Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 9

              the great mystery is solved the purpose of that funny-shaped and peculiarly constructed ladder in doctor bull's sanctuary has been discovered it serves a very useful purpose for weeks there has been whis pered conversation running rife about the campus as to what that ladder with the sides and upper deck on it is used for some stu dents after much thought and con siderable pondering arrived at the conclusion that it was used to aid in the winding of those round white clocks that hang over the dispen sary doors others with equally as much thought developed the theo ry that it was used to stand on while turning on the electric fan — the railings on the ladder being so designed that the draft created by the speeding fan could not throw brilliant theories unfounded as dr bull bares secret of ladder the person off balance they are all wrong the real purpose of the ladder which is in fact a most unusual ladder was dis closed by doctor bull when he was interviewed by a brown and white reporter who demanded the truth after making sure that the re porter was not trying to joke with him and that the reporter's mission was not a stunt authorized by some fraternity the doctor indulged in great laughter is it a very well built ladder said the doctor a most unusual ladder its purpose is like that of any other ladder it is used to stand on while cleaning parts of the room that cannot be reached from the floor you must admit that it offers advantages not possessed by other ladders having accomplished his mission the reporter departed arts committee to meet oct 28 soviet progress to be outlined new council will discuss rountine matters of college omic conditions j h pierce will present pictures depicting econ art davidowitz quarterback and star of saturday's game with st johns is one of the leading scorers in collegiate football cir cles in the east with the 22 points he scored in saturday's game davvy has accounted for 43 out of the 110 points secured by the lehigh team this season masters of dartmouth leads the eastern scorers with 90 points sebo syracuse and dow ler colgate are tied for second with 48 points and davidowitz lehigh is fouth with 43 davy's total represents six touchdowns and seven points scored after touchdowns three touchdowns and two points after touchdowns were made in the johns-hopkins game one point after a touch down was made in the gettys burg game and three touch downs and four points after touchdowns were made in the st john's game arthur davidowitz concert series partly revised horne explains cooling devices bauer and spalding will present individual mu sic recitals chemicals shown new developments in re frigeration process an award of a print will be made to the student submitting the best criticism of the art exhibition now being held in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the winner will be announced at an un determined date after the exhibition has returned to new york at this time all criticisms will be submit ted to a jury which will choose the winner who will be allowed to se lect the print he desires from a group of five the five prints one of which will be offered the winner are on ex hibition with the rest of the collec tion they are election night bonfire glenn coleman lohen grin rudolph dehn two acro bats yasuo kuniyoshi norman dy coast richard lahey and g k chesterton walter tittle rules of the competition require that the criticism which should be typewriten if possible or written on one side of the paper only be submitted within two weeks after the exhibition closes on nevember 9 the criticism should be less than 500 words long the stu dent is to typewrite his name and address plainly and send an accom panying letter stating the class and the course in which he is enrolled criticisms are to be addressed to the college art association of am erica 100 washington square east new york n y further information may be se cured by consulting assistant pro fessor garth a howland of the fine arts department graduate engineer passes state test samuel g mastriani 26 qualifies as professional engineer the arts and science council which was created by faculty action last spring will meet for the first time at 4:15 p m october 28 in coppee hall to discuss routine mat ters pertaining to the college of arts and science all legislation pertaining to the college originates in this council which is an advisory body the suggestions of the council are sent to the faculty committee on educa tional policy which passes on their suitability before submitting them to the faculty the council consists of voting members of the faculty in the de partments of biology english fine arts geology german greek his tory and government latin mathe matics and astronomy philosophy psychology and education and ro mance languages the chemistry and physics departments also have two members on the council while the business administration m s & t and physical education departments have one member oth er members are one representative of the council of the college of bus iness administration one from the council of the college of engineer ing the dean and the librarian professor p m palmer head of the college of arts and science is chairman of the council the development of artificial re frigeration from its early stages to the electric refrigerator and its nu merous uses was explained by george a home a c 99 thurs day night when he addressed the chemical society in the chemistry building mr home explained in detail the new bird's eye method of quick freezing and low temperatures this method of refrigeration is more sat isfactory than any other method because the small ice crystals form ed in the frozen produce is very small and does not rupture the tis sues of the produce as do other methods the numerous uses of refrigera tion in