Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 53

              three showings given b-company gets prize graduation fee due juniors to get canes drawings for dormitory rooms will be held at 4 o'clock thursday afternoon in drown hall the drawings will be con ducted in the usual way men who are at present in the dor mitory and who wish to change their rooms will be given their choice in order of classes fol lowed by downtown men in the order of classes mustard and cheese will pre sent a fourth performance of the shannons of broadway at 8:15 o'clock wednesday eve ning in drown hall this per formance is in response to the many requests which george motter president of mustard and cheese has received from disappointed students and townspeople who were unable to attend any of the previous showings the original cast and orchestra will perform and the tickets will sell for the original price of 1.50 25 houses bold saturday dances many receive promotions as drill ends for this year miller explains eclipse theory s & b initiates ten the scabbard and blade hon orary r o t c society ini tiated the following men last evening r e hoaster f w gadd h andrews jr w e seeburger j b r anderson s l hall f r veale b m da ris f a stutz t w match tt the following officers were lected capt r l baird jr first lieut r e hoaster sec dnd lieut b m davis first sgt f r veale williams talks on glaciation fraternities secure well known orchestras to entertain guests commends advance made in theoretical physics former lehigh professor explains local effect of phenomonen the class of 1933 will greet with characteristic acclaim its long anti cipated emancipation from the ser vile bondage of freshman tradition when for the fourth year the un der graduate body participates in the now traditional moving-up day rites between halves of the la fayette lacrosse game at 4:30 p m wednesday on taylor field at the same time members ' of the other classes will take part in a ceremony symbolic of their new responsibili ty and dignity the moving-up day ceremony similar to that which has been fol lowed since its organization will begin with the induction of the jun iors into the ranks of the seniors members of the class of 31 will pa rade onto the field to receive their canes from the graduating class in token of their new station in uni versity life canes have been sold by tom bass only official distribu tor for the price of 1 frosh will burn dinks the ritual incident upon the li beration of the freshmen demands the burning of their dinks which have been successively cut away all week in preparation for the af fair members of the class will run through a double line of sopho mores for their last and only phy sical conflict with their traditional enemies to pile up their freshman regalia as a funeral pyre in mem ory of their year of subjugation the usual erratic costumes will probably be worn by the freshmen as their period of trial expires knickers and other apparel regard ed as the birthright of the sopho more however will not be permit ted for the lower classmen until after 4:30 p m seniors will wear their customary white hats at the ceremonies these are also procurable from tom bass official distributor for the price of 1.25 sophomores will be distinguished by brown and white bow ties classes will not be ex cused for the ceremonies it has been announced d l harley receives honorable mention tory of fine arts takes senior examination on his d l harley arts 30 winner of the 10,000 food preservation prize was awarded honorable mention by the college art association in the examination on the history of fine arts given to seniors all over the country harley is the first lehigh man ever to take this examination the examination was given at le high by garth a howland assis tant professor and head of the de partment of fine arts the quiz con sisted of three parts one four-hour essay question one four-hour ques tion of the factual type and an es say of 20 pages on a subject chosen by the examiner possibly none of nature's phen omena can compare in beauty with a total eclipse declared dr john a miller director of the swarth more observatory before a meeting of sigma xi national honorary re search society last evening in pack ard auditorium the size of the sun moon and earth and the distances between them was made such that when all three bodies are in a straight line the shadow of the moon will just reach the earth and an eclipse re sults if the shadow falls short of the earth's surface an annular eclipse is formed dr miller con tinued to explain no material science has made as great and advance as theoretical physics in the last 15 years said dr miller and continued to explain how some of this new knewledge has solved difficulties of early as tronomers especially in the field of atomic structure and theories of light spectra and fraunhofer lines outer layer thin the outer layer of the sun is comparatively thin being 600 miles thick in which iron is found to be present the next layer is 10,000 miles thick and contains hydrogen helium and calcium the presence of calcium in this layer has puz zled astronomers for some time but