Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 23

              general program enters 4th consecutive year 20 frosh enroll knickerbocker is slated to appear at broughal after exam period all students not returning to their homes for the christ mas and new year holidays are requested to leave information at this office as to their where abouts frequently important messages come to the university for you during vacation periods and we have no means of reach ing you if you are remaining at your bethlehem address notify this office of that fact indicating any days you may plan to be else where if you are spending the va cation or any part of it away from bethlehem give us that information including the ad dress at which you may be reached or your proposed itin erary this service is for your own interests and advantage wray h congdon dean of undergraduates hubert r knickerbocker rov ing correspondent of the interna tional news service who has been on the scene of virtually every in ternational crisis in europe asia and africa during the past 15 years will speak on jan 30 at broughal high school under the auspices of the engineers club of the lehigh valley announcement of this was made by william h formhals as sistant professor in electrical en gineering who is chairman of the faculty plan holiday trips journalism and economics conventions included among activities turned in his customary good per formance the kids wowed em espe cially effective was harry gunni son who has a peculiar talent for making an audience laugh louder and longer at his lines than any body else from the standpoint of audience enjoyment the kids were tops however looking at the play as the whole they seemed to misplace the emphasis on the environment molds-character thesis instead of evoking the how funny but also pitiful reaction they confined themselves generally to ribald hu mor which seemed a bit over played the audience rather than feeling pity and tsk tsk society is in a bad way lets have slum clear ance was inclined to regard the whole thing as a magnificent toity toid street romp in this respect they seemed to be burlesquing the dead end kids of the movies however no credit should be taken away from the boys belly laughs there were — and in great abundance the worst effect of the de-em phasizing activities of the kids was to over-shadow the character of gimpty played by dick berg who is a swell actor you'll re kids steal show continued on page four by james k binder the play on saturday night was good on three counts bad on one and proved something production was good the set ting — its requirements must have seemed terrifying — did much with a comparatively small stage and without a five-figure budget a wharf was built at the front of the stage and jutted out beyond the edge giving an extraordinary re alistic effect this effect was enhanced by a background of river noises and land sounds tug-boat whistles and the clatter of the elevated prob ably the more notable aspect of production was the elimination of the curtain blackouts were used exclusively these combined features the jut ting wharf giving the illusion of the river beyond the background of incidental sound the elimina tion of the curtain and the use of blackouts were very successful in that they got rid of the stage al most entirely and gave the feel ing of real events and real people rather than make-believe ones acting termed excellent acting was good rita shafer was excellent per usual as drina so was sylvia mellner's kay al though she was much better as miriamne in winterset nat brisker as baby-face martin tomorrow will be the deadline for freshman applications to the general education program which will enter its fourth year early next semester according to herbert m diamond head of the economics department and chairman of the program approximately 20 fresh men have already signified their intention of enrolling in this no quiz no-credit course this year the general education program will be under the direc tion of 17 members of the faculty who will direct students in a course of their own choosing the pro gram which is open to all stu dents consists of outside reading and informal conferences between a member of the advisory council and the student diamond stated that it is hoped that the plan will broaden the stu dent intelectually and culturally the benefits of the course will be proportional to the effort spent he contends it is taken voluntarily by the student and he may discon tinue the program at any moment by merely notifying dr diamond of his intention upper-classmen may apply any time before the end of the semes ter honorary initiates 9 new members 14 are initiated by military group scabbard and blade holds banquet hears dupuy eta kappa nu induction is held saturday brown and white staff competing empire ballroom picked as site for dance to be held feb 10 glen gray and his casa loma orchestra will play for lehigh's annual interfraternity ball to be held feb 10 in the empire ballroom according to walter s russell ch e 40 president of the inter fraternity council contracts will be signed late today gray's band as the second choice in a poll con ducted among approximately 700 fraternity students the orchestra of jimmy dorsey which was fav ored by the majority of students voting was not available as the band will go on location in chicago early in february gray who has been one of the country's top band leaders for the past eight years wil bring to le high a veteran organization cap able of both sweet and hot music featured with the band are vocalists kenny sargent and pee wee hunt of the music goes round and round fame the interfraternity ball will be held this year at a location new to lehigh dances the empire ball room which is located between al lentown and bethlehem across from central park is expected to provide adequate facilities for the affair last year les brown and richard himber played at the ball held at the hotel bethlehem 4 cars reported stolen last week hubert r knickerbocker system to be used to fill february vacancies 3 have been found one not yet recovered a number of the faculty are planing to attend the conventions during the coming holidays ken neth k kost instructor in jour nalism and charles j moravec assistant university news editor will attend the annual convention of the southeastern association of teachers of journalism on dec 29 and 30 at the hotel ever glades miami florida john t o'neil instructor in eco nomics will attend a meeting of the american economic association dec 27 and 28 in philadelphia col joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics and mrs leonard with dr stanley thomas head of the de partment of biology and mrs thomas will vacation in florida professor and mrs j calvin cal laghan will spend the holidays in michigan callaghan is assistant professor of english and speech walter r okeson treasurer of the university is now at denver attending the annual meeting of the gold mine company next week he will be in los angeles to preside at a meeting of the national inter collegiate football rules commit tee mr james l clifford instruc or in english will spend the vaca tion in tennessee 300 collected nine men were initiated into eta kappa nu national honorary elec trical engineering society satur day night after a banquet which was held in the university room of the hotel bethlehem the electrical engineers initiated in the tau beta pi room in pack ard laboratory were the following one senior robert j seugling and eight juniors alton p dieffen bach carl c stotz frederick h housel albert c foss louis g gitzendanner stephen kowaly shyn jr michael temoshok and walter h vogelsberg at the banquet held after the initiation mr benjamin l lewis national president of eta kappa nu and morris buck a member of the advisory board spoke on poss ible improvements of the national organization of the society after a talk by lynford j beaver profes sor of electrical engineering the toastmaster john v mcguire in troduced the initiates each of whom spoke briefly approximately 100 persons at tended the initiation banquet held thursday by scabbard and blade honorary military society in the university room of the hotel beth lehem major r ernest dupuy public relations counsel for west point gave a short after-dinner speech and later spoke in packard auditorium on czechoslovakia's part in the last world war the initiation took place in the armory before the dinner when 12 seniors and juniors were initiated together with major francis m rich and captain benjamin s mesick assistant professors of mil itary science and tactics the seniors pledged were joseph c coyne i e joseph i ham mond 1.e quentin r g keith arts and fred kornet jr ch e juniors taken in were william l archer bus norman m barber bus james h bricker bus rob ert caemmerer m e james r hendry bus charles f kalm bach m e wiliam a siegle ch e and john a tifft bus arcadia to finish drive for community chest pre-meds to meet chess club meets honorary group to initiate 6 prior to banquet an epidemic of car stealing has broken out on the campus during the past week four cars belonging to lehigh men have been reported stolen in the last eight days it was anounced today by the bethlehem police of these only one has not yet been recovered that of gilbert p haven bus 42 the theory of the police is that the keys are found left in the cars which are driven to some point near the taker's home and then abandoned most of the automo biles stolen in this way are quick ly recovered police believe hav en's car was probably taken out of town the reason that such epidemics continue to occur at frequent inter vals said the police is because students in their happiness at re trieving their cars fail to press charges when the culprits are found and thus give the epidemic greater incentive plans match with rutgers purchase of equipment dances to start after christmas arcadia has so far collected a total of 300 in its activities for the community chest drive a few of the living groups do not have their contributions in as yet but 20 fra ternities and seven dormitory groups have made donations the town group council has given 33 fred e galbraith jr arts 40 president of arcadia requests any other living groups contributing to turn in their funds before vacation program committee of the club for the year at the ringside of history will be the subject of knicker bocker's address on the present european conflict his lecture here will be one of 150 he will deliver before returning to the european scene in may special arrangements for stu dents who wish to hear the war correspondent are being considered by the engineers club committee stated formhals pulitzer prize winner roving correspondent pulitzer prize winner for his foreign cor respondence and holder of num erous other journalistic awards knickerbocker was born in yoa kum texas son of an itinerent methodist preacher he was edu cated at