Pasadena Chronicle, November 03, 1939

Journalist to tell of interviewing world leaders Miss Paula LeCler is slated to give her experiences and impressions of the world-fam¬ ous personalities she has met in her world tours at the next Forum lecture, Tuesday at 8 p.m. in the east campus audi¬ torium. HeT exclusive inter¬ views have given the world an enlightened interpretation of the events in which such “headlines” as Goebbels and Hess of Germany, General- issomo and Mjadame Chiang- Kai-Shek, Haile Salassie and Mahatma Gandi prominently figure. Bringing back fresh interviews and personal impressions of world leaders each year, Miss LeCler also investigates the tem¬ per of the masses, the gaverned, in every country on her “world beat.” of flying interviewing in just the last three years, and her annual revisits to the foreign scene to keep her observations continually up to date, she presents in her lecture a vivid last-minute direct- impact picture of the world pan¬ orama. CRISES COVERED Although no other pournalist has interviewed any one of the central figures in Czechoslovakia since last May, Miss LeCler suc¬ ceeded in interviewing all three, President Benes, Premier Hodza, and Sudeten leader Konrad Hen- lein; she saw Henlein on Jnly 25, Benes on August 11, Hodza on August 25. Her series of inter¬ views, appearing in the midst of the developing crises, created a sensation in journalistic and dip¬ lomatic circles throughout Europe. Stockton, Arnold speech contest tryouts November 7 “1939-140 the Crisis Year” is the topic for the Arnold Extempo¬ raneous Speech contest and also for the Stockton Speech tourna¬ ment. Tryouts for both contests will be November 7 in room 238C on the east campus at 2 o’clock. More specific phases of the gen¬ eral subject will be international, economic, social, ethical and the crisis in democracy. Topics for the speeches will be drawn from Time, Newsweek, Christian Cen¬ tury and Commonwealth. HOUR FOR PREPARATION All students of PJC may parti¬ cipate in the contests. Candidates for the Arnold contest will draw a specific topic for their speeches. They will then be given one hour in which to prepare their speech which will be five minutes long. This is the tenth annual Arnold contest, and is sponsored by C. O. Arnold, who donates a dia¬ mond medal to the winner. The presentation will be made at a dinner on November 16, when the six or eight winners of the try¬ outs will speak to determine the final winner. FOUR DIVISIONS The annual College of the Pa¬ cific speech tournament at Stock- ton will take place November 20 and 21. Competition will be in four types of speaking. Tryouts for PJC’s representa¬ tives in the extemporaneous divi¬ sion will be at the same time as the Arnold tryouts in room 238C on the east campus. Specific topics will be given and one hour preparation is allowed. Candidates for the Arnold Speech contest may sign up with Hedley J. Reeder in room 172C on Monday, Wednesday or Friday from 1 to 3 p.m. PJC'S FOURTH HOMECOMING PAGEAHT TONIGHT Clapp's message to open program at seven o'clock Pasadena Chronicle Vol. 31 Pasadena Junior College, November 3, 1939 No. 8 Vista del Arroyo hotel again scene of AWS-WAA convention PJC talent show tryouts scheduled Pasadena and its twin-campus college will soon view the great¬ est all student-talent musical show ever produced by the greater PJC. Under the sponsorship of the west campus Magnatura club this gigantic display of entertain¬ ment will be for the purpose of raising money for the school scholarship fund. AUDITIONS Author and director Seward Murphy, and co-director Alice Hendrix, have announced that auditions will be held at 3:30 pm November 7, west campus, and November 9, east campus, in. rooms 212 and 200C respectively. Tryouts are open to all students who are talented in any field of entertainment, and the directors hope that students will see in this a chance to make known their ability. The theme for the show has been taken from the New York musical comedy stage hit “Hell- zapoppin” which starred Olsen and Johnson of radio fame. VARIETY OF TALENT The variety of talents wanted for this production includes: tap dancers, both solo and chorus lineup, jitterbug and exhibition ballroom dancers, instrumental¬ ists of all kinds, jugglers, imita¬ tors, singers of popular music, and comedians for comic skits. An orchestra is also wanted, so will students having such a mu¬ sical organization in the school please turn out for the auditions. Merrill Poore of the west cam¬ pus business department is fac¬ ulty adviser. The Vista Del Arroyo hotel will again this year be the scene of the annual Southern California junior college