Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 34

              inter fraternity group will hear nine new recom mendations for changes monday night membership of all houses is proposed by committee applications and remittances for tickets to the wrestling in tercollegiates at syracuse on march 11 and 12 should be sent to the graduate manager's office before march 5 admission prices are as fol lows preliminaries friday after noon 50c semi-finals friday evening 1 ; finals saturday aft ernoon general admission 1 and reserved seat 1.50 cooling plant work finished a complete revaluation of the points to be awarded for the ac tivities of a candidate seeking admission to o d k will be at tempted stated r k serfass president of o d k in com menting upon tonight's meeting of omicron delta kappa nation al honorary fraternity at 7:15 in drown hall r e imhof arts 32 c f hull bus 32 and dr neil car others director of the college of business administration com pose the committee on the point system revision added serfass students lose chapel credit having bored a lehigh student to death with their dry courses several members of the lehigh faculty will be tried for murder at the annual gridiron banquet of pi delta ep silon to be held late in april an drew e buchanan secretary of the alumni association will conduct the trial as district attorney and the toastmaster edward fleischer 33 will enact the student bored to death pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity will carry on precedent in awarding a brown derby to a person of high distinc tion the distinction in this case of being the principal murderer the gridiron banquet is itself a vjell known tradition at lehigh its pro gram interspersing a banquet is a burlesque scene modeled after the original gridiron banquet held year ly in washington d c by the press club during which national leaders and incidents of importance are criticized and commented upon in a spirit of fun school scenes to be given typical scenes of things that hap pen to the average student in his four years on the campus will be presented during the banquet the boring lectures the dull wise cracks and windy talk of the pro fessors and the breath-taking col lege life in general will be portrayed as a burlesque of class life to strengthen the case against the pro fessors at the close of the trial the guests in the audience will be asked to give their verdict as to who of the professors portrayed is the chief murderer to him will go the brown derby according to ralph c benson president of pi delta epsilon it is a mark of distinction to receive an invitation to the trial for invita tions are sent only to prominent students and faculty members disciplinary committee reprimands eight stu dents for forging slips eight students have had their chapel credit for the first semester cancelled for dishonesty in connec tion with chapel attendance as a re sult of recent action taken by the disciplinary committee in one group of three students a sophomore turned in attendance slips for two seniors and in the other group of five a junior who had finished his chapel requirements but who was in the habit of at tending because he enjoyed the ser vices turned in slips for two soph omores and two freshmen senior's graduation affected one of the seniors who was due to finish his work in february has had his graduation postponed until next founder's day the other sev en men have been placed on disci plinary probation for the second semester the disciplinary committee has also permanently debarred a fresh man athlete from re-admission for having obtained admission to the university last fall by misrepresen tation of his former record the freshman was dropped from the uni versity at mid-terms for poor scholarship refrigeration room in packard laboratory has emergency sirens emergency sirens throughout packard laboratory feature the modern equipment of refrigerating compressors recently installed there if a person locks himself in the cold room the sirens give no tice to the danger gas masks are also within easy reach according to prof b h jennings and mr g b thorn of the mechanical en gineering department under whose direction the apparatus is being used a product of the york manufac turing company the compressors can be operated by the use of am monia carbon dioxide or both thus making three distinctly different systems the use of carbon dioxide requires a low temperature with a high pressure and is less danger ous than ammonia the ammonia can be used to condense the car bon dioxide in getting a low tem perature refrigerating room used in plants the refrigerating room is capable of reaching a temperature as low as 50 degrees below zero its use com mercially is in ice plants and cold storage houses where rapid freez ing is required for preserving foods tests for engines and the mobolity of lubricating oils require the ex tremely low pressure that is ac quired the walls of the refrigerating room are made of various materials to test the heat transfer which is obtained in a thermo-couple box oh the outside of the room athletic managers approved by board bulletin to contain report on survey miscellaneous issue of burr now out lieut col thomlinson is transferred to fort leavenworth by orders of war department will return to kansas post in august as an instructor lieut col m h thomlinson professor and head of the depart ment of military science and tac tics has been transferred