Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 15

              traces development of li brary in lecture wednesday competition for all executive positions on the brown and white with the exception of editor in chief will start nov 12 applications must be filled out by nov 15 the competition is for news manager makeup edi tor two news editors sporting editor advertising manager cir culation manager and editorial manager the officers will be elected at the january meeting of the board of publications on the re commendations of the outgoing committee the managers will serve for one year the news editors will serve for one semes ter and will be elected on the same qualifications as the man agers anyone who has compet ed satisfactorily for two semes ters of brown and white is eli gible for one of the editorial or business positions rules governing this compe tition will be found on the bul letin board in the brown and white room civil positions open to seniors pierre de lanux m & c to give bar room play international r e 1a t i ons club to hald banquet monday night nine to be initiated price — five cents pierre de lanux noted lecturer to speak nov 10 dean max mcconn in a sate ment issued wednesday con demned the boy-gang stuff re sponsible for the raid lehigh stu dents made on the muhlenberg col lege athletic field acting indepen dently of the dean's office super intendent of police fred trafford conferred with muhlenberg college authorities on the action of a group of muhlenberg students who re moved the lehigh goal posts from taylor field early monday morn ing dean mcconn's statement in full follows i regret very much indeed that a group of lehigh students sank so low as to retaliate against muhlen berg for the vandalism which cer tain muhlenberg students commit ted on our athletic field last mon day morning this vandalism on the part of muhlenberg students was of course harmful to muhlen berg but no harm whatever to le high since muhlenberg college promptly expressed its regret and agreed to pay in full for the dam age but when two hundred lehigh students sink to the same kind of childish hoodlumism that inflicts real harm on lehigh i had hoped that our student body was gradually outgrowing this kind of boy-gang stuff and i think that a majority of our present student body are sufficiently mature and sophisticat ed not to care for such doings but we evidently have a fairly large minority who are still in this in fantile stage personally i am very sorry that the allentown police failed to do what the bethlehem police did in the case of the muhlenberg offend ers namely to identify a number of them and bring them up for pun ishment it seems that the allen town police did not succeed in catching any of our men it should be thoroughly understood however by any lehigh students who may be disposed to go in for this kind of thing that if they do so and are caught the university authorities will urge upon the police that full punishment in the way of fines be inflicted and furthermore such students will haye to answer after wards to the committee on disci pline from which they may expect sentences involving suspension from the university examination requirements and places to be sent in advance arcadia to pay coal post bill change in hours made for dance ten nights in a bar room will be of fered in dec muhlenberg to be reim bursed by lehigh stu dent body senior ball will be held now from 1 0 p m to 3 a m nine men will be initiated at the annual banquet of the international relation club monday night nov 10 at the hotel americus in al lentown at which time the club will be addressed by m pierre de lan ux noted french lecturer mon siuer de lanux will speak on the united states of europe the speaker well known in am erican colleges because of a series of addresses he delivered on a pre vious visit sponsored by the car negie endowment for international peace which is also responsible for his present trip to this country has had much experience in the field of international politics as director of the paris office of the league of nations he has been in constant touch with the assembly the council the secretariat of the league and witn all the commis sions monsieur de lanux was war correspondent in the balkans from 1912 to 1914 he served the french government as a special minister to the united states during the lat ter part of the war and was at tached to the staff of andre tar dieu during the paris peace con ference he is also the author of several books including jugosla via young france and new america and eveil dune ethique internationale « is noted lecturer monsieur de lanux has lectured in most of the countries of europe and in 1929 he gave 100 lectures in 100 days in the united states he has been present at most of the im portant peace conferences of recent years the nine men who will be ini tiated at the banquet are kenneth k kost irving koondell henry p krusen leo f keefe clinton a feissner donald s sawyer blake hammond henry l klippert and mathew tomlinson highway patrol warns hitchers the play ten night in a bar room dramatized from t s ar thur's novel was chosen as the play to be given by the mustard and cheese club about december 10 this decision was made at a meeting of the executive commit tee of the club last week edwin w fletcher instructor in eng lish assisted the committee in making their choice and will act as director and producer of the play mr fletcher conducted the try outs for the cast of the play on monday and tuesday evening of this week nearly 40 men tried out for the different parts the follow ng men have been selected swit chel choice still open mehitable choice still open simond slade joel e rothenberg 32 harvey green bertram j friedman 31 willie hammond daniel f ivins 34 frank slade francis neuwirth 31 ; joe morgan f edwin stern 34 mary morgan david d