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TROJAN
Volume XXXIII
Los Angeles, Cal., Friday, July 24, 1942
No. 10
own Hall Broadcast Cultural Benefits
of Language Hailed
cheduled Thursday
j. Seversky neers Air velopment
viation Genius esigns Amphibian, urbo-Supercharger
jOr Alexander P. de Seversky, will speak to members of the Hall broadcast audience lay, has been a pioneer ad-turer in aviation for the past years from the standpoint of ing, mechanics, nnd production.
Seversky amphibian, with the rld’s speed record established in t, is still the fastest amphibian the world.
ING DEVELOPED Major 6eversky was the pioneer the development of the all-met-monocoque structure of wings ere all the stresses are carried the covering of the wing. This the so-called skin stressed type, ch is now used by practically all craft throughout the world.
ajor Seversky also developed a it flap on the trailing edge of wing which decreases the land-g speed of an airplane. He was e first to adapt the principle of cing this flap between the aile-n, through the span of the wing, 'is produced the best results and aximum efficiency.
At that time it was contended t such position of the trailing p would buffet the tail’s fixed d movable surfaces and thereby ke the plane unmanageable. Ma-Seversky proved that in a prop-design and with proper relatipn-p between the wings and the if, there is no interference. Since t time, practically all airplanes the world uss the split flap in e manner which was originally signed and adapted by Major Se-sky.
ONOPLANE PIONEERED
reseeing that all tactical air-es will be monoplanes, Major versKy designed the first low-g basic training monoplane for U. S. army air corps. He con-ded that the final stage of inlng should be made in air-ft similar in characteristics to combat aircraft.
revolutionized the training thods of the army air cadets ce, after finishing at the fly-school, there was less gap to dge than when changing from biplanes to the modern tactical oplane aircraft of the active ce. Prom that time on, the 1 training of pilots was done airplanes designed similar to the e which was originally conceived d executed by Major Seversky adopted by the U. S. govern--nt as standard equipment. Lat-that thought was carried even her so that today even primary ning is done in monoplanes. Tajor Seversky also pioneered the modem pursuit. lTis was the (Continued on Page Four)
r. Irving Melbo peaks Monday o Administrators
ncluding the summer meetings the Administrators' club, Dr. Irv-R. Melbo, assistant professor In School of Education, will review act of books on the national ks for the benefit of the group the noon hour next Monday, e club has met each Monday the six-weeks session in the 1 of the student union.
: Melbo has spent 12 years in preparation of the material ch has been used in his books.
announced title of the speech “More Tales of Our National rks.”
ious talks by Dr. Melbo on the a general topic have been well ved.
dent Chester Potts has also » brief musical program Will Include two vocals by Bailiff*
entertainment is under th? at L. a. Woble.
America's Town Hall Meeting of the Air. one of the nation’s most popular radio programs, will feature discussions of air power when its broadcast emanates from Bovard auditorium next Thursday at 6 p.m. over station KECA.
Although the program is scheduled to begin at 6 p.m., guests are advised to be at their seats by 5:15 at which time Town Hall’s regular question and answer attraction will be conducted for the participation of guest stars and members of the audience.
SEVERSKY TALKS
Feature participants on the program will be Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, internationally known aviation pioneer, and Capt. Claude B. Mayo, superintendent of the California Maritime academy.
“Can Air Power Plus Nerve BL*tz Bring Victory?" will be the subject for the hour-program to be directed by George V. Denny Jr., founder and moderator of the unique broadcast which is estimated to have from eight to ten thousand listeners over the 129 stations in the blue-station network of NBC. TICKETS AVAILABLE
The program will occur next Thursday. Tickets are still available to the public, gratis, at ihe SC Book store while the supply lasts, said Dr. William G. Campbell who is in charge of the campus arrangements.
Unsponsored and unrehearsed, the “Town Meeting” program is devoted in part to audience participation with half of the hour given over to speakers. The latter will include Maj. Alexander P. de Seversky, internationally known airplane designer, author, and authority on aerial warfare; Maj. Gen. Paul B. Malone, retired commanding general of the 9th Corps Area; Capt. Claude B. Mayo, superintendent of the California Maritime academy; and William B. Ziff, publisher of “Plying and Popular Aviation” magazine and noted author.
