Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 33

              f r dravo 87 of pittsburgh who died of injuries re ceived in train wreck yesterday he was an alumnus trustee and twice president of the alumni association graduated from lehigh as a mechan ical engineer he had been for years a leader in the con struction held the interfraternity council hopes to recompense 100 per cent the owners of clothing left at the hiterfraternity ball says r e mcleod president of the coun cil in a statement to the brown and white many of the articles lost at the ball have been recovered through the lost and found bureau of the lehigh union mcleod says the council had postponed action until such opportunity to return and exchange clothing taken by mistake had been provided unfortunately the value placed by their owners on the articles still missing exceeds the funds of the council he contin ed and unless the owners will value the clothing at the time of the loss the council will have to pay on a proportional basis kellogg gives views on meet senior member of board killed last night a vie ti m of pitts burgh train derailment president of alumni asso ciation in 1905 and 1929 francis dravo noted trustee dies in wreck vol xli no 33 d.o.t argues banks nira mining meet attended by 30 lack of courtesy to visit ing wrestling team evident on saturday d w hoppock e l heller t.e butterfield lose to susquehanna prof sinkinson myers and harrower read paper at new york in a business session which ranged in legislation from a dona tion of 100 to the lacrosse club to a criticism of lehigh penny post cards arcadia student governing body held its first meeting of the year last night additional action taken at the meeting included the recognition of the burro as lehigh's official mas cot the reference of song book publication to the placement bureau and a discussion of the activities of the brown key society two new members were also named to ar cadia committees the granting of aid to the la crosse club was made after a short address by e l wildman m.e/34 president of that organization out lining expenses of the organization and tentative plans for the current season due to a saving incurred by arcadia in cancellation of represen tation at the national student fed eration members decided to expend 100 for lacrosse support equipment worn out wildman pointed out that the ar cadia grant for lacrosse would be used primarily for equipment as that donated to the club by the uni versity in the past years has been used beyond repair he further list ed a tentative schedule for the team wjaich._he—bjelieved would bring an income of 315 during the coming season in a discussion of the promotion of a book of current lehigh songs arcadia recognized the value of such a publication but declined to sponsor the production of this ar ticle on the grounds of high ex pense the idea was projected to the placement bureau with the thought of placing the work in the hands of students the burro temporarily accepted at the last lehigh-lafayette foot ball game as the official university mascot was given full and official sanction by arcadia burro official mascot characterized by r e mcleod i e 34 president of the interfra ternity council as exemplifying slow but undying spirit the bur ro rode into its position as official mascot on a unanimous vote the opinion of arcadia with re gard to the brown key assistant sports managers welcoming so ciety was that the organization had continued on page six since the metal now used in the covering of the fuselage makes the monoplane type of airplane more feasible the modern trend in air craft construction is toward planes with only a lower or mid-wing w van hoitsino of the boeing school of aeronautics told members of the mechanical engineering society last night mr van hoitsino showed four reels of motion pictures in connec tion with his lecture the first was a comprehensive history of the means of transportation tracing the development from the pony express and the stage coach to the airplane the second presented views of the pratt whitney engine factory in hartford conn the third described the ground school of the boeing plant and the fourth gave a pictor ial account of a transcontinental trip aviation is making rapid strides in passenger and commercial trans portation mr van hoitsino said the united air lines has a train ing school for pilots and ground men in the boeing school of aero nautics this school takes men who have only high school train ing and develops them into efficient mechanics graduates of colleges have a very distinct advantage since they are usually put on a specialized course in which much of the ele mentary training is waived provide training school the pan-american airways mr van hoitsino continued has recent ly instituted a training school which covers a period of six years and is divided into four stages an appli cant for admission must be a col lege graduate preferably with an engineering degree he must take in addition to his regular mechanical training a course in the spanish lan guage and a course in commercial geography the boeing factory and school at oakland mr van hoitsino said made tests last year with an air plane run by steam the first test flight was made in april the plane had a two-cylinder engine of 80 horsepower and developed a speed of 80 miles per hour the pilot can reverse the engine on landing and by using the propeller as an air brake he can stop almost as quickly as an auto-gyro speaking of the single wing type planes the speaker said that this type is the model of transcontinen tal craft widely used in europe and which is becoming increasingly pop ular here in illustration of this he presented views of construction and