By Leroy Beckman ‘ LAST YEAR at the annual meet- ing of the American Society of Me- chanical Engineers, a committee on Manual on Citizenship was appointed, the purpose of the committee being to prepare a pamphlet treating of the engineer’s broader duties as a citizen. In 1932, the society es— tablished the Hoover Gold Medal, to mark the public service of men who have gone outside their strictly pro- fessional work to interest themselves in civic and humanitarian affairs. The first medal was awarded to Her» bert Hoover. In response to the presentation, President Hoover said: “I have a high appreciation ‘of the other professions, but the engineers, I insist, have a contribution to make to public service and they have an obligation to give that contribution.” Of course, civic sensitiveness has’ prevailed in all types of professional societies, but. it is gratifying to note that an engineer is expected to be a citizen too. THE ADVANTAGES [rained fromi our system of government, our dc" mocracy, refer to a large extent to the industrial system in which we are involved. It would be safe to say that one is a function of the other, and that one deserves and requires as much individual attention as the other. The present, industrial era is intense, and as a consequence the tendency is to refer to the profes- sion with little regard for the other coordinate of a unified system, citi~ zenship. Real-Admiral George Wal» lace Melville, who as engineerin- chief‘ of the Navy, set forth in al discussion: “Not until the engineer-i of all grades has done his part to-} wards the promotion of the hiizhesti efficiency of the government can he2 truly say that he is, in the fullestl sense of the term, a good citizen of the Republic." Inasmuch as both gov- ernment and engineering, regardless of intermediate deviations, are di— rected with intent to improve the en. ‘ vironment of humanity, it follows“ that the engineer is slowly involved: in governmental projects of an cmri—s peering nature. But, does the eng’i—l neer look upon these projects as a, benefit for the engineer—~——or for thei citizen? THE PAMPHLET presented by the Committee on Citizenship of the American Society of Mechanical, Engineers goes a long way in pro-‘ motinp: citizenship. It provides a course of study in the attainment, of citizenship. It is suggested thatl the young- eng‘ineer continue thei study of economics and sociology: He is encouraged to parlimpate inl, the. activities of clubs and political! groups, to affiliate himself withi engineering: societies and act as a? liason between the two groups. This‘ ties in exactly with the intent of. all national engineering: societies to make the Junior members feel more at home in their local sections, and of getting: them interested in the ac- tivities of these sections. The engi- neering" societies are interested inl, citizenship. How about you, thel young engineer? , Dr. Hotchltiss wan { Talk at Austin High; Dr. Willard E. llotchkiss, preshl dent of Armour Institute of Tech~l nuloc'y, will deliver the commence-l inent address at Austin High Schooll on February 1 before 500 graduates.‘ He will speak upon the subject “En- gineering: Tomorrow” and will dis-i cuss the future opportunities and, duties of the engineer. l On February ’7 and 8 Dr. Hotchvl kiss will open and preside over the‘ first sion of the Metropolitan Housing Council which will be held at the Union. League club. “The Larger Aspects of City Planning" will be the title of his opening ad» dress. w futons Finished for chemical engineering. Meetingslwill and discussed. Plan to Organize a Local Branch ofS.P.E.E. l. b. tilltlllhlfil‘lhlll l Frosh~50ph Hamel dfhfilid ill Ahllh'f fl l l Most of the plans for the Fresh» man»Sopbomore dance have been completed -by the members of the so- cial committees working under the direction of the chairmen, S. Healy and O. Tomei. i l hhlltlil‘idil nun Predicts Upturn in Employment of The only arrangement which has Engineers not been definitely concluded is the, seating arrangement at the tables. which will all be reserved. ‘ Maurie Sherman and his Columbia Broadcasting system orchestra, which plays daily from the College Inn, have been definitely engaged to pro- vide music for the dance. to be held February 22 at the Bal Tabarin of the Hotel Sherman. Kay Tolan, a newcomer to the entertainment world who has already established quite a reputation for herself, will assist the orchestra, singing in her own distinctive manner. In addition, the College Inn floor show will en- tertain with their regular program. Bids for the dance, which will be one of the most unusual in the his- tory of the school, will be on sale this week and may'be purchased from members of either the fresh— man or sophomore social committees. Members of all classes and their friends are cordially invited and a large turnout is expected. Will Offer Course in Chemical Plant Design HEARD OVER WLS Last week was designated as Col- lege