Tuesday, September 29, 193] FAMED SCHOLAR TO LECTURE IN ASSEMBL l’ HALL German Physical Chemist at Armour this week on Friday o’clock in the Beginning afternoon at four Physics Lectu1e room, Professor Tropsch of Prague, Crechoslovakia will give a series of lecture to the senior chemicals. Theie will be a lecture each week throughOUt the year at this time. From a chemical standpoint, Pro- fessor Tropseh’s interest is in the study of catalysts and the use of these catalysts in the synthesis of paraffin hymo carbons The theme of his lectures is 10 be catalysts in chemical reactions. Probably the contents; will be the methods employ-ed in the preparation of catalysts, testing catalysts for efficiency, and the technique of con— the senior chemicals at these lectures theie may be men present fiom the practical engineering field. The lat- ter have been invited to take in these lectures if they can find time for the subject matter to be given has never been scheduled before at Armour or at any other school, for that matter, in lll’llS country. The chemicals are extremely for- tunate in having Professor Tropsch for these lectures. A good part of his life has been spent in the study of catalyst materials and he is con- sidered a world authority on them. Not only has he conducted research in this field, but he has also written ninety-four books on the subjejct. The titles of these texts range from “On Derivatives of Lutidinic Acid and Alpha Gamma-Diaminopyridine”, his first book, to ”Experiments on the Influence of Carbon Dioxide on Re- duction,” his forticth publication, and to “The Composition of the "Products Obtained in Petroleum Syn— thesis," his ninety-fourth text. All of his works have a wide circulation. Professor Tropsch was born on July 10,1889. From 1907-1912 he attended a Gennan technical high school in Prague and the German University, also in Prague. Then in 1913 he received a Degree of Engin- coring,r from the technical high school in Prague. From 1912 to 191-1, Professor Tropscl) was assistant to Professor Hans Meyer at the German universi— inquiring Reporter Question: What do you think of the improvements that have been made about the buildings? Replies. 'r. A. McGill, e. 12., '32. The im- provements in the electrical and physics laboratories have made these places much more pleasant in which to work. The brighter shade of paint as well as the new system of lighting that has been installed has made a considerable improvement in visibility. J. 0. Cavnnagh, Cl1.E. ’32. I was particularly impressed by the im- provements that have been made in the metallurgy laboratory. The many improvements in the spacing of equipment in all of our laboratories has been a decided step toward bet- ter work. Milton J. Winngrand, Cl1.E. '33. I think that the improvement that was made in Science Hall has been the thing that impressed me most. The upper part of the room with its white paint supplements the ex- tensive lighting system that was in. stalled last Spring makes this room one of the most modernly equipped of any that I hava seen. J. R. Jackson, Jr., FIRE. ’32. Now that a load has been taken off of the heads of the news staff, cleaner and better news may be expected to come forth from the renovated offices. The improvements for the office (and the school) were much needed. Emmet Scanlan, F.P.E. ’32. I was impressed by the new face on the clock just outside the electrical department office. It should inspire greater bursts of speed on the part of those who rely on it when they are late to classes in the Main Build- ing. 1... G. Wilkie, (LE. ’32. The sev- eral improvements which have been made in the buildings have been needed for some time. The new radio laboratory will be greatly appre~ ciatcd by the men who Itake the course. I also notice that sirens have been installed in Chapin Hall. Science Hall also has been decorated so that it looks more attractive. V. J. Minniek, E. E. ’32. The new lights which have been installed in the library, in Science Hall, and in several other rooms will prove to be conducive to better work among the students. I think the Armour Tech News office looks much better with ,its walls cleaned and a few coats of paint applied. ty in Prague. The dye—stuff industry claimed the attention of Professor Tropsch next. He was engaged in this branch of work for the next two years from 19111 to 1916. In 1916, teaching again claimed his attention. This time at the Kaiser Wilhelm Institute in Ruhr Professor Tropsch was with the