assembly in the pratt whitney en gine factory and the boeing air plane plant the banking situation and the nira were the subjects of two de bates held by the lehigh debating teams friday night at susquehan na and bucknell d w hoppock 36 e l heller 34 and t e butterfield 35 in the debate at susquehanna univer sity lost by a two to one decision of the judges they argued the affir mative side of the question re solved that the federal govern ment should own and operate all banking institutions in the united states the su?quehanna team was com posed of harry cassler clyde stitz ner and william morrow the judges were clayton leach a bank er miss aberdeen philips school teacher and the rev dallas bear lehigh upholds affirmative in the debate with bucknell uni versity george bell 34 and harry k ellis 35 upheld the affirmative of the question resolved that the essential features of the na tional industrial recovery admin istration should be adopted as a permanent policy of our govern ment the negative side was tak en by ralph peters and samuel barker although no decision was given an open forum was held aft er the debate on the different as pects of the subject the debate with lafayette sche duled to be held last night was in definitely postponed since the roads between bethlehem and easton were practically impassible lehigh debaters will meet the university of pennsylvania in a ra dio debate 10 p m over station wcba in allentown on the ques tion resolved that the govern ment should own and operate all banking institutions in the united states the lehigh two man team has not yet been chosen there will be no decision on this debate review to publish three short stories campus fraternities hold annual dances next issue to appear march 1 ; will have 40 pages a t o and sigma nu enter tain saturday night to discuss oil pumps the lehigh union in its first meeting of the year friday evening which was characterized by a flood of legislation voted 1 to procure additional equipment for drown hall and contribute to new stage sets for the mustard and cheese dramatic club 2 to conduct an old clothes drive on the campus 3 to consider the presenta tion of a noted speaker or de vote equal funds to entertain ing poor children for a day 4 to pay honoraria to the third and fourth high competi tors for the freshman hand book and to subsidize possible radio dances of the dormitory groups additional action of a legislative nature was taken when a commit tee was appointed to draw up a new constitution for the union and re port its findings at the next meet ing may purchase radio principal articles to be tenta tively purchased for the further fur nishing of drown hall include a ra dio and fire place equipment while 10 was contributed to the mustard and cheese dramatic club to aid in the purchase of a standard scenery set to be used by all organizations the collections incident to the old clothes drive of the union will start monday march 5 and will be conducted much in the manner of collections of past years notices of the drive will be published in the brown and white during the next week the cabinet of the union referred for later action plans for presenting a well known speaker at the uni versity or entertaining a group of poor children on the campus for a day investigation of both plans will be conducted by members of the cabinet before the next meet ing in line with the latter work the union voted 10 for the dona tion of boys club memberships to 40 bethlehem children honoraria recommended in line with the recommendation of the present editor and past offi cials of the freshman handbook the union voted honoraria of 10 to the third and fourth highest com petitors for handbook editorship the payment to be made from the net profit of the publication in response to some agitation of certain dormitory groups in favor of radio dances the union agreed to subsidize these to the extent of guaranteeing any debts up to 10 it was additionally pointed out that the possible purchase of a radio by the union would also serve to cut the costs of the radio dances voicing a desire for a better writ ten statement of the purposes and limits of the lehigh union pres ident r n lindabury ch e 34 named a committee including e l wildman m e 34 e n hower met 34 and r f herrick arts 34 to join dr beardslee union secretary in drawing up a constitu tion r j s pigott will address a s m e thursday in commenting yesterday on the unsportsmanlike attitude of some spectators toward the perm state wrestlers at the meet saturday nel son a kellogg director of athlet ics gave out the following state ment in an interview it is probable that the partisan ship shown by outsiders for and against the three men from beth lehem on the perm state team was the cause of the booing at the meet there were things such as the actions and wrestling tactics of the perm states wrestlers which irri tated the crowd and made it easy to forget oneself for the moment thoughtlessness on the part of some students may have led them to dis play momentarily an unsportsman like attitude visiting teams should be con sidered as guests and treated as such horvath and cole of the perm state team were injured and found difficulty in their matches should check outsiders i believe that students should at tempt to shut up outsiders who for get themselves to the extent of boo ing at college meets also upper classmen should exercise control over those students who display an ungentlemanly attitude at such times john horvath of state wrestl ing ccl peck in the 135-lb class injured his arm during the first few minutes of the match when he asked for time out some of the spec tators apparently thought he was stalling and voiced their disappro val horvath's arm