Bruin editors muff big story
by Mary Ann Callan cely denouncing the fact that SC has the first Orel American Red Cross unit on the Pacific coast, the nia Bruin, with a scorching frontpage spread Monday, and falsely attempted to expose the completely au-announcement of the unit appearing in the Trojan,
efense of SC’s official Red Cross unit, Dwight E. Twist, ,r of the Red Cross college unit program, stated yes-from Red Cross headquarters that SC has an officially ed Red Cross unit under the new program and is the the Pacific coast to be so organized, further stated that UCLA has an auxiliary and does ve an official college unit, thus disproving the claim e crosstown rival had a unit organized in August, s printed in the Uclan journal, difference between an auxiliary and a unit is in or-
ganization. Troy’s unit has its own budget, officers, board of directors, and policies, while an auxiliary works under the direction of the local downtown chapter.
Helen Taylor, chairman of SC’s organization, submitted a petition to the Red Cross chapter Aug. 3, and the executive committee at the downtown chapter announced yesterday the official signing of the Trojan petition. UCLA thus far has not submitted a petition to the executive committee for a unit, although UCLA administrators received notice of the new college program at the same time as President Rufus B. von KleinSmid.
In addition to being the first officially organized unit on the Pacific coast, SC shares with the University of Arizona the distinction of being the only universities having units in the entire western division. Arizona university acquired its unit in February, 1943.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
XXXV
Night phone: ri. 5472 Los Angeles, Wednesday, Aug. 18, 1943
No. 20
Hies await aly go sign
NDON, Aug. 17—(U.P.)—With all Sicily in Allied hands haotic conditions in northern Italian cities approach-en revolution, informed military observers tonight ex-the Allies to strike for a quick knockout of Italy, was assumed that the actual go-ahead signal would be by Allied leaders meeting in
but Italy presumably will n no breathing spell, known that while the Si-campaign was under way, Dwight D. Eisenhower was 'tive in turning Sicily into a supply base for operations ,t the continent proper.
Allies now have the first poits -of Syracuse* Catania, o, and Trapani and the .ty of Sicily’s 20 or more ;lds already usable, or vir-so. It may be assumed that are far more troops in Si-jhan were needed for con-of the island.
concentrated Allied air of-against the great cities of n Italy and the switching air attacks from Sicily to alian mainland during the ree days are regarded by bservers as an indication the of Italy already is actually way.
rvers generally doubted that ain thrust would be across rait of Messina since poor nications and mountainous would make an advance up of the boot a slow, laborious ion.
. Webster its post
fessor of physical education since 1928. Dr. Lloyd E. Web-yesterday presented his for-resignation to President Ru-von KleinSmid in order to over new duties as director Jth activities for Los Angeles
ty.
Webster, who was director of en's gymnasium in addition to teaching activities was for years instructor of a fresh -hygiene course. Records show than 9000 Trojans enrolled in course during the 15 year per-
gineers meet plan dance
icers and the cabinet of the lege of Engineering will meet Dean Robert E. Vivian's office I p.m. Friday to make prepara-s for the forthcoming College Engineering All-U dance. The Mnet consists of the presidents the ASME. AIChE, AIMME, and ASCE.
Masters' band heads all-U rally program
Frankie Masters’ orchestra will be the feature attraction of the all-U noon ^ally in Bovard auditorium Friday.
This meeting will mark the initial api>earance of Bob Thompson as yell king and his two aids, Day Carman and Daryll Arnold.
“Promoting the sale of war bonds and stamps is the primary objective of this rally,” stated Carroll Brinkerhoff, chairman of the stamp sales on campus. “That’s why a war stamp will be the price of admission.”
Rally chairman Bob Fisk in cooperation with Bill Caldwell, president of ASSC, and the Music Corporation of America are planning the program “and are making it more than worth the war stamp admission price,” said Miss Brinkerhoff. “What’s more,” she added, “how often do you get to see a show and keep the price of admission too?”
Frankie Masters who opened an engagement recently at the Bilt-mcre bowl will entertain students with his music while the new yell leaders are to get in practice for fall football games by leading SC songs and yells.
UCLA bulletin uses microscope on wrong paper
by Ed Diener
The UCLA board of the California Bruin wartime bulletin, formed for the purpose of examining SC’s Trojan, met in special session last weekend.
Lacking a School of Journalism, the Westwood scribes anxiously scan every issue of the Trojan. This way they pick up ideas and pointers. If news is light out there, which it usually is, the Bruin cubs hash up false articles against the Trojan. An example of this practiee is described in another story and editorial in today’s Trojan.	^
Sending the editorial staff eight copies of this issue of discussion, instead of the usual single copy exchange, only served
to stress the falseness of the story to the editors and the childish motive “for starting something.”
