Brown and White Vol. 40 no. 14

              charles chick halsted lehigh review to be printed in new form plan to publish magazine as supplement to brown and white is rejected at meeting two issues of publication to appear in pamplet style although the proposed plan of publishing the lehigh review as a magazine supplement to the brown and white was rejected by the board of publications at a special meeting thursday afternoon the board approved a new plan submit ted by edward fleischer editor in chief of the literary magazine two issues of the lehigh review in pamphlet form resembling the magazine section of the new york sunday times will appear shortly to try the new plan the first issue will be circulated free of charge to the entire student body the second appearing a few weeks after the first will be sold for ten cents consequent issues depending upon the approval of the board of publications will appear at this nominal charge fleischer said would cause loss martin m reed editor in chief of the brown and white advised the board to reject the consolida tion plan on the grounds that it would have a harmful psychologi cal effect upon the business board of the newspaper this would be reflected in the attitude of the ad vertisers and would consequently result in a financial loss to the brown and white fleischer replied that a consoli dation would be beneficial to the entire student body and to the two publications but that nothing could be done under present cir cumstances with the approval of robert l davis business manager of the review who was present the new review plan was then pre sented to the board and accepted advertising under the new plan is expected to pay for the major portion of the cost of publication of the magazine it will appear cither as an eight or a sixteen-page issue depending upon the amount of advertising space sold to adver tisers at the same meeting the board of publications approved recent ap pointments made by the brown and white executive committee ben d beach was named editor ial manager following the resigna tion of clifford e harrison harry j o'brien was appointed sports editor and r f herrick was elected make up editor discusses rivalry of mathematicians student speaks about newton and leibnitz the controversy on calculus be tween newton and leibnitz rival claimants for the honor of being the first to discover the subject was explained by r l dickerson ch.e 35 at the meeting of the newton ian society wednesday r j myers phys 35 winner of the first mathematics prize problem contest explained the solution which involved the analysis of the properties of a paraboloid of revo lution howard w seeley c e 35 was initiated into membership dickerson in explaining the con troversy between the two rival mathematicians said that newton idiscovered calculus in 1666 but did not publish an account of his find ings until 1704 leibnitz claims he discovered the subject independent ly and published an account of it in 1689 newton did not challenge this claim until 15 years after leibnitz's report was published dickerson said the royal society finally gave the credit for the discovery to new ton but leibnitz's symbols are used by students of calculus conducts test on auto plates prof j l graham dis covers ideal number of license figures that four figures on an automo bile license plate are the most effi cient was proved by j l graham assistant professor of psychology in his recent laboratory experi ments the tests made in cooperation with the state highway department showed that plates with more than four numerals are difficult to read on a speeding car with four-number plates in black letters on a white background 94 per cent were seen correctly only nine per cent of severkjium ber tags were legible and but 64 per cent of five-number plates could be read the apparatus part of which the state furnished contained a reduc ing lens which changed the appar ent distance it was thus possible to test in the laboratory one's ability to read plates rapidly as they faded into the distance professor graham said the speed of the machine was only 14 miles per hour or only a third to a fifth of usual road speeds additional tests to be made in the future will have apparatus with an increased speed the license plates of pennsylva nia which have an orange back ground were found to be 28 per cent better than those used alter nately with blue backgrounds bright reflecting surfaces greatly reduced legibility and color has an effect that may result in the state's changing the present alternating system of colors professor graham concluded major green lauds dr drinker's work speaks at dinner of rotary club wednesday major j o green jr head of the department of military science and tactics praised the work of dr henry s drinker former president of lehigh at a dinner of the beth lehem rotary club wednesday noon in his speech major green out lined the history and the achieve ments of the reserve officers training corps the speaker paid special tribute to dr drinker for the part he played in organizing the corps the lack of an adequate army at the beginning of the world war was the reason for the establish ment of