Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 39

              case and stoddard wrestled scientifically says sheridan eight receive perfect marks last semester vol xlji no 39 in the estimation of coach billy sheridan the most scien tifically wrestled bout of the entire eastern intercollegiates was the semi-final bout between captain case of lehigh and stoddard of harvard coach sheridan said both men showed a great knowledge of wrestling technique and a various assort ment of holds coach sheridan said that the most gruelling match that he had seen in ten years of intercolle giate wrestling was that between crockett of lehigh and shoe maker of cornell to participate in conference janet gingrich and polly farquhar at the moravian hula-hula dance — you can't take pictures with that can you brown and white photographer interview john d watson instruc tor in civil engineering was very busy — reading a mil atary science book he felt no desire to comment the tabloids started it in fact they had been using candid photography long before its existence became general knowledge about the time of the snyder-gray case candid shots made the front page and the picture snatch ers who took them were hailed as glamorous fig ures for weeks the trial of ruth snyder and her corset salesman-lover had crowded the more sober news out of the papers the story was hot to the very end — the electrocution of the infamous pair and the cli max was furnished by the new york daily news a news extra appeared on the streets shortly af ter the execution the front page was covered by a j l beaver electrical engineering professor was too busy circuits are try ing things neil carothers — is that the thing you use to take pictures picture of ruth snyder — in the chair — at the moment the switch was thrown the picture was unprecedented candid photogra phy and high-powered deception had worked the un expected a news photographer attended the exe cution with a miniature camera strapped to his ankle at the strategic moment he raised his trouser leg and pressed the extended cable release the rest of the story is newspaper history it is an altogether different type of candid photo graphy that is practiced by the brown and white deception has no place in its workings instead the objective is a more acceptable type of newspaper pic ture — one in which the subject looks natural and continued on page six critics praise yellow jack green pleads for training bethlehem council lauds sheridan wrestling team the bethlehem city council after a motion by councilman fred c kline directed the city clerk to send the city's congrat ulations to lehigh eastern cham pionship wrestling team the motion lauded coach bil ly sheridan and the university for winning the championship and bringing such fine recogni tion to bethlehem libertas staff will edit paper lehigh will send dele gates to student legis lature april 26 28 frederick j snyder arts 36 will head lehigh's delegation to the model legislature of the pennsylva nia intercollegiate conference on government to be held from april 26 to 28 at harrisburg the conference last year formu lated a model constitution and is holding the model assembly this year to propose constitutional legis lation on social problems and po litical issues governor earle secretary of the commonwealth lawrence and at torney-general margiotti will speak at the opening of the conference on friday april 26 committee meet ings will be held in the afternoon on saturday the model legislature will convene and committee reports will be debated and voted upon the legislature will continue on sunday with the election of a legis lative council the conference will adjourn in the afternoon the legislature will be divided into the following committees which will propose legislation on their subjects 1 social insurance unemployment health and indus trial 2 old age pension 3 pub lic relief 4 natural resources and jpublic utilities 5 judicial organ n|a?<3et 6 local government 7 i suffrage and elections 8 taxation and finance and 9 education beta kappa sigma phi epsilon hold radio dances saturday two fraternities held informal ra dio dances saturday evening at their respective houses about 30 couples attended the dance given by beta kappa w j cahalan c e 35 was chairman of the committee the affair which lasted from 10 p m to 2 a m was chaperoned by w h formhals in structor in electrical engineering his wife and dr max petersen asso ciate professor of physics about 35 couples attended the sigma phi epsilon dance it was a closed affair and was chaperoned by j l beaver professor of elec trical engineering national classical society will hold celebration of horace's birth on campus ; open lectures cornelius and smull to give lovers quarrel in costume eta sigma phi national honorary