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“California’s increasing industrial and financial power shifting political power to this state/' E. George Luckey, ice-chairman of the California Democratic committee, said ecently.
Luckey, who will speak today at 3:15 p.m. in the art and d lecture room of the University* rary will use this theme of hiftmg power to California'’ for s talk at the Iasi LAS lecture r this semester.
“The phrase. 'Wtstward the urse of Empire wends its way,’ never truer than in California,” id Luckey. In the past, the gov-norship of New York has been e stepping-stone to the U.S. pres-ency, but in the future the step-ng-stone may be in California, said.
“It is significant that the greatest pulation growths in California oc-~red' in the first decade of its j ’istence because of the gold-rush, d in the iast ten years because of e general westward migration,” id Luckey.
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Next year's census, Luckey con-nds, will show California to be e second most populated state in I e nation. This, Luckey said, will | crease California’s membership in { e House of Representatives from to 32 or 33. With this increase in ngressmen, the state will have uder voice in determining na-nal and foreign affairs.
An increase in the Electoral col-ge representation will also tend make California a power to be ckoned with, said the Democratic ce-ohairman.
RAISES CATTLE Although Luckey Is a power In e Democratic party, he said his Ik on the campus will be non-rtisan.
Luckey is a well-known political
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‘Little Hoover Commission’ Acts To Revise ASSC Constitution
War Memorial Drive
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Vets Blamed for Contribution Lag As Campaign Falters in Stretch
£. GEORGE LUCKEY Power Shifting
figure both nationally and in California. Recently the was written up in Life magazine regarding his cattle-raising business in the Imperial valley and his personal friendship with President Truman.
Luckey came to California when he was 16 and later succeeded in the cattle and ranching business at Brawley. He served in World War I and was a state Senator for four years.
nstitute of World ffairs Opens Sunday
Opening its 26th annual session unday in Riverside, The Institute f World Affairs, will have long its participants experts Tho»- experiences and research udies have been drawn upon ring period? of crisis by numer-s bureaus and departments of hington, D.C.
linent among them is Dr. ufus B. von KleinSmid, chancel-or of the institute and the University and his assistant. Dr. harles E. Martin, University of ashing ton, who will be general irector of the meeting.
Chancellor von KleinSmid has decorated by many nations or outstanding leadership in promoting friendly understanding and nternational good will and has erved as Washington representa-ive at the Pan-American Scientific ngress in South America and at he International Prison congress n London.
Meetings will continue Sunday hrough Wednesday at the Mission nn. Riverside. Evening sessions are tn to the public without charge nd daytime rates are available to tudents. according to Prof. Marc Gooinow, who is executive sectary.
Tne opening evening session will nclude addresses by Dr. Roscoe ound. dean emeritus of Harvard w School, speaking on the field f law; Raymond B. Allen, presi-nt of the University of Washington, on “Potentials in National curity”; and the Rev. J. Rich-rd Sneed, First Methodist Church f Los Angeles, on the field of re-igion.
SC is sponsoring the session in 'perstion with other Pacific colleges and universities.
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Other SC faculty members participated are President Fred D. Fagg Jr., member of the Board of Advisers; Dr. Theodore H. Chen, chairman of Round Table No. 1 (Monday); Dr. Carleton C. Rodee. chairman of Round Table No. 3 (Tuesday); and Dr. Spencer D. Pollard who will speak at the Wednesday morning plenary session.
On the Board of Advisers are Dr. Henry F. Grady. Mrs. Walter H. Fisher, and Mrs. John W. Harris, members of SC Board of Trustees. Among the rappoteurs for Institute Round Tables is Miss Joanna Durham of SC.
Other evening meetings will include addresses entitled “Rebirth of a Nation.” “American Foreign Policy and the China White Paper,” ‘Toward World Stability,” “Our Present Pan-American Pol-
Blue Key's “little Hoover commission” took its first major step yesterday toward completion of the ASSC constitution revisional project.
The group, headed by Al Wiggins, Senate parliamentarian, for-mulatfed a letter-auestionnaire which will be presented personally to each senator at the next Senate meeting.
“Tt is important that each senator have the opportunity to state his suggestion and opinions in full j before this commission makes its 1 final report on proposed changes and revisions,” Wiggins stated.
QUESTIONS INCLUDE
Type of questions to be asked are:
1. Is the present Senate too large?
2.	What do you feel would be the ideal size and composition for the ASSC Senate?
3.	Do you feel that the present duplication of student representation in the Senate is detrimental?
“We would like to have these questionnaires answered and returned immediately after Christmas vacation,” Wiggins stated.
