Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 37

              will discuss water supply and aqueducts thaddeus merriman 97 to give illustrated lec ture on colorado river project at c e meet alumnus will speak thursday on western irrigation plans thaddeus merriman 97 will give an illustrated lecture on the colorado river aqueduct and the water supply of southern califor nia at a meeting of the civil en gineering society at 8 p m thurs day in room 466 packard labora tory merriman is a member of the board of consulting engineers of the colorado river aqueduct which is now under construction as a mem ber of that board he makes frequent trips to california from his home in new york he has made a study of the southern california water supply projects and has slides showing dam sites and resujts of the irrigation program carried on in that part of the state a graduate civil engineer of le high university class of 1897 mer riman received the degree of doctor of engineering from lehigh in 1930 he is now employed by the city of new york as chief engineer of the board of water supply since 1924 he has been the university itecturer on hydraulic engineering and water supply edits handbook merriman is editor in chief of the american civil engineer's hand book fellow of the american as sociation for the advancement of science and chairman of research committees on cement and dams in the american society of civil en gineers he has had extensive experience with water supply projects from 1902 to 1905 he was with the jersey city water supply company as as sistant engineer of construction of the boonton dam since 1905 he hftj-^eeil whh the new york board of f^u£u©^h|^-^i*ed-ja-4,he surveys plans designs arra-"con of the catskill water s>a fsptyx^ettjij kst hie £- eiumi^e r of the board merriman •*¦ is sf working on the new project for oi)(2^"\j^retsjtci jjnwfr r f qj n the delaware rrvers^^u . vv 1 w w a his father the late mansfield merriman was professor of civil and mechanical engineering at le high from 1878-81 and head of the civil engineering department from 1881-1907 moravian student speaks to lutherans wilde tells student group of religion in russia about a dozen members of the newly formed ? lehigh lutheran association heard edward wilde a student of the moravian theologi cal seminary describe the church situation in soviet russia at a sup per meeting sunday evening in drown hall under the soviet regime wilde said church worship is almost en tirely suppressed most religious worship is carried on in private homes the only seminary in sov iet russia wilde added is of the lutheran denomination wilde also described his exper iences in escaping from russia at the time when foreigners were pro hibited to leave the country he made his escape only through the aid of a friend in the soviet secret service who obtained papers for him he had barely crossed the border when the papers were can celled at the business meeting of the association a constitution was drawn up and a petition to the committee on student activities for campus recognition was prepared the next meeting will be sunday evening march 26 in drown hall tickets for intercollegiates will be sold at columbia tickets for the eastern inter collegiate wrestling champion ship meet on march 17 and 18 will be on sale only at the box office of the columbia gymna sium at 116 th street and broad way in new york city frank e delano wrestling manager announced yesterday there will be no tickets avail able at lehigh and there will be no reserved seats the rates are friday 2 p m ...". $ 55 friday 7 p m 1.10 saturday finals 2 p.m 1.10 a combination.ticket which in cludes admission to all three sessions will be sold for 1.65 arcadia plans pep meeting will hold smoker before intei*collegiates to buy wrestling team robes the executive committee of ar cadia at its meeting friday night made preparations for a smoker to be held the night before the east ern intercollegiate wrestling meet and decided to furnish the wrestling team with eight moleskin robes ' the smoker will be held in the lower gym the speakers will be bosey reiter billy sheridan doctor bull and probably the coach of the oklahoma a and m wrestling team cigarettes pipes and tobacco will be given out at the door instead of being distributed in the usual manner the decreased prices of cigarettes will permit more to be bought this time than pre viously c w cooper chairman of the jjfejwg^hall house committee an nounced that the lehigh union will renovate the reading room in qqwiphgjl the interior of the building tvill be repainted and re wired by the university x f)*iu also announced that the aowrrtawl realignment committee will complete the reorganization of the downtown groups in a week the executive committee instruct ed the manager of the lacrosse club to purchase moderately priced equipment in order to reduce ex penses all the club's bills will be signed by coach lattig the committee also decided to encourage the sale of blazers around the campus the report of j a tempest chairman of the publications com mittee was approved frosh orators vie in finals tomorrow six men are eligible to try for williams prizes six freshmen will compete for the e h williams oratorical prizes in the finals of the freshman oratorical contest tomorrow eve ning in packard auditorium these freshmen are john b edwards eng samuel l graw arts harry l snavely arts ber