to fort leavenworth kansas for duty at the command and general staff schools according to orders issued by the war department lieut colonel thomlinson came to lehigh in 1929 from washing ton d c where he had been on duty in the office of the chief of infantry in charge of organization and mobilization work prior to that colonel thomlinson had grad uated from the army war college in washington the return of lieut colonel thomlinson as an instructor in the school at fort leavenworth next august will mark the second time he has been detailed there he was formerly there as a student and then served as an instructor from 1920 to 1925 leavenworth school little known the school at leavenworth though little known in civilian cir cles is well and fearfully known in the army as a sort of combined mecca and purgatory no army offi cer may be detailed on the general staff until he has passed through leavenworth its graduates are giv en priority in assignments to com mand duties from the 12,000 offi cers in the regular army about 125 are sent to leavenworth yearly for a two-year course these students are specially selected from among the graduates of lower army schools and are given an exacting course of instruction in the functions of com mand and staff work of divisions army corps and armies about 70 of its graduates are passed on to the war college yearly lieut colonel thomlinson was born in missouri but was raised in connecticut he graduated from west point in 1904 and was sent immediately to the philippines to join an infantry regiment in the moro country since then he has lived the usual life of an infantry man serving in alaska on the mexican border in the army of oc cupation in germany and at var ious garrisons and schools through out the country during his tenure of office at le high lieut colonel thomlinson has inaugurated several changes in instruction methods he has em phasized practical work over more theoretical studies twenty-five newly elected mem bers to phi beta kappa the larg est group ever elected at lehigh were formally pledged in chapel this morning prof edgar h riley president of the lehigh chapter gave a short talk on the history and meaning of phi beta kappa after which the pledges were welcomed by the present members members of phi beta kappa have been pledged themselves to make philosophy their guide in life — a philosophy based upon the ideals of friendship morality and literature dr riley stated in his address after outlining the history of the fraternity dr riley cited a few statistics concerning the members of the society nineteen per cent of those mentioned in who's who in america are members of phi beta kappa forty per cent of the jus tices of the supreme court since 1800 have worn the key as well as 40 per cent of our secretaries of state he stated the men pledged are wilton altman w o bennett jr j l bougner d a brener d t da vidson jr w c elmore g w ely w k griesinger d w haff rudolf imhof t r kellner h p krusen s l lancit d l mac adam n g macadam p b my ers d.c osborn jr benjamin ra binowitz r h raring m b ro salsky robert salwen j.w schnei der w h spath matthew thom linson and w c warner the formal initiation of the pledges will be held at 4 p m thursday march 17 in the faculty room in alumni memorial building a meeting of the chapter will be held at the same time of the 25 men pledged the arts students led with 16 the engineer ing physics students taking second place with four the other pledges were distributed as follows two chemical engineers one civil engin eer one mining engineer and one business man phi beta kappa is an honorary scholarship society of the college of arts and science and the college of business administration students who up to the middle of the senior year maintain high scholarship may be elected to membership a lim ited number of engineering students whose work in philosophical scien tific and language studies is of high grade are also admitted hughes and ford to debate tonight rifle team to meet lafayette in easton board of athletic conrtol dis cusses fall sports managers of football and soccer were approved at a meeting of the board of athletic control held mon day afternoon c m creighton of johnston pa was elected manager of varsity football and e t legge of bound brook n j manager of freshman football f l snavely of lancaster was elected manager of soccer and his assistants will be w w bolton jr of york and h n strub of wil liamsport it was also announced that the freshman schedule in football had been approved but will not be di vulged until after faculty approval which will probably be at the meet ing monday that the rivalry of the great power especially of france and italy and their use of the balkan states in their game of ambition and politics is the greatest obstacle to balkan consolidation was the opinion expressed by c douglas booth in his lecture balkan con solidation—a necessity to euro pean peace sponsored by the in ternational relations club on wed nesday night mr booth said italy has made a strong bid for the friendship of albania because with the control of the albanian hinterland italy can close the adriatic sea to op posing fleets france has cultivat ed friendship with roumania jugo slavia serbia and croatia in order to have a strong military support in case of another was with ger many england supported freedom when moves were made in 1921 to make albania an independent state great britain was a