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VoL XXIV
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 7, 1933
No. 8^
ushing Rules Are Listed by Panhel Council
resfcmen Are Cautioned To Obey Regulations Now in Effect
ff-Campus Dates Should Be Avoided by Coeds, Says President
'hmg rules for all women on mpus, including the new f-n, are now in effect, ac-to Evelyn Wells, presi-;f Panhellenic, and must be under severe penalty.
rder that the specific regu-and by-law* of the local tll^nic chapter may be un-i, the following rules are by the constitution.
Io woman shall be asked to a faternity until she has .ersd on campus.
■Jo freshman shall be pledg-Inless she is taking at least inits of work, six of which b* in the college of L.A.S.
No Graduate Pledgee
No special students may be id. Girls must be in course nj. for a degree. No girl ' i '*xperimental group may be ! id to a sorority or live in a I city house while a member j xis classification. No experi- ] tl student, special, or proba-jy students are eligible for ji! rushing.
No graduate students may be
?ed.
Ax v girl pledged to a frater-who leaven before she Is ited shall be considered re-d from her pledge at the ex-ior of one year’s absence college; in case she returns is eligible to the bid of any nouee.
Affect* All Women
7.	Al girls in the university are boind by the rushing rules and must abide by the rules; no ,bid* mty be sent out until regular bid ling day.
8.	All alumnae, relatives, and friends must be held to the same rushing rules as the active chapter.
Date Card* for Rushes*
9.	All experimental students, special students, and non-organization students must be held to the same rushing rules as the active chapter. Penalty: The girl will forfeit her privilege of pledging Tor one calendar year. ‘This rule is particularly important,” says Evelyn Wells, president of Panhellenic, * and includes those women who have not yet pledged a house, *>ut hare shown a preference.” Mis* Wells further states that
, freshnun women will be on the 6afe side only if they meet upperclassmen on the campus. Off campus dates should not be made with tlose who have been on the o&mpu* before.
Date cards will be sent to the (Continued on page four)
Sorority Photo Section Closes Today
Today is the deadline for all sorority photos for El Rodeo, according to Walt Robert*, ed-itor-in-chief. Sorority panels are being made up and will appear in the year book in the order of the promptness which the sororities have shown in having pictures taken.
Feb. 14 ha* been set as the deadline for all fraternities. Appointments for these pictures must be made before the end of this week.
Benefit Show Is Backed by Organizations
Preparatory Committees Appointed To Assist Gala Attraction
Musical Organizations of S. C. Will Add to Entertainment
Group To Enter Play in Contest
Drama Shop WiU Submit “A Night in an Inn” In Competition
In an attempt to repeat its success of last year. Touchstone Drama shop. Trojan little theater organization, will enter “A Night at an. Inn" in the oounty drama tournament sponsored by the L. A. County Drama league, to be held later in the spring.
Presenting the one-act version of “The Last Mile” at the contest held at L. A. J. C. last May, Drama shop won three of the five prizes ofTered: second prize for the production, best individual performance (Howard Miller), and best male performance (Howard Miller). There were no women ln the oast.
Meeting Thi* Afternoon Detail* of the participation in the tournament will be among the item* to be discussed at today’s meeting of Drama shop, scheduled for 3:15 in Touchstone theater.
According to Vice-President Louise Johnson, the group’s social program will be taken, up at length, and matters pertinent to the coming Drama shop production* will come up for action. The next show scheduled is "The Alchemist,” English classic.
Swarthout Director "A Night at an Inn,” like “The Last Mile,” has an all-male cast. Written by Lord Dunsany ln 1916> it achieved immediate popularity and i* a long-standing favorite among producers of one-act drama. Its plot deals with. the adventures of four British seamen who steal the jeweled eye of an Indian idol, and their flight from the vengeful priests, who finally catch up with them in a lonely Yorkshire inn.
