Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 35

              student paper illustrated lecture accompanied by stereop ticon views taken by the speaker the baltimore filtration plant subject of pacer read by r w sheckells,'l6 arts and science club bach festival to render bach's christmas oratorio last thursday afternoon febru ary 17 at 4 o'clock a short meet ing was held in coppee hall by the arts and science club of the uni versity as stated by president alexander in starting the meeting the club was called in order to boost up more interest in the arts and science club to make arrangements for a big meeting to be held the early part of march the following committee was appointed brodstein conrad ritter mckinley and sourber short addresses were given by sev eral members of the club plans were considered for stir ring up more interest in tfye club and increasing the attendance the suggestion of holding debates was favorably discussed as well as the possibility of musical programs as there is quite a little talent in the club along this line the march meeting will be held next thurs day ' first lacrosse practice it was decided to hold the next meeting on the evening of thurs day february 24 at seven-thirty o'clock ah men in the depart ment of business administration are eligible for membership in the club and are urged to be present mr twombly referred to a state ment made by theodore price in which mr price said there is a new era of prosperity at hand the loss of confidence in the financial structure of the country has caused the panics in the past however the crisis of august 1914 was averted due to the fact that the federal reserve act had recon structed the country financially ; the large grain crop and war orders insured a good financial future this discussion was followed by an interesting paper read by c e twombly on the course of in vestments aiter the war mr twombly showed how a statement made by s w patten in an article in noddy's magazine at the begin ning of the european war has not worked out in this article mr pat ten stated that before july 1915 the world would become in danger ous financial conditions if the war did not stop steps will be taken by members of the program committee towards procuring a sales demonstration by the national cash register com pany of dayton ohio a discussion by instructors of the department and members of the club followed the main topic was a method of getting more fellows especially freshmen to come out to the meetings mr ezra bowen instructor of banking and finance spoke on the future plans of the club emphasizing the importance of debates by members of the club and speeches by successful business men of the community george ostrum 16 vice-president of the club was unanimously elected president c e twombly and l bigelow were nominated for the vice-presidency twombly was elected the four brown and white lehigh captain only scratch man in race time 2 minutes 4 seconds burke wins half mile the business taken up was the election of a president to fill the vacancy made by the withdrawal from college of j e keady 16 the third meeting of the year of the business administration club was held last thursday evening in coppee hall quarter milers had little trouble in capturing the feature relay race from the georgetown runners at the georgetown university indoor meet held in convention hall washington d c last saturday evening running on an unbanked track with sharp curves the time of 3 minutes 42 2/5 seconds for the event was fast captain burke likewise had no difficulty in cap turing the open half mile event from a field of more than a score all having handicaps of 12 yards or more carlson running in the 440 yard open event as the only scratch man was unable to finish better than fifth due to the large number of entries in the event which congested the small track that he was unable to break away from the field and overcome the handicaps of the rest morrissey led off for the brown and white against griffith of georgetown and was forced to hand the baton to hanway five yards behind the blue and gray runner hanway running against amey overcame this lead as he came into the straightaway on his second lap from this period the race was lehigh s not a george town runner gained a yard there after at any point of the race mcgrath took the baton from han way in the third quarter while leighty for georgetown allowed the baton to slip from his grasp in receiving it from amey which further increased the lead of the brown and white runners cap tain burke and brett of george town finished the race burke out classing his runner and finishing fully fifty yards in the lead commenting on the meet the star of washington said the three feature relay races between colleges in the georgetown university indoor track games last night resulted in easy victories for lehigh catholic university and the maryland agricultural college dorsey griffith ran first for georgetown against lehigh and he was the only member of the local institution ao finish in the van hanway took the lead for lehigh on the second lap and after that the blue and gray was never in the running the washington post said : ' ' georgetown s failure to measure up with lehigh in the relay that is always regarded as the crowning event at least from a strictly local standpoint was not a surprise it was hardly to be expected that the locals deprived of capt stebbins would be able to match strides with the bethlehem team with burke one of the ranking middle-distance runners of the country as its anchor man mining engineers meet professor joseph w richards of the department of metallurgy and mr w g matteson of the depart ment of geology attended the meeting of the american institute of mining engineers held in new york during the past week the largest attendance at the y m c a meetings wa son last sunday evening when mike dorizas was the speaker mr dorizas talked on persia and illus trated his address with beautiful colored slides the slides were taken by mr dorizas himself mr howard j wiegner sang the lord is ! my light by allitsen and glory to thee my god by gounod mr l s lobach accom panied mr wiegner mr dorizas said persia is one of the three mohammedan coun tries persia is supposed to be free but in 1907 england and russia divided persia into three parts russia took 300,000 square miles in the northern part of persia eng land took 100,000 more square miles and the rest was left to persia persia has a population of about 12000 the persians do not attempt to fight the diseases of the country they say that under normal con diuons that an apple stays on thfi tree until it is ripe when it is ripe it falls to the ground how ever when a wind comes along the apples fall to the ground whether they are ripe or not this is the same with people under normal conditions people live until they get too old and then they die when plague or other diseases come along it takes the young and the old the same as a storm takes the apples off the trees the climate also has an affect on the people of the country in the north is a range of mountains these mountains stop the moisture laden winds coming from