Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 8

              tickets to harvard on sale this week tickets for the trip to harvard will be on sale at the office of the lehigh union during the lat ter part of this week the tick ets will be for the round trip via the lehigh valley railroad and the providence line accord ing to the schedule published in last friday's issue of the brown and white the rate charged will be that quoted for a party of from 100 to 150 namely 11.40 the members of the band will form a nucleus of 65 men for the trip and little difficulty is expect ed in getting the additional num ber to fill the minimum quota lehigh men observe na tional metal week in philadelphia the consideration and acceptance of the budgets of the lehigh re view and the senior class book formed the major work accom plished by the board of publica tions at its meeting monday after noon in alumni memorial hall at this time of the year the bus iness managers of the epitome the burr the senior class book and the lehigh review estimate the ex penditures of their publications for the period beginning with the open ing of college in september to january 1 1929 these budgets are submitted to the board in person by the business managers their items annalized corrections made and the final budget approved the failure of the business managers of the epitome and the lehigh burr to present their estimated costs ac counts for the non-consideration of these two publications the figures contained in the bud gets of the two publications consid ered by the board are similar to those of last year in discussing these figures the board had at hand a statement of the actual publica tion costs of both of these publica tions for the last period for com parison with the estimated costs contained in the new budgets chapter founder visits a.t.o house dr thomas was intro ducer of fraternity sys tem in north several lehigh faculty members and students attended the conven tion of scientists to observe the second annual national metal week in the commercial museum philadelphia during the week of october 8 1928 it is estimated that 25,000 scientists executives and others directly interested in the metals industry were in attendance the three societies participating in this convention were the american welding society the institute of metals division of the american institute of mining and metallur gical engineers and the american society of steel treating faculty members of the department of civ il and metallurgical engineering including professors stoughton butts and doan and a few senior students were present professor stoughton also presided over a pro fessional session which was held friday the large commercial museum offering 80,000 square feet of avail able floor space was occupied dur ing the entire week of the conven tion and exhibits representing a complete cycle in the metal work ing fabricating and treating indus tries were featured this is the second year the the institute of metals has held its fall meeting in conjunction with the american so ciety for steel treating this ar rangement has proven very satis foctory since it combines the fer rous with the non-ferrous indus tries no saturday evening posts were in evidence last night when profes sor percy hughes discussed the historic and psychology of sport at the first of a proposed series of lectures replacing the old college lecture system sponsored by true faculty lecture committee professor hughes traced the his tory of sports from their origin in the old greek olympics down to the last olympic games in amster dam he discussed the spirit of competitors in sports in the early days as compared to our present amateur and professional sports the audience of about 100 was evenly divided between faculty members and students following the lecture various members of the audience contributed to a short discussion on the present system of athletics in american colleges no conclusions were reached professor hugh -. fears a decline in sport because ot professionalism he feels that the amateur plays the game for the sake of the game while the professional plays for the vic tory he quoted professor mcken zie of the university of pennsylva nia who says we have passed the best stages of our sports sports are declining because they are be ing exploited by the professional athlete professional boxing in the unit ed states is our lowest form of sport professor hughes claims because it is run by men who have a financial interest in the sport the commercial influence in sports soon breaks down the fine customs and traditions which have been built up in every form of sport the remedy which professor hughes suggests is that the control of amateur sports be put in the hands of amateurs who are in no way interested in the financial side of the game our collegiate foot ball according to professor hughes is run by the officials and coaches — not by the players the result is that american football players do not know the game as well as the english players know their own rugby the conclusion aroused a short discussion of the present system of athletics in colleges professor brown of the physical education department of lafayette defended the present system his contention was there are 15 intramural football teams at lafayette besides the var sity which represents the univer sity at these intramural games the same degree of sportsmanship the same desirable and undesirable fea tures are in evidence just as they are during any regular varsity game best motor route princeton game every political combination composed of individuals living groups or fraternities whether formed on the le high campus or elsewhere has but two underlying prin ciples which it can offer as an excuse for its existence : ac quisition and fear perhaps it will be needless to discuss the first and by far the more important of the two prin ciples upon which these political groups are built every individual every living group has certain ambitions for unlimited power whether this power be acquired by fair means or foul perhaps it would be more nearly the truth to say that in every group there is one person or in some cases more who is ambitious and this person will form certain binding compacts with representatives from other groups to which he will hold the members of his own group irregardless of what their personal opinions might be in every election of major importance such groups are formed and in a large number of the cases men are elected to responsible positions who are entirely unfitted for the duties thrust upon them while those men who may have been suited for the office lost the election be cause of inadequate political backing to say that this system is detrimental and unfair would be putting it mildly there can be absolutely no excuse for the ex changing of votes ; and were it not for the second factor that of fear it is doubtful if such combinations as have been formed would have existed long the second underlying principle in political combin ations offers a more complex problem oftentimes an or ganization is founded more for protection than for acqui sition of power a combination of power is the one way and only way to combat combinations which have al ready been formed or which may be organized in the fu ture any system which will attempt to reform the pres ent election system must choose as its principle point the elimination of every political combination or it cannot be successful practically every living group will realize that it suffers more than it gains in such political combin ations and if it can be assured of absolute cooperation from all bodies in this reform will undoubtedly join in any such move started in accordance with these views the brown and white is requesting every fraternity or living group which believes that better elections can be held and a better class feeling promoted by the elimination of all political combinations to write and give its approval of this plan it is understood that those bodies who do favor the abolition of combinations do so with the provision that all other groups will also refrain from forming com binations four weeks from this time in the issue of this paper of november 1 3 there will be published a list of all those bodies who approve this suggested change and a similar list will be published of those houses or groups which have not offered their approval several editorials will be published in the intervening four weeks offering more or less concrete cases of political combinations of the past few years and their resulting effects but only by a response from each organized living group will it be possible to foretell whether any changes in the present system can be accomplished with any degree of success coxe laboratory gets lecture desk frosh nominate class officers in extolling the practicability of welding in the structural field at the annual convention of the am erican welding societl in philadel phia last thursday afternoon mr jf b mckibben of the general electric company former head of the depart ment of civil engineering at lehigh set forth that the main problem of the issue now was to acquaint the architects and construction engin eers with the best methods of weld ing practice since it has been prov en by tests conducted at various colleges government laboratories and industrial concerns that the welded point is as safe if not safer than the old riveted one in struc tural work he asserted however that since engineers always look at any new development on the basis of cost before they even consider breaking away from the old regime of econo mic stability it is going to be dif ficult to substitute welding for riv eting and may take several years or more but he thinks that it will become the future standard the cost of a welded and riveted build ing made up mostly of columns and beams is almost the same the advantage of welding over riveting lies wholly in the comparatively noiseless welding and the din of riveting this factor is of vast mo ment when one considers that ho tels are often great sufferers on this account losing as much as 6000 a month from loss of patrons how ever in truss construction there is a very considerable saving in weld ing for it relieves the necessity of splice plates and does not reduce the effective section by numerous rivet holes thus he maintained that welding of structures was an eventuality and needed only the education of draftsmen and architects in the de sign of welded structures and con struction engineers in the simpler yet new methods of erection to make it a custom another paper read at the meet ing the uses of the oxy-acety lene torch as a cutting tool by mr d e roberts set forth the fact that experiments with sawed sheared milled and torch cuts had proved that the torch did the work as well as the other methods and in fact it was found that the metals were damaged less back of the cut when torch cut than when milled this makes it practical to use a torch in cutting thus obtaining the same quality of cut in less time and at less cost scabbard and blade to hold meeting phi club initiates at annual banquet the installation of the high pow ered coolidge cathode ray tube leased by the chemical department from the general electric corpor ation has been recently completed and is now being utilized in chem ical and physical research mr w w kittelberger who is a chemical research fellow assembled the ap paratus and is now operating it this coolidge tube is a splendid example of up-to-the-minute high intensity ray equipment the tube itself operates under a potential of 25-100,000 volts the bulb is evac uated to the extremely low figure of one millionth of a millimeter gas pressure the electron discharge in the tube emanates from an elec trically heated tungsten filament the enomrous voltage employed drives the electrons out of the tube through a metal window 0056 mil limeters thick substances intro duced into this stream of electrons undergo decided atomic changes which are still but little understood the installation of this coolidge tube permits a broader range of at tack on chemical and physical prob lems now under investigation in our technical departments the first work done was in collaboration with drs coolidge and moore of the general electric co concern ing the action of cathode rays on drying oils since then this early work has been confirmed and ex tended in these experiments dry ing oils c g linseed oil etc were exposed to the stream of electrons emanating from the tube when the electrons strike the oil surface they produce x-rays much like a pebble forms ripples when dropped into water the result of this electronic bombardment is an increase in the rate of drying a very important factor in the ultimate use of the oil very recently an important ad vance was made which will be a welcome surprise to chemists inter ested in paint and varnish work air and driers the traditional standbys of varnish men have been proven nonessential in hardening linseed oil in this cathode ray hardening method oil free from any metallic dryers can be processed in 30 min utes whereas linseed oil with dry ers would take weeks or months to dry in the open air the practical application of this is found in the automobile body-finishing industry where there is competition between lacquers and linseed oil finishes any advances in the drying rate of the oil would be a point in its favor in addition to this oil research in the chemical department prof p l bayley of the physics depart ment intends in the near future to study the effect of the electronic discharge on the alkaline halides the object of the investigation is to discover the cause and real nature of the colors produced in salts by these cathode rays a secondary object will be to observe whether this electronic discharge produces different colors than x-rays do and whether in sufficient quantity for analysis this branch of re search has possibilities of practical application to the important synth etic gem industry lt col clarence deems jr will deliver an illustrated lecture on field artillery at 7:30 tomorrow evening in the physics lecture room lt col deems is the first of a series of speakers that the scab bard and blade society will bring to lehigh this year and inasmuch as the speaker is well qualified to talk on his chosen subject as usual food will be served and music will be furnished by a portion of the university band m e professors inspect mines students to discuss next u s president the initiation of phi club the sophomore athletic honorary so ciety was held sunday evening at the hotel bethlehem after the dinner and usual initiation activities ex-president bob bennett con gratulated the new members wish ed the msuccess in carrying out the purpose of the club which is to foster a more friendly and sports manlike atmosphere at athletic events as the new men assume full membership in the club cowboy elliott will take over the duties of president with bob chess as sec retary and fran evers as treas urer dr n wylie thomas past worthy grand chief of alpha tau omega and founder of the first chapter of any fraternity north of the mason-dixon line paid a short visit last friday afternoon to the lehigh chapter of alpha tau omega at the time that dr thomas was a student in the university of pennsylvania no fraternity had yet been able to expand into the north ern colleges although many were very anxious to do so however offcials of alpha tau omega de cided to establish a chapter at the university of pennsylvania and so requested dr edgar f smith nt)w provost of the university to select someone from the student body for this work dr thomas was chosen and was initiated into the fraternity march 12 1880 as soon as the first chapter was on its feet dr thomas who was then a graduate student founded six more chapters in the north at the follow ing colleges and universities muh lenberg college lehigh univer sity stevens institute columbia university state college of penn sylvania and washington and jefferson university these chap ters were established in the order mentioned although dr thomas who en joys the distinction of being the first fraternity man to be initiated north of the mason-dixon line is quite an old man and not in the best of health he still retains his inter est in fraternity affairs he makes it a point to attend all the congress es and to visit as often as possible those chapters which he founded he expressed himself as being very pleased with the outcome of his work and compared the fraternity life of today with that of his day when they met in a room over some store or other pep meeting is poorly attended farnham 99 delays speech to e e dept students who have classes in the coxe mining laboratory have no ticed a decided improvement in the furnishings of the recitation and lecture room during the past sum mer a regular lecture demonstra tion desk was built and set up by the university carpenter under the direction of mr j c cranmer superintendent of buildings and grounds this desk is equipped with water gas , electricity and compressed air and will be used principally in connection with the classroom instruction and demon stration work in the new course in fuel technology mm 10 and 11 under the direction of prof e s sinkinson associated professor of ore dressing and fuel technology the fuel technology courses were begun last february as a regular re quirement for mining engineering students with an initial class of 12 men this term there are 21 stu dents in the course and the great majority of them are from engin eering curricula other than mining three of the men are doing advanc ed laboratory work in calorimetry of fuels men must see dr bull the presedential candidates and their qualifications will occupy the thought and time of the members of alexander hamilton club in their initial meeting of the year at 7:30 p m october 25 in coppee hall max bachtel and william figoni will support hoover as the logical candidate while lyle jones will have smith as his choice to occupy the presidential chair according to the list of speakers as announced by sam garwood chairman of the program committee expression of partisan sentiment will not be limite ' solely to these three men however for an open forum is planned for that portion of the evening not occupied by the speakers dispensary gets new light at a short meeting held noon yesterday in packer hall the fol lowing men were nominated for freshman class offices president m fairchild c halstead e gormely vice president j nolen n cunningham t nora r krueger secretary w van reese r niehause h moorehead a kruser h elliot treasurer j kachel j angle g hutchinson j duncan d miller j stone g mcdonald a boyd historian s rowell h forsythe a magee e snyder w current sargeant-atarms j hollahan v whitmeyer j ogden m cooper a cook freshman election will be held all day monday 19 at drown hall prof m c stuart mr b h jennings instructor in mechanical engineering and jack hartegen in spected the pennsylvania power and light company's power sta tion at hauto pa and the coal mines of the lehigh coal and nav igation company at lansford pa last week mr linden moyer a service engineer of the lehigh coal and navigation company took the group in his car the party saw buckwheat coal mined and washed at the mine and then observed how it was fired and burned on coxe chain grate stok ers at the station the hauto power station which is capable of developing 80,000 kil owatts is one of the pennsylvania power and light company's prin cipal stations it was built by the lehigh coal and navigation com pany as an outlet for the fine sizes of coal produced in their mine this generating station is one of the few modern stations that receives its coal directly from a mine geology dept gets valuable picture a check between the physical ex amination list and the registrar's list of rosters shows that 29 men have failed to take the examina tion wednesday thursday and friday of this week have been set aside as the last chance for the de linquents to take the exam perm-german society hears prof b l miller a new water-cooled quartz light has been added to the equipment of the dispensary the new light will make available shorter rays of the ultra violet this will enable the application of ultra violet rays to very small areas musical clubs sponsor gettysburg tea dance because of some accident robert farnham who was expected to speak to the electrical engineering department thursday october 18 will not be able to get here mr farnham is in charge of the engin eering improvements of the penn sylvania railroad at philadelphia it is hoped that he will give a talk here shortly after the first of the year as a substitute for the one postponed mr farnham graduat ed from lehigh in the class of 99 and was prominent while in college two years ago he spoke at a meet ing of the engineers club of le high valley the pep meeting preceding the gettysburg game was held at 4:30 o'clock friday afternoon when about 300 students assembled at the flagpole and after a short talk by don roe regarding transportation to the harvard game marched to the lower field as austy tate's teams went through signal practice and passing drill the stands under the leader ship of the cheerleading squad made up in noise what they may have lacked in numbers a new cheer no 7 was practiced along with the regular cheers it is hoped that the attendance at these pep meetings will improve be cause they are scheduled to take place before every football game from now on and this support means much to the team lehigh surprised a veteran get tysburg football team that expect ed to run wild saturday on taylor field by holding them to a 7-0 vic tory the brown and white line remained inflexible before the pounding of the four gettysburg bullets hubiscak spangler mc millan and snyder until the final quarter when a reverse play spang ler to drawbaugh took the ball ov er lehigh's goal for the only score the same line that faced both p m c and st john's with the ex ception of francis evers who took ed twigger's place at left guard as well as the same backfield went in to check gettysburg coach austy tate made many substitu tions and finished up the first half with an all-sophomore team except for art davidowitz wynn hand and billy badgley the thrilling long runs of the p m c game were absent play nev er advanced far beyond the line of scrimmage gettysburg even with their first string non-starting back field which went in in the first quarter failed to rush the ball very far down into lehigh territory in the first half charlie monk spangler paved the way for gettysburg's score spangler marched 30 yards down the field nearly single-handed in a series of line smashes and end runs with eight yards to go for a touch down drawbaugh took the ball from spangler on a reverse play and scored spangler kicked a per fect goal although failing to gain mater ially through the gettysburg de fense art davidowitz played his usual fine game at running back opponents kicks davvy outshone all of the gettysburg stars at brok en field running lehigh's attempted fourth quar ter offensive drive was checked when the gettysburg line crashed through twice on davidowitz before he could execute passes these two plays cost 25 yards and put gettysburg in position to score players on both teams felt the effect of the hot day charlie pur vis and frank rushong brown and white wingmen put in a hard day flooring the big gettysburg backs and were forced to leave the game early art landis who was mak ing some beautiful tackles at right end during the second half paid the penalty of a broken nose when he brought down a prize in snyder the big gettysburg fullback cow boy elliott assigned to punting in the first quarter received a twisted knee which forced him to retire aft er the first ten minutes from the time jack levitz kick ed off to tuckey on the five-yard lino until the end of the first halt play was unusually close the game started in as a punting duel between cramer and cowboy elliott tuck ey and drawbaugh on the first series of plays could not gain an inch for the battlefied boys and davidowitz was little mors suc cessful for lehigh after davido witz gained about a yard through tackle dewey trantum crashed through the line only to fumble hertzlich the opponents left guard recovered the ball gardner gained two yards for gettysburg but an off-sides penalty lost five on the very next play gardner fumbled and tommy ayre snatched the loose pigskin for lehigh on le high's 35-yard line the four horsemen hubisack spangler mcmillan and snyder went in for gettysburg this com bination proved vastly better than the starting backfield mcmillan reeled through for nine yards sny der gained seven yards for a first down and spangler ripped off three more a series af passes fail ed and the ball went to lehigh on her own 38-yard line just as the first quarter ended hand kicked out of bounds near the end of the first half on his own 48-yard line gettysburg started a passing game here that nearly net net a score a pass hubisack to spangler brought the ball 17 yards down the field to the 31-yard line and another pass hubisack to julian made it 14 more yards the half ended with gettysburg in pos session of the ball on lehigh's 17 yard line continued on page four gettysburg postponed a fine chance to score in the early part of the fourth quarter davvy was smothered five yards behind the line of scrimmage on an attempted pass with the ball on lehigh's 47-yard line davvy was again tack led trying to pass this time for a 17-yard loss the punt was blocked but tubby miller fell on it on the lehigh 13-yard line lehigh called time out but when play was re sumed spangler shot through the left side for three yards he was followed by snyder who gained three more yards spangler then added a few more it was fourth down and one yard to go then instead of rushing the ball across for an almost sure first down get tysburg with hubisack back tried a forward pass which was ground seniors the senior class photograph will be taken at noon friday at the memorial building this will be followed by a short meeting of the class prof williams still active investigator professor e h williams 75 donor of williams hall and for many years a professor at lehigh is still active at the age of 80 in his geological investigations recently he sent the geology department some interesting specimens which he is now investigating burr meeting the regular semi-monthly meet ing of the burr board will be held wednesday evening at 7:30 in the burr room in drown hall com petitors are asked to turn in ma terial at this time a photograph of the old fried ensville zinc mines which was taken years ago when the mines were in operation was given to the geology department by mr h t bone 98 the department is gradually ac quiring many specimens photo graphs and literature concerning the mineral deposits of eastern pennsylvania and hopes to become a depository for all such informa tion dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology delivered an address on the contributions of david o saylor to the early his tory of the portland cement in dustry in america at the annual meeting of the pennsylvania-ger man society in easton friday oc tober 12 approximately 75 people were present at the dance sponsored by the combined musical clubs and held in drown hall last saturday afternoon following the gettysburg game included among these were 25 girls from the bishopthorpe seminary the club's 12-piece or chestra led by dave fluharty supplied the music the best possible route is that through easton phillipsburg som erville bound brook and new brunswick the road is concrete the entire distance the following information is given through the courtesy of the bethlehem motor club 0.5 four corners left with trolley 1.1 irregular four corners right with trolley 3.7 butztown through 10.3 fork left with trolley on wal nut st 10.8 five corners right on north ampton st 11.1 easton at center square thru with trolley on northampton st 11.4 phillipsburg n j irregular four corners beyond bridge over delaware river right with trolley 11.1 left hand road left with trolley 11.9 fork right with trolley ■ 13.9 huntington right hand road right 18.1 right hand road right across bridge 18.4 bloomsbury 21.1 west portal fork right up grade 28.4 fork beyond bridge left 28.6 clinton 30.2 annandale 32.5 lebannon 36.9 white house outskirts through 41.6 north branch 45.4 main st left 45.7 somerville main and bridge sts keep ahead on main st 46.2 catson ave left 46.6 four corners right 50.5 bound brook union ave and hamilton st right on hamilton st 50.9 end of st left on main st 51.3 right hand road beyond bridge right with trolley 58.4 end of road turn sharp right on albany st across bridge across raritan 58.9 new brunswick albany and george sts keep ahead on al bany st 59.0 fork left with trolley 65.8 franklin park 72.4 kingston 72.7 fork at bridge left 75.6 princeton at university build ings brown and white price five cents lehigh plays great defensive game losing to gettysburg 7-0 lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday october 16 1928 cathode ray tube newly installed prof hughes delivers lecture on sport vol xxxvi no 8 do you favor the elimination of politics at lehigh first of series replacing college lecture system seasoned eleven adminis ters first defeat ofseason budgets accepted for publications convened welders hear f.b'm'kibben chemistry and physics de partments use tube for research former lehigh c.e dept head extols new process board of publications considers review and senior class book scientists hold metal conference all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association