Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, October 23, 1934 By Leroy Beckmnn WHEN THE SECOND Congress of the American League Against War and Fascism met in Chicago recently, it confronted a far gloomier state of affairs than on its first assembly one year previous. To the tune of “Rath~ er than be united in concentration camps, let‘s be united now," the con- gress occupied itself with organiza- tional work intended to enroll every person and party opposed to fascism and war. To the near 4000 accredited delegates, the class war ceased to be an academic quest and became a grim reality. Before the delegates there appeared the reports of the Interna- tional Labor Defense for the months from January to September, showing fifty-four killed in the economic struggle, as well as 104 cases of al- leged criminal syndicalism, sedition and insurrection which are now in the courts. OF PARTICULAR interest, was the appearance on the platform of representatives of the National Guard and of the regular army in uniform. The latter related that with the army being provided with special equipment for riot duty, the primary function of the soldier was no long- or to defend his country, but to de- fend the property of the possessing class. This latter portion of the state- ment made the congress emphasize in its resolutions thc'gradual tendency to enlist the government as a tool of the possessing class. INTERESTING indeed, is the fact that the Communist Party was repre— sented by 105 delegates. As one would expect, a predominant reason for hesitation in joining the American League Against War and Fascism has been the belief that it was dom- inated by the Communist Party—to derive its own benefits. As to rea- son for the affiliations, we might say that the Communist Party intends to make the League as efficient an in- strument of defense as possible—— which they most certainly need. We sincerely hope that the American League Against War and Fascism will succeed in its efforts. At least the radical element involved in the form of the Communist Party may assure activity. '1‘ fit 5b DURING THE LAST few weeks, the convention of the American Fed- eration of Labor has been occupied with the important business of pol— icy-making. The report of the execu— tive council has outlined a list of failures during the past year. Among these were: “minimum wage rates in the codes have been set so low that the purpose of the NRA. has been completely nullified in a large portion of industry"; codes have failed al- most completely to protect the high- er-paid groups of employees,” and “the machinery set up by the govern- ment is dealing effectively only with a negligible portion of all violations”. The fallacies as outlined by the American Federation of Labor are, without doubt, the fault of the New Deal. But, we would enjoy seeing that organization replace fault with a solution. Armour Players ll/lay Employ Female Cast During a meeting of the Armoui Players last Wednesday, the possibu— ity of exchanging members with the dramatics group of some nearby girls’ college was discussed, Each group would produce its plays in- dividually, merely borrowing players from the other for the necessary roles. This would be of distinct advan- tage to both groups, as it would elim- inate the necessity of restricting the plays to those having only male, or only female characters, enabling them to give more interesting pro- ductions than would be possible other- wise Fm: Bate Legato Fuel: From East R. D. Armsbury returned to school last week after a five day trip to New York where he represented Ar- mour chapter of Tau Beta Pi at the annual convention of that national honorary engineering fraternity. The convention was held at Columbia uni- vcrsity in New York on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday and a full pro gram for the delegates was scheduled. Ninety—eight delegates and visitors registered Thursday morning and all sixty—live chapters were represented at each of the four business meetings held Thursday afternoon, Friday morning and afternoon, and Satur- day morning. Along with routine business, charters were granted to Rutgers and Stanford university. It was announced that $33,000 in fol» lowships has been awarded to 34 students during the last six years. Hosts of the convention were the New York Alpha chapter, Columbia university; New York Epsilon of Brooklyn Polytechnic institute; New York Zeta chapter of New York uni- versity; and New Jersey Alpha chapter of Stevens Institute of Tech- nology. A formal dancc was given for/ the delegates at the Columbia University Faculty club. Saturday afternoon the delegates had the choice of at— tending a football game between Vir- ginia Military institute and Columbia university, or taking a tour of Rocke- feller center. An informal banquet held