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Los Angeles, Calif., Wednesday, February 19, 1947
Nirht Phene
RI. 5472
No. 78
ram Conducted Trojans, Bruins; tures Hit Tunes
recedented in the his-f Las Angeles broad-g, a completely new of all-student radio ;in will go on the air KLAC next Monday
;harge of the show is andham, SC industrial ement student, who ied the idea of presenting am designated for and done by students of different in the Los Angeles area. TINES SELECTED program, entitled “Campus ,1,” will feature the top four [ the week as selected on opuses, as well as inter-a cross section of students, presentation is especially for students of SC and s-town campus of UCLA, the production work with is Rose Marie Denelian Westwood grounds, ha re had many programs air featuring college news," said, "but they are all by persons unfamiliar college feeling. This is program presented for, by,
t tha schools."
that the program is presented fcr SC and Bandham stated that the be divided equally be-two schools.
southland colleges may according to their own Initiative and interest,- he
nms views
uled from 9:10 to 9:30 onday Bight, the program elude a itx-mimite period to interviews of students by Sandham and Miss , as well as all kinds of s, some of them taken Daily Trojan, campus an-ents, and sports activities, ion of tunes will be con-very week by students of l puses by means erf post -ich are sent to the radio Cards will be distributed dham to students during the and special allotments will the other various fraternity dormitories, and other or-groups.
in participation in the be stimulated by awards rd albums and other prizes •eek.
ham presented his idea to executives, including Al Jar-io welcomed it enthusiasti-lpon submission of various
first few programs will serve rpose of auditions for final n or a permanent sponsor, lham attended SC in 1941 42 prior to his service with Ivy.
CHANCELLOR TO WELCOME TROY
Rent Control Totters in Anti-OPA Move
WASHINGTON, Feb. 18 — (UP) — The house today refused to appropriate more money for OPA in a Republican-sponsored economy move which Democrats said would result in collapse of nation-wide rent control. The house demanded, instead, that the agency return $9,000,000 to the ---treasury.
BRITISH CANDLEPOWER lights the work room of clerks on Fleet street, and soon bicycles will become the mode of transportation for Americans. The severe winter weather and fuel and electric power cutoffs in England necessitated the candles, arjd now the proposed 10 a.m. oil workers strike in the United States will force many Americans to their bicycles.
Oil Workers Ready For 10 A.M. Strike
SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 18 — (UP) — Between 17,000 and 20,000 CIO oil workers were poised tonight to walk off their jobs at oil refineries in five western states at 10 a.m. tomorrow in a strike for wage boosts that will pinch off gasoline supplies and curtail production of natural gas for home heating and cooking on the west coast.
It will be a strike for a 25 oent.-----
hourly “cost of living” increase and the first major walkout of 1947 in the United States.
The walkout became a virtual certainty when negotiations between the Shell Oil company and the Oil Worker’s union in San Francisco — regarded as the “key” to the situation — collapsed today with the company and union still $10 apart on their proposals.
NEW ULTIMATUM
O. A. Knight, international president of the oil workers, currently in Los Angeles for conferences with major oil companies, laid down an ultimatum to producers order to show new women students by announcing that ‘unless the the advantages of participating in companies retreat from their posi- ' tion. the strike is a certainty.”
Big Sisters Aid Students
All big sisters are invited to bring their little sisters to a question party to solve their quandries at noon today in Annex 101. Shelia Connally. orientation chairman, announced.
The “Information Please” policy began a year and a half ago in
Rhodes Wins Senatorial Seat
In an election held during the College of Commerce council meeting yesterday Dusty Rhodes was elected president of the council and president of the college to fill the post that Bob Harbison left vacant when he was graduated last term. The post gives Rhodes a voting seat on the senate.
Rhodes was previously vice-president of the^ council, a yell leader last term, and is a Delta Sigma Phi.
