Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 37

              samuel r cox ch e 40 treasurer of the interfraternity council made the following fi nancial statement of the inter fraternity ball income from k2l tickets at 3.30 per ticket 2,709x0 kxpenses orchestras 1,800.00 hotel 300.00 j'.i.x 200.10 amplification 10.c0 j'olii c 60.00 chaperones corsages 12.00 omt of tickets 4.50 committee's salary 70.00 miscellaneous 3.50 total 2,320.10 prof it $ 389.20 the buzzing sound that arouses students from their slumbers trav els over a mile of lead covered wire conduit two main lines one to the gym and the other to packer hall compose the veins and arter ies of the system which travels in the steam tunnels underground the heart of the network of more than 35 bells is a spring op erated master clock located in the office of john hartigan superin tendent of the powerhouse every hour and ten minutes after the hour one of the master discs clo ses the circuit and with the help of five relays rings the bells that toll the end of one class or an nounce the beginning of another the modern system which was installed in 1926 is still checked by the original system installed in packer hall when it was built in 1865 much ado about bells that begin and end ye classes if you have ever noticed it is only in packer hall and in the power house that a bell rings out the hour and the half hour the machine used for this purpose is connected with the time system of the lehigh valley railroad which in turn is controlled by the wes tern union time system this machine also controls the huge bell weighing about eight or nine hundred pounds which hangs in the tower of packer hall also connected in this circuit is a bell installed in the powerhouse which is used to check the accuracy of the system that covers the entire campus packer hall therefore has the distinction of having two complete systems of bells so that if one fails to awaken you maybe the other one will succeed to begin plan for drawings 2 will speak in air forum 4 men attend model senate radio dispatches will be sent to purdue by brown and white set owned by girdler the brown and white will in augurate this week a special radio news service with universities in the middle-west through a system of short wave transmission by which late campus news will be sent via short wave radio to pur due university and hence relayed to other schools last-minute news dispatches prepared by the editors of the brown and white will be trans mitted during two scheduled broadcast periods each week through short wave station w3h vm owned and operated by rob ert girdler ch e 39 and locat ed at 447 new street first broadcast thursday the first broadcast in the ser ies will be sent in morse code at 9 p m thursday by sepcial ar rangement station w9yb oper ated by students in conjunction with the radio club of purdue uni versity will pick up the broadcast and relay it to other mid-western colleges who have shown an inter est in the plan plans are underway to make these broadcasts of campus news a reciprocal agreement that is to inaugurate a return broadcast system whereby news from distant campuses would be received by girdler's station on the eve of pub lication of the brown and white while purdue university is rec ognized as the leader of this type of campus news transmission so far as can be determined lehigh is the first university in the east to plan such an undertaking haring publishes book on installment contracts albert haring associate profes sor of economics has recently pub lished a treatise titled the in stallment credit contract pub lished by the cosumer credit in stitute of america inc in his paper dr haring outlines the pay-as-you-use plan of selling from antiquity up to the involved system that it has become to suit twentieth century needs students involved in 2 accidents ; 7 trees felled on campus several roads blocked the ice and wind of the recent storm caused two accidents to stu dents in addition to felling about seven trees and pulling down sev eral wire lines and telephone poles about the campus the fallen trees necessitated the closing of the road between wil liams hall and the cox mining lab oratory and also the road in sayre park above the chi phi house an drew w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds said that it was the worst storm in many years and that it will take a week to repair the damage the trench work on the campus and the work that was to have been begun around the chemistry building was delayed by the snow fall causes head on collision the storm also caused a head-on collision on wyandotte street sat urday night due to an ice-covered windshield a car driven by frank lin b mayer arts 42 crashed in to a southbound coupe driven by stephen sakwics of bethlehem mayer was released yesterday from st luke's hospital where he was treated for a fractured knee and lacerations miss mary bedics riding with sakwics was treated for minor cuts and immediately discharged the front bumper and grill of a car driven by lester r bittle i e 40 was damaged when he was returning from his home over the week-end no one was hurt the storm also delayed several members of the teaching staff of the english department who were returning to bethlehem following a trip to new york city for a per formance of king henry iv fans returning from the annual eastern intercollegiate wrestling association championships at yale found icy roads and highways making traveling conditions slow and hazardous o curtis entertains seminar dean and mrs george b curtis entertained the seminar in