I, as} \ “3,, . . .‘eifi'w’W-‘w 4') AREQUR I Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois Tuesday, February 26, l935 By Paul Schultz FEBRUARY, although the short- est of our months, is the most event- ful. It’s greatest feat has been the production of such men as Washing. ton, Lincoln and Edison. Although it is not a well known fact, Thomas Alva Edison was born February 11, 1847. He is proclaimed as the “Greatest American since Washing- ton. and Lincoln." Edison lived in two worlds—the world as he found it and he helped to ire-create. I)" he had been born in preceding ages he would have been executed for sorw eery or witchcraft. Yet take out of the world today the works of men like Thomas~Edison and civilization would collapse. Therefore, as engi- neers we should respect ano revere Edison for his greatness and ability and as men we must look up to him for his standards and high ideals. He met his problems with the power of the mind. His victories are those of a “plain Almerican boy” who leaves a rich heritage of inspiration, courage, and character to the youthl of all nations and races. 1 Y1= ‘l1 111 THE WASHINGTON AWARD for 1935, the highest of engineering honors, was presented Ito Ambrose Swasey last week. The Washington award is given each year to an engi—x ricer selected in recognition of his' “devoted, unselfish, and pre- ~eminent service in advancing," human prog- ress.” The award is a large bronze plaque framed in marble. Ambrose Swasey, who is 86 years old, is a manufacturer of special precision machinery, and is well known as a builder of instruments, institutions, and men. Mr. Swasey has designed and manufactured optical instru» ments for the army and navy and mountings for telescopes in the larg- est observatories in this country. He received the greatest compliment payable to any man when Dr. Phil- lip Fox, director of the Adler planetarium told the assemly pres- ent of Mr. Swasey’s “setting the pace for precision engineering by building the finest of precision in— slmments.” THE CHIEF CHARACTERIS- TICS which proclaim themselves in the makeup of these two engineeringY geniuses are those of honesty, and everlasting en— deavor. Thomas Edison once said, and This he have honest conv1ct1ons principles and live by them.” statement seems to sum up character and the greatness of that great American. Mr. Swasey could never have 1110 y reached that highest. pinnacle of engineering suc- cess, only a step below that reached by Edison, if he had not the strength of his convictions and the will to keep “everlastingly at it.” Mesh Lab Receives H “All I ask 01' a man is thatlAddregs TO 3: Given the '; I l Woodman Ito Head Armour Engineer Harry S. Nachman has been chosen to head the staff of the Ar- mour Engineer for the year 1935— 1936. He succeeds Ellis l-l. Doanc, who was editor last year. The last issue to be put out by the old stall“ is late in appearing, but will be given out next week. The first issue by the new staff will a])-' pear in the latter part of March. The remainder of the stall", except stunts, who will be chosen later, m. Editorial Staff Assistant Editor . . .D. N. Brissman Technical Editor .G. Freund Associate Editors ............. N. Balai, F. D. Cotterman, E. lloye‘r. College Chronicle .M. Alexander Business Staff C. Comptroller ...... H. P. Milleville Advertising Managers ......... ..... H. G. (lragg, M. )3. Stevens Circulating Manager .......... . H. Bergquist Associate editors will be in charge of the various departments of the: magazine, such as: Technical Book- shelf, Technical Abstracts, Engi- neering Progress. All men, especially, freshmen, who are interested in working for the Engineer should leave their names on a slip of paper in, the En- gineer’s box in the supply store. Positions both on the business staff and editorial staff are available. A staff meeting will be called in the near future. Armougplaye; Will Postpone Production Armour Players have postponed the date of their next performance to March 7, so that they can pre- sent a double bill of one act plays in one performance instead of mak- ing two difi'crent appearances as they had formerly planned. Pro- fessor Hendricks, director of the play productions, said, “We need an extra week to give the school the two plays, and so we have postponed our date. However, at that time we will piesent two of the finest com- edies yet pioduced by the ‘Playcrs’. " The first play to be presented will “The Boer," a Russian comedy, by Anton Chekhov. Miss Martha Naylor will take a guest lead in “The Boer", whose plot revolves about intrigue and