l- i Vol. V. No. 2 Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, lilmoxs Tuesday, February 18, 1930 hilt blhlllb'l‘llib bill llllllflltil’lltill‘ Will llllb ”l'lilllil ea Stueienlo Drop @ut Boring Pact; Semeeter l‘ll'l‘fiib NCW 78:7 MEN statistics from the Office of the means give the number of men en— rolled in each class as follows: Seniors .............. . Juniors . 185 Sophomores . 204: Freshmen . 230 Special . ............. . 1 Total ............... 78'] This is seven more than were en- rolled in the Institute at this time last year, but sixty-eight less than the number enrolled in September. The number of men who dropped out, during , the past semester by classes is: Seniors ................ 8 Juniors 5 Sophomores . 28 Freshmen 25 Total ................ 68 0f the sixty-eight men who dropped out, thirty~seven were re» quested to withdraw. Fifty-six were placed on probation. Being placed on probation does not nec— essarily mean that a student will finally be dropped or that his chances of regaining good stand— ing are slim. 0n the contrary, sta- tistics ehow that a man has every chance of making good. Last year, of the thirty—nine men placed on probation, only ten failed. to make the grade, four in on probatio m g” tweat‘yzmre Were relhn- stated in good standing. A con- scientious cllort ol the man on probation is all that is needed to enable him to redeem himself. hinted Protector at All... all... Meeting The Chicago section of the American Chemical Society will hold its regular meeting on Friday, February 21, at the City Club of Chicago. The feature for this meeting will be a talk on "Gas Electrodes" by Professor Louis liahlenberg of the University of Wisconsin. _ Prof. liahlenberg at this time celebrates his sixtieth birthday anniversary and the thirtieth year of his eleva- tion to the rank of professor of chemistry at Wisconsin He is widely known for his texts, numerous scientific articles and ability as a teacher and executive Many honors have come to him, among which are the associate editorships of the "Journal oi? Physical Chemistry" and. “Journal de Che-mic Physique," vice—presi- uencles of the A. A. A. S. and the American Electrochemical Society, and presidency of the Wisconsl. Academy of Science for three con- uecutlve years. 01! Prof. Kahlenberg's numerous; researches, one of his best known is one that is very recent, namely that on gas electrodes. According to reports, he has promised to prev cent some of the general concepts of electrochemlstry as illustrated by gas electrodes. This lecture and many mtereotu lng group meetings should be of great interest to the students. catpecially chemicals. Methanol Elected. {Till lipga Preclinical Chi Epsilon, honorary civil ohm gineerlng fraternity, held an elec- tion of officers on Tuesday, Feb. 11, with. the following results: Men, 3'. P. Edstrand. Viee~¥resw .l’. W. Hurley. Steely, L. H. Fieohman. Trees, R. 13).. West. Du Pout, Union Carillon [Wen Tulle to Joli Southern The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation interviewed. several senior chemicals and mechanicale with views of possible employment. Any applications for positions must be in their hands by March 1. The Union Carbide and Carbon Corporation consists of the Na— tional Carbide and Carbon Com— pany, Linde Air Products, Presto“ lite and other subsidiaries. The plants 01' the corporation are lo» cated at Charleston, W. Va, Indiw anapolis, Kokomo,’ Buffalo and other principal cities in the United States. On Tuesday, February 18, a rep» resentative from the Du Pont de Nemours Company will interview some Senior chemicals for posi— tions with his company. At the same time he will interview the Junior chemicals for summer posh tions in their laboratories situated throughout the country. Alumnae Beacon/tee Airmail Expert Edward E, Roberts, an alumnus of the civil department, is new working for the Ryan Aircraft Cor- poration at Ferguson, Missouri. He is now in complete charge of their analysis work. Upon leaving Armour Roberts went to work for the Stimson School of Aviation which, however, was soon forced into bankruptcy. He then tool: employment with the Lencrt Aircraft Company at Pent- Water, Michigan. From that or gan— lzatlon he went to his present locan ti‘oh at the uteri Curporation. Roberts first position upon enter~ ing the employment oi? the Ryan Corporation was that oi? second “stress—man” and started his work by making a complete analysis of their P. and W. “Waspwpowerml” Brougham airplane. Since working on that plane he has been in com— plete charge of all analysis work and has received an “A. T. C,” or Approved Type Certificate from the Department of Commerce on the “Wasp—powered” Brougham, on a "1—3—7" seaplane, and on the Ryan’s latest model, a little four~place cabin monoplane. fir. Bodily that on “Me Soul offiineoi’n” The annual February assembly which always comes between Lin— coln’s and Washington’s birthday was held last Friday with Dr. Wil- liam H. Buddy, D.D., pastor oi? the Third Presbyterian Church, as the speaker. Dr. Buddy, in his address on .