Brown and White Vol. 37 no. 45

              scimitar club also abol ished on recommenda tion of o d k result of experiment em bodied in five simple rules new naming tomorrow talk follows dinner lauded by n y papers presentation of letters for fall and winter sports and a recep tion of the oxford-cambridge lacrosse team will take place at 11 a m wednesday at the first college meeting of the semester all classes scheduled for that will be cancelled the meet ing will be held around the flag aole or in the event of rain in packard auditorium m all sophomores must attend a meeting to be held 7:30 p m monday april 14 in packard auditorium in order to fill out general information blanks con cerning the coming carnegie ex aminations banquet fights barred valentines sent to 800 students sophomore and freshman choices for class of fices approved . lehigh's annual welding sym posium will have its first session at 9:30 a m friday morning in packard auditorium and an aft ernoon session from 2 to 5 p m in packard laboratory williams hall and fritz engineering labor atory men graduating with 4.50 averages now receive honors student bodies elect officers frosh nominate class officers the independents and the lehigh party name men friday warren square ranks first receiving but one notice arcadia and interfrater nity council choose officials nominations for the officers and cabinet members of next year's sophomore class were made last friday by the present freshman class nominations are as follows for the independent party president george doering vice president william fousse secre tary john aufhammer treasurer burt rivere historian hugh mc conahey sergean-at-arms frank lin larkin for cabinet members william rupley peter vander horst elliot brennan frederick keck george hagstoz nathanial rothenberg kennard bord c n charles jackson william haas for the lehigh party president george dornin vice president harold grande secre tary william bray treasurer paul walter historian arthur graham sergeant-at-arms richard laftman for cabinet members john hobbs homer lackey john^mcelwain finlay kennedy david grusetz william ruben william aaron steven hudak joseph braverman mcconn s story given high rank john d benedict and frank a rushong were elected presidents for next year of arcadia and interfra ternity council respectively at meetings of the two organizations at 8 o'clock last evening in drown hall seven arcadia committees were appointed officers of the • interfraternity council elected for next year are as follows president frank a rushong vice president robert l baird secretary william seeburg er and treasurer arthur w thornton jr arcadia elected the following of ficers for next year john d bene dict president lucien h platt secretary and samuel c fuller treasurer at the arcadia meeting the fol lowing committees were appointed board of control a t mcelroy chairman g b camden and a w ruggles student clubs d mac dougall chairman w h sachs and j g meharg student activi ties r m powers chairman w.m mayberry and r l baird dance committee g b camden chair man r c clark w o engle house committee t w tiedeken chairman and j m lyons booster committee j m lyons chairman r l baird and r s white pub lications committee w h sachs chairman r s chess and c a harding kappa sigma gives house dance april 5 paramount orchestra furnishes music for fraternity hop about 800 students or more than half of the university's enrollment received valentines saturday which informed them of the subjects in which they were below passing warren square had the least number receiving only one valen tine leonard hall came second with five and phi sigma kappa ranked last with 24 sixteen seemed to be the unlucky number seven houses having received that num ber following is the list of houses with the number of valentines they received : warren square 1 leonard hall 5 delta phi 7 taylor hall section a 11 section b 12 section c 13 section d 11 section e ■ 10 kappa alpha 11 alpha kappa pi 12 delta tau delta 12 sigma nu 12 phi delta pi 13 phi beta delta 13 pi lambda phi 13 pi kappa alpha 13 tau delta phi 13 phi sigma delta • 14 psi upsilon 14 sigma phi 14 price hall 15 theta kappa phi ! 15 delta upsilon 16 phi delta theta •"• 16 phi gamma delta 16 sigma phi epsilon 16 sigma chi 16 theta delta chi 16 kappa sigma 16 alpha tau omega 17 chi phi 17 lambda chi alpha 17 theta xi 17 alpha chi rho 20 sigma alpha mv 21 chi psi 22 phi sigma kappa 24 music for the dancing was fur nished by the paramount orchestra of allentown chaperons were mr and mrs robert b adams and mr and mrs c mccrea white of beth lehem dr neil carothers and dean c m mcconn were present also the chapter of kappa sigma fra ternity at lehigh held a dance last saturday evening in the chapter house because four men are running unopposed for offices in the junior class elections on thursday the committee on elections of arcadia decided that it was not fair to the class as a whole and a general nomination for all offices of the present junior class will be held to morrow noon in packard auditor ium election of the