SPEAKERS NAMED
Previous speakers on the Town “Meeting” program, which has been in effect weekly since 1935, have included Wendell L. Willkie, Donald M. Nelson, Harold L. Ickes, Dorothy Thompson, H. G. Wells, and Chinese Ambassador Dr. Hu Shih.
Lt. Dale Hilton Reported Prisoner
Previously reported missing in action but now found to be a prisoner held by the Japanese, Lt. Dale Hilton, '36, former editor of the El Rodeo, is on the island of Shikoku, Japan, according to official word from the war department received locally this week.
Former captain of the SC golf team, member of Phi Sigma Kappa fraternity. Skull and Dagger, Blue Key, Sigma Sigma., and Trojan Knights, Lt. Hilton was editor of the El Rodeo in 1934.
Previous word of the Trojan leader told of his plane being shot down in flames during combat and while floating in his rubber life-raft with his radio operator, was surprised to see another Trojan, Glen Hoffman, flying overhead who waved to the two survivors.
The latter was unable to give aid at the time and only until a short wave broadcast from Japan in May, did authorities learn that he has been picked up by the Japanese and made prisoner.
Lieutenant Hilton was married to Doris King of SC. His mother, Mrs. L. D. Hilton of 920 W. 35th place, said yesterday, “I have a lot of faith in my hunches, and I just know that before long this conflict will be over.”
Language Test Date Announced
All graduate students receiving their Ph. D. in language will have the opportunity to take their tests during the six-weeks session on Thursday. July 30. at 2 p.m. It is Important that all wishing to take the examination first receive a permit from the Graduate School office, 160 Administration building, by Monday, July 27.
Professor E. T. Mohme will conduct the German test in 106 Bridge hall; Professor Lawrence Riddle will give the French test in 206 Bridge halL
Audio-Visual Convention Begins Today
Art Exhibits, Wax Models, Techniques Shown in Hancock
The audio--visual education conference opens today in Allan Hancock auditorium, 9 a.m, with a panel discussion of the uses of audio-visual aids in America at war. Panel members are authoritative persons in the fields of defense training, industry, education, and armed forces.
Their statements will aim to challenge the modern teacher with facts established through their own several uses of educational aids. REGISTERING ASKED
Everyone atteneding the conference is urged to register before the scheduled time for the morning meeting. Registration, which Is without charge, will be at the University avenue entrance of the Foundation building.
MORNING SESSION Hancock auditorium 9-11:30 a.m.
Chairman: Dr. Paul Fisher, Los Angeles City Schools and the University of Southern California.
How Are Audial and Visual Aids Being Used—
1.	By the Armed Forces? Speaker: Authorized Representative.
2.	By the National Defense Training Classes? Speaker: Mr. Douglas Wilson, National Defense Supervisor, Los Angeies City Schools.
3.	By the War Industries? Speaker: Mr. Shirley Burden, President of Tradefilms Inc.
Implications for the Schools— Mr. Paul Devine, assistant to the superintendent, Los Angeles City Schools.
The Challenge to Educators— Mr. Brucc Findlay, director of Visual Education, Los Angeles City schools.
Discussion Period—Directed by Dr. Paul Fisher.
AFTERNOON SESSIONS Hancock hall Room 145 1-2 p.m.
General Theme: Inter-Ameri-can Relations. Demonstrations and exhibits will center about Latin-American countries. Student guides and demonstrators will be in charge.
Demonstrations using: Motion pictures, stripfilms, slides, souiid-(Continued on Page Four)
Intangible Rewards Have Been Challenged, but Remain Valuable, Writer Contend*
by Dr. Harold von Hofe
While the practical advantage gained by the study of foreign languages are paramount to some, others are more concerned with educational uses to be derived from such a study. Cultural benefits are tenuous and intangible in contrast to the concrete vocational opportunities offered to the
linguist and hence, they have been challenged.
