Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 3

              doan perfects test on steel freshmen elect temporary bead general admission 1 robber works openly 26-0 win three complete teams batter hopkins for 24 receive diplomas fine season foreseen x-rays used by metal lurgy professor to dis cover defects frederick keck chosen president for founder's day sports davidowitz bennett nora and ware star in game saturday with the fantasy seven from the hotel traylor in allen town furnishing the music the first college dance of the year is set for tonight the founder's day hop in addition to the dancing the committee has plan ned a special feature which it is felt will meet with the approva 1 of the guests the music will start at nine o'clock continuing until one the freshman curfew rule being abridged for the benefit of those going to the dance only the committee has invited prof and mrs r b cowan and prof and mrs h m diamond to chaper one the dance the subscription is 1 for stag and 1.50 for couples fresh man - sophomore games complete hol iday ceremonies vale chronicle play pr£sem£d both groups should be applauded for their ingenious method of ad vertising but the public as well as the government points a condemn ing finger at the veil of secrecy which clothes the shipbuilders employment of mr shearer to aid in breaking up the geneva disarm ament conference although the shipbuilders did remain in the back ground in their dealings with shear er it is hardly fair to condemn them for so doing post-war paci fism has taken root so firmly that reduction of naval armaments has become a by-word columbus first photo play of history series shown friday the class of 1932 elected fred erick keck as temporary president on monday september 30 he will act as president of the class until regular elections can be held keck will have charge of the freshmen in the founder's day sports he will organize the teams and will represent his class on the field a total of 308 votes were cast in the election of which keck received 173 his nearest competitor mc canless drew 104 votes youngman and aaron the other two nominees received 16 and 15 votes respective ly the election was carried on un der the auspices of arcadia the steel companies were firmly convinced that they could educate the world into believing that pre paredness in the form of a larger fleet of steel boats is the best means of preventing war but they were also firmly convinced that it would be folly to wage open war fare against the religious and moral bodies which shouted reduce nav al armaments it is obvious that the shipbuilders advertising scheme though ingenious necessarily re quired secrecy expert explains steel research bertrand russell distinguished english philosopher scientist and essayist will lecture on civiliza tion and the machine ' at the first session of the little theatre of lafayette college at 8:15 p m thursday october 3 in pardee au ditorium lafayette campus mr russell is an experienced lec turer and a former special profes sor of philosophy at harvard whose researches in the philosophy of mathematics have shown an extra ordinary gift of keen and subtle thought professor p r perry of harvard characterizes him as one of the most brilliant philosophical minds of the age he has also been de scribed as a modern prophet with a talent for making the intricate simple and the complicated clear among the more important writ ings of mr russell are the anal ysis of matter what i believe an introduction to mathematical philosophy the prospect of in dustrial civilization mysticism and logic and other treatises on philosophy and logic the small capacity of pardee auditorium limits the sale of tick ets and necessitates that there be only a general admission of 1 tickets may be obtained from miss hazel thompson room 7 south college easton or at the door thursday night if the supply has not been exhausted optional degree given engineers radium and x-rays can be used to determine defects in steel dr g e doan of the metallurgy depart ment has discovered in recent ex periments dr doan will supervise a series of experiments which are to be conducted by the naval research laboratory at bellevue d c he was chosen for this work by the naval department and will be en gaged in experimenting for at least a month it is hoped that the experiments will lead to the determination of the exact power of penetration of the gamma rays of radium and x-rays through steel if these experiments prove successful then welding of steel will be considered dr doan explained the new in vestigations in the following words the usefulness of radium in cur ing cases of cancer is rather well es tablished this same radium can be used to test defects in steel the gamma rays of radium have so much power that they can easily penetrate solid objects upon this fact dr doan based his recent ex periments it is planned to shine the gamma rays of radium directly through the steel upon a photo graphic plate in back of the metal a slight spot on this plate would reveal a defect in the steel when the prince of wales