Pasadena Chronicle, April 28, 1927

VOL. XVIII PASADENA, CALIFORNIA, THURSDAY, APRIL 28, 1927 NO. 26 DEAN SPEAKS TO ALPHA MEMBERS Tells of Movement to Form a National Honor Society Name Is Misleading Will Be Exclusive for Junior Colleges and Similar to the Phi Beta Kappa That there is a movement on foot to form a national honor society, was brought out by Dean John W. Harbeson in a talk given at the Alpha Society meeting held Tues¬ day, April 26, in room 122-C. This proposed organization would be similar to Phi Beta Kappa ; however, it would be ex¬ clusively for junior colleges and make awards for excellence in lower division work only. This movement, it was stated, was started in Phoenix, Arizona, and at the present time it ;s receiving much favorable consideration. Good Program Given to Boys Presenting an exceedingly origi¬ nal and entertaining program, Peggy Mathews and Bill Hatch, of radio prominence, appeared in a snappy skit during the Boys’ Lea¬ gue assembly on Wednesday, April 27. Maynor Shove, president, also talked of the rail-birds and of the institution of Clean Speech Week between May 9th and 13th. Miss Mathews sang many popu¬ lar pieces, and a reception that she was awarded merely goes to prove that high school students appre¬ ciate this type of entertainment. When asked of his opinion on the type of entertainment, iviaynor said, “The program was well re¬ ceived and I believe that our meet¬ ings would be more interesting if we had more presentations of this, type.” Mr. Hatch played several select¬ ions on the piano beside accom¬ panying “Peggy” with her songs. His imitation of the saloon piano was commendable and his “Doll Dance” was excellent. Dean Harbeson further said that the state honor society is practi¬ cally on a working basis now. He said that last year’s honor society committee, of which Miss Kathleen D. Loly is a member, was re¬ elected at the meeting of the junior college section of the high school principals’ convention, held at Sacramento during Easter va¬ cation. The chairman was made executive secretary of the organi¬ zation. This committee is to make a sur¬ vey of the junior college honor so¬ cieties, make the needed changes in the state constitution, and select a pin. The committee findings and recommendations will then be voted upon at the next convention, which will probably be held at Long Beach a year from now. The ad¬ visability of changing the name “Honor Society” to “Scholastic Society” was considered. It is thought that the word “honor” is a bit misleading. ^Therei are many people who are honorable and yet do not gain membership in the society,” said Dean Harbe¬ son. “After all, it is really a scholastic organization.’' SPANISH CLUB HOLDS FORMAL INITIATION The semi - annual initiation of the La Hispaniola club was held the Friday before vacation in the Music Hall. As members of both the 11-1 and 11-2 clasess were being initiated, the affair was one of the largest of its kind ever given by the club. On arriving, the initiates were given their choices of a number of small foods to eat, which, when bitten into, turned out to be red pepper, raw liver, or a peanut with alum on it. “Boys’ League should express its appreciation to Jack Hatch, brother of the entertainer, for being instru¬ mental in the appearance of Mr. Hatch and his fiance, Peggy Mathews,” stated Vic Noble, secre¬ tary of the Boys’ League. A plea was made by the presi-; dent that the boys use a little dis-; cretion as to the remarks that are made to the girls as they pass through the pergolas. He also mentioned that beginning May 9th, the Boys’ League would observe “Clean Speech Week” urtil May 13th. JUNIOR LIONS TO HOLD CONVENTION, MAY 26, 27, AT RIVERSIDE With the first Junior Lions Con¬ vention being held May 26 and 27 at Riverside, delegates from all over the fourth district, which in¬ cludes California, Nevada, Arizo¬ na and Hawaii, will assemble to. make plans for the coming year and to elect district officers. The convention will terminate with a grand ball which Junior and Sen¬ ior Lions will attend. During the same dates the Sen¬ ior Lions will hold their convention in another part of the city. The Junior Lion movement,! which started less than two years ago, has rapidly spread throughout the country as an organization which is preparing future citizens for the work that will fall upon them when they become men of civic affairs. Junior Lion “dens” have been starting in many of the smaller; cities, thus giving the smaller town groups of young fellows a chance' to help with some civic betterment. To start the evening, a program, arranged by Marjorie Leach and Katherine Leeters, was presented by the new members. Following the