Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 32

              phases of peace and prohibition have been selected by five of the six students who are participating in the annual public speaking con test to be held at 11 a m tomorrow in the packard auditorium one of the speakers will talk on state sov ereignty six men to compete majority of participants select peace and pro hibition as subjects orators choose contest topics for alumni day vol xxxvii no m brown and white bidwell to give fifth in series of nature talks h leach traces rise of library dean mcconn describes growth cm university the growth of lehigh since 1922 in the number of studsnts faculty and buildings and the advance ment due to improved curricula and equipment were explained by dean c m mcconn tuesday evening to the local lodge of the b'nai brith in the jewish community center at brodhead and packer avenues dean mcconn also declared that lehigh makes no small contribu tion to the financial activities of the city for it and those connected with it expend annually here up wards 2,000,000 while this is im portant it is really subordinate to the other advantages it brings to your community a university's activities may be divided into three channels the dean continued to explain — stu dents and curricula the faculty and buildings and equipment in all three of these fields lehigh has made progress in the last eight years along the same lines that have been marking progress throughout institutions of higher learning elsewhere big gain since 1922 dealing with the matter of in creased student body the dean said that since 1922 we gained fifty percent in spite of obstacles among the obstacles besides in all juniors will submit a list of their respective activities to frank anders rushong at the phi gamma delta house as soon as possible the lists will be con sidered by cyanide junior hon orary society when they elect two new men to fill vacancies creased cost higher entrance re quirements was the drawback of having been continuously defeated in major athletics he continued to modify this statement however by saying that i personally do not think that this may be counted as important improvement in the physical plant was brought out by noticing the advancement made in the de sign and equipment of the packard lab and the new library from christmas hall the first building on the campus the greatest need of buildings at the present is a build ing for the medical department and an aditorium large enough to seat the entire student body according to dean mcconn continued on page four the new arts curriculum which gives the incoming freshman a greater choice of electives was commended by the dean as being the first movement in higher edu cation providing a system of co relating the work of the freshmen with t the work they left off when they entered orientation week has proved to be of importance for the adaption of an incoming man to his new environment and aids in carrying out the improved curricula in all departments declared the dean alumni program 11:00 a m oratorical contest packer memorial church 1 00 p m luncheon cafeteria drown hall 2.00 p m alumni meeting drown hall 2:30 p m freshman basketball vs lafayette freshmen tay lor gymnasium 3:00 p m varsity swimming vs college of the city of new york taylor gymnasium 3:30 p m varsity basketball vs lafayette taylor gymnasium will speak on what the universe is made of describes book develop ment and advance in writing materials m.&c re-engages j.o'neil as coach epitome orders manual covers singewald tells of african trip talk set for monday reinicker speaks to electricals art studies of campus appears as theme throughout this year's play not yet chosen first tryouts march 24 pennsylvania power and light company man ager lectures johns hopkins geologist describes scientific travels campus tour planned registration in the alumni office will start the program at 9 a m the alumni will then be welcomed everywhere on the campus with the new library the new home of the mining and metallurgical depart ment and the new vivarium of the biology department points of parti cular attention guides will be on hand to conduct small groups of alumni to these places at 11 a m the public speaking contest will take place in packard auditorium and prizes amounting to 100 will be given the judges of the con test will be albert g rau 88 m c schrader 95 and herbert j hartzog 04 lunch will be served at 1 p m in drown hall after which the alumni will assemble in the audi torium of that building where short talks will be given by the heads of several departments of the university on how things are going g e oiler jr 30 will speak for the student body and pres c r richards will close the talks with an account of what the administration is doing at 3:30 p m the alumni will go to the lower gym to witness the basketball game with lafayette in the evening alumni will attend fra ternity initiations and dances n g reinicher general manag er of the pennsylvania power and light company spoke on the inter connection of power between power and light companies at a meeting of the electrical engineering so ciety last evening in packard labor atory preceding mr reinicher's talkj e s brotzman 30 gave a very excellent outline on the life of charles steinmetz mr brotzman related various in cidents about mr steinmetz's be ginning in america he called him the bohemian scientist mr reinicher spoke of the de velopment of the penna power and light company in pennsylvania he illustrated his talk by moving pic tures and slides showing load curves and how the various com panies could save considerably by the interchange of power a dis cussion followed his talk following these talks two reels of film from the general electric company were shown to