Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 37

              gordon shows results of trip to greenland geologic features of greenland south am erica and south africa illustrated in talk cryolite mine is described by curator of mineralogy advanced ordnance men to visit picatinny plant the miami triad will hold its annual dance on saturday night march 19 from nine to twelve at the hotel bethlehem sigma chi phi delta theta and beta theta pi composing the triad are the spon sors of the dance the easton sar acens will furnish the music for the occasion the chaperones will be capt and mrs p l sadler for phi delta theta dr and mrs r c bull for sigma chi and dr and mrs d m frazer for beta theta pi the miami triad was completed in 1855 with the founding of sigma chi the triad is so called because these three fraternities were the first to be founded at miami uni versity oxford ohio to address phi beta kappa at initiation banquet archibald henderson head of the department of mathematics at the university of north carolina will speak this evening at the annual joint banquet of the lehigh and lafayette chapters of phi beta kappa national honorary scholas tic fraternity the banquet will be held at 6:30 p m at the hotel bethlehem pro fessor henderson who is also a writer of literary criticism will speak on higher scholarship twenty-four men were initiated into the fraternity yesterday after noon in the memorial building one pledge who was ill will be initiated later the initiation was conducted by edgar h riley associate pro fessor of english and president of the lehigh chapter of phi beta kappa m.&c.tohave women in cast tau beta pi pledges seven lehigh instructor discusses russian law dr daniel h harris of the de partment of psychology addressed the pre-legal society last wednes day evening oh the subject of the russian legal system in his talk dr harris disclosed some of the interesting facts which he came across in his visit to russia in 1927 russian law according to dr harris is limited by the compara tively few needs of the russian in dustrial and economic system the government owns all real estate and industries thus eliminating the ne cessity for the complex system of corporation ind real estate law used in this country the divorce laws are simple and inheritance laws are unnecessary because of the small amount of property owned by any individual dr harris pointed out the inter esting fact that russian prisons al low the prisoners a vacation every year and also allow them to return home for the harvesting each year according to an announcement made by president martin reed the following men were elected mem bers at a business meeting following dr harris talk edward fleischer 33 stanley meisel 35 moses abrahams 33 and w j william son 35 burr will have written rules definite constitution for publication to be de cided upon friday dr miller speaks in chapel at exercises of engineering fraternity seven newly elected members to tau beta pi were formally pledged in chapel this morning prof ben jamin l miller head of the geol ogy department spoke on the founding of tau beta pi at lehigh its founder prof edward h wil liams and its requirements for ad mission professor williams who was head of the departments of mining engineering and geology and also a member of phi beta kappa saw the need of an honorary engineer ing society and as a result the first chapter of tau beta pi was found ed at lehigh in 1885 scholarship is not the sole requirement for admis sion as the members must be out standing men interested and loyal to lehigh the reason for these requirements according to profes sor miller is that more than stu dies are need for success in life the men pledged are k f bor den p j flanigan r h garrett c e harrison jr e w laschob er jr h s walker and it b wall the formal initiation will be held in the students honorary societies room in packard laboratory april 15 this will be followed by a ban quet at the hotel bethlehem tau beta pi will also hold a dance at the hotel bethlehem on april 23 the brown and maroon collegians will furnish the music the first written constitution ever drawn up for the lehigh burr will be proposed in the regular meeting of the board of publica tions to be held friday at 4.30 p m in the dean's office the present rules by which the burr is governed have been handed down verbally through the succes sive editors-in-chief according to r k serfass business manager of the magazine these were not written because the publication was previously independent of the now existing board of publications several new points which the proposed constitution will include are establishment of all juniors on the editorial staff as assistant edi tors definite distribution of staff duties and stabilization of definite time limits including that at which the editors will accept material from students serfass said approval of the nominations made some time ago for burr staff offices will also be given at the board meeting along with state ments of financial standing of the various campus publications club will follow new policy in producing beggar on horseback for the first time in recent years the mustard and cheese club will include women in the cast of their production the members of the faculty dramatic club and the junior women's club will cooper ate in taking the female roles in the play the play selected for the spring production to be given late in april or early in