19, No. 56. Z-149 Toniiv ^ 9mmtoday . ilRST UNIVERSITY NEWSREELp “ fraternity survey "'NVISIBLE ma^THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO, FRIDAf’'6m?o„..* * dowsion 2Sc ftOO Kentshing, Greeke, Newsreelpics Todayhe Invisible Man* withaude Raines Is Secondjature.^urinpr the main pictures ofg in the different styles of thes fraternities on campus Biller’s first University Newsreel,unity Survey,” will be shownat 2:30 and 4 in Mandelind at 8 in Kent. Universales’ 1934 thriller ‘‘The Invisiblestarring Claude Raines willtwn along with the first news-f the year.Newsreel picture is attempt-bring out the advantages andantages that are found in con-n with fraternity life so that‘s may find it easier to reachsion on whether or not to joinIso to record for posterity fra-f life at the University. On thehowever it is found that more‘ advantages are shown, espe-mcals. trophies, and games.Familiar Facess, however, the answer to ther of those who like the faces ofs and acquaintances for thea tour through University fra-ies leaves a strong impression;ing seen a lot of familiar facesives no possibility of ever being;o recognize them again,j. Wells’ story of a young Brit-ientist who discovered a chemi-hich could make him invisiblele Claude Raines’ first success-cture. Raines does not appear inlity except at the close of theFor the most part only his voiceird.order to do away with the yel-1 tinge that appeared on theI in the past, the Universityreel purchased a new Bell andII projector. Its 1500 wattsing the strength of formernes it is expecteil that the pro-n will have a profe.'ssional qual- Begin RehearsalsOf DA Play ‘‘Mr.Pirn Passes By”With rehearsals to begin this week,the cast of ‘‘Mr. Pirn Passes By,”the first Dramatic Association playwinter quarter, was selected yester¬day. Dates of the performance, orig-inally scheduled for January 27 and28, were shifted to February 3 and4, in the Reynolds Club theatre.Including three veteran players andfour newcomers, the ca.rt consists ofJames Lawson as George Marden,Margaret Elizabeth Hecht as OliviaMarden, and Ruth Wehlan as Dinah.Ashton Taylor is Brian; David Pletch-er takes the title role of Mr. Pirn;Doris Daniels is Anne; and HarrietPaine takes the part of Lady Mar¬den. Both Harriet Paine and Lawsonplayed in “Butter and Egg Man” lastquarter, ami Miss Wehlan was in theNewcomers’ program.Written by A. A. Milne, the authorof “Winnie the Pooh,” “Mr. PirnPasses By” was first performed inAmerica by the Theatre Guild in1921 at the Garrick. Included in theoriginal cast were Helen Westley,Dudley Digges, and Laura HopeCrews.Directed by Richard Himmel, “Am¬bition,” the second in the series ofweekly “DA Friday” one-act playsgiven by the Dramatic Association,begins in the Reynolds Club theatreat 3:30 this afternoon. The perform¬ance is open to all students. Fraternities Gird for Rushing;Open Four Day CampaignDirty Rushing LowdownDisclosed by Marooneuss WPA atrker\s Forumkling the problem in the midstse closest to it, James Burtle,? Ranspeck, Noel Nelson, and•d Fiser, Debate Unioners,ebate on the subject “ShouldPA Be Abolished?” at the Mid-Worker’s Forum, 3‘28 Westan street Sumlay at 8.1 Later, Inger Anderson, Mar-eer, and Thomas White will in-he Institute for Social ScienceNorth Clark street (which iseadquarters, according to Pierrer) to debate on the subjectId W’e Rearm,” at 8 p. m. nextly. The debate will be followedquestions and discussion from3or.Engle, Bob Boyer, Bob Quinn,aye MacKenzie will conduct atable type discussion on thet “Socialized Medicine, Goodi,” at the North Avenue Lar-YMCA Forum next Tuesday atllegiuin Gives•Olid (loncerti Collegium Musicum, organizedudy Bach and pre-Bach music,its second concert Sunday, Jan-22 at 8:15 in the south lounge ofThis Club. Noteworthy in theam will be Bach Cantata No.performed by orchestra ands. In addition the orchestra willa Concerto Grosso by Handel,ntaisie by Purcell, a suite bydt, and popular dances dating1599. The chorus will sing works)squin des Pres, Willaert, andand. The major portion of theam will be new to Chicagonces.i Collegium is under the direc-of Siegmund Levarie of the 1: department, and is one of the jnusical groups of its kind in the iry. About 40 students take part Iactivities. |mission to the concert is free, |s not limited to University stu- Medieval AirPervades Dormi Dance TomorrowI With dripless candles and covered! wall brackets in a stained gla.ssi motif, the Men’s Dormitory dinnerI dance Saturday night will remind allI of the fortunate 85 couples of quaintI medieval celebration. It is not defin-1 ite, but maybe even the Colonial Cluborche.stra will play swing in a man¬ner reminiscent of the Middle Agesto lend atmosphere to the swanky af¬fair.According to smooth Judson pro¬moter, Ken Skillin, the dance willhave the I-F Ball backed off theboards. Said Skillin proudly but fear¬fully when announcing that the priceof the dinner and dance was $4.00per couple, “There’s nothing cheapabout this dance.”Downtown TalentSkillin also promised some enter¬tainment, the best that downtownChicago could offer. And best sellingpoint of all, although the dinner it¬self won’t begin until 9:30, the dormswill hold an open house from 7:30on. Which is, for the dorms, some¬thing unique—a sweet which is gen¬erally forbidden.Skillin said that the formal was asell-out, but when pressed more clo.se-ly, he said that if you knew the rigntpeople, you might possibly be ableto squeeze out a bid to the affair—but that it was, of course, only avague possibility, since it was a sell¬out.CU, Negro ClubHolds Nickel PartyIt costs a nickel to go fo the partythat the Chapel Union Race Rela¬tions Committee is putting on withthe cooperation of the Negro Stu¬dents Club. The affair, which ac¬cording to the “Chapel Outlook” willbe “one of the star events of the(piarter,” will be the first that thetwo organizations have put on to¬gether. It is scheduled for this eve¬ning at eight in Ida Noyes Hall.Hazel