Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 27

              eric spencer sinkinson asso ciate professor of ore dressing and fuel technology in the min ing engineering department re cently announced his engage ment to miss helen m balf miss balf resides at the home of her mother in bethlehem the date of the wedding has not been announced professor sinkinson who has won much distinction in his chosen field in europe as well as this country is a graduate of imperial college loitdonj.eng land mrs emilie d kaercher 1428 west union boulevard announc ed the engagement of her daugh ter maybelle g kaercher to ernest h noedel e e 31 at an informal new year's dinner given in honor of her daughter the announcement was made in verse written on paper conceal ed in lady finger cakes • no date had been set for the wedding faculty chemists publish articles a uniflow steam engine was placed in the packard labora tory during the christmas va cation period this engine which has a capacity of 20 horsepower was acquired through charles c trump the son of one of the poneers in uniflow engine building the uniflow engine that has just been given to the univer sity was built 20 years ago and at the time was used experimen tally the engines built at that time were designed to propel steam automobiles which today are practically extinct in this country a uniflow engine has its ex haust port in the center of the cylinder walls l.p alford talks before engineers industrial and ' enginee ring chemistry prints work library displays new british art prosperous period predict ed by editor of man agement handbook water-colors by members of royal society on exhibit journalists vote on best 1930 news ghandi pacifist resistance movement is selected as main copy for papers mussolini foremost man according to poll the pacifist resitance movement in india led by mahatma ghandi was voted the event of 1930 which furnished news gatherers with the best copy by 105 students enrolled in the journalism courses at le high ghandi who campaigned for greater freedom for the people of india is at present in prison where he will stay six months for speak ing against the british govern ment the andree expedition was chos en as the second most important event because of the immsense publicity given to the finding of the explorer and his companions 33 years after they had been lost the current business depression and its attendant evils of unem ployment ranked third in the jour nalists list in 1930 bobby jones won the american amateur and open as well as the british amateur and open championships this unusual feat won for him sufficient mention in the papers to place him fourth on the list tragic though it was the crash of the british dirigible and the at tendant loss of over 40 lives was excellent newspaper copy it takes fifth place on lehigh's list the flight of coste and bellonte from le borget paris td new york by way of the great circle route and the subsequent tour of the united states provided news gath ersrs with miles of copy and is awarded sixth place the ohio state penetentiary fire where 325 convicts lost their lives and 250 were badly burned was voted seventh the birth of charles augustus lindbergh jr was a sufficiently great event journalistically speak ing to warrant its having ninth place on this list when on april 22 delegates of united states great britain france italy and japan signed a treaty at london by which navies of the first three mentioned are re duced and limited and all nations agreed to a battleship building holi day they were taking part in the ninth most important event of the year according to lehigh journal ists pluto the planet mathemati cally discovered by lowell 150 years ago was seen for the first time during 1930 this event gained sufficient publicity to make its in clusion necessary among the ten most important of the year it is a custom among newspaper men to pick the ten outstanding per sonalities of the ye.ar as well as the ten outstanding events the fol lowing were elected in the poll at lehigh benito mussolini italys dictator and man or iron was picked the most intere sting personality in the continued on page four faculty passes club subsidy review to appear within two weeks seniors this spring will be dis tinguished by blazers instead of the white hats and canes that have been used in the past this was decided at a meeting of the arcadia in drown hall last evening the blazers that have been adopted will be of white flannel the borders being trimmed with brown while a seal of the university is worked on the pocket seniors and juniors will be able to get fitted for them within a few weeks the idea being that this year's seniors will be able to wear them the second semester and the juniors start wear ing theirs after moving up day the price of the blazers will be 8.75 the hats and canes were abolish ed for two reasons first because the seniors have never bothered with them and second because blazers seem to be favored by the seniors of other large universities several proposed saigs were heard at the meeting a new foot ball song written by paul young eng phys 31 was adopted as official arthur w thornton jr met 31 read his report upon a meeting of the national student federation which he attended during the christmas vacation student beaten by armed thugs second issue will contain article by railroad president activities fee to aid m and c musical so cieties four robbers holdup two couples on lonely road the current issue of the maga zine industrial and engineering chemistry contains four articles by representatives of the department of chemistry dr e r theis associate pre fessor of chemical engineering and frank s hunt d%nor of the hunt rankin leather research fund prepared an article some studies in the fat liquoring of chrome leather this comprised a study of colloid activity in relation to dis persed fats dr j s long professor of in organic chemistry and dr h g chataway under the archer-dan iels-midland and william o good rich company research fund pre pared a paper