Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 23

              company proposes to save houses on cost of staples speaker puzzles reporter as to identity of subject library aids radio talks lectures every saturday on economics and psy chology over weaf arcadia proposes to vote on the three alternative plans that have been presented by the board of control of athletics for the making up of the defi cit in the athletic treasury at its january meeting according to w h sachs president the meeting will be held monday night at 7:30 in drown hall the three plans are 1 abolition of three varsity sports preferably soccer la crosse and basketball 2 abo lition of all freshman sports or 3 an addition of 5 to the university fee action on these proposals must be completed by feb ruary the plan that is decided upon by arcadia will be pre sented to j g petrikin grad uate manager of athletics as a mirror reflecting student opin ion the lehigh university glee club will give its first concert under the subsidation plan 8 p m wednesday evening jan 20 in drown hall the club is subsidized on the same plan as mustard and cheese the contract providing that at least one concert be given each semester of the school year the program to be announced later will consist of five numbers by the club and several songs by a quartet the musical club's orchestra under the direction of jules booker will play for dancing after the concert tickets are free to students and may be procured at the lehigh union office in drown hall new cantatas will be sung lehigh shows 1930-31 deficit bach choir plans to offer six choruses at annual spring festival it it was decided to take the bomb to city hall so that some real con centrating could be done and ac cordingly sergeant james boylan was dispatched to that point with the package still immersed in a bucket of water a short conference followed and detective chester a stem decided that in all probability the bomb was a dud he proved his point by attacking it with a large grappling hook and found that instead of ni tro-glycerine the much feared bomb was composed of one and a half alarm clocks two tubes of tooth paste and a pencil at first because of the presence of the toothpaste it was believed accord ingto one bystander that the pack age had been sent by amos and andy this theory was soon dis carded when it was learned from lafayette college authorities that this week is lafayette hell week when fraternity pledges are sent out to prove their mettle because this latest bomb scare which occurred at one o'clock in the morning caused consternation to reign throughout the otherwise peaceful city of easton lafayette college authorities are conducting a thorough investigation in an at tempt to apprehend the culprits easton was thrown into a turmoil for the second time within a week when it is alleged lafayette fra ternity men with a perverted sense of humor left a fake bomb on the doorstep of prof herbert a lor enz of the lafayette faculty when professor lorenz found the package ticking merrily away on his doorstep he immediately communicated with the easton po lice the police with the anti-fa cist demonstrations of last week fresh in their minds swarmed en masse to the home of the thorough ly frightened professor armed with grappling hooks buckets of water long range shotguns and other par aphenalia proper for the painless dispatch of bombs when the officers arrived at mr lorenz home at 100 cattell street they found the bomb on the porch and making a noise remarkably like a cheap alarm clock this accord ing to explosive experts is a very bomblike sound and strikes terror into the hearts of even the hardiest of bomb squads accordingly the package addressed to salvatore cavuti 310 w lost street new york city was gingerly lifted and carefully placed in a bucket of wa ter while members of the squad argued the best way of exploding brown talks to historians company c wins trophy takes closely contested rifle match to cop le gion shooting prize orthodoxy of berthold of regensburg subject of professor's talk net loss 7,893 tuition receipts were 566 320 emery reports the annual report of the treasur er and comptroller for the fiscal year 1930-1931 shows that the uni versity operated at a net loss of 7,893.76 for that period receipts from tuition were 566,320.46 while the expenditures for instruction were 569,098.38 ac cording to n m emery university comptroller administration expens es the library maintenance of buildings and grounds and other non-instructional expenses are cov ered by income from endowments and gifts he explained during the past year 102,720.59 was spent for improvements and renovations not included in the current maintenance dr emery stated the net receipts of the uni versity for the twelve months end ing aug 31 1931 were 1,309,779.40 expenditures for the same period were 1,317,673.16 he affirmed the unrestricted endowments of the university are 4,840,282.31 the restricted endowments 486,497.64 making a total of 5,326,779.95 the excess of assets of the university over liabilities is 11,366,903.04 the lehigh library recently has received the program of the com ing 20 lectures on psychology and economics sponsored by the na tional advisory council on radio in education and broadcast by the national broadcasting company every saturday at 8:30 p m over station weaf the library is co operating with the council by pro viding books on the topics discuss ed by the speakers the 20 lectures on psychology will be divided into units of five ad dresses each and will cover the following topics our changing personalities animal behavior psychology of education psychol ogy and industry the economics lecturers will dis cuss the general subject aspects of the