Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 17

              grossman scores twice senior civils mechanicals and metallurgists are on excusions scarlet line stops lehigh on one yard mark m & c sponsors presen tation by playmakers at liberty high faculty refuses football holiday there will be no holiday mon day nov 15 if lehigh defeats lafayette saturday afternoon according to the decision taken by the faculty at a special meet ing yesterday afternoon joseph h girdler e m 30 presented the petition before the faculty but it was rejected by a unanimous vote the meeting was called to vote the arcadia's petition that the school might take a holiday monday should the football team win from lafayette tull addresses civil engineers nine hundred people the largest gathering ever assembled in the auditorium of packard laboratory saw sergius p grace assistant vice president of the bell telephone laboratories demonstrate new methods and discoveries which have affected the art of communication friday evening nov 15 among his demonstrations were the artifi cial larynx mechanical lung elec tric brain scrambled speech delay ed speech and the talkie tele phone mr grace began his lecture by demonstrating with a model of the inaugurates student speeches in talk on unemployment clewell made lab mechanician ex-naval mechanic to prepare tests in pack ard laboratory , arcadia will supervise the parade through the streets of bethlehem following the lafayette smoker friday evening in the lower gym the decision of arcadia to super vise the parade was made friday evening along with the plans for the smoker the parade last year which led to a clash between students and local police when students damaged property of the lehigh valley transit company carried away lan terns and other moveable articles and rushed the globe theatre led to ill feeling between the student body and city officials and made doubt ful the holding of a parade this year the difficulties have been set tled however and the parade will be held as usual dr neil carothers head of the department of business administra tion will be master of ceremonies austy tate head football coach prof j l beaver of the electrical department and walter r okeson university treasurer will speak cer tain alumni present will also be calle dupon to say a few words the band will furnish music for the smoker and for the parade which follows there will be a bonfire on the upper field preceding the smoker the freshmen will furnish wood for this bonfire and will attend the smoker and parade in pajamas crum lectures on geography the carolina playmakers from the university of north carolina will present three carolina folk plays on thursday evening nov 21 in the auditorium of liberty high school linden street and eliz abeth avenue the plays will be giv en under the auspices of mustard and cheese and the first play will begin at 8:15 p m the plays are the no count boy paul greene job's kins folks loretta bailey and mag nolia's man gertrude coffin the plays all have their setting in north carolina no count boy is a comedy by the author of in abraham's bos om the pulitzer prize play of 1927 paul greene the author of these plays is known as the eugene o'neil of the south and has writ ten many other plays job's kins folks is a tragedy of cotton mill workers in north carolina and magnolia's man is a comedy of the carolina hills the carolina playmakers is an organization of north carolina uni versity students who write and pro duce their plays they travel all over the eastern part of the united states in a bus and carry the scenery which they have constructed them selves with them the cast consists of 12 young men and women under the direction of prof frederick koch next history film to be on puritans nesday night fifth of series scheduled for wed two months in a structural shop was the subject of an ad dress given by richard tull c e 30 before a meeting of the civil en gineering society thursday night nov 14 in packard auditorium it is an unusual feature at any of the society meetings held at the uni versity for a student to give an ad dress and will be a part of the pro gram of all future meetings of the society tull's speech included a complete account of his summer employment in a fabricating shop the president of fhe society in introducing the speaker stated that the purpose of this procedure is not only to have the students give these reports so that other members may profit by them but also to aid them in future work as they may find it necessary to give reports before va rious committees and boards in pur suing their engineering practice continued on page four the speech was a detailed account of the working of a fabricating shop and dealt chiefly with the manufac ture of steel beams the laying out detailing riveting reaming fitting and punching of beams tull also included in his speech the function ing of a corporation how orders are handled contracts fulfilled and bus iness operations carried out willard s clewell former chief machinist's mate of the navy has been appointed to the post of lab oratory mechanician in the pack ard engineering