Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 37

              the freshman council will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight in davdi braun's apartment in drown hall with the approval of the class voted at the recent smoker definite plans will be made for the coming banquet lehigh-lafayette debate cancelled home team to meet rutgers tonight in packard lab w w williams instructor in chemistry who came to lehigh sept 1930 was married to miss dorothy mumford on saturday afternoon at the bride's home in hempstead l i the rev d elton trueblood from balti more performed the ceremony because of the death of mrs g s mumford mother of the bride two weeks ago the wed ding was made a quiet home af fair only a few special friends of miss mumford were present mr williams the newest man in the chemistry department ob tained his master's degree from the university of north caro lina in 1930 at that time his bride obtained the same degree williams is teaching qualitative analysis stoichiemetry and gen eral chemistry courses at le high miss mumford who will prob ably come to bethlehem next year is teaching english at adelphia college garden city l i dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration who will lecture on the topic ' poverty and popula tion at 8 p m monday in pack ard laboratory auditorium this will be the fifth of a series of col lege lectures on social problems of the machine age dr caroth ers was unable to give any addi tional information as this paper went to press burr publishes february edition meet attended by 17 lehigh men new game of rackets is explained in publi cations issue mining and metallurgical society holds annual convention the business depression may have increased college registration if a recent survey may be believed but it has greatly affected the de mand for seniors among many of the larger industrial organizations according to the heads of depart ments at lehigh \ whereas in previous years the demand has been fairly strong and the possibility of placing senior en gineers good this year the possibili ties seem exceedingly poor accord ing to howard eckfeldt professor and director of the mining engin eering curriculum professor eck feldt further states that at present only a few men have been assured of positions upon graduation last year almost all of the graduating mining engineers were offered at least one job and sometimes two and three but the only possibilities for the class of 31 are the new jersey zinc and iron company which may take a few men the philadelphia - reading coal and iron company and the bethlehem steel company in the metallurgical department bradley stoughton professor and director of that department stated that the number of offers of posi tions is not as great this year as it has been in the past few years but that the demand has not ser iously fallen off for good men be cause this is not unusual for this department there has been a great er number of offers and tjiere are senior metallurgists to fill them business men affected dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration also was rather dubious about the possibility of placing all seniors department heads find that industrial demand for this year's graduates is exceedingly poor ; chemists not affected in that department the business organizations which have consis tently offered positions to lehigh graduates have sent in requests this year as usual but they are not asking for as many men as heretofore and it is my opinion that some of them are offering po sitions so that contact with le high may not be lost and not be cause they are in need of men these organizations seem to think very highly of lehigh graduates he added chemists in demand chemical engineers are least affected by the depression accord ing to a satement made by dr h m ullmann head of the depart ment of chemical engineering the number of situations already assur ed of for the chemistry seniors equals that of preceeding years he stated of the 90 per cent of the senior chemical engineers already certain of positions six men will enter graduate research three have accepted positions with oil-refining companies and others will enter the fields of coal leather steel and ag riculture three of those who in tend to do research will remain at lehigh for their master's degree not only has dr ullmann been able to place almost all the chemi cal engineering and chemistry sen iors but also he has obtained posi tions for five out of six graduates who have asked his aid since de cember the sixth has been assured of a position within a few weeks although there are just as many companies interviewing lehigh men as ever these companies are not in the market for as large a continued on page four thomas to give talk on disease library exhibits volumes on birds ornithological books will be in treasure room march 2-3 bacteriology prof ess o r will discuss venereal maladies tonight cancellation by lafayette of the lehigh-lafayette debate which was scheduled to take 1 place this eve ning means that there will be no middle three triangular debate this year instead lehigh debaters will meet rutgers at 8:15 p m this evening in packard auditor ium supporting the affirmative of the proposition resolved that the nations should adopt the policy of free trade the rutgers-lehigh debate will be the only intercollegiate debate to be held on the campus this year prof herbert m diamond of the economics department will be chairman and there will be three judges from the vicinity the le high debaters will be sidney snit kin edward fleischer and em manuel scoblionko leader debaters lose lehigh debaters lost three de bates this week all by 2-1 decisions tuesday night they lost a dual de bate on the free trade question with muhlenberg and wednesday night they lost to dickinson col lege in a debate on the same ques tion over wcba the local muh lenberg debate was held before the bethlehem chapter of the nights of pythias the affirmative team which lost to muhlenberg at allentown was the same that will meet rutgers tonight the muhlenberg nega tive debaters were j h wagner d b mancke and d