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Los Angeles, Calif., Feb. 11, 1943
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WMC pushes
8-hour week
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10. — (U.P.) — The war manpower jmmission, entrusted with the task of applying President osevelt’s minimum 48-hour work week policy, tonight urged [ns throughout the country to go on the longer week “if by ^ig so they can reduce their labor requirements and not
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pse students who write short poems, essays, plays, or compositions and who are Jough to ask for construc-:ism, the Apolliad program opportunity to expose jktive works to the eyes of cperts.
This year the deadline for the 19th annual Apolliad is Feb. 26. The faculty committee in charge of Judging the entries have announced that a large number of contributions have been received. The entries selected by the committee will be presented in a program to be given in April.
The program is not a contest but tryout for students with literary id musical ambitions. Works sub-litted are eligible to compete in ly contest after the Apolliad. Entries should be turned in to the 100I of Speech office, 126 Old 5lleg*.
ire fighters o meet tonight
First programmed meeting of the smester for students who have igned up to receive training as fire atchers will take place tonight at p.m. in 124 Old College.
Reed Sprinkel. head of the group, [mphasizes ,the importance of both len and women fire watchers who re fraternity, sorority, and dormi->ry residents to attend this meet-
has been applied to 32 labor shortage areas where, according to the WMC, it will be “mandatory for all types of industry and business to place all full-time employees on a 48-hour week by March 31.
High officials doubted the government would have to exercise compulsion to obtain adherence to the 48-hour week in the 32 areas, but made it plain that “the government can get tough if it needs to and is forced to in order to get maximum war production.”
Firms in those areas holding contracts with the government will have to abide by the presidential order as a condition of the contract. As for non-war industries in those areas, officials said defiant employers could be made to toe the mark in “dozens” of ways. They said, for example, that such employers could be brought into line by:
Denying them rationed goods, by refusing them priority materials, by having the U. S. employ ment service refuse to refer work ers to such employers, by moral suasion and — as a last resort— through selective service which could rule that such an employer is engaged in a non-essential industry and that his men are not necessary to the war effort.
Hopes raised for bookless SC students
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Don’t lose hope, kids. You will still be able to buy that book you need this semester in econ or poly sci or sell that old book back in order to pay your landlady.
Because of limited personnel during the past week the bookstore in the Union has not been able to buy back used books. But now that the rush is subsiding, Dan McNamera, manager, reports that beginning today volume two in an elementary economics course will be purchased from students. On Monday all used books relating to courses that are being continued will be bought.
not entitled to another semester
WASHINGTON, Feb. 10.—(U.P.)—A war department spokesman disclosed tonight a new official interpretation of the plan—announced Jan. 29—for calling to active duty enlisted army reservists now attending colleges and universities.
Under the original interpretation, all enlisted reservists not in certain special categories were to be called “at the end of the current semester, or substantially corresponding aca---■ demic
Postwar planner
Public affairs group sponsors war conclave
What is the college student doing about the war?
In an attempt to clarify what there is to be done and how best the student can do it, an all-student session, sponsor^ by the Public Affairs committee, will be held at 2:15 p.m. today at the Y house.
Shirley Inlow, who heads the Public Affairs group, will lead the discussion and present plans formulated by local universities for coordinated student war activities Committee members have contacted student leaders at UCLA, Occidental, City college, Pomona, and Pepperdine to discover how their war boards have functioned and how they have overcome problems that have arisen.
With this information as a basis for discussion the group will attempt to define the non-essential activity at SC and what method of coordinating war activities could The problem of how Americans best be employed on this campus, of Japanese descent may be re- At the conclusion of the discus-fitted into American life after the Sion, a written resolution will be war will be discussed at the Friday drawn up by the students on the evening meeting of Alpha Kappa course of action to be taken by SC Delta, sociology honorary, next students on cutting out non-essen-
week.	tial activities and coordinating stu
The discussion is one in a series dent war activities
entitled “Sociology Looks at Minori- The meeting open to bath men ty Groups,” headed by Dr. Bessie and women 6tudents.
