din Werwri‘lc rs” itch diodml d illifll’fliledltl Acetylene Model The James Turner Morchoud Medal, founded by James M. More- head of New York as a memorial to his father, was awarded to Under- writers' Laboratories for its work and cooperation on apparatus used in the advancement of the use 01' acety- lene gas. The Morehend medal is awarded annually by the International Acety— lene Association to the poison or persons who in the judgment of its oflicers and board of directors, have done most to advance the industry of the art of producing or utilizing calcium carbide. The discovery of acetylene was announced in England in about 1885, but the method used was not ap- plicable to 11 commercial use. In .1892, Mr. l/lorehead and his asso- ciate, Thomas L. Willson, working at Spray, North Carolina, discovered, partly by accident, the process of making calcium carbide on a com— mercial scale. This process was rapidly followed by the development of the electric process at Niagara and led to the extension of the acety- lene business for lighting, welding, cutting, and other processes used to- day. The medal itself is very beautiful, being of gold, and designed by the Tifl’any Company of New York. It has previously been awarded to James Turner Morehead, Noah Wag~ nor, Edward Fouchc, and Augustine Davis. Underwriters’ Laboratories is the first institution to receive this distinction. R. A. Sossong, president of the Association during 1926, in his pres- entation address, outlined the activi» ties of the Laboratories in the field. of acetylene and expressed the deep est and most sincere appreciation for what they have done and are doing and the hope that continued benefits will be forthcoming from contacts in the future. Mr. Sossong spoke very highly of the work done by W. H. Merrill, founder sud first president of Underwriters’ laboratories, and ‘ his associate, Wm. C. Robinson, first chief engineer and vicowpresident of the Laboratories. President Dana Pierce in accept- ing the medal for the Underwriters’ Laboratories outlined briefly the dif. feront types of apparatus which have come [to the Laboratories for test. The first acetylene report is still on file and deals with the Eagle water- feed acetylene gas generator made by the Walmsley Company of Chi- cago. Many other lighting equip~ merits came to the Laboratories for test and were approved, only to he made obsolete by the introduction of electricity for lighting. The early work, begun about 1307, dealt wholly with lighting plants, resulted in the publication of the rules in the edition of 1910. Mr. Pierce closed his discussion with the following remarks: “In ac; cepting this Morehead Medal i re— peat my appreciation of the honor it confers upon Underwriters" inab— orntorics and speak for all those of our staff, past and present, who have shared in the work on acetylene, in voicing their thanks to you. The medal will remain to us and to our successors a record of a successful past and an inspiration to future at~ tainments; in scientific and industrial deveiopment in (so—operative work be— tween Underwriters" Laboratories and the international Acetylene As- sociation." (Editor’s Note: The Junior and Senior students in Fire Protection Engineering hold classes in the Hy— draulics Department of the Undenlup to his writers! Laboratories every week as port of their regular course.) Tomorrow is; Decal—Line 0n Orders of Grad Bids The committee which is handlim.r the Senior Graduation Announce~ mcnts has set April 10th as the final day on which orders will be received, This allows only one month for the engravers, the E. A. Wright Com- pany, of Philadelphia, to make deliv- cry. Two different types of covers have been selected; one a low price paper- bound, which costs twenty-five cents, and the other a more expensive leathm ' ' or cover which retails at fifty—five cents. The name “ARMOUR" appears in raised letters on top of the cover, with the school crest below. The words “TECH" and “1928” appear at the bottom. The binding on the cover consists of leather strips woven into fillers; a silk cord is used for fastening. Ernest Willis is chairman of the committee, with C. Gustafson, Harry Krieger, N. Cottington, and J. Even as assistants. Orders may be placed with any of these men, a deposit of one. dollar being required with all orders. Rifle fllub First Team Wins intern-Tourney The first team of the Armour Tech Rifle Club defeated the second team in a competitive match on March 27th at the Regimental Armory. Scores were as follows: FIRST TEAM~ — S. Pulaski (Captain) 0. S. Janiszewski L. Statkus ............ H. Montgomery . W. Kerr F. Farrell J. Jacobson .. SECOND TEAMw— A. Martin W. Pore ..... D. Goren V. Mironowicz . R. Young ........... G. Kuta ........................... L. Ericsson (Captain) . . The official score .5 that of the five highest men on each team, all scoies being based on a possible 100. A match between the first team and the third has been arranged for April 17th. A return match between the first and second teams has also been arranged and promises to offer some been competition. Three thousand rounds of ammu— nition have been purchased by the club, the members receiving; the am- munition at reduced prices. ................ 