Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 33

              the sage of hellertown re ports that as he was crossing his wheat field saturday morning he was frightened by a ground hog scurrying by his feet declares ancient greeks speculated on kinetic theory of matter organization recommends new distribution sys tem at meeting grads inspect campus alumni hear debate 300 attend lecture 18 points is miximum attend oratorical contest meeting and athletic games richards seeks new dormitory two debates to be broad cast by wcba this week plans progress for house party lists university needs at alumni meeting sat urday no tea dance will be held friday after noon to explain what the universe is made of prof c c bidwell ad vanced the bohr and lewis theories concerning the structure aud func tions of atoms last evening in pack ard auditorium to an audience of about 300 more than six graphic experiments and many lantern slides supplemented the lecture dr bidwell started by speaking of kinetic energy in gas which he demonstrated by heating crystals in a tube and showing by their mo tion the appearance of magnified atoms in action the ancient greeks speculated on the kinetic theory of matter the speaker said but they could not demonstrate it nineteenth century physicists had no explanation what ever of the atom but late in the century faraday discovered that the atom contained electricity and he succeeded in measuring the amount it contained experiments followed by many men resulting in modern knowledge of the atom demonstrates resonance professor bidwell demonstrated resonance i many ways both sta tionary and unstationary by means of a vibrating cord this cord about 20 feet long was fastened at one end and set vibrating by a ma chine at the other end by regulat ing the speed of the vibrations dif ferent frequencies were shown and the blanks and crests pointed out three meter radio waves and their relation to the blanks and crests of the cord were shown by the brightening and dimming of a small bulb to copper rods which was moved between two screens of wires by the lecturer professor bidwell showed elec trons passing through a vacuum tube containing a florescent screen to color the stream of electrons and deflected their course by a magnet ic field these tubes are sometimes called neon tubes and are used for air beacons advertisements and in places where a strong light is needed continued on page four g e scoblionko arts 31 and william h schellenberger c e 32 were winners in their respec tive divisions in the oratorical con test held saturday in the auditor ium packard laboratory as part of the program for the alumni mid winter homecoming the other winners were e a fay bus 31 j o'neil bus 31 r h swoyer m e 32 and l t chandler m e 32 scoblionko spoke on the kellogg peace pact while where prohibition is a success was the topic of schellenberger's address scoblionko in his talk pointed out the dangers that would arise if the united states should with draw from the peace pact he de clared that it would be a very poor policy for the united states to withdraw from the kellogg peace pace at the present time due to the fact that we have large sums of money invested in foreign coun tries he also stated that if we should withdraw from the pact we would surrender the idealism which we were able through the greatest diplomatic victory in our history to have achieved we would be out lawing from the civilized world not war but in reality the united states of america prohibition praised schellenberger told in what re spects prohibition was a success he stated that prohibition has made the working man more thrif ty with very few exceptions pro hibition has advanced the progress of the united states by making the working man more reliable and that economically it is a success he also said that the united states has saved 15,000,000,000 since the volstead act has gone into effect judges for the contest were a g rau 82 herbert hurtzog 04 and robert taylor 95 these al umni were the judges of last year's contest the prizes consisted of two firsts two seconds and two thirds the first prizes were 25 the seconds 15 and the last 10 mcconn's article describes rah rah college students and cheese show anw dance at will be followed by the mustard drown hall the play has not been definitely picked but negotiations are in progress for several late broadway successes j r o'neil coach of last year's production the bad man has been retained to supervise this year's drama mr o'neil has had considerable suc cess in such broadway shows as irene listen lester and lit tle jesse james a dance will follow the presenta tion and numerous houses will combine to give closed dances that evening many out-of-town orches tras are expected to play for fair lehigh visitors informal dinners will prevail sunday until 3 p m official end of spring house party friday afternoon tea dances dur ing spring house party will be abol ished as the result of suggestions made by the interfraternity coun cil and approved by the committee on student activities the junior prom a lacrosse game mustard and cheese entertainment and house dances form the