liege Two . m we «m w: Allllllfilllh "l“ shill hlbsllllio Student Publication of the ARMOUR ENSTITUTE 05" TECHNOLOGY CHECAQO, lLl-KNOES Published Weekly During the College Year EDKTQRHAL STAFF Editor~in~Chief ...................................... John Hommes, ’29 Desk Editor... ...Fred B. Ferrell, ’29 News Editor.. ...Devid T. Smith, ’30 Department Editon ....Charles E. Morris, ’30 Assistant .................. .Walter J. Ehrmeyer, ’29 Social Editor. .John E. Turmoil, '30 Assistant Vernon A. Storm, ’30 Athletic Editor . ohn P. Edstrand, ’29 Assistant ......... Walter Paradzinski, ’30 Humor Editor.... ....(Not yet chosen) Feature Writer 091 M. Jacobson, ’29 Faculty Adviser.... ...rofessor Walter Hendricks CONTmBUTORS J. H. Ashenhurst, Fred A. Atwood, ’A. B. Aucrbsch, L. W. Booker, Joseph Boula, Hui Burnett, E. W. Carlson, W. Edmonds, Frank M. James, F. W. McCloske, H. J. Monger, S. S. Pulaski, H. P. Richter, W. H. Rudolf, R. F. Stellar, Vernon Storm, Max Schinke, H. W. Yount. BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager .......................... Russell E. Johnson, ’29 Assistant .................... Thomas R. O’Melley, ’30 Advertising Manage ....Stanley A. Beatty, ’30 Assistents..Morris 0. Nelémn, ’30; Wilbert B. Deering, ’30 Circulation Manager ................ John W. Gamble, ’29 Assistant .................................... ..John E. Barman, ’29 l“ ' Tl. R. Goren, 30 OCTOBER 25, 1928 Vol. II. No. 6 WHAT YOU ARE SPEAKS SO LOUDLY I CANNOT HEAR WHAT YOU SAY. “Emerson. Eleni); Vs. intensities Mainly Recently, considerable discussion was aroused among the sophomores and juniors now enrolled in Physics Lab- oratory concerning the number of semester-hours of credit allowed by the bulletin for this course. Several letters were sent to the NEWS on the subject, and some of them appeared in the Letter—Box column. in response to these comments, the Deans’ office and the Physics department have made statements explaining the situation, believing that the students themselves were not fully aware of all the facts of the matter. These explanations appear in a news item on the first page. The gist of these statements is that the students being allowed 5 hours a week for the course, for 16 weeks, have available 80 hours of work. The standard require- ment is 12 experiments per semester, which gives 6 2—3 hours for each experiment, 3 in the laboratory; and 3 2-3 for writing the report. It certainly does not take an eye rage student more than that length of time to write up a report which will grade “B.” True enough, to make an “A" in the course more time and more intensive study will have to be devoted to the reports. Furthermore, “below average" students will al— so find it necessary to devote on additional hour or two every week. Students are too prone to calculate the time required to write a report, from the moment when it was begun until the moment it was completed. They fail to sub tract the “times out” taken at regular intervals, to smoke a cigaret, to read a newspaper, or to listen in on “Mike and Herman" on the radio. They forget that the figures in the bulletin represent time to he devoted to lNTEN— SIVE study, which so few students are capable of doing. To our mind the explanation referred to is an ade‘ quate one, and should satisfy any who have felt that they were being imposed upon. Press fiiuh Today at one o’clock, the first Press Club meeting of the season will be held. All students Who are in any way interested in publication work are being urged to attend. At that meeting, those in charge of Armour’s three pub- lications will solicit the aid of additional men for Work on the various staffs. Press Club was organized in 1924 by a petition of Sphinx, honorary literary fraternity, for the following reasons: (a) To secure the services of freshmen and sopho- mores for publication work. as well as those of juniors, and seniors. (b) To give potential candidates for staff positions who are well suited {or the work by natural ability and former experience an opportunity to make their capa— bilities known, thus opening competition for staff posi— tions to the whole school instead of limiting it to a few ”on the inside.” to) To insure better continuity of effort from year to year in the administration of the publications, by pro— viding preliminary training and experience to under- clnssznen before they are. required to iissumc the more responsible stall” positions. In these purposes, the Press Club has been very suc- cessiul so far. lts continued success in this function will nd on the response of the student body to its meet— ARMGUR TECH NEW? ” “Red Rust," by (Cornelia James Cannon Having but. recently completed Willa Cather’s book, “My Antonio," 21 story of the Swedish settlers of