Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 16

              vol xxxvii no 1 6 brown and white debaters chosen in new program 1 000 students attend first college meeting of year civil engineers hear modern traffic and freight methods communication will be subject of talk tonight rield in chem building thletic awards made union cedar crest and muhlenberg on spring schedule telephone official to demonstrate new ap paratus in packard lab at 8 walter okeson czar of football and treasurer of lehigh university speaking at the first college meet ing of the year yesterday stated that lehigh's football team will beat rutgers and for the first time in many years has an even chance with lafayette okey's talk and the speaks at flagpole signs and electric lights that had not been lighted for four years created a blinding illumination people forgot their sorrows and joined in the celebration but with the troops that were moving up to take their positions on the line armistice meant only relief and rest there was very lit tle celebration men returned to their billets and went to sleep a new drive had been ordered upon metz and these men who were to have taken part in it merely took the armistice as a matter of course it was a pleasant and unexpected phase of the great war to the men who were actually in the front line the signing of the armistice came unexpectedly — it seemed unbelievable when signs of a cessation of fighting appeared among the enemy ranks the sol diers stood upon the parapets and shouted some threw down their guns others fired shots into the air there were many cases of al lied soldiers fraternizing with the germans men became friends where a few minutes before they had been enemies no future cele bration of the signing of the armis tice ever has or ever will equal that first great day no armistice day celebration in america will equal the enthusiasm of the french people and the stoi cal thankfulness of the soldiers in france on that memorable day nov 11 1918 according to captain taber the armistice turned paris wild with joy to the soldier it meant only relief and relaxation captain thomas r taber of the department of military science and tactics tells a vivid story of the re actions of the soldiers and civilians in france when hostilities ended back on the fighting area and in the cities the civilians depressed and discouraged by the long war celebrated its passing in utter aban don people filled the streets of the cities cabarets restaurants and theatres were crowded with hilar ious and joy-maddened mobs sol diers of all countries were enter tained by everyone the streets were thronged with martial processions — no one knew how and where they had started — men in uniform marched about the streets of paris amid the cheers of the populace civilians tagged along behind them waving flags and shout ing paris was a mass of flags and chemistry lab receives hay pre-legals hear attorney mauch multiple unit tube in stalled in research de partment sergius p grace left vice president of the bell telephone labora tories of new york and r r riezs of the technical staff of the lab oratories are shown conversing with the artificial larynx and the syn thetic lung the artificial larynx is held in the mouth and the artifi cial vocal cords vibrated by air from the bellows which is carried un der the arm this is one of the novel and startling devices that will be demonstrated by mr grace tonight in the auditorium of the james ward packard laboratory . dean praises dry fall house party speaker gives personal experience in criminal prosecution seniors to make inspection trip walter r okeson mechanical and civil en gineers to visit in dustries in our organization we have had occasion to employ college stu dents for the precise purpose of sleeping upon our scientific beds said dr george d beal assistant director of the mellon institute of lndustrial research to his audience while discussing his subject some contributions of research to mod ern industry before a joint meet ing of the lehigh student chemical society and the lehigh valley sec tion of the american society last night in the chemistry building dr beal's reference to students and beds was not a joke but on the contrary an actual proceedure in pure research the particular beds osed in experiments of this type are equipped with sensitive in dicators which register the number of movements made by a sleeper from such data can be determined the relative comfort of one bed with respect to another incidently ac cording to dr beal the normal person sleeping soundly stirs at least one time in every 20 minutes dr beal thoroughly outlined the work of the mellon institute which is closely affiliated with the uni versity of pittsburgh in the appli cation of research to assist and ad vance industry the institute hires chemists physicists engineers and even a few psychologists briefly having men available to tackle any industrial problem whatsoever pre sented by a commercial organiza tion dr beal was desired to point out the vast scope of the mellon in stitute indicating that their range included everything from experi mentation in felt hat industry to the determination of the best con stituents for the perfect toothpaste gipson sponsors historical film lehigh ain't lehigh no more sighed the old grad during fall house party why when i