Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 6

              public schools the newspapers the magazines the radio and the movies the tragedy of the world war stirred these new forces into a fer ment of rebellion against establish ed authority and the disruption of war gave them the opportunity to seize control the post-war depression led them to new and startling measures and policies and philosophies of re lief from hitler in germany to the abandonment of the gold standard in england and the nra in the united states in other words the bewildering and unprecedented developments of this crisis in our time will appear in the light of history as merely the growing pains of democracy acen tuated by a tragic world war and a grievous world depression students faculty members and university employees who desire to bring a friend to the home football games may secure two reserved seat tickets by buying one at the regular price and ex changing the proper coupon from their athletic booklets and pay ing the government tax this announcement was made by robert b adams director of ticket sales who declared that the reserved seats can be secured in this way only at his office in the former trophy room in the gymnasium the tickets can be secured at any time during office hours and can also be secured during the noon hour on the day of the game mr adams also declared that students faculty members and university employees gaining ad mission by athletic booklet cou pons must enter the field through the gymnasium arcade entrance and must sit in sections b c d or the eastern half of section e frosh union meets sunday prom orchestra to be chosen large group attends public opening on wednesday a large number of visitors to the sayre observatory wednesday eve ning took advantage of their first opportunity of the year to view the various celestial bodies through the large telescope j h ogburn professor of mathe matics and astronomy who has charge of the observatory reported that about 150 people visited the observatory during the evening he estimated that about one-fourth of the guests were lehigh students the planet saturn was the prin cipal object seen through the tele scope although various other plan ets and star clusters were observed the weather was ideal for observa tions and the rings encircling sat urn could easily be distinguished after looking through the tele scope visitors had opportunity to see other instruments of the obser vatory and also photographic plates of the celestial bodies these plates were photographed through the largest telescope in the world that at mt wilson and they were ob served with much interest by the visitors the chronograph which breaks the second up into 100 parts was also shown and explained by pro fessor ogburn the observatory will be open for visitors every wednesday evening from 7:30 until 9:30 p m except when the weather conditions are not favorable for observation of the planets students hear levitt lecture speaking yesterday in new york before 3,000 woman leaders gath ered from many parts of the coun try dr neil carothers head of the department of business administra tion assured them that no radical re-adjustment of the social order was probable either in this country or even in russia along with mrs franklin d roosevelt walter lippmann col theodore roosevelt william hard and other leaders of world thought dr carothers addressed the new york herald-tribune third annual women's conference on current problems in russia in america in italy we hear of the dawn of a new day of revolution fully accomplished of the old order changing dr car others said i do not believe it progress improvement and drastic change will come out of this crisis in history in all countries but i anticipate no permanent radical re construction of the economic order in america or for that matter russia the conference on the general topic this crisis in history con cerned itself at yesterday's sessions with the youth movement and its effects social change remote strengthening his argument that a radical social change is remote dr carothers continued the develop ments of the last 15 years are the natural consequences of a sadly con fused mixture of war depression and the advance of economic democracy it the last 25 years the masses of the people have in every country risen to a new consciousness a new aggressiveness and a new strength the primary factors have been a rising standard of living increased economic power and increased knowledge chiefly derived from the scabbard and blade has annual smoker vacancy created by fail ure of stuart roberts to return to school is filled at last meeting offices of president manager were separated before 1932 t b jordan bus 34 was elect ed president-manager of the glee club at its regular wednesday eve ning meeting to succeed stuart roberts roberts was elected president manager last semester succeeding c ward kellstedt but failed to re turn to college this fall this cre ated a vacancy that was filled at the first regular meeting held this year that of wednesday evening prior to the 1931-32 season the positions of president and manager were separated but at the time of the election of kellstedt it was de cided to combine the two offices five concerts were given by the combined musical clubs last year including concerts in new york palmerton one in wesley metho dist church bethlehem and two on the campus the new york concert was under the auspices of the le high club of new york jordan the new president was manager of the rifle team during 1931-32 and 1932-33 and secretary treasurer of the rifle club during the latter year he is a member of scabbard and blade honorary mil itary fraternity and was first ser geant of the local chapter last year he was also on the board of the freshman handbook since the schedule of concerts to be given this semester has not yet been determined the club is anxious to contact any party interested in sponsoring a concert tryouts for pianist will be held at the next meeing of the glee club at 7:30 p m wednesday in drown hall all freshmen qualified are urged to be on hand the rehearsal wednesday was well attended with 84 members present the first business trans acted for the year was the voting to the band of 250 this money is in tended to enable the band to ac company the football team to games not played at home new york lehigh club voices approval of kellogg policies unanimous approval of col n.a kellogg's new policies for lehigh athletics was expressed by a reso lution adopted at a recent meeting of the lehigh club of new york the context in part of the reso lution is as follows that the le high club of new york inc the members of which have followed with keenest interest the recent timely reorganization by president richards and the board of trustees of the government of lehigh ath letic activities most heartily ap prove the plans and policies for the new deal outlined by col n a kellogg cyanide selects mem bers of junior class active in publication work and athletics carothers tells of club's organization and functions cyanide approved five candidates for membership at its meeting last night in drown hall states parker berg president these men are frederick a groff jr arts 35 robert jackson i e 35 harold d ock bus 35 lewis roberts jr bus 35 and edwin a sawyer bus 35 the men were pledged in chapel this morning at which time dr neil carothers told about the or ganization of cyanide and the new functions it would perform f a groff jr is a member of the lacrosse club and has won freshman numerals in football and baseball he is a member of the burr board and is assistant news editor of the brown and white robert jackson has won his let ter as a varsity track man and was an intercollegiate champion in track in 1933 in 1932 he set a new col lege record for the 220-yard low hurdles in 1933 he lowered his college record for the 220-yard low hurdles and also set a new college record for the 440-meter hurdles he won freshman numerals in football and track he is secretary-treasurer of his class ock won letters harold d ock won his letters as a varsity football and baseball play er he also holds freshman numer als in football and basketball and was a competitor for the basketball squad he is now president of the junior class lewis roberts jr is now assis tant manager of varsity baseball and holds numerals for assistant manager of freshman baseball he is art editor and circulation man ager of the review he is a mem ber of interfraternity council and president of the brown key so ciety edwin a sawyer is news manag er of the brown and white he had a 3.5 average for his freshman year and better than a 2.5 average for his sophomore year he is also a member of the musical clubs faculty rifle club receives instruction profs doan long sey fert thomas and librar ian leach and t e shields to be speakers this will be the sixth group of speeches curtis states a series of university lectures to be given by four professors the li brarian and the director of music was announced today by dean george b curtis secretary of the lecture committee the university lectures are giv en each year with the purpose of reaching the people of bethlehem and not merely the student body the series this year dean curtis declared has been planned with the view of combining popularity with culture and instruction the speakers for the sixth series will be gilbert e doan associate professor of physical metallurgy howard s leach librarian t ed gar shields director of music james s long professor of inor ganic chemistry stanley^s sey fert head of the department of elec trical engineering and harold p thomas head of the department of education doan to open series speaking on invisible rays in modern engineering professor doan will open the series on mon day oct 30 dr doan who is a member of the american welding society is an authority on the use of gamma rays in the inspection of welds the second lecture nov 20 will be given by mr leach on the topic an appraisal of book collectors though he seldom lectures mr leach's interest in the preservation of rare books and manuscripts led him to give a series of public lec tures advocating the purchase by the national government of the vol behr collection of incunabula mr shields who for many years has been the organist for the beth lehem bach choir will speak dec 1 on john sebastian bach his life and his music professor long a past chairman of the paint and varnish division of the american chemical society will speak feb 19 on paint electric power and human wel fare is the subject which dr sey fert has chosen for his lecture on march 12 the series will be concluded on march 26 when dr thomas will speak on the public schools and the community no ballots will be cast by students in selection of band says beidler there will be no ballots cast for the senior prom orchestra this year it was