Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 23

              president richards names sports eligibility committee the new university committee on eligibility in athletics was named this morning by president charles r richards members of the committee are dr neil carothers head of the department of business ad ministration j l beaver asso ciate professor of electrical en gineering r p more associate professor of german and j s long professor of inorganic chemistry all of the committee members have had experience in dealing with lehigh's athletic problems and will act in an advisory ca pacity to president richards who is temporarily directing the athletic program until such a time as the new athletic director shall be named hale sutherland to represent lehigh at southern meeting halsted will be delegate to new orleans convention charles f halsted president of arcadia will represent lehigh uni versity at the meeting of the na tional student federation of the united states to be held from dec 28 to jan 1 in new orleans la about 300 delegates will attend as guests of tulane university and sophie newcomb college chairman charles oden student president of tulane will open the congress in troducing the presidents of tulane university and sophie newcomb college rabbi louis binstock will give an address on the international aspect of student life prof albert coates of the university of north carolina will speak on the insti tute of government the principal topics of discussion will be the hon or system student government col lege publications and athletics tryouts held by debaters seven talks judged at delta omicron theta meeting last friday seven preliminary tryouts for the debating squad were held by delta omicron theta debating so ciety at its meeting friday after noon five minute debates were made by the following j b diefenmach 35 h k ellis 35 e l heller 35 f j snyder v 36;v 36 e w thorn 36 and w s wheeler 36 the subject discussed was re solved that all inter-allied war debts including reparations be can celled m s muir arts 35 spoke on resolved that capitalism as a system of economic organization is the most sound in principle yet de vised poise voice content and logic were the points considered in judg ing by clyde a harding assistant in english louis m stamberg de bating coach and s d leibowitt arts 33 president of delta omi cron theta the grades awarded on these speeches averaged with those of a later inter-society debate will de termine the personnel of the deba ing squad because debates scheduled this season are on two questions it is proposed to maintain two teams one debating each topic this is done most successfully by all large uni versities leibowitt said larkin to send photo abroad will give copy of paint ing of dr weisbach to dr matschoss in berlin a photograph of dr julius weis bach famous german scientist and former teacher of eckley b coxe donor of lehigh's mining labora tory will be sent to dr conrad matschoss director of the verein deutscher ingenieure in berlin by prof fred v larkin head of the departments of mechanical and in dustrial engineering the original oil painting of dr weisbach which hangs in the me chanical engineering students read ing room will be photographed by john w maxwell of the alumni office professor larkin said it is a friendly exchange and i am interested in its as dr mat schoss is a personal friend of mine and when i visited berlin last year i went through his institute the in stitute houses all the engineering societies in germany and corres ponds to the new york office of the american society of mechani cal engineering the painting was given to the mechanical engineering department as part of the library collection of eckley b coxe dr weisbach taught mr coxe engineering at the berg akademie in freiberg dr weisbach's text book me chanics of machines was used for a number of years in the mechani cal engineering course mr parey assistant of dr mat schoss attempted to photograph the painting but was unsuccessful be cause of poor light he visited this country in 1930 when he attendad the fiftieth anniversary of the a s m e explains value of gas attack capt m e barker tells of importance of chem ical warfare to army the chemical warfare service is of such great importance in the work of the united states army that if it were done away with a very powerful military advantage would be lost capt maurice e barker told a meeting of the le high valley section of the american chemical society last friday captain barker is a senior in structor of chemistry at the united states army chemical warfare school in edgewood md captain barker described the work of the chemical warfare ser vice during both war and peace time it has proved an invaluable addition to the army ever since its creation by the war department he asserted during the war an enormous amount of research was carried on in gas offense and gas defense captain barker declared many mil lion pounds of gas were used very effectively as an offensive weapon he said the gases used were chlo rine chloropecrin mustard gas phosgene and arsine the gas which research workers were searching for was one which would temporarily cripple the ene my instead of killing sneeze gas and tear gas were used in the war and since the war these gases were used against the bonus army several months ago captain barker described the gas masks used during the war as in struments of torture better ones have been devised since the war however at