Week by the Adult Educational Council of Chicago, and in observ- ance of this week a series of radio talks were given by outstanding busi- ness and professional men of the city. The speaker last Thursday was Mr. James D. Cunningham, chair- man of Armours Board of Trustees. Many Taking Advanced Training In his speech, which was on ”Adult Education in the Engineering Profes- sion,” Mr. Cunningham pointed out that “many of the country’s engineers} are now idle, and particularly that a large proportion of the graduates of our engineering colleges during the past five year have been unable to find professional employment." Many of these men are attending full-time or pal-btime classes organized to give them advanced knowledge. “Why then should young men submit them- selves to the work and discipline of an engineering: course, and why should the graduates take post—grad- uate training?” This is the ques- tion which Mr. Cunningham propos- ed to answer. In the constructive speech he points ed out that in a recent article the statement was made that “a short- lane of engineers has appeared after lever-y previous industrial depression, and that, this depression being more severe than others, the ensuing short— age of technically trained men will be more marked than in previous revivvl . . . . i als.” To further add to the agreeablei engineering.r plant desrg’n will be . . used in the course. This text is thciu11ther 0"" the? Sltuutlfll’l,- and to solo American book on the topic. ;sl.rengthen 'hlS idea, he pomted out ‘ that statistics Show that “by 1937 we shall be turning out barely two-thirds us many engineers as we should." i Advises Expanded Education l Offering these statements of past history and of current trends, also the beliefs of prominent men, he, showed that in lieu of these facts “toi improve and expand their education Professor McCormack, director of chemical engineering, is offering an elective course in chemical plant design to the seniors majoring in probably be held once a week. Prob— lems in dcsign and sketches showing flow of materials and location of plant equipment will be prcsentcdl Vilbrandt’s text book on chemical l Plans are now developing~ for the formation of an Illinoisdndiana sec- tion of the Society for Promotion n, 0*" Engineering Educatw- The is the wisest thing that could be done‘ SChOO'S “5‘0“”: ””5 pl'OJOCt are from the “standpoint of investment.” Armour Institute of Technology, 1‘ University of Illinois, Purdue llni~ " versity and Rose Polytechnic Insti-] tute. The other engineering schools, in the two states will he asked toI participate in the activities of the; l l Send First Order for Senior Class Jewelry1 The first order for senior classl rings and k , amounting:~ in value" to about $100, was placed by the senior jewelry committee with Spies brothers, the jewelers, last Saturday. 1 Another group of orders will be. placed as soon as sufficient orders are received by the committee mem- 3, bars. l, —~—~4————~ l Of the three types of rings of—l‘ lfercd, the ten carat gold ring a'l-l KrakhWOhi Presents :pears to find the most favor wifhi Sequel to Lens Talk l At 11:30 Thursday morning in society. On February iii four representa—i tives from each of the above named schools will meet at Armour. Pri-‘ mary plans for organization will be, made and a program for a moroi general representative meeting to be; held later in the spring, will be} mapped out. , the seniors, although several havei expressed their preference for the two-tone ring’. The blue spincl ap-i Science hall the math club will hoidi Pea” t” ’30 ”‘9 most I">Pula" 0" ”ml its last meeting of the semester. Nex . Stones (’fiel'C‘L JewCli”y may be. (”V‘l, semester a new meeting: time which i dered through the 59ml)" class jew-l C. will not conflict with the nicmbers’ l clry committee, composed PT E' N‘l programs will be chosen. 3 Searl, c airman, A. E. Christoph, Mn H). Forsyth, .l. R. Lang, Barclay, Professor Krathwohl is scheduled‘ to give a sequel to his first talk on “Lenses” at the coming meeting: It, ‘l ‘l - r f the th' ‘. th i l w1 l c ea] up some 0 c mos at l PKUEBSSDR‘ Donates l were gone over too hurriedly in the, _ former presentation, and will also in- Floodligbts to School ‘ Students will be interested to know troduce some new points. MY. Carl M. Miller :that the floodlights which illumine1 . ithc corner of Federal and Thirty- Wlll Ta”? t0 A-an-E- ithird streets, were installed through "— 1the sole efforts of Professor D. P. NeXt Friday, February 1, at 30:30 i Moreton, who donated them to the a. m. the Armour branch of ll‘elschool. American Institute of Electrical En-l The lamps, eleven of them, are mi Emma‘s Will 1193)‘ an addre. by M“. l three banks, and serve the entire Carl M- Miller in the EleCtI‘iCiiY LBC- vicinity of Armour, being effective in l ture 1'001“ M1“ Miller, who is an discouraging prowlers, as well as ini engineer employed by the Weston making- the way easier for those who