Brown and White Vol. 23 no. 24

              abnormal drain on normal in dustries and on abnormal industries lehigh will meet the university of rochester basketball five tomor row night on the latter s court this is the opening contest of the season for the rochester quintet lehigh has won all the games played so far and has excellent prospects for another victory to morrow the importance with which rochester considers this game can be seen from the following which is taken from democrat and chronicle of december 12 : with the lehigh game in alumni gymnasium next saturday night the university of rochester basket ball team will open the most pre tentious schedule ever arranged for a varsity team lehigh as an opening attraction should be an ex ceptionally strong drawing card in view of the entertainment which the south bethlehem pa team furnished in last year's game at the armory the varsity succeeded on this occasion in trimming lehigh by a 33-19 score and should repeat next saturday in view of the pace which the yellow has been setting in practice the pennsylvania team puts up a fast brand of bask etball and might have brought about a different result had they not met the yellow at the close of the season when they were travel ing at their fastest clip the court game is popular at lehigh and re ceives considerable attention . from the student body which accounts for the strength of their team to some extent manager fred remington is making season reservations by mail and reports that the pre-season sale is unusually heavy the varsity squad went through its paces in the alumni gymnasium last evening and worked in mid season form coach arthur l powell has had unusual success in rounding his forces into form early in the season due to the early start which was made the team has been drilling something over a month and should have the bulge on its early season opponents in preparedness a new set of plays has been devised that are beginning to work smoothly so that the var sity should score from the tip-off more than usual this season the defense with hale witney and willis going strong should be even more impenetrable than last year's trio and may be counted on to hold up its end of the argument rowley is showing good form at guard and should see service this season the forwards with wood ams and harper working most of the time are scoring with a regu larity which would seem to indicate that the varsity will not be weak in this department as was the case last year following this preliminary ap peared a lengthy news item from south bethlehem on lehigh s bask etball prospects including the schedule continued on sixth page the following is the program of fered by the mustard and cheese dramatic club for this evening's performance in the lehigh or pheum a overture new york hippodrome john philip sousa reynold c peters director b orpheoscope c a " fret initiation robert hinton lord high monk-de-monk of sigma delta fraternity f e portz 17 jack leslie a goat . g swallow 17 molly stuart one of the best ever p s hanway 17 seene — drawing room of stuart residence d the three la salles — in a — ■ musical act e mr e magic and mr e s s richards 18 a e buchanan 18 apologies to claude golden f more sinned against than usual the audience onner sisstym fak(e ultie ok the college widow bob stenton a senior h leslie 16 martie strong a senior h e white 16 norman rivers a senior r h hicks 16 kenneth priestman a fresh man j b tachovsky 18 lewis garnet from yale p l hallowell 18 mandy lee house cook r a cohn 18 jack quingly a student w c hartman 16 george blake another student o r sheriff 18 the frosh w volkhardt 16 will maxton c e twombley jr 17 other students e a claire 16 g a but terworth 17 e a wait 18 a r arellano 19 seene — living room of frater nity house h jack ayrault i the bowery night school pupils — micky de bite j e keady 16 issy letzosky a s rosenstein 17 hans swartzheimer l e grumbach 16 guido carpiro a w chenoweth 16 gong sing a yap 19 alderman hogan p s hanway 17 school director muller g e ostrom 17 monsieur martine teacher . . l a dawson 17 visitors w c cahall jr 16 h s carlson 16 ; n b pons 17 j exit march come back dixie reynold c peters director funds for europe dynan shoots 7 goals from field foody strong from foul line clean game lehigh completely outplayed ni agara university in basketball on wednesday evening in taylor gymnasium and defeated the visi tors by a score of 45 to 24 at no time did the niagara quintet take the lead or even become dangerous in the first half the brown and white team scored 22 points to 7 for niagara and in the final peri od it was 23 for lehigh to 17 for niagara lehigh showed particularly good form in passing the ball and pre sented a well-balanced and fast at tack on the defense the lehigh guards were ever alert and broke up niagara's passing with ease especially in the first period in the second half niagara came back strong and for the first part of the period developed the best form they showed throughout the game lehigh steadied down however and at the close of the game were hav ing everything their own way the game was cleanly played throughout 17 foul were called on the lehigh players and but 13 on niagara crichton was not up to his usual form in shooting fouls making but five out of his 13 chances for niagara a fischer in the first half tallied five out of seven and in the second half f'oody made nine goals out of ten chances for lehigh dynan and captain green were the stars the former tallied seven goals from field cap tain green showed up well on the defense breaking up the oppo nents passing and in addition scoring twice with beautiful shots crichton was second high scorer for lehigh with 13 points to his credit for niagara foody and duggan put up the best game particularly in the second half the former who replaced a fischer at shoot ing goals from fouls in the second half scored 11 of his team's 24 points making nine foul goals from 10 attempts the line-up : lehigh positions niagara dynan . f foody brewster f a fischer crichton c staudt green . . . g duggan ketcham g martin lehigh 22 23—45 niagara 7 17 — 24 substitutions : lehigh — bigelow for ketcham thomas for brewster niagara — t fischer for a fisch er ondovchok for staudt harlowe for martin goals from field dynan 7 crichton 4 ; brewster 3 ; green 2 ; bigelow 2 ; ketcham 1 ; thomas 1 ; duggan 2 ; staudt 1 ; t fisch er 1 ; foody 1 goals from fouls : crichton 5 out of 13 ; a fischer 5 out of 7 ; foo dy 9 out of 10 referee keogh university of pennsylvania timekeeper : ed wards lehigh time of halves : 20 