Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 34

              prof p m palmer pi delta epsilon to plan banquet prof bradley stoughton head of the metallurgical department gave a buffet supper friday eye ing at his home at which dr arne f westgren international ly known scientist was guest of honor members of the metallurgical society were given the opportun ity of meeting dr westgren personally before he addressed the society later in the evening prof j s long and prof h v anderson of the chemistry department augustus h fretz professor of geology and prom inent metallurgists representing different companies were also present colonel darrah chief of staff of the third corps area lectured to members of the r o t c unit at 1 o'clock this afternoon on general allenby's palestine campaign dur ing the world war the lecture was held in packard auditorium and was attended by the entire r o t c unit as a regular meeting of the military science and tactics course during his talk colonel darrah pointed out several peculiar mili tary movements and their results he also described some of the gen eral troop movements and describ ed the results colonel darrah formerly was an instructor in the army school at fort leavenworth texas before he was transferred to the third corps area drinker to talk on ventilation new art exhibit now in library son of lehigh trustee will address chem ical society movies will be shown thursday evening in packard laboratory professor stocker is the fifth gen eration of his pioneer family in this country and the fourth since the founding of stockertown the first of the line michael and margaret were natives of switzerland they emigrated from their country and travelled down the rhine river to rotterdam in holland embarking on the ship britain they arrived in philadelphia on sept 21 1731 the same day michael stocker be came a citizen of the new country by the simple process of taking an oath of allegiance to the govern ment of the perms before the pro vincial authorities evidently in search of good farm land the family settled in the vi cinity of what is now zionsville in lehigh county two of the sons of the couple adam and andrew made a new settlement a few miles to the north of easton about 1760 the town they founded there was and is called stockerton andrew went away to serve in the revolutionary war and never re turned his brother however re mained and among his offspring was the second michael who was the grandfather of lehigh's present mathematics professor typical of the many small towns that dot pennsylvania is stocker ton perhaps you have been through it perhaps not possibly you have driven past it and failed even to notice it for it is that small but to john e stocker who has taught mathematics at lehigh for more years than most students can remember it is important for it is a monument testifying to the per severance the hardihood and the bravery of his forebearers who founded this tiny community in the days when pennsylvania was con sidered the far west and he who would live there must brave the perils of indians since 1731 the name of stocker has been a familiar one in the le high valley early stockers made settlements founded towns and fought in the war of independence the present representative of the family is john e stocker asso ciate professor of mathematics and astronomy at lehigh university old indian sites to be discussed becker directs discussion meet sigma xi will hear do nald a cadzow feb ruary 25 group criticizes ancient and modern economic conditions journalistic society will hold annual gridiron dinner plans for the second annual grid iron banquet to be given by pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity will be discussed at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening when the society meets in drown hall ac cording to walton forstall jr president plans will be made for informal rehearsals preliminary to the gridiron banquet which will be held sometime in the spring the banquet sponsored by pi delta epsilon was inaugurated at lehigh on april 3 1930 it is pat terned after the washington grid iron banquet held each year by the washington press correspondents club invitations are sent only to out standing students on the campus and to the faculty a few town peo ple who are intrested in journalism and lehigh's activities are also in cluded last year the attendance at the banquet almost reached the 100 mark efforts will be made to se cure a prominent journalist to ad dress the members of the fraternity and their guests each year at the banquet an award is presented for the most oustanding service to bethlehem and lehigh university last year it was won by superintendent of police f t trafford in accordance with the custom of the wishington gridiron banquets nothing that is said or done by any guest will be printed in any news paper the university of illinois northwestern university colgate university hamilton college and george washington university hold similar affairs lehigh seniors attending meet mining and metallurgical en gineers will discuss meth ods of education the determination of the crystal structure of ordinary and alloyed steels by x-ray methods was ex plained friday evening by dr arne frederick westgren of the univer sity of stockholm to members of the lehigh metallurgical engineer ing society dr westgren explained how by heating the metal specimen to dif ferent temperatures and then x-ray ing the metal at those temperatures indications of expansions between the individual atoms could be de tected dr westgren has been brought to this country this year by the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers to present the feature lecture feb 16-21 before the annual convention of the insti tute in new york city dr west gren is specializing in the x-raying of steels x-ray is becoming an increasing ly vital factor in industry as shown by the fact that the general elec tric manufacturing company has formed a subsidiary corporation which is called the general electric x-ray company dr westgren de clared * the chemistry department of le high carries extensive x-ray equip ment