Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 30

              review repays loan is solvent board learns with the repayment early this week of a loan of 50 and 1 inter est by the lehigh review to the board of publications every lehigh student publication is solvent and out of debt announced dean c m mcconn yesterday afternoon at a meeting of the board in his office the loan which originally was 100 was made in june 1934 to al low the review to pay some out standing bills half of the loan with interest on the entire amount was repaid last june although the en tire amount was to have been re paid at that time the board con tinued the balance to allow the staff to divide a greater profit the board also accepted the fi nancial reports of the review and the 1936 epitome as well as the audit of the books of the brown and white for its fiscal year which end ed jan 31 the audit was made by thomas k garihan jr bus 36 and supervised by roy b cowin professor of accounting the board adjourned to meet again at 4:10 p.m monday in the office of dean mc conn glee club will sing over air ashley talks on coal beds taylor hall section d and phi lambda phi last semester ended leonard hall's ten semester reign as the living group with the highest scholastic average according to fig ures released yesterday by the reg istrar's office the newly organized allentown group had the highest university average 2.301 taylor hall moved from second place to first among the living groups with 2.256 and pi lambda phi regained its position as the highest fraternity which it lost last semester after holding it for five terms with 2.200 the new fraternity average was 1.862 a drop of 03 from last jan uary kappa alpha showed the greatest gain moving from fifteenth to fourth place delta upsilon leading fraternity last june dropped to sev enth position phi sigma kappa was removed from social probation while delta phi remained on the rankings are as follows late seniors warned to return ballots 2 men attend model senate announce names of initi ates as hell week draws to close will induct 120 men seventeen fraternities have an nounced the names of their initiates according to lists received by the brown and white today the new fraternity members are alpha kappa pi — harold i breiden bach ch e 39 great neck l i rich ard w blanchard i e 39 port washing ton l i frank l jackson ch e 39 chevy chase md phillip w bavin i e 39 boston ma.ss ; peter e weiss e e 39 milwaukee wis beta kappa — john mccleery bus 38 bethlehem joseph ratway arts 37 shaft robert brown c e 38 mount george william casey bus 39 freeport n v ; rea helm e e 39 trenton n j ; james shields arts 39 new kensington chi phi — george glueck eng 39 phil adelphia william hamilton bus 39 scars dale n v edmund knight bus 39 ak ron o ; steeke malkin eng 39 norwalk conn donald oskin eng 39 bethlehem robert seabrook eng 539 merchantville n v walter wells eng 39 long island n v ; roger stewart bus 39 south orange n j chi psi — starr h barnum 111 bus 39 new haven conn ; edwin c perkins ch e 39 germantown james a smith eng 39 newburgh n v willet weeks jr arts 39 ridgewood n j ; robert g yingling eng 39 ridgewood n j delta upsilon — thomas d hess met e 39 mauch chunk albert s ayer bus 39 plainfield n j ; norman l ayer eng 39 plainfield n j james o green 3rd eng 39 bethlehem frank c rabold jr eng 39 denville n j ; john f lehrer eng 39 montclair n j ; arnold r moyer jr eng 39 niagara falls n v harold m selser jr eng 39 jenkintown kappa alpha — gene caller eng 39 scarsdale n v ; malcolm carrington bus seniors will not be represented in the epitome unless they turn in all their epitome ballots pic tures and assessments by to morrow it was announced today by paul smith settle jr c e 36 senior section editor if assessments have been paid but ballots and pictures not turned in the assessments will be forfeited continued on page four witness operations mertz 31 chosen new instructor h . dietrichson arts 39 quits theta xi at father's request dcan blames system a second victim of the rigors of hell week was revealed this week when the father of harold l diet richson arts 39 forced him to break his pledgeship to the theta xi fraternity the action was the result of a telephone call saturday morning from fleetwood 35 miles from bethlehem to dietrichson's father in south orange n j telling him that his son was there in an ex hausted condition after a walk of 20 miles mr dietrichson imme diately took his son home where he remained in bed until monday un der doctor's orders according to charles b wentz president of theta xi dietrichson was taken 15 miles from bethlehem to a point between shimersville and macungie where he was given clues as to the direction to walk the pledge become confused however and walked 20 miles in the oppo site direction before strangers took him in to rest last saturday afternoon mr dietrichson telephoned the frater nity and was satisfied to let his son be initiated at a later date on mon day however he called back and told the fraternity that harold was definitely moving out of the house declares wentz according to dean mcconn mr dietrichson told his son to break his pledgeship monday afternoon as an individual fraternity theta xi is no more guilty than the oth ers the dean declared the fault lies with the rotten system of phy sical initiation as it now exists in the majority of the houses dietrichson himself refuses to comment on the case and will give no information as to what actually happened at present he is living in town resigns from national un ion because of expense and