Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 22

              when an electrical charge of 850,000 volts went through his body in an experiment recently walter harry church 2 years old merely grinned and continued to nibble his all-day sucker the child's grandfather harry c white supervisor of the indus trial relations of the company was in charge of the demonstrations mr white began his demonstra around him in the edison light ing institute at the edison lamp works of the general electric company harrington n j stood experienced gray-haired men of sci ence and alert young engineers they observed how such a power ful electric shock is perfectly harm less with extremely low amperage the senior class book commit tee under the direction of don wright are making a strenuous effort to complete the collection of all senior ballots and assess ments before the christmas hol idays cooperation is urged from every senior — and is absolutely necessary if the book is to be successful plans and production of the entire book are dependent upon the senior section and the immediate return of the ballots is a necessity these may be turned in to any member of the senior class book committee or directly to wright at the sigma chi house tions by shooting twelve-inch violet sparks out of a high-frequency ma chine and grounding them through his own body by means of a rod then mr white finally managed to get his small grandson to place a neon-vapor experimental bulb against the demonstrator's head with the contact thus made the child drew the 850,000 volt dis charge from the high-frequency machine causing the bulb to light as the circuit was formed mr white stated that although this experiment was practically safe there was a possibility of fatal re sults if any part of the machinery did not function properly in which case high amperage would be pro duced home club fetes football team three house dances enliven dull season this new gift shall be used for permanent endowment for the min ing engineering department and no part of the principal shall ever be used according to mr markle in his letter to the trustees he goes on to say desiring that the mining an additional gift of 400,000 by john markle as an endowment for the john markle mining hall at la falette college was announced at the dedication of the hall last fri day the gift came in the form of a letter addressed to the board of trustees of the college and came as a clknax to the dedication exercises which were attended by 110 repre sentatives of 50 colleges and 25 in dustries throughout the country president hoover in a letter to president william mather lewis expressed his disappointment at not being able to attend lafayette alumnus givess4oo,ooo to alma mater for endowment engineering department at lafay ette college shall be the best equip ped not only in building but in lead ership and that it shall have a fac ulty second to none i desire to give an additional sum of 400,000 above the 500,000 i have already committed myself to in addition to this remembrance to his alma mater mr markle has contributed liberally to the memorial library in his home town the jerry mc cauley mission in new york city and the john and mary markle memorial residence in new york city mr markle now devotes his time to his philonthropies having sold his mining interests in 1926 to what is now the jeddo highland coal company president w o hotchkiss of the michigan school of technology and mining delivered the dedication address second banquet on dec 1 7 shows local pub lic interest macdougall to hold debating tryouts fraternities and freshman class to entertain * tomorrow christmas number of burr elaborate m.e's to convene on anniversary society will hold an nual celebration in new york students interested in debating and wishing to try out for the debating team should see prof c d macdougall before the christmas holidays the next de bate will be on the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age outweigh its bene fits try outs will be held the second or third week of january the christmas number of the burr will be put in circulation dec 20 this issue the fourth of the college year will contain a short christmas story by louis bloom the cover will be one of the most elaborate used in recent years and its picture will depict a christmas theme the final issue of the burr for this semester will be published on or about jan 20 and will be called the gloom number pi delta epsilon initiatestenmen old wall to go in library work new members received into society at banquet last night demolition makes way for elaborate gothic construction h v conner eastern traffic manager for the transcontinental air transport corporation was the principal speaker at the air trans portation meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley held last evening in the packard auditorium h w magee chief pilot for the company also gave an aviation talk preparations were made for a large attendance but because of the wea ther conditions a comparatively small crowd atttended mr magee explained many re cent instruments which have been developed for use in aviation and also showed how the t a t planes are continually in communi cation with ground stations and weather stations while flying he also described the automatic plane control just recently developed which enables the pilot to set a plane on a course and have it con tinue flying safely while he performs other duties mr conner in his talk took the audience from new york on an im aginary flight over the t a t air rail line running from new york to los angeles he accounted for every miinute of the 48 hours which it takes to cross the country by their line the safety of air trav el has been very greattly improved recently he believes mr conner humorously quoted that the taxi cab ride to the airport is the most dangerous part of an air trip he predicted that air-mail service be tween europe and the united states would be developed in five or six years and that passenger service will exist within the next eight or ten years chemicals hold annual banquet lehigh's debating