SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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DAI LYmTROJAN
XXXII
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Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, February 17, 1941
No. 82
nston Daily Trojan Opens nstates 'Postoffice'for You
Call
nderstood Note ed for Loss nate Seat
Call, president of the lass, was re-instated mber of the student Friday after Charles a, ASSC president, ad-‘misunderstanding” l’s removal Tuesday.
who reported Call as jrfeited his senate seat for f attendance rules, blam-interpretation of a written Excuse submitted by Call ks earlier as having his action.
:all loses seat
-toil, varsity football man-brother of Tom, who also si tion. is not entitled to ent, Johnston said, be-his failure to submit a tten excuse.
nate rules two unexcus-by a member automatic in the forfeiting of
SUBMITTED
ig to Johnston. Tom Call at the first of the year for permission to attend ning school, whose meet-cted with those of the At that time.” Johnston note was interpreted as for a single meeting. The re tary gave no indication ing a blanket request for n of the year.” s request, Johnston review-tter and finally announc-instatement.
NSE OPPORTUNITY ills also maintained that ived no formal notice of oval and were not granted unity to offer defense, was no intention by the discredit the Calls.” John-ied, “and the action was pted by malice. The leg-is perfectly clear. The -.If passed it at the begin-last semester.”
ures Show ic Artists
Personalized Contributions to Be Published As Democracy Invades Campus Journalism
Democracy will grab a firm foothold in the Daily Trojan beginning tomorrow as Troy’s only — and, therefore, its best — newspaper opens a few of its columns exclusively to You. the People.
Under the title of “Postoffice.’’ reader-submitted contributions will be published on the Trojan feature page and will range from intellectual discussions on world affairs to trivia on bobby sox.
Deviating from the traditional “letters to the editor’’ form, the letters may be addressed to anyone, whether it be your professors, your best friend, your student officials, or the administrative officers of the university. Suggestions, complaints, birthday greetings all will be given space as the Daily Trojan plays postmaster just for you.
No bans are placed on contributors. for even faculty members and administrative officials are encour-
aged to submit letters.
For your convenience “Postoffice” boxes have been placed in the main entrances of Old College and Bridge hall and at the north entrance of the Student Union.' Letters are limited to 250 words.
Lancers Open Drive for Larger Membership
Today marks the inauguration of a Lancer membership drive with the ultimate view of contacting every non-org student on campus who might be interested in joining the
social group.
usical films in which the ,r has been brought so close iera that "you seem to be t his feet*’ will be shown es tomorrow in Hancock m.
showing is 9 a.m., second Both are free to all stu-
'Music of the Masters.” the pictorializa tions of sound-gs of serious music per-by well-known artists. The observes the technique of er, follows his hands across ~ards. picks up each nuance expression and each change
?>lumbia Artists’ bureau dis-the films. The School of d the department of cine-sponsoring them at SC. lms constitute an hour pro-st is of Jose Iturbi. pian-ng compositions by Albeniz opin.
neers Elect Officers
student branch of the Institute of Electrical En-met Friday and began the 's activities with the elec-'ew officers and scheduled meeting under their lead-tomorrow.
‘arshall was elected chair-uardo Romero, vice-chair-erbert Higgins, secretary; neth Gunn, treasurer.
ident's ce Notice
all-university a s-will be held at 9:50 Thursday morning.
20. President von id will speak on Education and the Program.”
B. von KieinSmid President
German Film Shows Today
Clinic to View ‘Madchen in Uniform’
‘The most outstanding German | sound fiim ever made.” by the authority of Warren Scott, director of the cinema workshop. “Madchen in | Uniform,” will be shown at 2:15 j p.m. today in 101 Harris hall.
Although the picture is shown j for the film study clinic, a regular class, any student of the university may attend free.
The film is about the life and loves of girls in a German boarding school. Dorothea Meick, prominent pre-Hitler actress, plays the leading role. The language of the picture is German, but there are English sub-titles.
In the clinic pictures are taken apart and inspected to see what makes them tick.
