Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 40

              students may contribute to flood relief fund lehigh students faculty and administrative staff members may contribute to the fund being raised by the red cross for flood relief by bringing their contribu tions to the lehigh union office in drown hall this announcement was made yesterday by dr claude g beardslee adviser to the union after he conferred with president clement c williams dr beards lee said that the suggestion for lehigh cooperation came from several students checks should be made payable to the bethle hem chapter red cross society plans aid to editors john p butterfield summer work offer is made 7 fraternities plan dances hutchinson selected col onel butterfield chos en lieutenant-colonel 15 other men appointed william s hutchinson jr ch e 36 has been promoted to the rank of colonel as regimental command er of the r o t c unit in the an nual spring changes of cadet offi cers ordered by major james o green head of the department of military science and tactics j p butterfield i e 36 was promoted to lieutenant-colonel as regimental executive officer the changes be came effective monday other regimental and battalion appointments are h g ruzza ch e 38 major first battalion c r shubert i.e 38 major second bat talion g a voehl bus 36 major third battalion p d pearson e.m 36 captain regimental adjutant t a gearhart arts 36 lieutenant second battalion adjutant and f.w walker m e 37 lieutenant third battalion adjutant company officers appointed the company captains are i l brand bus 37 company a c e bennett arts 38 company b h s gallagher e e 36 company c d w fouse i e 37 company e f l sharpe i e 36 com pany f p e neilman ch e 36 company g j p mayshark i e 36 company i g f dickover ch e 36 company x and c w bowden arts 37 company l the officers who were promoted to field grades and regimental ad jutant will attend drill with the companies to which they were as signed prior to their promotion un til the expiration of the indoor drill schedule services merge 4 colleges represented at third intercollegiate discussion frosh debate cedar crest about 35 members were present at the third annual intercollegiate forum held wednesday night in packard laboratory when lehigh rutgers muhlenberg and lafay ette discussed the relations between the supreme court congress and the conistitution walter r guyer ch e 36 president of delta omicron theta honorary debating society gave the history of the supreme court and presented a general view of the ar guments for and against the court jeroms l schleck a government major at lafayette college dis cussed the possibilities of holding a referendum on acts declared uncon stitutional by the supreme court w t winter of rutgers uni versity presented both sides of the argument that the court should be required to agree by a two-thirds majority on the unconstitutionality of an act of congress in order to rule out the law george boyer of muhlenberg discussed a ten - year term on the supreme court as a substitute for the present term enn state a regular member of the forum did not have a repre sentative their delegate tele graphed that he would be unable to attend because of the flood con ditions dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment was chairman of the forum while no decision was given on the forum informal shift of opin ion ballots were used this device enables the audience to register its opinion both before and after the debate additional space is provided for the voter to give reasons for his change of mind this was the first use of such a ballot at lehigh a non-decision debate was held last night between cedar crest and lehigh freshmen lehigh's debaters were norman l morse eng 39 and raphael g scoblionko arts 39 honorary journalistic group will offer con structive criticism plans to secure an outside speak er for a public lecture some time in april and to entertain general crit icism of each of the university pub lications at its next closed meeting which will probably be a dinner meeting at the kappa alpha fra ternity house were discussed by pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fraternity at its meeting tuesday night in drown hall the society also offered its ser vices in conducting lehigh's third annual scholastic press conference may 9 and decided to withhold elections of new members until next fall the criticism of student publi cations at its next regular meeting is designed president thomas k garihan bus 36 said to aid the editors and business managers in their work too often a man is so close to his own publication problems that he can't see the very obvious faults of his product we believe that members of pi delta epsilon can contribute much in a mutual ex change of ideas and criticism because most of the publications the epitome and the brown and white in particular do not hold the election of officers until late in spring the society has decided to delay its election of new members until next fall freshmen and sophomores will be interviewed by publishers announcement was made by the placement bureau today that mr cassin and mr terry of the john c winston company publishers will be at lehigh on tuesday march 24 to recruit sophomores and fresh men for summer work the work consists of selling a universal handbook for high school students hurlburt's story of the bible and other works pub lished by the winston company this is not house to house selling but is selling by appointment on a policy developed by the company the salary is as follows and is guaranteed 3.50 per day for those working 72 days 3 per day for those working 66 days 2.50 