program for the week-end of may 9 scabbard and blade will not hold its customary tea dance friday af ternoon so the junior prom will officially open the spring house party season negotiations are in progress with some of the leading dance orchestras of the country ted weems and guy lombardo being favored at present the jun ior class is also considering the time of the dance this year's sen ior prom was successful as a ten till three dance so this precedent may be followed in the spring lacrosse will be the first event classes excluded to wake the house party participants on satur day the game is with navy and student convention will be held here eta sigma phi hears westermann mar 2 representatives from eight col leges to attend a i e e meeting march 17 professor to describe ancient banking in talk thursday a distribution of student activi ties plan has been recommended to arcadia by the lehigh circle of omicron delta kappa it consists of a division of all ex tra-curricular activities into three groups called maximum major and rnjnor according to the amount of time that each requires on a week ly basis these three divisions are rated at twelve six and three re spectively some of the activities are naturally of a purely seasonal na ture and are rated only for the time of their activity one feature of the plan is that no student may carry at one time more than a to tal of 18 points omicron delta kappa has several reasons for presenting the new plan to increase the efficiency of the student organizations to in crease proficiency in athletics to improve scholarship to allocate ac tivities so that a larger number of undergraduates will receive the ed ucational benefits to be derived from activities and to guarantee each student a reasonable amount of leisure time it is pointed out that the plan will be of benefit to each activity to sports to scholarship and to the individual administration committee planned o d x in presenting the scheme recommends that it be put into operation beginning with the fall of 1931 & nd that its adminis tration be in the hands of the joint faculty-arcadia committee of stu dent activities the groups are as follows maximum 12 points freshman and varsity athletic squad managers and assistant managers mustard and cheese — cast and chorus of the show brown and white — editor in chief editorial news and business managers news and sporting edi tors circulation and advertising managers epitome — editor in chief and business manager review — editor in chief and business man ager burr — editor in chief business manager and advertising manager chairman senior class book commit tee winter season ; members of debating teams major six points brown and white — other board and circulation manager epitome — members burr — managing editor assistant editor and photographic editor mustard and cheese — pres ident and business manager and traveling manager with trip ; mu sical clubs — president and business manager review — managing edi tor president of the arcadia pres ident of the senior class minor three points mustard and cheese stage man ager and program editor band leader and business manager mu sical clubs — participants in con certs heads of living groups pres ident of the lehigh union president of the interfraternity council and chairman of the athletic commit tee burr — assistant editors more than 100 alumni came back to the campus for the fourth an nual mid-winter alumni homecom ing on washington's birthday an oratorical contest luncheon in drown hall a general meeting and a series of athletic games compris ed the program sponsored by the university in honor of the occasion many of the graduates did not confine their stay to saturday but remained over the week-end to at tend various functions at their fra ternity houses those who returned were principally from cities within a 100 mile radius of bethlehem par ticularly philamelphia new york points in northern new jersey the coal regions and the central part of this state program is informal the program for the day was largely informal and was organized with a view toward enabling the alumni to see the many new de velopments on the campus and to renew old acquaintances at their leisure incoming alumni were greeted at the alumni offices at 9 a m where facilities were provided for registration and where each graduate was given a tag with his name printed on it for identification by his fellow guests facilities were also provided at this time for re newing subscriptions of the brown and white groups tour campus registration was followed by a tour of the campus under guides who led their parties through the li brary the new home of the metal lurgical and mining departments packard laboratory and the new vivarium particular interest was evidenced towards the library all were enthusiastic in their approval of this addition to the technical plant of the university which is nearly completed and thus afforded ample opportunity for inspection few of the graduates attended the oratorical contest at 11 a m most of them prefering to wander about the campus and renew old acquaintances the special luncheon in drown hall was attended by ap