Brown and White Vol. 45 no. 53

              thomas w pulliam spring show final practice to be tonight price — five cents half of seniors take policies first error after we payed our respects to philadelphia by circling the city twice we headed north over jer sey towards our sixth position at kingston n v where we joined a mass flight of 144 plaes cadets are envious when we passed over west point the whole cadet corps stood on the field looking skyward with envy but with our salute to them we headed eastward towards nor walk conn and thence to bay shore long island as we neared mitchell field we dropped to the specified altitude of 500 feet in order to pass in review over the field as we buzzed mitchell field we saw one of the newest bombers a xb-15 which is the size of two of the present flying fortresses standing on the field it is said that one of the tiny planes can land on the bombers wing leaving mitchell field the fleet increased its altitude to 3,000 feet to pass over new york city cov ering the territory from the bat tery to yonkers on the trip southward towards camden n j we passed trenton and then our nine ships of the thirteenth attack squadron head ed for allentown altering its course slightly to pay its respects to lehigh university by john c lauderback to fly in an airplane is not news but for a civilian to take part in a united states army air maneuver is news i was fortunate to be able to experience this adventure dur ing the recent army air maneuver at 8 15 tuesday morning i stepped into a sleek camouflaged northrop two seater to begin an exciting four hours with the army air corps the ship to which i was assigned was ship number 65 com manded by lieut julian freeman our plane was the first in the second element whose duty was to keep in touch with the depart ment of commerce by radio it was indeed a thrill when lieutenant freeman opened the throttle of our ship with the first roar of the engine — like an un tamed animal — the ship quivered slightly as though frightened and then we almost catapulted into the air prepares to bail out many times in the first few min utes i prepared to bail out as i was sure we were going to hit the leading plane what is actually eight feet between planes appears to be only inches especially with wings overlapping each other but flying at a speed of 185 miles per hour will make eight feet dis appear in a slip of a second and tragedy is unavoidable with the review to appear monday afternoon 5 jobs open for newsmen new board of directors will have reception at affair tonight a reception for the new board of directors of the faculty wom en's club will be held this evening in drown hall at the annual fac ulty spring formal music for the dance is being furnished by the from trotters orchestra the members of the new board are mrs harry m ullman pres ident mrs wray h congdon first vice-president mrs joseph b reynolds second vice-presi dent mrs robert b billinger corresponding secretary mrs francis j trembley recording secretary and mrs adelbert ford treasurer mrs collins heads committee the general committee for the dance consists of mrs carter col lins chairman mrs martin d barndollar vice - chairman re freshment committee mrs fred eric a bradford mrs elmer c bratt mrs thomas h hazelhurst miss jean riegel and mrs edgar h riley entertainment committee mrs harry t hoffman chair man mrs augustus h fretz mrs austin r frey and mrs john w maxwell mrs percy hughes chairman of the decorations committee plans to decorate the dance hall with an assortment of spring flowers mem bers of the committee are miss jeanette cleveland mrs inge m lyse and mrs eugene g uhler the music committee consists of mrs barndollar chairman mrs joseph s leonard and mrs fred eric w adams over 400 invita tions have been sent out for the affair list adventure music athletic and news as favorites sophomores lead voting three hundred and seventy-five students voting in the entertain ment poll recently conducted by the student concert-lecture series committee listed current events music adventure and athletics as the fields most high in their favor these four leaders in popularity rated about equally in student opinion standing well above the four other general topics listed working on the basis of total first votes the committee will meet this afternoon to take steps toward selecting programs from among those highest in the poll sophomores returning 116 bal lots turned in the highest num ber of votes the freshman class was next with 102 men voting the junior class was represented by 95 votes and the seniors by 50 engineers cast more votes than business and arts men combined among the seniors thirty-two votes were from engineers twelve from business men and six from arts men fifty four junior engi neers voted thirty two business men and nine arts men in the spohomore class 66 votes came from engineers 38 from bus iness and 17 from arts men six ty-six freshmen engineers voted twenty-six business men and ten arts students bids will be received and dis cussed by the lecture series com mitte at their meeting this after noon arcadia to help frosh handbook receives award 5 undergraduates to take leading male roles in musicale tomorrow is play date night in armor the spring mustard and cheese musical show written by william g dukek chem 38 and david hughes special student