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Here
And
Now..
by Merilyn Nutt, Editor
A "peace poll” will be the out¬
standing feature of the annual
Peace Day program to be pre¬
sented at PJC. After listening to
Dr. Knopf, dean of the school of
religion at USC and today’s as¬
sembly speaker, students will ad¬
journ to their ten o’clock classes
for discussions on international
trade, war propaganda, economic
boycotts, and the neutrality policy
of the United States. Dr. Knopf’s
topic is "Economic Cooperation as
a Basis for Peace.”
It is hoped that the round table
and panel discussions in class, and
the material offered by Dr. Knopf
will enable each student to vote
intelligently at the peace poll. The
following are a few of the ques¬
tions to appear on the peace bal¬
lot:
In the long run, which offers
the best insurance against war
for this country, isolation or a
policy of cooperation with other
nations in defense of peace?
The present neutrality act
prevents economic cooperation
with other nations to prevent or
resist aggression. Would you fa¬
vor repealing the act outright or
amending it to permit economic
aid to victims of aggression?
Do you believe that the Uni¬
ted States should join in or sup¬
port efforts to reduce the econ¬
omic causes of friction by such
means as a redistribution of col¬
onies, reciprocal trade agree¬
ments, cancellation of war debts,
stabilization of currencies, re¬
laxation of immigration restric¬
tions? (To be marked accord¬
ing to preference.)
Do you believe in war? How
far would you be willing to par¬
ticipate in war? Would you fight
abroad, fight only in defense of
the United States, give non-
combatant but material aid,
completely refuse to serve or
aid in war time? (To be marked
according to preference.)
No one will attempt to answer
these difficult questions without
having an understanding of the is¬
sues involved. Dr. Knopf will open
the field with his talk during as¬
sembly. Student leaders, who
have been training for several
weeks, will continue the discus¬
sion during the following class
period. The purpose of these meet¬
ings is to prepare the student body
for the questionnaire.
The significance of this peace
poll cannot be overestimated.
What youth thinks about the
most pertinent problem of our
time, PEACE, is important. The
peace problem is not merely one
of peace as it stands, but one
which may involve every social,
moral, economic, and political
principle civilization has labored to
build and protect. We as Ameri¬
can students are privileged to be¬
come acquainted with the actual
facts of the situation and to make
our own decision as to whether
we would prefer being citizens or
cannonfodder. The returns of this
peace poll ought to prove most
interesting.
There are those who, for var¬
ious motives, would prevent any
discussion of youth’s attitude
toward this vital problem of
peace. The objectors have em¬
ployed such trite excuses as “it’s
communist propaganda,” “junior
college children are too young
to talk about such things,”
“peace demonstrations are mili¬
taristic or non-militaristic as the
case may be,” and “it's not dem¬
ocratic.” For the benefit of those
whose interests are not favor¬
able to world peace, there is no
ulterior motive behind the peace
day programs. They are pre¬
sented annually at the colleges
and junior colleges in the United
States in the interests of inter¬
national peace and democracy.
Who better to discuss these
problems than the young people
who will fight the next war?
PASADENA CHRONICLE
Vol. XXIX Pasadena Junior College, April 22, 1938 No. 27
Observe Fifth Annual Peace Day Today
ANNUAL
MEETING
HERE
PJC Is Host to
So. Cal. JC Association
Tomorrow
Featuring section meetings with
many prominent speakers from
colleges of California, the South¬
ern California Junior College as¬
sociation will convene in their
spring meeting at Pasadena Junior
College tomorrow.
An extensive program of section
meetings and a luncheon for the
delegates has been planned by
Wesley V. Smith, president of the
Association, Citrus Junior College,
and Cecil C. Stewart, secretary-
treasurer, Pasadena Junior College.
Among the more important speak¬
ers at the convention are Mrs.
Louise B. Hoblit, member of the
Pasadena Board of Education, Dr.
Aaron Rosanoff, psychiatrist of the
University of Southern California,
and Dr. Tully C. Knowles, presi¬
dent of the College of the Pacific,
Stockton.
Meetings
Section meetings will be held
from 9:30 to 11:30 a. m.. Delegates
interested may attend meetings in
administration, art, biological scir
ences, business education, deans of
women, physics and chemistry,
registrars and counselors, speech
arts, social , sciences, engineering
and mathematics, English, foreign
languages, home economics, library,
music, philosophy-psychology, phy¬
sical education for men and physi¬
cal education for women.
