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              bethlehem pa friday february 7 1936 comments on r.o.t.c vol xliii — no 28 price — five cents nya jobs will continue until june says morgan collins sees no attack on r.o.t.c program for youth drawn by reiter dramatic club presents play over wcba sigma xi's to hear talks on civil research all men who have been hold ing nya jobs should continue working unless notified by the placement office announces e r morgan director of . place ment some men were under the im pression that jobs assigned in september ended in january this is not the case says mor gan for the jobs will carry through until june living groups hold initiations major carter collins 41 boys fail first semester joseph c callaghan recently appointed instructor of english callaghan will teach eng lish 1 and 2 classes he was instruc tor in english at the lawrence in stitute of technology highland park mich he received his m a degree from the university of mich igan in 1932 speech covers five points high goal is stressed howard bosey reiter head of the department of physical educa tion set a five point program for youth in an address before the cos mopolitan club at the bethlehem boys club wednesday evening speaking on the topic if i were a boy again reiter told his audi ence that if he were a boy again he would set a high goal for attainment and would strive with every ounce of honest effort to reach that goal even if in the end he did fall a lit tle short of the top he advised the building of a sound mind and a healthy body and asked for cooperation with fellow beings a virtue which he claimed is lack ing in so many respects today his final objective would be keeping in mind always the fact that there is a higher power which motivates every action of man and nature and he urged his hearers that with all their striving they be ever mindful of god and his goodness debaters drop close decision claims new bill will not affect college units withdrawal of federal support to the 62 land-grant colleges through out the nation is being sought in a measure introduced into congress by senator nye and representative kvale the bill has already passed the house of representatives and is pictured by opponents as an at tack on the r o t c system major carter collins assistant professor of military science and tactics commenting on the meas ure explained that the federal gov ernment does not compel military training in the universities but mere ly offers the system to the trustees of institutions of learning who make the final decision the bill would not effect the universities and is un uk it has been my pleasant exper ience during the past ten years to be instructor of r o t c in var ious universities added major col lins during this time many faculty members of these universities have expressed the concensus of opinion that the r o t c has been of great assistance to them and to the institutions by increasing law or der and good citizenship ajh9ng._the students in those universities with the compulsory feature sophs called to competition bank outlook better for 1936 closed doors by hertz ogden resumes week ly programs is first of radio series closed doors a play written by roy j hertz arts 38 and adapted to radio by albert s ogden eng 38 was presented by mustard and cheese dramatic society wednes day night at 9:30 over station wcba allentown the cast was filled by roy hertz as christopher cook elbert tidd arts 37 as geoffry cook mac al lem as anastasia cook and david c bradley ch e 38 as patrick barton the program was directed by albert s ogden marks resumption the presentation of closed doors marks the resumption of a series of weekly radio programs ar ranged by mustard and cheese and played by student members which had been discontinued over the christmas holidays and the examin ation period as the first program of the new series wednesday night's perfor mance consisted of the first act of a story depicting the life of a young man who had led a quiet and se cluded life studying under private tutors and not knowing the mean ing of intimate friendship until cir cumstances caused him to go to col lege subsequent installments will describe the young man's reactions to college life and the associations he makes in it friedensville zinc was purest in 54 plans announced by 4 fraternities 2 banquets tomorrow 1 sunday alpha kappa pi and pi kappa alpha fraternities will hold their formal initiations tomorrow tau delta phi will hold theirs tonight and pi lambda phi will initiate its pledges sunday it was announced today alpha kappa pi will initiate six men at 3 p m at the sun inn and a banquet at which george b thorn former faculty member robert herrick 34 and scott e jackson of philadelphia will speak will follow the ceremony the pi kappa alpha initiation and banquet will be held tomorrow eve ning at the hotel bethlehem eight men will be initiated and speakers will be dr george d harmon as sociate professor of american his tory and professor bradley stough ton director of the curriculum in metallurgical engineering pi lamba phi will hold an infor mal initiation banquet for five pledges at 7 p m sunday at the hotel bethlehem herbert levin william rappaport and stephen s wise founders of the local chapter will be guests of honor tau delta