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              462 have received no spiritual benefit from services defeat swarthmore team on question of ma chine age plan contest with ohio group on kellogg peace pact electives are favored dr a n emery to ad dress group at sixth annual convention a n rogers and a l smith will commence graduate study to debate affirmative argue on negative side to discuss carbon arc prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy psychology and education is at tending a meeting of the penn sylvania state department of public instruction today to dis cuss the administration and scor ing of the carnegie achievement tests to be given may 5-9 to all sophomores in all colleges of pennsylvania in order to impress the name of lehigh on a large number of pros pective students elaborate plans have been arranged for the annual sub-freshman day to be held sat urday may 3 the program consists of regis tration period to be held in the al umni memorial building from 9-11 a m followed by an inspection of the campus members of the lehigh union and student honoray socie ties will be on hand to conduct the guests around the buildings and grounds at 11 a m assembly will be held in the james ward pack ard laboratory where a motion pic ture of life at lehigh will be shown after which pres c r richards and dean c m mcconn will ad dress the sub-freshmen at this as sembly luncheon will be served in drown hall at noon at 2p m the prospective new men will witness a baseball game with lafayette at taylor stadium and at 4 p m a lacrosse game with rutgers for the evening meal the visitors will be guests of the fraternities an event differing from the pro grams of other years will occur at 7 p m in taylor gymnasium when the entire student body will assem ble with the visitors for a grand rally distinguished speakers a band concert and diversified enter tainment are being planned to put a great climax to the program a second and last attempt to se cure the student support for debat ing on the campus will be made monday march 31 when the le high debating team will meet ober lin college at 8:15 p m in packard auditorium the subject of the de bate will be resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact taber to leave for canal zone 14 living groups elect officers journals remain on paying basis campus periodicals not to be on amateur status , after 1931 fifty-one men made ex ecutives of fraternities and dormitories term here will expire at close of school year capt thomas r taber assistant professor of military science and tactics in charge of ordnance at lehigh since 1925 has been detailed to the panama canal zone at the close of the present scholastic year captain taber has been in charge of the ordnance unit and has in structed the rifle team which last year won the hearst trophy in the intercollegiate matches each year captain taber has taken the ad vanced ordnance students to the government proving grounds at aberdeen maryland a student at m i t at the out break of the world war he was commissioned as second lieutenant in october 1917 joined the ma chine gun troops and sailed for france early in 1918 he took part in the following engagement while in france aisne defensive cham pagne - marne defensive aisne marne offensive sain mihiel offen sive and the meuse-a*gonne offen sive he was cited for gallantry in general orders captain taber served on the rhine through 1920 later he re turned to the united states and changed to the ordnance corps he has served at various army posts in the eastern and middle-western united states pre-meds to attend rittersville clinic society will see cases of abnormal behavior april 2 a clinic has been granted to the robert w hall pre-medical society for 1:30 p m wednesday april 2 by dr h f hoffman of the state homeopathic hospital at ritters ville prof percy hughes of the de partment of philosophy psychology and education arranged the trip dr hoffman plans to show some cases which are out of the ordin ary the clinic will be open to all members of the society members who intend to go to the clinic should give their names to samuel s gid ding or irving m clyne before monday to facilitate in making ar rangements and to arrange for ex cuses from classes wednesday aft ernoon gillem to describe siberian expedition army major will relate adven tures of futile campaign the story of the expedition which carried on in the snows of siber ia while other american soldiers were on the high seas hoboken bound will be told tonight by ma jor alvan c gillem u s army at 8 p m friday march 28 in the auditorium of packard laboratory major gillem an infantry officer and veteran of the archangel expe dition will speak on the siber ian expedition of 1918-19 this ex pedition which has come to be known as the most futile in the his tory of this nation is almost un known to the american public the speaker will explain the purposes the adventures and the results of the expedition special invitations have been sent to local national guardsmen to at tend discusses roman kings dr horace w wright head of the latin department gave a talk on early kings of rome at the monthly meeting of eta sigma phi held friday evening at his home edward c mcconnell 31 and harry miller 31 were chosen as the delegates from the local chapter to attend the national convention of the society which will be held may 2 at the university of pennsylva nia no campus publication will go on amateur