Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 34

              singer to be presented by lecture series on march 18 rose to fame in europe joseph bentonelli american lyric tenor of the metropolitan opera association will appear at the fifth of the student concert lecture series to be held friday evening march 18 in the broug hal high school auditorium born of american parents in say re oklahoma in 1903 ben tonelli first won acclaim in eur ope and only after an absence of eleven years did he make an ap pearance in his native country he was graduated with honors from the university of oklahoma joseph bentonelli walter c wells larry clinton tea dance and wrestling meet are on schedule col i lord is also guest by t t gray a cameraman from life picture news magazine the selection of a queen from the guests on the dance floor larry clinton's music the attendance of high-ranking army officials these are the at traction offered by scabbard and blade in its most ambitious affair at lehigh tomorrow night's con stitution ball at the national guard armory assurance that a photographer trom life would attend came yest erday when j s billings editor informed raymond winters bus 38 chairman of the dance that wilson hicks of life's staff will be here clinton features dance clinton a band leader who has enjoyed a sudden rise to fame dur ing the past months at r c a.'s feature orchestra leader will probably remain the feature of the dance to most students and guests who have demonstrated a kindly feeling toward music in a streamlined style during various affairs in the past lt gen r l bullard who com manded the famous first divis ion in france during the world war was announced lately as an honor guest with him as aide will be col kenneth p lord com manding officer of fort hamilton n v and acting chief of staff of the second corps area other high officials are aud gen w p roberts and adj gen frederick b kerr the queen as previously an nounced will be chosen at mid night from a court of five prin cesses to be picked from the guests on the floor by the mem bers of the faculty of the depart ment of military science and tac tics lt col joseph leonard head investigating group finds evidence of politics in staff offices will provide honoraria pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalistic fraternity at a meeting tuesday afternoon recommended that the entire epitome organiza tion be revised and be put on a non-political competitive basis un der the supervision of a faculty adviser this action followed a report by francis w hunsberger jr c e 38 chairman of the pi delt committee for the investiga tion of fraternity politics in pub lications offices hunsberger announced that his committee had been unable to dis cover evidence of politics in the brown and white and the busi ness staff of the lehigh review but that there was a definite cor relation between the officers of the epitome and certain fraterni ties for the past nine years the freshman handbook has not yet been investigated pi delt also recommended to the board of publications that a definite amount be stipulated as honoraria for each of the epitome offices instead of dividing the pro fits along percentage lines as is now being done serving on the committee are herbert m wilson jr arts 38 and george b rheinfrank i.e 39 discusses open lecture the meeting also took up the matter of an open lecture meeting to be held in the spring a prom inent newspaperman will be pres ent a committee headed by carstans y haas chem e 38 brought up the discussion of new by-laws mimeographed copies of the pro posed laws will be available to all members of the organization at the journalism office in christmas sau con hall soon a committee headed by norman j haas bus 40 brought up the discussion of new bi-laws mimeo graphed copies of the proposed laws will be available to all mem bers of the organization at the journalism office in christmas saucon today coiitinut'd on page four coal issue is debate topic briggs convicted by military court combined musical clubs will be featured in new york glee club to broadcast a concert and dance will be given by the combined musical clubs friday evening march 11 at the town hall club new york city the affair is under the aus pices of the lehigh alumni club of new york prospective lehigh students and headmasters and principals of nearby schools are to be the spec ial guests of the club at the con cert it also marks the first time in seven years that the combined musical clubs have given a pro gram sponsored by an alumni club george c grow arts 38 president in announcing the con cert expressed hope that it would mark resumption of a series of big concerts in metropolitan areas a regular feature of glee club sea sons a decade ago coast-to-coast hookup in addition to the town hall appearance the glee club will broadcast a fifteen minute program beginning at 6 15 p m over sta tion weaf the red network of the