atton Cracks ash Record
Pell-Mell Undisputed Fastest After 9.3 Century at Fresno
RATCLIFFE STADIUM. FRESNO, May 15—Mel Patton ; alone today as the undisputed world’s fastest human j ter his record-breaking dash down the lightning-fast clay | : Fresno's track in 9.3s. in which he defeated his greatest val, Lloyd LaBeach. by about six inches.
--—--—■* Pell-Mel's remarkable feat was j
j accomplished under almost perfect | I conditions as 10.000 fans who came * principally to see the record attempt j were on hand. The temperature was
at 90 degrees and a one-mile-an- , hour wind blew against the run- ;
| ners.
The start of the history-making | performance was marred by four j ! lalse starts, and LaBeach was guilty !
| of breaks in at least three of them, j When the five-man field finally J got off to an even start, Patton ap-library with trophies and , Peared to hold a slight advantage j oils to be presented to the out- j
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MS Assembly ill Recognize rominentMen
iToy's first AMS recognition as-ibly takes place tomorrow even-at 7:15 in front ol the Univer-
L D. PRITCHARD
... sees opportunities
Commerce Will Hear Pritchard
Lyddon Makes Up' With Juniors Today
Although “Ivy day” with its “Mystery Bag,” “Dog-on Button,” and “Baseball Bat” remains a relic of the Trojan past, this year’s graduating class opens Senior week today with many of the traditional ceremonies scheduled.
Cliff Lyddon, senior class president, will “bury the hatchet”
S 0 II T H E R I)
Cot $300?
uiding men and organizations on fnpus.
Chancellor Rufus von KleinSmid 11 present a 23-inch trophy to the a.n adjudged by the recognition Immittee as the most outstanding campus during the past semes-The chancellor will also award hies to the outstanding men s mizalion and the outstanding, ^ :ident of a men's organization. 1 former to be a rotating tro- j %
Jill Winn, chairman of the as-ibly. ^aid that Neil D. Warren. .
of men. will aw ard scrolls 1 f| five men on campus who have =§: [inguished themselves for out- || tiding contributions to campus 11|
A former SC student body president, now assistant vice-president of the Bank of America in the Los I Angeles headquarters, will coach ^commerce seniors on how to “get •out and get a share of the future” i at the Friday noon commerce i luncheon.
Acting as main speaker at the
-•♦fin front of Bovard at noon, Wednes-J day. by presenting a stainless steel, j chrome-plated hatchet to Joe ! Flynn, junior class president. Fol-I lowing this ceremony, a bronze j class plaque wiil be set in front of j the senior bench.
The AMS recognition assembly j is to be held Tuesday on the steps I of the University library. Five out-| standing men of the year will be A chance to represent American! se'ec^ed- Women will be honored
CHLIFORIIIR #
Vol. XXXIX
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European Trip Awaits Dobkin
at a Bovard assembly Thursday. WEEK ENLARGED The class of '48 will top off its round of farewell luncheons, as-
stuaents in Europe this summer in important negotiations awaits SC’s Milt Dobkin, according to correspondence reaching him from the
national headquarters of the Na- j semblies, and ceremonies with a tional Student association this j Friday evening prom at the Bel-weekend. The rub: how to raise An- club. The “Moonlight and luncheon, Lawrence D. Pritchard. &300 overnight.	' j Roses” prom will feature the music
class of ‘34, will address the seniors The chance came when Donald j of 01 ck Dildine and his orchestra, on “Facing the Future.” He will Fraser, Minnesota, resigned as in- i Seniors plan to leave en masse describe the personal future of the ternational representative on NSA’s Friday afternoon for Zuma beach graduating senior in making his four-man negotiating team sched- , as a part of Ditch day. They have
Los Angeles, Cal., Monday, May 17, 1948 No. 141
MEL PATTON . . century in 9.3
jT-nold Eddy, director of student- ' jnni activities will present scrolls I >ne outstanding athlete in the j Is of football, baseball, basket-and track.
