Brown and White Vol. 56 no. 22

              by david l edelman george t peck assistant professor of history fears that civil war will come to france and italy in the near future if the present pres sure on the communist party is not reduced the communists in both countries are being pushed to the wall by their political opponents he said and when they have been pushed too far when they are threatened with extinction they will fight doctor peck cited the large number of world war ii partisan fight ers in both nations as examples of the sort of determined communists that the causing the strikes and politcial disturbances today many of the partisan officers during the recent war were communist party members these men says dr peck will carry the fight from the assembly floor to the battlefield if they are forced to do so by the rightest factions that now threat en them the recent wave of communist led strikes in these two nations were in dr peck's opinion two edged they were an open bid for power at the present time and a stoppage of production to cripple the marshall plan in the future the french people's party un der general charles degaulle has many former french fascists and nationalists among its members and according to dr peck it will do everything in its power to out law the communist party in france and replace the multi-party system with one party — domin ated by the general dr peck who is familiar with many of the leaders in these two countries can see no anti-com munist leader in italy comparable to degaule in france american influence and support have been trying to curb communist growth in both nations he said but the loss of production caused by the strikes may be too much for the marshall plan to do any appreci able good both communist par ties are strong in numbers and though there is no direct channel of orders from moscow discern able they are well organized the unemployment and scarcity of food that exist in italy are the chief stumbling-blocks of the anti communist campaign while the black market in both countries says dr peck serves to embitter further the friends of the com munists as yet no solution to these problems has been found or adopted by either government and it appears that they will be of suf ficient significance to bring on in ternal warfare in both countries these are two of the main issues in the fight which is slowly push ing the communist parties in france and italy back to the edge of the precipice of political obli vion when they reach this edge dr peck warns they will resort to armed battle to save themselves by tom harris student finds typing service helps solve budget problem the ordinary student veteran may have trouble getting along on the monthly chicken feed handed him by uncle sammy but when you're married and have a couple more mouths to feed the situation is even tougher most guys let the wife get a part time job but suppose you have a year old baby for her to take care of bill schwendinger 48 found one solution to the money problem faced by most married students his wife harriet had been a secre tary for several years and as you might expect was a good typist her rates are charged ten cents a page double spaced fifteen cents single spaced is about half the amount charged by most persons doing typing for hire another thing the students like is the prompt delivery harriet manages no matter how much work may come in to have the copy ready next day this sometimes keeps her up until three or four in the morning — almost as long as some students stay up cramming for finals fraternities use service a boost to the business has been typing up notes on fraternity meetings one day harriet says a fellow called up and said i'm in a jam can you do some fast typing for me in a hurry it's got to be done i thought ohoh this guy is in a lawsuit or some kind of trouble but i told him to come out and i'd do the job he came out and the job was just some notes on the last frat meeting he was the secretary and another meeting was coming up since then more and more frats have brought their work to the prompt typewriting service i think we've even helped stu dents to get higher marks says harriet sometimes a guy will ask us to make sure his grammar is right and we've corrected some real failing errors getting along on the subsistance check is a big problem for all g.i students but bill and harriet schwendinger using a little inge nuity and initiative have worked out their own partial solution to this problem jobs on typing up bill's themes term papers and so forth were so good that the idea was born that maybe other students would pay money for typing work the first step was to set up a system for getting rough manu scripts and finished drafts back and forth between the customers and mrs schwendinger a couple of pigeon holes just inside drown hall were chosen for a sort of mail box arrangement and bill bought a small metal cash box which was placed there to receive cash pay ments after the work was returned the schwendingers named their venture the prompt typing ser vice publicity consisted of mim eographed posters typed out by mrs schwendinger and mimeo graphed at the arcadia office these were distributed around campus and the schwendingers settled back to wait waited for business they waited nearly a month for the first rough draft to show up in the pigeonhole which bill visited faithfully every day between elev en and one o'clock then things started to roll and now bill says we average be tween ten and fifteen dollars a week in the last two weeks we took in 35 we're getting a lot of business right now doing term papers and things due at the end of the semester we started out with a typewriter borrowed from a friend and now we hire one for four dollars a month i figure it's really a good investment one of the reasons for the prompt typewriting service gets so much student trade is that low litzenberger claims that trees suffered worst storm effects destruction less than was expected by jack lyons the ice storm last week caused damage on the lehigh campus which was estimated by andrew w litzenberger superintendent of buildings and grounds at 10,000 this figure said mr litzenberger does not tell the entire story of the damage done since scars result ing from the storm will remain on the trees for several years cleaning up the branches and fallen trees will take about a month to complete since the con tinued snow has halted work an inspection of the campus on mon day however allowed the most dangerous conditions to be known and remedied many of the branches which have broken off but which are still held up by other branches cannot be cleared until the ice on the trees has melted sufficiently to permit the trees to be climbed rather than to emphasize