Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 29

              open hearth process will be undertaken by plants sponsored by soviet paul e schwartz assis tant registrar makes slight change final draft completed dr lawrence whitcomb instruc tor in geology has been asked to join the staff of a five weeks trans continental trip for prep school boys dr whitcomb is to take charge of the party at the national parks and mining campus the trip is planned to cover a large part of the united states stopping at various cities to see ba sic industries at several of the na tional parks and a number of min ing camps the party which will contain 20 boys with the staff will travel in a special railroad car equipped with kitchen living quarters and show er baths this car has been used for five years on geological field trips in this country and canada w j young of the westtown school westtown pa and p m fogg of upper darby pa are also on the staff athletic directors and facul ty advisers of southern univer sities and colleges state defin itely that the publication of the carnegie bulletin no 23 has lit tle,'if no effect on football in that section this statement was issued as a result of the question asked by the associatted press what changes if any have been manifested since the pub lication of the carnegie report on subsidizing and recruiting answers came from all over the country giving different opinions on the matter the majority of schools thought that they thought the report had had little if no effect on recruiting others thought that it had reduced it while dan mcgugin director of athletics at vanderbilt expressed the opinion that he could see no evi dences of changes generally the question about whether college football is over-empha sized or not unanimously re ceived a ringing no seven students aid crime board walton forstall m.e 31 and david braun lehigh union secre tary will attend the mid-winter conference of the middle atlantic field council feb 6 7 and 8 at buck hill falls the general topic of the conference is the religion of jesus in a confused world j stitt wilson author of the militant church and property and the christ spirit in the animal world who has spoken at many colleges and worked many years with the labor movement in great britain will speak on personal re sponsibility for social and econo mic reconstruction and the technique of creative personality dr robert e speer secretary of the presbyterian board of foreign missions will speak on the con tribution of jesus to a confused world discussion groups will be led by fay campbell student sec retary at yale and w w menden hall president of friends univer sity wichita kansas students who wish to attend the conference must notify dave braun before sunday jan 25 by special arrangement the expenses of the week-end will be seven dollars lehigh government ma jors help compile wick ersham report duct system but since according to all extant rumors the japanese are conservative in some respects he is dubious that the uncovered top free flow plan will be accepted what a dilemma the consulting engineer's natural love of beauty prevents him from suggesting that the unsightly steel pipes be used but his acquired ability causes him to reject any other means of conveyance the upperclassmen who introduc ed the project to the freshman are thoroughly convinced that in this era of mergers the most economical plan would be to hang the pipes from the chassis of the local elevat ed railway's superstructure this failing they suggested that a sup porting structure be built along the the sidewalks and about ten feet from the ground so that canopies could be stretched to the neighbor ing buildings the canopies would serve the double purpose of a cool ing system and a protection for the sweltering coolies from the hot sun the local representative however deplores the non-originality of these suggestions and has cooly set about to perfect a more efficient method of relieving suffering in japan the imminent problem is to contrive a method by which the inert mass may be propelled over the hills and down to the sea undaunted by many discouragements lehigh's noble pioneer is rapidly reaching a climax in his worthy endeavors to forge one more link in the chain of international peace despite four months in college the freshmen are as gullible as ever if a recent survey may be believed they still play the nickle machines and haunt the promenade on the hill-to-hill bridge in search of their ideal still even in such an atmosphere and with such companions some of the first year men have interested themselves in worthwhile projects engineering or social and are now quite immune to the usual weak nesses preying upon their fellows they plan great spans and the homes to be built with the money realized as the engineers of the mammoth projects they bury them selves in angles and compasses and totally oblivious of calculus and the higher mathematics make almost impossible computations with the x's and y's of college algebra one such freshman is even now working in conjuiction with the great japanese engineer teekee myshadow in an effort to perfect a foolproof overhead sewage sys tem in japan the question is one of vital importance to the unortho