the reserve major green claimed neither the regular army nor the national guard were wholly adequate major green said since its establishment in 1920 5,361 men have enrolled in the mil itary department at lehigh of this group 272 have completed advance work and received commissions snake stories are fallacies trembley says proper treatment of bites explained by biology instructor to pre-medi cal society last night speaker claims king cobra most dangerous of animals explaining the proper treatment for snake bites describing the char acteristics of poisonous and non poisonous snakes and exploding popular fallacies about them f j trembley instructor in biology ad dressed nearly 200 persons at an open meeting of the robert w hall pre-medical society last eve ning in williams hall the supposition that snakes can milk cows mr trembley explain ed is absolutely untrue nor can a mother snake protect her young in time of danger by allowing them to glide down into her stomach snakes are cold blooded air breathing vertebrates stated mr trembley they come under the category of reptiles and are prob ably an outgrowth of lizards their food is solely animal and is swal lowed whole digestion taking place in the stomach the size of snakes varies from the regal python which is sometimes 33 feet long and 300 pounds in weight to the tiniest ones only four or five inches long and weighing perhaps an ounce the king cobra a snake fatal to mankind in all instances and pos sessing enough lethal poison to kill an elephant is the most dangerous of all animals he is very intelli gent and is the only snake that is apt to strike without provocation rattlesnake dangerous the diamond-back rattlesnake is the most dangerous snake found in america he is found only in the south and never as far north as pennsylvania copperheads con trary to public opinion are far less fatal than rattlers because they are smaller have less poison and their poison is not strong the fact that rattlesnake oil is no cure for rheumatism was re cently proved by the death of rat tlesnake bill from that disorder after having been bitten 50 odd times by rattlers the idea that li quor is a remedy for snake bites is obviously wrong because of the fact that liquor stimulates heart ac tion thus aiding the flow of the poi son throughout the body mr trembley continued the principal thing to remember in case of snake bite is the neces sity of being calm if possible a tourniquet should be applied be tween the wound and the heart this keeps the poison from break ing down the red corpuscles of the blood and also from affecting the heart action four deep cuts should then be made around each of the two fang marks the idea is to cut deeper than the fangs so that the outward flow of blood will bring with it as much of the poison as possible suction may also be used to with draw some of the poison every 15 minutes the tourniquet should be loosened a little to let fresh blood in to combat bacteria women to sponsor harvest dance here 1 00 guests expected to attend faculty masquerade one hundred guests are expected at the faculty women's club har vest dance this evening in drown hall the masquerade will start at 8:30 p m and will be followed by the grand march at 9 p m refreshments will be served dur ing the course of the dance and prizes will be awarded to the wear ers of the most original costumes the lehigh collegtans will furnish the music the dance committee composed of mrs r d billinger mrs tom linson fort mrs d m fraser and mrs j k rice have decided that the next faculty women's club dance will be held friday dec 9 show devices to physicals fresh men demonstrate unique equipment at society meeting a charge of a million and a half volts passed through the body of fred b stieg phys 36 in one of the demonstrations given by the freshman members of the physical society at a meeting last night in the physics lecture room george a brettell jr psys 36 who had charge of the program ex hibited this phenomenen as well as several electrical inventions the telsa coil an electrical de vice which transforms ordinary house current to a current of a mil lion and a half volts directed a high tension purple spark from the instrument to stieg's hand a crackling noise was heard and the subject's hair stood on end but he experienced no sensation a thyraton voice relay shown by b retell controlled an electric light at the spoken commands of the demonstrator the device trans formed the sound waves of his voice into electrical impulses when he ut tered the words off and on the different frequencies of these im pulses caused the lights to obey his commands cooked by electricity a frankfurter was cooked by means of an electric current the resistance set up by its poor con ducting quality generated sufficient heat for cooking brettell operated a thereremin an proximity of the demonstrator's electric music box controlled by the hands he also broadcasted the sounds of a phonograph record to a distant loud speaker by the process of electro-magnetic induction he also constructed the telsa coil the voice relay and the electric cooker the other instruments were the property of the physics depart ment howard