i a “the“ principal spe Vol. 5. No. 6 archivists our ikbtiiliidil rum militias rites Emil .i. Minx, Massier, Heads Group; Martin Eraun, Sous—Masher BANQUET CLOSES DAY The initiation of the freshman archs into the Armour Architect tural Society was held on Friday, March 14. Most of the initiation took place in and about the Art In- stitute and Grant Park. The sketch problems that had been issued to the new men were judged in the open, Grant park to be specific. They were judged on the basis of. points, each man receiving his quota of points under the personal direction of' the jury, which con— sisted of the other three classes. Horse-fights, singing lessons, and other novelties took up the whole of the afternoon devoted to the in— itiation. The freshmen were divided into groups of about ten each, and un— der the direction of upper classmen were conducted about the loop. They created quite a sensation among the downtown shoppers, by their antics. Later in the afternoon they all returned to the Art Insti— tute, where they furnished more entertainment for the other class- men. In the evening the architects held their annual dinner at the Architects‘ Club. Mr. Andrew Ru- bori of the firm of Rubori, Went- andeewey ' speakers of the evening were Mr. Reed, Dean of the Architectural school, Dean Palmer, and Dean Penn. Emil J. Minx was the toast- master. Mr.- Minx introduced Mr. Reed, who after a very interesting talk on his associations with the speaker of the evening, introduced Mr. Rubori. Mr. Rubori was born in New York City and there had his schooling and practice as an architect. Upon his coming to Chicago he was in charge of the architectural depart- ment of Armour for several years. M. Rubori spoke of his associa- (Coniinucd on page 8) Electricais See Radio Factory Wednesday, March 12, thirty—two Senior Electricals and members of the Radio Communication class in— spected the Grigsby—Grunow radio factory where the Majestic sets are manufactured. The trip followed one made some time ago when the class visited the factory where the cabinets are de- signed and assembled. The purpose of the trip was to study the methods employed in the factory, while an assistant engineer made a short talk on the merits of the radios, explaining that the Grigsby—Grunow Company is con— templating manufacturing electric refrigerators some time next year. Evening School Class Hours Economic Tobie Mr. N. C. Coppock, outside plants engineer for the Illinois Bell Tele- phone Company, spoke on the eco— nomic problems of the equipment and plants of the telephone com— pany last week in Professor Free- man’s evening school class of En— gineering Economics. Only two more weeks are re- maining of the scheduled ten lec— tures. The engineers have to work and hand in ten problems before they receive credit for the course. group Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois Schedule Taking of Cycle Pictures for Today The group picture for the 1930 Cycle, which were postponed last Tuesday because cl? unfavorable weather, will be taken today, unless the weather again is adverse, in. which case they will be taken to— morrow. The schedule appears on closely. page three and should be followed The Junior class picture is first on the list, being scheduled for 9:00 A. M. in Ogden Field. The Sophomore and Freshman class pictures follow in order at 9:30 and 10:00 o’clock respectively. The men in these pictures are to assemble in Ogden Field a full five minutes be— fore the time scheduled for the picture. The clubs and departmental societies are to be taken in order as :mittec of R. J. Serson, chairman, 3E. W. F. Hanke, R. G, Kellner, B. shown on the published schedule. at convenient times for the greater Two additions have been made They are arranged to be taken number in each group. to the schedule. The Inter—Honorary Council picture is to be taken in front of the main entrance at five minutes after one o’clock and the Inter—Frater— nity Council five minutes later at the same place. With the excep— tion of these two additions the schedule is the same as was planned for last week. Cirillo Attend” Railway Show Senior, junior and sophomore civ— ils made an inspection trip Wednesday, March 12, at the expo— sition given by the Railway Appli- ances Association, at the Coliseum. The exposition dealt chiefly with machines and systems for increas- ing safety, reducing cost of repairs and installation, and minimizing labor in railroad