proximately the entire group members of the faculty outlined the story of the development of the university during the past few years at a general meeting at 2 p m in drown hall the remainder of the afternoon was devoted to athlet ics freshman and varsity basket ball with lafayette and a swimming meet with c c n y occupied the remainder of the afternoon many attend dances several fraternities sponsored dances during the evening and a greater number held initiations which were attended by graduates many of the guests brought their families with them continued on page four among the alumni who regis tered in the alumni office were a number who are prominently iden tified with activities of lehigh grad uates including aubrey weymouth 94 chief engineer of post and mc cord new york city wm c is attempting to meet were dis cussed by members of the faculty and student body at the same time lehigh's most pressing needs are an adequate dormitory system bet ter research facilities a hospital and an auditorium capable of seat ing the entire student body pres ident c r richards told a large group of alumni at a general meet ing saturday in drown hall as part of the homecoming program oth er problems which the university a great deal of unhappiness and lack of college spirit is the result of the non-fraternity men living in homes where study is discouraged and which are so far from the cam pus that the student cannot inti mately become part of the univer sity the president said in his speech in considering the need for better research facilities dr rich ards said no university can really be called a university until it has developed a flourishing graduate school and not until we have the re search facilities for an active grad uate school can lehigh be called a real university after we have these we must try to get an auditorium for with each step forward there comes more need but that condi tion must always exist because if we ever get to a point where we need nothing . god help us the president concluded his speech by explaining the plans of the pro posed 3,000,000 dormitory project faculty members speak faculty representatives directors of the curricula and department heads professors palmer barker larkin slater stoughton and doc tors carothers ullmann and mil ler explained the present teaching policy here which combines teach ing with research service and per sonal advice so that the lehigh graduate will become a real finish ed product in behalf of the college of business administration dr car others said in view of its results the business department no longer has to use an apologetic tone but has every right to speak with con fidence we have here at lehigh a college which can no longer be con sidered an outcast we have one of the most efficient staffs in the country our enrollment and grad uate members are increasing de spite stricter entrance and gradu ation requirements and the final test of our results is the increasing demands of the largest corpora tions for our graduates he con cluded ellis oiler 30 welcomed the visitors in behalf of the students and spoke on the attitude students are taking in the matter of the new progressive changes club to hear claude bragdon prof william westerman of the department of history at columbia university will speak on ancient banking before eta sigma phi at its meeting thursdays evening in the packard auditorium professor westerman is one of the world's leading authorities on ancient econ omics and has made a special study of papyrus-rolls dating from the greek period after alexander the great upon these papyrus-rolls are inscribed accounts and ledgers kept by the stewards of the great estates of that time from these accounts professor westermann is able to reconstruct the economic life of an cient times three debates two of which will be broadcast by radio station wcba of allentown to be held wednesday thursday and friday of this week will open an intensive schedule of ' the lehigh debating team for this year the teams that will be met in debate are cedar crest college of allentown beth any college of bethany w va and ursinus college of collegeville pa the first debate will be with ce dar crest college wednesday on the question should united states withdraw from the kellogg pact the debate will be held in the stu dios of radio station wcba allen town and will be broadcast by the station at 10 p m professor c d macdougall of the journalism de partment and coach of the debating team will announce this program lehigh debating the negative side of the question will be represented by edward fleischer 33 manuel l ruderman 33 and emanuel g scoblionko 31 the judges will be thomas pomeroy coach of the la fayette college debating team hi ram dodd superintendent of the public schools of allentown and a third not yet picked thursday evening at the jewish community center corner of pack er and broadhead avenues the sec ond debate will be held ursinus college will uphold the negative of the question should united states withdraw from the kellogg pact the lehigh debaters will be mat thew murphy 33 george w par sons 31 and emanuel honig 31 the debate will take the place of