Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 15

              20 seniors to visit new york on tour of muni cipal and commercial constructions lehigh group will be given access to municipal boat twenty senior civil engineers will leave monday for a three day trip to new york where they wili inspect municipal sanitary trans portation water supply and build ing projects harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of civil engineering will be in charge of the party hale suth erland professor of and head of the curriculum in civil engineering will also accompany the party a municipal boat will be placed at the service of the group monday morning and a tour will be made of the principal bridges and dock improvements along the waterfront the group will inspect the con struction of the ward's island se wage disposal plant which when completed will be the largest sew age treatment plant in the world party to inspect subways a survey of subway construc tion in the borough of queens will be made tuesday morning a lun cheon at the hotel wentworth at tended by alumni and invited guests will follow through the courtesy of thad deus merriman lehigh 97 chief engineer of the board of water supply of new york city an in spection will be made in the after noon of the large water tunnels gates and other parts of the water supply system the construction of the largest commercial building in manhattan will be inspected wednesday morn ing and a visit will be made to the federal reserve bank and to the new york stock exchange the trip will close with a tour of the keuffel and essen plant in hoboken where surveying and drawing instruments are manufac tured the headquarters for the party during the inspection trip will be at the hotel pennsylvania satires will feature post mortems burr magazine to appear this week roessle says the post mortems number of the burr will be out this week j j roessle editor in chief an nounced this issue features satires on the past football season coaches and team also post mortem reminis censes of houseparty valentines and the recent presidential election the cover is drawn by c a fuller arts 34 it portrays a crippled foot ball player standing on a street corner selling unemployed apples roessle also announced that due to a mistake in the last issue of brown and white j r fugard c e 35 a t bailey m e 34 and c a fuller arts 34 were omitted from the list of those elect ed to the burr board will discuss electric lines appleman to give talk on problems in ground ing power systems glen appleman grounding engin eer of the pennsylvania power and light company will discuss prob lems of the proper grounding of high tension electrical transmission systems friday evening before the lehigh valley section of the am erican instiute of electrical engin eers at hazleton members of the department of electrical engineering and students interested will attend the meeting which will open with a dinner at 6:30 p m at the hazleton elks club reservations may be obtained from m l roper of the pennsyl vania power and light company according to a r miller assistant professor of electrical engineering to describe tests mr appleman will read a paper the unseen conductor in which he will discuss several years stu dy and work with grounding de vices the paper will describe re sults of tests on standard ground ing equipment and on devices de veloped by mr appleman the paper will discuss the bene fits of properly grounded electrical systems and explain the protec tion they afford the public the equipment the property and the service of the company professor miller stated epitome will have pictures of faculty group photographs to replace department writeups faculty group pictures an inno vation in the epitome will elimin at the customary department write ups j a tempest editor in chief announced these pictures are now being taken by mr mccaa the of ficial epitome photographer in order that there will be uni formity in the pictures all seniors are requested to have their pictures taken by mr mccaa tempest said tempest stated that the members of the committee in charge of the senior section of the epitome are now making their appointments for sittings in the interest of the epi tome it is best that the seniors do not delay in making appointments liberal paper is suppressed analyst confiscated for failure to obtain per mission for publication after 40 four-page copies of a newspaper called the analyst containing party propoganda and football sentiment were distributed among students by the liberal po litical party friday evening uni versity authorities notified of the actipn confiscated 960 copies of the sheet at the print shop and called in the others the newspaper which was fi nanced by members of the new york lehigh club was suppressed because its executive board had not received permission from the . board of publications to publish such an act in direct violation of the board rules may be punished by permanent suspension from the university eichelberger editor in chief the staff of the analyst was made up of l h eichelberger acting in the capacity of editor in chief harry warendorf hired to serve as an advisor and p f pres ton j k beidler and others of the liberal party to act as the execu tive committee the opinion of the brown and white executive council