The Southern California.
UNIVERSITY PICNIC Mar.7-Everybody Goes
TROJAN
Official Organ of the Associated Students, University of Southern California
TAKE THAT TRIP to Hartsook’s before Fri.
Vol. IX
Los Angeles, California, Tuesday, February 26, 1918
No. 29
‘El Rodeo’ Photographs
Must Be Taken By Mar. 1
MGR. CAMPBELL WAS PERTURBED LAST THURSDAY
Because Hartsook’s Artists Were Busy With Their Own Thoughts
INSTEAD OF WORKING
On the ‘Stare Decisis’ Picture Contract—and Campbell Is Still Nervous
Pictures for the “El Rodeo” must be taken by Friday, March 1. All students who are members of organizations taking space in the “El Rodeo” section of the “Stare Decisis” should go to Hartsook’s at once and have their photographs taken.
That speed is necessary in having pictures taken can readily be seen, when it is taken into account that previous annuals have had the printing matter set up and the book on the road to completion by the first of March. After the pictures are taken, it js necessary to have cuts made from them, and all of this takes time.
Hartsook’8 will be open r%in or shine during the rest of this week. Students should avail themselves of the first opportunity and take a trip to the photograph gallery.
Members of the El Rodeo staff who have copy to write and turn in, must turn it in to the editor as soon as possible.
To emphasize the necessity for haste in having the pictures taken, Manager Campbell came to the College of Liberal Arts last Thursday. He looked nervous. Probably he was nervous. And there was a reason: Hartsook’s were not being rushed for business. Artists were looking out of the windows, and the only pictures they weremaking were mental images, they were making were mental images. Students must have their pictures If Arthur Brisbane, chief editorial writer of the Hearst papers, were urging you to have your picture taken, he might write as follows:
The CRIMINAL doesn’t mind the ROGUES’ GALLERY, although h’ KNOWS the photographer is a SECOND-RATER. If the artist WAS ANY GOOD he would not be taking pictures of CROOKS. The criminal, THEREFORE, does not expect to see a GOOD PICTURE of himself. If he DID he yould JUMP. And the ONLY TIME he jumps is when he JUMPS HIS BAIL. But he is a GOOD SPORT and has TWO SITTINGS and NO CHOICE.
But YOU are going to a GOOD ARTIST. Hartsook uses the MOSQUITO NETTING ON A POST, and also the HAT RACK to keep your HKAD turned in the RIGHT DIRECTION. They CAN’T FAIL. They can ERASE WRINKLES and make you PRETTY if you have FALSE TEETH and A SQUINT. Don’t be BACKWARD. The criminal WASN’T and he can’t be COMPARED TO YOU.
and GO by March 1 BEFORE the ARTIST IS TIRED.
The “El Rodeo” does not wish the student to consider the matter lightly because of this horseplay. Brisbane’s stuff gets results in the Examiner. The “El Rodeo” is willing to try anything to make S. C. people take a street car ride as far as Seventh and Broadway, the students go before March 1.
Men Can Learn If They Have An Enemy
University men who thought they had not an enemy in the world, and few elsewhere, are gradually being disillusioned. The first intimation they receive is a telephone call in the evening. On taking up the receiver, the student hears the query:
“Have you made any arrangements regarding work during the summer vacation?”
On answering in the negative, the student is told the speaker’s name, address and telephone number. “Call at my address at 11:30 tomorrow morning,” says the stranger, hanging up the receiver.
The student usually calls. He is ushered in the front room of a little bungalow on Thirty-fifth place, and given a chair. A pleasant young man places the student’s cap on the dresser, the biggest hat tree in all homes which do not contain a piano. A book is placed in the caller’s hands.
“What do you think that book would sell for?” asks the host, beginning the conversation. And then comes the question:
“How would you like to sell it? This is a book w.iich should be in every home. We give you a liberal commission, and on the first fifty orders, we give a bonus. We allow you—”
When the student says he does-not like exercise, the other asks, “Do you know any fellow at school who might be interested?”