love. The second play will be an American farce, “Dress Reversal" b—y John C.Gel'ber. be for F. P. E. Studehts Next Friday Captain Arthur Brady of the Chicago Fire Depart- ment Drill School will present a talk on “Fire Department Practice” at. 10:30 in the physics lecture room. Everyone is invited to attend bee sides the sophomore, junior, and senior Fire Protects. Last Friday afternoon the senior F P. E. ’5 made their weekly inspec—l tion trip It was to the Field and Modem Diesel Uflli Co. retail store. Mr. C. P. Holmes In keeping with the custom of Armour Institute of Technology to provide up-to-date facilities for the student body, the automotive laboratory, directed by Professor Roesch, recently acquired a new Fairbanks-Morse Diesel Unit. This unit was obtained by the In~ stitute at a ”St 0" $900 and is prim Epsilon elected officers for the com- 211in intended for the study of this branch of mechanical engineering Alumni Requested to Advertise Institute An expansion of the speakeis’ bu~ 18211 of the publicity committee 01' A1'niou1 Institute is being planned to I monthly publication take in all towns and cities within nity 500. miles of Chicago. Alumni who live in these towns will be contacted and asked to speak to high school students towns. This service will help pub— licize Armour in those places where there is no other method of pub— lit-Sty. 1"" in their ' of the Underwriters’ had charge of the inspection trip. Laboratm 1es l _________ l 1 Officers Elected at Chi Epsilon Meeting Last Friday the members of Chi ing semester at their general busi- ness meeting. K. 0. Stocking was! elected president, J M. O’Connor, vice president G. A Nelson, secrc l tarey, and Dean II. T. Heald, tieas- l R. R. Johnson was appointed as- sistant editor of the T1ansit,a! of the frater»‘ Plans were made 1"01 the com- ing semester. An be compiled, and made to get the meetings of the alumni index will, an effort will bel alumni to attendl oi'ganl'} tion. A‘ news letter will be published and, mailed before the luterhonomi'yl dance. Chi Epsilon is a civil engi- neering honorary fraternity. 1., 'Address Given by Talks at Washington’s Birthday Assembly At the annual Washington's birth- day assembly held last Thursday, the Armour faculty and student body had the privilege of hearing D1'. Preston Bradley, one of Chi< cago’s leading citizen’s, present an address which will undoubtedly go down in. the minds of everyone pres- ent as one of the finest in the his- tory of the Institute. After an introduction by Presi- dent Willard l-lotchkiss, Dr. Brad- ley opened his address with a trib- ute to Dr. Frank Gunsaulus. In the words of the speaker, “every insti- tution is but the length and shadow of a great personality." I Preston Bradley} 1 l Lincoln a Classicist Washington and Lincoln, accord» ing to Dr. Bradley, are valuable to us as inspirations. They still live on in spirit, not through the senti- mental stories which have long since been discarded by thinking people, but. through the effect which their lives have had on our country. 01' Lincoln, the speaker said that “he was the greatest work of art the western hemisphere has yet pro- duced.” Although born in the meanest circumstances and having practically no formal schooling, Abraham Lincoln‘s; mind was what we would call classic or extremely analytical in that he had the faculty of seeing through the artificialities of life and arriving at the basic facts. Freeing the slaves was only incidental with him; saving the Union was his major thesis. War Causes Hidden Speaking of the Revolutionary War, Dr. Bradley brought out the fact that all wars have an economic basis. The cause of the Revolution, taxation without representation, and the occasion, the Boston Tea Party, are often confused, as are causes and occasions of all wars. The assasination of an arch-duke, the firing on a fort, the sinking of a ship, all are mere occasions which serve to arouse mass psychology and (Continued on page 3) Address to Be Given at A.I.Ch.E. Meeting Dr. C. W. Balke, director of re» search at the Fansteel Products Co. of North Chicago, will be the speak- er at the A. I. Ch. E. meeting on Friday, March 1, at 10:30. His topic will be “Tantalum Alloys. ” Be- foie becoming director of research '11. the I'ansteel Products Co., Dr. Balkc taught at Kenyon College, University of Pennsylvania, and the University of Illinois. Dr. Balke has done much work in the determination of atomic weights and in the study of metal- lic cerium, tungsten, molybdenum, tantalum, columbium, and tantalum carbide. Chinese Student Club Organized at Armour For the first time in the history of the Armour Institute, a Chinese student club has been organized. This is the Chinese Engineering Student club. The main object of the club is to bring about a closer relation be» tween the Chinese students of Ar» mour and those of the other colleges of the Middle West, and to make it possible for them to exchange ideas, of both social and scientific inter-l est. I The officers are as follows: President-Maurice P. Shiu. Secretary (English)—‘G. )3. Eng. Secretary (Chinese)iWalton C. Joe. ‘ Treasurer—«Clyde W. Chen. The club will hold its meetinO' bi»weekly in the Armour Mission. Bulletins are to be printed and sent to the other Chinese students engineering clubs concerning dis- cussions brought out during the meetings. ' lam Made my S. P. E. E. Brunch! On Saturday, February 16, a meeting was held at Armour for the purpose of discussing the advisabil— ity of the formation of an Illinois- Indiana section of the Society for the Promotion of Engineering Educa- tion. Representatives assembled here were: Dean Enger, Dean Jordan and Prof or Lentwiller, head of the Electrical Engineering Depai'lnient,, all 01' the University of Illinois; Professor Wiley representing Dean Potter from Purdue; Mr. Moench, substituting for President Prentice of Rose Polytechnic; and Dean l-leald, Professor Peebles, and Pro- fessor Finnegan, representing Ar- nour. Four Colleges 111 Area The four represented are the only colleges holding institutional mem— berships in the S. P. E. E. area. 01' course, members of the schools are holders of memberships. During the meeting, plans were made for organization of the section. however, various First Meeting at Purdue It was decided that the first meet- ing of the newly formed organiza- on The pro- is to consist of conferences and the presentation of papers by of the our schools. Professors Dutton, Ensz, Hendricks, McCormack, and ’l‘homp» son, members of the faculty of Ar- mour Institute, will be among those Various tion would be held Saturday, April 6, gram at Purdue 1935. members of the faculties presenting technical talks. other professors from Armour will take part in will be held at the same meeting. Excellent Setting at Latest Dance About two hundred nual Freshman-Sophomore which, was held in the Ba] Tabarin Room of the Sherman Hotel. The scintillating music of tempo decorations ol" the Ba] Tabarin room unique for Chicago. A der water scene was shown. A gentle waving ol' the sea weed helped make The scene the ef’i’ecl more realistic. changed from that to a skyline view of Chicago. Other autumn sunset through trees, tropical beach, and a modernistic scene done in red, white and blue. _Soon after 11 p. m. the floor show from the College Inn came up. This consisted of the “eight debutanttes" who did several dance numbers, a juggler whose remarkable ability in— terested everyone, and a singei who gave vocal interpretations of various types of persons, The success of this dance was due to the efforts of O. Tomei, sopho- more social chairman, and S. Healy, freshman social chairman, and their respective social committees. Math Club @Iilieers Elected at Meeting At its last meeting the Math Club elected its officers for the semester. Those chosen are: president, Roy Kercher; secretary, Amhui- Haegei'; program committee, Maurice Alex» ander, Norton Gerber, Paul Marlin. Francis Popper, and Fred Sirr. After the election a paper on “The Origin of Calculus" was given by Roy Kercher. He presented a quali» taiive picture of how the method «11', calculus developed out of other 'orms 01" mathematics The paper to be presented at the next meeting, March 8, is on “The Anal “'s ol' Harmonic Motion“. grams fm; future meenngs are being . I worked on by the program commit—1 tee. in this faculties of these individual six hour the the conferences that couples danced to, and enjoyed, the music of Maurie Sherman’s orchestra last Friday night. The event was the an» dance proved very capable and a surprise change throughout helped the dancers 1'01 ct. their daily tasks. The 1a1'gu Al" was projected on the wall over the orchestra. On each side an un- SCCYIL’S were an a Pro. , ll'ltfill FAWN Wild slaves hill llhhhl Whhllhll Filllblihd ' hlhhhdl Slidhdlil Ilil FEARS Finale Turns Got to Be Year’s (Classic; ‘ 22-20 Lead at Hall: host as lndiana Wins: lib-413 LAUCHISI‘IIB AND CHRISTOFl-I IN LAST GAME Battling the team that set them down 55-37 earlier last week, the , Tech cagers outplayed a taller Indi- l ana State live in the most exciting sixty minutes of sport offered to A1" I'm} 0'11. bus-i staffs of the AI'IILOIII L'nI/I'ILLI'I m'c Ichrcstcd to how their names ' I the Enmnmw, I,“ “I, I)”. “lli‘lllI/ ‘ mom for a good long time, but vic- store. tory was missed by five points, 48. Alumni notes for ”In AI'maIII l. Capt. Lauchiskis reached the peak EngiaIcri' slum/(l IIc grow {a MI. H 01' his career in this, his last game, as he led his team of inspired “un- derdogs” to a 22-20 lead at the half. Some underdogs ~— and they were still fighting, now to regain the lead, with Lauchiskis out on fouls; at a 43-40 score late in the last half. Tech was tripped again when Bob Merz went out on No. 4, and Indiana held their lead; but they knew they had a ball game behind them as the gun rang down the season‘s curtain! The opposition's success was very largely due to the efforts of Milo lozek, 6 foot 7 inch center, who Scllm'l Illustrated Talk to Be Given for W. S. E. Construction work is almost coni— plctcd at Boulder Dam, and this work will be explained at an illu- strated lecture to be given by R. A. Kirkpatrick at a meeting of the W. S. E. Wednesday, February 27 at 10:30. Colored slides will be used 'to show scenes of construction. Mr. Kirkpatrick, a graduate of the tallied “3 points. Watson, With 13 University of Iowa ‘1 president 01' , points, W215 a big‘ helll 315“ the National Amer ' Armour Slow to Start successor toIWilliam H”. Taft. '1’ The name started with a barn: also a member of the Adi/isory Council on National Parks of the Isaak Walton League. In the near iuture a lecture will be given by 3'.‘ W. Woermann, civil engineer of the Federal C-oveinmcnt on the Illinois Waterway system. All of the students are invited to attend these lectures, and also those given under the Junior section 01' W. S. E. on the lhird Thursday of each month at the Engineers build- ing in Chicago. On Thursday, February 28 at 7 P. M., Mr. Q. M. Crater will present when Armour g'ot the tipnoff only to have it in‘lercepted and plunked in by Miklozck. Tight defense by Indiana kept the Tochawks from scoring in the early seconds of the game, but, the defense once pierced, the Armour men set out to give their i'oes the merry run-around. Started oil" by Merz’s volleyball shot and Dollenmaier’s two gratis heaves, the Techs completely baffled the State men. by their brilliant attack. Luuchiskis shone with two beautiful underhand twist shots, and the in« spired I'leike slid in three of his side. a talk on “Air Conditioning.” Mr, court specials. The end of the half Crater is sales engineer for the saw the Teachers trailing 22-20. Westinghouse Electric and Manu- The second hull’ opened unsatis- ‘lactorily for the Techawks when In- diana promptly knotted the score by rolling in two frees. Al put Armour out in front by retaliating with the same quota, and, a second later, went out on fouls. Armour sank a close shot, and Indiana followed suit. Coach “Wally” Marks sudden» ly found fault with some of the oil’i» ciating and called oil“ his team. Some caustic remarks were dropped by both sides and for a time it looked as if the finale might be an old- iashioncd froc-l'or-all. But some fast talking on the part of referee Scott straightened things out and play was resumed. Merz was banned on fouls, and from then on the game looked glum. Though Warner, Dolly and 'I-Iieke rifled in some beautiful longd'unge shots, the Techawks ‘ were unable to make up the deficit. The game ended with Indiana out in front, 48-43, and the dejected Tee» hawks left for the Frost»Soph hop to l'acturing Company. He has been engaged in air conditioning work for 10 years. 'He should be fully quali- fied to present a concise and clear picture of the development and growth of air conditioning in its uses and benefits 1.0 industry, office, and home, and its future possibility as a rapidly growing in'dustiy. Enrollment Figures Given by Registrar Enrollment figures for this semes- Itei', although not entirely complete, at the present time Show 766 stu- dents registered at Armour Insti- tute. In comparison with the usual drop in enrollment oi“ about forty students, a drop of only twenty took place with the change in scmestci The freshman cl time in the histo of Aii'noui I .howed an increase instead of a (lo-- crease. More new men, emolled to live it down, counterbalance the usual loss, so (Boy score 111: [mph 4) that this clas now contains 220 ._,_.,4_ members, seven more than last semester. Departmental enrollment T0 1486311“? on Eugen is practically the same as last semes- ter. ‘, Registration Figures (to date) Duehring on Thursday I’rol‘essox llanns l‘1~(hoile0!>. u' 1:15.:9. 9 11211111 I‘m