Tuesday, November 5, 1929

Street and Highway
Traffic
A New Engineering Problem

This year (1929) will complete the
production of more than 44,000,000
automobiles in this country. It will
see 25,500,000 of these still in use
upon the streets and highways.
Production and registration of
motor vehicles are increasing by
millions each year.

One of the greatest problems be~
fore the engineering profession is
to provide adequate streets and
highways and to regulate the use
of these so that they will properly
handle the demands made upon
them. Gradually, vast improve-
ment projects are being planned
and carried out to provide new and
improved ways of travel of much
increased capacity. In spite of lim—
ited funds available for such work,
much is being accomplished.

But important as these physical
improvements are, they require
considerable time for their comple—
tion and several years must elapse
before streets and highways will be
adequately revised and rebuilt to
meet even the most pressing needs.
In the meantime, the use of the
present streets and highways must
be improved by regulations and de—
vices that will keep traffic moving
much more regularly and, at the
same time, allow reasonable access
to the curb for stopping.

Formerly the handling of street
and highway traffic was relatively
simple. The main official respon—
sibility was to protect the public
from‘ abuses of recognized privileges
in the use of the streets. In this
omcials without technical training
were generally successful. Today
traffic can be kept moving safely
and efliciently only through com-
prehensive measures based upon
facts properly gathered and inter~
preted.

Engineers are being called upon to
apply scientific methods and prin-
ciples to the problem. A field of
engineering activity known as traf—
fic engineering is rapidly develop—
ing. It is yet in the pioneering
stage. But it opens to the real cu-
gineer, the man with creative
genius and scientific approach, an
opportunity to make outstanding
contributions to progress in all
lines—commercial, political, educa-
tional, social.

Street and highway traffic has
made possible the concentration of
many kinds of interests into muniu
cipal areas and has permitted their
growth into vast and highly devel—
oped projects. Taxation and, to a
great extent, investments are based
upon values (present and potential)
of lands and structures. The value
of business property depends upon
accessibility. Traffic incorrectly
handled results in decreasing prop-
erty values. The community and
its investors depend upon honest
and intelligent traffic engineering
for a large measure of financial
protection, and the traffic engineer
must fully recognize the economic
considerations involved in the solu—
tion of his various problems. These
problems may be classed under a
few general heads.

1. Left to its own selection, traf-
flc naturally concentrates upon
streets to and through centers
of the greatest business activity
until its movement is seriously
stagnated, Detroit faced this prob-
lem and after a careful study traffic
engineers developed a system of by—
pass routes or loops—some close to
the congested district and others
farther out — designed to carry
through traffic around the points
of greatest congestion, making the
trip much pleasanter for the driv—
ers and relieving the business dis—
trict of much trafiic of no commer-
cial value. Such preferential routes
can be selected only after a scien-
tific study of data regarding traffic
volumes, origins, and destinations
gathered in a way that insures that
they will be representative and sig—
nificant. Otherwise worse prob—
lems may be created.

2. Traffic complications demand
traffic control at street intersec~
tions. Automatically operated sig-
nal systems are being rapidly sub-
stituted for the ”corner cop". Traf—
fic engineers in Pittsburgh were re-
cently confronted by the problem
of laying out of a control system
that would provide for continuous

 

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What do you think of having a.
football team at Armour?

F. .l‘. Astc, ’30, ERR—It would be
beneficial in advertising the school
and would create more school
spirit.

it. E. Escott, ’30, E.E.—-It would
be a good idea because there is a
lot of good material here. Since
other engineering schools can have
teams, we should be able to find
time for one, too.

i). J. Paul, ’30, F.P.E.~—It’s a good
idea but there is not enough time.
I know I have not the time.

R. F. Young, ’32, F.P.E.-Good
idea! It would create a lot of
school spirit.

0. H. Fox, ’31, C.E.~A swell idea
if we had the time. We have ma-
terial and a good coach in John
Schommer.

. IE. Davisson, ’31, Mid—It
would be a good thing but the fel-
lows have not the time. The after~
noon classes prevent it. John
lSchommer’s plan for «a summer
camp would remove the necessity
for prolonged daily practice.

L. Billings, ’32, C.lE.—-I think we
should have a football team. We
have plenty of material at hand
and, with some support, could have
a creditable team.

11". M. Ruzevich, ’30, Ch.E.~—-I
think that it would be a good thing
in that it would spread Armour's
name. The average citizen does
not know that Armour exists.

C. Larson, ’31, C.E.—Great! I see
no reason for not having one. It
is one of the finest things they
could have here.

R. F. Beck, '32, M.E.——A good idea.
It would develop a little school
spirit around here and would be a
good achievement for the school.
Georgia Tech and Carnegie Tech
are good schools and they have
football teams. We should be able
to have one too.

movement of vehicles over a com-
plicated and irregular street lay—
out. After gathering significant
data regarding traffic volumes,
these engineers designed a system
that permitted vehicles and street
cars to move without interruption
in one of the most difficult flexible
progressive ‘signal'vsystemsityet de-
signed.

3. Regulation of parking has
been a most perplexilng problem for
municipal officials. With various
interests urging solutions that were
entirely impracticable, the traffic
engineers of Chicago proceeded
to gather information regarding
the use of valuable park-
ing space in the central business,
district, to determine the number
of vehicles that must be served by
providing access to the curb for re-
ceiving and discharging passengers
and goods, and to propose regula~
tions that would meet these de—
mands most satisfactorily to all
concerned. The plan was adopted
and Chicago now has one of the
most successful systems of parking
regulations in the country. It re—
sulted from an engineering ap—
proach to a type of problem that is
too often uIIV handled
by persons with neither the desire
nor the experience to attack it sci-
entiflcally.