A. McClenahan, professor of sociology at Troy.
Harley advocates League of Nations
by Daniel Ruby
Woodrow Wilson is coming back. The world cannot disregard 20 years of League of Nations experience and the benefits derived therefrom.
Dr. J. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, lecturing in the first of the philosophy forum series on “The Political Framework of Postwar Re- |-
construction,” holds the opinion
McClenahan talks on Jap problem
that re-establishment of a League of Nations following the present conflict will go far in creating a permanent international peace.
The chief difference between the new league and the old one, will *be the entrance of the United States into the newly formed international body. Dr. Harley feels, as did Woodrow Wilson, that the United States made a vital error in not Joining the league after World War I. Entrance into an international coalition is not enough.
This time the world has indicated that it needs an international police organization to enforce the rulings laid by the league. Dr. Harley believes that to tread softly
is commendable, and to carry a big stick is necessary. Paradoxically, members of a democracy believe that people are inherently good, at least 90 per cent are, and though we are willing to place our votes for good, evil must still be accounted for.
Stressing the need for a more enlightened ideology, Dr. Harley said, “We must get away from the idea of climbing to a better life over the dead bodies of our present civilization.**
Good arising from evil, has been the prevalent philosophy in the past. To alleviate world argument, the repression of individuals and nations must give way to mutual helpfulness. The means by which we can obtain mutual understandings among nations is a league, formed for this purpose. Other alternatives for the world are a world federation or a world commonwealth of nations.
period.” At a conference here, “current semester” was defined as the period in session on Jan. 27, regardless whether it was the first or second term.
Editor’s note: The United Press reported, however, tha* the war department’s interpretation did not necessarily mean that various area comnands (SC is in the ninth service command) will make the same interpretation.
DR. I. EUGENE HARLEY ■ . Wilson is coming back.
Students find essay contest study relief
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teds near Kharkov
Soviet forces stormed to within 22 miles of Kharkov Wednesday and rerman authorities admitted that great Ukrainian city was reatened.
The Russians, closing an arc of gteel around the city, captured the towns of Chuguev, 22 miles southeast of Kharkov, and Volchansk, 37 miles northeast of it. The Germans [said Soviet pressure was increasing In accordance with an “obvious plan to encircle the town from north and south."
U. S. airmen raid Japs
The navy department announced lerican airmen had made new ids on Japanese po-fltions. Kolom-lgara island and Munda were fed and a barge was sunk only lea from Guadalcanal, lerican troops on Guadalcanal tinued to advance without oppo-drawing the aoose tighter bund what few stragglers still fht be left of the defeated Jana-[ese force on the island. Tokyo itinued to broadcast fantastic claims about damage inflicted on American forces ln the Solomons.
Joan Miles calls workshop players
Eighth army moving
Allied planes stepped up their
:;:;CkT the^umsian theater »«<» students Interested in acting, directing, or writing plays t e eighth arm;, apparently wm haye the opportunity to become members of Drama
again on the move the final battle	Workshop by attending its first meeting of the semester at
to drive the axis from Africa ap-	3^5 pm today in Touchstone theater, peared about to start. President Joan Miles announced yesterday that member
Alexander, in Cairo, said thc time	ship in the group will be closed
casting for the
is imminent when the warfare in Africa will be one big battle.
He said the afrika korps prob ably will attempt to make a stand at the Mareth line until it. is threatened with being cut ofl from the rear or having its flank turned. He added that “the Mareth line can be turned.”
RAF bombs railroads
The RAF and luftwaffe traded light blows. The RAF bombed railroads at Caen, France, and damaged a trawler off the Dutol coast, losing three fighter planer The Germans caused heavy casualties in attacks on the home counties area around London and southern towns. Three German planes were shot down.
The old grind of term paper writing may take on a new slant this year as Trojans in many SC classes are given an opportunity to vary the routine by preparing an essay on “Colleges in Wartime instead of the usual semester treatises.
