Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 30

              advantages of autogiro told to members of in dustrial engineering so ciety wednesday lehigh professors attend a.i.m.e meet in new york library exhibition o n monday will show collection of materials relating to washington the 10 and 11 o'clock classes on monday will be excused in order that students and faculty may attend the celebration of the washington bicentennial at 11 a m in the university chapel the unveiling of the statue of washington by scabbard and blade will take place at 4 p m in the library the treasure room of the library containing an exhibit of scenes of the life of washington will be open to the public monday from 9 a m to 5 p m common man to do his own flying prophesies speaker dr t j wertenbaker will address univer sity gathering on pa y triot's role as unionist grid banquet to be in april college professor to give ad dress on philippine freedom maximo m kalsw dean of the college of liberal arts and profes sor of political sciences at the uni ver-sity of the philippines will de liver a public address the de mand for philippine freedom at 8:15 p m friday feb 26 in pack ard auditorium the speaker has been secured by the international relations club and will be entertained by prof l h gipson head of the department of history and government pre ceding the lecture a dinner will be given in honor of dr kalaw at the bethlehem club dean kalaw was exchange pro fessor at the university of michi gan about eight years ago and re ceived his doctor's degree from that institution pi delta epsilon plans to hold third annual journalistic dinner water colors to be discussed by n y u professor a philip macmahon professor of fine arts at new york univer sity wilfa speak on international water colors at 2 p m sunday in the art gallery of the library ac cording to garth a howland as sistant professor of fine arts professor and mrs macmahon collected the paintings now on ex hibition at the library professor macmahon will use his experiences in efirope last summer as a back ground for his talk the professor and his wife are co-chairmen of the exhibition committee of the col lege arts association which is sponsoring the present exhibition professor howland stated professor macmahon has written several books on_art his latest book is called the meaning of art the lecture is open to the public sophs petition to end rules dance follows club concert pi delta epsilon's third annual gridiron banquet will be held some time in april it was decided in a meeting held last wednesday ac cording to ralph c benson pres ident of the society for the past two years pi delta epsilon national journalistic hon orary fraternity has conducted these banquets at which prominent le high men and campus activities are satirized and roasted on the grid iron lajst year asa packer personated by one of the members of the so ciety was brought from the grave to behold burlesques of present day occurrences on the campus some of the skits included no beer rushing at registration house par ty and freshman regulations this year's banquet will be held along the same lines although the theme might be different benson also stated that the invitations which are usually sent to faculty and out standing students are considered quite an honor the annual gridiron banquet in augurated on april 3 1930 is mod eled after that sponsored by the washington press correspondents club to which presidents of the united states are invited that the autogiro will make it much simpler for the common man to do his own flying was the predic tion of richard w wetherill ex ecutive secretary of the autogiro company of america at a meeting of the industrial engineering so ciety wednesday evening in pack ard auditorium mr wetherill emphasized the fact that the element of safety has been the essential feature in the de velopment of the autogiro no injuries requiring hospital treatment except a minor injury in curred by a pilot during an exper imental flight have been reported since the earliest stages in the de relopment of the autogiro an in teresting feature of the autogiro is that no matter what position it is in the ship can be righted by sim ply releasing all the controls the speaker stated explains mechanism mr wetherill explained the me chanical features of the autogiro especially emphasizing the fact that the horizontal blades of the ship called the rotors are not operat ed by the motor after the rotors have had an initial acceleration they continue to rotate by the ac tion of air currents following his lecture mr weth erill presented a moving picture the story of the autogiro the film illustrated the practical uses and accomplishments of the auto giro one of the features is the ease with which the machine can take off and land it was also shown that the autogiro can be made to remain stationary in the air for a short length of time at a business meeting held be fore the lecture initial steps were taken to arrange for the society at lehigh to become associated with the national industrial engineering society rifle team to meet gettysburg saturday council to ask arcadia to drop freshman regulations shortly the sophomore council at its meeting last friday in drown hall vofed unanimously in favor of a petition to arcadia for discontinu ing freshman regulations for the rest of the semester according to a statement by l.h robbins secretary of the sopho more class the council is also mak ing the suggestion that starting next year the only regulations for freshmen will be the wearing of a dink and black tie for one semester after mid-year examinations next year no requirements whatever will be in force if the petition is ac cepted arcadia to meet feb 29 definite action will be taken at the next meeting of the arcadia on monday feb 29 in drown hall the sophomore council will also take more definite action at its meeting next week . last year it will be remembered frosh regulations were discontinued after the easter vacation when it was thought they had served their purpose the same idea will prob ably be followed this year with ad ditional suggestions for the incom ing class according to j k beid ler president of the class of 34 dr miller discusses utilities of geology organ recital sunday the economy of operations and production was the keynote of the meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical en gineers held feb 15-17 in hotel commodore new york according to howard eckfeldt professor of mining engineering the institute was opened with a dinner in the hotel and a stage show was put on for the enjoyment of the visiting representatives after the opening festivities the delegates split up into various groups and had discussions on their specialized subjects lehigh was represented by pro fessor eckfeldt dr benjamin l miller professor of geology allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy bradley s stoughton pro fessor of metallurgical engineering dr maurice ewing instructor in physics and several students from the mining and metallurgical de partments ventilating fan displayed professor eckfeldt was a mem ber of the committee on a new code for mine ventilation during the dis cussion a new type of ventilating fan was introduced this new pro peller type of fan which is used at moose shaft in butte montana has a capacity of 250,000 cubic feet of air per minute with a water gauge pressure of 9 inches the former fans with a diameter of 8 feet com pared to the 6 foot diameter of the propeller fan had a capacity of but 124,000 cubic feet and a pressure of 2 inches.^the new type fan is 5 to 10 per cent more efficient dr maurice ewing and j le land myer engineering foundation research fellow delivered papers at the meeting dr ewing's paper which was prepared jointly with l don leet director of the seismo graph station at harvard was en titled the depth and thickness lof buried low speed layer and re lated to seismic prospecting in low speed layers mr j l myer's pa per was entitled proposed method of determining oxidation temper ature of coal dr miller was on the mining geology committee and professor stoughton on the manu facture of iron and steel commit tee • 4 musical clubs to hold free recital 8 p m saturday in drown hall the combined musical clubs will offer their first concert under the new subsidization plan at 8 p m sat urday in drown hall a dance fea turing jules booker's musical club orchestra will be held immediately after the concert admission to the affair will be granted to any student upon pres entation of his bursar's receipt at the gate others will pay 50 cents according to b d witemeyer manager of the combined clubs no tickets will be printed the program to be presented at the dance is as follows hail the college sea fever mark an drews selection by the quartet hay robin jolly robin goef frey shaw the sleigh kountz baldwin a solo by r j pen nington 34 the bell man sel ection by the quartet the gal way piper and the alma mater quartet will sing numbers to be presented by the quartet will include the negro love song paul lawrence dun bar and a surrey song h alexander matthews the members of the quartet are p b meyers 32 h i silver 33 j f perry 35 and lewis roberts jr 35 final arrangements are being made for the annual glee club band trip to new york where a perfor mance is given under the auspices of the new yqrk lehigh club this concert will probably be held april 12 tentative arrangements are also being made with the junior wom an's club of maplewood n j should these plans materialize 28 men will be chosen to make the trip coming events scabbard and blade to unveil statue of george washington faculty and representatives of student societies will form academic procession lehigh will join the nation in cel ebrating the two-hundredth anni versary of the birth of george washington in a formal convoca tion to be held at 11 a m monday in packer chapel the library will be the scene of activities at 4 p m when scabbard and blade national honorary mili tary society will unveil a replica of houdon's statue of washington an exhibit of books manuscripts and documents relating to wash ington and the revolutionary per iod will be displayed from 9 a m to 5 p m in the treasure room of the library wertenbaker to speak dr t j wertenbaker professor of american history at princeton university will speak on wash ington the unionist at the formal convocation dr c g beardslee university chaplain will give the in vocation and the rt rev frank w sterrett head of the bethlehem dipcese of the protestant episcopal church will pronounce the benedic tion the faculty arrayed in academic gowns and representatives