Whitman who is in charge ofthe function has arranged the pro¬gram.Avukah Promises$100 to Refugee AidThe Refugee Aiders received theirthird promise of organizational sup¬port when Avukah voted to raise aquota of $100 towards the $5,000 tobe raised for room and board forrefugee scholarship holders.The Avukah donation raised to$700 the amount that has been prom¬ised the Refugee Aid and War Re-^lief committee since they opened ;their drive a week ago. Other or- ;ganizations which have reported so 'far are the Daily Maroon, and SocialService Administration Club. ; Three months ago the Interfraternitg Council moved to liberalizethe rushing rules by legalizing the formerly favorite off camjms dirtyrushing spots. The aim was to make rushing rules so fair that there wouldbe no reason for dirty rushing.The result—read it below. This is an incomplete report of whathapiwns before the rushing period gets into full swing. More can be ex¬pected during the stress of the next week.“Nobody has raised any real big stink about the dirty rush¬ing practiced by the fraternities for the simple reason that thosein the know are almost without exception fraternity men andthey don't want to stick their necks out by squealing on someof the other boys.“The Dekes are by all odds the favorite to win the doubtfulhonor that the Phi Psi’s walked off with last year; they gotgoing right at the beginning and almost before the end of fresh¬man week had sold their house, lock stock and barrel, to Burton730—Tillery is worth his weight in gold, say the brothers. It waskind of hard on the band of brothers when Big Bob and Seeberrwalked out, but Punk had a little party the other day to sew upJim and some of the other boys who aren’t fazed by any amountof unethical tactics. In all fairness, though, it must be said thatall the fraternities have been guilty of the sort of high pressur¬ing which has proved so effective for ye Dekes—the others justdon’t do it as well or as extensively.* * «“Of course, the cat is out of the Chi Psi’s bag—you know,the little incident of a theatre party or something—we only hopeit proves as good publicity for them as such flagrant offenseshave for other houses in the past. (Yes; still thinking about thepledge pins in the watch pockets.) Rumor hath it that even thesaintly Betas have given up their rushing chastity—they go tosee the boys off campus, and have even gone so far as to mentiona little luncheon cozy or something for their prospective pledgessometime this week ... comes da ravolution!“AD Phi has Bill, the boy from Culver, all in the bag; itseems he was prompted, of course no 1)00 knows how, to pledgeby mail through the Dean’s office ... all perfectly legal, butjust a little irregular. They still haven’t given up the ghost onJimmy, the redhead, in spite of the go-getter from California.The Psi U’s are in on the scrap for the young Detroiter too, butfirst base is still in the dim distance as far as they are concerned.“Speaking of Psi U brings back the memory of last yearwith a particularly vivid picture of the McNamee-Wiedemannsnarl; the campus is still wondering how the Phi Psi’s did it,and the Psi U’s are still crowing about how they kidnapped Macand kept him in seclusion chez les Stevens until dawn. As oneprospective pledge was saying the other day, the Psi U’s letrushing go until late in the fall; then they begin to get worriedand go at it hammer and tongs. Since no dirt of major propor¬tions has cropped up in connection with them as yet this year,people are beginning to wonder when the storm will break.* « it>“And then there was the time Les got a dose of Phi DeltaTheta in Renberg’s room, but it evidently went in one ear andout the other; Bex couldn’t even sell him a tie, much less afraternity, in spite of the fact that he had all night to do it.“Somebody said the other day that Bowers was crazy tospend any money for board when the Sigs were so obliging aboutsuch matters ... they even have the older generation entertain¬ing the boy from Harrisburg. The Betas are no pikers at thateither, by the way; brother Long, father of the present chapter,is supposed to have spent all day Sunday at it.“Earlier in the year, the Phi Psi’s were doing a little followup work on their summer’s efforts—you know, taxi service after(Continued on page 3)Dimock Tells of Workin Labor Department Intensive Rush WeekBegins With OpenHouse Sunday.Three weeks ago, Marshall EdwardDimock, associate professor of publicadministraton, was granted a leave ofabsence by the University so that hemight accept the position of SecondAssistant Secretary of Labor, a jobtendered him by Francis Perkins.Dimock left for Washington havingonly a vague notion of the work hewas to perform, but now with the ex¬perience of three weeks behind himhe writes to the University outliningthe trials and tribulation of a SecondAssistant Secretary of Labor.“To begin with,” Dimock stated,“there are two Assistant Secretariesof Labor! their respective duties dif¬fer considerably and evrti their basisof selection is different. The firstassistant secretary is nominated bythe trade unions and acts primarily asthe department’s liaison official.“The second assistant, on the otherhand, is chosen by the Secretary ofLabor for his executive ability andhence is charged with greater respon¬ sibility for operating administration.In a general way you may say thatone assistant secretary deals withexternal relations and the otherhandles internal relationships. How¬ever, even this general differentia¬tion is subject to important qualifica¬tions.”Ponders Over ImmigrationTo date Dimock’s general tasks andresponsibilities include work on theorganization and administraton of theImmigration Service, which in turnnecessitates negotiations with theState Department on certain commonmatters. However, the most difficulttask yet assigned to him involves anattempt to secure better coordinationbetween the Department of Labor’sEmployment Service and the SocialSecurity Board’s UnemploymentCompensation division.