Brown and White Vol. 46 no. 30

              mimeographed sheets of in formation regarding the organi zational steps for the town council are available in the ar cadia office drown hall the sheet gives the purposes and plans for the organization the times and places for the town section meetings as an nounced at the tuesday meet ing may be found in the accom panying news article debate topic is announced nelson a kellogg stoumen gets o.k of board bulletin runs schwab story 4 more will be raised to grade of captain at military dance to be third selection a commission as honorary colonel in scabbard and blade honorary military society will be given to the girl picked as the most beautiful at the military ball on march 4 in the national guard armory four others will receive honorary captain's commissions this will be the third consecu tive selection of a guest at the an nual dance for this recognition miss maude manogue of beaver college was chosen at the 1937 ball and miss helen sigmond of mor avian college for women in 1938 the five guests from whom the honorary colonel will be selected will be chosen from the floor probably by the faculty of the de partment of military science and tactics they will march to the platform and the selection will be made by a mixed student-faculty committee the selection will be announced at midnight after a saber drill and the five girls and their escorts will march to the platform under an avenue of cros sed swords busy weekend planned two other events will mark the weekend lehigh will meet virgin ia military institute in wrestling and there will be a tea dance at the beethoven maennerchor members of the visiting team will be inivited to the dance courtland f carrier i e 39 chairman of the committee said in announcing the plan again to select a guest as honorary cadet colonel it should be made clear that any guest is eligible scabbard and blade's selection of miss manogue in 1937 marked the first honoring of a queen at a lehigh dance the selection that year was made after ballots were cast by the entire student body selecting from a field of three last year the plan to be used this year was employed in making the choice radio technician tells experiences engineering antitheses in the antipodes was the topic of an address given by w a mccut cheon engineer of radio station wcba in allentown before a group of 45 engineers at a meeting of the electrical engineering soci ety held in packard laboratory last evening his talk consisted of a descrip tion of his experiences as an en gineer for the western electric company in australia and new zealand where he was engaged in installing movie sound equipment in theaters he discussed in detail his life there the habits and cus toms of the people and the pecul iar phases of engineering which he encountered leonard p elly e e 39 gave a talk on the subject of electric welding he described the proces ses and explained the theory and the practices he mentioned some new developments in electric welding o tau beta pi elects 22 tapping will be monday five seniors and 17 juniors were elected to tau beta pi national honorary engineering fraternity at a smoker and election wednes day night in the engineers lounge packard laboratory according to james e patton ch e 39 presi dent of the group the names of the men elected will not be known until monday when they will be tapped at a ceremony held at the monument to prof edwin s williams foun der of the society hiniber brown featured at interfraternity ball tomorrow night ticket sale is limited the music of richard himber and les brown tomorrow night will greet those of lehigh's 830 or more fraternity men who attend the annual interfraternity ball at the hotel bethlehem although it is impossible to tell how many of the pledgees and brothers of lehigh's 29 fraternities will attend a majority of them have always attended in the past and hotel accomodations have been sold out for several weeks the sale of tickets to the dance was limited to fraternity members and may include guests from chapters nationals represented here himber has played for radio stage and screen and has made numerous phonograph records he has recently developed the style of orchestration which is known as rhythmic pyramids brown or ganized his orchestra at duke uni versity several years ago and played under the name of the blue devils until recently he will supply the swing while him ber's is better known as a sweet band leader is also magician himber himself plays the violin but has had time in his 14 years of professional music to become an excellent rifle shot and a billiard player of near-champion quality his pet hobby is however sleight of-hand many consider him the best magician in the theatrical profession and he can manipulate cards with the topmost profession al magicians his rhythmic pyramids style is attained by assigning to each of the six men in his brass section one sixth of a chord which each plays with a different mute he found this method of orchestration so popular after trying it on a few arrangements that he uses it in all of them now brown directs his orchestra and joins in with the clarinet he is essentially a swing band in the modern manner and will contrast with the slower technique and choice of music which himber em ploys both male and female sing ers will appear with him he has played at budd lake n j at the hotel edison and will appear to morrow night while on a tour o newtonian society installs freshmen seventy freshmen were wel comed as new members of the newtonian society honorary fresh man mathematics group by albert e lee ch e 41 president at a meeting held at 7:30 p m wed nesday in room 466 packard lab oratory the group was the largest ever to be eligible for membership according to lee dr joseph b reynolds profes sor of mathematics and theoretical mechanics spoke on elasticity he demonstrated the use of hooke's law in solving problems in mechanics in telling the new men of the history and purposes of the so ciety lee said that it was started in 1927 by dr tomlinson fort now head of the department of mathematics to give the better students of mathematics a chance to meet and discuss problems of common interest lee announced that the next meeting will be march 15 at which the new members will be initiated and officers will be elec ted the old members of the group will have their picture taken for the epitome monday noon on the steps of the alumni building 69 attend to hear plans presented by morse spilberg heckman sections to be formed sixty-nine members of the town group attended an organi zation meeting tuesday night in packard auditorium the meeting was called by the organization committee to determine the amount