In- stitute for one year before branching Off into the coal tar industry. He was a chemist in this industry for three years, being there from 1917 t°_1920‘ vius smiled upon the dear old earth After three years 111 the tar Indus- in a bountiful fashion on this all— try the DYOfeSSOT went back to the; important morn and the viaducts Kaiser Wilhelm Institute as an as-i were refreshingly flooded. Yea, even sistant director, being located in Ruhr‘ the basement of Main received in An Untimely Deluge Traps Locker Owners Unfortunately for the readers of this paper the omnipresent eye of this humble member of the fourth estate happened to wander into the basement of the Main Building last Friday. And the result of this aims less wandering is herewith presented in a woeful tale of student suffering. It appears as though Jupiter Plu- for a period of eight years from 19201 just due in the aqueous line to 1928. In 1928, Prorfessor Tropsch re turned to Prague to become a director in the Coal Research Institute of Prague. He also became connnected with the “Privatdocent Deutsche etechn Hochschule” in Prague. Cavanzrzgh to Attend Honorary Convention Jack Cavanag‘h, President of the Armour Chapter of Tau Beta Pi, will attend the annual convention of the fraternity at Cleveland on October eighth, ninth, and tenth. He will meet several other dele- gates in Chicago and then travel with the group to Cleveland. Here the gathering will spend the major por» tion of their time in the usual frater- nity convention legislation with the remaining memenifs to be occupied with various entertainments, among which will be a formal dance. 'A. T. A. A. APPOINTMENTS Stanley M. Lind, president of the Armour Tech Athletic Association has made the following appointments. Roger Waindle as chairman of inter- class athletics; Edward H. Chun as chairman of interfraternity athletics; and Maurice S. Erisman as publicity manager. l l ‘stairs to the lockers. In 1ther words seveial inches of water surrounded the lockers in the lower portion of school. With all the expressions of dismay known to man plainly written on their faces, stood a group of students. (Professors pleas-e reconstruct the foregoing sentence before reading it.) Of course they were not standing in the aforementioned water but were perched in precarious positions along the stairs and banisters leading to enterprising young engineer constructed a wooden bridge from the But due to an overloading (personally I think he forgot to consult his strength book) the bridge collapsed and many shoe~ shines became submerged in the murky rainwater. Professor Bible is ow Convalescing Professor Bibb of the mathematics department has not yet returned to school this semester due to illness. He has been confined to his bed with a severe case of septic poisoning. His recovery has been slow, but he hopes to be back on the job sometime this week. Spencer, During his absence, his classes L. G. Wilkie, are working on the job are being conducted by Professor with E. W. Carlton supervising the ARMOUR The Standard Volt Being a Treatise on the Thury System of Gastronomic Taxation By the Bongincer The local standard volt, now on dis— play in the Marine Dining Room of the Institute, is a gift from the late head of the Department of Clerical Engineering, who is now on a pen~ sion markingr calc papers. The pres~ entation was made shortly after the donor had obtained the third degree for his work on wormodymaniacs. This standard volt, of the unsatur- ated type, is one of the most prec1se and inaccurate in existence; being always at least ten motorcycles 011’ of its assigned fluency. But this condi-\ tion is due simply to the fact that the exo‘rgruvic crystals of cadmium are not of the piczo-electric type. For this and other reasons the volt is soon to be removed to a padded cell in the cable vault under the intersec- tion of Federal and Thirty-third Streets. The keys may be obtained in the Phys, Lab. but will not be available to any student who is less than twelve reports behind in his work. The standard volt is caliper.