program, initiation stunts, un¬ der the direction of Ruth Keene, were performed. Several games were played, and the new members were initiated. Refreshments were served under the supervision of Lenna Gordon. ORPHEUS CLUB TRYOUTS HELD LAST WEEK Early in June, the Pasadena Jun¬ ior Lion club will make a trip on three of the senior’s yachts to Cat¬ alina Island, the yachts being turn¬ ed over for the use of the Juniors during those three days. The membership of the Junior Lions is made up of a certain per¬ centage of Juniors and Seniors in high schools, a small percentage from Junior College, and also many members who attend meetings reg¬ ularly are out of college or high school." At the Orpheus club tryouts for high school and junior college students held last Thursday and Friday in the music hall, some thirty people demonstrated their ^^sical skill. Out of this number ше following were taken into the club: Berenice Dorman, Katherine Kulin, Annette Prall, Marvin Ives, Katherine Millard, Frances Ander¬ son, Margaret Fisk, Ruth Riordan, Mary Margaret Davies, Martha Fisk, Irwin Rust, Marian Worrell, Grace Hubbard, Agnes Jetter, Pansy Haigazian, Shirley Davison, Ruth Tremeear, and May Peterson. A. W. S. TO GIVE TEA TO RAISE FUNDS As a means of helping to fur¬ nish the Bleeker House, Alva Con¬ way announced that the A. W. S. are going to give a tea cup show¬ er. Although the date has not been set, Marion Brocksieper and Salome Gist are making the in¬ vitations. The president expressed the hope that all women receiving invitations would come. Plans for a spring fashion re¬ view are being discussed by the cabinet. Library Class Sees Huntington Exhibit Library Contains more than 200,000 and about a Million Documents Girls’ Glee Club To Sing over Radio Program To Be Given Next Tuesday Evening over KPSN The J. C. library science class accompanied by their teacher, Miss Margaret Baker, visited the Hunt¬ ington library last Friday after¬ noon to see the Americana exhibi-j tion. The library is a well planned beautifully located building which contains 200,000 books and over a million documents, also some very interesting busts, statues, globes and paintings. The Americana exhibition con¬ sists of all the early American documents and books pertaining to America. This exhibit is open to: the public on Friday afternoons. The exhibit consists of: 1. Ptolemy’s geography. 2. The handwriting of Christo¬ pher Colombus. 3. The Bull of Demarcation (1511). 4. A geography in which the name of “America” appears for: the first time. 5. The Boston port bill. 6. The first British account of: the battle of Lexington. 7. Laws of the Indies. 8. A map showing the discovery of the east coast of America. 9. A proclamation by Gage. 10. A very amusing ballad ridi¬ culing Gage (1776). 11. The original account of Fro¬ bisher’s voyage for the discovery of the North West passage. 12. Sir John Hawkins’ travels (1569). 13. Harriot’s “Virginia.” 14. A proclamation by the court j of Massachuesetts. 15. A resolution by New York approving of the constitution. 16. An account of Champlain’s voyage to Canada. 17. The first printed compilation of Massachuesetts laws. 18. Eliot’s Indian bible — the first bible of its kind. 19. A proclamation announcing bounties payable to soldiers enlist¬ ing in the continental army. 20. A British report of the cap¬ ture of two forts by Sir Henry! Clinton (1777). 21. A proclamation of J. Han¬ cock announcing a day of prayer. 22. George Washington’s in-j augural address. 23. The New York laws. 24. Sodwallader Colder history, of Ondiana (first general history, I 1727). 25. A letter — report of J. Basse, governor of the Jersies. 26. The Pennsylvania charter, j 27. An act of congress legis¬ lating hostilities for war with Trip- ' oli (1802). 28. Report of an early Boston' budget. 29. Lewis Evan’s map (1755). 30. An original drawing of New England by T. Pownell. 31. A map of Braddock’s expe¬ dition. 32. An account of a British ship “Leopard” on the American fugae “Chesapeake” (1807). 33. Orders of Green Clay to the Kentucky militia. 34. Original journal of Major John Andre, and a map of Brandy¬ wine. 35. Original letter of Benedict Arnold to Lord North, giving an account of his treason. 36. Articles of Capitulation granted by Colonel Monro. 37. A forty-four page letter of George Washington’s. 38. Orders of Governor Clair- borne of Louisiana to the state militia (1814). 39. Proclamation of R. B. Mason, military governor of California, announcing the treaty of peace be¬ tween United States and Mexico, and the cession of Upper Califor¬ nia. 40. Original edition of the stamp act. 41. Early example of one of the stamps. 42. One of the original copies of the narrative of the Boston mas¬ sacre. 