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Daily
Troian
Vol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 8, 1953
No. 54
iving War Memorial Drive nters Last Collection Day
$500 Donated Yesterday To Scholarship Memorial
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JOINS RANKS—Col. Charles Harrington (seated) of the AFROTC signs contribution check for LWM as John Birmingham, general chairman of the campus LWM drive, looks on. In the last day
of the drive, workers hope to push today's final total well
above the initial $500 collected yesterday.
RADUATE TO DISCUSS iALIFORNIA CAVERNS
The “Caves of California” will discussed by Rollin Wallace, raduate student, tomorrow at >n, in 412 Bridge Hall.
In his discussion Wallace will 11 of his findings in California ives including bats, fish, sala-landers, spiders, and cave flies, ►ften the discovery of these ani-ils may provide clues to the ori-of the subterranean caverns. Essentials in Studies
disclose the origin of the cave. The inhabitants, sedimentation, and rock formation are all essential in our studies,” Wallace said.
Slides Illustrate Talk
Wallace is a member of the National Speleogical Society, whose title is derived from the ancient Romans. The Romans, who used .them as a retreat from the hot
j sun, called the caves “speluncae” He has explored the extensions ; now anyone who explores caves is Mitchell’s Caverns in the Pro- 1 a “spelunker." dence Mountains, the Winding j Kodachrome slides will illus-tair Cave in the Mojave Desert, trate Wallace’s speech. Included Harrington Cave near Bod- I Will be scenes from Death Valley, sh-	| and Santa Cruz Island which is a
“Usually cave-explorers only j sea cave, k for formations, and not more | Refreshments will be served by vealing material which might | Sigma Gamma Epsilon.
ORLD NEWS ROUNDUP
Telegrams Swamp Capitol in Answer to McCarthy's Request
The Living War Memorial Scholarship fund drive enters its second and last day today, with more than 100 Trojans expected to participate in class explanations and collections.
SC Trovets, drive sponsors, expressed gratification for yesterday’s results, saying that professors in particular were
very cooperative. Collections totaled more than $500.
The two-day campaign was made official, by a notice signed by Dr. Albert S. Raubenheimer, educational vice-president. Hours of 9 a.m. and 1:15 p.m. have been set aside for volunteer collectors to enter classrooms.
Organizations taking part in volunteer collections include the ASSC Senate, Knights, Amazons, Spurs, Squires, Phrateres, Alpha Phi Omega, YWCA, Phi Gamma Delta, Phi Kappa Tau, Acacia, Alpha Gamma Delta, Delta Delta Delta, Gamma Phi Beta, and Alpha Rho Chi.
John Birmingham, chairman of LWM, 6aid the memorial was conceived in 1948 as a practical tribute to our combat dead of World War II and the Korean conflict.
“We consider it an infinitely more appropriate honor than the erection of a statue or a bronze plaque,” he said.
Scholarships are awarded to qualified sons and daughters of these men. They pay $304 tuition per semester for four years. Funds collected are invested and only the interest is used for tuition purposes, making the scholarship perpetual.
Dick Steiner, first recipient of the scholarship, is now in his second year at SC.
“The 1953 campaign has as its promáry purpose the increase of the fund’s principle, thus making available a greater number of scholarships,” Publicity Chairman A1 Dieda said.
Trophies are to be awarded to the sorority and ‘ fraternity “that show the most unselfish spirit in cooperating in the drive,” according to Dieda.
Houses winning the awards will be determined through a per capita system, in order to assure fairness to all houses, regardless of size.
Among those working on the LWM drive are Ed Wilkinson, collections chairman; Laura Mis-pagel, secretarial committee; Don Kimble,' procurement committee; and members of Alpha Beta Psi, accounting fraternity,
Steiner, a member of Acacia Fraternity is a pre-dental major. His father, Lt. Col. Fred A. Steiner, was killed in 1944 on the Normandy beachead after 15 days of the toughest fighting in World War II.
President Fagg, David X. Marks Dedicate Hall
The David X. Marks freshmen men’s residence hall was formally dedicated Friday night by President Fred D. Fagg Jr. More than 300 attended the dedication.
A plaque of the donor, David X. Marks, Los Angeles businessman, was unveiled by President Fagg who paid tribute to Marks. Fagg said he hoped the building would help in the expansion of leadership and the learning to live with others.
A side profile of Marks is on the plaque designed by Merrell Gage,- professor of fine arts. The name David X. Marks appears under the profile and below this is inscribed:
“Foi; the improvement of men’s minds as well as their bodies.” Long-Time Ambition
Marx said the donation of the dormitory was something that he had always wanted to do.