modern civilization were ex plained and the latest brine sys tem of refrigeration was described by means of a digram flashed upon the screen mr home is the chief engineer of the merchants refrigerating co new york and is responsible for many of the improvements which have been made in artificial refrigeration recently debating trials set for nov 7 j h pierce 10 will present mo tion pictures depicting russian eco nomic conditions to a combined meeting of the lehigh valley sec tion of the a i m e and the le high mining and geological so ciety at 8:15 friday evening octo ber 25 in the auditorium of pack ard laboratory mr pierce who has spent many years as a mining engineer in the anthracite regions is at present a member of the firm of stuart james and cooke inc of new york city who are engaged under contract with the soviet government to re habilitate and to re-equip russian coal mines by introducing amer ican mining methods the slides which will be shown in connection with pierces lecture were taken during the summers of 1928-1929 when messrs pierce and stuart traveled many thousands of miles into the interior of russia ac companied by an official photo grapher the soviet government permitted these films to be taken and shown without any censorship marking the first time since the revolution that such a privilege was granted the films have been ex hibited before numerous profes sional societies since they were brought to this country mr pierce will soon take up his residence in london to take charge of the international and especially european work of stuart james and cooke inc the meeting which will be open to the public will be followed by an open discussion ' latin honorary holds initiation members of the bethlehem com munity concert association will have the privilege of hearing reci tals by three famous musicians this year instead of two as was pre viously announced this change in program was made at a meeting of the advisory council of the associa tion last week the previous program called for a joint concert of harold bauer pianist and albert spalding viol inist according to the new plan each artist will present a separate program on different nights definite dates for the recitals have not yet been determined but as now arranged the program will be as follows december a concert by the barere little symphony or chestra january a piano recital by harold bauer march albert spalding world famous artist in a group of violin selections assisted by gina pinero soprano it was further decided that char ter members who have not yet sign ed for this year's series may still do so the association has already spon sored the theatre guild production of eugene o'neill's marco mil lion as the first part of its pro gram dr hoff to address pre-medical society arcadia smoker for penn game students will hear northampton physician at first meeting samuel g mastriani c e 26 has recently passed the state board examination for professional engin eers and is now fully qualified to practice his profession mr mastriani was offered a po sition with the mcclintock-marshall construction company upon his graduation and was placed in charge of steel work for the masonic tem ple building in scranton a 2,000,000 project he is chief engineer for alaime brothers company pitts ton at present and intends to open offices at scranton soon mr mastriani was active in mu sical circles while at lehigh and was leader of the lehigh six or chestra he was also a member of the mustard and cheese dramatic club faculty will read galsworthy's strife evening at 7:30 o'clock dramatic club to meet tomorrow the society is planning trips to the hospitals and clinics in the vi cinity of bethlehem dr charles a hoff prominent northampton physician will be the speaker at the first meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society this thursday evening at 7:30 o'clock in williams hall dr haff has spok en before this organization at pre vious meetings and the pre-meds are especially anxious that freshmen and sophomores shall hear him ten students and a new instruc tor of the latin department were initiated into eta sigma phi hon orary classical fraternity at the or ganization's banquet friday eve ning at the butztown hotel the new members presented the pyramus and thisbe scene from a midsummer night's dream and a scene from the road to ruin the 25 men present at the banquet wore the toga dress of ancient rome the students initiated were d w haff j j magyar l cohn e a sindelf a dechnik e f un derwood s a kaplus e a col lins and l g wilson mr richard h crumm new instructor of lat in was made an honorary member of the society news men hold dance formal tryouts for the varsity de bating team will begin thursday evening november 7 when all can didates will present seven minute speeches and three minute rebuttals on either side of the proposition resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellog peace pact negotiations are under way for debates with some of the strongest teams in the east delta omicron theta is also planning a series of intra-mural debates men wishing to try out for the debating team will be given until saturday november 2 to sign up with professor c d macdougall the side of the proposition which the debater will defend in the try out will be assigned when he signs up men with a preference should be prompt in expressing it no one will be permitted to take part in the tryout who has had a con ference with professor macdou gall and signified the side on which he intends to argue newtonians to admit frosh to membership barker tenders tea for senior engineers strife a three-act play by john galsworthy dealing with the strug gle between capital and labor will be read at the bi-weekly meeting of the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening at the home of prof and mrs rob ert hall 37 east church street the club