SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
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Religion’s Role Today Told by Whitchurch
Vol. XXXVII
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Los Angeles Cal., Wednesday, Apr. 3,1946
Nisht Phono: RI. 5472
No. 98
Eyewitness Account of Hawaiian Tidal Wave
[Review of Our Roving Bible/ Talk on Religion in Home ighlight Days Activities in Religious Emphasis Week; Ministers to Address Fraternities, Sororities Tonight
Dr. Nelson iscusses is Book
‘The bible is the most gad-jout book since time began,” Glares Dr. Lawrence C. Nel-|n, director of the division of [nguages and graduate stud-at the University of Red-|nds, in his opening remark “Our Roving Bible,” the ^ok he will review this after-»on at 3:15 in the art and kure room of University library. Sponsored by the Student Coun-of Religion and making his re-[»• in conjunction with Religious jphasis week. Dr. Nelson will prejit a unique situation by the hewing of his own book.
|Our Roving Bible,’ presents a inating panorama of the waning of the bible and the great [uence it has had on English-iking people.
-LONG INTEREST r. Nelson, for many years an 7e figure in the literary life of west ooast, has culminated a -long interest in the book he review today. President of one er's organization, on the board of another, and past ^onal president of a third. Dr. j’b other literary efforts in-"Purple Feathers and Other “Stamp of Religion,” and ldy was a Dodo.”
ICAL BEGINNINGS * ting when the bible was in-|uoed in England by Augustine's in A. D. 597, “Our Roving 1 *,*» shows how pagan culture i permeated by the bible and j lt initiated a scintillating liter-
|e of its own. the words of the author him-his book tracks the Holy i down through the ages — km Beowulf to atom bombs, j Ii Mother Goose to Hollywood" j Rowing how the world’s best sel-has killed one alphabet and lght another, has created the las we know (English drama fnown to have had its beginning ie liturgical plays of the clergy), I fn new words and meanings, presented materials for the |s of the stories we read.
inager Hopefuls it Last Call
lay is the last day for Trojan ; I interested in becoming athletic igers to submit their applica- ; j for this position, according to Irmbruster. ASSC president, tteen openings as athletic man-; [are to be filled by those having kleted 30 units with a grade' kge of 1. Eight jobs are avail-Ifor men having a 1. grade aver- I ] and who have completed no than 45 units.
^plications are to be submit;ed office of the ASSC president, Student Union.
1:10 p.m. today in the equip- ' kt cage of the P. E. building fling quarters, Alan Ewen has [*d lor a meeting of Bill Niehort. Chad well, John K. Allen. Nor-Shultz, Chris Denis, Richard : ksley, and Bill Bums.
DR. LAWRENCE E. NELSON . . . bible expert
SC Professors Study Housing
eteran's lotice
Students, initials M to Z. at-|dta|; SC on Public Law 16 and lie Law 346, and who have not 4*«d subsistence payments due t 1946, are requested to ap-■4 the office of veterans af-today between 8:30 a.m. and p.m.
student will be asked t* lit the following:
Full name.
C Number ASN Number. Present home address.
Date of receipt of letter of ^ority.
Disposition of letter of au-
Under the joint direction of Emery E. Olson, dean of the School of Public Administration, and Ar-lien Johnson, dean of the Graduate School of Social Work, a conference st -ldy group has been organized to investigate the housing situation and to make proposals for alleviating the critical shortage that now exists and for preventing its repetition in the future.
Prof. Harleigh Trecker, Graduate School of Social Work, is chairman of the conference and has issued a proposal based upon the findings of his group.
War housing, according to the proposal, has involved about 4.000.-
000	units thus far, and it is estimated that at least 1,500,000 units will be required each year for the next decade.
TRAINED PERSONNEL
“Housing directly affects the American family as an institution, the lender, the contractor, the landlord, the supplier of materials, the real estate operator, the worker in housing construction, the federal, state, and municipal agencies, and because of this, understanding, competency, and efficiency are required in the administration of any housing enterprise,” Professor Trecker stated in his proposal.
