Brown and White Vol. 36 no. 32

              sargent and dodd win brown and white men take five of seven bouts paine 91 to speak a program of various events in cluding the laying of the corner stone of the library inspection of the packard laboratory demon strations and exhibits of new equip ment and processes by several de partments oratorical contest and wrestling meet has been planned for the annual mid-winter home coming of the alumni friday feb ruary 22 c m mcconn gets response to his many valentines love for love was requited valentine's day on the campus while loving bits of sentimen tality flowed through the mails in all directions to make hearts quivver our own dean mcconn was not forgotten who can tell what thoughts had their brief course of ecstacy as his eyes came to rest upon an envelope that could be naught but a protestation of love just in remembrance of a few you sent me quoth the ardent lover to dean mcconn and the dean's sense of humor gave vent to itself in a hearty laugh as he visualized the stacks of mail that would cover his desk every valentine's day should all his loves be requited no classes will meet at 11 a.m friday to permit student atten dance at the annual washing ton's birthday oratorical con test in the chapel "* there is truth in the general statement that the healthy mind does not need to concern itself ahout its health but this maxim does not hold when we think of health as the perfect functioning of mental powers for it is evident that few of us exercise to the full our powers of perception reflec tion and creative thought in most universities problems of mental health are made the special concern of some official or as at lehigh of some committee though in fact they are the concern of all this health of the mind is found in successful grappling with meaning ful tasks so that the first study of a committee on mental health deals with selecting for university oppor tunities men who are likely to find in university or campus life a thea ter where worth-while purposes are realsed through solution of prob lems daily encountered and with providing conditions which favor student activities that bring the in dividual into sympathy and cooper ation with his fellows through his own achievements oritntation is vital continued on page 4 however almost every day mem bers of the committee find them selves dealing with those who in some way are baffled either thru loss of interest in university life or through incapacity to solve the problems they encounter it is not at all surprising that among new companions and circumstances the freshman sometimes finds that his interests like uprooted plants lack the nourishment they drew from the innumerable contacts of home life indeed this problem of orien tation in college life may become acute even in the senior year con sultation with one who has made some study of this problem may re veal that loss of interest is due to physical factors to unsystematic use of time to sheer mental iner tia to unsuitable companionship to solitude or sometimes to actual lack of capacity for college work or for a partcular kind of college work boover receives engineer's award j c cranmer buried sunday lehigh professors to see president-elect get john fritz medal musical clubs will broadcast globe theatre offers mu sical clubs three day billing bethlehem services held friday ; interment at west creek n j n b case gave an illustrated lec ture on the hudson river bridge before 250 men at the civil meet last evening professor r j fogg opened the meet at 8 o'clock by in troducing the speaker of the eve ning n b case u of illinois 06 and who is engineer of construction for the hudson river bridge and who also acted in the same capacity on the philadelphia-camden bridge at present the largest bridge in the world the new bridge spanning the hudson will be twice a,s long as that on the camden bridge mr case is in the employ of the steel fabricators mcclinic-marshall he stated that experience and broadmindedness are of more value than any amount of calculations the towers are 625 feet high over topping the washington monument and the huge span is 3s00 feet long the towers are being erected on 65 ton pedestals and 60 ton beams are being used in their construc tion the bridge is of the suspen sion type and four 36 inch cables capable of sustaining a tension of 220,000 lbs per square inch are de signed to carry any conceivable load the upper or main deck will carry eight lines of vehicular traf fic and will be 200 feet above the river the lower deck will not be constructed until traffic demands without this lower deck the struc ture will cost 60,000,000 a toll of 50c will be charged on the new jersey side the ap proach is cut into the palisades at fort lee while on the new york side it passes over riverside drive to reach the street level between 178 and 179 streets this will take care of the bronx and northern manhattan traffic this lecture was supplemented by mr bowden 22 who assisted mr case and is an expert on the spinning and composition of cables mr bowden also worked on the camden bridge order of