Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 21

              lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday december 10 1935 engineers club observes anniversary price — five cents concert - pianist samuel to play works of bach this evening kreller called in grand jury hearing today harold samuel libertas staff to edit paper the globe-times kept news-interest at a high pitch lower left — this general view of packard labora tory was taken early in the day lower right — spray ing bran attracted the curious as well as those gen uinely interested — brown and white foto feature seal quota set by j maxwell a few of the bright spots of the exhibit industries of the lehigh valley were recorded by the brown and white cameraman upper left — the rear-mounted engine of the mack bus was the object of unhurried inspections upper right — a working linotype and teletype displayed by miller speaks on industries in local area vol xliii — no 21 memorial art exhibit shown pre-meds to hear narcotics lawyer held for death of ccc worker in motor acci dent dec 1 innocent says mcconn in my opinion he was merely un fortunate and not at all guilty stated dean c m mcconn regard ing the case of max a kreller m e 38 who was scheduled to ap pear before the hunterdon county grand jury today on charges of manslaughter and departure from the scene of accident the grand jury's verdict will not be released until next monday kreller was held on 1,000 bail in clinton n j after being arrest ed in connection with the death of john utter c.c.c worker at the clinton point camp clinton n.j dean mcconn posted kreller's bail and brought him back to bethlehem last tuesday kreller was returning to bethle hem last sunday night en route 28 he claims that as he approached the bridge over the new jersey central railroads tracks he noticed a truck with bright headlights coming over the middle of the narrow bridge he slowed down and dimmed his head lights but the truck driver failed to do likewise kreller states that he was temporarily blinded forced off the road by the truck skidded on the shoulders and glanced off two or three guard posts finally crash ing into bridge guard rail motorists aid student the student then got out of his car to ascertain the extent of the damage the truck driver failed to stop and kreller was assisted in disentagling his car by a party of . passing motorists who stopped on the far side of the bridge we found that the damage amounted only to a smashed head light and windshield and two flat 1 tires stated kreller so after i ¦ had assured the men that i was not i hurt they proceeded in the general direction of whitehall i did not get their names the sophomore then drove his car to the other side of the bridge where it was out of the way of passing motorists he changed the continued on page four frosh honorary inducts r f howe composer-pianist to give concert at 8 p m in packard auditorium student admission 25 harold samuel is surpassed by no other pianist in the world in inter preting and playing the music of johann sebastian bach asserts t edgar shields director of music in speaking of the all-bach pro gram to be given by the noted eng lish pianist at 8 o'clock this eve ning in packard auditorium samuel has made an intensive study of bach and besides his ser ious music stresses bach's more human and lively pieces says pro fessor shields students who have riot obtained tickets and wish to attend will be admitted for 25 cents upon identi fying themselves admission to the public is 1.00 the programs consist of four parts partita in b flat major praeludim allemande courante sarabande menuett one and two gigue from the forty-eighth preludes and fugues a c sharp minor book one b b flat major book one c f minor book two d c sharp major book one english suite in a minor prelude allemande courante sarabande bouree one and two gigue chromatic fantasia and fugue mr samuel a fellow of the royal college of music studied at the college under dannreuther and san ford he has appeared at the prin cipal london concert halls and with leading orchestras and con ductors throughout the british isles he has devoted himself large ly to the performance of bach's pianoforte works mr samuel at one time gave six separate weeks of recitals of bach's music in london an unprecedented accomplishment he has composed the music for a comic opera short operettas incidental music for plays and many songs as well as instru mental works liberty high students pre pare to put out brown and white twenty-six members of the li bertas staff the liberty high school quarterly visited the brown and white office saturday morn ing and sunday evening prepara tory to editing the brown and white for tuesday issue dec 16 the high school reporters were assigned to members of the lehigh staff who explained the technique of collecting the campus news they were introduced to the news sources on their beats next saturday they will collect the news high school officers in charge the high school officers who are in charge are ruth brown editor in chief sybil conant news man ager mary bowes editorial man ager thelma stark make-up edi tor betty dietz news editor the columnists are charles john son for the l u say jane goodenough for around other campuses and dorothy goldberg for old man of the mountain the tag letter will be written by robert palmer treasurer of the senior class at liberty high school this is the fifth successive year that the bethlehem high students have edited the brown and white last year it was done in the second semester a l tennyson to discuss harrison drug act alfred l tennyson head of the legal department of the bureau of narcotics will speak on the harri son narcotic act at the monthly meeting of the robert w hall pre medical society at 7:30 p m thurs day in room 360 packard labora tory the meeting is open to the public the harrison act is a federal law relating to the traffic in drugs which requires all persons handling or par ticipating in the sale of narcotics to be licensed it also requires that the drugs be sold by prescription only the legal department of which mr tennyson is the head is re sponsible for the enforcement of the law making the raids and seizures and punishing the offenders talks on religion petition retracted to be interviewed for scholarship exhibition by lehigh val