Brown and White Vol. 47 no. 47

              lieut samuel pierce drown hall will be site the sorcerer to be given by faculty and wives time is 8 p m faculty chorus musical show is tomorrow vol xlviii no 47 herbert m diamond head of the department of economics and sociology who will speak at the ina banquet tomorrow night at the hotel bethlehem dr will durant speaks tonight philosopher will discuss problems of marriage in broughal high measles strike 5th fraternity theta kappa phi goes under observation as member is stricken forty-six lehigh students are working full time at the bethle hem steel company plant while carrying a full or part-time sched ule at lehigh dean wray h congdon said yesterday while there have been students working at the steel company in past years this is the largest num er at any one time the dean de clared the men are working at jobs which vary from manual la or to operating cranes and working in the labs questionnaires are being sent to all the men working at the steel company in an effort to determine the relationship between their aca demic achievement while thus spending so much time elsewhere congdon declared the type of work the amount and so forth are also being tabulated because of the difficulty of find ing out exactly who is doing this work at bethlehem steel the dean requests any men who have not received the questionnaire to let him know of the fact if this is done the results of the study will be more complete the employment office of the steel company told lehigh men applying for summer employment that over 700 applications from lehigh students have been receiv ed by that office talk by felch brings offer a contest will be held between the c a a students of lehigh moravian and muhlenberg within the next few weeks to determine the best group and also the best in dividual student in the aeronau tical course according to thomas e jackson who is in charge of the ground school for the students the contest will be divided into three parts the first part will be an actual flying test where the men will be graded on a sliding scale since there will be fifty men in the contest the best flyer will re ceive 50 points the second 49 points and so on down to the poorest operator who receives only one point a grade on ground school work will be followed by a special government examination both of these parts will be graded in the same manner as the actual flying test all of the flying students will be present at a banquet shortly after the competition at which time the winning team as well as the indi vidual winner will be announced the two men with the highest scores will receive extra flying hours as a reward for their good showing every man in the preliminary course has now soloed the last man went up alone for the first time lost monday john p taylor bus 41 was the first to make a crosscountry flight last wednes day paper on gun casting wins faculty position at brooklyn tech to get books for chinese the faculty chorus of lehigh university will present the sor cerer by gilbert and sullivan in the drown hall auditorium to morrow night at 8 p m the cast includes members of the faculty their wives and members of the community who are interested in dramatic productions the gilbert and sullivan musi cal comedy tells of a young man who is so in love that he wishes the whole community to share in his delight to accomplish this task he engages a sorcerer whose drug causes everyone to fall in love with the wrong person the story ends with the sorcerer giving up his life to end the spell and the true lovers becoming united riley is sorcerer the part of an elderly baronet is taken by william b todd while the love-sick son is portrayed by samuel pierce jr edgar h riley is the sorcerer who causes all the misery while the parts of a vicar and a notary are taken by wray h congdon and charles w sim mons the lovely daughter of a stately lady is played by mrs frederic g scott while the lady is mrs charles w simmons a pew-opener and her daughter are mrs sidney goodrich and mrs hilton smith the director of music and pian ist is mrs madeline fort and the stage director is dr riley al bert a rights has been in charge of the chorus the admission price will be 55 cents per person all tickets can be secured at the supply bureau or at the door committee will campaign for technical texts for foreign use campus robberies have been re newed with three cases of stolen property being reported dean wray h congdon said yesterday a unique trick was perpetrated at the expense of a student in the town group a man claiming to be a transfer to lehigh asked for a room in a boarding house near the campus he carried no baggage of any sort the next morning when a student living in the house returned from an 8 o'clock class he found his room completely rifled with clothing an electric razor and other items missing a jewel case containing a family heirloom and other articles belong ing to a houseparty guest were stolen from a fraternity house over the past weekend while classes were changing a purse belonging to a university secretary was recently taken from her desk in view of these thefts the dean warned all dormitories fraterni ties and men living in rooming houses to take special care in lock ing their rooms c e.`s hear hull speak on design 70 seniors take class insurance okeson predicts success for this year's plan steel engineer discusses welding on standpipes another fraternity has been placed under observation for measles for an indefinite period as one of its members stricken with the disease was sent to his home yesterday the fraternity theta kappa phi was the fifth living group to be placed under the ob servation period within the past week with at least four lehigh stu dents receiving treatment for measles in hospitals and with sev eral others at their homes further outbreaks of the affliction have kept lehigh living groups in fear of quarantine since last week chi psi phi sigma kappa sigma al pha mv and alpha kappa pi all have passed safely through the ob servation period of from one to three days imposed in each case when a member of each house was stricken no living group has been quarantined alpha kappa pi latest group to pass through the observation per iod was under the ban from sun day to wednesday theta kappa phi began its period at noon yes terday and will continue under ob servation until further notice the annual spring convention of the intercollegiate newspaper as sociation of the middle atlantic states opened this afternoon with a triple welcome to the 67 dele gates gathered in packard auditor ium the welcomes came from walter r okeson vice president and trea