team will broadcast two debates from station wcba allentown the debates will be with cedar crest at 10 p m feb 26 and with bethany college bethany west virginia feb 28 lehigh will uphold the negative side in the debate with cedar crest which will be on the proposition resolved that the united states should withdraw from the kellogg peace pact the discussion with bethany college will probably be on the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age out weigh its benefits there will be four home debates two on each of the above ques tions this will give both sides a chance to present their arguments before the public the last debate will be on march 31 as yet no def inite schedule has been adopted be sides the cedar crest debate the only definite date is with albright lehigh will be represented at al bright by the negative team jan 10 it will be a non-decision debate a practice debate will be held with cedar crest jan 16 lehigh will defend the affirmative of the question during march there will be about ten debates it is the practice of several col leges to broadcast two or three de dates each year the tendency is to make them non-decision discussions and thus make debating more of an art than an argument professor macdougall the lehigh coach is in favor of non-decision debates he says that it makes the discussions more of a pleasure and interesting if no decisions are given the eng lish debate more for the pleasure obtained from it than for the glory in winning it is undecided whether the radio debates will be non-de cision discussions or not if deci sions are to be given the judges will hear the debate over the radio most of lehigh's debates will be non-decision discussions u of cincinnati makes lehigh man president schneider 94 elected head last three invitation formal house dances to be given by the alpha chi rho delta upsilon and sigma chi fraternities tomorrow evening will constitute the first of this year's fraternal entertaining to morrow there will also be a tea dance which will be given by the class of 1933 in drown hall at 4 p m mr and mrs paul crockett and mr stuart mead are to chaperon the activities at the alpha chi rho house the easton saracens have been engaged to play for dancing the function sponsored by delta upsilon will have as its chaperons mr and mrs c i lattig and mr and mrs frederick heim its music is to be provided by kenneth kit chen's orchestra of east orange n j the sigma chi's will have dr and mrs roymand c bull and prof and mrs roy b cowin as chaperons and the allentown com manders for music bishopthorpe and moravian sem inary girls have been invited to at tend the frosh dance with the le high ramblers providing music an assessment of 1.50 per couple and 1 for stags is to be levied holly mistletoe evergreen trees and streamers of red and white will supplement the seasonal atmos phere favors and refreshments will also carry out the christmas idea marsh explains gunpowder uses the american society of mech anical enginers will celebrate its 50th anniversary april 5 7 8 and 9 1930 the celebrations will take place in new york at the headquar ters of the society in hokoben n j its birthplace and in washing ton d c the world's leading scientific and educational institutions have been invited to attend it is understood that each institution will send two delegates to the convention members of the society and their guests along with the delegates will be required to register at the united engineering society's building 29 west 39th street new york city on friday april 4 1930 on this occasion 16 papers will be presented each summarizing and evaluating the contributions of en gineering to the cultural social economic and political life and vis ualizing the future of the engineer's place in the promotion of the com mon welfare the world has been divided into 16 zones and from each zone one of the most distinguished engineers will be selected to write the paper the authors will be awarded a special 50th anniversary medal this celebration will review the past 50 years of enginering achieve ments and will bring together the outstanding engineers of the uni verse which it is hoped will create bonds between the nations on the basis of engineering accomplish ments four initiated by o.d.k dec 11th five students and one member of the faculty were initiated into pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity last night in the hotel bethlehem the formal initiation be gan at 6 p m and was followed by a banquet after the banquet the regular monthly meeting of the so ciety was held the new members are dale h gramley instructor in journalism lloyd d simonson editor in chief of the burr carl clauss editor in chief of the 1931 epitome walton forstall member of the editorial council news editor of the brown and white last year and organiza tion editor of the 1931 epitome john s dey business manager of the brown and white and henry rohrs business manager of the burr more elections will be held in the spring of the year it is also possible that a gridiron banquet may be held at lehigh next year but as yet nothing definite has been decided election of new officers will probably take place at the close of the second semester pi tau sigma initiates four members tonight the football letter men and the coaching staff will be guests at the second banquet to be given in their honor by an alumni club on tues day evening dec 17 at 6:30 in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem when the lehigh home club in co operation with a committee of local citizens who are much interested in lehigh athletics will hold a victory banquet the three principal speakers at the dinner will be hugo bezdek head coach of football and director of athletics at perm state college archibald johnston 89 first may or of bethlehem and dr charles russ richards president of the uni versity walter r okeson 95 czar of eastern football and treasurer of lehigh will be the toastmaster ex temporaneous addresses will be made by a number of other men in cluding captain tubby miller and coach austy tate bezdek is also president of the american associa tion of football coaches the twenty-four lettermen the entire coaching staff the two assis tant managers and the trainers have been extended invitations to attend the dinner invitations have also been sent to a number of sports writers on metropolitan dailies but it is not known how many of these will be present several hundred local alumni and townspeople who are keenly inter ested in the team will be present at the banquet and it is the hope of the local alumni club to have a fair representation from the undergrad uate body in addition to those who will be guests with this in view one ticket has been sent to every living group in order that each may have at least one representative any other undergraduates who de sire to attend may secure tickets from john maxwell in the alumni office or at roy geary's sport shop the price is 3 in addition to the features men tioned above the program will in clude several items which cannot be announced in advance bethlehem banquet to be held in the hotel pre-legals hear local attorney herman schneider 94 formerly dean of the university of cincinnati was made president at the june meeting of the trustees previous to his appointment to the presidency he had been occupying the chief ad ministrative office during a period of 16 months while president hicks was on leave of absence at the conclusion of his period of absence president hicks retired and mr schneider was appointed to fill the vacancy president schneider was graduat ed from lehigh in 1894 with the de gree of bachelor of science since becoming a member of the faculty at the university of cincinnati he has been connected with the engin eering department and is known throughout the country for his plan of cooperative technical education smail and maccalla address pi mu epsilon dr j s long professor of inor ganic chemistry arthur m david owitz dexter bullard and robert j lincoln were initiated into omi cron delta kappa at a banquet wednesday evening in drown hall following the initiation a short business meeting was held the fea sibility of supervised control of signs posted on bulletin boards and the matter of students walking on the grass were discussed the so ciety also considered changing eas ter holidays but no action was tak en a committee was appointed to further investigate this matter the society will hold its next meeting thursday jan 9 mathematics professor vector analysis discussed by missouri u students apologize to kansas pi tau sigma honorary mechan ijaj-engineering fraternity will ini ia three new members and an honorary member at a banquet which will be held at 7 o'clock in jrae&lotel bethlehem speakers on the program will be profs f v larkin and b j jen nings prof b j jennings will be the honorary initiate the other in itiates will be walton forstall jr robert b hess and james b hart man the committee in charge of the affair consists of h w semar m s christman and h h keller presents to the faculty to pave the way to bigger and better marks in the final examinations provided a source of entertainment at the an nual banquet of the chemical so ciety last evening held at the first reformed church of bethlehem santa claus made his usual en trance down a chimney and pre sented gifts ranging from red ap ples for all the professors to a pink boudoir cap a silky lace cre ation for prof a a diefenderfer to go with his robin's egg blue smock which has become the talk of the quantative chemistry labora tory the speakers of the evening were dr h m ullman head of the de partment of chemistry who spoke on christmas spirit in engineer ing he explained that almost ev eryone is an engineer in some branch of work he even went so far as to say that dean c m mc conn is an english engineer due to his research in that field the spirit of brotherhood in the engineering professions was his main point of emphasis linking of science and religion was the theme of an address by the rev s moyer of perkasie he ex plained that both were sciences and should be in closer contact and un derstanding a dinner at 6 o'clock preceded the speeches and entertainment of the evening dean c m mcconn also spoke before the gathering his remarks were of a humorous nature dec alumni bulletin tells of lehigh man rival's stadium youths show spirit by painting stuart attends meet river power project w s murray 95 builds saluda demolition of the north wall of the old library is the last obstacle in the way of completion of the new structure the new entrance of the library will extend inward from the arched gothic entrance on the west side through the old reading room and as far back as the librarian's former office to make this new entrance it has been necessary to form a new main wall across the reading room the steel work has been finished and all arches set soon jagged masonary and skeleton ceilings will be chang ed to a wide gothic passage with travertine walls vaulted ceilings slate-slab floors and stained oak woodwork when this is finished work will be started on the large reading room new books added many new books have been add ed to the shelves of the new library two novels jalna and whiteoaks of jalna by mazo de la roche winner of the 10,000 atlantic monthly prize are the outstanding new books revolt of the angels france four victorian poets brooks winter words hardy es says new and old huxley por trait of the artist as a young man by joyce are other works mon taigne's diary of journey to italy which was found last year and re printed is also now on the shelves scientific works include electro magnetic theory heariside the universe around us jeans science of the stars maunder foundations of science poincarre historical references are last victorians baumann carl schurz erkelenze and romantic america hoppe books recatalogued students in the chemical engin eering curriculum will no longer find it necessary to have with them a member of the library staff when searching for reference books the entire chemistry section of the li brary is being recatalogued by mrs rose who has already received rec ognition as a research chemist works will be arranged in