work. There were several exhibits showing the work actually being done, such as one in which a power driven adzing ma— chine was constantly at work pre— paring timbers for use. There were many small moving picture pro- jectors showing various phases of construction and repair work, and several model engines of various types constantly running at low speeds to display their principles or operation. The exposition is an annual one and is held consummation with the meeting of the American Railway Engineers’ Association. Glee Club to Attend Mole Chorus Recital Doctor Protheroe’s Welsh Male Chorus will give a concert at Or- chestra Hall on Thursday evening, April 3. The members of the Glee club will attend it. All students interested in hear- ing it can obtain cut—rate tickets for 75 cents from W. Manske, ’30, president of the Glee club. Nelson Speaks Before Alumni Association The monthly meeting of the Alumni Association was held at the Engineers Club, on Tuesday, March 4, The speaker was Mr. B. G. Nel- son, of the University of Chicago. Mr. Nelson presented a talk on the various ways of making public speeches. He pointed out the dan- gers involved in speeches of sup- plication, and approved of the de— velopment of quick repartee to prevent the opposition from gain— ing the upper hand. .Examples of introductions he had heard from various toastmas- ters in presenting speakers were used as illustrative material. The entire speech was inter- spersed throughout with humorous stories and facial expressions that were not only humorous and inter- esting, but were so aptly given as to hold his audience spellbound during the entire discourse. It is hoped that sometime in the near future Mr. Nelson may be induced to address the student body of the Tech at an assembly. About twenty—five members at— tended the luncheon and all ex- pressed keen appreciation of the program. Mr. K. Kusaka of the Rail Road Dept, S. M. R. Co., of Dairen, Man— churia, visited Armour Institute last Friday afternoon. He was very much interested in the labs of the main buildings. A.i.€h.E. Meets Friday, Mar. El The regular meeting of the Ar— mour Branch of the American In— stitute of Chemical Engineers will be held on Friday, March 21. at 1:00 p. in. Mr, L. C. Cooley, Chem— ical Engineer for the Whiting Cor— poration at Harvey, Illinois, will speak on evaporators, stressing the methods of design and engineering problems connected with this line of work. He also will discuss in de- tail several new types of evap— orators and their applications. The annual A. I. Ch. E. smoker will be held at the Phi Pi Phi House on Wednesday, March 26. The freshmen “chemicals” have been invited to attend. heinous/Zirconium some UL US out To Dr. Frank Wakely Gunsaulus, the first president of Armour Institute, died nine years ago yesterday, after a life of civic enterprise, lecturing, education, and Christian work. His demise was caused by a heart at— tack, death coming just two hours after the illness. Dr. Gunsaulus was born at Ches- terville, Ohio, January 1, 1856. He was educated in Ohio, graduated from Ohio Wesleyan University and entered the Methodist ministry soon afterwards. During the next few years he was in charge, con- secutively, of three different Meth— odist churches. In 1879 he entered the Congrega— tional Church, accepting the pas- torate of the Eastwood Church at Columbus, Ohio. After leaving Columbus, he be— came a pastor, first, in Newton, Massachusetts, then in Baltimore, Maryland. The Plymouth Congregational Church of Chicago called Dr. Gun— saulus in 188'] and he accepted. Fol- lowing a sermon delivered by the pastor at this church, in which he spoke of the obligations of the rich to the poor, Philip D. Armour of— fered to provide the money if Dr. Gunsaulus would provide the neces- sary time for carrying out the ideas expressed in the sermon. Dr. Gunsaulus agreed to the of— fer and Armour Institute of Tech— nology was founded in 1892, with Dr. Gunsaulus as the first presi— dent. In 1899 he resigned the pastorate of the Plymouth Church and be- came pastor of the Central Church. In 1919 the plans for the extension of Armour Institute required so much time that Dr. Gunsaulus found it necessary to discontinue his church activities. From that date he devoted prac— tically his entire attention to the affairs or Armour Institute. Under his guidance the school continued to expand and improve. March 17, 1921, he died at his home, his