Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 8

              class of 1940 plans smoker in gym tonight lecture speaker subject of lecturer's talk will be the invis sible newspaper 9 wrote many books students to enter by side door will not be admitted after 8:15 mrs ruth whitecombe is lone woman in cast rehearsal postponed 17 frosh | get parts gives lecture on impor tance of x-rays and bone development dr kreitz also talks the lehigh football squad will be guests this evening of the central pennsylvania lehigh club at a banquet in the hotel hershey hershey pa they will remain in hershey over night officers of the central penn sylvania lehigh club who ar ranged the dinner are guy r johnson 16 president and earl d schwartz 22 secretary faculty forms lecture groups 17 members of university to speak before high schools albert a rights who will direct the production of the paths of glory new directory goes on sale student classification can be bought at supply bureau alexander woollcott who opens the student lecture series mon day evening dean mcconn raises quota billinger will speak on the chemistry of air ; union to be organized will select officers dr robert d billinger assistant professor of chemistry will talk on the chemistry of air at the freshman smoker at 7:30 tonight in taylor gymnasium following dr billinger's talk there will be demonstrations of li quid air and wrestling and fencing exhibitions smokes and food will be presented to the frosh this is the first activity under the auspices of the new freshman union following tonight's smoker all freshmen in fraternities will elect representatives to the union there will also be two men chosen from the town group committee is named the temporary committee con sists of representatives from the campus fraternities off-campus fra ternities taylor dormitory and the town group the freshman union hopes to keep the freshman class organized throughout the year any com plaints that the frosh have may be brought to the union all com plaints will be considered and a so lution for them will be offered increases allotment to prom committee from 1,500 to 1,800 dr s e rauch bethlehem ro entgenologist presented illuminated x-ray films showing various bone fracture at the robert w hall pre medical society meeting last night in packard laboratory dr rauch's pictures besides showing types of fractures illus trated the development of bone from infancy to adult stages in discussing fractures dr rauch stressed the importance of x-rays in determining the extent of bone injuries which are otherwise concealed following a sound film con tacts which gave a resume of tu berculosis diagnosis and treatment dr paul d kreitz bethlehem led a discussion on the disease he brought out the fact that tests made in recent years on 8,019 philadel phia children showed that one in six or about one per cent had tuber culosis dr kreitz was one of a group of university of pennsylvania research men who ran the tests during the business meeting wil liam b ayers arts 38 was ap pointed activities chairman for the first semester and william f bou cher arts 38 for the second sem ester examine 1,600 men in health bureau frosh rank high in rifle practice major gerber expects rec ords to fall student physical tests set new record establishing a new record the health bureau examined over 1,600 students during the registration period of this number only eight men failed to complete their regis tration net total of examinations show that of the men inspected by infir mary attendants one was a grad uate student regular examination of graduate students will take place in the near future dr r c bull head of the health bureau stated that the number of treatments for colds infections and other minor sicknesses has run proportionally to those of previous years the raising of the allotment to future prom committees for con tracting orchestras from 1,500 to 1,800 was announced today by c m mcconn dean of the univer sity commenting on the charge the dean said i recognize that the so cial and financial success of the ma jor dances depends on the name of the orchestra featured by the com mittee under the new policy the permis sion of the dean to sign a contract with any band leader will not be re quired provided that the fee paid to the band does not exceed 1,800 this will bring about faster action in the future when the prom com mittee selects the orchestra the plan will undoubtedly facil itate the selection of a band with a big name which will meet the ap proval of the majority of the stu dents said h s battin bus 37 chairman of the senior ball com mittee o elected to board dr william lawrence estes jr 05 surgeon in chief at st luke's hospital was elected to the board of governors of the american col lege of surgeons at the organiza tion's meeting yesterday in phila delphia j s long visits campus from a group of 190 aspirants 50 have been chosen for this fall's mustard and cheese production paths of glory there is one fe male part included among the 44 speaking parts mrs ruth whitcombe wife of the assistant professor of geology is the lone woman in the cast oth er leading parts will be carried by d c bradley ch e 38 w f dalzell eng 39 r j hertz arts 38 e d tidd arts 37 and c f mccoy arts 37 there are 17 freshmen in the cast because of the woollcott lecture