SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LVmTROJAN
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Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, April 29, 1941
No. 130
nor Society minates 21
ta Kappa to Sponsor Banquet Friday; Noyes to Speak on ‘Poetry and Life’
;y-one new members of Phi Beta Kappa, national honorary fraternity, will be honored at the an-ng dinner in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 6:30 ay. The dinner will follow an initiation of these at the same location.
d Banker Address ce Group
ini to Analyze ng Conditions ner Tonight
t of the present tanglea temational affairs on ces and possible future ts in modem banking subject matter to be inking and finance stu-ht during a banquet, 6:30 pjn. in the Foyer |nd Gown.
KERS SCHEDULED Giannini, former preside New York branch 01 f America, and O. M. assistant to the comp-C, will be guest speak-
nini recently returned (ington, D. C., where he survey the govem-ncial plans concerning wartime emergency, authority on the gold d has given special at-he use of surpluses.
BANK EXECUTIVE resident and chairman ra! executive committee ilifomia branch of the erica and was formerly f United Artists Film
lis lecture he will tell f opportunities existing ids they plan to enter, iking and Finance club ring the event as the ity since the election of rs.
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plans to explain the f the organization as discuss general prob-ie world of finance.
may purchase tickets lanquet at SI from Bob V Hopwood, Neill Lehr, :fe, or Dwight Hart. All fis should be made in the office. 110 Old College.
The new initiates are:
Seniors—Ralph H. Turner, Bernard Carrascoso, Floyd E. Tift, Benjamin Simkin, Harry Barnett, Grace Hazel Morton, and Clifford Evans.
JUNIOR INITIATES
Juniors—Lucille D. Mereto. Stanley R. Woodward. Patricia Geddes, Elizabeth Perry, and Theodore Nilsson.
Class of ’26—Fay Greene Adams, Ruth Wilson Blackman, Harriet Fullen Smith, Elinor R. Ives, Mamie Louise Leung. Edna Orem Osmundson, Helen H. Stover, and HUdegarde Wilkinson.
Class of '25—Freda A. Belisario.
Speakers at the dinner will be Alfred Noyes, English poet, whose subject will be Poetry and Life.”
The affair is informal; the admission is $1 at the door. CONTINUED ACHIEVEMENT
Their tradition of scholastic achievement goes farther back than college. All of these members who attended high school in Califomia graduated as gold seal bearers of CSF.
The southern Califomia Phi Beta Kappa Alumni association yesterday released the following announcement.
A Phi Beta Kappa semi-formal dinner dance will be held at the Wilshire Bowl on Friday, May 16. at 8:30 p.m. The charge is $3.45 a couple. Reservations should be made not later than Tuesday, May 13. by telephoning Crestview 63834 or Republic 0883. Checks are to be made out to Stephani E. Holton, membership chairman, 1036Coming street.
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Show Tickets Sold Tomorrow
MASS PRODUCTION—Lockheed Aircraft corporation’s Hudson bomber assembly line, above, will be explained in Bovard auditorium at a meeting for seniors tomorrow. The program, * designed to convey the industry's need tor trained labor, has received the cooperation of SC's employment bureau.
Film to Show Aircraft Speed-Up Technique
Airplane mass production and its employment opportunities for university graduates will be viewed pictorially tomorrow in a motion picture to be shown to seniors by the Lockheed Aircraft corporation in Bovard auditorium at 10 a.m.	|-
Attends Dinner
of the freshman coun-sve an exchange dinner freshman council of the Pi Beta Phi house, rd avenue, Thursday at The invitation was ex-.Max Willardson, presi-UCLA freshman class.
men Cry, e Get Mud ur Eye!'
the class of ’44. challenge the class the annual brawl.” these words mem-the freshman class a muddy duel with of the sophomore be held on Bovard 4 p.m. Friday.
