w Tuesday, February 27, “934 Foydnoy Roviaws His Rossini Flight Largest Assembly oiz Year Hears Him Speak (Continued from page 1) In August, 1933, Major Fordncy was ordered to report immediately as technical advisor to Lieutenant- Commander T. G.‘W. Settle. On No- vember 20, when Commander Settle continued his flight into the strato- sphere (he considers his second take- off as a continuation of the first at~ tempt, which ended so abruptly), he took Major Fordney, who had never before made a balloon ascension, along as scientific observer. The Major next explained the method used by the military service in solving all problems, whether in war or peace. It is known as “The Five Paragraph Field Order,” and was followed in planning this flight. This scheme consists of the follow~ lug points: 1, Mission, or statement of problem; 2, Information about enemy which in this case consisted of knowledge about conditions to be expected in the stratosphere; 3, An estimate of the situation; 4, Plan of attack; and 5, The giving of the nec- essary orders to execute the plan. Interior of Gondola. In Described To keep the explorers alive and to make them fairly comfortable, was another problem that required a solution. Wishing to carry the maxi- mum amount of oxygen in the min- imum amount of space, several fifty liter Dewar flasks containing liquid oxygen, were set on the shelf. The use of liquid oxygen is important because upon vaporization it acquircu eight times its original volume. Also in case a leak should develop in the shell, the officers could throw the liquid air on the deck and build up a pressure inside the gondola that would save their lives. A carbon (ll- oxidc and a water vapor absorber were also taker along. To provide air circulation and a fairly warm tem- perature within the gondola, the out— side bottom half of the ball was painted black, and thc outside upper half was polished. The instruments and other scien- tific apparatus that wcrc taken on this high altitude flight operated pcr~ fectly. However, the complete results obtained from most of these instru— ments have not yet bccn madc- known. One set of apparatus was for determining the color of the sky. This setup consisted of a color chart, lit by an incandescent light. To im- prove the accuracy of this compari— son, independent observations were made by the two occupants of thc sphere. Although the officers dif- fered slightly in their selection of the color corresponding to that of the sky, Major Forncy said that thc sky's color is close to a marine blue. The most important apparatus tak- en on the flight was, of course, the instruments for measuring the in~ tensity of the cosmic ray at various altitudes. This was the major purpose of the ascension and was in charge of Dr. Arthur H. Compton, well. known physicist. ”Takeoff" on November 20 After moving the balloon to the Goodyear plant at Akron, the big bag was inflated and hold in rendi- ness for a quick start on its {light into the upper regions. On Novem- ber 20, the surface weathel‘xgondi» tions were splendid, but with the use of small balloons it was found that a high Wind velocity existed at the higher altitudes. However, not wishing to wait any longer for bet- ter weather conditions, Commander Settle gave the order to prepare for the take-off. Once- the balloon got up in the air, Commander Settle cruised about un» til nearly 11:40 a. m. Chicago time, so that they would not reach their peak too soon. By merely dumping the service ballast through the air lock, the balloon made its ascension. At this stage of the trip, the ex- plorers first noticed the vertical os— cillations of the balloon, which were caused by the momentum of this 7000 pound mass. Balloon Driits 112%; m. p. b. During this flight it was very im- portant to know the position of the balloon. This was done by a method known as “piloting”. 0n the bottom of the gondola was a window with a set of cross hairs set in it. In this process of piloting, Commander Settle placed the back of his head against a shelf and observed the time elapsed during the passage of two points on the earth. In this way the mum camspsss ' Fraternities at De Pauw University are starting a new system whereby every freshman sees every house and every house sees ervevy freshman. A bird egg collection was recently added to the University of Colorado museum. It is one of the best and most complete in the west. Heat will be turned off in nearly all the buildings on the main cam—- pus at the University of Minnesota on Sunday and holidays when no classes are scheduled and it is esti- mated that $6,000 will be saved through this action. Colgate college is located in Ham— ilton, N. Y., while Hamilton college is located in Colgate, N. Y. (Just to get you mixed up). A group of studento in an eastern university, after waiting for five min- utco for