Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 18

              heads convention price — five cents george melloy eng 41 shot while hunting george melloy is improving after accident vol xlvi — no 18 tone resumes weekly series 15 men start epitome work football player suffering from broken thigh and loss of blood hunter admits shooting the condition of george f mel loy arts 41 varsity halfback who is in hahnemann hospital in scranton as the result of a hunt ing accident tuesday morning is reported as considerably improved today melloy is suffering from a brok en right thigh and loss of blood lawrence cicero of dunmore a suburb of scranton has admitted the shooting stating that he thought melloy was a deer when he fixed accompanied by three friends amandus koch marvin koch and joseph mairoello all of bethle hem meloy was standing near their car discussing what they should do next according to the story told by marvin koch he heard a shot and saw melloy fall koch turned and saw two men walking through the bushes he called to them as they approach ed related koch one of their guns went off fortunately into the air happened near scranton the men lawrence and william cicero helped put melloy into maiorello's car the accident oc curred about 30 miles from scran ton about nine miles of rough country road lay between the par ty and the main highway melloy lost considerable blood during the trip to the hospital the shooting was reported to a scranton policeman according to koch cicero had told several con flicting stories of the shooting the first was that he had looked through his field glasses and thought the way was clear the second that he saw a flash of mel loy's license plate and the red back of his coat and third that he saw melloy's trousers and fired because he thought it was a deer on the way to scranton the accident was reported to the state motor police and to the state game warden richard orr of gouldsboro debating schedule starts wednesday the first intramural debate of the season will be held on dec 7 at 7 30 p m in the lounge of rich ard's house and will cover the question resolved that the united states should cease to use public funds including credit for the purpose of stimulating bus iness president c c williams will act as chairman while t robert bas sett director of debating at mor avian college james p sell in structor in biology lehigh and j calvin callaghan will be the jud ges the timekeeper will be nor man l morse ch e 40 the speakers who will partici pate in the debate which will be conducted along the oregon plan are richard l kirk ch e 41 richard e metzger eng 42 rob ert w leavens i e 41 and mat thew k morris i e 40 taking the affirmative and george s sprague chem 40 william e keiser eng 41 john r perm 111 bus 42 and charles f meyer eng 42 taking the negative o exhibits planned camera club competition rules are announced the governing rules for month ly photographic competitions were announced at a meeting of the camera club monday evening in room 208 packard laboratory each month a particular build ing or part of the campus will be the photographic subject judg ment will be based on the origin ality and effectiveness of the treat ment the memorial chapel will be this month's subject tentative plans were made con cerning making the annual exhi bition a semi-annual affair carothers writes story on government costs for sunday paper the fourth of our income that goes to taxes should be cut drasti cally to do something for prosper ity writes dr neil carothers dean of the college of business adminis tration in an article in this week a syndicate of sunday newspapers for nov 27 dr carothers opens his article with an attack on the gullability of the american people the radio talkers who are economically illi terate and sixteen governmental economical fallacies next dr carothers brings out the economic fallacy which to him is the most unhappy of them all it is the economic fallacy that stu dents in eco 3 should be familiar with — that prosperity is merely a matter of spending by the people carothers offers program the article goes on to criticize this fallacy and the people who uphold it dr carothers then offers his program to initiate improve ment in the condition of america but there is one concrete and definite program that the govern ment should adopt at once with an immediate improvement in the condition of the people surpassing any advance ever made in a brief time it would actually accomplish more than all that has been prom ised people from the iridescent economic bubbles we have had in the last five years it beats all the rabbits-out-of-the-hat that cong ress ever considered it is a very simple program reduce the cost of government local state and national to the lowest terms says dr carothers o ewing publishes paper a paper on the binary system cadmium nitrate-water and va por pressure-temperature rela tions by dr warren w ewing professor physical chemistry and walter r f guyer 36 was pub lished in the november issue of the journal of the american chemical society liberty high to be site with the mustard and cheese cast placing the finishing touches long into last night during its dress rehearsal the play brother rat is ready for presentation in the liberty high school auditorium tonight malcolm carrington jr bus 39 who was originally cast to take the part of dan crawford will not be able to appear due to a streptococ cus infection of the throat his place will be taken by l hender son dudman bus 39 the other characters in order of their ap pearance are lois jenkins as mrs brooks virginia edwards as joyce winfree dorothy longnecker as jenny liela stoughton as claire ramm robert s bothe bus 40 as harley harrington robert n gusdorf bus 42 as bing edwards william barnard e e 40 as billy randolph rita gilligan as kate rice conrad kluger arts 42 as a furman townsend jr anthony famighetti bus 39 as newsreel scott o merril david bus 40 as tripod andrews harry gunni son arts 41 as mistol bottome william davy arts 42 as slim sam w stockton bus 41 as lieu tenant rogers robert dech arts 41 as colonel ramm and