tudor history of sydney m brown pro fessor of history saturday evening held in washington over weekend with 96 students present four members of delta omicron theta honorary debating society went to washington d c over the weekend to participate in sessions of a model senate consisting of 96 representatives from eastern uni versities the representatives from le high were henry t s heckman arts 39 c raymond kiefer jr arts 41 raphael g scoblionko arts 39 and norman l morse ch e 39 conforming to the practice of the united states senate commit tees and sub-committees were for med with the idea of concentra ting study of vital governmental problems these committees were concerned mainly with govern ment and health internatonal re lations government and business and labor scoblionko was elected to the executive committee and morse survived the semi-final elimina tion for president and missed the vice-presidency by one vote the convention was sponsored by george washington university this year expenses for the trip were shared by arcadia student governing body and delta omi cron theta section chiefs to submit list of available dorm rooms all dormitory section chiefs must submit a list of rooms in their respective sections that have not been drawn for occupancy next semester by march 24 an nounced george a albrecht bus 39 president of the interdormi tory council yesterday under the new system of dormi tory room drawings the respective section chiefs will hold separate drawings in their own sections this will facilitate the exchange of rooms within the section and is designed to promote section unity if a student should wish to change his dormitory section he may at tend the drawing of the section he wishes to enter but the standing members of that section will re ceive first choice after all leases are turned in by april 5 the general drawings will be held under the supervision of the council the dean and the bursar men who wish to take rooms in other dormitories will re ceive first choice the idea originally brought up by albrecht was officially drawn up by a committee composed of joseph e stopp arts 41 charles w hart ch e 39 and john h heller e e 39 story is tragic drama of american life during 20s brisker will play mio winterset the student produc tion of the combined lehigh dra matic workshop and mustard and cheese honorary dramatic society will be presented at 8:40 friday evening in drown hall this play will be the first experimental pro duction of the year the play a tragic drama of america in the 20s will feature several players already familiar in lehigh dramatic shows as well as a few appearing for the first time the role of mio made famous by burgess meredith in the original new york run of the play will be nathaniel j brisker bus 40 while the feminine lead will be ta ken by sylvia mellner of allen town troc the big-time gangster will be portrayed by raymond m rosenstein arts 39 had previous experience brisker has taken several parts in mustard and cheese perform ances and is a member of the soci ety his first part was a minor role in paths of glory since that time he has held roles in men in white and ceiling zero he has participated in three summer the atre productions petticoat fever another language and brok en dishes miss mellner will be making her first appearance on a lehigh stage this year although she has been as sociated with summer theatre work for two years starting two sum mers ago in the lead of another language she has taken part in four additional shows since then rosenstein started out with a role in paths of glory which was followed by parts in men in white where he took the role of a doctor and in ceiling zero interprets gang killing winterset itself a deeply-mov ing modern tragedy lends itself ably to such an experiment it is a poetic interpretation by maxwell anderson of the sacco-vanzetti gang killing in the 20s it tells the story of mio the son of vanzetti who goes wandering in search of justice after his father has been electrocuted for a mur der of which he pleaded innocent mio's travels take him to new york where in a slum district he learns that his father really had been innocent but had been framed by gangsters while planning vengeance on the gang he meets and falls in love with miriamne but learns that her bro ther is involved with the gangsters the story of mio's struggle be tween love and the desire for re venge have been pictured by an derson in this play because of the small seating ca pacity in drown hall friday's performance will be limited to an attendance of 350 people students will be admitted free but a charge of 25 cents will be placed on out siders director albert a rights announced that in the event that the demand was great enough the show might possibly be repeated on saturday night to give lecture and show slides an illustrated lecture on link ages will be delivered at 7:30 p m friday in room 466 packard laboratory by robert c yates professor of mathematics at the university of maryland given as the feature of an open meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathe matics society the lecture will con sist of a description of the analysis and application of mechanisms made up of rigid parts and pins to illustrate the principles in volved in his talk dr yates will show a series of slides depicting a large number of different types of linkages in model form all the models and principles talked about have application in machinery weiss grant to discuss student government on station wcba in a radio forum patterned after the town meeting of the air two