Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 7

              selenium cell to give power if perfected society to hold smoker at 7:30 tomorrow eve ning in drown hall c williams will speak reserved seat tickets will go on sale and applications for re served seats for the rutgers game oct 31 will be received at the gym office thursday morning oct 22 according to robert b adams manager of ticket sales reserved seats will be 1.50 dr bruno lange explains use of light harnessing device in speech speaks to chemists ground observer speaks on stratosphere flight in packard auditorium plans to have large crowd shows slides and movies committee arranges final details of woollcott lec ture for monday night dr r b billinger assistant pro fessor of chemistry will be the prin cipal speaker at the freshman smok er to be held at 7:30 friday evening in taylor gymnasium he will speak on liquid air the program includes short talks wrestling bouts and fenucing exhi bitions smokes and refreshments will be provided the committee in charge of ar rangements consists of d w ger litz s hartshorn r b wall m l diamond m mitchell and a bodine all of the class of 1940 lehigh students will decide for themselves the question of hearst and the freedom of the american press at an open meeting of the lehigh discussion forum on fri day evening in room 466 packard laboratory the discussion will be led by dale h gramley professor of journalism the original intention of the club was to hold a mock trial of the publisher but this plan was aban doned in favor of the usual type of discussion the group sponsors with all attending students and faculty members participating a committee consisting of louis stoumen arts 39 norman l morse ch e 39 and milton spil berg chem 39 outlined the dis cussion and arranged for the meet ing club to hear major collins lehigh - allentown group will have first meeting friday at v.m.c.a captain randolph williams who addressed the lehigh valley en gineers club last night in packard auditorium group names 33 new men will organize statistics club brown and white execu tive committee appoints additional members e c bratt to form lehigh division of american statistical society plans have been made to handle a capacity crowd at the lecture by alexander woollcott a writer and critic at 8:15 p m monday in the auditorium of the broughal high school brodhead and packer ave nues the speech is under the aus pices of the concert - lecture series to avoid disturbing the audience and the speaker no one will be per mitted to enter the hall after the lecture has begun students only will be admitted before 8 p m and after that general admission tickets will be sold if seats are still avail able ushers will be present to min imize confusion in seating no seats however will be reserved a letter has been sent to mr woollcott inviting him to a dinner with the members of the student faculty committee if he accepts the affair will be held in one of the lo cal hotels schedule devised for fall matches rifle competition arrang ed through december the lehigh allentown club will meet for the first time this year at 7:30 friday evening in the allen town y m c a major carter collins assistant professor of miltary training and science will present a speech on wartime value of military train ing for the individual in his speech major collins will take epi sodes from the last war to show how individual military training is beneficial walter r f guyer a chemical research fellow will demonstrate the advantages of extra curricula ac tivities to students guyer was the president of the club last year when it was organized the members of the club will be polled on their political preferences after short abstracts of both par ties have been given results of poll printed in times six hundred and fifty people heard ; capt randolph p williams u s ! a describe the 1935 stratosphere expedition of the national geo graphic and army air corps bal loon ta the meeting of the lehigh valley engineers club last night in packard auditorium previous flights and the failure of the 1935 summer flight were also discussed motion pictures and slides were shown and their tech nical points were explained by cap tain williams being in charge of the ground ob servation captain williams was able to explain the workings of the instruments and the steps involved in launching the balloon the talk was opened by a dis cussion of previous army flights there are approximately 12 days in a year which are suitable for stratosphere flights from rapid city s d the point of origin of the ascensions the job of the ground crew was to have the balloon ready to take off at half a days notice captain williams exhibited a reel of motion pictures and a group of slides showing the various activities of the men stationed there the talk was brought to a close by motion pictures and slides of the flight of the balloon on nov 11 the skill of the many technicians captain williams said resulted in a remarkably successful flight and a safe landing of the gondola the meeting was a joint gather ing of six affiliated engineering so cieties located in various parts of the lehigh valley the meeting was presided over by n s hibshman