ACTION NEEDED
Full examination of the replies will be made by the commission consisting of Wiggins, chairman, Larry Bub, Whitey Fruhling, Don Geviitz, and George Burke. If any of the suggestions or opinions need expansion, the interested senator will be called in by the group for an interview.
Stressing the importance of prompt action Wiggins outlined
Moslems Plan
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plans for adoption of the revised constitution.
“We want to get the revision completed and approved by the Senate in time for student body approval by special election before the regular spring elections.
“If this is accomplished the new constitution can be put into use in
the fall of 1950,” Wiggins pointed out.
Because the constitution specifies the ASSC offices, senators, composition of the Senate, and bylaws coordinating student activities so as to prevent duplication of effort, failure to ratify before spring elections would delay the adoption of the reorganized ASSC constitution and Senate until the fall of 1951.
SENATORS UNBIASED “We want to stress the fact,” Wiggins said, speaking for the commission,” that the senators who will approve or reject these revisions should be unbiased inasmuch as tne revisions would not go into effect until the fall semester.” “Therefore, I expect objective answers to our questionnaires with the good of the university and the ASSC being the prime factor,” he concluded.
Although the questionnaire is the first step, and no definite decisions will be reached until the will of the Senate is known, the commission has been busy discussing pertinent points and questions.
With the hope that students will unlock their pocketbooks today when they -Remember Pearl Harbor," Trovet leaders have extended the floundering War Memorial drive till tomorrow.
When receipts were counted last
One-Man Sioux Drama On Red Rhythms' Bill
A one-man show will be part of the speech department’s program, “Red Rhythms,” in Hancock, tomorrow night at 8.
Kenneth Shanks, teaching assistant in the speech department, will regress 100 years lor his part of the program, a dramatic portrayal of a Sioux legend, “The Feast of the
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done in 1849.
Moslems, who make up the second largest religious group in the world, will celebrate the birth of their prophet, Mohammed, on Jan. 6.
As part of this worldwide celebration the Moslem students association at SC will hold a big party in the Skyroom of the Country Club hotel, 445 Rossmore avenue.
The celebration will consist of a dinner and entertainment afterward. During the festivities, speakers will explain the ph;1osophy of Islam and describe the life and teachings of the prophet. Students who wish to attend may make their reservations now by telephoning PA 2843.
In an interview yesterday Nasi-ruddin of the Moslem club explained why Moslems revere their prophet.
“The Moslems believe that Mohammed was brought into this world 1365 years ago in order to relieve their sufferings and to show them the right path,” he said.
The Moslem student continued by saying that the prophet gave
icy,” “Social Change in Asia and j his people a code of ethics by which
ican Foreign Policy,” and “European Recovery.”
TKE To Be Host To SC Air ROTC
All University offices will be closed from Friday noon until Tuesday morning (Dec. 23 through 26), and fro.n Friday noon until Tuesday morning (Dec. 30 through Jin. 2).
A. S. Rauberheimer Educational Vice-President
Tau Kappa Epsilon, social fraternity, will be host to the campus : Air Reserve Officers Training I Corps unit today in commemoration of Pearl Harbor day.
A film, “The Story of the Flying Wing,” will be shown. The group will meet at the TKE house. 631 West 28th street, at 7:30 tonight.
they could live happily with their families and neighbors during their life span, and then, having lived correctly, to die correctly in this world.
“Because of his honesty and teachings, the Moslem religion spread throughout the eastern world,” Nasiruddin said.
In describing the Moslem bible, the Quoran, or Koran as westerners call it, Nasiruddin said that it was completed during the last 23 jears of Mohammed's life.
The prophet and God would send messages to each other by means of God’s messenger, the angel Gabriel. and it is these messages which make up the contents of the Koran.
If you don't like soap operas, you have the sympathy of Lurene Tuttle. Miss Tuttle’s reasons for disliking soap operas may not agree with yours, however. She likes sound effects and says they add to a show. She admits that there may be other reasons for not liking the shows.
These comments, along with many other facts about the radio industry were heard by a capacity audience who attended Miss Tuttle’s lecture in ilancdck hall last night.
Miss Tuttle, who plays the part of Effie on the “Sam Spade” show, told some of her experiences in show business and some of the techniques she uses to show her students at SC the right and wrong way to act, as well as some of the pitfalls an actor may fall into.
She says that, while many an actor is a hit in pictures and a success op television, the microphone scares them almost to the point of being tonguetied. There is no opportunity to use any props on the air. Everything must be put into the voice.
Miss Tuttle stated that the only way to learn a dialect is to observe a person who speaks that way naturally. To prove her point, she used members of her classes, who presented dialect readings and enacted radio script. Class members participating were Larry Harmon, Pat Cairns, Beth Aspen, Beth Hines, David Moyer, Madilyn Tuttle (no relation), Pat Nichols, James Long, and Dick Attlesy.
Fire Hazard Low in SC Dorms
In the wake of a series, oi dis-trous <ollepe dormitory fires, the test ol wh.;h c? used t>"e deaths f three students at thc Univer-ty of Oklahoma Saturday, the has conducted a two-day instigation of the saiety of SC s idence halls.
Inspection of the buildings plus nferences with city fire authon-es l^ad to the following conclu-ons:
1. Our residence halls, inspected riodical'y by the Fire Prevention ureau of the Los Angeles Fire epartment, have a very good fire-a7.ard rating.
3 .The absence of large wooden nstructions makes big-scale blazes improbable.
SC., residence quarters for women include Harris plaza, Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, Willard hall, and two graduate cottages.
Aeneas hall and Casa de Rosas are men’s residences.
According to officials of the Fire Prevention bureau, whose latest check o; the buildings took place last month, structures of this type get. a much closer inspection than most people realize.
Th-’y point out that the number of exits in relation to the number of people in a given floor space is a top consideration of the inspectors.
Other important factors taken into consideration during the inspections are the kind of heating
'Fatal Apples On Sale Today
Thou may not be an Adam or Eve, but thou will be able to taste the “fatal fruit” ioday, when Troeds will begin to sell their wares, big, luscious, red candied apples.
Proceeds from the sale will be divided between the Trovets Living War Memorial and the YWCA building fund.
Further inducement (if any is needed) to bi^ the fruit, is the planting of three “fatal apples” on the stands, to be set up in front of Bovard, Bridge hall, and Another fire authority remarked , the island in front of University
appliances used in the building, the wiring system employed, and the accumulation of trash and combustible material.
“Trash accumulation may not cause a fire, but it certainly gives impetus to one.” a department spokesman said.
Shanks will play all the parts in the tale of rival lovers, and the story will be embellished by the numerous gestures which were an important part of all dramatic readings a century ago.
“Seeing this old-time style of presentation is like going to see •Ten Nights in a Barroom’,” Dr. M. Clifford Dicken, assistant professor of speech, said yesterday.
SELDOM SEEN
This type of oral reading program is seldom seen today, said Dr. Dickens. Before movies, radio, and television came into vogue, it was a popular form of presentation, he explained.
Ogden Nash and Otis Skinner were well-known performers of this type of oral program.
This is the only chance students will have this year to see an interpretation of this type, as the speech department only presents such oral reading programs annually.
“Red Rhythms” is a part of the Institute of the Arts festival, which is held every fall by the six departments to show their creative efforts.
POEMS TO BE READ
The program will also include a cycle of 28 American Indian love poems read by Rosemaire Poitras, who was bom and raised on the Cheyenne River Sioux Indian reservation in South Dakota.
Also included is a comedy reading, “Pokey,” and “The Loon’s Necklace,” a motion picture of Indian masks. Joe Flynn, ^performer on KTLA, will be master of ceremonies.
Other students taking part in the program are Barbara Lohrmann, Kenneth Grant, Robert D. Wallace, Harry M. Lyle, and Randy Allen.
Admission is free.
Albert Herring Cast Prepares Day and Night
Around-the-clock preparations are being made by the cast and crews of the SC Opera workshop for Friday night’s premiere of Ban-jamin Britten’s comic-opera, “Albert Herring.”
Rehearsals which began seven weeks ago are now being held afternoon and night under the direction of Dr. Carl Ebert, head of the opera department.
Starting in the late evening, the stage crew for the production speeds into operation after the weary singers have finally left the stage. The crew’s worries include installation and adjustment of the lights, construction of scenery and props, and solving the minor technical difficulties which never seem to appear until the last minute.
Dr. Ebert, whose direction scored a hit in the opera workshop production of “Ariadne on Naxos” last May, came to SC in 1948.
He achieved fame throughout Europe as co-founder and director of the Glyndebourne Opera conjpany in England, which presented operatic productions as a part of the Edinborough festivals.
Later he founded the Verdi festival in Florence. He was then c-’.lled to Tuiikey where he founded that country’s National opera.
