Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 6

              the campus will be closed at 12:30 p.m saturday for the lehigh - perm state football game the campus will also be closed at 12:30 p.m saturday oct 22 for the bethlehem high-easton high football game alumni here this weekend resort to traffic summons to pen etrate the lethargy of the lehigh motorist it was hoped that this would bring results where warn ings failed it did over twen ty men received tickets and paid a fine of one dollar our meanest students decided that they didn't want to give their names alder man moffat didn't mind as they paid their dollar and he didn't want to blight their life by put ting their names of the police rec ord carothers pinched dr neil carothers car was one of those tabbed for illegal parking he didn't appear in person before alderman moffat but sent his dollar by mail alderman mof fat was surprised that we knew this as he withheld all names paging sherlock holmes a few fellows seem to have disregarded their tickets that isn't such a good thing to do in fact the sooner they by edward h klein recently a deluge of traffic tick ets showered down upon the le high men who park their cars on packer avenue sensing injustice we immediately embarked on a one-man investigation to fiind the root of the conspiracy was our face red when we got the facts one of the biggest problems facing lehigh's engineers of the future will be the designing of highways and bridges capable of high speed traveling and the elim ination of traffic hazards stated alderman t r moffat in an in terview bethlehem was de designed in the horse and buggy days and packer avenue wasn't designed for a parking lot red tickets problem we also learned that in the last couple of years 5000 red warning tickets have been issued princi pally to lehigh men they were ignored in fact they became a problem for the street cleaning de partment the police department had to continued on page four pi delts plan for conclave cyanide elects 6 more men selections are announced after dinner meeting last evening journalists pick lehigh as convention site for december tentative plans for the national convention of pi delta epsilon na tional honorary journalism frater nity were discussed yesterday af ternoon by members of the le high chapter who met in drown hall henry t s heckman arts 39 was selected to head the conven tion committee planning the con clave which will be held in early december on the campus assist ing heckman will be eric weiss e.e 39 edward manning m-e 39 and charles j moravec as sistant university news editor an other member will be appointed to the committee after new members are initiated the convention to mark the 30th anniversary of the founding of pi delta epsilon at syracuse university will be devoted to publications problems of various institutions and to means of strengthening the national organ ization officers for the coming year also will be elected eric weiss secretary announced the progress of the investigation of publications at beaver college since the application of that insti tution for membership in the na tional organization six new men were elected to membership and will be pledged on monday evening all members who submitted points are request ed to remain in their rooms be tween 7 and 8 p.m plans for the initiation banquet will be an nounced at that time descartes subject of club lectures the life of rene descartes mathematician and philosopher was the subject of a talk by nor man morse ch.e 40 at the ini tial meeting of pi mv epsilon honorary mathematical society wednesday evening in packard laboratory following morse's talk dr tom linson fort head of the depart ment of mathematics and astron omy spoke on the mathematical and philosophical theories of des cartes irving e lempert e.e 39 president of the society described a somple method of completely solving cubic equations o to discuss explosives the chemistry of explosives is the topic on which dr walter o snelling of the trojan powder company will address the student chemical society at its meeting thursday evening in packard au ditorium there will be demon strations sportsmen plan program of outdoor activity for fall winter will hold game dinner the first meeting of the newly formed sportsman's club was held last evening in the engineer's lounge packard laboratory rob ert p m stoudt bus 41 out lined the club's plans and purpose briefly the purpose of the organiza tion is to promote an active in terest among the student body of lehigh university in those out door sports which are not an or ganized part of the athletic pro gram of the university the acting officers were unani mously requested to continue as officers of the club they are robert stoudt president hamilton strayer bus 41 vice president richard s davis bus 41 secre tary and joseph h jacoby eng 41 treasurer 11 faculty advisers the faculty advisers are dr albert haring associate pro fessor of economics dr ray mond c bull director of the students health service fay c bartlett assistant professor of phy sical education majors reginald r bacon frederick w adams and carter collins assistant pro fessors of military science and tactics sylvanus a becker asso ciate professor of civil engineer ing dr robert d butler instruct or in geology francis j trem bley instructor in biology dr lawrence whitcomb