Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 42

              urging the lawmakers at wash ington to study history and learn what happens when nations go in for inflation dr neil carothers head of the college of business ad ministration evaluates such schemes and other plans for ending the de pression in an open letter to con gress which appeared sunday in the herald-tribune magazine section in speaking of the legislation for silver dr carothers said there is no more reason in justice econo mics or history for buying silver and piling it in the treasury than there is for buying cheese there is even more reason for giving a sub sidy to cheese as the cheese indus try is a fairly important minor in dustry whereas there is no silver industry the metal is a mere by-product of other industries like sawdust as for restoring bimetallism at 16 to 1 that is simply a form of national fi nancial suicide and yet 33 of you in the senate voted to visit this ca lamity upon the nation dr carothers criticizes the pra saying the terms of this pra were so drawn that no employers in the united states big or little could operate under it and then followed the most luridly fantastic burlesque on economic sanity ever seen in any nation in a space of a few days mil lions of employers were rushed into the agreement thousands upon thousands of them without even reading it it was instantly appar ent that they could not continue business under it dr carothers said that the rem edy is for congressmen to vote for the issues they consider right and to fight those that they feel are wrong in the last year a lot of you have voted for measures you wholly disapproved that is not a very cou rageous performance and in the end it is not good politics the reference books in the li brary reading room have been ar ranged strictly in accordance with their call numbers in order to facilitate finding them how ard s leach librarian an nounces the bibliographies are located at the left of the entrance to the reading room with the encyclo paedies which were formerly on the other side of the entrance beyond them the books were rearranged by the library staff during the easter recess a sports jacket presented by the john wanamaker company has been selected by the blazer commit tee of arcadia as official for upper classmen samples and bids were re ceived from five other firms but wanamaker's the committee de cided offered the best value the jacket is similar to the blazer of last year it is of white flannel with brown silk piping the yoke and sleeves are lined with celanese and the seams are celanese taped the lapels are lined with hymo there are two patch pockets and an upper left hand pocket on which is the university seal in brown silk its weight is 13 ounces the jacket is made by the american woolen company a representative of wanamaker's will be in drown hall from 10 a m to 5 p m friday to take measure ments announces george t bell chairman of the blazer committee 13 journalists take n.y trip phi beta kappa will banquet j.r mccomb to play lead blake society discusses art students and two faculty members inspect pub lishing plants on tour mustard and cheese will present whistling in the dark april 27 - 28 members show effect of specialization on music painting and sculpture lehigh lafayette chap ters to hear editor at joint meetmgtomorrow the annual joint banquet of the lafayette and lehigh chapters of phi beta kappa national scholas tic honorary society will be held at 7 p m tomorrow at the hotel bethlehem the speaker at the dinner will be dr john h finley associate edi tor of the new york times the subject of his speech has not been announced says prof p m palm er secretary of the lehigh chapter who was instrumental in engaging the speaker dr finley is an educator author and editor he has been presented with honorary degrees by 14 col leges and universities in this coun try and abroad he has been active in educational work being president of knox college and the university of the state of new york from 1913 to 1921 he was commissioner of education for the state of new york during the world war dr fin ley was engaged in educational work for the american army in france and in the administration of the american red cross in the near east for his services he was decorated with the military and royal orders of nine countries at present dr finley is an asso ciate editor on the staff of the new york times a post which he has filled since 1921 lehigh to start radio series friday john r mccomb arts 36 has been selected to play the leading part of wallace porter the detec tive story writer in the mustard and cheese club's spring production of whistling in the dark to be presented april 27 and 28 in drown hall the tentative cast has been in re hearsal for several weeks but as so much depended on the choice of wally porter around whom all the action of the play centers a final de cision was delayed l r travis publicity manager explains that physical qualities as well as histri onic ability had to be considered mrs jean i rights as tobey van buren will be the casual modern society girl who helps wal ly face his difficulties and solve them mrs rights appeared last fall as tony the hotel hostess daugh ter in the dramatic workshop's production of little white mice in contrast to these two charac ters who are rather small are the gangsters with whom they have serious dealings albert zucker man who has already appeared in several mustard and cheese plays is the boss of the gang jacob dil lon his cohorts will be joe salva tor john b tupper slim scan ion c citret herman lefko witz bernard s weiss charlie shaw robert farnham jr the cossack wallace c riedell and benny e h land mrs nancy de soto will portray hilda the housekeeper captain o'rourke will be played by samuel k blumenthal several other minor parts are still to be chosen travis adds from those who tried out for the major parts will broadcast weekly over allentown station coming events with visits to editorial offices publishing plants and places of in terest to future newsmen 13 jour nalism students and two faculty members spent three days before the easter holidays in new york city on the annual journalism field trip the trip officially began on mon day morning march 26 when the group was shown through the plant of the new york times em ployees rooms editorial offices news rooms composing rooms and press rooms were observed in their turn john h finley noted editor and educator spoke briefly to the group and told about his early life as a journalist dr finley will be the speaker at the lehigh phi beta kappa banquet tomorrow the inspection of the mergenthal er linotype company on tuesday was of special interest to most of the men after seeing the linotype demonstrated in the display rooms the men were the luncheon guests of the company this was followed by a complete inspection of the plant the associated press and acme news photo service shared honors for the wednesday visitations at the ap headquarters they were shown how the news is distributed to papers all over the country acme service showed the complete processing of a picture at the offices of editor and pub lisher the group was introduced to marlin e pew the editor he an swered questions informally and ex plained some of the better oppor tunities in journalism men who create ideas are geniuses those who use these ideas are borrowers he said in the newspaper world both are necessary and the borrowers are often more useful than the geniuses on monday night the men wit nessed the broadcast of the big show from the columbia play house at 8:45 a m tuesday they saw the criminal line-up at police headquarters german books sh own contrasting tendencies in modern art showing the effects of special ization upon music poetry painting sculpture and the dance were pre sented to the robert w blake phil osophical society friday evening in packard hall the program will again be presented on april 20 at open house l h flisher president of the so ciety stressed the role of art in re flecting the age to which it belongs he emphasized the stress upon speed quantity and organization in modern life and art arts he con tended as a mode of experience re veals the modern world as a whole and is education in increasing inten sity of experience modern art appears to manifest the searching mind of the scientist the speed of the machine the inten sity of city life the knowledge cul led from civilizations and above all the search for novelty in life flish er explained m s muir arts 35 illustrated contrasts in music with selections from jean sebelius igor stravinsky and george gershwin he empha sized the presence of intellectual and traditional elements in sebelius the addition of brutality syncopa tion and mechanism to traditional elements in stravinsky and stressed the syncopated structure of ger shwin as having exclusively physical appeal tendencies in poetry were illus trated by c e schaub arts 34 with illustrations from edna st vincent millay carl sandburg and amy lowell j w tuton arts 35 showed lantern slides to exhibit trends in sculpture painting and architecture he contrasted conservative adher ence to modified traditional forms with radical attempts to express mental emotion upon seeing an ob ject rather than to portray the ob ject itself the program concluded with two dances by mrs gay lajoie of beth lehem contrasts were furnished be tween the tango and the waltz philosophers speak hughes discusses naturalism at sigma xi meeting thursday april 12 is the first day of the week for the nomination and registration of candidates for the primary class elections under the new arcadia plan elections will be for president and secretary-treas urer during this week names of nom inees are to be presented by their sponsors to members of the election board from 4 to 6 p m each nom inee is to have at least ten spon sors this group of sponsors is to be composed solely of men from the nominee's respective class and are limited to one from each living group not more than 40 percent of the total number of a nominee's sponsors may be from any one of the following groups men pledged or members of fraternities but not living at their houses shall be con sidered in groups a b and c not in d or e group a alpha tau omega beta theta pi chi phi chi psi delta tau delta phi delta theta phi gamma delta sigma nu theta delta chi group b alpha chi rho delta phi delta upsilon kappa sigma omega phi sipma pi kappa alpha l\si upsilon sigma chi sigma phi kpsllon group c alpha kappa pi delta sigma phi kappa alpha lambda chi alpha pi lambda phi phi sigma kappa sigma alpha mv sigma phi tau delta phi theta kappa phi theta xi group d taylor hall price hall group e leonard hall nor.-fraternity and non-dor mitory men it is the duty of the sponsors to campaign for their nominee the nominee himself may not take an active part in the campaigning if sufficient proof is presented to ar cadia of bargaining or unfair politi cal manipulations on the part of any nominee or sponsor the nominee's name shall be dropped from the pri mary list upon the decision of the election committee of arcadia nominees are to register with a full knowledge beforehand that once nominated they cannot resign nor can the sponsors each sponsor automatically casts his vote for his nominee their vote to be recorded for the primaries the day they pre sent the name of the individual they support unrestricted primaries there are no restrictions as to the number of men on the primary list nominations close on thursday april 19 with the primary list of nominees and their sponsors ap pearing in the friday april 20 and tuesday april 24 issues of the brown and white primary elections will be held on wednesday april 25 each voter will cast his ballot according to the hare single transferable vote sys tem this will require a ranking of each candidate according to first second third fourth etc sponsors of nominees will auto matically cast a first-place vote for their own candidates and will not be required to rank other nominees the two men receiving the high est number of votes in the primaries will be placed on the final election ballot on thursday april 26 vot ers will cast their vote for one man only and the one receiving the high est number of votes will become president with the runner-up auto matically elected secretary-treas urer information may be obtained from ben bishop chairman of the arcadia elections committee dramatic club to read play the faculty dramatic club will read ben johnson's play volpone at its meeting at 7:30 p m tomor row at the home of prof robert w hall 37 east church street theodore g ehrsam assistant in english will be in charge featuring a variety of entertain ment from various lehigh organiza tions the brown and white will inaugurate a series of weekly ra dio broadcasts friday from station wcba allentown the opening program of the se ries scheduled for 8:15 p m friday will serve as an introduction to the weekly broadcasts and will last 15 minutes future programs will possibly double this time while the program directors are not able to reveal complete details of the future programs it is under stood that campus musical and dra matic organizations will be featured on several broadcasts a summary of lehigh news events from cur rent editions of the brown and white will be included each week the introductory program fri day will feature in addition to the news review and an outline of brown and white activity a short program by the three musketeers the latter group official trio of the musical clubs is composed of g a horlacher j f brownlee and kent s putnam r f herrick is accompanist station wcba allentown broad casts on a frequency of 1440 kilo cycles president richards returns president richards returned last thursday from a three weeks va cation in florida he was accom panied on the trip by his wife and daughter tuesday april 10 7:30 p m faculty rifle club ar mory 8 p m illustrated lecture — sub marine exploration in the west indies geo-physical and geo chemical study of the ocean bottom by dr richard m field princeton university pack ard auditorium wednesday april 11 4 p m varsity baseball lehigh vs haverford taylor stadium 4 p m faculty volley ball lehigh field gymnasium 7 p m newtonian society room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m tau beta pi room 451 packard laboratory 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club residence of prof and mrs r w hall 37 e church street thursday april 12 5 p m tau beta pi room 451 packard laboratory 7:30 p m physics society lecture room physics building 7:30 p m industrial eengineering society room 466 packard lab oratory personnel by j c arnell 8 p m metallurgical society room 301 williams hall principles underlying the action of open hearth slags by dr r b sos man friday april 13 4 p m varsity baseball lehigh vs michigan taylor stadium dr frank o darvall british lecturer and writer interpreted new germany under the nazi regime in a public lecture sponsored by the international relations club last night in packard auditorium his lecture was entitled germany's challenge german people are not very well informed on political events in the country stated the lecturer because of the strict censorship of the press by the government there are not many germans who believe the an ti-jewish campaign has been car ried far or that the methods of the nazis have been brutal he declared we are not particularly inter ested in the characteristics of the revolution what is really important is to know what will be the atti tude of the new germany in foreign affairs explained dr darvall one of the consequences of the nazis revolution was a wave of alarm throughout europe it resulted in a stiffening of the attitude of france the instability of the french gov ernment may also be partly due to present conditions in germany he said reaction abroad a large amount of the pro-ger man opinion in england and the united states has been changed to pro-french feeling by the rise of the nazis to power in germany declared dr darvall it is difficult to determine whether this swing against germany is justified germany seems to have no de signs on lost territory except the saar and other territories inhabited by german people she has become reconciled to the existence of po land and now regards the latter country as a barrier against russia said darvall he believes that there is no reason why some concessions should not be granted to germany there is little doubt that these con cessions could be granted if france and her allies believed in the mod est claims of the nazis hitler is more realistic than most other european leaders he re alizes what a disaster to european civilization another war would be he declared averts communism we have perhaps underestimat ed the danger of communism in germany before the revolution we should pay more attention to the argument that the nazi overthrow saved germany from disintegra tion the german people are sensitive and are suffering from an inferiority complex much of the bluster of pre-war germany was the result of its inferiority complex dr darvall believs that this situation could be greatly improved by giving ger many the place in world affairs which it deserves there is a large gulf between the position which germany can hope to attain and the position which the nazi leaders are promising the people this gulf must be narrowed to insure peace explained balance of power disturbed there was no immediate danger when germany and france held mutually incompatible views as long as france was strong and germany weak since germany has strength ened his military force however this factor has become a real men ace one of the important results of the nazi uprising was a disposition to consider revision of treaties by foreign powers although much of this disposition has been offset by the reaction against nazi policies concluded dr darvall after the lecture dr darvall an swered several questions on german conditions dr darvall is the head of the department of history at queen's college london he received his bachelor's degree at reading uni versity in england his master's de gree at columbia and his doctor's degree at the university of london he has visited the united states and canada four times in the last six years he was a member of the british universities debating team which met american teams in the fall of 1927 three papers which in general dealt with the philosophical side of science were presented before a meeting of sigma xi on tuesday march 27 in packard laboratory the first paper by prof percy hughes head of the philosophy de partment was entitled natural ism old and new the second was read by frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy and was called a neglected factor in the changing view of nature and sci ence in the sixteenth and seven teenth centuries the final paper presented by t t lafferty instructor in education was recent changes in the con ception of matter modern printing stressed in li brary exhibit modern german books illustrat ing the fine printing being done at the present time by german pub lishers are being exhibited in the art gallery of the library the books range from beautifully illustrated children's books to schol arly publications they are placed in the open where they may be handled and may be examined in detail howard s leach librarian says reproductions of illuminations from medieval manuscripts and fac similes of the gutenberg bible have been placed in a glass case the books are not for sale but are exhibited to show the book art in modern germany mr leach says the exhibition will be open from 2 until 5 p m every day until april is an exhibition of gambling de vices furnished by supt of police fred trafford and actually taken in raids in bethlehem is planned by the mathematics department as one of its open house displays in addition to displays in math ematics and astronomy lectures on these subjects will be given in room 466 packard laboratory by mem bers of the department the gambling devices will be ac companied by charts showing the probabilities of the various happen ings and the financial expectancy of the person operating the machine the mathematics department ex hibit will be held in rooms 460 and 400 packard laboratory and in the observatory where astronomical observations and calculations will be made a schedule of activities i as fol lows i astronomy 1 11:45 a m at the observatory a brief description of methods for the determination of latitude and longi tude from observations on the sun 2 12 noon at the observatory shoot ing the sun with mariner's sextant and consequent determination of lati tude of the observatory the computa tions being earned out in the pres ence of the assembled company 2 the observatory will be open contin ously from 12 noon for the purpose of viewing the exhibits there and for viewing celestial objects through the telescope particular attention will be given to observations of the moon which will be at an especially favor able position at that time for obser vation these can be carried on not only at night but also in the daytime 11 mathematics the mathematics exhibit will be held in lioom 460 packard laboratory throughout the period of open house members of che department and students will be pres ent to explain the exhibit to interested per sons it will consist of 1 a large collection of geometrical mod els with explanatory material 2 a collection of books illustrating past and present practice in teaching math ematics 3 a collection of works illustrating mod ern research in mathematics 4 a collection of reprints of research ar ticles published by members of the mathematics staff at lehigh o a collection of books written by mem bers of the department at lehigh 6 a collection of books of general and popular interest about mathematics 7 a set of charts showing growth of re search in mathematics in the united statea and of the increasing number of persons interested in mathematical re search and other charts pertinent to the situation at lehigh 8 there will be a special collection of books and charts explanatory of the theory of relativity 9 there will be a collection of comput ing machines including commercial computing machines slide rules etc jnot only will there be faculty and student demonstrators of this appara tus but it is expected to have one or more experts from factories present to demonstrate their material 10 there will be an exhibition of gambl ing devices furnished by chief of po lice trafford and actually taken in raids at bethlehem each gambling de vice will be accompanied by a chart showing the probabilities of the various happenings and the financial expec tancy of the person putting his money into the machine 11 there will be an exhibit showing the fundamental principles of mechanics with charts explaining how these few simple experiments with the skill of a mathematician have resulted in the large science of mechanics 12 there will be an exhibit on hydrody namics with special emphasis on aero dynamics this will attempt to explain in simple form the mathematical prin cipals involved in the design of air planes in particular it will feature an invention of professor shook's for plotting lines of flow 13 there will be a special exhibit illus trating so far as is possible the sub ject matter of the courses taught at lehigh this will be in addition to the old textbooks which we are collecting there will be charts and simple prob lems illustrated by figures 14 there will be an exhibit illustrative of the work of the mathematical organ izations at lehigh such as pi mv ep silon and the newtonian society 15 there will be an exhibit of a few mathematical curiosities such as the number pi to 700 decimal places a few magic squares etc in addition to the exhibit the mathematics department plans to hold a series of lec tures in room 466 packard laboratory as follows 3p m einstein's theory professor fort 3:20 p m mathematics the heart of en gineering professor reynolds 4 p m looking through a telescope pro fessor ogburn 4:30 p m the mathematics of the skies professor shook 5 p m how men learned to count pro fessor fort 5:30 p m what advanced mathematics is about professor lamson 7:80 p m einstein's theory professor fort 3 p in mathematics the heart of engin eering professor reynolds 8:30 p m looking through a telescope professor ogburn 9 p m the mathematics of the skies pro fessor shook 9:to p m how men learned to count pro fessor fort 10 ]). m what advanced mathematics is about professor lamson there will be an intermission of five min utes between lectures the lectures will be prepared with an effort to explain the sub ject matter in the simplest terms so that the main ideas will be grasped by a person with little or no mathematical training all lectures will be illustrated by slides bethlehem pa tuesday april 10 1934 committee selects wanamaker jacket dr neil carothers flays congress in open letter in herald tribune vol xli no 42 price five cents british writer reveals state of nazi reich math display to show risk in gambling blazer for upperclassmen is of white flannel thursday to be first candidate registration day dr frank o darvall in terprets new germany in lecture sponsored by foreign affairs group political events shrouded by strict press censorship arrangement of library reference books changed the lehigh university brown and white open house exhibits to include devices taken in bethlehem raids observatory will open many different phases of science to be explained begins week for presen tation of names of nom inees for class qjfices to be on primary ballot sponsors to do campaigning must number at least ten elections to be april 25 three highest will be voted on the next day member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first