SOUTHERn
C fl L I f 0 R n I ft
XXXVIII
Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, Dec. 4, 1946
Nirht Phone:
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No. 56
ncdid Announces Vets' Delegate
obe Committee
gnment With Coast Conference der Fire by Alumni Association
bers of the investigation I with the Big Nine, were announced ;e of the General Alumni1 - ->n, formed to probe SC’s it with the Pacific Coast ce in its effort to unite
in Advises »hs to Buy Bids Soon
Ithree more shopping days to the sophomore dance! rag the warning sounded by j>re President Bill Winn in tg students to hurry if they e of the 300 bids being sold trday’c dance at the Bel Air
Mng Johnny Greer’s quartet, IrtcCarthy’s band will play pf soft, dreamy, music,” Winn kued. Novel entertainment is presented.
Scored by the sophomore JI, bids will only be sold to » with one sophomore mem-
me ot the decorations for the ys a secret, aooording to Bev and Bill Sargent, oo-n of the dance.
IreesM for women and suits |s for the men will be the the evening, Miss Norm an-kL
lines for the coat checking he going to be eliminated and ■rin be checked efficiently ply," Winn declared.
tnoe will be held from 8:30 pjn.
ig for $2.50, bids may be pur-from members of the sopho-ouncil or in the Student Un-Icet office. No bids will be the door of the dance.
today by Superior Court Justice Clarence L. Kincaid, president of the association.
The committee was organized under a unanimous resolution of the executive board when it became apparent that the situation arising from the PCCs effort to tie in with the Big Nine for future Rose Bowl games would not meet with the approval of SC or UCLA. PRESIDENTS ON COMMITTEE
Members include Loyd Wright, past president of the GAA; Elmer Howlett, also past president of the GAA; Howard Byran; Frazee Burke, past president of the Trojan club; and Judge Kincaid.
Time for the first meeting of the committee will be determined when Willis O. Hunter, director of intercollegiate athletics, and Arnold Eddy, director of student and alumni activities, return from the east. CONFERENCE CONSIDERED
Issues and questions to be considered by the group include what the PCC will do if SC elects to withdraw from the conference. The question of what league or conference SC will join will also demand attention of the committee.
The possibility of SC and UCLA remaining in the PCC if certain stipulations are made, or if the two universities plan their own confer ence are questions that only the committee can decide. Their decision will, of coursef be tempered by the attitude taken by the Big Nine,
Election Plans Set for Senate
Tentative Procedure Fixes Monday Noon As Petition Deadline
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\AS Adopts institution, •xy Voting
^ing another hurdle on the becoming a full-fledged stu->rganization, the AMS cab-(resterday voted on and ap-its constitution. The con-Dn will go to the ASSC sen-approval at its meeting to-
Joking much discussion in re-the constitution was the of voting by proxy. As the finally stands, an AMS ca-lember may vote by person | proxy. The proxy, however, sot be another member of the ft, must have written authori-and must be appraised by lan he represents of the mat-Inticipated for discussion, nouncement that the proposed [•sponsored men s smoker had | canceled was made by Bill lan, who had been in charge affair. Cancellation was made iry when members of the |cal education department de-to act as sponsors.
[angements for procuring a er to inform the student body about G. L life insurance I put in the hands of Fred Fox. information will be made avail-| at a future meeting for all psted.
ling the Homecoming dance a Jlete success. President Joe (related that $200 had been re-by the Santa Monica Am-jr hotel for the rent of their am in addition to $131 in tax 5ts for refreshments. Tne mo-
f.ill go to a social fund for all-rsity functions.
Lecture on Art To End Series
"To the artist, the .meat of art if. form and to the public it is subject matter,” Millard B. Rogers, assistant professor of fine arts, said in a recent interview. “The artist is unwilling to compromise his position and the public is unwilling to accept it.”
Professor Rogers will discuss the present dilemna coming into being at 3:15 today in the final lecture of the LAS Wednesday series in the art and lecture room, University library.