Besides its erroneous falsehoods in fact, the story reeked of inaccurate journalistic technicalities. Any average journalist could tell that the Trojan uses 9-point type for leads, not 10-pcint as quoted in the Bruin student newspaper editorial column written by the “managing” editor.
The most amazing statement brought out by this high-school -ish type of journalism was, “We would also like to caution the cross-town journalists, for their own sakes and for sake of the fair name of journalism, that they gather the facts before coming to conclusions—or we shall have to catch them up.”
How embarrassing this must be to the California Bruin editors to find their own statements fired at the Trojan, plopped back in their own laps.
There is an old UCLA saying that suits the occasion.
Tough one to lose.
Yanks destroy
120 Jap planes
in New Guinea
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Australia, Wednesday, Aug. 18—(U.E)— Opening the campaign for air supremacy in central New Guinea, Allied airmen have destroyed 120 Japanese aircraft, damaged 50 more, and killed 1500 enemy airmen and ground crewmen at We-wak in the biggest raid of the war
in the southwest Pacific, it was officially revealed today.
The entire operation was accomplished with the loss of only three ^llied planes, proof of the complete disorganization which the raiders inflicted upon the Japanese.
Catching the Japanese by surprise and with their planes lined up wing-tip to wing-tip on the ground just as American planes were caught when the Japanese assaulted Pearl Harbor, Lieut. Gen. George C. Kenney’s southwest Pacific airmen dropped more than 10,000 bombs on the four main airdromes around Wewak Monday night and Tuesday morning.
The planes apparently were lined up “in preparation for a decisive air stroke,” said the communique. When Allied flyers were done with them, the raging fires from aircraft and fuel dumps could be seen 130 miles away.
Fala precedes high officials
QUEBEC, Aug. 17—(IT.E) — Fala. President Roosevelt’s scottie, took precedence today over Prime Ministers W. L. McKenzie King and Winston Churchill when the presidential party reache-d the Citadel.
Mr. Roosevelt and the Earl of Athlone, Canadian governor-general, rode in the first car. In the i second was a secret service agent j and Fala.
I In car number three were Messrs. ‘ Churchill and King.
Diving show
tops swim party Friday
Sammy Lee, the nation’s ace diver who is now enrolled in Troy’s medical school, will display the form that brought him the national championship in the springboard sport at a special diving exhibition at the seventh all-U dig in the gymnasium Friday evening.
Harley believes U.S. to lead postwar peace
In addition to the diving show, Trojan servicemen and civilians attending the dig will be offered such varied entertainment as volleyball, ping pong, badminton, swimming, and dancing.
Students wishing to use the campus plunge at Fridaf’s recreational should bring their own swim suits and obtain health cards at the health office in the Physical Education building before Friday.
Prospective badminton players are asked to bring shuttlecocks with them because of the wartime
ASSC Vice-president Leta Galentine requests the following members of the social committee to meet with her at 12:45 p.m. today in 233 Student Union: Betty Markowitz, Betty Jany, Jean Working, Dottie Smith, Margaret Ann Hausmann, Pat Parke, Stewart Skeele, Bill Caldwell, Don Ferguson, Bob Stevens, June Armitage, Cal Straub, Bob Gray, and Dave Lavelle.
shortage of birds. Racquets will be furnished by the physical education department.
-Cokes are to be sold in the gym patio.
Sally Unmack, general chairman of the event, is working with Peggy Gardiner, who heads the refreshment committee; Mollie McClellan, the invitation committee, and Stuart Skeele, indoor sports committee.
Music groups resume work
Since the climax of the first five-week summer session, the orchestra and band have returned to their former schedule of one weekly meeting for each group. The orchestra will meet on Monday from 3 to 5 p.m., and the band on Wednesday from 7 to 9 p.m., announced Dr. Lucien Cailliet, director of the band and orchestra.
Dr. Cailliet further stated that any man or woman capable of.. playing an orchestral or band In-.. strument is eligible for both group*, either on credit or as auditors.
Dr. Cailliet wants all those who are willing to join the band to report today and the next Wednesday at 7 p.m. in the band rehearsal room, Cinema and Music building, 35th street and Hoover boulevard, as definite formations and maneuvers must be previously devised and it will be impossible to admit late-comers.
