Beavers After
No. 27
Voting Registration Hits 600 First-Dpy Books Close
xnmemoratmg the 25th year the first colored pasteboards flashed in the afternoon ozone the Oregon State and Cali-la football games this fall were tied to honor the progress of halftime card stunts performed ie Trojan rooting sections, renty-five years ago today the card stunt was used in an liaed rooting section at SC. was on Oct. 21. 1922. when I Trojan gridders played host to pr colleges on Bovard field. ji behind tne man behind the stunts at SC this year is Ed tins, senior in the College of Mfeecture. This genial, redied gentleman is responsible for creation and design of the lboard stunts displayed by the lg section.
CARD TRICKS so of the most popular card its devised in the past two and -half decades at SC, the tradi.-tal Trojan horse and block SC.
be performed at the Cali-kia-SC game Saturday.” the [-spoken stunt-originator assert-eesterday.
|xplaining the development of a stunt from the time it is oon-|ed to the time it is performed, ins made a difficult task seem , mere child's play, ifter the idea or suggestion ls fered to a concrete character perns to be represented, the ere-is <3r»wn on a scale sheet, he This sheet is an exact scale of the SC rooting section: students across. 50 rows in th, and accommodating 1800
FLASH CARDS crew then makes up a “poop
ft.” in which all the necessary nation pertinent to the per-ianc^ of the stunt is contained, then Fred Livingstone and his ap of artists enter the scheme produce flash cards for the
tnt*. flash cards are the colored. rt*d sheets held up in front of rooting section that enable the loters to actually get an idea of le stunt which they are perform-
Tlnstruction cards. 1800 of them,
|e marked by Squires under the peetion of Art Perry and Jack pave*. Friday, a check is made of layouts and instruction cards, len. at 9:30 Saturday morning, Knights and Squires meet in Coliseum to insert the instruc-cards in their places and pre-the flash cards for display, make checks of the rooting fion before rooters enter the to insure that all cards are their proper place.
A rooting section of 1800 in the served section at the California me has been planned for Satur-y, Jenkins said. There will be 0 additional seats in the section.
xistentialism alk Planned
German existentialism, from Its
Eginmngs in the romantic move-?nt 150 years ago to its most rest expression, will be explained by Ludwig Marcuse, associate professor of German, today at 4:15 in 5wne hall. This is the third in a ries of eight lectures on the ma |or trends in living philosophy sponsored by the School of Philo pophy.
Dr. Marcuse, who has written eight books and edited two, has studied unaer Martin Heidegger, the German Existentialist who is said to have ‘ sold his soul to Hitler" and who is the author of the Existen tiaiist classic, “Time and Being.1 Dr. Marcuse said that he had studied under Heidegger when the latter was still an unknown instructor.
( "Existentialism after World War I was strongly influenced by the w ritings of the Danish pholosopher. rkegaard,” Dr. Marcuse said
I “The works of Kierkegaard, who had died 50 years before, were translated into German and discuss-
„	Courtesy L. A. Times
DR. JOHN F. KESSEL, bacteriology department head, is shown here with monkeys he and two other SC bacteriologists use in a project, in which an antigen for infantile paraylsis was discovered.
Infantile Paralysis Vaccine Sought By Doctors Kessel, Pearson, Pait
Armed with the new $15,000 ultra-centrifuge and funds donated recently to SC by the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis, three SC bacteriologists have isolated an antigen for infantile paralysis, Dr. John F. Kessel said yesterday.
Drs. Kessel, Harold E. Pearson, and Charles F. Pait have been conducting research at the General hospital microbiology laboratory.
-I Dr. Kessel. chairman of the bac-j -
| teriology department of the School;
| of Medicine, said yesterday, “We j | have discovered an antigen which is; j effective against two-thirds of the
Hancock Trio Will Perform
The Hancock Foundation trio, consisting of Anton Maaskoff. violin; Stephen De'ak. cello; and John Crown, piano, will be heard in concert tomorrow evening at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
The tr^o will present Trio in C Minor, Beethoven; and Trio, Donovan; and, with the assistance of Lisa Minghetti. violin, and Glenn Swan, viola. Quintet by Schumann.
