Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 44

              university club elects graduate for 29th consecutive term lack of attendance delays nominations welding experts to speak at meet vol xxxiii no 44 sigma xi will discuss five research reports new members to be nominated tomorrow evening small loan sharks cheat henderson price — five cents russell sage foundation director addresses al pha kappa psi high rates discussed declares short time borrower cheated by unfair money lenders bacteria immune to radium rays special examinations set for mar 25 28 sixth annual symposium will be held here friday prof g.e doan to talk president c r richards will preside at first of three sessions nationally known welding engin eers representing many of the coun try's largest corporations wilf ad dress approximately 300 engineers assembled at lehigh for the sixth annual welding symposium on fri day president d f ivins jr postpones meeting till friday when only 50 frosh attend ban quet date also changed to april 23 nominations for officers of the sophomore class will be at noon friday in packard auditorium the nominations were postponed be cause a quorum could not be obtained at the meeting yesterday nominations for senior class officers will be at noon to morrow in packard auditorium nominations for the junior class officers will be at noon thursday also in packard audi torium because only fifty members of the ffeshman class were present ; when president d f ivins jr called the meeting yesterday he an nouncerft that another meeting would be held wednesday this date was lafer changed to friday because of conflict yith other class nom inations the date of the freshman banquet has been changed from april 16 to april 23 the freshman cabinet announced yes terday all nominations must be delivered to the secretary of arcadia by saturday march 28 the elections will be saturday april 11 five reports of scientific re search will be given to the le high chapter of sigma xi to morrow evening at 8 o'clock in packard auditorium nomina tions for new members will be accepted on or bsfore the time of the meeting dr j b reynolds profes sor of mathematics and theoret ical mechanics will speak on research on conical springs e s sinkinson associate pro fessor of ore dressing and fuel technology will report on tne chemical nature of coal h g turner assistant professor of geology has as his subject anthracite m a farrell in structor of bacteriology will talk on some metabolic stu dies of the streptococci % and f c becker assistant profes sor of philosophy is to speak on the role of hypothesis in experimental science moriz bernstein 96 was elected secretary of the lehigh university club of philadelphia for his 29th term at the annual election of officers recently the following officers also were elected c f lincoln 11 president w c cornelius 89 first vice president m b tate jr second vice pres ident and w forstall 9l trea surer dean c m mcconn w.-r okeson secretary and treasur er of the board of trustees and andrew e buchanan execu tive secretary of the lehigh university alumni association will speak at the next meeting of the club april 10 at the en gineers club invitations have been sent to 100 prospective le high students the guests will also be entertained by moving pictures doan describes radium testing the last series of special ex aminations for those students un able to take the tests at mid years will be given wednesday and saturday of this week examinations tomorrow at 7 p m in room 466 packard lab oratory will be in the following courses bus 33 labor mil 1 basic i psych 19 psychology of conduct those scheduled for saturday march 28 at 2 p m in the same room are bus 21 corporation finance bus 161 sociol.ogy c e i engineering drawing met 163 non-ferrous met probs phil 11 present day ethical probs phil 12 present day ethical probs psych 1 general psychology psych 5 introduction to psy chology psych 10 principles of psychology board of control approves valentine eligibitly ruling pre-med society bears dr e.haig leonard e robbins,'34 held up last evening managers approved ; frosh schedule is sued rule effective in fall brown and white to open contest pathologist stresses im portance of chemical synthesis explains inspection of . battleship castings at pittsburgh meeting competition for four po sitions will begin aft er easter radium has little if any effect on various species of bacteria when they are exposed to its rays concluded dr stanley thomas assisted by michael a farrell francis j trembley and mrs elizabeth macdougall of the biology department after a series of experiments were per formed on the species in which negative results were obtained the radium was borrowed from the metallurgy department after the completion of tests de tecting welding flaws by the use of radium had been made several species of bacteria in cluding sapharopnytic paraisi tic or deceased forms some fish and one frog were exposed to the rays at different time intervals from 15 seconds to five minutes and at distances varying from one inch to two feet a one per cent solution of complex simple anl derived proteins was also ex posed to its rays for various per iods after being exposed all bac teria cultures and other micro organisms were incubated at regular temperature for 16 hours and in no instance was there an indication that radium had ger micidal properties engineers see motion pictures leonard e robbins 34 was held up at 8:45 p m last eve ning by«i two armed men oppo site the alumni memorial build ing robbins had no money with him but offered his watch to the bandits who refused to take it he was then allowed to continue on his way the police are mak ing a concerted effort to appre hend the criminals lehigh chemist meets disaster m e and e e societies see movies on indus trial processes joseph j