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Complete success of the class-oom collections phase of the Liv-ng War Memorial Scholarship rund drive was Indicated by a retort of donations totaling $1382 ',t closing time Tuesday.
“The eager generosity of all tudents, and the cooperation of acuity members rose classroom .ollections to an all-time high,” aid Ed Wilkinson, collections ;hairman of the Trovet sponsored :arapaign.
“We would like to extend our ianks to the more than 200 stu-lents who volunteered to collect nd speak in the various buildings f the university, and to the or-anizations which many of them «presented,” he added.
Wilkinson especially thanked ta Alpha Psi, accounting fra-
emity, which handled all financ-
s.
Other groups included the AS-Senate, Knights, Amazons, purs, Squires, Phrateres, Alpha hi Omega, YWCA, Phi Gamma )elta, Phi Kappa Tau, Acacia, Al-ha Gamma Delta, Delta Delta Jelta, Gamma Phi Beta, and Al-ha Rho Chi.
Members of the committee han-ling the drive for Trovets were ohn Birmingham, chairman; Wil-;inson; Al. Dieda, publicity chair-lan; Laura Mispagel, secretarial committee; and Don Kimble, pro-urement commitee.
Amounts of money collected uring the various hours on Mon-ay and Tuesday are as follows: londay
9:00 a.m.—$234 1:15 p.m.—$267 7:00 p.m.—$347 sday 9:00 a.m.—$169 1:15 p.m.—$113 7:00 p.m.—$249
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COUNTRY GIRL—Pictured are players in one of the scenes of the current drama production starting tonight. Left to right are Leigh
O'Malley, Mary Alexander, Giles Robinson, Louis Pollay, and Al Curse. Run of five shows is scheduled until Tuesday.
Five-Day Run of The Country Girl' Begins Tonight in Bovard
The SC drama department production of the Clifford Odets Broadway hit play of last season, “The Country Girl,” opens a five-day run in Bovard Auditorium this evening at 8:30.
Tickets are still available at the University ticket office for all five nights. Orchestra seats are $1; balcony seats are 50 cents. Activity book holders will be admitted without charge to the orchestra seats.
axter to Give is Readings ext Thursday
Dr. Frank Baxter will deliver is traditional Christmas readings hursday night, at 8 in Bovard uditorium, Steve Robertson proram chairman, announced yester-ay afternoon.
On the same program, before r. Baxter’s readings, ASSC Sen-tor Bill Van Alstyne will present ro trophies to the fraternity and rority w^ich donated the most the Living War Memorial.
‘Dr. Baxter will not announce rhat readings he will give,” Steve obertson said, “but I am sure •hatever they are everyone will oroughly enjoy them.
“His readings have been one of e many fine traditions around C and I am sure that all the udents, whether old or new, will nd it rewarding to attend,” he id.
Dr. Baxter will also give his ristmas readings, of prose and ?*ry, Tuesday afternoon in Bo-rd Auditorium, under the spon-rship of the Student Council on ?ligion.
Van Alstyne will give a short k on the history and philos-Ihy behind the Living War ?morial' hope of sending more dents, whose parents died in r, to the university.
No tickets are needed for the 'gram and persons other than students may atend.
chool of Music
0	Give Festival
The School of Music will pre-nt its annual Christmas festival, th performances by the A Cap-Ua Choir, the University Con-rt Choir, and the University vmphony Orchestra, Wednesday 8:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditor-
The program, open to the pub-• without charge, wil include usic from the 17th and 18th cen-ies by the string orchestra, and veral \ ocal numbers by stu-
1	soloists Marilyn Taylor, ynn Horne, Virginnia Lee
orris, Paul Mayo, David Hodg-and John Sherman.
SPORTS SAID AID FOR WORLD PEACE
It was concluded that “athletics promote world understanding and can be great guides to peace” at yesterday’s “World Understanding through Athletics” panel in the YWCA.
However a controversial question as to the value of America’s predominantly non-participatory sports program arose during the Amazon-Red Cross Council sponsored program.
Many of the foreign students attending the discussion said they had a difficult time understanding sport events in the United States and were hazy about football.
Spectator Sports Popular A large number of foreign students weren’t sure that athletics stressing spectators, popular in the United States, were as valuable to international friendship as games calling for more actual participation.