alphea sponsors essays the combined musical clubs of lehigh gave their first concert of the season at moravian college friday the concert was closed to the public so only a small crowd heard the music the program in cluded selections by the symphony orchestra glee club quartet and dance orchestra the combination proving quite effective for an eve ning's entertainment the moravian concert serves as a preliminary for the tours which the musical club is to make during the latter part of february thursday feb 21 a concert will be given in montclair n j friday in had donfield n j saturday in rock ville long island and sunday night they will broadcast in new york through station wor fhe following friday and saturday con certs will be given in east orange and in other parts of new jersey the globe theatre has offered the combined musical clubs a con tract for a three-day billing some time in march it has not been de cided as yet whether this offer will be accepted schultz and many elected to cyanide the laying of the cornerstone of the library will be the main event of the day the program will be gin at 11 o'clock with the oratori cal contest sponsored by the al umni association at 12 o'clock a new moving picture on college life at lehigh will be shown in drown hall the picture will show prin cipally undergraduate activities but will contain several shots of the 1828 reunion last june this is the first showing of the picture in beth lehem the cornerstone exercises will be held at 2 p m the addresses will be made in drown hall the ac tual laying of the cornerstone at the library will be after the ad dresses president c r richards paul m paine 91 librarian of the syracuse n y public library howard s leach librarian and walter r okeson will speak at the exercises each will tell the story of the library , from his particular angle the official inspection trip thru the packard laboratory will follow the laying of the cornerstone the wrestling meet with columbia will be the last event on the program points of interest to be visited by the alumni include the welding lab oratory in the basement of wil liams hall the new coolidge tube in operation of the third floor of the chemistry building the new heading plant and boiler room in the power house the new apparatus in the dispensary the temporary li brary reading room in the mem orial building and archive room in the alumni office tests of ma terials by professor slater will be conducted in the fritz laboratory and an exhibit in williams hall of machinery will be given by the me chanical engineering department history society alters its name relatives and friends gathered at the honie of the late james c cran mer friday evening to pay final tribute to the superintendent of buildings and grounds who was buried sunday at west creek n.j his birthplace with impressive simplicity rev f t trafford assisted by rev walter weldon pastor of the first baptist church led the service the lehigh university glee club sang the university hymn after which rev weldon read scriptures the rev mr trafford then gave a ser mon from the 20 chapter of the book of revelation among those at the service were president c r richards dr nat emory dean c m mcconn and many other university officials university employees who had worked under the direction of mr vranmer also attended after the services the body was sent to wes,t creek n j where arrangements were made for bur ial services were held at mr cranmer's former residence there under the direction of the rev mr hammond of the first baptist church assisted by the rev mr reynolds of the methodist church at the grave in west creek cem etery the committal service was in charge of rev hammond the funeral wbs attended by friends and relatives from several states among many large floral pieces both sprays and wreaths were sent by the ocean county society of philadelphia others were from relatives in atlantic city and phila delphia six members of the knights of pythias acted as pall bearers of the seven men considered fri day evening to fill the two cyanide vacancies max schultz and robert h many were chosen clarence lehr president of cyan ide will assign members to meet and care for each of the eight wrestling teams to be here for the intercol legiates march is and 16 the two members assigned to a team will as sist the visiting manager in pro viding locker accommodations at the gymnasium and will arrange for the team's entertainment dr.backenstoe to talk to pre-meds the award of the john fritz medal to president-elect hoover by the combined civil electrical mechanical and mining engineer ing societies will be one of the main e\lents of the meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to be held february 18 to 22 inclusive in new york city professor howard eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineering plans to at tend miller attends dr b l miller of the depart ment of geology left yesterday to attend the meetings of the amer ican institute of mining and met allurgical engineers in new york city he will return thursday john hays hammond will be awarded the lawrence