Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 22

              cyanide taps 6 new men at flagpole junior society elects members wed night six members of the class of 1945 x were elected to cyanide junior honorary activities society at a meeting held 6:30 wednesday evening at the psi upsilon frater nity announced hugh boyd m.e president the new members were tapped at the flagpole at noon to day the six men and their activities are as follows keith w amish e e 3.5 av erage for three semesters stage manager of mustard and cheese member of mustard and cheese corresponding secretary of alpha phi omega epitome competition historian of phi eta sigma and member of the newtonian society charles b austin met e sec retary-treasurer of the sophomore class handbook business board epitome board junior business manager brown and white com petition handbook photography staff freshman track competition bachelor business staff competi tion and swimming competition j harry br indie m e pres ident of the sophomore class ar cadia rally commitee wrestling competition class day representa tive brown and white competi tion and sophomore football man ager louis ml domeratzky m.e 3.94 average for three semesters var sity cross country letters fresh man handbook staff handbook business board freshman cross country competition president phi eta sigma bachelor assistant ad vertising manager epitome com petition ralph a evans eng phys 3.71 average for three semesters pres ident of town section b freshman cross country numerals secretary of the physics society secretary of the town council fred e wiley jr m e var sity cross country letters 2.5 av erage for three semesters fresh man cross country numerals freshman track numerals and co holder of the college cross country course record the time of the next meeting has not yet been announced but plans are under way for an initia tion dinner christmas service to be held sunday the annual all-college christ mas service will be held jointly for lehigh and moravian students at 3:30 o'clock sunday afternoon in packer chapel president clement c williams will read the greeting and dr claude g beardslee university chaplain will read the biblical story of the birth of christ and will offer the prayer the glee clubs of the two schools will combine to swell the choir to well over 100 voices the lehigh symphony orchestra will accom pany the choir which will enter the chapel in a long candlelit pro cession the service the second of a se ries of holiday programs planned by the canterbury club is an an nual event and is one of the few times the chapel is open to the public dr edgar e shields director of the music department is in charge of the service the choir will sing three chorals and the symphony orchestra will play two numbers navy offices to be open sunday for enlistments dean congdon announces that students who have not yet completed enlistment in the navy v-l or v-7 can do so from 8:30 a m till evening this sunday at navy offices on the 17th floor of widener building juniper and chest nut street philadelphia applications pending 13 enlisted in v-5 with 9 pending and 51 en listed in v-7 with 7 pending the marine corps has recruited 18 men 7 of whom have not yet been sworn in the army air corps has 61 men definitely signed up and 11 await ing completion of enlistment four freshmen came through their hygiene examination held during freshman week with per fect papers these men are fran cis l meinhofer chem jerome h taub ch e roy c ward eng phys and daniel m zane arts by lynn c bartlett of other almost indescribable hor rors wenzell brown recently re leased from a hong kong prison camp told 200 seniors banquet ing wednesday evening in the hotel bethlehem ball-room speaking in despair brown maine-born professor of english at lingnan university hong kong tried to bring to the reali zation of his evidently deeply im pressed listeners the plight of the 2700 civilians and 5800 allied sol diers still perishing in the japa nese prisons at hong kong imprisoned for 6 months an internee in stanley military prison hong kong for six months he told of men crying be cause they were permitted to fight no longer of men women and children suffering from beri beri — which only death could cure — and of japanese soldiers beating chinese children into bleeding unconsciousness only a quick end to the war can end the nightmarish tortures of the imprisoned allies in the far east the speaker declared in a brief after-the-speech discussion with a few seniors he stated that the japanese soldier considers it an honor and a duty to blood his sword on as many enemies as possible — whether those enemies be british soldiers american wo men or chinese children one could sense the heart-deep sincerity of his concern over the companions still in hong kong who along with him had been herded through the streets for the psychological effect their cap tivity might have on the chinese crowds brown was released in an exchange of prisoners and came to america on the steamship gripsholm no applause was heard at the end of brown's speech — only the moment's silence that he himself requested toastmaster was e kenneth continued on page 2 240 chems hear rev home speak john j hucker ch e 43 of ficiated as toastmaster in the ab sence of robert whipple ch e 43 who is in st luke's hospital guests of the chemical society were president clement c wil liams dr harry m ullmann pro fessor emeritus of chemistry dean wray h congdon and a cope land callen dean of the engineer ing college prof charles w simmons though he was absent was this year the chief object of the stu dents satire of the chemistry de partment the four great qualities of the human race critical thinking courage mutual dependence and faith were discussed by rev b k home before 240 students at the annual student chemical society banquet at 6:30 o'clock last night in the masonic temple a military queen will again be chosen this year to rule over the ball saturday night in grace hall by the department's faculty scabbard and blade