Page Two ARMOUR TECH NEWS Tuesday, November 3, l93l Minoan This 2 on Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year CHICAGO ASHE IATION ummtu ‘ count orwwavtns SUBSCRIPTION RATES $2.00 Per Year Single Copies, 10 Cents Each MANAGING BOARD Editor-in-Chicf ............. . . .Wilbur H. Rudolf, ’32 Managing Edito . ..... Max .1. Schinke, ’32 News Editor. . .. Edward W. Carlton, ’32 Business Manager . ..... James J. Casey, ’32 Faculty Adviser. . ..... . . . .Professor Walter Hendricks EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT Feature Editor ............... J. R. Jackson, Jr.. ’32 Fraternity Assistant. . . . . .Harold Bodinson, ’33 Architectural Assistant. .. ..... . Davies, ’33 Reviews ............... . . . .Morton Eugen, ‘32 Columnist... . . Assistant News Editor ...George Bonvallet, ’32 Orville T. Barnett, '33 Copy Editor ........................ L. G. Wilkic, ’32 l J. B. Dirkers, '32 Assistants ...... . ....... J. W. Juvinall, ’33 ( F. w. Paine, ’33 Reporters N. E. Colburn, ’34 W. Krol, ’34 V. Rimsha, ’34 J. A. Scheyer, ’34 E. E. Eberth, ’33 R. F. Rychlik, ’33 H. Fishman, ’33 E. G. Avery, ’34 SPORTS DEPARTMENT Sports Editor. . . . . . . . . .H. P. Richter, ’32 Reporters R. A. Fleissner, ’34 D. F. Landwer, ’34 S. J. Viktora, ’34 C. H. Fox, ’32 H. F. Becker, '33 H. W. Davidson, '34 BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Advertising Manager ................. M. A. Collick, ’32 Assistants R. E. Nelson, ’33 W. L. Bengston, ’32 E. J. Wiltrakis, ’32 Circulation Manager ......... . ....... J. S. McCall, ’32 Assistants E. H. Chun, ’32 1.. Marcus, ’34 R. Dufour, ’33 T. C. Peavcy, ’34 M. J. Erisman, ’33 C. B. Sommer, ’33 E. A. Svohoda, ‘34 Vol. VIII NOVEMBER 3, 1931 No. 7 The melancholy days are come, the saddest of the ~year, 0f wailing winds and naked woods and meadows brown and sear. William Cullen Bryant Born November 3, 1794. The One Hour Lunch Period For the last several weeks the subject of the proposed full hour lunch period has been under discussion in vari- ous official and unofficial groups in the student body. The idea was suggested at the Freshman Handshake and has been talked of, more or less, ever since. Stated in a few words, the proposition is this: that the first morning class start at eight o’clock rather than eight-thirty and the extra time thus gained be added to the lunch period. According to this, the fourth class of the day would be dismissed at eleven~fifty. With such a schedule the fifth class could start either at one-ten, as it does now, or at one o’clock, still leaving one hour and ten minutes for lunch or an increase of twenty minutes over the present allotment. If this latter plan were adopted, the last class of the day could be dismissed at fourwfifty instead of live o’clock. We feel sure that a majority of the students will agree that such an addition to the lunch period would be a distinct benefit. feel that, with a little more care, the department sched- ules could be arranged so that students having eleven- thirty classes would not have any at one-ten, and vice versa. This would obviate the necessity of starting the first class at eight o’clock and would still give sufficient time for lunch. We have consulted with the authorities on this point and have been assured that such a plan is impossible. The office of the Deans, in making out the schedules, is already doing all that it can to arrange them Whenever it is possible, in the manner suggested above. W wwww um: i 66 The @lipsticlc M E Cleave to “The Slipstick"; let 3 the Slapstick fly where it may. «a i l l mmmm mam. mmhmhnnsm Tech Band Needs Bass Player Don’t tell me that there is a bass horn player running loose in the In— stitute! If there is one send him right over to the band. We can’t for the life of us see why a person could want to play such a thing as a bass horn. Now take a saxophone, for in- stance; you can get real music from it, but a bass horn, we just can’t see it. We will admit, however, that a bass