Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 22

              intercollegiate newspaper association opens 11th fall meeting resolution to act as guide for arranging sched ules effect not immediate engineer to discuss recent developments in com munication tonight to explain apparatus 37 delegates are here constitution is discussed in business session this afternoon at least one girl appreciated her bid to the recent lehigh house party unforunately as the date approached she developed a bad cough her mother imme diately administered cough med icine and the young lady was able to attend so greatly did she appreciate being able to attend the dance that she wrote a testimonial to the cough syrup company the testimonial has appeared in many newspapers as follows for weeks i had been looking for ward to a fraternity dance at le high my luck — the day of the dance i had to get a bad cough my mother gave me some of your medicine and i stayed in the house all that day immediately the cough got better and al though i still felt a little shaky i went to the dance and had a good time my cough was com pletely gone thanks to your med icine ernst b schulz to lecture here a last minute change in the pro gram of the i n a banquet to morrow evening will have wilbur forrest herald-tribune foreign correspondent as the main speaker instead of w e haskell of the same paper wilbur forrest's quest for news has carried him into the scene of unrest in the late chinese revolu tion and across the western front of the world war at the saturday dinner he will draw on his exper iences and those of others in speak ing on news gathering through out the world at present he is head of the paris france and the washington d c bureaus of the herald-tribune the j h merrill cup for the winner of the news competition and the vernon heilman cup for the best editorial published by a mem ber of the i n a will be awarded woodcut exhibit to open monday democracy under fire will be topic of talk dec 8 dr john erskine subsidation of the mustard and cheese and the musical clubs was practically assured by the action last night of arcadia in recom mending that the activities fee be increased to provide funds for these organizations arcadia approval followed closely on the suggestion of the plan by club officials in an effort to obtain backing the 1.00 addition to the fee will provide almost 1500 which will permit more elaborate mustard and cheese presentations and which will finance the trips of the musical clubs in the past both groups were hampered by lack of funds and were on the verge of dissolution a w thornton 31 was elected at arcadia's meeting last night to represent lehigh at the convention of the national federation of stu dent bodies at atlanta ga dec 31 to jan 3 works of art will be displayed in alumni memorial building council to adopt new examination engineering faculty will remedy sophomore comprehensives freehafer tells of talkies value the football schedule for next year will not be changed in any way and no radical departure from lehigh's traditional athletic policy will result immediately from the resolution passed by the faculty requesting the board of control of athletics to present for future fac ulty approval only schedules con fined to schools whose athletes are under scholastic and amateur stan dards similar to those at lehigh for it will serve merely as a guide for the board of control in making up future athletic schedules pres ident richards explained today the board has always insofar as was possible maintained this idea in making up athletic schedules the faculty realizes that to arrange dates and make up a full schedule is difficult at present and to ar range such a schedule with a cer tain number of schools that have similar athletic standards is one which will take several years con sequently the faculty will continue to approve schedules from those schools which the board may pre sent said president richards the faculty unanimously passed this resolution to uphold this pol icy of the board the members feel that it is unfair to lehigh athletes to ask them to play against the athletes of schools which in one way or another financially aid their men a e c s names dr stoughton faculty man is nominated president of national or ganization prof bradley stoughton direc tor of the curriculum in metallur gical engineering has been nomin ated for president of the american electro-chemical society at their last meeting professor stoughton is the present vice president of the society which consists of 2000 elec tro-chemists and electro-metallur gists g b vinal a storage bat tery expert of the american bureau of standards is the other nominee for president prof j w richards former head of the metallurgical engineer ing department was one of the founders of the american electro chemical society lehigh university was the former headquarters for this society and professor richards was the first president and later secretary papers on electro-chemistry and electro-metallurgy are presented at each meeting of the society and are to be published later puritan issue of burr features caricatures latest number contains giegerich's cartoons of faculty members featuring a full page of carl giegerich's cartoons again the puritan issue of the burr appeared this week in his cartoons entitled little masterpieces of rank verse giegerich razzes presi dent charles r richards vice president natt m emery dean charles m mcconn phi sigma kappa prof ernst b schulz and the brown and white this un doubtedly is one of the choicest morsels in the issue another choice bit of humor is rules for fraternity bridge the short stories are plentiful among the best being cold dope and lulu goes puritan the is sue is plentifully sprinkled with