Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 48

              faculty to give three act play tomorrow night no official protest filed for elections tau beta pi to initiate founder's son april 25 apparent lack of interest is cause for this move juniors meet tonight sophomores and freshmen to hold their banquets april 22 23 dramatic club will pre sent aren't we all in drown hall students in cast government coordination necessary for more ec onomical transportation speed is important cushman gets major l for breaking swim ming record benedict opens meeting entertainment plans for 350 prospective stu • dents completed n.m emery to welcome luncheon pep meeting sport events planned for afternoon similar programs listed for alumni and subfreshmen homecoming for gradu ates held in conjunction with sub-freshmen 2 classes scheduled afternoon plans include track meet and baseball game despite positive rumors of a petition protesting the recent class elections no official pro test had been filed with arcadia up to a late hour last night ac cording to john d benedict president ¦ if such a petition is filed it will be considered by the old ar cadia next monday at 7:30 p m in ' drown hall the new arca dia will meet monday april 27 to elect officers football gate drops 10,000 still only sport to show profit report re veals ainory williams son of the founder of tau beta pi and grad uate of williams college will be in itiated into the lehigh chapter sat urday evening april 25 according to plans made by chapter wednesday evening iti packard laboratory informal initiation for undergraduates will be held dur ing the previous week and will be terminated by the formal initiation and banquet at the hotel bethle hem saturday evening petitions from four schools wish ing to install chapters of tau beta pi were considered at the meeting the schools are new york uni versity brooklyn polytechnic in stitute rutgers university . and clark institute of chicago 111 the petitions will be acted upon at the next convention of the fraternity which will be held next year sihler condemns all easy studies new york university pro fessor enlarges on his speech students and the faculty of the university will welcome alumni as well as sub-freshmen to bethlehem tomorrow the program for alum ni homecoming day is in conjunc tion with that of sub-freshman day from 9 until 10 o'clock the alum ni will meet in the alumni office in the alumni building each alum nus will fill out a roster for the day at 10 o'clock they will assem ble at packer hall for their first class professor stocker will lead the discussion at 10:45 o'clock the alumni will report to professor ullmann at the chemistry building following the chemistry class a seminar at the library will be in charge of h s leach librarian luncheon will be served at 12:30 o'clock in the armory in the afternoon the alumni will view the track meet between swarthmore and lehigh the meet is scheduled for 2 o'clock at the up per field immediately after the track meet the baseball team will meet swarthmore on the lower field the reason for having sub-fresh man day and alumni homecoming day together is to permit alumni to bring prospective students with them alumni to create fund committee the faculty dramatic club will present aren't we all a comedy in three acts by frederick lons dale tomorrow evening at 8:15 o'clock in drown hall the story concerns a fashionable group of english people the wife of a young man has gone to egype to regain her health during her absence her husband makes the ac quaintance of a prominent actress she returns unexpectedly to eng land to find this actress in the arms of her husband she threatens to divorce him by a fortunate cir cumstance the father of the young man discovers that the wife while in egypt had a similar affair the father confronts his daughter-in law with the man whom she knew in egypt and an interesting com plication ensues a picture of mrs j k rice sketched by mrs j kreutzberg of bethlehem is used as one of the properties the characters are morton mr warren fletcher hon willie tat ham capt john k rice lady frinton mrs sidney brown ar thur wells william g alcorn 31 martin steel leonard h flisher 34 kitty lake mrs warren w ewing lord grenham prof sidl ney brown margot tatham mrs john k rice mrs ernest lynton mrs c b meyer rev ernest lynton prof charles/j goodwin john willcocks prof john toohy gilboy to talk on foundations the senior class banquet to have been held wednesday evening has been indefinitely postponed due to apparent lack of interest on the part of the class this statement was issued by jolin a engel chairman of the banquet committee he also added that other meetings on wednes day evening were responsible for some of this lack of interest the junior class initiates the ban quet season this evening when ap proximately 175 men are expected to attend the junior class banquet at the