player does get all wrapped up in his work . s WHICH ONE SHALL IT BE!! “There is a movement to bring the theater to Armour v—"a'ccordinp; to last week’s News. We thought the. Senior Mechanicals had gone out and hog—tied one and dragged it here, until Hal told us about the Dramatics movement. We can’t offer our services as a performer but we’ll sell popcorn or rent opera glasses if that will help. it c: ‘l. )l» '1: And if the freshmen who were nearly hurt in an acci~ dent, as reported last week, had been wearing Empress Eugenie hats, they would have wanted to display them, would not have been riding in an auto, and as a result no accident would have occurred. Moral: Freshmen, get and wear your Eugenics nowl! Prevent accidents. ’l’ ’5 2:: Somebody swiped Virgd’s curl/l Well, we just hope that Virgo either gets the old one bat-la right. soon or gets a, new mic. We certainly would hate to ride thc street car to the Senior dance. I: 12: They tell us (altho we hate to believe it) that Pro— prietor Livingston of Ye Armour Booke Stalle has now a supply of graph paper that actually takes ink This news will be a blow to the freshmen who have been forewarned that they may save money by buying talcum powder and Artgum in carload lots for preliminary graph paper treatment during their next four years at Tech. Personally (this is the only column in the News where one is allowed to get personal) we were getting- used to it and might have perfected an automatic grease ,eradicotor had the incentive not been removed. HI 7.. m o And if the Frosh had been wearing Eugenics, there would have been a crowd of them in the middle of Fed- eral Street, and those two initiates to the Schmier Chem— ikcr Society would have been at the window throwing chalk at them, and as a result no explosion would have occurred. Moral: Freshmen, get and wear your Eugenies now! Protect Property. 2: o xi Jacques Pierre, we are surprised at you. May we state here in public that Jacques wrote us a letter in answer to our request for barnyard poetry, which carried a poem which had the tone of one making love. We cannot tolerate such trash, but want good barnyard style poetry. Hope we didn’t scare you, Jacques, come again. Another story in last week’s News says that “There wasn’t enough excitement in the lives of the sophomore It is probable, however, that many will= chemicals—the result being—a piping hot fire.” Moral. Freshmen, get and wear your Eugenics now! Create excitement and thus prevent fires. 114 5h 31: Say, we have a complaint to make. Some goodfornoth- ing imp sent in an unsigned contribution with the follow- ing joke: “Jimmy, does your father know any new funny jokes?" “No, he’s a newspaper columnist.” This little message has all the earmarks of, well, you know what I mean. 3!: ll: 1:‘ Step-Hen pens us a line saying that (at the Chi-Yale game) “One time the ‘mighty Atom’ got smeared and they had to delay the game while they picked up the protons and electrons.” We wonder if the charge that caused this ionization really did occur on the Grid. Ho also recalls that one man got up during the game, and, pointing to the Akron which was flying overhead, 1'.\'(‘lUl’Wl(’dZ . “Thul‘s my idcu of a good [inc (cu! cigarff" the programs are so designed that the eleven—thirty andl‘ Crab ”of. “Hem Joe n one 3; these ci ars m one—ten classes for any one group meet on different days, 1 wife give :me for I’m, birthdYay They are a: be“), but, because of the complications involved in making the 1 thing; out... ‘ programs of students and professors dovetail, it is often ‘ ‘ . . _ , , , , Joe: “Yeh? How are they when the ’re lighted?" impossdilc to achieve this ideal condition. ‘ y Well, well, well]! He’s now a full fledged iimmbc‘r, president, and treasurer of Schmicr Choc/hiker, Incorpor~ niccl.. Arc congratulations in order? It is probable that the only objections to the idea of starting the school day earlier would come from those} who commute from a distance and who share in the unl