Brown and White Vol. 70 no. 45

              thirty-five awards revelation of class election winners dedication of the 1959 epitome and tapping of omicron delta kappa members will highlight tomorrow's annual flagpole day ceremonies classes will be shortened by 10 minutes to permit the student body to attend the 11:30 a.m flagpole gathering scheduled for the program is the presentation of the epitome to the dedicatee by editor richard bernard 59 the 28 awards are given annually for student leadership scholarship and athletic achievement class election results and tapping by odk the senior honorary are added attractions this year in case of rain the ceremonies will be held in packard lab audi torium according to arcadia vice-president harry mcnally band selections will open the ceremonies followed by an invocation from chaplain raymond fuessle introductory remarks by gen percy l sadler director of athletics will follow the invocation associate dean preston parr will act as master of ceremonies for the rest of the program which in cludes three award classifications twenty-five athletic awards are first on the program the awards including the brown key trophy initiated last year are given for achievement in every sport from football to sailing three art awards will be an nounced presentation of the serv ice awards including both the dean's service award and the ar cadia service award will follow odk tapping will be followed by the announcement of class elections results and the presentation of the senior class cane to the president elect of the class of 1960 by carl schier senior class president the presentation of the covet ed bosey reiter leadership cup will complete the flagpole day festivities fraternities have been requested to change their lunch hour tomor row to permit members to attend the ceremonies according to mcnally the rising interest of the student body as seen by the vigorous class elections in dicates there will be a large turn out for this year's flagpole day ceremonies tomorrow's class schedule mod ified for flagpole day exercises as released by registrar is as folows : first class 8 8:10 8:50 second class 9 9:00 9:40 third class 10 9:50-10:30 fourth class 11 10:40-11:20 or lunch hour exercises at the flagpole 11:30-12:30 packard auditorium in case of rain fifth class 12 12:50 1:30 or lunch hour sixth class 1 1:40 2:20 seventh class 2 2:30 3:10 eighth class 3 3:20 4:00 see branning page 4 arcadia president jack branning has been elected chairman of the pennsylvania-west virginia region of the u.s national student asso ciation another arcadian harry mc nally was elected treasurer of the region at its meeting over the weekend at temple univer sity in philadelphia branning as chairman represents more than 40,000 students in 36 schools of the region by virtue of his office he becomes a member of usnsa's national executive com mittee executive planning group for the national student organization both branning and mcnally were opposed by temple university stu dents but won handily brannings job will center about organizing the regions schools for the nsa national convention at the university of illinois in august he will also be responsible for regional con ventions next year the two-day conference was at tended by arcadians richard shul man and john talucci in addition to branning and mcnally keynote speaker for the convention was temple vice-president william tom linson who questioned whether the free world could afford the liberty group conducted by john docker 60 will sing men of lehigh all in the april evening and de an imals a comin phi sigma kappa conducted by jerry hedges 61 will sing little innocent lamb negro spiritual luther's carol for his son drink ing song dennis alpha sigma phi will present halls of ivy torch bearers bis ell and campus dreams swope in addition to the alumni trophy four other awards will be presented to outstanding students in musical organizations they are the t edgar shields award the lehigh choral n i stotz and d e rickert cup the lehigh concert r k burr and j d kirk patrick cup and the william h schempf award of theta chi reserved seat tickets for the concert are sold-out according to ticket chairman stephen gold but gold disclosed that a limited number of 75 cent tickets would be available at the door saturday night the seats are located along the bridge the faculty area at the west end of the hall solos by three bandsmen are highlights of the program the soloists are kenneth davidson 60 clarinet peter kapo 59 piano charles long 59 and james gor man 59 trumpets a panel of four economists dis agreed on the threat and dangers of inflation at a pi gamma mv panel on the current threat of inflation thursday night in the osbourne room of the university center panelists robert d wood ward head of the department of commercial research at bethle hem steel and prof elmer c bratt head of the department of economics and sociology agreed the current rise in prices was not dangerous to the econ omy prof frederick a bradford head of the finance department dis agreed claiming inflation of any kind is not sound dudley w john son assistant professor of ecpnpm.ics sa.id inflation could only fee com b&w interviews socialist nationalize steel -- thomas bated by the adoption of a policy of strong governmental price con trols probably resulting in about 10 per cent unemployment woodward noted prices have risen on the average of one to two per cent over productivity each year during the last 120 years inflation will not be a threat he commented until prices increase over produc tivity by a 3 or 4 per cent rate this creeping inflation he said is inevitable inflation hurts individuals with fixed incomes and prices the u.s out of world markets woodward said but added that recessions are worse the best thing to do woodward concluded is to provide for a mere flexible economy especially flexible see need page 7 tuesday may 12 1959 election results to be revealed flagpole day bethlehem pa vol 70 — no 45 truck service substituted for rr mail trains today's lehigh valley railroad 60 per cent slash in passenger service will not prove as devastating for lehigh students as was expected although many men used lvrr facilities other means of transportation are readily avail able but considerably more in convenient mail which was previously thought to be affected since most of the university's morning mail and newspapers from new york arrives on a now discontinued lvrr train will be trucked in officials say service will be as good or better than rail service last week's interstate commerce commission order leaves the valley with one lvrr passenger train running to new york daily at 7 a.m and another daily except sunday at 10:20 a.m from manhattan the railroad will continue one train daily leaving at 8:10 p.m and another at 5:31 p.m except sundays and holidays lehigh valley trains are not the only communicaiton link with points east since the central rail road of new jersey and two bus lines still make regular runs the jersey central runs three trains to jersey city daily leaving bethlehem at 9:33 a.m 1:01 p.m and 7:58 p.m three westbound trains leave the jersey city terminal daily at 3:30 a.m 1:12 p.m and 5:48 like all basic industries steel ought to be socially owned i vis ualize an arrangement of the tva-type with representatives of the workers sitting on the con trolling board the lecturer and writer also called for socialized medicine — not exactly like england but somewhat similar he added at the nation's present state of technology and educa tion we ought to provide medical care on the same basis as education thomas noted an increase in central controls and planning he told the brown and white that the socialist party in its present form would probably never be very influential but would con by robert walters editor-in chief nationalization of the nation's steel industry — the only feasible way of ending the current wage price spiral — was advocated by socialist party leader norman thomas here this weekend thomas six-times candidate for the presidency visited the lehigh campus for the first time over the past weekend as he attended friday and saturday sessions of the bach festival outright private ownership of the steel industry is not neces sary to prevent administered prices the 76-year-old retired politician told the brown and white tinue to play a role in education and other aspects of government no third party has ever been influential in national politics perhaps the socialist party of the future will devolve from a southern regrouping or a re formed democraitc party without the southern element on the berlin crisis thomas said there is still a likeli hood of getting out of berlin without war but the tension which has built up must be alleviated before it breaks i think the current geneva con ference will certainly be fruit ful the only place the problem will be solved to any great degree see thomas page 4 no more — lehigh valley trains will seldom travel these bethlehem tracks to and from new york beginning today the company will run only two round-trip trains daily leonard hall 2 frats vie for song award branning named nsa chairman for two states see lv page 5 leonard hall will vie against two fraternities alpha sigma phi and phi sigma kappa last year's win ner — for the n.y alumni club trophy at the pop's concert satur day night in grace hall the three groups were select ed from seven finalists last week by dr joseph a maurer head of the classical languages department dr donald ryan of the geology department and james d mack university librarian each of the groups will present three selections at the saturday night finals the leonard hall panelists disagree on inflationary dangers brown and white inflation prof dudley johnson talks on inflation to a sparse audi ence of 40 in the university center osbourne room last thursday night other panelists are prof fred bradford prof elmer bratt prof ernst schulz and mr robert wood ward