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Los Angeles, Calif., Monday, Apr. 15, 1946
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WSSF Drive in Full Swing As Troy Contributes
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Goober Market Takes Nosedive; Mortar Board Left Holding Bag
Vets’ Administration Announces Requisites For Foreign Colleges
By Dick Eshleman What would you do with 396 ■	I	| haps of peanuts?
The situation sounds impos-1	la	siblr, hut that's just exactly what
f	i happened to the members of
Mortar Board, national senior women's honorary. late last week. Like most stories, this one
starts with food Intentions. It
seems the honored ladies decided to make a little coin for their coffers at the recent AWS show,
Veterans with plans for study “Something for the Girls,” by in foreign universities were selling peanuts to those who given new details of their (chances for such work and of living conditions at European universities in a new announcement from the veterans’ administration Friday.
Under the servicemen’s readjustment act of 1944. the ^government has provided that an ex-serviceman or woman can be educated in a foreign university if the university under consideration will accept the application and the applicant can provide his own living accommodations.
EQUIREMEXTS LISTED Th*» veteran's administration further advises that if an individual rants to po to a foreign university must make arrangements with he state department for a passport jid must pay for his own passage.
must have funds enough to ubsist for three or four months, ince it will take that long to proride subsistence checks. In addition, the individual must have a certificate of eligibility.
At. present, foreign universities rilling to take foreign students, are ew. This is primarily because of he world shortage of food and iousine
However there are several music Jiools in Italy, chiefly those in lan and Turin, willing to accept merican students. Switzerland, a right spot in war-ravaged Europe, rondes the best hope for a Euro-~an education.
wanted to annoy their neighbors during the show.
They purchased a job lot of almost 800 bags of the widened tidbits and set up shop outside Bovard, expecting local appetites to be ravenous.
Coeds, however, did not com-letely cooperate. In the first place, they were so rude as to eat dinner before attending the show, thus spoiling any latent desire for peanuts.
Only about half of the nitrogenous nuggets were exchanged for cash, and most of these were fed to Tirebiter, who couldn't complain.
Next morning Mortar Boarders
Atom Scientist Flays U.S. Lag
found an excess of something like 33 dozen bags of unsoid, unsalted peanuts.
“What could we do?” one harried member yelped when interviewed. “We couldn’t eat them all ourselves. It just wouldn’t do. And besides we tried it,” she added, turning green at the memory.
Being ladies with rather devious thinking processes, the members thought up all the least
ITUCH PLAN
"The Junior Year in Zurich” lan has been opened to all stu- ! mis. whether veteran* or not.
FV>r non-veterans the minimum ' t is *1650. For all interested per- j ns. the requirements are: two ! ■ars or the oquivalent of college :mian. the sanction of the head of j .« s major department, and the | pmval of the student's German j fessor.
Some of the advantages beside e prestige of studying in a foreign j (Continued on Page 4)
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LAWRENCE. Kans., Apr. 14.— Ot—Dr. Harold C. Urey, a key scientist in development of the atom bomb, charged today the United States is working on atomic research “without even a good skeleton crew” while other natl&ns are assigning their foremost scientific minds to the task.
In an exclusive statement to the United Press, Urey said civilian control of atomic research was necessary if topflight Kten were to be attracted to the job of further exploring the new field. He criticized Maj. Gen. Leslie R. Groves, head of the army's wartime Manhattan project which developed the A-bomb. as "impossible to work with.”
The University of Chicago professor was at Lawrence for a convocation address at the University of Kansas tomorrow on 'Atomic Energy—Master or Servant?”
Most of America's leading scientists aren't working for the government. Urey said, because they are plugging for support of the McMahon bill to put atomic energy under civil control.
Trovet Concert Will Highlight Student Talent
‘Music in Afternoon’ Director Programs Four Trojan Soloists
Featuring four outstanding student artists, the second concert in j the Trovets-sponsored "Music ln tne Afternoon" series will be presented in Bowne hall at 3:15 p.m. on Apr. 23. according to Will Renda. director of ,the series.
Artists who will be heard in concert are Richard Gray, clarinetist; Milo Kensrue. tenor; John Mankin, pianist; and Stella Chaloupka, harpist.
"In accordance With our intention to offer works that appeal to everyone, our second concert will again offer both familiar and not-so-well know’n selections,” Said Renda.
"Richard Gray will perform ,the rarely heard Mozart Concerto in B Flat, and two similar works by Paul Jean and Rimsky-Korsakoff.
“Milo Kensure will sing Bartlett’s ‘Dream.’ Schubert's ‘Serenade,” and •Who is Sylvia.’
“Pianist John Mankin will play the Schumann ’Arabesque,’ Op. 18, and three Chopin works.
"Stella Chaloupka will offer as harp solos ‘Introduction to Lucia di Lammermoor,’ Donizetti; ‘Longing,’ Attl; and ‘Esquisse,’ Renie,” Renda announced.
Accompanists for .the soloists will be Wallace Beery, and Bette Reed, instructor in piano, School of Music.
The February concert audience was too large- to be seated in the Student lounge and as a result director Renda has secured Bowne hall for presentation of the second concert.
obvious ways of disposing of the nuts. One suggested that tbey make a deal with Twentieth Cen-ury-Fox to sell them in theaters showing MGM pictures, but this fell through when MGM countered with a threat of double-cellophone wrappers on candy bars.
“There was no denying it; wre were stuck,” our informant said. "Then suddenly, a voice rang out ‘Why not sell them?’ and we were snatched from the jaw's of whatever it is you get into in a situation like that.”
The upshot of it all is, one can now buy all the peanuts his heart desires at the OPA ceiling of 5 cents a bag in the Student Union. Just don’t eat them in class and don’t offer any more to Tirebiter. He’s sw'orn off peanuts for life since last Friday.
“We’re so happy,” shouted our Interviewee. “Just think of all those shells. It’s downright depressing when you think what might have happened. But now' everybody’s happy.”
Who said anything about shortages?
Official Tells Ancient Custom
The reason visitors have to deposit their umbrellas at the front door of the Fisher Gallery of Fine Arts, according to Winifred Toing-destre, director, dates back to .the time in an English museum tfTien a patron rolled up a valuable canvas in his umbrella and made a hasty exit.
Other oddities connected with the gallery concern the rulings that neither canes, cameras, or cigars can be admitted. Recalling the time 100 years ago when an old man became enraged at a painting in a British museum and slashed it to ribbons with his cane, Miss Poingdestre went on to add that many men atterrapt to evade the no smoking rule and conceal lighted cigaretts or cigars in their hands. In mentioning the rules, she noted that they were much more strict in German galleries, recalling how she once had to don straw slippers to walk acrass the floor in a Frankfort art gallery.
Widely traveled. Miss Poingdestre received her eSMy education in England and Germany before going to a French finishing school.
University Recipient Of Grant
Money Will Finance Two-year Research Project on Campus
Acceptance of a grant of $25,000 for the study of the part that cholesterol plays in high blood pressure, has been announced by Harry J. Deuel, professor of biochemistry. The money was received from the Life Insurance Medical fund to cover the expenses of two years of research by the SC biochemistry department.
“The high number of deaths attributed to high blood pressure was the reason for the founding of the Life Insurance Medical fund,” according to Professor Deuel. “Several major insurance companies decided to spend $600,000 a year on high blood pressure research, and SC is one of the recipients.
FIRST PHASE
“The first phase of research will study cholesterol metabolism in white rats which have been given ‘heavy water.’ This will combine with cholesterol, and the deuterium in ‘heavy water’ will label it. High blood pressure may be related to the deposition of cholesterol in the aorta, the body's main artery. This is one of the causes of the type of high blood presure called aetheroscler-osis,” Professor Deuel explained.
It is expected that when methods for following the metabolism of cholesterol have been developed in white rats, the information will enable a check of metabolism in patients with high blood pressure.
DIETARY METHODS
This will tell whether the accumulation of cholesterol is due to an increased rate of synthesis or to a lower rate of destruction in patients with high blood pressure. It also may give information on the best dietary methods of treatment of t 'te disease.
Burrell O. Raulston, dean of the School of Medicine, accepted the grant. Associated with Professor Deuel in directing the research are John W. Mehl, associate professor, and Richard J. Winzler, assistant professor, both in biochemistry. The experiments will start on July 1.