the al phabetical order of the author's name the testing of smokeless pow der and the uses of explosives in blasting operations were the titles of major henry r marsh's talk given last night at the open meeting of the scabbard and blade society in packard hall major h r marsh came as a guest of the society from the ordin ance reserves of the hercules pow der co wilmington del testing of smokeless powder along with another film on mining trate the lecture capt t._r taber of ihejufekto i<s ontc^jss&ls&ihnii&eßk major s talk with remarks on sim ilar uses of explosives i tneeffng was concluded with re freshments nine new men and one officer were initiated into the scabbard and blade honorary military society monday evening a banquet follow ed at the guthsville hotel guths ville pa capt p l sadler of the staff at lehigh was made an associate mem ber and g c vaughn w h geib w w lowry r l baird p s davis r h harris w m may berry h j lockhart and robert motion were initiated by the soci ety capt groogan of lafayette was a guest of the society physics club to meet prof l l smail of the depart ment of mathematics and w a maccalla 30 read papers on vec tor analysis at the pi mv epsilon meeting held wednesday evening dec 11 in packer hall after these papers were read there was a gen eral discussion of vectors and vector analysis the national convention of pi mv epsilon will be held in dcs moines lowa during the christmas vacation but it was decided not to send a delegate because of the great ex pense that would be involved electrical engineers entertained sunday gipson gives lecture on political ireland prof m c stuart of the depart ment of mechanical engineering at tended the meeting of the commit tee on power test codes held as a part of the meeting of the amer ican society of mechanical engin eers from dec 5-10 in new york city professor stuart is a member of the a s m e sub-committee on general instructions condensers and centrifugal condensers the importance of an attorney's belief in the innocence of his client was stressed in an address wednes day evening by lawrence j rupp allentown attorney before the pre legal society in the packard lab oratory mr rupp in refutation of bern ard shaw's statement that law is not a profession it is a conspiracy asserted that honesty is one of the greatest assets of a lawyer a law yer must believe in the innocence of his client declared attorney rupp he must not be in court to ob struct justice in his 24 years as an attorney mr rupp said that he never had received the slightest suggestion of being bought off hard work claim ed mr rupp is the common meth od used by lawyers to win cases the assets of a lawyer added the speaker are honesty knowledge of law and willingness to work pond farms guests of prof barker at green latin professors meet present day conditions reviews influence of religion on demonstrations by members of the physics club experiments of the vortex rings interference fringes and oscillograph will accompany the meeting which is to be held at 8 p m thursday dec 19 in the physics lecture room coming events several university of missouri students will apologize to the uni versity of kansas student body for having painted the walls of the kan sas memorial stadium preceding the missouri-kansas game said dr al bert heckel dean of men at mis souri the youths explained that their deed was the result of a speech made by the missouri coach in which he declared the school didn't have enough spirit the students involved in the dis pute have been placed on indefinite probation some however were caught in their act by kansas stu dents and suffered not only proba tion but also a hair cut which was given to them by a barber at the request of the kansas students the pumped storage system of the rocky river hydro-electric plant was explained by lyle a whitsit hydraulic engineer for the united gas improvement company at a meeting of the civil engineer ing society which was held tuesday evening in the packard auditorium mr whitsit substituted for noel d justin who could not attend the meeting due to illness the rocky river power plant which is owned by the connecticut light and power company con sists of a main plant situated about 100 feet below a small sized res ervoir and about 80 feet below it another smaller power plant at times when current consumption it low the water coming from the main plant is converted into elec tric energy by the lower plant and this energy which is really excess energy is used to pump the used water back to the reservoir in this way the water is used over and ov er again at first this process of returning the water to its source seems to be an inefficient one to the technical mind however it has been proved that this method is a useful one in some cases drainage area small in the case of the rocky river plant the drainage area of the reser voir was small and the filling of the reservoir in minimum time present ed a real problem however by the use of the pumped storage system the problem was solved the electri cal energy which at times is in ex cess and hence would be wasted along the line is utilized in filling the reservoir and imparting poten tial energy to the used water times of peak load this system is cut off and both plants are used to generate electricity the repumping is essentially an intermittent pro cess other important advantages of the pumped storage system are that due to a more constant head the average output of the plant is high er than it would otherwise be also it gives a greater assurance of keep ing the plant in operation during times of draught mr whitsit gave his lecture with illustrations of the various units and also with photographs which were handed to the students for inspec tion mr whitsit worked together with noel d justin on this pro ject after his lecture the meeting was opened to discussion barrows gives talk tuba steel foundations was the subject of the second student's lec ture by daniel j barrows 30 which was given prior to the main lecture barrows has spent three summers working with the spencer white and prentiss company of new york who specialize in this type of work his lecture was aid ed by illustrations of the various details showing the method used for the complete installation ofrflywia foundations /^ in making a tuba steel foinidation long steel tubes are force<binu l th ground by a compressed aigil&iik mer until the end rests on solid rock the dirt and clay thui^ught by these tubes is then rempvmwd a combination air and hydraulic gun after the earth is totally re moved the hollow portion of the tube is filled with concrete this is done by a spillway which conducts the ready-mixed concrete from a truck to the tubes these motor trucks are fitted with a large re volving steel cylinder in which the concrete is mixed during the run from the storage house to the scene of operations the steel tubes are generally set us in combination of four which are then equipped with a head of reinforced concrete upon which the columns of the building are rested the advantage of this method is that a solid foundation can be placed over an area which contains underground springs oft en in excavating for a foundation the excavation becomes flooded due to underground springs necessitat ing pumping and possible suspen sion of operation president spangler opened the meeting at 8:15 p m amd intro duced the student speaker follow ing this talk prof h g payrow introduced lyle a whitsit after the discussion with mr whitsit the group adjourned to the smoking room where refreshments and cig arettes were serted friday december 13 7:30 p m peter stuyestant yale photoplay in packard laboratory 7:45 p m junior class smoker in lower gym saturday dec 14 3 p m frosh swimming meet le high vs flushing high school 4-6 p m freshman tea dance in drown hall sunday dec 15 2 p m lehigh union council and cabinet meeting in drown hall drill is discontinued the lehigh r o t c unit has discontinued regular monday after noon drills for the remainder of this semester the next drill will be held sometime during the month of march the feature of the december alumni bulletin is an article giving a detailed description of the great power project the saluda river dam conceived and being built un der the supervision of william spencer murray 95 it will be when completed the largest high earth dam in the world and is an indication of mr murray's rise in the engineering field as compared with his first job with westinghouse electric for which he was paid 12 cents an hour a short history of mr murray's life concludes the ar ticle walter okeson gives a brief re sume of fall sports at lehigh in tramural sports is the subject of one of the editorials and a con gratulations for the team shows that the alumni are back of the brown and white wholeheartedly and spiritedly the usual correspon dence with class alumn reports of meetings and lehigh clubs and let ters of a son to his father are pre valent but the issue is varied with a department called lehigh in the limelight the staff of the latin depart ment attended a meeting of the classical association of lehigh val ley last saturday afternoon at muh lenberg a number of papers were read by members of the associa tion the most important being the impressions gained by one of the members when he made a visit to rome smoker to be held this was the second talk of a series being given by the pre-legal society on the subject various agencies involved in the adminis tration of justice hughes to speak dec 30 cooperation or conflict in the study of learning is the topic of dr percy hughes will speak on at the convention of the american as sociation for the advancement of science which will be held dec 30 at dcs moines lowa dr hughes will attend this convention as dele gate of the university a k p to initiate twelve men will be initiated by alpha kappa psi honorary bus iness fraternity tuesday evening dec 17 the initiation and banquet will be held in gross's grove prof l h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment spoke on the political and economical situation in ireland at the meeting of the cosmos club last friday evening in drown hall in this talk professor gipson traced the relation of ireland with the british empire from the beginning of irish history to the present day by reviewing the influences of a po litical and religious nature that caused today's situation preceding the regular meeting over which prof c c bidwell pre sided the club had dinner in the cafeteria electrical engineers of the soph omore junior and senior classes were entertained at tea sunday aft ernoon by prof and mrs j w barker at the green pond farms the affair was attended by 70 students others who were there in cluded prof morland king head of the department of electrical en gineering at lafayette college and wife dr and mrs natt emery prof and mrs h d gruber prof and mrs n s hibshman prof and mrs a r miller prof and mrs m o fuller prof h a ne ville prof and mrs a r frey miss barbara heath miss helen talmadge miss virginia hutchin son and miss helen wreizner were also guests home club gives dinner the lehigh home club will ten der a dinner to the members of le high's 1929 football team tuesday dec 17 in the hotel bethlehem it is expected that a nationally known coach or sports writer will be the main speaker the club is composed of local business men who are interested in lehigh the junior class smoker will be held friday evening at 7:45 o'clock in drown hall a business meeting will precede the smoker wrestling bouts will be held for entertainment and refreshments will be served bethlehem pa friday december 13 1929 price five cents senior class book nears completion vol xxxvii no 22 brown and white lehigh debaters will broadcast college meets wbitsitexplains hydro electric power storage aviation future described by air traffic official cedar crest and bethany contests on air over wcba o c d j barrow's 3o pre sents paper on tuba steel foundations t a t manager ad dresses engineers club of lehigh valley plan home matches lectures chief pilot speaks 850,000 volts passed thru body found to be harmless in test all the 1 lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association