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by Lucien Gandolfo
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Los Angeles, Friday, Sept. 28, 1945
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No. 210
The Trojans, pre-season favorites to take the PCC title for the third successive year and fresh from their 13-6 win over the Bruins in the season opener, are heavy favorites to romp ovfcr Buck Shaw’s California Bears at Berkeley tomorrow afternoon in the 31st meeting between the two teams. The
Review to climax social functions
Engineers to hold last dig of summer term
Climaxing this term’s evening social functions with dancing to the tausic of Ivan Scott’s music makers, the College of ngineering will hold a “Summer Review” dig Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Riviera Country club, according to Ted Jonas, president f the College of Engineering.
Promising everyone a ‘ gala’’ time, onas said that present plans call or a review of events that have Ken place during the summer rm. He drew attention to the fact lat Scott’s orchestra has just fin-.hed a six-month engagement at iro’s in Hollywood.
“The review will create reminis-cenfw of each all-U function that has taken place this term/’ stated John Holmland, chairman of the decoration committee. “Decorations will include numerous posters and momentos. each recalling: past affairs.” he said.
Bids are priced at $2.40 and are sale at the Student Union’s hier’e window and in the office f .tha College of Engineering. This a very reasonable price in view the fact that we have obtained * of the top orchestras of the uthland, stated Jonas.
Urging students to wear sport othes to the dance, he reminded jem that ‘this is California and mmer weather is still with us.1
rmy cuts set y Christmas
WASHINGTON. Sept. 27. —(U.P)— retarv of War Robert P. Patter-revealed today that more than .000 of the 8.000.000 soldiers in ace on V-E day will be discharg-by Christmas, and by next July ly 1.000.000 of the wartime army ill still be in uniform.
This means that six out of every van V-E day veterans now in the rmy will be discharged by next ly 1, he told a press conference, e met newsmen shortly after tak-g the oath, succeeding Henry L. timson who retired last week.
By late July. 1946. he said, the my's total strength will be down 1.630.000 or less. The draft and luntary enlistments will provide e additional men. The army is unting on 50.000 draftees and 30,-volunteers per month.
Physics expert to teach here
Experience as a physicist, instrumental in the discovery of atomic energy, an author, a researcher, and an instructor of physics. This is the background of the new associate professor of physics, John Backus.
Professor Backus comes to SC from the University of California, where he has done research work on the cyclotron, essential to the harnessing of atomic energy, and where he has been .teaching for eight years. He did his research in the radiation laboratory at Berkeley and was listed in the Smyth report, a coihplete report on the discovery of energy in the atom.
He has just published a paper in the Physical Review, a physicists’ magazine, on the work he did on the atomic bomb called, ‘ Electron Emission from Radioactive Copper.” He is writing a book on “Ultra-High Frequency Oscillators and Cavity Resonators.” Cavity resonators are used in radar equipment.
“In my opinion the university is fortunate in obtaining a physicist of Professor Backus’ eminence/’ stated Dr. Richard E. Vollrath, professor of physics.
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engineers dance.
Wesley club to hold dance
The regular bi-monthly dance of the Wesley club will be an all-U dance tonight in the social hall of the University church, 817 West 34th street, according to Fred Wilken, president.
Highlights of the evening's entertainment will be dancing to the latest recordings, free dance instruction, and refreshments.
The Wesley club recently has purchased 30 of the latest recordings of popular songs and popular name bands, in addition to hundreds of old favorites. Dancers will be able to choose their own music and orchestras.
“Free dance instruction in the fox trot, jitter-bug, rhumba, samba, and other dance steps will also be given,” added Wilken.
All students and their friends are invited to attend.
Benefit recital to be presented by music group
. A benefit for hospitalized veterans in the form of a recital by Lillian Steuber, concert pianist of national renown, will be given next Friday, Oct. 5, in Hancock auditorium at 8:30 p.m.
The works of Felix Mendelssohn, Robert Schumann, Frederick Chopin, Claude Debussy, and Isaac Al beniz have been chosen by Miss Steuber as her selections for the evening’s program.
Sponsored by Sigma Alpha Iota, national professional music sorority for women, the recital will consist of Prelude and Fugue in E minor, Mendelssohn; Sonat^ in G minor, Schumann; So rasch wie moglich, andantino, scherzo, and rondo—Presto, Schumann; Six etutfesf C major, Op. 10, No. 7; F minor, Op. 10, No. 9; A flat major, Op. 10, No. 10; E major, Op. 10, No. 3; E minor, Op. 25, No. 5; and C sharp minor, Op. 10, No. 4, all compositions of Chopin.
Miss Steuber, who* has appeared with the Dos Angeles Philharmonic orchestra, the Werner Janssen symphony, and the London String quartet, has received wide acclaim for her playing, for her brilliant interpretations. and for her own personal charm at ,the keys.
Tickets for the benefit are available from members of Sigma Alpha Iota, according to Shirley Hayman, president of the SC chapter, or by writing to Mrs. Geraldine Healey, 230 South Vendome, Los Angeles, 4.
Rodee hits German ‘coddling’
roy Legion post o hold initiation
Plans for the formal initiation of w members will be discussed by embers of the Capt. Charles W. Udock World War II American gion post Monday at 2:15 in 318 uden,t Union.
Asked to attend are the following en: GW1 Nelson, Stathem Hall, Art ters, Bob Henning, Bob McMul-n, Chuck Carter, Dale Bridges, alt Richards, Jim Reynolds, and me Reneke.
The post, named in honor of one 6Cs moat famous alumni, con-twice a month at Patriotic 11, located at Washington and »roa. Invited to attend these eetings are visitors and pros pec-re members, stated Jim English, er of the po6t
“Military disarmament of Germany will be futile unless she is also psychologically disarmed,” Dr. Carlton Rodee, associate professor of political science, told members of the International Relations club in a discussion of “de-nazifying Germany” yesterday.
The United Nations must take over German schools, colleges, newspapers, radio and all other channels of education in order to impart a true understanding of democratic ideals, Dr. Rodee said. He propped an international control and supervision of education, which, if effective, could be carried over to other countries as an important force for maintaining the peace.
“It is no use to offer self-government to the Germans now,” Dr. Rodee declared, “because they neither want nor understand it.”
Eventual restoration of German economy and social life should be permitted as part of the Allied policy, the political scientist averred, but he indicated that at least two generations of military occupation will be necessary before the Germans will be ready for such steps. He advocated firm support for the Yalta declaration which called for the stamping out of militarism as well as nazism. This policy should be carried out jointly and applied uniformly throughout Germany by all occupying nations, he said.
Analyzing the basic purpose of the occupation policy, Dr. Rodee asserted that it is not being done in the spirit of revenge, but “to develop a policy which will make it impossible for Germany again to plunge the
world into war, as she has donf* on two occasions.”
German propaganda in the United States which is being circulated today, has for its key argument the statement that the German people are not to blame for nazism or for Hitler’s rise to power, the SC professor pointed out. This is not based on the truth, because the Gorman people did support Hitler, according to Dr. Rodee.
“The last free election in Germany which brought in 13 million votes for Hitler,” he said, “clearly indicated support of a program well-known to the German people since 1926.”
So long as Germany was winning, the people were well satisfied with Hitler, he contended. For this accord with the Nazi doctrines of national superiority and the German glorification of war, the responsibility of the German people for the war is clearly established, he said.
“The struggle in Germany isn’t just the Nazis against the Germans,” Dr. Rodee said. “We must add as guilty the militarists and Junkers class which have upheld war for nearly 200 years of their history.”
That the German people themselves must not handle their problems of instruction now was upheld by Dr. Rodee, who suggested that this “soft peace” idea would be like permitting a “problem child to pick his own reform school.”
The only solution, he said, is to substitute a set of new ideas for the old, with members of the United Nations leading in the development of a democratic Germany.
Vulture sheet
to remove SC socialites halos
It’s dirty! It’s ris-kay! It’s hilarious! It’s downright rough! It’s the first postwar edition of the Vulture, scavenger publication of the Daily Trojan, which will be on sale next Wednesday on the SC campus.