Reservations may be made by calling Richmond 4111. station 451. There is no admission charge, and seats will be held until 8:15.
Badminton Club Presents Plans
Registration of all members and discussion of plans for the coming year forms the agenda for the first meeting of the newly organized badminton club. The meeting is scheduled this afternoon in 205 Physical Education building.
A recent survey by the executive committee of the University Recreation association indicated that 250 students and faculty members are interested in the formation of the club and post cards announcing the meeting have been mailed to these individuals.
More SC Blood Needed for Unit
Unless 190 Trojans sign up as donors for the Red Cross blood donor campaign today, plans to have a mobile Red Cross unit come to SC will fall through. Clayton Lane, campaign committee chairman, stated yesterday.
Only 60 students volunteered to donate their blood up to 4 pjn. Yesterday. Women continued to lead tbe men in signing up to give their blood. Clayton reported.
The signup booth is located on the sidewalk m front df Bovard
audit o**um.
strains we have tested.” He said that the discovery should not bring over-optimism and "false hope that a poliomyelitis vaccine for human beings is ready for use.”
AIR JET MOTOR Utilising the u 11 r a-centrifuge whose compressed-air jet motor drives it at 60.000 r.p.m. in a vacuum, they expecl to “purify” viruses, thus producing more suitable vaccines. Prewar tests were retarded, Dr. Kessel said, when monkeys recovering from one virus-inoculation proved liable to infection from other strains. Protected from possible bursting of the mighty centrifuge by a three-inch steel armor belt, the three bacteriologists will “photograph” samples by shooting light through plastic test tubes as they whirl at incredible speed.
The team has been using monkeys imported from India on the polio virus experiments. Seven hundred of these monkeys, technically called macaca mulatta, are needed annually to make reciprocal (cross-im-munity and serologic) tests on just 10 virus strains. Located on the roof | of a General hospital building, the: extensive “monkey house” contains: 200 animals, many recently infected! with virus strains.
CRUCIAL TESTS Dr. Kessel said that most of thej monkeys will survive these crucial tests in the fight to save the world from one of the most cruel diseases.
A large shipment is due from India late this month.
In close connection with other researchers throughout the U. S. the bacteriologist team is approaching this tremendous problem on several fronts using such postwar weapons as radioactive isotope “tracers” to plot the course of the disease.
Stating that “there may be countless strains of poliomyelitus,” Dr. Kessel added that tests to date indicate that every new case of the dread disease creates its own virus strain, thus posing an immense long-range problem of finding an inoculation successful against all types.	.
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Eye-Testing Given Free
To give future optometrists experience in examing eyes, the Los Angeles School of Optometry has made it possible for veterans to obtain eye examinations free of charge.
Dean Ernest A. Hutchinson says that veterans may obtain this free service by making an appointment 1eQ at the school, 909 West Jefferson.
Other students may avail themselves of an examination by paying a 25 cent registration fee. This service is not limited to veterans or students, and anyone may make use of it.
Dean Hutchinson stated the school will also make up glasses if needed, but this service must be ai regular optical prices.
Swelled by a record class of more than 100 students, and directed by 10 superv isors, tne School of Optometry is equipped to handle 30 patients haily.
Canine Grooms For Coronation, Plaque Setting
George Tirebiter, chosen official SC mascot at a recent student senate meeting, will receive recognition of his new status tomorrow noon in a special Hollywood-style procession and canine coronation ceremony on University avenue.
The program and procession is sponsored by the campus YMCA. Dave Evans, Y president, is general chairman.
Evans said George would ride up University avenue from Exposition boulevard in a procession of 1947 convertibles to the gates of Troy, where his footprints would be imprinted in a cement block—a la Grauman’s Chinese.
