Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 30

              walter rautenstrauch men approved as managers the library browsing room will be opened monday at 10 a m this announcement was made yesterday by h s leach librarian following the agreement of the uni versity administration to maintain the room with the 200 appropria tion voted by members of arcadia last monday night with the opening of the brows ing room will end a situation which has been the object of question among lehigh students since the dedication of the library in 1930 reasons why the room has been kept shut for the past three years were fully explained by president richards in an interview yesterday in his office the inclusion of a browsing room in the library when the build ing was put up was a distinctly educational experiment the pres ident said it was designed as a place where a young man with a few hours of leisure can spend his time reading worth-while books not directly connected with his for mal course of study to carry out this experiment he explained necessitates the purchase alumni bulletin gives data showing high standing that lehigh ranks tenth in a list of 131 educational institutions with seven or more alumni included in who's who in engineering is remarked in an article which ap peared in the february edition of the lehigh alumni bulletin last week the compilation revealing this fact was made by d b prentice former dean of lafayette college and was published in a recent edi tion of mechanical engineering an industrial periodical under the title of the product of the en gineering colleges those schools which rank above lehigh in the list of graduates of recognized achievement are the massachusetts institute of technol ogy and the university of michigan cornell illinois columbia wis consin yale purdue and califor nia dr prentice based his survey on the assumption that inclusion in who's who in engineering con stituted one test of success in en gineering the 1,843 college graduates cho sen for inclusion in this volume were rated according to professional eminence extent of actual practice and extent of activity as a teacher of advanced engineering courses reed appoints 9 arcadia men of many new volumes of literature and the employment of an atten dant so when the cost of the library was found to exceed the estimated amount the execution of the pur pose of the administration in con nection with the browsing room had to be postponed now the pro posed maintenance of the room by arcadia makes its opening pos sible an appropriation amounting to 1,000 was granted by the univer sity for the purchase of literature recently with this sum the 650 books now on the browsing room shelves were acquired comments on room commenting on the use to which he hoped the browsing room would be put president richards pointed out to browse is not to study as signed lessons or to collect refer ence material for prescribed assign ments the room is meant to fur nish good literature for those who like to read good literature for its own sake he suggested that with the many rooms elsewhere in the library and drown hall it will not be necessary for students to use the browsing room for study purposes club meet ings or as a common loitering place the room will be open from 10 a m to 12 a m and from 1 p m to 5 p m daily mr leach stated these hours were decided upon after it was found that more stu dents use the library in the late morning and the afternoon than in the evening however if a change proves advisable the present sched ule may be altered he added explains value of shop safety senior ballots due for epitome feb 20 senior snapshots will be featured in next annual a large number of senior snap shots will feature the 1932-33 vol ume of the epitome declared james j roessle arts 33 staff member in an interview roessle also stated that the bus iness and arts seniors have been slow handing in their ballots and pictures he added that feb 20 would be the last day ballots would be accepted in this connection bus iness seniors should get in touch with roessle engineers who have yet to hand in their ballots should give them to their section chairman this will facilitate the production of a bet ter epitome and assure an earlier delivery the senior assessment will be 10 until feb 20 the assessment will be 12 after that date dance planned by journalists pi delta epsilon will be host at cabaret to 100 most notable students pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity will conduct a midnight dance and cabaret to which 150 couples will be invited satur day evening mar 11 in drown hall these couples will include the 100 students considered the most out standing on the campus by pi del ta epsilon edward fleischer pres ident of the fraternity will also in clude other campus personalities popular faculty members and beth lehem celebrities the cafeteria will be converted into a cafe and the auditorium in drown hall will be decorated with publication effects such as cartoon ing caricaturing and campus spot lights it is hoped to have a famous newspaperman present as guest of honor a brown derby will be awarded to the man who has done the