Directed by Jack Swarthout, the play was produced on the campus last month as part of the January showing of one-acts by Drama Shop. The role of “the j Toff” was taken by Norman Wright, with George Ordansky, ! Swarthout, and Willard Jacobson, | as the Bailors. Erlln Bartlett as the idol, and Wallace Fraser, Leo Mattis, and Will Brannan aa the priests.
Backed by Panhellenic* Blue Key, Interfraternity council, A.W. S., and other campus organizations, ‘‘Trojan Night” at Graumans Chinese theater Monday evening, Feb. 13, will fisnme a decidedly all-university thaiacter. One half of the net p’.ofits of the tickets sold wi*l go to the benefit fund.
Of the s<.?oritie* on the campus, Pi Beta Phi and Iota Sigma Theta have announced that they will be present at the benefit .as groups.
Committee* Appointed Committee have been appointed by Virginia Smith and Bob Lovs, co-chairmen for entertainment and pieparations for the affair. Thelma Petersen has charge of the poster committee, and tickets are under tho chairmanship of Jane Reynolds, assistant director. Those assisting Miss Reynolds are Nan-nette Rittler, Phyllis Norton, Katb-aryn Weiss, and Joy Camp. Bill Ba>ier ib to take care of the publicity.
Chairman of the committee which is to canvass the sororities, is Mabel Hachten, while that for tie fraternities is Bob Love, co-chairman with Virginia Smith.
Athletes to Appear Added to the current picture, “Cavalcade,” and its prologue, will be a rrogram given by Harold William Roberts and his musical organizations department. Prominent athletes and student officials of the campus, together with 13 coeds who will act as usherettes, will be presented from the 3tage.
Letters are being sent to the board of trustees, churches of the community, faculty members, and friends of the university.
Bids have been placed in fraternity and sorority houses. Tickets are also on sale in the bookstore and by student representa-t;ves with prices at 85 cents, $1.10, and $1.60. Students are urged by the chairman of the ticket committee to buy their bids before Thursday since the remainder will be sent back to Grauman’s Wednesday evening.
Chinese Remove Treasures From Peiping
PEIPING, China, Feb. 6.—(U.E> —Rich treasures once the priceless possessions of rulers on China’s dragon throne were removed from their traditional surroundings in the forbidden city today and shipped southward to safety in modern vaults at Shanghai.
The jades, porcelains, richly inlaid objects of art peculiar to China of the emperors, were tucked in 3,000 cases and placed aboard a “treasure train” for their destination in the commercial “capital” of Republican China at Shanghai, on the broad Yangtze river.
The pieces, including also museum treasures, were valued at upwards of 120,000,000.
Faculty Will Hear Technocrat Speak
An explanation of the much discussed “Technocracy” will be given today at a meeting of the Luncheon club being held in the Womer’s Residence hall at 12:20 p.m. today. The guest speaker will bf an authority on the subject, Dr. Graham Laing.
Dr. '^aing, who is professor of econonics at the California Institute of Technology, has just published a book on the subject, entitled ‘Toward Technocracy.”
All tr n faculty members as well a.- Faculty club members are invited to attend the meeting which s being held today instead of on he usual day. Reservations for the luncheon may be made by calling station 388.
Cal Tech Professor To Speak About Oil
Sigma Gamma Epsilon, honorary geology and petroleum engi-I nee ring fraternity, will meet tonight at 7 o’clock in room 422 of the Student Union.
The highlight of the evening will be a talk by Stanley Herold, noted Los Angeles consulting petroleum engineer. He has chosen as his subject the discussion of a paper on “The Physic* of Oil in Reservoirs” by Dr. Lacy of the California Institute of Technology.
Junior Troy Band To Play Over KFAC
The preparatory division of Trojan band will present a 30-minute radio broadcast from the Musical Organizations building over station KF\C tonight from 9 to 9:30 p.m.
Senior high school students and those from junior college comprise tht roster of this division of the Trojan band. This new class, organized In December and under the direction of John T. Boudreau, has held rehearsals wTeekly.
