Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 38

              lehigh's chances improve as intercollegiates open penn state is favorite lehigh's opening round opponents philadelphia march 15 — the drawings of lehigh's wrestlers for the preliminaries this afternoon are as follows e e society hears talk on television snyder tells of cold cathode tube transmitter speaking on practical televi sion before the electrical engin eering society last night in packard auditorium richard lee snyder,'33 said that a television apparatus could be put on the market for 500 but the tubes would wear out too quick ly to make the investment practical mr snyder who is conducting research on television for the phila delphia branch of the television laboratories ltd discussed the cold cathode vacuum tube radio trans mitter he also gave a demonstra tion of its component parts and showed how electron multiplication due to secondary emission helped to record moving figures on the television screen edward s tinley e.e 35 spoke on the electrification of coal mines a spaghetti dinner was served after the talks new position to be filled florida wins radio debate letter tells of graduates sutherland announces plans for engineers tuition room board are same as last year half-time waiters positions are open to needy students students taking the required sum mer session in surveying this year will be housed in four hotels in and around canadensis pa announced hale sutherland head of the civil engineering department they are the same establishments visited last june the canadensis hotel will accom modate 20 students the glenmere the laurel grove inn and the pine knob inn are expected to accom modate 30 or 40 each according to professor sutherland who together with natt m emery vice president of the university has just complet ed arrangements with the proprie tors of the hotels rates are the same as last year — 12.50 per week for room and board tuition will be 40 for c e 6 land and topographic surveying and 20 for c e 7 railroad surveying the former is scheduled for four weeks from monday june 3 to sat urday june 29 the latter course is given in the two weeks from monday july 1 to saturday july 13 waiters jobs open in accordance with previous years arrangements 12 half-time waiters positions will be open to needy students registered in the course stated professor sutherland student help in the past has been found generall satisfactory students may apply for the posi tions only if the money received from the 14 hours employment per week is necessary for them to con tinue in the course applications should be filed with john a brod head director of placement s a becker associate professor of civil engineering will be in charge of the sessions at canaden sis full faculty lists have not yet been announced the civil engineering department will distribute instruction sheets to students registered in the courses shortly before the easter vacation tau beta pi invites 34 men to smoker accepted engineers will be pledged on march 25 thirty-four upper classmen who are eligible for membership to tau beta pi honorary engineering so ciety will be the guests of the so ciety at a smoker to be held at 8:15 tuesday evening in the facul ty clubroom in drown hall the prospective members will be voted upon wednesday evening and those accepted will be pledged march 25 these 34 men represent all the engineering courses except civil en gineering twelve of the men are enrolled in the chemical engineering course ten are enrolled in the elec trical engineering curriculum three are chemical engineers and three are industrial engineers two men are from the mechani cal engineering department and there is one man each from the de partments of metallurgy engineer ing physics sanitary engineering and mining engineering dr congdon speaks twice at wilkes-barre school dr wray congdon director of admissions delivered two addresses today at the hanover township school in wilkes-barre he address ed the senior class there at 1 o'clck on sources of success later he spoke to the teachers institute of the same school he gave an illus trated lecture on china during the past week dr cong don has addressed the peekskill military academy on sources of success and the dwight school of new york city on how to stay in college pi delta epsilon nomin ates croushore and roth for handbook office suggestions for the revision of the freshman handbook constitu tion were made yesterday afternoon in drown hall at a meeting of pi delta epsilon national honorary journalism fraternity chief among the changes accord ing to j d neely arts 35 pres ident of the society is the addition of an editorial manager to the freshman handbook staff the duty of this officer will be to organize and assemble material proof-read and recommend changes james croushore arts 36 and william roth arts 36 have been nominated in that order for the new positions in next year's book as the result of a competitive examina tion pi delta epsilon acts in this matter as an advisory council for the union cabinet which officially controls the handbook the union will therefore elect one of the two nominees to office after it accepts the revised constitution pi delta epsilon commended the plan of cyanide to distribute book lets about lehigh traditions to in coming freshmen the fraternity also decided to offer its services during the high school and prepar atory school press conference to be held at lehigh on may 11 it was suggested that the group