Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 13

              dean of princeton ad dresses open meeting of blake society scores the dead past approximately 350 attend lecture in packard aud last evening the first lehigh union sing of the year will be held at 3 p m sunday in drown hall secre tary david braun of the lehigh union announced today if enough student interest is shown these sings will be held every other sunday afternoon at the same time says mr braun he hopes that through these university sings and get-to-geth ers the students will increase their interest in college life these sings will be stag affairs in contrast with sings of last year which were attended by many students from moravian college and seminary for women and bishopthorpe manor re freshments will be served fol lowing the program public notices society an nouncements requests for acti vity lists lost and found notices short classified advertisements of sale or rent will be accepted by the brown and white from its subscribers for free insertion in a notice column on page 4 all such notices should be typewritten and deposited in one of the wire baskets in room b-l christmas-saucon hall or tele phoned to bethlehem 446 on wednesday and sunday eve nings wednesday night is the deadline for the friday issue and sunday night for the tues day issue the service is inaugur ated with the issue the brown and white re serves the right to edit or re fuse any or all such notices^at the discretion of the editor use of cabin offered lehigh approve budgets of publications in an effort to ascertain current conditions in the short story mar ket a group of english students at conducted a survey of more than the university of lowa recently 200 leading american magazines for may 1930 among the periodi cals used in the study were harp er's adventure scribner's coun try gentleman saturday evening post short story amazing stories delineator woman's home com panion american collier's liberty and true stories of 206 stories 21 were found to be based chiefly on psychology while 85 or 41 percent featured strong love interest 75 or 36 per cent adventure and 30 or 15 per cent domestic or married love themes crook and detective stories were next in numbers with 10 per cent each seventeen or eight per cent were printed chiefly for their kiwanis club makes shack available for university groups student-faculty board accepts reports on four periodicals becker to give opening lecture christian gauss a world in transition to be topic of speech drinker designs artificial lungs two philadelphia com panies donate respira tors to 1 0 hospitals dr pierre de lanaux a distin guished french lecturer who is now on his way to america will speak on a united states or europe at the annual banquet of the interna tional relations club in the hotel americus nov 10 it was announc ed at a meeting of that club in coppee hall tuesday afternoon mr lanaux during his tour of this country will be sponsored by the carnegie foundation for the advancement of peace he will give a series of addresses through out the united states and will then return to france the club program for the cur rent year was approved and the members decided that they will at tempt to bring a prominent amer ican lecturer to lehigh later in the year a discussion of england's colonial problems will take place at the december meeting in this collection members of the club will represent england's colonies mat thew tomlinson will represent great britain c a feissner egypt e g scoblionko palestine e a honig india and m g tun ick canada talks on contempor ary revolutionary movements in south america with irving gen net as brazil henry klippert as argentine and kenneth kost as bolivia will feature the january meeting of this club the committee on lectures has negotiations under way to have as the speaker at the february meeting scott neering who will probably talk on the rec ognition of russia mussolini and world peace is the topic for dis cussion scheduled for march the entire club will participate following its custom of last year the group wilk again send a dele gation to the little league of na tions conference which will be held at princeton university in april the little league sponsored last year by lafayette college was attended by 134 delegates from 30 colleges and universities the lehigh team composed of s r snitkin j b stroman and m r tunick last year represented haiti matthew tomlinson arts 32 was elected to membership in the club humorous qualities and the same number depicted life at its worst in the ignorance and poverty of slums or other destitute areas oth er classifications were business 11 historical 10 sports 10 terror 8 war 8 child 8 didactic 8 mo vies 4 science 3 politics 3 and anmal 3 thirty-six percent of these stories had their settings in the city and only seven percent told of life on the farm the great open spaces in general and the west in partic ular seemed to be the most pop ular dwelling places for characters created by writers for these maga zines with 51 or 25 percent lodged in the former and 43 or 21 per cent in the latter twenty percent had their settings in small rural yjl lages and 51 or 25 percent in the east or in new england specifi cally other places used for the stories were the south 22 the mid west 14 the frozen north 6 the south seas 12 and other for eign sports 42 a total of 1,216,000 words or an average of 5,900 were used in tell ing the 206 stories an increase in the number of short-short stories was noted but this was offset by numerous narrative of the longer varieties realistic best type a slight edge was conceded the realistic over the romantic types by the students when they sought to determine whether stories of or dinarq life or those involving far fetched p^ots and settings were the most popular one hundred and ten were classified as realistic and 96 as romantic that stories appearing in current publications are generally success ful in their purpose is shown by