Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 45

              tibetan sage will lecture on far east steering body is drawn from union arcadia loudspeaker emergency call is surprise realism at play men in white committee will enforce merger constitution effective may 1 junior prom heads list of houseparty events ceremonies at banquet at alpha chi rho five men were initiated into pi delta epsilon honorary journal ism fraternity at a banquet held last evening at the alpha chi rho house the initiates were louis stou men arts 39 edward manning m e 39 frank kemmer ch e 39 arthur g ueberroth chem 39 dale goldsmith ch e 38 ¦ four men leave today to at tend the pi delta epsilon national convention which is being held this semester at stevens institute of technology hoboken n j those representing the lehigh chapter will be eric weiss e e 39 henry heckman arts 39 george rheinfrank i e 39 wil liam jessup arts 38 moravian college for women will present a petition for admit tance into the national fraternity they will be sponsored by the lehigh chapter make change in constitution friday april 22 4 p m — houseparty opens 8 p m — student concert-lec ture series presents gordon b enders on can anybody stop japan 10 p m to 2 a m — junior prom with claude hopkins and joe haymes at the hotel bethlehem saturday april 23 3 p m — varsity baseball — le high vs muhlenberg at tay lor field 3 p m — freshman baseball — lehigh vs rutgers at steel field 3:30 p m — tea dance at the maennerchor 4 p m — annual tea dance at leonard hall 8 p m — pinafore — faculty dramatic club at drown hall 10 p m to 2 a m — fraternity and dormitory dances sunday april 24 3 p m — houseparty ends photo experts judge prints pulitzer prize winning play by sidney kingley directed by albert a rights given at broughal high school persons in the play on the staff of st george's hospital dr gordon william kinred 40 or hochberg kenneth sloan s8 or michaelson william barnard 41 dr vitale norman glickman 40 dr ptrflmm albin dcchnik 39 dr wren 11 dudman 39 dr otis shorty allen hondricks 39 dr bradley pete .. robert bothe 40 dr crawford mac james bricker 41 barbara oennin jean rights nurse jamison lois jenkins nurse mary ryan virginia mcdermott first nurse catherine diehl second nurse jeanette seiter third nurse adda fehring first orderly .. edward knight second orderly frank slate other characters mr hudson henry kennedy 38 james mooney harry gunnison 41 laura hudson margaret sterrett dr levine ray rosenstein 39 dr cunningham nathaniel brisker 4o dorothy smith geraldine bass mrs smith ruth whitcomb mr smith william freeman 40 mr houghton john sabol 39 mr spencer 0 merrill david 40 mr drummond samuel stockton 41 mrs d'andrea lee rosenberg or larrow ralph estrada 38 student directors rudolph schlittler nathaniel brisker louis c stoumen dean attends college parley dr estes is summoned from men in white show brilliant success by roy s zachary an unneeded touch of realism was added to the mustard and cheese production of men in white given last night before an audience of 750 persons when al dert a rights director of the play used an off-stage loudspeaker system to summon dr william l estes jr to the office the doctor was wanted for an emergency case and his call fitted perfectly into the plot of the play sincere acting and excellent tal ent contributed to the great suc cess of the play the rendition of the character of dr hochberg by kenneth sloan arts 38 was in deed the hit of the show close competition was given however by margaret sterrett and albin dechnik bus 38 in the respective parts of laura hudson and dr ferguson these three players dis played a grade of talent which has seldom been seen at lehigh gives last performance sloan in giving his last contri oution to lehigh dramatics gave a finely dissected portrayal of a very difficult character his acting was perfected to the point of us ing a very natural german accent and deliberate hesitations to create the importance of years of study in order to become more than an average surgeon dechnik also giving his final bit of acting for mustard and cheese and lehigh used every ounce of his acting ability to give a vital version of a young interne who was both human and keenly interested in his advancement in the medical field dechnik's skilled characterization will long be re continued on page six offers musical in drown hall combined musical clubs revise officers set-up thursday evening a new constitution which pro vides for the revision of the of ficer's set-up was ratified by the members of the combined musi cal clubs at a meeting held follow ing the regular glee club rehear sal on thursday evening in packer memorial chapel the new con stitution has been sent to the com mittee on student clubs for final approval under the new arrangement the glee club the symphony orchestra and the dance orchestra will each select a student leader and the student leader of the glee club will automatically become manag er of the combined musical clubs the old system provided for a president-manager usually chosen from the glee club to head the combined musical clubs to select assistants in addition to selecting a stu dent leader who becomes manag er the glee club will also select two assistant