SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
DAI LY®TROJAN
XXXII
NAS—Z-42
Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, February 24, 1941
No. 87
key esist sPush
Minister Says )n Will Defend h Alliance
BUL. Feb. 23—(U.P.) Minister Sukru Sa-announced tonight key is prepared to her alliance with ritain and “defend f attacked,” regard-ast week’s Turkish-declaration o f and non-aggres-
understood that British cretary Anthony Eden, T>t. will arrive in Ankara plane Tuesday for con-on the Anglo-Turkish pact in view of the urg-Jht about by Adolph Hit-thr'st into the Balkans. IVES
rted early arrival of Ed-ay be accompanied by hn G. Dill, chief of the .rial staff, emphasized |t Britain was attempting ur creation of a Balkan Jliance among Turkey, Jugoslavia in an effort Nazi march.
s statement, made as in tamed large military i the frontier facing Bui- j tie admitted possibility of j attack, appeared in the J Ankara newspaper j
jEMAINS same
=kish- Bulgarian declara-Joreign minister said, ln is altered Turkish for-despite rumors and inns abroad that Turkey ;y given a free-hand to •tion in the Balkans.
,will ‘honor all her obli-|SaracDglu said, tement took on special j De in view of reports that j is almost ready to enter openly, to bring strong , >n Greece to agree to an peace with Italy.
solve your problems
Psychology Clinic' Opens in Trojan
Dr. Lee Travis to Advise on Personal Problems;
Students Invited to Submit Various Questions
“Psychology Clinic,” a department designed to aid students with personal problems, will begin its weekly appearance on the feature page of the Daily Trojan Wednesday under the guidance of Dr. Lee E. Travis, professor of psychology	! -
Patterned after the informal con- | sultations of a professional psychology clinic, the new feature will consist of student-submitted questions answered by Dr. Travis from the standpoint of the skilled psy- j chologist.
advice to all students in similar situations.
Beginning today Trojan students are invited to submit questions for discussion in the "Psychology Clinic." Names need not accompany the contributions, and the printing of initials is optional.
The questions may t>e addressed to
The department will consider
questions on personality, study, fam-	“Psychology Clinic” and placed in
ily, marriage, courtship, and voca-	Daily Trojan boxes located in the
tional selection problems confront-	main entrance of Old College and
ing the college student. Queries will	Bridge hall and in the north en-
be selected with a view to offering	trance of the Student Union.
British Report Sinking of Eight Italian Ships
LONDON, Feb. 23—(U.P.)—British submarines have sunk eight Italian supply ships and heavily shelled another in the Mediterranean where the British fleet is sowing a vast minefield to hasten Italy’s collapse on the African fronts, the admiralty reported tonight.
leers to See f Depicting Construction
[pictures depicting the con- : [ of the Ford car from raw ; f to the assembling of the product wrill be shown by lapter of the American So-Mechanical Engineers toil Science 159. from 11 p.m.
sd by the Ford Motor com-pictures will run 50 min-)r -The Ford Rouge Plant.” for "Science Rules the
tter presents a panorama lie role of testing la bora-s in the manufacture of transjx>rt units. It shows ur generations man's mode has emerged from the ox-into the speed and com-lay.
rd Rouge Plant” endeav-tesenr the same material Isitor to the plant would
knee ring students and oth-kted people are invited to
ilism Sorority cts Luncheon
of Theta Sigma Phi. ■omen's journalism hon-ll gather for a luncheon ,oday at 1002 West 31st
paeo Takes in Pictures
Trojan staff mem-3se photographs will n the 1941 El Rodeo it with the yearbook ipher in the editor -e at 3 p..m today, izres will be taken jay. Names of elig-ients are posted on r bulletin board.
The recent large-scale activity of Britain’s undersea fleet in what Benito Mussolini calls “Italy's sea” was reported only 24 hours after disclosure of the central Mediterranean minefield aimed at strangling Italian and German reinforcements for North Africa.
