Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 20

              recent studies in operation of laws of chance is topic pi tau sigma pledges five at a.s.m.e meet thursday due date for senior ballots extended to february 20th the time limit on senior pay ments and ballots for the epi tome has been extended as de scribed below according to r e imhoff senior section epitome editor if 6 is paid before dec 19 a balance of 6 will be due be fore feb 20 if 6 is paid before feb 6 a balance of 7 will be due before feb 20 if 6 is paid after feb 6 a balance of 8 will be due before feb 20 clinic for upperclassmen to be held next tuesday dr r steiner heads mystic science movement of society gibbs stresses values of coal speaks to lehigh valley engineers club at their annual meeting cular tires each one two feet small er than the one beneath it the base of the structure is to be de voted to edisoniana while a spi ral will lead to the summit where telescopic facilities will merit a climb to that point advises use of stainless steel in commenting on the use of stainless steel in the project mr keith explained that the very new ness of the metal hides its tre mendous possibilities from the gen eral public and should an ordin ary structure be built we would undoubtedly be subject to the cri ticism of the next generation for overlooking the values afforded by an everlasting structure of concrete and stainless steel mr keith who was graduated from lehigh in 1913 has pioneered in tfce field of stainless alloys from the time of their introduction 10 years ago during the war he was employed as government metallur gical engineer in charge of all the production of ordnance materials of the bethlehem steel company an edison memorial spire fin ished in flashing stainless steel and soaring above the heights of eagle rock on the coast of new jersey was the proposal made recently by stanley r keith 13 at a meet ing of the bloomfield manufactur ers although a plan had been submit ted for a granite monolith mr keith advocated a spire of con crete clad in stainless steel and completely symbolistic in design as edison was different from the sons of man he explained so should his memorial be different and as his genius was outstanding so let his memorial be new and striking when located on eagle rock he continued its testimony could be borne for ages to come bright clean cheerful unaffected by time and in league with the lightning it self by virtue of its everlasting mantle of stainless steel the detailed plan for this stain less steel memorial calls for an 840 foot spire constructed of 84 cir industrial society meeting postponed to january 8 lehigh given german gun howitzer will be erect ed near armory was donated by congress the meeting of the industrial society scheduled for dec 17 has been postponed to jan 7 at 8 p m in the packard auditor ium according to h f cassel man president of the organiza tion the meeting will feature an illustrated lecture by d rice a representative of the autogyro corporation chems prepare annual feast santa claus to give pres ents to senior and fac ulty members the role of probability in modern physics and the principle of inde terminacy will be explained by max h petersen associate professor of physics at 8 p m monday in packard auditorium the topic of the lecture will be probability and modern physics the lecture will be the second in the fourth annual series of college lectures given by faculty members the operation of chance in many physical phenomena said dr pe tersen in discussing his proposed lecture may be shown to lead to some of the most fundamental phy sical notions such as the dissipa i tion of energy in the tendency of the universe to run down 1 . the more recent studies of the laws of chance in connection with light quanta and with electrons will be compared to the older laws of gases as deduced from pure chance laws account for blue sky these laws of chance contin ued professor petersen come into play in many fields they account for the blue of the sky they pre dict the restless motions of sup posedly inert microscopical par ticles they indicate the futility of making too sensitive radio sets whose very electrons will broad cast thin irregularities when questioned about the prin ciple of indeterminacy professor petersen replied the recent and curious physical theory which is known as wave mechanics describes an electron in terms of an exten sive set of waves rather than as a tiny particle the most interesting and important feature of this theo ry is hisenberg's principle of inde terminacy this principle states that one may not hope to know exactly both where an electron is and how fast it is moving whether this principle of indeterminacy requires us to givs up our confidence in the laws of na ture has become a vastly interest ing question both among physicists and philosophers this question will be reviewed monday evening