Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 16

              vol xliii no 16 allen to lecture on birds tonight tells effects of soil acidity on plant life anderson says electrical use is increasing declares need of more art in industries will illustrate speech with sound pictures dr a a allen professor of or ithology at cornell university will present a lecture on the songs and courtships of birds at 8 p m tonight in packard auditorium the lecture will be illustrated by sound pictures made of the birds in their natural habitats and will be open to the public dr allen is a graduate of cor nell from which he received his m a and ph d degrees he has re ceived the outdoor life medal for his research on ruffed grouse hav ing discovered a method for raising the grouse in captivity he is also in charge of national ruffed grouse investigations of the american game association and is the author of several books brown and white photo arcadia plans friday parade victory bonfire price — five cents club will fete c c williams the signing of the annual lehigh-lafayette agreement of peace for the traditional football tilt seated are g s mann representing lafay ette and t k garihan of lehigh watching are g borrowman and w r cocke of lafayette and l walker and f smith of lehigh simmons to tell of power line 6 men attend i.n.a parley kirby avers public taste improving in second faculty lecture shows industrial works declaring that there are at least 300 occupations which require art training c valentine kirby state director of art education tuesday evening told an audience in packard auditorium the day of the starv ing artist is gone unless he chooses to do the kind of thing that the public does not care for mr kirby talking on art in society and industry emphasized the necessity for functionalism in art and the ever increasing need for new industrial designs which are both efficient and beautiful he saw public taste improving through the influence of periodicals advertising department stores which he called museums of the people the cina ma and art museums and envision ed the time when it will be possible to say of almost any industrial pro duct it's beautiful and it works the educator his lec ture the second in the faculty lec ture series by displaying and com menting upon samples of industrial products which included vases tex tiles linoleum and a 5 and 10 cent store water sprinkler will hold smoker for 9 electricals lafayette game to be cel ebrated freshmen will march in pajamas to consider dance sites lafayette we are here these famous words will assume great proportions next friday when the lehigh freshmen gather in the gym nasium garbed in p j.s night shirts and other nocturnal apparel for the annual lehigh-lafayette smoker and parade arcadia at a meeting wednes day night made plans for the par ade and the victory bonfire after the game living group heads are to make certain that all men are informed of this event renewal of the arcadia — knights of the round table peace pact has been signed by three lehigh represen tatives to request interview arcadia decided to send a letter to the trustees of the university re questing an interview for a com mittee to discuss the problem of returning off-campus dances to the campus three possibilities have been offered for consideration first to have the use of the library for university dances second to re model the gymnasium and eliminate fire hazards third to build a new recreation hall on the site of the unused tennis courts town group election committees were urged to contact men from the various groups and elect their men to arcadia at the voting on wed nesday only two groups out of 15 were able satisfactorily to elect rep resentatives general electric corpora tion official is student lecture speaker lecturer shows charts stressing the rapidly increasing use of electricity during the past year john anderson 10 secretary of the apparatus sales committee of the general electric corporation spoke last evening in packard auditorium for the third of the stu dent lecture series the lecture was sponsored by the student branch of the american society of mechanical engineers mr anderson showed by charts the steady rise in the output of elec tricity from 1907 until 1930 when a sharp decline in consumption was felt and brought out several fac tors contributing to this increase the use of electricity in numer ous household appliances and its extensive use in manufacturing pro cesses has accounted largely for this condition what is more maintained the speaker was the fact that the limit of contrivances using elec tricity has not even been approach ed and that the future of electricity has much in store with this idea mr anderson expressed the utmost optimism for the graduating electrical engineer who now goes into the industry at its most rapidly growing period in history with the conclusion on oct is this fall of the highest out put ever recorded in america for one week and with an anticipated record-breaking output for 1936 he pointed out that these ideal condi tions also forecast a strong im provement in all lines of business research worker talks of oil wells 5 to be initiated by eta sigma phi new york lehigh group to introduce president to eastern educators president c c williams will be the guest of honor at the new york lehigh club's dinner to be held wednesday evening at the wal dorf-astoria in new york city this dinner will mark the formal intro duction of lehigh's new leader to the eastern educational world the presidents of several lead ing universities will attend the meeting w c dickerman 96 m w pool 96 f b bell 97 and professor philip m palmer head of the college of arts and sciences will be among the speakers the dinner-meeting will be broadcast by wor wabc and the mutual broadcasting system from 10 to 10:30 p m an eight piece ensemble of un dergraduates will play for the con clave the members of this group are carstens haas ch e 38 al bert osman e e 36 alan sny der 39 elmer bera 39 charles moesel 39 william trumpler m e 37 george grow arts 38 and robert hale arts 37 directory on sale eta kappa nu to entertain candidates on monday five juniors and four seniors will be entertained at a smoker to be held by eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering society 7:30 o'clock monday evening at the home of william h formhals in structor in electrical engineering at 441 heckwelder place the nine men are candidates for election into the society the elections will be held either immediately after the smoker or on the following day states d l healy secretary of the organiza tion junior and senior electrical en gineers who are in the highest quar ter of the electrical engineering classes are eligible for membership to inspect houses classical fraternity ban quet will be held eta sigma phi honorary latin society will hold a banquet at 7 o'clock this evening at the shank weiler inn on tht slatington pike to initiate five new members elected at the meeting held in october the following men fulfilled the requirements of having a 3 average in freshman greek or latin and continuing study this year and will be inducted into the society nevin l fidler elmer f g krizin j palmer murphy and gerald j reilly all sophomores in the col lege of arts and sciences william c mcdermott instructor in latin was elected an honorary member during the past week the initiates have been wearing a white toga to symbolize their pledging to the so ciety wherry addresses chems on results of field experiments banquet set for dec 11 describing his studies of botany and its relation to the soil dr ed gar t wherry professor of bot any at the university of pennsylva nia delivered a lecture entitled soil acidity and growing plants be fore the chemical society wednes day evening in packard auditor ium knowledge in this field will aid in conserving the natural beauty of flowers which has often been wast ed in the past leading to extinction of certain plants said dr wherry telling how the results of his field trips showed how species of plants could be cultivated by the proper condition of the soil dr wherry first became inter ested in botany through his con nection with geology soil affects growth species differ in growth in alka line and acid soil he said some plants thriving in one condition and dying in the other an alkaline con dition of the soil is very rare in the east and the acid requirements of the plants in the appalachians was determined by the indicator tests lawns thrive best in soil which is just acid when any plant begins to reproduce it is an indication that the soil acidity of that variety has been satisfied plants of a different acid re quirement are found growing to gether and this is explained by tak ing into consideration the length of the roots the acidity at the surface of the ground being different from that below the soil explained dr wherry species of flowers which are acid loving are found to grow best when surrounded with leaves rotted logs or pine needles from which the plant derives tannic acid rediscovers plants during his studies of flowers dr wherry rediscovered several spe cies which had been lost to science for many years in maps he made showing the section of growth of certain plants he found that the va rieties of flowers often restrict them selves to small sections dr wherry stated that this is one of the mys teries of his study mapping the re gion where a plant is found it is possible to calculate how far the species has spread since the glacial period the examples used by dr wher ry were illustrated by slides which were colored under his direction the annual christmas banquet of the society will be held dec 11 clubs to hold joint meet the alumni clubs of lehigh la fayette and rutgers will hold a joint meeting tonight at the brook side country club in trenton nj each club will have several speak ers president c c williams and a e buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association will rep resent the university to check r.o.t.c will speak on boulder dam transmission sys tem before a.i.e.e taking boulder dam to mar ket will be the title of an illustrat ed lecture to be presented by d m simmons 7:30 thursday evening at the meeting of the student branch of the american institute of elec trical engineers to be held in pack ard auditorium simmons is chief engineer of the general cable corporation and has been working on the boulder dam project from its inception he is also a prominent member of the a i e e and at present is chairman of the committee on transportation and distribution of that society since the completion of the dam simmons has been stationed in los angeles directing the completion of the transmission line line longest yet built this transmission line which will eventually supply a large part of the west coast with electric power exceeds any similar line yet built both as to length and voltage it had to be constructed over a very difficult terrain of mountains and desert and it traverses a sparsely settled territory much given to at mospheric disturbances the design of the line includes many new and ingenious features such as a self supporting hollow conductor and a special type of clamp to reduce corona and vibra tion shows fluid mechanism dr max petersen associate pro fessor of physics demonstrated phenomena in fluid mechanism at a meeting of the physics society held last evening at his home hawthorne speaks before miners and geologists present day producing and drilling of oil wells was the sub ject discussed by b g hawthorne research worker for the amarada petroleum company before the mining and geological society meet ing yesterday evening in williams hall mr hawthorne a graduate of the university of colorado who is now doing research in fritz laboratory gave a resume of the development of the petroleum industry from 1859 to 1934 and added statistics showing that the united states leads in oil production with russia second he described various methods of drill ing wells and the methods of pro ducing oil from those wells accompanying the talk was a mo tion picture showing the method of cementing casings of oil wells with additional views of oil well fires reference was also made by mr hawthorne to the deepest well in the world owned by the gulf pro duction company in texas this well is 12,786 feet deep west virginia firm prints student list the 1935-1936 student directory went on sale monday afternoon at the supply bureau after a delay of almost a month the price of the di rectory is 30 cents frederick r ashbaugh bursar and purchasing agent of the uni versity was of the opinion that the delay resulted because the contracts for the publishing of the directory were awarded to a west virginia publishing firm the award of the contract to a new publisher was made in an at tempt to lessen the directory's publication cost as an innovation the use of an advertisement on the back cover was made in further attempt to cut expenses holds trial debate lecturer tonight on bird life copy of pact signed by lehigh lafayette 3rd corps area inspector will review regiment a representative of the third corps area r o t c administra tion will visit the campus monday to inspect the lehigh r o t c unit this will not be the official examination for the year on which the standing of the unit is based ceremonies in the afternoon will include a parade followed by a re view to which the public is invited on tuesday major j o green professor of military science and tactics will accompany the visiting official to easton to inspect the lafayette r o t c unit o williams guest of honor at scranton lehigh club president c c williams was the guest of honor at a meeting of the scranton lehigh alumni club wed nesday evening at scranton in addition to president williams the lehigh delegation included a e buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees and e k smiley assistant director of admis sions o richard s hess to marry miss elizabeth c shannon daughter of daniel j shannon of easton and the late mrs shannon will become the bride of richard s hess 33 son of mr and mrs raymond k s hess litzenberger will examine fraternities conditions the semi-annual inspection of all fraternity houses will probably be gin tuesday morning it was an nounced today by andrew w lit zenberger superintendent of build ings and grounds the inspection will take about a month and will cover the safety of the house both from the sanitary and physical view points dr r c bull director of the health service will collaborate in passing judgment on the sanitary conditions this first inspection stated mr litzenberger will only be one in which we shall determine the faults both slight and serious and point them out to the fraternity mem bers in may during our second inspection we will check up on whether or not necessary improve ments have been made in previous years mr litzenberg er and dr bull have discovered that the fraternity houses at lehigh are in a considerably better condi tion than at most universities i e.s plan talks lecture at business meet tonight plans for short student talks to be given at future meetings and for the engagament of a prominent speaker later in the year will be considered tonight at the business meeting of the society of industrial engineers in room 466 packard laboratory the meeting will begin promptly at 7:30 in order that the society may adjourn shortly after 8 to lis ten to the sigma xi lecture to be given by dr a a allen profes sor of ornithology at cornell uni versity on the songs and court ship of birds represent brown and white today at pitts burgh convention four students and two faculty ad visors are representing the brown and white at the intercollegiate newspaper association being held today and tomorrow in pittsburgh judson schaeffer editor in chief walter l finlay editorial manag er james h croushore news man ager edwin g mcnair financial manager kenneth k kost faculty advisor and dale h gramley as sociate professor of journalism are representing the paper at the con vention professor gramley will at tend the convention in his capacity of executive treasurer of the i.n.a schaeffer and croushore left yes terday afternoon the other lehigh delegates left this morning at 4 paper holds cups the oct 22 25 and 29 issues of the brown and white will be en tered in the competition for the cups for excellence in editorials and advertising both of which the pa per now holds and for the news and makeup cup which is now held by the hatchet of george washing ton college the judges of the news and edi torial contests are george walk er editor of the main line daily times ardmore carol geddes fi nancial advisor for the student pub lication of the university of min nesota and u s vance professor of journalism at akron university judges for the advertising con tests are dr howard hoode as sistant professor of merchandising at the university of pennsylvania dr vergil d reed bureau of cen sus and kenneth w slifer of n w ayer and son advertising agency earle to speak governor george h earle will address the convention at the ban quet to be held this evening at the hotel schenley herbert moore president of transradio press ser vice will outline the work history and future of reporting news by radio delegates to the convention will attend the pitt-nebraska foot ball game as guests of the staff of the pitt paper there are 34 other colleges from new york new jersey delaware maryland and the district of co lumbiawhich make up the i n.-a the last convention was held in april at ursinus college faculty members wives address women's group mrs thomas hazelhurst wife of the assistant professor of chemistry led a discussion on the grading of meats at a meeting of the con sumer's evening group of the am erican association of university women wednesday night at 509 west union boulevard mrs c m mcconn wife of the dean led another group in a discus sion of the war between italy and ethiopia club meets with lafayette in practice the lehigh and lafayette debat ing teams met in a practice debate last night in packard laboratory the topic for debate was re solved that congress should be empowered to override by a two thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional the lehigh team which debated for the affirmative was composed of robert brown eng 39 ra phael scoblionko arts 39 and jo seph kotanchik m e 38 the lafayette team was composed of g arnold g mclean and s bean no decision was rendered tne teams will meet again thursday noc 21 at lafayette in the return practice debate lehigh will take the negative side boys club hears thomas harold p thomas head of the department of education spoke be fore the boys club at noon today the address was delivered in the interest of the annual roll call of the american red cross prof allen studying the habits of the rare ivory-billed woodpecker in a louisiana swamp whereas we believe that the feelings between the student bodies should be friendly rather than hostile and whereas we the two under signed organizations represent ing our respective student bodies regret the part that our students have played in such actions be it therefore resolved that we the lafayette student coun cil and we the arcadia of le high university representing the student body of lehigh univer sity do all in our power to pre vent any actions in the future which may be taken as intend ing to lower the school in the eyes of the public or in the eyes or either student body such ac tions to include the defacing either of the property of the in stitution or that property in its immediate vicinity be it further resolved that a joint committee of three men from each institution be created the duty of this committee shall be to foster friendly relations between the two colleges lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday 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