At the same time, the admiralty said that the standard of enemy conduct in the Mediterranean had undergone a marked change “since it became necessary for Germany to render assistance to Italy,” charging the German air force repeatedly attacked clearly marked British hospital ships.
The admiralty charged that Nazi bombers twice attacked the hospital ship Dorsetshire and deliberately attacked Imtarfa hospital in Malta as well as residential areas at Benghazi, captured Italian base.
The report on submarine activity credited the submarines Triton and Upholder with two Italian ships each — including two of 8000 tons —and the Truant, Rover, Regent, and Utmost with one each. The Truant was said to have shelled another Italian vessel, scoring hits.
The Triton later was lost in action.
Students to Hear U.S. Naval Officer
Smith to Talk on Microbes
“Gangsters among the bacteria have given the useful ones a bad name. Let’s discover the respectable system that exists among the microbes.”
With this challenge to the many persons who believe that “the little bugs” are one of life’s necessary evils. Dr. W. Whitney Smith, visiting lecturer in bacteriology, disclosed the purpose of his talk for Wednesday, when he will appear as the second speaker on the lecture series sponsored by the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences.
Dr. Smith will discuss. “The Microbes: We Can't Live Without Them". The lecture, which is open to the public, will take place in 159 Science building at 4:30 p.m.
Outlining the points that his talk will cover. Dr. Smith explained that few bacteria are capable of causing disease. Most of them are harmless; some are indispensible to human life; and a number of them contribute richly to the necessities and luxuries of everyday life.
‘‘Less than 3 per cent of the known species of bacteria are capable of harming human beings,” he explained.
“People generally believe that microbes are harmful because of the disease produced by some bacteria.”
U. S. Coast Guard procedure and tactics will be explained in an address to be delivered tomorrow night at 7:15 p.m. in Harris haU by ;
Sr h™"*1™ th' °°*“ Librarians to Conduct
The advantages offered by en- Rush Affair Sunday trance into the Coast Guard academy will be the highlight of Lieutenant Wayne’s address. Graduates of the academy are offered a B.S. degree and the commission of ensign in the guards.
Wayne was active recentlv on the Hermes when it chased a German U-boat.
Kappa Phi Zeta, professional library sorority, will conduct a rush tea Sunday afternoon, March 2 at the Phi Mu house. 801 West 28th street.
The preference dinner for prospective members of the society will be on the following Sunday, March 8.
Research
Projects
Exhibited
WPA Experiments Open to Inspection Starting Today
Four university research and experimental projects that have the assistance of WPA laboratory assistants, clerks, and typists are open to public inspection this week.
Inspection hours are from 9 a.m. to 2 p.m. Guides will explain the projects to visitors.
The projects are in the fields of psychology, history, governmental administration, and bibliography. PSYCHOLOGY PROJECT
The psychology project is the study of heredity-environment relationships. Under the supervision of Dr. Milton Metfessel, director of psychology laboratory, isolated canaries are experimented upon to determine their relationships. Among other experiments, females are injected with male hormones, and on such stimulation, they, ordinarily songless, become singers.
In all, 200 technical problems are dealt writh, on each of which a “full paper could be written.” The project has been underway for seven years, with WPA assistance since September 1939. That agency has provided the project with 10 laboratory assistants who develop the complicated records entailed by the experiment. The tour starts in the laboratory in the basement of Old College.
HISTORY COMPILED
Ten WPA clerks and typists, under the supervision of Dr. Owen Coy, professor of history, and his secretary. Miss Dorothy Caton, are compiling records in the basement of Mudd hall for the state historical society.
This project has five bjectives: the preparation of a geographical index to Bancroft's seven-volume history of Califomia; a directory of organizations interested in state (Continued on Page Four)
Mu Phi Epsilon Presents Soloist in Benefit Concert
For the purpose of obtaining money for the Betty Perkins scholarship, Mu Phi Epsilon, national music honorary, will present one of its own members, Mrs. Mary Hobson Crow, contralto, in a concert tomorrow- evening in the Biltmore music room. Tickets are now on sale in the School of Music office for SI.
