Brown and White Vol. 57 no. 4

              bethlehem pa friday july 30 1948 five cents classic h orse operas of silent picture era to highlight scl show successful rudy shubert undergradu ate from easton will again be at the piano following his highly commendable appear ance during the program of comedies early in july continued on page 5 highlighting the program will be the covered wagon pro duced before the days of pan chromatic stock this film is re markable in that it combines the element of actuality with photographic brilliance and edi torial skill shots are timed and assembled in an exciting fashion and real cattle swim a river under authentic skies and a two-hour program of silent motion pictures from the new york museum of modern art file of memorable american west ern films will be presented by the student concerts-lectures series committee on wednes day august 11 in packard audi torium the program open to all students enrolled in the summer session will be given at 2:30 in the afternoon and at 7:30 in the evening the great train robbery a film classic will open the program produced in 1903 by the edison company this fam ous ancestor of western films was filmed near dover n j in its day it was extremely largest lehigh class ever will be admitted this fall lehigh university will admit the largest class in its history this coming fall to date 898 new undergradu ates including 677 freshmen and 121 transfer students have been accepted of this fresh man group 409 will enter the engineering college 137 the arts college and 131 the business college a breakdown of the enrollment in the various engi neering curricula is as follows chemistry 19 chemical engineering 68 civil engineering 44 electrical engineering 73 engineering physics 34 industrial engineering 39 mechanical engineering 80 metallurgical engineering 22 brown key society sponsors special train to case game the world afford disagreement on international control of atomic energy obviously despite our tre mendous strides in the field of nuclear physics despite our amazing discoveries and their successful application we lack a complete understanding of the st&kes and alternatives in volved in failure to reach an agreement with respect to atomic energy this is the gravest problem the world has ever faced from it spring innumer able questions — questions which must be answered if civiliza tion is to avoid the catastrophe of atomic war and a catas trophe it surely will be dr albert einstein of the institute of advanced study princeton university warns that perhaps two-thirds of the people of the earth would be killed in a war continued on page 5 the brown key society is sponsoring a special train to cleveland ohio for the lehigh case football game on october 2 1948 an excellent nucleus for the trip has already been formed with the granting of permission for the 75-piece le high band to make the trip the special train is scheduled to leave bethlehem at 7:00 p.m on friday october 1 and to arrive in cleveland at 8:00 a.m on saturday october 2 in or der to obtain the special round trip fare the special train must when the first self-maintain ing nuclear chain reaction was put into operation on the cam pus of the university of chicago on december 2 1942 little did the world realize that it stood on the threshold of a new era when on july 16 1945 an ap palled group of scientists view ed the results of the first suc cessfully exploded experimental atomic bomb only these far sighted few felt the true impact of the explosion which took place in new mexico but when on august 6 1945 the first atomic bomb was drop ped on hiroshima and when three days later the second atomic bomb was dropped on nagasaki then a frightened world crawled from its shell and viewed the debris . . . two cities demolished 100,000 dead and thus the inevitable ques tion peace and the atomic bomb — can they exist side by side on january 24 1946 the united nations atomic energy commission was created its purpose to answer the all-im portant question u.n.a.e.c fails at 1:16 p.m may 17 1948 the u.n.a.e.c breathed its last that fatal hour sounded a tem porary death knell for world wide hope of agreement on in ternational control of the atomic bomb why did u.n.a.e.c fail to ful fill its purpose for the diplo matic student there are a vari ety of answers any one of which may render complete satisfaction but it is not satis faction we are seeking for the people of the world there is no answer to be found in diplo matic intricacies — no reply which can answer a second and more important question can leave cleveland before mid night on saturday and there fore it is tentatively scheduled to leave at 11 p.m arriving back in bethlehem at 10 am on sunday the entire train will be air conditioned with at least four of the coaches having reclining seats sandwiches soft drinks and coffee will be served on the train continued on page 5 the estimated cost of the trip figuring in the recent increase wallace may carry southern negroes professor wilton wynn came to lehigh in septem ber 1947 from cairo egypt where he headed the jour nalism department at the american university at le high he is the head of the journalism division of the english department while attending graduate school at louisiana state university professor wynn made a study of propagan da techniques of the huey long faction later he be came the editorial writer for the durham n c morn ing herald and subsequent ly worked for several other southern newspapers able to assume that 4,000,000 negroes will cast ballots in the south in november further more they are not likely to for get that a negro keynoted the progressive party convention and that a negro is on the executive committee of the par ty in spite of the opposition of such negro leaders as walter white the negro vote in the south will probably be over whelming for wallace continued on page 4 commenting on the possible alienation of the poor southern white prof wynn reminded that the south is not as con servative as it may appear at first glance a look at the rec ord will reveal that wherever there has been a choice between reaction and liberalism the south has tended to go liberal where there has been no such where the negro has a clear legal right to the vote he ex ercises it to a marked degree it is therefore not inconceiv the states rights party of thurmond and wright is repre sentative of the old south it is a reactionary clique which has dominated that area for so long a time the present group is attempting to keep the race issue hot thereby using it as a smoke screen for their failure to advocate progressive meas ures for their people it is my belief expressed prof wynn that the so-called dixiecrats are a good 25 years behind the voters of the south the fourth party formed in opposition to the truman sponsored civil rights program will not likely receive strong popular support in the south opined professor wilton wynn of the journalism division in commenting on the present po litical picture in the south prof wynn went on to ex plain that straw polls tend to overlook the negro vote in the south while still a very small electoral minority the negro has voted in unprecedented numbers all over the south in recent years recent court de cisions have virtually guaran teed the negro the right to vote in all elections asked about the chances of wallace's progressive party with respect to the south prof wynn replied wallace's none - too clear foreign policy plank will overshadow his domestic plank to the extent that his showing will not be strong in the south this year prof wynn believes however that wallace will be considerably stronger than the gallup poll has thus far pre dicted once established more over the party's future in the south appears promising 4.009,009 negroes to vote experience has shown that the lehigh university brow n and white vol lvii — no 4 only defense is peace august 6 1948 is the third anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bomb on hiroshima in today's brown and white see editorial and photo on page 2 mountain views column on page 4 atomic display on page 6 watch next week's brown and white for more on the atomic bomb