Opening the program with a fanfare of trumpets, the division will play “Parades of Parades” by Guentxel. Following, will be a trumpet trio, “Triplets of the Finest” by Herneburg, played by Ellsworth Theno, Julius Teitelbaum, and Earl Jones.
A marimba duet will be rendered by Dick Winslow and John Heinz. Th's is to be a medley of popular airs.
Mary Elizabeth Waldorf, soprano soloist, will sing a selection from “New Moon” by Romberg and the program will be concluded by the band playing the Trojan marching song, ‘‘Fight On.”
Traffic Fratemity Will Meet at Noon To Hear Speaker
Milton Mauzy, representative of the Mullin-Mauzy Traffic service, will acdress the Sigma Beta Chi professional traffic fraternity at their meeting to be held this noon iu the Student Union.
Tours through Mexico will be the subject discussed by speakers Sherwood Levitt and Milton Mau-xv. Mr. Mauzy -will also speak on tra -el service throughout the world.
Noted Printer Will Deliver First Talk of Series Today
Frank Morley Fletcher, a noted authority on printing, will speak this afternoon on “The Family of the Printing Craft,” the first of a series of four free lectures entitled “Arts Related to Printing.” The talks will be given in the lecture hall of the College of Architecture at 2 o’clock, according to Dean A. C. WTeatherhead.
Invited to Santa Barbara by the Community Arts association in 1923. Mr. Fletcher was director of the Santa Barbara School of Arts and a member of the cen-i tral committee of selection for scholarships and fellowship* of Carnegie corporation of New York.
Having exhibited paintingB and prints in Paris salon. Royal acad-
emy, London, Berlin, Dresden, Milan, and New York, Mr. Fletcher was awarded a medal in the Chicago exposition in 1893, and in Milan in 1906.
The author of “W'ood block Printing,” Mr. Fletcher has made his home in Santa Barbara and is in Los Angeles for the express purpose of acquainting students and the general public with the allied arts of printing.
The lectures in their order will be: Feb. 7, “The Family of the Printing Craft”; Feb. 14—“The Japanese Craft of Woodcut Printing”; Feb. 21—-“The Written and Printed Letter”; Feb. 28—“Color Deaim ia Printed Decoration.'
M.G.M. Offers Debate Awards
Silver Plaques Will Be Presented to Competing Squads by Huston
That Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studios will present two large silver trophies to Stanford university and I Southern California at next Thursday night’s debate through Walter I Huston, master of ceremonies, was the announcement made last night by Worth Bernard, varsity debate manager.
The large silver plaques have been furnished by the sudios and Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg, who are shortly to produce a picture on soviet Russia, “in recognition of the definite and valuable service rendered the public through the frank, impartial, and open discussion” of the con-troversiable subject “Resolved, that Communism in Russia is a failure,” said Bernard.
S.C. on Affirmative
Walter Huston, who was in a debate with Aimee McPherson-Hutton on prohibition, is scheduled to present the trophies to the universities. Eaieh institution will keep its trophy as a permanent reminder of the event.
Ames Crawford and Robert North are representing Southern California in the debate Thursday night. They will declare and prove Communism to be a failure in Russia, says Crawford.
Student Books Valid
Besides explaining the reason for the award and the occasion on which it was presented, the plaques of each university will have engraved on it the names of the debaters as a permanent record for the debate squads.
Bernard announced again yesterday that while the public will be charged 36 cents admission to the debate, students on the campus and alumni of the university will be admitted on their student books or alumni membership cards.
The doors will open at 7 p.m. and the debate is scheduled to start at 8. Hal McCormac, president of the College of Music student body, will be at the console of the Bovard organ before and after the debate.
Efficiency Expert Will Address Newly Formed Lunch Club
Meeting for the first time, the new informal discussion group, the government round table, will have luncheon today at noon in room 322 Student Union. As guest speaker, H. F. Scoville, director of the bureau of efficiency of the county of Los Angeles, will talk of “The Romance of Governmental Planning.”
