Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 21

              major james o green who for six years was head of the military department albert a rights director of play club debates with albright by william dukek an almost capacity house of 1,100 witnessed ceiling zero on friday night the fall production of the mustard and cheese club following its screen and stage success the performance in broug hal high compared well with prev ious shows the advantages broughal high possesses over the drown hall auditorium formerly used were obvious at once the stage much higher and wider allowed the striking set to show up to advan tage and the sloping floor and balcony enabled the audience to see the stage far more easily than before although the acoustics were for the most part poor the advantages of this auditorium more than overcame this objec tionable feature rights directed staging and direction plaudits must go to director albert a rights instructor in english whose untiring work in six weeks of rehearsal accounted in large measure for the quality of the per formance peggy sterrett a veteran of mustard and cheese shows as musical clubs give program each of 29 fraternities will contribute to sal vation army charities money due tomorrow each of lehigh's fraternities will make a donation to the salvation army's christmas basket fund it was decided last night at a meet ing of the interfraternity coun jil in drown hall the fraternities will pay 3 apiece which amount the salva tion army will use to buy christ mas baskets for needy families this money is to be handed in to the student government office in drown hall by noon tomorrow joseph hopkins bus 38 presi dent of the council announced the proposal to give christmas baskets was made as a substitute for the chamber of commerce's request that all the houses put up christmas decorations president hopkins reported on the proceedings of the national interfraternity council meeting which was held in new york dur ing the thanksgiving vacation hopkins who was elected chair man of the national meeting and walter c west arts 38 were the delegates from lehigh plans for the interfraternity ball probably will be announced later this week hopkins announ ced negotiations are almost con cluded for a band and a site hop kins added policeman added to campus force tommy thomas was vivacious and attractive airline hostess try ing hard to reconcile her love for flying with her fascination for pilots tay lawson and dizzy davis albin dechnik bus 38 in the leading role of dizzy davis was the mainspring of the show with a portrayal of the barn-storming world war pilot too crazy and too irresponsible to settle down to the precision demanded of him in modern aviation that had just the right touch of bravado heroics and pathos in the realization that he no longer belonged in the mod ern scheme despite dechnik's admirable performance chief acting compli ments must go to malcolm car rington bus 39 as jake lee superintendent of the airline who torn between his loyalty to his old pals of world war days and his devotion to the task of build ing a great airline handled a dif ficult role with dexterity and smoothness uncovers talent characters roles uncovered new acting talent thomas pulliam eng 41 as texas clark veteran former head of military department was west point graduate received service cross major james oscar green jr who until last august was for six years head of the department of military science and tactics at le high university died at 5 p m monday at gorgas hospital pan ama canal zone it was learned here today the information was contained in a telegram from the war de partment to mrs green 443 high street details as to cause of death were not included major green who was stationed with the 33rd infantry at fort clayton canal zone is survived in addition to his wife by a son james o green 111 a cadet at west point and two daughters charlotte and margaret also sur viving are his father james o green sr captain u s army re tired and one brother both of whitewater wis as a captain of the 23rd infan try the major during the world war was awarded the distinguish ed service cross for gallantry in action when his machine gun company had been practically wip ed out he continued to push for ward with only two enlisted men to his objective where he remained for 30 hours under artillery and machine gun fire and under gas the three men retained the ground that his organization had gained until reinforcements ar rived major green was severely gassed in the skirmish he was a member of the gen eral staff eligible list in 1931 the major graduated from the com mand and general staff school and from the infantry school com pany officers course in 1923 six years later major green was grad uated from the infantry school ad vance officers course at west point major green played varsity football in 1916 and 1917 before being appointed to west point his son james was a mem ber of the class of 1939 at lehigh continued on page four congdon to talk to medical club business faculty to attend meeting forensic group argues non - decision match ; radio debate next the varsity debating affirmative team held a non-decision debate with