Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 24

              a new course in philosophy arranged especially for engin eers and business men has been approved by the engineering council the course phil 17 will be a study of contemporary phil osophical works of a semi-pop ular nature it will be given for the first semester next year and will be a three credit hour course it will be open to men of junior standing professor hughes head of the department of philosophy hopes that this course will fill the de mand for an engineers philosophy course which has no prerequi sites engineers club to hold meeting the article by walter r oke son treasurer of lehigh univer sity and eastern commissioner of the association for the selection of football officials is the high light of the december issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin publish ed this week alfred r glancy another alumnus and vice pres ident of the general motors cor poration contributes an article on what the automotive indus tries expect of the technical schools there is also an article written by dr clarence c little former president of the university of michigan on college life and cus toms a general summary of the football season at lehigh is given along with several articles on the meetings of various lehigh clubs held throughout the country prior to the lehigh-lafayette game the epidemic of petty robberies in taylor hall is believed to have been ended sunday with the cap ture of a newsboy in the act of making off with a student's foun tain pen only students are allowed to enter the dormitory rooms but recently newsboys have been making the rounds of the rooms selling evening and sunday pa pers sunday morning two young sters from town were found in the dormitories just as one of the students missed a pen he had been using the boys denied having been in the section but they were searched and the missing pen was found on one of them they were questioned about other missing articles but their attitudes made it evident that nothing could be gained from them as the owner of the pen was unwilling to have them ar rested they were released with a warning to keep off the campus in the future students receive christmas seals lehigh valley group will celebrate tenth anniversary anti-tuberculosis society solicists aid of le high men military society will hold dance scabbard and blade plans elaborate ball satur day evening carrying his father's advice in his vest pocket for 44 years in the form 1 of a letter which he received in 1886 while a sophomore at le high william butterworth pres ident of the united states cham ber of commerce has just given the brown and white permission to use the letter in print mr butterworth intended to read the letter which has been a great source of inspiration to him in his address at the dedication of the packard laboratory but a sudden illness prevented his attendance at the dedicatory exercises there is no doubt says j h pennington 97 in a letter to the editor describing ben butterworth's letter to his son at school that the parents of every college stu dent concur in the precepts of this beautiful letter the letter follows house of representatives washington d c september 15 1886 my dear son thee is about to return to college to renew thy studies but will re alize if thee lives in after life the great love i have for thee and the anxiety i feel for thy welfare my son in all things let the et ernal rule of right be thy guide do nothing that thy conscience does not approve in all thy dealings with thy fellow men act honorably as thy grand-mother would say stick to the right it is more matter of policy the best since truth and right are of god and hence eternal while error and wrong are of a day and must per ish from the earth maintain thy noble stand in re gard to intoxicating liquors touch not taste not handle not the un clean thing nor look upon the wine when it is red and giveth the color to the cup for at last it bit eth like a serpent and stingeth like an adder these are golden hours and are fleeing fast improve each one let thy language in conversation be chaste and elegant avoid saying anything that will wound the feel ings of another seek to fill thy mind not only with the knowledge of text books but with general useful knowledge as well remember thy creator in the days of thy youth when the evil days come not and the hour draw eth not nigh when you shalt say i have no pleasure in them honor thy father and thy moth er that thy days may be long in the land which the lord thy god giv eth thee keep thy mind clean and sweet cultivate ennobling thoughts and emulate the example of the good be economical without parsi mony remember there can be no storing without saving and wise continued on page four sigma xi plans to hold initiation coach selects debating team c d macdougall choos es men to meet n y u tuesday twenty new members will be formally ad mitted dec 1 7 that scientific knowledge is still in its infancy and that each year will bring forth new applications of science for the good of man was the main substance of a speech giv en by pres charles r richards be fore more than 200 students and faculty of the chemistry department at the annual christmas banquet of the chemical society held last eve ning in the ballroom of the masonic hall dr richards after stating the wish that he would like to be an al chemist able to turn the baser met als into gold to benefit the greater lehigh summarized briefly the pro gress of scientific knowledge from the days of the ancient greeks to the present he especialy empha sized the fact that only since 1800 has the greatest progress been made until now it is difficult to keep pace with the daily changes taking place in science and re search the president also made a plea for more students interested in research and complimented the so ciety on its good fellowship and cooperation in making the affair a success buchanan entertains walter wacholtz 32 president of the society acting as master of ceremonies introduced dr h m ullmann head of the department of chemistry who in turn introduced andy buchanan alumni secretary the entertainer of the evening the appearance of goldfish bowls fish continued on page four merritt to give radio wave talk cornell physicist will lecture before sigma xi dec 1 7 pi delta epsilon national jour nalistic society increased its mem bership to 22 last night when five men were initiated into the frater nity at an initiation banquet at the phi upsilon house the five men initiated were em anuel a honig 31 william e hoyer 31 joseph a hunoval 31 rufus l savage 31 and ralph c benson 32 they had been pledged dec 2 in chapel dale h gramley addressed the fraternity in the principal speech of the evening the field of college publications is a field of adventure said mr gramley we find adven ture all through life in a little child it consists merely of asking ques tions a little later we find adven ture in sneaking off to the swim ming hole as high school students there is adventure in making dates and imagining we are in love many new problems college publications are part of the adventures of college here in pi delta epsilon we are continually confronted by new problems to mention a few there are the prob lems of college censorship of sen iors who are lost to publications when they fail to be elected to an office of the gridiron banquet and of the combinations of publications each matter which comes before our councils for consideration is a challenge to us all after each initiate had responded briefly to the welcome of the fra ternity the gathering was called to order for a half hour business meet ing those who attended the initia tion and banquet were carl o claus g blackford camden alf malmros louis a brettner james s little robert a stabler sam uel c fuller curtis d macdou gall dale h gramley and walton forstall jr in addition to the new men former student marries in n y four lehigh men ushers at wedding of graeme mac donald the first military ball at lehigh university will take place this sat urday from 9 p m to midnight at the hotel bethlehem under the auspices of the scabbard and blade society this is the only large so cial event between the fall and spring house parties the famous masters of music the pied pipers of the princeton tri angle club will furnish the music they have announced that they have many specialties which they will present one of the main ones being their interpretation of the fa mous tiger rag every member of the band is said to be talented in some other means of entertainment they travelled in europe last sum mer and played in some of the fa mous clubs of that continent plan elaborate decorations the ball room of the hotel will be a mass of colors all of the flags from american legions around bethlehem have been borrowed to add to the decorations of the room further military color will be add ed by officers and members of le high's advanced classes in r o t c who will wear their uniforms the tickets are 2 for couples and 1 for stags they may be obtained from any member of scabbard and blade or at the hotel saturday eve ning schrader talks to pre-legals law court participation essen tial speaker declares at banquet the engineers club of the le high valley will celebrate its tenth anniversary at a meeting tonight at 8:15 o'clock in the auditorium of the packard laboratory j v hare secretary of the reading company and mr george i wright electric traction engineer of the reading company will be the speakers the general topic for the meet ing will cover the whole subject of transportation and particularly the part that the engineer has played in its development the subject will be covered not only from the point of view of accomplishments in the past but with an outlook toward the future few people realize what an im portant part transportation has in our modern industrial life quot ing an extract from a bulletin is sued by the secretary of the or ganization means of getting about from the earliest days of the savage have been as important a necessity of life as food clothing and shelter the more complex civ ilization has become the more im portant transportation has become and if our civilization is to advance our methods of transportation must also advance the engineer wheth er he be civil mechanical or elec trical has always been in the fore