Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 43

              large crowd present 8,000 guests invited exercises to be held in main reading room at 2 p m undergraduates having names of prospective students whom they wish invited for sub-fresh man day are urged to turn the names of the latter in to the dean's office at their earliest op portunity all names of those to be invited must be turned in be fore april 12 plans memorial to e.h williams the rev daniel wilmot gateson chaplain defended lehigh's chapel policy in one of his short daily ser mons last week in packer memor ial chapel in his talk he referred to the chapel poll which has been con ducted recently the brown and white and which has occasioned so much discussion on the campus many students have voted without due consideration or appreciation of the purpose of chapel at lehigh and many have been influenced because of the early hour of chapel to vote that they receive no spiritual ben efit from the services the rev mr gateson told several hundred stu dents who comprised his congrega tion chapel is not compulsory at le high he continued you are free to choose between these daily ser vices and a short substitute course to these early morning services than he pointed out that there was more spiritual benefits the services were also an educational course the rev erend gateson said in which he the varsity debating season will be completed tonight when the brown and white orators participate in a return debate with ursinus college at college ville pa the question will be resolved that the united states withdraw from the kel logg peace pact the lehigh team will be the same that de bated against oberlin last night on the campus and will defend the same proposition in a previous contest on this same question between lehigh and ursinus at the jewish com munity center in bethlehem le high's affirmative team was awarded the audience's decision the ursinus debaters have been very successful this year and are desirous to avenge their team's defeat at the hands of lehigh on the other hand the lehigh team has also been very success ful this year and is anxious to complete the season with seven straight victories tau beta pi will erect tablet on campus to founder tried to explain the theory of reli gion he told his student audience that he was trying to give them an unbiased picture of every religion with prejudice and malice to none for that purpose he said i have brought before you preachers of dif ferent sects the rev mr gateson then spoke of a letter which had been sent some time ago to the editor of the brown and white and which had been published in the paper the writer said the reverend thought it would be beneficial to burn down this chufch and put the money spent on religion to some better use such as to the founding of an educational scholarship believe me fellows he said earnestly it would be a mighty lean scholarship i cannot understand he con cluded how you can sing or even listen to these glorious hymns with out receiving some spiritual benefit from them surely the immortal passages of the bible cannot wholly escape you two men tapped by eta kappa nu physicists view students work bouses select heads for 1930 twenty-six groups have already elected new officers seal 3 1 , and schaub 3 1 , pledged by honorary electrical society four seniors perform ex periments at meeting thursday paul w seal and warren h schaub junior electrical engineers were pledged to eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering so ciety last night at a meeting of the society in packard laboratory a dinner was held after the pledging at the gregg's tea shop in honor of the two men the two that were pledged were picked from the junior class on the basis of scholastic attainment in their three years at college end ticket sale for grid feast pi delta epsilon will re ceive no remittances after tonight lehigh debaters concluded their home season with a non-decision de bate with oberlin college last night in packard auditorium the ques tion was resolved that the unit ed states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact lehigh de fended the negative side of the ques tion about 30 persons heard the le high team which was the same one which engaged lafayette on the machine age question in the only other debate on the campus dean c m mcconn acted a chairman and introduced an informal discus sion directly after the debate the oberlin team contended that the effectiveness of the kellogg peace pact was virtually destroyed by reservations permitting wars of self defense in protection of prop erty and of certain special spheres of influence they claimed that all past wars were fought for such purposes and further contended that the pact could be of no use unless it were given teeth they argued withdrawal because the futility of the pact has been demonstrated supplementation predicted lehigh attempted to prove that the united states could do nothing outside of the pact which it could do inside they prophesied eradica tion of present evils by supplemen tations and pointed out that the greatest achievement of the pact was the creation