Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 46

              the change in rushing rules proposed at the meeting of the interfraternity council monday evening has passed announces walter p crockett president by the rule it shall be illegal rushing to make a return date with a freshman more than six days ahead on the first day of rushing a fraternity can make a date with a frosh for any day up to the subsequent monday but will have to wait until saturday to make a date with a frosh for the last friday the 24-hour rule is still effective senior chems to make trip committee announces affair to be held april 27 the dormitory dance to be held on saturday night april 27 will take place in drown hall jack dress and his orchestra from steel ton pa will supply the music states gregory c lee chairman of the dance committee the orchestra which is composed of nine men and a blues singer miss kane has played at gettys burg college dickinson college and several other colleges and universi ties in pennsylvania the students on the dance com mittee include gregory c lee ch e 37 chairman randal l dick erson met e 36 john r wil liams bus 35 john a gilmore arts 35 and howard w seeley jr c e 35 eckert tells of submarines r w buchanan 35 blake society hears schulz three day inspection tour of industrial plants at new york to be held senior students in chemical en gineering will take a three day in spection trip of plants in and around new york city on monday tues day and wednesday of next week the group will leave thfe mcal pin hotel broadway at 34th street monday morning at 8 o'clock for the seton leather plant at new ark n j after lunch at the hotel robert treat the party will proceed to the dupont ciscoloid plant at arlington n j all evenings are open for the students to do as they please to go to bloomfield tuesday they will journey to bloomfield n j to the plant of the westinghouse lamp company the afternoon will be spent in the plant of the manhattan rubber company in passaic n j wednesday the entire day will be spent at port ivory the staten is land plant of proctor and gamble manufacturers of ivory soap professors simmons theis die fenderfer and h b osborne as sistant in chemistry will be the fac ulty representatives accompanying the group they have announced that the men on the trip will be held responsible for a written re port or quiz on each plant visited the headquarters of the group will be the mcalpin hotel election will take place from 8 a m until 6 p m in drown hall all ballots must be signed cheer leaders and union officials will be chosen election of class officers will take place tuesday in drown hall ac cording to plans and rules an nounced last evening by s r goodrich chairman of the arcadia elections committee the commit tee which also includes p f pres ton ch e 35 and k s putnam arts 35 announced 1 that elections would be held tuesday april 16 from 8 a m until 6 p m in drown hall 2 that voters must list all candidates in order of pnefer ence if votes are to be counted 3 that all sponsors must vote and must place the man they sponsored first on the ballot 4 that all ballots must be signed the system of voting used is known as the ware preferential voting system the man receiving the majority of votes under this system will be elected president of the class and the man receiving the second highest number of votes will be declared the secretary-treasurer to elect cheerleaders election of cheer leaders and le high union officers will take place at the same time and in the same maner from the nominees to be an nounced on the ballot at 6 p m the sealed ballot boxes will be turned over to dr beards lee adviser to the lehigh union who will tabulate the results and announce them in the first issue of the brown and white following the easter vacation the complete list of nominees and their sponsors follows senior class candidate robert m eichner sponsors b s weiss j l kornet l s stout j l davis h l snavely d l healy w m smith jr w l finlay t davenport and c a collins candidate howell a scobey continued on page four talks on anthracite to mining society j w peoples discusses re sources of world the coal resources of the world were discussed recently at a meet ing of the mining and geological society in williams hall by dr j w peoples geologist for the phil adelphia and reading coal and iron company dr peoples who was instructor in geology at lehigh 1932-33 laid emphasis on the anthracrbtregion of pennsylvania he said thatsthe thickest coal beds occur in chinv where coal 300 feet thick is being worked by open pits the second speaker was edward l heller e m 34 who described his mining work with the empire zinc company of gilman colorado he gave an account of life in the western mining camp of leadville he also stated that gold mining was being carried on extensively in colorado heller was secretary of the min ing and geological society manag er of the rifle teami and treasurer of the debating society gifts sent to library pictures of drown books on art received recently several gifts have been presented to the library recently announces howard s leach librarian miss anna drown farree a relative of thomas m drown president of lehigh from 1895 to 1904 has pre sented some pictures of president drown and his family including several of him as a young