Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 28

              voluntary liquor cure is basis for latest work asylum speaker did reporting chem society hears shultz larry clinton william g dukek n.a.a gives club charter will aid o.d.k on job probe orchestra plans to tour south after fraternity ball tomorrow driving care is urged by t t gray tomorrow night at about 10 o'clock as tommy dorsey looks down from the platform of the spacious ballroom at dorney park raises his trombone and starts to play the long-awaited much talked-of interfraternity ball of 1938 will begin although no definite answer has been received from dorsey the rumor that he would play some of the songs written by david c hughes special student has not been denied possibly no other orchestra would be more welcome at a le high dance certainly no dance during the past several years has caused such a buzz of conversation or has broken the front pages more often than this one the en gagement of a name band and the decision to hold the dance outside the town have caused a stir dorsey plays at cornell popular at new york's hotel commodore for several months this fall and winter dorsey was only lured away from his desirable stand by tempting offers from several colleges and public ball rooms he will play at cornell university the night before he visits lehigh will then go to roch ester n v and later will tour the south making one - night stands his regular wednesday night amateur swing contest was held in louisville ky feb 9 and will be held feb 16 at cincinnati ohio with him as usual will be his vocalists edythe wright jack leonard and the esquires pop ular for his interpretations of old favorites he will play many pieces he has already done on his com mercial radio program and for phonograph recordings continued on page six homecoming date has been changed by 11 s zachary william b seabrook a many sided genius who is appearing in the fourth of the concert-lecture series at 8 15 p m today in broughal high school is famed throughout the world for his ver satility once a cub reporter on the staff of the chronicle in augusta ga and now one of america's leading authors sea brook has gained renown as an explorer adventurer and lecturer in his book air adventure which he published in 1923 the author describes his flight by air plane over and his explorations of the sahara desert he was one of the first men to have performed this feat mr seabrook's latest book asylum was written after he had himself committed purposely to the new york sate insane asy lum for a supposed liquor cure the cure resulted in a most un usual book in which the author relates his experiences in the var ious wards of the institution such sights as an inmate eating christ mas tree bulbs and a near riot when a movie was shown in which katherine hepburn refused to eat her breakfast are narrated in the book asylum was a national best seller about three years ago writes for periodicals not only has mr seabrook ach ieved national popularity through his books and lectures but his articles in numerous magazines have given him an audience num bering into the millions his con tributions have been seen in col lier's forum atlantic monthly and many other magazines he has also written articles for sev eral french and english period icals his magic island which is a living history of voodoo rites set down by a man who has been in itiated into the mystical order and jungle ways a story of the af rican tribal superstitions are both found in the university library u.s army gives airplane exhibit swing arranger signed by military honorary for ball march 5 students to pick queen 7 schools are expected to choose entries for beauty contest by h m conner larry clinton believed by many dance enthusiasts to be one of america's foremost swing-music arrangers will lead his band at the constitution ball sponsored by scabbard and blade honorary military society march 5 at the national guard armory celebrities of stage screen and radio and high army and state of ficials who are expected to attend the affair which will commemorate the 150 th anniversary of the sign ing of the constitution of the un ited states will be announced within a few days clinton to tour east the signing of clinton an nounced this week by the military ball committee headed by ray winters bus 38 brings the young band leader to bethlehem for a stop in his present tour where he has been playing at eastern college dances and at short theatre engagements following last year's precedent a queen of the ball will be chos en by a poll taken among lehigh students photographs of contest ants campus queens from seven colleges for women will be sent to the committee who will sponsor the local contest the following schools which will enter in the competition are moravian college and seminary for women cedar crest college beaver college jenkintown briar cliff college briarcliff manor n v sarah lawrence college bronx ville n v and ogantz col lege ogantz wrote dipsy doodle clinton who wrote the currently popular dipsy doodle organized his band when hired by rca vic tor to feature recordings and play on their commercial broadcast after a short time he began to gain popularity solely through the medium of his recordings the band making no public appear ances only recently has clinton's band played for dancing he will be at the ivy ball at the university of pensylvania the night before his local appearance bnd his sched ule includes a stop at princeton continued on page six will study relationship of student offices to living groups 2 juniors are elected names will be revealed on eve of initiation wednesday march 2 two juniors were elected to membership and a committee to investigate the relation of major campus offices to living groups was chosen at the meeting of om icron delta kappa national sen ior activities honorary held wed nesday evening at the alpha tau omega fraternity the names of the two men elect ed will not be revealed until the evening of initiation to be held wednesday march 2 in the ar cadia room in drown hall followed by a dinner-meeting at the delta tau delta fraternity president john s hoppock i e 38 has requested that all men who sub mitted points remain in their liv ing groups at 5:30 p m on that date when the two members will be tapped dukek to head group hoppock appointed william g