Tuesday, , April 14, l 93 l "bonanousc NlGl-ITS Henry L. Gibson (Continued from last issue) Partly for the benefit of: the inno- cent greenhorn but chiefly to bask in the admiration of their follows. the old timers trot out all the wild exag- gerations of the Paul Bunyan legends for exercise, inspection, and brush— ing up. Just as the proud owner of a thoroughbred horse likes to walk him out in front of some fellow breeder for his appreciation and en- vious inspection, so do these old timers come out with their tall stories of the mighty Paul. Stories that are cherished in the memories of every lumberman on the whole of the North American continent. Considerable skill is required to present these bunkhouse fables with the gravity that is indispensible to their telling. The camp leg-puller, who has attained his prestige and recognition only through many elim— ination contests in the past, asks the gathering, with the seriousness of a camp cook trying to explain why he forgot to order flour: “What become of Paul lately?" Someone, with equal sobriety, will say: “Last I heered, him and Babe wuz lookin’ for a new campsite." ‘ Holy old mackinawl ain’t he found one yet!” This is the key that will open up a jam of yarns that will swamp even a greenhorn with a feeling that all is not well up the river. Stories of that eighty foot lumberman, Paul Bunyan, and Babe the big blue ox, whose horns measure 42 axhandlcs and a plug 0' tobacco Irom tip to tip. Paul got him as a calf during the winter of the blue snow. That was the snow which scared the bears, sending them scampering to the North Pole, turning their hair grey with fright over night, so that they offsprings today are born white polar cubs. Stories of the Spring rain that came up from China. Paul had to turn all his bunkhouses upside down to keep the rain from coming up through the floors. The bunks were laid across the rafters. Vivid de- scriptions of the giant’s huge camp equipment. His saw-mill chimneys had to be constructed on the draw hriwartystemminwprderr to raise and lower them to let the clouds go by; his griddles weré so big that they required ten little nigger—boys skat— ing over them on rashers of bacon to keep them greased; his potatoes grew so large that he had to jack up the store house to get them into the cellar. Terrifying creatures like the tigermunks or the web»footed turkeys added novelty to Paul’s campsites, as did the ten-pound mos- quitos. These awful prodigics used to gain entry into the bunkhouses by ripping the shingles off the roof. The only way the pests could be quelled was by screwing boiler plate to the rafters, and every time one of them pushed his bill through, to clinch it over with sledge wielded by men working in two hour shifts for that very purpose. The noise of clanking sledges kept the men awake, so Paul hit on the idea of introducing bumble-bees as big as spaniels to Tum Professors “ Attend Meeting Last Thursday afternoon, Profes» sors D. P. Moreton and J. C. Pcebles, as representatives of Armour Tech, departed for Lafayette, Indiana, where they will attend the second annual Management and Personnel conference to be held at Purdue uni- versity under the direction 0:: the engineering extension department. The original body of Armour reprev scntatives was to include, besides the forementioned, Mr. G. S. Allison and Dean Palmer, but the unexpected death of the latter necessitated Mr. Allison’s remaining in Chicago. The conference is to extend over a two day period, namely April 10-11, its primary purpose being to discuss problems of management and per- sonnel, of interest to all officials. It will deal with topics that especially concern industrial managers“ an personnel department of schools of engineering. A varied program is promised, and many prominent speakers are to discuss those topics which relate directly to the purpose of this con- vention. ARMOUR TECH NEWS Subscription Why Not Be , a Charter Friday Subscriber? Vol. 1. ' A. 1. ’15., CHICAGO, AP NO, , BERRY, MARSHAL. l NEW runnmnon ANNOUNCE mots l GREETINGS TO "THE ARlii‘GiIR NEWS” l A’l‘ ARMOUR TECH 4 A ‘ he establishment of this student news mper is just another ‘ ‘ ' ‘ FOR JUMQR VVEFKl significant illuslii‘uliiorigf the slpirilt of ‘i’l‘hgr slat Ar _.| l 's i, MAKES n S DEB“! Open House, Junior Prom.‘, my earliest WIS tiatli s stun: mars w: .c Keeping \viti [lat "Newp ‘ ecom” a 01 our other ubhcatlons, of which wc are so proud. Whether Ch“ mm!" A" wed“; or not there age enough happenings of note to furnish material 1' or Weekly Ne“ Fcalurcs Plans in: Junior \l'cuk um Moon in prcpurulloll {or lhc past wflcks and are rapidly nrlulng m-‘ ulcllon under the Lllrccklon of wu- . nmy, who who rcnmitly elected by the Junior cm» in MI a weekly newspaper is the problem below: us, justifies the effort of publication, then all honor to the Board 01' Editors who have the success of this venture at heart. 