;e Decause tney been deprived of one of the coaches in the business., inspiration to his men. He ir and was always willing to |elp one of “his boys.’* He be->d example for his team; as LOked nor drank.
>re out of his men by explain-[mly than by cursing and ti-ras famous for his inspira-ilf-times of the games. His tstead of firing his athletes rords, he merely told them ft of the game, praised a few ;ed out the team’s mistakes.
out for the field he would [n, let’s play heads-up foot-game.”
Lilosophy still fresh in their Dy’s football team will take Jwith a new-found spirit and ihe first game of the season Watch the Trojans roll.”—
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“first game” day scheduled |tudents will again fill their :o participate as spectators iportant game called foot-
wili again uphold the dig-fee students, primarily be-a new life, a life free of *ah” and other childish an-romen, seeking cultural and previously have conducted re-average type of decorum •aise.
^ing the enjoyable task of md participating in songs [aged by a very few “wise” Signals of the yell leader, lis in all directions. Then Vho dotes in slamming his of the person in front of ird he can throw it in the front of the stands.
Is” are not to be included praiseworthy rooters, but at the games for the rea-detract from the morale
>C rooting section again |it the best yet, simply by rules established by both •vice organizations.
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ind freshmen and a great its began their first class-|se, college may be a hap-[occupation in a frustration, and time has proved one-third, entering col-normal occupation in a -omen.
11	these new students will (orld—favorably or other-(undation of success, and itermine the strength of )port the heavy building
rer to this question the a general studies pro-|ie new student in prop-of courses on the prin-|i adopted. These courses irease the result of his blies the techniques of-
ication must come from nspiration by witnessing s above him, perhaps he ptory.
ie price society will de-pext four years. Today ?rms of service and duty [ortunity; therefore, he student more seriously
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Some fine day when you are walking to class, not thinking about anything in particular, how would you feel if you heard a rustling in the bushes, felt the pinch of very sharp teeth upon your ankle, and looked down to behold a wildcat?
Whatever your reaction might be to such a situation is probably no different from what is actually that expressed by at least a few Berkeley students. It’s all because a certain senior there acquired a young Wildcat this summer near Yosemite National park and decided that he would be a nice mascot to take to school.
“STROLLING” WILDCAT
He “walks” the animal every afternoon, strolling down paths frequented by other Cal students. Although the creature is only 18 weeks old, its appearance is sufficient to make all members of the canine family quail before it. All to the cat’s sorrow, for it loves dogs!
Animals and such seem to be in the limelight right now, for news comes from down at the University of Texas to the effect that “the tarantula spider is harmless and is the innocent victim of superstition.” This is the c/pinion expressed by the school’s folklore and Southwestern expert who believes that this spider is valuable not only as an insect killer, but also as a barometer, "since he always comes out of his hole when it is going to rain.”
HOME GROWN CHEESE
Turning from spiders to food, we find that the University of Cali-fronia College of Agriculture has undertaken the manufacture of romano cheese, a variety that has heretofore been imported but which is now unobtainable. When it was learned that no more of this cheese could be imported from abroad, one of the instructors in the university’s dairy industry division decided that the theory of self-sufficiency was a good idea after all. Accordingly, he set about experimenting until he was.able to produce a cheese considered by experts to be of excellent quality.
Designed to be a boon to certain types of stratosphere navigation is a new instrument demonstrated recently by a University of Kansas professor. The invention is designed to aid stratosphere planes in determining their position at night almost instantaneously.' Named “storescope” after Dr. Wyman Storer, its inventor, the instrument enables observation to be made by aligning two stars in the same field of view.
HOMEWORK FOR SALE
UCLA has a unique system that inevitably comes to the aid of class cutters. Students who are excellent note-takers have an arrangement with the university bookstore whereby they turn in copies of their notes taken in various classes. These notes are mimeographed and sold in the bookstore.
Something has been going wrong of late at the University of Indiana, if we may judge from what we read. In one case, 15 cents indirectly caused a fire in the men’s residence halls. When the boys went upstairs after dinner, they discovered that one of the rooms was filled with smoke. After the blazing d r a p-e r i e s had been thoroughly soaked with a hose and wet towels, one fellow found that three nickels had been stuffed into the base of a study lamp, causing a short circuit that ignited the curtains.
Other strange happenings at Indiana came to light when one of the O. and M. boys discovered, in a huge trashbox on campus more than 30 addressed sealed, and stamped letters.
Mature Minds Prove Alert
A man of 60 may have gray hair and need false teeth and eyeglasses, but his mind is likely to be practically as keen as it was when he was 20.
This, at least, is the conclusion
of investigators who recently completed a study of the minds of adults as compared to the minds of children by taking representa-th
Ghost Writers Supply Words for Great Men
Not so many days ago the “best-seller” of the Southern California Telephone company, “Los Angeles Extended Area Telephone Directory,” went once more into the homes and offices of more than 750,000 local telephone subscribers.
Printed every nine months at a lo- “ cal printing and binding house, the directory requires two months for its electrotyping, printing and binding. The type for the book remains standing throughout the year and the corrections necessary for keeping it up to date are made daily. Every day of the calendai year a series of special telephone directories comes off the presses for the exclusive use of the Southern California Telephone company.
PROVIDES JOBS
The entire job provides employment for more than 50 extra workers, both men and women, for at least two months. More often it is longer because directories for the towns of Glendale, Canoga Park,
Montebello, Ventura, Alhambra, and Pasadena come from the same printing house. One Daily Trojan reporter, gaining experience in printing during the summer, learned the following facts about that much-used book, the telephone directory:
More than one month of the time necessary for the publication of the book goes in the process of the electrotyping of each page.
This is because of the large number of impressions made from a single form of type. The daily directory is printed directly from the linotype but on the big book more than 100,000 impressions are not feasible because of the extreme wear on the face of each slug of type.
IMPRESSION MADE
Instead, an impression of each page is made upon a “tenaplate,-' a wax-coated sheet of heavy aluminum foil; the wax is of graphite, a high-resistance conductor of electricity. This plate, mounted on a thick lead sheet, gets a dusting and washing with graphite.
After receiving a “flash coating” of copper it goes to the plating tanks where the tenaplate stays until a coating of nearly five thousandths of an inch has formed upon it. This ta&es about three hours and 700 amperes of electricity at six volts to do the job. The average home with every light and appliance turned on seldom dissipates as much power.
Pulled away from the tenaplate, this thin copper sheet is the electrotype and from it can be struck more than 750,000 impressions when properly mounted for the rotary press.
ROTARY PRESS USED
There are two presses located in the basement of the printing house that are idle most of the year except for the short period when the phone books are printed. During this time one or both of the Hoe presses remain in operation 24 hours a day barring brfeak-downs.
When the directory reaches the bindery there are 26 divisions of approximately 40 pages, each of which are stacked along a gathering machine in 75-pound bales. The gathering machine picks up the 26 sections ir their proper order and by means of endless belts and automatic binders produces 30 completed books with three rough edges in about 10 minutes. Another machine trims the edges and passes the finished product to the balers where stacks of 35 directories are compressed to facilitate shipping.
Draftee Buys Birthday Cake
PORT TOWNSEND, Wash.—(IIP) —Before Pvt. Reese Spurrier, a motion picture employee at Hollywood, was drafted into the army he never missed a birthday cake.
He kept his record intact at Fort Worden — even if it was at a drug
store, without his mother being present. Spurrier strolled into the store, sat down at the counter and unwrapped an already purchased cake and candle.
Spurrier jabbed the candle into the cake, lighted it, then passed out slices to the store force and
A good ghost gets paid well.
From Roman days through the present they earn more than many a well-known banker. They can spread caviar over their daily buttered bread, take frequent trips to Bermuda, and settle their bones down for a good night’s rest in some Fifth Avenue penthouse they rent. Their sole job is to manufacture words for some political hero or industrial potentate. To them goes the success or failure of many an American.
LATIN GHOSTS
The great Ceasar renowned in the classics for his brilliant Commentaries wrote such abominable Latin, that now critics point to ghosts C. Opius and H. Hirtus as the true authors.
Even the ringing “veni, vidi, vici” never found birth in his mouth. There was Nero whose brilliant sayings were products of Seneca’s mind. And well-meaning members of the English Bacon school say they hear plenty of bone rattling in the Immortal Bard’s closet. AMERICAN PENMEN
What about us? It’s more than rumor that Alexander Hamilton wrote in part George Washington’s great “Farewell Address;” that Mark Twain produced the autobiography of Ulysses H. Grant. Even General Pershing’s oft repeated bit, “Lafayette, we have landed,” belongs to a reporter. AI Smith has his Mrs. Moscowitz, and Franklin D. Roosevelt his great Michelson.
Fred E. Baers of New York runs a ghostwriting bureau and does a thriving business. * He has built up the largest commercial endeavor of its kind in the world.
Baer got his start in France during World War I, by writing letters home to sweethearts and mothers for the doughboys. About one-third of his ghost writers are women.
Ready for any client, he’ll provide anything from a risque speech for a bachelors’ dinner to an endless tirade of words on some political or controversial subject. A New York industrialist executive flooded his 500 associates for 30 minutes with an inflation speech retailing at $87.50 from Baer’s.
PROFIT IN REVERSE
The business works the other way, too. A Los Angeles ghost writer wrote .six out of seven speeches for one banquet. His clients were unaware that other business associates had also called on him for assistance.
