Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 8

              miss valeric dyer plans smoker for pledgees left to right — back row — robert tilton eng 41 dr beardslee gilbert card well e e 40 nevin hartman bus 39 middle row — robert kurtz e.e 40 john saussaman met e 39 william lesser i e 39 george kelley ch e 39 donald sant myers ch e 39 seated — charles w hart ch e 39 george albrecht bus 39 andrew morrow ch e 40 and john heller e e 39 okeson presides at alumni dinner date lists due monday dorm sections discuss rules fraternities should submit name of houseparty dates then addresses names of chaperones and name of house dance or chestra to the brown and white before 9 p m monday they will be printed in next friday's paper ordnance officer claims united states will rely on civilian chief industry would help in spite of the omplex organiza tion of industry in time of war there will be no military dictator ship or dictators major theodore c gerber assistant professor of military science and tactics ex plained last night before a meet ing of the industrial engineering society in packard laboratory in his talk major gerber ex plained that the mobilization of industry in war time is under the control of the assistant secretary of war the complex organization under him includes the war power administration the strategic ma terials administration the price control commission and the war fuel administration entire country divided major gerber told how the en tire country would be divided into several districts under the juris diction of a civilian chief who would be assisted by a regular army officer the districts most aptly equipped for producing cer tain war materials are selected the various plants are visited and the managers interviewed a contract which is merely a gentleman's agreement is then drawn up the plant managers are then sup plied with detailed information and plans of the material which their factories must produce to illustrate the intricacy of these plans major gerber display ed a book size pamphlet contain ing drawings and instructions for machining the forgings of a 105 mm shell a mere detail in the manufacture of a shell o statistical society to hear roush speak on minerals george a roush an authority on statistics will speak at the din ner meeting of the mineral sta tistical society at 6:15 this evening in drown hall mr roush who was associated with the department of metallur gy until 1913 now edits the min eral industry an annual maga zine presenting mineral statistics he will be introduced by allison butts associate professor of met allurgy who writes the chapter on mineral lead for the mineral in dustry miss valeric dyer wins cover position for october issue houseparties featured miss valeric dyer of new york city will be featured on the cover of the october issue of the lehigh review the issue which will ap pear monday will be the house party motif with miss dyer repre senting the ideal lehigh house party date she was selected as the winner of the contest spon sored by the review to find the perfect date for the fall function originally the contest was an nounced to be open only to girls of the lehigh valley but numer ous entries from students who submitted candidates from outside the valley forced the review to open the contest with no limita tions miss dyer is an employee of hertha may inc earns her living as a dress mannequin and in her spare time models for john llew ellyn powers nationally known model bureau manager her picture was submitted by william casey bus 40 of beta kappa fraternity who will be miss dyer's escort for the weekend besides her picture on the cover the review will present a writeup of the private life of miss dyer and addditional pictures on the inside pages the houseparty issue also features a short story to be lonely by frank norris c e 40 a survey of mai hallett's and bunny berigan's bands by stanley gilinsky bus 40 jazz critic of the review and an impressionism by howard j lewis arts 40 merrill slats bernard m e 40 contri butes an interview with one of the real founders of jazz pioneer pianist jelly-roll morton o ramsaur presents current relaying christmas tree lights used to demonstrate carrier current relaying a lecture and demonstration given by oliver ramsaur relay engin eer of the pennsylvania power and light company was presented at the first meeting attended by 70 members of the electrical engin eering society held in packard lab oratory last evening ramsaur a perm state alumnus now doing graduate work at le high made use of a home-made model equipped with colored christmas tree lights to demon strate the technical points of his lecture according to ramsaur this new development in current relaying which has been in use for about five years has economically pro vided the power companies with a high degree of protection car rier current the principle of which is similar to that of radio imme diately cuts out any power line in which a short circuit or some other fault has occurred no per manent damage therefore can be done to the lines and a more ef ficient electrical service can be provided for the customers after the completion of his lec ture ramsaur discussed phases of power line protection raised by members of the audience he de scribed the methods and the fre quency with which the protective devices were tested and empha sized the fact that the cost of protection represented only an ex ceedingly small part of the expen diture of a large power company o trenton alumni to meet for smoker and rally a joint meeting for the