dr miller says that he believes that the calcium is in ozoned state dr miller then continued to show by means of spectra how a certain element is present on the sun which cannot be found on the earth he explained however that he believes that this unknown substance is npt a new element but either hydrogen or helium under such conditions of temperature and pressure that are impossible to simulate in any ter restrial laboratory he expressed belief that this puzzle to astrono mers will be solved in years to come the corona of the sun a bright halo which exists around the sun and which can be seen only in times of total eclipses is merely a region of particles shot out from the cen ter of the sun which travel in ellip tical paths back to the sun they are not electrons thinks dr mil ler but are discreet minute particles of matter sun spots and their effects on our earth were also discussed by dr miller he explained how there are periodically times of maximum and minimum number of these distur bances on the surface of the sun their electromagnetic nature was also discussed by e a honig mustard and cheese made an out standing contribution to a success ful house party program with its latest effort the shannons of broadway when it presented its third performance of this offering saturday afternoon at drown hall the shannons of broadway which ran for a yea on broadway starring mr and mrs james glea son is a lively and thoroughly en joyable play and was made even more enjoyable for a lehigh audi dience by a cast which gave one of the best performances in mustard and cheese history david d goldenberg,'33 as em ma shannon the hard-hearted wise cracking female lead stole first hon ors and the applause of an appre ciative audience with a performance which was unsurpassed although the audience could never quite for get that goldenberg was not exact ly the kind of a girl a lehigh man would invite to a house party there was no mistaking the fact that it realized that he was possessed of the ability of carrying himself like a lady goldenberg and jul ian booker 33 as mickey the oth er member of the shannon partner ship carried the play over its rough spots keeping the audience in gales of laughter with their humorous lines plot is amusing the play deals vaguely with the lifting of a mortgage and boasts a real dyed-in-the-wool villain but its modern gags preclude the possi bility of anyone even minding this mickey and emma whose act is left flat in a hick town in new england meet with considerable difficulty in securing accommoda tions at the local hostelry or what passes for such and are successful only after they buy the place like a couple of good samaritans the shannons are given a flock of bum actors lovesick and liquor tempted innocents temperamental cooks and even a villain to take care of . with the help of vance atkins played by j joel levy 31 they suc ceed in beating the villain at his own game in bringing happiness to all their dependents and even in grabbing off a roll of money for themselves at one time it looks as if the shannons will have to go back to vaudeville when emma buys up options on land which is apparently worthless but by a lit tle twisting of the plot in between a barrage of wise-cracks the trou ble is straightened out and the land turn out to be a valuable buy which the railroad and the government must have music is catchy several catchy tunes written by george motter booker and coach o'neill and a dance specialty the pigeon pout strut were well re ceived by the audience one of the numbers sung by w g alcorn 31 or chuck bradford in the play is excellent alcorn has a plea sing voice which brought out the real merits of the song the pigeon pout strut advertised as a dance original with lehigh was perform ed with a zest which makes up for any inexperience on the part of the performers it was done as a spe cialty by practically every member of the cast most notably booker and goldenberg continued on page four emphasizing the fact that we were only mining engineers and not geologists dr e e wil liams jr former professor of min ing engineering and geology at le high and at present university lec turer on mining and geology told how he and his colleagues formu lated the glaciation history of penn sylvania in his lecture glaciation in pennsylvania before the geolo gy class yesterday morning dr williams containued to ex plain his statement by saying that the facts connected with the ef fects of glacier were so apparent that it did not require a trained ge ologist to recognize them uncon formities such as boulders of lime stone found in glacial till rocks car ried great distances and changes in courses of rivers and streams were cited as proofs beginning in 1892 on the upper field where his attention was call ed by presence of several seeming ly unexplainable facts dr wil liams began an exhaustive study to determine the fartherest west boun dary of the glacier the party would start out at 6 o'clock in the morning and search all day for evi dence of marine material of the glacier a little bit here and a lit tle bit there put together made it possible to determine the edge of the