Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 6

              chaperones chosen speaks to e e society tickets for the lehigh-penn sylvania football game which is to be played tomorrow on frank lin field philadelphia will be on sale until 5 p m today and be tween 8 and 9 a m tomorrow the tickets which call for seats in ng section are selling for 2 ng section is in the cen ter of the field extending from 40-yd line to 40-yd line sweeping changes in stu dent government af fairs recommended testing engineer underwood huntington address stu dents last evening vergil honored on bimillennium it was announced last night that the annual lehigh university club frolic regularly held in philadelphia after the perm game and scheduled to be held this saturday at the stepnen girard hotel has feen called off the frolic which was to consist of supper revue and dance was not signed up for by enough students to make it worth while exhibition now open in library commemorates birth of poet sinkinson urges mineral study military group to hold smoker x=ray lab tests paris paintings ullmann explains new method used by ar gentine scientists scabbard and blade will celebrate national day oct 29 lehigh professor address es kiwanis club at hotel bethlehem smith ballew and his orchestra will play for the senior ball w e curren chairman of the dance committee stated wednesday the 15 musicians of ballew's co lumbia recording group will pre sent the vocal and instrumental ar rangements which brought them popularity at white's restaurant in new york and the piping rock country club at saratoga the chaperones for the ball will be dean and mrs c m mcconn dr and mrs neil carothers and prof and mrs bradley stoughton pending the approval of the com mittee on student activities the non fraternity men of lehigh in cluding the dormitory and down town groups are holding their houseparty dance at the masonic temple • to notify men the committee in charge of the details which includes the section presidents of price and taylor halls plans to notify all of the non-fraternity men by mail early in the next week and the atten dance figure is expected to substan tially surpass the total of the past year two successful dances were held during the autumn and spring of the past year at the hotel beth lehem and the masonic temple re spectively these houseparty hops were under the sponsorship of the lehigh union which will be instru mental in aiding the non-fraternity men this fall the project is headed by a com mittee including john d brown chairman william shuck carl robson rudolf imhof david mc adams and donald may a.i.e.e meets at hazleton h c putnam to speak on lightning proof trans formers study of minerals of which there may be a national shortage is an immediate need confronting the na tion eris s sinkinson associate professor of 6re dressing and fuel technology told members of the ki wanis club yesterday at their week ly luncheon meeting at hotel bethlehem the onward march of material progress created a production of raw materials particularly of min erals which was consumed so rap idly that each year's consumption exceeded that of the previous year said professor sinkinson extensive developments of mining technique to meet world war demands of manufacturing industries caused surpluses of coal oil copper zinc and silver in the post war period this impetus of production be came embarrassing to producers professor sinkinson stated and to save their profits every possible outlet was explored and forced to prevent the storage bins from burst ing mining and milling production has grown so large that it cannot be checked without heavy financial losses since large quantities of min erals to be marketed choke the mar kets so much that disposal becomes difficult national scabbard and blade day will be celebrated by the lehigh chapter of the national honorary military fraternity by a smoker to be held 7:30 p m thursday oct 29 in packard laboratory speakers for the evening are lt irving mausback reserve officer of allen town engaged in c m t c and r o t c works lt col m h thomlinson professor of military science and tactics at lehigh capt j k rice and capt p l sadler oct 27 is national scabbard and blade day and also the birthday of former president roosevelt the lehigh celebration will be held on oct 29 so as not to conflict with fraternity meetings plan military ball scabbard and blade also planned a military ball for dec 5 the com mittees are dance g n beckwith chairman g h riley and w b warwick entertainment a r baldwin chairman a g rohrs and e m gormley j g mcmul len is publicity agent the national society of scabbard and blade was founded at the uni versity of wisconsin 26 years ago by five cadet officers it now has 78 chapters in 46 states and appro ximately 18,000 members brown to speak to woman's club student actors plan fall show feudal society in medieval italy is topic for fac ulty group three one-act plays will be presented by freshmen dramatists the two thousandth anniversary of the birth of vergil was celebrat ed yesterday at lehigh by the opening of a complete exhibition of vergilian works and material of corresponding interest in the uni versity library these objects which are on dis play in the treasure room consist of early manuscripts original edi tions in latin modern illustrative material and books published in connection with vergil a large part of the exhibit is composed of rare old editions of vergil recently acquired by the library at a cost of 5,000 and which has not yet been catalogued prof h w wright head of the department of latin has loaned the library several rare old editions of vergil and also a number of photo graphs and pictures relating to vergil or to the subjects of his po ems in addition he has donated three