A bronze plaque honoring the popular mongrel has been donated by Phelps-Terkel, according to George Gareff, campus representative of the store.
NEW CHEER
Temporary bleachers and a speaker's platform are to be erected to accommodate spectators and participants in the program feting the pooch. A musical unit composed of members of the Trojan band will play, and the yell leaders are to premiere a new Tirebiter cheer.
A YMCA reception committee will welcome campus dignitaries at the end of the march, and all will be introduced over a public address system. Among those scheduled to attend are Coach Cravath. ACCS officers, AMS and AWS prexies, and the student body presidents of the
DT to Announce Slogan Winner
SC’s homecoming slogan contest ended last night with nearly 200 slogans being received from students who have taxed their wits during the past 12 days in an effort to conjure up a jingle that will win two 50-yard-line tickets to the SC-Notre Dame game.
Student and alumni judges will ponder over the many entries this afternoon and the winner will be announced in the Daily Trojan tomorrow.
Johnny Davis, greater university committee chieftain, direct head of the slogan contest, said at the closing of the ballot box yesterday that “we have a whole raft of sparkling entries,” and expressed opinion that the winner might well be one of the later submissions.
We don’t !ik<. to stand in a line and register to vote. Nobody likeu t stand in a line for anything.
We didn’t likv what went on in the senate Friday afternoon, either. We think it was a direct violation of the rights of the majority of SC’s voters. That the “deal” did not pass ir no indication that it will not be brought up again. Noi jthat the same tactics will not be used again.	^
The antidote tor such happenings is a positive awakening of all Tioy't; students to the realization that they are definitely responsible for the kind of government they are to get. As i^ng as voting is light and more than three quarters of th;. student body “doesn’t give a hoot” we will have government by deals and “backtracks.”
There are o.ily two tables handling the majority of regular campu; registrants for voting in the coming election. There should be more. Maybe Elections Commissioner Norm tiadentine has insoluble problems in this respect. Maybf i:e can’t find the tables or the help to man them. Tiiaf is his business. It should also be the business of th* student body to see that he gets the tables and th. help he needs.
If there are -as few voting booths this year as there were last, all students will not have the proper chance to vote.	*
Booths, tabie‘? workers—all these are as nothing before the major problem—getting the prospective voters to register. There | can be all the tables and booths and workers in thf ifworld, but they are useless without the surge of would ^be voters needed to make the election a democratic expj^ssion.
There must. l:v: no more “Black Fridays” on the calendar of the ASS i senate.
There will be if every Trojan does his duty and registers and t e}n votes—no matter what his choice. A vote is an action5 that speaks louder than a deal.
Jea Morf, ASSC vice-president, will present the campus canine with a garland of flowers and proclaim him official mascot? of Troy. ASSC President Paul Wildman will pay tribute to Tirebiter in a short address.
NO PALOMINO
No palomino pooch, Tirebiter adopted SC long before his recognition by campus lawmakers. George, spoken of as a mongrel in the metropolitan press, has been defended as “sort of an airdale.” Dr. John L. Mohr of the SC department of zoology hesitated to determine Tirebiter1 s exact breed:
“We of the zoology department feel that we must go on record by saying his origin is obscure. Maybe someone at a certain state university that maintains an agricultural school has some theories as to Tire-biter’s ancestry.”
Tirebiter, known to county officials only as license M1811. earned his name from his habit of biting tires of automobiles whizzing along University avenue. He majors in motor scooters.
VA At
Position Offered By Job Bureau
A veteran, with several free hours ana interested in a job as manager of a guest home housing 40 young men, should see Mrs. Florence B. Watt, director of the university employment bureau, as soon as pos sible.
The position offers $60 a month, with room and board. The home is near Wilshire boulevard and Normandie avenue. A mature veteran, preferably an ex-officer, would be given first consideration.
