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SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
VoL XXXIV NAS—Z-4S
Newspaper day ttracts 300
oung writers
More than 300 high school nd junior college journalists ill assemble this afternoon t 2 p.m. for a series of panel iscussions on their problems f editing, makeup, writing, d managing.
With the assistance of pro-ssors in the SC School of urnalism and editors of uni-rsity student publications the wspaper day delegates will com-re methods of publishing school pers.
High school editors and staffs ill meet in 303 Law building for general discussion. Marc N. cdnow, lecturer in the School Journalism, will serve as chair -n. He will be assisted by Bob ndson, editor of the Daily ojan.
itors and staffs from junior eges will also convene in 303 Law lding where Dr. Ivan Benson,
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Contest tabulations
1943 Crombie Allen Award Competition
HIG CHOOLS	A
Whi. x Cardinal & White...... 4
Alhambra Moor ................................ 2
Fairfax Colonial Gazelle ........ 2
00—Conferences and discussions. High school editors and staffs, 303 Law building.
Junior College editors and staffs, 303 Law building.
High school and junior college business managers and staffs, 206 Administration building.
High school and junior college nnual editors and business magers, 353 Administration building.
ing director of the School of rnalism. will preside at the con nee. Stanley Hanson, assistant r of the Daily Trojan, will as him in leading the discussion.
usiness managers and staffs of h schools and junior colleges 1 report to 206 Administration lding. Chairman of this panel 1 be Kenneth K. Stonier, direc-of university publications. He 1 be assisted by Bill Caldwell, iness manager of the Daily jan.
igh school and junior college ual editors and business manag-will convene in 353 Administra-building where Ben H. Cook uctor in the School of Joumal-will preside. John Lowe, ed-of El Rodeo, will assist at the ting. Ben Norton, business nager of the Trojan annual, will attend.
hree-term
C schedule stituted
three-semester schedule, des-led to accelerate and coordinate her education with *war de-nds, began Feb. 1 at SC and planted the usual two-semester demic year.
e semester which began Feb known as the spring term, will May 22. This will be followed a summer .term from May 24 Sept. 4, and a fall term from t. 6 to Dec. 24.
For women and men not in listed reserve programs, regis-tkm in the summer term is _t compulsory, but men enlisted military programs must con-ue through the summer months, his new program will afford h school graduates a chance to rn a college diploma before be-called into active service.
DR. R. B. VON KLEINSMID , , . SC president welcomes delegates at luncheon.
Speakers give 'inside stuff
Three outstanding speakers in different fields of journalism addressed high school and junior college delegates attending the 21st annual Newspaper day.
Mrs. Louise Denny, well-known in southland newspaper circles as the editor of Modern Woman and other trade publications, spoke at the morning session on “Women in Journalistic Fields.” She is a former instructor in journalism at SC,, where she is remembered for her dynamic personality and cheerfulness.
Bringing a first-hand account of the Hawaiian war zone, Kyle Palmer, special writer of the Los Angeles Times, spoke at the assembly on “War News via Pearl Harbor.’*
Palmer returned from Hawaii one month ago after visiting the islands as a Times war correspondent. For 23 years he has written political news for the paper and was at one time its Washington correspondent. Following the luncheon in Town and Gown foyer, the visiting journalists heard Gene Graffis, former Berlin manager of Newspaper Enterprise association and Acme pictures, describe his experiences on “Gathering News under the Nazis.”
He was in Paris in 1940 when the city fell to the Germans. Riding to Berlin with the brother of the Gestapo’s Heinrich Himmler, he held his post in the nazi capital Until Hitler had him interned. Graffis was released after five months in confinement with other Berlin press association men, returning to the United States on the neutral Swedish liner, Drottning-holm.
Burbank Hi-Life ............................ 2
Riverside Poly Spollighl ....... 0
San Diego Cardinal ..................... 1
Redondo Hi Tide ............................. 0
L.A. Blue & While (Daily)......... 0
La Jolla Hi Tide................................ 1
L.A. Metropolitan Mirror......... 0
*A
Citrus Citric Acid ........................ 2
LACC Collegian ............................ 0
Long Beach Viking .................... 0
EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS:
(Points used in judging: A, Typography; B, Balance; C, Readability; D. Art and Attractiveness; E, Press Work; F, Editorial Page; G, Sports; H, Features; J, Variety of Interest and Enterprise; K, Newspaper Style).