ancient coins and some pos tage stamps issued by the italian government in honor of the anni versity of vergil's birth early edition shown one of the most prominent fea tures of the display is a page of the 1471-1472 edition of vergil which has been given to lehigh by rob ert honeyman jr 20 this page is very rare as it comes from one of the first printed editions of vergil after the invention of the printing press the first edition was print ed in 1469 and this page comes from an edition printed in 1471 another unusual treasure of the exhibition is a large folio of cop per plates printed in 1741 which is a reproduction of the famous fourth century manuscript of vergil this folio contains beautiful roman il lustrations of vergil's poems other famous volumes include a fine specimen of the first edition of dryden's translation of vergil published in 1697 and one of bas kerville's edition of 1757 six talks on topics of general in terest form this year's university lecture program according to prof e b schulz chairman of the fac ulty committee on lectures unlike programs of previous years this program will have no general key topic the coming lectufce series will be the fourth to be given by members of the faculty the lectures of the past years have been conecentrated either on scientific or economic problems the forthcoming series of six will include discussions of conditions in various fields by faculty members who have made particular studies of their subjects to present viewpoints these lectures states dean g b curtis member of the faculty committee on lectures will present to the undergraduates the view points of the fields of intellectual interest other than those in which they are getting their professional training they will again appeal to the cultured residents of bethlehem who have jointed the students in showing much in^rest during the past years the present series of lectures ac cording to dean curtis will be held in packard auditorium on monday evenings at approximately monthly intervals the topics are as follows nov 16 the new south by g d harmon associate professor of american history dec 14 prob ability and modern physics by max peterson associate professor of physics jan 11 a seventeenth century radical by e h riley associate professor of englishyfeb 15 the socialization of invest ment by w l bishop associate professor of economics march 14 current trends in psychology by j l graham assistant professor of psychology and april 11 the en gineer and the social order by hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering students were formerly required to attend lectures which were giv en by out of town speakers and were asked to hand in attendance slips as students do in chapel when outside speakers were replaced by faculty members the elimination of compulsory requirement resulted since that time the lectures have been well attended through popular interest pi mu epsilon hears students on history juniors address mathematical so ciety last evening at home of professor t fort the history of mathematics was discussed by three student speakers before the first meeting of pi mv epsilon national honorary mathe matical society last evening at the home of prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics department the speakers of the evening were g m dewees 33 r j myers 33 and orlando graziani 33 who spoke on greek hindoo and chin ese egyptian and babylonian math ematics respectively dramatic group will read play the manner in which the im proved manufacturing methods in the field of electricity are constantly cantributing towards the enchance ment of electrical systems used in automotive vehicles was stressed by mr g a burns in his lecture to the electrical engineering society meeting held last night in the packard laboratory mr burns is the testing engineer for the mack international motor truck corporation whose main as sembly plant is located in allen town it is at this plant that the large mack trucks and buses are assembled trend toward large units in comparing the automotive electrical units with the larger pow er station units mr burns said the present trend in electricity is to large units modern hydro-elec tric developements are utilizing gen erators of the highest practicable capacity an inspection of the pres ent day power station finds the ma chinery clean and accessible and receiving the best of intelligent care in contrast with these ideal con ditions under which the power sta tions function note the things which automotive electrical apparatus must be built to withstand the generator in the automobile must be compact it must work under high temperatures and under coa ditions of vibration where it is ex posed to dirt oil gasoline and wa ter it must perform its duty of charging the cars storage battery notwithstanding the wide variations in speed to which it is subject the manufacturing of machines to op erate under these adverse conditions includes the use of the best mater ials and such proportioning as will allow them to do their work in the smallest possible space slides illustrate lecture slides and diagrams of various sorts were used to illustrate the lec ture pictures were shown of the various types of buses built by the mack international company start ing with the earliest type and end ing with the very latest develop ments after his lecture mr burns dis played various pieces of apparatus and demonstrated the practical use of these appliances he also an swered numerous questions which were asked him relative to the de sign characteristics and perfor mances of these devices prior to the main address of the evening the business session of the society was held the president l f underwood 32 presided l b huntington 32 gave a talk on the manufacture and testing