Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 25

              librarian leach attending mother's funeral in maine was donor of power house and publisher of globe-times frosh elections to be held third week after exams nominations and elections of freshman class officers will be held during the third week after mid-year exams accord ing to the most recent plan of arcadia there will be only two freshman class officers the president and the secretary treasurer also there will be no freshman cabinet representatives of the var ious living groups met on mon day jan 11 at the chi rho house and decided that fi nal elections will be held on friday feb 19 at drown hall nominations for officers will be held on wednesday feb 17 the place is still undecided a freshman meeting after chap el exei*cises yesterday morning was planned but was cancelled because there was not a work ing majority of the class pres ent instead they will assemble on monday feb 15 after chap el according to r a stock ton chairman of the class of 35 a i e e meet to hear blake warren a wilbur aged 72 a university trustee donor of the power house and publisher of the bethlehem globe-times dropped dead suddently at 8:15 o'clock this morning at his home at 531 w third street he was bidding mem bers of his family farewell just be fore his intended trip for a vaca tion in the south his was the third death in le high administrative circles since yesterday others to die in the two day period were mrs walter r okeson wife of the treasurer of the university and the mother of it's an old newspaper saying that when a dog bites a man it's not new,s but when a man bites a dog . . „ that's news judging by this standard trie press of the civilized world should be startled by the an nouncement that believe it or not a lehigh student was knocked out by a rabbit charles f nassau jr arts 32 has raised rabbits ... in fact he has raised so many of the furry an imals that he has become widely known as a rabbit expert the only thing that nassau doesn't under stand is rabbit psychology while working at his hare home last week the lehigh student came upon a rabbit which required weighing and proceded to carry the creature via its ears to the scale where all good rabbits are weighed . . . before delivery nassau's prize hare however had lived most of its life at the rabbit farm and had undoubtedly seen other rabbits weighed then taken away for good being a reasonably intelligent animal he drew the ob vious conclusion that he was de stined to become the feature attrac tion for someone's dinner table believe it or not c.f.nassau 32 knocked out by rabbit's punch by the time he had reached the weighing machine the rabbit evi dently decided that he was much too young to die and also realized that within two short months he would be called on for his most re nowned role . . . pseudo santa claus to a batch of easter eggs he re solved to preserve himself for his public while carrying the rabbit to the scales the lehigh student had no idea of the turmoil within its mind and knowing frem experience the meek nature of bunnies he trust ingly lowered the hare to the weight pan and bent closer to read-the fig ures the animal did not fail to grasp its opportunity according to re ports a hind foot caught nassau in the face with a blow technically known as the rabbit punch this lead was quipkly followed with a series of lefts and rights and nas 7 sau falling backward struck his head against a projection the le high man was removed to a hos pital for observation but his in juries did not prove to be serious ones and he has recently returned to school the rabbit's fate is y_et unknown summer term schedule out schmall dies of nephritis mrs walter r okeson 54 years old wife of the treasurer of the university died of pneumonia su perinduced by a complication of diseases at 2:20 o'clock this morn ing at st luke's hospital mrs okeson had been in ill health for some time it is under stood she had been a patient at st luke's since last saturday the deceased leaves her husband one daughter mrs ann okeson howard of this city and one granddaughter peggy ann how ard funeral services will be held at 11 a m monday at trinity episco pal church 44 east market street the rev merrill m moore rector of the parish will officiate friends are invited to attend the services in the church the commit tal at nisky hill cemetery will be private howard s leach university li brarian was informed by telegram yesterday of the death of his moth er at penobscot me mr leach left immediately for his mother's late home details of mrs leach's death were not available here today subject is primary net work distribution sys tems emery issues announce ment of regular and graduate courses stricken saturday after noon while attending swim meet here society will hear harmon and fort warren a wilbur general information concerning the courses in summer school work was released this week by vice president n m emery who is now working on the official an nouncement of the summer courses at lehigh the regular summer work ac cording to dr emery will include the usual surveying assaying and engineering laboratory courses which form an integral part of cer tain engineering curricula the courses in assaying and engineer ing laboratory will be held at the university while the surveying work will be carried out at camp shaw nee and mineola on july 5 the optional summer school starts and as in previous years offers a large variety of un dergraduate courses for a period of six weeks a number of courses in graduate work will also be given for teachers and others last year graduates from 51 different univer sities attended the summer school dr emery announced that both the catalog of summer school courses and the university catalog and announcement would be gen erally available