toward this latest move of the liberal par ty is one of no objection to the idea of publishing a party organ how ever they point out the advisabil ity of using the brown and white open forum column for comments on the athletic situation the men connected with the pub lication of the analyst after be ing informed of the stand taken by university authorities were let off upon the promise of eichelberger to discontinue publication coach tate to write for lehigh review magazine will be distributed to students dec 1 7 coach a a tate will review the football season in the next issue of the lehigh review according to edward fleischer editor in chief of the magazine the new review will be distribut ed free of charge to the entire stu dent body on dec 17 subsequent issues will be sold at 10 cents per copy the new review will be compos ed of twelve pages nine by four teen inches some with three and some with four columns glazed paper will be used in the magazine the subject matter of the re view will consist of book reviews poetry short stories essays and articles students will be given a free voice in the paper anyone having articles are requested to turn them in to edward fleischer at 536 tenth avenue the issue will contain articles by all political parties and also by va rious members of the faculty all executive positions will be open to competition fleischer stated 757 students get warnings from mcconn larger percentage of men in business college get valentines than in any other department leonard hall still retains its scholastic supremacy fewer valentines were sent out by the dean this fall than had been sent at any time in the last two years with the exception of last semester statistics show that a larger percentage of students in the college of business administration received valentines than in any oth er department although leonard hall still re tains its scholastic supremacy sev eral of the dormitory groups have given precedence to fraternities this fall 55.9 per cent of the 1,353 students enrolled in the university received 757 valentines last spring only 50 per cent of the students re ceived warnings the percentage of students receiving valentines by colleges are arts and science 36.1 engineering 59.3 and business ad ministration 63.7 the distribution by curricula fol lows business administration 212 chemical engineering 90 chemistry 11 mechanical engineering 68 in dustrial engineering 63 electrical engineering 62 civil engineering 59 metallurgical engineering 30 min ing engineering 10 undeclared freshmen 61 engineering physics 13 arts and science 78 the ranking of the living groups on a percentage basis follows rank living croup no of no per neville to discuss chemical quackery will expose advertising claims thursday evening chemical quackery is the sub ject of a talk to be given by harold a neville associate professor of chemistry at the meeting of the chemical society thursday evening 7:30 o'clock in the lecture room of the chemistry building dr neville will show the chem ical composition of a number of preparations such as toothpastes mouth washes antiseptics and pa tent medicines and will contrast the advertising claims of these products with the actual constituents of the products he will also compare the cost of these articles when bought under their chemical names with the sell ing price under their trade names the lecture will be illustrated with lantern slides samples and adver tising copy student meeting to be held at flagpole tomorrow at 4 a mass meeting will be held at the flagpole tomorrow after noon at 4 o'clock robert bach man chairman of the arcadia booster committee announced last night freshman attendance is required the student body will be ac companied by the band on the march to taylor field to attend the football practice smoker plans are completed annual pep meeting and parade will be held friday evening the annual pep meeting and smoker preceding the lehigh-la fayette football game will be held at 7:30 friday evening in taylor gymnasium this will be followed by the traditional parade across the new street bridge the students will be addressed at the smoker by dr neil caroth ers head of the college of business administration h r reiter head of the department of physical edu cation dr j l beaver professor of electrical engineering william sheridan wrestling coach and walter r okeson treasurer of the board of trustees cheerleaders will conduct the cheering and lead the singing the lehigh band will fur nish the music for the singing of the alma mater and other college songs parade to follow smoker immediately following the smok er the student body will assemble in front of the gymnasium and led by the band will march through bethlehem cheering and singing the lehigh songs to the tune of we pay no toll tonight they will pass down taylor street along fourth street to new and over the toll bridge they will proceed to broad street and down broad to main after stopping to serenade fern sem the return will be made by the hill to hill bridge members of the arcadia who will be identified by arm bands will at tempt to control the marchers and no unnecessary roughness or row dyism will be permitted freshmen will be required to at tend both the smoker and the par ade robert r bachman chairman of the booster committee of the arcadia announced and attendance will be taken the arcadia has decided to elim inate the usual bonfire from the program again this year because of the waste of firewood bachman said governing body abolish es regulations week ends when freshman eleven beats lafayette saturday's win gains liberty from dinks black ties socks vote of confidence to tate of student support at lafayette game is passed a motion to abolish dinks black ties and black socks on week-ends for the remainder of the year if the freshmen win the football game with lafayette was passed at the arcadia meeting last evening this motion goes into affect im mediately as the freshmen won the game last saturday by a score of 7-6 freshmen will be allowed free dom from the three regulations from saturday noon until monday morning at 7:45 the discussion of the football situation was left to the executive committee to formulate a policy to bring up at the next arcadia meet ing the proposals of the executive committee are printed in the right hand column arcadia gave a vote of confidence to coach a austin tate to assure him of the student support at the lehigh-lafayette football game saturday booster report accepted the report of the booster com mittee tt hold a mass meeting at the flagpole on wednesday and a pep meeting friday evening was accepted arcadia agreed to support the lehigh union's policy of holding saturday night dances no frater nity dances can be held the same night the group decided e h robb 33 secretary of ar cadia requested that the heads of towns groups send their names to arcadia so as notices of meetings can be sent the discussion of the new con stitution was postponed until the next meeting gipson says nations can not win wars professor talks on armistice at liberty high school contending that no country em barking on a struggle for suprema cy with its neighbors can predict the nature of the outcome and that in modern warfare no nation can possibly be the victor lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and government addressed students of liberty high school armistice day professor gipson enumerated some of the causes of the world war and mentioned the factors that brought about the armistice with the collapse of the central powers he told how the peace confer ence in making its territorial ad justments of europe recognized the work of conventions called into existence by various oppressed peo pies for the purpose of asserting their independence and rights of nationality and statehood in concluding he asked the stu dents to give their attention to world problems saying that the on ly hope in the future lies in devel oping agencies for international co operation rather than agencies which tend toward international dis trust and resentment eta sigma phi to initiate eta sigma phi honorary classi cal fraternity will initiate six men at 7:30 p m tomorrow at the home of h w wright head of the de partment of latin the muhlen berg chapter will be guests committee scores incon sistency of amateur standards objects to commercialized sports asks that university take responsibility for finances condemns scheduling games against harvard perm and columbia for gate receipts the executive committee of ar cadia acting under authorization of the main body last evening formu lated an athletic policy which will be presented to arcadia for appro val at its next meeting according to cliff harrison act ing president during the absence from college of chick halsted the committee is publishing the policy so that arcadia members may ade quately consider the matter before the next meeting he stated that it would also be of benefit for alumni returning for the lafayette game to understand the probable attitude of the student representative body toward the ath letic situation at lehigh favor purity policy the policy is expressed in the following letter to the editor of the brown and white as authorized by the arcadia the members of its executive com mittee have prepared the following statement of policy to be presented for arcadia's approval at its next meeting after assurance from members of the football team that publicity im mediately before the lafayette game would not hurt the morale of the squad it was deemed advisable to release the report immediately so that students and alumni would have ample time for discussion be fore the arcadia took final action although the policy expressed below in rough outline is still unof ficial the executive committee feels that in the main it is in agreement with general sentiment shown at the last arcadia meeting 1 the arcadia believes that no decided improvement in athletic matters especially in football can be expected under the present sys tem it feels that a change in pol icy is not only desired but is im mediately imperative 2 the arcadia is in favor of the so-called purity policy of the university 3 but it condemns the inconsis tency of an institution which brags of amateur standards and then commercializes its amateur athletes by sending them against hopeless odds principally for an increase in gate receipts it feels that this is professionalism fully as bad as open subsidation 4 it is in favor of a change in scheduling which will eliminate games against impossible odds with the exception of games with natural rivals such as princeton and lafayette no contests should be scheduled in which lehigh has not at least a fair chance of win ning lehigh no longer desires to be cannon-fodder for harvard perm columbia and similar teams 5 it believes that many of the games now lost by close margins to the few evenly-matched oppon ents left on our schedule would have been won if those normal games were not sandwiched in be tween games against opponents out of lehigh's class it does not see how a serious let-down can be avoided under the present condi tions 6 it feels that the university should take the financial responsi bility necessary to encompass this change of policy without a conse quent abolition of any other of le i high's intercollegiate athletic acti vities it feels that any university which makes as much of an issue continued on page four dr harris says living conditions in russia are slowly improving trains often leave after their sche duled departures but they seem to arrive at their destinations without losing any time from their running schedules dr harris found the housing shortage in the cities should in time become less acute because of new construction now under way although it is now more severe than ever dr harris says that according to his information almost no new houses were built in moscow from 1914 until a few years ago because the authorities were too busy with other problems no private stores present at the present time there are no large private enterprises in the so viet union five years ago more than half the stores in moscow were privately owned but dr harris de clared that although he made a par ticular point of looking for private stores on his walks through the city he was unable to find any which did not bear the sign of one of the cooperatives russian stores are run by the dif ferent trade unions for their mem bers or by the state or by the co operative groups many kinds of food are rationed and while the fac tory or industrial worker may pur chase two pounds of bread and pro portional quantities of other ration ed foods the clerical workers of the state administration may only buy a pound and a half a day other groups are similarly rationed with the preference going to the manual workers according to dr harris this is the second of a series of three ar ticles on present day russia as described by dr d h harris of the psychology depart ment to e v schuyler living conditions in russia are slowly improving although it is un fair to compare them with those of the united states says dr harris russia under the czar was known as a backward country and the rev olution and internal disorders fol lowing it brought industry to a standstill in 1921 there were prac tically no railroads operating and mining and manufacturing were at a standstill it has been estimated that the steel production of the country was but 2 per cent of the pre-war figure and other activities were similarly affected the change in russia in the last 12 or is years is more than a change in the social order — it is an attempt to make a powerful industrial and self-sustaining agricultural nation from an admittedly backward farm ing country dr harris believes from the point of view of the traveller conditions in the last five years have improved considerably in the matter of hotel accommoda tions in the larger cities probably due to the influence of intourist the soviet travel bureau which en courages foreign visitors trains seldom on schedule the railroads cannot compare with those in the united states es pecially in the matter of accommo dations and adherance to schedule vol xl no 15 bethlehem pa tuesday november 15 1932 price five cents c.e students will examine public works the lehigh university brown and white executive group outlines athletic policy for arcadia body changes frosh rules members rec v rail is l-leonard hall 11 2-taylor hall sec d 30 3 9 27.i 30.1 3 omega phi sigma 10 4 40.1 4-phi beta delta .... 10 4 40.1 5-taylor hall sec c 29 12 41 6-pi lambda phi 18 8 44 7-kappa alpha 22 10 45 8-taylor hall sec e 24 11 45 9-taylor hall sec 8 30 14 46.1 10 price hall 27 13 . 48 u-psi upsilon 23 12 52 l2-taylor hall sec a 23 12 52 3-sigma phi epsilon 28 15 53.1 k-lambda chi alpha .. 34 19 55 l5-phi gamma delta 28 16 57 l6-phi delta theta 24 14 58 17-delta tau delta 32 19 59 18-alpha kappa pi 20 12 60.1 l9-alpha chi rho 28 17 60 0-pi kappa alpha 23 14 60 21-sigma alpha mv 23 14 so 22-tau delta phi 23 14 60 23-delta sigma phi 13 8 61 24-chi phi 29 18 62 25-theta xi 38 24 63 28-sigma nu 29 19 65 7-chi psi 27 18 66.1 28-kappa sigma 30 20 66.1 29-sigma phi 22 15 68 0-beta theta pi 26 18 69 il-delta phi 17 12 70.1 2-phi sigma delta 7 5 71 i3-phi sigma kappa .. 22 16 72 4-sigma chi 23 17 73.1 i5-delta upsilon 27 20 74 i6-theta kappa phi 17 13 76 s7-theta delta chi 22 18 81.1 8-alpha tau omega 24 21 87 coming events wednesday nov 16 4 p m mass meeting at the flag pole and march to taylor field 7 to 9 p m observatory open to all students thursday nov 17 7:30 p m meeting of the lehigh chemical society in main lecture room of the chemistry labora tory dr h a neville will give illustrated lecture on chemical quackery friday nov 18 8 p m demonstration lecture electrons and photons by members of the physics depart ment sponsored by sigma xi so ciety member intercollegiate newspaper association 11l all the lehigh news first