classical fraternity will hold its an nual convention on the lehigh cam pus on friday and saturday april 5 and 6 at an open meeting at 8:15 fri day evening april 5 in packard auditorium three speakers officers of the american classical league will address the audience on sub jects pertaining to the life and works of horace the roman poet whose 2,000 th birthday anniversary is being celebrated this year dur ing the meeting horace's famous lovers quarrel will be given in costume by john deß cornelius arts 35 and sergeant-at-arms of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi as horace and judson g smull jr arts 36 and vice pres ident of eta sigma phi as lydia prof roy c flickinger head of the department of classical lan guages at the university of lowa and general chairman of the bimil lennium celebration of the birth of horace of the american classical league will address the audience on horace's message to the modern world wilbert carr to speak prof wilbert carr of the teach er's college of columbia university and president of the american clas sical league will speak on helen of troy and the moralist ralph v d magoffin head of the classical department of new york university and an ex-president of the american classical league will discuss horace and his con temporaries the talk will be illus trated by lantern slides last year william bohning arts 34 and present assistant registrar as delegate to the national conven tion at the university of lowa and dr horace w wright head of the department of latin who was pres ent at the convention as a speaker suggested holding the convention this year at lehigh the business meetings will be held in the faculty room of the jfeoesl^4m(^a:'fteriim)i'r p trrr fneet-q ings will be interrupted by tours lehem eta sigma phi was started4*i4p24 s*s®\^w**asskslfca^vr3 the purpose of encouraging the study of latin and greek and to promote good fellowship among the classical students since then it has grown rapidly having at present over 40 chapters the lehigh chap ter being one of the first in the east shields to direct cantatas t edgar shields will direct the cantatas at the 250 th anniversary of the birth of johann sebastian bach which will be celebrated tonight in the chapel of moravian seminary for women 16 men are elected to phi beta kappa national honorary scholastic fraternity j wyatt arts b & w staff photo professor palmer re leases names of those selected to national scholastic fraternity initiation to take place on friday march 29 annual banquet with la fayette chapter to be first week in may sixteen seniors have been elect ed to membership in phi beta kap pa national honorary scholastic fraternity the lehigh chapter an nounced yesterday through profes sor philip m palmer director of the college of arts and science formal initiation of these pledges will take place friday march 29 at the annual meeting of the chapter the annual banquet with the la fayette chapter will be held at eas ton probably during the first week in may announces professor pal mer the men are as follows william bamert bus who in his freshman year was assistant man ager of the freshman basketball team and attained freshman hon ors as a sophomore he was assis tant manager of varsity basketball vice president of interfraternity council and the winner of the wil but prize in french in his junior year he was elected to cyanide brown key and won the alpha kappa psi medallion while his at tainments as a senior have been manager of varsity basketball ar cadia omicron delta kappa the lehigh union and senior cheer leader his combined average for the past two semesters was 3.5 budura is baseball captain paul budura arts who won nu merals in freshman baseball won his freshman honors and the wil bur prize in german he is a mem ber of the robert w hall pre medical society and the robert w blake society and is captain-elect of baseball after attaining letters in that sport as a sophomore and jun ior his average for the past year was 3.225 thomas e butterfield arts who won the wilbur prize in english as a sophomore was elected to robert w blake society and made a mem ber of the debating society as a jun ior and who attained an election to pi mv epsilon mathematical honorary society in his senior year his combined average for the last two semesters was 4 clark manages tennis squad james m clark bus who was assistant manager of tennis in his sophomore and junior years a mem ber of alpha kappa psi business honorary society and is now man ager of the tennis team his average for the last year was 3.6 carl e collander arts who in his freshman year won his numer als in basketball was elected to the newtonian society and phi eta sig ma freshman honorary as a soph omore he was a member of the in ternational relations club and of pi mv epsilon