Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 14

              bethlehem pa tuesday november 18 1947 henry scott price — 5 cents scott famed concert pianist makes appearance wednesday pre-game rally features bonfire vol lvi — no 14 display deadline set james duff president of the interfraternity council has an nounced that judging of the fraternity house homecoming displays will take place thurs day night friday afternoon and friday night nov 20 and 21 in order that the judging can begin on time it is requested that all entrants be completed by 6:00 p.m thursday night any display not finished by that time must necessarily be dis qauified ifc also emphasizes the fact that the maximum amount to be spent on any display is 35 concert humorist plays at grace hall tomorrow night at 8:15 fraudulent history volumes displayed at the library 49ers name committees chairmen of three junior class administrative committees were named last week by richard fuehrer president of the class of 1949 the committee heads named are fred raiff housing gay lord g thomas refreshment and wil liam b eagleson publicity an entertainment committee has been appointed but as yet the chair man has not been named according to fuehrer these standing committees will serve throughout the year assisting the officers in planning and carrying out class activities plans are being made by the committees for a class party and smoker to be held in the near fu ture this will be the first junior class get-together since the party early last spring in addition to this party other social events which were dis cussed at the october class meet ing are being considered for the spring semester a special committee appointed by fuehrer is planning an unusual skit to be presented at the tradi tional pre-lafayette pep rally on friday evening va notifies all men on over-payment failure of repayment may bar re-entrance to training courses the veterans administration appeals to all students for notifi cation of any breaks or termina tions in training in order to pre vent overpayment of subsistence allotments any payments made to a trainee after he has discontinued his training must be returned to the government in some instances these overpayments have amount ed to several hundred dollars and their repayment has worked a considerable hardship on the vet erans involved veterans who fail to make ar rangements to repay overpayments may be refused re-entrance to schools or job-training courses under the gi bill announced the va adding that arrangements may be made for repayment in monthly installments thus reducing the hardship of repayment and qual ifying the veteran for further training since the payment of subsis tence to persons indebted to the government is prohibited any amount of overpayment would be deducted from unemployment or self-employment allowances for which the veteran might apply af ter leaving training in such cases the va said all arrangements for repayment will be made to avoid causing the veteran any hardship mr malesky va training offi cer at lehigh requests that all students terminating at lehigh for any reason at all inform him of their change as soon as pos sible advance notice is prefer able in all cases recently detected as one of the greatest frauds in the history of scholarship anywhere the horn papers a three volume history of eighteenth century pennsylvania are new on display in the univer sity library these volumes the product of william f horn were purchased by the university in april 1946 for the sum of 30 the first two books have since been exposed as complete frauds by a committee of eminent historians for this reason the horn papers are now collector's items supposedly based upon the horn family diaries the documents were presented 15 years ago in south sophs hold stag party more than 300 members of the class of 1950 attended a stag party on friday evening nov 14 at the hotel bethlehem and heard lee billy sheridan wrestling coach speak on sticking together as a class eric erikson president of the class welcomed the group and in troduced cy baldwin vice-presi dent lee mains treasurer and dom navarro secretary who was in pittsburgh for the game with carnegie tech a class banquet or picnic is be ing planned for next spring date is set for presenting m&c play rur a social satire deals with scientists on fantastic island the mustard and cheese pro duction r u r by karl capek will be presented dec 5 and 6 at broughal junior high school the play will be given in collaboration with moravian college for men and women the melodrama is a strong social satire dealing with a group of sci entists living on a fantastic island these men invent mechanical be ings lacking any feeling or soul after a time the scientists lose all control over the robots and these mechanical monsters destroy the world the play has great social impli cations especially at th.^s time al though written long before the in vention of the atomic bomb there is a definite analogy between the two man's mind must be brought up to meet the challenge of sci entific invention if man cannot meet this challenge the world may be destroyed the cast and the parts they will portray are domin howard ku cher 48 dr gall herbert trum poldt 49 ; mavius lloyd antonides 47 mr fabry john palmer 48 hallemeier john plumb 48 al quist donald oldroy 48 radius ford pray 50 primus eric rick ard 48 busman john jordan 49 sulla lois rabenold helena glory audree kirchman and edith mckinley nana nancy lynn and helena carol rickard robots will be portrayed by marcia pettit connie rooke becky wuchter marilyn richard son richard ash 51 george cal las 51 lestern coldren 48 don ald dennis 51 william garrett 51 james gill 51 john glenn 47 gowen hood 50 chris mara gakes 51 jesse mansell 51 rich ard noone 51 frederick raiff 51 charles reed 51 robert reehl 51 charles sandwick 50 paul schwab 47 john seagraves 48 robert swanson 51 boyd thistle 48 and alan yost 49 the leading male parts are filled by veteran mustard and cheese performers howard kucher who is president of the organization appeared previously as sir toby in twelfth night he also was seen as a sergeant in the pirates of penzance and he had a role in streets of new york herbert trumpoldt also appeared in those shows and lloyd antonides play ed in twelfth night the leading female role of he lena glory will be shared by audree kirchman and edith mc kinley who will perform on al ternate nights miss kirchman at tends moravian college and has played with the civic theatre and the drawing-room theatre in bethlehem edith mckinley wife of a veteran attending lehigh has acted with the little theatre in montreal canada she also played the lead in stage door and the rope at the drawing-room thea tre in bethlehem phi alpha theta initiates rev donnelly speaks at meeting the rev john donnelly ph.d chaplain and instructor at the university of pennsylvania ad dressed 65 student members of the newman club in the lounge of drown hall friday evening father donnelly is the regional chaplain of the newman clubs of the mid dle atlantic states speaking on the organization and procedures of newman clubs chaplain donnelly explained the group's purposes which are reli gious intellectual and social ad vancement john anthony 48 president introduced the speaker preliminary plans for a com munion breakfast to be held in december were made at the meet ing further discussion on the topic was scheduled for the next meeting which will be held on friday evening dec 5 at 7:30 p.m in the lounge of drown hall this was the second meeting of the newly-formed chapter which is a member of the national fed eration of newman clubs an or ganization for the roman catholic college students carry torches this year the pur pose of this measure is to elim inate any possibility of fire result ing from the parade also in the past few years the police have complained that students tiring of carrying their torches have dis posed of them simply by throwing them along the streets of beth lehem pajama parade to feature freshmen house displays will be judged by moravec bean leith luckett homecoming displays by frater nities a pep rally a bonfire and a pajama parade will be pre-game features on this year's lehigh homecoming weekend the display sponsored by the interfraternity council will fea ture exhibits erected by idividual fraternity houses at a maximum cost of thirty-five dollars the displays will be judged thursday night friday afternoon and fri day night they must be completed by six o'cloc thursday night any display not finished by that time will be disqualified judging will be based on theme amount of work required for the display and originality the judging will be done by a committee headed by colonel luckett of the military science department and composed of chaplain bean dean leith charles moravec public relations and prof fay c bartlett of the physical education department awards at half-time first prize for the display will be a 50 cash award a large lov ing cup which the winning house may keep for a year and a pla que to be kept permanently by the winner second prize will be a 25 cash award and a silver plaque awards will be made dur ing the half time intermission of the lehigh-lafayette game by james duff president of the inter fraternity council presidents of the winning houses will be noti fied on friday night in order that they will be sure to be on hand for the awards the pre-game pep rally will be gin at 7:30 friday night in grace hall a feature new to the rally this year will be a half hour joint broadcast of both lehigh's and lafayette's friday night activities by station west in easton the station will switch back and forth between the two schools to pick up the highlights of both rallies following the rally the band will lead a parade to the upper athletic field where freshmen will have piled up scrap wood and timber for a hundred foot bonfire on hand to measure the height of the fire will be a student surveyor from the c e department parade and bonfire lehigh's traditional pajama par ade will follow the bonfire the parade will go from the field to taylor avenue north on taylor to packer avenue it will continue east on packer to new street on which it will proceed across the lehigh river to broad street the pajama clad students will turn west on broad and march to main street there they will turn south and continue south to church street making short stops outside the hotel bethlehem and mora vian the parade will turn east on church street and return to the lehigh campus via new street due to requests from the bethle hem police department and new street bridge authorities those participating in the parade will not em pennsylvania by the aging mr horn who claimed that they were exact copies of the original diaries which had been destroyed the papers revealed a wealth of amazing new information about the topography and history of the state in its earliest days razor town and augusta town two lost cities were specifically men tioned a great indian massacre was also presented in detail although the people of pennsyl vania are not characteristically gullible in this instance they cer tainly bought the brooklyn bridge from historian horn everyone eagerly listened to his authorita tive descriptions of the early set tlements and battle grounds 20,090 spent on publishing seeing a golden opportunity the greene county historical society set about publishing the works**in a three volume set expending 20,000 and nine years of labor in the process when julian p boyd librarian of princeton university read a copy of the completed work for the purpose of reviewing it for the william and mary quarterly he suspected it as being partially fraudulent therefore he refused to write the review and recom mended that a committee investi gate the papers the examining committee was headed by solon j buck archivist of the united states and composed of a group of eminent historians including lehigh's dr lawrence h gibson research professor in history the historians called in chemists metallurgists and other scientists to aid in the investiga tion the group recently reported its findings the horn papers were historical frauds they found that mr horn had used paper bearing 19th century watermarks written with a metal pen and used phrases unknown in the eighteenth cen tury historian horn now a 77 year old carpenter in topeka kansas has remained strangely aloof from all of this commotion perhaps he does not care to review the es capades of his younger years at any rate his interest has dwin dled to the extent that he has no comment on the situation talk scheduled on wcau paul maleson 48 and alden cummins 47 two members of the delta omicron theta debate society will participate on the pro gram opinions please friday nov 21 in philadelphia over sta tion wcau the two lehigh stu dents will discuss the problem of the high cost of living with two students from temple univer sity opinions please is one of the programs in the columbia broad casting system's school of the air series it is presented every fri day from 5:00-5:30 p.m over a na tional hookup the program deals with prob lems in the field of current events and social science the topics cho sen for discussion cover a wide range some of them are national or international in scope while others concern problems that par ticularly interest or disturb young people the first portion of each program sets forth a problem of general interest in documentary form the students then discuss the issue involved and exchange their views seated left to right austin gabel 48 frederic salber 48 siro gutierrez instructor in spanish professor george peck james d mack assistant librarian standing left to right thomas belmont 48 alvord beardslee 50 morgan miller 48 clarence pearsall 48 robert mertz 48 frank tatem jr 48 frederick weston jr 48 edward tatter shall 48 allen phillips 48 arcadia requests names arcadia has requested that the names of officers and members of all student organizations be sub mitted to the arcadia office this they reminded is not only an aide to them in completing their files but also is a convenience to the groups historians initiate 14 phi alpha theta hears george w kyte speak fourteen men were initiated into phi alpha theta national honorary history fraternity at a special meeting held thursday evening in drown hall three of the group were members of the faculty and the rest were under graduates george w kyte assistant pro fessor of history was the main speaker of the evening he pointed out in his talk the social and academic advantages of member ship in an honorary history fra ternity officiating at the installa tion ceremony was donald b hoffman national secretary-trea.s user of the fraternity dr george t peck assistant professor of histcry siro gutier rez instructor in spanish and for merly of the history department of the university of puerto rico and james d mack assistant to the librarian were the faculty members who were installed two vacancies in the offices of the chapter were filled at the meeting joseph fruhwirth 48 was elected vice-president and professor peck was chosen as his torian the newly-elected undergrad uates were alvord beardslee 50 thomas belmont 48 austin ga bel 48 robert mertz 48 morgan miller 48 clarence pearsall 48 allen phillips 48 frederick sal ber 48 frank tatem jr 48 ed ward tattershall 48 and fred erick weston jr 48 candidates for membership in the honorary fraternity must have had a minimum of 12 hours in history courses having maintained a better than b average and re ceived at least an average of b in two-thirds of the remaining sub jects a vital interest in history is also a paramount qualification popular humorist here through scl his theory on humor revolutionizes music lovers prejudices henry l scott popular pianist and humorist will give a perfor mance at 8:15 wednesday night at grace hall tickets may be pur chased at the door and will cost 60 cents for dates and 1.20 for faculty members the gifted young man who has been dubbed the will rogers of the piano by music lovers sees a need for humor in the music of today in the spring of 1945 scott had proposed to give another of his humorous concerts in carne gie hall when a prominent con cert manager accosted him and of fered the statement that music levers are basically humorless peo ple they expect their concerts to be solemn affairs and will resent anyone who has fun with music no matter how artistically it may be done mr scott on the other hand has a great faifri in the openminded ness and sense of humor of amer ican audiences as he is a concert pianist himself and having a thor ough knowledge and appreciation of fine music he believed that pa trons and makers of music were also capable of laughing at them selves he played at carnegie hall on october 5 1945 before a pack ed house that included artists mu sicologists and critics the result was an uproarious evening — and a 50,000 guarantee from three man agers for his first full year to be booked as america's first con cert humorist among national publications to recognize this highly original style of art and entertainment combined were colliers feature story by kyle crichton life and who's who in america drama humor music scott believes that blending the arts of drama humor and music on the concert stage will in the long run do the most to make america music conscious concert humor is based on the premise that humor has a place in the con cert hall just as much as in opera in literature and in the plastic arts paradoxically scott is very ser ious about humor to project it artistically one must strive to un derstand the whole illusive and intangible realm of humor he contends he also practices what he preaches in his recitals where he ranges from pantomine to the spoken word from subtle satire to broad and riotous forms he writes and arranges all his own material scott started playing piano at an early age at his boyhood home in new york state piano studies occupied much of his time throughout his early school days and later at the college of fine arts at syracuse university establishes speed record in 1938 he established a world speed and accuracy record at aeo lian hall in new york where he played 44 two-third notes per second time magazine in report ing the event said famed al ways as a fast pianist was ignace jan paderewski in the fastest section of the hungarian rhap sody paderewski played 158 notes in 6 seconds or 26 notes a second henry scott managed to outspeed the great pole by one and one half seconds henry l scott at taches no great importance to this amazing record of technical achievement other than it gives him a greater opportunity to achieve his goal of reawakening the spirit of the composers whose works he playe.s scott has the added distinction in addition to his piano virtuos ity of being considered an author ity on swing music while his mu sical training was almost entirely classical scott has mastered all the forms of music that have be come popular in recent years he is equally at home running thru bach is he is taking a hot lick on a new orleans number brown and white chick henzelman business manager of the 1947 epitome announced that anyone other than 1947 seniors who have paid for the book but not re ceived it should call him at 6-6046 don't forget the pep rally friday night the rally starts at 7:30 wih a parade beginning at the alpha tau omega fra ternity house on campus and marching down to grace hall