“Abraham Lincoln,” delivered at the assembly, ably upheld his reputation as a noted orator. The orchestra supplied musical enter— tainment both before and after Dr. Buddy’s speech. Dean Palmer introduced Dr. Buddy to the assembly as his per— sonal friend and said that for sev- eral years he has wanted to have Dr. Buddy speak at Armour, but was unable to arrange matters. In his talk, Dr. Buddy showed himself to be a thorough student of Lincoln and also an ardent ad» miter of the great American back— woodsman. He dwelt first upon Lincoln’s mental characteristics, pointing out his wonderfully keen moight, as shown in his debates witthouglas, and his unquench- able desire for lmowledge. Dr. Roddy next told of the exam tional side of Lincoln's nature, can scribing the emancipator’s grief as a. boy at the death of hie mother and. of the sufi’eoing caused him in later years by the injuries and death of the soldiers in the war. Waugh the entire speech Dr. Buddy kept his listeners enter— tained with examples of Lincoln’s; wit and never ending good humor. Muehil’lerger, ”Ell Poison Expert Dr. C. W. Muehlbergcr, ’20, lor~ mer assistant professor of toxicol— . ogy at the University of Wisconsin and state toxicologisl;, has been chosen to fill the position of as~ sistant director in the new North western University ,b u r e a u of criminal investigation. Dr. Muehlberger was a charter member of the Omicron Chapter of Phi Lambda Upsilon, the honorary chemical fraternity. He received his B. S. in chemical engineering in 1920 and entered the University of Wisconsin in 1921.. In 1923 he re— celved his Ph. D. degree and than mediately became state toxicologist and a member of the faculty. Dr. Muchlberger has participated in the investigation of several mur~ der cases which have attracted great interest. As state toxicologlst, he assisted district attorneys in all cases in which chemical analysis could be employed. He has done work in cases which necessitated the anal» ysis of foods, in poison cases. and in cases involving the identification of hair. Dr. Muehlberger was research as— sistant in chemistry under the late Prof. Victor Senber and the late Dr. A. S. Loevenhart. He aided the conservation commission in studies of industrial and criminal pollution of streams, and the industrial com- mission in setting up regulations on dust, fumes and vapor hazards. In his new position, in the crime detection laboratory, Dr. Muehlv berger will be connected with Col. Goddard, ballistics expert, and other scientific men. He will how come a member of the faculty of Northwestern University and will be one or larch the editorial etafl‘. of the American Journal of Police Service, a new magazine issued by the scientific crime detection lab~ oratory. Wruloricul' Conical“ when to Armour Men The Sixth National Intercollegi- ate Oratorical Contest on the subject oi? “The Constitution,” sponsored by the Better America Federation of California is now open to all under-graduates in any American college or university. A total of $5,000 is offered in prizes to the national winners, the individ- ual prizes varying from $1,500 for first place down to $ti00 each for fourth to seventh places, inclusive. A choice of 15 subjects is given. all of which refer directly to the constitution in its varioue phases. Any student wishing to enter the contest must send his application for entrance to the contest director, Professor l”. Caspar Harvey, Liber~ ty, Missouri, before March .25, mm. State contests are to begin on April 24, and the national final is to be held at Los Angeles on June 19. The purpose of the contest is to increase interest and respect for the Constitution of the muted States. in each of the five previous contests, the number of colleges represented by the contestants has surpassed the number in. the year preceding. Last year the total number of schools represented