which is to be presented at 8:30 tomorrow even ing at the broughal high school auditorium enters its last stages of completion with a dress rehear sal tonight in the high school five undergraduates fill the leading male roles and are headed by thomas w pulliam eng 41 the hero of the play the other leads are taken by jacob s hart zell bus 40 malcolm carrington jr bus 39 franklin r norton ch e 39 and wayne f o'neill arts 39 have feminine leads the leading feminine parts are taken by helen mclnroy ruth pazetti june fehring and mar garet sterrett they are assisted by a mixed chorus of 32 voices the girls in this chorus were sel ected from various girls schools in and near bethlehem the plot of night in armor is woven around a national wrestling champion an idealist student who dreamed of knights of old and the latters girls the action all takes place on a college campus during a dream of the idealist student in the dream the audience is taken back to the days of the round table and is presented with the solution of john's the idealist problem for the recovery of his lost love interwoven within the plot is a counter love affair be tween the wrestler peter and the dean's wife john awakens from his dream and upon the advice of merlin knocks peter out and ev erything ends happily the scenery which was made by charles c dent i e 40 as sisted by charlotte green and amelia beal was used by the stu dents of broughal high school for an operetta held last week it con sists of settings representing a medieval castle and a hall in a typical college recreation building part of lehigh ivy to be sent away henning expects to obtain necessary signatures in next 3 weeks approximately 50 percent of the signatures necessary to establish the senior insurance endowment fund have been obtained to date robert v henning i e 38 chair man of the committee announced last night an effort will be made to obtain the remaining signatures during the next three weeks members of the senior class who constitute the canvassing commit tee are henning john wiegel i e p e p white e e james t bergen ch e john s hoppock i e james d mack arts milton enstine i e and carstens y haas ch e under the insurance plan which was adopted at the last meeting of the senior class members of the class will take out insurance policies to be turned over to the university in 1958 at which time their value will be about 35,000 the class treasury will be used as a contingency fund until that time o public speaking class holds formal banquet a banquet as the final class of the course in public speaking eng 30 section b 2 was held last even ing at the old sun inn there were nine after dinner talks each lasting eight minutes given by students in the class which is in charge of j calvan callaghan instructor in english matthew collins m e 38 acted as toastmaster the speakers and their topics were robert w brown bus 40 woe is me donald santrnyers ch e 39 a lot about noth ing harry r beucler bus 41 benefits of public speaking wallace c douglas eng 41 le high's reward to me james j nicol bus 40 check and double check william d turner i e 40 dances at lehigh edwin s mal kin ch e 39 self confidence — ha reginald m banks bus 40 boys at play robert r mer win bus 40 english 30 — so what o annual parents day held by campus fraternity sigma nu fraternity held its eleventh annual parents day ban quet saturday evening at the old sun inn dr albert haring pro i fessor of economics was the guest j speaker and presented a perspec tive on the college the student and the parent c v converse of allentown al umni advisor spoke briefly on chapter matters and commended robert j pearce bus 40 who i was chairman of the arrangements committee r j laubenstein i e 39 president of the fraternity | was the toastmaster last issue will feature anti-war propaganda the first issue by the newly elected staff of the lehigh review which appears monday will have a full page advertisement on anti war propaganda this movement which is being carried on in col laboration with 20 other leading colloge magazines was started by the stanford chaparral of stan ford university the cover for the issue is in the form of an aerial photograph of the campus snapped by john b ferguson jr i e 38 stories to appear are dragon dragon by eric weiss e e 39 a walk in the park by robert h clark arts 38 an article on the new domitories entitled mast er dormitories by howard j lewis ch e 40 vacation mi steel by byron r kelly arts 38 and an article on the bach choir by robert j reid arts 40 will hold banquet coca cola camel schick dominate their fields in b and w choice best survey in 4 years the new york times the new york evening sun life and es quire are tops among publications according to the 145 ballots cast in the recent eighth man survey conducted by the brown and white similarly camel cigarettes schick electric razors briggs pipe tobacco coca cola and hershey's chocolate bars dominate their re spective fields in the lehigh pref erence in most instances the sel ected products and publications were favored heavily over their closest competitors the eighth man survey is the most successful investigation of the buying habits of lehigh men that has been made in the past four years states john t handy bus 38 business manager of the brown and white the eighth man co operated in nearly every case and we