b hoffman the lehigh negative team which lost here to muhlenberg was com posed of maurice bernstein sol leibowitt and matthew murphy leader the muhlenberg affirmative debaters were k h koch h m richards and d v hoch debating for the affirmative over the radio were john heiney and emanuel honig the dickinson de baters were david detweiler and jack gothic lawrence abbott ac companied the dickinson team as alternate next week lehigh will debate gettysburg tuesday before the bethlehem monarch club and sus quehanna friday before the social ist club of allentown hall talks on heredity prof r w hall head of the department of biology spoke on heredity before the brotherhood of christ reformed church last monday evening the society gave a vote of thanks to prof a a die fenderfer of the department of chemistry who entertained the so ciety at its last meeting pledge two men walter w kinsinger 33 of har risburg pa and b franklyn hiers 32 of roadstown n j have been pledged by nu chapter of alpha kappa pi the february issue of the lehigh burr entitled publications num ber is now on sale it is in hu morous tabloid style characterized by large scare heads over paradox ical stories the startling titles are placed over slams digs and quips of campus institutions and person alities a two colored cover the work of alf malmros art editor shows two street cleaners reading a trashy tabloid a rotorgravure section by carl giegerich pokes fun at some faculty members horl freiday has another wood cut in the manner of john held jr and norman alper contributes profuse cartoons george mathews also draws for this issue the blare bugle a parody on a non-existent paper from a hick town is the feature of the maga zine a rare tintype of someone's mother is included in the bugle better than a roebuck sears cat alogue is the paper's slogan so cial political and biological hap penings of the two-trolley-town are published among the tabloid titles are the following short ferns and encores topics in grief sneer leaders clean up bethlehem was the order given the street cleaners today and news of today and yesterday the wrestling game is investigat ed with laughable results the firand new game of rackets is de scribed how to put up a m s & t pup tent the wrong way is sim ple enough editorials containing ramblings about the senate the theaten and the depression is headed by burr on the fence philip s davis is editor in chief of the burr and prof r b cow in is faculty adviser three fraternities to sponsor dances 400 invitations have been sent out to undergraduates three fraternities lambda chi alpha alpha chi rho and chi psi will give dances tomorrow evening at their respective houses the alpha chi rho dance is for alumni and active members the easton sirens are to furnish mu sic chaperons will be mr and mrs w f payne and stuarr b mead bob holm and his orchestra of philadelphia will furnish the mu sic at the lambda chi alpha dance about 200 invitations have been sent out the chaperons for the dance will be prof and mrs m o fuller the sirens of allentown have been selected to furnish the mu sic for the chi psi dance about 175 invitations have been sent out the chaperons for the dance will be dr and mrs neil carothers a selection of ornithological books illustrated with colored plates and a letter autographed by john j audubon the naturalist will be exhibited in the treasure room of the library monday and tues day march 2 and 3 from 2 to 5 p m this is the first time that these volumes on bird lore are to be view ed publicly since in the past there were not show cases large enough to hold the books the exhibition is to be open to the general pub lic as well as to members of the university all four volumes of the elephant folio edition of audubon's birds of america 1826-38 are to be shown one or more volumes are included from john gould's birds of great britain birds of asia monograph of the trochilidae monograph of the ramphastidae or toucans and monograph of the togonidae it is possible to display only 20 volumes of this collection at one time in the eight large walnut cases because of the size of the volumes heretofore display cases of sufficient size were lacking to ex-hibit the huge books some of which are 36x20 inches no space continued on page four seven lehigh professors and in structors and ten students were among those who attended the an nual meeting of the american in stitute of mining and metallurgi cal engineers held last week at the engineering societies building in new york bradley stoughton director of the department of metallurgical en gineering profs a butts and w e harvey attended the meetings of the iron and steel metallurgi cal divisions prof h eckfeldt head of the department of mining engineering represented the univer sity in that division members of the department of geology present included benjamin l miller head of the department prof h g tur ner and e just instructor senior metallurgists who attend ed included j r hewitt r g laird h s teneyck and w r toeplitz w f mcgarrity ch e 31 and e s buckler met e 32 also were included in this group senior mining engineers who at tended were r l baird w a furman o a kantner w h ticehurst and j l weysser ¦ the students were for the most part spectators in the various meet ings held during the week although mr weysser entered into an ex tensive discussion in the coal di vision meeting the only student in a group of men much older and of much wider experience discuss iron and steel professor stoughton was partic ularly interested in the discussions of the group on iron and steel the most popular group was the gold silver section which held lengthy discussions on the present prob lem of gold shortage j the main lecture was delivered by prof a f westgren of the university of stockholm who spoke recently before students of this university professor westgren was this year's choice by the so ciety to give the annual lecture which is usually given by a foreign scientist boy aged 17 roams campus starts fires and steals overcoats illustrating his talk with photo graphs and pictures of evidences of indian life in the susquehanna river bed 7,000 to 