Vol. Xlll N0. l0 SEDELENES E By LEROY ECKMAN 'i‘ni: FEDERAL Government isi completing plans to return the air—l mail to the private aviation corpora-i tions at the earliest possible moment: Coincident with the bids to be re— ceived is the requirement that reor-‘ ganization of the administrative‘ staffs of the companies be effected“ so that all possibilities of fraud be consequently minimized. Of course, there ll‘ no doubt but What the “reor- ‘ ganization” stands as a more tech—, nicaliiy—probably not to be observed. l w . SLAMMING OUT THE IN x. l HURRIEDNESS on the part of: lTlAL HOME RUI‘ l oi the seaoon, the government in this QUEStion i”’iTacl Omiccineki, chhawk veteran first sucker. scored the first of 00051901194 by ghWtS- The ghosts 0‘ iihe series of runs which gave Armour a victory over the Maroons. twelve dead army pilots. The soulsi of these twelve men along with the o accusations of the public have labeled ‘Safigg Engfimfiflfi‘fi the government and the post-office, i department, in particular, as mural fieimg mmamfied: (lei-ere. They must wash their hands. w, ,7 , , of it all. President Roosevelt, being Upturn in Business is shown[ l :cnsitive politically), is taking steps By Placement Office | o retrieve a political blunder. 4 l __.._.«.._..,_.. l The greatest personnel demand in, BEFORE the incident 1033505 inu’ithe engineering fields today is for‘ history, it is well to note the fact'me type of man who may best be} that the previous air-mail contracts described as a “sales engineer." This, were made in fraud and collusion,“ any mm is indicated by requestsl That was the report made by th("looming currently to the Armour ln-l Senate investigation committee, hence a factp—if we are to accept that re— port as truthful. The law calls for competitive bidding in the releasing of airq’nail contracts, and this was‘ not alone. Instead, a group of repre- sentatives of certain favored com- panics met in Washington and dis tributed out among themselves the air-mail business of the United lthe general improvement of businesz‘ Sales Engineem Needed “A number of employers seeking young engineering graduates," said Howard K. Lnnigor, placement offi—; leer, “have asked recently for menl . who can combine drafting, designing, l , production, or laboratory work withl 513w?" isales. This has been true not only of small organizations, when it natural to expert that an employee should be engaged in more than one ifunction. but also by ,~=everal of the large companies.” it is not easy, Mr. Lnnigor point» ed out. to find the right men for such , positions. Those whose experience is limited to “inside” work. are inclined to regard thrmselVes as lacking: in‘ sales ability, and to steer clear of jobs with Sali’> requirements. In . veral specific ca'es, however, this, difficulty has proved to he imaginedl rather than real, and engineers who have been reluctant to take such jobs 1 are finding themselves capable and enthusiastic salesmen. Unfillcd Requests Reported For the fir-i tsmr since the, place- THE SENATE committee also ‘” made known the fact that these avla tion companion felt it necessary to be represented in Washington by indi- viduals to whom they paid large {9(th irindividuals whose sole apparent qualification was the fact that they Were politically connected. And then, these same companies strived to per- suade the country that they had not had their day in court, whereas for nearly a year the air companies had every opportunity to make a full pre- sentation of their case to the Senate, committee. The value of an air-mail contract was shown when D. M. Shaf- fer, chairman of a large airway cor- poration, appeared as witness be- fore the committee. Mr. Shaffer said that the mail contract meant noth- ing to his company: “We would have been better off if we had not got, it. because we have lost money on it since we have had it. . . .1 would say we have lost a. million dollars.” But“ when asked by the committee if they “wanted to surrender it,” the Witness hastened to say, “No, sir; we don‘t} want to surrender it." No, they didn‘t want to surrender a loss. mrnt office was opened more than a year ago, there have been several requests for men which could not be filled during: the last month. Mr. Lanigor feels: very rti'onely that it is, better to recommend no one for‘ a job than to man who “might do." or who “almost” meets the requirements of training: and ex— send a ,pcricnce specified by the employer. Most employers prefer to interview several candidates for a position and 1 then confer with the placement office ibcfore making a final selection. 