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Los Angeles, Calif., Thursday, Oct. 14, 1948
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Baxter Lectures n Leadership Today
Speech, Third of Series, Starts at 3:15 in Bowne
on the campus is invaluable for the country,” said Dr. Frank C. Baxter his leadership lecture today at 3:15
mpaign Gets tter, Hotter
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adership tra; e leaders of ;rday in prefi owne hall.
Baxter, professor of English language and literature.
-+ wltl speak about “The Psychology of Working With Groups."’ He ts basing his address on his experience in group participation other | than in the role of a leader.
HAS BEEN LED “I feel that I am magnificently prepared to give this lecture.” he has said, “not because I am by any conceivable definition a leader, but, for some 52 years, I certainly have beer. led. I am the ultimate consumer of leadership,” he added. “Therefore, I feel that there are certain general aspects of leadership about which I am qualified to speak. ’
Today’s address is the third in a scries sponsored by the Student Government Leadership committee. I | The speakers are limited to 20- |
| minute talks which are followed | j by 40-minute discussion periods. LEADERSHIP POOR
The mark of the second-rater is ! or leadership almost everywhere,
! Dr. Baxter believes. Campus politics ! are a poor indication of leadership,
! although the campus is a good place i : to learn leadership fundamentals. J j he said. On most of the campuses ! ; which he has visited, campus poli-j tics have often obscured good I j leadership.
Dr. Baxter received his A.B. and j I M.A degrees from the University J j of Pennsylvania, and then studied ] at Cambridge for three years, I ! where he received his Ph.D. in 1932.
Oct. 13— charged tonight E. Dewey has ight" in world affairs would be risky to en-bipartisan foreign policy to ;>n certs wiio now come and say ‘me too. but I can better.' ”
, as the President's most direct Secisi\e attack of the campaign Republican opponent for the use.
Icasting from a 3500-seat »r in the St. Paul auditorium, ruman accused Dewey of try-wm the presidency with phrases’’ and “mealy-moulh-ilitical speeches.” taring that he had hoped for--liCJT would not be an issue 1948 campaign. Mr. Truman je wanted to set the record as to just where and how al unity on it was acliieved. did not have unity in foreign in 1940,” he said. “Even then, the world halt in llames. the )lican leaders were mainly iso-iists. They were against aid to Democrats and they called ;velt a war-monger, fen in 1944, in the midst of a war, we did not have unity in ;rs relating to foreign policy.
Apathy Shown Tentative Homecoming Schedule
By Freshmen ■ i i ri •«• t I * *
In Registering ,ntludes Skywriting, Television
Courtesy of Los Anceles Times
UC^A STUDENT is shown above holding Tirebiter when he was dognapped by the Bruins last year and dishonored by having UCLA letters shaved on his back. Dog's latest disappearance raises suspicion of further pranks.
George Tirebiter Still Lost; Knights Frantic
BULLETIN Extension of the deadline for registering for the Freshman election, originally set for today, has been extended to Friday because of five-week exams, it was reported last night at the Senate meeting.
The lack of freshmen interest in their own class elections has been scored by Election Commissioner Bill McGurty.
“The apathy shown by the majority of freshmen is disappointing,” he said. One hundred and twenty-five persons out of 17C0 registered by 1:30 yesterday afternoon.
“A minority of 10 per cent will elect the officers to govern the class if no more register on the last day than on the first two days, he added.
Today is the last day freshmen may register. Because all information given at the booths must be checked with the registrar’s card, the time limit will not be extended. The booths are in front of the ad ministration building, and will be open from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m.
“I fully appreciate the fine cooperation shown by the Amazons and Spurs in handling the booths,” McGurthy said.
Last year's election, in which 400 freshmen voted, caused a row in the senate when several senators questioned the eligibility rules for the election. The senate approved the election “with mental reservations, realizing that procedure was not according to previous stipulations.”
All-Round Girl
Bare Beauty Won t Cop Cap
It will take more than beauty to become SC's homecoming queen.
Entrants to this homecoming contest will be judged on personality, voice, poise, and appearance as well as beauty, according to Don Evans, committee chairman.
The queen contest is among the highlights of Homecoming week. Other features include the slogan contest, a taxi day, and a contest for best decorated houses on the Rcw.
Aspirants to the crown will be judged on three different days. Nov. 27 at 3:30 they will appear in Bovard auditorium dressed in campus clothes. The following Monday
Townsend Says King to Reign With Helen' on Great Day
Skywriting, floats, disc jockey publicity, and television coverage are included in the plans for Homecoming week released by Ralph Townsend in the ASSC Senate meeting last
night.
Townsend, homecoming chairman, said that his plans are
tentative and that they must be*--—
approved by the Alumni Homecom- r a ±' cl mg committee.	For Art s Sake
In addition to selecting Helen of Troy, Townsend said a version of a male king will be elected in a “Date With a Queen Contest.”
NOV. 29 Townsend said he hopes to start Homecoming week, Nov. 29, with publicity from early morning disc
Talkless Movie Best-Vorkapich
Nine days have passed since George Tirebiter, dog of dogs He taught at Swathmore college in j on sc campus, was dognaped. Only scant scraps of news Pennsylvania and the University of have turned up since his disappearance; most of it bad.
Tirebiter was taken from a West Slauson dog and cat hospital Oct. 5, by two men who said they were SC students. A
phone call to the hospital from A---
California at Berkeley before joining the SC faculty in 1932.
WEY
Gridders Get Sendoff Rally
ROUTE WITH DEWEY, Oct.
XE)—Gov. Thomas E. Dewey, jcing a aaylong tour of Okla-, tonight denounced the Tru- j Trojan footballers will be cheered administration for building a on their way to the Oregon battle heated set of federal agencies Wjth a rally tomorrow morning. The overn oil production.	j rally will be held at 10:15 in front
of all our resources has j of the physical Education building,
where the team will board buses to the airport.
Jack McKee and company will lead yells, the SC band will play, than |end according to McKee every ef-
umaiT administration has of- |fort wm ** mafJe to give the team
I enough spark to dry up the lair of
attacked the “government jthe Webfeet in Oregon.
,ons of the present admimstra- | “We hope enough students turn on oil, and said more than ! out at this rally to make up for the »^n federal bureaus created un- | small rooting section the team will he Democrats were now tellng have in Oregon." said Morey Thom-men of the Southwest how as, president of the Trojan Knights. rate-	| “We really need that Oregon
j game. The team can use all the I spirit we can give them," he added.
iv cooks spoiling the broth, GOP Presidential candidate *ed.
wev called for administration Ur natural resources on a more lified and effcient basi
another person who said he was Arnold Eddy, identified the two and the hospital gave them the dog. The theft was not found out until last Saturday when two Trojan Knights went to the kennels to get Tirebiter.
A Trojan Knight saw a dog that looked like Tirebiter in the Westchester district last Saturday morning. Believing SC’s mascot to be safe at the dog and cat hospital, he went his way disinterested. That
at the Cal or UCLA game,” said Morey Thomas, president of the Knights. “We hope not, but we expect anything.”
OH WHERE Dr. Taylor of the dog and cat hospital was angered by the deception and worried over the consequences.
“We hate to get slickered out of something like that,” Dr. Taylor said, “we loved George like he was
afcernoon he learned of Tirebiter’! j our own. He’d been down here so
snatching and went back in force with other Knights.
OH WHERE
They were unable to find any dog resembling Tirebiter. They notified the police in the area to ing a morose watch on the tele-
often for rabies observation that we had a real personal interest in him.”
Dr. Taylor dispelled any doubts as to Tirebiter's mental condition.
“He was a perefectly normal dog/’ he said, “maybe not the
watch for a big brown and black | smartest there is, but perfectly nor-mutt, and returned.	j mal.”
The Trojan Knights, legal guar-	CAN HE BE?
Lost It Guayaquil
.n Ecuadorian native who in all ibility never dreamed he ild ever draw a crowd on the campus was the star of the Ihropology laboratory open in Hancock hall Tuesday ,ning.
is a shrunken head.
'’he unknown native, who has no comments no his deplor-situation, was no doubt “a lim of foul play.” re pared with artistic perfec-by the head hunters of Ecua-l/who did not intend that their diwork should end up in a showcase, they sealed the uth and eyes to prevent it (at time mounted upon a perfeet-health human} from recognix-S Its attackers or crying out ^rses.
As * matter fact, it hasn’t cried t a curse in years. vr. Dorothy Luhrs. research as-t*. conducted visitors through exhibit, held in conjunction th the Natural Science Lecture fries. Other displays included In-an craft techniques in pottery, ets. stone artifacts, and text-
Aiso skulls.
dians of Tirebiter, have been keep-phone and waiting for the worst. “We’re afraid he may turn up
• Today s Headlines •
By United Press
Drop Berlin Dispute-Russia
PARIS, Oct. 13—Russia tonight rejected efforts of the six neutrals to mediate the Berlin crisis, it was authoritatively reported. The Security Council was called to meet Friday to take up the issue once more.