“The necessity for trained personnel in housing project development and management is a present and future need. Because of the complexity and variety of problems that these agencies must meet, it is important that housing management personnel should not be skilled in relation to any single activity, but should also understand the relationship of their activities to the entire housing function.”
The purpose of the conference study group is to analyze the problems involved, to develop a plan for the integration of the various disciplines related to housing, and to develop a training program which recignizes housing as an economic and social function of society.
Activity Book Sale Ends Today
Today is the absolute deadline for Student Activity book sales. Remaining books will be sold on a first come first served basis, according to Kenneth K. Stonier, manager of student publications.
Purchasers will be entitled to the June edition of the yearbook El Rodeo, admittance to all sports activities held this spring, and to most of the plays and programs that will be held on campus.
Veterans can obtain activity books through the G.l. bill. Other students will be able to purchase them for $5 at 211 Student Union from 8:30 to 11:30 or from 1 to 4:30 today.
Rae Arden Talk Stresses Need For Volunteers
Teachers, Engineers Urged to Join Ranks Of SVM Society
“Architects, engineers, agriculturalists, teachers, social workers, and ministers are needed to work in foreign nations and help promote better relations between these countries,” Phyllis Rae Aden, traveling secretary for the Student Volunteer movement in the south and northwest, remarked at YWCA Freshman’s club meeting yesterday.
This movement is sponsored by a mission board that receives contributions from all denominations. Workers enlisting for the Student Volunteer movement are sent to all parts of the United States and the world where people cannot afford to pay for teachers or engineers, but need them.
During the war, workers in this organization helped in trailer camp gatherings around war plants. They established nurseries and schools for children whose mothers worked in war plants. This was done in connection with .the Red Cross. SEEK DEMOCRACY
"The people of Argentina are democratic and are trying to make the country a democracy,” Miss Aden said. “It is the leader of South American countries in cultural and educational institutions. Last year the students went on a strike against the government and professors signed manifestos stating their grievances. These professors lost their jobs as they were working in state universities.
“The people have gone about as far as they can staying within the limits of civil disobedience. Tlie United States sending a new ambassador to Argentina is a good sign. There may be a change in government policy toward the democratic side, if the people insist on it, even if Peron is the president.”
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DR. WENDELL L. MILLER . . . sorority speaker
King of Kings' Movie Scheduled
The motion picture, “King of Kings,” will be shown tomorrow in Harris hall 101 as one of the Religious council features of Religious Emphasis week. The film is sponsored by the Roger Williams club of SC. The time will be speci-ing to Dana Larson, president ol the club.
Skiers to Race In All-U Meet
Adding a new event to the school calendar, the Trojan Ski club has announced an all-university ski meet to be held a Kiersarge pass near Independence, Apr. 6 and 7.
The meet will feature downhill and slolom racing with separate events for men and women. On the novel side a men and women's novice obstacle race will be held.
The skier who obtains the highest total score during the meet will be awarded a perpetual trophy by the Ski club. In all events medals will be given to first and second place winners.
Sign-ups for the trip were completed Tuesday, and the transportation list will be available at the Ski club meeting tomorrow at 12:30 p.m., Touchstone theater.
MEET SCHEDULE
The following schedule will be followed during the meet according to Jones:
Saturday, Apr. 6, 2 p.m.—practice for slolom and downhill; 3 p.m.— Men and women novice obstacle race.
Sunday, Apr. 7, 11 a.m.—slolom;
1	p.m.—downhill.
All entrants must fill out an application which may be obtained tomorrow at the club meeting.
CSA TEST
Jones also announced that all members of .the club desiring to take the CSA fourth class test for active membership in the club should sign up for the meet. The test will be given at 2 p.m. Saturday, following ski school at 11 a.m.
To Greeks
Dinner guests and speakers at sorority and fraternity houses this evening will be one phase of Religious Emphasis week. All Greek organizations have invited local ministers to help them participate in the activities of the week, and members of the groups will have brief talks and discussion periods immediately after dinner.
