Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 17

              the annual lafayette smoker will be held in the gym at 7:30 friday evening announces wil liam m smith president of the lehigh union andrew e buch anan secretary of the alumni association will be toastmaster it is planned to have as speak ers glen w harmeson head football coach nelson a kel logg director of athletics pres ident c c williams bosey reit er professor of physical educa tion and walter r okeson chairman of the national foot ball rules committee the sen iors on the squad will be present the program will last about an hour and will be followed by a parade under the direction of arcadia business club initiates 9 men joe haymes d m simmons d m simmons to talk to e.e.s sponsors fight against fires fouse gearhart hooper on committee for scab bard and blade affair tickets will cost 2.28 joe haymes and his columbia broadcasting orchestra will furnish the music for the annual military ball which will be sponsored by scabbard and blade honorary mil itary society in the hotel bethle hem on saturday dec 14 danc ing will last from 10 to 2 in the main ball room of the hotel states donald fouse i e 37 chairman of the committee the engagement of a nationally known orchestra is a continuation of the policy of scabbard and blade which aims to make the mil itary ball comparable to the inter fraternity ball fouse said tickets at union office other members of the committee are thomas gearhart arts 36 and phillip hooper i e 37 tickets which may be bought at the lehigh union office or from any scabbard and blade member cost 2.28 per couple or 1.14 stag haymes began his professional career as pianist and arranger for ted weems orchestra he organ ized his own band in 1929 and has been broadcasting since 1931 he has played at the geernwich village nut club and the hotel mcalpin in new york and the steel pier in at lantic city buchanan visits alumni meetings group asks dean to per mit winter house party for ball week-end " convention nov 29-30 the date for the interfraternity ball was set for feb 1 at a meet ing of the interfraternity council last evening motions were also ap proved concerning spring house party contemplated winter house party and spring vacation the committee appointed to make arrangements for the ball is com posed of walter p crockett i e 36 chairman sherwood stout bus 36 john l kornet ch e 36 and charles b potter arts 36 an as sessment of 2.25 will be made on each fraternity member arrange ments cannot be made until action has been taken on plans for a win ter houseparty committee appointed a committee composed of john w dietz bus 36 chairman rob ert a dreyer arts 38 and charles b potter arts 36 was appointed to see dean c max mcconn about making the week-end of the inter fraternity ball a winter houseparty the junior prom committee was requested to recommend to the council either april 18 or 25 as the opening date for spring house party it was also recommended that cases of men injured while partici pating in interfraternity sports should be referred to the council if fay c bartlett assistant professor of physical education so initiates a committee composed of william j wiswesser chem 36 chairman and william e austin i.e 36 will look into the matter of setting a per manent date for spring vacation walter p crockett i e 36 president of the council was grant ed 50 for expenses to attend the national interfraternity convention in new york city on nov 30 engineer of general cable corporation to lecture thursday evening d m simmons chief engineer of general cable corporation will ad dress the lehigh student branch of the american institute of electrical engineers at an open meeting to be held at 7:30 o'clock thursday eve ning in packard auditorium the topic of his illustrated lecture will be taking boulder dam to mar ket at the present time simmons is stationed at los angeles where he is directing the completion of the boulder dam transmission line sim mons is a member of the a i e e and is acting as chairman of the so ciety's committee on transportation and distribution in addition to inviting lehigh en gineers the sponsors have sent in vitations to the lafayette student chapter of the a i e e and the lehigh valley section of the same society debating society to hold practice 51 senior chemists to inspect plants ornithologist describes methods of photography to sigma xi meeting explainsßaisingof youth a bird sings to announce a warning to other male birds to keep out of the territory he has selected for himself and his mate said dr a a allen professor of ornith ology at cornell university in his lecture delivered before approxi mately 700 people friday evening in packard auditorium dr allen explained the methods used to photograph and record the sounds of birds he used slides and sound motion pictures which were shown by a r brand and p p kellogg of the brand cornell-amer ican museum expedition to illus trate these methods and also to show the courtship and home life of birds he said that sound pic tures have greatly stimulated the interest in bird songs birds pick conspicuous perches near which a microphone and camera can be placed he stated explains home life dr allen explained the home life of many rare and common birds he said most birds are monogamons but a few have more than one mate the hatching raising and feed ing of the young were also illus trated and described some young are independent of their parents very soon after their birth while others are