Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 42

              action is centered around houseparty week-end the plot of prom trotters the musical comedy written by ralph skedgell arts 36 to be produced by mustard and cheese on april 3 and 4 could have been written only by a lehigh man furthermore it could have been written only by a man who has had the experience of several houseparties from which to gather the material concerning the doings of a house president williams says if a clear majority vote for it teams debate over wcba program held in cbapel is heard by 350 about 350 people attended the concert given by the american so ciety of ancient instruments at packer memorial chapel last tues day night the program consisted of a sin fonie by frederick the great an aria and a minuet by scarlatti a suite by henry purcel canzona francese b y pasquini the queen's garden an old french quaret for violes sinfonia pastor ale by tartini grave by corelli an old netherland suite fugue in g minor by frescobaldi and as a quartet of violes another old french set branle di poitou chanson and dance basse the concert was a real success said t edgar shields professor of music and sponsor of the affair however professor shields was disappointed in the small atten dance of students unless the thing has the bless ing of radio students aren't inter ested he stated shields described each musician as an artist and the program as one of the most beautiful and most in teresting he had heard after the concert members of the bach choir and townspeople examined the in struments r skedgell playwrite news service grows rapidly glee club will sing over n.b.c network april 4 from radio city third broadcast in year the glee club will present its third radio broadcast of the season at 4:45 p m saturday april 4 the 15 minute program will be broad cast from weaf over the nbc blue network of 37 stations h e towne arts 37 president of the club completed the arrange ments for the broadcast last week dr t edgar shields head of the department of music is conducting rehearsals and will direct the pro gram at radio city this concert will mark the third appearance of the glee club on the three major national networks this year the two previous programs were broadcast over the columbia system in december and the mu tual wor chain in february thirty-six singers made each of the previous trips carstens y haas ch e 38 was accompanist it is highly important that all men attend rehearsals from now on says towne the club meets at 7:30 p m thursday in the chapel towne expects to an nounce arrangements soon for an other glee club concert besides the annual spring home concert as well as two trips for the double quar tet new x-ray tube will aid research party guest who enjoys giving her escort a runaround the story winds in and out introducing into its con tinuity with surprising smoothness a number of songs and unusual characters there is judith the untrue date and tommy her escort and dupe a general easy-mark for the entire cast and don calientes a cuban orchestra leader the comedian of the play with all the theatrical devices from dramatic irony to mistaken identity the situations are amusing in the obvious way one of the best of these is the scene in which hurrican mcguire a vicious taxi driver undertakes to play the part of the heroine of the piece williams approves propo sal for series present ed by tau beta pi student poll to be made president williams expressed his approval of the plan for the stu dent lecture series as proposed by tau beta pi national engineering honorary fraternity providing that a substantial majority of the student body expressed their approval members of the committee who formulated the plans and presented them to the president are bernard weiss c e 36 nelson leonard ch e 37 and robert kemmer ch e 36 it was proposed that an addi tional amount of 50 cents a semest er be placed on the activities fee so that with this income and that obtained by selling tickets to the townspeople and faculty members a sum of about 1500 a year would be available to bring four to six prominent lecturers and recitalists to the university every semester if the above plan is approved by the student body the series would start next fall arrange accommodations to accommodate the student body and outsiders arrangements have been made with the broughal high school brodhead and packer ave nues for the use of their auditor ium which seats slightly over 1400 the brown and white in con junction with tau beta pi is send ing out with this issue special cards to all students in order to obtain a poll on the lecture series plan these cards will be delivered in a unit to living groups and by post cards to other students if the results of this poll show the student body to be in favor of the proposal the president will pre sent the plan to the board of trus tees for their necessary action color psychology discussed by ford cyanide will help entertain visitors argue against 30 - hour week in broadcast with lafayette in a debate with lafayette over station wcba on wednesday eve ning the lehigh team supported the negative side of the question re solved that industry adopt the 30 hour week the decision will not be known until the votes of the ra dio audience have been counted howard koller ch e 37 and norman morse eng 39 debated against the resolution contending that shorter hours would force up the cost of production thus raising prices and shifting the expense of increased production costs to the consumer koller stated the cost of pro duction would be increased at least 20 percent and since industry can