University Chaplain Clinton A. Neyman gave the convocation, followed by the playing of the Alma Mater.
Earlier in the evening, the cornerstone was laid. It contained a copy of last Friday’s DT and invitations to the ceremony.
Many bouquets of flowers decorated the dormitory. The Knights were ushers to the open house which followed.
20 Students in Hall
Yesterday, Mrs. Rita Nicolai, head resident, said that 20 students are now living in the hall with a few more expected before the end of the term.
However, no meals will be served until February. Room expenses for the remainder of the semester will be $40. Beginning in February, room and board will cost $300* per semester. *
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by United Press
WASHINGTON, Dec. 7—The fhite House said today it has ?ceived 19,517 telegrams in re-)nse to Sen. Joseph R. McCar-’s request for public support to lit U.S. aid to Allies that trade pith Red China.
Assistant Press Secretary Mur-Snyder announced the total of 4 p.m. EST. He said tele-ims had been arriving at the lite House at the rate of about an hour since an earlier tabu-lion of 17.629 at 10 a.m. IcCarthy, who earlier had con-:ted a running battle with the lite House about the number of “grams it received, said “I have bothered to check today.” He he would have no further immediate comment on the contro-* ♦ * ttfKFR'S TOWN, Bermu-7—The Big Three near-end of their first post-r	tonight	with the
State* reported ready to * military mission to In-10 help train the Viet >am Army fighting the Com-lumsts.
Official report* on the last
ute senes of top ievel meet_ g8 among President Eisen-
hower, French Premier Joseph Laniel, and British Prime Minister Winston Churchill were not expected until the end of the final session starting at 10 p.m. (9 p.m. EST).
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VATICAN CITY. Tuesday, Dec. 8—Pope Pius knelt privately in a prayer for peace early today to lead 400,000,000 Catholics into a “Little Holy Year” dedicated to the Virgin Mary.
At 12:30 a.m. i6:30 p.m. EST, Monday) the 77-year-old Pope said mass in the small private chapel adjoining the Papal bedchamber on the third floor of
Official
Notice
Members of the Trojan Football Band are requested to turn in their uniforms to the Band Building by Wednesday of this week.
Uniforms may be turned in at noon daily or at 3:15 Monday and. Wednesday.
Tommy Walker, Football Band Director
the Apostolic Palace in the Vatican.
Around the world, as it became 30 minutes past midnight local time, millions of faithful flocked to great Basilicas and tiny parish churches to attend special masses marking the start of the first Marian Year (Year of Mary., in the history of the church.
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NEW YORK, Dee. 7 — The President of the striking AFL PhotoEngraver Union said tonight he was “not too optimistic” about chances for an early end of the 10-day walkout that has shut down six major New York City newspaers and idled 20,000 workers.
Denis M. Burke, President of Photo-Engravers Local No. 1, said in a filmed television interview he hoped the union and publishers were closer to a settlement, “but I am not too optimistic right now.”
+ * * WASHINGTON, Dec. 7 — Noted Constitutional Attorney John W. Davis, hiß voice choked with emotion, told the Supreme Court today a ban on public school segregation might cost Negroes more than they gain.
Adler to Address Graduate School
Dr. Mortimer J. Adler, director of the Institute for Philosophical Research in San Francisco, will speak at the third annual‘alumni lecture of the SC Graduate School.
Dr. Adler will lecture on, “The Questions that Science Cannot Answer” in Hancock Auditorium, Thursday at 8 p.m.
Official
Notice
University Avenue is now completely closed to vehicular traffic. The ordinance closing University Avenue provided for turn-around space on the dead ended side streets, such space to be painted red for a distance of forty feet from University Avenue. This area must be kept clear at all times to permit turning around. The University of Southern California and the Los Angeles Police Department urge everyone to keep this area clear. The Los Angeles Police Department will enforce this red area strictly and will cite anyone found encroaching thereon.
PLEDGES SUPPORT—Capt. R. M. MacKinnon of the NROTC is shown handing a check to Ed Wilkinson, LWM scholarship collection chairman, pledging the support of the SC unit for the drive. Captain MacKinnon said he thought'the fund was a living tribute to servicemen killed in WWII and in the Korea conflict.
Soph Council Schedules Outing for Boys Club
^ If you were a kid woundn’t you like a day in the snow up at Mt. Waterman doing all the things kiefs do in the snow?
Sophomore class Council is planning just such an outing at Mt. Waterman Saturday, Jan. 9, with 60 8 to 10-year-old boys from the East Los Angeles Variety Boys Club.
