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other projects include a perma nent map of the campus to be con structed of stone and concrete and placed near the flag pole the used book sale and the decoration of a campus christmas tree near the alumni building the pledges will be required to make a key and to attend a camping trip which will be held in december the following men were pled ged kenneth eynon 53 william abbott 53 robert abel 53 john ackerman 53 fred anthony 52 charles atmore 53 edward bail ey 53 hobart dietz 53 constan tine economy 52 richard fastig gi 53 william heim 51 kenneth hergehan 53 peter huester 53 william johnson 53 michael krehel 53 donald le dene 53 thomas may 53 erwin meeh 53 robert moore 53 george muha 53 paul neiderer 53 fritz smith 53 and mervin werst 51 lu muhlenberg german clubs discuss goethe the german clubs of le high muhlenberg and moravian college for women met october 12 at moravian for a goethe celebra tion the moravian club presented a series of short works by the cele brated german poet the opening talk was given by dr gump of moravian she ex plained that the best way in which to understand johann wolfgang yon goethe is to listen to a group of his poems and ballads misses beatrice good june shafer and irene gomez read short poems in english and german records of two goethe ballads were played and explained by dr gump causes as 1 destruction caused by the war 2 foreign exchange 3 a demand for security and 4 rela tively low productivity war destruction has resulted in much building at abnormal speeds he stated this 1 has caused a heavy drain on britain's money resources the withdrawal of foreign in vestments which formerly paid for one fourth of britain's imports and the debts in dominion countries are also an important factor much of britain's imports have come from the u.s six bil lion dollars worth to date with a minimum of another billion or two bratt continued that the desire for security brought on by the uncertain outlook during the war has resulted in socialistic measures which cost 15 to 25 per cent of britain's wealth this is a period of full employment much unemployment would greatly in crease this percentage britain is now a little above pre war standards in regard to pro ductivity but still behind possible heights although britain and the u.s were about even in produc tion in 1890 from that date up to world war ii the u.s has increased two and a half times as much as britain devaluation of the british pound sterling has lowered its worth in dollar countries by 30 per cent while the dollar is worth 44 per cent more in sterling areas de valuation was due to britain's rapid spending which was mainly brought about by the rise of prices in britain and the drop of prices in the u.s which filled the chapel of the mo ravian college for women dean wray h congdon acted as media tor for the debate opening the debate skeffing ton stated that much of the ravage in britain caused by the war had been dealt with but the immense debts acquired during the war 2 billion pounds in egypt and india alone are a large factor in brit ain's economic difficulties losses of one half of britain's shipping power resulted in a great loss of income but her merchant fleet has been rebuilt almost 100 per cent physical damage to pro duction agents amounted to about 1 billion 500 million pounds but much of this loss has also been re placed re-housing programs have taken care of three and one half million people with another two thousand being accommodated daily many new factories have been establish ed in sections suffering from un employment too and several in dustries established in towns to guard against single failures sheffington stated that britain's dollar problem was heightened by the dollar problem of the whole of europe it has resulted he said in the exclusion of practically all imports except raw materials for industry he concluded his argument by saying the more that we in britain and the united kingdom understand the u.s and even more the u.s understands us the better the outlook will be for world peace dr bratt took a somewhat different view of the british eco nomic crisis he enumerated its representative refuse to advise me at my request on the best form of converted national service life insurance for me all he did was give me information on various types of policies a — contact representatives are not permitted to advise veterans as to best forms of converted insur ance they are required only to supply the veteran with all in formation available the decision then is up to the veteran q — as a peace time veteran am i entitled to hospitalization a — you may be entitled to hos pitalization provided you were discharged under other than dis honorable conlitions for a disabili ty incurred in line of duty or if you are receiving compensation for a service-connected disability vets must pick own insurance edwin s male sky director of veterans affairs reports that the following questions are the ones most frequently asked by le high veterans q—lfq — if i have been advised that i am overpaid on my compensa tion must i pay it back a — yes unless recovery is waiv ed the waiver if granted will be based on the determination that the overpayment was without fault on your part and recovery would defeat the purpose of benfits other wise authorized or be against equity and good conscience q — why did the va contact lehigh university's fall brown and white bethlehem pa chest total