Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 19

              2300 attend annual rally at grace hall price — five cents psi upsilon's mechanical robot knocks down the leopard for first prize among displays pi kappa alpha and sigma phi epsilon received honorable mention for their displays acted in the absence of dean wray h congdon who was absent from the campus both sides are investigating the situation from the respective cam puses with the understanding that if no evidence incriminating a le high man is found the matter will be disregarded in the meantime the entire affair has been made a subject of student inquiry at least as far as the lehigh end is concerned mc clave who worked with dr beardslee saturday morning is still acting to obtain more infor mation but thus far none has turn ed up campus policemen were inform ed on saturday that if they re ceived information concerning friday night's affair student mem bers of arcadia should be notified fear that the peace pact between the student governing bodies of lehigh and lafayette had been broken by pre-game rowdyism subsided today as investigators at both institutions failed to present conclusive evidence that lehigh men were responsible for painting of outside walls at the lafayette gymnasium in easton late friday night discovery of the letters l u and the word lehigh splashed in brown paint on the lafayette structure caused a flurry of dis cussion saturday morning between marquis officials and lehigh rep resentatives the defacing was inspected by wilkes mcclave president of ar cadia and dr claude g beards lee both of whom conferred with dr theodore a distler dean of lafayette college dr beardslee inflation issue is radio topic m&c to give play on dec 6 urges brains tutor athletes the international relations club fall conference of the middle at lantic states will be held at lehigh during the coming thanksgiving vacation approximately 60 colleges and universities will send more than 300 delegates to the conference from new york new jersey penn sylvania delaware maryland and the district of columbia on friday and saturday this conference is one of sev eral being held at the same time throughout the country and being sponsored by the carnegie endow ment for inter-national peace several round table discussions will be held at regular intervals during the convention the follow ing topics wil be used for discus sion the challenge to democracy the organization for peace japan's new order american solidarity psiupsilongets display prize edwards 14 suggests tau betes phi betes boost failing men 28 houses in competition mention given pika and spe continued on page four out of the frying pan is comedy of young stage aspirants carothers - thomas debate government's present financial program students inspect municipal works by walter j hoffbers over 2300 students and alumni attended one of the biggest lafay ette pep rallies ever held at le high last friday evening in the grace hall alpha kappa pi fraternity was awarded the cup for presenting the stuperman skit judged to be the best of the 49 skits presented by the freshmen of the living groups honorable mention was given to richards 4a which presented the machine that made a monkey out of the leopard and drinker 28 which presented the modern de sign skit the okeson cup awarded to the class that sponsors the best pep rally of the year was won by the senior class for the muhlenberg rally the cup was presented by walter r okeson vice-president and treasurer of the university during the course of the even ing several alumni and faculty members addressed the student body andrew buchanan 18 form er alumni secretary of lehigh was master of ceremonies other speakers for the evening were sunny edwards football coach glen w harmeson and dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration seniors on team talk captain hank reuwer joe am government class sees phila on field trip psi upsilon's display consisted of a robot representing lehigh continually knocking down a me chanical springing leopard pi psi upsilon social fraternity will be presented with the trophy awarded annually for the best la fayette game display pi kappa alpha and sigma phi epsilon re ceived honorable mention continued on page four continued on page four the appointment of permanent staff officers for the r o t c regiment and the final organiza tion of the special drill company a were announced today by colonel joseph s leonard head of the department of military sci ence and tactics cadet colonel john h dudley m e 42 was appointed to the post of regimental commander dudley also president of scabbard and blade honorary military society will command company a in the indoor drills during alternate weeks after the thanksgiving holi days robert j mcgregor ch e 42 will command during the other weeks other promotions and assign ments announced yesterday by colonel leonard to be effective dec 1 are frank e smith ch e 42 and albert w foster bus 42 ist lieutenants of the ist platoon of company a edward f bo dine m e 42 and nelson r clark jr i e 42 ist lieutenants of the 2nd platoon and william e gheen m e 42 and joseph p larkin bus 42 ist lieutenants of the 3rd platoon these officers will alternate each week organize company fifty freshman privates 31 soph omore privates and 15 sophomore corporals comprise company a eight other seniors appointed to positions are cadet lieutenant continued on page four the suggestion that lehigh stu dents who are outstanding in scholarship aid in keeping scholas tically deficient athletes in school was made by charles sunnie edwards 14 prominent local alumnus in the opening remarks of his talk at the lafayette rally friday night sunnie who has been one of the most active backers of the alumni student grant plan es tablished in 1939 to bring men above average both in sports and scholarship to lehigh urged stu dent members of tau beta pi and 42's to consider peters magoun continued on page four will attend apo weekend meeting mrs e k smiley dies at hospital admissions director's wife had been 111 10 days committee seeks speaker for class banquet men to conference scouting society to send phi alpha theta has 3rd initiation national secy - treasurer speaks to society out of the frying pan a com edy by francis swarm will be pre - sented by mustard and cheese on saturday evening dec 6 at 8:40 in the broughal high school audi torium announced albert a rights dramatic coach the story is about three boys and three girls who are living to gether in an apartment in order to save money while looking for the atrical work the group while re hearsing a play by mr kenny the producer living in the apartment below meet him through a series of unpleasant experiences in spite of ingenious attempts at getting him to see the play they are unsuccessful finally because of his epicurean fancies mr ken ny is induced to see the play and the erstwhile actors are given an opportunity to continue in their