president prof e h ril ey announced today the list of dramatic readings for meetings throughout the year will be an nounced by the program commit tee electricals entertained by profes sor and wife last sunday arcadia will sponsor the first smoker of the year next friday night in preparation for the foot ball game with the university of pennsylvania this was decided at a meeting of arcadia yesterday when a plan to petition the faculty for permission to hold a college meeting this sem ester and the two following semes ters was proposed complete plans for the perm smoker have not been made but the smoker will be similar to those held before other big games the time has not yet been fixed rallies will be held before the princeton and rutgers game and the lafay ette smoker will be held as usual there will be neither smoker nor rally before the muhlenberg game insomuch as the senior ball is sche duled for that time of first semester first year men may join at end pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity held its first dance of the year saturday evening in drown hall approximately 120 guests attended professor and mrs c d macdougall chaperoned and music was furnished by ted reich ardt and his orchestra included on the dance commit tee were george feakins chairman george schoenhut and lewis bret tner student ills increase the number of medical and phsyotherapic treatments given at the dispensary during september 1929 was greatly in excess of the number treated during the same period in 1928 in the medical dis pensary 640 treatments were given to 625 patients and in the psysio therapic ward 305 treatments were given to 218 patients prof and mrs j w barker en tertained the senior electrical en gineers at a tea sunday afternoon at their home this is the first of a series of teas that will be given by prof and mrs barker to the electrical engin eers on the second sunday oi each month the junior electricals and some of the seniors will be invited to the next affair along with prom inent men of the electrical indus try after tea was served by mrs barker the guests were entertained by games and songs the theory of equations is the topic to be studied by the society at its meetings during the first sem ester hereafter freshmen will be ad mitted to membership in the new tonian society at the end of both the first and second semesters in stead of at the end of the second semester as was formerly the cus tom sophomores will continue as active members until the end of the first semester and as honorary mem bers until the end of the year this was decided at a meeting of the so ciety last week l l brennesholtz d l may h b osborn r h raring r h serfass and r shankweiler were elected to membership leach presents medal dr h s leach university li brarian has been asked to make the presentation for the pennsylvania library association in connection with the bestowal of a medal upon h w wilson publisher at a meeting to be held october 22-24 at pocono manor this medal is to be awarded mr wilson for his work in the publish ing of the various library aids cat alogues and the union list of ser ials miss cora k dunnells chief cataloguer will attend the meeting the union list of serials is a tre mendous undertaking involving the cataloguing of 75,000 periodicals in libraries here and abroad amassing the greatest number of points against a regular football opponent since 1917 and topping the day's scoring for the middle three the lehigh eleven annihilated st johns of brooklyn saturday after noon on taylor field 57-20 twelve long years ago lehigh amassed a greater score then a bloodthirsty brown and white elev en took advantage of a mid-season change of coaches at lafayette and ran their demoralized maroon riv als ragged to the tune of 78-0 that lehigh team had little more strength than the present one how ever showing up mid - seasonal weaknesses in that year by the 7-6 defeat suffered at the hands of georgetown and the lowly 13-7 win over ursinus coach tate injected the equival ent of three entire teams into sat urday's landslide three different backfields scored at will behind a constantly changing line the tate machine started functioning early in the game and kept on moving st johns goal was crossed twice in the first seven minutes both teams take to air the brown and white team play ed a mixture of good and bad ball the backs started fast and kept moving on the offense but it was their mistakes in covering their op ponents passe that led directly to ponents passes that led directly to played an aggressive game but was caught a bit off balance after le high had scored so easily in the opening minutes of the game and permitted the brooklyn backs to roll up seven first downs from that point on to the end of the half both teams took to the air early and mixed passes freely with their offensive play throughout lehigh carried the ball 63 times her backs tossing 16 forwards in this time st johns started 59 plays 20 of them by way of the air davidowitz's 60-yard return of a punt for a touchdown and ware's 75-yard scoring maneuver after in tercepting a pass were outstanding individual performances pinkney also looked good on a 48-yard dash around right end in the third quar ter the st john's backs showed speed throughout the game and the work of margolis pace and myers earned applause on several occa sions davidowitz scores first two a partisan crowd of approximate ly 6.000 persons was kept happy all afternoon cheering everything from art davfdowitz's complete return to form to captain tubby miller's successful placement kick after the eighth touchdown passes from al ware to davido witz accounted for the first two touchdowns the initial six-pointer came after st johns fumbled on the first play after receiving the kickoff and lost the ball on the 40-yard line two first downs and davidowitz's five-yard jaunt after taking