Pasadena city school members
who will speak at the meetings are:
Mrs. Louise B. Hoblit, Pasadena
Board of Education, “Administra¬
tion-Board of Education Relation¬
ship,” David W. Reidy, director
of late afternoon and evening pro¬
gram at PJC, “Community Service
Through an Extended Day Pro¬
gram,” Paul Billeter, PJC, “What
We Are Doing in Salesmanship.”
Dr. Margaret E. Bennett, direc-
tortor of guidance, Pasadena city
schools, “A Program for the Coor¬
dination of the Activities of Regis¬
trars and Counselors,” Dr. A. M.
Turrell, PJC counselor, “Practical
Suggestions for Counselor-Regis¬
trar Cooperation from the Stand¬
point of the Counselor,” Miss Flor¬
ence Diment, PJC social science de¬
partment, “Report of the Commit¬
tee on Far Eastern Courses.”
Luncheon
At 12:15 a luncheon and general
session will be held at the Pasadena
Athletic club. Dr. Knowles will give
an address, “America’s Educational
Task.” Special music will be pre¬
sented by two Pasadena Junior Col¬
lege students, Norman Durask,
tenor, and David Viaisquez, pianist.
Attendance Rule
Simplifies Records
According to John A. Anderson,
dean of records, the new attendance
regulations which went into effect
Monday will both simplify the
method of taking and keeping at¬
tendance records, and decrease
tardiness. The decrease of the lat¬
ter is due to less traffic of students
getting excuses in the attendance
office; and to the fact that stu¬
dents are marked absent if they
are not present at the beginning of
the period.
In the present system teachers
take roll at the beginning of the
class period and put their slips in
a clip on the inside of the door of
the classroom. Soon after the per¬
iod has begun, student aides go
around, collect the slips, and take
them to the attendance office where
a chart or “class book for teachers”
is kept. On this chart are blanks
for each teacher and each period,
and as the slips come in, the
blanks are checked off. Thus, a
blank on the chart indicates that
some teacher has not turned in any
attendance slips for some specific
period or periods.
Mr. Anderson further stated
that for the 12th, 13th and 14th
grades only absences due to sick¬
ness are going through the attend¬
ance office and students with such
absences also have to see the school
nurse or doctor before being ad¬
mitted to classes.
CAMPUS MUSIC HOUR
In the Little Theater, Wednes¬
day, April 27, at 12:20, and
Thursday, April 29, at 11:20:
D Minor Symphony
1st and 3rd movements .
. Cesar Franck
The Treacherous Passage .
Largest Party in History
Attends Annual Field Trip
Geologic Highlights of Three States Visited
By 140 Under Leadership of Van Amringe
A party of about 140 students, faculty and members of the South¬
ern California Mineralogical society participated in the fifth annual
Easter geology excursion during spring vacation. Points of geologic
and scenic interest in Nevada, Arizona and California were visited by
the largest group ever to go on one of these trips.
Edwin Van Amringe, head of the geology department, led the
party from Pasadena on the morning of Friday, April 8, and the
first day was spent visiting the pumping stations of the Metropolitan
Water District. The excursionists visited the stations at Hayfield,
Iron Mountain and Parker Dam, Camping in Copper Basin, near
Earp, on the first night, the party continued the next day to visit
Parker Dam, where the water for Southern California will be tapped.
Following Parker Dam, the mining district of Oatman, Arizona,
was visited. Here the students went down the shafts of the Tom Red
and Black Eagle gold mines where they collected specimens of the ore.
Here also the students watched the cyanide process of milling gold.
After a night spent near Oatman the party headed toward Boulder
Dam, visiting a silver mine at Chloride, where several fine pieces of
silver were collected, and the Mineral Park turquoise mine yielded
specimens of this valuable gem.
Following the night's camping near Boulder City, the party left
early Monday morning, in three chartered boats, for the 215 mile boat
trip on Lake Mead. This trip was one of the highlights of the excur¬
sion. On returning late in the evening, the crew made an inspection
of Hoover Dam.