front of this advance problems await solution there are many problems today which are waiting definitely for an advance in transportation methods to secure their solution conjes tion in our cities with its attendant evils of crime disease and political unrest calls for transportation im provement as the most hopeful rem edy reduction in the cost of living and in the better distribution of wealth between our producers on the farms and our consumers in the cities calls for improved transpor tation railroads of the united states through furnishing necessary trans portation in the past have contrib uted perhaps more than any other agency to the great growth of our country today when new types of transportation are available we find the up-to-date railroads adopting the new forms as an adjunct to their existing systems a x p to hold dance alpha chi rho will give a closed dance saturday evening from 9 to 12 o'clock approximately 200 bids have been sent out the music is to be furnished by the easton sar acens the chaperons are to be mr and mrs wilson f payne and stewart meade b and w picture is taken a picture of the brown and white board was taken wednes day noon at mccaa's 27 members of the board were present twenty new members consisting of professors students and re search students will be initiated into sigma xi at 7:30 p m wednesday dec 17 in room 416 packard lab oratory those members who al ready have published articles and are members are prof c h sutherland director of the curri culum in civil engineering maurice ewing instructor in physics prof f creedy research associate pro fessor of electrical engineering prof j l graham assistant pro fessor of psychology and edward h cutler instructor in mathemat ics the associate members are el mer r binkley graduate assistant in physics john e freehafer eng phys 31 miss selma f her mann engineering foundation re search fellow walter h hoback archer - daniels-midland company and william o goodrich company research fellow charles a jeanson ch e 31 harry c kelly eng phys 31 william f mcgarrity ch e 31 john c mertz ch e 31 ; edward w midlam jr archer daniels-midland company and wil liam o goodrich company research fellow john a osteen instructor in physics alfred e rheineck ar cher-daniels-midland company and william o goodrich company re search fellow gordon w parkin son lehigh university instructor of research fellows oscar b schier james ward packard fellow har old e sincock ch e 31 and walter j tomlinson jr che 31 carothers to speak neil carothers professor of eco nomics and head of the college of business administration will speak on life insurance and the bus iness depression to members of the life underwriters association at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the hotel allen in allentown approximately 1,459 sheets each composed of 100 christmas seals were sent to students this year ac cording to a statement made by elizabeth a dinan head of the bethlehem branch of the anti-tu berculosis society the return are not all in as yet but the sale thus far has been successful and it is hoped that the quota will be filled she said many of the students have failed either to return the seals or the money for them the sale among the students last year was rather poor considering the size of the school there were 1,234 letters sent out and of this number only 221 were sold for a total of 193.70 of those sent out 803 were returned and there was no response from 210 so far subscriptions to the seals in bethlehem have reached 4,750 and for the reason that there are as yet many seals which have either not been returned or not paid for the bethlehem tuberculosis and health society today announced its belief that the subscription will be much larger in 1929 there were 30 deaths in bethlehem from tuberculosis by properly using the money realized from the sale of the seals it is hop ed that this number in the future will be reduced to a minimum t h hazelhurst wins prize in word contest robert b payrow wins electric vacuum cleaner dr t h hazelhurst of the chemistry department won the fourth prize in a contest conducted by the phillips music store and robert b payrow son of prof h g payrow of the civil enginering department took the third prize the object of this contest was the formation of the largest number of words from the letters in the words philips music store dr hazlehurst was awarded a general electric telechron clock and mr payrow received a gen eral electric vacuum sweeper a victor and echophone radio were presented to mr john andrew and miss ruth hawkins of this city as first and second prizes respectively stoughton to speak at institute dec 17 professor will discuss open hearth furnaces prof bradley stoughton direc tor of the curriculum in metallurgi cal engineering will speak on open hearth furnaces at a meet ing of the aliquippa engineering institute dec 17 at aliquippa pa the aliquippa engineering institute consists of the engineering staff of the jones & laughlin steel corpor ation professor stoughton will talk on the recent changes of open hearth furnace construction and operation in both united states and europe and will discuss tilting as compared with stationary furnaces furnace accessories such as new types of ports and charging machines eco nomics in fuel combustion control speed of operation methods of charging and repairing linings and recent improvements in slag and temperature control pi mu epsilon to meet w j tomlinson 31 will speak on curves of the second order and r h raring 32 on the complete quadrangle and quadri lateral at the monthly meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathemat ical fraternity which will be held monday dec 15 at 7:30 p m in room 400 packard laboratory prof ernest merritt head of the department of physics at cornell university will deliver a public lec ture on the propogation of radio waves at a meeting of sigma xi 8 o'clock dec 17 in room 446 packard laboratory professor merritt has been work ing with prof e l nichols for mer head of the department of phy sics at cornell university and jointly they have published many papers on luminscence professor merritt is a member of the national academy of sciences and past president of the american physical society during the war he was en gaged in perfecting submarine de vices at new london conn pro fessor merritt has given numerous talks over the radio and for the past five years has worked on the transition of radio waves research in the radio field is yielding valuable information on the constitution of the earth's surface and mr merritt will discuss the discovery of an ionized or electri fied conducting layer some 60 to 100 miles above the earth's surface the variance in height of this layer from day to night and from sea son to season and the manner in which radio waves are reflected back from it professor merritt will describe the skip distance pheno mena by means of which short waves are often received strongly and clearly at a great distance from the sending station lutheran students to have communion members decide to hold service sunday before lent lutheran students at lehigh uni versity and moravian seminary and college for women will be given a special communion service at 6:30 o'clock sunday evening before the beginning of lent members of all lutheran church es of bethlehem decided to hold this special communion at the sup per meeting last week at st peter's lutheran church twenty-two lehigh students of lutheran faith attended the supper david braun secretary of the le high union and mrs braun were also present kanalys have child a baby girl • jane rowe was born to mr and mrs morris e kanaly at 6:40 a m sunday dec 7 the baby born at st luke's hospital weighed seven pounds six ounces she was named for her great-great grandfather the cross-country team present ed kanaly track and cross coun try coach with a baby bunting outfit for his new daughter wed nesday afternoon in the trophy room of taylor gymnasium participation in the law courts is essential for the success of the of fice practitioner declared mr m c schrader in a speech at the an nual banquet of the lehigh pre legal society at the hotel beth lehem last wednesday evening mr schrader said that experience in the courts aided lawyers to judge people and to think clearly and quickly many lawyers have fail ed merely because they lacked the experience which the law courts give a lawyer's advice should be op en to the rich and the poor the for tunate and the unfortunate stated mr schrader a successful lawyer is one who has the interests of his clients at heart and does not hesi tate to advise them what he thinks best even if the advice means the continued on page four h graeme mac donald ex-'32 was married dec 8 to miss fran ces townsend at st bartholomew's church in new york with four le high men acting as ushers the wedding was one of the important social events of the winter season mac donald's bride is the daugh ter of mr and mrs edward town send of new york and sound beach the rev dr robert nor wood the rector assister by the rev john m chew rector of the church of the good shepherd newburgh n v performed the ceremony the groom left lehigh last spring after two years in the college of business administration in order to take a position while in college he was a member of the delta phi fraternity and on the sophomore cabinet william e miller john cushing john bindley and albert h ja cobs jr all members of delta phi and students or graduates of le high were four of the ushers the remaining were barnard townsend a cousin of the bride francis c cowles john gerli charles rams burg william terbell william taylor and james robertson all of yale donald mac donald the groom's brother was the best man ceaseless spring is deemed responsible for city's location prof curtis d macdougall coach of the varsity debating team has selected a team to represent lehigh in a debate with new york university at 8:15 p m tuesday dec 16 in the brith sho lom community center auditorium packer and ' broadhead avenues the team consisting of matthew murphy first speaker sol d leib owitt second speaker and george w parsons third speaker and leader will defend the negative side of the subject resolved that all nations adopt a policy of free trade the members of new york university's debating team are aug ustine v gentilini gary berman and abraham