Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 21

              peterson defines modern physics a number of freshmen were ordered to produce a christmas tree friday night in a touring car they carried off a large tree from the front of a grocery store on north new street two motorcycle police pur sued the boys and located them at the fraternity house at 61 west market street threatened with arrest they paid for the tree the department of military science and tactics announces that make up work for students who have had authorized ab sences from drill this fall will begin dec 16 classes will be continued daily from 4 to 6 p.m until jan is advance make up work will also be permitted a re stricted number of students out for spring sports lehigh engineer will co n t rast communism with americanism to morrow in packard lab four returning from al pha chi rho dance in jured when car crash es in pennsburg long to speak at chem meet injured student recovering under brain specialist's care living groups have parties athletic deficit discussed at board of control meeting the board of control of ath letics discussed ways of meeting the deficit in the budget at a special meeting yesterday radi cal measures may be adopted to compensate for the loss due to decreased attendance at football games it was voted to allow ten bas ketball men to make the christ mas trip there will be no christmas trip next year it was announced to discuss drying oils at lehigh section meet at lafayette friday sigma phi house to have santa claus present christmas gifts was expelled from russia for wife's magazine article contrasting the basic differences between russian and american ideals william h grady 06 will describe his experiences in and views on the land of the soviets in his lecture communism vs americanism tomorrow evening at 8 o'clock in packard auditorium the meeting is onen to the public paris bound to be staged mustard and cheese to give comedy in three acts tomorrow scene the back parlor of charlie rennig's saloon on the scattered tables are half filled glasses of beer and remnants • of charlie's cheese sandwiches spread with mustard in the center of the foom sit a few lehigh students apparently strug gling with some weighty problem not a sound can be heard one of these students gazes idly at the wall at the tables at the beer and finally at the sandwiches he stiffens and then jumps to his feet all eyes are turned upon him gentlemen he announces let this organization be known as the mustard and cheese thus 46 years ago lehigh's dramatic asso ciation got its name - the first season of the mustard and cheese dramatic club was made successful largely through the ef forts of the noted writer richard harding davis 86 who was elect ed as first president of the organ ization associated with him in the work were his brother charles belmont davis 87 and the cele brated artist kenneth frazier 87 in an early edition of the lehigh burr the only university publica tion at that time a description was given of a mustard and cheese re hearsal burr reporter at rehearsal one of our reporters explain ed the burr was present at a re hearsal of the mustard and cheese dramatic association held in one of the south bethlehem halls used on other occasions by temperance lec turers the shades of departed tee totalers would turn in their watery graves if they saw to what base use it had come in the center of the room con tinues the burr the president and manager were having a heated dis cussions as to whether the associa tion was or was not to settle for beer consumed at rehearsals or whether it should be paid for by private subscription unconscious of the general hum of conversation and the sound produced by two gents practicing a stage combat with walking sticks to the immin ent danger of surrounding furni ture and beer glasses four sirens were struggling with a pert-song to thf accompaniment of a dyspeptic piana drown hall aids productions after the days of back room rehearsals in 1885 the mustard and cheese dramatic club constantly im proved its organization and in creased its numbers the construc tion of drown memorial hall with its auditorium offered the best pos sible facilities for productions and the dramatic club relatively increas ed the scale of their offerings within the past decade mustard and cheese productions have reach ed a new high level the introduc tion of the musical comedy to the regular field of productions requir ed the direction of ned wayburn famous follies director and wal lace milam former stage manager for george white's scandals during the period of their instruc tion mustard and cheese broke all former tour records by playing at bethlehem allentown reading york and philadelphia lehigh tests anchor chains chemists hold annual frolic strength of wrought iron and steel links meas ured w h bollman gives talk connecting reli gion and science santa claus comes to the sigma phi house this thursday evening when the fraternity has its christ mas party as far as could be learn ed this is the only fraternity which will have a bona fide kris kringle to distribute christmas cheer among its members at the chi phi house the freshmen will play santa claus to the upperclassmen giving them gifts to signify what they think of their elders almost all of the fraternities will have christmas parties this week the freshmen will provide the en tertainment for the most part in the form of plays psi upsilon will have its party tuesday evening price hall phi delta theta and sigma alpha mv will have their parties on wednes day evening the following frater nities plan to celebrate the