E. H. Zeydel, editor of the Modem Language Journal, subsumed the cultural values of forejgn language study under seven headings in a publication of the National Education association in Washington, D.C. His incisive comments have found wide approval and are worth repeating. They are as follows:
VALUES ENUMERATED
1.	Foreign language study helps to make one’s view of his own language more objective, thus cultivating linguistic sensitivity and building language power, which is the most universal of all educational objectives. ,
2.	Such study affords opportunity for rethinking and clarifying one's experience in other terms.
3.	It introduces a rich laboratory of essential linguistic material into the classroom.
4.	Because of the human, intellectual, and social links binding the world together — recognized by our government as important in world understanding — and because of derivation from common sources, our English language cannot be dissociated from the other great languages of the wes.tem world. IMPORTANCE EMPHASIZED
5.	Such study is important because the average student has frequent language contacts through radio, movies, opera, foreign-born
of our adult population comprises college graduates, we may consider that group leaders in our social and intellectual life. To be effective leaders they should have as much direct foreign-language experience and firsthand knowledge of the best thought of other peoples as possible.
7. The important and useful literature of other nations has by no means been translated into English adequately, accessibly, or completely. From all three points of view translations are often so unsatisfactory that educated leaders should consult the originals.
LACK TRANSLATIONS
Much of the world’s literature has been translated into English, yet really faithful translations are scarce. This is true of scientific writing* in a score of fields, of poetry, and of expository narrative, and imaginative literature.
Important scientific contributions are usually only abstracted, that is, presented in brief tantalizing summaries. Imaginative literature sounds flat in translation, which usually produces only the bare thought.
Translation may be aptly compared with pressed flowers. Research has proved that the" quality of .the translation of m&ny important foreign works, so far as translations are available at all, is such
Raubenheimer Calls Service Assembly II for All Men Today
SC s Special Representative Returns From Meeting in San Francisco With Army's Enlistment Information
To acquaint all men students of the university with the latest information on the enlisted reserve programs of all branches of the armed services, Dr. Albert Sydney Raubenheimer, SC’s special representative for all reserve programs, will coduct an assembly today at 12:15 p.m. in Bovard auditorium. All men, whether they are already enlisted in a reserve program or not, are urged to attend.
Dean Raubenheimer, who has just returned from a conference of the joint army-navy-marine recruiting board in San Francisco, will discuss all phases of the present set-up .n
the university’s reserve enlistment program, and the latest proposed plans for reserve enlistment of men in all branches of the service.
At the San Francisco joint conference the army announced its new plan of reserve enlistment of college men—the Enlistment Reserve Corps (ERC). This new army plan will be explained in detail by Dr. Raubenheimer at today’s assembly.
BOARD TO VISIT CAMPUS
I	Beginning with the fall semester facilities for reserve en-
listment in all of the services—army, navy, amrines, coast guard, army and navy air corps will be united under a joint enlistment program. At the beginning of the fall semester a joint board of information, representing all of the services, will visit the campus. The board will present information on all of the services, hold discussions, and distribute informative literature at a single meeting.
In three weeks an enlistment board will return to the campus to enlist men in whichever of the services the men choose. It is stressed that although all the branches are represented by one joint board a student may select reserve enlistment in the service he prefers.
In the interim between the present time and the fall semester, men interested in enlistment must follow the procedure used heretofore—th£t of enlisting in the reserve service of their choice at local recruiting stations.
PROCEDURE EXPLAINED
With the inception of the army’s new Enlistment Reserve Corps, men interested in becoming reserves must first come to the office of Dean Raubenheimer and leave their names on file. Names taken by Dr. Raubenheimer will be sent at intervals to the commander of the ninth army area in Utah. The applicant will then be sent information from Utah as to the date and place where he should enlist as an army reserve.
In all branches of the service (army excepted) there will be a qualifying examination covering physics and mathematics through trigonometry toward the end of the sophomore year. Men failing this examination, men who leave the university for any reason, or those who fail to remain in good standing with the university will be called immediately into active service.
Official of OPA
Dr. W. M. Alexander Discusses Buying Today on Campus
fellow townsfolk, alien visitors and | that they cannot be relied upon. To expatriates, and similar experiences. | read in the original is to go to 6. Since only a small percentage the fountainhead.	---
Seymour Vinocur
News of the 28
PROFESSOR “R” AGAIN
Last year it was my happy privilege to be Dr. Malcolm H. Bis-sell's opponent in a public debate on the subject of “Is American Youth Becoming Soft?” Although he upheld the affirmative and I the negative we concluded in a compromise agreement.
