IVE PEDESTRIANS A BRAKE; DRIVE CAREFULLY
rol. XLV
Los Angeles, Calif., Tuesday, Dec. 15, 1953
No. 59
POWERFUL ‘TONG’ GROUP UISSOLVES
Double Date
Cars Get Faster; Drivers Get Dumber Yearly * * ¥ * * ¥ *
Reporter Learns a Graphic Lesson
By DICK REID
A skinny man in a cook’s hat gave me a graphic lesson in highway homicide a couple of summers ago.
“See them high-powered buggies out there?” he said. “Every one of ’em's a custom-made hearse. The cars get faster every year, and if you ask me, the drivers get dumber.”
I didn’t answer and he went on, warming to his subject. “Bad weather. Real bad,” he said, looking at the cloudless horizon. “Clear weather is bad weather for* those jerks. The clearer it is, the faster they drive. There’s more pileups on a day like this than in all the rainy ones put together.
Summer Day “Today puts me to mind of another hot day last summer,” the skinny man said. He paused for effect. “Seems as though it was a Monday. Anyway, traffic was pretty thin and business was slow. The mercury was ’way up around 102. It was startin’ to be a real scorcher.
“I didn’t have nothin’ to do, so I went outside and had a smoke, just watchin’ the cars whiz by and wonderin’ what’d happen if one of ’em had to stop real fast.”
He pointed to a sweeping, i banked curve a few hundred, yards up the highway. “See that j big turn up there?” he said. “I j just happened to be looking up j Ajj that way when this big yellow1 Lincoln starts coming around it.
The guy squealed his tires all the way aroound but held the road okay.
Truck Pulis Out
“Then I heard this here diesel startin’ up at the gas station next door. I looked over there just in time to see it was one of them big' stainless steel meat trucks, inchin’ its way into the highway in low gear. But, I didn’t think anything of it ’till I looked back up the highway.
“Here came this Lincoln, burn-in’ along at about 70, headed right for the tail of the truck. I seen other heads inside the car, and I said to myself, ‘Oh Lord, not kids.’ The guy drivin’ the Lincoln musta thought he still had plenty of room to go around.
I guess he figgered the truck was movin’ along at his speed.
“The next thing I knew, tlie Lincoln plowed into the back of the diesel with a sort of a screamin’ noise and went bouncing into that field across the road. The impact jjacknifed the
Row Politicians Break Up TNE
by Charlie Barnett
1 Theta Nu Epsilon, powerful secret campus political organization, has dissolved itself, the DT learned yesterday. TNE, as undercover power in campus politics for about 25 turned out there was a years, met for the last time Sunday night, a spokesman told
truck around and caved in one side of It.
Injured Child
“It
family of four in the Lincoln.
of ’em but the wife got throwed out when the car bounced into that field. The trucker wasn’t hurt. He was okay until he ran across the highway to the field, and seen this little four-year-old kid sitting there, kinda gurglin’ through half-a-mouth, with the whole left side of his jaw and scalp scraped off. Then the trucker fainted.
“The guy that’d been drivin’ the Lincoln was still alive when I got there. Both of his legs was broken, and his chest was flattened out, but he kept lookin’ around and savin’, “Where’s my watch? I lost my watch. Find my watch, or I’ll be late.’
Mother, Daughter Killed “There was another kid, a girl, but her neck was busted and- she was already dead when I found h-3r. She was lyin’ all twisted up in a ditch about 60 feet from th car. Her mother was dead too. She bashed in the dashboard with her head when they first hit the truck. Wasn’t too purty.”
He turned to face me. What some pie with your coffee?” he asked.
ebaters to Discuss alue of McCarthy
Is Sen. Joseph McCarthy (R-Wis.) a menace or a sériant to the American people?
That question will be debated by a student panel at 3:15 |.m. today in 129 FH at the ASSC Forum’s first “Troy-Meet-■g."
Bob Wallach and Jim Smith ill take the stand that Senator IcCarthv is a public menace.