men nominated wednesday will be held thursday general election day as scheduled the nominations by the present sophomore and freshman classes were approved the nomination which caused ar cadia to take action were for posi tions of vice president treasurer historian and sergeant-at-arms all other officers had two or more men eligible for election this is the first time that the occasion arose for the arcadia to take action oth elections have been protested but this marks the first time that a re nomination was held because the arcadia judged the men nominated did not represent all the class officers nominated for the posi tions that were unopposed were robert chess for vice president s hall for treasurer w a furman for historian and harry andrews for sergeant-at-arms sophomore nominations which were made last tuesday were made with a fewer number of men pres ent than the junior nominations but all offices had two or more men eligible freshman elections were also marked by a meager atten dance the committee on elections is not a pervnanent arcadia committee it is appointed to serve throughout election time and ceases to exist once elections are completed the men who were appointed to the committee were w g badgely j h girdler h j muendel w e blackmar and d a atkins chair man blackmar was unable to at tend the meeting which passed on the junior nominations reasons advanced by members of the committee for reopening the nominations were chiefly the mark ed poor attendance other reasons which they declared might have bearing were that the meeting was not properly advertised that it was not properly conducted that there was a general lack of interest among the class and that other likely candidates thought it futile to run in face of well organized party opposition m.e's will hear mckibben soon dr theodore m newcomb as sistant professor of psychology at lehigh and prof goodwin watson of columbia university have with in the last few weeks received much favorable comment in three of the new york's leading newspa pers for their experiments last summer in speeding up reading the papers that commented on their work were the new york times the sun and the daily news these psychologists found that by applying five simple rules of psy chology a person may speed up his reading considerably after six ten minute periods the average student in a group of 200 graduate students at teachers college was able to read from 15 to 20 percent more material in a ten-minute period the average reading speed was increas ed from 250 words to 319 words per minute five rules recommended the five rules recommended by these psychologists are as follows 1 eliminate useless motions lip movement whispering pointing and head movements slow up reading 2 speed does not require strain relaxation of most muscles with a moderately pleasant interest in the reading is the attitude recom mended 3 endeavor to see phrases sen tences perhaps paragraphs at a glance eliminate long stops on particular words and keep the eye movement going steadily forward without retracing 4 if your mind wanders remem ber that it is not going from this material but toward something else recognize the drive that has called you away from the job and definite ly plan to take up the problem at some more convenient time often a note on a nearby pad will be suf ficient remindec to prevent the matter from injecting itself into the reading again 5 the most important advice is to try to anticipate what the author is going to say use the reading not passively as an attempt to ab sorb ideas but as a check to dis cover whether the author is de veloping the idea as you would ex pect him to do it is seldom neces sary to read every word of every sentence in reply to a query as to the ef fect that speeding up has upon the individual comprehension of the material read professor newcomb said as a general rule experi ments have conclusively shown that instead of comprehension being les sened when speed increases com prehension actually increases lacrosse battle with swarthmore subject of story by r.g.kirk,'os phi gams hold hop saturday at house the declaration of independence contributed nothing new to political philosophy but was merely an in terpretation of the work of john locke applied to colonial prob lems prof theodore de laguna of the department of philosophy at bryn mawr college told his audi ence friday evening at a lecture sponsored by the robert blake so ciety in packard auditorium jefferson classified and crystal ized the democratic thought of this country as locke did for his coun try a century before declared pro fessor de laguna who stated that his purpose was to make his hear ers understand jefferson's words as the men of his day understood them for 60 years the declara tion has been losing its popularity it has too many fine phrases we are beginning to recognize that its makers were shrewd politicians not national heroes he stated scores critics professor de laguna admitted that he agreed with political scien tists who criticized the declara tion as outgrown philosophy but pointed