Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 12

              herbert hoover model league may convene here in april international relations so ciety to extend invita tion to 25 colleges of middle atlantic div anderson president of club is serving on committee over 200 delegates from 25 col leges of the middle atlantic divi sion of the model league of na tions will meet at lehigh in april if the invitation which the interna tional relations club decided to ex tend tuesday evening is accepted the interest and activity of le high delegates at previous meetings of the league have made lehigh the foremost member last april the continuity committee of the league suggested that this year's meeting be held at lehigh james e anderson 33 pres ident of the international relations club was elected as one of the five members of the continuity commit tee at the meeting should the meet ing be held here anderson will be secretary-general no other college has indicated that it will extend an invitation said anderson within a few weeks an derson will go to new york to at tend a meeting of the continuity committee and will then present the formal invitation will provide for guests plans are being made by the club to provide for the guests so cer tain is anderson that the invitation will be accepted the meeting will occupy three days sometime after easter the two plenary sessions of the league will be held in packard auditorium the various committees will meet in different buildings on the cam pus through the cooperation of the various fraternities the men dele gates will be quartered at their houses during their stay at lehigh the women delegates will stay as guests of the international rela tions club at one of the local ho tels a registration fee will be charged to all colleges participating in order to meet expenses the second evening of the con vention a dance will be held in the hotel bethlehem meals will be served to delegates in drown hall as yet the subjects for discus sion have not been decided upon by the continuity committee states an derson honorary picks men rife ertle heiberger sawyer chosen by phi eta sigma four members of the class of 1935 are eligible for initiation into phi eta sigma according to a re cent report from the dean's office these men are c j rife e e c a heiberger c e l j ertle ch e and e a sawyer bus their names have been sent to na tional headquarters of the frater nity for approval the initiation will take place in drown hall at a date to be an nounced later phi eta sigma is a national freshman honorary society in order to be initiated a man must obtain h 4.00 average for at least one semes ter of his freshman year according to w a johnson 35 president of the society at present there are nine active members to explain treatment of steel the meeting of the lehigh val ley section of the american society for steel treating at 8 o'clock to night in markle hall lafayette col lege will be the occasion of a talk on alloy castings by john h hall technical assistant to the pres ident of the taylor-wharton iron and steel company easton ping each morning at the bursar's office to read the official weather map on display there davy will now have a check on this map which should raise his average for correct predictions considerably after president richards words of presentation davy very much affected expressed his extreme ap preciation he admitted his real in terest in the weather conditions and signified his intention of occupying his spare time in reading while car ing for his disabled wife may use library davy has always been an ex tensive reader being capable of en gaging in conversation on any sub ject as a result president richards has offered davy the privilege of using the university library when ever h"e cares to with davy's retirement anoth er of lehigh's traditions passes on he had a peculiar way of remem bering not only the names of all lehigh students but their home town and bethlehem addresses and the chief sources of their mail un fortunately davy could not re member the names of the senders hickok speaks to geologists describes adventures in rhodesia mining and smelting copper copper mined in far-off rhodesia africa can be sold in new york for five cents a pound while ariz ona copper mines had to shut down when the price of metal fell below eight cents daniel h hickok e m 34 told the mining and geolo gical society last night in williams hall mr hickok told of the enormous copper deposits in africa from which cheap copper comes esti mates have put the production of the african copper mines at capac ity at one quarter of the world's to tal production hickok who was graduated from yale in 1930 left southampton on a steamship for capetown south af rica journeying from there to jo hannesburg and to rhodesia by a slow train the train covered the 2000 miles from the coast in about eight weeks hickok related that the train travelled so slowly that the passengers would get out and run along the sides of the train for their daily exercise the copper ore he said ranged from 3 to 20 per cent copper before any copper was produced however innumerable difficulties had to be overcome the poor quality of la bor and the inexperience of men sent by the british government to exploit this rich deposit of ore de layed production for months the arrival of american engin eers and smelter bosses brought about gradual flow of copper from furnaces prof benjamin miller head of the department of geology told of the society meeting a quarter of a century ago he recalled several men now famous in their profes sion who attended those early meetings directory is on sale can be purchased at supply bureau for 50 cents the official lehigh student direc tory was put on sale at the supply the price of the directory is 50 cents bureau tuesday this year as usual the directory contains the names bethlehem and home addresses and telephone numbers of all stu dents trustees and faculty mem bers there is also an index of the of ficers of each of the student or ganizations and classes on the rear cover of the directory is a list of all living groups with their tele phone numbers 280 undergraduates want repeal of prohibition law ; 214 advocate modification roosevelt secures 98 ballots as 47 men vote for thomas depression has little effect on president's popularity at le high compared to 1928 hoover for president so declared 409 lehigh students in the presidential straw vote tak en wednesday by the brown and white the repeal of the eighteenth amendment was advocated at the same time by 280 students modi fication of this amendment was ad vocated by 214 while but 60 stu dents favored its retention franklin d roosevelt democrat ic hope with 98 votes was a poor second in the presidential poll norman thomas socialist who has shown surprising strength in many northern universities received but 47 votes two ballots cast for fos ter the communistic candidate were not tallied the depression has done little to affect the president's popularity at lehigh with 409 or 73 per cent of the votes this year cast in his fa vor hoover's standing compares favorably to his rating in 1928 when he was favored by 750 students or 75 per cent of those voting in 1928 the democrats led by alfred e smith polled 241 votes or 23 per cent of the ballots cast thomas also socialist candidate in that campaign received but 2 per cent or 28 votes the straw bal lot in 1928 was conducted by the alexander hamilton society now the international relations club and attracted 1,027 votes sixty ask retention though only 60 students voted this year to retain the eighteenth amendment the remaining 494 were closely divided between the re pealers and the modificationists lehigh can definitely be listed among the wets but in no sense can it be listed among the so-called wet fanatics the strong showing made by the president is no indication of his strength throughout the nation of the 554 votes cast in the brown and white poll 454 were cast by stu dents from the states of new york new jersey and pennsylvania hoo ver received 337 votes from these states which in presidential elec tions are considered republican students from 23 states were rep resented in the straw ballot hoo ver carried 17 states and split ala bama with roosevelt and wiscon sin with thomas only two votes however were cast by students from each of these states the president also carried the district of columbia roosevelt carried four states and thomas car ried none and hoover received nc votes in any of the states roose velt carried frosh warned at meeting of the sophomore council four freshmen f m brown l berg w jacobus and r dough erty appeared before the sopho more council wednesday night at drown hall for breaking freshman regulations the council headed by paul preston president of the sophomore class admonished the freshmen and pointed out to them the necessity of obeying the regulations and of getting into the spirit of the col lege although no penalty was in flicted they were warned that a sec ond offense would bring about more definite action german club is abolished deutscher verein was oldest course society in arts college deutscher verein honorary ger man society and one of the oldest course societies in the arts college has been abolished benjamin min ifie 33 president of the organiza tion stated wednesday the club was abandoned by the members because they believed that it had outlived its usefulness and that student interest in the organ ization had reached such a low ebb as to cause it to become merely another society to take place of deutscher vere in a new club has been formed the society has no name and no organ ization it is purely an informal group made up of men who are in terested in promoting appreciation of german literature by the reading of german prose and plays and the singing of german songs the society will not be an elec tive body and participants will in vite friends who are interested in german to attend the meetings which will be held every two weeks at the home of prof p m palmer head of the college of arts and sci ences deutscher verein was founded in the fall of 1915 by a group of men in the college of arts and science who were interested in pursuing work in german outside of the class room students who had passed sophomore advanced german were eligible for membership the ob ject of the verein was to promote the study of german music and lit erature and to imitate so far as possible the customs of german university students junior honorary names new men cyanide will conduct pledg ing in chapel six new members were elected to cyanide junior honorary at a meet ing of the society wednesday their names will not be published until it is ascertained whether or not they will accept their bids they will be pledged in chape in the near future but no definite date has been decided upon as yet the members decided to present a plaque to the phi delta theta fraternity in memory of richard eggleston he was elected to cy anide last spring and died during the summer a committee consisting of c brooks peters ralph r snyder and r francis bavington was ap pointed by the president to com pose the proper engraving for the tablet the secretary was instructed to carry on correspondence with other junior honorary societies of the state in an effort to obtain mem bership in a national junior honor ary society tau beta pi selects nine new members will be pledged at chapel ex ercise wednesday nine members were elected to tau beta pi national honorary en gineering society at its fall elec tions wednesday in packard labor atory three juniors were elected instead of the customary two six seniors were also elected the formal pledging will take place in the university chapel on wednesday nov 9 some promin ent member of the faculty will speak at the pledging james c rhoads president of the society an nounced the juniors elected are r m lindabury chem ; m meissner ch e and e l wildman m e the seniors admitted are b d beach e e j w langhaar 1.e j j mcgovern ch e w e somers m e f l snavely 1.e and lowry dansar ch e tau beta pi is the foremost en gineering society in the country and was founded at lehigh in 1885 by dr edward h williams then professor of mining engineering and geology to be eligible for tau beta pi an engineering student must have reached his junior year and have made an average of 2.5 or better this average has always been eval uated by the society on the basis of a equals 4 also a man must have at least one extra curricular activ ity steam engines not complex states brown vice president of jersey central explains work ing of locomotive at mechanical meeting says mechanism perfected as more power was needed why there is nothing complicat ed about the modern locomotive was explained last night to the me chanical engineering society by r w brown vice president and gen eral manager of the central rail road of new jersey at a meeting in packard laboratory