Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 49

              e a sawyer heads b & w t e shields explains lines in structure to speak monday shields talk will describe life of bach vol xu no 49 ozzie nelson claims nra must change musical director to give university lecture on monday after post ponement of months will be final discussion in series by faculty men john sebastian bach his life and his music will be the subject of a lecture by t edgar shields director of music to be given 8 p.m monday in packard auditorium this university lecture was orig inally scheduled for dec 1 but mr shields was forced to cancel the engagement because of illness in his lecture mr shields will treat the life of john sebastian bach from the standpoint of the individ ual life of the great composer rath er than musical career since bach's music is much better known than the man himself mr shields feels that a discussion of his character istics and home life will prove of greater interest to his audience to discuss bach's works in view of the fact that the bach festival is to be presented may 12 the speaker will include a brief summary of the history of the var ious selections to be sung at that time at the present time the speak er is occupied with the rehearsals of the choir there were three major periods of bach's life in his lecture mr shields will stress the third period from 1723 to 1750 during which he composed the two masterpieces the mass in b minor and the christ mas oratorio he also was the organist and choirmaster in st thomas church at leipzig ger many during this period with mr shields lecture on bach the university lecture series is concluded for the year there have been six lectures this year giv en by four professors librarian h s leach and mr shields the series was given with the idea of reaching the people of bethlehem as well as students of lehigh original three act play by undergraduates to be presented saturday night in drown hall tickets will not be delivered to living groups grub stakes an original com edy in three acts will be presented saturday night in drown hall joint ly by mustard and cheese club and the dramatic workshop robert farnham jr and edwin williams have written the play as part of their work in dramatics 61 and 62 dealing satirically with fra ternities and college athletic poli cies as it does grub stakes should be very popular saturday evening tickets for the show will be on sale at the lehigh union office in drown hall until saturday after noon students will be admitted free but guests admission will be 40 cents tickets will not be de livered to living groups grub stakes opens on the cam pus at state college the specific lo cale being the living room of the alpha beta fraternity house enter l de b cornelius as joe bloski a professional football player hired by the president of state college joe and his manager are under the impression that a fraternity is a high class eating club and so closes the first act as the curtain rolls up on the second act we find joe and his manager in the county courtroom they are under 5,000 bail through the machinations of some of the alpha beta brothers joe is taught the fundamentals of football while he languishes in jail so that he may play in the game that after noon should he be released end of act two after the game the alpha beta fraters decide that it might be wise to pledge joe anyway but by now joe has ideas of his own concern ing the future and the alpha beta's high pressure rushing goes for nought frosh rank high in intelligence test gives up editorship brown and white will present true incident of week-end fete over allentown station r.e mcleod 34 to welcome guests with short address a special house-party broad cast featuring an original radio skit based on a true house-party incident at lehigh will be present ed by the brown and white in its weekly program presented this evening from 8 to 8:30 over sta tion wcba in allentown richard e mcleod 1.e 34 president of the mustard and cheese dramatic club and past president of the interfraternity council will give a short address of welcome to the house-party guests and miss olga whitfield rutherford n j will answer him in behalf of the guests at the conclusion of the address es of welcome members of the mustard and cheese club the dramatic workshop and moravian seminary and college for women join the brown and white in pre senting the dramatic interpretation of a true house-party incident at a past lehigh party the leads in the skit will be taken by miss marie heim moravian college and robert farnham jr arts 36 play written by students farnham in addition to playing a lead part is a co-author with r f herrick arts 34 in the writing of the skit a a rights intructor in english and director of the mustard and cheese club supervised its production gilberto escobedo c e 36 whose rendition of spanish songs gained a favorable reception at the recent concert of the musical clubs in philadelphia will also be heard on the broadcast in two numbers the music of the lehigh col legians orchestra which has been heard on a previous brown and white broadcast will again be pre sented on the program this evening due to requests from lehigh students the broadcast this evening will be open to approximately 40 guests who will view the program from the main studio of station wcba all guests are requested to be present at the station at 7:45 as visitors will not be admitted later than this time for this par ticular broadcast the station of wcba is located at 41 n 10th street allentown gibson will address history association m bogart 31 retires as head of the justinian with his retirement from the edi torship of the justinian brook lyn law school monthly maurice bogart arts 31 will close an ac tive student career bogart quickly rose on the staff of the newspaper from reporter to managing editor and then editor in chief he edited a column as man aging editor and as editor instituted a policy of staff succession while at lehigh bogart was as sociate editor of the review news and makeup editor of the brown and white secretary of the robert w blake society and assistant manager of freshman track he is a member of tau delta phi frater nity explains securities act to business honorary an explanation and defense of the recent securities act passed by the last congress was the chief issue of a talk given by dr ward bish op professor of economics wed nesday night before a meeting of alpha kappa psi national honorary business society in my estimation this act pro pounds the spirit of the new deal professor bishop declared it is probably one of the two pieces of permanent legislation passed during the recovery administration board o f publications approves election of officers for review edwin a sawyer bus 35 was elected editor in chief of the brown and white for the coming year at a meeting of the board of publica tions yesterday in the office of dean c m mcconn h edgar lore m e 35 was elected to head the epitome at a meeting of the staff which followed the approvel of its nominees by the board of publication the epitome staff met in drown hall the officers elected by the re view were also approved by the board of publications sawyer who succeeds robert f herrick is at present editorial man ager of the brown and white in february he completed a year's service as news manager he is the only man who has held that office or any other position on the execu tive committee in his sophomore year he is also the first bethlehem boy to hold the editorship in re cent years if not the first in the his tory of the brown and white lore to edit epitome lore who is from atlantic city n j has served as editor of the faculty and classes section of the epitome he is manager-elect of soccer and is secretary of arcadia the other officers elected by the epitome staff from a list of nom inees which had been approved by the board of publications are ed win s chickering i e 35 senior section chief robert m eichner m e 36 faculty and classes edi tor paul s settle c e 36 pho tographic editor clyde a collins art 36 fraternity editor john w dietz bus 36 organizations edi tor and edward e warner e.e.'36 the review officers approved were walter l deemer arts 35 editor in chief carl e collander c e 35 and c garland roper eng phys 35 assistant editors david w hoppock i e 36 asso ciate editor bernard j weiss c.e 36 managing editor eugene h henry bus 35 business manager harold s ford bus 37 advertis ing manager arnold morris arts 36 assistant advertising manager edgar g hoar bus 35 national advertis ing manager william e austin i e 36 circulation manager and luther j upton eng 37 assistant circulation manager review features article on reiter j b helme perm state professor lectures on art of architecture tall modern buildings with their massive rental space and spectac ular lines are not economical an nounced prof j burn helme of the department of architecture at perm state college in an illustrated lantern slide lecture last night at 8 o'clock in room 466 packard lab oratory his talk on new mater ials in architecture was sponsored by the department of fine arts garth a howland associate pro fessor of fine arts after the lecture a four reel film empires of steel — the supreme achievement of steel construction was shown this film depicted the method used in the erection of the empire state building the practical use of the building is most important and should be considered first in making a plan the decorations and artistic touches which so many people value so highly should be made secondary said professor helme this is a matter that so many architects have overlooked and their buildings have shown it treats older buildings in his talk professor helme spoke of several older buildings and pointed out the various features which made them good or bad structures he showed how the ar chitects tried to express on the out side what was in the inside of the building then he spoke of modern sky scrapers he showed how the trend changed from low buildings to the tall ones now seen in new york these high buildings have as or naments vertical columns which point to the sky this makes them appear even higher the high constructions although very hard to keep rented have the great advantage over lower build ings in that advertising from their roofs is very efficient he spoke of the new materials which were being used in recent buildings polished metal and por celine finishes have been used in many buildings recently construct ed he said they render a very modernstic appearance to the build ing evacuated glass is another ma terial which is used extensively ozzie nelson and his band will entertain at ball harriet hilliard to sing with leader tickets on sale until 6 p m tomorrow at union office most of the fraternities and living groups will hold private affairs tonight all plans for the junior prom which will take place tomorrow evening at the hotel bethlehem have been completed by the prom committee house-party lists in dicate an attendance in the neigh borhood of seven hundred couples the first three floors of the hotel will be used for dancing ozzie nelson and his orchestra will play from the raised platform in the main dining room with a loud speaker in the main lobby and two others situated in the ballroom on the mezzanine floor entrance to the dance will be through the south side entrance only with checking and rest rooms on the ground floor punch will be served in the cocktail room the tap room will also be open no liquor will be served by the hotel the prom committee wishes to announce that under no conditions will prom tickets be sold after 6 p m saturday tickets are 4.40 per couple and 2.20 stag on sale at the lehigh union office in drown hall houses to hold dances the house dances will be held this evening at the fraternity houses and nearby hotels the number of houses combining for house dances is considerably greater than at the spring house party last year ozzie nelson's orchestra number ing twelve or thirteen pieces will feature harriet hilliard popular radio star in duets with the band leader ozzie nelson and his or chestra and harriet are presented on the bakers program every sun day evening with joe penner com edian ozzie nelson played at the lafa yette interfraternity ball on march 9 the lafayette junior prom this week-end will feature richard him ber and his ritz-carlton orchestra the chaperones for the prom are dean and mrs c m mcconn registrar and mrs g b curtis captain and mrs j k rice and dr and mrs c g beardslee dorms to entertain this year's dorm dance will take place friday evening in drown hall jay knell and his orchestra from pottsville will furnish the music this orchestra played at the com mencement ball last june both dorm and town men may attend the chaperones will be prof and mrs h g payrow and prof h p thomas claude hopkins and his popular colored band played at the junior prom last spring this orchestra has since become a steady feature on station wabc the baseball team will engage lafayette in taylor stadium to morrow afternoon the varsity tennis match with springfield teachers college will be at the steel field m j luch dale h gramley and a buchanan will speak dr myron j luch and prof dale gramley members of the english department and andrew buchanan secretary of the alumni association will be guest speakers at the annual book week contests that are being held may 14 to 18 at moravian seminary and college for women announces the staff of the mirror the college publication professor luch will speak on the educational advantages of the modern novel in the chapel ser vice may 16 professor gramley will talk on points on journalism at the service on may 17 and mr buchanan will entertain students and guests at the mirror banquet friday evening with sleight of hand tricks farnham elected coming events dr carothers demands elimination of national coercion in program dr neil carothers launched a vigorous attack against the national recovery program at the opening of the fiftieth district conference of the rotary international last tuesday by demanding the elimination of all compulsory provisions of the nra as well as immediate and complete discontinuance of the agricultural adjustment administration and ces sation of currency tinkering we should let the nra expire immediately except insofar as bus iness and labor can find in the structure something worth retain ing voluntarily without govern mental coercion from washington dr carothers told 1500 rotarians delegates from 72 clubs in delaware and part of pennsylvania and new jersey i urge that insofar as the aaa is concerned it should be com pletely discontinued and further ef forts of restricting agricultural pro duction should be put to an end there should be a complete cessa tion of tinkering in the field of cur rency and a return to the gold standard at the earliest moment dr carothers asserted gen malone upholds nra while dr carothers saw bene ficial effects resulting only from the remedial phases of the recovery program such as rfc aid to bus iness federal emergency relief work pwa and cwa gen paul malone commander of the united states army's third corps area up held the entire plan as the solution for unbridled competition and mal distribution of wealth by abolishing child labor and sweatshop competition consump tion and production have been stu died with respect to the real needs of the people and their welfare the general declared he then pro ceeded to list advantages accruing from the nra including increased consumption increased employ ment minimum wage and maxi mum hour provisions and a more equitable distribution of wealth among all our people the nra is necessary because human rights are superior to all other rights he said governments are made for men and not men for governments if and when the nra ends la bor and the people will appreciate the great superiority which has been given them general malone concluded mr hightinger to interview seniors for bethlehem steel the bethlehem steel company will send james hightinger man ager of trade to lehigh monday morning to interview metallurgical chemical and mechanical engineers and also arts and business men about prospective positions with the company mr hightinger will interview candidates at intervals of 15 min utes at the placement bureau start i ing at 9 a m first year men are above medium for country three-fourths of the lehigh freshmen who took the intelligence tests last september rank above the median for the country the re sults show lehigh placed eighth out of 203 colleges taking the tests reports adelbert ford head of the department of psychology the report of the american coun cil of education on the intelligence tests received recently by the de partment of psychology shows le high in eighth place out of 203 col leges 39 of which have more than 300 freshmen the total number of students taking the tests was about 40,000 three-fourths of the lehigh freshmen were above average out of this number the university of chicago took first place with a score average of 217 lehigh took eighth place over northwestern university by a small fraction with a score average of 180 last year northwestern was in sixth place while lehigh was in seventh the university of rochester was in second place and brooklyn and dartmouth colleges placed ahead of lehigh all southern colleges were low louisiana state university had a score of 121 the university of maryland had 160 denying the argument that the freshman intelligence tests are not a good indication of the true stand ing of lehigh professor ford stated that the tests showed con clusively the type of students who make application and are accepted at lehigh we might easily have placed fourth or fifth says ford if we had marked the tests less severely however he stated all points re ceived in the intelligence tests were thoroughly earned cyanide will meet monday the regular meeting of cyanide scheduled for last wednesday was postponed because of a lack of quo rum states parker berg president the society will meet monday night to discuss a possible revision of the point system mustard and cheese officers se lected for year at a meeting last wednesday af ternoon in drown hall the mustard and cheese club elected officers for the coming year and appointments of assistants were announced robert farnham jr arts 35 was elected president other officers are vice president t d cooke bus 35 business manager leßoy travis arts 35 publicity manag er f j snyder arts 36 program manager d w hoppock i e.'36 secretary j h jacobs bus 35 property manager r s holt bus 35 stage manager j deß corne lius arts 35 electrician t d cooke costume manager l c black ch.e 35 lost — gold waltham wrist watch on upper field tuesday may 1 suitable reward for return c w vedder phi sigma kappa meeting will be held tomor row evening in harrisburg prof l p gipson head of the department of history will address the new pennsylvania historical association tomorrow evening at harrisburg professor gipson will speak on early pennsylvania criminal codes the new pennsylvania historical association was organized last year at lehigh professor gipson was elected a member of the executive council at their organization meet ing since that time he has been instrumental in promoting the inter ests of the society professor gipson will trace the evolution of criminal law in penn sylvania from the establishment of codes by the first swede and dutch settlers up to the present compli cated system now existing in penn sylvania from that time the crim inal codes of pennsylvania have gone through two cycles william perm based his ideas for govern ment on the principles involved in the sermon on the mount during perm's rule the criminal codes in pennsylvania had become very lax and pennsylvania became a haven for all types of colonial gangsters and rogues after this period of leniency professor gip son has found that the criminal codes became extremely severe they provided for punishments which were severe for all crimes in many cases the punishments pre scribed were very barbarous and included such types as cutting off ears branding and other forms of bodily torture friday may 4 9 p m house dances saturday may 5 1:30 p m tennis match with springfield steel field 2 p m baseball game with lafay ette taylor stadium 8 p m grub stakes a three-act play by e s williams and rob ert farnham jr drown hall 9 p m junior prom hotel beth lehem monday may 7 8 p m university lecture johann sebastian bach his life and his music by t edgar shields packard auditorium latest issue gotten out by new officials the career of bosey reiter head of the department of physical education is featured in the latest issue of the lehigh review which came out last night states walter deemer jr arts 35 newly elected review editor this issue of the literary publi cation also features a story based on dormitory life by john gilmore arts 35 entitled hell raisers a vicious circle is a criticism of the present educational system by ralph slonaker arts 35 poison passion and petrefaction is an ar ticle by walter finlay ch e 36 describing various preferred meth ods of murder j h mccomb arts 36 relates the reminiscences of a senior in spring housecleaning and an ar ticle explains the central heating plant for government buildings in washington now being constructed by the rust engineering company under the direction of c g thorn burg 09 in this issue the stories are lib erally illustrated with photographs and drawings bethlehem pa friday may 4 1934 arts seniors to be given two days before exams price — five cents to give skit on houseparty over wcba grub stakes to be given by dramatists plans for prom and houseparty are completed to play at prom the lehigh university brown and white arts seniors will not have a week off from studies before their comprehensive examina tions as some believe states registrar curtis actually the seniors will have their last day of regular classes on wednesday may 16 and will have two days of grace before their comprehensives begin these will start on saturday may 19 and will continue through may 21 22 and 23 reg ular examinations will start on may 24 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first