Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 34

              epitome bachelor plan cuts in size number for coming year war program of publications gets approval 01 xlix no 34 library fire causes men to flee reading room male animal tryouts held m & c begins to cast for new production officers elected ing open to the public will be held at 8 p.m on march 5 in packard auditorium uses models using working models and mo tion pictures dr thomas will at tempt to show the applications of many of the latest developments in science miniature whirlwinds blowing out a row of candles at the rate of two a second will show in mid get size an invention which it is hoped will eventually eliminate smoke from smokestacks these air rings when projected on a larger scale will be sufficient to knock a man off his feet at a distant of 20 feet , to demonstrate robot dr thomas will demonstrate a rcbot device which will seek out a fire aim at it and then put it out with a stream of water this photoelectric tube will also open elevator doors and turn on drink ing fountains included among his numerous demonstrations will be a device to eliminate radio static caused by power lines an electromagnet ic tester that helps manufacturers make better bearings gears and pistons by detecting burned spots will also be displayed by dr thomas floating lights and blue lights that will make objects look red are two more demonstrations to be presented phigamrebuilding will begin monday house plans incomplete ; additions to be made a small fire which originated in the men's room of the library yesterday morning compelled about 20 coughing students to flee the reading room when billows of heavy smoke escaped up the stair way the fire apparently caused by the careless dropping of a matcn or cigarette into a waste basket cculd not compare in extent to the chi psi of phi gamma delta fires heavy billows of smoke which spread over the reading room were no indication that another campus fire catastrophe was to occur the cry confine it to the campus was not to ring again no damage or confusion were caused by the conflagration jan itor charles schray quickly extin guished the flames by dousing them with water the only remaining ign of a fire is a slightly charred basket to begin at 8:15 p m the relative merits of profes sional and college football will be debated at tonight's student con certs-lectures series program 8 15 p.m in broughal high school jim crowley head football coach at fordham university will uphold the amateur end of the debate against jimmy conzelman coach of the chicago cardinals team of the national professional football league who will speak for the professionals one of four horsemen crowley who is known as one of the famous four horsemen of notre dame has been coach at fordham for nine years every year fordham is considered one of the best in the country its team has played in new year's day bowl games for the past two years conzelman is new at chicago but he has been in professional football for a number of years he was a well known player in the early 19205 has played pro fessional basketball managed baseball teams and written a reg ular column for the st louis post dispatch has had versatile career in addition to his work in the sports world he has played a part in the st louis municipal opera's production good news he has also sold art in greenwich vil lage led a dance band and edited a suburban weekly paper the doors will open for the debate tonight at 7:30 the next program in the series will be a group of character sket ches by dorothy crawford drama critic cyanide takes up frosh problems to enable lehigh's student pub lications to continue for the dura tion of the war the board of publications tuesday approved tentative plans submitted by the student officers three new officers of the bach elor were also approved they are sophomores robert l smith c.e financial manager john d smith bus circculation manager and john m skilling arts assist ant circulation manager consider epitome problems taking into consideration the difficulties which the 1943 epitome will have to face the board ap proved the plan submitted by a bruce brown phys 42 editor-in chief and theodore g scott met e 42 business manager the 1943 yearbook will be ready for dis tribution in may of that year and all sales will be cash before a deadline to be set next fall by the board either the editor-in-chief or the assistant editor must be registered for the spring semester in 1943 a curtailment in the size of the book is also contemplated bachelor depends on ads the bachelor is considering pub lishing but six issues a year ac cording to edwin h klein arts 42 business manager no definite action could be taken however as the continuance of the magazine must depend on advertising provided that the activities fee is continued for the summer sem ester the brown and white will publish a tabloid during the com ing summer a budget submitted by james a gordon bus 42 business manager was approved if the student activities fee is dis continued for the summer semes ter there will be no brown and white this summer only 8 new men enter into class activities to visit beaver musical clubs will give concert and dance council of alumni collects 24,660 to discuss further work at meeting tomorrow rebuilding of the phi gamma delta fraternity house will start monday despite the fact that the plans are not completely drawn announced clement and company contractors for the reconstruction when the blue prints are finish ed they must first be checked by state inspectors before they can be used but it is possible now to start working on parts of the old construction although nothing definite has been decided it is hoped that the new house will include several improvements lacking in the old building smaller study rooms ac comodating two students and lar ger sleeping facilities will prob ably be among the additions as a whole however according to don nissley alumni representative formerly of allentown the new structure will be similar to the one destroyed by fire early this month hazelhurst shearer speak to cosmopolitan group this generation has been ac cused of not having the same faith as previous generations but i be lieve it will yet grasp the signifi cance of the phrase in the song america freedom's holy light " was the climax of a speech by g w ransom of the f b 1 at the sophomore banquet last night at hotel bethlehem ransom's speech the f b i and national defense dealt with many phases of the organization and work of the f 8.1 and includ ed some interesting sidelights of the bureau's work do espionage work before 1939 the f 8.1 concen trated most of its efforts on stamp ing out nationwide crime ran som told the sophomores he add ed that at present however g men spend more than 90 percent of their time investigating espion age and sabotage cases and that the force has tripled since 1939 in his talk ransom discussed the selection and training of can didates for the f 8.1 and correct ed some impressions that the pub lic has of g-men when dil linger and nelson had been shot by federal agents f 8.1 men gained the reputation of being ruthless killers ransom explain ed that this shooting was neces sary because dillinger and nelson were heavily armed murderers relating some of the experiences of federal agents with foreign spies ransom said that one ger man had been caught with fifty stolen passports on his person solve kidnaping cases ransom also spoke about the activities of the f 8.1 before it took over the investigation of sub versive activities he said that out of 200 kidnapping cases encounter ed 198 had been solved pres clement c williams dean wray h congdon neil carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration alfred c callen dean of the college of engineering and claude g beardslee profes sor of moral and religous philos ophy attended the banquet presi dent williams dean congdon and dean carothers spoke briefly carothers served also as toast master the combined musical clubs will travel to beaver college in jen kintown tomorrow night to pre sent a concert and dance starting at 8 p.m the concert v/ill last about an hour and a half music for the dance to follow will be supplied by the lehigh colle gians in addition to selections by the glee club entertainment will be provided by a flute quartet a flute solo and several vocal solos will be presented the group will leave at 6 p.m from drown hall officers of the clubs will dine with the officers of the beaver college glee club before the concert freshmen of the class of 46 were activities discussed at an informal meeting of cyanide junior hon orary society wednesday night at the sigma nu house out of 22 members of the class of 1946 only eight have partici pated in the freshman exercises held for the benefit of the new class two of the original 24 have dropped out since the beginning of the semester cyanide wishes to get in touch with the other 46 men in order to orient them prop erly charles m norlin head of the disciplinary committee of cyanide said if the remaining freshmen comply with regulations now they will find these regulations lighter than those to be imposed on fresh men entering in the fall tryouts have been held for mustard and cheese's next presen tation the male animal it was announced at a dinner meeting of the dramatic society wednes day night at the delta tau delta house six new members were admitted and officers for the com ing year were elected casting for the new play has started but final results will not be announced for several weeks the male animal will be pre sented on two nights marking the first time in several years that this has been done william c kirschner bus 43 was elected president and will be come a member of next term's arcadia other new officers are vice-president william j peck bus 43 secretary g william wolfsten arts 43 and technical director philip h powers m.e 43 staffs take new men the new members all having worked on four plays before they were eligible to join were admit ted by the acting and business staffs and the stage crew the new members and the staffs into which they were elected follow ross p vachon bus 43 stage crew william r sultzer arts 43 acting lewis f page e.e 44 stage crew sheldon s zalkind arts 43 acting joseph f kem mer arts 43 business and alan d hinrichs i.e 43 stage crew money was allotted for the im provement of the mustard and cheese club room in drown hall in order to make the facilities of the room more accessable to the club peters 34 will describe condition of german people 6 lehigh faculty members serve in u.s defense work thomas h hazlehurst associate professor of chemistry and james l shearer 38 addressed the cos mopolitan club at its initiation banquet tuesday night at train er's initiates are robert c ramsdell arts 43 harold w tilley bus 44 lloyd e antonides e.c 45 isidoro benavides e.e 45 c al fonso fernandez arts special al fonso f soto arts 43 adgor a frankley e.e 45 and william gross henry greene and robert lewert all graduate students professor hazlehurst is faculty adviser and mr shearer is one of the club's founders the council of lehigh class agents representing some 60 le high classes from 1880 to 1941 has raised 24,660 to date in the alum ni association's 50,000 campaign progress of the campaign will bo discussed by the council at the mid-winter meeting at 6 p.m sat urday in lamberton hall at this time the committee will pause in its work to review achievements and to receive new instructions to meet in lamberton council members whose work was responsible for the conversion of the armory into lamberton hall last year will meet for the first time in this building and follow ing their discussions will be guests of the alumni association at the lehigh-penn state wrestling meet this year the alumni gift to the university unlike that of pre vious campaigns will be unrestric ted former campaigns were con ducted for the construction of specific campus buildings c l t edwards 13 is presi dent of the council and allen j barthold 21 head of the depart ment of romance languages is secretary of the organization six lehigh faculty members are performing government defense work services one of these has been drafted another called to active duty and the other four are serving the various branches of the eov ernment in research work charles j moravec assistant university news editor was the first faculty member to be drafted he was inducted in july 1941 moravec served in the 40th training battalion at camp croft editing the first newspaper there he was later transferred to the military intelligence ' training company of the 26th spe cialist headquarters company bat talion where he organized another newspaper he was recently as signed to intelligence work in the puget sound area dr cledo brunetti assistant professor of electrical engineering was granted a leave of absence for the 1941-42 term to take a post with the national bureau of standards he is working as a radio physicist and en engaged in problems for the national defense research board dr brunetti was appointed research associate in the radio section of the bureau of standards in 1939 3 working for navy three faculty members prof cyril d jensen prof adelbert ford and prof benjamin l snav ely have been granted leaves of absence to work for the navy continued on page four see editorial on page two establishment of a student elections system embodying both the committee and petition plans for nominations of candidates was prac tically assured last night as the combined councils approved the pro posed system and passed it along to arcadia for final action fifty six members of the three living group governing bodies and arcadia assembled in drown hall for the combined group's second meeting of the college year in ad dition to approving the new elec tions system plan the councils formally approved arcadia's peti tion for houseparty as required by faculty action and received reports of several other investigating com mittees appointed last fall if arcadia approves the elections system approved by the council last night a two-year struggle to devise a method of selecting can didates for class offices will be ended the proposed plan follows the present system of secret nom ination by the combined student faculty committee but permits men who are not nominated by that committee to petition for places on the ballots the system used in the past two elections provided for nominations only by the student-faculty com mittee with announcement of can didates on the morning of election day approval of the combined plan oi elections followed a report of a committee which has been work ing for several months on the prob lem the report listed three possible systems which might be adopted these were 1 a free election under which nomination for office would be solely by petition 2 a party system which would oper ate similarly to the regular politi cal party plan 3 the combina tion committee and petition nomin ations the committee stated in the re port that it believed no plan would be perfect nor could eliminate the combines which the present system was supposed to eliminate the plans presented were the re sult of a poll of 15 colleges cam pus opinion and opinion of the committee members the commit tee included henry t reuwer but 42 albert w foster bus 42 robert n simonsen ch.e 42 and william kirschner ch.e 42 houseparty approved the council also approved ar cadia's petition for spring house party approval by the combined councils was requested by dean congdon as a final measure of stu dent opinion on the houseparty question it was reported that the student committee investigating the six houseparty problems dealing with chaperonage housing of dates and general conduct set up by the dean for consideration last winter will meet with a faculty committee on march 11 discussion of specific and general charges in relation to the problems will take place members of this committee are daniel b mcafee bus 42 chair man douglas m haire bus 42 and john a quincy e.e 42 william b logan bus 42 president of town council chair man of a committee investigating the housing problem for students living in town stated that a ques tionnaire will be distributed to town students asking why the stu dents are living in private homes whether they do so because of expense inavailability of dormi tory rooms or mere preference the review will also ask whether the men are satisfied with their quarters deferred rushing not favored oakely cooke bus 42 chair man of a committee to investigate deferred rushing for fraternities reported that his committee rec commended that the present sys tem of rushing be continued his report stated that deferred rushing would not be possible because of lack of dormitory space to pro vide rooms for the freshmen who continued on page four feeling the effects of a modern war americans know the discom forts and sacrifices they face and the condition of american morale but the unknown factor in this war — the factor which is puzzling most americans — is the condition of the german people some aspects of this many sided question will be disclosed when c brooks peters 34 discusses life in the warring third reich at the junior class banquet 6:30 p.m thursday march 5 in the masonic temple peters is qualified to explain | the abstract elements of the life of the german people for he has been in the reich since september 1937 one of the last american journalists to return to the states he left germany in october 1941 besides covering the activities of the german army many of pet ers dispatches in the new york times for which he was berlin correspondent dealt with the pol itical and social aspects of ger many married in germany the far reaching influence of the nazi regime came home to peters when at his marriage rather a quaint ceremony he says " heil hitler rather than some relig ious imprecation was pronounced over our joined hands peters reported to the german police that his car was stolen continued on page four combined councils deliberate on elections system the combined councils met last night in drown hall to discuss revision of the present election sys tem william kirschner i-f council representative is presenting his views to arcadia president wilkes mcclave while other members listen final action was a recommendation that arcadia adopt a re vised plan including the features of the current sys tem and permitting nomination by popular petition bethlehem pa friday february 27 1942 dr thomas one man lab to give display for aiee scl to hold pro football debate tonight price — five cen council approves committee petition elections system crowley and conzelman to argue on standing of football men a one man laboratory dr phil ip thomas a traveling research engineer with the westinghouse electric and manufacturing com pany will demonstrate recent de velopments in scientific research at the next meeting of the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers the meet arcadia approval needed for adoption of plan proposal includes secret student-faculty nomination also permits students not selected to petition no system possible to eliminate combines ransom says faith survives soph banquet talk shows belief in generation f 8.1 outlined brown and white bug hits again william c kirschner chem 43 was was elected president of the mustard and cheese club wednes day evening at a meeting at delta tau delta he replaces wilkes mcclave bus 42 new officers accepted all the lehigh news first z 612 coming up . . . today 8:15 p.m — jim crowley - james conzelman debate broughal high tomorrow 3 p.m — varsity swimming rut gers taylor gym 4 p.m — glee club concert beav er college 7 p.m — varsity wrestling perm state grace hall monday march 2 4 p m — faculty meeting fac ulty room alumni memorial building 7:30 p m — arcadia meeting drown hall a campus publication 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