Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 26

              conventions to be attend ed by over 35 uni versity men three to visit canada treasurer is lauded for 13 years service to alma mater 300 guests attend testimonial dinner is spon sored by new york lehigh club praised for work price — five cents university alumni honor w.r okeson faculty members plan journeys during holidays bethlehem pa friday december 19 1930 scene in ten nights in a bar room w r okeson russians seek welding data mustard and cheese presents fall show clubs broadcast visit lehigh to study our methods of teaching subject the musical club orchestra in collaboration with the mustard and cheese club broadcasted from 7:30 to 8:30 o'clock wed nesday evening from the beth lehem^tudio of station wsan the broadcast was put on for the purpose of advertising the performance given this year by the mustard and cheese club parts of scenes and several im personations were given by the members of the cast of ten nights in a bar room who were present 15 men seek b & w offices r c benson f c murphy and j b rather seek news managership man is still master of the home in the island of formosa according to j d justin hydraulic engineer who spoke before the monthly meeting of the civil engineering society last evening in packard lab oratory the wife must kneel and ask her husband's permission before she may come into his presence asserted the well , known engineer as he discussed the social aspects of the japanese island where he spent some time in 1925 as consult ing engineer for the construction of the kanan irrigation dam al though the capital city of formo sa is very beautiful and one of the most modern in the east mr jus tin commented on the fact that there are no roads in formosa very few cars and only one real railroad discovered by portugese the island is south j>i japan and was acquired by the japanese in 1895 the population which is largely chinese has no legislature and no representation whatsoever in the government formosa was discovered hy the portugese who named if the beautiful he stated the main industries of the island are sugar cane rice bananas tea and a superior grade of coal which is badly needed in the mother country it was because of the ne cessity of irrigation for the sugar cane and rice crops that the kanan continued on page four braun will go to conference lehigh union secretary will attend student-faculty conclave prof a ogiewetsky and his companion representatives of the soviet russian government visit ed lehigh university last tuesday on their six months tour of ger many and america to plan for the establishment of a welding insti tute in moscow under the direction of the soviet government these representatives were sent to le high's metallurgical department by the general electric company at schenectady ! the soviet has set aside a mil lion and a half dollars for the building equipping and mainten ance of a center for welding re search and welding practice grad uates are needed to carry out the engineering projects planned by their government the students will alternate between four months of theoretical studies and a like per iod of practice in the field until four years hirve been spent it is conceded that they will not have as deep an understanding of sci ence nor as broad an education when the course is complete as if the practical work were postponed until after graduation but russia at present needs men in engineer ing to carry out her immediate pro jects the institute will also give advanced vocational training in welding to shop superintendents and foremen will learn welding in coming to lehigh the rus sian professors were interested in learning our methods of instruc tion in teaching welding to students in our welding laboratories and in the research work in welding which is being carried on here in cooper ation with engineering foundations and the a i e e jan 28 the russians will hold a welding sym posium at moscow similar to those held each year at lehigh univer sity eta kappa nu initiates six men at meeting four seniors and two juniors join honorary society . eta kappa nu honorary society for electrical engineers held initia tion last monday evening at the packard laboratory for four sen iors and two juniors the seniors are l s billman e c easton c h chase and r e snyder the juniors are g m kaleda and j j grinevich after the initiation ceremonies the lub motored to spring valley inn where dinner was served pro fessors s s seyfert and n s hibsham and w h formhals of the electrical engineering depart ment gave short talks and the ini tiates were called upon for a few remarks late men take quiz some 50 students took the psy chology examination which is giv en to all new men entering lehigh monday evening in packard labor atory the examination was taken by freshmen who had registered late and men who had recently transferred from other schools although the quiz was the same as the one given at the beginning of the year no significant compar isons could be made when judging such a small group according to prof percy hughes head of the department of psychology approximately 35 members of the faculty will attend conventions during the christmas holidays their travels will take them thru the south and the middle west and new england canada too will be visited by three professors dr horace w wright professor and head of the department of lat in will go to lowa to attend the national meeting of the archeolo gical institute of america the convention will be held at drake university in lowa city