“So far,” Dimock wrote, “most ofthe administrative problems I havehad to deal with have been highly(Continued on page 2) By ROBERT SEDLAKFifteen fraternities are eagerlj-^girding themselves for the battle toentice the proper freshmen into theirrespective bonds of. brotherhood be¬ginning this weekend. For intensiverush week, that period of talk, smiles,handshakes and a far from normal in¬terest in seeing'that the proper fel¬lows get in with the proper crowd, be¬gins Sunday with open houses ateach fraternity.Then follows four days of intenseactivity, with three functions per day,lunches, dinners, and evenings, theresult of which is tallied Fridaymorning, when the harried frosh in¬dicate their preferences at the dean’soffice.What Will Be The Result?But in addition to the struggle ofgetting a large pledge group, eachfraternity is fully aware of what thisyear’s pledging may do to the fra¬ternity system on campus. Last yearonly 156 freshmen climbed the stairsof Cobb hall to scrawl their prefer¬ence for the Greeks, the smallest cropof recruits in recent years. This wasbut two over the year before’s low.What will this year’s total be ?Will the total remain somewhatthe same? Or increase? Or decrease?The fraternity men are optimistic.And perhaps they ought to be! Thisyear’s freshman class seems to beabout the best in recent years as faras concern for activities and sociallife goes. Witness the freshman classorganization, -officers, and dances.Neilson Optimistic“We expect at least 180 freshmento pledge this year,” commented I-Fscribe Roger Neilson enthusiastically.This would be at least 24 over lastyear’s total. “We think we can makethe freshmen realize we have some¬thing valuable to sell. There are fif¬teen strong houses on campus, andeach one of them expects to get anactive group of pledges.”Saturday at midnight rushing inthe dormitories becomes illegal, andfriendly association at any of thecampus hangouts becomes forbidden.Rushing this year seems to have beenparticularly clean on the surface, butthe charges of one observer, as re¬vealed in today’s Maroon, would seemto change the complexion of the cam¬paign.Phi Belts WinRadio ContestPandemonium reigned in the Capand Gown office at two minutes to4 yesterday when the Phi Delts turn¬ed in 73 more subscriptions to winthe yearbook contest. Phi Delta Thetahad a total of 122 subscriptions and125 dollars, a sales percentage of.480 in respect to active members.Don Standen managed the contestfor the Phi Delts and contacted alum¬ni, through whom their percentagewas greatly increased. Psi Upsilonwon the second prize radio with atotal of 44 subscriptions, a sales pei’-centage of .175.As the mob scene in Cap andGown’s office broke up the Phi Deltscordially invited the Psi U’s to a beerparty tonight to hear the new re¬cordings—won Wednesday by thePhi Delts, who were then leading/'inthe contest. y'The First prize radio-phony aphwill be impressively presenter .sun-day night at Phi Delta Thet/. s rush¬ing open house.Illeg:al Rushing NoticesSigma is fined $10 for violatingsilence rules during closed rushingby verbal invitations to final weekfunctions.Quadrangler has flagrantly vio¬lated rushing rules by repeatedhot boxing of freshman women.P’or this serious offense, Quad¬rangler may pledge no freshmenuntil one month from Sunday, Jan¬uary 22. Interclub Council Execu¬tive Committee.Page Two THE DAILY MAROON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939Daily (^laromtFOUNDED IN 1901MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATEPRESSThe Daily Maroon is the official studentnewspaper «f the University of Chicago,published mornings except Saturday, Sun¬day and Monday during the Autumn,Winter and Spring quarters by The DailyMaroon Company, 6881 University avenue.Telephones: Hyde Park 9221 and 9222.A'ter 6:30 phone in stories to ourprinters The Chief Printing Company,148 West 62nd street. Telephone Went-worth 6123.The University of Chicago assumes noresponsibility for any statenaents appear¬ing in The Daily Maroon, or for any con¬tract entered into by The Daily Maroon.The Daily Maroon expressly reservesthe rights of publication of any materialappearing in this paper. Subscriptionrates: $3 a year: $4 by mail. Singlecopies: three cents.Entered as second class matter March18, 1903, at the post office at Chicago,Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.RBPRESCNTSD POR NATIONAL ADVRRTISINO BVNational Advertising Service, Inc.College Publishers Representative420 Madison AVE. New York, N.Y.CMICASO • BOiTOR • Lot ARSCLtt • SAR FRARCItCOBOARD OF CONTROLEditorial StaffLAURA BERGQUISTMAXINE BIESENTHALEMMETT DEADMAN. ChairmanSEYMOUR MILLERADELE ROSEBasiness StaffEDWIN BERGMANM AJ^ FREEMANEDITORIAL ASSOCIATESRuth Brody, Harry Cornelius. WilliamGrody, David Martin, Alice Meyer,Robert Sedlak, Charles O’Donnellbusiness ASSOCIATESDayton Caple, Roland Richman, DavidSalzberg, Harry Topping.Night Editor: Ruth BrodyAll The DirtRush week and dirty rushinggo inseparably hand in handthroughout the nation’s col¬leges. This month the Univer¬sity is getting its full shareon both the club and fraternityside; perhaps no more than inprevious years, but still a goodbit.The freshmen know thew'herefore of dirty rushing ; theyget it because they want it, be¬cause it makes them feel selectand sought after. The enlighten¬ment of their College coursedoesn’t penetrate into the mat¬ter of wanting all the attentionthey can get. Fraternity boundfreshmen have been brought upon it—dirty rushing and hellweek. It is an indispensable partof fraternity life.The upperclassmen know thewherefore of dirty rushing;they are giving the freshmenwhat they want because theyhave to make a good show toget a good class, and becausethey have good evidence thatnothing is going to happen tothem. Nothing has happened tothem in the past, has it?This year the tune will change.Something has happened. Inter¬club has uncovered a