Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 31

              price five cents fred trafford threatens lehigh fraternity search for doctor's missing sign move follows o d x.'s resolution urging so ciety's abolition no holiday saturday wages war on sign stealing publication should be discontinued or re vised teams say prom set for may 9 many groups default superintendent of police may issue blanket search warrant warns sign movers students will not be granted excuses from classes to attend the public speaking contest at 11 a m washington's birthday saturday feb 22 although this date is also mid-winter alumni day classes will be held as usual according to a statement issued by the dean's office orators named for alumni day will jail students who displace no park ing signs six candidates chosen for annual public speak ing contest the rev frederick t trafford bethlehem police superintendent who yes terday warned the students of lehigh university that stealing of police depart ment signs will be punish ed with jail sentences nine houses win in bridge league arcadia submits limitation plan second round in frater nity contest to begin soon sends copies of proposed plan to living groups extensive program plan ned for annual winter homecoming president to speak lehigh alumni will be treated to an attractive program of sporting events and inspection trips through the new buildings when they return saturday for the annual winter homecoming president richards will speak to the alumni body on lehigh administration following a luncheon at 1 p m in drown hall personally conducted trips to the new library and packard laboratory buildings are scheduled for the morning following the campus in spection is a student oratorical con tent at 11 o'clock in packer mem orial church student leaders and faculty rep resentatives will speak at the alum ni homecoming luncheon in drown hall followed by dr richard's ad dress a trio of winter sporting events will provide entertainment in the afternoon the freshman basketball team will oppose the yearling quin tet from lafayette at 2:30 p m in taylor gymnasium at 3 p m the varsity swimmers will engage the college of the city of new york natators in the pool and at 3:30 p m the opening game of the le high-lafayette basketball series will be played the local alumni office expects an unusually large crowd to be pres ent at the homecoming on wash ington's birthday alumni of the va rious fraternity houses are expect ed to return for banquets dances and formal initiations pi delt favors by-law revision six candidates have been selected to compete for the cash prizes do noted by the alumni in the annual public speaking contest at 2 o'clock saturday feb 22 in packard audi torium the three candidates selected by prof m j luch from the engin eering curricula are libert t chandler m e 31 william h schellenberger c e 32 and rob ert h sawyer m e 32 the men from the arts and business col leges who will compete are ever ett a fay bus 31 john o'neill bus 31 and emauuel scoblionko arts 31 a g rau 82 herbert hurtzog 04 and robert s taylor 95 who were judges at last year's contest have again been invited to pass on the merits of the speakers the six candidates were selected at a trial debate held saturday the contest is open to any student not a freshman who is in good standing and has completed some course in public speaking at lehigh univer sity 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 is composed of arts and business stu dents the other of engineering stu dents considers placing hand book under board of publications a program attempting to limit the number of activities m which any one man may participate is be ing sponsored by o d k the plan was presented to arcadia last evening at their regular meeting in drown hall copies of this plan will be submitted to each living group and will be discussed by them be fore the next arcadia meeting the results of these discussions are to be submitted by the groups at that meeting the committee on the time and place of the class elections is to meet and present decisions to ar cadia at the next meeting the elec tions are to be held earlier this year in order to give the honorary fraternities more time to select their candidates electricals to hear reinicker writers to attend city court session search warrants will be issued for every lehigh fraternity unless a sign belonging to dr f h long coopersburg physician is returned shortly the rev fred trafford superintendent of police stated in his office sunday evening students moving no parking signs in front of physicians offices will serve jail sentences if caught the superintendent of police said the rev mr trafford also stated that rumors concerning his resignation as head of the beth lehem police are groundless for two successive years dr long has had signs stolen from his residence during initiation period at lehigh the physician asserts this year he has complained to the bethlehem police and declares that he is determined to prosecute un less the sign is returned imme diately the matter has been refer red to the interfraternity council and action is expected immediately on the return of g ellis oiler jr president who was out of town when the complaint was registered the rev mr trafford asserted that warrants for individual students would be sworn out if necessary to catch the offender ■ two policemen are being detailed to watch the residence of dr j edward james 128 west fourth street to apprehend college students who have been moving police signs in front of the residence fred trafford declares a jail sentence the first he v/ill have issued