Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 40

              litzenberger reports that sanitary conditions and maintenance excellent in fraternity houses results of investigation sent with grade to each group geology head says that mt rushmore monu ment will last only few thousand years life of 1,600,000 years forecast by n y american two students and two faculty members to represent brown and white at temple u five firsts have been won by lehigh in past four years would you take military training if it were not compul sory is one of the questions asked on the questionnaire being circulated throughout the student body by the lehigh review l h eichelberger m e 34 edi tor says that they hope to get a fair knowledge of the student attitude toward war from the re turned questionnaires there is a list of questions to be answered but typical among them are do you believe in war as a na tional policy would you enlist in case of war if the alternative were a jail sentence due to the large number of students who are engaged in athletic activities and thereby unable to appear for the red cross senior life saving course scheduled for 4:15 to 5:15 daily a second section of classes will be held nightly from 7 to 8 p m the evening instruction will coincide with the afternoon in struction of that date so that students who are unable to make a particular afternoon class will not be left behind in their work make-up classes and practice periods will also be held on sat urday mornings from 10 to 12 &. m where students who have missed any classes during the week may receive the instruc tion lacking the evening and saturday periods will be led by g t saxtan pool director will discuss electric power honor society initiates men prof s s seyfert to talk on public utilities at lecture on monday little did asa packer think that when he left his home in the spring of 1823 he would some day found a university build an important rail road develop many industrial and commercial enterprises and even tually become one of the most in fluential residents of pennsylvania packer's early life was by no means a glamorous one but it un deniably shows his ability to work his way to the top of the ladder of achievement he first became a carpenter and later commander of a barge in the lehigh canal with the money that he made at this he soon bought a store established yards for building canal boats and got some large con tracts for erecting canal locks it was not long from that time until he became interested in the coal shipping business as usual success and profit resulted from this enterprise and it was then that he attempted the biggest job of life this job was that of building the lehigh valley railroad which he started in 1852 and finished three years later in this venture he be came dangerously close to losing all his hard-earned money but again the enterprise proved profitable and helped to add to his fortune at a natural result of his achieve ments he was elected to public of fice he served as a judge a con gressman and was a candidate at the national democratic convention in 1868 and was the democratic nominee for governor of pennsylva nia in the following year it was readily seen at judge and mrs packer's golden wedding an niversary in what high esteem he was held the celebration of this anniversary was attended by prom inent people from all walks of life and the new york graphic consid ered the occasion of sufficient im portance to publish a cartoon of packer in his will asa packer bequeath ed large sums of money to lehigh and other educational institutions it was said in his memory he scat tered tne seeds of his benevolence with a liberal hand and the fruits of education and science sprang up in his path phi beta kappa inducts fourteen seniors two new councilors chosen history society to hold meet abell lectures on key to art modern symposium to be held by international relations organization acadia professor states notre dame cathedral shows line repetition the relation between the people and the public utilities is the theme of the fourth university lecture electric power and human wel fare to be delivered by prof s s seyfert head of the electrical en gineering department at 8 p m march 26 in packard auditorium professor seyfert will discuss the beginning of the use of electric power which started after the dis coveries of oerstead and faraday the main development has taken place in the last 50 years the advancement of lighting will be traced from the incandescent fourteen seniors were initiated by the beta chapter of pennsylvania of phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic society at its meeting held on wednesday afternoon in the faculty room in the alumni mem orial building the men initiated were r n lindabury milton meissner wil liam h bohning herbert t brunn richard m byers william a rob inson james osborn fuller c brooks peters clinton f miller wilbur c winblad david c bom berger david eckstein victor may er and gellert s alleman two new members were elected to the council of tne chapter and a new set of officers was installed the new members are prof charles j goodwin professor of greek and prof frederick a bradford of the department of economics the retiring members are dr natt m emery vice president of the uni versity and prof edgar h riley of the english department the new officers are prof j b reynolds president prof c j goodwin vice president prof p m palmer secretary and prof r b cowin treasurer the members of the council are as follows 1933-36 prof j b rey nolds and prof l h gipson 1932 35 dean a g rau of moravian college and prof r b cowin 1934-37 prof c j goodwin and prof f a brodhead the statement in a recent new york american that the history of the united states to be inscribed on the face of mt rushmore will last for 1,600,000 years is branded as ab surd by dr b l miller head of the geology department dr miller states that although the inscription is to be in granite it will be undistinguishable