most good on the campus in the last two years all new men lately pledged to pi delta epsilon will receive their formal initiation says fleischer officials of the fraternity are at present making arrangements and plans for the dance the lists of the committees will be announced later an important meeting of pi delta epsilon will be held at 4 p m tuesday feb 21 in the brown and white room in drown hall fleisch er announced burr issue to copy new yorker's style c a fuller elected secretary of board at meeting the bethlemite issue of the burr will be modeled after the pat tern of the new yorker stated the editor james j roessle arts 33 the magazine which will appear the latter part of the month will depict bethlehem's social activities for this issue d w fentress bus 36 has outlined a three-shad ed water color cover this drawing shows a dignified gentleman with a high hat entering the employees entrance of bethlehem steel with a lunch box the state of affairs within the works can be imagined by the fact that smoke is coming out of only one of the many stacks at a recent meeting of the burr board charles a fuller was elect ed secretary also at the meeting it was decided that the next issue of the burr would be on social revo lution and would include such top ics as technocracy nudist colonies and the five year plan material for this issue should be forwarded to c n crichton arts 33 will discuss colloidal state of materials neville says * nature has chosen twilight zone as medium of her most versatile expression fourth university lecture to be presented monday nature has apparently chosen the twilight zone or colloidal state of matter as the medium for her most versatile expression and in deed as the vehicle of life itself says dr h a neville associate professor of chemistry he will lecture on the twi light zone of matter the fourth of the university lecture series at 8 p m monday feb 20 in packard auditorium matter in the twilight zone or colloidal condition is below the lim its of visibility but its particles are sufficiently large enough to scatter light this phenomenon produces the half-light of twilight and dawn when the sun is below the horizon it also accounts for the color of sunset and sunrise the blues of the sky and structural blues in nature says dr neville explains term colloid the term colloid is generally associated with a class of substances including gelatin albumin and soap but in its wider significance it is understood as describing a general state or condition of matter in which any substance may exist un der certain conditions the colloidal condition is repre sented by fine dispersions of solids or liquids in air exemplified by to bacco smoke and fog by emulsions such as milk and butter and by gels or jellies as well as by the more common colloidal solutions in liquids dr neville states when matter is very finely di vided as in the colloidal condition the ratio of its surface to its vol ume or weight becomes very great and consequently the properties of its surface may become its most prominent characteristic tells effect of surface an increase in the specific sur face of a material is accompanied by an increase in surface energy this results in increased solubility chemical activity catalytic power and the modification of many other ordinary properties of the material coal and grain are rather diffi cult to ignite but their dusts are explosive finely divided metals such as iron and lead ignite spon taneously in air ordinary nickel has no catalytic activity but finely divided nickel catalyzes the hydro genation of oils to produce solid fats he says colloidal effects are involved in many processes such as the diges tion of food the cleaning and dye ing of textiles the tanning of leath er and the treatment of disease staff will draw up essay contest rules new issue of review to appear early next month plans and rules for the essay contest to be conducted by the le high review and sponsored by the literary guild of america will be drawn up by board members of the lehigh review at 2 p n sunday at the tau delta phi house the contest will be open to all students interested and may be part of a nation-wide plan the essays are to be about 1,000 words long on the subject the young american officers and board members of the review will begin work on the second issue of the magazine which will appear early in march ed ward fleischer arts 33 editor of the review announced eligibility committee and pres richards select assistants in athletics varsity football soccer and cross country managers and their assistants were approved by pres ident c r richards and the eligi bility committee j g petrikin graduate manager of athletics re ports freshman baseball games were authorized with blair mercersburg west philadelphia high school rutgers freshmen george school and lafayette freshmen the following men were elected to managerships r b buck 34 assistant manager varsity track g e goodrich jr 34 manager var sity football f c hawk jr 35 assistant manager varsity football r s holt 35 assistant manager varsity football w w 801t0n,'34 manager varsity soccer c g rop er 35 assistant manager varsity soccer