Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 38

              votes aid to lacrosse team at meeting night sport status retained approves tennis base ball track and soc cer schedules dr j s long reports a ford roadster owned by thomas frutiger 32 of 521 e fifth street stolen friday morn ing from packer avenue was recovered friday evening by philadelphia police anthony lynch 255 mentor street phil adelphia a former resident of this city and edwin kepp 16 e fourth street bethlehem are charged with theft of the ve hicle colleges abroad praised by doan dr t v smith professor of philosophy at cornell university will speak on philosophic ways of life at the meeting of the robert w blake society at 8 p m friday in packard auditor ium doctor smith although he is this year teaching at cornell is a member of the faculty of the university of chicago he is the author of american philosophy of equality doctor smith has also tourned the country debat ing with clarence darrow on the subject freedom or determina tion x banquet dinner given by the society in his honor will pre cede the meeting american schools lack culture discussion group told health bulletin issued by bull students are advised how to avoid catch ing cold the carnegie examinations for sophomores are to be given in col leges over the entire country in the spring of 1932 it was decided at a meeting of an advisory committee of the american council of edu cation attended by dean c max mc,conn last week in detroit the tests taken at lehigh last year have heretofore been given only in pennsylvania colleges the project will be recommended by the council through circulars speakers and articles in the educa tional publications of the country to all colleges willing to pay the ex penses of the tests some 1.25 per student is necessary for printing and grading the tests on the advisory committee rec commending the step are dean mc conn president mcvey of the un iversity of kentucky president zook of ohio state university vice president yokum of the uni versity of michigan dean john ston of the university of minneso ta professor henman of tjje uni versity of wisconsin and profes sor furman of leland stanford university lambda chi alpha alpha chi rho chi psi and phi beta delta sponsored house dances saturday night bob holm's paramount club orchestra furnished the music at the lambda chi alpha house professor and mrs ful ler chaperoned the dance to which 75 couples attended professor and mrs f v lar kin dean and mrs c m mc conn and dave and mrs braun were the other faculty guests the house was decorated with forsythia and pussey willows about 45 couples including alumni and guests attended the alpha chi rho dance mr and mrs w f payne and mr s b meade were the chaperons ken brader and his ten-piece eastern saracens supplied the music dr and mrs carothers chap eroned the dance at the chi psi lodge dean and mrs mc conn were among the 200 guests present the easton sirens a ten-piece orchestra furnished the music ted weiner and his eight piece band played for the phi beta delta dance ' sidney n simmons bernard graver and h satenstein all of the class of 30 were among the guests attending mr and mrs t t lafferty and mrs haas of new york city acted as chap erones petition opposes richards letter library gets new volumes 10,100 students decry lehigh president's opinion 6000 new books placed on stacks since sep tember schedules for several of the spring and fall sports were approv ed by the faculty at their monthly meeting yesterday afternoon in the alumni memorial building dr j s long of the chemistry department reporting\fo.r the ath letic committee submitted the sche dules for the tennis and soccer teams and the freshman baseball and track the dates are as follows varsity tennis march 6-7 in door intercollegiates at ithaca april 17 muhlenberg at home ap ril 24 washington and lee at home april 25 gettysburg at home april 29 rutgers away may 1 hampden-sidney at home may 5 columbia away may 6 swarthmore at home may 8 lafay ette away may 9 army away may 12 princeton away may 15 dartmouth at hope may 16 cor nell away may 19 haverford at home frosh baseball freshman baseball april 11 per kiomen away april 22 allentown prep away april 25 rutgers at home may 9 lafayette at home mai 16 lafayette away may 20 blair away freshman track april 24-25 perm relays at philadelphia may 2 rutgers at home may 16 lafayette away varsity soccer october 3 hav erford away october 10 pennsyl vania away october 17 st john's at home october 24 delaware at home october 31 swarthmore at home november 7 princeton away november 11 navy away november 14 perm state at home november 21 lafayette at home moving up day exercises will take place on the date to be et for the last college meeting of the year it was decided by arcadia last night at a meeting in drown hall the booster committee of arcadia will have full charge of the arrange ments for this affair arcadia also voted 150 for the purchase of sticks for the lacrosse team in response to the plea of coach lattig he stated that as the financial condition of the board of control