Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 50

              billy sheridan improving billy sheridan's condition is quite improved st luke's hos pital authorities announced at noon today no date has been announced for his release from the hospital military needs are discussed colonel george marshall opens convention of r.o.t.c.here monday dr charles russ richards pres ident of the university formally opened the reserve officers train ing corps convention yesterday noon by greeting the delegates at a luncheon in the hotel bethlehem the first meeting of the conven tion was held following the lun cheon with col george c mar shall jr of savannah ga presid ing major james o green head of the military department listed a number of topics which would be brought up at some time during the two-day meeting these are the educational and military aims of the r o t c better adjustment of military department to the institu tion advance courses including scholastic requirements for admit tance and voluntary attendance of additional men pedagogical efficien cy of instruction and special meth ods of instruction and administra tion dr josiah h penniman provost of the university of pennsylvania was the other speaker of yesterday afternoon's session he stressed ac tual need of military training its advantages and benefits in peace time as well as war time in his welcome to the visitors dr richards traced the lack of prepar edness which has prevailed in this country in connection with every war down through history he said he thought college men as a whole have a degree of patriotism and idealism far in excess of the average person of less education and con sequently the most advantageous use should be made by the country of this characteristic as long as the country assumes the right of drafting its citizens it should properly train those individ uals for the duty expected of them he added service problems discussed by green metallurgist addresses steel treaters meeting arthur w f green metal lurgist of the american chain company addressed the last reg ular meeting of the current season of the lehigh valley chapter of the american society for steel treating friday evening in williams hall mr green spoke on general service problems he dealt espe cially with the perfection of tire chains and tool steel products he said that a recent development in the welding of alloy steel would in crease the life of tire chains by 65 per cent mr green was formerly associat ed with the john illingsworth steel company as plant and sales metal lurgist he also served as steel con sultant with the w b coleman company of philadelphia he has written a number of tech nical articles on the manufacture and heat treatment of steel his papers have appeared in many mag azines including transaction of the a s s t iron age chemical and metallurgical engineering and the ceramic age omicron delta kappa postpones pledging makes change to include points for class elections because of the proximity of the coming class elections omicron delta kappa senior honorary so ciety will not accept points un til thursday may 11 pledgings we re originally scheduled for thursdays of this week but they have been postponed to allow men to include newly elected offices in their lists of points students are elected to o d k on the basis of service rendered to lehigh these services include not only extra curricular activities but also scholastic attainment men who expect to have their names considered by the commit tee should send in their lists of points to either burt riviere at delta tau delta or clifford har rison at sigma chi copies of the point system can be obtained at the office of the le high union in drown hall society to give heatexhibition physical club will show thermal experiments at meeting thursday exhibits of heat phenomena will be demonstrated at the meeting of the physical society at 8 p m thursday may 11 in the main lec ture room of the physics building prof c c bidwell head of the physics department stated the experiment of causing water in a flask to boil by gradually evac uating the flask and then allowing the water while still boiling to freeze will also be conducted the classic experiment demonstrating the recalescence of steel and iron will be shown by stretching an iron wire between two supports and raising its temperature to red heat by means of an electric current the current is withdrawn and the wire cools to blackness and expands at this point due to a reorientation of the crystal structure of the iron the wire recalesces or reheats to red heat before finally cooling the ob servance of this phenomenon led to investigations which formed the ba sis for the heat treatment of steel other experiments on the program include illustrations of the inverse square law of the radition of heat and light and lamb's cosine law r a pangburn k p thomas d c culver t d korayne f d trumbore and b f james are the students who will conduct the ex periments under the supervision of professor bidwell this meeting the last of the year will also include the nomination and election of officers for next year chem seniors meet last social function is held after inspection trip with a conviviality partially in duced by an inspection trip to the neuweiler brewery earlier in the day the senior chemicals held their last social function thursday after noon at the spring valley inn cen ter valley baseball