nard s weiss eng david w hoppock eng and robert w eichnerl eng each of the contestants will pre pare three speeches of ten minutes length at 7 p m professor luch will choose one of the three speeches for each man who will then have exactly one hour to fin ish preparing that subject professor luch said that in this way the contest is a test of real ability to organize in a short time rather than the ability of recite a memorized speech the first prize is 40 and the sec ond prize is 15 debates held with rutgers and columbia bernstein and leibowitt defeat new york team in discussion on worth of capitalistic system d o t members will meet washington and lee mar 28 columbia was defeated by the delta omicron theta debating team on its trip last wednesday and thursday to rutgers and col umbia maurice bernstein arts 33 s da vid leibowitt arts 33 who compos ed the team and samuel l graw arts,36 as alternate made the trip the debate with columbia wed nesday evening was held before the alexander hamilton republican club robert custer and m dan zig argued for columbia the nega tive side of the issue resolved that capitalism as a system of ec onomic organization is the most sound in principle yet devised the columbia team made the point that under capitalism the di vision of the results of production is very unfair to the great majority of people they argued that gov ernment control of industry was the only just and logical solution of the problem lehigh upheld the present capi talistic system from philosophical economical and socialogical view points and denounced socialism as harmful to free enterprise and in dividualism vote favors lehigh at the conclusion of the debate an informal vote was taken from the audience ninety percent of the vote favored the lehigh team the next night at rutgers the same lehigh speakers also upheld the affirmative of the same ques tion paul trilling and a down spoke for rutgers the debate was held before the workingmen's so cialistic society and was conducted under the oregon system this method of debating calls for a main speech from each side a cross-ex amination of both speeches and then two rebuttals in the discussion lehigh main tained that changes could and should take place in our present system without the ruthless de struction of any of the better fea tures of it which they believed to be numerous in answer to the continual demand for a remedy to prevent depressions the lehigh team referred to the biblical cus tom of storing up a surplus in the seven fat years to tide the popula tion over the seven lean years no decision was made the next delta omicron theta meeting will be held at 4:30 p m friday in room 466 packard lab oratory tryouts will be held for the next debate on march 28 which will be with washington and lee university on the subject inter allied war debts theis writes article work on sulfonated oil has ap peared in journal a satisfactory method for the analysis of sulfonated oils devised by edwin r theis associate pro fessor of chemistry and john m graham hunt - rankin leather company research fellow was de scribed by them in the february issue of the journal of the amer ican leather chemists association vegetable oils after treatment with sulphuric acid washing and neutralization are known as sul fonated oils and considerable diffi culty was experienced in analyzing them the method developed by pro fessor theis and graham gives a means of determining the constitu ents of sulfonated oils in a simple yet accurate manner especially with regard to the emulsifying con stituents frosh mechanicals to be entertained movies short skits and songs will feature program pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical engineering fraternity and the mechanical engineering society will give a party for the freshman mechanicals at 7:30 p m thurs day in the joseph f klein read ing room in packard laboratory richard n laftman m e 33 toastmaster for the affair is ar ranging the program for the party several reels of motion pictures will be shown comedies and featurettes have been borrowed for this part of the program laftman said members of the senior class of mechanical engineers will give short skits for the entertainment of the yearlings a trio composed of richard a lodge 33 willis m henricks 33 and chatwin a scharfenberg 33 will sing prof alexander w luce of the mechan ical engineering department is in charge of refreshments the party is to give the freshmen an opportunity to meet the mem bers of their department both fac ulty and students in an informal atmosphere laftman said history group to meet here pennsylvania societies will hold first annual meeting here in april plans for the first annual conven tion of the pennsylvania historical associations to be held on april 28 and 29 at lehigh were made sat urday evening at a meeting of the local committee heads dr l h gipson head of the department of history and government and gen eral chairman of the convention announced yesterday three papers will be read at the first session of the convention dur ing the afternoon of april 28 in packard auditorium prof h j ferguson of the university of pittsburgh will speak on the acti vities of albert gallatin secretary of the treasury under jefferson atd madison ernest spofford of ut historical society of pennsylvania will discuss the materials for hts torical research in the possession the society miss effie m kistler