albright college last friday evening at reading the debate was informal and was witnessed by a small audience in one of the class rooms of the college re solved that the national labor relations board should be empow ered to enforce all arbitration of all industrial disputes was the question for debate henry werner eng phys 40 and russell kowalyshn arts 40 were the speakers for lehigh prof c harding faculty manager of debating at albright acted as chairman for the debate radio debate tomorrow the same question will be ar gued tomorrow evening from 8 to 8 30 p m over radio station wcba allentown lehigh's op ponent in this debate will be hof stra college of hempstead long island a branch of new york university douglas edwards arts 38 and warren ache met e 40 will defend the affirmative side of the argument the announcer for the program will be donald q marshall m e 38 president of delta omciron theta honorary debating society this is the first radio debate of the year and also the first forensic meeting with hofstra college after this debate the intercollegiate squad will dispense with debating until next semested when it is to open with a radio debate with the university of pennsylvania transmutation is subject of talk by lecturer before sigma xi open discussion held the world is destined to be come acquainted with the creation of new elements stated dr k k darrow in his lecture on trans mutation last night before a meet ing of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi national honorary research society attended by 100 people in packard laboratory dr darrow of the experimental laboratories of the bell telephone company declared that the world is already acquainted with the cre ation of new breeds of animals and plants by the biologists of new chemical compounds by the chem ists and of new manifestations of energy by the physicists defines transmutation transmutation is the conver sion of the chemical elements into one another said dr darrow the reason why it was never attained before this century resides in the structure of the atom transmutation was never achieved until it became possible to pro pel one nucleus against another with energy vastly greater than any with which scientists were acquainted he said that it is difficult to bring two nuclei together since they are both of a positive elec tric charge and repel each other with great force the use of newly developed high-voltage generators has made transmutation possible it takes a force of eight million times that exerted by the latest government shells to bring two nuclei together dr darrow explained that the newer process is to use hydrogen nuclei which have a low charge on the nucleus and are conse quently easier to propel against the nuclei of other atoms lecture is illustrated unfortunately asserted dr darrow there are no radioactive substances which emit fast-moving hydrogen nuclei it is possible to porduce great quantities of free hydrogen nuclei in discharge tubes and then give them energy by means of high voltage machines the prospects are so alluring that literally scores of high-voltage machines are already in operation in research institutes pictures showing the impact of helium nuclei upon nitrogen re sulting in hydrogen and oxygen were shown the impact of hy drogen nuclei upon lithium and carbon nuclei respectively pro ducing helium was illustrated an open discussion followed the lec ture musical society presents concert scouts to pledge will aid in preventing future robberies commenting on the additional policeman who will be added to the campus police force before the first of the year a w litzen berger superintendent of buildings and grounds said it is my aim to use the additional time which the fourth man creates to patrol sayre park in an effort to put an end to the fraternity robberies evident in the past under the present system of using three policemen each man is required to work eight and one half hours each day except sun days when he works fourteen hours this allows one man to have one sunday off every three weeks wtih the four man system each officer will work eight hours a day for five days and four hours the fifth day with a day and a half off as before the campus will be patroled at all times but under the new system the shifts will be regulated so that the same officer is on duty at the same time each week makes review eliminate burlesque sketches from magazine censor policy unchanged the december issue of the le high review will appear tomor row following action on the part of the administration barring two pictures found to be objection able the illustrations by carl palm er arts 38 were part of a set of four which were to have illus trated articles on burlesque by palmer and keiste janulis arts 38 william gottlieb bus 38 editor of the review and dean c m mcconn issued the following state ments to the brown and white editor gives statement gottlieb said a month ago mr janulis wrote on the life of a burlesque girl for the review at the same time mr palmer made a series of sketches on burlesque from the allentown lyric thea ter these two were to be run in conjunction a second article on burlesque written by palmer was also to be run thursday morning i phoned mr schaffer earl schaffer pres ident of the lehigh printing cor poration in regard to the issue shortly after the inserts with the pictures arrived and mr schaffer took them to dean mcconn dean mcconn then called me for an interview at 2 p m in this interview the dean stated that he had conferred with the pres ident and several faculty mem bers and it was the opinion of this group that two of the four pic tures should be eliminated on the grounds that the parents of the students would nd them objec tionable and that the support of friends of lehigh would be in jured dean explains action dean mcconn said i believe mr gottlieb's statement to be en tirely correct all four pictures had considerable artistic merit but two were distinctly suggestive in theme and treatment it seemed clear to the president and me that these two pictures would be found shocking and objectionable by an important part of the university's constituency including many par ents of students and prospective students and that the university would therefore be definitely harmed by their publication in a magazine representing the univer sity accordingly we instructed the editor of the review to omit those two pictures the other two pic tures submitted we regarded as unobjectionable and approved asked if this constituted any change on the part of the admin istration in regard to censorship dean mcconn said may bar indecency absolutely not our policy is that of free discussion freedom of the press in any connection does not include liberty to publish ma students invited continued on page four concert by glee club trio followed by dance shields directs over 100 persons attended the annual winter home concert and dance presented saturday night in drown hall by the members of the combined musical clubs dr t edgar shields directed the chorus consisting of 63 stu dents the glee club sang two school songs three members of the organization sang solos elbert m mahla met e 38 sang the cloths of heaven by dunhill quentin r g keith arts 40 sang schumann's zwei grenadieren wilson r pierpont arts 39 sang three for jack trio performs a piano violin and flute trio consisting of alfred l trumpler l e 40 richard marsten eng 41 and raymond k maneval bus 38 played selections from victor herbert's operetta the fortune teller sea fever by mark andrews and students ligic by f s smith were sung by the leading singers in each voice group george c grow arts 38 led the glee club in the alma mater and hail the college included in the program were several choral selections including the merry widow waltz by lehar-moore victory song by berloz precious wee one by fodsyth and roll out ranger by chalmers-marlowe two rus sian folk songs at father's door and fireflies completed the program charles c hub bus 39 led the dance orchestra after the con cert dr and mrs shields were chaperones aeronautics club to hear lecture will discuss layman's view of the doctor dr wray h congdon director of admissions will address the r w hall pre-medical society at the annual christmas banquet and party to be held at 6 p m thurs day in the university room of ho tel bethlehem speaking on a layman's view of the doctor dr congdon will discuss the oddities of the medical profession he will point out that doctors rarely agree as to a pa tient's diagnosis he will also call attention to the high rates charged by doctors for their services other speakers will be dr ray mond c bull director of the stu dent's health service dr harold s payer 29 and frank biro 33 the program will also include the custom of exchanging gifts be tween both the faculty of the de partment and the students o injured student shows signs of improvement improvement in the condition of stewart hartshorn eng 41 who was injured in an automobile accident dec 3 has been noted in the past few days but he has not fully regained consciousness two of the other persons in jured in the accident are still con fined to the allen town hospital while another has recently been discharged margaret moyer a cedar crest college student and gustave schrauer new york city reamin in the hospital and don ald tag south orange n j has been released hartshorn suffered a fractured skull fractured ribs and lacera tions of the face and head to hear fieldner will represent university at society conclave six faculty members of the col lege of business administration will attend conferences of the am erican professional societies dec 27 28 and 29 at calfonte-haddon hall in atlantic city those to attend will include roy b cowin professor and head of the department of accounting and herbert m diamond professor and head of the department of ec onomics and sociology frederick a bradford profes sor of economics and head of the department of finance carl e allen assistant professor of ac countancy elmer c bratt assist ant professor of economics and ward l bishop associate profes sor of economics members of the department of accounting will attend meetings of the american accounting assoc iation and the american statistical society lectures prepared papers and discussions will be presented on problems of economics statis tics accounting finance and bus iness as a whole will have party alpha