Brown and White Vol. 43 no. 52

              chapters hold joint banquet 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 106 groups attend meeting william s maulsby students lead round tables 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 28 brown and white men at dress 10 group sessions delegates to the scholastic press conference this afternoon attended ten round tables to discuss topics of interest to secondary school pub lication officers the round tables which were held in packard laboratory and christmas-saucon hall were ad dressed by 28 lehigh journalism students and one lehigh faculty member the other speakers included the assistant editor of the lehigh alum ni bulletin a commercial photog rapher a representative of a mimeo graph company a sports writer from the staff of the bethlehem globe-times the editorial director of the american institute of public opinion and the faculty adviser of the lansdowne garnet and gray round table groups chairmen and speakers were as follows use of reference sources h c archer 37 makeup and proofreading carstens y haas 3b establishing an edi torial policy r a kemmer,'36 structure lead d p j goldsmith 38 newspaper downe garnet and gray the educational angle of publications 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 78 pennsylvania 28 new jersey schools send groups to lehigh one hundred and six preparatory and high schools were represented at the third annual lehigh press conference today of this number 76 were pennsylvania high schools 26 new jersey high school and 4 preparatory schools the pennsylvania high schools represented were abington altoona bethlehem liberty bloomsburg catasau qua conshohocken coopersburg darby doylestown easton wil son borough elkins park chel tonham erie technical frack ville washington gettysburg glenolden jersey shore harris burg william perm harrisburg john harris hatfield hawler hershey ir win norwin lansdowne lehigh ton leisenring dunbar maha noy city manheim mckees rocks morrisville mount joy nazareth neffsville norristown orangeville packerton palmerton philadelphia frankford philadelphia north east philadelphia overbrook philadelphia roxborough phila delphia simon gratz philadelphia south boys pine grove pottstown war wick quakertown reynoldsville saxton liberty sayre scranton central sellersville-perkasie sha mokin sharon hill slatington southampton upper springfield swarthmore twin rocks black lick venora waverly west lam peter windber west york wil liamsport the new jersey high schools rep rested were asbury park belvi dere boonton bound brook cam den clifton closter dover french town gloucester city kearny moorestown morristown paterson eastside perms grove regional pleasantville point pleasant rail way ridgewood scotch plains trenton hamilton verona the preparatory schools repre sented were allentown prep mo ravian preparatory kingsley school milkbank and rabold to head other 2 classes swenson wins unio 543 ballots are cast in the annual election held tues day may 5 v j pazzetti 111 bus 37 h c milbank m e 38 and 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 i 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 continued on page four as lehigh welcomes delegates to press conference continued on page four speaker emphasizes power of public opinion in speech to delegates dean rates journalism cites increased salaries of men trained in newspa per work at school illustrating the power of public opinion as expressed by prominent american statesmen william s maulsby editorial director of the american institute of public opin ion addressed the delegation of students from the high and pre partory schools of pennsylvania and new jersey on measuring public opinion at the opening session of the annual lehigh scholastic press conference this morning in packard auditorium the assembly was opened by dale h gramley head of the courses in journalism who welcomed the del egates and introduced c c wil liams president of the university williams welcomes guests president williams extended the welcome of the university to the visitors whom he addressed as the future interpreters of national con ditions in their field of journalism c m me conn dean of the uni versity rated journalism as an ex tra-curricular activity basing his opinion on a survey of the amer ican telephone and telegraph com pany of its employees with college educations studies must always come first to the student yet lehigh recognizes that extra-curricular activities are valuable in that they provide recrea tion and education that might oth erwise be missed declared dean me conn in a survey by the american tel ephone and telegraph company on the topic does business want scholars results showed that col lege men who had high scholarship invariably received the higher sal aries based on the years of service this proves the importance of scholarship but the survey was also taken of extra-curricular activities and this did not have the same de cisive results said dean mcconn it did conclusively prove that the group of employees who had been in the field of journalism eventually received the larger salaries and achieved greater success public opinion polls mr maulsby explained the value and operation of polls of the nation on questions of current importance the idea of a poll of public opin ion was first conceived by george gallup founder of the quill and scroll a secondary school honorary society for journalists who first polled the newspaper reader to dis cover where his interests in the pa per were 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 discusses bridges expert will speak before engineering group harry j engel member of the philadelphia office of the modeska masters and case corporation wil speak before the american society of civil engineers at 8 o'clock on monday evening m 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 jeanette first winner of class d newspaper plaque crier retains first place 18 other plaques and 33 certificates of merit are given the jeannette high school dis patch of jeannette was announiced today as the first winner of the plaque for class d newspapers in the contest conducted in connection with the third annual scholastic press conference second place in the same class which was limited to high schools publishing their schools news as a page in their local newspapers went to the high school record of rail way n j eighteen other winners of plaques in the nine other classes were an nounced this afternoon certificates of merit were awarded to 33 other publications dean philip m pal mer of the college of arts and sci ence announced the awards and presented the prizes to the winning papers having delegates and pre sented the prizes to the winning pa pers having delegates present a total of 163 high schools and preparatory schools in pennsylva nia and new jersey submitted pub lications for the contests the glen-nor crier published by glenolden high school glenolden retained first place in class c mag azines for the third consecutive year no other winner last year was able to remain on top the list of awards follows class a — newspapers first place — the spotlight simon ciratz h s phila ; second place — the megaphone northeast h s phila honorable mention the overbmok beacon overbrooy h s phila the southern news south side h s phila the abingtonian abington h s abington pa carrickulum t'arrick 11 s pittsburgh pa senior high news uniontown h s uniontown class a — magazines first place — the h s record camden h s camden n j second place — the cherry and white williamsport h s wil liarnsport pa honorable mention libertas liberty high school bethlehem the torch morrell h s irvington n j h s impressions central h s scranton class b — newspapers enrollment 500-999 first place — hershey broadcaster hershey h s hershey second place — the high school news j)oylestown h s doyles town pa honorable mention the torch doylestown 11 s doyle.itown pa the orange and black jersey shore h s jersey shore pa the sayreiutile sayrc h §„ sayre pa class c — newspapers enrollment below 500 first place — blue and white news west york h s york pa second place — the orange and black eichelberger h s han over pa honorable mention manheiin h s news manheim 11 s manheim pa ; the north york school news north york h s york pa the hi news new cumberland h s new cumberland pa class c — magazines first place — glen-nor crier 01 nolden h s glenolden ha second place — th garnet swarthniore h s swarthmore pa honorable mention ye kidly.-vn ridley park h s ridley park i'a ; ship ahoy wildwood h 8 wilil wood n j the pointer point pteawm b s point pleasant n j class d — newspapers f list p'mm — leamiette h s dispatch jciumette h s jeannette pa second place — the 11 s record railway 11 s kahway n j honorable mention tiic press m m 1 freeland pa the star kcynomsvillc 11 s keynoldsville quuk.rtouii |. n , pan qnakcrtown h s quak rtown pa mimeograph publications iilm ptml the boa rocket uekflm kecks 11 «., mckces rocks pa s cond ji'ac — student voice fleminftton h s firminctoii n 1 hoiiorabie mention quatan challenge quakertown h s quakertown pa the classmate washing ton h s kiackville pa the white hor mt v totia il s venom n j the her ahl hawl.y h s haw ley pa preparatory school newspapers first place — mercersbiirg news mercern ntrp academy mercersburg pa second continued on page four photographic shots taken on the campus at the opening of the third annual lehigh scholastic press conference lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa saturday may 9 1936 yearbook adviser will be appointed vol xliii no 52 price — five cents debating society meets cedar crest senior class elects pazzetti as president ten first place prizes awarded at press meet maulsby addresses group conference speaker cyanide points due before 6 p m may 11 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 the points are based on the list which appeared in the may 5 issue of the brown and white schedule is unchanged no changes have been made in he university final examination schedule announces william h bohning assistant to the regis rar member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first