the close of the war he declared the united states was manufacturing more gas masks than all other nations put together selves as distributors and for you as a self-appointed salesman on a generous commission basis when the possibility of a contin uance of the plan by students who hold their own interests above the ultimate failure of the plan was suggested to dean mcconn he frowned upon it that attitude is unfortunately common in american business to day he said if anything drives our nation to ruin it is the moral ity which allows people to exploit their fellows the dean stated that he would consult the university attorney con cerning the plan and forward the copy in his possession to the prop er authorities arc welding studied here e c easton and f b lucas make researches in packard laboratory the forces between the electrodes of a welding act in a vacuum are being studied by e c easton and f b lucas research fellows in electrical engineering these forces are caused by the bombardment of the electrodes by the metallic par ticles of the welding material the work is being done in packard laboratory the research which is a contin uation of another conducted on arcs in air and published two years ago by frederick creedy research associate professor of electrical en gineering has as its object to make better known how the metal is transferred to the joint in welding roy kogge and a o danello graduate students in electrical en gineering are studying the relation of various conditions of voltage and current and of steady and unsteady current upon the quality and type of weld produced it is believed that when the metal is welded regularly the arc must be steady said pro fessor creedy prof a r miller of the electri cal department and professor cree dy are working on a special gene • rator which will prevent a heavy surge of current when the welding arc is struck there is danger that this surge might cause damage to the electrical circuit in which the arc is connected thus making it highly desirable to have such a current regulating device lehigh frosh defeat lafayette 11-3 in annual yuletide round up mustard and cheese club presents wilde's " lady windermere's fan tells of need for courses in humanities hale sutherland suggests that technical stu dents should increase study of social science professor delivers address to faculty educational club increased study of literature and social science by civil engineering students was advocated by hale sutherland head of the department of civil engineering in an address the humanities and engineering education delivered before the faculty educational club recently our engineering graduates have found themselves poorly equipped with knowledge of the industrial world which they entered upon graduation because they were han dicapped by inability to write and speak fluently professor suther land declared suggests remedy continuing he said that the stu dy of the humanities literature and social science would help to over come these difficulties social sci ence is the only way through which many may come to understand hu man affairs and qualify in any way for social leadership he added professor sutherland suggested that the present requirements call ing for 27 credit hours or 20 per cent of the civil engineering course to be non-technical should be amended to read 20 per cent re quired in the humanities which should be defined as literature and social science this step is neces sary if lehigh university is to meet fairly the modern demand for liber ally trained engineers professor sutherland said that the great economic crisis of today has increased the demand that the engineers take a more positive place of leadership in the world lauds california tech the california institute of technology is one american tech nical school that is meeting the de mand for liberally trained engin eers the plan of this school is to acquaint the student with man and his environment to bring him to comprehension in some degree of the facts of modern organized life economically and politically and so fit him to play an intelligent part among his fellows professor suth erland stated it is not possible with the elec tive subjects now available at le high university excellent as they are to give a training comparable to that of the systematic scheme of the c i tv professor sutherland declared the effective use of the present time allotment in the civil engin eering curriculum at least would go very far indeed in placing our students abreast of the best in cul tural training professor suther land believes red cross captain to test life-savers field representatives will visit lehigh after vacation lehigh university students who are american red cross life-saving examiners will be re-examined on jan 9 10 11 and 12 in the taylor gymnasium pool fay c bartlett assistant professor of physical edu cation announced capt william young field rep resentative of the american red cross will make the biennial in spection visit to the university on those dates senior red cross life savers will also have the opportun ity to take the examinership tests students who are interested should see r j degray instructor in chemistry or e w kaufmann graduate assistant in chemistry for appointments they will give in struction on jan 5 6 and 7 between 3 and 4:30 p m at the pool that the accumulative commis sion plan a seemingly profitable scheme now circulating about the campus ought to be ignored by students of lehigh was the