one scheduled with wagner college of staten island n v for this time the third debate will be held friday evening with bethany col lege of west virginia this debate will be broadcast by radio station wcba of allentown as was the debate with cedar crest college the question to be debated is do the evils of the machine age out weigh its benefits lehigh will de bate the affirmative side of the question and will be - represented by matthew j murphy 33 ed ward fleischer 33 and emanuel scoblionko 31 this debate as the debate with cedar crest college on wednesday evening will be shorter than usual with only one rebuttal on each side the judges will be dean a c rau of moravian col lege for men l f hess princi pal of the south side high school bethlehem and a third to be pick ed later the decision of the judges will be telephoned to the studios of station wcba where it will be an nounced over the radio a debate with the university of vermont is scheduled for monday march 24 the debate will be held on the campus if possible otherwise it will be held at the jewish com munity center debates will be held ohio on march 7 21 and 31 re college and oberlin college of with lafayette college perm state spectively classes in journalism tour bethlehem's jail a student a i e e convention of the philadelphia vicinity branch representing eight colleges and uni versities will be held at lehigh monday march 17 schools to be represented at the conference are university of pennsylvania haver ford college drexel institute uni versity of delaware swarthmore college princeton university la fayette college and lehigh univer sity cameron beck director of per sonnel new york stock exchange will be the principal speaker the convention will open at 10 o'clock monday morning and will last through the entire day morn ing afternoon and evening sessions will be held no definite program has been arranged but student pa pers will be presented by members of the schools represented it is un derstood pete the trained seal entertains at banquets coming events one lone prisoner held on a charge of shop lifting was the only occupant of bethlehem's newly re decorated cell room last friday af ternoon when students in the ad vanced reporting classes made a tour of the city jail in the muni cipal building third and adams streets under the guidance of de tective sergeant harry mcgetti gan the lack of prisoners was the reason for the students making the inspection trip for they had gone to headquarters with the expecta tion of attending police court trials there were a half dozen flash lights among the so-called loot and several hundred spare bulbs in case any of the lights needed a re placement several pairs of pliers gave the students a chance to say the lone prisoner is a clever kleptomaniac according to the po lice who have secured several hun dred small items from the man's home which they assert the man stole in various stores the articles were on display at headquarters for the merchants to come and identi fy many of the articles were use less to the man there were socks of all descriptions cologne bath salts rouge powder picture frames knives tools and many other things too numerous to mention that the man was good at pinching things while bibles and religious articles added to their bewilder ment the rogue's gallery was exhibit ed by the detective sergeant to the reporters who crowded around the patient detective and hurled ques tions similar to the following at him who's that funny guy up in the corner what's he in for look at the woman who's she the questions were not only an swered but mr mcgettigan also was able to give many additional anecdotes of the portrayed charac ters many of whom he had him self arrested confiscated liquor 200 gallons or more stored in the superintendent's office created considerable interest among some students while others were more interested in a half bushel basket fall of sticks of dy namite the recreation room furnished by local merchants and business men was occupied by several offi cers who were soon to go out on their beats while upstairs on the rifle range other members of the afternoon shift were having pistol practice under the direction of of ficer mcgarr addressing members of 40 patri otic societies assembled in carnegie hall representative james m beck proclaimed that state lines have be come mere markings on the map and that the federal government is usurping the power of the states representative beck is one of the comparatively few present-day ad herents to the ideals of states rights it is almost unbelievable that in should even suggest a return to state autonomy with the passing of state supremacy came national power and prestige that the cur rent movement toward a strongly centralized government should be challenged is not as surprising as it is ridiculous we are a nation today because the states are not nations we are one people because we are not 48 peoples and we owe our suc cess to the fact that we are one peo ple the doctrine of states rights died at appomattox — it will never return « * * senator norris declares that the president of the united states holds the key to prohibition