Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 15

              lehigh and lafayette me chanical engineers le high valley a.s.m.e to hear address political cultural manu facturing and agricul tural developments cit ed in address mrs a n cleaver donates collection of 1,000 works eta kappa nu e e honor society to pledge new men chemicals will inspect sugar and oil refinery wright to cite art exhibit valentines will be sent out next monday nov 23 to le high students according to dean g b curtis the failure notices that haunt the lives of lehigh men will be put in the mails at 8 a m the monday after the lafayette game and will arrive at the various houses in the af ternoon's delivery at the same time the folks back home will receive the news and can spend the interval be fore thanksgiving vacation pre paring for the storm in the tuesday issue the brown and white will publish the numbers of valentines received by the members of the various houses an • effort to make t*he red cross drive among the students and members of the faculty a great success this year is being made by officers of the lehigh union and members of the sen ior cabinet according to a r baldwin president of the lehigh union membership can be solicited throughout the living groups but it is found difficult to reach stu dents living in town in view of this difficulty an appeal is made to all students living in town to contribute whatever they can toward the red cross fund all contributions should be brought to drown hall students may obtain seats in the blocked off cheering section for the lafayette game up until 5 p m thursday according to j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics mr petrikin announced that after that time any student ap plications will hold precedence over those of town people or any one else applications will be taken only as they are receiv ed with the possibility that they may be refused if the demand for tickets has exceeded the supply chems to hear dr e.h bunce parade plans are complete prof joseph warren barker head of the department of engineer ing at columbia will address the electrical engineering society thursday evening in packard audi torium professor barker will tell of his trip to europe and of the six inter national conferences that he at tended a talk will also be given by sidney land e e 33 on the life of thomas edison the third feature of the evening will be the annual pledging of new men by eta kappa nu honorary electri cal engineering society classical society to view library treasure room objects * manager of new jersey zinc co will talk on pigments march across bridge will follow smoker friday evening to the tune of we pay no toll tonight lehigh students will start their annual anti-lafayette parade across town friday night at the conclusion of a smoker at tay lor gymnasium the parade will form at the gym immediately after the smoker and go through town to the new street bridge after crossing the bridge the procession will go as far as broad street where it will turn to thump its noisy way back across the hill-to-hill bridge and up brodhead avenue members of arcadia to be identi fied by arm bands will attempt to control the mob of lafayette-blood thirsty students and rooters this will be the second successive year that the police will have the honor of leading the parade instead of chasing the riotous students as in the former uproarious years at the smoker shorty long act ing as master of ceremonies will introduce walter r okeson of the faculty and willian tubby mil lert~captain of lehigh's last victor ious team over lafayette prof horace w wright head of the department of latin will explain the exhibit of stamps prints pictures coins and old edi tions of the library treasury room to member of eta sigma phi hon orary classical society at a meet ing tomorrow evening rare co pies of vergil and the aeneid will be displayed and discussed regarding the exhibition profes sor wright said one of the most interesting exhibits will be that of a first edition of tennyson's fa mous poems written in 1870 for the eighteenth century of the death of vergil this book has been lent to the exhibition by prof earl l crum and professor wright many old editions included in the collection will be caxton's first english translation of the aeneid the earl of surrey's translation into blank verse of the second and fourth books of the ae neid and douglas eighteenth cen tury translation of the aeneid into scotch the third edition of ogil by's entire translation of vergil to english published in 1675 and a translation of vergil by heinsius and burmann in the eighteenth century will also be in the collec tion prof l a post head of the de partment of greek at haverford college and a member of the am erican philological association will speak on menarder's first philo sophy of love at the december meeting of the society radio club to organize the radio club will hold a meet ing for the purpose of organization wednesday at 4 p m in room 508 packard laboratory according to an announcement made by prof e c easton faculty adviser prof joseph w barker in addition to attending these conventions prof and mrs barker visited england france and ger many and he will include interest ing sidelights on his trip graduate of m i t professor barker graduated from massachusetts institute of tech nology in 1916 and was instructor at that institution for several years in 1930 he transferred to colum bia and is now head of the engi neering department at that univer sity while in europe this summer he attended the 75th anniversary of verein deutsche ingineure at cologne the history of science and technology congress in lon don the international congress of illumination in england and scot land a meeting of the