Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 29

              books written by and about carl sandburg who will appear here friday have been put on display in the library among the books set out by howard s leach librarian are sandburg's latest volume of verse the people yes and two volumes of his comprehen sive biography of the emanci pator president abraham lin coln and mary lincoln wife and widow will not give musical show town group men will meet at 7:30 o'clock tonight in pack ard auditorium the purposes of the meeting will be to affect a temporary town group organ ization so that work may be started in organizing the small er units which will comprise the proposed council according to milton spilberg arts 39 a member of the or ganizing committee petitions which are being circulated have met with no objections on the part of town group students those who have not as yet signed the petition will have an opportunity to do so at the meeting tonight the student activities committee meets on thursday and wil consider the request to organize carl sandburg forensic meet is scheduled asks changes in constitution poet who ranked highest in poll will present philosophy poetry to appear here friday carl sandburg author and trav eler who will be the third artist to appear under the auspices of the student concert-lecture series program friday evening at brou ghal high school compiled 38 ori ginal definitions of poetry 15 years ago considered by critics as amer ica's most truly native poet sandburg will present a program of original verse folklore and bal lads last year he topped the stu dent poll in the literature group willet weeks jr chairman of the committee announced this morning that sandburg's program will be a novel one in the series the committee signed sandburg because of the preference indica ted by the student body last spring said weeks his program will consist of a variety of original poems stories philosophy and ballads which audiences through out the nation have enjoyed was film salesman after graduation from lombard college in 1902 sandburg traveled about the country selling films from 1910-1912 he was secretary to the mayor of milwaukee next he obtained a position with the magazine system and then wor ked on an experimental tabloid in chicago in 1917 he joined the staff of the chicago daily news the fol lowing year he traveled in norway and sweden as correspondent for the newspaper enterprise associa tion upon his return to america he became associated with the chicago daily news in the capa city of editorial writer his initial literary venture took place in 1914 when he printed pri vately a pamphlet entitled in reckless ecstasy two years later he published his first full volume of verse chicago poems students will be admitted to the lecture upon presentation of tick ets found in the athletic book doors will open at 7:30 o'clock and no one will be admitted after 8:15 o'clock chem society to hear engineer's talk thursday the chemical society's monthly meeting to be held at 7:30 p m thursday in the chemistry build ing will feature a talk on indus trial water corrections by robert t sheen 31 technical director of a philadelphia chemical engineer ing firm mr sheen will illustrate his lec ture which will be open to the public with lantern slides dramatic club reaches decision after getting student opinion mustard and cheese will not present a musical show this spring this decision was reached by the dramatic society in its first meet ing of the 1939 semester last thursday afternoon and will mark the first time in three years that a musical comedy has not been pre sented by the society action was taken this year after a general check-up carried on among the various living groups of the university in the form of peti tion since the general consensus was unfavorable to having a musi cal show the tentative plans for such a production were discarded this change of student opinion shows a marked contrast to the approval which the previous pro ductions received shows were student-written the 1938 show knight in ar mor as well as the other musicals have been entirely student written other difficulties such as casting stage settings and shortness of rehearsal time added to the club's decision for abandoning the idea at a meeting there was submit ted a list of plays from which a spring production is expected to be selected in place of the musical comedy this production will be decided upon in a few days and will probably come from the fol lowing list valley forge johnny johnson the petrified forest death takes a holiday or dodsworth all these plays have won widespread recognition on the new york stage albert a rights faculty advis er of the society announced that because of a conflict of dates the club would be unable to present the popular you can't take it with you as had been tentatively planned no other important busi ness was decided at this meeting o senior talks on research eugene r l gaughran arts 39 spoke on his research work in tis sue culture this afternoon at the meeting of alpha epsilon delta national honorary pre-medical fraternity pi tau sigma suggests 3-man board replace national president changes in the national consti tution of pi tau sigma national honorary mechanical engineering society are being advocated by the lehigh chapter of pi tau sig ma courtland f carrier 111 i e 39 president of the lehigh branch stated last night that the chapter is