Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 47

              tours receptions recital arranged for visitors tomorrow morning more guides requested band track and baseball events are featured in program st luke's hospital reports that the following lehigh patients are doing well professor robert hall retired head of the department of biology miles harris arts 37 and john h mathewson eng 40 professor hall is recuperating from an operation and has been able to leave his bed for two or three hours the last few days the hospital expects to release him in a day or two miles harris who was in a mo torcycle accident during houseparty is resting comfortably but no defi nite date has been set for his re lease harris is suffering from a broken jaw and a fractured skull john mathewson is recovering from a slight case of pneumonia and according to the hospital au thorities is doing well the annual dance of the fresh man class which will be held to morrow night in the masonic tem ple will be a financial success ac cording to j robert wittineyer ling 40 a member of the commit tee in charge of the dance paul marsh and his midshipmen from norristown will furnish the music for the dance which will last from 9 p m to 1 a m the dance will be informal dr theodore t lafferty assis tant professor of education and mrs lafferty and william eney instructor in civil engineering and mrs eney are the chaperons this is the third freshman dance the dance that was held last year was termed one of the best social successes of the year by dean mc conn tickets for the dance may still be obtained in the union office in drown hall or from any member of the freshman union welch heads pi tau sigma g-man talks on his work following is the program for sub-freshman day tomorrow morning 9:00 — registration at the alum ni memorial building and tour of campus 10:30 assembly at packard auditorium and assignments to conferences where faculty guides will meet sub-freshmen and take them to points of special interest afternoon 12:30 — luncheon at the armory followed by exhibits at the va rious departments 2:30 — university band forming at the flagpole and marching to taylor stadium for man euvers varsity and freshman track meets with rutgers up per field baseball to be announced varsity tennis perm state steel field 2:30 to 5:00 — faculty members and their wives will entertain parents of sub-freshmen at an informal tea at drown hall society discusses plans for convention to be held next year lowdon district head discusses federal investigation latin professors to attend parley william g dukek ch e 38 and alvin a swenson bus 37 were selected by president c c williams as lehigh's representa tives to a meeting of the national civil service league held yesterday in hotel commodore new york city the league is attempting to get a membership of 100,000 people and to spread the idea of having all positions in the government placed on a merit basis dukek and swen son will organize a local chapter on the campus the speakers at the meeting yes terday were under-secretary of the interior charles west and mayor f h laguardia of new york city robert s johnson president of the league presided over the meeting mr west discussed civil service and showed how the present admin istration has placed many govern mental positions under civil ser vice he advocated the extension of the system into all govern mental activities mayor laguardia told how he cleaned up corruption in new york against many obstacles and install ed the merit system he said that instead of to the victor belongs the spoils this slogan should be substituted to the victor belongs the responsibility of good govern ment moggio murphy and acri elected fraternities choose heads for coming year with sixteen musical numbers written by david c hughes ch e 38 the newly chosen orchestra for the mustard and cheese production boy in babeland is now rehears ing under the direction of james reed who arranged the orchestra tion for the presentation on may 7 and 8 in drown hall the settings are designed by e p heiss e e 39 l o travis bus 38 and t f bachman e e 28 are being completed by the stage crew these sets depict seven different scenes the story written by judson l schaeffer assistant in journalism tells of a country boy homer bortz played by nelson j leonard chem 37 who attends an engineering college miss isabelle matthews miss ruth pazzetti and miss gen evieve giering are cast in the lead ing feminine singing roles vincent j pazzetti bus 37 has the comic lead as professor doo little having provided the humor for last year's musical comedy prom trotters in charge of the stage setting e r rista bus 37 is assisted by e p weiss e e 39 l o travis bus 38 and r d matheny bus 39 w h gill c e 39 is cos tume manager of the production and the property manager is j h roberts met e 38 j h fulmer e e 32 will su pervise the electrical unit and r w hubschmitt m e 39 and s bradbury arts 39 will aid in the stage work a chorus of 20 voices will sing ashes on the floor tomorrow's another day what's a differen tial and other hughes numbers the production of the musical was discontinued during rehearsals for counsellor-at-law lrank norton ch e 39 mar garett sterrett kenneth c sloan arts 39 coleman citret arts 37 d cameron bradley arts 38 and elbert tidd arts 37 complete the cast of major characters j h weigel i e 38 is techni sal director of the mustard and cheese club and is in charge of this work for the production russel r winters bus 38 is the publicity director and assists james reed in