Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 37

              delegates will inspect bethlehem steel mills in afternoon judge robert a stotz talk is illustrated declares moon's " speed around earth decreases each year reynolds takes audienceontrip through space vol xxxvii no 37 stotz to depict duties of judge two vacancies on the brown and white staff caused by the resignations of george feakins editor in chief and frederick hargan circulation manager are to be filled at a meeting of the board of publication this after noon the board will also take up the suggestion of pi delta ep silon concerning the consolida tion of the junior board and the senior committee of the epitome the invitations which were mailed last thursday by pi delta epsilon to a gridiron banquet on april 10 were premature and unauthorized pi delta epsilon has filed a petition for permis sion to give such a banquet but this petition has not yet been acted upon by the committee on student activities which may or may not be willing to permit such a banquet and in any case it seems likely that the date will have to be changed because there are two other important affairs already scheduled for the evening of april 10 pi delta epsilon is now amending its petition to ask for the date of april 3 and i think it is probable that at a meeting to be held on wednesday of this week the petition will be grant ed for that date c m mcconn dean three debates away this week pre-legal society will hear third lecture thursday gridiron date to be changed kellogg peace pact team to meet union and temple twice journalistic fraternity pe titions faculty to hold • banquet april 3 it is unlawful to pick up girls on the streets of bethlehem the city council decided last evening when it approved a bill forbidding males to attempt to make the acquaintance of females met upon the city streets persons caught in this act are liable to a fine of 50 or 30 days in jail mayor r.m pfeifle said that the bill will be enforced 100 percent the mayor intends to clean up the hill-to-hill bridge and make it a place on which decent girls will not be afraid to walk the bill provides for the punish ment of disorderly conduct and drunkenness sections eight and nine read as follows any male person or persons who shall solicit or entice any female person or per sons to accompany them in a vehicle or motor vehicle in the city of bethlehem shall be guilty of dis orderly conduct and therefore shall be subject to the penalties of this ordinace any person violating this ordinance upon conviction before the mayor or any alderman of said city for each offense shall be sub ject to a fine of not less than 5 or more than 50 and upon default of payment of said fine and costs the person so offending may be com mitted to the city lock-up or the county jail for a term not exceed ing 30 days ' ault describes hardness tests a house-party night three weeks long 50,000.000 years from now was predicted by joseph b rey nolds professor of mathematics and theoretical mechanics in his lecture this world and others last night in packard auditorium this lecture was the last of a series given by lehigh professors on man's con quest of nature the long house-party evening will occur in 50,000,000 years when scientists estimate the moon will always stay over one spot on the earth and the day will have been lengthened to 47 of our present days professor reynolds took his au dience on a trip to the planets and covered such a vast number of miles that even a fraction of the total vyould be inca'lcuable traveling at the rate of 186,000 miles per second the sun was only slightly more than eight minutes from the earth where as the milky way is 170,000 light years away mars is 12.5 minutes from the sun said dr reynolds it has a diameter of about one-half that of the earth its atmosphere contains some water and oxygen but very little compared to that of the earth there is no definite evidence of life and certainly no evidence of con scious life on mars the tempera ture in one martian day on the equator varies from perhaps 50 de grees above to 70 degrees below zero if there is any sort of life there including intelligent beings it must be quite different from that on earth ' the stars which look so small from the earth are in reality im mense sirius the brightest star in the sky has a diameter 60 percent greater than the sun its mass is two and a half times as great as the sun that famous galaxy of stars the milky way which can plainly be seen is 170,000 light years away miss palmer to wed c w guyatt mar 25 the abolition of the custom which gave upperclassmen the privilege of walking on the grass the adoption with slight revision of the activities limitation plan of omicron delta kappa and the passing of amend ments relative to holding university elections formed the business trans acted last evening at the meeting of arcadia the privilege of walking on the grass was denied to everyone in view of the present condition of the campus and with the idea of re storing fhe grass to a better condi tion with the coming of spring weather omicron delta kappa's plan for the limitations of student activities was accepted after the score for the maximum division was reduced from 12 points to 9 this plan di vides activities into three groups in order of their importance — maxi mum major and minor counting respectively 9 6 and 3 points no student will be allowed to carry more than a total of 18 points at any one time the plan will be un der the supervision of a joint fac ulty-arcadia board arcadia also made two amend ments to its constitution to give it better control and to fix spring uni versity elections the amendments as passed are section i—all1 — all reg ular university elections shall be completed on or before april 10 the exact date and hour to be decided at the february meeting of arca dia section 2 — all elections of class officers cheerleaders and officers of the lehigh union shall be held un der arcadia supervision section 3 — all elections stipulated under section 2 shall be held on general election day it was also decided that under the new plan nominations for uni versity office's this year will be held tuesday wednesday and thursday april 1 2 and 3 elec tions will be held april 10 there will be two ballots — one for the cheerleaders and officers of the le high union and one for class offi cers the other addition to the consti tution concerns the making of amendments it reads all amend ments to this constitution shall be tendered in writing and shall be presented one meeting prior to be voted upon any amendment shall require an affirmative vote of two thirds of those members present to be effective firms will quiz engineers daily the student convention of the american institute of electrical engineers will be held at lehigh monday march 17 in packard lab oratory this convention is sponsor ed by the lehigh branch of the or ganization it will be the first time that the convention has ever been held here schools to be represented at the convention are university of penn sylvania haverford college drex el institute university of delaware swarthmore college princeton uni versity lafayette college and le high university ■ the technical session of the con vention will be held monday morn ing at 10:30 o'clock in the pack ard auditorium at this session president charles russ richards will give the welcoming address to the members murray g clay a senior electrical engineer at lafay ette will give the first paper en titled marine electric control following this there will be a paper on the operation of mod ern mercury arc rectifier sub-sta tions by william kegelman a sen ior at drexel institute a paper will be presented by n smith senior at the university of pennsylvania en titled a summary of recent progress in the investigation of radio transmission phenomena the last paper given by e s brotzman lehigh 30 will be en titled the bohemian scientist luncheon will be served to the members at noon in drown hall the new packard laboratory will then be inspected by the guests who will be shown through the building by students of the electrical engin eering department the afternoon will be spent in visiting the plant of the bethlehem steel company the party will in spect the various electric devices that are used in the process of making steel the electric sub-sta tions and generating stations of the company will also be inspected as well as the furnaces for the manu facture of the steel the first floor of the laboratory will be a banquet hall at 5:30 p.m when the guests will be served with dinner h h henline assistant secretary of the american institute of electrical engineers will give an address after this banquet the evening session of the con vention will begin at 7 o'clock with a film mechanics of the world's market place the final address of the evening will be given by cameron beck personnel director of the new york stock exchange the title of his speech will be the cost of lead ership methods by which designers can appraise metals from hardness test data was explained by e s ault assistant professor of machine de sign i nthe february issue of the magaine machine design pro fessor ault says quality of hard nerr admits of no inclusive defini tion some conceive it to be the re sistance to wear or scratching with some hard tool some view it as the resistance to penetration and oth ers as the resistance to crushing the definition most generally ac cepted by engineers is hardness is the property of resisting the lo cal displacements of portions of its substance by contact with another body numerous scientific methods are in daily use for the hardness test ing of materials and professor ault shows the importance of designers knowing the characteristics of the best known testing machines when making specifications a great num ber of outstanding testing machines have been studied by professor ault and in his article he points out the characteristics of each one the knowledge of the degree of hardness is useful in determining and checking the composition pro perties and utility of a material professor ault declared he also gives a table which shows how knowledge of hardness can be ap plied to the numerous characteris tics of a material claude bragdon to lecture here richardson to show steel manufacture uate electrical engineer secretary will marry lehigh grad miss laura i palmer secretary to professors gipsou and wright and cecil guyatt e e 29 will be married march 25 miss palmer who is the daughter of mr and mrs william g palmer of 637 eleventh avenue is a graduate of bethlehem business college since jier graduation in 1928 she has been employed by lehigh university in the departments of history latin and romance languages mr guy att was graduated from lehigh in 1929 and received the degree of elec trical engineer he was a member of tau beta pi and eta kappa nu while at lehigh the wedding will take place at noon march 25 at the home of the bride's parents the rev kenneth p often pastor of holy trinity church will officate the couple will reside in newark n j where mr guyatt is employed by the public judge robert a stotz of north ampton county will deliver the third of a series of lectures con cerning the general duties of the various officers in the administra tion of justice before the pre-legal society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in room 208 packard lab oratory judge stotz will speak on the part played by the judge in the administration of justice the first of the series the pros ocuting attorney in the adminis tration of justice was delivered by russell c mauch prosecuting at torney of northampton county and the second the defending at torney's part in the administra tion of justice was given by law rence j rupp allentown attorney judge stotz was graduated from lafayette in 1887 after an ap prenticeship in the law office of general frank reeder he was ad mitted to the bar in 1900 from 1905 to 1907 mr stotz served as district attorney of northampton county and from 1907 until 1922 oracticed law in easton in 1922 governor sproul appoint ed mr stotz to the bench and in 1923 he was elected to serve a full ten-year term as judge of north ampton county mr stotz has tried many famous murder cases includ ing the sensational loomis murder case in 1919 while sitting in pittsburgh in september 1929 judge stotz pre sided at the trial of the tyrell mur der case tyrell a sunday schsol superintendent in pittsburgh was accused by a man named clark of improper relationship with his wife clark threatened to kill tyrell and to expose him before his entire con gregation he set the date as mother's day according to tyrell went to his pulpit on that day with a revolver in his pocket when clark entered the church tyrell descended from the pulpit walked to the rear of the church where clark was stand ing and shot him clead tyrell aft er a long trial at which alienists tried to show tyrell insane was found guilty of murder in the sec ond degree and was sentenced by judge stotz to life imprisonment the pre-legal society is prepar ing for a banquet to be held at the hotel bethlehem where russell c mauch a newly elected honorary member of the society will conduct a mock-trial icrvice corporation reels of motion pictures will illustrate lecture with 9 leach scores book guild as advertising scheme march 12 new york architect and designer will talk the gridiron banquet for which pi delta epsilon distributed invi tations last friday cannot be held on thursday evening april 10 as the invitations stated because of a conflict with two other banquets sponsored by two other university organizations on the same flight the journalists have now amend ed their original petition so as to hold the banquet thursday evening april 3 at the hotel bethlehem this is one week earlier than the date originally set the committee on student activi ties will meet tomorrow afternoon and unless it decides that the ban quet cannot be held under any con ditions plans will go on as origin ally described for the new date due to the temporary official ces sation of activities the tribute box has not been placed in the supply burea jt would have been unlaw ful to collect fees while official permission to give the banquet had lot been granted the sponsors of the banquet through an effort to keep their plans secret until the invitations were delivered did not learn of the other banquets until their invita tions were in print due to tl\eir expense it was decided to put them in the mail as they were and to change the date afterward the gridiron banquet is a high light of official washington as well as in many colleges originated by the press correspondents of the na tional capital the idea spread un til journalists of many colleges now invite their fellow students to an annual grilling lehigh students formerly con ducted a calculus cremation some what similar to the gridiron ban quet in which the effigy of cal culus was beheaded burned or drowned in the process of a trial which condemned calculus to death prominent members of the faculty and students were intro duced into the plot the cremations were successful judging by the crowds they are re puted to have drawn to taylor sta dium until the faculty decided they were too ribald and dicontinued them after the last one in 1924 the gridiron banquet is at the same time a revival of an old le high custom and the introduction of a new idea members of the or ganization have expressed their hope of its success as a permanent addition to lehigh's calendar students return 160 to woman despite the discouragement of the campus failure to support them friday evening the debating teams are working hard this week with three of the most important de bates of the schedule arranged for tonight thursday and friday the negative team on the kel logg peace pact will argue for the fourth time this evening at quak ertown against a team from temple university of philadelphia the ro tary and women's club of quak ertown are sponsoring the program which will begin at 6 o'clock with a banquet in the masonic temple the lehigh debaters are edward fleischer 33 manuel ruderman 33 and emanuel scoblionko 31 members of the affirmative team are matthew murphy 33 eman uel honig 31 and george parsons 31 leader the kellogg affirmative team will debate thursday evening at schenectady n v against union college a banquet given by the rotary club of schenectady will precede the debate friday night the team will speak against temple university in philadelphia a de bate with princeton for saturday night at princeton was cancelled by that school there is a possibility that the team may meet some oth er school saturday night instead lafayette debate a failure the lafayette-lehigh debate failed to be anything but an argu ment between three representatives of each institution when only a doz en persons attended with such a small group an audience change-of opinion vote was impossible at the end an informal vote of the few present was taken with lehigh win ning 8 to 2 the lehigh debaters who upheld the affirmative side of the proposi tion resolved that the evils of the machine age outweight its benefits were matthew muhpry 33 edward fleischer 33 and em manuel scoblionko 31 leader dr neil carothers was chairman at rutgers the lehigh negative lost a 2-1 decision by a judges vote the debaters were manuel ruderman 33 guy vroman 30 and george parsons 31 leader at easton lafayette won an audience vote from rutgers making the de termining of a winner of the tr.ian gle an impossible task prof c d macdougall coach of the team and the seven men on the squad expressed disappointment discouragement and disgust this week at the lack of interest shown in their work friday one more debate will be held on the campus this year against oberlin college of oberlin ohio monday march 31 failure of the student body and faculty to support this debate probably will mean the death of debating at lehigh coming events the ins and outs of the manu facture of structural steel shapes will be explained by george a richardson of the bethlehem steel company in his lecture the man ufacture of structural steel shapes at 8 o'clock friday evening in the auditorium of packard laboratory this lecture will be also given at 8 o'clock wednesday evening march 19 mr richardson is speaking un der the auspices of the metallurgi cal society with the advent of the skyscra per the design and construction of structural steel shapes became much more complicated extensive plant iayouts large equipment and big storage facilities are required for their manufacture and distribu tion ■, mr richardson will show with nine reels of jnotion picture recently completed the various details in the manufacture of steel shapes and related products admission will he by ticket until 7:45 o'clock at which time the doers will be thorwn open music club to stage opera by humperdink senior electricals and mechanicals will be interviewed this week by representatives of several large en gineering companies mr donald son representative of the duquense light company of pittsburgh will be in the packard laboratory march 11 to interview seniors this com pany is one of the largest public utilities around the pittsburgh dis trict the positions that they have to offer are in the training course of the company march 12 and 13 mr mundt representative of the western un ion telegraph company will in terview seniors that desire a posi tion with this company worthington pump and mach inery company will also send its representative here march 13 to in terview the senior mechanicals mr johnson of the leeds and northrup company will be at the packard laboratory march 17 to ex plain the opportunities offered by that company the carrier engineering corpor ation has several positions that it desires to fill with seniors that are graduating this year its represen tative will be here march 17 to se lect some men for these positions last week eight representatives of the bell telephone company in terviewed over 150 seniors they of fered positions to a number of the students that they interviewed two representatives of the com bined power companies around new york interviewed seniors in re gards to positions the positions they offered were in the testing de partments of the power companies sented saturday hansel and gretel will be pre subscription book clubs were denounced by librarian howard s leach as merely an advertising scheme to sell the books to the pub lic in a recent interview with a brown and white reporter the idea