commission internationale d'eclairage at cam bridge the faraday centenary at london and the centenary of the british association for the ad vancement of science in london dr e h bunce general man ager of the technical department of the new jersey zinc company of palmerton will speak on zinc pigments at a meeting of the le high students chemical society thursday evening at 7:30 p m in the main lecture room of the chem istry laboratory dr bunce is general manager of the research division of the new jersey zinc company according to dr h m ullman head of the department of chemistry and chem ical engineering this division is one of the major industrial research organizations of the country it embraces research in fundamental chemistry in chemical engineering and in physical chemistry as applied not only to the structural and chemical properties of their own immediate products but also to the fields in which their products find extended sales such as the paint and automobile tire industries dr bunce will discuss the pro cessing as well as the chemical properties of metal zinc zinc oxide and zinc sulphide he will show how the elimination or utilization of the impurities present in the raw materials used in manufacturing af fect the processing and the prop erties of zinc products dr bunce will use both lantern slides and moving pictures in his discussion subject is the locomotive on the railroads battlefield william c dickerman m.e 96 will address the anthracite-lehigh valley section of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers and the lehigh university and lafay ette college student branches of the a s m e at a joint meeting to be held thursday nov 19 at 8 p m in packard laboratory the meet ing is open to students and the public mr dickerman's topic will be the locomotive on the railroads battlefield roy v wright pres ident of the a s m e will deliver a lecture on the engineer's op portunity mr dickerman's lecture attracted much favorable attention at prince ton where it was recently given he will show the locomotive's part in the struggle for railroad progress in the last decade the battle for economies efficiencies safety de vices and improved service and the detrimental effects of waste politi cal antagonism aggressive taxa tion and competition by other transportation agencies will be shown by mr dickerman the lecture will be illustrated by charts lehigh trustee a former alumni officer mr dickerman is now a trustee of le high university he is a director in the american-canadian properties corporation the carter carburetor corporation the columbia phono graph corporation the j g brill company the pacific car and foundry company the shippers car line corporation and the united gas improvement company he is also a trustee of the north river savings bank an informal dinner will be held at the hotel bethlehem at 6:30 p.m to afford members of the societies and guests an opportunity to meet mr wright and mr dickerman as well as to meet and get acquainted with each other tickets for the dinner may be secured at 2 per plate from l v britton section a taylor hall long will discuss work on oil drying seyfert and gruber attend a.i.e e meet geologists at lehigh mcconn's secretary to wed heilman 29 national organization will hear address in boston more than a hundred seniors in engineering will be included in the parties of the four field trips next week the chemistry depart ment will tour several plants in philadelphia the civil engineering department will make their head quarters for the inspection period in new york the metallurgical de partment will visit plants in balti more and wilmington and the mechanical and industrial engineers will visit plants in several cities in pennsylvania new jersey and new york the inspection trip of the depart ment of chemistry will begin mon day nov 23 at the franklin sugar refining company monday after noon the atlantic refining com pany will be visited tuesday morn ing the grasselli chemical com pany manufacturers of heavy chem icals will be visited and in the af ternoon the men will tour the sharp and dohme pharmaceutical company's plant and the arthur h thomas plant which specializes in the manufacture of laboratory ap paratus the trip will be brought to a close wednesday morning with the inspection of the kimbel glass company of vineland n j dur ing its stay in philadelphia the party will have its headquarters at the benjamin franklin hotel there will be 35 students in the party and professors theis diefenderfer and simmons sixteen civil engineering stu dents will take their annual inspec tion trip to new york city ' the party will leave at 5 a m monday nov 23 and will go directly to the hotel new yorker where they will make their headquarters for the three days in new york monday morning they will tour the water front in a tugboat fur nished by the commissioner of docks in the afternoon the party will inspect the deep foundation of the banker's trust co building now under construction and the ward's island sewerage disposal plant on tuesday they will visit the subway construction at jamaica l.1 and the manhattan water sup ply system to inspect the water supply system it will be necessary to go down 600 feet below the street level to the aqueduct which is nine feet in diameter the radio city construction and the empire state building will be visited wednesday particular at tention will be paid to the instru ments which record the wind pres sure and the amount of sway of the continued on page four an addition of 6,441 books to the lehigh library during 1930-31 brought the total number of vol umes at the students disposal to 196,616 according to h s leach librarian in his annual report to pres c r richards two thousand eight volumes were gifts