opinion of dean c m mcconn when he was shown a copy of the explana tory pamphlet recently i hope no more students of the university will be simple-minded enough to fall for this scheme he said the plan is an improved version of the shifter initiation prevalent years ago in several eastern states with the purpose of bringing back prosperity it serves according to its instigators in new york city to put more money into circulation this end is accomplished by the es tablishment of agents all over the nation who in return for one dol lar are sent a wallet and ten pro motion circulars company collects money these circulars the agents pass on receiving a commission of 50 cents on seven of them when the company collects a dollar from each of the recipients the latter also re ceive ten circulars for distribution the process is then repeated the original agent realizing a 50-cent commission on 30 of his ten cus tomers sales each of these sales men is given 3.50 the company receives a profit of 70 from the to tal contributions with commissions paid from their dealings with the original agents the plan as the circulars care fully mention is mathematically sound information from the math ematics department of the univer sity points to the fact that it is a form of geometric progression that the accumulative commis sion plan is unsound was shown by the calculations of j h ogburn professor of mathematics and as tronomy he proved that to avoid loss the plan would have to be carried on to infinity provided that all per sons approached buy circulars they will after the tenth distribution in the progression have made all of the billion.and a half souls in the world agents for the company said professor ogborn obviously then the system will in the tenth distribution result in a loss of approximately half billion dollars to the persons involved he continued professor ogburn went on to say that since the agents in various lo calities must sooner or later find no more customers to approach they will drop out thus the profit to the company will be enormously larger supposedly honest plan concerning the honesty of the purpose a quotation from the cir culars states that the plan is be ing run with scrupulous fairness any other policy would be suicidal to our own hopes of profit . . . this is a time of depression when a lit tle extra money is particularly wel come . . . we offer you an oppor tunity to secure through our cu mulative commission plan a gen erous return for your efforts . . . this is a new method of merchan dising and for your cooperation we offer you the possibility of substan tial commissions ... it is not a lot tery of a prize competition it is a plan which contemplates an honest profit for the manufacturer for our violator of handbook rules loses iii-timed moustache an ember of the fiery lehigh spir it of former days flared momentar ily last night when several students in a packer avenue boarding house relieved one of their fellows of a thriving moustache the culprit russell i london 35 a member of arcadia had been warned repeatedly that he was vi olating a rule of the freshman hand book he kept the moustache a dozen of his fellow students pro cured a cold razor and without shaving cream surprised their vic tim in his room faculty men plan to attend 11 meetings four members of geology department to attend american geological society meet in boston w.r okeson to attend several conventions in new york city many members of the lehigh faculty will make use of the christ mas vacation during the next two weeks to attend meetings concerned with the business of their depart ments j b severs c w phy and si mon deptula instructors in eng lish are planning to go to yale uni versity dec 29 to attend a meeting of the modern language associa tion a literary research organiza tion this same meeting will be at tended by p m palmer head of the german department f o ke gel assistant professor of german c s fox head of the department of romance languages and j m toohy associate professor in the same department professor kegel will read a paper on hermann hesse gipson to read paper l h gipson head of the depart ment of history and government will read a paper on the british iron act of 1750 before a meet ing of the american historical so ciety in toronto he will be ac companied by s m brown profes sor of history e b schulz associate professor of political science intends to spend his vacation in municipal gov ernment research he expects to write a text book on the subject g d harmon associate profes sor of history will engage in re search on the effect of the clergy on popular sentiment in the civil war he will carry on this work in phil adelphia in the libraries of the pennsylvania historical society and the university of pennsylvania g a howland assistant profes sor of fine arts expects to spend part of his vacation collecting ma terial in the metropolitan museum in new york for a talk he is giv ing jan 3 before the daughters of the american revolution the title of his address will be early paint ing in america h w wright head of the de partment of latin and e l crum associate professor of latin will at tend the annual joint meeting of the archeological institute of america and the american philological asso ciation in syracuse n y dr wright is recording secretary of the institute geologists to meet drs benjamin l miller joe w peoples donald m fraser and lawrence whitcomb will represent the geology department at the for ty-fifth annual