This new group has been formed to give it* members a more intimate contact with those who run the government and afford them an opportunity to discuss problems with them.
Regular meetings will be held evey Tuesday noon. Some public official of southern California will give a short talk about his work at each of the luncheons
Assembly
Dr. Bruce R. Baxter will officiate at his first assembly of the new semester, to be held this morning at 9:55 in Bovard auditorium. His subject has been announced as “Thomas Carlyle.” Willard G. Smith will offer two selections on the organ: “Offer-toire de St. Cecile,” by Batiste; and Diggle’s “Grand Choeur Dialogue ”
G.O.P. Starts Work on Party Reconstruction
Presidential Timber Being Sought by Both Sides In Reorganization “Appeal to the Younger Voter-’ Is Object of Curtis’ League
WASHINGTON, Feb. 6.—<U.E)— A struggle between the Hoover and anti-Hoover factions for control of the Republican party was developing tonight as leaders began to repair the machine so badly shattered by the November defeat.
The first open political activity since that party disaster is the formation of the national Republican league headed by Vice-President Charleg Curtis, though Curtis denied today that the unit,
| which aims ostensibly at the young voter, is an “anti-Hoover” j organization, observers here saw it as a likely vehicle for those who are looking for someone other than the present president to lead the party in 1936.
Not Anti-Hoover
“This is a regular Republican organization,” Curtis told the United Press today. “It is not an anti-Hoover organization. Its aim is to build up the party by an appeal to the young voters. It is an organization from which we can draw in the states for campaigns.”
President Hoover has not indicated whether in 1936 he again will seek the nomination in a “vindication” campaign. There is a precedent in the successful return of one of the Democratic party’s heroes, Grover Cleveland, who served one term, was defeated, then returned to the W’hite House. President Hoover, it is said, has the Cleveland experience in mind.
Further than personal aspirations, it is only natural that the chief executive should want to retain his hold on the party leadership. If not ambitious himself, it naturally would be his desire to have a say in the election of his party’s candidate. Some of his friends do not believe he cares to run again.
New Candidate Sought
That he intends to keep in close touch with developments is indicated in the plans of his right hand aide and faithful lieutenant of many years, Lawrence Richey, who has rented an office here.
There is a very determined “anti-Hoover” group in the party, which has increased since the election. Thus far they are not encouraged as they look about for another candidate in 1936.
Several have been suggested, including Secretary of Treasury Ogden L. Mills, former senator James W. Wadsworth of New* York, who will reenter, congress in the next house and Senator Charles L. McNary of Oregon, who will become senate party leader after March 4. McNary has a geographical disadvantage in coming from a northwest state, though available in many other respects.
Airline Manager Will Speak for Aviation Group
“Airport Management” is the topic on w'hich Fred Dinslow will address the luncheon meeting of Alpha Eta Rho, international aviation fraternity, at 12:15 today in room 422 Student Union. The address comes from personal experience since Mr. Dinslow is manager of United Airport in Burbank, Los Angeles terminal of the leading airlines of the country.
Other airport managers in this vicinity are expected to attend, Joe Rindone, president of the campus aviators, said, adding that Mrs. Margeret Cooper, one of the managers who will be present, is among the few women airport managers in the country.
The meeting is not limited to members of the fraternity, any others desiring to attend may make reservations through Earl W. Hill, faculty adviser for the fratenity or through his office in Old College.
Mrs* Skeele Returned Home Unharmed After Spending 24 Hours With Kidnapers
Iowa Farmers Plan To Strike If Not Aided
Agrarians Threaten To Stop Marketing and Live off Land
Freshmen at Lynchburg college, Virginia, have chosen as their motto, “Green things must grow.”
DES MOINES, Ia., Feb. 6.—0J.E) —Farmers threatened “riot and bloodshed,” dissolution of the Iowa legislature, and a national strike today as unrest flamed in the middle west corn belt.