radicalism votes 100 to golf club growing dissatisfaction with the returns from its membership in the national student federation of student governing body to resign america prompted arcadia the from the organization at its meet ing thursday evening in drown hall one of the foremost causes for the action was the expense involved in membership for which few re turns were received thomas gari han bus 36 president of arcadia said further that another reason for the resignation was the radical ten dencies to be found among certain of the federation's members to replace the national federation arcadia has joined the pennsylva nia association of students ac cording to garihan this organiza tion has many advantages as re kards lehigh over the other group besides the expense being decidedly less it will enable lehigh to keep closer contacts with schools in this vicinity arcadia believes that these are the ones with which lehigh should keep in touch as they have common interests dean mcconn declared himself in favor of both the resignation from the national organization and the entrance into the pennsylvania as sociation garihan will represent lehigh at the convention of the pennsylvania association which will be held feb 21-23 at perm state at their meeting arcadia also de cided to contribute 100 to the le high golf club this is an increase of 25 over their donation last year and an increase of 50 over tnat of two years ago it was also decided that arcadia would contribute 35 to the inter national relations club to help de fray the expense of sending their delegates to the national convention of the club talks to be heard by civil engineers mcconn seeks safer driving was on yale faculty as as sistant in 31-32 john c mertz 31 has recently been appointed instructor in chem istry after his graduation from lehigh he was an assistant in qualitative field trip affords pre meds practical experience eight members of the r w hall pre-medical society visited the sa cred heart hospital in allentown on morning under the di rection of dr l c milstead of al lentown the students witnessed five operations at the clinic among the operations witnessed was a gall bladder operation in which a stone was removed that had the shape of an egg an opera tion for stomach ulcers and an ap parent appendectomy which proved to be a rare intestinal disorder the following men attended the clinic j b gormley 37 p singer 37 w b ayers 38 w f bouch er 38 a p dapuzzo 38 h p feigley 38 r a gorisse 38 h j mack 38 to present organ recital miss gretchen newhard will pre sent an organ recital under the aus pices of the music department on sunday feb 16 at 3:30 in packer memorial chapel guyer and potochney rep resent lehigh at debat ing conference walter guyer ch e 36 and peter potochney arts 37 will be lehigh's representatives at the model senate and debating confer ence at new brunswick n j the conference began at noon yesterday and will end tomorrow guyer and potochney are guests of the new jersey college for women and while they are in new brunswick will stay at the beta kappa frater nity at rutgers university guyer is president and potoch ney is secretary-treasurer of delta omicron theta the lehigh debating society neutrality legislation agri culture and the pure food laws and the powers of the supreme court are the topics to be dis cussed at the conference guyer will represent senator nor ris of nebraska and potochney will represent benedict burke also of nebraska guyer and potochney are respectively on the agriculture and judiciary committees during their stay in new bruns wick a buffet supper will be had thursday evening and a play will be presented by the students of the new jersey college for women program over wor to morrow is second broadcast of singers the lehigh glee club will broad cast over radio station wor of the mutual broadcasting system at 1:15 p m tomorrow the program will last a half hour the songs which will be sung in clude hail the college by kin sey landsighting by greig shadow march by protheroe ole clipper days by andrews alma mater by van vleck and ye watchers and ye holy ones by canon a newly organized double quar tet will sing two songs bells of saint mary's by adams and deep river by burleigh the members of the double quar tet are g c crow arts 38 w a r lobst ch e 38 n j leon ard ch e 37 w r pierpont arts 39 h e towne arts 37 j m swalm eng 39 a g ueber roth jr eng 39 v r wilson m e 36 c y haas ch e 38 is the accompanist in addition to the quartet the club has 27 members harold e towne is president t edgar shields director of music will con duct the singing this is the second broadcast for the glee club for the current season the first was over wabc of the columbia system on dec 7 ac cording to towne there are tenta tive arrangements for a broadcast in the near future over weaf of the national broadcasting system the double quartet will go to baltimore maryland on march 6 this trip is under the auspices of the department of admissions lewis stoumen put articles in review topics to concern research projects under way short illustrated talks will be giv en as part of the research program sponsored by the civil engineering department at 8 p m today in fritz laboratory the talks will concern research projects now in progress the talks to be given are weld ed connections by c d jensen associate professor of civil engineer ing battle-deck floor by i e madsen research fellow in civil en gineering photoelastic stress study and transmission line towers by f l ehasz research fellow in civil engineering beam and column connections by g j gibson