the others were pur chased by the university increase in circulation of books last year amounted to 7,014 vol umes according to the report the total circulation for the year was 27,688 volumes the year before mr leach came to lehigh 1924 only 4,301 volumes circulated it is believed that the new building acts as a stimulus the largest donation of the year was made by mrs a n cleaver of bethlehem wife of former uni versity trustee a n cleaver the gift included 1,000 volumes it was the most useful of all the donations and according to mr leach will greatly strengthen the literary col lection in the field of english mr and mrs allen c dodson of bethlehem gave a library of 60 volumes on discovery and travel dr herbert welsh philadelphia gave 60 volumes on travel and his tory mr william l raeder 76 of scranton gave some selections from his own library in history and art robert b honeyman 20 of new york city donated several rare books and important letters the gift included five volumes on the life of the prince consort which were autographed by queen vic toria there were two histories of florence with a publishers date of 1476 one book contained a fore edged painting the only one that the library possesses the painting appears on the outside leaves of the book and is only visible when the book is partly opened the gift also included several autograph ed letters two autographed let ters one by benjamin harrison and the other by william mckinley completed the library's collection of autographed letters of the pres idents of the united states when the letters were sent to the library they were insured for 375 other letters autographed by important people included faraday thack ery erickson morse fields bell dowin fremont tydel pasteur wilson bryan daniels and lan sing there are 119,000 volumes to be recatalogued according to the libra rian and with only three girls available for the work it will take them approximately 20 years to complete the task about 10,000 are recatalogued each year a large collection of biographies have re cently been recatalogued 1,200 vol umes in the last year there are approximately 3,000 volumes of biographies of which 600 the li brary of congress does not have pledgees announced by phi eelta epsilon formal pledging to be held in chapel friday morning dr j s long professor of in organic chemistry will speak on thursday evening at a dinner meet ing the new england chapter of the federation of paint and var nish production clubs in the naval architecture building massachu setts institute of technology bos ton on recent work on drying oils dr long's lecture will consist mainly of a discussion of the mech anism of film formation in the case of some typical classes of vehicles used in the manufacture of paints about 200 men are expected to attend the meeting the federa tion of paint and varnish produc tion club is a national organization having 15 constituent clubs in principal pajnt-producing sections of the country dr long is a mem ber of the philadelphia club alumni groups have planned pep meetings and smokers the pep meeting and dinner of the philadelphia lehigh club which will be held at bookbinders in philadelphia thursday november 19 will be " featured by a talk by horace c booz alumni trustee of lafayette college the speakers for the occasion will be walter okeson treasurer of the lehigh board of trustees billy sheridan wrestling coach and fred s nonnemacher sporty editor of the bethlehem globe-times en tertainment will be presented in the form of sleight of hand tricks by andrew buchanan alumni sec retary c f lincoln 11 president of the club will be toastmaster the southern california alumni club will sponsor a pep meeting and dinner for lehigh and lafay ette alumni at the university club los angeles friday november 20 dr sylvanus e lambert 89 president of the club and an at torney in pasadena will be master of ceremonies plans for new state park discussed at meeting at the invitation of dr b f fackenthal of riegelsville a field conference was held with members of the department of geology to consider the project of forming a state park and forest reservation to include ringing rocks bucks county it is hoped that eventually in terest in the project by various organizations will increase the initial move was made by the bucks county historical society areas considered for the state park pos sess geological and scenic interest so far there is no public recreation park of this kind anywhere in southwestern pennsylvania those participating at the conference were dr harvey watts of philadelphia prof kunkel and prof ward from the geology department of lafay ette college dr fackenthal of columbia university and prof miller of lehigh other recent visitors to the de partment of geology were r w stone assistant state geologist and a c hawkins professor of geolo gy at rutgers four students accompany professors to reading the american institute of elec trical engineers lehfgh valley section met last friday evening at the hotel berkshire reading pa lehigh university was represented at this meeting by professor stan ley s seyfert professor howard d gruber and four seniors study ing electrical engineering the program consisted of din ner at 6:30 p m followed by a meeting at 8:00 p m after the meeting the group went on an in spection trip to the metropolitan edison company mr george m keenan superintendent of the pennsylvania-new jersey connec tion of power and light companies gave a short talk on power sys t«m and operation he spoke on methods employed in maintaining perfect service in the power and light system the inspection trip was made to the service department of the metropolitan edison company the modern dispatching office service meter stores the laboratory and the