Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 19

              350.56 collected by un ion in annual drive exceeds last year's s total by 144.51 monges to talk on mind spirit all fraternities except one - listed as donors to fund the chemical society will hold its annual christmas banquet at 6:30 o'clock next monday even ing dec 14 in the masonic temple the speakers for the occasion have not been announced but the indispensible christmas tree and fireplace will be there san ta claus will also appear in con ventional garb and will disrtibute presents to the seniors and members of the faculty the chemical society is the oldest club at lehigh and its annual banquet has become one of the outstanding pre-holiday events honor society initiates ten mcconn and miller speak at tau beta pi cere monies radio society holds meeting members learn code short wave station is being rebuilt fallacious reports received as fraternity robberies inciease the footpads have limited their ac tivities to collegians and their be longings these same robbers must have escaped from some nearby in stitution for mental defectives else they would realize the surprising lack of negotiables to be found in these domains another suggestion put forth has been that the crooks choose fraternity houses with the idea in mind that if they are ever detected they can pawn themselves off as indignant alumni houses to have new locks to combat the present evil many of the houses anxious to retain what little the depression has left them have put new locks on their doors hired huge hounds guaran teed to bark at the slightest provo cation and are collectively sleeping with their eyes at least partially open in order incidentally to so sleep let it be here suggested that an eye-opener be taken immediately before retiring some of the housese recently robbed are psi upsilon nov 25 entered by a group of boys who were surprised by j l boughner 32 and fled leaving their ill-gotten gains behind them price hall en tered nov 20 by petty thieves who stole personal belongings and one dollar in cash sigma nu dec 1 15 total loot tau delta phi nov 24 intruder made off with a gold watch . the chi psi house robbed of 800 scene brown and white of fice sunday evening characters night editor sports editor and sundry reporters action night ed itor speaking on telephone as the last named uttered these words five reporters including a chi psi faint ed chorus there's never been 800 in the chi psi house check up revealed the amount to be ten dollars and a watch four reporters were revived the recent crime wave on the campus has developed to alarming proportions if reports may be re lied upon almost every day comes the news that another fraternity house has been victimized it is get ting so bad according to one ob server that freshmen are afraid to say hello on the campus any more lest they endanger their sociat position by addressing a second story man rather than an upper classman watches empty lister ine bottles camels krooks keep kissable flashlights business as sets in the profession clothing notebooks and what not have been stolen by the light fingered gentle men who appreciative of clean wholesome surroundings have made our campus their home some clue to the identity of the crooks may be gained by their pre dilection for fraternity houses and their contents it is suggested by a prominent campusite that because blazers chosen by arcadia howland uses lending policy paintings borrowed by students and faculty may be purchased action not taken on board of control ex pense report the reorganized radio society is now holding regular meetings in the communications department on the fifth floor of packard labora tory the meetings are held thurs days from 2:00 till 4:00 oclock and are combined with code meetings the club now has 15 active mem bers and is rapidly rebuilding the local short wave station at the last meeting there were nine mem bers present radio experiences advance amateur radio has experienced great advances in the united states in the past ten years according to w b searle vice-president of the club there are over 18,000 ama teur licensed operators in the coun try these operators can communi cate across the country with any ordinary transmitting equipment and a man in massachusetts re cently established a clear two-way connection with australia a majority of the large universi ties maintain short-wave stations and perm state operates a com mercial station having contracts with several national advertisers he said searle is a licensed oper ator with a station of his own and has picked up paris and other distant points c.w gibbs to speak to mining society that engineers as a group lack the ability to handle men and the ability to deal with human problems was contended by dean mcconn at the banquet friday evening in hotel bethlehem following the ini tiation of ten men into tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity dean mcconn pointed out that lack of ability in this line is per fectly natural as a result of the training engineers receive engi neers deal with purely physical forces and things which follow cer tain definite laws everything he studies is concrete engineers do not have the opportunity to study the social sciences engineers lack the ability to handle men because men cannot be handled as if they purely in animate objects men cannot be reduced to formulae more imaginative reading such as poetry good novels and classics which are written about people rather than about engines gives an insight into human nature that it is impossible to get from en gineering studies engineers are not executives in showing the result of this lack of insight into human nature dean mcconn pointed out that engineers generally work for somebody else and seldom hold executive posi tions he stated that in a large plant the engineer is often con sulted about a change in policy but 1 he seldom makes the final de cision prof b l miller head of the department of geology was present at the banquet and welcomed the new men