Brown and White Vol. 51 no. 30

              price 5 cents bethlehem pa wednesday march 1 1944 vol li no 30 col easterday head of post colonel george w easterday of the third service command headquarters has been appointed professor of military science and tactics at lehigh university re placing colonel james n caper ton colonel easterday assumed rrs new post feb 21 a regular army officer since 1910 colonel easterday has served on corregidor in the philippines and in panama in addition to his overseas assignments he has s?rved as personnel director in charge of all service commands military and civil in pennsylvania maryland and virginia prior to this assignment he was stationed in detroit for three years as di rector of training for the michi gan organized reserves the red cross mobile blood unit will be at the masonic tem ple from march 14-18 registration dates are given be low wednesday march 1 10 a m to 6 p m bethlehem steel company thursday march 2 10 a m to 6 p m bethlehem steel company friday march 3 10 a m to 6 p m bethlehem steel com pany saturday march 4 9 a m to 6 p m bush and bull store monday march 6 9 a m to 6 p m south side post of fice tuesday march 7 9 a m to 6 p m north side post office wednesday march 8 9 a m to 3 p m union bank thursday march 9 9 a m to 3 p m first national bank thursday march 9 4 p m to 9 p m hotel bethlehem red cross blood unit to be at masonic temple civilian students enrolled at lehigh for the spring semester are approximately 120 fewer than were in school for the winter term according to figures released from the office of the registrar although registration will re main open until march 4 very few are expected to enroll after this week and registration is not expected to exceed the 330 stu dents now attending classes last semester there were 457 civilians at lehigh the drop of 127 is not as severe as some had predicted only four had regis tered for graduate courses at the close of business on wednesday but enrollment in the graduate graduate school usually lags be hind that of the undergraduates and this figure is expected to rise before registration closes special courses in writing and speech are being offered by the department of english in late af ternoon and evening classes so far the interest in these courses has been encouraging the depart ment reports courses are available in visual aids school administration super vision vocational guidance and individual research for school teachers who are interested in continuing work for permanent certification and master's degree in education graduate courses are also avail able in biology english chemis try electrical engineering me chanical engineering metallurgic al engineering geology psycholo gy and mathematics 330 civilians register for spring term fritz lab pioneers process used on douglas contracts by robert mayer unknown to most lehigh men fritz engineering lab has just com pleted over a year's work as a factory for airplane parts which were used by the douglas aircraft company with acting director robert mains at the helm fritz lab became the first testing laboratory in the united states to turn its faciliies to actual manufacturing under a sub-contract from a regular industrial concern a practice which has since been adopted by many of the dean selects 81 students country's largest testing organiza tions in the spring of 1942 the sum merill tubing company of bridge port pa found itself snowed under by the huge demand of douglas aircraft for certain air plane parts notably landing gears that could be made from hollow tubes and turned to mains and fritz lab for help the idea was to utilize the huge 900,000 pound testing press to taper tubes by forcing them through a die previously the tubes had been tapered by the usual lathing methods which en tailed a rather large waste of ma terial main was very skeptical about the chances for success but on july 1 production was begun within a few weeks mains dis covered that the process not only worked but that it was far more efficient than the old method as it saved 22 of the vital steel used a saving that eventually amounted to 1,000,000 pounds besides leading gears for some of the larger douglas planes work on four other types of parts was done on the campus often the need for the parts was so urgent that they were rushed to the douglas plant by air express and were added just as the plane rolled off the assembly line the tubes which are rapidly replacing solid bars in many types of manufacturing are sent to fritz lab while still having a uni form diameter are tapered in three steps and then sent back to the summerill plant for heat treatment at first the method was applicable only to large tubes but later was refined so that thin ner tubes could also be tapered for over a year fritz lab ran full blast on three 8-hour shifts per day using both student and faculty help and raised summer ill's production level almost 600 at last the demand for parts out grew fritz lab facilities and after the summerill plant built a tap ering unit that worked on the same principle as the testing press and which mains helped to design production in the campus war plant was stopped on the first of february 90 men were eligible now there are 170 according to the quota story in the last issue of the brown and white there were about 90 stu dents eligible while the figure stated in the dean's recent com munication was 170 at the time not all students had returned questionaires sent out by the dean as to their intention to return this semester and it was assumed that these students did not expect to return in accordance with the recent ruling of the war manpower commission allowing a quota of 81 2 a deferments dean congdon recently notified all students con cerning their status after this new ruling goes into effect march 1 the 81 men who have been se lected for deferment were selected from a possible 170 eligibles ac cording to the following policy 1 no student was recommended who was on scholastic probation 2 no students could be recom mended who intended to with draw from the university before graduation 3 no student could be recommended who intended to volunteer for enlistment before his graduation or who was al ready enlisted as a reserve or otherwise in some branch of the armed forces 4 no student could be recommended who did not meet all requirements of ac tivity and occupational bulletin no 33-6 including such stipula tions as that he will graduate within 24 months of the date of certification that he is a full-time student and that he is in good scholastic standing each student was assigned an index number composed of his scholastic average plus the num continued on page 6 art gallery shows oils and gouaches the university art gallery has on display an exhibition of oils and gouaches opaque water-col ors the display which closes march 2 was loaned to the gallery through the courtesy of the mor timer brandt gallery new york dealers the oils are by francis chapin and cameron booth while the gouaches are by john haley and everett mcnear a gouache is painted in opaque water-color while the ordinary water color is transparent lehigh receives plea for officers a plea for more educated men was received by lehigh univer sity from the office of naval of ficer procurement in the widener | building at philadelphia the i statement reads as follows i in these days of the greatest : naval activity in the history of i our country we are looking for i ward to the universities and col ! leges of america to assist in pro viding us with officers stated i captain t t patterson usn i ret director of naval officer procurement of the fourth naval i district recently to be sure j many offered their services to us i but there are many billets yet to < be filled i speak particularly of 1 our need for officers for central 1 sea duty ■ in this field the navy recognizes ' the value of higher education it is required that the applicant pos j sess a degree from an accredited ' college or in lieu thereof have had at least 2 years of college , work with 5 years of business or professional experience such a background enables the officer to assimilate his navy training pro gram futhermore he must be between the ages of 19 and 35 and meet navy physical requirements including minimum visual acuity of 15/20 with glasses knowledge of ships and the sea is not a requi site there has been confusion with regard to the rules governing pro curement of naval officers con trary to a general impression men may be commissioned in the naval reserve directly from civil ian life thereafter they are ade quately trained and then assigned to one of a variety of duties whereupon they will be commis sioned ensigns or lieutenants jun ior grade . men who are interested in mak ing inquiry or application for a commission as a general sea duty officer are urged to call at the office of naval officer pro curement widener building 17th floor philadelphia ] a native of washington d c colonel easterday is a graduate of georgetown university where he received his degree in electrical engineering here he was active in all sports particulary football baseball and wrestling after continued on page 4 o pollock speaks at graduation charming pollock litt.d world renowned dramatist and author spoke on the significance of a planned economy on the college graduate at lehigh's mid-year graduation services held in the packer memorial church on sun day february 20 1944 certificates of candidacy for commissions in the officers re serve corps were awarded by the president of the university to each of the candidates who was pre sented by the professor of military science and tactics dean tomlinson fort presented an m.a to c e hightower m.s.'s were presented to d a harris and also to w b agocs there were sixteen b.a.s granted to men in the college of arts and science by dean p m palmer dean neil carothers awarded four continued on page 6 o b & w positions are still unfilled staffs on the editorial and busi ness staffs of the brown and white are still open according to lee greenbaum editor both freshmen and upperclassmen may sign up an time this week at the journalism office basement of drown hall appointments for important edi torial positions will be made this week although last semester's staff will edit this first issue training on the brown and white is considered important backgrounding for work on the epitome yearbook all students registering for brown and white receive an hour's credit for their work providing they pass the course regular classes are held in the editorial news-writing and ihotographic sections a-12 v-12 tests given here lehigh university will partici pate in the third nationwide test for candidates for the army's ast and the navy's v-12 programs wednesday march 15 9 until 12 o'clock in room 466 packard lab according to dean wray h congdon the qualifying tests are for those lehigh students who want to qualify as army or navy re servists lehigh students taking the v-12 or army tests must be 17 years old and not 21 by july 1 1944 application forms for the test can be secured from dean cong don's office before march 8 the qualifying tests students accepted on the basis of the test will probably be called into reserve corps at the end of the semester in which they take students who took either the april 2 or nov 9 tests and failed to qualify are not barred from taking the march 15 tests stu dents are not obligated to enter either of the army or navy re servist groups just because they take the tests students whose grades are in the lower half of their classes are considered poor material for reservist-status brown and white lehigh university attention faculty how about co-eds this week's b & w editorial takes up the question of co-educa tion we believe that lehigh should go co-ed as soon as possible you can find our reasons on page 2 we want to know what you think each of you — all of you all lehigh faculty members will receive a poll-blank through the cam pus mail this week we are asking you to cooperate with us and send us your opinion by this saturday please don't fail us signed comment from students in addition to the faculty poll is welcome don't lean on past answers think through this problem