SOUTHERN
editorial
Thanksgiving Ha» Two Sides
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Museum Displays Rembrandts
Los Angeles, Cal.f Wednesday, Nov. 26, 1947
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No. 52
ll-U Meeting t for Today
onvocation Planned to Emphasize piritual Significance of Holiday
hasizing the spiritual significance of Thanksgiving, ns will take part in the observance of this holiday today all-U convocation at noon in Bovard auditorium, nsored by the student council of religion, and planned 111 Todd, chairman of the worship committee of the
-j council, the program has been pre-
manist Uses ence Only, o Explains
scientific humanist admits ossibility of immortality, but not believe in it,” Dr. Carl Otto said Monday afternoon wne hall during his discus-f “Scientific Humanism.”
Otto, professor of philosophy ■LA. said that if religion means upon a supernatural being, the scientif ic humanist is not us.
scientific humanist is corn-thoroughly to the scientific d and uses nothing but scien-jchniques. He wants to work vely to try to find something he can point at in the vis-■orld.
statement ls true if it is t to the test and it stands, ientific humanist is trying to dependable standards, not heaven, but worked out ob-ly”
ies truth, the scientific hu •welcomes desire as the riving force leading us to the ife.” Dr. Otto stressed that is bad morally if desire in-ipon the undesirables tied •This insistence without re-> human nature is bad.” using all types of humanism, to stressed that there was a ti motif permeating all of This is belief in man. faith lan nature, and trust in hu-estiny.
can be sure though.'’ Dr. dvised. “that when anyone some people are monkeys, a humanist”
pared in collaboration with the School of Music and the Graduate School of Religion.
PSALM INTERPRETATION The program oonsists of an interpretation of Psalm 23. by Dr. David Eitzen. tenor solos by John La Monica. music major, and selections by the Brass choir under the direction of Clarence Sawhill. director of the SC band.
Dr. Eitzen. Ph.D. in religion and psychology, is associate professor of pastoral counseling, and La Monica
Calendar Says
Jan. 1 Is Start Of New Year
SC will have only 44.000 Rose bowl tickets allocated to it for the 1948 Rose bowl game.
Students holding student activity books will receive one ticket only, on approximately Dec. 10. Students who do not have activity books will in all probability, not be able to purchase any Rose bowl tickets through the university.
Dick Nash, director of the athletic news service, revealed that there are only slightly less than 90.000 seats, including the press box, in the Rose bowl, and not 94.000.
The breakdown on ticket allocations. according to Nash, Ls as follows: SC, 44.000; University of Michigan. 12,500: Tournament of Roses committee. 18.000; press, 3000: public sale, 7500; and the remaining tickets allocated to the team players, the Pacific Coast conference, and the bands.
DAVID EITZEN . Psalms and solos
en Season Thieves, ief Warns
dsy thieves are on the
warning was given by C. B. Los Angeles chief of pol-i urged all shoprpers in the us downtown districts to be y watchful during the comics.
igested four simple precau-hich may be followed by to lessen the possibility of
en you have to set Chrise-kages down, be sure to place here a thief cannot pick unobserved.
ppers are urged to leave onev at home and to use •r some other means of pay-ourchases.
most accessible pockets for :ets are all coat and rear x>ckets. Men. are. therefore, d to cam* their wallets in
>ckets which are not so easv
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men can protect their purses mg them under their arms, t tempts to open or remove ^n be noticed immediately.
has been associated with the Los Angeles C.vic Grand Opera association. and the American Operatic laboratory.
BRASS CHOIR AIDS Aided by the brass choir, the National Anthem. America the Beautiful. and America are to be sung by the assembly. An invocation by William E. Larson. Graduate School of Relgion major, and a prayer by Marvin A. Johnson, who is working for his Ph.D. in religion, are scheduled.
Following is the complete prog-gram for the convocation assembly at noon today in Bovard auditorium:
Organ Prelude—William Reynolds. King’s Prayer md Finale. Act L Lohengrin by Wagner—Brass Choir.
National Anthe*" — Brass Choir and Assembly.
Invocation—William E. Larson. America the Beautiful — Brass Choir and Assembly.
Scripture Reading — Louis Durham.
America—Brass Choir and Assembly.