prevented their giving more complete support to this sport the epuipment of the lacrosse squad would be inadequate arcadia's aid was given with the sole stipula tion that the donation should not set a precedent or be considered an annual affair the controversy over the sizes of letters to be given for various sports was settled with the carry ing of the motion that the present system of letter awards be kept and that the present status of major and minor sports should be retained living groups of the university have been bothered lately by the attempts of several freshmen to at tend their dances without invita tion the heads of the various liv ing groups decided that better con trol should be exercised the date for the arcadia nomina tions was set for april 13 at this time all members of living groups must be elected to be eligible for executive positions new members are to attend this meeting the university elections are sche duled for april 10 it was decided that the cheer leaders for the com ing year and the staff of the bpi tome should be chosen at this time as well as the officers for all the classes talkie making to be explained lehigh debaters defeat rutgers mcgalliard to address engineers tomorrow in packard lab unanimous decision gives home team first vic tory of season since the first signs of spring weather are approaching and colds are unsually prevalent during this period of the year according to dr raymond c bull director of the students health service the depart ment of physical education togeth er with the students health service have published a health bulletin concerning the common sense rules which students observe in order to keep from contracting a cold although full statistics have not yet been compiled dr bull reports that the number of students treat ed for influenza and colds during the examination period far sur passed the number of men who were stricken with colds during other years at examination time he further states however that the number of men who are being trea ted for colds at the present time has droped back to normal health rules the preventatives described on the health bulletin are i get sufficient sleep avoid over eating avoid excess of any kind work and sleep in well ventilated rooms dress according to the weather exercise sufficiently avoid contact with cold-infect ed people avoid sudden exposure drink plenty of water observe strictly the natural laws avoid dust and crowds bath in a warm room twenty-one students have not yet taken the regular smallpox va cinations according to dr bull about 100 r o t c students which includes those taking the basic and advanced courses who will attend summer camp have been innoculated during the past week against typhoid fever schiff 29 engaged the engagement of miss adele hessberg v ßrill daughter of mrs henry s brill of new york to a w schiff was announced last week mr schiff son of mr & mrs mr schiff son of mr and mrs sidney schiff of new york was graduated from lehigh in 1929 with a b a degree he is a member of the phi beta delta fraternity president richard's letter read at the house of representa tives recently stating that the idea that military education will develop a militaristic attitude among the students is pure bunk was op posed by a petition presented to the house saturday tffe petition was signed by 10,100 college students and it urges that congress stop ap propriating funds for schools in which military training is compul sory the more important statements made in the petition are we believe that military train ing courses tend to teach doctrines contrary to the principles of the american government we believe that military train ing courses seek to idealize war and to incalculate a spirit of unquestion ing military obedience which is an emotional armament of war we consider that our military drill courses are not only inconsis tent with the kellogg pact repud iating war as a means of settling international disputes but consti tute a grave danger to world peace we believe finally that insis tance upon the compulsory feature of military training indicates that the majority of student opinion stands opposed to it and consti tutes its own confession to failure « mcconn talks to club dean c max mcconn was the guest of the schoolmen's club of allentown at the monthly dinner of the organization friday evening at the hotel allen following the din ner the dean addressed the club on lehigh university and new developments in higher educa tion that the european educational plan has a distinct advantage over the narrow american system was the conclusion reached by g e doan assistant professor of met allurgy at the weekly meeting of the discussion group on sunday night in drown hall while discus sing the relative merits of the two systems from both the practical and cultural sides professor doan emphasized the superior qualities of the european plan professor doan brought out the fact that not enough freedom is al lowed tha graduate students of american universities because of an excess of prescribed work amer ican students find little time for the pursuit of cultural knowledge in the library the point was brought out that little or no use was made by the graduate student of knowl edge forecast upon him although the continental schools are two to fc»ur years ahead of am erican institutions in quality and amount of studies pursued profes or doan believes that greatest ad vantages are gained through con tact with european culture cul ture which is a sound sense of what is worth while in life he said may be obtained only by contact with an older civilization which has long ago sifted out what is super ficial no student contacts there are also certain disadvan tages which must be faced by am erican students studying in europe said professor doan the student studying in europe has very few contacts with fellow students be cause of a complete absence of dor mitories and fraternities also there is no personal contact with the pro fessors a student may come and go as he likes and is restricted by no rules of any kind the disadvan tage of all this comes into evidence when the student is forced to read just himself to american stan dards individuality so dear to the eur opean says professor doan has no place in the american plan of ev ents professor doan explained how the result of this readjustment was generally speaking a compromise which gives to the student an add ed ability to discern what is worth while in life shields to address local musical club t edgar shields organist in the packer memorial chapel will speak at the monthly meeting of the bethlehem public schools music teachers club wednesday evening at six o'clock at the y w c a building east market street mr shields who is also director of the lehigh band director of glee clubs of the moravian seminary and college for women and organist at the pro-cathedral church of the na ticity will talk on the subject the boy's voices how talking pictures are made will be described by d c mcgal liard director of the instruction de partment of the general electric company in a lecture-demonstra tion entitled talking pictures at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in packard auditorium mr schlas man an expert in the talking pic ture industry will assist mr mc galliard demonstrative material will be in the form of talking movies spe cial reference will be made to the noiseless recorder this noiseless recorder reduces all schatching sounds of the talking pictures and greatly improves the quality of the sound paul seal 31 president of the lehigh division of the american institute of electrical engineers will be chairman of the meeting okeson in florida walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees and mrs okeson left bethlehem saturday morning for polk city fla for a ten day vacation approximately 6000 volumes have been added to the university li brary since september according to howard s leach librarian this number includes both donations and books purchased by the univer sity recent donations include those of mrs r p linderman of bethle hem who presented a huge volume of photographs by william h rau of philadelphia showing views along the lehigh valley railroad from perth amboy to buffalo the volume is two feet long one and one-half feet wide and six inches trick mr leach says it takes 2 men to handle it the pictures include photographs of the lehigh campus lafayette campus st mark's church in mauch chunk built by judge packer and judge packer's house this book is of historical value as many of the places and buildings have changed since the pictures were taken the united states playing card company donated a new book on the history of playing cards this book was published just lately as a result of forty years of research from as early as ancient china down to the present this volume traces with the help of many beau tifully colored illustrations , the history of the playing card records of the moravians in north carolina in two volumes was donated to the library by the north carolina historical society to the question do you insist that your future wife be virtuous in the common sense of that term a#ked by stanley thomas profes sor of bacterialagy friday evening at an open meeting of the r w hall pre-medical society 47 an swered no while 32 answered yes • one man voted that it was not a matter of great importance and another wrote no — prefer normal sexual development including inter course to abnormal repression with its possible distortion of attitude dr thomas expressed surprise at the result of the ballot and said that he had expected an overwhelming majority in the affirmative after the balloting doctor tho mas proceeded with his lecture the transmission of social dis public health affected easts venereal diseases dr thomas declared constitute a public health problem which is more serious if possible than the moral degrada tion involved in its mode of trans mission doctor thomas pointed out that the prevalence of the dis ease is not as striking as some epi demics such as typhoid fever small pox and even parrot fever but that its cost toj the nation is actually much greater than all these three combined about 