Pasadena Chronicle, March 01, 1940

AFTERNOON DANCE Senior-Sophomore dance in Gold room of Civic, Mon¬ day, 3 — 6. Bids 10c couple. P d asaaena Ch romcle GRADUATES! NOTICE! This is the last week grad¬ uation pictures will be tak¬ en for the yearbook. Vol. 31 Pasadena Junior College, March 1, 1940 No. 22 Classes Unite In Forming Constitution by DAVE ORSWELL Parachuting to solid ground from the stormy session of two weeks ago the two public prob¬ lems classes mutually this week agreed to settle all previous dif¬ ferences by making one constitu¬ tion from the two class projects. The original commission ob¬ tained by the 2 o’clock class has been amended to meet the needs of both groups, so with oil smoothing the troubled waters, the oil being the board, PJC’s name calling has been soft ped¬ aled — for the time being. SEARCH FOR DIOGENES The 2 o’clock class during the week hold hearings in which past student body officers are the key witnesses. Chairman of the “In¬ vestigations” Leonard “Diogenes” Schwartz, of football fame, is searching for the honest man to tell the group of any “graft or misuse of public funds.” Cooper¬ ating with Schwartz in his ques¬ tioning is Francis Stevenson, re¬ cently resigned commissioner of elections. All questions tossed at the witness have, so far, reached a stalemate ,and no progress is made when Schwartz asks the of¬ ficer under fire, “Have you read the school constitution?” GET SIDETRACKED The officer tries to tell the hear¬ ing committee what can be done to improve the office he once rep¬ resented, but is so often side¬ tracked from the original ques¬ tioning, that all continuity is help¬ lessly lost, and the witness often leaves in disgust. COORDINATING COMMITTEE The coordinating committee, the “brains” behind all constitu¬ tional progress, has not had time to meet to draft future plans, but in all probability, they will suggest to the classes to hold hearings that are “reasonable;” hearings which will carry on the constitutional convention, and not backslide into muck and debris of past activities. Beta Phi Gamma Awards Plaque Marion Ward, former west campus city editor of the Chron¬ icle and now associate editor, re¬ ceived the Beta Phi Gamma plaque award at the formal init¬ iation of Beta Phi Gamma, na¬ tional junior college journalism society, February 23. This award, given each semes¬ ter, is for outstanding and con¬ sistent work on the Chronicle. Miss Ward won it this semester for her earnest efforts to secure a closer cooperation between the two campuses. Her work has been of great value to the Pasadena junior col¬ lege as well as to the Chronicle, because of her endeavor to close¬ ly unite the west and east, the committee decided. Recipients of this award were selected by the Chronicle faculty adviser, Wayne L. Hodges; Chron¬ icle editor, Dale Clayton; and Beta Phi Gamma president, Gilbert Schlendering. Used Parts Going Strong No! Dean of Men Stong has not gone into the car-parts busi¬ ness. Those distributor heads seen ly¬ ing on his desk are from habitual parking lot law-breakers whose cars appear daily in a “No Park¬ ing” zone. Since registration slips are not filed in the Motor Vehicle Depart¬ ment office in Los Angeles until March 15, theer has been no way to check on the violators until Mr. Stong ordered Shieldmen and Lancers to bring in the distribu¬ tors, thus making car owners claim them before driving off. The officers do not take the part sfrom cars unless drivers habitually break the “no parking” fire ordinances as set up by the Pasadena fire department. When the distributor is re¬ moved, proper notice is placed on the car to warn the driver. If you do not want to visit the Dean, park your car in the right place and save learning to be a mechanic. THESPIAN’S SAMARITAN Winter Fashions To Be Featured I" I I In Assembly Club day on both campuses at the regular assembly periods to¬ day will be highlighted by the Schneefliegers’ winter sports pro¬ gram open to the student body in the auditoriums. A winter sports fashion show for men and women will start the meeting. Van de Grift’s Ski Shack js furrishine the latest in cold-wcather wearing apparel, and I members of the Sch-iccfliegers’ club will do the modeling. The world-famed Swiss Family Fraanfelder is the feature of the program. This Tyrclian group, composed of R. Fraunfelder and his sons and daughter's is known Throughout the United States as an excellent example of true Swiss yodelers. Several numbers will comprise the Fraunfelders’ j part in the get-together. Colored motion pictures show¬ ing some of America’s better win¬ ter sports enthusiasts in action, and ski instructions by Hannes Schneider, “The Father of Skiing” will top off the program. 