SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAILY ^TROJAN
I. XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, November 4, 1940
No. 36
umm elcome nned
ecoming Slogan test Scheduled in Tomorrow
re is no truth to the that a special doormat, ing the length of the will be stretched out iversity avenue when return to SC during jnual Homecoming cele-i, December 4, 5, 6, and Pliable source of infor-close to the alumni of-vealed early this morn-
r,” the spokesman contin-plan to extend our ‘Wel-means of a suitable home-slogan and the various ac-of the week, planned for ming old grads.”
:m TOLD
rief message from head-is directed at students to ;them that tomorrow, at 9 contest for the best Home-slogan officially begins, within the reach of each t is the pair of 50-yard ets for the Notre Dame ize for the winning slogan, roblem this year,” the spe-iiant added, “is to write a slogan of general welcome, jed to any one theme or by :f decoration specifications.
, the alumni to feel as wel-if we had actually rolled a down University avenue.”
S PROVIDED its are reminded that the be selected will be the f the celebration as it will over 22.000 alumni in a lder message of welcome, jailing pieces will contain a program of the events of days, including functions »arious schools and colleges, and fraternity open houses, i’s football banquet, the wo-panquet and Hi-Jinks, and le parade based on the 'try of Football,” and the jmecoming dance which will the week of activities, in charge of the contest lit that special ballots and poxes will be provided for venience of those students p to participate in the com-Blanks will appear in the Trojan beginning tomorrow These may be deposited ine of three red "Letters-to-Jor” boxes located in Bridge College, and Student Un-
an Reporter ishes While ering Story
aily Trojan reporter ssigned last Friday to debate practice and on the methods used e campus orators in ring their arguments, reporter has not been from since, editors investigated found a grimy note the door of the debate -room, located on the floor of the Student
allay fears of the re’s parents that “the has befallen our boy," rojan reprints the ge intact, as found by ff members late Fri-ening. j- Fellows:
jen I first got here were eight persons in ;m. There were three ents going on. Two en remained silent.
;n there were two ar-sts, and only one an was silent. Now only one argument, one is silent, about to Join in, as fellows have the question wrong, tv in case, notify my I am still working story.”
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Chest' Campaign Will Begin Today
Barton Announces Plans for Collection of Funds to Be Given to Local Charities
With the active cooperation of SC fraternities, sororities, and service groups, the 1940 Community Chest drive for funds to aid more than 80 local charities will get under way today as workers on the five-day program begin pinning tags and clips on student contributors.
- Headed by Syd Barton, the appeal
Students Begin Bonfire Rally Preparations
Judges to Tabulate ‘Points by Truckload’ for Fraternity Work
Objedors'
Program
Outlined
Draft Experts Plan Defense Activities for Non-Combatants
Freshmen to Rule SC Today; Muelder Officers Will Be Announced to Speak
Tomorrow
Preparations for the annual bonfire preceding the SC-California football game will begin at 2 p.m. Wednesday afternoon, according to Don Milligan and Dwight Hart, co-chairmen of the bonfire rally this year.
From 7:30 till 9 p.m. this Friday. Baldwin hills will glow from one end to the other. Knights, Squires, and fraternity men will pile the collected debris just north of the Sunset Fields golf course where Exposition boulevard intersects La Brea boulevard.
Hart says a new system of ‘ points by truckload” has Ijeen devised whereby judges can score the fraternities. Nothing that bums will be eliminated. Men are requested to bring piano boxes, old refrigerators, and junk furniture.
Sorority women will serve hot coffee and sandwiches to the laborers Thursday night from 7 till 9 o'clock.
The rally committee expects to get telephone poles to stick in the ground as a brace for the material. Students will recall the massive structure which such a method provided for last year’s rally.
Trojan Students Win Prizes in Essay Contest
Cliffo.d Evans and Charles Hunter, SC students, were among the winners in the “No Third Term for j Any President” contest it was an-: nounced Saturday by the Democrats j Against a Third Term. Inc. Evans, who placed second, won a prize of $50. and Hunter was a winner of a $5 prize.
The contest, which was open to any student enrolled in college or junior college in Los Angeles county, j required that each student entrant ’ submit a letter of not more than 250 words stating his reasons for opposition to a third term.
for funds on the campus will be part of the nation-wide drive that is to start November 6.
ECCLES APPOINTED
In order to centralize the distribution of clips and tags, for the campus campaign, and the collection of student contributions, the office of the Student Council on Religion in the Student Lounge, third floor of the Student Union, will serve as headquarters. Jane Eccles, council secretary, has been appointed by Barton to take complete charge of funds brought in by solicitors and the “I Gave” tokens going out.
Tables will be set up in at Old College, Administration building, Student Union, Law building. Bridge hall. Science building, Dental school building, and in the patio of
Students wishing to distribute tags and clips are asked to sign up in the religious council office, which will be open from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. every day during the drive.
Harris hall. Students not being contacted by a Community Chest work- j er may make their contributions I here, said Barton.
GREEKS WILL HELP
As in past years, stated Barton, fraternities and sororities will be asked in Monday night meetings to support the drive by contributing their usual amount in 100 per cent cooperation with the movement.
Chairman Barton has named the following as his general coordinators to represent all groups:
Neal Deasy. Skull and Dagger; Mur' Lindstrom. Mortar Board; Tom Eddy, Trojan Knights; Bill Beaudine, Trojan Squires; Peggy Price, Trojan Amazons; Jack Tobin, Blue Key; Frank Scott, Sigma Sigma.
REPRESENTATIVES NAMED
Louise Reordan, Spooks and Spokes; John Lindsay, YMCA; Kit Hambly, YWCA; Erma Metz, WAA; Kay Dodds, AWS; Jane Eccles, Student Council on Religion representing all religious groups; Harry Call, Ball and Chain; Joe Wapner, Interfraternity Council and general fraternity representative; Margaret Branscom, Panhellenic council and general sorority representative;
Phil Jones, College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences: and Val Lehnberg. Graduate School. General non-org representatives will be members of the Wampus staff. Dick Mulcahy. Bob Reilly, Gene Moriarty, and Sam Roeca.
WASHINGTON. Nov. 3 — (U.P.) — Draft experts have completed the outline of a program under which conscientious objectors would be put to work on non-combatant national defense projects sponsored either by the government or religious organizations, it was learned tonight.
The program, drawn along liberal lines, is designed to carry out that portion of the selective service act which states that conscientious objectors can be excused from military training provided they are assigned to work of “national importance under civilian direction.”
Under the act, such an objector is defined as one who “by reason of religious training and belief, is conscientiously opposed to participation in war in any form.”
Basing their program on recent British experiences with conscientious objectors, draft experts here propose that “qualified” objectors to military service be made a direct responsibility of the national selective service board, and that a special division be set up to supervise this group.
To fit them into the preparedness effort, the federal government would find work for such persons on special defense tasks so that they would neither receive special economic advantages nor suffer undue hardships as result of their beliefs. Government agencies such as WPA, the CCC, and the national health service would furnish the projects of importance to national defense under the plan.
Hawaii Votes on Statehood
HONOLULU, Nov. 3—(lT.E)— Hawaii's voters will get their first chance next Tuesday to express officially their opinion on the proposal to make this territory a state of the union and put 49 stars in the United States flag.
Voters in a plebiscite authorized by the territorial legislature will answer the ballot question “Do you favor statehood for Hawaii?” The vote will have no significance other than as a test of island opinion.
Hawaii's delegate, Samuel Wilder King, has introduced a resolution in congress asking statehood for Hawaii, but he does not expect early action on it.
Most observers believed the vote would favor statehood, possibly by a 3 to 1 margin. Some believed the outcome might be closer.
Hal Hoover—directs assembly.
Byram Elected Loyalty Fund Chairman
Howard L. Byram, Los Angeles county treasurer, is the newly-elect-ed general chairman of the Southern California Loyalty fund for the 1940-41 academic year, announced Harry Silke, director of special foundations, last Thursday. Byram succeeds Clifford Hughes, who presided at the annual meeting of the organization.
Funds of $19,480 were contributed by 2230 SC alumni during the current year, according to Silke, who is also executive director of the Loyalty fund.
MEMBERS NAMED
New members of the executive board, include Loyd Hunt, Southern Califomia Edison company engineer; Don Cameron, vice-president of the Union Trust and Savings bank; El von Musick, president of the Pineapple Producers association: Wayne Mullin of the Mullin lumber company; Mrs. Harold Morton; and Mrs. Christy Fox Shon-nard.
Present members of the board include Mario Chamlee, Metropolitan opera singer; Elmer Jones, president of the Wells Fargo company; Judge Clarence Kincaid; Arthur Taylor, vice-president of the Bank of America; and Loyd Wright, president of the California Bar association.
PROVIDES PLAN
The loyalty fund, established in 1934, provides a plan whereby alumni can demonstrate their appreciation. without signing a traditional pledge.
The executive board of the fund is composed of 20 members, elected for three years each. Each year the board is composed of six members.
Florence Rice to Be Guest at Assembly
The names of freshman “officials for-a-day” will be announced at 9:50 o’clock this morning in Bovard auditorium by Charles Johnston, ASSC president. At that time freshmen appointed to serve in student body positions will )fficially take over the affairs Df the SC student government.
At 2 p.m. Park Scott, freshman class president, will preside at the Freshman day assembly to which the whole university is invited. Florence Rice, Hollywood actress, will be interviewed at the assembly, according to Scott.
Before the morning assembly no one, with the exception of the members of the activities committee, will know which freshman will hold the offices of president, vice-president, and secretary.
HOOVER IN CHARGE
At the assc nbly, all appointed committee heads, presidents of the College of Commerce, College of Architecture and Fine Arts, College of Engineering, and School of Music will surrender their offices to the freshmen leaders.
Hal Hoover, Blue Key member, is in charge of advising tne freshmen and of planning the meeting at 2 p.m. His committee is composed of Paul Ignatius, junior class president, and Roy King, freshman advisory committee chairman.
HALFERTY TO PLAY
Guy Halferty and his orchestra will entertain the afternoon assembly with several selections, and Bill and Bob White, Sigma Chi twins and comedy team who have performed at several SC assemblies, will offer a humorous routine of songs.
To accommodate the students who missed the first issue of the Trojan newsreel, the film will be re-shown.
Just before the assembly, freshman leaders will head a parade of students starting at the Pi Kappa Alpha house and proceeding down fraternity row to University avenue. As the paraders pass along 28th street, fraternity and sorority members will join the procession. The crowd will swing around to Elisabeth von KieinSmid and Aeneas halls, where non-orgs will join the parade.	•
Charles Johnston — relinquishes office to freshman today.
Frost Poems Will Be Read by Dr. Baxter
Democrats Predict Victory for Roosevelt; Willkie Denounces Third Term Attempt
SAN FRANCISCO. Nov. 3—<T.P>— Democrats tonight predicted President Roosevelt will carry California by 400.000 votes, and Republicans forecast a 200.000 margin for Wendell L. Willkie as this state with its important 22 electoral votes entered the final, frenzied phase of election campaigning.
With the labor vote apparently split and shifting tides of ballot
Franklin D. Roosevelt—supporter* procTfct victory.
strength reported in rural areas, both sides claimed decisive margins in California.
“Some persons.” said William M. Malone, chairman of the democratic state central committee, “have been misled into thinking a Willkie trend manifested itself in Califomia in the past few weeks. An avalanche of Republican propaganda, has, it is true, developed what may be termed a superficial trend. The deep trend, and it has grown steadily, has been toward President Roosevelt.”
The democratic central committee loosed a blast against Harry Bridges, state CIO director, for his rejection of President Roosevelt’s candidacy. The committee charged Bridges with joining “the Wall street gang” in an “unholy alliance” seeking Mr. Roosevelt's defeat.
Democrats claimed labor in California was supporting Mr. Roosevelt “up to the hilt” despite the row within the CIO over Bridges and John L. Lewis' denounciation of the New Deal.
Governor Culbert Olson, state democratic national committeeman, predicted a decisive victory in Califomia and the overwhelming re-election of President Roosevelt. He was in Los Angeles to confer with southern California campaign managers.
NEW YORK. Nov. 3 —(UJ?) — Wendell Willkie promised tonight that if he is elected president he will propose in his first message to congress a constitutional amendment “limiting the time any one president may serve to eight years or less.’’
Charging that President Roosevelt’s “renunciation” of a fourth term in his Cleveland speech last
Wendell
term.
Willkie—blasts third
night was “based only on implication and indirection,” the Republican nominee declared:
“If once our common law against a third term be replaced, there is no further law to restrain him or any of his successors, elected, hereditary or appointed, from an indefinite number of terms. And that repeal of that law will be final. It can never be revoked. Never again can there bfe a tradition against as many terms as a president can take for himself. The third term candidate’s own future administrations and those of all subsequent presidents would be directed to a further series of their re-elections, and the people would not get the disinterested service to which they are entitled.
“When elected, in order to prevent any subsequent demonstration of such ambitious views, in my first message to congress I shall recommend that they submit a constitutional amendment limiting the time any one president may serve to eight years or less.”
Willkie replied to Mr. Roosevelt’s Cleveland speech in a formal statement issued from his campaign headquarters. He spent Sunday resting, going to church, motoring, lunching with political associates, and planning the last hours of his campaign.
Scott Discusses Visual Learning
“Can the Universities Solve the Visual Education Problem?”
Warren Scott, instructor in cinema and director of the cinema workshop, will discuss this problem Wednesday from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m. in the art and lecture room of the Doheny library.
During his talk Scott will summarize the history of the visual education movement and will consider the chief problems that have stood in the way of the realization of the aims of the program.
According to Scott, these problems include the possession of satisfactory materials, adequately trained personnel, modem equipment, and interested sponsorship.
He also will point out new work which has been accomplished in this field in the past five years, with special reference toward the work now going on at SC.
Scott, who is head of the department of cinema, has had many years of experience in visual education. He was, for four years, connected with the visual education production in southern California.
Later, he worked four years for local film studios, editing and producing films. From this work, he came to SC three years ago, and has headed his department for the last year.
Poems of Robert Frost will comprise the program of the third noon poetry reading, which will be conducted in Bovard auditorium today at 12 M. by Dr. Frank C. Baxter, head of the department of English language and literature.
During the program. Dr. Baxter will read and discuss a number of Frost's poems. He describes the poet as “a tremendously universal writer.”
“Robert Frost was a poet of the people,” Dr. Baxter stated. “Although he writes of New England, his work is so universal it could be translated into any language.” Outstanding poems of Robert Frost include “A Boy s Will,” “North of Boston,” “New Hampshire,” and ‘ Mountain Interval.” These works show the poet to be a man of homely, quiet words.
In the phraseology of Dr. Baxter, “Frost is a very quiet person. He has tremendously important things to say, but he says them when you’re not listening for them.” Following the readings, members of the audience will have a chance to discuss the poems. Students, faculty members, and outside poetry-lovers are invited to attend.
Dr. Baxter has scheduled programs for the next two weeks. On November 18 he will read from the works of Stephen Spender, and on November 25, from the works of Mary Webb.
Mrs. von KieinSmid to Head SC Drive
Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid is chairman of the SC drive starting this week for wearable clothing and shoes for men, women, and children to aid the national salvation army drive. These may be left this week at the information office in the Administration building.
Traditional Arm Bands Sold Today
Freshman armbands, a requisite for every freshman woman, will go on sale today, according to Peggy Price, president of Amazons.
Today and tomorrow the green bands with large red Fs on them may be purchased in the Foyer of Student Union for 10 cents. Zelma Price and Dorothy LaFollette are in charge of the sales.
Any woman who does not have her armband in time for the traditional donning ceremony, to be held in front of Bovard auditorium during chapel period on Wednesday, will be fined in Amazon court.
The wearing of the green armbands and the arm-banding ceremonies are traditions started several years ago at SC, and are annually sponsored and enforced by Amazons.
Journalists Hold Reunion
Theology Professor to Address Forum on ‘Moral Order’
Dr. Walter Muelder, professor of Christian theology and Christian ethics, will speak on “The Cosmic Basis of the Moral Order” tomorrow at 4:15 p.m. in the Bowne lecture room of Mudd hall.
The talk will be sixth in a series of weekly lectures on “Moral Problems in Modem Life” sponsored by the School of Philosophy. Dr. Muelder will discuss the traditional belief in a cosmic moral order under the light of humanism and autonomy in etjiics.
ILLUSTRATES ISSUES “I will examine the relationship of the thinking of John Dewey of Columbia university to the practical politics of Adolph Hitler for their significance against the background of political theories of the middle ages,” Dr. Muelder said.
“I will consider also how varying ethical dispositions carry the con-lfict of their views into metaphysical conflicts.” “Even an autonomous effort raises Inescapable problems in theology and metaphisics."
The speaker will illustrate these issues with ’ istorical references and contemporary conflicts in politics. STUDIED IN GERMANY “Greek idealism holding to a belief in natural justice, and stoic rationalism holding to the belief in natural right were fused with theological ethics of Christianty to form a basis for the political theories of the middle ages,” Professor Muelder commented. “Their influence reached down to the writing of the Declaration of Independence.”
In opposition to this theory, there has also developed a popular belief in the independence of the moral order from any authoritative basis ! in nature, Dr. Muelder believes.
Dr. Muelder received his doctorate in philosophy at Boston university. Later he spend a year in studying philosophy at the University of Frankfort in Germany.
Graduates Plan Two-Hour Tour of L.A. Museum
A two-hour tour through the Lob Angeles county museum ls scheduled for next Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. by the Associated Graduate students of SC. They will visit the modeling rooms and shops where the museum displays are prepared.
Reservations, according to Eleanor Kuehmsted. must be made today at the office of the Graduate school secretary, 160 Administration. It is a limited tour, said Miss Kuehmsted. but there will be no attendance charge.
The trip, directed by Arthur Woodward, director of natural history, will enable the graduate students to see the historic dioramas in process of construction.
The museum maintains a series of shops where modelers and assistants carry on the precise work of correctly modeling to historical detail. An opportunity to inspect these shops and see the work in progress will be available to the entire group.
The chief projects now In construction concern early Califomia history including a beautiful exhibit of the early Califomia missions.
Students planning to go on the tour will meet in the graduate office on Wednesday at 2:15 p.m. and will go to the museum together.
Following the SC-Califomia football game November 9, many former Trojan staff members and students currently connected with campus publications will gather in the Foyer of Town and Gown to attend the 1940 journalism reunion.
The informal gathering, held once each year, will feature no speeches or set program. Dinner is at 6 p.m., but the doors of the foyer will open as soon as the game is over.
The price is 75 cents per person and all journalism students are cordially invited to attend.
Dr. Knopf to Address Sophomore-Junior Club
“Philosophy and Leadership” will be the topic discussed by Dr. Carl Sumner Knopf, chaplain of the university, when he addresses the Sophomore-Junior club today %t 12 M. in 206 Administration.
All sophomore and junior women are eligible to belong to this club which meets every Monday at 12 M, A different topic is stressed eveij semester. At present the organization is concentrating on a course ia leadership.