Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 24

              all three alternatives submitted by board of control refused and university aid asked talks friday to international relations club in packard lab pennsylvania boxing and wrestling law forces transfer of mat matches next saturday universities protest ruling commission takes no action prom committee to get 100 under approved proposal the stewards of all living groups are urged to attend a co operative buying plan meeting at 4 p m next friday in drown hall according to r c clark president of the interfraternity council two representatives from a pittsburgh concern will present a proposition for mass buying of staples although this new idea is be ing sponsored by the council the meeting friday and the plan it self needs the support of all the living groups according to clark the election of freshman class officers will be held some time during the third week of the new semester richard stockton act ing chairman of the freshman class announced yesterday the exact dates of the nomination and election will be announced later there will be a meeting of the freshman class immediately after chapel exercises in the chapel next thursday further impor tant announcements concerning the election will be given out at the meeting in the chapel blake will talk to electricals calls pleasure object of life dr hoffman addresses blake society at allen town state hospital speeding down broad street at an alleged 48 miles per hour went nine members of the robert w blake society on the way to rittersville or to be more polite the allen town state hospital all week long had they looked forward to this evening daily each blakian sat in class and speculated on the treat in store for him when on friday the eighth at 8 p m he was to be one of a select number to meet at the state hospital to hear dr h.f hoffman well known to lehigh students address them on the philosophy of psychol ogy and so it was a happy band that sped merrily on their way oblivious to all else but the treat in store for them then the dragon protruded his ugly head into the serene pic ture of contentment behind the speeding cars there were two of them holding three and six mem bers of the society respectively chugged a motorcycle policeman in tent on doing his duty by his city he whistled no response he drew up along side motioned made faces and whistled again the canny driver of the leading car suspected something was wrong all he said to his fellow members with true blakian sagacity is not well in the state of denmark and all was not in fact very little was right both in the famed country of the danes and in bethlehem cop halts law breakers the pudgy limb of the law halt ed those law-breaking blakians abd he had words with them acri monious words bitter words words calculated to strike terror into the hearts of even the most stalwart did they quail beneath the tor rent of invective hurled at them by the law's stern spokes blakians arrested at rittersville philosophers a ttain exciting speed man they did they cringed they grovelled in the dust which be cause of recent rains had turned to mud and then what happened to our heroes accompanied by the portly policeman they about faced and at a more sober speed retraced their wild ride back they went back to the busy shopping center of bethlehem back to the city-hall city-market combination which houses the men of affairs of the progressive little town called beth lehem philosopher follows them but they were not alone in their grief for along with them went a third driver in a third car he however was not a philosopher leastways if he were there is no way of telling for he was not a member of the r._w blake so ciety but a wise man was he a gentleman well versed in the law and its procedure immediately.upon arriving at the very comfortable jailhouse he communicated with his attorney who was on hand to greet mayor robert preiffle when that dignitary arrived a short time later to deal with the culprits the culprits were dealt with by the mayor in short order in fact according to observers they were dealth with summarily they were released there's no sense trying to fine you fellows the mayor told the blakians you haven't any money anyway but said he driving at 48 miles an hour is a good way to die quickly then spake the stranger perhaps said he it be better to die in such a fashion than to starve in this de pression and at his words the nine blakians bowed their heads as one man tears dimmed their eyes and each looked at the other as if to say ah there is a philosopher says chaucer . used a trot cadmus loses use of one eye severs shows poet had petrarch translation for clerk's tale " student recovers from injuries sustained in automobile accident the most important objectives in life are a drive toward pleasurable sensations and against unpleasur able sensations stated dr h.f.hoff man lecturer on mental hygiene and director of the state hospital for the insane at a meeting of the robert w blake society honorary psycho logy philosophy and education group friday evening at the al lentown state hospital these two drives said dr hoff man plus an instinctive desire for power motivate man's entire life dr percy hughes head of the de partment of philosophy and educa tion questioned dr hoffman's viewpoint and claimed that man's greatest desire is to understand life wholly and clearly in so doing he must necessarily understand him self dr hughes stated dr hoffman presented three different cases of insanity before the society these men gave their points of view and beliefs in life dr adelbert ford head of the department of phychology dr j l graham professor of psycholo gy and prof f c becker profes sor of philosophy were other members of the faculty who were present and took part in the discus sion perrine to discuss use of electrical principles jan 13 a contrast in applications of elec trical principles in telephone and power engineering will be discuss ed by dr perrine of the