entirely helpless and de pendent for several weeks varied methods of feeding are used by dif ferent species of birds pictures of both land and water birds were shown to illustrate the feeding of the young sigma xi sponsors talk the lecture was presented under the auspices of sigma xi honorary research society bradley stoughton director of the curriculum in metal lurgical engineering introduced the speaker as the recipient of the out door life medal for research on ruffed grouse the director of the national ruffed grouse investigations of the american game association and author of several books on birds after the lecture dr allen an swered questions of members of the audience many asked questions on wild birds about their homes and on how to care for pet birds o eta sigma phi initiates instructor 4 sophomores eta sigma phi the honorary classical society intiated five men on friday night at a banquet given at shankweiler's hotel on highway 22 west of allentown the new members are nevin fidler arts 3b palmer murphy arts 38 gerald reilly arts 38 elmer krizin arts 38 and dr w c mcdermott in structor in latin before the banquet the members stood for one minute in memory of the late dr emery after the initia tion and banquet all the members participated in telling stories steel company presents elliott on conflagration losses tonight in conjunction with national fire prevention week george elliott secretary of the philadelphia cham ber of commerce will give an ad dress on fire loss experience at 7:45 this evening in packard audi torium motion pictures of fires arm fire fighting activities will be shown this session will be part of the bethlehem steel company's annual fire prevention meeting at which fires that have occurred during the past year are studied with a view to eliminating similar fires in the future students and faculty invited lehigh students and faculty mem bers are invited to the tuesday evening session in packard auditor ium and also to the one on wed nesday morning at the bethlehem steel company's exhibit building at fourth and diamond streets the schedules of the two sessions are as follows tuesday evening 7:45 to 8:45 sound motion pictures of original fires 8:45 to 9 15 ad dress on fire loss experience 9:15 to 10:30 sound motion pictures of fire department activities and other subjects wednesday morning 8:30 to 9:00 review of exhibits 9:00 to 9:30 address on carbon terra-chlo ride 9:30 to 10:30 smoke and gas mask demonstration for fire fight ing 10:30 to 11:00 fog nozzle dem onstration 11:00 to 11:30 acetylene cutting demonstration 11:30 to 12:30 fire appliance demonstra tions review to publish anniversary issue g f marsh explains chain store marketing to alpha kappa psi alpha kappa psi honorary bus ines society initiated nine pledges thursday evening during a dinner meeting at the chi phi house g f marsh manager of the local f and w grand five and ten cent store spoke on chain store marketing marsh informed the 24 men pres ent that college students wishing to work up in the f and w grand organization must serve a three year apprenticeship at the end of which time they are promoted according to their abilit after their first promotion the men's futures de pend solely on their capabilities he then went on to explain why the majority of ten cent store mer chandise lies exposed on the count ers we have found that dime ar ticles which can be picked up and handled sell much faster than their sisters which are displayed from says business is better marsh stated that chain store business is on the upswing our sales records show that despite the new deal five and ten cent store sales have improved in the last two years according to the speaker chain stores like football teams have scouts we constantly have men going into other stores and check ing upon merchandise and sales prices all chain stores do this in fact i believe that some managers spend more of their time in my store than they do in their own places of business after marsh's speech the nine new men three seniors and six jun iors were initiated the initiates are seniors — milton d kurtz don ald j gibbons frederick stillwell juniors — vincent j pazzetti alvin a swenson john s williamson robert w reifsnyder knox l peet edwin g mcnair o 2 chapters hold banquet the lehigh alpha chi rho's held a banquet friday night for phi mv the lafayette chapter and for phi phi the university of pennsylva nia chapter forty-five members were present the banquet was fol lowed by an informal party delegates to fund parley report favorably a e buchanan executive alum ni secretary attended several alum ni club meetings last week at which delegates to the recent fund meeting here reported favorably on the con dition of the university the washington lehigh club which met thursday in the public tap room of the abner drury brew ery in washington d c heard the favorable comments of r b swope 10 the club's delegate to the fund meeting athletics at le high were discussed in particular lacrosse a popular sport in the schools of that region the central pennsylvania lehigh club elected guy r johnson 16 president at a meeting last tues day at the university club in har risburg l c wurster 25 report ed to the club on the alumni fund meeting at which he represented the club a resolution on the death of natt m emery was passed auth orizing the club secretary to extend the members appreciation of his work to mrs emery to smoke dine lafayette meet postponed till next tuesday alembers of the debating society will practice at 4:15 p m thursday in room 304 in the library the return practice debate with lafay ette originally scheduled for thurs day will be held tuesday nov 26 at lafayette the topic will be resolved that congress should be empow ered to override by a two-thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional at the meeting on thursday the affirma tive will be argued by c f brown arts 39 r g scoblionko arts 39 and h roller ch e 37 and p 1 potochney arts 37 d l shields i e 38 and n l morse eng 39 will take the negative the same question will be the subject of the lafayette debate on tuesday at which lehigh will take the negative no team has yet been chosen hazlehurst publishes article on salt salutions dr t h hazlehurst assistant professor of chemistry has written an article on creeping of saturat ed salt solutions which has been accepted for publication by the journal of physical chemistry in vestigations for the paper were car ried on by h c martin ch e.'34 and l brewer ch e 35 under the direction of professor hazle hurst when a saturated salt solution evaporates the deposited material spreads and creeps this phenom enon was used in the depression gardens popular a few years ago the mechanism of creeping was somewhat obscure and this paper shows it to be due to the ability of the crystals to wet the supporting surface o to read play by pirandello the play each in his own way by luigi pirandello will be read by the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 p m tomorrow in the en gineering societies room packard laboratory miss elizabeth hay li brary circulation desk attendant is in charge of the reading fords and chevrolets total half of auto registration will visit philadelphia and vicinity nov 25-27 fifty-one students in chemical en gineering and chemistry will inspect manufacturing plants in philadel phia and vicinity on nov 25 26 and 27 the trip is a requirement in the course in chemical engineering lab oratory chem 180 headquarters will be the benjamin franklin ho tel ninth and chestnut streets the group will visit the follow ing concerns the franklin sugar refining company on the first morn ing the plants of sharpe and dohme manufacturers of pharma ceuticals and biologicals in the af ternoon the grasselli chemical company manufacturers of heavy acids and chemicals on the second morning the atlantic refining company in the afternoon the kimble glass company at vineland n j on the 27th the accompanying faculty mem bers will be c w simmons asso ciate professor of chemical engin eering dr e r theis associate professor of chemical engineering a a diefenderfer professor of quantitative analysis and assaying and h b osborn assistant in chemical engineering brown and white unsuc cessful for first time since 1927 gramley presents report for the first time in five years the brown and white failed to place in the competitions at the fall con vention of the intercollegiate news paper association of the middle at lantic states friday and saturday at the university of pittsburgh the editorial and advertising cups which were won last spring by the brown and white were won by the washington and jefferson red and black and the temple university news respectively the temple university news also placed first in the news division second place in the news com petition was taken by the gettys burgian while george washington university hatchet winner of the news cup at the last convention was tied with carnegie tech tartan for third place carnegie tartan and the buck nellian were rated second and third respectively in excellence for local advertising this was the second time that there was advertising competition the brown and white having won the cup which was of fered as a prize for the first time in april 6 represent lehigh the brown and white was rep resented by judson l schaeffer editor in chief walter l finlay editorial manager edwin g mc nair financial manager james h croushore news manager kenneth k kost faculty adviser and dale h gramley associate professor of journalism professor gramley at tended the convention . mr gramley executive treasurer of the association presented his re port at the business meeting sat urday morning at the same meet ing charles a wright temple uni versity was elected executive sec retary for a term of three years gov george h earle made a plea before the embryo editors at their formal banquet eve ning in the hotel schenley where all the sessions of the convention held for a liberal policy in col leges he urged that where abuses creep into the policy of administra tion the college publication should be frank to say so he defined col lege journals as defenders of acad emic freedom college men preferred edward t leach editor of the pittsburgh press told the delegates that intelligent readers compelled the newspapers to choose their staffs from college graduates earlier in the day the association had gone on record by a vote of 16 to 14 favoring a resolution de crying nazi suppression of free ex pression of religious and educational views and appealing to the united states olympic committee to urge changing the site of the 1936 olym pics to a more worthy nation i l goldberg managing editor of the pitt news was toastmaster at the banquet the business meet ings were led by ellis h tump son university of pittsburgh pres ident of the association c a wright presented awards at the fi nal dinner saturday evening the headquarters of the associa tion was at hotel schenley besides the business sessions and round table discussions the delegates were entertained at a dance at the hotel saturday night the university of pittsburgh was host to the delegates at the pitt-nebraska football game at the pittsburgh stadium it was decided to hold the spring convention at the university of delaware newark delaware o to appoint fellows to study concrete slabs a newly created two year fel lowship in the department of civil engineering is to be filled shortly the donor is the portland cement association funds have been provided for the research fellow to work in the fritz engineering laboratory the work will include an experimental study of reinforced concrete slabs supported on 4 edges and reinforced in two directions this is a com mon construction often found in schools and apartment houses will contain football scores pictures articles a fiftieth anniversary golden vic tory issue of the lehigh review will be published on friday of this week to commemorate lehigh's first intercollegiate football victory in 1885 the song and story of a half century of football will be retold in an issue replete with illustra tions and tabular data the front cover will be a new photograph of taylor stadium filled to capacity with the band parading on the field the scores of every football game that lehigh has ever played will be tabulated as well as a resume of all the colleges played with the times won lost or tied as many students will desire to keep a copy of this issue for per manent reference extra copies are being printed the issue will go on sate at the supply bureau on friday o ' johns hopkins professor to speak to pre-medicals dr henry e gigerist professor of history of medicine at johns hopkins university will address the monthly meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical society at 7:45 o'clock thursday evening in room 466 packard laboratory his topic will be physicians profession through the ages the meeting is also open to fresh man pre-medicals refreshments will be served 8 to represent university at philadelphia affair the philadelphia lehigh club will hold a lehigh-lafayette smok er and shore dinner thursday eve ning at bookbinder's 125 walnut street philadelphia guests of honor from lehigh will include h bosey reiter head of the physical education department w r okeson treasurer of lehigh university a e buchanan alumni secretary h d keiser assistant editor of the alumni bulletin n a kellogg director of physical education robert b adams assis tant director of athletics glen har meson head football coach and his staff and billy sheridan coach of wrestling nevin e funk 05 and moriz bernstein 96 are president and sec retary respectively of the phila delphia lehigh club o presents synopsis of novel mrs ada ewing wife of dr war ren w ewing associate professor of physical chemistry presented a synopsis of sinclair lewis the jayhawkers on monday night be fore a meeting of the american as sociation of university women in the y w c a building the most popular type of car is the four-doorsedan one hundred six students registered this type a group of 33 percent of the total number twenty-five percent of the autos registered are two - door coupes roadsters and convertible coupes cabriolets show 36 11.2 percent of the total the other two models listed are the two-door sedan coach and the touring car phaeton they repre sent a total of 17 percent of all mod els most cars from penna two-thirds of the cars bear penn sylvania license tags new jersey and new york autos each total 12.5 percent there are ten other states represented by cars on the campus the district of columbia and ohio are the largest in this group less than one-fourth of the stu dent body drives cars on the cam pus during the semester at least this number is no doubt doubled over this week-end but the normal percentage is 22.5 percent fords and chevrolets total over 55 percent of the 320 motor vehicles registered on the campus this sem ester the tin lizzies or baby lincolns numbering 125 39 per cent and the most complete car in the low price field ford's heav iest competitor number 53 16.5 percent buick product of general mo tors ranks next in popularity with 25 plymouth pontiac and olds mobile follow with 19 16 and 15 cars registered respectively there are 20 other makes of automobiles listed dodge essex - terraplane studebaker nash and packard all have more than five cars on the register one truck registered harley-davidson leads in the group of six motorcycles with in dian and henderson following in that order three men own harley davidsons two indians and one henderson the only truck regis tered is a chevrolet light delivery owned by a freshman from new york lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 19 1935 e e lecturer to play for military ball vol xliii no 17 lafayette smoker will be at 7:30 friday price — five cents haymes band at military ball in hotel dec 14 student paper fails to place in i.n.a meet bird song is warning says dr a a allen council sets fraternity ball date for feb 1 coming events wednesday nov 20 7:30 p m newtonian society room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m observatory open to public thursday nov 21 6:30 p m pi tau sigma initiation rooms 451 and 453 packard lab oratory 7:45 p m dr henry sigerish speaks on the physician's pro fession thorugh the ages r w hall pre-medical society room 466 packard laboratory 8 p m lecture a i e e pack ard auditorium member intercollegiate iseicspaper association all the lehigh news first