Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 41

              nineteen men were pledged to tau beta pi honorary engineering fraternity yesterday morning in chapel this group all juniors was the largest ever received at lehigh into the 50-year-old society the men pledged were as fol lows william e austin i e harold c bickel e e john r butterfield i e theodore r dad dow jr m e ; theodore daven port s e walter l finlay ch e walter r f guyer ch e thomas j healy e e john l will describe undersea life campus naval machin ist to relate exper iences before m e.s five thousand leagues under the sea is the subject chosen by willard s clewell chief machinist and laboratory assistant of the me chanical engineering department howell scobey electric drive believed best willard s clewell placement bureau re ceives notification of appointments in may for 4th naval district seniors and alumni eligible for posts in training classes forty-two candidates will b e chosen from this district during may for training in the naval air corps a notice of these appoint ments was received at the place ment bureau from the headquarters of the fourth naval district these candidates will be selected from the senior classes and alumni of universities and colleges of this naval district they must have per manent residences in pennsylvania southern new jersey or delaware they will be enrolled as seamen and if they are selected after one month's training they will be or dered to pensacola fla for further training after completing the course they will be ordered to active duty with the aircraft squadrons for a period not to exceed three years at the end of this period each cadet will be eligible for a commission as an ensign in the naval reserve must be college men specific requirements for candi dates are that they have a certifi cate of graduation or a diploma from a recognized college and have completed certain courses in math ematics or a ground course in aero nautics some of the general re quirements are that candidates must be male citizens of the united states unmarried over 18 and not over 27 when detailed to training in florida mentally morally and physically qualified and able to furnish three letters of recommen dation the first classes for elementary training start on or about may 15 1935 and applications must be made without delay to the commandant fourth naval district navy yard philadelphia sample application forms and further information about the meth od of selection and training can be obtained at the placement bureau says john a brodhead director riflemen compete in intercollegiates team has fired half of scores in national match the lehigh rifle team last week completed the first half of the scores fired in the annual national inter collegiate rifle match the lehigh team is among the six that have been picked to repre sent the third corps area in the national intercollegiate match it will be possibly three weeks before the results of this match can be announced because the scores must be approved before a definite rating can be given stated sergeant g s gasda who is in charge of the rifle range in the armory during the past week the lehigh team fired a postal match against the university of pittsburgh and the freshman team completed its season by firing a postal match against the massachusetts institute of technology the results of the matches will be announced later chem fund grows freshmen donate over 700 to stu dent foundation refunds from freshman chemistry deposits totaling 702.33 for the first semester 1934-35 have been placed in the student chemistry foundation announces dr n m emery vice president and comp troller this amount represents an in crease of nearly 300 over iast year's contribution for the first sem ester which totaled 456.04 the balance on hand march 1 1934 was 14,160.24 whereas the balance on the same date this year was 14,406.54 about 13,000 of this amount is at interest explains m p schissler university book keeper woodring sick with measles w b woodring ch e.,'36 cap tain of the rifle team is confined to his home 532 linden street suffer ing from an attack of the measles payrow lauds former instruc tor for constructive work robert l fox city engineer of bethlehem will speak on city planning before the student chap ter of the american society of civ il engineers at their meeting at 7:30 p m thursday evening in room 416 packard laboratory mr fox is one of the highest class city engineers in the state said harry g payrow assistant professor of civil engineering he has been responsible for the im proved streets the boulevard lights and the sewer system in the north side of the city mr fox was instructor in civil engineering at lehigh from 1914 to 1916 in 1918 he became city engin eer of bethlehem a post which he has held since that time tests wheels in fritz lab lyse begins work on yield points for beth lehem steel company inge lyse research associate professor of engineering materials and j s hocker metallurgist for the bethlehem steel company be gan to test the first set of eight freight car wheels in the 800,000-lb riehle testing machine on friday in fritz laboratory the tests are being conducted for the bethlehem steel company on a series of car wheels ranging from 30 to 42 inches in diameter in or der to gather some information for selling points on the wheel the bethlehem steel company is now manufacturing new methods of rolling and forging together with the use of rod steel have resulted in a new wheel whose strength is not yet known wheels do not break mr hocker hoped that the wheels would be tested to destruction but in spite of the 800,000 pounds loaded on the wheel the one tested on fri day showed no sign of having reached the yield point in order to test themi further to determine their ultimate strength the wheels will be