Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 6

              top row ford lewis mcnair archer kemmer garihan eichner bottom row upton snyder weinstock schick dreyer haulenbeek dean emphasizes speaking ability in chapel talk urging the student body and par ticularly the freshmen to go out for the debating team dean mc conn gave a talk tuesday morning in chapel ability to talk he said is the direct and most effective means to success both in society and in bus iness in any concern or business or activity the man at the head the man in the main office is the man who can express his ideas com pletely and effectively dean mcconn went on to empha size the fact that in spite of the de cline of interest in debating during recent years the activity is definite ly on the upgrade so much so in fact that in the last five years the small group which originally or ganized to further debating has grown to an organization which has obtained wide recognition and fi nancial aid from the university mcconn stresses worth of debating cast selected for racket by rights vol xlih no 6 church greets new freshmen journalism society taps thirteen students yesterday dr neil carothers alumnus gives electrical lab houseparty committee phones leading bands e a grissinger 94 leaves complete work shop to engineers civil engineers hear chevalier the department of electrical en gineering recently acquired the lab oratory of the late ellwood a gris singer 94 of buffalo n v who long distance telephone calls were made to seven of the na tion's leading bands last evening in an effort to secure one of them for the senior ball on nov 8 because of a contract with the hotel pennsylvania hal kemp is not available but tonight the committee will have definite in formation on the availability of ray noble isham jones claude hopkins eddie duchin don bestor and ben bernie for this dance at a special meeting of the in terfraternity council held last evening for the purpose of re considering the date for house party the original date of nov 8 was retained according to robert picking 35 chairman of the senior ball committee the site of the dance will probably be the coliseum with the hotel bethlehem as second choice women's club fetes williams the late e grissinger mcconn beardslee emery among speakers at episcopal dinner you are living in what i consid er to be one of the most momentous and crucial periods of history com parable to the fall of rome stated dean mcconn wednesday in an ad dress to the guests of the pro-cath edral church of the nativity at the church's annual freshman dinner don't be collegiate to the ex tent of forgetting about all but the feverish activity in college which becomes to some a world in itself stressing the necessity for college students to keep in intimate touch with the outside world dean mc conn urged the freshmen to spend a short period each day surveying world affairs the very rev walter h gray dean and rector of the church ex tended a welcome to the new le high men and offered the services of the church for their use dr natt m emery vice pres ident of lehigjjppointed out the re lation between the church and the university dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy stressed the need of self-education in the field of re ligion as essential to the moral de velopment of students after the dinner the guests were permitted the use of the recreational facilities of the building including the bowling alleys ping-pong and pool tables the services of the church of the nativity on sunday will be devoted . to the freshman class and dr beardslee will participate in the pro gram kegel addresses university women pledging of new men to pi delta epsilon done in chapel a buchanan gives talk alumni bulletin editor explains fraternity's ideals and history wearing paper skull caps sym bolical of the printing industry on which all publications depend 13 upperclassmen marched out of packer chapel yesterday morning pledged to pi delta epsilon the five senior and eight junior pledgees of the national honorary publications fraternity are robert m eichner i e 36 thomas k garihan arts 36 luther j upton ch e 37 sidney j lewis arts 37 edwin g mcnair bus 37 robert a dreyer arts 37 louis weinstock bus 36 frederick j snyder arts 36 robert b haul enbeek c e 37 harold s ford bus 37 robert a kemmer ch e 36 harry c archer arts 37 and leonard h schick arts 37 andrew buchanan editor of the lehigh alumni bulletin and hon orary member of the society gave a short introductory talk on the history ideals and future of the or ganization the exercises thursday morn ing stated george t saxtan president of the society were so arranged as to eliminate the unne cessary confusion that usually oc curs in affairs of this sort and to bring about order and dignity in his introductory talk buch anan reviewed some of the more im portant achievements of the society such as the organization of the brown and white under its present system the organization of the freshman handbook under the present system the supervision of on information booth during open house and the edition of the first university rotogravure publication he also mentioned that the pres ident of pi delta epsilon is an ex officio non-voting member of the board of publications explaining the customs of the guilds of old europe in wearing costumes representative of their profession buchanan pointed out that paper skull caps identical to those being worn by the pi delta continued on page four faculties to meet dr fisher will speak at annual conference the president and faculty of le high university will be the guests of muhlenberg college together with the presidents and faculties of lafayette and the moravian college and theological seminary at the fourth annual faculty conference for this section friday afternoon and evening oct 18 invitations an nouncing the meeting were distrib uted today by prof f c becker secretary of the facuty educational club the address of the evening is to be given by dr irving fisher pro fessor of economics at yale univer sity on the subject the depres sion its cause and cure an in formal discussion is to be held fol lowing dr fisher's talk new york publisher speaks on position of engin eers in world williard chevalier vice president and publishing director of the mc graw hill publishing company of new york in his speech on tues day in packard auditorium to the lehigh valley section of the amer ican society of civil engineers gave his conception of the engin eer's place in the world colonel chevalier said that the engineer was the great tool maker and power applicator and while la bor provided the power necessary for the converting of raw materials and natural resources into more tan gible articles the engineer provided the direction planning and execu tive ability the speaker also pointed out that every business enterprise was merely the bringing together of two groups of people the customer and the employee in order to exchange their services advertising he said was one of the world's greatest assets he also condemned the stock market point ing out the evils of watering stock and overwriting bonds he professed contempt of share the wealth schemes emphasizing that such plans could never work you can't share the wealth for wealth is made up of millions of ob jects and potentialities potentiali ties cannot be divided the nearest approach possible to sharing the wealth would be by producing all that we can at the lowest possible price and selling it at the lowest possible price so that more people could enjoy life prof hale sutherland director of the curriculum of civil engin eering was in charge of the meet ing colonel chevalier was the guest of honor at a dinner held at the bethlehem club before the lecture others who attended were jonathan jones sterling johnson e f ball e l burkee and w a hazard all of the mcclintic-marshall cor poration prof hale sutherland and m o fuller of the engineer ing faculty o carothers will speak to current problems forum dr neil carothers will speak on sane economics at the third ses sion of the fifth annual forum on current problems at the waldorf astoria on oct 15 16 17 in new york city among the other speakers will be mrs franklin d roosevelt ogden mills dr glenn frank and gover nor earle report address changes the circulation staff announces that students who wish the brown and white delivered to their new addresses must report the changes to the registrar's of fiie tea at drown hall includes music by new lehigh string trio president and mrs williams were introduced to lehigh faculty mem bers and their wives at a reception sponsored by the university wo men's club tuesday afternoon at drown hall mrs c a shook president of the club introduced the president and his wife mrs h r reiter was chairman of the affair she was as sisted by mrs j m toohey tea was served at 5 o'clock with mrs eugene g grace and mrs natt emery pouring music was provided by the lehigh string trio consisting of carstens haas piano elmer biro first violin and alan snyder second violin the decorations were arranged by a committee headed by mrs a h fretz they consisted of an array of palms ferns and autumn leaves which formed a setting for a col lection of paintings taken from the lehigh exhibit other members of the general committee were as follows mrs h v anderson mrs f c bartlett mrs e c bratt mrs r d bill inger mrs a e buchanan mrs paul calvert mrs howard eck felt and mrs maurice ewing also mrs l h gibson mrs g a howland mrs g w harmeson mrs d l kemmerer mrs a w klein mrs d h lehmar mrs i m lyse mrs c l thornburg mrs raphael soto and mrs law rence whitcomb coming events friday oct 11 8 p m dr carothers speaks on economics of recovery pack ard auditorium saturday oct 12 2 p m football lehigh vs dick inson taylor field 2:30 p m soccer lehigh vs perm lehigh field 10 p m engineers ball drown hall died a year ago grissinger was not ed for his invention in 1910 of the telephone repeater an instrument which makes long distance tele phone communication possible grissinger's instrument was in general use until the many im provements in communication dur ing the war did away with the me chanical repeater in favor of the vacuum tube the american tel ephone and telegraph company purchased the patent of grissinger's repeater in 1916 as it still contained many important features in use to day included in grissinger's gift to the e e department is a condensed 3,000 mile telephone wire which will permit long distance telephone test ing to be carried on in the labora tory the original cost of this con densed telephone wire was in excess of 7,000 and it is the third instru ment of its kind to be installed in packard laboratory in 1932 the de partment purchased a 750 mile wire for 350 and the a t & t com pany gave the department a 700 mile wire also included in his gift is a working model of his telephone repeater and a large quantity of tel ephone equipment his entire pri vate collection of books has been presented to the university library grissinger received his e e de gree from lehigh in 1894 and his masters degree in 1916 his thesis for his m e dealt with his tele phone repeater which was then used extensively he was the first business manager of the brown and white and also one of its founders stuart talks to i.e society freshmen are introduced emphasizing the necessity of first working for one's individual im provement in order to be secondly an asset to one's numerous college groups milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering ad dressed the meeting of the indus trial engineering society thursday night in packard laboratory carothers to discuss econ omics of recovery at lecture this evening 3 day convention opens will discuss problems of fraternities in con ference tomorrow banqueting tonight at the hotel bethlehem 60 members of the northeastern district of alpha kap pa psi national professional fra ternity of commerce will open its 1935 conference at lehigh immediately following the ban quet the members will gather at the public lecture economics of re covery to be given by neil car others at 8 p m in packard audi torium frederic r leach consulting ac countant and district councilor will speak at tonight's banquet welcom ing the delegates and their friends and outlining the program of the conference the alumni members will include a vice president of the empire state trust company a member of j p morgan company certified public accountants and other prominent business men of the northeast the undergraduate delegates will consist of representatives from the following universities new york university university of pittsburgh boston university columbia uni versity syracuse university uni versity of buffalo george wash ington university and lehigh uni versity the program of conference as announced by thomas k garihan president of the lehigh chapter at a meeting of the lehigh chapter of alpha kappa psi in the faculty room wednesday night begins with an alumni conference saturday morning discuss fraternity problems since alpha kappa psi is a pro fessional fraternity which means that about one half of its chapter are social groups such as the living group fraternities at lehigh and the other half are professional groups such as the lehigh chapter the problems to be discussed will be somewhat the same as those facing the living group fraternities at le high garihan said the saturday morning confer ence will discuss such questions as what are the benefits to be derived from alumni chapters and from in dividual alumni cooperation in col legiate chapter affairs in respect to employment vocational guidance finances of chapters chapter meet ings and social events and what suggestions can be made for alumni guidance and participation in scien tific research in the fields of com merce accounts and finance among the chapter problems to be discussed are what advantage is there in belonging to a national fraternity and what advantage is there in proper pledge training to lunch at drown hall the delegates will lunch at drown hall and on saturday eve ning a formal banquet will be held in the university room of the ho tel bethlehem sunday morning will feature the tri-annual golf tournament to be held at the saucon valley country club in which any two men from any of the alumni or active chap ters may try to wrest the golf tro phy from the present holders the new york alumni chapter the undergraduate members were registered at the alumni building this afternoon and assigned to the fraternity houses where they will room the alumni members were registered and will stay at the ho tel bethlehem the various sessions of the con ference will be held in the engin eers smoking room in packard lab oratory the only session open to the public will be the lecture by dr carothers tonight caraway speaks at banquet eb caraway end coach of the football team spoke of defenses and offenses used in football wednes day evening at the annual banquet of the young men's bible class of the first baptist church charles cummings president of the organ ization introduced mr caraway who was the principal speaker miss cleaveland to take female role in mus tard and cheese play only one