Stating that most persons want nothing but simple beauty in art. Professor Rogers said that if art is going to have any lasting value it has to deal with universal problems and doesn’t necessarily need the joys of sunsets and pretty flowers.
During his talk in which he intends to stress "The Lack of Content in Modern Art" Professor Rogers will explain the problems faced by the artist in dealing with the public which misunderstands him.
The lectures, which are sponsored by the LAS Council are under the supervision of Dr. Harold von Hofe, head of the German department. They are open to all students, faculty members, and the public.
Carl Gebhardt. president of the LAS student body, announces that guests will be greeted at the dpor today by Libby Jeffery and Frank De Marco. Dick Eshleman will introduce the speaker.
fure Symposium raluate Drama
Veteran's
Notice
Surveyance of overdue subsistence payments for veterans attending SC fulltime under the GI bill (public law 346) which began yesterday will continue through Tuesday. Dec. 10. at the office of veterans affairs. 834 West 36th street.
This survey applies only to veterans in school on or before Sept. 20 who have not received subsistence training and who are enrolled for ^ol and his immortal play, “In- a fun load—12 or more units for General, are the topics of undergradutes, 10 or more for grad-ion at today s Russian club uate students, at 3:15 p.m. in Bowne hall. . Veterans on reporting must know lposium led by Dr. Boris V. j their “C” number which appears on consisting of students of the letter of eligibility, letter of ettl*w«, evaluate the award, or other correspondence of I the Veterans administration.
Election procedure for the hard-fought veteran’s seat in the ASSC senate will be submitted for senate approval tonight, according to Al Kotler, elections commissioner. The veteran representative seat is provided for in the recently adopted resolution jointly sponsored by Milt Dobkin, junior class president; Jim Mitchell, ASSC president, and Jesse Unruh, Trovet president.
Under the resolution, a new voting chair is added to the senate to be occupied by a veteran who has completed 45 units with a grade average of 1.5 who has had residence here for the previous semester, and who “shall be duly elected by the veterans eligible to vote in the ASSC elections.” PETITIONS DUE THURSDAY Petitions for candidacy will be available Thursday afternoon. Friday afternoon, and Monday morning in 235 Student Union. Deadline for all petitions is set for noon Monday.	*
Veterans eligible for balloting will be requested to present their identification cards at the polls. Veterans attending the University who are not under the GI bill can present their certificates of discharge or a photostat thereof.
Polls will be open from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday. Dec. 11. The tabulation will be certified Wednesday night at the senate meeting. Results will be announced in the Thursday edition of the Daily Trojan.
UNRUH COMMENTS
"This is an opportunity for greater participation of veterans in student government. It is a very important seat and the occupant can initiate much needed legislation for campus veterans,” Jesse Unruh. Trovet president, said.
“It is necessary, then, for veterans to carefully select the man who will occupy this post and give him their full support so that more weight can be added to his actions,” he added.
Also scheduled for presentation to the senate are the resolutions of the Student Union committee that steps be taken for the redecoration of the Student lounge and re-furnishing of the senate chambers.
UNION NEEDS CLEANUP
Doral Bennett, ASSC vice-president, and member of the S.U. committee. stated that the committee has reached the decision that the Union is in need of a general cleanup. More phone booths and removal of certain garbage recep-ticles would also be recommended by the committee, Miss Bennett said.	\
Arnold Eddy, director of student and alumni activities, and Robert E Fisher, financial vice-president, will be on hand tonight to offer the university’s position of the action taken by the various senate committee. Miss Bennett added.
JEA MORF . . . praises Pi Phis
Pi Phis Take Songfest Prize
Top honors for the outstanding presentation of a song went to Pi Beta Phi at the annual AWS Songfest Monday night.
“My Pi Phi Girl,” an original composition by Barbara Kuhn, was the winning number. The song won a prize at the last Pi Phi convention. Second place honors went to Alpha Delta Pi for their presentation of the “ADPi Sweetheart” song, which was sung on the radio by Bing Crosby last spring. Elisabeth von KleinSmid dormitory won third prize for their number, “I’ll See You In My Dreams.’’
Jea Morf was chairman of the event.
Judges for the contest were Ray-ma Bess Wilson instructor in physical education; Ralph E. Rush assistant professor of music, and Clyde Vedder, teaching assistant in general studies. The women were judged on presentation and entertainment value of the songs.
After the contest, Taxi day winners were* given their awards by Lois Rau, chairman of Taxi day. Harris hall was given the rotating plaque for the most original conveyance and Zeta Tau Alpha was given the permanent award for selling the most tickets. Miss Rau announced that at least $200 was acquired by the event.
To climax the evening. Mortar Board had a surprise tapping, with Eva Kulka and Peggy Cornell receiving membership.
Committee Votes to Include
P.R. in ASSC Constitution
Only Three Toy Days Left Till YWCA Gift Drive Ends .
WANTED — Fourteen thousand Santa Clauses with or without white beards and size 48 waists.
There’s an opportunity right now for everyone on campus to play the part of the jolly old gent in red and get into the true spirit of the season without any trouble, inconvenience, or great expense.
Sponsoring a drive to gather together as many toys as possible for underprivileged children, the YWCA is asking that all organizations on campus cooperate 100 per cent.
“These toys will be distributed to children in small or out-of-the-way orphanages which are not usually remembered in this way,” Barbara Holt, chairman of the drive, said.
Each member of a group is asked to contribute either a toy or 25 cents.
For students who are nqt affiliated with any school organization, a snow-covered, red brick chimney has been placed in front of Bovard, where their contributions may be turned in during the remainder of this week.
Toys will be assembled at various stipulated collection points later in the week and will be picked up on Thursday and Friday.
Majority Elections Favored Following Heated Debates
Compromise measures calling for proportional representation by colleges and election of ASSC officers by majority vote today appeared headed for final test on the floor of the senate chamber as the constitutional committee agreed unanimously to insert the two provisions into the
new ASSC constitution now being
’Y' Groups Schedule Asilomar Conference
The annual southwest Pacific Asilomar Conference cosponsored by the YMCA and the YWCA will be held Dec. 27 at Pacific Grove.
All students and faculty members from colleges and universities in California, Arizona. Nevada, and Hawaii are
eligible for participation in the
Basketball Ducat Number Limited
A limited number of basketball tickets will go on sale at the university ticket office starting tomorrow. Oliver M. Chatburn. business manager, announced yesterday.
Basketball games in which SC participates will be held at the UCLA men’s gymnasium on Friday and Saturday.
Holders of student and faculty season tickets will be able to buy admission tickets at half price— 75 cents. They will not be sold at Westwood before the game.
General admission tickets will be on sale the night of the games for $1.50.
Rail, Postal Services Cut in Coal Famine
WASHINGTON. Dec. 3—(UP) —(accepted for international delivery A series of drastic coal-saving or- j those for domestic shipment den today cut railroad passenger | be	m a weight of
service to Uttle more than one-|five	s „ ,nches ln , h
half normal, embargoed all non-essential freight, and slashed parcel post deliveries to the bone.
With the nation's industries stripping down for a drawn-out mine strike, the government announced that the general public will have a chill, dimmed-out, stay-at-home Christmas holiday season.
.] and 60 inches in girth.
The same restrictions apply to railway express shipments.
The sole exception to the ban on overseas parcel post was on packages destined for American servicemen.
ODT Director J. Monroe Johnson also announced the new out
. in railroad passenger service which Freight shipments of joys, Chns- : ^ become effective
on all coal-
mas trees and most of the tradi-
burning lines at midnight Sunday. It expends from 25 to 50 per bent the service reduction ordered on
tional holiday trimmings will be banned from the railroads beginning Friday, along with a host of j ^ose” roads No7~27.
other commodities not vital to the !__
national economy.
POST CURTAILS At the same time, stiff restric tions on parcel post mail will be Tlie freshmen orientation tea to put into effect by the post office , be held at Dean Moreland’s home department. On and after Friday, | today will be held Wednesday, Dec. no parcel post packages will be 11 from I to 4:30.
Freshman Orientation
conference, and it is asked that only those who are ready to enter voluntarily into the spirit and purposes attend.
Students interested in attending the conference are asked to see Ruth Grant, Virginia Harutunian or Bob Fisk on or before Dec. 10, which has been set as the deadline for registration. A $7 registration fee is required and $18 for room and board from dinner on Dec. 27 through breakfast on Jan. 2 making the total cost of the conference $25, not including traveL TRANSPORTATION AVAILABLE Aluomar is one mile from Pacific Grove on Monterey Bay, 350 miles north of Los Angeles, and 120 miles south of San Francisco. Transportation is available either by car, bus, or train, and delegates should plan to arrive at 'the conference ground by mid-afternoon Dec. 27.
Starting on Dec. 28. a schedule has been planned to include a daily recreational period in which students may enjoy horseback riding, sw’mming, bike riding, or a tour of scenic Monterey Bay. Also among the conferences recreational activities will be a New Year’s Eve dance.
EVENING PROGRAM
Evening programs will consist of discus;-ion on some crucial social issue such as; Soviet-American relations, race-relations, and labor management relations. For each of these, the best available thought and experience will be brought to the Asilomar platform, revealing facts, forces at work, and concrete possibilities for constructive action.
In operation again this year will be the travel pool to help equalize travel costs. Those coming from near at hand will pay a miximum of $3 into the pool while those who travel a greater distance will receive a travel refund.
NANCY LLOYD conference chairman
Two Debaters Make Finals in Tournament
Eph Konigsberg. debate team captain. announced yesterday that Bill Stevens and Gerald Norland made the finals in the senior mens’ division of the western states debate tournament held last week at San Jose.
Winning six and dropping two. Stevens and Norland contributed to the SC victory in this tourney by eliminating some of the leading contenders for the title.
Embargo Hits Auto Workers
DETROIT, Dec. 3. (ILE) — Automobile manufacturers said tonight that the rail freight embargo will shut their vast plants within a matter of days, plunging more than a half million auto workers into idleness.
Giant General Motors corporation, with 263.000 hourly-rated employees over the country, said its industrial network could operate “only a few days at the most” after Friday.
Ford Motor company said manufacturing operations would cease with the embargo Thursday midnight, but that auto final assembly
Truman to Ask Drastic Change In Labor Policy
WASHINGTON, Dec. & <l'.E)
President Truman said today that his message to the opening session of the Republican-controlled 80th congress would deal in the strongest possible terms with the need for revision of government labor policies.
The chief executive, in his first news conference since the soft coal strike began Nov. 21, said the message also would present a broad program for revision of all government operations — but with labor in the forefront.
INCREASING CLAMOR He made the statement amid increasing clamor for administration action to end the economy-paralyzing walkout of 400,000 members of the United Mine Workers (AFL).
Some persons have urged him to appeal directly to the strikers to return to work.
Without commenting on John L.
Lewis’ contempt trial, in which the
mine union boss was found guilty j PROPOSAL QUESTIONED of contempt, Mr. Truman told re- | Further debate ensued when
porters that Rep. John Rankin, D.,. p^kin proposed that class offi-
Miss., was correct__in announcing j cerg should be dropped from the
senate, and Norm Hawes, interfra-
written.
Long a subject for debate in and out of ASSC senate meetings, proportional representation provoked heated debate before a compromise was reached. The only point of conflict in the matter of majority vote arose over the question of whether the measure should be directly provided for in the constitution or ln a by-law,
DOBKIN YIELDS
Alone in his insistence that college presidents should be relegated into executive posts within the colleges without the privilege of vote on the senate, Milt Dobkin, junior class president, yielded to the majority opinion, and these representatives will retain their present status.
The proposed new measure will provide for the election of additional representatives from colleges whose enrollment warrants them. Left undecided was the question of the number of senators to be seated under this plan. Two alternatives present themselves to the committee, fixing the number of seats and fluctuating the number of votes required for election, op seat* and fixing the number of votes.
yesterday that the White House was preparing a strong message for the new congress.
SPECIAL SESSION
Rankin said after a long conference with the president that he had urged a special session to deal with the coal strike and other labor problems, but that Mr. Truman believed that issues could await action by the incoming congress early next year.
“The president,” said Rankin, “told me he would present to congress the strongest message he knew how to prepare. I told him that in my opinion the public interest demands that we pass legislation changing the present labor laws so as to forever protect all the people in the enjoyment of their constitutional rights.”
WON’T BACKTRACK
Although Mr. Truman dodged direct comment on the Lewis controversy, he made it plain that he wouldn’t backtrack in January simply because Republicans won control of both the senate and house in the Nov. 5 general election. Of course, he said, he would approach congress in the strongest, terms— terms relating to all government operations.
temity council president, questioned the advisability of seating presidents of activity organizations.
“If one organization is given a voting seat, every organization on campus will be clamoring for similar recognition,’’ Hawes contended.
Anne Pearce, Mortar Board president, countered that complete elimination of activity organizations would mean AMS and AW3 would be denied the vote. S h o suggested these two organization* be retained on the senate and other organizations be required to present their problems through them*
A vote on both measures was deferred when committee member* requested time to consider them.
Trovets Conduct Campus Survey
What veterans think of a proposed state college for themselves i- the purpose of a survey being conducted today by Trovets.
The college would use the buildings and equipment of the former would continue for “a few days” to army air forces technical training exhaust stock in transit.	base in Santa Ana. At present it
Ford estimated 85.000 production is contemplated that courses in workers would be thrown into idle- practically all subjects for fresh-
ness.
Most Ford plants would be shut in from one to five days, they said, with only two, located at Richmond and Long Beach, able to continue 10 days.
Chrysler corporation, with 75.000
man and sophomore years would be provided. Later the college would expand its program for the juryor and senior years.
Questionaires about the proposed college are available at the table on the porch of the veterans ad-
production employees, said it was ! ministration building between 8 a.m. unable to determine immediate^ and 4 p.m. today. Both men and when the embargo would affect oj> women veterans are asked to co-erations, but that “it won't take operate by stopping in and filling
very long.”
It was believed that smaller producers would also be hit within days under the drastic order, throwing j many additional thousands out of work. An uncounted number of supply plants will also be hit.
out one of the blanks, which will take only a few minutes of their time.
Results of the survey will be turned over to the committee on; veterans’ education with whom Trovets is cooperating on this poll.
Troy Composers Musical Program Moves to Hancock
American Composers of Troy, the program of new music by and for Trojans, has been moved from Bowne hall to Hancock auditorium for tomorrow afternoons concert at 2:15.
Composers represented will be Kenneth Klaus, Hans Lampl, Sid Caplin, Peter Korn, and Ernest Kanitz, all members of the College of Music faculty. Also on the program are works by Walter Piston and Paul Hindemith.
Lampl, Korn, and Klaus will also perform as pianists.
In addition to the composers themselves, others on the program include Merritt Buxbaum and Andreas Kostelas, clarinetists; Hilda Bernstein, cellist; Margaret Christmas, soprano; Eugene Lancelle, trumpeter; Sharon Benson, pianist; and Frank Desby, oboist.
Class to Present Comedy Preview
Noel Coward’s rousing comed3\ “Ways and Means,” will be presented this morning at 8:15 in Touchstone theater by members of the experimental theater class. The performance, which is a preview of a show to be given by the group this afternoon at Sawtelie veterans hospital, is open to the public.