Brown and White Vol. 27 no. 42

              hon.e.e beidleman at senior banquet vol xxvii no 42 many new trees to grace campus penn to stage intercollegiates price five cents perm state last year's cham pions looms up as strongest contestant again lieutenant-governor of penna speaks at function of class of 1920 banquet well attended mr arthur s clay alumnus discusses construction and development of roads c james yen holder of princeton and yale degrees tells of china's possibilities capt booth favorite 124 present cornell also has strong well bal anced team lehigh will un doubtedly place dr drinker and prof stewart other speakers m b tate class president acts as toastmaster the feature of the first spring meeting of the philadelphia lehigh club to be held march 26 will be an illustrated lecture twice across the continent by motor truck by andrew k bram baugh 09 with a hundred or more lantern slides mr brumbaugh will relate in detail the remarkable trip of two motor trucks that made the coast to coast journey without a mishap among other things that will be described fully will be the climb over cone mountain the ascent of pikes peak traveling through the yosemite valley and the progress over the lincoln high way furthermore the speaker will have many comical incidents to relate and much superb scenery to describe in his lecture on the acme of achievement of motor car construction smoker arranged in celebration of maryland day march 25 the maryland club of lehigh has arranged for a smoker to be held at moose hall broad way on thursday evening at 8 p.m dr emery and capt lang will be present and will address the club all maryland men are urged to be present although the weather conditions of the past few weeks have given but questionable indications of the coming of spring that much hoped for season will soon be with us in view of this it might be of in terest to the student body to gain an insight into the actual work which is being done to care for and to further the beauty of the college grounds it has been customary in past years to do some extensive plant ing on the campus and in sayre park and this season is no excep tion mr j clarence cranmer superintendent of buildings and grounds is in charge of this work about 11,100 trees have been pur chased for this spring the majority of these will be planted in sayre park consisting of 9,500 soft and 1,500 hardwoods the softwoods will be white pine pitch pine yellow pine jack pine nor way spruce and colorado blue spruce the hardwoods will con sist of oak maple popular gum and dogwood trees one hundred of the larger variety will be given berths on the campus proper these will be oak elm birch linden hornbeam and ash trees in addition to all these there will be several hundred trees trans planted from the arboretim to various places on the campus these have been nursed and raised on the university grounds every year trees that have grown to a certain size in the arboretum are continued on second page mr c james yen spoke before the y m c a meeting on sunday evening on the subject of china and her future mr yen who has received degrees from both princeton and yale is a convinc ing speaker and doubly so on the subject of china in which he naturally is vitally interested he spoke in part as follows the nations of the earth are apparently at peace but yet they are fighting diplomatically each one is trying to secure some advan tage over te other this is not so in the case of china and the united states they have been friendly for many years and unless some thing unforseen happens they should grow in friendship every nation is ambitious it wishes to achieve greatness in which it can only succeed if it has four necessary qualifications these are first resources of every kind agricultural and mineral being the most important second man power or population third nation al spirit or patriotism and fourth leadership china certainly has the first qualification her agricultural re sources are vast although she only has a small portion of her land under cultivation she feeds one • continued on second page for scrantonians m e.'s plan trip prof seyfert addresses thursday evening club announcement is made of an intercollegiate easter dance to be held at the century club scran ton on april 5 1920 waring s banjo orchestra of tyrone pa will furnish the music the chair man of the committee in charge is j reap of perm state college r o t c to see sun rise on wednesday march 24th twenty-four senior mechanics will leave with professors larkin and deschweinitz for an inspection trip to philadelphia and the vicin ity they will inspect numerous plants and attend several meetings in the course of their visit the program to be observed is as fol lows wed morning link belt co nicetown afternoon session of so ciety of industrial engi neers at belleview strat ford thur morning : hog island afternoon : victor talking machine co evening session of s i e fri morning : baldwin locomo tive works afternoon : i p morris co and american mfg co sat morning philadelphia elec tric co afternoon : intercollegiate wrestling finals new alumnae club organized hail to the joys of army life ! the r o t c is to have drill be fore lreakfast instead of in the afternoon yesterday it was defi nitely decided that the drill hour is to be changed the upper and lower fields