Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 46

              gymnasium will be transformed at junior prom dances play lacrosse game complete en tertainment frosh play baseball house party program today 4:00 p m scabbard and blade dance drown hall 9:00 p m junior prom taylor gymnasium saturday 1 30 p m varsity track vs hay erford taylor field 2:00 p m varsity lacrosse vs university of pennsylvania taylor field 3.15 p m mustard and cheese show the bad man and tea dance drown hall 4:00 p m freshman baseball vs rutgers freshmen lower field 9:00 p m house dances reporter's greatest sin is inactivity - frantz * chuckle and squirmed about on the chair you'll get the devil he said looking at me for inacuracy and libel and all of the other news paper sins but the only one which will never be forgiven is inactivity then as he proceeded to relate his experiences in south america and of the growing field of foreign correspondence i asked him what would you say was the best bet in journalism learn one language beside eng lish he answered without hesita tion as he again pulled out one of his lately pocketed pencils if you know one language besides english and have a little journalistic exper ience you just can't lose in the for eign news game where i asked did you learn your spanish i took for granted that he must know spanish if his stock in trade was south amer he took the other pencil out of his pocket i learned it while knocking around in mexico before i went to college i traveled around texas and mexico working lino type machines both pencils were inextricably entwined among his fingers . i enquired how he liked the news paper game nothing like it he replied but this is the first day off i've had in five years 1 was satisfied dramatists give dance and play by george w schoenhut the greatest sin in the newspap er game is inactivity harry w frantz united press foreign correspondent was seated across the table from me in the journalism room in the basement of christmas-saucou hall he was swapping stories of mutual acquain tances and personal reminiscences with prof macdougall another old united press man yes he continued pulling a pencil from his pocket i remem ber when i was on the graveyard shift down in new york i was the only one in the office when this exclusive copyrighted story of the world came in i felt as though 1 should make some kind of a story out of it but it was so full of exclusives and copyrighteds that i was afraid to do anything with it mr frantz was pulling another pencil from his pocket i wondered how many he carried i was afraid he continued that it would make me pretty unpopular if i call ed the boss on the phone at three o'clock in the morning i tell you i did some pretty hard thinking as a result of my heavy think ing i didn't write anything and when the boss came in that morn ing i got it — a kick he put both pencils back in his pocket with a hoover trip was one happy time arcadia accepts 0 d k proposal pennsylvania lacrosse game the bad man follows harry w frantz speaks of southern jaunt — pi delt pledges mckinney's cotton pick ers to furnish syn copation spanish decorations tonight in taylor gymnasium the junior prom feature event of house parties will hold forth in all its splendor the preparations have been exceedingly elaborate and complete in an effort to present a prom that has never been excelled here zollinger and harned decorators of allentown have been employed to insure appropriate decorations under the direction of these dec orators the gymnasium has been transformed from its usual severe lines into a romantic setting in old spain the effect is conjured with spanish awnings covering the win dows with very elaborate hang ings and rich draperies of cloth overhead and tilling the walls in addition colored illumination multi colored spot lights and scintillat ing diamond dust on the draperies complete the scheme of decoration mckinney's cotton pickers na tionally known radio and recording orchestra have been chosen to fur nish the music according to rep utation they promise to furnish a real treat for dance lovers with their excellent syncopation and feature numbers these include entertainment acts and vocal re frains but all this description and fore cast omits a detail upon which in the end the success of the prom rests it's the house party fem mes who are the stars in the dec orations the life in the music and truly the heart of the dance there fore may she also be worthy that the prom be successful paine commends lehigh's library during the year 1929-30 lehigh will operate under a minimum bud get of 905,000 which was approv ed monday by the board of trus tees this is the largest sum which the budget has ever called for and is the result of the constant expan sion of the university the renova tion and rebuilding of several build ings the approval of two new fel lowships and changes in the fac ulty were also acted upon the new budget makes possible the many changes needed in the various buildings to bring them up to date the physics building which was recently damaged by fire will lie remodeled to allow the department of physics to occupy the entire building after the electrical engineering department has been moved to the packard laboratory williams hall will be remodeled to accommodate the department of metallurgy which is now located in the chemistry building a vivar ium for th,e use of the biology de partment will be built directly south of williams hall and the old quar ters of the metallurgy department will be renovated and then occu pied by the chemistry department a fellowship which was made possible by a bequest of 20,000 from james ward packard was es tablished it will be called the james ward packard research fellowship to which one applicant will be appointed