status after 1931 it was decided at a meeting of the board of publications wednesday after noon the board at the suggestion of pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity reversed its de cision of a year ago after 1931 then the publications will be on the same basis as now with respect to the distribution of dividends and stipends at the end of each year the board approved the nomina tions of men to art and editorial staff positions on the burr and elections were as follows p s da vis e m 31 editor in chief a malmros eng phys 31 art edi tor r c benson arts 31 and w m eyster i e 32 assistant edi tors those elected for positions on the business staff were s c ful ler bus 31 business manager harry andrews ch e 31 circul ation manager w seeburger e m 32 advertising manager and r a stabler c e 31 secretary nom inations for managing editor have not as yet been approved by the board the list of names of men eligible for positions on the lehigh re view was also approved but were not given for publication the elec tions will take place tonight lehigh debaters won their sixth straight debate wednesday night defeating swarthmore 3 to 0 in a one-sided contest over station wcba allentown the question was resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its benefits the lehigh team defended the neg ative side the swarthmore team contended that the machine puts a great pow er of evil as well as good into man's hands they described modern war fare with all its horrors which arise from the inventions of terrible ma chines their second point was that man because of the development of machines loses his individuality the last speaker claimed that the modern metropolis is detrimental to health comfort and happiness lehigh showed that the machine age promotes man's happiness and well-being by bettering working conditions increasing wages and shortening hours of labor they also claimed that the machine age has liberated women they showed that the scientific attitude has caus ed man to progress intellectually the lehigh rebuttal was super ior to swarthmore's parsons re buttal declared prof c d mac dougall was the most effective i have heard this year he destroyed swarthmore's arguments proceed ing logically to tear down each point one by one he left nothing more to be said the lehigh team consisted of george parsons 31 leader guy vroman 30 and manuel ruder man 33 the swarthmore debaters were r e kinter charles kerr and j p skinner the judges dis tributed among the radio audience were m c schrader bethlehem h r rockmaker allentown and g a oswald of catasauqua pro fessor macdougall acted as an nouncer the lehigh side of the question was so well defended that one judge sent in his decision before the swarthmore rebuttal had been com pleted saying that he gave the de cision to lehigh regardless of what the swarthmore man would say professors to teach at penn this summer diamond and bradford accept po sitions at state college herbert maynard diamond b a ph d professor of economics and frederick alden bradford a b m a ph d associate professor of economics will take positions as in structors at pennsylvania state col lege during the coming summer ses sion professor diamond will be spend ing his second summer at penn state and as last year he will con duct courses in economic geography and social origin prtfessor brad ford will teach money and bank ing and money market both of them will return to lehigh in the fall latin group to meet prof a r mcdaniel of the uni versity of pennsylvania will give a lecture on virgil at a meeting of the classical league of the lehigh valley at 2:30 p m saturday march 29 in the chapel of mora vian college for women for the sixth consecutive year lehigh will be host on friday april 11 to eastern engineers inter ested in welding methods begin ning at 9:30 o'clock in the morning with a technical session the first meeting of the symposium will be opened by dr n m emery who will welcome the guests to the uni versity there will be two events in the morning one a magnified projec tion of welding arcs and flames on a screen to show their action in welding this demonstration will be made by prof frederick creedy a for mer student of mrs ayrton who wrote the first comprehensive trea tise on the carbon arc her meth ods of investigation are being ap plied by professor creedy to mod ern industrial arcs and flames the other event on the morning program is an explanation of meth ods for testing welded structures three non-destructive tests for the soundness of welds when complet ed will be described by representa tives of the sperry development company the linde air products company and dr h h lester of the watertown arsenal the specimens each of which has been examined and reported by all of the above methods will be bro ken in the afternoon at the fritz testing laboratory the merits of each of the testing methods will be made apparent in addition to these tests there will be a continuous performance of welding machinery installed at the lehigh welding lab oratory in the basement of williams hall spalding plays in final concert e g scoblionko dean c m mcconn will act as chairman the lehrgh debaters are edward fleischer 33 manuel l ruderman 33 and emanuel g scoblionko 31 the team will de fend the negative side of the ques tion the touring team is coached by prof william utterbach the following night at college ville the same lehigh team will con clude its season with a debate against ursinus college another lehigh team defending the affir mative of the kellogg pact propo sition defeated the ursinus nega tive team earlier in the year fleischer ruderman and scob lionko have debated four times this season on the same question they won decisive victories over cedar crest and temple and lost only to st joseph a non-decision debate was held with albright these men also have debated on the machine age question lehigh debaters so far this sea son have won eight and lost four debates two other debates were non-decision contests bull addresses pre-med society fourteen fraternities and living groups have elected officers for the coming year those houses that have not already had their elec tions will do so within the next few weeks the new officers are as follows alpha tau omega alexander mcelroy worthy master robert motion chaplain harry thompson treasurer malcom metzger keeper of annals s w manning worthy scribe beta theta pi william sachs president ross sweeney recorder william jackel secretary hall cushman treasurer chi phi samuel fuller president robert enscoe vice president al fred mcneil secretary norton wilde treasurer jean montene court historian theta delta chi l h platt president h b elliott treasurer j h houston secretary kappa alpha r s white pres ident b c lewis vice president c c morgan treasurer c e green secretary kappa sigma g e vaughan grand master j f miller treasur er d j grubbe grand scribe lambda chi alpha r h harris president francis shoemaker vice president o j pearre treasurer e j mccrea secretary phi delta theta j d benedict president p s davis warden fe lix shay secretary r k scrfass treasurer phi sigma kappa j m lyons president w o engel vice pres ident g j bienfang secretary a l kline treasurer sigma nu w mcc mayberry eminant commander harry an drews lieutenant commander c f halsted treasurer j s throck morton recorder sigma phi epsilon a j belmore president frank stuzt vice pres ident j p green historian theta xi willis macdougall president j c mertz treasurer s l hall secretary two sections of the taylor hall dormitories have elected officers for the coming year the men chos en in these sections are section a a j ciastkewicz head g m templeman treasurer c h robson secretary section b walton tiedeken head r h raring secretary-trea surer palmer gives talk gottfried keller was the sub ject of a talk given by prof p m palmer at the monthly meeting of the deutscher verein held tuesday evening at the butztown hotel many incidents in the life of the great swiss writer were brought out by professor palmer additional substitute courses offer no sol ution voters say chapel and its substitute courses in religious and ethical training were repudiated by overwhelming majorities in the student poll con ducted by the brown and white five hundred and seventy-seven participated in the poll which closed last night figures compiled by members of the editorial staff of the brown and white indicate results previously predicted by this paper chapel re ceived the burden of the rebuke while the substitute courses were approved by a bare majority of 10 votes sixty-nine students stated that they had received spiritual ben efit from chapel whereas 462 indi cated contrary beliefs an 87 per cent majority three hundred and ninety-five of those who cast ballots favored vo litional chapel and optional elec tive substitute courses in compari son with 153 ballots for compul sory attendance a third significant question that of whether the addi tion of other substitute courses was defeated by a vote of almost two to one 306 to 174 selection of the most popular sub stitute courses was deadlocked as votes were distributed almost uni formly among all the proposed courses comparative religion was however by far the most popular of these courses receiving almost uni versal approval from all who voted on this particular question psychol ogy of religion and ethics received considerable approval while the vo ters indicated that of all the pro posed courses they would least pre fer biblical literature despite the fact that so large a number voted against the present chapel services 146 students indi cated that they would attend chap el of their own accord many sug gested that the hour be changed and the program made more interesting a still greater number voted that they would take optional elective courses in this case the balloting was almost evenly divided on both sides of the question complete tabulations concerning distribution of the votes by classes and comparisons between individual ballots are not yet available the staff worked until 3 a m compil ing figures as ballots were turned in from whole fraternity houses up un til 11 p m last night the poll last ed one week and was participated in by over one-third of the student body interest was apparently stim ulated as the contest came to a close fraternity presidents when interviewed by the brown and white declared that the question has been actively discussed in many of the houses the number of stu dents observed in heated discussions around the ballot boxes further in dicates the interest created by the poll a complete tabulation of the vote will be found elsewhere in this pa per further statistics will prob ably be available in the next issue of the brown and white seek masters degrees alfred n rogers and arthur l smith senior chemical engineers have been awarded the freshman student research fellowships by a committee chosen according to the