monday evening the mustard and cheese rehearsal has been post poned states a a rights direc tor mr rights requests all who are able to attend to report at 4 p m tuesday in drown hall a rehear sal of the entire cast is scheduled for thursday at 7:30 p m a list of the actors follows pro prietress of the cafe ruth whit comb langlois private ist class t diamond ch e 38 didier act ing corporal d c bradley ch e 38 colonel dax w f dalzell eng 39 lieut roget r hertz arts 38 general de gurville com manding 15th army corps e os bourne 40 general assolent com manding the division e tidd arts 37 colonel labouchere c mccoy arts 37 ferot a deklonik 40 meyer w waronoff arts 37 lieut armand r baggot 40 capt charpentier j taussig bus 39 sergeant capt picard b mil ler 40 sergeant jamant c citret arts 37 a martin bus 38 k schaltz 40 w mccollum bus 37 m zawisza eng 39 h lei dich 40 j walker 40 f car rier eng 38 r bathe 40 m berman chem 37 n brisker 40 j bergen ch e 37 w schara eng 39 h jones f ralston eng 39 j mccluskey,'4o j whit meyer 40 w freeman 40 r popper eng 39 w hooker 40 r slee 40 g barton eng 39 r perdunn eng 39 r learens 40 g anderson bus 38 r sie gel 40 w lewis 40 f norton eng 39 j schwartz 40 j dud man bus 39 r rosenstein arts 39 w woodrich c e 38 d david 40 m carrington bus.'39 the new 1936-37 lehigh direc tory was released this afternoon the directory an annual classi fication of student and faculty is quite similar to the one pub lished last year it contains the names of all undergraduate and graduate students together with their respective curricula and home and local addresses and telephone numbers it also contains the names of all faculty members their rank and respective departments and home and campus locations the directory contains the names and officers o f campus or ganizations and class officers to gether with the heads of the various athletic groups it lists the stu dent living groups together with their heads and location the directory may be obtained at the university supply bureau for 40 cents the directory was published by the globe-times publishing com pany it was given to a local con cern this year to prevent the de lay in issuance encountered in oth er years when published by an out of town company bowie leads discussion club hears okeson dr j s shorty long former professor of chemistry at lehigh was on campus last saturday dr long here in the interest of a fel lowship sponsored by the devoe & reynolds paint co was also a spec tator at the lehigh-penn state foot ball game harmeson also speaks at new york meeting from present indications the freshmen can be expected to score some fine records on the rifle range this year stated major theodore gerber assistant professor of mili tary science and tactics and ser geant george gasda assistant in military science and tactics coaches of the rifle teams the leading scorer to date has been p lane eng 40 who hand ed in a perfect record for the prone position and scores of 94 and 86 for the sitting and kneeling posi tions respectively many freshmen have already entered competition for positions on the section teams these matches will be held from nov 10 to 20 and are limited to freshmen and sophomores awards will consist of silver bullets for members of the winning team and the high man on each section team and gold bullets for the high in dividual freshman and sophomore the range is open to members of the rifle club from 9 a m to 5 p m daily and from 9 until noon satur days on thursday oct 29 the first match of the year will be held when the seniors meet the juniors reports to be submitted squeaky voice doesn't halt rise of woollcott to fame financial reports of the brown and white will be submitted for the approval of the board of pub lications at its meeting at 4:10 p.m monday in the office of dean cm mcconn chairman of the board dr william bowie 95 chair man of the surveying and mapping division of the american society of civil engineers led the discussion of state wide coordinates at a meet ing of the pittsburgh section of the society on oct 13 the symposium on the pymantuming reservoir as a factor in low-water control was un der the leadership of charles e ryder 05 chief engineer of water and power resources board of the pennsylvania department of forests and waters clifford g dunnells 07 called the meeting to order new discovery eliminates necessity of any taxation seventeen members of the faculty have been appointed to the univer sity lecture series for preparatory and high school it was released to day several of these lectures have already been given and the rest will be presented some time dur ing the remainder of the term the speakers on this series and their topics are as follows c e allen assistant professor of accounting — the work of an accountant and collegiate train ing in business dr c g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy — life is an honor system and common sense r d billinger assistant profes sor of chemistry — the chemistry of the air and great industries from little test tubes w z bishop associate professor of economics — sense and non sense in current economic thought w h congdon director of ad missions — streamlining educa tion j r conneloy assistant profes sor of mechanical engineering — work from fire e l crum associate professor of classical languages — our