Scott, freshman esident, s.nd Wes phomore class pres-e planning the de-the brawl which ls h year during the
tants of each class mpt to push a huge ss a fixed line while inents will try to them from suc-The traditional ar will be held, and e of the freshman 111 be revealed.
Tickets for three performances on May 7, 8. and 10 of the all-U shew, “The American Way,” will go on sale tomorrow at the ticket window of the Student Union bookstore.
There will be 800 reserved seats j at 55 cents, or 25 cents with ac- j tivity books. General admission 1 price is 40 cents without the ac- j tivity book privileges.
three performances
Performances will be Wednesday. Thursday, and Saturday evenings. Friday evening was previously reserved for the concert of the Coolidge quartet.
Costume fittings for the entire cast of the show will start today at the United Costume company, 6011 Santa Monica boulevard. An announcement in the Daily Trojan will inform the cast members when their fittings take place. Tli ere are more than 150 costumes required for the production.
FIRST LOCAL OFFERING The first Pacific coast performance of "The America i Way” will be on May 7 when the show opens in Bovard auditorium. Other performances were in New York and Cleveland. Frederic March and Florence Eldridge appeared in the starring roles of Martin and Irma Gunther, the two German immigrants.
At SC Martin Black and Genevieve Durand will take the leading parts. The play is an American cavalcade as seen from the objective eyes of the two German immigrants who live in the period after 1896. During the turbulent period of 1933 and the depression the play reaches its climax.
The film. “Look to Lockheed for Leadership,” will highlight a program designed to acquaint Trojan seniors with 2900 aircraft jobs now awaiting men and women with suitable educational background and aptitudes.
OFFICIAL TO SPEAK
R. B. Robertson, assistant manager of the Lockheed industrial relations department, will speak on the “Opportunities in Aircraft” which now enable the Burbank company to hire more than 2000 persons a month.
Scenes in the film will follow the step-by-step production of the airplane from the engineer’s drawing board to the first test flight.
TO TRACE HISTORY
The eariy history of the company also will be traced graphically in the history-making flights of such famous fliers as Amelia Earhart, Col. Charles A. Lindbergh, and Wiley Post in their trail-blazing Lockheeds.
Following the morning program, employment applications will be given to prospective trainees. Preemployment examinations will be conducted in 206 Administration at 2:30 p.m.
HAILE DIRECTS PROGRAM
Program arrangements are being directed by John Haile, director of the SC bureau of employment, and Mulvey White, assistant director of the Lockheed central employment department and former head of the SC bureau.
Many Trojan alumni now are employed at Lockheed and its affiliate, the Vega Airplane company, which is completing a $7,000,000 factory in Burbank. The latter firm plans to increase its personnel from 5300 to 15.000 or 20.000 before the end of the year.
Movie Studio Offers Prizes
Student Writers to Enter Contest
Candidates Offer Thesis
Candidates for master's degrees in June must present their preliminary thesis approval to Dr. Rockwell D. Hunt, dean of the Graduate School, not later than tomorrow. This approval must be signed by each member of the thesis committee. Blank forms may be secured in the graduate office.
Opportunity beckons to student creative writers who enjoy composing short stories, plays, novels, or original screen stories, according to Warren Scott head of the cinema department and director of the cinema workshop.
He has announced a contest offered by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio for apprentice writers’ contracts. The deadline for entries' is May 10.
CONSULTATION NECESSARY
“All contestants should hold personal consultations with Dr. Frank Baxter or with me during the current’ week in order to make sure just what is required,’’ Scott declared yesterday. “Entries may be in any literary form, although poetry and verse-drama are not especially desired.
“Each contestant should submit three to six examples of his work showing facility and strength of ideas and maturity of craftsmanship.”
According to Scott, the studio de sires from each entrant his autobiography as well as examples of his creative work. Scott pointed out that the autobiography data should cover the following points: QUALIFICATIONS LISTED
Education, especially pertaining to drama, literature, radio, and cinema; experience, including travel, extra-curricular activities, and employment, interest-hobbies sports, and general background.