drawings making it appear better balanced than previously red cross collects 205 the present total of the campus red cross campaign conducted by the lehigh union is 205 david c braun announced last night mr braun said that although the bus iness depression is unmistakably reflected in this total for the uni versity the local chapter of the red cross is gratified with the results theta xi was the only living group to respond 100 percent there are a few reports yet to come in which it is hoped will materially swell the total ballot date is changed extension of time to all seniors who have not turned in their ballots has ben granted by the senior class book committee the 1 fine for late ballots will not be imposed until wednesday dec 10 instead of nov 23 as previously announced arthur w thornton chairman of the senior class book committee in making this statement urged all seniors to take advantage of this opportunity to save money commercial uses of mo vies described at phy sics meet democracy with its failures and its triumphs with its weaknesses and strong points with its achieve ments of the past and its chances for the future will be described in democracy under fire by ernst b schulz assistant professor of political science at 8 p m mon day in packard laboratory the lecture will be the third of a series on the general topic social problems of the machine age it is the last of the series to be given this semester democracy and the machine age have been linked together recently democracy has been under fire of adverse criticisms are democracy and the machine age to part then that is one of the questions which professor schulz will consider professor schulz came to lehigh in 1927 he is a graduate of the university of michigan where he received three degrees bachelor of science 1920 master of arts 1921 and doctor of philosophy 1927 he has been active in the affairs of the international relations society and is faculty advisor of the pre legal society burr to appear before holidays will not name january issue brown and white as planned recent developments in com munication will be discussed by r d parker development engin eer of the american telephone and telegraph company at a lecture and demonstration before the lehigh university electrical engineering society and the lehigh valley sec tion of a i e e tonight at eight o'clock in packard laboratory audi torium mr parker formerly professor of electrical engineering at university of michigan will describe the com plete operation of teletype carrier system of communication teletype is the system used by newspapers police departments brokers and hotels to transmit and receive messages by use of an auto matic typewriter by its means one operator at the head office may send by means of electrical im pulses messages to any number of points automatic typewriters at the receiving points transform these impulses back on paper any num ber of machines in different parts of the country may be operated by one man operating the master ma chine install lecture apparatus four men employees of the a t & t have been busy since wed nesday morning installing the ne cessary apparatus for the lecture and demonstration it is planned to receive during the lecture press dispatches from the associated press and the united press direct from the main offices in new york and pittsburg two teletype machines have been hooked up on the platform of pack ard auditorium so that mr parker may show exactly how these ma chines operate the ways by which telegraphic facilities may be obtained from tel ephone circuits without interrupting the telephone service will be ex plained in detail by mr parker in these carrier systems several mes sages may be transmitted simultan eously over a single wire this re duces the complexity of telegraph and telephone systems helped develop teletype many contributions have been made by mr parker to the devel opment of teletype and carrier sys tems of communication following the lecture moving pic tures explaining transatlantic radio telephone systems will be shown the meeting is open to anyone in terested in these developments in communication faculty man plans lecture friends and worship will be topic of professor sutherland prof c h sutherland director of the curriculum in civil engineer ing will give a public lecture on friends and worship at 3 p.m sunday dec 7 at the central mo ravian church religion for an age of doubt is the topic chosen by prof j h holmes head of the department of philosophy at swarthmore college for a speech to be given at the same time these two lectures are offered under the auspices of the lehigh valley section of friends and are endorsed by the rev dr f r griffen first unitarian church philadelphia the rev dr herbert benton universalist church phila delphia j b walton secretary of the advanced committee of the so ciety of friends the rev dr j h holmes community church new york city william harvey secre tary of the arch street society of friends philadelphia and miss edith p blackburn who will pre side information concerning these two free lectures may be secured from miss mirian l osier wayne ave nue overlook terrace allentown review elects two men theodore g ehrsam 31 and ralph c benson 32 were elected to the board of editors of the le high review at a meeting of the board held this week the board discussed the editorial policy of the magazine and made tentative plans for the next issue which will be published immediate ly after the christmas vacation a greater attempt will be made to en courage freshmen and sophomores to contribute material successful freshman competitors may be elect ed to the board of editors at the end of their freshman year a committee of faculty members in the engineering college was ap