Smith and Wallach, in statements to the press yesterday, lid that "Senator McCarthy has jrfeited his right to the confi-pnce of the American people;
Vst. by weakening the demo-atic guarantees of our consti- I Some $6000 in fixtures has been ktion and second, by undermin- ; donated to the privately owned |g the policy of effective govern- i university dispensary due to open ?nt by a consistent barrage of j in the School of Pharmacy Jan. 1 lifounded and irresponsible at- i ior student and faculty members.
Fixtures Donated to Dispensary
lek.”
Cause t« Fear
Alumnus Marshall J. Malloy, Los Angeles prescription store
I Thè statement bv Smith and owner, made the donation, accord-
[allach also said “the danger of McCarthy lies not in the man |mself, but in that of which he
ing. to Dr. Alva Hall, dean of
the School of Pharmacy.
Located in 102 Pharmacy Build-;
indicative. When a man can ing. the dispensary will be used j
ise himself on the rubble of as an educational sujiplement to |
lerican institutions then we < g*ve pharmacy students practical,
ve cause to fear him.”	i retail pharmacy experience.
o	. •	- Numerous pnarmacv manufac- !
Supporting McCarthy’s policies A
r\ • j t- tunne houses have also donated
be Fred Doumam and Jim IU1U1&	___
I to the pharmacy school project.
Doctor Hall said members of
the university would receive a j
discount on prescriptions. How-1
ever, like many of the details, j
the exact amount still remained
to be worked out.
Official
Notice
WAIVER EXAMINATION, for PE 160 (Health Problems) will be held on the first Wednesday of Spring Semester, FEBRUARY 10, 1954.
Please see Dr. Davis, Room 107. pE department, before signing up.
WAIVER EXAMINATIONS,
for PE 101 (Fundamental
Skills) and PE 102 (Elementary Swimming) will be held on FEBRUARY 4 and 5, 3 to 5 p.m„ the practical being given first, and written last.
PLEASE SIGN* UP BEFORE FEBRUARY 1st IN ROOM 107,
| PE Building.
William R. LaPorte, Chairman PhysicalEducation Depa rtment.
White said “I would be delight-if we had ninety-five other '"»tors like fighting Joe Mc-
hy.”
Rebirth of Americanism
Doumani said that McCarthy-is the rebirth of Americanism.
It is the fight against subver-|on, treason and treachery. It is le idea of putting country above j irty; and it contains within it ! ie force for a great patriotic ' J-usade to again place America st and forever stamp out the ' reds ol Communist infiltration.”
| Seyom Brown. Forum eo-chair-in, said each member of the inel will speak for five minutes Allowed by a 15 minute period of dss questioning. The audience then have the opportunity to stion the panel.
Brcwn said that “it is the hope . many student, faculty and administrative 'eaders that ‘Trov Meetings’ will become a regular of university life.
| The Forum is patterned after lio's ‘Town Meeting of the |ir.” Future “Troy Meetings" will j :uss topics of interest on all vels—university, local, state national.	I
Hyink Names Winners of 31
Scholarships
Names of 31 scholarship winners were announced yesterday by Dr. Bernard L. Hyink, dean of students and chairman of the Student Aid Committee, who made the selections.
Awards were made on the basis of outstanding academic records and leadership. They are renewable during the four years at sc.
Each scholarship is valued at $2400 and will go into effect this spring, Dr. Hyink said.
Los Angeles residents receiving scholarships are Warren A. Ap-pley, 3514 Enville Place; Gordon Breitman, 1711 South Ogden Drive; Laura B. Cameron, 327 South Hoover Street; Wanda K. Harris, 3650 South Normandie Avenue; Betty L. Houshmand, 1184 West 39th Street; Peter Jo-kanovich, 1444 Avon Terrace; Mary C. Kasanin, 1458 West 27th Street.
More Winners
G. Thomas Kingsley, 3851 Welland Avenue; Egner J. Larsen, 2214 Workman Street; Fernando B. Morinigo, 1049 West 35 th Place; Gilbert A. Perez, 162112 West 12th Street.
