Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 51

              dorm council elects officers market gain is anticipated hudson hawley must move by june 1 wilbur trust warns houses to find new quarters or buy homes 4 fraternities are affected by bank pool vol xlviii no 51 6 periods of observation strike at fraternities some hit twice mcmichael and bostock placed in top posts for coming year coal conference expects increased orders caused by war arcadia's attempt at a non campaigning elections system had its second trial at the polls on wednesday although the system of secret nomination accomplished to some degree its purpose of keeping campus political combinations at a minimum pre-election drives and balloting-day conferences of candidates backers show ed their efforts in the ballot ing's outcome the minimum to which this year's election system limited electioneering and combines resulted in election of 5 of the 7 men picked as favorites of a clique of all the fraternity houses having representatives at an election day noon time meeting election day activity last year resulted in the unexpect ed domination of town and dormitory men in the final re sults repitition of last year's electioneering but this time by a fraternity group shows the extent and power to which po litical combinations may be effected under the present sys tem of choosing class officers presidents fight state competition 20 heads ask protection for private colleges six more periods of probation because of measles have been im posed on fraternity houses since the first report of the recent mea sles flurry on the campus lambda chi alpha sigma nu theta delta chi sigma alpha mv and phi sigma kappa have been removed from probation during the past two days this was the second restricted period for phi sigma kappa and sigma alpha mu chi psi began its second per iod of observation thursday morn ing the men stricken were either sent home or to local hospitals and no new case developed while the houses were isolated this brings the total of proba tionary periods up to 11 previously affected houses being theta kappa phi and alpha kappa phi talk on air corps heard by seniors four of lehigh's social fraterni ties are faced with the problem of having to buy their chapter houses or to move to new quarters by june 1 theta xi alpha kappa pi pi lambda phi and kappa sigma are owned at present by the e p wilbur trust fund investment pool formed in 1936 when the e p wilbur trust company went defunct by court order the pool corporation must sell the houses and the fraternities have been no tified to find new homes or to buy the houses presently occupied theta xi has arranged to move the date set tentatively at june 1 according to john v downs bus 41 president of the fraternity alpha kappa pi is incorporat ing to issue bonds to raise money for the purchase of the present house at 514 delaware avenue the bonds selling at 50 to 100 are being sold to parents of mem bers and alumni some funds are expected to come from the na tional chapter making the balance 50 per cent of the money needed the remainder of the money will be raised through a mortgage with the pool there are no houses available in town and the frater nity has no money at present to build on the campus stated john m hood arts 41 president of the house pi lambda phi has decided nothing definite as yet they do not have the necessary funds but hope to build on the campus in the near future according to s law rence hollander ch e 42 presi dent kappa sigma has made no de cision as yet they expect to re main in their present house until they can build on the campus house members stated five hundred delegates from 100 secondary and preparatory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey will attend the eighth annual le high scholastic press conference registration will take place at 9 o'clock tomorrow in packard lab oratory at which time tours of the campus will be conducted for the visitors hudson hawley news editor of the international division of the national broadcasting company will address the opening session at 11 o'clock in packard auditor ium dale gramley professor of journalism and chairman of the conference will introduce the speakers president clement c williams will extend the greetings of the university to the delegates after which wilson l godshall profes sor of diplomatic history and in ternational relations will deliver an address lunch in the armory will follow at 12:30 o'clock to hold discussions roundtable conferences in pack ard laboratory and christmas saucon hall will begin at 2 o'clock general news writing editorial writing headlines and makeup sports writing magazine prob lems business staff problems and financial problems for school publications are the assorted top ics which will be discussed at the seven round tables members of lehigh publications will lead the discussions at the closing session at 3:45 o'clock