entitled studies in the drying oils — rate of oxidation of linseed oil at 160 degrees cen tigrade this investigation was carried on in a closed system to de termine the autogonous of drying oils in relation to their setting prop erties behavior of silk noted dr h a neville associate pro feseor of chemistry and theodore h marshall r k laros silk company research fellow wrote a paper on some experiments in the soaking of silk which was primarily a study of the colloidal behavior of silk in oil emulsions of soap interesting reports on a new emulsifying agent triethanolamin were given dr theis and philip kratz hunt-rankiji leather company re search fellow prepared an article on a study of tannery effluent effect of various gases upfln the nitrogen distribution dealing with the effect on the biochemistry of sewage of various supposedly in ert gases all the articles were presented at the annual convention of the na tional chemical society held last fall and appear in the magazine in their original form two debates set with girls a five day week lower prices high wages and greater individual production appear just over the hor izon in a period of prosperity such as we have never known before this is the picture that l p al ford editdr of management hand book gave to a group of mechan ical and industrial engineers in his lecture last evening in packard lab oratory entitled management's re sponsibilities in preparing for prosperity our future prosperity will be greater than we have ever known remarked mr alford this pros perity will come about through the continued demand of the people for new products such as new styles which are very quickly changing nowadays mostly because of the public demand and also due to the advertising practices of industries in addition there will be a demand for lower costs of the products that are marketed mr alford said the doctrine of high wages is standing the test of depression if the predictions of men like henry ford are true we will see the wages in all industries remain at their present high posi tion and perhaps increase to high er levels although the wages will not be reduced it is quite evident that the working time of employees will be reduced to a shorter day and the five day week and its practice seems to be comiflg universal the engineers of the future will be confronted with the task of meet ing the demands of a higher sell ing value per man hour of labor the textile industry which is sick at the present time is in such con dition because it is not getting the high return per man hour as is the automobile business which until a few months ago was very prosper ous ballots wanted the senior classbook committee desires the cooperation of every senior in handing in his ballot as soon as possible it is necessary to the success of the epitome that all ballots be in immediately a pjyment of seven dollars must accompany each ballot « the current exhibit of the fine arts department is composed of wa ter color paintings by the royal so ciety of britist artists an organ ization more than 100 years old sponsored during its existence by such great artists as j m whistler frank biangwin and cox the prin cipal object of the society has been to encourage young artists . the characteristics of the exhibit differ greatly while all the paint ings are water colors their techni que,is markedly different some are as transparent as pencil drawings with a suggestion of color and some so opaque as to resemble oil paintings unlike most american water-colors the paintings show great detail landscapes prominent the paintings vary in subject matter although landscapes seem to predominate most of the scenes are of english life depicting such subjects as famous cathedrals pub lic buildings and rural views a comparative few however are of scenes outside of england prof garth a howland of the fine arts department sponsorer of the exhibit announced that the paintings will be on display daily in the art gallery from two until five p m until jan 23 all the pic tures representing an aggregate value of more than 80,000 are for sale the prices vary from 50 to 400 those paintings which have at tracted the most attention include autumn grove and morning in hampshire by john littlejohn and the matterhorn by hechle many of the works are by cap tains evidently of the army while many are by doctors and lawyers showing a wide interest in art in england a fact not found in this country p k a pledges man pi kappa alpha wishes to an nounce the pledging of o b schier m e 29 cedar crest forensic society to be met jan 1 3 and 15 the proposal of arcadia that mustard and cheese and the musi cal clubs subsidized with funds to be secured by increasing the stu dent activities fee was approved by the faculty at its regular monthly meeting tuesday evening in the alumni building the plan which will increase the activities fee from 4 to 5 is to become effective next fall if it is approved by the board of trustees the board will vote upon the plan at its next meeting prof percy hughes head of the department of psychology philoso phy and education and chairman of the committee working in conjunc tion with the carnegie foundation reported that results of the sopho more comprehensive examinations placed lehigh first in the state not only with the highest total score but also with the greatest number of ranking men lehigh men were first in four subjects and second in two more many minor changes were made in the curriculum of every depart ment the readjustments approved wiy go into effect in september four men riding in a stolen car held up and robbed two lehigh stu dents on a dark road near bath last friday night the first of the victims was albert g dantzer e.e 31 who was in a car along the road the second a p post ch e 31 was badly beaten when he attempted to resist the men after they demanded his watch and wal let while he was parked near naz areth dantzer was held up at the point of a gun and was forced to pass over his money when one of the men suggested taking a wrist w>fch from the girl with