dox japanese and realizing this the ambitious freshman has applied himself with amazing diligence of course myshadow hasn't received the lehigh embryo engineer's for mal notification that the japs are to reap the benefits of foreign meaning lehigh brains but then that is after all merely a ceremony the present plan of the foreign brains is to use the roman via concert group hears contralto lehigh library has art exhibit in answer to a recent editor ial appearing in this publication commenting on the adoption of senior blazers arcadia issued the following stratement to the brown and white arcadia appreciates and thanks the brown and white for the interest it has shown concerning arcadia's recent adoption of the blazer as a sen ior privilege and custom how ever arcadia thinks that in all fairness to the arousing of interest in the new blazer the test of its popularity should be made by a vote in class meeting and not by a straw ballot inasmuch as nearly everyone who has seen the blazer is hear tily in favor of it it seems un fair that it should be condemn ed by men who know nothing about it and who would vote against it for no other reason except that it is an innovation therefore we sugest that every member of this year's senior and junior classes talk with his arcadia representative and learn the facts about the blazer itself so that when class meetings are called to find out approximately how many will be ordered the voting can be carried on intelligently furth ermore it would be well worth anyone's time who may be still unconvinced to drop in at the time the fittings are made and examine the sample which will be displayed - tailor made silk lined with a lehigh seal on the breast pocket the blazer will be well worth its price as well as be ing a convenient and distinctive coat for the seniors of lehigh to wear library receives gift of books paintings of british so ciety to remain until jan 23 kathryn meisle sings in several different languages herbert welsh philadel phia artist presents 1 5 volumes twelve 250-ton 1 open hearth fur naces for the making of steel de signed by stanley b adams met e 29 will be installed in one of the steel manufacturing plants lo cated in russia within the next year each steel plant will cost be tween 100,000,000 and 250,000,000 including furnaces and the value of all three will approach the 750,000 000 mark the entire enterprise is undet the supervision of the soviet govern ment as is all construction work in russia it is part of the five-year plan which is designed to make russia the leading industrial coun try in the world other blast furnaces with a ca pacity of 1,200 torrs each every 24 hours will form an intergral part of each plant these blast furnaces are larger than any operated by the bethlehem steel company they are over 100 feet high and have a diameter of 22 feet one of the purposes of the plants which will be equipped with processes for the making of steel is to furnish the steel for the ford motor car fac tories of russia the furnaces de signed by mr adams will be con structed on the dneiper river near odessa to leave for russia mr adams may leave for russia soon in order to supervise the con struction and installation of these furnaces mr adams left prep school in 1917 to enter the united states army aviation department and ser ed in the department during the war he entered lehigh university in 1926 and ths following year was responsible for the founding of the chemical foundation mr adams entered the university a married man and the father of two children and completed the four year course in three years after graduation he was employed by the bethlehem steel company and later became su perintendent of the harrisburg pipe and pipe bending company at har risburg pa he recently left there to go to pittsburg pa where he designed the 12,250-ton open hearth furnaces for the dniprostal metal lurgical works in russia b and w seeks new news men all students interested in jour nalism and work on the brown and white as an outside activity are re quested to sign up for eng 49 and brown and white during registra tion experience gained in writing on collegiate newspapers has proven to be a real aid both in college and in later life c d macdougall as sistant professor of journalism at lehigh recently explained men completing the course eng 49 will receive one hour's credit which may be ftsed as an elective subject for those interested in advertis ing and the business side of a news parer there will be a section of eng 49 devoted to advertising sales and circulation if further information is wanted see prof c d macdougall or d h gramley of the english depart ment or a member of the brown and white board council to give prizes the interfraternity council will give four cups and medals to the winners of the touch football lea gue it was decided at a meeting held monday night at drown hall in the event of a tie the team to get the cup will be decided by a toss of a coin between captain of the two teams engineers to meet prof h sutherland head of the civil engineering department and prof e h uhler will represent lehigh at the seventhy-eighth an nual meeting of the american so ciety of civil engineers to be held in new york jan 21-23 macdougall