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Thursday, December 1, 1949
Vol. 50 No. 54
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VOCALIST Adele Castle holds the featured spot with the Tony
r.,f- HiinH hprlulivt to nlav at the Military Ball Friday night.
She was chosen from over one hundred applicants for the vocalist
job after singing with Ray Eberle's orchestra. She has been heard
on all major radio networks and at leading theatres and ball
rooms. Before entering band work, she sang at suburban night
clubs and theatres. Miss Castle has been a singer since she was 12,
when she was featured on New Jersey radio stations and at civic
benefits. She can be heard on Columbia records with the 1 astor
orchestra.
Mili tary Ball to Open
'49 Formal Season
Opening the formal season on 'at 8:30 p.m. in the. Coliseum The
,lmr,c thk Kridav will be the last notes from the Pastor band
Mihtarv Ball, for "nearly half a ;
century a part oi tne university
social calendar.
Tony Pastor and his orcnestra
will play lor the all-University !
function sponsored annually uy
the Military depai tment. This
year the Candidate Officers asso
ciation, combining air, ground and
naval forces, are planning the
ball.
Dancing at the affair will start
Coeds to Select
8 Bachelors al
Election Today
Eight NU men will be tabbed
"Eligible" by campus women in
an election in Ellen Smith hall
and the Ag Union to be held
from 9 a.m. i'i C p.m. today.
The occa.-ion is the election of
Eligible Bachelors who will be
prcsi-nlc'l at trie win ui .n-i
ball, Dec. 9. All women on cam-
pus may vote in the election oy
urescrit in 2 their idenuiicuion
cards at the polling places.
Highlights Ball.
Piesentation of the Bachelors ,
is one nignngni oi tne cuiuuui
"Turnabout" ball sponsored by the
campus senior women's honorary.
Girls assume the roles of fellows
for one night and pay the bills,
call for their dates, provide crazy
corsages and carry "equipment"
ranging from golf clubs to electric
razors for the men.
The 20 candidates for the titles
this year are: Bob Allen, Art
Bauer, Don Bloom, Bill Brinkman,
Chris Buethe, Tom Donohoc, Don
Dutton, Bertrand Ehrmann, Ajon
Farber. Paul Gaiter, Rex " Hoff
meister, John Mills, David Myer,
Keith O'Bannon, Bob Pierce,
Frank Piccolo, Dick Regier, Eu
gene Robinson. Bob Rogers, Len
nie Seaton, Bob Shively, Bob
Sim, Frank Simon, Burneli Swan
son, Bus Whitehead and Chuck
Widmaier.
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I'anil Concert
Preceding the dancing will be
a band concert by the University
band, directed by Donald Lcntz.
Beginning at 8 p.m., the band will
present a half-hour conceit.
The highlight of the ball will
be the presentation of the 1949
Honorary Commandant. In a se
cret presentation ceremony, the
royal sponsor will be revealed.
She was selected recently in a
secret vole of all candidate of-fi-ers
from five finalists named in
an all-Univei sity election.
Commandant Finalists
Finalists from whom the Com
mandant will be selected arc Pat
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vaitei White, author, lecturer
anfj secrctary of the National As
sociation for the Advancement of
Colored People, will address
University students in a convo-
catjon Friday at 11 a .m. in the
Union ballroom.
Because of his work toward
"full citizenship" for the colored
population, his brilliant accom
plishments as an author, sociolo
gist and educator. White has be
come an outstanding siwkesman
for his people.
High respect in both America
and abroad has been shown for
his books, his articles and col
umns in leading newspapers and
magazines, and his political and
legislative activities.
For his tireless efforts to se
cure Federal anti-lynching legis
lation and for his work in in
vestigations of lynchings and
race riots, he was awarded the
Spingarn medal by Gov. Frank
Murphy of Michigan in 1937.
Honorary degrees have been
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Class Officer
Filings Will
Close Friday
Upperclassinen
Vote Tuesday
Final deadline for any junior
or senior to file for class presi
dency is Friday at 4 p.m. at the
Student Activities offices in the
Adminstration building. The final
election will be held Tuesday.
Elections of the class officers
has been postponed by the Stu
dent Council because of faculty
action last spring which called
off all campus elections. Author
ization of the election came last
week following a meeting of the
sub-committee, of which Dr. Cur
tis Elliott is chairman, and the
holdover members of the Student
Council.
Class Standing.
All students applying for the
otfices must be either juniors or
seniors in their respective col
leges, and must have an all-school
sveragc of S.5. In addition to this,
they must be carrying at least
12 hours in good standing this
semester.
The principal duty of the junior
and senior class presidents is the
traditional planting of the ivy on
Ivy Day in the spring. Fritz Heg
wood was senior class president
and Bill Mueller, junior class
president last year.
F.Iection Tuesday.
Final choice of the two officers
will be made at the Tuesday elec
tion. Only regularly enrolled jun
iors and seniors are eligible to
vote.
College requirements for junior
standing are as follows: engineer
ing, 64-108 hours inclusive; civil
engineering, 64-10.8 hours inclus
ive; Ag men, 53-92 hours inclus
ive. All other colleges require 53
88 hours inclusive.
Senior standing is defined as
any number of hours over junior
standing, if the student has not
yet received a degree from the
University.
Information which must be on
all applications includes lull name
of student, college and number of
hours now being carried. Grade
averages will be checked by elec-
Ition officials
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awarded to him from Howard
University, Atlanta University
and New London Junior college.
The Republic of Haiti conferred
the Order of Honor and Merit on
the speaker in 1949.
Opening White's activities in
behalf of his race occurred in
1918 when he became assistant
secretary of the NAACP. After
receiving the office of secretary
in 1930, he has traveled over
2,000,000 miles in the United
States, Europe, Asia and the Pa
cific. He is at present on leave
from his duties in order to tour
the country,
A Big: Question
During his traveling with the
Round the World Town Meting,
White says that the first question
asked them, wherever they went
was: "How can America call it
self a democracy as long as
lynchings, segregation, and dis
crimination continue unchecked?
American ambassadors we met
say this is the $64 question with
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Mental EHlea
"The field of psychiatry is the greatest opening in the
medical field," Dr. Morris Fishbein. editor of the Journal
of American Medical association, told a convocation in the
Union ballroom Wednesday morning.
Pointing out the lack of qualified psychiatrists and
the vast number of mentally ill i
in the country, Fishbein declared
that this field offers "opportunity
for greater human action" than
was available for young people
of his day, 35 years ago. Some
50 of all cases coming to doc
tors are primarily mental cases.
One name Sigmund Freud,
made psychology and psychiatry
"dynamic, living," he continued.
Freud took the field away from
simple mechanical study of the
mind to make it a functional
study of the nervous system. The
history of psychology is traced
back 100 years, with psychiatry
and psycho-analysis the outcome
of this earlier study.
More Need for Workers
Stressing the need of more
qualified workers in this field, he
revealed that of some 25,000 peo
ple working as counselors for
mentally ill, only 3,000 are ac
tually sufficiently trained. About
14,000 more are needed. A college
education with a BA, a degree
from a medical college, three years
residentship, and about fivt years
actual practice in psychiatry are
needed for a qualified recommen
dation some 15 years all told.
Discussing the exceeding large
number 8,500,000 of mentally
disturbed people in the country.
he pointed to the divorce rate and
adult and juvenile delinquency as
leading factors to be considered.
The divorce rate has increased
from 1 out of 16 marriages to 1
out of 3.
Problems Not Met
"Problems arise in the forma
tive period that are not met by
present methods," he stated, after
pointing out that the 15-19 age
group, along with laborers, has
the highest percentage of psycho
nuerotic cases. There are 250,000
cases of juvenile delinquency each
year, but only 1 in 10 receive at
tention from special juvenile au
thorities. Dr. Fishbein listed unnecessary
accidents, burglary, alcoholism,
drug addicts, and strikes as evi
dent of mental unrest needing
specific attention. He attributed
the high percentage of neurotics
among workers to boredom, in
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In order to avert communism
and display moral leadership in
the world, White says we must
counteract the communist propa
ganda of the Moscow radios
which capitalize on all American
racial troubles.
Political activities of White be
gan when he was appointed a
delegate to the Second Pan
African Congress held in Eng
land, Belgium and Fiance in
1931. During the war he served
as a war correspondent and
traveled more than 75,000 miles
visiting army camps and con
conferring with officers and
enlisted men.
Born in 1893 in Atlanta, Ga.,
he received his BA from Atlanta
University in 1916 and his LLD
from Howard in 1939. He is
married and has three children.
White will hold an open dis
cussion period with students and
faculty at 2 p. m. in the faculty
lounge of the Union.
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Kosmet Klub
Bids for Seat
On Council
An appeal for representation on
the Student Council by the Kos-
met Klub, campus men's dramtic
honorary, was made by the club
president, Bob Sim, at Wednes
day's meeting of the Council.
This action is in conjunction
with recent action in electing
three new organizations to the
Council by a joint student-faculty
committee. They are Asso
ciated Women Students, Women's
Athletic association and Candidate
Officers association.
Sim's appearance before the
Council can warrant no definite
action by the group, but the ap
peal was made so that the Coun
cil should know that this club
wants representation.
The question of non -representation
of the Kosmet Klub on the
present Council was brought up
in the discussion, following Sim's
appeal. Therefore it was brought
to the Council's attention that the
Kosmet Klub is at the present, on
permanent p-obation, as it has
been for the past two years, and
that perhaps it cannot receive rep
resentation while holding that
status.
No authorative action was taken
by the Council on the matter, but
they did vote in favor of sup
porting the idea of Kosmet Klub
representation, if they can get the
matter of probation cleared up.
Herb Reese was added to the
Council roll as representative of
the "N" club, which was elected
to the Council last spring during
the formation -of the new consti-
tution.
Committee Appointments
Much discussion also took place
over the newly formed faculty
advisors-student liaison commit-
tee. Council members appointed
to work on the committee with
facultv advisors, Dr. Curtis Elliott
and Miss Mary Mielcn. arc Fred
Chad, Phvllis Cadwallder, Louise
McDill, Roz Howard, Ben Wall,
and Hay Simmons. Council Presi
dent Roz Howard made the ap
pointments. MJCWA to Med
In Union Tonight
Students attending the third
mass meeting of NUCWA tonight
will see slides of an automobile
trip through Mexico as well as
participating in the regular busi
ness meeting.
NUCWA members and house
representatives will meet at 7:30
p. m. in Parlor Z of the Union.
Ray Simmons will show the
slides taken on a recent trip
through Mexico and will explain
them. Included in the scries will
be pictures of such cities as
Laredo, Tex., Mexico City and
Vera Cruz. Slides of a bull fight
will also be shown.
The business meeting will bo
conducted after the half-hour
program of slides. The meeting
is open to students interested in
world afairs as well as active
NUCWA members.
A short meeting of the NUCWA
executive board will b held at
7 p. m. in Parlor Z.