vis ited the united states several years ago every action of the heir to the british throne was the topic of con siderable discussion and yet he did little but ride polo ponies and at tend dances but the arrival of j ramsay mac donald prime minister of great britain in new york this week is likely to cause no more than a stir and yet he will probab ly accomplish a lot arcadia completes founder's day plans agreement with lafayette also reaffirmed at first meeting graduates will soon be permitted to receive b.s although the prime minister's visit is primarily a pleasure tour he is scheduled to confer with presi dent hoover on the all-important question of naval disarmament that the conference will be an im portant one cannot be doubted es pecially since it is understood that president hoover has requested senator frederick hale of maine republican chairman of the senate naval affairs committee and sen ator claude a swanson of vir ginia ranking democratic member of the committee to attend final arrangements for the founder's day hop and the resolu tion to maintain the agreement with lafayette in regard to abstinence from rough-stuff painting and other collegiate pranks in vogue in past years prior to lehigh-lafay ette games were completed last evening at arcadia's first meeting in drown hall it was suggested that members should beon hand to supervise the founder's day sports wednesday afternoon and the dance committee reported that several dances would be attempted this year h j muen del of taylor hall was elected to the house committee doctors make study of vaccinoid marks now when the president of the united states the prime minister of great britain and senate repre sentatives of both american parties get together on the question of nav al limitations it is time for us to prick up our ears and get interest ed incidentally a french editor in terprets mac donald's mission as a desire by britain and america to dominate all seas columbus an historical photo play was shown to a large audience last friday evening in the new packard auditorium by professor l h gipson of the history depart ment this picture the first of a series of yale university chronicles of american photoplays to be shown is as historically accurate as possible professor gipson prefaced the showing of the film with some remarks illustrated with slides con cerning previous possible discov eries of the americas columbus discovery was not an isolated discovery but a sequence of 30 centuries of such work it was pointed out the americas had probably been visited a number of times before his voyage by the norsemen breton fishermen and others columbus motive in making the voyage was not merely to find a new route to india and china but to get new lands for spain and to spread christianity before 1492 maps existed which showed land to the west of europe in approximate ly the same position as the present americas the film began with the failure of columbus to interest the king of portugal in his venture the scene then shifted to spain where queen isabella finally pledged her jewels to pay for the expedition the sail ing of the fleet from palos and the long voyage of discovery were shown the film ended after col umbus landed on watling island one of the bahamas group and took possession of the land in the name of spain the second in the series which is a new experiment in teaching his tory at lehigh will it is expected be given friday october 11 the subject will be jamestown munity they conclude condition of scars no sign of im research in the steel industry will be the subject of dr john johnston director of research unit ed states steel corporation in his address to the lehigh university metallurgical society at 8 p m this evening in williams hall dr johnston as secretary of the national research council during the war engaged in scientific re search for the government and its allies in an endeavor to improve offensive and defensive methods of warfare in the fields of detection and destruction of submarines fir ing listening and aiming devices for ordnance better means of com munication better armor and arma ment protection from airplane raids and observation balloons protection from poison gases and the develop ment of more deadly gases dr johnston before he was ap pointed secretary of the national research council received the de grees of bachelor of science and doctor of science from the univer sity of st andrews in scotland where he was born he spent two years in research work in germany two years as research associate in physical chemistry at the massachu setts institute of technology and eight years on the geophysical lab oratory staff of the carnegie insti tution at washington at the close of the war his work on the national research council ended and he became professor of chemistry and chairman of the chemistry department at yale journalists inspect local news plant tau delta phi moves to old wilbur home prime minister mac donald has also been invited to speak before the reading pa city council which is socialist how much would it boost socialism in