hotel bethlehem a singing and dancing chorus will entertain the juniors during the dinner this idea according to r w burk chairman of the banquet committee is new for lehigh class banquets plan banquets the sophomore and freshman banquets will be held april 22 and 23 at 7 o'clock and 6:30 o'clock re spectively in the hotel bethlehem the sophomores will hear short talks by dean c m mcconn dr neil carothers and capt percy sadler david braun secretary of the le high union will act as toastmaster at the freshman banquet he will introduce dean c m mcconn capt john k rice capt percy sadler dr neil carothers prof fay bartlett and prof james long mr a e buchanan jr will be at the gridiron banquet so the ban quet committee will try to secure either another magician or the quar tet of lafayette college soil professor will ad dress civil engineering meeting monday r.o.t.c review set for may 4 5 financial matters to be handled by new group major a m weyand phila delphia to inspect le high unit letters were awarded for fall and winter sport teams thursday morning at 11 o'clock at a flag pole meeting john d benedict pres ident of arcadia took charge of the meeting fran evers chairman of the board of athletic control awarded the letter certificates in the fall and winter sports hal cushman captain of swim ming team was awarded a major l in swimming tor establishing a new eastern swimming association mark when he bettered the time set by harry lewis of rutgers in 1905 by oue-hfth of a second the following men afso received varsity football letters j f mc clernon captain a t ware cap tain-elect s h hall w e issel m j haas c e halsted george doering morton stein f.a jones w p baker e a sindel £. f evers r^c clark g h bailey robert motion e b twiggar t e nora r s chess f a rush ong f a stultz j e blood p.b myers r e hoaster s and p s davis manager wrestling letters varsity wvestling — major l john engel captain franklin shaw paul w seal clarence peck m w shanker harold hirshberg george r shoemaker philip rauch arthur j clastekwicz and samuel c fuller manager varsity swimming minor l lewis brennesholtz russel dean r h enscoe j e fritz r i fluck ben levenson e m ross harry walter r h drukker manager freshman basketball — numerals w w bolton c r chambers s e ferguson f l gearhart l o hesse charles klatzkin r l ri ley g c ruth c r howitz e a guthrie assistant manager to s l gregg assistant manager a minor l freshman wrestling — nuemals m d meixell d g wright ben bishop marcei peck j k beidler e f ford g l wolcott p e short e c metz and a minor l to the manager frank c murphy freshman wrestling numerals g f bell d e clark howard hoffman henry g holler f s kennedy w j pelizzoni stanley e vomlehn remo canova a j standing victor weill w r taylor p g nickerson w e somers and f r hammer assis tant managers a minor l to e j cresswell who was manager the program for sub-freshman day held tomorrow in conjunction with alumni homecoming day has been completed the sub-freshmen will register from 9-10 a.m in the lobby of the al umni memorial building here they will be assigned to a fraternity house for dinner immediately after registration they will tour the cam pus under the guidance of the re ception committee of upperclass men they will inspect the various buildings and be given an oppor tunity to interview heads of de partments and obtain first hand any information they desire con cerning their future in college at 11 o'clock the sub-freshmen will assemble in packard auditor ium where they will be welcomed by dr natt m emery dr neil carothers head of the department of business administration prof p m palmer head of the college of arts and science and prof bradley stoughton representing the college of engineering will give short ad dresses on what lehigh offers luncheon will be held in the ar mory at 12:30 with the sub-fresh men as guests of the university a pep meeting and speeches by dr charles russ richards president of the university and walter r okeson treasurer of the university will follow the prospective freshmen will view the track meet between le high and swarthmore at 2 p m on the upper field after which they will see the brown and white base ball 1 team in action against swarth more in taylor stadium movies will be held at 2 p m in packard auditorium in case rain necessitates calling off the baseball game and track meet nearly 2000 invitations were sent out and about 250 have been for mally accepted dean g b curtis registrar said that probably 350 sub-freshmen would be guests of the university review elects new officers dodsons present books to library foojball is still the only sport to show a net profit for the year's operations although the profits which amount to 13,050 are less than those of the 1929 season by 10,450 according to a preliminary report issued wednesday from the office of walter r okeson treas urer of the university even though this sum-is