secured answers as accurate as possible 80 favor the times following the 80 votes favoring the times as a superior new york morning newspaper were 47 for the herald tribune the new york daily mirror gained a single ballot among new york evening journ als the 80 votes for the sun led the world telegram by a margin of 64 the new york post was ition in the weekly publications rated third life magazine's 42 ballots won a close race with the 40 cast for collier's time attained third pos ition in the weekly publications receiving 29 votes the supremacy of esquire's monthly magazine was indicated by a total of 46 while the second place american garn ered 22 votes the reader's digest ran third as the favorite of 16 men briggs leads tobacco there were 42 ballots attesting to the popularity of camel cigar ettes chesterfield gathered a total of 28 phillip morris was ranked third with 16 briggs pipe tobacco receiving 19 ballots led a widely scattered field sir walter raleigh attained a final sum of nine and edgeworth and union leader tied lor third with six choices each shick electric razor topped its competitors with 40 votes pack ard ranked second with four sup porters shick was among the pio neers in the field the popularity of the electric razor is shown by the fact that 47 of the 145 students are now using one the 115 votes for coca cola eclipsed the four ballots each for hires root beer and the 7 up soft drink hershey's chocolate bars favorite of 55 students led the 19 selections of milky way and the 15 of o'henry heckman's plans include leatherette binding a new leatherette cover is to be the feature of the 1938 fresh man handbook states henry s heckman arts 39 editor of the publication this type of cover was discontinued last year the mon day meeting of arcadia the new student governing body voted to bear the additional expenses of return to this cover the contract with the printing company was signed yesterday the number of copies will be re duced the innovation by the uni versity of the 25 advance deposit for tentative freshman will elim inate the distribution of superflu ous copies to prospects the handbook is to be the same size as last year with revisions which include more complete write-ups of the usual data con tained it is still in the formative era but will be published by july 15 societies which feel the write ups of previous years inadequate will consult henry heckman in the near future fraternity heads hold joint dinner a cutting from the original plant which was the source of all the ivy used on the campus is be ing sent to shady side academy for use at the school's commence ment exercises this june the academy has the annual custom of planting ivy sent from selected colleges and universities lehigh was selected as this year's choice the ivy orator dedicates the plant and gives a short resume of the history of the institution send ing the plant he is selected from among the honor speakers of the graduating class at the academy o seniors hold rehearsal under military tutelage a rehearsal of the senior class commencement exercises was held wednesday afternoon in packer memorial chapel maj carter col lins assistant professor of military science and tactics explained the routine of the ceremony and as signed the seats since the class of 1938 has voted to retain the graduation within the chapel defeating proposals of out door commencements the affair will be nearly identical with those of previous years o newtonians hear talk on aerodynamic data professor clarence a shook associate professor of mathematics addressed the assembled members of the newtonian society on aero dynamic formulas last night albert e lee eng 41 presi dent of the society gave a lecture on the slide rule to solve quad radic and cubic equations the meeting adjourned at 9:10 p m and was the last meeting of the year alumnus given medal for geodetic work capt william bowie 95 was authorized by the senate and house of representatives to ac cept the decoration of the order of orange nassau bestowed by the government of the netherlands in recognition of his achievements in the interests of international science and geodesy dr bowie took part in promot ing international cooperation in geodetic projects he participated in encouraging dr f a meinezis of holland to use a new apparatus which he invented for measuring the acceleration of gravity at sea level bowie made arrangements for the united states navy and geodetic commission of holland to cooperate in this work one of bowie's projects was in the field of mapping and survey ing for 25 years he insisted upon a uniform set of maps to cover the country in 1919 the federal board of surveys and maps was inaug urated at his suggestion to remedy the situation o society discusses plans for 10 members in fall at the last meeting of alpha phi omega honorary scout fra ternity held on wednesday even ing in drown hall the group dis cussed the pledging of 10 new members in october last saturday the chapter acted as hosts to a troop of scouts from plainfield n j the visiting scouts ware entertained by the members who took the scouts over to tay lor gym for a swim and then to dinner at drown hall after dinner the visitors were taken to the fireplace o to give lecture series dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administra tion has acepted an invitation