huge ice mass he continued party often puzzled dr williams told how several times his party was at odds to ex plain the absence of evenly sized pebbles in some creeks in the west ern part of the state returning to the subject of ore dressing dr williams told how he and his party explained this apparent difficulty by differences in current velocity and carrying power the origin of fountain hill and west bethlehem were all glacial ac cording to dr williams west bethlehem is a deposit in eddy wa ter of the material carried in ice rafts floating on the glacial streams dr williams is perhaps the great est authority on glaciation in penn syylvania he is the chief exponent and originator of glacial lake packer a glacial lake which was caused by the damming of the del aware and lehigh near easton forming a huge lake in lehigh val ley dr williams is the donor of wil liams hall which contains the de partments of geology metallurgical engineering and biology he also founded tau beta pi national hon orary engineering fraternity while he was teaching at lehigh at pre sent dr williams is retired and lives at woodstock vermont moravian cemetery reveals early bethlehem history on tombstones twenty-five fraternities held dances saturday eve as part of the entertainment for houseparty guests with the exception of pi kappa al pha phi sigma delta and omega pi sigma all dances were held at the chapter houses many of the fraternities holding combined house dances sigma chi and chi phi danced with their guests at the latter house to the strains of walt wooley and his orchestra the chaperons were mrs g oeller and mr and mrs raymond w sweitzer art zellers and his boys enter tained the guests of sigma nu and beta theta pi at the latter's house paramount band plays kappa alpha delta phi and sigma phi held their affair at the sigma phi house with bert mans field and his orchestra providing the music the chaperons for the kappa sigma and phi sigma kappa af fair were mr and mrs r b adams of this city and mrs t g pierson of newark the dance was held at the kappa sigma house the music was supplied by the paramount or chestra from philadelphia the alpha tau omega and del ta upsilon dance was chaperoned by mr and mrs lee barthold mr trembley and professor newcomb speed weiner and his allentonians furnished the music alpha kappa phi phi gamma delta alpha chi rho sigma al pha mv and phi sigma delta held affairs at their respective frater nity houses the latter adjourning after the dance to the berkel country club the psi upsilon dance followed a formal dinner at the hotel beth lehem lanin's orchestra supplied the music for this dance johnny gasdaska's imperialists played for the phi beta delta af fair dr and mrs comens of bethlehem and mr and mrs s s sprinz of new york city chaper oned the party nick nichols entertains members of lambda chi alpha and theta xi fraternities and their guests danced to the melodies of nick nichols and his band dr and mrs albert haring of bethlehem and dr and mrs j s long of coopersburg chaperoned chi psi held a closed dinner dance with music supplied by the sirens from easton dean and mrs charles mcconn prof and mrs percy hughes and prof and mrs r a soto chaper oned the omega phi sigma dance held at the hotel traylor in al lentown sigma phi epsilon and phi delta pi held an affair at their respective fraternity houses theta delta chi held two dances an afternoon tea dance with music by the londan criterions and a formal evening dance for which the savannah serenaders furnished the music install water meters water meters will be placed in fraternity houses in sayre park dur ing the summer in an effort to fur ther conserve the city's water sup ply according to w h reichard chief of the water bureau chief reichard stated that the present drought has not affected the city's water supply people are using too much water on their lawns and gardens he said oth er than that there is no shortage curious reporter visits fern sem plays hero role to no avail with the entire regiment passing in review the annual r o t c field day was brought to a close yesterday afternoon on the lower field lead by the university band the companies were marched past the review stand and reviewed by the men who completed the advanced courses in military and tactics this year after the march passed the companies were marched to the ar mory and dismissed from military service until next year at 1 30 the companies were form ed on the upper field and then marched to the lower field where they formed in close lines as for review and stacked arms all but competitors took seats in the grand stand and the manual of arms elim ination contest started the program for the day the competition took place between three picked men from each company and the winner received the captain's medal pre sented by the student majors and captains the winner was corporal j m culverwell following this the men taking the first year advanced work gave a practical demonstration in the use of the 37-mm gun under the direc tion of captain clay platoon drill snappy next in order come the platoon competition and consisted in man ual of arms and close