the north and the southern part of persia is a desert from the lack of moisture wherever there is a desert nomads are sure to be found when these nomads can find no more pasture in the country they move to the cities and rob the people it is easy to get to persia but one finds the difficulties after he is in persia one can go down from petrograd or sail from a port in the mediterranean or from a port of the persian gulf in the north there are two rich provinces all over the country the ordinary houses are built of thatch in these houses the silk worms are raised silk-worms are not bred in persia but are brought from turkey the transportation in persia is done by means of donkeys camels or horses there are only two roads in persia where vehicles can be used one was built from the caspian sea by a russian company at a cost of 2,500,000 and extends for 215 miles the other is one built by an english company and extends for 120 miles a person can travel 500 miles in this country in about 10 hours and for about 10 in persia it would take 20 days and cost 150 the carriages used might have been very good 60 years ago in traveling stops are made frequently in order to change horses one sees many rice fields in continued on second page h i fair 16 chairman of the bible study committee of the y m c a stated that the discussion groups would wind up their good work by a big meeting which is planned for march 1 the organization of the varsity club last wednesday afternoon was announced by p s hanway 17 he thought that the club should exert a good influence and announced a second meeting for saturday afternoon february 26 at 2 o clock in drown hall k a lambert 16 president of the mustard and cheese associa tion made an announcement con cerning the musical comedy to be given this year there are six lead ing parts and twelve minor for which up to date thirty-five have reported at the first two rehearsals the comedy to be given is the fascinating widow and is one which offers parts especially adapted to the requirements of om own dramatic club more men are desired for competition for these parts as explained by president wynne the athletic committee in considering candidates for the position of assistant manager of basketball decided to appoint a sub-committee which should select the three men to be voted upon by the student-body the entire mat ter has been referred back to the athletic committee for further consideration last friday morning in packer hall a short college meeting was held in which several important announcements were made the main purpose of the meeting was to have been the election of an as sistant basketball manager to suc ceed edwards who has left college the monthly meeting of the civil engineering society was held last thursday evening in the physics lecture room the principal speaker was r p howell 96 who gave an illustrated lecture on the methods of construction and opera tion of the panama canal r w sheckells preceded mr howell reading a paper on the balti more filtration plant mr howell 96 of phillipsburg n j has just returned from a visit to the canal and his talk em braced the latest developments of the work there and was full of in terest he illustrated his remarks with 150 stereopticon views which covered the different phases of the canal work both the completed and the present excavations in addition he showed many views of the isthmus the government build ings hospitals and views 1 of the towns the old spanish cathedrals and the natives of panama a brief history of the canal was outlined columbus was the first man to set foot on the isthmus then came balboa in his search for a passage to the indies believing india lay beyond the paeific,bal boa conceived the idea of digging a ditch through the isthmus at the beginning of the nineteenth cen tury several countries took up the proposition in 1836 the united states obtained permission from colombia and in 1849 began build ing a railroad from the atlantic to the pacific this was completed in 1855 and answered the purpose for a number of years in 1876 the french co was or ganized and they began the excava tion for the canal in 1881 they worked seven years and spent 260 millions of dollars the work was in charge of the noted french en gineer m de lesseps who built the suez canal he believed a sea level canal could be built as he had done at suez but the conditions were different at panama in two respects the rainfall there was no rainfall at suez at panama it varied from 30 inches on the at lantic side to 70 inches on the pa cific side occasionally reaching 200 inches per year the sudden and terrific floods destroyed the canal at every stage to offset this he determined to build three canals a main one for traffic and an east and west diversion canal to carry the floods this was soon aban doned he took up the lock level plan but this was antiquated and could not have been used the company failed in 1888 and went into the hands of the receivers after spending 270 millions of dol lars in 1904 the tj s government took up the project and bought all the holdings for 40 millions of dol lars work now began in earnest the french seemed not to have grasped the real situation their machinery was crude the u s engineers saw it was a problem of transportation as well as digging the transporting of the dirt from culebra hill was more of a prob continued on third page dr j fred wolle originator and conductor of the bethlehem bach choir and the executive committee of the musical associa tion decided on bach's christmas oratorio and the great composer's masterpiece — the mass in b minor — as the numbers to be rendered at the annual spring festival on may 26 and may 27 again this year the festival will take place in the packer memorial church at lehigh university the philadelphia orchestra will be en gaged and also some of the most noted oratorio singers in the coun try the christmas oratorio has not been sung by the choir since 1904 parts i 2 and 3 will be sung in the afternoon and parts 4 5 and 6 in the evening the b minor mass will also be divided into two parts for the last day of the festival the first lacrosse practice of the year will be held tomorrow after noon at 3 o clock practice will be held every monday wednesday and friday afternoons until fur ther notice they will be under the direction of last year's letter men until coach grimes arrives about the middle of march all new men are urged to report early so that regular practice can start with the arrival of the coach all candidates for assistant man ager will also report tomorrow the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 22 1916 vol xxiii alumnus speaks on panama canal relay team wins event the course of invest ments after the war y m c a hears michail dorizas short college meeting held last friday election of basketball assistant manager postponed announcements übject of paper by c e twomb ley read before business administration club easily defeats georgetown uni versity in indoor relay race large y m c a audience hears interesting talk on situation in persia r p howell,'96 gives illustrated lecture at monthly meeting of the civil engineers no 35