Brown and White Vol. 63 no. 39

              douglas win asia's heart truman halt russ growth boys away wind to play with skirts students using easter as a traveling day to return to school will miss not only their home town easter parades but also one on the lehigh campus easter afternoon the kay enter tainers a teen-age non-profession al group will strut their newest easter stuff around south moun tain featured will be the bon nets of will conroy 18-year-old bethlehem high school student artist and designer about 20 models from moravi an college for women and beth lehem high will parade the fash ions conroy's canine companion rusty will lead the promenade decked out in a chartreuse and orchid bonnet the youthful artist said that this is probably the only time anything of this type has been tried he plans to start the pro cession around 2 p.m and expects it to last all afternoon on saturday april 12 the mod els will tour bethlehem in conver tibles giving a sneak preview of the parade see douglas page 6 editor's note the following are a continuation of the serie ; of campaign articles originated in last friday's issue of the b&w with ariiclis on eisenhower and kefauver the political scenes assembly's mock election will be held on the campus on april 2 and 3 campaign manager for pres truman is bruce sol imon 53 jerry wapner 55 is the campus campaign manager for justice wil.'iam o douglas by jerry wapner associate supreme court justice william o douglas is the only possible presidential candi date capable of putting the life-and-death issues that confront our democracy before the electorate no one else has pointed out so clearly the shame lul inroads on our freedom and power of choice made by bo*h the democratic and republican par ties no one has better understood the hatred our present foreign policy has awakened in east and west douglas has traveled extensively in asia he reports that the united states is identified in the a f£w days ago members of the psa heard judge guy k bard candidate for senator cate go.ize ihe campaign issues into four fields 1 peaca 2 prosperity 3 civil rights 4 corrupt ion i shall attempt in the following paragraphs to give the democratic or more correctly the li be:al democratic view of these issues we all are against corruption in general but many of us believe that only the incumbent ad ministration causes corruption history disproves that allegation it says that corruption is caused from various factors see truman page 6 by bruce solomon a gigantic gold ball on its lofty perch 111 feet above the lawn in front of packer hall tops the new steel flagpole erected monday the life expeclancy of the new \ shaft which replaces the historic wooden one pulled down last oc tober after 40 years of loyally bearing the stars and stripes is indefinite according to edward j farrell assistant superintendent of buildings and grounds embeded 12 feet 5 inches in concrete 6 feet 6 inches in the bronze base and soaring 79 feet 11 inches into the sky the pole was erected by the posh con struction company at an approxi mate cost of 350 l was built to specifications by the american flage pole and equipment com pany of new york by mid-summer it is expect ed that it will have weathered sufficiently that a permanent coat of white paint may be applied over the present aluminum addi tional painting will be required every five years of major concern at present is protection of the pole from light ning no plan has been adopted as yet but the engineers are working on the problem the delay between the felling of the old and the erecting of the new was caused by the problem volume 63 — number 39 re-sha fted . lehigh university brown and white friday march 28 1952 psa balloting begins tuesday lehigh university bethlehem pa construction engineers erect lehigh's new 79-foot three-inch steel flagpole on the strengthened base in front of packer hall it is embedded in over 12 feet of concrete and is steadied by a six and-one-half-foot bronze base lightning may titillate new rot proof shaft elections to determine le high's choice for national presi dential nomination will be con ducted on campus by psa tues day and wednesday april 1 and 2 eleven candidates will be listed on the ballot including provision for a write-in vote these include five republicans five democrats and one independent democrat besides taft eisenhower truman and kefauver other nominees are republicans warren stassen and mac arthur and democrats ste venson and kerr dixiecrat senator russell of georgia and justice william o douglas independent democrat are also running the 11 candi dates have been nominated by petitions circulated among the student body signatures of at least 50 undergraduates were re quired for nomination polls will be open from 9 a.m to 4:30 p.m ballot boxes will be located in packard lab christmas saucon hall library and drown hall plus an extra polling place at lamberton hall during busy hours faculty and staff members will receive ballots through the 1 campus mail graduate students ' and university employes not list ed on addressograph plates may ; vote by applying for a ballot at a polling place these ballots are to be marked graduate student or employe to distinguish them see election page 3 of how to remove the 12 feet 5 inches of pole left imbedded in the base it was finally removed with the assistance of a well drill ing rig the american flag will not fly however from the new pole except at special university func ions the public relations de partment the mil dept and the buildings and grounds dept will decide among themselves when it will be displayed chapel music lanned for this sunday i i for the first time at lehigh the annual service of sacred mu sic will be sung by the university chorale in packer chapel sunday at 11 a.m under the direction of gsorge l gansz the service will be open to the public the university chorale made up of , the st luke's nurses chor see chorale page 8 senators sparkman mundt will debate here for scl lehigh's politicians may get a few tips for their campus cam paigns when sen karl e mundt republican from south dakota and sen john sparkman demo crat from alabama debate on the 1952 presidential campaign in grace hall on may 16 this bonus attraction of the concerts-lectures series will in clude a debate on the subject resolved that theie should be a change in the national adminis tration of our country sen mundt will argue the affirmative with sen sparkman speaking for the negative there will be an open forum following the one hour debate sen mundt one of the most effective speakers in the united states senate served on the for eign affairs committee and com mittee on un-american activi ties while he was a member of the house of representatives prior to that he : aught speech and social sciences at university of south dakota he is a staff writer of the republican magazine and editor of the rostium national forensic league magazine sen sparkman is chairman of the senate committee on small business he was admitted to the bar following his graduation from the university of alabama law school prior to his election to the senate in 1946 to fill the unex pired term of the late sen john h bankhead he served two terms in the house of representatives both speakers are members of kiwanis international and have served as district governors of heir respective states