Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 51

              102 schools represented at parley today 66 contest awards presented carothers and acheson talk price — five cents more than 475 delegates present from schools of 2 states approximately 500 stu dents attend opening session this a m 51 from slatington press conference awards for 1940 keep writing dean says plaques given to first and second place winners in 10 classes 194 schools compete liberty progress coincide digest editor tells school journalists only one publication re peats in first place rating this year who presided at the general ses sion in packard laboratory this morning in the absence of prof dale h gramley conference di rector . class c magazines enrollment up to 499 first place — ye ridlyan ridley park h s ridley park pa second place — the orange and black galeton h s gale ton pa honorable mention — the h s beacon dallastown h s dallastown pa ; the glen echo codorus twp h s glen ville pa the trumpet south whitehall h 8 allentown ph the echo-log manchester h s manchester pa class d newspapers page in local newspaper first place — rahway h s record rahway h s rail way n 1 second place — the v hi times unionville h s union ville pa honorable mention — the pointer point marion h s point marion pa ; public school news souderton h s souder ton pa the q h s news quakertown pa mimeograph publications first place — the uaker challenge quakertown h s quak ertown pa second place — the student voice flemington h s flem ington n 1 honorable mention — the becahi bethlehem catholic h 8 mfthlehem pa ; the echo wilson high school easton pa ; the inkwell hastings h s hastings pa ; rox rocket mc kees rocks h s mckees rocks pa ; blue and gold con shohocken h s conshohocken pa ; the pokonian pocono twp h s tannersville pa ; salt and pepper sellersville perknsie h s perkasie pa preparatory school newspapers first place — shady side news shady side academy pitts burgh pa second place — mercersburg news mercersburg academy mercersburg pa honorable mention — peddie news peddie school hights town n.^j the montclair news montclair academy mont clair n j the campus lantern chestnut hill academy chestnut hill pa preparatory school magazines first place — perm charter magazine william perm charter school germantown philadelphia pa second place — the skirmisher bordentown military acad emy bordentown n 1 honorable mention — the aster prospect hill country day school newark n j academy monthly gennautown acad emy gerrnantown philadelphia pa class a newspapers enrollment above 1,000 first place — the frankford high way frankford h s philadelphia second place — tie between york-high weekly william perm h s york pa and the broadcaster hershey h s her shey pa honorable mention — eastside criterion eastside h s i'.itcisiin n j the megaphone northeast h 8 philadel phia the entree plainfield h 8 plainfield n j the spot light simon gratz h s philadelphia hi-kearnian kearny h s kearny n 1 hilltop star passaic h s passaic n.j class a magazines enrollment above 1,000 first place — the arrow ridgewood h s ridgewood n j second place — the cherry and white williamsport h s williamsport pa honorable mention the libertas liberty h s bethlehem pa cliveden magazine germantown h s philadelphia the burr west catholic h 8 philadelphia the high school record camden h s camden n j impressions central h s scranton pa class b newspapers enrollment 500-999 first place — abingtonian abington h s abington pa second place — the haven fax schuylkill haven h s scliuylkill haven pa honorable mention — the night rider farrell h s farrell i'a the maroon and white gettysburg h s gettysburg pa ; the garnet and gray lansdowne h s lansdowne pa ; the nugget mahanoy city h s mahanoy city pa ; norwin hi-weekly norwin union h s irwin pa class b magazines enrollment 500-999 first place^the spotlight cranford h s cranford n.j second place — the nutshell moorestown h s moores town n j honorable mention — the sayrenade sayre h s sayre pa ; the bangor slate bangor h s bangor pa ; the blue and white south williamsport h s south williamsport pa ; the school industrialist industrial h s hershey pa class c newspapers enrollment up to 499 first place — the blue ace girardville h s girardville pa second place — the n c hi times new cumberland h s new cumberland pa honorable mention — the gazette canton h s canton pa the mirror s s palmer h s palmerton pa the leni lenapian lehighton h s lehighton pa ; the littleston echo littlestown h s littlestown pa ; reflections roar ing springs h s roaring springs pa round tables list 30 talks stresses need of free press high and side lights dr barclay acheson associate editor reader's digest who spoke this morning on freedom — the mental climate for progress lehigh president hits control exercised by foreign dictatorships lehigh students and visit ing delegates feature 8 group sessions a total of 66 awards 21 of them bronze plaques for first and second place in 10 classifications was made to secondary school publications of pennsylvania and new jersey at the closing session of lehigh's sev enth annual scholastic press con ference this afternoon the awards were made by dr wray h congdon dean of under graduates who presided at the afternoon session in the absence of the conference director prof dale h gramley who is ill for the first time since the le high contests have been held a tie obtained in one classification of the contest in this case the york high weekly of york pa and the broadcaster of hershey high school tied for the second place plaque in class a of the newspa per contest of the 10 first place plaques seven were won by pennsylvania schools and three by new jersey schools the second place plaques were divided eight for pennsyl vania schools and three for new jersey schools only one paper repeats only one publication repeated as first place winner in its class that was ye ridlyan magazine of ridley park high school in four other classes the first and second place winners in 1939 reversed pla ces this year these were the spotlight of cranford n j and the nutshell of moorestown n j in class b magazines the quaker challenge of quakertown and the student voice of flemington n j in the mimeograph class the shady side news of shady side academy and the mercersburg news of mercers burg academy in the preparatory school newspaper class and the perm charter magazine of william perm charter school philadelphia and the skirmisher of bordentown military academy in preparatory school magazine class judges for the contests were w robert grubb of the bethlehem globe-times john d neely of the allentown call-chronicle news papers and robert f herrick editor of the lehigh alumni bull etin elect next year's officers section i richards house elect ed officers monday in the dormi tory's lounge the following men were elected roy l duncan jr m e 42 section chief william p varner bus 42 secretary-treas urer and richard c gordon bus 42 athletic manager continued os pftge four a total of 30 persons including 9 delegates from secondary school publications participated in the eight