having had 32 years experience as an engineer mr brown outlined in his address the development of the steam locomotive an explan ation of his theory lies in the fact that the method of generating and using steam in locomotives is the same today as it was in its early stages improvements in their efficiency and mechanical structures have been made as more power was re quired the water capacity and fire boxes were enlarged until it be came necessary to install automatic stokers mr brown stated the most drastic change today is in the super heated flues which re heat the steam that would other wise cool the principles of apply ing heat by fire boxes and flues however are the same today as those used in the locomotive's ear ly history the boys of yesterday he said appreciated a locomotive of their own more than do the boys of to day the locomotive was then the only self propelled vehicle recalled old days the speaker recalled days when every engineer had an engine of his own and boys went to the station with much enthusiasm to watch the trains come in six pledges of pi tau sigma na tional honorary mechanical engin eering society were announced by k f borden president of the local chapter the new members are w f cook 34 e c hertel 34 e l wildman 34 s m rust 34 r k knipe 33 and r a lodge 33 prof f v larkin head of the departments of mechanical and in dustrial engineering spoke briefly and commended the society for op erating under their voluntary stan dards whitman trophy rules are changed will give freshmen more chance in competition the competition for the whit man trophy annually awarded to the winner of the freshman-sopho more rifle match will be changed in form major j o green head of the department of military sci ence and tactics stated today in former years the trophy has been awarded on the basis of the aggregate scores in the intersec tional competition between the classes this is felt to be somewhat unfair to the freshmen because of the fact that they do not have suf ficient opportunity for practice be fore these matches which usually result in a victory for the sopho mores this year the intersectional com petition will be held as usual and the best sectional rifle team will be ascertained later on in the year a shoulder-to-shoulder match between the two classes will be held the teams will probably be selected from the high scorers in the sec tional competition the intersectional rifle matches will begin on monday nov 7 davy eshbach's 27 year's of service as mail carrier for campus students and faculty terminated last monday with the presentation of an aneroid barometer to him by the university the barometer is mounted on a walnut plaque with a plate bearing the inscription presented to davy eshbach in recognition of 27 years of cheerful service to lehigh university in fair and stormy weather nov 1 1932 this inscription is unique in that the last phrase combines part of the motto of the united states pos tal service presented by officials as davy finished his last trip by bringing the mail to the pres ident's office he was met by a com mittee of university officials who in a very quiet way made the pre sentation this gift is particularly appropri ate as davy has always taken a keen interest in the weather stop athletic board to pick coach committee appointed to investigate lacrosse and select new mentor a special committee to investi gate lacrosse and to nominate a coach or coaches for the coming season was appointed at the meet ing of the board of control of ath letics monday at the meeting an effort was made to appoint a committee to in clude the chairman of the board of control and two alumni one from baltimore and the other from tren ton as this was not possible a com mittee was appointed consisting of myrl l jacobs chairman of the board john s skelly ch e 33 martin m reed arts 33 and l j buck 15 who was appointed yesterday of chairman jacobs at the authorization of the board this action was taken by the board because of requests from alumni to have the present coach removed martin reed stated since the contract of mr lat tig expired at the end of last sea son he and several others are can didates for this year's lacrosse coach the committee will report its re sults at the next meeting of the board of control of athletics teutonic literature received by library mr theodore ehrsam donates 200 german volumes about 200 volumes of standard german literature was given to the library by mr theodore ehrsam new york city father of t g ehr sam assistant in english according to librarian h s leach although there are a number of individual volumes and some trans lations of french classics into ger man the collection is mostly com posed of sets of collected works of well known german authors none of the volumes are exact duplicates of editions now in the library and all greatly strengthen the equipment of the german department mr leach said mr ehrsam expects to add to this collection at a later date such gifts help greatly to build up a good working collection and are especially valuable in research work gifts of english books are much more common than those in foreign languages mr leach said bethlehem pa friday november 4 1932 aneroid barometer is presented to davy eshbach by the university vol xl no 1 2 price five cents hoover favored by 409 students in college vote student choice nemn^^fmtt coming events friday nov 4 4 p m meeting of d o t room 466 packard laboratory 4 p m cross country lehigh vs haverford 2 p m soccer lehigh vs navy at steel field sunday nov 6 4 p m organ recital t edgar shields with mrs eleanor mehl berger contralto as guest soloist monday nov 7 7 p m meeting of pi delta epsilon in drown hall cheering section seats to be available november 6 those undergraduates wishing only cheering section seats for the lafayette game will not fill out application forms but will piesent lafayette game coupons from the athletic books with 14 cents tax at the athletic office in drown hall after nov 6 and re ceive cheering section tickets in return as follows nov 7 — seniors only nov b—juniors8 — juniors only nov 9 — sophomores only nov 10 to 18 till 5 p.m all classes men applying on specified days will be given choice of available seats those men desiring first choice seats or additional seats in the cheering section and second choice seats must make applica tion on regular forms now avail able in the athletic office member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first