a hardy professor, walked out. The maestro was quite indignant over the action. “You could easily we 1 was here," he reprimanded, “for my hat was on my desk." Next day, upon arriving at his classroom, a strange sight greeted him. . .it was empty save for a but on, every desk. An instructor in the sociology dc- purtment 01' Wisconsin passes out cigarettes during examinations to make the students more natural be- cause he says the course itsoll‘ is such an inhuman one. There are no stag's, either male or female, at University of Utah co-ed dances. When a dance is hold each girl hands in 9. list of four names in preferential order. A council at- tempts to date them up in the order named, but if that fails the girls are paired off according: to alphabetical arrangement or by classes. Students belonging to Gamma Kappa Delta, chmm Junior College honorary, arc m'vmpl, from all final «mini/rm! ions. The University of Maine offers a course in ice cream making. The school is located in the heart of a dairy country where ice cream is one of the important products. Cos: College sophomores do not be» liovc that a co—ed’s appearance is en- hanced by use of lipstick and nail polish, they admillod in a recent sur- vey. A professor at Wisconsin State (lollcg’c rccommcnds the old institu» tion of cramming bccausc it repre— sents concentration of the highest order. lie, also asserts that modern psychologists believe knowledge gained more rapidly will be retained longer and more fully. A psychology professor, ul‘tcr a spoed and direction of the balloon's course was kept track of. At an al— titude of 30,000 feet, it was found that the balloon was traveling: at a speed of 112%: miles per hour to- ward the Atlantic Ocean. At 3:00 p. m. Chicago time, the balloon started its descent from its record height of over 58,000 feet above the earth. At this time the sun had set behind the haze and mists that existed at about the altitude of 35,000 feet. This haze kept much of the radiant energy of the sun from reaching the balloon, so the tempera— ture of the gas dropped, and the balloon fell to a level where the weight of the air displaced could support the ship. By that time the sun had sank farther and still less of its radiant energy reached the balloon. In this manner the balloon reached an altitude of 26,500 feet. Then the hatches were opened, and the disposal ballast was rapidly heaved overboard. “The Marines Land First" As the balloon came quite close to earth, Commander Settle crawled on top of the gondola. Soon he gave a command, and Major Fordney heaved on the line that opened the rip panel. A few second later the gondola gently struck the ground, and rolled over in such a manner that the floor was no longer hori- zontal. In trying to right it, be rushed to the high end near an open port hole. The landing of the bal- loon caused the gondola to roll in the reverse direction. Thus Major Fordney was thrown through the port hole, and true to the code ol the U. S. Marines, he landed first. ARMOUR TECH NEWS 'l'llh S'l‘hhlil Sliillflll. We that VINNIE QUAYLE’S short wrwc set, which he operated in the library, gets; about every short wave station Miller the sun exccpt Kd) stolioys. understand The fac‘l that Connie changed from a civil to a mech. course leads one to think that maybe the moch. course is a haven for dis- oppointed civilo. . . Liociani J. W. HARD announces special rates at his Mucoln Park Hotel for the current social season for Armour Students. His mite: Be at. Home When Away From Home. (Ed. Note: Not an ad.) 0h, Clarence Rumor has it that CLARENCE CLARKSON is in demand (Radim land seeks his services) after his pleasing voice was heard over the microphone system last Wednesday. It is believed that he will broadcast. cooking roccipos . . . the famous Miss- Joycc Cool '1: Innovations thorough investigation at Colgate, announced that chewing gum no- proves a student’s pep about eight per cent. The newest thing in college sub~ sidizing was uncovered recently when Dulce and Virginia rot-(Willy prolcslcd the eligibility of q piccolo player in the band of the University of North. Carolina. It is charged that the of- fending musician accepted pay at a snaside resort last summer. .3 I934, LIGGIlTl‘ cl Mvcus Toowcco Co. Mummimmmmmm a g Frodfamohy illusion l WWWWWW Pl’ll KAPPA SlCMA A triuchaptcr initiation consisting of the three Chicagoland chapters, namely, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and Armour Institute, was held on Monday evening, February 19, in the Intcrfratetnity Club at the Palmer House. Among the speakers were “Arch" Jackson, the president of the executive board and Louis W. Bioglcr, the president ol‘ the Armour chapter. The initiation was followed by a dinner and the usual after dinner speeches. The Armour chapter takes pleas. me in announcing the initiation of the following