Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 35

              vol xliii — no 35 financial reports receive approval fio rito band to be signed within week says country can yet avoid inflation plans 4 statements need changes committee finds all but seven financial reports of student clubs were approved by the committee on student clubs at a re cent meeting four of these reports were held for advisement by the dean while the other three were not presented in time for consideration and approval these reports included the finan cial standing of all student organ izations and dormitory sections but not the social fraternities and pub lications dean mcconn stated that the four reports were not approved only be cause of minor matters that can eas ily be corrected by a conference with the treasurers of the respec tive organizations adds credits for ordnance to arrange for scholastic press convention a meeting of the committee on the interscholastic press conference was held late this afternoon to set the date for lehigh's third annual scholastic press conference at last year's conference held may 11 191 schools were represent ed by 600 delegates members of the brown and white staff assisted as leaders in round table discussions dr neil carothers director of the college of business administration and c william duncan columnist of the philadelphia evening public ledger spoke at the conference nine first and nine second prizes were awarded to the best newspa pers and magazines members of the committee on ar rangements are prof d h gram ley head of the department of jour nalism wray h congdon director of admissions dean c m mcconn robert herrick assistant to the alumni secretary and robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry plan to attend model league top left one reason why the boys don't go home — miss violet gil berg top center sufferers indulging in a game of poker top right would you make me an egg nogg bottom left stricken students writhing on beds of pain bottom cen ter miss evelyn hoffsis entertaining the fellows with a ghost story bottom right brown and white reporter gets the low down from the higher ups reporters find stricken men are measly fourflushers chosen by prom cominit mittee to play on april 24 in coliseum orchestra now on tour the junior prom committee has selected ted fio rito to play at the opening social event of spring houseparty april 24 tickets for the dance which will be held in the coliseum are to sell at 4.56 per couple and 2.28 stag although fio rito has not sent us a signed contract said luther j upton ch e 37 chairman of the committee we have wired our new york booking agent that the band will be acceptable and we ex pect a contract within the next few days ted fio rito and the debutantes three blues singers who accompany the band are now on a nation-wide tour until feb 28 the band played nightly in the terrace grill of the hotel new yorker began career in irvington n.j fio rito began his career in ir vington n j from there he trav eled to the west coast where he played at the cocoanut grove in los angeles and also was featured in several movie shorts after that he played at the edgewater beach hotel chicago candy candido who plays the bass violin in the band and who also acts as comedian in specialty num bers was cast with ginger rogers and fred astaire in roberta over 60 freshmen donate lab fees bull says 42 measles cases are reported 11 others have gone home says peak of epidemic is past 14 students in hospital there have been 42 cases of german measles reported so far and 11 other students have gone home for observation stated dr bull the peak of the epidemic was reached last tuesday since that time the number of cases has de clined last week however 26 new cases were reported although the number of cases has decreased tremendously since last week and we feel that the dis ease is being checked the difficulty in controlling an epidemic of this nature by quarantine is that the men are infected before there is any indication of the presence of the disease therefore to a very large ex tent an epidemic once started must run its course he added quarantine ends march 11 the quarantine of all social ac tivities which was imposed by the state board of health feb 26 will be lifted at 6 p m march 11 at the present time there are 19 students in the local hospitals el mer c bohlen eng 39 and rich ard w blanchard eng 39 are in st luke's hospital joseph e cal laghan instructor in english louis m deland g e 36 gordon e guy eng 39 john e kelly arts 39 and jerome n scher bus 36 are in the sacred heart hospital allentown harry e rose eng.'39 arthur rothschild bus 39 morris a scharff arts 38 george w hoffman m e 36 samuel brad bury arts 39 john h heller eng 39 and harry w kipe eng 39 are in the allentown general hos pital thomas speaks about curricula carothers decries current monetary policies of government advises halt in subsidies inflation is not yet here and it may yet be avoided writes dr neil carothers head of the department of business administration in an ar ticle entitled is inflation here appearing in sunday's issue of the new york herald-tribune dr carothers in his article gave some advice and opinions as to how to avoid inflation the noted economist defined in flation as being a feverish and un natural