Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 17

              lehigh library has received several valuable donations lehigh will get into the spirit of the lafayette game at a smok er sponsored by the lehigh un nion at 7:30 o'clock friday eve ning in taylor gym announces foster gearhart chairman of the booster committee of the union the rally will be short to al low time for the traditional par ade around town after which the student body will go to allen town to cheer the team at the hotel traylor business will be discussed by roy barton white president of the western union telegraph com pany at a joint meeting of the in dustrial and electrical engineering societies to be held at 8 o'clock thursday evening in packard audi torium mr white entered the railroad business in 1902 and was connected with that industry in various ca pacities until his appointment last june to his present position he was general superintendent of the bal timore and ohio during 1923-26 at that time he became president of the central railroad of new jer sey mr white is also first vice president of the railroad club of new york mr white was secured through r w brown 35 whose father is vice president of the central railroad of new jersey the meet ing is open to the pubic relations club holds initiation heath sutherland and gipson speak at ban quet last sunday night deemer wins story contest junior takes first prize in review competition ; issue to appear friday approximately 62 boys varying in age from 6 to 18 years swarmed over packer avenue from taylor stadium to brodhead avenue satur day to watch the cars of lehigh muhlenberg football enthusiasts this fact was uncovered by a lehigh junior who with the aid of a little bribing coaxed one of the car-watchers to divulge statistics — and some trade secrets — of the racket the gang member was a bit reticent at first fearing his testi mony might endanger his pals he confined his conversation exclu sively to the repeated statement i don't know but the appearance of silver coin had a loosening effect on his tongue how much do you fellows make on an average about 50 cents apiece was the youngster's reply some guys make 1.50 though and what do you do with all that money the lad's answer to that question shows there is not only racketeer ing but hi-jacking as well going on outside taylor stadium during foot ball games older boys hi-jack with emphasis he stated that the older boys who hover about the street wait until their younger co horts are paid and then take the money from them they tell us they were watching the cars too explained the inter viewed racketeer if we have any money left after they get done with us we go to shows but why do the cars need watch ing was the next question it was too direct the youngster shifted on inside story of car-parkingracket is exposed by bribing offender his feet and remained silent some how do the owners pay you to keep crooks away from their cars sounded better yeh the interviewee answered we watch to see that nobody steals gas out of the tanks or marks the windows with soap some guys leave the air out of the tires too — which led to another query do they do that on purpose the boy did not reply instead he turned abruptly looked down the street and said we got to look out for the cops cops had been passing and repassing him during the whole time of the review his aversion seemed a bit sudden a smile escaped the interviewer as he asked why are you afraid of the cops youth fears jail why well . . . my father was in jail once and they're not going to put me there his statement was diverting as he possibly in tended how much do you usually get from a car driver the boy smiled you just got to ask for a dime and most of them give you a quarter instead once a kid got 75 cents from a bunch of lehigh students if you ask for a quarter you mostly get the dime and what happens if the driver won't let you watch his car the questioner felt he was being subtle but the boy without a college edu cation was just as foxy as the in terviewer with one i told you before things hap pen he retorted bluntly then — how about that money receiv ing it he hastened away fearful perhaps of meeting one of his hi jacking friends will describe dam to civils psi u gathers for centennial i m lyse to address a.s.c.e on stevenson creek construction gordon and pease are lehigh representatives at union college meet for the second time in the last two years the brown and white was awarded the cup for news dis tinction at the fall convention of the intercollegiate newspaper asso ciation of the middle atlantic states last friday and saturday at johns hopkins university in baltimore md distinguished recognition was also given to the lehigh paper in the editorial contest the cup hav ing been awarded to the bucknel lian publication of bucknell uni versity the johns hopkins news letter received honorable mention the news cup which is awarded each semester to the paper excelling in general appearance makeup judgment and composition was also won by the brown and white at the spring convention of the as sociation in 1932 in the news competition the pittsburgh news was given distin guished recognition the washing ton and jefferson red and black and the temple news were award ed honorable mention temple selected business sessions of the associa tion were held on friday and sat urday afternoons and at the latter temple university was selected as the site for the march convention the lehigh delegation to the con vention included the following r f herrick editor in chief g s alleman editorial manager e a sawyer news manager c klatz kin