Brown and White Vol. 44 no. 31

              thomas speech will concern world peace janitor falls 3 floors is critically hurt 22 students are pledged by tau beta pi price — five cents heavy solid lines show geographical divisions of town group sections as drawn up by the organiz ing committee each of the sections is meeting some time this or next week to elect a president who will be representative in the town council and a sec retary a verbal description of the divisions can be found in the last issue of the brown and white sections x and l not shown on the map are all commuters including easton and the allentown group respectively 800 couples attend interfraternity ball to climax week-end of many activities players select spring drama richard himber and les brown alternate during dance doctor named to fill place varied selections given socialist leader to be presented on friday in broughal high is often in the news the international relations club in cooperation with the student concert-lecture committee will sponsor a speech on socialism and world peace by norman thomas former socialist presiden tial candidate at 8 15 o'clock fri day evening in broughal high school auditorium controversy over the freedom of speech has frequently figured in the career of mr thomas in april of last year he was forcibly ejected from jersey city because of his failure to obtain a permit to speak and upon later application he was denied such a permit in june he attempted to speak at a meeting in newark where missiles were thrown at him and his attempts to speak were stopped by yells and band music tours europe in 1938 in april and may of 1938 mr thomas made a trip to europe in england he spoke before several labor gatherings upon his return to the united states he commented upon the increase in military and industrial organization of russia and upon its dictatorial form of government at the present time mr thomas is chairman of the board of direc tors of the league for industrial democracy of new york city and has been the co-editor of various publications for this organization in a speech at yale university in november mr thomas decried the nazi brutality against the jews and said that an affirmative stand must be taken by the united states since no defensive attitude will win he later favored the liberal ization of american immigration laws as a partial solution of the geman refugee problem favors suppression of bunds he also favored the prevention of allowing the nazi bund camps in this country to form armed groups in addition to his political acti vities as presidential candidate and perennial gubernatorial can didate for new york mr thomas is the author of many books the most recent of which is socialism on the defensive o smiley on summer staff dr malcolm f smiley instruc tor in mathematics will be a member of the summer quarter faculty at the university of chi cago it was announced by carl f huth director of the session bull announces choice danielsville physician starts tomorrow dr carl o keck a practising physician from danielsville will temporarily fill the post left vacant by the late dr peter dr r c bull director of the students health service announced dr keck will take the position of as sistant director in the infirmary tomorrow and hold it until a per manent physician is selected keck took a pre-medical course at lafayette colege and was grad uated from there in 1932 with an m a degree he then attended the hahnneman medical college in philadelphia and was graduated from there in 1936 the new doctor spent his interne period of one year at the allen town hospital since then he has practiced medicine in danielsville dr keck has a very pleasing personality is highly recommend ed and is well prepared for the job doctor bull said o alumni club fills posts robert good 21 was elected president of the pittsburg alumni club last friday night at a meet ing held in the university club in pittsburgh rights calls for tryouts for petrified forest thursday friday the petrified forest a drama by robert sherwood will be pre sented by the mustard and cheese as its spring offering it was an nounced today by albert a rights instructor in english and director of dramatics the decision to pre sent this play was made by the club at its meeting thursday af ternoon rights further announced that tryouts for the production would begin thusrday afternoon at drown hall tryouts will be held from 4 until 6 o'clock on thursday afternoon and from 8 until 10:30 o'clock thursdaytor jfttng and will continue frontf 4 t urnsqif^bßak friday afternoon with finaiyry outs beingxjiek sometime next week all studemsc*emt3?lbie fy participationas are all beuirehekl girls who v£safy to appear in the play o\^-iy having decided not to preseimaj musical comedy for its regular spring show the mustard and cheese club was faced with the problem of selecting a suitable play for that purpose though a farce comedy was considered the petrified forest was chosen by the club because it is a play which combines comedy and drama window washing proves hazardous to packer hall employee back may be broken alexander londer 49 a janitor in packer hall was injured seri ously yesterday afternoon as