Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 44

              to speak here april 13 vol xliii — no 44 price — five cents elected review editor vote favors lectures ballots still available j b eastman will address local groups 175 invitations to conference are accepted prom trotters opens tonight in drown hall lewis elected review editor for next year students support the brown and white-tau beta pi lecture series plan 424 to 57 according to figures released this noon ad ditions to the total on hand tues day bring the proportionate vot ing to nearly eight-to-one as compared to the previous figure of six-to-one votes may still be cast at any time before the easter holidays extra ballots are available at the office of the department of jour nalism 5 are initiated in math group joseph b eastman group to hear f shepardson sidney j lewis eagle scouts are accepted high school journalists enter 91 papers for press competition to convene here may 9 latest reports from high schools and prep schools in new jersey and pennsylvania indicate that 175 dele gates have already accepted the in vitation of the committee on the lehigh scholastic press conference and that 91 papers have entered the contest to be judged at the conven tion on saturday may 9 although plans are not complet ed for obtaining the main speakers dale h gramley head of the jour nalism courses and chairman of the press conference committee has ar ranged for additional round table discussions david mccaa and judson schaef fer arts 36 will head a new section in photography j david scott spe cial student who is a sports report er on the bethlehem globe-times will conduct a group in sports writ ing one of the business round tables will be under the supervision of albert haring associate profes sor of economics and robert f herrick 34 editor of the alumni bulletin will lead the discussion on magazines c w phy instructor in english will be chairman of the mimeographed publications section williams to greet guests c c williams president of the university will welcome the con vention delegates at the opening as sembly students who will aid in conducting round table discussions have not yet been selected the closing date for those invited to attend the conference to accept is may 1 but the final date for en tries of publications in the compe tition will be april 15 during the convention the members of cyanide junior activities honor society will aid in welcoming the delegates brown and white editorial manager receives new publications post epitome change tabled sidney j lewis arts 37 will be editor in chief of the review for the coming year the quakertown chemistry ma jor who at present is editorial man ager of the brown and white was approved along with the other offi cers at a meeting of the board of publications yesterday afternoon in the office of dean c m mcconn h stanley ford jr bus 37 business manager of the review will remain in office for another year charles f mccoy arts 37 will be associate editor warren p flip fairbanks i e 37 will be art editor the pi delta epsilon plan for reorganizing the epitome was tabled by the board along with the new constitution of the review both will be considered at the next meet ing of tne board on april 23 fi nancial reports of the brown and white epitome and review were accepted other officers elected other officers of the review all of whom were elected at a staff meeting held in drown hall preced ing the board of publications meet ings will be william p gottlieb bus 38 melvin s lord ch e 38 and paul e white e e 38 assis tant editors william g shoemaker jr ch e 37 circulation manager and howard roller ch e 37 na tional advertising manager lewis will be forced by tne board of publication rules to resign his present position as editorial manag er of the brown and white at the end of the semester r.w blake group to hear sloane schools visited transportation coordina tor to speak to pro fessional clubs will be dinner gviest at 8 o'clock monday evening april 13 joseph b eastman fed eral coordinator of transportation will speak on transportation be fore the engineers club of the le high valley in packard laboratory officials of the engineers club announced the appearance of east man march 31 and also announced that the lehigh valley sections of the american chemical society and the american society of civil en gineers will join with the engineers club at the meeting eastman will come to bethlehem from his office in washington d.c and will be the guest of officers and members of the three organizations at a dinner before the meeting to arrange program merton o fuller associate pro fessor of civil engineering and nel son s hibshman associate profes sor of electrical engineering are on the committee of the combined clubs to arrange for the program for the meeting eastman was appointed federal coordinator of transportation by president roosevelt on june 16 1933 and has been a member of the interstate commerce commission since his first appointment by pres ident wilson in december 1818 before his appointment to the in terstate commerce commission in 1918 