laboratory he is in charge of the installation of new equipment maintenance of the ma chinery machine tool work and is assistant to the professors in set ting up tests in the laboratory mr clewell comes to lehigh afteri2o years continuous service in the navy he is a graduate of bethlehem high school he entered the navy in 1907 and for four years was stationed in asia during the war he made 16 trips to europe on the transport u s s impera tor mr clewell has had experience on every type of vessel in the navy and he spent four years in the sub marine service during which time he served on all types of submar ines after receiving an honorable dis charge in 1927 as chief machinist's mate mr clewell returned to beth lehem and entered the employment of the bethlehem steel company here he was in charge of plant maintenance and he also spent some time erecting diesel engines fraternity sponsors bull session series ancient geography was the subject of a talk by dr e l crum associate professor of latin at a meeting of eta sigma phi honor ary classical fraternity at his home 1028 new street thursday evening d.r crum spoke on geography as given by pliny and elder in his nat ural history the speaker followed two routes the first being at gi braltar and going along the north ern coast of the mediterranean sea to the black sea north through germany into britain and back to gibraltar the second route started at gibraltar followed the southern coast of the mediterranean to egypt and then itno asia minor ending at troy about 20 members of the society were present fort to stage own production mcconn at tome the puritans a yale university chronicle of america photoplay will be shown at 7:30 p m wednes day in the packard laboratory au ditorium the pictures will be the fifth of the series to be shown in collection with history classes at lehigh this year prof l h gipson head of the history department will give a short talk on reasons for the puri tans trip to america and their set tling at boston the rev d w gateson will pre side over omega phi sigma religious discussion senior civil mechanical and met ullurgical engineers are on their an nual fall inspection trips the civil engineers have gone to new york the mechanical engineers to phila delphia and trenton and the metal lurgical engineers to laurel hill l i yesterday morning the civil en gineers visited the federal reserve bank and inspected the heating and ventilation system a skyscraper foundation and the stock exchange were also visited in the afternoon the men inspected the hudson riv er bridge which is still under con struction today the men viewed the wal dorf-astoria hotel the museum of the peaceful arts the canal street sewage screening plant and the s s leviathan philadelphian is host tomorrow's intinary includes vis its to the subway under construc tion in brooklyn to the claremont terminal of the lehigh valley rail road and to the coal dumpers of the central railroad of new jersey the party was accompanied by prof harry g payrow prof ralph j fogg and william b getchell all of the civil engineering department the mechanical engineers spent monday morning at the richmond station of the philadelphia electric company after attending a lun cheon at the engineers club in philadelphia as the guests of the lehigh university club of philadel phia the men made a tour of the philadelphia navy yard the men visited the westing house electric manufacturing com pany today and after a luncheon in the westinghouse cafteria a vis it was made to the baldwin loco motive works the party will go to trenton to morrow to inspect the plant of the de laval steam turbine company the trenton lehigh club will en tertain the mechanicals at luncheon in the hotel sterling the after noon will be spent in viewing the plant of john a roebling's sons company prof m c stuart and e s ault of the mechanical en gineering department are accom panying the party the metallurgical engineers spent yesterday and today visiting the ni cholas copper company laurel hill l 1 and the united states smelting and refining company mauver n j prof bradley stough ton head of the department of met allurgy is in charge of the party m & c men note all men wishing to enter into or continue managerial competi tion for mustard and cheese will report at 7:30 p m wednesday in drown hall dean c m mcconn spoke be fore the tome school at fort de posit maryland last sunday his topic freedom and lawlessness was deiivered at the chapel services snedden suggests divisions in college mcconn's idea geary issues call candidates for varsity basket ball and . assistant manager of basketball will report at 4 p m wednesday nov 20 in the low er gym coach roy geary has announced the rev d wilmot gateson will lead the first of a series of bull ses sions on religion to be held by the omega phi sigma fraternity at 8:30 p m tuesday nov 19 in drown hall omega phi sigma a local non sectarian social fraternity plans to hold a series of monthly bull ses sions on religion prominent men in religion science business and psy chology will be asked to speak first telephone invented by alex ander graham bell