he fell from a third floor window on the south side of the building according to late reports from st luke's hospital where the vic tim was taken in an ambulance his condition was reported as cri tical with possible fracture or dislocation of the spinal vertebrae at the time of the accident londer was cleaning the windows in room 307 according to wit nesses he evidently lost his footing plunged three floors and landed on the damp packed earth about eight feet from the side of the building according to charles anderko a university employee who was working on the west side of drown hall and who was the first to reach londer after he had fallen the jan itor regained consciousness by the time a st luke's ambulance arriv ed 15 minutes after the fall in the mean time anderko fearing internal injuries saw that the pa tient was not moved and that he was well covered with overcoats no witnesses to accident the first two windows in the front of room 307 were completely washed while only the bottom half of the third window was clean in dicating that the accident had oc curred while londer was changing his position preparatory to wash ing the upper half of the third window no one actually saw the accident but several of the work man at drown hall including an derko heard the fall the windows of packer hall are washed about three of four times a year and none of the windows are equipped with any sort of safety hooks or appliances o disciplinary probation inflicted on 2 students two students were placed on disciplinary probation for one year for using dishonest tactics in their murses dean congdon announced c^fe was denied credit in c e/i^nd x?bfj)^ced on pro bation until feb 1 re*o for hav i^stiji^his possession during an ex aminatibivo]o^kisuuation papers similar to that glv*n.\there is yoßie evidence that he made use of tnemvam jmemed^tated dishon esty has not been oe^gjy proven a freshman was placed on dis ciplinary probation until feb 1 1940 for forging initials on prob lems not done by himself in a math 20 notebook no other ac tion was taken because the student had flunked the course approximately 800 couples crowded the crystal ballroom and the main dining room of the hotel bethlehem saturday night as le high's annual interfraternity ball climaxed a colorful weekend swing addicts flocked to the crystal ballroom to jostle each other about the dance floor in shagging to the speed rhythms of les brown and his duke blue devils while the more conserva tive adherents of smooth dance music made their way to the main dining room to enjoy the melodies of richard himber's musical pyr amids because of the unusual spring like weather saturday's ball met with the best weather conditions in several years and almost op pressive humidity pervaded the dance floor before several of the large windows were opened though the largest number of dancers appeared to frequent the upper dance floor during the first part of the evening they crowded the lower floor as the night waned and richard himber staged his parade of bands which featured several members of the organiza tion in special numbers most of the numbers were imitations of well-known bands and musical artists musicians poet who entertained students over weekend albert ponter and robert gallagher are picked for presidencies to serve on council albert e ponter jr bus 40 and robert h gallagher bus 39 were elected presidents of town group sections a and b respec tively when those sections met last night in drown hall leon h plante arts 41 was chosen secretary to section a and walton m henry bus 39 is sec retary of section b the presidents will also serve as representatives on the town council which will hold its first meeting thursday march 9 in drown hall section a which is comprised of non-fraternity men living on wy andotte street dakotah street and the region to the southwest of the bent line formed by the two streets met in the lehigh review room section b including men living on carlton avenue broadway be tween wyandotte street and brod head avenue brodhead avenue be tween broadway and third street west third street from brodhead avenue to delaware avenue and the region inclosed by these streets and wyandotte and dakotah streets met in the arcadia office there were 14 men at each of the two meetings those present pledged to bring other students in their sections to the next meetings to consider organization the student activities commit tee will consider the town groups request to organize when it meets on thursday the following is a list of the personnel of the town group sec tions which are to mcc during the remainder of this week section l commuters met at 12:30 p m to day in the lehigh review room drown hall section a h p aldrich j k m baiz c w baker w r bliss w a blum g borbolla c f brown d m brown e a brown c r bushwaller c h carter jr w c chris tine c v clark j s clinch j e cul liney r w dech c r dieckman g l diggles a m eastwood l h edwards c l eichenberg j a erdle h j fried man m j fry r e gosztonyi jr p r gregory w v groeger w a himmel wright h a hoch jr b e hoffner e c james j easzycki q r g keith l h kestenbaum h king f a kotulak j j kuczynski d w layton r c lux j w mannion jr w b mcarthur