Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 39

              special lecture friday phillips is champion 162 members attend engle second in 125-lb class shanker black mar both place third six colleges from lehigh valley arid phila dis tricts represented r j fogg director of curriculum in civil engineering was appointed chairman of the national commit tee on airports by the american engineering council he will co operate with the bureau of aero nautics department of commerce professor fogg will make stu dies on diversity and importance of certain engineering problems in the design of airports serving on the same committee with professor fogg are p a fellow the city engineer of de troit w w homer the city en gineer of st louis dr alexander klemin the head of the guggen heim school of aeronautics and h g shirley the commissioner of highways of virginia gridiron banquet plans complete — courtesy mccaa studio harold phillips dinner sponsored by pi delta epsilon to be held april 3 propose change of lehigh policy bull session advances many remedies for university's needs freshman chemistry fund aids research on hydrates fellowship started by class of 1930 facilitates ex haustive experimentation establishment of the freshman chemistry research fellowship y the class of 1930 and its continua tion by succeeding freshman classes has enabled the chemistry depart ment to conduct an exhaustive re search on hydrates during the past four years the subject of hydrates though seemingly remote to the average person enters into every individ ual's daily life when jello is made at home it is made by a process of hydration the setting of cement and plaster of paris with the sub sequent swelling and expansion is hydration the cause of swelling is being carefully investigated at the present time ancients knew of this setting property of plaster of paris per sians placed criminals in hollow stone casings surrounded by wet plaster the plaster expanded and slowly crushed the lawbreaker to death housewives often have trouble with gels that refuse to gel inves tigations show that the presence of acids bases or salts effect the sol idifying properties of the gel when oranges have been added to a so lution organic acids are present and prevent setting in 1927 h c jones ch.e 27 freshman research fellow studied the volume changes of hydrates mr jones used gelatin which is similar in swelling properties to ce ment the following year r b k'burg ch.e 28 continued re search work on the hydration of gelatin and its relation to other properties it was during these in vestigations that the effect of acids bases and salts on gelatin was dis covered mr k'burg worked under the direction of prof h a neville and prof e r theis the results of this work were published in an article entitled a study of some properties of gela tin which was presented before the division of leather and gela tin chemistry at last year's meet ing of the american chemical so ciety held in minneapolis the ar ticle was also published in the jan uary 1930 issue of the industrial and engineering chemistry maga zine c t ostwald ch.e.'29 who won the award of the freshman fellow ship last year has also done some exhaustive research on the transi continued on page four lehigh is victor in two debates gambling party given by a.t.o.'s overwhelms union and obtains unofficial win over temple alumni present to cele brate 49th anniversary of lehigh chapter the transition from iron ore in lake barges to steel shapes that make possible our skyscrapers was shown by george a richardson of the bethlehem steel company fri day evening in an illustrated lecture the manufacture of structural steel shapes mr richardson spoke under the auspices of lehigh university students metallurgical society ' few people besides steel men realize the tremendous amount of material and equipment attached to the steel industry mr richardson explained the stupendous size of everything connected with the in dustry was brought out by motion pictures and statistics bethlehem steel company has one of the larg est coal storage yards in the world at lackawanna n y with a cap acity of 600,000 tons it also has a plant which specializes in the man ufacture of nuts and bolts turning out a half million nuts every day two of the largest electric motors in the world and a crane that lifts 270 tons were shown speed is stressed the lecture brought out the com leteness of inspection and the speed of operation all done under the su pervision of a handful of men mr richardson showed how the steel is tested at various stages before be ing passed into the next process the unloading of ore from barges by means of huge arm-like cranes which unload 12,000 tons in five hours was also shown all steps in the manufacture were characterized by the few number of men that were required virtually the entire operation being mechanized because of the unusually large demand for tickets the lecture will be given friday evening at 8 o'clock in the packard auditorium in addition to the lecture scheduled at 8 o'clock wednesday evening no tickets will be needed for ad mission to friday's lecture but the lecture wednesday evening will be by ticket only until 7:45 o'clock when anyone having an invitation will be admitted wells to speak on oil industry burning christmas-saucon hall or planting ivy to cover its exter ior were alternatives advanced in the bull session last evening be tween phi sigma delta and sigma alpha mv on the topic improve ments for lehigh at the sigma al pha mv house the decision was unanimously awarded to phi sigma delta unlimited cuts the adoption of the tutorial system changes in the arts college giving greater latitude in choosing courses and bringing paid athletes to lehigh for their advertising value were also ad vanced as needs that should be met they also would like to improve lehigh's standing by raising the entrance