Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 6

              37 u.s students flunk draft tests although no lehigh figures are available 37 per cent of all col lege students who took the draft deferment tests last spring and summer flunked this means that of the 339,000 who took the test 125,340 failed to score the passing 70 brown and white in publish ing the herblock cartoon be comes the third college newspa per in the country to do so only two others both large university dailies carry the block satire we take pride in announcing that fact the herblock cartoon is the only one in our opinion that penetrates to the real heart of a matter — usually with a skewer or as someone has said with a cleaver among those who for a variety of reasons have recently felt the point of herblock's incisive wit have been joe stalin and joe mccarthy pat mccarran and robert taft douglas mac arthur and dean acheson harry tru man and harold stassen for these and other opera tions herblock won the pulitzer prize in 1942 the sigma delta chi award in 1949 and 1950 and the broun prize in 1950 his cartoons have been shown at a one-man exhibition in the corcoran art gallery and have been included in the famed ros enwald collection which has so see herblock page 3 festival commit tee meets wednesday assistant professor albert a rights faculty adviser for the 1952 music festival has called a meeting of the festival committee wednesday afternoon at 4 p.m in drown hall any student who is inter see festival page 6 job forms are clarified by palevicz questions have been raised fre quently by seniors regarding items on the registration forms for company interviews a few of the most common ones were explain ed recently by prof frank v pa levicz of the placement bureau under scholarship rat ings you should list your point averages for each sem ester transfer students should fill in point scores for only those semesters that were spent at lehigh and should list their transfer cre dits from the college from which they came ancestry means simply na tionality summer employments may be listed under employment all applications and registra tion forms for interviews must be either typewritten or in ink do not use pencil and do not hand see placement page 3 killian asks re-assertion of tolerance charity fund hopes to get 3 per man lehigh university brown and white anybody care about influence on me volume 63 — number q tuesday october 16 1951 bethlehem pa feather merchants swarmed on the campus yesterday as the 1912 campus chesi drive got un der way initial contributions were encouraging according to chest committee chairman jerry muskin setting their goal at three dol lars per student the committee is striving for 100 per cent par ticipation in the drive students pledging three dollars or more will be awarded a ticket for the charity ball on nov 3 the campus chest committee has published for distribution a brochure enumerating the recipi ents of the funds among the organizations receiving contributions from lhe campus chest are the world student serivce fund and care together getting 50 per cent of the fund the bethlehem community chest the japanese christian uni versity the united negro college fund and the dis placed persons fund this list however does not see chest page 8 meet herblock political satirist b&w's new rapier witted artist a ringing plea for national un derstanding and mutual trust was issued in packer memorial chapel sunday by dr james r killian president of massachusetts insti tute of technology to a founder's day audience of 115 graduates their families and friends and the lehigh faculty dr killian said we must not let our nation become torn apart by distrust of each other and by un warranted attacks on loyal citi zens who dare to dissent at the exercises marking the 87th anniversary of le high's founding the speaker declared that we must never permit freedom to be abused in order to distort facts and to vilify individuals he cited no examples of what he called rejection of fundamen tal doctrines but stated that we must not be frightened into per mitting freedom of speech and freedom of inquiry to be improp erly restricted in resisting our enemies hoi see commencement page 6 lu awards twenty four fellowships twenty-four graduate students have been awarded fellowship grants amounting to 20,290 ac cording to a recent announcement by harvey a neville dean of lehigh's graduate school five foreign countries are represented among the winners canada tur key china switzerland and france metallurgy was the field in which the largest number mi grants were given sfu dents received granh^p continue research in this desmment in cluding glenn w coyer and eu gene g zukas the only gradu ates to receive awards of more than 2000 other departments represented by honor winner are history chemistry mathematics biology psychology geology physics bacteriology and civil electrical and mechanical engineering smiley glick appointed as lu trustees eugene g grace chairman of the board of trustees announced last week that two vacancies have been filled on the board dr e kenneth smiley vice president was named to the post of secretary of the board and el mer w glick assistant treasurer was named to the position of acting treasurer smiley has served lehigh in many positions since he came to the campus in 1934 he first was appointed as as sistant dean of the university later appointed to the post of director of admissions in recent years dr smiley has been serving as vice-president the duties of which he will con tinue to fulfill glick an alumnus of lehigh class of 1933 returned to the cam pus in 1949 to fill the post of as sistant treasurer while in school glick was an honor student and an outstanding member of le high's baseball team brown and white takes pleas ure in introducing you to her block above and on page two where you will find him regular ly from now on the outstanding editorial car toonist in the united states today herblock born herbert l block comes to us by special arrange ment with the washington post his primary outlet we are publishing the her block cartoon because he more than any other cartoon ist we know mirrors our point of view brown and white is against incompetence no mat ter who the practitioner and block's drawing board has deflated more political blun derers since thomas nast in the 19th century kleinschmidt tolls carillon for royalty her royal highness princess elizabeth and her husband prince philip attended a carillon recital sunday morning in ontario can ada given by robert b klein schmidt assistant professor of mechanics at lehigh the recital rung from the rain bow tower niagara falls pre ceeded a reception for the royal party in the oakes garden thea ter but a short distance from the foot of the tower kleinschmidt internationally known carillonneur has for years been giving recitals from the rainbow tower for sunday's see lizzy page 8