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Pasadena Chronicle, November 17, 1939
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‘Bachelor Born’
tomorrow night
Vol. 31
Pa
Be at pep rally
at 3 pm today
No. 10
Pasadena junior college, November 17, 1939
DR- JOHN W. HAKBESON, Principal of Pasadena junior college is shown here as he addressed the
student body in the Armistice day assembly for Moral Re-Armament. From this microphone, the pro¬
gram was broadcast throughout western America.
33 stations broadcast peace message
as Moral Re-Armament sweeps campus
Thirty-three radio stations on the Mutual Don Lee broad¬
casting system from San Diego to Seattle, from Salt Lake
City to Hawaii, picked up last Friday’s Moral Re- Armament
assembly and broadcast the Armistice day program to the
entire west.
On Friday morning KHJ set up their microphone on the
War referendum, supported by the Chronicle in an edi¬
torial last week, was suggested as one means of peace prepar¬
edness by Senator Gerald P. Nye when he addressed the
Forum lecture series last Tuesday.
“Determination alone cannot keep us out of foreign
wars,” the noted isolationist said, “because we let our Ameri¬
can economy depend on the profits of foreign war.”
stage of the east campus. By
nine o’clock 1800 students sat in
profound silence in the darkened
auditorium while before the low¬
ered curtain Howard Clapp, stu¬
dent body president, as is the
tradition, read out the names of
the 19 PJC students who died in
the last war.
“It is to those men and millions
of others who gave their lives
that this program is dedicated,”
he said as the sound of taps and
muffled drums faded and the cur¬
tain rose.
WILLARD HUNTER
“As we celebrate today the
21st anniversary of the Armis¬
tice, we are going to consider
why millions of people the
world over see in Armistice the
framework of a mighty ans¬
wer,” said Willard Hunter, for¬
mer president of the student
body at Carleton college, Min¬
nesota. “It can mean the per¬
manent cure for war, because
what we are talking about this
morning is a change in human
nature.”
“I suppose all of you at some
time or other have heard or
seen the three letters MRA,
standing for Moral Re-Arma¬
ment. There are a lot of things
I could tel: you about what
MRA has done and is doing.
For instance I could say that it
takes fellows out of the dog¬
house and out from behind the
eight-ball. I could tell you it
takes the chips off shoulders
and the stiffirg out of shirts.”
SOLVE STRIKES
“I could also say that it is solv¬
ing strikes, setting disputes be¬
tween competitors, uniting homes
on the brink of divorce, bringing
a new spirit of honesty into pol¬
itics, and giving youth a new hope
and a new purpose. MRA has
kicked out the lie that youth has
no more opporturity.”
“But just whit is this MRA
anyway? Morai Re- Armament
is a race with ame to remake
men and nations. It is a con-
Continued on page three
Guild to present
Ian Hay premiere
Pasadena junior college stu¬
dent players will present the
Southern California and Pacific
Coast premiere of “Bachelor
Born,” Ian Hay’s great London
success, tomorrow night at 8 in
the east campus auditorium.
Head-lining the cast of players
is Ward Wood, Playhouse star of
the 1939- spring hit, “The Great
American Family.” Lamont John¬
son is the other leading character.
“Bachelor Born played for more
than a year in London and then
thrilled New Yorkers for months.
Now it comes to the Pacific Coast
for the first time. The story cen¬
ters around a placid school master
who is leading a pleasant harm¬
less life when three women turn
his life into a merry-go-round.
In the cast are: Paul Carrol,
Dorothea Streib, William Burke,
Harold Wolff, Burnace Moreten-
son, Marian Sprott, Betty Litz,
Marilyn Walker, Maxine Rogers,
Grenes Krai, J. C. England, Don
Bernstein, Harold Britain, Jerry
Jones and William Harvey.
School skate takes place
next Wednesday night
An all-school skating party will
be held at the Moonlight Roller¬
way, Wednesday, November 29,
at 7:30 pm. The proceeds will be
added to the Junior College Wel¬
fare fund which buys, lunches,
glasses, carfare and other neces¬
sary items for needy students.
Mrs. W. S. Pattison is in charge
of the benefit.
‘It is the big social affair of the
week for the junior college,”
Dean of Women Catherine J. Rob¬
bins, said. Sports clothes will be
worn to the rink, which is located
at 3668 East Colorado street. Ad¬
mission is 25c per person.
Publications sweep
field in contest
Prizes in all three contest divi¬
sions were taken by Pasadena
junior college at the seventh an¬
nual Beta Phi Gamma (journal¬
ism fraternity) fall convention,
held recently in Long Beach.
First prize in the yearbook divi¬
sion went to Campus 1939, edited
by Freda Groff, which was highly
commended for its excellent pho¬
tography, art work, copy and
sports section. Editors responsi¬
ble for these divisions were, re¬
spectively, Wilson Hole, Jack
Griffin, Dale Clayton and Shav-
enau Glick.
