Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 29

              rifle team defeats columbia and n y.u woodring and lindenhayn star in first match of season in its first shoulder-to-shoulder match of the season the lehigh university r o t c rifle team de feated the varsity rifle teams of both columbia and new york universi ties saturday evening in new york city lehigh scored 1341 points co lumbia 1309 and n y u 1232 the match consisted of eight-man teams from which the total individ ual scores of the best five men counted as the team score al though consistently good scores were fired in all three positions the victory was due principally to the excellent standard of shooting in the standing position in each posi tion each of the five qualifying members of the lehigh team scored 81 points or better william b woodring 36 of bethlehem won first individual place with a score of 277 out of a possible 300 while rolf lindenhayn 36 of ridgewood n j ran him a close second scoring 272 other lehigh team members were p h ohmer 36 r b wall 33 and r s cranmer 36 they scored 267 265 and 260 points re spectively lehigh will be a.s.m.e host student branches from middle eastern section to meet here in april a of the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers middle eas tern division will be held at lehigh sometime in april f v larkin head of the mechanical engineering department announced yesterday this will be the first convention of the student branches since their recent reorganization professor larkin said under the new ar rangement active members of the student organizations become stu dent members of the national so ciety the a s m e is organizing college chapters in this manner all over the country the lehigh chapter has just con sumated this new arrangement with the national organization active members will receive membership cards pins and a mechanical en gineering magazine direct from the national headquarters in the middle eastern division 18 colleges have reorganized their stu dent chapters under this new plan each of these is planning to send delegates to the convention a mem ber of each group will present a research paper at the convention following the procedure of the na tional conventions of the parent so ciety professor larkin stated this convention will be the first in a series of annual meetings to be held in the spring each college chapter will have a chance to be host at these conventions plant visitations will be made in cooperation with the anthracite lehigh valley section of the a s m e the bethlehem steel com pany and other lehigh valley in dustrial plants are being considered as possible points of interest for the visitors the plans which are not complete include a banquet and informal meeting for the first night spanish club will sponsor lectures at meet on feb 24 a short talk on spanish drama by manuel lorenzo 36 and a talk on spanish history by r a soto assistant professor of romance lan guages will be among the numbers on the program of the next meet ing of the spanish club to be held feb 24 at the home of w l deemer 35 quakertown spanish songs will also be sung with ben jamin keen 36 at the piano at the last meeting held feb 10 at professor soto's home w h bohning 34 gave a short address in spanish w l deemer 35 re cited ruben dario's margarita gautier and e w thorn 36 gave a reading on el gato y la zorra students to receive tickets for rautenstrauch lecture a few student tickets for rau tenstrauch's lecture will be avail able tomorrow morning at the lehigh union office martin m reed stated today there are 350 seats being reserved until 7:50 p m wednesday for members of the engineers club of the le high valley students without tickets will be admitted to vacant seats in this section after 7:50 p m reed said new machine invented here prof seyfert describes rectifying apparatus to engineers in new york the synchronous-mechanical rec tifier-inverter invented by dr s s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering was develop ed by him in the research laboratory in packard laboratory a descrip tion of the machine was recently presented by dr seyfert at the win ter convention of the american in stitute of electrical engineers held jan 23-27 in new york city with dr seyfert's device it is possible to change direct current into alternating current and to re verse the process without changing the adjustment a synchronous commutator of the short-circuiting type has been so modified and equipped as to enable it to perform the two functions of rectification and inversion interchangeably un der conditions of comparatively high voltage and current the device is being patented by dr seyfert and the paper will be published soon in the a i e e magazine he said as soon as pa tent rights have been granted dr seyfert plans to start work on the industrial development of his de vice if certain mechanical problems relating to the machine can be solved it may be used in tying to gether power lines some of which carry direct current and some al ternating current the device could also be used as an ordinary medium voltage rotary converter for bat tery charging dr seyfert also hopes to apply the device to electric locomotives alternating current in the trolley could be changed to direct current for the motor