Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 23

              religious data is given out edward fleischer approximately 100 couples at tended the annual military ball sponsored by the scabbard and blade society on saturday night from 10 until 2 o'clock in the ar mory doc hyder and his southernaires furnished music combined with several floor num bers for the first time in the history of the club the dance was held in the armory which was decorated appropriately with a christmas tree decorations of flags and guns gave the affair a military note members of the society wore their regulation uniforms i think the dance proved the practicability of using the armory for dances said e n hower 34 chairman of the dance committee composed of a t bailey j r fu gard and c k okuno the chaperones were major and mrs j o green captain and mrs j k rice and captain and mrs p l sadler last year's ball was held at the hotel bethlehem with the music furnished by the lehigh colle gians registrar's report shows change in percentage of protestants and jews bayley builds new amplifier most students who use the swim ming pool have at one time or oth er either secretly or loudly cursed the chlorine in the water which has a habit of irritating the eyes nose and throat they probably do not realize however that if the offend ing chemical were not in the water they would be constantly visited lfy colds and sore throats or possibly by typhoid fever they are also not aware of the fact that the system for purifying the pool water is a very expensive proposition this apparatus is in the base ment of the gymnasium next to the athletic supply room to the obser ver who is not technically trained it is a rather bewildering maze of pipes and pumps with innumerable wheels gauges and valves the real work that they do however is quite simple most of the water in the pool is used over again it enters two sets of filters imme diately after leaving the pool the first is a hair filter which is de signed to catch the hair that the more shaggy swimmers leave be hind them anl also the very coarse particles that are present in the wa ter filter made of rock the second filter is composed of sand and crushed rock and it filters out the fine almost invisible dirt particles that are always present in the used water from the filters the water enters the chlorinator where the chlorine is introduced into the water at a rate of about 2 parts of chlorine to one million parts of wa ter this chlorine content is the mm imum state requirement for indoor pools the content is kept as close to this as possible for a larger amount is apt to be very irritating to the eyes and noses of some peo ple the water goes through a heat er which is responsible for keeping the temperature at about 70 degrees and then it is passed back into the pool in addition to this every morn ing the pool is sprayed by means of high pressure jets which are locat ed at the shallow end just above the water level this spraying re moves any dirt or scum that may be floating on the water a suction hose is used to clean the bottom is cleaned monthly the pool is dumped once a month and the walls and floor are thoroughly scrubbed as has been stated most of the water leaves the outlet and re-enters the filters but usually about 5,000 out of a total of 90,000 gallons which is the pool's capacity is splashed into the gut ters or is lost infiltering and this has to be replaced with new water the biology department is in charge of keeping the chlorine con tent at a sufficient amount and also of keeping an eye on the various types of bacteria in the pool the department runs a test twice a week both for the total number of germs in the water and also for certain particularly harmful types sometimes the odor of chlorine is very noticeable in and about the pool this is not due they tell us to a large amount of the element present in the water but to occa sional bad ventilation nine initiated by honorary physics professor shows advantages of three stage construction bull describes historic battle health director tells pre~meds of founding of army medical unit tau beta pi fetes new members at banquet dr miller gives talk statistics lately released show the religious preferences of lehigh students to be 78.82 per cent pro testant 11.65 per cent catholic 8.23 per cent jewish and 1.29 per cent miscellaneous or of no preference the statistics have been prepared in the registrar's office yearly since 1925 all preference percentages re main generally constant during the eight-year period the tabulation shows except in the categories of protestant and jewish protestant registration decreased eight per cent up to 1929 while jewish registration showed an equal amount of increase since that time the two preferences are swinging in opposite directions the preferences expressed by stu dents now in college are as follows presbyterian 268 lopiscopal 198 methodist 157 catholic 158 lutheran 126 jewish 108 reformed 86 protestant 61 congregational 48 baptist 34 christian science 20 evangelical 16 moravian 15 friends 13 miscellaneous 10 none 7 unitarian m 4 january burr issue to include tabloid realms of hidden color hitherto unexplored in rocks crystals and like objects were revealed last night by h t strong new york de signer in his lecture art through chemistry given in packard audi torium crystalline formations thrown on a screen and enlarged 200,000 times by a powerful projector utilizing polarized light were shown to be filled with iridescent color combin ations that changed constantly as the crystal was revolved common plain rocks which when subjected to the glow of ultra violet light be came vividly colored were shown and many other startling color phenomena were demonstrated by mr strong research expensive mr strong began the study of color as a hobby and although his researches have cost him many thousands of dollars and have made him color designer for general mo tors and the packard motor com pany he still regards it as a hob by he received no schooling be yond the sixth grade in school yet he has designed a projection ma chine that is the only one of its kind in the world and has studied the many intricate forms of ether wave motion and their effects mr strong was a pioneer in early automobile color research and in 1904 he designed the first packard automobile with an enclosed body he sought unusual color designs in nature and obtained many unusual effects from jewels birds and oth er colorful objects the projection machine that was used to demonstrate the crystalline colors was built by mr strong from parts obtained from bausch and lomb and carl zeiss a 15 am pere carbon arc sends light through a rhomboidal iceland spar crystal that polarizes the light the beam is then sent through water to cool it off and is passed through the slide this machine was declared impossible to construct by the tech nichans of carl zeiss and company five years ago gambling features i.e christmas fest publication will reach sub scribers by friday first yule party held in pack ard laboratory : declaring the present monetary policy of the government to be mistaken and injurious dr neil carothers head of the college of business administration told 400 bankers in an address before the forum of philadelphia chapter american institute of banking that the only thing that could prevent recovery is the destruction of our currency system and with it the credit structure on which business rests in criticizing the recovery pro gram of the government dr car others said in every part of the government's recovery program ex cept two the good has probably outweighed the bad of these two the agricultural act has done little harm in the whole program only one policy has been so definitely wrong that it may bring ruin and indefinitely delay recovery where the recovery program un dertakes to cure depression by re organizing the economic order by altering the fundamental economic relations and by confiscating the property of one class for the benefit of another the entire program is mistaken and injurious and does more harm than good dr carothers praised a recovery program aimed to help the unem ployed to relieve the mortgage ridden farmer and home owner and to lend a hand to the stricken railroads and banks sanctions sound money dr carothers had early identified himself with the sound money economists in july he had written a doctrine denouncing inflation as an arbitrary and unnecessary in terference with a recovery well be gun in september he joined a group of economists who organized themselves under the name econ omists national committee on mon etary policy at a meeting of the executive committee of which dr carothers is a member held last saturday in the hotel new oyrker new york city the committee voted to in crease its active membership and to provide speakers to other groups interested in the question until now the executive commit tee has issued only one public state ment but it proposes to issue more as circumstances seem to warrant the committee holds that the pol icies of the inflationists and devalu ationists will injure the very classes they are endeavoring to help another attack by dr carothers on the administration's monetary policy was recently made in the magazine section of the new york herald-tribune in which he de nounced the philosophy of artificial price lifting as having all the effi ciency of a scheme to improve a badly running engine by heating the exhaust pipe a.s.m.e and engineers club meet at lafayette college a joint bethlehem-easton meet ing of the american society of me chanical engineers and the engin eering club of the lehigh valley was held recently in pardee hall auditorium at lafayette college c h vivian editor of com pressed air and a member of the ingersoll-rand company led an in formal discussion on the boulder dam formerly hoover dam the talk was accompanied by lantern slides made from pictures taken by mr vivian during the several trips he made inspecting the dam shankland speaks to mets open hearth practice was the topic of the lecture given by a d shankland superintendent of open hearths at the bethlehem steel com pany before the metallurgical so ciety last night in williams hall what is regarded as perhaps the most interesting recent develop ment in the radio world is that of catching every sound by careful amplification was explained recently by p l bayley associate profes sor of physics professor bayley who is working privately on a three stage amplifier at present explained that these am plifiers make it possible to transmit almost every sound vibration which can be heard by the human ear during an orchestra concert re cently broadcast from philadelphia through a new york station leo pold stokowski director of the philadelphia orchestra had com plete control of the sound record ing by dials at his finger tips he could regulate the amplification of all music played especially the very high and very low notes which oth erwise would have been lost to the radio listeners the development of the three and four stage transformers or ampli fiers within the last several years was due chiefly to the activity of the bell laboratories in this field other large companies were forced to start similar experimental work in self defense bailey said a three stage amplifier such as that being tested by professor bay ley has a range of from 30 to 17,000 cycles per second as compared with the ordinary radio which has a limit of 6,000 cycles the advan tages of such an amplifier are ob vious but the cost of the apparatus in the case of the ordinary radio is prohibitive at present by winning first prize sharing second and third prizes and taking two honorable mentions brown and white editorial writers for the second successive year dominated the editorial division of the news and editorial contests sponsored by pi delta epsilon honorary jour nalism fraternity announcement was made at the national convention of the society held last thursday friday and sat urday at carnegie institute of technology that edward fleischer arts 33 had won first prize with his editorial whither engineer ing he also shared second and third prizes with warren gardner of st lawrence university besides winning an honorable mention the other honorable mention was won by clifford e harrison ch e 33 herrick is second in the news division robert f herrick now editor in chief of the brown and white won second prize with the news story richards en ters 40th year the first prize in this division was won by warren gardner of st lawrence univer sity r f bavington president of the lehigh chapter of pi delta epsilon served as chairman of the commit tee on reports and recommenda tions at the convention held recently at the carnegie institute of tech nology fleischer is now a member of the staff of the bethlehem globe times harrison is grand tribune a visitation officer of sigma chi there were altogether 26 prizes awarded five of these prizes were won by brown and white men the first prize was 35 in cash the sec ond prize was 25 in cash while the third was 15 in cash written earlier - the editorials and news stories were written for the year 1931-32 but as the national convention of pi delta epsilon was not held last year the winners could not be an nounced until last week several hundred editorials and news stories were entered in the contests from colleges and universi ties all over the united states i cannot forbear commenting on the fine records made by two of our members edward fleischer of lehigh university and warren gardner of st lawrence univer sity who have apparently impressed the judges favorably stated h g doyle dean of the junior college at george washington university and president of pi delta epsilon i must also call attention again to the continued record of achieve ment of the lehigh brown and white which for a number of years has had a leading place in the pi continued on page four receives documents leach acknowledges loan to li brary for research sullivan issues call publicity director asks students to see prospects speaking before 50 pre-medical students at a christmas banquet held last friday night by the rob ert w hall pre-medical society dr raymond bull director of the stu dents health service gave an illus trated talk on the practical and medical aspects of the battle of gettysburg by means of slides he outlined the military tactics involved and stressed the hospital and surgical methods employed the infirmary head also gave a short history of the founding of the national medi cal division of the army by jacob letterman head surgeon of the un ion forces other guests besides dr bull were r l schaeffer head surgeon of the allentown general hospital dr cassone an interne at the al ientown general hospital and a le high graduate of the class of 29 dr payre interne at sacred heart hospital in allentown and lehigh graduate of the class of 29 r w hall head of the department of bi ology s j thomas professor of bacteriology dr s l rankin as sistant director of the student's health service and william burk hardt of the health service christmas gifts were exchanged between members under the direc tion of dr hall who acted as santa claus jan 12 has been set by the so ciety as the tentative date for a lec ture by henry j anslinger federal commissioner of narcotics on dope smuggling this date will tje kept if it does not conflict with finals robert buchanan chairman of ac tivities announced water coler exhibit closes attendance shows increase the art gallery exhibit of water colors and japanese prints closed on sunday dec 17 the attendance at this last ex hibit was greater than usual garth a howland associate professor of fine arts said semester probably in march al though the dates have not been de finitely set professor howland states a group of spanish south american and mexican paintings form the last international exposi tion in new york will be shown eight students and one faculty member were formally initiated into tau beta pi national honorary en gineering fraternity friday night in packard laboratory following the initiation a banquet was held at the hotel bethlehem the new members of the frater nity are b g fortman i e 34 j a morse ch e 34 k l hon eyman e e 34 h c haupt ch e 34 w a robinson c e 34 w s weil e e 35 w a john son met e 35 l b struble m.e 35 and c w simmons assistant professor of chemical engineering dr b l miller head of the de partment of geology spoke at the banquet on the life and activities of prof edward h williams the founder of tau beta pi who re cently died for many years pro fessor williams was head of the mining department at lehigh dr miller read excerpts from letters he had received from professor wil liams in order to illustrate the many sided nature of the founder one of these letters contained a resume of plans for a chapter house at lehigh for tau beta pi these plans were dstroyed when profes sor williams home burned many years ago and nothing further was ever done about them following the talk by dr miller the newly initiated members of the fraternity were called upon for short talks a w luce assistant professor of machine design gave a short talk in which he welcomed the new members to the society he stated that he believed that the society should have a set goal for the com ing year eugene l wildman m e 34 president of the fraternity intro duced the various speakers and act ed as toast master steel officials test machine officials of the bethlehem steel corporation made a test recently of the rolling machine which will be one of the units used to give a pub lic demonstration of steel making at the exposition of progress this week in new york an eight page colored tabloid section satirizing all tabloid news papers will feature the january is sues of the burr norman alper managing editor of the burr an nounced yesterday the issue will come out the lat ter part of this week and will be mailed to the homes of all the sub scribers so as to reach them by fri day dec 22 the cover design will be a repro duction of a photograph taken of a model and will be similar in design to the covers of national humorous magazines made by the same meth od vthe model was made out of cardboard and cloth by norman alper and it was photographed by mccaa other highlights of the issue will be an article on inflation by an anonymous author and an article entitled bach on broadcasting by robert l bach a publicity agent in new york city and a contribu tor to the burr in three previous is sues besides the tabloid section other features including the burr-lesque will appear in the issue the publicity department of the university issued its call yesterday to lehigh men to see prospective students in their home towns dur ing the christmas holidays students now in college re ceived yesterday the names of prosr pects at home they are asked to see the men evaluate them as col lege materiol and fill out question naires on each one these are to be sent to mr sullivan in the alumni memorial building the questionnaire involves facts of attitude towards lehigh courses de sired activities financial situation and general appearance this pro ject was formerly carried on dur ing the easter vacation fifty students and several mem bers of the faculty were present at the first christmas party held by the industrial engineering society friday evening in packard labora tory * the party opened in room 466 where a few comedies reminiscent of the early silent motion picture age were shown variety was added to the showing by running the films backwards the group then went to the third floor reading room where alfred j standing jr president of the society had arranged a miniature monte carlo stage money was dis tributed equally among those pres ent and an hour was spent in try ing to multiply the original sum robert swope 35 had the greatest amount at the end of the period and received a prize refreshments were served in the - machine laboratory where the party ended larkin lectures at calypso prof and mrs f v larkin gave an illustrated lecture of their trip around the world at a recent meet ing of the calypso parent-teachers association held in the calypso school building three local girls provided the instrumental music howard s leach university li brarian has acknowledged the re ceipt of a large number of volumes containing eighteenth century doc uments pertaining to the life of wil liam smith d d first provost of the college of philadelphia which later became the university of pennsylvania these documents and letters have been sent to the library from egypt by j l brinton a descendent of dr smith and a justice of the court of appeals mixed court of egypt as a loan to be used in re search work by mrs fox wife of prof charles s fox head of the department of romance languages the papers include numerous let ters written by members of the family to reverend smith and thus are of great historical value bethlehem pa tuesday december 19 1933 purifying system of swimming pool is defended as health measure annual military ball attracts 100 couples vol xli no 23 fleischer wins editorial prize price five cents the lehigh university brown and white editorial winner carothers says money policy is injurious strong shows hidden colors by projection doc hyder plays at scab bard and blade dance new york designer re veals hues of crystals and rocks in lecture art through chemistry speaker utilizes projector to illustrate phenomena brown and white repre sentatives receive five honors at pi delta ep silon meet last week r f herrick places second in news division contest graduate of class of 33 also shares second and third awards for 1931-32 head of business college declares government's stand on currency det rimental to recovery professor talks to bankers at meeting in philadelphia publication is suspended with this issue the brown and white suspends publication un til tuesday jan 9 member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first