dukek chem 38 chairman paul e p white e e 38 and charles f zell bus 38 the committee for the investigation of campus organizations it is their duty to investigate the facts regarding the participation of living groups in major offices of campus organi zations over a period of years with a view to arriving at some definite conclusions they will submit their report at the march meeting the report of the committee to investigate the revision of fresh man regulations which met in joint session with a similar com mittee appointed by arcadia was rejected although the essence of the report was approved in prin ciple this committee consisted of j palmer murphy arts 38 chair man william g dukek chem 38 and robert v henning i e 38 this same report will be sub mitted to arcadia at their meeting next monday the application for affiliation with omicron delta kappa pre sented by the brahman society of the american university of wash ington d c was approved harry milbank i e 38 re ported that the findings of the committee to investigate the stad ium as a site for the 1938 com mencement had been submitted to president williams 4 to be married tryout postponed aero society entertains wiley post at banquet smiley also speaks a charter officially recognizing the lehigh university aero club by the national aeronautical as sociation was presented by albert j wolfe representative of the as sociation to the club last evening at their banquet in chi psi lodge among the guests present were wiley post internationally known flyer and earl k smiley assistant director of admissions and faculty adviser to the club mr post spoke to the club on the responsibili ties of the members in getting be hind the club now that it has been officially recognized by the n a a wolfe suggests expansion mr wolfe spoke on the possi bilities of private flying and out lined its weaknesses and needs among other things he mentioned the need for slow speed planes that would float around and al low the novice to experiment in maneuvering mr wolfe also gave the club ideas on further expan sion by mentioning what the n a a stands for in both private and social life and in national importance mr smiley as representative of the university welcomed the club as an official recognized ex tracurricular activity and stated its importance as an educational function schmidt selected instructor's wife tells theory of vitamins and hormones speaking on recent natural products chemistry at a meeting of the chemical society last night in the chemistry lecture room dr emma dietz-schultz wife of dr raymond f schultz instructor in chemistry cited recent discoveries to explain the present amount of knowledge of hormones and vita mins with diagrams of the various vitamins and hormones to aid her explanation she indicated the sim ilarity in their makeup and pro voked laughter in her audience when she stated that the difference between the male and female sex hormones is a matter of a few molecules although a great num ber of vitamins has been discov ered and calssified she said that there is still much work to be done before knowledge is complete praises germans dr dietz-schultz praised the work of two german chemists in the field which she was discussing they are dr heinrich wieland and dr adolf windaus who won the nobel prize in chemistry in 1927 and 1928 respectively a compound known as methyl cholanthine which results from the contact of certain members of the group of hormones and vita mins with sulphur has been ap plied to the skin of rats she said and has resulted in cancer although intensive research has attempted to connect this finding with causes of cancer in humans no definite tie-up can be found in the laboratory but a similar com pound has been discovered to be the cause of cancer in workers in tar plants in england dr estes speaks after the completion of dr dietz-schultz's talk dr william l estes introduced to the audi ence as the dean of bethlehem medicine spoke of the great ad vancement in knowledge since his student days which had been for cibly impressed upon him by the lecture . recent medical discoveries he said have lead to the belief that the female sex organs contain a fluid whch causes cancer when permitted to escape suppression of this fluid has helped and even cured cases thought too hopeless for surgery after a short open meeting in which dr dietz-schultz answered questions by students and faculty members refreshments were served o thursday chapel service announced by beardslee services for episcopalian stu dents will be held at 11:15 a m every thursday in packer mem orial chapel according to an an nouncement made by dr claude g beardslee university chaplain the sevices had been originally scheduled for 10 a m every wed nesday pi delta epsilon to take over investigation of publications pi delta epsilon honorary pub lications fraternity yesterday joined o d k in its investigation of the perpetuating control of major campus offices in living groups by appointing a committee to investigate such control of stu dent publications the committee which was ap pointed at a meeting held in drown hall was instructed to secure data for the past ten years on the living group affiliations of all publication officers in addition the group will study the election practices of the brown and white ihe review and the epitome hunsberger is chairman francis w hunsberger i e 38 former business manager of the brown and white was named chairman the other members of the committee will be george rheinfrank i e 39 business manager of the review and her bert wilson arts 38 editor in chief of the epitome the results of the investigation will be given to o d x along with any recommendations which pi delt may care to make tentative plans were also made to secure a prominent speaker in the publication field for a public program to be given late in march students interested in publication work in nearby colleges and sec ondary schools are to be guests at this program the fraternity also heard a re port by carstens y haas ch e 38 secretary of the local chapter on the work of his committee in reviving dormant chapters of the fraternity because of the strength of the lehigh chapter this work was assigned to it at the last na tional convention to give awards m £. department to use gift for course study an airplane has recently been added to the mechanical