depression but they will deal especially with the topics roads to economic recovery each weekly program is divided into two 15-minute periods so that an address in both series may be presented during each broadcasting period the first speeches will be made jan 9 james h rogers professor of economics at yale will talk on international trade balances gold and prosperity transient changes in personality will be the topic of fred a moss professor of psychology at george washington university the program for the series is posted on the bulletin board in the library it is expected that about 100 copies of the complete program will be available for distribution to readers interested according to levering tyson director of the movement fire chief and members dispute origin of blaze a blaze of unknown origin start ing in a clothes closet of the delta upsilon house tuesday evening at 8 o'clock destroyed a section of their east living room and resulted in the destruction of 3,000 worth of property according to a recent estimate the members of the fraternity assembled at a meeting on the sec ond floor heard the crackling of the fire below and found flames mount ing the walls of the living room a call was sent to the liberty fire house and efforts were made to check the blaze the liberty fire department first reached the blaze but found the flames well under control due to the work of the fraternity men hose lines were connected and the fire was quickly extinguished aid was also rendered by the south side fire department which had respond ed to a later call drums badly burned the charred living room showed the most serious effects of the fire as the walls were badly damaged and most of the furniture was scorched beyond repair the closet in which the blaze began originally held several overcoats and a set of drums but all of these articles were burned beyond recognition in addition to the losses due to the fire water also took its toll of the fraternity property and left most of the rooms on the first floor bad ly marked a dining room on the floor below was also reported to be badly water soaked the entire loss was covered by insurance fire chief a e anderson who investigated the fire believed that flames originated in a basket lo cated in one corner of the closet which had been used as a recep ticle for cigarette ashes fraternity men on the other hand insisted that ashes had not been placed in the basket for at least a half hour and looked for another explana tion for the blaze a large crowd which gathered to view the fire congested traffic for many blocks and the grounds sur rounding the fraternity house were crowded by interested spectators new york alumni to award prizes the annual inter-company rifle match of the m s & t department for possession of the american le gion shooting trophy was conclud ed just before the christmas holi days after a closely contested event company c was the win ner with a total of 1,967 points this is the second consecutive year that they have won the cup they were followed in order by companies f a e b and g r.w burk 33 is the company command er members of the team are c a heiberger j e hirtle f j hol lister w a johnson w k laird and w b learned the selection of the team to fire the first weekly postal matches in january has been based on the in ter-company shoot the team con sists of j j bosak h e britton d d evans j m hazen f j hollistfr w a johnson t b jordan and b f witmer alter nates are h n beiter j cowen hoven r l davis c a heiberg er a k long c b potter and p silimperi petty will address e.e society tonight who is the seventeenth-century radical who is the subject of your lecture asked a reporter seeking information from edgar h riley associate professor of english who will lecture on a seventeenth cen tury radical at 8 p m monday in packard auditorium the lecture will be the third of present series of college lectures by faculty mem bers the seventeenth-century radical is a man who favored divorce re plied dr riley did that make him a radical asked the reporter it helped to divorce wasn't as common in england then as it is now and a divorced person was looked upon askance then other things which this man did helped to make him a radical for instance said professor riley this man be lieved that the people had the right to depose a king put him to death and to establish a republic that is radical isn't it it probably was then as a newspaper man you should be interested in knowing that this man was one of the first and strongest advocates of the free dom of the press he even wrote a pamphlet on that subject sounds interesting but who was the man john milton he wrote paradise lost didn't he asked the reporter with an air of showing the professor that he at least knew something about the fa mous poet yes answered dr riley as the reporter feeling that his abysmal ignorance of english literature might be disclosed prepared to go but i expect to discuss his prose instead of his poetry milton wrote many pamphlets on various sub jects and it was his liberal opinions on religion marriage censorship and politics that led many of his fellowmen to consider him as a libertine who would be tied by no obligation to god or man banquet will be given for song contest winners mcconn speaks scabbard and blade pledges 16 new men new alumnibulletin appears this week cooperative buying among le high fraternities was discussed at the meeting of the interfraternity council held monday in drown hall a report concerning coopera tive buying by fraternities in other schools was given by c f hull lehigh's representative at the na tional interfraternity conference held during the thanksgiving holi days the h f behrhorst and son inc of pittsburgh is the company who