her itage from greek and roman med icine our heritage from roman law and everyday life in por tugal g e doan associate professor of physical metallurgy — invisible rays in modern engineering d m fraser assistant profes sor of geology — a billion years of earth development a r frey assistant professor of physics — electric magic d h gramley associate profes sor of journalism and university news editor — newspaper hoaxes and frauds and a century of progress in journalism g w harmeson head football coach and head basketball coach — football before the kick-off n a kellogg director of the di vision of athletics and physical edu cation — sportsmanship in high school athletics and the place of athletics and physical education in a high school program h c knutson assistant profes sor of electrical engineering — electron tubes in and beyond the laboratory a a rights instructor in eng lish — drama as a part of life f j trembley instructor in bi ology — intimate glimpses of wild life and facts and suppositions about snakes l whitcomb assistant professor of geology — fossils their for mation and use seniors will be interviewed soon walter r okeson secretary of the board of trustees glen harme son head football coach and h r reiter head of the department of physical education were prin cipals at a meeting of the lehigh club of new york wednesday in new york city okeson was master of cere monies harmeson addressed the group on today's football situa tion and reiter talked on the educational values of football other speakers of the evening were jim crowley a football offi cial who spoke on ethics of the game and incidents during some exciting games jim meehan basketball official who spoke on amusing points of the game john kilpatrick former yale end and now president of madison square garden who spoke on duties of the manager of madison square garden about 150 alumni attended the meeting placement bureau will start talks early crashes car to avoid hitting fellow student alexander woollcott lecturer ac tor and writer will open the con cert-lecture series sponsored by the student body with a talk on the invisible newspaper to be given at 8:15 o'clock monday evening in the broughal high school corner of packer and brodhead avenues lehigh students holding tickets wil be admitted at the side doors this plan is used to avoid crowd ing which may develop at the main doors the paying public will wait at the main entrance until the doors are thrown open to them at 7:50 p m all lehigh students are ex pected to be seated by this time no late comers will be admitted after 8:15 p m this action will be taken at this and all succeeding programs tickets will not go on sale to the public until 7:50 p m alexander woollcott was born in new jersey in 1887 after grad uating from high school he entered hamilton college clinton n v graduating from there with a ph b degree he received a l h d de gree from that school in 1924 he took post graduate work at colum bia university in 1913 career began in 1914 his career as a literary man be gan in 1914 when he became dram atic critic for the new york times he has since been associated with the new york papers the herald and the world among his writings are the comamnd is forward 1919 mr dickens goes to the play 1923 enchanted aisles 1924 the story of irving berlin 1925 while rome burns 1934 and the woollcott reader 1935 which contains what mr wooll coott considers some of the minor masterpieces of the literature of his own day he appeared on the stage of the belasco theater in new york in 1931 as harold sigrift in brief moment he gained recognition by his work with the columbia broad casting system he became famous as the town crier in 1935 his home is in new york city mr woollcott spent two years as an elisted man in the a e f including one year on the editoral council of the stars and stripes result of joint action this lecture and the entire pro gram series for the year comes as a direct result of the efforts of tau beta pi national honorary engin eering fraternity omicron delta kappa national honorary senior fraternity and the brown and white there is a joint committee of the faculty and students on the pro gram series the student commit tee was chosen by president c c williams sidney j lewis arts 37 is chairman while g b cur tis registrar is secretary of the committee other members of the commit tee are dr t edgar shields di rector of music dr w w ewing associate professor of chemistry nelson leonard ch e 37 pres ident of omicron delta kappa rep resenting the engineers dean t stevenson arts 37 arcadia repre sentative and president of the rob ert blake philosophical society representing the arts college vin cent j pazzetti 111 bus 36 of the business college clarence welch ch e 37 president of tau beta pi and george yanko arts 37 editorial manager of the brown and white faculty read first lady a 1935 oldsmobile coupe driven by william sheppard e m 38 crashed head on into the wall in back of drown hall at 8 a m yes terday when sheppard swerved to avoid hitting another student who leaped into the path of the coupe from the running board of another vehicle the front of sheppard's car was badly smashed both fenders the radiator grating and the bumper being damaged no one was in jured while the leaders of the present administration have given them