Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 25

              dr j fred wolle slowly but surely the attainment of the ideal economic order the ideal system of sex and the ideal maximum of health and longevity will be accomplished said dr neil carothers head of the department of business administration in speak ing on my philosophy of life be fore the robert w blake society last friday elaborating on this theme dr carothers visualized a social reg ime in which social control will be exercised to bring about an adjust ment of population to the economic possibilities of the environment to the end that poverty and over-work will be banished from the earth that war will be an impossibility that cruelty and hardships will be reduced to lowest terms this economic adjustment will be accomplished through an exten sion of birth-control he believes future outlined the future social order outlined here is not built from imagination but from the evidence plainly be fore us we can clearly foresee an age in which want and the fear of want economic subjection war gross disparity in economic satis factions sexual morbidity disease and premature death will have van ished from the earth every child fred j wolle choir leader dies at home bach festival organizer and conductor to be buried tomorrow af ternoon from the chapel illness of director caused cancellation of 1933 program dr j fred wolle founder and director of the bach choir which gained world-wide fame for its ren dering of the works of johann se bastian bach died yesterday morn ing at his home in bethlehem the funeral services will be held tomorrow afternoon at two o'clock in packer memorial chapel bishop j taylor hamilton of the moravian church bethlehem will officiate burial will be made in the family plot in nisky hill cemetery dr wolle had not been in the best of health for the past ten years and his illness last summer became so acute as to cause the 1933 fes tival to be called off since then dr wolle had become increasingly weak and the attending physicians felt since fall that his illness would be fatal organized bach choir the bach choir was organized by dr wolle in 1898 to present the music of johann sebastian bach since 1912 the festivals were pre sented in packer memorial chapel the festival lasted two days featur ing the moravian trombone choir and many of bach's cantatas on friday and the mass in b minor on saturday dr wolle's conducting was no less famous than the presentation itself in the words of a prominent philadelphia music critic when to such intensely self-forgetful en thusiasm is added a profound searching of the scriptures of bach it is a leadership men and women are bound to follow with all their might if they have an interest in life superior to material phases born in bethlehem dr wolle was born in bethlehem in 1863 at the age of seven he learned to play the piano and later turned to the organ at 21 dr wol le went to munich and studied the organ under the late dr josef rheinberger on returning he serv ed the central moravian congrega tion as organist from 1887 to 1905 he occupied the position of organist at lehigh play ing at chapel and the sunday morn ing services hundreds of lehigh men came to know dr wolle inti mately during his 18 years here and many aided him in the university choir the degree of doctor of music was conferred on dr wolle by the moravian college and theological seminary in 1904 he was one of the founders of the american guild of organists 13 will be initiated to alpha kappa psi grand national president to be speaker at supper alpha kappa psi national hon orary business fraternity will ini tiate 13 men tonight in drown hall edward h robb president of the local chapter announced recently a supper will follow the initia tion ceremonies at which o ar thur kirkman grand national pres ident of the fraternity will be the guest speaker alpha kappa psi was founded at new york university in 1904 and has since expanded to include 50 chapters with over 6,000 members alpha sigma chapter the lehigh chapter was admitted into member ship of the organization in 1924 the men to be initiated are wil liam r lathrop 33 william t rhoades 33 donald c pierce 33 john r taft 33 samuel t har leman jr 33 fred lambert 34 garret l grier 34 willard c korn 34 robert f bavington,'34 walter a peterson 34 richard e olwine 34 gordon w pater son 34 and charles r chambers 34 group to use city armory as dance hall interfraternity council to hold ball feb 4 in lo cal building commit tee makes arrangements petition is submitted to dean approval not yet received bulletin an effort is being made to day to engage the first orches tras of ted black and claude hopkins for the interfraternity ball the interfraternity council will hold a midwinter dance saturday feb 4 in the bethlehem armory second and prospect avenues this dance will take the place of some of the individual fraternity dances usually held at this time of the year a petition for the dance was sub mitted to dean mcconn although it has not yet received official ac tion there is little doubt that it will be approved samuel j simmons chairman of the committee in charge said yesterday the other members of the com mittee are george s hagstoz chem 34 and frederick d keck bus 33 this committee is actively making all preparations for the dance that are possible before offi cial permission