“M-G-M is looking for 10 young writers now enrolled in about 20 of the outstanding American colleges and universities,” Scott added. “Those selected will be given six-month contracts to write under the supervision of established experts at the Culver City studio with options running for a seven year period.”
Revised Act Lists College Deferment
(Editor’s note: The following article, the first of two dealing with the latest developments in the selective service act and the manner in which they will affect the college man, is based upon authoritative material received from Washington, D, C.)
New information concerning the deferment of college men and their reclassification local boards under the provisions of the revised selective service act has been released by national headquarters of the selective service system and the American Council on Education.
This material supplements the ruling issued last week by the head of the California selective service, listing eight classifications of civilian occupations for which students might be preparing and which are considered necessary for national interest.
Under provisions of the original selective service act, local boards are authorized to defer to class A all registrants found to be so necessary.
This clause affects the college man in that group deferment of student expiring July 1, 1941, at which time they will be reclassiliea from 1-D or 1-E to 1-A, subject to the findings or decisions of the local board.
According to the act, “in determining whether a registrant is a ‘necessary man’, the local board shall give due consideration to those registrants engaged in any activity which is essential to the national health, safety, or interest in the sense that a serious interruption or delay in such activity is likely to impede the national defense program.”
Full weight must be given to this provision ln dealing with the claims for occupational deferment (Continued on Page
All-American Rating Awarded DailyTrojan
Paper Places With Top Nine in U.S. Contest
Lindbergh Resigns Commission in Face of FDR Condemnation
Aviation Club to Hear Talk on Blind Flying
“Radio Beams and Blind Flying” will be the topic of Richard Dick, traffic agent from Western Air Express, when he speaks at the luncheon-meeting of Alpha Eta Rho, aviation fraternity, today in the social room of the Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall.
Bringing the actual apparatus with him, Dick will illustrate his speech.
NEW YORK. April 28 —(UP) — Col. Charles A. Lindbergh today made public a letter to President Roosevelt in which he announced that he was tendering to the secretary of war his resignation as a colonel in the U. S. army air corps reserve.
The president’s remarks to a White House press conference on April 25 left him “no honorable alternative" to resignation, Lindbergh said.	t At the press conference President Roosevelt campared Lindbergh and others who express the opinion that Germany will defeat Britain to the copperheads of the civil wai period, northerners who believed the Confederacy would win and urged peace.
Lindbergh's letter said in part: “My dear president:
“Your remarks at the White House press conference on April 25 involving my resen-e commission in
the United States army air corps have, of course, disturbed me greatly.
“But since you. in your capacity as president of the United States and commander-in-chief of the army, have clearly implied that am no longer of use to this coun try as a reserve officer, and view,of other implications that you my president and my superior of ficer, have made concerning my loyalty to my country, my charac ter, and my motives, I can see no honorable alternative to tendering my resignation as colonel in the United States army air corps re serve.
#,I am. therefore, forwarding my resignation to the secretary war. . . .
“I will continue to serve my coun try to the best of my ability a private citizen.
“Respectfully,
"Charles A. Lindbergh
Guilford to Tell Scientific Bases of Color Choice
Nervous System to Be Discussed in Talk Tomorrow
L.A. Merchants, Students Meet
The SC School of Merchandising will inaugurate a series of annual spring banquets tomorrow at 6:30 pjn. when it holds the initial affair on the 12th floor of the Brack shops, 527 West Seventh street.
Three speakers will comment on the three phases of merchandising. Marcus Beeks, buyer for the May company, will discuss retailing; Paul Bradley, member of the Los Angeles Junior advertising club, will talk on advertising; and an unnamed buyer will comment on eastern acceptance of Los Angeles merchandise.
Reservations may be made through Marjorie Clark or Kenneth Lindsley of the School of Merchandising, or through Miss Lillian Presnell, president of the alumni association.