may is the beg gar on horseback from the pen of marc connelly and george kauf man co-writers of dulcy mer ton of the movies to the ladies and helen of troy new york the green pastures by mr con nelly and june moon by mr kaufman are recent successes by these men the tryouts on wednesday eye ing resulted in the selection of the following cast neil mcßae played by j a auf hammer 33 dr al bert rice s j simmons 33 mr cady j e rothenberg 32 mrs cady mrs j k rice gladys ca dy mrs r d billinger homer cady d goldenberg 32 cynthia mrs m ewing jerry j r wright 35 train boy w s weil 35 miss hey miss hesse miss you mrs r a soto cigar ette girl mrs d m fraser head danceman s askin 32 eleven dancemen c yaffe 33 e r eng lish 34 f lambert 34 j m davis 35 j h kress 35 c w leuders 35 j s perry 35 h e russell 35 l o travis 35 p e van wulven 35 e s williams 35 the play will go into rehearsal at 2:30 p m sunday afternoon male trio entertains at glee club concert the ordnance students the senior metallurgists senior chemicals and the journalism students will leave on their respective field trips dur ing the next few days the senior metallurgists will leave tuesday march 22 for a trip to the new jersey zinc company the trip will be under the leader ship of allison butts associate professor of metallurgy the advanced ordnance students accompanied by capt charles h keck assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics will inspect the picatinny arsenal at dover n.j the students will inspect the man ufacture of these products as well as the process of loading melted t n t into shells for the artillery they will also fire some big guns and finish the day in the research laboratories meet at hotel times square the annual journalism field trip will take place on march 21 to 23 the group will make their head quarters at the hotel times square during their stay in new york monday march 21 the journal ists will visit the offices of the world-telegram newspaper the world almanac and the stock exchange they will attend blessed event a newspaper play at the longacre theatre in the evening tuesday they will see the crim inal line-up at police headquarters and visit the police museum the group will have luncheon at the chamber of commerce rooms ja maica l i following this they will visit the long island daily press the queens borough build ing and the columbia broadcasting station trip to end wednesday on wednesday the trip will be brought to a close by visiting the united press association the king features syndicate the new york daily news and the acme news pictures inc the senior chemicals will spend three days visiting plants in and around new york among the plants to be visited are westing house electric co bloomfield n.j seton leather co newark du ont biscoloid co arlington n.j manhattan rubber co passaic and proctor and gamle's plant at staten island prof g a simmons and prof e r theis will be in charge of the trip twenty-nine men will go on the trip the party will make their headquarters at the hotel macalpin program to include talk by president richards tour of campus and luncheon in armory committee opposes faculty talks about requirements tentative plans for the entertain ment of prospective students on saturday may 7 were drawn up at a meeting of the sub-freshman day committee tuesday afternoon in the faculty room of the alumni memorial building the program will include an ad dress by president charles russ richards a meeting with faculty representatives a tour of the cam pus luncheon in the armory a baseball game with lafayette and a lacrosse game with washington college in appointing the sub-fresjiman day committee for this year pres ident richards expressed the opin ion that the importance of attract ing desirable students to lehigh this year warrants the general par ticipation of the entire university according to andrew e buchanan jr chairman of the committee the members of the committee while appreciating president richards point of view felt that the sub freshmen will feel more at ease in contact with the undergraduates than with members of the faculty intend to show men college life the committee feels that the best way to impress prospective students with the attractions of le high is to show them as much as possible of the campus and college life instead of talking to the boys about details of curricula entrance requirements and related topics stated mr buchanan in contrast with the procedure in former years no effort will be made to assign sub-freshmen to fraternities for entertainment the official program ends with the la crosse game and does not include the evening meal presumably the fraternities will invite the new men they are particularly interested in to stay over for dinner and prob ably the week-end this however is a matter strictly between the chapters and the boys was the stated opinion of the committee undergraduate to suggest men george b curtis registrar would like undergraduates to turn in names of additional high and pre paratory school seniors whom they would like to have invited to sub freshman day blanks for this pur pose will be available at the regis trar's office and a number will also be distributed to the various living groups arrangements will be made with the brown and white to publish a special issue on may 6 according to the committee this issue will contain matter of particular inter est to prospective students and copies are to be distributed to all the sub-freshmen as they register brownell mining offi cial declares professor is biased in favor of gold standard states bi-metallism would save world in gold disaster an article by francis h brow nell chairman of the board of the american smelting and refining company entitled silver its fu ture as money in the march issue of the north american revue at tempts to answer dr neil caroth ers article on silver — a senate racket which appear in the jan uary issue of the same periodical dr carothers head of the col lege of business administration is quoted profusely by brownell who tries to convey that dr carothers is biased in favor of a gold stan dard mr brownell states that dr carothers closing statement the savior of mankind was betrayed for 30 pieces of silver shows a distinct partiality against a silver and gold bi-metalism mr brownell does not however attempt to refute dr carothers statements concerning the silver industries meddling in senatorial affairs nor does mr brownell question the fact that in the past this country has suffered materially as a result of bi-metal ism the text of mr brownell's ar guments is based on the fact that if every nation in the world had the per-capita ratio of gold that the united states and france have to day it would require five and one half times as much gold as exists at the present time buys at high price dr carothers claims that the senate through pressure exerted by the silver interests has been forced to buy silver at a price consider ably above the market value he goes on to say that the silver in dustry is about as important as the suspender industry and not quite as important as the peanut indus try to the united states at large the mining of silver in the united states amounts to approximately 18,000,000 yearly dr carothers says that the only country that would be materially injured if the world adopted a gold money basis is china mr brownell although he is supposedly answering dr caroth ers statements actually gives a number of reasons why the use of silver in the world's monetary sys tem would help solve the possible catastrophe of a gold shortage he advocates having silver in reserve as a part of every large money cer tificate the silver to be redeemed at market value mr brownell believes that ultimately the world must choose between paper and silver this is in the event of a gold short age summarizing the results of his expeditions to greeland south africa and south america to ob tain specimens of minerals for the collection of the academy of nat ural sciences samuel g gordon curator of mineralogy at the acad emy gave an illustrated lecture be fore the mining and geological so ciety thursday night in his travelog on greenland he showed pictures of the natives and their homes and scenes of the mountains and glaciers which form the coast of greeland the main point of his trip was the cryolite mine along the short this cryolite mine the only one in the world has been worked since 1856 when english traders discovered the es kimoes using it on fishing lines the huge batholiths of granite and stratified minerals were emphasized as being an interesting part of the coastline throughout greenland mr gordon dug holes three to four feet deep in his search for mineral specimens in one hole he dug up 15 minerals containing one-third of the chemical elements the cold bareness of the country was made very evident by the slides glacial deposits of rock makes extensive agricultural ad vancement out of the question even if the climate lent itself to such a development mr gordon used the first part of his 125 lantern slides to illustrate his lecture on green land a country which he visited in 1923 describes south american trip with the remainder of the slides mr gordon explained his exper iences in ecuador peru bolivia and chile he described the fortication and ruins of the inca temples and the volcano avenue of ecuador his remarks were based on three trips made by auto ore-bucket and mule the auto was driven by reck less indians who relied upon charms for safe driving around the hair-pin curves in the andes and the ore-bucket sometimes was as high as 800 feet above the valley a tin mine reached by the ore bucket trip produces 15 per cent of the world's supply and as much as 5,000,000 worth of the ore has been taken from a single dike tin is the leading product of the region and furnishes occupation for a major portion of the population the diamond mines at kimberly and the gold mines in johannes burg were the main points of in terest in the african trip coming events lehigh club hears talk on mathematics rifle team selected for hearst contest debaters to meet loss of veteran contenders weakens lehigh line-up two losses have occurred in the two teams which will compete thig week for the william randolph hearst intercollegiate trophy c k okuno ch x e 34 and h n beiter bus 35,~have both been eliminated on account of illness the teams are now constituted a follows on the first team — j m hazen 34 r c ruhf 34 w a johnson 35 r n lindabury 34 and j j bosak 34 and on the second team — k r schneck 33 d h freiday 33 r b wall 33 f m pittenger 34 and m r evans 35 f.m pittenger bus 34 fired the highest score of the season totalling 433 points in the lehighß o t c handicap match this past week k r schneck arts 33 and c a heiberger c e 35 tied for sec ond prize with a score of 384 points louis m stamberg may coach debating team louis m stamberg an allen town attorney will address an open meeting of delta omicron theta honorary forensic society at 7:00 p m friday in room 466 packard laboratory mr stamberg will an nounce at this time whether or not he will accept the position of de bating coaqh all men ' interested in debating are invited to attend if opportun ity permits a late debate schedule will be arrarfged for the latter part of the school year according to ed ward fleischer president of delta omicron theta fleischer stated that men who aid in the present movement tow ards the re-establishment of debat ing will be eligible for election to the society this year many men who gained experience by debating on last year's team were lost through graduation so it will be necessary to select almost an en tirely new team prof j s long leaves tomorrow to attend the american chemical society convention in new or leans prof b l miller addressed the alumnae of the moravian college for women last tuesday evening the electrical engineering depart ment received a tryatron rectifier from the general electric com pany last week nicopolis a musical comedy writ ten by h w tichenor bus 33 was presented last week at the kearney n j high school major a m weyland will conduct the annual inspection of the le high r o t c unit early in may l f underwood e e 32 pre sented a paper on electricity in aviation at the recent conven tion of the a i e e at swarth more college mr carl gill the artist whose paintings are now on exhibition in the art gallery visited lehigh sunday to view his paintings dr r h of the psycholo gy department announced yester day that he will spend the sum mer in russia and that he is ar ranging a student party to rus sia from lehigh musical group offers new numbers at catasauqua the male quartet in the musical club concert at catasauqua on wednesday night was replaced by a male trio this trio was compos ed of meyers roberts and carey the trio sang two popular num bers snuggle on your shoulder and put thtt sun back in the sky they were accompanied on the guitar by william towers in the second half of the pro gram the glee club opened with a new number called love me or not by secchi the orchestra fol lowed this number with two pop ular selections she didn't say yes and freddie the freshman which was cleverly dramatized by van wulven miller booker and roberts an instrumental trio com posed of f s roberts violinist frank biro cello and w w sel ton piano then played the lon don derry air by kreisler and fairy tale the orchestra then played business in f and the glee club ended the program with the alma mater hitchcock to lecture wesleyan professor will speak on architecture prof henry russell hitchcock of the department of fine arts at wesleyan university in middletown conn will give a public lecture on post-war architecture in europe and america at 8 o'clock monday evening march 21 in packard audi torium professor hitchcock is an auth ority in the field of modern archi tecture according to g a how land assistant professor of fine arts he has recently published a book which ranks among the best works in this field in his talk professor hitchcock will deal chiefly with the work of four european architects le cor busier oud gropius and mies van der robe he will probably include in his discussion of american works those of such men as frank lloyd wright howe and lacaze friday march 18 4:30 p m board of publications will discuss new constitution for the burr in the dean's office 6:15 p m delta omicron theta will hear a lecture by l m stam burg in room 466 packard lab oratory 7 p m alpha kappa psi will dis cuss new by-laws at a meeting at the sigma nu house 8 p m dr s m kintner will ad dress lehigh valley section of a i e e on research-industries health insurance at phillips burg monday march 21 4 p m radio club will hold first official meeting in the radio room of packard laboratory 6 p m all junior candidates for o d k membership are request ed to be at their homes the members of o d k will call at the candidate's home and tap the two elected members 8 p m prof h r hitchcock will speak on post-war architecture in europe and america in pack ard auditorium j e stocker and w w thurs ton speak at philadelphia john e stocker associate profes sor of mathematics and astronomy was the principal speaker at a meeting last friday evening of the lehigh club of philadelphia held at the engineers club philadelphia professor stocker discussed the application and importance of math ematics in everyday life he also spoke of the developments he has noticed around the campus in the 30 years has has served as an in structor at lehigh william w thurston 98 who has just returned from a sojourn of 15 year's jn europe related some of the experiences he encountered in foreign la-nds andrew e buchanan jr execu tive secretary of the alumni associa tion and editor of the alumni bul letin accompanied professor stock er to the meeting news briefs vol xxxix no 37 harris addresses pre-legal society bethlehem pa friday march 18 1932 miami triad dance to be held at hotel price — five cents henderson to speak at dinner tonight trips planned for students before easter silver article by carothers is questioned plans formed for reception of sub-frosh saracens to furnish music at annual dance saturday brown and white journalism students to see stock exchange and criminal line up in new york next week member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first