Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 22

              flag authority addresses 300 at club's banquet in masonic temple first of informal affairs sponsored by arcadia to be in armory social drama describes slums on east side of new york city war satirized in play begin at 8:15 tonight collegians will play final rehearsal tonight the curtain for dead end will rise at 8:30 o'clock tomor row evening at broughal high school instead of at 7:30 o'clock as had been announced stu dents may secure free tickets for this production at the ar cadia office in drown hall ad mission for general public will be 25 cents 50 cents and 75 cents either at the arcadia of fice or at the door debate teams end ist round 3 of last 4 contests won by affirmative teams standings given the attention of students and their parents is called to the latest racket which is being applied to lehigh men a soli citor representing himself as the agent of a new york circu lation company has approached the parents of several students living in new jersey obtaining entrance by saying that he had a message from the son at lehigh he tells a story of senior standing financial troub les and a grand prize which will enable him to re-enter col lege he then proceeds to ask for magazine subscriptions he shows a complete knowledge of lehigh institutions students activities and functions upon investigation his name and story prove to be false in all particulars persons associated with lehigh are warned that they should investigate careful ly any persons having a similar sales talk c.e society hears officer naval commander guest at christmas banquet in drown hall an informal dance to be held tonight from 10 to 12:30 o'clock in university armory will inaugurate a series of affairs to be sponsored by arcadia as an experiment in inexpensive dances the dances which will be held intermittently for the rest of the semester will feature the lehigh collegians or chestra admission will be 50 cents a couple and 35 cents stag charles h hearsey bus 40 and elwood webster bus 40 petition ed to arcadia to sponsor a series of dances for which the lehigh collegians would furnish the mu sic any income from the dances would first be used to pay expens es of the balance 80 percent will go to the collegians and 20 per cent will go to hearsey and web ster as managers of the dances permission has been granted by university to hold the dances on friday nights during first semes ter however second semesters dances will be held on saturday nights gen frank d beary chairman of the committee for the restora tion of historical flags in penn sylvania spoke on his work in the collection of flags carried by var ious units in the civil war at the annual christmas banquet of the chemical society held last evening in the masonic temple the banquet was attended by approximately 300 students and faculty members a humorous play described as a satire on war and several lehigh professors was presented the action of the play entitled bushel of corn took place in the war office during a fic titious invasion of the united sta tes co-authors of the play were fred e galbraith jr arts 40 norman l morse ch e 40 er nest johnson jr ch e 40 and warren sawyer ch e 40 santa claus impersonated by warren e sawyer distributed hu morous gifts to the senior chemis try students and to the members of the faculty dr harvey a neville head of the department of chemistry de livered a speech of welcome dr harry m ullman professor emer itus of chemistry also spoke pro fessor diefenderfer introduced a copeland callen dean of the col lege of engineering 4 lehigh students get medical care 5 living groups to hold parties critics throughout the nation who have heard hamilton fish jr congressman from new york and upton close author and world tra veler who will appear this even ing at 8 15 o'clock in broughal high school under the auspices of the student concert-lecture ser ies have been unanimous in say ing that the program is a grand show both men have had an extensive and colorful careers in public speaking during the past 15 years and will be the first to present a big-time debate before the le high student body " is america going into this war will be the subject of the de bate representative fish will up hold the affirmative while close will attack the position of ameri ca's entry into another european conflict fish has been an active member in politics for over 24 years being at one time an enthusiastic follow er of the late pres theodore roos evelt he has served in the new york state assembly on a special committee investigating un-amer ican activities in america lecturer traveler author war correspondent explorer and de bater are some of the titles used when referring to close he has spent most of his time during the last 20 years traveling all over the world during the past summer close completed the editing of a world history adapted for use in junior high school history courses he was