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ARMOUR TECH NEWS

Tuesday, May «20, 1930

 

 

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Student Publication of the
ARMOUR ENSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
CHICAGO, ILLINOKS
Published Weekly During the College Year
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
Single Copies, 10 Cents Each

THE STAFF

MANAGING BOARD

 

$2.00 Per Year

 

 

Editor-innchief ..................... F1ed Attwood, '31
Arthur Jens, ’31

Managing Editors ................ {Alvin Auerbach .31

Business Manager ................ Frank Spalding, '31

Faculty Advisor .......... Professor Walter Hendricks
ADVISORY BOARD

Retiring Editor-in-Chief ........... David T. Smith, '30

Retiring Business Manager ...... Morris 0. Nelson, ’30
NEWS DEPARTMENT

News Editor ......................... W. H. Rudolf, '32
Departmental Editors

Fraternity .......................... J. R. Jackson, ’32

Organizations ...................... E. W. Carlson, '32

Reporters
I. Krawltz, ’33
T. Leavitt, ’33
E. C. Kublcek, ’32

J. B. Dirkers, ’32
M. Windgrond, '33
R. G. Kellner, ’31

 

SPORTS DEPARTMENT

Sports Editor (Acting) ................ Arthur Jens, ’31
Assistant Sports Editor .............. H. P. Richter, ’32
Assistants

C. Jens, ’31 C. Stempkowskl, '32

F. M. James, ’31 R. F. Rychlik, ’33

R. Mulroney, ’33. ‘

 

FEATURE DEPARTMENT

 
   
 
  
 
 
 

Feature Editor ......... .P. E. Seidelman, ’31
Columnist ........ ..Philip Jordan, ’31
Inquiring Reporter. ..... 0. Barnett, ’33
Cartoonist .Dave Chapman, ’32
Feature Writei ........... C. Blahna, ’31
Staff Photographer ..................... 0. R. Murphy

 

MAKE-UP DEPARTMENT
Make—Up Editor ..................... M. J. Schinke, ’32
Assistants
G. L. Bonvallet, ’32
F. F. stressenbrurg, ’31
" BUSINESS DEPARTMENT
E. A. Scanlon, ’32

R. L. Ellis, ’33

 

 

Advertising Managers .............. J J Casey, .32
Assistants
C. A. Erickson, '32 R. Tufts, ’32
M. A. Collick, ’32 C. R. Marsh, ‘33
Circulation Manager .................. A. F. Wilde, ’31
Malling Circulation Manager.- ........ J. S. McCall, '32
Assistants
R. pufour; ’33 - ‘Or‘ G. Linnell, ’32
C. B. Sommers, ’33 H. Bodinson, ’33
H. H. Hamlin, ’31 A. Jungels, '32
J. W. Juvinall, '33 S. Anderson, '32
H. 8. Nelson, '32 P. Kesselring, ’31
E. H. Chun, '3 H. Pilgrim, ’31
J . P. O’Hara, ’33
Exchanges ........................ A. J. Aukstaitis, ’31
Vol. V. MAY 20, 1930 No. 13

 

TECHNICAL El) UCAI TIGN

Industry has pitched a camp just outside the college
gate, according to a recent editorial which appeared
in the Christian Sch to Monitor No longer can it
wait in its superintendents office for the college
graduates to come seeking a job. The Dean of the
School of Engineering of Pennsylvania State College
has estimated that American industries require an
annual supply of 40,000 technically trained men, and
the colleges are furnishing but 8,000. Thus a number
of places needing workers are filled by men obtained
from other sources, but for the higher and more re—
sponsible position, industry is dependent on the
college.

Armour has been one of the sources from which
men are taken for responsible positions in the indus—
try. Every year representatives from many of the
larger corporations are sent to get acquainted with
the promising seniors, and a large number of our
graduates are placed by this system.

Colleges are becoming more and more rigid in their
requirements so that the men who are taken can be
properly trained in their chosen field. In years past
when industry refused to recognize the college
trained technical man there was little to induce a
man to enter a technical school. Today, with the
industries waiting at the door for the graduate, appli-
cations are made in such numbers that it is necessary
to pick with care the men who are to be allowed the
opportunity of obtaining a technical education.

Industry is, says the Monitor. and has been for
some time, markedly short of the technically trained
college graduate. Here is at least one instance where
the schools, public and private, can enlighten their
pupils as to an important vocation that is sadly un-
dermanned. It is to be deplored that young people
early in their school experience are allowed to lose
interest in mathematics because they see no use for
it. Many a latent engineer has thus failed to find
his place.

