Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 30

              talks to cyanide class of 44 sets location for banquet vol xlviii no 30 lehigh to get wrestling film cyanide starts athletic probe by charles b seib jr local newsstands experienced a rush last night as word got around the campus that pm new york's latest experiment in tabloid news papers had devoted a full page to lehigh in yesterday's installment of its series on conditions in beth lehem students didn't fare well in pm's analysis of the situation at eugene grace's lehigh they were por trayed as strongly republican un concerned with off-campus affairs and planning pat futures in in dustry according to james a wechsler who with mary morris pm's wo man photographer conducted the bethlehem survey the steel workers of bethlehem and the stu dents of lehigh university don't play games together or hold joint bull-sessions that was the lead of the article and it summarizes mr wechsler's criticism of lehigh students they don't he feels take enough intelligent interest in what is happening off the hill they are he claims in an insip id way arch conservatives le high students . . . encourage the teachings of neil carothers one of the few survivors of the hoover economic collapse he still clings to the faith laments the growth of popular power yearns for govern ment by the elite a major part of the story was devoted to an interview with charles f kalmbach editor in chief of the brown and white and stories of brown and white poli cies throughout the article ran the theme of a group of too-rich in dolent young men clinging to their ivory tower on south mountain preparing for the day when they can assume their appointed place in republican capitalistic ranks it all might be summed up in this rather touching paragraph "... on the lehigh campus there is a lookout that offers a panoramic view of the city on bright days ... it is a long view from there to the steel workers shacks the details are obscured girls who come to proms look down at the city and say gee that's pretty financial report given to junior honorary by walter okeson management students reach mutual agreement a good print is speech title pathe news offers part of uncut sportscope for campus use the hotel bethlehem and march 6 have been fixed definitely as the location and date for the freshman banquet after freshmen representatives had discussed several plans for the function the banquet location was changed by a telephone canvass covering all living quarters thurs day afternoon by members of the general committee all complica tions have been overcome and other plans will not be changed announced e lyster frost met e 44 chairman of the committee the banquet will start at 6 30 p m as announced before william lone star dietz albright college coach of football will be the prin ciple speaker e kenneth smiley director of admissions will be toastmaster other entertainment is being arranged by the program committee at the meeting of the freshmen representatives on wednesday ev ening at packard laboratory the committee decided to start the sale of tickets today at 1 any fresh man not contacted by the ticket committee may get a ticket from edwin leet c e at the chi phi house war is topic of dual talk bingham lombard speak tomorrow at hotel both are experts possible conflict between the concert to be given by the eva jessye chorus a nationally known negro mixed voice chorus and the lehigh - lafayette double - header basketball game on feb 21 was avoided by arrangements made by the student concerts-lectures ser ies committee originally the chorus was sched uled to appear at 8:15 but the time has been changed to 7:45 p m in broughal high school auditorium the committee spoke to glen w harmeson director of athletics who in turn spoke to henry w clark director of athletics at la fayette about changing the starting time of the basketball game richard a ware arts 41 chair man of the committee announced that the freshman basketball game would begin at 7:00 p m and the varsity game would begin shortly after 9 o'clock this new time schedule will enable students and faculty to attend both events hour program planned we appreciate the cooperation of directors of athletics at lafay ette and lehigh stated ware in setting the starting time of the bas ketball game one half-hour later than originally planned in a long-distance telephone con versation with the columbia broadcasting system the commit tee was assured that the eva jessye chorus will present a one hour program starting at 7:45 p m the concert will be over in time to give basketball fans an oppor tunity to get to taylor gymnasium in time for the lehigh-lafayette varsity contest at a meeting of the interfra ternity council on monday an agreement was reached with the management of the hotel beth lehem as to the conduct of the interfraternity ball guests on this week-end the desire of the students is the consideration of the rights of the transient and permanent guests of the hotel the desire of the hotel is to cooperate as far as possible with the students and their guests the hotel however has as its greatest concern the prevention of noise in the early hours of the morning and to this end only registered students and their invited guests will be al lowed to enter the upper floors chemical society to convene here i e.'s and m e.'s to hear bewley a permanent record of lehigh wrestling will be given to the uni versity by pathe news with the presentation of film from that tak en this fall for the short pathe sportscope feature on wrestling last night william sheridan wrestling coach robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin and dale h gramley university news editor saw 7000 feet of the film that was taken in the preparation of the sport feature pathe will take any parts of the film that are wanted and process it in 16 milli meter size and present it to the university in addition to this material pathe will also process their sport scope mat men in 16 millimeter size complete with sound and pre sent it to the university for use on the campus these films will be used by the university for showings on the campus and the alumni associa tion will send them to be used for alumni club programs lehigh valley organization plans monthly dinner cyanide junior honorary activi ties society took its first step in an objective investigation into the le high athletic policy at a meeting held at the delta upsilon house last night walter r okeson vice president of the university gave a financial report on the athletic sit uation at lehigh the report was followed by a discussion at which time the mem bers of the society questioned vice president okeson on various as pects of the athletic finances and general sports situation discus sions and reports will be continued at the coming meetings throughout the semester and various members of the athletic department and fa culty will be heard according to archie d tifft bus 42 president of the junior honorary an attempt is being made to secure glen w harmeson director of athletics to speak at the next meeting of the club the meeting will be held either wed nesday feb 19 or the following thursday feb 27 at the sigma phi house library gets 83 books churchill volume included gramley attends meeting the recommendation of the sen ior class gift committee to be pre sented to the class of 1941 at its banquet on feb 27 is that the class gift should be in the form of endowment insurance policies tak en by its members augustus a riemondy ch e chairman of the gift committee announced the committee's recommendation today this is the fourth consecutive year that a gift committee has made the recommendation of the endowment insurance in the pre ceeding three years each class has approved the plan and has sup ported it to the limit of the com mitees expectations the plan as it now stands re quires that at least 100 seniors take out 20-year endowment insurance policies with a maturity value of 250 the dividends however that will accrue to each policy and which will be paid by the insur ance company to the class treasury should make the value of each pol icy greater than 300 at the end of the 20 years this means that the minimum number of 100 policies will provide a fund of 30,000 which the class of 1941 can turn over to the university as its gift at the 20th reunion of the class this is equivalent to the income on 1,000,000 endowment for a year at present interest rates plan adopted in 1938 the first lehigh class to adopt such a plan for a school gift was the class of 1938 its policies will mature in 1958 and if the plan is kept alive by succeeding classes as has been done the last two years the effect will be the same as add ing at least 1,000,000 to the lehigh endowment after the policies start to mature the gift committee will also re commend that the money ear marked for a class gift be kept in the class treasury to help pay pre miums on any policies which might lapse walter r okeson vice-president of the university who has been in charge of administering the plan after the graduation of each class has been invited by the gift com mittee to attend the class banquet and explain the terms and proced ure necessary to adopt this gift dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism attended a meeting of the board of trustees of albright college reading on wed nesday gramley is an alumnus of albright and is a member of the board of trustees of that college 83 seniors have jobs now industry seeks more men the university library has re cently acquired 83 new books among the best known are ham burger's how nazi germany has mobilized and controlled labor de kruif s the fight for life the popular for whom the bell tolls by hemingway taylor's address unknown winston churchill by kraus and hugh young a surgeon's autobiogra phy by young included with the new volumes are many books dealing with elec trical engineering and government the combined industrial and mechanical engineering society will hold its first meeting of the second semester next thursday feb 20 in packard laboratory the organization was begun last year when the former mechanical engineering society and industrial engineering society combined to form the new organization the so ciety is governed by a combined executive board comprised of the officers of the two former societies the organization is a course soci ety and all mechanical and indus trial engineering students are eli gib for membership prof l v bewley head of the electrical engineering department will speak ' if ball public ticket sales fail to maintain set price whose war is this will be dis cussed by the honorable alfred m bingham and colonel emmanuel e lombard in the hotel bethle hem ball room at 12:45 o'clock to morrow both sides of this topic will be presented at the lehigh valley branch of the foreign pol icy association mr bingham through years of newspaper work in europe has be come versed in international aff airs he has studied conditions as they were in soviet russia ger many italy and in the far east and is widely recognized as an au thority in this field colonel lombard has had a very distinctive history through the world war and during the years following and has been honored many times for his military service as well as for his diplomacy the discussion of whose war is this will be of special interest to the students because it will help them to understand more fully the various aspects of the problem of aid to great britain the charge for non members is 1.50 for members 1.00 those wishing to attend should make reservations with dr w leon godshall asso ciate professor of diplomatic his tory and international relations francis h rockett to talk before camera club monday evening francis h rockett sr electri cal engineer with the bell tele phone company will speak on what constitutes a good print before a meeting of the camera club to be held at 7:30 p m mon day feb 17 in room 466 packard laboratory mr rockett's talk will be illus trated by the 50 best prints of the annual salon of the bell system camera clubs these clubs of which there are 25 in the u s and canada sub mit their best prints each year to the bell system salon held in new york city where 140 are selected for hanging from this group are chosen the fifty best prints which constitute a traveling show this is hung for one month in the smithsonian institute in washing ton d c following the washington dis play the traveling show is exhibi ted by camera clubs in boston al bany newark philadelphia chi ago indianapolis detroit denver and los angeles mr rockett made special arrangements to use the prints in his talks to be held with in a week at lehigh the telephone camera club of long island and the bowling green camera club in new york city mr rockett will discuss the prints from composition print quality and general appeal stand points the lehigh camera club has in vited the allentown camera club the bethlehem camera club and the camera club of moravian coll ege for women to attend the meet ing all students and faculty in terested in photography are also invited market fraternity conducts smoker tone plans trip to opera arranges spring concert the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society will hold its monthly meeting next fri day on the lehigh campus dr k c d hickman main speaker for the evening will talk on prob lems in vacuum distillation the society will meet for dinner at drown hall at 6 15 p m the over the dinner-table speaker is randolph h thompson assistant chief division of public informa tion of pennsylvania whose talk is pennsylvania out of doors col ored movies of pennsylvania's na tural beauties will illustrate thompson's talk dr hickman is associated with the distillation products incorpor ated of rochester n y attended the royal college of science and received his b s and ph d de grees from london university from 1916-1919 he served with the chemical warfare division and he worked for the eastman kodak company from 1925 to 1939 dr hickman is now vice president and director of research of the distill ation products incorporated the main meeting starts at 8:15 in the chemistry building lecture room jones diamond address new honorary group 8 students are witnesses at liquor board hearing plans for a trip to attend the metropolitan opera in new york will be discussed by members of tone musical society at a meeting at 7:30 tonight in the chapel pub licity arrangements for a concert april 2 by the overland woodwind quintet will also be considered according to david richards arts 42 tone will be glad to take any students not in the society if facilities are available anyone in terested may contact richards at leonard hall robert beckwith arts 43 will talk on wagners opera tristan isolde as presented by the metro politan last saturday cornelius is grandfather william a cornelius 89 secre tary in charge of the committee for the celebration of the 75th anni versary of lehigh's founding is a grandfather again a son robert comley cornelius iv was born on feb 6 at st luke's hospital to the wife of robert c cornelius iii 29 er than in 1940 and a tendency seems to prevail for seniors to ac cept positions rather than plan to do graduate work as usual the placement director says visiting personnel men are much interested in the extra-cur ricular activities of the seniors this is especially true of those companies which seek a small number of high grade men as in the past some interviewers are insisting that students they ac cept have earned some part of their college expenses the large companies are recruit ing seniors who have had no ex perience because the companies want to train them in their partic ular methods no attempt is being made to dip below the senior class or into the graduate field for men the demand is for full-time men rather than for part time men for seasonal employment companies which have training courses prefer seniors to men who have graduated they wish to take those who are pliable and have not learned the methods used by other companies demands by industry are heav iest in the fields of chemical me chanical industrial and metallur gical engineering but students in other engineering curricula and in the colleges of business adminis tration and arts and science