43. A picture of the Boston mas¬ sacre by Paul Revere. 44. The Boston port bill. 45. Letter of William Pitt. (Continued to Page Three) V-::: v Presenting an exceptionally fine program, the men’s and women’s glee clubs, with soloists, will sing over radio К. P. S. N. next Tuesday evening. It will be their first con¬ cert since the opera “Briar Rose” and they are looking forward ea¬ gerly to the radio program. The concert will be under the direction of Mrs. Amy Grau Miller, member! of the Music department. The first number on the program will be “Land of Hope and Glory” by Eiger, which will be sung by the combined glee clubs. The wo¬ men’s glee club will then sing“Morn Rise,” by Czibulka, and “My Love Hath Wings,” by Kaemmenich. June Etienie and Harold Thomp¬ son will sing “Where My Caravan Has Rested,” and “Calm as the Night,” by Goetz. The men’s glee club will sing “Hunter’s Laud Hallas,” by O’¬ Hara, “Softly She Slumbers,” by Serenade, and “Song of the Fisher- boats,” by Bainbridge-Zamecnik. Marion Worrell will sing “My Song of Love,” by Albers. The women’s glee club will sing “Gypsy Daisies,” by Woodman, “Who Knows,” by Clough-Leigh- ton, and “Fairy Hills of Dreams,” by Warren, with solo by June Etiemie. The men’s glee club will sing “Sylvia,” by Speaks, and “Shep¬ herd See Thy Horse’s Foaming Mane,” Speaks. The combined glee clubs will con¬ clude the program by singing “Allah’s Holiday,” and “Hail, Alma Mater.” CASUAL COMMENT OCCASIONALLY “Occasionally the hand of finance reaches out and offers to a deserving schoolman an oppor¬ tunity thrice as attractive as the rewards of the highest office in the school system could possibly be.” Occasionally the hand of finance withdraws, empty. Hence, occasionally we have a man like Doctor Millikan, or Will C. Wood. * * * CLEAN YOUR CLOGS Either the day bed and the deck chair are coming back, else the earnest students will have to take refuge on the library tables. Enough feet have been parked on some of the chairs to make them totally unfit for any other pur¬ pose. % % % MIGHT MAKES RIGHT The same spirit that animates pretenders to European thrones must animate the freshman who proposes that the yearlings wear their almost-forgotten beanies on the last day of school, and burn ! them in the auditorium at the con¬ clusion thereof. He’ll be back next year. :i< # He * OUR CLAIM “The elements of culture are books, conversation, and travel.” At any rate, P. J. C. should be the seat of culture for the Pacific Coast. Our library furnishes the books and conversation, and geolo¬ gy furnishes the travel. * * * TAKE ADVANTAGE Victims of the little cherub with the bow and arrow are missing an ideal opportunity to fight the ! spring malady. The Bleeker House offers the proper amount of pri¬ vacy, and the chairs are arranged — yea, bolted together — in couples. AEOLIAN MEETING At the meeting on Wednesday, April 20, the Aeolians made the final voting on the incoming pledges. Sarah and Linda Swartz, Gwendolyn Corson, and Hazel Se¬ well have been definitely voted in, and after a period of two weeks, during which they will fulfill their requirments, the pledges will be formally initiated. Rocinante Holds Special Meeting At a special meeting of the Rocinante on last Tuesday, plans were made for the picnic which is to be during the afternoon of May 6. Lewis Airth and Thorn¬ ton McSwain will have charge of the program. The refreshments will be taken care of by Elizabeth Carke. All students who wish to go on the picnic must pay their dues and sign up in Room 130-C before next Friday. To cover the cost of refreshments, 25c will be charg¬ ed everyone who attends. Fran¬ ces Waskaski was appointed to take charge of the publicity. James Gibson and Margaret Gundy were appointed to make plans for a party. The president announced that the club would present Mr. Ricar¬ do Uribe, who has recently return¬ ed from Mexico where he had charge of several great hardwood forests and also road construction. Mr. Uribe is a Spaniard and has spent most of his life in Mexico. He is the autor of several well- known Spanish books. During the last fifteen or twenty years which he has spent here Mr. Uribe has taught Spanish in the Los Angeles schools. An invitation has been extended to the high school Span¬ ish students and to all students intereste din the Mexican question to come to hear the speaker on next Wednesday, May 4. Mr. Uribe will give his talk in English. The president, Fritz Schroeder, closed the program, with an inter¬ esting talk on the beautiful places of Mexico. PROTECTION OF FORESTS URGED BY SPEAKER TO ORIENTATION CLASS Approporiate for Forestry Week, which is being celebrated at this time throughout the United States, was the entertaining talk given by Mayhew H. Davis, an alumnus of P. H. S., before the orientation classes on Wednesday during first advisory in 200-C. While attend¬ ing school here he was instrumental in establishing the local forestry club. After graduating in 1922, he went to work for the forestry de¬ partment of the government. At present, Mr| Davis is official dis¬ patcher for the Pasadena district of the Angeles National Forest Service. This forest consisting of over 687,000 acres, which is one of eighteen maintained by the govern¬ ment for timber and water con¬ servation, serves as a recreation center for the people of Southern California. Here they may sur¬ render to the call of the wild and pursue avocations of fishing, hunt¬ ing, horse-back riding, or hiking. That the people do not realize the importance of protecting their forest, was brought out by Mr. Davis. It is the purpose of in¬ stilling into the consciousness of the people the vitalness of pro¬ tecting the forests from devestation and of the necessity for reforest¬ ation that this week has been set aside by President Coolidge as National Forest Week. Mr. Davis furthur pointed out that thousands of acres are each year denuded of their timber by fires arising from the carelessness of some individuals. LATIN CLUB WILL HAVE ANNUAL CELEBRATION “The grandeur that was Rome” will be temporarily restored on May 6, in the P. H. S. cafeteria, when Senatus Populusque Romanus the local Latin club, will enact its yearly festivities. The nucleus of the evening’s entertainments will be the banquet, served in true Roman style with rolled scripts as menus and programs. After the dinner, Latin songs will be sung. Latin ceremonies performed, and Latin plays given. It is promised that the forthcoming “cena” will have plenty of local colous and genuine Roman atmosphere. DEBATE FOR PENNANT TO BE ON MAY 13 Contest Between Riverside and Pasadena on the Mexican Situation P.H.S Twice Victors To Be Held in the Lecture Room of the Public Pasadena Library Will Friday the thirteenth be a lucky day for Pasadena? Why? Because on Friday, May 13, the Southern California championship debate will be held between River¬ side and Pasadena. The question for debate is “Resolved that Mexico is justified in its present policy re¬ garding foreign land holdings.” Floyd Talbot and Gwendolyn MacMillan will uphold the affir¬ mative side here at the lecture room of the public library. John McElroy and Joyce Evans wiii represent Pasadena junior col¬ lege for the negative side at the Riverside junior college. The debates will be started simultaneously at 8 o’clock. - The students to represent Riverside have not been decided upon yet. Since the Pasadena debaters have won the championship debate twice, Pasadena hopes to win this one also. All student body mem¬ bers are urged to attend and to support the teams. TITO SHIPA’S CONCERT IS WELL RECEIVED Singing in a rich clear tenor voice the songs of several nations which have endeared him to mem¬ bers of the Spanish court as well as to the people of America and nations of Europe, Tito Shipa presented the last concert of the series presented by the Pasadena Music and Art Association on April twelfth before the largest house since Galli Curcis perfor¬ mance. Shipa’s singing was well received by the audience at all times. The enthusiasm of the crowd seemed to grow as the concert progressed, until at the end it was in the heights of ecstacy. Tito Shipa is an Italian by birth, although he sings in other languages. He is a favorite at the Spanish court, and it was for the particular pleasure of the rulers of that , country that he added to his group of selections “Princesita,” one of the most delightful selec¬ tions of the evening. Mr. Shipa was accompanied by Jose Echaniz, who in himself is a remarkable pianist. Several com¬ positions, one by Mr. Shipa, were played during intermissions of the latters concerts. All of his selec¬ tions were thoroughly enjoyed music lovers, and it is believed that Mr. Echaniz will soon be giv¬ ing concerts of his own. LANGUAGE DEPART¬ MENT HOLDS MEETING The monthly meeting of the language department was held at the home of Miss Jennie M. Deyo on April 27. Miss Isabella A. Cass, of the French department gave a report on the junior college conference held at Pomona. Plans for pre¬ senting pictures in the auditorium for language students were dis¬ cussed. SCHOLASTIC CLUB WILL GIVE TEA TOMORROW The Phi Beta Kappa club of the high school and junior college is giving an informal tea in honor of the Alpha Society on next Friday afternoon in the Model Apartment from 3 to 4 o’clock. All Alpha Society members and the administration are cordially invited.