managers of the combined musical clubs hereaf ter the two assistant managers who have served in the year prev ious to the election of new officers will be candidates for student leader of the glee club the president of the combined musical clubs will be chosen from the three student leaders and the defeated assistant manager in the election oi the glee club's will be come student leader i 1 colonel to review unit col f g kellond officer in charge of reserve officers train ing corps headquarters at balti more md will visit the lehigh j r o t c unit at the weekly drill to be held on monday this will be an unofficial review pre ceding the annual field day to be held may 9 on the upper field full schedule of events has been planned for weekend lecture precedes prom varsity baseball game will be contested on taylor field exactly 610 girls are here for the annual spring houseparty which officially opened at 4 p m today the houseparty program in cludes the final lecture in the stu dent concert-lecture series fresh man and varsity baseball games s tea dance and formal affairs of the twenty-nine living groups junior prom tomght featuring the week-end activi ties will be the junior prom this evening at the hotel bethlehem with the music furnished by the orchestra of joe haymes and claude hopkins the varsity baseball game with muhlenberg has been shifted to taylor field instead of allentown as originally scheduled and the freshman game will be held at steel field both games are sched uled to start at 3:00 o'clock in the afternoon can anyone step japan will be the subject of the talk by geo rge b enders foreign adviser to the grand lama of tibet this evening at 8 18 o'clock in broug hal high school doors will open at 7:30 p m and houseparty guests will be admitted free when accompanied by their escorts 529 attended last year last year 529 couples attended the junior prom at the hotel bethlehem when horace heidt and nis brigadiers played those fraternities holding house dances saturday night include alpha chi rho alpha kappa pi alpha tau omega beta kappa beta theta pi chi phi delta phi delta sigma phi chi psi delta tau delta delta upsilon kappa alpha kappa sigma lambda chi alpha phi delta theta phi gam ma delta phi sigma kappa pi kappa alpha pi lambda phi psi jpsilon sigma alpha mv sigma chi sigma nu sigma phi ep silon tau delta phi theta delta chi theta kappa phi and theta xi r students of taylor and price halls will combine in holding a ance at drown hall fqllowing the faculty dramatic club presentation of gilbert and sullivan's h m s pinafore final rehearsal to be open to all select winners in group of over 80 prints in art exhibition over 80 prints were judged by photographic experts in the ex hibition opened by the camera club in the university art gal lery on april 18 the attendance is believed to have set a precedent for such exhibits winners were selected by a group of local professional pho tographers david mccaa j j ryan charles dennis and judson shaeffer the popular vote is to be determined at the close of the exhibit on may 8 conner gets candid prize the wards were made as fol lows candid division first lec ture by joshua c conner ca e 38 second football hero by robert a williamson bus 38 landscape architectural divi sion first crane by louis c stoumen arts 39 second the continental divide by court land f carrier i e 39 and canter by harold f j truchess ch e 40 portrait division first carl f strauch by louis c stoumen arts 39 second re union by edward p phillips m e 40 the following were given hon orable mention caesar by rob ert a williamson bus 38 jam boree by harry a harcher arts 39 midnite train by robert f herrick assistant secretary of the alumni association composi tion in gray by louis c stou men florence by william c carnell ch e 40 and night blooming cerius by gregory gould arts 41 can anyone stop japan is answered tonight by gordon enders adviser to grand lama by donald r schoen american born gordon b end ers brings with him a background of first-hand knowledge of more than a dozen countries when he addresses lehigh students and their house-party guests on can anyone stop japan at 8 15 o'clock this evening in the broug hal high school auditorium enders is the foreign adviser to the grand lama of tibet and is the first foreigner to be warded the title of tibetan nobility he spent his schooldays on the brit ish side of the indo-tibetan bord er there becoming well acquainted with tibet and has been a fre quent visitor to many other for eign countries including japan araßlfc north africa siberia china korea and manchuria still forbidden land speaking of tibet the hermit kingdom he has said it is still a forbidden land a mystery to most people and its people are as different from the peoples of other lands as they can possibly be the country itself has enor mous natural wealth gold is found in every river and stream and geologists belive that tibet is potentially the greatest gold field in the universe its resources are such that for a century they have stirred the cupidity and rivalry of england china russia and the other great powers even today the great wealth of tibet is one of the tar gets before the eyes of japan as she pushes her way strenuously across asia in the