0 rint a worthy and interesting news sheet commensurate W with the standards to which we are accustomed is a responsible undertaking, and I wish here to assure the ' that they shall hnvc the licarticst cooperation at tho of the Institute in this new but j tifiahlo student enterprise. , I I shall keep a copy a c m the archives of the lnsti~ l Lute along with our prized first editions of Institute publications. ml if the supply 1 members of the stall authorities Scmesler PROF. 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Brown, uud \vmmmi, l . . . dime» anb. the .qulnr Cluss I’rcui- lndmtwm; Pledges Many of the n-nluroluun, both the 1' soclnl. nml the honorary, have 1mm I l. v. dcl‘mltcly decided upon ll}: .1. 1 m 33.1? hnlhm 19- 0 W" "“3“ 5“‘““""y' best wishes to “The Armour News." May 1t 1ch the Ind in”... "ml ., , “I“: shill will hi; mutant loyal support of the student body and hc.as good as the best. ,flw Iwnmu, lluu u nrwulmpI-r l: m mnmhnu to 11qu him 1: Ilduct “ll. WA D M. RAYMOND, " '1 ‘lm‘hlv-v hm nhm‘u rumble lilizllilve munmililloiulll will. lli'ii'. President of the Armour Institute of Technology. “° "‘“"°"' "i" "‘ ”W l runny a! the given of the ‘1‘” l i n 4 ... realm-h. n.‘ ' would probably appear at two week ruinous To nun uouLcn TEs-rgpacufly Members _..._ ' . . .l | 1 Enthusiastic Over ;i'\' ”.1.- ' ‘ 41' .' n . . New Plluwatmnlniiiiii hid» Il’lllltlrvn 1'1.» crinlvlluhuwnl fir om, xmm‘nil-“mumm-upn Illnuu-r m m n or with untutucuuu "ml nppmvnl on “no new pulm purl. m llle‘l’nculty, n the opinions “I ‘ m lnlml, .1 I page of the first issue of tho Armour Tech News. Volume one, number student body on April 9, 1928, a fourmolumn, sixteen inch paper, carrying um city (or Ihe puryr mm m mm moi m-liuxlnlo upon w], ,. ’ intervals for the remainder of the W E. Barker, Highway Engineer, To Lecture Beginning today, Mr. W. E. Bark- er, who is chief highway engineer for the Portland Cement Association, will deliver a series of live talks on “The Design of Concrete Roads," to the juniors and seniors of the civil engineering department. Because of the extensivcness of his topic, Mr. Barker intends to talk over a five-day period, speaking about an hour each successive day on impor~ tant phases of his subject. The speaker has been warmly re— ceived at such prominent engineer- ing universities as Carnegie, Geor- gia and Purdue, where he has recent~ 1y delivered these lectures, primarily intended to be purely educational in value. Senior Chemicalsl'o Do Original Research- The senior students in the chemical engineering department are now ens gaged in research work on specific problems in addition to the prepara- tion of various clcricals on a semi~ commercial scale. Some of the problems which were selected for the study are, the clari— fication of crank-case oil, the flow of heat in steam-jacketed kettles, the preparation of soft and hard rubber to certain specifications, and the puri-~ fication of vegetable oils. The work is being done in the chemical engineering laboratories un- der the direction of Profcssor Mc~ Cormack and Bentley. drive the mosquitoes away. But the darn things crossed with each other and produced a progeny of horrible monsters with enormous bills on one end and deadly stingcrs on the other. These and scores of other talesv- just as authentic—are brought forth from the realms of fantasy by the old timers, apparently unconscious of the bewildered greenhorn in the back ground. The poor chap, almost con- vinced by the utter sincerity of their “reminiscences,” doesn’t know whe- ther to believe it or not. course prompts the story-tellers to‘ further feats of glorious exaggera- tion. One time though, after a particu- larly choice account of one of Paul’s fishing excursions, they were taken aback when a greenhorn from the city told them a story about a “guy called Jonah." Here they had a ten- dcrfoot who could meet them on their own ground. H‘is earnest protests that his tale was the Gospel truth only, served to prove his ability in telling as good a lie as any of them. Cutting ties is not such a dull old grind after-all, when you can have a d greenhorn and Paul Bunyan now and again. Of course Long Jaques’ denatured prune-juice livens things up too. Just how Long Jaques’ fire water linens things up will. be told. in the continuation of the story in the next issue of the Arman-r Tech News. Which of . Dean’s Death is Loss to Armour (Continued from page 1) ing career in the district schools at the age of nineteen. He then attend- ed the Ferris Institute at Big Rapids, Michigan, completing the course in the Normal Department there. He taught public school for eight years before entering the University of Michigan, graduating in 1903 with a Bachelor of Arts