Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 29

              eighteen fraternities will hold bull session " tournament lieutenant commander will tell about graf's world cruise served on shenandoah six subjects chosen petrikin gives names 800 attend lecture faculty members will decide the winners of each contest slides show deveolpment since 1879 of incan descent lamp st luke's hospital desires a list of lehigh university students willing to act as blood donors according to dr bull each blood transfusion requires from six to eight ounces of blood and has no harmful effect upon the donor students who wish to make a few extra dollars should see dr bull within the next few days for further information and have their blood tested and typed joseph w barker thaver's books now in library russia backward engineer shows lehigh graduate's articles describe antiquated industrial methods late professor wills lan guage and literature collection to univ the university library is now co operating with the library of con gress and the port authorities of new york city in an effoct to com pile bibliographical data on rare books for the use of scholars it is estimated that to date in the li braries of the united states approx imately 30.000,000 different book titles have been catalogued many of which are rare volumes at the request of the library of congress h s leach university librarian has listed for the supple ment to the union list of serial all rare periodicals in the library he has been able to report 100 periodi cals not listed by other college li braries he has also listed for the library of congress all books in the library by or about virgil that have been published before 1850 lehigh has 17 books printed before 1850 the library is also aiding the library of congress to compile a list of all european and oriental manuscripts written before 1500 lehigh has 15 such manuscripts in the library the library is aiding the port authories of new york city in the compilation of a list of books on the general subject of transporta tion by water lehigh program to be broadcast musical clubs will be heard over station wor the world cruise of the graf zeppelin will be described by lieu tenant commander c e rosen dahl of the naval air station lake hurst n j at 8 o'clock tuesday evening in the packard laboratory auditorium commander rosendahl who was on the graf zeppelin during its trip around the world is command er of the u s s los angeles he will give his lecture at this lighter than-air craft meeting which is being sponsored jointly by the en gineer's club of the lehigh valley and the anthracite-lehigh valley section american society of mech anical engineers seats will be re served for members of these two societies up until 8 o'clock at 8 o'clock the auditorium will be thrown open to lehigh students and the general public the packard laboratory will be open for inspec tion from 4 p m until 6 p m and guides will be on hand to conduct visitors through the building commander rosendahl was an officer on the ill-fated u s navy dirigible shenandoah on her last flight and was one of the few sur vivors of the accident the great craft was cruising over ohio in 1924 on the way to the west coast when a sudden squall broke it in three parts commander rosendahl who had been in the control cabin during the greater part of the trip had left the cabin shortly before the accident to carry orders to mem bers of the crew in the after section of the ship the control car was severed from the bag a few mo ments later dashing its occupants to death below the remainder of the dirigible broke in half and landed several miles from the con trol car killing all but commander rosendahl three members of the crew and an author who was mak ing the trip managers of fall sports appointed at the meeting of the board of con trol of athletics yesterday after noon in drown hall were announced today by graduate manager j g petrikin the following names were approved by the board football — philip s davis man ager w l arthurs r k serf ass assistant manager a w thorn ton freshman manager soccer — harry s andrews jr manager t r kellner and h f allen assistant managers cross country — j d benedict manager h a gaetjens and d t davidson assistant managers tennis — john r anderson and d h geary assistant managers phil davis was the winner of the annual football competition and will follow red anderson's example in guiding the team throgh a rig orous and exacting schedule benedict is the new manager of kanaly's fall runners gaetjens will furnish the junior competition next term kellner and allen will assist har ry andrews in managing the soccer team next fall lloyd schoen and jack somerville were captain and manager respectively of the 29 squad morton strauss leading lea gue scorer has already been elected captain of coach harry carpenter's next eleven jack anderson and dan geary have been appointed to assist stan dey in tennis this spring julius seligson celebrates his third year of varsity competition by captain ing the brown and white squad julie who went to the finals in the national indoor championships last week before bowing to francis t hunter is primed to regain the in tercollegiate title which he was forced to default last year latin historians honor s.m.brown a furnace bearing a legend plate with 1753 imprinted upon it and connected to an antiquated set of wood and leather blowers which in turn are driven by a water wheel is the type of blast furnace used in russia according to an article en titled a trip in the urals by owen rice ch e 17 mr rice says that women are employed to charge the blast furnace tjiat cast iron tuyers are used and that slag is removed with horse drawn carts on finding a new electrical precipi tator gas cleaner among these an cient contrivances mr rice states one feels a great deal like noah riding in a nash there is a great future in this section according to mr rice be cause endless forests can be made to supply the necessary charcoal while the