1 Few New Jobs a! Fair lNTERVENTION on the part of, the government has meant little. Iti uncovered fallacies and introduced new ones. It has given the air~trans- port companies time to put on a false : Undergraduates seeking- summer . face and Start all 0V9“ The governv 3 employment who do not have connec- mcnt must change its tactics with re- l tions with family, friends. or previ~ ‘ gards to relationship with privatei nus employers, according to Mr. , enterprises. The contracts should loci Lanigor, may expect a tough siege. renewed, and administrative policies1 The World’s Fair has announced its intention of hiring this year‘s staff from those who were on the pay roll last year, and since this year’s pay‘ roll is to be considerably smaller, there are likely to be few new jobs. at the Fair. A list of concession-i naires and exhibitors is soon to bcl (Continued on page it) Phi Lambda Upsilon initiates Two Men l l l i l l Phi Lambda Upsilon, the honorary? chemical fraternity at Armour 111—; released, however, and it may he 130$ ‘ l sible for students to find summer 1 jobs with these people. Rector Eli. lit/l. Raymond Pays Visit to fichool the active members of the fraternity, Last Week, President Emeritusl several alumni members, and thus 3 Howard M. Raymond paid a visit to members who are doing graduate: his old friends at the Institute. “Thile work at the Institute for their Mas-l he was here, he expressed his satisJ tors Degree. Several members oni faction at the high standard of work the faculty were present to witness‘ maintained by Armour students. The the ceremony also. With the conclu—l former president said that he was: sion of the formalities all membersl very glad to be back with his old as- sought enjoyment which most of them I, sociates and friends with whom he found in playing bridge. lhad spent nearly forty years. stitute of Technology, formally in— itiated Jack Weiland and Elmer Renstrom, two juniors in the depart- ment of chemical engineering; last; Thursday evening, April 12, in thel Phi Kappa Sigma house. ‘ The ceremony was attended by all :condemncd as the principal .lt’len Appointed to A.S.M.E« to gfiww Sell l‘llay Tickets With the performance of “The Ito. mancers," coming in the near future, to be exact May 11, tickets to the production of the Armour Players have been placed on sale. In the freshman and sophoruorei'dl- 10330 21- all of which take English ture films- will be presented by the sentativg in each class Champion Spark Plug Company. An classes, courses, a repre l l Honorary fiance Plano tjompleted The (lastillian Room of the Hotel Shorelaml, located at 35th street and the lake, and Saturday, April 21,} are. the new place and date of thc‘ annual interhonorary fraternity dance, which was formerly to have been held on April 20 at the Allervl ton Hotel. Members of all the, hon-l orary fraternities, which include} scholastic, athletic, literary, and‘:i musical, will dance, to the music of! Morty Brodine and his orchestra. All i professors and their wives are in-, vitcd. alone- with President and Mrs. llotrhkiss and l’rol‘cs lleuld, and Hendricks who are :rues ‘ of honor. Novel (lance programs are , to he one of the l'caturen of tliis‘ dance. Ens ‘ l l l illicrures Friday. The Armour branch of the Amer- ican Society of Mechanical Engi- neers will be heats at a meetin Friday, April 20, in the assembly hall in. Three talking: pic~ has been appointed to contact every invitation to all students to attend ifititum placement office, where ln‘i member of that class with the exv this meeting; is extended by the icreased activity continues to reflectlmess purpose of selling: tickets. In M. E. ithe upper classes, it is expected that i a representative of each department branch of the Champion Spark Plug Mr. McNamara from the midweek will be appointed to ace the members Company will give a talk during the of his department meeting: and will discuss: all the qucsA Although tickets have been on sale tions raised. only a short while; the earl have been sui‘pi' y sales, to run the play a core, of all who wish to see the per- formance. “Under—Fire,” the title of thv first ,ingly good, and if film will show the vompleiie cycle in they keep up, it may be necessary the manufacture of spark plugs. wcond time to take The minim: of the “material and tintI different operations objected to will be shown and will briner out the General admit-5W“ Will bl‘ W’PY‘W- importance, oi‘ chemistry in thii-x in- iivr- cents, with two hundred seats on the main floor at thirty-live cents. Public Award Syetem At a meeting of Honor “A” last ‘ Wednesday, the members spent mos-I. Iof the time in discussing: plans for the future. A consensus of opinion of the members showed that it their desire to give the awards of Honor “A" to those selected, at a joint meeting' of the school. In the near future new faculty advi i will be also selected for this organi ation. is The discussions. proved to he rath~ er involved, so it was decided to hold lt will probably meet, as it did last week, in the Tao Beta