on the basis of the laws of physics and their nature sutherland presides at quaker meeting dr william c troxell x-ray spe cialist at the allentown hospital told the robert w hall pre medical society that the advent of tuberculosis may be forecast long before any outward symptoms are evident when he addressed that body wednesday evening the advancement of medical science due to the invention of the x-ray has made this and many other cures possible dr troxell showed plates taken of diseased organs and then some of the same organs healthy a comparison of the two showed in what way the disease had affected the normal organs in that way tu berculosis an at one time almost certainly fatal disease can be dis covered in its infancy and a cure effected the advanced outward symptons of the disease need no longer be waited for abnormal bone conditions in infants may also be investigated and operated upon many children are consequently saved from needless life-long de formity many organs photographed almost every organ has been photographed according to dr troxell the latest one to be seen is the gall bladder the previous difficulty in photographing this or gan was the lack of a way to inject a dye to make photographing pos sible this difficulty has been ov ercome by introducing a weak io dine solution through the mouth into the stomach the stomach throws this iodine solution back into the gall where it colors the gall as needed the liver kidneys and other internal organs have also been photographed in a somewhat similar manner using various dyes dyes have also been injected into the skin where they are carried by the blood stream to the kidneys which absorb the dyes again color ing the organ desired a clinic has been arranged for the pre-meds at the allentown hos pital at 8 o'clock next tuesday morning probably only upperclass men will be allowed to attend this one since there will not be room for all a 105 mm german howitzer will be erected on the south side of the walk leading to the armory about the middle of january this gun was used by the germans during the world war the gun was presented to the college by the act of congress of 1928 which permits the presentation of army material to universities that have military training as a part of their curriculum the gun has been stored in the raritan arsenal near new brunswick n j it was issued to the university from that arsenal arriving here last tuesday it is now being reconditioned at the armory the gun must be scraped and re-painted and several parts fixed it is to be purposely disabled so that it cannot be fired it would be unsafe to fire the gun in the condition that it now is the gun tube was built in 1916 the carriage is the model of 1898 re modeled in 1909 the entire gun tube and carriage weighs over two tons the gun was believed to be pre sented by the germans at the end of the war there are however marks on the tube which show that it must have been captured and used by the 356 th infantry there are stamps on the carriage 1918 and 5224 just what these marks stand for has not yet been deter mined pi mu epsilon meets that coal is the logical base for all fuel supplies whether solid li quid or gaseous was stressed by c w gibbs manager of mining oper ations of the public utility com pany in pittsburgh at the annual meeting of the lehigh valley en gineers club and this section of the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineers held wed nesday evening in packard auditor ium much chemical research is neces sary to devise methods by which coal may be cheaply transformed into liquid and gaseous states a treating plant would have to be built at the mines to make possible this transformation high transpor tation cost accounts for the high cost per ton of coal it is much cheaper to transport gas and trans mit power than to transport coal the oil and natural gas indus tries are the greatest competitors of the coal industry the coal in dustry however must affiliate it self with its competitors to protect itself from foreign utilities mr gibbs said there are extensive oil fields in the northern part of south amer ica to pipe the oil from those fields would be disastrous to both the oil and coal industries of this country both industries therefore have formed a committee of ten men who are endeavoring to have high tariff rates fixed on the south american oil mr gibbs explained after the lecture mr gibbs showed a first aid film entitled learn and live the film was made for the u s bureau of mines a short business meeting was held before the lecture at which of ficers for the ensuing year were elected the new officers are w.m pierce palmerton chairman a.h fay easton vice-chairman m.l jacobs bethlehem vice-chairman j m magee easton manager e a anderson palmerton secretary l j boucher northampton treas urer the chemical society is rapidly completing plans for its annual christmas banquet which accord