Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 15

              intramural debaters pick 19 teams to compete for williams prize planned for 7:30 a m arcadia plans meeting for football squad friday morning rally at station to send team on to virginia price — five cents an enthusiastic crowd waits with open hands to catch the cigarettes being distributed at the muhlenberg pep rally friday night in grace hall — b w photo eligibility list is announced 42 engineers to make trip 31 juniors may compete for scabbard and blade in pledging quiz have choice of inspecting plants in new york or detroit areas the town council added two more living groups to its member ship this week as leonard hall and the cosmopolitan club joined the expanding union of town men the two groups who will send repre sentatives to the meeting of the council tonight bring the total number of living units in the town council to 14 leonard hall located at 826 delaware avenue is composed of 11 students sixteen men the ma jority of whom are students of foreign nationality make up the cosmopolitan club at 217 west packer avenue president resigns election of a new town council president will feature tonight's meeting arthur tallaksen bus.'42 elected by the town men as their head at the general may elections has announcd his resignation the council which includes the 14 heads of the town sections and other member living groups will select one of its members to the vacant post the problem of town lodging will be discussed at tonight's meet ing trophies for winners in the intramural sports and keys for council members are topics to be considered dorms to alter dining system by john f hannan the inter-fraternity ball will be held in grace hall on saturday feb 14th it was decided by the if council at a meeting held last night in drown hall two orches tras will be engaged for the dance third largest social event of the year as no name band will sign a contract this far in advance the council's choice of orchestras is not known as yet it is to be noted that feb 14 is also the date of the lehigh-penn wrestling match a home event oakley w cooke bus 42 head of the committee on deferred rush ing announced that a letter con cerning deferred rushing had been sent to each fraternity the letter is to be answered as soon as possible and the possibility of delaying the rushing season until january or february will be discussed despite this formality several fraternities have already expressed their dis approval of any deferment of rush ing will judge displays the council decided to draw up a committee shortly to judge the fraternity displays during lafay ette week-end the houses are us ually decorated by the freshmen in some manner depicting a lehigh victory over lafayette in the ann ual football classic the house with the most origin al decoration will be awarded a vote of 249 to 51 favors serving evening meal 2 groups to vote continued on page four several hundred dads attending lehigh's second annual dad's day observed their collegiate sons in action at a pep rally on friday night in grace hall at classes on saturday morning at the muhlen berg football game on saturday af ternoon and in and around the maennerchor and other local high spots on saturday night the pep rally for the muhlen berg game started the weekend friday evening in grace hall in cluding dads and dates approxi mately 1,400 people were present main feature of the evening were speeches by alumni who included herbert j hartzog 04 charles l t edwards 13 samuel t harle man 01 vincent j pazzetti jr 15 walter r okeson 96 howard bosey reiter also spoke the speeches were followed by a movie entitled 1940 gridiron parade henry t reuwer bus 42 captain of the football team and wilkes mcclave 11 bus 42 president of arcadia both spoke briefly after the movies cigarettes pipes and and tobacco were dis tributed before the speakers were introduced and much enthusiasm was seen to be present the rally ended after a few cheers and yells dads attend forum on saturday morning students took their dads to classes and to a forum that was held in christ mas-saucon hall about ten mem bers of the faculty representing the graduate school the office of admissions department of military science and tactics the infirmary placement bureau and other de partments of the university ans wered questions asked by the 80 to continued ou page four m & c will dine tomorrow night stage crew competitors are asked to attend date tickets cost 55 a rally to send the football team off to virginia will be held at 7:30 a m friday in the union station where the team will entrain for charlottesville the arcadia rally committee is working full blast this week to make the unusual pep meeting a success in an effort to preserve the apparent football enthusiasm gen erated last weekend for the muh lenberg contest telephone calls printed posters and personal contacts are the means the rally committee is em ploying to rout out the student body for the send-off meeting robert p whipple president of the junior class and chairman of the arcadia rally committee today urged all lehigh men to cooper ate by joining the gathering at the station early friday morning be fore classes band asked to play we are working our hardest to make this rally a success whip pie stated we are enlisting the aid of all living groups represen tatives will call phone calls will be made and signs will be posted al pedrick bus 42 director of the band is endeavoring to or ganize a group of the brown and white musicians to play for the rally he wishes all band members who will attend to notify him at the theta xi fraternity house the lootball team will leave for charlottesville shortly after 7:40 o'clock lehigh will meet the uni versity of virginia there at 2:30 p m saturday the union station bethlehem terminal of the reading railroad and the lehigh valley railroad is located just off third street at the hill to hill bridge south side the pep meeting will form in the sta tion sigma xi hears sampson speak relative mineral wealth stated hy geologist mechanical and industrial engin eering seniors will hold their ann ual inspection trip of industrial plants nov 24 to 26 seniors mak ing the trip have their choice of visiting plants in the new york or detroit areas the purpose of these inspection trips is to make the technical knowledge more real and to broaden the social understand ing of the students the group going to new york will stay at hotel new yorker they will visit the general motors plant at linden n j the colgate palmolive peet company at jersey city western electric company at kearney n j where they will see electric cable-making machinery the american can company and the national broadcasting com pany studios to visit ford plant the group going to detroit will stay at hotel book-cadillac they will visit the river rouge plants of the ford motor company green field village the edison institute museum the packard proving grounds and plant the general the intramural debaters will as semble for the last time before the actual debating begins as on-look ers to a varsity lehigh-moravian debate at 7:3 p m tomorrow in room 208 packard laboratory the topic for the varsity debate is resolved that the federal government should regulate by law all labor unions in the united states this debate will enable the intramural men to see the modified oregon plan of debating in action nineteen intra-mural debating teams of two men each were form ed at a meeting held thursday in packard laboratory they discuss ed the methods of attack and de fense for both the affirmative and negative sides cole s brembeck coach of in tramural debating discussed some of the ethics of debating to be observed he pointed out that the correct short up-to-date salu tation which is informal is to be used in place of the old long drawn-out one he especially stres sed the proper attitude and man ner which is to be maintained in the debates no debate speeches are to be memorized they must be extemporized the men to debate are required to attend two of the three meetings held to organize the debaters in order to be eligible to compete for the williams prizes totaling 200 the last meeting is tomorrow there will be two rounds of de bates for all after which the elim inations begin for the winners im mediately following the thanks giving vacation debates of the first round will be held on wednesday and thursday evenings in various living group houses date tickets for the student concerts-lectures series pres entation the emperor jones may be purchased for 55 cents at the ticket table in the lobby at broughal high school fri day night students will be ad mitted on presentation of the second series coupon in their athletic books drinker house man finds cadaver in closet continued on page four 237 epitomes sold since nov 6 with two dorm sections yet to report a vote of 249-51 in favor of a commons system at lamberton hall was recorded as a result of the dining poll conducted by the dor mitory men according to william t bostock jr ch e 42 who was in charge of the investigation according to the arrangement agreed upon by this pool each sec tion will be assigned to a reserved table and will be assigned to that table at a specific time this plan will help to alleviate congestion this first week of the new sys tem will seem somewhat hectic said robert c mcmichael met e 42 president of the interdormi tory council this condition is due to the fact that there are only five experienced waiters available at present twenty additional student waiters will be required for a per manent staff heading this new staff will be a student headwaiter who will be responsible for ser vice and all complaints miss elsie troeger supervisor of the lamberton hall dining service has already pledged her full co operation in the matter she will meet once each week with a spe cial student committee represent ing the dormitories all stage crew competitors for mustard and cheese dramatics so ciety are invited to attend a din ner of the society at 6:30 p m wednesday at the sigma nu house albert a rights director of dramatics announced last night readings were held for ah wilderness this week and last week in drown hall rights how ever is not definitely decided on ah wilderness as the next play those that reported for readings are robert e pollock bus 43 d wight f longley bus 44 hugh boyd m e 44 william r sult zer arts 43 richard h cliff jr m e 42 tom c mekeel arts 42 louis r daze arts 43 donald w layton ch e 42 francis zavis 45 lloyd antonides 45 three sophomores and 11 fresh men are on the list of candidates for the stage crew the sophomores are joseph f bonin c e douglas c smith m e and robert e roberson chem the freshmen are edward tattershall kenneth b wiss william d miller robert a little jerome corson edward gross philip marsdon jerome j lotz robert caley charles s wastcoat nathan a horowitz supply will be exhausted shortly declares scott thirty-one juniors are eligible for membership in scabbard and blade national honorary military society announced john h dud ley m e 42 president of the so ciety the eligibility list is determined by colonel joseph s leonard pro fessor and head of the department of military science and tactics on the showing of the students in their first two years of basic training the criteria for eligibility are scholarship leadership and inter est shown in course said dudley these men may take the pledg ing quiz which will be given by the society at 4 p m on thursday nov 13 in the sophomore class room in grace hall the men who place in the top 15 as a result of this quiz will then demonstrate their marksmanship ability as a final elimination the grades from both examinations will be averaged in selecting the ten men who will be named as pledges the formal pledging will be held at drill on monday nov 17 students in the infantry branch of advanced military who are eli gible include richard h bernas co bus louis f dellwig arts thomas h golden 111 bus will iam c kirshner chem andrew f leckie jr bus kenneth por ter jr bus george h ried arts charles e sieger met e george