Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 51

              conference speaker bethlehem pa saturday may 11 1935 vol xlii no 51 price five cents brown and white pre-med honorary chapter to be installed on sunday alpha epsilon delta chapter will be established by dr maurice moore of harvard university 18 members to be initiated at banquet conference speaker nine first place prizes awarded at press meet duncan addresses group e e society is addressed by wieseman pennsylvania alpha chapter of alpha epsilon delta national hon orary pre-medical society will be installed at the theta kappa phi four first place and three second place winners of last year repeat in competition plaques and certificates given to best papers submitted spectator spotlight glen nor crier y.c.i chronicle win first places twice in row awards in the nine classes of the contests conducted in connection with lehigh university's second an nual scholastic press conference were announced at the closing ses sion this afternoon besides nine first-place and nine second-place bronze plaques 31 certificates of merit were awarded a total of 191 high schools and preparatory schools in pennsylva nia and new jersey competed four publications won first place and three second place in their class for the second successive year they are the spectator central high school paterson n j first place class a magazines the spot light cranford n j first place class b magazines the glen-nor crier glenolden pa first place class c magazines and the y c i chronicle york collegiate in stitute york pa first place for preparatory school newspapers second class winners who also won last year are the high school record camden n j class a for magazines the mercersburg news mercersburg academy mer cersburg pa for preparatory school newspapers and the pastorian germantown friends school ger mantown pa for preparatory school magazines the awards were announced by harold b farquhar editor of the bethlehem globe-times who was one of the judges the other judges were harry k trend manager bethlehem office of the allentown morning call and floyd stickel telegraph editor of the allentown chronicle and news the list of awards follow class a — newspapers first place — the megaphone northeast h s philadelphia second place — the frankford high way frankford h s philadelphia honorable mention the high post latrobe h s latrobe the valkyrie news somerville h.s som merville n j the hi-s-potts potts ville h s pottsville the hi-kearnian kearney h s kearny n j class a — magazines first place — the spectator central h 3 paterson n j ; second place — the high school record camden sr h s camden n j * ' honorable mention the optimist south side h s new ark n j the libertas liberty h s bethlehem the wah hoo allegheny h ec pittsburgh the tech quarterly tech nical h s scranton class b — newspapers first place — the garnet and gray lansdown h s lansdown second place — the coils-high news collingswood h s cotungswood n j honorable mention the muhlenberg observer muhlenberg twp h s laureldale the orange and black ktcbelberger h s hanover the tower princeton h s princeton n j class b — magazines first place — the spotlight cranford h 8 cranford n j second place — the torch doylestown h s doylestown honorable mention the blue and white south williams port h s south williatnsport the ban gor slate bangor h s bangor the orange and black jersey shore h s jer sey shore n j the nutshell moores town h s mocm-stown n j class c — newspapers first place — the rivertown review wrightsville h s wrightsville second place — the blue and white news west york h s york honorable mention the north york school news north york h s york the hy-lyf glassport jr.-sr h s glassport the delta high news delta h s delta class c — magazines first place — the glen-nor crier glen nor h s glenolden second place — ye rldlyan ridley park h s ridley park honorable mention the talisman lansdale h s lans dale the blue and gold montoursville h 8 montoursville the brown and white catasauqua h s catasauqua continued on page four c william duncan 97 delegations attend meeting dr maurice l moore dr neil carothers house on sunday night robert w buchanan president-elect announc ed last night at the pre-medical banquet when he formally pledged students to aid at conference the eighteen charter members the chapter will be installed by dr maurice l moore of harvard university former grand president and present director of expansion and grand historian of the frater nity dr moore was elected to the so ciety while studying at the univer sity of florida he received his ph d while teaching at northwestern university use point system election to the new fraternity is based on a point system a two point average for two consecutive semesters being a primary prere quisite the men pledged are r w buchanan 35 paul budura 35 g t saxtan 36 b k smith 35 l o travis 35 e g miller 35 a m webb 35 jackson e kress 35 j cornelius 35 j h huyck 36 w c cooke 36 i l mess more 36 c a collins 36 f a groff 35 j d houck 37 e d shaffer 37 the men are all from the arts department except saxtan the following faculty members will be installed also dr r.c bull director of student health service dr stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology and dr robert w . continued on page six six freshmen still in contest dramatic club elects 21 men survive field of 13 who competed in prelimin ary oratorical trials six men were chosen to com pete in the finals as a result of the preliminary freshman oratorical contest held tuesday evening in packard laboratory these six men are george c grow jr eng who exponded the reasons for coming to college car stens y haas eng who exposed modern dishonest advertising roy j hertz arts who compared the greek trilogy oresteia with eu gene o'neill's modern counterpart mourning becomes electra mor ris mindlin arts who discussed tragedy as dealing with the unsub dued howard c shimer arts who gave an appreciation of music week and the new american cul ture and richard d tayloe who commented on man's conquest of sleeping sickness the judges all members of the english department were myron j luch professor of english t g ehrsam c gale c a harding instructors in english and k k kost assistant in journalism the judges for the final contest which will be held in the auditor ium of packard laboratory tuesday evening at 8 o'clock may 14 are myron j luch professor of eng lish dale h gramley assistant professor of journalism edgar h riley associate professor in eng lish charles w phy and carl f strauch instructors in english packard auitorium is crowded to hear phil adelphia columnist and lehigh economist talk 99 out of 100 grant reporter an interview says journalist carothers says newspapers stand between us and dic tatorship in this country over 600 scholastic press confer ence delegates and other visitors crowded packard auditorium this morning at the opening conference session c william duncan col umnist of the philadelphia evening ledger addressed the group on close ups of famous people dr neil carothers spoke on newspa pers as an economist sees them it is not a question of how to get an interview with a famous person said mr duncan but how to keep the celebrities out only about one out of a hundred will refuse an in terview to a newspaperman the speaker told of incidents and impression's gathered in eight years of interviewing over 2,000 people senator borah was one of the most outstanding men he has ever interviewed stated mr duncan he characterized president roosevelt as a fluent talker declaring that in an interview before rqosevelt's nomination the former new york governor predicted the end of the rule of the few if he became pres ident ' vice president john garner threatened to throw him out whenj questioned about his presidential possibilities declared the philadel phia columnist garner changed his attitude when told that the iriter viewer's grandfather was a demo cratic congressman from pennsyl vania says long will run huey long will run for pres ident the speaker said he is or ganizing his campaign everywhere he is a plausible speaker while he is talking but his schemes are | ri diculous after they are considered according to mr duncan's opin ion al smith was found to be a friendly human man in an inter view the ledger journalist told how he got an advance story on the basis of one word when asked whether he would give his views on the roosevelt administration smith answered i've got nothing to say about that yet using the word yet as a basis duncan predicted a rift between smith and the admin istration a few weeks later come the baloney dollar speech jimmy walker when asked whe ther he would fight if the governor asked him to resign bellowed well what do you think i am go ing to do he pulled the biggest blurt of any of the men and wo continued on page four g e official describes unusual electrical ma chines features gen erators and motors officers are elected h c bickel is chosen president robert w wieseman 16 head of the special machine department of the general electric company described four different types of unusual electrical machines at a meeting of the lehigh university branch of the american institute of electrical engineers last night in room 416 packard laboratory wieseman discussed high fre quency generators he explained that the ordinary type of pole struc ture such as the detachable pole was effective up to only 500 cycles the common tooth type pole was effective to 2,000 cycles describes generator he then described the inductor generator which is designed for higher frequencies than 2,000 cycles this machine provides for twice as many poles with a given spread and a given diameter there are no windings at all on the rotor both the armatures and field coils being on the stator the sine-wave generator is used to give a pure sine-wave for test ing purposes under all conditions the speaker showed why conven tional machines were not good enough for this purpose the sine wave generator is a machine with non-salient poles and a uniform air gap it will give a pure sine-wave output pole gets efficiency two speed salient-pole synchron ous motors were described next one half speed is obtained by using two poles pieces per pole and re versing the polarity of one pole piece to get good efficiency at both speeds a specially shaped pole must be used election of officers preceeded the lecture h c bickel e e 36 was chosen vice president c o bart lett e e 36 vice president g.h shinn e e 36 secretary and f a stemp e e 36 treasurer sigma chi wins collects 1,450 cigarette packs in old gold contest a heap of 1,450 empty old gold packs won first prize a ping pong table and set for sigma chi in a contest sponsored at lehigh by the makers of the cigarette the con test which lasted six weeks closed saturday pi kappa alpha with 657 packs took second place and a bridge table and four chairs third place and a table lamp went to tau delta phi which turned in 98 packs mar tin j hildenberger e e 36 took the individual prize of 10 he turned in 227 packs if hildenberger smoked all of the cigarettes that came in the packs submitted in his name he would have had to smoke five and one-half packs a day under a sim ilar condition the sigma chi's would have had to smoke over 34 packs a day j h toohy is recuperating from auto accident the condition of john m toohy , associate professor of ro mance languages who was injured in an automobile accident during the easter vacation is reported im proved he was discharged last sunday from the new milford hospital where he was received after the ac cidenjt and is now recputerating at his summer home in marbledale conn s r kaufman 21 , is engaged the engagement of dr samuel r kaufman 21 of wilkes-barre to miss martha davidow also of wilkes-barre was announced re cently dr kaufman attended le high and lafayette before he re ceived his degree at the jefferson medical college he is affiliated with the general hospital in wilkes barre miss davidow is a graduate of barnard college 62 pennsylvania 27 new jersey high schools send groups to lehigh ninety-seven preparatory and high schools were represented at the second annual lehigh press conference today of this number 62 were pennsylvania high schools 27 new jersey high school and 8 preparatory schools the pennsylvania high schools represented were abington ban gor bethlehem liberty bethle hem catholic biglersville blairs ville catasauqua coal township coatesville collegeville consho hocken coopersburg dallas doylestown easton elkins park erie tech frackville girardville glassport glenolden greenville hanover harrisburg john harris harrisburg wil liam perm hatfield hollidays burg honesdale irwin jersey shore lansdowne latrobe le highton manheim mckees rocks mount joy montoursville nazar eth orangeville oxford palmer ton pine grove pittsburgh car rick philadelphia northeast phila delphia simon gratz richboro sayre schuylkill haven scranton central scranton tech sel lersville shenandoah shillington slatington springfield southamp ton south whitehall south wil liamsport waverly yardly york north - the new jersey high schools were boonton bound brook cliff side park camden collingswood dover freehold gloucester city jersey city lincoln leonia new ark central newark south side newark west side north plainfield paterson central pat erson east side pleasantville point pleasant beach princeton rahway red bank ridgewood swedesboro teaneck trenton continued on page four mustard and cheese mem bership is largest in last thirty-nine years twenty-one men were elected members of the mustard and cheese club tuesday evening the sophomore class led with thirteen men the juniors had five and the freshmen three for the first time in 39 years the total membership will exceed 25 the first step in revising the con stitution now under way was to increase the quota to 30 members the 21 men elected tuesday came in under this new ruling there is still one vacancy for the member ship will be 29 at the beginning of next semester the following juniors were elect ed clark o bartlett e e george a brettel eng phys jrving l lawton bus frank r mallalieu eng phys john b tupper arts , sophomores chosen were george a barker chem coleman citret arts yellott'f hardcastle ch e william m lincoln bus charles f mccoy arts edwin g mcnair bus hubert d peck i e thom as f reider ch e ezio r rista ch e william l schnabel i e elbert def tidd jvrts lewis walker bus john s williamson bus the three freshmen were perry bingham eng john h weigel eng and russel r winters bus lehigh holds second annual press conference 1 9 brown and white men and faculty members to address delegates nineteen lehigh journalism stu dents four lehigh faculty men a new york newspaperman the fac ulty advisers of two competing pa pers and a representative from a mimeograph machine company are scheduled to discuss problems of secondary school journalism at the eight round table discussion groups today at the press conference the round table groups leaders and speakers are as follows headlines and makeup — leader judson schaeffer 36 a journalism major and managing editor of the lehigh brown and white who will also speak on planning the make up r a kemmer 36 dont's for the headline writer b k daubenspeck 37 headline forms and counts j a croushore 36 last-minute troubles at the printer's general news writing — leader john d neely 35 journalism ma jor and member news and editorial staff of the brown and white george yanko 37 writing the lead b.n gates 35 newspaper english and style w f roth 36 identification in the news story sports writing — leader robert w schwartz 35 journalism major and sports writer for the brown and white a gilmore 35 the pre-game story r s young 38 slang euperfluities and other things editorial writing — leader edwin a sawyer 35 editor of the brown and white w l finley . 36 structure df the editorial f j snyder 36 typography of the editorial page w v foffey 35 column writing k s putnam 35 handling the exchanges problems of the magazine — lead er walter l deemer 35 editor of the lehigh review literary month ly magazine who will also speak on getting students to write b s weiss 36 planning the layout d malcolm smith 26 faculty ad viser at lansdowne high school the theme the legend and the sponsor mimeograph problems — leader prof c w phy of the lehigh fac ulty demonstration of mimeograph and mimeoscope by c e mussel man , allentown faculty advisers — leader prof d h gramley head of courses in journalism at lehigh and adviser of the brown and white and the le high review j kenneth snyder adviser the york collegiate insti tute chronicle methods of train ing the staff dion weiss 35 building a morgue and reference library business staff problems — leader k k kost junior faculty adviser the brown and white dr h a haring jr of the lehigh faculty ending racketeering in advertis ing solicitation j a barnett of the new york herald tribune circulation problems of secon dary school publications picture taken by the brown and white staff photographer of the arrival and registration this morning member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first