men: Charles R. Ford ’36. Frank A. Hefner Jr. '37. Edwin J. Skoppstrom ’37. Harold E. Stehman ’37. Richard P. Thunder ’37. BETA PSI Beta chapter of Beta Psi wishes to announce the formal initiation last Sunday of the following men: H. R. Cannon F.P.E. ’35 l“. H. Dcnio TEE. ’37. C. L. DuSell F.I’.E. ’30, J. K. Morrison F.P.E. ‘35. G. J. Svehla F.P.E. '37. Following the initiating ceremonies a banquet was held. Several alumni were present for both the initiation and the banquet. A considerable number of couples turned out Saturday night for the dance hold at the house. Brother Bristol rcccivcd the congratulations of those present on his coming- of age. Sim footers; among the men stu— dents at the Um‘wcrsity of Maryland arc rejoicing over the installation of a number of cwtra-lcnglh beds in tho mcn’a dormitories. tho pips tobacco blasts Russo no sensible package 10 mm Major Fordncy is lintcroi’ewed (Continued from 1)(([/(,’ l ) uutc work at the time and only had twenty more hours of work for my master’s degree, too. My professor of Thermodynamics, with whom I'd taken a seminar, was a retired naval commander, and l asked him for ad» vice on which branch of the service to enter. He told me to join the marines because the marines were probably the most active of any of the units and that the marines ulso had the most varied activities. So I joined the marines! “Maybe you never heard of them, but therc’rc a couple of companies of marines that actually ride horses.— they call them the ‘horscmarlncs’. I saw duty with the 44th Mounted for a spell in San Domingo.” in the interim between being shown a color replica of the strato— sphere sky and a detailed cxplanu» tion of just what makes the balloon come down when the sun goes down, we “popped” another question which must have resembled the requests of little kids for tall tales from the heroes of the local fire cnginc com~ pony. “Did you ever have any narrow squeaks—any especially thrilling: ex— perience—or something? Serving; for thrco or [our years, you must have had something; happen to you.” Major Fordncy smiled. “ Ian’t say as I did have any hair raising experi- once. No. I guess there's absolutely nothing 1 can tell you alum,r that line." “Do you mean to say you can’t even toll us of one single incident, Major Why, we’ve always read that marines lead such reckless lives and all that.” “Yes,” the major laughed, “I’ve read that too.” “What do you think 01' those ‘ltaw Wax" pictures, Major?" Page Three l, “Wull,” said the major thoughtfuh ‘ 1y, “Anyone that's ovu boon to Wéll ‘ doesn‘t. ever want to sec another onc ; of course. But, on the other hand, if there (we. wore a war, I’d Want my children to be prepared so that they’d have a little better chance to get out alive than a lot of follows I have known. l have four children. And they‘re symmetrically spaced with re— gard to sex. The two older ones, thirteen and clcvcn, are girls, and the two younger, seven and three, are boys. The older boy is all set on be- inp; a marine, too.” (Major Fordney married the equivalent of the ‘ daughter" when he married Nancy Fuller, the (laughter of his commanding officer, in 1930.) ”Say, Major, would you mind tell— ing us why Commander Settle didn’t tukc up another balloonist like him- self?” “Surely. Commander Settle said. ‘Ono bolloonist is cnouch.’ And one was enough. Commander Scttlc is the foremost balloonist in the world, you know, and has taken a first, a second, and a third in the Gordon Bennett balloon races. He is versatile when it comma to all t—thcrc isn’t any. thing; from a du‘iu‘iblc to o. glider that he can not fly. The outstanding qual- ity that Settle wanted was the abil- ity to follow orders to the letter— nnd not to lose onc’s head—because in a spam: as small as the gondola, if one of us becomes cxcitcd, well. . . I wouldn’t. be talking: to you now, "Just. one more thing: before we go, Major. Don’t you think you can score us up even one breathtaking episode that. cvcr happened to you as a marine that we could put in the paper? Just one!” The major’s smile broadened, “No, I just can’t. The only thing I can do is promise, though, that if anything ‘huir raising“ happens to me between today and tomorrow, I’ll let you know about it.” And so we left the Administration Building, took a look at the high. Sky Ride to the left, and laughed. “Wfifil—HS Granger package is what , 1 call good common sense. it’s just about as good pouch. as a tobacco “Here’s What 1 mean-”it keeps the tobacco right, and you can fold it up smaller after every pipe. That makes it handy to carry. "And it want to put in a word for the tobacco while l’m at it. Granger keeps a pipe clean as a whistle, and man, it is just about inhuman» l ell/er is cool. ”l want to my Gmmger the host smolec ,. ‘°’ this gulps 'lohacco that’s Qfiihh .f“ V .r F. a as Monolith“ imam M chic r: