Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 24

              r l anderson elected manager of varsity football tells of industrial devel opment in sweeden pierce explains russian methods at mining meet follows christmas ban quet held in christ re formed church seniors the senior class book com mittee requests those seniors who have not yet handed in their ballots to take them home and complete them during vacation and turn them in immediately upon returning january 3 o.d.k taps three in chapel today american production is high because of more efficient machinery blackmar webbe and ba ker honored by sen ior society then the cat jumped out of the bag pardee said the presbyterian church had donated 100,000 to keep lafayette going during the civil war to create a greater lafayette col lege presbyterian exclaimed pack er no sir — none of my money then he told pardee how years before at mauch chunk he an un known youth had been very coldly received at the presbyterian church there that cool reception drove the en terprising packer to the little epis copalian church where his welcome had been most friendly upon such small rocks are some times reared important institutions packer then bluntly refused to join pardee in endowing lafayette college simply because presbyter ians had also helped nor did the former boat builder and then mas ter of the lehigh valley railroad stop with a refusal^to march with his friend pardee i'll build another college and it won't be presbyterian was the meat of packer's declaration so he built and endowed lehigh uni versity at bethlehem that's why in that ever bustling lehigh valley they now have only 12 miles apart those two noble seats of learning but as judge fox said had the mauch chunk presbyterians before the civil war been a little more civil to asa packer lafayette in the sixties would have been the most richly endowed college in the land then his eyes twinkled as he add ed still it was not all loss had there been but one college we wouldn't today enjoy those wonder ful football games between lafay ete and lehigh experiences of a physicist in europe was the subject of an il lustrated lecture by prof f k richtmeyer before the physics club last night although discuss ing and showing slides of rome venice paris and other important european cities the greater part of prof richtmeyer's address con cerned his experiences in sweden sweden said the speaker is one of the most interesting coun tries in the world for its size the three main occupations are farming forestry and mining the country is so well developed that about 40 percent of the farmers either have electricity in their homes or use it as a means of power and many of them i make use of it in both of these ways as for the forestry every man who loses a forest either by fire or by cutting it for the saw mill must see to it that a new growth is planted by this system every for ester is made to exercise the ut most care with the valuable tim ber in the northern portion of sweden is located the largest sin gle iron ore deposit in the world the ore which is 70 percent iron is transported by means of a mod ern electric railroad to the coast and from there by way of steam ship to the large manufacturing cities in the southern part of sweden prof richmeyer ended his lec ture with a description of how it feels to have either light or dark ness for twenty-four hours each day lehigh college-division of la fayette university it is only be cause of a few spoken words said incidentally that this statement is not true in fact this was so near ly the case that it's uncomfortable to think about it in girard's talk of the day for november 20 in the philadelphia inquirer are given the details of the talk which re sulted in the founding of lehigh university here it is in the days when grandma knit samplers with bright colored yarns a favorite motto was kind words can never die and this is the story of how a few cold words in one church fol lowed by a few kind words in an other church cost one college sev eral million dollars and created a great university at another place i have the tale from judge e j fox of easton — one of the foremost lawyers in pennsylvania in the sixties president billy cattell of lafayette college per suadded ario pardee of hazleton to donate a fine building now known as pardee hall it was one of the three or four largest individual gifts ever made to any american college up to that time pardee was an anthracite king and fie wished to promote the edu cation of engineers at mauch chunk dwelt another an of great wealth — asa packer starting as a canal boat builder packer promoted the lehigh valley railroad pardee and packer were good friends and pardee told pack er what he had done for lafayette the college would said the quiet ario be a vast aid to the up building of the lehigh valley re gion and pardee had virtually talked packer into adding his mil lions to the cash given by pardee no one to have two paper posts new radio phone installed here classicals hear of saturnalia the awarding of letters for cross country and soccer and the appro val of the 1929 baseball and lacrosse schedules were the major items of business yesterday afternoon at a special meeting of the board of control of athletics the following were awarded let ters in cross country captain h b sames g d lange r f gadd jr c j proebstle francis neu wirth a t mcelroy and manag er w b adams in soccer captain dexter bul lard j m blackmar j h stone back h e datwyler william see burger g l schoen j t mar shall vaughan haag f k paget morton strauss minoru inaba h j maginniss and manager a e hess the election of r l anderson as manager of varsity football and d j macgillis as freshman foot ball manager was announced the silver