alumni of lehigh lafayette and rutgers living in the vicinity of trenton n j will hold a smoker and rally nov 14 at the trenton country club under the auspices of the central jersey club john h pennington lehigh 97 will preside billy cornelius le high alumni executive secretary and robert f herrick editor of the lehigh alumni buletinn ex pect to be present lehigh woman's club greets new members mrs h m ullman president of the lehigh university woman's club welcomed the new members of the organization at the monthly meeting held tuesday afternoon in drown hall after the presentation of the officers and the standing commit tee chairman the guests were in troduced and presented with pins bearing their names by the hos pitality committee under mrs h d gruber o socrates subject of talk dr theodore t lafferty asso ciate professor of philosophy will speak on why socrates did not run away at a meeting of the blake society local honorary phil osophical organization to be held at 7:30 o'clock friday evening in room 201 packard laboratory sheridan harmon reiter and harmeson speak walter r okeson university treasurer acted as toastmaster at the annual all-star football din ner of the lehigh club of new york held last night at the mur ray hiu hotel the speaker's list was headed by glen harmeson head football coach and included harvey har mon rutgers coach and asa bushnell of princeton commis sioner of intercollegiate football among those present were billy sheridan lehigh wrestling coach howard bosey reiter lehigh professor of physical education robert f herrick director of the alumni bulletin e robins mor gan director of placement and joe williams of the new york world telegram movies of the lehigh boston university football game were shown music was furnished by the lehigh club orchestra o smiley to visit schools dr e k smiley director of admissions left wedesday to make a series of visits to secondary schools in connecticut and mass achusetts tau beta pi to fete prospective members before tapping tau beta pi honorary engine ering society at a meeting held last wednesday evening set thur lay evening october 27 as the date for a smoker to be given by the society in drown hall in adidtion to student and faculty members of tau beta pi those to be invited consist of the upper eighth of the junior and the upp er-fourth of the senior classes in engineering the object of the smoker is to acquaint the members of the soci ety with the candidates for pledge ship an unlimited number of sen ior engineers may be selected for membership but only three jun iors may be pledged to the society in addition to scholastic attain ments candidates are judged upon their character personality and the extra-curricular activities in which they participate the pledge tapping excersises will take place on the afternoon of november 2 in front of williams hall at the memorial to dr edward williams founder of tau beta pi appointed to the refreshment committee for the smoker were vincent white m e 39 chair man eric weiss e e 39 and earl hems ch e 39 visit university observatory discover attempt to defraud alumni of lehigh university constitution of council will be considered before acceptance dormitory men will discuss the newly formed constitution of the interdormitory council in meet ings of section members it was decided at the council meeting tuesday night in drown hall one of the clauses of the con stitution not likely to be changed by the sections is that the presi dent of the interdormitory council will automaticaly become the dor mitories representative in ar cadia said george albrecht bus 39 president of the council decide upon dues a dollar a year dues per man for dances intramural awards etc is now included and is like the rest of the constitution subject to the approval of the individual members dr claude g beardslee profes sor of moral and religious phil osophy will be the faculty adviser of the council albrecht appointed the following committees an drew morrow ch e 40 pro grams donald santmeyers ch e 39 public relations charles hart ch e 39 intramurals and will iam lesser i e 39 social ziggie shelley's orchestra has been signed for the dormitory dance to be held the saturday night of houseparty week-end plans have been made to decorate the armory for this dance the council will meet again next tues day to hear a final report on the dance o smoker is held alpha kappa psi greets prospective pledgees alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity held a smoker last night in the engineers lounge of packard laboratory prospective pledgees from the junior and sen ior class were present dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration and george b curtis registrar spoke on the benefits of alpha kappa psi fraternity at a meeting to be held next week the fraternity will select men for pledging the actual pledging will be held sometime later leaving time changed band members are warn ed that the bus going to the delaware games leaves at 8:15 tomorrow morning instead of 9:15 the band meets at dela ware at 1:30 p m publications board joins faculty in its move to form classes calendar petition denied joining the faculty in its move to establish classes for students publishing the review the board of publications tuesday approved a plan drawn up by prof dale h gramley head of courses in journalism and sent it to dr c c williams for consideration of the administration the board also acted upon the ruling of the faculty made in spring that the review establish an advisory editorial board by giving all campus