Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 11

              flights to start within 2 weeks williams greets group o d k also to consider new sports program and tennis courts want embargo repeal reports due on nov 16 dewey is presidential choice no 3rd term for roosevelt howard bosey reiter america's economic position in the present european crisis will be discussed at the monthly meeting of the international relations club to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in the arcadia room of drown hall arguments in favor of four diff erent views will be presented by members of the club charles hen derson eng 42 john hamblin arts 41 terry schiff arts 40 and arthur rich bus 42 will speak in favor of complete united states economic isolation contin uance of the old neutrality law repeal of the old neutrality law and international law plans will also be formulated for attending the international rela tions club convention at new jer sey college for women in the near future last year several members represented the club at the swar thmore college convention wilson l godshall assistant professor of diplomatic history and international relations was re cently elected faculty advisor the members of the flight course will start flying within the next two weeks when the bethlehem allentown airport receives a con tract from the government accord ing to dr earl j serfass instruc tor in chemistry and secretary of the faculty committee which is in charge of the flight theory instruc tion the members of the flight course have had their temporary pilots license since passing their physical examination four weeks ago the instructors at the airport are being re-licensed for this spec ial work a precaution taken by the government to insure the 11,000 students taking this course an equal amount of instruction the airport has two new train ing planes at the present time and their order for two more is await ing government approval 28 compete for epitome d o t to debate with cedar crest sophomores are explained system of competition for 5 editorships 93 will be guests at fete of alumni homecoming celebration to feature smoker an investigation of student fee finances a study of a proposed ex panded intra-mural sports pro gram and the possibility of build ing tennis courts on the campus will be conducted during the com ing year by omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities society announced wallace p watkins bus 40 president the committee investigating stu dent fee finances will endeavor to discover what happens to the stu dent's money after it is received by the bursar in an effort to reduce these fees for the coming year this committee is composed of morgan c elmer arts 40 robert b palmer arts 40 and robert p carter ch e 40 donald r luster m e 40 da vid r ginder arts 40 and wat kins are the committee members working for an extended intra mural sports program and the building of tennis courts the first report of their findings will be giv en at a meeting to be held on nov 16 at the chi psi house at this november meeting john c gregg c e 40 richard c kelly jr ch e 40 charles r griffiths bus 40 and walter s russell ch e 40 will be initia ted eugene grace is against armament dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government was elected president of the pennsylvania historical as sociation at a meeting saturday at the hotel bethlehem he is the third president of the society which was founded in 1933 at bethlehem dr gipson a member of the first delegation of rhodes scholars who went to oxford in 1904 has been here since 1924 he graduated from the university of idaho in 1903 and received his ph d at yale in 1918 he is also a member of the royal historical society of eng land williams greets group president c c williams wel comed the association members to bethlehem in the name of the col leges of the lehigh valley at the opening session he also briefly discussed the contribution of his tory to the sciences prior to the meeting the mem bers attended a vesper service at packer chapel dr t edgar shields director of music present ed a recital of organ music dr amos a ettinger former professor of history at lehigh and now head of the history depart ment at moravian college for men gave a detailed report on progress of pennsylvania bibliography at an executive meeting the reception was held in pack ard laboratory where a number of biographical talks were given during the two day session of the association the lehigh valley's part in the american revolution was discussed also a talk on the struggle to establish a national ar chive was given by dr d w con nor archivist of the united states national archives washington d c delta omicron theta honorary debating society will send two of its members on nov 16 to cedar crest college it was announced to day by edward m sharp ch e 40 intercollegiate debating mana ger each man will side with a cedar crest girl to form opposing teams the subject for the contest will be resolved that president roosevelt should be reelected in 1940 c raymond kiefer arts 41 and albert w foster bus 42 will represent lehigh the debate will be of the ore gon cross-examination type which has become increasingly popular in intramural circles this is the first contest of its kind in which lehigh has partici pated during the past several years sharp also stated that delta omicron theta will conduct a ra dio series of debates in the near future over the allentown station wsan on wednesdays from 9 to 9:30 p m 63 attend alumni meeting sportsmen to hold dance the guests of honor during the annual lehigh homecoming