Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 7

              dr peck emphasized two points during the course of a recent in terview first i am principally concerned with the problem of get ting along with russia he said dr peck seemed to feel that un less we could come to some kind of terms with the soviet union there was little hope for a world government second dr peck stressed in conjunction with his first statement that we must es tablish a basis for functional col laboration with russia he added that this basis for functional col laboration was particularly ne cessary in the sphere of economics dr peck who was instrumental in the creation of common cause a monthly report of the committee to frame a world con stitution has spoken on the sub ject of world government at least a dozen times during the last year from the brief conversation that i had with him a few days ago i got the impression that dr peck has not only a dynamic personal ity but an unusually broad and well-informed mind as well how has this man acquired these qual ities well my initial curiosity was cut short as soon as i got some of the facts concerning his past dr peck's past reads like some thing out of an international reg ister here are a few of the high lights born in new rochelle new york dr peck attended school first at the institute sillig switz erland then phillips academy mass next yale university where he received his b a and asce hears mclntosh mr r j mclntosh sales mana ger of the steel piling department of the bethlehem steel company was guest speaker at the meeting of the lehigh valley section of the american society of civil en gineers tuesday night oct 14 his speech sheet steel piling gave a description of piling operations and its uses in construction work mr mclntosh is a resident of bethlehem and a graduate of sheffield scientific school yale university he received his ph.b in c s in 1914 he worked in the lackawanna steel company and came to bethlehem in 1922 in 1928 he was elevated to his present po sition candidates announced rules of voting and sample arcadia ballot for the information of all con cerned printed below is a com plete list of candidates for ar cadia and a partial list of the rules 1 you may vote for any can didate whose name appears on this ballot 2 vote in order of preference for as many men as you wish 3 place the figure 1 before your first choice 2 before your second choice etc additional information 1 from these 45 candidates 15 will be elected to arcadia 2 indicate as many choices as you wish your vote will be count ed first for your first choice but if your first choice is defeated then your vote goes to your sec ond choice etc 3 the more choices you ex press the surer you are to make your ballot count for one of them do not feel obliged to express more choices than you really have 4 for additional information ask the election official candidates baldwin cyril c barthelson norman a belmont thomas s bodine r p boig charles w breiden willard l christiansen herbert w christie norman b depaoli bruno eagleson peter s eisinger frank p ferree kenneth e flippen john p forsythe marvin p foster charles a frager victor i felleylove james hahn william e head john j horneck george b hinlein bruce m huber irvin l hughes norman h hunt valerio r jefferis gilpin h jones richard h leet edwin l marcus george macauley charles mccauley albert p martin robert j morton walter b nelson russell c reetz carl g roche john j sansone john saydah robert f schwab a james senkowski walter t snyder samuel f sprang edward d sweet david j suman robert p taylor lloyd c vetter earl w hillel to hear bean in open discussion the formation and opei-ation of religious groups on college cam puses and especially on the lehigh campus will be the topic of an open forum to be held by the le high hillel group wednesday oct 22 in the bethlehem jewish com munity center rev george m bean university chaplain will opan the discussion with a short talk the official dedication of a spe cial room for the hillel group was held wednesday night in the cen ter the room was dedicated by the bethlehem b'nai b'rith women upon the occasion of the first an niversary of the counsellorship of the local hillel group the hillel radio workshop is planning to put on several radio programs on station wgpa in the next few weeks concert plans for spring are disclosed big scale production to include athletic music and mil dept the spring concert of the glee club is to be supplanted by a much larger production which will em brace at least three departments of the university prof william h schempf music director at lehigh recently announced the music military and athletic departments are cooperating to stage the pro duction in grace hall next spring ralph schwarz production man ager of the concert stated that the show is designed to combine color rhythm motion and sound for the interpretation of the music to present continuity and animation within a concert framework it will involve at least four musical organizations the lehigh glee club and band the collegians and a girls glee club pershing rifles honorary basic rotc society and a group of tumblers the production was decided upon by the officers of the glee club