Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 35

              d.o.t is host to two teams last night at in auguration of open for um discussion here prof h m diamond serves as critic in new type meet g t bell says workers cannot sacrifice liveli hood for a principle poll of audience shows majority prefer forum to more formal type of team argumentation c f miller d.o.t president promises more in future captain tow approves en thusiastically swell is diamond's comment did not rise higher than 46 de grees the coldest day of the month was the ninth when the thermometer went down to 13 degrees below zero while this was the coldest day on record for any february it was not the coldest day on record the coldest mark ever reached was dur ing january 1912 when the ther mometer dove down to 16 degrees below in both philadelphia and new york this february was reported by the weather bureaus to be the cold est ever recorded the difference between bethlehem and philadel phia has been very apparent during the past years the records show that in many cases in the past when there have been extremely low tem peratures in this town the tempera ture has not been as low in phila delphia this year however tem peratures were nearly as low in philadelphia and thus set a new low for that city the lowest average monthly tem perature ever reached for the month of february was recorded by the university weather bureau last month the mean temperature was 20.6 degrees and records show that the closest approach to this mark was in 1914 when the average was 25.9 degrees during the past month 18 inches of snow fell yielding 1.76 inches of water on melting the maximum snowfall for the month occurred during 1920 when 23 inches fell the average fall of snow for the winter months for a period cover ing the past 20 years is 11.43 inches there were ten days during which snow fell four days during which it rained six cloudy days and three partly cloudy days the warm est day was the 15th when the ther mometer reached 48 degrees just once previously has the warmest february day been colder that was in 1924 when the thermometer lehigh to do research work blake society hears harmon the final casting of mustard and cheese's next production of whist ling in the dark will be made at 4 p m thursday in drown hall those who have not tried out be fore will be welcome at this time announces l r travis publicity manager preliminary readings were held monday and tuesday afternoons but because of the conflicts of drill band and athletics the later trials will be given the main character to be cast is wallace porter a novelist original ly taken by ernest truex he is a small light comedian wally is about 30 years old obviously well bred intelligent looking but timid he is however quite capable of being cocky and gabby on occa sion states travis in contrast to porter are the members of the gang of criminals all tall and unpleasant looking be ing about as tough as possible there are also several straight parts out of the cast of 12 characters in whistling in the dark ten are males and two are females the women's parts will be taken by friends of the club around town but will be chosen later spanish - american mind is shaped by environ ment he says report says university is invited to aid in radio experiments explains aims of new deal yesterday the members of the lehigh union began a canvas to get old clothes to be donated to charitable organizations in bethle hem at its last meeting the lehigh union appointed harold y miller ch e 34 chairman of the com mittee to handle the drive for the balance of this week until satur day the members of the union will call at all of the fraternity houses and other living groups to pick up any discarded garments the stu dents may have the cause is worthy says mil ler and deserves the wholehearted support of the entire student body whatever the union gets he de clares will be distributed through the welfare organizations to the city's poor the drive to be held this week is mainly for winter clothing if any student has a heavy overcoat win ter suit sweater hat lumberjack or other clothing for which he has no further use the union will ap preciate his co-operation if this drive proves successful the union will hold another late in the spring tau beta pi plans dinner and smoker dr bishop heads group discussion on nra at omega phi sigma to entertain faculty and prospective pledges after the intercollegiate forum last night the ushers passed out cards to the audience professor frizzell asked them to list their oc cupations opinion on the forum and suggestions for its improve ment forty-seven cards were returned and there were only five people who preferred the formal debate to the forum c f miller president of delta omicron theta was pleased with the turnout and promised many more similar debates in the future when asked his opinion dr dia mond answered swell just swell prof john t talmadge of ce dar crest said the forum is far superior to the formal debate captain tow was enthusiastic in his approval of the new system and he urged that the society have many more like it professor frizzell termed the for um as most satisfactory and he hopes to continue the same rela tionship for many years with le high and temple at perm state the debating team has between 50 and 60 debates each year half of which are the forum type at perm state debating is a ma jor campus activity receiving large sums from the student activities fees to carry on the work six fraternities hold week-end dances three affairs are formal two radio one hundrel and thirty-one men started work yesterday on part time jobs provided by various de partments of the university and paid for by money appropriated by the federal emergency relief ad ministration john a brodhead di rector of placement announces notices were sent friday satur day and monday to the students chosen from the 189 applicants in structing them to report to the de partment in which they were reg istered for work the average earnings per student is not to exceed 15 a month with wages ranging from 35 cents to 40 cents on hour this will govern the total hours per