Brown and White Vol. 42 no. 33

              kellogg harmeson buchanan are to be speakers that the freshman union smok er will be held at 7:30 p m on monday march 4 in drown hall was decided at a meeting of the committee in charge of the smoker last night in the lehigh union of fice in drown hall col nelson a kellogg director of athletics and glen w harme son coach of football and basket ball will be the speakers andrew e buchnanan alumni secretary will be the master of ceremonies there will free smokes and re freshments the smoker will be closed to all upper classment an nounces randolph young pres ident eugene grace 0 d k will tap thursday willl discuss developments in monetary system dr neil carothers director of the college of business administra tion will address the allentown chapter of the american institute of banking on recent monetary de velopments at their annual dinner forum tomorrow night in the am ericus hotel dr ward l bishop associate professor of economics was instru mental in bringing dr carothers before the group this year dr bishop is lecturing to the chapter on the analysis of financial state ments the american institute of bank ing constitutes the educational pro gram of the american banking as sociation the institute has chap ters throughout the united states to which bank clerks tellers and cashiers who have never had a college education belong each year a different topic like business law or corporation finance is chos en and a series of 28 lectures is given in this way the handicaps of little previous organized education is obviated dr bishop has been lecturing the allentown group for the last two years left alone the trade of the world weaves a gigantic economic web over all the earth joining the nations in an economic cooperation that yields the highest returns to all is the context of if we kill foreign trade an article by dr neil carothers director of the col lege of business administration in the current issue of the magazine section of the herald tribune in this article dr carothers attempts to show the fallacies in the claims of the propagandists for a self-sus taining nation without foreign trade stress causes acceptance under normal conditions a healthy american intelligence might be expected to hoot it out of hear ing but in this time of domestic and international stress conditions are not normal the explanation of the self-contained america move ment is simple enough but its ob taining a hearing is purely a short history of the depression in respect to the views taken on world trade by those who have been hit hardest by its collapse the farmers found their cotton grain and cattle mar kets destroyed the manufacturers saw their market for machinery de stroyed and the whole nation view ellis favors job insurance new review out on friday blames acceptance of nationalist propaganda on reaction to depression hard times in herald tribune article ed the wholesale repudiation of our war loans and private loans given to bolster our foreign trade why not abandon the whole sorry mess dr carothers answers in the first place we could not do this if we wanted to in the second place it would be a four-base economic error if we could do it and in the third place we would probably end up in a large war if we tried it dr carothers blames the depres sion not on foreign trade but on the world war and its continuance on the nations of the world who followed the fatuous theory that it could benefit itself by spiting the other fellow in the summer of 1933 the nations held the world economic conference but the plan for trade agreements fell through the hope for speedy world recovery then rested on a currency stabiliza tion agreement which the united states quickly repudiated raw materials needed when a nation reaches a certain economic state of growth it is forc ed to rely on less densely populat ed areas for raw materials if it is to continue to grow the united states has reached this state the only effect that a self-contained america would have if it could be realized would be to lower the stan dard of living and exhaust our al ready depleting natural resources says dr carothers dr carothers cites another dan ger it is generally recognized by economists that industries pro tected against foreign competition by law are the most monopolistic the least efficient and the least continued on page six dinner and initiation at psi upsilon to follow selection of candidates all prospective candidates for omicron delta kappa honorary senior activities society should be in their respective living groups at 5:30 p m thursday states hamil reidy president of the fraternity the following men are candi dates for election lawson p cal houn c e r m eichner i e t k garihan jr bus d.w hop pock i e r b picking arts h a scobey m e p s settle jr c e and b s weiss c e all of the class of 1936 the tapping will be followed by dinner and initiation at the psi up silon house the faculty guests will be vice president natt m emery dean c max mcconn dr neil carothers h e eckfeldt p m palmer bradley stoughton a h fretz h r reiter professors a e buchanan r b adams and j w maxwell 66 grads have sons at lehigh rifle team loses to west pointers phi eta sigma decides to choose highest 3 per cent of class at last night's meeting n j leonard elected to national convention in april phi eta sigma national honor ary freshman scholastic society de cided at its meeting last night in packard laboratory to admit the highest three per cent of the fresh man class this semester tentative plans were made to hold tapping exercises in the chapel each spring and fall of three possible bases of selec tion the percentage method was chosen by the society the other two plans submitted provided for a definite average as a require ment or to select a definite num ber of each class the prerequisites formerly used was a 3.5 average this mark how ever was