of high tension insulators with parti cular reference to the method used by the locks insulator company of baltimore with which company mr huntington was connected dur ing the past summer following the technical session refreshments and smokes were serv ed prof n s hibsham spoke briefly and informally and the pro gram of the evening was brought to a close by the singing of the alma mater the officers of the club elected last may are l f underwood president j d brown vice presi dent c w banks secretary j j grinevich treasurer prof n s hibsham councilor field god by paul green will be discussed at first meeting explanation of the x-ray meth od of determining 7 the authenticity of pictures and paintings used in the research laboratory of the lou vre museum in paris was recently offered by dr h m ullmann head of the department of chemistry this laboratory which opened wednesday is the world's first lab oratory for the scientific study of painting it's a great thing said profes sor ullmann commenting on the method originated by fernando pe rez argentine ambassador to italy and dr carlos mainini professor of biology at the university of beunos aires this research work is wel worth while an oblique ray is directed at the picture in question and the painting is photo graphed such oblique lighting commonly used to examine the sur face of metals reveals the techni que and therefore the psychology of the painter this method will be a great help in establishing the authenticity of pictures manuscripts are examined suppose someone offered an or iginal volume of shakespeare for sale professor ullmann contin ued if there's some doubt as to its authenticity it could be inves tigated in this way loss of thou sands of dollars could be avoided the new x-ray method shows the way the artist uses his brush the choice he makes of colors and how he achieves the effects of chia roscuro it also brings forth the ar tists fingerprints by use of biolo gical chemical photographic spec troscopic and radioscopic methods the exact date of the pictures and whether they have been restored may be determined experiments were conducted on 1,300 canvasses of old and modern artists and the results were pre sented to the directors of the lou vre who established the laboratory o.d.k lists called for seniors seeking election to omi cron delta kappa are asked to send in a list of their activities before sunday noon to either ralph ben son chi psi house or to rudolf imhof taylor hall section b the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers will hold its regular monthlyrneeting at a dinner at 6:30 o'clock tonight at the hotel alta mount in hazleton the speaker will be h c putnam manager of the transformer department of the westinghouse electric and manufacturing company pitts burgh the lehigh representation will include profs n s hibsham and a r miller and several mem bers of the electrical engineering society mr putnam will describe the developments which have made it possible to build transformers that are practically lightning proof the results of surge and impulse testing of the transformer will also be a feature of the talk illustra tions will be given by lantern slides and blackboard drawings the officers of the institute are morland king of lafayette col lege chairman h j diefenderfer of the hazleton division of the pennsylvania power and light company secretary and treasurer the faculty women's club will hold its next meeting at 4 p m the regular business meeting will tuesday oct 20 in drown hall be held in conjunction with an aft ernoon tea at which sydney brown professor of european history will deliver an address on feudal sor ciety in medieval italy the program has been arranged by a committee consisting of mrs stanley thomas chairman mrs f a bradford vice chairman miss beck miss jeanette cleveland mrs g a howland mrs h g payrow mrs m e kanaly mrs e h sloane mrs r w blake mrs a w luce mrs t h haz elhurst mrs e r theis mrs m clay and mrs t e shields this committee will serve for october mustard and cheese club de cided upon dec 12 as the date for the fall play at the first meeting of the club thursday evening a group of three one-act plays will be given on monday evening nov 23 in which freshmen will take part this feature according to warren fletcher acting advisor of the club is an outgrowth of the course in dramatics engl 61 mr fletcher addressed the club on the nature of this course competition for the fall show will be open to all students a commit tee was appointed to select the three one-act plays and the play for the show on dec 12 the commit tee chosen is d d goldehberg j h booker w a lownie and warren fletcher as advisor laughton will speak thursday on dry ice the first official meeting of the faculty dramatic club will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday oct 21 at the home of prof r w hall 37 e church street at a recent organization gather ing held at the home of professor hall it was decided that the play field god by paul green would be read at the first official meeting the play deals with the poor white class of north carolina describ ing their hardships and miseries in gaining a living the officers of the club for the current year are mrs p m palm er president prof a w klein secretary and morris kanaly trea surer epitome jobs open members of the sophomore class who wish to compete for positions on the editorial or business boards of the epitome should see edward hildum at once he may be reach ed at delta upsilon house beth lehem 348 r o d k to elect three three new members will be elect ed at the regular meeting of omi cron delta kappa national honor ary society wednesday evening oct 21 at delta tau delta where the society will be served dinner coming events friday oct 16 7:45 p m