of peace minded ness in rebuttal the lehigh team attacked the oberlin debaters for failing to suggest what benefits might result from withdrawal you would wish to retrace your steps all the way down hill merely because you cannot reach the top all at once the lehigh speaker said this would result in a crusifica tion of the peace ideal he added professor macdougall coach of the team characterized the debate as the worst of the year and ex pressed disappointment that so poor a contest was offered the students as the concluding home debate the lehigh team consisted of emanuel scoblionko 31 leader manuel ruderman 33 and edward fleisch er 33 the oberlin debaters were david clayman 30 arthur cot ton 31 and maurice merryfield 30 the oberlin debaters are coached by prof william utter bach a team consisting of these same lehigh men will conclude the de bating season when they meet ur sinus tonight at collegeville le high will debate the kellogg peace pact again and will defend the neg ative another lehigh team defend ing the affirmative defeated ursin us earlier in the season officers have been elected for 11 more fraternities and living groups at the present time 26 houses have made their elections and the re maining few plan to do so in the near future the new officers elected are delta phi r l baird jr 31 head delta upsiion — r m powers 31 president c o claus jr 31 vice president e a fay 31 trea surer e b hildum 32 recording secretary w c elmore 32 cor responding secretary phi delta pi ross whitehead 31 temporary head phi beta delta — bernard graver 32 president a sofman 32 vice president a j lipsky 33 secre tary a s berlin 32 treasurer price hall j g meharg 31 head sigma alpha mu — l m sobo 31 president b j friedman 31 secretary j l leitzer 32 treas urer sigma chi — g b camden 31 consul c e harrison jr 33 tri bune sigma phi g d taylor 31 head taylor hall section d — w f mcgarrity 31 section chief taylor hall section c — c a harding 31 section chief e s goldsmith 33 secretary-treasurer taylor hall section e w w valentine 31 section chief f m morris 32 secretary w m schuck 32 treasurer plan banquet lehigh union sends four to perkiomen lehigh university has been picked as the site of a tau beta pi mem orial to be erected by the honorary engineering society in honor of edward h williams 75 professor of mining engineering and geology at lehigh from 1881 to 1902 and the founder of the society lehigh is the birthplace of the tau beta pi society the memorial which will prob ably be a bronze tablet will be ded icated at the next national conven tion which will be held at lehigh this coming october professor williams is expected to attend the convention and dedication donor of many prizes hughes attends meet professor williams was graduat ed from yale in 1872 with a b a degree received his b s from there in 1875 and his e.m in 1876 from lehigh he is the donor of wil liams hall and of the williams prizes in english economics phil osophy and psychology tau beta pi which he founded in 1885 comprises 58 chapters with an enrollment of 17 375 members all chosen on the basis of super ior attainment in engineering stu dies and all-around ability one of the first lehigh engin eering students to be initiated by dr williams in 1886 was henry g reist 86 head of the a c engin eering department of the general electric company a year ago while vacationing in vermont dr reist when passing through woodstock home of dr williams stopped to visit his former professor he con ceived at that time the idea of bringing alb the tau betas from schenectady to visit the fraternity's founder so last june a delegation of general electric men graduates of many different universities made a pilgrimage to dr williams home in woodstock since resigning the chair of min ing at lehigh dr williams has re tired on a farm in his native state of vermont men address students on scholas tics and athletics at lehigh plans for an initiation banquet to be held friday evening were dis cussed at a meeting of pi tau sig ma this afternoon the banquet will celebrate the in itiation of o j pearre 31 and wilbur s morhart 31 med clinic postponed no remittances will be received for the gridiron banquet after to night was the decision of pi delta epsilon at a rehearsal friday eve ning in drown hall inasmuch as the banquet is not a financial ven ture the society was opposed to selling tickets at the door members went through their parts assuming gruff voices and diabolical tones in mimicking peo ple who will attend the banquet three members who will take the parts of witches had a difficult time making their voices wheeze sufficiently another member has mastered the art of talking in mon otones and laughing when nothing funny happens others are rehearsing songs dit ties and chants while some more are busily collecting parts for what they claim to be the greatest in vention in the world during the course of the evening the new alti tude-dispersion method of marking quizzes and examinations will be demonstrated 19 31 epitome is at n.j pr inter y dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy psychol oyy and education represented le high's