Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 41

              chemists take trip to new york phila merchant addresses y.m.c.a seniors announce theses subjects in addition to the subjects chosen by students in the civil and chemical engineering depart ments published in an earlier issue of the brown and white seniors in the metallurgical engineering arts and science and business ad ministration departments have se lected the following subjects mets and el mets h d lehr the effect of mold shape on crystallization of metal ingots m j kay behavior of van adium in the electric furnace w t mitman and r c alden taking special military radio course instead of thesis c e blasius erosion of the rifling of guns e h flinn production of pure iron in the electric t!f -~, r nace business administration thesis w a barthold federalism l a fritchman lord mans field in commercial law j a bishop specialization in industry k l ritter maine in consti tutional law j s goodman " international ism '' w v mccarthy john mar shall b.a and b.s theses e t corfigan arthurian legion h e o'neill south american railways c a wolbach the physiology of muscular fatigue a s shultz the bacteriology of milk true patriotism makes sacrifices by edward mott woolley from the national committee on public information the crucial test of patriotism is willingness to sacrifice one's own interests for the good of the country it is easy enough to be patriotic when one has something to gain by it if patriotism makes one s busi ness grow it is no trouble at all to wave a flag and pose as a patriot but when the nation calls for a sacrifice of business and profits the test is severe i have recently been connected with a campaign to raise money for the war camp community fund i have also been associated with red cross and liberty loan cam paigns in all of these activities i have had occasion to study the atti tude of many people who ostensibly were patriotic and yet were unwill ing to make any sacrifices when analyzed their patriotism seemed to lie almost altogether in talk on one occasion it was necessary to enlist the services of quite a number of men in making a house to-house canvass and i was aston ished at the unwillingness i en countered on the part of men who had no valid excuse for refusing to do this work fully two-thirds of those who were requested to take certain districts and canvass them in this patriotic service for our country refused when pressed for reasons they could simply say interesting data concerning le high men on the firing line has been compiled alumni clubs active newest number contains letters from many men at the front the february number of the le high alumni bulletin which has just come from the presses full of news about lehigh men in the war it contains"a new up-to-the-minute list of alumni in the government service this list contains 742 names as compared with 350 names contained in the incomplete list published last november lehigh s honor roll headed on the firing line includes the names of men from the class of 1875 to the class of 1921 inclusive from the latest information it is found that out of the 742 known to be in the service 56 are listed whose rank and often branch of service is unknown of the remain ing 686 305 or nearly one-half are commissioned officers and fur ther the 686 includes a total of 100 who are training for commissions so that of the 586 left more than one-half are officers there are 66 put down as non-coms and 215 as privates of special interest are the many letters from the front activities in all branches of the service are described by lehigh s sons over there r d halliwell 19 has an article called six months in the french army which de scribes graphically the experiences of an american ambulance driver in france another section of the bulletin is full of alumni day news and in formation for those who expect to return on that day it includes let ters from the secretaries of each of the reunion classes urging all the class members to be present at the reunion the section devoted to college activities gives a resume of the football season and other athletic information of interest to the alumnus the bulletin also contains its usual section devoted to alumni clubs which is full of the activities of these particularly noted is the silver jubilee of the philadelphia club held last january freshman committees four large industrial plants in vicinity of new york are visited the senior chemists and chemi cal engineers returned saturday from an inspection trip of indus trial concerns in and about new york which occupied the latter three days of last week the party was in charge of professors a a diefenderfer and dale s chamber lain of the department the tour consisted of trips of in spection to four plants and a great deal of time was devoted to careful investigation of processes of manu facture of staple food articles and other necessities of every day use throughout the country — the pro duct of the chemist on thursday morning march 14 the plant of the babbit soaps work at fairview n j was visit ed the babbit works is one of the representative types of its kind in the country and is a firm of long establishment aside from the manufacture of soap the manu facture of by-products assumes large proportions in the afternoon of the same day the inspection party visited the plant of the american sugar re fining company at hoboken n j this company is engaged