associate professor of electrical en gineering the sunlight falling upon the bodensee a lake in germany only 50 miles long and 10 miles wide would if properly utilized supply all of the electrical energy needed in the entire world this statement was made by dr bruno lange as sistant professor at the kaiser wil helm institute of berlin germany who addressed the lehigh valley section of the american chemical society on friday evening in the chemistry building dr lange explained that the sel enium cell which he has designed is capable of generating an electric current when a light is allowed to fall upon it this makes it valu able for use in counting devices burglar alarms and similar appar atus at the present efficiency of only one or two per cent which is ob tained through the selenium cell no practical use may be made of this energy except to revolve a small motor for demonstration pur poses but dr lange expressed the hope that his experiments would lead to an efficiency sufficient to provide energy for the world when fuel supplies have become ex hausted the fact that the current pro duced is proportional to the inten sity of the light permits the use of the cell as a smoke detector in fire alarm systems it can also be used to measure the concentration of a chemical solution even when the solution appears colorless to the naked eye dr lange is touring the coun try giving his lecture on the theory and application of photo electric cells to various colleges and organizations upon completion of his tour he will return to ger many to resume his research hawk watchers new york papers give student vote outcome faculty members to go to reading thirty - three additional board members of the brown and white who were appointed by the execu tive committee of the publication are r l bailey arts 37 g a bar ker chem 37 s h barnum bus 39 h baumann bus 39 w f boucher arts 38 c r de bow eng 39 s p eysmann bus 38 r f feilback arts 38 n l fidler arts 38 a s grant eng 39 w p gottlieb bus 38 h t heckman eng 39 r j hertz arts 38 k a janulis arts 38 f n kemmer eng 39 e f krizin arts 38 r n larkin arts 38 c e lewis e e 37 r h moore bus 38 j parmet ch e 38 r w reifsnyder bus 37 g b rheinfrank eng 39 j h scanlon arts 37 a w smith bus 38 h snyder ch e 39 m spilberg eng 39 l c stoumen arts 39 w weeks arts 39 e weiss eng 39 h m wil son arts 38 h woronoff arts 37 r s young chem 38 c f zell bus 38 lafferty and wright will speak at meeting faculty to observe bird migrations republican club names directors 700 membership cards have been issued dr harry jerome chairman of the department of economics at the university of wisconsin and george b curtis assistant dean and registrar will speak at an or ganization meeting of the lehigh valley statistical society saturday nov 7 in drown hall dean curtis will speak on what the lehigh valley statistical so ciety can do the subject of doc tor jerome's speech has not yet been announced dr elmer c bratt assistant pro fessor of economics and recently appointed district secretary of the american statistical society is or ganizing the club he was formerly statistician for the bethlehem steel company membership in the society will be open to all faculty members and students interested in fact-finding or the interpretation of facts no training in statistical methods is ne cessary plans at present call for three meetings a year each to be given over to the discussion and consideration of economic and so cial facts doctor jerome is director of the national bureau of economic re search the leading individual fact finding body of the world he has written several books including mi gration and business cycles and mechanization in industry the fall schedule of rifle matches as announced by the department of military science and tactics includes intersectional interclass and inter company matches the intersectional matches which are limited to freshmen and sopho mores will be held from nov 10 to 20 a team of five men will be chosen from each section the scores wil be determined on a basis of record score cards the interclass league provides for a series of six matches in which each class will meet each of the other three classes twice these matches will be shoulder-to-should er and they will be held from oct 29 to dec 10 teams of five men will represent the companies of the r o t c regiment in the inter - company matches to be held dec 1 to dec 9 billinger prepares article on chemistry department leaves for ohio dr g e doan will meet with welding group the results of the brown and white student poll completed on friday which gave landon 529 votes to roosevelt's 110 were printed in yesterday's new york times the new york american yester day printed the results of straw polls taken in five other colleges the figures being released by the young republican division of the republican national committee the results of these polls are as follows yale landon — 1,814 roosevelt — 704 harvard landon — 1,384 roosevelt l,22o u of cal ifornia landon — 1,058 roosevelt — 952 dartmouth landon — 1,019 roosevelt — 440 williams landon — 523 roosevelt l4o the total of all five polls is 5,798 for landon and 3,464 for roosevelt h c oleson to address a.i