southern California
Summer \ews
No. 4
72
Friday, July 6, 1951
Polyzoides Puts Paddle On Postman
Adamant!.* Th. Polyzoides. lecturer in international relations, drew loud guffaws from his class in reporting international news this week when he gave his version of a post office reform.
Engaging his postman in conversation several days ago Pol>-zoides was lamenting the fact that there Is only one delivery a day. The postman carried the conversation along by giving his views on the proposed raise in pay for post office employees.
* After listening for awhile, Poly-aoldes informed the postman that he had the answer U> the whole problem. “Why not double the pay bf the postman and eliminate mail deliveries altogether, he said.
Teacher Groups Offer Panels, Conferences
The School of Education will sponsor t»he first of five panel discussions Monday on Educational Problems of the Current Crisis."
Dr Frank. J. Estvan wil chairman and Dr. Earl F.. Carnes moderator of the meeting to be Held at 3:15 p.m. in Hancock
Speakers will be Walter F. Johnson, associate professor of education at Michigan State college; Cyrus LaGrone, chairman of the psychology department at Texas Christian university; Emery Stoops, assistant to the Los Angeles county superintendent of schools; and Jane Waiters, d -rector of personnel at Pennsy -vania State Teachers college.
The first of ttiree weekly School
Administration-Supervision conferences will be held next Friday starting at 9:30 a.m.
Interpretation of school legislation passed by the last state legislature will be given by Dr Hariy M Howell, associate supenntenden of Los Angeles City schools. Discussion will be led by George W Wakefield, deputy county counsel and legal adviser to the Los Angeles County School districts.
“The Threat of the Status Quo in Education” will be the subject or a talk by Dr. C. C. Trilling-ham, Los Angeles county intendent of schools, at 10:™ a.m. Discussion will be led b. l>r. Frank W. llart, emeritus professor of education at the I n -versity of California.
Increase Noted In Enrollment
Total summer enrollment has climbed above the figures for thc same period in 1950, according to Howard W. Patmore, registrar.
There are 11,929 students attending the summer session now —this is 440 more than the total for last year’s summer period.
These figures do not include the postsession, beginning August 6.
Much of the increase can be attributed to veterans who have registered this summer to qualify for the GI bill before the cut-off date of July 23.
The largest increases have been in the School of Law, 123 per cent, the Civic Center, 170 per cent, and the University college, 88 per cent.
iLikert Sets Workshop
A two-day workshop on group leadership in industry, community organization and education will be held on campus next Friday and Saturday, it was announced today.
Dr. Rensis Likert, director of the Institute for Social Research at the University of Michigan, who is teaching in the School of Public Administration this summer, will direct the program for more than 100 business and industrial leaders. Registration may be made by calling Ext. 216.
Discussion leaders will be Robert Tannenbaum, assistant professor of personnel management and industrial relations at UCLA; Jane Hood,
i	instructor-coordinator in teaching training at SC; Tanner Duckrey, assistant to the board of superintendents, Philadelphia Public schools; and Gordon Hearn, assistant professor of social welfare, University of California.
Dr. Likert has taught psychology at Michigan since his graduation there in 1926. He also holds a degree from Columbia. He is a Fellow of the American Psychological association and a member of the Society for the Advancement of Management.
The workshop will open at 2 p.m. next Friday in 226 Founders hall.
GEORGE HOSSFIELD is shown above demonstrating the technique that has enabled him to win the world's typewriting speed championship 10 times. He has attained a maximum speed of 146 words a minute in one-hour timed writings. Hossfield will give a demonstration and lecture Thursday at 2 p.m. in 226 Founders hall.
Speed Champ to Show Typists How Its Done
A typist who has held the world’s speed championship for 10 different years attaining a maximum speed of 146 words a minute in one-hour timed writings will give a demonstration and lecture Thursday at
2	p.m. in 226 Founders hall.
George Hossfield, professional speed typist, will show correct typing techniques in a speed demonstration and will also present a lecture on typewriting teaching methods of interest to teachers as well as to those interested in the improvement of individual typing.
During recent years Hossfield has been touring the country as a member of the educational service of the Underwood corporation.
Hossfield became interested in typing as a student and won the World's Novice Typewriting championship, breaking the best previous record by more than 10 words a minute.
In winning his last World’s Professional Typewriting championship, Hossfield struck 43,282 keys in one hour, or an average of more than 12 keys each second for 3600 seconds.
The demonstration-lecture will be sponsored by Pi Omega Pi, honorary fraternity of business teachers and business education students. A tea will be held following the affair in the YWCA building.
All are invited to attend.
What's Doin'
Commerce Alumni Elect Edward Mills Prexy
The election of Edward Mills to succeed Lawrence W. Pritchard as president of the School of Commerce Alumni association was announced recently.
Other officers elected were Wally Hicks and Lyman Johnson, vice-presidents; Cedric Gerson secretary; and Marjorie Wolfe, assistant secretary.
REPORT FROM SCANDINAVIA
Franklin D. Scott, professor of history at Northwestern university,; will speak on “Report From Scandinavia” at the Faculty club luncheon Wednesday noon, July 11, at the new Elisabeth von KleinSmid hall, 635 West 35th street—south entrance. Professor Scott recently spent a year in Scandinavia and has just written a book on the area.