bozak 34 causes restaurant pan ic by explosion anyone who is paying more than three and one-half per cent as a rate of interest on small loans is being defrauded leon henderson director of remedial loans at the sussell sage foundation new york city told a large audience friday evening in packard auditorium the lecture was sponsored by al pha kappa psi honorary business fraternity several states are without the uniform small loan law and as a consequence citizens in these states must pay interest rates on loans which run as high as 25 per cent a month and 400 per cent a year mr henderson stated mr henderson who is actively engaged in speaking before legisla tures throughout the country in an attempt to secure the passage of laws against persons and institu tions who exact an exhorbitant rate of return on short time loans de clared that most of the high inter est rates were a result of specula tors and financial firms trying to realize an unfair profit at the ex pense of the public sponsors loan law the russell sage foundation ac cording to_mr hend&rson was the instigator of the small loan law which is now in effect in the state of pennsylvania mr henderson also explained the needs of borrow ers in moderate circumstances who are unable to borrow from banks he outlined briefly the steps tak en by the russell sage foundation industrial loan associations and other organizations to meet these requirements ¦ mr henderson has directed for the past five years an aggressive fight against loan sharks begun more than 20 years by the russell sage foundation before holding this position he was instructor of economics at the carnegie institute of technology forensic team closes season debaters meet massachusetts state on air tomorrow night two motion pictures dynamic america and the turbine with the solid rotor were shown at the joint meeting of the mechanical engineering society and the elec trical engineering society friday evening in packard laboratory the movies were presented by the wes tinghouse electric and manufac turing company of east pittsburgh dynamic america a talking picture was concerned with the life history of electrical appliances in modern industry and the contribu tions of the westinghouse company in this field scenes were shown depicting the part played by electri city in modern business in house hold duties and in modes of trans portation turbine construction shown the turbine with the solid rotor a silent picture portrayed the details of construction of steam turbines the picture showed the emphasis placed in^,the construc tion process on precision measure ments of castings and accuracy on the rotor the features of the new est type turbines are the automatic valve intake and the forced lubri cation system the last two reels showed activi ties in the mining industry in a soft coal mine near wildwood pa it presented an explanation of the mechanized action of drilling cut ting gathering conveying sorting and delivery of coal and how the entire operation is controlled by men at switchboards and not through manual labor how the navy could have saved 300,000 by the use of a radium in spection of a battleship casting was demonstrated by dr gilbert e doan assistant professor of metallurgy in an address testing welds by gamma rays from ra dium to the american society for testing materials wednesday at pittsburgh dr bradley stbughton head of the department of metal lurgical engineering also attended the meeting ? a radium picture of the stern post casting and of the keel knuc kle casting of the u s s chester one of the navy's new 10,000 ton cruisers plainly revealed a num ber of shrinkage cracks three weeks later when the cruiser steam ed out for a trial the casting broke ship now in dry-dock the ship is now in dry-dock at norfolk where the casting will be replaced at a cost of about 300,000 the navy department is contem plating the purchase of 1-3 dram of radium for testing purposes because the castings were below the sub-deck of the vessel it was impossible to reach them with an x-fay transformer also it was im possible to dismantle the castings and carry them to the laboratory however it was quite simple to take the small capsule of radium and allow it to shine through the casting and reach a sensitive photo graphic film previously attached to the opposite side although the thickness of the steel was from four to seven inches good pictures were obtained dr doan also showed radio graphs of welds in which porosity and lack of fusion were made plain ly visible although the outward ap pearances of the welds were flaw less conducts tests at lehigh dr doan assisted in the test at the invitation of dr robert mehl of the naval research laboratory and was carried out in the nor folk navy yard he became inter ested in the experiment and after his return to lehigh conducted further experiments on welds _ competitions for make up editor sporting editor and two news edi tors of the brown and white will start immediately following the easter holidays anyone complet ing his second semester in engl 48 brown and white is eligible for the positions all applications must be filed before april 1 the^competitors will alternate in handling the issues for the rest of the semester to gain practical ex perience in the jobs they will fill next year the board of publica tions will choose the editors at the end of the semester sporting editor resigns the executive board met today to appoint a new sporting editor for the rest of the semester to re place myron whitney who resign ed last week this appointment must be approved by the board of publications members of fhe brown and white board who wish charms must turn in two dollars to carl hull business manager delta tau delta by ' friday march 27 the men eligible for charms are w forstall jr e a honig i e gen net a m oppenheim c f hull w l