for a term of two years in which he is to do research work in electrical or mechanical engineering while working for a master's degree the offer of the archer-daniels midland co of minneapolis and the william o goodrich co of milwaukee manufacturers of lin seed oil to subsidize research in linseed oil to the extent of 10,000 a year for the next three years was accepted these firms have sup ported the research work in this field for the past two years and the great success of the fellows who worked under the direction of prof j s long resulted in their offer to furnish additional money for this work , april alumni bulletin in cludes librarian's address snitkin will compete in oratorical contest pictures and qualifi cations candidates must publish the acceptance of the o d k political plan with the exception of the first clause by the necessary number of fraternities was an nounced at the meeting of arcadia on monday evening this was the first announcement of the results of the ballots sent to the various living groups a change was made in the third clause in which the word must was substituted for may that part of the clause now reads all candidates must have their pictures and qualifications published in the brown and white it was decided that upperclass men shall forego indefinitely their privilege of walking on the grass this action was taken solely for the purpose of preserving the cam pus turf not with the view of de priving upperclassmen of their privileges arcadia rule compels nomination meetings radical revision of present fresh man-sophomore banquet regula tions is foreseen in the action taken by a joint meeting of the two class cabinets wednesday to limit fu ture banquet fights to one day this is in reality a suggestion to the faculty in the face of the pres ent controversy ensuing from the past banquet this action was taken after a prolonged discussion at a special meeting called by dean c m mc conn as the result of a rumor that edgar s stem a freshman resid ing at 306 summit street had been missing since thursday this ru mor arose when stem's landlady informed the dean that stem had not returned to his room or at tended classes since the banquet festivities began the dean wor ried at such a prolonged absence hastened to adopt some means of tracing the missing student how ever early wednesday evening it was learned on authoritative infor mation that stem was ill at his home in alderson pa where he had returned of his own accord last week since the cabinet meeting was al ready called the dean asked for discussion on the cabinet's views toward banquet week he promised that some action toward revision would probably be taken at the next faculty meeting and asked for other alternatives besides complete abolition of banquet week a proposal to continue the ban quets without the traditional fight was entertained but was not ap proved by many further discus sion resulted in the proposal to hold both banquets on the thurs day following the easter vacation at previously announced places such procedure would eliminate much of the flagrant absences from classes which have been so pre valent in past banquet seasons dean mcconn announced that he would present this recommendation at the next meeting of the faculty when it is expected that the pro posal will be adopted or a similar plan submitted such a develop ment has long been pending as successively wilder banquets met the disapproval of faculty members this year cuts have been overly numerous especially among the freshmen whose late banquet neces sitated their missing many classes the next faculty meeting is to be held the first week in may at which time some new regulations are almost certain summer session has 45 teachers the 20 american newspaper cor respondents who accompanied pres ident-elect herbert hoover on his south american good-will trip were so dined and wined that on many occasions they had difficulty in re membering sailing dates of the battleship maryland and were forc ed to use harbor launches auto mobiles railroads and even airships to make connections at points far ther down the line many amusing anecdotes of the hoover trip were told to about 75 students interested in journalism wednesday evening in coppee hall by harry w frantz foreign cor respondent for the united press associations who came here under the auspices of pi delta epsilon on several occasions in the ab sence of a reporter his friends in the true journalistic spirit at tempted to send in his reports with the result that several reports of the same speech were often sent in at the paper's expense on one occasion mr frantz ana his friends became so interested in the work ing of the pari-mutuel booths at the hippodrome in rio de janeiro that they had to drive 50 miles per hour through the streets to the dock to catch the ship mr frantz characterized the trip as just one big happy party continued on page 4 the leading newspapers of lat in america such as la nation and la prenza of buenos aires 500 students to take ad vantage of 1 08 courses offered holbrook blynn's greatest star ring vehicle the bad man by porter emerson browne a comedy of the mexican border will afford an exciting afternoon's entertain ment when presented in drown hall by the mustard and cheese club at 3:15 p m tomorrow the show will start immediately after the lacrosse game with the univer sity of pennsylvania and will be followed by a tea dance which is included in the price of admission combine texas rangers mexican bandits shooting and love and there cannot help but be plenty of action that will hold the interest from st,art to finish coming to rob a ranch on the american side of the border pancho lopez the bad man discovers the owners to be an old friend in difficulties over the mortgage on his ranch and