student per month but there will be considerable lati tude and flexibility for concentra tion within the month if needed as long as no one works more than eight hours a day or more than 30 hours in any one week mr brod head states pay 15 per month as long as the average earnings per student per month employed in any department does not exceed 15 there is also further flexibility in that the maximum earnings may go as high as 20 per month this means that others working in that department would have to earn much less than 15 in order to keep the average at 15 the various department heads under which the program is being carried out are charged with the re sponsibility of directing and super vising the work it is the job of the placement bureau to collect reports on hours worked per day and to compile the " monthly reports re quired by the government while scholastic ability was one of the chief conditions under which the selection of students was made financial need was an equally im portant selective factor mr brod head states one of the evidences of need considered was that of pre vious registration in the placement bureau another evidence of need was the use of deferred tuition loans and scholarships by students recommendations of faculty mem bers also were considered in mak ing final placements assigning men difficult assigning men to jobs was diffi cult in a number of cases says mr brodhead where the training and experience of the available men did not fit the jobs that were unfilled in some cases upperclassmen were given preference where it was dif ficult to decide between several men from the information available the placement office would have liked to have placed all those who met the scholastic eligibility re quirements but this was impossible due to the fact that the number who qualified exceeded the number of jobs available by about 14 mr brodhead declares the lehigh chapter of tau beta pi national honorary engineering society at its business meeting friday night made plans for two coming events a formal dinner for the faculty members of the society to be held at the hotel bethlehem next week and a smoker for the men eligible for pledging to tau beta pi this spring it was decided to hold the latter on wednesday night march 14 in the faculty dining room in drown hall this meeting will be an in formal get-together so that the members can become better ac quainted with the prospective can didates for membership there will be no speakers other than the of ficers and bridge is to be the prin ciple entertainment states n y coxe secretary of the chapter the question as to whether tau beta pi would take any part in open house as a group was dis cussed and it was decided that since so many members will be tak ing part in connection with their own departments the society as a whole will not participate a resolution was passed that as sistant registrar g w ely be asked to publish a list of men who have averages of 2.5 or better for the use of all organizations coxe claims that such lists would be a great convenience to both the so cieties and the registrar u of p is opposed in radio debate peterson to explain polarised light heller and hoppock uphold affirmative over wcba physics professor will demon strate at meeting thursday although university officials de ny having received any notification of the fact a washington press ser vice article issued march 4 states that lehigh has been invited by the united states bureau of aeronau tics to aid in research on radio range beacons authority for the article is attrib uted to rex martin assistant direc tor of the bureau martin states that the problem which lehigh has been asked to assist in solving is that of multiple or split courses of radio range beacons multiple courses he says con stitute what appears to be the last problem to be solved in perfecting radio range beacons which have been operated for years by the de partment of cmomerce to provide directional guidance to airmen a specially equipped commerce department plane and two experts l c eliot and d m stewart will leave washington shortly to con duct flight research the article con tinues dr s s seyfert director of the curriculum in electrical engineering dr c c bidwell head of the de partment of physics and h.c knut son instructor in electrical engin eering all denied having received such an invitation the fact however dr f g kear a lehigh electrical engineering graduate of the class of 26 has been prominently associated with the bureau of standards a sub-depart ment of the department of com merce as an expert on radio bea cons might point to an invitation of this sort he has been working on improvements in radio beacons for the last five years in january dr kear gave a talk to the student electrical engineering society in which he discussed de velopments in the radio beacon field and possibilities for the future and described the technical operation of the beacons all main air routes he said then are now equipped with radio bea cpns as well as light beacons al though commercial airplanes have apparatus to find their direction during flight these planes and com mercial airports are not as yet equipped to use the radio landing beacon it seems indicative how ever he asserted that in time all commercial fields and planes will have blind landing facilities coming events five dances were held by six fra ternities over the week-end of the five dances two were informal radio dances while the remainder were large affairs with as many as 200 couples attending theta xi chi psi and psi up silon-theta delta chi jointly had orchestras while sigma phi epsil on and sigma alpha mv held radio dances the orchestras included jacques janeese at theta xi earl andrews of slatington at psi upsilon-theta delta chi and george doddy of bethlehem at chi psi the chaperones at the chi psi dance were capt and mrs p l sadler and prof and mrs h c brown the chairman of the dance committee was c h kuhns arts 36 the chaperones of the theta xi dance were dr and mrs j s long and mr and mrs g l ball the dance committee was composed of c t olafson ch e 34 j r wright arts 34 and c t gott hardt bus 37 the