Satur- day night at the Columbia Univer~ sity Faculty club concluded the ac- tivities of the delegates. Among the speakers at the banquet were Presi- dent H. N. Rogers of Brooklyn Poly- technic institute and Dean J. W. Barker of Columbia university engi- neering college. Finnegan ls Host to University Profiessor Last Friday Professor J. B. Fm- negan was host to Professor F. H. Thomas, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering at the Uni‘ versity of Illinois. Professor Thomas is the principal assistant of Profes- sor Casberg who is in charge of the shop laboratory courses at the uni- versity. Professor Thomas is interested 1n the research work on shop courses at Armour, and came to obtain a pre- view of the final report which will be released in the future. Tournament to Find Best fitness Players A tournament to determine the abilities of its members is among the plans of the Armour Chess club, [which has already taken in seven new men, and is still on the look-out for more. The next formal meeting of the group will be held on the com- ing Thursday. Daily chess games are held on the fourth floor, first entrance, Chapin ball, during the lunch hour, and pros- pective members are asked to report there at that time. The outstand- ling members returning from last year are: H. Drell, E. Freireich, R. Hella, A. S. Majercik, W. C. Run~ dell, and B. Wilhelm. The club has been affiliated with the Illinois Chess Association for some time, and its members have de- cided to retain the affiliation. Alpha Chi Sigma Hos Election of Officers Alpha Psi chapter of Alpha Chi Sigma, professional chemical ternity, announces the installation of the following officers for the coming year: R. M. Paulsen, president; L. W. Robbie, vice-president; A. Rulis, treasurer; and A. J. Ragan, reporter. Graduate members D. J. Mullane, R. W. Marty, and W. E. Gunderson are back at Armour on fellowships granted by the North Shore Coke and Chemical company and the Uni« Iversal Oil company. fl‘a- ‘ lldl'llllllllfi lllllllfi lllllll'l fdlllllll, lllll fdlllllll’llll Professors, Associates Form Advisory Group COVER ALL ACTIVlTlES Providing for Armour’s faculty at new high in organization and abil— ity to cope with the problems of the school, President I‘Iotchkiss an— nounced last Thursday the forma~ tion of a faculty council to consist lof all the professors and associate professors, the treasurer and the registrar. The council is to meet once a month to consider all prob- lems which may arise concerning l school affairs. President’s Annual Report Made At the meeting Dr. Hotchkiss named the appointments of the vari— ous members to numerous committees. He also read his annual report, which had recently been submitted to the Trustees. The report con- tained a summary of the results of the present administration’s actions, and also an outline of the plans to be inaugurated in the near future. A few of the committees named at the meeting had already been in operation. The placement commit- tee will be a permanent organization. Placement of men will not be lim- ited to future graduating classes, but will include all the graduates of pre- vious years. The school was not able to fill several good jobs this summer, because of the lack of rec- ords of old graduates. Two Committees Active Now The loan committee has been func- tioning for two weeks, and has al- ready approved 8 or 10 requests for loans to juniors and seniors. The publicity committee has been func- tioning since last year. The radio talks of last year are a partial evi- dence of some of its operations. These two committees were the only (Continued on page 5) Mr. Kelly Will Attend Registrar Convention Mr. Kelly, registrar of Armour In- stitute, will attend the annual meet- ing of the Illinois Association of Col- legiate Registrars at Blackburn col» lege, Carlinville, Illinois, on Thurs- day and Friday, October 25 and 26. A program containing possibilities of new and constructive ideas relat- ing directly or indirectly to the work of the registrar has been arranged. President Hudson of Blackburn col~ legc will present the opening ad- dress. Dean Bonner of the Univer- sity of Illinois and Dr. Russell of the University of Chicago will be guest speakers. Among the more import- ant subjects to be discussed are, “State Testing Programs in Second- ary Schools” and “The New Accred- iting Procedure of the North Central Association. " By Jim Sheehan Pigeon hovering o’er, Why didn’t thou tap the door? If thou hast belief in fate, Please keep away from my plate. Bulletin A wee little pig-eon the pride of the aviary family paid an uncon- ventional visit to the freshmen drawing class on the fifth floor of the main building last Wednes— , day afternoon. Diving above novice heads and swooping to the rafters an unassumu ing pigeon unduly (‘1) frightens his