Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 52

              relations club sponsors soviet lecture by noted editor cites five year plan contest closes oct 7 in 1928 four sophomores selig son epstein spangler and wyck off made the tennis team as reg ulars all four of these men were available for three years and all four graduated last june one of them made the greatest record in the history of intercollegiate ten nis and the four of them combined with three other men to make the 1930 team much the best lehigh has had the graduation of these veterans left a hole that cannot be filled in one season and the graduation of seligson left a vacancy that never will be filled but three fine players were left in the persons of montene court engleman and snitkin and around these three this year's team must be built up to the time of the muhlen berg match the limited trials had given a very slight edge to veale tomlinson and enscoe with gar retjt whittock haff bingham and gadd still very much in the run ning veale and tomlinson have been on the substitute list for two years not quite able to break through the veterans on the list of regulars the team has beaten muhlenberg 9-0 and washington and lee 5-4 and had gettysburg badly licked when rain intervened last saturday in the first two matches engleman snitkin veale tomlinson and enscoe beat their men in good style engleman's win over wilson of washington and lee was one of the best performances that depen dable player has ever turned in the team lost all three doubles to washington and lee after the match was won with no doubles combinations left from last year and the team still undetermined doubles play simply hasn't devel oped as yet the team has a stiff schedule ahead and it will be a green team facing veteran players in most of its matches lehigh has defeated lafayette eleven successive matches and rutgers has not won a match in many years there is a defeat by swarthmore to wipe out rut gers is unusually strong this year and the other two are fairly good the lehigh team is pointing espe cially for these three matches what it can do against the crack teams of columbia princeton dartmouth and cornell remains to be seen professor knapp to address classical association group no parking signs placed on campus convention delegates will hear noted philolo gist tonight dr n m emery speaks the faculty performance of the play's the thing spring produc tion of the mustard and cheese scheduled for last evening was postponed according to charles f nassau business manager of the club it will be given at 8:15 tues day evening under the new man agements tomorrow's performance at 2 p m will be the premier showing most lehigh freshmen would not complain if they were sent out by imperious upper classment to find striped cats mexican jumping beans or green gladiolas such tasks are but part of their tradition al initiation procedure but when irving e gennet property manager of mustard and cheese was asked to secure three peaches for the forthcoming club show the play's the thing he was almost stumped the peaches as explained in a previous story in this paper are a very important fjart of the show in fact so impor tant that the show could not be put on without them as soon as gennet was told to get peaches he sent his assistants scouring the vicinity but each re turned with the same answer there were no peaches to be had hasty telephone calls to new york and philadelphia revealed that metropolitan dwellers also subsist during the spring without the fuz zy fruit gennett's freshman train ing stood him in good stead how ever he telegraphed to georgia ordering three peaches by air mail the order has been filled and if there is plane wreck francis neu wirth may yet munch on his peaches eugene g grace president of the board of trustees has been put on the spot at last he has been caught and placed between alan c dodson and walter r okeson who met the same fate nine years a^go it all goes back to the construc tion days of the alumni building in 1922-23 when it was decided to place these three men where they couldn't get away and yet every one entering the building could gaze upon their weatherbeaten faces and remember why they had been so treated up to the middle of last week the eminent steel and university man had escaped this sentence by an egotistical italian's desire 1 for publicity graduates modeled the italian foreman of the stone cutters on the building job was commissioned to model on the job and put the three lehigh graduates on the archway over the east entrance walter okeson was effigized on the north side alan dodson on the south and sup posedly eugene grace in the center of the group but somehow the cen tral head didn't seem to be true to the original as planned a close examination of the work showed it to be a likeness of the stonecutter foreman instead of the president of the board of trustees during the past nine years the mat ter remained unchanged until last week the original contractor sent a man back to the job to really put eugene grace on the spot dean's new book is college novel orators chosen for final test student life satirized in work of mcconn just published six freshmen place for williams contest may 6 dean c m mcconn recently issued the following statement to students having cars regis tered : the city of bethlehem has placed no parking signs on the west side of taylor street be hind the armory and on the north side of eighth street be side the armory these thor oughfares are city streets rather than university property accordingly students or oth er citizens who hereafter park in these places in defiance of the posted signs will be liable to summons to police headquar ters and subject to fine just as are violators of no parking reg ulations in other parts of the city please take note of this de velopment and be guided ac cordingly in order to avoid trou ble with the police and financial loss competition for a new lehigh