Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 13

              vigorous offense beats mules 28-7 t.m girdler ol active in plans for large merger dramatic club lists program lehigh complimented in article by mackey on carnegie report many and stutz injured in game brown and white scores three touchdowns in first half fraternities criticized faculty to present series of one act plays lehigh will meet the university of chicago in a wrestling meet to be held feb 1 as a result of the ac tion taken at the faculty meeting yesterday afternoon in addition the faculty passed arcadia's petition calling for three college meetings during the scholastic year on nov 14 april 9 and may 8 f c beck er assistant professor of philosophy gave a report on the j dewey sun day celebration held last month in new york the intersectional wrestling match which will be held imme diately following the midterm finals will add color to a difficult sched ule as the chicago team wrestles under a different set of rules than those which easterners use it will be necessary to conduct this meet under the national collegiate ama teur association regulations these differ from eastern ones mainly in that when two opponents have failed to go to the mat at the end of two minutes the bout is stopped and a coin is tossed to decide the position of the rivals upon the mat the winner of the toss has the choice of the under or upper po sition for the next four minutes during the final four he must re verse his position no classes will be held at 11 a.m thursday nov 14 when arcadia will conduct the first college meet ing of the year varsity letters will be awarded to those who won them last spring in baseball lacrosse and track a general football rally will be held in preparation for the games with rutgers and lafayette at the same time injuries mark contest four talks planned by pre-legal society issel nora bennett and davidowitz cross goal line when carl reed eastern foot ball official walked into the of fice of the newark n j airport last saturday morning threw down 50 on the counter and or dered a one way ticket to beth lehem he was setting a new pre cedent for football officials reed who was to umpire the lehigh-muhlenberg game had missed his train at manhattan transfer hastening to the air port he made arrangements for the plane and left at 12 o'clock arriving here in time to officiate it was reed's first trip in an air plane but he assured his friends that it would not be his last middle three plan debates bob many end who was in jured in the muhlenberg game was released from st luke's hospital yesterday morning while frarik stutz center is still a patient in dr estes ward many sustained a slight concus sion of the brain when he was tackled after receiving a forward pass deep in muhlenberg terri tory it is unknown whether he will be permitted to play again this year stutz received a dislocated shoulder in making a tackle and it also seems quite unlikely that he will play again this season council admits theta kappa phi interfraternity body elects chapter to membership at meeting mauch to discuss prosecuting at torney at next meeting russel c mauch district attor ney of northampton county will speak on the prosecuting attor ney and his part in the adminis tration of justice at a meeting of the pre-legal society nov 13 ac cording to president e a scoblion ko this announcement was made last week at a business meeting at which sydney r snitkin 31 was elected vice president other numbers on the program for the year are the practicing attorney and his part in the ad ministration of justice attorney l h rupp allentown dec 11 the jury and the part it plays feb 12 and the power and the du ties of a judge march 15 speakers have not been chosen for the last two lectures but judge c t reno of the lehigh county court and judge r c stewart of the northampton county court will be asked to give them plans to visit northampton coun ty court and the county jail on thursday dec 12 are also being made by the program committee green's abraham's bosom will be read at the bi-weekly gathering of the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 p m wewnesday at the home of dr robert w hall 37 e church street experimenting with a new policy the organization has planned to present publicly a series of one act plays this year heretofore meet ings have been held for faculty members and their families exclu sively marking a departure from tradition the public appearances of the club's one act plays take place in drown hall december 4 and february 19 the following schedule has been arranged by the program commit tee nov 6 abraham's bosom by green nov 20 show off by kelley dec 4 presentation of one act plays dec 18 wings over europe by nicholas and browne jan 8 he who gets slapped by andeyev jan 22 paris bound by barry feb 5 saturday's children by anderson feb 19 presentation of one act plays mar 5 agnes ber nauer by hebbell mar 19 ca price by sil-barra april 2 out ward bound by bane april 30 gods of the lightning by ander son and hickerson may 14 the little minister by barrie a triangular debate between rut gers lafayette and lehigh some time in march as the climax of the local debating season is almost a certainty since coaches of the other two schools favor the plan coach c d macdougall probably will meet with representatives of the ri val schools saturday nov 9 at easton on the occasion of the rut gers-lafayette football game if a debating league consisting of the three schools proves success ful this year it probably will be made permanent according to pro fessor macdougall other schools against which men successful in this week's try outs may get a chance to argue this year are cedar crest albright oberlin ohio and union the cedar crest and albright debates probably will be non-decision formal tryouts for the intercol legiate team will be held