was in college i didn't know that house party was over until about wednesday things have changed accord ing to dean c m mcconn who said this was the driest house party we have had in my time i congratulate the heads of the houses on their excellent man agement of the occasion i have received some voluntary letters from chaperons claiming that conditions at various houses were fine dry thomas depicts rail operations nine men were selected for le high's debating squad thursday aft ernoon professor macdougall coach of the team made the selec tion after having two tryouts the question was resolved that the united states withdraw from the kellog peace pact the men who will represent le high are robert i blair roland carman edward sleischer matthew murphy george w parsons man uel l ruderman emanuel g sco blionko harold i silver and syd ney r snitkin as yet no definite teams or positions have been de cided upon they will be chosen af ter a third tryout at 7:15 p m monday in the packard auditor ium it is expected that all members of the squad will see action in one or more of intercollegiate debates during the winter since neither rutgers nor lafay ette favor the present question there is a possibility of debating a sec ond topic in our debates with them the question may touch upon some phase of american-chinese rela tions these debates will mark the climax of lehigh's schedule and be held near the close of the season the strong possibility of our de bating a team of three chinese stu dents from harvard is the reason for the selection of this topic they are going to make a tour of the west and may also debate with rutgers and lafayette at present the only certain date for a debate is with union college schenectady n v march 13 the question will be concerning the kellogg pact debates are listed with cedar crest college and muhlenberg they will be single debates and held in allentown as yet it has not been decided which side lehigh will de fend a single discussion with al bright will be held in reading there is a possibility of holding a triangular debate with the univer sity of pennsylvania and temple however pennsylvania may not send any representatives in that event a dual debate will be held with temple pennsylvania rail road official addresses civils thursday lehigh praised by final report new methods and devices that have affected the art of commu nication will be the subject of a lecture by sergius p grace vice president of the bell telephone lab oratories new york before a joint meeting of the lehigh branch and the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers and the engineers club of the lehigh valley at 8 o'clock tonight in the auditorium of pack ard laboratory men from the bell laboratories have for the past three days been setting up apparatus and equipment to be used in experiments that mr grace will perform during his lec ture all the equipment used comes from the research laboratories of the bell telephone company it is equipment used in ordinary tele phone work and therefore has not been made special for the lecture telephone conections have been been made with the laboratories in new york city devices shown mr grace will demonstrate the following subjects the artificial larynx the mechanical lung the electric ear the evolution of tele phony a record of a heart beat mu sic with some of the high and low frequencies lopped off the law of gravitation defied a victrola play ing a picture delayed speech scrambled speech and the same speech unscrambled again an automatic telephone the dial of which speaks the call number to an operator at a manual exchange while the scubscriber remains silent will be one of the demonstration performed by mr grace the spok en numbers on new telephone are produced by talkie films the films were made by a girl consid ered to have the clearest voice among new york city's telephone operators the films of which there are ten one for each of the num erals from zero to nine are wound on drums which are made to re volve automatically by dialing of the numbers lafayette e e.s here senior members of the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers and mem bers of the lafayette college stu dent branch of the american insti tute of electrical engineers will be present as will officials of the le high telephone company and the bell telephone company of penn sylvania all seats in the auditorium are reserved until 7:45 p m when those vacant will be thrown open to the general public the pilgrims an historical mov ing picture was shown wednesday evening in the packard auditorium this was the fourth of a series of historical pictures produced by the yale photoplay corporajion to be shown at lehigh preceding the picture prof l h gipson head of the history depart ment and sponsor of these pictures at lehigh lectured on the causes for the brievances of the pilgrims in england and their reasons for leaving their native land he also told of their religious ideas and their desire to find a land where they might have religious freedom landing presented the cinema depicts the rise of the pilgrim movement in england their perseawftag him.i^-arul frheir migration t#lw*iw<*"ma<js i ljija religious freedom in holland they decidedyto-t^ecarl for tht aew world ttes«attffiß|tive((jj trip across the water their landing at plyrrtßg^uand the sufferings