originally based on a value of 5 for an a stated dean c max mcconn who was present any freshman who gets a mark in this second semester equal to or greater than the lowest mark on which any man was admitted the previous semester will be invited at the beginning of his sophomore year according to the new plan no man will be accepted with less than a 3.25 average parley delegates chosen nelson j leonard ch e 37 president of the society and thom as e brookover ch e 37 secre tary and treasurer were elected delegate and alternate respectively to the national convention april 23 and 24 at the university of okla homa norman oklahoma it was voted to inform new stu dents during freshman week of re quirements for membership an nouncements are to be distributed and further details being explained by the president h v anderson associate profes ser of chemistry and faculty advis er will speak on march 11 at the next meeting the meeting will be closed to outsiders it was decided that it was not within the scope of phi eta sigma to sponsor dances or other social affairs in order to justify its existence professional club hears degray talk easton chemicals told of fire and its prevention the chemistry of fire and its prevention was the topic of a speech given by richard j degray instructor in chemistry before the chemists club a professional or ganization of practicing chemists on tuesday feb 19 in easton the talk was accompanied by a demonstration of various conditions of fire and flames mr degray dem onstrated flame speed explosive limits of gases with air spontaneous combustion flour dust explosions ignition of gasoline by crawling va pors and static electricity mr degray demonstrated that a glowing cigarette will not ignite gasoline but that a proper mixture of gas and air must be obtained be fore an explosion will take place he also was able to produce spon taneous combustion within 50 sec onds the theoretical discussion was concerned with flames and the methods of producing them prefer ential combustion and the hydro xalation theory this demonstration is one given before various secondary schools by mr degray dr harvey a neville associate professor of chemistry is also delivering lectures and dem onstrations before various schools in an endeavor to arouse interest in chemistry and chemical engin eering shields elected to represent bethlehem on bach committee t edgar shields director of music was reelected representative to the bethlehem committee of the bach choir association when the choir held its weekly rehearsal thursday evening feb 21 milton c stuart professor of mechanical engineering and a metiir ber of the bach choir called atten tion to the fact that an election of officers was necessary and nine members including professor shields were chosen gains second place in trian gular shoulder match the lehigh rifle team with a score of 1371 points placed second in the triangular match saturday at west point the match was won by the united states military acad emy team which established a new west point record with a score of 1382 points the united states coast guard academy was third with 1309 points woodring and hooper led in the scoring for lehigh williamson mccorkel and compton of the military academy and moore of the coast guard were the high scor ers on their respective teams kidnap plans against grace are revealed detroit and local bandits caught in conspiracy against president of the board of trustees federal investigators doubt admission of gang member i am not putting myself in the hands of the kidnapers exclaimed eugene g grace 99 yesterday in reply to the story that a plot to abduct him and mayor pfeifle of bethlehem had been discovered philadelphia police did not think the president of the lehigh board of trustees and of the bethlehem steel company had much to worry about however in spite of rumors circulating in this city the head of the federal bureau of investigation in philadelphia said he placed little credence in the admission of louis kutura member of detroit's pur ple gang that he and his confed erates once considered the advisa bility of abducting the steel mag nate kutura who lives in hellertown along with frank repyneck of bethlehem barlow orlando and angelo bummarto of detroit is al leged to have confessed to laying plans for the kidnaping of mr grace mayor pfeifle and nicholas castellucci county court clerk were also included as prospective victims of the four plotters gang confesses to holdups members of a gang of bandits that has confessed to the robbery of the west side branch of the e p wilbur trust company and the coopersburg national bank kutura repyneck orlando and bummarto are being held in custody here the motive for considering grace as a kidnap prospect is believed to have been for 250,000 ransom money there may be something to the story grace said yesterday he was in washington testifying for the bethlehem shipbuilding com pany while pennsylvania state po lice checked the purported plot an official high in the investigation was of the opinion that the proposal to obduct the famous lehigh graduate had been made six or eight months ago and had been rejected a few hours later that the plan to demand 250,000 ransom was nothing more than a conversation between two men was the report of an unofficial source mr grace knew nothing of the conspiracy until he was informed of it saturday night he has not been in bethlehem for more than a week at a time for the last three months it is said he lives in aiken s c when not in bethlehem against m s & t twelve w virginia students face expulsion today twelve students at west virginia university face expulsion unless they sign up for military training today students are organizing to hold a protest meeting tomorrow night dean wilson p shortridge of the college of arts and science of west virginia university said that some of the dozen students notified are