Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 17

              all freshmen must wear pa jamas for the lafayette smoker and parade announces l o travis president of the lehigh union living group heads are re quested to sene that men in their houses abide by this regulation which was passed by arcadia at its last meeting tickets for the lafayette game are available now a reserved seat in the cheering section may be had by presenting the proper athletic coupon at the gym office and paying the government tax of ten cents students who paid 1.10 may secure a refund of 1.00 tests guards for highways mets inspect copper plants seniors pledged are beatty ellis fruehan gallaway george hor lacher keim ritter hoppock eichner and weiss chosen from junior class eleven new men were pledged to tau beta pi national honorary en gineering society in the university chapel this morning prof stanley seyfert director of the curriculum in electrical engineering was the speaker the list includes eight sen iors and three juniors the seniors admitted were k l beatty ch e h k ellis e e w fruehan met e w s gal laway e phys.^h p george ch e g a horlacher ch e c keim m e and f t ritter e.e the juniors elected were r m eichner i e d w hoppock i e and b s weiss c e the fall election took place last wednesday in packard laboratory the heads of all the engineering de partments were visitors at the meet ing professor seyfert pointed out in chapel that the main difference be tween tau beta pi and phi beta kappa was the fact that the former was run by students and the latter by the alumni he outlined the standards by which the members of the society are elected first the student must have reached his junior year and have made an average of 3.0 or bet ter this average is lowered to 2.5 for the second semester the aver age has always been evaluated by the society on the basis of a equals 4 secondly he must show an inter est in his field and activities out side his particular work to qual ify for membership a man must have at least one extra curricular activity to comply with the second point third the student must show a willingness to help others and be willing to do things for the benefit of others and not always think of self there are also a few other minor social requirements professor seyfert also gave a brief history of the development of the society it is the foremost en gineering society in the country and was founded at lehigh in 1885 by dr edward h williams then pro fessor of mining engineering and geology in its 49 years existance it has grown until today there are 69 chapters and 22,000 members students and girls crowd senior prom 476 couples and 48 stags dance at annual ball one thousan*d people attended the annual senior ball on friday night at the hotel bethlehem states ralph m blythe m e 35 chair man of the dance committee this number representing an in crease of nearly 200 over that of the 1933 function was made up of 476 couples and 48 stags there were 53 complimentary tickets issued a deficit of approximately 60 is anticipated although complete sta tistics are not yet available the ball this year says blythe was not run as a commercial venture but planned to balance as evenly as pos sible on either side of the ledger a detailed financial report will be compiled this week minerstohear davis geologist will talk thursday in williams hall john davis petroleum geologist connected with the standard oil company will speak on the en gineer in tropical south america to the mining and geological so ciety at 8 p m thursday in wil liams hall mr davis talk will be informal in its delivery and will describe his experiences in venezuelan oil fields he was present at the early devel opment of the south american fields and will describe personal ex periences as well as technical meth ods life in the tropics such as mr davis will describe are related in a recent book men of maricaibo union to sponsor smoker followed by march with band through town frosh in pajama buchanan reiter kellogg and okeson to give talks at rally the lafayette smoker will be held at 7:30 p m friday in the taylor stadium a parade through town will follow the principal speakers at the smoker will be andy buchanan secretary of the alumni association bosey reiter and director kellogg of the athlet ic department and walter okeson chairman of the football rules com mittee a parade will follow the smoker coach glen harmeson will not be present to speak he will remain with the team which will stay at stroudsburg friday night and until the game saturday frosh to wear pajamas arcadia has decreed that all freshmen attending the smoker will be in pajamas this is expected to add to the atmosphere and spirit of both the smoker and the parade the athletic contests which have been a feature of this year's smok er will be replaced by the annual lafayette game parade the parade will start from the gym and pro ceed across the new street bridge to the north side after parading on that side and serenading fem-sem it will come back to the south side and end finally at the university as a special feature of the smok er the glee club will sing the new song march on lehigh the glee club will sit together on the north side of the gym and lead in the pep songs band will play the band will be present at the smoker and the parade to assist in the songs the cheerleaders will of course be present to lead the songs and cheers an effort will be made to keep out the town boys leßoy travis and lew black of the lehigh un ion ask the cooperation of the stu dents in this plan the lafayette game being the most important game of the year a large crowd is expected the smoker is planned to last from 30 to 45 minutes debaters discuss two propositions club gives talk on shipment of arms and munitions an open forum was held by the debating club at its meeting thurs day in room 466 packard labora tory on two questions to be debat ed this year the first proposition is re solved that nations should agree to prevent the international ship ment of arms and munitions and the second resolved that penn sylvania should adopt a system of socialized medicine major points of both questions were discussed at the meeting the members were assigned to investi gate the various indices for topics on socialized medicine the society agreed to give prac tice debates on both questions early this december all the men were asked to come prepared to advance arguments on the two questions at the next meeting which will be held this thursday tidd will continue carnegie concert series wednesday the carnegie concert series will be continued at 4:15 p m on wed nesday in the arcadia room drown hall elbert d tidd arts 37 who has charge of the concert will play several piano selections the following pieces will be played chopin's etudes beeth oven's sonata in c minor patheti que franck's prelude choral and fugue lizst's polonaise in e major dr carothers claims de velopments have led to study of systems in magazine article explains five paths which are now open to america dr neil carothers director of the college of business adminis tration writing in the december issue of the american magazine finds that the new deal has arous ed public interest in our economic system using as the title of his ar ticle five roads open dr car others attempts to explain to his readers the five alternative econom ic systems among which the am erican people must choose whatever you may say for or against the new deal you must ad mit one extraordinary achieve ment the new deal has led the american people to study the economic system that system which permits us to be born into a crowd ed world educates us enables us to live and bring up our own families and cares for us after our produc tive days are past thus professor carothers addresses his readers in defining courses open to the amer ican people at this time i c individ ualism liberalism communism so cialism and facism economic problems realized the industrial revolution brought to the other countries of the world a realization of economic problems and possibilities only in america has an indifference to economic dis cussion been shown until today when recent events have ended this indifference forever explains pro fessor carothers in the 20 months since the pres ent administration came into power a bewildering succession of meas ures has been enacted . . . without question they have made it clear that political control and govern mental regulation hold the power of life and death over every economic activity thus professor caroth ers gives his explanation for the new interest in economics reviews economics structure professor carothers reviews our economic structure its flaws and its perfections admittedly the system works harshly under it the major ity of men live in the shadow of unemployment and failure and a segment of the population lives bleak lives of hard work and pov erty while a few live in idleness and luxury . . . on the other hand this system is the most extraordin continued on page four kellogg is married to purdue alumna athletic director weds former mrs strickler saturday nelson a kellogg director of the division of athletics and physi cal education and mrs mary keif fer strickler were married at 5:30 p m saturday in the old sun inn mr kellogg a graduate of the university of michigan 04 was di rector of athletics at the university of lowa and at purdue university before coming to lehigh two years ago he is a member of phi gam ma delta fraternity and has been rahn supervises work on steel plate rails for protection of cars routine tests on a new type of plate highway guard were conduct ed friday in fritz laboratory for the central iron and steel com pany of harrisburg under the su pervision of g a rahn chief ma terials field engineer for the penn sylvania state highway department which had adopted this guard for pennsylvania highways the highway guards are approx imately 15 feet long and one foot wide the face of the guard which is of one-eighth inch steel is riv eted to two terminals which con tain spring shock absorbers the posts which support the guard at hub cap height are fastened to ter minals by bolts through the shock absorbers the middle of the guard is fastened to a third post by a steel clip , to replace old types this type of highway guard is to gradually replace the older three wire type which now edges penn sylvania highways in addition to obviating the fouling of automobiles by the wires in old type the shock absorbing feature cushions the blow between automobile and guard and throws the automobile back on the highway with a minimum damage this type of guard is stronger than the cable type and much easier to put into position says inge lyse associate professor of civil engin eering j the lest was conducted on the 24 feet section of two highway guards in the riehle 800,000 pound testing machine according to state requirements these highway guards must be able to bear a load of 90,000 pounds of direct pull the speciment tested friday broke at the rivets which join the plate and terminals under a load of 97,600 pounds since jul 1933 a half dozen midwestern companies have sent highway guards of this type to be tested at fritz laboratory to discuss power supply of subways l k sowers 29 to address e e.s thursday subway power supply will be discussed by leon k sowers e e 29 at the lehigh branch of the american institute of electrical engineers meeting at 7:45 p m thursday in room 416 packard lab oratory refreshments will be served after the meeting mr sowers is now maintenance foreman of the new york city inde pendent subway system that com pany has recently constructed the new eighth avenue subway which includes new mercury-arc rectifiers to change alternating current to di rect these are the most advanced type in the united states says stanley s seyfert head of the de partment of electrical engineering this new type are automatic and hence are cheaper to run a student paper will be present ed by harry k ellis e e 35 on applications of arc welding the president of the society is frank j hollister e e 35 observatory open last time the last chance to visit sayre ob servatory will be tomorrow evening if the weather is clear after to morrow night the observatory will remain closed to the public until next spring the observatory opens at 7:30 p m sigma xi lecturer tells houseparty audience - of little known facts about monkeys zoological gardens curator explains habits of beavers illustrates vampire bat's lap ping blood and biting prey walking clams ant-eaters closeups of vampire bats lapping blood clams that walk monkeys sewing clothes ant-eaters at dinner and movies of many other strange sights were shown by dr r l dit mars to an audience of over 600 fri day evening in packard auditor ium dr ditmars curator of mammals and reptiles at the new york zoo logical gardens was brought here by sigma xi national honorary re search society the first reel of dr ditmars pic tures dealt with monkeys and an thropoid apes most of the pictures of this reel were taken in his own laboratories at his home at scars dale n y the pictures showed that monkeys have a vocabulary and that they can be taught rather rap idly to perform many simple tasks dr ditmars stated however that in spite of their alleged intelligence monkeys in the wild do not show any traits of civilization beaver pictures shown the second reel showed a colony of beavers in their natural habitat with the help of the picture and a diagram dr ditmars showed the construction of beaver dams and homes the beavers dig an upward ly inclined tunnel from the bank of a stream they dam the stream so that the water covers the entrance but does not flood the home ex plained the naturalist since beav ers do most of their work late in the afternoon and at night it was necessary to use a special film and a special developing process in or der to get the pictures explained the lecturer the next reel dealt with the var ious species of bats dr ditmars discussed for some time the large vampire bat which is the terror of some parts of south america this bat lives in caves and ventures out at night to attack cattle and at times even humans its bite bleeds pro fusely and frequently the victim bleeds to death bats carry rabies he stated that there is some evi dence that the bite contains a pois on that prevents the coagulation of the blood these bats are fre quently carriers of rabies which makes them an added menace ap pended to this reel was a short scene showing the recently captured bushmaster snake for three years dr ditmars endeavored to capture a bushmaster but was unsuccessful until this summer when he return ed from his vacation in africa with a specimen another reel showed the traits of many strange and of some fam iliar animals still another reel was taken up entirely with pictures of snakes in connection with snakes dr ditmars spoke of the reduction of the death rate due to snake bites since the introduction of serum in the treatment of snake bites deaths from this cause decreased from 2,000 annually to 80 in india due to su perstition and fear the yearly death rate is still 20,000 the last i»eel of pictures depicted the underwater life of many species of fish the scenes included several fights between crabs star fish and other salt water fish coming events butts and eleven students leave on visit t o electrolyte refineries eleven metallurgical students left this morning for a two-day inspec tion trip accompanied by allison butts associate professor of metal lurgy the party spent today at the u s metals refining company in ca taret n j this plant one of the large electrolytic copper refineries in the world says professor butts smelts copper from cuba princi pally it has also a lead refinery which was built three years ago gold silver and selenium are by products of this refinery process the former two are sold to the u s government and the latter goes to companies which manufacture photoelectric cells the company has an output of 800 tons a day and employs over 1,000 men to see large refinery tomorrow the students will in spect the nichols copper company of laurel hill n v the largest copper refinery operating in a series system instead of the customary method of electrolyzing copper with a parallel circuit this plant con nects the cells in series it also pro duces copper and nickel sulfates the capacity is 1,000 tons of cop per per day these two companies rank among the most important non-ferrous metal companies in the world says professor butts the trip will be completed to morrow afternoon the students making the trip are j e brauberns 35 g h enzain 35 m h folk ner 35 willard fruehan 35 w c harding 35 w a johnson 35 c w lueders 35 e e mcginley 35 and w h gardner 37 and a b lovett 36 all metallurgical en gineers and p h lahgdon arts 36 faculty dramatists read dodsworth 47 members of club attend reading of novel forty-seven faculty members and wives attended the faculty dram atic club reading of dodsworth sidney howard's dramatized ver sion of sinclair lewis novel of the same name at 7:30 p m wednes day in room 201 packard labora tory mrs nelson s hibshman treasurer of the club was in charge of the program members of the cast were sam uel dodsworth harold thomas a sales manager arthur w klein a publicity man stuart cairns a blonde secretary mrs elmer bratt henry e hazzard edgar h ril ey fran dodsworth mrs harold thomas tubby pearson myron luch matey pearson mrs alli son butts emily mckee miss myrtle helms harry mckee clyde harding edith cortright mrs dale gramley a steward cedric gale a b hurd edgar riley madame de penable mrs hale sutherland arnold isreal john toohy kurt yon obersdorf t g ehrsam mary teresa mrs inge lyse bar oness yon qbersdorff mrs p m palmer information clerk carl strauch scott has grippe attack david g scott instructor in ro mance languages has been confined to his home 1612 linden street with an attack of the grippe nelson a kellogg a widower for several years he met mrs kellogg while he was director of athletics at purdue the bride is a graduate of purdue 15 has been a member of the fac ulty of that university and at pres ent is co-proprietor of the sun inn mr and mrs kellogg will live at 33 west church street wednesday nov 21 4:15 p m coflege music set con cert arcadia room drown hall 7:30 p m pi mv epsilon residence of professor cairns thursday nov 22 4:15 p m delta omicron theta room 466 packard laboratory 7:30 p m c e society packard auditorium 7:30 p m e e society room 416 packard laboratory friday nov 23 4:15 p m faculty volley ball le high field gymnasium 7:30 p m lafayette smoker gym nasium lehigh paper takes sec ond in news contest at i n a convention in new york ' city campus publication trails reporter in news contest temple gettysburg drexel take second and third places in both fields for the fifth time in seven suc cessive competitions the brown and white placed first in editorials at the fall convention of the intercol legiate newspaper association last week-end in new york the lehigh paper tied for first place with the gettysburgian of get tysburg college in this field the drexel and temple papers were in second and third places respec tively brooklyn polytechnic institute's paper the polytechnic reporter took first place in the news competi tion lehigh tied with gettysburg for second and temple took third place the brown and white competed with 30 other papers which were guests of the brooklyn polytechnic reporter and the stevens institute stute which were the host papers five represent lehigh representing the lehigh paper were dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism k.k kost assistant in english edwin a saw yer editor in chief walter deemer member of the editorial council adin p rich national advertising assistant and meyer wolfe news manager the final convention session vot ed to hold next semester's meeting on april 8 and 9 at ursinua college at collegeville it was also decided that a cup for advertising excellence will be awarded for high standards of advertising copy layout and makeup student papers pertaining to dif ferent phrases of newspaper work were read at the saturday morning sessions kost presided at the bus iness meetings new papers admitted two papers the tatler of new rochelle college for women and the cliff dweller of the erie divi sion of the university of pitts burgh were admitted to the asso ciation the papers of albright college and lebanon college were suspended for non-payment of dues and lack of interest in the associa tion with herbert s stare of gettys burg president of the convention heading the sessions the delegates heard suchi speakers as w e has kell assistant to the president of the new york herald-tribune h c yahreas head of the feature desk of the associated press and john chapman columnist for the new york daily news included also were j r parker feature writer of the new yorker r r robertson president of the national advertising service and dean e j streubel of the brook lyn polytechnic institute gramley gives awards professor gramley executive treasurer of the association award ed the cup at a formal banquet sat urday evening thomas l donahue faculty ad viser of the polytechnic reporter was toastmaster miss mollie cul len feature editor of the waterbury american-republican was a guest of the association among the speakers at the ban quet were andrew drew pear son co-author of washington merry-go-round and first pres ident of the i n a who flew in from cleveland to be at the ban quet and harvey n davis pres ident of stevens institute of tech nology others were harry s rodgers president of brooklyn polytechnic institute james vwechsler editor of the columbia spectator and louis wiley business manager of the new york times judges of the contest were prof u s vance of the university of akron william f reimert city editor of the allentown chronicle and news and albert harum sun day magazine editor of the brook lyn daily eagle bethlehem pa tuesday november 20 1934 dr ditmars shows pictures of little known animal life brown and white wins cup for excellence of editorials vol xlii no 1 7 knock the spots off the leopard ! beat lafayette plans parade for evening before game says new deal awakes public to economics tau beta pi taps 11 men this morning price five cents brown and white frosh to wear pajamas for smoker and parade lafayette game tickets available in gym office member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first