Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 43

              all classes will be suspended from 11 to 12 o'clock tomorrow morning for a college meeting at the flagpole this hour for a college meeting was approved by the faculty as petitioned by the arcadia college meeting cause undetermined subfreshmenday plans complete grantland rice to speak at banquet at saucon valley country club bosey highly recommends the wonderful climate of miami in all of his stay there the temperature remained in the vicinity of 76 de grees and the air was balmy and refreshing every morning at nine o'clock bosey and mrs reiter would set out for a secluded beach ten miles from their home to avoid crowds so that bosey might have the full benefit of the sunshine and rest they spent from three to four hours on the beach basking in the sun and taking frequent dips in the ocean as the gulf stream was on ly a few miles off shore the water bosey and mrs h r reiter leaving miami march 25 return ed to bethlehem last week on the trip they followed the coast line and turned off at daytona to travel along the famous beach speedway where the recent speed contests have been held two days were spent in washington in visiting points of interest and in a short trip to mount vernon from the time they left this city december 19 they covered some 3,000 miles and bosey declared his ford gave him no trouble during the entire trip bosey returns says miami climate is very healthful was always warm and due to the saltiness was very buoyant so that simple routine proved beneficial it was very easy to keep afloat thus bosey is thoroughly convinced of the therapeutical value of the sun's rays and mentioned the fact that ist highly recommends this form dr o p kellogg a noted special of cure as bosey went to florida main ly for a rest he did not do much to interfere with his daily routine but he did make two fishing trips one of them was to key largo about 70 miles south of miami on this trip bosey spent the greater part of the time in the bow of the boat viewing the marine life through the transparent waters of the gulf stream he mentioned the habits of the barracuda a particularly vi cious fish that often robbed the lines of the catch as they were be ing pulled into the boat the fish ing was all done by trolling with a live bait and in this manner the party caught several large fish ranging from eight to 30 pounds continued on page 4 bosey described the soil of flor ida as consisting of a form of sand b w.staffpasses new constitution hoover appoints new r.o.t.c.head the cast of the bad man this year's mustard and cheese pro duction which will be produced for the first time april 20 in drown hall has been definitely selected by coach j r o'neil this cast will consist of the bad man thomas m brennan henry smith stewart a shim er gilbert jones harold m schwartz morgan pell bertram j friedman lucia pell francis shoemaker tuffy giddings george c scott jasper hardy harold a seward angela har dy henry s sahm pedro jo el e rothenberg venustiano sydney r snitkin alvarada j karsten ahlberg felipe john h manley bradley felix b shay and blake daniel h geary rehearsals for the play were re sumed last tuesday and the prog ress has been rapid stage manag er e c quinlan and his two as sistants h h behr and c m wil cox have been rushing the stage crew which is building the scen ery for the production so that at present the scenery is ready for the painters thomlinson to take mc cammon's place next fall entries for board positions and membership close friday falk to address chemical society prof john toohy of the ro mance language department was severely beaten about the head sunday evening march 31 in an attempter robbery prof toohy had arrived in philadelphia sunday evening and was on his way to a subway at eeleventh and market streets when he was accosted by wilmer miller 21 philadelphia who asked for a cigarette miller after receiving the cigarette went along with him narrating a hard luck story professor toohy then took him into a restaurant and bought him food and then the stranger being homeless took him to his hotel for the night about three o'clock the following morning professor toohy was awakened by a heavy blow on the head he jumped up and grappled with miller and cried for assistance some hotel em ployees hearing the shouts ran into the room and seized miller the only explanation that miller would give for his ungrateful act was that he needed money judge horace stern of quarter sessions court sentenced miller to not less than two years or more than four years in the eastern penintentiary for aggravated as sault and battery miller pleaded guilty to the charges brought against him questioned about the affair toohy said it was enough to sour the milk of human kind ness humorous paper nearly complete research worker is auth or lty on chemical reagents dr k george falk director of research at the harriman research laboratory new york city will address the lehigh chemical so ciety at 7:30 p m thursday dr falk will speak on enzymes as chemical reagents dr falk is one of the outstand ing authorities upon enzymes and their reactions having been select ed by the editors of the american chemical society monographs to write the monograps the chemis try of enzyme actions he is also the author of a book on catalysis during the past few years dr falk has contributed many funda mental ideas with regard to the theories of valence and biochemis try his work has dealt extensively with the application of enzymes to the physiology of disease and medi cine llewellyn speaks the fourth annual welding sym posium held yesterday centered about the practical results of weld ing numerous demonstrations and tests including an exhibition of un derwater metal cutting were con ducted pres c r richards welcomed the delegates in the morning ses sion which was held at drown hall f t llewellyn president of the american welding society spoke on welding