rise of prices due to a mor bid condition in currency and credit he said it reduces the value of wages it wipes out savings and life insurance it eats up the life savings of the old it destroys will,s inheritances trusts endow ments universities and hospitals economists vindicated if the devaluation of the dollar had worked as the government had predicted prices would have in creased 65 per cent said dr car others however prices have risen only 10 per cent he stated strange ly enough it did not work the way the administration said it would or the inflation bloc in the senate said it would or the committee for the nation said it would it worked the way the economists said it would said dr carothers the economist said that this fu tile policy has left us first without a money system second with bloat ed bank reserves third with an end less expansion of government bonds in private hands fourth with prac tically unlimited possibilities of pa per money issues through the fed eral reserve fifth with a hopelessly unbalanced budget sixth with a re lentless pressure from a paper mon ey inflation group in congress offers remedies as a remedy for the present con dition of the country dr carothers declared that the government should repeal the silver purchase law it should cut all expenditures to the absolute minimum and should stop all subsidies to farmers public works or any other unworthy reci pient it should restore the gold standard at the present value of the dollar dr carothers said that many authorities believe that a large in flation is now inevitable he said however that he belongs to the group that takes a calmer view but agrees that the present policies can not continue indefinitely 6 lehigh delegates to rep resent columbia at vassar this week six lehigh men will attend the model league of nations to be held at vassar college on thursday fri day and saturday they will repre sent colombia the six men to attend are fred erick e tholmann arts 37 sec retary of the international rela tions club jacob blumenthal jr ch e 37 samuel p felix jr arts 37 melvin s lord ch e 38 har ry l snavely arts 37 and john e sutcliffe arts 39 prof sidney m brown will accompany these men as faculty adviser on thursday afternoon the stu dents attending the league will reg ister after which they will attend a dinner the first plenary session will be held friday morning at the opening of this session dean clara m thompson will address the del egates in a welcoming speech the representatives from the 31 colleges attending the model senate will be divided into three groups following the dean's address the groups will come under the head ings of sanctions raw mater ials and technical assistance friday evening the delegates will attend an informal dance given for them the league will continue through saturday and will be ad dressed by many prominent speak ers she said and their conduct has been fine but you can't come in she smiled sweetly click did you take my picture she pouted yes we said we smiled sweetly you're not going to print it she asked we are we replied presently we left her we snoop ed about the building we pepped in the windows we climbed on the roof we crawled into the cellar dear readers we have been be trayed far from being the loathesome excruciating malignant scourge that measles has been painted to us it is a swell disease for instead of lying on beds of pain our diseased classmates were nonchalantly stroll ing about the isolation ward in stead of ascetic abstinence from food and stimulants our comrades were glutting their epicurean gullets with all sorts of fruits and egg nogs and delighting their palates with choice brands of imported cigar ettes there were radios decks of cards simmons beds two other nurses in cluding a blonde evelyn dizz hoffsis phone — 991 congeniality fraternity and — we almost for got — measles verily men of lehigh we have been betrayed by louis c stoumen and jack b mercer we approached the drab red brick building of st luke's hospital that housed eleven measles-stricken lehigh men filled with compassion and firmly re solved to do all in our power to cheer our unfortunate classmates for was not the whole campus shrouded in mourning at their sad plight had not all social and ath letic events been called off out of respect for their misfortune truly we were humbled we bowed our heads in shame and contritely hid our candid camera ashamed to so flagrantly exploit our stricken bre thren in the name of journalism ac we came closer sounds pe culiarly like merriment reached our ears were the boys delirious we dropped two tears each oh the sadness of it all we rang the bell a beootiful girl answered our ring se was dressed in spotless white and we learned later that she was a nurse and that her name was violet gilber,g bru nette phone — 991 we spoke in our best professional manners we are from the brown and white le high's semi-weekly undergraduate newspaper and we would like a story on the lehigh boys who have the measles the boys are all doing nicely e.e.'s have party at seyf ert's home fem-sem to start weekly newspaper to consider plan faculty increases hours from 2 to 3 for ad vanced course advanced courses in ordnance mil 15 16 17 and 18 were changed from two to three hour courses by action of the faculty at its month ly meeting yesterday