the fact that the student readers listed 159 as successful in holding their interest fifty-four moved the read ers emotionally sixteen were be lieved really fine stories with last ing qualities which would make them read in years to come melodrama was used in only 24 percent of the stories twenty per cent included surprise endings and 22 percent had strikingly unusual themes settings or treatments bad writing was found in 22 percent of the stories padding in 12 percent and sejitamentalism in 22 percent probably the most significant finding pointing toward a lack of depth in stories published for the average american reader was the fact that 186 were found to have happy endings while only 30 were listed as sad a s r e offers three prizes symphony soon to be revived refrigeration theme contest open to all college students clyde a harding was elected chairman of the board and finan cial budgets presented by the le high burr the 1931 epitome and the lehigh review for the college year 1930-31 were approved by the board of publications at its first meeting of the year on wednesday afternoon the final financial report of the 1929-30 lehigh review and the current report of the brown and white were accepted the printing contract and engraving contract for the 1931 epitome were approved the printing will be done by the pittsburgh printing company of pittsburgh pa and the engraving by the bureau of engraving inc of minneapolis minn elections approved for the epitome the board con firmed the elections of rufus l savage as assistant business man ager henry j forsyth as sport ing editor william m eyster as advertising manager and charles e j green as circulation manag er and for the review the elec tion of g blackford camden as business manager and ross white head as advertising manager the following members of the board were present clyde a har ding chairman dean c m mc conn secretary edgar h riley myron j luch arthur w thorn ton walton forstall jr carl o claus samuel c fuller and g blackford camden attended the meeting to present matters from the epitome the burr and the re view respectively library given books dr henry s drinker president emeritus of lehigh has presented a copy of nailer tom's diary to the library h l leach librarian has announced two volumes relating to the fam ily of james fenimore cooper were presented by the author clare benidict prof bradley stoughton head of the department of metallurgical en gineering has given to the library select methods of metallurgical analysis by marsh and clennell fuller studies methods prof m o fuller of the civil engineering department recently visited washington d c to study the methods used by the bureau of standards in testing steel luckenbach to manage lehigh symphony orchestra this year the numerous suggestions made to show the way out of the many bewildering aspects of modern in dustrial life will be examined and elaborated upon 8 p m monday when frank c becker as sistant professor of philosophy will lecture on a world in transition the lecture which will be given in the auditorium of packard lab oratory is to be the first of a series of lectures on the general topic social problems of the machine age the social readjustment of this modern machine age is the work of philosophy according to profes sor becker who considers this only one of the many periods of transi tion in history these periods occur whenever adjustments made in the past to stabilize social life no long er work satisfactorily and whenev er the old established human inter ests are dislocated and no longer in accord with each other future lectures in addition to the lecture to be delivered by professor becker the series is as follows nov 17 the dilemma of the colleges dean c m mcconn dec 8 democracy under fire ernest b schulz as sistant professor of history feb 16 what about the unemployed herbert m diamond professor of economics march 2 poverty and population neil carothers head of the department of business ad ministration and march 16 the health of tfie public stanley thomas professor of bacteriology mcconn lectures dean charles m mcconn was scheduled to speak three times to day at the educational conference in session at bucknell university lewisburg two addresses were to be made this afternoon and one is to be given tonight thedean's subjects this afternoon were student government and morals and democracy of high er education this evening he will lecture on the future of arts col leges hundreds of miles of paved roads police protection as good or better than ours flourishing cities as much as a hundred years older than bethlehem and contrary to public opinion sections where the climate is not only temperate but ideal were some of the advantages of africa stressed by thomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and astronomy in his lecture before sigma xi tuesday evening in packard laboratory professor fort characterized his four-months trip through the dark continent as an amateur's excursion africa said professor fort is no longer the africa of stanley livingstone or roosevelt but a fast growing and well ordered territory tremendous strides in in dustrial development have been ta ken since the world war and well populated cities replete with all the paraphanelia typical of american cities dot the continent in the very spot where stanley found living stone and next to the monument which commemorates the occasion stands a traffic policeman motion ing modern american and british made cars to a halt anxious to catch a glimpse of the wild animal fife with which africa is said to be so replete professor fort charteered a motor car and a guide to drive him through kruger national park a government pre serve situated about 30 miles from nelspruit in the union of south africa there are estimated to be between 600 and 1000 adult lions in the park which consists of a pro tected area about 200 miles long and 40 miles wide said professor fort and for 10 or 15 miles we saw nothing but a few black dots said to be wildebeestes sees zebra herd i was beginning to became dis couraged when suddenly to the left i caught a glimpse of an animal going over a little rise we turned off the road and drove right through the woods until we were within 50 yards of a herd of more than 100 zebra they stood and stared at us moving off as we approached and apparently unable to decide what to do they were very fine sleek fat and clean looking continuing his trip through the park professor fort saw innumer able wildebeestes a herd of sable antelopes several jackals a pair of baboons and at the end of the jour ney upon arriving at the savie river eight huge black hippopota mi no lions were sighted kruger national park having failed to yield a single lion profes sor fort decided to journey into the rift valley a narrow cleft thou sands of miles long which not only runs through a good part of africa but extends into asia from aru sha where professor fort had gone on leaving nelspruit to the rift valley was a distance of 60 miles and it was necessary to hire a car to continued on page four honorary to pledge four men will be pledged by eta kappa nu honorary society for electrical engineers at a meeting of the a i e e at 8 p m thursday nov 6 in room 416 packard lab oratory a j standing of the bethlehem steel company will speak on a top is yet to be chosen and l r wan ner senior in electrical engineering will read a student paper on some phase of radio development ten metal respirators designed by philip drinker son of president emeritus henry sturgis drinker have been presented to ten hospi tals in philadelphia and vicinity these metal lungs are gifts from the philadelphia electric company and the united gas improvement company the donation was an nounced sunday by william h taylor president of the philadel phia electric company the drinker respirators are met al boxes mounted on wheels into which are placed patients suffering from electric shock gas asphixia tion drowing narcotic poisoning or from post-operation stoppage of breathing the respirators create a partail vacuum and enable normal rhythmical breathing artificially produced to be carried out by an increase or decrease in the amount of pressure last year the life of a youth was saved at the philadel phia presbyterian hospital by the use of a drinker respirator one of the machines is now being used at the same hospital for treatment in a case of infantile paralysis breath ing having been mechanically stim ulated for some time now the pa tient is able to spend several hours each day outside the machine brea thing unaided received lehigh ch.e philip drinker received his b is degree from princeton university in 1915 and his ch e degree from lehigh in 1917 at the present time he is assistant professor of ventil lation and illumination at the har vard university school of public health the hospitals receiving the de vices are philadelphia general hos pital jefferson st agnes univer sity episcopal germantown ches ter bryn mawr montgomery hos pital at norristown and abington hospital doan to lead group dr gilbert e doan of the metal lurgy department will lead the le high union's discussion group sun day 7:30 p m in the drown hall offices of david braun secretary of the lehigh union reporter attempts to crash gate newsboy racket spells defeat a log cabin located in a woods about a mile outside of bethlehem is now available for the use by any group of lehigh men david braun secretary of the lehigh union an nounced at the meeting of the sen ior cabinet of the union wednesday evening in drown hall the cabin is owned by the bethlehem kiwanis club permission was obtained to use the cabin at any time for din ners meetings and week ends the cabin has a large porch and a living room with a large fire place at one end there are bunks to ac commodate about 15 men the un ion is going to equip the fire place with a fryer and coffe pot any group of lehigh students desiring to use the cabin may do so by ar ranging with mr braun mr braun also announced a plan to organize sunday afternoon sings to be held at 3 o'clock in drown hall for lehigh students a new book of songs is being printed by mr braun it is planned to obtain interesting speakers from bethle hem to give five or ten minute talks to meet at cabin more discussion groups are to be started and it is planned to use the kiwanis club cabin as a meeting place where these discussions may be held and refreshments served the sunday evening group now meeting is working along philoso phical lines the other groups will work on different subjects — any thing profitable will have some fa culty member help the group in its discussion it was also decided that more.de putation groups should be sent out to the different preparatory schools and high schools in this eastern sec tion to tell the graduating students at these schools about lehigh these groups have done a valuable service for the university and ft is felt that a more extensive cam paign will be profitable some fac ulty member will accompany stu dents who will speak on behalf of lehigh at different secondary schools - will aid red cross a motion was passed that the lehigh union should help the red cross organization in its fall cam paign the union will make a con tribution of its own as well as help in the work of the campaign around the campus the following member of the senior cabinet attended the meet ing willis c macdougall david braun g blackford camden ray mond h drukker william a fur man frank a stutz arthur w thornton robert h harris john s harrison samuel c fuller wil liam f mcgarrity walton for stall jr john a engel robert l baird john c mertz and francis shoemaker neighbors hallowe'en pranksters victimize citizens and policemen lehigh university's symphony orchestra is to be revived again this year during the past several years public interest in this organ ization has waned and the organ ization experienced financial diffi culty this year it was felt that the interest did not warrant continuing the orchestra but marked interest on the part of the members of last year's organization caused its re vival | l j luckenbach former direc tor of the bethlehem orchestra has offered to give his services as mu sical manager and director he feels that concerts given locally will give the orchestra valuable and in expensive experience work done in the orchestra will be contributed by those directly interested this it is hoped will keep the organiza tion from feeling the financial stress of the past the first practice will be held under mr luckenbach's direction 7:30 p m wednesday nov 12 in drown hall all those who play or chestral instruments interested in symphony music are asked to at tend library to display exhibits from austria art gallery to show foreign paint ings and drawings an exhibition of paintings and drawings from austria will be on display at the university art gal leries from nov 5 to nov 24 at 2 to 5 p m daily the work of 34 artists makes up the exhibition which will include 26 oil paintings ten water colors and a number of wash and crayon draw ings well-known artists are rep resented in the colection as well as those whose work has not been shown before outside of austria the paintings will come to le high directly from the silberman galleries in new york city where they are now on display these paintings are in contrast to the last exhibition here which was more or less of a conservative nature coming events the american society of refri geration engineers is offering three cash prizes for the best papers on refrigeration the first prize is 100 second 75 third 25 all papers must be in by nov 15 and the announcement of the winners will be made in december the ba sis of the awards will depend upon five points — consistancy and clar ity of presentation and complete ness with the objective stated its value as a contributions to the knowledge of refrigeration origin ality and calibre of treatment the completeness with which the auth or exploits his particular facilities and experience and the presenta tion of the report the contest is restricted to col lege or university students and graduate students working for a de gree the work must be original although the paper may have been used as a thesis the prize papers will be published by the society prof f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department is especially desirous for the sen iors to enter this contest he is willing to give any information con cerning this contest to students who desire to enter taylor hall to hold hallowe'en dance morton towle and his music mas ters will play the hallowe'en dance being held this saturday evening from 9 to 12 o'clock in drown hall is the an nual fall dance staged by taylor hall morton towle and his music masters will furnish the music the dance is to be an open semi-for mal mr and mrs joseph jeffries and dr and mrs ne^l carothers will be the chaperons the decoration and entertain ment committee is headed by j d brown as chairman john cron in and albert thomas are also ser ving on the committee the hall will be decorated in hal lowe'en fashion with corn stalks pumpkins and branches of autumn leaves students who shop for knowledge in the dead past rather than in the vibrant future of the living present lose a measure of their inspiration to push forward their own deca dent civilization such was the warning presented by christian gauss dean of princeton univer sity in an address on the dead past and the living present be fore approximately 350 guests of the robert w blake society last night in packard auditorium our time has fallen too much in line with the past nothing inter ests us so much as the antique complained dean gauss in his crit icism of a civilization which for all of its scientific advance is in his own opinion overly dependent upon knowledge gleaned by histori cal or archaeological research we possess no philosophy art or re ligion of our own all is a history of past philosophy art and religion he pointed out yet the past is dead inert and without the aid of new insights cannot possibly solve the problems of the present civilization dean gauss continued some critics no tably the historical scholars would contend that such past knowledge is sufficient he stated spengler for example affirms that all civiliza tions pass through the same phase or cycles what obtains for one may well hold true for another such a viewpoint is unfortunate the speak er stated and should be vigorously resisted by younger minds who are faced with the problem of studying the dead past or the living present the differences between this dead past and living present dean gauss attempted to point out by analogy egyptian alexandria is symbolic of the dead past while in eternal rome we see the ever-living present he contended there may be a certain charm in studying this past he ad mitted but it becomes dangerous to persist in this research schol arship for scholarship's sake alone is purely selfish it contributes noth ing to civilization and ought not be condoned the dean advised only a teleological idealistic search for knowledge can provide an adequate answer to the obstacles before our civilization the speaker continued the tragedy of hamlet is exemplary of the spirit which falls before such obstacles he had the alexandrian attitude dean gauss commented attributing ham let's failure to his lost faith he lost his faith not in the narrow theological sense but completely faith in his mother faith in his love faith even in the ghost of his fath er life to him became a mist of errors without such belief in things worth while hamlet too could scarcely advance the speaker told his audience don quixote was also pointed out as a literary character who typified the dead past life should loom before you as a land of realizable dreams assert ed dean gauss happiness he de fined as the realization of definite concrete purposes such happiness is obviously most completely achieved when each individual is