eligible for exemption because of ill health or an otherwise satisfac tory reason this case is similar to that of two university of california students who were conscientious objectors to war the supreme court of the united states decided that in the case of land grant colleges military training is compulsory committee grants petitions to seven at friday meeting seven petitions were granted at the meeting of the committee on pe titions friday feb 22 in the ad ministration building announces dean c max mcconn the committee is composed of dean mcconn registrar george b curtis alexander w luce asso ciate professor of machine design dr clarence a shook assistant professor of mathematics and dr harry a haring assistant profes sor of economics hurt in accident will conduct welding tests jensen receives iron ship ment for inspection from harry ellis the wrought iron upon which cyril d jensen assistant professor of civil engineering will conduct welding tests with bare and coated wire welding electrodes arrived saturday morning at fritz labora tory the work is being done for har ry k ellis c e 09 county en gineer of chester county pennsyl vania who is a member of a com mittee on welding in bridges and the strengthening of existing bridges the committee was formu lating a code of procedure on weld ing of bridges when it came to a disagreement over the respective merits of bare and coated wire elec trodes in vertical and overhead welding iron is from old bridge the wrought iron to be used comes from a 60-year old bridge at parkerford it will be cut up into 24 speciments at fritz laboratory and then sent to the bethlehem steel company to be welded under shop conditions professor jensen will test the specimens by tension bending and probably by impact although wrought iron has been in a great measure replaced by steel it still is used in overhead railroad passes where the corrosive smoke of the locomotive makes the use of steel inadvisable the tests will therefore be of practical use in fields other than bridge repairing if the results prove unusual a summary will be sent to the amer ican society of welding the work will not be complete enough to warrant a full-size paper mr ellis has done a great deal of work in the field of cheap and rapid bridge building and reinforc ing by welding methods having published several papers on the subject he has by these methods effected savings of more than two thirds of the cost of normal repairs mr ellis has two sons at lehigh harry k ellis jr e e 35 and brower rapp ellis eng 38 delta sigma phi will hold closed dance saturday night the delta sigma phi fra ternity will hold a closed dance next saturday evening at the chap ter house 735 delaware avenue music will be supplied from ten to two by the columbians chap erones for the affair will be mr and mrs w h formhals and the rev and mrs leinback raring suffers cut when autos collide near harrisburg richard a raring met e 36 suffered a deep cut on his skull in an automobile accident at 4 p m friday on route 22 14 miles out side of harrisburg he was accom panied by charles h neiman m.e 35 and charles keim jr m e.'35 who was driving the car a 1930 buick skidded into a moving truck and glanced off a guard rail into a concrete bridge where it was hit by another skidding automobile takes part of long at model senate assem bly approves entry the model senate organized by the political association of vassar college voted for the united states entrance into the league of na tions approved a bill for unemploy ment and passed an anti-lynching bill as the lehigh delegates harry k ellis e e 35 impersonating huey long was a member of the finance committee and george d manson bus 35 acting as sena tor overton served on the commit tee of foreign relations senatorial procedure was follow ed in the model senate each of the three bills was given to a commit tee which was to draw up a resolu tion the finance committee presented a majority report and also a min ority report on the question of un employment insurance mr ellis in his role of huey long argued vigorously for the minority report he proposed the minority report as an amendment to the majority re port failing in this he had the res olution tabled later a compro mise was affected and a bill almost identical to the minority report was passed bill insures workers the unemployment bill in its fi nal form guaranteed employment insurance to all workers from 18 to 65 whose annual income does not exceed 3,000 the insurance was to take the form of a minimum weekly payment of 10 plus 2 for each de pendent the funds were to be ob tained from three per cent tax on payrolls graduated taxes on indi vidual incomes and corporation surplus the anti-lynching bill would make it a federal offense to incite or participate in a lynching if the state in which the lynching occured did not within 30 days take steps to prosecute the crime participants in a lynching would be guilty to the maximum penalty of the state the penalty for inciting a lynching continued on page six cartoons jokes included curtis and finlay write main serious articles the new review the first issue to combine literary and humorous ma terial in one cover will be on sale friday cartoons jokes and short short stories offset the serious minded articles states walter l deemer 35 editor among the more thoughtful fea tures is one by registrar george b curtis presenting the arguments for the baconians in the shakes peare-bacon controversy mr cur tis includes an original message in baconian cypher which he leaves for his readers to solve walter r okeson secretary and treasurer of the board of trustees is discussed by walter l finlay 36 in another of the faculty per sonalities series the third univer sity article by carl collander 35 deals with the university of chi cago and is illustrated with sev eral photographs political reform offered lehigh merry-go-round is