order drill the winner received one brown and white streamer for company guidon the various platoons executed the movements with snap and surety causing the judges to decide closely which platoon should win the ist platoon of company b finally was decided on as the winner the juniors furnished some more demonstrations and showed how machine guns were set up and oper ated in case of necessity the man eouvers were under the supervision of captain clay the equipment of the ordnance department was inspected including the tanks which gave a demonstra tion of hill climbing and firing of the mounted 37-mm gun company f honored the regiment was formed and the companies marched forward to receive the trophies for their work and the work of the individual company f was awarded a cup and 3 streamers and best company company g received 2 stream ers as the winner of the inter-com pany rifle competition the ist platoon of company b was awarded 2 streamers as the best platoon the members of the rifle team winners of the hearst trophy this year received the annual award of a gold medal for excellence in rifle marksmanship they are as follows r f gadd j d dickerson g c vaughan e h noedel d t da vidson w k van kirk o otto w m gibbe c a jeanson k r schneck gadd received a silver cup to be held for one year as the high scor er for the year officers promoted in recognition of their services during the drill period and with the approval of the president of the uni versity the following promotions in the r o t c unit were an nounced to the rank of colonel major w f powell to the rank of lieut colonel major g c vaug han to the rank of major captain j d dickerson to the rank of ma jor captain g e oiler jr to the rank of captain and regimental ad jutant first lieut e m koch to the rank of captain first lieut f k paget to the rank of captain first lieut p l whims to the rank of captain ordinance detail first lieut r c barber in addition the following privates were advanced to the rank of cor porals j e angle a ayres w.l arthur p behney s askin a r baldwin r burk a b crichton j c diefenbach h a dreyer c a feissner r m earl j e dun can w e issel j e holahan w e herman j hunoval w h goe ring g c hutchinson e kauf man t w mommers n g mc adam h l mclean h g mc donald j j roessle w m schuck r k serfass g f nas sau w h a weber r h swoy er h w hichenor e w voit r j simes arouse their interest so the inqui sitive freshman passed on unmol ested into the very heart of the campus as he approached he heard wild blood-curdling screams now this freshman as are all freshmen was at heart a very romantic soul upon hearing the weird cries of damsels in distress he hesitiated not a minute with one motion he tore off his hampering disguise and with the next cleared the five-foot hedge which separated him from the scene of disaster imagine his embarrassment when he discovered the noise to be the result of a see-saw contest between two representatives of the freshman class and two members of the sen ior class of dear old fern sem the noise was caused by the dis comfort which the dear young misses felt upon having their ends of the see-saw descend too rapidly and hit the hard hard ground with a resulting shock to the system disgusted the inquisitive fresh man lit a murad and strolled back to the world of men unsung practically unknown yet not unworthy a diminutive cam pus sedately nestles behind the an tique buildings of moravian sem inary for women better known as fern sem here at almost any hour of a sunny day peeping-toms may get a glimpse of budding wo man-hood lying sprawled out upon the greensward diligently reading the works of old masters blissfully unaware of the glances of maraud ing males for fern sem's cam pus is a sacred spot here she may lie in luxurious though unconven tional poses without the fear of a damaged reputation for men are barred from this cozy spot with the above thought in mind lehigh's inquisitive freshman brave ly sallied forth in the guise of a for tune teller female to tear aside the veil for the benefit of an expectant world beneath a lovely old oak were three moravianites one was knit ting one was writing and the third was reading snappy stories the sight of a fortune-teller did not terred in the same order in which death occurred the tombstones are all flat and usually tell the name of the deceased place and date of birth place and date of death of the deceased and in addition fur ther biographical notes are on some of the stones the inscription on one stone reads david nitschman founder of bethlehem who felled the first tree to build the first house born sept 18th 1676 in moravia died april 14th 1758 — this second mem orial was erected june 1853 that on another reads freder ich hoeht born during the cap tivity of his mother among the in dians dep 1762 in the age of 1 1-2 years here is one of a negro magda lena wife of andrew a negro born in africa 1731 departed 3 jan 1820 here is one on the stone of an indian anna maria of the dela ware nation wife of tobias dep oct 28 1753 there are many other inscrip tions on the tombstones of early settlers are in german and many of the older stones are