faculty at the harrisburg convention of the carnegie founda tion the convention held on march 28 was for the discussion of the ad ministration and the scoring of the sophomore comprehensives to be given the week of may sth the clinic for the robert w hall pre-medical society sched uled for wednesday afternoon at the state homeopathic hospital at rittersville has been indefinitely postponed due notice of anoth er clinic will be posted at a later date the common belief that all fight ing during the world war was done in europe is entirely wrong said major a c gillem before a capa city audience of members of scab bard and blade and the r o t c unit in his lecture last friday night in packard auditorium lieutenant colonel matthew thomlinson head of the department of military sci ence and tactics introduced the speaker a detailed description of the country through which his unit passed the tactical situation of the towns and villages they stopped at and the relation of these remote tribes of people to the war preced ed major gillem's illustrated dis cussion of the siberian expedition of 1918-19 a unit of 1600 men was under the command of major gil lem and it was their purpose to prevent any uprisings of the tribes in siberia and to move eastward into russia if they were needed the troops were landed along the southern coast of siberia and from there were transferred into central siberia by the only railroad in the country this railroad major gil lem pointed out divides in central siberia and it was for that reason that the american headquarters were established there at the junc tion from that point all operations were begun and all allied troops were assigned sectors with that point as center the american troops were very well cared for perhaps better than the russian and japanese soldiers only one railroad although there were compara tively few skirmishes our troops enjoyed themselves as best they could under the circumstances pro visions were plentiful although the officers had to allow three months for provisions to arrive from the coast however one time the pro vision train was detained and our men had to eat local food for sev eral months local food said ma jor gillem when referring to meat provisions is meat from an animal which closely resembles our west ern jack-rabbit the first several days are a treat but after that one loses one's appetite the provisions arrived within the month and the men were all right even christmas was celebrated by the troops out there in that wilderness most of the troops were young boys and could appreciate something like that a large amusement and recreation hall was constructed where the men could exercise and enjoy them selves this remained a constant source of pleasure until someone tried to get warm in the fifty below zero weather and burned the build ing down in an attempt to do so methods of supply and quarter ing were also discussed and illus trated as was the climate topo graphy and population of this dis trict besides the great number of stu dents who attended there were many national guardsmen from the local units major gillem is an infantry offi cer and entered the army in 1910 he attended the officers school at fort leavenworth kansas and the army war college in washington he is now stationed in baltimore on the staff of the second corps area old zinc mines at friedensville once led states in production the chapel exercises of perkio men preparatory school were at tended bf four lehigh men repre senting the lehigh union sunday march 23 the men were richard b johnson bus 31 who spoke on the curriculum of lehigh john j somerville bus 30 who spoke on the city of bethlehem robert s chess bus 31 who spoke on le high athletics and samuel fuller bus 31 who spoke on social life at lehigh several of the perkiomen seniors were interviewed one day gone but not forgotten mysterious loss saddens owner demonstrations of the michelson interferometer the kerr cell and the cathode ray oscillograph were given by robert serber victor stein david epstein and leland myer senior engineering physicists at a meeting of the physics club last thursday evening in the phy sics building the michelson interferometer was demonstrated by robert ser ber by an arrangement of half sil vered mirrors an original or inci dent beam of light was reflected into two new beams these beams were reflected so that they were re versed in their paths and brought together again if they traveled equal distances or distances so that they met in phase they united to form a new beam if they traveled unequal distances they annulled each other upon uniting and pro duced darkness an instrument of this type is being used at the bu reau of standards to measure the bending produced by placing the hand on an 8-inch steel rail kerr cell shown the kerr cell which is an appar atus used to accurately measure time intervals as small as a billionth of a second was demonstrated by victor stein and david epstein a special polarization of an electric field across a dielectric was util ized to secure the rapid shutter ef fect in measuring these small time intervals the cathode ray oscillograph which is in