m isler captain they will arive monday dec 15 and will remain for two days the lehigh representatives were chosen wednesday on the basis of their showings in the final tryouts held last monday and tuesday aft ernoons in packard auditorium in monday's debate the affirmative team consisting of emanuel a honig edward fleischer and em anuel g scoblionko won 3-0 mau rice bernstein sol d leibowitt and manuel l ruderman compos ed the negative team the judges were prof myron j luch of the english department prof theo dore t lafferty and robert stone of the psychology department the negative side consisting of mat thew murphy rudolph l russo and george w parsons won 2-1 john w heiney barkley wyckoff jr and sydney r snitkin com prised the affirmative team prof edgar h riley of the english de partment prof earl l crum and richard h crum of the latin de partment were the judges three are veterans matthew murphy first lehigh speaker took part in eight varsity debates last year talking on both the kellogg peace pact and ma chine age questions his team win ning five of the debates losing two while one was a no decision de bate sol d liebowitt second le high speaker is a transfer from the university of alabama where continued on page four to initiate four four men will be initiated by pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering fraternity at an initia tion and banquet at the spring val ley inn thursday evening dec 18 the following will be initiated into the fraternity f p shannon 31 l v britton 32 e m gormley 32 and r h swoyer 32 stuffed birds in packer hall attic are remnants of large collection college and school education is not materially increasing the stu dents intelligence dr edwin b twitmyer professor of psychology at the university of pennsylvania and authority on mental hygiene told an audience of 400 which at tended the open meeting of the robert w blake society wednes day evening in packard laboratory intelligence is that elusive some thing which enables an individual when confronted with a problem to get the correct solution accord ing to dr twitmyer and he knows of no educational process that will instill it extra-curricula activities are to be commended he said because in them one comes in contact with problems which can be solved only by an intelligent decision and not by any information which can be acquired from external sources and this exercise of successful decision develops intelligence heredity important prof twitmyer claims that intel ligence is hereditary and that lead ership comes not from the men with the most persistence or energy but from those who are gifted with in telligence there are 3,000,000 school chil dren who are not making the nor mal progress in school he said he does not believe that these chil dren are getting the same advan tages as those who are making nor mal progress and that this is not an inherent fault of the children but a primary disadvantage of the present educational system educators attempt to describe education as a process of prepara tion they say kindergarten is a preparation for grammar school that grammar school is a prepara tion for high school that high school is a preparation for college that college is a preparation for life that life is a preparation for the hereafter and that — " here profes sor twitmyer paused his point proved in contrast to most educa tors he believes that education should put man in a position to get the most happiness out of life although he agrees that the pres ent system of education may be satisfactorily for those children who are making normal progress in school he believes that it is a great injustice to force this same system on the 3,000,000 who are be low par and likewise the 1,500,000 who are especially gifted the problem of education is the problem of individual ability to ab sorb intellectual information he asserted dr twitmyer doubts that we should spend time and money teaching people intellectual tricks that they will not use the rest of their lives energy marks intelligence hapiness is dependent on the disposal energy that the individual has to spend on a particular task he said in explaining that people with a low disposal energy will be unhappy doing a task which re quires a high amount of disposal energy and people with high dis posal energ|y will be dissatisfied doing low disposal energy work disposal energy is to some degree a measure of intelligence he claims and it is entirely hereditary professor twitmyer believes that the individual is primarily very plastic in a habit-forming sense and believes that child problems would not exist if parents brought the proper influences to bear upon their children from the time of their very first impulse a short informal discussion was held by the blake society after the lecture when dr twitmyer an swered questions that his topic had aroused burr to appear dec 16 the holiday issue of the burr will be in the mail tuesday dec 16 phillip s davis editor in chief is planning to use a short story by john h holzshu as the feature of the number there will be a full page of carl giegerich's cartoons entitled dating with the delts the cover done by jules booker is a caricature of