a direct current transformer is another application of the device that may prove successful two rectifier-converter units would be used in this application the first to change the original direct current to alternating current and the sec ond to change the current back to direct but at a different voltage from the original mcconn to lecture to freshman union first meeting will be held sunday in drown hall the freshman union organized in january for the purpose of pro moting greater friendship among freshmen will be addressed by dean c m mcconn at 6 p m sun day in drown hall at its first din ner meeting charles w cooper president of the lehigh union which is the sponsor of the freshman union has appointed robert eichner eng and edwin m lincoln president of the freshman class to make plans for a series of these dinner meet ings which are to be held bi monthly the meetings are to be open all freshmen being invited the cost of the dinner will be 35 cents entertainment will be provided at the sunday meeting by a glee club quartet review to run essay contest with sponsor van doren will award prizes to those who write best works on the young american dr r m smith will be judge three prizes to be awarded plans for a lehigh essay contest part of a nation-wide scheme have received the sponsorship of the lit erary guild of america famous book publishing house dr carl van doren of the editorial board of the guild has expressed his ap proval of this idea which was orig inated by edward fleischer editor of the lehigh review fleischer stated that rules for the contest are being prepared an«i will be announced in the near fu ture students who intend to sub mit articles are requested to com municate with any of the review officers in a letter to fleischer m j sut liff vice president of the guild quotes dr van doren as suggest ing that the students of lehigh write essays of about 1,000 words on the subject the young amer ican this subject the doctor explains is sufficiently broad to permit the students to exercise their judgment of what is the young american dr van doren added that this young american may be one of letters the college campus or the stage or in any field he said the idea lends itself to a nation-wide competition and if the results are sufficiently encouraging i believe we shall invite other universities to compete in the same contest the present plans call for the preliminary judging of the contest to be done by dr r.m smith head of the department of english he will then forward the three best es says to dr van doren who will grade them and award the prizes of the three articles the one chos en as the best will receive a year's subscription to the guild second and third prizes will be literary guild classics fleischer has discussed the con test with a e buchanan secre tary of the alumni association who has offered his support if the local contest is successful it will be the beginning of a nation-wide essay contest winning essays would then be published in a single volume this might according to mr bu chanan mean extensive publicity for lehigh fleischer stated that the nov elty of the idea for the contest lies in the fact that the sponsor has the cooperation of the campus editor who gains by getting new material while the sponsor gets the publi city coming events wednesday feb 15 7:30 p m meeting of newtonian society room 208 packard lab oratory 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs p m c taylor gymnasium 8 p m address on problems of public enterprise by prof walter rautenstrauch of colum bia universit packard auditor ium thursday feb 16 7:30 p m meeting of chemical so ciety main lecture room chemis try laboratory speech by j m fehnel on health hazards in industry 8 p m meeting of tau beta pi room 167 packard laboraotry friday feb 17 8 p m meeting of the pre-medical society room 258 packard lab oratory election credits for o.d.k to be sent in wednesday juniors are requested to turn in their points for membership in omicron delta kappa not lat er than wednesday noon to clifford harrison at the sigma chi house the points will be considered thursday evening at a meeting of the fraternity and new mem bers voted upon at that time two men will be pledged deturk tells storm effects power line failures are explained by metropol itan edison engineer the principal causes of trouble in power transmission due to weath er conditions are sleet snow wind and lightning stated e f de turk of the metropolitan edison company at a meeting of the le high valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers friday evening in the hotel beth lehem deturk said that lightning was more to be feared by power com panies than by communication companies because of the high vol tage used by the former the lec trostatic capacity of communication lines tends to dampen the effect of lightning sleet and snow often result in the formation of ice on the lines this adds weight to the lines and causes them to sag and sometimes break deturk explained a sag ging line may come in contact with one below it causing a short circuit ice often increases the area ex posed to the wind to ten times the normal amount therefore wind may blow the lines around to such an extent that contact between two adjacent ones will take place to be prepared for trouble