announced yesterday by john k beidler chairman of the senior prom committee the number of students voting in the past was not representative and the voting hindered the time of preliminary action the chairman stated living groups often vote their number of ballots as one man dictates he added the present fac ulty supervision is sufficient to war rant a good choice by the prom committee tickets are to be sold at the le high union office starting one week before the dance the sale will end at 6 p m on friday nov 10 there will be no sale of tickets after that this will prevent undesirable unin vited outsiders from attending the function also there will be less chance of dishonesty and thereby the committee will keep in good standing with the student body and the faculty the band will be booked through moss-hallett booking agency beid ler announced some of the bands being considered now are those of bert lown hal stern fletcher henderson noble sissle claude hopkins who played at the junior prom last spring and mai hallett the decision on a prom orchestra will be announced in the next fri day issue of the brown and white first get-together this year will be held in drown hall at 6 p m the freshman union will hold its first meeting at 6 p m sunday in drown hall according to the final plans drawn up last night by the arcadia freshman union commit tee and freshman representatives from the living groups a buffet supper costing 35c will be served following which shorty long will speak informally on the subject getting ahead the meeting last night which was presided over by d w hoppock president of the sophomore class was attended by freshman represen tatives of over three-quarters of the living groups the downtown groups being the only ones not well repre sented over 150 freshmen will attend the first regular meeting sunday night according to the reports made by these representatives because of lack of reports from the down-town groups there may be more than this number present d c barnum i e 37 was ap pointed temporary chairman of a short meeting of the representatives last night it was voted that the freshmen should wear name tags bearing their nick-names at the sunday evening meeting in order to facilitate their getting acquainted with each other following this discussion george konolidge member of arcadia gave a short talk emphasizing the hello habit the freshmen complained that very frequently upper classmen neglected to answer their hello's to hold faculty tea pledges condidered for alpha kappa psi geological history discussed by miller flag flies high technologist describes methods of glass blow ing at chemical meeting w t levitt technologist of the corning glass works addressed over 250 students at the chemical society meeting held at 7:30 p m thursday in the chemistry lecture room methods of glass blowing from the time of the egyptians to the present day were described the marked similarity between the tech nique used by the sixtenth cntury alchemists and the present day lab oratory methods was illustrated by slides mr levitt is especially interested in apparatus construction and gave a demonstration of how distillation equipment is made in the pharma cal department of the corning glass works for this demonstration he used pyrex glass which has such a low expansion point that a flame of 1,200 degrees centigrade is need ed to melt the sections required for a condenser the speaker showed the extreme durability of pyrex glass when under a flame mr levitt is one of the pioneers in the delevopment of low expan sion glass as a graduate student at johns hopkins university he made many improvements in applied glass blowing methods at the present time he is an ex ecutive in the pharmacal supplies department of the corning glass works mr levitt has one of the finest glass laboratories in the country he plans to make a series of lec tures at several of the large eastern universities in a few weeks he will leave for the middle west where he will also make a series of lectures after the meeting mr levitt asked the students whether there were any questions he could answer in regard to the production of glass 65 men present at gathering held in drown hall scabbard and blade national hon orary military fraternity held its annual smoker thursday evening in drown hall with 65 men present john beidler captain of the local company presided the general trend of the short addresses given by maj j.o green capt p l sadler and capt j k rice was the importance of the r o t c in prevention of future in ternational conflicts they all stated that preparedness is the best prevention because as men learn the real results and out come of battle they are less likely to become involved in a war prof c g beardslee who also spoke emphasized the fact that the american people are a nation of fact finders and that because of this trait they face matters square ly this policy has been the cause or basis of our past military ac tions he said the entertainment included two songs trees and smiling thru by j h macphee accompanied by captain rice on the piano the cap tain then led the group in a num ber of popular songs the spring pledging of scabbard and blade will take place at the drill monday afternoon annual function sponsored by women's club the annual faculty tea sponsored by the faculty women's club will be held between the hours of 4 and 6 p m on tuesday oct 26 in drown hall this year all men here on research fellowships have been invited to attend the purpose of this tea is to welcome the new mem bers of the club the committee sponsoring the tea is headed by mrs neil carothers chairman and mrs robert hall vice chairman other members of the committee are mrs carl allen mrs fay c bartlett mrs burgess jennings mrs cyril d jensen mrs frederick o kegel mrs stewart l rankin mrs hale sutherland and miss mary e wheatly golden gate bridge lecture planned for c.e society meet the regular meeting of the civil engineering society will be held at 8 p m monday oct 12 in packard auditorium an eminent engineer of the firm of mcclintic-marshall will give an illustrated lecture on the golden gate bridge the public is cor dially invited curtis requests changes of address be reported coming events friday oct 13 8 p m meeting of the lehigh val ley chapter i the american steel treaters room 201 and 251 pack ard laboratory saturday oct 14 2:30 p m varsity football vs john hopkins university taylor sta dium dr robert w mayer greeted by honorary fraternity prospective pledges to alpha kap pa psi national honorary business fraternity were considered last evening at a supper meeting at the phi gamma delta house garrett l grier president of the society extended a warm welcome to dr robert w mayer instructor of economics who came to lehigh this year grier described the pro ceedings of the national convention which he attended in chicago this summer a series of meetings are being planned that will be educational as well as interesting and it is hoped that this year will be one of numer ous activities and achievements said grier there are eight active members of the fraternity at this time but this group will be supplemented by the pledges they will be entertained at dinner at the next meeting of the fraternity which is to be held on oct 26 at the chi phi house dean curtis requests that all men who have changed their ad dresses and have not notified him of the change leave their new address at the registrar's office before noon tomorrow this is necessary in order to have the student directory which will be issued next week accur ate 20 faculty members 10 wo men attend first meet twenty faculty members and ten women were in attendance tuesday evening at the first meeting of the faculty rifle club at the armory after hearing a short talk on rifle marksmanship the group inspected the range and equipment they are to use those who did not know how to use a rifle correctly were given pre liminary instruction while other groups were practicing the different phases of rifle marksmanship some of the ladies had difficulty in handling the heavy rifles major green hopes to remedy this by get ting lighter rifles for them major green was well pleased with the interest shown by the fac ulty in this new enterprise every one of those present plans to re turn at the second meeting of the club next tuesday evening arcadia votes 100 to band for perm state rutgers tilts the executive committee of ar cadia at its meeting monday eve ning voted to give 100 to the band with which to pay its expenses to the rutgers and perm state foot ball games the committee decided not to give the band the 500 necessary to pay for the trip to the harvard game large red and white standard to announce no drill look for the white ball i it means no drill today the m s and t department has secured a six by four foot flag of red with white center just the op posite of the skating flag so as to avoid ambiguity of signals to be flown at the top of packer hall on days which because of the weath er or other reasons there will be no drill this location is visible from practically all points on the campus as well as from many places in town so that it will be unneces sary to telephone the armory although it is the object of the department to have the flag flying by noon on such occasions this rule cannot be strictly adhered to consequently if the flag is not fly ing by noon it does not follow that there will be drill as it may be raised later in the day major green announced professor tells of formation of lehigh valley the pre-historic history of the le high valley was discussed by dr b l miller professor of geology tuesday evening at liberty high school dr miller began his speech by showing the relatively few thousand years of man's life whjch is 4 known to us as htstory dr miller then discussed the period of one to two billion years before the appearance of man this is the record of geolo gical time he gave a concise geological his tory of the lehigh valley describ ing the inland sea which once cov ered all of immediate area and which is responsible for the limestone un derlying bethlehem at present."fol lowing the limestone muddy depos its now constituting the current rock and slate of the region were laid down said professor miller these deposits were later thrown into great folds and eventually dif ferential erosion made the present topography of the lehigh valley bethlehem pa friday october 13 1933 price five cents 150 view planets from observatory new plan for ticket sales announced by bob adams t b jordan elected head of glee club vol xl no 6 five pledged this morning by honorary lecture series to be given by university ca rothe rs says social orde r will not change radically head of business department speaks at new york herald-tribune women's conference on current problems brown and white member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first