proposing the creation of an ex ecutive council of three men to re place the national vice-president in the present set-up the purpose of this change is to give equal rep resentation of chapters in all parts of the country the chapters are now divided into three sections of the country east middle-west and south-west the lehigh chapter is sponsoring a councilor from each one of the three districts elected by the chap ters in that district to insure equal representation of the different chapters need for representation carrier stated that there is a need for greater representation of chapters among eastern colleges the chapters are very largely con centrated in the middle-west and south-west and as a result an eastern president of the national society is impossible if new groups could be established in the east more faculty could be directly concerned with the problems of the national fraternity copies of this plan will be sent to each chapter faculty advisor and to national officers national officers wil be requested to ask each chapter to vote on the propo sition by mail so definite action may be taken before the next con vention of the national society in november john v martenis lehigh 94 was recently re-elected national president talk on lighting to be presented sigma phi epsilon takes lead by inducting 11 new men 14 are still unreported fifteen fraternities have already initiated 86 pledges into their so cieties with sigma phi epsilon leading with 11 new members the following students have been inducted during the past week alpha kappa pi joseph n ambrogi eng 42 and harry boyer kng 42 beta kappa oakley w cooke jr bus 42 anil john ft hill jr eng 42 chi phi john m kasson eng 42 henry h cor win eng 42 kichard l heyninger bus 42 kichard r bright arts 42 and george al ritchie jr m e 41 chi psi john r whitesell m e 41 raymond h anderson eng 42 clarence e louden eng 42 arthur l fischer arts 42 wil liam s shuttleworth eng 42 leonard a schneider eng 42 and frank e smith jr eng 42 kappa sigma charles b dutton eng 42 and walter h jaedecke bus 42 phi delta theta john t green bus 42 john f kizer jr arts 42 richard m palmer bus 42 donald e eastlake jr bus 42 jack e lane eng 42 and arthur b johnston eng 42 phi sigma kappa craig w baker bus 41 augustus a riemondy ch e 41 william l clark bus 42 robert h forsyth eng 42 har old a grubb eng 42 bruce r henky bus 39 edwin h klein eng 42 william r miller bus 41 forrest v schumacher eng 42 robert g taylor eng 42 pi kappa alpha robert r felch i e 41 charles hard ing bus 41 edward b annett e e 41 frank r dunn ch e 41 harry jones eng 41 james broadfoot bus 39 and kurt mulhausen eng 42 pi lambda phi jerome dorkin arts 42 seymour l hol lander eng 42 frank rich arts 42 theo dore propper eng 42 kingdon sterngold bus 42 and conrad kluger arts 42 psi upsilon james h mcmillan bus 42 and jeffrey s wetrich bus 42 phi gamma delta robert e cullen jr eng 42 richard e metius eng 42 robert w beck eng.'42 john r muhlenberg eng 42 preston par vis bus 42 and archie d tifft eng 42 sigma alpha mv gilbert s gold bus 42 monroe levy arts 42 richard j berg arts 42 joseph e gross eng 42 eugene l kline eng 42 robert stern eng phys 40 and rob ert e goodman arts 42 sigma phi charles e henderson eng 42 lewis j caulk bus 42 eugene f warren arts 42 lindsley d vander veer eng 42 and arthur h rich bua 42 sigma phi epsilon herbert p elliott jr bus 41 samuel i cory jr eng 42 robert j mason eng 42 william w tolley eng 42 john f clark jr eng 42 charles d bartlett jr bus 42 clarence m sanderson eng 42 william h lehr i e 41 james w witherspoon eng 42 frederick c butler i e 41 ; and robert n simonsen eng 42 theta kappa phi william j kuehnle eng 42 william p mcelroy eng 42 joseph m sexton eng 42 john s mac donald eng 42 thomas d lloyd bus 42 and harold e mahoney arts 42 workers in micro-chemistry use centrifuges for filtering cabinet opposes petition but questions control over committeemen activities / group to act by willet weeks jr arcadia in an overwhelming vote last night went on record as opposed to the formation of a le high chapter of the american stu dents union the student governing body meeting in drown hall reached its conclusion after discussion last ing an hour and a half eric weiss e e 39 represented a s u petitioners in presenting their case the controversy cen tered largely about the following points 1 would the actions of such a minority reflect detrimentally up on lehigh university 2 would it be advisable to have at lehigh an action group re strained from opposing the poli cies of its national organization such a provision is found in the a s u constitution 3 were the 34 petitioners for formation of a lehigh branch all adequately informed as to the pro cedure and purposes of the organ ization 3 bodies now oppose with the registered opposition of omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities fraternity tau beta pi honorary engineering fra ternity and arcadia definite ac tion rests with the student activi ties committee arcadia however annually elects three student members of this committee this circumstance brought up a question which may prove to be of far more importance to lehigh than the a s u problem the question is whether or not arcadia should have more power over the representatives it appoints to campus committees they are now virtually independent to investigate and possibly to make changes in the present re lationship of arcadia to its student