the mem bers covers for the 1930 epitome have been definitely ordered the cover will be of black imitation leather with an engraving of the entrance to packard laboratory done in bronze the covers are being done by the s k smith company mak ers of yearbook covers w r okeson has written a re sume of athletics at lehigh which will introduce the athletic section of the epitome the theme of the art studies which will appear throughout the annual will be the lehigh campus engravings of buildings walks and scenes familiar to all lehigh men will be found throughout the book practically all of the material for the epitome has gone to press and any organizations that have not submitted the names of their mem bers as they will appear in the pic tures are urged to do so at once these lists should be sent to carl claus at the delta ltpsilon house dramatic club to read hebell rotc officers are inspected review board elects seven new members at end of march third quarterly number to appear work on the university labora tory is nearing an end when com pleted it will rank as one of the greatest college libraries in the country having enough room to shelve over one half a million vol umes and will compare with those at dartmouth wesleyan holy cross and williams the five floors in the building give five times as much space as the old library had much of this space will be used exclusively by professors conducting seminar and research work although facilities for student reading and study will be found on every floor an eleva tor runs between the five floors primarily for carrying books but passengers are allowed club room is feature one of the innovations of the new building is a club room at present it is called the browsing room but h s leach librarian hopes it will acquire another name from the donor of some books for it smoking reading and studying can help pass away the hours in this spot mr leach hopes that an atmos phere of sincere study will always be present throughout the building only librarians will be in charge of the main reading room and they do not wish any disciplinary duties the library has received from the state library of virginia a full set of the colonial records of vir ginia on exchange account this set is valued at 187.50 and will be paid for by sending the virginia state li brary duplicate books in history economics and sociology which come to the library by gift exchange relations between col lege and university libraries either on a priced or piece-for-piece ex change is one of the ways in which libraries build up their collections and use to advantage duplicate books that they get the exchange relations with other libraries has greatly increased at lehigh since the lehigh institute of research be gan to publish its two series one in the humanities and the other in science and technology requests have come to exchange relations from libraries in foreign countries as well as from libraries in the united states and canada valuable studies in all fields are thus obtain ed which might if bought run into a fairly large figure special exchange relations have been arranged between the lehigh library and the new york public the baryland historical society queens college in canada the uni versity of illinois and the virginia state libraries it is anticipated that these exchange relations will grow in number and importance with the growth of publication on the part of the lehigh institute of research j r o'neil of the perrin pro ducing company of new york city has been engaged by the mustard and cheese club to coach the play to be given this spring by the so ciety mr o'neil directed last year's play the play to be given this year has not yet been decided upon the selection to choose from has been narrowed down to three plays and ti will depend whether these plays are free for amateur production be fore the final choice can be made journeys end sheriff's war story is one of the plays under consider ation this play is a drama of the british front line and has an all male cast the play made a great success in london when produced there and when later produced in new york city was received with enthusiasm broadway is also under consid eration this is a play of the new york underworld and the great and far reaching racketeer system of the criminal world the current broadway success the comedy success shannons of broadway is also being consid ered this play follows the adven tures of a vaudeville couple it was a great success on broadway and enjoyed a long run the initial try-outs for parts in the spring production will be held on march 24 all men interested are urged to try out as they will be judged on their ability and not on previous work the shows will be given during the week preceding house party j s long speaks chemists alter lighting fixture although the church kept nearly all the learning intact during the middle ages it frowned very much on the invention of printing because it would put the works of the great scholars in the hands of the rabble said howard s leach librarian of the lehigh university library in an address before the chemical so ciety at its meeting last evening in the chemistry building mr leach traced the history of libraries from the mythological li braries of the gods which is said to have contained the mysterious fluid that would make poets out of those who drank it through the ar chive of ancient kings and emper ors down to the collection of maps books and records now known as the modern library the development of the books in the libraries depended directly upon the development of writing mater ials the ancients had their records cut into stone and the old kings had vast halls filled with slabs cov ered with the history of their time papyrus replaced stone a material made of