eastman served on the mas sachusetts public service commis sion for three years prior to this service he had been counsel for various street railway employees organizations in wage controversies in 1913 and 1914 in connection with his present po sition as federal coordinator of transportation eastman is urging the transportation organizations to eliminate duplication of service cut rates practice rigid economy and consolidate where feasible newtonian society elects moesel vice pres ident treasurer five new members were initiated into the newtonian society fresh man honorary mathematics group wednesday night in packard labor atory in the ensuing business meet ing frederick c moesel eng 39 was elected to the office of vice president and treasurer following the business meeting franc h burnett jr eng 39 gave a resume on the life of newton as a supplement to this talk john h ogburn professor of mathematics and astronomy demonstrated how einstein's ideas differ from those of newton frank c rabold eng 39 pres ident of the society then gave a talk on mathematical oddities dem onstrating his discussion by prob lems and card tricks plans were made for the next meeting of the club which is to be held on april 29 at this meeting several student talks will be given marius x stravros eng 39 will present the topic determination of the quantity pi the dual decimal system will be discussed by frederick c moesel eng 39 frank n kemmer eng 39 will give a talk on the fourth dimen sion alpha phi omega will ad mit lehigh group for mally at induction it was disclosed at a meeting of the lehigh eagle scouts wednes day evening in drown hall that the organization's petition to alpha phi omega national eagle scout frater nity has been accepted formal in duction ceremonies will take place some time in may plans for building a campfire site on the top of south mountain were discussed the site would be avail able for the use of bethlehem scout troops publicity social and activities committees were appointed to fur ther the work of the society in the bethlehem area many members of the organiza tion are now acting as scout and as sistant scout managers in this dis trict the next meeting will be held on april 22 the faculty advisers will be present and an attempt will be made to secure paul siple eagle scout who accompanied admiral byrd to the south pole as guest speaker discussion forum to hold meeting butts gives talk bratt forecasts future for steel interfraternity council calls special meeting for monday evening a special meeting of the interfra ternity council has been called for monday evening in arcadia room drown hall at which dr francis w shepardson national president of beta theta pi will be the guest speaker dr shepardson a past chairman of the national interfraternity coun cil is an educator editor and his torian being on the faculty of the university of chicago from 1906 to 1917 he has also been state super visor of public instruction of illin ois and the past several years has devoted most of his time to frater nity work presidents of the local fraternities have been invited to attend a buffet luncheon saturday noon in honor of dr shepardson at the beta theta pi house i have heard dr shepardson speak to a fraternity group and he made a very forceful and inspiring address which i happen to know was remembered for years at least by some of the students who heard it stated dean c m mcconn although the meeting is for mem bers of the council other students interested in hearing the address may attend the meeting stated charles potter arts 36 secretary of the interfraternity council mustard and cheese to give first musical comedy in 8 years ralph skedgell is author the curtain will officially rise on the revived musical comedy at le high at 8:30 tonight when mustard and cheese and the dramotic work shop will present prom trotters written and composed by ralph skedgell arts 36 basing its plot around housepar ty prom trotters the first enter tainment of its type to be presented by the dramatic club since 1927 will star charlotte bond moravian singing teacher and franklin nor ton eng 39 in the leading roles for this evening and tomorrow nine years ago the musical com edy was abandoned because men made poor chorines but in this production the members of mustard and cheese will be reinforced by three local young women besides a chorus that does not belie its sex reed arranges songs skedgell the playwright compos ed ten numbers especially for the production that have been arranged by james h reed bus 38 who also arranged the music for the princeton triangle hit of last year stags at bay supporting miss bond and nor ton will be margaret struble ruth pazzetti nelson leonard ch e 37 vincent pazzetti bus 37 wil liam dalzell eng 39 marc heid elberger arts 39 and richard stockton i e 36 albert rights instructor in english is the direc tor has houseparty plot the plot concerns itself with the false activities of a houseparty guest who enjoys giving her escort the runaround and her untrue behavior furnishes incidents of mistaken iden tity and dramatic irony to give a plot peg