l’i rooms. duatry. Race Filme to Be Shown Animated motion pictures of auto ignition systems will comprise the lmaterial in the second film and will be presented in a manner so that it will be easily understood by every- one. As a matter of i-nteriainIm-nt, the third film will deal with the history of all important racing events in re— ri-nt years. All from rwhich make use of the eas lll'lLUllf‘H lsuch as the airplane, motorcycle, and iuuiomobile will be shown. The imi iportnnce oi" the spark pin]: in these races will he exemplified. ', Joseph O’Hara, senior M. ii. o l' rm inc will ,at the convention of the A. S. M. ii. (Continued on page 4) Meat Engineer to Exist Someday; fiat What Day is identifier Story By. Prof. G. Lo, the poor engineer! Yesterday acclaimed as the most important facr tor in national prosperity ~— today cause of the depression! Yesterday his professional qualifications were all that could be asked forAtoday they are wholly deficient! What ails the engineer —‘ the inter- twined uncertainty and complexity of our present social, political and eco- nomic life which has Worked havoc with all classes, business, profession.- al and labor—the tremendous social and economic upheaval which is with» out precedent—the attempts on the ‘ part of politically actuated congress- ’ men and cloistered bureaucrats to solve problems and administer activ« ities by fiat laws of economics and of human relations? Nowthe trouble lies within the engineer himself—what is, if we believe the Statements in tho daily and technical press, if we lis— l ten to the theories of the “New Deal" educators, if we advocate the cur- ricula proposed by some of our engi-v neering schools. According, to these sources the successful engineer 1. 2. “He must have a charming per» sonality and be a good mixer.” 13. “He must be able to make in» tolligent judgments upon the econom» “Must be refined and cultui‘ed."" F. (Tobimrdt 1 ie as well as the engineering side 0ft such problems. as transportation, tax-‘ '3 ation, public utilities, wages and i hours, tariff, labor, etc." i l. “He must have an intelligent: iindustrial evolution of our presen l economic world.” , i 5. “He must be a leader and per-; sonnel manager and be able to cover‘ all aspects of handling labor." i i “He must be interested inl l in politics.” 7. “l-le must be actively interested ,in public works programs proposed; by any unit of government in which] he has a vote, and he should con—l ltribute his technical knowledge for the benefit of his lay neighbors to (an—1 able them more intelligently to panel, on bond issues and appropriationi measures involving sound engineeringr ‘ and business judgment as a [Linda-l n'iental." ”He should be able, to use the sh language clearly, concisely: l logically and forcefully." l Si. And so on ad infinitum. If the medical profession will onlyl do its stuff and increase the engi-Z . neer’s span of life to that of Methvi usclah some of our brighter student‘ may achieve the necessary qualiii ii~ tions by the your 2500 A. D. , 5’. l , l l l i l l l l l ”lilitlll lilllllll. Wild l i{higher than those of other colleges l historical picture of the economic and i Seven lit/lien Pfifidgflfifi | community life. and take active partl‘ Ceremonies 0f the honorary literary Shhlltlh lillllllll ill. tilllilfillw lllillll lihlllhll; llhAll WWW. ”lillhhll New Material Strengthens Hopes for High League Standing; lilirolre (frames it. Even in League not hear LAU‘CHlSl‘ZlS, BARTUSEK, HAYES LOOK GOOD Armour Students . ghoul Superiority l l Grades in Physics Exam Are higher Than Average 01‘ averaged from Students lilyHli'H l 20 to 52 per cent, in a nationwide physics examination conducted during the past year and covering;r the sections on mechanics and heat. This; lished by the vice, and the the American Teachers, the Cooperative Test Sch committee on ten of Association of Phy, cs authors of the exam ination. A. q 8900 Students Take Test i Approximately 8000 students from 180 schools, consistingr of 14 state univerniticn, 20 other univer— sities, 9 technical institutimis, and various colleges, took the mechanics test with an average score of 18.9. Armour’o score for 182 men, 22.7, was 20 per cent himhcr. The 2390 students of engineering who took the test averaged 19.9, with Armour 14 per cent better than this. Still greater was the difference in the heat examination. The average score was ii, on the basis of 160 schools and 7440 students. Armour’s ”17, was 527: higher. The engineering students taking" the test numbered 2039 and had an average score, Iscore of 11.7, with Armour ilfl'h ‘ 1‘ higher. i The above grades are not on a Ipercentaze basis, but are calculated from the difference between number right and a constant times 2 the number wrong. Engineering Stride-rite Highest An interesting; comparison is