meeting of brotherhood and young men's club of first presbyterian church north and center streets saturday oct 17 2:30 p m varsity soccer vs st john's of brooklyn at lehigh field tuesday oct 20 12 noon sophomore class picture at alumni memorial building men to be pledged into tau beta pi records of prospective men now being compared tau beta pi national honorary fraternity for engineering students decided on wednesday evening that pledging of new men will take place in about 15 days the records of the prospective pledgees are now being examined by the nine members of the organ ization john angle president gave a report of the national convention held at the case school of applied science last thursday friday and saturday in cleveland he stated that new york university and brookline polytechnic institute were granted charters the presidents of 54 chapters were at the convention the next meeting will be at 7:30 p m wednesday oct 21 in pack ard laboratory burnett is pledged phi delta pi fraternity an nounces the pledging of edward b burnett eng 35 of madison nj uniform l suggested all class officers except pres ident to be abolished in furtherance of the reform bill proposecr last spring omicron del ta kappa senior honorary society met last monday evening at the phi delta th«ta fraternity to round out the measures for presentation to arcadia besides discussing the reform bill the society decided that the orn^cron delta kappa by-laws be revised in the near future and an nounced that the annual fall elec tion of three men to the society should take place within the next ten days arcadia will vote on the reform bill at its next meeting it was found that in last year's publication of the reform measures several items were omitted and others were stated in an ambigious manner the resolution omitted was that a new organization to be known as the l club be or ganized consisting of all the letter men in the university so that the abolition of the in terfraternity council and the result ing duties imposed on arcadia should not be misunderstood by th student body omicron delta kap pa revised this section of the re form recommendations politics ruled out the society points out that cer tain articles in the bill have been included to spread the various du ties of arcadia among more men and thus eliminate the chance of politics swaying that body also the activities of each man will be so limited that too much power will not be concentrated in the hands of a few the abolition of phi club and cy anide will leave sophomores and juniors without distinction except that gained in athletic or publica tion lines to relieve this situation the l club has been proposed this will provide suitable recogni tion for all men winning a letter in a varsity sport «> new society proposed the brown key society would also fill an important place in ath letic activities besides honoring the assistant managers it would make possible the proper entertain ing of visiting teams previously visiting sport squads have not known where to go or what to do on arriving at the lehigh univer sity grounds the brown key so ciety would take care of visiting teams as soon as they arrived and see to it that the proper accommo dations were provided the reform bill follows in full o d k recommends 1 that the interfraternity coun cil be abolished and its duties ta ken over by arcadia 2 that arcadia be made the su preme undergraduate governing body a membership in arcadia shall consist of the head of each living group one representative for each thirty 30 non-living group men elected at a meeting of this group in the spring called by the president of arcadia the four class presidents the editors-in-chief of publica tions the president of mustard and cheese and the combined mu sical clubs a representative elected from and by the letter men in the university b meetings shall be open and given full publicity c no proxy shall be recognized the roll shall be taken by names of members instead of by liv ing groups and advance no tice of probable business be given d the following standing com mittees shall be organized to cover the student activities in publications athletic control social activities student clubs booster activities fraternities intra-mural sports deputations freshman welfare elections c a slate committee composed of two fraternity men one non living group man and one dor mitory representative shall be appointed by the president of arcadia this committee shall propose the membership of the committees under d continued on page four chemical society will hear alum nus on oct 22 miller laughton a lehigh grad uate of the dry ice corporation of america will address the chemical society at its first meeting thurs day oct 22 at 7:30 in the chemi cal lecture room mr laughton's topic will be dry ice he will discuss the manufacture and prob lems of the dry ice industry mr laughton is bringing slides and samples to demonstrate his talk after the business meeting at which the committees for the com ing year will be elected a social gathering will take place at drown hall nativity reception to be held tonight the annual reception for epis copal students at lehigh will be held from 8 to 11 p m this eve ning at sayre hall in the parish house of nativity church accord ing to the sponsors there will be refreshments and a good orchestra lehigh students will have an op portunity to meet girls from mora vian college for women the sen ior class of liberty high school and nurses from both st luke's and allentown hospitals strong men have taken to weep ing like babies heartbroken moth ers toss their infant children from housetops and why like a bolt out of the blue comes an announce ment from people who should know people who count people who think and it is an announce ment