students from lehigh and two from the moravian college for women will discuss student gov ernment at 8 o'clock tomorrow evening over station wcba eric weiss e e 39 and alan s grant i e 39 president of the senior class are the lehigh stu dents while betty brown and mil dred diefenderfer will represent moravian college for women miss brown is president of moravian's student organization each of the speakers will talk for six minutes and a twenty min ute period will be allowed for questions from the floor the pro gram will originate in the hotel bethlehem and anyone who is in terested may attend the forum is sponsored by the muhlenberg chapter of kappa phi kappa national honorary educa tional fraternity j calvin callag han director of debating is the faculty adviser for the lehigh del egates among the topics discussed by the four speakers will be the ques tion of how much faculty advice and restraint should enter into the affairs of student government weatherman obliges with snow on packer chapel as dramatic workshop presents winterset may admit leonard hall living group may enter council under status of local fraternity by donald r schoen the interfraternity council in its meeting last night in drown hall voted almost unanimously to require its president as a member of arcadia to refer all matters brought up before arcadia to the council before voting on them it also discussed the question of whether or not leonard hall should be admitted to its ranks and tentatively went on record as favoring such move final action being reserved until leonard hall presents a formal petition for ad mission the discussion of the president's position on arcadia came about as a result of a discussion held at the last arcadia meeting the central issue is whether or not members of the student governing body are placed there as representatives of campus groups or as outstanding individual leaders free to vote ac cording to their own coavictions the original plan in the organi zation of arcadia was to select offi cers of classes and campus organ izations for membership in that body and to seat them there not as representatives of special groups but as representative student lea ders a resolution was introduced at the last arcadia meeting clar ifying this original position but a vote on it was reserved for the next meeting no final action could be taken last night on the leonard hall matter inasmuch as no formal peti tion has as yet been presented furthermore although this point was overlooked last night the present interfraternity council constitution limits membership in that organization to national so cial fraternities art.iii sec 1 the informal vote taken last night however indicated that a major ity of the members were in favor of taking in leonard hall actually the members of that group constitute a local greek let ter fraternity alpha chi epsilon and should this proposal be ac cepted they would be known on the campus by that name fur thermore they would be listed as a professional rather than a social fraternity and would therefore be ineligible for the interfraternity scholarship cup the sole idea in listing them so is to prevent a monopoly of the cup since leon ard hall has for the past seven years been the leading living group scholastically at present leonard hall or al pha chi epsilon is included in section a of the town group since this group is composed of individual students however the present arrangement is not felt to be entirely satisfactory formerly leonard hall had a vote on the old arcadia but when arcadia was merged with the lehigh union it lost representation on any student group three possibilities are open to them they may remain in the town council join the interdormi tory council or be admitted to the interfraternity council a proposal to establish a campus community chest to support local charities was tabled until each fra ternity could discuss such a plan should such a chest be organized each man would contribute 50 cents to a central fund president milton h grannatt bus.'39 urged that each house sup port the intramural singing contest to be held in may he announced that the election of council officers would be held at a special meeting sometime next month white speaks at meeting dr r h white head of the de partment of education delivered an address at a meeting of the moravian preparatory co-opera tive association last night in mor avian prep school an imaginary scene which might be from maxwell anderson's winterset which is to be presented friday night by the dramatic workshop and mustard and cheese reading in serpentine fashion from the seated man up the ladder down the ladder and up the steps — albert rights director robert mc queeney gunman nathaniel brisker mio lead ; wayne o'neill judge gaunt sylvia mellner miriam mi lead edwin miller estras and merrill david garth estras photo by stoumen left is a scene from the last stand of dame winter taken in front of the chapel yesterday freezing rains followed by a light snow transformed lehigh's campus from an ordinary landscape to a silvery etching every limb every bush every blade of grass was coated with a glaze of snow and ice brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 14 1939 vol xlvi — no 37 price — five cents fraternities vote to control head short wave news service to be set up ice and snow cause damage over weekend winterset to be presented friday night fraternity ball report shows 389.20 profit council president must consult group before voting on arcadia member intercollegiate newspaper association 1 rt9 all the lehigh news first