e e student meeting the appointment of vincent j pazzetti bus 37 and robert b haulenbeek c e 37 to the board of directors of the young repub lican club of lehigh university was announced yesterday by matthew o troy e e 38 president this move raises the number of direc tors to five it was also announced that the drive for membership during the past week resulted in a more than 100 per cent jump in applications more than 700 membership cards have been issued a meeting of the fraternity and living group representatives to the organization will be held wednes day night at the clubhouse on north new street according to troy plans for a series of political gath erings and financing will be dis despite the many activities at lehigh university a new one has been formed francis j trembley instructor in biology has organized an expedition to hawk mountain between drehersville and ecksville bird loving members of the faculty will accompany mr trembley to watch the migrations of hawks and other rare birds for many years thousands of hawks were killed on this moun tain until finally the emergency conservation committee through its chairman mrs c n edge of new york city purchased the land and turned it into a public sanctu ary for wild life trembley stated that 85 per cent of the hawks in this country are beneficial to man and agriculture only four species are destructive and of these two are very rare hawks migrate from the pali sades all the way to alabama a dis tance of some 800 miles they ride the air currents along the tops of the mountains and are best observ ed from the middle of september to the middle of november j calvin callaghan instructor in english announced yesterday that a new policy in debating would be followed in which campus and in tramural debates would be stressed over intercollegiate competition students interested in intramural or intercollegiate debating regard less of previous experience are in vited to attend the debating society smoker at 7:30 tomorrow evening in the arcadia room of drown hall says p j potochney arts 37 so cial chairman dr c c williams president of the university will address the group his topic has not been an nounced callaghan director of debating said that this year debating activi ties at lehigh will be for two types of students those freshmen with previous high school experience in argument who wish to continue their interest in this activity with a view to ultimate participation in in tercollegiate debate and those stu dents of all classes and curricula who having had no experience in debating whatsoever or having in sufficient time for intensive varsity work are eager to engage in a few campus debates for the sake of the training in thinking and speaking which argument affords callaghan stressed the fact that because of the nature of the new system it will be imperative for in terested men to attend the meeting this week or if that is not possible to see him from 1 30 to 5 p m friday in room 211 christmas saucon hall presiding over the meeting to morrow will be e h uhler arts 37 president of delta omicron theta honorary debating fraternity also on the program will be a short talk by callaghan and a general get together at which time the old members will informally welcome the new men the topics which the varsity will debate this season are as follows resolved that congress should be empowered to fix minimum wages and maximum hours for in duttry resolved that the student of american colleges should refuse to participate in any war outside the territory of the 48 states resolved that the extension of consumers cooperative would con tribute to public welfare resolved that the best interests of american labor in the heavy goods industries rekuires the organ ization of unions on an industrial or vertical basis these topics were chosen by del egates sent to the convention of the debating association of pennsylva nia colleges which met oct 3 in harrisburg the first question has been selected as the pi kappa delta question for this year and will be debated in most colleges west of the mississippi pi kappa delta is the national debating fraternity but has no chapters in the east topics for intramural debate will be of a lighter nature and will be decided upon at a later date l x shankweiler bus 38 dies at home in allentown lehigh holds state at goal robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry is preparing an article on the history of the lehigh chemistry department which will appear in the november issue of the octagon monthly journal of the lehigh valley sec tion of the american chemical so ciety dr billinger is assistant edi tor of the journal his article will include the chem ical history of the university from 1866 to now particular emphasis will be placed upon the four men who have headed the chemistry de partment and whose efforts have resulted in its present development 400 at smoker three faculty members have an nounced that they will attend the fifth annual meeting of the penn sylvania state teachers association eastern district on friday and sat urday in the reading senior high school two of these men will ad dress members of section confer dr theodore t lafferty asso ciate