Brown and White Vol. 39 no. 40

              international r e 1 a 1 1 ons club will represent germany and peru at model league confer ence prof gipson to accompany ten students to syracuse in connection with the new stu dies of color-blindness to be con ducted by the department of psy 1 chology lehigh students with de fective color-vision are being asked to register next week for the preci sion color-blindness tests all students who failed on their color plates in the physical exam ination are asked to report to the department of psychology room 112 packer hall between 3 and 4:30 on tuesday wednesday or thurs day of next week for their appoint ments the results of the new precision color-blindness tests will be kept in confidence by the examiner and ad vice will be given concerning means by which the color-blind student may compensate for his deficiency the service will be given individ ually and without charge dr adelbert ford head of the department of psychology greatly desires the cooperation of those men who have been forwarded letters of notification will represent lehigh at st louis convention russel w burk arts 33 cadet colonel in the lehigh r o t c unit and president of the local chap ter of the scabbard and blade will attend the 18th national conven tion of the scabbard and blade na tional honorary military fraternity which will be held at washington university st louis missouri april 7 8 and 9 the convention will be attended by more than 200 delegates from 46 states all delegates from the active companies are junior or senior cad et officers in the colleges and uni versities offering advanced course work in military science and tactics the local chapter of the scab bard and blade known as h com pany third regiment was installed at lehigh march 21 1922 it has numbered among its members only the most active and the most ca pable among the cadet officers se lected by the members with the co operation of the academic and mil itary faculty the active member ship with six faculty associate mem bers is 28 will represent lehigh at meet wilson talks to pre-meds george mcmanus and here said the guide is the office of george mcmanus creator of maggie and jiggs . . . he's in now come in and meet him the is members of the lehigh journal istic field trip filed into a tiny office of the king feature syndicate to see the czar of comic artists there was nothing affected in george mcmanus greeting as he rose to meet his lehigh visitors in fact jolly and somewhat stout the famous artist resembled his charac ter jiggs and showed a delightful personality as he explained the pe cularities of the cartoonist's work difficulties explained it is especially difficult mcmanus said for an artist to sketch his strip for distribution in foreign fields one account of england he ex plained the fourth of july must be omitted and in respect to the op posite climate of south america winter must not be shown inci dentally the natives of south am erica get their biggest laughs from the comic strip when maggie bosses jiggs for women just don't boss men down there perhaps the most interesting problem for mcmanus arises in china where the readers cannot understand corned beef and cabbage gives original copy after answering many questions for the lehigh men the artist gave each visitor an autographed original copy of his work and turned back to an elaborate comic page which was to be released may is artists he explained must work far ahead george mcmanus really began his career when he was dismissed from high school for drawing funny pictures and entered the employ of the st louis republic as errand boy and fashion illustrator a lucky racing bet however gave the boy enough money to reach new york where bringing up father was successful in 1912 for twenty years the fame of maggie and jiggs has grown until 500 contemporary newspapers car ry the story of their life though wealthy from his royalties mcman us their creator chooses to live a retiring life still creating day by day more laughs for the world former instructor de scribes toxology as aid to justice gipson leads bull session reed and alexander to attend i n a con vention at haverford roessle made editor of burr 19 officers and board members elected at m c c t i ng wednesday social life of english and american colleges compared in discussion to describe engineer's part in national social structure the ever increasing part which the engineer is playing in the de velopment of the social structure of the nation will be the theme of c hale sutherland head of the de partment of civil engineering when he lectures at 8 p m monday in packard auditorium professor sutherland has select ed as his topic the engineer and the social order this lecture will be the last of the present series by members of the faculty the old style engineer who was merely a hired man has disappear ed professor sutherland declared in an interview the engineer of to day brings to his profession a broad view which leads him to make cv : cry effort to better our civilization unless our engineering students can get this sense of responsibility they will be greatly handicapped in their professional life according to pro fessor sutherland came to lehigh in 1930 professor sutherland came to lehigh in 1930 previously he was a member of the faculty of the mas sachusetts institute of technology in 1926-27 he was exchange pro fessor with robert college istan bul turkey and while there was head of the department of civil en gineering he is also the author of several books on civil engineering this series of university lectures which will be completed with pro fessor sutherland's lecture consist ed of the following the new south by dr g d harmon as sociate professor of american his tory probability and modern phy sics by max peterson associate professor of physics a seven teenth century radical by e h riley associate professor of eng lish the socialization of invest ment by w l bishop associate professor f economics current trends in psychology by j l graham assistant professor of psy chology and professor sutherland's lecture geologist says industrial leadership is result of long geological devel opment dr c p berkey discusses requirements of a geologist pennsylvania is a leading indus trial state as a result of its long ge ological history was the statement of dr george h ashley state ge ologist speaking before the mining and geological society last night at williams hall dr ashley traced the geological history of pennsylvania through the ages showing with the aid of diagrams and pictures the forma tion of the state's present topogra phy it was once according to dr ashley very mountainous compar able to the alps of the present day due to the folding of the earth slowly the mountains were worn down leaving many different lay ers containing important minerals at the earth's surface layers contain many minerals these layers contained iron coal limestone slate silica limestone and many other minerals which gave rise to pennsylvania's great industries such as iron refining ce ment making coal mining and quarrying dr ashley pointed out the inter esting fact that the amount of rock taken from the pennsylvania coal mines yearly is equal to the entire amount taken from the panama canal he also showed slides of pre historic animal life traces of which were found in these mineral depos its at the conclusion of dr ashley's lecture prof b l miller head of the geology department introduced dr charles p berkey professor of geology at columbia who gave a short talk on the requirements of a geologist robert h raring pres ident of the society concluded the meeting by inviting to the meeting any residents of the two who are interested in geology and requesting that they send their names to him so that he might send them notices of subsequent meetings e.e.'s visit plants of remote control e fleischer elected editor of the review the lehigh chapter of the inter national relations club will attend the model league of nations as sembly to be held at syracuse uni versity april 21-24 the members of the club who will attend the as sembly are donald s sawyer arts 32 henry p krusen arts 32 c brooks peters arts 34 d c os born arts 32 edgar a collins arts 32 james e anderson arts 33 s d leibowitt arts 33 blake b hammond arts 33 wilson w bolton bus 34 and gerald w ullman arts 34 prof lawrence h gipson will accompany the group to syracuse this year the lehigh chapter has been assigned two countries to represent the assembly because of their excellent showing in the dis armament conference held at buck nell last year the two countries are germany and peru many colleges attend the assembly is to be attended by all of the leading colleges in new jersey new york and penna the entire assembly is to be sponsored by the league of nations assembly of new york which is connected with the carnegie foundation the assembly is conducted in a manner very similar to the way in which the real league of nations is con ducted there will be representa tives from all the leading nations of the world the leading economic situations of the day will be dis cussed on the floor by delegates from each country donald s sawyer has been elect ed chairman of the continuity com mittee at the assembly this com mittee is composed of five members three of which are ex-officic the members of the committee are don old s sawyer lehigh miss eileen thompson skidmore school sara toga springs n v wilson white ex-officio syracuse james rande busch ex-officio princeton and j w hamilton ex-officio lafayette the committee which is to repre sent germany has been in touch with the german ambassador to america dr friedrich wilhelm yon prittwitz and the german con sul general to new york dr kiep the peruvian committee has also been in touch with the peruvian am bassador to the united states martin m reed 33 news man ager and jay l alexander 34 lo cal advertising manager will rep resent the brown and wbit£._at the spring convention of the intercol legiate newspaper association of the middle atlantic states friday and saturday april 15-16 at haver ford college the program for the convention has not been completed however the delegates will be guests at the lehigh-haverford track meet to be held on saturday afternoon at hav erford several members of the track team who are also on the brown and white staff will prob ably attend the saturday morning and evening sessions of the conven tion these men include burt h riviere 33 business manager and william r merriam 34 sports writer the brown and white has again entered competition for the news and editorial cups awarded semi-an nu'ally by the i n a approxi mately 26 colleges will be entered in these contests last fall the brown and white won first place in the news competition newspa per men from philadelphia and vi cinity will serve as judges in the competition news briefs electricals receive testing equipment elections comprised the most important business of the burr meeting wednesday night the fol lowing men were elected j j roessle 33 editor in chief d n crichton 33 managing editor c b peters 34 and r r snyder jr 33 assistant editors n alper 34 art editor j a aufhamer 33 sec retary c j merritt 33 business manager p j flanagan jr 33 ad vertising manager j h kaufman 33 circulation manager the editorial staff's new members are e a norman 35 f r lauer 35 s r goodrich 35 m m reed 33 the business staff's r n lin dabury 34 w r merriam 34 c klatzkin 34 r p eggleston 34 and d l grier 34 d m stein berg 35 was the only man elected to the art board the new staff under the super vision of the retiring staff will do most of the work on the next two issues this is a continuation of a plan inaugurated last year which proved successful the house party issue of the burr will appear on april 22 definite plans have not been made as yet the importance and history of toxology as a phase of forensic chemistry was discussed in a lec ture by dr j hunt wilson pro fessor of physical chemistry at la fayette and formerly instructor in chemistry at lehigh at a pre-med ical society meeting wednesday evening in packard laboratory forensic chemistry is chemistry used in the administration of jus tice according to dr wilson some of the most notable cases where this form of chemistry is used are poison cases counterfeiting autop sies in murder trials and in the testing of ink to show the age of any questionable documents classifies poisons in crime dr wilson described only one phase of forensic chemistry toxol ogy toxology deals with the de tection and estimation of poison in dead bodies dr wilson classified the different poisons according to chemistry and also told of the methods by which these poisons are i detected and analyzed modern toxology was started in 1787 and has since played an im portant part in clearing up some of the most baffling crimes in history dr wilson then cited a number of gruesome cases where poisons had been used to commit seemingly un solvable murders the murders were solved by toxologists a short discussion followed the lecture faculty to dance cairns gives talk a comparison of the educational and social life of the colleges of england and america was discussed by dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment at a bull session wednes day night at the omega phi sigma fraternity house according to dr gipson one of the most outstanding differences in the educational systems of amer ican and english colleges lies in the manner of the supervision of stu dies by the university authorities in the english college a student is not required to attend any lec tures or classes throughout his years of study the only require ment is that every man must report regularly to his tutor said dr gip son english system specializes the mastery of a certain definite field of study is emphasized under the english system of education while the education received in the american universities is of a much more general nature there are no regular periods of examinations in the english schools that compare to those of american colleges un der their system a man takes at the end of his years of study a very complete examination in his spe cialized field dr gipson said dr gipson continued with a dis cussion of the social life of the eng lish universities he stated that there is nothing in the english col leges that really compares with the fraternity system of american col leges dr gipson gathered most of his information about english colleges when he attended lincoln colege oxford for three years as a rhodes scholar frosh regulations will cease at 7 45 monday morning drown hall will be decorated with flowers for affair tonight the faculty will hold its annual spring dance at 8:30 tonight in drown hall the music will be ren dered by sheriff wanamaker and his dance orchestra spring decorations consisting of flowers and lanterns will adorn the dance hall with the music there will be many novelty numbers gifts will be awarded to those cou ples winning the lucky number dance the committee in charge of the dance consists of the following mrs r.d billinger chairman mrs j k rice and mrs a a diefen derfer new harmonic generator in stalled in department a special five unit harmonic test ing set was received last week by the electrical engineering depart ment and has been installed in the basement of packard laboratory this machine according to pro fessor seyfert generates a three phase current at a fundamental fre quency of 60 cycles and its third fifth and seventh harmonics the machine is driven by an adjustable speed of 60 horse-power motor professor seyfert states that it can be used to supply frequencies varying from 30 cycles to 500 cycles of a sinusoidal wave form to excite the 150,000 volt transformer used for high voltage tests to produce non-sinusoidal wave forms for spe cial tests on motors transformers and rectifiers and to provide ma terial for harmonic wave analysis and synthesis professor seyfert said this is the finest and most versatile piece of equipment ever added to the electrical engineering laboratory and it will be especially useful for the continuation of research work of many kinds eight lehigh professors attend mathematical meeting eight members of the department of mathematics attended the meet ing of the american mathematical society at columbia university march 25 and 26 dr s c cairns instructor in mathematics present ed a paper entitled the direction cosines of a p-plane in n dimen sional space those from lehigh who attend ed the meeting were tomlinson fort head of the mathematics de partment prof l l smail k w lamson associate professor g e raynor assistant professor and instructors s c cairns e h cut ler v v latshaw and h g swain freshman regulations will cease at 7:45 a m monday ac cording to carl schier secretary of arcadia the members of ar cadia passed on the motion at the meeting last monday no definite time has been set for the dropping of freshman rules in future years each arca dia will set the time that the reg ulations will be dropped schier stated h c knutson in charge of new york inspection trip inspection of varied applications of remote control systems and semi automatic equipment featured the annual electrical engineering in spection trip thursday friday and saturday of last week a group of eight electrical engineers headed by h c knutson instructor in the department took the trip the hudson avenue generating station of the brooklyn edison com pany was visited thursday morn ing mr laudenschlager 28 mr billman 31 and mr sordin 31 employees of the company showed and explained the automatic elec trical operated fuel hoists generat ing units and the function of the test laboratories they were also shown the company's newly equip ped master control room after lunch the group visited the new central subway station at 126 w 53rd street there they inspect ed the remote control system and the interlocking switch system at the columbus circle terminal at the wabc studios of the colum bia broadcasting system they wit nessed a radio and television pro gram in progress the american telephone and telegraph company the westing house lamp company and the em pire state building were visited in turn the inspection trip was ter minated at roxy's theatre saturday afternoon predicts change in type of articles to be published edward fleischer arts 33 was named editor in chief of the lehigh review and c brooks peters man aging editor in elections held at drown hall thursday evening fleischer was formerly managing editor of the publication and news editor of the brown and white he is president of delta omicron theta and a member of pi delta epsilon national honorary journalistic fra ternity according to fleischer a vigor ous shakeup will be made in the type of articles running in the re view and their make-up we in tend to function he said as a magazine instead of an activity the review boards passed a mo tion to raise the price of the pub lication to 2 a price which had been customary until the reduction this year officers elected to executive posi tions were robert s davis bus iness manager fritz keck adver tising manager and harry waren dorf 2nd secretary to the board elections to the editorial board were david wright a e grudin and william levenson while sam uel style james e purdy and robert prall gained positions on the business board all elections are subject to ap proval by the board of publica tions prof r w hall head of the department of biology is recover ing from an attack of bronchial pneumonia at durham north car olina where he has been on leave since last fall dale h gramley instructor in journalism will speak on build ing staff morale at the annual banquet of the staff of the albrigh tian albright college newspaper at reading this evening the philadelphia lehigh club has elected the following officers clif ford f lincoln 11 president w a cornelius 89 first vice pres ident moriz bernstein 96 secre tary mr lincoln is beginning his fourth term of office and mr bern stein has been elected for the 30th consecutive time dr don leet who is in charge of siesmological work at harvard spent a few days here at lehigh in conference with dr warren w ewing associate professor of phy sical chemistry dr leet and dr ewing are collaborating on a book and spent their time together in the preparation of the book bethlehem pa friday april 8 1932 lehigh journalism students meet creator of maggie and jiggs price — five cents psychologists to aid color-blind students burk to attend meet of military society vol xxxix no 40 lehigh group to participate in discussion will discuss new concept ofengineer ford desires cooperation of men who need correction the brown and white keystone state history traced by dr ashley professor sutherland to give last of year's col lege lectures monday in packard lab member intercollegiate newspaper association all the i lehigh news first j