Brown and White Vol. 58 no. 14

              if the bells in packer me morial chapel ring out tomor row afternoon to announce le high's first victory over lafa yette since 1936 the spirits of james and fred myers will re joice for it was james a myers who first tolled the bells following a triumph over la fayette more than forty years ago when james myers who at one time performed almost all the work now handled by the superintendent's office died in 1913 his son fred assumed his duties and it was he who pealed the glad tidings in 1936 alumni will remember fred myers as custodian of attendance slips in the days when chapel attend ance was compulsory the memory of james myers is pertetuated by a plaque on the west wall inside the chapel the inscription reads this tablet commemo rates forty-six years of faithful service of james a myers jani tor of lehigh university 1869 1913 respected and esteemed by all who knew him he will ever be held in affectionate re membrance by the alumni of the university who valued his friendship and appreciated his loyalty to lehigh lehigh looter strikes again another chapter in the re cent series of fraternity house robberies was added wednesday when a thief entered the kappa alpha society house at 3 a.m and stole a total of 40 from wallets according to a student who was studying at the time the thief must have entered through a side window rifled the wallets and made his exit through the front door ten men suffered loss of money as the result of the inci dent dr theodore o wedel warden of the college of preachers who will be the guest speaker at the packer memorial church has been praised by university chap lain george m bean as one of the outstanding preachers in the country dr wedel will speak on hiding from god at the lehigh university chapel service at 11 a.m sunday nov 21 in packer memorial church snow queen to reign at yuletide shindig we must make sure that a jewish state is established in palestine the rev wendell phillips told the international relations club last wednesday evening the first hour of the speech was broadcast over wgpa-fm the rev mr phillips explain ed that the jews have prior rights to jerusalem and the sur rounding area he insisted that the british are standing in the way of a zionist state to pre serve vital bases and oil fields in the middle east the rev wendell phillips radio commentator for a new york station is the rector of christ's church rye n y he has served as assistant chap lain of columbia university and as pastor of trinity church new rochelle n y the middle east needs the progress that the jews bring rev phillips told what he term ed an audience of experts the jews are growing crops and building cities in a desert long since abandoned by the arabs he said the arabs don't want to live in the desert but they don't want the jews to live in it either he affirmed he pointed out that the jews have added much more to the literature and civilization of palestine than the arabs he explained that the arabs have allowed palestine and the sur rounding area to degenerate since the time of christ continued on page 3 col 2 librarian dies here 25 years after 25 years of service as lehigh university librarian howard seavoy leach died at 2 a.m wednesday in st luke's hospital at the age of 61 anyone desiring to nominate a girl for snow queen honors should submit her picture to the arcadia office before nov 29 include your own name and address her name and address and her agreement to pose for publicity pictures name of the snow queen will be announced dec 13 her picture will appear on posters and will be featured in a goblet article tickets for the informal snow ball will cost 1.20 coronation of a snow queen will highilght the first lehigh snow ball in grace hall after the villanova basketball game dec 18 the spirit of christmas will be the motif of the gala affair which brings santa claus the collegians and the glee club together for an evening of music and dancing sponsored by the class of 1951 a native of penobscot me leach was graduated from wes lyan university in 1913 in 1915 continued on page 2 col 5 ed many potential wallace votes beginning his third year as a member of the history de partment dr peck was grad uated from yale in 1937 he received his m.a from the university of chicago in 1940 and his ph.d in 1942 from the same institution a student of world govern ment he was given a year's leave of absence from lehigh in 1946 to serve on the com mittee to frame a world con stitution dr peck was editor of common cause the com mittee's monthly organ progressives that i have talked to dr peck said are not particularly disturbed by the showing the party macta in continued on page 2 col 3 wallace platform won vote for democrats says peck this is the second in a series of faculty interviews on the 1948 elections dr peck today interprets the role played by the wallace wing convinced that the pro gressive party in large measure fulfilled its function in the am erican political scene dr george t peck assistant professor of history replied optimistically to puestions posed by a b&w staffman the election asserted dr peck was a great victory for the progressive party initial success of a third party is meas ured by its effect truman won on the progressive party plat orm this represents success for the progressives dr peck explained that the last stages of truman's cam paign were marked by vigorous campaigning on domestic pol icy singularly akin to the wal lace platform this pointed out the professor won for truman the lehigh university brown and white crush the leopards vol xviii — no 14 i.e clvifu friday november 19 1948 triple cannon volley to open pep session bethlehem pa by harry b ramsey three explosions of the lehigh cannon will set off tonight's pep rally to drum up enthusiasm for the game of the year president whitaker billy sheridan and coach leckonby are slated to speak to as many anxious students as grace hall can accommodate photo by antas scene from dumas camille radio play presented by university workshop last night over wgpa-fm and wfmz ted heck and dorothy snowden are at the mike at left while barbara erion portraying the tubercular marguerite camille alan coppes as the hero armand and jack fear sound effects man prform at the other other members of the cast in the background are awaiting their cues all radio workshop plays are produced and presented from the studio in christmas saucon hall of the brass cannon will offi cially present the traditional scoring symbol to arcadia win ner of the fraternity display contest will be awarded the 50 prize offered by the interfra ternity council as soon as the student body exhausts its lung power it will send the football team on its way to a good night's rest in continued on page 3 col 1 backing up coach william t leckonby will be the entire 1948 gridiron squad determined to prove they hold the answer to the first victory over lafayette since 1936 cheering section cheerleaders and speakers are out to prove that they are be hind their team the ten best frosh skits will be presented for final judg ing james hildebrand owner lehigh guards . . . upon receipt of a report from the athletic office wed nesday afternoon that beth lehem youngsters were scat tering and attempting to burn the materials gathered by freshmen for the lafayette pep-rally bonfire an hourly guard of fraternity frosh was instituted by douglas carlton president of ifc upon re quest of walt morton of ar cadia and al beardslee of cy anide plans were made for a guard of freshmen from dormitories for thursday night if necessary preserve palestine state urges episcopal minister arabs must abandon claims packer chapel victory bells tolled in 36