AWS- WAA convention. Members of the AWS board will be sent as delegates with all expenses paid. Senior members of the cabinet will be sent to the banquet. Other cabinet members may attend if they pay their own way. All members are invited to a recreation period on Friday from 4 to 6 o’clock. Saturday morning there will be discussion groups, at 9:45, and from 11:30 to 12 there will be an entertainment at the swimming pool. Any wo¬ man student is invited to this. Compton junior college is con¬ vention hostess this year, and PJC is in charge of reception. The entire cost of the conven¬ tion is $5.62. Faculty members attending the convention for meals only are Miss Catherine J. Robbins, dean of women on the east campus and Olive W. Kelso, dean of women on the west campus. Miss Paul¬ ine Brown and Miss Eleis Caul- kins are the other members of the faculty attending. Full time representatives at the convention are Mable Prouty, AWS president, Marilyn Cox, Kitty Eastman, Barbara Graham, Barbara Place, Lilliam Pizzo, Ar- leen Jones, Marjorie Prucha, Be- vely Beach, Lorraine Alton, Mar¬ jorie Shaw, Anne McGill, Barbara Goddard, Clarie Elmer, Dorothy Durham, Katherine McGrath, Vir¬ ginia Newman, Joan Burrows, Barbara Fitch, Thelma Gates, Twila Jack and Carol Bortin. Those attending for lunch only are Francis Dahm, Dorthea Nev- ens, Barbara Daley, Mable Mur- fee, Mary Ellen Dahm, Jackie Vermillion, Virginia McIntyre, Marjorie Williamson, Lois Wohl- wend, Ruth Banks, Virginia Spahr, Evelyn Morich and Jeanne Thomas. Diagram o£ rooting section ’Title' float prize offered students The Pasadena Tournament of Roses association is this year again sponsoring a contest among Pasadena junior college students for the best design of the “title float,” with cash awards for the winners. This contest Is open to all stu¬ dents of PJC, and contestants may submit one or more designs. All designs must be in keeping with the 1940 Tournament of Roses theme, “The Twentieth Century in Flowers.” Rules for the contest are: all designs must provide for carrying the queen and her court of six princesses, and designs must in¬ dicate seating arrangement, with figures shown in proper places. Each deeign shall be of a float, practical to build. Suggestions as to flowers and colors will be wel¬ comed. DEADLINE All designs must be in the of¬ fice of Archie Wedemeyer, on the east campus, not later than 12 o’clock, November 6. The name of the contestant, home address and telephone number shall ac¬ company each design. Judges will give greatest credit for completeness of details, indi¬ viduality of design, explanation of ideas and practicability. The awards are first, $25; second, $15, and third, $10. Winning designs become the property of the Tournament of Roses association. All designs other than those re¬ ceiving the awaid will be made available to parade participants, and if selected, a fee will be charged the user. The Fourth Annual Homecoming pageant will be staged in the Rose Bowl tonight at 7. The theme of this year’s parade will be “Nursery Rhymes” and approximately 50 floats will 1 be entered by various clubs and service organizations of PJC. This event is sponsored by the organizations committee and members of the Tournament of Roses association. A large fanfare of trumpets followed by an opening announce¬ ment and greeting from Howard Clapp, Associated Students presi¬ dent, will start the program. Af¬ ter this greeting, the judges and narrator’s car will enter, mem¬ bers stopping at the narrator’s stand to be introduced to the public. The judges will then pro¬ ceed to the reviewing stand on the west side of the field remain¬ ing in the car to judge the floats. PARADE The parade will start at 7:15 and will pass in review before the narrator’s stand, onthe east side of the bowl, and the judges’ stand on the west. Special stunts will be presented before the nar¬ rator’s and judges’ stands. Fifty feet after entering the bowl, a spotlight will be turned on each unit for approximately 30 sec¬ onds while the narrator intro¬ duces and remarks upon it. A similar procedure will follow on the opposite side of the bowl where the judges’ stand is lo¬ cated. William P. Welsh, chief of staff with the Tournament of Roses association is acting in the same capacity Friday night. The five division marshalls are also Tour¬ nament of Roses members. Three prominent Pasadena citizens will act as judges. The chief of staff, division marshalls and aides will ride in a car at the end of the Julian Arnold to give second address today Julian B. Arnold, sole survivor of the second Stanley expedition to Africa, will come to PJC for the second time this semester to speak in