it will be on the 29th 30th and 31st of this month dr wright is the record ing secretary of the association after the convention is over dr wright will go on an extensive two weeks tour of the middle west during which he will lecture on rome of the kings he first de liveftd.this lecture on his return from italy two years ago during this tour dr wright will address various chapters of the archeolo gical institute his intinerary in cludes chicago madison wiscon sin oberlin ohio detroit and toledo ohio trjitzinsky to give talk dr w j trjitzinsky assistant professor of mathematics and now at harvard on a leave of absence will address the annual meeting of the , american mathematical so ciety at cleveland tm composi tion of singularities during the christmas holidays the meeting will be a joint session of the am erican association for the advance ment of science the american mathematical society and the mathematics association of amer ica the conference will be held from dec 28 to jan 1 • this conference will be attended by mathematicians from all over the country lehigh will also be represented by prof tomlinson fort head of the department of mathematics and e h cutler in structor in mathematics an address will be given by dr r a milli kan eminent physicist and profes sor at the california institute of technology dr millikan is the man whose spectacular experiments in the transmission of light revo lutionized that branch of the sci ence of physics • l b miller head of the de partment of geology prof h g turner assistant professor of ge ology anti dr l whitcomb lec turer in geology will attend a meeting of the american geologi cal society dec 29 at toronto canada papers on all phases of geology will be presented and lat er published physicists to meet professors p l bayley and maurice ewirtg both of the phy sics department will attend the an nual meeting of the american physical society dec 30-31 in cleveland professor ewing will present a paper on the electrical polariza tion of electrets before the so ciety which will hold its meetings at the case school of applied sci ence this treatise has been pre pared from experimental data that he has compiled since his arrival at lehigh last september continued on page four debaters lose first contest affirmative resolution for free trade won by n v u lehigh university debaters began their season by losing to new york university tuesday evening in the brith sholom community center george parsons sol leibowitt and matthew murphy lehigh repre sentatives defended the negative side of the resolution resolved that all nations adopt a policy of free trade the new york univer sity team consisted of abraham is ler captain augustine gentilini and gary berman emanlel scoblionko captain of lehigh's affirmative team acted as chairman the judges were dan iel mscarthy hyman rockmaker and dr l c ziegler of allen town it was a poor debate declar ed prof curtis d macdougall varsity debating coach ajjer the de bate he added that lehigh's team lost because it refused to answer a question that was consistently ask ed by the opposing team there was nothing v to the question but the failure of our debaters to an swer it impressed the judges he concluded negotiations are under way for a return debate to be held next semester at new york university to meet cedar crest professor macdougall has select ed the teams to meet cedar crest college in two debates the first at cedar crest at 8:15 o'clock tues day evening jan 13 and the sec ond here at 8:15 o'clock thursday evening jan 15 sydney snitkin first speaker edward fleischer second speaker and emanuel scob lionko third speaker and leader will defend the affirmative side of the free trade question in the first debate emanuel honig will replace edward fleischer in the rebuttal in the second debate maurice bernstein first speaker sol leib owitt second speaker and mat thew murphy third speaker and leader will debate the negative side of the free trade topic radio waves have all the prop erties of light waves but are a mil lion times larger prof ernest mer ritt head of the department of phy sics at cornell university told members of sigma xi wednesday evening in packard laboratory there are two types of radio waves direct and refracted in formed professor merritt only the direct waves are found during the day while both types occur at night the sun and radio activity sub stances give off ions which makes it difficult for the refracted waves to travel but they travel freely at night so we get better reception at this time m there is a heavy side layer some 60 to 100 miles above the earth's surface composed of a vast number of ions and electrons which f-orm a conductor and reflect the radio waves waves traveling directly along the earth's surface therefore go a shorter distance and take less time echos or pictures of the waves after they reach the receiv ing station are therefore or differ ent lengths tke direct being longer circles world in 1,000 seconds signals may come direct fftm the broadcasting station or travel around the world first thus causing a variation of as much as 1-1000 of a second he said by accurate measurements scientists have been able to tell the ewtct height of the wave while it travels around the world * temperafure and weather condi tions have a great deal to do with reception during a thunder storm there is a great deal of electricity in the air and we wet static and poor reception while cold weather aids in good results at the close of the world war many improvements were made on the radio and interest was