NOTED EDUCATORS SAY SCHOOLS NEED MORE MONEY LESS POLITICS
SOUTHERN
CA LIFORNIA
Summer News
VOL. IV
72 LOS ANGELES, CALIF.. MONDAY. JULY 25. 1949 No. 13
Week of Music Begins Tonight
This week campus music lovers will have opportunities to attend three outstanding programs free of charge.
Tonight, Josef Marais and Miranda, devotees of African music, will present a song program with an international flavor at 8:30 in Hancock auditorium.
Soprano Sylvia Bangston will
also take over Hancock tomorrow at 8:30 p.m. in a graduate rec;tal.
Bovard auditorium will be the scene of a Summer Session orchestra and concert band program Wednesday night at 8:30.
Marais and Miranda, sponsored by the School of Music, are residents of South Africa. They have mrde an intense study of native music, which they will present in vocal and narration style with guitar accompaniment.
In addition to songs and chants of the veldt, the program will include a great number of folk songs of Europe and America.
Miss Bengston, a graduate of Bethany college in Kansas, has spent several years teaching music in public schools. Before enter-n" SC she sang in the Los Andes Philharmonic opera chorus, t present she is a church solo-.
*	t and a music teacher in Los Angeles city schools.
She was a soloist for the Summer Session choir and orchestra in 1946 and is now a member of the Madrigal Singers and A Cappella choir.
Conducting the orchestra in the School of Music’s Bovard presentation will be Ralph Rush, recent addition to the SC faculty. Clarence E. Sawhill, director of university bands, will preside over the concert band.
Rush, who has studied at Ohio
A Capella Choir pened For Fall
Enrollment in the fall semes-er’s A Cappella choir is now pen, according to Director Dr. harles C. Hirt.
Application forms are available ondays, Wednesdays, and Fri-p.ys in the music office, 6 Mu-ic building.
As a climax to the coming sea-:i, the choir will present the int Nicolas cantata. It will conducted by Composer Benin in Britten.
Wo^leyan, Cornell, Michigan, and SC, has taught instrumental music in Ohio high schools for many years, batoning a long series of pnze-winning orchestras in the early ’30s. He has • also taught at several middle western universities.
Sawhill, an ex-University of Illinois band director, is a familiar figure at SC and throughout the realm of college bands. He, too, has had wide experience in music education at high school and college levels.
The Bovard concert is an annual event for the two music groups, which recently presented a joint concert at the dedication of the Atwater Kent bowl at the Idyllwild School of Music and the Arts.
Season Ducats Offered Wed.
Two can live as cheaply as one only if one doesn’t like football, drama, and El Rodeos.
A married student can buy a season activity ticket for himself anc; spouse, but each will cost $12.50.
Preregistration sales of activity books will be made Wednesday only this week, said Ticket Manager John Morley. Any student who has registered for a minimum of six units for the fall semester may present his stamped fee bill and get his picture taken.
Photographs are being made in the University avenue ticket office across the street from the LAS building site.
Ticket officials hSpe that this presale will appeal to students who would like to avoid standing in line during the regular fall sale.	*
Student Show Of Sculpture Opens T oday
by Dan Bagott
Unfortunately for campus art fans, sculptor Saul Baizerman, who presents an exhibition of the work of his Summer Session stu-derts in 103 Harris hall today through Friday, 9-12 and 1-4, cannon display products of his own unique skill at the same time.
Although the short New Yorker, who could pass as Arturo Toscanini’s twin brother, has a Gctham apartment-studio crammed to the ceiling with examples of his artistry, he has a transportation problem second to none when it comes to shipping his stuff cross-country.
Photographs reveal that Baizerman specializes in mammoth 8-and 10-foot high figures wrought from huge sheets of cold-rolled copper. He has been developing hin art for the past 20 years.
There was, however, a two-year peiiod beginning in 1930 when he took a recess from his work after someone mistakenly sold his copper pieces for scrap metal, following a studio fire.
Baizerman is little-known for his work due to the fact that he hes placed it on exhibition only a few times since he came to this country from Russia in 1910.
There is, however, little doubt that his neighbors have heard of him. In his apartment Baizerman suspends his copper sheets by pulleys frorji the ceiling and, using a special hammer-stroke he spent 10 years developing, he proceeds to beat out an anvil chorus on both sides of the metal.
The gray-haired sculptor has so’d very few of his works. He tags some of his pieces as high as $50,000 and supports himself ard his wife, a skilled artist in he: own right, with jobs such as house painting and designing fur coats.
Christian
Science organization will continue to hold its weekly meetings during the Post Session in the Little Chapel of Silence, Tuesdays at 3.
Conference Hears Wright, Fuller, Corey
Schools need more money and less politics, three speakers told the final session of the 10th annual school ad-ministration-supervision conference held Friday.
The conference, sponsored by the School of Education, heard Frank M. Wright, associate state superintendent of
public instruction; Dr. Edgar Ful- ------
ler, executive secretary of the National Council of Chief State School officers, and Arthur F. Corey, executive secretary of the California Teachers Association.
Failure of the last legislature to appropriate an additional $36 million for educational purposes places California public schools in one of the most tragic positions in which they have found themselves for years, Frank Wright said.
Some school teachers may not get paid for the full year.
“In order to stay • solvent/’ he said, “some schools are going to have to double the size of classes, ask their teachers to work without pay at. the end of the year, and cut do\^n on bus service, supplies and equipment.
“Some children are going to find themselves walking to school again.”
Wright cited the case of the Rivera school near Los Angeles which will have a 100 per cent increase in student enrollment this fall due to the erection of big housing projects nearly. Because state funds are allocated on the basis of last year’s attendance, the school will be $80,000 in the red with a doubled enrollment, Wright said.
OTHERS SHORT
Other school districts in Los Angeles county will be short as much as $170,000 in meeting their budgets, he predicted.
Similar shortages can be found in elementary schools on the fringe of San Diego, Sacramento, and the Bay area as well as Los Angeles, he said.
And the problem is going to get worse, Wright warned.
“By 1969, it is estimated that California will have one million more children in all schools than we have today,” he said.
REASONS CITED
‘■This is due to the rise in the birth rate and the great influx of population into this state.”
The $36 million appropriation which was killed in the state senate recently would have raised the salaries of elementary teachers, permitted the hiring of additional teachers, and reduced the size of classes from an average of 33 students to about 25 or 28, he said.
Governor Warren opposed the appropriation because the legislature would not raise taxes to oro-
Hoover Report
The Hoover Commission’s report on education in the federal government “ignores the expert ence of the past 50 years,” another speaker said.
A warning against the increasing encroachment of politics into education was sounded by Dr. Edgar Fuller, of Washington, D.C.,
He spoke for all state school superintendents representing a million teachers in 100,000 local school systems with an enrollment of 25 million elementary and secondary pupils.
“Those who would subordinate education and educational policy to politicians at all levels of gov-< ernment remain in control in Washington,” the visiting professor said.
HOPES HELD
A hopeful sign, however, Dr, Fuller said, is that Director Frank Pace Jr. of the Bureau of th« Budget and an increasing num* ber of other Federal officials art recognizing the views of the edu* cation profession and oppos# many parts of the Hoover Commission report.
On August 19, Dr. Fuller said, the U.S. Office of Education “will be pushed down still another level in the government,” when th$ Federal Security agency becomes the Department of Welfare. This reorganization is due to taka place unless one branch of Con* gress rejects the plan or Congress has adjourned before that date.
The Hoover Commission report ignored the recommendations of Dean Hollis P. Allen of Claremont college, its “task force" writer, and all major professional groups in the educational field, Dr. FuW
ler said.
NOTIONS OUTWORN
“The report is based on the outworn notion that education should be under the control of politically elected officials at all levels. It would mix politics and education in ways proved bad for the welfare of the schools. The logical results would be appointment of state school superintendents by governors and appointment of local superintendents by mayors or city councils.
“Perpetuation of the present piecemeal system of special feder** al financial aid, the commission’s insistence on control of education in the federal government by noneducational political officers three layers deep into the federal bureaucracy, and the scatter-
vide the money, Wright said, but ing of responsibility among num-the law never got to the gover- erous noneducational agencies are nors desk.	(Continued on Page 4);
ews Opening rizeless Quiz
Officials at KECA-TV would “e to know whom students ould prefer to announce the levised games in the Coliseum is fall.
To find out what the students about the matter, the mer News has prepared a lot to poll the campus. Details may be found on re 3.
Summer 'Moon’ Not So Hot-Critic
by Ben Weinberg Jr.
“Mrs. Moonlight,” which computed a three-day run in Bovard Saturday night, was, in a left-handed manner, a good choice for a summer production.
Summer traditionally brings on attacks of lethargy, but the author of “Mrs. Moonlight” must have had a chronic condition.
The play was a fantasy somewhat in the vein of Oscar Wiide’s “Dorian Gray”—the business about a person wishing he could stay foiever young and having the wish come true—but in "Mrs. Moonhght’s” case, the wisher was a woman and she doesn’t decay morally as Wilde’s Dorian did.
Unfortunately for the audience,
Eenn W. Levy, who penned the Bovard drama, doesn’t have the touch for satirical dialogue that Wilde had. As a matter of fact, he doesn’t even have the touch for dialogue—or action.
“Mrs. Moonlight” had only one good moment. That was the close of the first scene in Act II, when Mary Vallee, as Mrs. Moonlight, returns to the home she had left 18 years before because her young-forever wish was coming true and she didn’t want her family to think her a freak.
She comes back representing herself as her own niece, daughter of a sister living abroad, and the spell of the moment when she sees her husband and her now-
gr^wn daughter was evident from the collective spine-tingling in the audience.
The final moments of the play miss their emotional mark by a considerable margin. A certain point about five minutes before the final curtain would have furnished more of a dramatic punch, but author Levy chose to drag it out.
The cast, under the handicap of the script and that crime against architecture and acoustics, Bovard, did a pretty fair job. Thursday evening the sound-re-flecting curtain usually hanging from the balcony wasn’t being used, and during the first act some of the female voices were lost in the recesses.
Top acting nods go to two supporting players, Larry Harmon and Barbara Murphy.
Harmon, in the role of Willif Ragg, a turn-of-the-century hot< shot, brought the only relief it an otherwise dull evening. He ha* a flair for comedy and exagger* ation and uses it well.
Miss Murphy did a pleasinf growing-old-gracefully job as Min< nie the maid, apparently the onll sensible character in the play.
The whole production, cast, di«* rection, and sets, was—well—ade< qup.te (we hate to use that word) We have some fine dramatic tal< ent and the instruction necessaii to develop it around here. W< would like to see plays worthy them.
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