funeral being held from the New England Congregational Church in Chicago, Saturday, March 19, 1921. . A. i. E. E. SPRHVG SMUKER HELD A T THETA Xi HOUSE The annual A. 1. E. E. spring smoker was held at the Theta Xi house last Wednesday evening, March 12. The faculty was repre— sented by Professors Moreton, Richardson, and Nash, and the alumni by a number of the recent graduates. Festivities as planned by a com— H. Roffee, and H. E. Stein, began promptly at eight. Cards and smokes furnished the early part of the evening’s entertainment. About 10 o’clock the guests, num~ boring about eighty, were as— sembled in the front room of the Theta Xi house and there viewed the main event of the evening, a sketch entitled “A Scene in Pro— fessor Moreton‘s Office," The prin— ciple players were R. J. Serson as Professor Moroton, and R. Morten- son and B. H. Roffee as students. The sketch dealt with the behavior Pledge New Men, for Honorories The Armour Chapter of Chi Epsi— lon, national honorary civil engia ncering fraternity, and Salamander, honorary fire protection engineer— ing fraternity, pledged new men last week. Chi Epsilon held their pledging in the Phi Pi Phi house with the following men as pledges: Leonard H. Dicke, ’31. Karl E. W. Hellsen, ’31. Eldon A. Johnson, ’31. Bert S. Lindquist, ’31. Berlyn G. McLaughlin, ’31, Clarence J, Robin, ‘31. Salamander pledged their new men, in their Chapin Hall rooms. The following are the pledges: F. S. Austin, ‘31, A. J. Lenke. '31. W. E. Schirmer, ‘31. P. E. Seidelmann, ’31. Spring Engineer of a lie-detector apparatus which Professor Morcton had in his office. Its movements when the students’ alibis were given were as expected, but the reactions to Professor Moreton’s tale 01' his college days were a complete surprise. A few remarks made by Presi— dent Dollenmaier were followed by songs for those who cared to sing. and then the refreshments were served, which by this time were gladly welcomed by all. A quiet dismissal thus ended the A. I. E. E. spring smoker. Tacit Ark Take 0 o a u- Exinintion Prize At the recentexhibition‘helcl at the Architectuhal Sketch Club of Chicago, Armour was awarded first prize for their exhibition of de- sign work, The awards for the dif— ferent exhibitions was on the bah sis of ballots cast by the visitors, The schools entered were: Armour, University of Illinois, and Lake Forest. The plates entered by Armour included the Paris Prize Designs of J. E. Peterson; an Archaeology Problem, A Roman Temple, by C. W. Eiucchle; a Beaux—Arts Project. A Restaurant, by C. P. Ware; A Loggia, project by H. A. Tonsager; a composition plate by Ray Peter- son; and a Beaux-Arts Project, a Post Office, by M. Braun. There also was a set of History of Architecture sketches and some water color drawings entered. ALUMNUS KILLED Stanley Charlton, ‘21, and wife were killed Saturday, March 1, 1930, in an automobile accident at Lake City, South Carolina. Mr. Charlton and his wife were return- ing to New York from Florida when the fatal accident occurred. Mr. Charlton was manager of the New York office of Balfour & Co., Fra- ternity Jewelers. CALENDAR Tuesday, Mar. 18 Group Pictures for Cycle. 3:00 p. m.—-«Track meet with Crane College at Bartlett Gym. Wednesday, Mar. 19 Swimming Meet with Crane College at Crane College. 9:30 a. m.—F. P. E. S. Meet— ing—Science Hall. Friday, Mar. 21 10:30 a. m.——General Assem— bly. 1:00 p. m.—~A. 1'. Ch. E. Meet- lug. Saturday, Mar. 22 3:00 p. m.—Triangular Track Meet with Chicago Normal and Sears-Roebuck Y. M. C. A. at Bartlett Gym. Annual Golf Tournament at Evergreen Golf Course. Tuesday, March 18, 1930 iii DEFENCE l0 Elli DEMCNS’ERA’E‘ED iii Ediiiilibifliiidi Machine Will Be Shown a t A s s e m b i y Friday (REE CLUB T0 SiNG Leonardo Kecler oi’ the state crim‘ inology department will demon- strate the “lie detector" machine at an assembly next Friday morning at 10:30 a. in. With this instrument, one is able to tell when a subject is lying by means of recording changes in res- piration and blood pressure. The state board of pardons announced on March 5 that they will use it on all prisoners appearing before them, and the results of the tests will be considered by them in de— termining the prisoners pleas. The officials stated that this ma- flut This Week The next issue of the Armour Engineer will be ready for distri- bution the latter part of this week, It will feature articles by the heads of the Mechanical, Chemical, Elec— trical, Civil, and Fire Protection Engineering Departments on the latest developments in their respec— tive fields. In addition to these ar— ticles and the usual features there will be an article by Beverly Dud- ley, ex~’30, on “Frequency Deter-4 mination”; an article by I. G. Katz, ’30, on “Electrolytic White Lead"; and an article by Chester Stemp- kowski, ’32, on “An Automatic Car- Retai‘dcr for Use on Railroads,” This issue is to be larger than the usual issue. The regular size is forty pages, which has been ex— panded to forty—four pages in the coming issue. H. H. Slavitt, Arch, ’32, has made a free—hand sketch of an airplane that will be used to make an attractive cover. Rommel Makes Pious for REES. Smoker J. E. Hansel, president of the Fire Protection Engineering Society, anounces that the societies an- nual smoker will be held Wednes- day night, March 26, at the Delta Tau Delta House, 3155 S. Michigan avenue. The Fire Protects are urged to pay their dues so that they will be eligible to attend. Ransel promises lots of cigars, ci— garettes, stories and card games. National @ratoricai Contest Closes Soon A letter from the contest direc- tor of the National Intercollegiate Oratorical Contest, states that on the list of 152 colleges and univer- sities which have entered, Armour Institute does not appear. Stud~ cuts or groups interested should send for details as soon as possible, as March 25 is the last day to en— ter. All communications should be addressed to the contest director, Professor P. Caspar Harvey, at Lib- erty, Mo. There is a choice of fifteen sub— jects, each of which is directly re~ lated to the Constitution of the United States. That the contest is succeeding in its purpose of crea— ting and stimulating interest in this most important of American documents, is evidenced by the fact that inquiries have been received from many of the foremost schools. Each successive year the contest is held, this year being the sixth. sees a greater number of contest- ants. The regional and state con- tests, taking place from April 24 to May 3, lead up to a final contest at Los Angeles. where prizes totalling chine has great possibilities for use in making mental tests of the convicts and assigning them to work on the basis of these tests. The glee club will give a con— cert during the assembly. The numbers which they will sing will probably be ”Morning," “Where E’re You Walk," and “On the Road to Mandalay," George Burhop, ’33, will sing the solo in the latter num- ber. Fire Protects Meet Tomorrow for Lecture The regular bi—weekly meeting of the F. P. E. Society will be held tomorrow, Wednesday, March 19, at 9:30 in Science Hall. J. E, Rau— sel, president, will presidemil‘he speaker for the meeting is Mr. Harry G. Casper, assistant manager of Fred S. James 85 Co., general agents. Mr. Casper will give an explanation of the fire insurance business as seen from the com— pany’s standpoint. Pivoymyr saves assumes L. F”. Bernhard, ’29, E. 121., com- bined business with pleasure in a visit to Armour Institute on Marin 12 and 13, the business being thrt of making appointments with the officials of the Illinois Bell Tele— phone Co., Long Lilies division of the American Telephone and Tele— graph Co., Bell Laboratories, and the Western Electric Co. Interviews with those members of the elec— trical, mechanical, civil, and chem— ical engineering departments who contemplate employment after graduation with any of the firms mentioned were arranged. Bernhard is employed by the 11- linois Bell Telephone Co., in the engineering department and not in the personnel department as might be expected, He explained that the Associated Companies of the Amer« ican Telephone and Telegraph Cd, usually sends a last year’s graduate to make the appointments for in- terviews. Professor Wempson' Receives Phi). Degree Professor James S. Thompson of‘ the Physics department will re— ceive his degree of Doctor of Philm osophy today from the University of Chicago. Professor Thompson took the examination Friday. March '1, which climaxed his re— search on positive ions. His work consisted of investiga— ting the action of positive ions in gases of various densities and pres— sures, A basement laboratory in Ryorson Hall on the (lineage owi— pus was devoted exclusively to Pro— fessor Thompson, and here the delicate observations were taken. He also received his B, S. degree $5,000 are offered. from the University of Chicago.