Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 46

              program will be same as given at hackensack last friday 75 men will make trip doan interests annual meeting with gamma ray tests 400 visitors attend physical tests in fritz labora tory show superiority of welding students also to vote for cheerleaders in gen eral elections j supervised by arcadia students are requested by the committee on sub-freshman day to turn in the names of high school and - preparatory school seniors whom they would like to have invited for sub-freshman day activities to registrar g.b " curtis before going home for the holidays during the easter vacation the committee would like all le high men to visit prospective students and give them any in formation concerning the univer sity which they may desire sub freshman day will be held sat urday april 18 fifteen students living in or re siding near pittsburgh have char tered four airplanes from the pitts burgh airways to fly home for eas ter vacation the planes will leave tomorrow from the bethlehem air port and it is expected that the trip will take approximately four hours the first plane which is a five passenger model will take off at 11 o'clock tomorrow while the other three planes will leave two hours later to take the remaining tej men incidentally the amount of baggage each man is allowed to carry has been limited to 30 pounds because of the limited amount of carrying space in each plane the planes will be met by several pathe news photographers at the pittsburgh airport as this idea of flying home is quite a novel one the members of the party have not been the least bit discouraged by the ill fate of several goucher stu dents who started to fly to their students fly home for easter charter planes to pittsburgh homes in pittsburgh last week the goucher students met with several accidents as one of the planes land ed in a farmer's field near cham bersburg while the other one smashed up near baltimore the girls had to continue the remaining part of their journey by train none of the occupants of the ill-fated planes was seriously injured al though the planes were smashed up almost completely the men going on the trip to morrow are w s wainwright phi gamma delta j w shelhart alpha chi rho r h lutzy alpha chi rho r r gordon psi uftsil on j j roessle sigma nu s m fuller chi phi c m denis chi psi f f roher chi psi p m saxman beta theta pi herbert crawford 224 warren square j.f miller kappa sigma charles campbell kappa sigma george mcmeans kappa sigma and r.r phillips kappa sigma o.d.k suggests unlimited cuts h.p krusen stirs plenary session students plan thesis on motor freshmen nominated officers for next year last friday at noon in packard laboratory the following men were nominated for offices m k peck and j b beidler president r e mcleod and a f list vice president g l grier and l e rbbbins secretary w w bolton and l h eichelberger treasurer j w heiney and w ackerman sergeant-at-arms t a straub and f l gearhart histor ian c e schaub r h pease w a peterson f s kennedy p e short h e ehlers g l wolcott c klatzkin s e stern h h de marest d f ivins e f smith h y miller a w lubbers e d brigham c a turner j d rad ing g b mcmeans e a guthrie and g e smith cabinet officers absence rule will apply to seniors only sol „ ution wanted criticizes polish delega tion at model league of nations pi delta epsilon plans banquet senior mechanical engin eers to study new airplane engine three hundred invitations sent for annual grid iron dinner wilbur s mount and james b hartman senior mechanical engin eering students are working on a thesis on the new fairchild six-cyl inder-in-line inverted air-cooled air plane engine just donated to pack ard laboratory by the fairchild en gine corporation mount and hart man will design all equipment and make plans to mount the engine in the internal combustion laboratory on the first floor beside the auto mobile engines so that tests can be run on the dynanamometer be cause the engine requires a great quantity of air a motor and fan have been ordered and will be plac ed on the second floor of the labor atory to supply the cooling me dium the engine a model 6-390 deliv ers 100 horsepower at 2150 revolu tions per minute the fairchild en gine corporation recently donated a four cylinder radical air-cooled engine which delivers 135 horse power at 1000 revolutions per min ute this engine will be used for demonstration purposes in the lab oratory as it employs a radically different system of valves than any type of engine that has been de veloped candidates for cheerleader next year will be voted upon by students on election day april 10 the can didates are a ayers carl hull,jh f casselman r j simes and a m thorne ware unopposed senior nominees are allen ware president d e best and c f halsted vice president w h sachs and w a lownie and g e brumbach treasurer p b myers a r baldwin and john m lyons secretary john angle historian w l miller l t chandler m c bingham h b osborn and j e duncan sergeant-at-arms junior nominees are clarence peck and j f clarke president f d keck w p baker j s skelly vice president b h riviere j s mcelwain and c w cooper trea surer j w shelhart j a auf hammer and p j kopp secretary h c scheer s j hanna and e t sergott historian r a an drews and g c doering sergeant at-arms junior ordinance men take inspection tour party of ten visits picatinny ar senal at dover today the spring inspection trip for the junior ordinance men took place to day the first year advanced or dinance men accompanied by m h thomlinson lt col u s a com manding the lehigh r o t c unit and capt c h keck ordin ance u s a r visited the picatinny arsenal at dover n j where they are seeing the manufacture of mil itary explosives and explosive tests the following men went on the trip robert raring d l mac adam r k serfass e w kauf mann a f barnard alan ayers benjamin