bell tel ephone company laboratories at a meeting of the physics club to be held thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the physics lecture room the meeting will be open to the public according to c c bidwell head of the department of physics radio society to meet jan 14 the radio society will hold its first meeting in 1932 at 4 p m thursday jan 14 in the communi cations room of packard laboratory the meeting will be followed by the regular meeting of the code classes although his right eye has been removed richard henry cadmus i e 35 whose car skidded into a concrete culvert dec 13 said in a telephone conversation sunday night that he was confident that he will have the use of his left eye permanently for the first time since the acci dent cadmus was given his sight thursday his nose which was broken at the bridge and forehead cut by the corner of the mirror are healing rapidly at present he is at the university of pennsylvania hospital but he ex pects to return to pottstown thurs day although he intends to visit the university as soon as his condition permits he does not expect to re turn to lehigh as a student the present situation in ger many was the subject of a talk given by prof phillip m palmer director of the college of arts and science at the monthly meeting of the international relations society in the packard laboratory last fri day evening in discussing the political situa tion professor palmer said that many germans fear a hitler gov ernment in april or may hitler's nazis are a party of protest dissatisfied with present conditions and the communists are a small group of unemployed young people the possibility for a coalition gov ernmeht such as the one in eng land is remote because of the in tense hatred among the different parties some sentiment exists in germany for the return of a mon archy the nazi government if it came into being is not expected to last long and would soon be fol lowed by communism which would mean the end of traditional ger man civilization professor palmer spent last sum mer travelling through germany ob serving conditions he found no evidences of the depression at first glance in bremen and berlin there were numerous new apart ment houses and other physical im provements a closer insight however show ed the extent of the german finan cial stagnation trade is"at a stand still and there are numberless bank ruptcies especially among the small merchants and contractors taxes are high and the government re alizes little money from them ideal istic experiments and the school system have suffered because of low government funds before the financial crisis last june the credits of the nation were frozen and new york bariks or dered all short term credits with drawn from germany when the crisis came the german banks were closed for five days during which time not a cent could be gotten professor palmer said that the german crisis of last summer came about because of the export of cap ital to foreign countries and the reckless spending of money by the cities ambitious public improve ments were undertaken without the prospect of borrowed capital being returned to the sate recital by shields will be postponed until february mr shields recital which was to be given last sunday has been post poned to some time next semester according to shields director of music at lehigh the recital will be held sometime in february on a sunday afternoon as before plan ned and will last for about an hour professor shields has not yet chos en his assistant thoreson to describe the windsor tunnel petty discusses use of electricity in industrial world d k blake distribution system engineer of the general electric company schenectady n v will deliver an address on primary network distribution systems be fore a combined meeting of the student electrical engineering so ciety and the lehigh valley sec tion of the american institute of electrical engineers to be held at 6:30 p m jan 15 in packard lab oratory " in last friday's meeting of the society d m petty 09 addressed the electrical engineering society on industrial application of elec tricity mr petty formerly super intendent of the electrical depart ment of the bethlehem steel com pany has had contact with the elec trical side of the steel industry he drew upon experiences in the use of electricity in many other divisions of the industrial world in address ing the meeting carl w banks 32 delivered a paper entitled experiences on the r-17 test the address was illus trated by lantern slides of the test after the meeting the members of the society held a social meeting in which smokes and refreshments were served the program of the institute's meeting will commence at 6:30 p.m with a dinner served in the engin eering societies meeting room in the laboratory after which d k blake will give his talk at 8 p m the subject primary network dis tribution systems is a timely one and describes the trend of using pri mary networks at 2300 and 4600 volts to supply the larger distribu tion loads associated with the ur ban areas mr blake has made an intensive study of the problem the past eight years and his contributions to the central station industry on the sub ject earned him the charles a cof fin foundation award the subject will be covered in all its phases and is of particular interest to all elec trical men according to floyd m fuller manager a motion picture will be shown depicting some of the existing network installations admission of student member on committee of discipline asked astrict program of economy on the part of the board of control of athletics was urged last night by arcadia acceptance of any of the three alternatives presented by the board was refused but it was moved to request the help of the university in supporting athletics for the com ing year the three proposals submitted by the board of control of athletics follow 1 the abolition of all freshman sports 2 the abolition of varsity soccer varsity basketball and varsity lacrosse 3 the in crease of the university athletic fee from 15 to 20 the following plan for the con trol of the proms was approved 1 the prom commitee sh al l be appointed is heretofore 2 the prom chairman shall be held re sponsible for the details pertaining to the proms 3 for their labors the committee shall receive the sum of 100 4 the control of the fin ances shall be placed in the hands of the secretary of the lehigh un ion who shall act as manager and whose duties shall be to a secure a list of available orchestras and their bids b place this list before the committee on student activities for their approval c publish ap proved list in brown and white for ballot d determine results of bal lot and handle the booking of the orchestra c handle sale and col lection of tickets f turn over profits resulting from the proms to the respective classes the plan which was recently sug gested by omicron delta kappa was approved and an additional re quest was added to it this asks for the admission of a student rep resentative elected by arcadia to the committee on discipline with said representative to have full vot ing powers on any matters of the committee a report of the proceedings of the convention of the national student federation of america held at toledo during the christmas holidays was given by j e angle arcadia's delegate announcement was made that several representatives of a pitts burgh concern bidding for sale rights in cooperative buying by liv ing groups of the university will meet with stewards or other buyers of the various houses on friday at 4 p m in drown hall the report which the board sub mitted showed that all varsity sports were carried on with a loss except football which showed a gain of more than 15,000 the sport with the greatest single loss was varsity baseball with a loss of 3,428 s lehigh affected in bouts with lafayette pennsylvania co rnell and virginia military 1 institute \^ the wrestling meet with prince ton scheduled to take place in taylor gymnasium saturday jan 16 has been transferred to the tig er mat the board of athletic con trol yesterday completed the ar rangements with the princeton authorities to change the scene of the bout after deciding that it was impossible to comply with the con ditions imposed by the state ath letic commission in 1923 the pennsylvania state legislature passed the boxing and wrestling law placing all boxing and wrestling matches under the jurisdiction of a state athletic com mittee after seven years mr f weiner former chairman of the state commission realized that he was failing to enforce the law and so added an amendment to the or iginal law to give the commission power to control all amateur box ing and wrestling an amendment excluding col leges from the former act was in troduced and was passed by the legislature governor pinclroj ve toed the bill on the grounds that it was class legislation and before a second amendment could be brought up the legislature disband ed bosey reiter billy sheridan neil carothers and jack pertikin collaborated with representatives of temple lafayette pennsylvania franklin and marshal and ursinus in a meeting to protest the bill but no action was taken by the state commission already amateur boxing has prac tically died out while the age lirh it has compelled preparatory and high schools to exclude both sports from their athletic schedules la fayette temple and ursinus have already cancelled meets to be held in this state and the only colleges which have not definitely declared their stands are perm and f & m to accept the edict of the state commission in regard to home meets lehigh would be forced to violate the rules of the national collegiate athletic association and the eastern intercollegiate wrestl ing association unless some re lief is forthcoming the home meets with cornell and virginia military institute will either have to be played out of the state or can celled two meets with colleges in this state lafayette and university of pennsylvania were scheduled and it is probable that these will eith er have to be cancelled or played across the river in the state of new jersey the state athletic commission has publicly declared itself in sym pathy with the present conditions but has refused to relent in the least degree mcclenahan to talk to sigma xi group blaze necessitates d u redecoration will describe work of franklin institute jan 1 8 scabbard and blade to initiate 15 jan 16 civil engineers to meet thurs day evening s a thoreson of the firm of parsons drinkerhoff klapp and douglas of new york city will speak on the windsor tunnell before the civil engineering society thursday evening jan 14 in room 416 packard laboratory mr thoreson was chief engineer on the construction in belgium and is now in this country on a short vacation the lecture will be illus trated with slides the public is in vited to attend the lecture faulty kitchen flue believed responsible for fire proof that chaucer had access to an old french trot when he read petrarch's latin grisela story which was the source of his clerk's tale was presented at a meeting of the modern language association dec 30 at madison wisconsin by j burke severs english instructor there were many french trans lations of petrarch's latin in eng land and it was quite natural for chaucer to pick one up and use it as an aid in his translating i have been able to prove that this is so for the particular french translato 1 . whose version chaucer used made some additions to petrarch's story and also changed it a bit here and there mr severs said he showed that chaucer adopted almost 100 of these changes the name of the old french translator is not yet known but the manuscript of the translation is french m 8 1165 in the bibliotheque nationale at paris france mr severs has also collated three latin manuscripts of chaucer's latin source a discussion of the state oi the latin manuscripts from which chaucer worked will appear in an early issue of the publications of the modern language association mr severs is at present engaged in the examination of unpublished materials offered him by professor root of princeton and professor young of yale after the presenta tion of his paper mr severs in tends to spend next summer in eu rope where he will have access to the original manuscripts used by chaucer he is«conducting this re search in preparation for the thesis he will write for his doctor's de gree which he expects to receive within the next two years coming events ajer will describe role of thyrotrons to tell m e society of auto matic machine control poet advocated tolerance of all christian religions milton was the judge lindsay and the bertrand russell of the 17th century stated e h riley assistant professor of english in his lecture a 17th century radi cal delivered in packard auditor ium last night this third in the series of college lectures by mem bers of the faculty was attended by about 250 people after outlining some of the proh lems faced by england of the 17th century professor riley sketched milton's views on divorce by com mon consent of parties or by re quest of one his statements against censorship and his advocacy of in dividual liberty such views were the ones that led milton's contem poraries to consider him as a lib ertine who would be tied by no ob ligation to god or man church interests poet milton first interested himsel^in church government he sent par liament six pamphlets during the course of a year in the first of these he is inspired to almost poet ic ecstacy by a dazzling hope of a new and purified england profes sor riley 3tated how was this golden age to be restored simply by getting rid of the episcopal bishops he continued and added later he belongs to the extreme minority when in 1659 he advocates the complete separation of church and state with universal religious toleration roman 1 catholics ex cepted professor riley recounted mil ton's matrimonial experiences with his first wife he depicted the set ting of individual moral scrupples church and state regulations which absolutely precluded the possibility of separation of man and wife ex cept by death yet milton wanted a divorce from his wife milton was obviously married securely how did he hope to es cape by persuading parliament and king charles to legalize the practice of private divorce by mu tual consent or by the will of the aggrieved party riley explained law can't forbid divorce milton's argument as given in his pamphlets on the subject leads its ordinance requiring that all him to conclude that which way so ever we 100k — at god's will as re vealed in the scriptures at human nature or at the institutions of so ciety the law can to no rational purpose forbid divorce it can only take care that the conditions of di vorce be not injurious i hope that some of you are at least surprised perhaps even aston ished to discover that the estimable john milton so-called puritan po et was the ben lindsay of the 17th century yea even the bertrand russell although i must admit that marriage and morals is rather light tame reading after an evening spent with milton's tracts on di vorce professor riley summarized two more characteristic expres sions of his liberalism were shown his attack upon censorship and his theory of government milton's areopagitica the most uniform ly eloquent and best known of his pleas for liberty was addressed to parliament in the hope of having books to b elicensed by an official censor before publication repealed he shows that reading of every kind is essential to the achievement of knowledge and experience ri ley stated and later quoting from milton himself " give me liberty to know to utter and to argue free ly according to conscience above all liberties milton's theory of government was the last radical's point to be presented men were born free . . . the power therefore remains with the people . . . the king is account able to the people not to god . . . they may therefore depose the king whenever they want to whenever it seems to them best stated riley in explaining milton's views let one say in closing that i have welcomed this opportunity to present an aspect of milton's life and work all too little known and too often misunderstood and mis represented professor riley con cluded trout donated by state seventy-five brown and brook rainbow trout were donated re cently by the state bureau of fisheries to the lehigh department of biology for experimental pur poses in the research work direct ed by j w burger assistant in bi ology the department is attempting to fincua chemical that will destroy algae which pullulates in water but will not affect the fish dr howard mcclenahan direc tor and secretary of the franklin institute of pennsylvania will be the speaker at the next sigma xi meeting jan 18 the lecture will deal primarily with the work of the franklin in stitute founded by benjamin frank lin whose purpose is to advance the practical application of science dr mcclenahan according to max peterson associate professor of physics is a very pleasing speak er and his lecture should be of great interest to lehigh men various medals are awarded an nually by the franklin institute and the bartol research laboratory used exclusively for research by ad vanced students in science is spon sored by the institute according o professor peterson dr charles r richards president of the univer sity is a member of the institute dr mcclenahan was formerly professor of physics and dean of princeton until he was elected di rector of the institute in 1925 he is also editor-in-chief of the month ly journal of the franklin institute which publishes the activities of the organization the fire at the delta upsilon house which last week destroyed a portion of their east living room has necessitated repainting of the entire first floor and replastering of most of the living room although the bethlehem firemen claimed that the flarrlts originated in a cigarette receptacle which was in the closet in a corner of the room edward hildum head of the house believes that the blaze was caused by a faulty kitchen flue which passes through one of the walls of the closet besides the set of trap drums and several overcoats which were en tirely destroyed several pieces oi furniture most of the living room woodwork and a vacuum cleaner were damaged the total loss will probably ex ceed the original estimated figure of 3,000 because smoke and water did considerably damage to parts of the second floor and the base . ment dining room repairs will be begun just as soon as an adjustment has been made by the insurance company according to mr hildum exhibition of oil painting by mr orlando wales of allentown and fifty prints of the year lehigh art gallery university library jan 4-17 open week days from 3 to 6 p m and on sundays from 2 to 6 p m wednesday jan 13 7:30 p m meeting of the newton ian society 208 packard labora tory thursday jan 14 8 p m meeting of the mechanical engineering society room 466 packard laboratory illustrated lecture adventures in science by mr oliver ajer of the gen . eral electric research laboratory 8 p m meeting of the civil en gineering society room 416 packard laboratory lecture on the detroit windsor tunnel by mr s a thoresen 8 p m meeting of the lehigh phy sical society physics lecture room dr j o perrine of the bell telephone laboratories will speak on contrasts in applica tions of electrical principles in telephone and power engineer ing mr oliver ajer of the genera electric research laboratories will deliver an illustrated lecture on adventures in science at a meet ing of the mechanical engineering society to be held in room 466 packard laboratory on thursday jan 14 at 8 p hi according to prof m c stuart acting head of the department of mechanical engineering mr ajer will speak chiefly on thyrotrons vacuum tubes used in the automatic control of machinery professor stuart announced that a special invitation has been ex tended to all freshmen refresh ments will be served at the meet ing which is open to the public military fraternity to banquet at bethlehem club scabbard and blade will formally initiate 15 men at the armory on saturday jan 16 at 5 p m a ban quet will be held at the bethlehem club following the formal initiation the main speaker of the evening will be lt col matthew h thom linson profgssor of military sci ence and tactics according to r w burke arts,33 president of the society the following honorary members will be present lt f.m funk cavalry reserve lt i n mansback military intelligence de partment major c b mayer c.a c active members officers and alumni will be present at the ban quet the informal initiation was held last saturday when the new men hiked to johnsville and made en campment for the night the men initiated are captain j o green assistant professor of military science and tactics r.r bachman 32 c f schier 32 j l williamson 32 r l davis 33 m l hoover 33 f d keck 33 f m neihans 33 f.l snave ly 33 r b wall 33 w p bak er 33 p flanigan 33 t b jor dan 33 w d mason 33 j d strachon 33 f b wise 33 very near beer the meal must have proved nourishing as the for mal inspection at 10:15 by various brass hits from headquarters found all present and in good spir its - lehigh troops withdraw some time after reaching the camping grounds the detachment received instructions to return home by the shortest possible route each individual being required to use his own judgment and initiative the signal corps immediately establish ed communications with the bar racks on the hill and a number of recruits less than one year's ser vice furnished transportation so far as can be determined none of the initiates chose to walk home the scabbard and blade initia tion officially began at 3 p m on saturday when the 16 pledges as sembled at the armory and demon strated for three hours their abil ity to make packs and display arms six o'clock marked the beginning of the march through the enemy territory each man being exam ined to see that he had no money in his possession or illegal liquids in his canteen the initiation was under the di rection of capt r w burke com mander of company h third regi ment of the national scabbard and blade society military society's initiate galmly bivouc under stars near beer a detachment of 15 silent men under the leadership of an officer set out into the darkness . . . they are hushed expectant and cease their long march only when they have reached the dangerous boun daries of fairview cemetery of course it was all part of the scabbard and blade initiation sat urday evening but the detachment of intiates were glad to have pferc ed the center of an imaginary hos tile territory which surrounded bethlehem and to receive their camping directions formal instructions found at the cemetery directed the little group to proceed northward taking due precautions for the security of the detachment by marching to the vi cinity of jacksonville and upon ar rival thereat to make camp arid await further instructions tents pitched on lawn in accordance with their direc tions the detachment again set out to cover the dreary miles to their camping spot and arriver there sev eral hours later an excellent camp site was located immediately on the lawn of the jacksonville cafe with wood water cooking facilities a recreation room and hostesses in attendance after pitching camp and posting sentries the detachment ate a hear ty meal of candy bars and near brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday january 12 1932 price — five cents vol xxxix no l riley tells how radical milton asked divorce hitler feared by germans says palmer princeton gets wrestling meet due to control arcadia advises board of control to use economy liberalism shown by at tack on censorship of book and theory of government all living group stewards to dfscuss new buying plan some favor return of monarchy according to lecture given before student society will elect frosh officers third week in february all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association