and hardshifjsvß^lvip^^pjqf the trials and difficulties of a prosecuting attorney in his constant struggle to secure convictions and justice were explained by russel c mauch district attorney of north ampton county at an open meeting of the pre-legal society wednes day evening in packard laboratory mr mauch traced various crim inal cases from the time when they were committed until the defen dant was sentenced in court and il lustrated his address with many hu morous anecdotes with which he has come in contact in his legal career with the great number of re strictions placed upon the district attorney it is a wonder that any convictions are obtained asserted mr mauch some of the restrictions which mr mauch said hindered the district attorney in his endeavors to secure justice were the right of the defendant to refuse to testify the law which forbids the district attorney to mention the past crim inal life of a defendant and the de nial of the right of the district at torney to appeal to a higher court defendant is innocent under our 1a w s attorney mauch commented the defendant is always assumed to be innocent he then related the various steps in swearing out a warrant giving the defendant a preliminary hearing bringing the charge before the grand jury to secure a true bill and the different steps in the trial attorney l h rupp allentown will speak on the jury and the part it plays in the administration of justice at the next meeting of the society on dec 11 m e fraternity taps four men d.o.t banquet postponed prof frederick creedy of the department of electrical engineer ing will speak on definition of logic at a meeting of the jour nal and research club which will be held at 4 p m friday nov 15 in room 31 packer hall delta omicron theta debating fraternity has postponed its ban ffuet until after the intramural de bates and the winner selected a general electric multiple unit x-ray diffraction apparatus has been installed in the chemistry building for the study of the struc ture of chemical and industrial ma terials with this apparatus it is possible to procuse 12 expos ures simultaneously from the same x-ray tube the unit is equipped with a coolidge type x-ray tube having a water cooled molygdenum target which is operated at 30,000 volts for the examinations of mater ials with larger unit cell dimen sions under which are included practically all organic materials it is essential that x-rays of longer wave-length than those obtainable by use of molybdenum be used to propogate these longer wave-lengths the latest model of the hadding - siegbahn gas-type x-ray tube with interchangeable targets has been installed this tube has three win dows which permit the making three simultaneous exposures to the rays since the tube is of the gas type it is essential to provide the proper supply of residual air at a reduced pressure an oil sealed ro tary vacuum pump and a lang nuir mercury diffusion pump keep the tube exhausted high tension needed the high tension necessary for the operation of this gas tube is luosp&d^ppjghmt that was de signed specially hfor use here at lehigh i vceiibi§}!pj t ' s y tnree major units control stand an oil im mersed high tension transformer id\^d!rw jaf^-p this equtptrrerrr represents the la test type of high tension construc tion for operating x-ray tubes and will enable the carrying on of spe cial investigations which the de partment of chemistry is now un dertaking the laboratory is under the direction of h v anderson home of carolina playmakers carolina playmakers to present three dramas at high school nov 21 twenty senior mechanical engin eers and 40 senior civil engineers will make their annual inspection trips nov 18 19 20 the mechan icals accompanied by professors f v larkin m c stuart and e s ault of the mechanical engineering department will inspect industries in philadelphia and trenton the civ ils accompanied by professors r j fogg s a becker h g pay roll and w b getchell of the civil engineering department will visit in dustries in the vicinity of new york city outstanding points of the civil trip will be an inspection of the new hudson river bridge which spans the hudson river at fort lee n.j and an inspection of the s s levi athan the second largest ocean lin er in the world at 9 a m monday the group will be taken through the federal reserve bank special at tention will be given to the mechan ical installation for heating and ventilating the next point of interest visited will be a deep foundation on the corner of broadway and wall street the civil engineers will have to see a typical new york city cais son cofferdam foundation the new york stock exchange will then be visited if the time permits civils see new bridge the group will next inspect the new hudson river bridge monday afternoon has been set aside for this inspection in order that a fairly good concept of the bridge design can be acquired tuesday morning the group will view the waldorf astoria building operations and then will visit ex hibits of scientific and technical na ture at the museum of the peace ful arts the canal street sewage screening plant will be inspected early tuesday afternoon to inspect leviathan at 3 p m tuesday the party will inspect the s s leviathan wed nesday morning the field office of the board of transportation in brooklyn will be visited wednes day