today’s assembly about the life and customs of the Arabs. Mr. Arnold was present at the funeral ceremony and burial of David Livingstone in Westmin¬ ster Abbey, London. His father, Sir Edwin Arnold, noted English author and statesman, commis¬ sioned Henry M. Stanley to finish Livingstone’s work in Africa. Ju¬ lian, then but little more than a boy, planned and mapped this second expedition which discov¬ ered the source of the Congo river. For more than 20 years, Mr. Arnold was an intimate friend of Stanley. He introduced Stan¬ ley to the girl he married. Also a member of the George Smith expedition, Mr. Arnold ex¬ cavated important ancient ruins in Assyria. Later he was active¬ ly interested in explorations in Egypt. Recently Mr. Arnold spoke to the senior-sophomore groups at a divided assembly. Tentatively scheduled to follow the talk is a short pep rally under the direction of Red South, pep commissioner. BOYS C ROOTERS CAPS') ааааааалаааааааааааааа ROW •Cf O’ 1 Sr t»- BAA/D Sfcr/O/V /4-ROWS GIRLS 1* Т/ •41*-' ЛУЛ* E°* /2 ROWS аааааааааааааааааг YELL LEADERS PLATFORM Even more elaborate rooting section planned for San Mateo game says South Success of the newly organized rooting section at the Compton game won Pep Commissioner Red South’s approval. In consequence, even more elaborate organization will be used tonight, with pompom-wav- Discuss U. S. neutrality at Chron panel Friday In six months you may be in uniform. If you are the average student, you haven’t given this fact much thought yet. Probably you voted in the Daily Bruin-Chron¬ icle war poll or in other similar straw ballots. Probably you have taken part in class discussions on the international situation. But unless you are more conscious than the average, you still haven’t been seriously impressed by the impending peril. The Chronicle wants to start people thinking more seriously. It wants to give those of you with some good ideas on how to keep America out of war a chance to air those ideas. For that purpose the Chronicle will hold, in room 104D, on next Friday, 4 — 6 pm, a panel discussion on the general topic “What can we as students do to keep America out of war?” Members of the panel will be students with comprehensive plans on this subject. They will each expound their individual ideas and will be prepared to answer questions from the floor. If you think you have a good plan and would like to serve on the panel, come in and talk to members of the Chronicle editorial If you want to learn more about such plans, come to the discussion and take part. — E. D. C. ing girls sitting in a block to form a giant “P.” Boys in rooters caps will flank the girls to give an even background. To increase the effect of this design, girls sitting outside the formation are asked not to bring pompoms to the game. Those girls who persist in waving pom¬ poms outstide the “P” will be asked to surrender their pom¬ poms, as they spoil the effect. “We would like to have some cooperation from the girls in standing up only when the yell leaders ask for it, and not to wave pompoms except in unison with the others in the section,” South commented. CHRON TO PLAY SHOP Members of the Chronicle staff will hold a six-man tackle foot¬ ball game with the print shop this afternoon at 3, smokestack field. Debate squad plans activities The debate squad, under the supervision of William Evans, debate coach, is preparing to open activities for the season. The question which will be de¬ bated is: Resolved: that the United States should follow a policy of strict isolation (economic and military) toward all nations out¬ side the western hemisphere en¬ gaged in armed international or civil conflict. Mr. Evans has stressed the fact that anyone who is interested in debating is eligible for the debate squad. From 2:00 until 4:00 on Tuesdays and Thursdays practice debates will be held in room 170C. This is in addition to the regular debate class hours which are held from 8:00 to 9:00 on the same days. Debaters who will enter the college tournaments will be cho¬ sen by the ability they show in practice debates. The first major debate, at the continued on page three Geologist to address Dana club today Geologist Lewis I. Buck will speak to an open meeting of the Dana club this morning during assembly period in room 7E. Billed as an interesting speaker with an enlivening style of speech, Mr. Buck has a long rec¬ ord of major achievements in geology including exploration and consultation with pioneering min¬ ing firms. He was among the first to ex¬ plore with the Smithsonian in the Casa Grande ruins of Arizona and discovered the petrified forest in California’s Red Rock canyon. He was likewise