afternoon in the faculty room of the adminis tration building students who took this course last semester will re ceive three hours credit president williams was requested by the faculty to appoint a com mittee to study the possibility of ob taining group insurance for faculty members prof adelbert ford chairman of the faculty educational club an nounced a meeting of that organ ization at 4 p m march 9 in the faculty room in the administration building e b schultz associate professor of political science will speak on opportunities for var ious types of professional in gov ernment service prof howard eckfeldt director of the curriculum in mining engin eering announced that the com mittee on professional degrees has had prepared the necessary blanks for candidates for professional de grees these blanks can be obtained at the registrar's office graduates who have received bachelor's degrees in engineering are eligible for their engineering de grees after five years of work in their chosen fields this procedure of awarding de grees was passed by the university in 1930 the registrar's office is re ceiving requests concerning the ne cessary procedure in obtaining the awards the faculty granted permission to publish portions of the senior thesis of l brewer ch e 35 and h c martin ch e 35 on a paper en titled creeping of saturated salt solutions diamond speaks scout club asks men to call for blanks charter members of the le high eagle scout organization are requested to call at the union office in drown hall for applica tion blanks freshmen who desire admit tance into the organization are asked to leave their lists of qual ifications at the union office dur ing the next two weeks 10,000 educators attend st louis convention prof h p thomas head of the department of education returned from st louis last week where he spoke at the meetings of the na tional vocational guidance associa tion and the department of super intendence of the national educa tion association there were 10,000 registered for the latter convention coming from schools and colleges from all over the united states at the meeting of the national vocational guidance association professor thomas outlined the pro gram for the meeting he gave an evaluation on supervision versus personnel agencies in curriculum construction at the department of superintendence one of the highlights of the con vention from professor thomas's standpoint was a discussion on the difficulty college students have in reading this interested him be cause of the fact that t t lafferty an instructor in education is con ducting a test concerning this mat ter with freshmen who have failed nine or more hours goes to pittsburgh money to be used for chemistry research work over 60 freshmen taking elemen tary chemistry or qualitative analy sis have contributed their returns from chemistry laboratory fees to the student chemistry foundation each student gives approximately 14 it is expected that 1,000 will be collected before the end of the semester says h v anderson as sociate professor of chemistry the money collected will be used to promote scientific research in the chemistry department to be carried on by two fellows one appointed each year for a two-year period as yet the fellowship has not been awarded for next year but it is ex pected that dr h m ullmann head of the department of chemis try will soon announce the recipient of the award h v anderson secretary of the foundation headed the appeal dr h a neville associate professor of chemistry william m smith ch e 36 william s hutchinson ch e 36 nelson j leonard ch e 37 nathaniel whitman presi dent of the freshman class and nor man c scarpulla eng 39 assist ed professor anderson in securing contributions the foundation was founded in 1927 by stanley b adams ch e 30 and has since collected about 28,000 thre is now 16,000 in the trust fund one of the aims of the foundation is to build the trust fund to 50,000 after which the interest will be used to further research in chemistry the foundation provides 600 annually for each of the two research fellows the remainder if any is put into the trust fund receive 50 songs new drive built seminary announces staff for newspaper moravian seminary and college for women will publish a weekly newspaper dr edwin j heath president of the school recently an nounced approval of the paper which will be entirely separate from the school's literary magazine the mirror miss blanche williams of wyd nor has been announced as editor her staff will be composed of the misses helen morris and dorothy tobin of easton and misses rita shafer and elizajane kemmerer of bethlehem the staff will also include miss mary beaver sports editor miss mary malloy news manager miss peggy farquhar business manager and miss polly farquhar circula tion manager the name of the paper is to be announced later miller to explain names dr benjamin l miller head of the department of geology will ex plain the derivations of the names of many of the better known towns and streams of northampton and lehigh counties in an address at the meeting of the lions club this evening dr beardslee is guest sunday evening dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy was the guest of honor at the party given by mrs s s seyfert at her home 55 w market street at 6:30 o'clock sun day evening piano selections were played by w w felton 34 who is working for his master's degree in electrical engineering donald t cooper e.e 36 showed movies of his trips to canada and the panama canal j w mathers j c mccabe a e osman w porter w f rust g h shinn wm taddeo h c bickel b s s ulak d l waide lich w s weil senior electrical engineers and prof s s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering a r miller assistant professor of electrical engineering n s hibshman associate professor of electrical engineering and w.h formals instructor in electrical en gineering were guests at the party mrs seyfert entertained the oth er half of the senior electrical en gineers at her home sunday eve ning feb 23 to broadcast dukek's play a one-act play entitled room to let written by william g du kek ch e 38 will be presented over station wcba allentown at 9:30 tomorrow night under the auspices of the lehigh mustard and cheese club addresses association on delinquency the great mass of people can never gain great wealth at the ex pense of others herbert m dia mond professor of economics told the pennsylvania association on probation and parole and the state conference on social welfare wed nesday at allentown the only way the standard of living can be raised is by increased productivity for no society can divide that which it does not possess he stated that properly adminis tered minimum wage unemploy ment insurance collective bargain ing health insurance and old age pension laws would suppress delin quency howard l katzander chief of public health education in the health department read a speech prepared by dr e mcßride-dexter on tu berculosis — a crime against our civilization speaks on economics dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics addressed the students of merchantville n.j high school last friday morning on sense and nonsense in current economic thought w a cornelius meets with lehigh club william a cornelius executive alumni secretary last night met with the alumni fund committee of the pittsburgh lehigh club at the of fice of edward stotz jr secretary of the pittsburgh club plans for the fund campaign were explained by a s osborne 09 head of the committee and frank b bell president of the pittsburgh club the largest attendance at a monthly luncheon in the history of the club was present last wednes day noon at the club luncheon at the yale-harvard-princeton club in pittsburgh according to the report of the club secretary the youngstown ohio lehigh club has invited cornelius to speak to the club this week while he is in the pittsburgh district alumni office to announce winner in april over 50 entries in the lehigh song contest were received at the alumni office by midnight feb 29 the closing date of the contest judges of these entries are ro sario bourdon conductor and di rector of the cities service radio program frank black general mu sic director of nbc and fred war ing director of the pennsylvanians it is planned to have the winner announced on the cities service pro gram over station wjz sometime in april this program is an annual affair for lehigh and lehigh men arranged by frank r coates 09 vice president of the cities service company first prize in the contest is 100 and prizes of 50 and 25 are offered for the two next best entries brodhead aye entrance to parking space made a new entrance has been built leading directly into the parking space on the west side of the alum ni building south of the main drive off brodhead avenue a w litzenberger superinten dent of buildings and grounds states that the driveway was opened to give better access to the parking space and relieve congestion on the main drive passing the alumni building he requests that those leaving the parking space use this entrance and avoid crossing the line of traffic on the main drive the driveway was used before the alumni building was erected and was abandoned when the parking space was made tau beta pi will review neglected proposal tau beta pi appointed a commit tee to fortmulate a plan for a stu dent group to criticize content and administration of courses and adopt ed amendments to by-laws at a meeting friday the committee headed by walter l finlay ch e 36 will consider a program originally outlined last year by the lehigh review and en dorsed by the brown and white john p butterfield i e 36 was appointed chairman of another com mittee to complete plans for a ban quet and a meeting with alumni of the lehigh valley theta kappa phi initiates 8 freshmen at banquet theta kappa phi fraternity in ducted 8 freshmen at its initiation banquet saturday night in the chap ter house guest speakers were har old b finn national president james h farrell president of the alumni association and the rev joseph laßue chaplain new members of theta kappa phi are fred e stanley rahway n j richard d faber maple wood n j joseph a oless sha mokin charles h borgarello westwood herman e merz new ark n j francis s filippone newark n j joseph j comazzi canadensis paul n o'brien erie the president of alpha chapter is j kenneth cooper bus 36 lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa tuesday march 3 1936 committee meets plans conference price — five cents sick students suffer in silence member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first