ULLER WILL OPEN PARLEY
OUTHERN
CALIFORNIA
Educators to Discuss
Summer Npw<: School Supervision
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Loa Angeles, Calif., Friday, July 9, 1948 No. 8
ark Probes gislation by pular Polls
question of whether the e of this country should take its government by means of has been raised by the re-of a recent public opinion according to Prof. Robert , visiting professor from the rsity of Oregon, who speaks afternoon at 3:15 in Hancock
ject of Dr. Clark’s lecture is eminent by Gallup Poll—Im-ions for Public Address.” It rd in the summer lecture sponsored by the depart-of psychology and speech. LEGISLATION AIDS question asked recently on ublic opinion poll was: ‘Do think public opinion polls serve as a guide for legis-sald Dr .Clark, who is it to the dean of the Col-of Liberal Arts, University egon.
enty-seven per cent of the rs were affirmative, he con-which raises the question, ^d we let people take over "vernment, and let the legis-do as the people say?"
poses several other prob-he said, one of which is might happen to these polls ced in the hands of dema-
POLLS LEAD
has always been traditional politician to keep his ear to ound,” said Professor Clark.
possible that these polls lay into the hands of dema-that is, they may try to ut what opinion is and go with the people instead of g them."
Clark said he is interested w what will happen to the who oppose the results of whether they can do so fully.
s ties in with what might subtitle of my talk,’ he ued, M “What happens to
1	orators and oratory?’ ” he rest of his lectures, con-Dr. Clark, he would dis-ne techniques these ora-ay utilize in opposing the ty o£ opinion as expressed Is.
______________________________Courtesy of L. A. Tlmea
ELEPHANTIASIS RESEARCHERS, left to right. Dr. lohn F. Kessel, professor of bacteriology, and Dr. Henry K. Beye, school of medicine, and A. F. Geibe, Kem County mosquito abatement director, stand beside a jeep and trailer that Dr. Beye will take to Tahati. The group will leave Sunday.
Medical Team Off for Pacific
Filariasis, commonly called elephanti asis, is in for some rough treatment at the hands of an SC medical team which leaves Sunday for Tahiti to inagurate a search for its control.
Under the over-all supervision of Dr. John F. Kessel, professor of bacteriology, the team will move into areas of the Pacific where the dread disease is most prevalent. Vet-
Dr. Edgar E. Fuller, commissioner of education for New Hampshire, will open the first in a series of three school administration-supervision conferences at 10 this morning in Hancock auditorium when he speaks on “The Public Schools and Separation of State and Church.”
Following the lecture by Dr. Puller, Dr. M. Lynn Bennion, superintendent of schools at Salt, Lake City, will conduct a discussion on topics brought out in the lecture.
DR. BELL FOLLOWS “The Lengthened School Year," a lecture by Dr. Millard D. Bell, superintendent of schools at Wilmette, III, will follow at 11 with William S. Briscoe, superintendent of the Santa Monica city schools, conducting a discussion period.
During the mid-day recess, a luncheon meeting in the Student Union grill is planned. Dr. John A. Sexson, executive secretary, California association of school administrators, will speak on “Security for School Administrators,” with R. E. Bosshard, president, California association of school trustees, presiding at the discussion period.
DR. STRAYER NEXT The afternoon session of the conference will move into Bovard auditorium where Dr. George D. Strayer Jr., associate professor of education at Indiana university, will speak on “The Future of State Financial Support for Public Schools,” at 2:15.
Today's conference will be followed by conferences on July 13 and July 23. All sessions are open to school administrators and other educators without charge except for luncheon meetings. Reservations for luncheon, at $1.10, may be obtained in the Phi Delta Kappa office, 354 Administration building.
LAS Heads Give Advisement Daily
The Letters, Arts, and Sciences advisement office will be open from 9 to noon and from 1 to 4 daily throughout the summer. Explanation of lower division curriculum requirements and program planning are offered as a service to students.
The office is located in Administration 207 and is staffed by Paul E. Hadley, head, Richard F. Brown, Norman R. Fertig, Donald W. Peters, and Conrad Hawkins.