hosts. (German Fokker-s in the war could not have drawn more at. tention.) Eyes look to the rafters in fear. Hands swiftly moving camouflage all things in danger. Anti-aircraft shells rulers) (pencils and continually break around thim. The gunners below grit theiil .. Appearance of Pigeon m Freshrnun Drafting Room llrows Artillery Fire Societies to Hold Com Fined Meeting Mr. Charles Comfort Whittier will be the guest speaker at the com- bined meeting of the engineering so— cieties of Armour which will be held next Friday, October 26, at 10:30 in the Mission building. Mr. Whit— tier, who is a graduate of the Uni- versity of Maine, is a specialist in the value and use of industrial plants and processes, and in the develop- ment of mining properties. With a background such as this, Mr. Whit» tier is well qualified to speak on his topic, which will be “The Engineer’s Future.” Mr. Whittier is already known to some of the Armour students, for as president of the Western Society of Engineers he talked at their annual dinner held recently. However this is his first appearance before the combined meeting of all the Armour engineering societies. This inter—society meeting is the first of this year, although not the first in the history of the societies. If the. meeting is successful, there will be more of a like nature later 11. Although the meeting is arranged by the various student chapters of the AS. M.E., A.I.Ch.E., A.I.E.E., 14 P 113.81. ., and the W.S.E., the entire student body of the school is in» vited to be present to hear Mr. Whit. tier. The committee in charge of ar- rangements for the meeting was composed of the various presidents of the student engineering societies, namely, J. H. De Boo of the A.S.M.E., J. N. Welland, of the A. I. Ch.E., L. F. Higgins, of the A.I.E.E., E. N. Searl, of the F.P.E.S., and G. A. Nelson, of the W.S.E. Four Men Pledgeol by Honorary Fraternity Eta Kappa Nu, honorary electrical engineering fraternity, pledged four men at a meeting held last Friday. From the senior class L. C. Galbraith and W. M. Uzunaris were honored, and the two men in the junior class were N. J. Cooper and V. J. Kropf. The latest development in the fru~ ternity was the appointment of Pro- fessor Moretcn as faculty advisor. Professor Moretou will assume an advisory position which is essential to the continuous and efficient opera- tion of such an organization. Pi 'l'au Sigma Elects Dilicers at Meeting Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechan- ical engineering fraternity, held the first meeting of the new semester in their rooms last Wednesday. An elec- tion of oli'icers was held, and the announcement of the men elected will be given at a later date. The next meeting will be held in the Pi Tau Sigma rooms Tuesday evening. All new members will be in- troduced, and a general discussion of the plans for the semester will fol- l teeth and hold their breath as shot after shot misses its mark. But yet this seemingly death-dealing machine glides and swoops unheeding,r the an— tics of those below, “Gee," thinks the pigeon, “these two-legged animals are as bad marks- men as they used to be when they shot curved, shiny, hard things at me long ago. I’ll give them one scare and leave." Dismay grips every heart as the ammunition becomes low. Will the re- scrve ammunition last‘.’ Will this dangerous foe penetrate the camou- flags? Reaching the heights of the raft— ers the pigeon banks. Swooping, it gathers speed. Over the lowered heads it speeds stopping; only on the sill of an open window. Turning around as if in haughty defiance, Mr. Pigeon slightly quivers, All“ lb lilllfilbb i llllllbk class allusion; fillhllhhl ll Sllfllll. @llhlh :llil Neal, Cotterman, Kropf, Maximilian for in Final In an effort to false active part i in. the city’s safely campaign, the, Dean’s office requests all stmltmmls lo obscwc the Institute par/ring rules. I. All reporters of the News ‘ stuff are requested to submit their 1‘ program to this office at once. Wfifi. to include All Departments Sophomores, juniors and seniors are invited to join the student branch of the Western Society of Engineers no matter what department they are in. Through a misunderstanding the organization formerly consisted of civil engineering students only. i C. P. Grakavac and J. M. O’Con- nor are in charge of the membership drive launched this week. A member~ ship fee of fifty cents is charged and the dues are one dollar per year [my able in two installments. Special cf— fort is being made this year to em- and Dollenmaier Gain Other Uffices Election CLASS MEETlNC SUPPOEETS COMMlTTEE William Ali, was elected president of the junior class in the final elec- tion held last Thursday. He polled 101 votes out of the 13/1 ballots cast in the election. The clectricals placed D. C. Graham, V. J. Kropf, and 1-1. It. Dollcnmaier into the offices 01" social chairman, treasurer, and sergeant—at-arms, respectively. D. J. Neal was elected vice-president and l“. D. Cotterman was named sec- retary. Complete Returns Given The results of the final ballot for officers of the junior class are: President—~— .101 I. M. Hughes ................ 