round table discussion group programs of the press conference this afternoon of the number 16 are lehigh university students the leaders and speakers at the various group meetings were geeral news writing howard m conner 40 leader the art of effective interviewing albert l thalhamer 42 featuring the right elements in the lead l e klein 42 identification and au thority arthur l landesman 43 good and bad newspaper eng lish sam p davy 43 how the york high weekly covers the news wiliam parker editor in chief york high weekly york pa editorial writing fred e gal braith jr 40 leader structure of the editorial john c attwood continued on page four total enrollment of the 194 schools whose publications were entered in the contests this year is 179,300 according to figures com piled by professor gramley the largest school is northeast h s philadelphia with 5,300 students next is the william l dickinson h s jersey city with 4,970 pupils first arrivals last evening were the four delegates from dale high johnstown and the twelve from etna high et na the fellows bunked in as sorted fraternity houses scat tered here and there on the hill and thusly learned about fraternal life a little differ ent from the movie version a total of 56 publications in the two states have the advantage of instruction in journalism the other 137 publications which ans wered this question in a question naire among contest entries do not have journalism courses the vital importance of main taining the right of free press and free speech in a democracy was stressed by dr clement c will iams president of the university in his opening address to delegates attending the morning session of the seventh annual scholastic press conference in packard audi torium daily we observe the tragic de ception of great and cultured peo ples by their totalitarian govern ments through a controlled press stated president williams a country without a free press be comes subject to the ambitious ca price of an unscrupulous fanatic who by substituting poisoned pro paganda for correct information and open discussion can fan the fires of nationalism into a ravaging assault upon helpless and peaceful neighbors a free press is a concommitant more than 475 delegates from 20 new jersey schools and 82 penn sylvania schools attended the press conference today according to a hasty count at the registration tables in packard lobby at noon the largest delegation in the his tory of the conference was regis tered this year it was the group from slatington high school and comprised 51 persons . the first group to arrive was the delegation of 11 from etna high school accompanied by four fa culty members the seven etna students arrived in bethlehem last night after eight hours on the road second largest delegation com prised 30 persons from mahanoy city and close behind was slating ton with 28 groups travelling long distances included besides the one from et na stowe h s mckees rocks east pittsburgh h s grove city h s dunbar township h s leisenring carrick h s pitts burgh shady side academy pitts burgh new jersey schools represented included belvidere boonton bordentown bordentown military academy camden cliffside park east orange flemington dickinson h s of jersey city millville mont clair academy moorestown mor ristown prospect hill country day school newark new brunswick phillipsburg plainfield rahway red bank and ridgewood pennsylvania schools included abington raub jr h s of al lentown south whitehall bangor berwick bethlehem catholic fountain hill liberty of bethle hem moravian preparatory of bethlehem bristol conshohocken cresco also doylestown easton east pittsburgh elkins pak etna for ty-fort germantown gettysburg girardville glenville grove city hanover hatfield hazleton town ship hellertown hershey her shey industrial lampeter east hempfield of landisville lansdale lebanon lehighton dunbar township of leisenring mahanoy city manchester also mauch chunk stowe of mckees rocks millersburg mil ton mount joy nazareth new freedom north wales palmerton perkagie frankford of philadel phia simon gratz of philadelphia south philadelphia phoenixville carrick of pittsburgh shady side academy of pittsburgh pottstown pottsville quakertown quarry ville red lion reedsville roaring spring sayre scranton north scranton jr slatington south ampton south williamsport stras burg also stroudsburg sunbury tan nersville tyrone unionville up per darby waverly waynesboro west lawn wyalusing yardley dilliam perm of york and sun bury dr neil carothers who told high school delegates at the opening session to keep on trying in their writing activities continued on page fou dr neil carothers dean of the college of business adminirstra tion at lehigh and dr barclay acheson addressing approximate ly 500 high school journalists this morning in packard auditorium stressed the advantages of a demo cratic society and the importance of journalism as a main factor of democracy you should go on as you have erne here today dean carothers told the delegates attending the seventh annual lehigh scholastic press conference look for a nor mal life as you have a right to do keep interested in your school work and don't let the demoraliza tion of the world distract you the lehigh economist advised the young journalists to give their in terest in writing an opportunity to develop and to keep trying in that field for every writing genius like shelly poe o'henry and keats there are hundreds of writers who must train unceasingly dean car others said writing is a hard job and one is easily discouraged but you do not know what talent however small is lying latent in you dean carothers said that news papers still remain the crystalliz es of our thought and one of the most important factors in demo cratic society says liberty means progress that by preserving democracy we are protecting peaceful and or derly change and are escaping the ravages of a wild and bloody up rising was expressed by dr ache son the advance of the human race has not been continuous and steady dr acheson said there have been lags but liberty and progress coincide the periods of stagnation in our civilization have come under ad verse forms of government dr acheson declared people must be free to think he said the united states has gone through the greatest revolution in the chapter of history without bloodshed the associate editor of reader's digegt stated we use ballots not bullets i am not as tonished at our number of unem ployed but i am astonished how we have gone from 1830 to 1930 without the gutters of our streets running with blood the general session opened at 11 a m this morning in the audi torium of packard laboratory with john i kirkpatrick assistant to the president presiding the wel coming address was delivered by dr c c williams as visiting delegates registered and toured campus before opening press session this morning press conference edition brown and white bethlehem pa saturday may 11 1940 conference speakers vol xlvii — no 51-a john i kirkpatrick assistant to president z 612 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first