Western sources said the main point of the Russian note was ‘‘throw the Berlin case out of the Security Council.”
Conant Calls for Militia
CAMBRIDGE, Oct. 13—President James B. Conant of Harvard university tonight suggested that the nation’s military needs be filled by enrolling every boy of 18 in a national militia for 10 years.
There would be no exemptions except for physical disability, Conant said.
US Not to Recognize Arabs
WASHINGTON, Oct. 13—The United States will refuse to recognize the newly proclaimed Arab government for all Pal-, estine. Undersecretary of State Robert Lovett today made : it plain.
He noted that the US already recognizes the Jewish State of Israel which is part of the Palestine area claimed by the Arab regime as its territory.
The Los Angeles Bureau of Animal Regulation said Tirebiter would be promptly returned if he came in with a license on.
“If he doesn’t have a license,” the bureau said, “we hold the dog four days and then offer him for sale.”
About 50 people each day come in looking for dogs to adopt, ‘‘but there isn't much market for big dogs,” said the bureau, “and if they aren’t sold on the fifth day, we usually put them to sleep.” TIREBITER IS A BIG DOG.
Office Lists Class Shifts
The following class changes were announced yesterday by the office of the educational vice-president.
botany
Change J1L (0S41) 3:15 WF to 1:15 WF in 105 Sc B. 11L (0845) 1:15 WF to 2:15 WF in 2r.9 Sc. 10L (0831) 1:15 MW to 257 Sc. 175L (0871) Lab 2:15-4:05 MW and 1:15-3 05 F to 265 Sc.
CHEMISTRY
Change 233a (1026) S MWF to 105 Ens. B. 196 <3220R) 9 MWF to Br 304. 02 L S MWF to 107 Sc.
ENGINEERIN G—Electrical
Change 121 (3353) 12 MWF to 103 Annex.
ENGINEERING—Industrial
Drop 195 (3750) 8 MWF. MATHEMATICS Change 120 (5860) 9 MWF to 116 An-nex, 2 (5802) 9 MWF to 110 Annex. RELIGION
Change 327 (8493) 1:15-3:05 T to Religion office.
Wampus Willie Preening for Political Debut
Willie the Wampus Bird, who caused a furor in political circles yesterday with the announcement that he would be the nation’s fifth presidential candidate, will make his first political appearance in a gigantic parade on the SC campus today.
The parade, replete with convertibles and a brass band, will tour the campus at noon.
Willie will officially toss a bedraggled feather into the political ring with the issuance of the Wampus Friday morning. Net until then will the name of his running mate, a prominent SC fraternity man, be disclosed.
In an interview with newsmen, Willie declined to give any additional information. The forthcoming. he said, will reveal the world-shaking platform which has already sent his name rocketing toward the top position on the lists of many political prognosticators.
“My platform,” he said, “is calculated to fulfill the needs of every modern American. I enter this race with the confidence and assurance that my principles will meet with ultimate success.”
More, Shorter Slogans Wanted
Few Trojans have done much of anything in the way of thinking up slogans for Homecoming week, according to Parnell Curry, chairman of the slogan committee.
Only 60 slogans have been turned in so far, and most of these have been too long, Curry said. He added that a trophy will be presented the writer whose slogan Is selected.
Entries may be turned in at 216 or 235 SU or at the Delta Chi fraternity, 820 West 28th street. The contest ends Friday noon.
the contestants will wear informal date clothes. Only twenty will remain for the final appearance and the prospective queens will don formals for the occasion.
The queen will be selected by four Hollywood stars, and a name band will play at the event.
“The woman chosen will appear on a network radio show, televis-on, and will receive a huge loving cup,” said Evans.
Names of three women who wish to enter the contest are to be submitted by each sorority and women’s dormitory on campus. The names of hopefuls may be given to Don Evans at the Lambda Chi Alpha house, 908 West 39th street until a box is provided in the Student Unon. Entries must be submitted by November 1.
Sellout Predicted For Irish Came
The SC-Notre Dame football clash in the Coliseum Dec. 4 will be a complete sellout for the second straight year, announced John Morley, ticket manager, yesterday.
No further orders are being accepted.
Wmmkm.
RALPH TOWNSEND . . . bigger, better
jockeys and skywriting over the campus at noon.
Plans for television coverage of floats and Taxi-day on Friday and the showing of a major studio preview in Bovard auditorium Wednesday evening were other features of Townsend’s ambitious program.
