SOUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
ummer News
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LOS ANGELES. CALIF.. FRIDAY. AUG. 9. 1946
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I" s'9n$ Lro,verlPlan F're Department Arson Squad
J Q | Male Chorus	r	% .	#
Aid to Band Scours Campus for Firebug'
Singing, marching, and participating in half-time stunts with the Trojan band wfll be the new male j chorus to be organized by thej Trovets within the following week. Concert work will also be featured in the new organization’s activi- I ties. Its main function, however, ] will be to supplement the band with a chorus unit.
ince Act
Features lent Policies, ium Payments
|ngressional act the national serv-lirance act of 1940 ’resident Truman According to Will Rer.ila, direc- I reek provides lor tor of the chorus-to-be, uniforms j [ig changes in the will be supplied by the school.
“They will consist of a gold tans may now Ob- blouse, wine-colored trousers, and |r endowment pol- beaded moccasins,” he announced.
Jment at 60 and All male vets who may be inter-|t 65, in addition to ested are asked to apply at the fm policies, ordinary Trovet office in the third floor nd 30 payment life lounge of the Student Union, e veteians who con- j Those applying need not be erm insurance to one members of the Trovets, if, however, they should wish to Join the organization after being admitted to the chorus, they will be heartily encouraged to do so. Two rehearsals a week, one with and without the band, will be required of all members of the chorus.
Gebhart Makes Doctor to Talk ^,ly D;s“,ery'
t i k I i'	Prevents Maior
our of a ion Qn Education Property Damage
Carl G.?b'hart, associte editor of the Daily Trojan during the spring term, whose whereabouts
“I doubt that the city schools
have been unknown for the last	of Los Angeles have had ‘PE' pro-
two months, is now making an	gressive education. I think it is
extensive tour of the United	(more apparent than real.”
States, according to a letter re-	j These were the words of Dr.
ceived by Erwin Newton of the	j0jin T. Wahlquist, visiting lecturer
Trojan Staff.	j in the SC School of Education
While in Washington, Geb-	f0r the ensuing Summer Session, hart attended t'he session of
congress which passed the revis-	| ?r. Wahlquist, dean
ed OPA bill, recently signed by	. Sch°o1 of Education, University of
| Utah, author of the best seller on
).000 World War II tig in the area of fetes regional office ed between 40 and [ have allowed their
President Truman.
Gebhart is traveling with a gorup of college students who are visiting every part of the nation. He plans to return to SC
education, “Philosophy of American Education,” and visiting lecturer, will speak on “The Future of Progressive Education” in tlie
thU~"fall" and coiitinue his stu- I art a"d lecture room, University
library, 3:15, Monday, Aug. 12.
dies.
kded act does not Statement procedure, lies may be reinstat-Iment of two month-and a signed state-veteran ’he is in as now as at the time
lously authorized plans Cted to change to one powment plans if they
Itrictions on choice of have been removed, lured may have his in-|d in a single lump feficiaries, or payments monthly installments n 36 to 240 months.
;ured veterans who are abled for as long as s payments of $5 a
each $1000 of insurance jan plays is used to it all by now. pleasure to work in an enterprise le as long as the disabil- 1	-	with a futuie.
The insurance itself is d by the payments, but jremium is required to [5 additional benefit, rsons who served in the
“Progressive education Ls directly associated with the philosophy of John Dewey,” said Dr. Wahlquist, “and started when John Dewey arrived at Chicago university where he started his laboratory school of progressive education.’’
Special detachments from the arson squad of the Los Angeles fire department kept watch on and near the campus last night in an effort to prevent any more of the mysterious fires which startled nightwatchmen and janitors on Tuesday and of the ] Wednesday evenings.
At 8:15 on Tuesday two fires were discovered simultaneously, one in the women’s rest room on the first floor of Old College and one in 5 Music building.
Inspectors from the fire department believe that the at-tempted conflagrations wera started by a pyromaniac and that either fire could have beeu extensive if not caught in time,.
Mr. Everman of the operation* and maintenance department stated that a member of the arson squad of the fire department has been conducting an in-
Floods of Questions Besiege Miss Meblin
by Dick Eshelman
“Mlss Meblin, how do you sit on a 60-year-old man’s
lap?”	Then about the time of the first j third fire was discovered in a
This was the question that greeted a pair Of tired ears World war the Progressive Educa- | rubbish heap outside of Harris yesterday as their owner entered the hall where Philip tion association was started and hall, 37th and University. Tho Barry’s “The Philadelphia Story” was being rehearsed. . ran till 1944. when it became the only damage v*is a scorched
The mind behind the ears was ------- American Education fellowship outer wall. No evidence has y<‘t
“All this,” she gloated, “after which is a branch of the New Ed- been discovered that definitely teaching chemistry and debate. ucation fellowship, the interna- links it to the two planted fires.
tional progressive educational so- 1 Most of the damages Tuesday
I occurred at the Music building
i vestigation of the origin of tho Dr. Wahlquist mentioned the two blazes. His name is beinf? second laboratory school which withheld pending the outcome of was started at Missouri university the inquiry.
in 1904 by J. L. Meriam of UCLA. Early yesterday morning a Then about the time of the first
somewhat shocked, but the person to whom the question was directed took it with aplomb.
Miss Frieda Meblin receives a lot
Oh, the hours I've spent on those debates. I'm happy now, though,
of questions that look baffling at an<^ I think this new drama de-first, but the director of 10 T10- Pai tment is going places. It s a gressjve education,” continued the
ciety.