dantzer the oth ers refused before leaving the men returned a dollar evidently for car fare later the men stopped by post's car and pointing a gun ordered him to get out of the car and put up his hands post got out but instead of putting up his hands he attempted to beat off the thieves he was at tacked by the group and his watch and wallet were taken before leaving they locked his car threw the keys in a field and cut the ignition wires the girl with post watched where the keys were thrown and was able to find them continued on page four lehigh students hold mock battle motorists stop to view conflict the second issue of the lehigh review will appear during the first week of the examination period ac cording to erwin f undtrwood editor in chief included among the features is an article what the railway industry expects of techni cal schools by lewis w baldwin president of the missouri pacific railroad i among the other stories are phi beta kappa nonsense by emanuel honig college spirit and rah-rah-ism by ralph c benson olympus by edward fleischer a dog story by k k kost an article what's wrong with bethlehem by d c hart ma gigolo by james p kim ball crushed yellow rose by william port a character study cyrano de bergerac by robert earl a short story wheels of chance by theodore ehrsam jr myth of architecture by revere beasley shakespeare anew by sydney snitkin selections from h d thoreau by fay bartlett and a short story they also write by bertram friedman walton for stall jr has an article on lehigh bells there are two articles for peo ple who like things and an au tobiography what an engineer written anonymously several new campus cuts and the regular book reviews and editorials complete the issue college days in gray 80's dull complains george ade humorist braun attends national meet 1 00 colleges are represented at student-faculty co^yention lehigh debaters will meet cedar crest college in two debates the first being held at cedar crest at bils o'clock tuesday evening jan 13 and the second at lehigh at 8:15 o'clock thursday evening jan is i the lehigh representatives in the first debate will be sydney snitkin first speaker edward fleischer second speaker and emanuel scoblionko third speaker and leader they will defend the affirmative side of the resolution resolved that all nations adopt a policy of free trade emanuel honig will replace edward fleisch er in the rebuttal in the second debate maurice bernstein first speaker sol leibo witt second speaker and matthew murphy third speaker and leader will debate the negative side of the free trade question george parsons will replace matthew murphy in the rebuttal ¦ install new elevator a recent improvement in the chemistry building is a new freight elevator installed at a cost of 1500 the elevator a product of the energy elevator company of phil adelphia,ms used to transport acid carbuoys and other cumbersome articles between the basement and the first and second floors coming events david braun secretary of the le high union represented lehigh university at the five day national student-faculty conference held in detroit during the last part of de cember according to mr braun there were about 700 college rep resentatives from all sections of the country present - the purpose of the conference was to discuss the problems of stu dent-faculty relations and to im prove these relations in accordance with the actual experience of those present many prominent men ad dressed the conference among them reinhold neibuhr of union semin ary in new york stitt wilson and norman thomas socialist repre sentative for the presidency during the last election there were seven special com missions appointed to study the dif ferent phases of the problems that came before the conference mr braun said that he gave his spe cial attention to the commission on student counciling and that sev eral interesting systems had been presented for making the work more effective and satisfactory a volume covering the conference in detail and giving the findings of all of the commissions is soon to be published mr braun will prepare a summary of it to be presented at some later date the lehigh alumni association believes that study should be the students vocation and sports his avocation according to a c dod son president of that association who spoke on present-day college athletics before members of the ro tary club of bethlehem and their guests the member of lehigh's last season's football team coaches and other college officials at the club's weekly luncheon wednesday at hotel bethlehem mr dodson after greeting the football team read a letter express ing the alumni association's confi dence and approval in lehigh's ideals and attitude towards inter collegiate athletics the letter said in part today in college professionalism in athletics is branded as dishonor able lehigh through its leaders had no small part in the branding we honor them for their courage in calling a spade a spade richards speaks dr charles russ richards pres ident of the university also ad dressed the group he extended the appreciation of the university for this annual courtesy by the rotar ian club addressing the football players he said this team comes nearer in ex emplifying the ideals of athletics at the university today than any oth er oite that i know of the univer sity^js interested even though at times you might not think so and believes in a well connived scheme of education and which as sponsor ed at lehigh must be continued if we wish to retain self-respect allan ware captain-elect of the 1931 football team spoke on be half of the football team and ex pressed their gratitude and appre ciation for all the kindnesses which they had received w rj ofeson treasurer and commissioner in charge of eastern football officials was toastmaster he said in his opening remarks that the annual luncheon to which the football men were invited was sponsored by the rotarians not to celebrate or commiserate on the suc cess of the season but rather to ex press the interest bethlehem has in the lehigh football team dodson reads letter the alumni association's letter which mr dodson read went on to say perhaps athletic committees should not wait to be asked but should voluntarily furnish to com peting colleges a certified record of each player — where he hails from who is really paying his expenses and how he stands in his scholastic work scouting for new players and re cruiting them is another instance where the borderland is veny shad owy admitting that a well-to-do alumnus knowing of a promising youth without fundsfi may very properly provide him with the ne cessary funds to go through college is it proper that the college coach should scoue around to find such boys and having made the other arrangement go out and find the rich alumnus professionalism in college ath letics is no doubt much exagger ated but nevertheless exists driv en out into the open it will die when exposed to the light of day as all evil things do team is introduced joseph mclernon center and captain of the 1930 team introduced the members of the team individ ually at the speakers table besides those already mentioned there were the following men a austin tate head coach of football william springsteen assistant football coach john maxwell of the alum ni association j c petrikin grad uate manager of athletics robert l fox president of the rotary club william sheridan footbqll trainer and coach of wrestling prof h r reiter director of the department of physical education robert adams coach of freshman football and varsity baseball and capt p l sadler assistant foot ball coach the members of the football team present were captain joseph mc yernon elias a sindel frank jones ernie issell morton stein p s davis manager r k serfass and w l arthur assistant man agers russell hoaster robert mo tion frank baker manfred haas sam hall frank rushong robert clark allan ware george doer ing george bailey robert chess and fran eevers iors went in for top hats and prince alberts shiny collars and billowy cravts and one coujd wear a red rose in his lapel without being as sassinated the social atmosphere was rather mushy and it was the fashion to appear bookish rather than blase there was one anemic monthly magazine with too much space given to pale literary efforts and ladylike jokes the spicy wise cracks had not been invented and any contributor who would dared to show up the gay co-ed as a fe male rabelais would have been classed a a pariah and solemnly reprimanded at the weekly meeting of his greek letter society the only organized sport was baseball mr ade says that ten nis of a very polite and languid kind was played on grass courts and the tennis player was consid ered by the average collegian as the lowest type of human being one year there was a class track meet and they simply pulled off their shoes and rolled up their trousers and worked out in their stocking feet a young professor held a stop-watch on one student and announced that he had run the 100-yard dash in nine seconds flat either the youth was very fast mr ade remarks or the professor was wrong the author concludes it may be true that the university of 1931 has become too gay and festive airtj in tricate but at least it is an im provement over the complete va cuum which we established along about 1885 not all old grads look back with complete sentimental pleasure on the college days of their youth in an article called the gray 80's in college humor magazine for february george ade nationally know humorist writes that college in the 80's was a pretty dull place at least as far as the average mid western college was concerned mr are was graduated from pur due university in 1887 whgn charles russ richards president of lehigh was a freshman there the redeeming feature was that what entertainment there was to be had was plenty c*heap he published the price of what a big evening in town cost a pleasure seeking un dergraduate when he was unac companied by a female of course theatre $ 25 steak potatoes bread and but ter at the globe chop house 15 beer and free lunch at st nich olas bar 05 one lottie lee cigar 05 $ 50 mr ade also remarks that throw ing a party did'nt involve anything more extravagant than the baking of a cake and the concocting of a raspberry punch worth at a liberal estimate 10 cents a gallon but this was when no doctor could have a practice unless he wore whiskers and a lawyer in order to be re garded as brilliant had to take his bourbon straight the routine existence of the col lege student had to be in tune with the general environment sen saturday 4:30 p m varsity wrestling vs syracuse in taylor gymnasium sunday 7:30 p m meeting of the weekly discussion group in drown hall tuesday 8:15 p m varsity debating vs cedar crest at cedar crest 8:15 p m bethlehem community concert in liberty high school auditorium the faculty of lehigh was well represented at conventions held during the christmas vacation dr horace w wright head of the department of latin is still on a trip giving lectures in the middle west these lectures are given un der the auspices of the archaelo gical institute of america before starting on the lecture tour dr wright attended a meeting of that society which was held in lowa city lowa from dec 29-31 dr wright is recording secretary of the institute as well as the record ing secretary and treasurer of the bethlehem chapter the subject of dr wright's lecture will be on rome of the kings dr w j trjitzinsky assistant professor of mathematics and now at harvard on a leave of absence addressed the american maaiemati cal society at cleveland on com position of . singularities prof tomlinson fort head of the de partment of maf hematics and e h cutler instructor of mathemat ics represented lehigh at the con vention the meeting was a joint session of the american association for the advancement of science the american mathematical society and the mathematics association of america bayley and ewing at cleveland professors p l bayley and maurice ewing of the physics de partment attended a meeting of the american physical society at cleve land professor ewing presented a paper before the society on the electrical polarization of elec trets dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology dr l whit comb lecturer in geology and prof h g turner assistant professor of geology attended a meeting of the american geological society at toronto canada where papers on all phases of geology were pre sented dr c a shook assistant pro fessor of mathematics and profes sor bayley represented the local chapter of sigma xi at the national convention which was held in con junction with the physical so ciety's meeting farrel aattends science meet michael a farrell instructor of bacteriology attended a meeting of the american association for the advancement of science at cleve land dr c b litman dean of the graduate school of the univer sity of california stated that he had found living gacteria in anthracite coal there was quite a discussion concerning this as mr farrell had looked for the same thing and was unable to find any there was also an exhibition by dr crile who mgde protoplasm out of proteins carbo hydrates and fat dr crile got a cell with a nucleus and when acid was added the shape of the cell changed and became an amoeboid the meeting was from dec 29 to jan 2 dr r c bull director of the students health service and dr j r bierman assistant director attended the eleventh annual meet ing of the american student health association the meeting was held at the motel astor in new york city ™ . macdougall goes to n y curtis d macdougall assistant professor of journalism attended the annual convention of the am erican association of the teaching of journalism the meeting was held in new york city dr c e berger assistant pro fessor of physics attended meet ings of the franklin institute these meetings were held in philadel phia prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy read a paper the forms of law discov erable in a changing world be fore the annual meeting of the american philosophical association at the university of virginia dur ing the holidays he was accom panied at the meeting by prof f c becker and dr lafferty also of the philosophy department professor and mrs fred viall larkin spent the chrisfmas holi days at lake wales florida lake wales is located near the bok bird sanctuary symposium is%iven a symposium on the relations of are and beauty was the feature of the meeting according to the pro fessors professor hughes also read a paper the varied forms of law to be found in educable behavior before the philosophical section o the annual meeting of the ameri can association for the advance ment of science at cleveland ohio interest centered however in the discoveries announced by the sec tions of physics and astronomy he stated the shorter men and before long there was another fight going on under the light cheese it the cops a spectator howled the men however who knew lit tle about bethlehem police decided to stand still and look peaceful and innocent a car roared up the third street hill there were several police rid irtg on the running board it stop ped with a jerk where's the riot coughed fatso mcguire with all the due dignity befitting his office there ain't no riot breathed oscar with a complimentary lack of dignity we were only fooling didn't look like fooling to me interrupted the snarling motorist who had driven like mad for the cops who's the light haired fel low ' me i'm him shot oliver an other of the culprits oh yes mr pffef it's funny i didn't recognize you heh heh ha it's funny isn't it gulped the em barrassed motorist yeh it is funny answered oliv er the third member of the trio now wait we'll show you how we did it thereupon the three men again began their make-believe fight and were complimented by the remark that they should be in the movies heh were sorry we brought you out on such a cold night oswald continued that's all right replied the po lice merry christmas maybe some of these bethlehem policemen are human after all i here's luck to them under the street light in front of the alpha chi rho house recently several lehigh students fought like mad men one of the chaps a big mart got a crack in the chin which lifted him like a flying fish and sent him sprawling on his back in the middle of the street with murder in his eye he arose out for blood and threw himself into the other two men with a sure intent to kill them his opponents were stunned but on they came again the big boy was overpowered and fell to the ground however nothing could kill this man nothing could hold him until he saw automobile after automobile stop so that the occu pants could view the fracas no one dared step in and seperate these vicious men suddenly the one who was get ting most of the punishment the big man began to run into the shel ter of darkness behind the a x p house there the two other men caught up with hjm and the three who were lahigh students jointed in a most hilarious laugh this was great fun trying to make motorists believe there was an actual fight falling to the ground and almost breaking their necks in the at tempt how realistically they had done it i let's try it again one of them said the other cars have left and we can interest some more people all right replied the big fel low but don't holler kill him get him when i run away this time some one may follow us and we may get in trouble just run o x oscar wheezed one of brown and white bethlehem pa friday january 9 1931 sinkinson engaged to miss helen balf price — five cents alumni approve athletic policy facultyiembers attend meetings during holidays packard laboratory gets uni flow engine vol xxxiii no 27 . seniors to wear white blazers arcadia decides study should be students vocation says a c dodson richards lauds team rotary club fetes football men at weekly luncheon wednesday e h noedel engaged governing body abolishes former custom of hats and canes new song adopted wright lectures in middle west trjitzinsky on absence leave miller in canada all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association