ambitious effort to build the greatest empire the world has ever seen enders attended wooster ohio college and the university of pittsburgh and has held several political positions since his grad uation he was at one time con nected with the u s department of commerce was secretary to the commercial attache of china and was a member of the china tariff revision commission in 1922 served in world war excitement has not been lacking in his life he was a member of the flying foreign legion in france and was a first lieutentant of the u s air service with the american expeditionary forces in france he is a lieutenant in the shanghai volunteer corps and a member of the american club of that city in both his books and his lec tures enders has shown himself to be not only a keen observer and an accurate commentator on tibet but also a superb story tel ler those who listen to lowell thomas on the radio will recall thomas enthusiasm one evening after he had met enders at a luncheon when he devoted nearly half of his nation-wide broadcast to recounting one of enders tales of life among tibetan princes and monastic leaders carothers not on program of annual conference at u of illinois dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion is attending the annual meet ing of the association of colleg iate schools of business at the university of illinois dr caro thers is not on the speaking pro gram but is merely attending the conference and joining in the dis cussions the meetings began yesterday and will continue until saturday previous to his trip to illinois dr carothers addressed the conven tion of the daughters of the am erican revolution at washington he will return monday morning dr albert haring associate pro fessor of economics addressed members of the bethlehem ki wanis club yesterday noon at the hotel bethlehem . he discussed price cutting and its control discusses nra dr haring said that the nra placed a limiting bottom on price cutting with the death of the nra retailers turned to the state legislatures for help all of the states but six have passed fair trade acts he said that these six are unimportant since they do only 9 per cent of the nation's retail business the typical fair trade act per mits contracts between manufac turer and retailer in which the minimum retail price for a trade marked item is set similar con tracts between manufacturer and jobber or jobber and retailer are also legalized he added mcconn to speak beardslee acting adviser a steering committee consisting of representatives of the lehigh union and arcadia student gov erning bodies has been named to carry out the provisions of the new student government consti tution which will go into effect may 1 members of the committee are melvin s lord ch e 38 presi dent of the union james t ber gen ch e 38 president of ar cadia j palmer murphy arts 38 chairman of the arcadia merger committee robert v henning i e 38 george h beck m e 38 robert westlake jr i e 38 eugene c fleming bus 38 rob ert berg bus 38 and dr claude g beardslee head of the depart ment of moral and religious phil osophy adviser to the union beardslee appointed at a meeting of the committee wednesday dr beardslee was named acting faculty adviser and secretary pro tern of the new body to act until the body is formally organized a committee was named to write historical articles con cerning the proposed names for the body provisions were made for the election of dormitory and town representatives a program for next year was discussed and an agenda for the first meeting of the body prepared the essential change in student government that will occur when the new body is organized shortly after may 1 will be the elimina tion of representation by living groups in arcadia and the crea tion of a cabinet consisting of liv ing group and extra-curricular leaders the 15 members of this cabinet will be the presidents of the sen ior junior and sophomore classes of the interfraternity council of mustard and cheese of the com bined musical clubs of omicron delta kappa senior activities hon orary of cyanide junior activities honorary of the allentown group and of tau beta pi the editor of the brown and white a repre sentative from the dormitories one from the town group a pres ident of the cabinet elected by the school at large and a faculty adviser fraternity representation will under the new government be confined solely to the interfra ternity council and through the council to the cabinet will assume duties the new group will assume all the duties now undertaken by the lehigh union and arcadia the president of the new cab inet shall be nominated by a joint faculty-student committee con sisting of the dean of the uni versity the deans of the three col leges the president of the inter fraternity council the president of omicron delta kappa the presi dent of the senior class the pres ident of tau beta pi and the ed itor-in-chief of the brown and white this committee will select three members of the junior class and print these three names on a special ballot which shall be kept secret until the polls are open the winner under the ware system of preferential voting shall become president of the new body the name of the new body will be selected by a vote of the stu