Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 31

              official pictures of the world war were shown to the lehigh r o t c unit tuesday after noon in packard laboratory the pictures started with the transportation of the a e f across the atlantic ocean and ended with the signing of the armistice among the many sc«nes the attack on an american obser vation balloon by a german airplane was probably the most interesting the plane circled the balloon a number of itmes dodging the shells of the am erican anti-aircraft guns and finally setting the balloon afire during the maneuvers the plane was hit brought to the ground and the pilot captured the picture also showed many scenes of infantry advancing under fire a second installment of the picture will be shown next tuesday in packard laboratory the faculty dramatic club are preparing to present the modern drama entitled en gaged by w s gilbert the date for the presentation has not been decided but the club hopes to be able to give the play before the easter holidays mrs h meyers of allen town wife of colonel h mey ers has consented to act as coach she will assist the club in the selection of the cast the first tryouts will be held at 8:30 o'clock monday evening at drown hall mrs john toohy wife of prof j m toohy has offered to select and make the costumes for the various mem bers of the cast prof sidney brown of the history depart ment was instrumental in the selection of the play the next meeting of the club will be held wednesday eve ning at the home of prof rob ert w hall 34 e church street at that time the club will read the play entitled the first mrs frazer knapp explains cicero's actions hurter talks on dynamite eta sigma phi learns ro man was self-made man field engineer of dv pont company speaks to miners fraternity pledges who manag ed to secure a satisfactory scholastic record last semester today were in many cases well on the way to become full fledged members of their respective chapters the first initiations of the pre sent season will be completed to morrow when three fraternities will hold formal initiations and ban quets phi delta theta will hold its initiaton banquet for ts seven initiates at the hotel bethlehem phi sigma kappa will initiate five men at its chapter house and al pho kappa pi will initiate three men at laschober's restaurant riv erton pa additional initiations are schedul ed for saturday feb 14 when five fraternities have announced that they will complete their initiation ceremonies delta upsilon will hold an initiation banquet for its nine in itiates at its house on the campus the eight new members of sigma nu will be entertained at hotel americus allentown sigma phi epsilon will initiate 13 men kappa sigma five and phi delta pi five these initiations will be held in the respective chapter houses initiations scheduled for satur day feb 21 include those of delta tau delta phi beta delta and tau delta phi most of the other frater nities will initiate as soon as suit able plans can be made d.o.t.to continue debate schedule stanley thomas professor of bacteriology returned from his trip abroad last week after having visit ed universities and bacteriological clinics and having renewed the ac quaintances of men he had met in this country at bacteriological and other scientific meetings he was on sabbatical leave and visited among other countries england france germany holland and bel gium interested in the sociologica problem of prostitution dr thom as made a study of the conditions in the differevit european countries especially in the university towns and the larger cities the results of which he intends to incorporate into his freshman hygiene lectures next fall studies bacteria an authority on venereal dis ease dr thomas has done consid erable research on the presense of the doderlein bacillus in the vagin as of young children and its effect on gonnococcus the gonnorhea ba cillus in his studies abroad dr thomas found that an increase in poverty resulted in an increase in prostitution he found a vast dif ference in the matter of police con trol in this country as compared with that abroad the attitude of the girl as well as the attitude of her friends was vastly different in the european countries in england according to dr thomas prostitution is not recog nized the englishman places wo manhood on a very high plane and refuses to admit that such a condi tion exists in spite of the fact that will also sponsor inter living group bull sessions it is in evidence organized vice however does not exist in england dr thomas declared in germany on the other hand prostitution is recognized fully and is taken up from the point of view of public health and not that of morals prostitutes are permitted to operate and only the spread of dis ease constitutes a crime american laboratories lead in france glasgow and aber deen are according to dr thom as strong departments of bacter iology very well equipped the de partments of bacteriology in the united states he maintained are better generally than those abroad the universities in germany were flourishing in spite of the extreme evidences of very obvious condi tions of poverty dr thomas dur ing an interview expressed surprise at the large number of women in at tendance at the german medical schools england he found to be in a very poor condition although the peo ple had assumed an attitude of i won't give in the midland dis tricts were in deplorable straits and the children were noticeably scraw ny from lack of proper food cheer fulness however seemed to pre vail holland and switzerland dr thomas declared were rich and well off and there was no unem ployment in france dr thomas visited the tobacco shops in most of the countries and engaged the proprietors usually of the lower middle class in general conversation as well as police offi cials and university professors he was in this fay able to get the opinions of the majority of the peo ple concerning problems and con ditions in this country as well as abroad two instructors added to faculty library acquires 30 rare books two volumes from the vollbehr collection are included new courses are intro duced in geology and philosophy the annual washington's birth day oratorical contest sponsored by the alumni association has been abolished because of the change of date in the alumni homecoming the alumni day has been postponed until sub-freshman day in april ac cording to an announcement in the current alumni bulletin made by the board of directors invitations will soon be sent out inviting the alumni to return at the later date for the past four years alumni have been invited here on washing ton's birthday to give them an op portunity to see the university in operation an dlearn something of the activities of the college more in timately than is possible by return ing on the alumni day in june by holding the homecoming on some saturday in april the univer sity will be in operation at least un til noon the bulletin points out it will also give them a chance to see some athletic team in the after noon by combining alumni day with sub-freshman day it is hoped that those of the alumni who have sons or friends interested in lehigh will bring them along with the change in date of the homecoming day and the conse quent withdrawal of funds for the alumni prizes in public speaking there will be no oratorical contest this year the contest was formerly held in two groups one for engin eers and the other for the arts and business students prizes totalling 100 were given annually with first second and third prizes being 25 15 and 10 respectively in each di vision first prizes in last year's orator ical contest were won by g e sco blionko arts 31 and w h scheel enberger c e 32 in their respec tive divisions other prize winners were e a fay bus 32 j o'neil bus 31 r h swoyer m e 32 and l t chandler m e 32 street cars rerouted local loop abolished transit company puts new sche dule into effect feb 1 allentown-bethlehem street cars which have been operated for over ten years on the route known as the allentown-bethlehem loop were re routed feb 1 in place of the two loop routes the three other routes have been substituted by the lehigh valley transit company in an effort to ex tend allentown car service to all parts of bethlehem cars on the one route leave 17th and hamilton streets allentown enter bethlehem by way of broad street cross the new street bridge and go to elliot's sitting fountain hill via five points they return to allentown by way of the same route cars on another route follow the reach fourth and new streets where route just mentioned until they they go east on fourth street to northampton heights they re turn to allentown by the same route with an unsual number of stu dents registering late the enroll ment for the second semester is slowly approaching 1,400 registra tion figures given out by paul e schwartz assistant registrar at 5 p m yesterday when the office of the registrar closed revealed that 1365 men had paid their fees to the bursar though the registration figures are below those for the same per iod last year when 1,422 men were registered dean c m mcconn de clared that there is every indica tion that the enrollment will be over 1,400 an unusual number of stu dents have been waiting for the fac ulty to act on their petitions before registering the dean's statement was borne out by mr schwartz who declared that nearly all of the roster blanks prepared for students at the begin ning of the semester had been call ed for most students who have secured their roster blanks will register mr schwartz added many of them are waiting to straighten out tangles in their rosters or for a check from home our system of al lowing students several days of grace before making a charge for late registration may also be ac countable for other students paying their fees late he also pointed out that 30 men registered yesterday while there is some uncertainty as to the final enrollment figures there is still greater uncertainty as to the number of men on proba tion dean mcconn said that no definite statistics would be available until late next week and attributed the confusion this semester on the influenza wave which coincided with the examination period many men missed one or more of their examinations the dean disclosed and in some cases stu dents missed all of their examina tions though technically a man may be out of school or on proba tion because of a failure to pass the required number of hours it is hard ly fair to him when he has not had a chance to take his examinations on account of illness most of these men are petition ing for another opportunity or for time to remove their conditions and until these petitions can be acted upon no definite probation statis tics will be available o.d.k discusses uniform award major l would bring all sports on par that cicero like many a modern business man was a self-made man a country boy who made good in the city was revealed to approxi mately 60 members of eta sigma phi national honorary classical fra ternity by prof charles knapp of columbia university at the regular meeting of the society held tuesday night in packard laboratory professor knapp who is the second of a series of outstanding scholars who are to address the so ciety traced the reasons why ci cero although he was an important man of letters did not follow that field he explained that the ro mans were practical minded peo ple and were reluctant to see a man devoting all his time to writing it was necessary for cicero to enter law and politics because he dis liked the only two remaining fields the army and agriculture in this field he soon became one of the world's greatest orators professor knapp was the guest of prof h w wright head of the latin department and arrang ed with him the joint meeting of the classical association of the middle atlantic states and the le high valley classical association which will be held in bethlehem friday and saturday may 1 and 2 at this time there will be three ses sions one on friday afternoon and one each on saturday morning and afternoon at each of the sessions papers relating to classical research will be read there will be a sub scription banquet friday evening in the hotel bethlehem after which there will be an address which will be open to the public the speaker has not yet been chosen the com bined societies will be the guests of the university at luncheon in drown hall on saturday f a bradford speaks to club discusses current business de pression before lions meeting delta omicron theta honorary forensic fraternity will carry out its schedule of intercollegiate de bates and also will sponsor an inter living group bull session tourna ment this winter despite its failure to secure financial support from the administration or several stu dent organizations which were ap proached to that end because of the failure to secure a subsidy however the intercollegi ate schedule of debates will be con fined to at-home contests members of the teams will be required to pay their own expenses oh such short trips as may be possible to allen town for radio debates and a de bate with muhlenberg to easton to meet lafayette and to quakertown to debate st joseph's manuel l ruderman debate manager has arranged a schedule of about a dozen debates three of these will be held over wcba al lentown radio station most of the rest will be before such bethlehem and allentown civic clubs as the monarch club knights of pythias odd fellows etc d o t refused aid inability of the administration to permit use of the university funds for a student activity followed sev eral months of effort on the part of representatives of d o t to in terest various individuals and or ganizations in the activity the mat ter was discussed by a few student organizations but always with an adverse vote as the result without financial backing of any sort states george w parsons president of d o t we can do very little however it would be very embarrassing to cancel many of the engagements we have made continued on page four dynamite its different forms how it is made and how it is used was the theme of a lecture last eve ning by charles s hurter field en gineer of the dv pont explosive company the lecture which was given in packard auditorium was a part of the program presented at a joint meeting of the lehigh university mining and geological society and the lehigh valley section of the american institute of mining en gineers following the lecture a motion picture driving the long est railroad tunnel in the west ern hemisphere was presented explosives mr hurter explain ed a,re of two classes high and low in the high class are included blasting gelatin straight dynamite emmonium dynamite and permis sibles the one low type explosive in use at the present is black pow der blasting gelatin the engineer asserted is the strongest of the high explosives even more power ful than nitroglycerine it is used in wet places as its gelatin base pro tects it from water the permissibles are explosives that can be used in areas where gases lurk mr hurter explained that due to their chemical compo sition they are less apt to cause an explosion there are two ways of setting off a charge of explosive by shock and by heat the caps which are now used are perfected to such a point that the proper elements of tem perature and shock are brought into play at the same time the methods of using high ex plosives were the basis for the film portraying the construction of the railroad tunnel in the cascades this tunnel which is 7 3-4 miles long was built in three years it cost 14,000,000 and was dedicated jan 12 1929 president hoover himself an engineer took part in the dedication ceremonies and graham macnamee described the passage of the first passenger train through the tunnel over a nation-wide hook-up there are two new men in the faculty this semester evan just has been appointed instructor in geo logy and luther l mays who re places robert stone is the new in structor in psychology mr stone was granted release in order to accept a position in the personnel department of the state of new york mr just graduated at northwest ern university with a b s in geo logy and received his master's de gree from the university of wiscon sin during the last eight years he has been engaged in geological work in the west he worked for various oil companies in michigan oklahoma texas and south am erica and worked on lead and zinc mining in missouri he was em ployed by the general aluminum company of america for one year in russia mr just will offer a new course this semester in petroleum geology the geological features of oil fields will be discussed in addi tion to the methods employed by geologists to locate oil fields ap proximately 17 men are registered for the course mr mays graduated at the uni versity of tennessee and comes to lehigh from the university of chi cago where he took graduate work the department of psychology of fers this semester a course in the theory of conduct phil 15 it in fludes the theory of values the system of human values the nature of justice duty and virtue and the problems of moral philosophy columbia professors fail to pass general knowledge tests initiation ceremonies approaching for many curious lehigh freshmen brown and white enters its thir ty-eighth year as a student publica tion by publishing this issue under a completely reorganized staff with the exception of walton for stall jr editor in chief who holds office until june all elective posi tions were filled when officers elect ed by the executive council were approved by the board of publica tions tuesday afternoon in the office of dean c m mcconn in addition to approving elections the board also approved the crea tion of two new elective offices na tional advertising manager and lo cal advertising manager to replace the office of advertising manager the officers whose election was approved by the board were james b rather news manager robert h raring editorial manager carl f hull business manager harry b osborn national advertising manager william h spath local advertising manager myron e whitney sporting editor clifford e harr ; son makeup editor ed mund h poggi jr circulation manager william h goehring and edward fleischer news editors new committee formed additional steps in reorganization were taken by the executive com mittee of the brown and white at a meeting jan 26 when it organ ized a research committee to inves tigate the rudimentary activities connected with the publication of the paper the committee will also review and constructively criticize the con stitution of the paper study the regular beats assigned to the re porters and draw up and study a curve showing the fluctuation of ad vertising from week to week the present membership of the committee is william e hoyer former news manager of the brown and white emanuel a honig for mer editorial manager irving e gennet former business manager and maurice bogart former make up editor the executive committee also placed the column around the campus under the direction of the new feature editor harry waren dorf 90 men enrolled approximately 90 men are regis tered in the brown and white courses according to curtis d mac dougall faculty advisor of the pa per who is in charge of all courses in journalism classes for those who have had previous experience in journalism will be held at 7:30 p.m sunday and wednesday inexper ienced reporters will meet for the first three weeks of the semester at 4 o'clock wednesday afternoons in addition to the regular evening classes appointive officers for the com ing semester were selected at an organization meeting of the new elective officers those appointed were harry warendorf feature ed itor jerome barney walter w kinsinger john a lloyd and wil liam v s port news assistants benjamin minifie and arthur w home sporting assistants frank c murphey world news frank lin b wise exchange editor mat thew thomlinson librarian saul a cohen assistant national advertising manager bert riviere assistant local advertising manag er frederick h morhart athletic review kenneth k kost charles a milson edwin r wisner and martin m reed jr copyreaders and julian h booker james s little joseph a hunoval and ralph c benson editorial council waldon to speak wilbur m waldon will address the heads of all social fraternities at 7 p m thursday feb 12 in drown hall mr waldon repre senting the national interfraternity conference in a tour of colleges throughout the united states will speak on american college fra ternities he was graduated from cornell and is a member of alpha chi rho fraternity all students are invited to attend alumnus promoted malcolm carrington e e 96 has recently been appointed assis tant to the vice president of the westinghouse electric and manu facturing company he has been in the employ of the westinghouse company since 1904 working in many different capacities in the va rious plants of the company in his new job he has general super vision of shipping stocks order procedure and office operations thirty books the gift of robert honeyman jr 20 were added to the collection of rare books in the library during january according to howard s leach librarian over 200 books of standard edi tions were also added during the same month two incunabula volumes books printed before 1500 a d in the