southern methodist uni versity texas a and m college and columbia school of journalism he received his first newspaper job on the newark morning ledger after serving three years as a tele grapher for the united states in fantry on the mexican border a succession of other newspaper jobs followed including a position on the new york post and the new york sun knickerbocker's dis patches have been twice named in mott's one hundred best news stories he is also holder of the national headlines club award and is the author of six books on the governments of europe neil carothers addresses new york state canners interview during holidays morgan advises seniors fifteen living groups have al ready celebrated the christmas holidays and 25 are holding par ties and dinners tonight pi'ominent among fraternity activities was the second annual christmas party of alpha chi rho on last friday ev ening for 40 under-privileged boys plenty to eat was the main at traction for the north side boys entertainment being supplied by santa claus a hill billy band and a magician john horn a perm state alumnus played santa claus h w whiteknecht was the magi cian and the hill billy band was from the bethlehem boys club captain lawrence kelly and off icer wallace frey guests at the dinner headed the staff that rounded the boys together john e poetere e m 41 and robert c slingerland bus 40 arranged the affair saturday night alpha chi rho held its annual christmas dance at the chapter house with 40 couples attending the closed affair vincent joseph's orchestra supplied the rhythm and prof and mrs charles w simmons were the chaperones tuesday night the house will have a banquet and in formal christmas party boys club entertained lambda chi alpha held a dinner party last night for 20 boys from the bethlehem boys club after which the boys attended the thea tre glen w harmeson director of athletics and william f hauser man i e 41 captain-elect of the football team helped entertain ac companied by edwin f van bill iard president of the club ac cording to william r csellak ch e 40 student director of the boys club games and various forms of amusement were supplied along with the hill-billy band of the club richard h bernasco bus 43 ar ranged the party a combined dinner theater party and radio dance was given by tau delta phi on saturday night with the 20 couples attend ing dead end after the dinner party alpha kappa pi and beta kappa houses also held radio dan ces after the play attended by 20 couples each banquets at shankweiler's price hall held its christmas ban quet at shankweiler's in allentown with 26 members attending nelson p yeardly graduate assistant in mathematics was the faculty guest the following fraternities held their parties and banquets last night alpha tau omega chi psi chi phi delta upsilon phi delta theta sigma nu sigma phi and sigma phi epsilon which had the only guest fay c bartlett direc tof of physical education tonight several living groups will celebrate the cosmopolitan club is holding its party at a cabin in saucon valley section a of tay lor hall will have a party at shankweiler's and section d will have an informal get-together in the dormitory the fraternities cel ebrating tonight are beta theta pi delta sigma phi delta tau delta kapa sigma phi delta theta phi sigma kappa pi lambda phi psi upsilon sigma alpha mv sigma chi theta delta chi theta kappa phi and theta xi movies of field tactics shown to military classes competition for promotion to more important jobs are being held fdr members of the brown and white staff in order to make the best pos sible selection of men to fill the vacancies which will be left in february a system has been de vised whereby each competitor takes over for one issue the job for which he is competing in this way an accurate valuation of the ability of each man may be deter mined john m roach arts 42 edwin h klein ch e 42 john b o'hara bus 42 l edward klein ch e 42 albert l thalhamer phys 42 william j meikle arts 42 and tom c mekeel arts 42 are seeking the two new editor ships charles f kalmbach m e 41 charles b seib arts 41 and anthony r carcione arts 41 are competing for the job of news manager the job of makeup editor is be ing sought by carcione e h klein seib and o'hara william h wise bus 41 and carl r fitt kau arts 40 are competing for the position of sports editor compet ing for the position of editorial manager are donald r schoen arts 41 john c attwood arts 41 and e h klein . towards the end of the semester these men will take a competitive written examination for the posi tion which they are seeking the awarding of the jobs will be made by the executive committee who will base their judgment on the practical work and the written ex amination the committee consists of howard m connor arts 40 editor-in-chief fred e galbraith arts 40 editorial manager and carl r fittkau arts 40 news manager callen receives present plans for a chess tournament in the near future between rutgers university and several members of the chess club were made at a meeting of the club friday night in drown hall it was decided that either a four or five-man team would be selected february 3 was set as a tentative date and new brunswick was set as the place plans were made to purchase chess sets chess clocks chess boards books and periodicals it was also announced that a tourna ment listing of the members has be posted and that a demonstration board is being made dr john l vanderslice instruc tor in mathematics