All new and visiting faculty are cordially invited to attend. Please phone your reservation to Jessie Stanford, Ext. 393, before Tuesday noon.
BISHOPITES DANCE
The Los Angeles Bishop College Club will entertain the visiting
McElderry Discusses Life, Works Of Famed Author Hamlin Garland
How the 5000 letters, 100 note-x>ks. and nearly 1000 manuscripts I the late Hamlin Garland are .ielding an unmatched picture of America of 1860-1920 was told yesterday by Dr. Bruce R. McElderry, professor of English.
With the lielp of two research grants from the university, Dr. McElderry has been classifying and arranging the Garland material in the Doheny Memorial library. A description of the material will be published after further study.
Garland, who died in Los Angeles in 1940, is best remembered for liis short stories of the Mid-
dle West, called “Main Traveled Roads,” and for his series of autobiographical volumes which began with “Son of the Middle Border ” Dr. McElderry said in a summer session lecture.
“A review of his career shows wide interests and varied accomplishments which make him truly representative of his period,” he said.
"He wrote not only about the hard work and economic injustice of farm life in his boyhood, but about miners, cowboys, forest rangers, and Indian reservations of the West. He lived for long periods in
Boston, New York, and Chicago, identifying himself with literary movements toward more realistic treatment of all aspects of American life.
“lie knew personally such men as Wait Whitman, Jaquin Miller, Mark Twain, and William Dean Howells. On his various travels to Europe he was received by leading literary men such as George Bernard Shaw, James M. Barrie, Rudyard Kipling and Joseph Oonrad. lie encouraged younger writers, such as Stephen Crane and Frank Norris,” he said.
Bishopites who are attending SC summer session at 6 p.m. today at the Zenda Ballroom. James Flournoy, at LOrain 9-6604 or Maude Thomas, at LOrain 9-1188, should be called for an official bid.
BOWLING INSTRUCTION
Eddie Bayes, well known bowling expert, gives bowling instruction at the Trojan Bowl, 2800 S. Vermont, each afternoon from 2:30 to 6. Instruction is available free of additional charge to those who bowl during these hours.
PANEL DISCUSSIONS BEGIN
The first of a series of panel discussions on “Educational Problems of the Current Crisis,” will be presented by the School of Education at 3:15 p.m. Monday, July 9, in Hancock auditorium. The subject will be “What Can Guidance Counselors Do About These Problems?” and members of the panel will be Walter F. Johnson, associate professor of education, Michigan State college: Cyrus LaGrone, chairman, department of psychology, Texas Christian university; Emery Stoops, assistant to the Los Angeles county superintendent of schools; and Jane Warters, director of personnel, Pennsylvania State Teachers college. Earl F. Caines, assistant professor of education, will be the moderator.
On July 16, Wendell E. Cannon, associate professor of education and director of teacher education, will be the moderator on the Question, What Caji Teacher Training Institutions Do About These Prob-(Continued on Page 4)
English Plan New Empire
Great Britain is building a third new empire In Africa, but so quietly that the rest of. the world is scarcely aware of it, said Dr. Lowell Ragatz, head of the history department at Ohio State university, at a recent talk on campus.
Dr. Ragatz, now on thc faculty of the summer session, said that 2'/a million Englishmen have immigrated to Africa since thc end of WW II. “Several thousands actually went by truck and car. They had their vehicles shipped across thc English Channel drove through France, were ‘ferried’ across the Mediterranean and then drove from Algiers across the ‘dark continent,’ ” he said.
Dr. Ragatz said that with the development of Africa, the British empire is far from dying out. He said that Britain’s first overseas empire was lost in the American Revolution, and her second in Asia died in the last generation wrhen England got out of India, Burma, and Oeylon.
“The new African empire,” Dr. Ragatz said, “is being built on a foundation of cooperation instead of exploitation of the native population. Natives are being treated as equals.” »
Dr. Ragatz said that Britain expects the Boer-dominated Union of South Africa to secede from the Commonwealth soon, so to compensate for this the crown colonies of Northern and Southern Rhodesia and the protectorate of Bechuanaland are being reorganized politically into a dominion. He said that they may be joined by Nyssealand.
“British capital is being withdrawn from South America and the Far and Middle East and reinvested in Africa,” Dr. Ragatz said. He said that a shilling invested in Africa today will bring a pound in 10 years.
Dr. Ragatz said that American capital is also being invested in Africa and that many technical graduates of engineering and agricultural colleges in the United States are going there to build dams, roads, and to work on irrigation projects.
Dr. Ragatz has taught African history and geography the past
20	years and has visited Africa three times, his most recent trip there being three years ago.
Bureau Urges Teachers to Sign Register
Miss Edith W'eir, director of the Teacher Placement bureau, urges all students who are interested in teaching affiliations for the coming year to register with the bureau as soon as possible.
She says that this is the time of year when administrators and superintendents interview pros pects for jobs.
The bureau is open weekdays from 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. and is located at 3462 University avenue. The phone number is Ext. 391.
The university maintains the bureau as an aid to SC students in procuring jobs either during their studentship or after graduation.
Third Dance Set Tonight
Bob Young and his orchestra will provide music for the summer session dance to be held tonight in the Student Union lounge from 9 to 12 p.m.
This is the third of a series of dances sponsored by the University Recreation Association for students attending the summer session.
Refreshments will be served during the evening. Price of admission
is 60 cents.