afternoon the claremont ter minal of the lehigh valley rail road of new jersey will be in spected three junior mechanical engin eers and one professor were pledg ed tuesday night by pi tau sig ma honorary mechanical engineer ing fraternity those chosen were prof b h jennings of the me chanical engineering department w forstall j b hartman and r g hess the establishment of a pi tau sigma prize for sophomores was announced at the meeting the award a mark's mechanical en gineering handbook will be award ed to the sophomore in mechanical engineering who has attained the highest average during the fresh u/un year this prize will be pre sented annually on founder's day the officers of the fraternity are h j zimmer president h w semar vice president m s christ man treasurer and h s keller secretary lafayette burr appears nov 21 in its latest bulletin on american college athletics the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching stated that lehigh univer sity had recently made a significant and courageous change of policy with respect to the recruiting and subsidizing of athletes the report went still further to say that the process entailed the exercise of much tact and patience on the part of athletic officials and university officers and an admirable cooper ation on the part of the alumni the bulletin concludes by although officials at lehigh are too exper ienced in such matters to be over confident nevertheless the results obtained encourage them of physical culture in american col leces hcivc been uncovered b y this symposium on athletics at the ded ication of the university of nebras ka stadium prof percy hughes of the psychology department is quot ed with we train the body only the mind is capable of education herein lies a point seldom discussed or even considered by those who endeavor to solve the problem of organized exercise in our univer sities institutions are often approached by athletes seeking free tuition books lodging board and pocket money hard bargains are driven and although the prospective stu dent does not always attain all he desires subsidies are maintained for him slater attends meet coming events the purpose of this committee is to organize civil engineering re search dr w a slater of the civil en gineering department will attend a meeting of the committee on re search of the american society of civil engineers nov 16 in the united engineers society building in new york city epitome pictures all organizations that wish to have pictures placed in the 1931 epitome should see carl claus delta upsilon house in order to arrange appointments with mccaa today nov 15 7:30 p m frosh smoker in lower gym 8 p m meeting of american in stitute of electrical engineers demonstration lecture on new telephone equipment by sergius p grace assistant vice president of bell telephone laboratories saturday nov 16 2 p m football freshmen vs la fayette freshmen at taylor field 2:30 p m varsity fotball vs rut gers at rutgers monday nov 18 7:30 p m mustard and chese meeting in drown hall with a new black and white cov er designed by l a brettner the lafayette number of the lehigh burr will appear nov 21 the cov er will consist of a take-off on football terms and expressions the feature story is a football farce written by c c ackerman 32 illustrations throughout the magazine have been submitted by men competing for the art staff among the improvements made in this issue is the expansion of the theatrical review column which will now include reviews on leading cur rent shows in new york and mo vies coming to bethlehem the burr will be on sale at news stands and will be sold at the la fayette smoker nov 22 and at the lafayette game nov 23 the operation of the pennsylva nia railroad traffic and freight de partment was explained by mr w s thomas assistant general freight agent of the pennsylvania railroad at the initial meeting of the year of the civil engineering society held on thursday evening in the packard laboratory mr thomas in his speech gave his listeners a detailed idea of the operation of the various depart ments the duties of the traffic and freight department were outlined as well as some of the situations that these departments have to deal with according to mr thomas great care is taken in the selection of the sales personnel ticket agents and information clerks since it is these people that impress the pub lic the policy of the railroad has always been one of frankness and openness towards the public and an attempt has always been made to cooperate with the public mr thomas cncluded his speech by saying that the railroad must find ways and means of competing with the ever growing competition pre sented in the form of bus lines air ways and ship lines the meeting was called to order at 8 p m by president j e spang ler mr spangler extended a wel come to the business students who had been invited to attend a short business meeting was then held the minutes of the last meeting be ing read by secretary r klein student speaks business meeting to v close by an nouncing that the society had de cided to have a student speaker at each meeting as well as a main speaker richard tall c e 30 was then introduced as the first student to speak before the society tall read a report on his summer work entitled two months in a structural shop the paper gave a detailed description