requirements the upshot of the debate as re gards the physical plant was the improvement of roads on the cam pus the separation of the english department and the infirmary and moving all fraternity houses to the campus the idea was also advanced that no cars should be permitted on the campus following the lead al ready established by several eastern colleges intramural sports should be continued and bulletin boards especially the one near coppee hall should be torn down the victorious team was com posed of sydney snitkin arts 31 sydney spector arts 32 and har old m schwartz arts 30 the men representing sigma alpha mv were tja'niel brenner arts 32 bertram friedman bus 31 and francis neuwirth arts 31 judges for the contest were l r drown assis tant professor of education m j luch professor of english and e h riley assistant professor of english final plans for the gridiron ban quet to be sponsored by pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic so ciety were approved last night at a meeting of the society held in christmas-saucon hall this banquet as formerly stated in the brown and white will be held april 3 at the hotel bethle hem outstanding faculty members and campus leaders have been in vited at the meeting george schoenhut chairman of the banquet commit tee presented a brief.outline of the program and assigned acts and skits to various members next monday another meeting will be held at which the final script of the program will be presented plans were also made for several rehear sals in preparation for the banquet contributions from those invited are being received at the tribute box which is located in the supply bu reau the plan proposed by the com mittee on the reorganization of the epitome was inforamlly approved by the society final action will be taken however by the board of publication when itmpete t*ij»r row undei«^«rjjj?<fcea pa n tne e^sjujlmric'ri is now a junior publication will become tes^cy l tative of the_^-|h»ee jj^ifehlalses krowfgtifxxmxhfi will be chosen bwrftrfdition to the contemnlatfcd change the comgii tttejmlual so oj»3fr"fcnanging the prevailing sys walton forstall m e 31 was chosen at this meeting to represent lehigh at the national fraternity convention of pi delta epsilon at pennsylvania state college april 3 4 and 5 it was also decided to request all men with service on publications to hand in an itemized record of their journalistic activities to the society before friday first tenors wanted tryouts for first tenor for the glee club quartet will be held at 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall active research problems in the petroleum industry will be the subject of a talk by a a wells technical director standard oil company of new jersey before the lehigh university chemical society at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening march 20 in the main lecture room of the chandler chemical labora tory an illustration of the problems dealt with in the modern chemical engineering laboratory of the or ganic and physical chemistry sec tion of the standard oil company of new jersey is the research work on the hydrogenation of coal and petroleum for the synthesis and production of gasoline other fuels and lubricants the process was or iginally developed by the i g far benindustrie of germary as applied to the petroleum industry threatens to completely revolutionize the present oil refining practices the standard oil company in partnership with edsel ford en joy exclusive rights to these pat ents outside of germany and standard chemists are making striking progress towards solving the problems of the commercial ap plication of hydrogenation ■ professor macdougall entertains with magic with their house transformed into a literal gambling den the mem bers of alpha tau omega enter tained 50 or 60 alumni last satur day in observance of the forty-ninth year of their existence at lehigh as each visitor entered the den he was greeted with an avalanche of shouts and commands from which if his hearing was very acute he could distinguish such expressions as last minute stock reports from the new york stock exchange put me down for 50 shares of a t o unlimited loo on blanco to win thd first race although newcomers were amazed at the way in which the participants seemed to almost throw their hard earned dollars away they soon were tempt ed to invest a few dollars and see it double itself in a minute stock exchange attracts the stock exchange with reports every five minutes direct from the new york stock exchange seemed to attract the most speculators the exchange had opened at 4:30 p m and at closing time two hours later the books showed a turnover of 8,200 shares fresh air taxi in corpulated had the largest sales for the day but many of the amos and andy investors found themselves on the rocks at closing time when fresh air taxi struck a new low level one investor cleaned up 2000 as big mabel common soared ten points two minutes before closing time bethlehem brewery sales were practically stationary as early in the day it was reported that super intendent trafford was mustering his men for a raid thousands of dollars were plac ed on the horses but a muddy track slowed up the races considerably at 6:30 p m gambling activities ceased and after all accounts were balanced many investors found themselves possessed with stacks of money others had lost every cent they had and still others owed money no one was disappointed though for they were only playing with counterfeits a banquet for the gamblers fol lowed and memories of the thou sands they had won or lost were discussed by all after dinner speak ers included aubrey weymouth c.e 94 victor jones an instruc tor at baltimore polytechnic insti tute and professor burnheim of muhlenberg professor jihn toohy of the department of french acted as toastmaster lehigh's affirmative team on the kellogg