of six judges selecting the proper book every month for 300,000 people is ridiculous con tinued mr leach if a person de siring to become well-read has only the amount necessary to subscribe to the books of themonths clubs he would do much better by selecting his books elsewhere bewailing the fact that the mod ern college man does not spend much time in reading the librarian continued if he would only browse around in the library he would no doubt find many books that would interest him the advertisement about read ing 15 minutes a day may evoke much amusement but it carrier enough truth to have a great deal behind it added mr leach it is not necessary to have a three hour stretch to spend in reading the boring half hour before dinner is an excellent time to use and the ma terial read will often provide many interesting topics of discussion for the dinner table at no time were there more worth-while periodicals than at present every man should claude bragdon new york ar chitect and designer of stage set tings will lecture on art and mathematics in the packard lab oratory at 8 o'clock wednesday evening march 12 the lecture will be open to the public and is spon sored by pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical fraternity illustrated slides will accompany the lecture and some especially artistic designs will be shown mr bragdon is a pioneer in the application of mathematics to ar tistic design he had used mathe matical methods in designing dec orations for the nek york central railroad station in rochester n.y and the chamber of commerce building also in rochester mr bragdon has fashioned the stage settings for all of walter hamp ton's productions and designed the stage effects for the new york philharmonic orchestra's concerts in the brooklyn academy of music he is the author of numerous books and essays on artistic and architec tural subjects very little technical knowledge will be necessary to follow the lec ture it is said for although mr bragdon will tell how he uses such mathematical subjects as magic squares four dimensional geometry and higher plane curves he will ex plain briefly some of the mathe matical processes he uses subscribe to one good weekly and read it thoroughly and regularly instead of reading several half heartedly contemporary literature is in a marked depression and there are only a few great writers at the pres ent time said mr leach among these i would include robert frost stephen vincent benet eugene o'neil john drinkwater and george bernard shaw many of the older writers such as dickinson scott and shakes peare have been spoiled for the modern generation because their works have been forced on the stu dents in the secondary schools they would be appreciated much more if volumes of their writings were included in home libraries where students could make their acquaintance gradually the inquiring mind is of utmost value to a man mr leach assert ed and it will lead him to many valuable books and papers that he never knew existed mr leach believes that every col lege man should start early in build ing up his own collection of books paying particular attention to the subjects in which he is especially interested by the time he has grad uated he will have his own per sonal library which will give him much satisfaction the 30,000 or more people who gathered in union square new york on thursday some to take part in the communistic demonstra tions others merely to satisfy their curiosity witnessed something more than the soap-box oratory they had expected police on foot and horse turned the crowd into a milling mob within the space of a few minutes those who looked like commun ists were clubbed and kicked by police and plain-clothes men five communists who attempted to pre sent a petition for a parade to may or walker at city hall and who attempted to incite their followers to parade without a permit were ar rested and thrown into jail communism has no place in prog ressive america its citizens claim the people as a whole are opposed to communism and are entirely out of sympathy with its followers but we cannot make good citizens out of communists by meeting their arguments with night-sticks and by throwing them into jail wrong though they may have been in at tempting to march without permis sion the press and the people of this country must realize that they have the right of free speech de liberate attempts on the part of the press to pervert public opinion con cerning these communists iftsults the intergrity of our newspapers just as uncalled for pugnacity on the part of the police stamps our law enforcement methods as brutal and ♦ * * the nation has lost one of its most useful citizens in the death of william howard taft a man whose entire life has been devoted to use ful public service and the only man in the history of america to have filled both the offices of pres ident and chief justice of the unit ed states mr taft served his country as judge solicitor general governor general of the philippines secre tary of war president of the united states and lastly chief jus tice of the united states in pub lic life mr taft's services