Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 14

              those men desiring to compete for positions for next semester on the brown and white are asked to sign on the bulletin board in the brown and white office in christmas-saucon hall positions open for competition are news manager makeup edi tor news editors sports editor and editorial manager competi tions will start nov 20 tow explains eastern policy ladies roles go to faculty fraternities must have the fol lowing information turned in to the brown and white office by 7:30 p m wednesday for pub lication in friday's issue name of the orchestra for the house dance on saturday names of chaperons and any other infor mation data is to be included wheth er dances are open or closed and if closed whether they will re main closed all evening information on houseparty is due this wednesday price five cents chemists hear taylor about heavy water al katz johhny hamp argue control of arms trade will produce new york hit measure approved by ac tivities committee to aid special affairs rule exempts course clubs military society first to get single date for dec 15 dance that an exclusive date for a social event may be granted was approved by the committee on stu dent activities at its meeting wed nesday afternoon the committee also granted the petition of scab bard and blade for an exclusive date on dec 15 for its dance to be held at the hotel bethlehem the committee realized that af fairs other than dances might be handicapped by a conflict says dean mcconn therefore the ruling passed was made to include any so cial event the rule however does not ap ply to course societies announced dean mcconn course societies and any others whose activities do not affect the entire university will not be permitted to have exclusive dates it is expected that the five weeks ruling will eliminate any trouble on that score because such societies do not plan their meetings so far in advance no conflict with play by an earlier petition mustard and cheese was granted permission to present their play outward bound on dec 15 this means that there will be two social func tions on that night permission for both was granted because the com mittee felt that since the play would be over before the dance be gan there would be no conflict the policy regarding exclusive dates which the committee approv ed is as follows an exclusive date for a social event may be granted by special ac tion of the committee on student activities to a sponsoring organiza tion which can show that the event in question should appeal to the whole university and that there is a reasonable probability that it will be supported by the whole univer sity provided that the petition for such an event shall be filed with the dean not less than five weeks before the proposed date when such an exclusive date has been granted by the committee all other petitions for social events on the date in question will be de nied bud rader to play for military ball formal to be held dec 1 5 in hotel bethlehem the annual military ball spon sored each year by the local chapter of scabbard and blade national honorary military fraternity will be held on saturday dec 15 at the hotel bethlehem bud rader's orchestra has been selected to furnish the music for the evening announces charles w leuders chairman of the commit tee the orchestra includes two vo calists and has been very popular on the campus during the last sev eral years tickets are to be 1.65 for cou ples and 1.00 for stags the dance will be a formal af fair and is growing to be one of the major social events on the cam pus this year as in the past the date for the dance has been set for the week-end before christmas maj and mrs james o green and capt and mrs percy l sad ler will be the chaperons g a howland discusses art at moravian chapel exercises garth a howland head of the department of fine arts spoke at the wednesday chapel exercises at moravian college and seminary for women the topic of his talk was a art and the expression of the age in which it is produced he traced the characteristics of painting in each period from the middle ages to modern days the lecture was illustrated brodhead seeks future jobs john a brodhead director of the placement bureau visited the inger soll rand plant at phillipsburg n j wednesday afternoon in the interests of prospective jobs for graduates of the class of 35 mustard and cheese and dramatics 61 to give o utward bound outward bound by sutton vane a mustard and cheese pro duction to be given in collaboration with dramatics 61 dec 14 and 15 had a run of 18 months in new york city with leslie howard as henry berl mercer as mrs mid get alfred lunt the theatre guild star as mrs pryor and dud ley digges as the rev frank thomson in the leading roles the play originated in london where critics predicted it would fail but popular acclaim held it on the stage for a year it was then brought to america and opened at atlantic city after its new york run the play went on the road where it was a successful little thea tre and stock production recently it was made into a mo tion picture starring leslie howard in the part of tom pryor the movie was not a great box office success but appealed to a particular type of audience outward bound was chosen by dramatics 61 and mustard and cheese for its special types of char acterization the play gives excel lent opportunities for creative work states john galliher publicity man ager for the workshop senior electricals inspect safe harbor power plant twelve senior e e.s accompan ied j l beaver profesor of elec trical engineering on an inspection trip to the power plant located at safe harbor 12 miles south of lan caster last saturday the plant is the newest in the united states and one of the largest said professor beaver j b hohmsher i e 30 con ducted the party on its tour of in spection they visited the wheel pit and watched the installation of a 25-cycle generator and a frequency changing set the total capacity of the plant is now 35,000 h p it has a head of 55 feet debaters discuss how industries would feel cut in munitions resolved that nations should agree to prevent the international shipment of arms and munitions was the topic of the round table dis cussion held by 19 members of the debating society in room 401 uni versity library yesterday afternoon three main issues were consid ered that this prevention of inter national arms shipment would tend to do away with such manufacturers who depend on the international shipment of arms and munitions that this prevention would tend to cut down the huge profits gained from the international shipment of arms and munitions and that this prevention would tend to limit wars to an appreciable extent club divided in two those attending were divided into two groups one group upheld the affirmative and the other the nega tive side of the proposition approximately 1,000 cards on munitions articles were handed in by members assigned to investigate munitions articles in periodicals such as readers digest interna tional index education index and new york times index mr ehrsam coach of debating instructed the men in the proper form for brief drawing copies of the senator nye resolution to in vestigate armament makers of am erica were distributed to the mem bers finances of brown and white and burr approved by board the financial reports of the brown and white to oct 26 and that of the burr for september and october were accepted and ap proved at the board of publications meeting tuesday afternoon in dean mcconn's office the election of three undergrad uates to various offices on the brown and white staff were also approved they are edwin g mc nair jr bus 37 as local adver tising assistant judson l schaef fer arts 35 as makeup editor and d w hoppock i e 36 to the editorial council says hamp is famous in west katz played at 400 club paris on european tour two orchestras to be placed on seperate floors of hotel al katz and johnny hamp who are to play friday nov 16 at the senior prom have not played in this part of the country recently states ralph m blythe chairman of the prom committee in explaining the fact that few students are ac qainted with them blythe's explanation comes after many students had expressed dis satisfaction to him over the selec tion of two comparatively little known orchestras johnny hamp in particular has not played in the east in several years he says hamp was engaged recently at the cocoanut grove of the ambas sador hotel in los angeles follow ing a three-year engagement at the congress hotel in chicago beginning eight years ago at the ambassador hotel in atlantic city hamp played at the miami bilt more in florida the sea view country club in new york and the westchester biltmore country club al katz's last broadway engage ment was at the hollywood res taurant where he was featured on the lucky strike radio program has played at 400 club he played for two years at the 400 club in paris where he was sel ected to play for the exposition dcs beaux arts following this he toured continental europe in addition to making recordings for columbia phonograph records al katz has played at young's mil lion dollar pier at atlantic city and the strand roof in new york city he has also played on a ma jor vaudeville circuit katz features on his program several comedy orchestra presenta tions the two orchestras will be placed on separate floors of the hotel bethlehem one in the main dining room and the other in the ball room this will enable dancers to choose the orchestra and type of music they prefer tickets for the prom which are 3.30 per couple will be on sale at the lehigh union office until 6 p m on the evening of the prom no tickets will be sold after that time coming events captain tells university women government keeps pact of paris captain w m tow assistant professor of military science and tactics discussed the policies of the united states in the far east mon day night at a meeting of the american association of university women in the sun inn he declared the policy of the na tional government was in strict ad herence to the treaty and in the china - japan - american situation he stated relations between the lat ter two in connection with china have been based on the peace of paris we choose to respect the right of other states and we expect them to respect those of our citizens abroad inclined perhaps to be strict in the interpretation of treaty obligations the united states will safeguard protect and promote legitimate interests by every lawful and practicable method captain tow affirmed u s wishes peace we wish the paris treaty to which 63 nations are signatory to prevail and it is the hope of the united states and its people gen erally that the peace we've enjoyed with our neighbors across the pa cific for so many years will con tinue quoting figures on the scope of american interests in china he stated there are excluding marines 7,000 american citizens in the far east there are 566 american firms in china with an investment of 250,000,000 on the question of manchuokoan independence the army captain said the american policy at present is non-recognizance of a free man chuokoan state he averred that the recent inter vention of japan in chinese affairs was a clear violation of the paris treaty but declined to comment on the probable outcome of the viola tion in the diplomatic field our pol icy is one of reliance on processes of discussion negotiation and arbi tration he stated hostesses at the luncheon which followed the meeting were mrs william m tow mrs c m mc conn mrs c e allen mrs t h hazelhurst mrs c g beardslee and mrs morris kanaly alumni are elected voted to congress superior court and state senate lehigh can claim alumni in the national congress the pennsylvania state senate and the state superior court francis e walter 16 ches ter h rhodes 10 and george a rupp 27 were victorious in tues day's election mr walter was reelected repre sentative to congress from the dis trict of northampton carbon and monroe counties he lives in eas ton mr rhodes of stroudsburg de feated harry f trexler allentown for judge in the superior court of pennsylvania mr rupp was elected state sena tor from lehigh county after leav ing lehigh he received his degree from dickinson law school all these successful candidates represent the democratic party they are a part of the nation-wide democratic land slide smith to defend shakespeare at blake society discussion dr robert m smith head of the department of english will speak on shakespeare the author be fore the robert w blake society honorary philosophical group on friday evening at the home of prof percy hughes 819 tioga avenue dr smith will refute the stand taken by registrar curtis in his speech on bacon last week before the same society friday nov 9 7:30 p m robert w blake society room 201-251 packard laboratory saturday nov 10 2 p m varsity soccer lehigh vs cornell lehigh field 2:45 p m freshman football le high vs rutgers taylor field monday nov 12 4:20 p m r o t c armistice day parade shakespeare history lacks total proof curtis says francis bacon used many pen names several will support charity play in female parts november 12 13 dream of a clown a fantastic farce of a clown's nightmare which includes in its cast several faculty members in comic roles will be presented at 8:30 p m on mon day and tuesday nov 12 and 13 at liberty high school the entire proceeds from the pro duction will go to support the beth lehem boys club the cast includes bosey reiter as mrs douglas mccarthy capt j k rice as aunt mabel hender son maj j o green as mrs f d roosevelt prof bradley stough ton as a bishop and prof jbenja min l miller as an usher prof a w luce prof a r frey and prof a h fretz will be three of the bridesmaids prof a w klein will be grandfather mc carthy prof h p thomas will be a page and pat pazzetti 15 will be one of a pair of twin cousins over 70 local people are in the cast all the players will appear in appropriate costumes tickets will be on sale at the le high union office in drown hall by tomorrow morning these may be exchanged for reserved seat tickets at young's drug store at broad and main streets reserved seats will be on sale at the latter place this evening prices are 175 and 50 cents all seats are reserved it was announced criticizes new deal as cur bingreco ver y carothers says business needs less tinkering america stands shrinking . and hesitating on the very brink of re covery said dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration speaking before a meeting of the american gas asso ciation on nov 1 in atlantic city the reason for hesitation he said is because a well meaning but misguided government goes on meddling and regulating and man ipulating in ignorance of the laws of economics and the principles of business dr carothers further declared that recovery is on the way all over the world retarded by currency un certainty and tariff restrictions and political unrest but nevertheless on the way in the united states all that we need is an end of experi ment and guesswork interference and regulation uncertainty and fear what is retarding our recovery is the endless tinkering and interfer ing what the patient needs is quiet but we have government that likes to operate every day he further analyzed and dissect ed new deal measures in detail the banking act the securities act and the stock market act he ad mitted have not very seriously hampered business honest finance can live under them the reform measures have met a psychological need and have done some good beethoven and dvorak music played at wednesday concert orchestral music of beethoven and dvorak was played at the sec ond wednesday afternoon concert in the arcadia room of drown hall the program directed by elbert tidd arts 37 lasted from 4:15 to 5:30 p m the complete program follows egmont overture beethoven sym phony in e minor from the new world dvorak concerto in e major emperor beethoven isotopic formation is de scribed by princeton professor to 500 at meeting last night traces history of different element forms and isolation ordinary rain water contains only one part in five thousand of heavy water dr hugh s taylor chairman of the princeton chemical department told over 500 at the meeting of the chemical society last evening heavy water is water that con tains hydrogen isotopes instead of the regular hydrogen atoms an iso tope is a modification of an element that exhibits the same general prop erties but has a different mass the study of heavy isotopes was first started about 1914 when it was discovered that the element lead existed in three modifications the modifications varied only slightly from ordinary lead and were deriv ed from radio-active materials such as radium and thorium most isotopes found by 1929 it had been found that isotopes existed for all but a very few of the elements hydrogen and oxygen the two elements consti tuting water were among these ele ments and then it was suddenly discovered that there was an iso tope of oxygen since the entire system of atomic weights is based on the weight of oxygen chemists were somewhat at a loss for a short time the discovery of the isotope of oxygen led professor urey of co lumbia deliberately to search for an isotope of hydrogen he concluded after extensive research that such an isotope existed this is the only isotope that is twice as heavy as the ordinary atom all the other iso topes vary only very slightly from the ordinary by august * 1933 three drops of heavy water containing the iso tope of hydrogen had been isolat ed its specific gravity was slightly greater than that of pure water and all its other physical properties were in slight variance princeton starts work dr taylor stated that princeton was drawn into the search for this isotope because of the research they were carrying on concerning the ac tion of hydrogen with various met als princeton took an active part in the investigations and in the race for the preparation of a pure sample columbia yale the university of california princeton and the bu reau of standards were all engaged in this fascinating task the race is still on with princeton leading having produced a sample that is 99.99 per cent pure it is believed that it will soon be possible to ob tain a 100 per cent pure sample the heavy water is produced by an electrolytic process and is valued at 20.00 per gram about one pound has been produced by all the lab oratories working together the isotope is called deuterium but there is also strong evidence toward the existence of a second isotope tritium based on the very small extent to which it exists and the cost of its extraction tritium is valued at two million dollars per gram it has not been isolated as yet the greatest source of heavy water yet found is in the water of old batteries this water contains heavy water to the extent of one part in sixteen hundred born in england dr taylor was born in england and studied in sweden and germany before coming to princeton he has been at princeton continuously since 1914 with the exception of a short time during the war when he returned to england in 1926 he be came chairman of the department of chemistry at princeton guests of the chemical society at this meeting included students and faculty representatives from morav ian college and also faculty repre sentatives from cedar crest about 60 members of the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society also attended burr will contain deb's diary the lifebuoy edition of the burr will appear either thursday or friday and will contain nothing but material on houseparty deb's diary a recounting of a girl's ex periences at a past lehigh house party will be included the name of this issue is explained in the cover which will have two models hold ing cakes of lifebuoy soap ported playwright second the close correspondence in thought scientif ic beliefs and phrases between the philosophical works of francis ba con and the plays popularly ascrib ed to shakespeare and third and most important the validity of the bi-lateral cypher code which is used throughout the first editions of not shakespeare's works but those of francis becon as well ideas are changed since it would not be quite ac curate it is fortunately not neces sary to use the trite phrase about coming to scoff and remaining to pray of the blake society members but dean curtis in the short time he had built up a strong enough case to place some of the members beliefs if not on the bacon side at least balancing on the fence until this evening when dr robert m smith head of the english depart ment and a well-known shakespear ean scholar will attempt to repulse the bacon pretendership from the throne of the world's greatest poet we do not know when shakes peare was born nor do we know where,beyond the fact that he was born in or near stratford we do not know when or where he was educated — if at all — when or where he was married nor can we be cer tain as to the name of his wife we do not know when he went up to london nor when he left london finally even the cause and date of his death is under dispute l " thus did dean george b curtis registrar of the university sum up the first division of his argument for the baconian authorship of the shakespearean plays before last fri day's meeting of the robert w blake society most of the members and guests of the campus philosophical society came to the meeting with their be liefs precisely where tradition had placed them — well over on the shakespearean side of the fence dean curtis attempted to establish first how little was actually known of one william shakespeare pur dean curtis is a life-long crypto grapher and his training — besides being a phi beta kappa arts man he majored in physics and mathe matics and took graduate work at columbia — admirably fits him for it his primary interest is not in the bacon-shakespeare con troversy but in bacon's bi-literal cypher which if established as true would rewrite elizabethan history besides making bacon a magnifi cently prolific author in fact the decoding of one passage reads francis of veluram bacon's title is author of all the plays heretofore published by marlowe greene shakespeare and of the two-and twenty now put out for the first time in one of his prose works bacon takes up the art of cyphers and goes into great detail on one system which he developed and which took advantage of the fact that the print ers of his time commonly used two different fonts of italic type a plain continued on page four bethlehem pa friday november 9 1934 features comedy plays in west vol xlii no 14 competitors for positions to sign in office by nov 20 blythe replies to criticism of orchestras social events may be given exclusive dates the lehigh university brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association