are given over to sports each afternoon making it impos sible for the r o t c to drill at that time ; hence when capt lang suggested the return to old army tactics those concerned with few exceptions voted in the affirmative this is the order of events : first call 5.55 a.m assembly 6.00 rollcall 6.05 drill 6.10-7.00 dismissed 7.05 three buglers will be on hand to sound the calls r 0 t c men are to report on the upper field in uniform and with rifle andj bayonet morning drill will be held tomor row and every wednesday morn ing thereafter until further notice mr arthur s clay c.e 05 who is division engineer of • the pennsylvania state highway de partment was the visiting speaker at the civil engineering society's meeting thursday night the meet was well attended by both students and members of the faculty and turned out to be ex ceedinghr interesting m x paret 20 opened the meeting with an instructive talk on the construction of camp abraham eustis a large artillery camp near newport news vir ginia this camp was important as an embarkation point for artil lery troops a balloon observers school was also located here the camp was built in a wilderness of underbrush and much work was required to clear it so that the engi neering parties could lay out the camp sites the engineers were organized under a chief engineer and an assistant engineer in five divisions roads buildings sewers electric wiring and office work the field engineers ran out base line c for the camp made a topo graphical survey and staked out the positions of the buildings put in the sewers built a railroad and constructed highways the camp was situated n a strip of land almost surrounded by water and the surface of the ground w ras very swampy making it necessary to build concrete foundations under the heavy ware houses wooden piles however were used for the barracks and lighter store houses the buildings were built alternately of wood and stucco for fire protection the troops were transported to the camp by the chesapeake and ohio railroad roads were also con structed leading to the camp the heavy traffic roads being of con crete and the lighter traffic roads of macadam paret illustrated his talk with several plans and pictures of the camp after paret's talk president straub introduced mr arthur s clay c.e 05 division engineer of the pennsylvania state high way department mr clay has had a great deal of experience in the construction of highways and his lecture was very instructive as well as interesting he illustrated his talk with many slides showing the different stages of highway construction from the preliminary survey of the land to the final com pletion of the road mr clay dealt mainly with concrete roads his talk in part follows the first thing to be done in road construction is to find out what is on the highway this is done by a preliminary survey which should include notes on everything on the ground these notes are sent to the draftsmen continued on third page lacrosse coach arrives inkwell meeting learn to grasp the other man's v iewpoint ! ' ' was the admonition the hon e e beidleman lieuten ant-governor of pennsylvania gave the seniors at their banquet on friday evening the banquet the last undergraduate function of its sort the members of 1920 will have the opportunity to attend was held at kurtz's restaurant the percentage of the class attending was gratify ingly large 124 of the 149 men on the class roll being present and as a get-together the affair proved highly enjoyable president h s drinker and prof j l stewart dean of the college of business administration at le high were the other speakers of the evening although hon will iam d b ainey chairman of the public service commission of pennsylvania was to have address ed the seniors he was unable to be present gov beidleman sought to im press on his hearers the fact that a present-day graduate from a col lege or university is faced with problems by far the most complex and difficult in history and that the requirements imposed upon the young man of today demand that first of all he be broad-minded the ability to see and appreciate an other's viewpoint he said is now as never before essential to a man s success gov beidleman referred specifically to present-day labor problems i believe in organized labor he said but i am firmly convinced that there are many weak points in the present-day system thus the question of standardized rates of pay is one of the big problems confronting us under the present system there is no incentive for individuals to study and acquire skill in their particular lines ; the fellow who white-washes a board fence gets paid as much as the skilled decora tor gov beidleman declared that what is needed in public life to day are men who have the courage of their conviction and who not falling in with the ideas that may be current at the time unless those ideas are their own also are willing to apply the same energy and courage in facing prob lems as they did while at college ' ' in connection with this he spoke of bolshevism and said that he did not approve of the present popular system of deporting the radicals and thus passing the buck but considered that they should be dealt with here — by suitable legis lation in urging the class of 1920 to make the most of their advantages he stated that the reputation