the title of a survey of class elections and politics and methods of reform written by george yanko 37 ralph skedgell tells the story of billy burkhardt in the man on the flying trapeze and there is fiction by judson schaeffer 35 and bernard s weiss 36 the new note in the review is struck in the humorous matter spread through the magazine car toons by william j wiswesser 36 and david m steinberg 35 and exchange jokes give this issue a lighter tone in the future we will definitely carry more humor said deemer yesterday we intend to follow the new yorker's style of distributing the serious and the comic through out the review will welcome any new talent artistic or literary con tinues deemer it is expected that there will be considerable oppor tunity for writers in the expanded magazine short humorous stories are especially in demand student chemistry foundation sponsors important research bulletin reveals paren tage of students re views burr suspension more than one-third of the pres ent undergraduates have lehigh an tecedents reveals a leading article in the february alumni bulletin published recently sixty-six lehigh dads and four grandfathers are listed of men now in the university the number of students having at least one college educated parent is put at 426 rep resenting 187 institutions blight takes the burr is the title of an editorial column review ing that magazine's suspension ear ly this month the suggestion is made that low circulation and ad vertising were giving the editors some worry previous to the burr's demise students know war modern students know much more about war than the pre-war classes they know it to be a hid eous nightmare an economic and social crime says another editor ial this conclusion is drawn from the results of the literary digest's poll walter finlay's student slant page gives a favorable opinion of the wrestling team and calls the present intramural sports program probably the most extensive ever handled by the athletic depart ment finlay also explains the method used to eliminate conflicts in examination schedules photographs of final examina tions registration and the posting of grades and several photographs of the campus under snow are fea tured there is a full-page photo of the entrance to the lindermann library we've come to the conclusion that like in poker you just can't win — especially if the faculty has got something to do with it for example we thought we'd get a laugh by watching the faculty rifle club bang away at the walls of the armory basement but we went away yet to score a victory can shoot score of 95 in the first place we discovered that the members can plug a target fromi the prone positions for a cool 95 or better far more frequently that they dish that mark out in the classroom physics department's frey and ewing geology's whit comb and coaches sheridan and calvert shoot consistently in the high nineties this high score is by no means beyond the reach of the women members either mrs whit faculty and wives shoot up rifle range with deadly aim comb mrs ewing mrs frey and mrs soto are all crack shots from the prone position as a matter of fact there is no real difference be tween the abilities of the men and the women in the standing position meetings are social but don't get the idea that a fierce competitive spirit exists among the members who number about 18 at present the club's tuesday night meetings are really intimate social gatherings although indeed the chief topic of conversation con cerns rifle-shooting the time from 7:30 until 9 o'clock is devoted to individual shooting during this period captain rice who has charge of the club and sergeant gasda coach the members the latter's specialty is teaching new members continued on page six eight years ago stanley adams met 29 had a great idea the re sult was the harry m uflman stu dent chemistry foundation which through the refunds of freshman chemistry deposits is able to offer two fellowships yearly each of them carrying over for a second year dr j s long former professor of chemistry dr harvey a ne ville associate professor of chemis try dr warren w ewing associ ate professor of physical chemistry have supervised the research which the two fellows have carried on various men held positions the various men who have held the fellowships supervised by dr ewing are r j degray ch.e 27 present instructor in chemistry e w mcgovern chem 28 now with the dupont powder company j s miller chem 29 connected with the hercules powder company a n rodgers chem 30 former tex tile foundation fellow j d brand ner ch e 32 who is with the at las powder company the present recipient is h m fisher ch e.'34 attacks problems three ways in cooperation with dr ewing fisher is engaged in work concern ing water of crystallization of var ious salts the problem has been attacked from three standpoints the solubilities of hydrates at certain temperatures the vapor pressure re lation of the hydrates and the heat of hydration solution and dilution the salts investigated are the ni trates of calcium strontium magne sium and zinc the apparatus used has been developed by dr ewing continued on page six the lehigh university brown and white center of kidnap plot price five cents bethlehem pa tuesday february 26 1935 frosh society changes basis of admission freshman smoker to be held monday vol xlii no 33 carothers to speak to banking group carothers attacks proposal for a self-contained u s coming events wednesday feb 27 4 p m committee on educational policy dean's office thursday feb 28 7:30 p m i e society room 208 packard laboratory 7:30 p m m e society mr jos eph c groff will speak on ex periences while on shipboard room 360 packard laboratory 8 p m robert hall pre-medical society packard laboratory 8 p m debate lehigh vs mora vian college for men packard laboratory member intercollegiate newspaper association all the lehigh news first