meeting of the am erican geological society and affil iated societies of metallurgy and paleontology to be held dec 28 to 30 at harvard university dr peo ples will present a report on the stillwater igneous complex a geo logical formation in montana dr miller who is head of the ge ology department will also go to a meeting of the new york mineral ogical club to be held dec 28 in the american museum of natural history new york city he will de liver a lecture on minerals of eas stern pennsylvania and their ori gin s j thomas professor of bac teriology will read a paper on bacterial filtrability life cycles and dissociation at a meeting of the society of american bacteriolo gists at the university of michigan this meeting is being held to eel continued on page four lehigh beat lafayette 11 to 3 last week in a triangular meet with bethlehem high school's two points entitling it to third place according to the final score compiled by the desk sergeant of the bethlehem po lice force it all started when various fresh men were instructed to get appro priate decorations for their houses for christmas thejr orders speci fied the results to be obtained not the methods and using their pro verbial ingenuity most of them de cided to do their christmas shop ping early — early in the morning that was probably all right too but pigs is pigs and when a man tries to drive around town at 1 a.m with six or eight christmas trees in the back of his car he should be prepared with a foolproof story when the police car comes along side police doubt stories evidently the bethlehem police are an uncredulous lot for before monday morning eleven lehigh stu dents three lafayette freshmen and two bethlehem high school pu pils had been brought in to see the sergeant about their tree-laden cars most of them spent at least one night in the the south market jail until superintendent of police fred t trafford arrived in the morning to hear their explanations fred en tered into the christmas spirit of the thing and gave them four al ternatives — thirty days 27.50 the dean or six months probation and full restitution to the tree owners all chose the last course and aft er paying for the trees the proba tion was suspended prisoners given banquet then came the surprise — each of the prisoners was invited to a din ner at the hotel bethlehem with superintendent trafford as the host eight attended saturday night and sunday the remainder shared his hospitality the raids are over now but the police motor squad that chased that tree-laden dodge up the hill and about the lehigh campus are still wondering how the driver gave them the slip until the police stall ed while making the turn above the president's house they were sure of their victims but the dodge turned off his lights and was not seen again they searched the campus for the car but they're still won dering . . . still wondering it is not the purpose of the writ er to become involved in a discus sion and analysis of the plays of wilde literary critics have amused themselves for several decades now with various haranguings about the respective merits of oscar wilde's plays the conventional bore may make him an outcast but his witti cisms and epigrams are undoubt edly clever they are certainly the bright spots of the play but were rather weakly presented on friday evening the play is primarily an english comedy of manners a cynical crit icism of the english society of the period wilde has deftly sketched several social types cecil graham the cynical wit mr hopper one of nature's gentlemen played ad mirably by charles yaffe and rob ert farnham respectively lord darlington the philander and the sedate lord windermere the plot concerns the dilema of lady windermere a very conven tional and unsophisticated young wife who suddenly discovers that her husband has been keeping an other woman and paying her money she is immediately overwhelmed with petty jealousies and suspicions continued on page four lady windermere's fan a com edy in four acts by oscar wilde staged and directed by warren fletcher musical score arranged by john e miller produced and presented by the mustard and cheese club and the faculty dramatic club with the following cast lord windermere john evans 34 lady windermere anne wrightson lord darlington c brooks peters lord augustus lorton william s weil 3s mr cecil graham charles yaffe 33 mr dumby jerome j berger 34 mr hopper robert farnham 36 sir james royston john aufhammer 33 parker butler edwin s williams dutchess of berwick polly smith lady agatha carlisle nancy ler desoto lady plymdale alice lewis lady jedburgh winifred sloane lady stutfield elizabeth mixell mrs cowper-cowper jane knight mrs erlynne katherine cairns by r francis bavington drown hall was the scene of a re vival friday evening when the mus tard and cheese club presented lady windermere's fan a social comedy by the english playwright oscar wilde a large audience greeted with much amusement the appearance of the costumes and mannerisms of the nineties bethlehem pa tuesday december 20 1932 addresses club vol xl no 23 dean hopes students scorn get rich quick scheme price five cents the lehigh university brown and white c m mcconn believes seemingly profitable accumulative commission plan should be ignored by undergraduate body next issue to appear jan 10 with this issue the brown and white suspends pubication until jan 10 1932 member intercollegiate newspaper association all 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