before the banquet in hotel bethlehem a formal initia tion was held in packard labora tory • the men elected into the society are lawson v britton m e 32 charles e green ch e 32 george a hottle ch.e 32 george m kaleda e.e 32 charles w cooper e e 33 emerson w kaufman ch e 32 harry b osborne ch e 32 benjamin rabinowitz ch.e 32 robert h raring mm e 32 james c rhoads m.e 33 a plan to encourage the interest of the student body and the faculty in arts has been inaugerated by garth a howland assistant pro fessor of fine arts who is in charge of the art exhibits at lehigh uni versity prof howland is lending paint ings from a special group of the work of chauucey m adams to any faculty member and to a few reliable students ' the borrower may retain the painting until the first week of january at which time he must return it unless he decides to purchase the painting about half of this selected group have been borrowed already states professor howland and there are many more choice paintings avail able if this policy is successful it may be continued the next exhibit which opens january 4 of the new year will feature 50 prints of etchings and wood cuts of the year in addition to these some of the work of a local artist orlando wales of al lentown will be exhibited new york alumni pick seven songs inspection shows pool satisfactory dr bull explains purifying agents used in water a brown senior blazer was the final choice of arcadia at their de cember meeting last evening in drown hall three sample blazers were passed around to the members for inspec tion after a short discussion a brown coat with a sport cut back submitted by the sanford tailor ing company of philadelphia was finally approved fittings for jun iors and seniors will be made short ly after the beginning of the next semester the price of the new bla zer is 7.25 the board of control of athletics submitted a list of expenses of the various sports for the opinion of the arcadia a suggestion from the board stated that the expenses must be reduced some way in the near future since the board however requested nothing definitely arca dia refused to take action postpon ing the discussion until next meet ing john e angle jr met 32 was elected to represent arcadia at the annual convention of the student federation of american colleges dec 29 30 and 31 in toledo ohio to clear up all doubt concerning the number of freshman class offi cers arcadia approved its action of last year which eliminated all class officers except a president and a secretary-treasurer the already re instated sophomore council was voted satisfactory number of lehigh men with low scores less than average ford says faculty makes new rules for carrying extra work statistics on the results of the psychological test given to 435 le high freshmen in september were read by prof adelbert ford head of the psychology department at the faculty meeting yesterday sched ules for freshmen sports this year were approved at the meeting and two resolutions regarding the car rying of extra work were adopted dr ford explained that the su perior men at lehigh made scores about equal to those of the other colleges whose statistics have been completed the number of lehigh men with low scores however is considerably less than average the median of lehigh scores was 183 points out of a possible to tal of 360 while the other colleges reported a median of approximately 140 these reports from other colleges are rather incomplete as they rep resent only 6155 students however dr ford expects that even when the reports are complete that le high's median will be considerably above the average the psychological test was ar ranged by the american council of education and colleges throughout the country used the same test for their freshmen at lehigh all new students entering as freshmen or with advanced standing are re quired to take the test the rules which were adopted at the faculty meeting are as follows no student shall be permitted to register for more than one hour in excess of the normal number of clock hours or credit hours for his class and curriculum unless he has made during the preceding semester an average grade of c a student who during the preceding semester has made an average grade of c or better may at the discretion of the director of his curriculum be per mitted to carry a maximum of four hours in excess of his normal ros ter it was explained that experience has indicated that the former reg ulation did not allow a satisfactory margin between two-hour and three hour and four-hour courses it was also explained that it seems wise to permit students who are able to earn a c average in spite of an e or an f in any one subject to have the privilege of carrying extra work if in the opinion of the curriculum director it seemed desirable for him to do so by the old rule this was forbidden the faculty educational club will meet at 4 p m next monday in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building the subject will be the university of chicago plan dr t t lafferty of the philosophy department will be the principal speaker will describe man's spir itual relations dec 8 9 and 10 in drown hall henry b monges secretary of the american section of the anthro posophical society will give a se ries of three talks on man and his spiritual relations beginning with this evening the three fold be ing of man and universe body spirit and soul will be the sub jefct of tonight's talk at 8 p m in drown hall on wednesday mr monges will speak on conscious ness human subhuman and su perhuman and thursday the top ic will be involution and evolution of the spirit of man and the mys tery of christianity all the lec tures will be given in drown hall at 8 p m on the days mentioned mr monges talks are sponsored by bradley stoughton/head of the department of metallurgical engin eering who is interested in the spi ritual viewpoint of anthroposophy ; cooperating with professor stough ton is c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy manager of publishing house mr monges lives