gold enberg 33 mr romaine r n lindeberg 31 mrs morgan c youngerman 34 mrs slade tho mas c stewart 34 attention is called to law preventing outside riding austrian art on exhibition according to dean mcconn as soon as a bill for the muhlenberg goal posts is received it will be forwarded to arcadia for payment he commended the bethlehem po lice for the efficient manner in which they halted the disturbance after the game saturday police superintendent trafford visited the muhlenberg colleges of ficers as a representative of the commonwealth acting to protect private property muhlenberg col lege officials agreed to pay for re placing the goal post at lehigh and 20 students together with the muh lenberg registrar visited mr traf ford tuesday afternoon to apologize for their part in the affair the muhlenberg raiders picked the best of possible times for their sortie just before they reached taylor field there was a riot call from a celebration in south beth lehem and all police had been called to the scene by the time they were able to answer the call to taylor field the intruders had escaped librarian displays portraits and landscapes by teu tonic artists expense closes browsing room the hours of the senior ball next friday night have been changed from 9 p m to 2 a m to a later time of 10 p m to 3 a m accord ing to frederick morhart chairman of the dance committee this change was made as the re sult of two outstanding factors one reason is that the modern youth has formed a complex of never ar riving at functions of this nature earlier than 10 o'clock because din ners and dressing take up most of the earlier part of the evening on the other hand popular accord around the campus has evidenced the desire to have the later hour be cause of the above reasons as the senior ball is entirely an affair by the students and for their enjoyment the wishes of the under graduates met the approval of the committee who immediately com plied with the expressed desire as evidenced about the campus the tax has been set at 5 a cou ple and 3 stag and will be sold friday nov 14 the night of the dance at the door of taylor gym nasium favors will go with the purchase of tickets ten men vote ten men returned to their homes tuesday to vote none of the men excused so that they might regis ter their preferences missed more than one day of school chamber locked due to in sufficient funds for ap pointments the greatness of vergil will gain full recognition at the celebra tion of the bimillennial anniversary of the birth of the latin poet on the afternoon and evening of nov 14 in packard auditorium the classical league of the lehigh valley will sponsor the program which is dedicated to the memory of a man whose literary importance is deemed to be so great that his works are read in almost every civ ilized nation two thousand years after his birth dr charles r richards pres ident of the university will speak a few words of greeting to open the afternoon session faculty mem bers will deliver three of the four addresses dr horace w wright head of the latin department will speak on the epic of rome and united italy and will treat with the purpose and structure of the aeneid in the other address of the after noon miss mary l hess a mem ber of the faculty of bethlehem high school will describe the in teresting places she visited on the vergilian cruise which she took last summer the cruise was made over the route followed by aeneas one of vergil's heroes in his re turn voyage from troy to rome after the fall of troy miss hess lecture will be illustrated dr crum to speak in the evening dr earl l crum of the latin department will speak on vergil's georgics the georgics is one of the greatest of all agricul tural poems vergil an enthusias tic farmer mixes practical lessons in agriculture with poetry of the finest kind in this one of his great est works dr edgar h riley of the eng lish department concluded the pro gram with a talk the latter tra dition of vergil the tremendous influence of vergil's style and methods upon later literature and even contemporary works will be discussed by dr riley the whole world is celebrating the bimillennial anniversary of ver gil's birth which was on the ides of october 70 b c italy of course is making a special effort to com memorate the poet the italian gov ernment is planning a vergillian wood near the birthplace of the po et at mantua all the various kinds of trees and plants mentioned in the aeneid vergil's great epic poem are in this grove a special issue of postage stamps such as the one is sued for dante a number of years has been brought out the sup posed tomb in naples is being re habilitated and specially conducted the united states is celebrating the anniversary with plays books and programs such as will be sponsor ed at lehigh next friday wentworth williams elected to tau beta pi son of society's founder is chos en by honorary fraternity wentworth williams 22 was elected to membership in tau beta pi by the pennsylvania alpha chap ter at a meeting wednesday eve ning this election is subject to the approval of the advisory board of the local chapter and the confirma ttion of the national executive coun cil mr williams is a son of edward h williams jr founder of tau beta pi to whom a memorial tab let was dedicated at the recent na tional convention of tau beta pi at lehigh wentworth williams holds a bachelor of arts degree from williams college prof hughes writes research pamphlets philosophy and psychology articles are published in magazine the second of the pamphlets pub lished by the lehigh institute of research devoted to phifbsophy and psychology has recently appeared containing two articles by prof percy hughes head of the depart ment of philosophy forms of gen eralization and their causes is a reprint from the 1930 may issue of the journal of philosophy while cooperation or