at— lllttl'llfld by the, averages of students iwvih various professional goals in lrmnd. The students of architecture ironic out the lowest in the heat ex- i‘amination with a score of 9.], While .another meeting tomorrow at l():350.ilw Armour’s omeial I'r'iHWW‘hl'dl‘lVl‘lL1“. students of ministry cxeelled' them by only 0.] of a point. The ll'ormer, however, did better in the .mechanics test, where the scores of ithc stutlents of engineering, law, teaching, medicine, business, archi- i tocture, ministry, and agriculture do:- i‘clined in that order. Another com» , parison can he made with the various classes in all the schools, in which he sophomores topped the best with 'an 18.!) average score, and the sen- 1iors were at the bottom with 16.6. 3y fiphinx Fraternity Pledging ceremonies of Sphinx were held last Tuesday evening- at the Theta Xi fraternity house. The men who went through the formal society were W. B. Ahcrn, R. D. Armsbury, L. .l. Beckman, S. Bern» stein, E. H. Doom), E. N. Soar], and G. W. Wheaten. The evening’s en» tertainment was supplied by the can- didates and refreshments followed in at Armour , was revealed by a‘ 5; next study of the preliminary report pub- the . Next Friday Elmhurst plays the Tech nine in the first game of the league season at Armour. However, of primary importance is the. task of handling;r the Purple squad from lt‘vanston in the second of the twu game series. The first game, played yesterday, was not run oil in time to come to press but there is need for l a crediLablc showing after the losses handed Tech last year by Northwest- ern. The game this afternoon prom- ises to he an interesting contest with i an improved Armour team. , Hopes for a successful league sea— son seem brighter than usual, and a victory over Elmhurst will atrengthen Ithem. Last your Armour won {our ‘land last four to place third in the league composed of North Central, 4 Elmhurst, Wheaten, Lake Forest, l and Armour. New Material Strengthens Team i This season with most of the men 1 returning from last year‘s squad and lsevcral promising new man, namely Lnuchiskin, Bartusek, and Hayes, the 1 team seems to be in good shape. Al l Lauchiakls is the promising third l baseman drafted from the basketball g court to fill the vacancy left by Steve ‘ Lillis when he declared himself an outfielder. So far A] is quite a hitv ,ter and hits can always be used. ' Bartusek is the new catcher and looks 1 as if he is capable of holding a reg- l ular place on the team. Then there is llayee who pitched against Chi- , cairn Normal and made a creditable showing. ii Play North Cemrnl The players returning from last year’s team along with the new nin- tl‘l‘lfll will give Tech as good a chance ito win the league championship as ‘ they have hnd in the last few years. North Central is the team that blasts ; the Armour hopes repeatedly and al- ‘ ready the North Central obstacle is something of interest and speculu- l tion. l __ _____ lAJLChiE. Members i to Hear Latin-op Dr. Elbert E. Lathrop, consulting engineer and former director of the Jackson Laboratories of the DuPont (30,, will address the members of the Armour branch of the American In- stitute of Chemical Engineers on Friday, April 27. His talk will be on the subject, “The Semi-plant in Chemical Process Development." He was obtained as speaker through the efforts of Arthur Highmun. Last Friday the members of A. I. Ch. E. were addressed by Mr. Mark Kleeberg‘. The latter took the place of Mr. Modzikowsky, chief testing engineer for the Peoples Gas, Light and (‘oke C0,, who was unable to at- tend. Mr. Kleeberir showed his audi- ence two motion pictures, the first con' rning the rise of the gas in“ dustry from the time of the first knowledge of the combustible prop- tries of coal gas, and the second showing the methods of nmnuiuctur— ing coal and carburetted water gas. timely sequence; but it seemed that‘ the active members were bored by; the type of amusement put on and in i the prom-ass of the entertainment they stole away and nibblcd up most of the refreshments leaving the odds and ends to the pledges who went home hungry and deprived of the nourishing edibles. The chief purpose 01' Sphinx is to honor the senior and junior students who hold a prominent, posstion the staff of any recognized pul‘lian lions. who here performed l‘ifl'l'li) meritorious senice. and who have shown distinguished ability. on Professor 33 injured in Foil to Paramount" Bentley of the department operation per- 9 cap. Professor \Valter .l. chemical engineering: recuperating: from an formed last Friday on his kn. which was fractured when he lipped and fell on the street. At present he is iii the John S. Murphy limpitai. where he may receive ViSlit s. l , in}; his absence. which w:ll be for Bowie)" the fellow about a :m‘zith. (‘1 «as will be com nwmbea s uwni.