reality a small electron gun was demonstrated by j le land myer the beam of high speed electrons was deviated by electro static and magnetic fields and traces of its path shown on fluores cent screen thus giving an instan taneous picture or graph of the functions of the beam by superim posing two 60 cycle voltages at right angles a circle appeared on the screen demonstrating the action of the rotating vector in two phase induction motor by using a loud speaker to record the notes produc ed by the various cycles virtual talking pictures of the loops ap pearing on the screen were pre sented hysteresis loops of samples of iron and steel as well as vacuum tube characteristics were plotted with this apparatus following the meeting refresh ments were served and an inspec tion of the physics department's new x-ray diffraction apparatus and equipment for sputtering gold and platinum mirrors was made dr delaguna to speak april 25 has been set as the date for the dedication of the new addi tion to the library the dedicatory address entitled the library and its co-operative aspects will be delivered by dr ernest cushing richardson bibliographical consul tant of the library of congress approximately 8,000 invitations to attend the dedication have been sent out to men of local and national prominence alumni and the pres idents of a number of universities and colleges it has not been de finitely decided yet whether april 25 will be declared a legal univer sity holiday following is a tentative general program approved for the day of dedication : 9-12 a m — registration of delegates at alumni memorial hall 12 p m — luncheon for delegates at procession alumni memorial hall 2 p m — dedicatory exercises main drown memorial hall 1 30 p m — formation of academic reading room university library 3:30 p m lnspection of the li brary 4 p m — meeting of the board of trustees president's office alum ni memorial hall exercises at 2 p m the dedication exercises will be held at 2 o'clock in the afternoon in the main reading room of the li brary the address entitled the library in its co-operative aspects will be deliva»ed by dr ernest cushing richardson bibliographical consultant of the library of con gress the program for the dedi catory exercises is as follows opening selection university orchestra invocation the rev daniel wilmot gateson introductory .... dr c r richards presentation of the architects theodore c visscher 99 and james l burley 94 presentation of the contractor frederick t youngs of jacob and youngs new york city description of the building and the presentation of the keys theodore c visscher response and acceptance of the keys dr eugene grace president of the board of trustees delivery of the keys to president richards and their delivery by him to the librarian howard s leach congratulations from sister universities dr william m lewis president of lafayette college dedicators address the library in its co-operative aspects by dr ernest cushing richardson bibliographical consultant of the library of congress benediction the rev d wilmot gateson alma mater inspection of the building closing selection university orchestra work begun september 1928 work on the library was begun in september 1928 today with this new addition to the library it is pos sible to accommodate 800 readers which is eight times the capacity of the old library the new addition contains in addition to the 11 sem inar rooms for advanced study a browsing room an art gallery and numerous individual cubicles for study five hundred thousand dollars has been spent on this new gothic addition to the library one hun dred thousand dollars more has been spent in equipping the addi tion the financing of the library was made possible through the gifts of alumni and friends board approves new review men dr f c delaguna professor of philosophy at bryn mawr college will speak before lehigh's under graduate body in packard auditor ium on friday april 4 at 8 o'clock he will speak on the philosophy of the declaration of independence dr delaguna has made a special study of the intellectual background of the authors of the declaration coming events the 1931 epitome is now at press with the abbey printing company of east orange n j the books are expected to be out the second week in may possibly in time for the spring house party the main theme of the book deals with the campus and the va rious buildings on it it is bound in green and black and in the upper left-hand corner of the cover ap pears an embossing of the entrance of the new packard laboratory there are 512 pages also with green and black background the sale of subscriptions is now on and sophomores and members of the business staff are soliciting them those desiring copies should get in touch with philip c lewis at the kappa alpha lodge about 600 copies are being printed one half of which will go to seniors early applications ar advisable be cause only 250 copies will be avail able after complimentary copies have been distributed club hears mcconn dean c m mcconn and andrew buchanan alumni secretary re turned yesterday from cleveland where they addressed many high school undergraduates