surer who spoke for the univer sity albert e lee jr president of arcadia representing the stu dent body and from charles f kalmbach representing the host paper john ammarell of muhlenberg president of the group conducted the short business meeting which followed earlier in the afternoon the delegates toured the campus under the guidance of members of pi delta epsilon honorary journal ism fraternity and of the brown and white a tea dance at sigma nu closed this afternoon's activi ties evening roundtables the delegates will return to the campus this evening from the ho tel bethlehem where a buffet sup per will be served at 6:30 o'clock for a series of five roundtables an invitation to all students in terested in publication problems to attend these sessions was ex tended this morning by president ammarell speakers for the round tables which will be held in pack ard laboratory will be delegates from the 30 members who were notified in advance of their topics the business roundtable will hear two outside speakers thom as f jones assistant professor of economics will speak on selling yourself to the local advertiser and william h mcneal jr of the national advertising service will speak on the same topic from the national angle mcneal's firm rep resents all college papers in the united states and secures national advertising for them roundtable sessions will again draw the delegates at 9:30 a m tomorrow a general business ses continued on page four state employment officer talks to labor students powell addresses phi beta kappas lehigh and lafayette men hear court history the problems of marriage will be the topic of dr william james durant at the last of the student concerts-lectures series tonight at 8 15 at the broughal high school auditorium dr durant first came to the gen eral public's attention with the publication of his story of phil osophy the sale of this book ran to nearly 3,000,000 copies and made literary history this famous author and thinker has also achieved fame through the pub lication of other such books as the life of greece and story of civilization will durant urges the reinsta ting of the dowry to help ambitious and talented young people marry at least as young as morons do maternity endowment by the states equivalent to the cost of caring for one year for each child is another device that he thinks would encourage the abler portion of the population to have offspring at an earlier and more vigorous time of life private business and government should also consider remunerations for employees up on additions of children to their families he believes within a few weeks after the completion of his lecture tour dr durant expects to go to his sum mer home near lake hill in the catskill mountains in new york state there he will devote him self to writing the third volume of his story of civilization which will be entitled caesar and christ leach's condition better seventy seniors have subscribed to the insurance gift plan as com pared to 16 subscriptions at the same date a year ago announced augustus a riemondy ch e 41 secretary of the senior class walter r okeson treasurer of the university has described the endowment insurance plan as the most class cementing gift poss ible and it is believed that this will be the most successful year in the history of the plan okeson explained that men caught in the draft could have their insurance premium payments de ducted from their pay automatic ally and they would not feel it coming up . . . a campaign to collect technical books for students in chinese uni versities was begun tuesday after noon when a student-faculty com mittee headed by joseph m sex ton arts 42 met in the office of dean wray h congdon the committee according to sexton will shortly lay before the student body and the faculty a plan whereby technical books no longer used by students and fa culty members might be turned in at a central collecting office and later sent to china to be used by chinese technical students in striving to maintain herself in the midst of the chinese-japan ese war and to rebuild a greater and more industrialized country after the war china will need men trained in all the technical branch es sexton stated with this need in view the min istry of education of china has al ready instituted a technical train ing program about 3,000 engineers and 10,000 technicians are expect h o hull assistant chief en gineer of the bethlehem steel com pany spoke on the design and construction of standpipes and oil storage tanks before a meeting of the lehigh chapter of the american society of civil engin eers last thursday night in pack er hall hull brought out the fact that as new designs are being made the older type of riveted stuctures are gradually going out of use so that now nearly 100 per cent are being built by the welding process cur rent welding specifications are ac cepted in all states except massa chusetts which requires riveted standpipes plans for a picnic to be held in the near future were discussed at the meeting ernest kelly director of unem ployment compensation and di rector of the state employment service in pennsylvania address ed the labor problems class last tuesday introduced by dr herbert m diamond professor of economics mr kelly explained the difference between the old age insurance and the unemployment compensation plan in addition he told the class about the cost of administering howard s leach university li brarian who has been ill since january 31 is greatly improved he spent about eight weeks in the massachusetts general hospital boston but recently has been staying at the bethlehem club he is able to be up and around but will not return to lehigh for some weeks continued on page four town and dorms will hold dance local conference planned by theta kappa phi men robert i felch i e 41 was offered a position on the faculty of the brooklyn polytechnic insti tute as a result of the paper that he presented on centrifugal gun casting at the annual meeting of the student branch of the ameri can society of mechanical engin eers last tuesday felch will be unable to accept the position because he is an offi cer in the lehigh r o t c unit and will be required to report for active duty in the army after graduation this spring he was accompanied to the meeting which was held at brook lyn polytechnic institute by thomas e jackson instructor in mechanical engineering who act ed as honorary chairman for the affair the paper that felch delivered was given in competition with other papers by representatives of different colleges and although it did not take one of the prizes it won for the author a chance to join the faculty of the