthony Ricca is completing arrangements for the affair.
CONDUCTED ORCHESTRA
Romberg originally intended to be an engineer and studied at Vienna Polytechnic institute but he turned to music when he was 16 and was soon conducting the orchestra of the Budapest College of Music. He was born in Hungary in 1887.
After the discussion, Romberg will play excerpts from some of his compositions which include “The Student Prince,” “The Desert Song.” and “New Moon.”
Joy of Man’s Desiring,” by Bach; “By the Waters of Babylon,” by Bach; Prelude to “Deluge,” by Saint-Saens; “Nobody Knows de Trouble I Seen.” Negro spiritual; “Kol Nidre,” Hebrew melody; and “Passachelis,” by Bach. RUDERMAN PLAYS
Martin Ruderman will play a flute solo. “Dance of the Blessed Spirits,” by Gl«cx.
No changes in class schedule will be effective, but students free at 10 a.m. are invited to attend.
The ensemble has tried to choose one piece from each sect of religion and thereby have an interdenominational program.
“Religion—Our Defense” is the title of the message Dr. E. Stanley Jones will bring to the Trojan campus tomorrow at an assembly in Bovard auditorium at 9:50 a.m. JONES SPEAKs SATURDAY
Students and faculty will recall his address at the SC campus six years ago when he filled the auditorium to capacity.
Dr. Jones is with a group of missionaries in Los Angeles this week for the National Christian Mission and will speak at the Youth section Saturday in addition to the speech tomorrow.
In his tour of the southern area,
he will include UCLA and many of the local high schools.
Last night at the hous* meetings of the fraternities, sororities, and dormitories, prominent leaders in the religious field led discussion groups in working out problems about religion that confront the average college student.
Schedule for Religious Emphasis week:
Today — Allan Hancock ensemble at 10:10 in Bovard auditorium.
Tomorrow — E. Stanley Jones assembly at 9:50 a.m.
Thursday — All-university banquet at 7 p.m. in the Foyer of Town and Gown. The Rt. Rev. W. Bertrand Stevens, bishop of the Episcopal church; Mildred Eberhard, student speaker. Price 85 cents.
Friday — Little Chapel of Silence, Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf.
Saturday— Youth section of the National Christian mission on SC campus.
Sunday — Go-to-church Sunday.
Nazis Plan Submarine Activities on U.S. Coast
dent's e Notice
ial assembly for Emphasis week eld tomorrow from 10:30 a.m., with Dr. ley Jones as guest
ule of classes for will be as follows: to 8:50 a.m.
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lan Hancock en-will sponsor two in the Allan Han-itorium this week.
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President
AIEE Will Hear Electronic Talk
“Electronic Applications in Southern California.” will be the topic under discussion by Edward Morris. field engineer for the Westing-house corporation, when he addresses the American Institute of Electrical Engineers at 12 M. today in 322 Student Union.
The subject is part of a radio and power distribution series iwhose theme alternates each week.
Jack Marshall, who will act as chairman of the group, declares that this will be the last meeting of AIEE before the coming essay contest with the. Califomia Institute of Technology.
WASHINGTON, March 17—(UP) —The American government has been informed that Germany plans to start submarine operations off the coast of the United States, near the harbor of New York City, it was learned tonight.
The information given to this government by a foreign source is that the German navy is sending a long-range submarine, capable of operating over an area of thousands of miles, to harass shipping off the Atlantic coast.
This report said it was believed that Germany's primary purpose in sending an undersea raider within the American neutrality zone would be to disorganize present shipping lanes which have become increasingly vital to Britain since passage by congress of legislation providing large-scale war aid to the British.
Ships along the line of British communications might be forced to take longer routes. The British might be required to extend their convoy operations over larger areas and string out still further the thin line of warships protecting their merchant vessels in the Atlantic.
The report here said it was believed the Germans intended to
use only one submarine which would seek refueling supplies from a disguised merchant ship.
The United States’ neutrality zone extends some 600 nautical miles out from New York. The area is constantly patrolled by ships and planes of the United States Atlantic fleet.
A long-range undersea boat, the Deutschland, made two trans-Atlantic voyages from Germany to the United States prior to this country’s entrance into the last war, bringing cargoes of dye and chemicals. The voyage of the Deutschland was regarded at that time as an effort by Germany to prove she could break the British blockade with a freight-carrying submarine.
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LONDON, Maien 18—(U.E>—Naval circles today disclaimed knowledge of a reported German plan to operate submarines off the United States coast, but professed to see no reason to doubt the feasibility.