supervising the music j a hop kins bus 38 is program manager n y u to be scene of classical meeting dr horace w wright profes sor of latin dr earl l crum as sociate professor of classical lan guages and head of the department of greek and dr william c mc dermott instructor in latin will represent lehigh at the meeting of the classical association of the at lantic states on april 30 and may 1 to be held at new york univer sity dr john a scott of northwest ern university a greek scholar and defendant of the the ory that the writings of homer were written by one man will de liver the principal address entitled modern lessons from ancient forms of government dr wright is on the nominating committee for next year's officers of the society said dr wright since its reorganization several years ago the classical association of the atlantic states has greatly broadened its scope it is now ap pealing to an ever enlarging group of classicists dr wright was on the commit tee which reorganized the society two years ago the dinner meeting at which dr scott is to speak will be held at the hotel brevoort woodrich elected by c e society g n lowdon director of the philadelphia district of the federal bureau of investigation spoke in packard auditorium last evening mr lowdon a graduate of wash ington and lee university and the george washington law school spoke on the work and activi ties of the f b i alpha kappa psi business fraternity sponsored the lecture the federal bureau of investi gation was organized in 1908 and was reorganized in 1924 at which time john e hoover the present head was put in charge the f b i is entirely free of politics and deals only with federal offences chief of which are kidnapping the robbery of national banks and the breaking of the anti-trust laws mr lowdon explained the rigid tests which must be passed by pros pective members of the organiza tion only lawyers qualified ac countants and men with years of police experience are considered these men are extensively investi gated before they are put on a three months probation if the pro bation period is satisfactory the men are then admitted into the f b i these men receive an initial salary of 3,200 a year educating citizens to be aware of the great danger which crime holds for everybody is the main aim toward which everyone should strive stated mr lowdon pi tau sigma honorary mechan ical and industrial engineering so ciety elected officers at a meeting wednesday evening in the engin eers lounge of packard laboratory p j welch m e 38 is president v p edwards m e 38 vice president j s hoppock i e 38 corresponding secretary m.r col lins m e 38 recording secreaary and r v henning i e 38 treas urer plans were made for the national convention of pi tau sigma which will be held jointly with drexel in stitute of technology at bethle hem and philadelphia next fall al though no definite arrangements have been made the society pro poses to hold the convention some time in november two days to be spent in bethlehem and one in phil adelphia a trip through the plant of the bethlehem steel company and a trip through some industrial plant in philadelphia are scheduled a dance has been planned to be held in bethlehem and a football game at philadelphia the society also discussed ar rangements for the engineers ball to be held sometime in october in cooperation with eta kappa nu honorary electrical engineering so ciety this dance will be held on a weekend when a home game is scheduled for the lehigh football team the profits made on this dance are to be used as at other engin eers balls to pay for the engineers lounge in packard laboratory snyder barnhart and decker also chosen print doan article forum to meet read constitution 2 publications publish paper on rays carothers will discuss five popular errors debating groups to unite under new plan five hundred prospective students are expected to attend sub-fresh man day tomorrow anonunced dr wray h congdon dean of admis sions the committee in charge of the program met tuesday after noon to arrange the final details student organizations have pro vided guides to conduct tours but dr congdon requested that any students who wish to serve as guides report to the lobby of the alumni building at 8:30 saturday morning two innovations incorporated in the program for the day are the reception of visitors accompanying the prospective lehigh men by the lehigh university women's club in drown hall at 3 p m at which time there will be a tea to which the faculty is invited and a recital by a student octet at the opening as sembly the student concerts group has offered its services for entertaining the visitors in chapel should the weather be unsatisfac tory sub-freshmen will register in the alumni building between 9 and 10:30 prior to the assembly at 10:30 in packard auditorium dean c m mcconn will address the first assembly which will be under the direction of nelson j leonard ch e 37 a few mem bers will be rendered by an octet composed of george ueberroth ch e 39 and william lobst ch e 38 first tenors elbert mahla met e 38 and walton henry eng.'4o second tenors wilson pierpont arts 39 and nelson leonard chem 37 first bases and william freeman arts 40 and william feldhus bus 37 second basses departmental conferences super vised by the department heads will be held at 11:00 to discuss what the various courses offer to students after luncheon in the armory at 12:30 the sub-freshmen will attend the exhibitions and demonstrations staged by the departments the university band will assem ble at 2:20 at the flag pole to play several pieces and will then pro cede to the lower field to display various formations a double head er track meet with the rutgers var sity and freshman teams will fol low at 2:30 the tennis team will meet the perm state team and the freshman and varsity baseball squads have games scheduled at 3:00 at this time the wives of lehigh associates will serve tea and entertain visitors who have accompanied sub-fresh men in drown hall take examination 260 sophomores given comprehensive pi kappa alpha chi psi and beta kappa have elected chapter officers for the coming year at re cent elections albert v moggio e m 38 was elected president of pi kappa al pha he succeeds frank p hoch gesang ch e 37 other officers elected are as fol lows walter c allen e e 38 vice president robert m easton i e 39 treasurer gordon e guy met e 39 delegate to interfra ternity council and paul m tani6 ch e 39 house manager j palmer murphy arts 38 was elected president of the chi psi fraternity he succeeds robert b haulenbeek c e 37 other officers elected were wal ter c haulenbeek i e 39 vice president robert g yingling i.e 39 treasurer and albert b hard ing bus 40 secretary the following men were elected as officers of alpha sigma chapter of beta kappa for the coming year arkon vincent acri eng phys 38 deputy arkon john g mc cleery bus 38 treasurer muray c udy ch e 38 scribe albert j getz arts 38 chancellor james a shields arts 39 historian edward gerard bus 40 house manager edward w stoehr eng 40 guard royal v mackel jr eng 40 and stew ard john hageny arts 40 dean writes book mcconn's work entitled planning for college professor neil carothers head of the college of business administra tion will address members and guests of the lehigh discussion forum at 8 o'clock this evening in room 466 packard laboratory he will speak on five popular er rors at the request of dr carothers the audience is to be limited in size admission will be by invitation only a few tickets are still avail able and may be had from carl palmer president of the forum phone 1298-r the usual open discussion in which the audience may take part will follow the speaker's address o murphy dukek haas reelected by society j palmer murphy arts 38 pres ident william dukek ch e 38 treasurer and carstens y haas ch e 38 secretary were re elected to office at a meeting of pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fraternity tuesday afternoon in drown hall francis hunsberger c e 38 was elected vice pres ident to succeed h stanley ford arts 37 the fraternity completed plans to conduct an information booth at the flag pole on sub-freshman day two hundred and sixty sopho mores in the college of engineering took comprehensive examinations yesterday in packard auditorium and room 416 packard laboratory the examinations were given in three sessions beginning at 8:10 a m 10:10 a m and 2:10 p m each examination consisted of 88 questions each one of which re quired four minutes to answer charles w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering was chairman of the committee which arranged for the tests o exchange dinners held by 8 social fraternities during the past week several le high social fraternities have had ex change dinners the fraternities which held ex change dinners are sigma phi ep silon and lambda chi alpha on april 23 chi phi and phi delta theta also on april 23 alpha chi rho and sigma chi on april 28 and sigma phi epsilon and alpha chi rho on april 29 dr gilbert e doan associate professor of metallurgy has just had an article entitled invisible rays in industry published by the american so ciety for metals in metal progress this article also appears in condensed form in the june issue of the science digest in his article dr doan points out the general acceptance in indus try of the applications of infra-red rays and how their sensitivity en ables remote objects to be pro tographed through fog and other natural blinds he also points out that the uni verse is alive with vibrating radia tions known as cosmic rays radio waves infra-red radiation visible light ultra-violet light x-rays and gamma rays these waves vary in wave length from several miles to wave lengths of a few million parts of an inch orders to be taken over 475 journalists are expected to attend the fourth annual scholas tic press conference may 8 which will feature talks by cartoonist russ westover creator of tillie the toiler and neil carothers dean of the college of business ad ministration the group will first be taken on a tour around the campus and then attend a meeting at which the var ious phases of journalism will be discussed after this meeting the representatives will attend a lunc cheon which will be held in the cafeteria in drown hall up to the present time 167 pa pers and magazines have been en tered to compete for the 20 bronze plaques which will be awarded to the outstanding publications at the close of the conference the round table conferences which the dele gates will attend are to be addressed by brown and white men keiste janulis arts 38 chair man of the news writing commit tee will speak on the structure of the news story the lead will be discussed by willet weeks jr arts 39 making it attrac tive and covering the news will be the topics of the talks by john neely 35 and raymond feilbach arts 38 problems of the editorial depart ment will be discussed by george yanko chairman of the editorial writing committee in his speech the structure of the editorial ' spice on the editorial page will be the subject of william dukek's