operations and their practical results stressing the problems which face welders and offered solutions to them mr llewellyn's address was followed by discussion the practical side of welding was shown by numerous experiments held during the afternoon in wil liams hall demonstrations of var ious industrial apparatuses were given by the lincoln electric co and the westinghouse electric co at the same time the general elec tric co was giving demonstrations of atomic hydrogen arc welding along with the metal and thermite co who exhibited thermite welding the testing of a full sized weld ed specimen by a 800,000 pound compression machine was made in fritz engineering laboratory later in the afternoon following a dem onstration of under water metal cutting was given by the under water metal cutting co in the swimming pool in taylor gymna sium dr peter p alexander research engineer for the general electric co at the evening session in drown hall presented a paper on recent scientific progress in welding dr alexander traced the develop ment of welding and explained the operation of different welding ma cines particularly the atomic hy drogen arc his talk was illustrat ed with slides which showed the different methods of inspecting welds the symposium was made pos sible through the efforts of the welding committee of which prof bradley stoughton is chairman other members of the committee are professors fogg ault doan hibshman jensen petersen and anderson following dr alexander's talk short talks were given by the rep resentatives of the companies who took part in the symposiums club to present play on may 17 exhibit new pictures after publishing a serious paper the lehigh pictorial at house par ty time last year pi delta epsilon will return to a humorous publica tion this year the paper which is unnamed so far will be publish ed friday april 19 and will prob ably contain eight pages of a size smaller than the brown and white the paper will contain cartoons pictures of old house parties a re view of former house parties and other humorous articles although the publication is to be humorous it will contain a few serious ar ticles such as the house party pro gram contributions for the paper may be sent to either j a lyter or w b adams the price of the sheet will be ten cents a copy orders should be sent to lyter theta xi house or adams chi psi lodge the filing of applications for po sitions as news editors and sport editors of the brown and white will close friday all candidates who file applications for the var ious staff positions will take part in the competition which lasts un tl june this newly adopted plan of receiving applications at mid semester is the principal aim of the constitution which was accepted by brown and white board members before easter the new cinstitution states that any student who has sucressfully completed two semester of brown and white work may compete for on the staff positions this includes all students who are now in their second semester of brown and white work the new constitu tion mesely puts in regdlar form the practices established a year ago when the present brown and white classes were started nearly all ar ticles contained in the constitution have been passed by the board of publications within the last year as to the question of the sink ing fund the new constitution states that the distribution of funds ac cumulated by the brown and white will be left to the discretion of the board of publications all eligible men who desire to enter the competition will find ap plication blanks in the brown and white office ondeck selected as review editor junior prom fee will be lowered the exhibition on display in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building consists of 26 draw ings water colors and lithographs of collegiate gothic buildings at princeton perm state yale pitts burgh and other universities by klander of philadelphia and four drawings from visscher and bur ley of new york this exhibition will continue through the month 1930 epitome will appear late in april by order of president hoover lieut col matthew h tomlinson infantry will be relieved from his present assignment in the office of the chief of infantry at washing ton d c about august 15 when he will report to lehigh university as professor and head of the de partment of military science and tactics to relieve lieut col edward e mccammon who has been as signed to the 38 infantry stationed at fort dougles utah colonel mccammon has been directed to sail on a transport leaving new york in july for san francisco from there he will proceed to fort douglas for duty with his regi ment colonel tomlinson was born in 1882 entered the united states mil itary academy at west point in 1900 and was graduated therefrom in 1904 from 1915 to 1918 he was instructor in the department of tac tics at west point in 1920 he was detailed to general service schools at fqrt leavenworth kan from whicli he was graduated the follow ing year after which he was re tained for one year as an instruc tor in 1926 he was graduated from the army war college at wash inton and since that time has been in the office of the chief of in fantry of the general staff of the army colonel mccammon has been connected with the university for five years and has maintained the high standards of the department of military science and tactics com ing at a time when the department was housed in christmas-saucon hall with most unattractive and meager facilities he has seen it grow in student enrollment and in its facilities for instruction a few years ago the building formerly oc cupied by the commons was re modeled to convert it into an ar mory the building is now very well adapted to the uses to which it is put committee suspends dishonest students the cause of the fire in the phy sics building originating in the ra dio research laboratory on the ground floor about three o'clock thursday morning will probably never be known the