h e lore 35 assistant manager varsity soccer w t plumb 35 manager varsity cross country and j h jacobs 35 as sistant manager varsity cross country resignation of f lambert 34 as assistant manager of basketball was received and accepted w c korn 34 was elected to . succeed lam bert lambert was ineligible for managership as he is a holder of a varsity letter , r a nisbet 33 who was elect ed manager of lacrosse in october 1932 was awarded an l for his work up to the time lacrosse was suspended the wrestling match between the haverford varsity and the lehigh junior varsity will be arranged for march 4 as a preliminary for the varsity meet with the university of pennsylvania provided the wrestl ing coach approves and that there is nothing in the state laws to-pre vent it coming events friday feb 17 7:30 p m meeting of scabbard and blade society at the armory 8 p m meeting of the robert w hall pre - medical society in packard laboratory room 258 8 p m debate with st joseph's college on war debts including reparations should b e can celled in packard auditorium sunday feb 19 6 p m first meeting of freshman union drown hall talk by dean mcconn monday feb 20 8 p m university lecture on the twilight zone of matter by dr h a neville associate profes sor of chemistry in packard auditorium library lights to be altered pending grant of board of trustees building to get new reflectors the entire reading room of the library will be equipped with the same lighting system now in use in the east wing of the building as soon as the board of trustees grants installation costs a w lit zenberger superintendent of build ings and grounds announced wed nesday installation of new reflectors was completed recently in the east wing of the reading room as the out come of experimentation with types of lighting begun in march of last year mr litzenberger after this alteration presented an estimate of equipment costs to the board of trustees no action on the proposed appro priation has been made public by the board up to this time mr lit zenberger commenting on this fact said the lighting system would probably not be purchased for some time having spent over 2,000,000 on university buildings and grounds in the past four years it is only nat ural that the board of trustees should deliberate carefully the ad visability of incurring more ex pense he stated when an examination of the pres ent lighting system was made last march it was found that unsatis factory reflectors cast the proper amount of light for reading over only a few feet about the area be neath the lights installation of broader reflectors will remedy this fault carothers addresses banquet in honor of oxford men dr neil carothers head of the business department gave the wel coming speech at a dinner given tuesday evening in honor of sir francis wylie former rhodes scholarships administrator and lady wylie in philadelphia dr carothers speech was re sponded to by sir francis who dis cussed the rhodes scholarships the dinner was given by the for mer rhodes scholars of this section of the country and is one of a se ries of dinners being given for sir francis and lady wylie on their tour of the world among those present were dr l h gipson head of the history and government department and max goepp 28 first lehigh rhodes scholar dr rautenstrauch states needs for sound or ganization and compe tent men to end strife 800 persons hear lecture by columbia faculty man proposals to reduce debt and regulate flow of capital are presented in address the importance of sound organ ization and competent leadership in solving the present economic diffi culties was emphasized by prof walter rautenstrauch of columbia university in his discussion of problems of public enterprise wednesday evening in packard auditorium the speaker showed the neces sity of a new and more stable so cial order which he said is needed to remedy conditions which are staggering society because of hu man acquisitiveness an over-ex panded debt structure and machine displacement of manual labor the lecture which was sponsored by the engineers club of the le high valley and the student engin eering societies of the university was attended by 800 persons dr rautenstrauch was introduced by martin m reed 33 editor of the brown and white and president of arcadia prof t e butterfield of the mechanical engineering depart ment was chairman of the meet ing advances suggestions professor rautenstrauch did not offer a complete solution of the economic ills of today nor did he present a full brief for the pro posed new social order he did ad vance several suggestions however which he indicated might hasten im provement these proposals included a low ering of war debts which he said is the one big factor hindering economic recovery legislation to regulate the flow of capital to bus iness enterprise and thus eliminate over-expansion of business and the development of competent and re sponsible leadership which does not put personal gain before society's welfare bases proposals the basis upon which the speak er based his proposals for the new social order was contained in two statements which he made at the opening of his address