Textile Courses in National Fame
TO It'S NOT101 la a forthcoin-ue of the Summer News u full tor? with pictures will be <le-to the textile uiunufucturiug itimi the textile tub here on under (lie direction of ICrne-st lecturer iu textile eugineer-
fast-growing textile manu-ng courses—first of their X a western university-
11	equipped textile labora-alned national recognition In an article in the Tex-rid, textile trade magazine ed by McGraw-Hill, article, appearing in the ssue, tells of the coopera-students in the courses boratory with the expand-!tern textile industry in re-and experimentation, r the direction of Ernest
Nelson, head of the textile manufacturing courses in the College of Engineering, the laboratory is equipped to handle most research problems for southern California yarn and textile manufacturers, Mr. Nelson states.
Special mention is made in the article of the courses which emphasize the chemistry of dyeing and color and the problems of physics and economics in the textile industry and of the field trips to plants in the Los Angeles area.
"When we don't have a machine in our own laboratory for demonstration of a manufacturing process, we arrange as needed to visit a plant that does,” Mr. Nelson said.
erans of the recent war who were plagued with the disease can attest to its severity.
To finance the expedition, Ex-plorer-Writer William A. Robinson and Cornelius Crane, New York plumbing company executive, have placed more than $35,000 at' the disposal of the team.
Dr. Henry K. Beye, of the school of medicine, will assume supervision of the researchers in the field. With Mrs. Beye, a public health nurse, he will leave by air Sunday for the Pacific island.
OTHERS WILL JOIN Insect and parasite specialists and the specially built jeep and trailer laboratory will Join Dr. Beye’s forces in the fall to assist in the study*of filariasis. In addition to the laboratory equipment in the trailer, facilities for treating natives will be available. To control Insects, the trailer Is equipped to shoot 50-foot sprays of DDT from side exhausts.
The trailer equipment was arranged by A. F. Gel be, Kern county mosquito abatement director.
ROBINSON CURIOUS
Plans for the project were initiated a year ago when Robinson visited Dr. James I. Knott, San Diego filariasis expert, to seek knowledge about the cures for the disease.
Others in the party are Dr. James N. DeLamater, skin specialist of the medical school and consultant for the Navy's wartime 7th fleet; Dr. Willard Wright, chief of the National Health institute’s tropical medicine division; Dr. William McD. Hammon, University of California medical school; and Dr. Knott, wartime filariasis expert for the air force.
Dr. Knott will join the SC faculty in the fall.
Steuber Plans Piano Recital
Iiillian Steuber, acclaimed nationally by many critics the “greatest of our young pianists,” presents her ‘‘imaginative interpretation” and “surpassing technique” with a piano recital in Bovard auditorium, Monday, July
12	at 8:30 p.m.
Miss Steuber began ner study here under the tutelage of Julian Pascal and at the age of 15, went to New York for four years under Josef Lhevinne, followed by .coaching from Harold Bauer and Egon Petri.
The program includes works by Chopin and four contemporary American composers: Talma, Griffes, Riegger, and Adolph Weiss, whose composition “Pulse of tihe Sea,” to be played by Miss Steuber, was dedicated to her by the composer.
Vet Insurance
Leaving City? Let VA Know
Veteran students graduat ing this year who plan to move from areas served by veterans administration branch office to which they have been mailing their national service life insurance payment, should notify the VA immediately of their new permanent address.
The insurance accounts of veterans in the Los Angeles regional area are serviced by the VA branch office 12 in San Francisco, which has jurisdiction over California, Nevada, Arizona, and tin Hawaiian Islands. Students planning to move permanently from tlus area should notify Uie VA branch office 12 at 180 New Montgomery street, San Francisco, 5.
Those moving into the branch
12	from elsewhere, should notify their VA branch offices of the change. Veteran’s NSLI records are kept in the VA branch office having jurisdiction over the area in which the veteran maintain* his permanent address.
Aeneas Schedules Dance
Summer socializing for campus-bound Trojans gets an added impetus tonight when Aeneas hall presents its first all-university dance of the semester. Dancing will take pltce in Aeneas Palm Grove, located between Owens hall and Aeneas hall.
“It’s the slickest setting east of Hoover street and west of Figueroa,” said Milton Mann, production head. Music starts at 8:30 p.m. and, added Mann, all men will be charged 25 cents. Women
will be admitted free of charge Square dancing and grunion hunting are two other recreation choices offered to everyone by the physical education department and the Education club, respectively The square dance is a picnic affair to be held at Plummer park 7377 Santa Monica boulevard starting at 5:30 in the afternoon Will Rogers State beach is th* announced headquarters of tlw grunion hunters, who will star* activities at 6 tonight.