Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 39

              new review to be issued on thursday will feature short story and collegiate topics recent business board elections are approved edition like previous one will be sold for ten cents the new lehigh review with seven articles on collegiate topics of current interest a short story several book reviews and a smat tering of poetry will be placed on news stands thursday afternoon edward fleischer the editor an nounced yesterday the coming issue to be sold at 10 cents will be assembled on the same plan as the free edition dis tributed in december it will be 18 by 14 inches and will contain 16 pages a summary of the con tents given by the editor is as fol lows among the features show em the rafters in which ted blood portrays the real lehigh wrestling spirit cutting your own nose in which ag nostic 1 reviews the cut system with dean curtis through college on something a year an article by e v schuyler proving education isn't cheap what becomes of lehigh arts men a survey of 1931 and 32 arts classes by p m palmer head of the department of arts and sciences a legend of st patrick by r.a soto assistant professor of romance languages in which st patrick be comes a chaser of worms an ar ticle in which j e anderson pres ident of the international relations club takes the reader behind the scenes of the model league of na tions convening here in april and suenos a spanish afternoon with w l deemer luch writes reports the female of the species is the title of the short story by rob ert herrick 34 the issue is round ed out with poetry photographs and a group of book reviews sel ected by myron luch english professor from reports submitted in his contemporary literature courses the following elections to the re view business board were approved in a recent meeting of the board of publications c g roper eng phys 35 j e kress arts 35 l h eichelberger jr m e 34 j j goldsmith bus 36 h e thompson jr eng 36 m o troy jr eng 36 r l riley bus 35 and c e collander c e 35 elections to the editorial board of the magazine will be announced shortly fleischer stated arcadia to sponsor wrestling smoker pep talks to be given by bull sheridan and reiter to enliven student interest in the national intercollegiate wrestling meet to be held here march 24-25 a university smoker is being spon sored thursday night at 7:30 in taylor gymnasium by the booster committee of arcadia this will be the first wrestling smoker ever held at lehigh billy sheridan wrestling coach clarence pete peck captain of the mat team and dr r c bull director of the health service are to give pep talks the booster com mittee is also trying to procure e c gallagher wrestling coach at the university of oklahoma to address the students bosey reiter professor of phy sical education will be master of ceremonies for the event this is the first time professor reiter has held this distinction since his ill ness four years ago free smokes are being provided for the affair by arcadia all stu dents are invited to attend the meeting said t p doubleday chairman of the booster committee measurements for blazers will be taken tomorrow measurements for the 1933 junior and senior blazer will be taken from 10 a.m to 5 p.m to morrow in drown hall by re presentatives of the john wana maker company of philadelphia for those who have not as yet been fitted a deposit of four dollars half of the total cost of the blazers must be made at the time that the order is placed they will be delivered in three weeks or sooner frosh favor rule changes union votes to drop dink after first semester ; 60 hear dr richards talk the abolition of dinks at the end of the first semester and the abol ition of all regulations at the time of mid-semester reports was voted as the sentiment of the freshman class at the meeting of the fresh man union sunday evening in drown hall which was attended by about 60 freshmen president richards spoke on the development of true culture and joined in the discussion of the prob lem of a substitute for class fights in the building up of class spirit dr richards also congratulated the organizers of the union on their work dr c g beardslee who was ac tive in the founding of the union suggested that if each member of the class were to give a book to the library each year the work would not only bind the class to gether in a common purpose but would also greatly benefit the uni versity in a manner which would challenge the other classes more than any class fight possibly could other similar projects were sug gested as an object of teamwork explains correct life in the address of the evening dr richards pointed out that both edu cation and training are necessary for the correct life the college man must not only learn correct thinking which should be the in strument of every educated man but he should also learn how to act correctly and rapidly at the right time he added that culture is a de sirable by-product of education but that cultural snobbery was to be avoided to illustrate his points dr rich ards recounted several anecdotes of the days when he was a young en gineer and instructor marsden lincoln chairman of the freshman class and arcadia representative was commissioned to communicate the sentiment of the freshman class in regard to reg ulations to the student governing body it was also the wish of the class that in the future the regu lations be more strictly enforced news briefs the spiked shoe society will hold a meeting monday at 4:30 p.m in the lower gym the meet ing will be held for the purpose of discussing the coming season and electing of new members r max goepp jr 2b lehigh rhoades scholar addressed the le high valley chemical society meet ing at a dinner iast evening at the college inn lafayette college cam pus on the subject a spotlight on oxford j r fritz e e 33 won first prize on his scientific report the synchronous - mechanical rectifier inverter at the ninth annual stu dent branch convention of the am erican institute of electrical en gineers last monday march 13 at drexel institute philadelphia university compiles scholastic averages 37 men receive a average during last semester thirty-seven men received a averages here last semester statis tics compiled recently by the assis tant to the registrar indicate this grade includes all averages ranging from 3.50 to 4.00 the group in cludes six freshmen eleven sopho fnores eight juniors and twelve seniors three men received a 4.00 aver age last semester they are stanley d michaelson e m 34 william a johnson met 35 and henry p george ch e 35 b averages were attained by 220 students in the university 50 of whom are freshmen 44 sopho mores 57 juniors and 69 seniors the grade b now includes all averages from 2.50 to 3.49 there were 575 c averages re corded ranging from 1.00 to 2.49 d grades from 50 to 1.49 were received by 446 men thirty-six men received averages of 49 and lower percentages for the entire uni versity student body of 1314 are as follows a's 2.82 b's 16.74 c's 43.76 d's 33.84 and f's 2.74 the university enroll ment includes 419 freshmen 364 sophomores 284 juniors and 247 seniors group debates college topics student federation votes subsidization of ath letes to be abolished that subsidization of athletics should be abolished and that the censorship of college publications by faculty members should be dis couraged were the opinions expres sed by student representatives of 90 eastern colleges in a meeting of the national students federation of america eastern division fri day saturday and sunday at the university of delaware newark del martin m reed president of arcadia and nelson b fry i e 34 represented lehigh at the meet ing the group arrived at these deci sions after a discussion of the two student problems saturday and sunday in the old college build ing of the delaware university the various college representa tives registered friday afternoon and prepared their program of dis cussion the following day student publication problems and the cost of college education and student help and the honor system were entered for debate in separate dis cussion groups martin reed headed the group on publication problems the question of subsidization was voted upon in a group meeting sat urday night later in the evening a dance was held by the federa tion in the old college building the various discussion groups continued their debate sunday morning and in the afternoon they held a closing plenary session in which they read their separate findings on the student problems coming events wednesday march 22 7:30 p.m meeting of the faculty dramatic club at the residence of prof and mrs r w hall 37 e church street to read counsellor-at-law by elmer rice 7:30 p.m meeting of mechanical engineering society 466 packard laboratory mr napier adlan will speak on radiant heating thursday march.23 7:30 p.m arcadia smoker taylor gymnasium 8 p.m meeting if the mining and geological society room 201 williams hall mr stephen var ni will speak on gems gem cutting etc larkin addresses local rotary club town organization celebrates st patrick's day prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineer ing addressed members of the ro tary club last week at the hotel bethlehem in the absence of charles hogan an easton lawyer insurance program for a young man was the subject of professor larkin's talk it wffs part of a lec ture given recently to lehigh stu dents the program was arranged in celebration of st patrick's day prof s s seyfert head of the electrical engineering department received the birthday flowers of the club as the newest member pres ident p j ganey welcomed back walter r okestfn treasurer of the university after his recent trip to bermuda other members of the lehigh faculty who attended the meeting are dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy and dr b l miller head of the department of geology during the meeting it was brought out that professor seyfert treasurer s l caum and ex presidents r p hutchinson and h j hartzog are all members of the class of 1904 at lehigh low groups get warnings probation notices sent to fraternities having average below 1 600 if chi psi kappa sigma pi beta delta phi sigma kappa tau delta phi and theta delta chi fraterni ties receive averages of less than 1.600 this semester according to the old valuation of a they will be placed on social probation the students disciplinary commit tee after investigating living group averages for last semester served warnings to this effect last week at the same time the committee formally released delta phi and pi kappa alpha from social proba tion imposed a year ago delta phi received an average of 1.666 and pi kappa alpha one of 1.656 dean c m mcconn explaining the real meaning of the penalty said that fraternities put on social probation are forbidden the privi lege