Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 30

              commander of los an geles speaks at engin eer's meeting okeson on vacation richards will speak hits present-day play six become captains w r okeson treasurer of the university left the latter part of january for polk city florida okey will spend the month of february vacationing at that place and return to lehigh about march 1 freshman initiations are again upon us latest reports state that a freshman from lehigh was re cently dispatched in quest of a live duck the freshman felt that his task was simple when a presumably kind upper-classman supplied him with an address al leged to be that of a market un fortunately however the tor mented student was directed to a police station where he was greeted by the desk sergeant upon being asked for a duck the witty sergeant replied i'm afraid your on a wild goose chase my boy 800 attend lecture officer believes long trip demonstrated practici bility of ships oratory trials will begin soon riflemen shoot twice this week to 1500 contest open to all stu dents — prizes range compete with gettysburg and also enter third area corp it may be initiation or hell week at local fraternities but as one old resident of bethlehem said times are not what they used to be yes sir the townspeople used to look for initiation time the old gent asserted we used to have as much fun out of it as the upper classmen and much more than the poor frosh had why 20 years ago the initiation stunts used to furnish us with more entertainment than the movies let me tell you some of the tricks they used to do saturday afternoon and evenirrg used to be the big time the old fellow declared a fellow sitting on the curb down at third and new streets fishing in the gutter with tackle made from a ten foot clothes prop half inch manila rope and a small safety pin was always suffi cient to block traffic and amuse the crowds as well as his i'm fishing the answer which he gave to all anx ious inquiries of cops and old ladies i could tell you a lot of tales about men who are now officials of large corporations my informant added who one time ran through the streets of bethlehem dressed in pajamas and yelled i'm crazy at the top of their lungs at every street corner others would walk around the town and through the stores dressed as little lord fauntleroy crying mamma i want my mam selling old newspapers for a nickel each was always a great at traction for the corner loafers laughed the old bethlehemite there was always the additional laugh at the fellow who was dumb enough to buy one you can imag ine the look on the face of some slick salesman who would toss the kid a nickel and start off reading his paper only to discover that it was three or four years old and you can imagine the laughs from the throats of the onlookers who fol lowed him in the evening the pledges would be sent around to the butch er shops to buy corsets or to a dry goods store to buy steaks or some thing else equally as foolish yes siree that always kept the women talking for a week afterwards but i'll tell you the best one i ever saw a fellow was dressed in a rain coat straw hat and a maid's apron was standing in front of the wil bur trust company one rainy eve ning he had stretched a washline from the fire plug to a telegraph pole and with painstaking preci sion he washed about 20 handker chiefs in a bucket of water hung them on the line and then repeated his washing yep lamented the ancient townsman as he walked away things are different now historical film to be continued long discusses paints and oils delivers paper before in dustrial leaders in toronto history department will present latest picture feb 28 the annual mid-winter alumni homecoming will be held saturday feb 22 headquarters for registra tion will be established in the alumni building after which the alumni will make an inspection tour of the new library special inspec tion trips will also be planned for those interested in the new internal combustion laboratory and the new home of the metallurgical depart ment other events of the morning will include a public speaking con ■ test to be held at 11 o'clock in pack ard auditorium first second and third places will be awarded in each of two divisions engineering and arts-business the prizes total 100 lunch at 1 p m in drown hall will be followed by a meeting on the second floor of that building representatives of various depart ments of the university including ■ the student body will give short talks on their respective subjects dr c r richards president of the university will conclude these talks with a speech on the administration department this meeting will ter minate in time for the alumni to witness the varsity basketball game with lafayette saturday night will be the occa sion for many fraternity formal in itiations and banquets dean criticizes modern campus interest in drama is sustained be cause it shows people in action and is tied up with life prof m j luch told the literary and drama de partment of the bethlehem wom en's club held monday what is hidden behind the action of the stage the inner side of those who portray the parts is not revealed he said dr luch's topic was re flection on modern drama modern drama is highly complex in story and scenery according to prof luch there is a more close ness to life as it is and there are more features to give realism the actors of modern drama are not as highly trained or educated in the art of acting as their early predeces sors the classical drama was short being from two to three thousand lines in length and there was very little action of the type of the pres