peace pact returned sat urday with two more scalps one of ficial and the other unofficial fol lowing thursday's undisputed vic tory over union college at schenec tady n y the team encountered at temple the next night the same situation as made a formal deci sion of the lafayette-lehigh debate here march 7 impossible the audience consisted » esstnan 25 persons nor formal decision was made an informal poll of thosmwrfent at the end of the f<3§fcr ffowever disclosed that at least 11 of the 16 favored lehigh's case rfk l r jjjlr«ti!rre debate was unusual when the second negative speaker admitted the entire lehigh case in stead of embarrassing his oppon ents however he made rebuttal work for his colleagues very diffi cult the work of emanuel honig of the lehigh team was outstanding in the debate gets audience vote at union lehigh received a 16-11 audience vote the debate followed a banquet given by the rotary club of schenectady in the hotel mo hawk because of a change in ad ministration within the club how ever there was not a rotarian au dience but rather one 90 percent composed of unidn students the debaters report exceptionally cour teous treatment at union where the theta nu epsilon delta phi and lambda chi alpha fraternities fur nished entertainment the lehigh debaters were mat thew murphy 33 atlantic high lands n j george parsons 31 west philadelphia leader and emanuel honig 31 newark this team previously had defeated ur sinus and lost to gettysburg a non-decision debate also was held with cedar crest the union debaters were arthur mccormick roscoe williams and r g smith the temple debaters were william gallner bernard watson and daniel shrull prof c d macdougall coach accompanied the team on its trip remaining debates on lehigh's schedule include university of ver mont march 24 swarthmore col lege march 26 massachusetts ag ricultural college march 27 ober lin college march 31 ursinus col lege april 1 and lafayette college some time in april only one of these the one with oberlin will be on the campus four qualities that are essential in a leader are vision a definite pur pose perseverance and a clean rec ord stated cameron beck person nel director of the new york stock exchange in his address at the con vention of the student branches of the american institute of electrical engineers last night as for the clean record con tinued mr beck it is the best rec ommendation that a person has be sure to leave the record that you are making unspotted and un spoiled vision explained mr beck is a plan for wne's life and a quality that leaders must possess of seeing further ahead than the other fel low can the lack of purpose is at the present time killing the tomor row of many aspiring young men mr beck's parting pleas to the students was that they make an earnest effort to render a service to the need of mankind henline gives talk following the dinner that was served to 94 members of the insti tute in the main laboratory of the packard laboratory h h henline assistant secretary of the institute gave a short talk mr henline ex plained the organization 1 of the in stitute and gave a short history of the student branches and the prog ress of the work that they had done he explained that there was a two fold purpose for the founding of the student branches these he said are to prepare the students to carry on the work of the main branches when the graduate and to offer the students some of the advantages that men of the indus try have through the medium of the student conventions president russ richards opened the convention with an address of welcome to the 162 members that were present at the morning ses sion of the convention president richards claimed that there are three qualities that characterize en gineering men money and mater ials the engineer must be able to handle men and lead them suc cessfully furthermore no engineer ing problem could be successfully attacked without money he ex plained that the engineer must have a through understanding of the forces of nature and material things murray g clay of lafayette col lege presented a paper on the methods of marine electric firing control in this paper he described the most recent developments used in the united states and the eng lish navies william kegelman of drexel institute presented a paper on the operation of the modern mercury arc rectifier sub-station this paper dealt with the operation and the fundamental theory of the mercury arc rectifier smith gives paper n smith of the university of pennsylvania presented a technical paper entitled a summary of the recent progress in the investiga tion of radio transmission phen omena mr smith discussed the development and the various means of investigation of several theories that have been developed concern ing the transmission of radio waves e s brotzman presented the last student paper entitled the bohe mian scientist this was a bio graphy of the life of steinmetz the paper written by mr smith was awarded the first prize the second prize was awarded to mr brotzman the judges that decided the winner are a j standing su perintendent of the electric depart ment of the bethlehem steel com pany chairman glen appleman electrical engineer of the pennsyl vania power and light william parkinson distribution engineer of the pennsylvania power and light n n smeloff system planing en gineer of the pennsylvania power and light and prof lewis fussel counseler of the student branch at swarthmore college the prizes were awarded by prof j l beaver competition to start news records wanted alumni hear mcconn because france and italy have become exceedingly suspicious of each other at the londan confab the conference threatens to come to naught italy demands parity with france in the matter of ship ton nage — the french delegation wants to know the reason for the proposed equality and the italian delegation wants to know why italy should not be granted parity with her north ern neighbor * ♦ * italy of course does not need the same number of ships as does france with her scattered colonies but the italians balk at being con sidered an inferior or less impor tant nation than the french what a muddle ! ♦ ♦ * in the meantime england jap an and the united states are will ing to form a three power treaty should france and italy prove un willing to cease acting like two school boys a three power treaty would be almost as unsatisfactory as no treaty * ♦ ♦ naval rivalry between france and italy would only be cause for eng land japan and the united states to increase the size of their navies up to date the london conference has produced nothing more than front page filler for the newspapers * * * the discovery of the hitherto un known ninth planet of the solar system by the astronomers of the lowell observatory at flagstaff ariz marks one of the greatest events in the history of astronomy it is the third discovery of a ma jor planet in about 3,000 years the discovery was made possible through the calculations of the late percival lowell founder of the lo well observatory • the new planet lies beyond the orbit of neptune previously consid ered as being the frontier of our solar system the new planet is somewhat larger than the earth but its exact size has not yet been de termined it is about thirty times as far away from the sun as the earth is and it is invisible to the naked eye • ♦ » * the discovery of the new planet was made by a method similar to that which led to the discovery of neptune in 1846 before his death in 1916 percival lowell made mathe matical calculations on the pertur bations in the orbit of neptune which eventually led to the discov ery of the ninth member of the so lar system several days ago har vard astronomers have stated that there is a possibility that other plan ets may lie beyond that just found * * * the haitian commission after creating an agreement between the two factions on the island which has led to the re-establishment of rep resentative government pats itself on the back and retires from the land of turmoil and tropical heat the commission has done much to qualm the tempers of the oppos ing groups inhaiti but it has by no means bitten deep into the real problem — it has merely scratched the surface the insurgents in haiti were not only opposing the existing government because haitians did not have a representative govern ment they were also protesting against american occupation * * * according to the agreement reached eugene roy a haitian business man will take over the task of reforming the country's po litical situation but if the reform instituted by mr roy does not in clube a substantial reduction in the american occupational forces the name haiti will once more become a synonym for revolution the mc cormick commission of 1921 ac complished nothing the present commission has accomplished little more why could we not take our marines out of haiti and send them to chicago where they are more needed that would be an ideal so lution to both problems * * ♦ a sub-committee of the senate postoffice committee has recom mended that the department of justice prosecute those who have violated the law dealing with bar tering in offices in the report of the committee it is claimed that in most of the states under investigation a practice has grown up of the collec tion by republican leaders of a per centage of the salaries of federal job-holders to maintain the party machinery graft of this sort is an old fault of our government no one is sur prised at the report of the commis sion in fact were the problem not so serious it would be most amus ing when one realizes how long the evil has existed before the federal officials became aware of the fact with democracy the two great est crimes against the people are the keeping of one party in office too long and a surplus in the trea sury americans would do well to learn the fact and do something to remedy the situation pi delta epsilon requests that all men with service on publica tions hand an itemized record of their journalistic activities to carl o claus 31 delta upsilon house before friday dean c m mcconn and an drew buchanan alumni secretary returned saturday from chicago and detroit they addressed many high school undergraduates as guests of chicago and detroit al umni all men wishing to compete for business manager and stage manager of the mustard and cheese club should report at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening at drown hall for the first time in four years a lehigh wrestling team has re turned from the intercollegiates without the title last saturday at ithaca a powerful and well bal anced cornell squad took three titles and amassed 22 points to fin ish ahead of coach sheridan's charges who gained one title and 17 points to keep themselves in the running up until the closing bouts of the meet syracuse was second winning 14 points princeton third with a total of 13 points perm state and yale were deadlocked for fifth with 12 points each while columbia was next with 10 points to its credit pennsylvania failed to score a point harold phillips lehigh's 115 pounder repeated his brilliant work of last year and this time his ef forts were rewarded by a cham pionship crown in the preliminary he threw a tough opponent in big wood of yale and although unable to throw him won by a time advan tage of 7 minutes and 40 seconds the semi-final proved to be an easy one for the lehigh entry and he threw maise of perm in less than six minutes with a chancery and bar lock phillips scores win hertz of princeton stood between phillips and the title in the final bout and a close tussle resulted the princeton man was the favor ite however phillips started right to work after the starting bell and efnerged victorious with a time ad vantage of over four minutes to take lehigh's only title in the meet johnny engle added to lehigh's scoring by taking the runner-up po sition in the 125-pound class de feating cowell perm state entry with a large time advantage in the preliminary bout he entered the semi-finals against % peavy of syra cuse and again won by a decisive margin up against trousdaell of cornell in the finals he put up an other great bout similar to the one witnessed between the same two grapplers in bethlehem a short time ago but the experience of the cor nell man enabled him to gain a three-minute time advantage and annex the crown engle then met amster columbia in the second place bout and came through with another time advantage to secure runner-up honors shanker gets fall shanker wrestling in the 155 pound class gained a third place in the final standings he increased lehigh's total by scoring a fall over cleveland of yale in the prelimin ary bout the fall coming in the fi nal minutes of the alloted time the semi-final between the lehigh man and clark of columbia proved to be the closest bout of the meet the contestants were evenly matched and wrestled two extra periods the bout finally being awarded to clark by an 18 second advantage shank er met pratt of perm in the third place battle and this time reversed position winning with a 20 second time advantage eddie blackmar completes the list of lehigh grapplers who figured in the final standings blackmar drew wakeman who annexed the title for his preliminary bout aft er some spirited wrestling he lost on a time advantage but entered the third place bout where he met pearce of perm and won a close 30 second time advantage to add the final point to lehigh's total hutchins causes upset hutchins wrestling in the heavy weight class due to the forced with drawal of evers caused a sensa tion by throwing the perm entry a 247-pounder in 1 minute and 31 sec onds hutchins was unable to cope with rodin of yale in the semi-fi nals however and was defeated by a time advantage seal also did some pretty wrestl ing and reached the third place bouts he contributed a point to the leliigh cause by throwing thomp son of perm in short order hook er princeton entry was his oppon ent in the semi-finals and eliminat ed him from the finals by a small time advantage he was also de feated in third place bout by a fall made by jameison of syracuse continued on^page four lewis and brady were eliminated ixi their preliminary bouts as they both met experienced grapplers coming events tonight 8 p m open meeting of society of sigma xi room 301 williams hall illustrated lecture covering leading discoveries in metallurgy wednesday 4 p m meeting of the engineer ing council room 416 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the mustard and cheese drown hall 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club home of dr r w hall 37 e church street 4 p m meeting board of publica tions administration building 8 p m illustrated lecture by george a richardson of beth lehem steel company packard auditorium thursday 1 p m illustrated lecture by mr long of warren brothers com pany of boston mass room 12 packer hall 7:30 p m meeting of chemical so ciety chemistry lecture room a a wells technical director of standard oil company of new jersey friday 8 p m illustrated lecture by george a richardson will be re peated no tickets required for admission packard auditorium there was an old woman named anna so goes the old limerick and prof c d macdougall more commonly recognized for his jour nalistic abilities took full advan tage of the verse to delight the au dience on vaudeville night in the brith sholom community center last sunday when he reached into his bag-o-trix to enact a new role that of master of ceremonies indeed it was more than a new role that he drew forth from his bag for he interpolated between the acts of the combined amateur and professional program many bits of humor and legerdemain brandishing a deck of cards be tween the third and fourth acts of the program professor macdougall called forth an innocent victim who upon request gave his name as earnest to draw forth a card from the deck the card proved to be the seven of spades apparently satis fied he asked earnest to return the card to its customary place now after shuffling the cards in a high ly professional manner he calmly asked the gentleman to try again lo once more the seven of spades appeared to prove his point that the feat was not a matter of coin cidence but of magical potency the artist manipulated the cards once more turned his back upon earnest and had the experiment repeated at its conclusion earnest was again in possession of the charmed seven the crowd applauded pro fessor macdougall drew back proud of his victory when a weak voice that of one of the young per formers remarked behind the cur tain i know they're all sevens professor macdougall proved to be more than a wielder of cards and witty remarks later in the program he gave a fine example of mind reading asking the audience to think of any diget he myster iously scribbled upon a slate leav ing it on the stage he descended among the gathering and had sev eral members inscribe their num continued on page four world news the london muddle a ninth planet the situation in haiti party graft g w.t brown and white vol xxxvii no 39 bethlehem pa tuesday march 18 1930 story of steel told in lecture by richardson fogg appointed head of board on u.s airports price five cents brown and white wrestling team finishes second size of industry is tre mendous he tells hearers beck defines leadership for electrical engineers at a.i.e,e convention here 1 1 5-pound champion civil engineering director will study problems in airdrome design cornell wins intercolle giate title with total of 22 points personnel director of new york stock exchange stresses record to work with bureau all the lehigh news first