saunders medal paul d merica the james douglas medal and edgar c bain the robert w hunt medal for metallurgical work the howe lecture the most im portan technical session will be given by james howe hall on studies of hadfield's manganese steel with a high powered micro scoupe at the engineering so cieties building 29 west 34th street new york city the smoker is to held monday evenin gat the hotel astor < tuesday afternoon slides of the orient will be shown pictures of russian mines and smelters will be shown wednesday afternoon thru the courtesy of stuart james and cooke the president's reception and dance at the waldolr-astoria with the presentation of the medals will take place wednesday evening thursday evening the petroleum division will attend a dinner at the engineer's club in conclusion the society will vis it the united states military acad emy at west point friday febru ary 22 many couples attend junior class dance j.s long offered research position more than 70 couples attended the tea dance in drown hall spon sored by the junior class after the yale wrestling meet the hall was decorated with brown and white streamers among those present were girls from bishopthorpe and fern sem and members of the yale wrestling team the chaperones were mr and mrs robert b adams and captain and mrs frederick w hyde l u calendars sent alumni and seniors experiences and observations of a physician among primtive peo ple is the subject of dr william a backenstoe's talk to be given at the r w hall pre-medical so ciety meeting at 8 p m thursday feb 28 dr backenstoe has spent consid erable time in remote parts of af rica practicing medicine and sur gery among the natives he has also made an extensive study of the habits and practices of these people dr backenstoe is spending a vaca tion at his former home at emaus and he will soon return to africa to continue his work in the business meeting that will precede the talk plans will be dis cussed for the trips to nearby hos pitals and clinics the alexander hamilton society voted to change its name to the international relations club of lehigh university friday evening in drown hall the proposal to change the name which has been under consideration for several months was finally adopted along with several other minor changes to the constitution the most important of these changes refuses membership to stu dents who are not majoring in his tory or government prof ernest barker of cambridge university england has definitely accepted the invitation recently ex tended to him by the club to come to lehigh and will speak saturday afternoon march 23 in drown hall at an hour to be announced later prof barker is one of the foremost authorities on political economy in the world after a deadlock for several bal lots in the voting for president the following officers were elected to serve until february 1930 robert i blair 30 president h milton schwartz 30 vice president john watters 30 secretary and william g figoni 30 treasurer • speaks at luncheon if the league of nations is not perfect remember it is yet a 10-year old child declared mile mery l l reymond one of the assistant librarians of the league secretaries at geneva before 30 members of the faculty and the international rela tions club of lehigh university after a luncheon at hotel bethlehem yesterday certainly the league does not do harm e r en though its opponents claim that it accomplishes no great good was mile reymond's conten tion however she cited instances of its activities along social as well as political lines to prove that it is an active force in promoting world peace she called to attention the analogy that the league is not a hospital for world ills but rather an international insurance company that can be called upon for settle ment of inter-state differences reduction of armaments is one of the most important tasks assign ed by the covenant of the league but it is also one of the most com plex being bound as it is to the problem of security continued the mademoiselle no nation as strong as it fnay be can stand alone in this day of internationalism so the united states should join because the league needs america and because america needs the league to ac quire a broader point of view this is her attitude on the situation which she considers a sorry one since the league is a tangible prod uct of the ideas of an american woodrow wilson speaking of its scope mile rey mond remarked that it is easier to draw a map of those nations not belonging to the league of nations than one including the 56 countries that have subscribed to the league covenant she added however that its services are accessible to any state and mentioned that ameri cans such as john basset moore and professor seligman of colum bia make good use of the library at geneva specialists from all over the world come to the secre tariat to look up information what evoked a laugh was the re mark that the day the queen of ru mania queen of liberia and prince of ethopia visited the league head quarters america's ambassador was jackie coogan youthful movie celebrity intersperces humor