Brown and White Vol. 41 no. 25

              next tuesday's paper will commemorate founding of publication and trace development first edition came out in 94 as il"xl5 four page sheet dr i g kear 26 de partment of commerce official tells of plane direction i n d i c a tors types of transmission is discussed by r w stupp outlining his work on the board chosen to draft a recovery program core for the locomotive industry william c dickerman a corporate member of the board of trustees of lehigh university will speak on the adventures of a codester at a meeting of the local chapter of the american society of mechanical engineers at 8 o'clock tonight in room 466 packard laboratory mr dickerman is president of the american locomotive company he took the mechanical engineering course at lehigh and was gradu ated with the class of 1896 a na tive of bethlehem mr dickerman joined the newly organzed american carand foundry company a few years after leaving college he became vice president of the foundry company in 1905 and held that post until 1929 he has been president of the american locomo tive company since 1929 another of a series of robberies that have been committed at lehigh and other colleges throughout the country occurred during the christ mas holidays during the absence of the students the kappa sigma house in north bethlehem was en tered and some clothing stolen access to the house was gained by forcing a window in the sun par lor no other losses other than clothing were reported the beth lehem police department captured a man with the stolen goods and all articles have been returned to the fraternity captain detective c e smith and detective m fox were responsible for effecting the capture the police will not disclose the name of the alleged thief nor the way in which they found out about the robbery by some means which they will not disclose they recov ered the stolen goods before the theft was reported the rifle team starts its season this week by firing the first of a se ries of postal matches captain rice coach of the team predicts a most successful season for the team this year he is confident that the team will win national honors in the coming competition these postal matches are held among a group of teams represent ing colleges all over the country who send their team scores to each other and thus determine the win ner the members of the team who will shoot each week are picked from the high scorers of the pre vious week the first intercollegiate shoulder to-shoulder match will be fired against army on feb 10 at west point the only other matches scheduled so far are with rutgers and lafayette but captain rice ex pects to arrange for more in the near future the scores this year are very high being better than the scores of the corresponding period last year which points toward a promising season captain rice said hay to lecture to sigma xi math society hears students air transport company official will address society monday jan 1 5 physics club hears hanson the formula of the pris moid is presented by w r guyer 36 former lehigh professor illustrates lecture on sound with slides a 24-page issue of the brown and white will be published next tues day in commemoration of the for tieth anniversary of the founding of the paper the first issue which was pub lished on jan 16 1894 was made up of four pages h"xls the front page of this first issue will be re produced in tuesday's paper the brown and white has been published as a semi-weekly paper continuously during its 40 years of existence with the exception of two months at the end of 1918 when it was published once a week this change was necessitated by the war conditions and high cost of mater ials at that time much research done the staff of the brown and white has delved into old issues of the brown and white epitome and burr and has drawn upon the cut resources of the alumni office in or der to get historic material on the development of the brown and white and of the university included among the many stories in this anniversary number will be the following a history of lehigh growth of athletics histories of all the publications and of several of the student clubs and activities there will be stories on class fights of the past the first campus fraternity reading and musical tastes of 40 years ago and on the honor system used at lehigh some time ago one of the features of this paper will be pictures of all the presidents of the university of all employees who have served lehigh for 25 years or more of grid heroes of 93 of the campus of 26 years ago of the first and present boards of the brown and white and of the brown and white laboratory two pages will be devoted to stories about the brown and white these articles will portray the founding and growth of the paper to its present size and form and a history of the journalism depart ment the interfraternity ball will be held either feb 3 or 10 decided the council at their meeting wednes day evening in drown hall it is to be a closed dance this year feb 3 is to be the date of the dance if it is possible to hold it at that time if not the committee has authority to change the time to feb 10 mcleod expresses regret richard e mcleod president of the interfraternity council express ed their regret that non-fraternity men could not be invited the dance will be closed so that it will not be too crowded as it was last year he said attendance at the ball will be limited to members of