Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 34

              group studies lehigh work debating team suffers defeat irene rich beauty contest winner led by 20 points to be announced at ball dance begins at 10 p.m movie actress will be made cadet member vol xliv — no 34 upsala group conquers morse and mindlin on industrial question committee on education conducts tour to note engineering studies horace heidt future activities planned by club miss irene rich radio and screen star will attend the military ball tomorrow evening at the masonic temple as a guest of scabbard and blade according to alvin s swenson bus 37 the winner of the beauty contest won by the margin of 20 points over her competitors the winner together with the standing of the results will be announced at midnight on saturday evening at this time three contestants will be made honorary officers of scab bard and blade at the time of the crowning of the queen miss rich will receive an honorary membership in the hon orary military society she started her movie career in 1918 and con tinued in this role making over 180 films for the past two years she has been heard over the national broadcasting network in nightly dramatic sketches the ball will begin at 10 p m at the maonic temple with the jan savitt and his tophatters supplying the music last year joe haynes and his or chestra played for the military ball which was held in december new camera group holds first meeting haring studies wholesale trade is doing special work for census bureau a complete tour of all the depart ments of engineering and of the service departments was conducted yesterday by the committee on col lege education of the engineering council for professional develop ment to investigate and study the work being done at lehigh for the advancement of engineering this tour began yesterday morn ing and visited the departments of electrical engineering of mechanical engineering of industrial engineer ing of metallurgical engineering of chemical engineering of sanitary engineering of civil engineering and of heat power engineering observations were made and no tations taken by the committee on the equipment of the departments visited and on the undergraduate and graduate work being done in them no reports on the results of the tour will be forthcoming for several months at least to give the committee time to study the facts obtained all the members of the faculty of the engineering departments took part in the tour theodore l diamond arts 38 and albin dechnik bus 38 will alternate as the leading character in councillor-at-law a three act play by elmer rice the production of which will bring together all the dramatic interests of the university for the first time ' charles f mccoy arts 37 pres ident of mustard and cheese an nounced that he has petitioned for april 23 and 24 as the date for the presentation mustard and cheese the dramatic workshop and the faculty dramatic club will be com bined under the direction of albert a rights instructor in english in the production of the play 2 men to play lead the tentative cast of leading characters is george simon the leading role played by t l dia mond arts 38 and albin dechnik bus 38 the part of charles mc fadden will be alternately taken by l p elly e e 39 and r h pep per met e 39 malcolm carring ton bus 39 will be cast as roy darwin the role of henry suskind will be taken by o m david bus 40 john p tedesco v j montesano arts 39 herbert h weinberg s p eysmann bus 38 arthur sand ier a t johann breitstein d w cooper e e 39 david simon a a swenson bus 37 harry beck er played by a j famighetti bus 39 alternately the feminine roles will be taken by mrs r d butler mrs l whit comb mrs r d billinger mrs w l jenkins and miss olive mills played in new york councilor-at-law played at the plymouth theater new york city for two years beginning its run in 1931 and played on the road for an additional year the play was filmed with john barrymore and bebe daniels playing the leads this will be the first time that the plan of having alternate casts on the two evenings has been adopted the fourth annual one-day press conference for high schools and pre paratory schools in pennsylvania and new jersey has been scheduled for saturday may 8 editors business managers and faculty advisors of approximately 700 schools are being invited to at tend lehigh's annual scholastic press conference twenty bronze plaques mounted on solid magohany bases will be awarded as first and second place prizes in the ten classifications of the competitions the first plaques in each class will be special three inch round castings on which will appear a design of the first print ing press used in the united states to classify entries the ten classifications in which prizes will be awarded at the con ference are as follows newspapers class a — enrollment above 1,000 class b — enrollment 500-999 class d — up to 499 class d — page in lo cal newspaper no classification by enrollment magazines class a — enrollment above 1,000 class b — 500-999 class c up to 499 there will be one general contest in each of the following publica tions mimeographed papers pre paratory school newspapers and magazines the program for the day includes a tour of the campus at 9 a m to be followed by a conference session at 11 a m luncheon at 12:30 p.m round-table discussion at 2 p m and a closing session at 4 p m the round-table discussion this year will probably center on the fol lowing general subjects editorial writing news writing sports writ ing headlines and makeup business problems photography mimeo graphed papers magazine problems and the work of faculty advisers entries in the form of three copies of two successive issues should reach dale h gramley as sociate professor of journalism di rector of the press conference no later than april 15 judging the entries at this year's conference will be practicing news papermen from allentown bethle hem and easton o doan presents paper on article by huxley gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of metallurgy addressed the philosophical seminar yesterday on the topic eugenics and society based on an article written by jul ian huxley the paper dealt with the biological