in new york city where he is secretary of the american section of the anthropo sophical society as well as manag er of the american anthroposophi cal publishing company publisher of books and magazines devoted to the subject of spiritual science the anthroposophical society has branches in many of the nations of the world and publishes magazines in 23 different languages in as many leading countries u of c graduate henry b monges is a graduate of the university of california where he received the degree of master of science in 1909 he taught descriptive geometry at the univer sity from 1906 to 1916 and was practicing architect in the city of san francisco during the same per iod in 1918 mr monges went to france as one of the ten architects chosen to plan the rebuilding of the devastated regions of france in france besides his commission be became director of the school of fine arts in the university of bohn from 1919 to 1921 he lived with his family at dornach switzerland studying the subject of spiritual sci ence at the headquarters of the an throposophical society one of whose objects is the promotion and de velopment of the study of man from 1921 to the present mr mon ges has been located in new york carrying out his chosen work committee will pick winning composition from group m & c.will present philip barry's play annual military ball has big attendance theis writes article for chemical paper couples at scabbard and blade affair number 200 experiments explained by pro fessor and research student the final red cross report which has just been turned over to the bethlehem chapter of the national red cross shows that 220 lehigh men have enrolled and contributed a total of 35q.56 mr a r baldwin president of the lehigh union and chairman of the university section has collected 144.51 more than last year's chair man theta xi headed the list of con tributors with a total of 37.50 and alpha tau omega was runner-up with a total of 360.00 five frater nities contributed over 20 with every fraternity but one listed as donors the total students gifts amounted to 317.31 and those of the faculty to 43.25 not including amounts given to city solicitors there is no way to tell how much the students living in town gave to the cause the bethlehem chapter of the red cross has now secured 5905 members with contributions to taling 8,242.04 the highest total reached before was 7,891:95 an excerpt from the official red cross letter of thanks reads as fol lows this year mr baldwin and his co-workers enrolled 220 mem bers for 350.56 and having in mmd the financial conditions at this time the final result is most grati fying we know from our work with mr baldwin that he did not alone have in mind the raising of a large amount of money but rather that the student body should par ticipate in the welfare and commun ity work in the city where their university is located the officers of the red cross wish to thank mr baldwin his as sistants the student body and the faculty of lehigh university for their thoughtful response and aid in bringing this roll call the 50th anniversary of the red cross to a successful culmination in the beth lehem chapter the list of contributions by fra ternities follows donations of living groups theta xi $ 37.50 alpha tau omega 31.00 kappa alpha 21.00 chi phi 21.00 sigma phi 20.50 phi delta pi 16.00 sigma nu ¦¦¦¦¦ 12.00 sec d taylor hall 11.25 chi psi 11.00 alpha chi rho 10.00 alpha kappa pi ».... 10.00 kappa sigma 10.00 pi kappa alpha 10.00 sigma chi 10.00 psi upsilon : 9.50 sec a taylor hall 8.30 phi delta theta 8.25 phi sigma kappa 7.70 sec b taylor hall 5.60 beta theta pi 5.00 pi lambda phi 5,00 tau delta phi ..'. 5.00 omega phi sigma 5.00 sec c taylor hall 4.55 sigma phi epsilon 3.20 theta kappa phi 3.00 phi beta delta 3.00 sec e taylor hall 3.00 leonard hall 2.50 theta delta chi 2.21 lambda chi alpha 2.00 phi gamma delta 1.50 sec c taylor hall 1.00 delta tau delta 75 317.31 faculty contribution .... 43.25 total 360.56 includes 5.00 given to city soli citors includes 6.00 given to city soli citors includes 4.00 given to city soli citors does not include amounts given to city solicitors public utility manager to dis cuss coal industry a discussion of the different phases of the coal industry and causes of the present condition will be included in the talk on coal by c w gibbs before the lehigh valley section of the american in stitute of mining and metallurgical engineers at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in packard auditorium mr gibbs is general manager of coal operations for the public utility company of pittsburgh and is widely known in bituminous coal fields in his address he will point out the causes of the present dis tress in coal fields and suggest pos sible remedies he attended the third international coal conference held recently at carnegie tech and will give a resume of the subjects covered at that meeting besides his position with the public utility company mr gibbs is a member of the pittsburgh coal mining institute national mine rescue association coal mining institute of america and the na tional safety council elections of officers for the lo cal section of the a i m et for the coming year will be held at the meeting the meeting is open to the public gridiron banquet plans discussed honorary to initiate about 200 couples attended the second annual military ball spon sored by scabbard and blade hon orary military fraternity saturday evening at hotel bethlehem the affair was much more successful than the one held last year accord ing to r w burk president of the society music was furnished by julian booker and his brown and maroon orchestra the ball room of the hotel was a mass of color flags and the university colors were the basis of the decorations further military color was added by the uniforms of the officers and mem bers of lehigh's advanced classes in r o t c lt col and mrs m h thom linson capt and mrs j k rice capt and mrs p l sadler and dean and mrs mcconn were the chaperons lt wilson a repre sentative of lafayette