not assume the greater expense the cost must be borne by the con sumer he further erplained how a decrease in working hours would ac tually decrease production darnell defended lafayette's stand by declaring that industry could absorb higher costs of pro duction by decreasing bonuses to officials previously his teammate mclean had declared that a re duction in hours would cause an increase in employment such a re duction would also give leisure time to be devoted to cultural advance ment broad hobbies and rest at human adventure takes audience on trip to early lands breasted tells of relics depicting the rise of man to civ ilization the talking picture the human adventure was presented wednesday and thursday evenings in packard auditorium sponsored by the committee on lectures the pictorial narration transported the audience into the lands of the cradle of civilization the movie was three years in the making under the scientific super vision of the late dr james h breasted archaeologist and histor ian at the oriental institute located at chicago university the narrator dr charles breast ed explained that the human ad ventlre the dawn of man is a comparatively recent event in geol ogic time it took unknown millions of years for nature to develop the species of man and it is impossible to conclude the road man will travel in the years to come the human adventure has hardly begun he de clared after a brief explanation by the late dr james breasted on the meaning of ancient relics recently discovered the film took the audi ence on an imaginary flight to lo cale of the early history of civiliza tion the first stop was luxor in egypt then jerusalem before the days of the hebrews megiddo alisher mosul bagdad and shiraz the lands visited were egypt pal estine syria turkey babylonia assyria and persian the lecture traced the four great empires of the ancient world ending with the fall of persia it was the decline of this nation that marks the beginning of the supremacy of europe related the lecturer oriental institute which collected the data for this pictorial outline of history is the largest institution of its kind in the world two sep arate trips from chicago to the near east were necessary in the filming of this epic more than 32,000 feet of negative were exposed for this showing and much of the film was made from the air in more than 9,000 feet of flying fraternities hold dances tomorrow continued on page four approve series chem department expects advances in work to aid precision measurements in x-ray research a new type crystal analysis x-ray research tube manu factured by the philips metalix cor poration has been purchased for the use of the chemistry department the new type tube depends on a hot cathode for generating long wave-length x-rays from the copper target it is adapted for work on organic and fibrous materials and depends on the back-reflection meth od for examination of subjects william graeff and george kehl research fellows of the chemical engineering department have con structed a special vacuum camera for taking x-ray diffraction patterns and this camera will be used with the new tube the vacuum feature of the camera is essentially to cut down the time of exposure and back ground fogging during exposure of a material to the photography the specimen is rotated to give sharp registrations the new x-ray tube operates at 50,000 volts 20 milliamperes and can be used continuously over sev eral hours four small windows in the tube enable the operator to take four pictures simultaneously and under the same conditions these windows are made of lindemann special low atomic glass to permit the minimum absorption of rays to act as guides to press groups and sub-frosh cyanide junior honorary society will cooperate during the interscho lastic press association meeting to be held at lehigh may 9 and on sub-freshman day may 2 it was decided at a meeting tuesday eve ning at drown hall the society will act as guides and help impress visitors with the ad vantages of lehigh stated morris lore chem 37 secretary-treasurer of the society elections into the organization will be considered at the next meet ing to be held immediately before easter at the delta upsilon frater nity no important change in the electoral point system is contem plated lehigh art alliance will hear talk on vision dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology will ad dress the lehigh art alliance on the subject color vision tonight at 8 o'clock in the psychology labora tory packer hall during his lecture professor ford will demonstrate a practical test for color blindness he will also discuss the deficiencies of some individuals for identifying color and their limitations for the real appreciation of works of art be cause of these deficiencies says professor ford some artists may be capable of producing excellent results at charcoal drawings or etchings but absolutely cannot paint anything of real worth in col ors sponsors lecture newark industrial district to be locale of chem senior field trip newsmen to see capital fifty chemistry seniors will make a field trip to the industrial district near newark and twelve journalism majors will travel to washing ton d c during the three days be fore the easter holidays april 6 7 and 8 the tour of inspection for the chemists will begin at the seton leather company at newark fol lowed by luncheon at the steuben tavern and a trip to the dupont viscoloid company arlington n j the next day will be spent at the westinghouse lamp company bloomfield n j and the manhat tan rubber company passaic n j the inspection will conclude with a