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Workshop to Present Pol i t i c a I Comedy
“I agree with Grant Matthews, the presidential aspirant in ‘State of the Union.’ There is no difference in the two parties that I can see; when one is in, the other is out. Let the best man win.”
Evadna Blackburn, instructor In drama and technical director for the department, spoke informally as she put the finishing touches on a by German scholars.” He went wing chair, part of the set for the show how Kierkegaard had high-powered political comedy, first
men such as Kafka 'r°d. Jaspers, and Heidegger, who turn were influential in German
itcrtturg wi Phgjpgppby.
ma.ior production of the campus theater year.
“I believe in a third party—not , tnenwMtrily Henry Wallace — any
third party to clean up the other twro. To me our dirt in politics comes not through the man, but through the party.”
Your reporter looked inquiringly at the bins of cotton stuffing and fiber stacked in the office of scene dock, set-building unit. Mrs. Blackburn laughed.
“We didnt know it, but when we assumed the task of building sets for *State,’ we were initiating a course in upholstery,” she said.
Mrs. Blackburn and her stagecraft classes have constructed the complete furnishings, comprising 21
pieces, for the three-set show. Act one will feature modem decorator furnishings in dusky rose and blue, she told us. Chinese modem furnishings in chartreuse, black, and blond wood will be used for act three, and period furniture in blue, rose, and gray for act four.
“Furniture has become so expensive that buying it for campus productions is out of the question. So if we can’t borrow, we build,” Mrs. Blackburn explained. “We had never before found it necessary to supply the complete furnishings for “S a play. Fortunately on^..«f the stu-,
dents knew an interior decorator, who helped us buy frames for the sofas wholesale. We persuaded a local furniture dealer to let us take measurements of some of his stock, and worked from there.”
Mrs. Blackburn is a graduate and former instructor of Berea college, Kentucky, and the wife of Paul Blackburn, lecturer in speech. She was added to the SC drama staff in ’44. Campus playgoers will have an opportunity to see her work and the work of her classes when the Union” opens Oct. 30 five-day ran.
to Relieve Rehab Plight
5 4 by Cliff Dektar
Steps to cut re'o £ape and relieve congestion in the campus training office ot: ^he veterans administration were ordered yesterday by Getitd T. Drumney, acting chief of the vocational rehabilitation and educational division of the VA’s Los Angeles regional office.
Drumney, accomp*£i{ed by H. L. Cowan, regional trying facilities officer, visited the S'::|training office yesterday to perscij|li!y investigate conditions.	J {
Drumney stated ttjfcC the VA was fully aware of the ;'>j*oblems of the SC office but lack. 4 the training officer personnel du ■ 4 lo recent cuts in its budget by th J jOth congress.
BETTER SI # vTCE Under the new pr-jddure approved yesterday by tlie J A, rehabilitation veterans wish referral to VA medical and der li services and to the California Physicians service will be able to obta; ; jtheir referral slips from the recr.jtjonist in the training office. Pr. ^i.t.usly it was necessary for veten >5: to wait and see a training ofncf : .[ersonally for this service.	;
A. F. Prokop. tra ;i|ig officer in ciiarge of the SC off.cft. said yesterday afternoon that *vas instructing his clerk in th*.proper procedure for issuing th.*,' teferral slips and that the new s; • iem would be in effect today. ' I
PERSONNEL INCREASE Next week the V/- .'.‘ill withdraw the full-time train;:.j i officer sent to SC recently and * I order Training Officer Charles F k bes, now assigned to the campi c office and the SC guidance center;-;* a part time
basis, to full-time o i|
in the cam-
pus office. This wili jri-ing the total of training officers j* ugned to the SC office to two. s “I don’t know if B:.s new allocation of personnel wj be sufficient to carry out the efii^ent operation of the training offiotfor to provide adequate service foi :»00 rehab veterans,” Prokop state‘hut we will have to see how it w* ks out.” PROCESSING AFFECTED Meanwhile Dr. D« D. Prosser, director of the joint!:>—operated SC-A guidance center, fold the Daily Trojan that the cut in VA training officer personnel hs r, seriously affected the efficient* processing of veterans desiring to jgnter training J under public tew 1ft
Dr. Prosser stated that one part-time training officer is now assigned to the SC center and the UCLA center.
“Our service is unquestionably not as good as it was before the cut." Dr. Prosser said.
He explained that all veterans desiring to train under PL 16 must have their applications approved and processed by a VA training officer. Dr. Prosser explained that the center was doing the best it could under the conditions prevalent, but that some PL 16 applicants had to wait or come back several unnecessary times for service. The center processed 79 PL 16 applicants in August and September.
“We spend 4 to 24 hours processing each applicant.” Dr. Prosser said.
UNRUH OFFERS
Trovet President Jesse Unruh yesterday volunteered the services of the Trovet office personnel to help relieve the campus training office in any way possible and to “aid the student veteran in general.”
The VA took the Trovet's offer under consideration.
W. T. Straley, director of the service division of the American Legion’s Los Angeles county council, told the DT yesterday that the Legion was still investigating the problem at SC, but that the Legion planned no Immediate action on the matter.
Signups Open Until Friday
More than 600 student!
; registered to vote in the com-ing ASSC election at the end of the first day of registration
i yesterday, according to Norm I Galentine, elections commi*-' sioner.
“Registration tables in front of Bovard auditorium and the : Student Union will open at 9 | this morning and close at 3 this j afternoon.” Galentine said.
REGISTRATION CONTINUES “Students have all this week to register and must show their ASSO cards at the tables. Friday afternoon at 1 o’clock registration will close.” he added.
At the ooming election nine sena-j tor-at-large seats will be filled un-
Deadline for political advertisements for Thursday's DT h 11 Wednesday morning. All space reservations and copy must be brought to the DT business office. 326 Student Union before that time. No exceptions will be made to this deadline.
! der the Hare proportional representation plan, which is being used I at SC for the first time.
Vacancies in the offices of president and vice-president of the College of Engineering; vice-president of the junior class; and president of the freshman class win also be j filled.
Petitions for candidates for ad j vacant offices are available in ! Student Union, and must be returned before 1 p.m. tomorrow.
QUALIFICATIONS To qualify as a candidate for the position of senator-at-large, a student must have 60 units completed, of which 30 must have been taken at SC. A cumulative grade averaee of 1.5 and. a last-semester grade average of 1.5 are also necessary.
Applicants for president and vice-president of the College of Engineering must have completed 90 units and 60 of these musj have been taken at SC. A grade average of 1.5 is required.
The office of president of the freshman class is open to all members of the freshman class who have been at SC for one semester and have a grade average of 1.5.
Trovets Start Clothing Drive
Continuing Jheir services ro h«lp student veterans fight the hi^h cost of living, Trovets yesterday announced the inauguration of a surplus clothing distribution drive.
“We can outfit an average veteran from toe to toupee.” Bert Higginbotham. Trovet clothing chairman stated.
“This clothing.” Higginbotham said, “has been contributed to our organization by various students and organizations on and off campu* for distribution to deserving and appreciative students and their families to help relieve their clothing problems and to minimi* attendant expenses at this time ot rising costs in living.”
Veterans interested in availing themselves of the Trovet service are urged to contact the Trovet office, or to see Higginbotham or Assistant Chairman David Lea oo campus.
Trovets will appreciate ctothtof contributions to the drive from students, campus group*, and any other sources of aid on campus.
Unity Party
. . . will hold a special chairmen' meeting at 7:30 tonight in 418 Student Union. All candidates, mem bers of steering committee, and committee chairmen must attend.
Dean's
Notice
Helen Hall Moreland, dean oT women, announced that the dean of womens’ office will establish headquarters at the Fairmont hotel, San Francisco, from Friday, Oct. 24, to Sunday. Oet. 26.
In case of emergency SC women are urged to call the h««d-quarters.