Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 18

              freshmen stand guard over taylor hall quad guard duty in full military un iform is being maintained by the freshmen of taylor hall the purpose of having them station ed about the quad is to preserve taylor hall in its present state and to prevent a repetition of the 1933 riot when 300 lafayette men came over to tear down the banner stretched across the front of the dorm bearing the slogan beat lafayette now each freshman serves two hours of guard duty each night so that any lafayette visitors will be assured of a cordial welcome the first night on duty the guard went through all the maneuvers including deploy as skirmish ers concluding with a full mili tary review pi tau sigma initiates 13 higher education offers the best promise for finding order and so cial health in our complicated civil ization declared president clem ent c williams before 150 alumni faculty members guests and other friends of lehigh at a testimonial dinner given in his honor by the new york alumni club wednes day evening at the waldorf astoria new york city dr williams traced the changes of viewpoint in college education brought about by a growing com plexity of social organization he showed that they will result in a shift of emphasis from individual psychology to group psychology and motives says public is misled the agencies of communication are so developed that any person can be brought before the bar of public opinion to answer concern ing matters which a few years ago were considered private he point ed out that many statements made by professors have been so misin terpreted as to mislead the public respecting academic trustworthi ness he declared that a sense of acad emic responsibility was more im portant than an oath of allegiance discusses effect of social complexity on modern edu cational trends in radio talk at new york alumni club dinner and that the demands for discern ing leadership pressed on by the complexity of human relations are so great that there cannot be a sur plus of educated citizens the prevailing perversion of economics in governmental expendi tures and governmental competition with legitimate private business re veal the deficiencies of unaided de mocracy to meet the needs of our present day economic conditions radio broadcast held w c dickerman trustee and president of american locomotive company was toastmaster radio listeners to the mutual wor and columbia wabc nationwide hookups heard dr williams speech and greetings from arthur m greene jr dean of the college of engineering princeton university from 10 to 10:25 p m dr robert c clothier president of rutgers university spoke briefly before the broadcast a e buch anan 18 executive alumni secre tary delivered a message from 10,000 lehigh men all over the world who hoped for the success and good health of dr williams as the university's seventh president continued on page four elliott speaks on fire loss pi delts plan year's events crockett to select orches tra site potter heads floor committee 2 affairs held enough there will be no winter house party over intefraternity ball week end according to a statement made by dean mcconn and submitted to the interfraternity council at a meeting wednesday evening the reasons for this decision given by the dean were several members of the faculty are definitely against houseparties and the spring and fall houseparties already established are sufficient plans for the ball have been out lined in detail with the appointment of all the members of the commit tee to specific duties walter crock ett i e 36 chairman will have charge of the selection of the band and the location of a suitable site tickets will be in charge of john l kornet ch e 36 and an assess ment of 2.25 will be made for each fraternity member the selection of chaperones will also be in charge of kornet sherwood stout bus 36 will direct the decorating of the site of the ball charles b potter arts 36 will secure the necessary help for the dance and he will also have charge of the floor committee members of the floor committee are william austin i e 36 john w dietz bus 36 william m smith ch e 36 lewis walker bus 37 and dudley healy e.e.'36 mcconn speaks to women's club parade to cross town serenade fern - sem freshmen in pajamas victory bonfire planned speakers at smoker in clude harmeson kellogg williams reiter okeson to the strains of we pay no toll tonight we pay no toll hundreds of lehigh freshmen clad in pajamas will storm the new street bridge tonight accompanied by still more hundreds of upper classmen in the annual parade fol lowing the lafayette smoker at 7:30 in taylor gymnasium the smoker is under the direc tion of the lehigh union and will have andrew e buchanan secre tary of the alumni association as toastmaster glen w harmeson head football coach nelson a kellogg director of athletics president c c wil liams bosey reiter professor of physical educaticr ; and walter r okeson chairman of the national football rules committee are sche duled to speak some senior mem bers cf the varsity football squad will be present directly after the smoker the parade will begin band will lead led by the band the parade will follow the usual route it will march down new street cross the toll bridge continue on new street to broad street left to main street and then to fem-sem after seren ading the girls the parade will re turn to the south side across the hill-to-hill bridge the victory bonfire is scheduled for 8 o'clock saturday at the look out if lehigh wins the game