Chinese Author Lin Yutang Speaks Friday
Dr. Lin Yutang. Chinese philosopher and author will speak at a special meeting honoring Christian churches of China in Bovard auditorium on Friday, February 21, at 8:15 p.m.
The meeting is sponsored by the Association of Colleges and Universities of the Pacific Southwest. Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid will act as j host.
Dr. Charles K. Edwards, president of Pomona college, and chairman for southern California of the Na-I tional Committee for Christian Col-] leges of China, will preside over the meeting.
Dr. Lin. author of “The Importance of Living” and “My Country and My People.” received his bachelor's degree at St. John’s college, Shanghai; his master's at Harvard: and Ph.D. at the University of Leipzig. Since 1930. he has been very active as an editor of several scholarly and critical journals.
In addition to his two well-known books with their balanced outlook on life both in the Occident and in the Orient, he has written several volumes of essays and readings in English.
Stressing a welcome to every non-org. the Lancers further hope to reach the many registrants who filled out interest blanks at registration.
It was decided that students must be contacted personally to enable members to explain more thoroughly the functions and purpose of the society. Committeemen will greet students during chapel and discuss organization plans.
Postcards have been mailed to the names in Lancer files, and guests attending future functions will be formally drafted into the group.
"We hope that every student will feel this welcome is directed to him,” Chairman Bob Moody asserted, ‘‘because the real purpose of the organization is to provide interest and entertainment for all non-fraternity men and women.”
The membership drive is designed to attract and to secure the active student participation necessary for large-scale functions. The group will form a bowling team and will arrange inter-club football and basketball games.
First activity of the new semester will be a lecture-luncheon in Elisabeth von KieinSmid social hall at 12:10 p.m. Thursday. Raymond Haight. SC alumnus and former gubernatorial candidate, will speak on the “Necessity of an Opposition Party.”
All students are urged to attend the luncheon, tickets selling for 25 cents a plate.
Women to Meet Today
AWS to Ratify Name Change; Freshmen Learn Rules
Freshman women will pick up pointers on how to be an Amazon, and AWS members will ratify their organization’s change of name today at 3:15 p.m. when the Associated Women students meet for the first time this semester in 206 Administration.
Presiding over the general assembly will be Kay Dodds, AWS president. She will introduce Dr. Mary Sinclair Crawford, counselor of women who will discuss orientation for freshman women.
Chief business of the meeting, reports Chairman Mary Ruth Stagg, will be Introduction of coed leaders who will point out for freshmen the opportunities for service in the organizations they represent.
Second purpose is to obtain approval of the constitutional amendment which early this year changed the name of the group from the Women’s Self Government association to the Associated Women students.	,
For this reason, the traditional orientation assembly is open to all members of the AWS, who are asked to be present for the ratification of the measure.
“Sophomore and junior transfers interested in activities should attend,” Miss Dodds said last night, “for we are anxious that they too become familiar with their opportunities for service and perhaps ultimate membership in Amazons.” Student leaders who will speak include Donna Lewis. ASUSC vice-president; Deedy Maurer, vice-president of the student body; Peggy Price, Amazon president; Kit Hambly, YWCA president; Margaret Branscom. Panhellenic president; Muriel Lindstrom, Mortar Board president; Louise Reordan, Spooks and Spokes president; and Erma Metz, WAA president.
Dramatists Tour Columbia Studios
Members of the drama class of Tacie Hanna Rew. assistant professor of speech, will have the opportunity of visiting the CBS studios this evpning from 6 to 7 o'clock, to attend a performance of the Lux Radio theater and be conducted on a tour through the studio.
The play to be presented is "Johnny Appollo.” starring Dorothy Lamour. Edward Arnold, and Burgess Meredith.
L. A. Pilot Dies in Plane Crash Near San Diego
SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO. Feb. 16—<r.P)—Leo C. Miller, 38, flying salesman for an aircraft distributing company, was killed late today when a cabin plane he was delivering to San Diego crashed near here
Motorists on the main coast highway reported they saw the three-passenger Fairchild plane fluttering and heard its motors sputter. Miller apparently pulled the craft away from the coast and tried to make a landing on the Santa Mar garita ranch, five miles northeast of here.
