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              8 industries interview here cratic things at the international house chicago what was to stop him from repeating that at le high the president listened sympa thetically promised that no laguar dia incident would be allowed to occur here so dr schonemann was sched uled and the international rela increasing number of in dustrial concerns send representatives dr j s long chemical director for the dravo-raynolds company presented an open lecture to the university friday discussing paint — a new picture dr long told of developing new formula for making paint based on a scientific principle rather on than a haphazard tradition the present day difficulties in developing new paints are the old-fashioned for mulas that many companies still cling to dr long graduated from lehigh in 1913 receiving his bachelor's de gree in chemical engineering and in 1915 he received his master's de gree he taught chemistry at le high from 1915 until 1934 when he joined dravo-raynolds 300 delegates expected here contest to feature fourth annual interscholastic press conference twenty-four men were pledged by phi eta sigma honorary fresh man fraternity this morning in chapel prof harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry made the introductory address the society did not find it neces sary to use the new regulation of lowering the requirements granted them by the national organization this winter because over 20 men were found eligible under the old requirements the freshmen pledged were as follows bernard atlschuler eng phy william a blum ch e john branch eng william f carson ch e robert p carter ch e alfred t cox eng rich ard c gangwer ch e theodore e gerber chem robert c good chem paul r gregory ch e harold c hixson e e richard c kefey eng donald r luster if e robert d mardsen c e robert r merwin bus robert b palmer arts william b pohl man eng phy james f ryan ch e edward m sharp ch e george s sprague chem robert g stern eng peter telfair e.m edward uhl eng phy donald c young ch e by p e p white europe moved into packard audi torium friday night the program called only for germany but in came europe — practically all of it including the spanish war — and stayed for two hours luckily the only weapons avail able were words casualty list nil it all started when the interna tional relations club invited dr friederich schoenemann traveling professor at the university of ber lin to speak here on national so cialism as a cultural movement dr schoenemann was recommend ed by lehigh's prof friederich o kegel who felt his nominee could be relied upon to avoid offensive remarks in his address 2 citizens protest difference of opinion on that point was expressed immediately by two prominent bethlehem citi zens at all costs bethlehem must keep away from foreign entangle ments they said and carried their case to president c c williams the president heard them dr schoenemann they explained had said anti-semitic and un-demo approves plan for new fund dr friederich schoenemann appoints 3 men to committee president williams adds dukek gottlieb haas to concert-lecture group dean accepts proposal to raise money for ar mory by gifts an increasing number of indus trial concerns are sending repre sentatives to interview seniors for jobs after graduation especially at this time when graduation is less than three months away states e robins morgan director of the placement bureau eight firms have conducted inter views during the past week yester day mr belknap and mr colvert of westinghouse electric saw those businessmen interested in account ing and dr hill interviewed metal lurgical and industrial engineers for the lukens steel company g e sends representative w h seidel spoke to arts and business seniors saturday regard ing work in the merchandising and accounting departments of mont gomery ward and company on march 19 general electrics repre sentative william bamert inter viewed business seniors for ac counting work on the same day arts and bus iness seniors were interviewed by j b tanger of the armstrong cork company in regard to sales work the general american transpor tation company through w l belding saw civil engineers wed nesday and firestone rubber com pany and the grant chain store company sent personnel men to in terview arts and business men 4 juniors taken by pi tau sigma a surprise dinner was given for nelson j leonard chem 37 by tau beta pi national honorary en gineering fraternity last night at the sun inn there were 45 mem bers attending the dinner a meet ing of the criticisms committee fol lowed in the tau beta pi room in packard laboratory the purpose of the dinner was to give leonard lehigh's rhodes scholar a send-off before he goes abroad to study he was presented a picture of a campus scene the guests present were pres ident c c williams l h gipson head of the department of history md government and a rhodes scholar in 1904 p m palmer dean of the couege of arts and science h m.ullmann director of the cur ricula in chemistry and chemical engineering and max goeppe le high rhodes scholar all gave short after dinner speeches talking on the merits of rhodes scholars all members attended dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration and a rhodes scholar in 1904 was unable to attend the dinner all the graduate undergraduate and fac ulty members of tau beta pi at tended after the dinner a meeting of the criticisms committee took place in the tau beta pi room on the sec ond floor of packard laboratory it was 1 mainly an organization meet ing and only several minor criti cisms were presented to the com mittee the methods of presenting the reports to the proper authorities were determined and the style of the reports was discussed the committee plans to have a meeting on april 19 at which time all criti cisms will be considered lehigh student embarks for iran maxwell nelson shoemak er wynn pledged wm g benn to be chief pilot for expedition dean c m mcconn yesterday morning approved a plan of direct voluntary donations by student or ganizations and individuals for the formation of a fund to provide for the proposed addition to the ar mory this plan was proposed by rob ert e crispin c e 37 chairman of the committee for the addition at the same time dean mcconn re jected as impractical a plan for raising the funds by means of bonds as suggested by c w vedder bus 37 the scabbard and blade honor ary military fraternity is planning to make a donation to add to the fund already started by the gift of 200 made by the senior class a plan was suggested a year ago for a similar armory annex how ever the available funds were ap propriated for a proposed addition to the chemistry building and agi tation for the armory addition has recently been revived by the trou ble encountered in finding a suit able prom site archer in london w g dukek ch e 38 w p gottlieb bus 38 and c y haas ch e 38 were appointed to the student concert - lecture series committee yesterday by president c c williams in a letter addressed to each of the new appointees the concert-lecture committee met on march 1 to chose three new committeemen from a list of 17 juniors who submitted their names the committee recommended its choices to president williams who made the appointments by letter thibault to sing april 16 conrad thibault who was orig inally scheduled to appear on the concert - lecture series program feb 26 will present the final pro gram of the series on april 16 in the auditorium of broughal high school announced sidney j lewis arts 37 chairman of the commit tee lewis also announced that a stu dent poll favored the return of blanche yurka on next year's pro gram by a majority of 2-1 al though the committee has not yet approached miss yurka an attempt will be made to secure her for a performance on the next concert lecture series engineers and arts men will meet on the debating platform tomorrow evening when the engineering phy sics team representing the college of engineering will take the affir mative of the question resolved that all electric utilities should be governmentally owned and oper ated to the winning team will go the first williams prize in intramural debating of 120 the losers will collect 80 the prizes were made available from the fund donated years ago by dr edward h wil liams donor of william hall foun der of tau beta pi and for many years head of the department of mining engineering and geology the debate will begin at 7:30 o'clock in packard auditorium president clement c williams will be the chairman debaters are freshmen henry werner and bernard alt shuler will compose the team of engineering physicists while ed win miller and russell kowalyshi will represent the arts college all of the students are freshmen the engineering physics team won its way to the finals by elim inating seven other teams from the college of engineering these teams represented the following curricula electrical engineering industrial engineering mechanical engineer ing and metallurgy the chemists had three teams in the field the arts team entered the finals by defeating the business team in two out of three debates all of the preliminary debates except the semi-finals were on the question resolved that gover nors limiting speed to 50 miles per hour should be installed on all mo tor vehicles licensed by the state of pennsylvania to use oregon plan the debate tomorrow evening will be conducted according to the oregon plan which has been used all season under this plan the first speaker of each team will make one 12-minute speech the second speaker is also allowed 12 minutes the first six of which he spends cross-examining the first speaker for the opposition and the second six of which he uses to summarize his own case the debate will be judged by h david randall coach of debating at liberty high school bethlehem robert l stauffer coach of debat ing at the allentown high school and edward w white coach of debating at lansdale high school explains notices former editor in chief hired by united press pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical engineering fraternity pledged four juniors during chapel exer cises yesterday they were har land s maxwell m e frank s nelson i e ewing m shoemak er 1.e and walter l wynn m.e warren p fairbanks president of the fraternity introduced prof f v larkin head of the depart ment of mechanical engineering who made the pledging address he briefly recounted the history of pi tau sigma and gave its aims and ideals the pledges were then called and received their pledge buttons from four members of the society the pledges will be formally ini tiated after the spring vacation university named legatee in will eighty-five publications have been been received to date for the com petitions which will be part of the fourth annual interscholastic press conference to be held may 8 on the lehigh campus it is expected that 300 delegates will attend the con vention there will be awards of 20 pla ques in the ten classifications of the contest in the high school division there are four classes of newspa pers three classes of