song is to be sponsored by the le high club of new york this an nouncement was made by a e forstall 83 president of the club tuesday evening at the engineer ing auditorium new york city at the concert of the combined musical clubs and band the first prize will be 100 second prize 30 third prize 20 the song said mr forstall must show the spirit characteris tic of the traditions of the univer sity and must be adaptable for mass singing lehigh needs a new original and distinctive song . and there are lehigh men who can produce it manuscripts must be submitted to the executive secretary of the alumni association not later than founder's day oct 7 1931 in a sealed envelope marked lehigh song contest the composer's name must not appear on the man uscript but should be in a sealed envelope attached to the manu script the lyrics and music are to be original two men may col laborate in composing the song a melody without harmony will be considered although if harmonized the song will receive preference the lehigh club reserves the right to copyright any song which they accept music clubs entertain the glee club under the direc tion of t edgar shields rendered several selections and the quar tette sang popular numbers a e buchanan jr 18 enter tained with many and varied feats of magic assisted by several bowls of gold fish which multiplied as tonishingly under his expert hand the band directed by charles cleaveland 31 played selections including a medley of lehigh songs julian booker and his orchestra gave their interpretation of all the king's horses and played for the dancing after the concert.a motion picture life at lehigh was shown lehigh review to appear soon hoyer and kost win mentions staff members rank high in pi delta epsilon con test first issue under new editor contains new depart ments lehigh was captured this after noon no it wasn't an army of for ocious blue-lapelled m s & t ad venturers but a host of feminiity gowned in reds greens blues and yellows and far more captivating than anything else could be they have overcome us but who can boast of having been defeated by more formidable weapons than their smiling lips sparkling eyes and sweet-toned laughter plans have been completed for the entertainment of our captors first there will be the junior prom from 10 until 3 with ace brigode and his virginians offering their syncopated conceptions of modern meledies tomorrow after noon will offer an assortment of events there will be a lacrosse game with rutgers on the lower field and a track meet with the same school on the upper field the mustard and cheese will pre sent the play's the thing at 2 o'clock in the drown hall auditor ium between 4 and 6:30 p m the welcomed invaders may attend the tea dance in taylor gymnasium sponsored by the sophomore class the final feature of the house parties will be the private dances in which all the dormitories and most of the fraternities will participate price hall and section a taylor hall will entertain guests over the week-end the latter will give a dinner in honor of its fair visitors at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening at the hotel bethlehem chaperons for price hall are dr and mrs r d billinger and mr and mrs w f payne those for section a are mr and mrs louis langhaar al lentown and mrs morris brooks philadelphia dorms to hold dance music for the dormitory dance to be held from 9 until 12 tomorrow evening at the masonic temple will be furnished by jay knell and his orchestra from pottsville the dance which was made possible through the cooperation of the le high unidn with the dormitory groups will be chaperoned by dr and mrs r d billinger prof and mrs h g turner and mr and mrs w f payne no tickets to the junior prom can be purchased before this eve ning favors and programs will be distributed at the door about 250 to 300 couples are expected ac cording to alvord hoyt chairman of the prom committee prom tickets for chaperons will be given out at the desk in the tro phy room this evening library filing system discussed by leach senior chemists shown methods of locating material h s leach university librar ian lectured to senior chemical en gineers tuesday on methods of lo cating scientific reference material in the library mr leach explained the use of the library card catalogue and of several scientific indices including the index of chemical abstracts the union list of periodicals a list of periodicals and where they may be obtained the list of periodicals published by the american chem ical society the engineering in dex the cummulative book cata logue a list of books in the eng lish language on all subjects and the industrial arts index an index of engineering references librar ian leach also spoke on the use of the library for pleasure frosh theme winner to receive cup may 6 the results of the freshman theme contest sponsored by omi cron delta kappa will be announc ed at the college meeting wed nesday may 6 the topic of the theme was a small improvement in custom regulation or organ ization at lehigh a loving cup will be awarded to the winner of the contest long to speak prof j s long of the chemis try department will address 1800 students of bridgeport high school bridgeport conn tuesday on what a chemist does the same lecture in which dr long will experiment with liquid air and com bustion will be presented before the bridgeport rotary club follow ing the school meeting six freshmen competitors out of is entered placed in the prelimin ary tryouts for the e h williams freshman oratorical contest wed nesday evening in packard labor atory these men are robert f herrick irving g schleimer har old silverstein sidney e stern alexander welter and william g wood the contest is open to all mem bers of the freshman class a prize of 40 will be given to the winner of the contest and 15 to the run ner-up the preliminary speeches were 4 minutes in length on topic chos en by the speakers the judges were g a finch h g