flagrantcase of rule breaking and is ac¬cording to it the punishmentthat it deserv’es. This is onecase, of course, out of manysimilar or more serious casesw’hich have undoubtedly slippedthe attention of Interclub offi¬cers. Consequently any punish¬ment is necessarily unfair, sincethe one club that is a known of¬fender must be singled out forcondemnation. But a start mustbe made in taking rushing rulesseriously. If they are not re¬garded and enforced, they mayjust as well be thrown over¬board, letting the whole clubsystem turn into a tooth andnail battle of the cavewomen.The fraternities may have tobe given up as hopelessly de-v'oted to their rushing techni¬ques, but the clubs at least canand must take rushing rulesseriously. Many of them do; ifreasoning and questions of hon¬orable practices will not curbthe others, then extreme penal¬ties must.The most extreme penalty,however, will never be imposedby Interclub, but must be builtup in the minds of the fresh¬men. If rushees can stop in themiddle of the whirl of rushingfunction flattery and rememberthat they are adults, and thatthose who cannot abide by therules that they themselves makeare juveniles, if they will realizethat it is only through their co¬operation that such practicescan be exposed and stopped, if TravellingBazaarThe Travelling Bazaar has at lastjustified the name hopefully given toit. No less than six lost souls turnedin spicy little contributions, imperti¬nent and full of high-school vigor, toadd to the column’s zest and flavor.Among the dear departed is LouiseSnow, who has left the stimulatingatmosphere of the University to goabroad to study jewelry designing inSwitzerland under the famous DoctorWhats-his-name. Pulse, always up-to-date, still has the lovely Miss Snow,ex-beauty queen, and ex-light of thelife of Emmett Deadman, listed on themasthead as an artists or photogra¬pher. Doubtless Miss Snow will sendher creations to Pulse via the trans-Atlantic air service, or by wirephoto.♦ ♦ *Likeable Accounting instructorDickson was looking around the clas.«-room for the members of his flockwho had fallen by the wayside. Ask¬ing the class if anyone knew anythingabout Jack Bonniwell, he was greetedby the enlightening comment fromAlpha Delt basketball flash CarlStanley that Bonniwell was “thesmooth boy sitting in the front rowfor the first week of the quarter—theone that did a lot of talking.”* * *The Business School senior whowas going to aid sweet charity byselling dances with Hedy Lamarr attwo bucks per gavotte, has not re¬ceived an answer from the lovelylady of the silver screen, and is re¬portedly on the verge of suicide. Whowouldn’t be?B B BThe Psi U’s of the class of ’39 havepledged a bottle of champagne (nomention of what kind) from eachclass mate to any 39’er who becomesa proud poppa. There’s a real induce¬ment, men.B B BAnother Psi U idler (the Psi Usdon’t seem to be able to stay out ofa Bhi Psi paper) by name, JamesCallahan, joined the once-in-a-life-time club. While playing bridge inthe Coffee Shop, instead of studyingas he should have, Brother Callahandrew a perfect hand—thirten spades.Oh, well, lucky in cards, unlucky inlove.B B BOut of the dim, dead past comes agentle memento of war days. Some¬one handed in a postal, dated May 15,1918, addressed to James H. Tufts, aBeta alumnus of the day. It read,“The annual Interfraternity Sing willbe held this year at the University ofChicago, on Friday night, June 7.“So many of the Beta Alumni haveleft the city in the call to the colorsthat we are expecting you brotherswho are able to be present to turnout in full force to bring the Betasongs up to the usual Beta standard.There will be an Alumni Reunion atthe chapter house at 5717 Blackstoneat 6 P.M. and the sing will begin at8:45.“Remember the date. Let’s get to¬gether to make the Beta end of thesing the best.”Yours in —kai—”Even a World War evidently could¬n’t shake the loyalty of the BetaBrothers.No! No! No!Put away that strapless gown, putthe tails back in mothballs. The Fos¬ter Formal will be held on Friday,February 10, not tonight, as errone¬ously stated in yesterday’s Maroon.The I-F Council, the reporter, thecopy reader, the printer, and theproofreader for some reason didn’tfunction well yesterday in getting outthe fraternity scholarship story.For one thing the I-F council com¬piled the number of working hoursper man in the Psi U house incor¬rectly. Instead of reading 7.5 theygave out a figure of 1.5. The com¬mittee then went on to confess thatthe stati.stical technique employed inascertaining the work hours was very“unstatistical,” and not to be trusted.The all-fraternity average was aC-plus instead of a C-minus. Norwas the Alpha Delt average a I), butrather a C minus.We’re all sorry!they will consider that dirtyrushing is an admission of eith¬er weakness or weakmindedness,then the day of illegal tactics inrushing will be over.Freshwomen are enough in- iterested in the club system to iwant to join; they must also be ■enough interested to clear up |one of its worst abuses. '\ Letters to theEditorDaily Maroon,Board of Control:Speaking for the JSF I wish tocontrast several statements made byRichard Himmel in his survey of Avu-kah and the JSF, in the Maroon forJanuary 18; with several easily ver¬ifiable facts:1. Himmel: JSF places particularemphasis on the social angle.Fact: The outstanding activity ofJSF is its bi-weekly Fireside series,with dismissions led by noted speak¬ers, with sizable audiences.2. Himmel: “Petty bids for power”are “complicating JSF.”Fact: JSF has not yet heard ofthese complications.3. Himmel: Rabbi Fox “restrains”JSF.Omission of facts: Rabbi Foxfounded JSF; Rabbi Fox directs JSF;Rabbi Fox obtains funds for JSF.4. Himmel: JSF and Avukah both“sponsor classes in Hebrew and Jew¬ish History, but Avukah goes at itmore rabidly (sic!) and its classesare more serious and scholarly thanthose of JSF. However, JSF is ableto offer its classes for course credit,in spite of comparative merits.”Facts: JSF classes are given bythe University College in conjunctionwih the College of Jewish Studies.Avukah maintains no classes in eitherHebrew or Jewish History.Reporter Himmel expresses hisown opinions in his survey; to thathe is entitled. It is questionable,however, if he should indulge in mak¬ing up his own facts, as well.One final point: I don’t know whatsignificance to attach to the fact thatalthough Himmel credits me with be¬ing JSF spokesman he failed to in¬terview me—even with “tongue incheek.”Very sincerely yours.Saadyah Maximon.Today on theQuadranglesFRIDAYMirror rehearsal. Ida Noyes thea¬tre at 3:30. All dancers must appearin practice clothes.SocialLst Club. Social Science lOGat 8 P.M.Negro Students’ Club and ChapelUnion “Night of Fun.” Ida Noyes, 8.University Newsreel, “FraternitySurvey and Invisible Man.” Mandel2:30, 4. Kent, 8.Chess Club, Reynolds Club, 8.G..