radio labor atory was used as a store room for radio and electrical equipment and the fire completely destroyed this room and all equipment the blaze ruined * over 10,000 worth of ap paratus and something less than 5,000 damage was done to the building no valuable records were lost the fire was just 2 days short of occuring 29 years after the disas trous fire april 6 1900 when the old physics building was entirely reduced to ashes the flames after getting a good start in the radio room spread out into the hall the plaster was damaged on three floors from the intense heat and the entire central part of the building was blackened - with soot the blaze ate through the ceiling of the radio room into dr c c bidwell's office and an adjoining office on the second floor a new potentiometer costing 700 was damaged in dr bidwell's of fice probably beyond repair the building had been visited during the night by the watchman george deufel and the night po liceman malone gus anderson the night engineer in the power plant observed the fire at 3:15 a m and ran to box 31 at packer avenue and adams street and sent in the alarm three fire companies arrived promptly with a hook and ladder and two pumpers two hoses were attached to the fire plug east of the chemistry building the water pressure from this plug was so high 185 pounds per square inch that the pumpers were not necessary a third hose was attached to the fire plug near the gym three streams were shot in the building one through a window on the north side the second through a window on the south side and the third through a window in the second floor on the north side the firemen fought the fire un til 7:30 one fireman walter rit ter was slightly hurt a small ar tery in his hand was cut the steel fireproof doors on the first and sec ond floors saved the building from complete destruction the center part of the building in which the fire ocgured was the most fireproof part of the building a broken gas main fed the fire for a short time and increased the intensity of the flame a broken water pipe and loose live wires also added to the confusion when jack hartigan superintendent of the power plant arrived about 4 o'clock in the morning he turned off the gas and water lines and the 2200 volt main the loss is fully covered by in surance the university has a 90 percent co-insurance blanket policy on all buildings and contents the blaze did very little damage to the part of the building that is occupied by the department of electrical engineering the major part of the damage was due to water which flooded the junior and senior laboratories a great amount of plaster fell from the walls and some of the rooms were smoked up the only loss of instruments was several that had been loaned to the physics depart ment debating tryouts friday evening the committee on student dis cipline has suspended three stu dents one senior and two sopho mores until september for dishon esty in quizzes when these men return in september they will re main on disciplinary probation and will not be allowed to participate in any college activites whatsoever invitations to attend sub-fresh man day at lehigh april 27 will be sent by the university to ap proximately 350 men announced austy tate at a dinner of the le high alumni home club thursday evening at the saucon valley country club final arrangements including the securing of grantland rice as banquet speaker for sub freshman day were discussed at the meeting dean c m mcconn and billy sheridan were the princi pal speakers of the evening this will be the largest number of prospective freshmen ever enter tained here on such an occasion ac cording to austy tate who is di recting the arrangements for sub freshman day the entertainment for the day will include a baseball game with army and a practice football game both to be played in the stadium and a tennis match with the university of pennsylva nia in the evening at 7 o'clock a ban quet will be served at hotel beth lehem for the prospective freshmen grantland rice one of the leading sports writers in the east is ex pected to be present he has prac tically assured the committee that he will be here unless a major sport event prevents him prominent alumni will also address the pros pective freshmen as well as pres c r richards entertainment will be provided by the combined mu sical clubs and following the ban quet the mustard and cheese will present its play the bad man billy sheridan related at the din ner a few of his experiences as wrestling coach defending the youth of the preseht day against all criticism he said that his present team was composed of the hardest and most conscientious workers he had coached and laud ed the members for their spirit and determination he spoke of the sentiment that prevailed at the le high wrestling meets and at the in tercollegiates saying he believed the spontaneous outbursts at the meets are largely the result of lack of thorough knowledge of the sport and that he has known them to oc cur wherever a wrestling meet is held in concluding he expressed considerable optimism for next year pointing out how he is groom ing the likely candidates by enter ing them in outside meets to gain experience dean mcconn reviewed the acad emic progress at lehigh since the advent of dr richards adminis tration he insisted the reason that alumni are not usually interested in the academic side of their alma mater is that they never hear much of this side of the picture speak ers usually concentrate on the ex tra-curricular activities of the school especially athletics begin ning with the faculty dean mc conn gave the statistics on the in crease the number now being 181 which is a ratio close to one in structor or professor for every sev en students mckinney's cottonpickers fam ous both as a recording and broadcasting orchestra will furnish the music for the junior prom april 19 in the upper gym the decorations will be furnished by zollinger harned co