Brown and White Vol. 21 no. 18

              addresses politics club on gov ernment ownership of rail roads gives resume draws conclusions comparision of scores made in games with teams both had met gives lehigh an edge team in best condition team is in the very finest shape and has all kinds of ginger and enthusiasm roads in colonies should be gov ernment owned but old roads should be privately controlled the chemical society of lehigh university held its second meet of the year in saucon hall on tuesday evening after a short business meeting s j thomas gave a com plete and interesting talk on the cause of disease he compared the human body to a watch which is called a normal watch when it is running properly ; likewise the human body is called normal when it is in the proper condition and state of health me said that both in the case of the watch and the human hod 1 , in the course of time the parts would begin to wear out mr thomas divided all disease in to two classes constitutional and bacterial the first class is direct ly due to overeating and insufficient exercise 1 and care of the parts of the body while the second class is due to certain microscopic plants called bacteria entering into the sys tem these small objects perform different reactions on the part or parts of the body in which they have located he then went on to describe in detail many of the diff erent diseases and their causes and prevention continued on third page the next speaker was r n boyd l5 who gave a most inter lehigh's president attends na tional conservation congress • this week the fifth national conservation congress is meeting at washington this week dr drinker is attend ing it as a delegate from the fol lowing : the state of pennsylvania le high university the american ins titute of mining engineers the american forestry association and the pennsylvania conservation as sociation the representatives of forestry assembled on monday morning for sectional meetings and conferences which went on during the clay and the congress convened at 10 a m on thursday when the opening ad dress was delivered by the lion david l houston secretary of agriculture meetings of the con gress for the discussion of papers by distinguished speakers 011 the conservation of the soil on food agricultural fertilizers water power development and other co nservation subjects were held on tuesday and wednesday dr drinker who besides being presi dent of the american forestry as sociation is also a member of the executive committee of the con gress presided at the meeting on thursday morning which was de continued on fourth page it was a rejuvenated and unrec ognizable team that ran up and down the length of taylor field for an unusually long practice on wednesday afternoon and it was only darkness that forced the foot ball squad from the gridiron show ing no traces of their recent threat ened slump and also no lapse in physical condition by reason of the three-day lay-off the varsity men reported early and were niger to a gain get into action rudimen-tary work and a re hearsal of fundamentals came first : the squad was put to work on the tackling dummy which had been dressed in maroon and white colors and following this a signal practice w r as held during the last few days the scrubs have been diligently perfect ing lafayette formations : wednes day the second-string men tried them out on the varsity and from what could be gleaned of what was continued on second page statistics of teams the november meeting of the politics club was held last tues day evening the club being address ed by prof f p mckibben on government ownership of rail roads the speaker gave a short resume of past railroading condi tions and used much personal knowledge of foreign railroads in the united states there have been two roads of importance with the exception of the recently finish ed panama line which have been owned by the government — the i loosac tunnel road in massachu setts and the union pacific system many other early roads were help ed by the towns through which they were expected to pass the people collecting as large a sum as possi ble for a bonus and granting much land for the right of way france in seeking for examples has some of its roads state owned and some privately owned but state controll ed holland to the contrary has most of its state owned roads leas ed to private corporations in france it is interesting as well as significant to note that the stations and general appearances of the pri vately owned lines are much better than of the government roads switzerland's roads are difficult and costly to build private corpora lions build them and soon turn them over to the government the latter having bought up about one half the number of miles now in operation the swiss roads give the best service in all europe and have the best equipment bismarck conceived the idea of government owned roads to aid in the quick mo bilization of the german troops and like 1 all things military in that land the roads are excellently built if not continued on second page i he lehigh cross-country track i earn to morrow at one o'clock will meet the one from lafayette the teams composed of eight men will be started at taylor field and it is expected that they will arrive re turning just before the football game begins the judges of the finish have not yet been determined upon cross-country track meet of more absorbing interest than for many years past is the coming annual struggle between those two ancient rivals lehigh and lafay ette at 2.30 o'clock to-morrow af ternoon this battle for supremacy will be fought out on taylor field no matter how prominent were some of the games on each team's schedule the past season the pro cess of priming the lehigh team has been with this great struggle in view to win this game is to wipe out the sting of all previous defeats no matter how many or how serious ; to lose is to submerge into oblivion all other triumphs no matter how glorious scores favor lehigh the records of the teams for the year afford little conclusive data as to the comparative strength but le high seems to have a slight advan tage lafayette has been beaten by yale perm pittsburgh and cor nell victories were scored over swarthmore albright and ursinus hut muhlenberg held them to a tie lehigh has beaten albright muh lenberg swarthmore and haver ford and lost to the indians yale and the navy the situation is not relieved of its muddle by a comparison of the scores made in the games with teams which both have met muh lenberg tied lafayette 7 to 7 and lost to lehigh 7 to 0 but as a co.vrimki on skcox'i pack a letter from dr drinker to the alumni i beg to urge on my fellow alumni of lehigh their duly to give active and substantial support to the browjn and white our university organ it is well im partially and conscientiously edited by good men and deserves your backing not only your subscrip tions which are surely a trifling toll to pay for a bi-weekly paper keep ing you in constant touch with what is going on in the university but by your aid in the way of letters and data which you can forward concerning the doings of lehigh men in your localities and sugges tions of any nature that may he helpful to the alma mater 1 iknky sturgis drinkes 71 no 18 the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday november 21 1913 vol xxi remember 10=0 dr drinker presides at capital annual battle with lafayette chemical society holds meeting prof mckisben gives talk three interesting papers read before the gathering on tuesday evening scrimmage held wednesday scrubs tried lafayette forma tions and plays against var sity but to little avail the one big game of the season comes off tomorrow on taylor field scores favor lehigh lehigh lafayette name weigh height class age prep school position prep school age class height weight name fred green 170 5 ft 9 in . . 1915 19 . wesleyan . .. l c kiski 5ch001 22 1915 6 ft 1 in 183 furry mccarthy 190 6 ft 2 in . . 1915 21 mck m i .. l t peddie inst 21 . 1916 6 ft 1 in 185 beyer grumbach 188 6 ft 1 in 1916 21 williston . .. l g wilson m a 22 1916 6 ft 4 in 183 gulick scruggs 170 5 ft 9 in 1916 18 lerrit c roselle h s 22 1916 6 ft 0 in 175 luhr bianco 180 6 ft 0 in . 1914 23 . beth prep ... r g glassboro h 5.21 1915..6 ft.oin 184 kelly bailey 178 6 ft 1 in . 1914 24 mt herman r t . mercersburg..2l 1914 5 it 11 in 198 wagenhurst flick 148 5 ft 11 in 1914 23 .. b m i a ... r c .. brown prep 20 1915 5 ft 7 in 158 r diamond chenoweth 137.5 ft 6 in 1916 21 el paso m i q.b . cen manual l 9 1916 5 ft 7 in 154 j diamond keady 198.5 ft 10 in 1916 22 .. lawrence . l.'h b friends cen 20 1915 5 ft 10 in 172 kennedj ilohan 175 5 ft 10 in 1915 23 stevens r h b lakewoodh.s,23 1915 5 ft 10 in 175 brown crichton 175 6 ft 1 in .. 1915 20 . beth prep ... f b kiski school 21 . 1916 6 ft 0 in 175 scheeren average weight of team 174 average weighi of team 177 average weight of i me 175 average weight of line 181 average weight of backfield 171 average weight of acklield 169 average age of team 21 years average age of team 21 years average height of team 5 ft 11 in average height of team 5 ft 11 in lafayette smoker tonight colosseum 8 o'clock