engineer ing equipment in packer labor atory it will be arranged as an exhibit along the north wall on the third floor of the laboratory the arrangement is in charge of howard a kelley graduate as sistant in mechanical engineering assisting kelley will be two sen ior mechanical engineers g a dornin and e c johnson the airplane a two-place obser vation-bomber was given to the university by the u s army it will be used for demonstration purposes in connection with the course in aerodynamics the department also plans to build a wind-tunnel for the test ing of aerodynamic designs o everhart 25 marries john l everhart 25 was mar ried to helen hyde feb 1 at indianapolis everhart is now in the employ of the standard oil company of new jersey state game substituted for eastern classic lehigh's annual alumni home coming day has beeen set for saturday oct 15 this year an nounced william a cornelius ex ecutive secretary of the alumni association this day is the occas ion of the lehigh-penn state foot ball game hitherto the practice has been to hold the homecoming day dur ing lafayette weekend the laf ayette game being held away from home this year this arrangement is impossible cornelius said the alumni association feels however that the day set will be perfectly satisfactory one of the probable features of the day will be an inspection of charles russ richards house the first unit of the new dormitory system it is expected that the un it will be completed and occupied by that time it is probable that the board of directors of the alumni assoc iation will change its meeting day to oct 15 instead of the morning of the lehigh-lafayette game as has been the custom this how ever has not been decided mustard and cheese trials to be held monday tryouts for the coming mustard and cheese production men in white scheduled for last wed nesday at 4 p m were cancelled because the scripts failed to arrive on time all those students who want to try out should report at 8:30 p m monday at drown hall at this time albert a rights direc tor of the production will read the play and conduct the competition for the cast there have been 25 men who have already signed up as candidates for the play men in white by sidney kingsley had a very successful two-year run on broadway as a stage production after this initi al success the cinema magnates filmed the story with clark gable and loretta young in the leads o 4 corporations consult more than 100 seniors more than 100 seniors were in terviewed by representatives of four companies for senior place ment in the past three days the tide water oil company and the american locomotive company held interviews at the placement bureau tuesday the public service gas and electric company interviewed men for the position of cadet engineer wednesday yesterday the aetna life insurance company represen tative interviewed 20 men engagements of former students announced harold a gibbs 37 was re cently engaged to miss pauline benyo of bethlehem mr gibbs is now employed by the bethlehem steel company miss benyo is a graduate of liberty high school and allentown hospital nurses college mr and mrs w e quillin of long island announced the en gagement of their daughter kath ryn to joseph t clauss jr 33 also of long island c e harkrader 37 will marry miss mary g larson of glen ridge n j on feb 19 in glen ridge bruce morrison 29 hartsdale n v is engaged to miss carolyn berger of stanford conn mor rison is employed by the m ewing fox company of new york o students will participate in college spelling bee lehigh will oppose the moravian college for women march 7 in the lehigh valley spelling bee in the first of a series of broadcasts under the auspices of the muhlen berg chapter of kappa phi kappa professional educational fraternity other colleges participating in the bee are muhlenberg lafayette cedar crest kutztown and mor avian college for men picked by a c s as out standing chem student walter j schmidt jr ch e 38 has been selected by the le high valley section of the ameri can chemical society as the out standing chemistry student at le high university the award for this selection is a full member ship in the society and subscrip tions to any two of its journals officers of the lehigh valley section who come from the uni versity are charles simmons as sociate professor of chemical en gineering chairman judson g smull instructor in chemistry vice-chairman and hilton a smith instructor in chemistry other selections for the award were sam re lafayette college a uhler muhlenberg college w mardeness albright college and janet mcnabb cedar crest col lege first woman to receive this honor o hibshman to give talk a talk on history of engineer ing in the lehigh valley will be given by prof nelson s hibshman at the friday meeting of the am erican institute of electrical en gineers in the hotel sterling wilkes-barre know where dorney is here's how from allentown lehigh makes available 10 scholarships lehigh university is offering to male students graduating from secondary schools in the united states and meeting all entrance requirements ten regional com petitive scholarships valued at 1,600 each the awards will be based on college entrance examinations high school activity records and general character recommenda tions general scholastic achievement tests will be given on april 9 for the wards for further details write to the office of admissions of lehigh university before march 1 o riley to speak tonight dr edgar h riley associate professor of english will be the speaker tonight at a service sup per to be given by the men's league of the first moravian church bethlehem pa friday february 11 1938 o.d.k to seek data on job monopolies vol xlv — no 28 price — five cents larry clinton slated to play for dance dorsey band may feature hughes songs seabrook has world renown as adventurer to play for ball heads investigation lehigh university brown and white doors to open at 7:30 the doors of broughal high school will open at 7:30 o'clock this evening to admit persons to hear william b seabrook lecture on magic and witch craft the fourth in the stu dent concert-lecture series no one will be admitted after 8 15 tickets to outsiders cost 1.00 students will use stub ticket d in the back of the athletic book all the lehigh lsew first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612