ing to b d witemeyer president of the society is scheduled for 6:30 o'clock monday evening in the ma sonic temple harry osborn chairman of the entertainment committee has ar ranged a varied program albert baur a graduate student in chem ical engineering will appear in the guise of santa claus and distri bute gifts to the seniors and fac ulty song sheets are being pre pared and the singing will include the german stille nacht the temple will be gaily decked with a christmas tree a fireplace and all the usual holiday decora tions mr witemeyer announced the rev w h bollman of the christ reformed church will be the principal speaker other guests will include dr c r richards and dean mcconn two lehigh students treated at st.luke's morse and gummere sustain ankle and head injuries six men initiated into eta kappa nu alpha kappa psi to initiate bishop manchurian crisis will be dis cussed by wood prof hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering will preside over the assembly of the society of friends to be held at 8 p m this evening at the nitsch raann school eighth avenue and union boulevard at this meeting richard wood of philadelphia will speak on the manchurian crisis and the league of nations according to mrs t h hazlehurst chairman of the en tertainment committee of the quak ers mr wood is an authority on the subject there will be no charge for admission since the lecture is purely educational the new york stock exchange is the most highly organized mar ket place in the world j r west erfield secretary of the exchange stated in an illustrated lecture in packard auditorium last evening twenty-five students and faculty members attended the lecture which was under the auspices of the local chapter of the a s m e five students two seniors and three juniors were pledged to pi tau sigma honorary mechanical engineering society after mr west erfield's lecture the men pledged were a w home 32 k.c gard ner jr 32 j c.rhoads 33 k l borden 33 r l willis 33 the most common fallacy con cerning the stock exchange ac cording to mr westerfield is that members of the exchange are all wolves in sheeps clothing crooks masquerading as business men for the sole purpose of cheating the in vesting public honesty pays he states i make no claim that members of the stock exchange are an un usually moral group he declared but since the only penalty for dis honest practice is expulsion from the exchange i do claim that they are too intelligent to risk a capital investment often running into mil lions of dollars for the sake of the few paltry dollars they could gain by petty cheating mr westerfield graduated from stevens tech in 99 as a mechanical engineer but deserted engineering fields for business in 1917 after his graduation he assisted in con ducting tests on the first diesel en gine that was sent to this country from germany during the world war he was navigation officer at the naval air base at pensacola fla and aided in the perfection of the first all steel fuselage for airplanes mr westerfield is also one of the orig inal members of the aero club of america applied engineering knowledge in his capacity as engineer mr westerfield has applied his knowl edge to the development of crafts used uriderseas on the ground and in the air the lecture was illustrated with a two-reel film consisting of scenes on the floor of the exchange meth ods involved in the actual buying and selling of stocks operation of the annunciator board used in lo cating brokers on the floor and the various instruments used in send ing the stock transactions and quo tations over the country another fallacy dispelled by mr westerfield was that only high-so ciety and the bluebloods of new york occupy seats on the exchange he insisted that only the man's personal integrity and character are considered before his election to a seat on the exchange and that his family and social position exert no influence at all the new york stock exchange is the most democratic organization with which i have ever come in contact he declared there is an aristocracy of character and hon esty but none of social position union starts second old clothes drive members to prese nt sketches of mathematicians pi mv epsilon national honor ary mathematics society will meet at 8 p m tonight in the arcadia room drown hall a series of biographical sketches of men who are historically impor tant in the field of mathematics has been prepared the subjects are cardan by w d hickman 33 barrow w c elmore 32 na pier m dresher 33 l'hopetal r l fluck 32 galileo w h kelley 33 desargues d m may 32 fermat c b schlich ter,-'32 descartes j c rhodes 33 and pascal e h poggi 33 mrs j s long is improving mrs j s long the wife of pro fessor long of the chemistry de partment was admitted to st limes hospital nov 30 she is ra pidly recovering from her illness and expects to return home soon two lehigh students have re cently been treated