to the effect that beautiful women are not dumb never since santa claus was shown up as the hireling of a progressive depart ment store has such consternation seized the ranks of our upper set . . . not to mention our college men and from the same source of infor mation comes another batch of ni troglycerine ministers sons say they do not as a rule go wrong nor are brilliant persons especially subject to nervous breakdowns and you can't attract a person's at tention by gazing at the back of his or her head as a matter of fact experiments at stanford col lege reads the report have shown that the concentrated gaze of a hundred persons on another person has failed to affect that person no less an authority than albert edward wiggam is responsible for the assertion that beautiful women are not dumb a fallacy which has been in the public mind for many years keeness of mind and beauty ac beautiful girls not dumb declares albert wiggam cording to this authority very oft en go hand in hand and because a girl stands in the second row of mr carrol's pulchitrudinous display current at one of the new york theatres it does not mean that she cannot add up the cost of a fur coat and a diamond necklace ex periments have proved this to be true although such experiments were not carried out by mr wig gam if reports be correct just as it is difficult to tell a book by its cover so it is impos sible to judge a person's character by his face mr wiggam goes on to say in speaking of the current practice of large concerns of hir ing personnel managers to judge applicants for positions the report says there are thousands of men employed by large corporations who try to judge the character of employees by studying their faces it has been proved conclusively that a man's character has nothing to do with his face on a recent casion 88 such character readers were asked to judge a group of col lege students male and female all the subjects were clad alike only three of the 88 experts could tell which was a young man and which was a young women and every one of them disagreed on what charac ters the faces showed how does lehigh news get to the metropolitan papers what form of grapevine telegraph enables john smith 87 to learn in 24 hours every item of importance that oc curs on the lehigh campus the answer to both questions is it's a system and it's a system as thor oughly organized and as carefully watched as any department of the entire university most of the lehtgh news eman ates from an office on the second floor of the administration building an office with which most lehigh students are not as yet familiar in this office and occupying a large part of it is the lehigh news bu reau presided over by john max well a lehigh graduated and form er editor in chief of the brown and white it is mr maxwell's job as public relation's counsel for the university to prepare and distribute any items of news concerning le high which he deems of interest to outsiders and alumni working with him is a staff of six girls who at tend to all the routine matters of preparing the stories or copy as the newspapers call them daily this copy is sent to more than 200 newspapers on the atlantic sea board sometimes the stories are accompanied by photographs of prominent men on the campus prominent athletes or well-known visitors to the university papers get lehigh news through bureau's system mr maxwell's job is not an easy one he must know just what sort of news is best suited for each of the papers with which he corres ponds a newspaper of one type will be most interested perhaps in athletics a second in scientific de velopments a third will want only news of students local to their cir culation during the football sea son mr maxwell must work on schedule allowing so much time each day to the various tasks which must be done he is to be seen al most every afternoon on the foot ball field snapping pictures of the team in action getting individual poses of some recent sensation or photographing some player whose hometown newspaper believes him a wonder and who played on the local high school team but mr maxwell is not respon sible for all the news which reaches the newspapers some of the largest metropolitan dailies retain their own correspondents in this vicinity whose business it is to inform them of what is going on and who are subject to the call of those news papers when anything of excep tional importance occurs news of this type differs from news sent out by mr maxwell in that it is usally wired to the papers whereas mr maxwell with his imposing list of 20q to take care of must be content to mail his copy brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 16 1931 penn tickets on sale until 9 a m saturday smith ballew signs to play at senior ball a uto improvement cited by g a.burns vol xxxix no 6 price — five cents fourth annual lecture series to start nov 16 reform bills sponsored by omicron delta kappa await arcadia's decision harmon riley suther land bishop peterson and graham to speak club calls off pe nn game frolic new manufactu ring methods perfect cars electrical system approval of non-frater nity dance by commit tee still pending no general key topic o d x's suggestions would make arcadia the supreme ruling body on the campus the principle recommendations in omicron delta kappa's reform schedule which arcadia will vote on at its next meeting are 1 that the interfraternity council be abolished and its duties taken over by arcadia 2 that arcadia be made the supreme undergraduate governing body 3 that a uniform letter be granted in all sports 4 that the lehigh union be abolished 5 that all class officers except president be abolished 6 that the sophomore cabinet be abolished member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first