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jolyzoides Chooses Atomic Energy >r Philosophy Forum Discussion
iking realistically of atomic energy and its implica-|in international relations, Adamantios Th. Polyzoides, ir at today’s 4:15 Bowne hall philosophy forum, will lostly with his experiences as an observer at the United is meetings at Lake Success, N. Y. iPolyzoides, lecturer in inter-*-———
relations, journalism, and , has attended the discus-l the atomic energy commis-le last three summers, and |prelecture interview he said ae has carried with him the fcsion that “unless there is hent on the general principles mic energy control among the (>wers. the whole future of this will take a very long time ve.”
GIVES VIEWPOINT
speaker emphasised that it his purpose in the lecture to give a layman's viewpoint le entire field of atomic ener-(tomic bombs, and the impli-is of the new power on inter-ia! relations.
|nfortunately people tend to of atomic energy only in Is of bombs." lie said. “Atomic will have many other im-nt uses aside from the costly
rviewing the international im-|tion> of atomic control Mr. coides added that “conditions difficult enough when Andrei hivko ol the USSR first reled that the United States de-all its atomic weapons before a would consent to intema-[ control. But the uncovering lif vast conspiracy in Canada, [paling tbe whole staff of the liar embassy in Ottawa in-Jed the difficulties oi intema-cooDeration.
HELD TO WEST ("or tbe moment and for a cor.-prable time to come, it must be fe«roTood in a positive way ttiat te\ er international cooperation ►cured or. atomic energy will to be confined in The western rers, while Russia and the coun-under her control "will be work-on a parallel and even com-
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Mr. Pol: «>ides explained that jcl: must be done with the aspect [popular education ir atomic mat-He pointed out that in one of open meetings of the atomic trgv commission at Lake Success, ly one press representative was t>re, while Mr. Poiyaoides himself Id a “ratlier eiderlx lady” consti-fced the entire lay audience.
qumas Gifts World Told
hat the knowledge of the teach -of St. Thomas Aquinas can do persons today was stressed at weekly Panorama of Religions •cture yesterday in Bowne hall by 'teniel J O’Hanlon. Society of Jesus. k One of Oie most important gifts St. Thomas to the present world is that he did not write on tem-irary matters and thus freed him-lf from the dated thinking of anv of the scholastic thinkers of s time, according to the lecturer.
HAD UNUSUAL ABILITIES Faith, as a “mental absent given something because someone said ” and reason, “the acceptance of nnething because it is seen,” were ifferentiated by the speaker before rplainine that reason and re vela-on. faith and knowledge can be ►conciled.
“Perfect intellectual modesty and pckless intellectual audacity, two jalities whose combination ls un-sual in the same man. were posed
fy Aquinas" according to the speak-
FULL LIFE AVAILABLE
Mr. O’Hanlon. a scholastic in the Dciety of Jesus, stressed that there no conflict between reason and relation, but merely that they are po ways of arriving at truth. Freedom from intellectual snob-ery. totalitarian religion, excess pantuality, doubt and consequent faction, thus freeing one’s self for fuller and eternal life are some the possible improvements in life thich are available to those with in understanding of the teachings (f St. Thomas, according to Mr. Ulan Ion.
Editor Rotates Trojan Staff In Job Shift
In line with the policy of giving training and encouragement to more members of the staff by trying them out in various jobs. Daily Trojan Editor Dick Eshleman yesterday announced promotions involving more than half of the workers on the SC paper.
“The principle involved,” Eshleman told staff members, “is that cf training. The new staff must have plenty of trained men ready to take over, cane September. It’s our Job now to see to it that these men get the training. Maybe it’s not a good idea to ‘change horses' but this is a laboratory and we have to think about the future. I think a shift now and then is good for any newspaperman. Keeps him from getting rusty.”
EDITORS NAMED Principal change in the new setup involves the appointment of two assistant editors. Benson Srere and Jerry Mather. This was done with the understanding that the jobs were not permanent in scope, but merely end -of - Uie-semester training positions, created to acquaint the two journalists with administrative duties they may encounter next fall. Srere has served as sports editor and Maher has been a desk editor and editorial board member. Both are actives in Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity.