college was also present the state department of health recently reported that it was satis fied with its inspection of the uni versity swimming pool dr r c bull states the department an nounced that it will not make any regulations regarding the control of public swimming pools until it has completed its inspection of all pools in the state we are doing everything we know to keep the water in the pool crystal clear at all times dr bull said the only purifying agent added to the water besides the chlorine used by the city water supply is copper sulphate the water is filtered and heated every 24 hours and is completely drained every two weeks beale to address newtonians ; students to aid in discussion discontinuous functions will be the subject of an address to be given by f s beale instructor in mathematics at the meeting of the newtonian society at 7:30 p m tomorrow in room 208 packard laboratory c g mac donald ch.e 34 will talk about the history of pi and p h loughran jr c.e 34 will lead a discussion concerning prob ability r n lindabury chem 34 president of the society will preside vaccinations almost complete of the 196 students who were not vaccinated during freshman week 149 were vaccinated in the past week dr r c bull director of student's health service an nounced yesterday freshman foot ball late registration transfers and students who had not had enough readings caused the majority of late vaccinations the lehigh club of new york which is sponsoring a contest for new songs has selected seven of the 23 songs that were submitted from which the winners will be judged the terms of the contest called for a new and original melody with words that would ring out clear in the singing and be illustrative of the spirit and traditions of lehigh according to andrew e buchanan jr editor of the alumni review according to mr buchanan it was found at the preliminary ex amination of these 23 songs that the competition had evoked offer ings of real musical and lyric merit he said that it was evident that the contest had produced a number of songs that would be useful to lehigh and make it feasible to pub lish a lehigh song book among the 23 songs submitted there was so much good material that the selection proved difficult according to a statement made by william wirt mills secretary of the club the offerings included pep songs for the football field and others that would fit more formal occasions the judges oppointed by the board of governors are dr j fred wolle director of the bach choir dr henry t fleck pro fessor of music at hunter college and prof t edgar shields direc tor of the lehigh band and com bined musical clubs industrials will hold meeting there will be a meeting of the industrial engineering society at 8 p m dec 17 in the packard auditorium according to h f cas selman president of the organiza tion the meeting will feature an illustrated lecture by mr d rice a representative of the autogyro corporation coming events in a recent issue of industrial and engineering chemistry a pub lication of the american chemical society two members of the le high faculty edwin r theis as sociate professor of chemical engin eering and forest t benton bar ret and company leather research fellow have shown the effect of various factors upon the hydration of calfskin the report covered the hydration and effects of post-mortem action upon the potential hydration ca pacity of calfskin it is also pointed out that if the hydration capacity of hides and skins is to be conserved the skins should be cured as soon as possible after death a new method of measuring quantitatively the amount of hy dration is described it is based upon the change in the specific gravity of the tissue as measured by the displacement method by this method it is shown that hy dration is different from swelling this work is part of the research program on leather technology which has been made possible through the financial support and encouragement of baret and com pany newark n j phi delta pi petition accepted delegates send hoover a petition concerning present conference at geneva italian ambassador sent lehigh delegation data five students and one faculty member were lehigh's delegates to the intercollegiate model disarma ment conference at bucknell uni versity from dec 4 to 6 the mem bers of the international relations club who attended the conference were dr lawrence h gipson pro fessor of history and government c albert feissner 32 matthew thomlinson 32 james e ander son 33 lester martin 32 and lindsay rowland 34 lehigh represented the italian government the italian ambassa dor to the united states sent a special delivery letter explaining italy's views on disarmament to the lehigh delegates at the conference italy holds to the doctrine of rela tive needs if an equitable balance of naval strength can be reached among the nations she is willing to reduce her sea forces cut for cut as low as the lowest italy for reduction the lehigh delegation took the stand that italy feels that a reduc tion in armaments will restore con fidence and security among the na tions of the world the lightening of cost of government at a time when governmental and private in comes are reduced will aid in world wide financial recovery feissner was the chairman of the naval armaments committee thomlinson was the italian dele gate who spoke before the commit tee on italy's views and recom mendations on naval disarmament italy recommended that increase in naval armaments be stopped that the armament building truce effective nov 31 should be extend ed to nov 1933 as an additional measure of international economy that the size of warships be limited that naval budget figures construc tion programs and details of strength be made public and that foodstuffs no longer be regarded as contraband of war resolutions adopted the following resolutions were unanimously adopted by the naval armaments committee and the ple nary session 1 that all countries limit their arma ments to their present strength 2 that all nations accept a 25 per