imme diately aroused causing broadcast ing stations to spring up all over the country this increase in sta tions caused conflicts in the radio waves and wave lengths were then divided up into different groups it was believed that short wave lengths were of little good and therefore this group was given to the public to play around with the result was that amateurs were get ting signals by use of short wave over distances never before reached tells of multiple refraction multiple refraction may be the cause of the skip distance phenom ena professor merritt stated sig nals cannot be picked up in areas which sometimes occur at certain intervals apart this phenomena has not as yet been explained but professor merritt believes that the wave is refracted more than once thus skipping certain areas the fading of a station is the result of two radio waves coming from different directions at the same time these out-of-phase waves occur more frequently at night as th^ere are two types of waves then and only one during the day a short informal discussion was held after the meeting and profes sor merritt answered questions that his topic had aroused woman's club . holds meeting old moravian putz custom is discussed by mrs a r frey mrs a r frey gave a descrip tion of old moravian christmas putz custom at the december meeting of the lehigh woman's club tuesday afternoon in drown liall there wa a complete putz consisting of wood figures carved by members of the cast of oberam mergan the passion play and owned by prof and mrs austin frey spread out in one section of the hall an instrumental trio composed of prof max peterson violin prof k w lamson cella and mrs lamson accompanist played silent night holy night solos also were given by professor pet erson and professor lamson christmas decorations were spread around the hall centering in the christmas tree used in the presen tation of the putz mrs w h wright was chair man of the entertainment commit tee other members were mrs m o fuller mrs l h gibson miss selma herrmann mrs k w lam son mrs j h ogburn mrs a r frey mrs l c shugart mrs frederick creedy mrs bradley stoughton mrs caroline beck and mrs william esty mrs bradley stoughton had charge of decora christmas spirit infuses frosh forced to entertain at parties will give final perfor mance tonight in co lonial theater depicts evils of drink mustard and cheese lehigh's student dramatic society present ed ten nights in a bar room wednesday and thursday evenings at the colonial theater the cast mr romaine richard n linda bury 34 simon slade joel e rothenberg 32 willie hammond daniel f ivins 34 swample swi chel william g alcorn 31 har vey green bertram j friedman 31 frank slade francis neu wirth 31 joe morgan s edwin stern 34 mrs slade a arnold youngerman 34 mrs morgan t c stewart 34 mary morgan da vid d goldenberg 32 mehitable cartright john gosztonyi 34 the play based on the novel of the same name written by william w pratt centers around the tem perance question of the nineteenth if the interest and enthu siam shown by the audience is in dicative of the acting in the play mustard and cheese can be assur ed of success in its future under takings this year in the opening scene of the show a drunkard is seen spending his last cent for whiskey at the corner sa loon his daughter mary pjeading with her father to come home dur ing a brawl is seriously cut by a glass thrown at her father in the next scene mary on her death bed asks her father to stop drinking as mary dies her father swears that he will conquer his bad habit and live an upright life next we see him ten years later as squire morgan proprietor of a flourishing business and the possessor of a fine home and a happy family incidences add color throughout the entire play lit tle incidences are brought in show ing the bad effect of drink on peo ple among them is a typical nine teenth century villian who under the influence of liquor commits a murder and is later apprehended mehitable cartright a yankee girl adds atmosphere throughout the play by falling in love with one of the principle characters the entire show was coached by warren fletcher instructor in eng lish who has had experience with continued on page four david c braun secretary of the lehigh union will be lehigh's rep resentative at the national student faculty conference dec 27-31 at the book-cadillac hotel in detroit this is the first time that lehigh has sent a representative to one of these conferences and if it is found to be beneficial future delegations will consist of members of the fac ulty and student government body the conference is organized and maintained for the purpose of stu dying and solving such problems as come before both faculties and stu dent government bodies following are some of the subjects that will be discussed at the conference the relations of faculty alumni stu dents and student government to the value of education the influ ence of extracurricular activities student unions and social life on the well being of the student body the place of student counciling in finding personality and directing its energies into the right vocational channels the advisability of com pulsory chapel and similar services representatives from many of the colleges and universities in the country will attend the questions are to be answered from the actual experience of those present three men are competing for news manager two for editorial manager one for make-up editor seven for news editor and two for sports editor in the competitions for elective positions on the brown and white