Tuesday, October 23, I934 hbllbh dihhhll’li lb dhithllh All. lllllhh dbl lhhltlllh Administration Plans to Cooperate in City Safety Drive USE PARKING LOT Parking facilities within the limits of the school have always presented difficulties that have never been fully solved. The administration officers have made plans to remedy the existing conditions here and thereby play an active part in the city’s safety program. Notices showing areas in which parking is prohibited have been stenciled at the entrances in an effort to increase the speed of the student traffic between buildings. It will also allow ample room for In- stitute visitors arriving by automo— bile to drive up to the entrance and proceed to the offices without the necessity of straddling parked cars. Although these are two important causes for the “no parking” drive at the entrance, the most important is that of student safety. Reduce Student Accidents The cleared entrances will de- crease the possibility of students be— ing struck by passing automobiles. Throughout the city there are many cases of injury and death because of crossing the street from behind parked cars. Since the automobiles parked at the building entrances, where student traffic is heavy, offered more opportunity for mis- haps than is generally found in the city, the new plans will assure the students’ safety that has been lack— ing for some time. Past Conditions Cited Parking in front of Machinery hall offers an example of past con- ditions. Students for reasons un- known excrcisc more care when ca- tering than when leaving. Perhaps they are more absorbed with other things than passing automobile traf- fic. With cars blocking the entrance and obstructing the view of the street, many students scamper around the parked cars, heedless of the dangers that lie behind. On Federal street, in front of: the main entrance where student traf— fic is heaviest during the lunch pe- riod, conditions were more severe. Cars filled with fraternity men re~ turning from the houses and travel- ing at unnecessarily high speeds around the corner, endangered the pedestrian student to such a great extent that it is surprising that more accidents have not occurred. Parking Lot Available The Institute furnishes a parking lot with an attendant in charge across the street from Chapin hall. It is sufficiently large to take care of all the student cars. It not only oifers a good spot in which to park cars but now that cold weather is approaching it offers security of per- sonal belongings left in the cars. During past winters numerous complaints have been received by the office lrom students who had parked their cars along the streets. An un- derstanding of conditions existing among the people in the neighbor— hood around Armour should be suf— ficient reason for wanting to park where the car will be secure. The opinion of the school admini- stration was that wholehearted co- operation by the student body in tak- ing advantage of the Institute’s facilities will do much toward cor- recting a very deplorable traffic con- dition. The date bureau of Queen’s uni- vesity of Ontario, Canada reports that although it has had numerous demands for brunettes there has been no call for blondeo or red heads. Has the old order changed to “Gen- tlemen prefer brunettes." When B'ill Graber, champion pole vaulter of the University of South‘ ern California, changed planes in Kansas City on route to an indoor track meet, he carried with him the longest piece of air express ever handled at the airport. It was his pet vaulting pole, well over 15 feet in length. ARMOUR TECH NEWS METAMORPHOSlS ”Py—l (- .) chllMt N, Back in the "70’s, the prc"dcnts of colleges throughout the country awoke (they thought) to the fact that the young manhood of this coun- try was deteriorating; their physical well-being was being threatened and something drastic had to be done about it, What they did about it was to invent football, a game of physical contact. These were Professor Schommcr’s opening remarks in his informal toll. on football before the junior meeting of the W. S. E. last Thursday night. Professor Schommer remarked that he heard this statement of football’s beginning from various sources and has requested Miss Stcelc to make a final check on its authenticity. Power is Bought As the game of football spread throughout the country, competition became keen and some daring colleges went so far as to hire coaches for the iabulous sum of $200 per season. As one thing led to another in the desire to win, lumberjacks, iccmcn. and village blacksmiths were im- ported for games. The ever-increas- ing field of competitors coupled with imported players soon made a cas- ualty list comparable to that ol? the Wisconsin hunting (man or duck?) season--—-“35 killed, 365 wounded in the casualties were so frightful that President Theodore Roosevelt called a meeting of the football highlights of the country and told them that football had to be made less hazardous physically or he would have Congress pass a law for— bidding its being played. This resulted in rules that were the beginning of the present complicated system having for its three—fold pur- pose the elimination of unsportsman- like play, the limiting of casualties, and the balancing of offense and de~ tense. Carlisle’s Trick The need for these rules is nicely illustrated in one case by the follow- ing incident. About 1907 or 1908, Glen Warner and his famous Carlisle team were about to play another famous team. On the Wednesday be— fore the game, the home team’s coach noticed the Indians, about three teams of them, running around the field, and every man had Db ball. This piqued his curiosity, so he walked over to see what was going on. He was amazed to find that what he had thought were footballs were merely insignias the size and color of a foot- ball sewed on the sweaters. After protesting to no avail, because a $101,000 contract had been signed, he departed. ' On the following day, Glen Warn— er noticed that the home team was using footballs that were a brilliant crimson color. Now Mr. Warner again protested. The final result be- ing a compromise and another rule for the book. in his summary of modern foot- ball, Professor Schommer remarkeo that more athletes made coaches than coaches athletes. He mentioned that Schommer Summarizes History, of Gridiron Before Meeting of W. S.E. there are many colleges that play football for the “gate” and tools that the president and faculty of these colleges are committing a great moral wrong. The once-fabulous price of $200 a season for a coach now ranges above most college presidents' salaries for the “good” coaches. A modern coach’s standard is “Win or move on." Rockne used to get $600 an hour for a talk. Writing syn- dicated articles at the rate of 15 or 20 cents an article from each of 1500 to 2000 papers is no mean spendingr money in addition to a regular sal- ary. Professor Schommcr closed his talk with some of his famous anecdotes, one of which follows. In one of his team’s games, Rockne wont to the referee at the end of the hall and criticized him severely for penalizing his team ten or fifteen times and not penalizing the other team once. “Oh, I was hired by the other team to watch you,” said the referee. This talk was one of a series giv~ en under the auspices of the junior W. S. E. This society presents a va- ried program consisting of such in- formal talks as given by Professor Schommcr and also technical talks, such as will be presented next week by Mr. Gordon Fox, M. W. S. E.—— “Russia——As Seen by an Engineer." Membership in this. society is open to all students, and juniors and Be» niors may become junior members. The privileges of this society con- sist of attendance at all junior and senior meetings and use of the finest engineering library in the middle west. One of the recent additions to the Armour library is a book which is not only timely but also valuable to all persons now studying; with or without a definite career in View. The book is entitled “New Careers for Youth," by Walter B. Pitkin. “This book," in the words 01‘ the author, “is a guide to today’s oppor- tunities.” It is not intended to choose a cur-cor for the youth but is meant to be a starting point in helping him to choose his own life's work. It avoids praise of any special career. The attitude toward work should de- termine the career any one person selects. The interestng fields, the ones which scum to fit the abilities, while at the same time (ill'cring' reu- sonalile opportunities for steady, dc- ccntly paid work, are the ones which should be the basis of a planned career. Mr. Pitkin opens with a section on planning a career. He advises the reader to begin now to plan his fu- ture work, by studying the fields that he thinks will interest him. “No one can achieve even moderate success today (unless, of course, he’s just blessed with fool’s luck) if he fails to plan his life. Any plan, however, tentative, is better than none. What, specifically, shall you do?" To answer this question the writer presents a case from real life, illustrating the intelligent man’s method of planning a career. Planning step by step and steadily working- toward a single goal is the only successful method. Engineering claims a section of its own. “No training today is more valu- able than that of engineering. It is l vital in many promising lines of work Am News it has been called to our atten- tion that now and then an engineer reads ARK NEWS, but inasmuch as some of the vocabulary used herein ’is often to French derivation it's all Greek to the non-ant. So, for a more democratic column, hero goes: Projel'P—an architectural problem to be worked up to a final drawing. Pattie—a scheme {or an archi- tecural problem. Esquisse-——an eight’hour prelimi- nary sketch, unrendered, designating the partic of the projet. Esquissc—Esquissc—wan eight-hour sketch, rendered and completed for presentation. Charettc—tho period, generally less than a week, in which the stu— dent isolates himself from the world, sacrifices all earthly pleasures, and begins to realize that a six-week projet takes more than three days to complete. Strangely enough projcts are always finished on the spccilicd rcndu (date due) and the student proceeds