in the auditorium plaques will be presented to the first and second winners in nine different classifications certificates will be presented to papers receiving hon orable mention that the fast approaching war time economy will increase the markets throughout the anthracite industry was the prediction of coal authorities who addressed 350 del egates yesterday and today at the fourth annual anthracite confer ence held in packard auditorium the two day program was open ed by howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering he stated in his opening address that infor mation is being sought by the pub lic regarding advantages of anthra cite as a highly dependable fuel because its use is slightly known or appreciated anthracite which supplied ap proximately 59 per cent of all the fuel used for domestic heating in the northeastern united states in 1939 will be called upon to sup ply a still greater amount in the continued on page four stewart appointed to geology dept maj h franklin gregory talks to 40 in rotc will not return till fall lambda mu sigma hears q f walker howard s leach university li brarian who has been ill for some months will not return to his po sition until next september robert c mcmichael met 42 was elected head of the interdor mitory council for the coming year at a meeting held tuesday night in drown hall he succeeds wil bur chase the retiring president mcmichael who was elected presi dent of his section in richards house for the second time has been vice-president of the council for the past year other officers elected are as fol lows william t bostock jr ch e 42 vice-president william m spears jr arts 42 secretary and john vanßlarcom m e 42 treasurer dr claude g beards lee was again elected unanimous ly as faculty adviser the retiring council made the suggestion that the newly elected section chiefs should write to the members of the class of 45 who will enter their section next fall and answer any questions they might have it was also suggested that a member of the section be on hand to greet the incoming fresh men in the fall officers elected presents one-man debate on fair-trade laws coming up . . . varner receives medal and renewed term if state colleges which are sup ported by tax money were made vocational colleges producing men above the status of skilled labor they would better serve the people declared 20 college presidents be fore the senate committee on ed ucation of the state legislature at harrisburg wednesday president clement c williams attended the meeting to protest the passage of a bill designed to per mit state teachers colleges to en large their arts and science cur ricula the number of arts schools in the state is sufficient and if the 13 state teacher colleges became arts schools they would provide the private colleges with competition that could not possibly be met claimed the college presidents who represented approximately 50 pri vate colleges the campaign against the spread of state supported schools has been going on for a long period accord ing to president williams odk lists due may 12 continued on page four fraternities made a complete sweep of the elections wednes day in electing fraternity men to all class offices arcadia mem ber-at-large and junior and senior cheer leaders with a total of 708 ballots cast on the basis of the votes for arcadia member-at-large this year's balloting exceeded last year's figure of 675 by 33 the year before a total of 803 bal lots were cast frank s mekenna met e 42 gained three positions as the re sults of the election they are sec retary-treasurer of the senior class arcadia member-at-large and senior cheerleader elected to head the senior class as president is archie d tifft bus mekenna is a member of delta upsilon tifft belongs to phi gamma delta robert p whipple chem e was chosen president and william hayes 1.e was elected secretary treasurer of the junior class whip . pie is a delta tau delta member while hayes is a delta upsilon e lyster frosh met e sigma phi was elected to the post of president and jerry hendershot arts was chosen secretary-treas urer of the sophomore class he belongs to lambda chi alpha assistant cheer leader for next year is william f boore met e 42 those elected to the junior cheerleader positions are kenneth h norris jr i e 43 alpha chi rho and charles r bergh arts 43 delta phi tallakasen town leader arthur tallaksen bus 42 was elected to the presidency of the town council the presidents of the various town sections are as follows section a — gordon b robert son bus 42 section b — tie be tween robert e chamberlain met e 42 and l robert white phys 42 section c — robert c kramer ch e 43 section d — george a brenker bus 42 section e — arnold h e grandage arts 42 section f — henry e pohl jr 43 section g — william h barnard e e 42 section h — basil w logichnik i e 42 section j richard l kulp ch e 42 section x edward j coffey jr m e 42 