John Beebe, sports columnist and reporter succeeds Srere as top man in the sports department. Beebe is also on active SDX member.
DESKMEN SWITCHED New additions to the list of desk editors are Bob Boicli. Art Williams, and Bill Dow. Boicli and Dow are former assistant desk editors while Williams, a Theta Chi pledge, did sports writing and makeup, as well as filled an assistant desk editorship. The new men will join veterans Bill Gillis. Sigma Chi. and Grelun Landon, Delta Sigma Phi (Continued on Page 4)
VOTER PROPOSALS REVIEWED Council to Pop
Atom Apathy
Agitation to make voters’ registration part of the regular academic signup began last fall in a series of proposals whose defeat led to the appointment of the senate committee whose reported plan for this spring is discussed in the editorial on this page.
The first proposal Mas presented te the senate on Oct. 16 by Junior Class President Joe Flynn, who asked for the elimination of the registration of voters in ASSC elections. Tbe proposal was defeated by a vote of 13-5, despite Flynn’s report on the “shady political history” of ASSC elections. Flynn pointed out at that time that even with the complex and “fool-proof* system employed, it was still possible to “fix” student elections.
At this senate meeting, Bill Stevens, debate captain, produced object lessons from the past and
Flynn himself mentioned the “missing” registration books of spring, 1947. The senators elected to retain the status quo and voted Flynn’s measure down.
This defeat failed to dampen the spirits of ^proponents of nonregistration. On Nov. 12. Flynn reintroduced the proposal. Grafton Tanquary, senator-at-large, joined forces with him in this renewed attempt to abolish the registration of voters, which, in Flynn’s words, would “take the crookedness out of student body elections.”
Flynn’s proposal took the form of a bylaw to Article 8 of the constitution, which, if adopted, would have allowed voters to cast ballots on the basis of official lists compiled by the registrar's office, using student body cards for identification at elections during the spring semester.
Tanquary proposed a permanent plan to begin next fall under which voters would register at the time of academic registration on cards to be held by the registrar until election time.
The no-registration proposal went before the ASSC senate on Nov. 20 and again was defeated by a roll call vote of 20-8.
Following defeat of Flynn's proposal, senators downed Tanquary's similar but permanent plan by a vote of 17-10. The move was made despite DT representatives’ assurances that they would support an initiative election on the antiregistration question.
After the Fiynn and Tanquary proposals were squelched, a motion by Ted Schaeffer resulted in the election of a committee composed of Jea Morf, ASSC vice-president,
Norm Galen tine. then elections
commissioner, and Grafton Tanquary which investigated the possibility of eliminating registration from voting procedure and suggested other improvements on the current setup.
At the last senate meeting, the election committee presented a committee report with a plan for voting registration. The report provided for two registration periods instead of one. One period of registration was to take place
Bridge Hall Photograph Exhibit Highlignts Atomic Energy Week
Posters, films, discussions, and exhibits spearhead Atomic Energy week, a drive sponsored by the Council of Atomic four weeks preceding the election impiicati0ns to make students and faculty members more so election commissioners would conscious Qf ^e facts about nuclear energy.
Continuing through Friday, Atomic Energy week is tht
f- irst of a series of educational pro-
have adequate time to check signatures, colleges, and classes to insure honest elections. The second registration is to be held four days before elections so that persons who became enthused by the nominations assembly can register. This proposal was passed, despite continued opposition.
SOUTHCRn #
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Vol. XXXIX
Los Angeles, Cal., Tuesday, Mar. 30, 1948
No. 107
'Wamp Unsold So Willie Stays
Two pieces of good news have hit SC withm the last 24 hours. The first was the announcement that the Screamland issue of the Wampus was finally to go on sale yesterday morning. Thousands were made happy by the uproarious satire on movie magazines.
Tlie second bit otf cheerful tidings is that the Wamp is to be on sale again today along University avenue. Students who cried themselves to sleep last night because they had been unable to buy a copy of the humor magazine may now dry their tears and hurry to the nearest vendor, quarter in hand.