selves headaches looking for new things to tax to raise funds for relief wpa pwa and all other abc's some quiet investigator re alizing that there is nothing left to tax has discovered a new way to finance these economic fallacies at least we learn in our eco 3 course that they're fallacies this anonymous friend of the people's has unearthed several pennsylvania laws which if en forced would quickly raise substan tial sums for the administration to experiment with the laws namely sections 1227 2121 and 2152 of the election code limit as the ins so aptly put it the activities of elec tion outcome prognosticators to just plain prognasticating bets are tripled but where does all the money come in you ask section 2121 takes care of that by ruling that any person who makes any bet or wager upon the result of any election within this commonwealth . . . shall first lady a play by dayton and kaufman was read by the fac ulty dramatic club wednesday evening in packard laboratory mrs nelson hibshman presided over the meeting the group will meet again wednesday nov 4 at which time they expect to read ethan frome upon conviction thereof forfeit and pay to the state three times the amount so bet or offered to be bet when one considers that a harris burg electrical contractor has of fered 278,000 on roosevelt's win ning the election he can readily see that three times this amount would come to nearly one million dollars which incidentally is a good beginning for the new tax furthermore any person caught betting on elections in pennsylva nia can be disfranchised whatever that means no one convicted but allay your fears ye students who have wagered a week's allow ance and are already mentally fig uring that should the state request triple the amount you'll have to for feit all your houseparty money for the same anonymous investigator also announces that in the years and years and years of the laws existence there is not a single rec ord of anyone having been con victed for violating it oh well by s j lewis the worst voice in america — that's what some critics say about alexander woollcott his voice is thin and squeaky it doesn't have the richness and deep qualities of the best platform speakers but that hasn't stopped him from be com a star of radio and a popular public speaker throughout the na tion instead of succeeding through his vocal cords he has succeeded through his superlative story-tell ing abilities there are lots of men who can roll their rrrr's better than woollcott but few who can make a simple story more touching or poignant smart alex woollcott as jer ald mason magazine writer once called him has made a living since he left college by stringing words together better than anybody else he first talked himself into a job with the philadelphia record soon after his graduation from hamilton college he went the reportorial rounds for several years working his way into a position on the new york times he stuck in that field until 1922 he probably would still be with the times but an assign ment on the famous rosenthal case took so much out of him that he had to give up with the loss of two chins and one hundred pounds entered dramtics work he took some courses at colum bia the next year and managed at representatives of various com panies will be at lehigh soon to interview seniors stated a e mor gan director of the placement bu reau yesterday the desir on the part of the companies to make a preliminary survey of the situation is the rea son for the early sending of rep resentatives of last year's class of 241 grad uates only 9 are yet to be placed in some position mr morgan requests that the seniors pay a visit to the placement bureau office to familiar ize themselves with the literature there various pamphlets issued by industrial organizations setting forth programs and factual data will be found the same time to work himself into the dramatic department of the times mr van anda the manag cott got the job because he looked coott got the job because he looked like thackeray and wrote better than dickens you can't do much better in the way of a compliment came the war and off went young woollcott he observed a lot during his experience overseas and his war stories are still as fresh as the day he came back in the glitter and glare of broadway he again took up his pen as a full fledged dramatic critic he evident ly liked the job for he stuck to it on various newspapers until the first years of the great depression then just to be different he re tired his life since his retirement has not been one of utter boredoom he traveled to russia in moscow the natives marveled at his well-fed proportions and rode rickshas in peking he has also managed to turn out a few best-selling books notably while rome burns any body who has read these books doesn't wonder why he can get along in radio without a top-notch voice just what he will talk about monday evening is known to no one but himself but it's going to be a smart lecture if it's by smart alex woolcott brown and white bethlethem pa , friday october 23 1936 price — five cents play director club to entertain lehigh grid squad woollcott will open new series monday vol xliv no 8 medicals hear dr s rauch on fractures paths of glory will be given by cast of 50 all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association