Vol. Xlll. No. l5. Wednesday, May 23, “334 STEELENES By Leroy J. Bcclcmnn LED BY that fiery Missourian, Senator James A. Reed, a group of distinguished American leaders warned the Senate fureign relations committee last week that the coun» try’s security and independence would be imperiled by adherence to the league of nations court. Sup— porting the appeal of Senator Rccd were such men as ex'Senators George W. Popper of Pennsylvania and Otis F. Glenn of Illinois; J, Reuben Clark, oil-ambassador to Mexico; Edward A. Hayes, national com- mander of the American Legion; and twelve other witnesses together with a petition of protest bearing 1,344,- 347 names; names of American citi- zens. CONTAINED in the signed peti— tion was the following statement: “We protest against the United States participating in the league of nations or in the world court of the league of nations with or without reservations.” Affixed to this and other statements were the signatures of a mere more than one million names—compare that with the na- tional population. Did every “loyal” citizen respond to crisis Evi dently not. Did every “loyal" citi. zen core to respond to crisis, Again #evidcntly not. Was- your name affixed in denunciation of foreign entanglements? AS SENATOR REED termed it, there are individuals seeking “to pull down the American flag and substi— tute for it an international rag." We are led to say that conditions “at home” are of minor interest to many, particularly to the college man. We repeatedly encounter in- stances where the so—callcd college ”man” is influenced by foreign con- tact to the extent that he suggests foreign ideals—«yes, communistic ideals—to a large majority of sane individuals. The lame-brain who spends four or five years in an American institution of higher lcaru~ ing, gathering knowledge based on fundamental American principals, and then “grandstands” for recog- nition by assaulting American dev mocracy, is the type that favors American participation in foreign entanglements via the world court. Unfortunately, this nation has such damnablc curs. IF THE SERIOUSNESS of the question be lost, one has merely to refer to the resolution adopted by the American ‘Legion at the last na- tional convention: “Be it resolved by the American Legion in national convention assembled at Chicago, Ill., October 2 to 5, 1933, that it is op- posed to the entry of the United Statts into the league of nations or to the adherence to the league court, either with or without reservations." Is there any question as to the in— tentions of this resolution? The American Legion exists as the re- mains of the millions of young men (Continued on page 4) You Batu Pi Electc Officers for Your Tau Beta Pi, honorary engineer- ing fraternity, held its election of ofi‘icers for the coming school year last Tuesday morning in its rooms. They elected the following men to office: R. D. .Armsbury, president; J. J. Ahern, vice-president; E. N. Sear], corresponding secretary; W. B. Ahern, recording: secretary; A. E. Lauchiskis, cataloguer; Professor Pcebles, treasurer; and Professor Spears, member of the alumni ad- visory council. The retiring officers of the organization are: N. E. Co]- burn, president; I. A. Kolve, Vice— president; J. E. Schreiner, corre- sponding secretary; E. W. Gosswiller, recording secretary; and C. L. Sher- mer, catalogucr. A committee was appointed to sistants line up for the photog. THE JUNIOR Marshals and some of their as- ball team. ,l A CHAMPIUN outfit is the junior clues soft an election of officch for the Ar- a aophs defeat the freebies in the an— nual class rush. 2 l r0. This was the second con— secutive victory for the class of '36. junior PromrEnols l «Tech SociaiSeuoon; events of the year and the activ- ities of Junior Week, the annual Junior Formal Dinner Dance wool held last Friday night in the Cryutal Ballroom of the Educ-water Beach Hotel. The crowd was well repre— sentative of the junior class as well las of the other classes. Music for the dancing was Sup- plied by the orchestra of Phil Le— vant, recently director of the dance band of the Urban Room in the Congress Hotel. Each of the ladieh was presented with. a Monte Carlo favor. Chaperons for this. year’s prom were: Dr. and Mrs, Willard E. Hotchkiss, Dean and Mrs. Henry T. Heuld, Professor and Mrs. John J. lSchommer, Proie. 'or and Mrs. Her. bert Ensz, Professor W. Bruce buckling, and Professor Walter Hendricks. The arrangements for the Junior Formal were in charge of the junior .aocial committee con. sisting- of. N. A. Maurer, chairman, John Ahcrn, Richard Armbbury, Earl Fenskc, Richard Friede, Chedo Grakavac, and Robert Patterson. [filiemical Society Has Election out Utficers At a meeting of the A. I. Ch. E. last Friday Jack N. Wloilzmd was elected president for the coming year. The other new officers are R. C. Miller, vice—president; C. H. Riesz, secretary, and J. F. Humiston, treasurer. The election was the second one held as the several officers elected at a meeting lasi week were unable to laccept the offices. l Distribute Cyclea to Siaderata on Friday Distribution of the 1934 Cyclt‘ lwas carried out last Friday morn- ]ing. To hasten and case the task, lthlere were 2 placca in operation,‘ one on the first floor of Mission for those whose initials were from A to M and the other on the second floor for the remainder. The new Cycles have a blue cover with a design that depicts the courses at Armour. Individual consider proposed amendments to pictures of the faculty and graduat- the Tau Beta Pi constitution. The report of the committee will be sub- ing seniors are arranged in an un- usual manner, while the frontispicces Shop Committee Will Malta Report As a fitting close to the sociall Assemble Data from Other Engineering Schools, A preliminary report of the com- mittee on shop policy will be made before the end of the school year, Professor Joseph B. Finnegan, chair- man of the committee, told the Ar- mour Tech News last week. When the courses were suspended last sum~ mer, a committee was appointed to study practice and opinion on shop instruction at other engineering schools and make recommendations for the reorganization of this work at Armour. The committee, which is composed of Chairman Finnegan and Profes— sors Freeman, Healzl, lluntly, and Tibbals, has been working actively throughout the present year and has assembled data from 1'25 engineer— ing colleges. Other sources from which information and opinion were compiled include alumni of Armour who are members of Tau Beta Pi, executives in 75 Chicago industries, superintendents of shop courses at other colleges, and previous studies made by the electrical engineers’ hon— orary society and the Georgia School of Technology. This material is be- ing studied critically in the prcparaw tion of the committee’s recommenda- tions. “The character of the assembled data points strongly to the return of shop-courses of some kind,” Profcs~ sor Finnegan stated, “and our rccom~ mendations to this effect are already indicated. The greater part of the committee’s work, however, is con— cerned with the kind of shops which should be included in the program, the number of hours which can prop- erly be devoted to this kind of wcrk, the nature and objectives of shop in- struction, and other such details of the whole program. These points will all be covered in the report which is being worked out.” , ____ __ lSophomores Postpone flute at Splash Flurry l Due to Junior Week activities, final arrangements for the sopho‘ more splash party have not been completed and it was decided to post« pone it to a later date. Bids for the party, which was originally scheduled for today, are still on sale. The Medinah Michigan Avenue Club and a price of one dollar are still favored. mitted and action taken at a meet-101’ the various sections are pictures The new date will appear in a later ing in the. near future. of operations in local industries. edition of the News. Faculty activities will be formal- ly closed for this your at the Facul- ty Club dinner to be held Thurs- day, May 25, at 6 p. m. in the Stu- dent Union. Through the cll‘orts of the prcuidcnt, John J. Schommer, a novel program is being prepared. The two major cntcrtaincru are Cal Johnson of the Chicago Daily News, who will present a few reels of motion pictures on fishing and hunting- of the north woods, and Pat Barnes, famous radio announc- er from the NBC studios, who will give an act and talk. The faculty and many of the trustees will be present. l Ari flpen l Letter \ The General Information Bullcti i talus an announcement‘that annual 1'. l nology beginning September of this year will be $300 a year instead of ‘l l, $250 as heretofore. ’ for in excess of the tuition and othc ll instruction. The plant in which the l by members of the Armour family; 1 total amount of these gifts has bee :‘ citizens, alumni, trustees and facult annual burden. During the depression it has become progressively more diil'icult to ‘ income, an experience which Armour Institute of , obtain this outside Technology shares with practically al l higher education in the United States. , among competent and informed observers of developments in higher edu- cation that colleges will find it necessary to be more nearly self—support- ing in the future than they have been in the past. tuition to $300 a year at Armour institute of Technology is a logical step i in this direction, made necessary by c 1 of the Institute have no control. , As compared with other institutions the tuition ‘somcwhut below the average, which year, with engineering schools running generally higher than the aver» age for the obvious reason that expensive laboratory equipment makes for costs higher than in most other types of education. in Connection with the raise in tuition the policy of granting: scholar : ships to as many as possible meritorious students who need such aid will : every effort will be made to secure more be continued, and and to develop student loan funds on recalled in this connection that last at unanimously to make certain funds purpose. many students who would have if a loan had not been available. foun , need of the individual applicant. it goes without saying; that the action in respect to tuition was taken ‘ with a keen realization of the financial , not only the Institute but equally students and their parents. H of the Institute will oi course continue to counsel with individual stu- a possible in the solution of the financial problems involved in making the investment in their own futures which i, attendance and graduation from Armour Institute of Technology implies. dents and to aid in every way 3 Junior Week, the time of distribu— l‘ KMKAA. Election The cost of operating the Institute has always been ‘ «,rcuult of gifts by numerous benefactors. deficits representing the, difference between income from tuition and the cost of operation was contributed by members of the Armour family. recent years, the Armour family has been assisted by other public spirited ‘ This action has been of great help during. the current year to ‘ Such loans are granted upon the recom- , mcndation of the Deans’ office and are based exclusively on the merit and V Bcbduacbf the wish of tile mun}, Eflgfifi