examined by microscopes along the lines of greatest stress after the present set of wheels is tested another set of eight or ten wheels similar to the ones now in fritz laboratory will be tested these will be heat treated and will be of the same type now used on the streamlined trains zephyr and flying yankee mr hocker explained that due to the increased loads placed on railroad car wheels and the higher speeds there is a greater effort on the part of the steel manufacturers to meet the demand for a better wheel kornet ch e frank r malla lieu jr eng phys robert f mil ler m e fred a pennington ch e william j rau ch e william f rust jr e e john m swalm jr ch e william tad deo e e ; brunislaus s s ulak e e donald l waidelich e e and william j wisswesser chem preceding the ceremony during the chapel exercises dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology and an adviser of tau beta pi made a short address he recalled that the fraternity had been founded in the spring of 1885 by the late e h williams then pro fessor of mining and geology here and a personal friend of dr miller 35 on eligible list at the election meeting last wed nesday in the tau beta pi room of packard laboratory 35 men were discussed as elegible for pledging it was one of the largest eligible lists ever considered states wil liam s weil jr e e 35 recording secretary requisites for men on this list are two maintenance of a 2.5 or better average for five semesters and ranking in the upper eighth of the class says weil the names of men selected in this way are submitted to faculty members of tau beta pi for comment infor mation so obtained was used in the discussion of each individual by the 24 student members of the society comments on eight points the faculty comments are based on eight points personal appear ance character capacity for lead ership social qualities integrity breadth of interests adaptability and unselfish activity extra-curri cular activity is a major consider ation leadership in course soci eties or in town organizations may be as important as campus activ ity three juniors and eight seniors were tapped last november by the national fraternity engineering students may be pledged in either the fall or spring of the junior year or the fall of the senior year officers for the 1935-36 scholas tic year will be elected within the next month soon after the pledges are received into membership on friday april 12 in packard labora tory the present officers are as follows louis p struble jr m.e president carl e collander c.e and arts vice president charles h neiman m e corresponding sec retary william s weil jr e e recording secretary frank j hol lister e e treasurer francis w blanchard m e cataloguer all the officers are seniors faculty advisers are the profes sors benjamin l miller alexander w luce jacob l beaver and nelson s hibshman will publish results on soap film research in april issue of pro ceedings of civil society torsional constant for stress found after two years results of an investigation on i and h beams by bruce johnston former lawrence calvin brink re search fellow in civil engineering at fritz laboratory and inge lyse research associate profesor of en gineering materials will be pub lished in the april issue of the proceedings of the american so ciety of civil engineers the work was done between 1932 and 1934 by johnston under the supervision of professor lyse the theoretical work was done by the use of soap films stretched across 57 different types of cross-sections of i and h-beams which were cut into thin steel plates by applying pressure on the soap films and measuring the slope of the film at various points a quantitative esti mate of the stresses acting on the beam by torsion can be determined tests are correlated these tests were correlated with others on 29 specimens of beams beams ranging in size from a 3-in beam weighing 7.5 lbs per foot to a 10 by 12 beam weighing 62 lbs per foot the specimens tested are now along the side of the machine shop in fritz laboratory in order to de termine the lines of slip which are the first indication of the yield point from which the beam will not re cover the beams were painted with whitewash from the results of the tests a torsional constant was evalulated for the determination of stresses in any shape i or h-beam the con stant is of special value in the con struction of these beams for speci fic purposes the constant as ap plied to all the i and h-beams man ufactured by the bethlehem steel company was published several months ago in the 1934 handbook of the bethlehem steel company being put to practical use but a short time after its evaluation reynolds writes paper the same issue of the proceed ings will contain a paper on the mathematical study of the prob lems made by dr joseph b rey nolds professor of mathematics and theoretical mechanics and another by h m westergaard professor of theoretical and applied mechanics at the university of illinois and r d mindlin of columbia university on the concentration of stresses in torsion professor westergaard received an honorary degree of doctor of sci ence from lehigh in 1930 will debate arms with susquehanna to meet u of perm evening school on april 5 the lehigh debating team will meet susquehanna college at 8 o'clock friday evening in room 466 packard laboratory to argue the affirmative of the arms and mu nitions question the team is to be selected by h k ellis e e 35 president and manager of the de bating society and t g ehrsam coach of debating originally scheduled for monday evening the cedar crest college de bate has been postponed indefinitely george manson bus 35 publicity manager of delta omicron theta honorary debating society has made no comment on the postpone ment the evening school of the uni versity of pennsylvania has chal lenged lehigh to a