Dramatic developments broke fast in the “granary” of the nation where the farm revolt was born in opposition to mortgage foreclosures and burdens of debt.
Reno, head of the organization which introduced to many sections the custom of hanging nooses from barn doors and buying up mortgage sale articles at “penny” prices, was in Minnesota. He went there to address several mass meetings and issued his dire predictions by telephone to the United Press.
"If farmers do not get the relief they must have at the next session of congress, we will call a national farmers’ strike effective immediately,” he said. “During the strike, farmers would refuse to buy or sell, but would live off the land.”
No less foreboding was the petition sent by Clinton county farmers to the Iowa legislature.
“The time has arrived,” stated the petition, “that should our holiday association start proceedings it may lead to bloodshed and revolution.
“We hereby serve notice—that unless immediate action is taken on our farm bill, we lay the blame fully on our state legislature for anything that happens a* an outgrowth of the necessary action that is taken to force same."
Einstein Plays Violin for bpa Visitors
PALM SPRINGS, Calif., Feb.
6.—(UP)—Motion picture celebrities were overlooked when Dr. Albert Einstein, noted German pnysicist, paid hi* second visit to the desert over the weekend.
Guests at the winter resorts here deserted the swimming pools and tennis courts to gather beneath the scientist s window while he played his beloved violin.
Among the motion picture pesonages at FU Mirador where Dr. Einstein was a guest, were Mr. and Mrs. Lionel Barrymore, Mr, and Mrs. John Barrymore. Ernst Lubitsch and Lothar Mendez.
Graduates To Meet at Noon
Symphonic Rhythm Orchestra To Play
Featuring soloists of the ensemble and the organ, the S.C. symphonic-rhythm orchestra under the direction and baton of John T. Boudreau, will present a 25-minute program tomorrow during assembly period. The program will be broadcast over station KFAC.
As the opening number the orchestra will play ' Men of Trov,’' a new school song written by Mr. Boudreau. Following this will be a selection by the soloists, assisted by Irene Pitt at the organ.
“Your Guess I* As Good As Mine” i3 to be the third number played by the orchestra. The closing selection will be a novelty, “Hell’s Btlls.”
Last Saturday and Sunday evening, the symphonic-rhythm group played concerts for winter vacationists at W7rightwood, and in the next two or three months, a series of radio program* and a formal concert have been planned.
At Harvard university students will have liquor with their meals for the first time in seventy-five years if the 18th amendment is repealed.
Dr. von KleinSmid Will Be Speaker at Lunch in Residence Hall
Delivering an address on the importance of graduate degrees in educational fields today, and the increasing opportunities open to students who have taken graduate work, Dr. Rufua B. von KleinSmid will welcome students of the Graduate school at the flrst luncheon of the semester at 12:15 today tn the Women's Residence halL
While a special Invitation has been extended new graduates, both faculty members and undergraduates are also invited. Miss Ruth Bohnett, secretary in the Graduate office, 160 Administrar tion building, is in charge of reservations, at 35 cents a plate.
Since Snowpine Liu, a member of the executive committee, and Lawrence Winchell, treasurer, are leaving school, the executive committee will meet for a few minutes after the luncheon to appoint new persons to these positions. Plans for an open house and tea dance will also be diseussed.
“The meetings of the graduate school have endeavored to add some Bocial life to the university routine,” states Walter Barragar, president, “and it is hoped that a large number of new graduates will participate in the organization."
Other officers of the graduate school are: Genevieve Hale, vice-president; Patsy Bynum, secretary; Lawrence Winchell, treasurer. Charlss Spaulding, Marjorie Wilson and Margaret Turner form the executive committee.
Faculty Wives’ Club To Meet Tomorrow
The regular monthly meeting of the Faculty Wives’ club will be held Feb. 8 at 2:30 p.m. in Wro-men’s Residence hall, 666 W’est 36th street. A program has been planned.
