Brown and White Vol. 49 no. 20

              plan hospital library lehigh's intramural program one of the most active in the na tion may suffer curtailment if suitable space near the campus cannot be found bartlett said cyanide which has chosen the investigation of sports facilities at lehigh for its topic of the year referred bartlett's statements and the ensuing discussion to commit tee where the course of the in vestigation will be mapped out a meeting was planned for early january at which andrew w litz enberger superintendent of build ings and grounds will be request ed to speak an immediate and pressing need for additional intramural playing space was revealed by fay c bartlett director of physical edu cation at a meeting of cyanide last night at delta tau delta bartlett explained that although a crowded program has been suc cessfully carried out in the past it will become increasingly diffi cult to repeat such a schedule in the future the construction of a new track the removal of lacrosse to steel field and the possibility of spring soccer practice will act to decrease the available playing space and will aggravate an al ready overcrowded condition return of fire fighting equip ment borrowed by students who aided bethlehem city volunteers at the chi psi fraternity house blaze was requested this week by pres clement c williams president williams promised no further inquiry or action to the individuals if they return the ar ticles lack of which he says hampers the work of the city fire men the articles may be return ed at the arcadia office in drown hall or to andrew h litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds at his office in the alumni memorial building cast is ready to give play 5 will attend ina conclave brown and white officers to partake in college news conference debaters open new season out of the frying pan to have final dress rehearsal tonight speakers discuss ae f operations on axis outside americas the president's statement fol lows four raincoats and one pair of rubber boots have already been returned according to latest re ports i am informed that certain stu dents present at the chi psi fire carried away a number of water proof coats rubber boots and hel mets the lack of this necessary equipment seriously hampers the fire department's efforts at other fires and hence endangers bethle hem property generally since fire men cannot be expected to expose themselves without such protec tion requests return i urgently request any students who have these articles or know where they are to return them at once since the need for these ar ticles is so immediate and since the taking was doubtless prankish rather than malicious i will assure students who return the articles against discipline or prosecution if these articles are brought to arcadia office in drown hall or to superintendent litzenberger's off ice in alumni memorial building no further inquiry will be made nor action taken i earnestly ask student cooperation in this import ant matter equipment valued at approxi mately 320 v/as missing after the blaze on oct 27 this included 21 rubber coats 9 pairs of rubber boots eight helmets and one as sistant chief's shield a new campus community chest record is almost certain this year it was revealed at the meet ing of arcadia on monday evening with several living groups still to turn in contributions 302.59 has been turned in this year 118 more than last year and only 3 short of an all-time record to help defray expenses of the hockey team in entering an inter collegiate hockey tournament at lake placid n v during christ mas vacation arcadia granted the team 65 the team hopes to ob tain the remaining amount neces sary to make the trip by a grant from the interfraternity council the request of the ski team for funds was denied a recommenda tion was made that the men form a self-supporting club which can prove its independent value to the university a motion to start a library at the st luke's hospital was adopt ed at the suggestion of dr claude g beardslee adviser to arcadia a modern collection of books for patients of the hospital will be built from book-of-the-month sel ections donated by arcadia anc books offered by lehigh students 13 men inducted by phi eta sigma the newly formed lehigh uni versity council of defense held its first meeting at 4 p m thursday in the arcadia room of drown hall at the request of the state council of defense pres clement c williams appointed col joseph s leonard head of the depart ment of military science and tac tice chairman of the executive committee subordinate bodies include an air raid warning committee which will consist of an air raid warden and his assistants and a fire protection committee which will familiarize itself with fire fighting apparatus and work to ac quaint all members of the univer sity with the fire protection sys tem and its operation other auxiliary committees in clude the committee on first aid classes the committee on amer ican unity to foster morale the committee on the conservation of essential defense materials to conserve food gasoline etc and the committee for men in service to keep in personal touch with students and recent alumni in the armed forces committee heads and members chosen at the meeting thursday will be announced saturday noon by colonel leonard upon their confirmation by university officials honorary hears congdon on outside activities army interviews 15 rotc seniors air corps requires men for materiel work irc conference attended by 300 delegates of 65 schools meet during vacation nya earning will be reduced about 25 percent for the rest of the academic year due to a 20 percent reduction in the funds appropriat ed by the federal government ac cording to dean wray h congdon the reduction was made by the government in its effort to econo mize on non-defense expenditures a committee of four appointed by president clement c williams conferred with placement director e robbins morgan on a way of apportioning the reduction and reached the following agreement 1 student need takes prece dence over the importance of any project that may be benefitting by nya labor 2 any students earning nya funds who are not actually in need of the extra income thus derived should be dropped at once it was found that none of the 116 students benefitting from the nya funds was not in need of the help he was getting this information was gath ered at the beginning of the year before the reduction was necessary 3 the only feasible and practi cal procedure seems to be to make a 25 percent reduction in the amount any student can earn per month for the balance of the aca demic year minor adjustments may be made in a few special cases but as a rule a recommended monthly max imum has been approved by the committee for each student if any student finds its impossible to con tinue in college on this basis he may present his case in writing to the committee for review and fur ther consideration 4 no new workers may be add ed to the nya rolls 5 a monthly allottment will hereafter be made instead of a quarterly allotment and no funds will be available in any month be yond that stipulated amount 6 men inducted by eta kappa nu five lehigh men will attend the annual fall convention of the in tercollegiate newspaper association friday and saturday at stevens institute of technology hoboken n j john m roach editor of the brown and white william j meikle editorial manager albert l thalhamer news manager craig w baker business manager and kenneth k kost faculty ad viser of the paper will attend roach is president of the associa tion and kost is executive secre tary the men will stay at hotel as tor headquarters for the conven tion alter taking part in news editorial and business conferences friday afternoon they will see it happens on ice at the center theatre radio city george aubrey hastings public relations counsel social worker and writer will be the speaker at the banquet which culminates the convention saturday night his topic will be the college and the community other speakers at the convention will be prof gregory mason noted author and anthro pologist of new york university and jack w reilly of national advertising service the brown and white is entered in the ina's news editorial sports and advertising contests electrical society initiates juniors wednesday 6 alumni attend air corps school the first debates of the intra mural debating season were held on wednesday and thursday nights according to joseph c cal laghan assistant professor of eng lish and speech and director of debating the wednesday debates were held at the tau delta phi house the first one starting at 7:30 p m the affirmative speakers were sander mark c e 42 and leon ard schwab i e 42 while on the negative team were stuart gordon arts 45 and neal bergstresser bus 44 the debate was won by the negative the second debate was held at 8:30 p m with john rice c e 45 and david emery e e 45 on the negative team the debate was won by the affirmative team the topic of each debate was resolved that an american ex peditionary force should be sent outside of the western hemisphere to combat the axis powers the chairman of the debates was will iam kronthal bus 44 in the first debate held last night at the theta delta chi house the negative team of james j donahue bus 42 and richard palmer arts 43 defeated kings ley williams chem 42 and rob ert mathes e e 44 james nutting arts 44 was chairman and cole s brembeck instructor in english was the judge in the second debate john cooke bus 44 and thomas mc kinley arts 44 lost to richard penniman arts 45 and chester finch i e 43 negative team thirteen sophomores were initi ated into phi eta sigma national freshman honorary society at a banquet wednesday evening at trainer's on the philadelphia pike dean wray h congdon speaker of the evening discussed the ques tion of extra-curricular activities he stated that he believed that participation in extra-curricular activities has a definite value pro viding the participation does not detract from scholarship following the initiation a short business meeting was conducted by robert l smith c e 44 presi dent of the society the new members are glenn a murray m e i reid collman arts leonard h lempert bus john e gehr bus charles c hil ton met e blame d ferrell ch e edward l diehl c e carl r ingemanson e e kenneth g swayne m e arthur s white i e max w bellis e e robert wright