the diaphragm of the original telephone was a piece of parchment paper mr grace spoke into the telephone and his words amplified a million times by a modern high power amplifier were heard distinctly by every one in the audience he showed a dia phragm similar to that used in the large amplifying horns that were used in the demonstrations the diaphragm was made of a secret al loy and weighed one-half a gram research aids medicine much of the research work of the laboratories pointed out mr grace has proved of value from a purely humantarian point of view at the request of a surgeon in a new york hospital mr grace had three men develop an artificial larynx so that people who have lost their speech through an operation on the larynx may regain it later they developed an artificial lung to aid those who have paralyzed vo cal cords mr grace demonstrated first the artificial larynx and then the mechanical lung the mechani cal lung consisted of a bellow with a metallic reed attached to it the reed is put in the mouth the lung produces a certain tone and the mouth and lips form the words mr grace had a student say a few words with it to prove its practi bility the audience next heard heart beats amplified many times by the large amplifiers first the heart beats of a person having heart trou ble were reproduced from a record and th^n those of a student in the audience having a normal heart were reproduced mr grace also showed that the moving of muscles produces a noise and demonstrated this by moving the muscles of his jaw the noises were picked up by the small microphone and ampli field secrecy in wireless secrecy in wireless transmission is now possible by means of scram bled speech stated mr grace by inverting the frequencies it is pos sible to create a gibbering of speech which cannot be understood with out changing the frequencies back to their original state to do this re quires special equipment mr grace demonstrated scrambled speech by first talking into a transmitter and later with a phonograph record he then unscrambled the speech a finely coiled wire spring sus pended from a rope reaching from the platform to the back of the au ditorium was used to demonstrate delayed speech mr grace touched the spring and one and one-half seconds later the noise was ampli fied by the large amplifiers mr grace then put a piece of paper on the spring and spoke the paper acting as a diaphragm transmitted the vibrations to the coil by chang ing the tension of the wire in the coil he was able to delay his speech continued on page four president richards tests scientific apparatus at grace demonstration mechanics an original play by prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and as tronomy will be staged by him and the faculty dramatic club dec 27 in the hotel bethlehem as part of the entertainment at a meeting of the american mathematical so ciety dr e h riley president of the faculty dramatic club has an nounced george kelly's the show off a light comedy will be read by the club at its regular bi-weekly meet ing 7:30 p m tomorrow at the res idence of dr and mrs r w hall 37 e church street alumni approve end of hazing hopes for victory in the lafay ette game were greatly dimmed when a renovated rutgers eleven defeated a poor lehigh team 14-0 before a large house party gather ing saturady at new brunswick the scarlet scored early in the game and assured victory by gain ing another touchdown in the sec ond half after several lehigh rallies were stemmed just short of the goal line grossman the big rutgers full back was the main factor in the rutger's attack tallying both touch downs and dashing off many long runs greenburg and horton play ing halfback positions exhibited a powerful brand of line plunging as well as an effective aerial attack davidowitz and nora playing in only fair form gained most of the ground for the brown and white bennett got off a few nice gains while harris assisted with several nice punts miller in the line at his tackle position played a good game hutchinson in mclernon's place at center showed up well in his first full game and broke up several of rutger's pass attempts lehigh line weak lehigh's main weakness seemed to be in the line as the scarlet backs ripped through it for long gains and on the punts davvy was always confronted by a host of rutgers tacklers as soon as he got the ball on three occasions lehigh marched down to the rutgers 10 yard mark by virtue of passes from harris to davidowitz only to lose the ball on downs or an intercepted pass from the start it was evident that coach rockafeller's new line-up was a powerful one lehigh received the ball on the 20-yard mark but was unable to gain through the strong rutgers forward wall har ris punted and grossman soon re turned the kick pinckney was nail ed at the line before he could ad vance the ball a yard lehigh again elected to kick but harris behind a weak line was hurried in his at tempt to boot and a partially block ed punt gave rutgers the ball on lehigh's 20-yard mark on the next play greenburg executed a pretty lateral pass to grossman who dash ed around end for the scare a