Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 44

              price — 5 cents urge senior registration men who intend to graduate in february 49 are requested to report to the placement bu reau administration building to fill out senior record cards all forms must be filled out be fore the end of the current semester according to e robins morgan director of the bureau this registration is important to men who intend to use the service and is also important to those seniors who do not as it forms part of the man's record at lehigh b&w foto by antas though not a third party dick kelsey with a band and me gaphone was making as much noise as one in his pre-election campaigning last tuesday nite kelsey is a member of delta tau delta and most of us have a slight recollection of his contribution to the wrestling team earlier this year most enthhsiastic of all election campaign ends senior class holds meeting applications for degree must be filed by may 15 several important announce ments were made at the senior class meeting held wednesday may 5 in packard auditorium the meeting was presided over by gene sowers president of the class plaque assessment baccalaureate and commence ment tickets will be distributed to each man on identification in the arcadia office on monday and tuesday may 10 and 11 each man must pick up his own ticket ed mcclure announced that rehear sal for baccalaureate services will be held in packard auditorium thursday may 27 at 10:00 a.m the class voted to assess each member of the june and october groups 2.00 to cover the cost of a plaque to be erected in the chapel the collection date and place will be announced the deadline for measurement of caps and gowns is may 15 in the supply bureau a fourteen dollar cash deposit will be required when the caps and gowns are picked up dick bodine and al farans were named co-agents to keep the mem bers of the class in touch with one another following graduation the date of the class farewell party was set for june 11 at 8:00 pm in the colonnade it was revealed that the epitome will be distributed late this year due to printing troubles petitions due may 12 plans set for pictures of candidates for posts l.u students elect officers may 19th 20th class officer elections for the classes of 49 50 and 51 will be held this coming may 19 and 20 ballot boxes will be stationed at various points around the campus as they were in the arcadia elec tions all candidates for class offices will obtain their petitions at the arcadia office and will have them returned there by may 12 each petition must have twenty-five signatures and the names of the office and class also a candidate must not have been on probation the preceeding semester on may 12 there will be a meet ing at 4 15 pan in the arcadia room at that time there will be a group picture taken at no cost to the candidates to be entered in the friday brown and white plans also will be then arranged for in dividual pictures at the cost of one dolar each to be entered in the tuesday issue also at that meet ing instruction will be given to the candidates for their campaign advertising as prescribed by the administration poster rules set posters may be put up around the campus provided they are re coved before the second day after the elections the arcadia candi dates are reminded to take down their posters and not abuse the privilege or the class officer candi dates will have to confine their campaign posters to bulletin boards many poll clerks will be needed to attend to the ballot boxes a rate of fifty cents an hour will be paid all men who are interested are urged to apply at the arcadia office early with a list of free hours so that a schedule can be filled out team naming contest judges announced prize fund contributed by inter-frat council b&w totals 100 the promotion committee con ducting the lehigh nickname con test announces the final naming of judges for the selection of the prize-winning nickname which wouia be used in addition or in preference to the engineers in addition to general percy l sadler athletic department head and mr charles moravec univer sity news editor the committee will consist of a faculty member and a student representative from each of the three colleges representing the college of arts and sciences will be prof allan barthold head of the romance languages department and george b horneck june 49 dr r d billinger professor of chem istry and richard bodine june 48 will represent the college of engineering and dr jesse burk head professor of economics and victor frager feb 49 will repre sent the business college all stu dent representatives are arcadia appointees 100 in prizes the prize fund now totals 100 fifty dollars of which was con tributed by brown and white and fifty dollars by the lehigh inter fraternity council other con tributions are expected although definite amounts of prizes have not been determined as yet the grand prize will total at least seventy five dollars the contest is open to all lehigh students faculty and alumni name entries can be placed in boxes placed in the library the supply bureau and in the arcadia office or they can be mailed to the brown and white promotion de partment the deadline for all contest