1 JOHN TUCKER Caretaker Honored By Players Guild by MARJORIE RHODES John Tucker, east campus Pasadena junior college care¬ taker, recently received an honor which never before has been bestowed by the junior college Player’s Guild. By a unanimous vote and accompanied by cheers of en¬ thusiastic members the club elected Mr. Tucker an honorary member of their organization. An unflagging interest in drama and all phases of the art of good production has been Mr. Tucker’s since child¬ hood. Through this interest, the caretaker, with criticism, admiration and encouragement, has assisted many young people to find their awn particular groove in the theatre. LOST OPPORTUNITY When only a child in England, his native land, Mr. Tucker was offered by his grandfather, Mr. Monkhouse, leading actor in the Drury Lane Theatre of London, a chance to join the theatre and learn drama from the bottom up. Mr. Tucker’s mother, however, being of the age which considered the theatre an evil in the com¬ munity, disagreed with this ar¬ rangement. Opportunity, having knocked once, sauntered on, and Mr. Tuck¬ er, too, went his way in the world. After turning away from this chance, it remained his fate to always wonder where the other road would have led him. FRONT RANKS During the Boer War in Af¬ rica, he was in the very front ranks as a member of the Royal Horse Artillery Regiment. “The honor of seeing bullets kick up dust before the horse’s feet was not enough,” declared Mr. Tucker vehemently, “con¬ sidering that the object in view was the appeasement for greed for the gold and diamond mines in Africa and that after the war coolies were hired in the mines, not Englishmen.” Mr. Tucker, a citizen of the United States for 36 years, has been a resident of California for 16 years. Before the depression he was a contracting carpenter. Before he came to California, Mr. Tucker directed an amateur Dress Well, Groom Well, Sell Yourself-Quick “Be particular in your dress and grooming. Don’t walk into an executive’s office with the at¬ titude that it is up to him to get. information from you. Sell vour- self.” These were a few hints given to a group of self-supporting and part-supporting students last Monday in a talk by Miss Wini¬ fred Quick, head of the Pasadena NYA employment office. . Discussion was led by Dean Stong and concerned the prob¬ lems of students earning their ex¬ penses. Grady McMurtry, presi¬ dent of Plutocrats, explained the object of the club and invited all students interested to join. group of actors in Murray City, Utah in the production of “Within the Law,” “Cuban Pie” and “Against the Law.” All these plays were successful. HOBBIES Outside of the theatre, Mr. Tucker’s hobbies are singing and drawing plans. He is a member of the Edward Norris Chorus, the Cauldron Singers, Oneonta Chor¬ al society and the Caretaker’s Quartet. His son, John Tucker, plays the leading roles in the San Jose Opera company. His daugh¬ ter was the president of dramatics in school and is now active in church dramatic work in Alham¬ bra. Debate Teams In LACC Tournament Nineteen orators and six de¬ baters will compete for Pasadena junior college today and tomor¬ row in the tenth invitational Los Angeles City College Speech Tournmaent, being chosen from trials held last week. These stu¬ dents are the cream of PJC’s speakers and several are expected to compete in the finals tomorrow on the LACC campus. Three students from PJC are entered in the six individual col¬ legiate classes with a single high school representative and three debate teams making up the per¬ sonnel of the Pasadena contin¬ gent. Chinese To Speak At Tuesday Forum Dr. Yu-Shan Han, eminent Chi¬ nese educator, will speak at the Tuesday Evening Forum on “China — Yesterday and Today,” and “Causes and Effects of the Sino-Japanese War.” Dr. Han is a graduate of Har¬ vard university and teaches his¬ tory and philosophy at the Boston university. Born in old Peking, he is a connoisseur