c stone arts albert r tucker jr ch e john h brubaker jr ch e badgley a elmes i e franklin himmelberger ch e arthur l landesman ch e nathan g lesh e e john j meehan arts william k remsen i e robert s rumsey arts clarence a steams jr arts joseph p thomas jr bus and william r williams arts ordnance members include robert c boston ch e lewis friedman arts albert w hemp hill jr m e quentin c so prano m e edwin h dafter jr ch e ludwig e godycki jr ch e william mcgee ch e and william l stump ch e town seniors may get ballots at arcadia office speaking on the relative mineral production of the various countries of the world dr edward sampson professor of economic geology at princeton university told 100 members and friends of sigma xi last night in packard auditorium that the united states is in the most favorable position of all na tions in regard to mineral wealth dr bradford willard professor of geology presided at the geologi cal society meeting attended by students faculty and guests of the bethlehem steel corporation dr sampson stated that the united states with all her min eral wealth however is lacking in tin manganese chromium and nickel ores some of these defici encies are made up by ores from canada and south america dr sampson said that the war hazard is felt in obtaining chrom ium from south africa and tin from east indies he gave the united states an ar bitrary rating of 29 the british empire a rating of 21.6 and dom estic germany 8.2 in discussing the relative mineral wealth of these three powers germany with its conquered territory however was assigned a 24 rating the united states owes its high rating to its large area and the varied geographical regions dr sampson said in conclusion he questioned the frequently observ ed newspaper articles which ad vocate the giving of all countries the same access to minerals does this mean we should give germany a part of arizona to make up part of her deficiency in copper it would rather seem that free trade not subject to tariff re strictions would fulfill the desired end continued on page four bethlehem and allentown seniors may obtain their senior epitome ballots at the ar cadia office drown hall the ballots must be filled in by all seniors and returned on or be fore monday nov 17 to frank s mckenna met e 42 senior section editor of the 1942 epi tome at the delta upsilon fra ternity house campus they will be distributed to dormitory and fraternity seniors senior ballots enable the yearbook editors to gather in formation for the senior write ups in the 1942 epitome senior struck speechless when corpse falls onto hard floor a dummy fashioned for a la fayette poster by the freshmen of drinker house 2b met with rather amazing results last night by daniel p epstein when the boys had finished their masterpiece of construction they got the bright idea of not letting it go to waste until the end of the month therefore they splattered a bit of red paint and ketchup on the front shirt of our friend and placed a lovely steak knife in his bosom the effect was perfect the boys rushed through the dormitory yelling for a doctor but since there was no such animal they were temporarily squelched senior is victim at this point it was decided to see what an innocent naive sen ior would do if he found a dead man in his closet so the dummy was thrown neatly into the room of harold w haines ch e 42 haines came back to his room and strolled around for a half hour during which time the freshmen tore their hair out in anticipation of what was to come finally haines opened his closet door and the corpse fell to the floor haines stood there with his finger in his mouth the president of the dorm section claims there was a cold sweat on his brow and the fresh men swear he didn't say a word for fully five minutes in short he the men in drinker house 2b plant a still-warm corpse in the hall omar's cousin roscoe his head covered by a black cloth had his white shirt splotched with ketchup and a steak knife stuck in his chest it's all in preparation for the lafayette rally — b w photo two hundred thirty-seven copies of the 1942 epitome have been sold since the first meeting of the business staff on nov 6 announced theodore g scott met e 42 business manager late last night copies of this year's epitome are going fast and the supply is ex pected to be cleared before christ mas eleven juniors are competing for positions on the staff and are soliciting subscriptions for eligibil ity those men who were present at the meeting received instruc tions on sales technique members of the class of 43 try ing out are arthur b parsons bus philip c whiting bus john j hucker ch e leonard d lar son m e charles m norlin met e e walter edwards arts rob ert w appleton bus robert m schantz bus donald h davies bus leonard constantine bus and richard b palmer arts bethlehem pa tuesday november 11 1941 free smokes at pep rally 2 additional groups granted town council membership dads inspect sons in action over weekend vol xlix — no 15 2 orchestras will perform at if ball town groups number 14 as cosmoplitan club leonard hall join senior assessment due several hundred fathers attend football rally saturday classes grace hall will be used for dance feb 14 bands not selected seniors must pay their epi tome assessments of 5 at the placement bureau before nov 18 or be fined an additional 2 announced theodore g scott met e 42 epitome business manager brown and white faculty holds forum discuss late rushing will witness varsity debate all the lehigh news first coming up . . . today 7:30 p m — town council meet ing drown hall tomorrow 3:30 p m — v ars i t y soccer princeton away 7 p m — open house observa tory 7:30 p m — intercollegiate de bate moravian vs lehigh 208 packard 8:30 p m — intercollegiate de bate muhlenberg vs lehigh 317 packard thursday 6 p m — eta sigma phi banquet 1760 house trexlertown 7:45 p m — tau beta pi smok er 466 packard 8 p m — army ordnance asso ciation 466 packard friday 2:15 p m — freshman football lafayette home member intercollegiate newspaper association