honeyman donation are of great beauty and importance mr leach declares they come from the voll behr library whohe main collection of 3,000 volumes was sold last year to the library of congress for 1,500,000 both volumes are histories of florence one by the great renais sance scholar poggio braccialini and the other by leonardo aretino both were published in 1476 the library has only four printed books older than these two the oldest be ing published in 1472 two others in 1473 and one in 1475 the life of the prince consort of england by theodore martin is a presentation copy bearing the inscription to the earl of sydney in recollection of former days from victoria reg jan 1875 this is the autograph of queen victoria a prayer book published in 1832 has on its fore-edges under tfle gold a water colored painting of west minister bridge this is the only example of a fore-edged painting owned by the lehigh library old books obtained other interesting and important books in the collection are a 1601 breeches bible a 1645 edition of the gedman poem reinicken fuchs two editions of sterne's sentimen tal journey a treatise by robert boyle the great physicist dated 1695 and three railroad pamphlets date 1828 which are among the rar est of early railroad literature among the new books added to the shelves are man and his uni verse langdon-davies identity and reality meyerson and-"or pheus colum the second twen ty years at hull house sept 1909 to sept 1929 adams the am erican leviathan beard and universities — american english and german flexner scientific books added scientific books added include climate brooks field meth ods in petroleum geology cox the new world of physical dis covery darrow the origin of continued on page four business has to go on because the life of a nation goes on and business always adjusts itsself to new conditions no matter how un favorable they may be with these words prof frederick r bradford of the department of economics in the college of business administra tion concluded his speech before a recent meeting of the lions club professor bradford's speech con cerned the depression into which the united states has been plunged for the last two years he declared that the united states government in accordance with the idea of the easy money advocates that the effects of the purchase of govern ment bonds as a means of relief for business depression has already purchased 650,000,000 worth of these bonds this is the largest amount ever held in reserve and yet it has shown no marked effect upon the condition of the country however he held forth hope for the future by saying that in the history of our country the second year of a depression period had al ways been easier than the first be cause readjustments had started to work professor bradford added that the american government had been making these adjustments dur ing the last year and that we may start looking for an easier time in 1931 henshaw to speak clement s henshaw instructor of physics will talk before the sun day night discussion group at 7:30 o'clock sunday evening in drown hall mr henshaw will discuss the book mysterious universe by sir james jeans all students are invit ed to be present coming events omicron delta kappa national honorary activities society discuss ed the possibility of awarding a uni form l in all sports thus bring ing the present minor sports to a par with major sports last night at the tau delta phi house robert baird and carl claus were elected delegate and alternate respectively to the national convention at the university of kentucky in lexing ton members discussed registration and the cut system at length but no definite conclusion was reached a committee with walton for stall as chairman and francis neu wirth and john maxwell as mem bers was appointed to formulate rules for the annual o d k theme contest it is planned to award a permanent cup to the winner of the contest the contest will be held under the direction of h g rhoads assistant professor of eng lish it will be given as a regular class exercise in all freshman eng lish classes during the latter part of march any student may take part in the contest however and it is not necessary that the contest ants be taking an english course rules for the contest have been announced by mr forstall as fol lows the general topic of the themes shall be some change in custom regulation or organization which will in the writer's opinion result in improvement in undergraduate life and pursuit of education at le high this change may be either the elimination of an existing order the installation of an entirely new plan or a combination of both it should be practical immediate and something omicron delta kappa can hope to accomplish — not for example the erection of an infir mary building the themes may be as long as the writers choose to make them but should not be less than 300 words they will be judged on the basis of the change suggested the plan for its accomplishment and the skill in presentation df the writer's ideas literature made the highest grade 55.1 percent some of the faculty did not know what chromium is could not name 3 living american architects or five english makes of automobiles futreh the spectator reporter commented that he noticed when he gave the quiz that profes sors when they didn't know the answer tended to