Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 50

              gilbert escobedo is singing a solo at the microphone on the left behind him are the lehigh collegians vice president emery guest speaker professor larkin open house chairman are sitting on the right hits new deal at c of c meet senior invitations available pre-meds will hold banquet at sun inn j p schaeffer to speak at final meeting thursday night the annual spring banquet of the robert w hall pre-medical so ciety will be held at 6:15 thursday night at the sun inn dr j parsons schaeffer of the jefferson medical school will speak to the students on some topic of medical interest the results of the election of offi cers for the ensuing term which has been held during the past three weeks will be announced at the banquet buchanan states dr lawrence milstead of the sa cred heart hospital of allentown and the following faculty members will be present robert w hall professor of biology stanley j thomas professor of bacteriology raymond c bull and stewart l rankin director and assistant di rector of students health service james p sell assistant in biology and francis j trembley instructor in biology after the banquet which will be the last meeting for this semester several of the faculty members will give short talks orders for commencement in vitations may be placed at the lehigh union office drown hall from tomorrow until may 13 an nounces william bamert bus 35 chairman of the senior invi tation committee phi eta sigma initiates 15 lehigh on air at open house carothers tells national group that programs have slowed recovery preliminary to the formulation of a business policy by the united states chamber of commerce dr neil carothers told the chamber at its final session for the year thurs day morning in washington that the present administration's policies have fallen far short of their goal speaking on economic prin ciples as they apply to present conditions dr carothers declared that the recovery program has not advanced recovery that the nra aaa and the monetary programs have reduced private investments and restricted production and that recovery will be promoted by relax ation of restriction regimentation and interference at this meeting the chamber of commerce voted on the resolutions which decided the policy of bus iness toward the governmental re covery program secretary of state cordell hull also addressed the group merriman to speak before a s c e will lecture on fort peck dam 7:30 p m thursday thaddeus merriman lecturer on hydraulics and water supply will speak on the fort peck dam at the meeting of the student chapter of the american society of civil engineers at 7:30 p m thursday in room 466 packard auditorium the dam is being built across the missouri river 20 miles southeast of glassgow mont it will cost 84,200,000 and will be 9,000 feet long across the crest with an addi tional 11,000 feet of dike the dam will be an hydraulic fill structure made of rock and gravel the fort peck dam is mainly a navigation project which upon com pletion will permit boats of nine foot draft to sail up the missouri river as far as sioux city lowa some power will be generated there however 168 preparatory high schools send representatives here emery okeson congdon give talks on traditions and entrance requirements visitors from as far as milwau kee wis and burlington vt were among the 395 prospective students registered on sub-freshman day saturday one hundred and forty eight high schools and twenty pre paratory schools were represented pennsylvania had fifty high schools represented and new jersey had fifty-four other visitors came from new port r 1 springfield mass buf falo n v and pittsburgh many alumni parents and friends accom panied the prospective students visitors began arriving shortly after 8 a m continuing to come most of the morning guests were registered in the lobby of the alumni memorial building from 9 to 10:30 a m previous to the general assembly in packard auditorium visitors were conducted on tours of the buildings and grounds by members of arca dia and representatives of fraterni ties and living groups emery speaks at the general assembly andrew e buchanan executive secretary of the alumni association who was general chairman of the sub-fresh man committee made some intro ductory remarks dr natt m emery vice president of the uni versity gave a short address of welcome and walter r okeson university treasurer spoke on le high traditions wray h congdon director of admissions outlined the courses offered at lehigh and the entrance requirements following the assembly groups visited different departments accord ing to their particular interests faculty guides in their respective departments led the visitors about and explained the type of work done visitors had luncheon at 12:30 in the armory as guests of the uni versity and in the afternoon at tended exhibits retained from the open house displays many attended the rutgers var sity and freshman track meets in the afternoon the baseball games be tween lafayette and lehigh frosh and varsity teams were called off due to inclement weather a e buchanan and j w max well his assistant were in charge of the program watson former mat champ visits campus over week-end robert c watson c.e.'l3 prom inent patent attorney of washing ton d c and former lehigh wrestling champion was a visitor here for sub-freshman activities over the week-end during his career at lehigh wat son was one of the outstanding stars on coach billy sheridan's wrestling team he was one of the first intercollegiate champions crowned at lehigh in 1913 wrestl ing in the 175-lb division he de feated the intercollegiate champion captain bame of cornell in 14 minutes and 45 seconds emery escobedo and le high collegians broad cast over wcba before a capacity open house audience vice president natt m emery spoke on open house and lehigh over the brown and white program friday evening broadcast by station wcba from packard auditorium gilberto escobedo c e 36 sang two spanish songs ay ay ay and la cucaracha judson schaeffer arts 35 presented a short remote pickup of the passing crowd's noises and also gave a brief description of several pieces of en gineering apparatus at 7:30 the lehigh collegians opened the program by playing two popular songs and at intervals throughout the program rendered additional selections escobedo sans his ua^r^p^p&^^.oloeflts rhfef dr alafttßmery welcomed the vis itors and spoke for nin minute ahoutppen-.h-qtwer aiid jp£nqi£lkl vjni^li^lrmt^efhigh fes to offer schaeffer's remote pickup was the final feature of th^hroadcapsfi t announced the entire program ed win sawyer editor in chief of the brown and white worked up the details and the features of the broad cast alumnus to speak wieseman will lecture e e.s thursday elections to be held robert w wieseman 16 will speak on unusual electrical ma chines at the electrical engineer ing society meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory the election of officers for the coming year will be held any sophomore or junior who is a mem ber of the american institute of electrical engineers was eligible mr wieseman is employed by the general electric company at schenectady n v in the motor and generator department he has invented several multi-speed syn chronous motors green announces extra drill on first clear day it will be necessary to hold a drill tomorrow or the first day that weather permits stated maj j o green head of the depart ment of military science and tac tics yesterday the majority of drills that were postponed because of rain were closely grouped and it is necessary to hold one drill be fore the war department inspec tion and field day on next mon day he said further announce ments concerning this drill will be made during the m s and t sections this week fifteen sophomores to be elected on basis of new schedule adopt ed at meeting thursday pledges to be tapped may 17 at college flagpole meeting cyanide junior honorary society revised its point system for admis sion at a meeting thursday eve ning fifteen sophomores will be selected from the competitors and will be tapped may 17 at the an nual college flagpole meeting there are only a few changes in the sys tem from that of last year all points must be turned in to robert eichner delta upsilon by 6 p m friday may 10 no man will be considered for election if he is on probation the complete system is as fol lows seven points 3.5 average up to the time of election varsity letter or sufficient time played in current season to earn a letter election to junior manager of any recog nized sport six points presidency of any class office on the staff of any publication maximum of six points allowed for any publication five points 8.0 average up to time of election head of a living group intercollegiate individual championship in any sport four points 2.5 average up to time of election secretary-treasurer of any class brown and white assistant officers mustard and cheese assistant officers three points alpha kappa psi delta omicron theta member of mustard and cheese president of freshman union sophomore representative to lehigh union election to board of brown and white or review two years service in the musical clubs junior member of the interfraternity council possession of a college record numerals junior intramural athletic director manager of the band two points member of golf fencing rifle or lacrosse team membership in robert blake society eta kappa nu eta sigma phi alpha epsilon delta international relations club pi mv ep silon officers in any other course society officers of brown key staff of handbook one point competition for any freshman or varsity team one full season competition for manager of freshman or varsity team one full season competition for staff of any publication member of freshman union cabinet any scholastic prize captain of any freshman team phi eta sigma newtonian society president of any honorary society economist speaks carothers advocates birth control as step to social betterment control of the birthrate as a step toward social betterment was sug gested by dr neil carothers di rector of the college of business ad ministration in his address edu cation as a promoter of economic security for the race given sat urday morning in palmerton at the twenty-fifth annual meeting of the lehigh valley child helping con ference dr carothers stated that the birth rate of the families on relief was double that of the independent family dr carothers called the ccc camps the most successful of the present administration's relief works he named the public schools the noblest result of the present social order and recommended a system whereby each child is measured by his capacity jo learn dr stephen s wise followed dr carothers speaking on security for youth and a chance macnutt visits bethlehem barry macnutt professor of phy sics from 1915 to 1927 is spending several days in bethlehem mr macnutt whose home is in glouc ester mass was connected with the physics and electrical departments from 1899 until he left lehigh in 1927 williams hall armory library attract large crowds pi delta epsilon conducts information bureau be low the flag pole approximately 15,000 persons thronged the campus last friday afternoon and evening to witness the third annual open house it was characterized by prof fred v larkin chairman of the general committee as the most successful attempt ever made at putting le high on parade after a careful tabulation check up of the various buildings was made it was revealed that 13,964 persons actually passed through the various building entrances since there was a large number of early arrivals as well a consider able number were missed in the tabulation it can be said con servatively that the 15,000 mark was reached there were certain buildings and departments which counted a great er attendance than others notable among these were the armory housing the exhibits of the military department and the art gallery in the library bill hall attracts crowds williams hall also attracted large crowds so large in fact that at times passage through the aisles and halls was made only with con siderable difficulty dr trembley's snakes and the display of embryos were the exhibits which attracted most attention in this building journalism students sponsored several activities including a broad cast over station wcba an infor mation bureau was run under the direction of pi delta epsilon hon orary journalistic fraternity a po lice radio call system was operated in the brown and white office in christmas-saucon hall which am plified the program given in pack ard laboratory several other ex hibits dealing with the mechanics of journalism as well as a news bulletin were on display in the same office larkin thanks participants professor larkin in commenting on the event stated that he wished to thank heartily every student and every member of the faculty and administration who helped to make the 1935 open house such a com plete success without the cooper ation and support given by these groups open house would have been impossible he declared professor larkin praised the work done by captain tow of the military department who was in charge of the student police work and john maxwell chairman of the committee on coordination as in strumental in eliminating conflicts and possible accident to the valuable equipment placed on display he concluded that putting le high on display the goal of open house was fulfilled to the best ex pectations of the whole committee engineers to elect officers thursday to hold annual smoker meet ing in gymnasium the engineers club of the le high valley will hold its election and present an award in its mem bership drive at the annual meet ing and stag smoker to be held at 7:30 thursday evening in taylor gymnasium the department of physical edu cation will put on exhibitions and bouts in tumbling boxing fencing and wrestling under the direction of william sheridan wrestling coach and fay bartlett professor of phy sical education the members of the nominating committee are a w heyman chairman t e butterfield a p spooner c h frick and c e lehr a social hour will begin shortly after 9 o'clock refreshments will be served lyse borrows special ring prof i m lyse calibrated the testing machines in fritz labora tory saturday and yesterday using the 200,000-lb calibration ring loaned to the laboratory by the baldwin-southwark corporation picks crockett as vice president f g smith secretary and r b picking treasurer passes motion favoring letters to lacrosse players t k garihan jr bus 36 was elected president of arcadia by a vote of 23 to 15 over l p cal houn c e 37 at a meeting of ar cadia last night w p crockett i e 36 was elected vice president by a vote of 20 to 18 over f g smith bus 36 f g smith re ceived 21 votes to 16 votes for r b picking arts 36 to become sec retary and r b picking was elect ed treasurer by a vote of 23 to 14 over w j wilkens bus 36 arcadia passed a motion made by d w hoppock i e 36 by which it went on record as favoring let ters for lacrosse players the nominees for the office of president were t k garihan l p calhoun and r b picking j l dietz w l finley and r a lenna nominees for treasurer were r b picking w j wilkens d w hoppock and t e niehaus thirteen ballots in all were need ed for the election the voting was done on a majority system — after each ballot the lowest candidate was eliminated several ties for last place accounted for the extra bal lots the new president who is also president of alpha kappa psi took over the meeting from the retiring president l p struble thanked the members for their support and asked for their cooperation in mak ing arcadia the strongest body on the lehigh campus the other retiring officers are s r goodrich vice president h e lore secretary and r c col baugh treasurer 100 attend banquet at d u birthday three charter members pres ent at fete friday night one hundred members of the lehigh chapter of delta upsilon and their guests attended the fiftieth anniversary banquet held at the sa»t|eorjjjvinifjey country club on fri day evening three of the charter members from the class of 1888 j^ep fourth living charter member is on the west coast and was unable to attend edwards 13 acted as t<^stffifts*er*~anir introduced prof p m palmer director of the college of arts and science who spoke for the university the active chapter of 34 members all attended the banquet r m eichner president of the senior class spoke for the undergraduates and welcomed the alumni and offi cers of the general fraternity who were present a telegram was read from charles evans hughes expressing his re grets at