assisted in this project by glenn christensen assistant professor of english among the books written by close during the past 15 years in clude in the land of the laugh ing buddha challenge be hind the face of japan eminent asians son of mine moon lady and the revolt of asia students will be admitted upon presentation of tickets found in the back of their athletic books doors will open at 7:30 p m and no one will be admitted after 8 15 p m major r ernest dupuy public relations officer at the united sta tes military academy at west point warned against ever again sacrificing american soldiers on foreign soil in a lecture perish by the sword delivered last night in packard auditorium the lec ture which was sponsored by scabbard and blade honorary mil itary society was attended by about 200 persons major dupuy in speaking of the formation of czecho-slovakia as buffer state stated that american money american guns and amer ican blood had contributed to the rise of czecho-slovakia as an in dependent nation at the beginning of the world war he said czechs were drafted to fight in the army of the austro-hungarian empire which ruled the czechs at that time the czechs who had retain ed their own language and customs in spite of their subjection refus ed to fight their fellow slavs and deserted to the russian army a czech legion was formed and grew from one battalion in 1914 to two divisions by 1917 whole units left the austro-hungarian army later after the bolshevist re volution soviet-czech conflicts flared all along the trans-siberian railway following a railroad sta tion brawl at that time czecho slovakia was recognized by eng land and france when war broke out between russia and the allies the czechs aided by the white russian army fought against the bolshevist russians dupuy then went on to describe the hardships suffered by soldiers of that part of the american ex peditionary forces stationed in rus sia comparing their suffering to that of washington's soldiers at valley forge in 1916 the majority of this american contingent was sent home from siberia the lecture ended with major dupuy's reading of a document written in 1920 which praised the part the a e f played in siberia as an honorable endeavor to aid an oppressed people the czechs earlier in the evening major dupuy attended the initiation cere monies of scabbard and blade which took place in the armory a banquet in the hotel bethlehem followed the ceremonies student wins copy contest diamond placed on state board four lehigh students are under medical care this week three of them are recovering from slight accidents and one from a serious illness the condition of ellis r snovel m e 41 is improving he has been in the easton hospital about a week and half with spinal menin gitis raymond m smith bus 40 is recovering from a broken nose re ceived in a basketball game it is expected that he will be discharged from st luke's hospital in a day or two john r o'meara bus 40 scratched his eye slightly but it will be all right by the end of the christmas holidays howard m conner arts 40 sustained burns on his forearm while attempting to extinguish a blaze in drapes at the pi kappa alpha house his injuries were not serious enough to confine him for any period of time christmas parties and banquets will be held by a number of living groups this week-end and early next week tonight harry carpen ter soccer coach will give his ann ual party for the soccer players tomorrow alpha chi rho will hold a formal christmas dance on the same night price house will hold its party at shankweiler's monday night the delta upsilon sigma nu and sigma phi epsilon fraternities will have their christ mas banquets alpha chi rho will continue a custom which it has followed in the past by giving a party for 35 un derprivileged children whose names have been furnished by the visiting nurses association each member will take charge of one boy and will present him with a gift the bethlehem boys club hill-billy band will play henry d chandler bus 41 copy supervisor of the brown and white was the winner of the rog ers peet advertising copy contest meet at harrisburg nine prominent educators right's dead enders swing into final rehearsals th importance of civil engineer ing in the navy was discussed by lieutenant commander linke at the christmas banquet held by the civil engineering society last night in the faculty club room in drown hall the civil engineer in the navy lieutenant commander linke said is concerned mainly with harbors and air bases he has to make de cisions about location equipment and improvements such as dredg ing anchorages drydocks cranes and general maintenance there are over 900 shore bases to be con trolled and the fleet must enter and be service dat each of these bases he added lieutenant linke said that the german pocket battleships are not as good as they are reported to be in order to carry heavy weapons they have had to sacrifice most of their armor making themselves very vulnerable and they are too light for their size and vibrate too much at high speed making gun nery inaccurate he added the german 11 inch guns can fire only two salvos to every five from the british eight-inch guns and thus the british are able to land a greater weight of shells humorous presents were given to various members of the civil en gineering facutly prof hale suth erland head of the department of civil engineering discussed the ev olution of civilization he said that the trying times we are going through at present are just growing pains of evolution of civilization pre-meds attend st luke's clinic in allentown hotel to hold banquet tuesday the first round of a series of in tramural debates on the question resolved that the united states should enlarge its navy to two ocean strength ended last night with two debates in the lounge of richards house at 7:3:0 o'clock william f boore jr met e 42 and robert g eitner e e 42 of richards house section 38 de feated harry m atkins arts 42 and stephen t lowry c e 41 of taylor house boore and eitner argued for the affirmative the affirmative side won again at 8:30 o'clock when robert f koenig met e 40 and stephen kowalyshyn jr e e 41 of price house defeated robert e pollock bus 43 and w bertolet bowers e e 42 of richards house sec tion i chairman of the debates was carl r fittkau arts 40 president of the interdormitory council jud ges were dale h gramley associ ate professor of journalism char les j moravec assistant in jour nalism and j calvin callaghan director of debating one wednesday evening at the delta tau delta house j dukes wooters jr bus 41 and robert p whipple eng 43 of delta tau delta arguing for the affirmative defeated franklin b mayer arts 43 and william s shuttleworth bus 42 of chi psi fraternity chairman of the debate was phil ip h powers jr eng 43 of del ta tau delta a second debate on wednesday evening was held at the theta delta chi house arguing the ne gative side were warren g leon ard i e 40 and richard s bright i e 42 of chi psi who defeated richard b palmer arts 43 and robert w leavens bus 42 of theta delta chi chairman of the debate was george e par sons jr e e 42 of theta delta chi judges for both debates were kenneth b horning fellow in english raymond h white assist ant professor of education and callaghan the standing of the various liv ing groups at the end of the first round is as follows won 1 lost 0 alpha kappa pi sigma chi chi phi delta tau delta price house richards house 111-b town groups b f and j won 0 lost 1 lambda chi al pha pi lambda phi chi psi theta delta chi richards house i tay lor house and town groups d h and l director callaghan has announc ed that the second round in the series will not commence until the beginning of the second semester lehigh university chorus rehearses for program the university faculty chorus held its semi-monthly meeting wednesday night in the chemistry building the group rehearsed chorales and quartets which will be sung at the informal hour of music friday afternoon at 4 o'clock in drown hall the next regular meeting of the chorus will not be held until after the christmas holidays after the final dress rehearsal this evening the cast of the mus tard and cheese fall production dead end will be ready for pres entation at broughal high school auditorium tomorrow night at 8:30 the play is under the direction of albert a rights instructor of english and faculty advisor of mustard and cheese the play takes place in a pecul iar section of new york city where the rich east side apartment hous es back into the middle of the slums of hell's kitchen the so called red line of the play is a cry for slum clearance stressing the doctrine that a man's character is molded by his environment the story is woven around two days in the lives of the residents of dead end in the course of the day a gangster is shot to death a ro mance is shattered a rich man is stabbed a boy is arrested and a group of street urchins are educa ted one more step along the road to being good citizens it is around these dead end kids that sidney kingsley has built up his plea for a better america through better living conditions dead end kids " the leading characters are gimpty richard j berg arts 42 who has appeared in winterset and petrified forest tommy conrad e kluger arts 42 who played in brother rat spit r harry gunnison arts 41 who has been in ceiling zero petrified forest men in white and brother rat baby-face martin is played by nathaniel j brisker bus 40 who has had roles in paths of glory men in white ceiling zero and winterset the remaining members of the cast are as follows kay sylvia mellner drina rita schaeffer dippy peter b turgeon arts 43 t 8 g william wolfsten arts 43 angel alvin l breen ch e 41 milty sheldon zalkind arts 43 mr griswald robert w dech arts 41 philip griswald abram samuels bus 42 doorman les ter r rosenfeld bus 40 hunk ira l fischer bus 43 francey myrtle goodman patrolman mul ligan robert a wrigley bus 40 jack hilton robert n gusdorf bus 42 stage crew named mrs martin laura stehle old gentleman tom c mekeel arts 42 old lady ruth c whitcomb mr jones jesse f bears arts 42 chauffeur stewart munroe bus 42 fat lady lois jenkins gov erness mary a ference second avenue boys david c osborn ch e 42 and sandor mark i e 42 interne jack l sipp bus 41 medical examiner richard c seltzer bus 41 sailor peter ol wyler arts 43 policeman j clark alberts eng 43 and will iam r seltzer arts 43 g-men seymour margolis bus 41 hein rich zornig bus 40 and kil bourne gordon jr bus 42 sev eral other students will appear in the mob scene members of the stage crew are technical director joseph ferry ch e 40 stage manager george s sprague chem 40 chief elec trician walter h vogelsberg e e 41 head of properties william h barnard e e 41 head of cos tuming john r witmeyer ch e 40 dead end played in the bel asco theater in new york for a nine months run and has also been produced as a motion picture m e.'s i e.'s hold party classicists read tragedy dr herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology was one of nine col lege professors of the state who met this week in harrisburg to un dertake a study of pennsylvania's governmental problems the educators met at the state capitol wednesday at the invita tion of elwood j turner speaker of the house of representatives according to newspaper reports turner said the group would be or ganized into an advisory committee to aid the joint commission in re search work dealing with state fin ances taxes relief unemployment compensation and other matters turner said the nine men at the conference today were recom mended to the joint commission by their respective schools they will serve without pay they are dr clarence a kulp professor of insurance and dr stephen b sweeney associate pro fessor of the university of penn sylvania w brooke graves pro fessor political science at temple university h m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology at lehigh univer sity also dr jacob tanger profes sor of political science dr fred f lininger professor of agricul tural economics and dr paul h weuller associate professor of eco nomics all of state college and dr charles s tippetts dean of the school of business administra tion and dr w r newstetter dean of the school of applied so cial sciences at the university of pittsburgh for the first time in five years lehigh pre-medical students at tended a surgical clinic today at st luke's hospital at a meeting of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-medical soci ety last tuesday in williams hall a paper on insulin shock treat ment was presented by jerome r dorkin arts 42 following the talk a report was made on the surgical clinic held last week at sacred heart hospital allentown it was also announced that an open meeting of the society will be held at 4 15 p m next tuesday in williams hall at which time mo tion pictures of a caesarian opera tion and an appendectomy will be shown pledgees will be initiated into the fraternity before the banquet transportation to the affair will be provided all cars should meet in front of williams hall no later than 5:50 p m it was decided that the society banquet will be held at 7:00 p m tuesday at the americus hotel in allentown the speaker of the ev ening will be dr e j morrissey orthopedic surgeon at st luke's hospital his subject will be in teresting sidelights in medicine the mechanical and industrial engineers held a joint christmas party last night in drown hall santa claus was the master of cer emonies and presented gifts to var ious members of the faculty the program also included the playing of a variety of gambling games with paper money furnish ed by the electrical engineering de partment the cast of dead end looks aghast as they view the remains of baby face martin nathaniel j brisker bus 40 at the end of the second act left to right standing shirley mellner ruth artley kil f eta sigma phi honorary classi cal society held their regular bus iness meeting last night at the home of dr earl l crum asso ciate professor of classical lang uages euripedes tragedy me dea was read by jules l moreau arts 40 john f hamblin arts 41 edwin h miller arts 40 and welles r bliss arts 42 born gordon madeline ranck shirley levy clark alberts kneeling richard seltzer jack sipp ai wrigley harry gunnison lying nathaniel brisker — photo myron buchman arts 43 bethlehem pa friday december 15 1939 vol xlvii — no 22 curtain to rise at 8:30 price — five cents lehigh men are warned about dishonest solicitor critics praise debaters for grand show major describes fighting of czechs cast is ready for production of dead end chems hear gen beary at annual dinner brown and white sacrifice n o american blood warns dupuy dance series starts tonight at 10 o'clock america and european war to be discussed by fish and close z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first