Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 46

              discovers coat and empty car at old quarry this morning coleman citret arts 39 found a deserted car and a man's coat at the water's edge of the abandoned friedensville zinc mine the coat and car have been ten tatively identified as those of a school teacher who has been miss ing for several days state police would not divulge the name of the missing man coleman was showing the quarry to several friends when he noticed the automobile at the top of the hill he notified state police who are now investigating the case j b eastman speaks to club all fraternities dormitory sec tions and town students must bring their lists of houseparty guests to the editorial rooms of the brown and white not later than 8 o'clock tomorrow eve ning in order that they appear in the friday edition lists should be typed in para graph form double spaced first name should appear first follow ed by the hometown from which the girl comes promptness in handing in lists is essential if ac curacy on the part of the brown and white is to be expected thomson king 39 changes date of production 2 sophomores to be chosen mustard and cheese will give the shannons of broadway may 8 9 the shannons of broadway a comedy in three acts by james glea son to be given by the mustard and cheese club has been postponed from may 1 and 2 to may 8 and 9 due to the illness of some of the members of the cast herbert woronoff arts 37 has replaced george beban arts 38 of the cast originally chosen the stage manager for this show is robert reis 37 the members of the cast are daniel r prosnit 36 elbert def tidd 37 l henderson dudman 39 james d bergen 37 frank m power 38 coleman citret,'37 louis weinstock 36 d cameron bradley 38 charles f mccoy 37 herbert m wilson 38 also robert f latham 39 her bert woronoff 37 jerome b de hulb 39 louis franz wittman 39 james smith 39 malcolm carrington 39 john t handy,'3b and henry clay kennedy 38 the girls in the play are olive mills jeanette cleaveland emily wat son margaret sterrett veronica dechnik and ann wysoka i e society to present motion picture on rayon a talking motion picture entitled rayon will be presented at the meeting of the industrial engineer ing society at 7:30 p m thursday april 29 in room 466 packard lab oratory the picture was loaned to the university by the north american rayon corporation and deals with the production side of the rayon in dustry any student interested in at tending will be welcome elder 37 will nominate assistant managers for blotter work aany sophomores who wish to apply for the position of assistant manager for the lehigh blotter must enter their names at the placement bureau by friday april 24 according to an announcement by ned s elder bus 37 manager of this year's blotter two assistant managers will be nominated by elder from among the applicants for the approval of e r morgan director of placement the nominations will be made on the basis of the following six points scholastic standing financial need related experience dependa bility aggressiveness managerial ability the two assistants will sell adver tising space on a desk blotter and distribute the blotters to the tn vltm uudy in the fall each will re ceive 25 apiece for his work on the basis of his performance one assistant will be chosen to act as manager for the 1937 blotter the manager and each assistant will be given a letter of identifica tion bj r mr morgan which the stu dent will present to the merchants when soliciting advertisements the blotter is endorsed by the univer sity placement service o brown donates apparatus edward c brown e e 04 will donate a complete esterline record ing apparatus and several portable transformers to the electrical en gineering department brown is the president of the brown electrical engineering company in article for american magazine he pictures steady improvement says laws won't help the depression of 1929 - 1936 should be the last great depression in history said dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration in an article entitled which way now printed in the may issue of the american maga zine dr carothers is optimistic about the future of the economic condi tion of this country he said our economic system improves steadily all the time through good times and bad he continued to say it is headed toward two great goals the abolition of poverty and the equal ity of economic opportunity the economist said that the gov ernment cannot eliminate depression by any laws formed to regulate economics in this country but that a more sound country economically will be developed in a natural pro cess in speaking of the attainment of the abolition of poverty and the equality of economic opportunity dr carothers said these two ob jectives will be realized through the progress of education through re search and invention through in creasing control of natural re sources and through the disappear ance of those defective classes in our midst that are unable to meet the demands of our civilization shows government fault dr carothers pointed out that our government has not thought enough about the poorer classes of people in the country he said that although our country is considered to be in good economic condition compared with the other countries of the world still we have more people living on relief and charity than any other country in the world still we have more peoplel234qdiel to aid this class of people who are dependent on charity dr carothers said there is no ideal plan but a solution will probably lie in pub lic work on special projects paying low wages open to all workers without the onus of charity dr carothers predicted that our country will in not the too distant future attain a state where charity will not be necessary