representatives a committee was set up members appointed were henry t s heckman arts 39 chairman george albrecht bus 39 willet weeks jr arts 39 and james patton ch e 39 competitions on handbook other business handled by the cabinet included steps taken to begin competitions for editorial manager of the freshman hand book the matter of a lehigh charity chest also was brought up such an arrangement would call for the donation annually of a lump sum by each living group the money would be divided up during the year by an arcadia committee the suggestion was turned over to the interfraternity council for con sideration the inter dormitory council also will discuss the pro position such a lump donation would amount to an approximate 50 cents per man or 15 for each living group o peters funeral held in nanticoke only close friends attend burial of doctor dr kash s peters assistant in the students health service deceased who was suffocated early friday morning by smoke from a fire which swept his bedroom in his home was buried at 9 a m yes terday in nanticoke pennsylvania his home town the burial was a private affair with but a few friends of the late lehigh physician in attendance police are still uncertain as to the origin of the fire which took dr peter's life but lean toward the theory that the victim might have been smoking in bed fallen asleep and on waking and finding the bedroom in flames rushed into the closet mistaking it for an ad joining door which led out of the bedroom egypt discussed by george tabet telephone query reveals 19 men in hospitals or at their homes 15 groups are affected at least 28 lehigh men have either been sent home or confined to their living quarters by illness es which may be severe colds or grippe according to a telephone survey of the university living groups made last night by the brown and white dr raymond c bull director of the student's health service sta ted that to his knowledge 7 or 8 students had been sent home their ailments being nothing but grippy colds 9 confined to houses officers of the brown and white staff amazed by the number of cases which had been reported on hearsay decided to make the tele phone survey to find the real facts the results showed that 9 had been confined to bed in fraternity houses and dormitories and 19 were either sent home or placed in hospitals dr bull warned that students may be deceived by the apparently mild weather and stated that they should not expose themselves so needlessly he also advised every one to take normal health precau tions and get plenty of sleep the number of cases in one fra ternity alone amounted to 5 this being equaled by 2 sections of one of the dormitories three other liv ing groups suffered 4 casualties and the remainder were spread over 10 other houses one student reported to be at st luke's hospital is suffering from pleurisy congdon speaks on chinese life dean explains eastern democracy to club a high ethical standard demo cratic thought strength of char acter and a sense of moderation were named as the cardinal char acteristics of the chinese by dean wray f congdon in a talk before the torch club wednesday night the club is local organization make up principally of persons giving service in educational fields during his talk the chinese — an appreciation dean cong don told of the democratic organ ization of the chinese village which was an institution even dur ing the days of royal government the speaker said that the viril ity and strength of character of the chinese has enabled them though conquered and dominated by outside powers four times in their history to throw off the yoke and assimilate their conquerors into their vast population threat ened now for the fifth time he said it remains for time to tell what the result of the latest in vasion will be exhibit to open photos will be shown in library gallery the second annual lehigh pho tographic exhibit consisting of pic tures taken by members of the student body will open tomorrow in the art gallery of the university library according to garth a howland associate professor of fine arts the collection which professor howland stated was of a very high character will consist of landscapes portraits still life montage work and colored photographs the still life studies include photographs of details of nature although there wil be no prizes this year a popularity vote will be held by ballots furnished at the gallery the exhibit which will include approximately 125 photo graphs will close on feb 28 debaters to open second round tomorrow night in library the second round of intramural debating program will be resumed at 7:30 o'clock tomorrow evening in the browsing room of the li brary there will be two debates on the question resolved that the uni ted states should cease to use pub lic funds including credit for the purpose of stimulating business in the initial debate of the even ing james r bright i e 39 and edwin i shuttleworth eng 42 will defend the affirmative side of the question and robert w leav ens i e 41 and matthew k nor ris i e 40 will take the negative in the second thomas r hunt arts 41 and edward a herre jr ch e 40 will take the negative while howard v donohoe arts 41 and richard m shepherd ch.e 41 will defend the affirma tive the present standings of the in tramural debators is as follows won lost benedict-breidenbaeh 2 0 keiser-sprague 2 0 meyer-penn 2 0 ponter-sharp 2 0 dudman-zawasza 1 1 foster kotanchik 