feminine part the tentative cast of the rack et initial production for the year of the mustard and cheese cam pus dramatic society was announc ed today by albert a rights in structor in english and technical adviser to the club miss jeanette cleaveland record er in the office of the registrar will portray the role of irene hayes the only feminine part in the cast rest of cast the remainder of the cast and their roles are george beban bus 38 pratt of the tribune c f mc coy arts 37 miller of the herald examiner j c tracy eng 38 ames of the city press c citret arts 37 sullivan m berman chem 37 lieutenant gill m j heidelberger 39 assistant state's attorney welch j minskoff bus 36 turck n j leonard eng 37 detective sergeant delaney j wil liamson bus.'37 captain mcquigg e stefko arts 36 sergeant schmidt morris mindlin arts 38 joe a dechnik bus 38 patrolman john son r e skedgell arts 36 clark h woronoff arts 37 sam mey er w c reidell ch e 37 alder man kublacek m h baxter 35 glick r w coulton bus 38 a patrolman kurle a patrolman r hertz arts 38 an unidentified man new policy taken by alumni bulletin magazine to be sent to subscribers only less leniency in the collection of subscriptions for the alumni bul letin is the new policy adopted by the bulletin committee according to a e buchanan jr editor of the bulletin and executive secretary of the alumni association the former policy of sending the magazine to all alumni regardless of whether the subscription fee was paid or not had to be dropped stated buchanan on account of the increase in unpaid subscriptions es pecially during the last five years it is for this reason that all alumni will have to pay the regular sub scription fee in order to receive the bulletin unless they contact . him and make other arrangements o to hold dance engineers hold annual affair tomorrow the music of bud rader's orches tra tomorrow evening opens the second annual informal engineers ball in drown hall sponsored by pi tau sigma hon orary mechanical and industrial en gineering society and etta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering society the dance has been granted an exclusive date both floors of drown hall will be used for danc ing stag tickets have been limited to 50 and are 85 cents couple admis sion is 1.14 o kenneth jenson awarded 5,000 craft scholarship kenneth jenson e e 39 is at tending lehigh on a 5,000 scholar ship won from the fisher body craftsman's guild for his model of a napoleonic coach by the terms of the scholarship jenson is per mitted to attend any university in the united states the 5,000 must be spent before he is 25 years old it took five years to build and re build the coach during which time jenson won several hundred dollar awards trips to detroit and chi cago and finally the 5,000 scholar ship chem secretary to marry the marriage of miss carolyn elizabeth clark secretary to dr h m ullmann head of the depart ment of chemistry and edgar m faga will take place on oct 19 at 8 p m in trinity episcopal church germany solidly support ing government he says a germany solidly supporting its government was portrayed by f o kegel assistant professor of ger man in an address germany is building which he presented be fore a meeting of the bethlehem branch american association of university women monday eve ning in the hotel bethlehem professor kegel formulated his analysis of the national attitude on the basis of a trip through germany his native country this summer the present regime in germany he said must be credited with great power of organization german youth stands enthusiastically back of its government and is splendid in ap pearance healthy and happy germany he explained is building up the morale of its peo ple by inculcating into the younger generation the idea that tneir value is determined by their work for the community professor kegel averred that the german public believes it has in the idea of the nation as an organ ism the right foundation for build ing a state of future importance o beardslee speaks dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy spoke before the allentown rotary club friday eve ning on the vital part college and university students play in building up the strength of the nation lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 11 1935 pledges of pi delta epsilon price — five cents elected officer of state organization alpha kappa psi meets here today convention speaker leach made vice president of library association howard s leach librarian was elected vice president of the penn sylvania library association at its annual convention held oct 3-5 in the galan hall hotel at werners ville pa he attended the convention and read a paper the importance of book collectors to our li braries to the college and refer ence section of the assembly the association plans to bring pressure to bear against the prac tice of replacing trained library em ployees with political appointees the convention officially ended with a banquet saturday evening member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first