Brown and White Vol. 24 no. 40

              lecture by mr emory pottle describes the sacrifices being made preparedness for the future is the subject brought to the at tention of the men brown and white nine leaves on annual trip during easter vacation held at hotel allen ambulance corps four games several lehigh men volunteer to go to france to join this body mr e pottle president drinker prof b l miller and prof j l stewart speak games with georgetown wash ington and lee and the univ of virginia last tuesday the senior chem ists and chemical engineers started on a week-end inspection trip to new york city they were accompanied bydr.h m ullmann professor a a diefenderfer and mr chamberlain and during their trip visited a number of important manufacturing concerns on wednesday morning the part visited the american sugar refining co in jersey city they saw the crude sugar pass through the various steps of the refining process and finally evolve as crystal domino blocks and saw with particular interest the com pany's 180 bone-char filters and 40 centrifugal machines in the afternoon the plant of the manhattan rubber co at passaic was visited the distinctive feature of which was the testing laboratory for physically testing rubber on thursday morning the party visited the babbitt soap works at babbitt n j and in the afternoon the tidewater oil co at bayonne here the oil goes into a still and is separated 1 into eleven crude frac tions ' ' which are later united into three — light medium and heavy — oils each of which is then sepa rately refined the tidewater oil co has several batteries of burton stills for cracking light oils with this type of still 80 per cent of the light oil may be converted into gasoline whereas with the old vacuum system of cracking only seven per cent was obtained on friday morning the corn products co at tidewater n j was visited from corn this com pany manufactures corn oil karo corn syrup cattle feed and rubber substitute the last place visited by the group was the central testing continued on sixth page last friday morning in the chapel mr s d detwiler of the united states department of agri culture gave a very interesting talk on blister rust mr det wiler said in part the statement that the bug is blighter than the sword is a very true one and is quite evident throughout our country right in pennsylvania millions of dollars have been lost through the chestnut tree blight and some instances are even found right on your compus here it is estimated that annually our nation loses one-half of a billion dollars through imported insects and diseases of plant life the nursery stock which we import from abroad contains these diseases and there is a bill before congress now which would prohibit the im portation of such stock probably the first indication of the insect was found on a shipment of cherries which the mayor of tokio japan sent to mrs w h taft these cherries were thoroughly in spected and fumigated but the dis ease nevertheless has spread from washington to baltimore the white pine tree is america's foremost timber tree but by our ruthless way in cutting timber and by the spread of disease where we formerly had thousands and thous ands we now have a few thousand left in pennsylvania they aver age two hundred feet in height and four feet in diameter the region of the white pine forests extends from maine to minnesota through the appalachian highlands to georgia from the splendid forests of michigan you get your white pine drawing boards there are many species of pine trees among which the most promi continued on st'xth paor sophomore banquet grueling work in lacrosse the sophomore banquet com mittee urges every man who in tends to be present at the sopho more banquet which is to be held friday evening april 20 at the hotel allen allentown to pur chase his ticket immediately in order that the proper arrange ments may be made as soon as pos sible the list of speakers has not been definitely decided upon but a fine entertainment is assured white's banjo orchestra has been engaged to furnish the music the list of speakers will probably be an nounced in the next issue of the brown and white the tickets are three dollars and may be se cured from any of the following men r j heuer l l dixon f h vanauken l s owen and j h wagner . under the tutelage of coach grimes the lacrosse team is fast rounding into shape the size of the squad is the largest that lehigh has seen in several years and grill ing practices have been held every day this week to get the men in the best possible condition thirty men have been ordered to stay over the easter holidays this is necessary on account of the first game of the season being on april 11 against cornell the practices will be held each day at 10 a.m and at 2 3o p.m no man who does not stay over the holidays will have a chance to make the team 1 later on and the weight of these words is evinced by the fact that no man dares go home who has any chance of making the team the baseball team headed by coach keady left for the south on the 2.35 train this afternoon the first stop will be at balti more where the team will stop over night leaving for washington wednesday morning at which place the strong georgetown university nine will be played in the after noon that night they will stop at lexington where the washington and lee team will be their op ponent thursday and friday fri day night will be spent at lynch burg and saturday the last game of the trip will be played ; the uni versity of virginia being the op ponent of last year's powerful team which ranked fifth in collegiate circles only two men will be miss ing j rawle pitcher and out fielder and al yap third base man the loss of rawle will he felt more as he was a heavy hitter and the first string pitcher in yap's place w v mccarthy will be found mac comes here with a reputation of being a fast fielder and fine hitter the bulk of the catching will be done by speedy lees for the past three years varsity catcher who is considered to be one of the best college catchers in the country monroe a sophomore will prob ably be taken on the trip as a warm up catcher as he has shown up the best of any of the new candi dates the pitching will be divided be tween cy twombly and hurley letter men from last year both of these men have been tried and have made good a third pitcher to make the trip will be picked from wysocki johnson c miller or chapman first base will be covered by w c winterhalter who last year played left field bill has shown good form on the bag and is hitting in fine shape a w achorn who ledi the team in batting last year will cover second he has continued to play the same brand of ball which he showed last year s fishburn captain of last year's team will cover his old po sition at shortstop needless to say this position will be well taken care of in the outfield will be found captain twombly who played first base last year he will probably sign a contract after the college season is over with the pittsburgh continued on sixth page miners take trip freshman banquet an excellent lecture was given by mr emory pottle in the grand opera house last saturday even ing showing the great work of the american ambulance corps in france mr pottle told how the young americans in consideration of humanity have done much to alleviate the sufferers in france dr drinker introduced mr pot tle and in short expressed his ap preciation for this great work he said in part : we are fortunate in having mr pottle here tonight to tell of the service of our american young men in france in the rescue and care of the wounded ( a service in which he has himself been engaged . it is a fitting return for and acknowledg ment of the service that france rendered us in the years 1777 to 1781 the american young men who organized this ambulance service in the spring of 1915 and who have enlarged it since then to its present efficient strength have done a great work for humanity — a valiant work dedicated to and character ized by self-sacrifice and heroism disregard of self and devotion to altruistic duty unsurpassed in the history of gallant deeds and humanitarian effort not the least of the service they have rendered has been to keep alive in france the old feeling of friendship and respect for us and to demonstrate to the chivalrous people of france that americans without waiting to balance 1 personal profit and loss still respond to the great ideals that inspired the founders of our republic organized originally by a pratt andrews of masachusetts the work has grown to large propor tions and mr pottle's description and the views he will show us to night bring home to us what these devoted and valiant american men are doing for humanity in the tur moil and crash and horror of the great war abroad a work that calls for all the support and help that we who stay at home should give to aid in alleviating suffering and saving precious lives the man wiio speaks to us to night has been through this fire he comes to tell us of it all and he is spreading the tale through our land — a missionary of help to the suffering a man who tells of hor rors he has seen and of dangers he has dared to help his fellow-men let us heed his words and aid in the work that he and his associates are so well doing for their fellow men after dr drinker's address he introduced the speaker mr pottle who spoke in part as follows ' ' there has been much talk sen timental talk very often in these last three tremendous years of helping france ' if the american ambulance in france may claim that high privilege — and my own experience has led me to believe that it may thus modestly claim the real value of our effort let there be no mistake in this lies in continued on fifth page all freshmen desiring to attend the freshman banquet to be held on saturday evening april 21 at the hotel allen allentown at 7.30 o'clock are requested to secure their tickets 1 as soon as possible the list of speakers has not been completed but it will probably in clude dr drinker professor thornburg bosey"reiter b w wolcott 18 ; r g miller 20 and l a brunner 20 the tickets are 2.50 and are for sale by c w jeffers,r e brown e k downer w a france and a g galloway twenty senior miners and metallurgists 1 " journeyed to miner's village pa near lebanon saturday where they inspected the mines of the cornwall iron com pany the class left on the new jersey central railroad early in the morning and 1 returned satur day night the following pro fessors were in the party h eek feldt professor of mining engi neering b l miller professor of geology 0 c von schlicten in structor in geology c h bender instructor in mining engineering the third banquet of the class of 1918 was held in the hotel allen allentown last friday evening the affair was a decided success the attendance being remarkably good and the program unusually interesting mr emory pottle a member of the field service of the american ambulance was the chief speaker of the evening he was introduced 1 by toastmaster v b staats mr pottle gave a stirring talk on the war situation which follows in part as a nation we are not a spirit ual unity we are a political unity we are a peace-loving people a di vided people we have been living too long by our bluffs the men who cry peace today cry disaster the menace of the east is not the idle talk of the calamity howler central and south america may at any time become a menace the only peace for us today is w t ar the result will be a nation prepared a nation united france will come out of the world-war broken in men and money but she will have acquired a sense of duty and responsibility these qualities are absent in amer ica americans look on national life with indifference the united states is struggling in the ooze of sentimentality we are born on it raised on it ido not mean senti ment i mean sentimentality of re ligion of education of literature for the past two or three decades the motto of the united states has been ease of body mind and soul but now the days of ease are over whether you will or no you men are past the stage where your actions can be excused as youthful follies you must fight for what you think is right if the university brain of men of nineteen to twenty^three is not on fire at the present time something is wrong the university should be the source of every social religious and especi ally governmental reform yet i look over our colleges and see the scheduled baseball games and not a vestige of worry about our govern ment's crisis live gentlemen live ; think think boldly and act sincerity generosity bravery andi courtesy — that's all the rest is rubbish i envy you men born to live during this terrible yet magnificent struggle for men's rights more you are the young men your brains are to fashion the ideals of america twenty years hence does not the magnificence the thought of it stir you ? if these are not idle words we must act and act quickly this is not the time for compla cency your country is everything we are entering into a war which i believe we should have en tered when the lusitania was sunk since then we have heard vague af firmations vague preparations whose war is this if not ours when we cry of liberty and freedom so dear to us i w r ish you could all have seen ambulance service it is a view of life and of death as it really is a m-an realizes that he has become continued on fifth page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday april 3 1917 senior engineers are on inspection trip baseball team on southern trip blister rust is destroying trees americans in great war vol xxiv third banquet of class of 1918 no 40 new york city civils and chemical engineers inspect industrial plants near mr s d detwiler speaks on blight at college lecture last friday