SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LY®TROJAN
I. XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, California, Thursday, October 31, 1940
No. 34
olunteer ush Seen
t 3000 Numbers Expected to Supply icient Trainees for Initial Induction
SHINGTON. Oct. 30—(U.P.)—Weary draft board offi-rho completed the natior’s first peacetime selective lottery early today after a 17r2-hour grind, tonight an-ed a rush of army volunteers—perhaps enough to sup-November 18 quota of 30.000 draftees.
The board officials, who watched number after number drawn from the celebrated goldfish bowl throughout yesterday, and early today. were confident that the army
SC Enters Musical Prize Race
$1500 Offered;
Zorich Appointed Script Chairman
TC Blanks Until ay Noon
Unit Enrollment bilized With 100 Members
are a ffeshman or sopho-udent and are interested ling in the Naval ROTC SC. you have until Friday present your application to cers. announced Capt. Reed 11, yesterday.
imandant said applicants make their appearance in sical Education building, jceptance. the men are sent Beach for a physical ex-n.
C unit will be stabilized enrollment of between ■embers.
Id be difficult for students in the course after Friday up work already covered. Fawell explained, however, at late applications would isregarded if those apply-'ed their ability to cope make-up work, llity requirements are: tudeni must be an Ameri-tizen. but not necessarily in-bom.
ust be a freshman orsopho-rank and intend to remain university four years, ment ln the unit does not embers any more subject than non-members, accord-the captain. When Naval students leave the univer-tey are freed from all ties unit and are considered ans by the government, he
wever. students desire to career of the navy, mem-in the unit offers a pos-try into the service, the dant explained. Upper-are given a chance to for entrance into An-the navy training school, the ranks direct.
With a $1500 cash prize offered by the American Society of Composers and Publishers for the best original musical show staged by a university, trainees will be obtained from the Charles Johnston, ASSC president, announced yesterday that SC will enter the competition.
Johnston appointed Steve Zorich chairman of the committee to find
first 1500 to 3000 numbers.
QITSTION AIRES DUE SOON
Although 17.000.000 young Americans were numbered for senice through the lottery, they expected local draft boards to send out ques- a suitable script. Zorich stated that tionnaires to low number registrants students with writing talent should
by November 6. Classification is expected five da>s later.
The next step in the vast program. of course, is induction of the first quota of 30.000 men November 18. The draft officials indicated they expected the rush of volunteer enlistments to start immediately.
DRAFTEES MAY ENLIST
Draftees who plan to volunteer still must clear through local draft boards, it was explained. They must pass examinations as to fitness and availability before they are allowed to enlist.
National Draft Director Clarence Dykstra described the lottery as a success and legal. He said there could be no question of the lottery's legality because six numbers out of 9000 apparently were not in the bowl.	,
ERROR SLIGHT
“Six out of 9000 is a small chance.” he said when informed the lottery might be tested because there was a question whether number 158 would have been drawn first had the other six numbers been in the bowl.
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox announced after conclusion of the drawing that men called for selective service training could apply for enlistment in the navy .or marine corps before their induction into the army.
He said that if applicants for enlistment were found qualified their names would be withdrawn from the local draft board lists.
start to work immediately because all of the scripts must be completed and submitted to the committee the week following Christmas vacation. The production will be given sometime in May: the definite date has not been scheduled.
Writers may work independently, with other writers, or with musicians who plan to enter their scores in competition. The only requirement that must be met by writers is that the plot center around college students, campus life, and the interests of the college crowd.
The $1500 prize money will be divided: $750 to the writer of the accepted original play, and $750 to the composer of the musical score. The cash award is offered by the society. A similar award is made in eight regions of the United States. SC will compete with the states in the western region only.
The show, a student production, will present acting and singing talent representative of the student body.
‘•The beauty, talent, and interest on this campus promises a creditable production,” said Zorich.
ual Alumni Homecoming
ptball game between Poly-high school and Manual ]ch school will highlight the kming day at Manual Arts, hbserved by alumni on No-[ 15.
program for th® day will afternoon entertainment in Hitorium and an evening of r. Many Manual Arts alumni |C are expected to attend, (en Smith. chairman of Lining day. reports that the I association is being re-|ed.
SC Radio Program Enacts Poe s Life
Out of history comes the theme of the radio division’s weekly drama when it re-enacts a period from the life of Edgar Allen Poe today. Iva Adkins’ story. “From out the Shadow,” will be broadcast at 1:30 p.m. this afternoon on Station KRKD. The story deals with the futile attempt by Poe’s wife to reform him, and her subsequent death from starvation.