climbs to 3059 8 groups donate 2 per man tuesday october 18 1949 volume 58 — number 6 hands across the sea . . . arthur massey skeffington left british parliament member in the house of commons clasps the hand of prof e c bratt de partment of economics while dean wray h congrdon who acted as mediator looks on skeffington and bratt debated on the eco nomic crisis ni britain in the moravian college for women audi torium war static industry created british crisis labor mp britain's economic crisis is mainly due to two factors the destruction wrought by the last war and the fact that many basic bri tish industries are old fashioned and obsolete stated arthur massey skeffington labor member of parliament at a discussion of british economics friday night oct 14 skeffington and dr elmer c bratt professor of economics at lehigh were the participants in a debate entitled the economic crisis in bri tain at the initial meetng of the tenth season of the lehigh valley chapter of the foreign policy association many lehigh i.r students were among the audience of about 400 dawn pep rally at station to precede brown u game an early morning send-off for the football team as they leave for the brown university game will be held at union station friday morning the pep-ralty and send-off will form at sayre park at 7 a.m fol lowed by a march down the campus through town to the railroad sta tion where the university band and cheerleaders will start the ral ly at 7:30 cyanide sponsor of the send-off has indicated that this will be a definite freshman activity in which however the entire undergraduate student body is urged to join from the spirit which the class of 53 has 1 shown toward the team so far i am sure that most of them will want to be at the sta tion to cheer our men on to vic tory i nthis game which is prob ably the season's toughest contest commented jim gill cyanide president an informal band will lead those who start from the upper campus on the march through town the route to be followed is down new st to west second thence on union blvd to the le high valley station the next major freshman acti vity will be the tug-of-war at the lehigh-lafayette freshman foot ball game the student activities committee of arcadia has 1 recent ly approved the suggestion of 75 men from each institution to com pose the teams ' 52 honorary cyanide honorary junior activities society announced to day that members of the class of june 51 may obtain application blanks from the arcadia office prerequisite for membership is a cumulative avearge of 2.5 or better members will be sel ected on a basis of scholarship and activities applications must be submitted to the arcadia of fice before 4 p.m oct 26 with several sources unreported the campus chest fund had reached 3059.35 as the b & w went to press the final figure will not be available for several days as the town solicitors with the exception of al lentown had not yet reported other sources outstanding include concessions at the charity ball tickets sold at the door the parking fines for the week which have been allocated to the fund by the university and the cheerleader-feather-mer chants dormitories led with total do nations of 1264.74 greek-letter groups followed with 1131.53 twelve fraternities and eight dor mitory sections reported contribu tions from their whole member ships of these six groups 1 , alpha chi rho alph tau omega beta theta pi and phi gamma delta and drinker 3 b gave two dollars per man phi gamma delta led all groups with 85 amounting to more than two dollars for each member living groups with 100 but less than two dollars a man are chi phi kappa alpha lamb da chi alpha sigma alpha mv sigma nu sigma phi and sigma phi epsilon dravo a 2 and cl drinker 2a richards i taylor a c and d the last named turned in the largest single donation 86.75 other sources reported by noon saturday included 21 for leonard hall 81.75 from alo and 41.00 from other allentown students collection boxes placed in offices on campus garnered a total of 6.39 the girl solicitors from mo ravian college for women collect ed 43.59 from students changing classes saturday morning four of the committee feather-merchants al beardslee arts 50 richard parker bus 51 henry enright bus 51 and robert bond c.e 51 took in 125.75 the present incomplete figures reveal larger individual contribu tions in every case the fraterni ties averaged more per member than last year but because of the smaller fraternity membership the fraternity total as reported last weekend was down one hundred dollars from the 1948 total dormi tory gifts in nearly every case were considerably higher than last year late contributions will be ac cepted in the arcadia office next week town council members of the campus chest committee dis cussed the possibility of contacting town men who were not approach ed by solicitors for their share in the fund apo taps 22 makes campus service plans the alpha psi chapter of pha phi omega announces the pledging of 22 men in a special pledge ceremony held mon oct 17 in drown hall the pledges will be assigned to service projects for the next few months in order to better acquaint them with the service aspects of apo most of these projects are already underway such as the tree labelling plan conducted in co operation with the biology depart ment
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Title | Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 6 |
Date | 1949-10-18 |
Month | 10 |
Day | 18 |
Year | 1949 |