pointed to make up a sophomore engineering comprehensive exam ination at a meeting of the engin eering council wednesday afternoon in the faculty room of the alumni building this action was taken after the vigorous objection of a majority of the council's members to an inves tigation committee's proposal that comprehensive examinations be abolished because of their palpable failure as an indication of the stu dents ability the new form of ex amination to be evolved by the com mittee is to remedy in a measure the less subtle faults of this type of test the committee will present the examination to the council for approval at the next meeting the members of the council are divided upon the issue of the abol ishing of the sophomore compre hensives those of the committee favoring the drastic action were e s sinkinson associate professor of ore dressing and fuel technology allison butts associate professor of metallurgy and tomlinson fort professor of mathematics bradley stoughton head of the metallurgy department and fred v larkin head of the mechanical and indus trial engineering departments are opposed to the abolishing of the tests but believe that the old type of examination is an interesting ex periment but can now be replaced by a new and improved form dramatic club reads berkeley square will hear john ferguson at next meeting the faculty dramatic club read berkeley square by john balder ston a successful new york play of last year wednesday evening at prof robert w hall's home on church street mrs lloyd l smail was in charge of the reading and also took part others participating were capt and mrs john k rice prof edgar h riley george a finch mr and mrs david braun mrs sidney m brown arthur r braun lich mrs philip m palmer and miss elizabeth b hay the next meeting will be held wednesday evening dec 17 the play to be read is john ferguson by st john irvine the next issue of the burr is to be out before the christmas vaca tion the holiday issue as it is to be called will be in the mail dec 20 brown and white had been se lected as the name for the janu ary number but the board has de cided to discontinue the policy be gun this year and will not call the number by that name because it will not contain much local humor instead no special name will be giv en to this issue it was felt that the burr was becoming too localized and that a change in the style would be appropriate at this time to review lehigh game lehigh's victory over princeton will be discussed by parke h da vis in his weekly radio talk over wjz at 7:15 this evening mr davis will present a series of reviews of gr^at plays during the season in his talk tonight he will feature the lehigh-princeton game it is estimated that approximately 3,000,000 people are listening to mr davis's speaches which have been one of the features of the football season court teams start in the first round of the dormi tory basketball league played last night section b defeated section d 42-13 price hall beat section c 22-11 and section e scored 23 points to 18 for section a an unusual art exhibit will open monday dec 8 in the alumni memorial building with a great va riety of works including javanase batiskas unusual woodcuts litho graphs and water colors on dis play because of the manner in which they are done the woodcuts are very striking and unusual the ar tist preston chaplin has used as little white as possible in their makeup the majority of the print being black with just enough white to bring out the artist's subject furthermore chaplin has picked very interesting portions of mex ican life for his woodcuts these cuts have been furnished the ex hibit by the international print as sociation they will be on exhibit for two weeks dr herbert wehft of philadel phia has placed in his water colors scenes fro mhis long and eventful life a certain period of new eng land life is deftly covered by his practiced hand european subjects are his other contribution to the ex hibit to display batikas there is a great variety of javan ese batikas upon varied subjects they are al hand made in this country these works of art are used for wall hangings and table covers but in java the batikas used as material for making the striking garments of the people a complete set of lithographs il lustrating scenes in jerusalem to gether with many interesting stu dies of the jewish race are done by sault raskin a russian jew of new york city the exhibit will run for two weeks but the javanese batikas will be withdrawn at the end of the first week of showing graduates assist c e inspection tour interesting features in trip are added by alumni charles a gosztonyi 10 enter tained the senior civil engineers on their recent inspection trip at a ban quet on board the s s mauretania of the cunard line after the ban quet the party through the cour tesy of f d hannigan passenger agent of the cunard line made an inspection of the trans - atlantic liner thaddeus merriman 97 chief en gineer of the board of water supply of new york city made arrange ments for the civils to incpect the new water tunnels now under con struction 650 feet below the surface college lectures may be presented in the future by means of the talkies 7ohn freehafer eng phys 31 told the physics society monday evening at its regular monthly meeting in the physics building following mr freehafer's talk prof c c bidwell head of the de partment of physics demonstrated the transmission of sound along light waves with the use of the newly perfected photo-electric cell the value of talking movies in teaching has been recognized since their first development but until the recent efforts of the general electric company no attempts had been made to utilize them for pure ly educational purposes according to freehafer the