Page Two Armour Tech News Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY C HICAGO, ILLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year _ ”Q‘“ \ x '37 Single Copies, 10 Cents Each MANAGING BOARD m on Per Year Editor-in—chiet’ ....................... Edwin N. Searl Managing Editor . ........... Richard D. Armsbury Sports Editor ................... William B. Ahern . .Robert J. White .Walter Hendricks Business Manager ...... Faculty Advisor. . . . EDlTO AL DEPARTMENT News Editor ..................... L. J. Beckman Assistants . .......... F. D. Cotterman, R. R. Johnson, R. S. Kercher Copy Editor .......................... O. P. Freilinger Assistants ................... .. ,V. J. Kropf, H. S. Nachman, G. A. Zwissler Proof Editor. ................. J. F. Humiston Feature Edito . ....... C. R. Bristol, H. Levin Assistant. ......... A. J. Rosen, J. K. Morrison Editorial Writer .................... G. W. Ormsby Columnist .......... . . .Rohert Hella Stall” Photographer. . News Reporters ............................ N. Balai J. .l. Doudera, S. L. Ender, J. Galandak, W. G. Gax'tz, W. S. Hamlin, F. D. Hotl’ert, R. H. Knabe, J. Leskicwicz, F. Leason, R. A. Peterson, M. B. Stevens. Assistant Sports Editor ................... J. O. Larson Sports Reporters . . G. H. Bergquist, Worcester. J. M. Kubert, ’13. J. Pleva, R. _. _._..,_.__._......__._ BUSINESS DEPARTMENT C Advertising Manager .................. . L. DuSell Business Assistants .............. M. S. Alexander, N. Disenhaus, R. H. Hedin, W. A. Hotzficld; W. F. Lindeman, E. J. Simek, R. W. Strauss, D. C. Tim- berlake, F. A. Wert'l ‘ Circulation Manager .................. R. M. Lnndbergi Circulation Assistants ................... C. Forsbe)‘g.. E. C. Boyer, W. F. Schreiber. Vol. XIV DECEMEEB 18, 1934 No.3 How About Some Read Support? If our memory hasn’t completely failed us, we recall that it seems necessary every year to make exhortations in this column regarding a better attendance at intercollegiate athletic contests in which Armour Tech participates. It is very annoying to realize that it is neces- sary to plead with the student body about the matter; and, since in the past this pleading has not been efl'ective, we wish to make a different kind of appeal this year, one that we are afraid is the only one which can be successful with the Armour student body, namely, an appeal to each student’s selfishness or self-interest. We don't wish it to be thought for a minute that the varsity teams do not deserve whole-hearted support in the way of attendance of the student body at their contests. But, we only desire to foster a better at- f tendance at the games by pointing out to the stu- dent body that they are missing the great enjoy- ment and excitement of the actual viewing ofi these games and of cheering the Alma Mater’s team on to victory. l The sport which is in the spotlight at the mo— 1 ment is basketball, and with the varsity live play— 1 ing their home games in the 108th Engineers’ Armory at Thirty-fourth street and Wentworth avenue, which location is much nearer the Insti-l tute than the place the team has played in fore games of the squad being poorly attended. The Armour Tech basketball team promises to be one of the best in Armour’s history this year, with a veteran for practically every position on the team; and with an interesting schedule ar— ranged for this season, there undoubtedly will be some excellent games to be seen. Some students will raise as an objection tol their attendance the fact that they may have a class until five o’clock. To which we will answer that if you come over to the game then you can still see the most interesting part of the game. the last half. Let us all pull together and give the athletic teams (and especially the basketball team in the next two months) some real support. . Here is a Busy Organization going years, there is no good reason for the homel l l R. ARMOUR TECH NEWS 66 " ° 9" E The Shpstrck ’ Cleave to "The Slipstick": let i the Slapstick fly where it may. l BDOK- REVlEWS By Martin Hades From the flint tools, the discovery of fire and metals, and other devel- opments of prehistoric times to the water turbine, internal combustion engine, and the electric generator, is the scope of one of the recent Beard growing contest, Basketball games, Smokers, Homeworklll? . (Now where did we hear that, before)? l'cs, boys, only three more days Till no wm'hics.’ Bye {he bye, pipe those soup strainers The Senior ll/Icchs are sporting. r a a Customer: I’d like to see something cheap in a derby. Clerk: Try this on and look in the mirror. .1: :1: a Tramp: All I ask is to be given work in my line. But I must be provided with the proper equipment. Citizen: What is your trade? Tramp: I‘m a capitalist. * ii 0i li'hm‘a lhcrv's (I will, lhvrc's (I wtly—rlml le'rc Ihcrc are many wills, there’s no way. , a: WHAT GIRLS ARE MADE OF When a young man falls in love with a girl he is more or less inclined to believe she is so sweet that she cer— tainly must be made of sugar. Old men in their second “boyhood" also fall the same way and believe the same things. Without a doubt that is where they got the term “Sugar Daddy" from. But more practical minded per- sons (engineer ???) look upon sweet young ladies as being: made of sterner stuff than suger. Even men like them better if they do not “melt" under the heat of a little flattery. And now science has come forward with a list of the principal chemical ingredients that nature used in constructing good-looking young: women. These chemicals and their proportions follow: 1. Thirty to 40 teaspoons of salt. To stop them from bring too fl'r's/l. 2. Eight to 10 gallons of water. For a good supply of learn. .3. Enough lime to whitewash a big” chicken coup. Pcrhup’s that’s what lex‘l'h' than no fair. 4. Glycerinc enough for the bursting charge of a shell. This is who! molars Ihcm an explosive. 5. Enough glutin to make five pounds of glue. Apparently what makes the “clingingwim’” type. 6. Phosphorous enough to make 2,200 match heads. No doubt here’s where we go! the idea. of “hoi premiums." Fat sufficient to make seven bars of soap. 30 (hey can. feed “cuff. soap” lo the boys. 8. Plenty of iron to make a six-penny nail. What makes them so “hard.” 9. Sulphur enough to rid a dog of fleas. One reason cuts like It) be pulled by girls. 10. And believe it or not (not Ripley’s), only one totally blinded by love or fattcned on soft soap can see is insufficient to sweeten all oi'vthis water, lime, glycerinc, phosphorous, iron, salt, glue, fat and sulphur. a a a YE CODS AND LITTLE FlSHES The cool lays a thousand eggs The trusty hen but one; But the cod fish doesn’t l:(l(‘l'€l(’ To tell what it has done, And so we Spurn the cod fish cggi; While the trusty hen/3 we prize; Vl’hich shows to you and me, my frlr'mlx That it pays 10 advertise. six 2;- a dimmed Appreciation for kindness shown is never ll is! a 11cc. 0 1/ ,, v 4.- Frosh: “I call my girl a knob." Soph: “Why?” Frosh: “Because she is something to adore." i]; {l I}! BOOST! Boost your school, boost your friend, Boost the church that you attend. Boost the street on which you're dwelling" Boost the goods that you are selling. Boost the people round about you. They can get along without you, But success will quicker find them. Boost for every forward movement; Boost for every new improvement. Boost the may. for whom you. labor, Boost the strung/er and the neighbor. Cease to be a chronic knoclser. Cease to be (I progress blocker, If you’ll make your school better, Boos], it in a final letter. H. and entertained the Chicago Kiwanis club, the Chicago Rotary club, the Executives’ Club of Chi— cago, and the Armour Tech Alumni Association. One of the many organizations at Armour They will give the annual Christmas concert next which is constantly placing the name of this in- stitution before the public is the Armour Tech Music Clubs. A resume of the activities of Armour’s or— chestra and glee club thus far this season will Thursday and are preparing for another outside iconccrt early in January. l Numerous high—quality public performances as [these reflect considerable credit on the school. lThey require considerable time and effort on the illustrate this point. Since studies were resumed part of the director and the Students. Dr. 0. Gor~ in September, in addition to building up the or— don Erickson and the members of the Glee club ganizations to fill gaps left by last J unc’s gradua- 1 and orchestra are to be commended for their will- tion. the Music clubs have appeared at A Century of Progress. broadcasted over radio station WGN, ‘ingness to sacrifice other interests so that this work may be continued. measly quarter of a pound of sugar, which any one