Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 32

              by frederick a bradford the decisions of the united states supreme court in the gold clause causes have received such detailed treatment in the press since they were rendered last monday that they need be merely summarized here briefly in the case of private obliga tions the court ruled that to uphold the gold clause would be to allow private contracts to interfere with the govern ment's constitutional power to regulate the value of money the government resolution of june 5 1933 abrogating the gold clause was accordingly upheld in respect to private contracts with regard to the government's own obligations containing the gold clause however the resolution of june 5 1933 was held unconstitutional nevertheless the court refused to award damages on frederick a bradford the groun d that the plaintiff could not show any loss had he obtained the gold it could legally have been neither exported nor used in any way worth more to him than paper money would be the arguments and decision re garding holders of gold certificates were similar prof wright delivers lecture at germantown fete more than 500 persons attended the performance monday evening in the auditorium of the germantown friends school in celebration of the poet horace's birthday the pro gram sponsored by the lehigh alumni club of pennsylvania mark ed the bimillennial of the famous roman the main feature of the evening was a lecture by prof horace w wright of the lehigh department of latin john cornelius 35 and jud son smull 36 attired in ancient and modern dress presented the lov er's quarrel ode of horace in five separate versions professor wright in his lecture stressed the importance of horace as an influence in eighteenth cen tury literature as well as in modern poetry and presented as examples a long list of famous poets who took their style directly from the classic lines of horace the glee club of the germantown friends school rendered two latin selections they were followed by the lehigh alumni who closed the program with the community sing ing of several lehigh songs 21 are elected to math club freshmen told of foundation capt ranger describes mechanics of electric organ gives history of his scientific life shows his sound recording and reproducing apparatus i have always strived for two angles of attack in my experimen tal work said capt r h ranger formerly of the r c a engineers staff and now of the ranger tone corporation in his address on ran ger electric organ at a meeting of the electrical engineering society last night in his speech captain ranger de scribed his part in the world war as a member of the field artillery and particularly as a member of the signal corps while in europe he was connected with various radio corporations in 1920 the newly formed amer ican radio corporation employed him at this time communication across seas was dependent upon trans-oceanic codes telephony was then introduced at the time when amateurs devoted most of their time to building crystal sets eliminates radio howl during the next ten years radio progressed very rapidly captain ranger realized that if he could eliminate the radio howl he could reproduce music he had two methods in view by which he could accomplish his pur pose his first method dealt with the vacuum tube oscillator in this there are 12 units each unit con sisting of the following a motor driver upon which are mounted steel gears with numerous teeth ar ranged in a geometric progression with a ratio of two each unit gen erates a single note and its har monics his second and more successful which is in use today depends upon vibrating reeds for the source of oscillation beams of light are re flected from the reeds and picked up by photo-electric cells over tones can be provided by varying the light beams after his speech captain ranger demonstrated a sound recording and reproducing apparatus mustard and cheese try-outs to be held preliminary trials for yellow jack will be on monday try-outs for yellow jack the dramatic society's second semester offering will be held 7:30 monday evening in drown hall final elim inations for parts in the cast will be thursday announces frederick j snyder arts 36 publicity manager of mustard and cheese when tests were made for a ten tative cast of this sidney howard paul dekruif play this week fewer men appeared than will be needed says snyder there are 26 speaking parts almost all of which are of im portance the characters to be por trayed include medical research sci entists and army men yellow jack runner-up for the pulitzer prize in drama last year is a representation of men's fight of yellow fever by science the scen ery is in line with the trend of the modern theatre and allows for al most complete continuity of perfor mance engine to be fixed old 2,200 volt generator being rebalanced an alternating current engine which has remained idle in packard laboratory since the building was built is being rebalanced by me chanical engineers the students are determining its counterbalance to make it safe for operation in packard laboratory the ball 2,200 volt generator had originally been installed in the pow er plant but it was rendered use less w.hen power was obtained from another source it must be balanced in order that it will be able to work on the floor surface in the labora tory the work is being done by asso ciate professor luce charles nei man m e 35 richard wilson m e 35 richard rick m e 36 charles keim jr m e 35 louis struble jr m e 35 michael por azzi arts 37 and harvey everett m e 35 first class function to be held march 4 freshman dance plan will be given then speeches and fencing bouts will supply entertainment the freshman union will hold a smoker for the freshman class at 7:30 o'clock monday evening march 4 in the auditorium of drown hall k robert schultze committee chairman in charge of arrange ments made this announcement at the union meeting wednesday eve ning in drown hall the committee investigating or chestras places and dates for the proposed union dance will make its final recommendation to the class at the smoker john w welker heads this committee composed of robert w kirkpatrick richard h greenwell and carstens . haas sheridan to speak andrew e buchanan alumni as sociation secretary will be master of ceremonies at the smoker col nelson a kellogg director of ath letics will speak the committee is trying to have billy sheridan var sity wrestling coach and dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration to speak also prof fay c bartlett is arrang ing two boxing bouts of two or three rounds there will be two fencing matches one epee and one sabre free cigarettes are to be dis tributed and refreshments are to be served by the committee smoker to be closed the union decided to make the smoker a closed affair to the entire freshman class since it is the first social function sponsored by the organization randolph s young class president is anxious to have as large an attendance as possible for he says we want to get to know each other better than usual it was reported at the union meeting wednesday evening that alonzo stagg grand old man of football would not speak at the smoker he left town last week plans for the proposed freshman class banquet have been dropped the administration was not in favor of reviving the practice of having class banquets and the accompany ing rough tactics the smoker committee is norman c odell matthew r collins luke o travis charles f zell alan d rosenbloom and william h gill r patrick enright 87 dies in philadelphia succumbs to heart disease . while taking walk , patrick dick enright 87 died of heart disease monday not far from his home in philadelphia he was a former resident of bethlehem and at the time of his death was serving his eighth year as literary editor of the philadelphia inquirer when stricken he was taking his accustomed evening walk the only identification oir his person was the address of his former residence but from there messengers were s«nt to his present home mr enright was educated in the local public schools after being graduated from the bethlehem high school he entered lehigh * upon leaving mr enright be came a teacher in one of the city's grammar schools he resigned in the early 90's to accept a position as south side reporter for the beth lehem daily times from there he went to the philadelphia inquirer mr enright was born in south bethlehem march 17 1867 the funeral will take place from the fesidence of his brother and sister in-law mr and mrs leo j quinn of 918 delaware avenue c c n y magazine has trouble similar to burr's because he published jokes with double meanings and leering car toons in mercury undergraduate magazine of the college of the city of new york the editor will be chastised but not necessarily de prived of his editorship unlike the burr case at lehigh where the publication was suspend ed the mercury was not banned and will continue to be published . . . sans double entendres total is brought to 21 ; eight houses refuse to announce final plans for hell week forty new members are to be accepted this week five more of the 29 fraternities have completed or are now com pleting their initiations this brings the total to 21 the remaining eight refuse to give their final plans the reports that have been an nounced to date are as follows chi psi fraternity initiated last saturday afternoon the following arthur j lintott jr eng 38 todd m moise bus 38 john p murphy arts 38 merril h wal lace bus 37 william g siegel arts 36 theta xi initiated last friday william h formhals instructor in electrical engineering norman odell eng 38 charles bergdoll bus 38 douglas barnes eng 38 robert lewis bus 38 james an trim arts 38 francis vernon eng 38 henry hynson eng 38 thomas reider ch e 37 george schiel eng 38 charles schaefer eng 38 stanley bunce eng 38 george beck m e 37 initiates seven kappa alpha last saturday ini tiated charles w simmons assis tant professor of chemical engineer ing richard parsons eng 38 evan stone bus 38 joseph hop kins bus 38 irvin gage bus 38 charles couch bus 38 everett peck bus 38 tomorrow night theta kappa phi will initiate at a banuet to be held at the fraternity house the follow ing men john appendino eng.'3b paul beauchemim arts 38 john downey arts 38 martin fischer bus 37 ferdinand flory eng 38 vincent montesano arts 38 john pangborn bus 38 frank washa baugh eng 38 raymond kolar sey eng 38 joseph kotanchik eng 38 delta sigma phi will initiate on march 2 the following joseph mathers e e 36 richard hay den eng 38 david morrow bus 38 harland maxwell eng 38 walter schmidt eng 38 the fraternities that have pre viously announced their initiates alpha kappa pi alpha tau ome ga betta kappa chi phi delta tau delta delta upsilon lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gamma delta phi sigma kappa pi lambda phi sigma alpha mv sigma nu sigma phi sigma phi epsilon and tau delta phi maurice ewing appointed dr maurice ewing instructor of physics was appointed to the com mittee on continents and continental evolution of the american geophy sical union at its meeting feb 6 newtonians admit frosh ; d h lehmer speaks on prime numbers twenty-one new members were initiated at a meeting of the new tonian society honorary freshman mathematical society held monday evening in packard laboratory derrick h lehmer instructor in mathematics addressed the society on prime numbers telling what is not yet known about them there is no sure method of getting a prime number mr lehmer stated al though there is one fairly good plan prime numbers are the atoms of mathematics — important but people can get along without them topics for discussion at the next meeting were announced as follows the life and works of sir isaac newton the history of pi the his tory and applications of the slide rule the members elected are e j hayne bus 38 p m brubaker eng 38 l c buckles eng 38 j g clemmer eng 38 s p fe lix arts 38 a j getz eng 38 i m harvey eng 38 j r ober holtzer eng 38 f g smith eng 38 j a cooney ch e 37 c h hoffman eng 38 a s ogden eng 38 w j schmidt eng 38 d b wheeler eng 38 s c bunce eng 38 f e carner eng 38 w b clark eng 38 w g dukek eng 38 l b durant eng 38 c f glick eng 38 g b cushing eng 38 the officers are c h hoffman president s p felix secretary and g b cushing vice president treasurer shorty long and stanley adams lecture to chemistry groups freshmen who are taking chemis try this semester were told of the harry montz ullmann student chemistry foundation monday and tuesday by dr j s long ch e 14 former professor of chemistry and stanley adams met 29 found er of the organization professor h v anderson sec retary of the foundation announced that the percentage of contributions was greater this year than in the past the exact amount received will not be known until june as the freshmen agreed to turn their returns from their elementary chemistry and qualitative laboratory fees over to the foundation deposit return is 14 professor anderson explained that the average return of chemistry de posits is about 14 per man thus he showed how much each man is donating to the foundation edmund claxton ch e 21 re search director for the armstrong cork company spoke to the fresh men on the value of research they were also told of the work done by the foundation and its value to in dustry by george m dewees ch e 34 and harry m fisher ch.e 33 who are now employed in re search for the foundation randolph young ch e.'3b pres ident of the freshman union also spoke to the freshmen asking for their support in carrying on the work of the foundation he then called on several members of the class to informally present their views paul f preston ch e 35 president of the senior class also spoke to the freshmen and told how classes had responded in the past to this annual appeal for funds to carry on the work of the founda tion lehigh debates munitions tonight at state college lehigh's debating team will up hold the negative side of the muni tions and arms questions against the men's team of perm state at state college tonight thomas but terfield arts 35 walter guyer ch e 36 and eugene uhler arts 37 are on the trip ursinus will debate here at 8 o'clock in room 466 packard lab oratory on monday evening thurs day evening at the same time and place moravian will send a team to meet the lehigh representatives the question at both the debates will be on the question of social ized medicine typhoid injections to start the first of the series of ty phoid innoculations will be giv en at the dispensary tomorrow between 9 and 1 so far about 270 men are signed up to take the injections but any who have not made arrangements may do so tomorrow morning says dr bull all are encouraged to avail themselves of this preventive measure there is no charge the decision was rendered by a 5 to 4 vote the dissenting opinion opposing that of the majority in every particular except with respect to the unconstitutionally of the gov ernment's repudiation of its own contracts associate justice mc reynolds delivering a summary of the dissenting opinion bitterly at tacked the majority decision in a scathing half-hour philippic from the bench arguments convincing although not qualified to render a legal judgment the writer finds the majority of arguments in ref erence to private contracts reason ably convincing from the standpoint of logic and common sense not so the argument by which the court finds the breach of contract in gov ernment bonds unconstitutional yet fails to grant damages in the words of the minority opinion for the government to say we have violated our contract but have escaped the consequences through our own statute would be monstrous yet this it appears is exactly what the majority opinion permits the government to do looking at the matter realisti cally it would seem that the ma jority decision may have been in fluenced by factors of political ex pediency it is by no means certain in the mind of the writer that a similar decision would have been handed down if the court had con sidered these cases in say july 1933 procedure needs remedy this brings out an important de fect in our legal procedure which should be remedied as matters now stand it is likely to be months and may even be years before the con stitutionality of a government action or statute is decided by the supreme court developments during the in terval may easily be such as to make a particular decision unwise or inexpedient and the opinion rendered may consciously or un consciously be influenced by the conditions at the time the remedy for this is simple if any congressman or official mem ber of the administration questioned the constitutionality of a given ac tion or law he should be permitted to request and receive an opinion from the supreme court at the time without the necessity of waiting for an actual case to drag through the continued on page four williams may speak before industrial engineering society whiting williams author and consultant in labor and personnel problems in industry is expected to speak april 11 before the industrial engineering society prof f v larkin director of the curricula in industrial and mechanical engineer ing says that there is some uncer tainty as to the date mr williams has had consider able expecience in labor relations he is a lecturer on management problems at harvard and dart mouth and an adviser to large em ployers on personal and public re lations he has worked in coal and steel plants both in this country and abroad burr to refund 55 cents all subscribers of the burr will receive a refund of 55 cents by calling at the lehigh union office says s b whitney bus iness manager other two sites hotel and library under consideration found to be unsatisfactoryf actory orchestra for dance to be announced at later date the junior prom will be held fri day evening april 26 from 10 to 3 o'clock in the coliseum announces george voehl committee chairman the committee chose the coli seum because the other two sites under consideration were unsatis factory the use of one large or chestra makes necessary an ampli fication system in the hotel beth lehem and the university adminis tration will not grant the use of the lindermann memorial library for social functions orchestra to be announced the name of the orchestra will be announced early next week states voehl decorations will be made by the firm for trenton n j which decorated the coliseum for the in terfraternity ball chaperones for the prom are dean and mrs charles m mcconn dr and mrs claude g beardslee registrar and mrs george b cur tis and dr and mrs robert d billinger tickets are the same price as last spring — 4.40 per couple and 2.20 stag — when ozzie nelson played for the prom at the hotel bethle hem louis s stout bus 36 and john l kornet ch e 36 are assisting voehl in arranging for the dance neville addresses american chemicals reads changes in by-laws of society constitution professor harvey a neville in his capacity as chairman of the by laws committee read the changes in the constitution which had been approved at the meeting of the le high valley section of the amer ican chemical society which met last friday evening in chandler chemistry laboratory the principal change was the provision for a per manent secretary harold g searle spoke on corro sion resisting metals at the meet ing searle is employed by the in ternational nickel company and had great practical experience in his topic which included the effect of adding nickel to iron and copper compounds he also discussed the methods of measuring the increased resistance of these alloys against corrosion professor charles w simmons a queens university classmate of the speaker introduced him twitchell injured car upsets near pottstown with four other students william w twitchell arts 35 suffered a cut in an artery in his arm when the ford coupe which he was driving back from annapol is overturned at 3:15 a m sunday morning five miles this side of pottstown the glass from a side window cut his arm and also lacer ated the faces of charles mccoy arts 37 and robert williamson bus 38 kloman sprague bus 37 and john mueller c e 35 were also in the accident but were not injured all five had been attending the lehigh-navy wrestling match at anapolis and were coming home when the accident occurred payrow talks at lafayette on romance and sewage the romance in the the develop ing of sanitary engineering and the part played by adventurous engin eers coupled with a discussion of modern types of sewage plants in a lecture on romance and sewage was given by harry g payrow head of the courses in sanitary en gineering recently at lafayette the address was given before the student chapter of the american as sociation of civil engineers at la fayette college in pardee hall the lecture was illustrated by slides professor payrow had been asked to speak by prof edward h rock well head of the department of civil engineering at lafayette college and a former teacher of professor payrow aj tufts college leonard halvs average highest for ninth consecutive semester 16 1.905 sigma phi 17 1.903 taylor hall sec c 1.892 entire university 18 1.891 kappa sigma 19 1.856 alpha tau omega 1.826 all freshmen 20 1.814 delta tau delta 21 1.809 theta delta chi 1.780 all fraternity men 22 1.772 beta theta pi 23 1.766 kappa alpha 24 1.717 price hall 1.708 all sophomores 25 1.693 phi delta theta 26 1.671 pi kappa alpha 27 1.670 theta kappa phi 28 1.654 theta xi 29 1.602 alpha kappa pi so 1.593 alpha chi rho si 1.580 chi phi 32 1.538 sigma chj 33 1.494 sigma nu 34 1.426 delta phi 35 1.404 phi sigma kappa 36 1.382 chi psi the distribution of individual averages in percentages is as fol lows freshmen : 3.35 per cent a ; 20.09 per cent b 39.06 per cent c 32.59 per cent d and 4.91 per cent failing sophomores 3.83 per cent a 10.33 per cent b 42 per cent c 38.33 per cent d 6 per cent failing juniors : 4.93 per cent a ; 23.49 per cent b 42.8 per cent c 28.4 per cent d 38 per cent failing seniors 5.34 per cent a 23.28 per cent b 45.42 per cent c 25.96 per cent d no failures entire university 4.05 per cent a 19.78 per cent b 41.51 per cent c 31.47 per cent d and 3.19 per cent failing for the ninth consecutive semes ter leonard hall had the highest scholastic average of any living group according to figures released yesterday by the registrar's office the statistics for last semester also show that the average of the entire university increased from 1.842 which was for the corresponding period a year ago to 1.892 pi lambda phi again led all fra ternities eleven living groups had averages above 2.0 compared with four at this period a year ago five of these eleven are dormitories the senior class continued to hold the highest class average the jun ior freshman and sophomore class es follow in that order averages for all groups are rank average living group 1 2.403 leonard hall 2 2.244 taylor hall sec d 3 2.145 pi lambda phi 4 2.140 delta upsilon 5 2.120 taylor hall sec a ' 2.091 all seniors 6 2.089 beta kappa 7 2.048 taylor hall sec e 8 2.039 sigma alpha mv 2.037 town group 9 2.036 taylor hall sec b 2.035 all non-fraternity men 2.020 all juniors 10 2.017 phi gamma delta 11 2.003 sigma phi epsilon 1.999 all dormitories 12 1.986 lambda chi alpha 13 1.974 delta sigma phi 14 1.970 psi upsilon 15 1.928 tau delta phi bethlehem pa friday february 22 1935 bradford says court decisions may have unfortunate effects alumni club marks horace's birthday vol xlii no 32 price five cents the lehigh university brwon and white initiations are conducted by 5 fraternities ranger organ demonstrated to engineers frosh union selects date for smoker associate professor of economics claims inflationists led by senator elmer thomas find spur to further mone tary manipulation in result of verdicts junior prom will be held in coliseum all the lehigh news first member 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