guests of the northern ohio lehigh club thomas girdler 01 was elected president of the club for the com ing year about 40 alumni attended the meeting the board of publications ap proved the nomination of e f un derwood arts 31 as editor in chief of the lehigh review at a meeting held last friday evening the fol lowing nominations to the editorial and business staff were also ap proved b j friedman bus 31 managing editor f neuwirth arts 31 secretary e j stack arts 31 business manager g b camden i e 31 advertising manager r whitehead m e 31 circulation manager the following were added to the business board a t stanley bus 32 a w nelson met e 32 w e current e m 32 c d war nick ch e 32 three miles south of bethlehem along the philadelphia pike is the yjllage of friedensville today it is only another village on the side of the road another place to get gas another place to whirl by but there was a time when things were differ ent then friedensville was the center of zinc production in the united states and zinc ore from her mines found its way to all parts of the world today three pits are all that re main of the three friedensville zinc mines they are on the west side of the philadelphia road and the mines were known by the names ueberroth hartman and saucon or correll the ueberroth mine is closest to bethlehem it lies near the pike and besides the crater 480 feet fri diameter and 225 feet deep two buildings the pumping engine house and the office are left both build ings once solid structures of stone and heavy timbers are in ruins it was in this pumping house that the famous pumper the president was located this engine derived its name from the fact that it was ded icated by president u s grant history is silent as to the authen ticity of the story that the pres ident was very tipsy that day but it does tell us something about the famous engine this pump which was started jan 29 1872 ran continuously un til oct 28 1876 and for a few short periods later it is described in lead and zinc ores of pennsyl vania by prof b l miller of le high as having a pumping capa city of 12,000 gallons a minute from a depth of 300 feet it was single cylinder double acting condens ing walking beam engine with an immense pair of fly wheels a 110 inch cylinder and a ten foot stroke it was calculated to work four 30 inch lift pumps and four 30 inch plunger pumps with a ten foot stroke at the time it was stopped it was running from six to seven strokes a minute and was working three pairs of 30 inch pumps and one pair of 22 inch pumps the en gine sat on a foundation of hewn blocks of potsdam sandstone which extended 60 feet below the surface of the ground the hartman mine which is about 400 yards from the pike and the correll mine which is behind the old friedensville church were smaller mines the new jersey zinc company is the present owner of all the mines with the exception of the correll mine * wednesday 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of professor and mrs r w hall 37 east church street reading of outward bound 7 p m gridiron banquet at the ho tel bethlehem thursday friday 4 p m yale university photoplay the end of the revolution packard auditorium dog lovers have queer ways of expressing their love such is the opinion of one who has proved him self a dog lover i can't see why people who were disturbed by my dog insisted that i get rid of him he wailed he was the student who had owned the dog about which an other student had written so vitup erously in this paper some weeks ago rascal is gone for good i'm afraid he told a brown and white reporter and all because of that letter published in your paper a few weeks ago i didn't mind the letter so much he continued but why did the writer have to sign it a dog lover when pressed for details the owner of the lost dog confessed that it had disappeared a week after the letter appeared in the brown and white he seemed rather glad to have the opportunity to tell his story i paid 25 for that dog he claimed it was a great dane and the best one i ever owned he was greatly attached to me and follow ed me to school every day that's why he was always seen on the campus i don't see why people briand and mac donald have con cocted a consultative pact based on article xvi of the league of na tions covenant and the american delegation has practically given full support to the proposed agreement all countries in europe will be in cluded in the newly hatched com pact briefly stated article xvi de crees that should any member of the league resort to war in disre gard of the league covenants it shall be deemed to have committed an act of war against all other mem bers of the league and the mem bers of the league shall contribute their military naval or air forces in an effort to bring the covenant breaking nation to terms in other words the proposed consultative pact means that all implements of war will be used to enforce peace the briand-macdonald idea is not a restrictive measure it is not a disarmament scheme the name consultative is erroneous mis leading and ridiculous consulta tion for what consultation in that it will decide when and on whom