Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 49

              pi delta epsilon tapping conducted by gramley yesterday morning at chapel exercise student group joins fac ulty dramatic club in presenting beggar on horseback president richards dean mcconn and walter okeson to speak to guests tomorrow presentation of awards competitions review will require most of monday afternoon participants will be excused from all afternoon classes baseball lacrosse games to be included in program members selected by merit and work on publications two act comedy is written by pulitzer prize winners the following trains will leave bethlehem between 4 p m and 10 p m saturday eastern day light saving time reading station southbound : 5 p m 5 45 p m 5 55 p m 6:27 p m 7:01 p m and 8:30 p m lehigh valley station east bound 4:35 p m ( 4:38 p m 5:41 p m 6:10 p m 7:10 p m 7:57 p at and 9:45 p m lehigh valley station west bound 4:31 p m 6:25 p m 7:05 p m and 8:45 p m central railroad of new jer sey eastbound 7:12 p m f central railroad of new jer sey westbound 4:07 p m 7:16 p m and 7 35 p m drown hall will be the center around which all sub-freshman day activities will revolve tomor row upperclassmen will be sta tioned here all day by arcadia and the union these men will direct newly arrived visitors and supply any information re quested according to dr c.g beards lee a member of the sub-fresh man day committee the prospec tive freshmen who are not plan ning to remain for the evening should return to drown hall aft er the sports program so that ar rangements can be made to take them to their trains defines work of engineers seven men to compete in fin als on may 1 8 seven freshmen were selected to compete in the finals for the e h williams oratorical prizes in the tryouts held last night in packard laboratory those who were selected from the 23 that were competing are j a branegan jr ch e j w co burn arts w l deemer jr arts samuel efron arts e j heether c e w b searle e e and ju lio zumeta m e these men will take part in the final competition may 18 for prizes of 40 and 15 in the contest last night the can didates were requested to deliver speeches of four minutes duration on some topic of their own choice in the final competition the speeches will be impromptu on subjects fur nished by the english department j b severs instructor of eng lish was in charge of the trjjouts the other judges were e.h sloane h g rhoads simon deptula eng lish instructors and k k kost assistant in journalism musical clubs elect kellstedt free tickets to be given students for concert and dance on may 1 4 women hear dr carothers lehigh professor discusses social problems at re cent meeting the mustard and cheese club in conjunction with the faculty dra matic club will present its annual spring show tonight in drown hall at 8.15 p m the play beggar on horseback was written by george s kaufman and marc connelly and was first produced at the broadhurst theatre new york in 1924 the authors are both pulitzer prize winners kaufman won this year's prize for his production of thee i sing and conelly won the 1930 prize for green pastures composed with music beggar on horseback is a two act comedy with music the ori ginal music was composed by deems taylor but julian booker 32 has arranged a new score he also wrote one new number for the show the show is coached by warren fletcher instructor of english who has had much experience in produc ing amateur shows cast contains 24 the cast will be composed of the following the cast neil mcßae-j a aufhammer 33 d.r albert rice s j simmons 33 mr cady j e rothenberg 32 mrs cady mrs j k rice gladys cady mrs r d billinger homer cady d goldenberg 32 cynthia mrs m ewing jerry j r wright 35 train boy w s weil 35 miss hey miss hesse miss you mrs r a soto cigarette girl mrs d m fraser head danceman s askin 32 eleven dancemen c yaffee 32 p e van wulven 35 e s wil liams 35 e r english 34 c w leuders 35 j h kress 35 l travis 35 j s perry 35 f lambert 34 r pennington 34 j m davis 35 fourteen men were pledged to pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity in chapel yesterday dale h gramley in structor in journalism conducted the exercise the men pledged are j j roes sle editor in chief of the 1932 burr j a tempest newly elected editor in chief of the 1932 epitome m m reed news manager of the brown and white b riviere business manager of the review k f bor den senior section manager of the 1932 epitome e h poggi nation al advertising manager of the brown and white w lathrop sporting editor of the brown and white j h kaufman circulation manager of the burr p j flanigan adver tising manager of the burr j alex ander local advertising manager of the brown and white b d beach former news editor of the brown and white says men sacrificed all the men pledged have de nied themselves some of the lighter pleasures of college life and have made some other sacrifice in order to achieve distinction in journalism at lehigh mr gramley said the fraternity was founded at syracuse in 1909 and has the two fold purpose of raising college jour nalism to a high level and honor ing those men who help doing so at lehigh two years of work on one of the five university publica tions plus a junior or senior stand ing are the only definite require ments the men pledged were sel ected chiefly on a basis of merit according to mr gramley competitions for positions on all the publications are open to any man in the university and appli cants are always welcome no plans for the initiation banquet have been made as yet articles by chemists appear in journals hibshman captains lehigh chest drive c ward kellstedt m e 33 was elected president-manager of the combined musical clubs at the meeting last night the club voted to combine the position of president and manager two assistant managers were chosen to assist the president-man ager stuart roberts e e 34 and robert j pennington were elected to the positions a concert and dance will be giv en by the combined musical clubs at 8:15 saturday may 14 in drown hall free tickets will be given to students but the admission for oth ers will be 50 cents the concert will consist of five numbers to be sung by the glee club three numbers by a quartet and several selections by the or chestra the members of the quar tet are as follows john f perry jr 35 john d brown 32 philip b myers 32 frank s roberts 34 the tentative numbers to be sung by the glee club are soldiers chorus from faust venetian love song my homeland love me or not and the bell man immediately after the concert there will be dancing until 12 o clock the musical club orchestra under the leadership of julian booker will furnish the music prof and mrs a a diefenderfer and mr and mrs r j degray will be the chaperones for the affair the lehigh r o t c unit will close its drill schedule for the sea son with the annual field day to be held monday at 2 p m on the up per field during the afternoon there will be competitions and pre sentation of awards one of the events will be a dem onstration of the tank and the 37 millimeter guns major general paul b malone commander of the third corps area will be present to view the events battalions will compete the program of the afternoon will begin with a platoon competi tion in which two platoons one to be chosen from each battalion will compete in close and extended or der drill for the scabbard and blade cup this will be followed by a manual of arms contest the twp winners of this will receive the in structors medals an equipment race the details of which will be on the field will be the next event two men from each company will enter the race and the two winners will be permitted to watch the review a demonstration of the machine guns 37 millimeter guns and the tank will follow awards to be presented at the completion of this the companies will assemble for the presentation of awards trophies will be awarded for the best drilled company the best shooting com pany the best shooting class and the best drilled platoon and also the individual shooting trophies man ual of arms medals and class awards at the conclusion of these events there will be a general review the judges will be major charles b meyers instructor of the reserve corps in allentown and captain l c atwood head of the reserve corps of this district the assistants to the judges will be j l william son 32 r w burk 33 c r gie gerish 32 and w h sachs 32 capt p l sadler assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics will be in charge of the field day program with s schwartz 33 w m schuck 32 and sergeant o'brien members of arcadia and inter fraternity council to show visitors campus lehigh will be host to about 300 sub-freshmen tomorrow 2,200 invi tations have been sent to those re questing catalogues and those rec ommended by other sources ac cording to a e buchanan chair man qf the sub-freshman day com mittee president charles russ richards will open the program for the day with an address of welcome the entire program for the morning will stress the academic side of lehigh life and the faculty will be host to the boys seniors and jun-iors of the various curricula will act as guides in an inspection trip of the departments each department will have an ex hibit and the heads of departments will give curricula talks following the inspection trip the departments in charge of the visitors will take them to the armory for lunch following the lunch dean c m mcconn will talk to the guests about the academic possibilities of lehigh and walter e okeson will give a pep talk introducing the ath letics and extra-curricula activities of lehigh wants students to aid in the afternoon the student body will act as hosts to the sub-frosh mr buchanan wants as many of the students as possible to be on the campus to welcome the visitors in the afternoon for without the cooperation of the student body the day cannot be a success mr buch anan said the members of arcadia and in terfraternity council will meet the guests after lunch to take them to the athletic events when it is time to start for the stadium the band will play and the crowd of sub-frosh will be divided into groups intermingled with lehigh students the men will be guests at the varsity baseball game with la fayette and the lacrosse game with washington college of maryland those who are staying for the evening will be the guests of fra ternities and those who plan to leave after the athletic program will be escorted to their buses and trains the headquarters of the activities will be drown hall dr claude g beardslee and the union cabinet will be on hand at all times to an swer questions about transporta tion etc seyfert gives talk before e e society c s coler industrial educator advises m e.s in talk the work of the engineer and his position ' in the daily scheme was discussed by c s coler at the meeting of the mechanical engin eering society held last night in packard laboratory mr coler a graduate of cornell is the manager of the education de partment of the westinghouse elec tric and manufacturing company in 1913 he was production engineer for the company his topic was the engineer and his works years ago said mr coler i used t6 go around and ask men to come to me now times have changed and jobs are extremely hard to find he continued to say that just as soon as possible every man should get a plan for life and get going on it in this way he wiil provide for his future time each man has 175 slaves mr coler said that for every man there is about 175 slave pow er the automobile furnishes about 114 of the slaves other contrib uting factors are locomotives pow er in manufacturing plants and cen tral stations and others which con tribute only minute portions of the total the speaker advises that fel lows who get out and roll up their sleeves and take what they get and work hard for every nickel they earn will get the most out of life the meeting also featured the election of officers the results were president r a lodge vice president c c hertel treasurer g keller society discusses debating principles dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion addressed the bethlehem branch of the american association of university women monday evening at the woman's club on the subject of current social problems mrs g b curtis president of the local branch of the society introduced dr carothers according to dr carothers the greatest miracle since the birth of christ is the discovery of steam and its application to industry which has recognized the social structure changing the relations of labor capital and enterprise and bringing democracy dr car others believes that the fears of those who predict the decay of the western world are groundless and that this depression will wear itself out and from it man will learn how to temper the severity of the next economic crisis he went on to say that the de cline of the birth rate may aid public welfare and that it will prob ably be balanced by the decreasing death rate dr carothers says that there is no danger of race extinc tion he blames our present prob lems on the science which has brought about a high degree of comfort and a tendency toward ur ban life in place of rural life this period of readjustment is difficult for the women who find themselves with a new independence making marriage merely one of many vo cations news briefs kaleda describes and explains high voltage rectifiers luch and stamberg address delta omicron theta article on r.o.t.c appears in bulletin h s leach attends convention in south discuss x-rays and accuracy of experiments two articles by members of the chemistry department appeared re cently the may issue of the journal of the association of leather chemists contains a paper entitled an x ray study of the coagulation of egg albumen prepared by h v anderson associate professor of chemistry e r theis associate professor of chemical engineering w s miller graduate assistant and k g chesley research fellow r j de gray instructor in chem istry is the author of an article on the accuracy of certain physico - chemical experiments mr de gray's article appeared in the may number of the journal of chemical education coming events e e professor says half of quota already raised the bethlehem community chest drive in the lehigh university divi sion is proving highly successful in spite of the business depression n s hibshman assistant professor of electrical engineering stated yes terday approximately 2,500 two-thirds of the quota in this section has al ready been collected the drive which began april 29 will continue until may 9 professor hibshman is heading a committee appointed to facilitate the collection of funds from faculty members contribution blanks have been sent to all the living groups ac cording to a r baldwin who is heading the drive among the stu dents thus far four houses have made reports totaling 50 frosh elect courses friday may 6 8:15 p m beggar on horse back presented by mustard and cheese club in drown hall 8:15 p m members of the le high valley philosophical club will meet at the home of prof p hughes dr t t lafferty will speak saturday may 7 1 00 p m varsity tennis vs washington college lehigh courts 1 30 p m varsity baseball vs lafayette taylor field 3:30 p m varsity lacrosse vs washington college lehigh courts monday may 9 1:00 p m r o t c field events to begin stanley s seyfert acting head of the department of electrical en gineering presented a paper on high voltage direct current transmission at a meeting of the electrical engineering society last night in packard laboratory professor seyfert stated that for hig h voltage transmissions direct current is more practicable than al ternating current high voltage rec tifiers have been perfected but in verters have not he demonstrated by means of a visual oscillograph the various^wave forms of the ma chine which he has 6'een working on for the last two years this ma chine is equally efficient as a high voltage rectifier or inverter g m kaleda presented a paper on high voltage rectifiers and illus trated his talk with diagrams and outlined their possible future de velopments the officers elected for the ensu ing year are as follows b d beach president c w cooper vice president w hickman secre tary j r fritz treasurer 47 engineers have not yet chosen curricula to date 224 students out of 271 have selected their curricula in freshman engineering according to p e schwartz assistant registrar eleven students have selected en gineering physics this year as com pared with three last year twenty six students took metallurgical en gineering last year while - only 12 have selected it this year dean c m mcconn spoke on going to college last friday night at the coughlin high school wilkes-barre saturday he at tended a meeting of the executive council of pennsylvania state edu cational association at harrisburg dr sylvanus b newton foot ball coach at lehigh in 1903 died at his home last saturday in wash ington d c from a throat in fection prof c w simmons chairman of the committee on sophomore comprehensive examinations re cently stated that the grades on the sophomore examinations are higher than last year varieties of cedar cypress and hemlock trees have been planted around the walls of the library these shrubs were obtained by mr litzenberger several weeks ago sigma phi will hold a formal tea from 4 to 6 p m sunday afternoon about so guests will attend includ ing professors and their wives and people from town miss gumerre of bethlehem will pour scope of philosophy treated by hughes in may issue an article on r o t c by lt col m h thomlinson head of the department of military science and tactics will appear in the may is sue of the lehigh alumni bulletin according to john r maxwell as sistant editor of the bulletin the greater part of this article said mr maxwell deals with a description of the work of the r o t c included in the article is a letter written by dr henry stur gis drinker president emeritus of lehigh the letter was written aft er the field day exercises a few years ago and in it dr drinker states that the exercises of the r o t c gave him more satisfac tion than anything in his life the issue also contains an article on the scope and function of phil osophy at lehigh written by prof percy hughes head of the depart ment of philosophy an open discussion of the prin ciples of debating was held under the direction of myron j luch professor of english at the meet ing of delta omicron theta hon orary debating society last wed nesday evening in packard labora tory the nature and analysis of the proposition was the center of the discussion the necessity for clarity of terms and the elimination of quibbling being particularly stress ed both louis m stamberg the debating coach and professor luch illustrated their points with ex amples taken from their own ex periences the analysis of the question is necessary said professor luch and the salient point must be found and stressed the question should not be divided mechanically into economics politics and re ligion but the most important view must selected the crux upon which the question must rise or fall returns from new orleans library association meet h s leach librarian returned monday from a trip to new orleans where he attended a meeting of the american library association leach was present at three meet ings of the bibliographical section and at an open council meeting at the bibliographical meetings there was a discussion of a survey of historical collections of the history of south eastern united states texas and louisiana the council considered the recent attempts of the typographical union to put a bill through congress mak ing it unlawful to buy a book from an english concern if the same book is published in the united states unless it is bought through an american publisher brown and white friday may 6 1932 train schedule announced for returning sub-frosh brown and white 300 sub-frosh to visit lehigh price — five cents oratorical contest held for freshmen gen malone to visit here on field day m & c play to be given this evening vol xxxix no 49 fourteen men are pledged by honorary drown hall will be center of sub-freshman activities all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association