debate on the arms and munitions question states manson he believes that the de bate will be sponsored by the first presbyterian ¦ church of phoenix ville april 5 has been selected as a tentative date for the meeting payrow attends convention harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of sanitary engineering at tended the new jersey sewage works association convention on friday at the stacy-trent hotel in trenton n j he examined the ex hibits of sewage pumps clarifiers and testing apparatus members of physics department conduct research in many fields eight varsity and two service letters are awarded to members of 1935 mat squad annual banquet is held at saucon valley club roy a lewis trophy is presented to curtis ford 165-lb frosh mat ma n howell scobey heavyweight eastern intercollegiate wrestling champion was elected captain of the 1936 wrestling team at the 12th annual banquet for the varsity and freshman mat squad last evening at the saucon valley country club the roy a lewis trophy given to the most outstanding member of the freshman mat team was award ed to curtis ford undefeated 165 pounder by roy a lewis general manager of bethlehem steel com pany sponsor of the dinner about 80 or 90 guests including local alumni and prominent bus inessmen were present at the awarding of eight varsity and two service letters are guests of lions club this noon the varsity squad was the guests of the lion's club at a luncheon in the hotel bethlehem during the regular club meeting james reed 27 and present princeton wrestling coach and austin bishop wrestling coach at wyoming seminary were among those present reed captained the first lehigh team to gain the co championship of the eastern inter collegiates in 1928 and was twice eastern champion in 1926 of the 115-lb class and in 1927 of the 125 lb class bishop is the brother of ben and dick and a graduate of franklin and marshall university the dinner is an annual affair given personally by mr lewis previously it had been held at the spring valley inn but was changed to saucon valley country club this year to furnish more room a gift of fishing boots and reel was made to billy sheridan by richard mcclintic manager mr lewis presented the cup to ford okeson is toastmaster walter okeson treasurer of the university acted as toastmaster besides austin bishop and james reed short talks were given by kenneth smiley andrew buchanan billy sheridan vincent pazzetti 18 herbert hartzog 04 roy case and fred larkin captain-elect scobey who is completing his second year as a varsity wrestler has had an excel lent record in athletics last year as a sophomore he was runner up in the eastern intercollegiate tour ney snowden of yale defeated him in the finals coach sheridan enter ed scobey in the national tourna ment which was held in michigan however he was eliminated in the first round this season he was high scorer for the mat team and campaigned an undefeated season throwing all but two opponents he easily won the eastern intercollegiate heavy weight title at pennsylvania in this continued on page four to form new unit in lehigh r.o.t.c green announces plans for third battalion plans for the formation of a third battalion and the erection of a flag pole to be used for formal drills and retreat were announced by ma jor j o green head of the depart ment of military science and tactics the flag pole will be of steel 30 or 40 feet high it is to be erected during the next week or ten days in the triangular plot of ground to the left of the steps leading to the upper field the work will be done by the grounds crew under the su pervision of a w litzenberger superintendent of grounds and buildings if the third battalion is formed drills will be held on memorial walk and packer avenue as well as on the upper field this is part of the plan to revive interest among upperclassmen and the townspeople and to give drills more of a military aspect than mere routine class work says ma jor green makes ships easier to manoeuver says ter williger,navy professor the united states navy is com mitted to the superiority of electric drive for the propulsion of naval ships but is prevented from using it because of the high cost of in stallation stated c v o terwil liger associate naval academy the guest speaker at a navy program of the lehigh valley section of the american institute of electrical engineers on friday evening in packard auditorium the subject of mr terwilliger's address was electrical propul sion of naval ships he said that polyphase alternating current gene rators are necessary for the propul sion of large ships on the other hand direct current motors are best suited to the propulsion of smaller vessels the efficiency of electrical equip ment lies in the fact that a wider variation of speeds are made pos sible thus increasing the ease with which vessels so equipped can be manoeuvred several battleships of the u s navy are now electrically equipped including the aircraft carriers lex ington and saratoga which can de velop 200,000 horsepower and a speed of approximately 40 miles per hour navy man presents paper following the address of mr terwilliger lieut commander h l thompson n s n inspector of naval materials at the bethlehem steel plant presented a paper on the battle of jutland in which he examined and analyzed the tac tics employed by the british and german navies both speakers il lustrated their talks with slides before the evening meeting a technical group headed by w h formhals instructor in electrical engineering gave a demonstration of photo-electric cell devices this was followed by a demonstration by the transmission group under the direction of a r miller assis tant professor of electrical engin eering newspaper coverage of bouts most complete for his talk before the mechanical engineering society meeting at 7.30 