conflict in the study of learning the other ar ticle first appeared in the psycho logical review of july 1930 the publications are monthly and since the organization of the institute of research in 1924 have contained technical articles from the majority of the departments of he university howard seavoy leach univer sity librarian speaking before the bethlehem rotary club at the ho tel bethlehem wednesday noon traced the history of the lehigh university library from its first be ginnings in 1887 down to the pres ent time he told of the provision made by judge packer the founder of the university for the library how he built at a cost of 100,000 a fine li brary building in memory of his daughter lucy packer linderman this library serves the university for fifty years longer than the av erage library building serves judge packer in his will also made a provision for the purchase of books and the upkeep of the library so that during the first ten years of the library's life some 60,000 books were added to its shelves so well were books selected by the first director of the library prof william chandler that many of them now form a great treasure collection of rare books in the new library the growth of the collec tion by 1925 had reached such pro portions that the library building was no longer adequate to house them nor was it large enough in seating capacity for the increased student body it was very evident that either a new building or an extensive addition was needed but it was decided to add to the exist ing building since the old lucy packer linderman library occu pied a spot in the very heart of the campus describes new library mr leach then took up and de scribed the new university library the old lucy packer linderman building the new structure has five time the floor space of the old and there is adequate room for all li brary functions there is now a cat alogueing room where new ship ments of books are received and catalogued immediately this cat alogueing of new books and recat alogueing of old books requires the constant service of two cataloguers and one typist the librarian's office is all of what one should be says mr leach in addition to the main reading room there are about eleven sem inar rooms and numerous other rooms for individual use certain rooms are maintained for the dis continued on page four the lehigh university r o t c unit and the band will march for the first time in ten years in an armistice day parade the faculty has consented to ex cuse freshman and sophomore classes during the parade seniors and juniors taking the advance mil itary course will be excused from academic work ¦ the armistice day parade has not been held in bethlehem since 1920 because of the system of par ading each year in a different city of this district the unit was in its infancy when the last parade was held at the time of this first participation of the lehigh r o t c it had been organized only a year a well or ganized plan is to be inaugurated for the march to cross bridge the r o t c unit will assem ble on the upper field and after a brief inspection it will march as a regiment via packer avenue to broadhead avenue hill to hill bridge prospect avenue to the reg imental rendezvous on sixth ave nue south of broad street the march is scheduled to start on broad street at 2 p m the route will be east on broad street to center street counter-march to main street hill to hill bridge third street taylor street fourth street and south on broadhead ave nue the dismissal will be at the armory the regular uniform and equip ment will be worn white collars and white shirts included under sweaters may be worn if they are invisible captain clay will be regimental commander the regimental adju tant lieutenant emery battalion commanders captains sadler and rice regimental commander's or derlies andrews and feit and the battalion adjutants oppenheim and davidson will award prizes prizes given at the parade will include best band 100 second best 50 the best drill team will receive 40 second best 20 the ladies auxiliaries of northampton county will receive first prize 30 and second prize a 15 cup the prize to the best drum corps will be 75 and second prize 30 the northampton american legion post first prize 50 and second prize 30 for the best post out side of northampton county in class a over 30 men the first prize is 50 and in class b under 30 men the first prize is 50 and the second is 30 the reviewing stand where the various units are to be judged will be located on the hill to hill bridge the r o t c regiment will march in column of squads with the regulation distance between pla toons the distance between com panies and battalions will be stated later all file closers in one or more ranks will be at the rear of their respective platoons club to give plays the faculty dramatic club will present three plays the week before the christmas holidays the man in the bowler hat a false melo drama a tragedy by susan glas pell trifles and dregs a mel odrama by mrs spencer senior students at lehigh will have the opportunity of taking the annual civil service examinations during the early part of 1931 this was announced by the united states civil service commission in a pam phlet sent to the university the positions open and the ap proximate dates of examination are junior chemist and junior engineer in february junior patent exam iner in march junior physicist jun ior marketing specialist and junior entomologist in april the present entrance salary for the junior grade of these positions is 2000 a year promotion may be made to 2600 a year without change in assignment the salary ranges of all the grades are as follows junior 2000-$26000 assistant 2600 3200 associate 3200-$3800 full 3800-$4600 sen ior 4600-$5400 principal 5600 6400 head 6500-$7500 chief 8000-s9ooo announcements showing the ex act