of interest among town men in forming a council to be made up of representatives from town sections the meeting was presided over by milton spilberg arts 39 a member of the committee who traced the history of past efforts in organizing the group and explain ed what had been done in the present organization beardslee favors plan dr claude g beardslee head of the department of moral and reli gious philosophy stressed the val ue of organization experience and the fun that can be gotten out of that type of work he said that participation in student organiza tion is a valuable part of college life and assured the men present that most of the other campus groups would like to see the town group organized and are behind the present movement norman l morse ch e 40 a member of the committee outlined and explained the divisions which have been drawn up for town sec tions the town is divided by geo graphical divisions into ten groups of approximately 50 members each there will also be a section for the commuters and one for the allentown group at the time of the meeting the committee had not had enough time to make the divisions accurately so that several changes have since been announ ced by morse 10 sections listed there will be eight sections on the south side of the lehigh river and two on the north side the groups and their divisions are as follows section a — wyandotte street dakotah street and the region to the southwest of the bent line for med by these two streets this sec tion includes leonard hall section b — carlton avenue broadway between wyandotte street and brodhead avenue brodhead avenue between broad way and third street west third street from brodhead avenue to delaware avenue and the region enclosed by these strets and the economic tie with britain picked as subject for prize event four teams have been assigned a new topic in the intra-mural de bating competition for the will iams prize announced j calvin callaghan director of debating the series to determine candidates to debate in the semi-final round will begin march 1 winning and losing teams of last week will be the initial group to use the new topic resolved that the united states should es tablish an economic alliance with great britain in order to preserve democracy affirmative speakers will be frank l benedict bus 40 and harold i breidenbach bus 39 negative speakers will be jdhn r perm bus 42 and charles f meyer eng 42 in the first debate on march 1 george s sprague chem 40 and william e keiser ch e 41 wil uphold the affirma tive in the second debate that evening against albert e ponter bus 40 and edawrd m sharp ch e 40 series to be concluded the following evening richard a ware arts 41 and donald r schoen arts 41 will debate the affirmative side of the question against l henderson dudman bus 39 and mitchell zawisza ch e 39 the concluding debate in this series will match leon h rathbun eng 42 and raymond kiefer arts 41 upholding the af firmative against richard m fos ter eng.'42 and joseph kotchanik arts 41 two more affirmative teams ad vanced in the second round of intramural debating wednesday in the browsing room of the li brary the pump priming ques tion was debated callaghan announced that the second round will be concluded next week continued on page four use of sledge-hammer words dubs sandburg a man's poet recently-resigned review editor is approved as associate louis c stoumen arts 39 who recently resigned his editorship of the lehigh review was approved as associate editor at a meeting of the board of publications held tuesday in the office of dean wray h congdon approval was given after testi mony by three members of the review staff failed to show grounds for denial the board of publications withheld action feb 7 to investigate allegations that stoumen had not submitted his writings for inspection by his as sociate editors tuesday's hearing revealed that stoumen had not shown the col umn passing in review ap pearing in the february issue to his assistants however stoumen apparently had been forced by pressure of outside activities to write his copy immediately before printing for this reason there was not time for the associate edtiors to approve the material new editor testifies those testifying before the board were joseph b boyle bus 39 newly elected review editor eric weiss e e 39 associate edi tor and stoumen the board also approved donald g denison i e 39 as advertis ing manager of the review and wallace p watkins bus 40 cir culation manager the first semester audit of the brown and white was approved action was postponed on a petition from pi delta epsilon honorary journalistic fraternity asking for a 15 allotment with which to buy books on subjects pertaining to publication work these books would be reviewed before the club and then turned over to the uni versity library o final date chosen for vocal contest sub-freshman day was chosen at a meeting held monday in drown hall as the final date for the intra-mural group singing con test to be sponsored by the new york alumni club try-outs for the contest will be held sometime prior to sub-fresh man day the finals will be inclu ded in the usual concert given the afternoon of sub-freshman day the 24 inch bronze cup to be awarded to the winner is being displayed in the supply bureau o dean to talk at banquet dean wray h congdon will address the south side business association at its annual banquet tuesday night in the ballroom of the hotel bethlehem the banquet marks the 40th anniversary of the group alumni magazine includes articles by parsons and beardslee schwab-steelmaster is the featured article of the february issue of the lehigh alumni bul letin which was released wednes day the article dealing with charles m schwab tells of the steel magnate's rise from grocer's help er to his position which affected the tide of the world war of him the story says although he never graduated from lehigh he exem plifies the very qualities which lehigh university tries to imbue in its generations of students in recognition of lehigh uni versity an article dealing with facsimile transmission and recep tion describes the beginnings of experiments being conducted in the electrical engineering depart ment in collaboration with radio station wor the ultimate object of these experiments is to permit the actual printing of broadcasted news in the reader's home floyd w parson 02 president of the lehigh alumni association continues his articles on the foot ball conditions at lehigh discusses student philosophy interpretation by dr claude g beardslee professor of moral and religious philosophy presents the moral and religious philosophy of modern youth as an important consideration for colleges the chaplain points