Chief criticism of the book was
for omission of the faculty sec¬
tion. “Apparently Pasadena jun¬
ior college students don’t love
their teachers.” Beta Phi Gamma
President Dr. George C. Booth
commented at the dinner at Lake-
wood country club, Saturday eve¬
ning when these prizes were
awarded.
Third prize for newspapers
went to the Chronicle, and third
prize in the writers’ contest to its
editor, Dale Clayton.
Pasadena’s Alpha chapter in¬
vited the rest of the fraternity to
attend a spring meeting featuring
a comprehensive writers’ contest
in 1940. This invitation was made
during luncheon at Long Beach’s
Hotel Hilton Saturday, at which
Under his topic, “Preparedness
for Peace,” he listed the follow¬
ing points in addition to the war
referendum:
PREPAREDNESS
Passage of the War Profits bill,
which has been in Congress com¬
mittees four years, and which, he
predicted, will be introduced at
the next regular session.
Develop an American economy
independent of foreign war prof¬
its.
Develop Latin-American trade
on a permanent basis.
Be on guard against further at¬
tempts to repeal portions of ex¬
isting neutrality legislation.
FIRST STEP
Senator Nye deplored the re¬
peal of the arms embargo, as the
first step towards our involve¬
ment in foreign war. He decried
the proposal to register American
merchant ships under the Pan¬
ama flag as a further step which
shows “extremely bad faith.”
“Let Americans,” he said, “if
they are determined to stay out
of war, learn to hate foreign
things more, lest they lose those
things more, lest they lost those
things they love most today.”
APPLAUSE
Further points in the address
which prompted frequent ap¬
plause were:
The United States could not en¬
dure another war of the extent
of the last one and emerge strong
enough to sustain democracy.
The current war presents no
challenge to America that “merits
the sacrifice of even one Ameri¬
can mule.”
England is “aroused and willing
to fight to the last drop of French,
Continued on page three
CRAFT WORK DISPLAYED
Examples of the craft work
done by students of the arts and
crafts department will be dis¬
played in the art showcase of
the main hall next week.
time the resignation of Miss
Gladys L. Snyder, fraternity
founder, as Pasadena adviser and
national vice-president was an¬
nounced.
Wayne L. Hodges, Chronicle
adviser and new Beta Phi Gam¬
ma mentor, was named historian
at this time.
Attending the meetings for
Pasadena were Charlie Allen, Car¬
ol Bortin, Dale Clayton, Forrest
Duke, Shavenau Glick, Gil Schlen-
dering and Adviser Hodges.
Youth Peace Rally
to be held Monday
All students of Pasadena junior
college are invited to attend the
“Youth Rally for Peace” to be
held in the east campus auditor¬
ium tonight at 8 pm.
Spontaneously sponsor ed by
many youth organizations, both
on and off the campus, this rally
is the second of its kind in
southern California in recent
weeks, the first being held in the
Philharmonic auditorium on the
night of August 9th, and attended
by 2000 Los Angeles youths.
All of the speakers are youth
of conscript age who are con¬
vinced that America must keep
out of war, and that youth, at
this time must make its voice
heard in a united plea for peace.
TWOFOLD PROGRAM
Their progress, according to
Don Brown, son of film actor Joe
E. Brown, is twofold. “First,
America must stay out of this
war, and second, we youth of
America would like to devote our
attention to the problems here in
America that need solving.”
“This movement is absolutely
non-partisan, and does not ask
for sponsorship. All sponsors of
the movement do so of their own
free will,” according to leaders in
the work in southern California.
NO EMOTION
In the words of chairman
Brown, “Tonight’s meeting will be
absolutely without emotion, and
will be merely a calm, quiet, an¬
alysis of what war is, what it
costs to those of us who would
have to pay the supreme price,
and what we as youth can do
about it.”
NON-PARTISAN PROGRAM
Although they represented
many divergent interests, all
these young people agreed as a
body on two acceptable funda¬
mentals. (A) We do not have to
fight Europe’s war; we can stay
out ifwe have the will to stay
out, and (B) We do have a job
here at home of waging a demo¬
cratic war against such enemies
as poverty, intolerance, crime
and disease.
Don Wierda wins eleventh
Arnold extemp contest
Don Wierda, member of the
debate team, won first prize in
the eleventh annual Arnold ex¬
temporaneous speaking contest
held in the west campus cafe¬
teria last night.
Five speakers from the east
campus and two from the west,
participated in the contest, which
was judged by a select group of
faculty and students. Wierda was
awarded a gold medal by C. O.
Arnold, founder of the contest.
Second and third places were ta¬
ken by Bob Gillette and Betty
McMahon .
Those who spoke from the east
campus were William Wagner,
Gillette, Wierda, Vince Erickson
and Miss McMahon. West campus
speakers were Seibert Weissman
and Tom Pfeifer. Hedley J. Reed¬
er, public speaking instructor,
was in charge
Rooting section finale
at Indian game tonight
Grand finale for PJC’s organized rooting section comes tonight
when for the last time this fall the guys and gals and pom-poms and
rooters’ caps fill the block “P” on the east side of the bowl.
