By Leroy Beckman
BY ISSUANCE of another of his
famous executive orders, President
Roosevelt has created for himself an
advisory board consisting of 32 mem»

bers. The President destroyed his
Executive Council by consolidating
it with the National Emergency
Council, and at the head of that
council sits Donald R. Richberg, who

vitually becomes the President's
“right-hand” man.
THE NATIONAL Emergency

Council is now composed of the fol-
lowing members, subject to revision
by the Firesident: The President of
the United States, all 10 cabinet
members, the Director of the Bud~
get, the secretary to the President,
assistant secretary of the Treasury,
the Administrator of Agricultural
Adjustment, Federal Relief Admin-
istrator, chairman of the RFC, chair-
man of the TVA, chairman of the
Home Loan Bank Board, chairman
‘of the Federal Trade C ‘ '
thekdirector of CCC, the governor of
the Farm Credit Administation, the
adviser on consumer problems, chair—
man of the NRA board, chairman of
the Federal Alcohol Control Board,
Federal Housing~ Administrator,
president of the Export-Import
Banks of Washington, chairman of
Federal Deposit Insurance Corpora-

 

tion, chairman of the Federal Power
Commission, chairman of the Federal
Communications Commission, chair- i
man of the Securities and Exchange
Commission, the governor of the Fed-
eral Reserve Board, and the execu—j
tive director, Mr. Richborg. ‘

 

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EACH 0F the 32 officials con-l

tained in the foregoing list have:
broad powers which may in turn be:
exercised by Richbcrg. This appar-
ently places the executive director
above the 10 cabinet members. As
set forth by the President, Mr. Rich—
berg is authorized to execute the
function and perform the duties
vested in the council by the President
through such persons as Richbergi
himself shall designate, and he is
further granted the privilege to pre~
scribe such rules and regulations as
he may deem necessary to effective—
ly discharge the duties of the coun—
cil, provided the President agireed.
There is also provision for the execu-
tive director to avail himself of the
services of officials and employees
of any government department or
agency.

WHEN WE consider the scope of
activities under the National Emer-
gency Council, or more exactly, un-
der Mr. Donald R. Richberg, we be—
gin to see-power in the hands of an i
individual. We saw similar condi-‘,
tions with General Johnson as NRA‘
administrator. Johnson gave and
Johnson received, perhaps a little too
much of the latter. Nevertheless, Mr.
Johnson as an individual is respon—
sible for a large portion of the con»
certcd effort toward improved con—
ditions. Comments have been made
to the efl'ect that power similar to

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d. R. Lang Elected
Pi Nu: Epsilon Head

Armour’s chapter of Pi Nu Epsilon
held its periodical meeting for the
purpose of electing officers on Tues-
day, November 13, at the Pi Tau
Sigma fraternity rooms. The presi-
dent-elect is J. Russell Lang, and
his associate officers are J. K. Mor—
rison, vice president-elect, and C.
Grakavac, secretary—treasurer-elect.

Pi Nu Epsilon is an honorary
musical fraternity requiring for
membership at least two years of
active service towards the advance-
ment of music.

At this meeting; no pledges were
announced, but plans were made for

 

 

pledging- in the near future. A dis-
cussion was also held concerning the
interhonorary banquet to be held
Monday evening, December 17.

Name Committees
for Senior Class

Elect Placement Committee
By Departments

 

Performing the second duty of his
new office, A. E. Lauchiskis, presi-
dent of the senior class, appointed
feur committees last week. A fifth
committee, organized to aid in the
placement of graduates, was elected
by the various departments follow-
ing the meeting of the class held a
week ago last Friday.

The four appointed committees and
their members are as follows:

Jewelry: E. N. Sear! (chairman).
A. E. Christoph, M. C. Forsyth, .l.
R. Lang, F. Henke and B. Jones.

Announcement: W. B. Ahern
(chairman), L. W. Davidson, R. D.
Armbsury, W. W. Henning, S. Bern-
stein and L. W. Bicgler.

Cap and Gown: J. N. Weiland
(chairman), R. J. Maci, A. J. Rosen,
K. 0. Stocking, J. L. Roberts and
A. N. Wolf.

Photography: J. M. Bard, G. W.
Wheaton (co»chairmen), J. I“. Humi—
ston, J. De Boo, B. Rigoni and C.
M. Zukowski.

The ,‘ which
was elected last week by tho depart-
ments of the senior class is a new
and original idea. Each department
elected one man ,to the committee,
whose duty it will be to decide the
advisability of publishing a graduate
information book. This book will
contain pictures and short biograph-
ies of the members of the senior
class.

The group will also co-operatc with
the faculty placement committee, and
in this manner it expects to have
greater success in the placement of
graduates.