and that one sentence from the president would wipe out corruption in enforce ment he claims that only a de termined policy to let nothing in terfere with real enforcement will solve the many questions that have become of greatest importance no magic words from the pres i dent will make prohibition a suc cess or a failure its success or fail ure will come from the attitude which the people of the united states take toward the eighteenth amendment and the volstead act if the people do not want prohibi tion a million words from the pres ident will not bring about the suc cess of the venture the secret of law enforcement is in the making of laws that are en forceable and laws that the people want enforced the general attitude of the people concerning a law is as much an integral part of the en forcement of that law as are coast guardsmen and internal revenue agents * * * admiral byrd is now on his way back to america after a fourteen month exploration of the antarctic region the entire scientific world 4ias been awakened as a result of byrd's explorations of the vast icy wastes and his discoveries of new lands in the antarctic region his work has been a triumph of avia tion modern science and human daring * * * at present the world looks upon the expedition as a noble adventure as a scientific incident that has cleared up some of the mysteries of the far south the world at large is rather skeptical of any possible value that may accrue from the dis coveries made by the byrd expe dition the world was also very skeptical concerning the discov eries of columbus and other adven turers of the fifteenth century north and south america were looked upon as barriers that di vided the east from the west * ♦ * ♦ ♦ ♦ what wiir evolve from the recent discoveries in antarctic cannot be predicted now anymore than the people of fifteenth and sixteenth centuries could predict what would come from the discovery of amer ica what vast stores of mineral wealth may lie dormant under tons of antarctic ice cannot be deter mined that which is now a bar ren waste may become the goal of ambitious nations in the future at present antarctica is merely a set ting for scientific experimentation concerning the movements of gla ciers and the cause of southern wea ther conditions in the future when the coal iron and other minerals of the present-day world are ex hausted we may turn to the polar regions for a gratification of our wants then it will be the job of engineers to tell us how to get at that possible mineral wealth senator townsend has introduced an amendment to the patent stat utes that will allow a discoverer or inventor of a new plant to obtain a patent on it in much the same way that an inventor of a machine or piece of apparatus now protects his work while it is probably true that many plant breeders and agri culturists do not reap the benefits of their discoveries it is difficult to ascertain how the senator can hope for the enforcement of his new pa tent law even if it should be passed — and congress is liable to do any thing * ♦ ♦ what may eventually develop from the passage of the law is that the orchardist whose ■ garden plot developes into pure white roses will be able to sell them for five dollars per dozen but if his garden should develop roses with purple tipped petals he will be infringing on someone's patent rights and will be liable to a fine and imprisonment or both these senators what next tuesday 4:15 p m meeting of the board of publications dean's office wednesday 1 p m debate with cedar crest broadcast over radio station wcba allentown thursday 8 p m meeting of the pre-medical society biology lecture room williams hall speakers dr w d chase on sinussitis 8 p m debate with ursinus on kellogg peace pact jewish com munity center bp m lecture by prof w l westerman on ancient banking room 466 packard laboratory friday 4 p m yale university photoplay the gateway of the west packard auditorium 8:15 p m mental health confer ence of the lehigh valley pack ard auditorium saturday 2 p m freshman wrestling vs newton high school 3 p m varsity wrestling vs cor nell 3 p m varsity swimming vs uni versity of delaware pete the trained seal in the biol ogy laboratory has been kept busy during the past week performing at the fraternity initiation banquets which have been held all over the campus keeper of hounds horo witz says that the best trick pete performs is eating it hasn't been generally known that the seal was accessible for all public and private functions but now that keeper schnitz has spent such a long time training him he says that the seal may get out nights to perform for any who wishes to see him pete was a freshman last year some students wondered who the sleek darkskinned gentleman was who wandered about the campus all last year balancing his frosh cap on the tip of his noce the upper classmen were all much too busy to investigate this year however when some of the fraternities were looking about for some entertainment at the initiation banquets they dis covered pete domiciled in the back of bill hall with a barnum and bailey scholarship tucked under his chin while he at a nice fresh carp