tour of the proctor and gamble manufacturing company staten is land n y a a diefenderfer professor of quantitative analysis and assaying c w simmons associate profes sor of chemical engineering and h b osborn assistant in chemical engineering will be in charge of the inspection trip the students and supervisors will stay at the ho tel mcalpin new york city the seventh annual journalism field trip will include in its itinerary press association and newspaper offices public relation heads gov ernment buildings and press con ferences all previous trips have been made to new york city the washington trip however was arranged through the cooperation of frederick h morhart 31 a member of the washington bureau of the indian apolis news and robert w mer riam 33 of the staff of the wash ington times the trip will be supervised by dale h gramley director of the course in journalism and kenneth k kost assistant in journalism arrangements for accommodations have been made with the hotel ambassador offices of the associated press and the washington star will be in spected monday morning on tues day the group will see the wash ington bureau of the indianapolis news and the nation business mag azine offices the students will visit the house of representatives press gallery and the offices of rep francis e wal ter of easton monday afternoon on wednesday they will attend a session of the senate charles michaelson director of publicity for the democratic na tional convention will be inter viewed by the group wednesday thomas shipp public relations counsel will speak on covering political conventions on tuesday in the national archives building plans have been made to attend the press conference of harold i ickes secretary of the interior tuesday morning student works 67 hours to relieve flood conditions conclave meets bureau under gramley sends releases to daily newspapers in the last two months the uni versity news bureau under the di rection of dale h gramley asso ciate professor of journalism has sent out over a thousand releases on student administrative and faculty activities to newspapers throughout the east an immediate object of the news bureau said professor gramley is to build up a picture and mat service of faculty members and administra tive officers of the university for daily papers the bureau sends pic tures and stories in advance to newspapers in cities where various faculty members and administrative officers are to speak pictures and stories are also sent to hometown papers of outstanding individual students especially athletes up to the present time 30 sets of mats have been made up by the bu reau professor gramley said that the bureau hopes to increase their sup ply of mats and pictures greatly but he said that this will probably take at least a year in addition to building up a mat and picture ser vice the news bureau expects to make up cards of individual students on which will be recorded the ac tivities of the student throughout his four years at lehigh at pres ent there is no such record of stu dent activities kept at lehigh assisting professor gramley are kenneth k kost assistant in jour nalism and robert f herrick as sistant editor of the alumni bul letin mr kost is handling most of the sports publicity while mr her rick is doing the photographic work the university news bureau was formerly under the direction of an drew e buchanan upon mr bu chanan's resignation the work was given to professor gramley o annual sigma nu election makes bragdon 37 head pi chapter of sigma nu held its annual elections tuesday at a meet ing of the chapter w j bragdon bus 37 was elected commander to succeed r a lenna i e 36 other officers elected were f b bayer bus 38 chaplain j f gordon bus 37 steward a e smith i e 37 lieu tenant commander and r w zachary arts 38 house manager o announces changes in list three changes have been an nounced in the list of brown and white men who will edit the allen town morning call for tomorrow morning's issue the men who have received new assignments are as follows george yanko arts 37 from copyreader to city editor t r brown e e 37 and p e p white e e 38 from copyreaders to telegraph desk alpha tau omega acts as host to 14 chapters a conclave of 14 alpha ta omega chapters will be held to morrow evening at the lehigh chap ter when the local organization will sponsor a formal dance in their honor george doddy and his orchestra of bethlehem will furnish the mu sic john toohy associate pro fessor of romance languages and mrs toohy will chaperone chapters that will be represented are st lawrence university cor nell colgate and rennssalaer from new york state washington and jefferson muhlenberg gettysburg carnegie institute of technology university of pennsylvania and perm state from pennsylvania johns hopkins university and uni versity of maryland from mary land o dr gilmore visits lehigh dr eugene a gilmore president of the university of lowa was the guest of president c c williams yesterday in the morning the lowa educator inspected the campus 3 of 5 spring functions will be formats five fraternities will hold dances tomorrow evening they are phi gamma delta sigma phi epsilon theta xi keta kappa and pi lambda phi chaperones for the phi gamma delta formal invitation dance will be major carter collins assistant professor of military science and mrs collins the princetonians from montclair n j will play morton towle of allentown will play for the sigma phi epsilon formal and jacob l beaver pro fessor of electrical engineering and mrs beaver will chaperone arthur klein professor of mech anical engineering and mrs klein will chaperone