at 7 p.m thursday the public is invited three member of the faculty will act as judges about 20 men are ex pected to compete a combination of steel companies rivaling in size the bethlehem steel corporation may result from the res ignation of thomas m girdler 01 from the presidency of the jones and laughlin steel corporation and his new association with the otis eaton-mather steel interests of cleveland which are said to be the largest holders of steel stocks in the united states although it is said that mr gird ler will not have an executive posi tion with any steel company but will be actively engaged in the development of plans affecting the iron and steel industry it was in dicated that his association with the otis-eaton-mather interests was a development of major importance that foreshadowed new steps in the expansion of this group's activities it is believed that mr girdler will devote himself to the merger plans which cyrus s eaton of cleveland and associates have in mind for some time it has been understood in wall street that mr eaton was working on consolidation of the independent steel companies with the republic iron and steel company as the nucleus the cen tral alloy steel corporation the inland steel company the youngs town sheet and tube company the otis steel company and the jones and laughlin steel corporation are mentioned as units in the proposed consolidation should this project be consumated there would be set up a unit rivaling in size the beth lehem steel corporation which is now the second largest in the country ranking next to the united states steel corporation the parkhurst scholarship was all that kept lehigh from receiving a 100 percent grade in the carnegie foundation report asserts gordon mackel sports writer in his phila delphia record story on lehigh's carnegie rating the eighth of series of comments on colleges named in the report the single scholarship prevented a clean slate after a de cade of increasingly rigorous schol astic rekuirements for athletes yet even the damaging scholarship it self requires that the holder be a scholastic asset the writer de clared mackey showed how lehigh's at titude towards the scholastic stand ing of athletes has changed from a condition where football practice could not begin until the steel work er eleven came ofl its shift at 4:30 to a policy commended in the car negie report scholarship better now lehigh university decrees that it is as easy for a camel to go through the needle's eye as for an athlete to go through this institution other than on his own the columnist writes austy tate isn't a bit back ward in stating that he welcomes a system that keeps a man educated and in fighting trim for the gridiron at one and the same time when lehigh clamped down the lid on scholarships for athletes the ranks of her hunkers and probation ers went down like a bum stock in a bear raid by the end of the sec ond semester in june 1928 24 mem bers of the football squad flunked continued on page four i i e to offer study abroad unity of knowledge threatened by machine age says pres lewis barkers to give tea prof and mrs barker will he hosts at the second tea of the year for the electrical engineers next sunday at 4 p m at the green pond house the juniors and several seniors of the electrical engineering depart ment will be present at this tea prof and mrs barker also intend to have some of the prominent men of the electrical engineering indus try present theta kappa phi was admitted to membership in the interfraternity council at a meeting last night harry w ruggles delta tau del ta was also chosen to represent lehigh at the interfraternity con ference to be held nov 29 and 30 at new york at this time frank stutz sigma phi epsilon was elected alternate a suggestion to eliminate friday tea dances during house parties was made but no action was taken the council also decided to have its pic ture inserted in the epitome in ad dition to the usual page write up theta kappa phi the new mem ber of the council is located at 685 delaware avenue and is headed by harold a seward established as a local in 1916 it later became amal gamated with kappa theta at perm state to form a national fraternity of which it became alpha chapter coming events moore will lecture on gas to sigma xi lehigh given photos henry h ketcham 09 has pre sented 16 photographs which he took developed and enlarged to lehigh to be distributed in the va rious offices of the university these photographs have been displayed at the recent exhibition of photo graphic art at the university of wisconsin one of them having re ceived a prize mr ketcham is an enthusiastic student of photography and has written a manual for amateurs on that subject general electric chemistry expert is speaker this evening the investigation of senator bingham and his activity as a mem ber of the finance committee still drags wearily on disagreement as to how severe the disapproval of censure against the connecticut member of the tariff fixing com mittee should be is delaying action of the investigating committee party lines and factions are becom ing more and more prominent in this unnecessarily prolonged inquiry of tariff preparation ♦ * ♦ senator george of georgia gave vent to a vitriolic tirade against the present tariff bill and the strangle hold of industry on the common man he insisted that the staunch courageous insurgent republicans took their political lives in their hands time after time to fight not only for the farmer but also for the common citizen * * * but no heroic attributes need be attributed to the western senators for their opposition to the tariff they merely represent their farm states and they strengthen politi cal holds with every protest they voice on the subject of tariff ev ery congressman is local he thinks and acts only for the predominate interests in his district in regard to the tariff there is no reol sen ator from the united states ♦ * * as for american industry it pos sesses no strangle-hold on the common man more than the in dustry of any other nation in the world it provides high wages short hours and a high standard of liv ing such partisan stands and ut terly biased and unsound assertions belong to a past era oratory flow ery or vituperative frequently clouds the issue and is given more often in the spirit of personal ego tism than in the cause of efficiency * ♦ ♦ john van antwerp mac murray american minister to china has tendered his resignation to accept a post with john hopkins university mr mac murray has completed more than 20 years service in the diplomatic service of the united states and is considered one of the foremost experts on conditions in the east in the world he has served in china japan and siam as well as in russia * * ♦ secretary of state stimson said that the resignation was un expected and as yet no successor to the chinese post is being con sidered mr mac murray will re main in peking temporarily his resignation will not become effec tive until he reaches the united states ♦ * * g a youngquist newly appoint ed assistant attorney general in charge of prohibition says that he has never taken a drink but that he is not a fanatic on the subject the successor to the office for merly held by miss mabel wille brandt stated that there would be no carrie nation crusades against the liquor traffic this has drawn much condemnation and resentment from the ranks of the drys and the reformers ♦ * ♦ all of which brings to mind that an oklahoma farmer 65 years of age was convicted saturday of killing two men reputed to be li quor law violators this man an un official dry raider shot down his men in cold blood just recently at his trial the jurors were confronted with the spectacle of an old man weakened and spent with age urgu ing pitifully that he was sincere and a good citizen while the murdered men were technically criminals surely the country does not desire a repetition of the john brown out rage and its attendant surge of ill feeling * * * the long republican wave of prosperity has at least suffered a flurry and setback in the recent dis turbances in wall street the time worn gibe about the panic of 1893 and the depression of 1913 during the administration of the democrat ic party and its low tariff ideas has suddenly lost its tang had mr smith instead of mr hoover graced the white house republican ton gues would not have been slow to attribute the alarming stock market upheavals to democrataic misrule * ♦ ♦ but such is not the case the long praised republican era of pros perity seems just a bit unsteady this crash is not to be considered a panic by any means the essen tial foundations of american bus iness and prosperity are secure the republican egoism that it alone is the administration able to rule has taken quite a severe set back but ready voices are explain ing that such things will happen regardless of which party or pres ident is in power * * * the time has past when a policy of sitting pretty was sufficient not that coolidge passivity was un suited it may have been the ideal policy for the post war period but times are changing expansion has progressed a bit too rapidly per haps european competition is re gaining its feet a more strenuous and eventful period is ahead dr d mcfarlan moore of the incandescent lamp department of the general electric company will give a public lecture on gaseous conduction at 8 o'clock tonight in room 466 of the packard laboratory this lecture is sponsored by sigma xi honorary chemical society dr moore reputed to be one of the best authorities on gaseous conduc tion will demonstrate different phases of his lecture sigma xi will hold a business meeting at 7:15 p m in room 416 of the packard laboratory playing before a crowd of 10,000 enthusiastic rooters the lehigh football team tore through muh lenberg to a 28-7 victory in the taylor stadium saturday afternoon weather conditions were far from ideal for football but the playing of both teams was consistently hard and bitter no less than seven muh lenberg athletes had to be helped off the field while stutz of lehigh suffered a broken collar-bone and many received a severe blow on the head which gave him a brain con cussion the mules playing on the defensive for the greater part of the game were forced to ask for time out repeatedly in order to re vive their injured warriors issel scores on pass it was in the first half that le high displayed her strongest offen sive and scored three touchdowns the initial six-pointer was not put over until 12 minutes of the first quarter had passed battalin sent a short punt to the lehigh 45-yard line after the brown and white line had held the visitors on their own 40-yard marker on the first play davidowitz cut through left tackle for 10 yards and a first down nora then tossed a lateral to ware for a short gain ware stood back in the passing position a moment later and shot a 25-yard pass diag onally across the field to issel who was so far in the open that no one could oppose his sprint over the line davvy sent a neat placement between the bars for the extra point the large crowd went into an up roar over lehigh's well executed passing attack which was beginning to catch the mules flatfooted when the brown and white needed yardage lehigh hits stride continued on page four the first seven point sent the tate machine into its stride in the second quarter which started short ly after the score lehigh again held the mules in the visitors ter ritory and forced them to kick the muhlenberg ends and tackles were nailing davidowitz in his tracks on these punts with the ball in le high's possession on her own 39 yard line the second drive for a score started nora tore off tackle for a nine-yard gain one yard was needed for a first down