cup awarded to our 1926 27 championship basketball team was received from the middle atlantic states athletic conference the schedules approved are as follows : graduate manager j g petri kin reported that he and coach tate had attended the meeting of the conference for the selection of football officials last saturday evening he also asked that there be no more smoking in the various game rooms in the gym both be cause of the ill effect upon the players and the danger of fire lacrosse april 10 lafayette away april 13 navy away april 20 perm home april 27 rutgers away may i—princeton,1 princeton away may 7 stevens home continued on page four reception of w3aq re ported within 400 mile radius publications board limits holding of major offices showing a good passing game and impenetrable defense the brown and white basketball team decis ively overwhelmed a weak combin ation representing hahnemann medical college 60-12 saturday night in taylor gymnasium what the game really amounted to was a 40-minute practice for coach geary's men staring off rather slowly the lehigh offense gradually increased its speed passing and shooting to a point where the medicos were literally at the mercy of their op ponents there was little doubt after the first few minutes of play as to which was the better team the first quarter ending with the score 21-5 in favor of lehigh the of fense of the brown and white team towards the end of the initial period was greatly improved over wednesday's f appearance against stroudsburg captain hesse back in the regular line-up at center proved to be an excellent pivot for the other forwards and the major ity of his baskets resulted from his clever passing the medico defense was unable to stop the home team from com ing in under the basket and hesse and many had little trouble in tak ing the ball off the back board to score when the long shots were missed in the second period the south mountaineers loosened up somewhat and did not get as many baskets the half ending 34-8 with the recommencement of the game those players who had been replaced by substitutes sent in again by coach geary with the airtight defense and a smooth work ing offense combination lehigh proceded to roll up the score in a fashion that the spectators call for the scrubs with five minutes left to play geary sent in five new men and with their arrival the game turned into a comedy of errors and ended 60-12 the difference between the show continued on page three mechanicals test new type boilers debates arranged for spring term o d x senior honorary so ciety pledged edward f baker charles e webbe and john m blackmar in chapel this morning president richards gave a brief re sume of the chapter's activities and history and then introduced the three pledges election to this honorary society is based on athlet ics scholarship social leadership publications and other non-athletic activities baker's activities are lacrosse 2 3 4 captain 4 , freshman la crosse arcadia house committee chairman board of control of ath letics treasurer of sword and cres cent interfraterniay council scab bard and blade second lieutenant cyanide junior banquet commit tee eta sigma phi shophomore cotillion and freshman honors webbe's activities are swim ming 2 3 4 captain 4 fresh man swimming lacrosse squad 2 3 a s m e student branch president 4 vice president senior class pi t v au sigma sophomore cotillion phi club cyanide sword and crescent vice president tau beta pi and freshman and sopho more honors blackmar's list of activities are soccer 4 squad 3 track 2 3 freshman track cross country man agerial competition 2 freshman basketball brown and white sport ing editor 3 4 associate editor 2 3 editorial council 4 1929 epitome athletic editor lehigh re view editorial staff 4 treasurer senior cabinet lehigh union senior class book committee alexander hamilton society 3 4 president 4 cyanide and secretary pi del ta epsilon alexander hamilton meeting after holidays d.o.t to meet middle bury susquehanna and temple a reception to prof a a dief enderfer who returned to lehigh this fall after a year's study abroad was given at the annual christmas banquet of the chemical society last friday evening in the society rooms of the christ reformed church prof diefenderfer is the founder of the christmas banquet plan prof h h ullman head of the department of chemistry spoke on the success achieved in research at lehigh prof diefenderfer also gave an illustrated account of his travels abroad about 17s students and faculty members attended the banquet , the banquet was held in true christmas surroundings an illum minated christmas tree and a built in chimney and hearth from which santa emerged at the proper time featured the decorations an excellent dinner was prepared by the ladies auxiliary of the church and was served by a team of sopho mores a five piece student orches tra played during the serving and led the singing of college and pop ular songs and several german christmas carols after the dinner dr ullman spoke on the notable progress be ing made in research at lehigh he mentioned especially the work be ing done in combustion chemistry chrystallography organic chemis try oils colloid chemistry and leather research prof diefenderfer then gave an illustrated talk on his travels and studies and on the various customs of the german people he describ ed the functioning of the american institute in berlin which offers its services to americans who are strangers in the city he compared the german celebra tion of stille nacht or christmas eve to the american custom this night is a time of quiet in berlin the streets are deserted and the people are at home celebrating christmas eve in family groups a one act farce em nacht in em bierhaus was