notlh story from GI‘MCO-Roflla" times. of the Armour library. A British publication, it is never— thcless universal in its appeal and interest. The book, “The Quest for Power,” by Hugh P. Vowlcs. is a type for which the need has never until re- cently been fulfilled. We have on our shelves histories of many other kinds of human activity, but no comprehensive history of engineer- inlee-not even power engineering, which this general survey deals with mainly—has yet been written, al- though the need is obvious enough. “Nevciwwas there so widespread an inter st taken as now in ma- chinery. . . . Whichever way we turn we find a mechanical invasion of human afl'aii's in full swing." We desire to know more about the past 3 and present prom as in power en- gineering and to g-ctlun understand- ing of what it is that has made these meat chances possible. Knowing of the never endlnp' quest for power throng-h the ages, we may be able to gut 2; how it will react on human affairs in the years to come. _ This very interesting volume con— sists of three books, the first dealing with the gradual acquisition of skill Iwhich preceded the development of power engineering as a specialized branch of engineering: activity. Many l of the ingenious devices invented in the last few centuries before the Christian era are described and illustrated. How many of us realize l that the Romans had alarm clocks, lmachined water pumps, a type of l torsion machine gun and, most sur— ‘ prising of all, an automatic coin— ] invthe-slot machine. Another Roman device, considered usually to be a modern invention, was a taximeter to measure the distances traveled in a chariot. It, was attached to the inner hub of the chariot wheel and by means of a system of gears. dropped a small, round stone ii‘to‘ can have against those HARMLESS a bronze vessel, making; a l'll'lfl'll’lg‘l Art Institute pigeons? (They can't “was traversed. The number stones showed the total distance. The second part of the book, en- titled “Thc Age of Power,” continues From the earliest known experi» ments with steam, the beginnings of the water-Wheel and the wind- mill, it takes us up to the turbine and generator. Every phase of: power generation and transmission. both mechanical and electrical, is taken up, not only from a develop ment point of View but also in the form of a general survey of modern practice and latest developments. Modern central power station oper— ation is the principal theme. in the third part, past and present methods of mining.r and treating- are discussed. Without the all-impor- tant materials of the earth, modern power plants as we know them could not exist. Coal and steel, the giants of our industrial age claim most of the space, for they have proved to be more wonderful than even the alchemists could have Tuesday, December 18, 1934 ' GAMPWS mm oucssscn" , lNQUlRlNG REPORTERS AT COLUMBIA U. DlSCOVERED THAT 5 OUT 0F 6 PEOPLE ON THE STREET BE ALEUM .‘ . _ mammals . ‘ AT,THE AGE OF 74‘. RECEIVED AN A.B. DEGREE LAST JUNE . FROM BUCKNELL UNlVERSlTY. i 3 BACK 9 ms WIEE . ‘ ‘WAS llelA‘lED INYO THE P -TA PHl sosonw LAST YEAR. 4 oo . ., , TOWELS PER WEEK ARE USED bY GVMNASTS AT THE UNNERSITY “' OF WISCONSIN-'- l l l l l l l sound every time a certain distancffl help it). dreamed. Copper, aluminum, tin and lead, are also followed through the ages. The entire book is characterized by a simple, direct, and exact style which while suiting it for the gen- eral reader, does not make it too light for the technical man. The fact that power engineering is pri- marily a branch of mechanical engineering should not discourage members of the other branches. The ceaseless march of progress, which is so admirably illustrated by this history of engineering, afl’ects not only the technicians, but all of us. i l l FACULTY NOTES r Last week saw the return to school of W. H. Seee‘rist, Assistant Profes- sor of Machine Design. Professor Seeg‘rist has been very ill with ty~ phoid [ever since last summer. He drank some contaminated water on a farm where he was staying: at thet time. l Professor D. P. Morelon was ah» i sent from his classes the latter half ‘o‘l last week. It. is understood that ‘ cause that's when their current {“0} ’date for a LlEVE COLL- EGE S’TllDEllTS ARE LDAFERS.’ _.