20,000 blind cases in our institutions are due to gonorrhea dr thomas continued and 10 per cent of all deaths are directly or in directly due to syphilis after we discovered the specific germ of the disease and its mode of transmission he said we ran into a difficulty where lack of education plays a principal part this doc tor thomas attributed to lack of education concerning the human body and cited the popular fallacy that intercourse was necessary to health which he said was con trary to medical opinion and re search education inadequate prostitution because of lack of education is a subject which can not be discussed as we can discuss sewage disposal or rat eradication he continued and venereal disease by its very mode of transmission is still popularly regarded as pun ishment for sin doctor thomas pointed out that all one has to do is visit an orphan age for blind children to realize that they had not sinned in the contrac tion of disease he does not believe that venereal disease will ever be qvercome until the public is edu cated in regard to prostitution in all its phrases he defended prosti tution as sexu^j promiscuity whe ther the element of hire enters in or not dr thomas who was on sabbatical leave last year returned fro mabroad last month he dis cussed the problem of prostitution in european countries it was pointed out that one of the principle elements that plays a part in causing a girl to become promiscuous and ultimately a pro fessional prostitute is the teaching that once the girl has sinned she becomes ruined it is this mentaf attitude on the part of the girl that makes her feel that she cannot get back over that moral barrier and again become virtuous that leads her into a don't-care frame of continued on page four three houses initiate 23 men campus hell week hits pledges men badly treated bierman says new members honored by , banquets and a dance mccaa describes past experiences photographing freshman class the lehigh debating team won a decisive victory over rutjfers 3-0 last friday evening in packard lab oratory on the proposition re solved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade this victory was the first of the season after four starts the lehigh team composed of sidney snitkin 31 edward fleisch er 33 and emanuel scoblionko 31 upheld the affirmative while frank bohren 31 david kusanolu 32 and captain simon bahr 31 represented rutgers omthe nega tive acting as judges were a weissman executive secretary of the brith-sholom community cen ten miss meily instructor of economics and history at bishop thorpe and oseph a longo at torney at law in bethlehem prof herbert diamond was chairman debate tonight a lehigh team composed of maurice bernstein sol leibowitt and mathew murphy will uphold the negative of the same question against gettysburg tonight at a dinner before the monarch club in the hotel bethlehem a no decision debate with sus quehanna university will follow a dinner of the labor temple friday evening in the allentown socialists club emanuel ruderman and george parsons will talk for le high a short forum will llow the debate doctor hull reviews use of vacuum tubes research engineer addresses elec trical institute friday at easton present methods for rectification amplification and controlling of current in vacuum tubes were re viewed by dr a w hull of the research laboratories of the general electric company schenectady n v at the meeting of the local di vision of the american institute of electrical engineers friday evening in the gold room of the hotel eas ton professor s s seyfert and n s hibshman members of the local section which consists of the le high valley section and the engin eers club of the lehigh valley were among the 200 members at the meeting which opened with a 6 o'clock dinner descriptions of experiments con cerning the use of vacuum tubes or low power gas tubes for rectifica tion and the control of large amounts of power were given by dr hull coming events the immense pressure of breed ing population forces on the world the continual existence of poverty a lower stratum of social and econ omic squalor it was stated by prof neil carothers in his lecture on poverty and population last eve ning in packard auditorium the causes of poverty have al ways been biological according to doctor carothers and have not been the results of social institu tions economic systems or indi vidual personalities birth control then stands as the most vital so cial movement of the world since the institution of christianity re duction in births to the destitute said the lecturer comprises the ul timate solution of the chronic prob lem of poverty machine age a success the machine age is a glorious success stated dr carothers that the present industrial civilization is not a failure is evidenced by com parison of its conditions with those infinitely worse states of the less in dustrialized countries of the world today and of the civilizations of the past the censure of the machine age on the grounds of its failure to guarantee employment of its making of workers impersonal me chanism of its gross