The scholarship, awarded annually to outstanding women music students, was won this year and divided between Iris Lewis and Thyra Snyder. Miss Lewis has been soloist for the past two years with the “Messiah” chorus of the university.
Accompanying Mrs. Crow in concert tomorrow will be Helen Macey, member of Mu Phi Epsilon. Many Los Angeles composers will be represented on the program which will include the “Kerry Dance” by Mol-loy, "Elsa’s Dream" from the opera “Lohengrin” by Wagner, and Chaus-son’s “Butterflies.”
Professor Sees Sweeter South' as Government Building Speeded
“Home Sweet Home” will be sweeter to the inhabitants of the deep south if plans for community welfare are continued by government, civic, and educational agencies, according to Dr. Bessie A. Mo Clenahan.
Returning from a six-months sabbatical study of trends in community life. Dr. McClenahan, professor of sociology at SC. reports that communities and agencies are “south-conscious” and are taking steps to remedy economic and social conditions.
Universities and colleges, observed the SC educator, have taken the initiative in helping to arouse civic interest and to develop new leadership among the citizenship.
“Typical cf the government's interest is the settlement providing new homes for 8000 families in the TV A project as well as the new community in Greenbelt, Md., built
for low-income groups,” explained Dr. Me Clenahan. “However, the defense program with its establishment of troop centers and new manufacturing projects add new problems to the South," she added.
Referring to the pre-emergency program. Dr. Me Clenahan pointed out that it would do much for the southerner over a long period of time.
The University of North Carolina is undertaking a regional project to study economics and social facilities by areas. Regional planning is the theme to direct agricultural problems in relation to the possibilities offered by the soil, the establishment of non-competing industries. uniting of community interests. and to increase economic opportunities.
“Mill villages are replacing squalid shacks with industry frequently
offering low-rent plans and ownership for the workers.
“There are many problems to overcome,” said the sociologist. "The agricultural worker and the sharecropper are slow to take on the modem tempo of today. They are frequently superstitious and cling to signs of the moon for crop planting. Erosion presents another problem for much of the soil is worn out. In addition to this the southerner resents being told how to plant.”
The colorful southern mansions that were typical of plantation days are frequently kept as show places to preserve the traditional romance of the old South, observed Dr. McClenahan.
In carrying on her research the professor visited Virginia, Georgia, Tennessee, mountain areas of the Blue ridge, and interviewed government officials in Washington, D.C.
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LEAVES—Velero III, SC's floating laboratory, left Saturday for a 10-day cruise off Mexican waters. Commanded by its donor, Capt. Allan Hancock, the cruiser will seek added scientific materia! for the Hancock foundation.
Economist to Address SC Graduate School
Dr. Irving Fisher, professor emeritus of Yale and visiting lecturer in economics, will be introduced to the university at a reception in honor of the Associated Graduate Students on Wednesday from 3:15 to 4:15 p.m. in the president’s suite.
Dr. Fisher will talk on ‘‘Funda-
Model Display Closes Today
The architectural exhibit of public buildings, parks, and other constructions. displayed by the Association of Collegiate Schools of Architecture in the Harris College of Architecture and Fine Arts, will end today.
Four dark figures, with heads bowed in prayer, standing on a huge Roman Catholic shrine, is the work of University of Washington students being shown at the exhibit.
An unusual design for a newspaper building was sent' in by Pennsylvania State college. A complete outside wall of the structure consists of a huge newspaper page with the print of the paper clearly shown.
Interest ln the science of archaeology is exhibited in the disploy of the University of Illinois as an ancient figure of Christ in the style of ancient artists. A model of an early Grecian house also Is depictfed.
Byzantine mosaics, drawn carefully showing each piece of the mosaic, is the offering of New York university.