w f melhorn h e moos man j s patterson a e ponter jr r g scoblionko e h scott r m seward jr j silverberg p smith j f spirk e g uhl f h vogel w a walter j b williams r williams jr j r witmeyer section b j l anderson r s barker t r bell r a bozza a b brown r p carter r e chamberlain r h christy a clark jr w s clewell p g dehuff l f dieringer c r ferland t fleischer g s fox r h gallagher g gould h t s heckman w n henry a e horka r r jones j f keating j m keenan h w b kipe r f kling er t j kochuba a j roller j w kreid ler a q lerch g h m leßoy c t loveless w s lyhne jr r w mccabe j d mcclay w c mcjames a s mick ley w r miller t w millett 111 r w mincemoyer j mitchell w f morgan n l morse a b neill jr w a nichols w f o'neill h j packer jr r a ritchings g b robertson a w rowley e m sharp j l shearer s f shireman e r springer f g steinbrucker r j stickel e a sutherland g b swope j m tomkovich p z wilson f a zim merman g g zipf section c meets 7:30 p m tonight in arcadia room drown hall a f arbogast p h bartholomew r h bartholomew w h beaumont r caem merer r h coleman j constantine m h cortright w s dawless a p dieffen continued on page four student injured motheral in st luke's for lacerations the condition of george b mot heral 11 bus 40 who is in st luke's hospital because of arm and wrist lacerations suffered from an accident early sunday morning is reported very good several tendons on motheral's arm were pulled together in an operation sunday but according to st luke's hospital the opera tion was not serious engineer honorary group taps 17 juniors and 5 seniors exercises held yesterday tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity tapped five seniors and 17 juniors during pledging exercises yesterday after noon in front of the williams hall monument erected in tribute to dr e h williams founder of the society neville is tapped dr harvey a neville head of the chemistry department and milton c stuart professor of me chanical engineering were also tapped during the exercises ac cording to james e patton ch e 39 president of the society the formal initiation will be held on march 11 when william s ayers a student at columbia and formerly of lehigh will also be initiated a list of the activities of the pledgees follows seniors courtland carrier mustard and cheese president of pi tau sigma member of the board of publica tions psi upsilon social fraternity stanley giulio freshman honors newtonian society joseph oless wrestling team theta kappa phi social fraternity albert raff band newtonian society freshman and sophomore honors peter telfair freshman and sophomore honors phi eta sigma sigma phi epsilon social frater nity juniors bernard altshuler delta omi cron theta phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon sigma alpha mv social fraternity robert carter phi eta sigma newtonian society drum major of band freshman and sophomore honors richard clock freshman and sophomore honors freshman bas ketball william csellak freshman hon ors freshman basketball chemis try society wellington eler pi mv epsilon newtonian society freshman and sophomore honors theta xi social fraternity robert good cyanide phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon epitome staff delta upsilon social frater nity ernest johnson freshman hon ors newtonian society phi eta sigma tone richard kelley cyandie glee club phi eta sigma pi mv epsi lon tone delta upsilon social fraternity theodore leininger phi eta sigma freshman and sophomore honors donald luster cyanide phi eta sigma member of the board of publications chi psi social fra ternity donald macfeeters freshman and sophomore honors swimming team robert marsden phi eta sigma pi mv epsilon freshman and sophomore honors alpha kappa pi social fraternity arthur mickley robert w blake society freshman and soph omore honors norman morse delta omicron theta robert w blake society pi mv epsilon phi eta sigma freshman and sophomore honors william pohlman phi eta sig ma pi mv epsilon freshman and sophomore honors herbert rasmussen newtonian society freshman and sophomore honors edward sharp freshman and sophomore honors pi mv epsilon phi eta sigma newtonian society o rockett to speak before brown astronomical club the e w brown astronomical society will hold a meeting at 7:30 p m thursday in room 353 packard laboratory francis h rockett eng 42 will speak on the constellations at the meeting plans for spring and the holding of open nights at the ob servatory will be discussed group of lehigh admirers on the right carl sandburg who read verses from the people yes and sang american ballads is signing autographs for students follow ing his lecture friday evening in broughal high school b & w staff photo two high spots of interfraternity weekend are epitomized in the above pictures close to 800 couples attended a lecture athletic contests and danced to the music of two orchestras on the left les brown's orchestra and singer are shown as they swung out at the ball on saturday night at the hotel bethlehem surrounded by a bethlehem pa tuesday february 21 1939 brown and white vol xliv no 31 town group elects officers for 2 sections member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first