72.0 Sophomore Girls Whip Juniors; Score 26"le A baseball match between the Sophomore and Junior Civils in Us:— don Field last Tuesday afternoon re— sulted in a 26 to 20 triumph for the lower classmen. The most spectac- ular inning was the third, in which the Sophomores scored thirteen runs in quick succession to the bewilder« merit of the Juniors. In spite of hard fighting for the remainder of the game, the older team was unable to overcome the advantage of their opponents. Weitzul, pitcher for the Sophomores, and Friedman, third baseman for the Juniors, featured in the contest by their exceptional bat- ting. The linevups were: SOPHOMORES~ JUNIORS—» Fensterle ............ lb ............ Kloepfer Edstrand, Jacobson Paradzinski . Friedman Phillips Leardi Dusberger ,. Nissen Weitzul .............. p .................. Farrell Dr. Raymond Winters to {Sirens Loire, lWicli., to Spend? Easter Raymond and his wife drove old home near Grass Lake, Michigan, over the Easter holidays. He is expected back this morning. Dr. THE ARMOUR NE‘WS fill. ARCH lWlhiS Bhr‘tUXl ARTS Filtfil AWARE?! : ........ _ l T. E. Samuelson, senior architect‘ and member of Scarab, national hon- orary architectural fraternity, won the gold medal as first award in the Beaux Arts Project Competition. The contest was open to senior class A students of architectnr in schools listed in the Beaux Arts. About 350 drawings were submitted from instr tutions all over the country. Sam» nelson presented a drawing of a Protestant church as his project. This is the first time that on Are mour student in the regular course has won such an award in the last seven years. Considerable credit is due Mr. H. K. Bieg, Instructor in Ar— chitectural Design, who had charge of the seniors entered in this com- petition. Mr. Bieg graduated from Armour in 1924, and in the same year won the Paris prize in architecm ture, consisting of a three year schol— arship to study art in Paris. He re- turned this i'all to take his post as an Instructor. Lombard to Bella/hood Was Hiking (Club’s Tramp On March 19th the Armour Tech Hiking Club was organized by a group of students who were inter— ested in tromping as a hobby. The club has been very active to date, under the direction of F. W. Spaiding as president and S. S. Pulaski as see- retary, and arrangements have been made for several interesting hikes in the near future. Their most recent jaunt was made last Friday, the 6th, when they footed the distance from Lombard to Bellwood. There being no classes, the day being Good Fri- day, they were able to get of? to an early start. Further plans of the. club include walks to Starved Rock and to the Indiana Sand Dunes. These will me- terialize as soon as the weather be- comes slightly more stable. Purdue U. Scriveners Found New Moguzine Purdue University has recently gone through the same experience as Armour has just had, in that they have also founded a new publication. Their new project is not a newspaper, however, but a purely literary mega» zinc, published by their Scriveners Club and called “The Scrivener." A small book—shaped affair of about 40 pages, it contains stories, plays, and poetry of a varied nature, though all written by Purdue students. When it is considered that Purdue is also in the main an engineering: college, they deserve very high com~ mendation for their new venture, as their second issue (March) as well as their first, is quite excellent. It is to be published thrice annually. Friday of this week another sus- picious combination of thirteen 21nd Friday, the Rho Delta Rho fraternity will present their annual spring in» formal at the Belmont Hotel. The Beta Psi annual Black and Gold Informal of the Alpha Chapter at University of Illinois was held last Saturday night, April 7, at the Ste— vens Hotel. Pill Pi Phil EN THE A. A. F. Having: won the Trifihspier tournament, the Phi Pi basketball team is out for honors in The Arms»: tour Athletic Federation Tourna— ment. The first game in the secondi round was played last Vii'ecliuesriay evening: against the strong: Sherw ‘ W’illiums l‘nint quintet. The .ii scoring of Olson, Tell, snd McAre‘le: brought the Blue and Block on. on‘ the long: end of n 3038 score. Bell and Borders starred for the painters. , Armour Represented by Benn .Engineering, and Registrar :ree Prof. Griffith invents ; float. Palmer W’rites New PL rmcrcte Design. Ci: arts; {:0 $3.333 Algebra. "lent Begin imr in the March issue of, Deer P 1 .r >_ ’ . . -. “Concrete" and continuing for fif—1 ‘ a'm” he“ C‘Jmplelg‘d “1"” teen months, Prof. James R. Grimthi int: his twelfth mathematical text is publishing a series of articles and i book. Proofs are now being N d charts culled "Reinforced Concrf‘tciand the book will be 05 the 1. . Design Simplifiec. ” This. work is the ‘ at the end of May The book will result of five years' research in the field of" reinforced concrete dcsig‘n. Complicated tables and diagrams be a College Algebsa, published by the MCGrawdiill Book (30., New ‘1 ork are glimingted by the use of nomo— City. It will be used as a text book graph or alinoment charts, ihe 5,113., here for Freshman Algebra next fall, tion of which rcquiies only a straightl Palmer and LGIEH S “Plane and edge. Charts and graphs have been i Sphemal TTIE’OHOTHHU is the 3904 Prof. Griffith’s hobby for aboml ond best seller among the Trigonomv twelve