Robert R. Glen, member of the board of directors of the Los Angeles chapter of the Red Cross, said that in England when 90,000 people gather for a soccor match,
| more have actually played soccor than in the same number watching a football game who have played football in the U.S. He said English Colleges of 2500 students, 2000 actively play and compete, which is much different than American schools.
Non-participation Other foreign students believed that being spectators did not help in bringing people together in a common understanding as well as sports where real competition is a part. But even so, an Iranian student summarized that athletics are good no matter how they are competed—on a limited or unlimited scale.
Dr. Albert F, Zech, counselor of men; Forrest Twogood, basketball coach; and Fahmy Attallah, psychology student and world swimming record-holder, made up the panel. Jack Davis and Bob
More El Rod Pics
The following organizations will report 10 minutes before the scheduled times and places to have their pictures taken for the El Rodeo.
Newman Club, Doheny, noon Alpha Epsilon Delta, Doheny, 12:30 p.m.
Shell and Oar, Doheny, 12:45 p.m.
YWCA, YWCA Building, 4 p.m.
Buckley were unable to appear.
A Feeling of "Understanding
“A feeling of understanding and common ground is gained in international athletics,” Coach Two-good said. In competition, it is important to win at the time but the athletes turn out to be good, lasting friends after all. .Winning becomes least important as time goes on, and friendship most important.
“I believe the New York Giants’ trip and tours of Japan has done a great deal for the understanding between the Japanese and American people. Athletes in foreign countries give impressions of American people as a whole. They are good impressions and we want them to know we are nice people over here,” he said.	»
Athletics Are Solution
Attallah, Egyptian student and holder of many long-distance swimming records, said that “athletics are the solution for so many things in life.
“I would like to write a paper on personality deve 1 o p m e n t through the influence of athletics. Sports not only develop the muscular physique, but they have a great influence on the endocrine glands, which affect the personality and character of a person.
Athletics Have Drive
“Athletics have the drive of fight as in war. Their affect on people is amazing. So an understanding through athletics could be a great solution to world understanding and bring peace,” he said.
Coach Twogood said that financial barriers won’t allow everyone to participate in athletics in American colleges. He admitted that it was a very good idea but it just couldn’t be done and maintain the high standards of efficiency that are characteristic of American sports.
Football’s Foot-ball?
Many of the foreign students can’t understand why football is called football since it is played almost all with the hands. On the other hand, they can’t figure out why British soccor is called such when the hands are rarely used and the feet are.
Chukuemeka Okeke from Africa said he could not think of another single thing that creates better understanding among the American people than sports.
Featuring Leigh O’Mally and Mary Alexander in leading roles, and with a supporting cast of Louis Pollay, Paul Phillips, Al Cruse, Giles Robinson, Janet Curry, and Don Sumers, the play is the tale of a rum-riddled actor on the comeback road to Broadway stardom.	,
Sets on Wagons Settings for this production have been designed by Prof. Robert Corrigan, the new technical director for University dramatics. His sets are built on “wagons,” low platforms on casters which enable the scenes to switch rapidly between a Boston dressing room, a full backstage set, a furnished living room, and a New York theater.
Professor Corrigan came to SC in N o v e m ber. Previously he taught and designed sets at the University of British Columbia, Northwestern University, the University of Tulsa, and San Diego Summer Theater in San Diego.
Lists Assists Assisting Prof. Corrigan is Ray Larson, assistant technical director. David G. DeHaven, telecommunications major, will handle production as stage manager, while William C. White directs the lighting. Betty Lou Soden is in charge of the wardrobe; Cherie Brigham, the props; and Barbara Lindeman, ’sound.
Herbert M. Stahl is staging this production for the drama department, with Dr. James H. Butler, department head, supervising as executive director.
Production manager Whit Spon-sler is assisted by Robert F. Craig Jr., house manager, and Diane Carlotti, assistant house manager. Ushers will be members of the Phrateres, women’s honorary service organization, headed by Ann Ninfo, president.
Fashion, Show Clothing Lent By Goodwill
Colorful costumes worn by SC coeds in the fashion show at ceremonies closing University Avenue Tuesday were furnished by the graces of Goodwill Industries, an anonymous department of development spokesman divulged yesterday.
The costumes represented the different modes of garb >■ that have been flaunted on University Avenue down through its lengthy years of existence.
Fourteen SC coeds, clad in everything from bustles to slit skirts, flounced befwe City Councilman Don A Allen and other dignitaries.
Irate Mothers Blast Reckless Row Driving
Children s Lives Said Endangered, Charges PTA
Mobile Ticket
Office To Be On Campus
An air line ticket office on wheels, will be on campus next week on Monday and Wednesday.
John L. Goodwin, associate professor of business administration announced today that the mobile ticket office will be demonstrated for commercial aviation classes on Monday morning.
The office operated by TWA, will be stationed at the corner of University Avenue and 36th Street beginning at 8 in the morning for the convenience of anyone desiring tickets or reservations for Christmas holiday travels.
Officially labeleed MTO or Mobile Ticket Office, the unit is the first of its kind to enter service in the transportation industry, and is designed to handle ticket sales in areas where regular office space is unavailable.
The unit requires two employees to dperate it, and carries complete ticket stock, tariffs, and all
other mechanical requirements
necessary to issue transportation to anywhere in the world.
According to TWA sales representative Stan Burton, the unit is actually outselling some of the airline’s permanent offices. He 6aid that the MTO has been in operation for three months, and now makes regular stops in Alhambra, Huntington Park, and Culver City. It stays in each place a certain number of hours each day. ‘
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 103 (Elementary Swimming) will be held on FEBRUARY 4 and 5, S 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 Physical Education Department.
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FOREIGN STUDENTS
Foreign Party Planned for Christmas-Tim
A nation-wide “Christmas House Party” will be held from Dec. 21 to 27, for foreign students who will have the opportunity to visit and have fun in the various regions of the United States.
Under the sponsorship of the Inter-Varsity Christian Fellowship, the students may 6pend the week in Boston, the Colorado Rockies, Lake Tahoe in the High Sierras, or the Pacific Northwest.
Local students will have the use of the facilities offered by the Hotel Del Quinta in Palm Springs, which includes a swimming pool and other recreational facilities.
The program for students staying at the hotel includes visits to the citrus groves and vegetable and date farms.
For the more energetic students an hour’s auto ride will bring them to the mountains where they may enjoy winter sports.
“It is mainly a program to get American and foreign students in an informal atmosphere; to be able to see the country and what it has to offer,” said Dick Bohrer, president of the Trojan Christian Fellowship.
Invitations are being sent out to the foreign students this week, but additional information may be obtained by phoning Mel Frie-sen, area secretary at DU 3-1850.
Registration blanks are available to see the country and what fice, SU, and must be in the mail by Dec. 12.
Block of Proposal By Reds Expected
The Communists will probably do their best to block the United States’ proposal now before the UN that a neutral commission investigate the alleged North Korean atrocities practiced on allied POWs.
This conclusion was reached by Dr. Rodger Swearingen, assistant professor of international relations, last night on the basis of the Communists’ past record.
In the U.N. General Assembly the U.S. has presented documented reports and pictures showing the savagery and sadism used by the Reds on allied FOWs which rival any atrocities in the history of modern warfare.
Visit Sites
America asked that a neutral commission visit the sites of the alleged barbarisms and report its findings to the U.N.
“It is clear from the positions already taken by the Reds that they don’t like impartial commissions to investigate in their territory,” Dr. Swearingen said.
“Last year the Russians spread the propaganda throughout Asia that the U.S. had used germ warfare tactics in the battle. We
asked for an impartial investigation then, but the Commies refused.
Reviews Record
“E^en before the Korean conflict began in 1950, the U.N. set up a temporary neutral commission to supervise elections in Korea. The commission was allowed to do so in South Korea, but it was forbidden to enter North Korea.
“This suggests the way the Commies flout the authority of the United Nations.”
Dr. Swearingen visited Korea and Japan last summer and saw “Communist tactics in action.” “During the Big Switch the Commie POWs rioted, being inspired to do so by the Russians, and had a few of their men shot. They began a big campaign about allied atrocities.
“In fact, when the North Koreans were being returned to their own people, they tore their clothes and sang Communist songs to give the impression that their captors were cruel.” Nations serving on neutral commissions in the past have been Sweden, Switzerland, Indonesia, and India, the doctor observed.
by Jack McCurdy
Row drivers were torn apart at the 32nd Street Grammar School’s regular PTA meeting yesterday afternoon for their
racing, speeding and wreckless driving.” Driving, which the mothers said, was “endangering the lives of their small children having to cross the Jefferson Boulevard-Hoover Boule-vard-University Avenue intersection.”
Mrs. Leonard W. Lieberman, chairman of the health and safety committee of the 32nd Street Grammar School PTA, telephoned the Daily Trojan yesterday after-the committee had decided to ap-the committe had decided to appeal to the SC student body through the Daily Trojan and
start a petition to get a guard at the crossings and more “school” signs.
Petition Started
Mrs. Lieberman, whose husband is Leonard W. Lieberman, telecommunications major at SC, said
a petition had been started to get a petition had been started to get dren across University Avenue.
The petition al6o calls for more signs warning the driver to slow
down for the school.
“If the students awakened to the fact that lives are involved, they would be more safety conscious. We have appealed to the Chief of Police, city councilmen and the chief of the safety department of the Board of Education.
Complains to Dr. Zech
“I called Dr. Zech about the problem and he said he would do something about it and call me back, but he has never contacted me. So now we are appealing directly to the students to drive more carefully,” she said.
She said most mothers got up and talked about the students’
driving from the Row to school and back, at the meeting. The “March of Mothers” started then and we decided to do something about it she said.
Roy Foreman, president of Acacia fraternity, said he cautions his members about driving around the Row and to school anyway, but that he hasn’t heard com-
Work Croups For Freshman Class Named
The Freshman class Council has been divided into six working committees to help plan and carry out the freshman program for the coming year, Chuck Leimbach, freshman class president, announced yesterday.
These committees in turn elected their chairman and are making plans for the coming year.
The Project commitee, headed by Carolyn Johansing, will sponsor a Freshman fund raising contest to help a worthy cause or organization.
The Social qommittee, headed by Regina Gessel, freshman class vice-president, will sponsor a Christmas party for the Council and later activities for the whole class.
The Orientation committee, headed by Paul Camen, will cooperate with the Squires and Spurs in sending representatives to various high schools with the purpose of acquainting them with SC.
The Soph-Frosh Brawl committee, heaaed by Jay Roper, will work with the Sophomore class in planning the annual event between ehe two classes, to be held late in March.
The Constitution committee, headed by John Potts, will write a new Constitution for the class
The Publicity committee, headed by Laird Willott, will have the program of informing the students of th« work done by the Council.
plaints from anyone. He said most of the Acacia members walk to school instead of fighting the traffic.
Dan Lucas, Acacia member, said, “I’ve seen some awfully wreckless driving around here. About three out of four aren't making the stop signs. Personally, I think it would be a worthy project to better the driving, and it needs to be discussed in student organizations.”
Jack McCandlese. Theta Xi president, said Jim Bibee in IFC had asked fraternity heads to announce to their groups about driving more carefully to and from
school. He said about half his
fraternity drives to school.
Mothers Walk to School
Mrs. Lieberman said that many mothers have to walk to school as many as four to six times a day to assist their children back and forth across streets. She said the PTA had an AA survey taken of the traffic conditions around the school, and the investigating body found the driving very baa.
“They’re all college students and adults and should know how to drive sanely. If they would >just observe the traffic laws and give the child the benefit of a doubt. It takes so little time and yet no one has said anything aDOUt it.
Parking Heavier
“Having just blocked off University Avenue, now the parking around the grammar school area is much heavier. And the freeway will be opening soon, which will also re-route more traffic our way. The students of higher education should exercise their knowledge.
“I don’t like to see the students get heavy fines and it's not necessary, but wre have asked for and got more traffic officers around this area. I don’t know why the students have to clutter up in front of the school,” she said.
Mrs. Lieberman said the problems could be solved if the students could be made conscious of the elementary children that are there. It should be brought to their attention every day, she said.
Troy’s Problem
“It’s your problem. We hate to go to the police. In this way someone is going to get hurt, but the students never stop to think how terrible it is to jeopordize a child’s life,” she said.
Mrs. Mary M. Chessel, vice president of the 32nd Street Grammar School, said the traffic does travel to and from SC by her school pretty fast. It is a big problem, but there haven’t been any recent accidents, she said.
Mothers Upset
“Little children often forget to cross at the corner or at the right time and the traffic travels much too fast to watch out for them. The mothers are very upset over the whole iituation." siie said.
Mrs. Debay, president of the PTA, said “If the students understood the danger and seriousness, they would check their speeding. They shouldn’t wait until something happens before uo-ing something about it. We’re in a direct line between the Row and the school. I just wish tney would curb that vim, vigor and vitality while going by here.”
DT Staff
Daily Trojan Staff will meet in the City Room at noon. All reporters and copyreaders must attend.
SDX meeting will follow immediately afterward.