Albert S. Raubenheimer, edu- and increased it to one yard at nal vice-president, will intro- about the 80-yard mark, where the the graduating seniors of each Panamanian sprinter began cutting t>ol and college who have attain- j down the margin until he was a ,the highest cumulative grade- , step back at the tape, it average. To be eligible for The Trojans captured the open honor, a student must have intercollegiate division of the 22nd ipleted 60 units of his work on ! annual West Coast relays with 70
mark in the business wona Commenting on the current business situation, Mr. Pritchard said: “The west coast offers almost unbelievable opportunities in the field of business by virtue of the tremendous growth of the area and development of manufacturing and distributing facilities.”
“Manufacturing has expanded along with the 45 per cent increase
Trojan campus.
Jllowing this presentation. Dean libenheim* r will introduce the members of Phi Beta Kappa, rmal introduction of new mem-of Skull and Dagger, men s wary organization will be made I Edsel Curry, worthy master.. Jlue Key President Milt Dobkin pm ribbons on initiates of the lional honorary, and Knight jsment Herb Hynson will intro-le new members ol his organi-
points as they won four of the five 1 ielay's in collegiate competition.
California finished second with 57 Vs points, UCLA was third with (Continued on Page 3>
Tickets for the luncheon are $1.75 and are on sale in the ticket office, second floor of the Student Union, and in Dean Mc-Clung’s office. Luncheon will be held at the Nikabob restaurant, 875 South Western avenue.
Summer Term Signups Begin
uled to take part in a European j been excused from all afternoon tour for the purpose of arranging classes that day. future student exchanges of travel I Senior week is actually an en-information and cultural exhibits largement of “Ivy day,” originated
between American and foreign student groups.
CHOSEN IN CHICAGO
The original team, composed of representatives from Harvard, Notre Dame, and Chicago, was chosen at the national executive committee meeting of NSA in Chicago last December 27. Fraser’s resignation opened the way for the attendance of Dobkin, who was named at that time as first alternate.
When word of Fraser's action reached Dobkin, he at once wired national NSA headquarters, telling them of the recent university action vetoing SC’s participation in NSA
in population,” he said. “Now is the chance for the graduating commerce student to get out and get a share of the future.”
Turning to the civic obligation of the graduate in the business world. Mr. Pritchard saic:
“The best antidote to a poor idea is not to cail it a name, but to promote a better idea. It follows
that the negative approach of NBC meeting, they were elected as
by the class of 1904, when capped and gowned seniors walked between rows of juniors dressed in white and carrying ropes of ivy.
In 1924, “Ivy day” was opened by the planting of ivy, traditional symbol of clinging love. The ground was broken by a spade handed down by the class of ’04.
This year, the hatchet was buried between freshmen and sophomores. Senior and junior prexies smoked the famous “Pipe of Peace.”
RITE STARTS “Mystery Bag." a ritual started in 1906, was presented to juniors by the senior women. The bag was
and asking for further advice. Janis j filled with odds and ends of scrap Tremper, secretary of NSA, wrote j and given to the juniors who were
back this weekend to reassure Dobkin that he was still eligible to make the trip—provided he could raise the necessary funds in time.
REPRESENT NSA “When the original negotiating team was elected at the December
New Croups
At a special meeting Thursday
shouting ‘Communism’ is not the ultimate answer to the preserva-Pre-registration lines will start tion of democracy.
1 forming today for those planning i “We must not only say that de-to attend the 6 and 10-week sum- \ mocracy is the best way of life, but 1 mer terms. The lines will start from by our sense of civic consciousness | Door F. Owens hall annex and and what we do to make democ-i then wind to the information of- (Continued on Page Four) i fice where class schedules are;----
According to latest figures fromf IFC Will Ban
I the information office, 5500 sched-! ules have been distributed.