The problem of automobile parking has occupied the attention of SC students with their miniature Hollywood parking lot and their model of the lot improved and enlarged.
El Rodeo Lists Picture Dates
First fraternity candid camera pictures for El Rodeo will be taken today from 12 to 3 p.m., according to Hugh Shannon, fraternity editor, Kappa Sigma, Phi Kappa Psi, and Phi Sigma Kappa have been selected for the first appointments.
El Rodeo photographers will call at the three houses at the following times: Kappa Sigma, 12-1 p.m.; Phi Kappa Psi, 1-2 p.m.; and Phi Sigma Kappa, 2-3 p.m.
mental Principles for the Establishment of Permanent Peacc.”
WELL-KNOWN AUTHOR
Considered by his contemporaries as one of the men who has earned a secure place in the history of economics, Dr. Fisher is the author of more than 25 books, most of which have been translated into French, Russian, Italian, Japanese, and Chinese. He is now at work on a book dealing with a new system of income taxation, the subject of the graduate course he is offering in University college.
Dr. Fisher lectured at the University of California in 1917, the London School of Economics and Political Science in 1921, and the Geneva School of International Studies in 1927. He was editor of the “Yale Review” from 1896 to 1910. ACTIVE PARTICIPANT
His background in economics combines experience with theory. He has been active on the board of directors- of Remington Rand incorporated and the Buffalo Electric Furnace corporation. He was president of the American Association of Labor Legislation from 1915 to 1917, and chairman of the Committee of Alcohol and National Defense in 1918.
All graduate students, SC faculty, and special guests are invited to attend the reception and to meet Dr. Fisher.
Dr. Fiewelling Speaks to Episcopal Club
“Christianity and the Individual," is the topic on which Ralph Tyler Fiewelling, director of the School of Philosophy, will address members of the Episcopal club at their regular luncheon meeting today.
Trojan Directs Press Day
Guests to Represent 125 Local Schools
When the School of Journalism sponsors its 19t,h annual newspaper day on Saturday, March 8. approximately 500 students from 125 southern Califomia high schools and junior colleges will convene chi the Trojan campus.
Program for the day will 'consist of registration from 9 to 9:30 ajn., followed by a program in Bovard auditorium, a complimentary luncheon in the Foyer of Town and Gown with the presentation of the Crom-bie Allen and two Daily Trojan awards, and afternoon conferences devoted to various phases of publication production, editing, and management.
PRESENT ALLEN AWARD
The Allen award wrill be presented to the high school paper showing the greatest improvement in its issues for 1940. Entries will consist of two or three consecutive issues during March and two or three consecutive issues during November.
One Trojan award will be made to the junior college paper showing the greatest improvement in its issues of 1940. Entries will be judged on the same points as those for the Allen awards.
‘UNIFORMITY’ ENTRIES
A second Trojan award will be presented to the high school paper which has shown greatest uniformity in excellence from 1937 to 1940. inclusive. Entries will consist of two issues for each semester for the four years, or a total of 16 issues.
Journalism instructors will submit subjects for discussion in the afternoon conferences.
Velero III Embarks on Cruise
Voyage to Carry Scientists Southward into Mexican Waters
With SC’s cardinal and gold pennant aloft, the floating laboratory, Velero III, sailed Saturday for a 10-day cruise in Mexican waters.
A group of scientists aboard will attempt to solve a quirk of nature; namely, why there should be a marine Mason and Dixon line separating certain flora and fauna in 1 the waters near South Bay, Cedros Island.
KELP DISAPPEARS
South of this line of demarkation the large kelp of the Califomia coast disappear, while to the north the Sally Lightfoot crab, prolific from Peruvian waters to South Bay, does not exist. Scientists say the answer to this distinction is important to the fish industry.
Capt. Allan Hancock, who presented the Velero III to SC over a year ago, was in command of the cruiser as she sailed from her Wilmington dock. Aboard are a group of researchers from the Allan Hancock foundation.
