Songfest to present radio star
As an added attraction to the 15th annual inter-sorority »ongfest and Friday night recreational, there will be a CBS artist to lend the community singing of Christmas carols afterward. Fourteen campus sororities, singing one assigned fraternity song and one of their own songs, will vie for first, second, and third place trophies.
Songfest chairman Jane Shockley, Tri-Delt, will be mistress of ceremonies and will introduce the
Songfest chairman Jane Shockley requests that the following women meet with her Thursday at 3:30 p.m. In the Student Union lounge: Kay Henderson, Beverly Bernard, Virginia Stranlund, Pat Hell, Betty Gregg, Betty Slater, Marion Angarloa, Pat Newton, Hilda Orr, Betty Shakley, Margaret Stringfield, Priscilla Brooks, Betty Woldstad, and representatives from university residence halls.
houses in order ef their appearance. }Each sorority will be allowed nine jsingers and one accompanist. Due lo wartime curtailment of fratern-lity activity on campus, no flowers jrill be sent by fraternities to the .ouse singing their song.
Black date dresses will be worn by ushers and by women singing tn the songfest. Rotating gold trophies will be presented the winning houses. Before the metal shortage, permanent cups were given the victorious houses.
There will be three judges, whose iames will be unrevealed until the final selections are made. Those Judges were chosen on the basis of
(1)	a conisseur of music, (2) a music lover, and (3) a person who knows nothing about music. Printed programs will be distributed amongthe audience.
Songfest committee chairman is Elizabeth Vranken, judges; Margaret Cowin, contacts; Betty Markowitz, invitations; Lois Stephenson, publicity; Jackie Boice, flowers; Jane Earl, posters; Virginia Stranlund, ushers; Coletta Blake, seating; and Virginia Steitz. trophies.
W dignitary o speak here
National program chairman for e YWCA, Mrs. Edmonia Grant, ill be special guest of the SC fVWCA branch tomorrow noon ■hen she speaks to Y members nd cabinet and council women at Y house on the race prob-ems confronting America as a result of the war.
One of the outstanding women the Negro race. Mrs. Grant re-ntly received her doctor’s degree Jrom the University of Columbia in lew York and is an authority on woman’s role in both the war world and the postwar period. She has been engaged in active work on race problems throughout the United States.
A tea will be held for Mrs. Grant morrow afternoon at the Y house which faculty members and Y members have been invited. Jackie Orlander, president, and Mrs. Ruth
H.	Grant, executive secretary, will be hostesses for the tea, assisted by YWCA cabinet and council members.
All Y women are invited to attend both the tea and the luncheon tomorrow noon, and 15 minute Interviews with Mrs. Grant will be offered to women interested.
President's office notice
CHRISTMAS RECESS Christmas recess begins 12 m. Saturday, Dec. 18 and ends 8 a.m. Monday, Dec. 27.
All classes will meet from Dec. if to 31 inclusive.
Saturday, Jan. 1, 1944 will be ft holiday.
R. B. von KleinSmid.
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
TROJAN
Vol. XXXV
Nieht phone: ri. 6472 Los Angeles, Wednesday, December 8, 1943
No. 59
El Rodeo seeks subscriptions
Nuisance raids will find SC control unit alert
Profs replenish pocketbooks with f ilm roles
Movi, calls, at times the replenishes of students’ deflated pocketbooks, are frequented by professors too. At present four faculty members op the School of Music are participating in films.
Madame Alice Ehlers, soloist for the Christmas Oratorio, ?s appearing in “The Bridge of San Luis Rey” as a harpsichord soloist. John Crown may be seen as a concert pianist in the picture, “Above Suspicion.”
Composing scores for films are Pr. Lucien Cailliet and Dr. Ernst Toch. The score by Dr. Cailliet is to be used in a government film for servicemen.
Troy to give oratorio
Approximately 160 men and women will take part in the third annual performance of Bach’s Christmas Oratorio to be presented in Bovard auditorium by the School of Music Sunday at 4 p.m.
Ihe men’s and women’s glee clubL and the Hollywood Prrby-terian church choir will accompany soloists Maiy Lou Perry and Lucille Peterson, sopranos, William Wright, tenor, Caryl Porter, contralto, and Michiel Marsman, bass.
Madame Ehlers, harpsichord soloist, will be accompanied by the University Brass Quartet. Dr. Max T. Krone, associate director of the School of Music, will direct the entire oratorio.
Of special interest to music lovers will be several oboe d amour solos played by Loyd Rathburn, SC oboe instructor. The oboe d’amour is ordinary oboe and offers a sweeter, lower tone. Bach originally wrote the Oratorio for this instrument, but due to the difficulty in 'btaining them the solos are rarely heard as the composer intended.