in st luke's hospital for slight injuries john a morse 34 was treated at the dis pensary on saturday for a sprained ankle the injury resulted on the hill-to-hill bridge in stepping from the curb he returned to the hospital monday for an x-ray william gummere jr 35 was admitted to the hospital on satur day for treatment of head injuries which he suffered while playing football on the steel field in a game between the sigma phi and theta kappa phi fraternities physics club adopts new constitution ceremony planned for to night at a t o house alpha kappa psi national hon orary business fraternity will ini tiate dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics this eve ning other faculty members in this chapter include dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration registrar g.b cur tis prof r b cowin prof h a haring and s b mead the meeting will be at the alpha tau omega house twenty student members and five faculty members will attend a dinner at 6:15 will be followed by a business meeting name and membership elligi bility changed there exists a supersensible world a world beyond the natural powers of perception said henry b monges during his lectures on the subject of body spirit and soul at drown hall mr monges who is a follower of rudolf stein er indicated that there are two dis tinct tendencies in the world to riay one is atheism and the other is superstition atheism is more widespread to day than is believed if allowed to gain a foothold in the world it will wipe out the human race it makes a man a machine and not a spirit ualistic being the ancient greeks believed in spiritualism they paid little attention to the outside or ma terialistic world the ancient oracle was the guide of man and his thoughts were dominated by the stars contended mr monges mr monges believes that te live many times living an entirely dif ferent life each time we are born man may sink to be a mechanism or he may rise to be a devine man humans must have a moral per ception of life or they become mere robots he said quoting dr ru dolf steiner he pointed out the dangers of breaking down the mo ral understanding of life and advo cated the building up of a spiritual science darwin fought religion oriental influences at the begin ning of the twentieth century tend ed to establish among a great many famous scientists a belief in mys ticism on the other hand darwin one of the greatest scientists fought against religion in behalf of science to free the human race from super stitution mr monges announced he says that if the mind of man follows only scientific facts disre garding the spirit the human race is sure to be eliminated from the earth a continual scientific life will bring oblivion to the race but a life of spiritualistic science such as ru dolf steiner tries to lead is the ideal life claimed mr monges he believes that we are not yet human beings that we have an animal na ture man at some future date will be able to choose his own parents and thereby counteract the unfair ness of nature in choosing them for us humans can overcome death every human being can over come death if he believes in the su persensible world all the powers of the universe are centered in man man never dies but just casts off his body and his spirit goes into another body each man lives many times but he never leaves the earth the power of choice which we have makes all evil possible man must make amends for these evils in his future life the only thing that makes man higher than animal is his ability to think and his ego his t complex when he loses these he is but an animal mr monges continued this movement of the anthropo sophical society is to bring about the belief of a world of mystery a supersensible world dr rudolf steiner who is at the head of this spiritual science movement has written a great number of books on the subject two of which are the higher world and the occult science astronomers meet booklets to be sent by registrar to prospective lehigh students alumni bulletin to be issued soon meter readings initiate causes robbery scare eta kappa nu honorary electri cal engineering fraternity initiated six men last night in packard lab oratory the ceremony was fol lowed by a banquet at guthsville the six new members are r.g shankweiler e s stem jr l f underwood w w felton w d hickman and m e whitney professors seyfert and hibshman and mr formhals all of the de partment of electrical engineering attended the banquet and gave brief talks the new men also were called upon for a few words about nine o'clock wednesday evening a man entered the delta tau delta house and said that he was sent to read the electric meter to have a meter-reader call at that hour was unusual at the least and he was no sooner gone than the fa miliar cry of burglar was raised thinking that a robbery was plan ned for that night the freshmen al ternately stood watch till morning it developed