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              development of machine traced in third ad dress of series trafford rumored chief of police robot holds interest performs various tasks by commands whistled over phone ds of predicting scholastic success through age various intellectual factors and various non-intellec tual factors those factors found to be associated with success in get ting grades were spending a small amount of time in studying free dorm from religious conservatism dislike of regulations and confor mity to convention and preference for occasional solitude contrary to expectations it has been found true in several univer sities that on the average those stu dents who put the least time on their work acquire the best grades dr newcomb interprets this to mean not that the way to get the best grades is to minimize study but that the best students are those who use their time most efficiently continued on page four one recent study of college stu dents shows that the better stu a student entering the college of business administration has only one sixth the chance of winning the scholastic honors that an engineer has a student 16 years old or younger is four times as apt to re ceive honors as if he were 21 or over and a student in the highest tenth of his class in the psycholo gical test is 27 times as apt to be honored as if he were in the low est tenth according to dr theo dore newcomb of the psychology department in his talk on the predictive value of age and psy chological test results for scho lastic success at lehigh before the faculty educational club yesterday afternoon these statements were based on a statistical analysis of the records of 1300 lehigh students over a three year period the object of the discussion was to determine metho dedication held for mining hall engineers visit n.y power show senior mechanicals at tend a s m e meeting notables attend cere monies at markle lab rumors are afloat important rumors according to the bethle hem globe-times however it's all news to me said fred trafford when asked whether or not it was true that he would ac cept the position of head of the bethlehem police department un der the administration of mayor elect pfeifle and now gentle readers step over to the radio and we'll tell you the startling statement made by the mayor-elect it's abso lutely all bosh i don't know where they got that story un less they made it out of the whole cloth as the saying is well not only would it be news to fred but also the boys of asa packer's school would be lost without the guiding hand of mr trafford on the other hand rumors around the campus are to the effect that fred would make an excellent chief of po lice and that bethlehem at last would be a clean city and le high students could travel the streets without being molested by this that or what have you thieves get 122 in fraternities racoon coats and money taken from three houses contemporary naturalistic philo sophers are divided into two camps the harvard group which bases all its results on physics and mathematics and the columbia and the university of chicago group which begins with biology and an thropology as the logical basis of naturalism according to dr john h randall jr professor of philo sophy at columbia university who lectured friday evening in the packard laboratory harvard uni versity is a stronghold for believers in the physical philosophy of ed ington whitehead and russell randall declared the leader of the columbia university and the uni versity of chicago fort is john dewey naturalism is an attempt to ex plain the universe through the principles of natural science de clared dr randall he claimed that the primary reason for the differ ence between the two camps is that they do not understand each other dr randall prominent among the younger men in the field of philosophy is the author of several widely-known books in cluding the making of the mod ern mind and our changing civiliz#tion he is known as ra tionally scientific and an active worker for world unity dinner precedes lecture the robert w blake society under whose auspices the lecture was held gave a supper before the lecture for dr randall faculty members and members of the so ciety robert heckert 24 spoke on the history and purposes of the or ganization dr randall briefly reviewed nat ural science and pointed out the weak spots and the correlation of realistic theories of the two camps as he called them he described the difficulties which in general con front present day naturalism mr huckets first vice president of the robert w blake society and secretary of the ethical lea gue of america in a short talk on the league said that the work of this organization parallels the work of the salvation army but leans more to the cultural side of life dramatic club to read play valuables representing an aggre gate sum of 122 were stolen early sunday morning when an unknown party entered the delta tau delta chi psi and phi delta theta fra ternities on the campus the thief is believed to have en tered the delta tau delta house shortly after one o'clock sunday morning he rifled the pockets of several suits of clothes taking small change