dents at the general spring elec tions sigma nu kappa alpha hold annual elections sigma nu and kappa alpha fra ternities elected officers on april 12 the sigma nu officers for the coming year are command er raymond p laubenstein m e 39 lieutenant commander donald g cooke bus 39 house steward john r bingaman bus 40 house manager roy s zachary arts 41 results of the kappa alpha el ections are president malcolm carrington jr bus 39 vice pres ident joseph r seeds jr bus 40 secretary arthur g ueber roth jr ch e 39 and treasurer eugene b caller i e 39 bach choir will present music to public a public rehearsal of the 1938 bach festival will be held at 7:30 o'clock thursday evening may 26 in packer memorial chapel there will be an admission charge of one dollar for this final rehearsal regular rehearsals are now be ing held at 2:30 p m every sun day and at 7:30 p m every thurs day and will continue thus until the time of the festival the ticket-collectors and the | program-sellers for the festival | will be selected from the student i body and they will be supervised iby dr max peterson associate i professor of physics letters have \ already been sent to students who served as ticket-collectors and pro gram-sellers last year inviting ; them to accept the same positions ; this year the students selected for these ! jobs will serve at the public re ! iiearsai on may 26 and at all the parts of the bach festival which is being presented friday and sat urday may 27 and 28 harmon talks to p.t.a dr george d harmon associate professor of american history ad dressed the rosemount school parent-teacher's association wed nesday evening dr harmon is a patron of the school and a mem ber of the board of governors of the association faculty club to present 6 h m s pinafore saturday night an informal presentation of gilbert and sullivan's operetta h m s pinafore will be given by the faculty dramatic club to morrow evening at 8 o'clock in drown hall a limited number of free tickets are available to the general public and may be secured from mrs harold thomas inasmuch as the performance was originally undertaken by the group without any thought for a public presentation no attempt will be made to present a finished production a large part of the operetta will be read and acting has been reduced to a minimum howard w alexander instruc tor in mathematics has been the director of the performance and mrs william mcdermott is the stage director the entire accom paniment will be played by mrs tomlinson fort leading members of the cast in clude mrs charles w simmons mrs hilton a smith james l clifford instructor in english dr wray h congdon director of ad missions dr edgar t riley as sociate professor of english how ard w alexander and dr rob ert w meyer instructor in ec onomics the women's chorus is com prised of mrs robert smith mrs frederick r ashbaugh mrs wray h congdon miss june congdon mrs albert haring mrs thomas h hazlehurst miss muriel l kemp miss valeria shelly and mrs harold p thomas members of the male chorus are dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and re ligious philosophy dr stanley s seyfert head of the department of electrical engineering arthur w klein professor of mechanical engineering dr hilton a smith instructor in chemistry dr thom as h hazlehurst associate pro fessor of chemistry elmore e leppert fellow in english paul j stray er instructor in economics dr derrick h lehmer assistant professor of mathematics and burgess h jennings associate pro fessor of mechanical engineering will address 2 conclaves in near future dean c m mcconn and earl r smiley assistant director of admissions are the only faculty members to talk at secondary schools in the near future this evening dean mcconn wiil give a chapel address at the bal timore polytechnic institute on problems of boys going to col lege on wednesday the dean will talk at the parent teachers association meeting of the state college high school perm state college his topic will be who should go to college smiley will attend a college night at lansdale this evening and then go to the university of pennsylvania to represent lehigh at a meeting of the eastern assoc iation of college deans and ad visers of men s d warriner 90 cadwallader evans jr 01 the men above all executives in the pennsylvania anthracite industry will take part in the first annual anthracite conference of lehigh university to be held here april 29-30 in the audi torium of packard laboratory s d warriner 00 chairman of the board of the lehigh coal and navigation company and a c dodson 00 president of western dodson and company will act as honorary chairmen of donald markle 16 a c dodson 00 ihs meetings cadwallader evans jr 01 general manager of the hudson coal company and donald markle 16 president of the jeddo-highland coal company will preside at discussion meetings papers by is engineers and research men in the field of an thracite mining and utilization will be read before the convention brown and white bethlehem pa friday april 22 1938 pi delta epsilon initiates 5 men vol xlv — no 45 610 girls arrive for houseparties price — five cents alumni who will speak at anthracite conference member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh iseus first