Then the student gives the name of the man he likes least. And the next man who is called up knows he has an enemy.
UNIVERSITY PICNIC MAR. 7
OPEN SEASON IS ON FOR DEBATERS AFTER WEDNESDAY
Bowen Trophies to Be Awarded at Tomorrow’s Chapel Exercises
ARISTO DEBATERS
With the awarding of the Bowen Trophies in chapel Wednesday morning, the debate season will be ln full swing. The Bowen Trophies are the result of the Bowen Foundation Fund, the increase of which from year to year is donated to debaters, to stimulate interest in forensic affairs.
Thursday evening, February 28, the Southern California Triangular debate will be held in the respective colleges, Pomona, Occidental and U. S. C. The question is, Resolved, That the federal government should conscript labor to insure a sufficient output of war materials. The affirmative team, composed of Harold Brewster, Harvey Wendt, and E. Dow Hoffman, will meet Pomona in the University chapel. Our negative team, Calvin Lauderbach, Claire White and Claude Reeves, will journey to Occidental and clash with the Orange and Black.
“Tony” Brewster says that both teams are in the best of trim, and will be able to meet any argument their opponents advance. When asked which which he thought was the best side, he answered: “I don’t know. The question is one of the most evenly balanced that I have ever debated. When I hear our affirmative team, I’ am for conscription, but when 1 hear the negative
I	am opposed to it.”
“The boys have some very clever plans, and those who want to hear some of the sharpest of wit and soundest of reason will do well to attend one of these discussions.
“Judges? Yes, we have been working night and day to get unbiased men to judge this debate. For the past two years we have lost merely because of some technicality which an experienced judge would overlook. Pomona beat us last year, and so did Occidental, but we are out for the Tigers and Bears this time.”
SWEATERS, LETTERS TO BE PRESENTED
Twelve varsity sweaters and four monograms, won by Trojan football players during the season last fall, will be presented to their winners at a special student body assembly to be held in the chapel, Monday, March 4. The monograms will be given to Art Taylor, Ben Weiss, Frank Malette and Ray Clark, as they have already received sweaters for their work in previous seasons.
The twelve sweaters are for Clarence Joslin, Zolo De Armond, James Campbell, Orie Hester, Roland Dahlgren, Fred Knickrehm, Dan McMillan, Wright Hamilton, Robert Miller, Howard Butterfield, Robert Chesnut and Keith Hunter. President Bovard will make the presentations. Registrar J. H. Montgomery is making arrangements for a speaker for the occasion.
The sweaters for the men who have gone to war will be held for them by the University until they return to college. De Armond, Hamilton, Malette, Butterfield, Chesnut and Clarke have enlisted since the close of the football season and will not be on hand for the presentations next Monday.
ALL COLLEGES WILL ATTEND BIG GATHERING
Tuesday night Aristotelean Literary Society held the tryouts for their debate with Comitia Literary Society. The question for debate is, Resolved, That at the end of this war an International Tribunal should be established for the purpose of maintaining international peace.
Arthur Jacoby, Murry Smith, ItusBell Neptune and Kenneth Barber had the affirmative, while the negative was upheld by Byron Hovey, Glen Murray, Bert MacDonald and Richard Bird.
The judges were Professor La Porte, Professor Wood, and Professor Arnold. They awarded first place to Mr. Jacoby, and second place to Mr. Bird. Mr. MacDonald was placed third.
After the tryouts the Society proceeded with the regular business meeting, and Mr. Baker was voted into the Society.
Organizations which have decided to take space in the “El Rodeo” are requested to furnish the names of their members to Byron Hovey, who has charge of this section of the annual. Students with snapshots of campus activities for “snapshot” page^ are requested to turn them in to Tom Metcalfe or Jean Wallace.
COLLEGE DEVOTIONAL HOUR
TO BE HELD THURSDAY
The college devotional hour, to be held Thursday night from seven to eight o’clock, in East Hall, will be in charge of a group of people from Hollywood. Those in charge announce that surprises will be in store for those who attend, and all are welcome. One of the features of the meeting will be a Honolulu band.