occupied the afternoon until 6 when a banquet under the direction of robert g weldon was served john s skelly as toast master introduced andrew e bu chanati ch e 18 secretary of the alumni association who spoke in formally on the aims and functions of the alumni association richard j degray instructor in physical chemistry gave an historical survey of the class which featured the depths attained by certain of its members the affair was concluded by im promptu talks by professors sim mons diefenderfer theis and beck college meet will be held on thursday honoraries to tap men awards will be given and lewis will talk at flag pole gathering 11 o'clock classes excused colonel kellogg cannot speak awarding of trophies and medals tapping for two honorary fraterni ties and a talk by r a lewis general manager at the bethlehem steel company and enthusiastic le high wrestling fan make up the program of the college meeting which students will be excused from 11 o'clock classes thursday morning to attend the campus flag-pole is to be the gathering place the trophies and medals will be awarded to men in all classes for participation in intramural and in terfraternity sports pi delta ep silon honorary journalistic frater nity and cyanide honorary junior society are to tap new members mr lewis to speak mr lewis who is known for his annual dinners to lehigh wrestl ers will give a speech on athletics colonel kellogg new director of athletics was also scheduled to talk to the student body but because of his mother's death last week can not attend the meeting howard r reiter head of the department of physical education will take charge of the cup presen tations m m reed president of arcadia is supervising the arrange ments for the meeting the following intramural awards will be made by f c bartlett as sistant professor of physical educa tion : department of physical education fenc ing cup department of physical education inde pendent leadership cup department of physical education frater nity leadership cup department of physical education dormi tory leadership cup dr earl buller cup to the freshman who has done most to improve his health phy sically during the past year three trophies will be awarded by morris kanaly track coach interclass track and field cup philip mcgrath track trophy theodore h myers cup will present cups in addition several other intra mural trophies are to be presented frank dravo interclass swimming cup to be awarded by p j morrissey h r reiter soccer cup to be awarded by harry carpenter j w maxwell jr cross country cup given by mr maxwell ernest drinker lacrosse cup and medal to be awarded by charles lattig lacrosse coach ¦ ¦ nannie lamberton wilbur baseball cup and medal by robert adams baseball coach archibald johnston football cup and medal by a a tate football coach lehigh home club wrestling cup by r a lewis beta theta pi all-around cup to the stu dent considered best in athletic scholar ship and leadership by will starkey jr cups to be awarded by mr rei ter to interfraternity sports win ners four football cup.s to the winning house in each of the elimination competition leagues four baseball cups to the winning house in each of the elimination competition lea gues wrestling cup to the house winning the wrestling competition basketball cup to the house winning in the competition pool cup to the winning house bowling cup to the winning house coming events wednesday may 10 9 a m to 5 p m class elections drown hall 4 p m baseball rutgers vs le high taylor field 6 p m tau beta pi formal initia tion packard laboratory 7:30 p m newtonian society meet ing room 208 packard labora tory thursday may 11 11 a m college meeting at the flag-pole 7:30 p m electrical engineering society meeting room 416 pack ard laboratory 8 p m physics society meeting main lecture room physics building bach's mass will be sung on saturday bethlehem singers will give work in b minor as tribute to dr wolle director for 34 years moravian trombone choir will play before sessions bach's mass in b minor will be sung in its complete form the twenty-sixth time by the bach choir on saturday afternoon in packer memorial chapel as a mem orial service to the late dr j fred wolle founder and director of the choir from 1898 to 1932 the rendition of the mass will be divided into two sessions ky rie and gloria will be sung dur ing the first session which is to be gin at 1:30 p m eastern standard time 2:30 p m daylight saving time the second session which will include credo sanctus and agnus dei will start at 4 p m standard time 5 p m daylight time carey is guest conductor rehearsals have been held since the early part of march bruce carey guest conductor of the choir has called for rehearsal tomorrow evening and another on saturday morning the bach choir consists of 37 first sopranos 39 second sopranos 33 first altos 36 second altos 22 first tenors 19 second tenors 31 first basses and 23 second basses a total of 240 singers the soloists will be jeannette vreeland soprano rose bampton alto dan gridley tenor charles trowbridge tittmann bass t eg gar shields organist and a section of the philadelphia symphony or chestra will accompany the singers trombone choir will play chorales will be played by the trombone choir of the moravian church during the half hour pre ceding each session of the mass this choir led by george e sig ley is composed of 18 trombone players the bach choir ticket committee reports that tickets for the mem orial service are almost completely sold out over 1,000 bach devotees are expected to attend tickets which are tax exempt are selling for 2 and 1.50 each for the two sessions dr wolle for whom the memor ial service is being held died on jan 13 of this year during his life dr wolle gained world-wide fame for his leadership of the choir which he founded in 1898 to pres ent the music of johann sebastian bach promotes interest in bach since 1912 the festivals have been presented in packer memorial chapel the festival lasted two days featuring the moravian trumbone choir and many of bach's cantatas on friday and the mass in b min or on saturday dr wolle born in bethlehem in 1863 did much to promote inter est in bach in this country in 1888 he returned from germany after on exhaustive study of the works of the master he became conductor of the bethlehem choral union of 115 members at that time and be gan preparation of the st john's passion which was sung for the first time in this country on june 5 1888 death of mother prevents kellogg's address to union owing to the death of his mother colonel nelson a kel logg new director of athletics was unable to address the freshman union sunday eve ning or speak to arcadia last evening as had been planned colonel kellogg left saturday night for battle creek michi gan where his mother died fri day night mrs kellogg was a native of vermont and was 87 year old pi delta epsilon to tap 16 men at college meet points for membership in pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity must be turned in to martin m reed secretary at price hall or in the brown and white room christ mas-saucon hall on or before 4 p m wednesday may 10 twelve men will be tapped at the college meeting thursday morning at the flag pole the four men pledged sometime ago will also be honored at the flag pole the 16 new men will be in tiated at a banquet the following week according to edward fleischer president all upperclassmen who have taken active part in publication work are eligible for election into the society a pi delta epsilon meeting will be held wednesday at 4 p.m in the arcadia room drown hall class officers to be elected cheerleaders and union officers to be chosen polls in drown hall polls for the general college elec tion will be open from 9 a.m to 5 p m tomorrow in drown hall class officers lehigh union offi cers and the cheer leaders squad will be elected by the student body at this time at the nominations meeting last wednesday 39 men were selected to be candidates for the various class officers monday evening the lehigh union nominated men to be placed on the ballots for election by the student body these nom inees are being kept secret from the general student body until the time of elections in order to dis courage the action of combines in the election of lehigh union offi cials c w cooper president of the union and h a voss chair man of the elections committee of arcadia jointly announced j o evans 33 head cheer leader announced nominations made by the present cheer leaders squad three of the following five are to be chosen at the election for mem bership in next season's squad j w jones 35 w m brodhead 34 s r stiles 35 e t deforest,'3s and p silimperi 34 a class president and secretary are to be elected by each class from the following men nominated last wednesday class of 1934 president ben l bishop richard n lindabury paul e short john k beidler secretary-treasurer wilson w bolton arnold l larson lewis h eichelbergeg 1 fred lambert foster l gearhart 7 edwin m hower h;irry j o'brien class of 1935 president harold d ock john a gilmore hamil reidy eugene h henry secretary-treasurer robert b jackson suinner b whitney frank c hawk howard w seeley aubrey b sine edwin s chickering class of 1936 president marsden lincoln william d mccaa robert m eichner david w hoppock harold w bade walter h kozak earl bennett jaj t rodgers paul s settle skcketary-treasurer iilbert i rodgers jobn l davis gordon p link robert h perrine albert f rozell robert h moore frank a gonzalez charles b potter foster w evans to choose editor in chief the editor in chief of the brown and white for next year will be elected by the board of publica tions at a meeting this afternoon in dean mcconn's office at the same time the business accounts of the campus publications are to be audited weather halts many events of field day awarding of trophies is postponed company e wins cup streamers for drills during year w b woodring wins prize for making best rifle score rain which started early in the afternoon marred the effect of the annual r o t c field day held yesterday the program of sched uled events was only about one third finished when a steady down pour caused the immediate curtail ment of activities the awarding of the trophies was postponed byg the winners of the various competitions were announc ed company e won the cup and three streamers given to the best drilled company throughout the year company b was second be ing only one-tenth of a point be hind company e company e also won the amer ican legion cup and two streamers given to the best shooting com pany the freshmen captained by w b woodring were triumphant over the sophomores in the shoot ing competition between the two classes and were awarded the whitten memorial cup laftman wins cup the third platoon of company e added