mile reymond's lecture was in terspersed with such little humor ouh incidents of the human side of the everyday workings of the coun cil and she willingly answered more intimate world court and in ternational labor office and more technical questions about the organ ization in an open informal forum after explaining 40 lantern slides picturing much of what she had mentioned in her talk mile reymond was introduced by robert i blair newly elected president of the international rela tions club who presided she is a young swiss lady in america stu dying library methods at columbia and the congressional library on her sabatical leave although it was her first formal lecture in english she was unembarrassed and her at tractive mannerisms and capable presentation won her audience she came to lehigh through the car negie endowment for international peace besides club members and stu dents in the history and govern ment and professors l h gipson g d harmon and e b schulz of the department dean and mrs c b mcconn dr r c bull and pro fessors r m smith r p more m j luch and librarian h s leach attended mr leach later conducted the visitor on a tour of the campus an despecially the li brary in which she evidenced great interest and about which she asked many questions two essay contests one sponsor ed by the new republic and the other by lehigh chapter order of alphea allentown are offered to lehigh students new republic offers a first prize of 100 and second prize of 75 for the two best essays on college as it might be the discussion may be 2000 words or less the judges of the papers are alexander meiklejohn u of wisconsin dean c m mcconn and robert m lo vett u of chicago and of the staff of the new republic further in formation is posted on the bulletin board on the first floor of christ mas-saucon hall lehigh chapter number 60 or der of alphea allentown pa a branche of the american hellenic educational and progressive asso ciation consisting of 210 chapters in the united states is offering 200 in cash prizes and a certificate of honorable mention to he students of cedar crest lehigh moravian college and theological seminary moravian college for women and muhlenberg who will write the four best essays on hellenic contribu tions to civilization the prizes are first prize 100 second 60 third 40 fourth en graved certificate of honorable men tion in greek and english so far only 31 entrance regis trations have been received fif teen cedar crest an dthirteen mor avian college and muhlenberg stu dents have registered while only three men for lehigh have entered the contest in order to increase the registration the sponsors have postponed the date of enrollment to february 25 students wishing to participate should write to phillippus moses ou laision secretary editorial al lentown morning call or see him personally at the above address lehigh contestants should hand their essays to dr c j goodwin professor of greek on or before march 7 1929 at room 31 coppee hall campus events of the week exhibiting every attribute o f championship calibre the lehigh wrestlers swept to a 21-6 victory over a powerful yale team before a capacity crowd saturday in taylor gym although yale brought a team to bethlehem which any school could be proud of the lehigh combina tion was too much for the scrappy elis fighting for every bout the blue was forced to admit that they had struck a combination that would not accept defeat from any team even if such formidable opponents as captain dodd and sargent were to be encountered with the parti cipants in every bout showing fight and knowledge of the art of wrestl ing it was enough to keep the spec tators on their toes watching every move in each bout starting off like a story the meet took the spec tators along gently gradually in creasing the tenseness of the situa tion the bouts progressed from the 115 pound class up into those tense bouts of ziggy letowt and george benners hitting the climax in art landis bout and then grad ually letting the spectators down to earth with the last two contests struggle is intense art landis and hoffman put up the best scrap of the afternoon with art winning by a fall in eight min utes and twenty - four seconds ctarting off like two young whirl winds it was not long before the two were on the mat struggling to remain on top hoffman using his long arms to advantage came from undereneth several times with the lever art in his turn also used the lever to free himself from the lower position but he also managed to turn out by twisting when hoffman was expecting the lever to be used both men were going at a rapid pace for their weights and for a while hoffman had time advantage on landis after about five min utes had passed landis almost threw his opponent while they were engaged in one of the numerous re versals of positions but hoffman managed to squirm out just as the crowd was expecting a fall al though haffman was well coached his opponent was h little too much for him and with the aid of a crotch hold and a half-nelson lan dis forced his shoulders to the mat so tiring was the pace that hoff man was