strong supporter her support was due to the presence of english oil-drillers but when the oil was found to be of no commercial value english in terest in the balkans dwindled italy became greatly interested in the balkans when the allies of fered portions of the balkans to italy as an inducement to join the war but because of the self-deter mination of races policy of presi dent woodrow wilson france de nied italy the territory promised her then mussolini favored bul garia and within two years a large number of machine guns and field pieces were sent from italy albania gained freedom in 1921 said booth albania became an independent state and in 1926 sir austin chamberlain of england met mussolini and drew up a treaty between italy and al bania guaranteeing the territorial integrity of albania when jugo slavia and albania severed diplo matic relations italy sent equipment for 250 q00 men to albania and france backed jugoslavia with large sums of money another obstacle said mr booth is the treatment of the min orities formed when the european continent was reapportioned as an immediate settlement of the minor ity question the new states were required to sign treaties giving the minorities the right to continue their religion and to have schools in their own languages tariffs on obstacle the third obstacle atcording to mr booth is the economic nation alism of the new states displayed in the form of tariffs after the world war high tariffs were creat ed to insure self-containing in time of war then the agrarian form was put into effect the large es tates were divided among the peas ants to increase the food supply because of the common agricul tural interests the farmers of the various balkan states formed an agricultural league this has been the closest approach to consolida tion brown and white distributes questionnaires on editorials copies of the brown and white questionnaire drawn up by the former news manager james b rather were distributed to all liv ing groups tuesday the question naire-is designed to get the students opinions on the value and enjoy ment derived from reading the ar ticles and features on the editorial page the living group heads were ask ed to follow up these questionnaires and see that each member had his filled out and ready for collection today march issue tells of proposal a placement bureau a report on a survey of the es tablishment of a placement bureau in connection with the alumni as sociation will appear in the march issue of the lehigh alumni bulletin according to john r maxwell as sistant editor of the bulletin this placement bureau will try to secure positions for members of the alumni and the senior class and will try to secure part time em ployment for undergraduates the issue will also contain an ac count of a large reservoir and dam built in greece to supply water for athens richard m merriman 06 was the engineer in charge of the construction of the project other articles of interest in the issue are a description of the scope and personnel of the department of buildings and grounds and an edi torial on chapel attendance tau beta pi election will be held before easter holidays the election of new man into tau beta pi national honorary engin eering fraternity will probably be held before the easter vacation ac cording to a discussion held at a meeting of the society wednesday evening in packard laboratory if the necessary arrangements can be made tau beta pi will hold a dance two weeks after the easter holidays every lehigh fraternity will be eligible to membership in the inter fraternity council if suggested changes in the constitution and by laws are passed at its meeting at 7:30 p m monday in drown hall under the present constitution each house can be admitted only by vote of the council this has been denied certain fraternities in the past and only of the house now be long another amendment calls for membership of only one represen tative from each house he to be the ranking officer of the frater nity point grafting to be eliminated this change is proposed in order to make the council more wieldy and to eliminate the practice of point grafting according to robert c clark president of the council the article on withdrawals as it now stands deals only with stand ing committees the proposed change eliminates this entirely and the new article embodies the rules for withdrawals of a fraternity from the council the seven articles consisting of nine sections which will be voted on follow article 111 membership sec i membership shall be given voluntarily to all social fraternities recognized by lehigh university sec 2 each fra ternity shall be entitled to one delegate and that delegate to be the ranking of ficer in his respective fraternity article iv officers sec 2 these officers shall be nominated and elected at the next to the last meeting of the college year by the new delegates and shall hold office for a term of one year from that date article vi withdrawals sec 1 a stated meeting shall be held every first monday of the college year at 7:30 p m ; and on the first monday of ev ery other following month sec 2 spe cial meetings shall be called at the dis cretion of the president or request of one-half (%) of the members of the council article viii withdrawal sec 1 any fraternity signatory to this con stitution may not withdraw from the council until application for withdrawal has been made to the council and one year has elapsed since