This time no public discussion is needed for Dr. Bissel and I to agree spontaneously upon the “Strange Case of Professor “R.” Coincidentally, Dr. Bissel in the last Wednesday social studies lecture and I in my last column tacitly attacked both Dr. Renner of Columbia and Time's recent article discussing Dr. R's peace plan.
Walter Lippmann’s assinine and irrevelant comments quoted by Time about Renner's education pale
into insignificance as Dr. Bissel points out the real glaring errors of Dr. R'a post-war peace map: simply that it's not an accurate, truthful, or even carefully constructed geopolitician’s map.
Time also missed the boat completely, as I have pointed out, by presenting the positions of Dorothy Thompson and Jean Picard who dislike Renner only because he plans to destroy the sovereignty of small nations: a thing that must happen anyway in an effective new world order—Renner or no Renner. Time's statement that Renner’s map is the first concrete plan for peace is absolutely wrong, as Dr. Bissell will also testify.
In short, while Dr. Renner has erred, Don Quixote-ish Lippman.
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Writer Pictures Nashville
by Leslie Collins
“Take a London fog, 3C parts; malaria, 10 parts; gas leaks, 20 parts; dewdrops gathered in a brick yard at sunrise, 25 parts; odor of honeysuckle, 15 parts. Mix ... the mixture will give you an approximate conception of a Nashville drizzle.”
O. Henry’s recipe in the story of Nashville, Tenn., gentry does not fully cover the condition of climate. He might have added: .v. a heavy dash of blistering heat or an overly generous amount of sleet, ice, and snow.”
If O. Henry, the prose troubadour. had not confined himself to telling a tale of faith and loyalty, he might have turned to a growing Nashville about him and found there, in spite of the abominable climate, pure inspiration for stories based on truth.
What a plot he might have designed upon the incident in United States history during the Civil war when in 1864 Nashville was captured by fed-erals after the fall of Ft. Don-elson and held until the war’s end, Hood’s army of Tennes-
see being overthrown by men led by G. H. Thomas while Sherman moved to his ‘march to the sea’!
What might have been told of the Tennessee centennial and National exposition held at Nashville in 1897, of which event the chief building, the Parthenon, yet stands as a reminder of the occasion and as one of the places of beauty of the capitol city!
Certainly O. Henry’s creative genius might have responded to the rise of Nashville as the South’s educational center and to the founding of those institutions of learning to which thousands of American and foreign students have come for life-prep-aration and culture: Vanderbilt, which has enjoyed the gifts of Andrew Carnegie and the Vanderbilts; the George Peabody College for Teachers; Fisk, whose famous Fisk Jubilee Singers made the world conscious of the spiritual and the Negro’s peculiar gift of song; Agricultural and Industrial State college; and Me-harry Medical college.
The quiet glory of the Her-
mitage might have struck the genial magic of O. Henry’s keen imaginative powers, for here one discovers anew that of which Nashville is proudest: Her part in the story of the seventh president of the United States, Andrew Jackson. Here at the end of his second term, the man who was the hero of the battle of New Orleans and yet had suffered malignancy retired and later died in his 75th year. The Hermitage, now an American shrine, in its preserved state, with the furniture, furnishings, and other personal possessions of the ex-president, abounds in an atmosphere of romance.
But this was not O. Henry’s way. His inclination, with a chivalrous tenderness, was toward the unlucky. Thus, the tale of a penniless Nashville lady and her loving servant.
Nashville was in O. Henry’s eyes too fortunate. And being always so, Nashville has been immortalized by great artists, no less of whom is O. Henry in his story, ‘A Municipal Report’* i
As part of the effort by the Office of Price Administration in Washington, D.C., to encourage the development of desirable consumer and educational practices which will be effective in winning the war, Dr. William Alexander, consultant from the consumer division of the Office of Price Administration, will speak in Touchstone Theatre, 119, in Old College today at 9:15 a.m.
Dr. Alexander and his associate, Dr. Fred M. McLaughlin, professor of economics at Stephens college, are visiting colleges and universities to inform members of the faculty, student body, and community leaders about the current program of the Office of Price Administration.
LECTURE EXPLAINED
The two men are delivering the present series of lectures by arrangement with the OPA in Washington. Their headquarters until August 1 are at Stanford university in Palo Alto.