besides earning a let ter in varsity basketball and becom ing a member of the business board of the review and the interfrater nity council w t hile a junior he be came business manager for the re view competed for the freshman handbook and was elected vice president of tau beta pi this year he has become editor of the fresh man handbook assistant editor of the review and was elected to omicron delta kappa he will graduate with degrees in arts and engineering his average for the last year was 3.25 deemer is editor of review walter l deemer arts who has been a member of the fencing team for the past four years was cap tain of the team as a junior and was manager in his sophomore year he was secretary-treasurer of the fencing club in his sophomore year and its president in his junior year he attained freshman and sopho more honors and was a member of phi eta sigma his journalistic ac tivities began as a sophomore when he was a member of the editorial board of the review he was asso ciate editor of the publication as a junior and is now editor in chief he is on the editorial council of the brown and white a member of omicron delta kappa the robert w blake society and the spanish club his average for the last two semesters was 3.935 john b diefenbach arts who won freshman honors and competed in freshman football and track he continued on page six tells sophomore civils necessary require ments for citizenship to a large extent the progress of mankind has been due to the con tributions of engineers some day the men at lehigh are going to be leaders and for this reason we want them to build soundly along the lines of citizenship declared maj james o green head of the de partment of military science and tactics in his address on citizenship at 11 a m thursday before the sophomore civil engineers using as his text the preamble to the constitution major green de veloped the necessity for citizen ship activity its application dis play and the characteristics neces sary for good citizenship physical standard low war records show that as a re sult of unrestricted immigration of groups which tend to segregate themselves together with the mod ern soft ways of living approxi mately 50 per cent of the man pow er in the country was below the re quired physical standard it also showed that of every six men wko claimed to be experts in a parjic ular field only one was fit to jta considered an expert the other five being hardly fit to be called jour neymen this indication of the tecl-j nical training of the masses shows the responsibility of the engineer ing profession toward citizenship training citizenship consists of giving time and effort to the promotion of causes of civic state or national im portance it may be developed by active participation in the promo tion of such causes the ever-present menace of out side interests whose avowed pur pose is to break down our national institutions by implanting'their own ideas using the force of arms if ne cessary is sufficient reason for a reasonable national defense students of bethlehem high school to put out future brown & white the april 9 issue of the brown and white will be completely edit ed by the staff of the bethlehem high school libertas a quarterly magazine which has just won a third place in the columbia scho lastic press association convention in new york the staff will acompany regular brown and white reporters on their beats during the day of april 6 and will take over the positions of editor in chief news manager news editor and copy readers be sides the positions of sports editor and reporter the following week this editing of the brown and white is an annual event last year the paper was published by the liberty weekly extinct publication of the bethlehem high school assignments will be prepared for the reporters by judson schaeffer brown and white news manager editorials and the column will also be under student direction states schaeffer mustard and cheese pro duction in april to show conquest of plague last night made theatrical his tory announced new york critics the morning after the first perfor mance of yellow jack in the spring of last year the mustard and cheese club whose presentation of yellow jack will be seen here april 12 and 13 is closely paralleling the original production directed by guthrie mcclintic states albert a rights instructor in english and director of the campus dramatical society this historical play written by sidney howard in collaboration with paul dekruif is a portrayal of sci ence's recent conquest of the yel low fever plague two or three years ago mr de kruif proved that the heroism of science could be translated into the prose of common speech and now mr howard has taught the theatre how to tell it exclaimed a critic in the new york times when he had seen yellow