to be held the weekend of nov 25 will be the class of 93 who will cele brate 50 years since entering col lege a varied program will be presented starting with a smoker sponsored by the lehigh home club which will be held at the bethlehem club on the morning of homecoming the deans of the three colleges will hold conferences similar to those held last year these conferences are attended by alumni who make criticisms and offer suggestions concerning the methods of teach ing and the various courses the college of arts and science will hold its conference in the ar cadia room in drown hall the col lege of business administration in christmas-saucon hall and the college of engineering conference will be held in the lecture hall addition to the chemistry labora tory at noon the fraternities and townspeople will entertain alumni and friends twenty-eight sophomores re ported last night to editor-in-chief robert c good eng phys 40 to begin competition for five junior editorships on the epitome they met with the editorial board of the epitome in christmas-saucon hall and obtained their initial assign ments during the meeting the general outline of the book was presented to the new men to enable them to understand their assignments the fine attendance showed a much keener interest than last year announced good this seems to show the value of the new competitive system now in practice the following are the men who reported it was noted that a number of the candidates were men who have had previous experience in other campus publications raymond b anderson m e ; alfred b brown phys ; william a brooks c 12 ; jesse f beers arts william f boore met e edward m biggs e e jerome r dorkin arts robert d everett chem ; george e eliott ch e ; robert m lobst bus ; edwin h klein ch e ; william j meikle arts ; frank s mckenna met e ; malcolm f mcconnell m e william t mainwaring met e ; richard e metius met s ; john b o'llara bus john a quiiicy e e ; john m roach arts wil liam s shuttleworth bus frank e smith ch e ; robert s struble m e robert n simonsen ch e ; robert b steele met e albert l thalhamer phys charles g thornburgh c e wallace r wirths bus enrollment grows graduate school shows increase this year over 63 persons attended the meeting of the lehigh club of hazelton last tuesday included among the guests were john kirk patrick assistant to the president william mccaa assistant football coach robert herrick assistant secretary alumni association will iam cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association and clifford lincoln president of the alumni association the southern new england le high club will hold a dinner at 6:30 p m on nov 17 at the uni versity club walter okeson will be the guest speaker morgan attends conclave of college personnel men a barn dance will be held by the lehigh sportsman's club saturday night at flickinger's barn near hellertown announced robert p stoudt bus 41 president of the group dancing will be from 9 p m to 1 a m with music supplied by a hill-billy band stoudt also stated that all mem bers of the club are permitted to invite one guest to the dance with out extra charge or may bring a date and another couple an urgent plea for alumni co operation in the support of the le high alumni student grants to provide financial aid to prospec tive students of all-around ability was made by floyd w parsons 02 president of the alumni asso ciation at a testimonial din ner honoring howard bosey reiter professor of physical edu cation friday evening at the mur ray hill hotel in new york city over 200 lehigh and princeton alumni listened to tributes by rei ter's former teammates gridiron players and athletic associates the new york alumni club presented reiter with a silver tray and a life membership in the organization inscribed on the tray was the following tribute to bosey rei ter for loyal devotion to athletes of lehigh university from the new york lehigh alumni club octo ber 1939 times columnist speaks john kieran sports columnist of the new york times and a reg ular member of the information please radio program spoke about several athletic experiences and the spirit of devoted attention to sportsmanship and fair play william edwards captain of the 1899 princeton football team re lated several humorous incidents in which reiter was involved while a player at princeton he spoke of reiter's courage and spirit while an undergraduate in outlining the alumni student grants fund parsons stated that the young man who has athletic ability and meets scholastic and all other requirements for admis sion to lehigh university will re ceive preference under the new plan parsons stated that since the plan was outlined in detail to alumni in last month's alumni bulletin the response has been very gratifying other speakers on the program were glen w harmeson head football coach and director of in tercollegiate athletics asa bush nell commissioner of intercolleg iate athletics william pell cap tain of the 1898 princeton football team james mahoney former lehigh swimming coach vincent j pazzetti quarterback on the 1912 lehigh football team william sheridan wrestling coach and william a cornelius executive secretary of the lehigh alumni association walter r okeson vice-president and treasurer of the university and chairman of the intercollegiate football rules committee was toastmaster g r bucky mc donald 19 president of the new york alumni club was chairman library's 3rd art exhibit to feature sport pictures review circulation manager resigns to succeed wells denison appoints rich will hold contest that the united states should keep out of