w m smith president of the lehigh un ion has asked for the cooperation of all the living groups in securing wood for the bonfire last year the university found it necessary to purchase the firewood dramatics club gives radio play simmons tells of boulder dam transmission line construction designed new cable d m simmons chief engineer of the general cable corporation spoke to the student branch of the amer ican institute of electrical engin eers at an open meeting held last evening in packard auditorium the topic of his illustrated lecture was taking boulder dam to mar ket throughout his talk simmons constantly referred to the immen sity and greatness of this engineer ing achievement the dam itself is 730 feet high and has two power houses each as high as a twenty story office building the dam was not built primarily as a power dam but as a flood con trol unit another dam about 100 miles downstream will be used as a water supply for the los angeles district the ail-american canal which is now under construction will supply the imperial valley in southern california and thus re move the present difficulty of secur ing water from mexico line is 271 miles long the boulder dam transmission line is the largest line of its type in the world and is 271 miles long stated simmons because of the high voltage carried by the line it was necessary to design an entirely new type of cable the 287,000 volt potential made it impossible to use the ordinary types of cable as none were available of the correct size and weight to remedy this sim mons designed a hollow cable com posed of ten curved interlocking strips of pure copper this cable was made in lengths one mile long cable suspended on towers the cable is suspended on steel towers ranging as high as 144 feet the towers are arranged in two rows 50 yards apart and run for 270 miles between boulder dam and los angeles there is a total of 2,700 towers each weighing 19,000 pounds three power lines and two lightning arrester lines are carried by each the entire power output of the dam was sold before it was built but power will not be supplied un til late in the spring as the power houses at the dam have not been completed said simmons in con cluding sheridan's sondies from pneumonia discusses choice of college before lehigh group dean c m mcconn spoke to the women's club tuesday afternoon at drown hall on the topic choosing a college for your boy or girl he stressed the important factors that should be analyzed by parents who are planning to send their chil dren to college mrs c c bidwell was chairman of the committee in charge and mrs george b curtis was vice chair man others on the committee were mrs f c becker mrs w l bishop mrs neil carothers mrs p b carwile miss jeanette cleave land mrs f j dempsey mrs adelbert ford mrs l g hay mrs n s hibshman mrs a w litzenberger mrs a w luce mrs r w mayer and mrs f j trembley mrs r w hall and mrs stan ley seyfert president at the tea table which was decorated with rose and white chrysanthemums will award cup to author of best article for campus publication a program of aims for the year was laid out at the regular monthly meeting of pi delta epsilon na tional honorary journalistic frater nity wednesday night in christ mas-saucon hall it was decided to award a cup to the student who writes the best ar ticle for one of the undergraduate publications a committee was ap pointed by the president to draw up the qualifications for the award this committee consists of harry archer arts 37 chairman robert dryer arts 38 luther upton ch e 37 and robert kemmer ch e 36 a review revisal committee con sists of the following david hop pock i e 36 chairman william austin i e 36 sidney lewis arts 37 and stanley ford arts 37 another committee to make a study on the proposed revisal of the epitome is composed of thomas garihon bus 36 chairman and louis weinstock bus 36 it was also suggested that the epitome be managed on the honor arium system a committee consist ing of daniel prosit bus 36 chair man edward mcnair bus 37 and robert haulenbeek ch e 37 was appointed to look into the matter philadelphia chamber of commerce secretary talks on prevention supplementing national fire pre vention week george elliott secre tary of the philadelphia chamber of commerce spoke tuesday in packard auditorium on fire loss experience mr elliott pointed out that the united states per capital loss from fire is 5 while in other countries it ranges downward to 65 cents in spite of the fact that this nation has the best fire-fighting equipment in the world the principal cause of fires in this country is careless ness no matter where a fire occurs it is a loss for the citizens of the en tire nation mr elliott cited as an example that a fire in a massachu setts shoe factory would be detri mental here because it would raise the price of shoes in bethlehem ii spite of the comparatively high per capita loss it is much less now than it was ten years ago in 1925 in philadelphia the total loss from fires was 6,333,000 or a per capita loss of 6.35 in 1935 in the same city the total loss was 1,750,000 of a per capita loss of 1.34 preceding the speech was a sound film showing some of the damage wrought by fire the bethlehem fire chief's plan is to fight the fire before it occurs in the film were shown some of the causes which by re moval would prevent many fires club hears cooper fetes anniversary selects committee prof j.r connelly speaks at banquet in sun inn using james watt as his exam ple john r connelly assistant pro fessor of mechanical engineering gave