Registration Dooths will be set up i at the rear of Owens hall where j all phases of the operation, includ- I
j ing the collection of fees, will be night at the Theta Chi house. 2715 handled.	j South Portland street, the Inter-
The various stops which students i Fraternity council passed on a mo-will have to make along the line i tion not to allow any more in-, are securing of registration mate- j terest groups to come onto the cam-! rials at Door F. Owens hall annex; pus except those nowT in status of ! consultation with advisers, if neces- i club or colony.
| sary: obtaining of limited section | The council also voted on peti-cards if program calls for “R” i tions submitted by the clubs who ! classes from clerks at rear of Owens j had applied for fraternity status, j hall: verification of registration; j Among those organizations accepted assessment of fees; veterans ac- were social fraternities Phi Delta
Ition. “ "	.....
low ol
me.	• ment of fees except for non-vet- moved up from a colony classifi-
lAMS President Wally Fl&nnagan erans who may pay at 112 Owens cation.
11 emcee the assembly and intro- hall on or before May 22. or on The Sigma Alpha Nu group was :-e the newly-elected student body the regular registration days. June voted from club status to colony d AMS presidents.	18 and 19.	I status.
BILL WINN
heads assembly
None of these initiate^ will counts for all those attending un- Theta. Lambda Chi Alpha, and Tau that der state or federal subsidy: pay- Epsilon Kappa. These groups were
oliticos Smile as Election Rounds Turn' ★ ★★★★★ oting Honest Smooth-Jones
Candidates smiling at strangers and looking wistfully at tives of the three presidential as-he polls, voters struggling with PR ballots, and voting as- i Plants.
istants sweating in the hot sunlight set the scene Friday Jones reminded voters to bring l the second day of ASSC elections.	J both their white registration slip
Elections proceeded smoothly with approximately 800 vot- and ASSC identification card to
g. No one found it necessary' to*--, the polling area m front of Bo-
md in line to vote at any one ; Jones claimed that certain mem- yard.
Those students wTho have lost
representatives of NSA and American students, not as representatives of their schools,” Miss Tremper’s letter read.
Present plans for the European trip include a pre-trip briefing by state department officials in Washington to acquaint members of the team with problems they will meet in Europe. The state department has designated NSA as official representative of American students in the European area.
NEEDS S300
Total amount necessary for the trip is $800, according to the NSA office. Unless Dcbkin can collect the initial $300 for passage, he has said that he will be unable to accept the invitation to become a member of the NSA team.
Meanwhile, Dobkin is frantically searching for financial underwriting to insure his representing SC and NSA in the important European negotiations. He will maintain office hours in the Blue Key office, 402 Student Union, today and tomorrow from 1 to 3 p.m., to interview any prospective campus person interested in putting SC in the international spotlight.
supposed to bury it without knowing its contents.
• Seniors were searched for the “Dog-on Button.” Perhaps SC’s oldest traditional symbol, the “Dog-on Button” was passed from senior to senior during the year and presented to the junior class just before graduation. The button, actually a small tin dog from a candy package, was won by a senior when he caused a professor to laugh in class. There is no record of the emblem after 1911.
The class of ’26 broke away from tradition to plant a class tree rather than ivy.
‘BUCK PASSING’ ENDED In another historic ceremonv, seniors “passed the buck” to juniors in the form of a baseball bat. This tradition was discarded sometime before 1930.
Senior wfeek activities were discontinued during the war. Last year saw the first Senior week since 1940.
In 1937, on a Tuesday, 400 seniors trekked to Pop’s Willow lake to open their traditional week. Swimming, dancing, boating, and a barbecue were on the first day’s schedule. The senior play w?as given Wednesday evening. On Thursday, seniors sponsored an informal dance at Victor McLaglen’s sport center.
Yellow bookmarks commemorating the 1948 graduating class will be distributed this week by the University bookstore.
St. Charles, Morton Collect Cash in Speaking Contest
Top honor awards of $10 were given victors Kean St. Charles and Taylor Morton last week in the final contesting of the second annual interclass public speaking event.
