,. n5}, N... saviour I a...“ \ I .4’ Vol. Vll. No. l0 up; about no _ Wftlikll can it .. assimilation Armour Team Expected To Win Roth Games TEAM KN CONDlTlON If history can repeat itself, Ar— mour will defeat its two toughest opponents this week, when the team clashes with Lake Forest College, to- morrow and Western State Normal on Friday. Tomorrow’s conflict will place at Lake Forest, while Friday's game will be at Ogden Field. Western State’s recent victory over Wisconsin, a team which garn- ered six victories before meeting their conquerors, serves as sufficient evidence that the real test for Ar- mour’s strength is in store. take Lake Forest Shows Form Coach Krafft’s experience with Lake Forest’s teams, likewise shows that an exceedingly good opponent will provide Armour with the comv petition. Kraift is still somewhat undecided on the matter of picking his staff of regulars. The opening day lino-up appeared to be his best bet, but several substitutions in the following games proved to be quite advantageous. Armour 'will be assured of good pitching this Wednesday, as Stehno, is Kraflft’s selection for the mound. There is yet some uncertainty on the selection for Friday’s game, but the Nine Armour honorary organiza- tions are sponsoring a dance which Is to be held at the Tower Club of the Knickerbocker Hotel on Friday, May 1. Bob Woodruff, collegiate orchestra of nine pieces will furnish the music. Tau Beta Pi, Chi Epsilon, Pi Nu Epsilon, Pi Tau Sigma, Phi Lambda Upslon, Eta Kappa Nu, I—Ionor “A", Sphinx, and Salamander are promot- ing this affair. For the first time in the history of school dances something new in the way of decorations and enter- tainment will be offered. The hall is to be an imitation of a modern night club, and all the embellish- ments of such a place are included. It is hoped that the police won’t mistake the place for a real night~ club and spoil the evening by a raid. F. B. Attwood and R. Eddy, who comprise the dance committee, an- nounced that all active members, pledges and alumni are eligible to attend this event. Bids are $2.50 and may be obtained from the com— mittee or from the officers of the various organizations. Students Give Talks Al: A.S.M.E. Meeting Two themes, widely dissimilar in nature but alike in interest, were presented by H‘. R. Davis and R. F. Waindle at the meeting of the A.S. M.E. held during the open hour last Friday morning. Member Davis, using “Electric Tabulating Machines" as the title to his talk, described these machines and showed the many uses to which they may be applied. Cards about 3"x6" are used to re- cord the data to be tabulated. Those M . . undo ‘ ‘ 4—1mn Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois Honorary name tdtitdhfb train lWhitfieid am. T0 Be {TQM [Way 1 @ANQE Wild. ”@th Advanced Degree flkid dill fitlildl Date Change Eifectecl by Con-operation of All Parties TO USE. SAME BEDS 1 The Freshman Dance Committee has been rounded up by an Armour Tech News Staff Detective with good results. The first man to be cornered by the detective, inquiring reporter, copy boy and what not was L. A. Ca1- len, Social Chairman. After an hour’s interview, he reluctantly admitted that the dance will be held April 24. He then ran off to a class. B. H. Peterson was found at the track meet last Tuesday. He admit- ted that Elmer Kaiser was going to play but declined to add to this in- formation. Amid -profuse blushes V. Rimsha said that the place of the dance was the Illinois Women’s Athletic Club. He started to tell all about the dance but left out the important facts. The detectives next encountered L. Lynch, who was asked about the price of the bids. He proved to be a hard man from whom to get information. Like an expert fencer he parried ev— ery loading question of the inquiring reporter. But at last he weakened under the third degree, shouted out that the bids would be $2.50, and ran towards the Armour Cafeteria. The copy boy then met T. Pcavey who started giving out information before any questions were asked. He began by telling how pleased the com- mittee was with the cooperation fur» nished by both the Illinois Women’s guess that bbth Lynch' and otennu will share the duties, is sure to hit its mark. Lynch’s Performance Excellent Lynch’s spectacular performance against North Central College just about solved Krafl‘t’s problem of finding a pitching mate for Chief Stehno. If Lynch can repeat as cf- fectively against Western State, her will be welcomed to the Armour ranks for the next three years. Western State totes a line-up of powerful hitters. Wood, Decker, Denner, Cooper