of the summer work which is required by the civil engineering department of its senior students after the reading of tail's report president spangler introduced pro fessor w l wilson who in turn in troduced the main speaker of the evening the meeting was attended by the business administration students and by the civil engineers about 70 students were present after the ad dress by mr thomas refreshments were served the carolina playmakers who will present three sectional dramas job's kinfolk's black water and magnolia's man nov 21 at liberty high school form a unique theatrical group the playmakers come here sponsored by mustard and cheese practically the only group of its kind in the country the playmak ers have spent the last ten years writing producing and taking on the road plays dealing with the life of people of their state they have written tragedies about the hap penings in the life of the back woodsmen which become tradition al and from old wi.ves tales super stitions and the idiosyncrasies of field chained people they have put together some sparkling comedies paul green who won the pulitzer prize last year for his negro trag edy in abraham's bosom came from this group small groups formed realizing that the commercial theatre is doomed a conference was held at chapel hill north carolina last april to discuss this new thea tre notables and critics gathered and came to the conclusion that the future of the theatre lies in such groups as the playmakers with such an impetus numerous little theatre groups sprang up through out the country until now they have assumed the proportions of a na tional movement ideas to the extent of this change are furnished by recalling a few ex amples in north carolina there are 62 independent producing groups and 47 high school dramatic groups the south described by mencken as the sahara of the beaux arts i ssteadily undergoing a metamor phosis and the region below the mason-dixon line should no longer feel that it is aesthetically dwarfed the cultural importance of this movement is still underestimated and the dramatic critics infinitely wearied with the sterility and bal ance of the box-office stage were the ones who most thoroughly rec ognized its validity and potential ities awarding of varsity letters for spring sports were the two major events at the college meeting which was attended by approximately 1,000 students bosey reiter and william tub by miller chairman of the board of control of athletics and captain of the football team awarded the letters to the athletes forty-six let ters were awarded in four sports baseball lacrosse track and tennis we will have a wonderful bat tle with rutgers and we are a bet ter team than rutgers said okey and his words apparently renewed a somewhat waning lehigh spirit when lehigh met princeton last saturday it met a team which had the do or die spirit and far more coordinated ability than lehigh the defeat brought a somewhat overconfident lehigh team to its senses and did more good than bad breaks mean much in speaking of the lafayette game okey stated that the game will be won by the team which makes and take advantage of the breaks after a cheer by the students john conneen president of arca dia opened the meeting and intro duced okey following okey's address the awards were presented the meeting closed with the sing ing of the alma mater this meet ing was the first of three scheduled for the college year the next meet ings are april 9 and may 13 okey began his address with the statement that everybody at le high was apparently in the dumps over the showing of the football team against princeton saturday but that he for one was not he explained how we happened to meet princeton at the wrong time for our own good just when princeton needed a victory and needed it bad ly such a princeton team okey ex plained is hard for any team to stop and an overconfident lehigh team could not do it we lost our only chance by not stopping them in the first five minutes we played well in the second half of the game that goal line stand meant something princeton had its whole first string line in during the second half and its back field contained some fine backs le high's comeback showed that it has a mighty fine team letters awarded the following men were awarded letters lacrosse dexter billiard thornton chamberlain arthur davidowitz edward baker roland elliot stuart enscoe james kirk patrick andrew lehr alvin lew is ernest warlow gustav werft arthur kaldman thomas callan edwin gott julius leitzer paul van winkle bruce morrison man ager track john levitz morton lamb robert many stuart mon roe alexander mcelroy henry newhard harry sames felix shea donald wright ross whitehead clement stanton manager tennis julius seligson jean montencourt wallace usher edward epstein robert engleman gordon new lynn foster manager baseball morton strauss walter miller jer ry o'leary max schultz robert harris carl proebstle robert bennett james schaeffer manager robert jones harry hesse speaker and his apparatus bethlehem pa friday november 15 1929 price five cents capt taber describes enthusiasm of french at armistice signing beal discusses industrial aids from research okeson certain of grid success against rutgers grace to lecture " sergius p grace and r r riezs member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first