and past achievements of lehigh and its graduates must be kept in mind every person will judge lehigh s standard by what you do ' ' he said and lehigh s standard is a high one i have known that for years it has been considered a fact in continued on third page the southern new england lehigh club is the name of the new alumni club which has just been organized with headquarters at hartford conn the first dinner will be held april 27 at the hartford univer sity club the lehigh baseball team which plays wesleyan in middletown on that day has been invited to be the honored guests c h veeder m.e 86 of the veeder manufacturing co has been elected president of the new club joseph w thurston 8.a 96 a member of the football team while at lehigh is the secretary weighman hall the perm gymnasium will be the scene of the intercollegiate wrestling cham pionships next friday and satur day afternoons the preliminaries are screduledi for friday afternoon at 2.30 and the finals the following day at the same time this year the meet is expected to be the closest one for some time the only teams in the league which have exceptionally strong squads are cornell and perm state while lehigh columbia and 1 the uni versity of pennsylvania will put teamis on the mat which are strong only in one or two classes in the 115-pound class mackey of cornell would seemi to be the favorite this man has shown up exceptionally well in every meet and doubtlessly can be counted on for his match however in the 125-pound class acherly of cor nell and garber of state are practically tied for honors with garber holding a slight advantage over his opponent in the 135 pound class conroy of cornell and detar of state both look good but conroy very probably will be the favorite this man has had much experience and was intercol legiate champion one year in the 145-pound class bertolet of le high and mills of state appear to be the choice mills is one of the best matmen today in intercollegi ate wrestling and this bout will be closely contested bergdoll of lehigh and mowerer of state are probably the best in the 158-pound class and it is not doubted that the title lies between the two men good of lehigh and brown of state will probably battle for the championship in the 175 pound class brown is a for mer champion and is an old hand at the game good likewise is an old hand and can give a hard run for the place in the unlimited class captain booth of lehigh is the favorite he is practically the only man this year to consistently score by this comparison of men it can be seen who are the most likely candidates for championships this year undoubtedly state has one of the strongest teams in its his tory and cornell likewise has an enviable group columbia and pennsylvania are almost too weak to be reckoned with yet both of these latter teams have good mat men and the results although con jectured at are greatly in doubt the following is the official list of entrants for the meet : state shirk 115 garber 125 detar 135 mills 145 mowrer 158 brown 175 black heavy weight columbia — citron 115 ; moli nos 125 ; zaretsky 135 ; kirkland 145 h potter 158 beckett and rickenbacker 175 ; fargo heavy weight continued on fourth page w t o'neill lacrosse coach arrived here yesterday and will start practice in preparation for the spring schedule immediately with continued good weather the upper field will soon become habit able and the wielders of the stick will get in some hard workouts be fore the first game three weeks hence there will be a meeting of the lutheran students of lehigh at st peter's parish house on friday evening march 26 at 7 45 mr f r wjilt secretary of the board of exudation of bethlehem has been secured as the speaker for the even ing professor stanley s seyfert ad dressed the thursday evening club thursday night in the physics building on the subject of wireless telegraphy and tele phony ' ' prof seyfert first by means of apparatus and simple mechanical analogies tried to make clear to the audience the essential princi ples of the modern electron theory of electricity and the nature of herzian waves used in ' ' wireless ' ' these are waves of the ether but differ greatly from the ordinary electric and light waves of ether movement or wireless waves which usually are from 500 yards to fif teen miles in length whereas light and electric waves are a very small fraction of an inch in length he showed that electricity is ma terial and can be bent and swayed by a bar magnet after a general account of wire less waves prof seyfert explained the particular instrument the audioii which deforrest an american perfected he showed how this made wireless telephony practicable he then let the audi ence hear the waves that were be ing sent out from the arlington station at washington setting the time at 10 o clock students of the university assisted prof seyfert it was a novel experience to all concerned and prof seyfert in showing the ingenuity of the in ventions also displayed the atmos phere of mystery surrounding the subject for most of the audiences professor miller presided and at his suggestion a hearty vote of thanks was passed to prof seyfert and his assistants brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 23 1920 phila lehigh club's first spring meeting talk on china at y meeting fifth meeting attracts civils