Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 51

              518 to attend 3rd conclave william s maulsby managers of the brown and white holding the three cups won by the lehigh paper at the recent i n a conference from left to right sidney j lewis editorial manager with the cup for editorials harry c archer news manager with the cup for news and edwin g mcnair business manager with the cup for local advertising chapters hold joint banquet willlnaugurate criticism plan honorary societies will hear complaints at 7:30 in packard lab a meeting of the senior members of tau beta pi honorary engineer ing fraternity and phi beta kappa honorary scholastic fraternity to receive faculty criticisms will be held at 7:30 p m wednesday in room 466 packard laboratory all complaints should be submit ted to harold bickel e.e 36 prior to the meeting complaining stu dents may appear in person to ex plain their criticisms or have a member of the committee speak for them if the complaint is deemed jus tifiable by a two thirds vote of the committee it will be submitted to the head of the department con cerned and to president clement c williams complaints and criticisms will be treated confidentially no faculty members will attend the meeting and no records will be kept tonight marks opening of comedy the shannons of broadway to admit students free the shannons of broadway a comedy in three acts will be pre sented jointly by the mustard and cheese players and the dramatic workshop at 8:30 p m tonight and tomorrow in drown hall this comedy by james gleason is the fourth production of the sea son all of which have been direct ed by albert a rights faculty ad viser of the club leading roles will be portrayed by charles f mccoy arts 37 as mickey shannon and by miss jeanette cleaveland who has appeared in previous lehigh shows as his wife emma shan non four other female parts will be taken by the misses olive mills as minerva harper a head waitress emily watson as ma swanzey co proprietor of the swanzey house veronic dechnik as theresa sut ton ann wysoka as annie todd and georgine werst as alice allen miss watson made her initial ap pearance before a lehigh audience in the chorus of prom trotters last month the other four young ladies will appear for the first time miss dechnik has had leads in sev eral local plays and players pro ductions here saxophone orchestra to play an added feature of the show will be a musical interlude a saxophone orchestra will play on the stage and robert e bard arts 38 will lead a chorus in a tap dance in the third act the rest of the cast is shorty jones porter daniel prosnit bus 36 pa swanzey elbert def tidd arts 37 charles dill a railroad man l henderson dudman bus 39 hez davis a bootlegger james bergen ch e 37 vance atkins george beban 11 arts 38 bert savake a brakeman on the railroad coleman citret arts 37 oscar billing agent for the local theatre louis weinstock bus 36 chuck bradford d cameron bradley ch e 38 charles bradford sr her bert wilson jr arts 38 free admission for students also newt eddy a country shys ter robert latham eng 39 ed die allen herbert woronoff arts 37 a guest jerome miller arts 39 and mr albee henry ken nedy bus 38 students will be admitted free on presentation of their bursar's re cepits admission for outsiders is 57 cents taxes included discusses bridges debating society meets cedar crest phi beta kappa members of lehigh and lafayette meet in annual affair the lehigh and lafayette chap ters of phi beta kappa national scholastic honorary fraternity held their annual joint banquet wednes day night at the hotel bethlehem seventy-five members of the two chapters attended the banquet in cluding many faculty members and their wives at the speakers table were president and mrs williams frederick a bradford professor of economics and mrs bradford philip m palmer head of the arts college dr w e brown profes sor of greek at lafayette and dean christian gauss of princeton guest speaker dean gauss was introduced to the assembly by professor bradford president of the lehigh chapter dean gauss opened his talk by re calling the days he spent here as a professor of romance languages between 1901 and 1905 speaks on two economies the subject of dean gauss speech was two economies which he said might well be termed how to be rich though civil ized the dean pointed out that the american standard of living has be come grossly materialistic as com pared to the middle ages when all problems of life appeared in the world of the spirit and not in the world of economics at all dean gauss went on to bring out that this is the crime of our modern world he stated that there is noth ing more important for colleges to emphasize than the difference be tween the world of spirit and the world of matter or the two econ omies to hold elections secetary-treasurers are w fairbanks 37 j frey 38 and t king 39 543 ballots are cast many choices close one vote deciding officer in 2 of minor positions in the annual election held tues day may 5 v i pazzetti 111 bus 37 h c milbank m e 38 ami frank rabold eng 39 were elect ed to the presidencies of their re spective classes elected to