in the re fining of cane sugar by the most modern processes and draws its crude product largely from the southern united states central america and west indian islands at present it is supplying a great deal of the demand especially in the eastern section of the country and is also exporting to some extent to britain and france they have great ware houses and docks at hoboken as an aid to transporta tion and storage friday morning march 15 was devoted to an inspection of the establishment of the manhattan rubber company at passaic n j and the afternoon used in visiting the plant of the corn products re fining company at edgewater n j the corn products com pany as the name implies is en gaged in the manufacture of var ious food articles and by-products from corn although extensive work is also being done in other branches of food chemistry the party spent a great deal of time investigating the refining of vegetable oils syrups and dried products from the corn and other grains local fraternity granted charter in alpha chi rho president j f hess of the freshman class has appointed the following committees for the fresh man dance during junior week and the class banquet which will be the first time that the entire class will assemble in a social w t ay banquet committee c a hip kins chairman r m hinchman h p wamsley l c ricketts and r l wilson dance committee h c rock ett chairman e m griswold r d blake h g boynton and j w dougherty fewer games to be played owing to the closing of college at an early date intermural lacrosse football schedule for next year which is nearly complete has many big games the following schedules from spring sports have been approved by the athletic committee and are announced by the various team managers each schedule has been abbreviated quite a little due to the early closing of college but each activity yet presents an attractive schedule prof bosey reiter has just returned from a meeting of the executive committee of the middle atlantic states intercollegiate track association and states that the date set for the meet this year is may 18 coach keady arrived at the beginning of the week and active outside baseball practice will begin immediately in preparation for the first game on march 30 the battery men have been using the cage daily to get a few of the winter kinks out before real work begins the lacrosse team is rapidly rounding into shape for its first battle and prospects look good for a fast team built around capt r c alden 18 the only letter man remaining from last year inter class lacrosse teams are being or ganized and the following men are at the head of their respective teams : juniors i v keith 19 ; sophomores e h jenness 20 freshmen l g wentling 21 tke schedules baseball — march 30 albright at home april 3 army away 6 catholic university at home 10 usaacs at home 13 open 17 seton hall at home ; 20 university of pennsylvania away 24 open 27 lafayette away may 1 swarthmore away 4 lafayette at home ; 11 lafayette away lacrosse april 13 swarth more at home 20 university of pennsylvania away 27 stevens institute away may 4 yale at home 11 johns hopkins away tennis — april 17 hill school away ; 20 haverf ord at home ; 24 lafayette at home 26 rutgers away morning ; college city of new york away afternoon ; 27 stevens institute away morning , columbia away afternoon ; may 1 lafayette away 4 rutgers at home ; 8 pennsylvania at home the football schedule for 1918 is very nearly complete and repre sents one of the most attractive seen here for some years the schedule : september 28 open october 5 open 12 carnegie tech away 19 rutgers at home 26 ursinus at home november 2 university of pittsburgh at home ; 9 muhlen berg at home 16 perm state at home 23 lafayette away the usaacs will also probably be played business managers of 1920 epitome elected college lecture continued on third page after losing first two events varsity takes remaining five score 23=9 captain bevier shows best per formance of the meet columbia captain wins and loses lehigh s wrestlers came from be hind saturday afternoon in their meet with columbia in taylor gym and won out 23-9 after the new yorkers had gained a nine point advantage in the first two bouts all the bouts were well con tested two of them requiring extra periods before a decision was reached captain barish of columbia represented his team in two classes the 145-pound class and the heavy weight class he was successful in the 145-pound class throwing zir kin at the last minute but in the heavy weight bout he was thrown by costello bevier starred for le high scoring a fall in his usual clean-cut fashion in the 125-pound class in one minute and 26 seconds the meet opened with the 145 pound bout which was put on first to allow captain barish time to rest up for his second bout of the day in the heavy weight division zjirkm rtipicsiseinuu i-icliigii j.j.l this class and took the aggressive from the beginning several times ho nearly had barish s shoulders pinned to the mat only to have the columbia captain wriggle safely out zirkin tired himself out dur ing the first part of the bout how ever and succumbed to a neck lock and body hold with only 20 seconds to go giving columbia the first five points in the 115-pound class rosen sweig added four more points to columbia's total by taking the de cision over reynolds neither man was able to do much in this bout but the columbia wrestler took the aggressive