\..\. Ida Noyes, 4.S.A..\. Club, Ida Noyes, 8.Professor Riddle, “The Ideal andthe Practical,” WIND, 8 A.M.S.\TURDAYMexicanHouse, 6. Night, InternationalSUNDAYRev. Harold E. Nicely, UniversityChapel, 11.Round Table, “How shall we solvethe Housing Problem,” WMAQ,11:30.Vesper Service, University Chapel,4:30.Chapel Union, Dr. E. Aubrey, “Re¬ligious Action and Social Reconstruc¬tion,” Ida Noyes, 7:30.Interclub Bidding, Ida Noyes thea¬tre, 4.Collegium Musicum, Ida Noyes, 8.Triota Tea, Ida Noyes 3.S.S.A. Club, Ida Noyes, 3.MONDAY“C” Club, Ida Noyes, 4:30.Consumer’s Co-operative, IdaNoyes, 7.Interclub Social Meeting, IdaNoyes, 7.YWCA Cabinet, Ida Noyes, 12 noon.Rev. Harold NicelySpeaks at ChapelGuest speaker at the RockefellerMemorial Chapel weekly servicesSunday will be the Reverend HaroldE. Nicely, noted clergyman from theBrick Church, of Rochester, NewYork.The student reader of the serviceswill be Demarest Polacheck. Dimock—(Continued from page 1)“academic.” I mean by this expres¬sion that the solution of the respec¬tive problems requires the applica¬tion of the soundest theories thatscientific analysis has been able to af¬ford. More than ever am I convincedthat the best theory is the best prac¬tice and that the greatest limitationof so-called “practical” men is theirinability to master theory and its ap¬plication to complex problems.”But Professor Dimock’s job has notbeen one of all work and no play. Infact there is a certain amount of so¬cial activity and responsibility con¬nected with the position as Dimock’sletter will serve to illustrate. posed to call on everyone of niy ownrank or higher. This means assistantsecretaries, secretaries of depart¬ments, the White House, senators andcongressmen from Illinois, andmembers of the Labor and Immigra¬tion Committees of both Housc^.”Professor Dimock was also advisedto call on members of the SupremeCourt and of the diplomatic circleHowever, he concludes by statingthat he does not intend to have socialactivities interfere too much with hisadministrative duties..\ttends Jackson Dinner“Did I attend the $100-a-plate-Jackson Day Dinner? I did. Did Ihave my chauffeur take me up on the“Hill” to pay a courtesy call on Sen¬ator Lewis of Illinois? I did, andwithout any due loss of time, either,“Among other social activitieswhich took time and energy last weekwere ‘At Homes’ given by Secretaryand Mrs. Swanson and Secretary andMrs. Wallace. On Thursday of thisweek Mrs. Dimock and I are havingdinner at the White House. And ac¬cording to all indications, the sched¬ule so far has been light, comparedwith what may be expected in thefuture. 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This is theoicment known as beryllium 8, whichby right should be found in abun¬dance on the earth’s surface and inreality can only be found throughscientific experimentation.The man who posed this riddle of amissing link is Dr. Samuel K. Allison,associate professor of physics, at theAnnual Physicists’ Meeting in Wash¬ington, n.C. during the Christmas va¬cation. He and his colleagues havemade the first exact measurements ofenergies of certain light elements.His measurements include that ofan isotope (which is a form chemical¬ly and physically the same as anatom of the element but one whichhas a different atomic weight) ofberyllium. This isotope is the missingberyllium 8, and according to his ex¬periments, should be stable. Since itis stable, and since it is a product ofthe primordial elements, hydrogenand helium, it should be abundantlyfound on the earth.The rarity of beryllium 8 is notexplained by the fact that its stabilityis very small in comparison to morestable elements.* * *Dr. Allison has not answered theriddle, but has merely implied that itexists. However, he has succeeded inobtaining accurate measurements ofthe energies of “slow” alpha particlesup to 2,000,000 electron volts and ofsingly charged particles up to 1,-000,000 volts.Physicists heretofore have been un¬able to get exact measurement inthis “slow” area though they havebeen able to obtain satisfactory re¬sults in the higher ranges, of theorder of five and ten million volts.Dr. Allison uses an experimentalapparatus which consists of a highpotential system and an electrostaticanalyzer, both of which he himselfconstructed. The high potential de¬velops energies of the order of 600,- j000 volts to project protons against atarget made of an element. |Resulting products of the bombard- jment are deflected by the electro-1static analyzer, which consists of an jelectric field between two curved |plates. In order to pass through this [deflecting mechanism, the particles;must be held to the correct radius of !curvature for a distance of 1(5 inches. iIt is possible to find out their ener- 'gies from the strength of the elec-1trical field needed to hold the par-,tides in this rigidly defined path. jWhen, for example, beryllium is so Iliombarded, an i.sotope of lithium andan alpha particle are produced. Themasses of these transmutation pro-<lucts are not as great as the massesof the proton used as projectiles andof the beryllium atom. The loss ofmass appears as kinetic energy whichis largely absorbed by the alpha par¬ticle. Dr. Allison is able to a.scertainaccurately, from the measurement ofthe energy, by the application ofEinstein’s well-known formula of therelation between energy and mass,the mass which disappears in reac¬tion.on Id.After measuring two of these reac¬tions, Dr. Allison was able to deduce Health Insurance, ClassPrejudice, Housing AreSubjects of Discussions.