and ware got loose for a 15-yard run to the mules 37-yard marker davvy and ware made four yards apiece on the next two plays with an incom plete forward pass on the third ware again called upon to make the necessary yardage for a first tickets ready nov 14 undergraduates wishing only cheering section seats for lafay ette game will not make appli cation but present the lafayette game coupon in their athletic book at the athletic office in drown hall after november 14 and receive cheering section tick ets in return undergraduates wishing first choice seats must make applica tion on the regular card these are now available at the athletic office tonight 7:15 p m business meeting le high chapter sigma xi room 416 packard laboratory 8:00 p m lecture on gaseous conduction by dr d mcfar lan moore of the incandescent lamp department of the general electric company with demon strations room 466 packard lab oratory wednesday nov 6 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club reading of green's abraham's bosom home of dr r w hall 37 e church street 7:30 p m alexander hamilton third in the series of yale chron icles of american photoplays packard auditorium thursday nov 7 7 p m intercollegiate debating team tryouts packard auditor ium a limited number of foreign study fellowships and scholarships are be ing offered under the international student exchanges of the institute of international education to american students who wish to stu dy abroad these felldwships and scholarships have been established as an international exchange in ap preciation of those offered by am erican colleges to the nationals of the countries concerned countries offering these fellow ships and scholarships are aus tria czechoslovakia france ger many hungary italy and switz erland most of them offer fellow ships covering board lodging and tuition general requirements for eligibility include united states citizenship a college degree a cer tificate of good health ability to do independent study and research and a practical reading writing and speaking knowledge of the language of instruction in the particular coun try further information may be obtained from professor palmer head af the department of arts and sciences or the institute of interna tional education 2 west 45th street new york advantages of a course in radio elo cution the relative effects of apple pie and doughnuts in the school ca feteria overspecialization and depart mental aloofness so evident today he continued must give way to a desire to fit each element into the mosaic of intellectual totality if es sential culture is to survive in america thinking stated dr lewis in conclusion will never become gen eral in america until we reserve the present process until through prop er emoluent and dignity of posi tion we attract our most capable teachers to the cause of initiating the beginner into the realm of thinking when we teach our students to think they will talk less about get ting geometry off and more about getting something of an intellec tual nature on success then will not be measured in terms of accu mulated degrees but in terms of mental ability the machine age is harmful to college and is responsible for over specialization causing educators to make a fetish of methods and ne glect teaching the individual dr william mather lewis president of lafayette college declared before members of the new york teach ers association last saturday no vember 2 at the closing session of their conference in mecca temple new york since the most essential of all educational considerations — unity of knowledge — is being neglected in our schools and universities con tinued dr lewis one of the most pernicious elements in our present educational structure becomes that which encourages students to ac cumulate here and there credit for all sorts of unrelated subjects and to secure in this way the coveted degree education by questionnaire is now extremely popular we are asked to outline in 50 words the fu ture of the american college the brown and white price five cents faculty approves wrestling match college meetings lehigh will engage chi cago university team here feb i bouse parties color week-end 350 girls entertained in three-day round of affairs three rallies planned first one set for novem ber 1 4 by arcadia petition the senior ball the house parties and dances sponsored by the musi cal clubs mustard and cheese and numerous living groups during the past week-end have reduced the stu dent body to a state of mental tur moil and financial chaos the musical club tea dance in drown hall opened the festivities it was followed in the evening by the senior ball with ben pollack's orchestra peggy english internationally fa mous blues singer was the featured entertainer she has just finished a three week's engagement at the par amount theatre in new york city and has also sung at the ambassa dor's club in londan v the mustard and cheese tea dance after the saturady game was followed by 16 house dances in the evening the tendency of each house to have a dance of its own was very pronnouced this year for the most part the combinations included only two houses more than 350 visiting girls combined to make monday 8 o'clock classes absurd courtesy globe-times ten thousand saw thrilling run in which bennett was apparently downed three times he is shown bouncing out of the arms of gerber muhlenberg fullbcak just before registering third lehigh touchdown badgley who is incorrectly called fritts in the picture accompanied him on his 20 yard plunge vol xxxvii no 1 bennett rolling over line after tearing through entire muhlenberg team bethlehem pa tuesday november 5 1929 aldmnus leads steel project columnist commends sports policy here reed misses train comes by airplane world news party factions in the senate dry fanaticism republican rationalization w h b all the lehigh news first