the council and their guests the expenses in curred will be pro-rated among the members of the council wilson w bolton jr chairman of the ball committee plans to have two orchestras and to use two floors of the gymnasium it was brought up at the meeting that there has been some conflict in the past by having several house dances on the same night the uni versity ruling on this question is that there may only be two char tered dances on any night in the future any organization wishing to hold a third dance must make ap plication to the executive council of the interfraternity council it was decided the council will then put the petition before dean mcconn first ball last year last year the interfraternity council held their first formal ball the dance which was held on feb 4 was the largest event of its kind ever held at lehigh two orchestras furnished music simultoneously that of ted black was heard in the lower gymnasium and that of don redman on the upper floor over 1,600 people attenden the af fair compared with only half that number at the previous senior ball the ball cost approximately 1,012 of this sum about 40 per cent was subsidized by the council the rest was collected from member frater nities r.j degray talks on wcba program development and progress of air mail and air transport service will be discussed by mr t park hay of transcontinental and western air transport company at a pub lic lecture given under the auspices of sigma xi at 8 p m monday jan 15 in packard auditorium relations between the post of fice department and the air lines will be discussed at length air mail and its importance to industry will also be shown comparative trans portation costs air routes safety factors and statistics on air fatali ties will be traced by the speaker a large part of the lecture will be devoted to the development and use of the radio in air service mr hay will describe the two-way ra dio radio beacon and several other safety factors a brief outline of the air express and how merchants are using it to increase sales and reduce expenses will be presented the speaker will compare mail passenger and ex press service in the united states with systems used in foreign coun tries attention will be focused on the importance of considering the air transport industry as an important arm of our national defense by the lecturer alumni promoted by bethlehem steel talks on advertising chemistry instructor speaks on national defense gladding 11 cusick 23 and knerr 20 advanced dr h a neville addresses wo men's association last monday bernard s weiss c e 36 and walter r guyer chem 36 pre sented papers at the meeting of the newtonian society held wednes day in packard laboratory weiss spoke on the proofs of the pythagorean theorem he stated that the egyptians made use of the principle that the square of the hypotenuse of a right triangle is equal to the sum of the squares of the other two sides in the construc tion of their temples pythagoras he said was a great greek mathematician who was born in 590 b c he gathered about him a group of scholars and led them in the discussion of scientific and ethi cal subjects the common people became suspicious of him because he did not divulge any of his pro ceedings and murdered him weiss cited five proofs of 21 which he had discovered in prepar ing his paper some were quite simple and others involved higher mathematics he said guyer used as his subject of dis cussion the topic the formula of the prismoid he showed how this is derived how it is proved and how it is applied the formula in volves the cubic functions of sol ids he said the formula is em ployed by civil engineers on road construction for determining the volumes of cuts and fill-ins and also by designers in naval architecture j l kornet president an nounced that the next meeting will be held on feb 14 the speaker will be ralph van arnam instruc tor of mathematics and astronomy he also stated that new members will be initiated and new officers will be inducted at that meeting supply bureau aids sale of second - hand books the university glee club will present its first home concert and dance of the year tomorrow eve ning at 8 p m in drown hall dancing with music by the lehigh collegians will follow the concert until 2 a m the program will open with the singing of hail the college and matona by the whole company j h macphee will then render a ten or solo and the club will follow with music when soft voices die to use microphone through the efforts of h c knutson instructor in electrical en gineering a microphone and loud speaker will be hooked up on the stage and the audience will be giv en the privilege of seeing as well as hearing a model radio program from a broadcasting studio the skit will include the musical club orchestra the three musket eers and a few solos with r f herrick accompanying short'nin bread and home on the range by tha company will follow the skit and then a baritone solo will be sung by coleman cit ret the concert will conclude with nightingale and the alma mat er t edgar shields director of music will conduct the concert members of the moravian col lege for women glee club also conducted by mr shields will be present as guests of the lehigh club lehigh students may procure their tickets at the lehigh union office upon presentation of a bursar's re ceipt tickets for non-students may also be obtained at the union of fice for 55 cents members listed the members of the glee club are first tenors h l beidler j b fischel w w kinsinger n j leonard r s porter h.e towne s b wright j h macphee t.b jordan g a horlacher second tenors d e clark r g d r ives f m pittenger k s miller h k ellis l h flisher putnam w f roth l schwartz waelder a m saybold p d strubhar j m swalm first basses a c bonkemeyer w s hutchinson c a narawaez g citret e v cromwell e b deibert r l dickerson r m eichner h s ford h s greiner e a sawyer t f hartman n h hutt v a kildare w m smith b f witmer r m wil son second basses d t cooper r c lengel l j osterhoudt j f brownlee w porter j l spreech er l b tuttle a white r e williams h s williams accompanist r h hayman the list was obtained from t b jordan president-manager of the combined music clubs dr robert l hanson a former lehigh professor of physics and now connected with the bell labora tories spoke on recording and re production of sound at a meeting of the physics society last night in the main lecture room of the phy sics building dr hanson used a number of slides and sound films in his lecture on recording and reproducing sound for motion pictures he explained the hearing possibilities of the hu man ear the ear can detect such low tones as the rulsting of leaves and thase as high as a cannon's roar he said there are two things which sound engineers are trying to improve declared dr hanson there is a great effort to improve accoustic conditions and to secure uniform propulsion of the film recording strip or disk by means of a trans parent wax record dr hanson showed the difference in the quali ties of sound due to irregular re cording during the course of the talk the lecturer explained the advantages of the new dynamic microphone over the old carbon apparatus he talked about most of the different devices used in sound recording sound may be recorded on wax disks or on strips of movie film in both cases the electrical impulses carry the sound vibrations to the recording device through a system of ampli fiers and volume controls he said dr hanson showed three films with sound two of the reels were on courses taught at the university of chicago the third film ex plained the artificial larynx that was developed by the bell laboratories the sound was reproduced by an electric pick-up from a synchron ized wax record coming events dr h a neville associate pro fessor of chemistry spoke last mon day to the local chapter of the american association of univer sity women on fallacies of adver tising with the aid of slides professor neville described modern advertis ing and its effort to create a fear complex in the minds of the read ers he gave the reports on the anal yses of various well-known hygienic preparations and pointed out how fraudulent advertising has become this misrepresentation in advertis ing circles has led to the growth of distrust among consumers he said profs thomas and kegel give addresses at fern sem h p thomas head of the edu cation department and f o kegel a professor in the german depart ment addressed the faculty and stu dent body of moravian seminary for women recently professor thomas explained prob lems of educational guidance and outlined a practical guidance plan professor kegel spoke before the honorary modern language club on the possibilities of national and in ternational literature gearhart elected succeeds g l wolcott as treas urer of o d k flying in the dark and fog has lost its terrors since the invention of the radio range-beacon indicator and direction finder said dr f g kear e e 26 of the department of commerce at the e e meeting wednesday preceding dr kear's lecture russell w stupp e e 34 read a student paper on types of trans mission and channels for different services he discussed briefly the heavyside layer in connection with radio transmission stupp then went into the use of single side band transmission which consists of suppressing the carrier by a balanced modulator and filter ing out a one side band this en ables the transmission on a two and one half kilocycle band instead of the usual 10 to 20 kilocycle bands in amateur broadcasting beacons guide planes dr kear told how radio beacons for the guiding of airplanes through fog have been largely developed during the last five years planes at present are equipped with an audi ble range beacon received and one which indicates the plane's diver sion from its course on a meter in landing in foggy weather the mail planes are guided by a wave sent out by a low power range bea con which marks out the runway on the field a horizontal needle in dicates the influence of the landing beam while in the pilot's earphones a high pitched and then a lower pitched tone tell the pilot how close he is to the ground dr kear told of the difficulties encountered in the early develop ment of the transmitters and anten nae with regard to the shifting of direction of the transmitted radio beacon wave the radio beacons operate on a wave length of 1,000 meters con trasted to this is the use of three meter wave for the landing beam the reason for this short wave is to prevent it from interfering with other radio signals and makes pos sible the use of a small receiver in the plane and a portable transmit ter the speaker said routes now equipped the system of beacons has been developed by the aeronautics re search division of the department of commerce all the main air routes are now equipped with ra dio beacons as well as light bea cons the light beacons are located 30 miles apart and the radio beacons are placed every 100 miles with auxiliary transmitters at each light beacon to relay signals in bad weather although commercial airplanes are equipped with apparatus to find their direction enroute from the government operated direction range-beacons these planes and commercial airports are not as yet equipped to use the radio landing beacon dr kear said radio range-beacon landing equip ment is in use at newark airport and seems to be finding favor with the commercial transport companies it seems indicative that in time all commercial fields and planes will be equipped with blind landing facilities the speaker said relations club to meet tonight the international relations club at their meeting at 7:30 tonight in the lounging room of packard lab oratory intend to elect two new members to the club ernest ritter arts 34 and john diefenbach arts 35 will give a joint report of their experiences at the washington con ference in december states charles e schaub president three lehigh alumni were pro moted by the bethlehem steel cor poration it was announced yester day these men are s d gladding 11 a c cusick 23 and r j knerr 20 mr gladding becomes superin tendent no 1 and 3 open hearths and lehigh mills he came from the new york telephone company to the bethlehem steel in 1914 since 1926 mr gladding has been super intendent of lehigh mills mr cusick succeeds gladding as superintendent of lehigh mills he started working for the bethlehem steel right after his graduation from college while at lehigh art cu sick was captain of the football team the third promoted lehigh man is knerr who succeeds mr cusick as general maintenance foreman of no 1 and 3 open hearths and le high mills mr knerr also came into the employ of the bethlehem steel immediately after his gradua tion from lehigh a.s.m.e to meet friday a special meeting of the mem bers of the anthracite lehigh val ley section a s m e will be held at 7:30 p m friday jan 19 in room 466 packard laboratory foster l gearhart i e 34 was elected treasurer of the lehigh chapter of o micron delta kappa national senior honorary fraternity last monday evening at a meeting in drown hall he succeeds george l wolcott arts 34 who will be graduated in february wolcott in addition to being treasurer of o d x is treasurer of the pre-medical society and won his letter in football and wrestling students who have second hand textbooks which they would like to sell through the used book department of the supply bureau should bring them in without de lay urges e h baderschneider manager of the bureau textbooks in use at the uni versity during the second sem ester are especially saleable at present the books which are brought in for sale will be placed on a browsing table where stu dents may select the ones they wish the supply bureau will deduct a charge of ten per cent of the sale price of the books but stu dents have the privilege of nam ing their own price for them friday jan 12 7:30 p m meeting of international relations club room 201 - 251 packard laboratory 7:30 p m meeting of the me chanical engineering society room 466 packard laboratory the adventures of a codester by william c dickerson m.e/96 saturday jan 13 3 p m freshman wrestling — le high vs manheim high school taylor gymnasium 8 p m glee club concert and dance drown hall monday jan 15 8 p m sigma xi lecture packard auditorium air transport in the new era by t park hay richard j degray instructor in chemistry spoke wednesday night over station wcba in allentown he spoke on national defense during the program that was being sponsored by the bethlehem post of the american legion he described the progress of na tional defense since the time of the war of 1812 while telling of the part that national defense played in that war the civil war the span ish-american war and the world war he told of the effects of the lack of sufficient defense he simulated the feeling of se curity of a nation with that feeling of security a person feels in the presence of a policeman also he made a parady on hamlet's to be or not to be on national defense mr degray stated that we have not had sufficient defense in any of the wars that he mentioned and he believes that country to be unpre pared at present the size of a coun try has no bearing on its security as is seen in the case of japan's actions in china and the rumors of the proposed invasion of russia by japanese troops mr degray who is a first lieu tenant in the ordnance reserve corps and was at one time an intel ligence officer in the 314 th infan try spoke ten minutes on this pro gram which lasted from 8:45 to 9:15 p m bethlehem pa friday january 12 1934 dickerman to speak before mechanicals price five cents the lehigh university brown and white vol xli no 25 rifle team to start season this week police quickly find fraternity's clothes series of postal matches are first on schedule home recital of glee club is tomorrow recover goods stolen from kappa sigma house adventures of a codester ' to be topic tonight council sets dance dates for feb 3 or 10 radio beacon use explained to electricals 24 page issue will recall b w.history interfraternity group un decided as to which day to hold annual ball mcleod reports formal affair will be closed in order to lessen crowd music group will give first concert and dance of year in drown hall ; macphee to sing solo microphone and speaker to be hooked up for skit member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first