The spot he picked for his at tempted landing was rough and the plane was demolished. Miller was instantly killed. Just prior to the landing he shut off the ignition of the plane and the craft did not catch fire.
The plane was owned by W. D. Timm of Glendale. Miller was employed by the Pacific Aircraft Sales company.
Radio Show to Hold Auditions Thursday
New talent for the Thursday radio show will audition today for parts in a presentation scheduled for Thursday. February 20, in 215, Administration from 2:15-3:30 p.m.
Five parts are available, William Jones, producer of the show, announced. three are for men and two for women
KAY DODDS—instructs freshman women.
Music School to Honor Paderewski
Celebrating the 50th anniversary of the American debut of Ignace Jan Paderewski, the School of Music will present a recital in Bovard aubitorium, Wednesday, February 19. at 3:15 p.m.
Students who will appear Include Virginia Cox, organist; Iris Lewis, contralto; Roderick Krohn, violinist; Masami Kawahara, pianist; Calvine Inman, celloist; and Russell Holliger, tenor.
The recital will be part of a national celebration, sponsored by the National Paderewski Testimonial association, under the direction of Mrs. Ernest Schelling of Rockefeller center, N.Y., and is open to the public.
Polyzoides to Discuss Mediterranean
Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, lecturer in international relations and journalism, will sptak on “Greeoe, Italy, Great Britain, and the Mediterranean,” for the first of the second semester Wednesday lecture series on February 19.
Sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences under tht leadership of Dean Albert Sydney Raubrnheimer, the series wil be prcsentea in the art and lecture room, Po.Kiiy Memorial lierery from 4:30 to 5:30 p.m.
The lectures open to students, faculty menibers, and the public, are offeied in an attempt to prrsmt sub.1 eels of general interest wUh ?. technical background, in a mauier unaei stand able to the layman.
The second address in the series in scheduled for February 2<J, with Dr. Winslow Smith, professor of bacteriology, as the speaker. Dr. Smith will offer as his subject, “The Microbes: We Can’t Live Without Them."
Silke Receives Civic Position
Members of the newly-organized Manhattan Beach Chamber of Commerce in a meeting last week elected as their president, Harry Silke Jr., director of foundations at SC.
The vote of the chamber was unanimous. Silke, a graduate of the College of Commerce in 1924, has long had an interest in civic affairs. He has served on committees for the Los Angeles Chamber of Commerce.
His main academic interests lie in public administration, in which he has made research. He holds offices in many organizations partly or wholly of a civic nature.
• Silke has not yet evolved a specific plan for the community which he will serve. In general, he said, he hopes to draw up a program that will further most the cultural, economic, and aesthetic interests of the town.
Daily Trojan Polls Student Film Choices
Trojan students will beat the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to the punch this year with their selection of the outstanding pictures, performances, and screen plays of 1940.
A poll conducted by the Daily Trojan, the results of which will be announced Wednesday, enables collegians to make known their screen favorites. In the past all judging of Hollywood products has been done by the official academy and the cinema city's newspaper and magazine writers.
A ballot appears on page two of the Daily Trojan today which may be dropped in any of the Letters to the Editor boxes in the Student Union, Old College, or Bridge hall with the student’s choice. The deadline for the student ballots is Tuesday at 3 p.m.
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences will present its “Oscars.” February 27 at the annual Biltmore bowl dinner. This year 12,000 Hollywood workers nominated for the 13th year the 10 films, 5 actors and actresses starring performances, 5 directorial
achievements, and 15 supporting character performances that form the basis for final judging.
The final nominations are.
For the most outstanding picture of the year: “All This and Heaven Too,” Warner Brothers; “Foreign Correspondent,” Walter Wanger; “The Grapes of Wrath,” 20th Century-Fox: “The Great Dictator,” Charles Chaplin; “Kitty Foyle.” RKO Radio: “The Letter.” Warner Brothers; “The Long Voyage Home,” Argosy-Wagner; “Our Town.” Sol Lesser; “The Philadelphia Story,”MGM; and “Rebecca,” Selznick-Intemational.