sponsor an exhibit for open house may 5 and 6 k k kost assistant in journalism and kent putnam arts 35 are to investigate the pos sibilities of the suggestion photographs shown pictures by w m white m.e 37 displayed in art gallery an exhibition of photographs by william m white m e 37 is now open to the public in the art gallery between the hours of 3 to s p m the photographs according to prof garth howland head of the fine arts department are unusual for an amateur because of the ex cellence of their tone and arrange ment the pictures approximately 40 in number resemble the famous style of the german photographers and include several views of the chicago world's fair beta kappa sigma phi epsilon will hold dance tomorrow the beta kappa and sigma phi epsilon fraternities will hold radio dances tomorrow night at their re spective houses the beta kappa dance will be informal and closed mr and mrs william h formhals will be the chaperones the sigma phi epsilon affair will be informal and open prof and mrs jacob l beaver will be chaperones a.t.o holds formal initiation alpha tau omega held its for mal initiation on sunday morning at which time five new men were admitted the new members are john h barry jr bus 38 lyman j craig jr bus 38 charles h gaetjens eng 38 william c klingensmith jr bus 38 and harry c milbank eng 38 director of research for armstrong cork com pany tells of manufac ture of cork at meeting nominations follow speech elections to be held april 3-4 edmund claxton ch e 21 di rector of research for the arm strong cork company in lancaster told the members of the chemical society last evening in packard audi torium of the manufacture of cork and cork products his talk was il lustrated by slides many of which were prepared by john widmyer ch e 19 who was present at the meeting mr claxton traced the prepara tion of cork for the market from the time it is stripped from the cork trees until it is shipped from the factories he also told of the many uses which have recently been dis covered for cork and how some of them were related to the chemical composition of cork the armstrong cork company manufactures many products some of which no longer seems to be re lated to cork but all of which can trace their development to cork one of these is bakelite caps for bottles he explained that the company was forced into this field of man ufacture as corks were being dis placed for capping bottles in a sim ilar way the company has been forced into the manufacture of soles for shoes roofing materials and in sulation material of all kinds talks on linoleum mr claxton referred briefly to the manufacture of linoleum from cork linseed oil burlap and some fillers and binding agents the en tire manufacture of linoleum is car ried out by a single machine three stories high and valued at a million and a quarter dollars strangely enough according to mr claxton one of the largest users of cork at the present time is the cigarette industry which uses cork in the wrapping of cigarette tips another large user of cork is the sound proofing industry george a horlacher ch e 35 president of the society read a let ter from president richards thank ing the society for admitting him to membership at its december meet ing following this horlacher opened the floor for the nomination of new officers officers nominated the following were nominated president w r f guyer 36 j l kornet 36 j m swalm jr 36 vice president a v morrison 36 p e neiman 36 w j rau 36 secretary t e brookover 37 y f hardcastle 37 f p hochge sang 37 n j leonard 37 treas urer f j biondi 36 g f dick over 36 l m geiger 36 buchanan receives word from raring of alumni in bolivia and ecuador that lehigh graduates are an es sential element in the development of south america has been re vealed in a letter received by an drew buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association this letter coming from robert raring 32 employed by the south american development company in quayaquil ecuador tells the part played by two lehigh grad uates in the modernization of that country these men the late jose ignacio vela 11 and bernado mora 19 are both natives of ecuador and both after graduation received their first employment in their native country jose vela was first employed as government inspector for the sib amba-cuenea railroad being built by the german firm of kopple an tin and kopple he next put in the sewage system for his native city ambate after which he became chief engineer for the government owned and operated quito-quaya quil railroad vela was active he later became a private con tractor and built a number of roads and bridges in northern ecuador and his final employment was as chief engineer for the leonard ex ploration company which was build ing a road in a wild region on the eastern slopes of the andeas while employed there he became ill and although taken to guayaquil for treatment failed to respond and died in may 1933 bernado mora after being em ployed as chief engineer of the south american development com pany and building a section of the puerto-bolivia railroad eventually became municipal engineer in his home town toga five colleges discuss arms and munitions in open forum lafayette muhlenberg rutgers richmond engage in meeting sponsored by d o t ; professor hughes laments absence of united states from league better treatment of guests will be sought offi cials visit drexel and pennsylvania exhibits m s and t students asked to wear uniforms all day committees to