and collector of Chi¬ nese art objects. • MIGRANTS LECTURE TOPIC To give the students of the greater PJC a more complete pic¬ ture of the migratory labor situ¬ ation in California, the Student Christian Association has secured Ray C. Mork, director of the Fed¬ eral Migrant camp at Shafter, to talk next Thursday, March 7, in the McKinley junior high school auditorium. Chron’s Principles The following is for the record. It is a statement of the principles to which the staff of the Chronicle subscribes in carrying out its duties in the PJC college democracy. We do not intend to announce, then forget, these principles, but to have this record to refer to in all future occasions when the position of the paper in the democracy is in question, and in concrete situations affecting college democracy. Not rationalization of our present policy, but a desire to set up a clear outline of what the future should be, is the main intention. PURPOSES- OIF THE PAPER We conceive the Chronicle, and all college newspapers to be four-edged tools in the hands of the student body of the school. The purpose of the paper must be : 1. To carry news, as a bulletin of information. 2. To speak the student mind on ALL subjects which concern students. 3. To serve as a laboratory where journalism students may “learn by being journalists.” 4. To fulfill one of the rights of men, by being a “free press.” It may be seen that in all four instances, the paper is not .an end in itself, but a tool of the working society of PJC. Staff members resemble faculty members in their relation to the whole. They offer their services to th attain¬ ment of the goal of school systems, the education of youth for the society of tomorrow. METHODS OF SERVING PURPOSE The methods of serving our purpose is by carrying in our news stories all the information it is desirable to make public, by quoting students and objectively telling of their actions and words. If, in so doing, reporters are given ample opportunity to work under stimulating conditions and with constructive guidance, three of our functions will be taken care of. (continued on page two) Frosh-/ W rong Count7 Elections Held Today Balloting on the famous alleged “wrong count” election be¬ tween incumbent Chief Justice Thuel Schuhart and Peter Paulson marks today’s beginning of the 1940 edition of student democracy. Features of this initial Leap year election will include: 1. A new voting procedure. SENIOR SOPH DANCE MONDAY Senior-Sophomore classes are sponsoring the afternoon dance to be held in the Gold room of the Civic auditorium Monday after¬ noon from 3 to 6 pm. Bids are to be had for 10 cents per couple at either the school banks or at the Civic door. Duke Rinaldi and his orchestra will furnish the music with, charming Marjorie Garland as featured vocalist and an all-stu¬ dent band. This is the annual spring dance put on by the two classes. Work¬ ing with Sophomore class repre¬ sentatives, Mickey Shaw, “Swish” Ogura and Dee Dee Cope have charge of dance arrangements. As the first all-PJC dance event oc- curing after Leap Year (Febru¬ ary 29) the student etiquette will be entirely alright if girls make the dates, for a change. Student Forum To Feature Wit A witty and skilled defender of Nationalism will uphold one side of a discussion on “Nationalism vs. Internationalism” in the first of a series of student forum dis¬ cussions, next Thursday evening at 7 pm in the east campus audi¬ torium. Osgood Hardy, chairman of Social Science at Occidental college, will hold forth against David Henley, ardent internation¬ alist and prominent in the work of the Institute of International Relations at Whittier, where he teaches. Hardy is known as a witty and entertaining speaker, and though none here have heard Henley, he is well-known for his work for internationalism. The series of lectures, arranged by Bob Gillette, energetic debat- or, athlete and social student pol¬ itician (now senior class presi¬ dent) include the following sub¬ jects for later dates. Honor Fraternity Promotes Research The Kappa Zeta, a new soci¬ ety has joined the brotherhood of honor fraternities on the campus, for the recognition of superior students in scientific research. A faculty council, appointed by Dr. Harbeson and headed by Dr. Gerrish, math teacher, has taken the reins and efforts are being