work oakley cooke bus 42 is bus iness manager for the play doug las congleton bus 44 is chairman of the program committee and john loughran bus 42 is head of the stage crew inflation can and should be avoided said dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration on stating his views with senator elmer thomas of oklahoma on the subject in flation and the monetary policy on the wake-up america pro gram over station wjz 2 p m sunday dr carothers said that the gov ernment should immediately do five things it must stop paying farmers for restricting production it must stop paying out subsidies gifts and make-work projects the credit and banking system of the government must be set in order by repealing the thomas inflation act and the silver purchase act it must stop arbitrary and unjustified wage increases a new tax system must be devised senator thomas agreed with dr carothers in stating that inflation can be avoided thomas added that the government has already taken steps to avoid danger of inflation bank reserves have been filled to the limit taxes have been increas ed to lower the public's purchasing frosh to get freedom members of government 51 sec tions who went on the annual field trip to philadelphia friday spent the whole day seeing the various departments of municipal govern ment and their works the group assembled at federal judge ganey's office in the new federal building where they wit nessed an appellate case in the cir cuit court of appeals from there the group inspected the federal bureau of investigation office where john f sears head of the philadelphia branch took them through the large offices and showed a movie of the f b i men in actual scenes mr sears stated that this depart ment was engaged in 75 per cent of national defense and handled many selective service cases this department is the coordinating agent of national defense dr wilson l godshall profes sor of history and government ac companied the group continued on page four going home lock up see you on december 5 mrs gertrude d smiley wife of e kenneth smiley director of admissions died at 6:50 o'clock this morning in st luke's hospital mrs smiley had been ill at the hospital for about 10 days funeral services for mrs smiley will be held at 7 p m tomorrow at the grim funeral home 817 w broad street interment will be in north dakota mrs smiley was the daughter of mr and mrs james j dunlop of grand forkes n d in addition to mr smiley she is survived by three children maurreen marcia and norton three sisters mrs j sherman lowe mrs emmet j o'keefe and mrs gordon gillis all of north dakota and two bro thers edward j dunlop of co lumbus ohio and william j dun lop of north dakota charles h schumacher i e 42 and harry w jones jr i e 42 will represent the alpha psi chap ter of alpha phi omega national scouting fraternity to be held in hotel holly in new york nov 29 and 30 h roe bartle national president of alpha phi omega will be mas ter of ceremonies and will lead the banquet session on saturday and the luncheon sunday afternoon at the convention will be dele gates from m i t springfield cornell syracuse n y u c c n v brooklyn and queens col leges lafayette carnegie tech perm state and lehigh there will also be delegates from petitioning chapters at rutgers and long is land university with this issue the brown and white suspends publication until dec 5 due to the thanks giving recess dean wray h congdon warned all living groups yes terday to take precautions to lock their quarters securely dur ing the thanksgiving recess all freshman regulations will be suspended after the thanksgiving vacation an nounced charles m norlin met e 43 head of the fresh man disciplinary committee the 70 foot fire was 20 feet higher than was originally needed possibilities of obtaining c brooks peters 34 berlin corres pondent for the new york times or dr f alexander magoun pro fessor of human relations at the massachusetts institute of tech nology as guest speaker at the senior banquet were discussed at a recent banquet committee meeting james j donahue bus chairman announced the banquet scheduled for the second week in february will be held in lamberton hall or at hotel bethlehem members of the committee aiding donahue in mak ing banquet arrangements are george e parsons jr e.e ed ward f bodine m e john h dudley m e and albert g tro mer bus phi alpha theta national hon orary historical society inducted 5 men at its 3rd initiation sunday evening in drown hall those initiated are william a aiken assistant professor of his tory craig w baker bus 42 frank r horton graduate student paul r schlenker graduate stu dent and franklin b mayer arts 42 donald hoffman national sec retary-treasurer of the society was the principal speaker at the induction attended by 12 mem bers preceding the initiation there was a short business meeting this was the part of the weekend when everyone smiled faces of lehigh men as they scanned the moravian dormitories for pretty faces which did fill every window the moravian authorities caught off guard last year when several enthusiastic freshmen broke all rules by climbing into the sacred territory through a window were well prepared friday night all doors were locked and guarded windows shut securely and inmates stationed on the second story — b * w photo entered the freshman skits in the rally's interliving group competition the middle picture catches the defiance of we pay no toll which the mob chants along with to hell with lafayette during the long tramp across town via the new street bridge the band led the procession as usual and the pajama - clad frosh crowded boisterously behind the grand finale is the fem-sem serenade and here the camera manipulated by two well guarded and chaperoned males snapped the hopeful and greedy win lose or draw on saturday the rally and pajama parade on the night be fore are now as much a part of lehigh tradition as the annual lafayette game itself the hilarity of the weekend reaches its height on that night and is aided and abetted by such occurrances as those that are pictured above the photograph on the extreme left shows some freshmen having their fun they are members of drinker house 111-b who titled their rally skit as some thing appropriate to skinning the leopard this section was one of the many who brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday november 25 1941 psi upsilon's robot wins prize vol xlix no 19 new rotc staff positions are announced 300 students to attend irc conclave here a mystery still unsolved who painted up lafayette's wall no evidence yet is found so peace treaty stands unbroken while investigations continue delegates will assemble for peace discussion during week-end dudley is cadet colonel mcgregor to assist in indoor drill company a is organized 60 colleges expected pajama parade follows a x pi wins frosh skit alumni give speeches as students cheer z 612 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association