- ated no less often than umptcen times each century in our own steam plant by our own freshmen who attain an accuracy of nine places on the slide rule. i In the process of calipcration, which is interesting, if true, the volt is put in a hieroglyphic frequency sitter in order to kill off any foreign stamps or prohibition agents. Thus purified, the liquid is gasified until solidified, whereupon it is nullified, vitrified, and finally diversified to the extent that upon being further for-1 tificd, it becomes both amplified and certified. This proc 5's then ends in the liquid containing, aside from the standard volt juice. thirty percent water, forty—five percent oxygen, fifty- ‘ nine percent nitrogen, twenty percent i miscellaneous, and thirtyntwo percent} 1 of the rest of the constituents. Ac- counting for about two percent of the component par ts in this manner, there is still one hundred percent which is lost to the atmos fear in the form of brickbats and dumdum bullets, If the log: scales are used,'the weight is just that much less, It may be well said that the latest form of the standard volt is a dis- tinct departure from the conventional type of seven element tube. The unv usual characteristics and performance obtained are made possible only by the introduction of a second dis-con- nection, of novel design, which ex- tends from the automatic volume con— trol to the oil-cup dcuodorizer. It may be here stated that if the full resources of the volt be employed, the operation of sixty million Washing machines, twenty-five hundred thou» sand curling irons, and fifty-nine hun~ dred electric fans could be nuaran: teed 1111 at least ten thousand light years with enough enemy left to} supply a city of three million with‘ illumination and power for two and; one~half years. providing,r this muzhz electricity could be obtained from an ‘ outside source, since the standard volt will not even sustain a flashlight} lamp for one minute. This simplyl shows the illimitable reserve of the; volt and how it may be depended upon 3 in an emergency to furnish energy; 1 l News affice Painted l by Staff Members 1 In keeping with the general imei provements being; made about school,l the Armour Tech News offices are; beinp; decorated. i The work is beinp: performed by, members of the News Stafi", and con i sists of cleaning the three rooms of the offices. Walls are being; painted, wall paper cleaned, floors painted or varnished, furniture varnished, and lighting fixtures improved. These changes are being made to give the men on the paper a better place to work in and to make compil— ing the news easier. The suggestion that the offices would look better newly decciated, brought a number of men to the fore who pi'ofeSSed to know something about painting and carpentry. These fellows, including E. G. Avery, G. L. Bonvallet, E. W. Carlton, H. David~ son, J. S. McCall, W. H. Rudolf, and proceedings. ‘ conditions, , rectiformer photolyte wrapped TECH NEWS 111W TREANGLE Brother S. M. Spears, Kentucky Chapter, and recently appointed Ass’t. Prof. of Civil Engineering at i the Institute, will help to fill up the link between the faculty and the chapter, which was somewhat broken last spring by the death of Brother Alf ed E. Phillips, then head of the Civil Department. Pledge Roy Coleman, of the Kansas Chapter, is making his home with us while working here in Chicago. Triangle will hold its eighteenth annual National Chapter School Octo— ber 1.0 and 11 at the St. Clair Hotel. Maynard Venema, President, and Harold Bodinson, Treasurer, will be delegates from the Armour Chapter. BETA P51 Beta Psi takes honor in announc— inp; the election of Professor Mangold as National President of Beta Psi. Brother Kubicka and Pledge Patla have strengthened the recruits by again returning to school. Patla, it will be remembered, was Captain of last yea a1 ’11 successful Rifle’l cam. PHI KAPPA SlGMA Carroll Simone, Howard Hendricks, and Ralph Lake were representatives of the Armour Chapter at the Na— tional Convention of the Fraternity held in Chatanoog'a, Tenn., durino' the second week of September. KAPPA DELTA. El’SlLON Kappa. Delta Epsilon takes pleasure in announcing the initiation of George tosenthal, Ch. E., ’1’. . The initiation took place at the Indiana Sand Dunes. The new domicile of the chapter will be 3215 Michigan Blvd. A banquet was held September 17, at the Brevoort Hotel and every mem~ her was present. SIGMA ALPHA MU After a pleasant summer marked by two beach parties at the Indiana Sand lluncs and a formal dinner dance at the Edgcwater Beach Hotel, the chapter is again together for the school year. . iron Poriss has returned after vis ing his home in Connecticut. Al Aucrbach, C. E., ’31, is taking Postgraduate work at the University of Illinois under a Tau Beta Pi schol- arship. for an army (of lead soldiers). There lies the whole secret; for further particulars, write your conga-cs he knows less than you