much lower than was expected there is still a substantial balance remain ing after the losses resulting from soccer cross * country basketball wrestling and swimming have been provided for these losses amount to 9,055 it remains to be seen whether or not the balance of some 4,000 is sufficient to offset the ex penses which will be incurred by the spring sports it is believed that poor business conditions locally was a direct cause of the decreased attendance at the football games last fall nev ertheless the profits—ta^st fall ex ceeded those of the 1928 season by 7,000 the loss of 9,500 in the other two fall and three winter sports is 155 greater than the estimated losses provided for in the annual budget jthe loss in basketball ex ceeded the budget by 601 which was attributed to the poor season and to the relinquishing of the re ceipts from a major game on a wes tern trip to charity cross country cost 144 more than the amount al lotted on the budget while wrestl ng bnowed a saving of 526 over the budget this last figure was made possible through a decrease in the estimated loss from four to three thousand dollars will visit ore mine v the cornwall orewmines of the bethlehem steel company near le banon pa will be visited april 20 on a combined mining and geo logy field trip for students taking metallic economic geology r e imh'of who gets editor ship is forced to re sign 77 volumes in donation of alumni president and wife tor glennon gilboy assistant professor of soil mechanics at mas sachusetts institute of technology will speak on research in foun dation engineering at 8 o'clock monday evening in packard audito rium dr gilboy was <& student at m i t when prof hale sutherland now head of the department of civil engineering at lehigh was teach ing there professor sutherland speaks of him as one of our keenest students a young man who has risen to a prominent position in his line of study he is now a member of the earths and founda tions committee of the american society of civil engineers and a very eminent in the work the science of foundations of which professor gilboy will speak has been radically changed by the extensive research done in the m i t laboratories professor gilroy's speech will be given at a special meeting of the civil engineering society the pub lis is invited to attend professor earnest g sihler pro fessor emeritus at new york uni 1 versity stated that a study which does not involve real hard work is a passing fancy in enlarging on his written speech after his lecture giv en wednes4ay evening in packard laboratory his talk the prima cy of greek in a liberal education was sponsored by eta sigma phi classical fraternity professor sihler launched into a criticism of higher education in america with our enormous wealth and magnificent buildings for higher education can't we have ideas that don's go into the daily paper and the sunday magazine sections of newspapers teachers must be scholars not mere people who assign chapter 10 in a book for homework he declared from his written notes prpfes sor sihler said the vast major ity of high school graduates are not qualified to enter college and only a small part of the college graduates are capable of entering graduate work describes sports the over emphasis on college sports was decried and concerning education he stated to associate with the choicest and best produc ed in the ages is a privilege one of his main points was to show the cultural eminence of the greeks in association with their po litical history if it were not for the cultural value of athens then their political history would not be valuable education in general was divid ed into two divisions mathematics and natural sciences and history and languages the transfer of greek culture to present day art literature and sports was described has books abroad in closing professor sihler de clared that it was one of his am bitions to spread american schol ars to europe he has fulfilled his ambition since his numerous books are in the principal libraries of europe prof carl m crum of the latin department who was once a stu dent of professor sihler introduc ed him to the audience he stated professor sihler is 78 years old — no rather he is 78 years young lehigh professors read x-ray papers coal is discussed by anderson and turner at indianapolis professors h v anderson and h g turner delivered a paper on microscopical and x-ray character istics of pennsylvania anthracite coal at a recent meeting of the am erican chemical society held at in dianapolis . in their paper they showed how the various constituents of anthra cite are identified under the mi croscope and x-ray the x-ray iden tifies the position and kinds of min erals in anthracite and also reveals for the first time the fact that an thracite is largely a carbon of the nature of graphite rudolph e imhof 32 who was recently elected editor in chief of the lehigh