Brown and White Vol. 25 no. 27

              illustrates lecture urges prohibition student paper read educational subjects professor hughes discusses on mental hygiene now occupied important position in the science of medicine the longest cable in world lowers iron ore down a 25 grade in three cars due to a slight railroad accident the varsity quintet which was to have played the perm state team at state college saturday evening last was delayed enroute and the game necessarily called off one of the coaches of the train on which the team was traveling was de railed at a late hour saturday afternoon several miles east of bellefonte and the team was un able to reach its destination in time for the game no one was injured as the accident was of a very slight nature manager ambler made arrange ments to remain and play the game monday evening freshmen lose 1921 basketball five defeated in first two games of the present season next saturday will be the last day any one will be able to sub scribe to the 1919 epitome this means that no student can have an epitome unless he subscribes by next saturday this step is neces sary this year on account of the almost prohibitive cost of publica tion every one wants an epitome in it there is the complete sum mary of the events of the last year besides this there will be many interesting and novel features the four epitomes should be one of the most highly prized possessions of a lehigh man years after he graduates he will look back on his college life looking in the epi tome he will see friends and as sociations of long ago the epitome may be subscribed to at the supply bureau or from j l rosenmiller 19 741 chero kee street e eggie sigma phi epsilon house e l forestall delta upsilon house or m b tate psi upsilon house remember saturday is the last chance ! the people are saving j a buch 06 of havana cuba stopped at the university last week on his way to the middle west he reported that the le high alumni in cuba had held a meeting at havana on the 6th of january with the purpose of founding a cuba lehigh club the meeting was attended by the following lehigh alumni : e a giberga 95 ; j de la c escobar 91 r f sanchez 98 a d barrientos 98 ; c e marti nez 01 ; j a buch 06 ; eduardo beato 08 c lopez cespedes 12 m j galainena 14 e c castellanos 14 p t cardin ex ob letters were received assuring the cooperation of the following : j r villalon 90 secretary of public works of cuba h j b baird 97 a j sanchez 01 armando sanchez 00 ; a a goy tisolo 08 e a nunez 09 ernesto sanchez 09 alberto trujillo 13 m a cadenas ex o9 d h rosell ex l6 roberto buch ex 2o j de la c escobar 91 pre sided at the meeting at which resolutions were passed founding a cuba lehigh club and creating a committee composed of r f s«nehez 98 j a bueh 0g e beato 08 and e c castelanos 14 to frame by-laws carry on correspondence etc as well as all further measures necessary to call out a new meeting where the con stitution be approved and officers be elected correspondence should be addressed to secretary cuba lehigh club paseo de marti no 76 havana cuba mr buch also reported the fol lowing^corrected);a;ddlresse(s charles lopez cespedes 12 with departa mento de faros office of public works havana cuba home ad dress virtudes no 164 havana mariano jose galainena 14 with the honolulu iron works co havana home address neptuno no 208 havana claudio gervasic dumas 02 is in havana two important basketball games varsity to meet georgetown and lafayette away from home this season it has been pointed out as evi dence of how strongly the duty of w urili dgcix lillpiumtu lipoll the english people by the war savings campaign in that country that in the year 1916 although purchasing billions of dollars of war bonds the small savings-bank depositors in england increased their deposits in savings banks over 60,000,000 this in face of the fact that the english have been noted as a spending rather than as a saving people it seems that a similar process has taken place in america two great liberty loans were floated in the year just closing and nearly 6,000,000,000 of liberty loan bonds were purchased by the people yet instead of being de pleted the savings-banks deposits of the country have been increased the president of one of the large new york savings banks is quoted as saying on december 20 1917 : one of the most remarkable things about the liberty loan campaigns is the small effect they have had on the savings bank ac counts which show an increase this we lay to the appeals made to the american people to purchase the bonds out of their earnings paying for them from week to week or from month to month the people appear to be doing as they have been urged purchasing the bonds from current savings ' ' soccer notice last thursday evening in the opening game of the season the freshman basketball five was de feated by the fast moravian prep team at the moravian prep school bethlehem pa by a score of 30 to 20 the game was a close one from the start and at the end of the first half the freshmen were ahead of their opponents 1 by a score of 14-12 at the beginning of the second half the prep school boys forged ahead scoring five field goals in rapid succession the freshmen came back however and managed to score three more baskets before the closing whistle schneider and albertson played a good game for the freshmen and rice starred for moravian prep the line-up follows freshmen position moravian childs f lomax albertson f rice pouche c bachert schneider g chiles walmsley g brady goals from floor — lomax 3 bachert 2 rice 4 childs pouche 2 schneider fouls — albertson 8 out of 12 rockett 4 out of 8 rice 12 out of 20 substitutions — freshmen : wied mire for childs ; rockett for albert son the second game of the fresh man basketball schedule was play ed last saturday evening with the lansford high school team at lansford pa the freshmen played a good game but were en tirely outclassed being defeated by a score of 34 to 18 the line-up for the freshmen follows : r forward r childs l forward albertson and wentling ; center pouche ; l guard c schneider r guard walmsely and riebe this week will see the varsity basketball team lined up in two stiff games wednesday the team will journey to washington to play the georgetown five the wash ington aggregation has a strong team and lehigh will have to step if they want to come out victorious saturday the first game of the sea son will be played at easton with lafayette the boys from down the river have no mean aggrega tion and have been playing good ball although they received a ser ious setback at the hands of rut gers at new brunswick last satur day the line-up of the team will be the same but there is a pos sibility of both straub and mauer being back in the game this will greatly strengthen the personnel of the team notice notice two important games are yet to be played by the varsity soccer team both are championship contests and if won will give le high the championship of the penn sylvania state league one game is with pennsylvania and will be played on taylor field as soon as weather conditions will allow the other game is with lafayette and will be played at easton as soon as mid-years are over dr h i klopp who is the superintendent of the pennsyl vania state hospital spoke at the regular y m c a meeting held in drown hall sunday evening january 13 dr klopp said in part : ' ' the use of science in a manner to yield maximum benefit to life is an enormous problem every day new discoveries new phases and new viewpoints add themselves to the already long list and help to solve these problems public health is undoubtedly very im portant for on it depends the qualities of a nation the first disease to be attacked by medical men in an effort to re move it was tuberculosis because of the great mortality which is pro duced by it in the many efforts to eradicate this disease many others equally important were eliminated the physicians and the thinking public are now not only interested in diseases which j kill but also those which maim the j victim or impair his working ability the study of mental hygiene and the causes which lead to mental depravity now occupies its just and due share in the great science of medicine ' ' in the states of new york and massachusetts one out of every 215 persons is mentally unbalanced some of the other states of the country nearly reach this percent age one can thus obtain a general idea of the colossal size of the task pennsylvania which is a good ex ample spends over four million dollars a year for the care of the insane and the investigation of diseases leading to such mental conditions in the seven years elapsing between 1910 and 1917 an increase of from 187,000 ment ally defective people to 234,000 or an increase of 24.64 per cent is shown by censuses which have been taken the public dreads the so-called insane asylum less than hereto fore and many mild cases and aged people have been admitted to asylums many people think that any person living at such an insti tution is crazy but figures show that a very small percentage of the inmates are grievously insane much mental disease is never recognized suicides and many like social disorders are the direct result of a diseased mental con dition efforts are being made and steps taken to remove the causes of such conditions heredity alcohol ism and venereal diseases are largely the causes of almost all of the cases in the examination of individuals entering hospitals for the insane every detail of the life history and the conditions in which they lived must be known in order that the case can be cared for most effectively it costs the public two hundred dollars a year to support each patient in such institutions and it is to the public interest that such a sum is not wasted alcohol weakens the will power and renders the victim more liable to fall into temptation which may lead to mental diseases thus it is continued on third page at the monthly meeting of the civil engineering society held last thursday evening at 8 o'clock in the physics lecture room mr james e little 94 mechanical engineer of the bethlehem steel company's cuban properties gave a talk on the mayari incline mr little is a graduate of the me chanical engineering department and is thoroughly f amilar with con ditions in the cuban field and with the bethlehem steel ore properties there mr little s talk in brief follows : ' ' the mayari cable way has the longest and strongest cable in the world and the data for its make up was secured in tests made in the fritz laboratory this cableway forms the outlet for the iron ore in the mayari mountains the incline consists of a double track standard gauge railway which lowers three car trains down a twenty-five per cent grade through a vertical dis tance of 1500 feet the ore is found near the sur face of the ground on a large plateau and it is dug out by large steam shovels twenty miles to the north it the atlantic ocean with fields of tobacco and sugar cane in the lowlands on all sides there are open pine forests standing on six hundred million tons of iron ore even the railway is ballasted with the ore lemonite is the chief ore found it is apparently very