rhoads r b parks d h gramley and a r braunlich of the english department the contest is under the supervision of prof m j luch of the english department finals planned may 6 the final speeches will begin at 7:30 p m may 6 in room 466 packard laboratory they will be ten minute extemporaneous speech es on subjects given to the con testants judges for the final con test will be warren fletcher si mon deptula prof e h riley prof c d macdougall and prof m j luch of the english de partment burr appears today in house party issue holzshu warendorf write ar ticles two woodcuts included the house party number of the burr appeared today the cover in color portrays two girls trying to get in a double deck bed the title of the picture is one of the inconvenience of house party there is a compromise short story by j h holzshu entitled his first million the story deals with a group of young people at a seaside resort another short sory written by harry waren dorf is entitled how to bury a dead horse horl freiday has again whittled a few chips and presents the house party girl another wood cut by freiday is entitled the ice-man gay minister of the mauve decade the next issue of the burr will be the last for this year it is the ex change number and will be out may 20 the next issue of the lehigh re view to appear early in may will contain more departments than ev er before according to maurice b rosalsky editor in chief in addi tion to three stories five essays and articles and several poems the new review contains the following departments book reviews art science the film and plays the short stories are those lips for instance by harry war endorf a tale of sophisticated long island life as shadowed by a cub reporter high life in new york by william v s port and the gigolo by j p kimball the essays and articles include today or yesteryear by theo dore g ehrsam an impressionis tic psalm of modern life god on ly knows by h e norwood a satire depicting god like the crit ics as failing to understand shakes peare's hamlet job seeking in the calumet by kenneth k kost the social status by c brooks peters walks and moods by prof fay c bartlett and hiking at lehigh by harold e sincock the board of publications has ap proved the appointments of mau rice b rosalsky 32 as editor in chief of the lehigh review and edward fleischer 33 as manag ing editor geology classes hear e h williams prof edward h williams lec turer on mining and geology spoke to the classes in general geology last monday and tuesday on the training of observation for years professor williams was head of the department of ge ology and mining and is the found er of tau beta pi he is now re tired and is living in woodstock vt once each year he comes to lehigh to lecture on geology goetz prepares paper arthur w goetz hunt-rankin leather company research fellow has prepared a paper on his re search which is to appear in the american leather chemists jour nal the paper is entitled meas urement of hydroxyl and sluf-hy drate tons in sodium sulfide sol utions william e hoyer and kenneth k kost members of the brown and white staff have been inform ed that they have received honor able mention in the pi delta ep silon national news contest cov ering news stories published last year hoyer's story was an account of the brown a<id white's entry in the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation kost's award was based on two stories a description of the new library and an account of the methods used by brown and white reporters the third place for the best news story was won by clifford har rison 33 harrison's story was an account of the intercollegiate wrest ling meet lehigh placed second after winning three consecutive times james s little's editorial on the famous city ordinance which for bade lehigh students to pick up girls on the hill to hill bridge won third prize for editorials little pointed out that the ordinance which read any male person who shall solicit or entire any female person to accompany them in a ve hicle in the city of bethlehem shall be guilty of disorderly conduct would not efface the moral evils of the city john lloyd elected to news editorship succeeds edward fleisher re signed to position on friday's issue john a lloyd m e 33 was elected news editor of the brown and white . by the executive com mittee at its meeting tuesday he replaces edward fleischer who resigned from that position last week the matter will be taken up with the board of publications and it is expected will be immediately approved lloyd who last served as an as sistant news editor has been on the brown and white for two years he was elected to the board at the end of his freshman year and for the first half of his second year at lehigh was appointed a copy reader the rah rahism of college life is satirized by dean max mcconn in his second book studies are not everything published yesterday by the viking press of new york the book is directly in contrast with his first work college or kindergarden published in sep tember 1928 it is the diary of a dumb freshman who attends higgins college and leads a hilar ious social life there it is very light reading and contains only 26s pages explained the author when inferviewed by the brown and white robert scott the 19 - year old freshman of the story enters col legs with a sport roadster and a sil ver hip flask gifts of his father and sister his mother objects to the flask but his father proclaims it es sential for a well rounded educa tion accordingly the young col lege man enjoys both so much that he finds himself expelled from the college soon after christmas higgins college is an institution quite unlike lehigh as it is smaller and co-educational and it hasn't any engineering courses robert is very dumb as far as lessons are concerned and ought never to have been admitted he gets in on a fluke and has a wonderful time said the dean the author takes his character through registration fraternity rushing