to lehigh students will follow another of fense similar complaints have been registered by dr clarence e dech of 408 wyandotte street rumors of his resignation are designated as the bunk by the police superintendent he still re tains his position as secretary of the lehigh union but is on a leave of absence until may 30 of trafford friday journalism students will be guests the burr should be discontinued or entirely revised according to the bull-session teams of theta kappa phi and section a taylor hall which met last evening at the fra ternity's house on delaware avenue it was also suggested that the edi torial policy of the brown and white be put on a higher level and that the lehigh review contain more scientific articles the relative merits and policies of lehigh publications were dis cussed in the first round of the re cently inaugurated interfraternity bull-sessions the burr was most severely criticized and was termed entirely destructive by the two teams kiep o'connell and sew ard represented theta kappa phi and templeton brooks and rob son represented taylor hall the judges prof j m toohey mr mcdonald and mr fevers award ed the decision the feasibility of combining the burr brown and white and the review into one magazine was dis cussed by kappa alpha and leon ard hall the judges professors percy hughes and charles fox and caldwell buck awarded the deci sion to kappa alpha who were rep resented by lewis morgan and larson beasley mcconnell and warner made up the leonard hall team the boosting of the burr was suggested so that a better contact be made with the alumni it was urged that the faculty cooperate with the publications the teams were of the opinion that freshmen should not be enrol led on the browr and white staff since upper classmen have a better knowledge of lehigh and its tradi tions several teams defaulted warren square to lambda chi alpha tay lor hall section c to alpha tau omega chi phi to phi sigma del ta pi lambda phi to sigma nu kappa sigma to psi upsilon the bull-sessions between sigma alpha mv and phi delta theta and sigma chi and chi psi were post poned the scimitar club shall be abol ished on the grounds that previous activities financial and conivial are not desirable and that it has failed to show any satisfactory reasons for existing was the decision reached yesterday afternoon by the com mittee on student activities this de cision is subject to the approval of the faculty the committee agreed upon may 9-11 as the date for house party they also recommended to the faculty that the freshman and sftphomore banquets may be held later than the night following eas ter vacation and on separate nights subject to the agreement on the part of the two cabinets that there shall be no fighting or kidnapping omicron delta kappa senior honoravy society was the first so ciety to pass a resolution against the scimitar club it maintained that the club lacked any definite pur pose the scimitar club is known as a sophomore honorary society and is composed of 18 undergrad uates the committee of student ac tvities in recommending the abol ishment of the scimitar club decid ed that as the club had no definite purpose it would be advantageous to the university if it were discon tinued the definite date of house party was at last fixed the petition of the interfraternity council for friday may 9 to sunday may 11 being granted the junior prom will be held friday night may 9 mustard and cheese will present its show and dance saturday afternoon may 10 the house dances will be held saturday evening the only athletic contest being played it home that week-end will be lehigh-navy la crosse game which will be played saturday afternoon the petition of the freshman and sophomore cabinets to hold the frcsbniaij and sophomore ban<|iu-ls was recommended to the faculty on the condition that both classes re frain from fighting and kidnapping it has always been the custom to hold the banquets on different nights but this year it was suggest ed that both be held on the same night dean mcconn hovewer de cided that if fighting would be abol ished he would allow the banquet to be held on separate nights no dates have yet been announced senior engineers are interviewed wright to talk on bygone rome lehigh to join mock tribunal nine fraternities are left in the interfraternity bridge tournament after the completion of the first round the summaries are phi gamma delta defeated phi sigma kappa kappa alpha defeated del ta l t psilon alpha tau omega de feated sigma chi chi psi defeated sigma phi epsilon phi delta theta defeated theta delta chi delta tau delta defeated pi lamb da phi sigma phi defeated beta theta pi delta phi defeated kap pa sigma tbeta kappa phi defeat ed alpha chi rho psi upsilon de feated chi phi lambda chi al pha defeated sigma nu and theta xi drew a bye the remaining matches in the second round must be played off as soon as possible according to r l anderson so that the tourna ment may proceed to the finals re turns should be given to anderson at the phi delta theta house little interest has been shown in the pool and bowling tournaments no reports have been made to da vidowitz at the pi lambda phi house about the pool or to dow at the phi sigma kappa house about the bowling students in the journalism and advanced reporting classes will at tend a session of the city court fri day afternoon as the guests of su perintendent of police fred traf ford about 15 or 2fl students are ex pected and superintendent trafford promises some interesting cases will send delegates to miniature league con vention apr 24-26 club to read play way of the world coming events