Camping on Lake Mead again the party made an early start to
visit the silver mining country around Pioche, Nevada. Las Vegas,
the Valley of Fire, a region of cross-bedded red sandstone, the Lost
City museum, and the Cathedral Gorge state park were visited en
route.
On waking in Pioche Wednesday they discovered the ground
covered with about four inches of snow. The snow prevented a visit
to the Bristol mine which was snowed in at a higher altitude. How¬
ever, through the courtesy of Paul Gimmill, manager of the Prince
Consolidated mine at Pioche, who had already furnished accomoda¬
tions for the excursionists, everyone was taken down the shaft of the
Prince mine. Several fine trillibites were found.
Pulling out of still snow-laden Pioche, the caravan visited Ely
and the “world's largest man-made hole,” the Ruth copper pit.
Friday morning saw the caravan at Tonopah, where, through
the leadership of
С.
C. Boak, secretary of the Nye County Improve¬
ment association, and J. A. Johnson, general manager of the Tono¬
pah mine, a tour was made of this famous silver mining region.
Goldfield, one of the famous boom towns, was visited and here again
fine gold and mineral specimens were gathered.
Another of the trips highlights occurred during the evening at
Furnace Creek when one of the most brilliant displays of Northern
lights ever witnessed in the region took place.
Saturday wai spent in traveling over Death Valley visiting the
places of interest such as Bad Water and Salt Pools.
USC DEAN ANNOUNCES GOVERNMENT
TRAINING PLAN FOR GRADUATES
A plan for attracting strong students into government service,
for providing actual experience in government positions and for stim¬
ulating training in public administration among ambitious college
graduates wishing to enter public service has recently been announced
by Dean Emery E. Olson of the School of Government at the Univer¬
sity of Southern California.
The project calls for an apprentice or interne period during which
the student spends one-half of his time on actual work in government
positions and the other half in study. According to the present plans,
the selection of students will be by administrative officers authorized
to make government appointments and further backed by the approval
of the principal of the institution from which the student graduates.
"I sincerely trust that a number of our strong seniors may be¬
come interested in the project,” Principal J. W. Harbeson commented.
“We are firmly convinced,” Dean Olson said, “that professional
training in this field offers an opportunity to young men and women,
and we believe that such training is important to the objective of
improving government service.”
KNOPF WILL DISCUSS
COOPERATION
AS PEACE BASIS
Cl assroom Meetings will Bring Out
Student Views on Trade, Propaganda,
Boycotts and Neutrality
The increasing unrest in international relations throughout the
world lends an added significance to the fifth annual Peace Day cele¬
bration being held at Pasadena Junior College this morning. Leading
the day’s events in interest is the morning assembly in the auditorium,
which features an address by Dr, C. F. Knopf, dean of the school of
^♦-religion at USC. Dr. Knopf has
Floor Show,
Gardenias
At Dance
Hawaii Is Theme,-
Phil Kingman will Play
A big surprise floor show and
free gardenia corsages for all girls
in attendance will be among the
novel features at the Frosh dance
tonight in the Altadena country
club.
Phil Kingman and his orchestra,
recently returned from the Easter
season at Balboa, will play sweet
and Hawaiian music for the danc¬
ers, in keeping with the Hawaiian
theme of the diance. Kingman
played for the junior-freshman as¬
sembly last month.
Decorations and bids will also
be designed in keeping with the
theme. Bids may be obtained free
at the student bank by freshmen
upon presentation of their student
body cards. Other class members
may buy bids for 35 cents.
“With all the surprise features
we’ve planned, we feel sure that
this will be one of the outstanding
events of the year,” President
Shorty Grannis of the freshman
class, said.
Working with Grannis on plans
for the dance were Barbara Gra¬
ham, co-chairman of the commit¬
tee, and Lu'ada Ferras, Dolly Rees,
Bill Messick, George Prouse, Harry
Walker, Mary Bronsen, Phoebe
Kepler.
The dance will last from 9 until
12 and the grill room will be open
for those wishing to buy refresh¬
ments.
Extended Day Division
To Show Graphic Story
Of Water District
“Empire of the West,” motion
picture dramatically depicting the
story of the Metropolitan Water
District, will be shown to students
of PJC and Pasadena citizens
Thursday in room 200C.