Athena to meet at YWCA today
Athena, national literary honorary, will hold its first meeting of the year this afternoon at 2 o’clock at the YWCA.
The following women are asked to attend: Yvonne Borton, Betty Coman, Pat Conrad, Margaret Cowin, Ruth Crippen, Vemice Haden, Josephine Lorgian, Helen Mashler, Lynn Norby, Shirley Inlow, Lynn Walker, Jeanette Marquis, Jane Ellen Bernes. Dorothy Carver, Prances Ensign, and Dorothy Moore.
If any of these women are unable to attend they should contact Pat Conrad in the Wampus office. 202 Student union, before 2 p.m.	*
Y women meet national member
Miss Jessamine Fenner, member of the national YWCA personnel bureau in New York, will hold interviews with YWCA members on the SC campus tomorrow afternoon at the Y house beginning at 4.
Miss Fenner will interview women in Y work sis a career and women interested in USO woifc.
Mrs. Ruth H. Grant, executive secretary of the YWCA, will arrange appointments with Miss Fenner today and tomorrow.
300 more boosters
needed by Friday
If 2000 student subscriptions to the memorial edition of the El Rodeo are not in by this Friday, SC faces the possiblity of having the annual curtailed for 1944, announced Tyler MacDonald, business manager. “We have over 1700 copies
promised to sororities, women’s dormitories, and trainees,” said
MacDonald, “and the remaining 300
editions must be purchased by non-org people by Friday.”
Those people who have not already made arrangements for their yearbook should subscribe at the Victory Hut or the YWCA. These
300 unpromised El Rodeos are for purchases by faculty and various
small clubs and other campus organizations.
Lamar Stewart, editor of the El Rodeo, stated that the aim of the annual, probably the last for the duration, will be to tell the story of SC’s first year at war. “It will be a memorial edition for students and parents, a pictorial record of one of the most important years in the school’s history,” said Stewart.
Every trainee on campus will have an individual portrait in the annual, and every student who is a member of an official organization will also be shown. All social and professional fraternities will be represented, and all women in the dormitories will have pictures.
An outstanding feature of the El Rodeo, according to the business manager, will be the tremendous number of informal “on campus” shots, showing wartime college life. Over 75 pages of these pictures have been promised. These will include all the highlights of the school year as well as students shown informally in campus activities.
Other features will be outstanding personalities of the different classes, the student senate, war board, debate team, college presidents, YWCA, WAA, and active
LAMAR STEWART . . . yearbook chief.
groups on campus.
More than 40 pages will be devoted to sport-pictures, showing SC’s Rose Bowl football team in action as well as basketball, baseball and other sports. “The students have asked for these candid shots,” said Stewart, “and there will be plenty of them.”
Students may still obtain theft* Ei Rodeos by subscribing at Victory Hut, the YWCA, the ticket booth in the student union, or through their campus organiza tions. Amazons and Knights as well as other groups have helped the drive and Stewart expresses his appreciation for their service.”
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Dr. Chen to review China democracy
Kuomintang, China’s national political party, is similar to American political parties, states Creighton Lacy in his recent book, “Is China a Democracy?” which Theqdore Hsi-en Chen, professor of education and Asiatic studies, will discuss today at 2:30 in the art and lecture room of Doheny library.
Lacy, a member of the third generation of an American missionary family in China, is a recognized authority in international relations,
especially in connection with China, according to J. Randolph Sasnett, executive secretary of the religious council. Lacy grew up in Shanghai and was educated at Swarthmore.
The review this week is the third in a series of interpretations which will be held every Wednesday until Jan. 26.
Discussions scheduled include selected Christmas verses to be given by Dr. Frank Baxter, professor of English; Roi Ottley’s “New World A’Comin’,” and Edwin Embree’s ‘‘Brown Americans,” Dr. Arlien Johnson, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work; “Moral Values in the Current Novel,” Dr. Lionel Stevenson, associate professor of English; Sho-lem Asch’s “The Apostle,” Dr. Willis W. Fisher, professor of biblical literature.
Helmus Kuhn’s “Freedom Forgotten and Remembered,” Dr. Herbert Searles, associate professor of philosophy; and Nels F. S. Ferre’s “Return to Christianity,” and George Walker Bucknew’s “Concerns of a World Church,” Dr. Walter Muel-der, professor of Christian theology and ethics.
Sociologists meet Santa at party
Dr. George B. Mangold, professor of sociology and social work, and his “Merry Christmas Makers” will be hosts at the Alpha Kappa Delta Christmas party, Friday, 7:30 p.m.,'in the All Nation’s Foundation, 824 East Sixth street. Alpha Kappa Delta is a sociology honorary.
Santa Claus will make a preholiday appearance and assist the Merry Makers in entertaining the guests, according to M. J. Vincent,
president. In return, each guest is instructed to bring a gift for St. Nick.