Editorial
graduate
Noticc
Summer Notice Needless—VA
Contrary to information in last Wednesday’s Daily Trojan, SC veterans do not have to notify the campus VA office of their intention to attend summer school.
Dr. Philip A. Libby, director of veterans affairs, in rectifying this error, pointed out that there It, in fact, no wa> for vets to make such notification to his office.
Veterans planning to attend summer school are advised by Dr. Libby to register during the pre-registration period in May, dates to be set later.
Subsistence allowance for ex-servicemen not registered for summer classes will be automatically terminated at the end of
Clothing Drive Will Continue
Nov, in its final week, Uie YWCA clothing drive is already a success, according to Y officers. It will continue until Friday.
“Contributions haw been pouring in from many sources,” Marilyn Esslinger, chairman of the drive said yesterday. “The lost and found department; the gymnasium; and even Helen Hall Moreland, dean of women, have given articles of clothing for the needy people overseas.”
For those who did not have time to rummage through their attics during the Easter vacation in search of old. outgrown, or out-of-style clothing, the drive hat been extended to Friday, Miss Esslinger explained.
Clothing no longer being used will be accepted by the Y and will be shipped to the American Friends service committee, a Quaker group, which has charge of distributing the wearing apparel to the needy people of Europe and China.
A truck will pick up the duffle bags with the donated clothing from the dormitories, sororities, and fraternities this afternoon. Another collection will be made at the end of the week.
You're Being Robbed
Whether or not you know it, you’re being robbed of your vote as a citizen of Troy.
You’re being robbed by an outmoded system of “registration” for student body elections that plays into the hands of one-party student government.
The psychological barrier of standing In line to sign a form and get your student body card punched, then the added onus of remembering to carry tbe duplicate form to the polling place—all these combine to keep a large number of Trojans from the polls. The result: government by a minority, rule by organized pressure groups, invisible dominance by subrosa groups.
We know that the excuse originally offered for the system of “registration” was that such a system would do away with the dishonesty and fraud that once characterized too many of our elections. That may have been true once, but now, with at least two major factions vying for votes, the same honesty could be achieved by making the elections commissionership a bipartisan job, administered by a multi-membered commission.
For various reasons, some of them valid and some of them not so valid, senate members last fall voted down the Flynn and Tanquary proposals, which would have made registration an automatic part of the regular academic signup at the beginning of each semester, thus giving to every Trojan the right to vote if he so desires.
At the last senate meeting, a committee appointed to follow up the Flynn and Tanquary ideas with a further study of registration, came up with a plan that would admittedly take the dishonesty out of the process, but which would add to its complexity and raise the effective barriers against full student voting. This newspaper cannot reconcile its role as a representative of the Trojan student body with support for such a basically ridiculous proposal.
WE ARE, THEREFORE, ANNOUNCING OUR COMPLETE OPPOSITION TO THAT ACT OF THE SENATE AND WE ARE CALLING UPON ALL STUDENTS TO OPPOSE THAT ACT BY INITIATING LEGISLATION TO DO AWAY WITH REGISTRATION.
We are a newspaper and not a political machine. We cannot bear petitions for such an initiative ourselves. But we call upon all interested students and student groups to form NOW to start such petitions, to get such an initiative on the ballot in the coming elections, and to make the success of that initiative one of the major issues of the campaign.
Wre will support such student groups with all our powers and resources.
LET IT BE CLEARLY UNDERSTOOD, HOWEVER— WE DO NOT CONSIDER THIS TO BE A PARTISAN POLITICAL MATTER. WE PROPOSE THE MOVE ONLY TO INCREASE STUDENT PARTICIPATION IN ASSC GOV-
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Aeneas Eatery Plans Opening
Luscious waitresses, good food at reasonable prices, and 16-hour service are some of the advantages offered by the Ted Owen restaurant, opening tomorrow morning in the east l-asement of Aeneas hall.