were marked with patriotism fairness and a sincere devotion that earned for him the respect and admiration of all men in private life he won the respect and affection of all with whom he came into contact by his kindness and sympathy mr taft was a champion of peace who never wavered in his views ev en in the face of great opposition and yet in time of war he put forth his greatest energy that his nation might be victorious william how ard taft was a great american the anthracite coal producers are very much aroused because russian hard coal is being imported into new england where it is undersell ing pennsylvania anthracite — a grossly unfair situation they claim the russian coal comes from the donetz basin of southern russia it is taken to the sea of azof by rail from there through the black sea the sea of marmora the dar danelles and into the mediterran ean through the straits of gibral tar and across the atlantic ocean to the new england ports where it is sold for 10 a ion in wash ington congressman brumm has made an appeal for assistance to the anthracite coal industry it is difficult to understand why the pennsylvania producers consid er the situation grossly unfair there is nothing unfair in an open competition for a market we sem tractors to russia why canntit rus sia sell coal to us and perhaps congressman brumm does not re alize that it would be unfair to make the people of new england buy pennsylvania coal at a price higher than the soviet coal is now offered by placing a duty on im ported anthracite a representative of the pennsyl vania companies has denounced the coal consumers of new england as being unpatriotic he should learn that economics is not a patriotic science ♦ * ♦ what will undoubtedly prove a great aid to the medical profession is a midget camera recently demon strated before the new york acad emy of medicine by dr maurice berck and dr paul aschner of mt sinai hospital new york the camera may be swallowed and will be used to take pictures of the in terior of the stomach it is a little more than a quarter of an inch in diameter and about half an inch long two of these cameras are swal lowed at a time they are mounted end to end on a rubber tube and a small electric light is placed be tween them the cameras are con trolled by wires running down the length of the rubber tube the small electric light gives 12,000 candle power and its flash lasts lesstthan a hundredth of a second pin holes are used on the camera in place of lenses eight separate views of the stomach are taken instantaneously by each of the two cameras the films used measure one quarter of an inch by seven-sixteenths of an inch the apparatus was invented by an austrian f g beach one thousand and sixty dollars in bills was found on the paving at second and new on friday aft ernoon the money was strewn ov er the pavement and in the gutter for an area of ten square feet david grubbe and roscoe shin del of kappa sigma seeing the money lying on the ground picked it up and started for the police sta tion two steelworkers caught sight of them gathering up the find and gave chase the two youths immediately broke into a run for the station and arrived there safely before the followers could catch hold of them on having the money turned over trafford after a search found that to him police superintendent f t it belonged to a mrs grockley who can neither speak nor write english she had had 3,000 in bills on her person that afternoon and managed to lose it all the rest of it being located on fountain hill there was no reward advanced to the finders today 6 p m meeting of the cosmos club in drown hall tomorrow thursday 7:30 p m meeting of the scabbard a»d blade society in room 353 of packard laboratory 8 p m illustrated lecture on art and mathematics by claude bragden of new york city under the auspices of ths pi mv epsil on packard auditorium 7:30 p m meeting of pre-legal society in room 208 of packard laboratory friday 8 p m illustrated lecture on the manufacture of structural steel shapes by george a richard son of the bethlehem steel com pany under the auspices of the student metallurgical society packard laboratory hansel and gretel an opera will be presented by the bethlehem friends of music club at 3 p m saturday march 15 and again at 8:15 p in tuesday march 18 in the nitschmann school auditorium to speak thursday world news march 6 william howard taft coal from russia a midget camera g.w.t brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march ii 1930 dean says banquet bids are premature lehigh to be host tostudenta.l.e.e price five cents city ordinance forbids pickups fine set at 50 arcadia accepts limitation plan offered by o.d.k will be enforced 100 percent mayor declares that bill sessions to be held in packard laboratory march 17 revises scheme for cur tailing activities be fore approval board meets to fill 2 b.hw vacancies bans walking on grass plans bridge clean-up 8 schools represented m & c competition all candiates for business man ager or stage manager of the mustard and cheese club should report at 7:30 o'clock wednes day march 12 in drown hall all the lehigh news first