pass to horton gained the extra point the rest of the period was rather dull as exchanges of punts kept the ball in the middle of the field rutgers takes offense in the opening minutes of the second quarter rutgers began an other drive that came periously close to a touchdown taking the ball on the 50-yard line grossman and horton began a series of line plunges and end runs that netted three first downs and placed the ball on lehigh's 20-yard mark then after three unsuccessful at tempts at gain through the line grossman threw a long pass over the goal line that was incomplete by an uncomfortably small margin thus putting lehigh in possession of the ball harris made a 50-yard punt at this juncture kicking from his own 20-yard line to rutgers 30-yard line where grossman was promptly nailed by elkin davido witz was sent in at this point and a lehigh rally soon followed after lehigh had taken the ball on its own 10-yard line davvy completed a 20-yard pass from harris and the same combination completed anoth er long pass on the following play continued on page three coming events the lehigh club of new york approved j:he decision of the soph omore cabinet to abolish all fresh man hazing for the remainder of the year at a meeting held last wednesday nov 13 in new york recently the board of governors of the new york club adopted the following resolution the lehigh club of new york commends the present sophomore class of lehigh university for the manly stand it has taken in abolish ing hazing and congratulates the class for the sensible statement made by its president john e angle in which this decision was promulgated the distinction between reason able freshman regulations and haz ing is well made continued the resolution and we believe that the maintenance of these regulations is desirable and wholesome while hazing and all violent forms of so called discipline are wholly evil the club requests its president to advise mr angle of this action the resolution concluded and to express the hope that the class of 33 and other succeeding classes will follow the example set by 32 dean c m mcconn's suggestion that a new type of gentleman's college be created for students in terested primarily in extra-curricul ar activities is still attracting the at tention of leading educators last week prof david snedden of teachers college columbia univer sity used this idea as a basis of his plan to remedy the very bad state of health of the american liberal college professor snedden's plan is to divide colleges into three types — one for the bread and butter or pre professional student another de signed for the coon-skin coated youth who prefers a good time to learning and a third for the quiet seeker after learning in an article in the sunday edi tion of the new york times pro fessor snedden is quoted as saying the american liberal college or the corresponding arts and sciences departments of our state universi ties are altogether too narrow a funnel through which to crowd the multitudes who wisely or unwisely are seeking access to our multiply ing professional schools and that charge bears with especial weight against the highly formalized and commonly prescribed offerings of the first two years of such colleges professor snedden who charac terized the chief difficulty of the american arts college as an effort to serve simultaneously god and mammon is a firm believer in a very libertl type of arts college re cently he advocated universities without entrance requirements pre scribed studies fixed years of stu dy and diplomas or degrees many of professor snedden's ideas are similar to those proposed by dean c m mcconn in his book college or kindergarten which was published in september 1928 register ready in march the lehigh university register for the school year 1929-1930 will be published in march 1930 rather than the fall as has been the cus tom during the past two years this change has been decided upon to avoid the necessity of print ing a supplement to the list of stu dents brought about by the various changes at midyear most schools colleges and universities edit their registers in the spring a barrier against the success of the london conference for reduction of armament was raised by the un der secretary of state mr cotton when he stated that unless a five power naval agreement is reached at the meeting in england the american delegates will quit the conference and return home either such a treaty will be formed he is reported to have said or there will be no action as far as the united states is concerned in thus slamming the door on any possible alternative to a five power pact mr cotton has not helped the cause of world peace it is not inconceivable that either france or italy for reasons of na tional prestige may refuse to enter a formal treaty in such a case a tripartite agreement might be es tablished between great britain japan and the united states with an added clause enabling each country to increase its navy beyond the treaty ratio should altered con ditions arise while such a treaty would be far less desirable than the five-power one it would be far better than none