members will be given cards to do the pre liminary selecting these cards will be returned to the faculty at intermission time and a queen will be selected the queen will receive an officer's cap with a cadet col onel's insignia and a lehigh regi ment seal the committee also announced that about 125 tickets were sold up to wednesday but a crowd of at least 300 people is expected art wendell and his orchestra will fur nish the music and tickets may be obtained from the military depart ment supply bureau dispensary or any of the student officers to select queen at military ball wenzell brown was the guest speaker at the senior banquet held wednesday night in hotel bethlehem brown told of the horrible ex periences of being a prisoner in a japanese prison camp pictured left to right are dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy john m stockbridge m e 43 secretary treasurer of the class of 43 wenzell brown guest speaker who recently was released from hong kong prison camp leonard r constantine bus 43x one of the banquet committee members president clement c williams and samuel j davy e e 43 price — 5 cento bethlehem pa friday december 11 194 vol l no 22 soph banquet to be held next week to meet wed night in masonic temple the last banquet of the class of 45 will be held at 6:30 p m next wednesday dec 16 in the mas onic temple in bethlehem since the accelerating sopho mores will be juniors in january it will be practically impossible to hold another similar banquet tickets at 1.50 apiece will go on sale friday evening at the supply bureau the dispensary and ar cadia office the members of the committee in charge of the affair are charles b austin met e chairman john h keenan m e joseph b adams jr m e stuart r mc intyre i e alfred c cauen jr met e george b staples jr m e ward a bradford m e richard e penniman arts ed ward a orth jr met e wil liam t bachman bus and paul j franz jr bus wenzell brown describes japanese prison horrors graduating men must submit epitome blanks robert w pugh chem 43 editor of the epitome reports that only 35 to 40 question naire blanks were submitted after the last notice was is sued he adds that nearly 125 are still out and asks that ac celerated juniors as well as seniors holding blanks return them as soon as possible to the placement bureau students failing to abide by this re quest will not have a place in the yearbook the 6 fee is payable on or before dec 16 499 enlist in reserves a list of tentative and verified enlistments in the various reserve corps since the military assembly on oct 19 has been released by dean wray h congdon in the navy there are 142 men assigned to v-l 55 of whom have the army enlisted reserve corps shows a total of 278 includ ing 86 advanced infantry 63 ad vanced ordnance and 103 unas signed 23 of whom have applica tions pending brown & white lehigh university of starving men trying to breathe in cramped and filthy cells of an interned canadian girl standing for weeks inside a barbed wire entanglement watching her brother's body rot just outside of a hos pital ward turned into a shambles when japanese soldiers bayoneted the occupant of each bed of men so tied that they could not lie down without strangling each other — of these things and of hundreds arcadia sets bundle dates two bundle days to aid un derprivileged children in the unit ed states and needy bombed-out children in britain will be held in the university monday and tues day dec 14 and 15 the drive for serviceable cloth ing and shoes is under the direc tion of arcadia in connection with a children's clothing crusade now being conducted by the save the children federation all over the united states the arcadia committee is send ing letters to all living groups ex plaining the drive and asking for cooperation each living group will make all collections within its own confines and on dec 14 and 15 a member of the commit tee will pick up the contributions the committee received 25 large paper bags from the federation which they would like to fill shoes and clothes will be cut down to fit the children william f metten jr bus 44 is the chairman of the arcadia committee in charge of this drive other committee members are john m skilling jr arts 44 thomas d wetrich bus 45 and robert e meury bus 44 social fraternities hold initiations four of lehigh's social fraterni ties have had their initiations re cently tau delta phi's initiation on dec 5 made members of jerome taub ex-'46 leonard kline arts 46 seymour schwartz m e 46 walter sail ch e 46 bert lasko i e 46 arnold schwartzberg ch e 46 seemon pines ch e 46 norman gordon ch e 46 and herbert lauterbach ch.e 44 sigma chi initiated the follow ing men on dec 6 louis m do meratzky m e 45 charles b austin met.e 45 j houston day bus 45 james f kleckner arts 45 stephen r rochester m e 45 fritz yon bergen ch e 45 edward l diehl c e 44 walter r robinson ex-'44 donald r helm ex-'44 and louis james e e 44 delta sigma phi inducted the following men on dec 4 domen ick m vallerio ch e 45 w donald henry e e 45 frank strahle george wheeler ch e 45 gilbert j barenborg ch e 45 sigma phi initiated j michael archibald e m 46 robert e barton c e 46 david j carri gan arts 44 william f gilroy bus 46 eldredge h leeming bus 45 h merrill lynch m e 46 stuart l mcnabb i e 46 glenn h williams met e 46 and norman c sidebotham ch e 46 attention eighteen-year olds dean congdon calls attention to the sixth draft registration begin ning today he advises students to register at home rather than at local boards those wishing to register in bethlehem and have their cards forwarded to home boards may do so at local board no 2 bethlehem trust building corner of main and broad streets he does not advise registration at any other local board registration periods follow 1 born between july 1 1924 and aug 31 1924 register from friday dec 11 through thursday dec 17 2 between sept 1 1924 and oct 31 1924 — friday dec 18 through thursday dec 24 3 between nov 1 1924 and dec 31 1924 — saturday dec 26 through thursday dec 31 all dates inclusive