of var ious student societies will join in qm academic procession from the administration building to the chapel the band will assemble at the ' flagpole and play during the procession classes will cease from 10 a m until 1 p m to allow the faculty and students to attend statue to be unveiled the original of the statue which will be unveiled at 4 p m in the lobby of the library stands in the state house in richmond va scab bard and blade will be in charge of the unveiling exercises the band ( will be present and play several se lections which were popular in eng land and america during the time of the revolution lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment is chairman of the commit tee in charge of arrangements the other members of the committee are dr neil carothers prof hale sutherland howard s leach and lieut col h m thomlinson wil liam h sachs president of arca dia and carl f hull editor of the brown and white are in charge of student representation former student names peak in philippines for dr b miller shields to play assisted by lam * son's cello solos t edgar shields director of mu sic will give the second of a series of organ recitals ati 4p m sunday feb 21 in packer memorial chapel professor shields will be assisted by kenneth lamson associate pro fessor of mathematics who will play several cello solos the recital will last for one hour and the public is invited accord ing to professor shields mr lam son is one of the best celloists in the east the program to be presented at the recital is as follows prelude and fugue in d major bach serenade badine gabriel-marie the swan saint-saens mr lam son chorale prelude on o traurigkeit o herrzeleid brahms ariel bonnet clair de lune bonnet cantilene pierne pre lude in c minor rachmaninoff kol nidrei bruch mr lamson and march pomp and circum stance elgar o.d.k to discuss by-laws at drown hall tonight at 7:15 the ratification of the by-laws of the local chapter will feature the meeting of omicron delta kappa senior honorary fraternity to be at 7:15 tonight in drown hall according to r k serfass pres ident of the society several radi cal changes are to be made in the by-laws these changes will be made public after the meeting writes paper for engineering and mining journal geology in the non-metallic in dustries is the subject of the ar ticle written by benjamin l miller head of the geology department which appears in the february is sue of the engineering and mining journal that geology gradually is being applied to the quarrying industry just as it has been applied to the oil and gas industry yet the geo logist is not generally consulted in the early exploitation af quarrying is the keynote of dr miller's ar ticle the ore is where you find it has long been discarded in most fields of mineral industry according to the writer who has been a pro fessor at lehigh since 1907 the quarrying industry needs good ge ologists for professional advice in undertaking the first stages of its industrial development the services which the geologist has rendered in the mineral industry have proven to be indespensible in the quarrying industry it is a general tendency for the quarry men to call in professional aid only when disaster impends instead of seeking aid before the trouble de velops b & w registration to close the last day for registration in brown and white english 71-78 i is wednesday feb 24 at a meet ing of the executive committee of the brown and white it was de cided not to accept applicants after that date display in treasure room contains patriot's autograph nine volumes of first pres ident's writings t contain tales of french-indian war in cooperation with the bicenten nary commission in celebrating tbe 200 th anniversary of the birth of george washington the library in its treasure room has displayed a collection of printed materials con cerning washington and his times the exhibition will be open from 9 a m to 5 p m moaday feb 22 and upon any requests of visitors and students the library owns a genuine auto graphed letter of george washing ton and also a forged note purport ing to be by washington but pro rfounced by the experts on wash ington's handwriting as a forgery according to h s leach librarian and director of this exhibit the ac counts kept by the general while he was commander-in-chief of the american army are also shown in facsimile washington's writing included there are nine volumes of wash ington's writings ranging from his journal of the french and indian wars up to his presidential ad dresses the library owns and has displayed also a large number of estimates of washington by his contemporaries perhaps one of the most inter esting cases is filled with contem porary newspapers particularly the pennsylvania gazette published in philadelphia one of these contains the declaration of independence while another copy contains a post script dealing with the boston tea party confederate medal displayed another item on display is a large medal struck by the confederacy and reproducing a statue of wash ington which now stands in rich mond va in addition there is a large block of wood from the wash ington tree at stafford pa in the hollow of which tree washington had a sentry at the time of the paoli massacre among the pictures on display are sulgrave manor the ancestral home of the first