mountains are laden with useful ores some of the ores pos sess the lowest amount of sulphur and phosphorus in the world a property of greatest importance to the steel maker although mr rice graduated as a chemial engineer he is now em ployed as a metallurgical engineer by the freyn engineering company of chicago his article appeared in the freyn design a magazine of that company at present he is sta tioned at leningrad with other en gineers who are investigating the iron and steel producing plants of the ural mountains in russia the three main problems of light ing are obtaining the correct inten sity of light the correct quality and the correct color according to prof j w barker last night in his lec ture man's invisible servant in the packard auditorium before a crowd of 800 people professor barker demonstrated how type became illegible when the quantity and the quality of the light on it was not correct and how the color of objects changed when the light on them contained the wrong colors the methods of obtaining some stage effects by means of fulrescent dyes and ultra-violet light was also demonstrated to the audi ence man's first means of obtaining artificial light was by burning a pine knot continued professor barker he then showed how the methods of obtaining artificial light evorved from the pine knot through open dishes burning fats candles oil and gas lamps the next greatest step came in 1881 when sir humphrey davy in vented the carbon arc lamp slides were then shown of the evolution of the incandescent lamp from the time of its invention by thomas edison to the present 50 kilowatt lamps professor barker explained the troubles that arose with each lamp and the means that were used to eliminate them a demonstration was made of how the auditorium would have been illuminated in 1879 compared with the present day lighting for the same cost professor barker who was in troduced by dean c m mcconn is the head of the department of electrical engineering here he graduated from the massachusetts institute of technology just before the outbreak of the world war he then enlisted in the coast artillery and rose to the rank of major lat er he obtained his master's degree at m i t and taught there as a professor for several years previous to his coming to lehigh lehigh professor to assist in compiling italian history dramatists to give longer productions spring full length play to be given in d.o.t elects 4 honors h fretz books from the library of the late prof william thayer were catalogued and placed on the shelves of the university library during the last month these vol umes add substantially to lehigh's resources for the study of languages and literature among the new books received are several biographies including anthony's queen elizabeth birk head's fourteen english judges hibben's peerless leader bry an and whitten's wolfe and north america the library has continued to add to its biographical and literary es says in anticipation of the publica tion of a new index of essays by the wilson company the price of the hooks upon publication of this index will rise due to the greater demand created for them the list contains books on law and govern ment psychology philosophy and the sciences lehigh has many magazines and journals of particular interest to col lectors of old books several per iodicals in the lehigh library that are not to be found in any other li brary in the united states consist of the first five volumes of a rus sian magazine on mining written in russian others were published in mexico in the lehigh library are 10,000 volumes of the transactions of the royal society complete from the conception of the society in 1666 un til the present time isaac new ton's first scientific treatise is in one of the volumes which are worth 10,000 very few other libraries in america have the complete list of these periodicals an hour program by the lehigh glee club and the lehigh sym phony orchestra will be broadcast over station wor in connection with their concert at 8:30 p m fri day feb 28 in the grand ball room of the level club 253 w 73 street new york the concert will be pre ceded by a banquet given by the board of governors of the new york lehigh club in honor of these lehigh musical organizations and followed by a dance where the mu sic will be furnished by lehigh's combined musical club's dance or chestra a feature on the program of the concert will be the leading of the song hail to lehigh by its com puoser a n vanvleck 08 and the leading of the lehigh alma ma ter by its composer john j gib son 95 this concert is sponsored by the new york lehigh club and backed by george w wickersham chair man of president hoover's law enforcement commission buses conveying the lehigh mu sical organizations will leave at 1 p m friday feb 28 from drown hall they will return at 10:3.0 a.m saturday march 1 from new york tickets for the concert may be obtained from l l lones theta xi weida declares grading faulty e e interviews set for feb 19 the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company will be represented at lehigh feb 19 by dr e b roberts accompanied by j b parks of the philadelphia of fice headquarters will be made in packard laboratory where the offi cials will discuss with senior engin eers not only the question of em ployment but also that of advanced work in the graduate field the westinghouse student course offers training in design engineer ing application engineering re search engineering commercial en gineering service engineering and works management all of these ap ply to both mechanical and elec trical engineering graduates spe cial executive ability may be de veloped in any of these fields the student progressively goes through the various departments and plants attends conferences and becomes familiar with engineering methods as employed by the company club to give dance a full length play will be pre sented later in the season by the faculty dramatic club instead of the one act plays which were to be presented