He made the mistake of using a distinctive orange paper for each to the amusement of the guests, and the ruination of his enterprise resulted in his failure to be discreet.
DEMOCRATIC WlllTER
Probably the most illustrious example of ghostwriting paying a banker’s wage is with Charles Mc-chelson, body and soul of the Democratic party publicity committee. Michelson, former Washington correspondent for the New York World, left this position in the late 20’s to become part and parcel of
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Daily Trojan staff — general, 2:30 p.m., 418 Student Union; reporters. 3:30 p.m.; copyreaders, 4 pm.
Engineers—11 a.m., roof of the Engineering building.
Fraternity pledgemasters and assist-
rafting Jobs
BARBERTON, O., — (UJ>)—Twen-ty-four girls from Ohio colleges have given up feminine pursuits to take up slide rules, T-squares, and drafting pencils in the engineering department of a Barberton plant engaged in defense work.
A shortage of young men available for drafting jobs — and not the draft — led representatives oi the Babcock and Wilcox company to canvass Ohio campuses in search of feminine technical talent.
DESIRE TO HELP
The concern, which makes equipment used in the construction of warships, found a number of girls with the necessary educational requirements — and a desire to help the defense effort by working on drawing boards.
One factor in the company’s swing to women workers in the technical department was experience in the World War. during which the concern hired a number of women, some of whom still work in the engineering department. VISITED COLLEGES
Last spring representatives of the company visited a score of Ohio colleges, conferred with college officials, and came away with the names of 24 girls who seemed to have the necessary requirements. Most of them had planned other careers but all were willing to try the technical work.
To maintain a sort of off-campus sorority atmosphere, the company arranged to quarter 11 of the girls in an old mansion owned by the firm. The rest of the girls live in near-by private residences but all eat their meals and enjoy recreation at the community mansion.
WILLING TO TRY
Twenty of the girls majored in mathematics in college, one in mathematics in college, one in home economics, one in music, one in biology and one in chemistry.
“The industrial world looks mighty attractive to me after four years of contact with the educational world,” said one of the girls, an attractive blonde. “And I think there’s a future for women in industry's white collar divisions.”
The girls studied engineering drawing for six wreeks before actually beginning work. The course was conducted by company engineering experts. It included several trips through the plant to give them the necessary background.
“Really, boiler designing doesn’t seem much more intricate than dressmaking!” said one of the female draftsmen.
the Democratic party for $25,000 a year.
Ghosts invade the campus also. Off the Columbia university grounds, a San Diego State college graduate operates a shop staffed with six writing asistants and six • typists. His income from undergraduates and graduates alike amounts to over $10,000 yearly.
Since 1933 he has been writing about everything from sun spot cycles, to diets, to law, and medical subjects. He’ll even write you an extensive essay on the California redwood trees.
As the family emerges fr( ter seeing “Marie Antoinette! “Good picture, didn’t you “Yes, I thought it was g< ern wrist watch that Tyrone
The picture was probably perfect] in every other detail, but Mrs. Public picks out the one flaw and bases her opinion of the picture1 on that. Judging from the many letters received by the company who produced this picture, thousands of people judge their movies in the same manner.
CRITICAL PUBLIC
The motion picture public demands realistic and accurate films, and criticizes the least movie boner.
As a result of this criticism, the major picture studios have established research and special effects departments, both of which play a large part in the production of pictures, but receive little credit for their work.
Most of the research department’s work is on historical or costume films. All furniture, lighting fixtures, clothing and other props must fit in with the period or place represented in the picture.
Even the minutest details, such as jewelry, hairdresses and dishes, are checked to prevent a mistake.
When a prop needed for a scene is extinct or too expensive to purchase, the research department obtains or makes a set of accurate plans and the needed article is constructed according to correct design.
BOYS PREFERRED
During the filming of “Alexander Graham Bell,” for instance, the casting office received an order to cast a number of small boys in the roles of telephone operators. The casting office was certain there was some mistake. Here was their chance to cast some of their lovely stock girls as telephone operators instead of young boys.
They soon learned through the research department that no error had been made. It seems that Alexander Bell hired young boys as operators.
SPECIAL EFFECTS USED
While the research department gathers dates and plans action, the special effects department must often carry out this action. The special effects department is responsible for all the trick photography shots in motion pictures, and hever ^ knows what it will be called upon ^ to do next.
Many perplexing problems con-	s<
front this department, but a solu-	ti
tion is usually figured out. Shots	oi of men or animals crashing
through windows, were always a	gij headache for the effects department, Expert technicians worked for years, trying to make a realistic
shot, yet protecting anyone from	f0J
injury. Both problems were re-	6v|
moved when windows of hard	ch|
candy were made. The clear candy	wi
photographed as glass, yet was thin	jnj
and brittle enough to break into	ti
thousands of pieces when hit.	st
Fire scenes, always thrilling and	sol
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