that this meter-reading was part of the informal initiation of eta kappa nu and that another pledge had gone over to fern sem for the electric light bill s a becker attends meeting of highway research board s a becker associate professor of civil engineering and contact man of the highway research board for lehigh university attended the an nual meeting of the board which was held in the building of the na tional academy of science wash ington d c on dec 10 and 11 at this meeting reports were given on the work done by mem bers of this research society lehigh committee strives to aid bethlehem needy the welfare committee of the lehigh union will make another drive for old clothes monday tues day and wednesday of next week g h riley chairman of the com mittee plans to divide the frater nities between the committee and himself a plan that worked out very successfully earlier in the se mester a member of each frater nity will be telephoned and asked to collect all the old clothes the committee will then come around and collect them riley said what little we can do to help bethlehem's needy will be appreciated by the community at this time clothes are most need ed and it is the hope of the com mittee that the drive will be a suc cessful one mcßride to address society to night in packer hall a meeting of the astronomical society will be held at 8 o'clock to night in room 102 packer hall the meeting will be open to all stu dents and townspeople the program will be featured by an illustrated lecture by a c mc bride president of the organization his subject will be photographs of the coming eclipse and objects visible in the heavens at the pres ent time this will be followed by an open discussion led by the pres ident student cooperation shown in christmas seal returns one hundred and twenty lehigh men have purchased christmas seals amounting to 98.85 up to the present time according to the sta tistics of the bethlehem tubercu losis and health society this is the twenty-fifth annual christmas seal sale each year this campaign is conducted to procure the necessary funds to carry on the work of fighting tuberculosis final draft of quiz sche dule released yester day after faculty cor rects tentative program conflicts must be reported to instructors before dec 15 a final draft of the examination schedule was released yesterday by paul e schwartz assistant regis trar after a tentative schedule had been corrected by members of the faculty figures in parentheses indicate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates a course of two sections or more for which only one examination is sche duled conflicts must be reported by students to the instructor con cerned not later than tuesday dec is indicates a two - section couse for each section of which an examination is scheduled monday 8 a m jan 25 8 c.e.9-mechaiiics of materials c.e.11-railroads b engl.o.-composition 3 engl 2 composition '(£) englja-types of world literature 4 eugl.4-drama met.b3 met engineering problems psych lll minor research monday 2 p m jan 25 8i01.54-bacteriology 8u5.113-advanced accounting c.e l2s reinforced concrete design e.e ll advanced dynamo lab uer.lll nineteenth century drama 3 math 4 elementary calculus 3 math 6 lntermediate calculus 3 math.6 advanced calculus met.l3»-seminar 8 mil.l-military science basic i 8 mil.3-military science basic ii for those taking chem 169,195 ; engl 61 math 1,2,3 m.e 114 tuesday 8 a m jan 26 chem l69 lndustrial biochemistry chem l9s physical chemistry lab engl.6l dramatics 2 math.o-mathematics review 3 math.l-trigonometry 3 math.2-algebra 2 math.s-ajialytic geometry m.e ll4 engineering laboratory mil.l-military science basic i mil 3 military science basic ii for those not taking chem 169 195 engl 61 math 0,1,2,3 m.e 114 tuesday 2 p m jan 26 2 biol.l-biology 8u8.35-public utilities chein.l6o-organic chemistry e.e 2l electrical communication e.e.52-gen alternating currents 2 engul-business correspondence.sec.b 5 ger.l elementary german 2 govt sl american govt section b 2 math.4l-mathematics of finance.sec.b m.e.29-heat engines mfn.7 construction phil.l7-curr philosophical issues wednesday 8 a m ( jan 27 bus l lndustrial evolution 2 bus.3-economics sect i bus l23 lnvestments chem 9b physical chemistry chem.l62-advanced organic chem educ.l-introduction to teaching e.e.114-electrical stations eng1.123-shakespeare geol.l mineralogy geol la mineralogy ge01.7-non-mtallic ec geology g0vt.157-probs of mun management hist.2s-european history lat.lb-vergil m.e.2-elem heat engines 2 met.2l-eng metallurgy sec a mus.s-harmony 2 phil.s-intro to philosophy sec a phys.l22-phys optics and spect span.l43-seminar wednesday 2 p m jan 27 astr.2-general astronomy biol 4 vertebrate embryology 2 bus.3-economics sec ii 8u5.107-advanced economics c.e.27-contracts and spec chem.7b-chem engineering educ.3-educ psychology e.e.4-elem alt currents engl.lß-the novel