don’t. , At this point it may be instructive to dwell on the reactions of the stand— ard volt to incremental changes gin flux distribution in polyphase Elbe pots. of course, one must remember that since sti is proportional lite strain, and since variety is the: .pitc} of life, then why live when it costs so little to dye, And another pr in; sinte the speed isop<11ated at a hi hex point on the magnetization curve, it can cas1ly be seen that if the s aft were to iotate, it would no lo ge' bu at rest. L The standard volt is kept at a able constant tcmpc1atu1c since voltage decreases and mses, si the 111- taneously, at the rate of .001118‘5riam pe1 ccond pm bushel percent 011' ci The instrument is very so less at ccitaiu times of the day; at other times, for piccision wo’ must be used in conjugation w; three phase vibrator bucillofi; potentiometer which has been RC sanstalt tested by assistant junk dealer. which are never obt 250,000 licnry current c 1' when using the special megohm battery operated which is he i L cpl/1 h an 111-- be able, :1 drawn mellon a clockwork motor syncliron 1m with an ultra ska '5 old newspaper. A few words on the psychicu 1. struction of the standard volt ll help to illuminate any person 11 1'— estved and will confuse everyone (3, Anderson Promoted by Large Fence-m 0. A. Anderson, ’15, has been ap- pointed hvead of the Architectural, Construction, and Mechanical depart— ments of Armour and Company. The two former departments were con— solidated with the later department upon the retirement of Mr. Antler» son’s predecessor, Mr. Robert C. Page Three "sterner mores l Fred Atttwood, Ch.E. ’31, has re— cently been made advertising mana— ger of the International Filter Com- pany, located at 59 E. Van Buren St. His duties include the handling of the accounts and ordering of. materi— als for the department. The International Filtcr Company Clark, who supervised the building deals in water treatment and purifi- of Armour Institute. Worked During Vacations Mr. for Aimour and Company dining his summer vacations. worked in the drafting: room. Anderson first began to work At this time he Upon Molen, C.E. ’28, is service manager. his graduation from the Institute in I 1915, he entered the permanent em~ ploy of the company and was 35- mar fica‘cion plants. 0. A. DeCelle, Cl1.E. ’14, is vice- president and sales manager of the same company, while C F Vendor I. M. Kahn, ex—‘27, and F. J. Lam- ex- ’29 are employed in the signed to maintaining efficiency in same company 39 513195 engineers. the power plants. Duties Eroadencd It. Patzelt, E.E. ’31, and W. Dri— In 1919 his duties were broadened got. ’31. are attending the Common- to include the mechanical supervision wealth Edison Cflmpafly SChODl- of the smaller packing plants and the Anderson creameiics. In 1924 Mr. Manuel Yzaguirre, Ch:.E ’31,is was given charge of the installation MW employed by Ithe Annour Com- and opciation of all mechanical pany in their chemical 1esearch de- equipment in the Armour plants partment. throughout the country and in July, 1929, he was appointed head of the Engineering Department. A farewell dinner was given Mr. ’riends in the packing This Clark by his and construction industries. gathering was held at the Elks Club ‘at Wells and Washington Streets. Armour was represented by Mr. G. S. Allison and Mr. Cashier's office. not attend. Dr. Raymond Gives Radio Talk Today Isadore Drell of the same department is with the District of Chicago. class and Sanitary E. F. Rutkowski, CE. 1 transferred from the U. S. Geologi» cal Survey to the division of High- ways, State of Illinois, located at ’31, has Palmer of the Paris, 1“. Dean Penn and Dr. Raymond were invited also but could Leonard H. Dicke, Charles Wiant, and B. S. Lindquist, C.E.’s ’31, have positions in the U. S. Engineer’s of- fice at 333 N. Michigan Ave. Don Fetterman, E.E. ’81, is asssfr ing‘ in the completion of an electri- Presidcnt Raymond is scheduled to (#111 book for the American School of give a second talk from radio station Correspondence. WMAQ, under the auspic s. of thel Adult Education Council of Chicago. This talk will be delivered at 10:40 A. M. today and will be on the sub— This is the Ray— ject of adult education second of three talks which Dr. Harry Bailey, Ch.E. Y31, trip to Pittshurg recently. made a . Willard S. Deni-ling, ME. ’31, is in the insurance business in New mond is giving on this subject, «the York. 1 him of which will be given sometime in November or December. The fame of