Charles Hunter will play Poe. and Hermina Levy will take the part of Virginia Clem, the young cousiti whom he married.
Bill Jones. Edna Urrea. Elizabeth Summers, and Bill Druitt are other members of the cast.
Producer of today s play is Allen Gronman. Anthony Ricca will supervise music and sound effects. The broadcast will be transcribed.
Greeks Elect
Greek women will meet to-p.m. in the Student Union third floor, for a brief busi-eeting and an election of
sident's ice Notice
Hancock ensemble lay a complete pro-this afternoon at 1:15 ln Hancock auditor-
c 91 E-l classes will as a class exercise, other students who rrange to have this ree are welcome to at-nd are urged to do so. rs of the faculty and families are cordially
B. ron KieinSmid
Freshman Greek Honoraries Meet
The first joint meeting of Phi Eta Sigma, national freshman scholastic fraternity, and Alpha Lambda Delta, national freshman scholastic sorority, will take place at 12 M. today in the tea room adjoining the Student Union lounge.
Presented by members of the organizations. the program will include Catherine Eckert, soprano: Vance McBumey, pianist: Sam Roeca, humorist; and Ted Nilsson, bagpiper.
Freshman Officers Replace Regulars for Single Day
Associated student body officers will take a back seat November 4. and nine novices in the art of collegiate government will make all ASSC decisions for one day.
The nine offices open and wait ing for the activities committee to select freshmen suitable to hold the temporary jobs are the officers of ASSC president, vice-president, and secretary; College of Commerce president; College of Architecture and Fine Arts president; School of Music president: College of Engi neering president.
Hal Hoover. Blue Key member and chairman of the activities committee, is contacting the Greek house presidents today in order to get their opinions about capable people for the offices.
Selection will be made from fraternity houses, sorority houses, and dormitories.
Present office holders will surrender their offices at an assembly in Bovard auditorium during assembly period.
Freshmen class ditch night will conclude the day's activities. Both Greeks and non-orgs will participate in the day's program.
Dr. Belle Analyzes Nobel Prize Novel
Lecturer Extolls Character Depiction of French ‘Types’ by Roger du Gard
“Roger Martin du Gard’s fine picturization of his French countrymen is one of the reasons he was awarded the 1937 Nobel literature prize,” said Dr. Rene Belle at yesterday's Wednesday lecture.	i —--
Coeds Sell Apples Today
Mortar Board Sale Offers Aid to Needy
In his novels, du Gard escaped ! the psychological excesses of a writ- j er such as Marcel. He did not neglect all that the naturalist and real- i ist writers brought to the novel, yet 1 his work is free from the oversim- j plification of character prevalent in j earlier realistic novels.
FIRST NOVEL
“Is injustice ever justifiable?” asked du Gard in “Jean Barois,” his first great novel, dealing with the Dreyfus case. This 1913 publication, almost unnoticed by the public, was a strange piece of work containing a series of dialogues, monologues, and sketches.
* ‘Jean Barois’ broke with the accustomed structure of the day,” said Dr. Belle. “It revealed du Gard as a novelist as well as a historian. I tribute samples of The book was a psychological novel the campus today as well as a novel of manners.”
“LES THIBAULT”
Du Gard published nothing during the World war, in which he served as a truckdriver. In 1922,
Tonight is Halloween! To those who still retain their youthful spirits that word means ha’nts . . . and hobgoblins . . . and witches . . . and . . . apples!
Helping Trojans carry out the traditional Halloween game of bobbing for apples, coeds will dis-this fruit on . for 5 cents each.
Hundreds ... 450 in fact . . . of these big, juicy apples, have been ordered by members of Mortar Board, senior honorary for wo-
he issued the first volume of his men’ an{*	^ s0^ today by
coed saleswomen.
Approximately 50 of these fem-will circulate I
major work, “Les Thibault.” From 1922 to 1940 du Gard added volumes to this novel, until it now includes 11 huge tomes.
“The history of France, from the beginning of the 20th century to the armistice, is the background of the work. Basically, it tells of the Thibault family, and of the unavoidable misunderstanding of one generation with the next,” continued Dr. Belle.
CHARACTERS DIFFER
Important characters in the novel are the three Thibault sons. One is the individualist, another is the
inine vendors throughout the campus. They will be distinguished by orange ribbons and large baskets full of red apples.
Erma Metz and Laura Lee Turner are in charge of the sale. They will supervise arrangements and have charge of the sales headquarters, a large table in the foyer of the Student Union.
Miss Turner announces that girls may earn activity points by volunteering as saleswomen. She also reunquestioning artisan, the third is <luests that each girl reporting for
Vile Vulture Vilifies Vice; Goes to Roost
Vulture, that bird of prey, snooped, swooped, and then flew silently away, into the vast beyond, or wherever it is that the Vulture hides out for a year, leaving behind it a string of brokeh romances, 'iisgra^ed students, turmoil, and inner-strife.
Breaking all circulation records, as well as all records for humor and Jirt-dishing, the Vulture took the campus by a storm of heated words and point blank comment yesterday morning, as Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity “let down its journalism hair” and told everything that could not be told in the Daily Trojan for which they work every other day of the school year.
“I was heckled in Vul-ure,” a Trojan stalwart jpoke boastfully. He who was not “taken over the journalistic coals” by the publication felt slighted. Such was the spirit that greeted Vulture, who was last seen flying rapidly away to lick its chops and bask in its reflected misery for another school year.
Barn Dance, Revue Slated
Halloween, Sadie Hawkins Day Combined;
Daisy Maes Pursue Li'l Abners at Affair Saturday
Assorted witches and goblins have been added to the lineup for Saturday night’s Sadie Hawkins’ barn dance and revue at the Sunset Fields golf course in Leimert park.
The Halloween spirit has been incorporated into the decorations, and the Daisy Maes and Li'l Abners of the evening wilJ have the authentic barn atmosphere with the traditional cornstalks, hay, and pumpkins, according to Hal Hoover, decorations head.	- ■
SC Loyalty Fund Board Members Formulate Events
To review last year’s activities | and plan work for the coming year, the executive board of the University loyalty fund will hold | its annual meeting at noon today at the Los Angeles Athletic club.
Howard Byram, county treasurer ' and father of Kass Byram. Junior, will take office as chairman of j the board to succeed Clifford Hughes, '21, prominent lawyer.
The board, which numbers 24 1 alumni members, was organized in | 1934 to provide a medium through j which alumni may express their | loyalty and interest in the univer- j ! sity.
Divisions of the board which are | active throughout the year are the bequests, endowments, and greater S ufiiversity committees.
Among prominent members are “Just as the Monroe doctrine was originated because of the Mario Chamiee, ’io, member of
holy alliance in Europe, the present plans for inter-American the New York °Pera company, and
a former SC football player; Elmer !
a cultured, refined artist. The agony of one son in his first ten day’s of the World war is one of the book's most moving scenes.
Du Gard never ceases to fight against injustice. This quality in his novels was another determing factor in his being awarded the Nobel prize. To win the prize, novelists are required to write a truly idealistic novel. Belle added.
work bring her own basket or container.
Nickels earned by this sale will be added to the service fund of Mortar Board, which sponsors the sale each year. Funds gained today will be used under the direction of Dean Mary Sinclair Crawford, counselor of women, for the aid of needy women students.
Won’t you buy an apple?
The latest creations from Dogpatch stylists will take the spotlight as a fashion parade is held to determine the winners of the two prizes for the cleverest cos-, tumes. One boy and one girl are to be honored, with awards donated ! by two nearby campus shops.
HAYRIDES SCHEDULED
Hayrides to and from the dance will add to the festivities and carry out the theme of the evening. Guests are urged by the sponsoring committee to come in groups, by hay or station wagon, because Dog-patchers are known for their clannishness.
The hill-country courtiers have outdone themselves this season, rivaling even Hollywood, and the sartorial splendor of Hairless Joe, Li'l Abner, Lucifer Yokum. and Hamfat McGootch may well be copied by SC men.
TICKET DEADLINE FRIDAY
The women really have a break, with the best efforts of the Sadie Hawkins’ national sorority directed toward enabling them to get their men easily and efficiently.
The Daisy May date dress is already popular, and SC co-eds will find something very familiar in the casual Dogpatch sportswear.
Fraternity men are still selling tickets, but a Friday deadline has been set. The cashier’s office has a supply, too, and the price for a bid is $1.50.
