Engie Speaks on Campus Today
Southern
Osi ifornia
TROJAN
VOL. L
LOS ANGELES, CALIFORNIA, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1958
NO. 28
Expected To Hit Back at Knight For Half Job
Students Enter Last Day of Balloting For Fall ASSC Freshmen Elections
Brainwashing Hit At Russian Lecture
Possible Runoffs Would Be Announced Tomorrow
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By JI DV ASHKENAZY
A dispute arising from the presentation of conditions in Rus-lumed yesterday’s International Relations symposium into a im of arguments between panel members and two irate aud-
\ccusations of brainwashing flew as one elderly woman shout-n pnik'! chairman Dr Roger Swearingen that he was deny-his audience the true picture of Russia.
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In answer to an audience question, Dr. Swearingen had re-5d that Russian wages were low while prices of commodity
"Why don't you tell about free medical care, free insurance, housing costs in Russia?” inquired the unidentified woman. But hefoie Dr. Swearingen could clarify his statement, she ed a dissertation of the advantages that Russia had over the •*d States. There was no stopping her.
'I would prefer to pay more for shoes and get free medical and insurance.” she repeated again and again in various
Objections Rise
\ fellow objector preceding her asked Dr. Swearingen if the I was guilty of slanting the Russian reports to suit Amer-prop;.ganda purposes.
It is just as much a part, of our environment to be preju-inst them as it is theirs to be prejudiced against us.”
d that perhaps the panel members had altered their lply with ‘‘half-truth standards” set up by the United
In 800 feet of color film. Dr. Swearingen showed the Russia |{hi( be saw. Hr reported that she has many churches and a surprising number of worshipers. Most of them are Russian Orthodox. Catholic or Baptist.
His guide told him that there were no slums in Russia. However Swearingen reeled off some convincing pictures indicating that the guide was ’‘mistaken."
Each of the panel members commented on the scarcity of Automobiles in Russia and the lack of single living quarters.
Dr. Swearingen and Henley both showed pictures of automobile displays in contrast to the relatively empty streets.
St. Albert Theory Told at Forum
A history’ of theology and metaphysical concepts related to S’. Albert the Great were explained by Dr. Paul Miller. SC philosophy instructor, last night in the Philosophy Forum series.
Using quotations from the great philosophers of the past philosophical “mainstreams” Dr. Miller lold of the different meanings given to theology and metaphysics ihrpughout the aces.
“St. Albert believed that ihc-ology had no formal existence as a science," Dr. Miller said. He believed that theology merely treaied everything pertaining to salvation.”
"The knowledge obtained from theological sources leads to complete or partial human salvation.” This history of how Aristotle. the Greek philosopher, was broughi into Christian thinking was related bv the philosophv
“St. Albert, aristolian to the core.” he said, “starts many of bis writings with a full Aristotle theory and then ends as a complete Neoolatinist.”
Since Neoplatinism is in conflict with Aristotlian thinking. Dr. Miller used this as an ex-amnle to show how the Greek Philosopher's ideas filtered into the Christian philosophy.
Consequently, he added. Chris-t ian phil osophv and Greecian philosophy, particularly that of Plato and Aristotle, are completely converse to Christian philosophy before the time of St. Alberl and St. Thomas Aquinas.
Dr. Miller said that St. Albert used Aristotle's terminology and based his conception of theology7 on opposite principles.
“This slow infiltration of Greek Philosophical principles into Christian philosophy can be largely attributed to St. Albert.”
More than 400 voters are expected to cast their ballots today at the voting booths in Alumni Park adjacent lo Doheny Library before the 4 p.m. deadline brings SC’s fall election to a close.
Yesterday’s turnout at the polls was “less than v.e had expected." said Juanita Saka.jian, elections commissioner, “but tomorrow' will surely bring the total number of ballots given out to TOO.
Votes Cast
There were 215 ballots marked for the freshman class presidency and vice presidency from a total of 1059 freshmen. Fifty-four votes were cast for graduate student representative, and 18 foreign students * voted for their representative.
A runoff election will be held tomorrow7 for freshman president and vice president unless one of j the many candidates in the two races manages to get a majority vote, she said.
Campaigning continued last night in the sorority and fraternity houses and the dormitories 1 as all ballots were locked up to insure a fair election.