Prayer—Marvin A. Johnson.
The Lord s Prayer, tenor solo — John La Monica.
Message. Psalm 23 — Dr. David Eitzen.
• The Lord is My Light, tenor solo—John La Monica.
Benediction—Dr. David Eitzen. Organ Recessional—William Reynolds.	_
Science Effect Told in Forum
In the fmal philosophy forum of the semester. Dr. Ralph Tyler Flewelling. director emeritus of the School of Philosophy, yesterday showed the correlation between the development of the theory of dis-svmmentry in biology and dissymmetry of political thought as expressed in democracy in his speech on “Philosophy in the Light of Recent Scientific Discovery.* “Pasteur's discovery that certain parts of matter deflected light in an unusual way led to his discovery of a better method of fermenting wines. His discovery proved that only the molecules which deflected light would ferment. This was the first scientific revelation
No Camels
Homecoming Judges To Refuse Entries Of Mounted Beasts
Everything from traffic-stopping elephants to pint-sized Austins have toured the area along University avenue to the Row in annual homecoming taxi days of the past. With restrictions barring entry of mounted animals for this year's taxi day, scheduled for Dec. 5, sororities and dormitories have been told that such entries as the tylopodous ruminant (camel, to the less intelligent) can not be considered.
The first wartime SC homecoming. launched in November of 1942, dispensed with taxi day festivities because of the exigencies of war In 1944, homecoming activities were combined with a war bond drive in competition with UCLA donors and lacked a parade of vehicles.
A triple-decker, laundry-draped
Grads to Echo Joys of Troy
Winn Says Converging Alumni Anticipate SC Win Over Irish
“The Halls of Troy will resound with rollicking laughter, grow quiet to echo softly the warm handshakes of old friends and rise again to a bedlam of merrymaking during homecoming week,” Bill Winn, chairman of homecoming activities.
‘ said yesterday.
SANTA CLAUS LANE girls, all SC co-eds, pictured he*! with Kay Kyser and Ish Kabibble, will ride on the floats l>f Dennis Day and Mr. Kyser in the opening of the ade of Stars" tonight. Bottom row 1. to r. are Betsy Currier, Lucy Carpenter, and Gloria Banks. Top row n. to r. are Pat Gorman, Scott Cummings, Nancy Bak<£, Pat Judson, and Pauline Tevis.
All taxi day chairmen representing the individual sorority houses and dormitories are asked to meet in the AWS office, second floor of the Student Union between 12:45 and 3 p.m. today. Representatives must contact Betty Lou Miller, general chairman, or her assistant, Delores Elder.
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Stars to Lead Yearly Santa Claus Parade «
The annual Hollywood “Parade of the Stars” will make|:ts way down “Santa Claus Lane” commencing at 8 toniarit. Glittering with Christmas decorations and studded «|th stage, screen, radio personalities, and SC coeds, the pai’l ie will enter the “lane” at Argyle avenue, proceeding westi:n Hollywood bulevard to La Brea ave-	* —
bus entered by Harris Plaza in 1945 won the award for uniqueness, a plaque held by Alpha Chi Omega since the last prewar parade. Special mention was given to Delta I, II, and III, mounted camels of the Tri Delts, a bright yellow train of Gamma Phf Beta, and a colorful cruise boat entered by Alpha Chis.
The Chamber of Commerce. - 'd representatives of both the natL .al and state guards had one sorority
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which led to the development of1 en tried to obtain a Sherman tank.
the modem theory of biological dis- 1 Betty Lou Miller, general chair-symmetry.” Dr. Flewelling said. j man of this year’s taxi day, an-
Dr. Flewelling pointed out that
nounced yesterday that all proceeds taken from tickets for riding the assorted vehicles will be turned over to the Y building fund.
Pierre Curie found the part that dissymmetry plays in life when he developed the theory in crystaliza-tion.
According to the theory of dis-symmetry, evolution has proceeded in only those forms which are dissymmetrical. An example is the sea-worm which so perfectly adapted itself that evolution ceased.
“In order to understand an organism we must realize that is de-l purchase of a new site of land on
veloped by thinking to an end,” Dr.	,,	, , ___<c thp 36th street between McClintock and
Hillel Expands Housing Space
Flewelling explained.* Man is the! poorest adapted of the animal J Vermont avenue species, but with man came mind, spirit, and imagination, thus explaining his evolution according to biological dissymmetry.”
