Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 48

              n y times correspondent speaks to engineers on eastern affairs to elect arcadia man cheerleader seniors invited to tea for the senior class thomas m buck m e preston parr ch e samuel j davy e e george h ried arts bernard w deehan bus david h schaper bus william d hayes i e john m stockbridge m e albert w hemphill m e robert p whipple chem for the junior class philip j berg m e robert j priestly ch e hugh boyd m e q john schwarz m e donald h brownlee i e richard c shafer m e blame d ferrell ch e robert l smith c e e lyster frost met e george w snyder arts william c hittinger met e kenneth g swayne m e for the sophomore class charles b austin met e william d miller c e john h brindle m e w robert moore i e william a clark m e harvey g redden m e robert r ferguson bus james schwab bus paul j franz bus harry b shuttleworth bus john d ingram arts frank winter ch e stuart r mclntyre i e all seniors are invited to tea from 4 to 6 sunday afternoon april 26 at the home of pres ident and mrs williams sen iors whose names may have been missed in giving the in vitations should feel free to come bethlehem`s bach festival is no news to trapp family sees recovery following war carothers says american enterprise will beat post-war slump underestimation of the japan ese has caused the worst setback to the united states since the brit ish burned washington in 1814 these were the words of hallett abend former chief far eastern correspondent of the new york times at a crowded lecture meet ing of the engineers club of le high valley last night in packard auditorium allied complacency in the face of inevitable war and japanese fifth column activities can not be over emphasized he said fail ure of the british to carry out the scorched earth policy according to the correspondent was the cause of the malayan defeat the immensity of the war in the east is staggering and it will be no easy task to win he declared but the winning of the war must not include a soft peace for the japs much of the present agita tion in this line can be laid to sort of an insurance-policy type of propaganda on the part of the enemy governments if there is to be peace in the far east the united states must uphold the points of the atlantic charter he concluded abend was to talk on the ram parts of the pacific but in his words since there are only two left he preferred to speak on the whole far eastern theater as a correspondent he lived in the far east for 15 years and made a two months air trip over the pres ent conflict area just before the pearl harbor incident the election of eight juniors to omicron delta kappa national honorary leadership society will be made on wednesday april 29 at pres clement c williams home announced frank s mc kenna met.e 42 president of the society character shall be the primary requirement for membership ... a student candidate . . . shall have ranked in the upper 35 in schol arship in his class and college or school of the institution . . . for the immediate past two semesters . . . the election will be based on the point system . . . proved that no man shall be eligible unless his points include at least a definite number outside his major group the men elected will be tapped at flag day ceremonies on april 30 and will attend the initiation ban quet on may 3 candidates must submit points before noon on april 27 at the arcadia office the point system is announced by robert s struble m.e 42 as follows group i scholarship 3.5 average all previous semesters 15 3 average all previous semesters 10 2.5 average all previous semesters 5 e p wilbur scholar s scholastic prize 1 group 11 publications brown and white editorial manager 5 n ews manager 5 local advertising assistant 4 circulation manager 3 editor in chief 3 sports editor per semester 3 business manager 3 make-up editor per semester 3 news editor per semester 3 photographic editor per semester 3 editorial council 2 copy supervisor 1 national advertising assistant 1 assistant circulation manager 1 continued on page four earl p hansen editor of the travelers guide to the latin am erican republics and author of journey to manaos will be the principal speaker at the freshman banquet to be held at 6:30 p.m thursday april 23 at the hotel bethlehem walter r okeson vice-presi dent of the university will reign as toastmaster of the affair other speakers will be dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy leading the invocation and colonel fay w brabson head of the mil itary department capt samuel pierce jr professor of military science and tactics will lead the group singing hansen's talk will be entirely impromptu he will tell of his experiences in south america and discuss the importance of south america in the present world crisis visited amazon basin in 1931 hansen accompanied an expedition to the amazon and orinoco basins to study the fluc tuations of the earth and magnetic fields he has also accompanied other research expeditions to ice land and the sub arctic hansen is a fellow of the am erican geological society and is past secretary of the explorer's club he is the author of many scientific and research articles he is a graduate of the university of wisconsin and the university of chicago to stimulate the sale of banquet tickets a new wrinkle will be attempted this year a roll call will be taken of all the living group representatives and the number of tickets purchased by each living group tickets may be obtained from the representatives of the various living groups and at the supply bureau until the ticket sale clos es tomorrow charles b austin met.e chair man of the banquet committee stated that ticket returns must be handed in at drown hall by 8 p.m tomorrow or there will be a deficit r w hall society visits princeton hears talks an american newspaper man in vienna once told the singing trapp family that in america was a city named bethlehem where a bach iestival was presented each spring bach occupies an important place in the repertoire of this unique musical clan and two of his chorales were sung on friday night's program in broughal high school conducted by dr franz wasner a priest friend who besan to train them in their austrian home the baroness yon trapp and her five daughters and two sons sang folk songs of