Dr. Ebert is being assisted in the preparation of “Albert Herring” by Wolfgang Martin, School of Music faculty member, who formerly was with the Metropolitan opera
Benjamin Britten’s three-act comic opera svill be produced in Bovard auditorium by the opera workshop Dec. 9, 10, 12, and 15 as part of SC’s third annual Festival of Contemporary Arts.
Tickets for the event are on sale at the University ticket office for 60 cents, $1.20, $1.80, and $2.40.
night, students who have been pushing the drive found that they were still approximately $4000 short of their $6000 goal. Exactly $2200 had been contributed.
This is a far cry from the $4000 which Trovets collected last year in less than one week. Members blame veterans on campus for the big letdown.
At first it was thought the lag in
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contributions was due to the late j arrival of government checks, but I checks have come in and still the i drive is 1 bogged down, say Trovet spokesmen.
•It is now the belief of Hal Carter, Trovet president, and others behind
that “the person with the cigarette ’ is the biggest problem in regard to hotel, boarding house, and dormitory blazes.
Origin of the $500,000 Oklahoma blaze, which left only the building's concrete supports standing, is still undetermined. Flames enveloped the wooden dormitory in less than 10 minutes. A fire department inspection of the structure had been made Nov. 8.
library. Purchasers of the “fatal apples” will be awarded eiiher a $5 gift certificate from Phelps-Terkle, a fountain pen from Tam s bookstore, or a blouse from the Tree House, depending on the apple purchased.
Apples will be sold by members of the freshman woman’s club from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. for one thin dime.
Candy Cane Gifts Due Again Today
“Yesterday's shower of candy canes by a carload of campus cu-ties was a mere trickle compared to what may be expected today,” announced URA Social Chairman Ted Tate.
Tate said that the same collection of Swim club beauties will come down University avenue at noon today and again distribute sweets to all Trojans.
This Santa Claus-like activity is part of the advance publicity for the URA Candy Capers dance, Saturday, 9 to 12 p.m. in the student lounge.
In addition to dispensing the peppermint-striped canes, the carload of lovelies will present an added treat when they sing their theme song “If You Think Candy’s Sweet, There’s Some Gals You’ve Got to Meet—Namely, Us.”
TV personalities and trolio acts will make up the "Capers” program and Bob King’s band will play for dancing.
Priced at 50 cents, tickets will be available at a booth in front of the Student Union starting today or at the dance.
Changes Made In Greater U
In sweeping, streamlined changes Frank O’Sullivan, Greater U committee chairman, dropped two committeemen, added four, and invited the University College stu dent body president to the group. He also appointed a vice-chairman.
At a meeting late yesterday, O'Sullivan announced the changes which he felt would^make the committee more active.
In appointing Ernest Elmer Jr., UC president, to the body, O’Sullivan was making the first acknowledgement of UC students by an official ASSC committee. Elmer, who represents 3800 night school students, will serve in an ex-officio capacity.
For the first time ttye all-U committee has a vice-chairman. Allen Arthur, fprmer special projects committee chairman, was appointed to the post.
Four new committee members were appointed to projects. Bill Goldmann joined the high school day committee, Bill Johnstone will work with John Pruitt on the parking problem, and Carl Vidnic joins the special projects committee. Mike Colicgno was added to the varsity subcommittee.
John Lathrop replaces Arthur as chairman of the special projects committee. The committee handles the mails registrations and traffic studies.
An Open Letter By Bob Padgett
Open letter to the 13,348 veterans on the SC campus:
Today marks the eighth anniversary of one of the darkest days in American history. That day, and its aftermath, ended the lives of 211 loyal Trojans and changed the future of every veteran. There is no better way to remember Dec. 7 and to honor our fallen comrades than by supporting our personal Living War Memorial Our war memorial is not a charity, it is a partial payment on a debt that can never fully be repaid. I hope you will all remember the past eight years and contribute very generously today.
Robert F. Padgett President, ASSC
HAL CARTER A Wave of Apathy
the drive that the high ideals of a few years ago have been forgotten in a wave of apathy.
It is ironic that non-vets are contributing more than veterans. Carter said.
The purpose of the plan is to set up a fund for the awarding of scholarships at SC to the sons and daughters of combat dead of World War II. The awarding of the scholarships will begin the September following the attainment of a $10,-000 goal.
Because of the extension of the drive, Carter issued a call for more volunteers to help with the clerical work. Students interested may contact Carter in 405 Student Union.