and where the country will be in perfect economic condition he said however that coming time when a decent living is available for every family when op portunity lies open to every boy and girl — that day must wait on a social intelligence that discourages the endless multiplication of those not able to cope with a scientific economic order o children's work exhibited an exhibit of oils water colors pastels and drawings by children of the faculty opened saturday at the art gallery the exhibit is open from 3 to 5 daily adopt lecture series plan as tau beta pi outlined in committee report will add dollar to fees accept 110,000 gift and revise division of fees for two semesters the board of trustees at its meet ing friday afternoon announced and acepted gifts totalling 110,000 from an anonymous alumnus the gifts were given in two parts of 55,000 worth of securities each the only restriction to their application be ing that the income from the se curities be paid to certain desig nated beneficiaries during the life time of the donor the lecture-concert series plan as advocated by the brown and white and by tau beta pi honorary en gineering fraternity was approved by the board this plan calls for the addition of 1.00 a year to the student activities fee to bring lec turers and musicians of note to le high and provides for the rental of the broughal high school auditor ium for such occasions a joint committee of students and faculty will administer the series because of the inequality of ath letic abstractions in the two sem esters the trustees approved the proposal that the athletic fee should be assessed as 10.0 the first sem ester and 5.00 the second semester instead of the former equal division the board also approved an amendment to the present refunds rule in the event that a student withdraws from the university aft er payment of his fees he may elect to receive a refund according to a designated schedule or foe may re ceive credit in full in proportion to the remaining fraction of the sem ester when he returns to the uni versity a student with withdraws within six days of the opening of the sem ester will receive a refund of tui tion athletic fees student activities fee and unused balance of labora tory fees to give refunds in the event of the death of a student the above tuition and fees will be refunded in full in propor tion to the fraction of the semester remaining at the time of death no refund nor credit is allowed on the health service fee or on the library fee the board approved the proposal by members of the faculty that stu dents here on deferred tuition who wish to continue in the graduate school may do so without paying off the tuition immediately provid continued on page six price hall has colorful past as saloon in gay nineties catastrophes are frequent in sensational lehigh course decide to extend program after lapse of 42 years at start of fall term changed policy in 1894 graduate board will name departments for work under new program after a lapse of 42 years grad uate work here was resumed at the doctoral level by action of the board of trustees at its annual spring meet ing friday afternoon the program is expected to go into effect with the fall term the departments to offer such work will be named by the graduate board which has been studying and considering the matter for the past several months at the request of president williams in the extension of the graduate program at lehigh the primary aim is advanced study rather than merely awarding ph d degrees stated president williams the program does not contemplate go ing afield from the traditional scope of the university emphasis will be placed upon substance rather than upon labels this realistic atmosphere not infre quently may cause students to go beyond doctoral requirements and never appty for a degree the decision to resume graduate study at the doctoral level is in en tire keeping with the purpose of the university as expressed at its found ing the first register published in 1866 carried a paragraph providing for resident graduate students subsequent registers showed new provisions for graduate study in 1873-74 in 1867-77 affecting require ments for the masters degree then in 1877-78 provisions for granting the ph d and sc d degrees were made in 1883-84 the sc d degree was dropped and eleven years later in 1894-95 the ph d degree was withdrawn records indicate that no doctor of science degrees and only two doctor of philosophy degrees were granted honorary degrees expected by the university the late joseph w richards professor of metallurgy at lehigh who had been the first per son to receive the m s degree from the university in 1891 was the first to receive the ph d degree in 1893 he took his doctorate in the ph d degree was awarded in 1896 field of metallurgy the second to herman e kiefer in the field of chemistry the university continued to offer graduate work for the masters de grees and starting with the decade 1910-1920 this program began to at tract students in increasing num bers women were admitted for graduate work for the first time during this period during the 20's the enrollment of graduate students averaged about 50 a year in 1930 enrollment jump ed suddenly to 99 and since that time the number has been well over 100 the largest number of masters degrees awarded in any one year was 47 in 1933 honorary society has anniversary discusses transportation with special reference to railroad situation joseph b eastman federal co ordinator of transportation spoke to the engineers club of the lehigh valley on april 13 in packard lab oratory on the past present and future of transportation he devoted most of his discourse to the rail road situation and declared that the great and rapid and continued encroachments of rival forms of transportation will impel the rail roads inevitably and for their own good in the direction of better ser vice and lower rates mr eastman believes that the railroads no longer hold first rank in the transportation of persons and while they are still by far the greatest agency in the transporta tion of property even in that field they are no longer monarchs of all they survey expects passenger rates to decline through his post as federal co ordinator of transportation he be lieves the government may be able to help the railroads reduce their excessive costs by greater coopera tion with each other in the use of their various facilities in reference to the passenger service he believes that the rates will eventually go downward in speaking of the motor truck ing industry mr eastman said i now see little future for long-haul motor truck haulage of most com modities although i expect to see the short-haul operations to ex pand continually mr eastman believes that the greatest difficulty in the path of the railroads is their poor financial con dition consequently progress tow ard more perfect service will be more delayed than it should be he added that there remains a great investment in railroad property which is entitled under the law to a fair return discusses unemployment while discussing the relation of transportation to unemployment he said that he did not approve of any plan that is detrimental to the existing opportunities for employ ment continuing on this phase he said that if the growing mechaniza tion of industry and the introduc tion of many labor-saving devices can be used effectively to reduce the present scale of prices of products and bring them within the reach of the public the present situation can be converted from a menace to a blessing in closing mr eastman stated that railroads will improve but so will the water and air carriers scientific and engineering research will not be denied its opportunity to create progress in every branch of transportation in the future we may be able to financially help the railroads and land and water and air carriers and be of assistance in securing for the country the kind of a well-coordinated effecient and progressive system which it ought to have o to celebrate end of drive with jubilee night monday a jubilee night will be held monday by the york lehigh club to celebrate the completion of their local alumni fund drive toward the 40,000 total aimed at for june 1 by the alumni association william a cornelius alumni sec retary will be a speaker at the ju bilee meeting which will be in charge of benjamin m root 06 chairman of the alumni fund com mittee of the york club tau beta pi celebrates fiftieth milestone the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of tau beta pi in lehigh will be celebrated by an alumni ban quet to be held here on may 1 the meeting will be attended by the members of tau beta pi in the lenigh valley erving a heikes 85 the first undergraduate member of the en gineering society will speak at the meeting all technical schools in the lehigh valley are expected to send representatives cards have been sent inviting alumni to attend and reservations are being made for the dinner son born to w blackler mr and mrs walter blackler are the parents of an eight and a half pound son born on sunday in st luke's hospital blackler eng 39 is a fullback candidate for next fall committee chooses 2 men as alternate wrestlers for berlin games oklahoma men shine elected by judges option at close of trials here above runners up by bob reifsnyder first team 123-lb class ross flood okla homa a & m 134-lb class — francis millard north adams y m c a mass 145-lb class doc strong okla homa a & m 158-lb class frank lewis okla homa a & m 174-lb class — orville england unattached s w s t c 191-lb class ray clemens cen tral s t c oklahoma heavyweight — roy dunn unat tached oklahoma a & m alternate team 123-lb class dale brand cor nell college lowa 134-lb class fred parkey okla homa a & m 145-lb class ben bishop n y a c lehigh 158-lb class ed knight unat tached s w s t c 174-lb class dick voliva unat tached indiana 191-lb class charles mcdaniel indiana heavyweight — howell scobey lehigh two lehigh-trained men were picked as alternates on the 1936 olympic wrestling team which will represent the united states in ber lin germany this summer ben bishop former lehigh wrest ler now representing the n y a c in the 145-lb class and howell scobey captain of this year's wrestling team and national cham pion in the heavyweight class were chosen by the olympic committee at the close of the trials which were held here last thursday friday and saturday although neither bishop nor scobey was runner-up in his class the olympic committee which can elect any man who wrestled in the trials as alternate picked them above the second place winners however bishop who qualified to wrestle in the 158-lb class and who copped third place in that class in the trials was chosen as 145-lb al ternate ben weighs about 151 pounds it was tommy king who wrestl ed on this year's freshman team and took the runner-up position in the 145-lb class who was the sensa tion of the finals on saturday night king disposed of fenwell in 16 sec onds and then got a unanimous de cision over clodfelter representing oklahoma a & m and member of the 1932 olympic team to elimin ate him and go into the finals to meet doc strong of aklahoma in a fast bout in which king al most threw strong tommy hkn self was thrown in 1 40 strong fin ished with only two bad marks oklahoma wrestlers monopolized the spotlight throughout the tour nament in which 133 of the finest amateur wrestlers in the country participated in an attempt to gain a place on the olympic team six of the seven winners were from that state and two more were chos en alternates dunn