pictures made by the general electric company are of physics lectures describes advantages the advantages of using talkies are numerous through them men of great fame and skill can be brought to small colleges experi ments would never fail experi ments could be made much more elaborate than the finances of the average college will permit micro scopic views could be shown quick ly and without confusion to a large body of students the picture could be slowed down so that compli cated phenomena could be easily ob served lecturers would be saved from tiresome repetition of the same material to different classes practical industrial applications of physics could be shown in the lec ture room despite the advantages cited above mr freehafer indicat ed some important disadvantages the student will not be able to ask questions many scientists lack the faith in experiments because of the ease with which they could be faked one of these physics lecture talkies was shown at the meeting but the sound could not be repro duced due to lack of facilities prof bidwell's demonstration of light transmitted sound was very successful according to many members of the society who testi fied to the fine quality of the re produced music refreshments were served at the close of the meeting by h w moravian college foolights club presents pollack's play ' the fool the eleventh annual fall conven tion of the intercollegiate newspa per association of the middle atlan tic states opened this afternoon at 2 p m with a business meeting in drown hall walton forstall edi tor in chief of the brown and white welcomed 37 delegates rep resenting more than half of the 26 colleges which comprise the asso ciation the meeting was presided over by emmanuel honig editorial manager of the brown and white and president of the association the chief business of the meet ing this afternoon was the discus sion of 19 proposed changes in the constitution upon which votes will be taken tomorrow afternoon these changes were suggested by the executive committee which con sists mostly of lehigh men it had been expected that the newspaper staff of moravian college for men would file application at this con vention for membership in the as sociation but they have not done so yet to inspect b & w room a feature of tomorrow's program will be a display of exchanges in the brown and white room before the morning meeting there will be a third meeting in drown hall to morrow afternoon the convention will close with a formal banquet tomorrow at 6:30 p m at the ho tel bethlehem irving e gennet business man ager of the brown and white is the secretary-treasurer of the asso ciation and curtis d macdougall professor of journalism is its ex ecutive secretary forstall and wil liam e hoyer news manager of the brown and white are lehigh's voting delegates at the convention these men along with dale h gramley instructor in journalism ralph c benson and james b rather jr news editors of the brown and white clifford e har rison sporting editor maurice s bogart makeup editor harry b osborne jr carl f hull circula tion manager and honig will be non-voting delegates who will at tend the banquet osborne not m a oppenheim advertising manager will deliver a paper tomorrow morning on help ing the merchant write his ad vertisement it was stated in the previous issue of the brown and white that oppenheim would give the talk to hear lecture tonight most of the delegates will go to the packard auditorium tonight to hear the lecture recent develop ments in the art of communica tion this talk will have a great deal of bearing on the subject of communicating news to newspapers thirteen lehigh fraternities will entertain the men delegates while the girl delegates will stay at cedar crest college the fraternities at which the men delegates will stay are pi kappa alpha sigma chi theta delta chi chi psi phi del ta theta chi phi phi sigma kap pa delta tau delta sigma nu lambda chi alpha alpha chi rho kappa sigma and phi delta pi the delegates and the college papers which they represent are cedar crest crstiad virginia kin sell editor and olympia cassons business manager the westminist er holcad fred williams editor the susquehannian clifford w johnston editor and wilbur e berger business manager the ju niatian lillian harbaugh editor the muhlenberg weekly harvey l fluck business manager and don old mock the bucknellian miss trennie e eisley editor james b stevenson associate editor and george van tuyl jr business manager the ursinus weekly stanley omwake editor and james h schlegel and e h krall continued on page four where i n a will meet coming events mankind at its best and that best still inadequate was the immortal poet vergil's idea of highest trag edy john erskine professor of english at columbia university and well-known novelist explained to a packed packard auditorium tues day evening dr erskine's speech was part of the bimellenium anni versary of vergil his topic was vergil after two thousand years and his talk was sponsored by eta sigma phi national classical fra ternity throughout his talk mr erskine contrasted ancient roman and greek civilization to the present day civilization of america and in a manner parallel with his style of writing presented his subject in a popular and at times humorous way praises vergil's works vergil's greatness said erskine lies in the fact that he had the ability to represent some profound truth his work is ever alive and lasting it refers to present day problems as handily as it did to the problems of ancient greece this is the test of a truly great writer the certain something that makes a book a classic vergil has endured through the ages because he wrote of the seamy as well as the joyful side of life he recognized tragedy as well as