review for the coming year has resigned on advice of his physician leaving that office temp orarily vaca»t ¦* other officers elected were mau rice b rosalsky managing editor benjamin minifie business manag er alfred t stanley advertising manager and frederick d keck circulation manager chemical society will elect today nominations for officers closed by committee yesterday nominations for officers of the chemical society which closed yes terday were for president e m ross w t griesinger b d wite meyer and e w kaufman vice president f j french c.w pimp er and a l sinclair secretary jh b osborn g m templeman and c d warnick treasurer c b slichter and g a hottle elections are to take place today in the chemistry building fraternities pledges theta xi announces the pledging of walter t plumb bus 33 of elizabeth n j kappa sigma announces the pledging of f n stothoff 34 flemington n j g l cliver 34 staten island n v g l smith 34 scarton pa cabinet plans dinner the senior cabinet of the lehigh union will hold a dinner at 6 p m friday in drown hall at which william wood former perm state football star will speak a smoker will be held at 8 p m in david braun's apartment fol lowing the banquet the smoker will be open to all who wish to attend the annual inspection of the le high r o t c unit will be made monday and tuesday may 4 and 5 by major a m weyand infantry as representative of the corps area commander major weyand is an infantry of ficer and is now on duty as instruc tor with the 79th division organ ized reserves in philadelphia he received his commission in 1916 from west point where he was a football player of note major weyand will inspect indi vidual class groups during both days and the r o t c unit as a whole from 4 to 6 p m monday and 1 to 2 p m tuesday ruderman elected president of d.o.t plans made for interfraternity bull sessions in fall manuel ruderman was elected president of delta omicron theta at the last meeting held april 10 the other officers are edward flei scher vice president mathew mur phy secretary barkley wykoff treasurer maurice bernstein assis tant manager of debate the debate manager will be elected next sep tember manuel ruderman manag er of debate this year is acting as manager until next september plans are being made to have delta omicron theta petition a national fraternity for the estab lishment of a chapter at lehigh plans are being made to continue the interfraternity bill sessions next year efforts are being made to pres ent the varsity debaters with keys it is the desire of delta omicron theta to arouse the interest of the student body in varsity debating honorary fraternity initiates simon 32 banquet held at spring valley after initiation ceremonies stanley e simon m e 32 was initiated to pi tau sigma national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity by the lehigh theta chapter wednesday evening fol lowing the initiation ceremony in packard laboratory a banquet was held at the spring valley inn o jackson pearre m e 31 president of the local chapter pre sided at the meeting and banquet included among the 13 who at tended were professors thomas e butterfield burgess h jennings alexander w luce and mr john r connelly the university library has re ceived a present of 77 volumes from mr and mrs atsh c dodson of bethlehem the books are mostly works on travel in russia italy spain corea cuba and the west indies there are also books on art music and literature mr dodson 00 was formerly a trustee of the university and is now president of tke alumni association mrs dodson is the daughter of professor mcchandler first direc tor of the library a copy of personnel problems by baridon and l'oomis has been donated to the library by the mc graw-hill publishing company the volume is written to help the bus iness men solve the problems which arise in hiring and keeping em ployees 300 volumes transferred some 300 volumes have been transferred from the metallurgical library in williams hall to the main library a paragraph concerning lehigh's rare books on birds ap peared in the department of old and rare books in the march 21 issufe of publishers weekly the volume on birds were exhibited last month in the library coming events strict government regulation of and coordination of various agen cies of transportation are the o^y solutions to more efficient and more economical transportation declar ed john fitzgerald vice chairman of the committee on public rela tions of the eastern railroad asso ciation at a joint meeting of alpha kappa psi and the civil engineer ing societies last evening in packard laboratory room 208 outlining the development of transportation agencies fitzgerald explained the history of railway transportation the development of railway transportation is divided into four distinct periods develop ment of first railroads government regulation of railroads war-time regulation of railroads and