amounting to about 17 he also took an expensive ra coon coat which was hidden in the rear of a closei the chi psi house was robbed sometime between the hours of 4:30 and 6 a m a sum of approximate ly 55 was taken from clothes and desk drawers members of the phi delta theta fraternity which was robbed be tween 3 a m and dawn lost about 50 more than 100 representatives from 50 schools and colleges and 25 industrial companies attended the dedication exercises of john markle mining engineering hall at lafay ette college last thursday dec 5 among those attending the conven tion were john s fischer governor of pennsylvania harry a mackey lafayette 90 mayor of philadel phia major w r coyle congress man of second district of pennsyl vania in the house of representa tives the dedication program opened with an academic procession of the faculty trustees and delegates to colton memorial chapel where the dedication took place william otis hotchkiss president of the michi gan college of mines was the ded ication speaker after the dedication a luncheon was held for the delegates and may or harry a mackay of philadel phia delivered an address fol lowing the luncheon the new build ing was inspected in the evening the delegates heard a lecture on civilization's vital interest in the mineral industry by samuel s wyer consulting engineer of col umbus ohio delegates prominent in the acad emic field were dr c r richards president of lehigh university dean a r greene jr of prince ton dr george l omwake pres ident of ursinus dr f ward of yale a e wells of cornell j h wilson of harvard among the various industrial corporations represented were the american telephone and telegraph company thomas a edison inc the solway sales corporation the ingersoll rand company and the alpha portland cement company larkin initiated by tau beta pi the senior mechanical engineers accompanied by prof b h jen nings left bethlehem early friday morning to attend the annual meet ing of the american society of mechanical engineers and to visit the u s s leviathan and the pow er show after an inspection of the ship the mechanicals spent the rest of the day at the power show and a s m e meeting the society holds its annual meeting in new york for the pur pose of bringing together the mem bers for lectures and discussions about the latest developments in the field of mechanical engineering and other branches of science connected with mechanical work the discus sions not only deal with recent in ventions and perfections of machin ery but also with the management of industrial enterprises and the economics of production on the day the senior mechanicals attend ed the meeting the discussions were devoted to the study of recent de velopments in steam boilers aeron autics textiles rail-motor cars re frigeration furniture production and the progress of wood industries at different times during the week the meeting was attended by pro fessors larkin stuart butterfield ault and klein as in previous years the national exposition of power and mechani cal eneinering was held during the same week as the a s m e meet ing the exposition the eighth of its kind was held at the grand central palace in new york all the newest mechanical equipment was elaborately displayed by the va rious manufacturing companies much of the apparatus exhibited was manufactured and shown by lehigh men the exposition proved so successful that it was decided to make it an annual occurrence but alternately in new york and chi cago team to debate penn princeton members of the victorious lehigh football team two coaches and many alumni attended the new york lehigh club victory banquet given in honor of the team friday night at the machine club in new york led by bill colling 12 the team and the coaches were the reci pients of cheer upon cheer which contributed materially to the blare of jazz bands honking of auto horns and the shouts of cab-driv ers william w mills 87 president of the new york lehigh club was toastmaster and introduced w r okeson who delivered the first speech of the evening okey told of the football sea son back in 1894 when lehigh play ed two games with lafayette each year lehigh had lost the first game with a score of 28 to 0 and at the beginning of the second game the team went on the field finally downing a superior team 11 to 8 this year he said the lehigh team went out on the field with precisely the same feeling of not thinking of anything but victory and by sheer fight alone was able to accomplish its objective he said a e buchanan jr alumni sec retary followed okey's talk with a few remarks in behalf of the alum ni on the remarkable spirit shown by the victorious team coach tate and captain miller were the next speakers miller praises tate tubby praised austy for his good work in striving to keep the men up in their scholastic work and for keeping his team at a high pitch during the season when things looked most discouraging in con clusion he told of five words which were repeated a countless number of times during the second half of the lafayette game just a little more determination fellows austy described the change in the team on the eve of the game he and his assistants could see the