graduate student at lehigh will speak of chief justice william al len later in the afternoon t edgar shields director of music will give a bach recital in the chapel at a formal dinner at 7 p m in the hotel bethlehem prof dixson ryan fox president of the new york historical association will address the convention eugene grace president of the bethlehem steel company will speak on the iron industry in bethlehem prof w a itter of the univer sity of pennsylvania will present a paper entitled early coal mining in pennsylvania at 9:30 p m on april 29 in packard auditorium at the same session dr paul w gates of bucknell will speak on present research projects in pennsylvania history coming events wednesday march 15 8 p m freshman oratorical con test packard auditorium thursday march 16 7:30 p m freshman m e party under auspices of pi tau sigma and student branch a s m e reading room packard labora tory 7:30 p m meeting of the civil engineering society room 466 packard laboratory speaker thaddeus merriman 97 friday march 17 4:30 p m meeting of the associat ed colleges of the lehigh val ley room 466 packard labora tory speaker dr w s learned of the carnegie foundation din ner at 6:30 p m lehigh rifle team to represent area chosen over 18 other schools to shoot in match the lehigh rifle team has been picked to represent the corps area including pennsylvania maryland virginia and the district of co lumbia in the national intercolle giate rifle match which will be fired between march 16 and april 12 this is the first time lehigh has been chosen for this honor and the team has been selected from 18 other similar college teams in this corps area capt j k rice coach of the team stated yesterday the teams to compete in the matches will be composed of 15 men each the firing will be con ducted in four stages each of which consists of firing two targets one from each of two positions these stages are standing and prone kneeling and prone prone and prone and sitting and prone only one stage may be fired by one man in any one day the ten best scores in each stage will be counted in the final score all lehigh men will fire at the ar mory range and the results will be sent to baltimore will discuss college topics representatives of le high valley institutions to meet here march 17 faculty representatives of the association of colleges in the le high valley will meet march 17 in packard auditorium to discuss their respective educational problems lehigh is to be host to the associa tion for the first time in five years at 4:30 p m in room 466 dr w s learned president of the carnegie foundation for the ad vancement of teaching will lead a discussion on the results of the carnegie tests in pennsylvania col leges and high schools dr learned has been a staff member > of the carnegie foundation for advance ment of teaching in new york since 1913 . at a dinner in drown hall dean ettinger of muhlenberg college will respond for the visiting delega tions and the moravian college for women will present three musical numbers ** following the dinner the group will hear the public lecture of ram sey traquair head of the school of architecture at mcgill university on the apotheosis of the rebel at 8:15 p m in packard auditorium mr traquair has been.professor of architecture at mcgill since 1914 he has done considerable writing not only in the field of architecture but also in the field of literature where his satirical essays have won him fame the associated colleges of le high valley are lehigh lafayette muhlenberg cedar crest mora vian college and theological sem inary and moravian college and seminary for women houses hold dances saturday affairs are sponsored by d u and a t o approximately 300 persons at tended the annual open dance given by delta upsilon saturday night music was furnished by the rhyth mic jesters new jersey dance or chestra the house was decorated with multi-color floodlights inside and out mr and mrs charles lattig and mr and mrs john kilmer chaper oned the affair alpha tau omega held an open dance the same evening with mu sic by the musical aces of eas ton prof and mrs theodore laf ferty were chaperones kegel shows german youth has idealisms describes prevalence of impractical radicalism ; says goal is hazy but has - definite purpose original impetus provided by school in berlin suburbs the german youth movement as the term has been understood in germany since the first decade of our century is an attempt of the young in their teens and twenties to live their own lives and develop their own ideas and ideals under self-chosen leaders f o kegel assistant professor of german stat ed in the fifth university lecture the german youth movement last night in packard auditorium in the movement professor kegel said there is prevailing a more or less vague idealism and impractical radicalism but an ideal ism that is quite genuine because it is engineered by the young peo ple themselves and while the move ment has rather hazy goals name ly to do better than their fathers and has a negative attitude toward society as it is it has the definite purpose of guiding the young and directing their energies into chan nels out of which they will emerge as useful members of society describes early movement professor kegel first spoke of the literary and political youth movements of the 19th century which exerted powerful influences during their short periods of life all