They recalled that in the World War German submarines sank ships off the American coast and even were reported to have fired on Cape Cod, but expressed belief that in this war such a campaign would be less effective.
Prof. Earl W. Hill — introduces alumni at meeting.
Gaspar, Ford Speak Today on Aviation
Former SC Students Discuss Job Problems With Alpha Eta Rho
As proof that the aviation industry offers a good opportunity for those who can produce the quality, Lavem Ford and Phil Gaspar will speak today for Alpha Eta Rho, aviation fraternity, at 12 M. in Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall.
“College graduates can still obtain top-ranking Jobs upon graduation,” concludes Prof. Earl W. Hill, lecturer in commercial aviation, who will introduce the speakers this noon. Professor Hill is counselor of the fraternity group. ALUMNI JOBS
Ford and Gaspar, former SC students, are now in charge of a newly-created executive Branch of production at the factory, whose function it is to eliminate waste in products and labor. They will discuss the best means of preparing to earn a livelihood in the nation’s youngest major industry.
Ford, past president of Alpha Eta Rho, and Gaspar were both members of the organization and each had a cooperative major in the university which best supplied the requirements of the company. Both majored in management in the School of Commerce and received favorable results in presenting their ideas to the Douglas aircraft officials.
DISCUSS PRODUCTION
Accompanied by various Douglas men, the speakers will clarify the particular phases of the industry in which they are associated. The highly specialized round-about production method will be discussed.
Plans are being made to try to have Orv Mohler, former SC student and member of Alpha Eta Rho, who is vice-president of Mon-asco company, speak in the near future to the group.
Italy’s Empire Doomed
CAIRO, March 17 — (U.E) — New British victories in Eritrea and British Somaliland tonight were believed virtually to have sealed the fate of Italy’s east African empire comprising 1,725,300 square miles and 12,100,000 persons.
Stoicism
Philosophy Forum Treats Attitudes of Warring Peoples
“Peoples of warring nations in the world today are displaying examples of Stoicism,” said Dr. Herbert L. Searles who will lecture on the “Stoic Life of Reason” today at 4:15 p.m. in Mudd hall in the third of the philosophy forum series.
“Stoicism is the steeling of one’s self against a period of hardship,” states Dr. Searles. Practical applications of this philosophy are to be found in the attitudes of people whose homes, lives, and peace of mind are being destroyed by the forces of war.
ECROPEAN FORTITUDE
“A grim determination to ‘stick it out’ is one of the qualities of Stoicism. This attitude has been shown by the Europeans in the present war," Dr. Searles said yesterday.
Originating in Greece about 300 B.C., the Stoic philosophy was part of the other philosophies of the time. Stoicism, however, sought a practical way of life while the other philosophies sought knowledge.
STOIC HUMOR
Pointing out the humor to be found in a Stoic’s way of thinking, Dr. Searles makes an example of Epictetus, a Roman slave.
When informed that a person had spoken ill-advisedly about him. Epictetus said:
“If a man has reported to you that a certain person speaks ill of you, do not make any defense to what has been told you, but reply, ‘the man did not know the rest of my faults, for if he had he would not have mentioned only these’.”
FATALISTIC THEORY
Stoicism has often been termed as fatalism. The reason for this is the notion that man should exert his powers to the utmost in those things in which his power could be of effect, but that he should resign himself to an attitude of indifference in those thing6 which his power is of no avail.
The assumptions of Stoicism are shown in the American Declaration of Independence in which the article on “certain inalienable rights” of mankind marks a baisc idea of the creed.
Sororities' Grades Listed
Beta Sigma Omicron Receives First Place in Scholarship as Phi Mu Takes Second
Beta Sigma Omicron leads the closely-contested race for leadership in the sorority list of scholarship averages for the first semester with Phi Mu and Pi Beta Phi houses running
a close second and third.
Troy's 'International House'
Doheny Has Colorful Staff
Radio Division Tells of Cauchos
Argentina, land of the gaucho will be discussed today at 1:30 p.m. I on “Los Otros Americanos.” the SC I radio division's pan-American re- j lations program over KRKD.
William Druitt. former director of the world affairs round table, will comment cm the culture and economic aspects of the republic. The show is part of the city and coun- ! ty schools’ social studies curriculum. Betty Neff collaborated on the script with Druitt.
Minister Ignores Reds
TOKYO. March 18 —(t*P) —Foreign Minister Yosuke Matsuoka. enroute to Europe for conversations with Adolf Hitler, Benito Mussolini and other Axis leaders, will not stop at Moscow on his westward Journey, the newspaper Asahi said yesterday.