For the best performance by an actor:
Charles Chaplin in “The Great Dictator,” Hendy Fonda in “The Grapes of Wrath,” Raymond Massey in "Abe Lincoln of Illinois,” Laurence Olivier in “Rebecca,” and James Stewart in “The Philadelphia Story.”
For the best performance by an ' actress:
Bette Davis in “The Letter,’ (Continued on Page Four)
Apolliad Scripts Due Today
Judges to Name Winners in March; Presentation Planned
"All in that’s coming in!” The last call for Apolliad manuscripts sounds the deadline for entries to be in the School of Speech office. Manuscripts sent through the mail will be acceptable if they bear a February 17 postmark.
Thus closes another quest for manifestations of creative arts ability among Trojans. Entrants whose contributions are judged best for presentation on the Apolliad program, scheduled for April 19. will be announced during the first part of March.
PURPOSE NAMED Apolliad was inaugurated 17 years ago by a faculty committee as a non-contest idea, which would offer no prizes and would involve the selection of entries that could be suitably presented before an audience, would best serve the program to achieve its purpose — the opportuniy for experienced, authoritative criticism and recognition of the creative ability of students by outstanding critics.
Its name, suggested by Dr. Allison Gaw of the English department, is a derivation from Apollo, Greek god of poetry and music.
CRITICS ATTEND Short essays and stories, one-act plays, radio scripts, poems, musical compositions, and art work are the eligible artistic types.
Students in the School of Speech will read successful entries during the presentation program in Touchstone theater. Successful authors will have their names entered in the Apolliad yearbook.
Preceding the program Dr. and Mrs. Rufus B. von KieinSmid will fete winning entrants at a dinner. PEN NAME REQUIRED Entrants submit their work under a pseudonym; ln a sealed envelope they give their real name and address. They must testify on their manuscripts that the work is original.
During most of the contest poems have been the most numerous entries, according to Prof. Tacie Hanna Rew, chairman of the Apolliad. She hopes this year for more entries of essays, because of their desirability as reading matter.
Trojans Dance at Dig Tonight
Aaron Gonzales and Band Provide Music;
Banners, Trophies Simulate Sports Theme
Trojans will dance to the only all-U dig of the semester in the women’s gymnasium from 7 to 9 p.m. tonight.
Banners, trophies, and sporting togs will form a colorful background for the music of Aaron Gonzales and his band, formerly scheduled to play for the British war relief-valentine dance last Friday night.
DONNA LEWIS—heads tonight.
Wampus to Appear Wednesday
Frosh to Sponsor After-Game Basket Ball'
A dance on February 22 without a Washington’s day theme!
Forsaking the conventional approach, members of the freshman class will sponsor an all-U dance, officially titled “The Basket Ball.” in the student lounge on Saturday, February 22. from 9 to 12 p.m. following the Califomia-SC basketball game.
This event is the first in the new series of after-game dances planned under the leadership of Donna Lewis, ASSC vice-president, to replace the Monday night digs held last semester.
Admission to the freshman dance will be 25 cents a person, and class representatives will serve free refreshments to all present. Rex Koury and his orchestra will furnish music for the evening’s dancing.
Park Scott, freshman class president, is in charge of all arrangements. Members of the freshman council and appointed committee members will assist him.
Making its first appearance of the semester, Wampus, campus humor magazine, goes on sale Wednesday morning, February 19.
Boris Morros, who was Russia’s director of music under the Czar, is featured in an interview. Morros who wrote the musical score for the Academy award winner “Stagecoach” and the recent “Second Chorus’’ is now teaching on music in motion pictures at SC.
The cover for the Wampus is a picture of the NROTC’s color guard taken by Gene Moriarty, photographic editor. Moriarty also photographed the “Girl of the Month’’ whose identity is secret until'Wednesday.
Editor Dick Mulcahy emphasizes the fact that no one type of feature is stressed in the February issue. “Yowlings,” “Record Reviews,” photographs of the NROTC and registration, and several pages of jokes are examples of material found in this month’s Wampus.
Adventures'
Airs Today
With ensemble arrangements and a special commentary by Alfred Seale, “Adventures With Musical Instruments” will discuss the importance of the brass section in the orchestra over KRKD from 1:30-1:45 p.m. today.
Special musical arrangements on the program are by Jacques Collins and Wayne Reeves. James Morrison, baritone, will sing “Deep River,” a Negro spiritual. The brass ensemble Will play Bach’s “Easter Chorale” and “When Day Is Done.”
Mohler Takes Menasco Post
Orville E. Mohler. former all-American quarterback at SC. has been elected vice-president of the Menasco Manufacturing company.
Mohler accepted the position of sales manager of the aircraft engine company about one year ago. following a reorganization of the company. While at SC he majored in aeronautical engineering.
The new vice-president is a veteran flyer and is credited with greatly expanding the company's sales activities in the short time he has been with Menasco. He will continue his supervision of sales, according to an announcement by A. E. Shelton, president.
Bombers Arrive for Britain
NEW YORK. Feb. 18— <l'.P)— The first of 26 long-range bombers being built by Consolidated Aircraft corporation for Great Britain arrived today after a non-stop flight of 9 hours and 54 minutes from San Diego.
An unconfirmed report said the bomber would take off tomorrow on a non-stop flight to England.
(Heretofore planes consigned to the British government have either been dismantled in New York for ocean shipment or have been flown to Britain.)
Close secrecy surrounded the plane’s arrival from San Diego. It was stored in a TWA hangar which was closed at once to the public.
Al Jaegers who had been engaged for the dig will furnish music for future after-game dances scheduled to replace the Monday night affairs enjoyed since last September. LEWIS IN CHARGE Donna Lewis. ASSC vice-president, and Rolland Dillon are in charge of the arrangements tonight. Dillon urges all women interested in earning activity points to report to him during the day to assist in decorating the gym.
Miss Lewis announced that tonight's dig is informal with sports wear appropriate. Students will be admitted upon showing activity books at the door; otherwise tickets will sell for 25 cents.
DIGS REPLACED After-game dances staged in the third-floor lounge in the Student Union on Friday and Saturday nights will take the place of Monday evening digs. Admission to these dances, beginning February 22, will be 25 cents. Members of student committees will serve free refreshments to guests.
Service Group Fetes Dr. Ellis
To honor Dr. Leon Ellis, recently appointed acting head of the Los Angeles University of International Relations, Delta Phi Epsilon, national foreign service fraternity, and the International Relations club will sponsor a luncheon today in the social hall of Elisabeth von KieinSmid hall.
Those who will attend includa members of the faculty and students who will be associated with Dr. Ellis in the fields of political sciences and international relations.
Before his appointment as professor of international relations, Dr. Ellis was a member of the United States diplomatic service from which he resigned in 1933 because of ill health. While he was with the diplomatic service. Dr. Ellis served in Guatamala. San Salvador, and in Berne, Switzerland, as secretary of the American Legation.
He also served as American Legation secretary in Peking, Budapest, and Costa Rica. He has been on the faculties of the University of Washington, University of Montana, and until recently of Whitman College in Walla Walla, Wash.
The luncheon honoring Dr. Ellis is open to all students who wish to attend. Those students who plan to attend ar^ requested to sign the lists outside the political science office in Bridge hall or in the Library of International Relations.
Friendship Club, YWCA Request Books, Clothes
Do you have an old copy of “Man Through the Ages” which you haven’t been able to sell or give away? If you want to dispose of any kind of clothing or a book in any language, the World Friendship club in conjunction with the YWCA will offer you the opportunity tomorrow.
Both organizations are launching a drive to send clothing to England and books to Inland China. Any clothes deemed unsuitable for use in the British Isles will be distributed to California migrant workers.
The official headquarters for the drive is the patio of the Student Union, and all students and members ot the faculty are requested to bring their contributions here. Members of the YWCA flying squadron will tour the Greek houses on 28th street to collect fraternity and sorority donations.