10,000 years ago dr d a cadzow noted authority on indian life lectured on digging for prehistoric man in pennsylva nia last wednesday evening in packard auditorium many curious rock carvings ex cellent specimens of pottery work prehistoric tools and implements have been discovered along the banks of the susquehanna many of these rocks have been dug from the top soil along the banks of the river as well as from the bed of the river itself dr cadzow ex plained because of the possibility of breakage in removing the speci mens from earth plaster of paris casts are made immediately of the figures on the rocks in order to have perfect duplicates of the specimens the speaker continued by saying the carvings on the rocks are of various kinds of life the indian god lox who was supposed to fly through the air is portrayed on one specimen others depict scenes of hunters and the chase and many have pictures of animals and forest life carved on them valuable specimens the specimens of pottery found are very valuable dr dadzow de clared about 300 pots have been excavated some are as high as 17 inches with oval lids and decorated with various line designs until the discovery of these only 30 pieces of this type of indian work were in the museums the pottery has been excavated not only from along the river but from farms in the vicinity of the susquehanna capt john smith founder of the colony of virginia stated in a re port that the indians living along the susquehanna used tobacco pipes large enough to knock a man down at this tale people often laughed dr cadzow pointed out however that smith's statement was abso lutely true clay pipes as long as 21 inches have been found of weight sufficient to have an appreciable ef fect on a man struck by one the pipe bowls are in the form of heads of animals a stag or dog in some instances \ the relics of indian life found give evidence of being the work of indians whose decendants of co lonial times were the iroquois of the finger lake district of new york although some of the speci mens have been removed to the state museum at harrisburg no time as yet has been spent dr cadzow stated in interpreting the meanings and significance of the signs figures and pictures carved in the rocks to preserve relics although pennsylvania was for merly inhabitated by many tribes of indians less work has been done m preserving the relics and handi craft of the american indian than in other states an effort to in crease the work in this field is now being made the work along the susquehanna has ben made possible by two 5,000 contributions one by the state^historical commission the other by the builders of the safe harbor dam colgate professor's survey shows modern students are not loafers the height of modern skyscrap ers is not determined by any dra vidual construction companies as matic race between cities or indi is the popular belief but is largely controlled by economic forces col william a starrett told the civil engineering society last evening in packard auditorium buildings will continue to be built higher and higher as long as the cost of quickly and easily reach ing these heights does not exceed the income derived from 1 the extra floorspace and as long as the space taken up by elevator shafts does no become excessively large he declared colonel starrett is president of the starrett corporation engineers and constructors of some of the larger skyscrapers of new york city of whfch the manhattan bank and the empire state buildings are the most widely known it is the former building and its engineering details upon which colonel star rett gave his lecture land is valuable the manhattan bank building is constructed on one of the most val uable pieces of land in the world it is not owned by a single com pany but by three companies each one of which derives a portion of the profits according to the amount of land it owns the building is 946 feet high overall has 72 stories and occupies a ground space of about 35.000 square feet he explained ' the cost of the building as a structure was about 16 million dol lars with a total cost of approxi mately 25 million according to the schedule which its owners have planned the new skyscraper should net them a little less than a'mil lion dollars a year colonel star rett claimed it is customary for leases to be gin and expire on may 1 therefore it is almost imperative that a build ing be completed a little before that date in order that it can be leased otherwise a great portion of the building will probably be idle un til the following may for this rea ation in construction work of this son speed is such a major consider type he added built in record time the construction of the manhat tan bank building was begun may 20 1929 and completed march 31 1931 that it only took 11 months to complete this 72-story skyscrap er said colonel starrett was all the more remarkable in the light of the fact that eight buildings one the old 12-story manhattan bank building had to be demolished to make room for the new one eighteen thousajid tons of steel were used in the building of nearly as much 14,000 tons of plaster there was.no storage space on the construction site so that the ma terials for the buildings were deliv ered as needed by trucks even the cement used was brought to the site already mixed and ready for use this speeded up the work a great deal and allowed the con struction to go on night and day which according to colonel star rett permitted the construction en gineers to work three eight-hour shifts a day colonel starrett's lecture was ac companied by lantern slides and motion pictures of the demolition of the old buildings and the construc tion of the new one lafferty to discuss scientific philosophy psychology instructor will devel op theory of world's use some scientific philosophies will be discussed by theodore t lafferty instructor in philosophy and psychology before the physics society at 7:30 p m wednesday march 4 in the lecture room of the physics building mr lafferty will develop the theory of clement of rome that the world is not to enjoy but to use this was the main theory of the medieval philosophers