Doheny library might be called j the ''International house” of SC!
A survey of the student librarian staff shows that almost every major'nationality is represented here. Working side by side with students whose ancestors booked passage on the Mayflower, are Europeans and Asiatics who are forced by war conditions to pursue their studies in America.
Troy’s name is echoed even in the still waters of the Mediterranean sea, according to Selahaddin Kurttepeli. student assistant in the reserve book room. Kurttepeli left his home in Adana, Turkey, after receiving his A.B. degree from Robert college in Istanbul.
TROY’S FAME SPREADS
“Even before I came to America I had heard of SC." says Kurttepeli. “I have received my master's degree at this university in the department of economics. I hope to have my requirements completed soon for mv Ph.D.”
Both Kurttepeli and his father. Ahmet Kurttepeli, import and export merchant, are honorary members of the Turkish military air force. There is little danger of
Kurttepeli misunderstanding a student’s request for a book since he speaks five languages—Greek, Arabic, French, English, and Turkish.
Alex McNaughton. also working in the reserve book room, came to SC from Calgary in Alberta, Canada. McNaughton attended Central Collegiate in Winnipeg in Manitoba province, Canada, before enrollment at SC. For the past three years he has served as left wing on the Trojan ice hockey squad.
From central Hungary to the cinema department of SC comes Arthur Bardos, student assistant at the main loan desk. Bardos writes his home address on his registration cards as;
“XI Horthy Miklos—UT 60 Budapest. Hungary.” His telephone number is “258-474.”
America, too, is well represented by the staff of Doheny library. Miss Marie C. Casey, staff librarian in the science library and the reserve book room, is the first and only known white child born in the Greenwater district of Death valley, California. When the Casey family resided ln Death valley, Greenwater
was a thriving mining town.
“Today the Greenwater settlement stands a lonely ghost-town,” says Miss Casey.
It is unusual to find a native son in Califomia these days, but Thomas Curley, student assistant in the loan department, is a second-generation Californian!
Fredrick Belcher, co-worker of Curley’s, is quite a contrast as he comes from Holbrook, Mass. Belcher’s ancestors are traced to the arrival of the Mayflower in New England in 1620.
SPANISH ANCESTORS
Going even deeper into the history of this continent are the ancestors of Bernard Carrascoso, student assistant in the periodical department. His father came to El Paso, Texas, from Spain where he met Carrascoso’s mother whose Spanish ancestors have been living in the territory that is now Texas since 1537.
Several former members of the library staff included students from China and South America.
Doheny is more than an “International house:” It’s a miniature league of nations! •
The Silver Cord Opens Friday
With silver tassels symbolic of the title of the production, Mort Block, play productions manager, is advertising the coming performance of “The Silver Chord” by Sidney Howard at 8:15 p.m. Friday in Bovard auditorium by a cast of national collegiate players.
The action of the play centers around the efforts of a doting mother who attempts to keep her grown sons at her side. She pretends illness, tries to break up a home, and nearly forces her son’s fiancee to commit suicide in her effort to holft her children.
Page to Show Nation s Need for Minerals
Wednesday Lecturer Will Explode Myth of Self-Sufficiency
“Many persons think that the United States is self-sufficient in all commodities except rubber and tin. This is a fallacy, because no country in the world is absolutely self-sufficient.”
So declares Dr. Ben Markham Page, assistant professor of geology, in discussing his talk in tomorrow’s lecture. Dr. Page will speak on “Strategic Minerals'’ from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
MUST IMPORT One of the purposes of Dr. Page’s lecture is to obviate the idea that the United States does not have to import minerals necessary in the manufacture of defense products.
“This country is dependent on certain mineral resources, situated in other countries, that she cannot do without even in time of peace,” he pointed out.
BEST SUPPLIED The geologist declared that the United States is better supplied with necessary minerals than most other countries, but added that some of the nations from which she must import materials are in a precarious position.
“For example, Russia is our chief source of manganese; China supplies us with a large amount of tungsten; Japan could cut this trade at almost any time she wishes.”
ESSENTIALS LISTED
Among the strategic minerals that the United States must import are: aluminum, for the manufacture of airplanes; antimony, from which cartriges are made; chromium minerals, used to harden steel; manganese, for deoxidizing steel.
Others include: mercury, for detonators, which make shells explode; nickel, for hardening steel; tin, used in plate to prevent corrosion; tungsten, which hardens steel.