wednesday feb 19 in drown hall the play and cast are yet to be selected saturday's children a play by maxwell anderson was read last wednesday at the residence of dr and mrs r w hall 37 e church street h b hammatt had charge of the presentation the cast con sisted of mrs warren w ewing mrs frederick w hyde mrs philip m palmer caldwell buck arthur braunlich and george a finch club hikes to emaus three members of the hiking club made a 12-mile hike towards emails last sunday the club plans to continue its hikes evefy other sunday at distances varying from 10 to 20 miles the next hike will be sunday feb 23 the junior section of the wom en's club will hold a tea dance from 4 p m to 7 p m saturday feb 15 at the women's club house 67 e market street art mickley's hotel americus orchestra will fur nish the music admission will be 1 a couple or 50c stag eighteen fraternities arranged in nine groups will discuss in the form of a bull session the general topic lehigh publications at 7:30 p m monday feb 17 with a view to getting criticisms and sug gestions for improvements this is the first of six topics to be discussed in a bull session tournament sponsored by the delta ' omicron theta local debating society at each of the separate discussions three faculty judges will preside and pick the winner who will com pete later with the winner of an other discussion group the whole plan has been worked into an elimination tournament with a new topic for each round the team of the winning fraternity will be guest of honor at the delta om icron theta banquet to be held in april at which time prof h a fretz will present the newly cre ated lehigh discussion cup donat ed by him to the winning frater nity program arranged the program for the first round to be held monday feb 17 is as follows — sigma chi vs chi psi at sigma chi warren square vs lambda chi alpha at lambda chi alpha taylor hall sec a vs theta kap pa phi at theta kappa phi alpha tau omega vs taylor hall sec c at alpha tau omega kappa al pha vs leonard hall at leonard hall chi phi vs psi sigma delta at chi phi sigma nu vs pi lamb da phi at sigma nu psi upsilon vs kappa sigma at psi upsilon and sigma alpha mv vs phi delta theta at phi delta theta the plan has been praised by dean mcconn dr emery and many members of the faculty all of whom have consented to act as judges for these organized bull ses sions many topics planned the topics to be discussed are — 1 lehigh publications the brown and white as a newspaper the burr the review 2 intercollegiate athletics — le high's athletic policy the carnegie report etc 3 improvements for lehigh — physical plant curricula policy etc 4 limitation of student activi ties 5 politics in lehigh the rules and suggestions for conducting competitive meetings are — rules suggested 6 a college of freedom vs a college of discipline — european compared with american unlimit ed cuts oxford system which better for education which for stu dent independence 1 no meeting shall last more than one hour 2 competition is of elimination type with four rounds needed to de termine the winner continued on page four 3 meetings will be held at 7:30 o'clock monday evening two weeks is allowed between each round except the last the dates se lected being monday feb 17 march 3 march 17 and march 24 orators papers due wednesday all papers for the annual alumni speaking contest must be submitted to prof m j luch by wednesday evening the candidates who will speak at 11 a m saturday feb 22 in packard laboratory will be an nounced in next tuesday's issue of the brown and white the contest is open to any stu dent not a freshman who is in good standing and his completed some course in public speaking at lehigh university there will be six prizes one first prize of 25 one second prize of 15 and one third prize of 10 in each of two groups one group will be composed of arts and business students the other of en gineering students members of the local alumni club will act as judges reporters tour campus by underground routes radio mikemanis bored wants his own station prof sydney m brown of the department of history and govern ment studying at oxford on a year's leave of absence has been in vited by prof g zucclietti secre tary of the italian historical insti tute to take the place of the late professor sepulcri of the university of milan in the preparation of the arnolfo and landolfo chronicles for the monumental muratoriana a great publication dealing with the sources of early medieval history with especial relation to the italian aspects of it and which is succeed ing in many respects the great monumenta germaniae historiae professor brown has also been asked by professor alessandro vis conte of the lombard historical in stittute to contribute to the lombar dy historical archives an article on the pataria — a popular movement in the twelfth century directed against the ecclesiastical domination of milan the honor attached to these invi tations can be appreciated when it is realized that professor brown is the second non-italian ever to re ceive an invitation to contribute to the muratoriana and is the only american ever to have been so hon ored professor gipson head of the department of history and govern ment expressed himself as ex tremely gratified at the reputation professor brown is gaining as one of the foremost students of medie val history in this country four men members of the le high debating squad and prof augustus h fretz new honorary member were elected to delta om icron theta honorary literary and forensic society last evening at a meeting held in christmas-saucon hall the new members are edward fleischer manuel ruderman guy m vroman and emanuel scoblion ko plans were discussed at the meeting to make d o t a local chapter of pi kappa delta a na tional fraternity a committee con sisting of samuel landy chairman george parsons and revere beas ley was appointed to consider the matter a picture of the society for the epitome will be taken wednesday noon at the mccaa studio unless