Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 12

              average starting salaries of 255 a month for graduates with bache lors degrees are about the same as for last year with chemical and petroleum companies offering the highest salaries for graduates with mas ters degrees the average will be about 320 a month and for those with engineering doctorates 445 in the engineering colleges em ploying teachers and research workers 390 will be the average starting salary for graduates with doctors degrees organizations reporting these figures include 144 industrial com panies 23 government agencies and 64 engineering schools which are currently employing 91,400 en gineering graduates vincent lopez anld orchestra will be the feature attraction to morrow night in grace hall as the junior class sponsors its annual prom this year the prom has assumed the them of the gambling jo'nt monte carlo festival tix tickets for the 1950 music fes tival go on salte wednesday march 29 at drown hall for the first three days tickets will be sold ex clusively to students after friday march 31 tickets will be available to the general public sales will be on a first come first served basis according to frank larkin festival public relations director music festival prices campus church groups to join for vesper service sunday this vesper service is an attempt to start a college-level ecumenical movement level on the campus purpose of this movement is to fur eight religious organizations on lehigh campus will combine to present an interdenominational vesper service in packer memorial church at 7 p.m sunday march 26 keystone cops have no soul ask art wha dat arrest 4 lu debators enter tourney at temple u temple university plays host today and tomorrow to de baters of lehigh and other mem bers of the benjamin debate league lehigh will send a four man team to debate the topic re solved that the united states should nationalize basic non-agri cultural industries comprising the affirmative team will be leonard stafford bus 52 and ralph towne ch.e 52 nega tive robert f taylor arts 52 and larry collins e p 52 stafford a novice after winning a berth on the varsity has participated in more debates then any other man on the team this year he has a total of 250 points second only to president phil howse jon hopkins debate coach ex pressed hope that the team will duplicate or better the showing it made in the brooklyn college de bate where it won eight of six teen debates film depicting trial of nazis to be shown debate and the first showing of the documentary film the nu remberg trails will be the sixth program of the lehigh valley branch of the foreign policy as sociation at 8 p.m today in pack ard auditorium recently released for public showing the fikn is a documentary record of the nazi criminals their crimes and the trials at nurem berg this picture has 1 been recog nized by government officials as the most complete film record of the subject to date it incorporates scenes from newsreels and from captured nazi films with actual pictures of the trials it features the opening remarks and further interrogations by justice robert jackson who referred to the trials as the greatest landmark of jus tice in all recorded history dr eugene h miller professor of political science at ursinus college will up hold the affirma tive side of the question during the debate his platform opponent will be dr samuel m hesson pro fessor of law at albany law school albany n y dr miller member of the ursinus college faculty since 1935 has done research work in political science in canada argentna bra zil and chile on the subject ca nadian-latin american relations he is the author of strategy at singapore and principles and functions of american govern ment after graduating from union 1 college dr hesson taught at his alma mater he has served as re search consultant to the new york state law revision com mission and also the the judicial council of new york art for art's sake is okay but cheesit the cops is advice four arts students have to offer after a hectic sketching trip monday afternoon ed haltenhoff c e june 51 dick hess feb 50 met graduate roy neville arts june 53 and ivan park bus june 52 were sent by fine arts 6 instructor robert doney to make sketches of the local bethlehem steel com pany plant parked in hese car in a field across the lehigh river the quartet had been working for nearly two hours when a city po liceman on a motorcycle accom panied by a steel company police man in a big black armored truck roared up alongside and slithered to a halt in the mud while the company policeman tried in vain to write down their names the city policeman took hess driver's license and com manded follow me continued on page 8 col 1 wending its way through the mud the confused little caravan proceeded to the minsi trail bridge where the city policeman informed the toll-collector these people are with me — they don't have to pay the motorcycle drove on but the toll-collector failed to cooperate — hess had to oueh up a nickel anyway when the unfortunate four final ly parked across from police head ther cooperation between the re ligious organizations here mem bership of many of the organiza tions is partly made up of mora vian college girls as well as le high students rev david weinland president of the moravian college for women will speak on the subject of closer cooperation between religious groups it will be his first appear ance as a speaker here graduate of yale theological school rev weinland is an or dained minister o f moravian church before coming to mora vian he was assistant president at salem college winston salem n c two committees of lehigh stu dents worked on the vesper ser vice project ray hartman ch.e 50 presi dent of christian council will lead the service which will be conclud ed with a candlelight ceremony brown and white lehigh university friday march 2 1950 wheels are oiled casino tomorrow bethlehem pa volume 59 — number 12 positions may drop for engineer grads arcadia office reveals names of 9 candidates nine candidates for the spring election of arcadia officers have submitted their petitions to the arcada office they are john h miller bus j'sl jack wilson e.m j'sl theodore bald win bus j'sl carl gordon bus j'sl frank larkin bus j'sl wil liam wood e m j'sl william thompson arts j's3 anthony larocci arts j's2 and raymond ludlow che j'sl all possible candidates are re minded that petitions must be sub mitted to the arcadia office not later than april 1 vince lopez . . . promising to be a smashing success the junior class dance monte carlo will take place tomorrow night in grace hall with vincent lopez supplying the music and a casino for entertainment between dances as the two main features according to herb hoover junior class president featured singer of the evening is ann warren lopez's popular sing ing discovery since she joined lopez and made a rapid rise to stardom she has never ceased to remain popular as his foremost vocalist true-t.o-life gambling equipment has been set up on the first floor of grace hall roulette wheels blackjack tables dice cages and other game equipment will turn the hall into a rea?i cas'.lno croupiers dressed in tuxedos will be in charge of runnng the tables on the second floor decorations depicting a riviera scenle have been set up ed haltenberg sigma chi is credited with originating the idea of a monte carlo dance class officers and the junior cabinet immedately adopted his plan and soon the ma chinery to ensure a successful af fair was put into operation lopez better known among mu sic critics as the name changer and star maker has discovered such artists 1 as deanna durbin betty hutton sunny skylar and others of equal distinction as a name changer lopez boasts of having changed the name of betty darling to betty hutton edmna mac durbin to deanna durbin and sonny schyler to sunny skylar hoping to increase his income 25 per cent this year lopez netted 123 thousand in 1949 through his orchestra the bandleader man ages to keep a six figure income annually 50 to initiate closed formal seniors have voted to hold a closed formal dance as their last social affair before graduating next june announced ford pray chairman of the senior ball com mittee it is the hope of the class of 50 that this the first social function of its type will become a tradi tional affair to be carried on by the graduating classes of the fu ture records are being kept of all the necessary details by john young coordinating secretary of the com mittee these records will be giv en to the class of 51 to encourage them to hold a similar affair next year dean charles seidle has helped the committees in forming plans for the farewell social he states that the university is whole heartedly in favor of the idea seniors in charge of the various committees are ford pray direct ing chairman john young co ordinating secretary david cum mings entertainment committee al abramovitz publicity commit tee dick miller decoration com mittee hal henry refreshment committee john georgiadis band employment of this year's engineering graduates is expected to drop 30 per cent according to predictions by leading industrial con cerns government and state agencies and engineering colleges this information was made known in a recent study of 1950 employment programs conducted by the general survey committee of engineers joint council engineering colleges polled concerning teaching and research posi tions available report a probable drop of 44 per cent from last year's employment figure the survey also indicates a decrease of 28 per cent in employment by industrial companies and of 33 per cent by government agencies only chemical companies of the large industrial groups do not expect a decline in employment a decrease of only 5 per cent from 1949 is expected in the chem ical engineering field wheras esti mated employment decreases in the other enginering fields are all about 30 per cent graduates in physical science also face reduced employment op portunities according to the sur vey polled organizations employ ing such graduates expect a 16 per cent drop from last year's figures although employment of chemists will probably decrease by 15 per cent a 7 per cent increase in employment of physicists is 1 ex pected friday evening saturday res 2.30 gen 1.60 matinee evening 1.80 2.30 1.30 1.80