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Pasadena Chronicle, February 24, 1933
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WEATHERIME
George Washington retired when
His earthly work was done.
But now his birthday visits us
And brings the nice, warm sun.
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All-American and Medalist Newspaper of Pasadena Junior College
ITS A BANNER
Don’t miss the banner story on
page 3. It outlines Stuart Chase’s
“End of Epoch and New Deal.”
— The Editors.
Vol. XXIV
PASADENA, CALIFONRIA, FEBRUARY 24, 1933
No. 18
FATHERS WILL
TREK BACK TO
SCHOOL DAYS
DAD-SON FEED COMING
Event Is Scheduled for Next
Thursday at 6:30 P. M.
In Cafeteria
Dads of about 600 men students
will take the long-forgotten trek
back to school days when they
dine with their boys at the second
annual father-and-son banquet to
be held in the
cafeteria next
Thursday eve¬
ning at 6:30 p.
m. Included in
the program, in
addition to the
bill-of-fare, will
be the usual
after - dinner
speeches and a
variety of musi¬
cal ente rtain-
ment.
James W.
Foley, feature
writer of the
Pasadena Star- Jas. W.
News and re- Foley
ported as an in¬
teresting speaker, will deliver the
principal address. Dr. John W.
Harbesori, principal, will welcome
the banqueteers.
Robert Hendricks will sing sev¬
eral tenor solos, the marimba band
will play, and incidental musical
novelties will lighten the program.
The banquet
will even boast
a master of
cerem
о
n i e s in
the person of
Lambert W est-
ling, president
of the A. M. S.
De spite the
depression rate
of 30 cents per
plate, sponsors
aver that the
quality and
quantity of food
will match pros¬
perity menus.
James P.
O’Mara, dean of
men, urges that
all men and their fathers attend
the dinner. “Fathers will become
better acquainted with the school,
and their sons will reflect that ac¬
quaintance. This is a really worth¬
while occasion.”
Although this year’s banquet is
only the second annual the A. M. S.
is planning to make a tradition of
the occasion when all the dads and
lads sit together to dine and talk
it over. The dinner last year also
starred a message from a famous
speaker and the vaudeville type of
entertainment.
This consisted mainly of a talk
by Dr. Edward W. Thompson, pas¬
tor of the First Congregational
church, and a demonstration by
Ellsworth Vines wherein he showed
the “championship strokes” that
carried him to 19 major titles.
Women’s College
Gives Scholarship
To the girl who aspires to study
at Scripps College, but otherwise
would be unable to attend without
financial aid, the Luckie Scholar¬
ship is being offered this year.
The honor that accompanies the
scholarship will be given only after
eligibility is determined. Twelfth
year girls among the highest third
of the class only are considered.
This scholarship was awarded to
Frances Stewart, a prominent J.
C. student last year.
Miss Catherine J. Robbins urges
the prospective applicants not to
hesitate in applying because of
financial difficulties, as help in the
form of a job will be offered, as
well as the scholarship. This
scholarship is also renewable.
For further details, those inter¬
ested should see Miss Robbins.
Tea-shop Comedy
May Appear Here
After Bauble and Bells presents
“Teapot on the Rocks,” by John
Kirkpatrick, to the Shakespeare
club Tuesday, the play may be
given in assembly here if the pro¬
gram committee, headed by Syd
Edwards, can arrange a showing.
In the words of the author, the
scene of the play is laid in the
“Brass Kettle,” a tea-shop which
goes in rather heavily for red can¬
dlesticks, blue hand-painted mod¬
ernistic furniture, green paper
doilies, and yellow salt cellars in
the shape of kewpies, elephants,
etc.
“It’s the sort of place a woman
might think was ‘cozy’ and the sort
of place a man wouldn’t enter even
to escape a blizzard,” Miss Kath¬
erine Kester, director of the play,
adds, “Bauble and Bells has a pen¬
chant for good comedy. We hope
this may be as laughable as ‘Bach¬
elor’s Quarters.’ ”
Bob
Hendricks
(Jnneeded Shoes Rockwood’s
Only Souvenir of Excursion
A pair of shoes that he doesn’t need — that’s about the only sou¬
venir Bob Rockwood has of a week’s apparently uncontrollable wander¬
ing from which he returned last Saturday just as calmly as he left the
the Saturday before.