war yet carry on trade with belligerents is the opinion of the majority of more than 450 stu dents who answered the poll of student opinion distributed last week with the brown and white especially bitter was the attack on agencies for spreading foreign propaganda as an overwhelming majority voted in favor of outlaw ing the communist party german american bund and agencies for spreading allied propaganda the poll sponsored by the in tercollegiate newspaper associa tion and distributed under the di rection of howard m conner arts 40 vice president of the organiza tion was also undertaken by 30 colleges in the middle atlantic states favor cash and carry plan lehigh results revealed that stu dents favor the repeal of the arms embargo and favor legislative neu trality achieved by a cash and carry plan for supplying both bel ligerents allies and germany with arms and war materials if america became involved in a european war most of the stu dent body would submit unwilling to conscription while nearly 25 per cent would submit willingly only a few would voluntarily en list still fewer would accept the consequences for refusing to be drafted or would flee the country students choose dewey president roosevelt should here and now renounce third term am bitions voted 246 students only 30 favored his declaring himself a candidate for re-election the re maing votes were cast with the idea that he should bide his time so as to keep politics in the back ground at present thomas e dewey is the lehigh choice for the next president of the united states he polled three times as many votes as the next choice senator vandenburg of michigan and roosevelt was close behind in third place senator taft of ohio herbert hoover and neil carothers dean of the college of business administration were fav ored in that order pan-americanism appeals nearly 300 students believed that neutrality could be preserved in the western hemisphere by con certed action of pan-american republics others favored strict enforcement of the monroe doc trine with the united states in the role of protector or a policy of each country looking out for itself the present war will result in a world situation in which the pres ent statis will be intact with the existance of dictatorship and dem ocracy according to lehigh opin ion this result differs from that of most other colleges which believe that the overthrow of hitlerism and similar institutions will be the result one hundred and sixty three at lehigh believed this would be the result few thought that western civilization or euro pean democracy would be over thrown prize to winners photographers to award e robins morgan director of placement attended the fall con ference of the eastern college per sonnel officers held thursday and friday under the auspices of r h macy and company at the hotel mcalpin new york city the con ference brought together personnel officers of industry and placement officers of major colleges in the east mr morgan stated that many of the interviewers who hire lehigh men were present at the confer ence the head of the personnel departments of such concerns as bethhlehem steel company dv pont colgate-palmolive-peet com pany l bamberger company and proctor and gamble attended the conference the program gave an opportun ity for the college placement offi cers to criticise the methods used by industrial interviewers and vice versa will not profiteer says bethlehem steel corp although he is considered to be one of the leading munitions manufacturers eugene g grace president of the board of trustees and president of bethlehem steel corporation said last week i'd like to see a situation where we'd never sell another gun another battleship or another projectile this statement was made after a board of directors meeting i'd like to see he continued the world stop destroying values and start creating values and that would spell better business pro fits before this statement was made bethlehem steel reported a profit of 5,377,470 earned in the last three months and grace verified the fact that the company is in full 100 per cent all-around produc tion and is making armaments for the united states government bethlehem's unfilled orders at the end of september of over 260 mil lion dollars is a peace time record and orders for export are more than normal concerning legislation mr grace said my personal opinion is that repeal of the munitions embargo would be a definite step toward peace and i favor it i believe re peal is sound regarding profiteering grace said neither myself nor my asso ciates in this business want war to inflate bethlehem profits we are not only against profiteering but are determined to see that our company has no part in it we have not raised prices domestically for the fourth quarter and i believe there will be no need for increased prices later we are selling to war ring nations at prices comparable in every way with our domestic prices reiter heard by monday morning quarterbacks both the number of students en rolled in the graduate school and the number of credit hours taken by them have increased this year according to registration figures re leased by registrar george b cur tis a total of 168 men and women carrying a total of 1226 credit hours are candidates for either a masters degree or the ph d de gree there are 21 women students enrolled making one more than last year these figures show an increase of ten students and 101 hours over the 1938 totals of the 168 students enrolled 147 are candidates for master's degrees and the remain der for the degree of doctor of philosophy arts courses are being carried