exhausted when the bout was over and required assistance to return to the bench ziggy loses tough bout in passing from a bout that won lehigh six of tis 21 points and turn ing to one which was enjoyed by the crowd but in a different way otedit must be given to ziggy let owt for the fight that he put up against captain dodd of yale who was 145 pound intercollegiate cham pion last year letowt showed his courage and unwillingness to admit defeat when he endured the terri fic beating that dodd gave him when they first went to the mat he also showed his skill when he met dodd's aggressiveness and not only gave dodd much as he received but at times more from the start zig gy was cautious but not backward about trying to take advantage of the opportunities that offered them selves after six minutes of byplay between the two in which neither of the two men got away with any thing dodd took letowt to the mat and got the head scissors on him for over a minute ziggy had to stand this errific punishment while at the same time his body was twist ed from the trunk down ziggy finally got his head free and then started to work free however dodd was too experienced for the scrappy brown and white wrestler to allow him to remain free but not good enough to gain a fall dodd won by 3:37 time advantage tries sonnenberg tackle phillips and bison started the meet and from the beginning both showed aggressiveness bison took phillips to the mat with a flying tackle but phillips came out with a lever as he was going down al though bison showed his cleverness phillips proved himself equal to the task and gained a time advantage of continued on page 4 woman's club hears dr h i klopp speak professor j s long of the chem istry department has recently been asked to become a member of a sub-committee on chemistry formed by the committee on electrical in sulation of the division of engin eering iai the national research council professor long is an authority on varnishes and lacquers which are important in insulation the sub-committee on chemistry will partly assume the work of the committee on dielectric constant the national research council views the question of electric insul ation and dielectric behavior as one of the most important factors in the electrical industry partly be cause of the higher voltages needed for power generation and transmis sion and partly because of more severe requirements for reliability and continuity of operation deter ioration of dielectrics is a partic ularly obscure and troublesome phenomenon an attractive 1929 calendar show ing the dates of all important events on the university calendar and the athletic schedules for the year has been sent to each alum nqte and to each member of the class of 29 by the alumni asso ciation an attractively tinted picture of a college meeting aroqnd the flag pole is placed at the top of the cal endar ail the important dates in cluding valentine days are marked compressor installed dr henry i klopp of ritters ville state hospital addressed the lehigh university woman's club at the monthly meeting this after noon in drown hall a meeting of the board of direc tors of the club was held imme diately preceding the regular meet ing tea was served at 4 o'clock to members of the faculty and ad ministrative officers erratum the story headed committee bars three day party for spring term which appeared in fri day's issue of the brown and white was incorrect in its state ments the petition for a three day house party was not barred the student activities com mittee required that a complete program for either a two or a three day house party and the actual vote of the interfraternity council be submitted before it would consider the question lecture committee the lecture committee will hold an open session at a meet ing called for friday february 22 at 4:15 p m in the commit tee room in the alumni mem orial building to meet represen tatives of student societies who desire to bring public lectures to lehigh 6:00 p m — sword and crescent wednesday berg frosh basketball 7:30 p m — lehigh vs muhlenberg basketball meeting at the phi lodge 7 p m — lehigh frosh vs muhlen friday 8:00 p m r w hall pre-medi thursday 6:00 p m — alpha kappa psi meet ing at the theta delta chi house storage bins installed steel bins for the storage of sam ples of ores and coal have been in stalled recently in the coxe min j ing laboratory the congestion in the laboratory will be relieved by these bins thus permitting more freedom for work a new air compressor to furnish compressed air to all the labora tories has recently been installed in the basement of the physics build ing the former machine was bul ky and used many large and noisy belts while the new compressor is small compact and efficient cal society williams hall 11:00 a m — public speaking con test in the chapel 2:00 p m — laying of library cor nerstone 12:15 p m — lehigh university movie drown hall 4:00 p m — frosh vs wyoming seminary wrestling 4:00 p m varsity wrestling vs columbia brown and white vol xxxvi no 32 world news — herbert hoover e m — romance and lindy — st valentine in