the power companies study government weather reports and supplement them with information from record ing instruments of their own ser ious consequences are avoided by having line crews ready to repair storm damage before the storm oc curs deturk illustrated his lecture with slides showing damage due to storms these pictures help the power companies to plan altera tions in construction that will help in avoiding future trouble ice is sometimes removed from wires by short circuiting the line at the receiving end and sending cur rent through until the heat devel oped in the wires causes the ice to melt however deturk said that this method is costly and therefore is only used in extreme cases outdoor insulation on power lines does little good he said and for the most part is used to make the public feel safe need for in sulation on wires is avoided by safe spacing of wires w a johnson will attend phi eta sigma convention the lehigh chapter of phi eta sigma freshman honorary frater nity elected william a johnson met e 35 president as delegate of the chapter to the biennial national convention of the fraternity to be held in madison wis during the easter holidays henry p george ch e 35 was elected alternate del egate at the same meeting which was held thursday in drown hall freshmen who have the required average will be initiated into the fraternity as soon as the list of those eligible is available from the regis trar's office plan has full approval of president richards dean mcconn and also librarian h s leach smoking stands lamps and other equipment to be bought shelves are stacked with more than 650 books of their total capa cit y the browsing room situation was finally cleared up last night when arcadia voted to appropriate 200 each semester for the maintain ance of the room of this amount approximately 150 will pay the salary of a full time attendant the remainder will be spent for smok ing stands lamps ad other equip ment this plan which will be put into effect as soon as the necessary ar rangements can be made has the approval of president richards dean mcconn and howard s leach librarian it is the result of constant student agitation for the use of the room dedicated in april 1930 before its completion the brows ing room was one of the main fea tures in the plans of the library after the dedication in april of 1930 the room was opened to uni versity students this room which soon showed signs of becoming one of the most popular places on the campus was padlocked early in the week following the dedication the browsing room will not be thrown open to the student body until it is complete at the pres ent time there is no reason for hav ing the room unlocked this was the answer of librarian leach when asked the reason for padlock ing the room browsing room is abused actually on the first saturday the room was open a student was discovered sleeping in the room with his feet propped up on one of the highly polished tables a rumor to the effect that this led to the pad locking of the room was denied by mr leach who however con firmed the truth of the story since that time the browsing room has been the subject of num erous editorials and feature articles in the brown and white in spite of protest the room has been locked on all but the most outstanding oc casions last may hopes ran high when the statement was published that the browsing room would be opened in the fall outside help is necessary with the return of students for the current school year the room remained in its state of uselessness other obstacles had presented themselves and it became apparent that outside help was necessary finally the present plan was evolved it was approved by every one concerned and presented in the brown and white last week at the present time the shelves of the room are stocked with about 650 books the capacity of the shelves is 2,000 pre-medical society plans to draw up new constitution a new constitution will be drawn up at a closed meeting of the r.w hall pre-medical society to be held at 7:30 p m friday in pack ard laboratory frank biro president of the organization an nounced last week plans for clin ics and future meetings will also be discussed biro said r w hall professor of biology will speak on endocrine glands at a meeting which will be held in about two weeks biro stated this meeting will probably be open he indicated columbia man will describe current topic short discussions led by professors to follow addresses by former technocracy leader sponsored by engineers club and lehigh student societies walter rautenstrauch head of the industrial engineering depart ment of columbia university will speak tomorrow night at 8 p m in packard laboratory on problems of public enterprise in a letter addressed to the brown and white professor rautenstrauch gave the subject of his address but made no mention of technocracy he has recently withdrawn from the technocracy movement as headed by howard scott whose leadership has been renounced by columbia university rautenstrauch plans to continue the research work with the sanction of the university the engineers club of the le high valley which is co-sponsor of the lecture with lehigh university student societies is attempting to secure professors from lafayette and muhlenberg colleges to give ten