bluff in exactly the same manner as do their schol ars one faculty member answered the question list three composi tions of brahms with the first second and third sonatas at the same time a number of students took the same quiz the highest mark attained by this group was 46 per cent and the lowest 33 inasmuch as the lowest mark of the faculty members takings the quiz was 42.7 per cent it is easily rec ognized that in knowledge of world affairs and general information sev eral of the students ranked ahead of their tutors a situation which according to the new york herald tribune was gleefully recognized by the columbia student body after the results were made public in the spectator the spectator re porter in charge of the examina tion added to his comments that the professors were every bit as nervous and fidgety about the ex amination as students could be who was tillman riemenschnei der what you don't know well here's an easy one who were the piccolomini tsk tsk . . . such stu pidity but fear not gentle reader you are not the only ones lacking in this knowledge the learned fac ulty or at least those members of the learned faculty who deign to answer at all of columbia univer sity were also stumped by questions such as these it all happened this way some weeks ago thomas beer noted author prepared a test on general knowledge and present ed it to a group of 25 college stu dents all of whom flunked dismally from these results beer concluded that modern young people posing as intellectuals are ignorant unlet tered and uncultured at the opening of columbia uni versity's second semester classes yesterday the columbia specta tor asked a number of the faculty to take an examination to consist of the forty questions prepared by mr beer forty-three of the professors asked declined flatly to have any thing to do with it according to the spectator the list of those re fusing included the name of a dean and several professors noted for their hard quizzes only ten of the faculty answered the entire test and of these prof clarence a manning who conducts courses in russian tonight st luke's hospital chanty ball hotel bethlehem saturday 3 p m varsity basketball vs penn sylvania military college in tay lor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity wrestling vs university of pennsylvania in taylor gymnasium that friday the 13th will be includ ed it is in this way that super stitutions are kept alive of course the boards on the new street bridge will be counted certainly some frosh will be sent in search of a lef-handed monkey wrench or a steam sandwich it will be a poor season unless some doctor's sign is missing and fred trafford and his merry men issue ultimatum to the effect that unless said shingle is re turned within the next 36 hours all fraternity houses will be searched whereupon the missing sign will turn up in a non-fraternity man's room and when it is all over pledgee glutz wih be brother glutz and neophyte schmelg will be frater schmelg and both will tell their for mer betters where to go for about three weeks every newly admitted fraternity man will conscientiously wear his pin in the position in which it will show to best advantage and will have his hand pumped by con gratulating friends and three weeks later it will all have worn off and the once treasured pin will have begun its endless tour among the weaker sex gracing the dress of the fraternity man's latest light of love it won't be long now within the next few weeks all those myster ious little buttons adorning the la pels of many of our freshmen and some of the older students will dis appear and be replaced by jeweled pins even more mysterious and dis creetly hidden on the bosoms of the new initiates what does it all mean hell week is coming the day of judgment approacheth and whomsoever hath transgressed shall pay through the nose the swish of paddles is in the air and pale frosh scurry around the campus with all manner of out landish objects tucked under their arms there goes one with a chick en the poor thing cackling its head off its dignity ruffled by this sud den transposition from the peaceful serenity of a hen-yard into the cold cold world the townspeople never tire of the sight the weird costumes the entertaining pranks of course they complain occasionally about the paucity of originality but they re alize that they must take the good with the bad and in all seem to bear up well enough even the po lice beam coyly at the cute little tricks of the unfortunate initates aptly enough most fraternities have arranged their hell weeks so bethlehem pa friday february 6 1931 r.o.t.c unit see official pictures frosh to end pledge period price — five cents brown and white alumni postpone home coming day withdraw prizes 1365 students now registered for second term b & w enters its 38th year with new staff faculty to present gilbert's engaged vol xxxiii no 3 1 . yearlings soon to become full fledged fraternity members ten men approved for positions by board of publications two offices created late men will probably raise enrollment to 1400 petitions prevalent thomas returns from trip studies prostitution problem bacteriology p ro f c ssor visits foreign coun tries for information graduates will meet in april with sub frosh no oratorical contest all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association