made to establish the Kappa Zeta nationally. Unlike the usual honorary so¬ ciety, that favors students who have already rendered distin¬ guished service in one form or another, the Kappa Zeta is pri¬ marily interested in those who show potential merit in scientific or educational fields. By submitting an original out¬ lined plan of research in an ac¬ cepted problem the candidate may¬ be taken in as a pledge, to con¬ tinue his investigation as an ac¬ tive member, until completely solved. When this work is termi¬ nated he is solemnly awarded the honor key of Kappa Zeta in to¬ ken of his achivement. Music hour EAST CAMPUS MUSIC HOUR 200C Wednesday, 11:20 and 12:20, Thursday 11:20 and 12:20 (Repeated by request) Symphony in D Minor a. Allegro — Lento b. Allegro non troppo WEST CAMPUS MUSIC HOUR March 6, 1940—12:20 1. Warum (Why?) . Schumann 2. The Squirrel . Weaver 3. Evening Star from “Tann- hauser . Wagner (by request) 4. From the Land of the Sky- blue Water . Cadman 5. Sweet and Low . Traditional 6. Tales from Vienna Woods ... . . Strauss (by request) Frances Elliott Smith, organist 2. A new student legal code. 3. First time in history that a candidate has recalled himself in order to clarify his election. 4. First time election has re- seulted from student petitions (later abandoned) and against the ruling of the student Su¬ preme Court. Statements from both candi¬ dates are on page three. More than 25 hopeful candi¬ dates will start their political ca¬ reers, when the Freshman elec¬ tions are held today on the same ballot with Schuhart vs. Paulson. The Frosh candidates are all comparatively young and un¬ versed in the arduous routine of campus politics, yet with the new system in force that puts no bar¬ riers in the campaign of each can¬ didate, the first year students promise to show well, in this, their first attempt. For the highly important of¬ fice of president of the Fresh¬ man class, five men are in the running, namely: Bob Mardian, Johnny O’Grady, Bob Perkins, Don Meub, Bob Eastman. Bob Mardian, a cheerleader with a high service point record, Bob Perkins, who has earned 43 points last semester, and Meub, Eastman and O’Grady who have also distinguished themselves in the short time they have been in school, all are graduates of local junior high tschools. The offices open at this election are president, vice-president, sec¬ retary, treasurer of the Freshman class. This election was originally scheduled for last week, but was postponed to. give candidates a better opportunity to become known to their classmates. 'Swish' Appointed To Elections Post Shuichi “Swish” Ogura, Argo¬ naut and member of Mast and Dagger was appointed to the post of Elections Commissioner Tues¬ day, when Francis Stevenson re¬ signed from the office because of ill-health. The Board of Representatives confirmed the appointment when Stevenson resigned because of an operation to be performed elect- tion day. Stevenson said, “If the election date had not been moved up I could have finished the job, but now it is impossible. I per¬ sonally recommend Ogura as one who will carry this work out effi¬ ciently.” Stevenson was appointed to the office after the Paulson-election board court trial in which he ap¬ peared as a principal witness. Harbeson In East, Broadcasts Talk Dr. John W. Harbeson, princi¬ pal of Pasadena junior college, is in Columbia, Missouri attending a convention of the American As¬ sociation of Junior Colleges, of which he is Southern California administrator. The convention was called to discuss junior college problems and their solutions. With Dr. Harbeson are Dr. J ohn A. Sexson, superintendent of schools, and Dr. George H. Meri- deth. The party spent the first part of the week in St. Louis at the winter convention of the Na¬ tional Association of Secondary- School Principals. Doorstep Players PI an New Season At their first meeting of the ensuing semester the west cam¬ pus Doorstep players elected of¬ ficers, planned a party, selected a club pin and completed plans for their plays. The officers are Anne Diamond, president; Phil Forthum, vice- president; Phyllis Blinn, secre¬ tary-treasurer; and Elizabeth Sherman, program chairman. An informal initiation for new members will be held next week at ‘he home "f r \e of the Play¬ ers. Ail charter members are re¬ quested to be present.