per day for those working 60 days and 2 per day for those working 54 days post graduation work promised successful men can look forward to employment with the company after graduation in executive posi tions application blanks are avail 1 able at the placement bureau these must be filled out on or before sat urday march 21 there will be a training course of six sessions one per week which will be given to those men who are accepted before the close of col lege beardslee to talk to group dr claude g beardslee profes sor of moral and religious philos ophy will address the society for ethical culture of philadelphia on sunday outdoor drilling to begin monday price hall halloo offends pedestrian college papers gain by union of advertisers national advertising service inc which represents the brown and white in the national advertising field has merged college publish ers representatives into its organ ization the merger was termed a benefit oy edwin g mcnair jr business manager of the brown and white all college papers will benefit by having one strong organization in stead of the numerous small organ izations which have been fighting among themselves to the detriment of the college papers moravian girls defy tradition in newly established weekly leading actors have had experience in scholastic productions to be given april 3 4 prom trotters by ralph e sked gell 36 mustard and cheese pro duction draws its cast from stars of former victor herbert gilbert and sullivan musical comedies jun ior league cabarets and high and prep school shows it is to be pre sented april 3 and 4 in drown hall miss charlotte bond who plays the feminine lead judith arden is a graduate of oberlin conservatory of music and at present is a mem ber of the music staff at moravian college and seminary for women she sang leading roles in local pro ductions of trial by jury and the irates of penzance as well as the coffee cantata by j s bach miss bond is studying voice with mmc virginia los kamp in new york city opposite miss bond frank norton eng 38 is rast as tom my while this is his first appear anre in a musical show at lehigh he had experience in the racket december offering of mustard and cheese he also had a humorous part in sir arthur wing pinero's the enchanted lady presented by the senior class of upper darby high school pazetti takes part comedy roles in the prom trot ters fall to the lot of pat pazetti bus 37 and marc heidelberger arts 39 the former played similar part in the red mill and the prince of pilsen liberty high school operettas of four years ago he also appeared in the charm school senior class play of the same school his partner in the in terests of humor is the taxi driver marc heidelberger veteran of sev eral peddie school productions dur ing the four years he was a mem ber of the dramatics club there he appeared in bad man tons of money the nervous wreck and whistling in the dark among the roles played were comedian and gangster leader the two minor feminine leads louise and jean are portrayed by margaret struble and ruth paz etti respectively both young ladies appeared in the local junior league cabaret last winter miss pazetti had a specialty dance in the show miss struble is a graduate of the national cathedral school wash ington d c nelson leonard ch e 37 bari tone soloist for the glee club plays the minor male lead ned he ap peared in yellow jack presented by mustard and cheese last april and in the racket in december he sang in the mt vernon n v high school chorus alumnus attorney speaks to group innocuous calls nearly causes dorm riot angered by calls of boisterous price hall students which he thought were directed at himself and his wife a bethlehem citizen last sunday was the center of a heated controversy at the campus dormitory the incident began with an inno cuous shout of yoo-hoo from one boarder to a friend who was walk ing up the roadway the cry was taken up by several other students in the building and then bethlehem citizen also on the street took of fence you're all a bunch of bums he shouted and i can lick any one of you a free-for-all in the dormitory was only avoided by the arrival of campus police officer claysor to continue from 4 to 6 p m until may 11 drill for military science and tac tics will be held outdoors starting monday march 23 and continuing till may 11 all drills will be held from 4 till 6 p m the fifth and sixth drills will be spent on preparation for field day which will be held may 4 the majority of the other drills will be spent on company drill extended order drill and ten pitching the meeting place for the first and second battalions will be the upper field the third battalion will meet on the lower field each drill except the first when it will meet on the road above the upper field the band will be present at all drills officers will open spring social festivities on saturday spring social festivities will be gin tomorrow night with the stag ing of six fraternity dances all de layed by the measles epidemic seven fraternities in all will hold dances alpha kappa pi and the pi kap pa alpha will hold a combined dance at hotel bethlehem while the following fraternities will hold their dances at their respective houses delta tau delta delta up silon lambda chi alpha sigma alpha mv and sigma chi the alpha kappa pi and pi kappa alpha combined dance will be held at hotel bethlehem danc ing begins at 9 o'clock it is a for mal invitation dance with music fur nished by the lehigh collegians the chaperones will be mr wil liam h formhals instructor in electrical engineering and mrs formhals and professor and mrs arthur w klein of the mechanical engineering department delta upsilon will hold a formal invitation affair at which the music will be furnished by george doddy and his orchestra of bethlehem mr and mrs killmer of bethlehem will be chaperones merrymen play for delts the annual spring dance of delta tau delta will be a formal invita tion one dr donald l kemmer instructor in economics and mrs kemmer will chaperone the affair while the music will be furnished by the merrymen of plainfield n.j there will be dancing from 10 to 2 both lambda chi alpha and sigma chi will hold formal invita tion dances eddie milber's or chestra of bethlehem will furnish the music for the lambda chi al pha affair while the chaperones will be major carter collins assistant professor of military science and mrs collins the sigma chi fra ternity will have the colemond or chestra of montclair n j and dr stewart w rankin assistant direc tor of the students health service and mrs rankin as chaperones the sigma alpha mv will have a closed informal dance with the music furnished by milt lowe and his orchestra of allentown the chaperones will be mr and mrs h phillips mr and mrs r lewis bethlehem and mr eric s sinkin son associate professor of ore dressing and fuel and mrs sink inson students get hot for 3600 tons of coal and 19,000 to offer concert sunday evening 8 operators relay mes sages to aid in emer gency work ondutysince wednesday while swollen angry waters trapped thousands of persons in pennsylvania new york and ohio tore down all wire communication lines to many cities and washed out hundreds of highways lehigh's amateur radio broadcasting station w3aeq in packard laboratory has been in constant contact with amateur stations in all flood areas and has shared the emergency bur den of carrying relief and news mes sages as they poured through"~the ether wednesday yesterday and to day a steady flow of news handled by eight student operators working in shifts at the transmitter has been cleared through this 400-watt short-wave radiophone unit and by telephone over the bethlehem tele graph ond police land lines coming on the air wednesday morning when the first reports from amateur wbfrc of johns town told of that city's paralyzed condition the lehigh station has since been inactive only two hours early yesterday when exhausted operators left their post to catch up on sleep all important communications between the bethlehem steel com pany and their cambria plant at johnstown concerning the heavily overloaded quemahoning dam property of the steel company were relayed wednesday from packard laboratory to wbfrc reports of a break in the quema honing dam circulated by the na tional broadcasting company were authoritatively denied for the first time by w3aeq wednesday when the johnstown amateur station re ported that no break had occurred telephone steel company the lehigh operators telephoned the steel company's bethlehem of fices this was the first true report the steel company had on the con dition of the dam and it repre sented a scoop for the amateurs of the national hook-ups vital information on road condi tions was handled yesterday last night and today for the pennsyl vania state highway patrol supervised by electrical instruc tors h c i knutson and w h formhals clark o bartlett e e 36 chief operator at the radio so ciety john b ferguson jr i e 38 george e yewdall e e 37 and f harry nelson e e 38 have been at the microphone in shifts for the past two days wil liam s weil jr 35 david c bom berger 35 julius c ward 39 harry b rath e e 38 and fred erick w king e e 36 have al ternated as assistants we have done a lot of work and had a lot of fun said mr form hals last night and we could use a lot of sleep sleep was unimportant but lack of sleep was a minor in convenience when human life itself depended upon the reliability of amateur radio in concord mass a car had been overtaken by rushing river waters and its driver swept away and drowned a toronto can ada station asked eastern pennsyl vania to watch for a plane which had left for the pittsburgh flood area and had not since been heard from coastguard boats were need ed upstate by town after town whose streets were deep under wa ter fretz tells young people of floods in lehigh valley a h fretz associate professor of geology pointed out that the le high valley railroad embankments save south bethlehem from floods when the lehigh river overflows its banks in an address sunday evening before the young people's fellow ship of the nativity epsicopal church his subject was floods in the lehigh valley professor fretz has been making an extended study of the flood wa ters of the lehigh and delaware rivers he included in his talk much of the information he has obtained concerning the causes of and dam age done by flood waters of these two rivers alpha kappa psi hears talk on politics speaking at a recent meeting of alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity m c schrader 21 assistant district attorney discussed the place of business men in politics the meeting was held at the alpha tau omega fraternity house tne talk which typifies the bus iness fraternity's custom of having a speaker at each of its meetings was followed by a series of ques tions and a general group dis sion during the course of the meet ing plans were discussed for the organization of a chapter newspa per which would be sent annually to chapters throughout the nation the staff will ionsist of thomas k garihan jr bus 36 knox l peet bus 37 and edwin g mcnair jr bus 37 the next meeting of the society will be held on april 2 at the sigma phi fraternity house the speaker will be d r mackay district man ager of united airlines o w a cornelius