Dr. Flewelling likened biology to democracy by pointing out that democracy is dissymmetrical since under the democratic ssytem man has resisted regimentation.
Pledge Presidents
. . . meeting today has been cancelled. Ideas for parade floats should be left at the Chi Phi house, 720 West 28th street, as soon as [possible.
Today at a Glance
By Liu ted Press
was announced
yesterday by Miss Vivian Gelb, Hillel staff secretary. The new site includes a building which will be used temporarily until construction of a new Hillel house is started next year. The building on the new site will be converted into a Hillel home before the beginning of the spring
semester.
Membership teams under the direction of Monroe Weinberg. Jack Vinik. Muriel Psaty, and Art Teplitz will compete to gather the largest number of new members. The winning team W’ill be guests of honor at a special social function. A mem. bership of 500 is expected to be reached by the end of the coming week.
Hillel dues of the new members will be used in furnishing the house on the new Hillel site. A plan allotting the funds of a specified number of students to each room will be utilized in furnishing the house.
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Notice
Thanksgiving holidays are hursd&y, a.m.. Nov. 27, to 7 ajn., Dec. I. Students inded that no request for ion of the holiday period authorized.
Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vtoe-pmtdent.
campus early next week to absorb Trojan spirit and observe Trojan tradition, producers of the pending Homecoming radio broadcast yesterday promised they would work with student representatives to make the show a highlight of j the SC Homecoming festivities.
Molotov Blocks Treaty
LONDON. Nov. 25—The Big Four foreign ministers confer ence was plunged into a major dispute at its opening session today when Russian Foreign Minister Viacheslav Molotov rejected the pleas of his colleagues for immediate consideration of an Austrian peace treaty.
China Relief Approved
WASHINGTON. Nov. 25—The house foreign affairs committee today approved an emergency foreign aid bill which trimmed administration requests for three European countries by $90,000,000 but added a surprise $60,000,000 for Nationalist China.
Red Press Blasts U.S.
MOSCOW. Nov. 25—The Moocow press greeted the opening session of the Big Four foreign ministers today with the charge that the United States had tried to sabotage the conference in advance in the interest of “American imperial- I kusc, is directing stage design, ism.”	I The Shrine stage will be decorated
nue. south on La Brea to Sunset boulevard, and back on Sunset to Argyle.
Floats have been made for Jack Benny, Red Skelton, Fibber McGee and Molly, Kay Kyser. Art Linklet-ter, Ralph Edwards, Judy Canova, Alice Faye and Phil Harris, Jack Carson and Eve Arden. Dennis Day, Gildersleeve. “One Man's Family,”
Jo Stafford, and Eddie Cantor.
Sixteen bands including the Hollywood high school band, Los Angeles Dons band. Hollywood Lane band, and the Hollywood American Legion band will participate, according to Dave J. Malloy, parade director.
UNIFORMED GROUPS Uniformed groups, headed by Grand Marshall Sheriff Eugene Bis-cailuz and his posse, will include the San Gabriel mounted police. Del Rey palomino posse, Rio Hondo Rangers, Long Beach mounted police patrol, Valley Rangerettes, San Fernando Rangers, and Glendale mounted police.
The “Santa Claus Lane Girls,” pictured above, will ride tne Kay Kyser and Denis Day floats in the parade. Included in the group are Gloria Banks. Pauline Tevis, and Patti Krotz (not pictured), who are remembered as the “Four Star Coeds” in the last edition of the Vulture. published by members of Sigma Delta Cni, national journalism fraternity.
Mr. Kyser has long been an enthusiastic SC fan and recently recorded a group of SC songs, including the SC Fight Song.
COWBOY STARS Cowboy stars Gene Autry, Bill Boyd, Bill Elliott, and Leo Car.llo will be astride their favorite mounts. Sabu is scheduled to appear atop the inevitable elephant.
Last year's parade was witnessed by more than a million persons, Mr. Malloy says. In an effort to match the brilliant illumination on “Santa, Claus Lane” proper, a generator system of 1,250,000-watt capacity is being installed to light the Sunset boulevard portion of the route.