their native country and sacred and secular selections from the pens of bach brahms mo zart moussorgsky and palestrina they played instruments too — of the early recorder type their block flutes the spinet and the viol di gamba are instruments for which much of their music was written travel in private bus having lived only three years in america since leaving austria the family has sung numerous times in 45 states traveling in a private bus and keeping house along the way the baroness counts it a joy to care for her family of ten even under conditions that would try the nerves of an average woman she announces part of the pro gram encores that supplement each of the five parts of the even ing's entertainment she speaks with excellent english phraseol ogy the words of which are ac cented by her austrian expression with her explanations she drew many a simple human laugh from the audience that nearly filled the broughal high auditorium these simple people belie their nobility with their almost peasant type of dress and demure air they change at intermission from the more formal style of apparel to clothes of a more festive nature girls of simple good looks the five daughters of simple good locks who part their hair and comb it straight and use very little make-up are charming the two robust sons sing and blend well in appearance with their sisters only the father baron georg yon trapp and the youngest three members of the family take no part in the music sung on the stage but the young ones are be ing trained johannes two is the only child born in the united states — and in pennsylvania which the baroness admits smells like home at first the family had no inten tion of appearing publicly and were even averse to the idea but when lotte lehman opera star accidently heard them in their nat ive surroundings she induced them to compete in a singing contest in salzburg they won the first prize and have sung under con tract ever since 20 answer call for blood donor twenty members of the r w hall society philosophical hon orary visited princeton university friday in the afternoon they heard dr mckay speak on christianity in the contemporary crisis after eating dinner in nassau tavern the members heard a talk by dr bowers entitled american social philosophy in the present world crisis debating finalists to vie tomorrow beckwith parr will meet with mussina diggs wife of lehigh alumnus is aided by students lehigh men get a taste of what they'd drink if an enemy bomb were to blast out the campus water supply left to right are charles l pelzel m.e 44 john schneider bus 42 and burton havvorth met 43 no students to go thirsty should war come to lehigh dean neil carothers took an optimistic attitude toward post war conditions in an address at the formal initiation banquet of tau beta pi scholastic honorary friday evening at howard john son's restaurant allentown dr carothers predicted that the united states would not become prey to a european form of dic tatorship as has been predicted by some students of sociology he said that he did not see as dark a picture of depression fol lowing the war as has been painted by many economists the oppor tunities for advancement and suc cess in the united states would prevent the complete and perman ent depression forecast by some he declared in addressing the initiates and members he reminded them of the responsibilities of the engineer during the present war and of their greater responsibilities in the work of reconstruction and in the con version of industry back to peace time production before the banquet the formal initiation ceremony was held in the chapter room in packard labora tory at this time alfred v bo dine 15 former president of the alumni association and an alum nus trustee was initiated an alum nus member of tau beta pi following dr carothers talk each of the initiates was called on to give a short speech concluding talk mr bodine emphasized the engineers responsibilities and said that at this time it is industry's duty not to ask why it should do a particular job but to go about finding how to do it and doing it in the shortest possible time glee clubs hold combined concert lehigh moravian singers give program dance two intramural debating teams who have survived five elimina tion rounds will meet in the finals at 7:30 p.m tomorrow in the browsing room of the library to determine the winners of the will iams prizes for intramural debat ing the affirmative team of robert k beckwith ch.e 43 and pres ton parr jr ch.e 43 will oppose the negative team of robert d mussina bus 44 and donald r diggs i.e 45 the question will be resolved that after this war there should be formed a world federation of nations the winning team will receive the team prize of 120 while the losers will share 80 judges for the event have not been announc ed chemical society elects approximately 20 lehigh stud ents answered an emergency call for a blood transfusion to aid the wife of a lehigh alumnus last thursday the men answered an appeal for blood made by the mother of mrs fred mertens who called dean wray h congdon from st luke's hospital mertens was graduated from lehigh in 1934 in the curric ulum of mechanical engineering of the 20 men who reported to the hospital to have their blood typed six proved to have the cor rect type and are now on call for giving blood transfusions as may be needed dean congdon wishes to express his thanks to the lehigh men who answered the appeal their ser vices are greatly appreciated by mrs mertens mother and may in deed be the means of saving mrs mertens life stated the dean lehigh students won't go thirsty in case of an emergency foreseeing the need of an emergency water supply in case the city reservoir should fail president clement c williams suggested a new source such a source would be created by the damming of the flow of water from the spring above the lookout in sayre park under this plan water would be directed into two large concrete basins with a capacity of 250 gal rasins will h sunk intn the ground near the spring an over flow would also be constructed on one basin thus the water could continue on its course down the mountain to the bethlehem sewer system when lehigh was founded 75 years ago the waters from the spring cut a path through the cam pus passing east of lamberton hall across the site where now stands williams hall and the physics building thence to packer avenue and taylor street later the water was diverted through an under ground cavern so that it now emp ties into the city's sewer system james burley 94 dies these waters are planned for use in future develpoment a civil engineering buildng proposed with a hydrodynamics department would be made possible by utiliz ing the underground stream which would pass through the basement of the building the sunken basins to bje install ed by the university ground crew at an estimated cost of 250 will be located at the highest point on the campus work on the project is expected to start about the middle of may at which time the delivery of the concrete basins has been promised continued on page four campaigning for the offices of the senior junior and sophomore classes started today as the arcadia nominations committee announced its choices of candidates in the university elections to be held next monday lehigh will go to the polls on monday to elect senior junior and sophomore officers and arcadia member-at-large the senior head cheerleader and two junior cheerleaders 1 the revised elections system adopted this semester by ar cadia permits nominations by pe tions and thirteen candidates chose to place their names on the ballots in that manner all other candidates were selected by the arcadia committee balloting will be conducted monday between 8 a.m and 5 p.m in the arcadia office in drown hall successful candidates for the offic es of president and secretary treasurer of each class and the arcadia position will take office immediately if an elected officer has not selected the university's accelerated program the candidate who receives the next highest number of votes will serve in office during the summer until the re turn of the regularly elected can didate nominees for all the university offices follow senior officer candidates john m stock bridge m e nu merals in wrestling and lacrosse j v and varsity letters in wrestl ing and lacrosse captain-elect of wrestling competitor for bache lor and epitome manager of cross country team cyanide member of a s m e vice president of chi psi samuel j davy e e tau beta pi eta kappa nu pi delta ep silon omicron delta kappa cy anide junior editor epitome news manager of b & w numerals in cross country george ried arts president of leonard hall freshman and soph omore honors vice president of eta sigma phi intramural p e leader secretary and treasurer of r w blake society cyanide albert w hemphill m e pres ident of drinker house section president of shop club rifle club scabbard and blade president of i e - m e society william d hayes i e if coun cil secretary secretary of junior class cyanide secretary varsity football freshman and sophomore honors regional scholarship preston parr ch e president of richards house section presi dent of interdormitory council tone society tau beta pi fresh man and sophomore honors phi eta sigma robert p whipple chem pres ident of sophomore and junior classes president of delta tau delta chairman of arcadia rally committee numerals in baseball and basketball cyanide brown and white debating if council bernard w deehan bus var sity football captain-elect presi dent of alpha kappa psi david h schaper bus fresh man and varsity swimming teams captain of varsity swimming cy anide president arcadia freshman committee vice president of if council president of phi gamma delta thomas h buck m e varsity football omicron delta kappa phi beta pi i-f council presi dent junior officer candidates e lyster frost met e soph omore class president arcadia student athletic committee fresh * man honors chairman freshman banquet co-chairman sophomore banquet president of newtonian society freshman and varsity foot ball letter and numerals in hock ey metallurgical society kenneth g swayne m e soc cer wrestling baseball numeral and letter newtonian society phi officers elected by the student branch of the american chemical society are as follows robert p whipple chem 43 president john j hucker ch.e 43 vice president joseph j kurtz chem 44 secretary robert j priestly ch.e 44 treasurer following a combined glee club concert of lehigh university and moravian college for women sat urday evening in packer chapel a dance was held in drown hall to the music of the lehigh collegians the two glee clubs rendered sev eral selections under the direction of two of the student members miss doris louise english and miss marilyn weddigen a triple trio from moravian col lege for women sang several sel ections james l burley 94 who as a member of the firm bisscher and burley designed many of the pre sent buildings on the campus died recently in east norwalk conn vol xlix — no 48 hotel equipment missing bethlehem pa tuesday april 21 1942 brown and white price — five cents odk to elect 8 members on april 29 frosh to hear hansen talk about travels author-editor is chosen as banquet speaker for affair april 23 during houseparty weekend a brass firehose nozzle and a spotlight box were taken from the hotel bethlehem since these items cannot be replaced wilkes mcclave arcadia pres ident asks that they be re turned in the near future revised point list issued juniors must submit totals by april 27 class officer candidates are selected by arcadia have week to campaign campus will go to polls on monday pierce to lead singing to be tapped april 30 abend laments war setback coming up . . . tomorrow april 22 7:30 p m — glee club drown hall thursday april 23 5:30 p m — pi tau sigma ini tiation and banquet 201-251 packard and trainer's 6:30 p m — r w hall society and alpha epsilon delta ban quet shankweiler's 6:30 p m — freshman banquet hotel bethlehem 8 p m — sportsmen's club 466 packard lab friday april 24 4:00 p m — orchestra practice grace hall 8:15 p.m — male animal mus tard and cheese broughal high school auditorium saturday april 25 3 p m — varsity track lafayette home 8 p m — male animal mus tard and cheese broughal high school auditorium sunday april 26 3 p m — canterbury club drown hau 3:30 p m — senior reception dr williams residence 4:30 p m — band concert cam pus 4:30 p m — tone society haff quartet chapel brown and white — first with all the lehigh news z 612 vote on april 27 monday is 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