wednesday will hear 200 year old comedy m g reinicker general superin tendent of the pennsylvania power and light company will speak to the electrical engineering society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in room 416 of the packard labora tory on the operation and the con struction of this high voltage in terconnection in pennsylvania and new jersey between the pennsylva nia power and light and the pub lic service companies e s brotzman a senior electri cal will deliver a paper entitled the bohemian scientist this pa per is a biography of the life of steinmetz • • three one-reel moving pictures loaned to the society by the gen eral electric company will be shown these films are entitled the king of the rails synch ronous selecter supervisory sys tem and vacuum-tube synchro nizing equipment wright to lecture revision of by-laws to permit election of members by point sys tem was discussed at a meeting of pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity last night al though the new by-laws if passed will not automatically entitle a man to membership they are based di rectly upon the point system donald stabler and robert p lentz jr were appointed to deter mine the advisability of placing the publication of freshman handbook under the board of publications king paget was appointed chair man of a committee to consider a complete revision of the epitome to consist of all present and past epi tome board members it was finally decided that there would be no house party publication as has heretofore been the custom mets to convene prof • bradley stoughton prof allison butts and earl s greiner will attend a convention of the am erican institute of mining and met allurgy engineering in new york city this week prof butts will be away . monday and tuesday and professor stoughton and mr grein er wednesday and thursday congrave's way of the world will be read at the meeting of the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 o'clock wednesday evening at the borne of prof and mrs robert w hall 37 e church street the club was originally scheduled to meet in drown hall the play is a comedy of manners famous for its portrayal of high english society of the early 18th century although over 200 years old it is still cosidered a live clas sic having been revived in london in 1904 and again in 1923 queer plants animals entertain in vivarium dr horace w wright head of the latin department described civ ilization in ancient rome from its traditional founding by romulus in 735 b c to the inception of the republic in 509 b c in a lecture before the faculty women's club this afternoon the title of dr wright's lecture was the city of kings 1 ' he illustrated his talk with 60 lantern slides some of which he personally procured when he was in italy the city of kings is the same lecture prof wright gave before the bethlehem women's club and before audiences in aurora auburn syracuse cornell and toronto canada and is the lecture he will deliver in the middle west after the christmas meeting of the archeolo gical society of america of which he is corresponding secretary mechanicals receive automobile engines ah motors are of latest types the senior engineers of the va rious engineering departments are to be interviewed within the next month by representatives of a great number of industrial concerns these interviews give the student an idea of the opportunities offered in different lines of work besides enabling the companies to discover the type of men they desire representatives of the new jer sey public service electric and gas company the baily meter company and the pittsburg plate glass com pany interviewed the senior mech anical and electrical egineers re cently tomorrow representatives of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company will inter view senior mechanical and electri cal engineers thursday and friday they will be interviewed by repre sentatives of the ingersol rand manufacturing company the senior electrical engineers will be interviewed by the americ an telephone and telegraph com pany on feb 25 the bell tele phone company on march 3 and the general electric company on march 25 lehigh will send delegates to the mock league of nations conven tion which will be held at lafayette college april 24 25 and 26 it was decided at a meeting of the interna tional relations society last eve ning lafayette has already participat ed in a similar mock league conven tion although this idea is quite new to lehigh last year lafayette sent delegates to one of the larger east ern colleges with such success that the international relations club was encouraged to follow suit at these conventions each dele gation from a college represents some great foreign power the reg ular proceedure of the league meet ings is followed in detail and var ious problems of international scope are considered with customary dip lomatic courtesy the election of new members was postponed be cause of the small attendance at the meeting dr h w wright head of the department of latin will deliver a lecture on the city of the kings at the meeting of the university woman's club at 3 p m tomorrow in drown hall tea will be served to faculty members and their wives after the meeting mrs r m smith is chairman oj the committee in charge of the program fem-sem cop wakened chases noisy initiates attorney joins campus society the mechanical engineering de partment has received its quota of 11 automobile engines for use in the internal combustion laboratory in the packard building these en gines were obtained through the ef forts of a r glancy m e 03 president of the alumni