first we are passing out of a period of pri vate enterprise into an era of pub lic enterprise and second we have created large banking and cap italistic institutions which are not functioning on a public basis but as private enterprises his contention in support of this point f view was that manufactur ing concerns and other enterprises operated for private gain are ac tually supported by public funds to show the trends of industrial enterprises in this country profes sor rautenstrauch then showed 15 slides practically all of which indi cated that the peak of production has been passed and that the me chanization of industry has caused a marked decline in the use of man power workers decreased dial telephones for example have brought about a decline in workers in that industry he said at the present time 42 per cent of all telephones in this country are on the dial system an analysis of the fundamentals of organized procedure relating to any group activity whether it be a church a school a manufacturing company a municipal administra tion or a state government indi cates that the success of an organ continued on page four alumnus claims 3 billions lost yearly by indus try through disease convinced of the value of a safe ty first program in the shop indus try has recently recognized the im portance of conserving health through the application of medical knowledge to industrial problems said j w fehnel 17 in his lecture to the chemical society last night mr fehnel chief of the labora tory industrial hygiene of the met ropolitan life insurance company spoke on health hazards in in dustry it has been conservatively esti mated that persons gainfully em ployed in the united states lose 250 million days and three billion dollars annually because of illness and diseases that could be headed off by preventive medicine studies conducted by the united states public health service indi cated the health hazards associated with the quarrying and cutting of granite and metal mining in locali ties where the gangue rock was of a high free silica content at one clinic during a five year period 50,000 chest x-rays were taken of mine workers this mater ial is now being compiled and an alyzed and preventive measures have been taken extensive studies of foundry op erations were conducted in milwau kee flint mich and rochester these studies indicated that the health hazard to the workmen was due to the dust arising from the sands in the foundry operations these operations can however be conducted so as to materially de crease the dust hazard the prin cipal solution is in the proper maintenance of equipment mr fehnel stated the speaker illustrated by lan tern slides the devices now being used to protect workmen several machines which fehnel has invent ed to aid him in his work were demonstrated revised constitution will be shown to executive committee wednesday empowered by arcadia at its last meeting martin reed president last night appointed nine men to serve on committees and named two committee chairmen the ap pointments are to take effect imme diately these appointments were pub licity committee c n crichton arts 33 replacing h j o'brien bus 34 student activities commit tee c w cooper e e 33 re placing f f rohrer i e 34 booster committee t p double day bus 33 replacing r r bach man bus 33 as chairman of the committee a t bailey m e 34 replacing g s hagstoz chem e 33 charles klatzkin bus 34 re placing r n laftman m e 33 intramural committee j w heiney i e 35 replacing theo dore claus bus 33 benjamin min ifiie arts 33 replacing a b bounds m e 33 e h robb appointed election committee e h robb m e 33 replacing chairman w m henricks m e 33 h a voss bus 33 is appointed to fill the va cancy left by robb student clubs r a andrews i e 33 replacing martin m reed arts 33 the newly appointed men will assume their duties immediately it would be appreciated if former com mittee members would inform their successors as to any committee meetings already scheduled mar tin reed president of the arcadia stated last night there will be a meeting of the executive committee at 4 p m wednesday feb 22 in the arcadia room in drown hall the next meeting of arcadia will be held at 7:30 p b thursday feb 23 in the arcadia room the blazer committee will send out notices to various companies and collect bids for the new blazer the new and revised constitution has been checked over by the living groups and will be put before the executive committee wednesday it will come before the next meeting of arcadia for approval or rejec tion the revised constitution will in clude the old membership regula tions with an additional clause which makes the president of the lehigh union automatically a mem ber of arcadia vol xi no 30 lehigh ranks tenth with 201 noted men bethlehem pa friday february 17 1933 library browsing room will be opened monday the lehigh university brown and white price five cents discusses plans for remedying economic crisis appropriation of 200 by arcadia will provide attendant and university fund of 1000 has bought 650 volumes of literature for collection member interqollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first