chicago — u s merchant marine — cruiser parity a j w lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday february 19 1929 mental health committee discusses baffled mind alumni to see realization of greater lehigh mlle reymond says u s must accept league grapplers defeat strong yale team price five cents case describes fabrication of hudson bridge by the committee on mental health homecomers to dedicate library and inspect packard lab civils told span will be twice length of cam den bridge french lady addresses faculty and lehigh in ternational relations club will cost 60 millions with many apologies to the min ing engineers of the campus we proclaim to our reading public that herbert hoover is a mining en gineer it was some prophetic journal ist in search of a dope story that threw us off the track it is all clear now engineer hoover he said is seeking a civil engineer to head his war department inasmuch as he anticipated four years of country wide construction work rather than destruction by war perhaps the civils can find their lost glory in this unofficial an nouncement well many of our masculine boy friends feel relieved no longer nee dthey feel chagrined slighted or mildly jealous over lindy the glamor of romance has paled appre ciably now that the fellow has gone and done it in fact the fair ones are so disapopinted they are the ones who steer clear of lindy con versation some fellows have been known to speak of him now out of pure orneriness herbert hoover came to wash ington this week but newspaper men and politicians despair even then of learning who will constitute the hoover family a week ago it was definitely held that gover nor-general stimson of the philip pines would move into secretary of state kellogg's chair and that an drew mellon would retain his post as secretary of treasury but even these positions are now re garded as unofficially appointed the country is becoming accus tomed to silence and so it says lit tle in criticism of the silence of our president-to-be it's funny her bert's silence is being regarded as that which a business-like engineer should maintain especially on the campus is herbert commended * * • st valentine's day the day of lovers was lovingly observed in chicago seven gangsters were lined up face to a brick wall and then reduced to tatters by machine gun bullets from the hands of a rival gang disguised as police some really believe it was police work here in quiet bethlehem one feels that such stuff belongs only to the movies but evidently it does hap pen in life certainly this wholesale murder job put a gang of cut-throats out of the way more efficiently than " chicago law could have done now that this occurred federal state and city forces have united in a cleanup program so intense has been the start of the program that the murder phase of the gang war fare is being thrust into the back ground * * * calvin coolidge will quit office with the satisfaction of seeing am erica's merchant marine fairly started sixteen millions may not be a huge sum for 11 vessels in cluding the leviathan a ship that alone could not be built for 16,000,000 but nevertheless it is a sum larger than was expected paul w chapman has taken over the vessels and with the assurance that their marine value will be fully utilized the u s shipping board feels that at last it has been able to drop the poker that was becom ing too hot by some mainly those who be lieve in government ownership the withdrawal of the government from shipping is a disappointment but to all these economically inclined the introduction of a privately own ed merchant marine is a great boon the government has made a failure of the business four years ago coolidge promised to rid the coun try of the liability and it has been only now that such action has be come possible president coolidge found the bill calling for 15 ten-thousand ton cruisers and an airplane carrier worthy of his signature even with the inclusion of the time-clause calling for actual and immediate building of the ships in order to keep the bill from providing for nothing more than paper vessels * ♦ * now england and japan are sure that america considers the geneva cruiser - parity demand seriously now and only now are we raising the 1.8 to 5 disparity in the case of britain and the 1.8 to 2.5 disparity in the case of japan into something approaching the 5 to 5 and 5 to 3 parities respectively all of which irregardless means that now there is a path cut through allowing for cruiser limitation and equalization so that the gestures being flung here and there for world peace may have to be regarded may have to be * ♦ * eventually the country will suc ceed in becoming thoroughly pru dish in the matter of censorship at the same time succeeding in mak ing as great a failure of it as of prohibition the michigan legis lature has put through a bill pro hibiting the publication of crime news where is america going to find opportunity for vicarious exper ience crime stories help out without crime stories the movies breezy stories etc america will have to do the actual thing all the lehigh news first