out his conception of the new student point of view dale h gramley university news editor answers alumni com plaints that the local press fails to give adequate coverage to current campus activities and collegiate sports in his article news re lease . . for the nation's press on wheels by j b reynolds professor of mathematics and the oretical mechanics the sports parade by charles j moravec as sistant university news editor and the prexy's pen complete the issue i e.s hear read carrier awards prizes for best definitions before more than 100 students and members of the industrial engineering society in packard laboratory last evening g m read of the dupont company spoke on what the industrial en gineer does in modern industry during the meeting cortland carrier i e 39 presented prizes in behalf of the socony-vacuum company to three students who had given their definitions of lu brication at a meeting last month charles g layman m e 39 edward n flail m e 41 and leonard h edwards i e 41 were awarded prizes paul short assistant to serve as acting head colonel will leave may 1 to rest at michigan summer home bartlett will handle physical education classes quitting department chief was at lehigh 6 years action will become official in june at close of academic year because of impaired health col nelson a kellogg has re signed as director of athletics and physical education it was an nounced today by president c c williams the resignation will become effective at the close of the acad emic year although colonel kellogg will leave for his summer home at central lake mich about may 1 . he will rest there for at least a year in an attempt to improve a heart condition which has afflicted him since the summer of 1936 short made acting head until colonel kellogg's succes sor is chosen paul short assistant director of athletics will serve the only other change in the de partment at present includes in creased duties for assistant pro fessor fay c bartlett who will be in charge of physical education classes in accepting colonel kellogg's resignation president williams expressed concern for the athletic director's health and said in accepting your resignation i wish to express my appreciation of your wholesome policies rela tive to intercollegiate athletics your influence at lehigh has been wholly cooperative in promoting the educational ideals for which lehigh stands and by your dis cernment in the selection of coa ches and assistants who are not only capable but who also enter tain similar ideals of sport you have rendered lehigh a fine ser vice came here 6 years ago colonel kellogg was brought to lehigh from purdue six years ago by former president charles russ richards in the course of reorgan ization of the athletic department it was at that time that the sys tem involving a board of athletic control and a grduate manager was discontinued it was replaced by the present division of athletics and physical education which is responsible to the president of the university in the same way that academic departments are re sponsible was at purdue 14 tears colonel kellogg was for 14 years director of athletics and professor of physical education at purdue university before coming to le high prior to that he was instruc tor in greek and athletic director at the university of lowa 1910-17 professor of languages coach and athletic director at northern illi nois state normal 1906-10 and at marion military institute mar ion ala 1904-'o6 he was graduated from the uni versity of michigan with the a b degree in 1904 colonel kellogg who was born jan 30 1881 at east richford vt is president of the middle atlantic athletic conference and a member of the board of directors of the eastern intercollegiate football association he is a veteran of the world war and the spanish american war and is a member of the american legion 40 et 8 u s infantry association united span ish war veterans and scabbard and blade he is also a member of the american archeological insti tute american association of uni versity professors national phy sical education association beth lehem rotary club and phi gam ma delta social fraternity o nation to hear glee club the university glee club will broadcast from station kyw phil adelphia over a nation-wide hook-up tomorrow from 12:15 to 12:30 p m dr t edgar shields director of music will conduct the program for the first time in word pictures the vibrant roar of machines the deathly silence of tenement dis tricts by moonlight and the hot hush of harvest fields at midday besides writing poetry of men at work in various industries sand burg has entered the biographical field already he has completed two volumes of a comprehensive biography of abraham lincoln ten years ago he published the first authorized biography of ed ward steichen considered by art critics as one of the outstanding photographers living poetry and prose written by sandburg has appeared in many of the leading magazines during the past 20 years he has served as a traveling correspondent for the newspaper enterprise association in addition to an editorial writer for the chicago daily news during the past two months he has ben lecturing at colleges and universities throughout the mid dle west his appearance at le high tonight marks the beginning of his collegiate tour in the east present day literary critics have hailed carl sandburg who will appear at 8 15 p m tomorrow at broughal high school under the auspices of the student concert lecture series a man's poet more than one competent judge has stated that the outsanding fig ure in american poetry since walt whitman is sandburg they have labelled his terminology as the use of sledge-hammer words to ex press his deep contempt of those forces that seek to brutalize the bodies of men within their power it was in 1916 that he first capi talized his varied experiences in a literary way by publishing chi cago poems this venture was criticized by book reviewers and scholars as a conspiracy to destroy the english language and of an uncouthness amounting to vulgar ity two years later he published a volume of the same volcanic qua lity entitled corn huskers in 1920 smoke and steel an epic of industrial life singing the ele mental beauty of smoke-belching chimneys appeared it reproduced tenders resignation bethlehem pa friday february 17 1939 vol xltv no 30 nelson a kellogg retires as athletic director price — five cents town group pamphlet available in drown hall nearby hotels are sold out on dance eve girl will get colonel's rank at army ball town group holds meeting to organize lehigh university brown and white says heart ailment forces resignation member intercollegiate newspaper association z 612 all the lehigh news first