magazines and one class in mimeographed pa pers in the preparatory school sec tion there will be contests in news papers and magazines plan all day program in addition to the contest an all day program will be provided for the conference the tentative pro gram includes registration at 9 a.m followed by a tour of the campus the conference will open at 11 a m with luncheon following at 12:30 o'clock there will be a round table discussion at 2 p m and a clos ing general session at four the committee in charge of the conference consists of dean c m mcconn d h gramley associate professor of journalism r f her rick assistant alumni secretary w h congdon director of admis sions and r d billinger assis tant professor of chemistry the round table discussions this year will be on general subjects such as editorial writing news writ ing sports writing headlines and makeup business problems photo graphy mimeographed papers magazine problems and the work of the faculty adviser the judges for the competitions have as yet not been chosen the final date that publications can be received to take part in the con tests is april 18 curtis points out rules concerning cuts use 61,771 words whooo — - ewing leaves residuary estate to 2 schools 4 operators kept busy telegraphing meet is starting construction on new chem annex william g benn i e 39 sailed from new york city on march 16 for iran formerly called persia to take part in the iranian expedition of the museum of fine arts in boston the university museum of the university of pennsylvania and the oriental institute of the uni versity of chicago benn a graduate of temple uni fersity and a licensed transport pil ot will be employed by the aero nautical department of the expedi tion in the capacity of chief pilot of the airplane to be used by the ex pedition he will be captain of the plane with full responsibility when it is in the air and will do mapping and similar work while on the ground benn expects to remain with the expedition about a year and will then return to lehigh to complete his course tions club glad of a chance to present an authoritative speaker on hitler's new germany announc ed that the meeting would be open to anyone who cared to come audience brings politics more than 100 came — and brought their politics with them dr schoenemann himself was among the most moderate his ex planation of nazi kultur was re strained tempered for democratic ears the keynote of modern ger many he said is unity through teamwork germany is attaining a national spirit and harmony she never had before in place of many political parties there is now only one — national socialism finally the speaker pleaded for decent na tionalism and better understanding between the united states and germany and then ended his ad dress that was where young europe jumped in those few among the audience who were liberals found themselves beset on left and right most left by spain france italy germany russia a white sheet handed out read students and american work ing youth america belongs to you . . . let your voice be heard against this monstrous complaisance the schoenemann lecture on the part of the university authorities pink broadsides handed out a pink sheet handed out by an other little band cried for the building of a worker's world said the culture of national so cialism is babarism ... in the soviet union a new world is be ing built a world free from exploi tation where the culture of man kind is safeguarded ..." those americans who were pres ent sneaked away from the battle field of europe and went back to study their books on his way out dr schoenemann was presented with anti-nazi pro paganda sheets by both commun ists and socialists may i keep these please he wanted to know prouty to read winterset at faculty club meeting fidler gives talk addresses eta sigma phi on values of latin lehigh university and vassar col lege have been named as the resi duary legatees to the estate of ed ward c ewing who died recently in leatherwood w va the money which may come to lehigh is to be used as a memorial for his sons nelson j ewing 11 who died in 1925 and wylie b ewing 14 who is still living the latter is the principal beneficiary and the residuary estate will be di vided between lehigh and vassar vassar's share in the estate ac cording to the terms of the will is to be dedicated as a memorial to his wife the late mrs edward c ewing g b curtis associate dean has pointed out that the rules of the university regarding cuts does not require the sending of prelim inary notices to students a student can be placed on cut probation without even receiving the custo mary second notice dean curtis stated the reason that i send notices on cuts is to acquaint students with their obli gations of attending classes one notice is sufficient and in other semesters the student may expect a notice to be sent home or even be placed on probation without receiv ing a preliminary notice the cut notice of this year is slighthly different from those in the past the rules are printed on the back of the notice and the ob ligations of the students are de scribed more forcefully winterset by maxwell ander son will be read at the next meet ing of the faculty dramatic club with charles t prouty instructor in english in charge on april 7 in the engineers lounge of pack ard laboratory the meeting scheduled for march 24 has been postponed because of holy week harry c archer journalism ma jor and editor in chief of the brown and white last semester who grad uated in january is now working as a reporter in the london bureau of the united press he has been in london since early in february archer will have a seat in west minister abbey during the corona tion ceremonies in may he has been writing stories about the cor onation which have been sent to south american and united states newspapers he also writes articles for the st catherine's ontario canada standard archer has sent copies of the va rious london newspapers to prof dale h gramley head of the jour nalism department and points out that they differ from our newspa pers in that advertisements appear on the front pages and there is more freedom and opinion in the newswriting sigma alpha mu elects m e wittstein president weather prevents drills new art exhibit to open in time for houseparty national honorary society to celebrate anniversary the construction on the new wing to the chemistry laboratory is get ting underway the contractor has been survey ing the building for the past few weeks and is just about ready to begin actual work after some thought he has de cided to construct the addition on the east side of the south wing of the building despite the fact that the authorities of the university have other plans a little red screech-owl is going to build a nest on the roof of the south wing of the chemistry build ing francis j trembley instructor in biology has been watching the bird for some time in fact trembley who has gotten a bird's eye view of the owl has discovered that the creature has only one eye the bird is red in color and is a species that is seldom seen in this vicinity the owl has been roosting on the building for a number of weeks but no nest has been built however ac cording to trembley appearances indicate that there will shortly be a new addition to the chemistry labor atory whether the authorities like it or not outdoor drill for r o t c students was postponed for the sec ond time in two weeks yesterday major carten collins assistant pro fessor of military science and tac tics said that all conditions being favorable the department intends to hold the first outdoor drill on april 5 the monday of the stu dents return from spring vacation a soggy field was the cause of this week's postponement a new art exhibit composed of contemporary austrian work in various media will open in time for houseparty april 9 and will be dis played in the art gallery these paintings form one of a group being distributed by the in ternational school of art and ex hibit the work done by present day austrian artists it took 61,771 words to tell the story of the recent eastern inter collegiate wrestling meet to people outside of bethlehem that is the claim of clinton e coleman man ager of the local office of the west ern union telegraph company who was in charge of the operators as signed to taylor gymnasium the associated press represent ed by bob cavagnaro was the biggest user of space using 4,800 words on friday and 3,00 words on saturday ten other publications and associations helped swell the total on friday to 50,235 words and on saturday to 11,536 words * in addition to mr coleman who served as an operator the western union used four other operators who stayed on the job after each session until every story was cleared stories were sent direct to the associated press international news service new york times philadelphia record philadelphia inquirer pittsburgh press syra cuse journal the centre daily times state college pa the daily princetonian the cornell daily sun the syracuse daily orange at their annual election meeting held last tuesday sigma alpha mv fraternity elected the following men martin e wittstein arts 39 prior leo l tzeses bus 39 che quer raymond m rosenstein arts 39 recorder arthur k roths child arts 39 stewart jack gut tag bus 40 historian a paper the educational values of latin given by nevin l fid ler arts 38 was the feature of a meeting of eta sigma phi national honorary classical fraternity held friday evening at the home of ernest h white graduate student plans for an open lecture to be held april 14 at which dr stephen b luce recorder of the achaeolo gical institute of america will speak upon the subject greek vase painting were made at this meeting proposals to ammend the consti tution were also made at this time any possible legislation of this na ture will be discussed further at the next meeting josiah penniman provost at the university of pennsylvania will be the principal speaker at a banquet to be held by phi beta kappa hon orary scholastic fraternity on april 15 at the hotel bethlehem the banquet will be held to cel ebrate the soth anniversary of the founding of this society dean rau a member of the original chapter of phi beta kappa will also speak bethlehem pa tuesday march 23 1937 european conflict enters during nazi culture address 01 xliv — no 39 tickets set at 4.56 price — five cents dr long lectures on paint formula 24 men pledged by phi eta sigma williams prize to be decided by debaters tau beta pi fetes leonard at sun inn shorty speaks of difficul ties in development fraternity finds new reg ulation unnecessary tickets for the junior prom april 9 will go on sale tomor row morning in the lehigh un ion office at drown hall the price per couple is 4.56 single tickets are 2.28 lehigh university brown and white german professor speaks moderately disappoints expectant listeners engineering physics and arts teams will meet tommorow night debate starts at 7:30 national honorary engin eering fraternity holds surprise dinner williams gives talk member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh jseiva first