assure better treatment of the guests who will visit the university during open house have been appointed stat ed prof fred v larkin chairman of the open house committee aft er the meeting held tuesday after noon open house will be held fri day may 3 the committee which served last year has been reappointed and sev eral new names have been added professor larkin associate pro fessor luce and george thorn in structor of mechanical engineering recently visited open house at drexel institute and the university of pennsylvania that they might gather new ideas whereby lehigh's open house may be improved exhibits for children special efforts will be made to keep enthusiastic youngsters at ex hibits from which they will derive the maximum pleasure thus reliev ing the annoyance created by nois ome children no child under 12 years will be admitted to the dem onstrations unless accompanied by an adult states professor larkin andrew buchanan executive sec retary of the alumni association whose job it to get people here will head a sub-committee of his own selection which will be in charge of publicity tickets invita tions and programs prof dale gramley will head the committee on campus publicity major james o green and his staff will meet and direct the visi tors as they enter the university campus all military students are expected to help in this service and are to remain in uniform through out the day the entire military unit will parade in the afternoon captain tow will be chairman of a committee on interior service with the aid of john w maxwell assis tant editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin and john r connelly in structor in mechanical engineering who are to schedule r o t c men to act as guides and ushers to avoid conflicts mr maxwell will head a new committee on coordination with francis j trembley and kenneth k kost this committee will sche dule non-continuous events all over the campus so that all possible con flicts will be avoided improvements in the safe handl ing of guests are to be well taken care of andrew litzenberger su perintendent of buildings and grounds and his staff are in charge of signs policing and parking it was advised that rope barriers be constructed to facilitate entrance and exit to the exhibits guards may be stationed in certain strate gic lecations the head of each curriculum is chairman of any displays of the departments under his direction students are encouraged to do more of the work of arranging badges will be worn by members of the faculty denoting their position and subject at the request of the sub-fresh man day committee open house will be extended over saturday may 4 from 10 a m to 12 noon and from 2 p m to 5 p m the hours for friday are 2 to 5:30 p.m and 7 to 10 p m honorary mathematical society initiates three freshmen vincent f acri eng 38 ray mond k maneval bus 38 and homer t mantis eng 38 were initiated into the newtonian society honorary freshman mathematical organization wednesday evening in packard laboratory the society now has 23 freshman members after the initiations were com pleted william dukek eng 38 spoke on the life and works of sir isaac newton he was follow ed by francis e carner eng 38 who gave a talk on the history of pi donald b wheeler eng 38 then gave a brief discussion on the history of the slide rule armament question is argued lehigh meets westminster tonight the university of florida's de bating team defeated lehigh in a radio debate last evening from 9 to 10 over wcba in allentown the teams debated the arms and muni tions question with florida taking the negative side h k ellis president of the de bating society and eugene uhler arts 37 argued for the affirmative and willard ayre and j b patter son of florida apposed them sid ney m schwartz bus 35 acted as chairman judges for the contest were pro fessor ziegler of cedar crest pro fessor biro of moravian college for men and mr allam of allentown high school two presentation speeches were made by each team the speeches were nine minutes in duration with seven minutes for rebuttal this evening at 8 o'clock in room 466 packard laboratory another de bate will be held at this time le high will meet the team from west minster college the topic will again be the arms question thomas butterfield arts 35 and walter guyer ch e 36 will take the negative side the freshmen will debate a freshman team at rutgers this evening morris mindlin arts 38 and w g dukek eng 38 will make the trip classicals to give lovers quarrel play will be presented in abington dr horace w wright head of the latin department aided by john cornelius arts 35 and judson smull arts 36 will again present their performance of the poet hor ace's lovers quarrel on tuesday march 19 at the abington high school abington pa a lecture by dr wright will pre cede the presentation of the ode by cornelius and smull this will mark the fourth performance of the eta sigma phi players within the last month on friday march 8 j h croushore arts 36 as lydia and e w spengler 36 as horace presented the ode at the franklin and marshall academy before an es timated audience of 200 it was given previously at the liberty high school and the ger mantown friends school the final performance will take place at le high on april 5 during the eta sigma phi national convention sigma phi epsilon elects settle as house president paul s settle jr c e 36 was elected president of sigma phi ep silon at a recent meeting of the fra ternity other officers elected by the group are as follows richard w provost m e 35 vice president charles b allen met e 37 sec retary paul e p white eng 38 historian william j ash i e 37 and david m scott bus 37 mar shalls and donald g vantilburg ch e 37 guard five colleges met in an open forum on the international ship ment of arms and munitions in packard laboratory wednesday evening representatives from la fayette muhlenberg rutgers and the university of richmond were the guests of delta omicron theta debating society myron luch professor of eng lish acted as chairman of the meet ing which opened with speeches by students followed by an open for um and a summary by percy hughes head of the philosophy de partment ellis is first speaker the first speaker was h k ellis of lehigh who gave a history of the international shipment of arms and munitions following him was the representative of richmond w l grenoble whose topic was the possibility of an international arms embargo a plea for government control and ownership of the muni tions industries was made by hen ry f daum of rutgers advocates supervision supervision by the league of nations was advocated by wayne dumont of lafayette the last of the formal speeches was made by ray r brennan of muhlenberg whose subject was disarmament and the possibility of an interna tional army and police force a spirited open discussion en gaged in mostly by faculty mem bers and their wives preceeded the summary by professor hughes who pointed out defects in all of the remedies suggested and who strongly lamented the absence of the united states from the league of nations this forum was the second of its kind to be held at lehigh the first was held last spring with perm state temple and lehigh taking part 72 entrants on hand as preliminary bouts get under way at univer sity of pennsylvania lehigh seeks eighth title in defending championship harvard and princeton are strong with tigers offering two individual title holders bulletin philadelphia march 15 — coach billy sheridan pulled a big surprise today when four of his lehigh wrestlers dropped to a lighter weight division to bol ster the brown and white's chances of retaining their east ern intercollegiate mat title in the championships which begin here this afternoon ashman will wrestle in the 118-lb division captain case in the 126-lb class conrad in the 135-lb class and crockett in the 145-lb class other le high men entered in the cham pionships are davenport 155 pounds loux 165 pounds goodrich 175 pounds and sco bey heavyweight harvard entered only six men valas of yale will wrestle in the 126-lb division cramer of perm state in the 145-lb di vision while schoonmaker of syracuse will wrestle in the 145 lb class coming down from 165 pounds johnston of perm state 165-lb champion and triede of princeton 175-lb champion will both wrestle in the 165-lb class by alfred d glading presenting three defending indi vidual champions among the 72 en trants representing nine institutions the thirty-first annual wrestling tournament sponsored by the east ern intercollegiate wrestling asso ciation got under way early this af ternoon in the palestra at the uni versity of pennsylvania members of the various teams weighed in this morning and the draw was completed at noon pre liminary matches were run off this afternoon to be followed by the semi-final bouts tonight the finals will start at 7 o'clock tomorrow evening with the place bouts going on immediately afterward perm state is favorite perm state the favorite to cop the team title by virtue of its unde feated record in dual meets will be the main target for the other eight schools entered harvard and princeton will both be represented by strong team the latter including two of the three defending cham pions in its lineup having experienced its poorest dual meet season in recent years lehigh will nevertheless make a strong bid to retain its title changes in lineup planned by coach billy sheridan during the week are sure to add extra points to the brown and white cause the main hope of the lehigh team lies in the ability of its middleweights to place in their respective classes perm state headed by captain howard johnston defending 165-lb champion will present a well-bal anced team which bowled over all opposition in dual meets captain johnston who has gone undefeated this year will wrestle in the 155-lb class and is the leading man at that weight other outstanding state men are dißito in the 126-lb class light in the 135-lb class and vo der in the 175-lb class princeton holds hopes captain julian gregory 145-lb titleholder in 1933 will lead the princeton team in quest of the team title the tigers who finished in third place last year behind lehigh and perm state are exceptionally well fortified in some divisions and quite weak in the others george triede last year's 175-lb winner will be the favorite to cop the 165 lb crown this year thomas snel continued on page three the lehigh university brown and white vol xlii no 38 bethlehem pa friday march 15 1935 price five cents ashman case conrad and crockett shifted open house group chosen by committee summer camp will again be at canadensis chem society hears talk by claxton,'21 high class opponent ashman 118 lb luspeader syracuse ase 126 lb alexander princetoi jonrad 135 1b perry princetoi droekett 145 lb schoonmaker syracuse davenport 155 lb gouynlack syracuse toux 165 lb ostrynski cornell joodrieh 175 lb widner cornell scobey unlimited rawls 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