constitution of the freshman foun dation it was announced thursday by dr h m ullmann head of the department of chemistry and chem ical engineering the fellowships made possible by the donations of freshman classes carry a stipend of 750 annually and are free from tuition charges upon completion of the research work under these fellowships the hold ers are granted their master degrees mr rogers is a graduate of read ing high school he attained fresh man and sophomore honors at le high and also won the chandler chemistry prize in his second year for scholastic attainment in chemis try subjects he has recently been elected a member of phi beta kap pa and to associate membership of the sigma xi honorary research society he is also one of the char ter members of pi mv epsilon hon orary mathematical fraternity and the lehigh chemical society his scholastic average up to last semes ter is 4.01 arthur l smith who is a resi dent of coatesville pa graduated from coatesville high school in 1924 and entered lehigh in 1926 in his freshman and sophomore years he won scholastic honors and was awarded the mathematical prize in his sophomore year he was elected to tau beta pi at the end of his junior year and was also one of the charter members of pi mv epsilon in his first semester of the senior year he won the am erican chemical society award spon sored by the lehigh valley section for proficiency in chemical subjects last semester he was elected to as sociate membership of the sigma xi society up to the first semester of his senior year his scholastic av erage was 3.856 he is a member of the university band and has con tributed his college expenses by working in his spare time the committee whose member ship is fixed by the constitution of the freshman foundation consists of president richards dr h m ull mann head of the department of chemistry j s long professor of inorganic chemistry h v ander son assistant professor of chemis try c austin buck first vi^e president of the bethlehem steel company the alumni member elect ed by the alumni body as a whole stanley b adams a former stu dent at lehigh and originator of the plan e oiler president of the first freshman class to contribute to the fund mr rogers and mr smith both expect to continue their work for a ph.d degree by means of fellow ship grants from one of the major universities the graduate research es of these men will be closely re lated to the work of other research fellows college night planned college night at the college theatre was inaugurated last eve ning as a permanent weekly insti tution when the lehigh swimming team was entertained by the man agement next thursday evening the lehigh wrestling team will be guests of the theatre the last of this season's concerts given by the bethlehem commun ity concert association was pre sented wednesday evening in liber ty high school auditorium miss gina pinnera soprano and albert spalding violinist were the artists on the program edward hart was at the piano for miss pinnera and andre benoist accompanied mr sapling spalding miss pinnera's program was as follows yon ewiger liebe auf dem schiffe feldeinsamkeit vor schneller schwur all by brahms aria-pace pace mio die from la forza del destino by verdi and the aria-ernani involami from ernani by verdi mr spalding's program consist ed of chaconne by vitali pastor ale gentile by frescobald allegro by padre martini nocturne in g major by chopin etude by chop in walt in a by brahms-hoch stein hark hark the lark by schubert sevillana by albeniz jota by de falla and the roman za andaluza by sarasate this exhibit will include auto matic electric arc welding electric spot welding and hand arc welding at the packard • laboratory gas welding of airplane frame work and the application of stellite to air plane tail skids will be shown thermit welding atomic hydro gen welding and automatic butt welding the latter operation on a production bisis as used in the mo tor industry and in other large scale production processes will also be shown in packard laboratory walter is charged with manslaughter studenf held in accident case out on bail paul s walter 33 student in the college of business administration is charged by police with involun tary manslaughter driving while intoxicated and failing to stop and render assistance at the scene of an accident as the result of a crash at midnight saturday march 22 which caused the death of charles tronovich 21 of 1735 east fourth street the preliminary hearing will be held at 2 p m friday april 25 before alderman john peters of the fourth ward walter has been re leased on 2,500 bail charles heller nee cyril charles morgan 33 as he is listed at le high is charged with operating a motor vehicle while under the in fluence of liquor he has been re leased on 500 bail pending the hearing on april 25 no charges were preferred against the third member of the party and he has been released alpha kappa psi hears g k seidel j s skelley pledged get aluminum exhibit the exhibit is in the office of prof j l beaver associate profes sor of electrical engineering aluminum fire-alarm boxes cyl inder heads cooking utensils air plane streamlining for struts pigs piston rods and bauxite form part of an aluminum exhibit presented to the university by the aluminum company of america g f seidel assistant manager of the philadelphia zone of the distri buting department of the chevro let motor car company addressed the alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness society wednesday evening in the packard laboratory on the subject of sales and advertising in discussing this subject mr seidel used his company as an ex ample of large sales and advertis ing the lecture was illustrated by means of motion pictures before mr seidel's lecture the society met in the phi gamma delta house to elect officers the elections resulted in everett fay being sel ected president bob chess vice president stephen condit secre tary and charles platt treasurer new watch setting craze seizes lehigh students pi kappa alpha fraternity an nounces the pledging of john scott skelley 33 of monongahela pa chapel poll statistics coming events votes cast 577 men attending chapel • 524 men taking substitute courses •■ 112 spiritual benefit in chapel 69 no spiritual benefit in chapel 462 substitute course worth while 73 substitute courses not worth while 63 additional courses would solve problem 174 additional courses would not solve problem 306 elective courses which students might take ethics 99 philosophy of religion 61 psychology of religion 91 biblical literature •' 56 comparative religion 145 history of religious thought 72 men favoring volitional chapel and elective courses 395 men not favoring volitional chapel and elective courses 153 men who would attend volitional chapel 146 men who would not attend volitional chapel 396 men who would take elective courses 230 men who would not take elective courses 240 friday 8 p m public lecture the siberian expedition of 1918-1919 by maj a c gillem packard auditorium 8:30 p m tryouts for mustard and cheese saturday 2:00 p m tryouts for mustard and cheese sunday 2 p m tryouts for mustard and cheese monday 7:30 p m newtonian society meet ing held in packer hall room 31 8:15 p m debate oberlin vs le high proposition : american withdrawal from the kellogg peace pact in packard auditor ium physiotherapy is one of the old est yet newest methods of treatment of disease according to dr ray mond c bull head of the student health service in an address before the pre-medical society last night in the dispensary there are many forms of phy siotherapy treatment including sta tic electricity sinusoidal hydro therapy galvanic and faradic cur rents and mechano-therapy doc tor bull added according to doctor bull high frequency machines in use in the dispensary are probably the new est in design they generate 30,000 volts and deliver from 20,000 to 22,000 to the patient naturally such high voltages must be delivered at a very low rate of amperage the machine has a frequency of over 500,000 a second the tissues of the body will not react to the passage of the current and the resistance offered by these tissues causes the beneficial heat that is so essential in this kind of treatment the den ser the tissues the greater the re sistance and therefore the higher the amount of heat generated by varying the position and size of the electrodes an exact amount of heat may be delivered to any part of the body the second type of machine in the dispensary is the infra-red lamp doctor bull continued this lamp brings out the infra-red rays that have such marked heating ef fects this heat is transferred by means of convection and conduc tion the infra-red rays have a wave length greater than the lower limit of the spectrum the third and probably the most used lamp is the ultra-violet ma chine this comes in two types the mercury-quartz light that is popular in america and the carbon arc lamp that is used to a great extent in continued on page four if you request the time of day from a friend and « he pulls his watch from his pocket with the hands pointing to 6 o'clock and tells you that it is 9:15 and if you dis cover or believe the time to be what he told you it was he is neither a wizard or crazy he is just follow ing the new method of setting watches which has just appeared on the campus for years people have set their watches in just one way and by now this method is rather monoton ous the new way allows one to use a little originality there are innum erable combinations which one can follow here is one your friend used at 12 o'clock he turned the hands of his watch to 8:45 under this system 1 o'clock would become 9:45 2:30 would be 11:15 and 5:45 would become 3:30 the new system may not meet with favor among the more conser vative element but it does have some advantages very few pocket watches are made in such a way that one can tell the time at a glance uusually one has to twist the watch around before he can tell the exact minutes the new system abolishes this inconvenience friends who make a nuisance of themselves by asking the time of day three or four times each hour soon become discouraged after hav ing a watch set under the revised system placed before their eyes the new system allows one to ex press his own individuality every student can have his watch set dif ferently and still have the correct time finally trying the various methods used under the new sys tem is a fine way of passing the time during an uninteresting lecture brown and white vol xxxvii no 42 price five cents ballot opposes chapel system bethlehem pa friday march 28 1930 577 students vote as poll is closed sub-frosh program to include tour of campus and athletics debaters are victorious to meet oberlin monday welding experts willbelehigh's guests april 11 two chemicals get fellowships to do research hughes attends meet member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first