are also being placed at a fairly steady pace the request for business ad ministration seniors is greater than at any time in recent years lehigh seniors are being sought more eagerly this year by business and industry than ever before it is indicated in a report by e rob ins morgan director of the place ment bureau as of february 1 a total of 83 men had accepted positions effec tive upon graduation in june this compares with 46 on the same date last year 19 in 1939 36 in 1937 and 16 in 1936 mr morgan already lists more than 400 interviews for february which representatives of 21 com panies will hold with approximate ly 250 seniors who are still unsign ed prior to feb 1 30 companies had interviewed men by the same date last year only 11 companies had conducted interviews the explanation of the rush for college seniors mr morgan says lies in the improved business now prevailing it is not only the prim ary defense industries which are doing the rushing at lehigh how ever for mr morgan says firms other than defense industries are also getting the jump by selecting men in many instances before they are taken by the first-line de fense companies with some companies the claims which the selective service act has on seniors is no bar to employ ment the placement director says many firms are willing to take a chance and offer guarantees of a furlough some do not even inquire about the students draft numbers starting wages generally off ered are about five per cent high eight lehigh students were wit nesses for the state at a hearing of the pennsylvania state liquor control board held on tuesday in allentown the lehigh men testi fied in a case involving bucky mc ginley manager of a club selling beer and liquor in fountain hill mcginley is charged with selling alcoholic beverages to minors and with operating contrary to regula tions under a club liquor license the board's action against mc ginley is part of a state wide drive against the operators of one-man clubs all the lehigh men sub poened as witnesses are under 21 years of age or were under the le gal age when they purchased mem bership cards in the fountain hill club situation this year those who hold tickets will dance to the music of bob chester's orchestra tomorrow night at the empire ballroom from 10 p m to 3 a m featuring a new method of saxophone voicing and betty brad ley his new vocalist chester's band will play in his recently inno vated style saturday's events will begin in taylor gymnasium at 2:30 p m when the freshman basketball team will meet the mining and mechanical institute five the var sity swimmers will start against the university of delaware at 3 p m a double-header wrestling meet will be held at 7 30 p m when the wehigh varsity will wrestle cornell and the freshmen will compete with wyoming seminary tea dances will be held from 4 p m to 7 p m at the maenner chor the saucon valley country club and the northampton country club chaperons for the inter-frater nity ball will be dean and mrs wray h congdon dr and mrs claude g beardslee and mr and mrs robert a zachary lambda mu sigma newly or ganized honorary marketing fra ternity held a smoker last night in packard laboratory lounge thom as f jones assistant professor of economics spoke on the founding of the society and herbert m dia mond head of the department of economics and sociology talked on the history of the college of busi ness administration at lehigh dr diamond also gave a comparative rating of the business college in relation to other colleges eight men were voted to be pledged at the next meeting an nounced allen m paget 41 presi dent in the short business meeting following the smoker on feb 24 c h weikel manager of commer cial research development at beth lehem steel company will speak on market research in an open meeting plans to maintain the price of inter-fraternity ball tickets by an attempt to resell them through the arcadia office fell through as only two tickets were reported sold at the office yesterday afternoon it is evident that many non-fra ternity men will attend the frater nity function tomorrow night at reduced prices although 70 tickets were turned in at drown hall many sales have been made in the dormitories and in the town living groups quoted prices range from 1 to 2.50 in comparison with the original 3.30 according to inter-fraternity ball committee plans all men who wanted to resell tickets were given the privilege of letting the arcadia office handle the sale at the origin al price fear of competition how ever led to individual transactions and the drown hall sales did not materialize as devised since all fraternity men are re quired to buy tickets many are burdened with tickets that they can not use in previous years the rush to make a sale forced low prices dwindling to free donations as the ball approached the com mittee had planned to avert that lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 14 1941 tabloid pm devotes page to eugene grace's lehigh will lead choir price — five cents benefits plan to be urged as senior gift scl chorus avoids conflict with athletes basketball game to start after scheduled time due to singers committee to recommend endowment insurance at class banquet gift good in 20 years lafayette will cooperate eva jessye walter r okeson plans will not change dinner will be march 6 at hotel bethlehem ; dietz is speaker all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association