phi will hold its for mal initiation at the chapter house tonight and chi phi has held its in itiation during the past week to discuss mining 44 students 1 fraternity drop probation 21 new entries forty-one students were droppecf from lehigh last semester because they failed to meet scholastic re quirements according to figures re leased by dean mcconn yesterday of this number 30 were sopho mores juniors and seniors while 11 were freshmen the semester ended with 44 men getting off probation twelve were allowed to continue on probation because illnesses kept them from studies of the two fraternities that were on social probation phi sigma kappa came off with a 1.601 aver age while delta phi still remains on probation twe:.ty-one new students entered lehigh this semester eleven of these were undergraduates five freshmen and six with advanced standing of the undergraduates five entered the arts college three the business college and three engin eering will demonstrate appara tus after meeting in fritz laboratory sutherland to preside research projects being carried on by the civil engineering depart ment will be discussed at the meet ing of the lehigh chapter of sigma xi at 8 p m friday in the fritz laboratory during the year sigma xi de votes several meetings to illustrated talks by members of the various departments who present their orig inal research problems hale suth erland head of the department of civil engineering and i m lyse research associate professor of en gineering materials will lead the discussion of the reports and will introduce the speakers civils to discuss problems c d jensen assistant professor of civil engineering will give a short talk on welded constructions and i e madsen american institute of steel construction research fel low will explain his research on a battle-deck floor f l ehasz law rence calvin brink research fellow in civil engineering will give a photoelastic stress study and will discuss transmission line towers beam and column connections is the topic to be discussed by g j gibson structural steel welding committee research fellow and g r wernisch concrete reinforcing steel institute fellow is to talk on reinforced concrete slabs supported on two edges a discussion of re inforced concrete slabs supported on four edges will be given by mr langmis mr eney instructor in civil engineering will conclude the research program in a talk on the mechanical analysis as indetermin ate planar structures following the presentation of the research projects the apparatus used in the experiments will be demonstrated in the laboratory scout executive addresses society authority on coal to address society candidates for frosh bible board to meet on monday candidates for the freshman handbook will meet at 7:30 mon day evening in the arcadia room in drown hall candidates must be sophomores and will compete for the following offices chairman of the board business manager and three board positions the men who get the largest number of advertisements under a system to be outlined at the meet ing will receive the positions for every 100 worth of advertisements candidates solicit they will receive 10 even though they may not re ceive board positions the chairman of the board re ceives 30 and the business man ager 25 competition will begin tuesday feb 11 and will last until the end of april members of the board are eligible for the chairmanship and the posi tion of business manager in case either of these officers leave school or are dropped for scholastic rea sons to sponsor talks lose to rhode island state on question of judicial review the rhode island state debating team argued their way to a close decision over lehigh last night when they successfully presented the neg ative of the question resolved that congress should be empow ered by a two-thirds vote to over ride decisions of the supreme court declaring acts of congress uncon stitutional the visitors who are touring the middle atlantic states for the next week based their defense around the issues that the present system has proved itself workable that the proposed change would actually re sult in little more than mob rule and that contrary to belief such power granted to congress would not make the country more liberal the affirmative case argued by gerard layman eng.'39 and ralph scoblionko arts 39 contended that the present system of judicial re view is undemocratic and blocks economic and social legislation william krohn and c albert mar seglia represented rhode island state university h david randall debating coach of liberty high school rendered the decision on the basis of presen tation logic content pt>ints covered and points refuted this evening the debating team will face st joseph's on the same question at 7:30 o'clock in room 416 packard laboratory humphrey ehasz test coal pilings dr ewing to describe new coal mining method dr maurice ewing instructor in physics will present a paper on prospecting for coal before the 145 th meeting of the american institute of mining and metallurgical en gineers to be held in new york city from feb 17 to 21 the title of dr ewing's paper will be prospecting for anthracite by the earth-resistivity method this is one of the four methods used by geophysicists in modern prospecting work doctor ewing recently complet ed some