John A. Powell. 319 West Golden Avenue; Kenneth M. Shaw, 7615 Dalton Avenue; Donald L. Singer,- 3940 Ridgeley Drive; Mil-la A. Sollinger, 6742 Woodrow Wilson Drive; and Marilyn K. Tan, 3909 South Hobart Boulevard.
Surburban scholarships were awarded to Jacqueline L. Borda, San Pedro; Patricia M. Brady, Burbank; Frank S. Cater, Pasadena; John P. S. LaSha, Hawthorne; Tema N. Levine, North Hollywood; Joseph A. Mazzuca, Montebello; Herbert F. McGaf-ney, Whittier.
Other Winners
Alfonso W. Merino, 5318 South Gate; Judith Orlick, North Hollywood; and John M. Spear, Whittier.
Jean and Joan Cestone, Youngstown, Ohio; Gary L. Teach, Seattle, Washington; Elimelech Glous-man and Gertrude H. Kornfeld. Irael: and Ramniklal S. Sanghavi, Poona, India.
the DT.
Baxter to Read In Bovard at 3
Dr. Frank C. Baxter, professor of English, will present the first of two hour-long programs of Christmas readings today at 3 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
The program, free of charge, is sponsored by the SC Council on Religion.
Baxter, recent winner- of the Sylvania award for the best local educational television program in the nation, “Shakespeare on TV,” will read selections from his library of poetry and prose written about Christmas, aoiecuons include “Three Ghosts Came Riding By” by Walter de la Mare;. “Frrom Far Away and Long Ago” a medieval carol. “The Oxen” by Thomas Hardy; “The Maidservant and the Inn” by Dororthy Parker; “Christmas Trees” by Robert Frost, and verse by Ogden Nash and Robert Benchley.
A manuscript, written by an unknown soldier, and found after a battle with the Afrika Korps, will be one of the most moving bits of poetry to be read by Baxter.
A repeat performance will be offered Thursday at 8 p.m. Tro-vets are sponsoring it for the Living War Memorial Scholarship fund.
No admission will be charged, but .contributions will be accepted, the money going toward a scholarship for a son or daughter of a serviceman who gave his
life in World War II.
u'Jtf MEelb cak—When a boy on a bicycle meets a man in a car, the boy usually looses. Luckily in this case th e boy wasen't injured. However, this doesn't mean that children
won't be killed or injured in the turure. ihe driver made a left turn and didn't see the boy on the bike.—DT photo by Len Zagortz
L. A. is Second Safest
Wesley Club Plans Supper Meeting
Wesley club will have a supper meeting in the student lounge of University Methodist Church at 5:15. Call RI 3732 or PR 2613 no later than 4 p.m. for reservations.
TEP Officers Named
The Spring semester officers of
Tau Epsilon Phi wrere installed
recently. They are Buzz Brandt, president; Phil Gottlieb, vice-president; Stan Silverman, secretary; Bud Schin, treasurer; Carl Epstein, historian; and. Bob Mey-erson, chaplain.
Detroit Rates Tops In Traffic Safety
by Don Hanson
Los Angeles, with 287 persons killed in traffic accidents in 1952, was still the second safest city, traffic-wise, of the five cities in the United States with populations more than 1,000,000.
In the over 1,000,000 class, Los Angeles was second only to Detroit in the 1952 National Traffic Safety Contest sponsored by the National Safety Council.
To gain a true comparison of the traffic safety situation in various cities, the Safety Council does not consider only the population and number of deaths, but brings into the picture the number of deaths per 100,000 population, and most important of all, the number of deaths per 10,-000 cars registered in the city.
Thus, although L.A.’s figure of 14.6 deaths per 100,000 residents was the highest in any city of the group, the huge number of cars here gave the city a score of only 3.1 deaths per 10,000 registered vehicles, which actually was a tie with Detroit’s record.
May Lose Ratings
This year, however, LA is in danger of losing its high place in the safety lists, as there has been a considerable increase in accidents, injuries, and deaths, which have already surpassed last year’s totals for the same period—and the always costly Christmas holidays are still ahead.