hell week class politics dances and house parties celebra tions before the big football games bull sessions and the like the short novel is illustrated by herb roth noted cartoonist and illustrator coming events prof charles knapp eminent philologist of barnard college columbia university will lecture on observations on plautus follow ing the annual banquet of the class ical association of the atlantic states which will be held tonight at 7:00 p m in the hotel bethlehem the regular sessions of the classi cal assoefation convention are be ing held today and tomorrow at packard laboratory natt m emery vice president of the university welcomed the mem bers of the association this after noon instead of president c r richards as previously planned prof charles s smith president of the association responded to the welcome as pa«t of the first session prof floyd a spencer of new york university delivered a paper on the literary lineage of cupid in greek literature papers were also read on latin clubs and the high school course in latin by grace d reimer of easton high school and mary l hess of lib erty high school professor knapp who will speak tonight recently lectured at lehigh under the aus pices of eta sigma phi honorary classical society e l crum to speak five papers will be read tomor row morning beginning at 9:15 a.m in room 466 packard laboratory earl leverne crum assistant pro fessor of latin at lehigh will speak on diet in ancient medical prac tice as shown by celsus in his de medicina prof l arnold post of haverford college will talk on ancient memory systems dr b w mitchell of central high school philadelphia will deliver a paper on merlin and macaroni prof casper kraemer jr of new york university will read a paper on a new interpretation in pliny the younger's letter on christians an illustrated lecture will be pre sented by prof george h allen of lafayette college on inland navi gation in ancient gaul association members will be the guests of lehigh at luncheon to morrow in drown hall at 12:30 p.m final session tomorrow saturday afternoon at the final session three papers will be read prof george t ettinger of muh lenberg college will read a paper an apostle of common sense dr moses hadas of columbia uni versity will speak on gardarenes in pagan literature and dr ellis a schnabel of west philadelphia high school on little latin and less greek the classical association has member schools in new jersey new york delaware maryland and pennsylvania this annual meeting is being held with the co operation of the classical league of the lehigh valley of which earl leverne crum is vice president dr horace w wright head of the latin department is one of the vice presidents of the classical as sociation sword and crescent wants activity lists activity lists for sword and crescent must be in the hands of walton forstall jr secretary at the psi upsilon house before noon tuesday may 5 according to a statement issued today by e fran cis evers president of the society michael faraday is acclaimed to day by chemists metallurgists elec tricians 1 and physicists alike ac cording to the substance of five pa pers offered by the various de partments of engineering at a com bined meeting of the lehigh en gineering societies in commemora tion of the centennial anniversary of faraday's experiments held wednesday evening in packard au ditorium c o claus introducing the speakers expressed the wish that the meeting be considered a sym posium of engineers celebrating the hundredth anniversary of the con tributions of michael faraday which have had far reaching effect on the progress of modern science he further explained that the appara tus used in the demonstrations had been copied from faraday's orig inals as accurately as was possible a brief story of the scientist's life was given by t w matchett m e 31 in a pap.er faraday the mali faraday born in lon don in 1791 was only a mediocre student and was forced at the age of 13 to leave school in order to support his widowed mother it was a time of depression in england and faraday after much search ob tained a position as an errand boy to a bookbinder and merchant run ning on a newspaper route before coming to work each morning his work with the book merchant in duced him to extensive reading and before long his interests turned to ward scientific experiment and re search he was enabled through the aid of his brother to attend a dozen or so lectures that were be ing given by prominent scientists in london davy employed faraday a short time later he attended a lecture by sir humphrey davy and then he decided definitely to follow the scientific profession he communicated with davy sent him his notes and greatly aroused the scientist's interest davy injured his eyesight in an explosion and hired fadaray as an aide shortly afterward faraday married and from that time on lived in com fort at hampton courts during his trips with davy during which fie acted as errand boy and valet he met ampere in paris and volta in milan his own experiments gained him honors from most of the eurqpean universities faraday died in 1864 the first of faraday's experi ments were in the field of chemis try r c smith ch e 31 acting as davy and l s millelot ch e 31 as his understudy faraday of fered a paper faraday's contri bution to the chemical science faraday's three great experiments were his research with nitrogen and chlorine compounds liquidification of gases and the distillation of benzene from coal tar in the course of his work in chemistry he wrote several text including re search in chemistry liquidifi cation of gases and the chem ical history of a candle a book mainly for children metallurgy work cited faraday's experiments in metal urgy were discussed by w h wagner met e 31 and j s har rison met e 31 in a paper dis covery of the laws of electrolysis he deduced the law now called a faraday which holds an important place in metallurgy lantern slides were shown