his definition of the engineer at the pi tau sigma banquet held last evening at the sun inn fol lowing the initation at packard lab oratory professor connelly said that an engineer must combine common sense with the theoretical knowl edge which he obtains from his stu dies he also stated that the course societies were as important as the subjects as here the engineer adds greatly to his knowledge of his par ticular course not much differ ence existed between the mechani cal and industrial engineering courses stated professor connelly the retiring faculty adviser alex ander w luce associate professor of machine design expressed his appreciation of his contact with the society and urged them to call on him if need arose he said that with the help of the faculty the lehigh chapter pi tau sigma would do well luce thanks club adding to this idea fred v lar kin head of the department of me chanical engineering said that the students could do much to advance the society and the mechanical and industrial engineering departments with their different ideas the members initiated last eve ning were harold t brooks ( 36 john p butterfield 36 reginald a lenna 36 richard a stocker ton 36 philemon k wright 36 william j ash 37 robert w boarman 37 arthur t curren 37 warren p fairbanks 37 ed ward h jackson jr 36 winston k mathias 37 william p patter son 37 and howell scobey 36 r o t c students granted furlough inverters and rectifiers explained to radio club donald t cooper e e 36 pres ident of the radio society spoke on synchronous-mechanical inverters and rectifiers at a meeting of the society tuesday in packard labora tory following cooper's talk fred rich w king e e 36 demon strated the new atwater-kent re ceiver which the atwater kent ra dio corporation presented to the so ciety last week smith gives paper brown and white to face weak leopard team saturday game 69th of series last game for mccracken coach of maroon and white team by leonard h schick one of the oldest football rival ries in the country will be contin ued tomorrow when the brown and white of lehigh meets the maroon and white of lafayette in the 69th game of a series which started in 1884 the game which is expected to attract about 18,000 people will be played at 2 p m in taylor sta dium for the first time in a decade le high will enter the game as the de cided favorite lafayette who has won only two games this season will conclude one of the worst sea sons in the history of the easton institution since the series started lafayette has won 40 games while lehigh has been victorious in 24 four games have been tied lehigh will be seeking its second straight victory over the leopards the game last year resulted in a 13-7 victory for the brown and white this was lehigh's second victory since the world war win for herb is the lafayette slogan for this game the maroon and white are particularly desirous of winning tomorrow because it will be the last game that a lafayette team will play under the coaching of herb mccracken leopard coach resigns mccracken who was tendered a testimonial dinner tuesday night by the students of lafayette has an nounced his resignation as head coach he has been with the col lege since 1924 of the 12 games that have been played with lehigh during this time lafayette has been victorious in ten of the games played so far la fayette has won from only muhlen berg and baltimore two especially weak teams on the other hand the leopard has been mauled by perm yale colgate albright moravian and rutgers the team has scored only 39 points and has yielded 249 lehigh has broken even in the eight games played this season up sala haverford dickinson and muhlenberg have been defeated by one-sided scores four games have been lost to rutgers gettysburg princeton and perm state lehigh has scored 109 points and has had 114 scored against it lafayette defeats mules lafa3 rette defeated muhlenberg 7-0 in the second game of the sea son while lehigh won from the mules in the seventh game 26-6 both teams were defeated by rut gers by approximately the same score rutgers scored 33 points against lafayette and 27 against lehigh although lehigh did not play any actual game with moravian scrim mages were held with the northside college earlier in the season lehigh had plenty of trouble solving the flanker system used by moravian moravian defeated lafayette in the season's opener 6-0 teams in good condition both teams will enter the game in excellent physical condition jim mayshark brown and white end who has been out of the last four games because of a broken jaw will be back in the lineup warren fair banks halfback who was injured in the first game has recovered and is sure to see some action before the game ends lafayette according to coach continued on page four escobedo wins 25 in allentown radio contest gilberto escobedo c e 36 a student from mexico monday en tered and succeeded in capturing the first prize of 25 in the wcba radio amateur contest with songs and guitar solos of his homeland on the following two mondays will be held successively the semi final and the final elimination con tests each with a prize of 25 mustard and cheese pre sents wcba program mustard and cheese student dramatic society presented the first of a series of programs over sta tion wcba in allentown at 9:30 wednesday evening the program was a one-act play written by wal ter deemer 35 editor of the re view last year and adapted for ra dio presentation by frederick j snyder arts 36 called i'm mighty proud of my boy the cast in cluded william s hutchinson ch e 36 