Evening Dates for Gym Recreationals Changed
The Physical Education building, heretofore open Tuesday and Thursday evenings for recreational activities, will be open only on Tuesdays and alternate Thursdays, Harry Anderson, gym instructor, announced yesterday.
Thursday dates on which the building will be open are March 27, April 17, May 1, and May 15
Knights Meet for Pictures
Trojan Knights will report to the fountain in front of Doheny library at 9:50 a.m. tomorrow for a group picture.
Members must wear sweaters, cords, white shirts, and ties.
Zeta Tau Alpha, Gamma Phi Beta, and Kappa Alpha Theta tied for fourth place.
DEAN RELEASES FIGURES
These figures were released yesterday by Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford. counselor of women. Compilations were made on the basis of grades received by actives and pledges of all sorority houses on campus.
Beta Sigma Omicron captured first place with a 1.58 average, which entitles them to receive a scholarship trophy. This cup, if won three times, may be kept by the sorority. It was won last semester by the Pi Beta Phis, who will hold the cup this semester. Next semester the Beta Sigma Oml-crons will receive it.
AVERAGES LISTED
Phi Mu was close behind the Beta Sigma Omicron house with a semester average of 1.56, and Pi Beta Phi third with 1.52. Zeta Tau Alpha, Kappa Alpha Theta. and Gamma Phi Beta all received a 1.41 average.
Other sororities and their grade-point averages are as follows: Kappa Delta. 1.36: Alpha Delta Pi. 1.31; Delta Zeta, 1.29; Alpha Chi Omega, 1.25; Delta Delta Delta, 1.18; Chl Omega, 1.18.
Houses near the bottom of the list and Delta Gamma, 1.14; Alpha Gamma Delta, 1.11; and Alpha Epsilon Phi, 1.11.
Bookstore Issues Squire Petitions
Twenty, petitions for membership in the Trojan Squires were issued yesterday, according to Mrs. Marie Poetker, bookstore cashier.
Candidates for the sophomore honor organization can secure application blanks in the cashier’s office of the Student Union. Active Squires will interview applicants in 206 Administration at 1:30 p.m. Friday, following the noon deadline for petitions.
Men seeking admittance to the organization are required to have 30 units completed by June, and must have a 1.0 grade average during their freshman year.
Petitions for the Knights, junior and senior organization, will be issued next week.
Britons Pour Into Greece
ISTANBUL, March 17——Another great battle between British and German troops — 10 months after Dunkirk and the collapse of France—appeared in the making tonight as reports from Greece told of British troops arriving there in a steady stream.
Some 200.000 British troops were said to have arrived in Greece already, with more arriving daily.
From Bulgaria, meanwhile, came reports that the Germans were still pouring into that country on Greece’s frontier and now totaled about 350.000 men.
The British were not expected to take the initiative in the clash which seems to be materializing, but only to aid Greek defenders against German attack, expected sooner or later.
Rather than holding out much hope of establishing a permanent front in northeastern Greece ln the vicinity of Salonika, British quarters speak of fighting a delaying action while falling back toward the Peleponnesus — connected with the European continent by a narrow neck of land easily defended.
Ph.D. Examination Dates Announced
Mid-semester examinations for Ph.D. degrees will be given each day beginning March 27, Dr. Rock well Dennis Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, announced yes terday.
Permits for examinations must be secured in the graduate office of 160 Administration by March 25.
The German examination, con ducted by Dr. Edwin Theodor Mohme, professor of German, will be given Thursday, March 27, at 2 p.m. in 106 Bridge hall.
The French examination will be conducted at 2 p.m. Friday, March 28, in 206 Bridge hall by Dr. Lawrence Riddle, professor of French
Navy Commander to Inspect Unit
Rear Admiral C. A. Blakely, commandant of the 11th naval district, will inspect SC’s NROTC unit ln full-dress uniform on the women's athletic field tomororw at 1:30 p.m.
The rear admiral also will inspect the unit's materials and facilities, including the indoor rifle range and armory in the Physical Education building.
With his aide, Lieut. William S. Hayes, Rear Admiral Blakely also will visit the UCLA unit and the naval reserve ln the Chavez ravine
armory.
Shannon Gives Schedule for Fraternity Pictures
Sigma Chi. Pi Beta Phi, and Zeta Beta Tau houses will take their turns today in the order named for candid photos, Hugh Shannon, El Rodeo interfraternity editor, said yesterday.
Photographers will appear at the Sigma Chi house at 12 M., the PI Beta Phi house at 1 p.m., and the Zeta Beta Tau house at 2 pjn.
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