ley firms held in pack ard laboratory engineers club meets natural resources excellent trans portation facilities and proximity to the great markets of the atlantic seaboard are causes of the devel opment and prosperity of the le high valley region declared dr benjamin miller head of the de partment of geology in his ad dress to the lehigh valley engin eers club in packard auditorium last night dr miller listed almost a score of major industries in the valley including agriculture which pro duces large amounts of dairy pro ducts and fruit in increasing quan tities textiles especially silk ce ment zinc of which the new jer sey zinc company's plant at pal merton has produced over 100,000 tons a year steel slate flour and chemicals the exhibition held in the north wing of packard laboratory in con junction with the meeting was well attended 50 firms display products and processes of over 50 lehigh valley firms as well as ma chines belonging to the university were exhibited the bethlehem globe-times showed a teletypewrit er operating on an associated press wire and a linotype machine set up for operation the new oldsmobile chassis and the old hot air engines of the mechanical engineering de partment attracted much interest a working model of an electric heat-treating furnace and quenching crane all operated automatically were shown by the bethlehem steel company the individual drinking cup company of easton exhibited various types of dixie cups and their containers as well as a mach ine which automatically loads the paper cups with ice cream a metal spray gun which sprays molten metal the way a paint sprayer ap plies paint was in operation on the ground floor the fuller company of catasau qua displayed a working model of a suction grain cargo unloader and cleaner an insulator made of rub ber and glass and over 12 feet long use on modern high tension trans mission lines was exhibited by the pennsylvania power and light com pany a bus with a transverse mo tor in the rear and a modern truck were shown by the mack truck company the several foundry and machine companies of bethlehem allentown and easton sent sam ples of their wares and for the la dies the charis corporation dis played girdles and the national silk dyeing company silk stockings bratt discusses steel production paintings of former uni versity instructor dis played in art gallery thirty paintings and watercolors by the late emil gelhaar instruc tor in free hand drawing from 1899 to 1918 are on exhibit at the uni versity art gallery in the library they will remain on public view un til dec 15 the showing is a memorial ex hibition and is composed of pic tures loaned for the show by fac ulty members and local residents who were gelhaar's friends land scapes and street scenes predom inate but several portraits and mar ines are included in the show gelhaar's particular forte is the realistic recording of exotic land scapes and the factual reporting of historical scenes and buildings in the latter group are his paintings of the local moravian church the mo ravian widows house and the beth lehem steel works as viewed from the new street bridge there is also a painting entitled asa packer's home and tomb which belongs to the university and two portraits of the artist one a bronze bust and the other a realistic painting gelhaar's life was a particularly tragic one and his death by suicide in hawaii two years ago was a se vere blow to many faculty members and local residents the works may be viewed on sundays wednesdays thursdays and fridays from 3 to 5 and on friday evenings from 7 to 9 hughes speaks before r w blake society dr percy hughes head of the department of philosophy address ed the robert w blake society on having a religion at their meet ing frida at the home of mrs r w blake he stated that a man may choose any current item for his religion such as sports and worship it accordingly h stanley ford jr arts 37 and harold e towne arts 37 were elected to membership in the so ciety several members of the faculty and approximately 20 members of the society attended the meeting o frosh union makes plans for dance next semester the freshman union will spon sor its second annual dance early next semester the committee mak ing arrangements is composed of g edward hurst bus 39 chair man nathaniel whitman eng 39 and william e liesman eng 39 the committee hopes to secure the bollroom of the hotel bethle hem two orchestras are being con sidered they are bubby john son and his colored orchestra of baltimore and nealy nealson and his orchestra of new york o keiser to talk to geologists should a mining engineer seek initial experience abroad both sides of this question will be dis cussed by hubert d keiser 16 at the meeting of the mining and geo logical society to be held at 8 p m thursday in the geology lecture room in williams hall mr keiser is now doing research work in fritz laboratory presents 25 christmas seals per student placed as aim for annual sale a quota of 25 christmas seals for each student is the aim of john w maxwell manager of the supply bureau who is in charge of student sales of christmas seals solicitation this year is being con ducted by living groups instead of by mail house heads have received their quotas of seals and were re quested to canvass their respective groups dr r c bull director of the student health service is in charge of faculty sales form letters have been sent to each faculty member requesting a subscription says activities are curtailed dr bull states that the depres sion has caused a lack of funds and necessitated a curtailment of the tuberculosis society's activities x-rays and supplies of cod liver oil and oranges to indigent cases ne cessary for proper treatment of tu berculosis cannot be supplied in many cases an increase in subscriptions is ne cessary to continue properly the work of the society both christ mas seals and health bonds for larger amounts are offered all re ceipts go into the society's general fund dr r w hall head of the de partment of biology is chairman of the publicity committee of the bethlehem tuberculosis and health society and appointed the men to take charge of university sales the local society is part of the state and national associations and takes care of any local tuberculosis cases lehigh students included phi eta sigma discusses cup award changes ralph f howe ch e 38 of allentown was initiated into phi eta sigma freshman scholastic honorary fraternity last evening in drown hall at a meeting of the fraternity following the initiation the plans for the description of the fraternity in the freshman hand book for a change in the awarding of the phi eta sigma cup and for a freshman prize were discussed members of the fraternity feel that it should be more fully de scribed to the freshman in the freshman handbook a plan to make the phi eta sigma cup which is presented every year to the liv ing group whose freshmen have the highest average during the year a temporary award was considered it was proposed that a prize be given to the freshman that makes the greatest improvement during his second semester this proposal will be more fully discussed at the next meeting jan 10 will hold debate moravian students reverse stand to support dean following the presentation of a petition asking removal of their dean students of moravian semin ary and college for women voted today to support her during the re mainder of the school year determined to oust dean edith j stauffer 109 of the 150 students of the college had signed the petition by last thursday following pre sentation to the rev edwin j heath college president they were informed by meons of a notice on the bulletin board that those who wished might remove their names three more were added student opinion suffered a com plete reversal of form today during a college chapel meeting after a talk by president heath the stu dents met without faculty supervi sion or attendance they decided to assure harmony in the school and back the dean's fictions and deci sions senior mets and faculty hear v o homerberg the american society for metals heard a lecture by dr v o hom erberg associate profesor of phy sical metallurgy at the massachu setts institute of technology on friday evening at the hotel traylor in allentown dr homerberg showed a variety of colored metallographic photo graphs of copper brass and steel a discussion was held after the talk the metallurgical faculty and senior metallurgists were among those present will hold dinner finds pig iron tonnage no index to progress pig iron does not well represent the growth of the steel industry writes dr elmer c bratt assistant professor of economics in an ar ticle in the nov 14 issue of iron age he does believe that the pro duction of steel ingots well repre sents the activity of the industry at the present time he says that this is due to the fact that steel has replaced iron in modern industry moreover dr bratt says that steel ingot produc tion does not well represent the growth of the steel industry be cause the growth obtained in this way is made up of both the growth of the industry and the shift from iron to steel as a finished product electricals discuss initiation at meeting details of the forthcoming initia tion were discussed at the meeting of eta kappa nu the honorary electrical engineering society last night in the student engineering so cieties room pacnard laboratory the informal initiation will be held on thursday or friday and the formal initiation will be held at 7 p m monday at the sun inn plans for the christmas party on dec 18 were also made at this meeting butterfield and hoppock to try for rhodes award john p butterfield i e 36 and david w hoppock i e 36 will represent lehigh among the 600 rhodes scholarship candidates who will be interviewed during the state nomination this week at philadel phia the country has been divided into eight districts and four candidates will be selected from each district for the scholarship to oxford the financial value of the award is 2000 annually twelve men will be selected from the 600 interviewed this week and the winners will be chosen from this groop on dec 16 rhodes scholarships have been won by three lehigh men r max goepp 28 dudley h l hailey,'3o and milton meisner 34 o senior class surplus to reduce epitome cost five hundred dollars of the sen ior class surplus is to be devoted to reducing the individual assessments for the epitome it was decided at a class meeting saturday noon in packard auditorium this action reduces the levy for each member of the class from 6 to 4 the 300 remaining in the treasury is tentatively allocated for the banquet in june ¦ o ¦ publications board to meet the board of publications will meet at 4 p m wednesday in dean mcconn's office to consider the fi nancial reports of publications and other routine business to meet mount st vincent at 8 p in tonight two members of the debating so ciety will meet a team from mount st vincent college for women of new york at 8 o'clock this eve ning in room 466 packard labora tory lehigh will take the affirma tive side of the question resolved that congress should be empower ed to override by a two-thirds vote decisions of the united states su preme court declaring acts of con gress unconstitutional the team will be composed of either r g scoblionko arts 39 and c f brown arts 39 or m j kotanchik arts 39 and c g layman eng 39 no decision will be rendered mustard and cheese will give salt water the mustard and cheese club pre sented the racket its first play of the year friday and saturday evenings in drown hall seven hun dred people witnessed the perfor mances the racket a story of the chi iago underworld supposedly tells the story of the murder of jake lingle a reporter who knew too much it was written by bartlett cormack next friday and saturday eve nings mustard and cheese will pre sent salt water a comedy cen tered around the first mate of a ferry-boat who desires to buy a sailing ship and search for treas ure and his wife who takes his money and buys the ferry-boat on which he is working salt water was written by frank craven a well known comic author fraternities to celebrate birth of horace phi beta kappa national honor ary scholastic society and eta sigma phi national honorary class ical society will hold a joint din ner in celebration of the 2000 th an niversary of horace's birth at 6:30 p m wednesday in the sun inn karl p harrington professor of latin at wesleyan university will speak on horace and his coun try homes prof frederick a bradford president of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa will 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