dry although it contains forty per cent or more of water there is also a small percentage of nickel and chromium which may be used to good advantage in welding the question of how to trans i port this ore was a very interesting one it was found that it would take a railroad twenty miles long at a two percent grade to reach the foot of the mountain while the length of the incline is only three miles the construction cost of the railroad was prohibitive pipe lines or chutes were tried out and it was found that the ore wouldn't run down chutes at an angle of 60 or even 80 degrees another man suggested a shaft with a tunnel finally the incline plane was built 1620 feet above sea level an incline railway is one neces sarily restricted to a straight line so that the contour arrangement for it requires a great deal of study the hillside is extremely irregular so that the incline drops off to a twenty-five percent grade then changes to seventeen percent and five percent and finally to the twenty-five percent grade again the average grade it 15.9 percent instead of the three cars used with a steady grade we might handle five cars at an average grade this would mean heavy fills the cost of which would not make the venture practical ' ' the rollers on which the cables slide are made of magnesium steel this type of roller is very good ; the first were installed six or _ seven years ago and there is no sign of wear to avoid the rubbing of the cable on starting and stopping a brakemjan rides up and down on continued on third page a lecture entitled ' ' the story of herbert hoover will be given in the auditorium of drown mem orial hall on friday morning january 18 at eleven o'clock by dr rossiter w raymond dr raymond who has an honorary l.l.d from lehigh and being personally accquainted with her bert hoover will be well able to describe his activities in belgium during the early period of the war and his more recent duties as u s food administrator attendance of students is re quired dr drinker was in attendance last friday and saturday at a meeting of the american associa tion of colleges contrary to previous announce ments the next university dance will be held in drown hall on february 2 the regular monthly meeting of the arts and science club was held last thursday evening in coppee hall professor r w blake gave an address on the educational conference at princeton where the defense of classical studies was discussed by different college pro fessors he said in part : the conference at princeton consisted of the reading of formal papers and addresses and quota tions gathered by the men who had been invited to attend noted scientists and specialists 1 as well as classical professors and educators promote the study of latin and greek it is the policy of the ameri can student in general to look for short cuts and to specialize too early thereby losing the value of preliminary education which is very beneficial and in many cases essential the engineer must be able to handle men and to realize the types of human nature that exists as well as to be competent in being purely scientific and mechanical hie must also 1 have a great ability for expression in the words of charles h hurty president of the american chemical society and editor of the industrial and en gineering chemistry published in new york city the study of latin and greek in early preparation makes the men who rise the highest ' these statements are based on the opinions presented by a number of scientific and engineering men who realize that the classical work is of benefit even to the man who desires to be a pure scientist dr steinmetz a well-known scien tist states the vocation of an engineer has a tendency to be one sided ' the statements presented were not meant for the purpose of op posing the work of engineers since it is an admitted fact that the engi neer will play and is playing a large part in this war and that the winning of it will depend largely on these men and on the scientists of the day but the presentation was made for the purpose of show ing that there was no particular need for the promotion of a feeling toward the classical studies as worthy of second rating this feel ing does exist in some colleges to day this same condition may be applied to the strictly classical course also for a classical course with no science is practically worth less professor blake's address was followed by an interesting talk by professor p hughes on educa tional subjects and the experi mental school ot columbia he said in brief : it is interesting to note how little we know about education the study of latin and greek may be taken up from the same text books and yet with different in structors the studies may be made much different it is not the words that the student gets but the way he gets it and what is the effect of the continued on third page the brown and white lehigh university bethlehem pa tuesday january 15 1918 cuba lehigh club lately organized public health v.m.c.a topic j e little 94 addresses civils vol xxv no 27 wreck delays varsity en route to penn state arts and science club meets price five cents saturday last day for epitome subscriptions all students who want a 1919 epitome must then subscribe as supply is limited derailed near bellefonte coach of fast moving train dr h i klopp supt of state hospital dwells on mental diseases j a buch 06 reports birth of newest alumni club many attend first meeting bethlehem steel co.'s mechanical engineer in cuba describes ** the mayari incline " prof r w blake gives an ad dress on " the educational conference at princeton