otherwise stated on the bulletin boards of the campus before that time members of delta omicron theta will entertain the visiting debating teams of bethaany and wagner col leges feb 27 and 28 meanwhile plans are under way for the annual banquet which is to be held early in april at which time the new mem bers will be initiated the winning fraternity debating team in the con test now being sponsored by delta omicron theta will be the guests of honor at this time coming events illnesses decrease study shows that there is prac tically no uniformity in methods of marking and in resultant grades at lehigh and at other institutions in the united states according to dr frank m weida assistant profes sor of mathematics in his address to the faculty educational club yesterday afternoon in packard lab oratory presenting data to verify his statements dr weida pointed out the discrepancies and showed a marked lack of conformity among departments and among universi ties sixty-two members of the faculty were present and after the address dr percy hughes led the discus sion on the question of an adoption of fixed policies in grading at le high and all other pennsylvania un iversities dr weida will leave lehigh at the close of the current semester to become associate professor of mathematics at george washing ton university in washington d.c his work there will be mostly graduate work dealing with noth ing but statistics dr weida has befcn assistant pro fessor of mathematics at lehigh since he came here from montana state university five years ago the number of cases treated in the dispensary during the month of january showed a decided de crease over those of the preceding month although colds are less preval ent in january the drop last month was unusually great according to dr bull debate team changed c m schwab's nephew c s wagner 15 dies arcadia member was former football manager and gling over brackets with care to avoid touching the hot pipes edg ing under brackets like soldiers crossing no man's land the men approached the power house they were sweating by this time the temperature had risen to 87 degrees but the cellar of the wilbur labor atory was in sight unwilling to make their presence known to the men in the power house and not wishing to give up the tour they went back to their starting point and proceeded in the direction of packard laboratory so far they had nothing but bumps a few slight burns and dirt to show for their pains an empty whiskey bottle had been left for others to find at a future date where they had found it now a branching tunnel beckoned them onward onward and upward they went a rickety old ladder at the end was their means of access to packer chapel like characters from a gothic novel they slipped under the cellar arches lawn mowers tools rakes old junk lumber and a large sheet steel megaphone met their eves continued on page four tonight 6:00 p m meeting of the cosmos club drown hall 8:00 p m joint meeting of the en gineer's club of lehigh valley and the anthracite-lehigh valley sec tion of the a s m e auditor ium packard lab lt com c e rosendahl commander of the u s s los angeles will talk on the round the world cruise of the graf zeppelin 4:00 p m varsity basketball vs st wednesday john's taylor gym 7:30 p m varsity wrestling vs la fayette taylor gym 7:30 p m meeting of the pre-le gal society room 208 packard lab thursday 4:00 p m meeting of pi tau sig ma societies room packard lab there is no mystery in the tun nels through which the steam pipes are run from building to building on the lehigh campus there are no ghostly inhabitants no ghastly remains and no buried treasure nothing but pipes escaping steam dirt water and occasionally a glim mering electric light this is the story of two reporters who recent ly made a short tour of the tun armed with flashlights a thermo meter note book and pencil the reporters began their journey at christmas-saucon hall stooped like coal miners they started away it was but a moment until they reached the long tunnel which with numerous turns extends from the power house to packard labor atory with the intention of making a complete tour of the tunnels the men started toward the power house an occasional electric light served as a beckoning hand as hunched and cauitously they made their way forward water seeped through their shoes jutting pipes and brackets made nasty marks on heads and ribs but the men kept on wrig carleton schwab wagner 15 nephew of charles m schwab who is a member of the board of trus tees of lehigh university and chair man of the board of directors of the bethlehem steel corporation died last week at the age of 36 guy m vroman will debate on the advantages and disadvantages of the machine age as second speak er instead of roland carman as pre viously announced other mem bers of the negative team are man nel ruderman and george par sons a duel debate with ursinus col lege on the kellogg peace pact is pending i must get those giving the next program arranged in the studio you can't stop a program long enough to do all that we don't there are two broad casting rooms while i am prepar ing for the next program clarence dreisbach the studio manager is announcing the program being broadcast from the other room how many programs do you an nounce each evening generally mr driesbach and i alternate at the mike in half hour periods wcba is on the air every monday wednesday friday and sunday evenings so we get three nights a week off your life must be rather easy after all it would be if i didn't go to lehigh i ajn a junior now and have considerable studying to do when did you get this job continued on page four in the fall of 1928 i came to this station on a visit i am an amateur wireless operator and am also in terested in radio there was a posi tion as announcer open so i ap plied for and received it while the various world powers are haggling arguing fighting and scrapping at the londan conference in a noble if somewhat too ambi tious fourth or fifth attempt