and Thomas of that team have been effective against all hurlers and are undoubtedly deter— mined to continue in the same capac- ity against our ball throwers. Armour’s showing the past few games produced many items which caused our Coach to express confi- dence in the team’s strength. When the Krafl'ts men cross bats with Lake Forest, every bit of their offensive power will be in demand. Lake Forest has limited Armour to only a few runs in each of the games played in past years. The game last season was prolonged to 14 innings before the teams finally decided to call the game off with the score dead- locked at 1-1. Play Morton Monday Before the next issue of the AR- MOUR TECH NEWS is distributed Armour will mix in another baseball game when the team matches Mot» ton Junior College on Monday, April 27. The game was originally sched- uled for April 10, but was postponed. Morton, lacks the baseball repu- tation that most of the other college teams have, but there is evidence that they do not lack baseball tech- nique. Their last game was played against North Central and turned out to be a 3-1 loss. Outside of failing this one time Morton is pac~ ing along quite successfully. Following is the probable starting line—up in the Armour-Western State game: ARMOUR WESTERN STATE Moskowitz, as Wood. 21) Pope. rf Decker, cf Robin, 1!) Dunner, 3h ago, 3 humus, c Umieclnskl 2 Swollen-d, lb Mlcl'mlski If Cooper, 53 Muckuv. lf Neigcnflmd, D Johnson, rf ords, or, as used by our government, census material indexes. The system employed is not unlike the use of per- forated rolls in operating a player piano, since holes of a certain s ape are punched through the cards in ac- cordance with any desired classifica- tion. Then when the cards are fed into the machine at random, they are sorted and tabulated at the rate of 75 per minute. As can be easily seen, information gathered from many sources may be readily filed for reference, thus creat— ing a rapid and flexible means of ac— counting records. The convenience offered to such branches of industry as cost accounting or charge deter- mining by gas and electricity con- cerns puts these machines in great demand. Mr. Waindle in his subject: “The Century of Progress Exposition," chose a topic that was naturally of great interest to engineers in the making. In addition, his audience was made cognizant with many as- pects of the fair about which they were ignorant, Honorary Fraternity Initiates Two Men Salamander, honorary Fire Pro- tection Engineering Society, held an initiation at the Theta Xi House on April first. E. A. Scanlan, Jr., and G. W. Schodde were the two men initi— ated. Professor Holmes, J. V. Parker, Fitzhugh Taylor, W. R. Townley, R. M. Beckwith, R. O. Matson, and C. J. Hau'oh were also present. The Annual Banquet of the So- ciety was held on April 8 in the Green Room of the Knickerbocker Hotel. There were fifteen men pres- ent with Professor 0. F Robinson acting as toastmaster ALPHA CHI SIGMA BANQUET The Armour Chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical fra- ternity, will hold a banquet Wed- nesday evening, April 22, at the Y. M. C. A. Hotel. The active chapter will be hosts to the faculty members and the alumni. hi . hand Both,.of these organizations. agreed to the necessary change of: date at no additional cost. This mcm~ ber of the committee also explained that the bids would be the same as originally printed but that the pro‘ grams were being reprinted. He then asked the reporter what time it was, mumbled something, and disappeared down Federal Street in a cloud of dust. L. Sullivan was next recognized. But as he had to see a man about a duck in exchange for two bids he could not tarry long. The class officers: R. Cheatliam, D. S. Manson, F. Lowry, and R. Drum were making up a pool to go to the one who sold the most bids. There were three straight pins, one bent pin, and half a broken test tube in the pool. They advised the reporter that there was a chance that all the Freshmen might not get to go to the dance be- cause the upper classmen were scalp— ing the bids. The reporter left while the four of- ficers rushed a prospect. He, the mem» ber of the fourth estate, returned to the news office, put a typewriter and some paper together, and scrawled this article. Electricals To See Movies On Friday “Singe Ridge” is the title of a group of moving picture films to be shown Friday at 10:30 at. a meeting; of the A. I. E. E. in Room D Mis. sion. The processes of copper wire man— ufacture, the drawing of the wire and the application of the insulators will be shown in detail. These mov- ing pictures, which will take thirty five or forty minutes to run, are be» ing furnished through the courtesy of the OKonite Wire Company. ATTEND CRANE CONFERENCE Dean Penn and Professor Perry attended a conference at Crane Jun~ ior College last Friday morning. The purpose of this meeting was to begin a survey of the drawing courses given in the Chicago High Schools. Among those receiving degrees at Columbia University this June will be Marshal Whitfield, Ch. E. ’30. Whitfield will be awarded his degree of Chemical Engine-er, which he Won in phenomenal time. The usual time for the earning of this degree is three years. At the same time he left for Columbia, Whitfield prom- ised that he would make the grade in two years. But even this mark be better-ed by a full year. Last your news was received at the Institute that Whitfield had been awarded a fellowship to Columbia University. Along with a letter on- nouncing the award, Professor Mc- Cormack received a very compli— mentary note regarding the esteem that is held for the Armour Chem- ern school. Professor McCormack said at that time that he felt certain that Whitfield would uphold the standards set before him. This he did and went at least one full step better. Electricala inspect Telephone Company Telephone relays, four hundred thousand in number, serving fifty thousand stations, and taking care of three thousand calls per day, were inspected by the Senior Electrical class on a trip last Tuesday, April the Illinois puny. The equipment and appar— atus at this office cost five million dollars. The method in which the dial tele- phone opcrates was thoroughly ex. plained and the operations traced receiver to the time the call is ,U switching was developed and proved at the Bell Laboratories. im- rect or aternating current. type of motor is used so that in case discharged periodically. duels under the streets. These cables are lead covered and contain from twelve to sixteen hundred con- ductors. for more racks in case of expansion. 14, made to the Wabash Office of Bell Telephone Com- from th t‘ a th ' b ”by: l'ft. Athletic Club and Elmer Kaiser and h c ime e bu 50“ £1 I g plctedr‘"“"l’he’“' - use ‘ “of ‘ machine The bell ringing generators are run by motors which take either di- This the a. c. service is interrupted, pow— er may be obtained from batteries, and the telephone operation will continue. The battery room has a large number of twenty-flour and forty volt batteries, which are charged and The cables enter through large There is ample space left Calendar Tuesday, April 21 The Institute closed all day in memory of Dr, Alfred E. Phillips. Wednesday, April 22 3:30 P. M.—-Baseball: Lake Forest vs. Armour at Lake Forest. Thursday, April 23 4:00 P. BIL—Baseball games:-w Beta Psi vs. Delta Tau Delta. Sigma Kappa Delta vs. Phi Kappa Sigma. 5:00 P. M.——Glee Club prac- tice. Friday, April 24 10:30 A. M.—A. l. E. E. meetu ing in room D—Mission. ll :30 A. M.—A. I. Ch. E. meet- ing in Physics Lecture Room. 3:00 A. M.-—JBa-seball: West- ern State Normal of Kalamazoo vs. Armour at Armour. 8:30 P. M.—Freshman Inform~ al at I.W. A. C. Friday and Saturday, April 24 and 25 All day, track—Drake relays at Des Moines, Iowa. Saturday, April 25 9:30 A. M.——Golf——Loyola vs. Armour at Evergreen Golf Course at. 92nd and Western. Monday, April 27 3:30 P. M.-Basebsll-Moi‘ton vs. Armour at Armour. . . , Dr. A. E. Phillips lcals by the authorities at the east- m_*__~____~__d~_ JUNIOR renamf l to as new 01v FRIDAM MAY 22 No definite location or orchestra [for the Junior Formal have as yet lbecn selected by the social com< ‘mittec. Since this is the only formal of the college year every effort is being made to make it the most elaborate dance of all. is limited and as they are sold as ‘soon as the sale is opened those in— ltending to attend are urged to pur- 'chase them as soon as possible. The Oriental Room of the Knick- erbocker Hotel has been tentativelyl lreserved. The committee is now en- gaged in comparing orchestras. Det- inite announcements as to their de- cision may be printed in the next issue of the News. The Junior Formal climaxes the social activities of Junior Week and waccording to,,the,members of the committee it. will be a fitting climax. The members of the committee are: Fl J. J. Casey, chairman; J. Bryant, J. B. Dirkers, O. G. Lin- nell, G. W. Schoddc. The dance will take place Fri— day evening, May 22. (Trails Hear Talks 02712 Highway Design Three of a series of live lectures on “The Design of Concrete Highways" were delivered on Monday, Wednes- day and Friday of last week by Mr. W. E. Barker, chief