With incomplete enrollment re-ms already indicating that the rmusly estimated figure of 2000 11 be topped. University College turday closed normal registrant.
Late registrants mill be required pay a $S penalty fee before be-allowed to attend da&es.
W COURSE ADDED
,t the same time, Mrs. Flor-ce Pollman, assistant to ,the dean University Oollege. announced addition of a new course to the t school curriculum.
-Editorializing
No Classy Stare by the D.T.
The Daily Trojan is not operated from the shadows.
As a campus newspaper, written and edited by students in the School of Journalism for all the students in the university, its prime function is to provide daily information. unbiased and factually correct, about persons, groups, and activities connected with the university. Only in the editorial and letters columns are individual opinions expressed. A distinct and consistent policy, tied "Fundamentals of General I outlined by the editor, is maintained in the urance.' the course offers no j preparation of editorials. Nothing will be rin but is equivalent to a four printed as an editorial with which the editor
is not in full accord. On the other hand, in the What’s on Your Mind column are printed all letters which the editor deems sincere and representative, regardless of whether he agrees with them.
Material for the news columns is treated urance executive on the funda- objectively, and the matter of how much or ntals of insurance law. govern- how little space a given article will get is nt supervision of companies and decided on the basis of its appropriateness for r representatives, and the duties publication in Troy’s paper. On ordinary days d responsibilities of agents and throughout the collegiate year no pressing
problem arises as to how- news items regarding campus affairs shall be evaluated.
But these are not ordinary days. Campus elections are only a few weeks off and would-be student politicians are already hard at it. The political arena will become packed with activity as the days wear on and Ihe Daily Trojan, as a student paper, cannot sit by with a glassy stare on its journalistic countenance and ignore the whole thing.
At the same time, since all persons involved in the elections and all candidates will be students at SC, the Trojan, as a student paper, cannot take sides in the backing of any one person or group. Its columns will not be used as an instrument whereby one student group can gain campus power and ascendancy during the coming elections.
A case in point as to how not to try to
Franklin Rides Avalanche Of Pennies to Win Victory
Trojanality Prize Awarded V-12 Specialist At Amazon-Blue Key Dig Held Friday
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CHUCK FRANKLIN ... personality
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Mildred Carman and Anita Norcop won the Pacific Coast Women's championship by taking first place in the Pi Kappa Delta debate tournament held Saturday in Stockton, California, according to a telegram received yesterday by the SC varsity debate squad. Anita Norcop is now women's impromptu champion.
it oourse. It is designed to ac-aint persons interested in pur-irg a career in insurance with important principles and prac-of various types of insurance. GHLY INSTRUCTIVE t will also orient the potential
kers.
e date set for students to reg-jt in this one course only with-t payment of the penalty fee is 20. All other courses will repayment of .the late registra-fee starting today.
egistrar's ffice Notice
»y, Apr. 19, is the last day which a student may with-w from a course in the second without a prade of F less he is doing passing work the date of official withdrawal. FFICE OF THE REGISTRAR.
storm the D. T.’s journalistic gates: A newly-formed organization, the Independent Students Association, last week had one of its members prepare a long news story about the organization and its proposed program of “reform” for student politics and attempt to place said story in the columns of the D. T. without the knowledge of the editor. The article, bitter in its attack upon the present setup of student affairs, was unsigned (because, it was later explained, the author is “suspicious” of the editor of the Trojan.) The organization, which has subsequently been approved as a temporary political group by Dr. Louis Wann, chairman of the faculty committee on student organizations, was not approved at the time the story was submitted. Thus the whole thing is interpreted by the editor as a flagrant attempt to grab space in the D. T. for the political advantage of one group.
It did not succeed, nor wrill any future attempts like it succeed. As a recognized campus organization the ISA is entitled to and shall have as much space in the Trojan as the value of its news warrants. But the space it gets will be as a result of the worthiness and interest of its news, not as a result of its ability to steal space or as a result of any pressure that it might try to exert from behind the scene. This is not only true of ISA, but of every other group on the Trojan scene.