to make future wars absolutely impos sible it is to be noted that the na tional income is still being expend ed in the interests of the war god mars and to the joy of those who use his playthings all this dicker ing and quarreling as to whether or not the pnmary nations shall have only 15 capital ships or 18 capital ships or 25 capital ships is pure peace publicity and bunk each nation has entered the lon don conference not because it wants to but because the people of that nation wish that everything possible shall be done in the interests of world-peace the same pages of our daily newspapers which announce in glaring headlines that some agreement is about to be reached at london also disclose that a division of the united states fleet will car ry on quite extensive maneuvers in the atlantic and the caribbean the same page also announces that the navy department has obtained an appropriation of 25,000 to conduct tests in an endeavor to produce air ships that will equal the 220 mile planes now possessed by britain what does all this peace business mean what are all these pacts and agreements for evidently the world wants and talks about peace but is not ready for it no doubt if it can be obtained cheaply and with no loss of prestige by a nation it is certainly desired why should we think peace in london and play at war in the caribbean * * * reports from the vatican city tell of pope pius's letter to cardin al bosillic pompilj in which he de plores the neglect of the nations of the world to interfere in the sov iets persecution of christians in russia what the pope really means is that he denounces the persecu tion of the church and the antag onism shown by the soviets against priests nuns and other representa tives of the church the pope also denounces the soviet government for its atheistic front it is to be realized that the sov iets are only attempting to put into practice those ideas which they be lieve will lead toward pure marxian socialism in russia such a policy tails for a very strong government and a government that holds_abso lute and undisputed power there is no place in russia for a strong church as well as a strong central government the church must be driven out in order that the social istic doctrine will survive the church in russia remains as a vis tage of past power it once gov erned the lives and destinies of the russian people that is why the sov iet government is determined to de prive it of its power the soviet government is not anti christian or atheistic — it is merely socialistic to the core ♦ » * education experts at teachers college columbia university an nounced that they were opposed to official recognition of the star spangled banner as a national an them in its place they urged the use of america the beautiful written by catherine lee bates they are opposed to the martial flavor of the star spangled ban ner the idea presented by the columbia college professors is not made without considerable thought they are thinking in terms of world-peace they realize that it will be impossible to have a peace loving america which stands upon its feet and sings of bombs burst ing in air and other passages that relate'primarily to war if this idea of world-peace is to be put across we must think peace act peace believe in peace and even sing of peace the star spangled banner is purely a war-time an them if refusal to recognize it as the national anthem would be a step toward world peace then no mat ter what our personal feeling for the old song may be we must say that its abolition is much to be pre ferred * * * science once more triumphs by use of a new and highly sensitive method of analysis two professors at alabama polytechnic institute have discovered the presence of ele ment number 87 the element was discovered by use of the new mag neto-optic method of analysis that the two alabama professors have developed nothing of the charac teristics of this new element are known the method of analysis merely denotes its presence it would be impossible to pre dict what might develop from a knowledge of this new element man is continually searching for new facts and new things every thing that man has been able to de vise or handle has found a use in his life perhaps no new and startling scientific development will come out of this discovery in the very near future but we may be assured that no stone will be left unturned until the wheels of industry move just a little faster because of the knowl edge that has been newly acquired this is station wcba the queen city station allentown pa charles a milson 13 announcing we felt that our listeners are all interested in the man at the mike who he is what he does and what he likes to do so tonight your announcer will be interviewed by a reporter from the staff of the brown and white the semi-weekly newspaper published by the students of lehigh university mr milson will you tell your listeners about some of your excit ing times as a radio announcer here in wcba which is a very small station we have very little excitement i have found radio an nouncing a very monotonous job in fact if one were not kept so busy he would become lonesome up here what do you do that keeps you so busy before a program opens i must get the names of all those having special numbers the names of all the musical numbers to be played or sung if it is an advertising pro gram i must get a copy of the ad talks and read then over finally brown and white vol xxxvii no 29 houses to discuss lehigh periodicals zeppelin's tour to be described by c.e.rosendahl bethlehem pa tuesday february ii 1930 board appoints new managers of fall sports barker depicts history and use of illumination lectures on light price five cents library compiles rare books list blood donors wanted stresses importance of cor rect quality intensity and color athletic council names men for next year's activities world news world peace the church and the soviets a new national anthem the eight-seventh element g.w.t all the lehigh news first