dates on which the examina tions will be held and giving full information regarding the require ments and places of examination will be mailed to the heads of the various departments approximately one month before the examination dates to examine seniors a senior student may be exam ined placed upon the employment list certified and appointed before he has completed his college year and may report for duty imme diately following his graduation provided the appointee furnish proof of his graduation before reporting for duty the commission at the request of the chemistry department will send a number of copies of a booklet called opportunities for chemists which will be distributed to senior and junior students in chemistry and chemical engineering the government employs large number of chemists of various kinds usually recruiting in the jun ior grade and filling the higher po sitions through promotion new machines in use the ro-tap screening machine and the door bowl classifier in the mining enginering building were used thursday for the first time this year to screen the ore which was crushed earlier in the year by the jar roll and gyrotory crushers the work on the machines proved to 100 mesh the difference in the machines ro-tap screen being run by the shifting of the screens and the dorr bowl by the use of water pressure added to the students difficulties it was stated that the work done by the students would be in the form of a test the following ordinance taken from the pennsylvania motor ve hicle code might be of interest to lehigh students according to ser geant w h mclarin of the state highway patrol substation in beth lehem the ordinance taken from article x section 1023 substation b of the vehicle code reads no person shall hang on to or ride on the outside or the rear end of any vehicle and no person on a bicycle roller skates or any similar devices shall hold fast to or hitch to any moving vehicle the penalty for a violation of this ruling is ten days in jail or 25 fine it has been observed that many of the students driving cars in the city and surrounding country allow other persons to ride with them in the above mentioned man ner this is a dangerous practice as the driver is subject to the same penalty as the state highway patrol will have men stationed on the william perm highway during the lehigh lafayette game students are warn ed to desist from such practice at that time and all other times burr publishes greek number an exhibition of modern austrian paintings was opened yesterday at the university art gallery in the li brary and will continue until nov 24 from 2 to 5 p m daily this exhibition under the aus pices of the college aft association includes more than 50 paintings by artists of the two modern austrian schools the hagebund and the secession among the more impor tant paintings are portrait of a woman by sergius pauser miss universe by carry hauser and mother and child by victor tis chler the display was brought to lehigh through the efforts of garth a howland assistant professor of nine arts the first showing of the paintings at the silberman galleries in new york was opened by edgar pro chnick austrian minister to the united states who is patron for the exhibition second issue continues new policy of localizing humor the browsing room was de signed to furnish the students with a room to be used solely for leis usely and profitable reading but un til there is enough money to retain an attendant and to stock the shelves with good books it will re main closed this was the press statement issued by president charles r richards yesterday the room is exceedingly well furnished and equipped and is an ideal place for the student to be come acquainted with the classics and recognized contemporary lit erature it is not however a smok ing room in which to lounge dur ing unfilled hours not yet it is a room for study drown hall is the recreation center and may be used by men desiring to waste away their time the library is adapted to study with these two accommoda tions there is little necessity for the browsing room to be used oth er than as a reading room with an attendant in charge its mainten ance as such will be insured and the men will have the advantage of a luxury which should be of great advantage to them he said coke lab completed with the completion of the work on the guard screen protecting some of the mining machinery and switch board the improvements in the eckley b coxe mining engin eering laboratory will be finished the tables in the fuel technology department were set up by wed nesday and the pipes to the tables installed a new desk was placed in prof howard eckfelt's office concrete work on the new settling pits is finished and the old pits have been covered with concrete paint ing inside the building is nearly finished study is going on in spite of the confusion of incomplete im provements however coming events at times i wish i were back up on the hill again concluded fred trafford now known as head of the local police department but re membered by many as former head of the lehigh union it's a thankless job trying to run a police department there aren't any working hours for_a po lice superintendent because he's on the job all the time we have all kinds of problems to solve ranging from who stole the goal posts to determining percentage of intox icated lehigh students how do you get your principal information regarding the making of intoxicated beverages inquired the reporter seeking a means of be ginning the interview we have numerous methods of finding that out one of the best ways i know of is to watch sugar shipments irom large warehouses we know that when a shipment of sugar goes to a paint shop that there is something wrong some where even after the receipt of these tips we must be careful for instance the other day we raided a place where