No Tabulation
There will be no indication of how the races are going until all of yesterday's and today’s ballots are tabulated tonight by the IBM machine in the testing bureau under the supervision of Miss Sakajian and Dudley Johnson. student activities adviser.
The most highly contested race is between seven candidates for freshman class president: Mike Crockett, Gary Edwards, Chuck Everett, Russ Hardy, Martin M. Jaconi, ¿Bill Ralston and Alan (Bart) Title.
Five women are competing for the vice presidency. They are Nancy Deutz, Kathy Forester. Hyla Holmes. Sherry Scarborough and Sally Sutter
Candidates for graduate student representative are Wes Gregory and Joel M. Rattner.
Duk Won Lee of Korea and Isaias Medina Serfaty of Venezuela are the candidates for foreign student representative. Ser-fatv, who is a wrrite-in candi-
date. does not have his name on i the ballot.
Voting procedure requires stu-; dents to present an SC identifi-: cation card, sign the back 'of their dean's card and have the I signature checked before being issued a ballot. Ballots must be marked only with a special IBM j pencil.
First Concert Will Feature Local Music
SC will witness the West Coast premiere of “Sinfoma Breve” by Halsey Stevens, head professor of composition, when the univer-i sity’s symphony orchestra opens | its season Sunday.
Also on the program will be a Brahms symphony and a rhapsody for piano and orchestra.
Professor Walter Ducloux, head of opera at SC. will make his debut as the orchestra’s conductor with this performance at 8:30 p.m. in Bovard Auditorium.
The major symphonic work of the evening will be Johannes ^ Brahms’ First Symphony in C ; Minor. In this work, the string section will us® bowings proved by Brahms himself.
Dr. Ducloux marked down : Brahms’ own indications from : the score of thé composer’s | friend Felix Weingartner.
“Sinfonia Breve" is the second work by SC’s Professor Stevens j to be commissioned by the Louis-! ville Orchestra, 'it was first performed in November of last ! year.
Marilyn Neeley, a piano student at SC’s School, of Music, will perform Serge Rachmaninoff’s “Rhapsody on a Theme by Paranini.”
“Overture to Oberon.” by Von Weber, is also on the program. Dr. Ducloux’s conduction of the overture after graduation from the Vienna Acaderrp^ of Music gained the attention of Arturo Toscanini, who made Ducloux his assistant in 1937.
DEMOCRATIC CANDIDATE—U. S. Senator Clair Engie who will speak in 133 FH this afternoon is expected to reply to charges made by Governor Goodwin Knight here Monday.
Democrat Clair Engle, candidate for the U.S. Senate. ■ will answer his opponent Goodwin Knight’s charges that he is a “half time congressman” when he speaks here today at 2:15 p.m. in 133 FH.
Engle, a seven-term Congressman from Red Bluti. will j review and discuss his major i campaign issues and political i platform.
His talk will be followed by a question and answer period in j — which he will attempt to refute i the accusations hurled at him j by Knight during his campus appearance Monday.
High Average Knight charged that ‘Engle is
one of the worst congressmen in the United States for congres-1 sional attendance.”
In answer to this charge, Engle replied. “It’s a little hard to understand how I could have one of the worst records in Congress and be picked by the Congressional Recognitional Plan of Claremont College for special recognition for eifectiveness in Congress.”
The Congressional Quarterly shows that Engle was on the record for 95 per cent of the issues before the House- against an average of 93 per cent. “I was present in voting on every occasion when my vote could have influenced the result of legislation.” Engle stated.
Korean Tour “Accusations of absenteeism are almost ludicrous coming from the greatest ribbon cutter and supermarket dedicator in the history of the State,” he added.
DR. SNYDER
will speak today
ap-
Rooters Ready For Trip To Stanford
Rail and air transportation is still available for 1900 students who bought tickets for the SC-Stanford game.
Southern Pacific Railroad rooter trains will leave Union Station at 9 p.m. Thursday, 8:30 a.m. and 9 p.m. Friday, and arrive in San Francisco at 8:30 a.m. and 6:15 p.m. Friday, and 8:30 a.m. Saturday.
The round trip chair car fare is $19.10.
Returning, the SP Daylight leaves San Francisco at 8:30 a.m. Sunday, arriving in Los Angeles at 6:15 p.m.
Trans World Airlines reservations are still available on all flights to the Bay area on Friday afternoon and evening and Saturday morning. Round-trip fare for first class is S52.69 (S6.60 • more than the same flight last year) and S33.ll ($3.41 more than last year).
' United Airlines flights on Friday, will leave Los Angeles International Airport at various times from 11 a.m. until 9 p.m. There are six Saturday7 morning flights to get studertts to Stanford by game time. The fare is S50.16 first class including meals. Coach fare is §33.11. United also lists a flight leaving Lockheed Airport in Burbank on Friday afternoon and another on Saturday morning.
Western Airlines has two flights available to San Francisco this weekend. Both leave Saturday morning and are coach flight j at a fare of $33.11.
Pacific Southwest Airlines has one flight leaving Friday night. This is a coach flight and round-trip fare is .$25.98.
Humanism Is Topic For Hillel
“Two Types of Humanism” will be discussed by Dr. William S. Snyder, assistant professor of Another charge made bv the ; philosophy, at noon today as the
j governor was that “Engle was I not in the Air Force in Korea and is definitely not a veteran. ’ Jim Keene, public relations director for Engle's state campaign, states that Engle was on an active tour of duty with the Air Force in Korea and has never claimed to be a veteran.
second part of the B'nai Brith Hillel Foundation's "Meet the Prof” series.
Naive and critical are the two types of humanism. Dr. Snyder explains.
“Primarily the difference con-sists in the evaluation of human nature which each presumes.
Engle is a member of the Air Naive humanism paints a rosy
picture of man and his potentialities: critical humanism tends
Corps Reserve.
Loyalty Oaths Still another issue between the two candidates is the question of loyalty oaths. In his
to see man as a mixture o! potentialities.” he adds.
Critical Humanism
“There is a relation between
speech Monday. Knight said that , som<? of the jdeas of criticaI hu_ there are no sound reasons for , nanism and the doctrine of orig-the lefusal nf loyalty oaths and \ ¡naj sij^or Gf the innate depravi-.I am definitely in favor of ty of man. This latter dogma them.	j	could be looked upon as a meta-
hngle maintains that loyalty < phorical rendering of the views baths are fine for elected offi- 1 Qf the critical humanist." he con-cials and government officials in tinues.
sensitive positions, but there	Dr. Snyder further pointed out
should be no “scatter-gun” use | that both views place their em-of them throughout the popula- phasis on the development of the tion.	;	powers and potentialities of the
“The scoundrels will lie and individual human being. Critical the honest men will resent it.” ! humanism, however, tends to he asserts.	feel that the individual fails in-
Wafcer Problem	evitablv to structure his life in
California’s water problem and j a satisfactory way. and that part the question of civil rights will
BAXTER-DESIGNED
University's Symbolic Silver Mace Shows Warmth, Color Over Years
also be taken up by Engle during his talk. Engle feels federal grants and loans can solve California’s water problem. ■
The 46-vear-old Engle has served in public office for 24 vears as district attorney. State Senator, and Congressman.
As Congressman from the Congressional District, j
! of the reason lies in his very na-| ture.
Life Service
“The idea of service as a way - of life can very7 well lie at the heart of critical humanism. It is j beside the point for naive hu-manism. The development of one’s potential through service to others, coupled with the inevit-
UnemploymentCan Be Met By Government
Unemployment problems can be conquered and prices stabilized when certain actions are taken by the government Dr. Rol>ert
department in the School of Commerce told the California Bankers Association last night.
At an assoriaiion banquet. Dr. Dockson said that substantial prices increases are unlikely7 in the next few months, but crcep-<nc inflation and 1he fear of inflation running a"ay ate the
nation.
Cslls Congressional Artions
H* railed for Congressional action to fight inflation with the ssme tyne of laws used to combat employment d fficulties.
“The fear of inflation has already bad an effect upon the stock market,” he said. “Unless it is overcome, laW, management, and the consumer will Income slill more inflation-minded.”
“Such a condition could lead u* on a buying sp.ee that would end in higher and higher puces
and perhaps an eventual collapse of our entire productive process.” he added.
Dr. Dockson went on 4o say j that soon as full employment is reached, the present fear of inflation stands a good chance | of becoming a reality. A way I should be found a stabilize the valye of the dollar, he said.
“Probably the very first step that should lie laken in the battle to stabilise prices is to recog-n:ze that this is every7 bit as ! Treat as ihe problem of depression." he stated. “Perhaps the most effective way to state in the form of a Congressional Act that it is the continuing policy of the Federal Government to promote reasonable price stability as well as ‘maximum employment, production, and purchasing pow- |
Inflation FuUg-tat
He said that once this is ac- i complished. the consumer, labor j and management will know ihat | creeping inflation v ill be fought a< courageously as unemployment is under present laws. j
Warmth, color, pageantry, tradition—these are the things SC’s Sterling silver mace represents, in the words of Dr. Frank C. Baxter, its designer.
The mace is the long, heavy silver object carried by Dr. Baxter in the recent inauguration of Dr. Norman Topping as SC’s new president.
“Since the Middle Ages universities have had maces." said the English professor in describing the function of SC’s mace. “They were s.vmbols of the unity of a society of scholars, and part of the university’s ritual and ceremony.”
Dr. Baxter for years had wanted SC lo have such a unifying symbol, so he designed the mace. It was first used in ihe commencement of 1955. and has been a part of every official university function since then.
It is handwrought Sterling, 42 | inches from head to knop < tho | bottom) and weighs about 12 pounds. Around the head, which is cuplike, are the words “University of Southern California” in relief.
Above the inscription is a replica of the Trojan wall, currently being erected around the campus.
1 xnver down on the head, -In front, ¡3 the coat-of-arms of SC. The shield of the United States appears on the other side. Also on 1he head, the names of six past SC president have been inscribed. Dr. Topping’s name will be put on soon.
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able failure to fulfill one s serv-Second Congressional District. ice to others can be the twin
he represents 19 California coun- j doctrines of a critical human-
ties. from the Oregon border on j ¿sm •• concIuded
the north to the San Bernardino i ^ World War II veteran. Dr.
County line on the south.	i	Snvder served in the Navy from
As chairman of the House j 1944 to 1946 and saw duty in the
Committee on Interior and In- j Pacific and Mediterranean.
sular Affairs since 1945. Engle ' He teaches ethics in the
has guided 85 major bills through j School of Philosophy, and human
the House. 65 of which have* be- j values in modern society in the
come laws.	j	general studies program.
Model UN Positions Open To SC Students
DESIGNER POINTS TO INSCRIPTION-Dr.
Frank Baxter points out the inscription “University of'Southern California" on SC's new Sterling silver mace. Above the in-
Dailv Troian Photo by John Brads scription is the Trojan coat-of-arms. Dr. Baxter, professor of English, designed the mace to be used in the inauguration of Dr. Norman Topping as SC's new president.
Students with "initiative. 1 j imagination and original think-| ing" will have an opportunity to j participate in two phases of the | 1958 session of Model UN to be J held on SC’s campus. Secretary General George Young announc- I ed yesterday.
Young, who doubles as ASSC parliamentarian, announced that persons interested in either the political or the organizational aspect of the conference may apply for positions this week and next. Students should apply in person from 1 to 3 p.m. at I Young’s office. 940 W. 34th St.
1 across from Cromwell Field.
Interesting Positions
Political positions covering the fields of foreign relations, trade and economics are available to students with abilities and interests in these areas.
Among organizational positions which must be filled are those of chairmen of UN committees, secretaries and public ■ relations men. A total of 75 stu-| dents will be needed for both | areas.
As host to the conference. SC j j will not represent a country, as i
will the other 81 participating universities and colleges, but. will serve as secretariat to the entire session.
The conference, which will be held during the last week of April, involves students attending colleges in seven western states. A budget of $27 thousand has been allotted for the event.
Troy Hosts
In addition to acting as secretariat to the conference. SC will be responsible for room, board and transportation of delegates during their stay in Los Angeles
About 400 additional workers will be recruited in March to act as a labor force for the duration of the conference. The group of 75 workers w i l he engaged in planning the affair from now7 until April.
Young has stressed the latitude and need for original ideas in the long-term plannin? which will begin immediately. His starf presently consists or Joel Fisher, assistant secretary general; Gary Eberhard. conference director: May tor McKinley, controller and Arlys Hoffman, administrative secretary.