materialism of its runing the institution of the family is absolutely without basis according to the speaker the only real failure of the material age has been in its failure to become more material through the abolishment of poverty poverty said dr carothers is en tirely a relative term dependent on the point of view of age race and class it breeds on itself and is not the consequence but the cause'of individual moral weakness social ills and inadequate econo mic systems since the beginning of human ex istence the relentless process of natural selection left surviving only those capable of reproducing them selves faster than they were killed stated the speaker so the descen dants of a man and woman living at the time of christ would now number more than a billion in the absence of unnatural deaths during the intervening time this immense force of increasing population is only a cumulative breeding of mil lions for famine and pestilence to wipe out and millions more for the great urban centers to make pau pers criminals imbeciles and pros titutes resisted birth control birth control has been resisted by prejudice and lack of knowledge or appreciation of its significance ac cording to dr carothevs militar ism religion blind national opti mism the complacency of the up per classes and general misghided conceptions of the problem have opposed the movement sta#ig that he was giving the consensus of opinion of psychologists theologi ans and philosophers the speaker said that the problem was in no way a moral issue birth control is not the unnatural device of a de cadent civilization it does not mean the necessary reduction of popula tion 1 controlled fecundity according to dr carothers is perhaps the only solutions of the evils of present eco nomic and social conditions such control would reduce the want and squalor and consequent moral ills of this rich country and would by relief of population pressure af ford better opportunities for youth finer home life and universally longer life the efforts of the state and of charitable organizations temporar ily alleviate distress 1 , but recognized ly are futile in attempting to im prove conditions of the destitute stated dr carothers communion service for local students a special communion service ar ranged by the lutheran pastoral association of bethlehem for the benefit of student of lehigh uni versity and the moravian seminary and college for women was held sunday evening in st peter's luth eran church rev dr j o leibensperger and the rev m a kurtz officiated the latter preaching the sermon on john the beloved disciple the choir of st peter's church led the singing of the hymns and the litur gical portions of the service dr leibensperger and rev mr kurtz administered communion to upward of 30 young people includ ing six young women from the mo ravian college - hell week is not the healithiest time in the world especially for the neophytes according to dr j r bierman of the university health service every year during hell week the more unfortunate pledgees come into his office with strained muscles lacerations bruis es but and this is significant doc tor bierman cannot remember a single case of a pledge suffering from over-paddling there was the case this year of the initiate who had to carry a hea vy rock in one hand while he roam ed the countryside up hill down dale stumbling with the weight of it and the pain . . . but never let ting go when he rested the rock remained in his hand . . . when he fell . . . the rock still remained in his hand the pain became unbear able and when he returned to the campus his first stop was the dis pensary where dr j r bierman ound that the boy strained his arm so badly that there was a possibil ity of a fracture x-ray pictures showed that his arm was not frac tured but was very badly stranned and had to be carried in a sling another case treated by the doc tor was that of a young fellow wlio became so fatigued under the strain of hell week that when getting up the morning following a partic ularly strenuous night he was so weak that he stumbled and hit his head against the iron foot of his bed and sustained a severe lacer ation of the forehead the desire of an upperclassman to indulge in horseplay furnished the dispensary another patient this fellow had had infantile paralysis and as a result was not able to use his right arm an upperclassman apparently unaware of this fact be came playful and threw the frosh against a desk result two horse hair stitches over the boy's right eye hell week brings with it many cases of intoxication most of these are young fellows not used to drink ing and who consequently can not hold their liquor as liquor should be held occasionally this leads to troublkl . . as it did once during the initiation period just passed several freshmen imbibed a bit too freely and began to feel their strength nothing would do them but to pick a quarrel with a couple of bethlehem policemen ttie policemen became peeved and fought back in fact so furiously did the policemen fight that the un lucky frosh were severely beaten and had to come to the dispensary