engl.43-news reporting and writing f.a.3-hist of architecture fr.33-con.french lit ger.9-advanced german 2 govt.sl-amer government sec a hist.7-history of england 2 i e.2 lndustrial management sec a lat.la-pliny lat.4-livy math.l22-advanced mechanics met.l-general metallurgy 2 met.2l-eng metallurgy sec b mm 2-mining methods phys.l6o-modern physical theories psych.ls-applied psychology thursday 8 a m jan 28 8i01.7-elementary biology • 8u5.21-corporation finance 8u5.33-labor problems c.e.13-hydraulics c.e.118-struc steel design chem l6b lndustrial biochemistry engl.e-the modern essay 2 engl.lo-pub speaking sec b 2 engl.4l-bus correspondence sec a continued on page four the lehigh physics club adopted a new conistiution at a business meeting held last night in the phy sics building the meeting was preceded by a dinner served in the sophomore laboratory by the mrs c c bidwell m petersen p b carwile and miss walker the new constiution adopted by the group changed the name of the lehigh physics club to the lehigh physical society the membership requirements were also changed to include the members of the teach ing staff of the physics depart ment the students elligible for membership are the engineering physicists and arts men who are majoring in physics all sopho mores in these courses may became members while the freshmen in these courses may become associate members the dues have been set at 50c per semester following the business meeting the members viewed three movie reels from the bell telephone lab oratory illustrating the intricate me chanisms used in modern telephone circuits a program of direct mail is started which delivers to the prospective students guiding information about college particularly lehigh the guidance series will consists of four booklets entitled what about college how about en gineering college training for business and the college of lib eral arts these will be mailed to the proposed lehigh men at reg ular intervals to keep lehigh in their minds until the time of their graduation the first two of these pamphlets were written by pres ident richards while the others were composed by members of the faculty in addition to the direct mail method of gaining men a concert will be given by the lehigh band next spring and personal deputa tions may be sent out to the sec ondary schools by the lehigh un ion as has been done in former years four revised booklets explain ing details of instruction and life at lehigh will be the material used this year in the university's drive for new students according to a statement from associate dean curtis , they're more than just bally hoo about lehigh said dean cur tis they are guidance booklets of real help to the high school stu dent in solving his problems of fur jjher education within the next week blank fill ins will be mailed to lehigh stu dents for their use in listing the names of their friends who are about to graduate from high school it is hoped by the registrar's office that the christmas holidays will of fer an opportunity to gain more names of students in the local high schools when the completed student lists are returned to the university to contain football news and speech by dean the alumni bulletin will be is sued about the middle of next week according to j w maxwell assis tant editor the bulletin will con tain the speech made by dean mc conn at brown university in the latter part of october as well as a comment on it it was in this speech that the dean was supposed to have said that college spirit was hp kum there will be a review of the v football season by okey okeson this article will give a complete re view of the season at lehigh with the highlights there will also be an editorial on the present football situation at lehigh the bulletin will also contain an account of the meeting of the alumni association held the night before the lafayette football game bethlehem pa friday december 11 1931 thomas edison memorial spire proposed by stanley r keith 13 price — five cents brown and white vol xxxix no 20 prof petersen to show role of probability stock market practice told by westerf ield examinations to be given jan 25 feb 3 dr.w.troxell explains use for x-rays supersensible world is cited by h monges use of photographs in fighting tuberculosis illustrated at pre-med meeting secretary of exchange explodes common fal lacies ; claims mem bers seldom dishonest atheism makes man a machine and not a spiritualistic being he claims will explain principle of indeterminacy in mod ern physics at college lecture monday night r o t c lecture is postponed no drill dec 14 the moving picture lecture which was to be given de 14 by capt j a lowe has been postponed until jan 18 1932 captain lowe is recuperating from injuries received in an au tomobile accident last month there will be no drill or lecture monday dec 14 i all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspafer association