Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 15

              in mr norwood the writers for the magazine have a talented and experienced mentor in crea tive writing to aid them similarly professor wynn in makeup and layout and mr tal bert in the business aspects of the magazine have promised their expert assistance new constitution finally as promising a group of capable students to contribute to all phases of the magazine's suc cess is available as any student magazine has ever had the course has been clearly charted the decks are cleared and the posts are manned for a suc cessful trip bon voyage the goblet has been reorgan ized around a new constitution one innovation is the creation of a four-man executive committee with top authority for making any decisions this was formerly the capacity of the editor-in-chief who was solely responsible for all policies another new feature of the mag azine's organization is expert ad vice by professionally experienced men on the business staff and in makeup prof c wilton wynn head of the department of journalism will give instruction in makeup and mr samuel s talbert instructor in journalism will advise the bus iness staff we pay no toll tonight those now traditional words will again ring out over bethlehem to night as the lehigh men parade about the town and then return en masse to the campus via the new street bridge tonight's parade will start at the alpha tau omega house and pro ceed down to grace hall at 7:00 there will be a rally at grace hall with special speakers and cheers after the rally the men will all proceed to the upper field where the frosh will build the traditional bonfire from there with the frosh in pajamas the sons of lehigh will proceed to parade through the town school spirit to come it is hoped that this weekend will start a new era of lehigh spirit not a spirit forced into an antagonized student body nor a spirit kindled by the threat of los ing a football bet the spirit must be sincere and deeply imbedded in the hearts the spirit which built the traditions at harvard and yale were never stronger than it is at lehigh this is also homecoming week end the alumni have returned in the good old lehigh tradition and expect to find the same spirited lehigh they left on graduation day but the student body has never regained their spirit vim and vi gor of pre-war days this year though it has made a substantial step in the right direc tion the alumni have pledged their support to a better and stronger lehigh the football team has shown the fight and drive that our teams of the past few years have lacked and on the morrow when they face the lafayette leopards they'll be far from the decisive underdog which they have been in years gone by we the student body can do our part in making the future of le high brighter than it has ever been let's rock old south moun tain to the very core with the greatest display of school spirit that lehigh has ever known let's show our gallant football team we are 100 per cent behind them and let's show our faithful alumni that we too are anxious to return in future years to a proud and exalt ed alma mater arbitration in industry debate topic glazebrook stresses need for compulsory settling of disputes delta omicron theta debated against pennsylvania state college in the second intercollegiate match of the semester the topic was resolved that labor disputes in basic industries n.ust be arbitrat ed there was no decision ren dered by request of state lehigh took the affirmative side of the question and the opposition up held the negative jim glazebrook 50 stressed the need for arbitration in all private industries he maintained that compulsory arbitration is neces ary to safeguard our industrial system and declared that strikes and shut-downs should not be permitted to stifle the privilege of private industry he added that a policy of collective bargaining of ten leads to situations where might makes right state refutes edward abernathy of perm state then stated that compulsory arbitration cannot agree with our principles of freedom it is un constitutional on the basis of the fourteenth amendment he said certain issues are too import ant to be arbitrated and any board appointed to arbitrate would be biased in favor of management one could not enforce decisions equally the employers would have to comply but it would be impossible to force the laborers to work abernathy also said that there is no need for compulsory arbitration at this time since there has not been a major strike in this country for six months collective bargaining ineffective john attaway 48 speaking for lehigh avowed that collective bar gaining has proved ineffective as it did not accomplish anything in the big strike years of 1938 1941 1944 and 1945 the proposed arbitra tion board would consist of repre sentatives of management labor and the outside public he insisted that although the taft-hartley act made it difficult to strike compulsory arbitration would eliminate srtikes attaway stated also that if we cannot arbitrate successfully at home we can not expect to be respected when we arbitrate with foreign nations jack sigler speaking for the negative declared that we cannot do away with strikes in the uni ted states and remain free arbi tration is against the principles of the united states because it will fix wages profits and prices he declared sigler also stressed the fact that the taft-hartley act makes arbitration of a compulsory nature unnecessary because it frees labor from the union bosses and it puts an end to jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts fayette banner hung across the quadrangle there a flaunting chal lenge and perfect target for mar auding leopards a few unfortun ate freshmen had been detailed to guard it nothing happened until a little after 3 a.m then cars packed with lafayette men converged on tay lor hall from all approaches at tempts by harry clase veteran campus policeman to stop the in flux was fruitless as he stopped one car he left the way open for dozens of others from 150 to 300 invaders surged toward taylor hall and the banner the taylor dwellers who had foolishly tied up the frosh guards who had been crying wolf were caught napping the banner was almost captured in the first rush fire hoses as weapons a fierce battle occured in the quad and the dorm men fell back to the sections under cover of streams from fire extinguishers and hoses hoses burst and flooded rooms fire extinguishers were ex hausted and thrown down upon the crowd rocks and bricks began to fly the sons of the marquis scaled the walls and captured the banner and after a sporadic effort to enter taylor hall escaped before the cops came lehigh men struck back with a vengeance at one in the morning forty five vehicles left the campus bound for easton laden with an estimated 200 avengers police on the alert did their best but their best was not eonugh twenty seven men were captured but the main group made it battle at lafayette they reached lafayette at around 1:30 and a pitched battle ensued near the statue of the mar quis de lafayette the famed sword was captured that night as well as a small cannon wrested from a monument police arrived and made arrest after arrest — the patrol wagons operating on a shuttle basis be tween the jail and the battle field were loaded so full that the fen ders rested on the wheels the stu dents fought on police dodge eggs some of the men turned their actions against the police themsel ves a lehigh group armed with 60 dozen eggs opened a hot fire on the gendarmarie and their vehicles two fire trucks arrived and fi nally by threatening to use tear gas bombs the police broke up the party the combatants went back home or to hospitals and peace fell again on the two campuses it's not like it was in the lusty wild good old days and maybe it is better certainly it's more civil ized and the fighting spirit is still there — it simply is expressed dif ferently when the teams crash together in tomorrow's game there will be all the fighting spirit of any stu dent riot or unlawful outbreak and lehigh fighting hard again may skin the leopards by tom harris the lehigh-lafayette rivalry started so far back and so gradu ally that nobody rightly knows just what began the feuding neverthe less about any old grad you run into can verify the fact that there certainly has been a rivalry in the senior class book of 1898 are recorded the sombre words of warning one senior wished to hand down to the doughty men to come seniors were asked for words of advice in that volume and the weighty words of this individual were keep away from allentown and easton good old days this was good advice for in those days — the good old days — the culture around the two neigh bors of bethlehem was distinctly of the tough or hardy variety in recent years there have been a few cases of shaved heads in the good old days there were quite a few cases of broken heads in spite of this enthusiams for travel ran high among the stu dents of the two colleges we sus pect that the desire to visit each other was not strictly motivated by friendship but the men were cer tainly eager hell trains before the days of the ford car stutz bearcats and other modern conveyances special trains were chartered for the bethlehem-eas ton runs jam-packed with rowdy students these trains were known in some circles as hell trains and were probably something of a headache to the conductors and other well-meaning officials a riotous session of parades in flammatory speeches and other hostile demonstrations on the la fayette campus occupied the time of the visitors the visit was us ually repaid in kind by the leop ards a day or so later non student expelled non-students sometimes mixed in things just for the fun of it there is a story about one town citizen who was given a long lec ture on deportment by the dean of undergraduates this joker is probably the only man to be ex pelled from lehigh without having been enrolled there roughness and bad feeling grad ually died to a low flicker as cam pus leaders from both schools got together in peace parleys under the auspices of the respective ad ministrations the mellowing in fluence of passing time seems to have matured the schools but there was one great flare up in 1933 there was a student riot after which fifty six students were suspended and two were expelled which is probably a record goal posts stolen the violence was touched off in the tense atmosphere preceding the yearly football game lafayette men had broken into taylor stadi um the week before and stolen both goal posts and there had been other skirmishes raids and fights nucleus of jittery lehigh nerves was taylor hall a huge beat la debate at b&w studios by al yost henry scott appearing as the hilarious virtuoso of the piano grimaced and clowned his way through a two hour program in grace hall wednesday night be fore an estimated crowd of 2500 the comic pianist presented by the students concerts-lectures committee brought tears of laugh ter to the faces of many of his howling clapping shouting audi ence with his foolish antics his joking and ad-libbing and his fa cial expressions mr scott gives his reason for the humorous concert by saying i am trying to bring the opera form of drama humor and music to the concert stage a pioneer in this field mr scott has fought against a great many people who think concerts serious affairs and like their music straight i get a big kick out of my work says mr scott and i es pecially like to play for college au diences they're wonderful this audience at lehigh has been par ticularly responsive he added i would like to return if i may quips to audience mr scott began his keyboard capers with impressions of vin cent lopez eddie duchin and frankie carle the impression of carle replaced that appearing on the audience individually or collectively was never safe from his wise-cracks to a group of late-comers he quipped did you people have a late supper we're glad you're here but we're not go ing to start over and to one young lady who was having diffi culty controlling her mirth par don me but are you catching croup by any chance arcadia appoints eleven committees appointment of 11 student-fa culty committees to assist in stu dent government has been made by arcadia the student council committees include student ac tivities — robert saydah chairman george horneck richard bodine student elections — james schwab chairman john sansone william diehl student finance — george horneck chairman robert mertz richard stevick also student discipline — charles boig chairman student publica tions — peter eagleson chairman albert mccauley and george sta ples alumni contact committee — charles boig chairman bruno de paoli valerio hunt walter mor ton and herbert christiansen also drown hall house commit tee — victor i frager chairman tom belmont committee on ath letic awards — walter senskowski committee on appointments of cap tains and managers — walter mor ton jr class committee — herbert christiansen edward tattershall and kenneth ferree and fresh man committee — irvin huber tc plans new group system hillbilly orchestra will be featured as well as regular dancing to the best recordings by name bands charles jensen read a report concerning the town council's part in the lafayette pep rally stress ing the responsibility of each in dividual for his actions previous to the game seniors to take inspection trips six instructors and 120 mechani cal and industrial engineering sen iors will start a three day inspec tion trip based in new york city at 7:30 a.m monday nov 24 the group which will stay at the ho tel new yorker will be in new york on nov 24 25 and 26 it will travel in four chartered buses and will return to lehigh wed nesday evening trenton n j will be the first stop of the trip to inspect the gen eral motor plans they will eat lunch at the general motors plant in the afternoon they will see the westinghouse lamp works also in trenton which produces 800,000 light bulbs per day linden n j where the general motors assembly plant will be vis ited is the next stop from lin den the group will go to new york city where it will inspect the tel evision facilities of the national broadcasting corporation they will also see a television broad cast on tuesday morning the en gineers will inspect the hotel new yorker during this inspection they will see all of the facilities of the hotel following this tour they will go to the american can company in brooklyn for lunch after lunch they will see the pro duction cf many types of tin cans two plants of the general foods corporation will be hosts of the group on wednesday morning these plants are the franklin ba ker division hoboken which packages many general foods products and the maxwell-house sanka plant where coffee is pre pared following lunch in the cafeteria of the generating plant of the pub lic service electric and gas com pany of new jersey the group will split up and visit three power stations the hoboken yards of bethlehem steel corporation's ship building division will then be in spected form ticket committee a committee to investigate the football ticket situation for occasions like tomorrow's la fayette game is being appointed by arcadia this week the committee will welcome all suggestions and plans from the student body to remedy the situation student letters and recommendations should be ad dressed to the arcadia office drown hall the program as teddy wilson for the benefit of those watching their programs i've made this change to cross you up stated the pian ist following the impressions mr scott played the juba dance by nathaniel dett then before play ing the second hungarian rhap sody by lizst he remarked bland ly you will notice that during this next number my fingers never leave my hands parodies concert artist part ii of the concert commenc ed with an imitation of a great concert pianist arranged by scott for this number he donned a stringy red wig placed his right leg upon the piano and stropped his hand on his calf after the man ner of a barber stropping a razor then he burlesqued his way through the piece tying his hands into knots stopping to glare at a photographer who had turned his back to the pianist and walked away the buffoonery continued with a complete course in counter point mr scott explained that counterpoint was invented by bach in order to cut down his practice time by playing three or four pieces at the same time bach said scott wasn't willing to play swanee river with a swing bass after a comparatively straight rendition of kitten on the keys mr scott left the piano to give his impression of a boy asking a girl to dance at three different stages of his life first a youngster at his first dance then at high school age and finally as a sofistocoated le high man this routine completely broke down whatever reserve was left in the audience plays with mittens the humorist imitated a boy sewing on a button and brought gales of laughter from the specta tors he told of the little boy ge nius that is to be found in nearly every household he described the of his music pupils one number entitled chopin in the citrus belt he played holding an orange and later a grapefruit in his right hand dropping the fruit on the keys always hitting the correct notes mr scott concluded his concert by putting on a pair of mittens while playing the piano he re turned for three encores demand ed by the audience several mem bers of the audience cried out for hopin's polonnaise when he asked for requests said scott i don't have the sheet music for that num ber but if it is in the piano bench i will play it it was much to his surprise real or feigned so he kept his promise and played it glee club to give memorial concert the lehigh university glee club many of whose members are veterans of world war 11 will present a concert at 7:30 pjn sun day november 23 in the park theater lehighton for the benefit of the gnaden huetten memorial hospital to be erected in lehighton in honor of war dead a special memorial hymn in their honor will be presented by the glee club and preceding the hymn a prayer will be offered by a lehighton chaplain the glee club will also sing hail to lrehigh kinsey-van vleck),"come to the fair mar tin , swabian folk song brahms the drum drink to me only with thine eyes and grieg's brothers sing on a group of negro spirituals were you there meetin here to night dry bones eight bells away to rio whippenpoof song and a group of lehigh songs hoorah ray campus dreams swope cheer for al ma mater staab and alma mater gibson additional features will include turkey in the straw by a flute quartet composed of robert l bovaird jr blackburn w hazle hurst lewis k hosfeld and theo dore a shook and grandfather's clock and old king cole by the octet jules bluestone 47 frank brenner 48 richard norris 49 and dick levine 49 debated the subject resolved there should be a federal world government photo by scheller at a regular meeting of the town council in drown hall last tuesday plans were being dis cussed for organizing the town council members into small groups of about 40 members each with group leaders to represent them this plan was used several years ago but in the postwar period it was not revived a committee was named with bill brennan 48 as chairman to plan the grouping of the town men and to arrange for election of group leaders john roche editor of the town crier announced a meet ing of all men interested in work ing on the crier at 4:15 p.m friday nov 25th in the town room in drown hall charles jen sen 48 gave details of plans for the barn dance to be held in drown hall on saturday dec 13 admission will be free to all t.c members and square dancing to a vol lvi — no 15 bethlehem pa friday november 21 1947 the dmvn patrol price s cents rally fire parade spirit returns to south mountain fights raids and skirmishes in lehigh - lafayette rivalry engineers and leopards battled it out yearly with weapons ranging from fire hoses to bricks photo by scheller scenes such as this make lehigh frosh wonder if the vigil is worth it see zachariah page 4 scott clowns and grimaces to delight of large crowd goblet okayed as university publication dean congdon issues statement of optimism concerning magazine brown and white the goblet student magazine has been approved for publication the university board of publica tions has announced dean congdon chairman of the board issued the following mes sage of goodwill no student magazine on the campus has ever started out un red more propitious cirmucstances than the rejuvenated goblet each of the last three magazines has started out under a cloud which for the goblet has been dissipated by the strong light of investigation and restudy of the purposes a stu dent magazine can properly serve 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 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