First to San Diego and then
clear to San Francisco was the
route traveled with errant feet by
the erstwhile student body presi¬
dent. Not until he asked the skip¬
per of a tramp steamer docked in
the Golden Gate for a job did he
“snap out of it,” and start hitch¬
hiking for home.
Now that he is back again,
Bob has determined not to let
his experience dampen his out¬
look. “I never have been afraid
to look anyone in the eye. I am
not now,” he declared in a per¬
sonally-written communication to
the Chronicle.
An author he intended to be and
still does. “I maintain that Pasa¬
dena looks like a bed of roses af¬
ter one has been away from it for
a few days, _ and sometime I hope
to be counted among its notables.
It is up to me to prove what I
have in me.”
While waiting for his writing
abilities to foment, in all possibi¬
lity, Bob will be reinstated to his
job at the Union station at Michi¬
gan and Colorado, according to the
regular attendant. The Union au¬
thorities ordered a medical exami¬
nation for their employee, and
granted him a week’s rest to re¬
cuperate. So that he could attend
school, last September Bob chang¬
ed his hours from full time to part
time night work. Now,, if current
rumors can be taken as a fact, he
will not return to school.
If during his missing week,
Bob was suffering from a physi¬
cal ailment, it is probable that he
was being influenced by a vaga¬
bond trip he took last year. It
was not till he found himself on
the wharves of San Francisco,
that he realized he was not on
the former excursion.
The authentic account of his trip
Bob gave to Lieutenant Morris
Judkins, juvenile officer of the
Pasadena force. With only $15 in
his pocket (from which he bought
the souvenir shoes), he went from
the service station where he work¬
ed to the Hill avenue branch libra¬
ry and from there was given rides
to Whittier Boulevard. Then he
hitch-hiked to San Diego, staying
at a hotel and boarding “Old Iron¬
sides.”
From San Diego he was given a
ride all the way to Bakersfield, and
then by shorter lifts reached San
Francisco. When his memory of
past events suddenly returned on
the docks, he immediately set out
for Pasadena, and is now resting
at home.
STUDENTS HARNESS DEPRESSION
They Must Be Somethin ’ Like the Guys That
Skin the Wolf at the Door
By Virginia Larned
Notice the way the Jaysee student body has harnessed the depres¬
sion. If successful people are, as the psychology class expounds, the
ones who adapt themselves to adverse situations, then P. J. C. can be
classed ultra-successful.
Bulldog students have put the economic ogre to work. They have
even phased the administration. One of the deans himself admited,
“If we find any one hungry, we
feed him, although such a program
of giving stray meals is necessarily
resorted to- only in near-starvation
cases.”
Upper divisions have degenerated,
to the ranks of freshmen to enjoy
Smiles
In tlie News
that privilege of the young, rented
books. It is rumored that whole
classes are now working this
m!oney-saving trick, under the blind
scrutiny of teachers and text-book
clerks. For a similar reason,
knowledge-seekers submit them¬
selves to the fines and rigid in¬
spection of the library.
Janitor Cares
“Smaller wages, more work,” is
the policy for instructors, declare
the department heads who are
particularly overloaded. History
and geography groups expand from
the usual number of seats to crowd
the aisles, and nobody except the
janitor seems to care about chok¬
ing the class room thoroughfares.
What does it matter if extra chairs
do break the fire ordinance — this
is the depression.
Speaking of heat, students are
glad to see summer coming so that
they can get warm for once, ac¬
cording to the observation of a
language mentor, who says they
buy lunches with the money saved
on the gas bill last winter. Neither
candy nor chewing gum has de¬
creased in popularity, nor has there
been any apparent shortage of per¬
manent waves, says a Spanish
teacher. Perhaps the students did
feel cold.
Unknown Ancestor
While political scientists have
formulated theories to annihilate
current business disorders, girls in
the home economics department
have made art of “renovating
gowns,” so they call it, to save
cash. A black and gold creation
with a long metallic sash would
never recognize its blue organdie
ancestor.