proposed for this cooperative buying plan it is not absolutely ne cessary to have this particular com pany supply the houses the company proposed to save between 7 and 12 per cent on the cost of staples if the plan is start ed in february the company will send a representative to each house about twice a month the steward will order from him and the goods will be shipped directly to the house it is believed that one month's credit will be extended to the houses save caterer's wages the cooperative plan will be in stituted with the idea of saving by purchasing all staples from the same concern there is a great dif ference between cooperative buying and having the caterer do the buy ing for the houses the high wages of the caterer make expenses very high oregon state college is the only college in which the caterer system has been found economical cooper ative buying is used in practically every college and university with good results a representative from h.f behr horst and son inc will be here to interview the stewards interested in the plan about the 14th of this month lack of cooperation among the stewards will destroy the suc cess of this plan will discuss action the individual fraternities will discuss cooperative buying and fur ther action will probably be taken at an informal meeting of those houses interested in the project within the next two weeks accord ing to r c clark president of the interfraternity council he also stated that if the plan were agree able it would be tried next semes ter the plan will go into effect if 15 houses agree to join revision of the present rushing i*ules was discussed by p b my ers chairman of the rushing rules committee this report was fol lowed by a general discussion the next meeting of the council will be held at 7:30 p m monday feb 8 in drown hall prof sydney brown of the de partment of history read a paper on the orthodoxy of berthold of regensburg before the medieval culture section of the american historical association at minnea polis mm on dec 28 this was the forty-sixth meeting of the association whose purpose is to discuss important facts in the history of the world professors from all the larger universities in the country gave speeches on var ious topics which were of interest to the association berthold born in regeusburg about 1210 was one of the strong est opposers of heresy of his time his life work was devoted largely to preaching against here sy during which he acquainted himself with heretical literature by extensive reading the arch-enemy of heresy must have realized how hazy is the fron tier between the city of god and the city of eternal darkness said prof brown in his closing para graph during the speech prof brown gave a summary of the rise and fall of heresy he described in much detail the widespreadedness of here sy and of its sudden fall in 1263 the cause for its downfall could not be defined it may have been sickness or it may have been the diversion into the field of crusade preaching n.y history society sponsors contest the complete program of the bach festival for 1932 will com prise seven cantatas all except one is new to bethlehem the heav ens laugh the earth itself re joices sung in the old moravian church in 1903 and 1905 six of the works are for chorus and solo parts with the orchestra one cantata in several movements is for a con tralto solo with elaborate instru mental obligato parts on friday afternoon may 13 the following four cantatas will be sung o god how grievous is the woe based on a chorale mel ody which occurs in three different settings in the opening chorus the bass has the chief melody which later passes over to the soprano the christmas cantata follows in which is heard in four varied ar rangements the chorale melody the new-born child the third number is the cantata on the text of the magnificat my soul doth magnify the lord the familiar melody is sung first by the sopranos then by the altos in the duet for alto and tenor the melody is played by the oboes and trum pet the cantata for palm sunday king of heaven come in tri umph closes the afternoon pro gramme evening cantatas listed the evening cantatas are great david's lord and greater son for chorus and solo parts then fol lows a solo cantata for contralto soul and body bend before him a brilliant symphony with cembalo obligato preluding each of the two parts the orchestration is for oboes english horn and strings the final number on the friday programme is the cantata the heavens laugh the earth itself rejoices with brass reeds and strings on saturday may 14 the bach choir will sing the mass in b minor for the twenty-fifth time complete in bethlehem industrials postpone meet the meeting of the industrial engineering society scheduled for jan 7 has been indefinitely post poned j l williamson i e 32 announced wednesday night buildings repaired on scheduled time subject to be industrial appli cations of electricity d m petty 09 will address the electrical engineering society on industrial application of electri city at 8 o'clock this evening in room 416 packard laboratory mr petty was formerly superin tendent of the electrical department of the bethlehem steel company although he has had a special con tact with the electrical side of the steel industry mr petty has also had an unusual opportunity to ob serve the uses of electricity in many other divisions of the industrial world and he will draw upon these experiences in addressing the meet ing carl w banks 32 will deliver a paper entitled experiences on the r-17 test after the meeting there will be a social gathering for the members of the society where smokes and refreshments will be served three groups hear lectures on going to college as a part of a series of