The DT or lack of DT’s came up in the meeting when Wayne Chiappe, engineering president, complained of lack of campus information coming to the College of Engineering.
A motion by Milt Dobkin, chairman of the rules committee, that “more equitable distribution of DTs” be referred in the Greater University committee, was passed. The committee will also attempt to see if a greater number of copies can be printed.
LAW PROHIBITS
Dobkin’s by-law of last meeting that “the ASSC senate prohibit the use of the title ASSC without permission of the ASSC Senate” was taken off the table and passed unanimously.
The by-law was aimed at campus parking lots which used the ASSC name during football games.
“Students feel they are being taxed by parking in lots using ASSC title,” Dobkin said.
Senate members got a scolding from Bill Stevens reporting on the Student Leadership forum.
Flashes Inked; Grid Odds Sink
by Jack Jones
The smart operators on Main street yesterday afternoon trimmed the odds on tomorrow's Cinch-No-tice bowl game, as word got out that four new grid stars had been signed by the LAS squad.
Bolstering its running and aerial attack for the Bovard field clash with faculty members tomorrow noon, LAS students inked speed merchant Ed Vierheilig; blocking back Ralph Townsend, formerly of the Green Bay PACers; “bouncing” Bobby Padgett; and “Shaftin’ ” Grafton Tanquary.
When the kickoff whistle blows tomorrow noon, LAS student squadmen will be facing an LAS faculty aggregation rated to be even stronger than the eleven which last year trampled the undergrads 7-0.
Biggest threat to the students is shifty, swivelhipped Dr. Tracy E. Stre-
vey, dean of LAS, probably the hottest open field runner in the circuit. Leading Dr. Strevey’s interference will be the slashing downfield blocker, Dr. Albert F. Zech, known throughout the league as “Heck on Wheels.”
Coach Sam Barry, who has been drilling his faculty team all week in preparation for the first period of walking and the second period of running backwards, (we don't make the rules, you know) also has powerhouse warriors in Al Canfield, a terror in the single wing; and Bob “Red” Wilson, smashing tackle.
Canfield and Wilson, who spend nonfootball hours in the SC centrifuge lab, are reported to be designing a centrifugal force play to spin through student linemen, a sort of whirling dervish with a touchdown-destined storm center.
by Don Hoelck
Motion is the key word in motion pictures, if they are to be an art.
That is the theory Slavko Vor-| kapich, head of the cinema de-I partment, advanced to an enthusi-1 astic audience yesterday during the second of the LAS lecture series in Hancock auditorium.
Vorkapich believes that by the use of motion alone in movies, no sound effects, no conversation, the emotions of an audience can be stirred much as by music. He believes the primary appeal of art should be emotional.
ECSTASY A START
“The moive ‘Ecstasy’ was a start in the right direction. Then sound came along and spoiled it,” he said. He explained that “Ecstasy” was an attempt to portray an idea by the use of motion. It was made in Europe without sound.
“The motion picture ndustry,” he said, “is still in its infancy. Movies today are in the same position as music was 1000 years ago. There are still many mediums for the movies that have not been explored.”
He said that movies should do more than be a recorder of facts and a teller of stories. At present movies are only an extension of the stage.
SHOWED FILMS
One field within movies which has definite possibilities is music, he contined. Music is closer to motion pictures than any of the arts.
Grinning widely he said he was not much of a “talker,” but that that he would attempt to show what he meant by his work.
He showed the films “Fingal's Cave” based on Mendlesohn's music and “Forest Murmers,” with a background of Wagner. However, the music was never a background for the picture. By the use of movement of forests in the wind, birds in the sky, animals in the forest, and the changing moods of the sea, Vorkapich was able to blend them perfectly with the music.
SIMILAR TO DISNEY
After the films were over one person in the audience was heard to say, “Reminded me of Disney's pictures, only much better.”
Mr. Vorkapich has been in the motion picture industry since 1928. He was and still is an artist but believes that the movies are a better medium to express art than painting.
Crew
. . . members from last year’s squad will meet at 7 tonight at the Kappa Alpha house, 700 West 28 th street, to discuss coming activities.
Special
Notice
The five week exam for General Studies 54b (Hindman) will be given Monday, Oct. 18, at 8 a.m. and 1:15 p.m.
Each student has been assigned a special examination seat by his teaching assistant. The student is to occupy this seat during the five and ten week tests, the short quizzes, and the final exam.
If any student has not obtained this special seating assignment, he should contact h?s teaching asistant at the office, 901 West 36th place, before Monday, Oct. 18.