“How Shall We Solve the HousingProblem?” “Caste and Class,” and theproblem of whether the government.should enact legislation providing fora program of compulsory health in¬surance are the three subjects onwhich the University will expressopinions this week-end over the radio.Dr. Louis Wirth, University so¬ciologist and member of the Urban¬ism Committee of the National Re¬sources Committee, Washington, willdiscuss the housing problem on theUniversty Round Table with WilliamSpencer, Dean of the Business School,and Robert Vanderpoel, FinancialEditor of the Chicago Evening Amer¬ican.It is Dr. Wirth’s opinion that, “Thesolution of this problem resolved it¬self into the question of the assump¬tion of responsibility. There is thefear that government initiative mayundermine private enterpri.se.“Right now confidence is increas¬ing in the security of investments inhousing. The question is whetherprivate housing will extend to theareas of moat vital need—housingfor the lower income group of ourlarge cities.”Three Discuss PrejudicesThe International Hou.se Forum, onSaturday at 4 over WGN, the problemof .social prejudices in different coun¬tries will be discussed by an Ameri¬can, a Hungarian, and a Swedishman.Martin Bronnfrbrenner, the Amer¬ican, an assistant in Economics, willprobably tell that although class pre¬judice has disappeared in America,we still have race prejudice. TheHungarian, Mr. Gorge Huszar, willprobably tell of how the remnants olfeudalism affect Central Europe. AndDr. Svend Ridner, of the Universityof Stockholm, represents the opinionof Sweden, who has taken “the mid¬dle way.”The question of compulsory healthinsurance will be the subject for adebate to be held on W.C.F.L. thisSaturday at three o’clock betweenDebate Union and Wheaton College.Inger Anderson and David Pletcherwill represent the negative side forDebate Union.accurately the masses of several ofthe lightest elements. The mass of ani.sotope of beryllium 8 was found tobe 8 plus atomic weight units. Thisisotope is believed to be a compoundof two alpha particles, which areelementary particles out of which theuniverse is built.The sum of the masses of two alphaparticles show that in the formationof beryllium 8 a ten-thousandth unitof atomic weight has di.sappeared,thus indicating that energy has beenevolved in the reaction. Since reac¬tions in which energy is produced arethose in which stable atoms areevolved, it may be .seen that beryllium8 is a stable element.So far in his experiments. Dr. Al¬lison has found from his measure¬ments the relative masses of five iso¬topes, namely, those of beryllium 8and 9, lithium 6 and 7, and boron 11.MARION GERSON.Dirty Rushing-(Continued from page 1)dark, etc. Not that it wasn’t much appreciated by the recipients,but what would the IF council think? In passing, it is noteworthythat the Dekes got in their bit this way too. In both cases, how¬ever, rumor hath it that the fraternity men were not the in¬stigators of the dirty work; they were just glad to accommodatetwo or three or ten freshmen who wanted to go places and weretoo lazy to walk. Knowing that the upper classmen would be toblame if the thing were found out, the yearlings subtly suggestedthat they go is so and so’s car.* *“But the reign of the class of ’42 is coming to a close; it isa well-known fact that up to and including intensive rushingweek, every fraternity man is on the lookout for some freshmanhe knows, and that even those he doesn’t know are treated to ahail-fellow-well-met smile and ‘Hello there, how are you?’ Comethe first of February, though, the freshman can walk from oneend of the campus to the other at high noon without meeting asoul who will even look at him. In conclusion about this businessof dirty rushing, as one Psi U put it several years ago, ‘Hellyou’ve got to flatter the squirts by dirty rushing them; they lapit up.’ HOW TRUE!!’”\ Rushing FunctionsEnd Today for ClubsToday is the last opportunity forclubs to have functions for fresh¬man rushing. Club rushing rules in¬sist on silence tomorrow. There canbe no contact between freshmen wo¬men and club women until the pre¬ferential dinners in the evennig.Special preferential bids for thedinners will be delivered to the fresh¬men women tomorrow by the Inter-Club Council; and acceptance of abid means the probable pledging ofthat club. Those who receive prefer¬ential bids will have bids from thoseclubs awaiting them Sunday at IdaNoyes between 4 and 5. Pledging willtake place Sunday evening imme¬diately after the acceptance of bidswith individual club ceremonies.Aubrey SpeaksDr. Edwin E. Aubrey will discussthe possibility of religion taking anactive part in the reconstruction ofhuman society at the Chapel Union’ssemi-monthly general meeting at7:30, Sunday in Ida Noyes Library.Dr. Aubrey, well known Professorof Theology and Ethics, figuredprominently in the world-wide Con¬ference held at Oxford in the sum¬mer of 1937.After his talk Dr. Aubrey willanswer questions and lead an in¬formal discussion. Refreshments willbe provided. Roselli Speaks onPeace at Int-HouseSpeaking under the auspices ofInt-House’s peace series. ProfessorBruno Roselli will talk on “FascistItaly and World Peace” at the Sun¬day night supper, January 22. Hecomes to Int-House on the recom¬mendation of the Royal Italian Con¬sul General in Chicago.Born in Italy, Professor Rosellicame to the United States 30 yearsago, only to return to his native !country at the outbreak of the world * war. There he was a sub-lieutenantin the Infantry. After the war, hecame back to this country. 