in the magazine section of the new york times for feb 23 dean c m mcconn pictures his version of a super-kindergarten for college men dean mcconn gives his im pression of the college student past and present as he sees them from his everyday contact with them dean mcconn says in part the word collegiate has in recent years undergone an interesting change of meaning formerly it suggested books and studies a serene and cloistered life today i fear it sug gests wide trousers coonskin coats and hip flasks ukuleles and high powered cars pep meetings and cheer leaders snake dances and bonfires and noisy parties where the volstead act is honored only in the breach and petting goes no one knows how far the rah-rah boys the coonskin coat contingent compose a minor ity only — a substantial minority but still a minority the greater number of young men and women now in college are serious hard working students whom it is really slanderous to call collegiate in the new meaning of the term dean mcconn divides serious stu dents into two classes from 5 to 25 percent he states are seeking education for its own sake they are searching for the meaning of life and for an understanding of the world the remainder of the ser ious minded youths he explains are preparing themselves for a pro fession or other vocation and work hard at their pre-professional job but what is the purpose of the rah-rah boys nearly all are nice boys from reasonably well-to-do families they are well dressed have good manners and have good morals they are not even lazy in fact the only thing wrong with them is that they are not high brows their intelligence quotients are about 10 percent above that of the average man they are not highbrows — not intellectuals and certainly are not bookish • books do not appeal to them rather they learn by seeing things and by talking with other people many of them have never cracked a book in their whole lives except under some measure of compul sion continued on page four why does type not get a job dean mcconn continues it simply is not being done not to go to col lege might imply that dad could claude bragdon architect of the new york central railroad station at rochester n v and of the rochester chamber of commerce building will talk on architecture and mathematics at a meeting of pi mv epsilon national honorary mathematics fraternity march 12 in packer hall mr bragdon's talk will involve the application of the principles of mathematics to architecture and architectural design thef use o magic squares mathematical curves and fourth dimension geometry in architecture will be described in de tail the talk will be entirely non technical and no detailed knowledge of mathematics is needed to appre ciate mr bragdon's lecture accord ing to walton forstall jr 31 the meeting which will replace the reg ular monthly meeting of pi mv ep silon is open to everyone and the talk will be illustrated with slides in addition to building design mr bragdon has specialized in stage setting and design and did all the designing for walter hamp den's house he also did all scen ery costurries and lighting for the production richelieu which is now playing at the hampden theatre in new york a setting for the new york philharmonic orchestra in the brooklyn academy of music was recently completed by mr brag don he has just published a book entitled merely players which keeper schmaltz had caught for him in the lehigh river after a little coercion and an es oteric swig of moonshine pete was coerced into performing at one function after another until he was so functuated that it made him nervous and unable to sleep nights of course said keeper oscar gutekunst he was quite a bother when he couldn't sleep — he kept all the occupants of price hall awake at the same time with his yelping when he can't sleep — he is an in veterate yelper anyway the upshot of the keep er's story was that pete was around again and would perform for a con sideration at anj function when asked if pete could he seen keeper beltz merely motioned to the large glass covered vivarium there sat pete poring over a be lated copy of the brown and white he looked up and after a slight bow remarked i see where le high beat lafayettey this year and then how'd you do every body howd'you do sort of sing ing perhaps he was merely mumbl continued on page four brown and white vol xxxvii no 33 lehigh is host to 100 alumni bethlehem pa tuesday february 25 1930 orators uphold kellogg treaty and prohibition bidwell explains bohr and lewis atomic theories scobhonko 3 1 , schellen berger 32 win in speaking contest o d k revises activities plan price five cents b & w pictures ready debaters open large schedule all men who desire brown and white pictures call irving gen net 9294 fourth annual homecom ing week celebrated saturday nature notes lykell sunday morning just about the crack of dawn there was an ominous chirping in the quad rangle of taylor hall followers of the cult of spring were drawn to their windows to see a robin red breast world news state autonomy is gone one sentence from presi dent the future of little america patent on plants g.w.t all the lehigh news first