the amount of damage done mr lit zenberger expressed surprise at the lack of damage he pointed out that with the exception of a few fallen eaves no destruction was caused to any of the buildings in spite of a number of close calls there have been no personal in juries or damage to cars from falling ice and branches reported little electrical damage the ice storm which began on new year's day caused little elec trical trouble by comparison with the surrounding country-side few wires were down and most of the lack of electrical power was the result of damage to the lines of the pennsylvania power and light company oddly enough mr litzenberger said most of the damage done to the trees was done to the oaks and maples rather than the softer woods the evergreens especially showed little destruction mr lit zenberger believes that the dam age to the hard-wood trees was the result of the fact that the storm came at a time when the sap had run out of the trees causing them to be brittle members of the buildings and grounds department in whose hands the cleaning up of the cam pus lies claim the storm was the strangest and most serious the uni versity has experienced one mem ber said it was the worst of its kind he had seen in his 48 years of service at lehigh mr litzenberger pointed out that though a few trees will have to be chopped down and most of those on the lower campus will lose some branches many of those which appear to be in serious con dition will be saved and will in a few years hide all signs of the blizzard of 48 lehigh invited to care for heidelberg the students and faculty of le high are invited to adopt a stu dent or faculty member of heid elberg university in germany by sending periodic gifts of care packages and by initiating corres pondence through dr earl l crum head of the greek department who was american officer-in-charge in the rehabilitation of heidelberg it is possible to contact heidelberg men care a non-profit government approved organization guarantees the delivery of 10 food or textile packages names and addresses of heidel berg faculty members and order blanks for care packages are available in dr crum's office room 32 coppee hall students can be contacted through the heidelberg faculty adoption of members with similar courses of study is possible a pre-medical student at lehigh for example might write a german pre-med and help him by sending food which is badly needed the lehigh program has been approved by arcadia and has the support of the student chapel so ciety as well as a group of inter ested students brown key society approved here at a meeting of the student ac tivities committee on wednesday the constitution of the newly or ganized brown key society was approved with minor recommenda tions this organization has been form ed with the express purpose of promoting intercollegiate good will and cooperation by acting as host to visiting athletic teams which come to our campus the so ciety will also act as host at inaug urations conventions and confer ences held at lehigh if asked by the university at the first meeting of the so ciety fourteen charter members were present members were cho sen from those men who have shown an active interest in cam pus activities especially sports the results of elections held at the first meeting are as follows president ben collins vice-pres ident bill henry secretary-treas urer walt morton the other char ter members are garvin jones john palmer walt senkowski lee maines eric erikson john ber dan george lasasso bob num bers george horneck rod schil lat and hal korshin dave dockham of the athletic department will act as the group's leader and advisor willard writes for monthly the geology of shakespeare an article by dr bradford wil lard head of the geology depart ment has appeared in the novem ber issue of the scientific monthly in this treatise dr willard who is a shakespeare enthusiast writes that shakespeare himself was not an authority on geology but that many englishmen of the period had a considerable knowl edge of rocks and minerals of the ocean and its behavior and that there was recognition of those larger features and processes we dub physiography dr willard lists many of the plays with references to geology included in them he reports that copper is mentioned in five situa tions in shakespeare iron is men tioned some forty-odd times lead abojut twenty twenty-one for sil ver two for mercury or quick silver and about two hundred for gold senior petitions due on saturday seniors expecting to graduate at the forthcoming graduation exer cises feb 1 were cautioned this week in a letter from registrar george b curtis to file applica tions for their degrees before 11:30 a.m saturday students were told to ignore the 10 fee on the application form when filing the applications the 10 fee was abolished in june 1947 seniors are also expected to no tify the supply bureau on or be fore saturday whether or not they wil want to rent a cap and gown for the graduation exercises invi tations and announcements can also be ordered at the supply bu reau the mid-year exercises will be held sunday afternoon feb 1 2:30 p.m in grace hall no tickets wil be required for admission and seniors are urged to invite as many relatives and friends as they wish industry needs engineering graduates placement bureau lists accountants salesmen following in demand seniors majoring in the various branches of engineering are most in demand by industry according to e robins morgan director of placement accountants and salesmen are next in demand at the present time according to figures available af ter three months of heavy inter view schedules on the local cam pus since founder's day last oct 1 representatives of 83 of the na tion's leading industries have con ducted more than 900 interviews among the 177 seniors slated for graduation in february 1948 of this number 98 are majoring in en gineering 46 in business adminis tration and 33 in arts and science the heavy wartime demands for engineers have not dropped off as had been anticipated in some quarters said morgan this after noon in order to select qualified college men for key positions in dustry has increased its staff of personnel executives visiting the lehigh campus in recent months we will have a very crowded situ ation for the balance of the current academic year if the number of in terviewers continues at the rapid pace set during the past three months request information placement of graduates is a year-round job for lehigh's direc tor as soon as a semester gets un der way hopeful candidates for degrees are requested to submit information which will be essen tial when a representative of pros pective employers comes to the campus to conduct interviews from this date mr morgan