“Jhe main objective of the Sophomore Class project,” Jean McNeil, member, said, “is not only to plan activities for the youngsters from the Club, but to give them individual attention which they are not getting in their own environment.”
New members for this outing and others will be signed up at a Sophomore Class meeting Tuesday, Dec. 8, at 3:15 in 418 SU.
This will be the first of a series of outings that will be held once a month. Other outings with other young men, 8 to 10, will include Griffith Park. Lake Gregory, and a Valentine’s Party.
In charge of the first trip are Dick Halderman and Dorothy Hacker.
Assisting them are Sally Ack-les, ’Marselle Ariey, Dawna Boiler, Jean Brachman, Cindy Brassell, Marty Christensen, Jo ann Cull-ingham, Jaane Cusick, Sue Corwin, Carolyn Daily, Fred Fall, Nick Fintzelberg.
Also, Bob Halderman, Dennis Hopper, June Harper, Napcy Hys-lop, Camey King, Betty Loath, Devonne Marsh, Betty Metzger, Jean McNeil, Mary Faye Mathes, A1 Riseman, Sue Smith, Barbee, Steeves, Joan Scanlon, Bonnie Tacker, Donna Trailer, Bob Wal-lach, afid Joyce Williams.
Frankenstein Gives Views OnArt Exhibit
Art Critic Alfred Frankenstein of the San Francisco Chronicle, commenting on a recent drawing exhibit by Prof. Francis de Erd-ely, department of fine arts, at the M. H. de Young Memorial Museum in San Francisco, said:
“De Erdely proves again to be one of the great classic draughtsmen of our time. He is especially impressive in his pictures of the human figure, with their weight and volume so splendidly set forth in wash, surrounded by a swift, nervous play of pen-line as light surrounds a piece of sculpture.
“These works are not only magnificent in their technique but also in the tragic, lyric, and epic insights which they provide. After seeing much that is indicative or promising or incomplete, it is a special pleasure to see a show by an artist like de Erdely who is not indicative but arrived, not promising but thoroughly mature, not incomplete but assured in every detail.”
Faculty Plans Yule Dinner
A Christmas dinner party will be held for SC’s faculty Saturday in Town and Gown at 6:30 p.m.
A turkey dinner, dancing and student entertainment will comprise the party.
Dance music will be provided by an orchestra under the direction of Paul Glass. Entertainment will be provided by Helen Boil-lant,- soprano, accompanied by Ar-len Stone.
William Broarkin, SC drama student will give imitations.
Paul Glass, Helen Boillant, and Arlen Stone are all students in the School of Music.
Reservations should be made today with Professor Richard W. Van Alstyne, 409 Founders Hall, 3501 University aenue.
Costs per pverson are $2.25.
Civic, University Leaders to Head Function Today
President Fred D. Fagg Jr. and Alan Williams, executive assistant to Mayor Norris Poulson, will head the ceremonies closing University Avenue this morning at 11:20.
Students will attend their regular 11 o’clock classes, but will be dismissed at 11:20 in order to attend the ceremonies at the 36th street intersection.
Also on hand for the closing of the once-busy trafficway will be Roger Arneberg, city attorney; and Don A. Tallen, councilman of
the seventh council district of
which SC is a part.
Other city officials will attend from the city council, police and fire commission, public works commission, and traffic works.
Dig That Post Hole
A cardinal and gold post at the Student Union intersection will be assisted in place by Homecoming Queen Dawna Boiler; ASSC President Warren Clendening, and
President Fred Fagg.
The closing of the avenue has been in the process for the past five months. Groundwork for the safety project took up another 12
months.
The program will strike up with
an eight piece band marching
from Founders Hall. Coeds and band members alike wUl be dressed in, costumes reminiscent of
the 1880s.
Big Band
Parading up from Bridge Hall,
a 20-piece band will lead a 1954
automobile carrying Fagg and
Williams.
Coeds will restage the old days with a style show depicting the fashions worn on the avenue 73 years ago.
Ken Shanks, instructor in speech, will narrate the fashion show.
Horse-drawn carriages and modern automobiles will illustrate the transportation changes. Bands in old and new uniforms will play the hit tunes spanning the decades from 1880 to 1953.
Speeches Before Lunch
Following talks by Fagg and Williams, a luncheon will be held for the civic and student leadens. Later the group will tour the
campus by bus.
University Avenue, SCs Main Street since 1880, was known as Wesley Avenue until the name was changed in 1911.
United States Presidents have paraded down the thoroughfare and have spoken from the steps of the Administration Building.