Why do gentlemen prefer blonds? The solution is a simple one, according to Dr. Joy Paul Guilford, professor of psychology, who contends that people generally prefer lighter colors to the darker tones. He will elaborate on this point tomorrow when he gives a talk for the Wednesday lecture series on “What Determines Oun Color Preference?”
Dr. Guilford will speak in 159 Science from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. The program will be open to the public.
In explaining why individuals usually agree on their color preferences, Dr. Guilford pointed out that the human nervous system determines what colors are pleasant and what hues are obnoxious. INDUCES PREFERENCES “To a large extent preferences are induced by the color itself and its properties,” he explained, “but usually pleasure or displeasure are determined by the nervous system.”
The psychologist declared that lighter colors and most saturated tones are preferred to dark and dull shades. A saturated color is one that is bright and vivid rather than dull.
For this reason brown is generally the least popular color, although yellow, which is actually the same color in a lighter shade, is generally favored. INFLUENCING FACTORS “Another factor determining preference is governed by the area Two) i that the color covers,” Dr. Guil-
-; ford observed. “Some colors look
- good in small areas but are disagreeable in large blotches.’’ Appropriateness in the use of a certain color and texture of the material on which it appears also aids in making it liked or disliked.
Illustrating this point, Dr. Guilford explained that the black of velvet is well liked, but a lighter shade is not usually preferred.
Campus Recoils From Paint Blitz
After putting his page to bed at 2 a.m. in the Dixon Bell print-shop, a Daily Trojan staff member started home this morning, when he saw seven young men, apparently collegians, grouped in the middle of the street in front of the university photography studio.
He noticed that ,one of them was painting: large letters in the street. He saw that they were engaged in labeling the prominent fraternity and sorority “corners” with phrases like “GOOD GOOD PI KAs” and “T-BIRDS” for the Phi Psi corner, in large yellow letters.
As he stopped to read the in-signias, the young men ran off, but returned under the taunts of one of their members, who asked the Daily Trojan staff member:
“Can I help you?”
“I don’t think so,” replied the student-journalist, and dashed back to the shop to report this defiling of the fraternity “corners.”
Drum Authority Discusses Rhythm at Lecture Tonight
Jungle rhythm will come to SC tonight when Thurston Knudson. consultant on native drum rhythms, gives a lecture demonstration on the subject of “Compulsive Rhythm,” in 207 Physical Education at 8:15 p.m.
Knudson, a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Califomia, will sum up the basic principles which are responsible for the dynamic appeal of tropic rhythms, and will demonstrate the bare-hand technique on native drums. Included in his demonstration will be the African. West Indian, South American, Polynesian, and Hindu techniques.
He has found successful commercial use for the results of his research, in stage, radio, and screen productions. -His latest work ior the films includes drum rhythms in “Stanley and Livingstone,” and “Green Hell.”
Dr. Lester B. Rogers—promotes instructor's conference.
New Educators Assemble Here for Conference
Problems which confront teachers in their first years of service will be the main subject of a conference of recently-trained educators when they convene on campus Friday, May 2.
Special emphasis has been made in the program to aid those who have been appointed to positions since last June.
SUBSTITUTES FILL VACANCIES
Offering its fullest cooperation, the School of Education will send substitute teachers to conduct the classes of absentee members throughout the state in order to make possible their attendance.
A separate program for elementary and secondary school teachers has been arranged by Dr. Irving R. Melbo, assistant professor of education, who also has provided for two joint meetings during the day. The groups will convene at a luncheon from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m., presided over by Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid. They will also meet at an informal tea from 4:20 to 5:30 p.m.
STRESSES COOPERATION
In revealing that approximately 200 reservations have been made, Dr. Lester B. Rogers, dean of the School of Education, made the fol lowing statement:
“It is now recognized that the education of teachers is the joint responsibility of the universities and the public school systems. This conference is one means of realiz ing some of the values to be attained from a cooperative approach to problems of special significance to beginning teachers.”