abram samuels bus 42 and don mid dleton arts 42 as members of the guard setting is v m i brother rat centers around the capers of the students of the virginia military institute and was written by two former privates at that institution john monks jr and frederick f finklehoffe as a comedy the play had a long and successful run on broadway and has recently made a decided hit in a movie version bing edwards a typical college hero is wanting in his studies es pecially chemistry but is an ex cellent baseball player he is pla gued with two very good friends billy randolph and dan crawford without whose wild schemes he would have met with greater suc cess it is his ambition to win the financial prize at the end of th year when he graduates because unknown to authorities he has a wife and needs money badly bril liant billy helps him to further predicaments with a couple of co eds thrown in for good measure o dean is on prize jury dr neil carothers dean of the college of business administration has accepted an appointment as member of a jury of award to pre sent a prize to the national trade association which has achieved the most outstanding industrial prog ress and rendered the finest pub lic service in 1938 violin and vocal music to feature current chapel concert tone student honorary musical society will resume its weekly sunday concerts with a program of violin and vocal music at 3:30 p m sunday in the chapel the hour has been shifted from 4 to 3:30 o'clock for this week only because of the university vesper service taking place at five o'clock charles p pulsford met e 40 will play five violin selections accompanied by dr t edgar shields director of music and wilson pierpont arts 39 baritone will render six familiar vocal numbers accompanied by irving b remsun eng 42 the program is as follows al legro from concerto in g major by viotti romance by svenson romance by schumann poem by fibich and nobody knows the trouble i've seen arranged by white played by mr pulsford morning by speaks the gyp sy trail by galloway homing by del riego the lost chord by sullivan the penitent by van der water and schubert's aye maria sung by mr pier pont next sunday's program will be given by the university symphony which is headed by f charles moesel ch e 39 dr t edgar shields will be conductor o leonard appoints r.o.t.c officers courtland carrier made commanding officer lt col j s leonard head of the department of military science and tactics announced on nov 21 the promotions of officers in the r o t c regiment the following are the new offi cers courtland carrier i e 39 regimental commander robert mcquail bus 39 regimental ex ecutive officer thomas bogart met e 39 regimental staff officer malcolm carrington jr bus 39 regimental adjutant battalion commanders are wil son pierpont arts 39 ist battal ion allen jones m e 39 2nd battalion and harry harchar arts 39 3rd battalion the adjutants are john gardner bus 39 ist battalion h allen snyder ch e 39 2nd battalion and william bruning arts 39 3rd battalion the company commanders are charles barton bus 40 company a ashley worsley ch e 39 company b john lehrer i e 39 company c john heller e e 39 company e alan grant i e 39 company f carl steig i e 40 company g james campbell m e 38 company i stanley giulio e m 39 company x and grant stetson bus 39 company l o 231 graduates placed the latest placement figures re veal that 83.1 percent of the june graduates have been placed this percentage figure means that 231 out of 278 men who were gradua ted in june have been placed states clean fatherhood virtuous motherhood equally important rewiews sex education packard auditorium was filled to overflowing last night with standing room only as dr valeric parker lecturer physician and director of the bureau of marriage council discussed social relation ship love and marriage approximately 750 students at tended the lecture which was sponsored by the brown and white to stimulate interest in a marriage course at lehgh during the lec ture and in a discussion afterwards dr parker herself the mother of three children discussed frankly the factors which contribute to success in marriage clean father hood is just as important as virtu ous motherhood dr parker stres sed discusses disease control dr parker began her lecture with a discussion of the history of sex education and control of ven eral disease the first steps being taken in this country by dr prince morrow who advocated a policy of education he began the society of social and moral prophylaxis which later merged with the american social hygiene associa tion about to celebrate its 25th anniversary dr parker brought forth the fact that the greatest strides in the control of social diseases were made during the world war the comparison of the methods of handling prostitution in this country and the methods used in europe was made by dr parker she referred to a book prostitu tion in europe in which a dr abram flexner employed by the bureau of social hygiene pointed out the evils of the european method problems of youth discussed after outlining the history of steps taken in the control of the social hygiene problem dr parker continued to discuss the problems which confront young married couples and young people in gen eral today petting birth control and marital problems brought about by economic conditions were brought into the discussion dr parker was able to draw from her own experiences in consulting young couples to offer many gra phic examples of the solving of these problems mudge to speak at vesper service the first in a series of university vesper services which will be con tinued if student attendance war rents will feature a sermon by dr lewis s mudge a presbyterian minister from philadelphia and music by the members of the glee club the musical program will con sist of songs and hymns by a triple quartet composed of ist tenors h f jones eng 41 j m phelan ; eng 41 and a g ueberroth ch e 39 2nd tenors include f v hertzog arts 41 w m henry bus 39 and d h prideaux arts 39 the ist bass members include m c burgy eng 41 j r white sell eng 41 and w r pierpont arts 