important research in the seismic or explosive method of geo physical research when he read a paper to the geological society of american on the determination of the depth to bed rock on the con tinental shelf of petersburg va o :—: — taylor and siiiull publish a study on drying oils robert s taylor legal counsel to the university and j g smull in structor of chemistry published a study on the drying oils in the feb ruary issue of industrial and en gineering chemistry the paper contains the research work on the oxidation of linseed oil which was directed by c w simmons associate professor of chemical engineering coming events friday feb 7 7:30 p m robert w blake so ciety meeting room 201 - 251 packard laboratory saturday feb 8 3 p m varsity swimming meet lehigh vs swarthmore lehigh pool 4:15 p m freshman wrestling meet lehigh vs wyoming sem inary taylor gymnasium 7:30 p m varsity wrestling meet lehigh vs yale taylor gymna sium 3 p m alpha kappa pi banquet sun inn 6 p m phi kappa alpha hotel bethlehem bradford says problem of credit control still remains the individual bank outlook for this year is brighter but problems of credit control remain according to an article by dr frederick a bradford professor of economics which appeared in a recent is sue of the annalist a journal of nance commerce and economics in his article dr bradford states that from the . r standpoint of the soundness of the banking structure the past year appears from the sta tistics to have made a better show ing than 1934 he goes on to say that the position of the banks is be ing gradually strengthened through the elimination of the weak institu tions that 1935 will go down hi the annals of american banking as a year of outstanding significance is scarcely open to question he writes sees no changes he claims that the banking struc ture is sound from the bankers standpoint and says that there seems to be no reason to look for any startling changes in the atti tude of the board of governors of the federal reserve system toward credit control in short while there has been a great deal of dis cussion of credit control there has been a decided hesitancy to under take any restrictive action thus far dr bradford contends that it is doubtful if any action will be taken this year on credit control even if the need should appear to be much more decisive than at present g w ashley to speak on pennsylvania geology dr g h ashley geologist for the state of pennsylvania will give an illustrated lecture on the geology of this state at a meeting of the mining and geological society to be held at 8 p.m thursday in room 101 williams hall according to dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology dr ashley is one of the world's authorities on coal and will particularly discuss the coal depos its of pennsylvania dr ashley has been the state geologists since 1920 prior to hold ing this position he gained distinc tion for his work on the united states geological survey he was also state geologist in tennessee from 1910 to 1912 senior r.o.t.c students will hold court martial to illustrate the procedure ad hered to in court martials the sen ior infantry will present a mock trial at 7 o'clock tonight in the ar mory the characters in this trial will be enacted by the students enrolled in the adanccd r o t c course the court will try a case of deser tion o club reads the coward the faculty dramatic club which met wednesday evening in pack ard laboratory read the coward a play by lorenend the society de cided to make the next meeting open to the public when shakes peare's twelfth night will be read o h.s leach resumes duties howard s leach librarian re cently returned to his duties after an illness of several months he suffered from high blood pressure pittenger buried alpha phi omega hears beardslee thomas three faculty advisers and the bethlehem scout executive ad dressed alpha phi omega eagle scout fraternity at the bi - weekly meeting jan 29 the scout executive j j wilcox spoke on the connection of scout ing and college the advisers who spoke were dr c g beardslee head of the department of moral and religious philosophy dr h p thomas head of the department of education and paul r calvert as sistant coach of basketball after having been approved by the lehigh faculty said robert p turgis m e 38 president of the fraternity the application for a charter was sent to national head quarters two weeks ago we anti cipate no trouble in having our lo cal chapter recognized the next meeting will be held at 7:30 p m feb 12 in drown hall billinger writes on early zinc works in valley in six years from 1854 to 1860 some 40,000 tons of zinc were mined at friedensville and hauled over south mountain by mule team to be treated in furnaces along the le high river writes dr r d bill inger assistant professor of chemis try in an article entitled early zinc works in the lehigh valley in the february issue of the jour • nal of chemical education dr billinger traces the investi gation management and ownership from w t roepper first professor of mineralogy at lehigh to the new jersey zinc company in 1911 the quality of the zinc produced in the mine now a swimming hole was the purest obtainable at the time from 1881 to 1893 under the frie densville zinc company about 50,000 tons of spelter and 90,000 tons of zinc oxide valued at 20,000,000 were produced from the local ores dr billinger cited literature by w h chandler former head of the chemistry department and h s drinker a past president of the uni versity the paper was originally presented before the division of his tory of chemistry at the eighty ninth meeting of the american chemical society held on april 22 in new york student and alumnus to wed former schoolmates the engagements of two class mates to lehigh men were an nounced last week the engagement of neville h ehmann i e 36 to miss ora ehmling of upper darby was an nounced recently ehmann is a member of sigma phi epsilon fra ternity mr and mrs james c wilton of fairmont w va have an nounced the engagement of their daughter miss mary louise wel ton to george h enzian 35 a member of the alpha tau omega fraternity miss welton is a school mate of miss ehmling's at mary baldwin college o prof r a soto returns rafael a soto professor of ro mance languages returned to school recently after an illness of several months he was ill with pneumonia speaks on lehigh local a s m £. group to present lecture series fans their characteristics and applications to be given by prof milton c stuart on monday feb 10 will be the first of a new series of lectures to be sponsored by the bethlehem group of the a s m e although this series is intended to keep lehigh valley engineers in formed of the progress of mechan ical engineering the talks will be open to lehigh students and there is no admission charge the lec tures will not be of a popular na ture but strictly technical and plan ned to be informative and educa tional the subject for the third lec ture of this group by prof burgess h jennings is principles of re frigeration and their applications to human health and comfort other speakers to be announced later will be local authorities on centrifugal pumps and diesel en gines to teach free wpa class g a rousch former associate professor of metallurgy will teach classes in engineering at the free wpa evening scohol at the broughal high school starting this week a class in elementary metal lurgy will be taught and if the de mand is large courses in advanced metallurgy and electricity will soon follow o alumnus will marry richard b mancke 29 of new york and miss jeanne a moyer of allentown will be married in allentown tomorrow mr mancke an electrical engineer is employed by the american telegraph com pany determine size of pillars for anthracite mines tests on the cracking strength of anthracite coal are being conducted in fritz laboratory by john m humphrey 23 an engineer of the lehigh valley coal company and francis l ehasz lawrence calvin brink research fellow in civil engin eering the results of these tests which are being made on samples from the abbott bowkley hillman ross and redash veins will be used to determine the size of coal pillars in the company's mines thirty-three tests are being made on sample blocks from one to three inches high and with an area of from 10 to 25 square inches the block is put under compression in one of the small testing machines and loaded until it powders com pletely readings are taken when the block first cracks and again at ultimate load when the coal fails partial results to date indicate that the coal first cracks with a load of 148 tons to the square foot and gives way entirely at a load of 300 tons to the square foot ' williams to address society president clement c williams and senator james j davis will be the main speakers at the annual ban quet of the st david's society sat urday evening feb 29 at the ho tel bethlehem bethlehem policeman serv ed on campus 12 years funeral services were held thur sday at 2 p m for harry j pitten ger former campus policeman who died at 5 p m saturday at his home at 1236 maple street bethlehem his death was due to complications burial was made in the nisky hill cemetery mr pittenger had been a mem ber of the bethlehem police force for ten years and in spite of ill health had remained on duty until two weeks ago he received treat ment in st luke's hospital until friday when he returned home officers pittenger had a record of 23 years as a policeman he began in the service in 1913 and one year later became an officer on the cam pus force at lehigh serving this duty for 12 years mr pittenger was born at king ston pa he is survived by his wife two sons harry j jr lehigh 26 and kenneth a daughter and a bro ther williams gives survey of modern university a survey of modern lehigh was given by president g c williams recently in reply to a reception ten dered him at philadelphia by the philadelphia-lehigh club the title of his address was the measure of a great university honor guests at the meeting in cluded walter r okeson treasurer of the university theodore j grayson attorney and counsellor at law dr e m wilson head mas ter of the haverford school and dr grevill haglam head master of the episcopal academy william a cornelius 89 recently elected alum ni secretary was chairman of the committee on arrangements dr williams represented lehigh at the installation saturday in washington d c of dr william otis hotchkiss as president of rennselaer polytechnic institute lehigh university brown and white english instructor member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first