The picture begins with the com¬
ing of early pioneers to California,
shows how they built the cities and
farms and orchards which soon
grew to a size that brought acute
water shortage in this semi-arid
region. Then it unfolds the story
of the plan to bring water from the
Colorado river, 300 miles distant,
the story of the men who worked to
make the project a success.
The motion picture was loaned
through the courtesy of the Metro¬
politan Water district and is spon¬
sored here by Director David W.
Reidy of the Extended Day classes.
Admission is free and no tickets
are required. If necessary, ar¬
rangements may be made to hold
the movie in the auditorium.
Pictures Wanted for
Campus Life Section
“Screwy pictures, dizzy shots,
angle shots — anything that has to
do with school life and students
will be considered for the Life sec-
tion.of the PJC Campus,” Lee Rug-
gles, art editor of the yearbook,
announced today.
Pictures collected from excur¬
sions, Balboa, or anywhere on the
campus will be given a chance in
the selection;. All students who de¬
sire to place their pictures in the
yearbook must bring them to- the
Campus office, 21C, by Tuesday aft¬
ernoon, April 26. Pictures under
two inches must be enlarged before
they can be accepted. Photographs
which alre not used will be returned
to the owners if the name and ad¬
dress is given.
selected the vital subject of “Eco¬
nomic Cooperation as a Basis for
Peace,” and will cover as fully as
time allows all topics related to his
subject. The assembly begins at
9:50 a. m.
Discussions
In addition to the assembly pro¬
gram, classroom discussions on
various phases of the world peace
problem will occupy the regular
ten o’clock classes. Charles Bra¬
den, president of the Order of
Mast and Dagger, is in charge of
the classroom activities, and prom¬
ises some interesting and instruc¬
tive discussions. Different treat¬
ments of the topics under consid¬
eration will include debates, panel
discussions and special speakers in
some of the rooms. Topics will
cover such fields as international
trade, war propaganda, economic
boycotts and the neutrality policy
of1 the United States.
Leaders
Students have been selected from
each classroom to take charge of
their 10 o’clock meetings, and they
will arrange their own programs,
selection of -topic and type of treat¬
ment being left entirely to the dis-
Continued on Page Thre,e
Select Finalists
In Drama Contest
At a preliminary contest held
April 7, finalists were chosen to
enter the Ruth Doolittle Shakes¬
peare contest yesterday in the
Little Theater. The contestants
chosen were Margaret Huntley, El-
da Paulson, Patsy Peteler, Rachel
Reid, Dorothea Streib, Lorraine
Walker, David Brown, Richard
Hamilton, Lamont Johns-on, Bill
Van Meter, Grenes Gral and Cecil
Langford.
The contest was founded twelve
years ago by Mr. and Mrs. Doo¬
little, who established it as a mem¬
orial to their daughter, Ruth. Miss
Doolittle passed away while she
was still a student in the old Pas¬
adena High School. Every year
they watch the contest with close
interest, and they were present yes¬
terday to awiaird the prizes.
Prizes are awarded to the best
girl and the best boy contestant.
Each contestant presents a selec¬
tion of thirty lines from a Shakes¬
pearean play. Last year the win¬
ners were Patricia Hops and Robert
Willey .
“We consider this contest one of
our most important and interesting
speech events of the year,” Drama
Teacher Katharine Kester said.
At the same contest, representa¬
tives were chosen, from the lower
division to compete in the annual
Shakespeare Festival and Contest
of Southern California, -to be held
at Los Angeles Junior College,
April 23. The finalists are Pa¬
tricia Hops and Frederick Smith,
with Elda Paulson -and Richard
Hamilton as -alternates. Last year
Miriam Shoop won first prize in
this contest.
Winners’ names were not avail¬
able before Chronicle deadline.
ENGINEER TO GIVE
ACOUSTIC TALK
Robert L. Briggs, chief engin¬
eer, Acoustical Engineering Com¬
pany, will speak on “Practical
Sound Control” at the regular
engineering lecture today in
room 202E at 9:50 a. m. At¬
tendance is required of all upper
division engineering majors, but
because of limited room space,
visitors will not be admitted.
In preparation for Avocational
day, Friday, May 6, the engin¬
eering club is arranging to have
Harry R. Lubcke, director of
television at KHJ, give a talk on
“Recent Developments in Tele¬
vision” before a large audience
in the auditorium. All who are
interested in this latest develop¬
ment will be welcome.