reeds and known as papyrus was the first sub stance to replace stone in the keep ing of the story of the generation as well as the early attempts at dra ma the skins of animals stretched and tanned into what we know as parchment took the place of papy rus it was a day of celebration when parchment was so made as to be writable on both sides of a sheet a very fine material known as vel lum supplanted parchment and was used extensively down to the day of printing even after the inven tion of paper by the chinese vel lum was used for quite some time in the printing of jsgry fine books 7 i/fijfpies were in existence back tii the prosperous day of alexan dria and romej^rtrlfej^aiexandria li urajrww^s^jwbaoty the most fam li*sv but it was destroyed during the early bart of iu^sgjjenth cen turv^liki^jf jfctfrfti century there t^ri-t8 libraries in rome alone continued on page four the new lehigh library will house a very fine collection of val uable old books mr leach said for a library only 50 years old the 185.000 books is quite exceptional lehigh is one of seven colleges in the lehigh review last evening elected emmanuel a honig 31 walton forstall 31 revere beas ley 31 maurice b rosalsky 32 and harold a stabler 31 to the business board subject to the ap proval of the board of publications rudolf imhof 31 was reinstated as a member upon his return to col lege plans were made for the third number of the review which will appear during the latter part of march and will contain a short story entitled you can't fool with love several other short stories some scientific articles and the usual book review and miscel laneous articles dr james scott long professor of inorganic chemistry presented a paper at the weekly meeting of the philadelphia paint and varnish club last tuesday in that city lehigh university under the di rection of doctor long is cooper ating with the club in promoting a program of research in the paint and varnish industry a member of the club worked in the university upon a project involving the body and drying quality of the various oils used in the manufacture of paints last year inspection of scabbard and blade honorary society for r.o.t c officers took place thursday fel 20 for the first time in several years second lieutenant k a wing of the third corgi asear»<?ijt artillery resejg«3^i!fii v ctiarge the inspection the scabbard and blade rifle meet with tie frh er societiesjn thg ifi^ttfc^a organiza tion were gjj3£|js*e'rpat the society's meeting last monday < the rifle i^mrejmjoejs^filigl me society is cojrj^fe&vrr y d dick erson r gaad g c vaughan f k paget and w w larry the chances of having a military ball were also discussed but the subject was deferred until the next meeting at which time definite plans will be made for the open meeting to be held in march young engineers best says electrical head sun inn local landmark sheltered famous men agnes bernauer by hebell will be read at the next meeting of the faculty dramatic club wed nesday evening march 5 at the home of prof r w hall j a congreve's the way of the world was read last wednesday evening congreve's play was written in 1700 and has received world-wide acclaim since the time of its first appearance although lengthy and drawn-out it ranks as one of the world's best satirical comedies on london manners and customs attendance at the meeting num bered about 20 including members of the faculty and visitors a short general discussion followed the reading lehigh man marries arthur m rosenbush 29 mem ber of the sigma alpha mv frater nity married miss helen margar et pfeifle daughter of the mayor of bethlehem on feb 7 the wed ding was secret being held in brookline mass trafford presented with watch as gift lege trained technicians columbia professor praises col lambda chi alpha fraternity gives present on birthday dr joseph t singewald head of geology department of johns hop kins university described his trip from capetown to cairo through the heart of africa last evening in packard laboratory before a com bined meeting of the civil mining and geological societies in his illustrated talk he pointed out the commercial possibilities of the practically undeveloped nile valley and the interior of africa his whole trip lasted about six and a half months of which four and a half were spent in the actual tra versing of some 9,200 miles from capetown to cairo by automobile the expedition was delayed only once during the whole time by the cars becoming stuck in mud at this time the caravan had to await the arrival of a team of mu,les to pull the car to solid ground pro fessor singewald said that while his co-worker dr mcdonald was driving over the veldt he had the machine traveling in excess of 60 miles an hour a decided improve ment over the old style of travel when horses and foot locomotion were the only means of transpor tation in many cases roads had to be constructed before the expedi tion could move forward it was very fortunate in fording streams and suffered only minor troubles from the water rising above the floor boards at these times the car's battery was used to furnish power to carry the stalled car to shore explains costumes in an explanation of the slides showing the native costumes dr singewald remarked that the afri can natives were quite similar to their white brothers in that the men always wore more clothes than the women which in most cases was only a string of beads and a gee string around the loins other pic tures showed native agriculture hut building and mannerisms an outstanding feature of the journey was the small number of natives used as helpers by the geo logists while on their trek it was remarked that the fewer used the better as not only did they contin ually need guidance by the white men but that the personal stench that went with each one was suffi cient to cause no little discomfort to a delicate nose coming events prof charles c bidwell head of the department of physics will speak on what the universe is made of at 8 p m monday in packard auditorium this will be the fifth of a series on man's con quest of nature given by the uni versity the structure of the atoms that make up the various forms of mat ter will be explained actual spectra of a number of elements will be shown and demonstrations of certain phenomena of wave mo tion which will indicate how the spectral of lines of elements may originate and will suggest what the mechanism of the atom may be will be given the lecture will give an insight into the methods of in vestigation by which our knowledge in this field is obtained slides giv ing conceptions of the various ato mic theories have been prepared and will clearly show the support of these theories kinetic theory offered the atomic theory remained but a speculation until the advent of the 19th century when attention was directed to the kinetic theory of gases this theory offers a ready ex planation of many phenomena and will be illustrated by a lantern ex periment which gives an idea of the present conception of gases profes sor bidwell will have lattice mod els to show more clearly the struc ture of atoms slides will be presented that show how it is impossible to sort out long and short waves in a beam of light by means of a spectrum spectrams of iron and mercury with photo graphs that will show the manner in obtaining them for precision studies will also be pictured on the screen slides to show atom professor bidwell will make addi tional experiments which will deal with the discharge of electricity in gases long tubes under exhaus tion neon tubes and cathode ray tubes are to be used in these dem onstrations which will illustrate many of the experiments performed by j j thompson to whom the discovery of the electrons is attri buted slides portraying the bohr atom will be shown to help under stand bohr's conception of the atom and which will throw light on a new theory advanced by a frenchman de broglie some five years ago experiments conistiut ing the experimental support for the de broglie atom are to follow diffraction another wave phenon emon is to be explained and illus trated with slides giving ideas as to this sort of interference of water ripples and refraction from crystal lattices publications board may print handbook a new style of lighting is now being installed in the chemistry building lecture hall according to the department the new lights will be a much needed improvement over the old system and will in sure illumination in all parts of the room a powerful bank of 25 x-ray lamps has been erected above the lecture table these lamps are somewhat similar to the familiar footlights in every theater the bank may be controlled from three different points and is con nected in two separate lines pow er for the entire installation is ob tained from a recently installed transformer room that is capable of running every piece of apparat us in the building at full speed at the same time kiwanis hears gipson in historical speech bible by several men innovation replaces control of professor recalls economic con ditions 100 years ago cyanide to hold first tea dance of season conditions one hundred years ago was the subject of a talk de livered yesterday by dr l h gip son head of the department of his tory and government at a meeting of the local kiwanians dr gipson's talk dated back to 1830 a critical period in the history of the united states in referring to 1830 he declared that during that year the first lots in what is now chicago were sold the baltimore and ohio railroad ran its first train over a stretch of 14 miles on wood en rails and the first planing mill in the country was erected dr gipson also described in detail the tariff of 1828 and its effects on the country prof walter i slichter head of the department of electrical engin eering of columbia university said recently that the day of the young man in engineering has come co incident with this statement comes another to the effect that every able electrical engineering gradu ate of columbia this year will have a chance to commence important re search work in the laboratories of from four to seven large corpora tions the demand for technically trained men says professor slich ter is ever increasing and as a matter of fact is greater than tech nical schools can supply older engineers despite their years of practical experience are less able to cope with the present day research problems than the 1929 graduate who has training in that particular field great techni cal corporations such as general electric westinghouse electric and american telegraph and tel ephone are not satisfied to consider the applications of the graduates of any one school but actually com pete for the services of students with promising records the ffeshman handbook may be published from now on under the direction of the board of publica tions suggestions that the handbook be published under the publication department instead of being under the direction of a few individuals was brought up for consideration at a meeting of the lehigh union thursday evening in drown hall this will place the freshman bible under the same direction as the brown and white the burr and other lehigh publications robert p lentz 30 and z g letowt 30 represented the le high union at the intercollegiate y m c a convention held last week end at buckhill falls pa they only know about washing ton but there were many others famous in history who have stayed here asserted thomas f newby the present proprietor of the his toric sun inn on north main street when approached by a visitor in the lobby of the hostelry a meeting of the continental congress was once held here he continued quite friendly now john hancock presided and a resolution was passed assuring the local mor avions who had been friendly to the revolutionary cause of the support and protection of the government no the old room in which washington stayed is gone he added less scornfully there are parts of it left but most of it was changed when the building was re modeled about ten years ago but there are many other historical per sonages besides washington who stayed here he was a guest here for only one night july 24 1282 but lafayette stayed here for over a week pulaski yon steuben gates and sullivan were some of the prominent men who were guests here at some time or another saturday 11:00 a m oratorical contest packer memorial church 1 00 p m alumni homecoming luncheon cafteria drown hall 2:00 p m alumni meeting drown hall 2:30 p m freshman basketball vs lafayette freshmen taylor gym nasium 3:00 p m varsity swimming vs college of the city of new york taylor gymnasium 3:30 p m varsity basketball vs lafayette taylor gymnasium friday 7:30 p m meeting of tau beta pi packard auditorium monday 8:00 p m university lecture what the universe is made of by prof charles c bidwell packard laboratory tuesday 8:00 p m dr w d chase of bethlehem will speak to the ro bert w hall pre-medical society on sinisters biological lecture room williams hall fred t trafford superintendent of police was presented an engrav ed solid gold watch tuesday eve ning at a banquet tendered to him by the lambda chi alpha frater nity held in the chapter house on delaware avenue in honor of his birthday and because of the friend ship which on many occasions he has shown to that fraternity the watch is finished with ma sonic emblems it is of white gold and bears the symbols of the blue lodge of masons inscribed upon is are the words to fred t traf fard in recognition of the service and loyalty rendered to lambda chi alpha fraternity robert t harris president of the chapter formally presented the gift to mr trafford the guests and donors of the gift included alumni as well as active members of the fraternity a gold bound edition of the life and letters of woodrow wilson was also given to the superinten dent cyanide club will hold a tea dance saturday march 1 in drown hall it was decided at a meeting of the club last monday night f h morhart 31 and frank stutz 31 were appointed as a committee on arrangements the cyanide dance will be the first of the spring season another tea dance to be given by the jun ior class will probably be held march 29 the next meeting of the cyanide club will be called feb 24 in order to elect new members to take the place of two who were forced out this semester you would be surprised at some people's knowledge of history mr newby smiled reminiscently be fore the old washington room was done away with there were many visitors to the historic spot a gas jet had been installed and one wo man knew so little about history that she asked me if the gat jet had been there when washington slept in the room another time chuckled the pro prietor a woman looked at an old brussels carpet which we had in the parlor it was beginning to show wear and as the lady glanced at it she innocently asked was this here when washington stayed here with a wry smile mr newby turned to the visitor this is what i told her i said madam this car pet may be old but it was not here when washington stayed here and then i walked out a word of thanks a word of fare well and the visitor stepped out on main street and on the wall of the inn he discovered a tablet which reveals to any one who cares to look that the sun inn was built in 1758 to lecture monday bethlehem pa friday february 21 1930 long's action vital for campus search price five cents library to rank among greatest on completion largest alumni body to return for homecoming 200 expected to partici pate in mid winter program space provided for over half a million volumes work nearly finished dr richards will talk approximately 200 alumni will return to lehigh's campus tomor row for the annual mid-winter homecoming this will be the larg est reunion of alumni at an affair of this kind in the history of the uni versity the alumni officers have arranged an extensive program which will give their guests an idea of the modern conditions at lehigh search warrants for tracing a sign stolen from the home of dr h f long coopersburg physician cannot be issued on lehigh fraternities until a war rant is sworn out by dr long according to the rev f t traf ford superintendent of police it is alleged that the sign was tak en by lehigh fraternity initiates dr long asserts that the sign has been stolen for two succes sive years dr long must go to a justice of peace or alderman in order to have a search warrant sworn out the rev mr trafford stat ed if he should do so i should be compelled to detail men to serve them the superintendent of police added the statement was issued following an article which appeared in the tuesday brown and white declaring that the rev mr trafford threaten ed to search the lehigh fraterni ties prof charles c bidwell activity list wanted the public speaking contest which is a part of the program of the alumni mid-winter homecom ing is expected to be attended by a large body of alumni and stu dents the topics for tomorrow's program and the men who will de liver them are as follows interna tional peace by l t chandler eng 32 state sovereignty by e a fay bus 31 a new move for peace by j o'neill bus 31 where prohibition is a success by w e schellenberger c e 32 the kellogg pact by g e scob lionko arts 31 the indepen dence of prohibition by r h swoyer eng 32 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first