High School Competition for Uniform Excellence
Daily Trojan Award
HIGH SCHOOLS	a
Riverside Poly Spotlight...........................................30
L.A. Metropolitan Mirror...........................28
Venice Oarsman ..............................................................25
Alhambra Moor...................................................................25
Fairfax Colonial Gazette................................................25
B	c	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	Tot.
3	3	3	2	2	2	1	1	2	23
0	2	1	2	1	1	1	1	1	12
1	1	2	1	0	2	0	1	1	11
1	1	1	0	1	1	0	1	1	9
0	1	1	-1	2	0	2	-1	1	7
0	1	1	1	0	0	1	1	0	5
0	0	0	1	0	1'	1	1	0	5
0	0	1	-1	0	0	1	1	0	2
0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	1	1
0	0	0	1	-2	0	0	0	0	0
0	0	■1	0	0	0-	2	-1	0	-5
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r Daily Trojan Award									
B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I	K	Tot.
0	1	2	0	1	1	0	0	1	8
0	0-	•1	0-	-1	0;	1	0	0	-3
0	0	0	0-	2	■1 ■	2	0	0	-5
B.
28
30
25
20
20
C
30
28
25
25
25
Total
88
86
75
70
70
news
EXPLANATION OF SYMBOLS:
A—33 1-3%—Newspaper style, general editorial excellence; writing and presentation.
® 33 1-3*%, — Typography, balance, press work, mechanical excellence.
C—33 1-3% —Local appeal, originality, interest, variety, enterprise.
Daily Trojan editor wins Eaker award
Bob Brandson, Daily Trojan editor, received the Ruth Ap-person Eaker award today for his editorial “Transition to Hatred,” which appeared in the Oct. 12 issue of the Daily Trojan.
The winning editorial was written when Lt. Liudmila Pavlichenko, famed Russian worn-
Plaques to
Citrus papers
For general excellence and for improvement over previous years, the Whittier High School Cardinal and White, the Citrus Junior College Citric Acid, and the Riverside High School Poly Spotlight today received the three awards presented at the annual Newspaper day luncheon, the Crombie Allen award and two Daily Trojan plaques.
The Cardinal and White was selected as the winner of the Allen award for the high school newspa. ?r showing the greatest improvement in its issues of January 1943 over those of January 1942. Percy M. Whiteside, editor of the Tulare Daily Times and president of the California Newspaper Publishers association, presented the plaque to Ward Ingersoll, editor of the Whittier paper, at the luncheon held in the Foyer of Town and Gown.
The Alhambra Moor placed second and the Fairfax Colonial Gazette third in this content.
Established by Crombie Allen, former publisher of the Ontario Daily Report, the annual award is made to stimulate improvement in the standards of high school journalism.
The Daily Trojan av;ard for the most improved junior college newspaper went to the Citrid Acid, student publication of Citrus Junior college, Azusa. Bob Brandson, Daily Trojan editor, presented the plaque to Fred Brownell and Becky Ewart, co-editors of the winning paper. In this competition the LACC Collegian ‘received second honors and ,the Long Beach Viking third.
Topping the field as the high school newspaper showing the greatest uniformity in excellence for the four-year period from 1939 to 1942 inclusive, the Riverside Poly Spotlight, edited by Jack McCarthy, was also presented with a Daily Trojan plaque by Brandson. Second and third place winners in this contest were the L.A. Metropolitan Mirror and the Venice Oarsman.
El Rodeo, Wampus
offer big chance'
SC students have the opportunity to write for the magazine and literary field by contributing articles to Wampus, campus humor magazine, and to El Rodeo, Trojan yearbook.
Light satire, wit, and humor are the types of features, short stories, and columns on student life appearing in Wampus. The magazine is published once a month and is widely read by students.
Articles of literary value. are written fo? El Rodeo, which will be distributed in the early part of September. This year’s annual will have several thousand photographs reviewing life at the university during the present school year.
Both publications are sponsored by .the associated student body.
an-sniper, appeared at an assembly.