for the songs assisting the principals will be a girls and boys chorus of 24 com posed of w a bailey jr bus 36 j e lauderback bus 39 g l browne arts 36 g o allstrom arts 39 w f o'neill bus 39 w b woodrich c e 38 albert goeppert eng 39 r h duenner jr m e 38 r a stockton i e 36 f w king jr e e 36 a denarvaez arts 31 a r martin bus 38 also thelma clouse mildred schmell evelyn suter georgine werst alaire bubser barbara heath ruth bishop margaret beal charlotte green margaret sterrett mary schick w i watson glee club to sing on nbc hookup washabaugh trial opens this month congdon talks to students interested in lehigh dr wray c congdon director of admissions was out of town most of this week representing le high at various college nights at high schools tuesday dr congdon visited trenton central high school where he is conducting conferences with pupils of that school interested in lehigh wednesday the admissionse di rector left on a trip to connecticut on thursday he went to bridge port central high school on a sim ilar occasion there was a consoli dated meeting of the bassick war ren and central nigh schools of bridgeport dr congdon attended a college day at the hartford high school at hartford conn today smith and swenson attend convention of psi upsilon william m smith ch e 36 and alvin a swenson bus 37 left wednesday for rochester n v where they will attend a conven tion of the psi upsilon fraternity smith is head of the local chap ter they will return sunday after noon society will visit swarth more later in year eugene h sloane instructor in english will discuss his views on samuel butler author of the book the way of all flesh at 7:30 o'clock tonight before the robert w blake society philosophical course society in the home of frank c becker assistant professor of philosophy 321 center street after sloane's talk a business meeting will take place during which new members will be elected new officers will also be elected at this meeting plans will be made for the forth coming annual trip of the society to a neighboring college or university this year the group will visit swarthmore college swarthmore during their stay there they plan to hold a joint meeting with swarth more's philosophical society a definite date has not yet been set for the trip which will probably take place about may 1 to tap juniors initial discussion starts bi-monthly series the inevitable war will be the topic of discussion at the first open meeting of the newly organized le high discussion forum to be held to night in room 258 packard labora tory the purpose of the new student group as stated in its constitution is to stimulate by discussion a deeper understanding of the cultural and social problems of modern life than is provided for in the special ized curricula of lehigh univer sity although the organization has not yet received official recognition its petition and constitution are now in the hands of the committee on clubs permission to meet on the cam pus and the use of a room were giv en to the organization by dean c m mcconn to take leading role discusses fluctuation of industry in iron age elmer c bratt assistant profes sor of economics in forecasting the growth of the steel industry published in the march 19 issue of the liron age discusses the fluc tuations in the development of steel corporations and makes predictions as to the status of such industries in 1940 professor bratt has based his forecast for steel on curves for the production of rolled iron and steel as published in the american iron and steel institute series for various periods of years during the devel opment of steel industries he de velops his presumption that build ing should occur when there is a demand for steel mills not accord ing to the average growth of steel industries the building of steel mills when based on the last factor is speculative and results in depres sion and boom to the prince and pauper industry as he terms it to hold concert pre-meds hear qualities of good internes psychology tact and diplomacy are three major requisites in produc ing a good interne said w w butts guest speaker at the r w hall pre-medical society meeting last night in packard laboratory butts who is superintendent at st luke's hospital went on to say that the public can gain good or bad im pressions from contact with the in ternes on the ambulance staff two committees were created during the business part of the meeting the publicity committee consists of william bruning arts 38 william ayers arts 38 and william boucher arts 38 the banquet committee consists of mark wolcott arts 37 armand patella arts 36 and edward deibert arts 36 dr hall made the sugges tion to invite president williams to the spring banquet which is to be held about tne second week in may nominations for officers will be held april 30 the next meeting of the society o d k will consider admissions revisions omicron delta kappa national senior honorary fraternity will meet april 22 at the residence of brad ley stoughton professor and direc tor of curriculum in metallurgical engineering to consider a revision of the admissions points