f carl was ejected vice president of the society at a short business session which preceded the demonstration uses of radiations discussed by doan specially made slides illus trate professor's talk effects of radiations on humans and the uses of all known radiations were discussed last evening at the franklin institute in philadelphia by gilbert e doan associate pro fessor of physical metallurgy at le high speaking to members of the in stitute and guests from the univer sity of pennsylvania swarthmore college and the bartol research foundation dr doan discussed ra diations from long electric waves to gamma rays he illustrated his lecture with slides made from spe cial photographic negatives that are sensitive to infra red rays before the lecture dr doan was guest at a dinner given at the bel levue-stratford hotel to franklin institute members and philadelphia citizens chick halsted forced to quit football squad physician advises varsity leader to cease grid iron activities because of internal injuries short named acting captain for remainder of season captain charles chick halsted will play no more football for le high forbidden by his physicians to continue his activities on the grid iron because of a serious internal injury the stellar back whose play ing during the past three years has been the nucleus of the lehigh at tack resigned from the team on the eve of lehigh's two important games those with rutgers and la fayette paul short quarterback and run ning mate of halsted was named acting captain for the balance of the season by the squad wednesday at a special meeting short is high scorer of this season's team the injury which was originally caused last year from strains suf fered in the lafayette game had ap parently healed this fall however the severe strain and hardships of the football season and the deter mination of lehigh's fighting cap tain to attempt to stick it out caused the injury to reappear physicians told halsted that con tinued agitation might result in per manent impairment of his health although no definite information is available it is probable that halsted will be unable to pursue any further athletic activities at le high was excellent punter halsted was named fourth best punter in the united states last year official statistics show the kicking of this versatile back has always been a potent factor in the lehigh attack prominent in basketball and base ball halsted is also captain-elect of the baseball team he is president of the arcadia student governing body and is also a member of sword and crescent and omicron delta kappa senior honorary so cieties in his freshman year halsted won numerals in football basket ball and baseball he also captained the yearling football team scholastic ineligibility prevented him from participating in football and basketball during his sopho more year he earned his first var sity letter in baseball that spring however football and baseball were the only sports in which halsted par ticipated during his junior year football injuries preventing him from trying for basketball halsted was president of the clas-j in his freshman year and also was elected to phi club former sopho more honorary society and cyan ide junior honorary society to inspect r.o.t.c lt col r h leavitt will come here next monday lt col ralph h leavitt r o t c officer of the third corps area will inspect the lehigh unit of the r o t c monday nov 14 the inspection will be of an in formal nature unlike the more de tailed survey that is given in may colonel leavitt will be at lehigh all day monday and will inspect the class work of the department as well as the drill monday afternoon the drill will be a review accom panied by the band as is custo mary for a visiting r o t c offi cer this will be the third consec utive year that colonel leavitt has inspected the lehigh unit major green stated larkin addresses industrial meeting affiliation with a.s.i.e urged by m e department head affiliation with either the amer ican society of industrial engin eers or the american management association was urged by prof f v larkin head of the department of mechanical engineering at the first meeting of the industrial en gineering society in packard labor atory last night r l riley i e 34 and a j standing were elected president and vice president of the society re spectively the society in outlining its plans for the year decided to procure some prominent speaker professor larkin in his talk suggested that the club adopt a program that would arouse interest among the students the society decided to accept the challenge of the mechanical engin eering society to play a football game in the near future faculty hears library report lehigh has second larg est number of books among state's colleges the report on the library for the fiscal year ending aug 31 1932 shows that the total number of ac cessioned books in the university library is approximately double that in any college library in the state with the exception of that of the university of pennsylvania th c report " which president richards read at the faculty meet ing last monday lists the total number of accessioned books at 202 082 during the year a total of 5,773 volumes have been accessioned to the library and 61 pamphlets and 246 books have been cancelled as worn out or lost collections received a collection of 1,158 gifts includ ing state and government docu ments transfer of materials from various departments and a few in dividual gifts were received dur ing the year the largest gift was that of the john bartlett collection which came to the library through the efforts of mrs charles w mac farlane dr s parker gilbert gave eight volumes of documents of the rep arations commissions in germany robert e wilbur gave a copy of the last will and testament of asa packer together with a large scrap book with all of the papers and in vitations relating to the fiftieth an niversary of packer's wedding in addition gifts were received from various members of the faculty the recataloguing of the library is progressing steadily although less than half of the books and pamphlets have been fully cata logued the head cataloguer esti mates that 40,000 cards have been added to the new files since their revision was undertaken elect new members pre-legals also plan lecture pro gram at meeting three new members m s muir arts 35 h l snavely arts 36 and f j snyder arts 36 were elected to the pre-legal society at its meeting wednesday afternoon in coppee hall r s hess bus 33 was elected secretary of the society other freshmen in the arts college who may be interested will be invited to joint the society it was decided because lectures sponsored by the society have not been well at tended an effort is being made to secure more prominent speakers such as clarence s darrow famous lawyer and samuel seabury of new york testing engine is shown here for first time use of experimental ap paratus developed to get octane ratings explained by winslow prof m c stuart introduces speakers at a.s.m.e meeting how octane ratings necessary for motor fuel testing are obtained by use of the newly developed c f.r fuel knock testing engine was explained before the meeting of the anthracite-lehigh valley section of the american society of mechani cal engineers in the first public demonstration of the engine last night in packard laboratory prof m c stuart manager of the bethlehem district of the a s m e introduced the speakers who discussed the general features of motor fuel testing h.k cummings chief of the automotive power plant section of the bureau of standards spoke on the significance of mo tor gasoline tests k t winslow of the waukesha motor company spoke on the c f r knock test ing engine because of the interest that has lately been centered on fuel testing said mr cummings a suitable ma chine was needed to obtain reliable and standard measures of the prop erties of automobile fuels especial ly that of resistance to knocking a committee composed of mem bers of the bureau of standards the american society of automo bile engineers and the american petroleum institute was selected to design such a machine the result of the committee's work is the c f r machine which is now stan dard explained devices several unique devices utilized in this machine were explained by mr winslow of the waukesha motor company who are the manufactur ers of the machine one of these devices is a variable compression head which enables different com pression ratios to be obtained by a simple adjustment the machine is self contained ex cept for the cooling water supply and the exhaust outlet during the day it was moved from one part of the laboratory to another without inconvenience the machine was brought here from milwaukee on a truck and set up in the packard laboratory by mr winslow during the day the machine was operated for the inspection and ob servation of those interested in fuel testing and research in the after noon students showed the visiting engineers about the campus and through packard laboratory an informal meeting was held at 4 p m so that technicalities of the machine and fuel testing might be discussed supper was served to the visitors in drown hall news briefs the annual military ball of the scabbard and blade society will be held tomorrow evening from 9 to 12 in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem the new 50-watt cw transmitter is complete and is to be tested dur ing the radio society meeting at 4 p m today in room 514 packard laboratory realizing that action would be futile the executive committee of arcadia last night decided to abol ish plans for a petition requesting a holiday on the day of the lafayette game the next meeting of the committee will be held monday evening vol xl no 14 bethlehem pa friday november 11 1932 injured captain price five cents the lehigh university brown and white coming events friday nov 11 8:30 p m faculty masquerade dance in drown hall saturday nov 12 2 p m varsity football vs rut gers taylor field 9 p m military ball sponsored by the scabbard and blade at hotel bethlehem friday nov 11 4 p m cross country meet at la fayette monday nov 14 4 p m faculty educational society meets at the alumni memorial building tuesday nov 15 4 p m pi delta epsilon meets in drown hall member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first