In 1898 William McKinley came through on his way to Agricultural Park, now known as Exposition Park. In 1910, William Howard Taft delivered an outdoor speech on campus.
Roosevelt Honored Franklin D. Roosevelt received an honorary degree of Doctor of Laws from SC at a ceremony at
the steps of the Administration
Building.
Race car driver Barney Oldfield rode down the avenue in 1907 to the Agricultural Park track where he set up a new world’s record—of 60 miles per hour.
Once, when horse-drawn streetcars ran down the avenue, SC students were forbidden to shoot rabbits from its platforms.
Student committee members working on the closure ceremony include chairman A1 Mour, Jodi Casalicchio, Johanna Pick, Bob Gerst, Brad Nurenburg, and Bob Pearl.
DT to Devote Entire Page to Smog Problems
Just what causes that irritating haze, we call it smog? What are the problems in getting rid of it? Who is working on it and what is being done? Is there any hope that we will again have clear, blue skies regularly? These are some of the questions students are asking about Los Angeles County’s No. 1 problem.
Tomorrow’s DaUy Trojan will carry a full page of information answering questions about smog and smog control.
The “Smog Page,” compiled by DT Staff Writer Susie McBee and Feature Editor Charlie Barnett, will include a history of the smog problem plus interviews with Mayor Norris Poulson; Gordon P. Larson, director of the Air Pollu-tin Control District; SC President Fred D. Fagg Jr., president of the Southern California Air Pollution Foundation; and Dr. Paul Kotin of the SC Medical School, an expert on the medical aspects of smog.
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Country Girl' Plays Thursday
Clifford Odets’ “The Country Girl,” which opens at Bovard Auditorium Thursday, as a presentation of the SC drama department, was written in only 16 days and nights.
It’s apparently no record for Odets.
Before “The Country Girl” opened on Broadway, the dramatist said that he has finished plays in as little as three days.
Odets doesn’t believe in inspiration. “However,” he says, “a play may well be conceived of a psychological boost, which is a somewhat similar thing.”
“A psychological boost,” according to Odets, “may be any little nudge an author gets. Somebody may say, ‘I need you to write a play. Or when is your next play going to be ready?'
“Such things put a playwright to work.”
“The Country Girl’’ concerns the rehabilitation of an actor whose drinking has catapulted him from success to failure. Offered a leading role in a new play by a director who remembers the former star's great talent, thè actor is helped back along the comeback trail by his wife—the country girl of the title.
Odets claims that the theater is used as a background purely for effect.
Tickets to the Broadway hit are on sale at the University Ticket Office and from aU drama students. Orchestra seats are $1; balcony, 50 cents. Activity book holders will be admitted free.
Bermuda Big Three' Meeting Proposes Big Four' Meeting
by Irv Cherno
Under discussion at the B i g Three meeting in Bermuda is the proposal for a meeting of Foreign Ministers from the U.S., England, France and Russia. Purpose of the meeting would be to iron out the problems concerning Germany and Austria.
Remembering past diplomatic experiences with the Russians, Paul E. Hadley, assistant professor of International Relations, said that the Russians seem to prefer entering a meeting of this sort without a planned agenda.
Good Propaganda
Although valuable time is lost while an agenda is set up, nany Russian speeches are made and recordings are sent to her satellite countries for propaganda. Dr. Hadley approves of Eisenhower’s reluctance to speed into such matters.
“Eastern Europe can use our trade,” Hadley said. “Russia has been draining her dry.”
Another German problem which might be discussed is the European Defense Command. France, after numerous invasions by German armies, is skeptical of
building a new defense unit in Germany. Results French presidential elections, which are scheduled to take place soon, may also prove to be a hindrance to the EDC program.
Keep Door Open “If the discussions of the For-
PAUL E. HADLEY
. . . discusses Big Three
eign Ministers could be bona fide ‘and honest, the results would be very fruitful.’ The door for discussion should be kept open.” Eugene J. Harley, professor of Political Science, said.
Dr. Harley quoted Eisenhower as saying, “The forum for discussion is the best substitute for the battlefield.”
Chancellor Conrad Adenaur of Germany has already approved the site of the meeting place even though Sir Winston Churchill seems to be the only Big Three member that is overly enthused about it.
Far East Problems
The Bermuda conference, which ends today, will be culminated with discussions on the Far East, the Korean and Indo-China peace, and diplomatic relations with Red China. Premier Laniel of France, in bed for the second day with a chill, has been representeed by Foreign Minister Charles Bidault.
President Eisenhower will fly directly to New York today. He is scheduled to speak before the UN on the atomic bomb. He has been working cn the text since last summer.