assistant pro fessor of geology and harry g payrow assistant professor of san itary engineering has program planned fay c bartlett addressed the club endorsing its policy and an nouncing that gym credits would be given for the various activities the other members of the faculty present at the meeting also made short speeches approving the poli cies of the club the organization has a varied program planned the first event planned is a hike scheduled for sunday afternoon those who are interested in hiking but not mem bers of the club are invited to go along those going will meet at 2:30 p.m at the main gate on oct 23 the club has planned to have a clay pigeon shoot on mordell's farm a game dinner will be held next month other sports planned for the winter sea son are sleighing skiing archery hunting fishing winter picnics and other similar outings it is hoped that the club will de velope into an organization similar to the famous sportsman's club at dartmouth forty men attended the first meeting and it is expect ed that there will be over a hun dred members 300 stargazers attend opening the university observatory was opened wednesday night under the auspices of the brown astro nomical society and drew a crowd of approximately 300 people ralph n van arnam instructor in mathematics and astronomy disclosed that despite a slight acci dent to the following mechanism of the telescope saturn and ju piter were observed with clarity mr van arnam faculty advisor of the society was accompanied by various members who answered questions and explained the func tions of the apparatus all students interested in as tronomy are invited to come to the obscervatory next wednesday when the pleiades will be ob served and on subsequent wed nesdays students may apply for admission to the society on wed nesday evenings or at a meeting to be held tonight at 8 o'clock in room 355 packard laboratory to investigate monopolies and suggest freshman regulation changes to report next month omicron delta kappa senior honorary activities fraternity at a dinner meeting held at phi delta theta on wednesday night de cided to continue its investigation of office holding monopolies held by living groups a new committee for the inves tigation consisting of eric weiss e.e chairman franc burnett jr 1.e alan grant 1.e was ap pointed to replace the old com mittee headed by william dukek chem 38 the committee is to report on the results of its work in a month the investigation will cover man agerships and captaincies in ad dition to positions studied by the previous group a committee consisting of rob ert parsons met.e and robert yingling i e was appointed to consider the induction of a fuc ulty member into the organiza tion another committee franc bur nett jr 1.e frederick moesel ch.e and milton grannatt bus was appointed to investigate fresh man regulations and suggest changes in them for next year the lengthening or shortening of rushing week was also discussed albrecht elected council president new interdormitory unit draws dance petition george albrecht bus 39 was elected president of the newly formed interdormitory council at the second meeting of the organ ization held last night in drown hall other officers elected were an drew morrow ch.e.'4o vice pres ident john saussaman met.e 39 secretary and george kelly ch.e 39 treasurer the council drew up a petition requesting permission for a dance to be held at the armory the sat urday night of houseparty week end committee chairmen ap pointed to plan the dance are an drew morrow ch.e 40 decora tions john teller e.e 39 music and donald santmyer ch.e 39 refreshments each dormitory section voted to contribute 10 for the fall dance and other expenses a committee to submit a con stitution at the next meeting of the council was appointed by al brecht and is as follows donald santmyers george kelley an drew morrow and charles w hart ch.e 39 the council will hold its next meeting tuesday evening in drown hall o kamura returns japanese alumnus visits with professors professor heichi kamura a lec turer in the department of mining and metallurgy or the medji col lege of technology tobato-shi japan visited several members of the lehigh faculty monday after noon professor kamura earned his metallurgical engineering degree at medji college and came to le high to do graduate work he was awarded his m.s degree at lehigh in 1921 this trip to america is his first visit in the 17 years since he was a student here while in this country he plans to present a pa per to a meetiig of the american institute of metals o luce attends conference alexander w luce associate professor of machine design re turned last wednesday from sky top lodge where he had been at tending the twenty-first semi-an nual meeting of the american gear manufacturers association lehigh's standards have advanced during year trustees are told 248 of 38 grads hired steady progress educationally as evidenced by improvement in the quality of students admitted and in the character of education afforded is reported for lehigh during the past academic year by president clement c williams in his annual educational report to the board of trustees the carnegie investigations as well as other observations indi cate that lehigh is attracting in tellectually vigorous students the president said in his report that prospective employers