as an enlargement upon the annual spring concert of that or ganization the glee club hopes to promote inter-departmental and organizational unity and good will through the affair not a competitive show in reply to the current rumors about the campus concerning the rivalry the concert may bring be tween the music and dramatic or ganizations professor schempf declared we are definitely lim ited by budget size of organiza tion time of the students and sev eral other factors no considera tion has been given to the staging of a competitive show against mus tard and cheese it is the spring concert of the glee club on a large scale criticism that has arisen is to the effect that it will detract from the production of the dramatic club's gilbert and sullivan oper etta there is plenty of talent and facilities on the lehigh campus to make the production of both affairs i do not see how they could directly interfere with each other preparations started the music department has al ready begun preparation for the concert under the direction of professor schempf pershing rifles through the training of captain mclanachan is to present the queen anne drill and salute for military interpretation of the mu sic gymnastics and tumbling will be directed by prof a c bartlett director of intramural sports men interested in any phase of the ac tivity are urged to start imme diately since preparations have already begun technicians and stage hands should contact wil liam crehore 6-4623 who is act ing in the capacity of stage man ager the concert will occupy the same position on the university calendar as the glee club concert has in former years this marks the first time a production of such proportions has been undertaken at lehigh kleinschmidt gives talk prof r b kleinschmidt of the civil engineering department talk ed to a joint meeting of the music sections of the american associa tion of university women and the newcomers club on the subject of bells and carillons tuesday oct 14 one . . . two . . . three . . . allah first election under pr thur and fri 15 men to be chosen to serve on arcadia fair election guaranteed lehigh university students will go to the polls next thursday and friday in the first campus wide popular election held under the new system of pr and the new constitution forty-five candidates have filed petitions for nomination under the new constitution 15 men will be elected to serve on arcadia voting will take place from 9:00 a.m until 4:30 p.m on each day polls will be located at packard laboratory christmas - saucon hall and drown hall the election will be carefully and rigidly supervised to prevent any fraudulent actions election officials will receive their final in struction tomorrow night they are expected to be impartial and must not influence voters in any way electioneering in the vicin ity of polling places is absolutely forbidden any person who notices any situation detrimental to a fair and honest election is urged to contact william hardy temporary arcadia election committee chair man immediately those election officials and poll watchers found guilty of malfeasance will be im mediately discharged and fined all tally clerks and poll watchers will be paid at the rate of 50 cents an hour which will cost arcadia 32 per day voting rules all voters will be required to sign an affidavit before receiving their ballots the voter will aver that he is a regularly matriculated undergraduate he will also af firm that he has voted only once all statements will be alphabe tized and checked by the election office in order to eliminate any frauds the ballot counting will take place at drown hall friday eve ning after the polls have closed interested students may observe the counting if they wish the vote tallying will be under the direction of dr ernest b schulz of the department of his tory and government professor schulz is an authority on propor tional representation george howatt assistant in structor in government will serve as faculty supervisor in charge of the elections lehigh orchestra plans rehearsal in the hope that the strains of symphonic music may again be heard at lehigh president william schempf director of music has scheduled a re-organization meet ing and rehearsal of the orchestra for tomorrow oct 22 in room 28 of grace hall members of the faculty as well as the students of lehigh univer sity and moravian college for men who play orchestral instruments are urged to participate strings violin viola cello and bass and the rarer woodwinds bassoon and oboe are especially needed keenan talks on large power plant the sunbury steam-electric pro ject was discussed in a talk by mr george m keenan chief en gineer of the pennsylvania power and light company on thursday at a meeting of the student branch of the american institute of elec trical engineers in packard lab oratory diagrams and photo graphs were used to illustrate the talk it generates 150,000 kilowatt hours in a 5,000,000 kwt hr sys tem the new steam-electric station at sunbury is one of the largest in this part of the country alexander mckean president was chairman of the business meeting and introduced the speak er about 130 people attended the meeting which was followed by the serving of refreshments on the balcony of the laboratory junior class will meet class activity program to be main subject the class of 49 can become a powerful force in bringing back class spirit class unity — and fun — to the lehigh campus richard fuehrer president of the junior class stated in an interview re cently he urged all juniors to attend the class meeting to be held tomorrow at 4:10 p.m in packard auditorium in his statement concerning the first formal meeting of the class of 49 fuehrer said the main pur pose of the meeting is to outline a program of class activities for this year there is no sense of a few class officers and committee heads planning various class activities and social affairs which other for ty-niners don't want the junior class organization exists for the benefit of each in dividual forty-niner and the class organization wants to do only what the members sincerely de sire if the forty-niners want a beer party a banquet dances and other social activities we will have them fuehrer stated large class the junior class is one of the largest classes at lehigh univer sity and we have a whole year in which to work he continued the junior classes at other col leges hold many social events dur ing a school year and the class of 49 can do the same at lehigh if each forty-niner gives his sup port fuehrer added that the only previous mass meeting of the class of 49 was an informal get-to gether held last may at the win dish hall in reference to this year's social calendar the presi dent of the forty-niners called upon all juniors to offer their ideas and suggestions on the sponsorship of social events at to morrow's meeting the orchestra together with the combined music clubs of lehigh university and the moravian col lege for women will participate in the annual christmas concert it is hoped that the group also will be able to present a group of chamber concerts throughout the year all those who are interested in the orchestra and are unable to at tend the meeting may contact pro fessor schempf at grace hall or by phone bethlehem 8-1268 o job interviews start e robin morgan head of the placement bureau has an nounced that job interviews for members of the 1948 graduating class are under way l a evans division engineer of the pennsylvania railroad interview ed several civil engineering stu dents on october 9 on october 15 s f ar nold of the industrial relations department of the national car bon company interviewed a num ber of prospective graduates in the fields of civil mechanical indus trial and chemical engineering morgan stated that while the interview schedule has not been entirely filled many of the com panies in which lehigh men have indicated interest have already set dates on which their representa tives will visit the campus in the absence of cheerleaders at the gettysburg game last sat urday these three enterprising lehigh men harry walton carl kendziora and merrill curly weisel stole the show leading the several hundred lehigh rooters in counting the nine points which won the game for us they are shown here at the gettysburg goal post in that victorious fourth quarter burkhead will speak professor burkhead was ap pointed to the faculty at lehigh in 1946 professor j v burkhead as sistant professor of economics at lehigh university will speak be fore the lehigh valley purchasing agents at their annual dinner in the colonnade on tuesday oct 28 his subject will be prospects for full employment business men hold dinner alpha kappa psi professional business fraternity held its pledge dinner in the american hotel on thursday oct 16 the district counselor for the fraternity mr carl wittrich of the faculty of muhlenberg col lege spoke to the new pledges about the fraternity's history and organization folowing mr wittrich's address the 40 pledges present underwent the pledging formalities after the ceremonies a business meeting conducted by the frater nity president elmer e mcclow 48 and paul alexy 48 was called the preparations for this meeting were made by robert mc cleery 48 another meeting has been plan ned for all pledged for the eve ning of thursday oct 23 in the browsing room of the library at that time robert shurts 48 the master of rituals will give the new pledges their instructions vol lvi — no 7 bethlehem pa tuesday october 21 1947 price — 5 cents dr g t peck to address irc and avc on world unity town dance saturday the hallowe'en costume dance sponsored by town council has been scheduled for saturday oct 25 at 8:30 p.m in drown hall lounge prizes are to be given for square dancing novelty danc ing elimination dances and a candle relay cider doughnuts and apples will be served to all comers town council men and dates will be admitted free others will be charged 1.20 tax in cluded per couple in 1940 the university of chicago where he received his m.a and his ph.d the latter in 1942 varied teaching career his teaching experience is broad from 1937 to 1939 he was an in structor at blair academy n j in 1942 he was teaching at north western university and continued to teach there until 1946 when he came to lehigh aside from dr peck's contribu tions to various newspapers and publications and his experiences as political analyst in the office of strategic