Council Favoi Dry' Coliseui
It will be a dry day when SC j .'es into the Coliseum to meet Ntatre Dame Dec. 6.
T.he Los Angeles city coins-11 voted unanimously Monday to hive the city attorney prepare an emi ys-ency ordinance banning the usefof liquor in the Coliseum. It may btf.n effect before the SC-Notre Ds% ,e game, and the use of liquor m lie Coliseum will become a misdeme;|i-
Judges Named For Decorations
Joyce Reynolds, Warner Brothers screen actress. Earl Moran, nationally-known calendar artist, and Max Autrey, prominent portrait photographer have been named judges for SC homecoming house decora tions, Bill Hullinger, decorations chairman said yfeterday.
Miss Reynolds ii; a xormer Beverly Hills high school student, who attended a cross-town university, Hullinger said. She has appeared in such pictures as “Yankee Doodle Drndy,” “George Washington Slept Here,” “Adventures of Mark Twain,” and “Janie.” Co-starring with Robert Hutton, she will appear in “Always Together,” which will be released in January.
Earl Moran, Hullinger said, is widely known for his eyecatching illustrations of beautiful girls and for his calendar art He specializes in chalk work.
Max Autrey is best known for his personality stills and color work in portrait photography, Hullinger paid. Most of his work is done for screen personalities.
The trio of judges will Yiew the houses at 3 p.m. Monday Dec. 1. After touring the houses, they will meet in Arnold Eddy’s office and announce the winners of the eight trophies which will be awarded.
TO MODIFY ORDINANCF
An ordinance already in operat prohibits drinking on streets, si-walks, and parkways. To this fie new ordinance will add parks, playgrounds, the Coliseum, and otl^-r places of public assembly where |n on-sale liquor license has not be&a granted.	r
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Until lately there have been f j complaints against drinking liqi at games in the Coliseum, but sir; the SC-UCLA game Saturday letters of complaint against tiTs have come from citizens of Los A
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geles and from the Los Ange i-Churoh federation to the city cou® cil asking for the ban on liquor in the Coliseum.
BAD INFLUENCE ON CHILDRL£
According to Don Allen, council man for the seventh district (whi includes the Coliseum), persons wl complained said they personally d not object to the use of liquor ai they even drank themselves, but ti language used and the brawling J the games resulted in disgusti>{ conduct and had a bad influence *'i children. Mr. Allen said that it wAs reported to him that two truckloads of empty fifths had be "! hauled away from the Coliseu^i Saturday after the game.	*
He said the emergency ordinandi will be rushed to make it effecti by Dec. 6. to avert a recurrence h Saturday’s disorders.
Labmen Plan Open House
NBC to Seek Trojans' Spiri
With NBC scr.ptwriters due on i with the colors of SC and Notre will continue publicizing the Tr--
1 Dame.	jan show on twice-weekly natloi?
With seats for more than 6000 wide airings. The titian-haired vocalist will sing three selection chosen by vote of the student bodi
students available for the broadcasts at 4 and 8 p.m. Dec. 4, distribution of tickets will be made	of Troy and Notre Dame, next week. Knight and Squires will	FAVORITE FEMALE aid in managing the audience.	Balloting at South Bend has MOVIE STARS BOOKED	ready started, and Don Blomber* Earle Risdon. student publicity di- • chairman of the SC voting, said yej
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Open house for engineering alumni is scheduled at the Engineering building from 4 to 6 p.m. Tuesday. The labs will be manned by mem bers of engineering professional and fraternal societies, according to Jim Young, student president of the col lege.
A reception in President Fred D Fagg’s suite in the Administration building will follow at 6 p.m., to give engineering graduates the opportunity of meeting the university president.
Alumni, faculty, graduate stu dents, and seniors of the college have been invited to the banquet in the Foyer of Town and Gown at 6:30 p.m.. where the principal speaker will be Dr. Fagg.
Graduate students and seniors may purchase banquet tickets in the office of Dean Robert E Vivian for $2.
Att-U Dig Bids. On Sale Today
“Step right this way, folks. Get your bids for the big Homecoming dance,” triumphantly shouted Chief Barker Manny Real yesterday upon receiving the tickets from the printer in time to go on sale at the Student Union ticket office when it opens this morning.