professor of education will read a paper on educational psy chology and the social self before members of the college education section at 2 p m on friday dr horace w wright head of the department of latin will talk to members of the classical sec tion on what college expects from the graduate of a four-year high school course in latin at 9 a m saturday dr william c mcder mott instructor in latin is the third factulty member who will at tend the reading meeting our schools are turning more and more to an emphasis toward higher mental functions said dr lafferty in this paper i wish to relate these functions to the process of socializing the individual and to present a theory in the nature of that process more specifically i mish to describe in behavioristic terms how an individual achieves a self in a social environment harmeson is disappointed by small atttendance alpha phi omega plans to construct a fireplace dr g e doan assistant profes sor of physical metallurgy left monday evening to attend a meet ing of the fundamental research committee which is part of the con vention of the american welding society held oct 19-23 in cleveland in a review of fundamental problems in welding compiled by the engineering foundation july 1936 some results of six years of work in the metallurgical engineer ing fellowship were included it stated that probably the most out standing of recent discoveries in arc welding was made by doan and by schulte lehigh research fellow in 1934 and 1935 some results of the work have been published in the physical re view electrical engineering and the american institute of mining and metallurgical engineer ing magazines interesting features of indicat ing instruments is the title of a talk to be given before the student chapter of the american institute of electrical engineering by h l oleson of the western electric instrument company at 7:30 p m thursday oct 22 in room 416 of packard laboratory demonstrations will accompany his address clay e lewis e e 37 will also speak on automatic outdoor dis tributing sub-station an open discussion wil be held after the talks after the meeting refresh ments will be served the member ship drive is still in progress moravian student injures child not serious lewis k shankweiler bus 38 died last evening at his home 28 s 16th street allentown from a com plication of diseases shankweiler a member of the delta upsilon fraternity was a transfer from rutgers funeral ser vices will be on thursday at 2 p.m from his home interment will be in fairview cemetery allentown billinger to demonstrate to speak to pre-meds coach glen harmeson expressed his disappointment at the lack of enthusiasm as shown by the meagre attendance at the perm state smok er held friday evening in the gym nasium which 400 students attended dr beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy gave a short talk on sports manship most of the senior mem bers of the football squad were present and each was called on for a short speech two cane-wrestling bouts were staged between freshmen and soph omores kapec 40 defeating schwan 39 and martin 39 de feating steffco 40 dr s e rauch of bethlehem who is an authority on x-ray will speak at the first meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical society at 8 p m thursday in room 416 packard laboratory the moving picture contacts a talkie will be shown sponsored by the anti-tu berculosis society of bethlehem robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry will give a series of demonstrations on the chemistry of the air at the ex change club local service organiza tion when the club meets at noon friday for a luncheon in the sun inn he will present similar mater ial on liquid air at the fresh man smoker friday evening brown and white team blocks state's attempt to tie score in third quarte harlan j hauser a student at the moravian college for men struck and injured a child playing on new street yesterday afternoon the child ran from behind a parked car and was hit by the automobile driven by hauser hauser took him to dr raymond c bull director of the student health service for emergency treat ment the child was taken to st luke's hospital where he was found to be suffering from a fractured leg and contusions around the head at the last meeting of the alpha phi omega honorary scouting fra ternity a discussion was held on the outdoor fireplace to be built in sayre park in the near future this fireplace will provide a place for bethlehem boy scouts to pass their tests the exact location of the construction has not yet been de termined but plans are to be drawn in the near future a report of the national conven tion held in ohio last summer was given the next meeting of the so ciety will be held on wednesday oct 28 in drown hall brown and white price — five cents bethlehem pa tuesday october 20 1936 billinger to talk at frosh smoker addresses engineers tickets to go on sale vol xlvi no 7 group to discuss hearst's methods 650 are told of exploration by r williams students to participate in open forum to hold rally at 7:30 fri day evening in gym new system for debating is formulated all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association