Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 27

              carothers hits government without plan in tribune story vol xliii — no 27 c c williams asks revision of histories 3 instructors are appointed by university dorsey's band to introduce skedgell hits williams approves press conference price — five cents sees no great relief in realization that there is no conspiracy says government without purpose conduces to anarchy plans made for convention in april or may tentative plans for the third an nual scholastic press conference to be held here either late in april or early in may were recently approv ed by president c c williams high school and preparatory school newspapers and magazines in penn sylvania and new jersey will be in their publications in competitions to be held during the conference the committee in charge consists of dale h gramley associate pro fessor of journalism dr wray h congdon director of admissions dean c m mcconn robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni association and dr robert d billinger assistant p*ofessor of chemistry ankle shears walter l finlay student paper elects officers crete plans of any kind it turned to a group of miscellaneous advisers in and out of congress he goes on to state that some of these ad visers were parlor socialists some working for special interests and others seconding wild schemes there was no communist of fas cist plot there was just a most in credible hash of experiments op portunist coups and economic tricks the administration he says con tinually vacillates from left to right the banks unpopular because of their depression losses are harried and abused until they at last fight back — and then there is a love feast dr carothers states that big business is first cursed and then placated there is no economic planning and no economic plan he says that it is no great relief to thoughtful men to realize that there is no grand conspiracy it is better to have a government that knows what it is trying to do no matter what according to dr carothers a na tion with a government that does not know where it is going is liable to drift into revolution civil war or dictatorship in one of the raost re markable social phophecies ever made lord macaulay nearly 80 years ago predicted that we would come to this pass unhappily he did not tell us what we could do about it in plans plots or politics an article in sunday's herald trib une magazine section dr neil car others director of the college of business administration maintains that the present administration not only has no plans for revolutionary changes but has no economic plans of any kind he traces increase in power of the mass ballot from the beginning of the industrial revolu tion to the present time when we are in an era of ignorant legisla tors and reckless wasteful hypo critical legislation the masses of the people are ig norant of economic matters no man however trained but sees them as through a glass darkly dr carothers states that when the country developed a morbid condi tion following the world war the hoover administration faced the dis aster with honesty and courage but without vision or understanding he says that a little group of men then put themselves in power by blaming the government for the distress of the masses and promising economic favors to sectional and class inter ests pledged to bring recovery the present administration came into office saddled with these prom ises it took office in the midst of a national emergency it was pledged to bring recovery to remedy eco nomic evils to do something for the masses without program or con lehigh helps to honor watt allentown club hears kellogg tiny krauter proudly displays x-rays my ankle proclaimed harold seibel tiny krauter 210-pound junior chemical engineer failed through compressional shear tiny took c e 8 strength of materials last semester and so when he slipped on the icy stairs below drown hall last saturday morning and broke his ankle he took quite a professional engineer ing interest in the type of fracture he had sustained with the aid of doctor bull director of the dispen sary tiny obtained two x-ray shots of the specimen sure enough said tiny holding one of the x-rays up to the light it's a perfect compressional shear failure look at that 45 degree break — a very fine example in deed and so a very proud tiny went home to shillington for the week-end o club to read the coward the coward by h r lenor mand is to be read by the faculty dramatic club at 7:30 p m wed nesday in the engineering societies room in packard laboratory mrs cyril d jensen is in charge of the casting of the play will play songs from prom trotters during boston engagement 730 couples attend ball after the liitenfraternity ball saturday night tommy dorsey pla}'ed over several of the hit tunes from ralph skedgell's musical pro duction prom trotters to be presented by mustard and cheese and promised to play them over the air as soon as he could arrange the orchestrations beginning feb 14 dorsey who has an extended contract to play at a boston hotel will broadcast four times a week it is at this time that the trombone maestro plans to in troduce skedgell's music the hit tunes from prom trot ters will appear in sheet music form shortly after tommy dorsey intro duces them over the radio stated james h reed bus 38 reed played in dorsey's band saturday night when he substituted for one of the trombone players who was ill in baltimore john kornet ch e 36 commit tee member in charge of sales said that 730 couples attended the ball in the coliseum accompanying dor sey was edyth wright blues sing er who attended lehigh housepar ties several years ago the dance was one of the best conducted interfraternity balls ever held at lehigh stated dean c m mcconn after the ball two years ago dean mcconn threatened to abolish the annual excessive wet ness in addition to dean and mrs c m mcconn the chaperones were dr and mrs c g beardslee and dean and mrs g b curtis the committee in charge includ ed walter crockett i e 36 chair man charles potter arts 38 louis stout bus 36 decorations john kornet ch e 36 tickets to meet 2 schools callaghan mertz eney to teach english chemis try civil engineering jessup is chosen speaker three new appointments to the faculty were announced at their meeting yesterday afternoon in the administration building dr w a jessup president of the carnegie foundation for the advancement of teaching as the 1936 commence ment speaker was also announced joseph c callaghan instructor in english will relieve other mem bers of the english department who have been carrying courses formerly taught by the late dr m j luch professor of english mr callag han will teach english 1 and 2 leaving instructors e h sloane and t g ehrsam to continue with th public speaking and contem porary literature courses mr cal laghan was instructor in english at the lawrence institute of technol ogy highland park mich he re ceived his m a degree from the university of michigan in 1932 john c mertz who becomes in structor in chemistry has been en gaged in research at yale univer sity since his graduation from le high in 1931 he taught at yale in 1931-32 as assistant in qualitative and quantitative analysis william j eney becames instruc tor in civil engineering replacing john d watson who resigned to work for his doctorate in hydraulics at the harvard engineering college mr eney graduated from johns hopkins university in 1927 and since then has been employed by the baltimore and ohio railroad in the baltimore office dr jessup chosen as commence ment speaker was president of the university of lowa for 18 years be fore accepting the presidency of the carnegie foundation in 1934 an addition was made to the rul ing on senior re-examination the ruling now reads re-examination for seniors whose con ditions after completion of the second continued on page four chi phi snowman urges interpretation of event in light of technology attacks false values any education aimed at further social progress must interpret its objectives in terms of technological progress president clement c williams said jan 17 at a meeting of the association of american col leges in new york social political and economic life must adapt themselves to the demands of modern technological advances which in turn must be adapted to higher standards set by an advancing social taste he add ed the increased complexity of things requires of an engineering university that it shall give its stu dents not only equipment for a pos sible vocation but also an acces sory preparation affording versatil ity in the face of changing economic and social conditions attacks false values of history dr williams attacked the false values given certain events by a narrow-sighted history and urged a revision of textbooks to stress technological events before politi cal and social ones what historian notices the dis covery and introduction of coal in the 9th century as a dividing event between ancient and modern life he asked the accumulation of large for tunes was pictured as a result of modern technology the individuals involved have proven themselves socially wiser and more efficient than government in diverting these vast accumulation?»of wealth to so cial benefit yet not a few teachers of political science present a queer lag in proposing to prevent individ ual accumulations it is fully as important that edu cation in certain departments of the arts college be adjusted to the ef fects of technology as that engin eering education be adjusted to a traditional cultural content which cc atlantis is largely legendary dr williams concluded arts courses may not justifiably be in corporated in an engineering curri culum unless they are integrable in a unified project brown and white chooses finlay mcnair archer and lewis new officers of the brown and white who were elected by the exec utive committee for the second semester are walter l finlay ch e 36 editor in chief harry c archer arts 37 news manager sidney j lewis arts 37 editorial manager and edwin g mcnair bus 37 busines manager other newly-elected officers in clude benjamin k daubenspeck ch e 37 make up editor robert w reifsnyder bus 37 sports edi tor joseph parmet ch.e 38 tues day news editor and j palmer murphy arts 38 friday news edi tor donald t cooper e e 36 will be photographic editor a newly created office business officers for the second semester include francis w huns berger jr c e 38 financial man ager philip l myers bus.'36 copy supervisor littleton kirkpatrick tr bus 37 circulation manager john h weigel i e 38 local ad vertising assistant and herbert woronoff arts 37 national adver tising assistant the news manager editorial man ager and business manager are elected for one year and other of ficers for one semester cornelius begins active campaign library displays cultural books athletics head discusses intramural sports and gym program n a kellogg director of ath letics addressed the allenotwn le high club at its second meeting fri day evening in the allentown y m c a he based his informal talk on the athletic policy at lehigh colonel kellogg pointed out that the athletic department is sponsor ing a gymnasium program which is a decided break from the grade school-high school method of reg imentation lehigh university claim ed kellogg endeavors to create a spirit of athletic competition be tween men of the same ability in a particular sport in this way every one can indulge in an athletic ac tivity which he really enjoys to post group average guyer stated that the allentown scholastic average would be posted for the past semester among the liv ing groups but that the group would not compete for awards until it had shown stability at the business meeting which preceded colonel kellogg's talk w r f guyer ch e 36 president of the club announced the standing larkin and williams take part in celebration here jan 20 the 200 th anniversary of the birth of the father of the industrial rev olution was observed in the united states jan 19-21 at this time a series of speeches meetings and banquets featuring watt and his steam engines were held at frank lin institute in philadelphia and at lehigh university because lehigh university had chosen watt as the god father of its mechanical engineering labora tory said professor larkin chair man of the committee in charge of the celebration it was deemed fit ting that the scene of the second day of the celebration be this insti tution the program at lehigh consisted of a morning discussion on the college graduate in industry a colloqium on james watt a dem onstration of the watt and new comen engines and an evening meeting in packard auditorium at the evening meeting president c c williams was inducted into the newcomen society of england continued on page four g w wickersham 77 lawyer statesman dies in new york george w wickersham former united states attorney general head of the famous wickersham commission and member of the indispensable volumes are in reading room a collection of the 55 indispen sable books for a cultural back ground is on the display shelves of the main reading room of the li brary the collection which has been placed there through the ef forts of miss myrtle helms assis tant desk attendant and theodore g ehrsam instructor in english consists of books which were chos en by 162 presidents of leading american universities and colleges this collection will rerrfain on the shelves for a month and has been installed to stimulate student inter est in reading the list includes translations of foreign classics and the works of major english and ear ly american writers these books are said to include the essentials of a liberal education to show paintings will debate with rhode island and st joseph's the debating society will meet rhode island state college on thursday and st joseph's college on friday at 8:15 p m in room 466 packard laboratory resolved that congress should be empowered to override by a two thirds vote decisions of the united states supreme court declaring acts of congress unconstitutional is to be the topic under discussion the team which will take the af firmative of the question against rhode island state consists of charles g layman eng 39 and raphael g scoblionko arts 39 the team taking the negative against st joseph's is howard kol ler ch e 37 and norman l morse eng 39 admission is free o brown to talk on plotinus at blake society meeting sydney m brown professor of history will speak on plotinus the philosopher of alexandria at the friday evening meeting of the robert w blake society in room 201-251 packard laboratory professor brown states that he will not speak as a technician in the field of philosophy but will report his impressions of the works of plotinus and the evidence of his influence upon contemporary and subsequent writers he feels that the philosopher's influence upon subsequent thought is not sufficient ly recognized o gramley made news editor prof dale h gramley associate professor of journalism has been put in charge of university pub licity with the title of university news editor it was announced yes terday by president clement c williams kenneth k kost assis tant in journalism and robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumna association will assist pro fesor gramley in his duties o carothers speaks in detroit dr neil carothers addressed a meeting of 500 automobile men con nected with the automotive equip ment and parts industry on reg ulation of industry on jan 19 at detroit mich class of 1877 at lehigh died in a taxicab in new york city of a heart attack on jan 25 he was 77 years old will try to raise 40,000 for library payment william a cornelius executive alumni secretary left sunday to spend several weeks in philadelphia new york and pittsburgh in active campaign work for the alumni fund he will confer with the chairmen of the alumni fund committees and the presidents of the alumni clubs in these cities about raising 40,000 by june to complete payments on the university library debt if the alumni can raise 40,000 by aug 31 the university trustees will make up the balance of 40,000 from the income account releasing the alumni association from its volun tary obligation incurred to make possible the rebuilding of the li brary , earl f johnson 07 chairman of the general alumni fund committee conferred wednesday with corne lius and walter r okeson univer sity treasurer on plans for the pres ent drive o j jennings attends meeting of ventilation engineers burgess h jennings associate professor of mechanical engineer ing spent last week in chicago where he attended the annual con ference of the american society of heating and ventilation engineers the conference which lasted from monday until friday was held in conjunction with the national heat ing and ventilation show next year the conference will be held in wash ington lyse is 111 with lumbago inge m lyse research associate professor of engineering materials was admitted to st luke's hospital thursday afternoon to be treated for acute lumbago and will be con fined for another week according to the hospital authorities mr wickersham who was recog nized as one of america's great le gal minds was interested and well versed in many fields of the arts but in spite of his fondness for esthetic studies mechanics fascinated him and he entered lehigh university in 1873 to study engineering when he was 20 he entered the law school of the university of pennsylvania where he was grad uated with honors in 1880 later as he became a national figure in the law he was appointed a trustee of the school he was also appointed to trusteeship of barnard the car negie institution at washington and the cathedral of st john the di vine mr wickersham was born in pittsburgh on sept 19 1858 the son of samuel morris wickersham and elizabeth cox woodward wickersham bishop william t manuring a close friend pi w t ickersham's con ducted the services last tuesday at st eorge's church in new york cuity burial was at brookside cem etery englewood n j in 1909 while he was attorney general wickersham was awarded an honorary doctor of laws degree at lehigh isochromatic pictures and sculpture to be on view an exhibition of isochromatic painting and international sculp ture will open thursday feb 16 at the university art gallery in the library the paintings which will remain until feb 23 represent both the radical and the conservative schools of art they are technically inter esting being isochromatic or paint ed with chemically uniform pig ments the purposes of this method are to facilitate critical comparison of the artists work and to permit scientific study of the chemical properties of the pigments the gallery will be open at the regular hours sunday wednesday thursday and friday afternoons from 3 to 5 and friday evenings from 7 to 9 chi phi fraternity men have created a 20-ft snowman shown above in front of their house the members of the fraternity in the picture are left to right front row william hamilton bus 39 robert seabrook eng 39 and george glueck eng 39 rear row edmund knight bus 39 and walter wells eng 39 lehigh university brown and white editor in chief brown and white tuesday february 4 1936 i member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first