Instrument Company, Will talk on ‘ must Walk in the neighborhood. These “Westion Photronic Cells and their lamps will continue being oneratedl Application in Industry.” nightly during- the school session, l Jones, and Frank llenke. ‘ lA. S. M. E. =of the allotted time, Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, ll‘inois to Detroiidfumni l Professor John J. Schommer talk- ‘ ed last Tuesday in Detroit at a meet« l inc: of the Michigan alumni of Ar» mour Institute. ‘His talk gave a brief history of Armour Tech from 1921 to 1935. His subject matter related to the trustees, professors and thel president and he went on to tell how this year’s deficit, in contrast to the vast deficit of previous years,‘ has been cut down and can undoubt- edly be finally removed to perpetuate Armour Tech. Dr. Howard M. Ray— mond, Pr sident Emeritus of Ar- mour Institute, gave a brief talk on his former associations at Armour. Stanley A. Beatty, F. P. E., ’30, was elected president of the Armour Alumni of Michigan and H. W. Mul» lips, 11‘. P. 13., ’30, was elected sec- rotaryvtreasurcr. The alumni decreed the first Tuesday of every month toI be Armour Alumni luncheon day. i Fraternity Alumni Will Meet Tonight Members of the faculty commit- tee on fraternity affairs, alumni representatives of all the nine social fraternities and the presidents of each of the social fraternities will meet at a dinner in the Student’s Union, tonight, to discuss a plan of coordination between, the fraterni- ties and the faculty committee rep— resenting,- the school. The idea of the plan was sun'- uested at the last meeting" of the committee with alumni representa- tives of the fraternities on Novem- ber 21. It was decided that the far-l ulty committee should formulate a plan whereby the social fraternities and the school could work smoothly together. Such a plan has been formed. To— night. it will be referred by the com» mittee to the assent-bled alumni rep- resentatives and presidents of the fraternities. Mechanicals Enter A... b. lid. E. Contest Entering their names in the locall contest, (7. It. Goldberg, a senior, and A. M. Lane, a junior,‘ cave twenty minute talks at the, meeting last Friday on “The Auto~i giro" and “The Overdrive as Ap- plied to Automotive Transm s respectively. The contest is being-l held to determine the member who‘ will represent the Armour chapter at the annual sprinu‘ competition hold 1 by the A. S. M. E. on April 27, ini which speakers from technical schools I cal meetings with an eye for their u range and would become tax exempt; } amount of equipment neccss ‘ those who have signed up or talked, Tuesday, January 29, 1935 .Scmmmw Sneaks lllfAlfllh ll. Mild filliltdhl nus mu hittidlth ”flidtlhllllttd Eh? "tidbit hillll lt’lllt’lilltihh @Abiiili Wayne Easy dngl-ylfirrons in Second Defeat, 38—36; Team Props for Dropout/v, Feb. 8 SEASON TOTAL: 8 Wle, 2 LOSSES Never dauntcd by their defeat in ithe hard fought North Central game last Monday, the Tech hoopcrs made Because of the final (momma.- liom; and the mid-semester holi— don/s, the next issue of the Armour l Tech News will be distribuwd llh‘il" weeleend Michigan tour PTO~ Tuesday, FNMHMW 19' (luctive of victories seven and eight, i for a season total of 8 wins, 2 losses. ‘(7onisidcrinu‘ that the trip has been particularly unproductive for the last 'thrce years, the week-end’s feat is the more remarkable, Friday, the Wayne live was smothered, 4331; and Saturday’s play yielded Victory .by a narrow margin at Ypsilanti, 38—36. Luucbiskio High Point Man Captain Lauchiskis led the team with 24 points, collecting“ 3 and 3 in the Wayne game, and 5 and 5 in the finals at Ypsilanti. Scoring at Wayne was well distributed among the reg— ulars with Harry Dollenmaire on his first tallying binge of the season; five baskets! Gene Heikc and the captain led the scoring at Ypsilanti. The Wayne five had to contend with a really “hot” Armour team. Ere the first hall was very old, the Technien. had run up a 164 lead, but the home boys were able to wind up the period at 18-12. Merz controlled the tipofi' for Ar- mour throughout the game. Once in May Locate Site f0? AVCheffly {Tab the second half he batted the toss up _ to Lauchiskis at the pivot line and may soon bcythe captain converted before the H 1 Wayne team had left their starting ipositions. Aside from conventional other members of the newly formed SCOI'infl. Dolly's hi1; five came by way archery group to utilize some of the , "f a beautifully executed guard vacant property in the, immediatclm'ound play and tWO snappy liOOli vicinity which now is in the posses—Whom. sion of Armour Institute. The pres? Huron Game Clone ent property which is not being; used [ AL YPSilfmti: Saturday night AT- i‘nr educational purposes is subjcct~ i mour wa. still warm, but: the ‘I-Iurons ed to taxation; and, since the lnsti~lwcre I“? from 13‘0“ on their home lute has vacant property, part of “0013 They led at the half, 14-13 