Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 35

              military group to choose 10 electric eye extinguishes fire a weird looking robot device which utilizes on electric eye to find and put ont fire will be among the late scientific developments to be demonstrated thursday evening at 8 p m in packard auditorium by dr phillips thomas of the westinghouse research laboratories the head of the device moves slowly back and forth and up and down pointing the device at various parts of the screen when the eye comes to fire it stops and an automatic stream of water squirts out to extinguish it thomas lecture is free to all interested students and townspeople and is popularly designed to appeal to both technical and non-technical men it is sponsored by the student branch aiee we're in the army now cry more than 29 lehigh men who have joined the u s armed forces during the present emergency a recent telephone poll disclosed the fact that at least that number have left school in the last three months for military service many more men who enlisted before december or are unaccount able for since they lived in town are doing their share toward the country's defense however each of these 29 men representing al most 2 per cent of the school was sitting in class rooms only two or three months ago now they are working for uncle sam the army men represent 14 fra ternities and seven dormitory sec tions alpha chi rho is the only fraternity to have three men de finitely on active duty several houses claim three and more men who are waiting for commissions or planning to enlist at the end of the semester four of the men have received or are awaiting commissions while nine men have been accepted into the army air corps one of the group has joined the parachute troops john s kelly bus 42 is the first lehigh man reported injured he was ruptured while on active duty in newport news va kelley a former heavyweight wrestler is still hospitalized the 29 men who are in active service are listed below by living group the service they have en tered the time of their leaving lehigh and their activities at school follow alpha chi rho john h burrus 11 bus 43 army between semesters chap ter correspondent bachelor staff continued on page four scabbard & blade names 32 eligible juniors quiz tomorrow seniors decide on epitome fee draft board wins male animal cast selected vote on plan to take 1 from class treasury rotc navy fail to keep bob lees from army bob lees is in the army gusdorff helen brembeck take leads to give play on april 25 between 200 and 250 are ex pected to attend the junior ban quet at 6 o'clock thursday even ing in the masonic temple it was announced yesterday afternoon by frank h bower e.e chairman of the banquet committee e kenneth smiley director of admissions will serve as master of ceremonies as a part of the program there will be group sing ing led by richard t berg bus william s eiser ch.e will ac company the singing on the piano contrary to the luck of the two class banquets held heretofore bower predicts that the junior banquet will be a financial success this is based on reports from dor mitories and fraternities indicating a large attendance of the class the seniors had 194 paid dinners to hear magoun and incurred an official loss of 70.75 while 116 sophomores gathered last week left an unofficial deficit of only 14.00 last year all four class gatherings were financially suc cessful thursday is deadline ticket sales will close thursday noon bower announced town students will be able to get tickets before the closing date at the sup ply bureau or at the arcadia office the guest speaker c brooks peters 34 is now in washington covering the far eastern theatre of war for the new york times while at lehigh peters was active in the lehigh review which at the time served its original pur pose of a seriously written quart erly magazine he also held office on the epitome the committee members in addi tion to bower are glenn w boy er m.e bernard w deehan bus william d hayes 1.e harry a herold 1.e robert w pugh chem and arnold o putnam i.e frosh handbook position is open last fall bob gave up a 2b deferment to return to lehigh after an absence of one year last se mester his local draft board call ed him for induction and lees could not gain a scholastic de ferment because he had only a sophomore standing he gained junior standing in the engineering school by dint of a re-exam at the beginning of this semester however the draft board persisted so he applied for a commission in the ground crew of the naval air corps failing the eye test he began a series of eye exercises the cast for the play male ani mal which is to be given on sat urday evening april 25 was an nounced last night by albert a rights instructor in english and dramatics tommy turner will be played by robert n gusdorff bus 42 ellen turner by helen brembeck michael by conrad e kluger arts 42 joe ferguson by joseph p larkin 111 bus 42 dean damon by kilbourn gorden jr bus 42 patricia by rosemary cunning ham ed keller by robert e pol lock bus 43 cleota by mrs gil christ the play is being planned for two nights but nothing definite has been arranged as yet last tuesday he passed the air corps physical examination still the draft board persisted on thursday bob was accepted continued on page four scabbard and blade honorary military society has decided upon 32 juniors who will be eligible for admission to the society upon the completion of several competitive tests these tests will eliminate all but ten of the men the quiz will be held at 4 p m tomorrow in the sophomore room in grace hall this is the second group of cadet officers who have been named for eligibility this year ten juniors and three seniors having been admitted last fall those juniors eligible to com pete are infantry — richard h bernasco bus george j buss man bus andrew h brennan bus francis a chidsey bus wayne h carter bus bernard a deehan bus badgley a elmes bus thomas h golden bus barton r heinz bus franklin himmelberger arts william b holberton bus frank a hunold m e robert o jensen arts william c kirschner chem nathan g lesh e e john j mcgee c e clarence c prink ley m e john d ryan arts a proposal to pay 1 of the epitome assessment from the class treasury was voted upon by the senior class on ballots returned to day to the arcadia office at the senior banquet it was an nounced that the balance in the treasury was not sufficient to war rant taking any money for the epitome assessment from the trea sury upon correction of the bal ance the class gift and senior class executive committees and the epitome business staff rec ommended taking 1 of the re maining 3 epitome fee from the treasury according to archie d tifft class president this plan if pass ed would leave over 600 in the treasury to act as a buffer for the insurance plan which was decid ed upon as the class gift continued on page four billy on campus since 95 still guards students health middlebury honors tone by using society as model continued on page four registration for the elimination contest of the pennsylvania inter collegiate post-war peace speech contest which is to be held april 24 at the university of pittsburgh will take place at 4:30 p m thursday in room 303 christmas saucon hall j calvin callaghan assistant professor of english who is man aging the lehigh contest with cole s brembeck instructor in english announced that the contest is open to all lehigh students if there are any students who cannot register on thursday they will still be able to do so at noon on friday and saturday in room 316 christmas saucon hall but instructions will be given only on thursday callaghan said that he and brembeck will attempt to integrate the speech contest with the lehigh williams prize contest callaghan stated that the contest will be di vided into two parts with the williams competition as a prere quisite to the post war peace contest the first part of the speech con test will be connected to the wil liams contest in extempore speak ing and will be managed by cal laghan the general theme of the discussions will be how to main tain peace in our post-war world and a list of topics will be posted this week in christmas saucon hall the student will be assigned one of the posted topics at noon on the day of the contest wednesday march 18 and will speak at 7:30 p m on the same day there will be three distinct groups junior-senior with prizes of 75 50 25 sophomore with no prizes freshman with prizes of 50 and 25 from this preliminary elimina tion contest the final contestants will be selected in each group to compete in a contest on wednes day april 8 when a representa tive group from lehigh will be chosen to travel to pittsburgh to represent the university in the state contest the theme of the extempore speeches on april 8 will again be post-war peace and the student will select his own topic and write out his speech the contestant must however extemporize his speech from his manuscript and memorization will not be allowed the winner of this elimination will represent the uni versity at the pennsylvania inter collegiate post-war peace speech contest at the university of pitts burgh on april 24 the three man uscripts of the three winners will the position of business man ager of the freshman handbook is open for sophomore competition this job carries a 20 salary plus 75 percent of the handbook profits a 75 sale of advertisements will make the competitor a mem ber of the business staff and carry with it a 10 percent commission on his work only six men reported for the first meeting of the candidates and tomorrow's meeting will be the last chance for new men all can didates will start together as no advertisement contracts can be is sued before this meeting any sophomore who is interest ed in competing for this position and who is unable to attend the short meeting tomorrow can se cure more information by calling either chuck norlin 7-3451 or tom buck 7-4771 amid machines that resemble buck rogers fantasies on the ground floor of christmas-saucon hall one will find a personable old fellow whom everyone knows as just billy few people however know all of billy burkhardt's career at le high way back in 95 when eugene grace now president of beth lehem steel corporation was a mere freshmen billy had his first introduction to south mountain life since that time he has be come a tradition to both students and faculty alike all the outstand ing incidents of the last 50 years of lehigh's growth have been kept well preserved in billy's re markably active mind from 1895 to the first world war billy acted as general train during the post war period le high this together with his job of being the sole campus patrol man on sundays made a man-sized jcb during this post war period le high had only a small grass plot for an athletic field with billy engineering the project a handful of men with harrows and persever ance constructed the track and baseball diamond which still ex ist today after a brief interval billy again returned to the rout ine work of campus activities when billy sheridan started to coach the wrestling teams which were destined to bring widespread fame for lehigh billy was on the spot ready to take over the trainer's position he acted as trainer for every sport on the cam arcadia approved the election system at 7:30 p.m last night in drown hall as voted on by the combined councils at its meeting last week technical questions of the system are to be arranged by the election committee which was appointed at the meeting the committee is to submit a detailed report at arcadia's next meeting the new student elections sys tem will embody both the com mittee and petition plans for nominations of candidates thus the proposed plan will follow the present system of secret nomina tion by a student nomination com mittee but also permits students who are not nominated by that committee to petition for places or the ballots previous system the system used in the last two elections provided for nominations by a student-faculty committee with announcement of candidates on the morning of election day by approving the election system arcadia ended a two-year struggle to devise a different method for selecting candidates for class offi cers arcadia also made a tentative selection of a nominating commit tee which would consist of the nine senior arcadia embers they are wilkes mcclave 111 bus presi dent of arcadia frank s mcken na met.e representative at large robert n simonsen ch.e omic ron delta kappa representative archie dew tifft bus represent ative from scabbard and blade frank e smith jr ch.e combined musical clubs representative rob ert c mcmichael met.e presi dent of the inter-dormitory coun cil william j meikle arts pub lications representative basil w logan 1.e president of the town council ralph f moss bus pres ident of the inter-fraternity coun cil will submit agenda the group also decided that ar cadia representatives on the stu dent activities committee shall re port to arcadia before voting on any important matters that come up it decided to ask the student activities committee to submit to arcadia an agenda as to what it intends to discuss at its next meet ing thus arcadia will be able to instruct its representatives how to vote in the past the arcadia representatives voted on issues without submitting them to arcad ia for consideration three members were absent from the meeting the junior league will select the books for arcadia to present to patients in the st luke's hospital and basil w logan i.e 42 was elected to find a design for a book plate arcadia also discussed the possibility of financing the expens es of sending delegates and coaches to the pennsylvania state inter collegiate post war peace speak ing contest in pittsburg in the latter part of april officer reviews military societies lehigh's h-3 scabbard and blade company and h-7 from laf ayette were inspected by lt r.c b]asingame national society 3rd corps area inspector at a special joint meeting of the two societies last night captain pierce assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics spoke to the group on what every young officer should know both scabbard and blade societies were commended by lt blasingame for the turnout to the special meeting lehigh officers were complimented on their fair and competitive method of select ing members to their honorary society continued on page four tone musical society recently approved a request by middlebury college in vermont to use its name in founding a similar musical or ganization at that institution , the new society at middlebury college will be modeled directly after the lehigh society a loose but mutual benefiting affiliation be tween the two groups will exist exchange of interesting lectures concert suggestions evaluation of club projects and original com positions will prove valuable par ticularly on the long-time basis the relationship will require no restrictions on club activities nor will it incur any financial obliga tions it will be essentially on hon orary union of two clubs with fun damentally the same ideals state society aims the purpose and aims of tone are two first to furnish interested students with an opportunity for musical appreciation interpreta tion and composition and second to sponsor free concerts and lec tures by students faculty and guests the discussions and lec tures are held mainly to promote interest in relatively neglected fields of music the average ap preciation of the music lover is broadened and strengthened by the inclusion of such topics as music of the ballet german lieder beeth oven's chamber music english madrigals the folk song modern music the bach cantatas the voice in history the history of program music early opera and the growth of concerto music members of the committee are left to right rob ert r shively arts franklin l morgal bus rog ers william r taylor arts and robert p whipple chem junior prom committee gathers to debate bands the five members of the junior prom committee met recently under the chairmanship of charles m rogers bus to decide on a band for the prom the final choice was to have been signed today and will be released soon continued on psga four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 3 1942 29 lehigh men in service poll of living groups shows speech contest to open soon enrollment in extempore competition to begin this thursday finances are discussed 2 - year struggle ended ; candidate selection finally revised arcadia o.k.`s new system for elections price — five cents called to service paul short 34 assistant direc tor of athletics and freshman foot ball coach is the latest lehigh faculty member to enter the arm ed forces last monday short was or dered to report to the army sat urday march 7 at bowling green va he captained the lehigh foot ball team in his senior year and was a member of the wrestling squad expect great support peters is guest speaker smiley will preside as toastmaster 250 juniors may attend class banquet vol xlix — no 35 coming up . . . today 7:30 p.m — interdormitory coun cil drown hall 7:30 p.m — rifle club lamberton hall tomorrow 4 p m — first aid taylor gym 7:30 p m — first aid faculty room alumni building rooms 243 and 204 chemistry build ing 7:30 p.m — varsity basketball with lafayette grace hall thursday 6 p m — junior class banquet masonic temple 7:30 p.m — marvels of science lecture on industrial research packard auditorium friday 8:15 p.m — the age of un reason lecture by dr mor row university of pennsylva nia blake society packard auditorium saturday 8 p m — varsity wrestling with princeton away a campus publication since january 16 1894 all the lehigh news first z612