Essays on this wartime subject will be submitted for competition in the spring Phi Beta Kappa essay contest. All undergraduate students enrolled in the university through March 1 are eligible, and the deadline for contributions Is April 5.
The role that American colleges must play in war years is the general theme of the essays. The completed work must be between 2000 and 3000 words in length.
Entries must be typewritten and should be original in content. They should be submitted under a nom de plume and accompanied by a sealed envelope containing ,the writer’s true name.
The adjutant general’s office now has advised the several service commands that this interpretation is revoked and that henceforth “current semester” means the “first academic period that terminates after Dec. 31, 1942.” Thus an ordinary reserve student whose first or fall semester was in progress on that date would be subject to call at ttffe semester end, usually some time in mid-winter. A similar student attending a school operating on the quarter system would be entitled to begin and conclude a second quarter, starting probably the first of the year and ending about Easter. BUT NO ORDINARY RESERVISTS AT SCHOOL UNDER THE SEMESTER SYSTEM WOULD BE ENTITLED TO BEGIN A NEW SEMESTER AFTER DEC. 31, 1942. Ordinary reservists ordered to duty will be given basic training and then will be eligible for selection as trainees under the war department’s new specialized training program. None will be directed to report for service until two weeks after the quarter or semester ending after Dec. 31, 1942.
These rules apply for reservists in certain special categories:
At the end of the first full academic term in 194?—meaning th® Easter recess for students on a quarter system and the summer recess for those on the semester plan—active duty will begin for medical, dental and veterinary students; pre-medical students; junior and senior (non-ROTC) engineering students; sophomore engineering students and sophomores at recognized military colleges.
Medical, dental and veterinary students will be assigned after call to further medical courses under war department contracts with medical schools.
Pre-medical students after call will undergo basic training and (Continued on Page Four)
Newman club
. . . members will hear an address by the Rev. Father T. J. McCarthy, editor of the Catholic publication. Tidings, in the Student Union lounge Friday at 7:30 p.m.
“immediately so first spring play can be started.” During the meeting plans for the production^ of two dramas each month will be formulated. The opening presentation will be a serious three-act drama. The name will be decided at the meeting.
“Returns from all our activities this semester will be donated to organizations aiding the war effort,” said Miss Miles. “We have no other reason for existing during these times.”
Last fall the student group raised $1400 from ticket sales to George Washington Slept Here,” the Kaufman and Hart comedy which was presented in Bovard auditorium. Tne money was invested in defense bonds.
Library displays navy news map
Education the easy way—by pictures—is one of the methods currently being used by the army and navy to inform the public of latest war developments. On display this week in the foyer of Doheny library is one of the navy visual education news maps.
Birdie-gazing Trojans meet today, please
The maps, published as a part of current navy-army orientation courses, is a complete and colorful map of the world showing the week’s changes on the various battle fronts.
On the reverse side of the map are numerous small illustrations of
service insignia and concise drawings of the different types of tanks and other battle weapons used by both the united nations, ^nd tjip axis forces.
The display in Doheny library was presented by Lt. (j.g.) J. A. McDevitt of the naval flight prep school at Troy.
El Rodeo requests the following students to appear at the El Rodeo office, 202 Student Union, at 3:30 p.m. today:
Phyllis Hansen, Rosemarie Tru-cano, Rosemary Roche, Leo Riggs, Jack Kirby, Dorothy Derby, Barbara Douglas, Marjorie Anderson, Elizabeth Wells, Shirley Millikan, Constance Kivari, and Tom Shanley.
Members of all honorary professional groups-must make appointments for El Rodeo pictures by Feb. 15. Appointments for social fraternities are now closed.
Additional students asked to report today at the El Rodeo office are Bill Mayo, Helen Sims, Mickey McCardle* Boh Campbell, Frank . Snyder,. Bill Giner, Dick Darby, Nancie Sheldon, Hank McLean, Marie Allison, Don Hardy, and George Callanan.