societies the right to send representatives to this body board acts for faculty acting for the first time under the rules passed by the faculty in september which give the board the right to act for the faculty in granting the permission of stu dents to issue publications the board denied a petition of a stu dent to publish the lehigh calen dar for the coming year dean wray h congdon chair man ex-officio presided for the first time the other members present were dale h gramley associate professor of economics donald r luster m e 40 and henry t s heckman arts 39 kenneth k kost instructor in journalism acted as secretary the meeting which was held in the office of the chairman lasted over two hours approves new classes no details of the plan to estab lish classes for the review of a nature similar to those now con ducted for the brow and white were revealed but it is understood that the plan sent to the president is a modified version of the one drawn up in spring following the investigation of the review by a faculty committee the faculty has approved classes for the re view but has taken no steps to arrange the course of study nor to establish the new courses a func tion reserved for the administra tion the new advisory editorial board of the review is to be formed soon as a number of the 11 societies have selected their representatives the 11 soci eties are alpha epsilon delta hon orary pre-medical alpha kappa psi professional business chem ical society cosmopolitan club eta sigma phi honorary classical international relations photo graphic society pi delta epsilon honorary publications robert w blake honorary philosophy tau beta pi honorary engineering and tone musical board to be advisory duties of the advisory board are described by the review con stitution as being twofold a to search out material suitable for the review and to suggest themes for articles or other features and b to serve in an advisory capa city in reviewing and appraising editorial policies of the magazine the board is solely an advisory one and shall not interfere with the actual production of the mag azine o tri-college alumni to meet at wilmington club alumni of lehigh lafayette and rutgers living in the wilm ington area are holding a com bined smoker at 8 o'clock this evening in the university club wilmington del the speakers will be walter w bacon mayor of wilmington walter r okeson university treasurer william a cornelius executive secretary of the alumni coach glen harmeson martin b westerman assistant coach earl l silvers of the rutgers alumni and stehpen grenda coach of the university of delaware football team william scott arts 38 looks at stars as miss jeanette seiter chemis y department secretary awaits her chance to graze at heavenly bodies for the second time in the last two years an attempt has been made to defraud the alumni of lehigh university robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin received a letter recently from a prominent alum nus in chicago stating that a man calling himself henry frey had come to him and identified him self as a former professor of min ing at lehigh and a member of the carnegie foundation he said that he had been retired from his job at lehigh because of his age but that he had been granted no pen sion he had been promised an other position beginning the first of the year but because of the serious illness of his wife he had found himself in desperate need of funds and a job until his other position materialized in january indignant over lehigh's neglect of a retired professor the alumnus arranged a job and gave the man a sizeable amount of cash he then wrote to the alumni office severely criticising them for their negligence make investigation upon investigation it was dis covered that no such person as henry frey had ever been em ployed at lehigh in any capacity furthermore he was not to be found at the address at which the alumnus was to reach him for the job there was an occurence similar to this in 1936 in wilmington del selected to compose interdormitory council bethlehem pa friday october 21 1938 price — five cents picked by review vol xlvi — no 8 lehigh university brown and white no army czar in war time says t gerber approve plan for review's advisory staff review shows contest choice as ideal date another alumnus was approached by an elderly man who identified himself as professor keppler like henry frey he too had been re tired from lehigh without a pen sion he had no money was desti tute and was further handicapped by the responsibility of a wife he had been offered a job at the university of delaware but his age had prevented him from ac cepting it alumnus gives aid this alumnus likewise gave financial aid to the neglected pro fessor and wrote to the alumni office like the more recent case professor keppler proved to be a fraud after this case in wilmington nothing was heard of the man apparently he has now taken his racket to chicago and renewed his activities similar cases have been report ed among the alumni of other colleges and universities before approaching the alumni the man apparantly familiarizes himself with the campus and some details of the alma mater of the pros pective victim and therefore is able to talk intelligently about them the alumni are asked to be alert for a man with this type of ap proach and to report any suspi cious persons to the federal bur eau of investigation who because of his inter-state activities have been active in the case all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association \\ ._ — ==. z 612