chaperones at the combined psi upsilon-theta delta chi dance were mr and mrs robert adams dr and mrs j l beaver chap eroned the sigma phi epsilon dance for which the dance committee was composed of b k smith arts 35 and l schwarzwaelder ch.e 36 the chaperones for the sigma al pha mv dance were prof e s sinkinson mr and mrs philip sie gel and mr and mrs s phillips the dance committee was e h land arts 36 and j j berger bus 34 lack of training in self-govern ment during the colonial period and in the aftermath of the revolution is an important factor in the slow ness of political progress in latin america in the opinion of dr george d harmon associate pro fessor of history professor har mon discussed the mind of span ish-america friday afternoon be fore members of the robert w blake philosophical society i feel that the spanish-ameri can mind is little different from the mind of any other people but that it has responded quite naturally to its history and environment dr harmon stated contending that if english colonists had been treated in the same way the result would have been similar professor harmon emphasized the strong royal government es tablished to check harsh treatment of the natives by spanish adventur ers which restricted practice in self-government to a few members of the cultured aristocracy during the colonial period the colonial period he explained created an aris tocratic governing class that re mained in power when after the napoleanic wars the spanish american countries gained political independence disunion rampant the disunion which created 19 re publics from eight spanish govern mental units has been tragic for the world professor harmon said he stressed the lack of co-opera tion after the revolution among military chiefs who dominated var ious districts and showed how mil itary leaders retarded political edu cation the age of dictators pro fessor harmon contended is over only when the people are willing to accept the results of the ballot without taking to the sword liberal politicians representing merchants and the middle class have been hampered in their fight on the old order represented by conservative mine owners and large scale farmers by lack of capital in tellectual leaders and skilled admin istrators professor harmon stated professor harmon contrasted the high education and culture of the aristocratic class who had colleges a hundred years before harvard was established with the illiteracy still prevailing among the masses he emphasized the contributions of the aristocracy ever since the co lonial period to poetry painting sculpture and law stressing the im portance of latin american jurists in international law at the league of nations and the world court eta kappa nu to discuss open house plans thursday eta kappa nu honorary electri cal engineering fraternity will dis cuss plans for open house at its meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in the engineering society's room in packard laboratory the society has been placed in charge of the open house projects for the electrical engineering de partment the committee in charge of the society's room is expected to propose some regulatory measures relative to the use of the room harmeson expected tonight accompanied by westerman the new deal was discussed by dr w l bishop associate pro fessor of economics and 14 mem bers of omega phi sigma wednes day evening at the group's chapter house dr bishop said that in any dis cussion of the new deal one must keep in mind the two aspects of its program one is providing relief for the unemployed and aiding the re covery from the depression the other is an attempt to bring about a greater stability in industry dr bishop showed that to attack the new deal as suppressing rugged individualism is foolish for there has never been a policy of absolute laissez faire the pres ent debate is concerned with the question how much it is socially desirable to limit individualism when asked whether the nra would remain as a permanent part of the government he said that it would remain applicable to only the large corporations as modified anti trust law he said there should nev er have been a blanket code for lo cal dealers since many of these codes if enforced would have made employers either lay off workers or go out of business hits manipulators when someone mentioned that the people who were hit by the stock market in 29 are back specu lating again dr bishop said the public would always come back for more he estimated that the average speculator lasts about five years be fore he is cleaned out but if he fol lows the charts which are prepar ed by the stock market manipula tors he'll only last two years the public always buys at the top and sells at the bottom the one way to beat the market is to do the oppo site of the public when asked about the govern ment power projects dr bishop stated that it would be hard to set a fair rate for electricity compar able to that charged by public util ity corporations he pointed out that the government projects would not be taxed would not have to pay high salaried officials and would be capitalized by the issuance of tax exempt bonds he said that there was a need for a federal power commission com parable to the interstate commerce commission in order to regulate public utility holding companies delta sigma phi initiates five delta sigma phi initiated five men at the initiation banquet held saturday night at the chapter house the men initiated were m r evans e e 36 w g bilger e m 36 r i ruel ch e 35 g l reid eng 37 and l klinga man eng 37 dr max petersen associate pro fessor of physics will explain and demonstrate applications and phen omena of polarized light to mem bers of the physics club at 8 p m thursday in the physics lecture room dr petersen will show light which has been polarized by reflec tion he will explain and demon strate strain views which are pho to-elastic studies of bakelite objects under stress he will perform and explain a number of projection experiments with polarized light demonstrating its optical activities and dispersion patterns among these will be the formation of complementary colors crystal axis interferrence patterns colors of crystals in thin sections and interference in mica plates dr peterson has borrowed a po larized light projector from lafay ette in order to demonstrate these phenomena more easily by robert a dreyer last night delta omicron theta honorary debating organization staged one of the biggest events in lehigh's debating history when members of the debating teams of lehigh perm state and temple presented an open forum on the na tional recovery act in packard au ditorium before the largest crowd ever attending a lehigh debate even though the society had nev er before attempted an intercolle giate forum they succeeded most admirably as written comments of the audience attested prof john h frizzell director of debating and professor of public speaking at perm state is one of the prime organizers of this form of debate acting as honorary chair man he explained the origin and procedure of the forum frizzell explains plan the plan for a forum as explain ed by frizzell is this a subject is taken for discussion and the first speaker explains the question the next speakers in turn describe the application of the subject to the sit uation when all the speakers have finished the audience discusses the subject among itself and asks the speakers questions following this the critic gives a commentary on the subject as a whole he crit icizes the respective arguments of fers his opinion and discusses the question in its broader aspects dr h m diamond professor of economics acted as critic and commented impartially on all phases of the question representing perm state were professor frizzell mortimer s freeman 34 and angela verba tis 35 donald s spigler temple 34 travelled from philadelphia to rep resent his school george t bell 34 spoke as the representative from lehigh c f miller 34 president of delta om icron theta introduced dr friz zell and welcomed the speakers to lehigh nira is emergency measure freeman the first speaker em phasized the fact that the nira is an emergency measure created by president roosevelt to meet the present economic conditions the following speakers based their speeches on these three points that freeman made george t bell the next speaker then discussed how the nra has worked out thus far and the fea tures worthy of inclusion as a part of the permanent policy of our gov ernment attacking certain portions of the act bell brought out the fact that it transfers the business from the efficient producers to the high cost manufacturers although the nra increases wages it does not make up for the attendant increase in prices he said donald spigler then gave a re sume of the history of capitalism he spoke against the theory that capitalism be allowed to run itself unhinlered by government restric tion in relation to initiative spigler said that capitalism fostered it in the wrong direction making rich men richer and poor men poorer state socialism is discussed angelo verbatis the last speaker discussed how a system of state socialism would remedy all the de fects of the present system this form of organization he said would operate for use and not profit professor diamond was then in troduced and he summed up the ar guments on both sides he said that the nra is the middle ground be tween the two extremities laissez faire and state socialism the nra he said can neither be termed a success or failure time alone will tell in closing dr dia mond stated that if the government can increase the cost of doing bus iness and still preserve its economic stability the nra will prove ul timately successful glen harmeson new head football coach is expected to ar rive in bethlehem some time this evening harmeson in the com pany of martin westerman new line coach left indiana yester day according to a telegram re ceived by bob adams harmeson originally left for bethlehem last thursday but was stricken with an attack of acute indigestion in lafayette indiana and returned to his home for a few days rest on the advice of his physician the lehigh debating team met the university of pennsylvania de baters friday evening in a radio debate over station wcba of al lentown on the question resolved that the government should own and operate all banking institutions in the united states d w hoppock 36 and e l heller 34 of delta omicron theta argued the affirmative side of the question for lehigh siegal and kahn of the university of pennsyl vania argued the negative no de cision was given in presenting the lehigh team's side of the question hoppock as serted that the present policy of banking allowed the incorporation of banks by men intellectually in capable of managing a modern bank the operation of the banks by the government would remove the possibility of another national bank failure stated hoppock and heller the pennsylvania men main tained that governmental control would be detrimental because of political influences wednesday march 7 4 p m organization meeting of lacrosse club in drown hall to decide on new coach 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club at the home of prof and mrs hall reading whistling in the dark 7:30 p m varsity wrestling vs princeton in taylor gymnasium thursday march 8 4:30 p m tryouts for whistling in the dark in mustard and cheese room in drown hall 7:30 p m eta kappa nu meeting in room 201-251 packard labora tory 7:30 p m physics society meeting in the lecture room in the phy sics building bethlehem pa tuesday march 6 1934 mustard and cheese will cast thursday university weather bur eaurecords all-time february low of 20.6 vol xli no 35 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white union begins annual drive for clothing 131 students start work in c wa jobs final try outs for whistling in the dark to be given state and temple help introduce informal debate part-time positions pro vided by departments filled by men select ed from 1 89 applicants federal emergency funds to pay for work until june h y miller committee chairman asks living groups to contribute old suits and overcoats welfare agencies of city to be given all garments member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first