a student throw ing away a book and picking up a suitcase there will also be several woodcuts by horl friday undertakes research dr w j trjitzinsky assistant professor of mathematics who is on leave of absence for the year 1930-31 will spend the balance of the academic year at harvard working on research in quasi-analy tic functions he has been doing re search at brown university since september and will continue this research at cambridge coming events water system in the village the water was forced through wooden pipes made of bored hemlock logs into the wooden water tower which was built where the present mo ravian church now stands in 1761 the second house was built of stone this time it is still standing and may be seen from the hill to hill bridge at that end of the bridge which is just south of the hotel bethlehem the house is in good condition and is now occu pied by mr and mrs frederich g schultes who come of old mora vian families instead of being iron the pipes which run through the house are wooden and wooden pins hold them together a gavel made from a sec tion of one of these wooden pipes is in the possession of robert pfeifle mayor of bethlehem and is used by him at executive meetings the original stone threshold still stands inside the door although it has been slightly hollowed at the center by the thousands of feet which have been planted upon it down through the years bethlehem owes its location to a marvelous never failing spring which attracted the original settlers in december of 1740 because even in that cold month its clear water bubbled forth from its ice rimmed pool and guaranteed a water sup ply that would not freeze in win ter situated at the foot of the hill upon the summit of which was built the first house of bethlehem it has functioned from that day to this and never disappointed the cit izens the water for the use of the community was distributed by wa ter carriers or haulers until 17ss these men were officially appoint ed and carried the water in leath er buckets suspended from long poles carried across the shoulders in 1751 hans christopher chris tiansen a dane arrived in bethle hem it was this man who gave to bethlehem its first water system seeing the waste of labor in the slow process of distribution by bucket he devised a method of transportation by pipes to a central tonight 7:30 p m meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society in room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the engin eers club of the lehigh valley in the packard auditorium saturday 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs franklin and marshall taylor gymnasium 9-12 p m scabbard and blade military ball to be held at the hotel bethlehem ing before their owl headed instruc tors once this ghostly flock enjoyed better days together with indian relics mexican weapons and oth er exhibits they constituted the le high museum of 1900 while visi tors now inspect the new library the guest of 1900 was shown through the museum and the stuf fed flock shone in its glory cards now lost identified each bird and its habitat > the collection was the gift of an alumni in the 80's and classes in ornithology added to it from time to time interest in the course and the collection died out and the course was dropped soon after the turn of the century the museum was discontinued and most of the exhibits were moved to the chem ical museum but no one wanted the birds mystery surrounds the final disposition of the collection as those now in the attic are but a small remainder bt the original flock their glass cases covered with the dust of years and their feath ers fading with the passing of time some sixty or seventy stuffed birds wait patiently in the gloom of the packer hall attic for their final fate they are the remnants of what was once one of the largest collec tions of native birds in the country until the auditorium on the fourth floor was cut uo for offices and classrooms last year a large white crane occupied a case in the cor ner now he too has gone to this modern graveyard of stuffed birds his glass case shattered and his white feathers scattering over the attic floor he survived almost thir ty years after his companions were relegated to the inner darkness but he has joined them at last robins and owls wrens and hawks sleep together in the drafty room under the eaves through open shafts in the floor the solemn faced owl can look down on math ematically inclined students sleep brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 12 1930 w r okeson writes football article paternal advice in letter is held sacred 44 years philosophy course approved by council price — five cents students detect boy taking fountain pen vol xxxiii no 24 chemists hold annual banquet richards talks blake society hears twitmyer on intelligence pi delta epsilon holds initiation of five thursday speaker recommends ex tra curricula activities to broaden outlook discussion is held d h gramley discusses wide field of adven ture in journalism membership now 22 buchanan entertains with legerdemain at christ mas party thursday 200 members present member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first