The policy of the Daily Trojan as regards campus politics, then, will be one of
editorial neutrality as far as the actual backing of candidates is concerned, but one of militant participation in the political picture as a whole. The D. T. is indebted to no one, and the flaw's and foibles of all groups will be harpooned. In the weeks ahead, every effort will be made to gather information that will provide Troy with a true and honest picture of the campus political scene in this collegiate year of 1946.
Band to Don New Outfits
If SC musicians are to “look sharp” in 175 new uniforms ordered for next fall, .they should report for measurements this week, according to Bill Gould, director of the Trojan band.
Prospective as well as present members of the band are to report to the Band building either at 7 p.m. Wednesday or at 3:15 p.m. Friday to be measured.
The new outfits, in traditional navy officer style, are cardinal in color. The suits are double-breasted, distinguished by trimming in gold braid and a citation cord, also in gold, that fits over the left shoulder.
Harley to Relate Progress of U.N.
The International Relations club will hear the progress that has be^n made by the U-.N. and the related special agencies when Dr. Eugene Harley, professor of political science, speaks at its meeting tomorrow' at 3:15 p.m. in 318 Student Union.
In addition to Dr. Harley’s speech, all members of the United Nations committee of the International Relations club will receive the “United Nations News,” a monthly publication of the World Wilsonian foundation which deals with the works of U.N.
Lower House Members Set To Dodge Bill
Nine Months Extension Of Draft Law Proving Hot Issue in Chamber
WASHINGTON, Apr. 14.—(UJ!)— Congressional leaders predicted tonight that the election-conscious house would attempt to dodge a record, roll-call vote on its bill to extend the draft nine months. The measure as amended provides for a five-months “draft holiday.”
The chamber also will vote tomorrow on legislation to increase wages for service personnel.
HOLIDAY OPPOSED
Proponents of the induction holiday contend that passage of the higher pay bill will enable the armed forces to obtain needed manpower through voluntary enlistments.
With its eye on the congressional elections this fall, the house wrote into draft extension legislation a provision which would prohibit the army from drafting any men for five months after May 15, present expiration date of the draft law. It also attached an amendment raising the minimum draft age from 18 to 20 years.
EMPOWER TRUMAN
The bill would give President Truman power ,to start inductions again after Oct. 15 if the army and navy are unable to meet their manpower needs through voluntary enlistments.
Army officials are bitterly opposed to the holiday, and expressed hope that the senate would re-write the bill ,to make it a straight continuation of the draft. The house also has approved amendments to limit the service of all inductees to 18 months and ban the induction of fathers and agricultural workers.'
Chuck Franklin, Kappa Sigma, was officially announced winner of the title of Trojanality man—as a result of receiving the most votes in the Amazon-Blue Key sponsored dif
held Friday night in the men’s gym.
With some 14,000 votes cast, Franklin received a majority and was announced winner according to Phil Burton, president of Blue Key.
TROJAN KNIGHT VICE PRESIDENT
A V-12 specialist, Franklin is vice president of Trojan Knights, president of his fraternity. Greater University chairman and a former president of Squires. His name was entered in the contest by Kappa Alpha Theta sorority.
The evening of dancing to the sweet strains of Glenn Miller and Tommy Dorsey recordings and intervening election reports came to a climax at 10:30 p. m. when the winner was announced and a perpetual trophy was presented by Bob Hoff, former student body president and Trojanality man. Standing some three feet tall, the beautiful trophy was donated by Amazons and Blue Key to be held by Franklkin until next year’s contest. His name will be engraved on it under the name of Dave Burnight, last year’s winner. TIREBITER PLUGS WRITENTYPER
The hilarious evening of fun and frolic was highlighted by the campaigning of Tirebiter in behalf of Horace Writentyper, the Wampus dark horse candidate. Personal appeals to friends on the dance floor by this personality and his two guiding lights resulted in such a deluge of votes that for some time his man was thought to be the unofficial winner. By the time the final election returns were in however, Writentyper had withdrawn as mysteriously as he had entered.	i
Contestants and dates joined with everyone else in the line-up around the refreshment pavilion where cool cider and hot popcorn formed a background for last minute campaigning. Prominent men running for the title of Trojanality man included Don Blank, Stray Greek; Bob Brekke, Sigma Chi; Terry Nelson, SAE; Jim Walker, Phi Psi; and Al Spaeter, Sigma Chi.