and it has been adopted by the modern school mr lafferty will discuss two schools the idealist and the ma terialist the idealist believes that everything in the world has been created for his enjoyment while the materialist thinks that the world was made for him to use mr laf ferty states that many young phy sics students are materialists mr lafferty is well acquainted with contemporary thought in re lation to significances of modern revolutionary developments in the physical sciences he has been stu dying this subject for several years discussion will be welcomed and refreshments jvill be served the reorganization of depart ments especially in the colleges of arts and sciences and business ad ministration has been a very sig nificant milestone in the develop ment of lehigh university insisted president charles russ richards wednesday in an interview with a brown and white reporter there has been a specific change stated president richards in the creation of the office of di rector of the curriculum in the va rious schools the men who hold these offices act as advisors for the students especially regarding tech nical work the administration of the university has also undergone a complete reorganization when 1 came to the university in 1922 there was no office of dean this was soon created the work of keeping records in the regis trar's office lacked system so here another reorganization took place resulting in the creation of the of fice of registrar doctor richards stressed the evolution of the physical plant dur ing his years at lehigh mention ing the erection of the alumni memorial building the library the packard laboratory and the reno vation of christmas-saucon hall a new boiled plant was installed and the office of supervising architect was created doctor richards values the improvements made since his connection with lehigh above 2,500,000 land acquired we have acquired approximate ly 10 to 15 acres of land pursued the president and have greatly improved the appearance of the campus this produces an effect on the students sense of aesthetics that no theoretical study can give him the work done by faculty com mittees in such matters as athlet ics admissions and discipline doc tor richards regards as more effec tive and more systematized than the former system where men who had little interest in the work took charge under the former system more faculty meetings were neces sary for the committees reported their investigation to the faculty who finally made the decision allow for research the faculty schedule said president richards has been re duced for the purpose of allowing the men time for research work so that the universitw now becomes a contributor of knowledge as well as a purveyor of it doctor richards stated that the increase in the membership of the faculty since 1922 has been 50 per cent and there has been a 30 per cent increase in the salaries of the associate and assistant professors and instructors t fort writes book on his african tour experiences and observations to be published next month a book a vacation in africa written by prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics on his observations and ex periences during a two months tour through africa last summer will be published next month professor fort tells of climbing mt kilimarjaro the highest moun tain in africa which is 19,710 feet high or almost a mile higher than mr whitney the highest moun tain in the united states which is 14,496 feet high seeing the fam ous victoria falls which are twice as large as niagara but not so well known because of their ina cessibility viewing the immense gold and diamond mines at johan nesburg and kimberley and many other experiences which the dark con^nent offers packard laboratory gets airplane engine first of two fairchild - caminez air-cooled motors arrive a fairchild-caminez airplane en gine is the latest addition to the in ternal combustion laboratory in the packard laboratory according to fred v larkin head of the de partment of mechanical engineer ing it is a four cylinder motor rated at 135 h p with a normal speed of 1000 r.p.m and oil pres sure from 35-45 pounds per square inch this four cylinder is the first of two engines to be loaned by the fairchild-caminez company the second engine which will be a six is to be sent later stanley thomas professor of bacteriology will speak on the transmission of social diseases before an open meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society to be held at 7:30 this evening in room 466 packard laboratory dr thomas states that in his lec ture tonight he intends to discuss the venereal diseases as he would any other disease as cholera or ma laria the lecture will be based on three salient points first the dis cussion of the discovery of the or ganisms that cause the diseases second the various methods of combating the diseases and third the methods of educating the people to the methods of combating cur ing and finally preventing the dis eases dr thomas in explanation of the economic importance of social diseases states that 10,000,000 men of industry in this country lose 7,000,000 days of work annually be cause of sickness due to venereal diseases a startling example of the havoc wreaked by venereal disease is shown by the fact that in 1918 the british government was re cruiting soldiers from the age of 16 to 55 to replace those who were of a more reasonable age but who were lying disabled in hospitals be cause of venereal diseases contract ed during the earlier days of the war dr thomas states that prostitu tion still a tremendous moral is sue is rapidly becoming an issue of public health he is attempting to explain more clearly the meth ods of prostitution and how the question is treated today in this and foreign countries in our na tional department of public health dr thomas asserts the department for the study of venereal diseases in all their stages is as large as the department for the study of all other diseases put together dr thomas has made a world wide study of his subject having obtained a great deal of informa tion in a recent trip abroad he is prepared to answer