Lewis Says Anglo-American Peace Can Save Civilization
LONDON, Feb. 6.—<Ui?)—Sinclair Lewis, the w-riter, arrived here from the continent tonight proclaiming that Anglo-American friendship could save the world from a new war.
Lewis, professing a new found affection for Gr*>at Britain, declared his belief that “modern civilization it a heritage worth keeping,” and a contention that “the only countries which have i chance of retaining it are America and Great Britain.
Lewis, in an interview with the Daily Express, advocated outright cancellation of war debts as “simply a matter of good business —not sentiment.”
His friendliness toward Britain came as a surprise, for British critics have rarely been kind to him or his works. This was a result of his sarcastic jibe* at Britain's
insufficient steam heat and the Iceless cocktails, when Lewis visited the British isles 10 years ago.
The novelist declared that central Europe, where he spent the last six months, is a powder barrel.
“There’s going to be a big explosion there pretty soon,” he prophesied, “and the only practical safeguard we have is infinitely more intimate relationship between England and America.
“There is much more dynamite now than there was in 1914, before the outbreak of the W'orld war. And if you consider, as 1 do, that modern civilization is a heritage worth keeping, you may also agree that the only countries which have a chance of retaining it are America and Britain.
Ransom Plans Are Abandoned By Abductors
Wife of Music Dean Held In Apartment; Tells Of Experiences
Mrs. Mary B. Skeele, S5-y«r-I old wife of the dean of the College of Music was returned safely to her home last night, ju*t 24 hours after kidnapers had lured her into an automobile on a fake accident call.
Two of the abductors who had held her captive in a costly furnished apartment drove her home, their plans to bold her for $10,000 ransom suddenly having been abandoned.
The small, slight gray-haired woman was put to bed after briefly describing her adventure.
Left on Street Corner
“I don’t know how many there were in the party,” she said. "There were several. They were kind to me and did not mistreat me at all. They fed me broth.
“Tonight several of the kidnapers were in the room, discussing tilings. 1 couldn’t hear what was said.
“Finally one of the men got up and left Two others told me he was the leader. They said they had decided to release me. So the two drove me home and let me out on the street corner.’*
Kept Blindfolded
During her imprisonment. Mrs. Skeele was kept blindfolded. The bandage over her eyes was not removed until she was within a few blocks of her home.
The elderly victim did not know what suddenly caused the shift in the kidnapers' plans. While they were conferring late today, she said one of the mez whom she understood was th* leader, turned to her and spoke.
“You’ve been, good to us,” hi said. “I have a mother too”
No Ransom Paid
Mrs. Skeele, who is the wft* of Dr. Walter Skeele. for 35 ye»« (Continued on page four)
Revival Campaign To Be Held at S.C.
Members of the Oxford group are in Los Angeles for a two weeks’ revival campaign and will speak "Wednesday night in Bovard auditorium at 8 p.m. This will be the third in a series of four public meetings which end Thursday night and will be followed by personal work and talk* to matt groups.
The purpose of thi* group is to influence, through example and persuasion, the peoples of the world to return to the fundamentals of life and morals expressed in the life of Christ.
Diversified in their backgrounds, each one is working to promote a real stability in the lives of those with whom they come to contact. American society women, a woman from the official circles of German society, a Dutch baroness, an admiral of the British navy, a former prison warden and an ex-Communist have joined with the educators from Oxford and Edinburgh to spread the simplicity of Christianity regardlea# of creed.
Dr. Wieman To Be Guest Speaker at Argonaut Meeting
The Argonaut* chapter of the honorary philosophy fraternity Pi Epsilon Theta, will have as its guest speaker at a meeting tonight Dr. H. N, Weiman, of the divinity school of the University of Chicago. His subject will be “What Constitutes Value?”
There will be a dinner before the meeting at 6 p.m. at 35 cents per plate. The address is scheduled for 7 pjn.
Reservations may be made in the philosophy office any time before noon. Anyone interested 1* invited