of allen town / the committee has secured as chapecones for the affair dr and mrs neil carothers dean and mrs c m mcconn and fred trafford the prom will be conducted along orderly lines and drinking will be limited to the punch which will be furnished by the refreshment com mittee the subscription for stags has been reduced from 4 to 3 but the subscription for couples remains at 5 touse party chaperones are to be admitted free may 17 has been set by the fac ulty dramatic club as the da,te for the presentation of oscar wilde's play the importance of being earnest those who will take part in the play are mrs robert m smith miss elizabeth b hay mrs sidney m brown mrs p a lamber henry schenck prof sid ney m brown and prof john m toohy two minor parts have not been assigned as yet this play of oscar wilde is well known on the campus as it was studied in eng lish 5 and is included in dr r m smith's book of plays the faculty dramatic club is continuing the reading of short plays at its weekly meeting the club will read sidney howard's ned mccobb's daughter at the home of dr r w hall 37 east church street tomorrow those reading parts will be mrs w t fedko mrs l l smail dr w t fedko dr c j goodwin dr e h riley and morris e kanaly juniors will hear four speakers at banquet campus events froshy sophs decide rules to govern banquet season the following recommendations for editorial and business staffs of the lehigh review were approved at a meeting of the board of pub lications yesterday afternoon edi tor-in-chief g m ondpck man aging editor b j freedman bus iness manager e j jones adver tising manager d b stabler cir culation manager r f latremore sophomore members of the business staff g b camden ross white head e j stack at the same meeting the recom mendation of pi delta epsilon as to what positions on the various publications should be considered major offices were also approved ta epsilon and the board one man as a result of this action by pi del will not be allowed to hold more than one of the major office at a time the major offices as ap proved by the board are as fol lows brown and white news manager editorial manager sports manager two news editors business manager advertising manager and circulation manager burr editor in-chief business manager and cir culation manager review editor in-chief business manager epi tome editor-in-chief business man ager chairman of the senior class book tennis managers report the class of 1930 will hold their annual class banquet at 6:30 p m tomorrow at hotel bethlehem a small orchestra will furnish the music and dr c r richards dean c m mcconn prof c d macdougall and coach austy tate will speak the price of tickets has been re duced from 2.50 to 2 tickets may be secured from members of cyanide the banquet committee or from class officers candidates for assistant manag er of tennis communicate with lin ton foster delta tau delta house before 2 p m tomorrow turn in cyamde lists epitome closing books although we have little room in this column to devote to eulogies so prevalent at the death of every man great or near great the death of myron t herrick am erican ambassador to france since 1912 with the exception interim of seven years deserves some com ment france joins ameirca in mourning mr herrick a man known and respected for his im partiality and diplomacy and loved for his loyalty and kindly person ality mr herrick especially en deared himself to the french peo ple in 1914 by refusing to leave the french capital in the face of the threatened german invasion he contracted his final illness while marching in the funeral cortege of marshall foch commander-in-chief of the allied forces in the world war he died sunday morning march 31 * ♦ * the toll of nine years of federal enforcement of volstead's theory is 197 violent deaths according to a report submitted recently to ogden l mills under secretary of the treasury of these casualties 140 were suspected traffickers in liquor and 57 were federal prohibition agents this report is concerned only with the results of federal enforcement and does not include the casualties of state or local raids which would undoubtedly swell that number considerably much condemnation of prohibi tion has been called by this re port the association against the eighteenth amendment issues a brief statement in which they pre dicted that there will be more murder than ever when the jones 5 and 10 law gets under way rumor has it that a recent com putation of the number of ten dol lar gold pieces used by liquor vio lators in greasing the ways show ed that if placed end to end they would form the proverbial golden stair to p.araside * * * the american attitude toward mexico is no longer that of an idle bystander president hoover has authorized that our relations with mexico be placed on a military basis homes have been destroyed and citizens have been wounded on american territory by bombs re leased from mexican planes rifle and machine gun fire have beaten an intermittent tatoo on the town of nasco arizona just across the border american troops are prepared if necessary to cross the border and drive back the mexicans far enough to establish a safety zone major general william lassiter has been authorized by washington to use whatever measures he deems neces sary without further instructions from them his orders are simply to protect american property and prevent firing across the border at any cost ♦ ♦ • the policy of the hoover admin istration of recognizing the fed eral government and selling muni tions to them while barring the sale of arms to the rebels has come in for a great deal of criticism amer ican interference in foreign gov ernmental affairs is nothing new and no doubt only the usual number of squawks will be heard this the latest episode of american dabbling in foreign affairs louisiana in a stormy session of the house of representatives voted to impeach governor huey p long by a vote of 5s to 40 the gover nor