jack the telling is enormously moving a chapter from dekruif's best seller microbe hunters forms the basis the first scene is laid in the london laboratory of dr stac poole in 1929 when he was devel oping a serum for yellow fever his observations of the transmission of the disease in south africa in 1927 have been dramatized for the second scene and the third scene depicts majors gorgas and reed of the united states army medical corps doing the pioneer work in 1900 ex perimenting during a serious epi demic yellow jack was runner-up for the pulitzer prize play in 1934 be ing second only to men in white it had a run of nine months in the martin beck theatre where jo miel ziner designed the scenery reports for first term show high rankings frosh lead 3.00 field with 50 students seniors rank next juniors and sophomores trailing eight students made a perfect average last semester four seniors two juniors and two sophomores the men who achieved this mark were t e butterfield samuel efron alfred m webb and john r wyatt arts seniors peter mas iko arts bernard s weiss c e juniors nelson j leonard ch e and edward h mount c e soph omores there were 44 seniors 37 juniors 27 sophomores and 50 freshmen with averages equal to or greater than 3.00 individual ranking is as follows seniors t e butterfield 4.00 s efron 4.00 a m webb 4.00 j r wyatt 4.00 c a lieiberger 3.94 w l deemer 3.83 m s muir 3.83 w a johnson 3.82 w s weil 3.70 j m clark 3.67 p berg 3.60 e h henry 3.60 s l graw 3.50 c keim 3.50 li p george 3.47 s b nissley 3.44 l 0 travis 3.44 j h matthews 3.43 v s gallaway 3.40 j e braunberns 3.39 c h neiman 3.39 b b deale 3.37 e a sawyer 3.37 w bamert 3.33 c a mccarty 3.33 c e collander 3.32 e g miller 3.31 j m wolf 3.27 k 0 beatty 3.24 w s thompson 3.22 w z maratta 3.21 a a belser 3.19 p budura 3.17 g j gibson 3.16 f c pur nell 3.16 s a musser 3.14 c g hollist er 3.11 h e lore 3.11 h f blasky 3.00 j b diefenbach 3.00 n b korn field 3.00 j h murphy 3.00 d m stein berg 3.00 r truell 3.00 juniors p masiko 4.00 b s weiss 4.00 d l waidelich 3.95 d w hoppock 3.98 c f hensinger 3.88 j p butterfield 3.86 w r guyer 3.67 l thomson 3.67 j m swalm 3.58 w e austin 3.56 w j rau 3.56 k j schatz 3.56 f k mallalieu 3.53 r s dougherty 3.47 r h raring 3.45 f w richardson 3.45 f j biondi 3.43 r m eichner 3.43 e b mancke 3.43 g stern 3.40 j h croushore 3.37 e w thorn 3.37 f a stemp 3.28 a c zettle nioyer 3.28 r f miller 3.22 r a kemmerer 3.21 w c cook 3.19 h c langer 3.17 w taddeo 3.17 b l'lak 3.15 p d pearson 3.14 s j wan tuck 3.14 r e skedgell 3.06 w l finlay 3.00 j w mathers 3.00 c moran o.go h j rosebery 3.00 sophomores n j leonard 4.00 e h mount 4.00 c b welch 3.81 s j lewis 3.63 r a buerschaper 3.61 t r brown 3.60 b k daubenspeck 3.60 t e brookover 3.58 j l walton 3.56 j d houck 3.46 w p patterson 3.39 e j broughal 3.35 j drury 3.32 h koller 3.32 c f mccoy 3.28 r i holbrook 3.27 r l schmoyer 3.22 m b lore 3.21 r w boarman 3.17 a b schwarzkopf 8.17 w g turn bull 3.14 t d hess 3.11 w p fair banks 3.06 h s levenson 3.05 k s dunlap 3.00 e h jackson 3.00 m l jackson 3.00 freshmen j a cooney 3.83 j r oberholdtzer 3.83 d wheeler 3.83 j g clemmer 3.78 e j hayne 3.71 c h hoffman 3.67 w j schmidt 3.67 r k maneval 3.65 w b myers 3.61 c f glick 3.61 a s ogden 3.61 w g dukek 3.58 h t mantis 3.56 v f acri 3.50 f h kil patrick 3.50 w p gottlieb 3.42 j par met 3.42 j a weidenhammer 3.42 f g smith 3.39 e h stone 3.39 d q marshall 3.37 m mindlin 3.35 l b durant 3.33 n j palladino 3.33 r f feilbach 3.28 r f howe 3.28 h m wilson 3.24 v ed wardes 3.22 w h roadstrum 3.22 f g smith 3.22 c y haas 3.21 r m mur phy 3.18 s c bunce 3.17 w g hempel 3.17 j v welker 3.17 f e garner 3.11 w b clark 3.11 d p goldsmith 3.11 j ko tonchik 3.11 w kranz 3.11 i barsy 3.06 6 b gushing 3.06 g a goetz 3.06 r h greenwell 3.06 m m simons 3.06 p m brubaker 3.00 w bunin 3.00 j r montmeat 3.00 w a sheppard 3.00 f n stanley 3.00 n.y.u and lafayette elect twenty-nine to phi beta kappa two colleges recently announced the elections to phi beta kappa na tional honorary scholastic frater nity lafayette elected six men at a meeting held last thursday after noon of these men four were sen iors and two were juniors new york university the other college elected 23 to phi beta kap pa all of these elections were made from the senior class w bamert arts w gallaway eng phys t butterfield arts s efron arts p budura arts c collander c e arts w deemer arts j dicfenbach arts j clark bus w johnson met eng e henry bus e miller arts m muir arts e sawyer bus r truell eng phys candid eye catches subject unaware the lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 19 1935 price — five cents eta sigma phi to meet here april 5 and 6 phi beta kappa chooses 16 men member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first