highway engi- neer for the Portland Cement Asso- ciation, to the junior and senior civils. Mr. Barker’s talks which are of a purely educational nature, might be termed as a short course in road de- sign. His main intention is to provide the student with a knowledge of the fundamentals of this type of work. For this reason, the students have been furnished with pamphlets on “Highway Maintenance and Con- struction," which describe the process in detail. In his lectures to date the speaker has been concerned mainly with the design details of concrete roads, but in successive speeches of this week he will present the construction fea- tures of this modern type of road. 2 The “civil" students have praised the interesting manner in which Mr. Barker has presented his talks and looked forward to the resumption of them on Monday and Wednesday of this week. A. l. CfiMbers Will See Pictures processes of manufacture of nitro» cellulose will be shown at a meet— ing of the Armour Branch of the American Institute of Chemical En» April 24. The films are being- supplied lite Lacquer Company of Chicago. Illinois. A representative of Wilmington. Delaware, will address ,the student and faculty members l i gineers to be held at 11:30, Friday; through the courtesy of the. Brevmj North I the Hercules Powder Company. oi" as the sprinklers would be ineffecs Tuesday, April 21, l93l bit. ii. i. fililiifd dililtllllldd Mild flit Willi iidii’i' Faculty and Students Mlourn Passing of True Friend HERE SlNCE ’93 Students and faculty alike were grieved to learn of the death of Pro- fessor Alfred Edward Phillips, head of the department of civil engineer- ing, on Sunday, April 19th, at about seven o’clock in the evening. Pro- fessor Phillips had been at the Pres- byterian Hospital for the past five weeks for a period of extended obser- vation, and finally succumbed to a complication of diseases. The funeral services were held yes- terday afternoon at three o’clock from St. Luke's Episcopalchurch, Lee and Hiinman Sts., in Evanston. The senior civil class attended the serv- ices in a body, and the student body ‘was well represented. The faculty of the Institute was also present to render the last rites for their col‘ league and friend. The active pallbearers were Pro- fessors Stevens, Heald, Ensz, and The number of bids Grafton, and Messrs. Knucpfer and Hefner, while the honorary pall- bearers were Doctor Raymond, Dean Penn, Professor Wells, former Pro— fessor Campbell, Mr. Allison, and Mr. Guerin. Professor Phillips held an enviable position in the eyes of the many stu« dent who tudied under him and with his associates at the Institute. This is perhaps best shown in his acqui- sition of the name, “Pa" Phillips, 9. name which be appreciated and liked through the feeling that was behind atcd respected him for his wisdom, his accomplishments, and his kindly personality. Professor Wells, who studied under him at Purdue in a small class, and who knew him inti- mately, says, “He was the most kindly man I ever knew; the fairest and squarest man; a real scholar and student. He had a wonderful and pleasing personality.” The civil engineers who studied under Professor Phillips will always remember him as a well—versed engi- (Cmm'mzcd on page 3) Fire Protects Visit Street Car Shops Senior Fire Protects had a fine opportunity to come in contact with the work of a large repair shop and the fire hazards which accompany this work when they inspected the repair shops of the Chicago Surface Lines. The shops are located at rawford Avenue and Madison Street. The Fire Protects inspected these shops on their regular Friday trip last week. All the cars owned and operated by the Chicago Surface Lines are repaired and rebuilt at this plant. The plant is extremely well equipped to do any job of repairing or re- building that may come up, as it consists of complete units of ma- chine, pattern, forge, paint, wood- working, metal working, and electri« ical shops. An important part of 'the electrical section is the large immature shop, where such work as ‘rewiuding the motors in the street ems, and repairing all the electrical lequipment, is conducted. j In the machine shops such jobs icon be done as turning; out our iwheels. The shop is equipped to do lworli: from turning rivets to turning :car wheels. In the \voodworkizrg department lthe repairing: or rebuilding: of sll the frames and interioxs of the cars is carried on. The entire plant- is equianea to 1mm out a complete new csr. The plant is an unsprizikiered ris\ ‘tive in case of s the in 2 ext. it. The men with whom he...associ-,. l l l