was indicted on one of 19 counts that of attempting to su press the freedom of the press one of the executive's defenders in the heat of the debate ran to the speaker's stand and attempted to compare the action of the house in bringing impeachment charges against the governor to the crucifi xion on the cross he was inter rupted by cries of sacrilege to which he retorted take my life but spare me this privelege and then fell fainting to the floor the senate was officially notified that the governor had been im peached saturday afternoon and im mediately appropriated 100,000 for the cost of the trial while the fight waxed bitter in the jegisla tive hall on the second floor the governor directed his forces from his office on the first floor when notified that the house had im peached him he stated it will be a fight to the finish * * * commander of the american ex peditionary forces in the world war general john j pershing has been mentioned unofficially as the person most likely to succeed herrick as ambassador to france also the name general charles g dawes vice president of the united states until march 4 has been linke dwith the court of st james ambassadorship should these two men be appointed by president hoover america's two most im portant diplomatic posts will be occupied by two of its biggest rep resentatives during the world war it was back in the days of 75 lehigh was but a pup — stead ily growing and like all pups up to all sorts of tricks craving attention and publicity a group of sophomores class of 78 — al ready imbued with the lehigh spirit conceived the idea that in keeping with the growth of the university an annual publica tion was a necessity thus the epitome lehigh's oldest exist ing publication — was founded a class meeting approved the idea and holbrook f j por ter milnor p paret and frank p howe were chosen to produce the first book that november the epitome appeared bound in paper and containing in all about 50 pages of statistical data — class histories fraternities and clubs and class teams it creat ed a sensation in college it was decided in 1885 that the production of the epitome was a matter of too great importance to be entrusted to the sopho more class and the juniors as sumed the responsibility this marks the point at which the epitome really began to advance in completeness and beauty a continued existence has brought with it a continued en largement and increase in art work photography and invalu able data the 1930 epitome will appear before the end of this month containing all that and more sophomores interested in cy anide are requested to turn in a list of their activities to fred trafford by 4 p m tomorrow this list should be placed in a sealed envelope today 8:15 p m dr duncan spaeth will speak at the community civic con cert in liberty high school wednesday 11:00 a m classes excused for college meeting at the flag pole 4:00 p m varsity baseball vs temple taylor field thursday 7:30 p m meeting of the lehigh university chemical society main lecture room of the chem ical building dr j g falk of roosevelt hospital new york york city will speak on en zymes as chemical reagents thursday 7:30 p m george a orrole will speak on high pressure steam development before m e so ciety at williams hall friday 7:30 p m h d keiser will speak and a film will be shown before the mining society at williams hall f king paget business man ager of the 1930 epitome de manded that all fraternities and organizations settle their out standing debts with the epitome immediately the final tryouts for the national intercollegiate oratorical contest test will be held at 8 o'clock fri day evening in drown hall the judges for the tryouts will be dr neil carothers prof c d mac dougall and dr myron j luch the winner of this contest will take part in the sectional intercol legiate contest which also will be held at drown hall may 4 the winner of'the sectional contest will be sent to california to compete in the national intercollegiate ora torical contest which is sponsored by the better american federa tion of california to increase respect for the constitution seven prizes totaling 5000 will be giveti the first prize is 1500 in the national contest ten min utes will be alloted to each parti cipant the topics of the contest ants must have reference to the constitution of the united states 1 no missile weapons may be used 2 there must be no fighting or scuffling within the hotel 3 no recourse is to be had by members of either class to the civil or criminal law 4 no silver or other souvenirs may be taken from the hotel 5 there must be no fighting or scuffing within any university building the two cabinets voted also to urge upon the members of their re spective classes that they refrain from attempting to enter fraternity houses or dormitories to capture sophomores or freshmen both classes were cautioned by the dean to refrain from sunday activities the sophomore and freshman cabinets held a joint meeting march 25 to agree upon regulations to govern the sophomore and freshman banquets dean c m mcconn and f t trafford met with the two cabinets it was agreed that the sopho more banquet shall be held on one of the three days thursday friday or saturday april 11-13 and that the freshman banquet may be held in accordance with tradition any i time after the sophomore banquet but shall be held not later than tuesday april 16 the following regulations gov erning the scrap were agreed to by both cabinets brown and white m c definitely decides on cast for spring show prof.toohyfalls for philadelphia bum's sob story physics building blaze results in 15,000.00 loss wedersherefor symposium view manyexhibitions underwater metal cutting demonstrated in tay lor pool the bad man will be presented april 20 in drown hall complains milk of hu man kindness has turned sour early thursday morning fire disrupts classes for day rehearsals improve had befriended man m m all the lehigh news first