franklin r norton eng 39 william f dalzell eng 39 henry j shields bus 39 keiste a janulis arts 38 robert h perrine i e 36 albert s ogden eng phys 38 robert t forrest bus 38 and david m scott bus 37 next week albert a rights in structor in english will speak on the new theater a communist organization that has discovered ex cellent talent in the last few years and has branches in all the principle cities of the united states but cen ters in new york city around the theater group and other local organizations following mr rigrts talk will be another play and another talk no definite plans have been made for nevt month the arrangements for musical interdudes have not yet been completed q n a kellogg's father dies moses e kellogg father of col nelson a kellogg director of ath letics died at him home in battle creek mich saturday morning colonel kellogg was called home last week-end and arrived shortly before his father died from illness incident to old age the funeral was held monday colonel and mrs kellogg returned to bethlehem last night pi lambda phi celebrates with houseparty the lehigh chapter of pi lamb da phi will celebrate its 20th an niversary today and tomorrow with a houseparty that will be attended by 200 alumni and active brothers the program for the celebration includes an informal dance at the chapter house on bishopthorpe street this evening on saturday night a dinner-dance will be held in the emerald room of the hotel bethlehem lambda the local chapter was founded in 1915 by three men since then the number of active brothers has fluctuated between 20 and 30 ira trivers bus 36 president and david dorken 20 are co-chair men of the executive committee o astronomers hear wheeler speak on variable stars donald wheeler eng phys 38 president of the ernest w brown astronomical society spoke on variable stars at a meeting of the club thursday nov 15 in packard lab wheler named the different var iable stars and discussed the causes of their variations the society will hold their next meeting dec 11 addresses shakespearians at new york meeting dr robert m smith head of the english department read a paper three interpretations of romeo and juliet at a meeting of the shakespeare association of amer ica tuesday afternoon in the hotel new yorker new york city theodore g ehrsam and clyde a harding instructors in english attended the meeting and also a banquet held that evening in the new yorker prom committee members named by leonard nelson j leonard ch e pres ident of the junior class has ap pointed the committee for the jun ior prom the date of the prom has been set for either april 18 or 25 the committee will include these juniors luther j upton donald g vantilberg ch e the committee will decide on the music and location for the prom as soon as possible o to play college music set for concert sunday night a phonograph concert will be presented from 7:30 to 9 o'clock sunday evening in the arcadia room at drown hall the numbers from the college music set will be overture to the flying dutch man by wagner mendelssohn's violin concert in e minor fin landia by sibelius and brahms symphony no 3 in f major the concert is open and free of charge to students faculty and pub lic students interested are urged to plan and prepare programs of their own for future presentation monday drill called off winter schedule given owing to the fine work of the students shown on the drill field major green announced that there would be no r o t c drill mon day afternoon nov 25 the sche dule for the indoor drills to be held in the armory has been made with the first drill to be held dec 2 indoor drills will be held through the winter with each company re porting for an hour drill once a week the companies will report for practice according to this schedule monday 4 p m co a 5 p m co b tuesday 4 p m co c 5 p m co e wednesday 4 p m co f 5 p m co g thursday 4 p m co i 5 p m co x friday 4 p m co l succumbs at st luke's at 6 p m yesterday william billy sheridan jr fif teen-year-old son of billy sher idan lehigh's wrestling coach and trainer for the varsity football squad died at 6 p m yesterday in st luke's hospital from pneumonia contracted earlier in the week the boy's illness did not become serious until wednesday when he was removed to the hospital yes terday his vitality ebbed rapidly and he was unconscious when he died young sheridan a freshman at liberty high school had worked out with the lehigh freshman team on monday at the time he appear ed to be in good health members of the lehigh varsity wrestling squad will act as pallbear ers at the funeral to be held at 9 a m monday from the late res idence at 1427 center street o richardson to give talk a lecture entitled our lehigh river and canal illustrated with slides and sound film will be given by george atwell rirhardson at 8 p m nov 22 in the moravian seminary ihapel he is sponsored by the blue mountain rlub of penn sylvania admission is 35 rents not only the history of these historic waterways will be given but a dis nussion of the construction prob lems and methods used in those days as well as beauty spots and points of special interest are in cluded in the program lehigh university brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa friday november 22 1935 president williams speaks to alumni at banquet vol xliii no 18 dean rejects fraternity ball week-end plan explains huge power project to electricals lehigh favored to triumph for second successive year in annual lafayette contest all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association