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              dr neil carothers chem society to hear levitt farm took a hand in the situation lehigh had no boa constrictor and carlotta had the appearance of a worthy addition to the collection accordingly carlotta moved to bethlehem after being placed in cage 6 with a very nice indigo and a bull snake carlotta's pride and grief overcame her she stopped eating altogether in vain did mr trembley offer the best of white mice to tempt her ap petite carlotta was washed up with life the bull snake and the indigo didn't care much . . . they figured carlotta to be high hat anyhow so they left her alone for the final fade out it was mr trembley who dis covered carlotta's finale she looks dead he ventured upon peering into cage 6 when he had climbed into the cage with the bull snake and the indigo and had tested car lotta's reactions he shook his head she is dead he said definitely so the little card under cage 6 still reads boa constructor — south america but carlotta is gone she'll make a nice skeleton mr trembley remarks cynically carlotta is dead but to say that carlotta simply died is an injustice . . . she com mitted suicide like many of the great lovers of history she passed away in com parative seclusion her sacrifice un appreciated by the world her love story began in the south american underbrush where don sancho rodrigo y gomez was a boa constrictor and king of the snakes carlotta was simply a lady boa con strictor carlotta was exceptionally nice in a snaky sort of way however and don sancho was not slow to re alize it their love was pretty swell as a matter of fact until a south american snake collector picked up carlotta in one of her unguarded moments and shipped her with sev eral other varieties to a snake farm in maryland after the manner of king snakes no doubt don sancho soon forgot but not so carlotta she must have decided that death was the only es cape as she became morose and began appreciably to cut her diet it was about that time that f j trembley lehigh instructor in bi ology and curator of lehigh's snake life of davis is featured blake society holds initiation living groups submit names for health certificate proof that lehigh has a highly developed intramural program is adequately furnished by the fact that approximately 500 students or 40 percent of the total enrollment will participate in touch football this fall states dr r c bull head of the health department dr bull further reports that 27 living groups have submitted lists of the names of their players of which 368 names have received health o x.'s 40 have been held up pending complete examination and two lists returned because of illegible writing the lists from the following groups have been certified delta upsilon kappa sigma kappa al pha lambda chi alpha sec b taylor hall delta sigma phi chi phi delta tau delta alpha chi rho alpha tau omega alpha kappa pi beta theta pi phi sig ma kappa theta kappa phi sigma nu sec a taylor hall sigma al pha mv sigma phi epsilon sigma chi theta xi omega phi sigma pi kappa alpha phi delta theta pi lambda phi tau delta phi and theta delta chi arcadia committee to assist new men thursday final plans for the organization of the freshman union will be made by the arcadia freshman union committee and freshman rep resentatives from each living group at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening in drown hall d w hoppock chair man has announced the first meeting of the fresh man union as previously decided upon by the committee will be held at 6:30 o'clock sunday evening in drown hall a buffet supper will be served and shorty long will speak informally the freshman union is spon sored by the lehigh union under the direction of a committee com posed of d w hoppock r n lindabury and dr c g beards lee following the first meeting the freshman union will be conducted entirely by the freshmen hoppock said the supper meetings will be held monthly the freshman union had its in ception last year when it was found ed by a small group of freshmen led by r w eichner well attend ed meetings were held bi-weekly last spring the freshman union sponsored a successful dance open to members of the class of 1936 only debating club plans meets union issues typing rates pyrex company technol ogist will speak about glassware construction w t levitt technologist of the cornung glass works makers of pyrex glass will address the stu dent chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday in the main lecture room of the chemistry building his subject laboratory glass ware construction past and pres ent will include besides a talk il lustrated with slides an actual demonstration of intricate glass blowing milton meissner 34 president of the society stated that the demon stration would be particularly in teresting to engineers since mr le vitt would illustrate how a complex glass apparatus might be built up simply from stock materials mr levitt has an exceptionally broad background which makes him an authority in this field meissner stated in his graduated work at johns hopkins university he did a great deal of pioneer work in ap plied glass blowing he made in candescent lamp bulbs when this work was entirely done by hand and