business manager d.h gram ley assistant professor of journal ism and k k kost assistant in english byron price chief of the wash ington bureau of the associated press addressed the convention on friday afternoon and said that the fight for an unhindered press would be an endless one the battle for a free press is never finally and fully won mr price declared but is a battle that must be won over by each succeeding generation a motion picture film the making of a newspaper was pre sented friday evening and sessions of the news-editorial and business divisions were also held charles klatzkin lehigh delegate read a paper foolproof bookkeeping continued on page four the winning short story in the lehigh review contest that closed nov 1 will be in the coming re view which according to editor l h eichelberger jr m e."'34 will be discussed friday the winner is w l deemer jr arts 35 and the story for this is about undergraduate life e l wildman m e 34 la crosse captain has written an ar ticle called the lacrosse situa tion at lehigh it discusses la crosse in many phases d w hoppock i e 36 has written a biographical sketch of richard harding davis a former lehigh student and founder of mus tard and cheese on the double center page of the magazine there will be a picture map of the campus with all the tra ditional spots indicated this was drawn by lewis roberts bus 35 f r hammer bus 34 will have a fashion section devoted mainly to houseparties j j dreyfus arts 34 is conduct ing a bridge contest in which a problem is presented and a prize offered for the correct solution car icatures of campus leaders have been drawn r e slonaker arts 35 has written an article for the review called goodbye to tra dition there will also be poems ques tions about lehigh fraternity topics the new review will be larger than ever consisting of 32 pages says eichelberger talk on purchasing given by c.r holton rifle match is won by sophomore team industrial management class hears buying agent inge m lyse research associate professor in the civil engineering department will give a description of the stevenson creek dam at a meeting of the local chapter of the american society of civil engin eers at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening in packard auditorium the stevenson creek dam was built as an experiment in the de sign and building of arch dams it is the largest ever built solely for that purpose the dam is located in central california and was built in 1926 under the direction of w a slater then professor of structures here it is 60 feet high and 140 feet in length this dam was built at a cost of 125,000 and was sponsored by the engineering foundation which con sists of the national societies of civil mining metallurgical elec trical and mechanical engineering mr nutsley then an instructor in the civil engineering department designed the dam and was secre tary of the committee in charge of building operations how book collecting developed from the days of the egyptians and babylonians to the present and what importance collections have had in modern research work were discussed by howard s leach uni versity librarian in his lecture en titled an appraisal of book col lectors given last evening in pack ard auditorium this was the third of the university lecture series mr leach declared that man has a tendency to collect things the collecting of books usually begins by accident the first requirements to be considered by a collector are his tastes and financial status the next thing is to find some subject of interest the collection may cen ter around some general subject such as history or it may contain the works of one certain author such as shakespeare or it may con fine itself to items on specific coun tries or localities in connection with the library at lehigh mr leach mentioned some of the collections now contained in the stacks the late director of the lehigh library william chandler pur chased a collection of material con cerning the civil war this collec tion includes several rare pamphlets such as one containing secret in structions printed through tam many hall of which there are only six copies in existance cites cox donation after the death of eckley b cox trustee of lehigh his widow gave the university his library of 10,000 items relating to early sci ence chemistry railroads and min ing this collection forms the most important single donation of books to the lehigh library and is of prime importance in a number of scientific fields at present the library has in deposit the largest collection in the world of subjects dealing with the natural sciences of the continent of south america it was donated by dr harvey bassler of the class of 08 the collection contains 60,000 items the size of the collection can be ascertained from the fact that it weighs 24 tons and covers 14 ranges of stacks continuing his talk mr leach stressed the importance of the me dieval monasteries in preserving and copying manuscripts of the an cient writers about 1414 the ital ian renaissance brought about a re vival of learning and the clerical copyists were enriched by the high prices their books commanded due to the shortage of text books the englishman has been a col lector of books since the days of alcuin in 1602 the library at ox ford reconstituted by sir thomas bodley was opened as the first modern library in europe dedicated to the public said mr leach speaking before 25 members of the international relations club at the initiation banquet at which 18 men were inducted sunday night at the sun inn dr e j heath pres ident of moravian seminary and college for women explained the recent religious developments in russia and germany dr heath briefly outlined the intermingling of russia's govern ment and religion and the organiza tion of the german government he described the conditions that pre vented religion in the soviet states from being national and depicted the possible results of germany's newly reorganized religion two seniors five juniors and one sophomore were initiated the two seniors are william robinson c.e and harold silverstein arts the juniors admitted are john brown lee e e shelton musser c e ; carl collander c e john tuton arts and malcolm muir arts the sophomore is bernard weiss c e stresses good will hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering showed the necessity for goodwill among nations he pointed out the numerous misunderstandings that arose during the last war the civil war and the turkish outbreaks and declared that much of the brutal as pect could have been avoided by impartial understanding dr l h gipson head of the history and government depart ment gave an informal talk on the history of the club and the pros pects for future development five groups who will report at the next meeting of the society to be held sometime in the early part of december were appointed at the banquet each group will report on the viewpoint of some nation regarding revision of the versailles treaty the nations to be repre sented are france germany eng land poland and some disinter ested country following the re ports there will be a general dis cussion on each assignment and a valuation given it woodring makes year's best standing position score victors ' spoils coming events mule marauders pilfer posts aided by darkness twelve hundred members of psi upsilon fraternity are meeting at union college schenectady n v tomorrow to celebrate the one hun dredth anniversary of the fraterni ty's founding robert r gordon bus 34 and robert h pease bus 34 left this afternoon to represent the eta chapter of lehigh at the convention the fraternity has erected a mem orial flagpole on the main quad rangle of the union campus dedi cated to the seven founders of psi upsilon this will be formally pre sented to union college at a pub lic exercise friday afternoon gov theodore green of rhode island william kingsley pres ident of the united states trust company of new york city and joseph b eastman co-ordinator of railroads will be the main speakers of the evening at the founder's day banquet friday which will con clude the three-day celebration others who will address the as sembly are ex-senator george moses of new hampshire dart mouth 90 dr henry mccracken president of vassar college n.y.u 00 and former u s justice edwin garvin of new york n.y.u 97 psi upsilon was founded by six undergraduates in schenectady on nov 24 1833 it is one of the old est greek letter fraternities in american colleges and under a policy of cautious expansion has grown to include 27 chapters in the united states and canada discontent among the youth of germany caused by unemployment jewish profiteering and the loss of germany's status as a world pow er after the world war were di rectly responsible for the formation of the nazi movement and its sub sequent rise to power under the leadership of adolph hitler the above statement was the theme of a talk on the present sit uation in germany given by philip m palmer head of the college of arts and science at the meeting of the sophomore forum held sun day night in drown hall about 40 sophomores attended the meeting which was the first of a series of get-togethers which will be held at monthly intervals throughout the year it was decided to hold the next meeting shortly before christmas vacation a talk on a subject of current interest will be given stated d w hoppock president of the sophomore class nations break faith adolph hitler's leadership of the german people was born with the treaty of versailles professor palmer stated in that treaty ger many was guaranteed equality with the other nations of the world the other nations however broke faith with germany and looked upon her as a pariah the people resented this humiliation and there was born in them a resentment that found its expression in the formation of the nazi party the inflation of the mark caused it to go to such a low value that the strong middle class the back bone of the nation was destroyed profiteers came in to prey upon the helpless condition of the people it was here that the jewish prejudice originated many jews came into the coun try and bought all the goods ob tainable at the current low prices they then proceeded to set their own prices at such an exorbitant level that most of poverty stricken germany was reduced to virtual starvation explained professor pal mer unemployed revolt unemployment was widespread and it was among the millions of unemployed young men that the discontent spread these men were the ones that backed the revolution that brought hitler into power the democratic government then in power had many other weak nesses there was no tolerance be tween parties and riots and killings were frequent at the elections many men went to russia and returned with communistic ideas which they spread among the people it was here that hitler a thought ful young man who had fought in the war and who was becoming dis gusted with the present situation entered the scene he gathered to gether six other men who thought as he did and established the nazi or german national socialist work ers party contrary to many beliefs pro fessor palmer stated that sentiment in germany is against war peace at the present time is essential to