at all the mere fact that even tripartite treaty would definitely and formally state the principles of anglo - american equality is sufficient for advocacy of some form of agreement the world at large earnestly de sires peace the great majority of america's population hopes the london conference will succeed completely the evident difficulties in the path of this universal accord among the great powers of the world are great enough and this predetermined course will not aid matters ♦ * * the passage of the boulder dam act has created great joy in califor nai but the completion of the dam is not yet assured arizona is pre paring to challenge the constitu tionality of the act as she believes it will deprive her of water to which she is entitled this will hold up the whole project nevada ob jects against the allocation of pow er the colorado river commission of utah states that the proposed rate of charge for the kilowatt hour of boulder dam generated power will break the market for utah coal mexico has yet to give her consent to the bill and if she does not see fit to limit her use of the river wa ter the plan is not practical the fact that so many difficulties have arisen shows what a vital ob ject this is to the groups concerned the successful completion of the boulder dam requires a very ingen ious balance of many different and in some cases opposing interests no one of which could swing the plan by itself for its own benefits this combination of power flood con trol and irrigation plans involves seven states and two nations its success is dependent upon the rec ognization of the principle that the greatest good for the greatest num ber should prevail ♦ ♦ * france's attempt to bribe her cit izens into raising larger families is a failure her birth rate according to latest reports is lower than that of a few years ago and there have been fewer marriages close obser vers blame the economic indepen dence of women their employment in industries with consequently de layed marriages and the increasing knowledge of birth control as the reason ii duce mr mussolini of italy has also failed to increase marriage by taxing bachelors evidently the privileges and freedoms of single existence are greatly prized by ital ian gentlemen for there are more native bachelors today than before the tax there have been 4,000 less marriages and 22,000 fewer births according to statistical records the amateur flame must burn brightly in the hearts of french and italian males at any rate all attempts to bribe them into matrimony have failed thus far ♦ * * problems which will confront the regular session of the seventy-first congress will be many and difficult uncompleted business of the special session will form a considerable to tal of this legislation provided the tariff riddle the farm relief and flood control problems can be solv ed satisfactorily before the close of the regular session in either june or july the present administration may justly expect the plaudits of the country but that scene is a long way off a list of the major meas ures confronting the legislators in cludes tariff revision and a two-house agreement on a conference report annual appropriation bills incor porating the expanding demands of flood control and farm relief a study of financial and banking problems intensified by the recent market crash the questions of overhauling the federal reserve act and branch chain and group banking will probably be analyzed prohibition notably the sheppard bill making the liquor buyer a criminal radio legislation particularly the couzen bill for a commission on communications navy building appropriation bringing up the question of policy on new cruisers authorized in the last congress tuesday nov 19 2:30 p m meeting of the lehigh university woman's club drown hall wednesday nov 20 12 m cyanide pictures flagpole 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of ' prof r w hall 37 east church thursday nov 21 8:15 p m presentation of three plays by the carolina playmakers from the university of n c un der the auspices of mustard and cheese liberty high school audi torium the puritans historical film packard laboratory auditorium friday nov 22 12 m sword and crescent pictures flagpole 7:30 p m preparations for lafay ette football game bonfire on the upper field smoker at taylor gym and parade brown and white vol xxxvii no 1 7 price five cents ethlehem pa tuesday november 19 1929 arcadia parade student smoker set for friday mechanical devices demonstrated by s.p.grace,vice president of bell company attract 900 to packard auditorium preparations for football game to follow tra dition engineers take inspection trips football hopes fade as rutgers gains 14-0 win carolina plays here thursday continued slump brings first defeat in middle three campaign bonfire also planned new discoveries phases of secret wireless transmission are discussed and the artificial larynx mechanical lung and electric brain are illustrated at lecture in communication included world news an american faux pas the boulder darn parent subsidization the seventy-first congress w h b all the lehigh news first