As of December 7, there had been 36,809 accidents here, compared with 34,827 on the same date in 1952. There have been
WORK FOR STREET CLEANERS— The driver of the c«r above was following too close to the car in front when the first car stopped. The street cleaners and the auto repair men
are Kep; in ousiness by such antics. The driver was taken to the hospital and treated for shock.— DT photo by Len Zagortz.
cidents this year, compared with | How did L.A. rank with other
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25,048 victims in 16,773 injury ac- center.
24,236 hurt in 16,365 accidents last year.
And there have been 267 deaths in LA thus far, a 4.3 per cent increase over last year’s mark of 257 at the same time. Twenty-two of those deaths have occurred in the University Police Division, of which SC is the
cities in the 1952 Safety Contest? New Yorft had the most deaths, with 582 or 7.4 per 200,000 population, 4.6 per 10,000 cars. Chicago had 454 fatalities, 12.5 per 100,000 people, and 5.2 per 10,000 cars. Philadelphia buried 157 traffic victims, 7.7 per 100,000 residents, and 3.7 per 10,000 cars.
Detroit, the winner in the division, had 197 deaths, a score of 10.7 per 100*000 population, and 3.1 per 10,000 cars. .
Los Angeles also compared fa-: cians
According to the TNE spokesman, Theta Nu Epsilon has operated since 1927 as a secret organization of men representing fraternity houses, pledging to support TNE politically. He claimed that before its dissolution, TNE was able to control the votes of about two-thirds of the present ASSC Senators.
The University administration has been notified of the breakup and tangible evidence of dissolution has been presented to the dean of students.
Undercover Group
TNE, sometimes referred to as “the Tong,” has wielded its political power from behind a cloak of secrecy, and the name has been whispered with a mysterious air on campus and along the Row. In the past few years, the ‘Tong” has had members from a majority of the Row fraternities, and has operated through the All-U Party, the TNE man revealed.
The TNE spokesman gave several reasons for the members deciding to disband. “Being a secret organization,” he said, “TNE has no opportunity to defend itself against charges by other campus political parties.”
Women Too
“We also want women to be able to take part in running student politics,” he said. TNE membership was limited to men.
“TNE is dissolving itself because the members want to bring campus politics out in the open. The dissolution will do away with the bad reputation which has
grown out of the secrecy surrounding TNE.
Started in 1927
According to Tongmen, Theta Nu Epsilon was formed in 1927 because campus politics at that time was controlled by a small group of fraternities. TNE met with great success, and in a few years it became the dominating group.
For many years, the TNE men say, the Tong was supported by almost the ‘entire Row and had solid control over all phases of ASSC oplitics. In 1948, however, a dissatisfied group of 14 houses left TNE and formed the so-called “free Greek” faction which later became the Trojans for
Representative Government.
Balance of Power
For several years there has been, more or less, a balance of power between the TNE group and the TRG party. Since last spring’s elections, however, TNE has been solidly in control of the student government, the TNE spokesman claims.
Throughout the years, many charges of election fraud and “government by a few in secret” have been hurled at TNE, a group which out in the daylight pretended it didn’t even exist.
It has been reported that before it disbanded TNE was composed of approximately 40 members.
The TNE spokesman said that the local group was in no way affiliated with the outlawed national Theta Nu Epsilon organization.
• “Members of the organization have come to me and told me of the dissolution of TNE,” Dean of Students Bernard L. Hyink said yesterday. “They have presented to the University administration tangible evidence of the dissolu-I tion.”
Included in this evidence are robes and other TNE ceremonial paraphernalia which TNE members brought to Dean Hyink’s office.
University Frowned
“While the University has certainly never endorsed TNE and has frowned upon its tactics, the present administration has never formally outlawed the organization or purged any of its members,” Dean Hyink said.
A formal statement of the University’s reaction to the dissolution of TNE will be released within, a few days, Dean Hyink added.
Meanwhile, it has been reported that -some of the campus politi-who formerly supported
vorably with smaller cities in the contest for even though they had fewer actual deaths, the averages by population and number of cars were higher.
TNE are planning to organize a new political party which will operate in the open. It is said that this new party would fiH the political vacuum created by the dissolution of TNE.