presented by members of the junior class it de picted a dream of dieff which imagined the boys of the depart ment visiting him in germany the impersonations of the faculty mem bers was of great interest to all santa claus appeared from with in the chimney just as everyone was beginning to wonder what would happen next and distributed presents to all the notables present the banquet closed with the sing ing of the alma mater descriptions of the saturnalia a great roman festival were heard by members of eta sigma phi at its regular monthly meeting last friday at 7:30 p m in drown hall speakers said the week of de cember 17th was a period of great pleasure and freedom in the time of the romans since the festival in honor of saturn god of agriculture took place then during this time slaves and masters were equals all business was forgotten food was abundant wine flowed cries of ho saturnalia filled the air dice rattled and pleasure reigned the custom of exchanging gifts at christmas it was pointed out may have originated in the roman practice of giving presents at the saturnalia wax candles and clay figures were the more common gifts pi tau sigma initiates three juniors engineering is held in much higher esteem in russia than here j h pierce lehigh 10 a member of the engineering firm of staurt james atid cooke told the mining engineering society at its meeting friday evening in williams hall after tracing the history of rus sia from the czarist regime to the present mr pierce told of the pos sibilties of russian mining fields he explained that all business in russia is organized into trusts which are supervised by the gov ernment these trusts report all gains or losses to the government at the end of each year and send an estimate of how much they will need to operate for the coming year this system of budgeting has been used for the past six years and is proving satisfactory every possible safeguard is thrown around the russian work man declared mr pierce engin eers are held responsible for acci dents safety laws are much more rigid than in the united states the russian workman has natural pride in his work and displays a greater interest than the american workman the greatest beds of anthracite and bituminous coal are in the don basin extensive fields are also found in the region of moscow and in the ural mountains in rus sia the anhracite is found in hor izontal veins and the bituminous in veins at a pitch as contrasted to our fields where the situation is re versed mr pierce explained that the high cost of mining in russia is due chiefly to the amounts spent for cultural purposes practically 40 percent of the invested capital is used for homes of workmen schools and churches and recreation halls the coal production of russia is far below our production russia produces four-tenths tons per man day while american operators pro duce four tons per man-day the causes of this low production in russia are lack of machinery poor grading and poor sorting these conditions are rapidly being rem edied and now 20 percent of the coal is being mined with german and american machinery americans are popular in rus sia our mass production will of course encounter resistance in eu rope remarked mr pierce he thinks however that to introduce our methods and open these new fields the meeting was followed by a discussion in which various phases of russian life customs and man ners were revealed s and c discusses campus politics orchestra rehearsal the alexander hamilton so ciety's first meeting of the new year will be held the first monday after the christmas recess the historians will convene at 7:30 p m january 7 to discuss the kellog briand multi-lateral treaty re nouncing war which subject will be presented by two speakers robert r hertzler and george d lange two important items of business will be considered the proposed amendment which would change the manner of paying dues so as to place the organization on a sounder financial basis is docketed six jun iors will be elected to membership from a list of those elegible as re commended by faculty members of the department of history and gov ernment a 36 hour boiler test which started monday afternoon decem ber 17 at 4:30 is being held in the w a wilbur power house under the direction of the mechanical en gineering department all engin eering students taking the course in engine laboratory are required to take part in this test operating conditions are being tested on the new boilers which were recently installed in the pow er house the new boilers are used to heat the buildings on the cam pus they are the latest type bab cock and wilcox boilers manufac tured by the combustion engineer ing corporation three of these boilers have just been installed but only one boiler will be tested the new boilers are rated at 289 boiler horsepower but can and do carry overloads up to 500 b.h.p results will be recorded and then graphed in order to determine how the boilers are operating at any time during the tests students have been assigned to various shifts to conduct these tests the shifts are about 4 hours long and about eight or ten men will work on each sflift all members of the symphony or chestra are urged to be present at the practice to be held at 8 p m tuesday in the arcadia room of drown hall red cross life saving methods demonstrated pi tau sigma honorary mech anical engineering fraternity ini tiateduhree juniors donald wright harold semar and harry zim mer at a meeting in williams hall friday evening the officers of the society are a e pelizzoni president c e webbe vice president and treasur er s c polk secretary prof f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department attended the initiation fort gives talk to math society the radio society