the Minnesota and Dakota wheat lands, l. picked up “Rod Rust,” 11 study of the same people at about the some time in their history, with genuine interest. If I expected to enjoy it as much as ”My Antonia" I was very much disappointed. At no point throughout the entire story did I feel any real enthusiasm. or deep feeling for the characters the author manip— ulates. The manipulation is too evi— dent and too gross, the people of New Sweden too obviously acting the writer’s playlet instead of their own lives to fill me with any sympathy. How differently two persons can see the some thing! Willa Gather knows these people and writes of them with a deep and all forgiving love. They are “her people.” To Cornelia James Cannon they are so many marionettes which wobble uncertainly at the end of her not too certain guiding strings. Whom, in this imaginary town, do i really know? Do I understand Nils Swenson or Brigitta? They seem to be only necessary adjuncts to the play fulfilling no purpose that I can see. As people, living realities, they are strangers. The lndistinctncss of the characters is, I believe, the chief fault with the story and it is a point about which the whole book hinges. Mutts Swenson, his mind alive to the meaning of the natural forces around him, is contrasted with the apathetic Swedish farmers. He experiments with wheat, crossing and selecting his seed to produce a perfect speci- men, a wheat plant which will suc- cessfully withstand the ravages of the “red rust," a wheat disease which leaves the plant yellowed and scared, worthless for food or seed. As the perfect wheat of Matte Elli s lllfiwhlhllfl By JOEL M. Jr’iCOBSON, ’29 Swenson is impervious to the attacks himself, untouched by the dead and leaden people about him. Are these Swedish farmers as dull and uninter~ esting as Cannon wishes us to be— lieve? Are these people, to me the most energetic and progressive in America. really so untintelligent? During the last summer I had the pleasure oi making personal ac- quaintance with the Minnesota farm— er. It was not, of course, as intimate or extended as I would like but suffi- cient to show me how wrong Cor- nelia Cannon’s characters are. They are not the open—handed cowboys of the western plains who meet friends and strangers with the same hearty greeting. Quiet and unassuming, it is true, unfriendly and even suspi— cious to strangers, yet with a com» munity life and spirit that makes the little towns scattered through the Minnesota farmlands models of been— ty and efficiency. The author has changed the char; actor of the people, has forced them into the mold he has prepared for them. The only object is to make the reader, by brute force, if in no other way, to see the nnology be- tween the experiments on wheat and the human growth in which the ex- perimenter is himself an experiment subject to the some selection and variation. What the conclusion is or what the moral of the tale is, I can- not fathom, unless it. lies in Mutts Swenson‘s unwritten epitaph, “i wasn't thinking of what he did. I was thinking of what more he might have done. He didn’t complain. He got lots out of life. It’s the rest of us who are the losers. . . . I’ll never be satisfied with my country for all its boosters until we take time to pick out the really great ones in our midst and give them a chance. I’m tired of our pampered mediocrity.” REAL MEN A real man never talks about what the world owes him, the happiness he deserves, and the chances he ought by right to have, and all that. A real man is just as honest in the dark in his own room as he is in pub-- lic. A real man does not want pulls and favors. He wants work and hon-- est wages. A real man does not want some-- thing for nothing, so the get~rich- quick people cannot use him. A real man does a little more than he promises. A real man is. loyal to his friends and guards their reputations as his own. A real man cannot hurt a woman, physically or morally, A real man minds his own busi» ness. He. does not judge other per- sons beyond sure knowledge—«not presuming; to “search hearts.” A real man is glad to live and not afraid to die. -—»~lows Engineer. Eileen Penn Exploiting". Physics huh. Credits (Continued from page 1, column 5) He further elaborated on the (fixes tion by adding: that what he thought was the chief difficulty of the stu— dents was their inability to study in- tensively. “We are looking for in— tensive students.” he declared. “We like to have the kind that can sit down to their work, be absorbed by it, and not stop until they have thor— oughly completed the task. If the work is truly done in that fashion, the 3 2~3 hours is ample time." All the classes in Physics Labora- tory this week were given this ex- planution. The Sigma Kappa Delta basketball team has arranged with the Engla- wood Baptist Church. 62nd Place and Stewsrt, for the use of their gym- nasium for practice, so as to be in top condition when the ii‘iterfrater— nity basket hostilities begin. By Chuck .lillson With the beginning of each school year at Armour Tech we all look for» ward to those class dances which are always evenings of great enjoyment leaving happy memories to those who attend. This year the Senior Class starts the ball of fun 21,-rolling with an informal dance that pronn ises just a few more hops than all preceding ones. As announced last week, Nov. 16 is the date. Now don’t forget, give the girls a break and make your dates now. The dance will be held in the main hall room of the, Lake Shore Athletic Club. which in the past has been the scene of two very success- ful class dances. And now a bit about the orchestra. Yes, no have engaged that great nov— elty pianist. Zez {Tonfr . and his New York Night Club Orchestra. Zcz. and all oi his boys will be plenty hot when they play “Kitten on the Keys.“ heroine” @fll’lfifi fillet “Stumbling." and “Dizzy Fingers,” those well known numbers of which Zez is the composer. Come and hear him play them as they should be played. All new Armour students are QS~ pecially invited to attend this dance and become acquainted with the so- cial life of Armour Tech. Tickets are new on sale for the mere sum of $2.50 per couple. See one oi' the ticket representatives early, and pur» chase your guarantee for a wonder-- fill evening. The entire pop n on earth, according to the League of Nations, is 1.906.000.690 persons. in the. Calendar year the Transit Com- miss' if New Stork City reported total tigers carried on all suiu face curs. transit buses and Hudson: n tubes as 3,202; 800,009, cent more then the earth‘s population. of the red rust so is Mutts Swenson,i a»? .. “woman-m. My» ‘* m , , , . :: Wig .iillilifillilfiim Cleave to “The Slipstick”; let the Elspetieh fly where it may. hollows senses was. It By the l. R. (inquiring Reporter) It happened in the gym When the lights were growing dim; Johnny Mans had stroked his chin When the I. R. happened in. The I. R. is always where He never gets the air It’s his to do or dure~ That's why he happened there. He questioned Johnnie why He looked so dark in eye. The answer came with a sigh As Johnnie started to cry. “Our team ain’t got a chance," he said; “This bashetball’s a flop. I Wish that I was home in bed Enjoying a lolly’pop.” “Come on now, let us know Which way the ill winds 30,-— lf our team has no show, We’ll help you stand the blow." “All right, all right, I’ll tell, I’ll tell— Don’t say a word or I’ll catch h Our hopes are blast by our coach’s “blne’L-r Knolls Slicers Purduelll” -——J. F. fit >1: >2: F. H. m We Employ Union Labor Frosh: “Hey, you, is this the Press Club’s headquar— tors?” Ye Ed: “Yes—anything?" Fresh: “Yeah, fix up these pants in a jiffy. E gotta take a quiz next hour.” ——J. H. A. n: >l= 1’; Well, Well, Water Coincidence “Pa" Phillips: “How much water does it take to put out a fire?” Libanoil: “Six hours.” “Pa": ”Right.” :5: 2k ASK ME ANOTHER! Professor: “Are there any questions?” Fresh: “Yes, sir. How do you calculate the horse power in a donkey engine?” -—-A. 3. ll; * s l d-don’t stutter when t-talking, Just w-when I rhyming; It helps f~fill the meter out And c-corrects the timing. ‘44 a“ $ Prof. Smith: Morgan, how does it happen that; you have hill No. 20 here where valley No. 13 is supposed to he? Morgan: Merely a topographical error, sir. >1< is #6 Voice: Is this the weather bureau? Weather Man: Yes, sir. Voice: How about a shower tonight? W. M.: It’s all right with me. Take one if you need it. >3 * >5: Packed in the oval was the colorful crowd, jammed in with scarce room to breathe. Row upon row, layer upon layer, the crushing mob was packed iii—packed in. some would say, like sardines. > And the funny part of it was that they were sardines. it: * =5 SER‘WQE Lady: ls this milk fresh? Milkmen: Half an hour ago, madam. it was grass. 4: 2k v FACING MERREAM AND WEBSTER A car may be defined as a place to go when the purl? benches get too cold. Don"; Sciamble George Arlington Heights Eilcepfer, of the pr en: class of '39, wishes to announce that he will bet any pro» fessor. doctor. or Mr.. an “A" in any senior civil course that he, G. Arlington Kloepfer, is able to throw. hurl. or project in standard egg (hen) against the imported Span- ish sepia‘brick well of the lunch room Without breuhizfi: it. Mr. Kloepfcr‘s pro”: is in the Dean‘s Office for the reference of all bettskers. 1‘ e HAVE? ‘: Lirosli l ‘7 ~4 x. . w ... soph ’..~+ ,,. \el ell. sum the ‘ 3. junior : gust thirty-one more weighs ii senior f l ‘l. l . and i'ii be o 2 , o. . ll“ k .