rabinowitz and g a hottle musical group plans concerts the combined musical clubs of lehigh under the auspices of the new york lehigh club will give a concert tuesday evening april 28 at the engineer's club in new york city the program will be substan tially the same as that given last week at hackensack with the ad dition of several selections by the band possibly 75 men will make the trip including the band glee club jazz orchestra male quartet and saxaphone quartet the band will appear in uniform and play several selected numbers during the con cert and intermission the purpose of the trip is to cre ate a lehigh atmosphere for the high school students in the new york vicinity who intend to come here next year the concert given this year marks the second perfor mance of its kind given under the auspices of the new york lehigh club last year the musical clubs were entertained at the level club instead of the engineers club the men leave by bus shortly aft er two o'clock and arrive in new york in time for supper at the en gineers club the concert will be held that night at 8 o'clock the following is the program given by the musical clubs last friday evening at hackensack n j hail to lehigh by kinsey 07 and van vleck 08 keep in the middle of the road a negro spir itual arranged by marshall bar tholomew and keep a-goia by k linders by the glee club sel ections by the saxophone quartet now sleeps the crimson petal by mark andrews moonlight here and yonder by william sickles by the glee club and vo cal refrains by the quartet follow ing the intermission the following selections were given a song of the ships by robert flagler surrey song by a matthews by the glee club popular selec tions by the musical clubs dance orchestra solos by william alcorn 31 the battle of jericho a ne gro spiritual arranged by marshal bartholomew and alma mater by the glee club ereshman engineers must choose courses april 18 last day for selection of curriculum all engineering freshmen are re quired to choose the engineering curriculum they intend to take next semester not later than april 18 the council of the college of engineer ing has ruled according to a let ter sent to the freshmen last fri day by registrar g b curtis optional courses for the first half of the sophomore year must be chosen at the same time no options are open to those choosing the cur riculum of mining engineering mr curtis suggests that all men concerned should consult their par ents during the easter recess on the election of their curricula and their prospective course directors directly after the vacation in regard to their selection of options lehigh valley philharmonic society to bring artists here close to 300 invitations to the an nual gridiron banquet held at 7 p m thursday april 23 in the ball room of the hotel bethlehem were mailed on thursday by pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity sponsor of the affair of these somewhat more than 100 were sent to prominent faculty members and friends of the univer sity in the city of bethlehem l?ss than 200 represents the number of outstanding undergraduates merit ing invitations to the dinner the subscription to cover the cost of the dinner has been set at 2.50 this year acceptances must be mailed to philip s davis 31 phi delta theta chairman of the com mittee not later than april 13 mr davis and his committee are at present hard at work preparing the evening's program indications are the chairman declares that en tertainment will include a brogder satire of campus affairs than ever before as is customary at these occa sions a suitable award will be made to the most outstanding individual in lehigh life during the past year at the banquet last year the reci pient of this prize was superinten dent of police frederick t traf ford \ hall addresses garden society h p krusen arts 32 delegate from spain caused great excite ment at the plenary meeting of the model league of nations session feb 28 at princeton university by his speech criticizing the polish delegation krusen charged the polish dele gation with actions not in accord ance with the wishes of the polish people he declared that they were antagonistic in that they did not grant concessions to the other del egations and wished all others to make concessions to them the polish people said krusen were very willing to grant concessions and therefore the delegation was failing to carry out their wishes the members of the polish del egation arose as soon as the address was over and demanded an apology from the spanish government krusen replied by restating his ar guments and was sustained by the president of the league wojld politics discussed the delegates registered at 10:55 friday morning for a plenary ses sion the president of the league was elected and the delegates were addressed by dean gauss'of prince ton university the delegates were then split up into several groups to discuss different aspects of world politics the men from lehigh compris ing the spanish delegation were split up in the following manner clinton a feissner and h p kru sen were on the committee to deal with the polish corridor question leo f keefe and e g scoblion ko were on the committee to in vestigate the briand pact and je rome mayer and d s sawyer were on the disarmament committee group rating changed due to the fact that some men have not changed their addresses at the dean's office the valentine ratings published in the last issue of the brown and white which were based on the number of val entines put in the mail for the re spective living groups is subject to some correction at phi sigma dej.ta six men out of twelve receiv ed warnings captain johnny engel gave le high its first national wrestling championship saturday when he de feated jesse arends of lowa state teachers college in the finals of the national collegiate a a wres tling championships in the brown university gymnasium at provi dence the brown and white lead er's triumph in the 118-lb division is tee first title ever to have been won by an eastern college grappler since the organization of the na tional collegiate wrestling associa tion four years ago before reaching the final rounds captain engel had to dispose of stanley ball^of michigan state the latter was of the fast aggres sive type and proved a dangerous foe for the lehigh leader after a bout filled with intricate holds en gel finally slipped his famous scis sors into use and was able to ac cumulate the deciding time advan tage of three minutes 15 seconds thus qualifying for the final match with jesse arends lowa state teachers star 118-pounder another lehigh representative to reach the finals was bill shanker but he was not as fortunate as cap tain engel for he was defeated by a fall in four minutes and 25 sec onds by jack van bebber of ok lahoma a and m in the 165-lb class van bebber was one of the defending champions from last year's national championships in reaching the finals shanker defeated nicholson western re serve with a time advantage of 56 seconds the bout went to two ex tra periods before the decision was awarded to the lehigh wrestler engel scores fall captain engel began outpoint ing arends from the start the lowari found himself caught in nu merous grapevines which kept him on the defensive throughout the bout the lehigh ace wrestled nine minutes before he was able to turn the westerner on his back engel used a body and scissors bar lock to score the fall arends began squirming to free himself when he felt the hold being applied but his shoulders were slowly forced to the mat by the lehigh champion just as the timekeeper's watch ticked past the nine minute mark engel's triumph in the 118-lb class clim axes one of the most outstanding wrestling careers witnessed at le high for a number of years frank shaw and harold hirsh berg were the two other lehigh wrestlers entered ill the meet in the 135-lb and unlimited classes respec tively they encountered tough op position in the preliminary rounds and were defeated by john devine continued on page four phi eta sigma initiates on the night of friday march 27 phi eta sigma honorary fresh man fraternity held its semi-annual intiation five freshmen who ob tained 4 averages during the first semester were initiated the frater nity and the peldges met for dinner in the private dining room of the hotel bethlehem and left after the meal for the arcadia room in drown hall where the ceremony took place dean mcconn and pro fessor anderson of the chemistry department the faculty advisor were also present the five men initiated were david g wright bernard i basch leonard g hirsch milton c meissner and gilbert g alleman at a special meeting held in drown hall on march 30 clinton f miller also of the class of 34 was initiated it was decided that all members of the organization should be active while in college but that the control should be turned over to each new class as soon as their first delegation was initiated there fore from now on the class of 34 will be in charge lastjiight clinton f miller ch e 34 was elected to membership in the society plans were made to draw up a constitution two men suspended dishonesty during quizzes has caused the suspension of two stu students in the last week one man was dropped from phys 1 general physics receiving no credit in the course for dishonesty in a ten minute quizz suspension for the semester and permanent disciplin ary probation were ruled for an other student found using dishon est methods in an hour test in phys 6 electricity magnetism and heat schumann-heink believes radio cannot replace opera house robert rathbun commits suicide prominent local lehigh grad uate despondent over 111 health declares bethlehem's lime stone soil unsuited to many plants the limestone soil in the vicinity of bethlehem is unsuited for many types of plants it was stated by prof r w hall head of the de partment of biology in his speech to the bethlehem garden club last thursday evening at the women's club limestone said dr hall ab sorbs acids in the soil necessary to certain kinds of growth it is useless to try to grow such acid-loving plants as rhododendron laurel azalae and pine unless spe cially prepared soil is used accord ing to the speaker too often such plants are given improper prepara tion and attention for their success ful growth following his talk dr hall an swered questions on lv's subject from members of the clvb 1 . class in aeronautics to visit navy yard ten mechanical engineers will in spect aircraft factory the class in general aeronau tics consisting of ten mechanical en gineering seniors will leave beth lehem at 6:30 a m tomorrow toin spect the naval aircraft factory at the navy yardwh south philadel phia the group will be accompan ied by prof t e butterfield and either assistant prof b h jen nings or j r connely instructor in mechanical engineering i according to professor butter field the field trip should prove to be of special interest the details of typical airplane construction will be seen as well as research work being performed on the newest type of aircraft if time permits after the inspection of the factory the group will visit camden airport in camden n j the newly organized lehigh val ley philharmonic society establish ed to raise the scope of musical ap preciation in bethlehem and eas ton is planning a series of con certs to be given in the near fu ture alternately in bethlehem and easton ossip gabrilowitch eminent rus sian pianist and director of th de troit symphony orchestra has been engaged to play at the first concert a symphony orchestra composed of local players and di rected by earle d laros of eas ton will be the main feature of the program for the second concert miss florence easton prima dona of the metropolitan opera company has been engaged sylvia lent well known violinist will be the soloist for the third concert for the fourth a local soloists of ability will be chosen membership in the society which may be purchased at the price of 5 a year entitles the member to admission to the four concerts mrs barry h jones is in fcharge of membership in bethlehem sub-freshmen listed a list of prospective students has been prepared at the office of the registrar at the request of a num ber of the heads of living groups desiring an opportunity to look up the men during the easter recess copies of the list are now avail able at his office according to george b curtis registrar of the university in addition to the names of men who have applied for ad mission here next fall the list drawn up contains those of men who have made inquiry concerning entrance student jnjures head r s metz 34 fell on the first flight of stairs in christmas-saucon hall last week and injured his head although he was unconscious for a few minutes no serious injury re sulted from the fall according to dr bull director of the students health service unlimited cuts for seniors was offered as a solution to the present cut system at the last meeting of the xi circle of omicron delta kappa national honorary activities fraternity the meeting was held last wednesday evening at the del ta phi house in an endeavor to find some solution to the system which many undergraduates feel to be un fair the cut system was the subject of a long discussion at the meet ing although no definite solution has yet been found the faculty members of the society feel that the existing system is working very weil one of the chief criticisms which the members of o d k offer is that the instructors and the stu dents are not well enough acquaint ed with the cut system to realize its true value although judgment is sometimes harsh it was stated at the meeting the^students cannot get it through their heads that the system is one of the best possible it gives lehigh one of the best attendance records in the country makes criticism another criticism which o d k makes is that there is a possibility of beating the game or in other words there is a possibility that many students get excuses which they do not deserve whereas many more students although they may be more deserving of excuses nev ertheless have to pay s the penalty for their absences the possibility of unlimited cuts for seniors was brought up by some of the undergraduate members of the fraternity who assert that by the time a college man reaches his senior year he should certainly have enough judgment to know just how many cuts he may safely take juniors sophomores and freshmen they claim should be subjected to regulations such as ex ist at the present time carl o claus jr 31 who repre sented the xi circle of lehigh uni versity at the national omicron delta kappa convention march 5 6 and 7 gave a report of the bus iness that took place at the meet ing officers selected the following men were selected as national officers for the coming year at the convention dr frank c brown of duke university pres ident dr george lang of the uni versity of alabama vice president dr william moseley brown of at lantic university executive secre tary dr g l schrann of the university of pittsburgh dean w sanders of ohio wesleyan univer sity dr gary e snaveley pres ident of birmingham southern col lege and prof h babcock of the university of southern carolina were elected council members-at large two fraternities hold dances over week-end alpha chi rho and phi gamma delta entertain alpha chi rho and phi gamma delta fraternities held dances sat urday night at their chapter houses approximately 70 couples . at tended the alpha chi rho dance which was chaperoned by mr and mrs w f payne of bethlehem and s b meade instructor in ac counting the music was furnish ed by the easton sirens the phi gamma delta dance was chaperoned by mr and mrs wil liam lewis of bethlehem and dr halfred brown assistant professor of romance languages charles woehle and his fort pitt orchestra of philadelphia furnished music for the 500 people who attended that the present day welding process will replace the rivet and that the field is broad for develop ment along these lines were the principal points emphasized at the sixth annual welding symposium friday in various campus labora tories approximately four nundred engineers interested in welding at tended there are not enough men today that are familiar with welding in its many aspects that can visualize new jobs and then picture the so lutions of them according to prof comfort a adams of harvard university and directory of the am erican bureau of welding profes sor adams who was the first speak er of the morning session especial ly emphasized the demand for men with a comprehensive classified knowledge of the various methods and kinds of welding he stated that although our knowledge of welding today is very limited we already know more about it than we ever hope to learn about riveted joints doan presents paper examination of welds by gam ma rays was the title of the pa per presented by gilbert e doan assistant professor of metallurgy gamma rays are sent through the welded section and thence upon a photographic plate wherever the weld is porous or contains air bub bles the rays will increase their speed and cause dark spots to ap pear on the film the source of these radioactive or gamma rays is radium or radon a radioactive gas given off by radium prof doan explained that since radium costs 70,000 a gram it could not be used for any practical operations the ra dioactive gas being used instead due to their short wave length gamma rays may be directed through a metal thickness of 10 inches and still appear satisfactor ily on the photographic plate prof doan pointed out that the chief ad vantage of the gamma ray method of examining welds over the old x-ray method was its