“The 10 aspirants, two women and eight men, competing for honors were finalists from 800 students eliminated within the past six weeks.” said Dr. Alan*-
Nichols, professor of speech and presiding officer at the meeting.
Speaking on “A Veteran's View of the Possibility of World War
will
their white registration slips be able to vote Tuesday.
Elections will continue today and
20 booths.	| bgj-g 0f the senate knew of this
A sign saying “Thank you. but! list but did not tell him until the on't come again.” confronted the night before the elections that a oter as he left the voting area , new system for checking voters’
Qualifying his charge that “there I eligibility had been devised, as and is an organized attempt I “You can’t please everyone.” said discredit the results of this, ASSC President Paul Wildman.
SSC election in advance,” Com- j speaking of tlie incident. “Jerry
oissioner Jerry Jones said today Jones has been under a handicap mission and supervised by Dean hat “no one had attacked his in- from the beginning. Not only has he jfejj £> Warren, Dr. Albert Zech, rrity or the honesty of his as- had inexperienced assistants but a an{j senate representatives Sylvia
different elections procedure has LoVell and Ed Vierheilig.
He explained that he and his as- been used this year.”	, “Votes from the ballot box of
President Wildman said that the College of Dentistry downtown Jones has cooperated completely j will be picked up Tuesday.” Jones with the suggestions of representa- j said.
Official
Notice
Any employee who is now 65 years of age, or who will be 65
tomorrow with polls open from 9' by the end of the current calen-
a.m. to 4 p.m.
dar vear, or whose wife will be 65
III,” St. Charles held the interest of his audience. His first sentence was the familiar remark. “When World War III comes, they’ll have to hunt me out in the hills of Kentucky.’’
Morton’s subject v’as the “Poll Tax.” He urged its repeal, stating the fallacy of the popular opinion that because seven states in the deep south have it, it’s a problem for colored folks.
Glenn Ball and BsrJamJne Tar-water took the two second place awards with talks on “The Communist Party Is International in
Seniors Vote Roses' Money to P A. Fund
Members of the senior class council have voted to allocate the proceeds of next Saturday’s “moonlight and roses” formal to a fund for the purchase of a new public address system for Bovard auditorium, according to senior class president Cliff Lyddon. He also pointed out that the prom is for seniors
only, either February or June, 1948.*-
graduates.	| orchestra will be featured at the
In keeping with the mellow prom. Dildine has played with sev-“moonlight and roses” theme, the ‘ eral top name bands and nas con-council plans to decorate the ball- ducted his own orchestra at San room of the Bel-Air Bay club, where Francisco's Palace hotel and at the
—L.A. H«rald-Expr«w
FIRST TO BE commissioned second lieutenants in postwar national guard here, Wayne Spaulding and Robert Myer get their insignia pinned on by Major Gen. Daniel H. Hudel-son, left, commander of Southern California's 40th infantry division, and his assistant. Brig. Gen. Homer O. Eaton.
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Two SC Men Made Looies'
Twro SC students have been commissioned as second lieutenants in the national guard. Major Gen. Daniel H. Hudelson. commander of the 40th infantry division, announced recently.
The students are Wayne Spaulding. who was graduated from the .College of Commerce in February, and Robert Meyer, a prelegal student.
Spaulding, who holds the Combat Infantryman badjre, Bronze Star, and Purple Heart, participated in the northern France. Rhineland, and central Germany campaigns with the 104th division. He was wounded in action on the Dutch-Belgian border near Antwerp in October, 1944. He is now’ doing graduate work in accounting.
Meyer also saw action in the Rhineland campaign while serving with the 214th field artillery. Both men were promoted from the rank of staff sergeant under new regulations permitting advancement of men from enlisted ranks of the post-war national guard.
Meyer and Spaulding have been assigned to the adjutant general’s section of the 40th division headquarters.
the prom will take place, with an abundance of roses. Members of the
Flamingo hotel in Las \regas.