develop ment during period after world war he declared government regulation originat ed from the rapid development of rail transportation in the west there were more railways in the west than traffic to supply them out of the frantic competition came improper practices unfair rebates and finally a universal demand for government regulation to protect the public the speaker said for 90 years prior to the world war railway carriers were regard ed merely as a medium of ex change speed was unimportant the war brought increased wages and prices and overnight speed be came the economical factor in trans portation then when the railways were returned to the private inter ests after the war business demand ed the mascimum speeds possible spend much money according to mr fitzgerald in the last eleven years two million dollars per day were spent in the revamping of railway traffic and equipment during the first three weeks of 1931 the same amount of traffic was handled as in the first three months of 1920 although there were 40,000 less freight cars and 8,000 less locomotives the average freight car shortage in 1920 was over 160,00 while that in 1930 was over 600,000 per day continuing the speaker added during the formulation of the in terstate commerce regulations sev eral years ago senator cummings declared that if th»railroads of the country followed his consolidation program they would effect a sav ing of five-hundred million dollars per year in costs within ten years fitzgerald declared that through this consolidation plan more than three times that amount has been saved since the bill was passed speed has brought other dev elopments in transportation agencies since the war period in 1895 13 motor cars were sold 34 years lat er in 1929 4,500,000 cars were sold fitzgerald declared that motor cars are here to stay for local transportation and short haul work the motor car is the most econo mical agent motor transportation will never replace railroads he continued if the freight and passengers carried by the railroads in one year were loaded into five ton trucks and 30 passenger buses the line would be 35,000 miles in length airship aids speed the airship has also developed considerably since the war where speed is essential the airship has no competitor the cost of air trans port of mails and important papers is a valuable investment just as the motor car will never compete with the railroad neither will the air ship it would require 3,300,000 air ships each carrying one ton eight hours per day to carry the daily railroad freight mr fitzgerald declarea that transportation agencies must be used wisely where they can be em ployed to the best advantage of the least cost transportation cannot be bettered by competitive agen cies work must be coordinated railroads must no longer be looked upon just as railroads they carry today 80 to 90 per cent of all traffic effective transportation can come only through the coor dination of the various agencies fitzgerald termed the modern rail way as department stores of trans portation future transportation must be done by a single transac tion through coordination dr h w wright speaks dr horace w wright professor and head of the department of lat in addressed the archeological in stitute of america today at pitts burgh dr wright has previously delivered this lecture on rome of the kings before the university of wisconsin university of chi cago oberlin and the art institutes of detroit cleveland and buffalo professor to give art lecture prof alfred m brooks head of the department of fine arts of swarthmore college will lecture on the delights of print col lecting at 3 p m sunday ap ril 19 in the browsing room of the university library the lecture will be open to the public tectors we could tell how many and what type of ships were following us and whether they were approsch ing or going away from us we soon lost them and came back to the surface as we started our diesel engines we found what may have been the doom of our four sister ships that had never been heard from the machinist had failed to close the exhaust port on one engine when we submerged it had filled with sea water and then brust when we tried to start it our captain then opened his directions which direct ed him to go to the mediterranean sea with one of our two engines already out of commission we head ed south to fulfill our orders we got into the mediterranean safely and headed for our supply base at cataro in what was then called dal matia a part of austria torpedoed again when we were a short distance outside of the port our captain sent the crew up on deck three at a time to bathe and fix themselves up be fore going onto shore ' the first three had been up only a-few mo ments when there was a cry a torpedo was coming straight for us the captain looking from the con ning tower gave a sharp order our boat turned just in time to dodge the missle