in love with the villain's wife mixing up the situation in typical mexican fashion lopez works out a solu tion to the problem that is both in teresting and extremely funny and which gets him mito trouble with the texas rangers he escapes across the border the necessary two jumps ahead of the rangers and as should be the final curtain finds everyone either happy or dead immediately after the show mus tard and cheese will stage a tea dance in the hall those attending the show will be allowed to remain while admission for others will be a dollar a couple the dance will start about 5:15 p m and last until seven the mustard and cheese orchestra of 12 members will fur nish music for the affair and will play the theme songs of the play as well as the latest popular tunes motter song writer is new band leader many dartmouth men abstain from kissing due to change in arcadia ruling dealing with the abolishment of po litics in elections it will be neces sary to have a meeting of the ar cadia and the interfraternity coun cil for nomination of officers be fore the elections take place the interfraternity council will meet monday april 22 and arca dia wednesday april 24 for nom inations election meetings will follow within the month all living groups concerned are requested to have their delegates elected before the meetings so that the nominations and elections may be made by the new bodies lehigh woman's club has annual elections lehigh having survived the con flicts of banquet season plunges to day into the next feverish activity house party amity between classes prevails as the common quest for enjoyment of the various activities and the entertainment of the fair visitors become the chief topics of thought and action among the stu dents according to the custom of for mer years scabbard and blade opened the festivities with a tea dance at 4:00 p m in drown hall the music was furnished by the london criterions a popular or chestra in this vicinity despite the fact that it was the first dance and held before many of the house par ty guests had arrived it was well attended the junior prom in the gymna sium tonight will be the most out standing event of house party the orchestra mckinney's cotton pick ers is renowned both as a radio and as a popular recording band which is versatile in feature num bers and vocal refrains the prom decorations which are designed for an old spanish effect are unusually elaborate and are striking in their richness the favors will be at tractive brown leather card cases that will fit the purse with the coming of saturday there begins another round of acti vities the afternoon will boast a full card offering a diversity of en tertainment for the pleasure of our fair guests at 2 p m there will be two athletic contests the fresh man baseball game with rutgers and varsity lacrosse with the uni versity of penna likewise in the afternoon the mustard and cheese club will present the bad man in drown hall there will be no interruption in the entertainment for at 5:15 p m the mustard and cheese club will sponsor a tea dance featuring the club orchestra an attractive detail of this dance will be the souvenir programs dis playing campus cuts and contain ing stories of campus life it will bear points of similarity to the house party paper published by pi delta epsilon tomorrow night nearly every house will contribute to the activi ties by holding a dance singly or in conjunction with other fraterni ties the following houses will hold open dances sigma phi at chi phi lambda chi alpha at theta xi phi gamma delta at phi delta theta beta theta pi at sigma nu kappa sigma at alpha tau omega kappa alpha and delta pi at sig ma pi individual closed dances at chi phi delta tau delta theta kappa phi alpha chi rho sigma phi epsilon and phi beta delta aeronautics company donates air sketches sidney r snitkin arts 3 will represent the university in the sec tional tryouts of the national in tercollegiate oratorical contest to be held in drown hall may 4 snit kin won the right to represent the university by decision of the judges dr myron j luch dr neil carothers and prof c d macdougall with his oration john marshall and the constitu tion 1 at the tryouts held last night in christmas-saucon hall he will continue the competition with the same topic which by the rules of the contest must be on some phase of the united states constiution the winner of the sectional con test here may 4 will compete along with about 50 others in one of the seven intersectional contests which are to be held throughout the coun try prior to the finals in california this summer the national contest is being sponsored by the better american federation of california which is offering prizes totalling 5,000 of which the first is 1500 scoblionko selected to head pre-legals dartmouth has revealed its tastes in regard to the fair sex in a ques tionnaire which is passed around the campus annually exactly twenty one admitted that they had never partaketi of the joys or the sorrows of young ladies lips many there were on the other hand who con fessed that they had forgotten themselves to that extent while un der the spell of the opposite sex the favorite type girl according to the dartmouth must have brown hair blue eyes and be fast proving that dartmouth gentlemen are not gentlemen whatever else they may be fisher bodies and portable types were the favorite of some while smoothness seemed to be one of the prerequisites with many new officers were elected by the band at a short meeting prior to its appearance at drill on wednes day those chosen were george f motter leader fred emhardt manager and e fred underwood librarian motter who was elected leader has had wide experience in musical fields he wrote the lyrics for sev eral musical comedies which the