The Daily Trojan has been awarded all-American honors in competition with 412 other college publications from all over the United States, according to word received yesterday from Associated Collegiate Press, which conducts the annual contest.
With 1030 points, the Trojan was one of nine papers in the nation to achieve such recognition.
Papers entering the yearly event are classified according to method of publication, type of school enrollment of school, and frequency of issue.
TROJAN JUDGED SUPERIOR
The Trojan was rated superior or organization, copyreading and proofreading, headlines, typography, inside news page makeup, editorial page makeup, and sports coverage, writing, and display.
This year's award was the fifth of its kind to be given the Trojan since 1934, when the first honor was attained under the editorship of Ray Zeman, now desk editor on the Los Angeles Times.
FIRST ISSUE CONSIDERED Isues of the paper during the first semester of the current school year were considered by the judges. Staff members during this period were Stanley M. Gortikov, editor; Emory W. Thurston, and Alex Troffey, assistant editors; Arnold Lieberman, sports editor; and Jean Meredith, women’s editor.
The system of rating seeks to create within the school a year-to-year effort to improve the quality of the school publication and to "establish the ideal of improvement.”
OTHER POINTS NAMED
Other points upon which the papers were judged were coverage, balance, vitality, originality, and treatment, as well as features, interviews, and content.
The Associated College Press is connected with the National Scholastic Press association and has offices at the University of Minnesota in Minneapolis.
Author Presents Illustrated Talk
“The Family of the Barrett” and “The Treasure Islands of the Brownings” will form the basis of a lecture by Dr. Jeanette Marks, author, in the art and lecture room of the Doheny library at 2:30 p.m. today.
Miss Marks, who is head of the department of English literature at Mount Holyoke college, plans to illustrate her lecture and graphically set forth her recent discoveries of Browning history in the Caribbean.
Director Bergh Accepts Invitation to Play at Concert
Arthur Bergh, noted American composer, violinist, and orchestra director, will accompany Trojan voice students at the piaao in a musical program devotfttf to his songs on Wednesday, May 7, at 8:15 p.m. in Bowne hall.
Former director of the New York Philharmonic orchestra Bergh has been invited to appear on the campus by Prof. Horatio Cogswell, chairman of the voice department of the School of Music Cogswell annually invites an out standing composer to be honored at a concert.
Next Wednesday’s program will be entirely devoted to songs writ ten by Bergh.
Trojan Knights Meet for Election Tomorrow
A special meeting of the Trojan Knights will be held at 5:30 pjn tomorrow at 6637 Maryland drive according to Tom Eddy, president of the organization.
“Since npw officers will be elected at this meeting.” Eddy said, “it imperative that Knights arrive promptly at 5:30 p.m.
Newly-elected Knights will not attend the meeting since their formal initiation ceremonies have not j
Smart Discusses Problems of Logic at Forum Today
Dr. Harold R. Smart, professor of logic at Cornell university, will be the guest speaker of Pi Epsilon Theta, national philosophy fraternity, at a special forum today at 4:15 p.m. <n Bowne hall.
In his speech on “Some Problems of Modem Logic,” Dr. Smart will compare the views of various contemporary logicians on the nature of the elements of reasoning. Clarifying definitions of induction and deduction and their relationship to each other and to related matter will also be discussed.
He also will discuss such noted logicians as Ben Johnson, Bertrand Russell, Bosonquet, and Cooke-Wilson.
Dr. Smart’s latest book entitled History of Modem Logic” soon will be released. In it he traces the growth of logic from Francis Bacon to the present. Other books written by him include a revision of the fifth edition of Creighton’* “Introduction to Logic” and ‘ Philosophical Presuppositions of Mathematical Logic.”
Registrar's Office Notice
All candidates for first degrees in June, 1941, should report immediately to the office of the registrar if they do not find their names included in the list of candidates posted on the registrar’s bulletin board.
Theron Clark, Registrar
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