the positions of secre tary-treasurer the only other class officers were w p fairbanks i.e 37 j p frey ch e 38 and thompson king jr eng 39 a a swenson bus 37 was elected president of the lehigh un ion and l j upton jr ch e 37 was chosen secretary-treasurer of that organization class representa tives were d r berg bus 38 and r m stewart bus 39 the cheerleaders elected were d c barnum 1 e 37 senior cheer leader w g shoemaker jr ch e 37 and joseph ratway arts 38 543 students vote the 543 votes cast presented an increase over the totals of last year's election in which 419 men elected the class officials for this year of the 543 votes cast 18 were declared illegal under the ware preferential plan by which the election was held while little more than a third of the enrollment of the university vot ed interest in the union and cheer leader elections was even less thir teen men who voted for class offi cers neglected to vote for the union offices and 18 voters failed to mark the cheerleader ballots political machines still hold sway said t k garihan bus 36 ex-president of arcadia comment ing on the election one fraternity machine had campaigners constant ly at the polls in drown hall 2 elections close two of the elections were de cided by margins of only one vote in the competition for secretary treasurer of the class of 37 fair banks won over n j leonard ch e 37 by a count of 64 to 65 h w b kipe eng 39 was defeated for the position of sophomore rep resentative to the lehigh union by a margin of one vote 104 to 105 kipe's ballot the only ineffectual ballot cast in that election had no first choice marker causing his one vote defeat of the 18 illegal ballots only three were found in the freshman voting while 10 of the rejected votes were cast by seniors the oth er five were found in the junior balloting one of the illegal bal lots was cast by a freshman who voted for fairbanks for the senior presidency eight men cast their ballots in the wrong class many ballots illegal during the first count of the 38 presidential election the illegal votes numbered more than those of the leading candidate some of the candidates did not even bring their sponsors out to vote declared garihan the rep resentation among the sponsors was rather low sponsors under the ware system are compelled to vote for their candidate expert will speak before engineering group harry j engel member of the philadelphia office of the modeska masters and case corporation will speak before the american society of civil engineers at 8 o'clock on monday evening in packard labora tory he will discuss several bridges on the mississippi river below st louis with special emphasis on the new orleans bridge after mr engel's talk e w pitteny of the bethlehem steel cor poration will lead an open discus sion on the speaker's topic mr w a hazard also connected with the bethlehem steel corporation will conduct the meeting o choir rehearses in chapel for festival may 22 - 23 one hundred and seventy-one members of the bach choir re hearsed sunday afternoon in pack er memorial chapel for the festival may 22-23 director bruce carey started his instruction in the chorus of et lncarnatus est from the mass in b minor all the rehearsals monday and thursday evenings at 7:30 p m and sunday afternoons at 2:30 p m will be held in the chapel t edgar shields director of mu sic advises all students to attend the rehearsals because of the difficulty in obtaining entrance to the bach festival which will be presented on may 22-23 fraternities hold spring formals publications board gives approval to proposed epitome reform dividend changes made editor and senior section leaders will receive low percentages provision for the appointment of a faculty adviser to the epitome in accordance with the plan submit ted in december by a committee representing pi delta epsilon hon orary publications fraternity was approved wednesday evening by the board of publications at a meet ing in the office of dean c m mc conn epitome officers were further af fected when the board approved a new schedule of dividends by which the editor and senior section leader are to receive a smaller percentage while the business manager and minor officers all receive increases the new constitution of the re view was approved after being be fore the board for several months it merely puts in writing the pres ent practices of the literary maga zine's officers and staff editors join discussion three ranking officers of the epi tome robert m eichner editor in chief thomas k garihan jr bus iness manager and paul s settle jr senior section editor were pres ent to take part in the discussion which brought success for the third time to pi delta epsilon which had previously campaigned for the re organization of the brown and white and the handbook settle and eichner are student members of the board of publica tions while garihan who served on the pi delta epsilon committee which drew up the plan was pres ent as an ex-officio member be cause he is president of the hon orary appointed and discharged at the pleasure of the board of publica tions the new adviser will be a per manent member of the epitome board and