entries has been extended from may 12 to may 16 the promotion committee urges all in the lehigh family to participate in the contest the honor of contributing the chosen name and sum of money more attractive than a monthly v.a subsistence check will go to the winner election day wednesday put an end to the most ambitious cam paigning witnessed at lehigh since pre-war days late last week posters blossom ed out on campus trees and tele phone poles and the flood con tinued until the high water mark was reached tuesday afternoon a few choice samples were a white shirt fluttering from a tree limb near the library advertising that so-and-so would willingly give the student the shirt off his back and campaign stickers pasted on each and every milk container which crossed the lamberton hall ser ving counter wednesday morning bob swanson employed new york return-of-the-hero tactics at tracting crowds to his entourage as he made his way across the campus perched high in the rear seat of a touring car and punc tuating his speeches by bowing and removing his ten-gallon hat the climax of the campaigning came late tuesday night when a band torchlight procession and auto headlights heralded the ad vent of dick kelsey at each living group on campus his enthusiastic platform of unlimited cuts a bet ter break for the athletics and the cleaning up of lamberton hall was greeted by cheers cat-calls and over-ripe fruit from support ers and members of the opposition respectively observers and poll officials re marked that the turnout of voters seemed greater than that of last year or any year prior to the war lasasso brennan mould morton kelsey case head segraves erikson hunt fulleylove keene musser and swanson charles w nicholls was elected a surplus of all votes runnersup to arcadia on the first count with were george a lasasso william brennan and richard a mould in that order the final vote re vealed that eight fraternity five dormitory and two town men were was completed in two and one chosen the counting of the ballots half hours much less time than was required last year a large turnout of 1656 voters went to the polls on wednesday and thursday each candidate therefore needed 103 votes to be elected the balloting was much closer than the last election when three candidates were declared winners after the first count the students approved joining the nsa the vote on this issue was very 10 though with 654 of the voters refraining from voting approving votes numbered 612 while 390 opposed the excellent campaigning was a key factor in bringing out the vote on tuesday night dick kel and frats on the upper campus sey led a parade past the dorms bob swanson also conducted a large scale campaign fitting an automobile with a loudspeaker he also put the noble statues adorning the main entrance to packard lab to work holding up posters john segraves passed out cigars prac tically all of the other candidates advertised with posters and ban ners the newly elected members of arcadia will meet next wednes day using the pr system they will then elect officers for the coming year in choosing many of the voters failed to make enough choices and therefore their ballots became exhausted early several other bal lots were incorrectly marked the affidavits are being checked against lists from the registrar's office and so far there are no cases of dishonesty phi eta sigma to dine phi eta sigma will hold its semester banquet at 6:30 p.m in st marks evangelical lutheran chur ch at 118 west fourth street on tuesday may 11 dr william a aiken professor of history will speak on aspects of an ideologi cal conflict soviet russia versus the western world the banquet will be free to initiates but 1.00 will be charged to regular members not 1.50 as previously announced reserva tions must be made immediately with jim fulleylove 458 center st 6-6321 at 5:30 p.m on the same day the initiation of all new members will take place in the arcadia room of drown hall all phi eta sigmas who have not yet attained senior status are cordially invited to at tend both events for further in formation contact bob courtney at 6-4702 political club plans trip adopts name on tuesday afternoon may 4 members of the proposed political science club held their second con stitutional meetings in coppee hall a report was submitted to the committee that was assigned the task of drawing up a constitution the committee recommended that the club be named the political science assembly because of the unique nature of the organization the club is to be constructed like a legislative assembly and will carry on its business and political debate by means of parliamentary procedure under the plan resolu tions will be offered and adopted in the same manner as in any official legislative body the political science assembly included in its plans the sending of a lehigh delegation to the inter collegiate conference on govern ment which is held each year the psa is basing its organization on the experience that its members acquired at the philadelphia con vention this year sleepy-time beau coal conferees hear address by fuel chief anthracite conference opens with discussion of national reserves stating that the anthracite in dustry is in a good