 

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On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much edu-
cated men were superior to those uneducated. “As
much," said he, ”as the living are to the dead."
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or course, everybody likes and respects self—made
men. It is a great deal better to be made in that way
than not to be made at all.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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Cleave to “The Slipstick”, let
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THE HORSE mar Miran

We shall meet but we shall miss him,
There will be one vacant desk,
For his pony went and failed him,
Disappointment did the rest.
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We heard the other day that our earth’s satellite
was called the “silver" moon because it comes in quar—
ters and halves.

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WON GUD TURN DIESUIRVES ANUDDER

Once apon a time a fella wend flshin. It simms
wot he fergot tha bate. H’mmm soch a dommie. So
instead uv goin horn he wend fur a wak. It happened
wot he some a snak wid a tode in his mouth. He tuk
tha tode frum tha Snak an begin tuh fishe. Butt tha
snak wooden go away, so he gav tlia snak a reward.
He puled out his hip-poket receptical an gav tha snak
a drinke. Tha snak wend away heppy an tha fella
wend on fishin. All of a sudden—like he felt] a jerk
on his pants. He loked down an saw tha snak wid
anodder tode.

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Little Ronnie’s Notebook.
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WLL WILL
Wouldn’t it be awful if there were no vowels?
Ths shWS wht th ngish lngg wld b wtht thm.
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“Well I’ll be darned,” said the sock as the needle
started to sew him up. M. Phthalic Acid.
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How did you find the scenery along that new high-
way?
By simply looking through a knothole in one of the
billboards.

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Harmony in Linen

Judge: "They tell me your name is Muggleworth?"
Applicant: “Yes, your honor.”
Judge: “And you want the court to change it to

Applicant:
was my wife's idea. She got to thinking that we
ought to have the same name that is on our towels.”

Dollar Bill.

 

 

that

An Englishman was visiting this country for the

first time, and as he was driving along the highway,
saw a sign, “Drive Slow. This Means YOU!” ,
The Englishman stopped in surprise and exclaimed:
“My word! How did they know I was here?”
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“Where are you going to eat?"
“Let's eat up the street."
“Aw, no; I don't like asphalt.”
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Anyway, a man can still take a chew without feel-
ing that he should first offer one to the lady.
‘ l9 5’. £31.
A FUTURE ARMOURITE
The teacher (dear girl) was quizzing little Johnny,
and she asked him what a transparent object was.
Little Johnny: “One that you can look through."
Teacher: “Give me an example.”
L. J .: A doughnut.”
Chuck.

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Steve told us that a certain noted engineering
school (bulletin on request) has a five year course.

maybe six, too.

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Civil: “Somebody swiped my handbook "
Another. “Ketchem
First: “Ketch 'em, heck, I never even saw him."

R. E. M. (Not an ad).

marsh

Street . of Chance

If you bet on three kings, that‘s gambling; if you
bet you can make three spades, that’s entertainment:
if you bet wheat will go up, that’s big business.

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Stude: “Say, here’s a button in my salad.”

Waiter: “Yes, sir, it must have come off when the
salad was dressing.” e Co-ed.

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Speaking of fast ones: When we asked to see her

home she said that she would send us a picture of it.
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a
Chinese Patient (over telephone):
you fixee teeth for me?"
Dentist: “Two— —thirty, all right"
C P.: “Yes, tooth hurty me all right, but what time
you want me to come? 9" Sarp

THE CAM. OF SPRHNG
The following was found on a classroom blackboard:
“All college students who loaf during the spring
should be expelled.”
Prof.: “And yet we couldn’t run a college without
any students.” Another Co—ecl. ‘

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“they”?

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Is our co-ed a “the” or a
Time will tell, maybe.
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It seems as though the Juniors will have to look on
from a back seat now, for the Senior’s act will be on
the stage in a very short time. Phil J.

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Pullman? Now just tell me why you want it changed."
“Well, your honor, to tell the truth, it .

Well, Steve, that's nothing, so has Armour, and

Professor fictional
Fletcher fifth

(A Biographical Sketch)

BY )P. EMIL SIEHDELMAN

 

Samuel Fletcher Bibb, Assistant
Professor in Mathematics, was born
near Ripley, Tennessee, on June 2,
1891. He attended a rural school,
located about one—half mile from
his father’s farm, called the Bibb
school, and already at this early
age did not waste his spare time,
but utilized it in solving problems
for his older sisters.

As his primary interest was in
mathematics he followed it by go-
ing to Hall—Moody Institute at
Martin, Tennessee. While at this
academy he took part in debating

 

 

and public speaking and became a
member of the debating team dur-
ing his senior year.

After graduating from West‘Ten—
nessee State Normal, a school of—
fering a two—year college course, he
entered military service and rose
through the ranks to second lieu-
tenant of infantry. Having re~
ceived his discharge in January,
1919, he entered the University of
Chicago and received his S. ‘B. de-

 

gree the following year. While at
college he majored in mathematics
and minored in physics and chem—
istry. Professor Bibb, while at col-
lege, was keenly interested in
sports; however, due to his extreme
light weight, the closest he ever
came to Stagg‘s famous football
team was the rooting section.

After graduation, Professor Bibb
taught mathematics at the Mich-
igan College of Mines at Haughton,
for two years. Then, after studying
for one year, he took his S. M. de-
gree at the University of Chicago
as a continuation of his work in
mathematics.

By this time he realized that the
teaching profession was to be his
chosen vocation and to his present
delight, he seriously placed his ef—
forts in that field, where he was
best fitted and would receive the
most from life. After teaching for
two years at the-“University of
North Dakota, he came to Armour
in the summer of 1925 as an As—
sistant Professor in Mathematics.

Professor Blbb is a member of
the Mathematical Association of
America, the American Mathe-
matical Society, the Collegiate Club
of Chicago, and also an Associate
Member of Sigma Xi Fraternity.

In June, 1926, he married Miss
Harriet Ruth Carr, a graduate of
the University of North Dakota,
whose parents are living at Me-
Ville, N. D.

After his wife and two-year-old
daughter are asleep, he obtains
some amusement studying the rare
stamps and covers he has been col—
lecting during the past ten years,
and wishing his collection were
more complete. He is also a keen
golf enthusiast, although, as he
admits, possibly handicapped by
having to stand on the wrong side
of the ball.

Ultra Violet Ray Used
As New Burglar Alarm

 

An invisible or ultra—violet ray
light for the protection of valu—
ables, or for a burglar alarms, is
sciences’ latest contribution to the
law enforcement authorities. A
demonstration of it was recently
made by James L. McCoy, a re-
search engineer of the. Westing—
house Lamp Company, before an
engineering society meeting in New
York.

The device works on the princi—
ple of having a ray of ultra-violet
light passing across in front of the
object being protected, and falling
on a photoelectric cell. Any inter—
ruption of the light affects the cell,
which will then set off an alarm,
release a cloud of tear gas, or any—
thing elsc they wish.

Ordinary light may be used, but
the burglar could then turn his
flashlight on the cell, and fool the
alarm. The same is true of infra»
red rays; the ordinary mazda bulb
gives off enough of them to ener-
gize the cell.

The boundary between Colombia
and Panama has not yet been de—
termined.

 

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BETA PSII
Beta Chapter was host to friends
and parents of the members last
Monday and Thursday. Dancin
was enjoyed and refreshments
were served.

SIGMA ALPHA MU
A dinner dance is being planned
some time in the near future, to
be held in honor of the graduating
seniors.

TRIANGLE
A Spring Initiation Banquet was
held at the Chapter House Sunday,
May 18, in honor of the initiation
of James W. Thomson, ’33, Ch. E,
and Edwin A. Runge, '33, Arch.

KAPPA DELTA TAU
Plans are complete for the an—
nual spring formal supper dance
which will be held May 24. Many
alumni are expected to attend.
Election of officers for the com-
ing year was held last week. The
following were elected:
P. P. Portnoy, president.
L. Wernicke, vice president.
E. Field, secretary.
J. Tuchinsky, treasurer.
J. Robbes, social chairman.

 

 

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SIGMA lml’l’A DELTA

Three men, Frank O’Conor. ’31,
M. E, Harold Davis, ’32, M. a, and
Luke Cosme, ’33, C. E. were initi—
ated into Sigma Kappa Delta fra-
ternity last Saturday, after a
week on probation. In honor of
the new initiates, a banquet was
held at the House in the evening.

Last Saturday evening also saw a
farewell dance given in honor of
the seniors who are leaving our
midst after graduation.

E’l TAU .3le

Pi Tau Sigma, honorary me-
chanical engineering fraternity,
held inquisition for R. M. Krause,
’31. and R. H. Stevenson, ’31,
at the Sigma Kappa Delta House
last night. Professor Roesch was
in charge. The formal initia—
tion will take place some time dur-
ing this week.

CLASS TO SEE ESCAPE.

 

 

N Friday, May 23, Profeseor
Q Hendrick’s class in Modern
Drama will attend the cur—
rent Goodman theater presentation
as a body. John Galsworthy’s play
“Escape" is now showing at this
unique theater on the lake front.
Any other students who wish to

see the show at the special party
rates should meet the group in the

 

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CHARTER HOUSE CLOTHES ARE
ACCLAIMED BY UNIVERSITY MEN FROM

MODEL. WHICH IS PICTURED. EMBRACES

REQUIRED FOR TRUE CORRECTNESS AND
PRESENTED IN LIGHT DIS-
TINCTIVE SHADES OF TAN AND GRAY THAT
YOUNG FELLOWS PREFER AT THIS TIME

 

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