Brown and White Vol. 38 no. 32

              competition between man and machines will be discussed by leon canmen associate edi tor of the american society of mechanical engineers at the first meeting of the mechanical engineering societ ythis semes ter at 7:30 p m thursday feb 12 in packard laboratory a committee of one member from each class will be elected to make up|a program for next year at the meeting the men elected will be in charge of membership for their respective classes refreshments will be served students are invited review publishes winter edition prof p m palmer director of the college of arts and sci ence will address the robert w blake society upon the new college of arts and sci ence at 7:45 p m v friday feb 13 in room 466 packard lab oratory professor palmer's belief that the new curriculum will bring about a radical improve ment in the training which this college offers to undergraduates will be indicated by his expo sition of its purpose and plans the talk will also concern the duties of the arts college to stu dents enrolled in the engineer ing and business administra tion curricula an open discussion of the subject is to follow professor palmer's address the blake society is named for the first director of the college of arts arm science robert w blake professor of latin 1899-1921 large issue contains many interesting ar ticles and editorials library exhibits adams paintings a 32-0 victory over the university of pennsylvania's wrestling saturday night in taylor gymnasium gave lehigh its third consecutive victory of the season coach billy sheridan's matmen won every event scoring four falls and four time advantages thus completely blanking the red and blue team harold hirshberg and pete peck in the unlimited and 165-lb classes respectively provided the greatest thrills of the evening hirshberg after allowing sokolis to accumulate an eight minute time advantage against him defeated the big red and blue grappler by a fall in the last half minute ofr the bout kenneth mann undefeated 165-poundcr for perm was peck's foe neither had been defeated this season and their bout provided the thrills everyone expected of it peck began his advantage one minute after the opening gong and for the next three minutes the advantage changed from one to the other as they rolled in and out of numerous holds peck got a double wrist lock on mann and almost pin ned him but mann slipped out of the dengerous position and peck had trie advantage until the end of the bout winning with a time of 5:25 both wrestlers are sophomores and are of the fast moving aggressive type works of single artist be ing shown until feb 1 5 dr.a.f westgren to discuss steel noted scientist to speak friday evening in wil liams hall president lincoln's letter is typ ical of him since it is a pardon for a condemned person and is signed characteristically a lincoln an autographed letter of presi dent pierce along with his life his tory is included george washington in a letter dated june 1783 wrote that he de desired a catalogue of books and their prices he was at newburgh at the time and was apparently out of touch with the outside world for he asks for articles of foreign and domestic news as you may re ceive through a good channel and shall think worth transmitting next year the country will celebrate the 200 th anniversary of the birth of washington a special edition of all the letters documents and his torical events pertaining to his life will be published by the govern ment heretofore only partially complete works have been printed l^it this is to be at least twice as large as any of its predecessors doctor leach will have a photogra phic copy of the letter made and sent to washington d c wash ington was one of the most prolific writer of letters and president johnson penned the least amount of letters although many of the letters have been given to the library others have been purchased for prices ranging in amount from 3 to 100 each special pains are taken to preserve the collection from deter ioration by storing it in a cool vault in the absence of light and air the presidential letters recently exhibited in the treasure room of the library have been augmented by the addition several weeks ago of a letter written by ex-president coolidge howard s leach librarian is at present storing all the letters away in one of the huge safes in the base ment of the library where such trea sures are kept when not on exhibi tion they will in all probability not be available for public perusal for some time to come the collection includes a person al letter or document from every united states president except william mckinley and benjamin harrison a copy of president hoo ver's translation of agricola's de re metallica a tome on metallur gy an autographed card was pre sented with this edition president harding's letter deals with the government of porto rico woodrow wilson in yhis com munication commends jxoctor drinker's activities and encourage ment of the citizen military train ing camps this epistle is of grea,t importance because it was written before the entrance of the united states into the world war and shows wilson's attitude to be one of the preparedness theodore roosevelt's letter