questions and will hold an informal discussion during the latter part of the meet ing club presents play the enacting of a german play was the feature of the monthly meeting of the deutscher vercin honorary german society at the butztown hotel last monday eve ning the meeting was in the form of a banquet die kleinen verwandten by thomas was the name of the play those taking part included w g alcorn 31 j j magyar 32 s c mcle 32 i schaffer 31 and c r lowenstein 31 coming events been claimed by many he found that a class of 20 had read an aver age of six books in what he term ini a short period it will be re membered in this connection that in a lecture before the blake so ciety here last year edwin b twit meyer head of the department of psychology at the university of pennsylvania said that the height of a college man's reading consist ed of the saturday evening post . . . whereupon he added that he also read the post and wrote for it as well in the same short period pro fessor lake found that the students of his class of 20 also read seven magazine articles of various lengths and subjects these inci dentally had nothing whatever to do with school work which fact was true of the boolcf also one student was found to have read 35 books and 20 magazine articles dur ing the same period while anoth er had read but three books and one pamphlet the psychologist concludes i have found that stu dents have a ravenous interest in psychology if interest is aroused they will read of their own accord and the reason they do not read in some classes is that the material is deadly dull and is presented by a sterile pedantic mentality all the recent controversy over whether or not college students are loafers and the general decision and impression the public holds that they are is so much tish and tosh to harrison m lake professor of psychology at colgate university modern students are maligned by those who say they have no in terest in anything but athletics moving pictures and girls says professor lake many well-known persons in cluding the famous thomas beer writer and questioner extraordin ary have said that the modern col lege boy or girl is uninformed they have asked questions which ac cording to one lehigh professor are impossible and i personally would have been ashamed of my self if i could answer a great many of them they were for the most part things which contribut ed not one whit to the general in tellect or information necessary to the average man or woman any one said another lehigh man head of a department who takes beer's questionnaire is more of a fool than beer claims he is conducts survey professor lake conducted a sur vey in his classes to find out whe ther or not it is true that the aver age student reads as little as has friday feb 27 8 p m debate lehigh vs rutgers packard auditorium 7:30 p m open meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society in room 466 packard labora tory dr thomas will speak on the transmission of social dis eases saturday feb 28 3 p m freshman wrestling vs pcrkiomen school taylor gym 3 p m varsity swimming vs cor nell taylor pool monday march 2 8 p m college lecture by dr neil carothers on poverty and pop ulation packard auditorium on the campus for the disappear ance of two overcoats for the loss of gloves and hats and these charges have been proved there are many other things of which he is suspected but which have not as yet been proved nothing is safe from him he combines the clever ness of a thief the swiftness of a paddock the elusiveness of a judge crater and the mystery of a hou dini in all he is a very accom plished fellow and the police would very much like to get their hands on him . . . again cops hold discussion last saturday afternoon two po licemen were heard discussing this flouter of justice well said one he's got away again that's right said the second ain't he the slippery one though you bet said number one slippery as an eel but we'll get him we'll get him man and boy i've been on this force and nary's the crook that escaped my eagle-eye and when i say we'll get him we'll get him this from policeman number two as this paper goes to press the man in question is still as free as air unhampered he continues his dastardly career secure and safe he perpetrates foul deeds but they'll get him yes they will sing sing dannemora auburn and lehigh . . . each has its crim inal element true the proportion of criminals at lehigh is probably a trifle smaller than at the former institutions but still they are here the demon crime raises its insid ious head in the dark of night and 10l there is fire where there was no fire before it attends a lecture at packard laboratory arid equally 10l there is no overcoat where there was one before do you lock your doors at night have you a watchdog nearby and a gun under the pillow no then visit the locksmiths patronize the kennels send to chicago for a good sized gat call out the cops keep sister at home nail down the sidewalks pin your pockets there is a bad bad man who roams the campus in search of loose articles twice has he been caught by the campus police and twice he has escaped from their clutches mere locks are nothing to him windows are as doors boys he is i>ad describe boy police describe him as a boy of medium height 17 years of age unkempt badly dressed and shifty eyed his head is small but contains a cunning brain he is believed to be responsible for two recent fires bethlehem pa friday february 27 1931 to lecture monday business depression hurts many seniors w . williams marries dorothy mumford economic forces regulate skyscrapers starrett says price — five cents brown and white vol xxxiii no 37 cadzow explains old relics found in pennsylvania lehigh has seen specific chances in nine years 34 council to meet pictures of indian life along susquehanna il lustrate lecture pottery excavated richards outlines devel opments during his administration faculty is increased heights of buildings is not determined by competition cost plays big part lectures on manhattan bank structure valued at 25,000,000 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association