national broadcasting com pany will carry the program over a coast-to-coast hookup of about 75 stations a feature of this radio concert will be the singing of a new ar rangement of lehigh's pride made by dr t edgar shields faculty director of the glee club the special chorus of the club will sing songs written by dave hughes chem 39 for the spring production of mustard and cheese hughes and r k maneval bus 38 assistant accompanist have arranged the song of the sword especially for this group men selected for trip the personnel and the final pro gram are to be announced later the men who will make the trip were tentatively selected at glee club rehearsal in drown hall last evening grow again called attention to the new schedule of rehearsals as follows 4 p m wednesdays in the chapel and 7:30 p m thurs days in drown hall discusses plans at first meeting lehigh will name debate chairman continued on page four in 1923 and was made a member of phi beta kappa national hon orary scholastic fraternity he was offered a rhodes scholarship but refused this for a career in music became leading tenor for a time bentonelli was the leading tenor of the royal opera in rome it was then that he ac quired his italian name owing to a strong prejudice against any thing french an italian magistrate commanded him to change his or iginal french sounding name ben ton to the more italian bentonelli on the occasion of the world premiere in rome of refice's ce cilia he was chosen for the lead ing tenor role likewise he sang men in white staffs chosen j h roberts to assist rights in production as technical head committees to serve in the pro duction of men in white sid ney kingsley's 1934 pulitzer prize winning play which will be pre sented by mustard and cheese dramatic club sometime in the fu ture at broughal high school were announced yesterday by joseph h roberts jr met 38 albert a rights instructor in english and head of the dramatic workshop will again direct with him as assistant will be roberts who heads the technical staff the stage staff will be headed by richard w hubschmidt m e 39 assisted by thomas m bach man e e 38 frank c woodside jr bus 40 walter h vogels berg eng 41 frederick r gil more arts 41 samuel m grafton eng 41 and clifford b heisler bus 40 5 on electrical staff frederick c durant 111 ch e 39 will head the electrical staff assisted by joseph l serrill e e 40 richard d tayloe chem 38 robert j mccurdy 111 e e 39 and george a goetz e e 38 the property staff will be head ed by arthur b chadwick ch e 39 assisted by richard d matheny bus 40 louis g gles mann jr m e 39 edwin w hine 11 e e 40 charles f mit chell c e 40 and harry h brown i e 39 the costume staff will be head ed by edmund h knight bus 39 assisted by william a math eson jr eng 41 and francis t siate eng 41 dukek heads publicity william g dukek ch e 38 will direct the publicity staff aided by frank n kemmer ch e 39 donald g denison jr i e 40 and chester c baldwin m e 40 richard s cunliffe bus 39 will be in charge of programs and john m mcnabb i e 39 the business staff will be headed by joseph hopkins bus 38 with him will be george b rheinfrank i e 39 david r ginder arts 40 paul r whitbeck eng 41 and louis k schwartz jr bus 41 morhart to marry speaks on act fred v larkin is named associate member of honorary okeson gives report union's recommendations for new freshman week approved george e hurst jr bus 39 and walter c wells bus 39 were initiated into omicron delta kap pa national honorary senior ac tivities fraternity at ceremonies wednesday afternoon in drown hall prof fred v larkin head of the department of mechanical and industrial engineering was elected an associate member of the fra ternity at a dinner meeting at the delta tau delta house which fol lowed the initiation walter r okeson treasurer of the university outlined the history of the supply bureau to the chap ter and explained how in the past the profits from the bureau had gone towards the maintenance of drown hall because all the uni versity's monies now go into one general fund it has been impos sible to carry out this program during recent years dukek tteports progress william g dukek chem 38 chairman of the committee to in vestigate campus politics reported that his committee was tabulating the number of positions controlled by various fraternities in past years and would release a report at the next meeting the fraternity accepted the in vitation of president and mrs c c williams to hold its next meet ing april 7 at their home the lehigh union's recommend ations for changes in the fresh man week program were approved and several additional changes suggested j palmer murphy arts 38 william g dukek chem 38 wil liam g gottlieb bus 38 and dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy were named to visit the chapter at johns hopkins uni versity baltimore at the request of the student concert lectures committee dis cussion was held on methods of creating greater interest in the committees programs discuss concert-lectures a proposal to hold a joint ban quet of all honorary societies was voted down ten more members will be el ected and initiated at the may meeting of the fraternity both new members are active in athletics hurst is captain elect of the cross country team and also won his letter in track he is a member of cyanide junior hon orary pi delta epsilon journalism honorary alpha kappa psi busi ness society and won freshman and sophomore scholastic honors wells is captain-elect of the soc cer team and has also won let ters in swimming wrestling and track he holds the college record for the javelin throw aero club shows films of new airways the aero club association of lehigh flying enthusiasts dis cussed future plans last week in a closed meeting in packard laboratory this was the first reg ular meeting of the club organization and membership as yet not definitely settled by the club were tentatively planned two types of membership were discussed either or both of which may be adopted the first entails a higher membership fee and membership in the national aero nautical association the second gives only a membership in the local club the club presented moving pictures of the pan american air ways pioneering in air transporta tion at an open meeting wednes day business men engineers split doubleheader wednesday night the two intramural debates held on wednesday evening in packard auditorium were won by the en gineering team and the business a team respectively the members of the engineering team which debated first are stephen lowry eng 41 and frederic n bahnson eng 41 the members of the business a team were fred t pierce bus 41 and seymour margolis bus 41 the question at issue re solved that all the anthracite coal i mines in pennsylvania should be owned by the federal govern ment has been won by all teams representing the affirmative the engineering team defeated the business b team who main tained that the present system of private ownership is the best pos sibe system the engineers offered an alternate plan of government ownership with close regulation of continued on page four brader rader to play for fraternity dances williams receives story of founding of delano pa scout's stone fireplace to be dedicated mar 19 perm state invites team to send delegates j calvin callaghan director of debating announced that lehigh has been named to furnish a chairman for the committee to discuss methods of avoiding or minimizing the evils of war at the pennsylvania state debaters convention to be held march 18-19 at perm state daniel q marshall m e 38 president of delta omicron theta honorary debating society was appointed to serve on one of the three committees of the model senate at a meeting of the exec utive council held last saturday at princeton university he will serve as chairman of the foreign relations committee at the meeting to be held march 11 and 12 at colgate university the members of this committee will seek to pass a x-esolution demand ing that the president of the un ited states enunciate and clarify his foreign policy diamond clarifies plot of new labor law dr herbert h diamond head of the department of economics and sociology spoke on the wag ner act at the regular weekly meeting of the kiwanis club held yesterday in the hotel bethlehem the act falls into three main divisions he stated first a board is set up with the power to carry out the provisions of the act it self second the board is empow ered to prohibit unfair labor prac tices finally provision is made for elections to determine the workers choice of representatives in collective bargaining dr diamond also showed that the law has resulted in some bitter disputes some observers have taken the view that the act has stimulated labor controversy dur ing a critical recovery period he declared bride to be jane walter secretary of senator frederick h morhart who was once sports editor of the brown and white and who is now a washington correspondent is to be married the bride will be miss jane walter one of the secretaries of senator royal s copeland of new york morhart joined the washington staff of the indianapolis news after graduating from lehigh in 1931 in 1936 he cooperated with prof dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism in planning the first washington field trip of lehigh journalism majors at pres ent he is making the arrange ments for the second trip which will take place april 4 5 and 6 miss walter like morhart is a native of washington she is a daughter of mr and mrs robert s walter mr walter was former ly headmaster of the suavely pre paratory school and is now a de partment of commerce official faculty dramatic club reads ' russet mantle crane and armstrong interview 50 seniors ken brader's orchestra is to supply the music for the alpha kappa pi pi kappa alpha joint house dance on march 12 at the hotel bethlehem dr jacob l beaver professor of electrical en gineering and dr and mrs law rence whitcomb will act as chap erons bud rader's orchestra is to play for the phi gamma delta house dance to be given march 12 the chaperons are to be mr james clifford and mr and mrs donald niffley president c c williams has just received from h o moser 90 his book the history of del ano pa which is an account of the founding of delano by asa packer founder of lehigh and of his early industrial activities out of which grew the fortune that made possible the endowing of le high the town of delano was named by judge packer in honor of his partner warren delano the grandfather of president roose velt it is a coal and railroad cen ter located in schuylkill county stoughton w1ill discuss recent events at lehigh seniors mete out justice during mock trial seniors in the advanced course in military science and tactics pre sented a mock military trial on wednesday in the armory arthur s briggs arts 39 who took the part of the defendant was tried and convicted of desertion sen tenced to one year of hard labor given a dishonorable discharge and ordered to forfeit all pay douglas w edwards arts 38 the trial judge advocate had charge of all details connected with the trial in addition to his duty of prosecution he was op posed by daniel q marshall m e 38 the defense council who called upon a large number of wit nesses in an unsuccessful attempt to prove the defendant innocent major t c gerber assistant professor of military science and tactics acted as president of a court of nine men which handed down the decision the court was composed of the folowing men walter schmidt ch e 38 paul s woodring met e 38 joshua c conner ch e 38 charles d couch bus 38 allen c crane bus 38 richard g phelps e m 38 william kranz m e 38 william h roadstrum e e 38 and charles h hoffman e e 38 the mock court is an activity performed each year in connection with the advanced courses in mil itary science and tactics offered by the military department it is patterned directly after the reg ular military court prescribed by army regulations the sone firepace which alpha phi omega honorary scout soc iety has completed on south mountain will be dedicated on march 19 it was decided at a meeting wednesday night it was also decided that officers for the coming year will be elected on march 16 before the meeting the following scouts were initiated into the soc iety r e martin ch e 40 g e mcmillan i e 40 j w tem ple ch e 40 v m white m e 39 and j p brandt ch e 40 thomas visits meetings discusses journalism williams to talk at rally seniors are interviewed prof bradey stoughton dean of the college of engineering will discuss recent events at lehigh at the st patrick's day dinner mar 17 of the lehigh club of cleve land ohio professor stoughton is enroute to the western metal con gress pictures of the lehigh-lafayette football game will be shown fol lowing professor stoughton's talk dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism gave a talk on the past 50 years in the his tory of journalism last friday night at a dinner meeting of the men's league of the first mora vian church president c c williams will be the principal speaker at an inspir ational rally of the northampton county federation of men's bible classes sunday afternoon in the gymnasium of the easton y m c a about 50 seniors have been in terviewed for employment during the past week e robbins morgan director of placement announced yesterday the crane company and the bucyrus-erie company interview ed 26 senior engineers a number of arts and business seniors were interviewed by the armstrong cork company and james s kemper and company insurance brokers russet mantle by lynn riggs was the selection of the faculty dramatic club for their reading wednesday evening in packard laboratory the leading parts were read by prof cyril d jensen assistant professor of civil engineering prof edgar h riley associate professor of english dr tomlinson fort head of the department of mathe matics mrs fort mrs cairns miss reigel mrs mertz and mrs palmer representatives w w mcdo well and w e betts of the inter national business machine com pany interviewed senior mechani cal and industrial engineers last tuesday at the placement bureau dr harold p thomas head of the department of education is in atlantic city attending the an nual convention of the american association of school administra tors and the national society of college teachers of education the conventions opened sunday and extended through thursday george e hurst jr lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday march 4 1938 price — five cent pi delt asks that epitome be put on competitive basis hurst and wells elected to o.d.k vol xlv — no 34 lehigh alumni will sponsor dance recital next concert to be given by bentonelli military ball offers appeal for weekend new o d k members member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh iscus first