Brown and White Vol. 59 no. 24

              two pencil sketches by ed hal tenhoff are noteworthy especially fine is his sketch of an abandoned house on cherokee street the shadows are well handled and the simplicity of the background is in good taste false teeth get new owner as arcadia auction nets 61.05 and now we have a mathematics book here . . . who'll bid a quarter let's go gents only a quarter anybody make it 20 cents twenty cents gents just 20 cents now who will make it a dime one thin dime for this beautiful mathematics book well . . „" he said slightly winded now i'll tell you what i'm going to do i'll throw in this here ac counting book with it now who will bid a dime shouted auction eer warren seebald a nickel was the reply sold to the man in the rear answered seebald this was a familiar scene at thursday's auction in drown hall when arcadia auctioned a count less number of sundry objects all of which were lost last semester no article was put on the auction block before it was retained for one year in the arcadia office in order to give owners every op portunity to retrieve it warren seebald a cross between speedy riggs and f e boone learned his trade in a few min utes and even though he has not been auctioneering long his labors contributed 61.05 to the arcadia kitty he was accompanied by robert courtney who acted as cashier in the heat of the auction see bald pulled out a set of false teeth from his trinket box and what'll you bid for this practically new set of fine false teeth he asked twenty cents someone answer ed quickly sold barked see bald as the auction proceded see bald and courtney netted 1.50 three students await hearing after burning local yule tree after spending nearly a whole day in the city jail the three students who were arrested on a charge of firing the large christmas tree in the center of the hill-to-hill bridge early sunday morning appeared before wallace c worth magistrate for west bethlehem at 7:30 p.m yesterday they were found guilty on charges of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to personal property and their bail was set at 1,500 they will appear before the magistrate possibly on thursday for further hearing in order to have clarified the charge of wilfully and maliciously setting fire to personal property students henry l gerstenberger jr i.e 51 paul j desnoyers chem.e 51 both of sigma phi epsilon and john h hadley arts 53 of dravo said that they set fire to the tree because it occured to us that it would make a nice spec tacle they were picked up at about 12:15 a.m monday when police combed the city and campus for the three men at the hearing yesterday all three men confessed participation in the act desnoyers explained that he did the actual firing after hadley had failed while gersten berger remained behind the wheel the students said that they drove to the new street bridge where they watcfied the blaze charged with firing personal property and malicious mis chief the students were released on their own recognizance by cap tain robert gross but later upon chief brogan's orders the men were rearrested hadley was re leased on bail at about 4 p.m yes terday when donald sanderson bus 50 house treasurer posted the 1,500 necessary while the students were being arraigned john culliney treasurer of the pennsylvania spe associa tion was called and he posted two 1,500 bonds for the others the two men were released at 9 p.m magistrate worth said that there was no doubt that the stu dents are guilty of malicious mis chief but that he is debating whether city property is personal property the exact interpretation of the phrase personal property will be determined at a hearing thursday the magistrate said the law in question is one p.l 872 act 375 section 907 of june 24 1939 firing of personal proper ty the fact is determining whether the charge can be brought by an incorporated municipality if so then it must be decided whether the charge be tried under city ordinance or under the com monwealth act of legislation students told police that they left 16 w market st with inten tions of seeing a friend but while driving past the tree the idea first occurred to them under the im pression of doing no great harm the students said they lit the tree a candle which came from their fraternity was used to set fire to the dry evergreens seventy-two small trees made up the 52-foot tree with 1,800 new full strength colored bulbs several hundred feet of wiring in addition to wooden supports were damaged the magistrate estimated the total damage at approximately 2 ; 500 magistrate worth handed down a partial decision pending thurs day's hearing — a summary of the testimony and decision follows all were guilty one man testified set ting fire to the tree and two say that one tried but failed melvin packard city detective is the prosecuting attorney under the circumstances the magistrate said continued on page 7 col 1 haas will speak at chem meeting lehigh valley section of the american chemical society will meet friday jan 20 at 8 p.m in the chem building speaker for the evening will be dr h b haas manager of re search and development for gen eral aniline and film corporation his subject will be the un finished tasks of science there will be a dinner for mem bers in lamberton hall preceeding the society meeting interested persons should make their reserva tions now pastej portrait above by roy e neville arts june 53 hangs in the library gallery the current exhibit features the work of beginning students in robert downey's fine arts classes ond work is considerably larger and in this there is scarcely any delineation the edges are all fuzzy and one must stand quite a distance from the wall to view the picture with any perspective both works are finely done and dem onstrate jisenhans versatility a country scene quite different from rivel's is that of frederic anthony the colors in this work are subdued yet the work is not drab what little brightness there is is used strategically and has been . placed in the pitcure with much care and forethought pen and ink sketches of two bungalows by al vogel are quite different from the other entries in the exhibition they are rather architectural in nature and repre sent the work of a rather capable craftsman vogel's ability is great in this sort of work a scene of a back alley by wil liam johnson is admirabley han dled it is not overdone as such a work might tend to be the garage to the left of the canvas is not in very good condition but its de fects are not labored over where do we go from here speaker asks history honorary down through the years invention of new weapons — for ex ample gunpowder — have stirred new fears in man dr james e swain of the muhlenberg college faculty told members of lehigh university chapter of phi alpha theta national history honorary in an address on where do we go from here thursday jan 12 guest speaker at the honorary's annual initiation banquet in st case may be to the embellishment of existing orders was identified by dr swain as the present un derlying force mark's evangelical lutheran church dr swain was introduced by charles h roberts of bethle hem president of the local chapter pointing out that although all of these inventions down to the atomic bomb seemed a serious threat to civilized society men have always adapted themselves to new conditions each of these threats was accompanied by un derlying forces the speaker said great upheaval of the lower stratum of society bursting its restraining forces and asserting itself at the expense of or as the then the speaker feels we need not be particularly concerned over the answer to the question where do we go from here citing the power of pressure groups on our political structure as one of the conditions today which need correction dr swain believes if this and similar remedies are made our basic economic and poli tical structure will be secure brown and white lehigh university going once . . . volume 58 — number 24 tuesday january 17 1950 bethlehem pa gallery exhibits students art critic lauds doney's classes by r baird shuman 51 lehigh art gallery offers a very splendid exhibition of work done by the beginning art class of robert doney the work by and large is not amateurish as one might expect but rather is on the whole well polished and executed among roy neville's contributions to the exhibition is a portrait of auctioneer f warren seebald is shown selling one of the slew of articles at the arcadia auction frederick g josenhans jr presents two rather curious pictures one is very small just a little larger than post card size the detail in this is great and everything in the work is clearly defined and delineated the sec for a camels haired coat 13.50 for a slide rule and other articles ranging from five cents to a few dollars these included everything from a shoe string to a pouch half-fi]]ed with the finest mould ing lalakia tobacco phi eta sigma elects officers phi eta sigma freshman honorary society elected officers for the coming semester at a meet ing in drown hall thursday jan 12 at the meeting dean john d leith thanked the society for its individual distribution of national how to study pamphlets to the freshmen last fall retring presi dent alan koppes 52 made a re port on phi eta sigma's work in the present faculty evaluation pro gram john d leith jr which is finely done in pastels neville also offers to the collection a very striking still life the dark colors pre dominate but are kept sufficiently warm to prevent the picture from having an overly austere look the dark brown background is used most skillfully to offset the subject matter of the work ivan c park has presented a very intense portrait of hugh craig the shading is especially notable the picture as a whole seems to have a great vitality and to be quite moving thomas rivel jr has en tered a country scene he captures exceedingly well the feeling of the country in spring there are warm yellow highlights in the composi tion but they are used with suf ficinet care so that they do not clash with the red ban which dom inates the picture j w rippe's pen and ink sketch of a lampost has a professional quality it is evident that it was well thought out and executed with extreme care and attention to details despite this it does not seem mannered or heavy in any way