Dr. Mendez Tells Views on Military Alliance
unity are desirable because of the totalitarian alliances now existing abroad,” said Dr. Octavio Mendez Pereira during an interview yesterday. Dr. Mendez, visiting professor of Spanish at SC, comes from Panama.
Regarding the present subject
for debate, resolved: "That the nations of the western hemisphere should adopt a defensive military alliance,”, Dr. Pereira’s beliefs are that such an alliance is already extant, by virtue of the Havana and Buenos Aires conferences.
.“In the past there naturally was
South America are of one mind— complete unison for the preservation of democratic ideals. Economically, however, there must naturally be differences of opinion, observed Dr. Pereira, because of the differences in agriculture, manufacturing, and trade.
Dr. Pereira said that the Monroe
Jones, ’14, president of Wells-Fargo; Mrs. Christy Fox Shonnard, ’34, society editor of the Los Angeles Times; and Superior Court Judge Clarence Kincaid, ’21.
resentment against the United Doctrine has been given a con
States by South American peoples because of the purely one-sided aspect of the Monroe Doctrine, but today the countries of South America are just as anxious for political and military unity as the United States.”
tinental meaning and aspect as opposed to its unilateral value of a former era.
“Now, the Monroe Doctrine ls not for Latin America an excuse, whereby the United States excludes
Pledgemasters Meet Today
Scheduled for 5:30 p.m. today at the Delta Sigma Phi house, 625 West 28th street, inter-fraternity pledgemasters will meet to discuss pledge training.
The guest of honor will be Mr. Ebert Jacques, president of the Interfraternity Alumni association, who will address the assembled pledgemasters. The pledge committee includes Mr. Jacques. Doug-
Town, Gown Sets Monthly Meeting
A monologue sketch by Loretta Hurley and piano selections by Richard Tetley Kardos. talented pianist, will be features on the program for the regular monthly meeting which will convene Tuesday, November 5, in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
Pearle Aiken-Smith, instructor in the School of Speech, is in charge of arrangements. She said that autumn colorings will be stressed as decorations for the luncheon event.
Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid. president of Town and Gown, will officiate at the luncheon and a program following at 2 o’clock.
Assisting as patronesses will be Mesdames Adele Burkholt, Dwight H. Hart, Elvan Musick, Sanford L. Porter. Robert Carman-Ryles. Ezra A. Scattergood. W. H. Scott. G. O. Schoolcraft, Henry Spring-meyer, Henry A. Strodthoff. Ernest W. Tiegs, A. W. R. Thiel, William E. Walter. Charles Wellborn, Loyd Wright. Ribert W. Widle, and Otto J. Zahn.
Europe from the affairs of the He said that five years ago that j New World only in order to leave a statement could not have been free hand in the furthering of las Bothwell, Robert Randle, and made. Politically, the peoples of United States Interests.	Carleton Winslow.
SC Dames Anticipate Quilt Show Saturday
•Quilts will be the topic of discussion at the first regular business meeting of the University of Southern Califomia Dames next Saturday at 2 p.m. in the Student Union lounge.
Mrs. Paul Forker. guest speaker, will discuss her hobby, quilts, and will illustrate her talk. Members will bring their own quilts to exhibit.
students, faculty affected
Anxious Trojan Draftees Learn Tate'
The SC student body responded	With a shrill scream, he ran I Touching on the SC campus, the	j btr had been called on the 359th
to Tuesday's draft lottery' with a	through the store yelling, “No. no,	lottery will take several men elig-	drawing after reading the morn-
comparative calm, at least from all	that isn't so. They can't take me	ibie in July of 1941. They will serve	ing papers. He stands 39th in his
indications Only students who	. . my mother wil be left all alone	the regular one-year training per-	district. Marriage renders his num-
seemed worried were those, quite	. . with my six sisters and four	iod. as prescribed by the Burke-	ber exempt.
naturally, who possessed registra-	brothers . I can't tell her the	Wadsworth bill unless they are	The freshman team fotball doc-
tion numbers.	tragic news . . I've got so much to	physically unfit or have depend-	tor, John W. Beswick, was called
Campus activity regarding the	do. so little time . . I don't want	ents. They will be called up in	when the 201st capsule was pulled
lottery was confined mainly to to die . . I'm too young to die
those groups gathered about the radio in the Student Union bookstore where numbers were being tabulated dv Dan McNamara, bookstore manager.