returns prof curtis d macdougall re turned tuesday from chicago where he was called by the death of his mother mrs mac macdougall who died jan 4 following a ma jor operation the burial took place jan 7 at fond dv lac wis former hnme of the maedoiie'ails seven lehigh students are work ing under the supervision of prof ernest b schultz of the depart ment of history and government in a cooperative effort with the wick ersham commission on law obser vance and enforcement these students are working on a subcommittee of which paul j mccormick is chairman to compile data relative to the cost of admin istration of criminal justice in am erican cities this data is being as sembled in over 300 cities in the united states and lehigh men have assumed the task of investigating the facts in bethlehem and allen town the reports of these investigators will contain besides actual statis tics of the cost of crime data on factors in the particular community which they have investigated which may have some bearing on the sit uation one very important factor is that of the volume and kind of crime in the community as this has an obvious relationship to the cost of administration of criminal jus tice data as to these factors will of course be secured for the same period as the data which are se cured as to costs this phase of the work is especially applicable to the region around bethlehem and al lentown because of their large for eign-born populations and factories in an attempt to compile accur rate statistics regarding the cost of law enforcement the wickersham investigating committee is making this search with the aid of munici pal bureaus of research and of grad uate students of the social sciences in the individual cities covered all of the lehigh men engaged in the work are taking courses in the de partment of history and govern ment of which dr lawrence gip son is the head luch awards prize professor myron d luch of the english department awarded a prize of 5 in gold offered by the bethlehem chapter of the d a r the prize was presented to the pu pil in the seventh grade at liberty high school who wrote the best es say on pioneer home life in the united states of america paintings by members of the royal society of british artists will remain on exhibition at the lehigh art gallery in the university library until jan 23 when they will be re moved to the corcoran gallery in washington the lehigh gallery is open every day from 2 until s p.m a few days ago a visiting artist selected the five paintings he con sidered most meritorious first place was assigned to ernest hasle hurst's the water gate at bru ges because of the complete re alization of the subject — the appar ent depth and wetness of the wa ter the green moss at the water's edge and the texture of the bricks above second place was given to john nicolson's the gloaming for the harmony of color and the perfection of the simple composi tion hilda hechle's matterhorn from valtournanche was placed third for the treatment of the drifted and frozen snow and the general atmos pheric effect john littlejonh's morning-hampshire and h s hoyland's church of saint saulve were given fourth and fifth places respectively the former was sin gled out for its fine composition and the latter for its superb water color technique a dodson addresses university women interesting sidelights on london described by graduate adams dodson graduate student at lehigh spoke before a large audi ence last tuesday at the woman's club with tales of london and old england that he had learned thru extensive travelling in that country in a lecture entitled london he pointed out that the people of the stone age had lived on the thames river bank on the same spot that the present city is located 1200 b c mr dodson considers london bridge a symbol of the continuity of london from very ancient times even before the romans there was a bridge at the point where today the well-known bridge stands curtis gives address george b curtis registrar and associate dean gave a talk tuesday before the lion's club at hotel bethlehem mr curtis was introduced by charles bidwell head of the phy sics department in his talk mr curtis told how the business of the university had been systema tized to keep pace with the mod ern business trend he also told how the university for economic reasons has arranged for the stu dents to fill out the many records necessary thus saving the univer sity the expense of constantly em ploying a large clerical force which would otherwise be needed for this purpose student is pledged phi delta pi fraternity announces the pledging of robert e decker 33 of douglaston l i lehigh men plan to address a.i.e.e former students and pro fessors will give talks jan 26 - 30 three lehigh men two of them former students and one a professor will speak at the winter convention of the a i e e to be held jan 26-30 at the engineering societies building new york city these men are h g wiest jr 29 of the general electric company j h blankenbuehler 23 electric design engineering for the westing house electric and manufacturing company and prof f creedy of lehigh university mr wiest after leaving lehigh went to a special training school at the general electric company at schenectady n y his topic will be some experiments with arcs between metal electrodes mr blankenbuehler will speak on an improved arc welding generator for the last three years he has been working on arc-welding gene rators voltage generators and ma rine motors creedy to speak professor creedy is research as sociate professor of electrical en gineering he has recently invented a new type of welding generator which supplies a steadier current by the suppression of harmonies he will lecture on this improved arc-welding generator professors s s seyfert n s hibshman and a r miller of the electrical engineering department plan to attend the convention technical sessions will be held on telegraphy research industrial power electric welding electric machinery protective devices and power transmission inspection trips are planned to the hudson riv er-bridge now under construction the roseland switching station of the public service electric and gas company the fokker airplane i factory the ford motor plant and the delaware lackawanna and western railroad electrification maccalla 30 to wed william a maccalla 30 will marry miss elja b erwin 643 n new street saturday jan 24 two practice discussions held with cedar crest debaters talk on free trade two practice non-decision de bates on the subject resolved that all nations adopt a policy of free trade were held between le high and cedar crest college deba ters tuesday and thursday eve nings of this week tuesday evening at cedar crest representatives sydney snitkin first speaker edward fleischer second speaker and emanuel scob lionko third speayer and leader de fended the affirmative side of the resolution miss marcia krevsky miss blanche frey and miss ma rion hoats represented cedar crest on the negative emanuel honig replaced edward fleischer in the rebuttal the second debate was held last evening in packard auditorium the lehigh team consisting of maurice bernstein first speaker sol leib owitt second speaker and mat thew murphy third speaker and leader spoke on the negative side of the free trade topic cedar crest's representatives miss julia bondy miss lucy van syckle miss marion fritch and miss mabel dowling argued the affirmative george parsons replaced matthew murphy in the rebuttal the arguments on both sides were unorganized declared prof curtis d macdougall varsity de bating team coach in commenting on the debates he added that the lehigh teams had not progressed very far in organizing and prepar ing their speeches however val uable information has been obtain ed from seeing the manner in which the cedar crest debaters approach ed the topic he concluded these practice debates were pre liminary to a decision debate be tween the two schools on the top ic resolved that the evils of the machine age outweikh its benefits to be held feb 25 over wcba the library has recently received several gifts of books according to h s leach librarian one donation consists of fifteen volumes dealing with history litera ture and art this gift is given by herbert welsh an artist of phila delphia who became interested in the university when he recently ex hibited a collection of water-colors in the art gallery of the library another gift is a valuable publi cation of two volumes donated by harvey s firestone of the fire stone tire and rubber company the volumes the african repub lic ol liberia and the belgian congo have been compiled by the harvard department of tropical medicine and have been dedicated to mr firestone in honor of his in terest in their work the first vol ume is a study of the diseases of the africatv region while the sec ond is a study of the flora and fau na of the country a third gift is a book of chemistry lecture notes given by professor chandler for whom the chemistry laboratory is named and kept by john h spengler of the class of 1886 this book was found and pre sented to the library by morris schanoes of chicago still another donation is the most recent copy of the volume work of the stock exchange sent to the university by richard whitney president of the new york stock exchange mental ills make lives of students extremely unhappy angell says miss kathryn meisle operatic contralto entertained a large audi ence in the auditorium of the lib erty high school last tuesday eve ning as the feature artist of the second of three concerts listed for this season under the sponsorship of the bethlehem community con cert association the interest of the audience in creased as the concert progressed and after the close of the third group the artist sang as an encore the aria une voce poco fa from rossini's opera the barber of seville miss meisle also sang num bers in german her native tongue as well as english french and italian at the close of the concert she answered the applause of the audi ence with several more encores one of them being the earl koenig of schubert the complete program was as fol lows i — the spirit's song franz joseph hayden there's not a swain on the plain henry purcell aria che faro senza euridice christoforo gluck from the opera orfeo c euridice ii — provenza lisches lied schumann ich trage meine minne schlechtes wetter sic wissins nich strauss ungeduld schubert ill — aria armour viens aider saint-sacns from samson and delilah iv none but the lonely heart tschaikowsky snowflakes gretchaninoff revery arensky floods of spring rach maninoff v — the cry of rachel mary turner salter my lady sleeps solon alberti five eyes armstrong gibbs in the luxem bourg gardens kathleen manning love went a-riding frank bridge the final concert of the series of three scheduled for this season will be on tuesday feb 10 when the new york string quartet and miss muriel kerr pianist will ap pear faculty club hears 14 professors speak resumes of holiday meetings given to group fourteen professors gave 5-min ute resumes of the meetings that they had attended during the christmas holidays before the fa culty educational club last mon day they briefly discussed the pa pers opinions and men they had heard some of the important meet ings attended were american so ciety of mechanical engineers personell research and federation american philosophical associa tion and american history asso ciation professors bayley brown pal mer doan drown hughes schulz stuart becker larkin stoughton whitcomb and instructors ewing and harvey were those who spoke closed to use gradually he col lected his thought and remembered what happened to him the night be fore springing out of bed he look ed around why it was his own hotel room had he had a night mare no on looking into a mir ror he discovered that he had a beautiful shiner and that lump on his head couldn't be any dream he looked for his wallet it was gone and with it the 70 that it con tained his watch was also gone baird called up the police who came over immediately to these minions of the law he told his story . taking up the tiail they went down to the desk clerk of the ho tel and wanted to find out if he had seen anyone bring in the un conscious body of the lehigh man he said that he had not the po lice found out further that the key to baird's room was gone and that a taxi bill for 1.65 had been charg ed against the room beyond that they could not manage to ftenetrate into his mystery had the gangsters taken baird home or had some kindly passerby seen bob in the gutter and taken him to the hotel prefering to re main unknown and only have the cab fare paid as his reward robert baird held up by three in new york city loses watch who said that whalen had cleaned up new york robert baird 31 wants to know for it seems that he was knocked down and robbed while in the city of the great white way baird was in new york thurs day dec 8 and when walking down 45th street to his hotel after having been to the theatre noticed a tough looking person behind him however bob thought nothing of it thinking the uncouth person to be one of the great army of unem ployed or an apple seller no doubt don't make any noise and you will be all right said a rough voice in baird's ear however he paid no attention and kept on walking the next moment a gun was pushed in his back he still tried to ignore this danger think ing that a holdup could not be pos sible on such an open street with people all around he still walked on the man with the gun became angry and hit bob in the eye with his fist at that same instant two other men sprang up one of them with a blackjack or a sandbag the next thing baird knew was that it was morning the sun was streaming in a window his head throbbed and one eye seemed too the dates for the examinations in five courses have been rearrang ed in the final draft of the current examination schedule which was drawn up early this week by paul e schwartz assistant registrar spanish 21 spanish novels and plays has been advanced from 2 p m saturday jan 24 to 2 p m monday jan 19 the examination of section b mathematics 41 mathematics and finance will be held at 2 p m tuesday jan 22 the examination in mathematics 16 solid geometry and spherical trigonometry is to be at 8 a m thursday jan 22 this examina tion was originally scheduled for 8 a m monday jan 26 the students in met 83 metal lurgical problems will have their examination at 2 p m friday jan 23 instead of at 2 p m thurs day jan 22 geology 109 paleon tology is now scheduled for 8 a m jan 24 the locations of several examin ations have also been changed with the final corrections made the sche dule is now complete the com pleted schedule is figures in parentheses indisate the number of sections in those courses for which there are more than one section indicates a course of two sections or more for which only one examination is scheduled indicates a two-sec tion course for each section of which an examination is scheduled monday 8 a m jan 19 3 bus 29 — money and banking it packard aud 2 chem 195 physical chem lab 4 e e 51 — elementary dynamo lab 416 packard aud e k s—lntermediate5 — intermediate dynamo lab s f.ngl o—composition.0 — composition packard aud o eng 2 — composition chem lecture 2 engl 3a — composition and lit packard aud 4 engl 4 — drama 466 packard lab ger 115 — the german short story m e 114 — engineering laboratory met 62 — iron and steel met problems 30 wni hall monday 2 p m jan 19 bus 49 — economic geography 109 christmas saucon hall bus 113 — advanced accounting 109 christmas and saucon hall 2 chem 180 — chemical engineering lab c e 11 — railroads c e 128 — sanitary engineering e e 11 — advanced dynamo lab engl 31 — milton and the 17th century geol 7 — economic geology 2 geol 16 — physiography sec i packard aud 5 ger i—elementary1 — elementary german packard aud 2 ger 3—lntermediate3 — intermediate german sec b packard aud ital i—elementary1 — elementary italian m e 113 mechanical engineering met s—electrochemistry5 — electrochemistry 301 and 31 williams hall met 139 — seminar 301 and 31 williams hall mm i—mining1 — mining engineering 2 span 11 — inter spanish sec b span 21 — spanish novels and plays packard aud tuesday 8 a m jan 20 2 bus 3 — economics lect i bus 123 — investments chem 98 — physical chemistry chem 163 — chemistry of dyes and drugs ed 7 — prin of high school teaching e e 114 — electric stations engl 123 — shakespeare geol i—minerology1 — minerology geol la — minerology hcol 115 — geological methods hist 25 — european history lat 33 — caesar lat 105 — satire m e 2 — elementary heat engines 2 met 21 — engineering met sec a 311 wm hall 2 phil 3—lntroductiofmo3 — introductiofmo philosophy 2 phys i—elementary1 — elementary physics 416 and 4d6 packard phys lab 2 phys 122 physical optics tuesday 2 p m jan 20 astr 2 — general astronomy biol 4 — embryology 2 bus 3 — ecenomics lect ii packard aud 2 bus 39 industrial man sec a 466 packard aud bus 107 — advanced economics packard lab packard aud chem 41 — quantitative analysis conf chem 44 — quantitative analysis conf chem 48 — quantitative analysis conf chem 78 — chemical engineering e e 4 — elementary alternating currents e e 113 — electrical design engl 43 — newspaper reporting engl 52 — sports writing f a 3 — history f architecture 1 coppee hall 2 fr 21 17 th & 18th cent lit sec a ger 9 — advanced german 2 govt 51 american govt sec a hist 9 — history of england lat lb — vergil lat 13 — latin drama 2 met 21 engineering met sec b 311 wilrranis hall continued on page four metftal ills and maladjustment of personalities make the lives of an immensely high percentage of col lege men and women a long way this side of paradise according to prof r c angell of the sociology department of michigan university professor angell has recently con ducted a rather comprehensive sur vey on a representative group of 215 students attempting to find the re lations between social and academic success character and orientation in respect to life objectives the subjects michigan univer sity men and women were given in telligence social intelligence infor mation and fairmindedness tests each wrote a personal history and spent at least an hour being inter viewed by a psychiatrist case worker as many as twelve percent of the men and six percent of the women were discovered to be so seriously out of adjustment with their envir ment that said professor angell a successful reintergration of their personalities was extremely unlike ly without the assistance of a men tal hygienist it was found however that so cial adjustment of those examined did not fit the academic adjustment some apparently realizing their failure socially and personally con centrated pretty viciously on the books the survey then gives some support to the gibe of the mediocre students that phi beta kappas are only grinds the factors affecting the tem peramental disorganizations are in tensely complex and divergent pe cuniary difficulties religion menial work engaged in of necessity fam ily matters sex difficulties acade mic troubles snobbery are among the greater influences toward per sonal disintegration previous to conducting the sur vey 36 possible types were deter mined into which the subjects could fall only 29 of the types were represented by members of the group those lacking were the well oriented toward the future who were doing poorly in academic work moral and religious beliefs of both men and women were found to be quite liberal the women coming from a more homogeneous social class generally had more convential view-pointsv and their numbers exhibited markedly less maladjustment in part this is re sultant from the fact that~they less often come to college under diffi culties than do men virtually none of the fraternity or sorority members were in poor personality adjustment selection of such students based largely on standards of social abilities is something of#a factor but the sta tistics undoubtedly lead one to think that fraternities and sororities must themselves contribute to their i members social adjustment brown and white vol xxxiii no 29 arcadia plans vote on new blazer policy faculty man plans trip university men to attend meet gullible freshman plans sewage system bethlehem pa friday january 16 1931 carnegie report of slight effect price — five cents adams designs steel furnaces for russia's use dr l whitcomb asked to join five week trans continental tour exam schedule is rearranged in five courses lehigh will be represented at religious conference feb 6-8 next b & w feb 3 with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til after the mid-year examina tions the next issue will ap pear tuesday feb 3 correction the changes in metallurgical and civil engineering courses which were announced by brown and white in the last issue to be come effective next term do not go into effect until next septem ber member intercollegiate newspafer association all the lehigh news first