Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 40

              f charles moesel ch.e 39 opening not yet certain announces williams the tentative opening for one lehigh graduate as second lieuten ant in the united states marine corps was announced yesterday in a letter received by president c c williams from t holcomb major general commandant at washing ton although the appointment of 60 new officers to the marine corps was approved by the navy depart ment and is authorized by presi dent roosevelt's budget the letter said the plan has not yet become a law and the opportunity is not definite the letter asked president wil liams to nominate one candidate from the graduates in the r o t c and one alternate this is not a new plan as appointees have been made in the past and accepted coal experts will convene both march and september in addition to greeting the be lated report on the appendicitis scare dr bull evaluates the bene fits of personal interviews he says advice is always more effective when the recipient is in the proper mood to receive and ac cept it individual interviews with students in the dispensary contin ue to be one of the most important methods of disseminating health knowledge the fact that so many visit the dispensary for advice only is an indication that this type of service is utilized talks of this na ture being sought by the students are especially effective in the de velopment of good health habits have you noticed the crowds in the cold chaser room dr bull's report covers visits of students for all types of medical attention as well as giving a com prehensive report of activities of the student health service's acti vities during the summer session house votes against taxes conclave has new feature an appendicitis epidemic oc curred last year near the mid-year examination period however this news did not leak out until the an nual report of the students heal th service was circulated among the departments of the university early this week dr raymond c bull director of the student health service states in the report that during a period of 18 days from january 25 to feb ruary 11 nine cases of appendici tis were reported since the total number of reported cases for the school year was 32 mid-term ex ams may have had something to do with the increase in reported cas es dr bull continues by saying the disruption of the examination schedule from this cause was cer tainly more marked than in prev ious years do you remember the profs being particularly tough last year at mid terms no cases were reported in june and only one case was reported in chem professors to attend confab 4 delegates from lehigh to present papers four members of the chemistry department will represent lehigh at the semiannual convention of the american chemical society to be held april 3 to 7 in baltimore md dr robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry will present two papers one to be given before the division of history of chemis try is entitled america's oldest pharmacy and recounts the his tory of the simon rau pharmacy located on main street bethlehem the other paper the student's view to be presented before the division of chemical education deals with the student's reaction to various types of presentations of chemical facts pictures of acid-base reac tion a paper to be given by dr thomas h hazelhurst jr will in clude diagrams and charts of el ectron density which are intend ed to clarify the behaviour of the proton dr hilton a smith will offer a paper entitled kinetics of cata lyzed esterifications of methyl and phenol substituted alliphatic acids dr james p mcßeynolds will deliver a paper prepared by himself and smith entitled evi dence for ring structure in cer tain aliphatic compounds o begin radio discussions the radio club inaugurated the first in a series of discussions on practical applications of radio theory yesterday these discus sions designed to help those inter ested in radio to meet and talk over their interests will be held each thursday at 4 p m in room 503 packard laboratory the pub lic is invited to attend these meet ings revolutionary process in mining industry to be described a new process by which the mining industry may be revolu tionized and the economics of hard coal will be discussed by out standing men in their fields as part of the second annual anthracite conference to be held april 28 and 29 on the campus prof howard eckfeldt head of the mining and engineering department and chair man of the conference committee said last week w b foulke director of the minerals separation division of e i dupont de nemours and comp any will deliver a paper on the mining process which has been perfected only after more than 35 years of research work ralph h sweetser authority on blast furnaces and author of the recent textbook blast furnace practice will discuss anthracite as a metallurgical fuel " the con ference which will be attended by engineers research scientists and students operating executives and coal merchants is especially for tunate dr eckfeldt said in hear ing a paper of his type delivered by a man of mr sweetser's quali fications economic aspects of anthra cite will be discused by dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration senior to enroll in scout course harry harchar granted leave of absence harry a harchar arts 39 a major in psychology has been granted a leave of absence from the university to attend the na tional boy scout training school at mendham n j harchar will join the health and safety service of the national council of boy scouts of america after he has finished this course he will work under captain fred r mills director of the service an eagle scout harchar has been active in bethlehem scouting having held all troop positions in troop 27 of this city he was a senior counsellor at camp minsi and waterfront director of a camp at tobyhanna pa he passed the advance water front director's course at mendham in 1937 and the following year became a member of the aquatic school staff there he will leave for mendham march 26 o david richards to speak at next meeting of tone tone honorary musical society will meet thursday night april 6 in the arcadia room in drown hall david richards arts 42 will talk on romanticism in music plans are being made to present an authority on old violins at one of the meetings later in the spring the speaker will demonstrate his talk by showing actual instru ments plan model interviews at press conference a new feature of the sixth an nual lehigh scholastic press con ference to be held on may 13 will be model interviews in two round tables in sports writing