cent cut in all naval armaments 8 that in the event ot any signatory cut of the pact lor the reunuciation of war be ing attacked and being willing to accept pacific settlement the high contracting par ties will meet to discuss the problem italy voted for the above resolu tions with the reservation that she be given naval parity with france when italy learned that the plenary session intended to cut down her parity demands she threatened to wreck the session france compro mised and offered to give italy pa rity in the mediterranean sea italy accepted this offer when the other major countries would guarantee this parity dr gipson was chairman of a round table session which discussed the subject how may the re sults of this conference be carried to our various campuses ander son expressed italy's views on che mical warfare before the chemical warfare committee send hoover telegram the delegates from the various colleges sent a telegram to presi dent hoover urging him to instruct the american delegate to the ge neva conference in february to take the initial step in drastic limi tations of armaments the lehigh delegates were the only ones who refused to sign the resolution they were of the opinion that a euro pean nation and not this country should take_the initial step in limi tation and reduction of armaments the conference was formally opened with a dinner friday eve ning william t stone head of the washington bureau of foreign policy association was the speaker later in the evening addresses were made by dr homer p rain ey president bucknell university sir herbert ames first treasurer of the league of nations and dr heber harper of columbia univer sity saturday was given over to the main work of the conference and sunday morning to a discus sion and a talk on the social im plications of disarmament by dr rolvix harlan of the university of richmond twenty-seven colleges sent del egates representing every important nation to the conference in april 1932 a model league of nations will meet at syracuse university wednesday dec 9 8 p m meeting of engineers club of lehigh valley packard audi torium thursday dec 10 8 p m meeting of the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers pack ard auditorium 8:15 p m meeting of eta sigma phi room 466 packard labora tory undergraduates to be admit ted free to paris bound the mustard and cheese drama tic club will present paris bound a three act play by philip barry at 8:30 p m wednesday dec 16 in drown hall undergraduates at lehigh are admitted to this play free of charge as their student activities fee pro vides for admission to the mustard and cheese plays as well as other campus functions the general admission price for others is 50 paris bound which was first produced in new york city in 1927 met with much success winning the approval of both the critics and the public the play gives a view into married life what constitutes grounds for di vorce is a question which is answered by this play mr warren fletcher instructor of english is the supervising di rector in regard to the progress of the rehearsal mr fletcher said at the present time in view of the difficulties such as late start in rehearsals and the short period of time in which to rehearse the cast is doing very well the characters and the players representing them are james hut ton martin gable 32 jim hutton si askin 32 mary hutton le roy travers 35 helen white charles yaffe 32 peter cope sam simmons 33 nora cope william maynard 35 fanny shippan david goldenberg 32 noel far ley paul vanwulven 35 richard parish edwin williams 35 julie john kress 35 the petition of phi delta pi local fraternity to delta sigma phi national fraternity has been ac cepted installation of the new chapter will take place some time in february pi delta epsilon rejects song contest and campus pictorial plans for the gridiron banquet to be held next may were discussed by dale h gramley instructor in journalism at the initiation dinner of pi delta epsilon last night at the phi gamma delta house mr gramley lauded the activities of the society and stated that since its organization it has well justi fied its existence john r maxwell assistant editor of the alumni bulletin spoke briefly and emphasized the honor of membership to the society following the talks an informal discussion was held and it was de cided not to conduct a song or pic torial contest this year but rather to concentrate the society's efforts in the gridiron banquet the following men were initiat ed franklin b wise ch e 33 edward fleischer arts 33 and benjamin minifie arts 33 prof w l bishop elected to alpha kappa psi dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics will be in itiated into alpha kappa psi na tional honorary business fraternity at a meeting next friday evening members of the faculty who are members of the fraternity are dr neil carothers registrar g b curtis prof r b cowin prof h a haring and s b mead about 20 student members and five faculty members will attend the meeting which will consist of din ner at the alpha tau omega house and a discussion of the affairs of the fraternity later in the evening brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday december 8 1931 time of the aptitude tests for pre-medicals changed vol xxxix no 19 revised exam schedules to be issued next week chemical society's annual banquet to be held dec 14 price — five cents 220 students are enrolled in red cross faculty hears frosh psych scores data lehigh gives italy's views at bucknell the aptitude test for pre medical students will be given at 3 p m dec 11 instead of at 1 30 p m as previously announc ed the time has been changed in order that the test may be given to lehigh men at the same time as to students in other col leges mid - year exam schedules will not be issued for about a week p e schwartz assistant registrar announced yesterday tentative schedules were sent to members of the faculty and are being checked with the stu dents for conflicts member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first