Speaking at the Alpha Omicron Pi house will be Father Kirshen-heuter, adviser of the Newman club, while Sigma Phi Epsilon will entertain the Rev. Bruce Maguire, a former chaplain. The Rev. Stanley Jacobson, Roger Williams club adviser, will address members of Phi Kappa Tau, and his brother the Rev. Bart Jacobson will speak to members of Alpha Gamma Delta. Two other campus reilgious advisers who will speak at Greek houses are the Rev. G. Byron Done, Latter Day Saints’ adviser, at Alpha Chi Omega, and Dr. Wendell Miller, Wesley club leader, at Kappa Alpha Thetas. Rabbi Henry Rabin, Hillel adviser, will speak at the Delta Gamma house.
SPEAKS TO SON’S HOUSE
Speaking to the fraternity brothers of his son will be the Rev. J. M. Applegate, who will be guest of the Sigma Alpha Epsilons. Dr. and Mrs. Harold Case, today's featured speakers, will be dinner guests of the Zeta Tau Alphas.
Gamma Phi Beta discussion leader will be Rev. B. Rhods Martin, graduate student in the SC School of Religion. Zeta Beta Taus will host Rev. Pletcher Scharer, and Chi Phis, Rev. A. Howard Plummer.
FORMER GRID STAR
A former college football player, Dr. Eugene C. Blake, will give the Sigma Chis a brief talk, and Kappa Sigmas will hear Chaplain Floyd Reeves. Two Huntington Park ministers, the Rev. Fred B. Trotter and the Rev. Ray Charles Jarman
will speak at Pi Kappa Alpha and Theta Zi.
AMAZONS MEET
Since the Amazons will meet at the Tri-Delta house for their meeting and exchange with Blue Key, Mrs. Grant, director of the YWCA, will be guest speaker, and members of Delta Delta Delta will have dinner at other sorority houses.
Tidal Wave Damage Mounts
Knights
.. . .will meet tonight at 6 at the j Sigma Chi house, 907 West 28th L0)t*at. Diaper wiil fc* nerved.
Eyewitness Tells Own Experience
by Dick Richards United Press Radio Operator
LANIKAI, Oahu, Apr. 2—Eighty per cent of the houses along this beach have been washed out.
The damage must be at least a million- dollars.
I found myself looking at daylight through a hole in the wall about 7 a.m. (HST) yesterday morning when a torrent of salt water hit me in the face after it had busted our bedroom wall wide open.
We had a terrible time getting out of the house all because the doors had jammed when the house was rammed inland three feet against a giant banyan tree. BOLTED IN PAJAMAS
We finally got the door open and made for the hills in our pajamas and barefeet.
We returned to the house an hour later and the water still was three feet deep in the road paralleling the beach.
A neighbor told me that all he could see of my house when the wave struck was a portion of the roof surrounded by * swirling mass ol tom.
Air-Sea Rescue Units Operating
HILO, Hawaii, Apr. 2—(U.E)—The army clamped emergency measures just short of martial law tonight on the island of Hawaii, hardest hit of the territorial group, as air-sea rescue units sought survivors washed to sea by tida! waves and the estimated toll of dead and missing mounted to 154 throughout the territory.
HILO HARDEST HIT
Known dead from the disastrous tidal wave were 79, mostly in the heavily hit area of Hilo, second largest Island city with a population of more than 25.000. Officials reported another 55 missing on Hawaii alone and an additional 20 on Maui and Oahu.
But the count was far from complete as Red Cross and army rescue squads probed the battered wreckage along the island’s beaches and inland where the waves rolled for tremendous distances. Planes and surface craft patrolled the coastlines for survivors reported clinging to bits of wreckage tossed to sea ln the baek-surg*.
Chilean Says It Might be A-Bomb
SANTIAGO, Chile.—One Chilean believes that tidal waves in the Pacific may have been the result of atomic bombs being set off.