for first aid before they were able to return to their respective houses two had severe facial abrasions and one was sent to st luke's hos pital so that an xj-ray might be tak en to ascertain the extent of his in juries tuesday march 3 7:30 p m dr w s learned of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching will discuss the studies that have been made of the results of the two comprehensive examinations giv en to college students in connec tion with the survey of elemen tary and higher education in pennsylvania in room 416 pack ard laboratory wednesday march 4 7:30 p m meeting of the electri cal engineering society packard auditorium lecture on sound pictures by mr d c mcgal liard e e 19 physics society meeting in lec ture room of physics building dr lafferty will speak on some scientific philosophies s thursday march 5 7:30 p m meeting 6f the mechan ical engineering society room 466 packard laboratory twenty-three men were initiated into fraternities over the week-end ernest eaton maplewood n j eugene wildman baltimore md fritz lindley new york city charles hertell ridgewood n.j james fuller bethlehem pa wal ter jacobi bayonne n j and rob ert bangsberg lacrosse wis were initiated into lambda chi alpha on friday evening a dance on the following night honored the new men theta xi honored ten initiates with a banquet saturday night at the house the new men are ben jamin beach omntrose pa john k beidler oakville pa woodruff brodhead elizabeth n j richard byers catonsville md ; william k laird westfield n j frederick e lark shamokin pa francis x malinowski harrisburg pa theodore olofson west orange n j and john b stobeaus south orange n j sigma chi initiates sigma chi announces the initia tion of david graham wright philadelphia pa daniel foster ivins jr trenton n j john ha berman gleason duquesne pa robert francis bavington somer ton pa henry puster witt ram sey n j and john randolph ell strom bethlehem pa the new men were honored with a banquet sunday at the chapter house ten alumni returned for the occasion note this is the third of a series of articles on the memoirs of bill mccaa the fourth will appear next tuesday how do you like your work bill inquired a reporter well said bill with a smile i am just begirining to enjoy it it sure is great to note the change in some of the alumni when they gather here for their 25th alumni class picture some look pretty old and i always tell them that they certainly are an ugly bunch by the way i never told you about the frosh class pictures that i used to take those were colorful days for me and always a lot of fun taking a freshman class picture and abiding by the rules laid down by the student body was difficult the picture had to be taken some where on the campus and had to represent at least two-thirds of the class the officers of the class had to be present and the picture had to be taken before founder's day tht sophomores used every means of preventing his as the freshmen would be excused from many du ties if they were successful cut ting classes placing spies in the big oak trees guarding the main gates and keeping tab of the class officers were some of the duties of the sophomores excitement and rivalry was intense especially dur ing the last week when the zero hour approached during these early periods dating from 1901 until they were aban doned bill made five attempts to snap the frosh class but only suc ceeded twice due to the vigilance of the sophomore contingent bill tells of his encounters with the sopho mores how they discovered him hiding under a hay wagon and his wild ride through the campus in a attered cab succed in 1902 in 1902 bill was successful aft er elaborate planning on the part of the freshmen bill rented a cab from a local liveryman the picture was to be taken shortly wker ( three o'clock as most of the sophomores bad classes then and the^freshmen didn't the frosh gathered on the bank directly in front of the new library bill was to watch the fresh man pickets stationed in trees along new street ahd packer avenue to the campus gates when they drop ped a handkerchief the coast was clear everything went along smoothly untij the cab entered the campus sophomore spies station ed in the big oaks recognized the cab and sounded a warning by fir ing revolvers the cab gave a lurch continued on page four brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 3 1931 carnegie tests to be national feminine virtue not essential for marriage students vote price — five cents faculty passes spring and fall sports program stolen car returned birth control vital cure for poverty , carothers says educational council decides to increase scope of sopho more exams stanley thomas asks question at pre-med ical meeting prostitution discussed t v smith to talk at blake meeting fraternities hold week-end dances moving up day set for spring arcadia decides vol xxxiii no 38 discusses menace of breeding population in lecture last night praises machine age charity organizations called temporary aid by bus iness head all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association