factors in the evo lution of society more papers are not available at the present time so the members of the seminar will bring up gen eral topics for discussion by the group faculty members represent lehigh discusses ballads doctor riley addresses tuesday music club attend dinner of local chamber of commerce albert haring associate profes sor of economics is now doing spe cial work for the census bureau of the department of commerce the philadelphia division of the census bureau with which haring is connected will publish eight vol umes on the wholesale trade of the country during 1935 two of which have already appeared in addition professor haring is personally preparing and writing special studies on electrical drug and tobacco wholesaling these re ports will be published in june in pamphlet form additional studies will then be made if time and funds are available in this connection professor har ing addressed the national dry goods institute in new york re cently thomas speaks discusses state trends in education system the varsity debating team was defeated by upsala's team tuesday night on the proposition resolved that congress should be empower ed to fix minimum wages and max imum hours for industry debating the affirmative for le high were norman morse ch e 39 and morris mindlin arts 38 they were opposed by john mas son and john burke who argued the negative for upsala the debate which was given be fore the men's club of the holy trinity lutheran church in east orange n j was judged by three men picked from the audience suggest legislation the affirmative argued that there was a need for such legislation to increase the purchasing power of the masses and because of the rela tive inequality of bargaining pow ers at present since the problem was national in scope and since only legislative action would be ef ficient congress is the agency which should regulate wages and hours they also suggested a means by which the proposal could easily be put into operation in the formation of a commission similar in form and function to the interstate commerce commission negative agrees the negative agreed that there was a need for some sort of reg ulation and that the problem was national in scope but that such reg ulation by congress would raise prices and produce migration of in dustry they suggested as a better plan cooperation between employer and employee and between industry and federal state and municipal government they pointed to the gradual de creasing of hours within the past hundred years and to the recent widespread wage increases assert ing that there are now at work forces which will ultimately solve the situation without specific leg islative aid about 22 men attended the organ ization meeting of campus camera enthusiasts wednesday night in christmas-saucon hall the first problem that confronts us is that of a name said r a williamson bus 38 acting chairman several were proposed and after an infor mal vote the lehigh university photographic society was chosen as the name s m graf ton eng 40 r blount bus 39 and m f god shalk eng 40 volunteered to serve with bob williamson as a commit tee for the framing of a constitu tion and to draw up a petition to present to the committee on stu dent activities for formal recogni tion of the club sam grafton reported dark room space had been unofficially promis ed on the third floor of drown hall in a small room opposite the mus tard and cheese workshop it was pointed out that safe lights devel oping trays and other small pieces of equipment will have to be pur chased and suggested that an initia tion fee of one dollar be included in the constitution to furnish the dark room with the minimum essentails and afterwards to have regular dues to whatever amount the club mem bers approve for the purchasing of additional equipment a resolution was made to this effect after a discussion of all possible meeting hours it was decided to hold the next meeting of the club at 7:30 p m next wednesday from then on regular meetings will be held every two weeks and spe cial meetings will be called by the president whenever necessary dr edgar h riley associate professor of english spoke to the tuesday musical club on tuesday afternoon on the subject of pop ular old english and scottish bal lads these ballads dr riley said are really tales of everyday or un usual experiences expressed in mu sic as such they give an idea of the customs and manners of the times at which they were written this meeting was held at the home of mrs w h formhals wife of william h formhals assistant professor of electrical engineering students who received a averages last semester alumni will meet strang signed the contract last evening with horace heidt the cost of the orchestra has been unof ficially announced as 1350 horace heidt is now playing nightly at the hotel biltmore in new york he also has a bi-weekly program over the national broad casting network sponsored by the alemite company horace heidt will bring with him an orchestra of 14 pieces and 15 other artists composing a glee club and feature vocalists heading the list of artists are the radio rambl ers consisting of the four king sis ters arthur thorsen and jerry bowne rey delevoped guitar the female vocalist for the brig adiers is lysbeth hughes who is credited as being the only singing harpist with a modern orchestra another member of the troupe is alvino rey who invented the am plified steel guitar other feature artists who will ap pear are bob mccoy bass stylist ernie passoja the feature trombon ist steve merrill and charlie goodman tenor and baritone styl ists last year ted fio rito and his orchestra played for the junior prom which was held at the coli seum over 1,000 dancers attended the ball one of the largest atten ded the ball one of the largest at tendances on record two years ago ray noble played for the house party ball hope to schedule ball game the committee in charge of ar rangements for the dance consists of clinton strang chairman frank lin lucard ch e 38 robert dean i e 38 and harry milbank i e 38 president of the junior class the opening game of the baseball season is scheduled for saturday af ternoon april 10 at swarthmore robert adams baseball coach stat ed last evening the athletic de partment will most likely try to change the scene of the game to lehigh to afford an athletic con test for the houseparty week-end on the saturday evening of the houseparty week-end there will be several fraternity dances held at the chapter houses the price of the tickets has not yet been decided upon although strang believes they will be less than 5 it is not known at this time when the tickets will be placed on sale paintings arrive carnegie foundation gives art exhibits washington lehigh club to hear stoughton the chamber of commerce held its annual dinner in the hotel beth lehem monday night lehigh being represented by president williams and members of the faculty those belonging to the chamber of commerce from lehigh are r c bull director of the students health service n c carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration f v larkin direc tor of the curricula in mechanical and industrial engineering s s seyfert director of the curriculum in electrical engineering s j thomas professor of bacteriology a ford professor of psychology h sutherland director of the cur ricula in civil engineering and w r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees about 450 persons attended the banquet representing all local in dustries business concerns banks and merchant groups of bethlehem many of these having special ex hibits in connection with their firm o cedar crest club hears dr ettinger on england dr amos ettinger associate professor of history spoke on the subject of england during the last decade at a meeting of the international club of cedar crest college on tuesday night at the as ter garden in allentown dr et tinger was in england most of the past decade and observed the cus toms and traditions of that coun try tn his talk dr ettinger partic ularly discussed the school systems and political situations of england miss emille parnell of allen town president and a member of the senior class presided follow ing the talk by dr ettinger a short musical program was given trends in educational legislation now pending before the state leg islature were discussed by dr har old p thomas head of the depart ment of education at a meeting of the bethlehem university women tuesday evening in the hotel beth lehem the financial trend said dr thomas is to shift a greater bur den on the state and an attempt to tap new sources of revenue for edu cation the state is paramount in education and it derives its power from the constitution extension of education was not ed in changes in compulsory edu cation laws and better educational provisions for the average child professor thomas presented a general picture of the pennsylvania educational system including its 2,000,000 pupils and 65,000 teachers o dr crum to lecture to classical league dr earl le verne crum associate professor of classical languages will lecture on the iberian peninsula before the classical league of the lehigh valley at 2:30 p m satur day march 13 the meeting will be held in kirby hall on the campus of lafayette college dr brown associate pro fessor of greek at lafayette will also present a paper the title of his talk is a fourth century com munist — st john chrysostomus th golden-mouthed three of the lehigh alumni clubs will meet during the next week bradley stoughton professor of metallurgical engineering will ad dress the washington lehigh club on march 16 william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni association will also attend the central pennsylvania lehigh club plans a joint dinner with the engineering society and university club of harrisburg on march is in harrisburg president c c williams will be guest of honor at the meeting of the new york lehigh alumni club on march 17 o to have annual social former members of the radio club now in the employ of west inghouse r c a and other com panies will attend the annual so cial meeting of the radio club which is to be held tonight at the home of henry c knutson assis tant professor of electrical engin eering the last section of the carnegie gift of art equipment has arrived at lehigh it consists of reproductions of american painting and presents a synopsis of the development of american painting from revolution ary times to the present also on display is a group of lithographs by robert craig of in dianapolis his subjects were tak en from scenes in glouster mass they include scenes of fisher huts and rocky shores mrs blanch lucas of bethlehem has loaned a display of water colors by english artists these water colors said garth a howland head of the department of fine arts are vastly different in treatment from american water colors while the american school is accustomed to using rather brilliant coloring the english school is delicate in its treatment of water coloring these displays will be placet in the art gallery on sunday march 7 they will remain there until march 21 from left to right j f ryan ch e 40 c h h off man e e 38 i e lempert e e 39 w p pat terson m e 37 w j schmidt ch e 38 f h burnett i e 39 missing from the picture is e j broughai bui 37 bethlehem pa friday march 5 1937 military ball guest price — five cento rights directs groups united in stage play 700 invitations to conference will be issued prom band leader horace heidt's band signed to play for junior prom the brown and white committee has not decided on location but hotel bethlehem and masonic temple here under consideration announces c strang houseparties will be held week-end of april 9 orchestra features four king sisters lysbeth hughes alvino key on the singing guitar and the three trumpeteers horace heidt and his brigadiers together with his glee club and vo calists will play at the junior prom which will be held on april 9 an nounced clinton strang i e 38 chairman of the committee of the junior ball today the site of the dance has not as yet been decided upon but both the masonic temple and the hotel bethlehem are under consideration stated strang newspapers of secondary institutions will be judged may 8 plan 10 classifications canipus dramatic clubs to join in production of councillor-at-law to use alternate casts member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first