and gen eral news writing dale h gram ley associate professor of journa lism announced yesterday ten tative plans are also under way for a round table for faculty advisers one hundred three publications have already entered the newspa per contests and 51 schools have registered intentions of sending delegates to the conference among last year's winers who are enter ing the contests again this year are the plainfield new jersey high school entree which won first place in the class a newspa per division the mercersburg aca demy news and the shadyside academy news which took first and second prizes respectively in the prep school newspaper divi sion and the merchantville new jersey high school aerial which won second place in the class b magazines group other round tables for which tentative plans have been made in clude editorial writing headlines and makeup mimeographed pub lications problems of magazines and problems of the business staff give talks in philadelphia dale h gramley university news editor and earl l crum as sociate professor of greek spoke to assemblies at west philadelphia high school this morning crum spoke on our heritage from greek and roman medicine while gramley's topic was " a century of progress in journalism school saves 40,000 social security fee as congress acts lehigh escaped the duty of pay ing about 40,000 annually in so cial security taxes on its employ ees when the ways and means committee of the house of rep resentatives voted unanimously to continue exception for non-profit educational and religious institu tions president c c williams made this statement after he received a letter wednesday from guy e snavely executive director of the association of american colleges who reported the action to the as sociation's members the commit tee mr snavely reported did not give the association a hearing dur ing its deliberations the university itself is not the only college institution from which the social security act threatened to levy income the members of the interfraternity council this winter were advised by president milton s grannatt bus.'39 to sign under protest their social security checks on fraternity employees this plan was urged by the na tional interfraternity conference in new york at which it was an nounced that by signing under protest aid would be given by the faculties of the law schools of sev eral member colleges in their pro jected contesting of the act so far no definite progress has been made in this plan falconry subject of trembley talk biology professor speaks before rotary club falconry was the subject of a talk by francis j trembley as sistant professor of biology at a meeting of the rotary club of bethlehem at 12:15 p.m wednes day in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem profesor trembley discussed the history of falconry and its gradual spread in the united states he spoke also of the place of ameri can hawks in nature american birds of prey in gen eral have been wrongly persecuted by man said professor trembley most of them are directly bene ficial to man in destroying rodents and insects of the remainder a few individuals may become poul try destroyers and should be shot some species such as the coo per's hawk and the sharp-shinned hawk that normally prey on song and insect-eating birds seem to do a great deal of damage but fur ther study shows that they are very likely a benefit to the farms on which they prey declared pro fesor trembley o geology lecture tonight dr james f bell national re search council fellow at the mass achusetts instiute of technology will lecture on some general and special aspects of petrofabric an alysis at 8:00 o'clock tonight in room 102 williams hall the talk is sponsored by the department of geology benedict and briedenbach win williams award wednesday night 120 prize to victors a prize of 120 was won by an intramural debating team compo sed of frank l benedict bus 40 and harold i briedenbach bus 39 who by their victory over g sidney sprague chem 40 and william e keiser ch e 41 cap tured first honors in the williams debating competition held wed nesday evening in packard audi torium before an audience of ap proximately 50 persons the winning team upholding the affirmative in the proposition resolved that the united states should establish an economic al liance with great britain in order to preserve democracy is the only team to survive this year's competition undefeated try for second place in a preliminary debate in the elimination round for second pri zes a team composed of john r perm bus 42 and charles f meyer eng 42 upholding the negative defeated richard a ware arts 41 and donald r schoen arts 41 the same resolu tion was debated in this contest benedict in a 12 minute speech stating the affirmative case con tended that there are two types of threats to the well being of the united states internal threats dealing with discontent poverty within and economic depression and external threats or fear of mil itary aggression stressing the need for uniting against these threats benedict said britain cannot stand alone . . there is a need for a united front of the democracies ... if britain falls it will be an economic catas trophe to the united states he labeled an economic alliance with britain as the strongest and most beneficial way of combatting threats to the united states sprague states negative sprague stating the negative case denied the permanent effect of alliances to preserve democracy he recommended instead efforts to increase trade with south america and to remedy the busi ness ills of this country he stres sed america's near self sufficiency and stated that britain together with her allies france and russia could carry on war without the aid of the united states an economic alliance with bri tain would lead to a war in which we would be involved he said a war would destroy democracy in this country ... it would aid britain but it would not secure the return of prosperity to the united states naval officer engineer author will appear at broughal high pick april 14 as date the current season of student concert-lecture programs will close with a lecture by commander edward ellsberg naval officer en gineer and author on april 14 at broughal high school announced willet weeks jr chairman of the committee since the student poll conducted last spring indicated that a pro gram devoted to exploration and science was wanted by the student body the committee signed com mander ellsberg to appear this season intending to become a lawyer in his youth ellsberg received an ap pointment to the united states navy upon his graduation from the university