of acting host to any social function and this he said may have a fatal effect on the existence of the fraternity incoming freshmen will very likely think twice before joining a group barred from the privilege of holding social affairs the penalty is imposed after fra ternities fail for two semesters to average 1.600 according to the old gating scale and continues for as long as they remain below this limit warnings are served by the students disciplinary committee after the first semester of failure the advisability of incorporating in the limit the new system of aver aging in which a equals 4.00 was put to a vote in the committee last week it was decided that averages be calculated in june according to the rating in use in 1931-32 next year however the necessary aver age will be 1.6 with a equal to four this will raise the standard approximately five-tenths of a point professor creedy publishes book on economic principles human nature and the busi ness structure a study in econo mics written recently by freder ick creedy associate professor of electrical engineering is now being advertised by the chicago univer sity press the book points out how the fundamental principles of human nature mold economic institutions and contains a treatment of the eco nomic field from this point of view professor creedy published a book on this same subject in 1927 in england two colleges to be rep resented by full teams as 25 others list del egations of one to six eastern champfons expected to file entries this week five big ten title winners are among six men who will be sent from indiana twenty-seven colleges and uni versities have already signified their intentions of entering a total of 93 men in the national collegiate a a wrestling tournament to be held in taylor gymnasium on march 24 and 25 oklahoma a and m and le high are the only colleges to be represented by full teams indiana winner of the title last year will be represented in six of the eight classes five of these six men were successful in winning titles in the big ten meet recently when in diana swept roughshod over mid dle western wrestling lowa state college is sending a team of five men the team from ames lowa will be fresh from its conquest of the big six title harvard recent winner of the new england championship will have four men bearing the crimson standard in the national meet oklahoma university will have a representation of six men while ohio university southwestern state teachers columbia and cornell college of mt vernon will send four men each eastern entries expected a number of entries are expected rom the participants in the east ern meet held last friday and sat urday in new york city these entries were delayed pending the outcome of this meet and practi cally all the individual champions and some of the runners-up are ex pected to send in their entries be fore the middle of the week massachusetts institute of tech nology rochester mechanics insti tute northwestern missouri uni versity syracuse and the y m c a college of springfield mass expect to have four entries mich igan state and tufts are sending three men each the other institutions which have entered one or two grapplers are case chicago franklin and mar shall ohio state rutgers army navy v m 1 yale and st law rence lists outstanding teams dr r g clapp chairman of the collegiate wrestling rules com mitee said the most outstanding teams in the middle and south west appear to be lowa state college coached by hugo otopalik indiana university coached by w.h thorn oklahoma a and m college coached by e c gallagher and the university of oklahoma coach ed by paul keen teague a member of the amer ican olympic teajn in 1932 will represent southwestern state teachers college of oklahoma oklahoma a and m has com pleted an undefeated season this year they wrestled to a 12-12 tie with the university of oklahoma but won six matches out of eight defeating illinois a strong con tender for the big ten title northwestern will be represented by wes brown who has held the big ten 175-lb championship for the last three years hfc has been a strong contender for the national title although never a winner and he was runner-up in the olympic trials last summer burr to appear thursday the social reform issue of lehigh burr will appear thursday the issue will include a section de voted to wrestling and also the senior class who's who ballot j j roessle editor in chief said that the wrestling insert would con sist of cuts and sketches of the team the issue will appear before the national intercollegiates harvard and navy admitted to wrestling association harvard and navy were ad mitted into the eastern intercol legiate wrestling association largely through the efforts of manager frank e delano of lehigh at a meeting of the league managers saturday morn ing march 18 in new york next year the championships will be held at perm state the addition of the new schools will necessitate changes in the sche dule which means that lehigh will probably be host to the as sociation in 1939 e e students will banquet valentine social to fea ture electrical spelling bee and stock market a valentine banquet and cele bration will be held by the elec trical engineering society on thursday evening in the d a r log cabin in bethlehem although this is a new function on the part of the electrical society it is hoped that this event will be a precedent which may be followed by the