services during the war the thing that interested me most was his work on the constitution of the world government and his extensive travels in addition to attending school in switzerland dr peck has trav eled in germany italy england north africa south america and on two separate occasions in france to say that an address from such a distinguished fighter for the cause of world government should be interesting is trite dr peck's talk should and probably will drive home to all of those who hear him the crying need for a world government as we all know we must put an end to this present state of world chaos if we fail it will put an end to all of us dr peck should be able to show us at least in a general way how to do this student government takes step forward meeting to prevent inter-campus war mccauley will speak at mule's pep rally boyer to speak at grace a major step in the direction of fuller student government was reached thursday when groups representing lehigh and muhlen berg met to decide the proper steps to prevent inter-campus raids any student caught on the oth er's campus will be tried by a stu dent court and his guilt will be decided by his fellow students the court will also make recom mendations to the administration as to the punishment merited dean wray h congdon and a group representing the different branches of the student body met with a similar group from muh lenberg led by dean perry f kendig at a dinner at the 1720 house in trexlertown muhlen berg was the host this year other points agreed on at the meeting were that each school should exchange 100 copies of the student newspaper that treats edi torially the rivalry and the game it was also announced that any individual caught doing property damage would be required to pay for the damage also the presidents of the stu dent bodies will address the pep rally of the other group one week before the game albert mccau ley ai'cadia president will ad dress the muhlenberg pep rally while ralph boyer president of the muhlenberg student council will address the lehigh students at the rally for the rutgers game houseparty game tickets lottery held arcadia supervises fair allocation to all students the order in which living groups will draw tickets for the football game during houseparty weekend was determined by an arcadia sponsored lottery last wednesday the use of this lottery system was the first in houseparty history and the system was installed in order to prevent the usual first come first served fiasco that has taken place when houseparty foot ball tickets were drawn in the past a list was made of all living groups at lehigh and the town group was divided into 30 blocks of 30 men each since the town men are scheduled to call for their tickets at another date they will be on a first come first serve ba sas but the tickets will be com posed of some good and some bad as determined by the drawing william d'olier president of the interdormitory council ja me s duff president of the interfrater nity council and john attaway did the drawing while albert mc cauley president of arcadia wrote the list the list is as follows 1 town 2 richards 4a 3 theta kappa phi 4 town 5 kappa sigma 6 richards house 3a 7 richards house i 8 town 9 town 10 town 11 phi sigma kappa 12 kirk house 13 alpha tau omega 14 phi delta theta 15 richards house 3b 16 taylor house a 17 sigma nu 18 richards house 2a 19 tempo 111 20 alpha chi rho 21 richards 4b 22 paul house 23 delta phi 24 drinker 2a 25 town 26 alpha sigma phi 27 town 28 town 29 kappa alpha 30 town 31 theta chi 32 drinker house 3a 33 town 34 taylor c 35 town 36 town 37 town 38 taylor d 39 town 40 leonard hall 41 phi gamma delta 42 tau delta phi 43 town 44 sigma phi epsilon 45 town 46 town 47 richards 2b 48 drinker 2b 49 drinker 3b 50 town 51 pi lambda phi 52 taylor house b 53 union house 54 town 55 town 56 beta theta pi 57 town 58 town 59 chi psi 60 chi phi 61 town 62 town 63 sigma chi 64 town 65 beaver house 66 delta tau delta 67 taylor e 68 phi upsilon 69 sigma alpha mv 70 theta delta chi 71 sigma phi 72 town 73 town 74 theta xi 75 tempo ii 76 lambda chi alpha 77 drinker 1 78 drinker 4 79 price hall 80 delta sigma phi 81 pi kappa alpha 82 town 83 delta upsilon 84 town 85 town role of national states will be discussed by political analyst by carl s garland brown and white the role of national states in the future will be discussed by dr george t peck assistant profes sor of european history in his ad dress before a combined group of international relations club and avc members dr peck who re cently became a member of the university's avc chapter will speak in the arcadia room drown hall at 7:30 p.m october 22 the good news of damnation is the title of the speaker's ad dress and from the facts that i have gleaned from newspaper clippings etc dr peck's talk should be highly interesting as well as informative collaboration with russia all 49ers — don't forget your first class meeting tomorrow afternoon at 4:10 p.m in pack ard auditorium be there to find out your class organization can do this year class of 48 will hold a meet ing at 7:30 thursday evening oct 23 in grace hall sports movies refreshments and cig arettes will be your plan to attend to discuss class plans