The long-awaited restaurant includes a lunch counter, soda fountain, booths, and tables, and win seat more than 135 customers. Tentative serving hours at the eatery will be from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m., seven days a week.
An announcement dinner for more than 150 SC faculty, administrative, and student leaders is to be held tonight as an introduction of the restaurant to the SC campus.
Warren Smith, SC alumnus and track star, will manage the restaurant, which, it is estimated, was constructed at a cost of $40,000.
Atoll Players, Pig Will Spark Peasant' Fete
The Indepeasant festival is rolling into Saturday night's limelight with bids available for all students to hear and dance to Will Osborne’s orchestra at the Riviera country club, 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
All students holding the $2.70 bids will be witnesses to what Herb Riley, social chairman of the Independent council, predicted as the social event of the year, that is the crowning of the walking pig.
Talent from the coming varsity
Taylor Scores Ins for Fascist Trends
by Jerry Maher	1 prevent undesirable candidates from
Persons “in control” in the United ' entering against us and to protect States are “trying to make this the integrity of our ticket, we are oountry into a fascist state,” Sen. forced to name candidates against Olen H. Taylor. D.. Ida., told re- i them.”
porters Sunday in a press confer- j pressed for details on his charge enee at the Biltmore hotel.	0f fascism in the United States,
In Los Angeles for a third party senator Taylor outlined recent political rally at Gilmore stadium; moves by this country which, he last night. Senator Taylor charged jjjd. proved that “our enemies in that the administration's reversal on world War II will be our allies in the Palestine partition is the “most world War in.”
bankers have obstructed them.
“Much of the work was done by William Draper of Dillon, Reed, and company,” he said. “Now Draper’s son-in-law is in charge of the de-cartelization program, while Draper, himself, is in Japan to build up the Zaibatsu.”
He is not opposed to aid to Europe if it is handled through the UN, Senator Taylor asserted.
U. S. UNDERMINES UN “I voted against the Marshall plan, but I would be glad to ap-
disgraoeful betrayal of America's.	_ - .
honor within his memory. He I CHARGES POWER POLITICS	_______________________
labeled the 80th congress as “the “The recent wooing of P**”0*	propriate money to help Europe if
greatest calamity that has befallen Ishows how unprincipled and brutal	^ were ^ administered by the the United States in many years.” our policy is. the senator The United States has been
Stumping the country as vice-
said. ‘Our own bare-faced power
TreEmnarrwTUtSiexairiina -I tions for the Ph.D. degree are scheduled for Apr. 12-14 at f I a.m.
Candidates should ©all at that I hour at the office of the Graduate School for instructions.
Permits to tale these lasts |	be requested not later than
ir. 2 at the Graduate Sehool
presidential candidate for Henry Pities are now coming to light. Wallace s third party, the husky, i11’5 Fr»nce now’ andw,De Ga^levf rumpled senator who made head- waiUn* 1x1 the stables mth his lines with his horse and banjo, de- armor 411 P°llshed-:nied that his party was indiscriminately entering candidates against
instrumental in undermining the UN by its unilateral policy,” he said.
The UN is neither dead nor mori-bound, however, in the opinion of “The mask is off our foreign Wallace’s running mate. What it policy. There are outright fascists,	to strengthen it is support
been decided upon by the UN, and he would “back the UN 100 per
cent.”
He deplored any interference in the forthcoming Italian elections, saying that he would consider it in the same light as interference in elections here by outside forces. Asked if Communists were interfering in the United States. Senator Taylor said any answer would be “a guess, pure and simple.”
*‘I have no particular preference for either side in Italy," he asserted. “The people there are oppressed, and the government is making no effort to change the situation.
WOULDN’T GRIEVE “I don’t know whether the people would be better off under the Communists, though some of our senators return ine from "-’-one have said the countries under th«n are in better shape. People thinK
Kavanagh Elected New SDX Head
Hank Kavanagh was elected chapter president of Sigma Delta Chi, national professional journalism fraternity, last week. Kavanagh, former desk editor of the DT, is a transfer student from Drake university and will be graduated this June.