MEMBERS NAMED
Members of the exploration party and their respective fields include Dr. C. M. Fraser, hydroids; Dr. Thomas Clements, geology; Granville Ashcraft, ornithology; William Richardson, mammology; Wood-bridge Williams, conchology; Fred C. Ziesenhenne, echinoderma; John S. Garth, crustaceans: John Tyler, photographer; and Dr. Charles I Ward, surgeon.
Enroute the Velero III will pick up a party of scientists from tha Los Angeles County Museum of History, Science, and Art which haa been exploring San Clemente island. The group will leave the cruiser at Santa Catalina island to explore and study while the expedition ls In Mexican waters. Upon her return the Velero III will pick them up and bring them to tha mainland.
Students Turn to Textbooks When Sunshine Fails to Show
Noted Playwright Named to Faculty
The appointment of William C. De Mille, noted playwright, to the position of professor of drama, was announced last week by Dr. Rufus B. von KieinSmid.
De Mille will serve during the 1941-42 academic year, and will return to the university during the school year to take charge of the dramatic presentations.
He has been writing plays since 1900, and is widely known in Hollywood as a producer.
Someone, a renegade Bruin no doubt, once said that the school at Berkeley had better students than SC.
Far be it from the Daily Trojan to acknowledge such an unlikely state of affairs, but if—just if—such conditions ever existed, there was a reason.
It’s the weather.
For five days, all of last week, students were treated to a taste of northern California weather; they went to school in the rain.
The result? Professors suddenly-found everyone in their classes as-toundingly well prepared; library circulations were steady and strong; attendance in the Doheny reference room jumped 25 per cent, in the downstairs reading room 10 per cent; library attendants, used to quietly forgetting about possible customers on Friday afternoons, blinked their eyes and looked again, but there was no doubt about K, those really were student* studying.
There was nothing else to do.
The golden sunshine of the Golden state just wasn’t, and the native sons and daughters who had formed the habit of getting muscles and tanned epidermes in the great outdoors had to turn to text books as a last resort. Large numbers of them even came to the ilbrary and studied on Sundays, or at least so say several usually reliable witnesses.
Of course there were hundreds of red-blooded Trojans who rebelled against the seeming conspiracy between the weather man and their professors. These few hardy souls converted thc Student Union fountain into a first-floor lounge, some 5649 of them passing in and out after spending either a nickel or nothing at all.
The average amount spent by these not - entirely - representative customers was approximately 3 cents—and they didn’t leave even one umbrella for the waitress.
Dean Aiken-Smith Explains Y Work to Freshman Club
Meeting for the first time this semester, the Freshman club will hear Dean Pearle Aiken-Smith, adviser of the YWCA. speak on the activities of the Y on campus, today at 12 M., 206 Administration building.
At the same hour in the student | lounge, Mrs. John F. Kessel, wrife of Dr. Kessel, professor of bacteriology, will address the members of the Sophomore-Junior club of the Y. She will tell about the work done by non-professional people for the Children’s hospital.
The Sophomore-Junior club plans to help by folding bandages for the hospital at the regular meetings of the organization.
Baxter to Read Masefield Poems
The “Franciscan Poet,” John Masefield, will furnish the subject of Dr. Frank C. Baxter's readings today at 12 M. in Bovard auditorium.
Masefield is sometimes described by the above title because of his manifestations of pity and brother-liness for men. One writer says of him:
“There is something in the man*
! ner of St. Francis even in Mr. Masefield’s attitudes toward his little brothers, the swear-words. He | may not love them by nature, but he is kind to them by grace. They strike him as being the most innocent words in literature.”
Campbell Club Hears Dr. Kleihauer Today
•Dr. Cleveland Kleihauer will be the guest speaker at the luncheon meeting of the Campbell club at the University Methodist church today.
His subject will be “Can Christianity Meet Our Needs as Citizens?” The question is the second in a series of student religious forums.