is about the appointment of doctor drinker to lehigh university it is a short missive addressed to miss cecelia beaux who was a portrait painter interested in the university brown to explain loop training education club discusses exams faculty members hear plans for avoiding difficulties seniors to hear bethlehem steel representative this thursday the current art exhibition at the lehigh library is one of the most popular that has ever been held there according to garth a how land assistant professor of fine arts many of the paintings are particularly appreciated at this time of the year as they depict snow scenes the name of one of the pic tures that is most liked is called snow storm • this exhibition started on feb 1 and will continue every day from 2 to s p m until sunday afternoon feb v it is a one man show all of the 25 paintings having been done by chauncey m adams and were loaned to the university by the littlecote art galleries utica n.y mr adams found the subjects for his work in the country regions sur rounding utica new method used two of the paintings were done by a new technique called mongol pencil and are the first of their kind ever to have been included in an exhibition at lehigh the orig inal drawing is done with colored pencils then a brush moistened with water is passed over the draw ing the completed painting re sembles a water color painting the list of paintings oils — this october laborers rest at twi light winter woods into the val ley thru the gorge mill creek summer sunlight around the bend moonlight frozen brook old fashioned garden quiet hour snowstorm winter bridge pastels — old house house in no vember misty moonlight sum mer day water colors the mill the hill road mongol pencil — the ghost story the culvert small oils — winding road at th edge of the woods senior ballots wanted all senior ballots and payments will be due friday feb 20 it is planned that additional ballots will be handed out at the beginning of some class period monday or tues day to be filled out during that per iod and handed in at the end these ballots will consist of about 25 questions dealing with subjects such jis views on prohibition kinds of cigarettes smoked percentage of college expenses earned opportunities offered to college graduates by the bethlehem steel corporation will be explained in a lecture by grover c brown man ager of training of the bethlehem steel corporation to seniors at 3 p m feb 12 in room 466 packard laboratory mr brown wishes to secure about 60 men from all parts of the country for the loop course which is used to familiarize college grad uates with the various phases of the steel industry professor larkin head of the departments of mechan ical and industrial engineering had charge of this course for several summers illustrated lecture the lecture will be illustrated by lantern slides showing the different colleges from which loopers have been selected for the last nine years the men themselves and will give much statistical data concerning wages offered the increase in wages and the relative success of the grad uates of the different colleges the lecture is open to the entire senior class the steel corporation wish to particularly stress the fact that they want students other than engineers the 60 page winter issue of the lehigh review containing ten ar ticles five stories editorials and re views of books and plays is now on sale this issue is bigger than usual and is characterized by short diversified articles rather than the longer essays used in the past a more lively book is the result of a readable collection of original articles on everything from educa tion to dogs and greek architecture emanuel honig decries phi beta kappa keys in an article entitled this phi beta kappa nonsense 1 ' he states that membership to this honorary society is not a true mea sure of achievement in a past issue k k kost de fended the fair city of bethlehem d c hartmann answers kost in this issue for people who like things by walter winchell gives tips of what to do if you have the time to do it baldwin article reprinted a reprint of what the railway industry expects of the technical schools by l warrington bald win 96 offers advice to the engin eers an anonymous contributor asks why be an engineer which is the title for his autobiography walton forstall jr explains the why and wherefore of many a stu dent's tardiness in lehigh's class bells a verj timely discussion on college spirit and rah-rah-ism by ralph c benson ridicules the old do-or-die spirit other commen taries are by revere beasley fay c bartlett and robert m earl in the fiction department oswald pine's goddess is a story of frig idity in a young minister bert j friedman narrates the experience of a cub reporter in " — and some are great woof woof by kenneth k kost is a character study of a dog theodore ehrsam and wil liam port also contributed articles a modern hell week leads the editorial column which erwin f underwood editor-in-chief writes five book reviews and a review of a presentation of king lear by sidney r snitkin completes the is sue book reviewed by study group society holds charity ball sir james jean's mysterious universe explained at discussion many students and faculty