will have an equal vote working in conjunction with the editor in chief and business manag er the new adviser will have the right to draw up the budget make recommendations as to election of officers and sign contracts with the editor in chief he is to cooper ate on editorial policies plan will start in 1937 the plan will not be fully in op eration until the spring of 1937 but the appointment of the new adviser is to be made as quickly as possible to enable him to advise on the bud get and sign contracts for the 1937 epitome after approving the plan the board found itself without a candidate for the position when prof dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism and kenneth k kost assistant in journalism in dicated that they are not available because of other duties both are advisers to the brown and white and the review in addition to do ing publicity work for the univer sity gramley is a faculty member of the board of publications while kost serves as secretary adviser to get salary several other faculty members were considered for the position which will carry an honorarium of 75 a year instead of 13 per cent of the profits as planned by pi delta epsilon in an effort to give the minor of ficers of the epitome a larger share of the profits the board reduced the share of the editor in chief from 40 per cent to 35 per cent the sen ior section editor's share was re duced from 15 per cent to 13 per cent the gainers are the business manager who will receive a 3 per cent increase to bring his share to 28 per cent and the senior section leaders and the assistant business manager each of whom will receive 6 per cent instead of 4 per cent leach leaves for england among the passengers leaving on the american banker of the am erican merchant lines last week for england was howard s leach li brarian mr leach was granted a four months leave of absence due to ill health he intends visiting the libraries of england and to continue his hobby of collecting rare books potochney edwards argue in radio contest in the second debate with cedar crest college allentown the de bating society defended the negative side of the question resolved that it is better to be a man than a woman the debate was broadcast wednesday evening over station wcba allentown on the mustard and cheese club's final hour pro gram peter j potochney arts 37 and douglas edwards arts 38 present ed lehigh's stand on the question aguing that women lead easrier protected lives miss dickey and miss eskin of cedar crest defended cedar crest's stand by praising man's greater freedom and aggressiveness the debate held two weeks ago on the question resolved that roosevelt should be re-elected in 1936 was won by cedar crest of the affirmative side theodore g ehrsam instructor in english was chairman of the program and al bert s ogden eng phys 38 was the student announcer votes are to be mailed to wcba by the radio audience 108 schools send press representatives to an nual conference a group of 518 students and fac ulty advisers from 108 high and pre paratory schools will be present at the opening session of the third an nual scholastic press conference at 11 o'clock tomorrow in packard auditorium the annual contest held in con junction with the conference will include the publications of 163 schools entered in ten divisions of the competition results of this competition will be announced at the closing session when 20 bronze plaques will be awarded to first and second place winners of each class certificates of honorable mention will also be awarded president to speak william s maulsby editorial di rector of the american institute of public opinion dr c c williams president of lehigh dean c m mcconn and j davis scott and judson schaeffer of the bethlehem globe-times will address the stu dent representatives at various ses sions registration of delegates during the morning will be followed by a tour of the campus conducted by member of cyanide junior activities society preceding the opening ses sion r d billinger professor of chemistr will give a lecture dem onstration the chemistry of the air and at 11 o'clock the confer ence will officially open luncheon in the armory will be at 12:30 and the delegates will then attend round-table meetings these meetings in charge of faculty mem bers and journalism students will begin at 2 o'clock to hold discussions round table discussions will be on the subjects of sports writing headlines and makeup the editorial page problems of the magazine business staff general news writing mimeograph problems photography feature writing and faculty advis ers harold b farquhar editor of the bethlehem globe-times john e stempel city editor of the easton express and donald miller of the allentown morning call will be judges in the competition 2 houses to give dances tomorrow night the spring formal dance of kappa sigma social fraternity will be held at the chapter house 24 e church street tomorrow from 10 p m till 2 a m music will be furnished by godfrey muth and his orchestra from allentown major and mrs carter collins will chaperone nat hyle and his orchestra from lehighton will play at a formal dance held