“There is a lunatic fringe in pro-
where, in addition to the damage Continued on Page Two
Candidates
ed or totally disabled in iuty while in service. This ent will provide income for ed on Page Two
. . . for the football managerial staff next fall are asked to re-
doctor, “and when I say ’PE' progressive education I mean the propaganda of the progressive education association of Dewey and his satellites: where small ‘PE’ progressive education has the heritage of the vintage of Rousseau,
Dr. Wahlquist was reporter-
Chen Plans Ch ina Trip
Going to China on a year's sab-
port to the athletic office or con- j editor of the section on curriculum batical leave, Dr. Theodore H.
' Chen, head of the department of Asiatic studies at SC, will leave next week.
After telling an actress the pro- 1 per way to sit on the lap of a young actor who will portray a J sexagenarian in the play, Miss M„ as she is called with af-~ n mm .fection by her charges, turned her :es between Oc . ,	attention to the owner of the
2. 1945, aie en 1 e aforementioned ears.
new NSLI, the total	fashion itact senior manager Bill Niehart j instruction of the National Con
t to exceed $10,000.	Qf	™ “ have not aiways b* calli“« WE 6036 during the I ference on Veterans Education
ications ior	been aflame with ,ove £or my art. , evening.	held in Chicago in April, 1946.
>e rejected solely 101	•--- -
1	4-^ q I actually got started teaching
Casons between Oct. a,	... ...	^
Sent 2 1945 are valida- chemistry and other such subjects s where the applicants Junior college. I had majored in chemistry and political science 1 at North Dakota university and went right into teaching. One of ; my jobs was to take over the high school class in speech.”
The rest may some day be stage history. Musa Meblin suddenly sat ( bolt upright, like one of th^ char- | acters in “The Hucksters,” and wondered with “brief terror how I her life was spent.”
ur to Fill ography Job lacing Mingo
Kilgour, SC, ’45, will ^r as head of the univer-fiotography department on Replacing Joe Mingo, |f the department, for 14 vlr. Kilgour comes directly lie field of commercial phony where he has had con-le experience.
on the campus Mr. Kil-iwas affiliated with Sigma Epsilon. More recently *he ,ed his own photography stu-Huntington Park, photography department, to-with the bookstore and rla, is part of the service h of the university. Among anctions are the taking of ac photograplis, publicity graplis and portraits for the »ok-
Ex-Trojan Submits Report On Coming Greek Elections
by Joe Dodson
I Germans have blocked with a large (ship, into the Peloponessus, along
Dr. Chen will serve a part of the time as acting president of Fukien Christian university In Fu-chow to assist in rehabilitating tha institution which was completely looted by the Japanese during tha war. He also intends to travel over China to study current social, economic, and political developments,
Dr. Chen Is a graduate of Columbia university and he earned his Ph. D. at SC in 1930. He is a
(The writer was a graduate student,., _ ,, . _ . ,, , _ , here in the School, of Journalism last tne Olllf Ot Corinth to Pfl.tl’35. TllC spring. He left sc ln June to accept a I gulf as well as the Aegean are l*»sition with tlie allied mission to oU- , ... , ... ., ,	. . ,
serve the Greek eeotions.)	beautiful, with the clearest, bluest
t .	I water I've ever seen. Stopped over-
1 ett Washington by 1 WA on night there then ferried across contributor to national educational
“I knew then” she said “that ,U"e	“rnv*d 1,1 At^e,^jthe gulf to EJpirus and north to Journals as welt as having been
I knew then, she said, that June 30-very nice trip in a Co4 lQnnina> We^assed through the a feature article writer for the
small village where Byron died. Los Angeles Times.
The
speech and drama work was the life transport. Our £,u>ps were Phila for me. I went back to take more deiphia, New York. Boston, New-college work at Iowa university | (0undland> shannon in Ireland, and later at Washington, finally Lisbon, Madrid, and Rome. Stay-taking my masters degree at Col- ed overnight in Madrid and Rome, umbia.”	| Au the places were interesting.
From there it was a short step 1 8ot a special kick from the to the Pasadena Playhouse, where, aerial view of Rome, with all the
in the summer of 1943, Miss Meblin sojourned in order to study directing. 3he was seriously sidetracked, however, and ended up acting in several shows.
Sharing with department head William C. de Mille the direction of most Trojan plays, Mlss Meblin has staged “The Male Animal,” “High Tor,," “The Man Who Caiue To Dinner,” “Spring Again,” “Outward Bound,” “Dulcy,” “Holiday,” “Junior Miss,*' and “Young Man of Today. *
landmarks easily discernible. The weather was perfect all the way, and the only night flying was the ocean hop.
After a couple of weeks in Athens I came to this place, which is in northwest Greece and the principal city of Epirus. Had a terrific jeep trip over the worst roads imaginable—it took us two days to make less than 300 miles. But it was worth it.
Prom Athens we went to Corinth and crossed the canal, which the
Turkish infulence is still His wife and daughter will ac-strong in this region, which didn't company him during his tour of get its independence until 1881. China.
Dress and costumes are chiefly Turkish.
My job is as a statistician, one of five with the mission. I'm statistical “advisor” to the director for this district. Next week I expect to make a run over to Corfu, supposed to be quite a place. The Professional aptitude tests will king had a summer palace there, be given Saturday, Aug. 17, at SI
Education
Notice
There’s only one other American here. The British contingent of observers, who go out and collect out statistical informations is headed by Lt. Col. Max Bally, a British Davis cup tennis player for several years. During the war he Continued an Rage Two
a.m. in 305 Administration build-
ing.
A fee of $3 should be paid to th( university business office not later than 8:30 a.m. on tha day ot the test. Receipts will serve U» admit examinees.