the united states to have the noted scotchman accept this invitation globe-times office d.h gramley takes class through ations during summer many fraternities complete alter entering and looting fraternity houses has in the past few weeks netted some thief or gang of thieves almost 600 plunder the most ser ious loss resulted thursday night when three more fraternities alpha chi rho sigma chi and phi sig ma kappa were robbed of more than 200 evidence points to the fact that one person was responsible for all the robberies and that that person seems to have had an intimate knowledge of the fraternities that he visited in almost every case the houses robbed were those in which the men sleep on the third floor making it an easy task to enter their rooms on the second floor the alpha chi rho house suf fered the biggest loss last thurs day night when 120 in cash was taken suitcases containing 10,000 in jewelry belonging to a sales man were overlooked the thief en tered the house some tim eafter 1 30 in the morning and made a system atic search of all the desks and clothes watches and other valu ables were left untouched no one saw or heard the intruder whose method of entrance is still a mys tery thief revesits sigma chi both the sigma chi and the phi sigma kappa houses were robbed the same evening sixty dollars was taken from the phi sigma kappa house during the night the loss was not discovered until the next morning at the sigma chi house the robber was seen by two of the freshmen about 11:30 they went to the first floor to get a bed which was in the back part of the house they were surprised to find a man partly undressed lying on it he said he was a member of the fra ternity from another chapter and had come in to rest while the freshmen went upstairs reporting the incident the man disappeared the police were called and the house thoroughly searched but no traces were found of him at fre quent intervals up until 2:30 a m a policeman visited the house sometime after his last visit the bold intruder returned via a ladder to an open window and robbed the house of 30 freshmen see intruder the sigma nu house suffered heavily the house was looted twice in the same week the thief getting 80 at each visit no clues of any kind could be found probably the best description of the alleged thief was secured at the sigma phi house when he robbed that house on september 15 about 2 a m sunday morning a noise was heard in the downstairs hall upon investigation a man was dis covered who wanted to spend the night on the sofa he was told to get out when the house was quiet someone entered and took 25 the man discovered earlier in the eve ning is suspected he is described as being of medium height and weigh ing about 140 pounds his clothes were dirty and soiled but he spoke good english the forefinger on his left hand was missing football onlookers hear 50 piece band lehigh engineers will soon be permitted to graduate with either a regular engineering degree or a bachelor of science degree in their appropriate courses depending on their choice men already graduated will likewise be allowed the oppor tunity to exchange their diplomas for a b s in their respective schools this privilege comes as the re sult of action taken by the faculty at its last meeting september 11 when it was decided upon the rec ommendation of the committee on the standing of students that all students who this year receive or who have received in the past an engineering degree may after jan 1 1939 upon application and pay ment of a fee of 5 exchange that degree and diploma for a degree and diploma of b s in their appro priate curriculum committee vacancies filled at the same meeting were committee on admissions e b schulz elected to fill the vacancy of s m brown committee on chapel a butts and a w klein elected to fill the va cancies caused by the resignation of m picard and r e martin fac ulty educational club h m ander son and m peterson were elected to fill the vacancies caused by the esignation of j p jones and r l hanson board of publications a h fretz was elected to fill the va cancy caused by d s chamber lin who is on leave of absence | organization makes initial ap pearance at johns hopkins game eta kappa nu meets there is little bearing between the size number and character of previous marks and a person's sus ceptibility to smallpox dr r c bull and prof stanley thomas of the student's health department have concluded as a result of an ex haustive study of the relations be tween previous vaccination marks and scars to an individual's immun ity to smallpox both doctors have observed in vaccinating approximately 4000 in coming freshmen during the past few years that many students with one or more large and well-defined marks were as subject to vaccinoid reactions and vaccines as those who had no sign of previous vaccina tions the same results prevailed when comparing pitted with smooth marks dance follows game lehigh will honor dr willis rodney whitney ph.d d.sc d.ch with the degree of doctor of laws as the principle part of the founder's day celebrations at 11 a m tomorrow in packer memorial chapel twenty-four other candi didates will also receive their di plomas at this time the celebration will begin with the academic procession from the alumni memorial hall to the chapel where the speeches and the award ing of the degrees will take place the recessional march to the flag pole will close the program dr j w barker new head of the department of electrical engin eering will introduce doctor whit ney vice president and director of research of the general electric company drr whitney has been the unseen force working behind the scenes in the general electric research lab oratory his friends believe the flow of fundamentally scientific re sults which have accompanied the practical inventions that have come from that laboratory are a mem orial of dr whitney's foresight and exemplifies the extent of research that he has inspired in his staff has been widely honored dr whitney has been granted honorary degrees from various col leges he is a member of the u s naval board the advisory council of the u s bureau of standards and the national research council the willard gibbs medal chandler med al and the perkins medal have been awarded to him he is a trustee of the albany medical college of un ion college and a member of the corporation of massachusetts insti tute of technology the following candidates will re ceive their diplomas master of science cyril dewey jensen b.s in c.e university of minnesota bethlehem bachelor of arts felix bodal ski nanticoke raymond philip black irvington n j jacob le vitz new york n v edward lyons jr brooklyn n v jos eph ricapite bethlehem adolph schiff new york n v kenneth enders sheets enola david trod erman dorchester mass bachelor of science in business administration lewis carl beck new haven conn john milton blackmar east orange n j mil lard herman citron white plains n.y ; aaron elwood hess lan caster ralph eugene ward dal ton civil engineer thomas herbert carey coxe bethlehem carl isaac son brooklyn n y george ju lius neumann allentown electrical engineer richard bell mancke bethlehem robert carl richard march philadelphia bachelor of science in industrial engineering herbert adrian rik er jr amityville n y metallurgical engineer stanley benning adams baltimore md robert maynard brick atlantic city n j engineer of mines george wel don moyer souderton afternoon program light a lighter tone will characterize the program during the afternoon when the freshmen face the sopho mores in the traditional struggle for freedom from dinks on sundays continued on page foiir one way to curb drunkenness might be to show imbibers how the fluid is made saturday after noon 40 wall street brokers law yers and business men cursed pro hibition agents who padlocked the trinity club claiming that it was the only place in new york that they could get a decent drink of li quor after making an investiga tion of the club the policemen called the patrons from the bar to view the bottling works of the best liquor in new york the patrons viewed it with rising indignation and after voicing their amazement for several minutes in emphatic language turned on the proprietors and upbraided them severely may be the customers are happy that the club has been closed but then again perhaps not members of the class in report ing and writing were shown some of the intricacies involved in the publishing of a newspaper in a trip through the office of the bethlehem globe-times friday afternoon just before press time dale h gram ley instructor in journalism was in charge the operation of the telewriters by means of which news from the associated press and the interna tional news service is received was first demonstrated from these machines it was explained the news goes to the copy-readers and thence to the make-up man who sends it to the composing room where it is set up on linotype ma chines from this a matrix is rolled and is used for the mold to form a semi-circular cast of printing these casts are trimmed and placed on rolls for the printing press eta kappa nu honorary electri cal engineering society held its first meeting of the year friday night september 27 the members discussed plans for the regional convention of the a i e e which will be held at lehigh some time in november coming events delaware avenue recognized fraternity row at lehigh sur rendered one of its oldest and larg est homes for fraternity usuage this september when tau delta phi purchased the former residence of r e wilbur at 618 delaware ave nue the chapter was formerly lo cated at 527 montclair avenue the building for years the home of one of the most influential fam ilies in bethlehem is an 18 room brick structure set well back on a spacious grounds space is provided for a tennis court and a five car garage is located in the rear eight fraterntiies are now locat ed on delaware avenue by far the largest number on any street ex cept the campus where ten groups reside many other fraternities complet ed alterations and improvements in their homes over the summer al most half redecorated their inter iors several installed driveways for automobiles and a few repainted the exteriors of their houses lehigh woman's club faculty the combined musical clubs will hold a tea dance after the p.m.c game saturday in drown hall the lehigh ramblers will furnish the music subscription is 1 per couple or stag the proceeds will be used to help defray expenses of the mu sical clubs invitations have been extended to girls from bishop thorpe manor and moravian college for women with a fanfare of trumpets le high's 50 piece band made its first public appearance at the johns hopkins football game saturday on taylor field the band was directed by george motter and andrew rawn drum major between halves the band com posed almost entirely of veterans formed the letter h in front of the johns hopkins stands then marched across the field to form an l and played the alma mater while the rooters sang the band will be increased in size later in the season and numerous drills will be held to perfect it in the numerous formations needed throughout the football season how it rediscovered its way but suggests that it did in the story of its landing sitka the news does not indicate aviation enthusiasts of this sec tion of the world have been set agog over the outstanding planes of the days news the russian plane land of the soviets has landed at sitka alaska on its journey from moscow to new york the large twin motored russian plane lost its bearings en route from seward to tau beta pi defers action on memorial library gets books a new set of the encyclopedia brittanica has been added to the library three million dollars have been expended to make this the most complete encyclopedia yet published the library has been particularly fortunate in obtaining one of the first editions off the press flashing a fast powerful back field and an equally powerful line together with a wealth of reserve strength the lehigh gridders over whelmed johns hopkins by a 26-0 margin in the season's first game last saturday at taylor stadium to roll up the largest score that a brown and white team has made in several years coach austy tate substituted three complete teams during the course of the game and each one of them displayed a great brand of football although the first team was responsible for the majority of the points scored the johns hopkins line was bat tered to bits by the powerful drives of the backs and the splendid work of the lehigh linemen on the de fensive lehigh did not allow the blue a first down while the brown and white amassed 13 it is hard to select the outstand ing player of the game since the number of men that were put into the game all performed brilliantly davidowitz carried over three of the four touchdowns scored and was consistently brilliant in his running back of punts bennett was responsible for many large gains and hurled several beautiful passes two of which directly resulted in touchdowns on the second team nora and ware formed a combina tion that played havoc with the johns hopkins defense nora car ried the ball a great number of times and each time tore off gains that averaged over 10 yards ware went through the hopkins line consistently for substantial gains and hurled a long pass to elkins for a touchdown pinkney proved to be a good running mate for these two and contributed greatly tow ards first downs on the first team line many played a great game at end speed ing down under the punts to drop the hopkins safety man in his tracks and breaking up many of the plays hopkins attempted to run around his end tubby miller had little opposition at tackle and opened up wide gaps in the blue line while stutz centered the ball and backed up the line to perfec tion lehigh's first score the first score came in the first three minutes of play lehigh kick ed off to johns hopkins who took possession of the ball on its own twenty yard line after an incom pleted pass hopkins punted and davvy ran the ball to the blue 40 yard line harris punted imme diately and many dropped the hopkins man on his own 20-yard line hopkins punted again and davidowitz ran the ball back with a 35-yard dash that landed the ball on hopkins 6-yard line reed ad vanced 3 yards through the line and on the next play davvy went over for the scare he also kicked the point lehigh kicked off to hopkins hopkins punted and lehigh by a series of off-tackle smashes and end runs by bennett and reed ad vanced the ball to hopkins 4-yard line hopkins held and lehigh lost the ball on downs the blue punt ed and it was lehigh's ball on the 33-yard line a pass from bennett to many netted a gain of 20 yards and another pass from bennett to davidowitz put the ball over for another score the goal kick failed the period ended with the ball on lehigh's 43-yard line after hopkins had kicked-off at the opening of the second period after on exchange of punts davvy took the ball for a gain of 30 yards placing it on the hop kins 34-yard line at this point the second team was sent in and im mediately began to play a brand of football that equalled that of the first team and in some instances bettered it tearing off three first downs in rapid succession due to the work of nora and pinkney le high had the ball on hopkins 4 yard line and first down a line smash placed the ball on the one continued on page four tht boulevards and cafes of paris are tolling a somber note as conver sation reverts to the fate of nun gesser and coli with the protracted silence of lieutenant dieudonne costes and maurice bellonte these men both of whom achieved a splendid record during the world war left le bourget airport last friday morning and have not been heard of since in their plane ques tion mark they were trying to low er the world's non-stop long dis tance flying record tuesday 4-6 p m lehigh university wo research in steel industry man's club tea drawn hall 8 p m metallurgical society meeting dr john johnston cises packer memorial church 2 p m freshman - sophomore football game taylor field thursday williams hall 9 p m annual founder's day hop drown hall wednesday il a m founder's day exer 4:10 p m band rehearsal ar mory 7:30 p m o d k meeting drown hall 7:30 p m glee club tryouts drown hall 8:15 p m lecture by bertrand russell civilization and the machine pardee hall lafay ette campus easton epitomes available all those who made a deposit of 2.50 on copies of the 1930 epitome can secure them by paying the 2.50 balance to king paget at the kappa alpha lodge before october 15 definite action on the proposed memorial to dr edward h wil liams founder of tau beta pi for mer lehigh professor and donor of williams hall was postponed by the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi at a meeting on wednesday action was deferred until after the national convention of the so ciety which will be held at lowa city october 10 11 and 12 at the convention lyle jones president of the local tau beta pi chapter will appeal to the entire society for aid in founding this memorial new members to be honored at reception today new members of the faculty will have an opportunity to become bet ter acquainted with the teaching and administration staffs of lehigh when they meet at a tea to be giv en by the lehigh woman's club in their honor at 4 p m today in drown hall this tea is an annual event and gives the new faculty members a chance to mingle socially with their colleagues and wives mrs m j luch president mrs p m palm er vice president mrs c r rich ards mrs n m emery and mrs c m mcconn will act as host esses for the occasion the engine was built in 1891 by d coxe nephew of eckley b coxe inventor of the coxe chain grate stoker and former trustee of lehigh university it was not a toy but a real locomotive having a daily run of several miles from a railroad station in drifton pa to a coal mine in the mountains every d^ay it pulled a train of flat cars loaded with cans of powder over its wind ing course piloted by its builder with every detail correct to scale rivets valves and westing house air brakes included pedastled and stared at by curious students who shove and push it to see if it will go this model locomotive finds life in the mechanical engineering lab in packard laboratory rather monotonous after its active career by geo w thomas tiny model locomotive set up to run in packard laboratory who acted as engineer fireman and brakeman one day the engine overturned on a curve and altho its owner seemed unhurt after the mishap he died a few days later either from shock or internal in juries the department of mechanical engineering is planning to run the engine on a track within the pack ard lab compressed air will be used for power instead of steam coxe was considered to be a me chanical genius during his time and had built two of the model en gines when he was 20 years old all parts were made by coxe with the exception of the air-brakes which he was not permitted to build be cause of patent rights one engine was donated to lehigh university and the other remains in the po session of the coxe heirs brown and white vol xxxvii no 3 ' bethlehem pa tuesday october 1 , 1 929 price five cents hop tonight starts holiday activities easton to hear famous thinker thursday night university awards honors tomorrow at packer chapel thieves secure heavy plunder in frat houses powerful offense nets first victory for lehigh eleven bertrand russell will speak on civilization at lafayette almost 600 stolen in mysterious burglaries past few weeks all talk about the shearer inves tigation involving the bethlehem steel and other large shipbuilding companies can be summed up in the phrase it pays to advertise the shipbuilders can be compared to the paper drinking cup compan ies in their method of advertising the latter advocates the preven tion of disease by drinking from paper cups while the former says that the prevention of war can best be effected by the building of bat tleships dr w r whitney hon ored in founder's day celebration b & w section changes section a of the brown and white will meet wednesday at 4 p m instead of monday here after world news the shearer investigation mac donald's visit a cure for drunkenness aviation r.s.m all the lehigh news first