and his assistant miss bernadine stu ber know the experience prefer ences of jobs academic marks family background and extra-cur ricular activities of each applicant this information helps personnel men fit the senior to a job to be filled according to morgan most of the companies sending personnel men to the lehigh campus in search of engineers outline for the prsopective employees a training program which is designed to of fer valuable opportunities for the young men these training courses are known as the loop course the test course the cadet train ing course and other labels which vary according to the company they are organized so that the college graduate will work closely with experienced men in design development production sales en gineering and laboratory tech niques competition keen the jobs now being offered said morgan will take lehigh graduates to all parts of the unit ed states some may land in at tractive posts in foreign countries in future years as for starting pay scales there is no definite average morgan continued for the beginner who will be starting to carve his career in industry through a training course his sal ary wil range from about 225 to 275 a month if he is an engineer accountants and salesmen with out technical education will start at slightly lower salaries margan pointed out that compe tition for engineers among the leading companies of the nation is keen many seniors are planning to continue their education through graduate schools since they have education benefits available thru the g i bill of rights the war years diminished the supply of technically educated men and now industry is filling its demands for post-war development and expan sion many of the companies will send interviewers to the campus for the second time during the coming semester although primarily concerned with the present lehigh senior and its problems of job location the lehigh placement service as sists al undergraduates in gaining part-time employment during the academic year and through the summer months culations section a is composed of 17 double five triple and 12 single rooms but due to the hous ing shortage it will be necessary to double the single rooms mr maxwell stated that no attempt vvil be made to increase the capac ity of the double rooms these will contain two separate beds instead of the double-decker bunks used in many rooms in the other build insg anyone may apply anyone interested may apply for these rooms no priority will be given to those applying first in stead of considering date of appli cation the bursar will probably give preference to students apply ing in groups of two and three by this means room-mates will not be arbitrarily selected it may also be stated that efforts will be made to achieve a distribution by classes so that there will not be more than average turnover in the various sections every graduation it is tentatively anticipated that rents may be somewhat higher than in other dormitories but actual fig ures have not been determined at this time section c will be completed shortly after b while the last two sections d and b should be open by the middle of spring the loungest in the building will not open for several weeks after the start of the spring semester total capacity of th dormitory is estimated at 280 men in normal times by doubling single rooms 90 more men will be accommodat ed bringing the temporary total to 370 dormitory c will be one of the largest college dormitories in this area it has been erected in record time despite numerous obstacles most of the interior furnishings have either been purchased or have arrived in bethlehem by this time scott lectures to aiee on heating dr george w scott emphasized the wartime advances in dielectric and induction heating in his lec ture with slides before the student chapter of the american institute of electrical engineers which met in packard laboratory thursday evening dec 18 dielectric heating is the method by which the interior of a material may be heated instead of only its surfaces as done by more conven tional methods this method is used extensively in molding ply wood manufacturing plywood air planes and for cooking quickly dr scott explained that the increased use of dielectric and induction heating was made possible by bet ter equipment and cooling systems in general a e stetson 48 gave a short talk on fluorescent lighting ad vances bethlehem pa friday january 9 1948 new ifc topkicks occupancy of new dormitory will begin in february vol lvi no l £ z campus crystalized price s cents 10,000 damage to campus caused by recent ice storm — photo by kaup left to right doug carlton vice-president sam snyder pres ident and stan lawler secretary missing is herb stockham treasurer — photo by chisholm holiday sleet deposited shimmering beauty while ravaging leafless trees applications for rooms may be obtained now at bursar's office normal capacity estmated at 280 by ed rosenbaum applications for rooms in sec tion a of the new dormitory now being completed between drinker and richards house can be obtained in mr maxwell's of fice both mr maxwell the bursar and mr litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds at lehigh are confident that some time during the month of febru ary sections a and d of the new building now designated as dormitory c will be completed recent bad weather has severely hampered building operations the roofing prorgam has ben set back considerably due to the fact that slate is difficult to apply because of excess ice forming over the tar paper now in place however plastering operations are nearing completion in many parts of sec tion a the wing of the dormi tory nearest to richards house mr maxwell estimates that this sec tion will accommodate nearly 80 students no single rooms will be available according to present cal fire in dormitory brown and white fire which threatened to do serious damage to the new dor mitory was discovered at 6:25 p.m yesterday by the night watchman but within 20 min utes five fire engines were on the scene and the fire was soon put out little damage resulted ac cording to andrew w litzen berger superintendent of build ings and grounds and plans for occupation of the building will not be held up the fire which started from carelessness apparently exuded more smoke than flame and burned part of the insulation of the center of the roof slight in jury was sustained by the building however and not much delay is expected to result in restoring the damaged sec tion peck sees anti-red pressure revolt factor in france italy the arcadia office is accept ing christmas cards for ship ment to needy english children seniors be sure to file your application for degree on or before 11:30 a.m saturday ignore the 10 fee on the slip