to give a series of lectures at the uni versity of arkansas this summer these lectures will be conducted by the university at a state-wide conference of bankers to hold banquet finals to decide officers for next semester's brown and white fifteen students are competing for one or more of the five posi tions open in the brown and white personnel there are to be selected two news editors a news manager a make-up editor and a sports ed itor the final examinations are to be held at 7:30 p m sunday in room 109 of christmas-saucon hall the exam grades will be sup plemented by the showing of each contestant on a competition issue the results will be submitted to the executive committee of the brown and white for election of officers the board of publications will approve or veto the selections at its final meeting the examinations are to be supervised by dale h gramley associate professor of journalism charles j moravec assistant in journalism and kenneth k kost instructor of journalism 15 compete for posts the following are listed among the competitors for the news edi torships david g debeauchamp arts 40 robert c muir bus 40 john r devine arts 41 how ard m conner 40 roy s zach ary arts 41 charles f kalmbach eng 41 william f carson ch e 40 and thrasher t gray arts 39 aspirants to the position of make-up editor are harold con ner john r devine william f carson david g debeauchamp david l fowler arts 40 roger f kleinschmidt ch e 40 and milton spilberg arts 39 three men are competing for the sports editorship namely edward h brindle met e 40 carl r fittkau met e 40 and john j mccluskey bus 40 for the pos ition of news manager are thrash er t gray milton spilberg and willard g histand m e 39 o i £. and m e.'s picnic features baseball game the industrial and mechanical engineering societies held then joint picnic on tuesday afternoon in the lehigh community park the activities of the afternoon fea tured a baseball game between the two societies the industrial en gineers won by a score of 19-4 following the baseball game there was a dinner at which rob ert j lightcap i e 38 acted as master of ceremonies in the ab sence of alan s grant i e 39 president of the industrial engi neering society hall society will present officers at dinner announcement of the newly elected officers of the robert w hall society honorary pre-medical society will be made this evening at a banquet to be held at the hotel americus allentown the officers to be presented are eugene r gaughran arts 39 president walter m uhler arts 39 vice president john b sabol arts 39 secretary and sylvester d beers arts 40 treasurer dr bassler of the american museum of natural history will be the guest speaker he is a south american explorer and an authority on the civilization of the inca indians o green memorial work is steadily advancing satisfactory progress is being made on the green memorial to be placed in the armory according to major t c gerber assistant professor of military science and tactics liberal donations have been re ceived from friends of major james o green former professor of military science and tactics these will be used to pay for the memorial which is expected to be completed sometime in the early part of june names of regimental commanders at lehigh since 1931 will be inscribed on the memorial russell c macfall chairman of the national interfraternity con ference was the principal speaker at a dinner held last week at the phi gamma delta house for the presidents and vice-presidents of the fraternity houses in his talk the speaker stressed good fellowship and athletic com petition between fraternities he also favored the offering of a prize to the fraternity having the best library at the end of one year guests at the dinner were dean m c mcconn james l clifford instructor in english and dr loyal shoudy section head of phi gamma delta all fraternities were represented at the dinner o to hold annual dinner the board of the brown and white will hold its annual ban quet 6 30 p m this evening at the hotel schankweiler fogelsville the banquet is open to all students who have completed journalism 2 francis w hunsberger c e 38 is chairman of the banquet eric weiss e e 39 chairman of the entertainment committee phi eta sigma will initiate new members monday phi eta sigma national fresh man honorary society will hold an initiation banquet monday at the hotel bethlehem the dinner is to beat 6:30 p m elias r morgan director of placements is to be the guest speaker and harold v anderson associate professor of chemistry and the faculty adviser of the soc iety will welcome the new men the election of new officers and the official retirement of the soph omore actives will also take place at the banquet o albrecht heads sec d george a albrecht bus.'39 was elected section chief of section d taylor hall at a meeting held re cently by that living group other officers elected to serve next year are herbert e rasmussen ch e 40 treasurer stephen t lowry eng 41 secretary and albert s raff ch e 39 athletic manager makes debut lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday may 20 1938 faculty ladies to give dance 8 feet is too close says student after aerial games vol xlv no 53 times life lead in ballots of publications students cast 375 ballots in talent poll all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612