Mass recited
Holy Mass will be celebrated today at 12:05 p.m. by Father John Connolly, chaplain of the Newman club, in Bowne hall, commemorating the feast of the Immaculate Conception.
Had the 10-second blast of the city’s air raid sirens yesterday morning at 11:25 commemorating Pearl Harbor, been a legitimate warning, Trojan students would have had the opportunity of seeing the university control center go into action.
The control center, a functional part of the school’s wartime program, is an alert and progressive o-r ganization designed to protect injured people in this vicinity, and to protect people and buildings on the campus.
Heading the organization is Dean Francis Bacon, counselor of men, who is officer in charge of the emergency program and chief of the auxiliary police.
The university casualty station, 110 Physical Education building, is first aid headquarters for students and people of this area.
Staffed by Prof. Howard de Forest and his assistants, the casualty station is immediately manned for duty at any time during the 24 hours when an alert has been received.
. ’’Students should familarize themselves with the campus buildings,” stated Dean Bacon, “because as long-as there is danger of nuisance air raids, we should not be lulled into false security. The rules governing the procedure of students and professors in a raid have not been changed.”
Ally push gains land in Italy
ALLIED HEADQUARTERS, Algiers, Dec. 7 (UP) — Allied troops have captured all but one peak in the jagged chain of German mountain defenses protecting the Roman valleys, it was reported tonight as the Nazi counter-attacked fiercely but with scant success through the fifth day of a noquarter battle.
Late dispatches said that Lt. Gen. Mark W. Clark’s Americans, spearheading the Fifth army’s offensive, had captured another eminence on Mt. Maggiore, giving the Allies control of five of the six principal heights in the Maggiore-Ca-mino mountain pass. British troops had been forced off “Monasterly Hill’ by German counter attacks against the Allied western flank, but this was not a dominant position.
The Americans were only seven miles from Cassino, road control point at the lower end of the Roman valley, and another American force striking across the eastern rim of the valley from Venafro drove within eight miles of the town, threatening it with a pincer.
On the Adriatic front, where Gen. Sir B. L. Montgomery’s Eighth army was threatening to outflank the Germans’ entire line in Italy, British tanks smashed across the Moro river and drove into the outskirts of Ortono.
SC speeds new bond drive
Plans are being made on campus this week, for the fourth war bond drive, according to Carroll Brinkerhoff, bond and stamp, chairman. Employing a system of pcrson-to-person contact, it is hoped .that sales may be boo6*ed during the drive, she said.
With the theme “Bomb with a Bond,” Zeta Tau Alpha opened tneir week at the Victory Hut Monday. Present sales are approximately $1300, according to Eve Murrin, who is in charge of the Hut this week.
In order to make a success of the new war bond drive on campus, forty women are needed to carry out the program, it was announced by Miss Brinkerhoff. Interested women are asked to sign up at the War Board office sometime this week. Activity points will be given.
A temporary committee for the month of the war bond drive will be set up, and under its direction, faculty members, non-org students, and people working on campus will be contacted in an attempt to get them to buy their war bonds and stamps through the Hut.
Phi Mus will have charge of the Victory Hut Dec. 13 and 14, and the dormitories are scheduled to take it for the rest of the week.
SC debate squad to judge event
SC’s debate/stfttsLd (ms~beSn cKosl en to judge the eighth annual high school debating tournament Saturday, from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. The Invitational Forensic event will havt many representatives from local >iigh ‘schools.
The question to be considered in the seven round debate is: “Resolved, .that the United States should take the lead in reconstituting the League of Nations.”
Debaters Judging the contest will be Norman Marti, Bryan Steven*, Mildred Carmen, S. M. Hufstedler, Halie May Shearer, Robert Meyer, and Robert Peck.
Panhellenic group postpones meet
The Panhellenic meeting scheduled for today has been postponed until Tuesday, according to Jean Working, president of the association. *
.“It will be an important meeting,” announced Miss Working. “Dean Moreland will be there, and we want everyone to attend.”
Education Dean notice
n .—$60,000
$11,377 this term.
Students who are pursuing course work toward a California teaching credential or a graduate degree In the School of Education are urged to complete the professional aptitude test.
The test Is a prerequisite to the following:
(1)	Enrollment In directed-
te aching.
(2)	Petitions to be excused from directed teaching.
(3)	Enrollment in a masters’s thesis seminar (education 261a).
(4)	Application for admission to the doctoral program in the School Education.
The test will be administered In the afternoon and in the morning. Attendance on both days is required. A fee of $3 has been designed for the test, and is payable at the comptroller's office, and the receipts should be presented for admission to the test.
TIME AND PLACE
1:30 p.m., Dec. 10, 206 Administration.
8:30 a.m., Dec. 11, 206 Administration.
L. B. Rogers, Dean School of Education.