Dr. Julio Bustos, director of El Salto observatory, said: “Our instruments show this definitely is not any seismic activity. It is either the result of a series of explosions from a vast submarine volcano in the northern Pacific or it might be a series of atomic bomb explosions.”
A-Bomb Couldn't Do It Says Navy
HONOLULU — Navy physicist Norman J. Holter predicted today that the atomic bomb tests at Bikini Atoll would not set a series of tidal wraves similar to those which struck the Pacific basin
Any waves created by the atomic explosion probably would not be detected outside a limited area surrounding the test site, except by sensitive instrument*, he said.
Pastor Asserts History Based Upon Religion
Maintain High Ideals, Practice Tolerance, Emphasizes Bowling
Pleading for a better understanding of religion in gerenal. Father Benjamin F. Bowling, CSP, pastor of the Church of St. Paul the Apostle, West Los Angeles, spoke yesterday in the art and lecture room of the University library. In his address, “Religion’s Challenge Today,” Father Bowling answered some of ,the modern obpections to religion.
Stressing a better understanding of tolerance and intolerance, Father Bowling said, “Although we should be very tolerant of people differing from us in their point of view, we should, at the same time, be tolerant in the respect that we should be uncompromising in our fundamental principles. We should live up to high ideals, but not try to force them on others.”
BLIND FAITH’
“Those objecting to religion are always raving about ‘blind faith’ saying that those who do have faith are ‘dead pigeons’ so to speak. All history is based on faith. An atheist who believes the universe ,to be a self-starting, self-winding, and self-stopping clock must possess a far greater amount of faith than the person who has reasonable faith accepting things on the divine word of Christ and His Church,” stated Father Bowling.
“Religion does not take all the joys out of life. Working on the idea of liberty through law, it is a challenge to set your life by a clock of intelligent rules rather than by mere emotions which so often go haywire. These laws are your license to do what you ought to do completely and thoroughly harmoniously, and your assurance of going ahead without th^ fear of mistakes,” said Father Bowling.
Dispute Deadline Nears at Parley
NEW YORK, Apr. 2,—(ILR>—1Tension increased in the United Nations security council tonight as the deadline—11 a.m. tomorrow-neared for Russian and Iranian replies to a council inquiry on the status of their dispute with no indication that either country had dispatched its statement.
Secretary of State James F. Byrnes, returning from Washington after conferring with President Truman on the crisis, planned a series of talks with fellow delegates tonight and tomorrow before the council meeting.
U. P. DISPATCH
Shortly after Byrnes’ arrival a United Press Tehran dispatch reported that Russian troops had started crossing the frontier on their way home. This was the first word from Iran that any Red army troops actually had left the country, one month after the treaty date for their complete withdrawl.
It was an anxious situation as the hours sped by.
Iranian Ambassador Hussein Ala said that he was confident his country's reply would be here at meeting time.
RE* LY EXPECTED
UNO Secretary General Trygve Lie arranged to receive at any hour of the night a reply from Tehran, Moscow or both ,to the council’s request for a statement on:
“. . . the existing status of negotiations between the two governments, and particularly . . . whether or not the reported withdrawal of troops is conditioned upon the conclusion of agreements between the two governments on other subjects”
DR. HAROLD C. CASE . . . distinguished visitor
Stray Greeks Crown Ashley
Light-haired, f a i r-complexioned Mary Ashley, Alpha Chi Omega, an active member of Amazons and Mortar Board, is the newly elected queen of the Stray Greeks, according to an announcement by Jim Ferren, publicity chairman of the organization.
Miss Ashley was elected during a meeting of the men whose fraternities do not have chapters on this campus, and afterward a committee was sent to each of the contestants for the honor and the outcome of the voting was made known .to them.
“There were six women being considered for the honor.” Ferren said. “They were nominated by 'popular ballot after members of the organization had studied their photographs and had had an opportunity of meeting them personally at an open house last Friday night.
PHOTOGRAPHS AND PERSONALITY
‘We judged the contestants on tfto things, the photographs and their personalities.”
