Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 9

              as well as numerals in football and baseball rista was junior track manager and member of the inter fraternity council mustard and cheese and the brown and white sports staff shoemaker was junior manager of wrestling member of interfrater nity council and earned numerals in track simmons was junior man ager of football and member of brown and white board and inter fraternity council and won letter in football and numerals in football and wrestling may describe lafayette game c c williams poulter tells of expedition to antarctic vol xliii no 9 civils to hear c c williams daniel moore 90 musical club to broadcast cyanide junior honorary society pledged six members of the class of 1937 during chapel exercises this morning those pledged and initiated were donald c barnum i e knox l peet bus e rudolph rista bus william g shoemaker jr ch e ; frank g simmons m.e and mark w wolcott arts fred v larkin head of the de partments of mechanical and indus trial engineering in addressing the members of cyanide said that they had been chosen because they were leaders of their class and that he hoped that they would continue to be typical lehigh leaders the more important activities of the initiates have been as follows barnum has served on the review and epitome boards and as junior cheerleader peet was junior repre sentative to the lehigh union and earned a varsity letter in football j f carroll will lecture alumni office plans play by-play description to ten cities the lehigh alumni office has proposed a telephone loudspeaker play-by-play description of the le high-lafayette game to various le high clubs in ten principal cities arrangements with the bell tel ephone company of pennsylvania are being made for a two-hour hook-up special rates ranging from 65 to 105 for each club have been given depending on the number of clubs which will participate cities to whose clubs the pro posal was sent are boston buffalo chicago cincinnati cleveland de troit pittsburgh schenectady to ledo and youngstown a e buchanan executive alumni secretary would give the descrip tion of the game the muhlenberg and lafayette games last year were sent by buchanan to dr charles russ richards then president of lehigh at his home using this tel ephone hook-up and loudspeaker system coal veins valueless be cause of inaccessibility he says before 450 eggs last for five years we found coal deposits about six feet thick but they have no commercial value because of inac cessibility stated dr t c poul ter scientist and second in command of the second byrd antarctiv expe dition last night in a lecture in packard auditorium before about 450 people dr poulter was introduced by president williams who is a good friend of the scientist dr poulter talked while about eight reels of motion pictures were shown we saw icebergs on the way to antarctica that were large enough to supply all the people in the world with 12 pounds of ice every day for one year continued dr poul ter the expedition moved over 600 tons of supplies from the ship to little america six and a half miles over the ice and lost only three bales of hay batteries left in little america by the first expedition were found in condition to operate the telephones between the buildings refrigera tion facilities were so good that eggs stored in the ise for five years were first used by the expedition on land ing buildings were portable little america consisted of a number of portable buildings for ad ministration mess recreation chem istry laboratories physics labora tories machine shops storage fur treating tailor shop and library as well as communication with the out side world the general weather conditions saw the temperature above freezing only once during the stay and wind velocities as high as 80 knots dur ing the winter of four and a half months no sunlight the men saw talking movies about four times a week over a hundred tons of seal columbia broadcasting sys tem to carry glee club concert dec 7 the glee club will broadcast over a nationwide columbia system hook up at noon dec 7 h e towne arts 37 president of the combined musical clubs completed arrange ments for the 15 minute broadcast the columbia broadcasting sys tem is sponsoring the series of 16 college glee club concerts harvard princeton pennsylvania and yale musical organizations will be heard in the group during the winter thirty men are expected to make the trip says towne they will sing five songs and the newly organized double quartet will sing one the quarter-hour concert will be relayed from station wcau in philadelphia to the key station wabc new york from there it will be sent out over a 27 unit net work this is the first national broad cast the glee club has made a short concert was broadcast from new york in 1930 lechauweekie carnegie collection repro ductions are available to students were donated last year garth a howland head of the department of fine arts announced saturday that a limited number of framed reproductions of paintings drawings and water colors from the carnegie art set are now available for loan to students fraternities and other living groups the pictures are part of a large set of books prints and photo graphs presented to the university last year by the carnegie endow ment fund some of which were on exhibit in the art gallery during september both old and modern masters are represented in the col lection any student fraternity house or living group is entitled to borrow one reproduction subject to the fol lowing conditions 1 a fee of twenty-five cents per pic ture is required each semester 2 the borrower must provide trans portation for the picture from the li brary and for its return 3 pictures may be retained until the final examination period of each sem ester but may be exchanged as often as once a month 4 in case a student leaves the uni versity before the end of the semester he must see that the picture is returned immediately 5 any breakage or damage must be reported promptly 6 the committee reserves the right to call for the return of a picture at any time in which case the fee will be returned 7 for arrangements and payment of fees see garth a howland head of the department of fine arts 11-12 a.m daily except saturday in room 21 cop pee hall on mondays and wednesdays at 1-4 p m room 34 coppee hall the collection includes works by gorgione bracque renoir breug hal redon cezanne van gogh rockwell kent gaughin el greco wadsworth and daumier the prints were made by a gelatine pro cess called the collotype research continued on page four fisher addresses college faculties pre-meds plan to initiate four pioneer in electrical re search to discuss dis charge by gases cooper to present paper daniel mcfarlan moore 90 in ventor and electrical engineer will talk to the electrical engineering society on contracts with gaseous conduction at 7:30 p m thurs day in room 416 packard labora tory donald t cooper e e 36 will present a student paper jacob l beaver professor of electrical engineering stated that the talk will be non-technical re freshments will be served after the meeting until his recent retirement in 1928 moore was consulting research en gineer for the general electric com pany at harrison n j he is vice president of the illuminating en gineering society and a fellow the american institute of electrical en gineers in the course of experi mental work he has been associated with edison and insull has 100 patents the inventor has about 100 pat ents to his credit his chief creation is the moore light which has be come the basis of a method for the transmission of moving pictures by radio it is the nearest approach to cold light known millions are used in silk and woolen mills in europe where pure white light is needed to match colors a more recent inven tion is the neon tube which gives a pink glow in a high tension field it has four times the efficiency of gas filled incandescent lamps working during the early history of wireless telegraphy moore perfected a sys tem of current control which was adopted by marconi and used ex tensively in the early commercial installations built lighting fountains in 1893 the inventor was chosen to build the lighting fountains for the columbia exposition in chicago incandescent lamps were one of the novelties exhibited at the fair in 1894 at the age of 27 he was admitted to the american institute of electrical engineers the young est man to be elected up to that time in the same year he organized the moore electric company where many of his inventions were devel oped it is said that he was the first to use battery clips adopting the metal clip used in the middle 90's to hold up sleeves in 1906 he constructed a tube 186 feet long to be used for experiments in gaseous electric lighting it has been used commercially for adver tising delegates chosen lehigh president will dis cuss student club func tions in initial address president clement c williams will make his initial appearance be fore a lehigh student course society at 7:30 p m thursday when he will address the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers on the function of a student or ganization all freshmen regardless of course are invited in room 466 packard laboratory says theodore davenport s e 36 president because of my recent return from the southern states convention of the american society of civil en gineers dr williams stated i feel that a talk on student societies and organizations is probably more timely than a lecture on the techni cal side of civil engineering presided at conference president williams spent wed nesday thursday and friday of last week at the a s c e con vention in birmingham there he presided over the conference of stu dent chapters although i hated to take the time from my duties at lehigh president williams said in regard to this convention i had promised prior to my accepting my present position that i would attend the af fair and therefore felt dutybound to go in his talk williams will empha size the values of student chapters a student chapter brings the em bryo engineer in contact with the profession and tends to supplement his classwork in my opinion mem bership in one of these societies is an invaluable asset to the upcoming young man chairman of the a s c e com mittee in charge of all student chap ters mr williams has 33 eastern chapters of which the lehigh so ciety is one under his personal su pervision physics club holds social the physics club held a social meeting at the home of max peter son associate professor of physics thursday night to speak on distribution problems oct 29 at joint meeting dr j f carroll president of the general marketing counselors inc will speak on costs wastes and losses in distribution before a joint meeting of the engineers club of the lehigh valley and the lehigh valley sections of the am erican society of mechanical en gineers and the american society for metals at 8 p m on tuesday oct 29 in packard auditorium dr carroll will discuss the ap parently abnormal rise in the price of goods between the time they leave the factory and the time they are purchased by the consumer a limited number of tickets are available to students who apply at the office of lehigh union in drown hall was research director prior to the organization of the general marketing counselors inc a market consulting and research organization with offices in principal american cities mr carroll had been director of research for the meredith publishing company in dcs moines lowa previous to this he had been dean of the college of commerce and finance at drake university the speaker holds the degree of doctor of commercial science from the graduate school of business ad ministration at harvard university he was also graduated from lowa state college during the past year mr carroll conducted a study of the subject on which he will speak financed by the twentieth century fund a dinner in the speaker's honor will be held at the sun inn before the meeting to pledge nine alpha epsilon delta to hear professor palmer three students and one faculty member will be initiated into alpha epsilon delta national honorary pre-medical fraternity at 6:30 wed nesday evening at the men's club immediately following the cere monies prof p h palmer director of the college of arts and sciences will give the biography of some well-known scientist pointing out the contribution to science made by him the men to be initiated are wil liam f boucher arts 38 mark w wolcott arts 37 jose a oiler arts 37 and francis j trembley instructor in biology new instructor mechanicals james b lusk new c k bald win research fellow is working to establish a standard code for power consumption and output of various types of fans for the american so ciety of mechanical engineers this work begun last year is under the general supervision of milton c stuart professor of mechanical en gineering and chairman of a com mittee of the a s m e represent ing leading fan manufacturers the work carried out last year revealed that fan output did not equal under many conditions the output guaranteed under these con ditions the work this year under mr lusk will seek to determine the relative efficiencies of various types of fans and arrangements of intake and outlet ducts under var ious conditions and to establish the best locations for the pitot tubes and other instruments used in meas uring the work done by the fan lusk graduated with honors from purdue university with the degree of b s in m e and will be a re search fellow here this year and next working on fans both years additional research stories on page four o miller will present paper at historical society meet dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology will pre sent a paper on the derivation of place names in northampton coun ty at a meeting of the northamp ton county historical society at 8 o'clock this evening in the old mo ravian chapel dr lawrence h gipson head of the department of history and gov ernment is on the committee ar ranging for this opening session of the fall season o chooses merger committee the following committee was re cently chosen by arcadia to consid er the arcadia-lehigh union mer ger david w hoppock chairman walter l finlay thomas k gari han william m smith and ber nard s weiss says check book money is index to recovery " check book money is the best index to recovery irving fisher profesor of economics at yale uni versity told the faculty members from the colleges and universities of the lehigh valley at their con ference friday at muhlenberg be tween 20 and 30 members of the lehigh faculty attended the confer ence adelbert ford head of the de partment of psychology was the of ficial lehigh representative professor fisher claims that the nub of the depression was the de struction of eight billions out of twenty-three billions of check book money by liquidation of band loans the restoration of this has been the nib of recovery dr fisher criticized the new deal policies which he claims have de stroyed our wealth on the false theory that we are suffering from over-production he states that our main trouble has not been too much goods but too little money to buy them with general public invited to attend military drills hope that the general public would attend the drills of the r o t c unit held weekly on the up per field was expressed by major j o green professor of military science and tactics in a statement wednesday a special effort will be made to make the drills worth attending at each meeting of the unit there will be either a parade or a review re views are to be held during the next two meetings of the regiment and a parade or a review every monday thereafter until nov 25 when out door drills will be discontinued o smith to speak at eastern prof robert m smith head of the department of english will speak saturday before the easton high school on shakespeare that's the indian name for lehigh lechauweekie now called le high meant where there are forks to the delaware indians who attached that name to the river which runs through bethlehem it was called where there are forks because an indian path or thorough fare leading from the lower dela ware region branched off into var ious trails leading to the north and west at the river this information is contained in a stud}r the derivation of placed names of northampton county by benjamin l miller head of the de partment of geology who will speak tonight on the derivation of local names before the northampton county historical society bethlehem got its name from the birthplace of christ in judea it was so named on christmas eve 1741 by count nicholas ludwig yon zin zendorf the moravian settlement was called menagachsink by the indians which means at the bend ing creek the name monocacy given by the indians to the creek that joins the lehigh river in bethlehem is a corrupted form of menagassi meaning a stream with several large bends in his research dr miller found menagassi spelled 28 different ways to discuss war alpha kappa psi to honor business men three seniors and six juniors will be pledged to alpha kappa psi national professional fraternity of commerce and finance thursday morning during chapel exercises roy b cowin professor of ac countancy will give a short talk on the purpose history and ideals of the society the names of the men elected will not be announced until the pledging stated thomas k gar ihan president of the club magazine to purchase original student plays one hundred dollars will be paid for the publication of rights of good one-act plays by stage a mag azine dealing with various phases of the theater the plays should be contemporary in theme and should have an acting time of about 45 min utes only plays which have been nei ther published or produced will be considered student authors of one act plays who wish to enter this competition should see albert a rights instructor in english for further details pennington root to repre sent trenton and york j h pennington 97 chairman of the alumni fund committee of the trenton lehigh club and ben jamin t root 06 chairman of the alumni fund committee of the york lehigh club were appointed dele gates to the alumni conference here nov 8 and 9 at which delegates from all lehigh clubs in the east will inspect the university andrew e buchanan executive alumni secretary attended a meet ing of the alumni fund committee of the trenton lehigh club friday at the carteret club in trenton where pennington was made a del egate attendance at the york lehigh club meeting last week at which root was appointed was the larg est since the club organized in 1927 o private lives to be read by faculty dramatic club noel coward's play private lives will be read at the meeting of the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 p m tomorrow in the engineering societies room packard laboratory the cast is as follows amanda prynne mrs albert a rights vic tor prynne john m toohy sybil chase mrs lawrence whitecomb alyot chase theodore g ehrsam louise mrs rafael a soto the play is a satiric portrayal of english society after the world war the club read the same play last night before plays and players a dramatic society at trinity parish house john l vanderslice who was appointed instruc tor in mathematics this year received his degree of bachelor of science in electrical engin eering from the university of pennsylvania in 1928 his master of arts degree from the same university in 1930 and his de gree of doctor of philosophy from princeton in 1934 relations club to meet at 7:30 p m thursday the international relations so ciety wili meet at 7:30 p m thurs day oct 24 in the engineering lounge packard laboratory the subject for discussion will be the italian-ethiopian situation four members charles mccoy arts 37 frederick thalmann arts 37 w mansfeld white m e 37 and harry snavely arts 36 will pre sent papers white will uphold the italian side mccoy will argue for the ethiopian side and thalmann and snavely will present the views of the league of nations great britain and france all students interested in joining the society are to attend the meeting states bernard weiss president of the society coming events tuesday oct 22 4 p m committee on student ac tivities dean's office 4:10 p m committee on lectures faculty room alumni memorial building 6:30 p m alpha epsilon delta banquet men's club wednesday oct 23 4 p m committee on standing of students dean's office 7:30 p m faculty dramatic club room 201 packard laboratory private lives by noel coward will be read 7:30 p m tau beta pi room 451 packard laboratory 7:30 p m observatory open to the public thursday oct 24 4 p m committee on education pol icy faculty room alumni mem orial building 7:30 p m student branch of a i e e 416 packard laboratory dr d m moore 92 will speak 7:30 p m international relations room 201 packard laboratory 7:30 p m c e society room 466 packard laboratory president williams will speak on the function of a student chapter lehigh university brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday october 22 1935 to lecture here c e society speaker cyanide pledges six juniors in chapel this morning howland says art set works to be loaned moore to talk to e e group on conduction barnum peet rista shoemaker simmons and wolcott tapped ; larkin praises them as being leaders of their class member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first