Bids are being sold all this week
dance committee indicated that the for $3 per couple. They may be pur-decorations will create an atmos- chased at the university ticket of-phere that should be long remem- j fice, 211 Student Union. A limited bered by the 1948 graduates. j number of bids have also been The “smooth and sweet” music j placed at the disposal of the various of Dick Dildine and his cafe-society fraternity and sorority houses.
Read a Newspaper? Enter Speech Contest
What newspaper do you read?
Milt Dobkin, director of the current Bowen cup speech contest, says it doesn’t matter. If you read any newspaper with reasonable regularity, you should have enough background to enter the annual extemporaneous speech tourna--—-—1—-fcment.
i	Dobkin explained that entrants
Music Dean To Leave SC
Dean Max van Lewen Swarthout, who has been affiliated with SC’s College of Music since 1923, will
retire at the close of the academic year to take up private piano teaching.
The dean began his musical career in 1905 as director of music at Oxford College for Women, Ohio. Following similar positions at Illinois Women’s college and James Millikin university.
In 1943 he was given the honorary degree of Doctor of Music by the Chicago Musical college. His offices in musical organization have included state president of the California Music Teachers association; vice-president of the National Association on Schools of Music; president of the Los Angeles Musicians guild; and secretary of the National Music Teachers association.
need not be speech majors. Any undergraduate who has not won previously may sign up. Subjects for the contest are all based on current events, ruling out most of the advantage of an encyclopedic grasp of our educational heritage.
Entrants in the Thursday preliminaries will draw three topics, one of local or state significance, one national, and one international.
Engineers
. . w'ho are graduating will have their group picture taken today at 11:50 on the front steps of the Physical Education building.
Pi Sigma Alpha To Hold Dinner
Initiation, election of officers, and a banquet are on the bill of fare for the Lambda chapter of Pi Sigma Alpha, political science honorary, tonight.
The affair will be held at Park Manor. 607 Western avenue, and all members are invited to attend. Nominees and members can sign up for the dinner in 115 Bridge hall or with Mr. Paul E. Hadley in the IR office.
Amazon
. . . interviews continue today from 12:30 to 1:30 ln 418 Student Union for women whose last names begin with N through Z. Applicants who were unable to appear previously may do so today. President Nancy Lloyd said.
Final count will be made tomor- ; by the end of the current calen- Scope,” and “Training an Air Corps
row night by tne elections com-
lts had worked for days on registration list with which to the eligibility of voters.
dar year, or whose wife is blind, will receive an additional income tax exemption granted by the federal government.
AU persons now employed by SC who fall within these categories should call at the payroll department, 207 Owens hall, to file new exemption certificates.
Cadet,” respectively.
Third place honors were given to Ann Rose and Frank Huntsman. Miss Rose spoke about our mental hospitals which she said should be reformed from merely "dead-end hospitals” in the sense that not enough patients are turned back into society as cured.
Registrar's
Notice
Saturday, May 22, is the last date on which cancellations or drops will be accepted for the currant semester.
MILT DOBKIN . .. summons talkers
Dobkin said about 15 entrants j have signed up so far and that response indicates there will be more than one preliminary round. Anyone who can use a Bowen cup j may sign entry lists in the debate I squad room, 405 Student Union, or the speech office, 944 West 37th street. Entries must be in by May
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Just 'Be There' Sings Spadea
“You Don’t Have to Know the Language,” sang Dr. Angela >L Spadea, professor of Italian, as the third student within a half hour asked her the familiar question about Italian 110, listed In the summer catalogue for the six-week session.
“It’s a two-unit course on the history of Italian culture, covering the contributions of Italy to civilization in the fields of literature, politics, social inst:tutions, art, and philosophy.” she explained. “Anyone can take the course. It will be taught In English, and you won’t have to know so much as how to say ‘si’ in Italian to understand it.”