out that many of these cri tics do not really understand the declaration the declaration does not imply that all men are created equal in all senses professor de laguna said both jefferson and locke re alized that political equality must be limited and that circumstance may place some above others he explained what the declaration does mean 1 ' he went on is that men should have equal rights there is no natural difference be tween ruler and ruled since the power to rule depends on the con sent of the ruled and may be re moved by dissent inconsistent with slavery critics who contend that all men do not have inalienable rights of life liberty and pursuits of happi ness because they may lose these rights by performing crimes also misinterpret jefferson professor de laguna declared jefferson did not mean this he explained he meant that men could not lose these rights unless they had consented to have all those who performed crimes punished for them the professor admitted however that the declaration was inconsistent with slavery but added that jeffer son was aware of this fault so closely do the ideas of the declaration follow those presented by locke that jefferson was ac cused of copying from his predeces sor the professor continued this however jefferson emphatically de nied he said and concluded with the statement that the declaration of independence marked a revolu tion precipitated by both the legis lature and the peopfey the lecture was followed by an informal discussion concerning the declaration preceeding the talk a dinner was held in the cafeteria in drown hall evening's entertainment closed dinner dance followed by college rules to be discussed a closed dinner dance was held saturday evening by phi gamma delta at the chaper house dancing from 9 till 12 o'clock followed the dinner dance the brown and maroon orches tra from the hotel bethlehem play ed at the dinner dance and muth's masters of modern rhythm from allentown furnished the music lat er about 30 couples attended the dinner dance with additional cou ples later mr and mrs a c mel linger of bethlehem and prof h c brown of the faculty were chaper ons the distribution of student activi ties plan recommended by arcadia was approved by the faculty yes terday afternoon omicron delta kappa's resolution to abolish the scimitar club was also approved the faculty decided that men who maintain an average of 4.50 for their last four semesters in college shall graduate with highest honors the plan for the limitation and distribution of student activities was first recommended to arcadia by omicron delta kappa this plan divides activities into three groups in the order of their importance — maximum major and minor count ing respectively 9 6 and 3 points no student will be allowed to carry more than a total of 18 points at any one time this plan will not go into effect until the fall of 1931 since many of the organizations have already held elections and the plan would upset their schedules scimitar club abolished the abolition of the scimitar club was recommended by omicron delta kappa to the faculty on the grounds that the club lacked any definite purpose the scimitar club is known as a sophomore honorary society and is composed of 18 mem bers the faculty's action on the matter resulted in the abolition of the club hereafter men with an average of 4.50 for the last two years in the university will be graduated with highest honors before it was necessary for a man to have a 5.00 an a average for his last four sem esters to attain this high honor the petition of the freshman and sophomore cabinets to hold their banquets later than the night of the first day following easter vacation was granted providing that there shall ne fighting any person caught fighting will be subject to discipline measures of the univer sity if fighting does occur hereaft er the banquets will be held the night following easter vacation two new substitutes for chapel were approved phychology of con duct psy 21 and 22 and biblical lit erature eng 33 and 34 being chos en the courses have been under the consideration of the faculty since january air courses approved for the benefit of those men who intend to follow aeronoutical engin eering two courses in aeronautics were approved aerostatics m e 119 and aerodynamics m e 120 will be the first courses given by lehigh in the field of aeronautics the following golf schedule was approved april 12 rutgers april 26 brown and may 3 lafayette the only match definitely sched uled is the rutgers game if plans go through the other matches will be played on the above dates how ever all games will be away two freshman baseball games were also approved they aret swarthmore prep april 29 and blair academy may 6 the meeting of the faculty edu cational club will be held next mon day in room 416 packard labora tory prof f creedy will speak on economics from the viewpoint of engineers prof h diamond will lead the discussion e scoblionko arts 31 represents lehigh arc welding will be the sub ject of mr mckibben's speech he will discuss the various methods