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Title Essay | Published twice a week during the college year by the students of Lehigh University |
FullText | other projects include a perma nent map of the campus to be con structed of stone and concrete and placed near the flag pole the used book sale and the decoration of a campus christmas tree near the alumni building the pledges will be required to make a key and to attend a camping trip which will be held in december the following men were pled ged kenneth eynon 53 william abbott 53 robert abel 53 john ackerman 53 fred anthony 52 charles atmore 53 edward bail ey 53 hobart dietz 53 constan tine economy 52 richard fastig gi 53 william heim 51 kenneth hergehan 53 peter huester 53 william johnson 53 michael krehel 53 donald le dene 53 thomas may 53 erwin meeh 53 robert moore 53 george muha 53 paul neiderer 53 fritz smith 53 and mervin werst 51 lu muhlenberg german clubs discuss goethe the german clubs of le high muhlenberg and moravian college for women met october 12 at moravian for a goethe celebra tion the moravian club presented a series of short works by the cele brated german poet the opening talk was given by dr gump of moravian she ex plained that the best way in which to understand johann wolfgang yon goethe is to listen to a group of his poems and ballads misses beatrice good june shafer and irene gomez read short poems in english and german records of two goethe ballads were played and explained by dr gump causes as 1 destruction caused by the war 2 foreign exchange 3 a demand for security and 4 rela tively low productivity war destruction has resulted in much building at abnormal speeds he stated this 1 has caused a heavy drain on britain's money resources the withdrawal of foreign in vestments which formerly paid for one fourth of britain's imports and the debts in dominion countries are also an important factor much of britain's imports have come from the u.s six bil lion dollars worth to date with a minimum of another billion or two bratt continued that the desire for security brought on by the uncertain outlook during the war has resulted in socialistic measures which cost 15 to 25 per cent of britain's wealth this is a period of full employment much unemployment would greatly in crease this percentage britain is now a little above pre war standards in regard to pro ductivity but still behind possible heights although britain and the u.s were about even in produc tion in 1890 from that date up to world war ii the u.s has increased two and a half times as much as britain devaluation of the british pound sterling has lowered its worth in dollar countries by 30 per cent while the dollar is worth 44 per cent more in sterling areas de valuation was due to britain's rapid spending which was mainly brought about by the rise of prices in britain and the drop of prices in the u.s which filled the chapel of the mo ravian college for women dean wray h congdon acted as media tor for the debate opening the debate skeffing ton stated that much of the ravage in britain caused by the war had been dealt with but the immense debts acquired during the war 2 billion pounds in egypt and india alone are a large factor in brit ain's economic difficulties losses of one half of britain's shipping power resulted in a great loss of income but her merchant fleet has been rebuilt almost 100 per cent physical damage to pro duction agents amounted to about 1 billion 500 million pounds but much of this loss has also been re placed re-housing programs have taken care of three and one half million people with another two thousand being accommodated daily many new factories have been establish ed in sections suffering from un employment too and several in dustries established in towns to guard against single failures sheffington stated that britain's dollar problem was heightened by the dollar problem of the whole of europe it has resulted he said in the exclusion of practically all imports except raw materials for industry he concluded his argument by saying the more that we in britain and the united kingdom understand the u.s and even more the u.s understands us the better the outlook will be for world peace dr bratt took a somewhat different view of the british eco nomic crisis he enumerated its representative refuse to advise me at my request on the best form of converted national service life insurance for me all he did was give me information on various types of policies a — contact representatives are not permitted to advise veterans as to best forms of converted insur ance they are required only to supply the veteran with all in formation available the decision then is up to the veteran q — as a peace time veteran am i entitled to hospitalization a — you may be entitled to hos pitalization provided you were discharged under other than dis honorable conlitions for a disabili ty incurred in line of duty or if you are receiving compensation for a service-connected disability vets must pick own insurance edwin s male sky director of veterans affairs reports that the following questions are the ones most frequently asked by le high veterans q—lfq — if i have been advised that i am overpaid on my compensa tion must i pay it back a — yes unless recovery is waiv ed the waiver if granted will be based on the determination that the overpayment was without fault on your part and recovery would defeat the purpose of benfits other wise authorized or be against equity and good conscience q — why did the va contact lehigh university's fall brown and white bethlehem pa chest total climbs to 3059 8 groups donate 2 per man tuesday october 18 1949 volume 58 — number 6 hands across the sea . . . arthur massey skeffington left british parliament member in the house of commons clasps the hand of prof e c bratt de partment of economics while dean wray h congrdon who acted as mediator looks on skeffington and bratt debated on the eco nomic crisis ni britain in the moravian college for women audi torium war static industry created british crisis labor mp britain's economic crisis is mainly due to two factors the destruction wrought by the last war and the fact that many basic bri tish industries are old fashioned and obsolete stated arthur massey skeffington labor member of parliament at a discussion of british economics friday night oct 14 skeffington and dr elmer c bratt professor of economics at lehigh were the participants in a debate entitled the economic crisis in bri tain at the initial meetng of the tenth season of the lehigh valley chapter of the foreign policy association many lehigh i.r students were among the audience of about 400 dawn pep rally at station to precede brown u game an early morning send-off for the football team as they leave for the brown university game will be held at union station friday morning the pep-ralty and send-off will form at sayre park at 7 a.m fol lowed by a march down the campus through town to the railroad sta tion where the university band and cheerleaders will start the ral ly at 7:30 cyanide sponsor of the send-off has indicated that this will be a definite freshman activity in which however the entire undergraduate student body is urged to join from the spirit which the class of 53 has 1 shown toward the team so far i am sure that most of them will want to be at the sta tion to cheer our men on to vic tory i nthis game which is prob ably the season's toughest contest commented jim gill cyanide president an informal band will lead those who start from the upper campus on the march through town the route to be followed is down new st to west second thence on union blvd to the le high valley station the next major freshman acti vity will be the tug-of-war at the lehigh-lafayette freshman foot ball game the student activities committee of arcadia has 1 recent ly approved the suggestion of 75 men from each institution to com pose the teams ' 52 honorary cyanide honorary junior activities society announced to day that members of the class of june 51 may obtain application blanks from the arcadia office prerequisite for membership is a cumulative avearge of 2.5 or better members will be sel ected on a basis of scholarship and activities applications must be submitted to the arcadia of fice before 4 p.m oct 26 with several sources unreported the campus chest fund had reached 3059.35 as the b & w went to press the final figure will not be available for several days as the town solicitors with the exception of al lentown had not yet reported other sources outstanding include concessions at the charity ball tickets sold at the door the parking fines for the week which have been allocated to the fund by the university and the cheerleader-feather-mer chants dormitories led with total do nations of 1264.74 greek-letter groups followed with 1131.53 twelve fraternities and eight dor mitory sections reported contribu tions from their whole member ships of these six groups 1 , alpha chi rho alph tau omega beta theta pi and phi gamma delta and drinker 3 b gave two dollars per man phi gamma delta led all groups with 85 amounting to more than two dollars for each member living groups with 100 but less than two dollars a man are chi phi kappa alpha lamb da chi alpha sigma alpha mv sigma nu sigma phi and sigma phi epsilon dravo a 2 and cl drinker 2a richards i taylor a c and d the last named turned in the largest single donation 86.75 other sources reported by noon saturday included 21 for leonard hall 81.75 from alo and 41.00 from other allentown students collection boxes placed in offices on campus garnered a total of 6.39 the girl solicitors from mo ravian college for women collect ed 43.59 from students changing classes saturday morning four of the committee feather-merchants al beardslee arts 50 richard parker bus 51 henry enright bus 51 and robert bond c.e 51 took in 125.75 the present incomplete figures reveal larger individual contribu tions in every case the fraterni ties averaged more per member than last year but because of the smaller fraternity membership the fraternity total as reported last weekend was down one hundred dollars from the 1948 total dormi tory gifts in nearly every case were considerably higher than last year late contributions will be ac cepted in the arcadia office next week town council members of the campus chest committee dis cussed the possibility of contacting town men who were not approach ed by solicitors for their share in the fund apo taps 22 makes campus service plans the alpha psi chapter of pha phi omega announces the pledging of 22 men in a special pledge ceremony held mon oct 17 in drown hall the pledges will be assigned to service projects for the next few months in order to better acquaint them with the service aspects of apo most of these projects are already underway such as the tree labelling plan conducted in co operation with the biology depart ment |
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