president mt vernon various portraits of the general including one of his wed ding tp martha washington the famous picture of washington crossing the delaware by leutze and the inauguration scene are also on exhibit at the end of the diplay is a full set of postage stamps and envel opes printed by the united states government to celebrate the bicen tennary engravings exhibited the faculty washington's cele bration committee under the direc tion of prof l h gipson is also sponsoring an exhibition of paint ings and engravings pertaining to george washington's life in the library all day monday feb 22 and from 1 to 6 p m on the follow ing days until sunday feb 28 the paintings which include oils lithographs steel engravings and silhouettes have been obtained from the vicinity of bethlehem and are all owned by local collectors the display will be of interest because of the various types of portraits and the amount of colonial art in our own locality friday feb 19 1:15 p m meeting of lehigh un ion cabinet in drown hall 8:15 p m meeting of the interna tional relations club in packard auditorium saturday feb 20 1 30 p m gettysburg rifle meet in armory 2 p m cornell swimming meet in taylor pool 3 p m cornell wrestling meet in taylor gymnasium 8 p m musical clubs concert in drown hall sunday feb 21 2 p m prof a w macmahon of new york university will speak in library art gallery monday feb 22 11 a m celebration in packer chapel of washington's birthday tuesday feb 23 meeting of the mathematic gen eral research club room 306 packer hall tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics will speak it took little time for the lehigh professor to size up the value of the claims and the return mail car ried to the refining company a let ter of appreciation for their con tribution to dr miller's collection of fraudulent material this reply so angered the officials of the or ganization that they threatened dr miller with expulsion from le high if he called their firm frau dulent in the classroom oilmen almost jailed the terrible threats of the refin ing company were annuled accord ing to dr miller when all of the officials were hailed into court for sending fraudulent materials through the mails and almost sen tenced to a long term in prison all of the oil men however are not of this type for it was j ross corbin e m 09 in the employ of the standard oil company that gave the name to miller peak in honor of his former professor corbin has since gained fame in the fields of geology and mining shoulder to shoulder match will be held in armory lehigh will meet gettysburg in a shoulder-to-shoulder rifle meet tomorrow afternoon at 1 30 in the armory due to the large number of members of the lehigh team that are ineligible a new team has been selected the members of the lehigh team are j j bosak c k okuno r n l^ndabury w a johnson j.o evans^^r c ruhf j schmuck j m hazen h n beiter and t.b jorden capt percy l sadler assistant professor of military science a*hd tactics who is in charge of he rifle team has appointed t b jorden as manager of the team edward korto is captain of the gettysburg team the other mem bers of the invading team a*e hershey bream and - clattenoff clattenoff is also manger captain and mrs j k rice will be hosts to the members of the two teams after the match the next shoulder-to-shoulder match will be with lafayette on march 5 in easton bowie to represent lehigh william bowie c e 95 will represent lehigh at the bicentenial celebration of george washington's birth to be held monday evening feb 22 in the auditorium of the daughters of the american revo lution constitutional hall wash ington d c mr bowie is a lecturer on geo desy and isostasy united states coast and geodetic survey wash ington d c if you're traveling down the cen turoy valley on the island of pin doro in the philippines you will suddenly come upon one of the stateliest mountains in the bugsan ga range miller peak the miller in whose honor this peak was named is dr b l mill er head of the department of geo logy at lehigh dr miller who came to lehigh from bryn mawr in 1907 has become well known lo cally as an instructor but national ly as an authority on matters per taining to geology each day the mails bring new materials for anal ysis some of them are worthy some fraudulent . . . these the le high man must judge miller explains work to explain the nature of his work dr miller tells the story of a fraudulent refining company with which he dealt a few years ago it all began when a letter came from the potomac refining company which boasted of 4ch oil lands and requested dr miller's testimonial for use in their selling campaign bethlehem pa friday february 19 1932 macmahon to speak on international art classes at 10 and 11 o'clock next monday are excused vol xxxix no 30 price — five cents the lehigh university brown and white simpler flying is predicted by wetherill institute plans to economize in production filipino will speak at lehigh friday lehigh to pause for celebration of hero's birth mining engineers hear research papers on metnods of efficiency in operations feb 15-1 cornell-lehigh tickets 1 the public admission to the cornell-lehigh wrestling meet will be 1 per person according to j g petrikin graduate man ager of athletics n member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first