hoyer m s bogart r c benson j b rather e fleisher w hi goehring jr f h mor hart f b wise c e harrison jr j e blood e r wisner j barney j h booker h j for syth m j graham w w kin singer k k kost j a hunoval j s little j a lloyd b minifie e h noedal f murphey f l o'leary jr h c osborn jr r h raring m schenck jr h war endorf f n zabriskie w h spath c f schier and d n schooley jr analysis and synthesis in chemis try play a very important part in diagnostic medicine dr emanuel haig stated before members of the r w hall pre-medical society last friday evening at st luke's hos pital before his address dr haig took the group on an inspection trip of his laboratory apparatus for freez ing microscopic sections micro tomes testing tables and photo microscopes were examined dr haig then led the group downstairs where they insngcted the morgue the address was delivered in the nurses lecture room and dr haig discussed the importance of analy sis and synthesis and the part they play in medicine today he pointed out that several diseases now can be more effectively treated as a result of chemical synthesis he cited diabetes and cretinism as examples in diabetes treatment with insulin a synthetic compound has proven very successful the insulin acts in the same capacity as the substance secreted by the pan creas in the body in diabetic pa tients however the pancreas fail to secrete properly and diabetes re sults cretinism on the other hand is an abnormal condition due to the improper functioning of the thyroid gland it is due to thyroid deficien cy the chemist has been able to extract a substance known as thy roxin from sheep this substance when given to cretins usually re sults in an improved physical and mental status the physician today dr haig said is relying more and more upon the aid of the laboratory for more penetrating and accurate diagnosis in certain ailments in the treatment of sore throat dr haig declared it is important to know whether the condition is caused by vincent's angina syph illis or diptheria the method of treatment is different in each case and so it is necessary to know the causative agent a general discussion followed dr haig's talk football and basketball managers were approved the 1931 freshman football schedule announced and the new valentines ruling on ath letic eligibility was passed at a spe cial meeting of the board of con trol of athletics yesterday afternoon in drown hall approval of letter awards and managerial elections in wrestling and swimming was post poned to the next meeting probation rule passed the new elibility rule excludes any athlete from beginning a sport if he has received nine or more hours of valentines in the same semester this ruling will not go into effect until next semester it reads as follows no student who at mid-semester is deficient in courses totalling nine or more hours shall during the remainder of the semester represent the uni versity in any freshman or varsity intercollegiate contest in any sport whose first scheduled contest is played after the mid-semester re ports are issued casselman elected h f casselman 32 was , ap proved as varsity basketball man ager for next season his assistants will be n b fry 34 and p j flanigan jr 33 d witerneyer 32 was approved as freshman basket ball manager c n crichton 33 and e t legge 33 were approved assistant managers of varsity football by the board j c diefenbach 33 will be freshman manager the freshman football schedule as approved by the faculty is as follows •* oct muhlenb'erg oct 24 rutgers oct 31 perkiomen nov 7 — allentown prep nov 14 — lafayette games away roxy features friday program madame schumann - heink also will appear at beth lehem school charles russ richards president of the university will welcome the guests and preside at the morning sessions at 9:30 o'clock in pack ard auditorium speakers for the morning are as follows prof com fort a adams director american bureau of welding will speak on welding engineering doan to speak prof gilbert e doan assistant professor of metallurgy will dis cuss examination of welds by gamma rays a story of these experiments appear in another part of this issue william f carson structural engineer will deliver an address on shop and field weld ing of dallas power and light company's office building at dal las texas john j bowman rep resenting the aluminum company of america will have as his topic the welding of aluminum the afternoon session has been arranged to let the guests watch different demonstrations in pack ard laboratory fritz laboratory and williams hall the demonstra tions begin at 1:20 p m and con tinue until 5 p m various rooms will be used to show motion pic tures of welding processes and op erations to demonstrate tests in packard laboratory the radio graphic examination by gamma rays will be demonstrated along with the testing and demonstra tions of the following welding pro cesses atomic hydrogen and weld • ing of alloy steels will be shown welding specimens will be tested in fritz engineering laboratory arc welding will be demonstrated au tomatic arc welding and spot weld ing will be shown in the welding laboratory in williams hall the final session will be held at 8 p m in packard auditorium j c hodge representing the babcock and wilcox company will discuss the qualities of an arc weld lee h miller chief engineer of the american institute of steel construction will talk on battle deck construction radiographic films from the afternoon's tests will be shown the shielded arc is the topic of the closing address by j f lincoln president of the lincoln electric company lehigh work prominent work recently done at lehigh in welding is drawing the attention bf many of the leading metallurgical engineers of the world scientific men expected to be present will represent structural steel trades steel manufacturers and