Harlow Smith, contributor of the Daily Trojan's Jazz news, was named vice-president. Sports editor John Beebe becomes SDX secretary, and Ted Shields, news editor, is the fraternity’s new treasurer.
■Mr
HERB RILEY . . . come join the done#
show “No Love Atoll” will be on hand to display rehearsed feats. Sedda Akopian, Spaketta in the show, will entertain dancers along with George Wood, who plays Ed Semper in the stage production.
“Be it here revealed,” said Riley, “that today’s clue ior the character of the walking pig is:
“In Monday’s Screamland she appeared.
“Making 2000 girls very skeer-ed.”
Osborne, famed composer of “Between 18th and 19th on Chestnut Street” and “Wouldst Could I But Kiss Thy Hand, Oh Babe!” will lead his band with popular melodies and croon to all attenders.
All students are invited to get their bids for “the rollicking extravan ganza-’ Saturday night, said Riley, either at the Student Union ticket office or the booth in front of Student Union.
grams which CAI plans to mahi annual events at SC.
LIFE HELPS
Highlight of activities is tbe exhibit of photographs being display* ed in the lobby of Bridge hall. Photographs were prepared by Life magazine in collaboration with the United States atomic energy commission.
The exhibit is divided into thrve
topics;
1.	Peacetime research led to wartime development; Hiroshima, Nagasaki. Bikini; experiments with animals; radiation sickness.
2.	Wartime development leads to peacetime use: power-plutontum laboratory; first atomic pile at Stagg field, Chicago; future atomie power plant.
3.	Problem of control: sources ot uranium; mining uranium; separation plant; problems in education.
FILMS SHOWN
Motion pictures dealir* with a-tomic energy are being shown throughout the week in 309 Bridge
hall.
CAI. sponsor of Atomic Energy week, was organized at SC In February 1945. It is an outgrowth of
Here is today’s CAI program: “What Is international control of Atomic Energy?” i p.m.. 3<* Bridge hall.
Philosophy forum: “lateen*-tional Implications of Atomie Energy,” Adamantios Th. Poly-loides. speaker. 4:15 pjn.. Mudd hall.
Row Grade Averages For Semester Listed
For the second consecutive semester, Pi Lambda Phi and Lambda Chi Alpha fraternities are listed as first and second in fraternity scholastic standing, according to a scholarship cated by ^ council to publicise
peacetime atomic energy potential
a group of veterans who met with a professor for ten weeks to study what they could do to establish more securely the peace for which they had fought.
Finding their subject of such vital importance, the group invited others to join.	*
AIMS TOLD Present aims of the CAI are to encourage civilian use of atomic knowledge and materials, to avoid atomic war. and to prepare means of civilian protection in case of a-tomic war.
The group has undertaken intensive study of the subject, involving research in physics, medicine, economics, politics, and psychology. Experts such as Dr. J. Robert Open heimer and Dr. Stafford L. Warren have given the eouncil personal advice.
CAI holds a seminar each Tuesday afternoon at 3:15 in 300 Bridge hall. The purpose of these seminars is to reach agreement on proposals to prevent atomic war and to educate the public on anomie energy. Dissemination of knowledge through motion pictures and pamphlets is currently being used by the council.
FIGHTS WAR CAI proposes to prevent atonyc war by supporting efforts to a-chieve international control of atomic energy, by analysis poh-cies of this country promoting cies of this country, promote** against those policies which promote war.
Audio-visual materials are advo-
Stieg Named Library Head
Reps. Helen Gahagan Douglas and everywhere. The cartelists who sup- from those who “profess to love it, of their stomachs. If a government Chet Holifield of Los Angeles de- j ported Hitler before World W ar II those who pay it lip service.” j spite their progressive records in Iare in control again. They are ready j “And that includes the Soviet congress	i t° Pick UP the fight against Russia Union.” he added.
