Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 33

              tells mechanical engin eers of economics in american industry by k k kost plans for meeting and enter taining second lieutenant j a wing third corps area inspec tor who is coming to visit the local chapter of scabbard and blade were discussed by the society wednesday evening lieutenant wing is expected to arrive at noon thursday feb 19 he will be met by r l baird president of the le high scabbard and blade so ciety and after lunch will in spect the armory and its new addition before leaving for the philadelphia headquarters the possibility of holding an open meeting in the near fu ture was also discussed music clubs give varied program a mock trial will be given by members of the pre-legal society at its next meeting it was decided at a meeting of the society held wednesday eve ning in packard laboratory the part of judge will be taken by ernst b schulz as sistant professor of political science the defending attorney will be sydney r snitkin 31 the prosecuting attorney will be jerome mayer 31 the defen dant will be manuel ruder men 33 and harold i silver 33 will be one of the wit nesses tke picture of the society which is to be put in the epi tome will be taken monday noon feb 16 at mccaa's stu dio the rutgers university 400-yd relay team last night set a new world and intercollegiate record of 3:38 3-5 in the meet against lehigh the brown and white swimmers were defeated 48-12 winning only two second places the former world's record of 3:39 1-5 and the intercollegiate record of 3^40 2-5 were both held by yale university george kojac swimming an chor man did the best hundred yards in 51 3-5 to aid in setting the record 91 men to take special exams five professors to attend meet dance and concert held at local masonic temple will represent lehigh at engineering convention feb 16-19 first group scheduled for saturday feb 2 1 , at - 2 p m ninety-one men will have to take the special examinations to be giv en to those who were unable to at tend the finals because of the flu epidemic according to dean g b curtis the number of students re quired to take these special exams is unprecedentedly large the first installment of the re-ex amination schedule is printed be low the remaining schedule has not been completed as yet but will tie printed in a future issue of the brown and white lehigh university will be repre sented by five professors at the an nual meeting of the american insti tute of mining and metallurgical engineers which will convene feb 16-19 at the enginering societies building in new york city the representatives from this university will include prof bradley stough ton head of the department of met allurgical engineering prof how ard eckfeldt head of the depart ment of mining engineering prof a butts of the department of met allurgy prof b l miller head of the department of geology and prof h g turner of the geology department seventeen hundred delegates are expected to attend this meeting dr francis f lucas of the bell telephone laboratories will deliver the annual howe memorial lecture and dr arne westgren of the uni versity of stockholm who will talk on steel tonight at williams hall will deliver the institute of metals lecture another feature of the an nual meeting the principal speaker at the dinner of the institute of meals division will be dr gustave w thompson director and chief chemist of the national lead com continued on page four practical advice which most col lege graduates need when they en ter the industrial world was extend ed wednesday evening to the mem bers of the electrical engineering society by alfred j standing su perintendent of the electrical de partment saucon plant of the bethlehem steel company a paper by john b sponsler e e 31 on how to see was also read at the meeting which was held in the packard laboratory mr standing who received his electrical engineering degree from lehigh in 1911 declared that a col lege graduate feels superior to the general run of men this attitude should change he added into res pect for fellow workers a graduate should sell himself mr standing asserted know the risks and give constructive criti cisms when tackling a new position in addition he should try to be as valuable as possible to his employ er 1 he added that in the bethle hem steel company the aim is to obtain higher tonnage of steel an hour and to reduce the cost of labor by cutting down the number of men employed on one job makes comparison freshmen were likened to raw material instructors to skilled workmen and books to tools by the speaker in his comparison of schools to industry the application of laboratory work coming midway between theory and practice he in sisted should be correlated by the graduates in actual factory work college graduates according to mr standing expect-to advance too rapidly and he advised them to start at the bottom because in dustrial leaders realize the neces sity of apprenticeship for the neo phyte thomas relates alumnus story honorary group to hold dance dr arne fredrick westgren of the university of stockholm inter nationally known swedish scientist and secretary of the nobel prize committee for physics and chemis try since 1925 will speak tonight at 8 o'clock in the lecture room of williams hall on the crystal structure of ordinary and alloyed steels dr westgren who has been brought to this country this year by the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to present the feature lecture before the annual convention of the insti tute in new york city feb 16-21 is specializing in the x-raying of steels the value of the x-ray in de termining the arrangement of atoms in crystals of metals and substances will be the principle theme of his discourse tonight the x-ray is be coming an increasingly vital factor in industry as shown by the fact that general electric has formed a subsidiary corporation which is called the general electric x-ray corporation the chemistry department of this university carries extensive x-ray equipment according to harold v anderson assistant professor of chemistry the work that is done in the university x-ray laboratory co incides in many respects with the work that dr westgren a profes sor df general and inorganic chem istry is doing some of the x-ray work is done in co-operation with the metallurgical department as the properties of metals and alloys are studied as well as the organic and inorganic sides of the x-ray analysis by means of the x-ray study of crystal structure as dr westgren's talk will disclose the arrangement of atoms in crystals of metals and substances is determined and by knowing the arrangement of atoms the properties of matter and espe cially of metals may be discerned dr westgren is a recognized au thority on his subject and has al ready published several important papers dealing with it in confor mity with a custom practiced in past years dr westgren will tour the country speaking at important metallurgical centers of which bethlehem is one tau beta pi announces fel lowship for student members news announcer tells of rescue at mining camp carothers sees trade recovery forecasts brighter condi tions at south side bus iness luncheon representatives elect machines should not be blamed for the present unemployment sit uation declared mr leon can man consulting engineer for a new york concern in his address the complication between man and machine to the mechanical en gineering society last evening when the machine was first in troduced there was a common fear that it would hinder rather than help the working man declared mr canman this fear was un founded as was later proved with the advent of the machine many new industries were developed and things could now be made that couldn't have been made previous ly mr canman gave as an exam ple of this the development of the steam engine and the spinning jen ny mr canman continues there was now a demand for skilled la bor wages rose purchasing power reached new heights creating a new demand for machine products and with the rise in wages the standard of living among the working classes rose economic system good america has an economic sys tem that can not compile with oth er countries stated mr canman he gave as an example of this the manufacture of the austin automo bile in this country and abroad in america it takes 3000 men to turn out 600 cars per day while in eng land in order to turn out 600 cars per day several times the number of me.n is required as in america am erica turns out products with less man power than any other country in the world mr canman then stated that men have been laid off without decreas ing production he said that this was due to improvements in ma chines the introduction of labor saving devices and the fact that in some industries the machine has been developed to such an extent that it does part of the thinking for the worker it is true that machines have dri ven many men out of positions but machines must be built to take the places of the men thus displace the building of these new machines requires additional mermo work in their construction mr canman continued by stating that there are many things that could be develop ed further and something that would be entirely new to the world mr canman then amused the audience by saying that we are little removed from the pre-historic age he said that our minds still work slowly and that though we are con stantly developing new methods these methods come slowly after the talk elections were held for representatives for the freshmen and sophomore classes r a lodge was elected as sophomore representative and l h eichel berger was elected as the freshman representative there were about 50 men present who immediately ad jorned for refreshments aftef the nominations were held becker to speak a world in transition will be the topic for the regular discussion group at 7:30 sunday evening in drown hall to be led by prof f c besker of the dept of philosophy professor becker previously gave the first of this year's series of col lege lectures on this subject the combined musical clubs con sisting of the glee club a quartet and a dance orchestra gave a con cert and dance wednesday night at the masonic temple the glee club was under the direction of t edgar shields the first group of numbers ren dered by the glee club consisted of keep in the middle of the road a negro spiritual arranged by bar tholomew now sleeps the crim son petal by andrews and moonlight here and yonder an old french air arranged by stickler the three clocks by starke and you're driving me crazy by donaldson were the numbers sung by the quartet the members are francis baxendale 33 first tenor stuart roberts 34 second tenor william alcorn 31 first bass and john s harrison 31 second bass mr alcorn's solos my white dove by lehar and duana by mcgill were well re ceived the glee club concluded the con cert with the song of ships by flagler and the battle of jeri cho a negro spiritual arranged by bartholomew after the concert the musical club orchestra under the direction of jules booker 32 fur nished music for dancing buchanan on trip a e buchanan jr executive secretary of the lehigh alumni as sociation left bethlehem tuesday to attend a meeting of the chica go lehigh club en route to chi cago mr buchanan was scheduled to stop off to attend meeting of the cincinnati lehigh club the tole do lehigh club and the detroit lehigh club council to meet a freshman council meeting w\j be held at 7:30 o'clock wednesday feb 18 in david braun's apart ment in drown hall to discuss plans for the freshman spring banquet the council has elected h w mc dowell as chairman of the banquet committee a definite date for the banquet cannot be set until the oth er classes have set their dates as the freshman banquet must be held last students who are entitled to take these re-examinations and hava not yet petitioned to do so should petition at once students who miss these special examinations without having a legitimate excuse will not be entitled to take them until next fall dean curtis said because of the large number of students who have not yet com pleted their examinations the scho lastic standing of the living groups will not be computed until the grades from the delayed exams have been obtained the living group standing and the list of men on pro bation will be completed april 1 the editor sent me so i went went up to the barn like room which herbert m diamond profes sor of economics calls his office went right in and sat down beside him stammered out a question what about this lecture which you are giving next monday evening in the packard laboratory auditor ium you mean the college lecture on what about the unemployed doctor diamond replied yes that's it what about them that's how the interview began i suppose you're going to advocate giving them some unem ployment insurance or a dole i suggested you may think that unemploy ment insurance is jus an academic issue but it is not the professor was started so i sat back and left him ramble on bills have been introduced into a number of state legislatures congress is considering the sub ject and the conference of govern ors of seven states called by gov ernor roosevelt of new york has agreed to study the question i know i encouraged him an other way to get a dole fear is subsiding now let me tell you professor diamond started again the fear of a dole is subsiding perhaps because we already have a dole and per haps because the general—electric company has recently adopted a program of unemployment insur ance why not save a little money i cut in the savings of many people have been wiped out by the two year depression i still had one come-back what are you going to do about it unannoyed by my sally profes sor diamond began anew every student of unemployment knows that when ever there is a depres sion everyone talks about unem ployment after the depression passes unemployment is forgotten each succeeding crisis has caught us fully as unprepared as had its predecessor those who are inter ested should not relax until they have accomplished some construc tive measure to prevent or relieve unemployment in the future how can these things be accom plished say young man said the econ omist as he leaned forward in his chair the next thing you'll have my whole speech suppose you come to the lecture on monday evening and suppose that i do what time should i be there before 8 o'clock over in the packard auditorium and with a wave of his hand he dismissed me to trot noisily back down the stairs a decision to hold a dance was reached by the members of the le high chapter of tau beta pi at a meeting wednesday evening in packard laboratory application blanks for the tau beta pi fellow ships for 1931-32 were distributed at the meeting a committee consisting of john d benedict chairman hall w cushman and raymond k serfass was appointed to decide upon the date and make other arrangements for the dance tau beta pi fellowships have been awarded for the past three years to members of the society who wish to flct advance work in some study there are six fellow ships each is worth 750 payable in ten monthly installments ap plications must be filed by feb 28 with prof a d moore of the uni versity of michigan further infor mation can be secured from pro fessor larkin art exhibit to open feb 17 oils paintings and etchings to be displayed in li t>rary late registrations destroy smooth working organization by ben d beach an exhibition of conteumpory art sponsored by the college art association will open in the library art gallery tuesday feb 17 and will remain open until march 1 ac cording to prof g a howland of the fine arts department in connection with the exhibit moving pictures will be shown at 8 p m wednesday feb 18 in pack ard auditorium one picture of two reels is the making of etch ings and a second of one reel is how a sculptor works no ad mission will be charged and the pictures are open to the public the art gallery will be open daily from 2 to 5 p m during the exhibit the united states will recover from the business depression in due time said neil carothers head of the college cf business adminis tration at a banquet of the south side business association monday evening in hotel bethlehem the present situation will run its course said dr carothers and the recovery of trade industry and prosperity will come in due time no congress no president and no federal reserve system can hasten it materially business depression is a necessary consequence of ex travagance speculation waste and unwise investment of course a bus iness depression cuts through the community life a knife ruining the business of the best as well as the worst but in the main it weeds out the unfit the badly managed and the inefficient establishment in his speech dr carothers ad vocated the building up of the va cant and unimproved properties in the city this he said would hold the retail business in bethlehem more than any other force if bethlehem is contributing to the wealth of the nation it will be prosperous wherever it buys its goods and its retail trade will be prosperous declared dr caroth ers and bethlehem has enter prises and institutions that in my judgment insure its prosperity ¦ contest continues eight fraternitfes alpha tau omega delta delta phi chi phi kappa sigma theta kappa phi kappa alpha pi lambda phi and sigma phi are still represented in the inter-fraternity bridge contest which began its second round of elimination tuesday the contest is sponsored by the interfraternity council and managed by george brumbach of alpha chi rho it has been in progress since christmas vacation and final play is to take place feb..26 individual winners will receive medals and their fraternity a cup coming events the story of the last-minute res cue of a lehigh alumnus alexander c mac hardy 14 from death at the hands of a firing squad in peru was broadcast to the world last evening by lowell thomas noted announcer of news of the day thomas based his broadcast on a clipping from the january issue of the alumni bulletin which was sent to him by an alumnus from texas the article which appeared in the bulletin follows alexander c mac hardy 14 who is assistant superintendent of the cerro de pasco copper mines at morococha peru is the hero of an adventure that is generally