33 Vice—President— D. J. Neal .................. 91 R.Knaus ........ 42 Social Chairman—- D. C. Graham . . . R. M. Paulscn ............... 47 Secretary-— F. D. Cotterman ............. 74 D. H. Fleig . ................ 59 Treasurer— V. J. Kropf.......... ....... 8'1 G.A.Quandee ..... 51 Sergeant-aI-urms— H. R. Dollcnmaier . phasize the fact that the meetings are open to students of all donor-tn ments and classes including freshn men. Only sophomores, juniors, and seniors are eligible to join however. The W. S. E. meets once every two weeks, usually in C mission, at 10:30 on Fridays. Lectures and papers are presented by prominent engineers on a wide range of subjects of interest to all engineers. The by—laws of the association are being revised this year. Closer rela— tions with the downtown Junior branch, which meets on Thursday nights, will be stressed. This group lwill cooperate in obtaining speakers for the meetings at school. ‘(lld Members F ill Up Ranks of Glee Club This year Mr. Erickson, director- of the glee club and orchestra, hopes to fill some requests for concerts at an earlier date than usual. In the past the music organizations were unable to fill any engagements until later in the semester when the new men had been sufficiently trained. Since many of the old members have returned this year, the glee club, its ranks swelled to 75 members, is al- ready in fairly good condition. An- other advantage is that the club is unusually well balanced. Although the orchestra lost some H. J. Sumner The final election was held after no one received a majouty in the primary. The nominating committee had specifier] that to be elected a man must have a majority, and had provided for the final election. The two men who received the greatest number of votes were placed on the second ballot. In all cases except that of the office of sergeant-charms the men who were highest in the primary were also elected in the final bal- loting. H. R. Dollenmaier beat H. J. Sumner for the office by 10 votes. Final Election Was Desired Wednesday at 1 o‘clock, a class meeting was held to determine the reaction of the members of the class concerning the election, for a peti- tion had been circulated asking to do away with the final election. It was felt that the nomination com— mittec had overstepped its bounds. The class voted to hold the final election. The nominating committee con- sisted of three men from each do» partment. The purpose of the com~ mittee was to eliminate as much de- partmental politics as possible. This committee was introduced for the first time at Armour when it was apparent that politics was rampant in the nominations for class officers of the junior class. Salamander Pledges important men, it was fortunate in‘ securing several capable freshmen. However, Mr. Erickson feels that many of the students who play either orchestral or band instruments do not realize the possibilities in the or~ g chestra, and he urges them to come' to the rehearsal in the assembly hall 1 at 5 p. m. tonight. If it is at all pos l sible, these men axe requested to; bring their instruments. 1‘ | l l 1 l 1 Faculty Club Marking Time Until [initiations Social activities of the Aimom i Tech Faculty club are at a standstill ‘ at the present time. The new lnStl'llL" tors who are not members of the or— ganization are first given a chance to become acquainted with the rest of the faculty before a formal i11~ vitation to join is given them. Club members hope that all of these formalities can take place in :1 short time in order that the new 111011 may be initiated at the annual Christ- .seemingly bows. . .aud Adieu. mas pa rt 3'. Fire Fire Protects Salamander, honorary fire protec- tion engineering fraternity, pledged four seniors and one junior at. a meeting of the o1g-anizatiou in the Salamander moms last F1 ulav morn- ing. The men l1ono1ed at that time were C. R. Bristol, Lester Kerlin, W. A. Trudelle, and H. J. Zibble of the senior class, and R. A. Peterson of the junior class. Qualifications; for Salamander are superior scholastic ability and good chsmctcr. The pledg— ing Friday was preceded by a quiz the previous Tuesdav. Present mcmbeis of the f1.1tc1nit\ membership in are J. J. Ahmn. president. 0. P. Frcilingcr, pledge captain, L. W. Bicgler, J. R. Morrison. E. N. Sear]. and G. W. thaton. One of the primary duties of the pledges will be the preps five thousand word pap: protection on engineering ‘ isjt‘t‘li. Others are the preparation of l“. P. E. S. posters and Sula'namifr 11ml. dies.