staff which began nov 12 and frill end jan 18 the men competing for the va rious positions are james b rath er jr 32 ralph c benson 32 and frank c murphy 32 for news manager edward fleischer and robert raring 32 editorial manager clifford e harrison jr 33 makeup editof news editors william h goehring jr 32 wal ter kinsinger 33 harry waren dorf 34 william port 31 john a lloyd 33 jerome barney 33 and edward fleischer 33 and sport irfg editor myron e whitney 32 and carleton lord 32 the executive council of the brown and white has set forth a list of requirements for the can didates the prospective news man agers have to make out complete lists of assignments for each issue of the paper each aspiring editor ial manager must for a full week take charge of all editorial assign ments supervise a meeting of the editorial council and conduct the work of preparing the editorial page the future make-up editors are required to submit a make-up for each issue and assist the make up editor at least once a week the news editors have to take at least one assignment an . issue and to take charge at least once during the competition the sports editors must hand in a complete list of sporting assignments for each is sue and cover at least one assign ment an issue fraternity to initiate alpha kappa psi national hon orary business fraternity will ini tiate 11 new members at its an nual banquet thursday evening jan 8 at hotel allen in allen town the rrren to be initiated are samuel bailey 32 l l brenne scholtz 32 j h booker 32 r m earl 32 c r giegerich 32 m j graham 32 j m hobson 31 r e hoaster 31 c f hull 32 w a lownie 32 and l h miller 32 churchill gives talk j churchill of the aluminum company of america gave an illus trated lecture on everyday uses of aluminum before the lehigh val ley section of the american insti tute of mining atftl metallurgical engineers in packard laboratory last evening moravians under count zinzendorf established first church in 1742 its seat of government ever since and has held the most important of its synods here it was very natural in view of traditional associates that the lutheran church should be the first to organize a congregation here in moravian bethlehem and also quite natural that the lutheran and re formed congregations should com bine and worship in one building as was done in many other places and is still continued today the first place of worship other than moravian churches was the salem lutheran church on high street which was built in 1850 music on the day of consecration of the new church was rendered by the mo ravian trombone choir which has always been traditional with the moravian church some other churches which are established in bethlehem are ac cording to the order in which they appeared in this city methodist evangelical roman catholic pro testant episcopal episcopal pres byterian baptist and mennonite for a century the moravian church and the town of bethlehem were identical and the history of the one is the history of the other in january 1742 the first place of wor ship was consecrated by count zin zendorf mefely a chapel in the gemein haus on church street which was used for nine years in june of 1742 the official organiza tion of the congregation took place a date which is still observed as a festival day in july 1751 the present old chapel was opened as a place of worship and became the well known moravian church during the colonial and revolutionary periods it was used continuously for 55 years until 1806 when the present church building was dedicated and occupied the chapel then fell into disuse for 50 years as a place of worship services were resumed howevei/in 1856 having established bethlehem as its headquarters in america the moravian church has retained it as approximately 300 lehigh alum ni and guests gathered tuesday evening in the banquet room of the downtown athletic club in new york city in honor of walter r okeson 95 treasurer of lehigh university and commissioner of eastern football officials the testimonial dinner spon sored by the new york lehigh club was a tribute to the man who f0%13 years has worked unceasingly for the welfare of lehigh in his ca pacities as alumni secretary and editor of the alumni bulletin it was a tribute to the man who has 1 brought prominence to himself and recognition to his alma mater by the capable manner in which he has reigned as czar of eastern football prominent foot ball officials coaches and graduate managers as well as lehigh alumni were present at the banquet lou little coach at columbia w s langford secre tary of the football rules commit tee william crowell ed thorp and tom thorp all outstanding football officials were among the well known figures who attended to pay tribute to mr okeson ten speeches given approximately ten short speech es were given by lehigh adminis trative officers alumni and guests the guests were also entertained by moving pictures of the lafay ette game and the offerings of pro fessional entertainers the speeches were limited to four minutes by the resonant notes of a large bell which was tolled at the end of that time walter okeson honored guest of the evening spoke very briefly he declared what impresses me most is the fact that you are so willing to pay honor to a man who has done no more than any of you have but who has simply carried through the job that happened to be before him mr okeson in speaking of le high's athletic policy admitted that there is a chance that he might be wrong but stated that he felt that i could not be happy and proud if things had gone