christ mas holiday thursday evening theta xi alpha chi rho alpha tau omega alpha kappa pi kap pa alpha chi phi chi psi sigma phi sigma phi epsilon delta tau delta phi sigma delta phi gam ma delta phi delta pi pi kappa alpha theta delta chi lambda chi alpha delta upsilon and delta phi , section a section e taylor hall theta kappa phi omega phi sig ma beta theta pi and sigma chi are undecided as to whether they will have christmas parties library art exhibit will close friday j s long professor of inorganic chemistry will address the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society on drying oils friday dec 18 at 8 p m in gay ley hall lafayette college instead of attempting to give a resurhe of the complete field of drying oils professor long will describe certain phases of his own work at lehigh and refer only briefly to the work of other inves tigators he will discuss the me chanism of film formations in the case of some typical classes of ve hicles used in the manufacture of paints and varnishes professor long is connected with several industrial concerns he is the consultant for the chester en ameling company the wilmington enameling company the new jer sey zinc company the armstrong cork company and the raybestos manhattan company since 1927 professor long has been research director for the archer-daniels midland company and the william o goodrich company the research program under dr long's direction now employs the time of 14 fellows and has resulted in the publication of 18 papers in industrial and engineering chem istry a publication of the american chemical society and in various trade journals professor long is past chairman of the pain and varnish division of the american chemical society and is also past chairman of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society richard henry cadmus i.e 35 was seriously hurt when the^car he was driving skidded into a concrete culvert at pennsburg 2 a m sun day he and the other three occu pants of the car the misses mary and suzanne mccaslin and robert mallison were returning to their somes in pottstown after the al pha chi rho dance cadmus is out of danger but his condition is still serious he has a broken nose and his head is badly lacerated the extent of the injury to his eyes has not as yet been de termined but he is under the care of dr e dandy a brain specialist from johns hopkins hospital miss mary mccaslin is suffering from a broken nose and the other two oc cupants of the car are badly bruised all were brought to the pottstown hospital by a passing motorist mallison who was sitting in the back seat with miss suzanne mc caslin stated that the car skidded on some loose gravel at a slight turn in the road and before cadmus could right it crashed into a con crete culvert some difficulty was had in extricating cadmus from the car for he was wedged behind the wheel his head had been cut by the corner of the mirror a state highway patrolman stated the car was not going more than 30 miles an hour the misses mccaslin are pupils at miss illman's school pottstown richard cadmus is a member of alpha chi rho and the son of the general manager of the mcclintic marshall corporation sgt mohring's son dies in line of duty d o t discusses topics for debate paris bound a comedy in three acts by philip barry will be pre sented by the mustard and cheese dramatic society at 8:30 p m wednesday dec 16 in drown hall paris bound is described as not only a comedy of manners but a keen study of marriage under what circumstances should a young mar ried couple continue to live togeth er if one of the two proves unfaith egotism and pride of the injured ful mr barry concludes that the family is more important than the party philip barry a young american playwright was educated at yale and harvard he has written many stage successes of recent years in cluding holiday and tomorrow and tomorrow lehigh undergraduates will be admitted free to this play because their student activities fee provides for admission to the mustard and cheese plays as well as to other campus functions the characters and the players representing them are james hut ton martin gable 32 jim hut ton si askin 32 mary hutton leroy travis 35 helen white charles yaffe 32 peter cope sam simmons 33 nora cope william maynard 35 fanny shippan da vid goldenberg 32 noel farley paul van wulven 35 richard parish edwin williams 35 julie john kress 35 society receives aid from university eleven initiated into two fraternities boltzmann bore einstein and fermi-dirac statis tical methods illustrated probality and science discussed by physicist theory used in dealing with disintegration of radio-ac tive elements that current day physics does not deny casuality was affirmed by max petersen associate professor of physics last evening in the auditor ium of packard laboratory about 300 persons attended the lecture probability and modern physics professor petersen elaborated on his topic by declaring that where there fails to be any atomic deter minateness one must also admit that these concepts are restricted to one of two modes of description of the phenomena involved by developing the subject from simple illustrations of balls in bas kets petersen showed the boltz mann bose-einstein and fermi dirac statistical method the ex planations of the behavior of gases molecules atoms and electrons were given the explanation of the brown ian movement in terms of the sta tistical theory is simply that on the tiny particle the impacts of sur rounding molecules are so few that they deviate appreciably from sta tistical equilibrium he added after outlining the methods and something of the results of the sta tistical theory in its legitimate realm the phenomena of great ag gregates of particles professor pe tersen added that there were other places in physics where we speak of probability such as the disintegra tion of radio-active substances the wave theory of electrons has become in a few months our most powerful tool in the entire field of electro physics he stated before elucidating on that phase of mod ern physics yet the wave theory of light was shown to be inadequate in many regards he added for it fails completely to describe the ra diation of black bodies professor petersen quoted from kant's cri tique of pure reason to show the two different concepts of the term causality kant's postulate of cau sality i construe to be a metaphysi cal postulate he stated causality in the sense of classical physics has a different meaning the solution of certain mathematical relations differential equations involving the quatities and their derivations con stitute the classical meaning of cau sality according to the speaker i am persuaded that there may be a way through the legitimate use of intuition to restore the notion of atomic determinateness to a sure status he concluded the fritz engineering laboratory is nearing the completion of exten sive tests sponsored by the baldt anchor chain and forge corpor ation of chester pa on stud link anchor chains according to c hale sutherland professor of civil engin eering the materials include forged alloy-steel cast steel and wrought iron chains ranging in sizes from seven-eighths to two and one-half inch diameter stock the tests provide for ascertain ing failures in the pulling of chains transverse loading of a single link standard tension tests on the chain stock and chemical analysis of the metal some of the chains carried weights of over 650,000 pounds the importance of the attesta tions is indicated by the number of representatives from various firms who witnessed parts of the testing according to professor sutherland several observers were from the american bureau of shippin lloyd's register of shipping superinten dents of lighthouses the united states navy and naval architects standard steam winch and hoist company and the bethlehem steel company dr ullmann attends chemical meeting w bishop initiated by alpha kappa psi national business fraternity stops sponging tau delta phi and sigma phi give banquets eight freshmen were initiated by the sigma phi fraternity and three men were initiated by the tau delta phi fraternity saturday evening preceding banquets held at their re spective houses the men initiated by sigma phi fraternity are william c w smith john b diefenbach john a frick william gummere jr rob ert b jackson andrew n phillips jr charles c shackford and rich ard a stockton those initiated by tau delta phi are victor weill 34 bernard basch 34 and irving horowitz 35 dr claude g beardslee was the speaker at the tau delta phi ban quet while the feature of the sigma phi banquft was the return of a large group of alumni william h grady in the opinion of grady russia founded upon marxian economic principles aims at the ultimate ov erthrow of all capitalistic forms of government principally the united states who she views as her chief competitor russia undertook the five year plan to strengthen her position among the great nations of the world and plans to extend the principles of governmental control of industry to other countries grady a mining engineer spent considerable time in the anthracite region of pennsylvania before leav ing for russia two years ago he is recognized as anauthority on coal mining and for that reason was chosen as one of a party of 15 american engineers who were sent to different parts of russia by the soviet government visited coal regions he spent most of his time in the don basin the most highly develop ed russian coal field where appro ximately 90 per cent of the total of coal is being mined he did travel to the other parts of russia how ever visiting the various engineer ing projects and in % this way com ing in close contact with the aver age russian workman most of his time was spent in mining camps far different from the places which are shown to travelers grady was compelled to leave russia last year because certain views he took on communism as the result of his experiences his departure was provoked chiefly by the writing of his wife eve garrett grady whose articles in the sat urday evening post were aimed at making ludicrous the russian situ ation the first of these articles see russia and die laughing created furor in red circles grady himself has written considerably for the most part in professional magazines the meeting is being held under the auspices of the mining and geological society highway patrolman run over by truck state highway patrolman orville arthur mohring son of sergeant fred j mohring u s a attached to the lehigh r o t c unit died early friday morning dec 11 at misericordia hospital philadel phia as a result of injuries sustain ed in the course of duty mohring who had been assigned to special duty in philadelphia for tuesday was hit by a large truck at 11:30 p m tuesday dec 8 at the intersection of 57th street and whit by avenue the operator of the truck was jailed on a charge of op erating a vehicle without brakes and later he was charged with man slaughter and aggravated assault and battery mohring was 24 years old and a native of bethlehem he was at tached to the paoli barracks the funeral services took place yesterday afternoon at the family residence and at fritz memorial church full military honors were accorded at the funeral under the direction of capt w c price the body was buried in memorial park cemetery pledging discussed wright to lecture technical papers read at at lantic city convention prof h m ullmann head of the department of chemistry attended the twenty-fourth annual meeting of the american institute of chem ical engineers dec 9 10 and 11 at atlantic city technical papers regarding work in chemical engineering were pre sented at the convention the headquarters for the meeting were in chalfonte-haddon hall special entertainment was provided for the wives of the members of the insti tute morse 34 and gummere 35 recover from sprain injury john a morse 34 and william gummere jr 35 who were injur ed dec 5 have fully recovered morse was treated at the dispen sary saturday for a sprained ankle and then returned monday for an x-ray gummere was taken to st luke's hospital for treatment of head in juries which he suffered while play ing football on the steel field in a game between sigma phi and theta kappa phi fraternities crum and wright to attend archeological institute meet dr earl l crum associate pro fessor of latin will attend the na tional convention of the archeolo gical institute of america in rich mand dec 29-31 dr crum will represent the bethlehem chapter of the institute and will be accompanied to rich mond by dr horace w wright head of the latin department who is recording secretary of the na tional organization coach tate speaks to pen argyl lions topics suitable for debate were discussed by delta omicron theta forensic and debating society at its second meeting last thursday top ics-chosen for debate were un employment insurance and the six hour day thirty offers for debates from other colleges were received by the society fifteen debates are planned for ¦ the coming sason edward fleischer president of the society gave an outline of its origin pur pose and struggle for existence this year the society has received 100 from the university and the aid of dr neil carrothers prof myron luch and several other members of the faculty as coaches the society plans a practice de bate dec 17 in room 303 christ mas-saucon hall the topics will be 1 resolved that the major in dustries of america adopt the six hour day affirmative s d leibowitt f e nemzek and f e delano negative b wyckoff b e tuck er 2 resolved that congress enact an unemployment insurance law affirmative e fleischer j bran egan b schwartz negative m bernstein h f english prof w l bishop associate pro fessor of economics was initiated into alpha kappa psi national hon orary business fraternity friday evening dec 11 w a lownie 32 reported on the national convention of alpha kappa psi which he attended a new rule was passed at the meeting in response to the brown and white editorial of dec 4 on sponging societies the rule is to the effect that the men at whose house alpha kappa psi dines shall be provided for at the eating places of those men in alpha kappa psi one hundred attend women's club party religion is necessary to give sta bility to the achievements of science in order to guide us to a worth while destination this is the opin ion expressed by the rev w h bollman pastor of the christ re formed church before more than 200 students and faculty of the che mistry department at the annual christmas banquet of the chemical society held last evening in the ball room of the masonic temple that religion helps to answer the the rev mr bollman believes question as to what the world is go ing to do with all the achievements of science the modern wonders of the scientific world do not give as much if we do not know how to use them constructively for the good of mankind science in the past few years had added a num ber of years to the span of human life in order to get any good out of this added span of life we must learn how to live in harmony with a moral as well as a material uni verse religion teaches us how to achieve this end benton d witemeyer ch.e 32 president of the society acted as master of ceremonies besides intro ducing the main speaker he intro duced pres charles r richards dean c m mcconn and prof harry m ullmann who presented short talks song sheets on which were print ed the german stille nacht and o tannenbaum 1 ' and the university song hail to lehigh were distri buted»and the songs were sung by the entire assembly the climax of the evening was the presentation of gifts to the sen ior chemical engineers and the members of the faculty by santa claus who was portrayed by earl k serfass ch.e 33 a quartet under the direction of benton d witemeyer sang several ditties in which they used members of the faculty as their subjects the temple was decorated with a fireplace a christmas tree and the usual holiday trimmings prof a a diefenderfer faculty advisor of the society supervised the ar rangements for the banquet . tj.j.merritt,'33 and philip sadtler 33 served refreshments after the meeting petty to address e.e meet thursday eight papers read scabbard and blade talk over new men scabbard and blade honorary military society held a meeting thursday evening in the armory for the purpose of discussing prospects for pledging the names of the pledges however will not be an nounced until dec 17 according to r w burke president a talk cm the pacifism move ment was delivered by r w burke the dance committee gave a report on the recent scabbard and blade dance meallurgical students view furnaces and steel rolling sophomore students in metallur gical engineering made the second of a series of inspection trips to the bethlehem steel company mills yes terday afternoon accompanied by professor stoughton head of the department of metallurgical engin eering the students familiarized themselves with general metallur gical work blast furnaces and steel rolling the trip was a part of the sophomore metallurgical engineer ing conference allentown artist to show paintings jan 4 the art exhibit now on display in the art gallery of the library will end friday of this week according to garth a howland professor of fine arts a number of the paintings now on display will be loaned to mem bers of the faculty and townspeo ple for a month after the exhibit is closed another exhibition which chiefly contains the works of orlando wales of allentown will open jan 4 his paintings deal entirely with still life in which he has been par ticularly successful according to professor howland in addition to the still life paint ings of mr wales there will be a collection of 50 of the best prints produced during the last year these prints are secured from the graphic institute which selects the prints which seem the most repre sentative after their selection they are sent throughout the united states to va rious universities and art museums lafferty to address faculty theodore t lafferty instructor in philosophy will address the fa culty ducational club at 4 p m to day in the faculty room of the memorial building the chicago experiment is the subject of his talk invitation christmas dance given by alpha chi rho the alpha chi rho fraternity gave their annual invitation christ mas dance at the chapter house saturday evening dec 12 mr and mrs w w williams were chaper ons the vergilians orchestra fur nished the music yuletide decorations consisted of a large christmas tree pine arid holly branches and red and green streamers with holiday greetings were placed around the hall coming events tuesday dec 15 8 p m meeting of the lehigh val ley philosophical club 208 pack ard laboratory wednesday dec 16 8 p m open meeting of the min ing and geological society pack ard auditorium lecture on per taining to engineering and rus sia by william h grady e.m 06 stresses value of football in college education a austin tate football coach of lehigh university was the chief speaker at a dinner given to the bethlehem high school football squad by the pen argyl lions club thursday y evening in the social rooms of the first presbyterian church coach tate described the advan tages of a college education he stressed the necessity of getting in contact with the entire student body by participating in athletics par ticularly football he commended the spirit of the local football team following the address by coach tate william e muth supervis ing principal of bethlehem public schools presented him with a set of marbelized slate book-ends mrs beardslee operated on mrs c g beardslee wife of dr beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy underwent a surgical operation at st luke's hospital last friday her condition is reported as improved muhlenberg classical club to hear talk on aeneas dr horace w wright head of the department of latin will give an illustrated lecture entiled aen eas in italy before the classical club of miihlenberg college thurs day evening dec 17 dr wright has made an exten sive study of his subject during the last few years and has had many slides made of scenes which he vis ited this same lecture was given to eta sigma phi honorary classical fraternity last year and dr wright also lectured on this sub ject in several other eastern cities last year in connection with the 2000 th anniversary of the birth of the poet vergil mcconn speaks at pingry dean cm mcconn addressed the fathers day banquet of the pingry school for boys in elizabeth n j saturday evening dec 12 his sub ject was going to college applications of electricity to be discussed d m petty 09 will address the electrical engineering society on industrial applications of elec tricity thursday dec 17 at 7:30 p m in room 416 in packard lab oratory mr petty was formerly superin tendent of the electrical department of the bethlehem steel company c w banks e.e 32 will deliv er a paper entitled ttesting large transformers and oil switch bush ing after the meeting there will be a social gathering at which refresh ments and smokes will be served pi mv epsilon discusses noted mathematicians the lives and works of important figures in the history of mathemat ics were discussed at a meeting of pi mv epsilon national mathemat ics society at 8 p m friday in the arcadia room drown hall brief biographical sketches of napier galileo pascal barrow cardan desargues and fermat were presented by w d hickman w c elmore m dresher w h kelley jr d m may c b slich ter j c rodes and e h poggi - balloon and hat dances fea ture program one hundred guests attended the faculty dance given by the wom en's club friday at 8:30 p m in drown hall this was the first of a series of dances to be given by the club novelty dances including a bal loon dance and a hat number were features of the program bridge tabjes were provided for those who preferred cards to dancing the hall had been decorated with christmas greens and holly under the direction of prof and mrs a a diefenderfer prof and mrs robert d billinger mrs diefen derfer and mrs john k rice had charge of the arrangements for the dance bethlehem pa tuesday december 15 1931 freshmen take xmas tree m s & t make-ups issued mustard and cheese owes name to charlie's famous sandwiches price — five cents brown and white grady to give view of ideals in red russia vol xxxix no 2 cadmus hurt in auto crash last sunday member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first