through which the atomic structure of many substances are studied according to harold v an derson associate professor of chem istry the work that is being car ried on in the university x-ray lab oratory coincides very conclusively in many respects with the work that dr westgren a professor of general and inorganic chemistry is doing although the x-ray research work at lehigh is actually carried on in the chemistry department it is done in cooperation with the metal lurgical department as the proper ties of metals and alloys are stud ied as well as the organic and in organic properties of the x-ray an alysis by means of the x-ray study of crystal structure as dr westgren pointed out the arrangement of atoms in crystals of metals and substance is determined and by knowing the arrangements of atoms the properties of matter and espe cially the properties of metals may be discerned . dr westgren is a recognized au thority on this subject of x-ray an alysis he has published several im portant technical papers concern ing this subject in conformity with a custom established dr westgren will make a tour of the country speaking before the important met allurgical centers women's club sponsors dance faculty members and wives attend social friday evening prehistoric indian sites along the susquehanna river will be discussed in an open lecture at 8 p m wed nesday feb 25 in the packard au ditorium by donald a cadzow di rector of archeological research for the pennsylvania historical com mission under the auspices of sig ma xi it will be illustrated by both movies and slides mr cadzow is a well-known ar cheologist and anthropologist who for 12 years was a member of the staff of the museum of the amer ican indian in new york he was anthropologist for the putnum baffin island expedition director of four arctic expeditions and several expeditions among the indians of the west and southwest the state historical commission of which governor pinchot is a member is a semi-official organiza 4ion for the purpose of locating studying and marking the sites of early indian civilization in pennsyl vania before all traces become ob literated the islands of the sus quehanna river contain rock carv ings mhich the commission is try ing to preserve and which are very ancient probably antedating the known indian occupation of the re gion investigation has resulted in the discovery of a number of village sites and many examples of carv ing and pottery these relics of the iroquois and algonquin culture have been brought to the state mu seum at harrisburg the commis sion is in need of immediate finan cial aid because many valuable traces will be wiped out by the con struction of the safe harbor pow er dam pi mu epsilon meets w c elmore and p g rey nolds advanced students in mathe matics spoke on paschad's the ory and quadratic surfaces re spectively at a meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical fraternity held last evening in the packard laboratory in the business meeting which followed the talks harry osborn ch.e 32 was elect ed to the fraternity smoker postponed both the freshman smoker and the cabinet meeting originally plan ned for wednesday evening feb 18 will be postponed until a later date according to david braun secretary of the lehigh union be cause of the basketball game with muhlenberg scheduled for the same time five lehigh seniors are attend ing the annual meeting of the in stitute of mining and metallurgical engineers in new york the meet ing started yesterday and will last until thursday outstanding features of the meet ing are studies of theosophical pro duction of special interest to min ing engineers is a conference on mining education the senior engineers attending this meeting are wm m furman e m 31 president of the mining engineering society j r hewitt met e 31 president of the met allurgical engineering society j l feysser e m 31 o a kantner e m 31 and r l baird e m 31 whether or not the average in dividual who works for wages really works to some definite end was the topic of criticism at an in formal discussion group meeting held sunday evening in drown hall prof f g becker of the philoso phy department led the discussion and read from his manuscript a world in transition describing the economical and ' social espects of primtive life and citing examples from the tribal life of african na tives our ancestors he said are to some extent contemporaries of the ancient form of labor and made a ritual out of their work although the hours of work were emphasized they were really playing and work ing together in groups the happiest men in our own civ ilization according to professor becker are professional men this may be illustrated by the modern tendency towards professions where a man can actually enjoy what he is doing an argument was raised whether or not the plant worker enjoys turning bolt no 2 or whether it was a disagreeable revolting la bor which must be done in order to bring in the necessary weekly wages an architect's enjoyment said prof becker is in the creation of a building and not in the five per cent fee which he receives jvhereas the average steel worker labors in a tiresome routine of drudgery gets his pay and spends it and does not see the ultimate end or result of his work cultural integrity that which keeps people going is not present in a natural society there is no distinction of work and play means and end the remainder of the discussion consisted chiefly of comparisons be tween the present employment con ditions in russia and the theme 1 pos tulated in prof becker's article an institution which does not have an eye to future development is moribund and i can assure you that so far as lehigh is concerned there is little evidence of senile or other decay in administration or faculty declared philip m palmer head of the arts and science college in his address the lehigh arts college at an open meeting of the robert blake society friday eve ning in packard laboratory professor palmer traced the de velopment of the arts college at lehigh from the sixth article in the charter stating that the facul ty shall have the power of grant ing and confirming by and with the approbation and consent of the board of trustees such degrees in the liberal arts and science as are usually conferred and granted in other colleges of the united states to the recent revision in the arts and science curriculum emphasis on science the unusual feature of the arts college then as now professor palmer said is the emphasis on the sciences otherwise the curri culum differs little from that of the average arts college of the day this emphasis on the sciences to gether with the frankly profession al trend of the course has been and still is characteristsic of the le high college of arts and sciences the first arts men entered the university in september 1866 they were henry b reed and william d ronaldson who received the b a degree in june 1870 both men professor palmer stated after grad uation studied medicine in the first twelve years of the university's ex istence there were barely ten grad uates with the b a degree in the fall of 1928 professor palmer called together a represen tative group of arts seniors and asked them if they would be will ing to serve as a student commit tee for the purpose of presenting the student's idea of what the new curriculum should be five men were chosen each man representing so far as possible a different type of student and a different aspect of student life one man was a can didate for phi beta kappa a mature conservative serious student who is now in the theological seminary the second was somewhat radical a man of excellent ability and dis cerning taste in literature the third was the best all around athlete in college the fourth was a fraternity man and a social leader and the last man a prospective newspaper man convinced of the hollowness of student life and likewise somewhat radical the student committee submitted their report on march 1 1929 to a committee of the arts council com posed of the heads of the various departments the compromises of both groups resulted in the curri culum now in force for the classes of 1933 and 1934 visualizes future in looking to the future profes sor palmer said in our wildest dreams we try to visualize an arts house or dormitory as a center of student and faculty activity a place where teacher and student may meet on the terms of equality and friendship for those friendly dis cussions which are one of the most refining things in college life we dream of a more carefully selected continued on page four doan obtaining welding data billy mccaa photographer tells of lehigh students 30 years ago foundation appropriates 20,000 for two year met allurgical study regularization of the cyclical fluctuations of industry establish ment of a nation-wide and efficient labor exchange and a system of compensation for unemployed were set forth as possible solutions of the unemployment problem by her bert m diamond professor of oco noniics in his lecture on what about unemployment last eve ning in packard auditorium dr diamond stated however that the solutions of these problems are extremely distant and that the first will undoubtedly long remain the greatest difficulty of the pres ent economic system the disgraceful unpreparedness of the country the speaker said in the face of the recurring depres sions has resulted from the failure of everyone but a few students of economics to realize that the con dition of unemployment is chronic and not an occasional emergency only the spectacular phases result ant from a great depression such as that of the present winter are able to rouse any action or thought of solution in the people of the coun try statistics needed to supply material for study of the conditions with their ultimate solution in view and to keep the public constantly aware of the se riousness and proximity of unem ployment problems complete and dynamic statistics should be com piled on unemployment and the ex tent of part time labor throughout the country dr diamond believes the lecturer stated that the gath ering of more advanced statistical information is the first essential step in the approach to the problem a changed attitude toward the recurring breakdowns of the econo mic organization is beginning to be evidenced by a number of the larg er manufacturing concerns man agements of the general electric company the proctor and gamble company and others are assuming responsibility for their workers year-round employment and intro ducing compensation systems for the time the men are without work the complicated and divergent causes of unemployment lie beyond the power of the workers general ly according to dr diamond the causes are seasonal cycladic and techniological seasonality results from inherent conditions of industries and from fluctations in the demand the in herent conditions said the lecturer comprise such influences as varia tions in supply of materials the demand changes with styles the holiday seasons and the like overproduction blamed the cycles of prosperity and de pression that cause recurrent over production and curtailment of out put dr diamond blames as the major cause of great unemploy ment and the least solvable of the difficulties of the economic and so cial organization of the country the importance of the displacement of man power by machines as a cause of unemployment he believes to be greatly exaggerated it has been found that the final result of sucrl^mechanization is not the less ening of numbers of employed but distinctly the opposite the tem porary effect however is to reduce the working force dr diamond stressed the immo bility of groups of laborers he pointed out that a shortage of labor in one section of the country and a surplus of labor in another section do not equalize practicability in a short space of time the existance of some organiza tion to be an employment exchange of nation-wide activity for the effi cient placing of the unemployed was urged by the lecturer as a potential aid / ¦ theta xi holds dance a valentines day dance was held at the theta xi house last satur day night over one hundred cou ples danced to the rythme of nick nichols orchestra special enter tainment was furnished by a color ed singer miss blanche lee for merly of the new york checker club the chaperons at the dance were mt stuart mead and mr and mrs david braun senior ballots due friday feb 20 is the last day for seniors to get their money and ballots to the senior class book committee according to a w thornton senior editor of the epi tome any senior who makes an orig inal payment and then does not pay the full amount will forfeit his first installment because of the expense of putting out the book thornton said the lehigh university women's club sponsored a dance in drown hall friday evening feb 13 about 50 couples representative of univer sity circles including many admin istration officers and members of the teaching staff enjoyed dancing and bridge from 8:30 to 11:30 punch and other refreshments were served during the evening capt john kirkland rice was chairman of the committee in charge of affairs and was assisted by mrs rice mrs p m palmer president of the club and dr and mrs robert d billinger received the guests the sheriff-wanamaker orches tra played for dancing and accom panied miss dorothy gladding in two clever tap dances during the intermission another dance will be sponsored by the club in drown hall wed nesday mar 25 doctor kline to talk dr j r kline well-known mathematician of the university of pennsylvania addressed the depart ment of mathematics this afternoon in room 31 packer hall dr kline attended a luncheon given in his honor at drown hall previous to his lecture dr kline spoke on the theory of pointsets he has made a special ized study of this branch of mathe matics fraternities pledge psi upsilon announces the pledg ing of joseph martin beyvl of 3735 e 116 th street cleveland ohio theta delta chi announces the pledging of robert frost lippard of 86 depew avenue buffalo n y coming events the exhibition of contemporary american art sponsored by the col lege art association will be on dis play from feb 17 to mar 11 inclu sive in the art gallery of the le high library there are 25 paintings by as many american artists repre senting painters from innes and blakclock to such moderns as bib erman hooper and burchfield another attraction which con cerns the exhibit are the movies to be shown on feb 18 at 8 o'clock in packard auditorium the first mo vie is entitled the making of et chings the second movie is call ed how a sculptor works aft er the movies the art gallery will be open for one hour inorder that the public may inspect the exhibi - tion this exhibition of progressive american paintings comes to le high direct from brown university providence r i the exhibit was termed as one of the finest shows that providence has been privileged to see this winter the paintings selected demonstrate the growing tendency among galleries to show a cross section of painting rather than confine the scope of the ex hibition to any one school or per iod these paintings trace the types and changes which have exempli fied the work of american painters for the last 50 years reference books which explain the work of the artists may be pro cured at the reserved book shelf of the library some of the books are john sargent by charteris american artists by royal cor tissoz and fifty famous paint ers by henroetta gerwig there is also a contest connect ed with the exhibit the college art association is offering several well known paintings to the college stu dent who writes the best criticism of the exhibit the art gallery will be open daily from 2 to 5 the paintings exhibited are gifford beal — andros island reynold beal — marblehead ed ward bruce — farmyard charles burchfield — winter . landscape margaret chaplin — weeds and grass jay connaway — burning seaweed john costigan — brook winter florence cramer — wat erfront walter dehner — el mo ro san juan ernest fiene — sail boats walter gay — interior william glackens — flowers in a blue jug bertram hartman — dried flowers harry hering — 228 east 45th street eugene higgins — peasant women leon knoll — reclining nude richard lahey — boats along the piscata qua ernest lawson — > gulls at sea haley lever — scratch race paul rohland — peonies charles rosen — village corner chauncey ryder — mountain pas tures joseph stella — bay of naples herman trunk — still life warren wheelock — return from the fields john whorf — nigger hut louis wolchimok — bookstalls along the seine moravian drops men loss of men after midyear exam inations at moravian college this year has been greater than at any time other than the semester of 1928-1929 five men were dropped from the college in addition three students were placed on full time probation and one went on 75 per cent probation through transfer to other insti tutions two other men were lost the losses have been more than balanced by the enrollment of nine new students five of whom are transfers philip drinker son of henry s drinker president emeritus and trustee of lehigh university will be guest speaker at the meeting of the chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday feb 19 in the chemis try building he will speak of the significance and control of dusts and fumes in industry the lecture will be illus trated with lantern slides of the various safety devices used in con nection with the dusts and fumes of the different industries some of the methods of chemical warfare also will be illustrated the new drinker inhalator which is replacing pulmotors in recusi tation cases will be demonstrated the inhalator starts natural breath ing by means of an air tight metal case which covers the upper part of the body this case is so ar ranged that the air inside it may be exhausted and allowed to re-enter at regular intervals when the air is exhausted from the case the chest swells to fill the vacuum and when the air re-enters the case the chest contracts thus stimulating natural breathing this machine removes danger of bursting the lungs which is always present with the use of compressed oxygen in a pulmotor the bethle hem police force owns one of these machines for the rescusitation of al coholic and aquatic suicide professor drinker has a bach elor of science degree from prince ton university and the degree of chemical engineering from lehigh in the class of 1917 during the world war he was an expert on aircraft wing dressing for the war department since the war he has been very prominent in dust re search he has invented the drinker dust counter a modification of the cottrell dust precipitator the drinker inhalator and many other safety devices at present he is an assistant professor in the depart ment of industrial hygiene at har vard university cedar crest to hear music club concert singers and orchestra to entertain in allentown friday evening the combined musical clubs con sisting of the glee club the quartet and the dance orchestra will give a concert at 8 o'clock friday eve ning feb 20 in dietz hall cedar crest college the glee club is un der the direction of t edgar shields and the dance orchestra is conducted by jules booker 32 this concert is being sponsored by the cedar crest college glee club the glee club will sing several well-known selections including keep in the middle of the road by bartholomew now sleeps the crimson petal by andrews moonlight here and yonder by stickler a song of ships by flagler and the battle of jerri cho by bartholomew the quartet will sing several se lections during the glee club's inter mission the quartet consists of francis baxendale 33 stuart rob erts 34 william alcorn 31 and john harrison 31 after the glee club concert the musical club orchestra will play for the dancing d o t to meet .... interfraternity bull sessions and the financing of the lehigh debat ing team during the present cam paign are two of the problems which members of delta omicron theta honorary forensic society will discuss when they meet at 4:15 p m tuesday in room 303 christ mas-saucon hall the society will meet hereafter on the second and fourth tuesdays of each month note this is the first of a series of articles on the memoirs of bil ly mccaa the second will ap pear next tuesday everyone knows billy mccaa for more than thirty years he has been connected with lehigh in one capacity or another although more generally he is known as the offi cial photographer a title he has held and proudly too since 1903 in those days lehigh offered a course in photo-chemistry to sen iors in the engineering college and billy mccaa was the instructor he held this position for four years from 1903 to 1907 and some of the work done by students under his direction is still on exhibition in the chemistry museum billy remembers sayre park as a wildnerness remembers the time when there was not a single frater nity house on the campus remem bers when a graduating class of more than 60 was remarkable re calls when the freshmen and the sophomores staged a banner-rush as part of their yearly rivalry and re collects when christmas-saucon hall was christmas and saucon two separate buildings billy can talk for hours on the glory that was lehigh the fun the keen spirit and enthusiasm shown by the students of what at that time was a much smaller more united group of students he can tell you of the pre-prohibition student hang outs . . . charlie rennig's beer-sa loon which used to be where the lehigh inn now is and of billy malthaner's merry-go-round restau rant where one could enjoy a glass of beer and a merry-go-round ride for five cents in those days there was no school on wednesday after noon and those students who were not at malthaner's or at rennig's could be found at maennerchor or charlie anthony's where the beer flowed copiously and the free lunch es would have tickled the palate of a king psi upsilon was the first frater nity to locate on the campus ac cording to billy previous to its construction delaware avenue and market street boasted the only fra ternity houses at lehigh and there were eating clubs some of them with appropriate titles like the old starvation club which held iforth over on west fourth street and boasted 70 members dr gilbert d doan professor of metallurgy is conducting an inves tigation of pure iron electrodes to obtain the basis data for the use of electric welding under the aid of the foundation of the american in stitute of electrical engineers the sum of 20,000 has been ap propriated for a two year investi gation on the effect of very high temperatures on various meals by the engineering foundation in con junction with the american society of testing materials according to a statement issued by hobart h por ter chairman of the foundation thesp research pdojects will be continued during the coming year prof g e briggs of princeton university has been in charge of the tests run on celuloid models of the stevenson creek dam in san joaquin valley cal this dam was built in 1926 chiefly for experimen tal purposes it will be destroyed in order to yield solutions to problems involving safety of life and proper ty because of the satisfactory cor relation of tests on models similar experiments will be performed on the dam itself wednesday feb 18 4 p m varsity swimming vs la fayette taylor pool 4:15 p m meeting of council of the college of engineering fa culty room alumni memorial building 7 p m freshman basketball vs muhlenberg freshmen in the tay lor gym 8 p m movies on sculpturing and prints packard auditorium 8:15 p m varsity basketball vs muhlenberg taylor gym thursday feb 19 7:30 p m meeting of chemical society in chemistry lecture room friday feb 20 7:30 p m meeting of the indus trial engineering society room 466 packard lab brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday february 17 1931 praises arts men dr westgren guest at buffet supper math professor's family founded stockerton 1731 p m palmer traces history of arts college darr ah addresses r.o.t.c members diamond offers three solutions for depression price — five cents westgren talks on x-ray method in steel study vol xxxiii no 34 ancestors of john stocker fought in revolution ary war unusual feature of col lege is emphasis on science he says school is ranked high economist suggests labor exchange and com pensation calls for statistics famous swedish scientist addresses metallurgi cal society to address a i m e all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association