The bids had been originally scheduled to go on sale yesterday, according to Real, chairman of the all-University dance committee, but were held up because of printing difficulties.
Les Brown and his “band of re-
“Grads from all parts oI the nation are making plans to oenverge on the SC campus,” Winn said. ■‘Letters filled with anticipation of a victory over Notre Dame and a glimpse of the alma mater are pouring into the offices of Neil D. Warren, dean of men, and Arnold Eddy, director of alumni and student activities.”
A DRESSED CAMPUS In preparation for homecoming, the campus is to be dressed “ln a glow of decorations.” Unler the direction of Harold Bucklin, campus decorations chairman, University avenue will be transformed into a street of magic. Winn said. Line banners will stream overhead while flagout banners will swirl from the top of light posts, forming a radia; flare of color.
ENTERTAINMENT FILLED Winn previewed homecoming week as “fun-packed and spilling with entertainment thrills for all students and alumni.” Monday Dec.
is to be highlighted with three events — Judging of house decorations by off-campus professionals, judging of the queen contest at Bovard, and celebrating alumni night at the houses and dorms.
Alumni night will offer dinner, programs, and a decorations tour. Sorority house* will stay open until 10:15. In keeping with the Troy tradtion of a “strictly alumni night." no dating is permitted.
CROWN QUEEN On Dec. 2, the homecoming queen will be crowned at 12:30 in front of university library. On Dec. 4. Winn said, SC will go on the air with Jo Stafford, lovely ABC songstress, who will center her regular broadcast around SC on two one-hour shows which will be given a nation-wide hookup by NBC.
The Jo Stafford shows wil be broadcast from the Shrine auditorium at 4 p.m. and at • pan. Tickets. Winn explained, are free and will be distribdted to stndents on an impartial basis.
Win Over ND Acacia Theme
BAC KGROl ND MATERIAL rector for the show, said yesterday Harvey Amos, of campus station j that radio and motion picture stars
KUSC. will work with the network writers in gathering background material to be used on the Dec. 4 Jo Stafford Supper Club show. Bonnie Hoffert. chief producer at
are being lined up to entertain the SC audience following Jo Stafford's regular broadcast. Don Baker is in charge of talent procurement.
Miss Stafford plugged the special SC program on her regular coast
terday that polling at Troy will b| gin early next week.
Miss Stafford, after an apprentic-: ship with Tommy Dorsey’s Pifi Pipers, emerged as a top ballfj warbler in 1945 when she was chos*] as the favorite female vocaliSt American servicemen in a BllboaiJ
Remember when everyone at some time or another leaned on the table to give the scoop of what happened when there was a minute and 40 seconds remaining in the football game? The Ac acta homecoming theme will follow this pattern when their decorations feature one of Troy’s greatest football accomplish -ments.
Trojans still tell the one about the SC-Notre Dame game in ’31. After advancing to the 13-yard line in the last moments of play, the score being Irish 14, SC 13, the Trojanr, tried for a place kick. Johnny Baker swung his well-aimed toe and the pigskin skimmed over the goalpost1: to give SC a 16-14 victory; which, incidentally, stood the footbal’ world on its collective astonishment.
Chicago received a joyous whitewashing from the Trojans that night and the next day. A “friend” bought every member of the team a derby hat.
So. when the famous little derby gets a show of prominence in the Acacia homecoming display, spectators will know why.
Commerce Plans
to coast broadcast last week, and I poll.
nown,” currently playing at Casino;	,
Gardens, will provide sweet as well Alumni OrOOtiriG as instrumental dancing pleasures for alumni and present SC students.
Santa Monica Ambassador hotel, at the foot or Pico boulevard in Santa Monica, is the site of this year ’s Homecoming dance.
All tickets for this dance, as well as bids for the rest of the year’s all-U dances, will be sold through
Before game time on Saturda. Dec. 6, the College of Commerce will hold open house for aljimni visiting the campus during homecoming. Touchstone theater will be the site of the festivities.
During the morning, guests of the College of Commerce will adjourn tne ticket office, seco.id floor, Stu-1 to Bovard auditorium where moviet dent Union. No bids will be sold j of the SC-Califomia football game (through fraternities and sororities, j are to be shown.
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