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You'll never get another chance tomoke these savings—see you at ERIE afterclass today!THEERIECLOTHING COMPANY837 E. 63rd STREETSale Prices(MARYLAND THEATRE BUILDING)Page Four THE DAILY MAROON, FRIDAY, JANUARY 20, 1939DAILY MAROON SPORTSSide Glancesat I-M sBy LESTER DEANAlthough most of the independentteams which made their debut yester¬day afternoon were rather mediocre,the Barristers shov/ed that they aredefinitely first division material, andmay even repeat their touchball tri¬umph by snagging the basketballchampionship.In spite of the fact that they werea bit slow to get underway and werehampered by having to play on asmall court, they managed to get go¬ing in the second half and mop up thefloor with the U-Hi Lites, who put upa game but losing fight against thesuperior height and ability of theiropponents.Dumont was the man of the hourfor the Law School outfit; he onlyplayed during the second period, buthe was high man for the whole gamewith a total of five buckets to garnertop scoring honors. Swinsky, a team¬mate was tied with him, however, byvirtue of four foul conversions andthree baskets from the floor.The showing of the Highlights wasfar from poor, though; they justcouldn’t cope with the Barristers’finesse. The advance dope on thegame indicated that the Law Schoolboys would probably swamp theirrivals, but it took them a full periodto get going; a little more practiceshould do wonders for the Highlights.They all played together for sometime under the tutelage of Kyle An¬derson before they got to the Univer¬sity, and as soon as they get theirgame synchronized a little more, theyshould be able to make a creditablerecord in the league.Most colorful of the independentdebutants were the Golden Hurri¬canes, a group of five Harvard Highalumni who make up in enthusiasmand enjoyment what they lack inability and experience. The only sub¬stitute is a ringer from one of thedormitory teams by the name of At-cheson. Not that their ability is tobe scoffed at—they managed to cleanup on the Ellis Student Club (youknow, the co-op). It seems the Ellisboys couldn’t get together effectivelyenough on the basketball court toovercome the spirit and will-to-win ofye Hurricanes. Two quick baskets inthe closing seconds of the contestmade it seem a lot closer than it was,for the Harvard boys had enjoyed afive point lead with only about 30seconds to go, and the game seemedon ice.Roger Neilsen went out on the limbabout the basketball league—nothinghe said, however was particularlydangerous. As for the Barristers, heremarked, “They’re pretty good;they’ll probably win.’’ In regard tothe fraternities, he was a little moreradical. He thought the Phi Psis werethe class of the league but that theAlpha Delts would improve as theseason progressed.After what happened in the touch-hall season, any prophecy, particular¬ly at this early date has to be takenwith a grain of salt. At any rate,from what the various teams haveshown already. Rajah seems to havethe situation well in hand, and nobodyshould take issue with him for a whileyet.“Since “Rundy” Runyan, the refereehad been warned in advance that theBarristers might beef, he was quickon the whistle and didn’t take anyguff from the players. He had to usea little more diplomacy, though whena fist fight broke out between twoof the players. He handled it in stand¬ard way by ejecting both from thefray to talk things over. On severalother occasions, he had to make up hismind fast and stick to his decision—once or twice the Barristers wantedto give him the third degree, but hestood his ground and told them toshut up or get out. (Nobody left).Last year’s runners-up in the bas¬ketball league, the Psi U’s, didn’t lookso hot in their opening games, par¬ticularly that with the Phi Gams, inwhich they netted a mere 13 pointsin the 24 minutes of play. The PhiGams had it all over them, par¬ticularly with regard to accuracy onfoul shots; if they had missed ^1 oftheir foul shots, the Psi U’s would ‘have won 13-12. IPerhaps the most important fac- ' Barristers, Aristotelians Winin I-M Basketball Tonrney Maroon TrackmenMeet Old RivalsHere TomorrowIndependent, DormitoryLeagues Open WinterSeason.The joy of the Independent andDormitoiy leagues in the Intramuralbasketball tournament is that mostof the teams come to their first gamewithout having played together before, to paraphrase a statement ofWally Hebert, I-M manager, and thiswas well shown yesterday afternoonand evening as 24 teams ran up anddown Bartlett’s four cage floors.Employee and Fraternity teamsplayed also.The Barristers, last year’s Inde¬pendent champs, easily took the UHi Lights 35-12, and the Aristotel¬ians ran over the Scientists 32-6 inthe only high scoring games of theday. Law students Dumont, andSwinsky led their team with 10points apiece followed by Dolvich,Adams, with 6 and 5 points respec¬tively.Yesterday’s ResultsINDEPENDENTS—CTS, 24—Saw Bones, 14.Burton-Judson, 27—Delta Sigma Pi,17.Aristotelians, 32—Scientists, 6.Golden Hurricanes, 22—Ellis StudentClub, 21.Jailbirds, 16—Nu Beta Epsilon, 12.Barristers, 35—U. Hi-Lites, 12.Subs, 45—Rinkydinks, 20.Barristers “B’’ forfeited to MathGradsEMPLOYEES—Coffee Shop 14—B and G, 13.Reynolds Club, 31—Rosenwald, 18.DORMITORY—Hitchcock, 20—Burton 700, 16.Judson 300, 13—Burton 600, 12.Burton 800 forfeited to Snell.FRATERNITYPhi Gam, 20—Psi U, 13.A combined Burton—Judson teammade up of Brackenbury, Plunkett,Marchello, Maher, Morray, and Con¬rad, took Delta Sigma Pi, BusinessSchool fraternity, 27-17. They havelots of good material but no teamwork whatsoever.CTS beat the Saw Bones 24-17.The former, theologians, are a goodbunch who haven’t had enough prac¬tice. Ronander, Barry, Clark, Cono-var, and Reiser make up the group.Hitchcock by the use of “shocktroop’’ men, making the biggestsquad of the evening, nosed out Bur¬ton 700 20-16. Sype with an under¬hand