was over 540 as compared with 300 in 1925, the first year of the contest. mange Statue oi? Finale anal flanker Flask and Beaker, chemical ell- glneering society, has been raised to the status of a professional ire- temity, according to advices re- ceived from the lCeans’ office. The organization, which was founded three years ago under the loadcrw chip oi‘ the late John Ethan, ‘27. George Parkhurst, ’Et', and Clara once Cooley, ”2’3. was formerly rated as a professional club by the institute. Notice To Architects: it being impossible to arrange a satisfactory system of distribu- tion oi? the Armour Tech News at the Art Institute among the architectural students, the bush nous; staff has decided to mail the architects’ copies to their homes, at the regular subscripn tion rate of one dollar per se- mester. The papers will he in the mail before 6:00 o'clock on the Monday preceding the reg— ular distribution clay, and should be in the hands all the subscrib— ers the alter-noon oi? the follow»- ing day. TECH lirlGERS TU PLAY 1'th uni/rut 0N DETRQJT EWIP The Armour Tech (lagers will leave tomorrow evening for an ex- tended tour of the Detroit district. Michigan State Normal at Ypsi— lanti ill scheduled for Thursday evening’s game and is the first on the Tech card. On the following evening St. Mary’s College at Or— chard Lake, Mich, will battle the A. l. T. men. Coach math; and his squad will camp in Detroit and direct their activities from there. Ypeilanti is about as far north of the automo- bile center as Orchard Lake is south. The Armourui’peilantl clash is an annual aflair. In last year’s (Continued on 71am 1,) Telegraph Engineer Explaine New Ely/atom “Modern Telegraphy—A New Art With. An, Old Name” was the topic of the talk at the lei-weekly meet~ lug oi the Armour branch of line i. l E. E. last Friday afternoon in the Physics lecture room The speaker was John H. Bell, a telem graph. engineer in the Bell Tele— phone Laboratories. lilo traced the development of Telegraphic systems from the ob» solete single wire through the duplex and modern carrier wave methods. He explained that by means of the automatic typewrit— er, the carrier wave system, 84 communications could be carried on simultaneously over a single pair of wires. The lecture was illustrated by means of slides, which showed the various hook-ups and apparatus in use. The meeting was unusually well attended, over 55 students being present. fiuuiiamfiiyil till lineage [bro Wilfi‘ll’lfitfl Professors Phillips and Wells of the civil engineering department have moved their offices from the second floor of Mission. They are now located in Chopin Hall, sec» onol entrance, third floor, front, in the room formerly occupied by the Campus Club. The English department has moved its offices from the third floor of the main building to the rooms in Chopin Hall formerly oc— cupied by the alumni office and the Armour Engineer. The alumni omce is now located in the small room just north or and adjoining their former loca— tion. The senior Civlifi are now occu- pying the north section of the drafting rooms in Chapln Hall in which. new drawing tables and chairs have been installed. The classes in machine drawing and machine design. both elemen- tary and advanced, have their drawing zooms in the three rooms south of the civil drafting room. These rooms are entered by either the saecond or third doors of Chopin flail. All classes will be dismissed Elan crusty, February “filled, in honor oi Coarse Washington. {Ellipse ileum/mule Program {ferric The Dean's Ofllce urges all stu~ dents to turn in a copy of their program, on a card furnished by the office, to be placed on file im— mediately. If your program is not entirely settled, make an effort to see the professors concerned as soon as possible and straighten matters out with them. In case of an emergency at home when a student's parents desire to get in touch with. him at once, it is practically impossible for the office to find him if his program is not on file. To guard against this or a similar happening, and to save the Deans’ofiice much trouble, it is necessary for them to be very strict about the fulfillment of this requirement. Scarab Wetlgee litre Announced The Scarab Fraternity, profes— sional architectural fraternity, held a pledging ceremony on Wednesday, Feb. 5. The present pledge group is announced as: Martin H. Eraun, ’31. Robert V. Goldshorough, ’30. Alfred L. Niel], ’31. James E. Peterson, ’32. Alvin .l. Wischer, ’32. Many