Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 47

              is america a nation the influence of sectionalism and the hyphenate against nationalism the free evening school con ducted by the lehigh university y m c a with the co-operation of the bethlehem steel works has just closed one of the most suc cessful years in its history the work done by lehigh men in this evening school is worthy of real commendation fifty four stu dents of the university sacrificed a great deal of time to teach the men of thirty-five different nationalities elementary subjects such as eng lish reading writing arithmetic naturalization etc the classes were held four nights and two afternoons each week the school had a total enroll ment of over sixteen hundred and many of these men will take their examinations in naturalization this coming monday at easton be fore one of the united states ex aminers in order to become ameri can citizens at the conference of the penn sylvania students association officers at lebanon valley college annville pa on april 27-29 one of the speakers spoke of the lehigh university evening school as one of the greatest projects of its kind in america a number of letters have been received from the foreigners attending the school showing their appreciation the attendance in the school is growing annually and an early organiza tion of the classes will be effected next fall notice seniors more men wanted for military training despite the fact that the work in military training is progressing satisfactorily the attendance con tinues to be poor of the eight hundred men in college only seven ty report regularly for training and last wednesday afternoon the number fell to thirty men enthusiasm is decidedly lacking more men are urged to give their support to this movement the drill in the past consisted of closed order work in the future extended order work will form a large part of the drill some of the men have procured uniforms but captain j f carlz wishes it to be understood that this action was purely voluntary lack of uniform is no excuse for failure to take part in the drill uniforms may be procured at reduced rates at the armory on the third floor of the gymnasium the following seniors have not paid their class d*ues in full for the college course and will not receive class day invitations or programs neither will their names appear on the class tablet unless the dues are paid on or before may 6 see j f carlz treasurer at once achorn anderson appel bark ley borneman botero brenton brobst butterworth buxton berg carlson carter colby dawson dayton drinker edwards fennel fishburn flinn r t greer gar rett hampton homewood hooven hagey hanford johnson justice king leoser lacombe linn min nich mckinley neubert nichols ortiz pons porter ralph ran dolph reynolds repa robinson savadkin schmidt schulz schwoyer stotz tate g b wal ter r f walter williams wright winter youry sophomores hold meeting epitome notice at the home of dr and mrs h s drinker the last meeting of the arts and science club for the year 1916-17 was held last wednesday evening election of officers for the next year took place l c fenstermacher 18 was elected president l fritchman 18 vice president j sourber 19 secre tary j a bishop 18 treasurer and n 0 dittes 20 member-at large an excellent program was ren dered which included an interest ing talk by professor b l miller of the department of geology on the subject pan americanism j d sourber 19 favored with a vocal solo accompanied by p e werner 17 on the piano and c j brockman 19 on the violin g b walters 17 read a humorous paper consisting of poetry and prose combined on the history of lacrosse ' ' by means of ' ' imag inary slides the lacrosse game was veil pictured the substance of prof b l mil ler s talk follows in part : ' ' pan americanism has been dis cussed for a long time volumes have been written on the subject practically everyone w 7 ho has writ ten on the subject has defined it it may be defined in a broad way ' fellowship union and relations be tween americans ' there are twen ty-one of these american countries all with perhaps the same or some what similar aspirations latin america has in the last years had little to do with the united states we have had some relations with mexico but little to do with influencing them few of the latin americans have travelled in adjoining republics those on the w t est coast know 7 nothing of the east coast there are few relations between the latin american coun tries the example of george wash ington was taken up by latin america independence has been achieved by almost all of these countries and some have been re publics for over one hundred years some of these countries had rela tions at first but have since that time drifted somewhat apart they have reached the stage when capital is needed very much the chief reason for much of the misunderstanding is the lack of communication the difference of language is also a great obstacle the result is since there are few businessmen that go to latin amer ica with a knowledge of spanish or portuguese that there is no busi ness connection possible the differences of religion also enter in all religions are repre sented in this country while in south america the chief religion is catholic that is also a reason for the difficulty of overcoming obsta cles again our treatment of latin american peoples is not really just ; we have looked upon them as though we were far superior little attention is given to them until they are in trouble then we do not enter into it in the most tactful manner there is just reason for the belief continued on ptfth page a base on balls followed by a crashing two base hit and an error was sufficient to give lehigh two runs and a victory in the ninth inning of the game with lebanon valley wednesday afternoon on taylor field in this inning lees received a base on balls ; maginnes with the count two and three hit the next ball pitched to center field fence for two bases lees scoring hurley the next man up laid down a perfect bunt and when baynes threw wild to first ma ginnes scored the winning run twombly w r ho started in the box for lehigh was relieved by john son after he had filled the bases with two passes and hit,a batsman the latter pulled himself out of the hole by forcing haynes to hit to fishburn who tossed his bounder to achora forcing j ziegler at second lebanon however scored in the next inning white singled to center and was sacrificed to second by kernnen and scored when lees threw wild to first after fielding baynes bunt the visitors added another run in the next inning swartz was safe on mccarthy's error but was forced at second by g ziegler j ziegler singled to center sending g ziegler to third he scored on haynes single to left lehigh scored one run in the fourth mccarthy opened with a single he went to second on a passed ball and counted on winter halter's hit to left the brown and white tied the score in the sixth inning twombly was safe on an error by swartz he stolesecond went to third on a wild pitch scoring