man and when just married the carnegie corporation of new york has sent 63 books on art as part of their grant to the art de partment of lehigh among these are 16 german volumes of colored and mounted illustrations which alone are worth over 500 states mr leach compares man's actions to those of parrot's shows that overhead justifies present rates electric official addresses student chapter of a.i.e.e some time in the distant past someone must have injected large quantities of parrot blood into the veins of our common ancestors asserted n e funk 05 vice pres ident of the philadelphia electric company in his address last night at a meeting of the student chap ter of the american institute of electrical engineers by this i mean continued mr funk the habit of people repeat ing what they hear as truth with out analysis because someone has said it once twice or more often to them the undue expansion of the building of canals railroads and concrete roads was caused by the parrot instinct of american so ciety a few years ago several peo ple thought it was expedient to shout the electric utilities rates are too high others took up the cry agitation against utility com panies has resulted requires capital every industry requires capital labor and material utility com panies need more than most con cerns because 1 electrical energy cannot be economically stored but must be manufactured transmitted and distributed on demand 2 the load factor has a more important bearing on costs because of the re quirement of instantaneous supply on demand 3 spare facilities must be available for replacement of those that are out of service and 4 utility industries are required to install permanent facilities for each customer since 1913 a great increase in taxes on public utilities has taken place since that time the amount of business has increased 75 per cent the amount of capital invested 64 per cent and the amount of tax ation 2200 per cent professor payrow re-elected harry g payrow assistant pro fessor in civil engineering was re elected general superintendent of the wesley methodist church school tuesday evening describes operation of modern undersea craft to student m.e society tracing the development of the submarine from its beginning to its present form louis eckert for merly chief draftsman of the white head torpedo works in fiume italy addressed 60 members of the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers last evening in room 416 packard laboratory mr eckert described the mech anical defects and the many diffi culties encountered in the construc tion of early submarines he told how inventions and improvements coupled with tireless experimenta tion have brought the submarine to its present highly efficient state explains submarine design with the aid of diagrams and picture slides mr eckert explain ed the working and design of the various types of submarines devel oped by the leading nations of the world all have their faults and desirable qualities he declared but they all embody the some un derlying principles set forth in the first submarine ever to be built great caution has to be exer cized in the filling and emptying of the ballast he stated in order to keep the stability and equilibrium of the ship it is necessary to maintain an absolute center of gravity by equally distributing the weight of the vessel mustard and cheese to present ' yellow jack ' tonight saturday largest number admitted this time since found ing of society to cele brate 50th anniversary schulz to speak at banquet following formal initiation celebrating its fiftieth anniver sary tau beta pi national honor ary engineering fraternity will ini tiate 19 juniors into the society to night at a formal initiation in pack ard laboratory this group of men is the largest number ever to be accepted into the fraternity at one time since the founding of the society the ini tiates are william e austin i e ; harold c bickle e e john r butterfield i e theodore r daddow jr m e theodore dav enport s e walter l finlay ch e walter r f guyer ch.e thomas j healy e e john l kornet ch e frank r mallalieu jr eng phys robert f miller 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 taddeo e e brunislaus s s ulak e.e donald l waidelich e e and william j wisswesser chem udy to be initiated marvin j udy of niagara falls n v will also receive an honorary membership to the society he is a graduate of the university of utah and has a son murray c udy eng in the freshman class the formal initiation of new members will be followed by a ban quet at the sun inn prof ernst b schulz associate professor of pol itical science will be the speaker of the evening he will give an arts man's viewpoint of an engineer founded at lehigh the banquet besides being held in honor of the new men will cel ebrate the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the society founded in 1885 by prof edward h williams jr 75 while profes sor of mining and geology at le high university the organization has grown until today it has over 60 chapters founded for the pur pose of honoring engineers of high scholastic achievement tau beta pi is today considered the highest ranking engineering fraternity in the country the 19 neophytes who will be formally initiated tonight were in formally initiated wednesday eve ning in packard