recovers william a cornelius m e 89 alumni secretary returned to his of fice this week after a prolonged ill nes due to grip mr cornelius was confined in his home in ardmore pa by r n larkin we've heard moravian girls de scribed as charming buxom ne cessary and write your own ticket but never have we heard the word coy used in relation to them nor have we yet but what else can you call them when in their own paper the newly-organized belfry they report the diversions of a winter sports week-end as ski ing and dog-sledding the girls also report having done a great deal of tail-sliding in the snow-covered poconos that is what we call coy and so this latest of bethlehem's journalistic endeavors makes its start it has long been needed and it is complimentary to the other two papers here in town the small townish globe - times and the speech-reporting brown and white leaving quaint dutch to the for mer and the stereotyped participial phrase leads to the latter the belfry goes in for naivete and very effec tively so a mimeographed magazine-type weekly the belfry has for its frontispiece a pleasing sketch of the tower of the old central moravian church it has an administration suspiciously like that of our own brown and white pax vobiscum ladies and a style reminiscent of the sport page of the boston trans script the sheet that calls a spade a spade and the harvard boys bean-eaters has no ads we think the belfry is fortunate in being free from that demon com mercialism the bane of all scholas tic journalism they run no ads they have no profits the disposi tion of which to fight over they have no adamant business staff to snatch from the writers their de served space they have few make up troubles the obvious accompan ist of advertising a wise plan we say we were a little shocked to see their column the student speaks the old question-answer affair the first query was should moravian offer a required course in fresh man hygiene some of the an swers were even more shocking such as that of a frosh i think so — some of the girls certainly need it which we would call wash ing one's dirty linen in public it certainly proves our contention of naivete we find in the paper a departure from moss-covered journalism which we sincerely hail we found on the editorial page a joke which even though it was a pretty bad joke is still the most encouraging sign in the entire paper editorials are unique it has long been our contention that student editorials especially those on national or classic ques tions were presumptious in the ex treme and we admire this mani festation of that great verity life is but a bowl of ground up 50 watt bulbs for the first time we en joyed reading an editorial page speaking plainly we're glad to see the paper put out we congrat ulate them on the appearance of the paper its lack of typographical er rors and all ten pages and we hope that this article will rate a complimentary subscription for the brown and white student group plans pro gram of recording the recently organized student concert group will present their first program sunday evening at 8 o'clock in the chapel it will in clude capehart set recordings of se lections by schumann deßussy strauss mendelssohn and sibelius officers chosen by the group are frank r mallalieu eng phys 36 general director carstens y haas ch e 38 publicity director e def tidd arts 37 and coleman citret arts 37 committee on ar rangements prof philip m palmer head of the art college t edgar shields director of music and claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy are faculty sponsors for the society extra 19,000 goes up in smoke money no coal three thousand six hundred tons of it this is the amount of coal burned by the uni versity to provide heat for its build ings so far this year this is the sad consequence of a severe win ter which according to j d har tigan head of the university power plant has required much more coal than any of the past 12 years the boilers in the wilbur power plant have been running contin uously throughout the months of january and february consuming 1,689 tons of anthracite coal the boilers were turned off at no time during this period between 6 a m and 6 p m the coldest day of the year and that requiring the most coal was january 23 when the temperature was 4 degrees below zero in the morning at 6 o'clock and only 4 above at 6 o'clock in the evening the boilers used 32.5 tons of coal on this day the average amount of coal used per day in february the coldest month of the year was 30 tons the worry of disposing of the ashes from this coal has been tak en off the hands of mr hartigan by the state highway department which because of the severe winter has had ample use for them lehigh ashes travel far and wide one of the most peculiar places we find them is on college hill in eas ton where they aid lafayette stu dents to descond the hill in safety the ashes are also used in eas ton nazareth bath and allentown now that the winter is over mr hartigan's troubles are just start ing he has great trouble deliver ing just the correct amount of heat to every building it seems that every professor has a different body temperature according to mr har tigan his best thermometer is an open window when the windows go up the h<eat goes off lehigh university brown and white is lieutenant-colonel bethlehem pa friday march 20 1936 colonel of r o t c vol xliii no 40 price — five cents green names newr.o.t.c cadet leaders 35 members attend forum on government veteran cast will present prom trotters students man radio to help flood relief william s hutchinson member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first