One of the major objectives of the program with which they are working Is that of acquainting teachers, administrators, and community leaders with the plans and objectives of the government’s Office of Price Administration.
DEVELOP PRACTICES
The purpose of the talks is the encouragement and development of desirable consumer and educational practices which will be effective in making conditions on the “home front” run more smoothly and will be a factor in winning the war and. finally, in the establishment of a lasting peace.
Dr. Alexander’s lecture today will be accompanied by a discussion during which questions by the audience on the OPA program will be answered.
Troy Sponsors Music Program Today Over KHJ
SC will broadcast a musical “Theme and Variations” program from the KHJ studios today at 11:30 a.m.
The featured number of the program will be Richard Hageman’s “I Hear America Calling,” arranged by Dr. Lucien Cailliet.
Presented under the auspices of the SC School of Music, the program will be as follows:
I—“Pat	a Pan”... Krones, Beatrice
and Max
“Climbin’ Up the Mountain”............
........................................... Smith
Youth Chorus,
Charles Hirt, director.
II—Latin	American Songs arranged by the Krones, Beatrice and Max
a.	“Carmencita” (Mexico)
b.	“Vidalita” (My Little Life)
c.	“Una Paloma” (My Dove)
d.	"The Darling of Cazanga” (Brazil)
SC Summer and Youth Choruses, Dr. Max Krone, director
III—“i	Hear America Calling”_______
...............Richard Hageman
Arr. by Dr. Lucien Cailliet
AGE LIMIT RAISED
It has been announced that the age limit for the naval V-l program has been extended to include men (freshmen and sophomores) over 17 and under 26. The V-7 program is open to juniors and seniors under 28.
Because of the existance of SC’s NROTC, it is necessary that for 30 days after the beginning of the semester men must first make themselves available for enlistment In the NROTC before enrolling in either the navy or army programs. The NROTC has selective priority on men during the first 30 days of the semester or until the NROTC quota is filled.
Pre-dental and pre-medical students must register In either naval V-l or the army’s Enlistment Reserve corps.
Under the various programs there is no restriction upon men in the choice of academic curriculum. Compulsory, however, is participation in SC’s physical fitness program. Also, a knowledge of physics and mathematics through trigonometry is necessary for all programs except the army’s ERC.
Baxter1 to Interpret Contemporary Poetry
Contemporary Poetry, written in recent times, will be read by Dr. Frank C. Eaxter, head of the department of English, during noon in Bowne hall, Monday, starting at 11:45 a.m. This is the concluding program of the “A Century of War Poetry,” Summer Session poetry reading series.
“Poetry of The Second World War” will be Dr. Baxter’s theme for this last program. He introduced the series on June 29 when he read the works of Walt Whitman and some of the poets of the Civil war era. On July 6 he devoted his attention to Kipling, Housman, and the imperialistic war period.
At the July 13 session he stressed the poetry of the first World war, and last Monday his topic was “Aftermath and Wasteland,” which covered the period from 1919, the end of the first World war, to 1940 and the outbreak of the
present conflict.
Dr. Baxter started his reading sessions several years ago at the requests of students who wished to hear poetry purely for pleasure. Since then he has presented a number of reading series like the present one during Summer Sessions and regular sessions.
Phi Alpha Theta to Hold Dinner
The SC chapter of Phi Alpha Theta, national honorary fraternity in history, will hold its summer dinner meeting Tuesday, July 28, at the Caliente cafe on Olvera
street at 7 p.m.
Visiting professors in the history department. Dr. Cole of Western Reserve university and Dr. Soward of the University of British Columbia, will be guests of honor and will each deliver a brief message to the group.
Miss Alice Carothers, newly elected president of the chapter, will preside. All summer school history students and friends of the history department are invited to attend.
Civil Engineers Sponsor Picnic
The American Society of Civil Engineers will Vponsor a picnic in the Big Santa Anita canyon Sunday, it was announced yesterday.
A special meeting of all civU engineering students has been called for noon today in the hydraulics laboratory, engineering building, where final arrangements for the affair are to be made.
Transportation facilities are to be made available for persons desiring a ride, directors of the organization said. On Sunday morning, students will meet in front of the engineering building at 8 before leaving for Big Santa Anita canyon