members attend annual affair possible solutions to the problem of avoiding inconveniences in the present system of conducting re examinations we're considered at the meeting of the faculty educational club yesterday afternoon in the alumni memorial building tom linson fort professor of mathemat ics and astronomy and prof per cy hughes head of the department of philosophy psychology and edu cation set forth the difficulties of years cannat be retaken until the sion the system and began discus the greatest difficulty arises from the fact that examinations which students fail to pass at mid following september resulting problems • are whether or not a mark of e should pass as a pre requisite for advanced courses and reaxminations being given in the spring semester • professor hughes suggested that fewer e's be given and that a mark of at least c be required to pass the re-examinations the club voted upon and rejected a motion recommending to the edu cational policy committee the giv ing of spring re-examinations rec commendation was made however that the committee should reconsid er the question of grades necessary as pre?requisites for advanced courses the faculty educational club has no official connection with ac tion taken on such subjects by the faculty but its recommendations have often resulted in faculty action four teams will represent lehigh this year in at least 13 debates on either side of the proposition re solved that the nations should adopt a policy of free trade a freshman team will appear lat er in the season on the affirmative side of the same proposition and an other varsity team will debate ce dar 1 crest on the affirmative side of the proposition resolved that the evils of the machine age out weigh its benefits prof c d macdougall coach announced to day • lehigh will be represented by two teams on each side of the free trade proposition a three-man team and a two-man team the three man team on the affirmative side consists of sydney r snitkin first speaker edward fleischer second speaker and emanuel g scoblion ko third speaker and leader this team will meet muhlenberg feb 24 at allentown rutgers feb 27 in packard auditorium and st joseph's college march 24 before h joint meeting of the rotary club and women's club of quakertown the affirmative two-man team is composed of john w heiney first speaker and emanuel a honig second speaker and leader this team will debate over station wcba allentown feb 25 with an opponent not yet determined the university of florida march 12 be fore the bethlehem odd fellows lodge and union college march 21 here three man negative the three-man negative team con sists of maurice a bernstein first speaker sol d liebowitt second speaker and matthew murphy third speaker and leader this team will debate against muhlenberg feb 24 before the bethlehem knights of pythias lafayette feb 27 at easton and gettysburg march 3 before the local monarch club the two-man negative team con sists of manuel l ruderman first speaker and george parsons sec ond speaker and leader this team will meet susquehanna probably be fore the socialist club of allentown on march 6 massachusetts agri culture college march 25 over sta tion w^ba allentown and west minister march 26 there will be a radio debate with cedar crest march 18 when lehigh will support the affirmative side of the machine age proposition the team will consist of matthew mur phy first speaker edward fleisch er second speaker and emanuel scoblionko third speaker and leader freshmen meet lafayette the first freshman debate will be with the lafayette freshman team april 17 at easton the freshman team consists of john w heiney first speaker and leader irving g schleimer second speaker and harry c martin third speaker muhlenberg will be met in a dual debate the lafayett»-.and rutgers debates are part of a triangular de bate the same night rutgers and lafayette will meet at rutgers all the radio debates this year will begin at 8 o'clock instead of at 10 g m as last year all of the varsity debaters except heiney have had intercollegiate experience this year or last rice discusses noted battles shaw scores two falls captain johnny engel rauch and shanker won by time advan tage decisions while britton seal and shaw pinned their opponents the outcome of the match between britton and morrow in the 118-lb division was doubtful throughout with the advantage changing fre quently finally britton got a half nelson and a body hold pinning morrow's shoulders to the mat to win in 6:47 the wrestlers failed to go to the mat in the first two min utes of the shaw-jameson match referee fred mowrer tossed a coin and jameson elected to take the de fensive a little over a minute later shaw had scored a fall then shaw took the defensive with four min utes remaining before the end of the bout had jameson pinned shaw in less than 1:10 perm would have re ceived five points arid lehigh three points but shaw slipped from un der the red and blue grappler and scored another fall thus adding five points to lehigh's fast mounting score perm captain beaten captain pappano of perm and paul seal had a hard fought fast bout seal finally got a half nelson and almost pinned the perm captain but pappano slipped out within