lectures on going to college dean cm mcconn addressed groups in mad ison n j yesterday and will speak this evening in washington d c the rotary club was the spon sor of dean mcconn's first speech in madison yesterday while the as sembly of the madison high school heard the second address edwin van keuren 23 is the principal of madison high school in the address at washington this evening dean mcconn will ex plain the case-history method of admission to college as it is advo cated by the pennsylvania-study sponsors of the carnegie tests at lehigh fire burns as firemen rage over question which hose is to ru(i)n a banquet in honor of the win ners of the lehigh song contest will be held jan 19 at the railroad club in new york under the aus pices of the new york lehigh club sponsors of the contest the honor banquet will feature a quintette of pennsylvania dutch singers who will render the prize selections in the song contest the winners will then be presented with their prizes the 23 new songs will be presented to a e buchanan secretary of the alumni association who will include them in the new lehigh song book the banquet will be attended by president c r richards dean c m mcconn dr neil carothers head of the department of business administration w r okeson treasurer and billy sheridan wrestling coach formal initiation to be held on january 1 6 scabbard and blade honorary military society pledged 16 men at the fall pledging meeting before the christmas holidays the for mal pledging took place dec 16 in the armory of the pledges three are seniors twelve are juniors and one is an in structor in m s & t the sen iors are r r bachman c f schier and j l williamson the juniors are r l davis m l hoover f d keck f m neihans f l snavely r b wall w p baker p flanigan t b jordan w d mason j d strachon and f b wise the instructor is capt j o green at a meeting held last night it was decided to intiate jan 16 the initiation will be followed by a ban quet for which plans are incom plete an informal initiation will take place some time during this week-end talks on papyrus fraternities robbed of cash and articles four houses ransacked dur ing christmas vacation alter requirements january issue contains article by doctor bull the january edition of the alum ni bulletin official organ of lehigh graduates will be ready for deliv ery this week according to a state ment from the alumni office one of the chief articles of the january issu%is a feature by dr r c bull head of the lehigh health service on the progress of health service in american universities and proposed improvements to the health aid at lehigh a second article explains the new work of thaddeus merriman 97 who is chief engineer for the board of water supply in new york city mr merriman is engaged in the building of the new water tunnel to increase the water supply for new york the new addition is featured by many illustrations and contains a map of good stories by paul m paine 91 librarian of the syracuse public library other articles of alumni activities in many parts of america are also included wives of professors long and beardslee are recovering the wives of prof c g beards lee and prof j s long are re ported to be improving mrs beardslee was taken home from st luke's hospital dec 23 mrs j s long has been improv ing steadily but is not expected to be dismissed from st luke's hos pital for a week or ten days she is recovering from a severe ab scess maintainance staff completes specified work the lehigh maintenance staff was able to finish specific repairs in various buildings without outside assistance during the christmas holidays the entire cost was under 1,000 according to andrew w litzenberger superintendent o f buildings and grounds most of the work was replaster ing the ceilings throughout the students health service rooms on the first and second floors of christmas-saucon hall the floors of the drawing rooms in packer hall and all the stair land ings on both east and west sides were painted the basement floor and profes sor long's research laboratory on the fourth floor of the chemistry building were painted the railing of the gym gallery was also painted topic is how can the col leges promote world peace the new history society of new york city is sponsoring a prize contest in an effort to promote world peace prizes of 300 200 and 100 will be given for the most satisfactory paper written by an american college student on the topic how can the colleges pro mote world peace the conditions of the contest are as follows 1 manuscripts not to be submitted later than midnight april 5 1932 2 papers not to contain more than 1,200 words 3 papers to be original not hav ing been read or published before 4 manuscripts to be judged accord ing to the vision of the writers and the feasibility of the plans 5 no student should submit more than one paper the prize winning manuscripts will be published in the new his torian and any other publications that the society may deem advis able coming events prof sanders addresses archaeo logical group a lecture on papyrus texts was given by henry a sanders head of the school of classical stu dies of the american academy in rome before the bethlehem chap ter of the archaeological institute of america professor sanders was introduced by horace w wright head of the department of latin a previous meeting of the insti tute held in richmond virginia to plan the lecture was attended by earl l crum as proxy for the pres ident of the bethlehem chapter bradley stoughton at this time dr wright was again elected na tional secretary son born to c d macdougall formerly lehigh professor a son allan kent was born to mr and mrs curtis d macdou gall dec 11 at madison wis mr macdougall came to lehigh in 1927 and was assistant professor of journalism until last spring when he resigned experimentation courses credited in admitting students all high school students who have taken work in experimentation courses will be admitted to lehigh without entrance exams according to a resolution which was passed at the faculty meeting held in the alumni memorial building monday afternoon these students will only have to present a certificate signed by their high school principal which shows that they have successfully passed the course this is in compliance to the pennsylvania educational re quirements and carnegie examina tions motion pictures to be given the motion picture and lecture on chemical warfare which was scheduled to take place dec 17 will be given at 4 p m on mon day jana 18 in packard auditor ium friday jan 8 8 p m open meeting of the elec trical engineering society room 416 packard laboratory lecture on industrial application of elec tricity by d m petty 09 saturday jan 9 2 p m varsity swimming vs rut gers taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity basketball vs haverford taylor gymnasium monday jan 1 1 8 p m university lecture a seventeenth century radical by prof e h riley packard audi torium , the sigma phi epsilon theta kappa phi lambda chi alpha and delta tau delta fraternity houses were robbed during the christmas holidays the sigma phi epsilon house sustained the greatest loss the ar ticles stolen amounted to 150 and consisted of golf clubs typewriters cameras slide-rules several old hats and an overcoat the damage to the house has not been estimat ed but doors were broken down windows smashed and a general mess made of the interior the lambda chi alpha frater nity had articles stolen amounting to about 40 the loss consisted of about ten fountain pens and a small quantity of jewelry the burglars entered the house by a cellar win dow there were no clues other than a few fingerprints which prov ed to be useless the theta kappa phi and delta tau delta houses were also broken into but estimated losses were ne gligible a whistle shrieked out into the stillness of the night bells clanged and a fire engine churned its way up the heights of south mountain it all happened at the delta up silon fire tuesday evening according to fraternity men the fire was almost out when the engine arrived but firemen don't take trips for nothing in bethlehem . . . they came they saw and they flooded there were two hose lines available so they laid both one chemical and one water then tried to decide which to use with sound effects of burning wood the fire laddies ar gued the merits of chemical and water hose lines until the fraternity men suggested cutting cards to set tle the somewhat pressing issue the answer to the argument came as a surprise . . . someone turned the valve at the fire hydrant and the water under many pounds of pressure gushed out into the house whipped the hose from one side of the room to the other and knocked down everything in its path frater nity men experienced trouble in jumping through a window phone rings in response to additional alarms fire department units continued to flock toward the scene of the blaze until hose and ladder carts could be seen everywhere even the chiefs of the police and fire departments were there then the phone tinkled and through the shriek of sirens and clanging of bells a voice was heard to ask did you call for a fire engine all of the attention of the fire fighters was centered on the ill fated living room but other parts of the house did not escape a drenching according to fraternity men the second floor was well doused with water and even a dining room on a sub-floor was thoroughly soaked the fire inci dentally was put out firemen seek ladder after the departure qf the fire brigades the fraternity men seated themselves on their ruined furni ture to recover from the excitement but the phone rang again . . . this time it was the fire department say asked a voice have you got out ladder up there the fire had been extinguished for at least 10 minutes when one of the men leaned from his room win dow on the second floor below were two frantic figures holding a large blanket by the corners jump shrieked one of the would-be res cuers we'll save you bethlehem pa friday january 8 1932 lafayette professor bombed students allegdly implicated university musical clubs to give concert and dance vol xxxix no ix brown and white athletic plan to be chosen by arcadia monday evening senior ballots photos due price — five cents riley to talk about radical of 17th century fire at d u causes 3,000 property loss fraternities discuss plan to cut costs living room badly burn ed ; greatest havoc caused by water in surance covers damage seniors who have not had their pictures taken for the 1932 epitome are requested to call at the mccaa studios on fourth street before the end of next week to make appointments ballots should be turned in to the departmental heads as soon as possible the next deadline is set at feb 6 after which time an additional fine of 1 will be imposed associate professor o f english will describe views of libertine at lecture monday night interfraternity council considers move to es tablish cooperative pur chasing at lehigh mathematics prize problem the prize for the best solution of the third mathematics prize problem has been awarded to j w langhaar i e 33 honor able mention is given to g m templeman chem 32 . | notices football men who used the upper locker room see peter bo quel immediately regarding mater ial lost — brown leather wallet in gym tuesday afternoon will find er send cards receipts and licenses to w s gallaway 454 montclair avenue member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first