joy even though his idea of trag edy was far different from the pop ular conception of the word today a tragedy is anything in which some person or persons in the story dies that according to dr erskine was not the ancient greek's idea of a tragedy to present his point in the most simple and lucid manner professor erskine explained that the present wide though not per fect knowledge of disease and ill ness the fact that even our best medical men cannot cure all dis eases that even our most noted doc tors are helpless at times best illus trates the ancient greek idea of the tragic vergil's aeneid is considered by doctor erskine as a beautiful and highly interesting poem and he de rided the fact that most americans are only half familiar with the true beauty of the story contained in it the aeneid said mr erskine is a beautiful story and a short one one that may be almost entirely read in one evening it is not an al legory but a story which suggests ideas contrasts two civilizations contrasting the ancient greek and roman civilizations dr er skine expressed himself as consider ing the roman civilization far su perior to the greek although most of the roman culture was borrow ed from the greeks the roman was the forerunner of the present day civilization it was the romans who first submerged the glory of the individual for the good of the state the romans according to professor erskine did not want to carve the world's best statues paint the world's best pictures or write the world's best books it was their ambition to govern and rule the world calling the aeneid the mirror of the world dr erskine went on to tell the story of the aeneid in his own words using the style which typifies his novels he told of aen eas flight from rome and his sub sequent travels of his marriage with dido his infidelity to her and his later marriage with latina daught er of the king of italy which mark ed the founding of rome this part of dr erskine's lecture was punc tuated with humorous commentaries on the characters involved concluding his talk dr erskine pointed out that in truth vergil was a missionary turn back to vergil he said note his patience in his story of aeneas will be found the truth about human beings and readers of the ancient poet will find something of themselves even though he wrote the aeneid two thousand years ago receives much applause at the conclusion of dr erskine's speech thunderous applause testi fied to the popularity of the speaker with his audience it was the opin ion of many present that besides dr erskine's excellent and interesting handling of his subject his diction and mellifluous voice aided greatly in making his talk enjoyable to his listeners before the lecture dr erskine was entertained at the hotel beth lehem at a dinner at which leslie m cohn president of the lehigh chapter of eta sigma phi presided among those present at the dinner i in addition to the members of the continued on page four the fool a four act play by charming pollock was presented by the moravian college footlights club last evening before a well filled liberty high school auditorium the theme of the fool is the emergence of the human being out of the material into or towards the spiritual mr pollock has written his play on a different theme and the result is a story in which every character portrayal must ring true to make the vehicle as a whole convincing it is to the credit of the footlights club that they were able to present pollock's play difficult as it is and keep it from seeming amateurish footlights club was aided in its presentation by a number of beth lehem ladies several of whom have acted in footlights productions be fore p gano in his portrayal of daniel gilchrist the man who tried to emulate christ turned in a good performance as did charles b tonight 8 p m meeting of the lehigh val ley section of the american in stitute of electrical engineers in packard auditorium 7:15 p m meeting of freshman cab inet in drown hall 7:30 p m meeting of the robert w blake society room 303 packard laboratory sunday 3 p m lecture by prof c h sutherland on friends and wor ship at the central moravian church monday 8 p m college lecture by ernst b schultz on democracy under fire adams who played the part of george f goodkind a modern cap italist sherman sawyer who play ed jerry goodkind's son and right hand man made the most of his part and was remarkably con vincing as the spoiled son of the multi-millionaire claire jewett as portrayed by miss josephine waltman the in genue was commented upon by the audience as one of the most realistic and sympathetic performances of the evening miss waltman played a role which easily lent itself to overacting but she was perfectly at ease in her part and showed no tendency whatever to over-drama tize among the minor leads those who drew favorable comment from the audience were miss wilhemina klinger who played the part of mark margaret a little lame girl miss ruth bray who portrayed mrs tice one of the idle rich and miss dena scoblionko who portrayed pearl henning brown and white brown and white laboratory bethlehem pa friday december 5 1930 girl guest writes cough testimonial m & c music club subsidation plan passed by arcadia journalists arrive convention begins vergil is immortal john erskine says price — five cents vol xxxiii no 22 faculty ruling will not change athletic policy a.i.e.e to hear teletype talk by r d parker eulogizes poet activities fee to include $ 1 addition for two organizations groups to get 1500 forrest will speak at i n a banquet noted author takes part in bimellenium anni versary of poet eta sigma phi sponsors vergil's works refer to pres ent day problems sug gests speaker all the lehigh news • first member intercollegiate newspafer association