degree. At the time of his graduation from Michigan, he was married, was a1- rcady a proud parent, and was, in laddition, $1100 in debt, a situation that would have disheartened the average man. But Professor Palmer’s determination to give his all coupled with his genius in mathematics proved to be his salvation. mlmmedi,ately,,,aftcr he graduated from Michigan he joined the faculty at Armour, teaching the summer school course. In addition he did post-graduate work at the Univer- sity of Chicago for a number of years. In 1910 he received the title of As— sociate Professor of Mathematics, and when Dr. Campbell and Dean Monin retired in 1927, was made Professor and Head of the Depart- ment of Mathematics and Dean at Students. Dean Palmer married May Belle Hill of Marlette, Michigan, and was the father of four children, three daughters and one son. In addition to these children he had two grand- children. His son attends the Uni- versity of Illinois at the present time. The first textbook that was pub- lishud by Dean Palmer was “Proc- tical Mathematics.” This book was ldeveloped while he was teaching in the evening classes at the Institute l'for eight years. Since that time he ‘had written eleven books on mathe- matics, some of them in collaboration with other members of the faculty. A statement from his publishers in- l dicated that prior to January 1, 1928 la half million copies of his books had ‘heen sold. Professor Palmer Was a member of the American Mathematical So- ciety, the Mathematical Association of America, the American Society for the Advancement of Science, and the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Education. In addition lto these organizations he was affi- Midway Athletic Club, and the Na— tional Arts Club of New York. Dean Palmer was also an elder in the First Presbyterian Church of Chicago. Dean Palmer was well known by all the students. The fact that he was an individual of unusual charac- ter and fitness for the position that e held is shown by the immense popularity that he had with the stu~ dents of the Institute. It is very seldom that a man whose duty it is to reprimand students, warn them about grades, and settle their disputes gains the enthusiastic support of the entire student body. The passing of Dean Palmer leaves a vacancy that will be difficult to fill. Jliatcd with the University Club, the Senior F. P. lids Visit l Chicago Surface Lineel Next Friday, April 17, the Senior Fire Protects plan to visit the main repair shop of the Chicago Surface Lines at Fortieth and Madison Aves. In company of Prof. Hlolmes they will see practical repairing, cleaning and painting of our city street cars; the rebuilding and rcwinding of the series motors used on the cars. The trip planned for last Friday, April 10, to the American Can Go. works has been postponed. Electricwl’s Inspect G. E. X-Rczy Footer ry An inspection trip through the General Electric X—ray Corporation at 2012 W. Jackson Blvd. occupied the afternoon for the Senior Elec- tricals Tuesday, April 7. Originally this plant was owned by the Victor Company, General Electric taking them over recently. Many of our important developments in X-ray work had their origin here. The production of these tubes pro- ceeds in the modern efficient manner. The Electricals were first given a short interesting talk on the history, development, and applications of the X-ray tube by Mr. Call the chief engineer of. the plant. Probably the most interesting ma— chine shown was the Fluoroscope which simplifies the process of X—ray- ing the body. This device sends rays through the portion of the body dc» sired which, when focused upon a' fluorescent screen, reveals the bones clearly. The members of the group submitted to the test and were en- thusiastic over it. Next a few radio- graphs were taken and the negatives developed. One of the new develop- ments is the Cardiagraph which makes a photo of the heart beat curve. The production manufacture of transformers, cabinets, glass bulbs and various other parts of the X»ray tube was viewed from the simple parts to the assembled product. They are made in various sizes, the small— est being that used by the dentist. Throughout the trip, fundamcntal l l 1 Page Three Fraternity Council Discusses Toumeys in order to successfully promote plans for the various sports tourna- ments to be held in the future be- tween thc fraternities, the Inter-fra- ternity council held a meeting in Tau Beta Pi rooms last Wednesday after— noon at 2:00, A committee was appointed to pur. chase a new basket-ball trophy since the cup which is awarded is a per. moment one. A tentative schedule was drawn up for the track tournament and singing contests between fraternities, which are to take place during Junior week. Later R. E. 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