machine production companies an uncommon welding operation was carried on two years ago at the symposium when a diver was em ployed to carry on welding under water in the pool in taylor gymna sium equipment for the symposium is being received daily from various manufacturers who are contributing to the conference this apparatus is being set up in readiness for the first session friday morning engagement announced the engagement of miss emilie louise christensen to clarence t thompson 30 was announced feb 14 miss christensen is the daughter oft mr and mrs jacob christensen of morristown n j thompson graduated from le high with a b s degree while in school he was in brown and white and track managerial competition and was a member of delta up silon alumni paper issued the lehigh club of new york issued to its members last friday a bulletin containing a resume of the winter sports of the university the bulletin was sent to the entire mailing list of the club which num bers 1438 alumni w w mills father of william mills jr 33 is secretary-treasurer of the organiza tion the lehigh debating team will close its season this week with du al meets against st joseph massa chusetts stat,e and westminster colleges edward fleisher sidney r snit kin and emanuel g scoblionko will represent lehigh against st j»seph tonight at the quakertown rotary and women's clubs the question of debate is resolved that the nation adopt a policy of free trade the debate with massa chusetts state college tomorrow light at 8:30 will conclude the sea son's radio debates over station wcba allentown manuel l ru derman and matthew j murphey will uphold the negative of the free trade question for lehigh the team will definitely close its season thursday evening when it meets westminster college at the allen town community center manual l ruderman sol t leibowitt and george w.parsons will talk against the free trade question in the debate with cedar crest last week the team composed of manuel ruderman edward fleish er and emanuel g scoblionko won a 2-1 decision gerald a bern stein and matthew j murphey representing lehigh lost to union college friday by the same score lehigh upheld the negative of the free trade question chapel being prepared for bach choir music a w litzenberger supervising architect yesterday declared that work going on in packer memor ial chapel is in«preparation for the bach festival in may the bleacher-like structure be ing erected extends from the chan cel rail almost to the back screen and its 15 rows provide accommo dation for 250 choristers the erec tion of the seats was undertaken early in order that the choir might begin practice ear|y in april and so accustom themselves to the ac coustics of the chapel building is repaired construction of a new cornice and gutter on williams half was started last week it will involve a month's labor and an expendi ture of 2,000 according to a w litzenberger supervising archi tect another enterprising young in ventor in the person of joseph j bosak freshman electrical engin eer of section c taylor hall came to grief in the interests of science when his experiment caused an ex plosion in th atlas restaurant about 6:30 o'clock last evening it appears that he had mixed an insidious concoction of red phos phorous and potassium chlorate and put about four ounces of the mixture corked in a test tube in his vest pocket for future study i^the future experiments will never be performed on this speciment however as during the exhausting labor of eating soup it became over heated and consequently exploded is severely burned , - mr bosak suffered severe burns on the chest and left arm besides suffering the total loss of coat and vest while one of his companions received a bruise on the forehead from a flying plate the gentleman experimenter dazedly picked him self from the floor and with a non chalant though somewhat bewild ered i'm all right accompanied officer pulley a member of the bethlehem police force to a nearby doctor at the time of the accident the restaurant contained about 75 peo ple and a good imitation of a chi cago gang fight was given at the sound of the explosion amid the screams of the women present ev ery one stampeded for the door un der the impression that either a guri or a bomb had gone off in the fight to get out several women fainted and a number suffered slight bruises officer~pulley soon restor ed order and after the wreckage had been cleared away and the res taurant freed of fumes the patrons resumed ttfeir meals the injured lehigh student was unable to give a statement to the brown and white late last night coming events ¦ yes said mr a b loevenich the chic steward at the hotel bethlehem i served in the ger man navy from the second day of the world war right up to the end the brown and white report er who had gone out after some in teresting stories was not disap pointed here for mr loevenich had had a wide and varied experience during his years of service he has been in america for several years and is now a naturalized citizen of the united states several of his most interesting experiences will be presented in a series of articles of which this is the first war was declared on the 31st of july 1914 continued mr loe venich after graduating from high school i had served the ac customed length of time in the ger man naval training department and held about the same rank as the american non-commissioned offi cer on the day after war was de clared i reported at my headquar ters in kiel and went right into service on board a destroyer first winter uneventful during that first winter we did patrol duty in the north sea guarded ports along our northern coast and maneuvered around our base at heligoland aside from bringing in an occasional contra band ship we had very little excite ment our first taste of fighting came on the night