Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 10

              that curve is plenty bad says robert moser proprietor of the chat-a-while inn which is situated directly opposite the scene of the gactjens-squier crack up accidents are terribly frequent on this stretch he said yester day and last summer they oc curred at least once a week moser attributes the accidents to the improper banking of the cu-ve the trolley car tracks in the middle of it and insufficient lighting moore speaks to e.e society hotel chosen to be site of senior dance frosh union meets names whitman head vol xliii no 10 dr j f carroll who will speak on costs wastes and losses in distribution at 8 p m on tuesday be fore a joint meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley and the lehigh valley sections of the american society of mechan ical engineers and the american society for metals president of the general marketing coun selors inc dr carroll holds the degree of doctor of commercial science from the grad uate school of business administration at harvard university he was also graduated from lowa state college williams talks to c.e society garihan smith young explain group's his tory purpose seven elected tuesday nathaniel whitman alpha tau omega was elected president of the freshman union tuesday eve ning in the arcadia room in drown hall representatives of all the living groups elected seven of their num ber these seven in turn elected the following officers nathaniel whit man alpha tau omega president malcolm carrington kappa alpha vice president norman scarpulla kappa sigma secretary robert vernor simmons theta xi publicity er william liesman town steward vernor simmons teta xi publicity manager and edward hurst tay lor a entertainment chairman according to the quota limits carrington scarpulla and simmons were elected from the town frater nities whitman and voorhis from the campus fraternities liesman from the town group and hurst from the dormitory group the union was addressed by thomas k garihan bus 36 pres ident of arcadia william m smith ch e 36 president of the lehigh union and randolph s young ch e 38 president of the freshman union last year they spoke on the purpose history and procedure of the freshman union by-laws were discussed and ac cepted by the new officers the officers will meet within the next week at which time plans for a class meeting and smoker will be discussed alumni bulletin features scobey coliseum dropped in fa vor of more pleasant atmosphere tickets 4.56 a couple the ballroom of the hotel beth lehem has been selected by the sen ior ball committee for the annual dance to be held friday nov 8 dean mcconn approved the selec tion yesterday afternoon explaining why the plan to hold the ball in the coliseum had been abandoned robert picking arts 36 chairman of the committee stated the decision was made in view of a reduction of rates by the hotel and the cost of decorating the coli seum the members feel that the hotel bethlehem is a better place because it has a more pleasant at mosphere for such a social func tion the hotel has contracted to make the entire first floor and the ball room available to the university for the affair the cost of decorating the coli seum was estimated at 300 with an additional payment of 35 for the use of the hall the rental of the hotel bethlehem will amount to 300 while the cost of decoration will be very little barney rapp and his orchestra will play on the first floor from 10 p m until 3 a m george hall and his band will entertain on the sec ond floor from 12 o'clock until 3 a m he will not be able to begin until 12 as he is to broadcast in new york at 8:30 p m the prom committee has defin itely established the subscription price at 4.56 a couple the hotel will suspend the sale of liquor dur ing the evening members of the general commit tee for the senior ball besides pick ing are frederick j snyder arts and richard stockton i e military society to tap 16 monday coward play read by faculty club alpha kappa psi greets pledges discusses re tail price laws cowin relates history three seniors and six juniors were pledged to alpha kappa psi national professional fraternity of commerce yesterday morning in chapel the men were introduced to the fraternity last evening at the alpha kappa pi house the seniors are milton d kurtz donald j gibbons and frederick stillwell the juniors are vincent j pazzetti alvin a swenson john s williamson robert w reifsny der knox l peet and edkin g mcnair previous to the exercises in chapel roy b cowin professor of accountancy gave a short talk pointing out the difference between honorary and professional societies and giving a brief history of the le high chapter harry a haring assistant pro fessor of economics led a discussion in the combined meeting of the chapter and the pledgees last eve ning concerning the recent legisla tive activities concerning retail price cutting pointing out that chain and large stores cut the prices below costs on national brands in order to either attract customers to their stores for the purchase of other articles or to attempt substituting their private brands for the national after hav ing induced the customer into the store the profits made on private brands or on increased sales stated haring overshadow the loss on the national brand the independent store owner having no private brand for substi tution is forced to cut national brands to compete with the large stores but is unable to make a profit by substitution recent legislation which has al ready gone into effect in ten states and is planned other state leg islatures and congress he contin ued sets a minimum price below which prices on national brands may not be cut gaetjens dies on way to hospital squier suf fers fractures members of class of f 3b auto skids on car tracks rams pole near chat a - while inn charles henry gaetjens ch e 38 was killed and robert comey squier ch e 38 seriously injured when their automobile crashed into a telephone pole at 2:10 a m yes terday at the intersection of the freemansburg and hellertown roads gaetjens who was 18 years old died before the two passing motor ists who picked him up were able to get him to st luke's hospital his most serious injury was a frac ture of the skull squier also 18 received a head injury and is now confined to st luke's both students lived in the alpha tau omega house while enroute to the hospital in the car of woodward ueberroth of fountain hill squier started to fight apparently affected mentally by his head injury and shock when ueberroth stoped the car at fourth and williams streets in an attempt to quiet squier the latter jumped out and ran toward the campus ueberroth notified police cap tain harry taylor and alvin kresge called members of the a t o fraternity and together they combed the campus after a half hour's search squier was found with one shoe off behind taylor stadium he was taken to st luke's where x-rays were taken to deter mine the extent of his injuries gaetjens and squier had been re turning to bethlehem from heller town where they had driven after seeing a moving picture when their chevrolet coupe skidded on the trol ley car tracks while turning the curve at the intersection and swung itno the pole smashing the right side and moving the pole four inches police could not decide who was driving the car because no wit nesses were present and when rob ert mosed and his wife proprietors allentown concerts offer studentrates continued on page four faculty approves lecture schedule scabbard and blade to pledge at drill scabbard and blade honorary military society will pledge three seniors an-d thirteen juniors at drill monday ? v e engstrom bus 36 pres ident of the society announced wednesday that the new members will be i l brandt bus 37 p d pearson e m 36 g a voehl bus 36 v r wilson m e 36 l r pennauchi met e 37 f g simmons m e 37 w m lin coln bus 37 a a swenson bus 37 c w kuhl ch e 37 v j pazzetti 111 bus 37 r l coon ey ch e 37 h p scheurmann i e 37 a s mckaig ch e 37 a b schwartzkopf m e 37 w c riedell ch e 37 and s elder bus 37 the pledging will take place be fore the review at drill initiation will be nov 17 says only half of engin eers training comes from classroom president clement c williams was the principal speaker at a meet ing of the student chapter of the american society of civil engin eers last evening in room 466 pack ard laboratory choosing as the main subject of his talk the functions of a stu dent chapter president williams portrayed the civil engineer as standing on two legs the left being theoretical preparation and the right profession he said that the theoretical preparation was gained in the class room but that civil en gineering students do not advance further than their curriculum pre scribes in class only the founda tions are gained without the influ ence of the profession itself president williams stated that his interest in the student chapters aside from the fact that he is a grad uate engineer is heightened by the fact that he was the secretary of his school's civil engineering society when a freshman later as a profes sor of engineering he was connect ed with the administration of stu dent chapters of civil engineers the student chapters of civil en gineers afford an opportunity for professional associations he said in this human laboratory friendships are formed and associates are stu died from the student chapters composed of men of superior abil ity one may calculate success by consulting the achievements of men similarly engaged in the civil en gineering profession private lives enacted be fore little theatre group noel coward's private lives was read by the lehigh university faculty dramatics club before a meeting of plays and players beth lehem's little theatre group on monday night in trinity parish house east market street those in the cast were mrs law rence whitcomb mrs albert rights mrs r a soto j m toohy and t g ehrsam mrs philip palmer directed the play players and players will produce three-cornered moon on nov 6 and 7 for their first performance this season and tryouts for the cast of ibsen's hedda gabler will be held later in the month ibsen's play will be the drama group's sec ond production to talk at easton 313 earning way new issue to contain ar ticles on current sports the cover of the november issue of the alumni bulletin will carry a picture of howell scobey captain of the football team this is the first time in the history of the bul letin that a picture of an individual has appeared on the cover states h d keiser assintant editor of the bulletin one of the encouraging factors in the lehigh football situation is the superb playing of captain how ell scobey left tackle his perfor mance this season is causing many of those who have followed lehigh football over a period of years to rate him as one of the best players lehigh has turned out states keiser besides his athletic ability sco bey has an excellent scholastic standing an abstract of president wil liams inaugural address a descrip tive account of founder's day the enrollment statistics of the student body a complete coverage of cur rent sports a follow-up on the song contest and living group averages will be included in this issue the bulletin will be published early next week 0 art council meets monday the fall meeting of the council of the college of arts and science will be held on monday oct 28 in the faculty room of the alumni mem orial building geologists write research pioneer leaves equipment and writings with local branch bringing cartons of his papers and historical apparatus to the school from which he graduated in 1890 daniel mcfarlan moore in ventor and electrical engineer visit ed lehigh thursday he came to the campus to speak before a meet ing of the student branch of the american institute of electrical engineers last evening in packard laboratory the inventor of moore light who appeared to be years younger than his contributions to the elec trical world would indicate asked the society to carry on the work in the field of gaseous illumination as the field is still undeveloped and needs young blood to advance the work asked to reminisce the speaker came prepared to tell of contacts with gaseous conduc tion members of the electrical en gineering faculty prevailed upon him to reminisce and until shortly before 11 o'clock the society's larg est audience in four years heard in timate sketches of edison tesla steinmetz westinghouse insul and other pioneers in the electrical field mr moore told the society of his experiences in attempting to discov er a light that would be more effi cient than the incandescent lamp and one that would give a light more nearly like daylight his first excursion into the subject came when he read a short item telling of the relative efficiencies of filaments and geissler tubes the article aroused his curiosity and he soon adopted the subject as a hobby the experimenter spent over 20 years developing the gas-conduction light la was only in 1912 when sir william ramsey isolated neon in sufficient quantity to fill a lamp that a suitable non-burning gaseous con ductor was found it only remained for other interests to commercialize the idea and develop the neon signs of today through the whole of mr moore's talk the word first was heard constantly the speaker em phasized the fact that pioneers are pioneers because they do things first when mr moore finished his re marks he had not completed a sum mary of his work as he said it's too much to crowd a year's activity into a minute of talk the guest speaker was preceded by donald t cooper 36 who presented a paper entitled electri cal syncronization in anti-aircraft fire control q , „ debating club changes approved by committee the committee on student activi ties approved the changed in the constitution of delta omicron theta local honorary debating society at its meeting tuesday afternoon in the dean's office the changes voted upon by the society last spring involve the abol ition of the office of intercollegiate manager of debates in its place are substituted two offices correspond ing manager and assistant manager in charge of freshman debates ford to lecture prof adelbert ford head of the psychology department will lecture on a review of papers on the hu man ability to judge time at a meeting of the psychological jour nal club friday evening at 7:30 at the home of j l graham assistant professor of psychology frank sees colleges storm centers of crisis series of 3 performances is guaranteed offering special season ticket rates of 2.50 to students the allentown community concert association has listed for its first performance the joos ballet winner of the 1932 in ternational prize in paris although three concerts are guaranteed each season not less than four have been held for the past seven year with the exception of the open ing ballet-drama presentation of ballet of the green table the program for the season has not been arranged but the remaining concerts to be held at the lyric theatre in allentown will be of a musical nature along with these performances the holder of a sea son ticket of the allentown organ ization is entitled to attend any number of community concerts in easton lancaster and york through these other city organiza tions a person has an opportunity to attend as many as eight con certs arrangements for a subscription should be made at the desk of the library or at the office of the phys ics department before sunday neville explains chemistry of colloids before doctors speaking on the chemistry of colloids harvey a neville asso ciate professor of chemistry ad dressed a conference of the phila delphia county medical society re cently at the mulford colloid lab oratory in philadelphia professor neville's talk at the symposium on colloids was follow ed by papers by medical men giv ing the application of colloids in the field of medicine stanley thomas professor of bacteriology also at tended the conference placement bureau shows 25 percent help selves three hundred and thirteen stu dents among the 1415 enrolled in lehigh are totally or partially self supporting states r morgan di rector of the placement service of these students 160 are sup porting themselves partially 128 are supporting themselves entirely and 33 not classed approximately 25 percent of the students enrolled are contributing to their education by their own labor among the jobs filled by students are those of plumber electrician vocalist chil den's companion clerk waiter gar dener and commission salesman o alumni office installs new lighting system a new in^rect lighting system increasing the footcandle power four times is being installed in the al umni office this is the first installation of this type of lighting system in the university and if the results are what they are expected to be an ef fort will be made to extend the sys tem throughout the university states andrew l litzenberger su perintendent of buildings and grounds professors to address edu cation association several professors will take an ac tive part in the district convention of the pennsylvania state education association which is being held in easton today dr robert m smith head of the department of english will speak on the three interpreta tions of romeo and juliet dr joseph b reynolds professor of mathematics will discuss enhanc ing the teaching of mathematics dr garth a howland professor of fine arts will discuss the social values of fine arts and dr stan ley p thomas professor of educa tion will speak of the coordina tion of teacher training in penn sylvania chi psi delta upsilon hold exchange dinner wednesday evening the chi psi upperclassmen were the guests of delta upsilon at an exchange din ner while the chi psi freshmen and sophomores were hosts to the d u underclassmen major g carter collins assis tant professor of miltary science and tactics was the guest of chi psi at dinner monday evening kirby whitwell and gauss to speak this winter the faculty committee on lectures meeting wednesday afternoon ap proved two lectures by leaders in the fields of fine arts and electrical engineering and an appropriation to bring a prominent educator to the campus within the next three months c valentine kirby chief of the division of art education of the pennsylvania department of public instruction will give a public lec ture on modern social and eco nomic trends in art at 8 p m tuesday nov 12 in packard audi torium the lecture will be the only one sponsored by the fine arts de partment this semester says prof garth howland head of the de partment the student chapter of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers will sponsor a talk by g e whitewell vice president of the philadelphia electric company on some government experiments in business this is the second of the current series of lectures under the lehigh chapter of the a i e e the committee approved an ap propriation to bring dr christian gauss dean of the college prince ton university to the campus some time during the winter o alumnus engaged the engagement of miss jane hollister knight of bethlehem to benjamin franklin shaw i e 31 has been announced miss knight attended miss lippincott's school in washington d c the wedding will take place dec 4 because universities must main tain a critical and selective atti tude towards tradition and change and can serve neither blindly they become storm cen ters during times of national stress when the crowd is hungry for certainty states grenn frank president of the university of wisconsin during times of nation-wide confusion the forces of tradition and change fighting for their re spective dogmatisms make extra ordinarily difficult the carrying on of the university function of research into reality and then following the facts regardless of what they do to vested interests or ideas papers of faculty members are published the recently published proceed ings of the pennsylvania academy of science contains four articles by lehigh men which were read at the meeting of the academy in april the article are as follows origin of banding in fissure veins by donald m fraser assis tant professor of geology and jos eph m wolf ingeneous assimilation near ma cungie penna by donald m fra ser the relation of recent ore dressing developments to pennsyl vania's non-metallic minerals by stanley michaelson research fellow in mining engineering our least known states by lawrence whitcomb assistant pro fessor of geology simmons to speak charles w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering will read a paper before the fed eration of paint oil and varnish production clubs at the annual meeting oct 28 and 29 in wash ington d c ' lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 25 1935 price — five cents will discuss distribution accidents are frequent on fatal road stretch auto crash victims crash kills student injures classmate business club takes 9 men haring speaks c h gaetjens robert squier member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first