minute discussions after the ad dress carothers will not speak dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion when invited to give a short discussion after the lecture said he had a previous engagement but that he would seek a member of his department to speak in his place a few student tickets will be available tomorrow morning at the lehigh union office there are 350 seats being reserved until 7:50 p.m for members of the lehigh valley engineers club it is quite pos sible the committee believes that all of these seats will not be filled at that time after 7:50 these va cancies may be occupied by anyone who is unable to obtain a ticket will address rotarian club rautenstrauch will arrive in bethlehem wednesday morning he will speak at noon to the bethlehem rotary club at its regular weekly meeting in the hotel bethlehem the war inspired professor rau tenstrauch to undertake the research work a preliminary energy survey of north america which is engag ing his attention at the present time he dates the origin of the movement known as technocracy from a meeting of engineers and scientists at the engineers club in new york city in 1917 at that meeting a letter was drafted to president wilson con tending that the methodology of the engineer should be more widely applied to our social affairs and pointing out that the business ma chine had grown to such compli cations that a simplification of the process was essential to the orderly development of society professor rautenstrauch is a graduate of the university of mis souri he is a member of tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity and sigma xi honorary research fraternity he also belongs to the american society of mechanical engineers american academy of political and social science and the franklin institute faculty dramatic club reads play at meeting wednesday pinero's play the second mrs tanqueray was read by the fac ulty dramatic club at its regular meeting last wednesday evening at the home of r w hall head of the department of biology early in april the club will en act st john ervine's the first mrs fraser j k rice assistant professor of military science and tactics who is drawing up the cast has announced brown and white editor succeeds to post left vacant by withdrawal of halsted from school shelhart chosen treasurer to replace c e harrison new constitution ready to be approved by living groups body to have vice president arcadia last night elected martin m reed arts 33 as its president and appropriated by unanimous vote 200 toward the maintenance of the library browsing room at its regular meeting in drown hall reed was elected to succeed charles f halsted jr who recent ly resigned from the university his term expires in may j w shelhart i.e 33 was elected treas user suceeding clifford e harrison who resigned the position arcadia's appropriation is the fi nal step toward opening the brows ing room howard s leach librar ian the library committee and president richards had previously approved of the project the ap propriation will go toward paying an attendant and toward the addi tion of such improvements as smoking stands lamps books and other fixtures new constitution presented the new constitution of arcadia which was drawn up recently by the executive and constitution com mittees to replace the lost old one was presented at last night's meet ing and will go to the living groups this week for approval or rejection before final acceptance by arcadia the first addition to the new con stitution was made last evening when arcadia decided to include among its officers a vice president whose duty will be to preside in the absence of the president and to serve on the executive committee the president was given power to appoint committee members in the event of a vacancy r r bachman chairman of the booster committee was designated to investigate the cost of sweat suits and bathrobes with which the wrestling team could be equipped arcadia refused to appropriate money to pay for an epitome pho tograph of the brown key the so ciety composed of assistant man agers of ail sports newtonian society will hold initiation 22 freshmen receive bids to mathematics honorary the newtonian society freshman honorary mathematics society will initiate members of the class of 1936 who have received an a in any freshman mathematics course last semester at its meeting tomor row night in room 208 packard laboratory twenty-two men have received bids w a johnson president of the society announced those men who appear at the meeting will be initiated by the retiring sopho mores after the meeting refresh ments will be served those who received bids are j p butterfield g a butz t r daddow r m eichner w r guyer w c harding d w hop pock g h kalb j l kornet e b mancke p masiko j w math ers f a pennington w f rust c m sandwick a r spalding f a stemp j m swalm s j wantuck e.e warner b.s weiss v r wilson the newtonian society was or ganized in 1928 to create interest in mathematics and to encourage freshmen to become better ac quainted with the faculty bethlehem pa tuesday february 14 1933 vol xl no 29 the lehigh university brown and white price five cents arcadia contributes 200 to open browsing room reed elected president member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first