of march 9 1915 former german naval officer relates sinking of british ships three of our radio stations had picked up messages from british ships in the north sea by radio compass readings taken at these three points we could tell just where they were our fleet was giv en the order to go out after them false alarm sounded it was a dark cold night out on the north sea we proceded in breast formation thus combing a wide area with not a single light showing all of the men except the ones needed to run the ship were in their bunks trying to rest then the alarm came every man sped to his post but it was a false alarm and we were shortly sent back to our bunks we were only there a few minutes when the second alarm rang and we went back to our posts tense with the excitement of our first attack one of our ships had sighted the stern lights on the british ships there were seven of them s three mine layers and four destroyers we crept very close before they sighted us when they flashed a coded light signal supposed to be known only to the british howev er we knew the coded answer and flashed it back thinking we were other british ships they signaled us to proceed we passed them and steamed ont out of sight then we turned and approached them from the direction of the eng lish shore this time we flashed the continued on page four thought by some that he collaborat ed in shakespeare allusions and parallels recently published by profs smith and black it is regrettable that smoke was refused admittance to percy ji^ugh es psychology class the police dog it seems was very anxious to find out about pavlov's conditioned reflex experiments on dogs dr hughes it is believed does not like to see an understudy show his ap proval by wagging his tail which 1 might jb accounted for his exclu sion from class his german course was displeasing as he never under stood the 1 combined conversation now nine years old smoke was nine years old last january he came from new jer sey where he was mistreated by his two older brothers he was a sick ly child and had to be kept under the doctor's care for two years christmas vacation were either spent in the pocono mountains or in the sandoons of south jersey one year he celebrated''the new year in an old beer parlor in reading brownie and his numerous off springs were always arch enemies of sjnoke brownie never had a home but managed to eek out an existance from the various frater nity houses on the campus he was a good fighter and never had any trouble in gaining a decision over the handsome police dog two years ago he died in the south end of packer hall from sun stroke smoke canine king dethroned unknown dog dominates campus the king is dead long live the king smoke the campus king has finally been dethroned of his title the scars from his last battle still disfigure his face and long pointed nose the infirmities of old age hasten ed by a shot from an enemy's gun lodged in his left front paw and a careless motorists attempt to run him down have dimmed his pride of conquest and caused him to cede his title to an unknown mongrel dog he ascended to the throne two years ago when he met the chi psi barker an offspring of the fa mous brownie in the vestibule of coppee hall and in the ensuing bat tle smoke was the victor by a large margin he threw his oppon ent with a deadly throat hold and a riding scissors if you don't be lieve it careful examination of the floor will reveal blood stains responsibility comes with the crown came the respon sibility of attending classesin quest of further knowledge three days a week he attended prof george d harmon's u s history class it was held at nine and he would arrive late but after he scratched on the door for a while he was always admitted * prof harmon often said he was the brightest student he ever had as he never was so impolite to snore af ter his nine o'clock he went to his shakespeare class and usually slept in the back of the room it is tonight 7:30 p m glee club rehelrsal drown hall m wednesday 12:00 tn junior class meetin pack ard auditorium 7:30 p m glee club rehearsal choir room of the mativity church 8 p m meeting of the sigma xi society 416 packard laboratory 8:30 p m debate lehigh vs massachusetts agricultural col lege broadcasting over wcba thursday 4:45 p m meeting of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa fac ulty room of the alumnk mem orial building friday 9:30-12 m morning session of welding symposium packard au ditorium 1 20-6 p m afternoon sessions various places on the campus roxy and 85 members of his gang will conclude their eastern tour when they play at 8:15 friday evening in the liberty high school auditorium madame schumann heink and the roxy male quartet will be included in the group the performance is being spon sored by the tall cedars of lehigh valley in conjunction with the na tional broadcasting company roxy has promised several un usual features and it is probable that lou white famous jazz or ganist will be present if lie is able to cancel previous contracts the artms will arrive in beth lehem from schenectady friday morning in four special pullmans the mayors of phfllipsburg easton allentown and bethlehem will es cort them to the hotel bethlehem with the drum choir of the ameri can legion band leading the pro cession a reception and dance have been planned after the performance at which the group will mingle with the audience tickets are on sale in young's drug store ranging in price from 3 to 5 standing room tickets are 1 brown and white philadelphia alumni re-elect bernstein bethlehem pa tuesday march 24 1931 member intercollegiate newspafer association juniors and seniors in all en gineering curricula will be ex cused from all friday classes to attend sessions scheduled for morning afternoon and eve ning in various campus build ings all the lehigh news first