research fellow in civil en gineering reinforced concrete clabs supported on two edges by g r wernisch research fellow in civil engineering reinforced concrete slabs supported on four edges by mr langmus and me chanical analysis of indeterminate planar structures by mr eney private walker sees mamie gets 54 days in the cooler e ottens to speak geologist discusses penn sylvania deposits be fore mining society in an illustrated lecture dr g h ashley state geologist of penn sylvania described the formation and structure of the pennsylvania coal deposits before the mining and geological society last evening in williams nail dr ashley showed three different types of bituminous coal the streaked the minutely streaked mat type and the fully matted coal he showed the woody structure found in the dull streaks of the former type microscopic slides brought out the megaspores of plants in these layers he said that in some western coals a charcoal-like struc ture could be easily seen according to the state geologist smooth coal was the result of wat er deposits while explaining the types of beds in which coal is formed he showed slides of former swamps and the preserved outlines of plants in these beds a large portion of the lecture was taken up with slides which showed the structure of various coal beds microscopic plates revealed other minerals that were found surround ing the coal deposits in several re gions of pennsylvania several slides showed how the state has been squeezed through the geologic evolution of the planet examples of folding found in to day's rock formations were also shown dr ashley told that a distinct type of coal comes from each coun ty of the state he declared that in a good year the amount of minerals taken from the earth in the process of coal mining was equal to the soil that was excavated in the building of the panama canal map slides in dicated the mount of coal that had already been taken from the earth and how much still remained that could be mined dr ashley has been state geolo gist for the past 15 years he is a member of the geology society of america the geology society of washington the washington acad emy of sciences the american in stitute of mining and metallurgical engineers and many others he was assistant geologist in the geological survey of arkansas in 1891 o w a stauth begins classes in skiing in taylor gym william a stauth special student in mining engineering and mechanic in the department of mining engin eering began instruction in skiing thursday afternoon in taylor gym nasium thirty-five men attended the first class which will be supple mented by outdoor work on week days at 4 p m the classes are un der the auspices of the lehigh out ing club members of the outing club will drive saturday afternoon to mr stauth's home on route 60 allen town for a ski hike and additional lessons mails copies of "... and sudden death in an endeavor to lessen the num ber of serious accidents resulting from reckless driving c m mc conn dean of the university has sent letters to all student drivers inclosing a copy of "... and sud den death a reprint from the reader's digest the letters were sent in the hope that reading them would have the student drivers think twice before attempting anything reckless while driving said dean mcconn con cerning the letters the ideas was conceived because of the accidents of last term and i hope that read ing the pamphlet will prevent fur ther unnecessary accidents with such serious results as faced the students last semester the dean explained that there had not been any violations of traf fic regulations reported by the uni versity policeman which might have led to the circulating of the pamph lets in the letters sent to student drivers mcconn urges that stu dents who have not read "... and suddn death will do so and sug gests that they begin the second semester with a strong resolution in favor of careful driving at safe speeds failure to keep this pur pose may result any day in sudden and dreadful tragedy the letter ex plains o hamke talks on insurance problems of 12 professors emil hamke field secretary of the teachers influence and annu ity association discussed the insur ance problems of university profes sors at an open meeting of the american association of university professors this afternoon in pack ard laboratory mr hamke will remain at the university throughout saturday to discuss insurance problems with anyone who may care to do so john c mertz and quantitative analysis at yale in 1931-1932 during his four years as an un dergraduate here his activities and achievements included freshman and varsity wrestling editorial board of the burr member of the senior cab inet of the union tau beta pi prize chandler chemistry prize three years wilbur scholarship president of tau beta pi band music club glee club and mustard and cheese mrs curtis talks on charm mrs george b curtis wife of the associate dean and registrar ad dressed members of the easton and w t ilson high school girl reserves jan 17 at the easton high school on personality and charm she advised the girls to refrain from sarcasm and witty remarks since they are the things which help to take away charm and personality will discuss determination of stellar magnitudes photo-electric determinations of stellar magnitudes will be discussed by edwin ottens ch e 38 dur ing a meeting of the e w brown astronomical society to be held at 7:30 p m tonight in room 1 353 packard laboratory election of a secretary-treasurer for the coming year will be held nominees for this office are nor man bell eng 