The members of the committee are
as follows: L. J. Beckman, R. F.
Brrger, L R. Kerlin, S. S. Granger,
R. L. Friede and C. l’. Grakavac.

Fraternity group
to Hold Meeting

To get a closer relation between
the Institute and the fraternities
is the aim of the fraternity affairs
committee which is headed by pro-
fessor D. P. Moreton. This commit,
tee, which is already functioning,
has invited, by means of letters,
alumni representatives of the vari-
ous fraternities here at school to sit
in on a meeting to be held tomorrow,
November 21.

The primary aim of the meeting
is to review the whole situation at
the present time. Since the rules
governing the fraternity situation at
other schools do not apply here; the
committee can act in any manner
they see fit, and for this reason the
aid of the fraternities is solicited.

 

McCormack Attends
A.H.Ch.£. Convention

 

Professor H. McCormack, director
of Chemical Engineering, attended
the three day meeting of the Amer-
ican Institute of Chemical Engineers
at Pittsburgh last Thursday, Friday,
and Saturday.

Professor McCormack is a mem-
ber of the Institute’s committees on
local sections, student chapters, and
legislation. In addition to the cus~
tomary technical sessions of the en-

i-c group at which papers of inter-
est were presented, each of the in-
dividual committees held separate
meetings.

Alec-tines Present at
Chi Epsifon Pledgings

Meeting last night at the Triangle

fraternity house, the Armour chapx‘

ter of Chi Epsilon, national honorary
civil engineering fl'aaernity, pledged

A. Lester and B. Rigoni, of the se-‘

nior class, and It. R. Johnson, a ju—
nior.

The active and alumni members
present were well satisfied with the
ignorance shown by the pledges.

Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, lllinois

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il'ilotchhiss, Cunningham
Will Report on
Progress

TO HEAR MUSIC CLUBS

Meeting at the Medinah Michigan

Avenue Club this evening at 6:30
p. m. for their annual winter ban~
quet, Armour alumni will renew
many old friendships with their
classmates, the faculty, and the trus»
itecs. Each class has been planning:
to get their gang together for the
affair to help make it a great suc-
cess, and with a well planned pro--
gram already assured it undoubtedly
will be.
i One of the outstanding features ol‘
‘the evening besides the banquet it~
self is a musical program to be pre-
sented by the one hundred members
of the Armour glee club and orches-
tra under the leadership of Mr. 0.
Gordon Erickson. Many of the
alumni perhaps have not had the op-
portunity of hearing these musical
organizations, and it will be their
first treat of hearing this active
group at Armour presenti' one of
their well known programs.

Mr. James D. Cunningham, presi"
dent of the Board of Trustees, and
Dr. Willard E. Hotchkiss, presidcst
of Armour Institute, will address the
alumni at the banquet, and the re-
port of the Public Relations Com»
mittee of the Board of Trustees will
be read.

Also on the program for the oc—
casion is the consideration of
changes in the constitution of the
Alumni Association. The changes
desired are ones that will make the
Alumni organization more effective
in its service to Ao‘mour Institute
and to the alumni as a whole.

Professor John J. Schommer, presi-
dent of the Armour Alumni Associa-
tion, and Professor D. P. Moreton,
secretary, have been responsible for
most of the arrangements for this
annual gathering.

Eta Kappa Nu Plans
Initiation Ceremony

 

Plans for the inquisition of pledges
and the initiation banquet held by
Eta Kappa Nu, honorary electrical
engineering fraternity, have been
made.

Inquisition of pledges will be held
at the Beta Psi fraternity house, at
3337 Michigan avenue, Friday eve—
ning, November 23.

The annual initiation banquet
will be held at the Medinah Michn
igan Avenue club on Tuesday eve-
ning, December 4. Members of the
faculty and about fifty alumni are
expected to attend in addition lg;

Al Withilldii Wit l

 

the active members and pledges.

‘fn the Zone’ Will
Be Given Friday

Next Friday at 10:30 a. m. the Ar- .
mor Players will present their first
duama of the year, “In the Zone.”
The scene takes places during,P the,
war on board ship. A suspected spy‘
#presence of submarines—all help

 

 

Tuesday, November 20, W34

 

’jlw members of Honor A ’I 'll
1mm 11 meeting in the Tau. Hutu,
[‘2' menu; at one (felon-Ia louwrrow.

 

 

All Freshmen and Sophomores
ilLi('/‘(’.‘41,I’(l in lhc “Cycle” are 1%
qm'sfcd Io report to George
Wharton, Editor, Thursday at 5
p. on. at. the “Cycle” offices in.
Chopin Hail, 4th entrance.

 

 

to create a tense at c.
The cast of characters as correct-l
ed from last week is as follows:

 

  

 

 

 

 

Yank .............. T. F. Jones
Ivan ....... . .M. Puntonc
Smitty ........ . .A. Kulpak
Scotty ............ R. Weissman
Swanson . . . . .H. Bauermeister
Driscoll .. ....... S. Miner
Davis . . . . .A. S. t§clircibcr
Cocky .

 

Director-—Professor Walicr lien-
dricks.

A number of the cast have al»
ready played before the Armour stu.
dent body and will therefore be well,
versed in the art of cntcrtaininul
such a group of drama seekers.

On account of the expenses zit-i
tached to a play of this sort 10 cents:
admission will he charged. The cast
will work every night this week sol
the play should be well worth the;
slight admission fee. Classes will be‘
excused that period.

I
..... u. c. Hoyer l,
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‘ subjects.

Seniors Ready to i

Sell Dance Bids 5

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l

Heading: the coming parade ol',’
class dances, the annual Senior In—l
formal will take place December 7,l
at the Shoreland hotel, 55th Streetl‘
and the lake.

In former years the seniors have?
had the honor of introducing thei
social season, and so this year are
keeping up the tradition. chhawks
and their partners will dance to the
music of Bill Paden’s ten~piece dance
band, well-known in Chicago‘s col-
letriiate life. Bids will be $1.50, ready
for distribution this week.

W. A. Trudclle is chairman of the
committee in charge of the dance.‘
0n the committee are J. J. Ahern,i
L. A. Cullen, M. C. Forsyth, I“. J.‘
Meyer, J. M. O’Connor, and R. H.
Wittekindt.

To advertise the dance, a poster
contest is being held. The student
who- executes the best poster will get
one bid as the first prize, while the
second and third prizes are half bids.
The deadline for the contest is Fri-
day, so all posters must be in on that
day.

 

FJRES. to Hear Talk
at Meeting Tomorrow
All junior and senior Fire Protects

will be excused from class tomorrow,
November 21, at 10:30, so they will

 

Seek Revision in
Evening Classes

Correlation of Studies

lliie Undertaken

Investigation of the best suited
and most rounded out curriculum for
students is being extended to the
evening school at Armour. Upper
classmcn will recall some of the
changes that have occunred in the
curriculum with respect to the gen-
eral outline of their engineeringr
courses since their freshman yeau'.
With the idea of giving the best to
all students, work is under way to
readjust the evening: school classes,
also.

to

Too Much Specialization
'I—lereto’l’ore evening classes have
been to a great extent specialized
In most ca .s, those at-
tending the classes were adults in-
terested in increasing their knowl~

 

'cdge along the lines in which wer:

working. No thought was given to
the youngr man who was financially
unable to attend the day school and
who had an ambition to earn a de-
.gree.

Up to the present time there has
been a lack of successive correlation

‘ of subjects being taught in the eve

ning,r school. It is hoped that this
defect will be remedied in the near
future, so that anyone who is inter-
ested may complete two of his col-
lege years in the evening; school.
This will require four to five years
of consistent night school attendance
to accomplish and will be the step-
ping stone for many who unfortun»
ately cannot attend the day school.
Will Add Subjects

Since the specialized subjects have
always been popular to adult stu-
dents, it is not likely that any of
them will be discarded. In order
to accomplish a night school pro—
gram covering an equivalent of two
years in the day school, many sub-
jects not being taught at the present,
will be added. The revision of the
night school classes will necessitate
the complete revision of the evening
school bulletin which should be of
great interest to those men who un—
fortunately must delay their educa-
tion to provide financial assistance
to themselves or their immediate re-
latives.

be able to hear Mr. Grant Bissel at A‘i‘Ch E Wig” Hear

a irnectim,r of the F. P. E. S.

Mr. Bissell is state agent for the‘
Aetna Fire Insurance Company. He!
will speak on the life and problems
of a state agent. The meeting will:
be in the electrical lecture room. i

 

 

When a sophomore divests ai
freshman of that material which isl
used as a protection against the ele-i
inents and sundry, by the portion of4
the human anatomy which is used,
for locomotion, that is not news, but
when a freshman depanlscs a sopho-
more, well, that’s the height of some-l
thing; or other. 1

“Today we will avenge ourselves,” i

 

said the freshmen. But no revenge.‘
Time and time again that hackneyed i
phrase broke the silence. thn the
crucial moment arrived the freshmen
1 gradually disappeared. But last Fri—‘
i day the worm turned, in fact it made. 1
v several complete revolutions, the ner.‘

 

 

i result of which was the loss of one:
pair of pants by a sophomore. To al
l sophomore this is more than Cl]‘lbal‘>i
l assing as well as unusual, especially
'this early in the season. That little
i incident brings to mind the old prob“;
j lem of whether “pants“ is a common :
noun, or not, being: singular at thei
top and plural at the boltom.

 

.l'rosh just arose, or should we sav.
l arisen, or, well let it pass, let’s s *

, Sophs.

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Mirncfes Happen, The flood” Arise,

Freshmen §how Some Life at Lnstl

Carl S. Miner Friday

Carl S. Miner, director of the
Miner Chemical Laboratories, is to
be the guest speaker of the A. I.
Ch. E., this coming; Friday, Nov. 23,
at. 11:30. Mr. Miner will speak on
the interesting topic “The Chemical
Engineer on the Witness Stanc."

This talk which is to constitute

 

a window was broken in the struggle,

lthe first meeting of the society is
o be one of the series of lecture

_ voted on by means of a question
heald the piecedinp, pxoblem, as “Chi naire that was pa"cd out to junior

as Its solution, It W1“ not be heremi and senior chemicals: The topics for

‘ i . - ‘ .3 ,
mentioned. B" that ‘15 it may, “Kl these lectures are taken lrom those
facts still remain that the

pantsl s‘uu’u‘ 'ted by these questionnaires.
were removed, and that they Jack Wicland, president of the
A. I. Ch. E., has been putting“ forth
much effort in trying: to revive the
club‘s activities. lie also has plans
for a debate on "The Value of Re»
search," later in the semester.

 

But as many of you already have

 

   

 

man. The class of. ’37 had been so:
active Friday that the coul‘aueousf

  

that they rebelled, and the res lts
were outstanding, as was the chap
who was semi denuded. The fact that .

AlEE. Throws Ideas

that is to say that the window \V’qh‘ an Tagging a Smaker
in the main buildingr and not in the
struggle, but was broken during“ the.
struggle, meant nothing: to the \‘ic-y‘
torious frosli, who boasted that they“
would repeat the performance again to hold a smoker in the early part
Monday. But maybe the sophomorcs‘ of December. Viewchnirmnn Ange
will have something to say about it.‘ was appointed to take charge of the
Nevertheless, beware you big bad: affairs. No definite time place

has been set for the smoker as yet.

a shower of erasers and
chalk the members of the A. I. E.
E. decided at last Friday's meeting

A m idst

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Button Assumes Duties
as Chairman of Social
Science Department

vACAch NOT FILLED

Professor Cannon (2. Bloug‘i,
chairman of the social sciences, w'l
teach his last class at Armour on
Nov. 28, and leave for Washington
to take up his duticK as security
analyst for the newly created SOUL!-
ities and Exchange (iommissim.
His chairmanship will be, filled by
Professor H. 1". Button. As yet 70
instructor has been selected to i.‘I
the vacancy.

Will Examine Appraisals

This Securities and Exchange
Commission was medical io regulate
security exchanges in the countiy
and to supervise the issuance of the
securities by corporations. Profcw
sor Blough’s duties will be to ana~
lyze and supervise the examination
of statements, appraiflls, and othcr
reports of the companies to deter.
mine whether they are correctly‘
representing the facts which they
propose to give to the public as a
basis for the sale of :lieir securities.
If the department discovers a com»
pany making misleading statcmcms
or concealing important iacts in i
prospectus and other advertising or
publishings, it will be :ioibidden to
sell securities until the department
is satisfied that the slatements sic
proper.

Leaves Commerce Group

Professor Blough’s connection was
established through his work Wl‘lii'li
he performed in Wisconsin several
years ago where he was involved in
cases when he came in contact with
the man who is in charge of the sc—
curity regulation.

Besides severing his
with the Institute, I—‘zoi'e. or Bloupli
is also resigning- from his dutfo
with the Illinois Commeice Commis-
sion where he was employed rewrl‘»
inn: and classifying accounts fox
electric, gas, and water companic:
since last summer.

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hiiwanians Hear

Two Music Clubs

Enlivening an already happy
meeting of the Chicago Kiwanis club,
the Armour Tech M '. '1 CluE 4

 

made their second com. neu appear»
ance of the season last Thursday.
The Kiwanians proved to be quite
adopt in community Sin ring thcmv
selves, and spurred the glue club to
a pleasing" performance of several of
its old favorites and one mw num-
ber, the ever popular “5 Jun."
Professor W. B. Anhbni . formu'
lecturer and instruct“ oi ‘ :‘i
the Institute, ,Q‘SU'O on»: o: r..
huustible stock of rum» 1
Fi'cncli~Cana(lian dialect.
The clubs‘ next in t a
will be tonight at the .
iu'zm Avenue club.
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Smoker Tomorrow
lily Alpha. Chi Sigma

Alpha Chi bison.
chemical fralcrni
smoker tomorrow on u
Psi firmer: y lion“
Michigan avenue. i
scheduled for Nm’en.
postponed because
TM}: .ch's smoker the

A large turnout. mm:
box
as _ expect“.
Dorcn. central div '
the fraternity. will

 

 
 
 
  
 
  
  
 
  
  
 
 

 

 

 

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