illustrating the com mercial importance of electrolytic processes which have grown from his first experiments r e snyder e e 31 and l r wagner e e 31 offered a pa per the laws of electromagnetic induction faraday experimented extensively with magnets and coils eventually producing the first dy namo and by reversing its action the first electric motor d l macadam eng phys 33 presented a paper entitled experi ments in light illustrating the polarization of a ray of light when passed through a magnetic medium each reading was accompanied by illustrations of the principles dis cussed and informal demonstra tions were held at the conclusion of the meeting senior suspended a senior has been suspended from the university for the current sem ester for dishonesty in bus 126 public finance russia's present economic pol icy is not to undersell the amer ican farmer or manufacturer or any other like i believe that the russians are fully aware of the fact that such a program is impossible for russia is at present in no po sition to do such a thing her pres ent need is for foreign goods and money stated bruce bliven editor of the new republic and noted journalist mr bliven spoke to the mem bers and some three hundred guests of the international relations club last evening in the packard audi torium using as his subject the challenge of soviet russia to am erican civilization in other words russia must to sell her exports for the highest price she can get and to do this to sell the products of the russian farm at any price is to cause a terrible suffering among the rus sian people so great is the need for the necessities of life russia's aim is not to dump her goods upon the world market but to build up a foreign trade in order to increase the prosperity of the country by this means she hopes to raise the standard of living to the level of say the american standard i be lieve that she can do this and per haps go beyond this point mr blevin said depression cited there are two factors with re gard to the present depression in america as compared with the sit uation in russia which i think are not apparent to the average amer ican first this depression differs from several others i have known in that there seems to a deeper un dercurrent of apprehension as to the outcome which is so clearly in ternational russia is the only country which does not feel this otherwise worldwide setback sec ondly the people of america at least have lost confidence to some degree in our actual economic or ganization — in the economic organ ization which the american has his silk shirt his ford car and his amusement park excursions we all wonder why in this country people starve when there is an ex cess of food mr bliven further went on to say that there is a great psycholo gical aspect to starvation in rus sia people only starve because of a lack of food but in america hat red and bitterness are bred when people starve while food advertise ments stare at them from every magazine and bill board in the country five year plan discussed mr bliven would not venture to prophesy as to the outcome of the five year plan he pointed out that the russians are attempting the greatest thing ever tried by man and that even if the five year plan did fail to come up to expectations statistically they would be very much better off than before if they succeed he said the present five year plan may be considered as part of another five year plan which will embrace greater expansion so far as success is concerned russia's records show that at the present rate the original five year plan will be nearly completed in four years time one great thought existing in the american civilization is that the russians under the influence of the soviet government are partic ularly merciless and are ferocious ly ruthless and bloodthirsty ac cording to mr bliven's statements praises russian youth mr bliven closed by making a statement concerning the attitude of the young people of russia with regard to the soviet system every one of the young people in the country persues the aims of the new plan with the utmost zeal each one of them is thoroughly convinc ed that the plan will work out they are convinced that their economic policy is a sound one this thought is contrary to the attitude of the younger generation of america bruce bliven was born in 1889 in emmetsburg i he served for 10 years on the editorial staff of the san francisco bulletin and was formerly the director of the de partment of journalism at the uni versity of southern california since then he has written editorials for printer's ink and the new york globe at present he is the editor of the new republic he is a member of the author's league of america and is the director of the foreign policy association of the united states tonight 10 p m to 3 a m junior prom music by ace brigode saturday may 2 1 p m varsity and freshman tracw meet versus rutgers upper field 2 p rh varsity lacrosse game ver sus rutgers lower field 2 p m mustard and cheese show the play's the thing in drown hall 4-6:30 p m tea dance in taylor gymnasium sponsored by sopho more class private fraternity and dormitory dances held during the evening sunday may 3 3 p.m house party officially closes brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 1 1931 price — five cents tennis prospects favorable 1931 varsity not yet chosen by neil carothers engineers extol faraday's works vol xxxiii no.f 2 prizes offered by lehigh club for school song bliven supports present russian economic policy l c h i g h commemorates centennial of noted experiments hold meet wednesday matchett smith wagner sny der and macadam read papers junior prom tonight opens festivities ; ace brigode to play dorms enter affairs fair guests arrive for house party m & c initial showing planned for tomorrow likeness of grace on alumni building contest announced at musical clubs concert in new york all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association