then two others were seen coming straight at u^s the order had already been given to submerge and w,e were under water in time to miss them while we continued on page four hotel steward tells experiences as torpedo officer on u-boat note this is the last of a series of adventures as told to ben beach a brown and white reporter by h b loevenich chief steward at the hotel bethlehem during the latter part of the war according to a b loevenich chief steward at the hotel bethlehem the germans were able to manufacture enough submarines but had diffi culty in manning them every post in a submarine required a higher calibre man than the ordinary pro duct of the navy training schools at this time the germans had built a fleet of super-submarines four of these ships had been sent out at different times and not one of them had ever been heard of since leav ing port the fifth of these ships was just ready to be sent put mr loevenich was among the crew of this ship his experience follows our ship left kiel with supplies sufficient to last 12 weeks said the present hotel man our command er had his directions in a sealed en velope which he was not to open until we reached a certain spot in the north sea soon after we had lost sight of land we sighted sev eral british ships coming for us at full speed with submarines of this type we were able to go from full sjjeed on the surface to full speed below the surface and at a depth of 20 meters which is peris cope depth in just 28 seconds we took our dive in regulation time and made our first getaway while we listened to the depth bombs explod ing behind us with our sound de the recently inaugurated alumni fund committee will be organized at the regular spring meeting of the trustees which is to be held at 7 o'clock tonight at the bethlehem club the purpose of the committee js to better correlate the activities of the alumni with the university es pecially in a financial way allen c dodson 10 president of the al umni association has appointed al fred r gancy o3 chairman of the committee the committee will meet at least once a year at bethlehem mem bers will serve for a period of four years six new members to be elect ed annually by the alumni at large the initial 24 members will draw lots to determine the length of their terms the initial membership of this committee follows alfred r.'glan cy 03 vice president of general motors detroit franklin baker jr 95 director of general foods corporation philadelphia frederick s bates 86 oil producer daven port fla ; c austin buck 87 vice president of the bethlehem steel company timothy burns 01 man ager lackawgnna plant bethlehem steel company buffalo wm but terworth 89 moline 111 president u s chamber of commerce and president of doere and company w c dickerman 96 new york city president american locomo tive company r m dravo 89 pittsburgh vice president dravo companies john w eckert 78 allentown cadwallader evans general manager hudson coal company scranton robert farn ham jr 99 chief engineer of penn sylvania railroad a oram fulton president and general manager wheelock lovejoy company bos ton e f johnson 07 executive general motors corporation de troit howard h mcclintic 88 vice president and general manager mcclintic - marshall pittsburgh paul mackall 07 bethlehem vice president bethlehem steel company frank a merrick 91 pittsburgh president westinghouse e and m company r h morris 89 vice president philadelphia manufactur ers mutual fire insurance com pany w frank roberts 02 bal timore president standard gas equipment company morton sul tzer 12 new york city a t and t company charles h tompkins 06 washington president charles h tompkins company aubrey weymouth 94 vice president post and mccord new york city h.d wilson 01 pasadena calif n a wolcott 03 warren ohio pres ident packard electric company and t b wood 98 chambers burg pa superintendent t b wood's sons and company saturday 8 p m faculty dralhatic club play aren't we all at drown n>ll 2 p m varsity track meet against swarthmore on upper field 3 p m varsity baseball against swarthmore in taylor stadium monday 4 p m intramural tennis tourna ment at steel field tennis courts 8 p m dr glennon gilboy will *"" speak on research in founda tion engineering at meeting of civil society bethlehem pa friday april 17 1931 price — five cents railroads need good regulation fitzgerald says letters awarded for many sports at college meet seniors postpone their class feast vol xxxiii no 48 brown and white budget results football profit 15,000 23,500 ioccer loss 1,500 1,800 ross c'ntry loss 500 550 sasketball loss 2,000 1,999 vrestling loss 3,000 3,423 iwimming loss 1,000 1,179 1930-31 budget results football profit 19;-500 13,050 ioccer loss 1,500 1,491 ross c'ntry loss 500 644 sasketball loss 2,000 2,601 vrestling loss 4,000 3,474 iwimming loss 1,200 1,145 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association