the theta xi dance ken brown and his orchestra from pen argyl will furnish the music pi lambda phi and beta kappa will hold closed radio dances alpha kappa psi offers membership to 2 of faculty at a recent meeting of alpha kappa psi national business society invitations for membership were extended to elmer c bratt assis tant professor of economics and dr frederick a bradford professor of economics professor bratt has formally ac cepted the invitation professor bradford has not as yet announced any definite conclusion o faculty reception planned invitations have been issued by president and mrs clement c wil liams for a faculty reception at their home from 3 to 7 o'clock on sunday afternoon sixty hours supervising a pump ing crew in flooded wilkes-barre 67 hours without a minute of sleep a period of 24 hours without a bite to eat that is the story which george dickover ch e 36 is tell ing today dickover manager of the varsity swimming team was summoned to wilkes-barre saturday morning by his father a contractor who had been working for three days super vising a pumping crew as the flood waters receded from that time un til midnight monday george work ed going from place to place with the pumps wading about in hip boots going without sleep and 24 hours without a meal and a sun day meal at that conditions are terrible dick over said the national guard is patrolling the streets and i had to get a pass before i could get into the flood area there is no gas avail able and there may be none for a month the gas mains have been cracked and engineering from as far west as chicago have been called in a burrell-orsat gas ana lyzing apparatus from the lehigh chemistry department is being used to detect leaks in the mains dickover said that he saw con crete cellar floors forced up by the pressure of the water and streets whose pavements had been washed away though he was but two miles from his kingston home he could not get there but in a telephone conversation with his mother he learned that she had 22 sufferers as her guests because the heating plants in flooded cellars are out of operation it is necessary that the pumps oper ate every minute day and night and they are constantly clogging once dickover found a copy of the saturday evening post clogging the pipes and coal and walnuts did their part in jamming the valves of one pump george's lehigh education didn't fail him though for he rig ged up an air ejector pump from an air compressor of his father's rising at 7 a m saturday the lehigh senior got his first sleep early tuesday morning on the train returning to bethlehem back in his bed he promptly made up for lost time by staying there for over 30 hours civil engineering society gets expert to speak alexander potter c e 90 will talk on the outlook for engin eers at a lecture sponsored by the civil engineering society and open to all of the engineering societies thursday in packard auditorium mr potter will evaluate the pos sibilities of a young engineer pre ferably a college graduate to attain success in the modern business and scientific world he will present to the engineering students the real facts of what they have to face when they graduate as a trustee of the university mr potter is well known about the lehigh campus he is also a con sulting and constructing engineer in new york city o plans sub-frosh program plans for interesting sub-fresh men in lehigh were considered yes terday at a meeting of the phila delphia-lehigh club in philadelphia e k smiley assistant director of admissions and r f herrick as asistant editor of the alumni bul letin attended the meeting which was held in the office of n e funk 05 president of the club students in favor of lecture program strong campus support swung behind the move to establish a stu dent lecture series today as ballots were distributed for the tau beta pi-brown and white poll a student-supported lecture se ries is one thing that the univer sity needs stated robert eichner president of the senior class large attendance at all the recent lectures of importance proves that the under graduates are really interested i'd like to see it go across bernard weiss president of tau beta pi and editor of the lehigh review said in my opinion the idea is a very commendable one nothing more truly typifies the university spirit than a well-plan ned cultural program the proposal is practical and deserves support william smith head of the le high union expressed himself as heartily in favor of the plan and stated the plan will be a success if well-known persons are brought to the campus they must be peo ple the students know nelson j leonard president of the junior class joined in this sen timent and added lehigh is far behind most schools of prominence in the country as far as cultural lec tures are concerned if the plan is approved by the students our school will certainly rank with the best checking over these reports wal ter finlay editor of the brown and white expressed gratification at the response it is important how ever he stated that the students cooperate by sending in their bal lots as soon as possible everyone hos something at stake whether or not he approves of an enlarged lec ture program willing to support student lectures plan lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 27 1936 price — five cento vol xliii no 42 prom trotters has unusual plot concert is played on ancient pieces 50 chemists 12 journalists to take trips movie shows rise of man to civilization singers plan radio program over n b c lecture plans are endorsed by president all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association