played four simultaneous games and one game blindfolded he was victorious in all but one of the simultaneous games the latter played with lowell k oliphant bus 42 ended in a draw due to conflicting events and a lack of sufficient publicity the in formal arcadia dance scheduled for friday evening in the armory was postponed until after the holi days by its managers charles h hearsey bus 40 and el wood webster bus 40 it was announc ed friday afternoon by hearsey a tentative date for the event has been chosen as friday evening jan 12 the petition is now under consideration by the faculty committee on dances the lehigh collegians orchestra is slated to furnish the music ad mission has been set at 50 cents per couple and 35 cents stag plans call for the dances to be held intermit tently during the second semester dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion addressed the new york state canners association convention last friday at buffalo he discussed the effect of war on trade the united states is in a better position for recovery now than at any time since the depression he declared dean carothers added that although the war will prob ably stimulate industry it will not have a drastic effect on our domes tic economy e robins morgan director of placement advises all seniors who can do so to call on industrial rep resentatives and have interviews during the approaching holidays much is to be gained by doing this he states because even though a position may not be the result the experience is of great value all seniors are also urged to turn in their senior record cards to the placement bureau immediately the initiation banquet of alpha epsilon delta honorary pre-med ical society wil be held at 7 p m to-night at the americus hotel in allentown at ceremonies preceding the dinner the following men will be initiated edward n comando arts 40 john p brandt chem 40 jerome r dorkin arts 42 george r l gaughran arts 42 william mcl spears arts 42 and brooks longley arts 42 sylvester d beers arts 40 president of the r w hall pre medical society will act as toast master the principal speaker of the evening will be dr e j mor rissey orthopedic surgeon of st luke's hospital who will talk on interesting sidelights in medi cine the executive secretary of alpha epsilon delta dr maurice moore will also speak motion pictures of surgical op erations were shown this afternoon in williams hall at an open meet ing of the pre-medical society marshall makes first solo honor former professor 40 attend m e banquet allentown cluh will meet meningitis victim is better the pictures have ben shown to the students of various military schools throughout the country last year projectors were issued without cost to those colleges hav ing r o t c units advanced classes in ordinance are being shown films of the 75 mm gun films showing methods of en trenchment and machine gun at tack were shown yesterday and to day jto members of the classes in military science and tactics in place of the usual drill the films made at fort benning georgia are a part of the training program of the united states war department more than 40 persons attended the christmas banquet of the met allurgical society held yesterday evening at the bethlehem club e kenneth smiley director of admis sions was the speaker gifts were presented to various faculty mem bers preston f marshall i e 40 became the first solo flyer under the new flight theory training course yesterday morning when he piloted a plane alone for 15 min utes above the allentown-bethle hem airport the condition of ellis r snovel m e 41 now in the easton hospi tal suffering from spinal meningi tis is rapidly improving and he is expected to be out of the hospital by the end of the vacation the lehigh allentown club will hold a meeting at 7:30 o'clock fri day evening at the first presby terian church in allentown her bert m diamond head of the de partment of economics and sociol ogy will speak on the modern liabor condition a copeland callen dean of the college of engineering was pre sented with a picture of the chem istry building as it was when he was a student in 09 covered by a glass pane which was found in the stock room with callen 09 etch ed on it the presentation was made thursday evening by alpha a diefenderfer professor of quan titative analysis and assaying at the annual banquet of the chem ical society albert a bennett former head of the department of mathematics and astronomy was re-elected vice president of the association of teachers of mathematics in new england at the association's 37th annual meeting in boston dr bennett is now in the department of mathematics at brown university bethlehem pa tuesday december 19 1939 frosh regulations go vol xlvii — no 23 dean requests vacation addresses of students price — five cents glen gray to play at fraternity ball arcadia has decreed on the recommendation of cyanide that all freshmen regulations for the class of 43 will end perma nently at midnight tomorrow night acting directing and staging are lauded as audience is called main flaw of play kids are termed tops in enjoyment dead end production praised for realistic effect of setting living groups observe xmas with parties council president russell says contracts will be signed today alpha chi rho fetes boys at 2nd annual affair hill-billies play education plan deadline set brown and white band is second choice 40 north-siders attend 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