is granted orchestra not picked no definite orchestra has been de cided upon as yet to help decide whether to engage one or two or chestras the committee polled the fraternity groups all but one ex pressed a preference for two or chestras if two orchestras are de cided upon the committee will at tempt to engage claude hopkins and ted black emerson gill jan garber don redman and ozzie nelson are among those being con sidered if it is decided to engage a single orchestra the dance which is to be formal will be paid for by the interfrater nity council each fraternity will be assessed according to its member ship the admission price will be fixed when the orchestra is en gaged although the scheme of the dec orations has not been decided upon the committee plans to have indi vidual booths along the sides of the dance floor where the fraternity groups can gather between dances dance held for economy the council stated that this dance will be held for the purpose of economy by having a large dance together the fraternities ex pect to be able to defray the cost much more cheaply than they would be able to if individual dances were held john aufhammer president of the interfraternity council stated that this dance marked a definite step of progress in the work of the council an effort will be made to make the dance an annual affair he said * dean attends meet mcconn presides at american col lege convention today dean c m mcconn presided at a discussion on the testing pro gram — results in pennsylvania and elsewhere at a luncheon of the nineteenth annual meeting of the association of american colleges today the convention met in atlantic city yesterday and today to discuss one of the most pressing problems confronting higher education to day how to produce men of high intelligence and strong moral fiber the program has been arranged in cooperation with church and uni versity officials representatives of the leading colleges of the country will discuss their views haverford lafayette dartmouth and oberlin colleges and princeton columbia cornell lehigh duke ohio wes leyan and new york universities will have speakers address the con ference born into the world will be guaran teed a healthy body a sound mind a certain opportunity to labor in the way which is most adapted to his talents a wholesome sex life and a ripe old age he stated epitomizing the social history of the world he continued our pres ent social order is purely evolu tionary it began about a billion years ago when some miraculous juxta-position of chemical and phy sical forces working in the prime val slime converted inorganic mat ter into organic inert matter into living matter from that day to this there has been an unbroken chain of emergent and creative evolution in biological life reaching its high est development about 50,000 years ago on the form of homo sapiens or thinking reasoning man since that time 40 or 50 thousand years ago there has been no appreciable evo lution in man's physical or mental or biological structure earth to be lifeless in due time the earth will be come a lifeless frozen ball float ing in sterile space the improbable hypotheses of our modern mathe matical philosophers of a self-re newing universe to the contrary notwithstanding meanwhile the continued on page four o.d.k admits b stoughton elected on basis of serv ice to lehigh as expon ent of activities prof bradley stoughton director of the curriculum in metallurgical engineering was initiated into omi cron delta kappa national senior honorary fraternity at a meeting of that society last night in drown hall professor stoughton was notified of his election last may but due to the fact that he and the society were unable to arrange a date suit able to both parties his formal ini tiation was delayed until late this semester students are elected to omicron delta kappa on the basis of their service to lehigh and one of the national policies of the organization is to elect faculty members on thij same basis burt riviere president of omicron delta kappa stated that professor stoughton has al ways been one of the outstanding exponents of the value of extra cur ricular activities professor stoughton is recogniz ed as one of the outstanding figures in the field of metallurgy among the many organizations of which he is a member are american insti tute of mining and metallurgical engineers american society of steel treating american electro chemical society yale engineering association and the engineers club of the lehigh valley having held the presidency of the last three so cieties schedule announced rifle club arranges meets with four eastern colleges shoulder to shoulder matches with drexel lafayette western mary land and new york university have been arranged by the rifle club t b jordan secretary-treasurer an nounced yesterday a match with gettysburg will also be arranged he said the tentative dates are drexel feb 18 away lafayette feb 25 home western maryland march 4 home and new york university march 18 away nine weekly postal matches have been scheduled with 90 of the country's foremost colleges 10 matches being exchanged each week under the new rules scores for all positions must be in the mail by thursday night of each week jordan said ridgway tells about building of large dam colorado river project to provide irrigation flood control and elec tricity for southwest many precautions are taken for safety says engineer engineering projects as vast and complex as the hoover dam clearly demonstrate the great powers of men when they earnestly cooperate with the forces of nature said robert ridgway civil engineer and consultant on the hoover dam be fore 500 persons at a meeting of the civil engineering society last night in packard auditorium the hoover dam now under con struction was characterized by mr ridgway as the greatest construc tion project of the times when completed it will be the largest dam in the world it will perform four major func tions control the colorado river when in flood supply electric pow er make available a large and re liable water supply for cities and irrigation and control the silt con tent of the river which is so dan gerous and destructive in the lower reaches of the colorado ridgway said worked in new york ridgway is noted for his work in tunnel and rapid transit construc tion in new york and other large cities in 1930 he was consultant en gineer for the colorado river board whose duty was to investigate the proposed boulder dam later named hoover dam he was formerly president of the american society of civil engin eers in 1929 lehigh conferred upon him the degree of doctor of engin eering so great an undertaking is hoov er dam that six of the largest con struction companies in the west combined to contract for its build ing they are known as six com panies hoover dam is located in black canyon on the colorado river in the midst of the hottest dryest and most barren part of the southwest a modern city has been built by the contractors six miles from the dam to house the 5,000 workers at the kitchen where the men are fed 7,500 eggs and 12,000 flapjacks can be cooked in 18 minutes mr ridgway pointed out that one of the typical meals served provided for the three chops and a pint of ice cream per man four tunnels built four great diversion tunnels have been built to carry the river around the dam while the foundation is prepared the dam which is to be of the gravity arch type will con tain 3vz million cubic yards of con crete aggregate for the concrete is being obtained about eight miles up stream an elaborate cooling system will be placed in the mass of the dam to cool the concrete when it sets and prevent excessive contraction every precaution is being taken to insure the safety of the dam said ridg way to give tea jan 17 faculty women's club will meet tuesday in drown hall a tea will be given by the fac ulty women's club at 3 p m tues day jan 17 in drown hall mem bers of the faculty and their wives will attend at the tea mrs philip m palm er will give a talk on modern german architecture stated mrs neil carothers chairman of the tea committee mrs g a howland is vice-chair man of the committee the follow ing members will act as hostesses mrs c m mcconn mrs e h riley mrs h c brown mrs c s fox miss elizabeth hay mrs f v larkin mrs m c stuart mrs b stoughton and mrs h r reiter club concert to be given dance to follow program by combined musical groups tomorrow a concert and dance program will be given by the combined le high musical clubs at 8 o'clock sat urday evening in the drown hall auditorium the concert will be di vided into three parts announced c ward kellsted president and manager the glee club will sing the fol lowing selections sylvia sol diers chorus from faust i've never been to frisco john peel to the sea and the vik ing song robert pennington arts 34 will render two solos when big pro fondo sang low c and home on the range the glee club quar tet will sing also the popular num ber lassie o mine between the parts of the program the glee club orchestra will play selections the glee club program will last until 9:30 and the rest of the evening will be given over to the dance * lehigh students may obtain their tickets free of charge by applying for them at drown hall before sat urday night the general admission will be 55 cents brown to write book popularity of previous volume leads to new contract because of the large sale of his book on medieval history sidney m brown professor of history has signed a contract with harcourt brace and company to write a book on english history the title of the book will be england it is to be about 900 pages long and will be published by january of 1935 another book by professor brown to be published this year by the columbia university press is the diary of an archbishop it is a translation of the diary of an arch bishop of normandy in the middle ages and will be augmented by comments appendices and explan atory footnotes this book will be about 1,100 pages in length lehigh graduate marries niece of eugene g grace miss arlene l grace daughter of mrs john w grace 816 west market street was married to rob ert s bennett b s 30 in the trinity episcopal church in beth lehem saturday afternoon the bride a niece of eugene g grace president of the board of trustees is a graduate of west over school votes motion on subsidation not favorable national student federa tion congress disap proves of resolution to bar athletes decides to hold straw vote at next presidential election what charles f halsted le high's representative to the national student federation congress de scribed as the most surprising ac tion of the body was taken when a resolution favoring the subsidation of athletes was heartily disapproved the congress which assembled from dec 28-31 at new orleans la suggested that for the good of the players and for the interest of the games all the athletic schedules should be shortened faculty attitude is harmful the members of the convention thought a dictatorial attitude of a faculty toward student activities to be harmful to student initiative faculty supervision in an advisory capacity was thought useful the members of the convention decided that the federation should cooperate with the national political parties and hold a straw vote be fore each presidential election more interest in political affairs was favored editorials on the political problems would stimulate this in terest the convention felt in a speech on the honor system vernon f day secretary of the y m c a at tulane stated that the system if properly developed was a credit to any campus an honor system is part of the citizenship character building program of a col lege mr day said take straw vote a straw vote revealed that 31 col leges maintained the honor system and that seven had given the honor system a trial and abandoned it for the reason that it was not found successful the remainder of the 200 colleges and universities had not tried the system the congress favored the pub lishing of a paper the paper which will be called the national student mirror will be issued monthly one issue of the paper was published last year and was commented on favorably by the convention the next convention will be held during the christmas holidays of 1933 in washington d c with the american university as the hosts the regional meeting will be held in april at the university of delaware newtonian society discusses curves f t ritter e e 35 speaks on semi-cubic parabola higher plane curves indetermin ate equations and the folium of des cartes were discussed at a meeting of the newtonian society wednes day evening f t ritter e e 35 spoke on higher plane curves among the loci he discussed were the semi-cubic parabola the conchoid the witch and the sine wave indeterminate equations was the subject of the talk given by w a johnson met 35 he discussed several of those equations in which the unknown quantities admit of an infinite number of values an ex temporaneous speech on the folium of descartes a plane cubic curve was given by j e stocker asso ciate professor of mathematics and faculty adviser oi the society coming events saturday jan 14 7:30 p m varsity wrestling meet with harvard taylor gymna sium 8 p m annual concert and dance of the combined music clubs drown hall gives lecture to e e meet glen appleman discusses safety grounding used now on power stations grounding on electrical power stations and sub-stations necessary for the safeguarding of personnel and material was discussed by glen appleman grounding engineer of the pennsylvania power and light company at the electrical engin eering society meeting last evening a student lecture the register of the power company was given by robert p lee e e 33 mr appleman described good grounding characteristics all metal objects in stations should be elec trically tied together and connected to the ground he stated this ground circuit should in clude all objects that are assumed to be normally dead tanks pipes transformer cases lightning arrest ers railroad tracks and fences should be grounded to prevent high potential differences developing in cases of insulation failure he said advocates small resistance resistance between grounding electrodes and the ground should be low appleman stated this low re sistance may be accomplished by using electrodes of large area sev eral grounding leads should be used for maximum safety he added to reduce ground resistance pipes are often driven into the soil and sometimes scrap iron is plowed into trenches surrounding the grounding electrodes mr appleman contin ued water mains are satisfactory grounders because of their extent and diameter in describing the single phase watt hour or the cash register of the power company lee took one of the machines apart and passed working parts around for inspec tion he also discussed some errors that might occur in the functioning of the meter but said that they sel dom exceeded two per cent resents complaints professors association objects to rumors of dismissals the american association of uni versity professors resents the stead ily increasing complaints that threatened dismissals from educa tional positions are being based on current economic conditions ac cording to a recent report of one of its committees last year the association's com mittee had cooperated with the civ il liberties union in an effort to in vestigate the true causes for dis missals the report which was presented by prof g a mitchell of the uni versity of virginia stated that pres ent economic conditions have in creased the power of the college ad ministrations many dismissals have taken place on the grounds of econ omy the association is dubious of this and intends to investigate the 66 cases which occurred in 1932 some professors are forced to take cuts by threats of removal the com mittee reported bethlehem pa friday january 13 1933 car others envisions attainment of ideal economic social order price five cents bach leader dies vol xl no 25 brown and white all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association