Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 51

              corrections and additions to the list of points for cyanide junior honorary society which appeared in the last issue of the brown and white are as fol lows according to h e lore m e 35 points for freshman numerals are three instead of four add junior representative to the le high union worth three points add newtonian society worth one point two years service in mustard and cheese should read two years service in musi cal clubs worth three points student gives glider speech the luncheon of the lehigh scholastic press conference to morrow in drown hall will be broadcast from 12:45 to 1:30 over station wcba in allen town among the men to address the gathering will be gordon mackay former sports editor of the philadelphia record and a e buchanan secretary of the alumni association the lehigh collegians will play and the three musketeers will sing several popular songs during the program natt m emery vice president of lehigh will be toastmaster grub stakes to go on air wennersville meeting hears lehigh professor recovery is inevitable and al ready on its way regardless of gov ernment policies declared dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration in a speech before delegates to the twenty-sixth annual convention of the pennsylvania gas association at wernersville on wednesday night the chief danger now dr carothers said lies in inflation forced upon the nation by politics and politicians there does not ap pear to be much danger of passage of destructive measures such as the 30-hour week bill or the original wagner bill the probable trend next year will be toward government recog nition of the error of regimentation and interference with natural forces and toward a relaxation of restric tive and coercive measures in in dustry and finance this recent attack on adminis tration recovery policies culminated a series of articles written for the new york herald-tribune in which dr carothers vigorously denounced certain governmental relief pro grams gives speech on matches wins williams oratorical prize competing with five others in finals held last wednesday second place is taken by j s silverstein arts clifford a spohn arts took first place in competition for the williams freshman oratorical prize in the finals of the contest held wednesday evening in the auditorium of packard laboratory the title of his speech was col lege and the poor boy second place was taken by j s silverstein arts who spoke on misunderstood japan the prize which was established by the late e h williams former professor of geology and mining engineering amounts to 40 for first place and 15 for second in commenting on the finals prof myron j luch who was in charge of the contest complimented the speakers on the general excellence of their addresses he remarked that in his estimation the speeches were well-chosen and well-pre sented six men in finals the six men who took part in the finals were j d dempsey h kol ler p palmer j s silverstein c a spohn and g yanko the judges were m j luch professor of english e h sloane instruc tor in english c w phy instruc tor in english and t g ehrsam and c a harding assistants in english the freshmen who entered the contest were required to speak in a preliminary on a subject of their own choosing the candidates were narrowed down to six men these men in turn submitted outlines for three speeches an hour before the finals professor luch notified the finalist which of the addresses he was to deliver this was done said professor luch for the purpose of preventing the delivering of so called canned speeches the men who had entered the original competition included c e brown coleman citret j d demp sey robert dreyer c f mccoy robert miner parker palmer nel son reed j s silverstein and clifford spohn plans for parking journalism majors and brown and white men to edit tuesday issue of allentown paper lehigh page to have article on newspaper activities here lehigh journalism major mem bers of the staff of the brown and white will have an opportunity to exercise their newspaper ability monday night when they will as sume complete control of the tues day edition of the allentown morn ing call and write and edit the news and editorials of this newspaper announces prof dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism for the fourth consecutive year lehigh students will take over the morning call through the courtesy of col c j smith managing edi tor who is greatly interested in col lege journalism and is on the board of the journalism school at pennsyl vania state college the student journalists will not only take over the routine duties of the newspaper but will also write the famous pennsylvania dutch column pumpernickle bill a daily feature of the paper charles a milson former journalism ma jor will edit the column will edit extra page in addition to the regular rou tine of the paper lehigh students will edit an extra page in which the activities of the lehigh jour nalism department and an article on local lehigh students will be fea tured the regular reporters of the morning call will guide the activi ties of their substitutes but will re main in the background the work of the staff in the office will be su pervised by professor gramley and kenneth k kost assistant in jour nalism the tentative staff is as follows robert herrick editorial editor judson schaeffer city editor ed win sawyer telegraph editor and james campbell sports editor deskmen are k s putnam r a kemmerer m wolf w v tof fey and r w schwartz members of the reportial staff are w l finlay w f roth h a archer r e skedgell f j snyder r h moore j a gil more t r stewart j h crou shore v s lippe j d neely and g yanko the entire staff will report on the second floor of the call building be tween 6 and 7 o'clock monday eve ning the morning call is located one block north of the americus hotel on sixth street pi mu epsilon holds initiation for 11 men delegates urged to put sticker on car use reserved space special parking arrangements have been made for delegates to the press conference because hun dreds of out-of-town people will be in bethlehem on saturday may 12 to attend the annual bach festival at lehigh's historic packer chapel press conference motorists are requested to drive their cars into the parking space in back of the alumni memorial building in order that there be no con fusion delegates are requested to attach the proper sticker to the windshield of their car e s chickering/35 tells i e society about his tory of flying craft outlining the history construc tion and flying of gliders e s chickering i e 35 spoke before the last meeting of the industrial engineering society in packard lab oratory last evening the glider which chickering constructed for open house is now hanging from the balcony in packard laboratory before coming to lehigh chicker ing was a member of a glider club at oil city and competed in sev eral national glider competitions according to the speaker the his tory of gliding dates back to the time of leonardo de vinci the first real glider flight in this country was flown by the wright brothers at kitty hawk n c aeroplanes were soon developed after this suc cessful glider exhibition as a result of the treaty of ver sailles restricting the number of german aeroplanes germany was one of the first countries seriously to take up gliding the two types of glider flying are straight flying which develops a constant descent and sail flying which may maintain the same height air currents which sometimes at tain a speed of 100 miles per hour in cumulus clouds cause upcurrents which give the gliders lift stated chickering recent efforts have been made to convert the kinetic energy of the ground into the po tential energy of the glider glider flying is primarily a solo proposition said the speaker great care must be used in launch ing the glider and controlling it while in the air the safest method of launching a glider is by attach ing the nose of the machine to a rubber rope and pulling it along until it gains sufficient speed to rise automobiles and aeroplanes are also used to launch gliders at high speed said the speaker movies were shown of the national air races at cleveland last year a short business meeting of the society preceded the student speak er plans have been completed for the i e picnic to be held at the beethoven maennerchor grounds in hellertown next wednesday program is scheduled for 8:15 this evening over station wcba the play grub stakes which was presented with so much success in drown hall over houseparty week-end and which was written by robert farnham jr arts 36 and edwin s williams jr m e 35 for the dramatic workshop will be given this evening from 8:15 to 9 over radio station wcba al lentown this will be the regular brown and white broadcast thep program to be presented this evening by members of mus tard and cheese and the dramatic workshop has been specially adapt ed for radio production by a a rights instructor in english and by farnham and williams the edi tors the cast for this radio skit has of necessity been slightly reduced as has the plot the players are as follows r farnham jr e s williams jr j cornelius w s hutchinson jr w c riedell l e citro j r coventry j b tupper w b maynard r a hopping d f ivins jr and g d grogan several men will play dual roles including williams and farnham the co-authors the press conference will be on the air from 12:45 until 1:30 sat urday afternoon and will be the fi nal brown and white broadcast of this semester it will feature speeches by gor don mackay former sports editor of the philadelphia record a e buchanan secretary of the alumni association and possibly raymond walters 07 president of the uni versity of cincinnati natt m emery vice president of the university will act as master of ceremonies the three musket eers will give a brief musical inter lude and will be accompanied by the lehigh collegians who will en tertain at the convention these two broadcasts will be the fifth and sixth respectively of the series of the brown and white reg ular programs which were insti tuted for the first time this year students fined 10 tuesday m r evans 36 h c langer 36 j c mccabe 36 and w c harding 36 were fined 10 apiece tuesday evening for hurling pav ing blocks off the hill-to-hill bridge sun spots probably not cause of rainy season says van arnam bethlehem group to pre sent mass in b minor for 27th time satur day in packer chapel christmas oratorio is given today first of two sessions bruce carey to lead 260 vocalists philadelphia or chestra to play for festival johann sebastian bach's mass in b minor will be sung in its en tirety for the twenty-seventh time by the bethlehem bach choir to morrow afternoon in packer mem orial chapel the christmas ora torio is being sung today the first day of the two-day festival the first three parts of the christmas oratorio will be sung at 5 p m daylight saving time and the last three parts will be pre sented at the second session which will begin at 9 p m the singing of the mass will also be divided into two sections the first part will start at 2:30 p m and will include the kyrie eleison and the gloria in excelsis the second part will start at 5 p m and will include the credo sanctus agnus dei and dono nobis pacem the final rehearsal was held last evening in the chapel nearly all of the two works was covered with members of the philadelphia or chestra accompanying t edgar shields director of music at lehigh and ruth becker myers assisted at the organ and piano respectively bruce carey who was appoint ed to succeed the late dr j fred wolle is leading the choir in the presentation of the two composi tions about 260 singers in addi tion to the several soloists and the accompanying orchestra will com pose the organization ethyl hadyn soloist the soloists at the festival will be ethyl hadyn soprano bertha mac starner soprano rose bamp ton alto dan gridley tenor and julius heuhn bass the first part of the mass on saturday afternoon will be broad cast over wabc and associated stations chorales will be played by the moravian trombone choir during the half hour preceding each ses sion of the festival this choir led by george sigley is comprised of 18 players the instruments range from a soprano trombone to the bass trombone which requires a handle on the slide for proper man ipulation max petersen associate profes sor of physics and head usher at the festival announced that c a shook assistant professor of math ematics and e l crum associate professor of latin and 13 students are assisting him in taking tickets and selling programs the ushers are all women mostly from the moravian seminary and college for women under the charge of mrs colin ward the lehigh men assisting are t b jordan 34 r l deily 34 r c lengel 34 g s eisenstadt 34 r c kain 34 g f dickover 36 e s lloyd 34 e d tidd 37 f j smith 34 v a kildaire 36 f l rights research fellow in biology and c a zapfe and r c kistler postgraduate students white oak named in honor of drinker's forestry work dr henry s drinker president emeritus of the university was re cently given the honor of having a large white oak tree dedicated to him by the pennsylvania forestry association this honor was given him for the work he has done in the preservation of the pennsyl vania forests the inscription on the tablet plac ed in front of the tree gives its circumference as being 18 feet six inches it also states that the tree had been standing more than a hundred years before william perm's arrival in 1682 washing ton and his army in 1777 marched beneath its branches on their way to valley forge at the bottom of the tablet is the association's motto restore perm's woods prof vahan babasinian addresses science club of columbia university the development of methods of making and transporting fire from the days of the caveman and fire by friction to the modern match and cigarette lighter were discussed by dr vahan babasinian professor of organic chemistry in a paper deliv ered recently before the science club of columbia university meet ing in the international house in new york city the title of dr babasinian's pa per was the evolution of the match head the producing of fire said dr babasinian is in the last analysis based on the prin ciples of friction the ancient peo ples secured fire by rubbing sticks together or striking flints or py rites with other hard objects this laborious method necessitated the preserving of perpetual fires if the fire was permitted to go out the early man was forced to his neigh bor for a flame or spend much la bor himself in trying to produce a flame by friction numerous legends and myths continued professor babasinian arose through the great importance of this heat and warmth-producing element the fire-worship of the aborigines and the stealing of fire from heaven by prometheus in greek mythology are examples of these the modern match had its be ginning in the early part of the eighteenth century said dr bab asinian the lack of knowledge of chemical elements and chemical re actions was a contributing cause in the slow development of the match the match of today is com posed of phosphorous and other igniting substances there are many kinds on the market such as the strike-anywhere match the safe ty match the book match and the old fashioned wax match the difference between the safe ty match and the strike-anywhere match stated dr babasinian is found in the arrangement of the combustible materials the safety match has part of the materials in the head and part of them on the surface of the match box this prevents their being ignited on any thing else the plain match on the other hand has all the combustion materials in the head coming events brodhead has vacancies two juniors and nine sopho mores are inducted two juniors and nine sophomores were initiated into pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society at a banquet meeting wednesday eve ning in the hotel bethlehem prof tomlinson fort head of the mathematics department spoke on mathematical societies in the united states he discussed the ad vanced society for teachers and re search men and the student so ciety pi mv epsilon dr edward kasner professor of mathematics at columbia university who recently spoke here on geom etry and physics presented his book on geometrical dynamics to the society the men initiated into the society are j p butterfield i e 36 t e butterfield jr arts 35 r m eichner m e 36 w r f guyer chem 36 g h kalb ch e 36 f r mallalieu jr eng phys 36 s b nissley m e 35 j m swalm ch e 36 d l waide lich e e 36 s j wantuck ch e 36 and b s weiss c e 36 b h jennings writes paper measuring carbon dioxide in a refrigerating system is the title of an article by b h jennings as sistant professor in mechanical en gineering appearing in the may is sue of refrigerating engineering at present engineering students are conducting 24 hour tests in this connection at sub-zero tempera tures friday may 11 8 p m bach festival packer mem orial chapel saturday may 12 11 a m scholastic press confer ence room 466 and auditorium packard laboratory 3 p m varsity and freshman base ball lehigh vs lafayette tay lor stadium 1:30 and 4 p m bach festival packer memorial chapel monday may 13 interfraternity council meeting drown hall students representing high and prep schools to assemble tomorrow for press meeting 61 institutions in n j and pa to send delegates editors to inspect campus after registration in packard laboratory two hundred and thirty-four student journalists and faculty ad visers will gather here tomorrow to take part in a program arranged to mix business with pleasure the students representing 57 high schools and 4 preparatory schools from new jersey and penn sylvania at the first annual lehigh scholastic press conference will begin the day with registration at packard laboratory and a tour of the campus the climax of the conference will be reached at 3:45 p m in packard auditorium when philip m palmer head of the college of arts and sci ence presents the 16 plaques for first and second place awards in the four divisions of the newspaper and magazine contest which attracted 136 entries certificates will be awarded to schools gaining honor able mention luncheon in drown hall gordon mackay former sports editor of the philadelphia record will be the main speaker at the lun cheon to be served at 12:30 p m on the second floor of drown hall this will be the only session that will not be held in packard labora tory the conference will be formally opened at 11 a m when charles russ richards president of lehigh makes the welcoming address to the delegates in packard auditor ium dean c m mcconn ex-offi cio member of the board of publi cations will speak on how does journalism rate as an extra-cur ricular activity dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration whose articles on economics in the new york herald-tribune have at tracted considerable attention will speak on students and the news paper the afternoon sessions will be dovoted to the work of the con ference editorial and news writers will gather at 2:15 p m in room 466 packard laboratory to hear dale h gram-ley head of the courses in journalism and director of the conference give a talk en titled staff organization and what it means to address business staffs at the same time dr harry a haring faculty adviser of the bus iness staff of the burr will tell the business staff delegates how ad vertisements are made this meet ing will be held in room 416 pack-t ard laboratory round table discussions will be gin at 2:45 p m they will be held in various classrooms and will be in charge of professor gramley kenneth k kost junior faculty ad viser of the brown and white and lehigh journalism majors and pub lication editors the luncheon gathering at drown hall will be entertained by andrew e buchanan secretary of the alumni association who will be present in the role of magician the three musketeers will sing and the lehigh collegians will furnish the music dr natt m emery vice president of lehigh will be the toastmaster guests at the luncheon will in clude the three judges of the pub lications contest — john c merrill city editor of the easton express col c j smith managing editor of the allentown morning call and harold b farquhar editor of the bethlehem globe-times delegates to tour campus the tour of the campus in the morning as well as the registration of the delegates will be handled by members of the brown and white staff lehigh students who wish to meet delegates from schools which they have attended are invited by director gramley to meet them at the louging room in packard lab oratory where registration will take place any students desiring continued on page six john a brodhead director the placement bureau announces that there are a few vacancies in the state emergency relief work formerly the cwa stu dents desiring this work are to apply at the placement office the work will last until the end of may or the students may work up commencement time it is possible for them to earn the maximum amounts for these periods penumbra the lighter border whose outer edge is sharply defined and somewhat darker than the rest spots change form the more stable spots are rough lycircular but sun spots exhibit great variety and rapid changes of form giving the impression of great turmoil they generally appear in small groups some single spots however measure about 50,000 miles across exceptionally large groups of spots spread over as much as one-sixth of the diameter of the sun's dish these spots are also hotter and brighter than most sources of light in some years sun spots are rather numerous while in other years the sun may remain spotless for many weeks at a time from the records of his daily counts of sun spots which extended over nearly twenty years schwabe in 1843 discovered that the variation in the number of spots is roughly periodic in cycles of about eleven years contrary to the popular belief it has not been ascertained whether or not sun spots predict a rainy season declared r n van arnam instructor in mathematics and as tronomy the large sun spot which recently has caused a great deal of comment in astronomical circles was first observed by mr van arnam while looking through the telescope in the sayre observatory spots are very large obtaining information from bak er's descriptive astronomy we found that these spots are large blemishes which appear on the sun and which are sometimes large enough to be seen with the naked eye providing the glare of the sun is reduced by a dark glass earlier accounts of these spots are found in ancient records but the actual study of them did not begin until they were observed through the telescope by galileo in 1610 quoting baker further a sun spot consists of two parts the um bra or central dark part and the bethlehem pa friday may 11 1934 choir will sing music by bach vol xli no 51 recovery inevitable carothers declares the lehigh university brown and white price — five cents student staff will manage morning call 234 journalists to gather here for conference corrections and additions are made to cyanide list press luncheon program will go on air over wcba spohn judged best speaker of contestants member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first