simplicity and portability the cost of this kind of photographing is approximately four cents per one hundred pounds which makes it practical for actual use the u s navy is using the gamrrfa ray examination on all of its steel construction work william f carson structural en gineer in presenting his paper shop and field welding of the dallas power and light company's building brought before the sym posium a practical application of the welding process mr carson confirmed prof adams by stating that ninety per cent of the welders today are inadequate for this par ticular job eighteen were chosen from a group of one hundred of this number ten were finally retain ed to do the welding work t£e cojnplete welding of the dallas power and light company's build ing which is 245 feet high and comprises nineteen stories was completed in two months john j bowman aluminum company of america closed the morning ses sion with a short talk on the welding of aluminum thermit shown demonstrations and tests of welds and welding took place dur ing the entire afternoon session of the symposium the thermit pro cess of welding was demonstrated in the lower floor bf packard lab oratory in this process the parts to be welded after being placed end to end in a mold of sand were pre heated until these parts were red hot then the thermit steel was ap plied and the weld was completed in 30 seconds this method is used primarilyvor welding large sections the air reduction sales company of new york city demonstrated the latest development of the oxyacety lene torch for cutting and welding metals besides being portable the apparatus operates automatically this torch is capable of cutting me tal 12 inches thick the atomic hy drogen butt and gas welding pro cesses were also shown in the pack ard laboratory exhaustive physical tests of speci mens were made in the fritz labor atory and in every case the welded joint was stronger than the riveted joint and the plate the lincoln continued on page four robert s rathbun 92 gen eral contractor in bethlehem and allentown committed suicide last friday in his bungalow near emaus the act . was brought on according to the reports of his physicians by ill health mr rathbun graduated from lehigh with the degree of civil engineer he was first employed by the norfolk and western railroad in 1894 he became city engineer of allentown during the last few years mr rathbun has shared in a number of construction pro jects in allentown and bethlehem he was bor,n in rathbun elk county in 1869 a mason a mem ber of the university club of bethlehem and of the manufactur ers club of philadelphia he leaves a wife and four children coming events 4 p m easter recess begins april 9 8 a m easter recess ends tion to the listener but it will nev er be as satisfying as to see the singer in person an audience is always beneficial to the singer as it is the only means of knowing whe ther or not you were appreciated in broadcasting you have to imag ine that you are performing before a huge throng it is hard and for those reasons madam schumann heink still contends that the opera house will never be replaced by ra dio broadcasting ¦ the introduction occurred in a strang way seated in the lobby of hotel bethlehem i was talking ra ther freely with a globe-times re porter who was telling me that she spent the entire afternoon trying to interview mad.am schumann-heink and was about to give it up a wo man who was standing nearby whom i had hot closely observed suddenly remarked madam schu mann-heink does not like to be bothered with reporters and news paper men in fact she positively refuses to be interviewed i turned to find myself staring at a short woman with shrewd tired eyes and an untidy head of scrubby hairt and how do you know so much about the opera star i inquired she*quickly and haught ily raised her head and replied i happen to be her private secretary it is impossible to interview madame schumann-heink this was learned by a brown and white reporter after he had spent the entire afternoon trying to meet her telephone calls messag es to her room and even roxy's influence proved of no avail the only consolation that the lehigh reporter or another report er could get was to talk with her private secretary miss grace ev erley madam schumann-heink's secretary served as a proxy for the famous metropolitan opera star broadcasting difficult does she like to broadcast operas over the radio the reporter asked yes she does but she would rath er see her audience and know how they appreciate her singing it re quires an undue amount of imagin ation to broadcast correctly the human response is lacking and aft er a few minutes of singing it proves monotonous miss everley replied do you think . that the radio will supplant opera house in the future the reporter asked never no mechanical invention will ever be able to replace a hu man audience television will help to convey one's expression and ac brown and white * bethlehem pa tuesday march 31 1931 vol xxxiii no 46 welds to replace rivets adams class officers will be elected friday april 10 musical clubs to give concert in new york city engel wins title in national meet price — five cents national champion names requested for sub-frosh day lehigh captain only eastern wrestler to win championship shanker reaches final shaw and hirsh'berg defeated in preliminaries at brown john a engel university elections will take place april 10 from 10 a m un til 5 p m in drown hall class officers will be elected for each class as well as cheerleaders for next year the elections will be under the direction of arcadia whose members will act as tell ers john d benedict president of arcadia wishes every student to cast his ballot on the day of the elections no issue until april 14 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til tuesday april 14 member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first