“Such interest and generous cooperation by the administration in these difficult times should prompt our fellow students to participate. It is not unreasonable to expect an institution of a size such as ours to have a band of at least 100 players,” Dr. Cailliet concluded.
The interpretation of the book, “Agenda for a Postwar World,” by Dr. John Condlippe, was discussed yesterday afternoon by Dr. J. Eugene Harley, SC professor of political science.
Dr. Harley’s discussion emphasized that when the victory of the Allies occurs, there must be a continuation and strengthening of the democratic governments. As Dr. Condlippe pointed out, the United States is now the most powerful single nation in the world and the most influential in world affairs. Because of this, the people of th# United States must gage their own power. Condlippe suggested that President Roosevelt learn how to cooperate with other nations to maintain a world peace.
The. book gives definite ideas on national changes, such as cutting down trade barriers, relating our currency to that of other nations, and forming definite for* eign trade contracts.
“We won’t find world trade and economic salvation in regionalism, but in international cooperation,’* Dr. Harley stated.
If there isn’t a worldwide universal political unit which will guarantee security for a number of years, there is the chance of another world war in 1960 or 1965, Dr. Harley believes.
“Economic conditions may b* one of the reasons for war,” Harley said. With this fact in mind one most think of stopping aggression by better trade conditions and also living condition!.. People in the mandated areas most be taken over by doe cooperation of a worldwide political unit to better the lives and economic status of these backwards peoples, Condlippe maintains.
Weatherhead defends Rome raids
eta Pi
• will meet in 103 Engin-ring building today at 12:45. embers of other all-engineering onorary fraternities are invited.
Taking an optimistic view of the possible damaging of Italian architectural structures, Dr. Arthur C. Weatherhead, dean of the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, said yesterday that in most cases, art‘monuments situated near Italian military installations have been so mutilated in past decades that present bojnbings, while regrettable, cannot do much further damage to them.
“With the exception of the Pantheon,” said Dr. Weatherhead, “masterpieces of classic Rome, until modern times, have been repeatedly subjected to mutilation not only during wars but through their use as convenient quarries for building materials or as mere objects of wanton defacement/ “There is little more damage that our bombers can do,” he said, “unless they use the precious remains of these old monuments as deliberate targets, of which practice Americans are not guilty.”
Dean Weatherhead, who has been in Italy four times and who is an expert in the field of architecture, revealed that even the early churches of Rome have been so remodeled since the Renaissance that little of their original architectural quality as a whole remains.
Speaking about San Lorenzo, the Italian church near a
strategic railway station, whose damaging was recently decried by fascist leaders, Dr. Weatherhead said, “Much of the church has already been demolished and it has been con-, nected with another church which is neither in line with it nor on the same level. The present day edifice is in a hopeless architectural state, and certainly no slight record of the war which our flyers may inadvertently leave can much further spoil the architectural details that still exist in the interior.
“It is well understood,” said Dean Weatherhead, “that the group at St. Peter’s must not be injured. Aside from its religious importance, the Basilica is one of the largest, most resplendent and beautiful buildings in the world. Situated at one side and yet clearly dominating the city, it would seem that it could easily be spared.”
The Italian structures have an historical as well as an artistic significance, according to Dr. Weatherhead.
“Each bears a very eloquent record not only of the time which produced it but of the train of events that followed down through the centuries,” he said. “Perhaps to the future scholar a trace here and there of the present day upheaval would only add to their romance and glory.”
Troy begins recitals
In its first recital of the Summer term, the School of Music will present a concert today at 4 p.m. in Bowne hall. The recital is under the direction of Max van Lewen Swarthout, director of the school.
The program is to be as follows:
“I Love Thee,” Grieg, and “Chanson de Florian,” Godard, sung by Bonnie Jean Babcock and accompanied by Virginia Westover; a piano selection, Dohnanyi’s Capric-cio in F Minor, by Antoinette Carlson; Schumann’s “The Almond Tree,” and “In the Forest,” sung by Jean Gage and accompanied by Doris Martin.
“Now Sleeps the Crimson Petal,’* Quilter, and “A Fairy Story by the Fire” sung by William Wright and accompanied by Frances Wishard; and “The White Peacock,” Griffes, a piano selection by Marion Jersild.
Silence chapel holds meditations
The Little Chapel of Silence, donated to SC by Mrs. Walter Harrison Fisher, will be open from 12:30 to 1:30 p.m. each Tuesday and Thursday throughout the coming term.
Conducted meditations are offered from 1 to 1:15 p.m. on each of these days. Tomorrow’s services will be conducted by Barbara and Ken Morse.