thursday evening in room 466 packard laboratory the title clewell believes is rather appropriate for as chief ma chinist's mate in the united states navy he has actually travelled some 5,000 leagues beneath the waters of the eastern seas in submarines thus recalling jules verne's famous nov el of a similar title the speaker's address will in clude experiences on and under wa ter in submarine battleship and ocean liner as well as comments on the difficulties encountered in the use of marine diesel engines it is possible that clewell will use lan tern slides to illustrate and make more vivid his adventures retires next year clewell denies the general belief that he is already retired from the navy his retirement occurs auto matically next year he says but at present he is an active enlisted offi cers subject to call at any time he will have seen 30 years service when his retirement occurs mr clewell's life has been one of high adventure and action he entered the navy in 1906 and stop ped active service in 1922 during this period he saw service on al most every type of ship his first assignment was on the submarine shark which later transferred to the chinese coast shortly before the war he spent several years aboard the battleship pennsylva nia during the war he served on the transport emperador sister ship of the leviathan and now the homeric in which he made 16 trips across the atlantic with troops and supplies after leaving the navy he took a position with the bethlehem steel company and in 1929 left to join the mechanical engineering depart ment at lehigh the slides which clewell may show will consist on the whole of graphic scenes of oriental customs with which he is so well acquaint ed phi gamma delta open dance attracts 300 saturday night phi gamma delta was host to 150 couples at an open formal dance at the chapter house saturday eve ning george doddy and his orchestra of bethlehem furnished music for the affair the chaperones were mr and mrs p r calvert and mr and mrs c h samans on the dance committee were e w hanson ch e 36 m l har ris arts 37 and c c kohl jr eng 38 news paper coverage for the national intercollegiate wrestl ing bouts held here friday and saturday was the greatest ever reports clinton coleman man ager of the western union about 35,00 words were sent over five wires to all parts of the country sid fedor of the asso ciated press and kingsley charles of the new york times personally covered the bouts the united press and interna tional news services secured the returns through their local representatives as did the four philadelphia papers and the new york herald tribune oklahoma newspapers receiv ed the story by wire from a stu dent connected with one of the western teams down in the dank basement of the physics building when their classroom work is through one can always find the members of the physics department faculty laboring over their wires and tubes and lamps continually searching untrod den paths in science in the attempt to advance the knowledge of man kind their research problems cover many fields from the study of geo logical formations by the use of the physicist's apparatus to the meas urement of atomic motion in the molecule each man follows his line of interest at a recent meeting of the amer ican physical society dr charles c bidwell head of the department of physics reported on his law gov erning the conductivity of heat in various metals at present he is ex tending his data on this law to cov er a large series of metals in both solid and liquid states other professors also busy dr paul l bayley associate pro fessor is studying the raman spec trum which is formed by the scat tering of light by atoms in a mole cule of a liquid since the frequency of the light ray is changed by the vibrations of the atoms the veloc ity of motion of the atoms can be measured dr bayley is working on the spectra of the higher alco hols and their isomers dr max peterson associate pro fessor working with howard f carl graduate student is examin ing and interpreting the more ob scure portions of the spectrum of helium using a high frequency elec tric discharge . dr preston b carwile associate professor is engaged in testing va rious theories in electrodynamics relating to the forces between mov ing charges due to their motion voltage regulator to be made a voltage regulator for high vol tage currents that will be used in later experiments in which a steady voltage is essential is being design ed by charles r larkin assistant professor dr maurice ewing instructor with albert p crary assistant in physics is conducting experiments in geophysics or the application of physics to the study of geology among these are the measurement of elastic waves in ice and the re cording of vibrations in the earth caused by quarry blasts this is used as a method of determining the geological formation of territory surrounding the blast the measurement of the ioniza tion and the breaking up of mole cules of mercury vapor in a vacuum tube is being made by benjamin l snavely instructor dr charles e berger and aus tin r frey assistant professors have temporarily abandoned their research due to pressure of class room work dr berger is engaged in preparing open house exhibits while dr frey has been giving lec tures and demonstrations in high schools in new jersey and penn sylvania bethlehem pa tuesday march 26 1935 vol xlii no 41 price five cents brown and white scobey to head wrestling team bethlehem engineer to address meeting 19 pledged to tau beta pi is largest group in history dr benjamin l miller relates founding and history of hon orary engineering society as juniors are tapped in chapel exercises 42 candidates to be chosen in air corps johnston lyse to give data on h beams elected captain member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first