for most of the time and was given the decision with a nine point advantage for columbia bevier jumped right in to his opponent in the 125-pound class and pinned his shoulders to the mat with a bar and chancery hold in the short time of one minute and 26 seconds it was easily the prettiest wrestling of the day and won for bevier much ap plause in the 135-pound bout wuerz of lehigh and thompson of colum bia danced around the mat for the full nine minutes without either man's getting off his feet in the extra periods neither man had any distinct advantage until in the closing seconds wuerz obtained a half nelson and neck hold on his man and pinned his shoulders to the mat with only eleven seconds to spare the 158-pound bout resulted in a decision for latimer over rosen of columbia in the regulation nine minute period lalimer had the advantage throughout the bout and several times had holds which were expected to result in falls in the closing seconds he again very nearly had a fall but time was called a moment too soon this tied the score at 9-9 and wuerz s victory in the extra periods of the 135-pound class gave lehigh a 14-9 the last two bouts of the day added nine more points to the le continued on fourth page theta delta psi announces the granting of its petition to the national fraternity alpha chi rho for a charter as a chapter at le high theta delta psi was organized in 1916 and is at present located on vine street south side alpha chi rho is the twenty-first national fraternity to establish here the newest chapter will be known as phi mu the local fraternity theta delta psi was founded with the purpose in view it has just attained becom in a chapter in alpha chi rho e l forstall and m b tate have been elected business man ager and assistant business man ager respectively of the 1920 epitome board competition between the two candidates was very close there will be a college lecture friday morning at 11 o'clock m packer memorial chapel by a h young director of the american museum of safety the subject of mr young's lecture will be some practical aspects of the safety movement ' ' w j crock of wanamaker stores discusses interesting subject steadfastness of purpose at the regular y m c a meet ing held in drown hall last sun day evening mr walter j crock an official in the wannamaker store at philadelphia addressed the meeting with an inspiring speech which had for its theme the steadfastness of purpose the meeting opened with several musical selections rendered by a quartet composed of miss martha cossell soprano ; miss millie naeff . alto and messrs ernest hooper baritone and allen v laub bass accompanied by mr william trem bath on the piano mr crock's speech follows in part ' ' these are the times when every thing seems to be seeking freedom the democracies of the world are now engaged in a great war to secure universal freedom while speaking of war there comes to mind a true ytory of an incident of the filipino war wherein a naval commander at one of the principal bases of the united states naval forces wished to send a message to one of the southern provinces in order to get this message through to its objective it would be neces sary to undergo the greatest danger and a person caught with the message upon him could receive no other punishment but immedi ate death a certain native of the port learning of the commander's desire to send the message pre sented himself to the officer and volunteered his services the com mander upon warning the volun teer of the danger which sur rounded the carrying of the mes sage told the young man to go to the window of the room in which they were standing and look upon the scene about the young man going to the window looked forth upon the grass outside the head quarters and also out upon the sea where one of uncle sam s ships lay at anchor turning to th,e naval officer the native said that he had seen all this before and could not imagine what his idea was the naval com mander then told the young man to loow towards the sky upon turn ing his gaze in that direction the young man immediately brought his hand to his head in salute for there floating from the masthead was the stars and stripes " there he said is one of the most important things that stand behind you my young man in this perilous undertaking the most important thing for you to remem ber is that g-od is with you and that secondly the stars and stripes are behind you and also remem ber that thank god the stars and stripes are now floating proudly from on high " mr crock went on to say we should remember that in the bible we find passages that at all times will cause us to lose our thoughts of dejection and smile away our remorse so that when we meet one who is in a mood of dejection we can smile him into religion continued on second page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday march 19 1918 alumni bulletin for february out notice ! sophomores columbia grapplers are no match for lehigh matmen price five cents seniors ! attention spring schedules are ratified vol xxv no 41 there will be an important meet ing of the class on wednesday at non in drown hall at this time nominations for epitome board officers will be made and arrange ments for the class dinner com pleted all seniors who have not been measured for their cap and gown should go to the supply bureau immediately and be measured the measurements are to be sent in late wednesday afternoon