The gym was a scene of bright decorations and attractive polling booths where individual containers for the contestants were available.
A total of $125 was cleared from ballot boxes during the evening. “This money/’ emphasized Mildred Carmen, president of Amazons, “will be turned over to the World Student Service fund and used in helping foreign students to further their education.”
Artists Exhibit Paris Paintings at Museum
“All men have loved Paris.”
This might well be the motto of the Los Angeles county museum’s current showing of paintings of post-liberation Paris by Floyd and Gladys Rockmore Davis, noted magazine
illustrators and commercial artists.
SERVED IN ETO	I_
The Davises, who made their reputations in the 30 s as illustrators for Collier’s and other national magazines were accredited as war correspondents in the ETO during the recent war to paint liberated areas for Life magazine. The work they did has since appeared in many other publications.
No ex-GI can fail to recognize the clarity of such subjects as the perfume shop, the Hower stands on the Arc de Triomphe, the book stalls along the Seine and Montmartre. the correspondents’ bar in the Hotel Scribe, and the everpresent doughboy ogling the sky-bruising feminine head styles. DEPICTS POVERTY
Like the city itself, the exhibit includes the darker side of life. Poverty stricken back alleys, Nazi execution grounds, the trail of a collaborator, all serve to balance the peculiar mood that was so exuberantly finding expression in the Paris of 1944.
Student Registration
Mrs. Rase Plumer, deputy registrar of voters, will be available today to SC students wrho wish to register for the June state elections.
Mrs. Plumer will be at Student Union today and Tuesday from 8 a.m. until 3 p.m.
Mothers to Hear Dr. Von KleinSmid
President Rufus B. von KleinSmid will address the SC Tnter-fraternity Mothers’ club when it meets Wednesday, Apr. 17. in Bowne hall at 11 a.m.
Following the address and a board officer’s meeting, there will be presented a student musical program featuring students Hans Lample, piano; Raiph Pister, violin; Ben Hard Niemi, cello; William Tinkelberg, viola; and LojT5 Stone, tenor. Mrs. Robert E. Vivian, president of Interfraternity Mothers club, will officiate.
Sicher Limns Man s Traits
What person may be and how he came to be that way will be the subject of discussion in a lecture, “Is Character Inborn or Developed?” by Dr. Lydia Sicher today at 12 noon in 240 Old College.
Dr. Sicher, a Jewish refugee from occupied Austria in 1938, is in Los
Angeles conducting a series of ten “psychosomatic” lectures for doctors, teachers, and social workers.
Dr. Sicher s lectures, which are designed to help doctors recognize and treat physical ailments which have their base in psychological upsets, are sponsored by the College of Medical Evangelists of White Memorial hospital.
The lecture at SC is sponsored by the Graduate School of Social Work.
Therapy Group Plans Meeting
Clinical directors of student training in occupational therapy from hospitals in southern California wUl gather at SC next Tuesday to meet Miss Henrietta Mc» Narv. educational secretary of the American Occupational Therapy association.
The all-day conference as planned by Miss Margaret Rood, director of .the SC occupational therapy department, will feature an afternoon meeting in 126 Harris hall with Miss McNary as speaker.
The conference representatives will spend the morning touring classes and departments In occupational therapy, they will visit classes held throughout the city as well as those conducted on campus.
WORKSHOP READY
“We hope that our new craft workshop will be ready for inspection by the group.’’ Miss Rood said. "The work is neariy completed and we should be moved in by next week."
Representatives coming to the conference include Ensign Helen Vendetti, naval hospital. Mare Island; Miss Dorothy Sniff ne. director of O.T. at Letterman General hospital, San Fsancisco; Miss Bestty Paxton, Children's hospital. East Bay. Oakland: Mrs. Mary Crook*,-Stockton State hospital, Mrs. Atti-lio Ricciardi. Stony Brook Retreat (tuberculosis sanitarium), Kern; Miss Elsie Geerts, Camarillo State hospital; Miss Jessie Gild, Compton Sanitarium.
Los Angeles hospitals will be represented by Miss Christine Mutty, Los Angeles hospital. Miss Carlotta Wells, ninth service command consultant, Miss Marion Davis, children’s hospital, and Miss Susan Pohland, Birmingham General hospital.	^