a few seconds though seal won by a fall using a bar and chancery hold the time being 3:26 quite a bit of interest was centered in this match as pappano hails from bethlehem having been graduated from liberty high school in the 155-lb class phil rauch defeated swartz of perm with a time advantage of 6:20 throughout the entire match rauch had the ad vantage neither wreatler showing much activity during the last two minutes » captain johnny engel using his characteristic riding scissors had finkelman under his control thru out the bout the brown and white captain almost had a fall in the first period but the bell rang just in time to save perm's 126-pounder in the second period engel again employed his scissors hold but he was unable to pin his opponent he won by a time advantage of 6:45 in the 175-lb bout between shan ker and boyd the former proved that his knowledge of the sport was far superior to that of the perm representative shanker won with a time advantage 0f 7:35 meets lafayette tomorrow tomorrow the brown and white matmen go to easton to meet la fayette if the speed and power dis continued on page three gives introductory lecture to advanced infantry course students fifteen men are initiated the interfraternity council at its meeting last evening in drown hall did the following 1 set the date for spring house party as may 2 2 heard the report of resolutions made and action taken in the recent national interfraternity council convention 3 heard the plans of prof roy b cowin to aid in fraternity ac counts and finance 4 announced for the next month ly meeting the nomination of jun ior members 5 announced a lecture by wil bur m walden of the national in terfraternity council in drown hall feb 12 may 2 and april 18 were the only dates considered for the houseparty weekend since the rutgers lacrosse game and the . rutgers track meet are to be held at home and the la fayette baseball game will be at easton on may 2 it was chosen in preference to the date in april when only the baseball game with swarthmore will be at home representatives report harry w ruggles and robert c clark were the lehigh men at tending the national convention of the council which met during the thanksgiving holiday in new york their report outlined a means of giving more power to fraternity councils the council should limit its membership to the most out standing members of the upper classes politics should be elimin ated from the actions of the body research should be made into fra ternity finance scholarship com mittees should be appointed for each fraternity a cooperative spirit among fraternities should be de veloped handbooks on the various phases of fraternity management should be published a certified au ditor should be employed for the finances of all the fraternities ac cording to the report it was announced that the follow ing resolutions were drawn up by the national convention resolved : that rushing agreements are ben eficial to both fraternities and fresh men and that the conference con tinue to sponsor the establishment of rushing agreements that the conference consider the matter of hell week dropped in that it is the general opinion that the excessive physical punishments of hell week are dying out and its practices obsolete that an undergraduate's loyalty to his fraternity need never be in conflict with the loyalty due his college it was suggested that the advis ability of cooperative buying for fraternities at lehigh be investi gated professor cowin of the depart ment of business administration of fered the services and advice of the instructors in accounting to any of the local chapters desiring assis tance in the solution of their prob lems and accounts budgets and fi nance he also submitted a system of accounts designed to meet the needs of the college fraternity and volunteered services to aid in instal lation and operation of such a sys tem the lecture to be given by mr walden which the interfraternity council is to sponsor will be on the subject of fraternities and the na tional interfraternity council and will be held at 7:30 p m feb 12 in drown hall the next meeting of the council at which the nominations are to be held will be the evening of march 9 epitome on sale by a printer's error the epitome has been referred to as the annual on the posters which have just ap peared on the campus bulletin boards and in the various living groups during the next few weeks soph omore competitors for the business staff will visit the living groups to take subscriptions for this year's epitome letters advertising the epitome will be sent to all the al umni clubs and it is expected that many copies will be disposed of in this way according to carl claus editor there will be about 150 copies available for the students outside of the senior class pre-legals to meet whether or not the picture of the pre-legal society will appear in the next issue of the epitome will be decided at a business meeting of the society at 7:30 p m wednes day feb 11 in room 208 pack ard laboratory the meeting will be the first at which the newly elected members will he present pledgees are made formal members of three fra ternities crystal structure of ordinary and alloyed steel will be discussed by dr arne fredrik westgren of stockholm sweden internationally famed scientist avid secretary of the noble prize committee for physics and chemistry since 1925 at 8 p.m friday in the lecture room of wil liams hall where the lehigh metal lurgical society will hold an open meeting this year the american institute of mining and metallurgical engin eers has brought dr westgren to this country to present the annual lecture before the institute of met als division at their annual meeting in new york feb 16-21 when such a distinguished foreign scien tist is the guest of the institute in this country it is customary to have him lecture in the various leading metallurgical centers throughout the country in conformity with the custom dr westgren will speak in chicago cleveland columbus pittsburgh new haven washing ton new york and bethlehem professor at stockholm at present dr westgren is pro fessor of general and inorganic chemistry at the university of stockholm he is one of the fore most investigators of the use of x-rays in the crystal structure of metals and alloys and already has published several significant papers on this subject all producers and consumers of metals and metal products are daily confronted with the problems of the physical properties of their-mater ials this talk will provide an op portunity for technical men to be come acquainted with this method of investigation junior women's club to hold annual ball specialty dances will feature fete next friday night the junior women's club will hold its tenth annual ball beginning at 9 p m friday evening at the hotel bethlehem the entertain ment which will consist of bridge supper and dancing will continue from 9 o'clock until 2 as an added feature differing from other years tables will be placed on the ballroom floor spe cialty dances will be given during the dinner which will be served at midnight during the evening there will be spotlight dances the music will be furnished by the new york ers tickets are on sale at the van ity fair hat shop and may be pur chased there at the subscription of five dollars per couple on the committee are helen hel ler president of the club and gen eral chairman anna feldman in charge of reservations mrs george rathbun in charge of tickets coming events the mysterious universe sir james jean's latest contribution to scientific and philosophic thought was reviewed by clement l hen shaw of the physics department be fore a sunday evening discussion group feb 8 in drown hall in the book mr jeans advances some of the never theories on mat ter mass energy radiation and cosmology and points out problems on astronomy and physics which have baffled science up to this time , mr henshaw leading the discus sion referred to dr robert a mil likan's recent address at the conven tion of the american society for me advancement of science point ing out how these two men differed in their views dr millikan believes that our universe is under the guid ance of a watchful creator while sir jeans sees our worlds gradually losing their state of order the discussion was in charge of dr theodore t lafferty and da vid«<braun dr kline to speak john r kline professor of math ematics at the university of penn sylvania will speak to the members of the mathematics department in packer hall following a lunchean tuesday feb 17 in drown hall considered the foremost author ity on tle poinsette theory in the country doctor kline is the third of a series of distinguished mathe maticians to be present at movithly meetings of the faculty of tin de partment local crime prevention bureau favored by supt fred trafford by e r wisner in an effort to lessen the cost of crime police superintendent fred t trafford has declared himself in favor of the immediate establish ment of a crime prevention bureau in bethlehem the cost of crime is one of the greatest burdens on the city government mr trafford said and it has been found that in cities in which bureaus solely for the pre vention of crime have been estab lished the net cost of crime t;o the city has been greatly lessened as an instance of the huge expense of crime mr troffard related that it costs the city of bethlehem 450 per year for every person it commits to a penal or reform institution in certain cases he added this cost runs up to as high as 1,000 mr trafford feels that crime can not be lessened to any apprecia able degree unless home training and home environment are such that the younger element is definite ly inhibited against wrong-doing the sense of right must be trained into an individual when he is still in the formative stage and a poor home environment is often the cause of a criminal life from his own records mr traf ford selected 100 children as proof og this theory they ranged in age from 10 to 18 all but iwo being 12 years old the 1 records showed that they had how the duke of malboro com manded the english armies on the continent and lead them through a remarkable series of victories the greatest of which was the battle of blenheim which military critics consider one of the fifteen decisive battles of the world was discussed by capt j k rice assistant pro fessor in military science and tac tics before a group of students tak ing the advanced courses 