ent-day drama the drama had a high degree of structural unity and was educational and the actors were trained for a period of years for the stage little material for the better ment of the home can be derived from the present-day drama the movies or the radio in the opinion of prof luch the very young people cannot accurately portray the deeper things of life in the play or novel as well as more mature people due to their lack of exper ience he said that the majority of our novelists and dramatists were about 25 years of age and were in capable of producing such novels and dramas as have been produced by those with more mature minds says fraternities are stronghold of new style education okeson writes in new bulletin the better american federation will announce . the meeting places and dates for the national regional semi-finals of the national oratori cal contest in the near future the final contest will be held june 19 at los angeles this oratorical contest is open to any college student in america and is in existence since 1924 the prizes range from 1500 to 4,000 entries must be registered by march 25 the orations are limited to 1500 words in length and are to be on any one of 16 subjects each subject pertains to the constitution of the united states the zone contests will be held during the latter part of may last year lehigh was the scene of the zone contest s r snitkin arts 3,1 won second place lehigh students have never reached the final contest in 1928 bucknell university was represented at the national contest by a student who won fourth prize the follow ing year a bucknell student again succeeded in reaching the finals winning the fifth prize aside from these two winners pennsylvania colleges have failed to qualify in the finals church society meets tau beta pi announces plans for founder's memorial the mechanism of transition of drying oils into protective coat ing films was the subject of a paper read by prof j s long of the chemistry department before the toronto club of paint and var nish superintendents at its meet ing recently in toronto dr long was introduced as spe cial speaker for the evening by the tckistmastor mr t f monypenny who humorously declared that the professor's phenomenal success was no doubt due to his irish ancestry the discussion following the ad dress proceeded to such length that the chairman was forced to call a halt besides his position at lehigh university dr long is also research director for the archer-daniels midland company old testament morals and their application to modern life were dis cussed at the meeting of the st paul's society sunday evening at nativity pro - cathedral fourth and wyandotte streets the society meets the second sunday of each month under the leadership of dean gateson univer sity chaplain to consider practical applications of religion to modern life the rifle team of the university's r o t c department is compet ing in two matches this week the team is firing against the gettys burg college team as a regular in tercollegiate match and is also com peting in the third corps area in tercollegiate matches depending upon the results of this latter match will rest the national intercollegiate matches held between march 15 and april 5 the hearst trophy matches will take place during the week ending march 15 and as the team won that trophy last year they are especially desirious of dupli cating the feat the schedule of the matches to be fired this semester is as follows feb 15 — gettysburg college 3rd and 4th stages 3rd c a in tercollegiate feb 22 — open mar i—rutgers1 — rutgers university st louis mo rutgers university university of wisconsin univer sity of delaware university of depauw university of wichita university of n dakota mar b—university8 — university of pittsburgh davidson college lowa state college state college of wash ington university of nebraska kansas state college mar 15 — hearst trophy mar 22 — cornell university georgia school of technology culver mil itary academy university of cin cinnati mar 29 — west virginia university connecticut agricultural college apr s—university5 — university of tennessee carnegie institute of technology richards asks for road repair soto eulogizes lincoln's father pi tau sigma plans election prof l h gipson head of the department of history and govern ment states that the next history film will be shown at 7 p m fri day feb 28 the subject of this film will be wolf and montcalm many queries have been received by the history department as to when more historical films will be shown according to professor gip son a large group of these motion pictures has been secured for addi tional programs the films are to deal especially with the colonial period in american history but the range of subjects will also include the french and indian and civil wars the pictures will be shown regularly after the week of feb 28 when the first of the series will be presented senior chemists to begin theses senior chemists and chemical en gineers are ready to begin their graduate theses each man will do research in unknown fields and will endeavor to solve certain mysteries about which the chemical world is unacquainted the men will chose any subject of particular interest to themselves they will comb the libraries for available information and will then conceive their own apparatus with which they will delve into the sub ject from an experimental point of view final reports will be published in the leading chemical and scien tific journals industrial officials interview engineers the city council of bethlehem took no immediate action on pres ident c r richard's request that packer avenue between new street and brodhead avenue be repaired and that the cost of repairing be di vided between the city of bethle hem and lehigh university which was presented before the council monday the proposed ground will be in spected by the council today or at some period in the very near fu ture according to victor e tice city clerk the matter could not be decided upon its presentation be fore the council monday because some members were not acquainted with the condition of the street after the council has made its in vestigation officers from lehigh will be asked to confer with the council robert g hess was elected cor responding secretary and plans for election of new members and spring activities were laid by pi tau sig ma honorary mechanical engineer ing fraternity thursday afternoon president harry j zimmer re ported to the fraternity the pro ceedings of the national convention to which he was delegate a plan originated by eta kappa nu to have the seals of eta kappa nu and pi tau sigma placed on the two re maining vacant windows in the lob by of packard laboratory was re ceived favorably the problem of furnishing the smoking room in packard laboratory was also dis cussed senior mechanicals and electricals to be approached thursday librarian to lecture to chemical society lamson reads paper on wave mechanics books thursday evening will speak on appreciation of smith 30 and mertz 31 also speak before pi mv epsilon promotions and assignments in the lehigh r o t c regiment have been approved by pres c r richards and will go into effect im mediately w f powell and g c vaughan have been promoted to majors in the staff of officers w h geib j d dickerson d b at kins g e oiler w e blackmar and h e datwyler to captains r c barber j l myer c r wentz and w p wills to first lieutenants in the ordinance unit and c a jeanson to first sergeant in the or dinance unit the color guards for this semes ter include c f shier company f and b o witemeyer company g as sergeants and h w persons company e and m van loan company g as corporals the re maining promotions will be made after the annual inspection promotions and assignments are as follows second battalion major vaughan g c adjutant '.... epstein d w first lieutenant captains company oiler g e e blackmar w e f datwlyer h e g ist lieuts : whims p l e johnson d p f king g w „ g 2nd lieuts noedel e h e koch e m f small e n g a vacancy for one 2nd lieut in each company ist sergts schaumburg g j e krone r f pimper c w g plat sergts lockhart h j e tiedeken t w f davidson c g stutz f a e motion r f glace k w g harris r h e danser j f f davis b m g sergeants meyers e t e regar p w f condit s h g van husen g c e gadd f w f anderson j r g schwenk w l f macgillis d j f sanna a a g corporals nora t e riley g h f warnick c d g guides : mccrea e j e mcadams d l e schuyler e v f young m g g wittmer h g corporals : morehead h a e publicker t f snyder e o g squads : oldham j d e petillo j a e mcmullen j g e nelson a w e peabody h w e otto o e oberstoin m b e schneck k r f schneider j w f simpson w c f raring r h f shimer s a f shimer s a f stanley a f f rohrs a g f stom e s g van kirk w x g templeman g n g continued on page four basing his talk on information gathered last summer while on a visit to hodgeville kentucky prof r a soto assistant professor of romance languages addressed the south side high school tuesday afternoon on lincoln's birthplace in his talk professor soto told of many instances which tend to dis prove the theory that abraham lincoln's father thomas lincoln was a lazy shiftless man he show ed ledgers that he uncovered last summer belonging to a general store with which the elder lincoln traded in these ledgers were re corded large amounts of goods as having been bought on credit all these accounts were paid and his credit was at times extended to rel atives other records showed that thomas lincoln was considered a responsible and worthy citizen and at times held minor offices in the town abraham lincoln was admired by all the townspeople even though his views on the issues of the day were not the same as theirs said pro fessor soto in conclusion what becomes of your dollar by walter r okeson treasurer of lehigh university is the leading ar ticle in the february lehigh alum ni bulletin which was issued to day by disclosing the fact that their market value after the crash was 59,813 in exce&s of their book value mr okeson first answers the question how were lehigh's invested securities affected by last fall's stock market slump the average yield on lehigh securities is 5.37 percent for the fiscal year ending aug ust 31 1929 the university's total income was 1,385,260.96 45 1-2 per cent of which was derived from un dergraduate tuition and fees so that the writer reaches the conclusion that the undergraduate pays at most not more than fifty percent of the cost of his education 66,318.61 came from the james ward pack ard estate lehigh's total disbursements last year were 1,388,552.23 which is 3,291.37 more than income the income from the board of control of athletics was 76,972.74 while the disbursement to the same body amounted to 82,621.25 making the defiicit 5,648.51 mr okeson concludes with the hope the alumni fund will continue to grow and that by alumni day in june 1933 the library will have been completely paid for an account of the plans being made by tau beta pi to honor its founder edward h williams 75 by a memorial to be erected at le high is also contained in the alum ni bulletin together with news of the alumni club's activities shur i mshur warns students of faculty trap on new street prof and mrs barker hosts to