in the latter part of march d k blake distribution system engineer of the general electric company schenectady n v will deliver an address on primary net work distribution systems before a combined meeting of the electri cal engineering society and the le high valley section of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers to be held at 6:30 o'clock this evening in packard laboratory the program of the institute's meeting will commence at 6:30 p m with a dinner served in the en gineering society's meeting room in the laboratory mr bjake will talk at 8 p m he will describe the trend of using primary networks at 2,300 and 4,600 volts to supply the larger distribution loads associated with the urban areas according to n s hibshman assistant profes sor of electrical engineering mr blake has made an intensive study of the problem the past eight year and his contributions to the central station industry on the sub ject earned him the charles a coffman foundation award profes sor hibshman stated the subject will be covered in all its phases and is of particular interest to all elec trical men according to professor hibshman a motion picture will be shown depicting some of the ex isting network installations william e schmall ch.e 35 died from an attack of acute neph ritis tuesday morning at 10:45 in the st luke's hospital where he had been a patient for one day in spite of an attack of sickness during the christmas holidays schmall returned to lehigh at the beginning of the year and contin ued his studies until his sudden at tack saturday evening after attending a swimming meet saturday afternoon at the univer sity schmall became ill and was taken to his rooming house at 452 carlton avenue the doctor was immediately called and a message was sent to his parents removed to st luke's the youth's condition was pro nounced to be serious monday evening when an attack of acute nephritis set in and he was imme diately removed to the st luke's hospital the parents arrived short ly after their son's attack and re mained with him until his death tuesday morning william schmall entered lehigh during the summer session last year and continued his studies in the fall his parents are mr and mrs w e schmall of woodhaven long island n y mr schmall is the owner of the swan fountain pen company bull explains x-ray honorary to initiate mcconn attending educational meet one of the most recent adven tures in science has been the devel opment of the thyratron tube said mr oliver ajer of the research laboratory general electric com pany in his address adventures in science given before a meeting of the mechanical engineering so ciety of lehigh held last evening in packard laboratory after twelve years of painstak ing research in a new branch of sci ence called electronics the thy ratron has finally been developed for which the future holds many amazing possibilities according to mr ajer it was explained by mr ajer that the thyratron tube is a devel opment of the vacuum tube it is composed of electrons sealed in a vacuum tube with a mercury va por it is this mercury vapor which together with other important ad ditions to the vacuum tube makes the new discovery possible tube is electronic but in spite of the fact that the tube itself is electronic in theory it is most important to the mechanical engineer for its future develop ment said mr ajer the tube has already been applied to a few me chanical devices and takes the place of human labor one of the applications of the tube is in a bean sorting machine which mr ajer demonstrated at the meeting the remarkable value of the thyratron tube was shown by the fact that it could sort beans merely by the effect of light on a photoelectric tube this machine operates 24 hours a day and can sort 40,000 pounds of beans a day mr ajer worked on device mr ajer has worked on the thy ratron tube in connection with his work in the general electric com pany most of the work on the tube has been done by nim and his as sociates together with manufactur ing companies that wish to apply the tube to their problems there are many theories as to the uses of the tube of which many will be developed one of these theories is the possibility to eliminate all loss of electricity in a current flow ing in a conductor at the opening of the meeting of which prof m c stuart acting di rector of mechanical and industrial engineering was honorary chair man clayton l squier e e 34 reported on a meeting of the amer ican society of mechanical engin eers in new york which he at tended during the christmas holi days as a representative of the le high society i think that a great responsibil ity lies in such schools as lehigh stated j o perrine of the bell telephone laboratories in an ad dress entitled a contrast in appli cation of electrical principles in telephone and power engineering given before the physical society last night in the physics lecture room dr perrine is the assistant editor of the bell telephone jour nal published by the american telephone and telegraph company technical and industrial schools are not justified in teaching details to the students dr perrine ex plained students should be taught the fundamentals and foundation of their course and should do more research work he explained that the details are taught by the firms which hire the students explains main principles the foundation and main prin ciples of power electricity and tele phony are common but the appli cation of the principals in the two branches of the electrical industry is very diverse stated dr perrine loose contacts are the abomina tion and bane of electrical engin eers but loose contact in the proper place is the basis of the telephone in one local telephone call there are 310 fixed connections through which the speaker's voice travels in electric power engineering the only loose contacts are circuit breakers the number of these switches is a minimum the electric power engineer en deavors to attain the highest effi ciency possible while efficiency is a minor detail to the telephone en gineer dr perrine went on al exander graham bell's telephone was a success even though it was only one four-thousandths of one per cent efficient the power en gineers have attained efficiencies of 90 per cent or better while modern telephone systems are only 10 per cent efficient at their best electricity in use 100 years electricity has been called the greatest servant of man dr per rine stated it has only been in use 100 years and was first used in communication joseph henry gave his first successful demonstration of telegraph communication in 1830 after henry's demonstration tel egraphy and telephony were devel oped faraday developed the motor and generator and it was put in general commercial use about 1860 refreshments were served at a social following the business meet ing and the lecture dr and mrs ullmann fete chemistry faculty saturday dr and mrs harry m ullman entertained the members of the chemistry faculty in their home on saturday evening dinner was serv ed at the eight bridge tables this was followed by the bridge games which continued until midnight the ladies prizes were won by mrs h v anderson and mrs r d billinger e r theis and h a neville had the highest scores among the men while j g smull was gjven the bopby prize scabbard and blade will initiate fifteen pi tau sigma will install new members jan 21 pi tau sigma national honorary mechanical engineering fraternity will initiate five new members jan 21 the initiation will take the place of the regular mechanical engineer ing meeting a banquet at spring valley will follow talks will be given by the faculty members of the fraternity according to l v britton president the five men to be initiated are arthur w home 32 kirkland g gardner jr 32 james c rhoads 33 richard l willis 33 and ken neth f borden 33 colleges have no room for softies hibben says describes dertoit windsor bore that cost 15,000,000 one of the largest and most promising fields for civil engineers today is that of subaqueous tunnel building said s a thoresen guest speaker at the civil engineer ing meet last night in his speech on the construction of the detroit windsor tunnel mr thoresen graduated from the university of mittweida saxony germany in 1903 as an electrical engineer he came to the united states shortly after his graduation and became affiliated with the en gineering firm of parsons klapp brinckerhoff and douglas of new york he has been with the firm ever since a period of 26 years and is now an engineer of design the detroit-windsor tunnel that conects the united states with canada is of special interest due to the fact that it was completed in the record time of two and a half years at a cost of 15,000,000 for a tunnel of this magnitude the short time required for construction is indeed an attribute to the engin eering genius of today stated mr thoresen reviews previous tubes mr thoresen started his illus trated lecture with a brief resume of subaqueous tunnel building the first under water tunnel was built between 1825 and 1843 under the thames river england this was a very difficult task due to the lack of knowledge in the use of com pressed air this project was a fi nancial failure however and checked all other undertakings of a similar character for a period of 25 years since the advent of the automobile this type of engineering has prog ressed with leaps and bounds the id«a for the vehicular de troit-windsor tunnel was conceiv ed late in 1926 after a lengthy an alysis the conclusion was reached that this type of tunnel financed by private capital would render suffi cient return to make the enterprise profitable there is ail interesting side to the early history of this tunnel pro ject — the promoter was a captain in the salvation army added mr thoresen describes tunnel the main object in the building of this tunnel was for the purpose of accommodating the steadily in creasing automobile traffic between the two communities situated on each side of the detroit river mr thoresen insisted that this tunnel is destined to become one of the main motor arteries between the united states and canada mr thoresen went on to stato that the tunnel has an estimated ca pacity of 2,000 cars this capacity being more or less dependent upon the customs and immigration facil ities at either end of the tunnel the lecture was concluded by mr thoresen saying that the con struction of subaqueous tunnels is one of the most fascinating types of work that engineers are doing to day this is proven by the fact that although a man was accidental ly shot through the river bed while working in a compressed air cham ber he was back on the job as soon as his condition permitted professors to address south ern club tuesday prof g d harmon of the his tory department and prof tomlin son fort head of the department of mathematics are to be the speakers at the seventh annual dinner to be given by the southern society of lehigh valley in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem at 7:30 p m tuesday jan 19 - prof harmon who is the chief speaker of the evening has chosen for his topic the development of education in the new south a phase of his speech the new south which he gave in the col lege lecture series at lehigh nov 16 professor harmon was asked to give the speech he had given at le high but since there were a num ber of people present at the speech who will attend the banquet he has decided to change his subject mat ter somewhat among the points that dr harmon will bring out are a comparison of the education of the negro to the education of the white child and the public grammar and high school systems of the south dr harmon left the south at the age of 24 after attending duke uni versity in north carolina and since he has come to lehigh he has spent two summers teaching at duke he has spent vacations in the south and has read much on the condi tions of that section of the country professor fort is to give an eulo gy on general robert e lee pro fessor fort is also a southerner by birth and an admirer of the great confederate general whose birth day is celebrated on jan 19 review will appear after examinations describes x-ray use committee will discuss col lege entrance dean c m mcconn left for new york this morning to attend a two day session of a committee of the progressive education association the meeting of the committee on the relations of school and col lege which dean mcconn will at tend is generally dedicated to the carrying out of plans by which graduates of the so-called progres sive secondary schools may be ad mitted to college on the basis of high rank in the individualized courses which such schools offer the committee recently received a subsidy from the carnegie cor poration for the support of their work the carnegie corporation acts as a holding company for the various funds which are distributed in the interests of peace education and other fields of public better ment phi beta delta initiates three phi beta delta initiated three men immediately before the christ mas holidays they are irving moscovitz 33 irving bricker 35 and joseph weisman 34 because of the interference with the holi days and examinations the banquet will be held some time in february thomlinson to address mem bers at banquet scabbard and blade national honorary military fraternity will formally initiate 15 men in the ar mory tomorrow at 5 p m this will be followed by a banquet at the bethlehem club the principal speaker will be lt col m h thomlinson according to r w burke president of the society the banquet is for active members officers and alumni t last saturday the new men camped out as a part of the infor mal initiation they are captain j o green r r bachman 32 c f schier 32 j l williamson 32 r l davis 33 m l hoov er 33 f d keck 33 f m neihans 33 f l snavely 33 r b wall 33 w p baker 33 p flanigan 33 t b jordan 33 w d mason 33 j d strachon 33 f b wise 33 coming events anderson addresses monarch club at hotel bethlehem prof u v anderson associate professor of chemistry spoke on the application of x-rays tues day at the weekly meeting of the monarch club in hotel bethlehem he illustrated his talk with slides showing x-ray pictures of the hu man body metals wood liquids and many chemicals most of his il lustrations were of research work done in his own laboratory he has recently given similar lectures before the chemistry classes of the university fort and gipson also speak to faculty club addresses by dr c r bull prof thomlinson fort and prof l h gipson featured the fourth meeting of the faculty educational club monday in the alumni mem orial building dr bull explained the use of the x-ray in the treatment of tubercu losis and showed how it may be used to advantage in combating this disease science scientists and the press was the subject discussed by professor fort in his treatment of the topic he centered his re marks principally on the way the press handles scientific articles the recent student disarmament council held at bucknell university was outlined by professor gipson who attended the council he com mented very favorably on the rep resentatives from lehigh trends in college athletics were discussed by j s long and neil carothers in the absence of walter r okeson who was scheduled to talk newtonians meet sophomore members discuss math ematical subjects talks by sophomore members of the newtonian society r p lan dis and milton meissner featured the society's meeting wednesday evening this was the last meeting of the society this semester newly elected freshmen will be initiated at a meeting in february various proofs of the pythago rean theorum was the topic of landis meissner spoke on the controversy between newton and leibnitz on calculus eta sigma phi to meet tonight eta sigma phi honorary classi cal fraternity will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight at the home of dr earl l crum 631 ' fifteenth ave nue important business is to be transacted according to edgar a collins president of the society competition for editorial board begins the next issue of the lehigh re view will appear during the week following mid-year exams accord ing to the editor-in-chief maurice rosalsky 32 the leading article of the issue will be a literary depreciation of women in general entitled now i'll tell you by edward fleisch er 33 managing editor of the re view maurice rosalsky describes more oddities of europe things don't change much by harry warendorf 11 33 tells just what the title implies accord ing to rosalsky all students interested in the review should try to contribute to the next issue which will appear sometime in april according to rosalsky competition for election to the board depends upon the con tributions made to april's issue two articles must be printed for eligibility for election all material for the april issue shoultl be con tributed as soon as possible rosal sky announced howard s leach librarian mrs leach died in penobscot me mr wilbur had planned a short visit to eau galle fla and was bidding good-bye to his son rob ert e wilbur and members of his son's family when he was stricken with a heart-attack he had been in poor health for the past several weeks funeral services will be held at the wilbur residence at 3 p m monday interment will be at the nisky hill cemetery wilbur born in bethlehem warren a wilbur was born in bethlehem pa may 1 1859 his father elisha p wilbur among other important positions was one of the early presidents of the le high valley railroad his mother was stella m wilbur nee abbot after attending a parochial school here the one time chairman of the board of trustees of lehigh university prepared at mount plea sant academy for swarthmore col lege in september 1877 he was employed by the bethlehem iron works company and from then on launched into an extensive business career that was climaxed when he ascended to the presidencies of the e p wilbur trust company the bethlehem foundry and machine company which he founded the jefferson coal company the sayre water company the sayre land company the wilbur coke and coal company of west virginia the connellsville and state line company and many other business organizations held numerous directorships he had been at one time or an other a director of the lehigh foundry company lehigh pulver izer company . lehigh valley na tional bank western maryland railroad lehigh valley traction company lehigh coke company franklin coal company and beth lehem fabricators inc in addition to his interest in le high university he was a treasurer and trustee of st luke's hospital he had been a director in the beth lehem chamber of commerce help ed make the hill-to-hill bridge possible and participated in num erous local activities his fraternal organizations in cluded the masons where he held a knights templar degree the ben evolent order of elks and the sigma phi fraternity he was a member of the society of mining engineers the sons of the revolu tion the society of colonial wars bethlehem and northampton clubs the philadelphia club the manu facturers club of philadelphia the pennsylvania society of new york northampton country club le high country club friday jan 15 6:30 p m d k blake to address combined meeting of electrical engineering society and the le high valley section of the am erican institute of electrical en gineers packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of eta sigma phi at home of dr earl l crum 631 fifteenth avenue saturday jan 16 3 p m varsity swimming vs princeton at princeton 4:30 p m varsity wrestlers vs princeton at princeton 7:30 p m freshman basketball vs muhlenberg frosh taylor gym nasium two popular conceptions of col lege life were exploded recently as dr hibben president of princeton university predicted a call for su permen among future graduates and announced that columbia fra ternities surpassed the average of the non-fraternity men in a final scholastic rating it has long been a popular be lief that college men are softies of the worst sort but doctor hibben's statement does not seem to corroborate this fact the de mand he states will be for super men — that is men who in their college courses have given evidence of powers far above the average in tellectual acumen and resourceful ness the doctor warned the un dergraduate body that the life at the university would be different this year in order to prepare the men for the conditions of a changed world college is no less a place for softies than in past years but the present economic conditions bring the facts more clearly before the public eye and a public which has long believed college boys a species of parasite dependent upon the older generation spending their time lolling in ease playing bridge and attending tea dances with beau teous co-eds is now faced with this new conception of a college man college fraternities have had more than their just share of cen sorship for low scholastic standings and indifferent attitudes toward les sons the life of the non-fraternity man has been consistently lauded as the ideal preparation for the gain ing of a phi beta kappa key but the columbia records seem to ex plode this second unfair belief it may be concluded from the columbia report that the gross consumption of midnight oil at that university was much greater than during the past year it is possible that the new status of athletics adopted in that and other promin ent universities has shown its ef fect in a resolution by the frater nities to gain face on the scholastic roster rather than on the gridiron whatever the cause for this scho lastic improvement on the part of fraternities may be it can be safely said that the general public whose most intimate glimpses of frater nity life are through the medium of college motion pictures will con tinue under the impression that fraternities are progeny hand-maid ens of the devil and places in which young men go wrong brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 15 1932 vol xxxix no 25 x price — five cents dr j perrine cites problem of telephones tells of work in subaqueous tube building ajer explains new invention at m e meet death claims w a wilbur mrs okeson speaker says great re sponsibility lies in technical schools such as lehigh s a thoresen pictures large and promising fields in tunnel con struction at civil meet development of thyratron tube opens wide field with amazing possibilities he says unu n iv c r sity treasurer's wife dies from pneu monia early today at st luke's hospital physical society hears editor of bell publication heart attack fatal to university trustee pre paring to leave for va cation in south c l squier 34 reports on meeting at new york wrestling meet to start 4:30 the varsity wrestling meet to be held at princeton tomorrow is scheduled to start at 4:30 clock the admission is 50c and no reserve seats the office of the graduate manager has an nounced that student athletic books will not accepted for this meet president richards excuses classes after 11 monday university classes and exer cises will be excused after 11 a m monday because of funeral services of the late warren a wilbur and mrs walter r okeson president charles russ richards announced today member intercollegiate newspaper association all the i lehigh news first