that are used for arc welding stressing mostly the hydrogen arc welding f b mckibben consulting en gineer of the general electric company and former head of the department of civil engineering at lehigh will speak to the mechan ical engineers at 7:30 o'clock thurs day evening april 10 in packard auditorium he will present talking movies at lehigh for the first time they will be educational films on ato mic hydrogen welding the talk and films will be given at a joint meeting of the lehigh and lafayette student branches of the american society of mechani cal engineers the two student branches will inspect packard lab oratory from 4 to 6 p m dinner will.be served in drown hall following the inspection trip coming events peace pact speaks at state contest on kellogg faculty dramatists read vane's work elected april 30 next year's officers will be the american review of reviews has recently chosen dean c m mccolm's article super-kinder garten or college appearing in the new york times magazine feb 23 as being one of the ten best stories of the month the ap ril issue of the reader's digest chose this same article as being one of the 30 best of the month the april issue of the north american revieg featured another article by dean mcconn entitled prexy's perilous job this article was re written under the title dangerous trade in the times magazine of april 7 in the new york times maga zine which was later commented on in both the review of reviews and the reader's digest dean mc conn stressed the fact that the rah-rah boys the coonskin coat contingent compose a minority only of the college student per sonnel the greater number of young men and women now in col lege are serious hard-working stu dents whom it is really slanderous to call collegiate in the new mean ing of the word in the article appearing in the north american review and later in the times magazine dean mc conn analyzed the administrative problem of the american university that invests all power covering a multitude of problems in the hands of one man the president the fact that in nine months 55 colleges and universities had changes in their highest executive office shows that there is something radically wrong with the system since there are only about 750 colleges in the coun try these changes represent a turn over of 7.3 percent in nine months he further discribes the job as man killing and argues that few survive it more than eight or ten years because the strain is too great and because in fulfilling so many requirements it is most difficult to be perfect in all endeavors the plan suggested by dean mc conn which would ease the college president s burden is to have a board of 12 six members elected by the faculty three honor seniors elected by the class and three al umni elected by the alumni asso ciation to help govern the univer sity a college of fredom vs a col lege of discipline will be discussed by phi cigma delta and theta kap pa phi the two winners of the semi finals in the interfraternity bull session tournament in the final round to be held this evening at 7:30 o'clock in room 466 packard laboratory theta kappa phi and phi sigma delta by winning in their respec tive divisions have advanced to the final round theta kappa phi will be represented by h a seward arts 30 j c o'connell e e 30 and j a kiep e e 30 the team for phi sigma delta will be s m spector arts 32 s r snitkin arts 31 and s h landy bus 31 ed with the lehigh discussion cup the winning team will be present donated by a h fretz assistant professor of geology the cup will be presented by delta omicron theta lehigh debating society philadelphia club chooses new heads senior committee to plan class day discussed at meeting plans for sub-freshman smoker executive council will meet at bethlehem club thursday wednesday ford-cambridge taylor field 7:30 p m meeting of pi mv ep silon room 400 packard labor atory 4 p m varsity lacrosse vs ox thursday • 4 p m varsity baseball vs hay erford taylor field 7 p m joint meeting of lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa hotel bethlehem 7:30 p m meeting of the l u chemical society main lecture room chandler chemical labor atory * 8 p m joint meeting of the stu dent a s m e of lafayette college and lehigh university and the engineer's club of the le high valley packard auditorium friday 9:30 a m welding symposium first session packard auditorium 2-5 p m welding symposium aft ernoon session packard labora tory williams hall and fritz en gineering laboratory new officers were elected and plans outlined for a sub-freshman smoker april 11 at the philadel phia lehigh club meeting at the engineer's club in philadelphia last month the officers of the alumni club for this year are clifford f lin coln 11 president nevin e funk 05 first vice president william f carson 08 second vice president moriz bernstein 96 secretary and walton forstall 91 treasurer a telegram just received from grove city states that emanuel scoblionko . did not take first place in the pennsylvania oratorical con test held there yesterday evening emanuel scoblionko 31 