was the first to make the 1500 watt lamps successfully with the advent of machine blown bulbs he turned to x-ray tubes and during the war he served in the chemical warfare division in 1921 he formed the laboratory supply house of levitt and fergu son and in 1928 became techonol gist of the cornung glass works this meeting to which all fresh man chemists and chemical engin eers are invited is the first at which the following officers will as sume their duties milton meissner 34 president harold y miller 34 vice president and richard n lin dabury 34 secretary hall explains aims of medical society head of business depart ment believes working classes are benefitted by heavy production talk to be given in new york at herald-tribune convention contrary to popular belief labor benefits most when production is greatest prof neil carothers head of the college of business adminis tration declares in an article en titled what hours for labor published in last sunday's edition of the new york herald-tribune periods of greatest prosperity co incide with periods of greatest pro duction while periods of greatest misery coincide with periods of least production dr carothers states the fact that 4,000,000 automo biles could not satisfy the demand in 1928 while 1,500,000 automobiles cannot be sold in 1933 at greatly re duced prices should not be attribut ed to overproduction dr caroth ers argues but rather to a break down in distribution states propositions the article which appears on the first page of the magazine section sets down the following three prop ositions which dr carothers de clares the laws of economics seem to prove first there is no such thing as overproduction second undercon sumption did not cause the depres sion third the greater the total production the better the condition of labor from these propositions he de duces that shortening hours does not benefit labor raising wages does not help the unemployed and forced raising of wages and short ening of hours will not end a de pression while he admits that after 25 years of study he has no satis factory explanation of depressions he does believe that the answer lies in our complex credit valuation and capitalization roosevelt to speak dr carothers will address the annual new york herald-tribune women's conference on current problems which is to be held on oct 12 and 13 at the waldorf-as toria hotel in new york president roosevelt will deliver the closing address either in person or in a ra dio broadcast from the white house walter lippmann emminent jour nalist will open the conference other speakers are colonel theo dore roosevelt former governor of the philippine islands mrs ruth bryan owen american minister to denmark and iceland who will speak over an international hookup from london countess margherita sarfatti who will broadcast from rome gov j g winant of new hampshire and william hard po litical commentator radio society meets opponents will include bucknell ursinus perm state and gettysburg about 20 college debating teams among which are bucknell ursinus gettysburg dickinson and perm state have been scheduled by the lehigh debating team this year an nounces c f miller the team pres ident at a conference of the debating association of pennsylvania colleges three questions were adopted as a basis for future meets the ques tions are resolved that the es sential features of the nra be adopted as a permanent policy of our government resolved that the federal government should own and operate all banking institutions in the united states and resolved that pennsylvania should adopt some system of socialized medi cine two systems of debating were discussed namely the direct clash and the oregon or cross examina tion system the first call for candidates will be the latter art of next week wilson payne instructor in eco nomics is coach the lehigh representatives at the conference were c f miller h ellis and p ligget the officers of the club are as follows c f miller president p ligget vice president h ellis cor responding manager e heller treasurer j brannegan society manager and s schwarz secretary coming events alumni bulletin publishes article on founder of mustard and cheese the alumni bulletin which ap peared last week - end contains among other articles a review of a book on richard harding davis by fairfax downey and a report on the summer surveying camp by hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering there is also a review of the de velopments in athletic control at lehigh and a summary of the open ing of college the richard harding davis book entitled richard harding davis his day presents the career of lehigh's most glamorous alumnus from the time of his birth until the time of his death the book presents davis in some what of a new light it is probably more complete than any other bio graphy of the founder of the mus tard and cheese club the change in location of the session in surveying from widely separated shawnee and brodheads ville which had been the sites for the past several summers to cana densis realizes a long-cherished aim the consolidation of all instruction in surveying at a single living cen tre professor sutherland says of the summer camp the purdue influence in lehigh's athletics especially in football is explained in the article on the new regime a short resume of the col legiate careers of the new members of the coaching staff is also given the bulletin explains that head coach tate is now using the notre dame system in his coaching in stead of the warner system which he has used for the past few years tate is quoted as saying if dr kellogg prescribes an injection of notre dame football i'm game to try anything once severs to edit tales students will be given last opportunity to elect zone representa tives before friday george konolidge delegated at meeting held last spring organization of non-living groups will get under way thursday and friday of this week in drown hall when town students meet to elect representatives to arcadia g l grier chairman of the arcadia elec tions committee has announced men should meet at noon on these days according to the schedule giv en below grier stated down-town men were reorgan ized into zones last spring by a special committee of arcadia the committee also provided for the election of zone representatives but only three groups held election meetings this fall finds only george konolidge of group 6 still affiliat ed with his group this group will not meet therefore to choose a rep resentative groups 1 2 3 and 4 will meet thursday noon in drown hall groups 5 and 7 will meet friday noon for the elections this will be the last opportunity non - living group students will have to be rep resented in arcadia grier stated the groups are classified as fol lows group 1 brodhead aye warren square summit street birkle alley group 2 montclair aye — north of packer montclair aye — south of packer g*oup 3 west packer aye vine street new street martel street group 4 so adams street e packer aye e fourth street webster street wyandotte street boys club w fourth street w third street group 5 carlton avenue broadway ontario street seminole street bergen street norway place delaware avenue pawnee street bishopthorpe street ostruin street tombler street group 7 second avenue third avenue w broad street w north street w market street fourth avenue fifth avenue * sixth avenue seventh avenue tenth avenue eleventh avenue twelfth avenue fifteenth avenue pennsylvania avenue allentown west side out of town group 6 representatives already elected church street e wall street washington avenue heekwelder street n main street w broad street market street to main w union street w north street e garrison street e goepp street beverly street montrose avenue w eliabeth avenue w greenwich street maple street high street linden street n center street hamilton avenue cloverleaf street madison avenue elm street sycamore street wood street no new street locust street north side points added for cyanide lists must be in thursday two additions have been made to the cyanide point system as print ed in the last issue of the brown and white they are as follows three points for mustard and cheese membership and one point for manager or assistant manager of mustard and cheese the list of points for all juniors must be handed in by 4 p m thurs day to parker berg at the delta upsilon house five men will be elected at the meeting 7:30 p m thursday in drown hall honorary inducts twelve new members elects tuton vice president j w tuton arts 35 was elect ed vice president of the organiza tion and 12 men were initiated into the robert w blake society last friday evening at the first meeting of the year at the home of percy hughes head of the department of philosophy professor hughes opened the meeting by giving an induction speech for the new members leon ard flisher president of the society followed by giving a summary of the history of the organization and prof l h gipson head of the de partment of history and government gave a talk on the student in poli tics the society was founded oct 5 1923 by seven seniors who met at the home of professor hughes to form an organization for the pur pose of philosophical discourse flisher stated the organization was named the robert w blake society in honor of robert w blake former pro fessor of latin and director of the college of arts and science to per petuate his name and personality the president added until 1932 when it became an honorary philosophical society the organization was a course society in philosophy psychology and edu cation for a few years previous to 1932 statistics showed that about 90 percent of the members had also be come members of phi beta kappa honorary scholastic fraternity in his speech dr gipson told of the part played by students in poli tics in cuba germany russia spain and china he ended by explaining what the part of blake society members should be in the united states the names of the 12 incoming members are as follows d.w hop pock eng 36 r a reabuck arts 34 parker berg arts 35 paul bu dura arts 35 e g miller arts 35 j d radding arts 35 g b stern arts 36 w h bohning arts 34 r n lindabury chem 34 milton meissner ch e 34 c b peters arts 34 and c e schaub arts 34 faculty rifle club to meet for organization tonight the first meeting of the faculty rifle club will be held at 7:30 o'clock tonight in the armory major j o green reports that a large number of the faculty and their wives have already announced their intention of joining and that many more are expected to be present phone transmitter planned as project for year the radio club discussed plans for the coming year at the opening meeting last friday in packard lab oratory clark bartlett president told the new members about the ac complishments of the club last year among which was the building of the 1,000 watt transmitter he also mentioned the aims and code of the amateur radio relay league of which the club is a member one of the projects planned for this year is the construction of a new phone transmitter charles rosencrans e e 31 who built the present set is in charge and a large part of the supplies are expected to arrive this week it was stressed that the club is not only for those who wish to transmit but is open to anyone in terested in any form of radio work those who would like to join should see h c i knutson in room 514 packard laboratory tuesday oct 10 7:30 p m faculty rifle club meet ing in rifle range of armory wednesday oct 11 7 p m meeting of the newtonian society room 208 packard lab 7:30 p m glee club rehearsal in drown hall 7:30 p m industrial management lecture room 466 packard lab speaker h t morris 91 back ground of industrial manage ment thursday oct 12 7:30 p m meeting of the chemical society room 122 chemistry building speaker w t levitt laboratory glassware construc tion past and present english professor to assist in chaucer publication j burke severs assistant profes sor of english has been notified re cently by william f bryan of the english department of northwest ern university that he has been se lected to edit the originals of the clerk's tale one of chaucer's canterbury tales under the general editorship of professor bryan the originals and analogues of the canterbury tales are to be edited by american schol ars their work will be published later by the modern language as sociation in editing the originals mr sev ers will work with manuscripts written in latin french and ital ian all organizations must pay for materials used in secretarial service the lehigh union issues the fol lowing information concerning cler ical services available in the lehigh union office in drown hall 1 that all individuals clubs so cieties and organizations having work done by the union will pay for all materials i.e stencils pa per postage etc used in the com pletion of their work 2 that 40 cents be the hourly rate charged for all clerical work as done by the union stenographer and falling within the hourly rate class 3 that 12 cents be the duplicate page rate for all reports 4 that d o t be exempt from paying the hourly fee of 40 cents for clerical work 5 that all legal papers or papers to which legal significance may be attached be charged at a minimum rate of 50 cents per sheet digest for above — 1 that the maximum free cler ical time for all recognized organ izations except those which from time to time shall be exempted by this union shall be 27 hours yearly with maximum of 4 hours monthly by recognized organizations shall be meant all departments of educa tion and extra-curricula activities approved by the faculty and admin istrative authorities 2 that all time above 4 hour monthly maximum be charged at the standard rate 40 cents per hour 3 that all individuals except faculty secretary of lehigh union shall pay for all clerical work done by the union stenographer for them by individuals shall be meant two distinct classes of work a those students faculty mem bers etc who have personal re ports manuscripts monograms etc to be written these individuals shall be charged at the rate of 12 cents per typewritten sheet in du plicate b those faculty members and social societies fraternities who have letters and miscellaneous work to be done these individ uals shall be charged at the reg ular 40 cent hourly rate 4 that the union shall have the sole right to amend any section herein written at any time whenso ever and whatsoever club's founder welcomes new men at first meeting describing the pre-medical so ciety as being more inspirational than instructional robert w hall head of the department of biology and founder of the society which bears his name greeted the new members last friday evening in room 208 packard laboratory dr hall described and explained the functions and purpose of the or ganization stressing the scientific attitude in favor of a mere love of the medical profession j e tether president of the so ciety announced the possibility of the society's joining a national pre medical fraternity this year he also quoted an offer by the federal government to present an illustrated lecture on the opium problem following a short business discus sion victor mayer 34 was ap pointed chairman of the social com mittee and harrison f english 34 was appointed chairman of the con stitutional committee after adopt ing new dues of 1 a semester the meeting was adjourned bethlehem pa tuesday october 10 1933 carlotta ends fit of despondency great lover starves self to death freshmen will meet to organize union price five cents to speak in n y 500 will participate in touch football vol xl no 5 labor article by carothers is published town groups to organize for arcadia 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