operating sta tion w3aeq is experimenting with radio phone transmission and has received favorable reports on its reception from many amateurs with in a 400 mile radius until recent ly the station has been transmitting in code saturday night this station talk ed over the air with w3cc in ab ington pennsylvania which was operated by a lehigh man charles w weber m e 18 he asked if pop larkin and dutchy sey fert were still here and inquired about the football team other sta tions that were worked saturday night include iams in pittsfield mass 3bfz ridley pa 2tl port jervis n v and a station in indiana the operators of lehigh's station are h g wiest c w guyatt e c easton g m vro man and l k sowers tl station has been made fully automatic with the recent comple tion of a relay to operate the mer cury arc the transmitter will be complete ly rebuilt after christmas to meet the 1929 requirements for narrow er wave bands the socitay hopes to have enough operators shortly in order to operate the station from seven to nine every evening • j 1 kirkpatrick president of sword and crescent senior honor ary society suggested that the po litical situation on the campus be a topic of discussion at meetings throughout the year at a meeting friday evening a dinner at the sigma phi epsilon house preceded the short business meeting the society decided to have its picture taken for the epitome january 7 and to hold the next meeting after mid-year exams box gives low down on santa enlarges on hokum that only one major office on publications may be held by one man hereafter was decided last night when the board of publications passed the recommendation of pi delta epsilon concerning the limi tation of major offices on publica tions the monthly accounts of the five publications were audited and the apointmpents of three men to the business staff of the lehigh re view were approved exceptions to the new rule con cerning limitations of major offices on publications may be made for the second semester of this year the president of pi delta epsilon was requested to appoint a com mittee which will include profes sor c d macdougall to report to the board of publications which of fices may be considered as major the report of this committee will probably include thft editor in chief managing editor and business man ager in its list of major offices the men whose appointments to the business staff of the lehigh re view were approved they aae ed ward j jones donald b stabler and arthur j allison the recommendation of pi delta epsilon to establish a sinking fund for all publications with the pur pose of acquiring a printing estab lishment will be considered at the next meeting of the board in jan nary to which all members of the journalistic fraternity will be in vited many groups agree to abolish politics arrest degree worker by box dean wicks opposes compulsory chapel lehigh has arranged to debate middlebury college on february 25 and susquehanna university on march 8 both on the question re solved that the american jury system be abolished and will de bate temple university on march 14 on the question resolved that censorship of the representa tive arts be abolished it was an nounced at the delta omicron theta meeting last night a council of debate has been se lected from the faculty and will consist of professors m j luch neil carothers f v larkin l h gipson bradley stoughton and dean c m mcconn they will make the final selection of the team and advise and direct them in their preparation two positions are still open to any sophomores juniors or sen iors interested in debate such men should see dr luch at once r h many was elected to fill the office of vice president left va cant by the resignation of a i da vey jr s r snitkin e e mins koff and jerome mayer were elect ed to membership in the society r l roper and philip angeles jr were dropped from the rolls journalism students will make field trip the proceedure known as get ting too fresh evidently has be come part of the study of philoso phy at least merton o phillips jr a post-graduate student at the university of chicago thinks it has phillips was taken into the cus tody of the police upon the com plaint of several young women de claring that he had been impudent arrested he explained that he was engaged in a special study leading to the degree of doctor of philos ophy professor tomlinson fort spoke on the aristocracy of achieve ment at a meeting of the newtonian society last thursday evening he stated that women have a social aristocracy of achievement those who do things belong to it math ematicians are doing things now every year over 200 papers are presented for publication on new mathematical discoveries it is one of the oldest sciences and conse quently has a great amount of lit erature in closing professor fort stated that he hoped there would be a large percentage of club members that would enter the mathematical sciences a demonstration of the red cross life saving methods and the different methods of resusitation was given by w g kive of the american red cross on monday and tuesday of last week the swimming teams and the mass swimming classes were greatly in terested in the demonstration mr kive will return sometime in the spring probably during the week of may 6 to give instruction to those who desire to pass the senior red cross life saving tests the department of physical edu cation is very much interested in this type of work and is very will ing to help mr kive or any of the students interested in this branch of swimming letters have been sent to all liv ing groups by arthur lehr presi dent of the arcadia asking each if it will agree to refrain from enter ing into political combinations pro vided that 90 percent of all living groups so