be lieved to happen only in the mo vies captured by communists who seized the property at morococha mac hardy was sentenced to be shot at sunrise and was rescued by soldiers hastily dispatched from lima who arrived just before the prisoners were to be led out blind folded to face the fiiring squad this exciting experience took place early in december previous ly mac hardy's letters to his fam ily had told of the unsettled condi tion of the country of the activity of russion communists of strikes and political disorders and of the killing of two men at neighborhood mines fearing trouble a great many native workers and others at morococha fled from the mining company's village to lima mac hardy however remained at his post he was seized while seated in his office imprisoned and sen tenced morococha is located in the an des mountains and has an elevation of 1,500 feet it is reached by a rail road which bores through the an des in some 64 tunnels and there is but one train each way a day society to meet pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matical society will hold its month ly meeting at 7:30 p m feb 16 in room 450 packard laboratory w c elmore eng phys 32 and p g reynolds m e 32 will address the society the former will speak on pascal's brianchon theories and the latter will discuss quadratic surfaces a business meeting will also be held insisting that hell week be abolished in connection with the american college fraternity wilbur w walden addressed about 25 men at an open meeting sponsored by the interfraternity council last eve ning in drown hall on the amer ican college fraternity and the interfraternity conference mr walden is national secretary of alpha chi rho and a representa tive of the interfraternity confer ence he is making a tour of the united states and discussing these topics at the leading colleges and universities he is a graduate of cornell university hell week in the american uni versity should be stamped out and can be stamped o«t i am not re ferring to certain constructive pro grams which a few fraternities car ry out and term hell week but to the ridiculous asinine tricks to which freshmen are submitted it is impossible to foretell consequences when a fraternity starts hell week and much of the material which state legislatures hold for use of abolishing the american college fraternity lies in this field the ini tiate is often subjected to obscene and vulgar practices which are an insult to his intelligence and do not coincide with the conception of brotherhood i defy anyone to name a case where a freshman has been kept out of a fraternity because of his refusal to do what he was told they will take him for the thirty dollars a week if for nothing else hell week is in the same category as stage coaches and hoop-skirts offers substitute a substitution was offered by mr walden involving a series of con structive meetings held for the ben efit of the freshmen where such topics as fraternity history chapter history fraternity alumni organiza tion fraternity crests and heraldry campus statistics and the economic status of the chapter should be dis cussed the speaker emphasized the explanation of the economic status rating fraternities on campus mr walden continued is all hoo ey supposing that a house has the captain of the football team then the chapter can tell its friends how high the house rates all this how ever is reflected glory from one man and the men who usually do the bragging are the ones who do nothing themselves in the way of ac tivities to help the chapter rating should be based on the character of its men and the home-like at mosphere of the fraternity house instead of on the amount of booze they drink i am not telling you not to drink but to be temperate these fraternities at the university of michigan give a bad reputation to all college fraternities mr walden gave a short resume of the history of the interfraternity conference this organization is about 20 years of age and includes 60 national fraternities any frater nity is free to join if it is at least 15 years of age and has not less than 10 chapters the conference meets friday and saturday follow ing thanksgiving in new york city there is no legislation con nected with the organization it acts as an advisory board helping the various fraternities to solve their problems according to the pur poses of the organization enumer ated by the speaker it helps weak chapters offers systems of finance advises on problems of pledging and initiation defines the legal sta tus of a fraternity and fights anti fraternity legislation discusses rituals forty years ago the chief object of fraternities was to steal each other's ritual twenty-five years ago such a meeting would have been impossible commented mr walden at that time they had nothing to do with each other a survey conducted some years ago revealed that the majority of na tional fraternities have rituals which are almost identical most rituals are founded on those rituals of the masonic order and the episcopal ian church fraternities in the unit ed states today own over a millon dollars worth of land this presents a problem which the interfraternity conference helps to meet tn defending the fraternity mr walden said that it offers an oppor tunity to develop character among its members the first thing neces sary is a place to live even if it be a set of rooms some organization is necessary in the fraternity to de velop a home-like atmosphere the boy can be aided in his studies his activities and in adopting himself quickly to his environment mr walden maintained that fraternal association should imbue tolerance self-control and sacrifice for the common good various quizzes are composed for different kinds of people who flunked m s and t for the benefit of these students we have arranged a strictly lehigh exam which every student should pass the phychology department gives true and false exams and the bus iness department believes in flunk ing a lot of students who fail to guess the 25 carefully selected words this exam will be different no hooks no snags just horse sense 1 name the beer that made le high famous 2 at what university did the following expression originate who was that lady i saw you with last night or — "? 3 what is the mystic drug found in dr bull's brown mixture 4 who is responsible for the following remark just the world's greatest tennis player if he would only keep training 5 trace the origin of the re mark not one drop of liquor for lehigh students 6 how much truth is there in the statement those who can do those who can't teach 7 describe the fatal ride of jack petrikin's water wagon 8 describe the painting of al onzo rosencranz which was exhib ited in lehigh's art galleries 9 what lehigh man is respon sible for the expression procras tination is the greatest sin of the present day 10 make up a question for your self and anwer it then add ten to your former mark answers will be sent on request thomas beer propounder of a set of deep questions in a recent issue of scribner's magazine again breaks into print this time it is weare holbrook feature writer of the new york hewld-tribune who comments on his comprehensive questionnaire for collegians and says in part "... since the younger generation has been weighed and found wanting according to the middle age stan dards it is only sporting that the middle-aged should submit to a similar examination prepared by the younger generation then mr halbrook presents an intelligence test for slippered pantaloons among the questions which com prise this test a few which may be of interest to lehighites are describe a painting by peter arno what will remove gin stains from a tux lapels b batik bed spreads c seminar reports d suede shoes name the husbands of peggy joyce in chronological order who said boop boopa-doop trace the origin of the remark i'm so wet that if you blow on me i'd ripple is rudy vallee's hair naturally curly what woman uses strawberries on her face to remove wrinkles do you think andy will ever marry madam queen any college men of average in telligence could pass that examin ation with flying colors but we are still skeptical of a few freshmen friday feb 13 8 p m meeting of the metallurgi cal society room 301 williams hall 8 p m open lfieeting of the rob ert w blake society room 466 packard laboratory 9 p m lehigh women's club dance at the hotel bethlehem saturday feb 14 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs u s naval academy taylor gym monday feb 16 8 p m college lecture what about the unemployed by prof h m diamond in packard audi torium registration periods are the bus iest times in the year for the ad ministrative departments of the uni versity all of this work is foreseen and adequately planned for in order that it may be handled in an or derly manner and the plan works well however the matter of late registration which has been assum ing greater and greater importance with successive registration periods has put a hitch into the otherwise smooth working of the plans mr f.r ashbaugh bursar of the university said that late registra tion for this semester had far ex ceeded all previous records of the kind it was his opinion that this remarkable increase simply meant that the students were learning how to play the game to their best ad vantage so far as time out of school was concerned for by paying as lit tle as one dollar extra they could extend their vacation by three days figures obtained at the registrar's office show that about 550 men fail ed to complete their registration by payment to the bursar until he monday or tuesday following the registration period as class cards are not distributed until payment is made a large third of the class cards were not properly placed un til the middle of the week with consequent serious delay in the or ganization of many classes the matter is assuming astounding pro portions a definite solution to the prob lem is necessary according to mr ashbaugh the registration period could be changed to the first of the week but that would be a reversion to the method of handing the sit uation that was in effect four years ago he said in february 1928 reg istration days were changed frotn tuesday and wednesday to the pre ceding friday and saturday in or der to have time for a fifjl week of spring vacation instead of the for mer three day vacation this has been the practice up to the present time however the increasing mis use of the late registration privilege which was made only to allow for emergencies will make it necessary to raise some more stringent limi tation to the use of that privelege the administrative officers are con sidering possible means for effect ing this limitation though no def inite action has been taken at the present time according to the bur sar brown and white price — five cents pre-legal society to hold mock trial brown and white friday february 13 1931 lt wing to visit scabbard and blade vol xxxiii no 33 dr a f westgren to discuss steel in williams hall lack of machines cause depression canmam explains h m diamond to give lecture monday feb 16 standing talks to electricals on engineering walden declares hell week an evil national secretary of al pha chi rho speaks here discusses problems rutgers relay team breaks swim record x-ray will be principal theme of lecture tonight has published papers business professor will discuss national unem ployment situation public is invited says college graduates need practical ad vice in industry sponsler reads paper re-examinations saturday feb 21 at 2 p m in packard auditorium biol 1 biology biol 7 elementary biology bus 3 economics bus 13 advanced accounting bus 25 corporation finance bus 45 statistics c.e 8 mechanics of materials c.e 9 mechanics of materials chem 8 stoichiometry chem 98 physical chemistry chem 163 chemistry of drugs dies and related compounds engl 3a composition and lit erature engl 31 milton and the 17th century geol 1a mineralogy geol 4 general geology ger 7 german of chemistry math 1a unified mathematics math 4 elementary calculus math 6 advanced calculus math 20 elementary mechanics math 41 mathematics of fin phys 1 elementary physics all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association