Highlight of Tuesday's “little U. S. Sweeps" was an incident occur-ing in the bookstore about 1 o’clock. A fearful student, apprehensive lest his name appear on the list of first "victims.'’ loitered near the counter. After asking a friend, he learned that his number had been called.
wai is hell.”
Other saidents spent Tuesday afternoon scanning the papers for that fateful number. Some listened to their radios for the intermittent broadcasts bringing the latest reports from Washington.
Wednesday morning found eligible men grouped about papers, which furnished numbers for the districts. Page after page of numbers were released, each with the districts and precinct digits listed.
. the summer of next year.
The drawing affected faculty members as well as students. Dale Sears, director of the bureau of employment, heard his number called on the 436th round.
Concerning the draft, Sears replied that, though he would probably be exempt from the first call because of work and dependents, he would rather go into service new than protract lt and have lt to worry about.
Larry Pritchard, director of coordinations, found that his num-
Orchestra Offers Toch Composition
The New York Philharmonic Symphony orchestra will open its regular Sunday broadcast this week with the overture to "Pinocchio” written by Dr. Ernst Toch, head of I the department of composition in i the SC School of Music.
According to Dr. Max Krone, assistant director of the School of Music, Dr. Toch’s compositions have been performed by virtually every symphony orchestra in this country and in Europe. In January the Kaufman string quartet will present a program of Dr. Toch's compositions in the Hancock | auditorium.
Besides his courses in composition, Dr. Toch teaches a class in music in the cinema department. He has written scores for many motion pictures, including “The Cat and the Canary” and “The Ghost Breaksrs.”
All-U Dance, Recreational Set Tonight
New Game ‘Goal-Hi’ Provides Entertainment
A new kind of sport, “goal-hl," and a Halloween dance, will highlight the all-University recreational tonight from 7 to 9 o’clock in the women's gymnasium and the dance studio of the Physical Education building.
A variation of basketball, ln which a single goal without a backboard stands in the center of two concentric circles, "goal-hi” ia popular in the East and Middle-West and is becoming well-known on the coast, according to H. W. Anderson, director of intramurals. The game will first be played by students coached for it, and afterwards other will be invited to compete. Teams of almost any size may be matched against each other.
Volleyball, ping-pong, and shuf-fle-board are other sports scheduled for both men and women. Bridge will be played in the dance
studio.
The Halloween dance and social program in the dance studio will follow the sports and games. Cowboy and bam dances, Virginia reels. John Paul Jones circle mixers, two-steps and one-steps, mazurkas, and fox-trots will be the old style dances. A fiddler and a banjo player will probably accompany them, according to Erma Meta, general hostess for the recreational. In the new style, the rhumba and la conga will be executed by experts.
No admission fee is charged and the refreshments — apples, cider, and doughnuts—are free. A fortune teller will try to accomodate any student who wants to know hia fortune. Miss Metz emphasizes that all students of the university are invited, not only those who ar® physical education majors.
Recreationals are regular Thursday evening events, at which ping-pong. volleyball, badminton, bridge and other sports and games are usually played. Faculty sponsors are Miss Bernice Finger. Miss Lois Ellfeldt, and Mr. Anderson, of the physical education department. Student sponsors are Dick Mitchel, Betty Johnson, and Erma Metz.
out of th® now famous fishbowl.
He expects to be exempt because of his work.
7t was emphasized that far more
important than the draftees posi- t-—---------
tion in the drawing, is his position	, _ ,	-
on the list of hi* local draft board.	Pre-Med Students 5ee
“ i*^ro.m,the IjJJJ”1* llst 1*hat he	Color Films Tomorrow
wiJ be taken. While in the large
districts, positions on the list us-	“Ovulation,” a color motion pic-
ually correspond to the order of	ture, will be shown to SC pre
the drawing, a person in a small	medical students by Dr. Elmer Belt,
district might be near the top	eminent neurologist, tomorrow at though his number was drawn 8 p.m. in his office, 1893 Wilshire
much later.	boulevard.
Registrars Office Notice
No scholastic credit will be allowed to any student for any course in which he is not properly registered at the Registrar’s Office. The approval of the faculty adviser is necessary in all cases.	•
Every student will be held responsible for each course in which he is officially registered at the Registrar’s Office whether or not he attends any of the recitations in the course.
All arrangements to withdraw from any course must be made at the Registrar’s Office during the session when the student is registered for that course. Any student who is in doubt about the correctness of his registration should check his Official Program Card at the office.
Theron Clark, Registrar