by 93 graduates while there are 75 engineers of these registered 137 are carrying less than 12 hours with the remaining 31 taking more than that number arthur h rich bus 42 was re cently appointed to succeed dave wells ch e 41 as circulation manager of the lehigh review the appointment made by donald g denison i e 40 business manager of the review must be confirmed by the board of publi cations wells who has been circulation manager since last january re signed due to pressure of scholas tic work rich has earned his po sition said denison by being high man in circulation work this fall and subsequent work on the advertising staff doan smith issue paper trembley talks to group pi delt to select delegates a photographic contest is being held by the camera club with the winners receiving a free member ship in the club and a ribbon the competition will not be lim ited to club members and will close nov 4 the one stipulation is that the photographs must be placed on special mounts obtainable at the supply bureau the photographs will be used in the camera clubs photographic exhibit nov 6 ac cording to john v mcguire e e 40 president a meeting was held last night at which the new members were shown portrait-lighting techniques miss elizabeth keck of easton posed for the group gilbert e doan professor of physical metallurgy and morton c smith a former research stu dent presented a paper at the na tional metals congress which was held at chicago last week the pa per was entitled arc welding in controlled atmospheres research work has been done here on this problem for a period of ten years and more than 10,000 has been contributed for this work by the engineering foundation according to dr doan two delegates will be selected at 4 p m thursday in drown hall by pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity to attend the an nual grand convention nov 17 and 18 at the university of richmond richmond va besides the official delegates other members will be permitted to attend as unofficial delegates 1938 among the prints included are two pictures of recent heavy weight bouts of note these are the baer-carnera fight of 1934 and the louis-baer fight of 19 35 both are lithographs by golin kin another neighborhood champ by robert riggs shows the return of a victor in the rowing division there are three prints the first match be tween eton and westminister by r k thomas records the begin ning in 1843 of prep-school row ing championships there are also two companion pictures done in 1859 by james ryman the start and the race new york fashions for base ball by hatch shows the wearing apparel of spectators at a baseball game in 1870 also included in the baseball division is a picture by monsch called tally one for me it is a shot of a typical 1877 crowd two championship baseball teams are used in these pictures boston baseball club 1888 by hastings and the knickerbocker nine 1854 by wagoner the oldest print in this exhibit dating back to 1650 is a wood-cut entitled vaulting through the hoops by an anonymous german this picture dates back to 1650 three etchings by charles may portraying modern football will feature the gridiron division of the third art exhibit for this year which will open tomorrow and continue for two weeks in the li brary's art galery the title of the exhibit is four centuries of sport these football pictures are round the end first hundred yards are the hardest and no touchdown which depicts an official ruling near a goal line there are four pictures in the wrestling group three done in the 20th century and one in the 19th two of the modern pictures show different holds they are a litho graph by louis c daniel entitled half nelson and j w golin kin's lithograph reverse head lock the first was made in 1932 and the second in 1935 a third contemporary picture is a crowd shot also by golinkin called break it off and throw it up here and the fourth is a col ored aquatint showing how they wrestled in france in 1890 the largest grouping will be the boxing which will trace the his tory of that sport with 24 prints whose dates range from 1788 to boxing has 24 prints howard r bosey reiter pro fessor of physical education spoke at the weekly meeting of the mon day morning quarterbacks a club composed of men interested in football in the lehigh valley who get together at weekly meetings to discuss the previous saturday's games in addition to the guest speak ers several of the coaches from the colleges and high schools in the valley attended the meeting among them was coach glen w harmeson head coach of football attorney eugene j gorman chair man of the group was in charge of the meeting the red squirrel and the chip munk are the worst enemies of wild life stated francis j trem bley assistant professor of biology to a group of over 275 members of the lehigh county fish and game protective association at its meet ing on friday evening in the al lentown legion hall the meeting also included talks by members of the association and the showing of a colored film issued by the state game commission brown and white feted at dinner vol xlvii — no 11 group to discuss economic position bethlehem pa tuesday october 31 1939 stay neutral trade says student poll price — five cents parsons asks alumni to aid athletic grants senior society to investigate student fees foreign propaganda is attacked by majority of 450 voters testimonial dinner given in honor of reiter on friday night gipson chosen 3rd president by historians member of royal society one of ist rhodes scholars here held in new york city z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first