gfigfigfi Elaglfig agcmcnt of the Armour Tech, l ”“l..f£:':.;f,:“’i’;l Will ”lilihllltll ‘ lll lililllllld iiildll ” ll Second R—uoh Won in Which @pponenta Fail to Score uni liars—win sruur Circus Day, with its consequent thrills and excitement, has, like sim~ ’llar memorable occasions, come following men have been nominated 1101:” ten: lg]? the Jumothfirmoil by the election committee for the Th :1 tl‘ L inflgevyater Eeac o.c ‘ three offices: first vicc~prcsidcnt, thtk fiiliiio‘llhiral yCley 3:21:19. dr: i: .l h . Lars ,wr.tl' Don J. l ’ ’ I e' 'm S ’ 0 n 0 on p5 mg, The sophomores opened hostilities tian of this issue was delayed (ma ‘l (My. ‘ to be Haiti Friday On Friday, May 25, there will he mour Tech. Athletic Association. The Neal, track, and Roland Warner, tally in thz moming (h 01d dome I ' H ' l ' l c s UPSET’HNQ all basketball; second Vice president, { - ,, . . traditions i h 0: Joseph F. Bartusck, baseball, Eugene 31:1: W::);f:>;<;lti:2.t :Kdthiilfézihmez ' A. Hcikc, basketball, and James - . . l‘levrdc'iu, truck; secretary, Harry R. pitched battle was fought under the Dollenmalcr bu"kel,ball William Cou- MM street elevated Station; result—— colin') Ir ’ track and Robert the (H) or 40 odd freshmen lost to as Schmidt, wrestling, many sophs. Every freshman in the skirmish paid for the trouble by sur- The election will take place from rendering his trousers. (l a. m. to 4 p. m. on the first floor war, Two in succesfiion of the main building, all students At 11;3(), the Sophomore rush being eligible to vote. The members leader and class president, J. 0, Lay- of the election committee are V. {40", assigned the positioned and ()miecinski, L. W~ Bic-2’10", U J- tasks required of each of the active Neal, and F. Hackman. members of the class. As witness to the fact that these plans have been carried out perfectly, the soph— omore class is the third class in the history of the Institute to have captured two rushes in succession. lncidcntly, this rush gives the class the enviable record of handing their opponents a complete washout; the present juniors suffered a 58—0 wal— loping' last year, while the fresh- mcn are now nursing a 21-0 drub- bing. The last rush won by sopho. mores was in 1928 by a score. of 30.10. Following the rush, the four fru— tcrniiies, Delta Tau Delta, Phi Pi Phi, B'cta Poi, and Phi Kappa Sig» ma, competed in the Interfrnterni~ Ly Pageant. The winning skit was Due to several misunderstandings concerning this election, the pro- cedure oi' the election committee will he explained here. This commit» toe nominates three men for each ofl'icc in the spring 01' the year. These men are usually outstanding athletes. Following the names»: of the men nominated for office this year are the sports in which. each man was outstanding. A L-sophomore at the time of election is elected as first vice-president, a freshman as second vice-president, and a sophomore as secretary. Then in the fall of the year, a freshman is elected as their representative. These men serve as class representatives on the board of Athletic Control. The first vicc- . ' ' president automatically becomes the ”1'3““th by Pl“; Kipp: Slggw-f I'he m‘de t r th A. T. A. A. after “‘1 5 were .1“ get .v ro essor DTLSX (n 0 c Schommer, Professor Philip C. his term as first vice-president ox- pires. J. .l. Ahcrn is first vice-presi- dent this year, and h.£.- will become president for next year. lluntly, and Professor Walter Hen— dricks. Tho skits were judged on the basis of originality, acting, stage setting, number of actors, and cos- tun-res. Triangle Wins Cup skin for the winning skit ‘ was presented by Profesaor John J. ll (Schommcr. Triangle won the trav- eling cup for track for the third time. Medals for the interclass re- lays for both lettcrmen and non» lettermen were also presented by Professor Schommer. The freshmen provided humor for the occasion by burning an effigy , , of themselves. They had obtained The . . In more , the green doll With‘a yellow streak , 11ml cci'einomously ignited it. They held a pow»wow and war dance over the hot remains. Not to be overdone, the sopho- (Conlhmrd on page 5) The n for 1934 published last week con- uition at Armour Institute of Tech— r fees which students pay for their Institute is operating was donated all of'the equipment has come as a For many years the annual n eevcral million dollars. y in carrying a large part of this 1 privately supported institutions of W. R It is the consensus of opinion Pledges Six duniors The advance m Comprising- the largest single group to be chosen in its history. the following men were pledged last week to Phi Lambda Upsilon. honor ary chemical society: C‘. H. Hoot, .l. l“. llumision, A. E. Lauchiskis, H. C. Miller. C. ll. Riesz, and H. R. Young'- kraniz. The ceremonies took place in the Tau Beta Pi rooms. It is expected that these men will he initiated before the end of the present semester. onditions over which the authorities of $300 a year is strikes between $300 and $400 a scholarships ‘ a sound business ha. s. It will be , itunm the athletic association voted in its treasury available [or this Pa? Nu Epsilon to Haiti Annual Alumni" Smother d it impossible to remain in school Pi Nu Epsilon. honorary nmSicul fraternity. will present the annuai smoker at the Phi house ionic-lit :ii T130 o'clock. alumni Knupn, S i gym a (. problems which are confronting Oiiicors and l‘t‘fl't’sllllltilis will occupy the evening. Aciivcs and pledges juro urged to attend. Friday evening of this Wonk (he “’ILLARD E. HOTCHKlSS. linitiniion of pledges will take place ......... . .. . , , , at the Phi Kappa Sigma. house.