association the following engines have been received and are to ready to be set up franklin packard 8 la salle buick oakland pontiac chrysler 77 willys knight viking olds mobile general motors truck mo tor and an oakland chassis a bethlehem diesel engine as well as several otis gas engines have also been installed in the laboratory wright to teach course at perm today 2:30 p m meeting of the univer , sity's women's club drown hall members of the faculty and ad ministrative officers are invited to tea at 4:30 o'clock 7:30 p m meeting of lehigh un ion drown hall wednesday 7:30 p m freshman basketball vs muhlenberg frosh y m c a gym allentown 8 p m joint meeting of the phy sics club and the radio club phy stes lecture room physics build ing demonstrations with short electric waves 8:15 p m varsity basketball vs muhlenberg y m c a gym allentown thursday 7:30 p m meeting of the chemi cal society chemistry laboratory mr howard s leach will speak on the pleasures and measure of books 7:30 p m meeting of the electrical engineering society room 416 packard laboratory mr n g reinicker of the pennsylvania power and light company will give an illustrated lecture on the pennsylvania-new jersey inter connection 7:45 p m combined meeting of the civil engineering society and the mining and geological society packard auditorium illustrated lecture on from cape town to cairo by dr j t singewald of johns hopkins university saturday 11 a m oratorical contest packer memorial church 1 p m alumni homecoming lun cheon cafeteria drown hall 2 p m meeting of alumni drown hall 2:30 p m freshman basketball vs lafayette freshmen taylor gym 3 p m varsity swimming vs c c n v taylor gym 3:30 p m varsity basketball vs lafayette taylor gym senator hawes in a radio address saturday urged that the philippines be granted independence the phil ippine question has boomed many times before in the past decade or two and will boom again the fil ipinos began their fight for free dom under aguinaldo shortly after the spanish-american war aguin aldo's movement for independence was put down by force of arms la ter day movements for indepen dence have been put down with of ficial indifference to the pleadings of a subject people a promise of fu ture reform or a half-hearted inves tigation which accomplished very little the filipinos have a perfect right to demand independence and their pleas should be listened to the filipinos are of malay des cent they think and act as malays if granted independence they will set up a government that is typi cally malay and one that is better fitted to govern malays rather than one that is concerned chiefly with the business interests of a foreign power a government created by malays would be better able to gov ern the people of the philippines than any which may be drafted in washington a united liberty-loving people begs independence of a nation that has based its national existence upon a principle of liberty for all but we refuse to listen what do we mean by liberty ♦ * * since a new york senator made his anti-prohibition speech in the senate the liquor problem once more becomes fodder for serious nation-wide discussion the drys are a little more dogmatic in ascerting the merits of prohibition and the wets are more determined than ever to bring the question once more to a nation-wide vote * * * prohibition has ceased to remain a liquor question it has become a problem of government prohibition is being opposed on religious mor al economic social and political grounds charges and counter charges are being made authori ties have been quoted whose evi dence seems to prove conclusively that prohibition is both a very great success and a very great failure what everything is all about the people do not know what is more most of them do not care prohibi tion means that people must now enter the back doors of establish ments where formerly they entered the front prohibition cannot be en forced upon a people who do not look favorably toward it wheter or not prohibition is a benefit to the nation matters little harry guggenheim united states ambassador to cuba and the cu ban secretary of state martinez ortiz spoke of the great friendship between cuba and the united states when they addressed a crowd of 50,000 people in havana in com memoration of the sinking of the battleship main february 15 1898 ambassador guggenheim stated that a divine conspiracy linked the two nations it is almost impossible to con ceive of any two nations being link ed together through pure love of each other or by divine conspir acy the united states and cuba are bosom friends not because of any predetermined arrangement or altruistic feeling but because friend ship between the two nations is ne cessary due to pure economic rea sons the very economic life of cuba depends upon american markets for its raw materials — principally supar and iron ore nor could cuba hope to exist without the necessi ties of life which it imports from america the united states is friendly with cuba because it needs the american markets friendship between nations is measured in monetary values and not in beauti ful sentiment the prosperity of cuba depends upon the prosperity of america — perhaps that is di vine conspiracy ♦ * * law-making has become a great american custom the value of a state legislature is measured in terms of the number of laws it is able to pass while in session any legislature that cannot pass more laws than one which preceded it is evidently a failure with the great increase in the number of laws that enter the statute books there are ne cessary laws to be broken and more criminals to fill our prisons people are being jailed today who would have remained law abiding citizens ten years ago automobiles prohibition and cor porations are responsible for these new classes of criminals the ques tion arises what shall we do with this increasing mass of law offend ers pennsylvania has solved the question by building a new east ern penitentiary at montgomery county hills larger and roomier penitentiaries are of course only a remedy and not a solution to the problem law making is expensive law-enforce ment is expensive and the accorn odation of criminals is decidedly expensive less law-making will be a perfect solution to all three prob lems russel c mauch district attor ney of northampton county was elected an honorary member to the pre-legal society thursday eve ning feb 13 at a meeting held in the packard laboratory the com mittee on lectures reported that judges robert a stotz of north ampton county and claude t reno of lehigh county will lecture at open meetings of the society in march and april respectively a committee composed of d s sawyer chairman n misbit and s h goodman was appointed to make arrangements for the annual banquet which will be held some time in may it was decided also to put the picture of the society in the epitome a committee of s h goodman chairman w g man go and s edelman was appointed to gather and consider literature in regard to an insignia for the so ciety members a shot rang out and special offi cer christie anderson sprang into action across the campus of the moravian college and seminary for women he pursued the culprits — 10 or 12 young men — whom he had nearly caught red handed in the dishonorable acts of calling to the seminary students and tossing peb bles and small sticks at windows to attract the attention of the young women the officer awakened by the noise of this hitherto unseemly and extraordinary conduct pulled on his trousers hastily and hurried out into the chill night to drive away — with force if necessary — the intruders at first they would not heed his advice and when they began srtow balling him he saw red pulled out his gun and fired into the air the youths ran all but one who stood his ground and faced the gal loping officer such heroics did no dr horace w wright head of the latin department will give two courses in latin at the graduate school of the university of penn sylvania this summer one course will deal with livy ancient latin historian and the other will cover the later books of aeneid good however for another shot rent the air and anderson intent on doing his duty ' bounded on with the fleeing youths racing be fore him the officer pursued them out vineyard to spring street and over the hill-to-hill bridge to church street anderson who had been sworn in as a special officer by order of mayor robert pfeifle felt that his duty and jurisdiction did not ex tend to points beyond the territory invaded and so gave up the chase he explained at headquarters that he had not recognized any of the men an official police investigation later tended to show that the youths were college students who as neo phytes in a fraternity initiation were required to go down on the cam pus and make fools of themselves by endeavoring to'attract the atten tion of the fem-sem girls until driven away green at times a few goldfish ca vort around in a pood of their own those students with fishing habits however are warned to keep their distance when in possession of fish ing tackle as fishing is strictly for bidden if one of the plants moves when touched don't be frightened this is merely a sentitive plant whose technical name is too much of a tongue twister for businessmen and engineers for the desert . raised student there are several rare cac tus plants to make him feel right at home or if he is from the south the small palms and the tall papry us plant are good antidotes against homesickness the lover of four-footed animals is invited to descend to the second floor of the vivarium here in two rooms are kept at times several nice fuzzy rabbits with ever mov ing pink noses one room contains normal animals the other those un der treatment bacteria are inject ed into the animals and their reac tion studied by future doctors while the long eared quadrupeds chew upon leaves of lettuce dear old lehigh is host to sundry animals of the lower species any one who believes this statement is so much hot air is requested to vis it the vivarium which the depart ment of biology is developing on the third floor of the new glass roofed addition to williams hall cursory inspection of the various tanks on the floor reveals alligators gold fish a trained frog turtles and salamanders for the botanist there is a nice collection of tropical plants in the center of the room is a pool partly fillefl with water this is the residence of the trained frog who enjoys having his back scratch ed if the scratcher can catch him for the slow student the turtles of fer a few moments of relaxation with the possibilities of one of those speedy turtle races we hear so much about for the student thinking of committing suicide there are the alligators which we understand have nice sharp teeth near the bridge into williams hall is a small basin containing two dark lizard like creatures these little salaman ders seem happy dressed in red and brown and white vol xxxvii no 31 burr is attacked in bull - sessions bethlehem pa tuesday february 18 1930 committee asks faculty to ban scimitar club sporting events inspection trips alumni schedule all the lehigh news first world news shades of aguinaldo the people and prohibition divine conspiracy the great american custom g.w.t