showed signs of being broken and state immediate ly defaulted the match rosey rosenberg captain of the perm state team was booed during his match with frank gon zales when members of the crowd saw signs of stalling on the part of the visiting captain while he was obtaining his time advantage the referee penalized rosenberg three times for stalling twice making him stand up and once giving gonzales the advantage in a referee's posi tion eleven members of the faculty and 19 students made up the le high delegation to the annual meeting of the american institute of metallurgical and mining en gineers held the first four days of last week in new york city e s sinkinson associate pro fessor of ore dressing and fuel technology p b myers institute research fellow in geology and w p harrower bus 34 were co authors of the paper some obser vations of vibrating screen capac ities with eastern magnetites read at the meeting lawrence burns newly appoint ed instructor in metallurgy pre sented a paper on the effects of carbon and nitrogen on the lattice parameter of alpha iron lovell lawrence e m 10 and h d turner former instructor in geology also presented papers to the institute miller heads committee dr b l miller head of the ge ology department was chairman of a sub-committee dealing with the instruction in non-metallic minerals in mining schools professor miller lectured on the origin character istics and distribution of graph ite before the new york mineral ogical society at the american mu seum wednesday evening the faculty representation in cluded profs bradley stoughton allison butts gilbert e doan wil bur e harvey and lawrence burns of the metallurgy depart ment and prof howard eckfeldt and eric s sinkinson of the min ing department the students who attended were w c schulte j h frye c a zappfe and h s ten eyck grad uate students in metallurgy j m lohse and p b myers graduate students in geology d h hickok e l heller and s d michaelson all e m 34 e h howells r c lengel j e prior l m raring f e walling p d strubhar g r barrow h f graeff m h kolkner and g a landis all met e 34 s a m holds radio dance thirty couples attended a radio dance given by sigma alpha mv last saturday at the chapter house mcconn is speaker shady doings dean tells delta sigma phi dads of fraternities window blinds help geolo gy students see light francis r dravo the senior member of the alumni trustees on the board of the university was killed at 10 o'clock last night in the wreck of a pennsylvania east bound passenger train at pitts burgh he was president of the alumni association in 1905 and again in 1929 from 1908-11 he served as an alumnus trustee and was again elected to this position in 1928 dravo was one of nine who died as a result of injuries sustained when the engine and first cars of train no 1638 made up in akron and enroute to new york rolled from a viaduct on pittsburgh's north side and plunged into the street below more than two score persons were taken to pittsburgh hospitals many of them in a criti cal condition f r dravo was one of pitts burgh's most prominent citizens he was a director of the diamond na tional bank of pittsburgh a trusteee of the carnegie hero fund commis sion and a member of the advisory board of the salvation army he was a member of delta upsilon sigma xi national honorary re search society and of the alleg heny country club the duquesne club the keystone athletic club and edgeworth club all of pittsburgh he is survived by his wife the for mer jane moore and a daughter elizabeth began in pittsburgh graduated from lehigh as a me chanical engineering in 1887 dravo returned to his home in pittsburgh and with his brother ralph start ed in business as a construction en gineer the two young engineers without much capital and with no reputation began looking for bus iness and discovered that a project for connecting two pittsburgh buildings was under consideration but was blocked because of a city ordinance prohibiting the closing of a street which was involved by the job the dravos went to the owners of the buildings with the outlan dish proposal of doing the job without blocking the street the very daring of their unorthodox proposition intrigued the owners who decided to give them their first job a tunnel connection between the two buildings was completed before any one in pittsburgh was aware the work was in progress reputation established the feat remarkable at that time established the reputation of the dravos as boys who did the kind of jobs that other contractors were afraid to tackle — and the great dravo contracting company grew up among the latest dravo jobs in this section were the new market street bridge over the schuylkill river in philadelphia and the ta cony-palmyra bridge over the del aware the dravo corporation now in cludes besides the dravo contract ing company a number of subsi diaries the dravo-doyle company the dravo equipment company the keystone sand and supply com pany the inland rivers wharf company the eastern ohio sand and supply company the standard builders supply company the char leroi supply company the fuller ton-portsmouth bridge company the pomeroy-mason bridge com pany and the steubenville-weirton bridge company many other lehigh graduates have assisted the dravo brothers in building up their business there being 28 lehigh men in responsible positions in the organization at the present time pi kappa alpha celebrates initiation at hotel bethlehem pi kappa alpha completed its in itiation ceremonies with a banquet saturday evening at the hotel bethlehem at which three men were welcomed into the fraternity ed mund collins of allentown was the principal speaker the men initiated are h c paff chem 35 c w firling eng 37 and j