who won the heavyweight class was the only wrestler in the trials to emerge without a single bad mark against his name in the first round he tossed lhota of pittsburgh and in the second threw crotty of syracuse then going through to the fourth round on a bye in his match with hawley big 6 ft 8 in n y a c heavyweight dunn won on default hawley who towered above dunn dislocated his shoulder early in the bout and was forced to withdraw to advance to the finals dunn tossed scobey le high's hope i have had the privilege of at tending the last four olympic wrestling trials held in the u s and of the four i believe the one here at lehigh has been the best and i want to thank everyone who had anything to do with helping in its success said c w streit jr chairman of the american olympic wrestling committee at the beginning of the final bouts dr r g clapp secretary of the commit brewery once brewery twice the unusual price hall cheer which has echoed for years across the lehigh campus had its origin back in the pre-prohibition days of south bethlehem back in the gay nineties when lehigh boasted but few buildings and a remotely controlled athletic field price hall was the saloon sec tion of one of the biggest breweries of bethlehem day after day the citizens of south bethlehem and the university gathered on south moun tain to enjoy the beer as it came from the cooling vaults hollowed in the mountain-side billy burkhardt health service masseur who has been a friend to lehigh students for three decades recalls the earl days of the brew ery and student drinking parties students drank beer with their meals billy explained and you didn't see many of the men drunk ryan reminisces big genial mike ryan veteran desk-sergeant of the bethlehem po lice force also remembers the brew ery each sunday he said the mill men came up to the mountain to eat their lunch and drink beer each group of the mill workers had its table around a certain tree and there they gathered should any man leave the table of his particular clan and go to another the result was a brawl at the time of the purchase of the brewery by the university the old red brick building which had housed the bar was covered with stucco and arranged for student rooms above the doorway hung the huge stone sign die alte brauerei this didn't last long the parents of the students housed in the new building objected to addressing their mail to old brewery and forced its re moval the building was renamed in honor of dr price who was at that time a trustee of the univer sity used as lab before the erection of lehigh's engineering laboratories the base ment was used as the headquarters of the summer construction var ious machines were torn down in this building and then reconstructed with comparatively few errors by the students in the rear of the hall there can still be found var ious machine parts which were left over and promptly thrown out of the window today there remain few traces of the colorful moist past of price hall only the cooling vaults re main emptied of their cooling con tents and the occasional chant of the war-cry . . . brewery once brewery twice ..." frankly it has been an auspicious term fires suicides captured gun men dead statesmen cloudbursts with mid-term only a week past we are bewildered and apparently the end is not yet to start the term the worst cloudburst in history struck lehigh northampton and bucks counties the following week saw senator borah collapse on the floor of the senate since then a local business man has mysteriously committed suicide there has been a fire worth 300,000 and pennsylvania's badman of the coal regions has been cap tured by a country doctor you really wouldn't think the brown and white room could be so active a place as all that thrills ltd or the red ap ple club is the name of that select group that chronicles the nation's disasters in the basement of christ mas-saucon hall drop in any af ternoon from 1 to 4 and see the boys burn out the typewriters red apples given english 44 advanced reporting has a wednesday afternoon lab at which the class members are given material to write sizable stones it also has a red apple award for the best story of the week the award instituted and presented by d h continued on page five gramley instructor in the course needless to say all the boys toler ate the course only because of the apple the six apples awarded thus far have been divided between three of the seven members of the class for a school of lehigh's conser vatism it is a radical class out of six stories written thus far five have been distinctly sensational and the other a group of will stories blandly mentioned the disposal of five fortunes over 100,000 last year's class was entertained by a mock brawl featuring a a rights instructor in english and mr gram ley the idea being to test the ob servational powers of the boys true to form there were not two correct or coinciding stories of it in the class boys are prepared that will all be changed this year the boys are primed for this year's fiasco in the future the class will have to undergo a field trip to washing ton a murder story and the cap ture by the local police of a des perate out-of-town gunman getting off the train at the local station but what they really anticipate is the work on editorials when they will all punish their brains on the ques tion is baby leßoy through lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday april 21 1936 scobey and bishop on olympic team vol xliii — no 46 price — five cents neil carothers believes slump should be last citret finds clue to missing man stars in trials trustees act for resumption of doctoral graduate work and institute lecture series list houseparty guests by 8 p m wednesday member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first