Brandson’s purpose in the editorial was to illustrate the effects which contact with the tragic inhumanities of war have upon the most civilized persons’ thinking processes. Lieutenant Pavlicheriko, a mild-mannered student before the war, was turned into a bloodthirsty killer after her husband was shot down by her side and her baby starved to death.
The Eaker award is sponsored by Maj.-Gen. Ira C. Eaker and goes annually to the student in the editorial writing class writing the best editorial appearing in
the Daily Trojan during the fall semester.
Brandson is a junior in the School of Journalism, and was one of the winners of the 1940 journalism scholarship contest. He is one of the first juniors to hold the position of Daily Trojan editor.
Students edit city dailies
Senior and junior students in the School of Journalism all agree that it’s a lot of hard work but that it is just as much fun to go on the yearly spring field trips.
Crews made up entirely of students visit several outstanding southern California daily newspapers where they write and edit a complete edition.
Aside from the practical experience they gain by working on the Daily Trojan, these field trips are very important and a great part of the newspaper training received by students in the School of Journalism.
Alumni offer scholarships in journalism
Southern California’s annual journalism scholarship contest will continue this year despite the war. For the 14th consecutive year one high school boy and one high school girl in southern California will win scholarships that will entitle them to attend SC as majors in journalism.
The general rules this year are the same as before. Each high school in southern California may enter one boy or one girl—the outstanding journalism student in either the February or June graduating classes.
Three "musts” determine ihe eligibility for each candidate-high scholarship rating all through high school, contribution of valuable services to his high school paper or annual, and a professional journalist’s career as his or her goal.
After this, all that remains for the chosen candidate i& to fill out a questionnaire, which his journalism teacher will receive next week. Together with this he will submit to the School of Journalism at least .three letters of recommendation from teachers and citizens of his community, a scrapbook with clippings of work done on his high school paper, and a 500-word statement of why he desires the scholarship.
Sometime next month he will appear *for a personal interview before the judges of the contest.
Tbe two winners will be announced late in April or early in May.
Here are the reasons
Why we went tabloid
Women (ill gaps in Trojan s staff
“Girl, girl,” is the call now that resounds in the humming Trojan office as the boss seeks someone to do some leg work cn a piece of co'py. Yes, the women have taken over a large part of what was once a dominant male domain.
Whoever said they were the weaker sex didn’t know anything about the 10-hour grind that three or more women go through every afternoon and night to put out the paper. They stick arourd the night shop until the chase is pulled off the bank and a mat is rolled.
(The following .is a reprint of a story appearing in the first Daily Trojan tabloid of Feb. 4, 1943—Ed.)
Good things come in small packages.
You are reading the new Daily Trojan—astep with the war times and having an eye to the future. Students and faculty members geared to a victory schedule will find this Daily Trojan in line with their changing patems of life—succinct, clear, complete, and interesting.
In its tabloid form and typographical improvements the Daily . Trojan is in awareness of progressive journalism being evidenced throughout the country. The changes you see were not haphazard innovations, but rather the result of considered thought by the staff. Perhaps you like it or perhaps you don’t, but here’s why
the Daily Trojan is a tabloid:
1.	The new size is a conscious attempt to meet the needs of our readers for a paper which can be read in one hand while carrying books in the other. It is not a standard tabloid ^size, which is only 5 columns, but rather is 6 columns wide in order to give a better presentation of the news. It is small and compact, not unwieldy and billowing like the former size.
2.	This tabloid is typographical cleaner, which means easier and faster reading. It has been proven that the use of small letters in place of capitals in headlines is more restful to the eye and increases the rapidity of reading. Through the reduction in the number of lines in the headline appearing over each story, the reader can more rapidly grasp the nature of the article.
3. The Daily Trojan has not cut
its news coverage by adopting a smaller size. By using shorter, snappier stories we are able to offer our readers complete departments in society, sports, and features. Our United Press teletype machines will continue to give the latest in world affairs. When there is a glut of news we won’t leave It out for want of space; we’ll grow to 8 pages then.
4. We know that the average newspaper reader doesn’t spend more than 15 minutes on a paper a day; that is why the Daily Trojan will give the highlights of the news at a glance. On this page you will find a news summary of activity on all global war-fronts. To the reader who wants just the gist of the news, we have the summary; but for others who seek details we have fuller stories.
Yes, the Daily Trojan is smaller in size, but it’s larger in scope.