determined and confident feeling come over the men and he knew that they had what it took to win the game he also thanked the men for their unselfish cooperation and thanked the team for what they gave to lehigh ward 13 short talks were also given by aubrey weymouth 94 a trustee alexander potter 90 and a t a large number of telegrams and letters were received at the ban quet austy then introduced hy mie goldman john mcgann and bob adams chuck hess and cap tain hyde were unable to attend symphony orchestra to play here dec 18 barrere little symphony will be third community presentation zeta chi local fraternity was in stalled as the gamma lambda chap ter of pi kappa alpha thursday and friday dec 5 6 the instal lation was climaxed by a banquet at the hotel bethlehem friday eve ning a degree team composed of members of the national fraternity from rutgers university cornell university university of pennsylva nia new york university and syr acuse university installed the local chapter the petition of the local fraternity was accepted by pi kappa alpha on october 26 zeta chi fraternity was founded in december 1924 and was origin ally known as the seal club the name seal club was later drop ped in favor of lehigh ivy club the lehigh ivy club became a recognized college organization in january 1925 the club was located at 15 east packer avenue a w canney 27 was the first president in septem ber 1927 the club moved to 308 west packer avenue in march of the same year the lehigh ivy club became zeta chi fraternity and its constitution was accepted by the faculty in may in september 1926 the fraternity mov ed to 535 montclair avenue where it is now located national 61 years old the national fraternity pi kappa alpha was founded at the univer sity of virginia march 1 1868 al though originally founded without geographical restrictions a con vention in 1889 limimted expansion to the southern states a conven tion in 1904 lifted the ban to enter the southwest and in 1909 all ter ritorial restrictions were lifted at present the fraternity has 87 chapters nine of which are inac tive there are 74 alumni chap ters those of the local fraternity ini tiated last week were prof brad ley stoughton l r hewitt f d hargan j g brewer c r kates s a kuntz r w phillips c w pimper c f schi c r j f schwartz r w shankweiler h f singer b o steinert g w thom as a l rozelle a w canney 27 e m blanchard 29 g e brown 31 r z gondos 25 a w hamilton 29 w w s muel ler 28 e h talbert 28 k c wallace 25 m e welch 28 and n s young 28 professor g d harmon and w van s port alumni of pi kappa alpha at the university of pennsyl vania and w a rankin an alum nus of the syracuse chapter were present at the installation the in stallation was supervised by j har old johnson and s r smith na tional officers of pi kappa alpha the speakers at the banquet were s r smith and j h johnson na tional officers a w underhill of the cornell chapter and l r he witt m e welch s a kuntz and e m blanchard of the local chap ter after the banquet the installing team left for durham new hamp shire to install a chapter at the uni versity of new hampshire l r hewitt and c r kates of the local chapter accompanied the team smail to speak prof l l smail of the mathe matics department will give a re sume of previous talks on vectors at the phi mv epsilon meeting at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 31 packer hall following this talk members john c mertz and willard a mac calla will submit papers on the sub ject morris to speak coming events wings over europe a play by nichols and browne will be read by the faculty dramatic club on thursday dec 19 instead of wed nesday dec 18 as originally plan ned the data of this meeting which is to be held at the home of prof and mrs r w hall has been ad vanced one day to avoid conflict with the community concert to be held that evening goldsmith's she stoops to con quer was read by the club at its last meeting on dec 4 meanwhile rehearsals have been started on prof tomlinson's play mechan ics which is to be produced on dec 27 in the hotel bethlehem as part of the entertainment at a meet ing of the american mathematical society in order to devote their unidivided attention to this produc tion the club will not produce the december one-act plays as origin ally intended alumni to meet students explosives will be the subject of an address by major morris of the ordnance reserves at a open meeting of scabbard and blade at 7:45 o'clock thursday evening dec 12 in the auditorium of packard laboratory motion pictures will be an extra feature of the program several new members were taken into the society at an initiation meeting held last night the men admitted to membership were w w lowry g c vaughan w m mayberry r motion r l baird h j lockhart and p s davis prof f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department was initiated last friday as an hon orary member of tau beta pi to gether with fourteen seniors and two juniors who had been selected because of excellence in studies and extra-curricula activities the le high chapter of tau beta pi is the mother chapter of all the units scat tered through the country having been founded here in 1885 by prof e h williams following the formal initiation held at packard laboratory the members and initiates adjourned to the hotel bethlehem for the initia tion banquet speeches were made by prof a w klein n s hibsh man and by the new members the following seniors were ini tiated j e johnson l m ben netch f e loomis d l wright j e zeaser e j jones r d chapman r c barber l w becker k a erhart r f latre more r h many h s singer j a waterman the juniors intiat ed were p s davis and j c mertz officers of the southeastern pennsylvania lehigh club will meet undergraduates from south east pennsylvania at 8 p m fri day in the alumni office the meet ing will be held to get the men ac quainted with each other and to extend a formal invitation to a meeting to be held in reading dur ing the christmas holidays the barrere littye symphony under the leadership of george bar rere will be the third presentation of the bethlehem community con cert course and will appear wed nesday evening dec 18 at liberty high school the 13 members all having play ed in the old new york symphony enjoy the distinction of being ar tists and will render selections which have long been neglected by the older masters the two remaining presentations of the community course will be held jan 15 and march 26 featur ing harold bauer pianist in the next program and albert spald ing violinists tina pumera sopra no in the last among the engineers and archi tects there are or have been ten governors thirteen members of congress two members of the cab inet and the president of the united states wallace believes that his findings show that engineers are versatile not narrow international not provincially minded leaders not followers he further declares that engineers are scholarly not un learned cultured not rude hu mane not cruel lovers not haters of mankind who's who in america 1928 1929 men of science comprise 30.4 percent lawyers 15.2 percent and physicians and surgeons 7.3 percent scientists comprise third of those honored in who's who engineers not content with run ning slipsticks and thumbing thru technical magazines are beginning to dominate american life accord ing to a report given before the american society of mechanical engineers in new york by law rence wallace of washington ex ecutive secretary of the american engineering council mr wallace declared that engineers are becom ing a controlling force in culture politics commerce industry fin ance education and national de fense according to mr wallace of the 28,805 notable living men and wo men of the united states named in the outbreak in haiti has not caught president hoover unaware while the navy department under his direction dispatched additional forces to port-au-prince the chief executive asked the approval of congress yesterday for a commis sion to investigate and study the matter in an effort to arrive at a bet ter policy than our country enforces at the present time under the treaty of 1915 the united states is charged not only with the maintenance of law and or der but also to assist in the estab lishment of responsible and orderly government the main cause of the present dissatisfaction appears to be that there has been no progress made in the interim toward self government just what may be ac complished along the lines of real democracy with a population be tween 85 and 95 percent illiterate is somewhat of a dubious question but the fact that the president has ordered an investigation reveals his effciency and impartiality preparedness and efficiency ap pear to be characteristic of pres ident hoover he acted quickly in summoning industrial and financial leaders to the capital to confer on the recent stock market flurry and the attendant national anxiety over the stability of business and finance he showed his efficiency by lead ing so imposing a group of power ful and divergent personalities into a common agreement this imme diate action has created confidence in the rank and file of the ameri can public and furthermore this confidence does not appear to be misplaced * * * a few more weeks work and then home was the latest mes sage commander byrd flashed from the base little america in the cold bleak antarctic the explorer re cently flew over the south pole but was unable to land because the altitude of more than 10,000 feet made any but the fastest flying speed very dangerous the party took moving pictures of the terrain and perhaps a little later a land party may attempt the hazardous journey to the bottom-most part of the world commander byrd will in all prob ability make several more flying ex cursions into the hitherto little known and uncharted wastes of the antarctic last february the party discovered a series of mountain ranges in the king edward vii land and in victoria land un doubtedly they will secure aerial photographic maps of these dis tricts before coming to this coun try * ♦ ♦ the senate last week excluded william s vare of pennsylvania from the seat to which he was elect ed in 1926 by a plurality of 173,000 mr vare returned from washing ton on saturday vowing to vindi cate himself at the next election in may 1930 governor fischer is re ported to be considering joseph r grundy as the man to fill the vacan cy mr grundy will be remembered as the power lobbyist who sturdily upheld the prerogative of industrial ism over agriculture and other back ward industries at the shearer in vesigation not long ago should grundy be appointed pennsylva nit politicians may be sure that he will stick to his colors to the last ditch he has proved that conclu sively * ♦ * patrick j hurley newly appoint ed secretary of war in succession to the late james w good is a man of high character and mental caliber president hoover charac terizes him as a lawyer of long ex perience a distinguishedsoldier and an executive of proven ability pre vious to his advancement mr hur ley was ranking assistant in the war department he is an author ity on flood-control and the water way problems of the mississippi valley in addition the interesting politi cal significance of this appointment is freely admitted at the white house it meets the expressed wish of the south for a cabinet member from that section colonel hurley is from oklahoma a native of the former indian territory and is re garded as possessing the western viewpoint to a considerable degree without detriment to his concern for the broad national interests * ♦ ♦ the united states has put its foot into the pie when secretary of state stimson sent a note of ap peal and partly of remonstrance to the russian government regarding its dispute with china he thought he was acting in the interests of world peace but this action served only to aggravate an already diffi cult situation russia and china have long bickered over the control of a railroad running through rus sia and manchuria in august this disagreement became intense and the two countries began to prepare for hostilities rumors and prop aganda about both chinese and so viet offensive activities have been rife since that time secretary stimson wrote the rus sian officials a reminder that they had signed the kellogg treaty a pact outlawing war lehigh will debate princeton and perm state according to arrange ments concluded by prof c d macdougall debating coach when he attended the annual new jersey high school debating conference at rutgers university where he acted as critical judge of a debate between lafayette college and new york university saturday morning the audience numbering 300 awarded the decision to new york univer sity which upheld the negative of the proposition resolved that na tions should adopt complete disar mament excepting such forces as are necessary for police purposes prof macdougall has announced that ten men will conistitute the lehigh debating squad on the kel logg pact question affirmative george w parsons sydney r snitkin michael murphey roland carman and robert blair nega tive edward fleischer manue l ruderman emanuel scoblionko harold silver and sterling w rounds lehigh will debate perm state here defending the negative of the proposition resolved that the evils of the macine age outweigh its good princeton will be met by the affirmative on a trip mar 13 14 15 which will include union and probably fordham the propo sition for these debates and the ma jority of the others will be re solved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact lafayette and rutgers will be met in a triangle debate on this proposition with lafayette de bating here and lehigh at rutgers when lehigh meets union at schenectady the team will be guests at a rotary club banquet six men will be selected for the kellogg debate question before christmas the other four men will start work on the machine age question tuesday dec 10 8:15 p m lecture by j d justin on the rocky river water power development before the civil engineering society in the packard auditorium wednesday dec 11 7:30 p m the defending at torney and the administration of justice by f j rupp allen town attorney before the pre legal society in room 201 pack ard laboratory 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs stroudsburg teachers college in taylor gymnasium thursday dec 12 7:45 p m meeting of scabbard and blade in the packard laboratory major morriss will lecture on explosives 8 p m air transportation meeting under the auspices of the lehigh valley engineers club in the packard auditorium henry w connor eastern traffic manager of the transcontinental ai r transport will be the speaker friday dec 13 saturday dec 14 3 p m freshman swimmkig vs flushing high school in taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m peter stuyvestant yale university chronicles of america photoplay will be shown in the packard auditorium need for precision in regulating the machine may solve the prob lem of prohibition by inhibiting the use of intoxicating liquors in tech nical work prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering told his audience in his lecture on man's slave — the ma chine the third of a series entitled man's conquest of nature being presented by professors at the uni versity last night in packard audi torium no other people acquired their wealth in so short a tjme as did we and no other nation has permitted so wide a distribution of it declared professor larkin attributing this miracle to the rapid development of the