section l elwyn wolfe e e 42 the complete slates for the var ious offices were the following for president of the senior class george a brenker bus frank e smith ch e john m roach arts william j meikle arts ar thur h rich bus tifft and me kenna for president of the junior class samuel j davy e e lynn c bartlett arts harry w olinsky bus arnold o putnam i e whipple and hayes for president of the sophomore class hugh boyd m e richard c shafer m e donald h brownlee m e claude j kurtz point lists for men desiring election to omicron delta kap pa honorary leadership society must be turned into richard l vockel m e 41 by 6 p m monday may 12 at chi psi today 6 p m — eta kappa nu banquet trainer's quakertown saturday 10:30 a m — scholastic press conference packard auditor ium 3 p m — baseball lafayette var sity and freshmen away track middle atlantics muh lenberg 10 p m — phi gamma delta dance chapter house akpi-pika dance north ampton country club theta xi dance chapter house theta kappa phi spe lamb da chi alpha dance hotel bethlehem monday 7:30 p m — camera club 208 packard major h franklin gregory u s army air corps and represen tative of the materiel division wright field dayton ohio spoke wednesday at the armory to r o t c seniors interested in air corps engineering training the major flew to bethlehem from cornell university where he spoke to students there business students were also told that there was a need for men in non-flying activities such as post adjutants recreation officers and supply and mess officers about 40 men saw the movies presented and later about 25 sen iors were interviewed in the mili tary department there are a few applications for engineers who are not members of the r o t c for appointment as air corps re serve officers in engineering major gregory is one of the youngest majors in the air corps and is an authority on aeorgyros the major left thursday morn ing dr duncan stewart jr has been appointed assistant professor of geology effective sept 1 it was announced today by dr bradford willard head of the de partment of geology dr stewart replaces dr dosald m fraser as sociate professor who has resigned to take a position as geologist for the bethlehem steel company dr stewart who holds degrees from the university of michigan and brown university has taught at michigan carleton college and michigan state college he was a member of the greenland expedi tion of university of michigan in 1928 and has been with the mich igan state geological survey he is the author of numerous ar ticles chiefly in mineralogy and petrography and has made studies of collections of rocks from ant arctica he received his a b de gree from michigan in 1928 m s from brown in 1930 and ph d from michigan in 1933 william p varner bus 42 was re-elected president of the sports fen's club at a meeting wednesday night in roof 466 packard labor atory john p stupp bus 43 was chosen vice-president theodore peters jr ch e 44 treasurer william c cosford bus 43 cor responding secretary and john a kimberley m e 42 recording secretary robert p stoudt bus 41 awarded a medal to varner for leadership while cosford kimber ley and morton f kaplon phys 41 were awarded medals for fin ishing in that order in a trapshoot ing contest q forrest walker economist for r h macy and company ad dressed lambda mv sigma hon orary marketing fraternity last evening in packard laboratory in a one-man debate walker dis cussed fair-trade laws in pro tecting the manufacturer distri butor and the consuming public according to walker most of the points in favor of price control are emotional appeal the cost of goods to the consumer could be lowered since prices are generally held up by good will advertis ing . he also discussed price fixing in relation to defense problems lambda mv sigma will meet at the pi kappa alpha house there will be an election of offi cers for the coming year men who were elected to rule in top campus offices during next year e lyster frost met e sophomore class president archie d tifft bus senior class president arthur tallaksen bus town council president frank s mekenna met e senior class sec-treas william b hayes i e junior class sec-treas robert p whipple ch e junior class president conference speaker brown and white new dorm head bethlehem pa friday may 9 1941 price — five cents 500 delegates expected for press parley fraternities sweep elections as tifft whipple and frost capture class presidencies 100 high prep schools to be represented here tomorrow mekenna gains positions of arcadia member-at-large senior secretary-treasurer head cheerleader hayes hendershot get junior soph posts hawley will talk at 11 combine`s fast work swings election votes tallaksen is chosen as leader of town council obert c mcmichael met e 4 measles close more houses jerry n hendershot arts sophomore class sec-treas member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the | lehigh news first