the Empress Eugenie The freshmen at Benedict's College are wearing them in place of the usual skull caps. hats is spreading. St. of the all comes in contact with the Another point worth consider. the University Of IlllUOlS- gears. Roscoe H. Windbigler, 0.15.. ’31, is in the employment of the Illinois State H i g l1 w a y department at Streator, Ill. Alvin B. Auerbach, C.E. ’31, is studying for his Master’s Degree at ing‘ is that the speed is directly pro- portional to any adiabatic increase in velocity. A. formal proof will not be given here but may be found in any good, non-corrosive dictionary. In order to provide constant potential for distant points, the rcsistaancc is over-compounded ten percent at full overload wattage, a feature which in itself 3 worth double the cost of half the price which the instrument would command were its.worth equal to three times the product of its value and its registration fee, It is there- fore unnecessary {,0 state that the standard volt is not only an efficient time waster, but a great economic institution, backed by some of most influenza] citizens. A. J. Lcukc, F.P.E. ’31, is working in Milwaukee with the Wisconsin In— spection Bureau. Rifle Club Needs Several New Mien A meeting to be held tomorrow, V‘v'ednesday, at 12:30 in Science Hall will launch the Armour Tech Rifle Club into a season’s activity which promises to be even more successful than that of last year. The purpose 0”" of the meeting is to get new mem. In our own laboratories, thestantb ard volt is used mainly as an indi- cator in the phenomena of the (man-- In this respect it demon— tum theory. stratcs the linearity of current 1' spouse to light flux caused by ioniza-1 1.1011 of the billiard balls used at the Faculty Club. Unfortunately, the metals used are extremely active and, since they do not react chemically, the use of indecent lamps is neces~ sary. Another use of the volt is in the determination of the moment of ignertia of electrical conductors and 11ers, especially Freshmen, who will be able to carry on in future years. If time permits after 21 discussion of the matches which are being; planned, officers for the coming year may be elected. Students who wish to become ex- pert marksmen will have the oppor— tunity of shooting with members of a championship (011m, Every man on last year’s squad is back this year; several of them have been keeping in trim during the summer at Fort Sheridan and elsewhere The mem- 1her h1p, which costs $1." -5 a year, motonnen as applied to the killetlclprovides fo, the use of me ion-go calculation of the harmonic txansient reactance of vector potential rise 01“ Under these condiw the potato bog. tions the standard volt becomes as accurate as a ten inch ammeter which has been dropped from 21 height of ten thousand feet to a concrete pave— merit. In conclusion we may point with. pride and view with alarm the fact that in dew time the standard volt will be a necessary evil in every test» ing: plant, every laboratory, every gas station. and every shoe shine parlor in the city, and possibly in the na— tiou. In this direction we are headed, and the researchifiers one doing a great piece of work in removing the coal piles which lay in the way of the inteinationul movement for the of the demotion of the The original latest model is cmt in~ ed in an old tomato can whi 1 5 filled with phlogistic hydroxidm c - iblc). The saline baths prove a 3' e ‘t invigorator and as a result th t transmits a succession of gum '- pers until the brush potential re 1 i s constant, according to a galvan d galvauonieter. A range finder ii _ vided with an adjustable consta c that different voltages may be ev . The gems require oiline' every v once a year with a very light. e of hesvv oil and this is complied with, taking care .1. cause of the standaid volt. lwhich is in the basement of Chopin Hall, second entrance. Members may also use the club rifle (most of the team members shoot with their own guns) and have the privilege of buy- ing ammunition at wholesale prices Students may use the range dur- ing any hours during which they have no class 5. wish the only res tion that they keep the range 511.,» shape and observe the rules of sportsmanship. Some time in October the Tech Rifle Team will meet the Elumboldt Park Gun Club at Fort Sheridan for the first match. The men are confi— dent of victory because of the sew ernl defeats they handed Rumba}: last year. Regular teen: members gold watch chs as swat the school a; the one of the