this could be used for the archery 1 and min-ht have gone to town had not .l-leikc, yanked for an early slump, this idea has been approved by Mule-nine back with five second period Amy,” i t('onti11m’({ or! [mgr 4) A meeting: is to be held some time i this week to a. semble all the l'el-lFacufifiy Comtmilztees lows interested and to determine the , rV. Aiil Report on Progress Armour Graduate to Touch Social Science Arthur S. Hanson, an Armour graduate, will replace Prof or Ber— olzheimcr next semester a social science instructor. Professor l-lan‘ sen, who completed an electrical en- :rinccring‘ course at Armour in 1926, has also attended the University of" Chicago and Northwestern Univer— sity, where he has taken up the study of' economics. After having: com- pleted his studies nit Armour, he taught mathematics here for a year before takinp; up economics. Pro- fessor Hansen has also been a con— sulting actuary, type of work which combines mathematics with business economy. a An archery range found on the Armour campus. It i proposed by Harold Meyer and to Harold Meyer are W'Pil’fl to he ‘ At a incctinu‘ of the Faculty Conn“ present. ; cil last Thursday, Dean Heald spoke i briefly on the registration for next FL‘nll'RlCl', and the chairmen of sev- eral of the standing committees rc- portcd their progress. in regard to the Publicity (“om- Announcements Will Be On Display Soon throughout the country will yio llOl'i Senior ammunccmcnts for this, mittec, Professor Paul told of the PIT/«05~ lycar will be made by the E. AW; pos s licim: cut to several high Papers 3"" beinu‘ presented ‘“ lo-l Wright Company of Philadelphia, l sclles. The object of these posters l development alone~ the lines used as, ha ”s of judgment in the actual com-i petition. These have been classiflmb into two divisions, the presentation, and the contents of the paper. Thol, two classes are then subdivided in‘ the following: manner: under prel sentaiion there are the bearing of- the speaker, his choice of words, his: diction, his method of delivery and, its effectiveness, his judicious use? Under the head of contents of the 1 paper are the fitness of the material for a technically interested audience, , cope, the originality of the spoak~ , the sequence of arrangement, the literary style, and the speaker’s ac- (maintanco with his subject. 3 Advance Registration Being Held This Week In order to avoid some of the con‘ ffusion and delay on the regular reg-i~ stration day, February ll, all stu» dents who are reasonably sure of‘ their program for the next semester! may register and pay tuition and fees ‘1 on any day from January 28 to Feb ruary 2 inclusive. Instructors will} be prepared to enroll students in‘, classes on Saturday, February 2 from i 9 a. m. to 12 m. ‘ at a meeting of the American Alum- ,and their officers, and to bring to who also supplied them fora previ- is to advertise the social activi ous your. The announcements will,ut Armour, since its engineering he placed on display sometime al'leri standing is already well known. the middle of l<‘(-5bi‘uary. Professor Finnegan told the (loun— ‘ (ii of the endeavor of the Society for Promotion Engineering: Educa— tirn to establish an lllinnisdndiann section. This section is to be com~ [msml of members of the faculties of Armour Institute of 'l‘ochnologry. Il» of Sic-hammer Delegate ‘r to Council Meeting Proi'c. John Schommcr and William Settcl'hum will sent Armour Institute of Tochnolog’ i'cpi'c— Purdue Univer- ‘ity. and Rose Polytechnic Institute. who will int-e1 regularly to advance engineering education. Ilc also said that :i call has llt'L‘ll issued for a pm» organization meeting: to be held at linois l'nivcrsity. university This is :1 iii Council at Cl’llt" next Friday. Fobi'uni l. regional conference for colleges in, Jllinuis, lmliflnai KCMW’M’. Mii'hl'l Armour sometime in February. gran, Minnesota. Ohio, West Virginia! Tho four Oiher committees “mph and W con irrpoi'tcd at this meeting: were the Tlllf‘ ('mll‘i‘l’t‘“('0 is part "r “W l“'0 committees on (ii'zulimlc rourscx‘. cram 0f the American A“mmlil‘h‘csliiiinn scholarship.(‘iii'i'iviiln,ami ('ouncil. With the informal discus,merni, sion which lukcs place at the dis—l trict meetings, they supplcnient thoi national meeting of the (‘0uncil., which will be held in \Vushing’ton this i your. The aim of the conference is to provide opportunity for the inv torchane‘o of ideas on common prob»: lcins incident to alumni work, to Stimulate the individual associations; “Stoker's” Picked as Topic of ASA/1E1. Tali; l E. P. Anlcr nnd 1“. ll. Coitm‘mnn ‘ will :1ch a joint talk before the A. S ext Friday on “Mocha The meeting: will be at in Science hull and all who sic ltl130 interested are invited to attend. the newer workers in this field the best in methods and techniques as practiced by the more experienced veterans of the alumni offices. Plans are being: made to u sniok or to be held the first }...t o f nov semester.