repre sented lehigh last evening in the pennsylvania state oratorical con test at grove city college grove city pa the subject of his address was american and the kellogg peace pact the pennsylvania state oratori col contest is an annual event and the winner competes in the eastern division contest on april 11 at ypsilanti mich scoblionko has done considerable forensic work on the kellogg peace pact this year he was leader of the negative team that debated on the kellogg peace pact he also spoke at the alumni oratorical contest on washington's birthday on the topic should the united states withdraw from the kellogg peace uact and won first prize in the arts and science division the senior class executive com mittee will discuss class day plans the annual banquet and other mat ters at 6:30 p m thursday at the bethlehem club a present commit tee and a tablet committee will be chosen at the meeting the senior banquet will be held thursday may 1 at the hotel bethlehem frank tucker edmund staub and hugh castles are on the committee on arrangements suttton vane's outward bound was the play read at the last meet ing of the faculty dramatic club wednesday march 26 at the home of prof and mrs robert w hall 37 east church street the play is an allegory of life and death modeled after the char on story it pictures the rewards and punishments of life after death the readers of this play were mr and mrs morris e kanaly prof arthur warner klein ar thur r braunlich prof charles jacques goodwin mrs lloyd le roy smail miss cora dunnells and henry schenck the next meeting of the society will be on april 30 at which there will be an election of officers for the new year the gods of the lightning by anderson and kick erson will be the play read aften ten years of controversy over the muscle shoals project the senate passed the norris resolution providing for the turning over of the 150,000,000 development to a government-controlled corporation for the experimentation in fertilizer production the project was started by the government in 1918 to offset the impending shortage of chilian nitrate due to german submarine warfare * ♦ * it is estimated thaf the manufac ture of fertilizer at muscle shoals under government supervision would save the farmers of the unit ed states more than 90,000,000 per year there is no doubt that gov ernment operation would be a boon to the american farmer but the fact must be realized also that the mass of taxpayers in the united states would be supporting and subsidizing a project that is intend ed to aid only one class of taxpay ers namely the farmer * ♦ ♦ the norris bill is indirectly but actually a measure for agricultural subsidy that the people's money should be used for the benefit of one class is grossly unjust the soviet is establishing a nov el credit system bills of exchange and other forms of credit transac tions between the state trusts and commercial organizations will be abolished all business in the sov iet will be conducted upon a pure cash basis or with its credit equiv alent obtained from the state bank that is when a commercial organ ization is in need of credit it will get it from the state bank and not from some other commercial or ganization • ♦ » this reform will cause the state bank to become the clearing house for the entire soviet nation it is hoped that the new credit idea will enable the state to control the credit operations on the entire na tion and thus of course to estimate more precisely the national curren cy requirements * * ♦ * ♦ * the new credit reform will allow the amount of money in circulation to be adjusted to the business needs of the soviet — the state credit bills being expanded as the need for them becomes apparent these new cred it bills will not be money in the real sense of the term but they will have the same influence as an in crease in the amount of money in circulation by this disguised meth od of creating credit money the soviet will gat nowhere more money will not mean more wealth in russia from rome comes the news that the italian warship nicoloso da recco has set a new official record of forty-one and one-half knots per hour the nicoloso da recco is a 1 654 ton ship which is destined to become the flagship of a division of 12 similar ships at london eng lish naval experts have become un easy over the projected building of a german mustery ship which they claim will outrun and outfight any vessel afloat and our own am erican newspapers are filled with scenes and accounts of the gigantic army day parades in philadelphia and new york * * ♦ with the london conference on the verge of ultimate failure or upon the threshold of an ignoble three power treaty the world once more has its attention focused upon war glorious war * * * • an explosion at a fireworks plant thursday at devon pa took a toll of ten lives and resulted in injuries to more than a score of others nearly 200 homes in the vicinity of the plant were damaged and the force of the explosion was felt with in a radius of 20 miles sections of the destroyed buildings were hurled eight miles ♦ * ♦ three inquiries are under way in an effort to determine the cause of the blast charges and counter charges are being made the blame for the accident may or may not be placed the sad thing is that those lives have been sacrificed needlessly and uselessly it is to'be regretted that industries of the type at devon are allowed to exist the industry and the product which it manufactures are dangerous far be yond the economic need which they tend to fill the fireworks industry should be prohibited by law or tax ed out of existence * ♦ * mahatma gandhi native leader in india is doing everything possible to spite the government he and his followers have manufactured salt from the sea in violation of the government law which collects 25,000,000 per year under the much detested salt tax the followers of gandhi expect to continue their program with refusal to pay taxes and the resignation of native offi cials * ♦ ♦ mr gandhi and his followers be lieve that the english are maltreat ing the natives of india there is always trouble when east meets west ed lehigh another man mentioned in the story is william l estes 05 now a surgeon at st luke's hos pital who appears in the story as billy esteigh the indigo and tan was swarthmore and kost has since become a well-known football official • there are other references to this district in the story lafayette is mentioned as the big red team and taylor field and south mountain give unmistakable reference to le higfi charlie rennig's a popular hotel among lehigh men of that time which was located on south new street and the alley south of fourth street is mentioned as charlie rennie's another hotel on south main street and monocacy creek is mentioned as karl's the details of the game are true according to coach lattig who as serts that he remembers the game well it was the last game which he played in college he spent the next six weeks in bed and the next three months on crutches coach lattig says that the two swarthmore men caught his leg between theirs and that after being carried over under the trees which were located where the present north stands are he re turned to the game swarthmore considering him out of the game did not pay much attention to him so that he was able to slip down to the net to toss in goal after goal the red-headed sister and the love plot though are fiction being products of the author's brain contrary to the story the epi tome shows that sworthmore won the game 10-6 kirk was a lacrosse player while at lehigh in 1904 he not only played the point position but also served as assistant manager the following year he managed the team he was president of arcadia and a member of tau beta pi since leaving school he has attained a reputation as an author and many of his stories have appeared in the saturday evening post by k k kost last saturday lehigh defeated a lacrosse team from swarthmore twenty-seven years ago lehigh did the same thing and that game is the basis for all-american a fea ture of the april number of the american legion by ralph g kirk met e os all-american has for its hero rufus griswold bayer a tough husky football player who listens to the seducing entreaties of the red readed heroine stephania latigo and becomes a lacrosse player griz becomes one of the best players on the valley tech team which is captained by stephania's brother slats valley tech has disposed of all its rivals but one the indigo and tan and the main part of all american centers about the game with this team for the champion ship the indigo and tan team which depended on a strong close wall like defense close to their own goal made the game hot for valley tech players who were unable to pierce it the one blot on the scutcheon of this team was kost their dirtiest and best player kost with the assistance of an other player twists captain lati go's leg in a scuffle for the ball but the fighting captain stays in the game griz bayer changes his skill ful type of play for a rough slash ing game which results in the play ers of the indigo and tan making their exits due to injuries in the meantime captain latigo sneaks through his opponents to score the goals needed to win the game and the championship the story ends with the usual clinching scene in stephania's home the lehigh alumnus of that time easily recognizes slats latigo as charley lattig 03 who captained the team in 1902 and 1903 and is now lacrosse coach griz bayer is andy farabaugh who is considered by old lehigh men as the toughest and strongest man who ever attend world news brown and white after ten years a novel credit system war glorious war the devon disaster trouble in india g.w.t vol xxxvii no 45 arcadia to reopen junior nomination bethlehem pa college meeting tomorrow at 1 / tuesday april 8 1930 price — five cents locke moulded colonial ideals says delaouna dr t newcomb does research in reading rate faculty approves limiting activities jefferson borrowed from englishman in writing declaration welding meet friday student governing body makes decision first of its kind sophs meet monday all the lehigh news first