so ciety in other years said ben beach president the affair will be open only to members pf the electrical engi neering society who are in good standing and to faculty members of the electrical department special provisions have been made whereby eta kappa nu hon orary electrical society is extend ing an invitation to all freshmen who are prospective electricals to attend the banquet as its guests cards were mailed to these men yesterday the banquet will be followed by special entertainment features which will be presented on the main floor of the log cabin plans are being completed for the open ing of a stock exchange and provi ding all those present with suffi cient funds of fake money to trade on the market a special prize is to be awarded to the one making the most on his stock deals other features of the evening will be an electrical spelling bee some pertinent presentations and various contests between student and faculty members although there are many other events plan ned nothing could be given out about them at the present time as they are being kept for surprises beach announced the entertainment committe con sists of w w felton j r fritz b d beach a w lubbers k l honeyman d c bomberger and w w kinsinger chemistry department places six men during past month in spite of the scarcity of jobs the chemistry department succeed ed in placing six men in the past month k l kuklentz ch e 32 secured a position with the rainey wood coke company norristown pa and his place in the lehigh in stitute of research was taken by e t clocker m s 32 kenneth glace m s 32 accept ed a job with the r k laros silk company john a lutz ch e 29 has been hired again by the sher win-williams company by which he was formerly employed a h randall 18 is now associated with w h and l d betz chemical engineers and charles h israel 23 formerly with the riegel pap er company riegelsville pa has been hired by the oak oil and chemical company bechtelsville pa relief bill assessments will be imposed upon fraternities supply de partments publications emergency measure affects retail selling in pennsylvania revenue department repre sentative says returns from fraternities will total sl 500 all fraternities the cafeteria the supply bureau all publications ex cepting the epitome and all other supply departments of the univer sity will be required to pay a one per cent sales tax on or before april 1 to the state department of revenue this announcement was given recently for publication in the brown and white by vaughn haag allentown representative of the rev enue department the tax known as the emer gency relief sales tax is imposed on all retail sales with the excep tion of farmers produce it is an unemployment relief measure pass ed by the pennsylvania legislature last summer it was in effect tem porarily from sept 1 1932 to feb 28 1933 since statutes relative to the tax measure stipulate that all retail sales of tangible articles are liable to the one per cent levy subscriptions taken in by the brown and white the lehigh review and the lehigh burr during the months of septem ber to february are all to be taxed the supply bureau and other sup ply departments of the university must also pay the same percentage of their turnover epitome exempted fraternities are included in the levy as restaurants and boarding houses it is held that the frater nity sells food a tangible article to its members the cafeteria is also included as a restaurant the epitome is ex empted since subscriptions for the yearbook were not payable at the time the law was in effect commenting on the means by which tax reports may be compiled mr haag stated only those fraternities which purchase food through professional cooks and caterers who are separ ately taxable will be exempted from payment of the tax if the other fraternities can have their supply houses assume the assess ment they may also be exempted otherwise the heads of each tax able fraternity are required to make out a formal report business managers of the three college publications will report a one per cent amount of all subscrip tions taken during the specified months news stand sales are ex cluded since news dealers are sep arately assessed the portions of students activities fees applied in payment for the college paper at both registration periods of the university are also considered tax able must make reports proprietors and managers of the supply bureau and separate college supply departments and the cafe teria are to hand in individual re ports on sales receipts mr haag expects returns from fraternities here to total 1,500 specifically the emergency relief sales tax is levied on the gross volume of sale of tangible articles during the months from september to february he said the returns will be placed in the unemployment relief fund fail ure to submit a report and payment of taxes before april 1 1933 makes the party concerned liable to an ad ditional 10 per cent penalty at the present time there is a bill being considered in the state senate to ex tend the date limit of payment mr haag will be available for consultation on tax reports and re turns thursday and friday morn ings in the county court house at allentown bethlehem pa tuesday march 21 1933 the lehigh university brown and white state sales tax to be collected vol xl no 39 price five cents 93 will wrestle in national meet member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first