Brown and White Vol. 35 no. 48

              rival factions seeking election of nominees reports are accepted bulletin houses choose new presidents interfraternity council and arcadia offices at stake plan open campaign baird and davis are resting comfortably at st luke's hospital following the removal of pieces of a shattered steel bullet from their wounds this morning four fragments of bullet were removed from davis leg and two were taken from baird's hip past week brings many changes in living group officers lehigh's only conquest was a sec ond place in the 25 mile race the most amusing event of the contest was the alert race in which the contestants divested themselves of their aviation clothing and shiv ering in he brisk wind lay down on army cots until the pistol start ed them scurrying to get their planes up first unfortunately an other contestant cut loose with some stunts just as the race was about to start and since stunting was at that time a novelty everyone for got the chilly students on the cots until one freezing victim wailed let's go and the judges started the contest amid howles of laugh ter however this race resulted in a near tragedy for lehigh when the plane which nowell was piloting crashed after motor trouble nowell suffered a severe shock and had to be taken to the hospital the brown and white excuses the weak showing of this pio>ieer team on the grounds of a poor plane an alibi which the present group is hoping it will not have to make by e a honig aviation enthusiasts at lehigh will be surprised to learn that their efforts to popularize air travel are by no means the first indications of air-mindedness at the university as a matter of fact an interval of almost nine years since the first group began to indulge in its per ilous hobby makes this second at tempt seem like a rather belated continuance of the sport four men old records in the brown and white reveal began lehigh's aviation history by repre senting the university in the in tercpllegiate aero meet held at mitchell field mineola long is land may 7 1920 they were s s richards 21 l h richards 23 w g nowell 23 and h r mellinger 21 they competed against students from yale princeton cornell pennsylvania columbia williams pittsburgh and wesleyan for the american flying club trophy us ing a jn-6h plane yale distin guished itself by being the first col lege ever to win the trophy and architects show gothic sketches the brown and white greatly regrets the error made in its list of the interfraternity council can didates in its last issue the correct list of nominations is as follows president g e oiler t f storm • ■ vice president w g badg ley g s dixon g b turn secretary e j jones w f powell treasurer l b simonson r l anderson executive committee j s dey r pratt r g herbruck r j lincoln a g rohrs mistakes of this sort would be reduced considerably if organ izations would instruct their sec retaries to communicate with the brown and white reporter assigned to cover news of that society or to telephone 446 im mediately after a meeting and ask for a rewrite man union sponsors sub-frosh sing drawings o f college building displayed in reading room band music and speeches planned for sunday afternoon army inspects lehigb r.o.t.c all student publications will be placed on a strictly amateur basis in september 1931 as a result of a decision made by the board of pub lications tuesday the monthly re ports of the business managers of the various publications were also approved at the same meeting the result of this decision of the boards means that beginning in september 1931 there will be no di vidends salaries or other remuner ation for members of the staffs all profits will go into a sinking fund for the establishment of printing fa cilities it is also expected that subscription rates to the students will be reduced in any case where the profits of any publication war rant such reduction until that date the several publications will oper ate on the present basis this is the third step which the board of publications has taken to improve the standard of lehigh periodicals the other two steps were the revision of the brown and white organization and the rule limiting to one the number of ma jor offices which one man can hold the new system will remove all financial inducements to men on the various staffs and will place them on the same level with men engaged in other extra-curricular activities the vested rights of the present officers of the publications and of the men who are eligible to compete for these offices re pro tected by the time clause keeler traces story of math during the past week the ma jority of the living groups on the campus have elected house pres idents for the coming college year the men elected are paul hick man alpha chi rho h e dat wyler alpha tau omega j h girdler beta'theta pi l f sim onson chf psi richard tull delta phi w g badgley delta upsilon j s dey delta tau delta d b atkins kappa alpha r j lincoln lambda chi alpha p s davis phi delta theta s w rounds phi gamma delta s h landy phi sigma del ta thomas ayre phi sigma kap pa arthur davidowitz pi lambda phi w g figoni price hall e f evers psi upsilon w e black mar sigma chi vaughan haag sigma nu r g laird sigma phi epsilon j a zipser tau delta phi axel norvig section a j m heilman section b j k beichler section c g l dehoff section d j e spangler section e taylor hall e a staub theta delta chi h a seward theta kappa phi henry rohrs theta xi w d kelly warren square l r hewitt zeta chi j w wat ters leonard hall the living groups not represented here either have not held or have not reported elections beta theta pi robbed early sunday morning newtonian society also hears freese on mod ern gunnery party guests sleep 44 in cash stolen while house the opening guns in the spring political campaign were fired wed nesday when the junior members of 29 living groups made public that they had definitely aligned them selves into two distinct parties to support political tickets representa tive of the various interests of the entire student body the nominees of one party for arcadia offices are john k con neen president john s dey sec retary and harold a seward treasurer the other party has nom inated howard e datwyler for president and john e spangler for secretary the living groups that have agreed to support the former ticket in the class of 1930 elections are beta theta pi sigma chi delta tau delta taylor hall chi phi chi psi delta phi warren square club lambda chi alpha kappa alpha price hall psi uplison phi gamma delta and theta kappa phi the living group which will sup port the latter ticket in the election is composed of theta delta chi phi delta theta sigma nu alpha tau omega phi sigma kappa sigma phi epsilon alpha chi rho kappa sigma sigma alpha mv pi lambda phi phi sigma delta zeta chi theta chi price hall and taylor hall feeling that the old underhand policy of combinations has result ed in a number of unfortunate con ditions and considerable ill-feeling among living groups these living groups have decided on a policy of absolute openness in their opera tions and public knowledge of their program will be the chief charac teristic of their plans throughout the entire campaign prohibition rebuked in columbia ballot sub-freshmen will join the stu dent body at the song fest spon sored by the lehigh union at 3:30 p m sunday april 28 on the ter race north of drown hall in case of inclement weather it will be held in drown hall the band will furnish the music for the singing and will also ren der several concert selections har ry miller 27 an ex-president of the musical club who led the singing during freshman week will lead the gathering in popular and college songs interspersed between the musical selections and the singing will be speeches delivered by three prom inent undergarduates john i kirkpatrick president of sword and crescent will speak on scholarship leonard c crewe president of the senior class will speak on social life at lehigh and thomas m brennan president of the lehigh union will speak on extra-curri cular activities cheer leaders will be on hand to lead the cheers and wives of mem bers of the faculty will serve suit able refreshments seniors approve necking and call erskine least liked author house party guests of the beta theta pi fraternity were robbed of 44 in cash between the hours of 6 and 9 a m sunday while most of the girls were asleep chaperons were in the house at the time the fraternity reimbursed guests losing money and are attempting to determine the identity of the thief there are however no guiding clues bunsen burners summon firemen seven plaster casts given to arts dept for new buildings j l burley presents models used seniors at columbia university voted against prohibition and ad mitted to swearing dancing drink ing and necking in the annual vote taken by the class walter hampden emil jannings ethel barrymore greta garbo and joan crawford were selected as the favorite stage and screen celebri ties and strange interlude the best play of the year the sat urday evening post proved to be the most popular magazine and john branch cabell the favorite author incidentally john erskine professor of english at columbia was voted the least liked author pi delts to initiate new men on monday there is no guess work in mod ern range finding and a mistake of four yards in a 6,000 yard range is the largest error imaginable de clared l b freese president of the lehigh university mathematics club who spoke before the new tonian society last wednesday night in packer hall professor c a keeler who also addressed the meeting talked on the history of mathematics tracing this subject wiht its developments from the time of the egyptians in 4142 b c to the present freese gave an account of the use of mathematics in the shooting of small artillery guns particularly the 75 millimeter type he called attention to the fact that all modern fiiring is done on a scientific scale g w bienfang w e elmore and e b hildum were elected to the society at the end of the meet ing the last meeting this year of the newtonian society will be held on wednesday may 8 in drown hall dinner will be served at 7 p m and will be followed by a series of speeches to be given by the le high faculty and members of the society dean george b curtis says it is dangerous to cut classes robert l baird jr and philip s davis sophomores say it is dangerous to go to class as a result of their be ing slightly wounded yesterday morning when a loaded cartridge was accidently discharged during a classroom demonstration at the ar mory first aid was administered to the injured before an ambulance took them to st luke's hospital of the two davis is the more seriously injured x-ray photographs show a fragment of a steel-jacketed bul let lodged in his left calf compli cated by lacerations although the injury of baird seated between da vis and the rifle first seemed to be a flesh wound along the left hip x-ray revealed a piece of steel im bedded in the flesh when the accident occurred capt maxmilian clay was explaining stoppages in the automatic rifle while sgt thomas j lavin demon strated their remedy before a 9 o'clock sophomore class in some unaccountable way a loaded car tridge was in the magazine sgt lavin used bullet ricochets in order that the class might see the demonstration better the sar geant pointed the piece diagonally toward them and while capt clay continued his description suddenly there a terrifying report point ed downward at a 45 degree angle with its muzzle resting on the class room table the piece had fired the bullet dug a three-inch groove be fore plunging through five inches of wooden table top and side board to break into several pieces one fragment struck baird in the left hip while the others hit the sheet steel book-rack under his chair and ricocheted in such a manner that a piece hit davis seated diagonally behind baird class members took immediate cover in many ways not listed in the scouting and patrolling section of the military manual baird and davis forgetting to swoon in wes tern movie style stood up find ing continued standing impossible they were carried to dr bull's of fice where their wounds were dressed complying with army regulations lieut col e e mccammon has appointed a board of investigation made up of army officers assigned to the lehigh r o t c since loaded 30 calibre shells are not used or kept at lehigh the board is having difficulty accounting for the one fired yesterday r imhof given honors by special decision louisell to conduct tests major patch and captain as the command fall in is giv en at 4 p m monday afternoon the annual inspection of the le high university r o t c units by the war department will begin the board of officers that has been detailed to inspect the units is com posed of major a m patch 12th infantry and captain wm c louisell 12th infantry this board will designate the r o t c corps as either excellent satisfad tory or unsatisfactory after the inspection and review on monday afternoon and the classroom inspec tion during the classes tuesday on monday afternoon from four until six there will be a regimental review and inspection a physical drill squad platoon and company close order drill extended order drill and shelter tent pitching on tuesday beginning at 9 a m and continuing until 11 o'clock there will be a detailed inspection of the methods of classroom instruction and an examination of the students of the first and secand year basic infantry and ordinance courses during the two days of inspec tion much stress will be laid upon the maintenance of a miltary-like attitude at all times the students are required to salute all officers at any time while in uniform and to keep their uniforms buttoned and their hats on straight whether on the campus at drill or on the city streets all belts shoes and other equipment must be kept clean es pecially the bores of the guns from which all oil must be removed all non-convnissioned officers i c corporals guides and sergeants must have their proper chevrons sewed on their sleeves continued on page four the inspection monday will also be the close of the regular seven students will be feted at banquet in hotel bethlehem james l burley 94 of visscher and burley architects of the library has presented the fine arts depart ment with seven of the original plaster models upon which the dec orative motives of the library and the packard laboratory were based • the carver of these models was rochetti parzini anyone interest ed can compare the originals in coppee hall with the ones on the buildings three are humorous al legorical representations of the mathematician the scribe and the biologist woman's club meets drawings by the architectural firms of visscher and burley of new york city and charles klau der of philadelphia are now on ex hibition in the alumni memorial building this exhibition contains pencil drawings drawings in soft crayon and in water colors of buildings of the college gothic type at wellesley princeton brown perm state cornell and lehigh in the drawings one can trace the workings of the architect's mind from the preliminary sketches to the finished work the architect sketch es out the masses in the prelimin ary drawings and then modifies them as he develops his ideas and increases the amount of detail un til finally he is able to visualize the finished building an excellent illustration of this type of sketching is the drawing of the alumni building which was done before the building was start ed the impression created is that the artist sketched the building aft er its completion a comparison of the styles at other schools fav orably compares with those at le high these drawings will be ex hibited until may 1 the final art exhibit of the year a collection of paintings by seven pennsylvania artists robert spenc er margaret spencer daniel gar ber r sloane bredin john f fol inabee emil gelhaar and w l lathrope will be shown in the al umni memorial building from may 5 to may 10 the exhibition con sisting of four or five canvasses done by each of these painters promises to be the most interesting of the year the paintings are new many being exhibited for the first time and represent the best work of these painters all of the artists with the exception of mr gelhaar a resident of bethlehem live in the vicinity of new hope and are fre quently designated as the new hope colony it is to be noted that the exhibition will be open during the time of the bach fes tival and those who attend the fes tival will be able to see it now in reading hospital due tg accident on easter sunday richards makes trip sydney brown speaks dean terms prom decidedly moist the lehigh university woman's club will hold its annual reception for its new officers and the faculty at 8:30 tonight in drown hall a program has been arranged which includes dancing for which a stu dent orchestra will furnish the mu sic and bridge president c r richards and dr n m emery made their annual in spection trip to the freeland min ing and mechanical engineering in stitute on wednesday this school was founded by mrs eckley b coxe in memory of her husband a famous mining engineer and the man for whom the coxe mining laboratory is named many future lehigh men will get their first taste of college life sat urday when they attend the sec ond annual sub-freshman day exer cises at lehigh this event is spon sored by the lehigh home club under the direction of its president j cullen ganey 20 all lehigh clubs and fraternities are cooper ating with austy tate the alumni association and the students sub freshman day committee headed by leonard c crewe to insure the success of the program which con sists of athletic events a banquet a show to be given by mustard and cheese and a song fest the biggest event of the day will be the banquet at 6:30 p m satur day at the hotel bethlehem grant land rice famous sports writer and authority will be the principal speaker in addition to writing ar ticles on sports mr rice is the head of the moving picture sports syndicate bearing his name his pictures frequently are shown at lo cal theatres mr rice is a grad uate of vanderbilt university the other speakers will be mr e c grace 99 president of the beth lehem steel co and pres c r richards walter r okeson commissioner of officials for the eastern association for the selection of football officials will act as master of ceremonies the entertainment at the banquet will be furnished by 17 member of the combined musical clubs who com pose the dancing orchestra and the quartet two specialties also ap pear on the program busy program for day saturday afternoon will offer a sports program to the sub-freshmen consisting of a baseball game with army and a tennis match with u of pennsylvania at 3 p m and fol lowing the ball game a practice football game will be held this game will consist of four eight min ute periods and central board offi cials will officate upon their arrival saturday morning the visitors will be escort ed to the memorial building by members of sword and crescent and cyanide here they will reg ister and receive an identification symbol and tickets for the athletic contests the rest of the morning will be taken up by trips around the campus the men will be given a chance to interview members of any department in which they are interested the various fraternities will entertain the visitors at dinner in their houses in the afternoon those men who care to may take up their problems with dean c m mc conn and associate-dean g b curtis in their offices which will be open from 1 30 to 3 p m bad man to be presented mustard and cheese will do its share to entertain the visitors at 9:30 p m saturday night in drown hall when the bad man the spring play of the society will be presented by the same cast which starred at the last performance dur ing house party week the lehigh union will close the sub-freshman events at 3:30 p m sunday with a song fest at drown hall sub-freshman day which is now an annual feature receives the hearty support of all alumni clubs all clubs in the east will either send several men as guests or else send representatives old alumni are bringing their sons back and many are bringing friends of their sons or other boys in whom they are interested over 200 boys are expected from the leading prep and high schools in the east fellows are coming from as far as chatan ooga term and hanover n h to take part in the events of the day coming events prof sydney m brown of the history department spoke to the four square club at the hotel al len allentown tuesday night prof brown made a comparison of life and methods of today and of the middle ages by showing the era of speed and production of today in contrast with the industrial efforts of the middle ages pi delta epsilon will hold its in itiation and banquet monday eve ning at the hotel bethlehem the initiation will take place at 6 o'clock and the banquet at 8 o'clock after the banquet a short bus iness meeting will take place at which the changing of the epitome from a junior to a senior publica tion will be discussed the initiates are george h fea kins robert p lentz thomas t storm francis k paget gabriel m ondeck edward j jones don old b stabler george w schoen huf louis a brettner and andrew e buchanan w j priestley 08 believes one must be a go-getter goepp books passage dr g e doan invited to aid navy studies study of electric welds to be made with radium waves rudolph e imhof 31 of read ing pa has been awarded fresh man honors by special action of the faculty mr imhof because of the death of his father was unable to take his final examinations with the rest of the class last june but waited until september through a mistake which he made in report ing his grades his name was omit ted from the list which was an nounced on founder's day of those receiving honors at the present time mr imhof is in st joseph's hospital read ing where he was taken after be ing seriously injured in an automo bile accident on easter sunday he will not return to school until next february r max goepp rhodes scholar ship winner this year will sail on the acquintania october 2 with several other rhodes scholars they have booked their passage as tourist third goepp is a member of the sailing committee dr keyes to speak a joint meeting of the lehigh valley engineers club and the le high valley section of the american chemical society will be held 8 p.m friday may 3 in drown hall dr donald keyes will speak on an expose of industrial research phi delta pi moves phi derta pi has recently pur chased the converse estate at 735 delaware aye where they are now living the fraternity moved dur ing easter vacation f v larkin at meeting dr robert f mehl of the naval research laboratory at anacosta d c has invited prof g e doan of the metallurgy department to collaborate with him during vaca tion in a study of electric welds by means of radium gamma radia tions some preliminary work has been delegated to the university in chicago prof doan has also been asked to consult on other metallur gical problems in which the navy department is interested the naval research laboratory is • one of the best equipped in this country for research in pure and applied physics including submar ine detection depth sounding and for work in physical metallurgy scare caused by metallur gists emergency lighting last evening witnessed a fire scare when the lights went out on the campus and the lehigh univer sity metallurgical society which was holding a meeting in the chem istry building lit bunsen burners turning up the luminous flames to enable them to continue their acti vities somebody working in the fritz engineering laboratory at that time seeing the flickering flames of the burners and having the recent physics building blaze in mind turned in an alarm firemen prompt in arriving were for tear ing down the doors in order to get into the building and put out the imaginary conflagration but one of them recognizing george duefel night watchman ran and told him to hurry and open the door before they broke it in mr deufel panting from his ex ertions and excitement reminded the firemen that he was no longer young enough to run up hills but he arrived in time to prevent demol ition of the entrance when the cause of the temporary excitement was discovered the firemen left more in disappointment that in pro vocation the unusual feature of the affair is that of the 150 engineers present at the meeting not one was aware that anything out of the ordinary was happening outside w j priestley 08 addressed the society and discussed new steels used in airplane construction boil ers and locomotives he spoke of the uses of carbaloy and a new steel worth about 500 a pound al though interrupted by the electrical disturbance which put out th lights the order of the meeting was re sumed when a flashlight and the burners were provided represen tatives of the bethlehem steel carpenter steel and ingersoll rand companies together with members of the society had dinner at professor stoughton's home leonard c crewe officated at the meeting official reaction in regard to the university's attitude towards the past junior prom is sum marized in the following state ment from the dean the junior prom was de cidedly moist certain steps will need to be taken to insure if pos sible that future friday night dances during house parties shall be made somewhat drier the house parties themselves how ever and the house dances on saturday night seemed to have maintained a higher standard than usual 1 believe that the heads of the houses cooperated well to this end and are entitled to be congratulated the success of the saturday night dances under the new rule which provides that no more than two houses can go together on saturday night seems to jus tify the new rule which will un doubtedly be continued for the future according to the re ports that i have heard these smaller dances turned out to be not only drier but also more en joyable than the big dances which used to be given by three or four houses together when this was permitted daylight saving daylight saving goes into ef fect two o'clock sunday morn ing president richards has an nounced that lehigh will hold classes according to the ad vanced time beginning monday morning professor f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering depart ment was the delegate to the so ciety for promotion of engineering education meeting held in hobo ken new jersey last friday today 4:00 p m varsity tennis vs wash ington and lee 8:30 p m evening reception by the lehigh university woman's club in drown hall saturday 3:00 p m varsity tennis vs uni versity of pennsylvania lehigh , field 3:00 p m varsity baseball vs u.s military academy taylor field 5:00 p m football spring prac tice game taylor field 6:30 p m sub-freshman banquet at the hotel bethlehem 8:15 p m the bad man pre sented by mustard and cheese drown hall sunday 3:30 p m college sing drown hall monday 6:15 p m pi delta epsilon initia tion and banquet hotel bethle hem 8:00 p m dr r m smith will de diver college lecture shakes peare is shakespeare in drown hall favor of lehigh's present athletic policy athletes are well known while in college he said but are seldom heard of once they gradu ate the good student and success ful business man add more to the high standing of a college than do the soon forgotten feats of the ath lete when questioned concerning the undergraduate activities of his col lege days mr priestley said that the classes were usually in debt during their four years to pay for the property destroyed during that time my class was blamed for completely wrecking a trolley car he said and we were forced to buy the company a new one the col lege student of today is a higher type than was the undergraduate of my day pick out your prospective fresh man carefully and then work on them until you get them was the advice given by william j priest ley 08 in an interview before he addressed the metallurgical so ciety thursday evening mr priest ley vice president of the electro metallurgical company thought that desirable students and athletes could be persuaded to come to le high if sufficient personal pressure were brought to bear when i want new men in my company he said i hunt around until i find one that suits me then i go after him and allow nothing to stand in my way until i get him it might be well if lehigh alumni and undergraduates adopted the same system he added mr priestley declared himself in lehigh university bethlehem pa friday april 26 1929 airmen flew at lehigh almost nine years ago vol xxxv no 48 grantland rice to be present sub-frosh day publication men get no salaries under new plan living groups form two political parties priced five cents bullet wounds twosophomores in m.s.t class sports inspection trip and play included in events board makes ruling thursday to take ef fect in 1931-32 automatic rifle fires un expectedly in demon stration brown and white fraternity council makes nominations baird and davis shot banquet at hotel 6:39 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association