1 1 keifer-rathbun 1 1 schoen-ware 1 1 bright-shuttleworth 0 1 evaul-gebert 0 1 feldmann-mcguire 0 1 frederick-white 0 1 herre-hunt 0 1 kirk-metzger 0 1 leavens-morris 0 1 levy-weinrib 0 1 o drown hall fire found by officer a fire in the janitor's closet in drown hall was discovered at 9 p m saturday by harry klase campus policeman the fire of un known origin started under a table in the janitors closet the only damage done was the destruction of a table and the blis tering of the woodwork the jani tor left the building at 8:30 p m after waxing the floor and the fire was found a half hour later the first floor was filled with smoke and the flames in the closet had reached the ceiling two gallon fire extinguishers were used to put out the fire the damages were estimated by klase at about 25 o present european status viewed by robert heckert the making of a german em pire out of central europe is in cluded in the scope of adolf hit ler's future plans according to robert heckert 34 a student of european affairs who spoke thursday at moravian college chapel exercises the speaker traced the develop ment of the present european sit uation and germany's foreign pol icy hitler he said is not a haphazard fool but a careful thin ker and capable leader world's fair consultant to lecture thursday r g slaver of the westing house electric manufacturing company will speak thursday morning in room 416 packard laboratory announced stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering to accomodate classes in the de partment of electrical engineering and other interested students the lecture will be given at 9 10 10 10 and 11 10 a m chemical incandescent and electronic light sources their efficiencies possibilities and lim itations will be the subject of mr slaver's lecture a display of mod ern lighting equipment will be used to demonstrate the lecture a feature of the display and discus sion will be the new fluorescent lamps mr slaver who is consultant in lighting of the new york world's fair is a graduate of stevens in stitute of technology for the past 13 years he has been engaged in research and educational prob lems in the field of electrical ill umination with this method the quantity of sample needed is greatly reduc ed in fact only about one-tenth of the amount used in ordinary analysis is necessary thus the laboratory equipment is much smaller since men are working with tiny test tubes beakers and bunsen burnesr although this in voloves the purchase of new equipment a great saving is affec ted by the quantity of materials used from these reasons comes the name of the method semi micro-chemistry it is being used by some indus trial laboratories to supplement or replace older methods other col leges using this new method report that a student can complete an an alysis in one third less time semi-micro-chemistry is only tentative as far as the course in qualitative is concerned and is being tried with only a few of the students in special sections whe ther it will be used in the future or not depends on its success with this group although it was tried this summer at lehigh and found satisfactory test tubes that look like thim bles bunsen buurners that look like cigarette lighters and funnels resembling candle snuffers are the utensils which are being used by chemistry and chemical engineer ing students in the new chemistry course called semi-micro analysis the lilliputan equipment is supposed to save approximately 33 percent of the time usually spent in the laboratories by the qualitative analysis workers the students using this equip ment won't be troubled with hav ing to wait for thick nitrates to go through paper instead they will merely put their solution in a test tube place the tube in a labora tory centrifuge which will do their precipitating for them quantities used lower the centrifuge machine spins the tube around like a rock on the end of a string the top of the test tube points toward the center of the machine and cenrtifugal force throws the heavier precipitate down to the bottom of the tube leaving a clear solution on top which may then be poured off george tabet ch e 39 native of egypt addressed the interna tional relations club thursday in the engineer's lounge in packard laboratory tabet gave his views on the set up between egypt and great bri tain saying that egypt is tied to great britain by a mass of treaties which would force his native country to take up arms for eng land the speaker stressed the point that most concessions of an eco nomic nature are in the hands of foreign interests in egypt but that a rising nationalistic spirit sup ported mostly by college students is endeavoring to restore economic independence to the country during the business meeting it was decided that the price of gen eral admission tickets to the nor man thomas lecture which will be held feb 24 will be one dollar faculty members and their famil ies will be admitted for fifty cents students may secure admission by presentation of the f ticket in their athletic books bethlehem pa tuesday february 14 1939 to speak here friday price — five cents vol xliv — no 29 carl sandburg books displayed in library town group will meet in packard auditorium carl sandburg has program of originality asu downed arcadia starts power inquiry survey shows 28 students iii with grippe 86 students are initiated by 15 houses lehigh university brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612