another streamer to the company's flag when it was judged the best drilled platoon on field day cadet lieut r m laftman 34 who commanded the platoon will be awarded the scabbard and blade cup several rifle team awards were made those who received sweat ers and letters were as follows r s cranmer 36 d d evans 34 d h freiday 33 team captain t b jordan 34 team manager r lindenhayn 36 p h ohmer 36 r b wall 33 and w b wood ring 36 those who received letters were j m hazen 34 and c k okuno 34 silver watch charms were giv en to c f beck 35 r s cran mer 36 d d evans 34 r lin denhayn 36 and p h ohmer 36 freiday hazen wall and woodring received bronze watch charms the veterans of foreign wars cup for individual rifle scores was won by w b woodring 36 with a score of 1,009 the runners-up were r s cranmer 36 and p h ohmer 36 who scored 979 and 936 respectively the manual of arms competition which was to be held outside was held in the armory after the drill f g allen 35 was adjudged the winner after close competition from r b frismuth 35 the winner re ceived a gold watch charm and the runner-up received a silver one awards presented the following awards were made for excellence in class room work and general value to the r o t c unit in the second year advanced course infantry p j flanigan set of officer's insignia and merit rib bon and c a vanßilliard r t dean and r b wall merit rib bons in ordnance w h c web ster set of officer's insignia and merit ribbon in the first year advanced course infantry a t bailey gold charm and merit ribbon and b l bish op h w mcdowell and j o evans merit ribbons in ordnance h y miller gold charm and merit ribbon i*n the second year basic course j r wyatt gold charm and merit ribbon and t d cooke c f bock w a johnson and r a lenna merit ribbons in the first year basic course w f richardson gold charm and merit ribbon and f w woodrich p d pearson g h kalb and l ruffle merit ribbons government's military budget reductions may remove financial sup port from college unit lack of federal aid would end training begun in 1919 eight officers 100,000 in equipment are kept here by u s department of war by ralph e slonaker with the nation speculating as to how president roosevelt will effect his proposed 90,000,000 cut in the military budget fhe answer to the question of whether or not the university will have an r o t c unit here next year hangs vaguely in mid-air the president of the united states as part of his reductions suggests that financial support be withdrawn entirely from the many college army units in the country by the end of next week the le high military department is hop ing after long uncertainty to re ceive some knowledge of president roosevelt's final decision through the war department at washing * ton charles russ richards president of the university said in an inter view saturday that even if this fi nancial support is withdrawn le high may still be able to maintain the department if officers equip ment and materials are left at the disposal of the administration support is discussed he said that the question of sup port was raised at the last meeting of the board of trustees and it was agreed that complete withdrawal by the federal government would necessitate discontinuance of mili tary education here it was learned from the military department that the maintenance of the unit costs between 40,000 and 45,000 an nually the general opinion of a group of 36 men composed of college offi cials war department representa tives and army officers who con vened here yesterday and who are meeting again today to discuss col lege military education policies is that president roosevelt's plan if carried out will result in serious consequences to the national de fense although the meeting is for purposes of education the members of the group are much interested in the outcome of-fhe presidential sug gestion penniman sees hope one of the first men to address the convention yesterday dr jo siah penniman provost of the uni versity of pennsylvania expressed his doubts concerning the imminent action against r o t c support in the following words if we must have economy in the administration of our national government we must take the same precautions that a surgeon takes in performing an operation he has not only to consider the success of the operation but also the health of the patient ... it is quite possible to cut things which will result both in a balanced budget and in an un balanced country president richards stated last week that one of the best things the members of the group could do would be to draw up a resolution protesting the possible abandon ment of the college military units further discussion of r o t c maintenance although not sched uled will probably take place in the meetings today another participant in the con vention a military official from washington explained in a private interview the delaying circum stances in the action regarding r o t c reductions he said the plan as first suggested met with such wide protest that it is still un dergoing consideration lehigh university is under no compulsion to have an r o t y c unit applications are made inde pendently to the federal govern continued on page knur the lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday may 9 1933 price five cents vol xl no 50 may discontinue lehigh r.o.t.c all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association