germany's welfare as it is neces sary in order to build up the coun try to the state demanded by hit ler radio club will discuss plans for ultra wave transmitter tau beta pi pledges 8 men at chapel monday morning wednesday nov 22 7:30 p m industrial management lecture purchasing by c r holton in room 466 packard laboratory 8 p m meeting of civil engineer ing society stevenson creek dam to be explained by prof inge lyse in packard auritorium thursday nov 23 8 p m meeting of the i e and a i e e societies in packard auditorium r b white pres ident of the western union tel egraph company will speak on business 8 p m meeting of mining and geo logical society mining in the northwest territory by r h raring 32 will be discussed in room 102 williams hall friday nov 24 7:30 p m lafayette smoker tay lor gym scoring a total of 1431 points the sophomore team won the triangular rifle match with the senior and freshman teams friday afternoon the senior team was second with a score of 1,408 points in the kneel ing position the seniors were slight ly superior to the others the fresh man team trailed with 1,306 points w b woodring ch e 36 the high scorer of the meet turned in a score of 88 from the standing po sition which has been unequalled this season although the freshmen still lack the ability to win matches their shooting shows a marked im provement which is seen by com paring friday's score with that of the previous match which was 1.226 stated capt j k rice rifle coach this week the competition be tween the drill companies will be gin each company will be repre sented by five men who will be picked by the respective company commanders charles r holton purchasing agent of the bethlehem steel cor poration will address the class in industrial management tomorrow evening at 7:30 o'clock in room 466 packard laboratory his talk will be on the general subject of purchasing mr holton started his industrial career with one of the subsidiaries of the bethlehem steel corporation and came to bethlehem at the time of the consolidation of the subsi diary says prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical en gineering since coming here he has developed a purchasing system which has attracted wide attention and which has served as a model for other large organizations the corporation not only fur nishes steel and machinery but it delivers private railway cars and yachts completely equipped for service the beds linens table sil ver and everything else needed to furnish these products are pur chased through the central office under the direction of mr holton culture thirsty frosh are conspicuous at exhibit popular art for the last few days hundreds of students and outsiders have been laboriously climbing to the third floor of the library in order to witness the second art exhibit of the season entitled comparisons and contrasts now on display on entering the gallery one is impressed by the large number of rather bewildered and even dis gusted looking freshmen carefully scrutinizing the numerous paintings this may give rise to an erroneous conclusion that the class of 37 is artistically inclined however on inquiring one soon learns that this abnormal interest of the freshmen is only due to the fact that they have been forced by their english instructors to write a theme on the exhibit plans for an ultra short wave transmitter will be discussed at the meeting of the radio club to be held at 4:15 p m wednesday in room 503 packard laboratory the code transmitter which was used at open house last spring has been put into service temporarily until the new phone which is being built by h c knutsnn instructor in electrical engineering c a ro sencrans e e 31 and c o bartlett e e 36 is completed under cover of darkness 25 muhlenberg students stealthily broke into taylor stadium sunday night and departed carrying trium phantly not only one but both goal posts frustrated in the attempt after their victory saturday first by the stout guardians of the law and later by zealous lehigh students they were not to be denied the spoils of victory two of their number inspired with patriotic zeal scaled the high fence at hillside avenue and opened the main gates allowing the rest to enter the posts and crossbars were loaded on cars and the plotters made their way through back streets and alleys to allentown where they held a march of triumph up and down hamilton street finally end ing at the muhlenberg dormitories three juniors and five seniors were pledged to tau beta pi hon orary engineering fraternity at the chapel exercises on monday morn ing the men admitted are b g fortman i e 34 h c haupt ch e 34 k l honeyman e e 34 j a morse ch e 34 w a robinson c e 34 w a john son met e 35 l p struble m e 35 and w s weil e.e/35 bethlehem pa tuesday november 21 1933 vol xll no 1 7 western union head to discuss business price five cents the lehigh university brown and white brown and white wins i.n a cup palmer tells of nazi rise under hitler r b white will speak to joint meeting of societies leach speaks on collectors of rare books lehigh-lafayette smoker to be held 7:30 friday youth discontent caused movement arts college head says in address to sophomore forum 40 men attend first meeting plan another for next month librarian delivers third lecture of university series last night in packard auditorium paper takes first place in news second in edi torial contests at johns hopkins convocation six lehigh delegates attend klatzkin addresses session convention hears associated press official plans spring meeting at temple university member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first