Your best friends will be shocked by the revelations in this horrid newspaper, and perhaps you will, too. Almost anything that you have done during the last
few weeks, especially the bad, will be recorded maliciously in the Vulture’s columns.
Banned from the campus since 1942 (it seems that someone went too far) the Vulture, meaner than ever, will be on sale by corrupt members and pledges of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalistic fraternity for men.
Finals announced
Two weeks from tomorrow. Saturday, Oct. 13. will be the beginning of a week of final examinations for the summer term, announced Howard W. Patmore, registrar.
j local gridmen leave for Berkeley
today.
Shaw's Bears, led by only three lettermen from last year’s so-so team, were upset a week ago by St. Mary's, 20-13, and are given little chance to wallop Jeff Cravath's current edition. Those who saw the game said the score could have easily been 48-13, but be on the lookout for a vastly improved Berkeley outfit tomorrow.
The Bears made a lot of mistakes in their first game, errors that the alert Gaels capitalized on. Cal won’t be making the same miscues again. Shaw, one of the business’s smartest men, will see to that. St. Mary’s completed over half of their passes against the Blue and Gold eleven and, not discrediting Herman Wedemeyer and his bullseye aerials, Cal’s pass defense was not so hot. The new boss of the Bears has been devoting a lot of time since last Saturday afternoon drilling his inexperienced team on the art of pass defense so that Memorial stadium fans will not see a repetition of what happened last week, with perhaps Verl Lillywhite giving a Wedemeyer performance.
Cravath, who saw the Bears in action, warns .that the Berkeley club will be tougher this week and will probably give the locals a hard afternoon.
Shaw has a very tricky offense, mixing single and double wing plays along with the best features of the T into his new Wmged T, and now that his team has played one game they aA*e likely to start clicking. Cravath has been working his gridders on defense to stop the complicated spread forma*Jai (Continued on Page Three)
Knights to launch membership drive
Men who are interested in student body activities and who wish to serve the university are asked to apply for membership in the Trojan Knights, oldest campus men’s honorary, announced Bill Camm, president of the junior-senior service organization.
Camm stated that Knights hope to interest leading campus men in student activities and welcome all applicants. He added that during the fall term, SC’s first postwar
session, a large number of important university functions are scheduled and many opportunities will be available for men of a high caliber.
Those desiring applications for membership may obtain them in the Student Union bookstore at the cashier’s window. Applicants should fill out these blanks and return them with a letter giving reasons for desiring to become a member of the Knights.
Duties of the Knights are to act as official hosts for the university, lead the rally committee, serve as ushers at all-university functions, and officiate at football gam£$. Each term new members are selected from both fraternity and non-org students by the Knights.
Wednesday and Thursday of next week from 12 noon to 4 p.m. in the Trojan Knight office, 218 Student Union, written tests on university traditions, to be taken from the “Know Your University” handbook, which is available in the reserve bookroom of the library, will be given to applicants. Also to be held Friday, Oct. 5, at 6 p.m. are personal interviews.
U.C. enrollees get deadline
Trojan Knights
. . . Will meet at noon today in 418 Student Union, Bill Camm, president, announced.
Enrollment in University College courses officially ends .tomorrow, announced Mrs. Florence Pollman. assistant to Dean Ernest Tiegs, University College, adding that those students who desire to take these courses and fail to register by tomorrow will have to pay a $3 late registration fee.
Several courses have attracted wide interest and large enrollments, Mrs. Pollman stated. Among these are the many new ones being offered in the College of Architecture and Fine Arts, and those in the College of Commerce, such as trade and transportation, advertising, insurance, investments, and real estate.
Russian, rehabilitation, public administration, petroleum engineering, and a course in air transportation in the College of Commerce are included among some of the special classes being offered.
According to latest registration
figures, there is already a substantial increase over last year’s enrollment.
Full information on the courses and registration procedure can be obtained in the information bulletins released by the University College. Those who wish to secure one of these bulletins may do so in the information office in the Administration building.