are recognizing the superiority of graduates from lehigh and similar institutions is being evidenced by comparative employment records 11 are present the president's statement was submitted at the annual fall meet ing of the board this afternoon in the alumni memorial building the meeting presided over by eu gene g grace president of the board was attended by samuel d warriner philadelphia william carter dickerman new york wil liam jay turner philadelphia earle f johnson detroit alex ander potter new york robert farnham philadelphia morton sultzer new york andrew e bu chanan bridgeport conn presi dent williams and walter r oke son treasurer of the university and secretary of the board president williams summarized in his report the work of various administrative departments the achievements of the faculty of the university and stated conditions in other phases of endeavor reports on activities included were reports on the graduate school summer session library r o t c band athlet ics and physical education health service supply bureau placement bureau publicity buildings and grounds admissions and enroll ment among significant facts in the report were these the 1938 summer session showed an increase in enrollment of 8 per cent while graduate en rollment in the session gained 5 per cent the placement bureau helped 157 students to earn about 3,000 by aiding them to find odd jobs the bureau also directed 171 stu dents in n y a jobs which earned for them 16,029.40 graduating seniors were 77 per cent placed by founder's day this means that 214 members of a class of 278 men had secured em ployment or were pursuing grad uate study the students health service handled 16,414 visits and gave 19,364 treatments during the year the committee on student act ivities supervised 141 social act ivities as follows 40 dances 55 house parties 27 banquets and 19 miscellaneous events only 14 students were repri manded or suspended from the university for misconduct in ex aminations laboratory work or for other reasons • o frosh entertained civil engineering society meets in fritz lab twelve freshmen were guests of the civil engineering society at its first meeting of the year wednes day night in fritz laboratory harry g payrow assistant pro fessor of sanitary engineering w j erney instructor in civil engineering a t ippen instruct or in hydraulics and bruce johns ton assistant director of fritz laboratory gave short speehes following the introduction of the faculty the freshmen were then taken on a survey of the laboratory various equipment in the hydrau lics and testing departments were demonstrated tests on torsion tension and compression were [ also run cyanide junior honorary frater nity elected six juniors to mem bership last night at a dinner meeting held at delta tau delta fraternity the men elected were elward uhl eng preston mar shall i e john o'meara bus charles griffiths bus ralph mar tin ch.e and william brown ch.e a revised constitution will be presented to members of cyanide at the next meeting w p wat kins secretary announced the purpose of this revision made during the summer is to remodel cyanide along lines similar to om icron delta kappa senior honor fraternity it was also planned to form a faculty circle to bring faculty members to the meetings so that more may be accomplished dr c g beardslee will be present at the next meeting new members will also be at the meeting which will be held at phi gamma delta fraternity just befoire houseparty weekend program listed by woman's club faculty wives plan first meeting tuesday the faculty woman's club will convene for the first regular meeting of the year tuesday in drown hall the meetings of the club fall on the third tuesday of each month and the programs for the meetings of the first semester have already been arranged the com mittees which will carry on the work of the organization have also been appointed some of the programs which promise to be outstanding are for the november meeting ro mance in oriental rugs and for the december gathering christ mas in england conducted by sydney macgiuvray brown pro fessor of history and the faculty chorus for january two shows are listed the first is the even ing party variety show the sec ond a play by the faculty dra matics club o inaugurate colloquiums in chemistry building a series of chemical colloqui ums was inaugurated yesterday afternoon in the new chemistry building dr harry a neville head of the chemistry department and f p hochgesang research fellow were the speakers according to present plans the colloquiums will be held at 4 p.m every other thursday at each meeting a member of the faculty and a graduate student will pre ient topics of technical interest arcadia benefits if board accepts plan to change activities shares may get union portion class organizations face cuts by committee's recommendation arcadia's share in the student activities fee will jump from five to twenty-three per cent if the board of trustees approves action taken tuesday by the committee on studen activities the board met late this afternoon the committee's decision to sub mit this plan to the board was prompted by the merging of le high union and arcadia the union received 19 percent of the total but arcadia now performs the functions which both bodies formerly carried on separately the recommendation carried