When Ferrin was asked if he would say that Miss Ashley had “a well developed personality,” he replied very seriously:
“Yes, extremely so. She’s a very lovely girl.”
WILL BE HONORED
On June 1, a ttrsice will be held by the Stray Greeks, and during the dance the coronation of the queen will be staged with all pomp ’'and ceremony, and a suitable award will be given to her.
Next Monday night a party will be given for the queen and her five attendants. Only members of the Stray Greeks and these women will be invited.
Library Asks Aid In Text Shortage
Students who own copies of either “Wartime Facts and Postwar Problems,” Clarke, or “Problems of Democratic Society,” Rodee and Anderson, are requested by the General Studies department to loan or sell them to the University library immediately.
Because of the current shortage in copies of these books, an alternate reading list has been posted for Problems of Modem Society on the first floor of Bridge.
Student cooperation is urged. Most of the books on hand have missing pages, and in some cases entire sections are gone.
Dr. Case Leads Talk On Home
Dr. Harold C. Case, pastor of the First Methodist church in Pasadena and one of the principal speakers during three previous Religious Emphasis weeks on this campus, will discuss today the role of religion in courtship, marriage, and the home.
Today’s discussion, a Socra-ic dialogue entitled “The Great Adventure.” will be presented in the art and lecture room of the University library at 1:15 pjn.. and will be followed by an open discussion of the subject of the address, during which time Dr. and Mrs. Case—who will be presented with her husband —will answer questions.
The speakers will be introduced by Jackie Boice, vice-president, of the student body and chairman of the social committee of ASSC. BOTH PASTORS
A few years ago. Dr Case was pastor of the Elm Park Methodist church. Scranton, Pa. At the same time Mrs. Case, a licensed minister herself, became pastor of the D.ck-son City Methodist church near Scranton.
Today at 12 noon, before addressing the group in the art and lec.ure room. Dr. Case will attend a luncheon being given by the Men s Faculty club.
MEN’S FACULTY CLUB
Howard W. Patmore, registrar of the university and president of the Men’s Faculty club, has announced that only those on the permanent reservation list may be accomodated for lunch. All others are welcome to come at 12:30. after the luncheon,
to hear Dr. Case speak to the club.
Dr. Case was graduated from Baker university, Kansas, in 1923. He later did graduate work at Harvard university, Garrett Biblical institute, Northwestern unlversit>. and received his S.T.D. degree from Boston university’s School of Theology.
Wamp Salesgirls
The following women are requested by Donna Knox, Wampus editor, to report to the Wampus office, 401 Student Union, at 12:45 pm. today: Betty Luster, Dottle Thompkins, Jill Hessin, Gharlehe Hardy, Marge Huston, Windy Keats, Sherry Neff, Pat Murphy, Betty Pitzer, Barbara Beeber, Dorothy Smith, Jackie Swarthouse, Jane Jordan, Barbara *\Du Par.
Dean Leaves For Confab
Dean Albert S. Raubenheimer, executive dean of the university, will leave Saturday for Chicago to attend a National Conference on Veterans Education in Colleges and Universities.
Dean Raubenheimer has been asked to present “an analysis of problems and principles related to admissions and classification. .... to provide a comprehensive and practical picture of the problems in this area.’'
The presentation by Dean Raubenheimer is to form the basis for the work of one section of the conference during the three-day meeting. The material of the conference, together with five other reports or related problems of veteran education, will be published later by the veterans administration.
Also attending the Chicago conference will be Hugh Carey Willett, director of admissions and registration.
President's Office Notice
No classes will be dismissed to allow attendance of religious lectures during Religious Emphasis week. Lectures have been planned for different hours, however, to permit a large attendance.
Religious Emphasis week schedule:
Apr. 3, 1:15 p.m., Art and Lecture room. University library.
Apr. 4, 2:15 p.m.. Art and Lecture room, University library.
Apr. 5, 10 a.m., Bovard auditorium.
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