alumni attended the pledging ceremonies which were concluded with a banquet at "Ben Vivant.” Armour Seniors Tull/ye Civil Service Exam. On Wednesday, February 19, many seniors ol the chemical, civil, electrical and mechanical depart— ments will be taking the United States Civil Service Examination at the Federal Building for junior engineer. The examination will consist of two parts as follows: first on general physics, mathe- matics and general engineering; second on optional subjects, the students having choice of aero— nautics, agriculture, mining, naval architecture and marine engineerm lug, and structural steel and concrete. In at least one optional subject a. rating of 60 is required for a competitor of nonpreference, 55 for a competitor with military pref— erence and 50 for a competitor with disability preference. An av- erage of 70 per cent must be at» tallied by all competitors for the entire examination. Four hours in the forenoon will he allowed for the first part of the examination and three hours for each optional subject. Clive R. Bishop, ’25 is employed with the Public Service Company of Northern Illinois. He is editor-in- chief of. the Public Service News which is published once each month. Professor John C, Penn, Dean of Engineering, has been absent from school the past weal: because of a bad cold. He is expected to be back at work today. nameplate Thursday, Feb. 20 Junior Class Meeting, Assem— bly Hall. Armour vs. Michigan State Normal at Ypsilanti. Friday, We . Eli Armour at St. Mary’s College at Orchard Lake, Mich. A. C. S. Meeting at City Club of Chicago. Saturday, h‘eb. E23 Washington’s Birthday -~— No School. luterciass mu: Meet, Elam lett (lynx, 3:813 53. m. Shilliblllllllib little} lilélllilfiil. lllillfifi ll’l‘ lflblifillfi SS llfil‘li‘l. Music to fie Efllmfigllbti by Kentucky Colonels BlDS NGW 0N seize The Sophomores have been busy making arrangements for their dance to be held in the Gold Roem of the Congress Hotel, Friday evening, February 28. Although the Social Committee was slow in get- ting started they are making elaborate preparations for their big social function of the.year. This is evidenced by the fact that music will be furnished by Brammel’s Kentucky Colonels. The committee is composed of the following students: J. E. Bryant, FIFE, chairman; G. W. Schodde, FEEL; A. 5.31m?! , ME; S. M. Lind, Chi}; H S. Hend— ricks, FRE. The bids for this were placed on sale yesterday, and the price of admission is $2.50 fieauamfilrta Medal to flolelehorough R. V. Goldsborough, ’39, received a second medal in the 3rd class A projet of the Beaux—Arts—Institute of design competition. The draw— ing consisted of the designing and rendering of an “omce building" for a chemical concern in a small city. It was also to include a busi- ness club, a hotel and a bank. The drawings were judged on February 4 in New York. All senior architects do these drawings but most of them receive only mentions. Medals are rarely awarded. figurine [it eternal flue Februniy Ell At a meeting of the Armour Tmh Athletic Association and the 1930 Cycle Stafi‘, business vital to all or- ganizations at Armour was dis» cussed. The cost of publishing the year book at Armour is partially paid for by student subscriptions. classes, clubs, fraternities, honorary frater— nities, and engineering societies will be charged a definite amount depending on the number of pages allowed for the activity. Robert N. Wilson, F. P. E. ’31, business manager of the ac Cycle, announces the following schedule of pages and prices to he devoted to the various organizations. moi: clas .5 will be allowed six pages at a cost of $75. at per class. This will include cost of cuts at class officers. of class group pictures and of snap- shots. Each social fraternity will be allowed four pages at a cost of $35.06. This does not, however, in- clude the cost of cuts or pins. If such cute are not available a charge of $10.00 will be charged for some. Honorary fraternities will be ob lowed two pages at a cost oi“ sauce, Ensdneering societies will be al- lowed two pages at a cost of $33.6Q. Clubs will he allowed one page at a cost of Slim. All money must be pain to the (Continued on page S} A meeting of the Smiley: Close, which will be held on ‘X'hm’srlay, Feb. fill, in the assembly hall, has: been announced by the clan} mm~ dent», Fred Attw‘oeci. The Qumtiéfi of the meeting}: .3 21mm to elect a hauler manila} but other time business will sow be Swamp..- £3