ch e 38 speech leonard schick arts 37 chair man of the headlines and makeup committees will talk on types of page layout other speakers on this committee are robert bailey arts 38 dale goldsmith ch e 38 and nevin fidler arts 38 on the copyreading and editing committee j murphy arts 38 will speak on desk duties ralph slonaker desk man of the globe times will talk on improving copy and eric weiss e e 39 will speak on common errors the feature writing committee headed by p white bus 38 will speak on writing to interest developing an eye for features and how to start a feature story richard larkin arts 38 chair man of the sports writing commit tee will speak on planning the sport page alan grant i e 39 will speak on the sports story the sports columnist of the beth lehem globe-times davis scott will speak on putting something on the ball and jack scanlon arts 37 will talk on watching sports events those at the conference who will represent schools which put out magazines will hear robert her rick assistant secretary of the alumni association who will dis cuss attractive makeup other speakers who will deal with mag azine problems will be sydney lewis arts 37 william gottlieb bus 38 and eugene sloan instruc tor in english photography will be discussed by judson schaeffer assistant in jour nalism head of the committee on photography robert williamson bus 38 and william jessup arts 38 for representatives of mimeo graphed secondary school papers arrangements have been for j cal lahan instructor in english to speak on important problems faculty advisers for the various groups will be dale gramley asso ciate professor of journalism and kenneth kost instructor in jour nalism o mets take field trip the sophomore junior and sen ior students in metallurgy took a field trip today they visited the e g budd plant in philadelphia and then went to the new york ship biulding company in camden nj a new constitution was read and submitted to the student activities committee for approval by delta omicron theta honorary debating society under the new system both the debating society and delta omicron theta are combined into one organization all men of the debating society automatically become members of d o t as soon as they participate in two varsity debates or three in tramural debates all new members will be notified by letter and their names made public in the near fu ture at the present there are only eight active members of d 7 t but that number will be more than doubled by the end of the current year from the eight active mem bers nominations were made for president and treasurer-secretary if the new constitution goes through elections will be held in two weeks to give information orders for commencement an nouncements invitations and program booklets will be taken at the lehigh union office be ginning next tuesday may 3 samples are on display don't neglect this cash must accom pany your order dean c m mcconn has recently written a book on college life and problems entitled planning for college this book is planned to help high school and prep school students choose a suitable college some of the chapters of this book are who ought to go to college choosing a college course choosing a college what it costs the problem of living at college and how to make the most of it planning for college is now on sale at the supply bureau a lim ited number of copies are available at the present time the book ap peared on thursday april 8 it was published by frederic a i stlokes pi delta epsilon honorary journalism fraternity will run an information booth from 9 a.m until 4 p m saturday for the guidance of visitors w b woodrich c e 38 was elected president of the civil en gineering society at a meeting of the society on april 23 in packard lab oratory thaddeus merriman con sulting hydraulic engineer and uni versity lecturer was the speaker at the meeting his subject was flood control in southern califor nia other officers elected at the same meeting were r g snyder c e 38 vice president v a barnhart c e 38 secretary and w a decker eng 39 treasurer in the evening a dinner was held in honor of merriman which was at tended by members of the civil en gineering society plans for the so ciety picnic which will be held on may 14 were discussed the site for the picnic is not yet determined the following members of the society attended a civil engineering convention on april 19 at villanova college philadelphia r e cris pen c e 37 g l snyder c e 37 r g snyder c e 38 r b haulenbeek c e 37 e.h mount c e 37 c w firling c e 37 c b welch c e 37 v a barn hart c e 38 h j mcnally ce 37 and a v bodine eng.'4o r e crispen won second prize for the presentation of his paper entitled stress distribution in welds subject to bending in com petition with five other students the brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 30 1937 frosh will hold third annual ball vol xliv — no 47 price . . . five cents prof robert hall to leave hospital lehigh to be host to 500 sub-frosh band chosen for musical next weekend local chapter of new league to be formed harris is recuperating st luke's reports wittineyer says finances of dance assured 167 will enter school papers in conference james reed is directing orchestra for mustard and cheese musical schaeffer writes story dr carothers and russ westover cartoonist to be speakers will hold discussions dukek swenson attend new york meeting of society yesterday seek civil service reform sub - freshman day has varied program member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first