minutes don't miss the variety show curtain rises 7.3q tonight junior oratorical contest a combined meeting of the engi neering societies of lehigh was held on wednesday evening de cember 15 at 7.00 o'clock in drown hall president drinker presided over the meeting the first speaker of the evening was mr r s perry 88 president of the alumni association of the university he spoke on the function of engineering and in dustrial activities as coefficients of preparedness he said there is a vast differ ence between modern warfare and former wars men who have been reared in the navy and the army and have trained themselves for war had a vision of what modern war would be like however their wildest imagination never reached what we are beginning to realize modern warfare is former wars were small affairs in our own civil war the armies went into winter quarters ; they bowed to na ture now they fight through the winter and in order to do so they have had to call on the industries former wars used only a fraction of the explosives which are used to day the food supply up to the last one or two years has been en tirely local through the present war there has been an abnormal drain on nor mal industries and an abnormal drain on abnormal industries through the present war the mean ing of military resources on the world market has been learned a captain of industry will pay so much for raw materials if a ma terial becomes a military resource the nation wanting it will pay any price in order to obtain it there has been a drain on the normal industries such as farm products — food supplies grain and hay clothing — wool cotton leath er fur dyestuffs a country pro ducing a great amount of textiles will use a great amount of dye stuffs it has been said that the amount of tonnage of sulphuric acid produced by a country is a di rect measure of its civilization germany leads in the production of sulphuric and nitric acids the countries producing the sulphuric and nitric acids of the world are germany england switzerland france and the united states wireless at tuckerton n j sta tion there are seventeen men on duty and they are sending about 4000 words a ' day some of the other normal industries are air craft telephone telegraph rails and the equipment gas motors horses and transport an abnormal industry is one that will create destruction or a damag ing thrust of course the greatest industry is an army corps then come battleships artillery large and small arms gas plows and ex plosives when the war commenced it was assumed that each of the major bel ligerent countries w t ould need 250 000 tons of guncotton per ye,ar it is estimated at the present time that 500,000 tons will be needed per year every time a 14-inch gun is fired one bale of cotton and continued on third page prof thayer head of the eng lish department desires all pro spective contestants in the annual junior oratorical contest to sub mit their names and subjects be fore leaving for christmas vaca tion as a result of the voluntary con tributions from the faculty and student body for a christmas gift for the men in the many training and prison camps in europe a gift of ten dollars will be hand ed over through the y m c a as lehigh's part in the undertaking the university was especially fortunate today in obtaining mr gilbert mcclurg to deliver the fourth college lecture mr mcclurg is on his eighth transcontinental lecture tour and is lecturing this year on pano ramic colorado the lecture was superbly illus trated with colored lantern projec tions and began by showing the original indian citizens of the united states and some phases of colorado pre-columbian life this included the cliff dwellers and the lecturer took the audience into their homes showing their occupa tions arts romance and sun and serpent worship the stay-at-home indians were then contrasted with the wandering indians the talk then changed to the dis covery of pike's peak a crimson and gold sunrise above the clouds was shown and then the coming of the pioneers prairie schooners and indian attacks with cowboys and sheep herders some camera shots at rocky mountain wild game came next followed by several views of the garden of the gods glen eyrie cheyenne mountain and canons and then colorado springs to crystal park and the summit of pike's peak coming from pike's peak on the world's high est automobile highway the lec turer made the trip that bank rupts the english language to cripple creek which makes mil lionaires of bankrupts at cripple creek views were shown of the gold mines the sub terranean treasure chambers the ore was then followed through the ore reduction works until it finally took the form of gold bricks some views of colorado's steel industry were shown this is an industry which is growing rapidly the leadville silver mines the world's most remarkable mining camp was then illustrated this camp is of interest due to the fact that it has produced in its time nearly all of the common metals and has been a lead copper and is now a silver camp the topics then turned to some of the western scenic wonders ; such as the mount of the holy cross the ocean to ocean and lincoln highways and the santa fe taril the rocky mountain national park and the mesa verde national park came next in order here mr mcclurg told how uncle sam is now landlord the rent being ten dollars a year for a mountain sum mer home denver the capital of colorado and the metropolis of the rocky mountain region was next illus trated this city faces an amphi theatre of a thousand peaks fifty miles long and over two miles high equal suffrage is enjoyed by the women of denver and they make good use of the ballot there are twenty million acres in colorado inviting half a million farmers the soil is extremely fer tile as can be seen from the indige nous potatoes and prize sugar beets that are raised there continued on second page the brown and white lehigh university niagara loses to lehigh lehigh to open rochester basketball season bethlehem pa friday december 17 1915 panoramic colorado vol xxiii engineers hold combined meeting mustard and cheese program for tonight seven student vodvil acts in eluded in variety show bill lehigh team considered strong attraction as result of last season's game brown and white basketball team puts up strong game college lecture by mr mcclurg on his eighth transconti nental lecture tour superbly illustrated function of engineering and in dustrial activities in prepar edness r s perry bb subject preparedness score 45 to 24 shows pictorial review of ro mance of the switzerland of america no 24