39 the 2nd basses include q r keith arts 40 w a litz enberger arts 41 and w i free man ch e 40 o alpha phi omega taps 9 men monday evening nine men were pledged by al pha phi omega national service fraternity for scouts and scouters last monday night at its meeting the men were richard m shepherd eng 41 robert l felch eng 41 richard a ware arts 41 rea c helm e e 39 louis beer e e 39 thomas j lewis jr bus 41 william r clark c e 40 robert w brown bus 40 and john o liebig jr c e 40 competing sophs to be under direction of 5 junior editors fifteen sophomore editorial com petitors went to work on the 1939 epitome wednesday evening un der the direction of the five junior editors and harold i selser e e 39 editor-in-chief the competitors will spend the next two weeks gathering infor mation and preparing the various writeups asks cooperation the cooperation of all secretar ies of fraternities and student or ganizations has been asked by sel er in order that the write-ups will not only be accurate but will also be prepared in time so that addi tional care may be taken in mak ing up the pages selser also asks that any student whose name is misspelled in the student directory notify him as the directory has been adopted the official guide on the spelling of the student's names the sophomore competitors and the junior editors under whom they will work are leonard h diehl ch e sports editor richard l vockel i e and john r whitesell m e robert c good eng phys or ganizations editor james m beauchamp i e ellery h far nam i e charles f kalrnbach m e and walter h vogelsberg e e wallace p watkins bus fra ternity editor harry d chandler bus john w whiting bus and george w woelfel c e richard p homiller ch e elliott bus richardson gray m e and frank v hertzog arts george c lennox i e faculty and classes editor anthony r carcione arts donald r schoen arts and james e wigg bus lee stoughton helps to ready play for tonight delegates from 6 states here for 29th annual pi delt convention meet will last 2 days student delegates from six states representing 14 chapters of pi del ta epsilon national honorary jour nalism fraternity began to arrive this afternoon for the 29th anni versary convention of the organi zation baing held today and tomor row on the campus following registration in pack ard laboratory the delegates tour ed various parts of the campus an informal reception and tea was held at 4 o'clock at the chi psi lodge members of the only wo men's chapter moravian college for women served as hostesses williams comments in extending the invitation to the national officers president c c williams wrote the coming of pi delta epsilon to lehigh for its annual convention is an event to which we look with interest and pleasure newspapers carry the primary responsibility of keeping the public informed fully and cor rectly concerning civic and world events pi delta epsilon therefore has a mission in considering what sort of public press will serve so ciety in the future this evening a dinner will be held at the beethoven maenner chor after which the delegates will be guests of mustard and cheese at its presentation of brother rat business sessions and committee meetings are scheduled for tomor row morning and afternoon all of these sessions will be held in pack ard laboratory official voting del egates for lehigh will be willet weeks jr arts 39 president of the local chapter of pi delta epsi lon and henry heckman arts 39 vice president of the local unit and chairman of the convention committee alternate delegates will be fred galbraith ch e 40 and thrasher t gray arts 39 to hold formal banquet the closing event on the two day program will be a formal ban quet in the university room of the hotel bethlehem dr william m lewis president of lafayette col lege will be the principal speaker invited guests expected to attend the banquet are president and mrs edwin heath of moravian college for women president and mrs w n schwarze of moravian col lege for men mrs lewis dean and mrs wray h congdon dean and mrs philip m palmer dean and mrs bradley stoughton and dean and mrs neil carothers robert f herrick editor of the alumni bulletin and grand vice president of the national organfea tion will be the toastmaster an exhibit of student publica tions is on display in packard lab oratory this represents the var ious newspaper magazine hand book and yearbook productions on various campuses national officers of pi delta ep silon are president robert h mcneil virginia polytechnic insti tute vice-president robert f herrick lehigh university and secretary edward e mcdonald carnegie institute of technology senior records to be filled out all seniors as woll as graduate students who will finish their work in june have been requested by the placement bureau to fill out cards as permanent university re cords according to e robins mor gan director of placement the mechanical industrial elec trical and metallurgical engineers are to fill out their cards under the instruction of their departments all other men will fill out their cards at the placement office according to mr morgan these records are kept for all men not only for those seeking emplyoment at the time of graduation he sta ted that the records may be re ferred to at any time when a grad uate uses the placement bureau the commandant's daughter claire ramm in rother rat paints scenery when production goes into last hectic moments before tonight's showin b & w staff pt lehigh university brown and white bethlehem pa friday december 2 1938 mustard and cheese prepares to give brother rat tonight parker talks to 750 men on marriage 50,000 gift received in bequest from alumnus throat infection forces carrington to drop dudman substitutes a gift of 50,000 to the uni versity was received recently by walter r okeson treasurer the sum was given by a lehigh alumnus who wishes to remain anonymous the money was given to be used toward the general endowment fund dean's article asks tax cut henry t s heckman arts 39 student agents arrive today for conclave member intercollegiate newspaper association g tit i all the lehigh news first