long shot led Hitchcock andwas followed by Kible, Kouvar,Ehrlich, Fraelich, Flignan, Chapman,Mendalsohn, and Skoning.tor of the Phi Gams was their ad¬vantage in height. On the small,“bandbox’’ court, their zone defensewas airtight, and all attempts by thePsi U’s to penetrate it were of noavail. Nearly all of the scoring wasdone from out about the center of thefloor, with the exception of a fewsucker shots from right under thehoop.For the first time in history a teamhas requested that its publicity becurtailed; the Aristotelians are afraidthat any praise they might get forwinning their first tilt will go to theirheads. Wildcats InvadeBartlett to MeetMaroon TankmenCoach E. W. McGillivray’s tankersopen their Big Ten season tomorrowin Bartlett against the toughest teamthey will encounter all season. North¬western. Both the swimming teamand the water polo team, which islargely composed of members of theformer, will compete.McGillivray sent scouts to watchthe Purdue-Northwestern meet, inwhich Northwestern lived up to pre¬season expectations by winning by alarge score. On the basis of North¬western’s time in the various events,McGillivray’s scouts concluded thatwinning tomorrow’s meet will dependon the 400-yard medley, 100-yardfreestyle, and 400-yard freestyle.Keeping this in mind, he will prob¬ably juggle his lineup as the meetgoes on in order to get sufficientstrength in the above events.Co-championsThe most important part of thecontest, however, is water polo. Forthe last two years Chicago andNorthwestern have staged the mostspectacular water polo contests in theBig Ten. Proof of this is the factthat both teams have been co-cham¬pions of the conference for the pasttwo season.s. McGillivray predictsthat the winner of tomorrow’s meetwill be Big Ten water polo champs.Captain Johnny Van DeWater is ex¬pected to play a major part in bol¬stering the team’s chances to cop thecoveted title.Swimmers Boast Two WinsThe splashers competed in twopractice meets and won both of themby defeating Armour, 60-15, andGeoi-ge Williams College, 56-10. Neith¬er team provided much opposition butthey did enable McGillivray to get agood idea of what his splashers arecapable of. The water polo team didnot have any meets because Williamsand Armour lack enough swimmersto have one.Several splashers turned in fasttime in the George Williams meetand are being counted on to produceagainst the Evanstonians. The speed¬sters are: Van DeWater, Anderson,Bernhart, and Sorenson.Other tankers who will see actionare: McCollum, Stearns, Wills, Borb-jerg, Teague, Markoff, Argali, Stein,Speck, Brown, French and Schnering. The first official indoor track meetof the season for Chicago will renewan old rivalry when the North Cen¬tral College speed stars enter theFieldhouse tomorrow afternoon.When the two teams met last year,Chicago romped away with most ofthe events to win, 63-^ to 31-*4.Coach Ned Merriam predicts a closebattle but would not say who wouldwin. The basis for his reticence maywell be attributed to the fact thatat least a half of the high scorers inlast year’s meet graduated.Several of these men were: 440-Yards— Halcrow; high hurdles—Brumbaugh, and Kobak; low hurdles— Brumbaugh; half mile— Webster;one and two miles— McElroy.McEIroy Seta PaceGraduate George McElroy still con¬tinues to work out with the team. Hisfast pace in the practice races keepthe varsity runners closer to the realcompetitive speeds. He recently |turned in the sizzling time of .50.5 Iin the 440-yard two lap trek in theFieldhouse.Bob Cassels, captain of the trackteam, will probably not compete intomorrow’s meet because he has notpracticed. His duties as player andleader of the basketball team keephim well occupied. Last year hecleared 13 feet in the pole vault. Stow Lectures MondayIn connection with the exhibitionof photographs of Greek sculptureand architecture at the RenaissanceSociety, Lloyd Stow, former memberof the Greek department of the Uni¬versity of Chicago and now assistantProfessor of Greek at the Universityof Oklahoma, will lecture on CreteMonday evening at 8:15 in Classics10.Teresa DolanINVITES YOU TO DANCE EVERYFRIDAY AND SATURDAY EVENINGMIDWAY MASONIC TEMPLE6115 COTTAGE GROVEAdmiMion 49 cent*PriTstc L«M«n StudioIS45 E. Urd St. Tol. H. P. 30S0The DOGHOUSE GRILLHomey AtmosphereFine FoodModerate Prices1145 E. 55th St.WHERE U. OF C.STUDENTS MEET HANLEY’SBUFFET1512 E. 55th St.COME DOWN AND SINGIfyou can’t find “College Spirit”on the Campus you will findit all at “Mike’s.”DROP DOWNI before, after, durinsr anythingon campus (in fact anytime)and you’ll find a congenial at¬mosphere.We welcome all University-students, but we only serveliquor to those of age.HANLEY’SOver forty years ofcongenial serviceNight Club HoldsCollege NightsBud Quinn, host of Club Bali Bali,nearby after-the-theater restaurantHeated at 7225 South Chicago Avenue,announces the beginning of a seriesof Chicago College Nights to beginthe first Tuesday in February.University talent announced by aUniversity MC is to be featured inconjunction with the club’s regularfloor show. Prizes will be’awardedthe outstanding performers.Quinn’s idea is to provide Univer¬sity students with a nearby rendez¬vous for their night life, and hepromises “a good floor show, goodmusic, and a good dance floor.” Lake's Hardware Store1218 East 63rd StreetEAST OF WOODLAWN • HYDE PARK 0967- All Kinds oi Tin Work >GAY CLARIDGEAnd His Orchestra At TheSKUa & CRESCENTFORMAL(no corsage)CLOISTER CLUB JANUARY 28$1.50 Tax Included You are invitedto a skewing ofiSun VaUev Fasliiey X' asnionsfeaturing a.WLotion Picture in Colormade in iSun Valley under tlie supervision of oiirown fasliion scouts. College Contest \\^inners aretlie iStars . See them step from tke film and appearin tlie Fasliion iSliow in person in tlie newest wintersports costumes. jM.en s fasliions are included andmen are invited.TIME: Saturday, January 21st, 3:30 p. 111.PLACE: M.en s (jrill on tlie Eighth IloorCarson Pirie Scott & Co