we knew liquor was to be manufactured when we got there we found the malt and ev erything ready in large vats but the actual process of fermentation hadn't yet started so we couldn't press and charges against the own ers or proprietors of the still i understand you have received numerous threatening letters from some of your enemies the reporter continued yes i have smiled fred as though he enjoyed the question i trafford yearns for old position says new police job is tough have just rounded out eleven months as head of the department and so far i have more than 500 letters threatening my life i have never tried to trace any of these missiles back to their source but during the first few months i had a bodyguard with me constantly as a protection against the carrying out of these threats most of them start out with the words we're going to get you followed by sev eral lines of the vilest profanity ob tainable i might be worth a lot of mon ey if i had accepted all the bribes which have been offered me the first thing offered me was a pack ard sedan several days later i was offered five dollars per week for every slot machine in the city if i would permit them to remain bawdy houses offered me huge sums if they could escape my pad lock orders a copy of the burr caught the reporter's eye fred smiled as he leafed through the latest edition of lehigh's comic you know i've sort of been taken for a ride in this issue but wait he laughs best who laughs last the reporter was truly puzzled but was soon enlight ened when fred continued by sat ing that two pages of the february issue of the burr was to be given to him to get back at his assailants in the present issue at that point a nearby clock struck seven times and the busy reverend mr trafford left to at tend the evening session of police court friday 7:30 p m meeting of the robert w blake society room 303 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the lehigh student branch a i e e and lecture on applying an engin eering education by h g har vey of the associated gas and electric company saturday 2:30 p m frosh football vs per kiomen taylor stadium 2:30 p m varsity cross country vs rutgers sunday 3 p m college sing sponsored by the lehigh union in drown hall although subject to verification with repeated experiments to be done later dr laird says there are definite indications that sleep ing with the noise and vibrations produces the following effects more headaches more circles un der the eyes more unsteadiness on the feet more noises and buzzing heard in the head during the day more irritation caused by ordinary things time drags more laughing at common occurences desire to be alone no desire to talkj and more effort need to start to do routine work the belief that one can-get used to noise also is upset by the re sults of the experiment the effects of the second week being more se vere and covering more peculari ties of behavior than for the first week our previous experiments have dealt with noise alone without vi bration and have shown that noise will raise blood pressure without awakening the sleeper students sleep on vibrating beds discover new evils of machine age nine colgate university men are sleeping nightly on vibrating beds and discovering unexpected ways in which a machine age may cause headaches circled eyes and unso ciable dispositions these new rumble experiments combine noise and vibrations in a way to imitate some of the more acute sleeping obstacles of modern life they are conducted in the psy chological laboratory under direc tion of dr donald a laird and with the assistance of herman h wille and clifford h shipley the vibration is announced as less than on a railroad train and about equal to that experienced in a high-grade automobile it is pro duced by hanging electric motors under the beds each motor is of one-sixth horsepower attached to the tops of the springs but swing ing along with accessory apparatus below the bed the noise is a hum slightly faint er than conversational loudness noise and vibration are steady all night featuring a full page of carica tures of the faculty by carl gieger ich the greek's number of the burr appeared saturday continuing its policy of localizing the humor burro paid particular at tention to the various fraternities no house was spared the scathing fire of the editorial board in burro's ear and at the theatre were two feature pages that were presented for the first time in the former the nosey re porter took the faculty for a ride while the reviews in the latter re sembled those in life and the various metropolitan newspapers there was little art work and the composition of the burr seemed to suffer as a result the campus caustics page lived up to its reputation and was un doubtedly the choicest morsel in the whole issue the next issue will be the pur itan number and will be out on nov 25 brown and white friday november 7 1930 bethlehem pa to lecture here brown and white plans competition vergil anniversary is one year early vol xxxviii no 15 r.o.t.c and band to be in parade on armistice day birth of vergil 2,000 years ago to be observed ' boy gang ' stuff says dean scoring muhlenberg raid c m mcconn describes angry retaliation by le high men on rivals as a regrettable incident and childish hoodlumism bimillennial anniversary will be celebrated nov 14 dr richards to speak lehigh units to partici pate for first time in decade prizes to be awarded eta sigma phi honorary clas sical fraternity will be one year previous in the celebration of the 2,000 th anniversary of the birth day of vergil he was born 1,999 years ago between 1 b c and 1 a d there is no year zero this is where the discrepancy occurs the makers of our modern cal endar forgot to take this fact into consideration h.s leach talks to rotary club all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association