states da vid hoppock i e 36 president revision of the point system is now being considered by the exec utive committee prior to presenting their suggestions to the fraternity cairns addresses faculty dr stewart s cairns assistant professor of mathematics spoke be fore the journal and research club faculty mathematics socity last night in packer hall the topic of dr cairns talk was problems in the approximation theory to initiate 7 men 35 members to broadcast over weaf thirty-five members of the glee club will present a 15 minute broad cast over a nationwide nbc hookup tomorrow afternaan at 4:45 o'clock dr t edgar shields will direct the singers and carstens y haas ch e 38 will be accompanist the program as announced by h e towne arts 37 will be hail the college the bell man forsyth shortnin bread by the double quartet ye watchers and ye holy ones 16th century german canon and alma mater this marks the third broadcast by the club this year two former programs were on the columbia system from wcan and the mu tual chain from wor tomorrow's concert will originate at station weaf in radio city thirty-seven stations are included in the hookup physicist to talk student will be tried on manslaughter charge frank washabaugh met e 38 who is charged with involuntary manslaughter will be tried during the april term of the lehigh coun ty criminal court which opens monday in allentown washabaugh was indicted jan 8 in connection with the killing of stanley r adler of bethlehem and the injury of his wife and mrs mary werkheiser the accident oc curred when the automobile wash abaugh was driving skidded into a small group of people alighting from a trolley car at gauff's hill on feb 2 1935 going to the interfraternity ball washabaugh was blinded by the light of the street car and skidded on the icy pavement adler died in st luke's hospital a week later washabaugh who is from the canal zone has been free under 1500 bail o leach librarian will take vacation abroad howard s leach librarian has been granted a four month's leave of absence by the board of trus tees leach plans to spend his va cation making an extensive tour of great britain he intends to visit london ox ford and spend some time in shakespearean coventry the librar ian said that his trip would com mence some time in may and that it would be purely recreational mr leach has been ill for some time scabbard and blade will pledge on april 6 scabbard and blade national hon orary military society will pledge a number of juniors monday at drill at a smoker held wednesday the society was host to a group of juniors from whom the pledges will be picked victor e engstrom bus 36 president of the society presided over the gathering the juniors were entertained during the first part of the meeting during which refresh ments were served following the smoker the society held a meeting at which they discussed the candi dates for membership o electricals to make trip the senior electrical engineers will make their annual inspection trip on april 6 7 and 8 when they will inspect the westinghouse plant at schenectady n y the seniors will be accompanied by pro fessors beaver knutson and gru ber beta theta pi will induct tomorrow evening beta theta pi will initiate seven men at 6 p m tomorrow evening in the chapter house the local chapter will also be host to dele gates of a district convention sun day the initiation ceremony will be conducted by dr francis w shep ardson the national president of beta theta pi and former chair man of the national interfraternity council those men to be initiated are robert miller arts 38 robison clark arts 39 edwin a fisher 11 eng 39 frederick juer eng 39 richard t tiebout eng 39 charles a weew bus 39 and d'arcy w roper 11 eng 39 miss charlotte bond student concert group will play recordings the third program sponsored by the student concerts group is to be made up entirely of the works of richard wagner and franz liszt five recordings will be played on the capehart set sunday at 8 p m in packer memorial chapel raymond k maneval program director announced the program as follows mazeppa by liszt over ture to the flying dutchman wotan's farewell and the ma gic fire music from die walk eure dance of the apprentices from die meistersinger and over ture to die meistersinger by wagner concerts will be resumed sunday evening april 19 when a national istic program will be presented comprising the works of smetana dvorak tschaikowsky and grieg ronald king will discuss ultra-short waves ultra-short wave problems and theory is the title of a talk to be given by ronald king of lafayette on april 21 at a combined meeting of the radio and physics clubs in room 416 packard laboratory mr king who was recently ap pointed to the department of phys ics at lafayette has done distin guished work in the field of waves of low frequency and dielectrics at the lecture he will demonstrate several pieces of ultra-short wave apparatus including an ultra-short wave sending set and receiver lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 3 1936 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association