not being able to attend due to his work with the supreme court at washington chief jus tice hughes was chairman of the installation committee for the le high chapter in 1885 professors exhibit paintings displayed this week at warwick galleries garth a howland head of the department of fine arts and a'del bert ford head of the department of psychology are among a group of bethlehem artists who are dis playing works this week at the ex hibition in the warwick galleries in philadelphia professor garland's painting is entitled a bethlehem market it dwells upon picturesque coloring of a street stand against a background of orange and yellow buildings dr ford is exhibiting a portrait heck 03 to discuss studies of earthquakes at mining meet nicholas h heck 03 will speak on the results of some recent studies of earthquakes at the meeting of the mining and geolo gical society at 8 p m on thursday in room 102 williams hall mr heck is the chief of division of terrestrial magnetism and seis mology u s coast and geodetic survey washington d c lehigh amateur station relays call from kentucky storm area elects john a cooney president ; kilpatrick glick last evening fiftten freshmen were initiated into phi eta sigma national fresh man honorary fraternity and john a cooney eng 38 was elected president for the coming year at the banquet of the society held last evening in the sun inn nelson j leonard ch e 37 re tiring president addressed the so ciety on the national convention of phi eta sigma held at the univer sity of oklahoma recently to which leonard was sent as a delegate from the lehigh chapter franklin h kilpatrick eng 38 was elected vice president treasurer charles f glick eng 38 was elected secretary and william g dukek eng 38 was appointed re porter the offive of vice president treasurer was created by the so ciety to lighten the secretary's work leonard presented several sug gestions which had been discussed at the national convention to the society in order that they might be considered particularly emphasized were the scrap-book containing clippings pictures letters reports and a sum mary of all the activities of the fra ternity for the year dean c max mcconn and h v anderson faculty adviser of the fra ternity were guests at the banquet transformer in armory burns out on friday evening an overloaded circuit in wil liams hall burned out the transfor mer in the armory about 9:30 fri day night during the open house exhibitions the library williams hall and coppee hall were affected being without lighting facilities over the week-end except for some lights on other circuits the transformer was replaced yesterday due to lack of lighting the library was closed on sunday evening to retire from presidency prof percy hughes head of the department of philosophy will re tire as president of the fullerton philosophical club at their annual dinner and final meeting of the year to be held saturday evening at the deanery of bryn mawr college he has been president of the club for the past year allentown group to elect arcadia representatives warded so quickly w9fzl's aerial had been blown down on the ground and we had some trouble bringing him through added bartlett the new remote-control receiver proved its worth though and we got the mes sage complete he was referring to the radio club's arrangement for using a receiver a considerable dis tance away from the transmitter a 75-meter set is located in the chi psi house on the campus con nected with a 5-meter transmitter incoming signals on the amateur band are relayed via the ultra-short wave channel to a 5-meter receiver on the fifth floor of the packard laboratory where the 75-meter transmitter is located to address engineers club dr neil carothers will speak on present economic conditions tomor row night before the engineers club of trenton election of the two allentown living group representatives to arcadia will be held all day fri day in the lehigh union office drown hall the candidates are emil a dieter arts 37 wal ter r f guyer ch e 36 charles c moyer bus 36 rob ert j schatz ch e 36 and donald l waidelich e e 36 students living in allentown emaus and catasauqua are urged to vote for two of the above candidates states harvey j everett chairman of the nomin ating committee qrr . . . qrr . . . qrr and clark o bartlett at the controls of the lehigh amateur short wave sta tion late thursday night in pack ard laboratory sat bolt upright qrr is the amateur radio equival ent of sos w9fzl bowling green kentucky calling he heard listening intently to catch the words for they were weak and hard to distinguish above the static come at once . . . all power lines down . . . come at once . . . qrr . . . qrr within five min utes a telegram had left bethlehem for kentucky relaying to the pow er company bowling green's plight in one of the most severe storms that the state has experienced in years bartlett who is a junior e e later said it was lucky that the lehigh station happened to be working overtime that night in preparation for open house fri day lucky it certainly was for the kentucky town that the distress signals were picked up and for bethlehem pa tuesday may 7 1935 broadcast from packard auditorium priced five cents the lehigh university brown and white vol xlii no 50 guests and sub-freshmen view open house exhibits cyanide alters point system for admission arcadia elects t k garihan as new head professor larkin praises captain tow and john maxwell for work on coordination and student guide committees member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first