mustard and cheese club presented in past years and has written sev eral songs for the current offering the bad man he has also stu died music abroad the band attended drill wednes day to prepare for the annual in spection this month it will play at all coming drills until the in spection new emblems for hats arrived this week these are silver laurels with lehigh engraved upon a cross bar the lehigh woman's club tues day afternoon in drown hall elect ed officers for next year as follows mrs j m luch president mrs p m palmer first vice president mrs c m mcconri second vice president mrs f m wieda treas urer mrs g d harmon corres ponding secretary mrs f a brad ford recording secretary mrs j b reynolds presided after the election dr and mrs k w lamson rendered several cello and piano selections and re sponded to an encore mrs reiter read a selection happiness by william l phelps a tea preceded the election lafayette professor takes his own life the april issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin which will be cir culated saturday contains articles an deditorials on student activities notable accomplishments of alum ni and an interesting review of our proposed library and the use of li braries in general a liberator of the spirit is paul m paine's conception of the library as expressed in his address deliv ered at the laying of the corner stone of the remodeled university library mr paine also remarks on the changes which have been made in the curricula of lehigh applauding the tendency to intro duce cultural courses he recom mends that technical students avail themselves of the opportunity to do general cultural reading to obtain a more liberal education for the whole of life rather than one partic ular part impressions and experiences of two lehigh engineers who have been in russia since 1922 presents an interesting insight into the pres ent developments in that country contrary to general opinion rus sian industries are advancing rap idly under the guidance of ameri can engineers the reconstruction era of russian development seems to be an engineer's paradise with unlimited opportunities for the ad venturous and ambitious technician the proposed project of a tun nel under the english channel has bee nendorsed by a lehigh engin eer theodore stevens 86 the railway through it will make it pos sible to cover the distance of 253 miles between london and paris in the remarkable time of two hours 45 minutes an average speed of 92 miles an hour delta omicron theta will hold elections coming events professor joseph warren barker of the department of electrical en gineering at massachusetts insti tute of technology was appointed as head of the department of elec trical engineering at lehigh to fill the vacancy created by the death of the late prof william esty an drew willard litzenberger bethle hem was appointed head of the de partment of buildings and grounds with the title of supervising archi tect and 15 promotions were made on the faculty and the administra tive staff at the spring meeting of the board of trustees last monday prof barker the new head of the department of electrical engineer ing is famous as a research expert he has been at m i t since 1925 and in addition to his duties as an associate professor he has been in charge of much of the research work done in his department re cently he directed research in the field of electrical illumination at the institute in cooperation with the national research council prof barker was born june 17 1891 at lawrence mass he was graduated from the massachusetts institute of technology in 1916 receiping the degree of bachelor of science in electrical engineering he served in the army from 1916 until 1925 when he resigned his commission as major to become a member of the faculty of m i t mr litzenberger who succeeds the late j c cranmer superinten dent of building and grounds will be the head of the new department of building and grounds mr lit zenberger will be directly respon sible to pres richards and will have an office in the alumni building he was last employed by the bethlehem steel co where he served as senior architect in charge of design and supervised the construction work of the corpor ation since may 1 1928 he has acted as superintendent in charge of construction of the new packard laboratory and the new library it was his efficient work in this po sition which led to his appointment to the new office faculty members promoted the custom of the board of trustees in rewarding the faculty by promotion has led to the fol lowing changes in its and the ad ministrative staffs personnel which become effective • september 1 1929 lloyd l smail from associate professor to professor of mathe matics frederick a bradford from as sistant professor to associate pro fessor of economics allison butts from assistant pro fessor to associate professor of metallurgical engineering howard g rhoads from instruc tor to assistant professor of eng lish waldemar j trjitzinsky from instructor to assistant professor of mathematics friedrich o kegel from instruc tor to assistant professor of ger man burgess h jennings from in structor to assistant professor of mechanical engineering max meenes from instructor to assistant professor of psychology frank c becker from instructor to assistant professor of philosophy and psychology william l kichline from assis tant to instructor in mathematics henry h carter from assistant to instructor in romance languages wilber e harvy from graduate assistant to instructor in metallur gical engineering thomas edgar shields to part time director of music jeannette cleaveland from rec ord clerk to recorder in the office of the registrar bernadine c free from filing clerk and typist to record clerk in office of the registrar the wright