The city employment bureau
finds jobs for men with wives and
children rather than for school
boys. Thus J. C. men may soon
have to adjust themselves to the
extent that they acquire families
to get work. The depression has
caused many changes, and may
stilt do more.
NEW RULING
Taylor Green and Ben Ludden
created a sensation and a new style
Saturday evening when they at¬
tended the Campus progressive
dinner in women’s skirts.
Junior high guests alone could
not have accomplished the great
quantity of hissing and yelling
which accompanied the perfor¬
mances Thursday and Friday of
“When Crummels Played.”
Following the Associated Wo¬
men Students party the other day,
Eric Emery, president of the Lan¬
cers and former chief justice, was
seen hauling Virginia Keirn, A. W.
S. president, up and, down school
walks in a two-wheeled cart.
According to Dr. William Ben-
net Munro, historian and Caltech
professor, there are two classes
of men: one consisting of work¬
ers, the other of technocrats.
Everything from formaldehyde
and burning sulphur to preserved
sharks assist in making scents in
the science building and its vicinity
far from aesthetic.
“Paging Mr. Student, paging
Miss Student.” Privileged char¬
acters here have hourly been re¬
ceiving telegrams concerning im¬
portant stock tips. For further
information consult one of the
recipients or a member of the an
nual staff.
NEW MEMBERS
Literati accepted as Phylo mem¬
bers at a recent meeting are Helen
Morley, Margaret Holdeman, Mary
Alice Gianetti, Mary Linek, Ruth
Herron, Anona Alexander, Jean
Meffley, Kent Peisch, Henry Fetzer
and Walford Crockett. Discussion
at the next meeting, March 16, will
center on modern foreign litera¬
ture.
Technocracy Will
Be Tryout Subject
Under the new poilcy, adopted
by the local R.
О.
T. C. headquar¬
ters, uniforms will be worn only
during drill period, according to
Captain Galwey, head of the unit
Tricks of Trades
Books Are Here
Latest tricks of all trades are
available for student perusal in
“Careers,” a set of vocational
guidance books recently sent to
Miss Ida E. Hawes, dean of
guidance, by the Institute of Re¬
search, Chicago.
Any student is at liberty to
use these publications by com¬
municating with the guidance
dean or with his counselor.
The merits and disadvantages
of the national reforms advo¬
cated by Technocracy will be
discussed extemporaneously by
prospective debaters at tryouts
today, at 3 p. m., in room ID.
Coach M. F. Hoerger and the
varsity debaters, Lubert Sander-
hoff, Milford Fish, Melvin Nel¬
son, and Paul Jones, will act as
judges.
Selection will be made for in¬
tercollegiate meets with Utah
college and Cal-Tech, both dual
affairs scheduled for February
28. Controversialists will also be
sent to a sectional tournament to
be held at the district Phi Rho
Pi, national honorary forensics
fraternity, at Bakersfield, March
3 and 4. The subject for these
debates will be the war debts.
MONDAY MADE
DEADLINE FOR
& SMILE EVENT
3:00 P. M. IS FINAL TIME
Clubs Given Extension to
Pick Contestants for
Flower Queen
To grant each club more time to
choose two of its girls with the
most enchanting smiles, the judg¬
ing committee has extended until
Monday at 3 the deadline for con¬
testants to enlist their photographs
in the “Winning Smile Contest”
which will decide P. J. C.’s choice
as queen of the Pasadena Spring)
flower show.
Dressed in semi-formal or tea
gowns, Miss Aeolian, Miss Phreno-
cosmia, and other beauties, will
flaunt their most engaging smiles
before the judges’ stand after they
promenade from the steps of the
Jane Addams building across the
sacred campus, and around the flag
pole next Friday afternoon. An
orchestra will pep the steps of the
decide which ten girls have the
vieing contestants, while officials
most attractive appearances.
Tough Break
Enthusiastic spectators are re¬
quested to stay on the circular
drive back of the hedge so that
they will not obstruct the proces¬
sion as it winds across the lawn.
Any Jaysee coed with a happy
face is eligible to become a con¬
testant with other local beauties,
provided she submits her likeness
at the Chronicle office and appear
in the grand parade. Restrictive
clubs, staunch in the support of
their candidates’ pulchritude, are
taking advantage of the abundance
of outstanding girls by selecting
not one but two entrants.
Private Session
Bob Coop, John Krumm, Mary
Linek, Anona Alexander, and El¬
mer Dethlefs will judge the aspir¬
ants for royal renown at the pa¬
rade, seconding their decision with
the elimination of seven contest¬
ants next Wednesday in private
session.
I Muir Tech, Sacred Heart aca¬
demy, the Junior League, and the
business girls are each entering
three prospective sovereigns for
the final judging at Huntington
hotel, March 15. Representatives
of film companies, news reel pho¬
tographers, Community Playhouse,
and Pasadena theaters will make
the final choice of queen and her
four ladies-in-waiting.
Players Will
Choose Entry
Players Guild entry in the Pasa¬
dena Community Playhouse one-
act play contest, which will take
place March 20 and 21, will be
chosen from three plays in the
repertoire of Miss Elizabeth E.
Keppie’s production class and the
Players Guild club.
“Thank You, Doctor,” by Gilbert
Emery, was offered successfully by
Players Guild before the Indiana
club of Pasadena and during tb
Homecoming Night program. “The
Stolen Prince,” by Dan Totheroh.
was given last semester as a pro¬
duction class play, while W. B.
Yeat’s “The Land of Heart’s De
sire,” an Irish fantasy now in re¬
hearsal, is another possibility.
Due to the proximity of the
junior college to the Playhouse, no
definite choice will be 'made until
local entries are called, in, at which
time the play that offers the most
unified and effective characteriza¬
tions will be chosen.
hall last evening.
After singing their own original
“Stein Song” among other kinds
and hearing a short pep talk by
Lovell Hindenlang to organize new
chapters, the brew consumers ad¬
journed to an improvised bar
which, minus the brass bar of
other years, lent an atmosphere of
the past, when earthen mugs were
slipped, streaming, across the shin¬
ing surface.
“When two mugs get together,
it’s sure to be fair weather,” was
the motto of the evening, even
though they are filled with only
root beer.
Arranging the unusual gather¬
ing were Lovell Hindenlang, newly
elected president; Walt Pollack
Bill Rockwell, Gerry Mountjoy,
Glen Serres and Don Mansfield,
vice-presidents; Ed Montgomery,
secretary; Clifford Caves, treas¬
urer, and Morton Hilbert, field
council. O. G. Dressier and Paul
Somers act as advisers for the
group.
Opponents
WILL DURANT
McCLELLAN REED
Mary White
Chosen For
Music Lead
Woven around, a German folk
tale,
“Тле
Rose Maiden,” musical
fantasy which this year is to re¬
place the annual junior college
opera, will have Mary Novis
White, Rose Blossom; and Gene
Borger, the forester*, as leads.
Other solo parts include: Spring,
Bob Hendricks; Winter, Arthur
McCulloch; and Virginia Vail, Mar¬
guerite Schmidt, Christina Welles,
Walter Pollock, Stanley Taft, Stan¬
ley Meacham, Jack Barnard, and
Ralph Worrali.
Although the fantasy, the ninth
production by the music depart-
men, has a plot, it will be told in
a choral arrangement composed by
Frederick Cowen.
Mrs. Amy Grau Miller, Mrs.
Carolyn Reed. Powell, and Vladi¬
mir Ussachevsky will accompany
the chorus of 200 voices with two
pianos and an organ, together with
a harp background by Helen Lesh.
Members of the choral group will
be taken from the preparatory
men’s, preparatory women’s, ad¬
vanced boys’, and advanced girls’
glee clubs and a eappella choir.
Miss Lula C. Parmley, music de¬
partment head, is in general
charge of the presentation, assist¬
ed by Miss Katherine Kester, dra¬
matics; Miss Loreta Henrichs, en¬
semble dances; and Miss Carrie
Sharp, music.
Petition for excuses for absence
must now be made out before the
student returns to any class.
Students should retain their copy
of the petition throughout the se¬
mester. i
chemistry student.
Approximately 33 students gap¬
ed in amazement at the points dis¬
cussed by William D. Leech, chem¬
istry instructor, in his lecture on
“The Theory of Solutions” last
Monday afternoon in 208E.
DURANT-REED
WORD TUSSLE
HERE TONIGHT
PEOPLE WILL TAKE PART
Audience Is Privileged to
Ask Perplexing
Questions
By Elmer Dethlefs
Will Durant and McClellan Reed
fight it out on the question “Re¬
solved That Democracy Is. a Fail¬
ure” tonight in the auditorium.
Durant has the affirmative; Reed
the negative.
They’re bound to discuss the ed¬
ucation issue — the bulwark of any
political or social organization.
Hence they might alternately build
up or tear down the great tradi¬
tional systems of learning. More
likely they will revive this old
question for the benefit of worried
junior college students — S hould
secondary and higher education be
withheld from all but the few stu¬
dents with unusual ability?
Anything Goes
Twenty minutes will be allowed
for questions from the. audience.
Here the debaters cannot escape
carrying the fight to the great is¬
sues pending before the legislature
— the problems of abolition of com¬
pulsory education, proposed tuition
charges, and elimination of de¬
partments.
Anything goes. It’s all in demo¬
cracy.
The backgrounds of both men
contain a wealth of experiences
and contacts to fortify their posi¬
tions on the democracy question.
Durant jumped from college to a
job as Hearst reporter but quit be¬
cause he was interested in philo-
sphical speculations of happenings
rather than in news. He became a
teacher and lecturer of philosophy
and during the years he taught
lost faith in the masses.
Reed educated himsel| by peer¬
ing over the shoulders of more
fortunate boys as they sat reading
by the country roadsides. He en¬
tered college at 28 and. became
teacher, newspaper editor, bank of¬
ficial, and publicist in rapid order.
Durant was born and raised in a
manufacturing district. His father
was a factory foreman. Reed be¬
gan life in the Blue Ridge of Vir¬
ginias. His father was a mountain-
eeer.
Lost Faith
While Durant has lost faith in
the masses, Reed believes that you
can buttonhole a farmer and listen
to an intelligent answer to your
social or political question.
Durant dotes on Spinoza. Reed
talks more of Abraham Lincoln.
Although Reed has been a Pas¬
adenan for eight years the local
audience knows more of Durant.
This is mainly because he became
famous overnight with his best¬
selling “Story of Philosophy.” Reed
is far from being an unknown.
The blessings of democracy are
still working for Reed. Although
clever in forensics he is reputed to
be taking elocution lessons from
his wife. But then Durant hasn’t
much to kick about Democracy
either. Long after omitting his
Hearst job because of his fine-spun
philosophical concepts he came
back to the racket and wrote senti¬
mental sob stories of a famous
murder trial.
It’s all in Democracy. Anything
goes.
Billed as an added attraction,
Judge Ben D. Lindsay will preside.
Now what does he have to do with
it?
Relations Student
Will Lecture Here
The University of International
Relations will send one of its
students to address the Interna¬
tional Question Mark meeting
scheduled, for next Wednesday in
the cafeteria committee room.
Since Dr. John Carruthers, vie -
chancellor of the University of in •
ternational Relations, has offer'’/
to secure well known and accom¬
plished speakers, the Question
Mark meetings are assured enter¬
tainment for the rest of the schodi
year.
At the last luncheon, Kate Boy h
chairman of the organization, t"l 1
about the speakers at the Interna¬
tional Relations course at the ViJtn
del Arroyo hotel.
The series of lectures for chem¬
istry team candidates opened Feb¬
ruary 13 with a talk on “The Ki¬
netic Molecular Theory and Gas
Laws” and will continue with a dis¬
cussion by George Josten on “Ex¬
perimental Theory of Industrial
Process” February 27.
IPs a Root Beer Party When
School Fellows Get Together
Kegs of swishing, foaming, fragrant root beer — all that one could
drink — piles of pretzels, and lusty, cheering songs welcomed freshmen
and former Hi-Y members to a special get-together meeting given in
their honor by the three jaysee chaptrs of the Y. M. C. A., in the social
ABSENCE PETITIONS
Magical Powders and Bottles
Attract Awed Chem . Students
An array of vivid solutions, colorless powders that became brilliant
hues, when mixed, salt crystals enlarged thousands of times, long
necked bottles of various shapes, is enough to dazzle the orb of any