phi omega to hold exercises tomorrow alpha phi omega national hon orary scouting fraternity will hold its semi-annual pledging ceremon ies at 7:45 a m tomorrow in pack ard auditorium the pledging will take the place of the regular col loquium exercises dr claude g beardslee professor and head of the department of moral and re ligious philosophy and henry g naisby ch e 38 president of the fraternity will be the speak ers the men to be pledged are john p brandt ch e 40 fred e galbraith ch e 40 ralph e martin ch e 40 carl h rich ardson arts 40 john w temple ch e 40 and vincent m white m e 39 a regular meeting of the society will be held at 7:30 o'clock to morrow night in the arcadia room of drown hall o lehigh woman's club holds christmas party the lehigh university woman's club held its christmas party at 3 p m today in drown hall mrs jeanette b zug spoke on old bethlehem and dr t ed gar shields director of music di rected christmas carols dr shields mrs hardy heard in program tone honorary musical society presented the sixth in a series of sunday afternoon concerts in packer memorial chapel dr t edgar shields played selections from pachelbel buxtehude bach yon mailing and harker the chorales played by dr shields were good news from heaven the angels bring by pachelbel how brightly shines the morning star by pachelbel praise god the lord with one accord by buxtehude mrs faville hardy sang in thee is joy by bach jesu who didst ever guide us by bach and come unto me by handel other selections on the program were cantique noel by adams i saw three ships a traditional carol and jesu bambino by yon which were sung by mrs hardy the next tone program will be on sunday jan 9 1938 o will read stage door stage door a play by edna ferber and george kaufman will be read by members of the fac ulty dramatics club at their reg ular meeting at 7:30 p m tomor row in the lounge of packard laboratory backenstone bickley will give talks character and its develop ments influenced by aviation will be the subject of a speech to be delivered to the aeronautical club by gerald s backenstone of emaus medical examiner of the aeronautical department of the department of commerce at its next meeting to be held at 8 p m wednesday in room 466 pack ard laboratory a motion picture on the united airlines will also be shown at this meeting through the courtesy of that firm a lecture which will accompany the picture will be delivered by w p bickley dis trict manager of the united air lines this program is open to the pub lic after the program however a closed meeting will be conducted arnold moyer i e 40 will act as chairman of the affair mining engineers have expert as speaker dr a c fieldner chief fuel expert of the technology branch of the united states bureau of mines will speak before the lehigh val ley section of the american in stitute of mining and metallurg ical engineers on fuels of today and tomorrow at 8 o'clock this evening in packard auditorium the lecture will include a dis cussion of the substitution of oil and gas for coal in domestic use the possibilities of automatic stok ers in the home the diesel en gine and its effect on the use of fuel and the extraction of gas oline from coal with respect to a new use for coal there will be no admission charge and the lecture is open to the public e e seniors and faculty to receive gifts santa claus will present ap propriate gifts to faculty members and seniors at the christmas party of the electrical engineering soc iety at 6:30 p m tomorrow at the d a r log cabin on first avenue seventy-five men are expected to attend the dinner which will be followed by a program of games short dramatic sketches and dis tribution of gifts the committee consists of john a cooney e e 38 russell e cramer jr e e 38 george b cushing e e 38 and john w welker e e 38 newark new york stores to hold open tours lehigh students interested in re tail selling have been invited by letter from the l bamberger de partment store of newark n j and the macy department store of new york city to attend the tours which will be conducted through their stores during the christmas holidays this courtesy is open to students from dec 17 to jan 5 at the macy store and those who plan to at tend are requested to call at the department of training using el evators 35 and 36 in the seventh avenue building the bamberger store will run this view of a big department store from behind the scenes from dec 27 to dec 30 men interested should call at the training depart ment tours in both stores will begin at 10:30 o'clock every morning both stores will conduct inter views at the placement bureau lat er in the year but students may have interviews by calling at the departments of training brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday december 14 1937 1100 see ceiling zero as club opens new season with screen hit dies suddenly price — five cents vol xlv no 21 faculty action bars printing of 2 pictures social groups donate funds for baskets large gathering acclaims fine acting by cast directing praised darrow states new elements to be created major green dies suddenly in canal zone all the lehigh iseivg first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612