Brown and White Vol. 50 no. 25

              phi bete banquet follows initiation lehigh the near miss haven for axis bombings by edgar a frankley the lehigh campus is less than half a mile from the bethlehem steel works and if hitler should ever decide to drop some of his deadly eggs on this center of war production we may expect a good number of near misses in our territory in order to help prepare the student body for such an eventuality the brown and white interviewed william j eney associate professor of civil engineering who as lecturer for the casualty station of the local office of civilian defense has a good deal of information which may be of value in the future according to professor eney there are essentially six different types of bombs the armor pierc ing demolition fragmentation in cendiary and gas bomb and the aerial mine all ranging in weight from two to 2000 pounds although heavier types have been mentioned in newspaper dispatches all these have their different fields of appli cation and the most likely to land on the lehigh campus would be either the incendiary or the demo lition bomb since the beginning of the war in 1939 methods of dealing with incendiary bombs have been changed twice first it was thought best to direct a fine spray of wa ter against the bomb to speed up its burning or to cover it with sand to smother it experience how ever taught that a heavy stream of water played from behind a chair was more advisable in order to speed the burning of the mag nesium which is contained in all incendiaries recently however the axis has started employing a more vicious type of incendiary which is equip ped with a delayed time fuse and a very high explosive charge this bomb explodes the burning bomb after it has penetrated a building the best way to deal with a bomb of this type is to direct a stream of water on it from behind a wall which represents the equivalent of four and one-half inches of brick work avoiding flying metal the fragmentation bomb weigh ing about 30 pounds and splitting up into thousands of fragments is obviously directed at putting per sonel out of action the inside of any building not too close to a window will provide adequate protection against this type of bomb on the other hand frag ments of 500 pound bombs are known to have penetrated brick walls 13 inches thick 50 feet from the point of explosion however the force of these fragments de creases materially with their dis tance from the explosion and the chance of a bomb landing within 50 feet of any one dwelling is rela tively slight next b w january 8 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until the friday after christmas vaca tion jan 8 1943 three faculty speakers featured the initiation banquet of phi beta kappa wednesday evening in the private dining room in lamberton hall dr harvey neville head of the department of chemistry and chemical engineering quoted from thomas henry huxley nineteenth century defender of darwin and proponent of science in modern education in illustrating that the sciences — including engineering or applied science — were as integral a part of a liberal education as the humanities dr lawrence gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment in discussing the early phases of the french and indian war drew parallels between that struggle and the present conflict between free men and authoritar ian powers accelerating seniors initiated in a ceremony in the arcadia room drown hall just prior to the ban quet were lynn c bartlett my ron i buchman sheldon zalkind lewis friedman arthur f mann william r wiuiams all arts wal ter r hoerner walter s tomkin son mortimer l blanket all bus robert w saylor m e and pres ton parr jr ch e presiding over the ceremony was robert laramy associate di rector of admissions and president of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa philip m palmer dean of the college of arts and science and permanent secretary of the chapter explained some of the principles of the fraternity and dis tributed shingles and keys price — 5 cents joseph c grew 43x to hear joseph grew at graduation break your pig bank mint needs copper lehigh students who have pen nies hidden away in china pig coin-banks or tied up in socks are urged to exchange them for other types of currency so that the copper may be used for defense purposes last year the united states mint used 4600 tons of copper in the production of pennies alone to to tal 1,500,000,000,000 pieces pend ing legislation calls for a reduc tion in the present 95 per cent cop per-content but the mint urges the necessity of retiring as many cop pers as possible from circulation into fighting materials the 4600 tons of copper consum ed last year in making pennies would have built 2 cruisers 2 de stroyers 1245 flying fortresses 120 field guns and 120 howitzers grace hall ceremony will be quiet affair joseph c grew former ambas sador to japan has been named speaker for the jan 18 commence ment pres clement c williams announced this week on dec 7 of this year ambassa dor grew who returned from his post last august published report from tokio a book based on ad dresses he has delivered since he returned to this country in these talks he advised the american public against underestimating the determination and resourcesfulness of the japanese joseph grew who started on his diplomatic career early in life at tended harvard college and wash ington university his first impor tant diplomatic post was that of secretary to the consulate general in cairo egypt in 1904 he was charge d'affairs at the time of the break between this country and austria-hungary grew was present at the peace negotiations at versailles and was active in the preliminary planning of the league of nations among the countries that have seen his service as an american diplomat are germany turkey mexico switzerland france and england his ambassadorship to japan be gan in 1932 president williams has not re leased a definite commencement program but said the affair to be held in grace hall will be simple and consist of the customary awarding of diplomas and the an nouncement of prizes and awards bethlehem pa tuesday december 22 1942 students misinterpret play given by mustard & cheese vol l no 25 u s releases military plans for colleges facilities available to determine selection the military predictions of dean wray h congdon published in the last issue of the brown and white were formulated plans re cently released by the war and navy departments to the american council of education the man power commission has for the greater part accepted the plans and in the near future will send further orders for the purpose of clarification and amplification reliable sources seem to indicate that the plan for the utilization of college facilities for army and navy training will give serious consideration to the deferment of students who are prepared to take positions in critical industries the selection of the institutions to be used by the army and navy will be made on a contractural basis requirements for selection will de pend on facilities available at the present it is evident that the various reserves represented at lehigh will assume the status pre dicted by dean congdon last week meanwhile details of the entire plan are awaited from the man power commission which recently was given control over selective service and the allocation of men into various reserve branches although no major changes are expected in the university as a civilian institution additional in structions will be forthcoming at intervals after the manpower com mission's order arrives the in structions will deal with the de tailed execution of the order 1 out of 10 lehigh alumni in service important and serious lines and not in the slightest giving that neces sary support to the actors which means so much to making a play a success the play was a rather heavy war-drama based on the german occupation of norway it showed the grim determination of a free people to resist the totalitarian conquerors and it was also an at tempt to show that the germans still do have some human quali ties the voices sounded a little too immature and the actions of too many of the actors were not per fectly suited to their parts the mayor was for the most part convincingly played by ran dall c giddings arts 43 other parts played equally well were annie the maid by joyce heller the butler joseph by v warren milch i e 46 lieutenant tonder by dwight longley bus 43 and lieutenant prackle by f william bloecher e e 45 lowell judis bus 46 as the colonel showed some good acting ability but seem ed incorrectly cast john w bar rett arts 46 who played the part of captain loft also acted well but was perhaps a victim of mis casting the stage set was excellently done but the off-stage sound effects were not as well done as they might have been by far the first scene was the poorest the acting improved as the play went on but the audi ence had already gotten out of the actors control the last two scenes however began to appeal to the audience at least they received the fewest snickers town sections plan pre-exam meetings every town section chief will call a meeting of his section before exams to take care of all pending business including election of new officers if necessary it was de cided at a meeting of the town council held in drown hall last night anthony c fortosis bus 44 was appointed athletic manager of the council to fill a vacancy the next meeting of the council will be a dinner to be held jan 6 the new presidents are invited to at tend e e.'s receive gifts at christinas party presentation of gifts by santa claus richard r waer e e 43 to members of the electrical engi neering society was the highlight of the annual christmas party held last friday in lamberton hall the singing of christmas carols and the electrical engineer's song was under the direction of frank bower e e 43 president of the society records show that one out of ten lehigh alumni are with the armed services claimed leonard h schick 37 managing editor of the alumni bulletin who last fri day mailed 1,000 copies of the la test bi-weekly letter to alumni ser vice men i know there are many more in the service from whom we have not received word schick added we usually receive notification of enlistment or drafting from par ents friends or from the men themselves we answer every let ter we receive from them and make a special effort to inform them of all alumni details schick said that one-third of last friday's letter is devoted to activities of service men because that is the information requested most by those receiving the latter brown & white lehigh university by lloyd antonides an ill-mannered audience and acting that failed to convince were the causes of the not-too-good reception given the mustard and cheese production of the moon is down last saturday evening in broughal auditorium there were faults both in the actors and in the audience some of the actors did not seem mature and experienced enough to produce such a drama and the audience was poorly behaved laughing at many war may end fraternity life there is a great possibility that there will be no fraternities at lie high after may 1943 according to e kenneth smiley director of ad missions who spoke last night on housing at a special meeting of the interfraternity council in drown hall mr smiley stated that approxi mately 400 students will be taken out of school in january and feb ruary and that many more will go between february and may of next year there will very likely not be enough students to maintain the houses fraternities that have chapters on the campus will probably be used by the armed forces if the working of the university is taken over however the fraternities which are maintaining off-campus houses will be of no use to the ser vice and there is very little hope that they will be able to continue to function the general feeling is that every man that can possibly be of use and does not occupy an essential position with the armed forces or the university will be drafted a letter . . . to the editor of the brown and white in spite of many statements from various draft boards to the contrary i find in a proclamation recently received regarding the sixth registration that all members of the enlisted corps of the army the naval reserve corps and similar reserve corps who have not previously registered with their draft boards are not re quired to register because of erroneous information received from various draft boards i have in a few cases given students contrary advice i wish to correct this error and make this information gen erally available to our lehigh university students i will appre ciate your giving space to this announcement wray h congdon exams and graduation here is a simplified january schedule monday jan 4 classes re sume thursday jan 7 senior arts comprehensives begin and last through saturday jan 9 monday jan 11 final exams begin and last through satur day jan 16 monday jan 18 com mencement exercises thursday jan 28 registra tion for spring semester be gins