aeronautical corpor ation has presented a portfolio to lehigh university containing sev en repoductions of water colors commemorating various events in aviation of outstanding importance the first of these water colors commemorates the wright broth ers strange contraption which made its flight at kitty hawk in 1903 the second depicts bleriot's flight across the english channel in 1909 albert c reed's flight across the ocean in 1919 and the crossing of the united states by macready and kelly in 1923 are also among the collection of a later period are sketches of the lindbergh flight to paris in 1927 the kingsford-smith flight over suva in 1928 ami commander byrd's antartic flight in 1929 the original water colors were painted by lemon and are done in the modern manner these repro ductions are an interesting study of the high spots of aviation they have been placed on exhibition for a short time in the display cases of the old library delta omicron theta will meet monday for the main purpose of electing officers for the coming year the society has been offered membership in a national college de bating fraternity and the advisabil ity of joining will be discussed by the members lehigh is finishing her first year in intercollegiate debating and it is hoped that with a revised organiza tion and two faculty coaches de bating at lehigh will become an established institution monday 7:30 p m meeting of delta omi cron theta english lecture room officers for the coming year will be elected meeting of the interfraternity council drown hall 8:00 p m meeting of fencing club drown hall tuesday petition to serve next year 4:00 p m candidates for junior cheer leaders report in the tro phy room five sophomores will be chosen at the end of the com 1931 epitome members of the class of 1931 wishing to become nominees for the editorial arts or photo graphic staff of the 1931 epitome must turn in their names togeth er with a list of any previous publication experience whether at lehigh or at secondary school to donald wright sigma chi house before april 20 emanuel george scoblionko 31 was elected president of the pre legal society for the coming year in drown hall last night other officers elected were edward john stack 31 secretary donald stan ley sawyer 32 treasurer and as members of the executive commit tee daniel solinger ettlinger 31 an ddavid drescott hendlin 31 the society has secured mr frank c becker of the philosophy department to speak on the law yer and his relation to society the lecture will be given on may 2 and will be the most important event sponsored by the society this year invitations have been ex tended to the students and facul ties of lafayette muhlenberg and moravian college members of the bar associations of northampton and lehigh counties have also sig nified their intention of being pres ent plans for the society dinner have been dropped for the present to enable the members to give all their attention to the coming lec ture newtonian meets forty-five men most of whom are of professional rank will compose the faculty for the summer'ses sions which will continue from june 3 to august 10 with a fac ulty of this size and an enrollment of nearly 500 students lehigh will have a summer school equal to the regular sessions of many small col leges the courses offered during the summer sessions are divided into three classes those which are an integral part of certain engineering curricula those offered to students who wish to make up defienciencies or to gain additional . credits and those designed primarily for teach ers the courses which are a part of certain enginering curricula given for the most part at summer camp will be given from june 3 to june 29 the other courses wifl begin on july 1 and continue to august 10 the completeness of the summer session is shown by the fact that 89 regular courses and 19 graduate courses are rostered announcements containing a complete list of the summer ses sion faculty and the courses which will be offered have been sent out as one of the series of lehigh uni versity publications additional copies are available at the office of the dean preliminary enrollment in the surveying courses has al ready begun w j sette addresses american physicists w j sette a lehigh graduate assisting in physics will present a paper on the results of his research during the past two years before the american physical society to day and tomorrow in washington this paper deals with the mathe matical theory of three-coupled elec trical circuits for which he has worked out the equations and checked them experimentally pro fessors c c bidwell w s bailey h h reichard and o f ritz man are also attending this meet ing dr john r crowfard 42 years old head of the department of lat in and greek at lafayette college committed suicide by means of a revolver last sunday night maniac depressiveness caused by an acci dent to the right eyes sustained while fencing was given as the cause of the suicide dr crowfard came to lafayette in 1919 after his discharge from the united states army he was very popular at the college because of his great interest in all collegiate affairs and his death is felt deeply by both the faculty and the student body the newtonian society will meet at 7:30 wednesday april 24 in packer hall brown and white trustees elect prof j barker electrical head trustees favor million budget for next year guests arriving for week-end festivities m i t man will suc ceed dr william esty next fall expansion plan provides for building and re modeling full program for house party girls proposal is to be suggest ed to faculty next month cabinets offer rule to limit banquet fueds dean advises action fifteen men promoted establish fellowship member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first