7:30 p.m monday in the armory the lecture was intended to serve as an introduction to the course in military history which the advanced students in infantry will be required to take the course starts on feb 24 and consists of a resume of important american bat tles and campaigns each student taking the course will be required to give a monograph of one of the 44 important battles covered in the course besides the battle of blenhiem capt rice briefly outlined the im portant points in the battles of the ramilles and outernard and the campaign in the lowlands these battles have no direct bearing on the course except to point out the important features required in writ ing monographs been apprehended for stealing run ning away from home truancy dis obedience and sex delinquincies investigation showed that only nine of these children came from homes which could be classified as good in every case home training seemed 1 to be lacking many were the child ren of divorced parents in a number of cases the children were merely following in the foot steps of their parents who also had been delinquent in one way or an other and had passed this disresnect for law on to their children it was found that some of the cases had had marked delinquency character istics since the age of six mr trafford is convinced that it is necessary that machinery be set up that will train the parents to be law-abiding and trained in the man agement of the home and children the hardboiled thug of today the gangster who murdered his pal were kids yesterday . . . they ran the streets in reckless freedom and because of their youth we forgave them tomorrow we shall fear thorn when will society learn to protect itself why do we wait un til the die is cast and the criminal is made until we do something about it when shall we learn tat an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure concluded mr trafford fifteen men were initiated by three fraternities during the past week phi delta theta initiated seven members at the chapter house saturday afternoon feb 7 at 5:30 p m those men initiated were ralph r snyder jr eng 34 j w kitht eng 34 george l wolcott eng 34 richard p eggleston c e 34 theodore a straub jr eng 34 fred w rich ter i e 34 and richard c ruhf eng 34 the initiation ceremonies were followed by an initiation ban quet at the hotel bethlehem phi sigma kappa initiated five men at the chapter house friday evening feb 6 the initiation ban quet was held at the chapter house on saturday evening the men ini tiated were edward m gormley m . e 32 frank b morgan e e 34 a tanner bailey eng 34 paul shallow eng 34 and walter l hodapp eng 34 alpha kappa pi initiated three men saturday evening feb 7 at laschober's restaurant riverton pa the men initiated were richard haymon eng.,^'34 adolph lub bers eng 34 ' and john mccon nel met e 34 wednesday 7 p m tau beta pi meeting room 167 packard laboratory 7:30 p m electrical society meet ing room 466 packard tory 7:30 p m pre-legal society meet ing in room 208 packard labor atory 8:15 p m glee club concert and dance in the masonic temple thursday 3 p m grover c brown of beth lehem steel will address seniors in room 466 packard laboratory 7:30 p m medhanical society meet ing in room 466 packard labora tory the annual st luke's charity hall friday evening in the ball room of the hotel bethlehem attracted about 500 people who were enter tained from 9 p m until 2 a m by ted wannamaker's orchestra at 12 o'clock a midnight supper was served many lehigh students and mem bers of the faculty were present among them being dr and mrs n m emery dr and mrs c c bid well dr and mrs neil carothers dr and mrs j s long dr f t fort and dr and mrs h m 111 mann the proceeds of the dance ac cording to mrs h a ullmann chairman of the hospital committee will be used by the ladies aid so ciety of st luke's hospital to buy necessary supplies for the nurses home and different parts of the hospital ne report has yet been given as to how much the net pro ceeds of the ball amounted to dance routines and specialty numbers were given by the dance pupils of marjorie fink fleming and una houston's dancing dolls palm and mind reading was done by miss annie reinhard and miss charlotte applegate a number of guests interspersed dancing with bridge and the fol lowing favors for high scorers clarence h froelich dr george a petrulias mrs william born stein lloyd jones mrs fred t beckel mrs walter schrempel s r caum l m entriken mrs natt m emery mrs anna s dean and mrs f w d goddard vol xxxiii no 32 presidential documents stored in library vault bethlehem pa tuesday february 10 1931 canmen to address mechanical society palmer to discuss new arts college price — five cents lehigh debators to hold 13 meets on tariff issue house parties set for may 2 council decides by william levenson varsity composed of four teams freshmen to debate clubs to sponsor team brown and white professor cowin offers aid in fraternity ac counts and finances national report read lehigh wrestlers defeat penn 32-0 brown and white grapplers win third consecutive victory of season hirshberg seal shaw and britton score falls peck beats mann undefeated penn star all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association