Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 2

              the handicappers offered the teams listed below with the points given as indicated 1 michigan vs michigan state 7 2 rice vs princeton + 7 3 texas christian vs okla a&m 7 4 lehigh vs f&m 14 5 minnesota vs washington 14 6 vanderbilt vt sa tech 20 7 princeton vs lafayette 21 8 northwestern vs purdue 21 9 southern cal vs navy 28 10 perm state vs villanova 28 for picking five winners from five choices the odds wers 10 to one and for winning the entire card the odds were 150 to one full plans for a 6,000 campus chest drive oct 8-15 were an nounced at a luncheon meeting yesterday in lamberton ham by the campus chest committee appointed by arcadia to run the only charity drive of the year in the committee's report a new allocation of funds was announced with 50 per cent fo the goal going to the world student service fund this is a ten per cent raise in allocations to this particular group wssf is the american represen tative of the world student relief which enables students and profes sors to share materially and intel lectually with their needy con temporaries throughout the world other organizations which will receive a portion of the charity are united negro college fund and bethlehem community chest both receive 15 per cent american cancer society american heart association bethlehem tubercu losis and health society and crippled children and adults will northampton county society for recieve ten per cent and ten per cent will be sent in reserve for ex penses future requests and aid to next year's displaced students specially trained solicitors and workers will receive instructions as to how they should conduct their campaign at a meeting in packard auditorium this after noon instruction sheets and ver bal instructions on the mechanics of the drive will be given by rob ert cortney and robert bond dean charles seidle and chaplain george bean will speak alvord beardslee will explain the func tion of wssf robert courtney will speak on the united negro college fund and robert bond ce 51 will handle the other charities according to beardslee the student body will be divided geo graphically and by living groups co-chairmen of the committee are beardslee and bond bond will handle the living group solicitors living group division will follow a pattern similar to that of the progress fund which was conduct ed recently each living group will have two continued on page 10 col 1 columbia and has taught religion in a number of new york schools he has been vice-chairman of the christian congress since 1939 and is a member of the study com mission of the world council of churches dr pittenger is no stranger to this locality he spoke three nights last spring at a conference on e ligion a trinity epscopal church bethlehem sunday afternoon dr pittenger met with members of the christian council at the home of chaplain george m bean where a general discussion of the sermon's effect on the students took place the next speaker in this series will be dr george thomas head of the department of religious thought princeton university who will deliver the sermon on oct 13 1949 dads honored visiting scouts feted by apo honoring visiting fathers at the lehigh-case football game saturday for the annual fall dad's day program the lehigh univer sity band formed a large slipper on the field at half-time the forma tion was accompanied by oh dem golden slippers pre-game exercise included the boy scouts of america march played for approximately 700 scouts who were in the west stands as guests of a.p.o scouting fra ternity under the direction of asst prof william h schempf the present band of 96 men including 45 freshmen and transfer students the band will accompany the football team to rutgers saturday and to brown university oct 22 formations at rutgers will include a baseball and an additional theme and formation to keep the crowd informed as to the results of the world series game being played at that time band officers for the current school year include ward cheney student director richard hasfeld asst student director rod seifert manager martin snyder asst manager anl robert chisolm li brarian the fact of death discussed before record chapel crowd rev dr norman pittenger professor at general theological seminary new york spoke in packer memorial church sunday oct 2 1949 at 11 a.m before a record sunday service attendance of 475 people he spoke on the fact of death the one thing he said that can be said with certainty of everyone in this chapel is that each one of us will die this is ignored by most individuals and covered up by many church leaders 1 ." he said that the christian be lieves not in immortaality but in resurrection by god's grace the early greeks believed that the hu man soul by its natue survived for eternity death is a fact that must be faced by christians in a christian way we should not spend all our time worrying about death or pre paring for death nor should we ignore it dr pittenger attacked the mor tician's mentality in his efforts to beautify the dead it is not chris tian to cover up death by rouging corpses the beautiful prayers that are given at funeral services usually become inaudible under the predominance of music author of many books in the field of theology including a liv ing faith for living men and sacrament — signs and symbols and american editor of theoloby since 1939 and contributing editor of the journal of philosophy of religion since 1941 dr pittenger is also a lecturer in religion at england and america should have a common currency it has been suggested to the surprise of many who supposed that this ar rangement was already in effect four chem men present papers to national society four members of the lehigh chemistry department presented papers at the recent meeting of the amrican chemical society they were dr robert d billinger dr earl j serfass dr albert c zet tlemoyer and dr william c walker dr zettlemoyer headed the lis-t with three papers on which he worked dr billinger added a dis course on the history of cement in pennsylvania while dr walker presented his work on the struc ture of active magnesia professor serfass treated the problem of in strumentation in college chemistry departments the sessions held during the week of september 19-24 at atlan tic city were attended by 10,000 chemists from all over the country other lehigh representatives pres ent were dr nelson easton wil liam stump george lower raf faele muraca earnest gamble kenneth w theile john freeman and sam nelson en in addition to several pieces of merchandise the exact amount of money lost has not been deter mined but a complete inventory is being made a blanket insurance will cover the amount of money lost in both merchandise and cash supply bureau looted sunday of cash wares two cash registers desk drawers and merchnadise in counters were ransacked sunday night in the university supply bu reau by persons who forced their way in betweeen 8:30 p.m and 11:30 p.m . removing a door panel after possibly entering the outer hall way through an unlocked window the thieves opened the iron gate which is inside the wooden door to the supp?y bureau bureau manager stanley f heffner stated that it must have been an inside job they knew where everything was the turn ing of a light switch was necessary to open one of the cash registers this fact was not supposed to be generally known also there were only two keys known to exist for the iron gate one is held by heffner the other by his assistant however the gate lock was not picked but opened with a key of some sort the culprits may have been surprised by campus police officer thomas malone who reported the robbery when he made his first round at 11:30 p.m left on the floor of the bureau were a 16 inch aluminum knife a metal pipe and a piece of metal conduit covering at 1:00 a.m five city police headed by police captain gross were present on the s"cene dis turbed checks were examined for fingerprints as well as a strong box which had been rifled the wooden door panel which had been very neatly removed was also inspect ed some checks were believed stol 150 attend first t c dance a crowd of 150 danced to the music of rick parker and his or chestra saturday night in drown hall the dance sponsored by town council was the first of the many planned refreshments were served under the direction of john unver prof john jacoby sociology depart ment and mrs jacoby acted as chaperones tuesday october 4 1949 volume 58 — number 2 lehigh university's fall brown and white campus chest group set for fall drive bethlehem pa ministers plan sex discussion christianity in sex will be the main topic for discussion at the first meeting of the canterbury club this semester convening in the town council room of drown hall wednesday at 4:10 p.m the members will hold a short business meeting fol lowed by the discussion between continued on page 10 col 3 w s s f fights back veterans bureau answers queries according to edwin s ma lesky veterans affairs director the following questions were the chief topics of men visiting the veterans affairs bureau recently q — i have already used about 25 days of my leave under the gi bill will va allow me additional leave at the end of my training period a — under a recent change made by va you may apply for 15 days leave at the end of your enroll ment provided you have enought remaining entitlement for educa tion or training to cover it q—lq — i am an honorably discharg ed war ii veteran can i get glasses through va a — yes if they are determined necessary for a service-connected disability or a necessary part of hospital treatment or domiciliary care or to prevent interruption of training under public law 16 78th congress as amended after years of undernourishment a tubercular chinese student gains strength in a sanatorium as she eats nourishing well bal anced meals provided by the wssf this organization has been a great help in decreasing the t b rate among chinese students reading pool outfit skips town with 1,000 of students money placing wealth before honor a football handicapping syndicate from reading recently perpetrated a grandiose swindle on south mountain according to a brown & white survey of campus living groups circulating a football pool called the grid handicapper the group cleaned many student wallets of over 1,000 in potential winnings as well as original bet money they returned winning stubs with the word bankrupt scribbled across them but no winning money men had been contacted from each living group to distribute the handicap cards for the weekend of sept 23 apparently an easy card to beat a large amount of money was collected by the contact men who were acting in unsuspecting good faith odds ranged from 10 to one on up to 150 to one the following week it was learned definitely that the card was an easy one for the syn dicate promplty went out of busi ness taking all bet money and re turning only winning stubs with the single word bankrupt writ ten across the bottom