of colorado since that time he has worked for this department in the capacity of en gineer converted german liners technical experts have said that he has accomplished the impossible in the technique of locating and raising the hulks of wrecked ships his salvaging career started during the world war when he was ap pointed supervisor in the new york navy yard to direct the con verting of german trans-atlantic liners that had been seized into transport ships having done this he actually entered his career by rebuilding the wrecks of admiral dewey's flagship the olympia into a con voy cruiser his next task was to build and launch the super-dread naught tennessee after the war commander ells berg ceased his salvaging activities for a few years and was sent to the boston navy yard where he designed built and repaired num erous kinds of vessels in 1924 he worked for the shipping board for eight months redesigning the for ced draft and ventilation systems of the leviathan praised by book critics in addition to his various naval accomplishments commander el lsberg has been praised by book critics for beginning a new trend in popularizing subjects which usually are technical in 1929 his first book appeared under the title on the bottom the story of the s-51 salvage in 1930 his second book thirty fat homs deep became an overnight best seller the following year brought pigboats which was made into a movie entitled hell below this year marks the 14th season of lecturing for the naval officer last season he made a nation-wide tour speaking before college audi ences in al sections of the country dramatists admit 2 new members mustard and cheese honorary dramatic society yesterday elected raymond m rosenstein arts 39 and wayne f o'neill arts 39 to membership rosenstein has ap peared in paths of glory men in white and ceiling zero he took the part of trock in the re cent production of winterset o'neill appeared as judge gaunt in winterset he has previously had parts in the musical comedies prom trotters boy in babe land and knight in armor the society has been granted its petition to present the petrified forest by robert e sherwood on may 5 in the liberty high school auditorium albert a rights di rector of dramatics announced last night o haring leads conference dr albert haring associate pro fessor of economics headed a con ference yesterday at the haddon field high school haddonfield n j for students planning to take a business administration curricu lum in college vanquished congratulate victors in debating first lehigh man to place since society began ; will go to mit only 6 receive award f charles moesel ch e 39 was named saturday as one of the six to receive the tau beta pi fel lowship awards for 1939-40 he is the first lehigh student chosen for the award and will go to the mass achusetts institute of technology to continue his studies with free tuition and a 650 annual stipend furnished by the society the announcement of this group for next year brings the total to 66 fellowships since their inaugur ation 10 years ago herbert a sawyer jr civil engineering of lafayette college and edward c dench electrical engineering of the worcester polytechnic insti tute will also go to m i t for a year under the same arrangement robert fletcher general engineer ing stanford university will re main there for graduate work robert e hage aeronautical en gineering university of washing ton will go to the california insti tute of technology and george h hanson chemical engineering university of michigan will re main there member of odk and cyanide moesel is a member of omicron delta kappa honorary activities society cyanide junior honorary activities society and was recently elected to phi beta kappa honor ary scholastic society he is also a member of the chi psi social fraternity the newton ian society phi eta sigma honor ary freshman scholastic fraternity of which he was president for 1936-37 the r w blake philoso phical society pi mv epsilon hon orary mathematical society serv ing as secretary of this last society for this year moesel is also student leader of the symphony orchestra president of tone honorary music society and was drum major of the band in 1936-37 the seven semester average which helped gain him an election to phi beta kappa this semester was 3.94 he has four times attain ed a 4.00 average he received freshman and sophomore honors the william h chandler prize in chemistry 1936 the tau beta pi prize for the highest ranking freshman in engineering 1936 the alumni junior prize for the high est ranking junior in engineering 1938 and the chandler prize for the highest ranking student of each class in chemistry and chemical engineering allowed no outside work the recipients of tau beta pi fellowship awards are not permit ted to accept any form of outside work during the year they spend at post graduate studies even as sistant positions at the institutions which they attend are granted only with the permission of the director of the scholarships m i t auto matically admits the fellow tuition free and the tuitions of the men who elect other institutions is us ually taken care of according to a bulletin sent to the university by a d moore director of the fel lowships the selection of the fellows and alternates were made at an all-day meeting of the board in detroit saturday those who made the sel ections were charles h spencer former chief engineer of the inter state commerce commission frank burton consulting engineer james w parker chief engineer of the detroit edison company a trustee of cornell university and vice president of the american so ciety of mechanical engineers and mr moore director a member of the university of michigan electri cal engineering faculty tau beta pi second oldest hon orary society in the country was founded at lehigh in 1885 by prof edward williams jr there are 69 actvie chapters throughout the country and over 27,000 members treme right whom they defeated in final battle o words wednesday night to win first prize in wil hams debating competition b & w staff phot harold i breidenbach bus 39 extreme left and frank l benedict bus 40 third from left shake hands with william e keiser ch e 41 sec ond from left and sidney sprague chem 40 ex lehigh university brown and white vol xlvi no 40 ellsberg talk will complete lecture series marines to pick lehigh graduate appendixes go on rampage just before mid-year exams bethlehem pa friday march 24 1939 take debate by advocating britain tie-up receives national award price — five cents tau beta pi names moesel to fellowship member intercollegiate newspaper association z kl2 all the lehigh netcs first