Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 36

              decision is not final to use insurance plan godshall,aiken speak on war blake society presents talk both present grievances behind britain's jap's part in conflict 3 papers on what's wrong with lehigh football to receive awards dr glenn morrow speaks in packard auditorium at 8:15 tonight godshall presented a six-point outline of japan's reasons for war these were listing the grievances behind japan's and great britain's par ticipation in the present war dr wilson l godshall and william p aiken of the department of his tory and government spoke in a discussion of the national psycho logy of five governments at a meet ing of the foreign policy associa tion last night at moravian col lege for men continued on page four 1 china's refusal to cooperate 2 open door to markets for japan this age of unreason has been chosen by dr glenn mor row professor of philosophy at the university of pennsylvania as his topic for a lecture at 8 15 this evening in packard auditorium the lecture sponsored for the general public by the robert w blake honorary philosophical so ciety is open the the public free of charge heard last year dr morrow was first heard by the society's members last year during one of their pilgrimages to the university of pennsylvania's campus members of the society met dr morrow at the union station when he arrived this afternoon and have conducted him on a cam pus tour he will dine with the officers of the society before de livering his lecture peters was bmoc served three campus publications here faculty to present h.m.s pinafore china relief will receive proceeds from opera ballot returns on the proposal to pay 1 of the senior individual epitome assessment from the class treasury show 109 students favor ing the plan out of 111 ballots re turned announced claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy who tabulat ed the votes the proposal was drawn up by the officers of the class of 42 and the ballots were sent out feb 28 the adoption of the plan means that 1 per senior or 357 will be drawn from an estimated class bal ance of 971.27 leaving 614.27 which will serve as a buffer for the insurance plan the class has adopted as its gift to the univer sity no senior dance charge while this plan will leave the class of 42 with a balance slightly lower than the average of the last four classes the class officers feel that it will be adequate and no charge will be made for the sen ior dance the senior committee for the history and prophecy for gradua tion was appointed this week an nounced archie tift bus class president the committee mem bers are edward f bodine m.e chairman jesse f beers jr arts ernest gamble jr ch.e frank lin b mayer arts william j meikle arts thomas c mekeel arts and john m roach arts officers to wear uniforms at ball room seniority section elections and room rent refunds were prin ciple topics of discussion at a meet ing of the interdormitory council tuesday evening in discussing room priorities the group decided that men who oc cupy rooms during the fall and spring semesters will have senior ity over those who occupy them during the summer semester if a room is vacated at the be ginning of the summer session by someone not taking the accelerated course whoever takes that room for the summer will have to give it up again in the fall to its or iginal occupant unless of course the original occupant does not re turn to reserve rooms this rule is qualified by another which will set aside one fourth of the rooms in any section for in coming freshmen whether they were entering that september or had entered lehigh the previous may for the summer session section presidents will be elect ed next september to serve from september to the following may elections will be held soon for presidents to serve until may or until the following september de pending on whether or not the sec tion heads take the accelerated course rent refunds were thoroughly discussed but no decision was reached dormitory occupants or iginally leased their rooms for use until june 18 but because the present semester will end may 13 it is felt that a refund is due them naturally the final decision on all problems of this nature will be dependent on the university lehigh's football situation is troubling the pittsburgh alumni and they have just provided cash prizes for the best student opinion on the problem what's wrong with lehigh football and how it can be rem edied is the topic the pittsburgh lehigh club wants discussed prizes of 25 15 and 10 have been seen set for the three best papers on the subject william b shirk 20 chairman of the club's football committee is in charge of the contest which is open only to present members of the freshman sophomore and junior classes must be typewritten papers submitted must be type written and may not exceed 800 words contest entries must be postmarked not later than march 31 1942 according to shirk authors may request that their identity be un disclosed judges will be appointed by the pittsburgh club and their decision will be final in announcing the competion shirk expressed the hope that a large number of students will sub mit entries he said that the pitts burg club believes the subject is of considerable interest to the le high undergraduates papers should be addressed to w b shirk chairman football committee pittsburgh lehigh club 2506 gulf building 7th ave nue and grant street pittsburgh pa prom committee to choose band scabbard and blade invites 4 outside companies expect to reach decision before end of week yachtmen to send 2 crews to navy club expected to compete in collegiate races mittant road of antiaircraft gun fire counteracting the nightly raids of british aircraft is not exactly con ducive to peaceful living nor are the raids good for building morale even though they are of little con sequence considering the value of military damage done but this is the way one lived in berlin while peters was there in berlin at outset peters berlin correspondent for the new york times was in ger many when the war broke out he with other american newspaper men has been engaged in present ing as clear and concise a picture as possible to the american aud ience not generally known but actually a fact was the lack of censorship of all material sent out of germany to the american press of course peters admitted nobody ever sent anything that might be objectionable to the authorities germany has been preparing for and fighting this war since 1933 he said until now the ger man army has accomplished things described as perfectly unbeliev able but now the russian army over which hitler once claimed that chaos had descended has for the first time stopped the unbeatable stemmed in russia germany may finally attempt the long contem plated invasion of the british isles that is the opinion in the state department according to pet ers hitler still popular commenting on the current german leaders he called yon ribbentrop very unpopular goeb bels the most disliked man in ger many and goering the most pop ular hitler still is held in high esteem by the majority of the german people the toughest adversaries that the germans have met were the brit ish at dunkerque and every ger man air man considers the british pilots first rate peters reported pres clement c williams and dean wray h congdon present at the banquet as guests of honor also delivered short addresses keep your eye on what you first aimed at when you entered le high warned president williams toastmaster was e k smiley dir ector of admissions chairman of the banquet com mittee was frank h bower e e 43 by william whiffham 111 the electric eye which extinguishes fire was demonstrated by dr phillips thomas traveling research engineer of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company as part of his lecture on recent developments in scientific research to a capacity crowd of 700 students and townspeople last night in packard auditorium dr thomas who gave the first lecture of this type at lehigh several years ago also demonstrated and lectured on sea drome markers sodium and mercury vapor lamps and invisible rings of air shot from a metal drum which was tapped by a hammer miniature whirlwinds were shot from guns which dr thomas claims may be the fore-runners of powerful devices to eliminate in dustrial smoke the invisible rings of air blew out candles and rang gongs ten feet away as the back of the gun or metal drum was tapped by a hammer the speaker mentioned that scientists are al ready considering the possibility of using more powerful vortex rings to blow giant puffs of fac tory smoke high into the atmos phere thus providing clean air in industrial cities extinguishes fires the robot device which utilizes an electric eye was used by the speaker to extinguish several gas oline fires ignited on a metal screen the head of the device moved slowly back and forth and up and down in front of the screen when the eye came to the fire it stopped and suddenly an automatic stream of water squirted out to extinguish it turning to things which research has already made practical for peacetime living dr thomas showed a floating light that has greatly modernized night-time landing on harbors known as sea drome markers the new lights are placed in rows on the water to indicate safe landing lanes these markers which can be controlled by radio are run on dry batteries and supported on doughnut-shap ed rubber floats blue light shows red illustrating how scientific re search is finding new lights from metals dr thomas turned on a lamp which shone with a pale blue light but made his face a bright orange-red color the light which came from a glowing vapor of cadmium inside the tube sent out a strong concealed red ray which showed up by reflection on the face of the speaker according to dr thomas no practical use has yet been found for this lamp but very useful lights have been produced from other metals the sodium lamp is widely used to illuminate bridges and highways with soft yellow light this lamp produces more light than ordinary incandescent continued on page four c brooks peters 34 former new york times corresponent in berlin served on the epitome the burr and the review while at lehigh a student in the arts college peters majored in english but had no connection with the brown and white his only newspaper work before becoming affiliated with the times as berlin correspondent was done on a small connecticut pap er during summers is student of german a thorough familiarity with ger man and an unusual mastery of english helped him gain his ap pointment to the berlin bureau returning to his alma mater after spending four years in ger many peters found the spirit of lehigh still unchanged but there were some differences he noticed richards house drinker house and the new grace hall have all been added since he last was here conspicuous by its absence or at least by its present condition was the chi psi fraternity house in which he once lived the junior prom committee ex pects to sign a band before the end of the week according to charles m rogers bus 43 chairman of the committee les brown's orchestra was first considered but the committee was outbid by a theater in brooklyn in addition to bidding against the theater the committee also bid against lafayette college which will hold its prom on the same date among the bands now being considered by the committee is bob chester who played at the 1941 interfraternity ball air wardens to hear mains h.m.s pinafore a light opera by gilbert and sullivan will be given by the faculty chorus for the benefit of united china relief march 27 and 28 in drown hall presenting its fifth production the faculty will stage the complete version of the opera which it pre sented some years ago in abridged form without costumes or scenery other gilbert and sullivan works presented were ruddigore and patience and last year the sorcerer this is the first year that performances are being given on two nights cast named principal members of the cast are capt samuel pierce — ralph rackstraw mrs david scott — josephine the captain's daughter prof edgar riley — sir joseph porter mr edson hardy — captain corcoran mrs sidney goodrich of moravian co 1 1 c g c—buttercup;e — buttercup dean wray h congdon — dick dead-eye mrs edward cutler — hebe robert mains engineer of tests boatswain and prof ar thur klein — boatswain's mate mrs edson hardy will be mis ical director prof bradford will ard stage director and miss louise waters of the library staff production manager arcadia seeking bookplate design non - commissioned rotc offi cers attending the military ball on saturday march 14 will be required to wear their uni forms according to military cus tom wearing of uniforms will not be compulsory for freshmen and sophomores but they may do so if they wish music will be provided by the lehigh collegians and admission will be 1.25 per couple tickets can be obtained from members of scabbard and blade national hon orary military society sponsor of the ball the supply bureau and the arcadia office outside companies invited the lehigh chapter of scabbard and blade has decided to invite the scabbard and blade compan ies of lafayette college drexel in stitute of technology university of pennsylvania and pennsylvania state college chaperones will be colonel and mrs joseph s leonard and cap tain and mrs samuel pierce jr before the dance the chaperones will dine with scabbard and blade members and their dates in hotel bethlehem robert mains engineer of tests will speak at two meetings of a final school session for bethlehem air raid wardens on march 10 at hotel bethlehem mains conducted a similar session some time ago art to be used on books for hospital patients town council to conduct survey group heads to receive questionnaires soon the yacht club will send two crews of two men each to races sometime in april at annapolis md the club received an invit ation from the naval academy there it is expected that navy and lehigh will compete with other eastern colleges who are members of the intercollegiate yacht racing association according to alexander wiggin i.e 42 ex-commodre of the club commodore elected because an insufficient number of the club's 18 members attended the meeting held wednesday after noon only one new officer was elected arthur steams arts 43 commodore the new vice-com modore and secretary-treasurer will be elected at the next meet ing at 4:15 p.m march 12 at the alpha tau omega house hubert mcdonnell i.e 44 and steams have offered to contribute boats for use this spring on sail or's lake near wind gap in the lehigh river near allentown or at pocono lake a faculty advisor is needed the club has had none since its founding a year ago naval ordnance officer will speak march 12 town council's survey on why town men have selected private homes in the city as their college living quarters will get under way following the council's meeting next thursday night questionnaires will be distribut ed to section presidents who will distribute them to men of their re spective living groups to hold discussions william b logan 42 president of town council states that the matter of a town group banquet will be discussed at the meeting next week the banquet is plan ned for lamberton hall date and speaker will be chosen by a com mittee headed by edward j cof fey m.e 42 arcadia is looking for art talent the student governing body wants an undergraduate to design a bookplate for use in volumes pur chased by arcadia for patients at st luke's hospital bethlehem an appropriation of 25 was made by arcadia last monday to be used in buying books for hos pital patients the books will be selected by the bethlehem junior league state designs requirements the bookplate is desired so that adequate recognition of arcadia's gift may be given according to william b logan i.e 42 arcadia member selected to find the design the drawing must include the words arcadia student govern ing body lehigh university campus artists may submit their work at the arcadia office further information may be obtained from logan phone 6-5700 quet had officially ended about half of the men remained for an hour asking particular questions on the world conflict to the left of peters is toastmaster e kenneth smiley director of admissions to his right is frank h bower e e 44 banquet committee chairman juniors hear alumnus tell harrowing experience c brooks peters 34 until recently berlin correspondent for the new york times met nearly 120 members of the class of 1943 last night in the masonic temple at the annual junior banquet he related several of his many brushes with fate while in europe and was able to hold his audience spellbound in doing so after the ban commander wellings chief nav al ordnance officer at the bethle hem steel company and capt samuel pierce assistant professor of military science and tactics will speak at the march 12 meeting of the lehigh-bethlehem post of the army ordnance association in packard laboratory wellings will discuss naval or dnance with regard to the bethle hem steel company and national defense captain pierces subject will be so you're in the army now bethlehem pa friday march 6 1942 vol xlix — no 36 report jobs to morgan price — five cents peters describes five years in europe under nazi rule dorm council meets effects of speed up seniors favor 1 payment ballot shows robot device extinguishes fire at dr thomas lecture by e warren bowden i saw rotterdam completely leveled and the unholy stench of decayed flesh as i approached the city was absolutely terrible re ported c brooks peters 34 at the junior banquet held last evening at the masonic temple exactly 117 members of the class of 43 heard peters describe his four years in nazi germany to hear nothing five nights a week for three months but the inter all seniors who have ac cepted jobs and have not no tified the placement bureau should do so at the earliest opportunity e robins morgan placement director requests this information to avoid con fusion and to keep his rec ords complete brown and white discusses room seniority election rent refund at last meeting only 2 students out of 1 1 1 vote down new plan need 375 total gridiron probe alumni motive coming up . . . today 4 p m — orchestra practice grace hall 6 p m — demolay club banquet shankweiler's hotel 7 p m — lambda chi alpha banquet trainer's 8:15 p m — r w blake society dr morrow university of pennsylvania the age of unreason packard auditor ium saturday varsity wrestling princeton away monday 4 p m — first aid taylor gym 7:30 p m — first aid faculty room alumni building rooms 204 and 243 chemistry build ing 7:30 p m — interfraternity coun cil drown hall 8 p m — lehigh valley section a s c e professor w j eney and robert mains civ ilian defense 466 packard lab oratory all the lehigh news first do you know that . . . since 1928 lehigh has sent four alumni to oxford as rhodes scholars