announcing the intention to withdraw article ix ratification sec 1 this constitution shall become effective upon the ratification by a vote of three fourths (%) of the members changes in the by-laws article vii rushing sec 1 any discussion or action in regard to rush ing may be taken at any regular meet ing of the council article xi attendance sec 1 each fraternity shall be represented at all meetings by its duly elected repre sentative or alternate absences shall be punished by a fine of five 5.00 dollars for each meeting missed the interfraternity council will also discuss the probable date of april 30 for house-party president clark states that this is the most likely date because of the baseball game with rutgers and the la crosse game with swarthmore the petition of delta sigma phi for membership in the council will also be discussed eta kappa nu seeks right to give stained glass window eta kappa nu electrical engin eering society will petition the university for the right to place a stained glass window in packard laboratory this decision was reach ed at a meeting tuesday evening feb 23 in_the society's room the window which g m kale da president of the society said would carry the crest of eta kappa nu and would be placed in the lob by of the building in back of the first packard car coming events robert blake society to hear discussion by professors percy hughes head of the de partment of philosophy and educa tion and adelbert ford head of the department of psychology will debate before the robert w blake society tonight at 7:30 in room 410 packard laboratory dr percy hughes will uphold the affirmative of the question re solved that the biographic ap proach is primary and fundamen tal to a proper understanding of psychological problems while dr adelbert ford will argue for the negative side the debate will consist of the reading of 20-minute papers by each debater followed by general discussion and terminated by five minutes of rebuttal an account of the arrangements for the pilgrimage to swarth more will be given in the same meeting arrangements are being made by dean walters in order that the members of the society may visit the important laboratories magazine features short stories and cartoons this miscellaneous number of the lehigh burr is now on sale at the news stands appropriate to the season horl freiday has made a wood-cut drawing of a v\$restling match in the gay nineties one of the features of this issu,e is an article looking around by walter windshield which imitates the new york columnist the story satirizes fraternities students and professors the frown and bite appears again with a satiri cal item on the musical inclination of two members of the faculty and a nonsensical column on burps martin reed writes a story about p neil westley and his experience with a girl whom he liked but whom he couldn t satisfactorily change the issue contains many cartoons by carl giegrich burton saxtan norman alper and david stein berg four new york plays are re viewed by c brooks peters be sides the special features the burr contains its usual number of jokes the next issue of the burr will be an exchange number and will ap pear about march 28 according to ralph benson friday march 4 7:15 p m o d k meeting in drown hall 7:30 p m meeting of eta sigma phi in room 1 coppee hall prof howard comfort to speak on roman ruins in germany saturday march 5 ' 3 p m freshman wrestling vs wyoming seminary in taylor gym monday march 7 4 p m faculty meeting in alumni memorial building 7:30 p m interfraternity council meeting in drown hall shoulder - to - shoulder match will take place saturday the lehigh r o t rifle team will meet the lafayette rifle team in a shoulder-to-shoulder match in easton saturday the team will be composed of seven of the following men c r ruhf 34 c k okuno 34 r n lindabury 34 j m haien 34 w a johnson 35 j j bosack 34 k r schneck 33 d h freiday 33 m r evans 35 and h n beiter 35 the match will be the third and final shoulder-to-shoulder match for the lehigh team the match sat urday will hold for its competitors the traditional lehigh-lafayette ri valry according to captain rice coach of the team the william randolf hearst in tercollegiate trophy match will be the next competition to be fired on the range of the lehigh armory the lehigh men will be entered in the senior section of the eastern division bethlehem pa friday march 4 1932 twenty-five seniors pledged to phi beta kappa in chapel price — five cents vol xxxix no 34 council plans to alter rules in constitution m.s & t head to quit lehigh for new post lehigh faculty to be razzed in mock trial o.d.k to discuss revision of point system at meeting tickets for intercollegiate matches are now on sale honorary scholastic fra ternity taps largest group in history of chapter this morning history reviewed by riley initiation will be march 17 professor says members of society base lives on phil osophy of high ideals the brown and white court scene to be part of entertainment at grid iron banquet given by pi delta epsilon students will pick murderer at annual dinner in april european rivalry is obstacle to balkan unity booth says carnegie foundation lec turer describes italy's bid for control of the albanian hinterland international relations club sponsors public lecture new states persecute foreign minorities formed by world war treaties speaker claims member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first