laboratory delegates to attend alumni meeeting four from university will visit club thursday four men represented lehigh at a meeting of the northeastern pennsylvania lehigh club thurs day evening in wilkes-barre dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion andrew e buchanan alumni secretary john w maxwell as sistant editor of the alumni bul letin and gilberto escobedo c e 36 made the trip dinner was served at 6.30 p m in the hotel sterling g e shep herd 94 was toastmaster for the program which will follow dr carothers and mr buchanan spoke and escobedo sang several spanish and mexican songs g g jocbosky 07 was chairman of the commit tee for arrangements seven lehigh alumni attended a meeting of the lehigh-lafayette club of dallas texas march 30 at the university club after luncheon round table discussions were held of camipus activities of interest to both groups the club will meet next on april 27 at the home of jack horn lafayette 13 committee addresses schools members of the administrative committee have been visiting var ious high schools and acadamies giving talks on lehigh dr neil carothers visited the nazareth high school and spoke on the subject who should go to college dr w h congdon d h gramley and e k smiley visited other schools including liberty high school and blair academy alpha epsilon delta will install chapter next month ; activities com mittee has yet to vote buchanan successfully ends three year's negotiations diezendorf gives illustrated lecture on microscopes 1936 officers nominated alpha epsilon delta national honorary pre-medical fraternity will establish a chapter at lehigh university next month as a close to three year's negotiations an nounced robert w buchanan pres ident of the robert w hall pre medical society last night after the society had voted in favor of the plan following the announcement burton diezendorf of the research department of the spencer lens company gave an illustrated lecture on the history construction and use of the microscope although the committee on stu dent activities has yet to vote on the new honorary society as far as could be ascertained there will be no opposition from that point stat ed buchanan investigate nationals buchanan conceived the idea of a pre-medical honorary three years ago and since then he has been in vestigating the two nationals already in existence aided by the head of his department he has been ne gotiating with alpha epsilon delta which he considered the strongest and more important of the two the charter members will be chosen by buchanan with the ad vice and consent of the heads of the pre-medical department future members will be elected on scho larship and a point system the re quirement being a two point average for two consecutive semesters the installation of the new chap ter of alpha epsilon delta will probably take place may 10 or 11 the society will operate to aid the present pre-medical society in the same way as eta kappa nu aids the e e society stated buch anan nominations held nominations were held for offi cers of the robert w hall society for next year the elections will be announced at the spring banquet to be held next month the nominations were president w c cook i l messmore and j h huyck present chairman of the activities committee vice pres ident g t saxtan and t h secretary w g siegel and e collins recorder g t saxtan and e r rista physics professors report on research petersen larkin ewing crary will read papers five papers will be presented by faculty members of the physics de partment before physical society meetings april 25 26 and 27 at washington d c the american physical society meeting at the bureau of standards and the national academy of sci ences will hear four reports of re search work done at lehigh dr max petersen associate pro fessor of physics will read a pa per on the spectra of helium by high frequency excitation pre pared by him with the aid of how ard f carl graduate student dr charles r larkin assistant pro fessor of physics will report on the use of thermionic vacuum tubes for voltage control two papers on the research of dr maurice ewing instructor of physics albert p crary assistant in physics and edward b doug las graduate student will be pre sented mr crary will read a paper on propagation of elastic waves in lake ice and dr ewing will read dispersion of flexural waves in lake ice speaks on wheel research joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics and analytical me chanics spoke thursday evening at an informal discussion before the civil engineering faculty of colum bia university in new york city on the developments of his wheel research thirty-five student actors to give howard dekruif play in drown hall story tells of man's fight and conquest of yellow fever government professor gives talk on give and take of political life in the give and take of political life there is need for a definitely philosophical attitude of the part of the average citizen said prof ernst b schulz associate profes sor of political science before the members of the robert w blake honorary philosophical society at their meeting last evening in the engineering societies reading room in packard laboratory there is a definite need for men to assume a philosophical attitude in order to be able to criticize and appreciate significance of political statements philosophical criticism makes apparent the futility of statements of dogmatic assertion where terms are used without any thought of their proper meanings and implica tions some of these terms explained professor schulz are the econom ic man inalienable rights social justice personal liberty individual freedom socialism anarchism and j^r^np^sjprjfecrmiz read excerpts such as cajothenl oose^elt hou ver^tojsm}jft..btrrcse terms were ps3p wifnout regard to ljrigi osophical significan^|^^f'|^^j ffiflpsß introduce the philoso phical method of critical analysis into political discussions he urged that philosophers should take a more active life in public affairs and to promote dis cussion of these vital terms so that the confusion concerning their true meaning may be cleared up at the business meeting the date for the annual pilgrimage to prince ton was set for either may 9 or 10 the initiation fee for new members was set at 2 swopes 35 builds tank for geologists will be used in study of rain and soil erosion a sedimentary tank for use in the study of rain and soil erosion has just been completed for the geol ogy department by robert l swopes i e 35 tljis tank which is in the form of a rectangular box with glass sides is the first of its kind to be con structed at lehigh although sim ilar tanks are in use at other uni versities it is approximately six feet long three feet wide and a foot and a half deep in actual practice it will be par tially filled with fine sand and small sprinklers attached to its side will be turned on to simulate rain the effect of this artificial rain upon the sand will then illus trate on a small scale the actual effect of rain upon the earth's sur face this tank will be exhibited at open house and later will be used for experimental study four men pledged to alpha kappa psi cowin gives talk on ideals and history of club alpha kappa psi na^°jj^blt3 fessional fraternity of < pledged four men yesterday morn ing in chapel roy b cowirujif fessor of accountancy^a^k^^b talk on the ideals anernnistory of the lehigh chapter the men pledged tocbj^jhc^cp professor cowin have mrnntained a scholastic average between them of over three points the highest being 3.75 pointing out that it was not the desire of the fraternity to honor these men because of their scholas tic average professor cowin ex plained the purpose of the frater nity was to inculcate into the men chosen higher ideals in business practice and to further their inter est and education in the field in which they have so far been suc cessful the men pledged are robert s dougherty ernest w thorn lan cey thompson and albert s wat son all juniors in the college of business administration they will be initiated at the next formal meet ing of the society addresses society brown talks at new england club meeting in sun inn sydney m brown professor of history addressed the annual meet ing of the eastern pennsylvania branch of the new england society tuesday evening at the sun inn he spoke on the sizing up of mod ern civilization professor brown stated that mod ern people need a new puritanism and grim determination to face the world in which events move so must faster than ever before dr natt m emery vice president of the university was named a di rector of the branch in the elec tions that followed professor brown's speach mr howard s leach librarian at lehigh univer sity was elected second vice pres ident and mr lewis f ekstrom succeeded dr emery as president four views from the third scene of yellow jack upper left an officers meeting upper right and lower left the death of dr lazear lower right a scene in the laboratory thirty-five students are waiting to take their places on the drown hall stage tonight for the opening performance of yellow jack strengthened by a small group of veterans some of them with four lehigh plays to their credit many of the cast will be making their first appearance in college dram atics at 8:15 this evening the play they are offering today and tomor row deals with the story of man's conquest of yellow fever and nearly won its authors sidney howard and paul dekruif the pulitzer prize for 1934 hutchinson plays lazear william s hutchinson jr ch.e 36 in the part of jesse w lazear and william b maynard i e 35 who represents william h dean were seen in front page and grub stakes last year and in journey's end and outward bound in the fall one woman in cast charles f mccoy jr arts 37 the colonel tory of yellow jack and miss gladys clouse as the only woman — miss blake — in the cast also had roles in front page john s williamson bus 37 who had a part in journey's end and lawrence f pfaff eng 38 play stacpoole and brinkerhoff re spectively john b tupper arts 36 who took part in grub stakes portrays a major of the royal air force in the cast of whistling in the dark were listed john r comb continued on page four bethlehem pa friday april 12 1935 proposed rule in rushing adopted says crockett jack dress to play for dorm dance pre-med president tau beta pi will initiate 19 tonight vol xlii no 46 the lehigh university brown and white price five cents pre - medicals plan honorary class officers to be elected next tuesday funk defends public utility corporations member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first