jr i e and n clarke applegate jr c e three hundred delegates from 65 institutions in the east attend ed the middle atlantic interna tional relations clubs conference held nov 28-29 at lehigh univer sity malcolm w davis associate di rector of the division of inter course and education of the car negie endowment spoke to the conference friday night on the americas in the world today mrs verna dean research direc tor of the foreign policy associa tion gave an address saturday night on building a new world conferees attended round table discussions on pertinent interna tional problems friday afternoon and saturday morning in grace and coppee halls dinner was served both nights in lamberton hall after which the regular ses sions began welles r bliss arts 42 presided over the conference don cossack choir founded by group of russian exiles to report on conference before alpha chi omega the general platoff don cos final preparation for the pro duction of out of the frying pan by francis swarm to be presented by mustard and cheese tomorrow evening at 8:40 in the broughal high school auditorium will be completed tonight at a fi nal rehearsal of the cast familiar personages to mustard and cheese audiences will once more portray the leading charac ters conrad e kluger arts 42 the leading man for mustard and cheese in dead end boy meets girl and idiot's delight plays the part of norman the key man around whom the plot revolves joseph a larkin bus 42 the strong lead man in idiot's de light and two on an island has the comic lead as the charac ter george another senior rob ert n gusdorff bus 42 who was a leading man in our town and boy meets girl is a producer in this production who rescues six youngsters from a perturbing plight marge benson the character bringing love interest into the play is portrayed by eleanor lewis she played the ingenue lead in two on an island and portrayed parts held in the top of the mountain summer theater at lehigh kathryn wohlbach having played minor parts in boy meets girl and two on an is land now plays the second fem inine lead as kate ault ruth whitcomb one of mustard and cheese's finest character wo men who played in outward bound and who also had parts in counsellor at law and dead end plays a comic role as mrs garnett the landlady a complete rehearsal at 8:40 to night will be attended by a small invited audience any students who are certain they will be un able to attend saturday night are invited to attend tonight's rehear sal the purpose is to test the audience's reaction to the various scenes of the play reads comedy of errors about 15 business and engineer ing seniors in the infantry course of r o t c were interviewed wednesday by lieutenant butts of wright field dayton 0 accord ing to colonel joseph s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics if the men are accepted they will be given non-flying positions in the air force about 1,000 men are wanted by the war depart ment engineers of all types are need ed in the vast expansion program now under way according to the plan qualified students graduat ing in 1942 will be given commis sions as second lieutenants in the air corps reserve shortly after graduation they will be called to active duty with the materiel division at wright field where they will be assigned to applied research production en gineering test engineering and administrative work in connection with military aircraft development and procurement officials have stated that some of the engineers who are selected will later be given an opportunity to acquire flying status by as signment to flight training centers 2 intercollegiate debates scheduled this weekend six lehigh men are now in the united states air corps receiving preliminary training the men are john c barr ja maica n y 40 william b campbell richmond va 41 charles chiprnan jr easton x ' 42 william a jones bethlehem 40 robert c muir jr green wich conn 41 james c steph ens hamden conn 41 actual flight training will be gin for them when they leave the replacement center for cadets at maxwell field ala and go to one of the primary flying schools in the southeast when they complete the 30 weeks flight training course they will receive commissions as second lieutenants in the army aii corps the faculty dramatic club met wednesday night in the home of william l jenkins assistant pro fessor of psychology shakes peare's comedy of errors was informally read they're out of the pan ' tomorrow arnold putnam i e 43 hugh boyd m e 44 sumner reid m.e 42 and lynn bartlett arts 43 will represent lehigh at the de bates two intercollegiate debates will be held over this weekend the lehigh team will oppose shippens burg state teachers college to night and gettysburg college to morrow morning the question will be resolved that the fed eral government should regulate by law all labor unions in the united states charles h schumacher i e 42 and harry e jones i e 42 will give reports on the eastern state conference of alpha phi omega national honorary scouting frater nity which they attended last weekend in new york at the meeting of the local chapter to be held monday afternoon at 4 o'clock in the memorial reading room in the m e side of pack ard laboratory