__, ,_ . I“: p A” New ‘lins trials Slim/El. The Warren Prize 5" ‘ ' is over new, so all some lucky urchi- tect Iran; to do is sit tight and wait for fifty buckn to come rolling in. Here’s hoping that the lucky person is one all our own boys, because we can use the oday us well at anyone else, to my nothing of the honorable recognition. Speaking of recognition, we want Stcwie GRANGER to know that this column has been purposely ignoring him, because we felt that too much publicity might necessitate his pur— chase of a new hat. It might be. mentioned, however, without much danger, that Stewie’s favorite win- ter sport is hunting pigeons with snowballs. What do you suppose he A familiar scene that gives us al chuckle is that of Ray SCHWAB try- ing to collect money from “Buck— eye" BUCHHAUSER. It seems that Ray has certain expenses for which he would like to be reimbursed, but to get it from Buck, the SCARAB treasurer, he finds is about as easy as taking candy from a tiger. The two people who work hard- est on the history of Architecture sketches are Han-y BENTLEY and Nance SANDERS. Of course, Mr. BENTLEY makes the assignments, but he apparently also spends hours carefully hiding the books with the material in them, which therefore puts Mrs. Sanders to the not so sim- ple task of seeking out their hiding places. After her work is. done, all the students have to do is MAKE THE SKETCHES. The ARX ’35 appreciate the furl that the (engineers left intact their artistry in the Show on OGDEN field. In a recent water color judgment “Red” MAYFIELD and Ivar VIEHE- NAESS were FIRST-MENTIONED, and “Babs” vBlRUNETTI and Joe PFENDT received a MENTION— COMMENDED each. The fresh designed, in a sketch problem last week, “A small town Municipal building.” The sophs are busying themselves with their vault ing problems; and the juniors just can’t wait for New Year's Eve, be- How do you like that charette? And if the seniors don’t keep themselves busy on their project during the Christ VACATION ('1) there'll be plenty hell flying from one Charlie BEERSMAN, whose BOO? for this “I'm pitching. Now let’s see you guys hit me some HOME RUNS." eel; is due. mas is: weak All of which just boils down in our best wishes for a MERRY Prof. Ari Carpenter has modified his previous assertion that he always remembers where the “faces of his pupils sat.” But he’s willing to stick _ by the contention that he can remain- i her where the heforementioncd faces slept. .1: =lx m PROF. HARRY McCORMACK has finally decided to retire from active circulation. It seems that HARRY has collected a. lot of good juicy phone numbers during the course of his (Lcl'i'vc career and is at last will— ing to pass them on to (my junior schmicrs who are hard up for dates. )ll Vi! And it seems that WILD BILL AHERN (WlLLIAlVl BERNARD TO YOU) crashed through for a touch— down—his only error being that he mistook a street car window for the goal line. The referee (conductor) was looking the other way, so Bill wasn’t penalized. )ll :1: r1! DOC “ADOLPH” CHRISTOPH knows how to cure stopped up water boilers. “Feed it Pluto water” sezzel z: a Johnny Larson was on the dough» nut committee for the W. S. E. smoker last week. Therefore we’re sure Johnny went home hungry (7). fi< 3k ‘ And we understand that ROY l/VITTEKINDT is looking for the man who lost the object which ROY found in his pipe at the Sherman Hotel. The loser will please see MR. I'VITTEKINDT or MR. KELLYJ.’ .3: a 1|: As a result of ED MAY dashing la try out his new razor contrary to (if/mm! orders, Ed has received. a practical education, in red nose dyes and (lye removers. . . .Gomm write a book, Ed? Armour Alumni Lead Bowling Tournament The standing at the end of the first round of the Intercollegiate Bowling: League of Detroit. w ich finished last month, showed the first four teams in the following: order: Armour Institute, Wisconsin. Notre Dame. and Yale. There are sixte‘n teams in the league. each representing- u differ- ent college or university. The mem- bers of the Armour team are R. H. Kutterup, ‘31; L. M. Lotta. '25: R. Nelle, ’25; C. A. Nelson. '33; R. H. Osborne. "28; H. S. Swensoo. ’27: and R. S. \Vulsh, ’LT. In the past six years. the Armou‘ rerun has finished in one of the fi three plm'f's consistently and in at CHRISTMAS and A HAPPY NEW ‘. he has a severe cold but it is hoped YEAR. that he will return soon. ‘ EAGLE EYE. made a very fine shaping American Bowling was held in llctrciz. C o :11: ress