five other reapportionment items the mustard and cheese appor tionment will be increased from 10 to 11 per cent auditorium rent als new scenery required on a larger stage and trucking costs necessitated by moving the pro ductions to broughal auditorium have seriously increased the cost of maintaining the present produc tions music clubs get more the combined musical clubs will be granted an increase from 6 to 7 per cent for a four year period the continuance of this grant to be reconsidered in the spring of 1942 the reason for this is that they are still paying off 100 a year on a 400 balance due on the piano which they have given to packer memorial chapel and are at present lacking funds for essential instruments for their symphony orchestra the debating society's appor tionment will be increased from 4 to 4.5 per cent this increase is recommended since the growing popularity of intermural debating and the needs of intercollegiate debating teams require more ade quate support there has also been a 50 loss in the current in come of the society due to the ex haustion of the 100 surplus which has barely carried this society for the past two years reduce class funds the class funds will be reduced from 14 per cent to 10 per cent in order to release funds to activities continued on page four to act in benefit 6 students join kiwanis club charity show lehigh talent will be included in the annual kiwanis club show to be held for benefit of under privileged children of bethlehem oct 18-19 in liberty high school one section of the program a short play not guilty or the trial of mary google will feature rob ert mason eng 42 as mary goo gle kenneth cox research fellow as gladys glad j w wither spoon eng 42 as a french maid bob witmeyer ch.e 40 as the bailiff willard litzenberger arts 41 as the prosecuting attorney and clarence sanderson eng 42 as the defense attorney bill mc arthur eng 42 will take part in another skit tickets may be purchased from fay c bartlett assistant profes sor of physical education a mem ber of the entertainment commit tee or from dr ward bishop as sociate professor of economy all interested in appearing in the pro gram should tell professor bart lett immediately o seniors will take trip senior mechanical and industrial engineering students will hold their annual fall inspection trip from nov 21 to 23 in new york city alexander w luce asso ciate professor of machine design announced last wednesday guests of honor to be the freshman class of 50 years ago a record alumni turnout is ex pected for this homecoming week end according to william cor nelius executive secretary of the alumni association the guests of honor are to be the class of 92 who entered lehigh as freshmen fifty years ago a varied program has been planned by cornelius in addition to elaborate plans for the alumni interfraternity council has announced that a cup will be awarded to the fraternity which in the opinion of the judges displays the best house decoration in honor of the returning alumni the deans of the three colleges have planned conferences to oc cupy most of saturday morning the fraternity houses will be the hosts at lunch to the alumni and their friends the perm state-lehigh football game is scheduled to begin at 2:30 p.m immediately after the game a reception will be held in the lounge of the new dormitory charles russ richards house to be followed by an inspection of the building o tone to present faculty musicians prof lamson and wife to appear together the program for the sunday afternoon concert of tone honor ary musical society to be held at 4 p.m in packer chapel was an nounced by donald echoen arts 41 chairman of the concert com mittee the guest artists will be dr robert w lamson associate pro fessor of mathematics cellist ac companied at the piano by his wife and dr t edgar shields director of music who will play organ selections some of the selections to be pre sented are bouree by handel prelude by corelli and lar ghetto by mozart to be played by dr lamson and his wife lar go by handel meditations by shields and several bach chorales will be played by dr shields the program for sunday oct 23 will consist of selections by a student trio composed of donald schoen piano alfred trumpler i.e 40 violin and richard mar sten eng 41 flute new york alumni will give dinner the annual all star football din ner of the the lehigh club of new york will be held thursday oct 20 at the murray hill hotel walter r okeson university treasurer will be toastmaster among the speakers will be glen harmeson head football coach harvey harmon rutgers football coach and asa bushnell of princeton new czar of eastern football joe williams sports editor of the new york world-telegram bosey reiter professor of physi cal education and billy sheriden wrestling coach will also be guests movies of the boston univer sity-lehigh football game will be shown and the lehigh club orches tra will play lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday october 14 1938 5000 traffic tags ignored cops pinch students dean vol xlvi — no 6 price — five cents 40 at founding of outing club stoudt is head o.d.k probe will continue under weiss williams sees continued rise in scholarship trustees act today on fee distribution roads will be closed all the lehigh news first member intercollegiate newspaper association 251512