among the early consultants in the Ajo cop¬ per pit and the Pacific coast bor¬ ax mine. His subject for the Dana meet¬ ing will be “Know Your Front Door Yard,” informative stories of the mineralization in nearby geologic formations. Chaffey jaysee to have fiesta Spanish club members and Spanish students at Pasadena junior college have received a special invitation to attend “La Fiesta del Camino Real,” being presented by Mexican organiza¬ tions of the Chaffey district at Chaffey junior college auditorium in Ontario, Thursday evening, November 9, at 8 o’clock. The fiesta, written and directed by Ponce Espino, assisted by Car¬ los Tarin, has its setting on the old Lugo rancho, south of Chino Showing the events during one day at the rancho, the fiesta will give glimpses of the family life of the early Californians, closing with a fiesta following the mar¬ riage of one of the daughters of the Lugo family. Offering special numbers and taking some of the leading roles in the play, professional perfor¬ mers of the Mexican entertain¬ ment world will assist members of the organization presenting the fiesta. Guests are invited to come in Spanish costume if they wish, and to come early for the singing and dancing in front of the audi¬ torium preceding the show. Tick¬ ets for the performance are 40 cents for adults and 25 cents for students. parade. WORKERS About 300 students have been excused from today’s classes to decorate floats. The AWS entry representing Queen Glinda and court will be the largest entry. On it will ride a queen chosen from the AWS and princesses selected from each of the junior high schools. The list of clubs entered, in order of appearance is as fol¬ lows: Unit I — Judge’s car, Pete Duck- er, associate student body presi¬ dent, host; Colors and guard; Bulldog band section, brass and drums; Yell leaders and song leaders car; Pageant banner; SCA entry; MOS; Abracadabra; Zama, Phoenix, Baccy, McKinley junior high school band. Unit 1 1 — FI a o, A m p h io n, Schneifliegers, T Square, One club, OSF, Players Guild, DAC, Tioga, S and B, Band, Frosh class. Campus Music Hour Room 200C Wednesday 12:20, Thursday 11:20 and 12:20 “Selections from the Los Angeles Opera Season” Magic Fire Spell (The Valky- ... rie) . Wagner Liebstod (Tristan and Isolde).... . Wagner Le Reve (Manon) . Massanet Quartet (Rigoletto) . Verdi Caro Nome (Rigoletto) Verdi The Ride of the Valkyries . . - . Wagner continued on page two Sales students run west campus store West campus sales orientation students decided that they needed practical experience in the art of salesmanship, so they organized and selected a sales manager, and began running the bookstore. Everything ran smoothly for a while, then it was agreed that there wasn’t enough competition between the class, so they started having sales contests. The first week they sold paper punches, and Siebbert Weissman won the contest. Last week the contest was to sell the most sta¬ tionery, and Weissman again pulled through with flying colors to win a second time. This week the contest is to see who can sell the most of everything. Reward to the winner of the most contests will be a grand prize at the end of the year. Education for American Way of Life theme of local school observance “Education for the American Way of Life” is the gen¬ eral theme of Pasadena’s observance of American Education week, beginning Sunday. A. Roland Walker, principal of Fremont school and chairman of the Pasadena Teachers’ associa¬ tion education committee, is gen¬ eral chairman for the observance. Purpose of National Education week is to give John Public a chance to see the work of the schools and to reaffirm the im¬ portant function that education plays in the democratic scheme. Courtenay Monsen, secretary of the Board of Education, intro¬ duced the event to Pasadena citi¬ zens in a radio announcement last Wednesday evening on Pasa¬ dena’s KPPC. Last night Dr. John A. Sexson, school superin¬ tendent, spoke on education to the University club. Sunday’s theme of “Philosophy for Democracy” will serve as a sermon for Pasadena preachers. Themes for other days are: Mon¬ day, “Opportunities of Civic Re¬ sponsibility;” Tuesday, “Duties of Civic Responsibility;” Wednes¬ day, “Problems of Citizenship;” Thursday, “Fruits of Civic Re¬ sponsibility;” Friday, “Recent Committments for Democracy;” Saturday, “New Hope from Full- filment of Civic Responsibility.” Students of Pasadena junior college will speak to Pasadena business men’s clubs in connec¬ tion with the various topics. Window displays in various down¬ town stores will call the atten¬ tion of the public to the observ¬ ance. All schools will have open house.