garage the american institute of elec trical engineers will meet next time in pottsville december 11 william lesser lehigh 05 will speak on electrical power in an thracite mining at this meeting eight ordnance students visit frankford arsenal beardslee will take place in chapel saturday miss helen j weber secretary to dean mcconn will be married to william o heilman jr 29 in the lehigh chapel saturday at 9:30 a m the service will be read by the rev c g beardslee and prof t edgar shields will play the wedding march the bride will be attended by miss edith werst and miss vir ginia parsels both of bethlehem the best man will be the bride groom's brother james m heil man e e 31 fred naylor 29 will be the usher miss weber will continue as sec retary to the dean until spring when she will move to elizabeth n j she is president of the beth lehem christian endeavor union and is actively connected with various other local organizations mr heilman is a graduate of the harrisburg technical school and graduated from lehigh in the chemical engineering department in 1929 he is employed by the tech nical service division of the stan dard oil company of new jersey while at lehigh mr heilman was a member of the football squad and the 1929 epitome staff coming events a meeting of pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic so ciety,_*was held in drown hall last night plans were made for the pledging of three new men f b wise ch.e 33 edward fleischer arts 33 and ben mini fie arts 33 were the men select ed to be pledged the formal pledg ing will be held on friday morning in chapel th initiation will be held dec 4 at the phi gamma del ta house in addition to discussing new candidates there was a lively dis cussion concerning changes in the initiation fees during which ten members submitted points no de finite action was taken the qualifications of the various pledges are as follows ed fleisch er managing editor of the lehigh review member of the editorial staff and former news editor of the brown and white franklin b wise exchange editor and member editorial council of the brown and white member editorial board of lehigh burr fraternity editor of epitome ben minifie former sports editor member editorial council and editorial board of brown and white and business manager of lehigh review two lehigh mining engineers stuart r elliott 97 and w alli son richards 17 were cited in october and november issues of the explosive engineer this magazine devotes part of its issue every month to a short biographi cal description of prominent mining engineers both men had meteoric rises to success elliott is general manager of one jsf the largest iron mining companies in this country and an active leader in civic life richards is president of three mining com panies and holds chairmanship of various operators committees took graduate course mr elliott is at present general manager of the cleveland-cliffs iron company and is well known in the lake superior region after graduating from lehigh in 97 he returned for a short post graduate course in mining leaving lehigh the following march to accept the position of assistant mining engi neer for the cleveland-cliffs com pany at ishpeming mich in 1902 elliott was appointed superintendent at the crosby mine at nashwauk minn a position which he left in 1904 to become superintendent of the negaunee district for the cleveland-cliffs company in 1906 he had charge of the cuban iron mines of the bethlehem steel but returned soon afterward to assume his former position in michigan at the outbreak of the war he was commissioned as major in the corps of engineers of the u s army while in france he was in command of the 28th engineers from which position he was dis charged july 1919 with the rank of lieutenant-colonel made superintendent returning to ishpeming elliott elliott and richards l ehigh grads successful in mining engineering was made general superintendent and in 1927 he became general manager for the cleveland-cliffs company a position which he has held since mr elliott is active in fields others than mining he is an avia tion enthusiast and was recently appointed to the michigan state board of aeronautics by governor brucker he is a member of the board of control of the michigan college of mining and technology the other lehigh man honored w allison richards 17 has risen rapidly to a position of importance in the newly developed west vir ginia-kentucky coal fields joins army engineers upon graduating from lehigh richards enlisted in the u s army with the rank of second lieutenant in the 505 th engineers in 1918 he was promoted to first lieutenant and was discharged in 1919 with the commission of a captain he was cited for bravery in the st mihiel drive and subsequent oper ations when he returned to this country after the war richards accepted a position with the engineering de partment of the philadelphia and reading coal and iron company at pottsville in 1923 he was made assistant mining engineer for that company soon afterward he trans ferred his activity to bituminous fields and in 1924 was made general manager of the ashland coal and coke company the majestic col leries company and the pember ton coal and coke company one year later he was made president of all three companies while at lehigh richards was active in undergraduate life he was captain of the football team in 1917 he is a member of the kappa alpha fraternity first university lecture has audience of about 200 professor stated that the roots of the old south were well planted the development of the new south from the roots planted in the old south was discussed by george dewey harmon assistant professor in history in his lecture the new south delivered last night in the auditorium of packard laboratory the modern south evolved from the roots that were well planted in the old south professor harmon stated in his lecture last night the present civilization of the south was not imported from with out but it was the natural develop ment from within he added after a definition of what section of the country is included in the term south and after the dispelling of many popular fallacies concern ing the south professor harmon showed the political developments from the time of the civil war to the present he remarked that the south prior to 1860 was not one united section there was no such thing as the solid south he stat ed but under the stress of adverse political conditions during the re construction the white men of the south were forced to present a united front to combat the carpet bag negro government it was not therefore the civil war that made the solid south but the humiliat ing policy of reconstruction which radical congress forced upon the people reviews struggles professor harrnpn then reviewed the struggles of the southerners to get possession of the government immediately following the termina tion of the reconstruction while the southerners were ousting the negroes from the polls and the pub lic offices the republicans were fighting desperately to keep control of the national government he re marked but when cleveland was elected president the south felt that it was again part of the na tion he concluded professor harmon then went on to show the gradual development of the political revolt in the south from the grange movement in the seventies to the national alliance in 89 and finally to the populist movement culminating irr the sup port of william jennings bryan for president thus the peoples party disappeared but the revolt of the common man in the south was so successful that the old or der never was able to return he added the agricultural problems of the southerners were then reviewed professor harmon showed the plight of the tenants whose profits were divided between the landown er and the country merchant at present however scientific agricul ture has done much for the farmer but because of the lcjw price of his product the farmer is really in a sad plight discusses manufacturing professor harmon told of the ad vance in the field of manufactur ing from the days of the civil war on it is an error to suppose that manufacturing was unknown in the south before the civil war he stated advancements in textile manufacturing and oil and tobac co industries were shown the south of today is still predomin antly rural and thus it will remain for several decades to come al though manufacturing will undoubt edly continue to increase from de cade to decade he concluded education in the south was the next topic treated the growth of public and higher education was traced to the present day it is this amazing educational revival and progress that makes the future of the south exceedingly bright harmon stated negro migration cited the negro question was the last topic discussed the progress of the race was reviewed and the position that the negro holds in the social scheme of the south was expliciteljs defined the northward migration of the negro specially in recent years next occupied the speaker nevertheless the negro remains a real problem harmon added one thing is certain however the southern whites will continue to rule professor harmon ended by re viewing the entire situation the south takes times to really enjoy living and it has the background and foundation for the development in the future of a high culture he concluded wednesday nov 18 7 p m meeting of eta sigma phi room 208 packard laboratory thursday nov 19 7:30 p m meeting of lehigh uni versity students chemical so ciety main lecture room chemi cal laboratory 8 p m joint meeting of lehigh valley section of american so ciety of mechanical engineers and lehigh and lafayette stu dent branches packard labora tory 7:30 p m electrical engineering society meeting room 416 pack ard laboratory eight second year advanced ord nance students along with captain c h keck ordnance officer for the lehigh r o t c unit yes terday visited the frankford ar senal of the ordnance department in philadelphia at frankford the men saw the manufacture of small arms am munition from stamping out the cartridge cases to final packing preparatory to storage they also studied the manufacture of various types of range finding apparatuses and computors students making the trip were a f barnard g a hottle d l macadam allan ayres e w kaufmann benjamin rabinowitz r k serfass and r h raring brown and white price — five cents valentines to be mailed nov 23 statistics published bethlehem pa tuesday november 17 1931 lehigh union senior cabinet to sponsor red cross drive harmon speaks on new south vol xxxix no 15 w dickerman will discuss r . r struggle 100 engineers are preparing to visit plants e.e.'s to hear j w barker of columbia u library gains 6,441 volumes through gifts circulation increases 35 per cent last year's total reached 27,688 books sidney land e e 3 will give talk on life of thomas edison at meeting five p.m thursday deadline for cheering section seats civils to tour new york water front in tugboat loaned by city depart ment of docks cheering section to meet a meeting of those students who are to form the l at the lehigh-lafayette game will be held at 4 p m friday at the lower field under the direction of a m thorne although only 186 students were requested to sit in this uni que cheering block 240 have turned out representatives from 19 living groups have signed up to employ the large white cards used in this living l which will be an jnnovation in cheering methods at lehigh member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first