There will be no attempt to split up the men and women at Wed¬
nesday’s game with Ventura J.C. because most students will be dat¬
ing for the junior-senior dance that night.
Pep Commissioner Red South urges Pasadena’s loyal rooters
to come through in the same fine style they have upheld all season.
Preceding tonight’s game with San Bernardino, will be a gigan¬
tic pep rally held in the auditorium of the east campus at 3 p.m.
Two new school yells will be practiced, and the rooters will cook
up a surprise for dad, as tonight is dads night at the Rose Bowl.
Pledges to be hazed
in assembly today
Hell week activities will be
enacted on the junior college
stage this monring in the as¬
sembly periods when a selected
group of pledges from men’s
and women’s restrictive clubs
put on the regular performances
demanded by their club superiors.
Although this is the first time
that such an activity has been
attempted at PJC, RICC presi¬
dent Dudley Hall expressed the
hope that this would become a
tradition here. The theme of the
program will be an informal
joint pledge metting.
Muriel Stevens and Grange
McKinney will be acting pledge-
mistress and pledgemaster res¬
pectively. Jim Cassity, who is
also in charge of original plays,
“The Greeks Had A Bird For It,”
and “Crafty Hall,” has helped
direct this program and select
the performers.
This assembly, which will be¬
come a regular activity at the
close of each pledge period, has
replaced the traditional hell-
week because of school objections
against the disturbances of the
final pledging activities.
Teacher carries card
saying he's not student
One person at Pasadena jun¬
ior college has an identification
card to prove that he is not a
student.
When Bob Ball, instructor in
forestry and botany, inquired
at the library for a copy of “My
Country and My People,” Miss
Winifred E. Skinner, librarian,
asked:
‘Have you been given an as¬
signment on this? There have
been so many requests for it
lately.”
To Miss Skinner’s confusion,
Mr. Ball pointed out that he
was receiving no assignments;
he was a teacher.
To prevent further mistaken
identity, Mr. Ball has now pre¬
pared a card bearing his picture
and the inscription:
Mr. Bob Ball, Faculty, Life
Science Department, Forestry-
Botany.
Arrows pointing to the pic¬
ture are marked: coat, tie, re¬
ceding forehead. These are ex¬
plained in a footnote:
“Points of identification as
faculty member..”
Harbeson lauds 'battle for peace'
at Armistice day assembly Nov. 10
Mallory will be feted
in dad’s night program
Varsity Coach Tom Mallory, newest papa in the faculty, will be
especially feted during the Dad’s night celebration at tonight’s game
with San Bernardino jaysee in the Rose bowl.
AMS President Johnny Walker will present him with a piggy
bank filled by compassionate members of the student body today. In
addition, Mallory will get a salute from the stands and have an
enormous diaper pinned on him as a badge of acceptance into the
fraternity of fatherhood.
DADS’ SONG
Dad’s night will be featured in all activities connected with the
game. During the pep rally in the auditorium this afternoon at 3,
students will practice singing “What’s the matter with Father, he’s
ail right,” which they will blast forth from the stands.
For dinner tonight the AMS board, cabinet and all officers will
fete their fathers at the Pasadena Athletic club. Dr. Robert Freeman,
pastor of the Pasadena Presbyterian church, is speaker. Other
dinners for fathers and students will be sponsored by more than 15
men’s clubs of the campus. The Bulldog band will sup with their
fathers after the game.
VARSITY DADS
All students, men and women alike, are urged to bring their
dads to the game. The football team’s dads will sit on the bench
right behind their sons with their son’s numbers on their coats.
Those footballers whose dads are out of town will be represented
by Pasadena citizens
Senator Nye advocates
war referendum in talk
Neutrality is topic
DR. MALBONE GRAHAM
Malbone Graham
on Tuesday Forum
Dr. Malbone W. Graham of the
UCLA political science depart¬
ment, will address the Tuesday
evening forum November 21, at
8 pm in the Pasadena junior col¬
lege Sexson auditorium. He will
speak on “The Problem of Neu¬
trality for the United States.”
Dr. Graham is well known to
Pasadena audiences, having lec¬
tured here several times. He is
regarded as an outstanding au¬
thority on the new nations of
Central Europe and his two vol¬
umes, “The New Governments of
Eastern Europe” and “The New
Governments of Central Europe”
are standard works.
He has traveled much in Eu¬
rope, Central and South America;
he has spent many days listening
to the deliberations of the League
of Nations. He is familiar with
the great libraries of Europe and
America, and speaks and reads a
number of foreign languages.
He received his AB, AM and
PhD degrees from the University
of California at Berkeley and has
been with the University of Cali¬
fornia at Los Angeles since 1926.
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