position to con tribute much to city smoke-abate ment efforts j f barkley chief of the fuels utilization branch of the bureau of mines addressed the delegates of the opening session of the sixth annual anthracite con ference at lehigh university yes terday he was one of six speakers who presented technical papers be fore over 300 delegates in packard auditorium wartime tests undertaken by the bureau of mines showed that less smoke was always produced when anthracite was added to bitumin ous barkley said paper on future reserve future supplies of principal fuels in competition with anthra cite was the title of the paper presented to the convention by j a corgan chief of the anthracite and coke section of the united states bureau of mines in his talk he stated at the current rates of production our coal reserves will last over 2,000 years coal reserves account for more than 99 per cent of the nation's total mineral fuel reserves he said whereas crude petroleum and na tural gas add up to less than one per cent it will take years to de velop a synthetic fuel industry to extract oil from the nation's reser ves of oil shale he added even to supply as much as much as 40 per cent of our current demand dr robert t gallagher asso ciate professor of mining engineer ing reported on experiments undertaken to remove excess water from fine sizes of anthracite coal price j d jillson secretary of the anthracite institute " reporting on factors affecting anthracite de mand asserted that from a com petive price standpoint anthracite is in a better position today in most cities than it was in 1939 since its retail price has not ad vanced as much as fuel oil and many cost-of-living items advertising is spearheading a campaign to get over to the pub lic the inherent advantages of anthracite as the most efficient economical satisfactory fuel avail able said william mckeehan vice president of the j walter thompson company c h matthews and d w jones engineers of the susquehann col lieries division m.a hanna co nanticoke pa presented a joint paper on reclamation of breaker waste by froth notation the utilization of anthracite in power plants was discussed in the evening r l hallman plant bet terment engineer of the pennsyl vania power and light co spoke on the burning of anthracite in power plants and d d schultz results engineer of the scranton electric company spoke on the pulverized anthracite installation at the suburban plant of the scranton electric company debate contest results nearing the semi-final round in the wil liams prize contest in intramural debating conducted by the lehigh university department of english and the university chapter of del ta omicron theta honorary debat ing society will be held tomorrow preceding the finals expected to be held may 12 defending the negative side of the question resolved that the results of the faculty evaluation program should be made known to the administrative heads of the university are robert wharry and edwin wallace of sigma chi against john humphrey and wil liam clayton of chi phi fraternity debating the same question char les pontier and charles golden of sigma chi will take the affirmative against seeman pines and charles palmer of tau delta phi finalists in the extempore speaking jules h bluestone ed mound w bowden richard ben ner russel n keperl and albert rubenstein in the upper class con test will battle it out at 7:30 p.m monday may 10 in packard audi torium cadets receive awards col james s luckett professor of military science and tactics at lehigh university presented nu merous medals and awards to de serving rotc cadets at drill mon day may 3 in grace hall the society of the sons of the american revolution medal was presented to the following cadets for excellence in theoretical and practical work and outstanding leadership qualities h m mea dor r s miller f l meinhofer r.r risher c.c freund r h korkegi and h.b pilling the president's medal lehigh university for leadership general ability and value to rotc was presented to e l kaminsky d b ellison w d mclean j a tall madge samuel f snyder and carl w strayer the army ordance association gold medal for scholastic standing and interest in ordance affairs was awarded to edward k leaton and william d mclean john t palmer won the u s air force silver medal a set of 2nd lieutenant's insignia was given to emerson h virden william d mclean and h b pilling junior party success the class of 1949 at their suds social held wednesday night in the colonnade demonstrated that their ability is not limited to matters serious and their capacity is not limited at ail an unestimated number of class members crowded the hall and through the smoke were entertain ed by a continuous parade of en tertainers dick fuehrer class president and bob stockman gave lifelike pantomine impersonations of such personalities as al jolson bing crsoby maurice chevalier and spike jones piano stylings plus were in order when ren zphiropoulos took the stage and stayed for many encores keeping the party rolling albie dealaman blew out with a few drum solos to round out the program the sonny austin combo now playing in the rumpus room presented some numbers and the feminine touch was added by the singing of ruth richter also from the rum pus room cosmopolitan club has arabian meal the cosmopolitan club organ ized to promote good will among students native to other lands put on another in its series of foreign dinners at the amarian club in allentown last sunday this time it was an arabian din ner with all dishes exact dupli cates of ones which might be found in a typical arabian home it is doubtful whether any arabian home could have had as much to eat in one dinner as did the club members at this meal some of the dishes served were jege-mechi a chicken dish with rice and seed-of-pine filling wa tachannob rice and hamburger rolled in grape leaves yabrock a cabbage and hamburger com bination the dessert was bak lawa which was something like shredded wheat soaked in honey with a tasty filling of pistachio nuts by the time the dessert was served a good many of the guests were leery as to whether they would be able to finish it after tasting it however no one desisted further after the dinner club president robert korkegi discussed several business matters with the mem bers including a request by the red cross for students to translate correspondence from foreign lands he thanked the amarian club of allentown and mr mosher a former lehigh student and cos mopolitan club member for their assistance in making the dinner possible b&w foto by john e traise at the cosmopolitan club dinner this little tyke freddie strong jr didn't fare quite as well as his sister seeming to inti mate why don't you people go home freddie is the son of mr and mrs fred strong fred is a lehigh student va contacts changed effective immediately veterans in training under pl 346 will not be able to contact a representative of the veterans administration on campus it was revealed yesterday at the va guidance center for veterans under pl 16 only however a va representative will be available in the placement bu reau office the second wednesday of every month from 8:30 a m to 5:00 p m veterans under pl 346 may have their questions answered by the va contact unit 1124 turner st allentown phone 3-5277 or by writing to the va office 136 the va guidance center on north 6th st reading campus is solely concerned with assisting veterans in the choice of vocational or educational employ cent objectives the personnel of this office is not able to give in formation or other service in con nection with veteran training pro grams this office emphasizes that it should not be confused with the university counseling center which is open to all veterans and non-veterans asme picnic may 11 the annual asme picnic will be held may 11 at riverdale farms in emmaus announced richard jones chapter president letters for distribution to all members are being prepared which contain the pertinent details and map explaining how to get there it was decided to make a charge of fifty cents per student to cover costs incurred by the affair which will begin at one o'clock in the afternoon classes for all asme members have been called off for the afternoon of may 11 personnel plan revised president martin d whitaker announced a move toward unifica tion of personnel services rendered lehigh students the coordinating program under dean wray h congdon is being organized after a five-year study and is aimed to eliminate overlapping and provide coordination of student personnel services the counseling center under teal will devote more of its time to testing and counselling uni versity students as the demands of the veterans administration grad ually tapers off plans for voca tional advisement services to in dustry and business as well as for the establishment of a reading clinic are included in the program of coordination m&c to present radio play the story they'll never print a radio drama by erik barnow leading contemporary radio writer will be presented by mustard and cheese in cooperation with the le high radio workshop over station wgpa at 7:00 p.m may 13 racial relations between the negro and white factory worker constitute the theme of the play to be produced by lehigh under the directorship of mr f h ritze faculty advisor of the university radio workshop mustard and cheese is deviating from its usual light opera or fic tional channel in producing the first semi-documentary work at tempted in recent years the cast ing of the play will be announced in a later issue of brown and white vollvi no.*s 4-t bethlehem pa friday may 7 1948 brown and white politiciking on campus nicholls chosen on first ballot as voting is closer than last election wlrn will broadcast the le high-drexel baseball game on saturday may 8 at 3:00 p.m and the lehigh muhlenberg game on monday may 10 at 4:00 p.m girls give concert may 8 the centenary college glee club will present a public con cert in packer memorial chapel at 3:00 p.m may 8 guests of the lehigh univer sity glee club the girls will be escorted to dinner at howard johnson's and will later attend the town council dance in grace hall escorts are request ed to attend the concert after which they will meet their dates w any house or living group not receiving good recep tion should contact wlrn at 6-0331 while the broadcasts are going on to report the difficulty the tests will continue till the end of the week