machine attracted by the advance notice that the lecture would include a de monstration of televox the mech anical man one of the largest crowds ever to attend a lecture at lehigh heard professor larkin de scribe the story of civilization's ad vance through the development of the machine and saw h b stev ens of the westinghouse electric company operate the televox ap paratus professor larkin taking his au dience on an imaginary airplane trip into the past reviewed briefly the history of mechanical develop ment stopping on the way to pay tribute to those whose inventions have made possible the greater comfort of modern life scientifi ad vance was very slow at first and only after countless ages did such men as archidemes emerge to lead the way the professor declared watt began new era with the perfection of the steam engine by james watt a remarkable transformation occurred ushering in a new era of growth in all the years of the struggle for mechani cal perfection man's biggest enemy has been friction said professor larkin he demonstrated an almost frictionless wheel loaned by the skf bearing company the wheel was so perfectly set on its ball bearings that it revolved during the entire hour of the lecture with only a very slight initial momentum some mention was made of one of man's most recent accomplish ments the giant german flying boat the dornier dox plane sev eral illustrations were flashed on the screen of this monster airplane showing its gigantic size as the plane flew over lage geneva switzerland it was in planes of this type that prefossor larkin took his audience on an imaginary flight a method for cooling systems operated by a tiny gas flame was used by the speaker to illustrate one form of mechanical progress the system is most remarkable in its ef ficiency and long life it is stated that one of these refrigerating ma chines is capable of giving satisfac tory service for over 170 years with out the least attention televox demonstrated professor larkin introduced h b stevens of the westinghouse electric company as the master of one of the most recent and remark able inventions in the world — tele vox the mechanical man televox first came into being as a means for controlling electric sub-stations re motely situated from the central power plant said mr stevens these machines can be controlled over the telephone by a series of musical notes different notes cause the machine to perform the duties that ordinarily would require the attention of a man these machines were also used at reservoirs to re port the level of the water being stored mr stevens by means of a tele phone made the mechanical man do many things that must now be done by household servants by whistling different notes in the transmitter of the phone he made televox turn on and off several electrical appliances mr stevens would first call a number in the regular manner then televox would remove the receiver of his phone from the hook and wait for orders the note that was sent to him was received by a relay which caused an electric current to flow this was amplified by a vacuum tube making it powerful enough to cause the machine to operate televox an swered back by means of a buzzer which was transmitted over the phone to the operator the book was presented to lehigh in november 1929 is included on the fly-leaf the book is encased in a half morocco slip case to prevent possible damage other books to be placed in the treasure room of the library are a copy of quintilianus 1527 a copy of aulus gellius 1519 porta's na ture magic 1658 and a second edi tion of newton's principia a copy of five portfolios of haeb ler's original leaves from incuna bula is also included in the gift the portfolios contain 280 incun abulam leaves which illustrate the art of printing in europe from earliest times until 1500 sixteen valuable books placed in library's new treasure room sixteen rare and valuable volumes will be added to the treasure col lection of the new library as a re sult of the gift of robert b hon eyman met e 20 who brought the books to the university when he came to the lehigh-lafayette game a copy of the first english trans lation of euclid's geometry done by henry billingsley and published by john daye in 1570 is included in the collection and is the second oldest english book in the library the oldest book having been pub lished in isso the inscriptions of several english personages are still intact and the book plate of mr honeyman with the inscription that brown and white vol xxxvii no 2 1 . bethlehem pa tuesday december 10 1929 capacity tests reliable three year study shows new philosophy based on science randall asserts price five cents pi kappa alpha installs local zeta chi dec.5-6 televox exhibition draws big crowd to larkin lecture new york clubs fete victorious football squad columbia professor di vides naturalistic philosophers group becomes gamma lambda chapter of fraternity first victory over lafay ette in decade celebrat ed by banquet founded here in 1924 dewey leading spirit ream highly praised world news presidential preparedness the anractic expedition the vare squabble the new secretary of war stupid diplomacy w h b all the lehigh news first