and in distinct in as short a time as a few thousand years in as short a space of time as 500 years the letters and sharp features of the carvings will become rounded and in some cases obliterated the american stated that the rate of erosion would be about a quarter of an inch every 100,000 years dr miller says that al though this may be a true average for a long period of time the first inch will disintegrate much faster than any succeeding inch an example of this is the definite knowledge that 200 feet of granite has been eroded at a certain local ity since ordivician time or as es timated 20,000,000 years average often untrue at this rate the average would be one foot every 100,000 years but the fact is that of the 200 feet dis integrated to a clay the first foot was disintegrated in a shorter space of time than the two hundredth foot thus a false impression is gained from an average and the truth is hidden dr miller says that ice and frost in the vicinity of the black hills are very common and that these two elements will be a large factor in the distintegration of the rock if the black hills were an arid region then it would be safe to say that the features and the lettering would last longer the monolith in central park new york city was cited as an ex ample by dr miller the monolith was brought to new york from egypt where the climate is arid the lettering on the monolith had lasted several thousands of years in the arid climate but within ten years after it was moved to the moist climate of new york it start ed to crack and peel in a dry climate the features will last but in a moist climate or where ice and frost are at action the rates of disintegration peeling and crack ing are very high dr miller says and it is my opinion that the writ ing will not last as long as was in timated by the new york amer ican six colleges invited to organise society two students and two faculty members will represent the brown and white at the semi-annual con vention of the intercollegiate news paper association of the middle at lantic states to be held today and tomorrow at temple university in philadelphia the brown and white will com pete with 30 other college papers for prizes in news and editorial ex cellence at the fall convention last year the lehigh paper won the news competition cup and took sec ond place in editorial excellence the paper has won the editorial cup three times and the news cup twice in the past few years comprising the lehigh"helega tion are dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism kenneth k kost assistant in journalism rob ert f herrick editor in chief and l sherwood stout circulation man ager group left today the group left here at 11 a m today and will return saturday night after the convention banquet following the registration fri day afternoon hyraan levin pres ident of the intercollegiate news paper association of the middle at lantic states will preside over the formal opening of the convention the business of the association will be taken up at this meeting on the morning and afternoon of the following day the editorial and business staffs of the papers will hold separate sessions both of these sessions will be addressed by men prominent in newspaper work following these separate meet ings a joint session will be held at which time mr john allen editor of the linotype news who recently spoke at lehigh will address the delegates the election of the offi cers and committee appointments for the association will be made at this meeting the convention banquet will be held saturday evening at which time the awards will be made to the winning papers many entertain ments will be given during the con vention such as a theatre party and a supper dance at hotel stephen girard judging by the entries that are al ready in the i n a committee announces that this convention gives promise of being the largest ever held lehigh pre-medicals to try to start national club la muela del juico will be presented fraternity dances to be held saturday a modern symposium on interna tional affairs will be presented by the international relations club at 7:30 tonight in packard auditorium three college professors will speak on different aspects of the situation and they will discuss all its phases with the audience f.a brodhead professor of econ omics will speak on international finance he has been a member of the faculty at lehigh for seven years before coming here he taught at the university of michigan and southern methodist university he is a member of the royal economic society an english organization the american economic association the academy of political science and the american statistical asso ciation w w eddy associate professor of history at lafayette college will discuss international conflicts he is a graduate of princeton univer sity and received his master's de gree at harvard he has been on the faculty of princeton univer sity of washington lafayette and the american university beirut dr james edgar swain prtfessor of european history and interna tional relations at muhlenberg col lege will answer the question is nationalism doomed he has been a harrison fellow in history at the university of pennsylvania and re ceived his doctor's degree at the same school combined musicals announce programs miami triad and sig eps to entertain spanish club to give comedy tonight in drown hall buildings paintings and statues which display harmonious features yet show contrast are the only ar tistic masterpieces said walter abell head of the department of fine arts of acadia university in his lantern-slide lecture on a key to art thursday evening in packard laboratory although contrast plays an im portant part in the appearance rep etition of the same lines in the ar chitecture and correct proportion of size of the notre dame cathedral said professor abell are the main reasons for the symmetrical beauty which it displays since the durability of a cathe dral is of great importance the small fancy carvings and the tall cylindrical columns which often attract visitors prove to be very hard to keep in repair for the weath er constantly destroys them there fore the notre dame cathedral was built on a less elaborate plan than many of the buildings similar to it although the notre dame cathe dral is one of the greatest achieve ments in gothic art there are sev eral columns in the interior that differ from the others this is not done to offer variety pointed out professor abell but merely to in sure the strength of the building professor abell also lectured on several paintings and statues he pointed out how paintings and statues like cathedrals had to be balanced and had to offer contrast in order to be of real worth glee club sings at bethlehem methodist church dr beardslee talks to y.w.c.a group lehigh professor tells girls of leaders of today stanley s seyfert bulb of thomas edison the arc light flood lighting to gas-filled tubes and the sodium light professor seyfert has also pre pared slides on the use of electric ity in transportation he will dis cuss the early trollies subways and the electrification of railroads elec trical propulsion on marine craft also has its advantages the importance of electricity in industry has necessitated large steam and hydro-electric power de velopments electricity has also aided in the decentralization of in dustry by the use of electricity as a source of power large industrial plants do not have to be built near coal mines or large streams the lecturer will consider the cost of electrical power and the realia bility of electricity the producers of electricity have developed large power pools and thus they have re sulted in a great deal of graft these relations between the power com panies and the public will be dis cussed at length and illustrated by a large number of slides the report on living conditions compiled this week by andrew w litzenberger superintendent o f buildings and grounds showed the following the majority of fraternity houses have no adequate provision for es cape in case of fire many houses have neither fire ex tinguishers nor hose racks general conditions of sanitation and maintenance are excellent in the early part of january a representative of the department of buildings and grounds visited 31 fraternity houses and leonard hall to investigate conditions under which lehigh students live the results of the survey have just been completed recommendations for improvement are being sent to each house this week only five fire escapes the most significant item in the report showed a deplorable lack of precautionary measures for fighting fire and fire escape of the 32 houses investigated only five have legitimate fire escapes ten houses have fire ropes or ladders and one has a fire chain the rope idea declared super intendent litzenberger is accept able although i prefer something more substantial unless the ropes are tested periodically you never can depend on them eleven fraternity houses have no fire extinguishers of any kind twen ty have extinguishers and one has a hose rack general conditions mr litz enberger asserted are unusually good the sanitary condition of the kitchens bathrooms and bed rooms is especially worthy of com mendation the grounds of nearly all the houses are in excellent con dition the superintendent went on to say and the interior and exterior painting is also well-done there are 720 men living in fra ternity houses theta xi leads with 39 men while leonard hall is last with ten the average number of men in each house is 22.4 since there were 1,242 men registered in the university this semester 1.7 men live in fraternity houses for each one who does not twenty-five of the fraternity houses have chapter rooms and 13 have not 12 brick houses there is a marked trend toward brick and combination houses there are 12 houses constructed of brick and 13 with a combination of mater ials three are built of stone while only two are stuccoed a total of 86 servants are employ ed by the fraternity houses exclud ing waiters a side light on the diversions of fraternity men is shown by the fol lowing figures 16 houses have card rooms nine have ping-pong rooms and five have billiard rooms this is the first systematic report ever made by the department there will be another inspection as soon after the first of may as possible promised the superintendent in which we expect to see an im provement in the few instances ne cessary the report was typewritten on several sheets of paper for each house after the investigation each house received a grade of a b or c in each item on the list mr litzenberger is now sending out letters to each group requesting the necessary improvements snapshots wanted informal campus pictures needed for epitome a program in two parts consist ing of a spanish play and spanish songs and dances will be presented at 8:15 tonight by the spanish club in drown hall the first part of the entertain ment will be in the form of a one act comedy entitled la muela del juicio the wisdom tooth by miguel ramos carrion the leading parts will be played by benjamin keen arts and gilberto escobedo c e 36 a synopsis in english will be included in the program a group of dances and songs will follow the play a mexican dance by miss leonor escobedo and a tango by walter l deemer arts 35 and miss maria lorenzo are to be in cluded in this group a pupil of marjorie berlin fink will also exe cute a spanish dance there will be music during the intermission furnished by piano and violin the scenery and staging was done by albert a rights in structor in english and the mem bers of the class in dramatics tau beta pi to pledge soon tau beta pi honorary engineer ing society met thursday evening in packard laboratory for the pur pose of electing new members the men selected for membership will be pledged in chapel before the easter vacation states e l wild man jr president delegates from pre-medical so cieties of six colleges have been in vited to meet with the robert w hall pre-medical society at 8 p m tonight in room 466 packard lab oratory to discuss the formation of a national organization says r w buchanan chairman of the activi ties committee of the lehigh so ciety invitations have been sent to muhlenberg haverford ursinus rutgers lafayette and swarth more colleges about 25 delegates are expected to attend buchanan states preceeding the regular meeting dr theodore reichbaum of the easton coroner's office will discuss the work of the coroner and cases on which he has worked other doctors who have been in vited to attend the meeting are dr w l estes jr of st luke's hospital dr milstead and dr pay er of the sacred heart hospital in allentown dr cassone and dr schaeffer of the allentown gen eral hospital dr bull director of the lehigh health service and dr ford head of the department of psychology scabbard and blade pledges scabbard and blade honorary military society pledged five men at a meeting on thursday the pledgees are m b rae bus 35 j o evans ch e 34 r rick m e 35 r w buchanan arts 35 j w heiney bus 35 they will be formally pledged at the next drill monday afternoon stated john r fugard jr treasurer of scab bard and blade john d neely editor in chief of the epitome requests students to submit informal snapshots to fill 11 pages in the book to be devoted to this purpose everyone likes to have these in a yearbook neely claims so a special effort is being made to make the snapshot section a feature of this year's book pictures of people are preferred by the epitome staff prints not negatives are needed and they will be returned to the lender they should be left with miss clouse at the lehigh union office two dances will be given tomor row night by four fraternities the miami triad dance will be given jointly by beta theta pi phi delta theta and sigma chi it will be held in the hotel bethlehem this will be a closed dance and some 300 invitations have been sent out the music will be furnished by george doddy and his orchestra of bethlehem the chaperones will be dr and mrs stewart l rankin mr and mrs george b thorn and dr and mrs claude g beardslee sigma phi epsilon will hold their annual mid-winter dance at the chapter house one hundred and fifty invitations have been issued the music will be furnished by the lehigh collegians the affair will be chaperoned by mr and mrs w g fly and prof eric c sinkinson harry j o'brien jr bus 34 and leßoy schwarz waelder eng 36 are the heads of the dance committees of miami triad and the sigma phi epsilon dances respectively brown speaks at liberty sydney m brown professor of european history lectured to lib erty high school pupils at their chapel exercises tuesday morning his subject was a day with the medieval school boy professor brown will give this same lecture on april 9 at the lincoln high school jersey city the activities of the combined musical clubs band and symphony orchestra include several perfor mances this spring says t b jor dan bus 34 president and man ager of the musical organization last night the glee club gave a concert at the wesley methodist church in bethlehem beside the regular glee club selections there were numbers by a trio composed of the following j f brownlee i e 35 g a horlacher ch e 35 and k j putnam arts 35 r f herrick arts 34 was accom panist several solos baritone and tenor were given next month the glee club and the dance orchestra the lehigh melodians will give a concert and dance at philadelphia under the auspices of the lehigh alumni club of philadelphia the chief purpose of this performance is to interest sub-freshmen in lehigh says jor dan the trip will be in charge of j h mcconnell met 34 may 19 is the date set for the home concert and dance of the mu sical organization further activi ties have not yet been outlined leaders of today are striving for a beloved community said dr claude g beardslee head of the moral and religious philosophy de partment in an address before the y w c a business and profes sional girls last tuesday in the ho tel bethlehem a total of 115 persons were pres ent to hear dr beardslee lecture on what is and what shall be the leaders said the lecturer are analyzing conditions and hav ing as their goal a better country while they paint a mental picture of a world brotherhood it will be a struggle to attain the beloved community but nothing is achiev ed without a struggle said dr beardslee dr beardslee spoke of service in the world war in france and of the comradeship as men marched together now he added anoth er was has begun — a war for peace the moral order in the universe the progress of truth and grace which was here before man is a force cre ating beauty and order — an order of law not man made man discovers and follows this order bethlehem pa friday march 23 1934 asa packer lehigh's founder worked his way to fame life saving will be held in evening for athletes questionnaires circulated on attitude toward war vol xu no 40 price five cents the lehigh university brown and white report shows fire escapes not adequate miller scores estimate of age of inscription four to attend i.n a meeting in philadelphia philanthropist started as a carpenter and later lab ored on canal barge in 1852 began building railroad coming events friday march 23 7:30 p m a modern symposium under the auspices of the interna tional relations club packard audi torium 8 p m pre-medical society lecture by dr theodore reichbaum room 466 packard laboratory 8:15 p m spanish night under the auspices of the spanish club in drown hall saturday march 24 10 p m miami triad dance at the hotel bethlehem george doddy and his orchestra 10 p m sigma phi epsilon mid winter dance at the chapter house music by the lehigh collegians monday march 26 7:30 p m arcadia meeting in drown hall 8 p m university lecture elec tric power and human welfore by prof s s seyfert packard auditorium member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news 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