worn nearly smooth with age the following is the list of sen iors clear for graduation one hundred and sixty-six sen iors out of the entire senior class are clear and in line for graduation according to registrar g.b curtis of this number 54 are arts and sci ence men 37 are business men and the remainder 75 are engineers this list includes only those men who have no make-up examinations to take or no substitution of credits to make in other words these men are clear for graduation up to the present time all men who intend to graduate must pay their gradu ation fee by 5 p m may 15 arts and science adams henry m barthold ralph w beck james w ben nett warren h blair robert 1 boosin zachary clyne irving m cohahan thomas j davidowitz arthur davis edward r dimont julius figoni william g frutkin leonard 8 gade roy a gidding samuel s goldberg joseph l goldstein israel p haag vaughn hall john n hamburger bernard r harley dudley l hartman brooke r helms arthur p hendlki david d hoag robert c hoffman richard j justice preston g kahn edward koch edward m kramer milton laws llewellyn leitner frederick les sig linwood g levy aaron r licciardi louis j lyman richard p miller oscar r muldberg philip r ogden henry h phil lips stanley w schick herman a schoenliut george w seward harold a shulman murray w siegel irving m sloshberg sid ney sulken herman ttoth ste phen 8 tunick arthur m walt ers sidney watters john w wie ner robert l wilson lloyd g business administration alder robert barker frederick s barnes gared c l bennett robert s clifton merritt r coch ran joseph w collins james v cross george h dey john s elliot joseph h epstein edward geisel john j getz benjamin l gorman edward t hallock had ley a hill frank p hutchins william j jones robert v law rence edward m lewis ray mond h marcus leonard c mc alarney john c mclachlan john ransom stephen w reese rob ert m rohrs henry rotthaus walter e seaton wesley h sny der william h somerville john j sprinz bennett s staub ed mund stauffer robert h taylor leonard m thomas george w vroman guy m werley ed ward p „ chemical engineering becker lewis w bennetch leo nard m burns hugh f earhart kenneth a hurley richard w kise mearl a rogers alfred n smith arthur l teneyck wil liam w werner joseph c chemistry frantz alvin j miller william s woll carl r civil engineering barnes horace a barrows da niel j bauer charles h boyer lee c calder george c deich ler john x fullager john w gettys paul e gohl robert e hewitt leslie r hickman paul karr roymand a kline robert p kreidler carl l macgeorge william d moyer willard m opp george s overfield budd pailey louis pratt henry g spangler john e stabler donald 8 tillinghast frederick w tull richard vaughan george c wardle howard electrical engineer baker robert a brotzman ed ward s campbell james r fol ey william r griffith david p healy evans m herbruck rob ert a johnson john e king charles p j kuntz stephen a loomis francis e phelps ed ward s potter frank g singer harry f stay charles a stein ert bentley 0 sussman louis vroom william h walbert david e whitney forrest j wills wal ter p woodward john d young ken henry engineering physics epstein david w myer j le land serber robert f stein vic tor mechanical engineering christman miles s paget fran cis k atkins david 8 barber regin ald c waterman john a industrial engineering thatcher samuel h mining engineering metallurgical engineering brower theron e gabler ern est l wentz charles r the nanking government of china faces the greatest crisis in its rather hectic existence the nor thern coalition is attacking the na tionalist forces upon a 170-mile front in the north while organized bandit and communist gangs are running rife in the provinces to the south of nanking the long threatened rebellion of the northern provinces had been held in check by the payment of immense sums by the nationalist government to the fickle warlords who lend their arms to the highest bidder although the nanking forces are outnumbered four to one superior equipment and a military staff well versed in the strategies of war are expected to pull the na tional government out of its pres ent dilemna * * ♦ after all this strife and turmoil in china one result is bound to ensue — china will settle her inter nal differences and become a united nation whether victory falls to the northern or southern forces at present will matter little in the long run even though the northern forces are now much opposed to the nationalist movement a united china with its great population and untold natural resoruces some day will earn the envy and fear of the present world powers ♦ ♦ * an american oil company and a german dye trust have perfected a method of producing synthetic gas oline and high lubricating oils by building up heavy fuel oil with ga seous hydrogen at high tempera tures and pressures a unit that will manufacture 5,000 barrels of the new gasoline per day will soon be placed in operation and within a year or two more similar units will be in use the oil industry which has al ways overproduced will greatly feel the effects of this new inven tion should it come into use to a very great extent venezuelan