years, and in this time he has , etry 500113 in i1113 COUU‘CTY- 01% hun- been able to develop several radically 1 dTEd and fourteen schools and col- new methods for the construction oil 19395 How have WOW“! this b00k~ nomographs. Some of these are be- If all the books published which Dean mg presented for the first time in Palmer has written were stretched print in his series of articles. end to end, they WOUld reach from in order to facilitate the construe Chicago '50 Philadelphia. tion of such graphs, Prof. Grifiith has —-——--—— a triangular rule marked of? with. , _ A P of) L ‘ 'r "- ‘ logarithmic scales, being one of thei r cssor elgn I devmmg his [spare time to the revisioi of his only three ever made. are similar to those on :h::;:c:fi: i bool' ”Practical Mechanics.” He is ‘“ ‘ ‘ ‘ being assisted by Mr. Sears. and range from D—20 or the D scale on a 20 inch slide rule to K4") or ——-— the K scale on a. 5 inch slide rule. Prof. Griffith has this rule in his office in the Civil Drafting Room in the Mission and will gladly show it to anyone who is interested. Professor Freud has recently been honored with the nomination to the chairmanship of the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society for the succeeding year The actual election occurs next month. Prof. Freud has been active in the society for several years, having served as chairman of the Finance Committee of the organization for a long period. Faculty Enthusiastic lilvcr New Publicolion (Continued from page 1) news and the willingness of the stu- dents to cooperate. On the other hand, Prof. Peebles, was very enthus— iastic about the matter and was confi- dent that practically all the students would subscribe for the paper. Prof. Leigh of the Mechanics Department was of the some opinion. Another enthusiast was found in Prof. Doubt of the Physics depart» ment. lie was of the opinion that “such a publication would be ofti great value not only to the Institute as a whole, but also with direct bene~i fits to the faculty and the students." Prof. Schommer was more in favor of the newspaper than any of the others. In his opinion a newspaper was just as necessary to our school community as a large newspaper is to a great city. He also believed that the paper should be permitted to make constructive criticism pertaim ing to various school activities. “Take a crack at r‘ professor once in a while,” he advised. Prof. Schommer still subscribes to the Daily Maroon, the school newspaper at the U. of C., and has never been uithout it since he was a student. the-re. On Marci-1 21 Professor Wallace Bruce Amsbary addressed the Allen- dale Club in their meeting at the Allerton Hotel, his subject being, “Jean Baptiste and His Brethren.” Professor Carpenter will lecture before the Chicago Section of the American Chemical Society on April 28, upon the subject “Non—Ferrous Metallurgy." William C. KraEt, our gymnasium instructor and baseball coach, has been officiating at the interscholastic basketball games which were held at the University of Chicago this past week. Student Newspaper at Armour Makes Debut (Continued from page 1) perienced on the part of the editor in getting the news in on time and in publishable shape, this trouble is ex~ pected to be eliminated in the suc» ceeding issues when the sub-staff is better organized. Schommar To file Bossy Als Referee Next Fall Prof. Hendricks is Faculty Adviser Professor Walter Hendricks of the Department of English is faculty mi- viser to the ARMOUR NEWS. Be— mei will have some Very interesiting‘ sides assuming the necessarv duties engagements on the football field to l as “censor n he will coach the men refexee next. fall. in his comment on 1 on the staff in correct methods 0f some of the games he described 1.;he1n' , writing. Part of this instruction is as “blood battles " The students who]‘ through his English classes in Which heaxd his talk befow the assembly‘ la remain amount of credit in theme 135$ fall “in remember his account 0f ,“riting “ill be allowed for consistent the criticism the judges receivied “ 171k on the school paper fiom the crowds. Lets hope that if the Executixe Co'mcii nothing W1” happen to 30h“ as he, institute is assured of the success of approves and disappmves the Plays in 1 the NEWS. both finnncis ~ and ed}. the following games on his schedule: , torially, it will give per From all appearances John Schozn- Oct. G—Notre Dame at Wisconsin. the “(ekly publicstion 0 Oct. 13v~0hio at Northwestern. , next semester. P‘ cations 0“- BO‘WiSC‘msm at Purdue. :point. to this as the ‘ tinieze stems Oct. 27——Minnesots at lows. of the infant publication. NO“ 3»——Aiabama at Wisconsin. i The Cycle. Armour‘. moi-Look, has 1\ov. lfl~Miclugan at Annapolis genero .51, Ofigred to qhare 11:? office N 01* ARMOUR Nov. western. 1 T~Noxihwestern at Indie“;u \1 l in (‘hspin ll 34,. ~Dcrtmouth at North-g NEWS all \i‘llll the until the latter a ‘ office of its own which wi be befir 9 new sen: ~ Penn st Elevelend Concisve “ Professor John (7. Rossini irisrtiwsre {:o. l‘enn, Dean of mill at» tend the national comention of the fitmericsn Associshon Rem tars to be held in Cleveland on the Everything H min To ‘ Paints, . F’lzonc Prospect Stink. '6324 5. {Ii-USACO of Collegiate Aslainnrfi five. Huh of this month. an... W.m..fi»..mw.¢.