4. One-way streets, through
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ALL QUlET ON THE
WESTERN FRONT
Eric Maria Remardue
tl,c Brown and do.C

ProaLbly few books have had the
popularity not “All Quiet on the
Western Front”, if the publishers
reports are to be trusted. The book
has gone into many editions in at
least ten of the leading nations of
the world.

Yet the book seemed disap—
pointing. It has a touch of being
overdrawn, not authentic, and un-
speakably vulgar. It purposes to be
the story of a German infantry"
man; his life, thoughts, and actions
are presented. The author was in
the war, but still it appears that he
hardly could have found things in
the manner in which he presents
them.

The brutishness of the treatment
of the common soldier under the
relentless German military ma-
chine is clearly, forcefully and ac-
curately depicted. This we under-
stand and expect. But to try to
understand the apparent lack of
supplies, food, scientific methods ol'
warfare, and in fact all things that
we have been led to believe the
Germans had amazes and perplexes
the reader. We are introduced to
liquid fire as coming first from the
American lines, whereas it has
commonly‘been assumed that the
German chemists devised this hell—
ish tool of war.

The idea of presenting the
thoughts of the man does not make
for easy reading. Few men can
present thoughts, and in the midst
of a battle scene it is hard to sud-
denly have the trend of the story
change to such a subject. I doubt
if the men in battle could think as
this man did, or claims to.

Yet the book is worth reading in
that it does give a picture of the
World War from the other view—
point. Wc have had countless tales
from the American side; but this
is a new topic, and must aflord
subject matter for discussion.

I would warn one against read—
ing the book from a literary stand-
point. Many books today are frank,
but I would close this as vulgar:
the incidents that might have lent
ironical humor to the bitter situa»
tions are such as to cause revul-
sion. Therefore, I would say to
read it merely for its content and
not for its style.

A. B. A.

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Baseball Price Soon

The championship junior base-
ball squad is still in the dark as to
what award it will receive for its
showing in the intramural baseball
league. Not until the Athletic
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TRIANGLE

A Tea Dance was held at the
Chapter House, Sunday afternoon,
October 27th. Twenty couples at-
tended and refreshments were pre-
pared by the visiting ladies Tri-
angle recently pledged Harold Bod-
inson M33

Armour Chapter is making plans
for the first of a series of alumni
smokers to be held this fall for the
purpose of establishing closer rela—
tions between active and alumni
chapters. We hope to persuade Mr.
“Red” Harrower, C. E., ’27 to pre»
side over the assemblage. His visit
to our neighborhood should be in
the nature oi? a home coming, since
he has been for two years resident
on the Firestone plantations in
Africa.

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DELTA TAU DELTA

The 28th annual Welland Fresh-
man Banquet will be held in the
Red Room of the Hotel La Salle
on Saturday, November 9. This
dinner is attended by the pledges
of the entire Fraternity as guests
of Dr. Frank Welland.

The entire Chapter accepted an
invitation to attend a House Dance
at the University of Chicago chap—
ter last Saturday evening.

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SEGMA KAPPA DELTA
Sigma Kappa Delta announces
the initiation of Arthur H. Jens, ’31,
Daniel Iverson, ’31 and Charles
Jones, ’31 on the evening of Satur-
day, November 2. There was a
banquet held at the Chapter
house following the initiation.
They also announce the pledging
of Joseph Kennedy, ’33.
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THETA Xi

An alumni smoker was held at
the Chapter house on last Wednes-
day evening, October 30. Nine men
from the Armour Chapter attended
the formal house opening of the
chapter at Wisconsin University on

libraryZlnnounees

Addition of Books

(Continued from page 1)
first, under chemistry are found ‘
books on electrochemistry and on
the mathematics of physical chem-
istry. The physics collection has a
new work on theoretical physics, a
valuable book on physics of the air,
and a. more general treatise on the
nature of the physical world.
The civil engineers will have
access to a new work on suspension
bridges, and a source book in as—
tronomy. Books on rectifiers, ra—
dio, and the electronic theory are to
be found under electrical engineer-
ing. Several books on the Diesel
engine, with a new work on the
measurement of flow comprise the
main features of the mechanical
field.

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‘ day November 2, following the
Wisconsin—Purdue football game.
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KAPPA DELTA TAU

Kappa Delta Tau held a very
colorful Hallowe’en party last Sat-
urday evening, in the banquet room
01’ a northside manufacturing
plant, the room being appropriately
designed with autumn decorations.
The lighting effect produced elon—
gated shadows along the wall.

There was dancing galore, and a
few selections of a dramatic and
ghostly nature, furnished by the
pledges. A number of the Alumni
offered prizes for the most striking
and eccentric costumes of the
evening. The attire of the couples

Page Three

brary boasm a. new text on the
Middle Ages, as well as a $633231—
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Disraeli, Mussolini and Grant be-
ing listed.

Under the heading of “136318185
Interest" are found diversified boom
most of which are not straight fic—
tion, but of a highly interesting

nature. The list includes a work.
on mathematic recreations. Bin—-
stein‘s theory, and skyscrapers; yet
we also find the outstanding play
of the year, ‘Strange Interlude”
included, as well as “We: Birds “‘ a
tale of aviation in the World War.
Many recent novels have been
added, and some of the most pop»
ular authors can he mentioned
The latest works of Dorm Byzne,
Warwick Deeping, Leon Bleach?
wauger, and S. S, Van 333mg include
a list of men whose writings range
from the beautiful semi—poetic
prose to the widely popular mys—
tery novel.

With this new addition, the if.»-
brarians feel sure that they can
satisfy most of the needs of the
men, and invite any man to ask
for advice if he cannot find the
material he is seeking. Mince-
.graphed copies listing the entire
purchase are available in the
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