free to set his own purposes to live in your own time the things in your own time must be reborn within you he concluded the address was followed by an informal discussion with dean gauss in room 308 at which were present the members of the rob ert w blake society and several faculty members dean gauss en tertained and answered questions put to him concerning his address attainment was viewed by him as an attribute of individual will dean gauss at present dean of men at princeton university was from 1901 to 1907 a member of the faculty of lehigh university dean gauss has won considerable renown as an author and as a commentator on university life he is the author of the german em peror through college on noth ing a year and why w went to war as well as of numerous articles which have been published in pouular periodicals eutheran men dine lutheran students of lehigh were dinner guest of the lutheran pas toral association at 6 p m oct 27 in st mark's lutheran church the melancholy days have come the saddest of the year that is for house holders for it is hal lowe'en when the dear little ones hold sway for their brief hour of innocent mischief and how any thing that the toddlers do short of burning down the partental home stead is passed off with a shrug and the remark boys will be little de mons several policemen had reason to laugh heartily at a prank which was played on them several days ago a phone call came out of the night that a man had fallen into a nearby pond and had drowned the police dragged the pond for a whole day finding no man after thorough searching they finally came to the brilliant conclusion that a joke had been played on them prof lawrence r gipson head of the department of history was another victim he was seated in the study at his home in center valley engrossed in work when he heard noises emanating from the rear of his home while his wife was telephoning for help he ran out to try to find the marauders who were trying to break their way into the house then came two members bers of the highway patrol the roar of their motorcycles startled several burglars out of the sha dows near professor gipson's home and they darted like scared rabbits into the safety of a nearby alley it was discovered that the play ful youths had affixed a heavy piece of timber to the end of a stout cord tying one end of the cord to a door knob with another piece of cord they pulled the timber a short distance away from the door and by permitting it to swing back ward created the noise that had startled the professor while the joke went over big with the pa trolmen the professor intimated that he would prefer charges against the chaps if he could find out who were responsible saturday 2 p m varsity football vs muh lenberg at taylor field 2 p m varsity soccer vs univer sity of delaware at steel field 9-12 p m hallowe'en dance spon sored by taylor hall at drown hall sunday 3 p m college sing sponsored by lehigh union drown hall 7:30 p m lehigh union discussion dr g l doan will lead session on subject ature of physical world monday 8 p m joint debate with cedar crest on the subject 8 p m college lecture by prof f c becker on the subject a world in transition packard laboratory auditorium tuesday noon scabbard and blade society picture mccaa studio wednesday noon junior class picture at alum ni memorial building dfenly are covered with youngsters who drop to the field and run in all directions the police have no desire to make a spectacle of them selves and seldom attempt to catch them in fact should they try the stands will probably echo with cat calls and boos another method frowned upon by the better class of gate crash ers is to dress in knickers and come in with the children admitted at the east gate a tall boy has a difficult time here but it has been done students who have loaned their coupon books to friends find it very easy to enter the stands one of the easiest methods is to enter the lock er room cross through the tunnel to the gym and then out through the ramp to the field one-eyed connely tactics are no toriously absent but one crasher collected an armful of old newspa pers and innocently walked through the gate as a newsboy when stop ped he displayed a brown and white card after being thrown out he departed and wrote this story to apease tiis wrath did you every try to stop a leak in a sieve if you succeeded you may qualify for the job of stopping gate crashing at the taylor sta dium during football games with game tickets selling at a dol lar or more many town boys are excluded from the game through the ticket gates but every saturday sees many of this class in the stands rooting for the team al though there is always a large crowd begging coupons at the prior gate few get in by this means before twelve o'clock there is no one to prevent people from en tering the stadium while those in the stands are visited by the ticket collectors for coupons before the game there'are many places to hide around the stadium one of the most popular is a large cavern un der the north stands long before eleven o'clock this hideout is filled and late comers are quickly chased as the game time approaches these fugitives swoop out and are lost in the crowd many gain admission via the walls and fences the approved method is to collect 15 or 20 boys and make a rush the walls sud bethlehem pa friday october 31 1930 english students survey current magazine stories first college sing to be held nov 2 price — five cents brown and white fort describes africa's wilds before sigma xi new column open for students ads lanaux to speak before relations society nov 10 vol xxxviii no 1 3 lowa university group reviews articles for minute details 206 works considered progress is found in living present declares gauss frenchman will discuss a united states of europe banquet to be held dark continent has many enlightenments professor finds visits kruger park lectures here all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association