when achorn beat out an infield hit lebanon valley immediately proceeded to break the tie ander son who w r as the first man to face hurley singled to center he was sacrificed to third on successive bunts by swartz and g ziegler and counted when haynes hit safely to short center field the score w t as even up again when lehigh came to bat after two were out mathag received a base on balls he went to second on the first ball pitched and scored on mccarthy's vicious drive to right neither side scored in the eighth but lebanon forged ahead in the ninth anderson started things with a safe hit and advanced to second on swartz s out he went to third while achorn was throw ing out g ziegler at first and scored when fishburn allowed j ziegler s tap to roll between his legs haynes got his third suc cessive hit and the bases were filled w t hen hurley passed white kern nen popped to maginnes and further scoring w 7 as prevented lehigh then proceeded to win the game in its half of the inning in the manner described above the game was the most interest ing yet played here this season and its outcome was in doubt until the last minute the work of both teams was rather erratic in the continued on fourth page all persons who have paid epitome deposits must call at the supply bureau for their book on or before may 12 after this date no books will be held even though deposits have been made prompt attention to outstanding bills would be greatly appreciated by the 1918 board the competition for business manager of the 1919 epitome re sulted in j l rosenmiller 19 be ing elected there will be an increase in the cost of publication of the 1919 book over that of the past year which was thirty-five per cent higher than the year previous the editorial staff of the 1919 epitome is composed of t j bray h s kirk r k miller f d na wrath j j shipherd f h van auken and w c winter halter at a sophomore class meeting held wednesday in packer hall it was decided not to hold a calculus cremation this year due to the probable marked decrease in at tendance during commencement week the following men w<ere nomi nated for officers for the 1917-1918 year president h j heuchel r j iteuer j n kennedy w c winterhalter t c zeller ; vice president r r coffin r s jen nings r k miller c h tomkin son secretary t j bray f k harder c g melville j j ship herd 1 ; treasurer l a baumann l l dixon g r mac donald j b walker sergeant-at-arms l s owen e p twombly historian h g w smith p g wear j h wagner the elections will be held next wednesday in drown hall continued on sixth page the first of the three-game series with lafayette will be played to morrow at 2.30 on taylor field ; owing to the unsettled inter national relations it is probable that this game may be the only one which will be played lehigh will take the field with six men that have played in lafa yette series before hurley who won his letter last year will prob ably do the pitching it will be his first appearance against lafa yette mccarthy and mathag are the other two w t ho have as yet to undergo the ordeal lafayette will come here with a practically green team scott lake and welles being new men this year girard brown and dunn are all veteran pitchers who in the past have faced lehigh with more or less success comparing the records of the two teams to date the brown and white has a decided advantage games have been lost to university of virginia georgetown and swarthmore whereas on the other hand such teams as perm perm state seiton hall albright and lebanon valley have bowed before the prowess of the lehigh nine lafayette has won but two games one from perm state am one from carnegie tech both of which were defeated by lehigh in rather hollow fashion they have ernest hamlin abbott one of the editors of the outlook and secretary of the outlook com pany addressed the student bod 7 this morning on the subject the war for a common future the talk was one of the most interest ing college lectures heard for some time in the course of the address he said for over two years we have been trying to keep neutral between right and wrong now that we have entered the war we must not enter it with our will's paralyzed we must stop suppressing the wholesome instinct of taking sides between right and wrong and in stead recover the simple truths we have lost first we must understand our selves as a people is america a nation ? for a hundred and forty years the people of this country have been at work making a nation but so far they have not made one in a recent book e v lucas 1 , the english writer represents one of bis characters a clergyman in america as writing to a friend : ' ' america is something of all ; whereas a nation is all of some thing what it means for a nation to be all of something is clear to any observer who was in france and england as i was at the outbreak of the war in this sense america is not yet a nation there are two great and power ful influences in america against the spirit of nationalism one is the influence of sectionalism the other the influence of the ameri can of alien origin w 7 ho is not yet americanized — the influence of the hyphenate without common traditions without a common inheritance of iu't without that sense of rootage in the past that is expressed in common song without even that recognition of social differences that in some nations is a basis of unity has america anything that unites her people yes it has it has something greater than tradition greater than any artistic inheritance can be greater than a common history greater than any thing in the past that could be re hearsed in song or in story it has what i might call a common future all americans that are worthy of the name have a common ideal a common aspiration a common hope a common faith — the right to life liberty and the pursuit of happiness even in the civil war in the south as well as in the norths men went to death for this ideal one side believed it meant states right ; the other side believed it meant liberty and union but the ideal itself was never doubted and from this country have gone throughout the world forces that have aided in the liberation of others it is not chance alone that the greater development of libera tion in england the establishment continued on ftfth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa friday may 4 1917 the war for a common future lacrosse and baseball scheduled tomorrow arts and science club meets no 47 vol xxiv varsity defeats lebanon valley y.m.c.a evening school closes successful term 1600 men taught elementary subjects by 54 students of the university prof b l miller addresses meet ing on pan=americanism at dr drinker's home lehigh sends winning run over in ninth inning of a fast game score 5 to 4 election keating visiting shortstop stars in field accepting seven hard chances officers for next year selected pleasing musical program rendered college lecture c . y .. i „ ernest hamhn abbott secretary . -. „ , „ „. of outlook company gives lafayette opponent on diamond while swarthmore to be .. . , met in lacrosse