following the accounts of the conference the committee on the major project for the year will give a report there also will be a report on the possibility of fing erprinting the entire student body at registration in february six juniors were initiated by eta kappa nu national honorary electrical engineering society wed nesday at 5:30 p m in packard laboratory alton b zerby national execu tive secretary of eta kappa nu and editor of the organization's publication and everett thieven a member of the administrative department of the bell telephone laboratories in new york were the guest speakers at the banquet held at trainer's immediately al ter the initiation zerby spoke on the activities of the national council and comment ed on the society's initiation while thieven an active member of the new york alumni chapter talked on that organization's activities which include the sponsoring of inspection trips in and about new york according to zerby lehigh is the first college to be visited this year in the annual trips by the national officers of eta kappa nu to the various chapters the juniors who were initiated are frank h bower charles s bennett samuel j davy stanley caplan walter s titlow and richard r waer psi upsilon to get trophy monday for best display turn in biographies play tickets available founded in 1926 spective careers to follow kostru koff the choir was officially founded in 1926 in prague under the aus pices of the late president masa ryk of czechoslovakia it was named for general platoff a fam ed cossack hero of the napoleanic wars the 27 man choir has a highly varied repertoire ranging from romantic gypsy tunes to aye ma ria their program includes tschaikovsky cossack folk-music the volgo boat song and a spe cial novelty number besides the vocal program there will be demonstrations of cossack dancing featuring a whirlwind dance and a sword dance during the last decade the chorus has given over 4,000 con certs and sung all over the world this is their first major tour of the united states and they will sing in over 40 states the cossacks are citizens of mexico and recently were denied principal players in the mustard and cheese play to be presented in broughal high school tomorrow polish up one of their scenes in out of the frying pan they are left to right kilbourne gordon eleanor lewis joseph larkin anna marie rohs and conrad kluger bethlehem and allentown seniors who have not yet filled out their epitome senior biog raphy sheets should secure them from mrs marleah bow ker arcadia secretary at drown hall and fill them out immediately this must be done promptly to ensure their inclu sion in the 1942 epitome free student tickets for the mustard and cheese production out of the frying pan to be given tomorrow evening in broughal high school will be distributed at the arcadia office in drown hall until noon tomor row psi upsilon social fraternity will receive the walter okeson tro phy for the best pre-lafayette game display at a meeting of the interfraternity council monday night in drown hall a report on the selection of bands to play at the interfrater nity ball will also be given oakley w cooke bus 42 will give a re port prepared by the deferred rushing committee admittance to the united states : because of an obsolete immigration statue which forces an immigrant ; who leaves the united states by water to re-enter it by water be cause of this law the return of ! the choir to the united states was delayed sack chorus to be a s c l fea ture dec 11 was founded in prague by a group of russian ex iles who had escaped to czecho slovakia after the russian revo lution the cossacks from the region around the river don in russia have long been famous for their fine voices for many years cos sack choruses have sung at the courts of the russian czars num bers of them served in the army during the world war and be cause of their loyalty to the old regime were forced to flee from russia when the bolshevists came into power the choir gave occasional per formances growing continuously and after a highly successful per formance in vienna the cossacks were ready to give up their re nicholas kostrukoff the con ductor of the choir was one of these exiled cossacks after wan derings through southern europe he finally settled in prague and took up the study of mining engi neering in prague kostrukoff found other exiled cossacks and struck up a friendship with them the russians often got together and sang old russian songs and soon kostrukoff became the leader of a little choir bethlehem pa friday december 5 1941 vol xlix — no 20 bart reveals pressing need for more intramural space price — five cento council meets to formulate defense plans 302 given by students for city drive williams requests students to return fire equipment firemen's work hindered by lack of articles says president ny a earnings cut by lack of gov't funds leonard heads committee to organize university at state's request 25 reduction prompted by savings on projects for non-defense lehigh university brown and white donations are 3 short of all time record arcadia reveals sub-committees chosen committee adopts plan 51 51 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first