39 charles hoff man e e 38 and joseph par met ch e 38 students interested in joining this society are invited by the president donald b wheeler eng phys 38 to attend this meeting o young returns is initiated wilbur e young eng 29 phi sigma kappa pledge who disap peared during hell week on sat urday afternoon was formally ini ated wednesday night young returned from bis home in jamaica n v tuesday afternoon white gottlieb manheim er also contribute a story by sidney lewis titled goodnight mr bean and an ar ticle by louis stoumen on histor ical bethlehem appear in the feb ruary issue of the lehigh review which was issued late yesterday afternoon the photo cover depicting a mid winter bush scene on the campus was done by jacob blumenthal ch e 37 other contributions are by paul white who writes of an interna tional fable of present times in a story the beacon an interview of tommy dorsey as set forth by bill gottlieb and sanford manheim er the story of a college bred youth looking for work by george yanko and the tale of a magnifi cent dog bantay by melvin s lord to wed tomorrow robert porter 34 east north field mass will wed miss elizabeth zart of bethlehem tomorrow at st peter's lutheran church after a short wedding trip they will reside at 55 myrtle avenue dover n j brought leslie ruffle e e 36 henry g ruzza c e 38 edward b tuttle e e 36 and frederick j snyder arts 36 as witnesses for the defense donald w fouse i e 37 charles j gotthardt bus.'36 lloyd berg ch e 36 john m hotten stein e e 36 and gates b stern arts 36 were presented as wit nesses for the prosecution walker's story was that he went to philadelphia to visit one mamie taylor and intended to return to his regiment as soon as he had com pleted his visit the part of mamie taylor was taken by harold a gibbs i e 37 the court passed a compromise sentence rather than condemn the prisoner to life imprisonment for desertion the court was composed of major gerber henry s battin bus 37 harry l snavely arts 36 irving l brant bus 37 jos eph f brown c e 36 robert couch bus 36 theodore daven port s e 36 edward d depuy m e 36 and emil a dieter arts 36 we find the prisoner private john walker of the coast artillery not guilty of desertion as charged but guilty of violating the sixty-first article of war being absent without official leave and we sentence him to 54 days imprisonment with a de duction of two-thirds pay for this time this was the sentence imposed at the mock court-martial held last friday night in the armory to ac quaint the senior infantry in the r o t c corps with the procedure prescribed for such trials private walker alias harry c archer arts 37 presented witnesses who testi fied that the accused had repeatedly said he intended to return to the army trial judge advocate john p but terfield i e 36 and his assistant george l bowden arts 37 pro duced witnesses who vouched that the defendant was an habitual de serter defense counsel william s hutchinson ch e 36 and his as sistant george h voehl bus 36 conducted the case for walker and lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday february 14 1^36 all publications now out of debt w piper explains paper chemistry vol xliii no 30 price — five cents arcadia quits one league joins another breaks pledge after rigors of hell week describes aspects of manu facture before society explaining the process in the manufacture of paper w e piper chemical engineering representative of the dorr company addressed the chemical society on some chem ical engineering aspects of the pulp and paper manufacture at the monthly meeting last night in the chemistry building mr piper formerly a professor at cornell university followed the manufacture of paper from logs and then gave the details of the connection of chemistry with the paper industry after the logs have been stripped and chopped the ma terial goes into digestors where the chemical action first takes place in whatever industry you may enter one of the things which will always help you is the knowledge of the names of processes and ma terials with which your position is connected mr piper explained at the next meeting of the chemical society in march nomina tions will be made for officers for next year dr ullmann head of the department of chemical engineering introduced mr piper allentonians lead university section d tops group list 17 fraternities complete plans for initiations leonard hall drops to 3rd place mean of allentown non-fraternity men is 2.301 ; entire university average drops 03 6 delta sigma phi 2.049 7 delta upsilon 2.047 8 taylor hall sec a all dormitories 2.038 2.025 9 taylor hall sec c all juniors 2.024 2.021 10 taylor hall sec e 11 taylor hall sec b 2.016 1.993 all non-fraternity men 1.972 town group 1.954 entire university 1.862 12 chi phi 1.861 13 sigma phi 14 psi upsilon 15 beta theta pi 1.855 1.846 1.839 16 beta kappa 1.836 17 phi gamma delta 18 sigma chi 19 sigma alpha mv 20 price hall 1.833 1.810 1.796 1.788 21 lambda chi alpha 1.786 all sophomores 22 alpha tau omega all fraternity men 23 delta tau delta 1.777 1.769 1.756 1.736 24 pi kappa alpha 25 alpha kappa pi all freshmen 1.734 1.731 1.712 26 alpha chi rho 27 chi psi 1.701 1.693 28 phi delta theta 29 sigma phi epsilon 30 theta kappa phi 31 phi sigma kappa 1.682 1.672 1.628 1.628 32 kappa sigma 33 delta phi 1.606 1.56s 34 sigma nu 35 theta xi 1.547 1.415 36 theta delta chi 1.312 allentown group taylor hall sec d 2.301 2.256 pi lambda phi 2.200 all seniors 2.188 leonard hall 2.183 kappa alpha 2.128 ton tlnl rt t>ki member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first