Pour seats on the council are vacant. and petitions for these positions will be accepted by the council next Tuesday at 12:30 in 115 Old College. The petition forms will be available in the office of Dr. Reid Lage McClung, dean of the College of Commerce.
The council plans to fill the vacancies for the offices of vice-president and social chairman at next week's meeting.
Among the events to be featured during the anniversary week, which will be held between A/pr. 28 and May 2, will be a barn dance to be given by Blue Key in honor of the commerce students.
The council planned festivities to include the whole university in the anniversary celebration. A rally will be held May 2 and one day during the week will be devoted to male students wearing levis and women wearing cotton dresses.
By a vote of 320 to 25, the chamber approved and sent to the senate a $139,360,000 deficiency appropriation bill—$176,186,000 less than President Truman requested to keep several federal agencies operating until the end of this fiscal year, June 30.
OPA PLEA IGNORED
The overwhelming GOP majority ignored OPA’s plea for $5,900,000 to continue its activities, and consented to its appropriations committee’s recommendation that the agency be required to return $9,000,000 in its possession.
Democrats accused the Republicans of attempting to wipe out rent control by “back door” methods. But GOP leaders said OPA would be able to carry on this control with existing funds “if honestly administered.”
SUGAR RATIONING
The house action, which also might affect OPA’s ability to continue enforcement of sugar rationing, came as a senate banking subcommittee prepared to write a bill that may contain authority for an immediate nation-wide rent boost ranging from 5 to 15 per cent.
Committee Chairman C. Douglass Buck, R. Del., said that whether or not a rent hike was approved, the group was determined to take rent control away from OPA. He had the backing of senate GOP whip Kenneth S. Wherry, Neb., who led a successful fight in the last congress to strip OPA of most of its powers.
Program Features Trio, Choir Songs
Addressing the entire student body for the first time j since 1945, Dr. Rufus B. von KleinSmid, chancellor of the university, will issue a welcome to all Trojans at the first all-university assembly of the semester at 10 this morning
in Bovard auditorium.
ALBERT S. RAVENHEIMER . . . assists chancellor
Four Wounded In Jerusalem
Student Forum Created; Plan Campus Talks
Creation of a university student j forum committee to incorporate a | program increasing campus discus-j sion of public issues was announced today by Albert S. Raubenheimer, JERUSALEM. Feb. 18 — (UP)—i ex€CUtive dean-The Jewish underground blew up! Rising out of an interest displayed a British army truck just outside ^ast semester in forums conducted Jerusalem tonight, wounding four ^y various SC organizations, the soldiers. It was reported to have committee at present contains 13 bombed the railway station at ! campus bodies under the direction Nablus and to have touched off of E>r- Floyd Ross, faculty adviser, other explosions in Palestine. ; of the Graduate School of Religion.
A police communique reported i Evidence that any recognized the truck incident but did not campus organization can participate confirm report of others.	Qn the student forum committee
There was a tendency to regal'd , was iven by ^ Ross> but he all the reported explosions as an |
underground answer to Britain’s Emphasized that applying groups
decision to refer the Palestine would have to demonstrate an in-
problem to the United Nations, terest in such discussions.
However, this was not confirmed ..We do not want ^e forum to
and it was possible that a mine i . . . . . _ . ,. . .. „ ...	..	, , ^ be rigid or formal in participation,
planted some time ago blew up ®
the truck.
With all negotiations broken off today after 11th hour conferences, and Knight’s statement indicating the next move was up to the companies, federal conciliators said it
campus activities. Women university office holders who will be present at today's meeting will give study hints, explain the structure and functions of various organiza-
^ i tions and answer the queries of the was “practically hopeless' to ex-} audience
pect “successful developments in j the short time remaining.” UTILITIES WARNED
Southern California utility com- I panies have already warned through newspaper advertisements that the public can expect sharp
Trovet Dance Offers Mellow Jive Tunes
CONFERENCE STARTED
Hig h Commissioner Sir Alan Cunningham and Maj. Gen. G. H.
A. MacMillan, the new British commander in Palestine, started an yrgent conference. It was believed f0rum planning that they were discussing the imposition of statutory martial law.
After the explosion that wrecked the truck, British troops manned standbag emplacements and took '‘ready” positions in other places. Troops guarded all crossroads and movement within the of
! explained Ross. “We want it to be a flexible sounding board for discussions of important issues.”
A steering committee composed of four or five student members will take care of all mechanics of the
Representatives on the committee include members from Trovets, Independent Student association, In-dpendent council. YWCA, Religion council, ASSC senate, Panhellenic,
Inter-Fratemity council. LAS coun-Jerusalem cil. Debate squad. International Re- are all members of the College cr
Music faculty, will present the first movement of the Schubert
Chancellor von KleinSmid has used these assemblies in the past to place the problems of the administration before the students in a sincere effort to enlist their friendly cooperation. The chancellor seizes every opportunity to overcome the problem of the impersonal connection that necessarily exists between students and faculty leaders in an institution of this size.
In his open letter to the student body in Sept. 1946. Dr. von KleinSmid said:
Throughout the United States conditions traditional to university life are changing rapidly. The emphasis is being switched from what might be called ‘campus life' « to classroom achievement. The unprecedented influx of students makes it impossible to maintain certain intimate problems of college life and tends to narrow somewhat our outlook.”
CHOIR. TRIO PERFORM Nor have our Chancellor's remarks been confined to the purely academic aspects of facul-ty-student relations. Many years of experience and a full life stand behind the friendly advice that any Trojan can have for the asking. Dr. von KleinSmid has offered a standing invitation to ail Trojans to come and see him and let him help them with their problems.
Chancellor von KleinSmid's greeting will be augmented by the a capella choir and the Hancocic Foundation trio. The choir will sing two numbers, “Holy Radiant Light,” Tshesnikov. and“Spirit of the Lord.” a Negro spiritual arranged by Noble Cain.
Hancock Foundation trio, composed of John Crown. Stephen De'ak. and Anton Maaskoff, who
four security zones
was prohibited.	j lations council, Senior class council.
The truck was mined	in San and juni0r ciass council.
Hedria. adjacent to the northern DeJegates wm meet for the first
for dancers Friday night at the Trovet dance when Hubert j J^^hp^work ^^rr'signs STheitime Monday at 3.45 p.m. in 401
Finlay and his all-university artists give out with the Stern canl one of the	soldiers Student Union
“mellow” and the “jive”.	!	'	-——
New arrangements of old and new tunes are in store
“Those new coeds who have not been reached by their big sisters,” announced Sheila Connally, “should not hesitate to come anyway.” Everyone who has a problem should have a question prepared to
ian Plans vard Talk
ngineer at the university are ler in Bovard auditorium this n at 3:30 for the first ailing assembly in campus Mike Catalano, president engineering council, an-d that a program has been d to provide entertainment nformation of interest to all
TS.
bert E. Vivian, dean of liege of Engineering, will on work now underway to e the school, and to better US within the college. Dean t will also speak on the place-facilities of the school and engineering graduates of the ty are given positions in the
dent Catalano will present constitution of the school assembly, and member of the of engineering will have an nity to vote on lt at the ectlon.
eering week, a proposed to occur from Mar. 10 14. will be announced to bly by George Nelson, of the committee prepar-plans.
s of the roRolrfnc staff on hand to show movies of !-Notlt Dame football game, wlli b« the final Item
curtailment of natural gas if the | ask the PaneL Students may bring strike continues for any length of tlidr lunches with them to the time.	; meeting. Advisers to be present to-
Southern California transit offi- ^&y are r>oral Bennett, ASSC vice-cials estimated some 200.000 pas- 'president; Katie Connolly, PanHel-sengers daily on their buses would lenic vice-president; Peggy Cornell, be affected.	*	Trojan Amazon president; Pat Has-
A spokesman for a major oil kell. Troed president; Virginia Har-producer in Los Angeles, who ask- : tunian. YWCA prsident; Anne ed that he not be quoted by name, 1 Pearce. Mortar Board president; said the motorists would feel the i and Miss Dixie Smith, assistant to shortage in from 48 hours to 2 Dean Moreland.
weeks, depending on whether they |-
were located near to refineries or at some distance from the stor- LAS age areas.
“In some areas, far from refin- ; ... council will meet at 3:15 in ing plants, supplies might run out 323 Student Union, Carl Gebhardt, in two days,” he said.	j president, announced.
Chapel Services
Relating the significance of prayer in its relationship to suf fering. Dr. E. L. Titu.s. assistant professor of religion, is to be the speaker at the all-university chapel services at noon today in Bowne hall.
Trojan. Politician
SC Graduate Student Seeks
Election in Councilman Race Elections Open
For ISA Posts
Finlay, formerly of the 740th Military Police band founded by Wayne King, makes his de- | but Friday night fronting’ the;
band with his fiddle instead of J\fU$ fQ CondllCt the alto sax used during previous performances.
Emphasis is being placed on special arrangements by members of the band of such old memory tunes as “You Can Depend on Me” arranged by Wilbur Smith, arranger for the band and tenor sax man;
“September in the Rain” arranged by Byron Long, piano and flute player formerly of the Great Lakes Naval Station band; and a jumping jive arrangement of “Southern Fry" by Dick Brawn.
Russ Hoier. trumpet man and singer, teams with Smith, Brawn, and a new girl singer known as “Roberta” singing special arrangements of the currently popular tunes “Guilty” and “I Don't Know Why".
Augmenting Finlay’s band will be Senor Thomas and his South American orchestral-group presenting rhumbas, tangos, and congas. Presentation of the Spanish motif is expected to further the good neighbor policy.
j was seriously injured.
HOME MADE MINES USED
The mines were crude, home-! made affairs, of explosives stiteed into beer bottles. They were electrically detonated, so the men who set them off must have been near the road at the tinite.
There were not immediate details of the other explosions.
Mayor Suleiman Bey Tooyan of nounced yesterday. Although in-Nablus. reached by telephone, said dividual appointments are closed, the city was quiet but that did fraternity representatives may not preclude the possibility that make appointments for informal something had happened to the groUp pictures this week, railway station.	—
Lockhart Closes Portrait Poses
No more appointments will be taken for individual pictures in the forthcoming issue of El Rodeo, Diane Lockhart, editor an-
Trio in B Flat Major.
Classes scheduled to meet at 10 a.m. will not meet today in order that all students may attend th<* assembly. Eleven o'clock classes wUl begin at 11:10.
Spengler's Book Prophetic But in Error Says Robinson
Students living in Santa Monica will be able to vote for a felnw Trojan at the coming election of councilman on Mar. 11.
He is Ralph B. Smith Jr.. a graduate student now working cn his masters degree in political science. Also seekmg to obtain teaching credentials from SC. Smith is already working as a teaching assistant in the political science department.
Discussing his candidacy in the Santa Monica councilman race. Smith stated Uiat the election is non-partisan and was called under provisions of a new city government charter which was put on the con-ional ballots last November.
At that time the city voted to
change the Santa Monica commission government to that of a city manager form. The California state legislature recently approved the charter.
Under the new setup a group of seven councilmen will select a city manager as well as work on local legislation.
Together with 50 ethers. Smith announced his candidacy two weeks ago.
With the exception of his time in the navy. Smith has been a resident of Santa Monica for the last nine years. After serving on a destroyer in the South Pacific ocean he was honorably discharged with the rank of Lt. J«. a year a bo.
Nominations for ISA offices closed yesterday with the following candidates added to the ballot.
Frank Kershaw, previously nominated for the treasurer's position, was named to run for president. Jack Tourin, dropped as a candi-
date for representative-at-large. wras nominated for vice president with i to the next civilization stated Dr.
by Howard Williams
Oswald Spengler’s book, “Decline of the West,” in wrhich he predicts complete destruction or submergence of western civilization before the year 3000. has proved prophetic, but he made an error in treating the culture of the new world as part of European culture.
This was pan of a criticism of Spengler’s. theory of culture, expressed yesterday afternoon by Dr. Daniel S. Robinson, director of the School of Philosophy, at the opening of the 34th semi-annual philosophy forum in Bowne hall.
, Spengler's second mistake was in stating that the foundations of culture come entirely from within. Civilizations receive part of their foundations from older cultures, and they pass part of their culture on
has been threatened by two world, nihilation or destruction ot cultur-wars and it would be well to con- al elements, but that the sensate sider its future prospects. Nature | elements which are active will be must be mastered and made the I replaced by a new ideational cul-
servant of creative reason, or such mastery may end in enslavement.
The culture theory of Pitirim Sorokin, Russian born social philosopher and teacher at Harvard university, is that our contemporary sensate culture is now engaged in destroying itself, explained Dr. Sterling M. McMurrin, assistant professor of philosophy.
Sorokin believes that culture is of three types; ideational culture, concerned with self discipline and spir-
Betty Cohen.
Dick Jorgenson was nominated for the treasurer's office after having been named to run as a repre-sentative-at-large. Lee Lynn was dropped as a nominee for representative-at-large. and Vic Ritten-band and Bob Serva w« added.
Robinson.
Speaking on part of tlie topic, “Three Recent General Theories of Culture,” Dr. Irl G. "Whitchurch, dean of the Graduate School of Religion. outlined the theory of Arnold Toynbee. English philosopher.
Toynbee believes that our culture
ture which is probably waiting to greet those who survive the long night of transition.
Dr. Robinson explained that Oswald Spengler's culture theory was used by the Nazis in Germany who saw that the old culture was dying out and tried to create a new Nordic culture to replace the old liber- | alism. Spengler was not a Nazi him-self, however.
Denying Spengler's belief that j each culture is different, and that | itual reality sensate culture, which when it dies it is reDlaced by a is concerned with material reality, i completely new one. Dr. Robinson change, and activity: and idealistic stated that each culture is unique I culture, which combines *^e essen- but, they are all manifestations of tial elements of the other two. a spiritual trend.
The creative peak of the Ameri- Spengler compared culture to th can culture has been reached, be- 1 seasons, and our civilization ha> lieves Sorokin, and it is being re- already been in its winter for 100 placed by a sensate culture with a years. As an example. Spengler mania for self destruction. It is the points to the collection of relics of
UNA Regains Active Status
Offering an opportunity for students to meet people outstanding in world affairs, the United Nations association on campus invites aJl students to its first meeting of the year this afternoon at 2:15 in 318 Student Union.
Organized on a national scale, the UNA holds meetings to discuss and j support the UN charter and ita i principles.
The organization, now being re-I activated, had about 45 members j when it ceased to exist a year ago. Outstanding members of UNA are Dr. Rufus B. \fon KleinSmid. Robert Millikan. Darryl F. Zanuck. and Dr. Eugene Harley, who is president of the southern California division.
Student memberships are $1 per year and entitle the member to receive publication on world affairs and to attend monthly downtown luncheons where outstanding speakers are presented,” Virginia Gardner. chairman of the student committee. said today.
crisis of a dying culture, which is committing suicide.
This does not mean the total an-
the past as an indication that our culture is dying and has last its creative ability.
Chancellor's
Notice
Featuring a talk by C hancellor Rufus B. von KleinSmid and selections by the a cappela choir and the Hancock Foundation trio, an all-universitv assembly w’ill be held tomorrow from 10 to 11 a.m.
\11 10 o’clock classes will be cancelled and thos* scheduled for 11 will begin at 11:10 so that students and faculty may attend, according to Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president.