by phi delta theta so cial fraternity at the chapter house tomorrow from 10 p m till 2 a m mr and mrs dacey will chaperone credits for senior honor ary must be given to hoppock by tuesday will tap 10 juniors individual points for election to omicron delta kappa national honorary activities fraternity must be turned in to d w hoppock i e 36 at the phi gamma delta house before tuesday noon may 12 ten juniors will be pledged by the society at the spring college meeting to be held on may 14 at the flag pole the omicron delta kappa honor fraternity lehigh university circle eligibility requirements a general rules 1 character shall be the pirmary consider ation for membership in this fraternity 2 the membership in the local circle shall not include more than 12 men ; two of whom are to be elected in february of each year from the junior class the re mainder to make up 12 to be elected in may from the junior class 3 the election shall be based strictly on the point system ; i c those men in col lege who have earned the highest number of points shall be eligible to election provided that no man shall be eligible un less his points include at least a definite number outside of his major group 4 the election of any man having the ne a thow-thirds majority of all members cessary points can only be prevented by present 5 faculty members shall be chosen on the basis of conspicuous service to lehigh and to the student body especially in extra curricular activities their term shall be four years one shall be elected each year no man be re-elected to active member ship without a period of one year inter vening between the end of his last term and his re-election candidates shall be awarded points on the following basis b point system group i — scholarship 3.5 average 5 sem 15 3 average 5 sem 12 2.5 average 5 sem 6 2 average 5 sem 2 tau beta pi 2 alpha kappa psi 2 robert blake society 1 eta kappa nu 1 eta sigma phi 1 intern relat club 1 newtonian society 1 phi eta sigma 1 pi mv epsilon 1 pi tau sigma 1 class honors 1 w a wilbur scholar 3 tau beta pi prize 2 other scholastic prize 1 group ii — publications brown and white editor in chief 4 business manager 5 editorial manager 5 new manager 5 sports ed per sem 2 news tditor per sem 2 make-up ed per sem 2 circulation manager 4 financial manager 4 editorial council 2 columnist per sem 1 board 2 review editor in chief 6 business manager 4 assistant editor 4 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 art editor 2 board 2 handbook editor 2 business manager 1 editorial manager 1 epitome editor in chief 9 business manager 7 advertising manager 3 circulation manager 3 ch sen sec 5 j unior editor 3 sen sec comm 2 asst business manager 2 pi delta epsilon membership 1 group iii — social leaders class officers president senior class fi president junior class 4 president sophomore class 4 president freshman union 2 secretary-treasurer senior 9 secretary-treasurer junior 1 secretary-treasurer sophomore 2 interfratemity council president 2 intorf raternity council 2 societies president of any society listed in group i 1 president course society 1 arcadia president 5 secretary 1 treasurer 1 executive committee 1 head of living group 8 dormitory chief 4 officers for the coining will be chosen election of officers and new members will be held by the de bating society at a meeting this af ternoon at 4 o'clock in the library nomination for next year's offi cers have already been made and the members of the society will vote on the following nominees howard koller ch e 37 and eugene uhl er arts 37 for president daniel marshall m e 38 norman morse eng 39 and morris mindlin arts 38 for manager the new members of the debat ing society have not been decided the officers for the debating so ciety are the same as for delta omicron theta national debating fraternity but the latter society has different membership requirements than the local group and will not for delta omicron theta is partici pation in two varsity debates while the debating society requires only one debate continued on page four lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 8 1936 yearbook adviser will be appointed vol xliii — no 51 price — five cents drama groups give season's 4th production pazzetti milbank rabold are elected class heads s wen son will lead union conference speaker o.d.k offers point system for elections 3 brown and white trophies conference calendar 9:00-10:30 a m — registration packard laboratory 10:15 a m demonstration the chem try of the air packard auditorium 11 a m — opening session auditorium packard laboratory 12:30 p m — luncheon armory 2:00 p m round table discussions class rooms packard laboratory 3:45 p m closing session announcement of awards auditorium packard laboratory must submit points all sophomores competing for cyanide junior activities honor ary should have their points handed in to joseph l walton delta upsilon before 6p m monday may 11 schedule is unchanged xo changes have been made in he university final examination schedule announces william h bohning assistant to the regis rar ah the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association