Engineer Talks On Atom Today
An engineer’s view o; atomic en-j orgy will be presented to the Council on Atomic Implications today at 1:10, 309 Bridge, by C. W. S. Parsons, head of a consulting management engineers firm.
Parson’s talk will cover the following points:
1.	The general considerations of atomic energy with a brief coverage of what he refers to as “the inevitability of nuclear fission leading to chain, reaction technology.”
2.	The war-time development of atomic energy; the Atomic Energy commission and its scope; and the power, scientific, and engineering applications of atomic energy.
He will close by giving his impression of what atomic energy means to the average citizen, along with the outlook, possibilities, and opportunities it ha* created.
Concert Band in Music at Noon
Music at Noon will move into Bovard auditorium at 12:15 today when 84 members of the University Concert band give their third concert of the term under the direction of Clarence E. Sawhill.
The band's first selection will be Bach’s “Jesu, Joy of tyan's Desiring.”
An arrangement of the finale of Strauss’ “Death and Transfiguration” will be a program feature. This arrangement is the work of A. Harding, director of the University of Illinois band, who is noted for the innovations and improvements that ,he introduced into American concert band literature.
Another featured selection will be that of Paul Creston’s “Zanoni” which was composed on campus last summer while Creston was a staff member of -the School of Music.
A group of Siegmeister’s American Folk Songs will conclude the noon program.
Need Stamps? Collector Sees Source at SC
Somebody else cares about enrollment beside the administration. Somebody in Atlanta, Georgia.
The somebody, a gentleman named C. Ii. Hazelwood, saw the recent United Press association story stating 47 slates were represented in the heterogeneous SC student body.
He had no solution for obtaining the missing Vermont student, but he was interested in the Trojans from four territories and 45 foreign couhtries.
Being a philatelist, he thought here was a good chance to get his licks in.
Hazelwood pasted a rather ordinary purple three-cent US stamp (Thomas Jefferson, 1801-1809) on a letter to Howard W. Patmore.^ registrar.
“I am just wondering, ’ he wrote, “if you could secure envelopes with stamps on them from the foreign students enroll d in your university.”
“My hobby is collecting stamps.
I have in my collection nine very large scrapbooks with covrrs or envelopes from all over the ■world, and separate books with loose stamps amounting to about 15,-000 different ones,” he added.
Hazelwood states that fa 1946, 1948 and 1949 he won the “Blue* ribbon in the local Bell Telephone Pioneer’s hobby show.
Honor Holl
Honor Roil for Wednesday, Dec. 7:
Trovet Living War Memorial contributors reaching 100%:
Alpha Epsilon Phi-------------- 100%
Sigma Chi .............................. 100%
Alpha Omicron PI ............... 100%
Phi Kappa Tau ................ 100%
Kappa Delta ..................... 100%
American Institute of
Engineers ................................. 100%
Alpha Phi Omega ................ 100%
Phi Kappa Alpha ____________ 100%
Pi Lambda Phi ...................... 100%
Pi Beta Phi ......................... 100%
Beta Theta Pi ...................... 100%
Kappa Alpha ....................... 100%
Casa de Rosas ...................... 100%
Zeta Beta Tau ..................... 100%
Alpha Epsilon Pi ................ 100%
Minimum of $1 per member equals 100%.
Three Films Scheduled For Hancock Showing
Living among people he later made characters in his films is one of the main reasons for the success of Producer Robert Flaherty, who will show one of his films tonight at 8 in Hancock auditorium.
Flaherty, known as the father of the documentary film, will contribute “Louisiana Story” to the program, sponsored by the department of cinema.
Otner films to be shown are “Nuremberg, It's Your Lesson for Today,” and “Feeling All Right.”
A little boy’s adventure when an oil company moves in to drill a well is the theme of “Louisiana Story.” The story is told with a minimum of words.
Flahprty believed that one of the great potential powers of cinema was its ability to bring the far corners of the earth to the local neighborhood theater.
“The family of Louisiana is brought to the theater a lienee with all the realism capable of t ie camera,” said William Mehring, graduate assistant in cinema.
‘ Nuremberg, It’s Your Lesson for Today,” shows actual scenes of atrocities in Nazi concentration camps. It was produced by the United States Army Sign&l corps. f
“This is a film that should be seen by evpry American citizen,” said Mehring.
Attempts to educate Negroes in the South on health problems is the plot of “Feeling All Right.” It was produced by the Southern Educational film unit of the Mississippi department of health.
Tonight’s program marks the final films by the department of cinema in the current Festival of Contemporary Arts.
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