to declare war * * ♦ evidently the exponents of the idea have no faith in a treaty that is not backed by armies and navies should one nation disregard the terras of the treaty the remaining parties to the agreement might speedily bring the dissenter to terms by armed force but should two or more nations refuse to abide by the treaty — what then world conflict would be the result the proposed consultative pact is not a preservative for peace it is a sanction of war it is better that the peace conference should dis band without reaching an agree ment than to adopt the proposed measure the world wants disarma ment not security pacts the german ministry under chancellor hermann mueller re signed march 27 the coalition gov ernment that survived the vitriolic attacks upon the young plan which the reichstag ratified by a suffi cient majority fell as a result of a squabble concerning the budget the mueller ministry has held of fice since june 1928 ♦ * ♦ the fall of the mueller faction was not unexpected there are over 3,000,000 unemployed in germany today and the existing plan of un employment insurance has created a very distressing problem the fall of the coalition government has been laid to partisan tactics and to the action of the socialists who are the most powerful faction in the present government group but the real cause of the downfall was the lack of sufficient cash on the part of the reich's exchequer to meet its obligations under the unemploy ment insurance plan each faction had different ideas as to how the defiicit was to be met * * * unemployment insurance is a de sirable measure in every country but many financial intricacies must be made use of if the idea is to sur vive a long period of depression and wholesale unemployment ger many has been thinking in advance of her income * * * tomorrow an army of 100,000 will begin its nation-wide job of taking the fifteenth census of the united states the task to be per formed is tremendous and is ex pected to be completed within one month the census is important from a political standpoint in that there is a faint possibility of a reapportion ment in the house of representa tives as a result of the new popula tion figures under the census law congress must either make allow ances for the increase in population by giving the states a correspond ing increase in representation or by making a reapportionment so that each number of the house will rep resent a greater number of people the house is too unwieldy at present and a reduction would be more in order than an increase in the number of representatives but unfortunately congress is more in terested in the political effects of the possible reapportionment than in any practical value that may be derived from it » * * the new york police department has capitulated before the aeronau tics craze and has purchased four planes to patrol its waterfront and suburbs just what the new air pa trol is supposed to guard the city against it is difficult to determine perhaps if the flying cops were equipped with devices somewhat on the order of the proverbial cat's eyes the new air forces would be come a useful weapon against sus pected rum-runners * * ♦ democratic governments have a regrettable hamt of spending money on ethereal schemes and it is to be hoped that too much of the taxpay ers money will not go into the de velopment of needless air patrols how much better it would have been to have used that money for poor-relief or city-improvement ra ther than to purchase planes to pa trol a very sparsely occupied upper atmosphere couldn't keep away from him if they didn't like him they should have realized he didn't know bet ter the dog owner was beginning to get enthusiastic the reporter was amused but he knew it was a story so he asked do you think some one stole your dog that was evidently the wrong question for it started the enthu siastic student off again why i wouldn't be surprised if my own fraternity brothers did it them selves he almost shouted they kidded me about it for a week after that letter appeared in the brown and white then one morning i couldn't find rascal and the whole house did a war dance did you try dragging the river asked the reporter trying to keep a straight face and remembering that the letter writer had suggested a watery fate for the dog no but i advertised for him the former dog owner answered say he added do you know where i can find out who wrote that letter but the reporter was already too far away to answer him world news brown and white a consultative pact the fall of mueller the fifteenth census planes and police g w.t vol xxxvii no 43 rev gateson defends chapel policy in talk on brown and white's poll bethlehem pa tuesday april 1 1930 lehigh-oberlin debate results in non-decision final debate tonight away with ursinus price five cents m aj.a c gillem depicts siberian 1918=19 campaign library dedication program complete concludes home season mcconn acts as chairman names requested for sub frosh day local r o t c unit hears address on ex pedition march 28 dr e c richards will deliver dedicatory address april 25 discuss kellogg pact all the lehigh news first