electricals pond farms have tea sunday at the green wave mechanics was the gen eral subject of papers which were presented by arthur l smith 30 john c mertz 31 and prof k w lamson before a meeting of pi mv epsilon wednesday evening representatives of industrial con cerns are interviewing senior en gineers with a view of offering them position upon their gradua tion in june last week representa tives of the national cyamlnide company interviewed senior mech anical engineers senior mechanical and electrical engineers will be in terviewed feb 31 by representa tives of the national cyanide and gas company of new jersey for employment in their electrical department the pittsburgh plate glass company will also have rep resentatives here feb 13 for the same purpose howard s leach m a univer sity librarian will speak on the pleasures and measures of books before the chemical society at 7:30 p m thursday feb 20 in the main lecture room of the chandler laboratory a short business meeting will be held before the speaker is intro duced refreshments will be served following the meeting mr leach has spoken to the so ciety several times before and is the first speaker of the present school year to talk on a subject not direct ly related to chemistry coming events register out soon analyzing the problem of the fra ternity and college dean c m mcconn in the january issue of banta's greek exchange a mag azine devoted to the interests of the college fraternity world comes to the conclusion that fraternities are a stronghold and chief agency of the new majority education the article tired business men of the campus is a reprint from north american review beginning with the four principal points that a fraternity must con sider when it begins to rush a freshman dean mcconn says he considers that the family from which the boy comes has the most bearing the most interesting crite rion he thinks is personality qual ities under which he includes per sonality and the ability of a stu dent to gain distinction in outside activities dealing with the fraternity and the importance of studies the dean said in part in every fraternity house i ever visited the whole at mosphere and spirit was definitely nonintellectual the recognized ac cepted topics of conversation in these houses are invariably athlet ics other outside activities and girls and any theme which could by and stretch of language be classi fied as intellectual or high brow is taboo socially incorrect the majority of fraternity men spend only a minimum amount of time on studies and are earnestly at work on another course of train ing devised and developed by them selves which they select for its su perior educational advantages re garding this class of students dean mcconn said personally i have become convinced that they are right that their claims are sound that their choice is justified — for themselves and for the very large numbers of present day collegians whom they represent in conclusion the dean said in short our colleges are no longer homogeneous as to constituency or as to the kind of education they af ford but are serving two quite dif ferent groups a minority who are intellectually gifted and carry on the older collegiate traditions work ing with the faculties at intellectual tasks towards intellectual and spir itual goals and a large majority who are avowedly nonintellectual for whom the old objectives are im possible and the old methods mean ingless but who are eagerly pur suing a new kind of training splen didly adapted to their purposes and abilities the newest issue of the lehigh register will be out early in march the register gives a detailed ac count of the courses offered by le high and the name and class of each member of the student body sigma nu drops men sigma nu fraternity announces the dropping from pledgeship of richard quigley j w bovard and james pinkerton prof and mrs j w barker en tertained electrical engineering stu dents sunday afternoon at their home the green pond farms the tea was attended by 50 of the electrical engineers others that were present were miss virginia boone miss mary walton miss lucy erwin miss catherine bea ver dean and mrs c m mcconn prof and mrs jensen prof and mrs bradley stoughton prof and mrs m o fuller prof and mrs j l beaver prof and mrs n s hibshman prof and mrs a r miller prof and mrs s s sey fert prof and mrs h d gruber c f maylot h s snyder vice president of the bethlehem steel and commander and mrs davis mr smith presented an introduc tion to the subject how wave me chanics developed was explained by mr mertz while the principal pa pers of the evening was theories of wave motion by professor lamson dean mcconn speaks dean maxwell mcconn addressed the open forum of the city club of cleveland at cleveland on satur day in his subject what is wrong and right with colleges dean mcconn told of his exper iences with the colleges at the close of the address an open discussion was held the address was broadcast from one of the cleveland radio stations by this means 1300 business men may attend or listen in at the meet ings held every saturday women to meet the regular meeting of the le high women's club will be held at 3 p m wednesday in drown hall members of the faculty and admin istration officers are invited to a tea after the meeting gers taylor gymnasium 4-7 p m woman's club tea dance saturday 3 p m varsity swimming vs rat drown hall 7 p m freshman basketball vs mining and mechanical institute taylor gymnasium monday 7:30 p m arcadia meeting drown hall 7:30 p m pi delta eplison meet ing drown hall 7:30 p m international relations club meeting room 208 packard lab if you do not like to come in con tact with members of the faculty don't move on n new street and avoid w market street like poison is the advice of shur i mshur brown and white statistician to lehigh students as a result of a survey which he has recently com pleted the reason for this advice is ob vious the survey showed that 13 members of the faculty ainl dean c m miconn live on n new street and that 11 other faculty members claim w market street as theirhome address the residences of 154 members of the faculty from the rank of as sistant instructor to professor were included in the survey which re sulted in some interesting discover with america's supply of helium and engineering resources there is no reason why united states air ships should not carry the ameri can flag to all corners of the earth within the next few years accord ing to lieutenant commander c e rosendahl commander of the dirigible los angeles to members of the engineer's club of lehigh valley and the anthracite-lehigh valley section american society of mechanical engineers at a joint meeting tuesday evening in pack ard laboratory auditorium com mander rosendahl pointed out many sidelights on his trip around the world as a representative of the united states on the graf zep pelin commander rosendahl was in troduced by c e lehr president of the engineer's club of lehigh valley the lecture followed a din ner of the two societies at hotel bethlehem commander rosendahl was grad uated from the u s naval acad emy at annapolis in 1914 and spent some years in flying heavier-than air craft before entering into his present field he has written sev eral books on aircraft commander rosendahl explained that the term airship belongs only to dirigibles and not to other craft the immense size of these airships compares with that of an ocean lin er and they are navigated as one the graf zeppelin has all the in struments for navigation that a modern ocean liner has besides those use for air travel the trip across the ocean was uneventful while over siberia from friedrichshafen the ship passed over vast desert wastes and at one time traveled 1000 miles without a sign of habitation commander ro sendahl explained that the white clouds seen on summer days are the rocks and shoals of aircraft they are composed of upward and downward currents of air and are very dangerous the graf encoun tered one of these over japan but rode it out successfully comman der rosendahl paid a high compli ment to the japanese air forces for although they never handled a ship the size of the graf before they performed like veterans the dirigible passed over the pa cific without incident except for a lightning storm which it rode out successfully the take-off from los angeles on the last leg of the jour ney was the most thrilling of his career commander rosendahl de clared the ship narrowly missed several high tension wires before it finally got under way a landing was made at lakehurst soon after ward completing the trip around the world the total elapsed time was 21 days 5 hours and a few minutes the trip around the world dem onstrated the practibility of lighter than air craft according to com mander rosendahl bigger and bet ter airships are required united states is at present building two airships each bigger than the los angeles and the graf zeppelin combined these new ships have a storage place for five airplanes the airplanes can take off and land whil the ship is in motion to carry mes sages or passengers to the ground at intermediate points enroute helium which is found only in the united states is the lifting me dium of all our airships thus givfng the united states a great davan tage over countries whose ships are buoyed up by highly inflammable hydrogen a water recovery appar atus to compensate for the weight lost in the combustion of gasoline is installed in airships this appara tus turns products from the exhaust of the motors back into water the development of terminal ports offers on outstanding prob lem to airships experiments are being made at present at lakehurst for the substitution of mechanical machinery to replace the large land ing crew necessary to moor an air ship these are problems for en gineers to solve continued com mander rosendahl pictures showing the first zep pelin and its construction were shown together with interior views of the los angeles moorings made with the u s s patoka and the airplane carrier saratoga were also shown ies it was found that 111 faculty members live on the north bank of the lehigh while only 36 live on the south bank of the river among these 36 there are several who live in fountain hill cherokee street with 5 was the street most thickly populated with faculty members on the north side of the town streets not already seven faculty members live out side the city included among these are prof l h gipson center val ley prof j s long coopersburg prof e s sinkinson gauff's hill and h p whitenight allentown mentioned which are popular with the faculty members are high street with 7 center street with 6 w church with 6 and wall street with 5 bethlehem pa friday february 14 1930 vol xxxvii no 30 brown and white oldtimer mourns hell week not what it was he says price five cents live duck search ends in goose chase luch discusses modern drama at womens club richards favors r.o.t.c.advances for this term alumni to visit college during homecoming day rosendahl tells of graps cruise over the world annual event set for feb 22 — inspections planned infers modern dramatic artists are inferior to predecessors vaughn promoted to majors w f powell and g c member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first