a pass accounted for the opening six points the brown and white's second charge started from mid-field da vidowitz and fritts advanced the ball to the 36-yard line then ware passed to davvy who raced 28 yards for a touchdown shortly after the third kickoff st john's assumed the offensive click ing off two first downs in succes sion then al ware who had been keeping the brooklynites at bay with some choice punting speared a st johns pass on the 25-yard line and sprinted 75 yards for a touch down st johns gets a break pinkney hunoval bennett and nora relieved ware fritts david owitz and van blarcom in the backfield at the start of the second quarter pinkney misjudged a st johns punt and the ball went to the visitors on lehigh's 25-yard line st johns claimed interference on a forward pass and the referee allow ed it the ball being placed on the 3-yard line margolis scored for st johns a fumble by bennett and a pass to sheppard of st johns netted an other touchdown and the half end ed 27-14 a 45-yard run by ollie pinkney again put the brown and white in position to score nora gained eight yards and a lateral pass pinkney to nora brought a first down on the 3-yard line bob bennett went over and kicked the goal making the score 27-7 lehigh lost no time in scoring three more touchdowns in the continued on page three old diploma returned back in 1836 93 years ago four diplomas were presented to the first graduating class of lafayette last week one of these came back to la fayette from j c kidd of houston son of george w kidd to whom it was issued the elder mr kidd was born in fort deposit maryland and was graduated from lafayette at the age of 19 he became a merchant the diploma given to mr kidd by the franklin literary society has also been presented to lafayette senior canes on sale all seniors should secure their canes at once at the college shop these canes which sell for 3.50 have been approved by o d k and class officers as a fitting emblem for lehigh sen iors to carry to college func tions ramsay mac donald english prime minister is now in canada after his social visit to the united states like the modern american business man who is reputed to conduct his biggest deal's either on the golf course or at the banquet table the english labor leader talked long and seriously with president hoover at his fishing camp regarding disarmament the definite tangible results of this con ference are slight but it is known that the two most influential repre sentatives of the anglican nations are virtually agreed upon a policy of armament reduction eventually to terminate in world peace so called social visits of this nature by representatives of other countries are immensely desirable and would do much to clarify the present international problem of dis armament besides creating good will and amity between nations such visits would permit one gov ernment to understand another's problems better being delightfully informal these visits preclude the necessity of agreement or direct and definite terms then too heated discussions and tense impassioned oratory are difficult over tea cups when repre sentatives confront each other as host and guest this may seem a rather indirect and lengthy means of reaching an ultimate world dis armament but ' complete under standing is essential to amity and amity means peace * * ♦ while the tariff batle goes drear ily on between the insurgent re publicans and the democrats on one hand with the stand pat re publicans and president hoover on the other an investigation of sen ator bingham and his employment of an agent of the manufacturer's association of connecticut as a clerk to assist him on the senate finance committee still further muddles the situation senator bing ham has admitted that it probably was a mistake to hire a propagan dist of the manufacturing interests of his state to aid in the creation of the new tariff rates this revelation of the unethical means by which tariff rates are influenced is not cal culated to appease the farmer nor is it estimated that it will strengthen the grip of the republican party in the senate — now so weakened by the bolt of insurgents a few more exposes of such biased and selfish procedure will definitely kill the tariff bill * * * another investigation relative to lobbying and propaganda will claim attention when the shearer case is reopened halted by the visit of ramsay macdonald to this country the suit of william b shearer pro ponent of a big navy and naval expert at the geneva conference for salary due him from the bethlehem shipbuilding corporation and sev eral other firms will again occupy front page space on newspapers all over the country should the fact that an american representative to an international disarmament con ference be in the employ of ship building corporations prove true then national prosecution will un doubtedly result * ♦ * the strike of the mill hands of gastonia north carolina and the consequent rioting between strikers and civil authorities has drawn the focus of all eyes reports of harsh brutal treatment accorded labor leade and the murder of a moth er of two children by a self ap pointed viligence committee lend but slight compliment to the strength and impartiality of north carolina law capital has ruled with a heavy hand in gastonia is * the end of that rule in sight * * * england possess the largest air ship in the world in the r-101 its new superdirigible recently this vessel soared over london in the first of several tests to determine its safety should the r-101 prove practical it will undertake several long voyages one of which will probably bring it to this country it goes without saying that america would welcome this successor to the r-34 which ten years ago set a rec ord for dirigibles by crossing the atlantic guest lists wanted all living groups are requested to turn in a list of their house party guests and chaperons for publication in t the brown and white to room bl in christmas saucon hall by the end of the week problem data wrong the mathematics problem which appeared in friday's issue of the brown and white was in correct in giving the dimensions of the sphere the correct di mensions should be one inch thick and ten feet in diameter students attempting to answer the problem will be given until saturday to get in their answers according to professor tomlin son fort tracing the scientific knowledge of primitive man and his environ ment from pre-human existence through the periods of the java man to the neanderthal race ben jamin l miller professor of geolo gy state geologist and author of many articles on geology and min ing began the second series of lec tures to university students and townspeople in the packard labor atory auditorium last evening with an address on the environment of primitive man maintaining that the earth was made and prepared for man and not man for the earth prof miller chose as his context the scientific knowledge of the earth's metamor phoses before man's appearance and demonstrated that it would have been almost impossible for him to have lived before this change in this manner prof miller took the geologilist's standpoint that man did not descend from the primates or apes but rather that they were both of a common ancestry one progressing to reach the intelligence and civilization of today and the other to stagnate into the less re sourceful life of the beast study of evolution new prof miller said in part it is only in the last decade that there has been any interest in primitive man or his evolution into the man of today in fact until the latter part of the past century people nev er bothered to think of man as ever having existed any farther back than 6000 years in his enthuiasm in the search for the complete evolution of man the geologist as well as the arch aeologist looks first at the evolution of life declared dr miller man is known to be a product of evolu tion but where and when did this evolution start the earliest form of rocks show life of some kind but science knows nothing even after years of research of the be ginning of life the evolution of the world might be divided into several per iods of alternate quiet and action of irregular duration and occurring in no definite cycles way back in the pre-cambrian period the rocks show some form of life in bacteria after this period there came a time of mountain upheaval causing a de struction of life and followed by glaciation this then quieted down and marine life appeared and in creased for a long time another revolution affecting the greater part of europe caused more glacia tion which in turn gave way to the first period of vegetation when ve getation appeared animal life soon followed however another revolu tion destroyed this life and caused the rise of the appalachian moun tains which were followed by the reptile age the rocky mountain and mammal periods preceded the ice age man's appearance here it was here that man made his first appearance according to all that modern man has been able to find out about the matter the speaker continued the first place where man is known to have exist ed as man was in the island of ja va where the java man was found he was distinctly a man but one with a very low intelligence the piltdown man was next found in england quite a few miles from java he seemed to be fur ther developed yet not equal to the heidelberg man found in germany beneath 80 feet of river deposits the neanderthal race found in all parts of europe is thought to have succeeded the heidelberg man and in turn to have been wiped out by the cro-magnon man who was the superior human of all europe prof miller after summarizing the characteristics of each of these examples of primitive man warned of the error of trying to create a race based on these men as exam ples rather than taking them as only an individual of the race the neanderthal race however was found all over europe and in large numbers and therefore their type of living and general characteris tics might well be estimated early life a hardship in describing these men and their environment prof miller traced man from the point of geographi cal beginning generally thought of as the regions north-east of the hi malyan mountains and in the north ern part of siberia through persia into africa thence through spain into france and england this is the route believed to have been taken yet no remains were found before they reached england man in his evolution existed in an environment of very great hardship since it is only in a cold climate continued on page four brown and white vol xxxvii no 9 bethlehem pa tuesday october 22 1929 price five cents miller traces history of man in talk monday highest score since 1917 crushes st john's 57-20 recovers form smooth functioning tate machine rolls up eight touchdowns davvy is fourth in point scoring first lectures of series concerns earth's geo logical evolution best criticism of art exhibit will win print davidowitz ware star creation unexplained score at will with effec tive forward pass attack college art association sponsors contest works now on display ' award date unknown coming events wednesday oct 23 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the home of prof robert hall 37 e church street thursday oct 24 7:30 p m meeting of the electri cal engineering society room 202 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the pre-med ical society williams hall friday oct 25 8:15 p m j h pierce will present motion pictures on russian econ omic conditions before a com bined meeting of the a i m e and the lehigh mining and geo logical society packard auditor ium all the lehigh news first world news world peace tariff revelations the shearer case capital in n carolina leviathan of the air r.s.m