CITES PRESSURE “We will work with liberals anywhere if they give us half an opportunity.’’ he said. “These people are under terrific pressure from libs leadership in their party. To
where Hitler dropped it.	BACKS PALESTINE PARTITION
Asked to identify the • cartelists” j It was in this same vein that of whom he spoke. Senator Taylor. Senator Taylor said he looked upon said the denazification and decar- ' the necessity for adherence to “our telization programs in Germany j original commitments” in the Pales-have been stopped because U. S. (tine partition, since partition had
can’t satisfy them, I wouldn’t be grieved to see it kicked out.”
The recent Czechoslovakia coup was an internal matter also. Senator Taylor explained.
“We never seem to get excited when the same thing occurs in South America. We may deplore (Continued on Page 4)
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. announced yesterday the appointment of Dr. Lewis F. Stieg as University librarian, effective June 1. He At Faculty Club
report released by Dr. Albert Zech, assistant to the dean of men.	*
The report for the fall semester covers 29 fraternities on campus, and gives Pi Lambda Phi a grade point average of 1.7 and Lambda Chi Alpha colony an average of 1.5.
- STANDING IMPROVED
Third In standing Is Phi Kappa Tau, which was in 27th place the previous semester. Also improving their standing are Kappa Alpha, from 24th to 10th place, and Beta Theta Pi, from 23rd to 13th.
Men’s grades, on the whole, dropped almost .1 from the spring semester, according to the report, while fraternity grades dropped only .05. All-fraternity average for the fall semester is 1.295, and all-men average is 1.291.
Other fraternities and their grades are Theta Chi, 1.469; Theta Xi, 1.464; Sigma Alpha club, 1.458;
Scorpion club, 1.405; Tau Epsilon Phi, 1.387; Alpha Epsilon Pi. 1-.385; Chi Phi, 1.376; Delta Tau Delta, 1.370; Kappa Alpha 1.370.
GOING DOWN
Zeta Beta Tau, 1.357; Phi Delta Chi, 1.326; Beta Theta Pi, 1.304;
Sigma Phi Delta, 1.281; Phi Kappa Psi, 1.252; Delta Sigma Phi, 1.247;
Sigma Alpha Epsilon, 1.245; Kappa Sigma, 1.240; Pi Kappa Alpha, 1-.237; Sigma Chi, 1.233.
Delt Chi, 1.213; Phi Delta Theta colony, 1.187; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1-ony, 1.197; Phi Sigma Kappa, 1-.196; Sigma Phi Epsilon, 1.178;
Kappa Alpha Psi, 1.176; Tau Delta Phi, 1.095; Sigmt Nu, 1.090; Acacia. 1.060; and Alpha Rho Chi.
1.026.
in industry, agriculture, biology, and medicine. CAI attempts t* drive home the facts rounding nuclear energy bf shewing that it is comparable only In such forces ss gravity, power ef the son, and electricity.
Eckbo to Speak
will succeed Miss Christian R. Dick, who is retiring after 31 years with tbe University library.
. In addition to his new position Dr. Stieg will continue as director of the Graduate School of library Science, a post he has held since coming to SC last September.
Dr. Steig holds advanced degrees from Harvard university, the University of Michigan, and the University of Chicago. For several years librarian of Hamilton college, he was assistant director of libraries at the University of Chicago.
Miss Dick, a graduate of Doane college and the New York state library school, joined the staff of the University library at SC in 1927, She became librarian in 1933.
AWS Cards
. . . will be sold by June Robinson in 226 Student Union, Tuesday and Thursday from 9 to 10 ajn. All women need these cards, priced at $1, for the events of “It’s a Woman’s World.”
“Landscape Design” will be the subject of a talk by Mr. Garrett Eckbo, nationally known landscape architect, when he appears tomorrow noon at a luncheon meeting «f the Faculty Men’s club.
Becaure of limited seating apasa. reservations must be made befsn noon today by phoning Rose Walton. extension 288 or 289. according to Dean Arthur B. Gallion of the College of Architecture.
Education
Notice
App'i cations are now being taken for directed teaching in the
fall semester.
Forms can be procured in 355 Administration building, so that required preliminaries can be completed before the close of this term.
R. C. Perry Director, teacher
t