crude oil formerly a poor produc er of gasoline will now become an active competitor of american and mexican oils * * * america may soon find that her production of crude oil far exceeds the demand and the industry will suffer nevertheless in the long run the new process will be a great ben efit to industry geologists have es timated that our oil reserve will last only two generations the new pro cess will be beneficial also in that it will present a means of getting rid of vast surpluses of heavy oil which result from our present methods of manufacturing gasoline * ♦ * after many months gandhi the mahatma of india has realized his ambition and has inveigled a re luctant british government into ar resting him the fanatical eastern mind dotes on martyrdom and gandhi hopes to don the robes of the maftyr in the meantime his followers are not idle at delhi two natives were killed and 50 injured before eight british armored cars and a detachment of indian infantry maintained a sem blance of order the earthquake in burma which rilled 5,000 or more persons was regarded by the in dians as punishment for the arrest of gandhi at sholapur 27 were killed and more than 100 injured before british calvary succeeded in quelling the uprising just what the indians are rebel ling against they themselves really do not know the objectionable salt tax is a mere excuse the cry for representation will not hold water the people are represented in the na tional legislature at delhi the in dians are crying for independence and freedom from taxation and they blame their poverty on brit ish dominance and exploitation the indian's resignation to blind fate and his belief that horded sil ver means wealth are the two pri mary causes of india's widespread poverty even should india be granted in dependence her troubles would not vanish — they would be given great er momentum the antagonism be tween the hindus and the moham medans would class the present re bellion against the british overlords as a mere skirmish ♦ ♦ * assistant secretary of com merce julius klein ffi a radio ad dress said that the white collar group including our 10,000 to 50,000 a year business men is be coming vastly overcrowded he claimed that it was one of the big problems of the country to keep such men of brains properly em ployed mr klein's idea of a big problem is silly and foolish an enforced va cation on the part of some few 50,000 a year executives is as noth ing when compared to the problem of the thousands of unemployed workmen who are walking the streets today it might be well to suggest that if mr klein will find work for the present unemployed workmen he will also have found jobs for his poor neglected unfor tunate white collar business men tombstone after tombstone row after row sparse green grass a tree here a tree there and silence over all the old moravian cemetery on n new street remains a monument to those early pioneers of bethle hem the old moravians called it god's acre this is not just an empty title it is something more the old tombstones with their terse expres sions of faith and their brief bio graphies of those departed reveal the faith that once moved these people they reveal the early his tory of bethlehem here is the tombstone of a ne gro here one of a white settler here one of an indian the tombstones are similar the three races are equal in death over there is a hero of the revolution who died of fe ver in the hospital conducted here by the moravians during that war on the other side of the cemetery veterans of the civil war are bu ried the men and the women are sep arated there is a women's plot and a men's plot with the exception of those who died in the early years of the settlement the bodies are in brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 13 1930 draw for dorm rooms thursday m and c to give play again on may 14 price five cents 166 men clear for graduation curtis declares moving=up rites to free frosh on wednesday vol xxxvii no 53 m & c play meets approval of party guests g.w.t r o t c holds annual field day members of class of 33 will burn caps at ceremony j m culverwell receives medal as winner of arms contest 54 arts 37 business and 75 engineers in list shannons of broadway adds to success of week-end coming events wednesday 4 p m varsity lacrosse vs lafay ette taylor field 4 p m varsity track vs muhlen berg 7:30 p m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of dr and mrs robert w hall 37 church street aren't we all by frederick lonsdale will be read 7:30 p m meeting of the pre-legal society room 208 packard lab 8 p m freshman public speaking contest packard auditorium thursday 7 p m meeting of the l u chem ical society chemistry laboratory friday 4 p m opening session of the bach festival 4 p m yale university photoplay daniel boone packard auditor ium 4 p m varsity tennis vs rutgers saturday 1 p m varsity track vs lafayette 1 p m freshman track vs lafay ette freshmen 3 p m varsity baseball vs lafay ette 3 p m varsity tennis vs dart mouth all the lehigh news first world news trouble in china synthetic gasoline -. mahatma a 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