host school the meeting was a two-day affair which ended with a banquet tuesday noon at which time the presentations were made it was decided tentatively to hold the meeting at lehigh next year pi delta epsilon taps 6 new men draft board taps moravec first faculty member called novelties to feature prom at masonic may 2 5 juniors senior pledged wednesday evening university publicity man gets deferment until july for the purpose of completing present duties expects new experiences in coming year dr thomas reed powell story professor of constitutional law at harvard university lectured last night at the annual banquet of the lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa on a constitu tional lawyer in search of a sub ject the banquet was held at hotel bethlehem dealing with the development of the supreme court particularly during the last decade professor powell told of the proposed chan ges in the court's make up and what has happened since retire ments of court members have made the appointment of more lib eral justices possible without other measures he cited several cases to illus trate his remarks among which were the suits involving the jeho vah's witnesses sect and the recent incidents in which legal actions were brought against persons re fusing to pledge allegiance to the flag of the united states sportsman's club outing will be held this sunday the alpha province convention of the theta kappa phi fraternity will convene at the chapter house at 1 p m saturday april 26 delegates from the chapters in this region as well as delegates fromthe various alumni associa tions in this section will be in at tendance the national office will be represented by curtis f bay er vice president and edward f kirchner executive secretary the convention will continue throughout the afternoon in the evening the mcgarvey foundation alumni association of alpha chap ter will hold a banquet for the delegates at the bethlehem club juniors to take exam pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalism society pledged six men wednesday evening at the chi psi lodge the following were pledg ed a maxwell paget bus 41 albert l thalhamer phys 42 tom c mekeel arts 42 robert e cullen jr ch e 42 jesse f beers jr arts 42 and l edward klein ch e 42 after the pledging ceremony the group was joined by the mor avian women's college chapter of pi delta epsilon and both groups attended the movies sponsored by the lehigh chapter in packard au ditorium an informal dance will be spon sored by the combined interdor mitory and town councils friday may 2 at the masonic temple the lehigh collegians will play and dancing will continue from 10 p m until 1 a m feature of the evening will be a series of elim ination dances and other novelty numbers members of the town and dor mitory living groups will be ad mitted to the dance on presenta tion of their membership cards at the door for others the price of admission will be 75 cents the dance committee headed by stephen t lowry c e 41 of the interdormitory council and donald w bedell ch e 41 of the town council had originally planned to hold the affair in grace hall chaperons will be mr and mrs thomas e jackson and mr and mrs joel f bailey the third annual outing of the sportsman's club will be held sunday at the mordele farm games and trapshooting will be featured and a cold dutch lunch will be served the group will meet at 2 p m at the main gate in the event of rain the outing will be postponed until the following sunday mr and mrs fay bartlett will be the chap erones mustard and cheese held a ban quet last night at the beta kappa house and discussed the play three men on a horse which has been tentatively chosen for next year the society has planned a banquet for the 16th of may the junior impromptu ex amination in engish required of all juniors in the college of arts and sciences will be held at 4 p m thursday may 1 in christmas-saucon hall remainder of the present academ ic year when moravec found out from joseph silverman chief clerk of board no 1 who presented his case to the board that he had been granted a deferment until july he stated i look upon the year of service as one of adventure with some new responsibilties and i hope some new thrills if i get past the final army physical examina tion i shall then realize what i shall be missing in the way of ac tivities and assocations on the le high campus moravec's national serial num ber is 4057 and his local order number is 640 he had expected to be called in one of the three may quotas friday intercollegiate newspaper asso ciation convention 6:30 p m — dinner hotel beth lehem 8 p.m — roundtable conferences packard lab 4 p m — yacht club 208 pack ard 4 p m — orchestra practice packer chapel 8:15 p m — student concerts lectures series dr will du rant broughal high school saturday intercollegiate newspaper asso ciation convention 9:30-11 a m — roundtables packard lab 11 a m — general business ses sion packard lab 12:30 p m — luncheon drown hall 2 p m — closing session pack ard lab 6 p m — banquet hotel beth lehem 8 p m — faculty chorus the sorcerer drown hall monday 4:10 p m — faculty of the col lege of engineering faculty room the first lehigh university fa culty draftee under the selective service act will probably be charles j moravec assistant uni versity news editor who was placed in class 1-a last month af ter passing the physical examina tion conducted by dr alexander maysels moravec granted a temporary deferment until the close of the present academic year by draft board no 1 of bethlehem will be called for induction around july 1 at wilkes barre after consulting the university officials moravec appealed for a temporary deferment in order that the work of the publicity and journalism departments could be carried out uninterrupted for the takes role in sorcerer brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 25 1941 46 undergrads work full time at steel plant c a a students of 3 schools to enter flying competition petitions date is set colleges in lehigh valley to vie for individual team high scores petitions for arcadia mem ber-at-large must be handed in by may 3 at the arcadia office applicants should state their qualifications for the position which is to be filled at elections in may nominees will be chos en by arcadia on the basis of the submitted petitions campus has 3 robberies congdon tells of losses rare trick is used on town student okeson greets members roundtables will attract 100 representatives to discussions to address ina ina welcomes 6 7 delegates at conference price — five cents all the lehigh news first member 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