FIRST OF A SERIES OF
AGRICULTURAL LECTURES TO BE GIVEN AT 4:15 TODAY
This afternoon at 4:15 o’clock the first of a series of lectures on agriculture will be given by W. R. Mitchell, agricultural expert, in the Biology lecture room.
Six lessons will be delivered during the next three weeks on Tuesday and Wednesday afternoons by Mr. Mitchell with special reference to the food problem. The following are the subjects and dates: “Farm Crops,” February 26; “Soils and Fertilizers, February 27; “Irrigation and Cultivation,” March 5; “Live Stock,” March 6; “Home Building,” March 12; “Education,” March 13.
Mr. Mitchell, who is an expert on soils, is a graduate of the University of Illinois. He is a lecturer of note and has written much for farm jour nals.
This series of lectures is being given under the auspices of the biology de partment. Prof. A. B. Ulrey, head of the department, was instrumental in securing Mr. Mitchell’s services for the University.
Santa Monica Canyon Chosen For First Picnic of Entire Uni.
SCHOOL CLOSES AT 11
Law Student Is Drowned
In Tuscania Disaster
William L. Trageser, a graduate of the College of Law, was drowned when a submarine torpedoed the Tuscania, an American transport, early this month. He was one of over a hundred U-boat victims. He enlisted in the Engineers at Cottonwood, Minnesota, where he was engaged iu the practice of law.
Trageser was graduated from tbe law college in 1914. Soon afterward, he went to Minnesota to work up a law practice. He was well known here, and leaves many friends.
At one time, Trageser said to his room-rate, Samuel V. Cornell, also a graduate of S. C. Law, that he could not swim but thought he ought to learn. “I suppose my ignorance of swimming will get me in bad some time,” Trageser is reported to have remarked.
Trageser Is the second University man to lose his life since joining the army. The first to give his life was Lincoln Montonya, who died at Camp Kearny. It is thought Montonya succumbed to pneumonia.
Wieners to Feature Dinner, As Thursday Week Is Not Porkless Day
A Greater University picnic will be held Thursday, March 7, at Santa Monica. School will be dismissed at
11	o’clock In the morning, and students will then leave for the picnic grounds on trucks provided for the occasion. This is the first picnic ever held by the University for the benefit of all colleges.
Amusements will consist of games played on the sand, and contests of various kinds between the different colleges of the University. Downtown business men have provided candy and other rarities as prizes for the events.
At four o’clock all of the students will gather for a big picnic dinner, which undoubtedly will Include wieners.
Each girl is asked to bring twelve sandwiches, a cake, or potato salad. Each male student will be assessed twenty-five cents to defray expenses.
The picnic is to be one of the big events of the year. It is being enthusiastically backed by all students informed of the plans. Santa Monica was picked as being one of the most desirable picnic grounds accessible to the students.
The wieners will not be withheld, as Thursday is not porkless day.
Mr. Jazz is also behind this picnic. He contributes the following “pome": A POME There’s a great time cornin’,
There’l be big eats, games, and runnln’ When the S. C. students frolic on the sand.
On March Seventh we meet together, If “Jup. Pluv.” don’t spoil the weather And Journey to the happy hunting land.
All the druggists, dentists, doctors, And the teachers, preachers, lawyer*, Will be swimmers, eaters, queenerB on this day,
So make your date this mornio',
Take this tip—I’m just Informin', You’ll be peppy, happy, Jazzy, glad and say.
P. S.—Make your date early and avoid the rush.—OLD MAN JAZZ.
Committee chairmen are: Transportation, W. Lamport; eats, Mary Bowen and Noel George; “round up,” Nellita Schlotte; entertainments, Isabel Work and Hallie Marvin; publicity, Cliff Henderson.
PHI MU
Phi Mu sorority entertained with a valentine party in honor of the rushees, at the Phi Mu house, 1200 West 37th Place, on February 14.
Phi Mu announces the initiation of Ellena Warner and June Rayner, and the pledging of Mildred Prather and Leona Kendall.