these movements he said sup port his thesis that a youth move ment is based on the collective feelings experiences and ideals of young people the 20th century movement pro fessor kegel stated was first be gun in the late nineties in steglitz then a suburb of berlin the citi zens of the town were firm in their belief in the existing order all conventionalities in politics reli gion and custom were strictly ob served the spirit of the school was equally as conservative latin greek history and economics were taught in such a way that the ac cepted views of this society were not obscured most of the boys did nothing in the face of these conditions he said but there were a few who did their own thinking karl fisch er became the leader of this small group under his guidance the boys united in the desire to be just boys they had meetings and made trips to the country and to the border literature too had an influence on them loved their country however skeptical these young sters had grown towards the patrio tic phrases of their teachers professor kegel explained they had in their hearts true love for their country and its people nor were they ever aware that they were the founders of a great youth movement elder citizens formed clubs in behalf of the movement other com munities took up the idea and girls formed similar movements the youth movement prospered from 1908 on in 1914 12,000 of its mem bers went to war 7,000 of whom were killed after the war declared profes sor kegel political organizations entertained strong departments for young future party members the form of the original movement be ing freely copied at the present time the organizations which carry on the old spirit and tradition on a non-partisan basis are overshad owed by the political groups uni versity students too are carrying on having already materially aided in the unemployment situation he added six engineers seven arts and one business man to be formally pledged in chapel by honorary time and place of pledging will be announced shortly the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa national honorary scholar ship fraternity elected 14 men to membership this year prof p m palmer secretary of the society and head of the arts college an nounced today seven of the men come from the art college one from the business department and six from the engineering college the following were selected for membership james e anderson arts 33 tottenville n v frank biro arts 33 bethlehem elmer w glick arts 33 bethlehem abraham grudin arts 33 hill side n j sol d leibowitt arts 33 long branch n j benjamin minifie arts 33 belleville n j james a tempest arts 33 cata sauqua richard s hess bus 33 bethlehem melvin dresher phys 33 hackensack n j robert j myers phys 33 elkins park george m dewees ch.e 33 west chester george h keller m e 33 york john w langhaar i e 33 allentown and james g rhoads m e 33 harrisburg anderson is league secretary anderson is president of the in ternational relations club and sec retary of the general middle at lantic model league of nations as sembly which meets this year at lehigh biro is president of the pre-medical society and\captain of the fencing club glick is a pitcher and letter man in baseball grudin is president of the robert blake society and on the staff of the lehigh review leibowitt is president of delta om icron theta captain of the debating team and is a member of the rob ert blake society and the interna tional relations club minifie is a member of pi delta epsilon arcadia robert blake so ciety manager of the lehigh re view and former member of the ed itorial board of the brown and white tempest is a member of omicron delta kappa pi mv ep silon pi delta epsilon sword and crescent and editor in chief of the epitome hess is a member of alpha kap pa psi the international relations club and is secretary of the pre legal society langhaar is vice president of pi mv epsilon and a member of tau beta pi keller be longs to pi mv epsilon and is cor responding secretary of pi tau sigma tau beta pi leader elected rhoads is president of tau beta pi treasurer of pi tau sigma and a member of omicron delta kappa dresher is president of pi mv ep silon and the physics club myers is a member of pi mv epsilon the robert blake society and is secre tary of the physics club professor palmer stated that a 3.00 average is essential before a man is considered for election to phi beta kappa this scholastic standing must be maintained until the middle of the senior year al though mainly for students in the arts and business colleges the so ciety also considers for member ship engineering students whose work in the subjects of the arts curriculum is of a high standard the date for the formal pledging of those elected has not yet been decided upon it will probably take place at a chapel exercise some time during the latter part of this month professor palmer said the annual initiation dinner of the chap ter will follow shortly after the pledging ceremoay bethlehem pa tuesday march 14 1933 vol xl no 37 phi beta kappa elects 14 men price five cents brown and white banks open the e p wilbur and the first na tional banks opened today bethlehem national will probably open tomorrow the bank reported the gosztonyi saving and trust company stated that they were awaiting word from the state banking department to open member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first »