agree and that some means can be devised to enforce the pledges to this proposal there have thus far been is replies of which 13 were in the affirmative messer to give lecture greek and roman theaters will be the subject of an illustrated lecture by dr w s messer of dartmouth college before the members of eta sigma phi at 8 o'clock friday evening january 4th in drown hall the lecture is open to the public christmas eve is the time for the departure of a large fleet of planes bound for all parts of the globe to deliver all manner of pro ducts before returning the next moring factories have been working overtime to take care of the vast number of orders that require de livery on the twenty-fifth of the month and it is expected that every thing will be ready for distribution by the planes the promoter of the flights in an effort to dispel rumors that there is no santa claus made the following state ment believing me to be responsible it has been the practice for college students on receiving low marks or on not receiving a cer tain letter to say there is no santa claus mr claus went on to say " my powers are exercised in one direction and at one time of the year only the circumstances mentioned coming un der the jurisdiction of the dean the postmaster or the girl when asked how he managed his great business mr claus explained his methods in caring for the holiday needs until very recently all the work was done in my home under what is known in economics classes as the domestic system and i personally delivered everything however with the growth of population it was neces sary to install the factory system and modern transportation through the efforts of col lindbergh who took charge of my aerial transportation problem and such men as f w taylor and f v larkin who are experts in the line of industrial management and personnel administration my large factories are modern in every detail my employees the better satisfied with working conditions and wages than any place in the world with the possible exception of the ford plant and my planes piloted by ex-service and accredited com mercial pilots deliver the goods for me mr claus also said that even though his organization could tage care of a great deal it would help him materially if everyone did his christmas shopping and mailing early compulsory college chapel at tendance should be discontinued according to dean robert wicks of princeton university who assumed charge of the princeton campus re ligious life this fall in defending the students stand on compulsory chapel dean wicks said i do maintain that it is the duty of a col lege to make a man conversant with this great interest we call re ligion — but there is no need to cram it down his throat . dean wicks agreed with dr w l sperry dean of harvard theo logical school saying that required chapel makes religion a matter of discipline and hence antagonizes the college man he further agreed with dr sperry declaring that methods of required chapel as they have been applied have made church attendance anything but at tractive and i do not blame intelli gent men for resenting it dean wicks claimed that the reason for its failure in the past is due to the colleges not having made the services suitable to the audi ences eighteen charter new physics club a physics club with 18 charter members was organized friday december 14 in the physics build ing all upper classmen are eligible to membership and all freshmen are eligible to associate member ship the club plans to hold month ly meetings in the future after a constitution was adopted the following officers were elected k m simpson president dale kelly vice president d o burger treasurer d w farnsworth sec retary d h kelly sophomore member of the executive council dr charles c bidwell faculty ad visor members of the class in newspa per editing will take a three days field trip to new york early in the spring to visit newspaper plants publishing houses and other indus tries connected with the publica tion of newspapers and periodi cals among the places included in the tentative itinerary prepared by professor macdougall are the new york times merganthaler linotype company factory in brooklyn united press associa tions harper's publishing com pany or prentice-hall publishing company the city press bureau editor and publisher office some newspaper syndicate and news fea ture concerns and possibly the new york graphic the men who make the trip will probably also pay a visit to the front page the ben hecht play which portrays the life of a metro politan journalist notice with this issue the brown and white will suspend publica tion until tuesday january 8 1929 brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday december 18 1928 brown and white five overwhelms hahnemann price five cents lehigh-lafayette rivalry started over church snub board of control approves awards sanctions games vol xxxvi no 24 chemical society gives reception to diefenderfer richtmyer speaks to physics club on european trip flu absences excused excuses for absence from classes as well as from examin ations are being granted by the dean to all men who have been reported ill with the flu by dr r c bull captain hesse and many star in second court victory coming events tonight — 7:30 p m pre-legal society meeting in drown hall topics • for discussion are recent changes in the divorce law and resolved that the criminal jury should be abolished wednesday — 9 p m the exhibition of paintings in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building will close coming : — january 4 eta sigma phi meeting prof w s messer of dart mouth college will give an illustrated lecture on the greek and roman theater all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association