to relax for the next charette, which is inevitable. Just to bear out the truth of the definition of clwryrcllc, this pillar do» [ice you, to locdlc a. stator “/10. [1c- lwccn the Ila/.03 of Nov. first and fifth, the fifth. being the rcndu for the current projcl, “Apartment House Development". More lilac than not you will be able lo find one or all of them trapped between rm m- clncrator and a, Duplex apartment/ This week’s WEERSMAN HOOP: “No more criticism until you make n model." (Clay model, you dupes, lVlAKE a clay model). Quoting Bub Samuels, his hands with linger-tips gently touching, and a look in his eyes which only a God- l'earing man possesses: “My favorite psalm is the twenty-third, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd and I shall not if for no other reasan than its rig- orous intellectual discipline.” An en— gineering course, as the student of any technical school must realize, trains the mind in independent think- ing, concentration, and accuracy in observation, reading and reportinu. The engineer understands the aims and techniques of the most effective thinking processes and knows how to apply them. A course of engineering is a valuable experience which may be applied to dozens of seemingly irrelevant lines of business and pro— fcssions. Mechanical engineering is regard- ed by the book as offering; the best chances. Next in order are placed chemical, electrical, civil, mining and metallurgical. A section is devoted to each, explaining the reasons for this ranking. This should be especially interesting. The entire book is written as only Mr. Pitkin could write it. It is breezy and forcible, sensible and sound. By all means, every student should read it. While written especially for that group between seventeen and thirty~ two years of age, it is also valuable to their elders whose eyes need to be opened to the new conditions which too many of them do not yet realize. 7 Page Three graduates Given Choice Positions During the past month, Mr. W. N. Setterberg; of the placement office has been successful in obtaining posi- tions for quite a few Armour men in various firms. The Maremont Auto- motive Manufacturing company has recently employed R. A. Fleissner, C. ~13 '34, and c. P. Masure, ME. '34. Joseph O’Hara, M. E. ’34, secured a position as metallurgist with the Taylor Pipe and Forge Works, while C. E. Dahlgrcn, M. E. ’34, is now working for Frank Bough, a design— er and detailer of excavating machin- ery. Archie Anders, M. E. ’34, is an apprentice for a salesman job with 1-1. Channon and Company, and (lust Jonson .112, Ch. 19. ’33 is an im spection engineer for the American Mutual Liability Insurance Company. Other positions secured with the help of the placement office include I. G. Katz, Ch. E. ’30 and Edmund Hertastedt, M. E. ’24 with the North American Service Company in plant work and production, and Youngberg, Ch. E. ’27, as an indus- trial engineer for J. 0. McKinscy and Company, accountants and engineers. Mr. Setterbcrg has been trying to contact many large ongincorino firms. such as the Harris Wrecking Com- pany, who now have a contract to demolish buildings for a housing project in Atlanta, Georgia, and Per- cy Wilson, regional director for the Federal Housing Administration. Answers to these letters have not yet been received, but profitable results are expected. .4. What a pity Bob wasn‘t instead of want.‘ ” elected senior treasurer vice—president l As for the other two senior an: elected to class offices, we believe that the candidates are both well chosen. For sergeant-nbarmo, Bob ESIBENSEN received invaluable training on guide at the FAlR. And Harald Hal SLAVITT, erstwhile lec- turer at the Hall of Science and the GREAT LOVER of Lexington street, will do well as secretory,—lislcning, for a change. There is one qucslio'n to be an- swered—WI we was MATT SUM- NER going to lulu: lr’u ADDIS when the latter came to school attired in his Sunday best.” Low in bloom per- hops! the host lit- lablcs, and the Junior Til/ll {1: 810(5- of free ad- (hc success Ralph E. PRIE'STLY, llc designer of drafting now mussicr (head) of arm, is also designing to cuss/Ml arr dance. A bit. marl/icing, but. a. toast, Io of the (lance. The best littlc class Walter—uppers: The modest and non-chalant Lowell LAMMERS, with his uncanny for» ulty for asking questions or other» wise diverting the prof’s attention; and the Messrs, KAPLAN and STEIN, with their humor which is so subtle that they alone are inces» santly giggling. Giggling‘ is awfully feminine, but still~—. EAGLE EYE. ALcoHous AN F2 GROUP. ADV/total) DRGAMC CHEMQTW lemmas M22 DERIVED FROM no wmcn THE M or THE Ham :5 REPLACED B‘l Calls" 0 " (-2sz : ADVANCED PlPE CHEMIMW '( FINE TOBAccoo—rorscusr BLENDlNC—r Placer-.55. ' MINUS ALL"BlTE“= “WM l WITH xTc ",, ‘L THE AFTER EVERY Ehdfib ill? RENGS THE BEEN flavor, its Prince Albert has often been described as "the National joy Smoke.” You’ll enjoy this companionnblc blend chop-quality tobaccos. All “bite" is removed by a special process in line with i theprinciplc that"if your cobacco’s right, your pipe won't bite." l "1 ‘ rich Frqorenrwrnm')