m thomas eng 37 twenty-two members and guests attended the banquet r j s pigott chairman of spe cial research committee on fluid me ters will speak on pumping in the oil industry at the a s m e meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard laboratory before the lecture there will be a short meeting at which time new officers of the society will be in stalled the new officers are george a dornin jr 35 president tho mas e tate 36 vice president robert m eichner 36 secretary charles h nieman 36 treasurer president dornin will take charge of the rest of the meeting the a s m e contest which has been in progress will close 1 o'clock thursday the winner's pa per will be sent to the section con vention of the a s m e on april 9 and 10 at drexel university mrs smith elected president mrs robt m smith wife of prof robert m smith head of the eng lish department was re-elected president of the board of directors of the bethlehem y w c a at a recent meeting in the y w c a building alpha tau omega and sigma nu held their annual midwinter dances from 10 to 2 a m saturday evening in spite of the unfavorable cold weather both dances were very well attended the 75 couples who attended the dance sponsored by alpha tau omega were entertained by the mu sic of george doddy and his or chestra of bethlehem the dance was open after 12 o'clock the chaperones were dr and mrs t t lafferty the music at the closed dance held by sigma nu was furnished by jimmy filer and his orchestra of philadelphia the affair was chaperoned by mr and mrs e n sullivan and dr and mrs l i fisher of bethlehem both dances were attended by members of the perm state wrestl ing team board approves budgets the board of publications ap proved the budgets for the coming fiscal year for the brown and white burr and lehigh review at its meeting last thursday in dean mcconn's office three short stories from the re cent review contest will be pub lished in the lehigh review which will appear march 1 this 40 page issue will also contain nine full page cuts and a feature article plans for an extr^-curricular ac tivities director by the editor l h eichelberger jr bus 34 contributors to the current issue include john r mcco mb arts 36 and william j wiswes ser ch e 36 john d neely arts 35 will publish an article exper ience of a year book editor in this issue the college student in national politics is the title of an article by david w hoppock i e 36 also in this issue j j dreyfus arts 34 will reveal the solution of last issue's bridge hand the winner and prize to be awarded for this solution will also be announced the third of a series of fashion articles by fred r hammer bus 34 will appear among the full page cuts will appear a picture of william sheridan wrestling coach four views of the bethlehem steel plant photographs of the keys of 33 campus societies four modernis tic views of a printing press and views of the empire state building before and after completion the gradual death of fraternities if their scholastic averages do not come up to that of the university was phophesied by dean c m mc conn in a talk fraternities on trial at delta sigma phi's father and son banquet saturday night in the chapter house dr r b hess of bethlehem the chairman of the chapter's alumni fi nancial committee was the other guest speaker at the banquet which was attended by 14 fathers dean mcconn told of several vices of fraternities which were common at the time of their for mation and which have been more or less eliminated he also spoke of the problems coincident with fra ternities and of the plans which are being tried elsewhere as possible solutions including the fraternity housing plans at yale and harvard he said that the latest problems of fraternities were those of scholas tic standing a novel use for window shades has been started in the department of geology dr lawrence whit comb instructor in geology is using white window shades as charts thus far four charts have been made showing the crinoidea the graptozoa the blastoidea and the foraminifera dr whitcomb con templates making several more shade-charts before the year is over the use of these charts is a great help in that they may be rolled up after they are used and unrolled whenever it is necessary this saves the professor the time that he would ordinarily take to put the drawings on the board it also means that once the drawings are made they will not have to be re made for year to year bethlehem pa tuesday february 27 1934 union moves to aid poor furnish hall arcadia donates 100 to lacrosse price five cents aircraft men favor planes withonewing trustee killed in home city interfraternity council to pay for clothing will conduct old clothes drive contribute to mustard and cheese sets subsidized dances van hoitsino of boeing school of aeronautics tells m e.s of modern transportation four reels of pictures used in connection with lecture may present noted speaker or entertain children for day brown and white governing body recog nizes burro as mascot refers songbook pro ject toplacementßureau lindabury deplores booing treat visitors as guests organization requests dis continuance of sale of obsolete post cards coming events wednesday feb 28 7 p m freshman basketball le high vs muhlenberg taylor gymnasium 8:30 p m varsity basketball le high vs muhlenberg taylor gymnasium thursday march 1 7:30 p m tau beta pi room 451 packard laboratory 7:30 p m m e society lecture by r j s pigott room 466 pack ard laboratory friday march 2 4:15 p m freshman basketball lehigh vs wyoming seminary taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity wrestling le high vs cornell taylor gymna sium member intercollegiate newspaper association i all the lehich news first i [