on as they were even though conditions were worse in some other colleges and the use of the word worse indicates that things were bad at lehigh six or seven years ago we met and solved our own problem at lehigh with out reference to any other college tells of academic standards mr okeson feels that the ques tion of academic standards is en tirely a matter of internal policy but it is victory or self respect the question ii what are the stan dards establish them for yourself and live up to them if you have the necessary moral courage what about the boys who come to your college are you going to teach them high standards or that any thing is all right if you can get away with it in the last eight years when lehigh has probably had the most unsuccessful football teams in her history the alumni have given 5,000,000 or ten times the amount they had given in the previous 60 years of winning teams this mon i ey has enabled lehigli to better its reputation and five years from to day its reputation will be even higher okey expressed the apprecia tion of dr richards the trustees the thinking members of the facul ty arid some of the undergraduates for the alumni support which has materially advanced the standards of the university he stated trmt the lehigh alumni all over the world are as anxious for lehigh to win football games as those in new york and as the undergraduates but all desire their alma mater to win with a true lehigh team a team of students praises alma mater mr okeson's concluding remark was that whatever has been done has been accomplished by the love of lehigh alumni for their alma mater before okeyv speech the toast master norman merriman 05 son of the late prof mansfield merri man who was once head of the de partment of civil engineering at lehigh and one^of lehigh's most famous fatuity members was in troduced by wm wirt mills pres ident of the new york lehigh club dr c b kennedy of princeton president of the national collegiate athletic association told the guests that if we get by the present state of affairs now being experienced in football it will be to men like mr okeson that we owe the preserva tion of the game mr okeson with continued on page four pensary this morning one of the performers said they all laughed when i sat down at the piano but i didn't . . . someone had removed the piano-stool as the party in creased and everyone became more and more imbued with the christ mas spirit time was forgotten and the happy freshmen were allowed to continue until the wee small hours of the morning when they were put to bed by older more ex perienced hands price hall was not the only liv ing group to celebrate twenty-five fraternities gave christmas parties last week in these too the fresh men supplied the entertainment several of the fraternities started their parties in the afternoon yes terday and climaxed the fun by at tending the mustard and cheese production at the colonial theater in the evening ah of the parties were informal affairs and were for the most part closed although sev eral of the fraternities invited mem bers of the faculty christmas par ties are in a good many dehigh fraternities annual affairs dating back to the good old days and while they have become more sub dued with the advent of prohibition they still are entertaining enough to bring back many of the alumni such was the case last week when a large number of graduates re turned to contribute their share to the occasion it is the freshman who pays and pays and pays in order to provide christmas cheer for the upper class men of price halt at their second annuifl christmas party last eve ning the unlucky frosh were made to sing and dance to the tune of christmas carols not satisfied with this indignity the older men re quested several of the frosh to orate never says an innocent bystand er did the walls of old price hall echo to such fervid declamation as they did last evening apparently lehigh has much talent hidden in the old barracks and it needs but some unforseen happening to bring it to light this was proved when without previous warning one of the freshmen delivered a 30 minute talk on the sex life of the amoe ba starting at the time the amoe ba is a mere child barely able to pitch horseshoes and carrying on through that period of the amoeba's life when it thrives on ground glass to the time when it is fully ma tured and able to take its place along with its brothers and^sisters in this mad money«crazy worjd shakesperean excerpts also clut tered up the program romeo and juliet proved the favorite and juliet in particular was given a big hand in fact he was the re cipient of many touching gifts such as shoes eggs and other use ful articles interviewed in the dis brown and white vol xxxiii no 26 prizes for new songs merritt outlines radio wave types before sigma xi propogations a million times larger than light travel freely nights a substantial prize will be awarded the lehigh undergrad uate who writes suitable words and music for a new marching song w w mills 87 pres ident of the new york lehigh club announced last evening at the testimonial dinner tendered walter okeson a the downtown athletic club in new york city tuesday evening the club re serves the right to name the song and in-all probability will title it okey according to mr mills * . civil engineers hear j d justin hydraulic authority de clares formosa husband is head of family left to right — j rothenberg w alcorn s stern d ivins a youngerman d goldenberg b friedman all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspafer association