Tuesday, March 12, l935

ARMOUR TECH NEWS

Page Three

 

Woman. to Speak
at WEE. Meeting

Proving that all engineering is. not
accomplished by men, the Chicago
Junior section of the Western Society
of: Engineers has chosen a woman to
speak on “Pro-Construction Problems
of Housing” at the next meeting on
Thursday, March 14. She is Miss
Elizabeth Wood, Executive Director
of the Metropolitan Housing Council,
which has charge of the three large
reconstruction projects now under
way in Chicago.

The social and economic phases,
rather than the strictly technical
side of the rehousing program, will
be covered in this talk, which will be
given in Room 1200 of the Engineer’s
Building, 205 N. Wacker Drive, at
7 :00 o’clock.

Kadic Presents Vapor

Planned progress, as applied to na—
tional recovery would, if practiced
in the past, have saved the country
a major portion of the five billion
dollar work relief bill now before
Congress. This was one of the points
brought out by Irving J. Kadic, of
the Illinois State Planning commis~
sion, in his paper on “New Fron-
tiers/1 :.presented at a mccting of the
Western Society of Engineers on
March 7.

The pioneers were taken by Mr.
Kadic as the prototype which set the
standards and ideals of the early
American nation. With a real physi-
cal frontier ever before them, they
were forced by conditions to be ex«
tremely individualistic, but were
nevertheless bound together by the
aspiration to “conquer the continent.”
The constant urge of the pioneers to
expand was not satisfied until their
border disappeared forever, in the
Pacific.

Bridges Burned

With the pioneers’ border definite-
ly gone, we have yet to provide a
satisfactory substitute. History will
probably show that the last one hun-
dred years have covered the efforts
of more than live hundred years. A
people with this tremendous record
at its back is now in the position of
a man who sees that the road he is
following to some unknown and un—
seen destiny is dropping into a valley
of complete blackness. To go ahead
seems dangerous; to lag behind is
to invite the fate of stagnacy that
overtook the Roman and Persian em—
pires.

If the country is to move forward,
as its heritage cannot but require it
to do, it might be pointed out that
the extreme measures are in the di—
rection of communism, bUt even such
extremes are preferable, to the
American people, to the alternative
of fascism, according to the speaker.

Social Problems increasing

With the tempo of the people mov-
ing in the direction of a frontier, it
seems highly probable that our new
frontiers will be in the direction of
social advantages reaching more peo-
ple. We are already recognizmg this
in smaller agricultural units, where
the principle is coming to be recog—
nized that if a man settles on land
so poor that it will not support him,
he will eventually become a public

xchaxrge. This idea is also being ex-
panded to other lines of endeavor, the
responsibility of individual and state
becoming more definite as their func-
tions are realized.

The problems met With by engi—
neers, who set out in the new social
relations, are found to be surpris-
ingly different from those of engi-
neering practice. Whereas the engi—
neering conditions may be isolated
and all the reactions determined, the
economic structure is so closely knit
that any change made, in agricul-
ture for example, makes itself felt
in a dozen other fields and in other
countries. In addition the engineers"
problems are fairly static, while those
of our political organization are con—
stantly and rapidly varying.

Balance Needed

We may, perhaps, best come to
solutions of these economic problems
by attempting in some way to strike
a balance. One of the crying needs
for some new technique is the para—
dox of many people being without
manufactured articles which they
need, while at the same time, the
workers who would produce these
goods are unemployed.

Cooperative endeavors seem to be a
very healthy Sign of movements in
the right direction. One organiza—
tion, the National Resources Board,
gave considerable service to local
groups which were reorganizing their
local governments. Another, the fam-

Railway Exhibition is

to Open at Coliseum

New appliances for the construcA
ti‘on, maintenance, and operation of
railways are the attractions at the
twenty—fourth annual exhibition of
the National Railway Appliance
Association which opened yesterday
at the Coliseum.

The exhibition is being held in
conjunction with the annual confer-
fercnce of two important engineer-
ing bodies: The American Railway
Engineering Association and the Sig.
nal Section of the American Rail-
way Association. These sessions, as
well as the exhibition, will last four
days, March 11 to 14.

Students of civil engineering will
be especially interested in the show
for here they can observe the prac‘
tical applications of the theoretical
knowledge developed in the class
room.

Free passes may be obtained by
the civil engineering students from
Professor Stevens, while {the Dean’s
office has passes for distribution to
other departments. Either individ—
uals or groups of students may at‘
tend.

 

 

ous Agricultural Adjustment Admin-
istration, has covered remarkable
territory in getting farmers to co~
operate with their neighbors in an en-
deavor which they felt to be to the
good of all.

The many schemes of setting up
new ideals and frontiers require men
for administrative positions whose
functions are such as belong to the
engineer. Together with public util—
ities, these new fields of public serv—
ice and planning hold the greatest
promise of employment in the future
of the engineer.

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Honorable mention for sharp»
shooting goes to “head—hunter"
SPRAGUE for capture ol." a .l'er -
cious bcwhiskered mouse in D—Mis—
sion Friday.

5AM BIBB’S 9:30 class is going
to derive the equation for the curve
in the part in‘ his hair. it ought to
be easy because it remains
stunt from day to day.

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WANTED: by W. J. BOLZ

A blow/dc living within a mile m-
dius of Irving and Ashland. He offers
his good loo/cs, pocket money, it. our,
and personality. Gold diggers need
not apply. (He has a coal and hat
on.)

MISTER WM. R. HEINTZ seems
to be a member of the Fascist silk
“Black Shirts.” It’s probably be-
cause there’s a close resemblance be-
tween it and our famous atmosphere.

And DOC STYRSKY, the famous
lover, claims that he owes every-
thing to PROF. HUNTLEY. It was
From him that he learned that they
neck before they yield.

 

 

 

What has become of the ”Broken
Beaker”? Has this Senior Sehmier
award dropped from circulation for—
ever? If not, why hasn’t Al Lauch-
is‘kia received it? It isn’t everyone
who has calcium carbonated the
whole Chem Engineering lab—~and

  

     
  

 

There’s nothing friendly about the
sharp, bitter sting of unripe top to—
bacco leaves. There’s nodiing friendly
about the grimy, flavorlcss bottom
leaves. But there’s a wealth of friend—
liness, of mildness in the rich,

(ENTER [EAVES
CENTER

 

mellow-ripe center leaves. And I

New Isotopes Found
by English Scientist

Professor F. W. Aston of Cam-
bridge University and former Nobel
Prize winner, announced the discov-
cry of twenty~odd isotopes of chem
ical elements to the Royal Society of
London. His discoveries are the re-
sult of several years of precise spec-
tographic work on a dozen elements.

The record of isotopes kept by
Professor Aston shows that two hun~
dred and forty-seven isotopes are
known, from seventy-nine of the nine-
ty--two elements.

The new isotopes are those of
cadmium, calcium, carbon, gallium,
hafnium, indium, iron, nickel, rho~
diurn, silver, thorium, titanium, and
zirconium. They were discovered by
the use of the mass spectograph,
which is an instrument that serves
as a delicate balance for weighing
the clements.

Prol’o. or Aston also announced the
discovery of rays emitted by haf~
nium, thorium, and rhodium,

It is believed that there are stable
atoms for every whole number atomic
weight from one to two hundred and

   
 
  
      
 
    
    

even dripped over into the Fresh
Chem lab.

P. S.——Al surely looks pretty with
mop in hand and pants rolled up——
ready for action.

 

 

When GUNDERSON, LEWIS,
MARTY, and MULLANE were little
boys, they never realized that they’d
have such good facilities for playing
“ch00 choo train” as they found in
the senior chem. lab.

 

"Now lit/cc a. pic-co of cast iron,"
said. PROF. CARPENTER as In:
pal/.011 out his mule/L.

am made of these fragrant, expen—
sive center leaves, only.

I’ll not irritate your throat. I’ll
never let you down. I’m your best
friend. I am your Lucky Strike.

{LEAVES GEVE W! THE MIEDESF SMQKE

 

 

Phil. YERS

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and then called back, only to be re-
quested to exit again by the indcu
cisive Elena. The poor obsequious
servant ‘l.uka, played by John Spero-
paulos, could most certainly have
fainted in a heap when he saw Elena
in the arms of 'lhe impetuoua Greg-
ory at the end of the play.

 

To us, the performance of “The
Boor” was highly satisfactory and
the appreciative audience will cer-
tainly welcome Miss Naylor back
should she appear in another play
here.

In, between the acts the audience
was entertained in true style by
Bertram. Heine and his. accordion.

To the audience, it appears easy
to give a play; but little thought is
given to the weary hours spent at
rehearsal or the work of the produc-
tion staff. The electricians, stage
hands, and scenic designers spend
many an hour in dismal oblivion so
that the players may do their bit
under the most favorable circum-
stances possible. Joseph Kichaven,
Richard Lischcr and Michael Pan-
tone worked patienllly into the wee
small hours of the morning putting
on the finishing touches. The ad-
mirable scenery was done by Lischcr

and Kichavcn, who appearedin Dress

Reversal as scene painters. Pantone
did not appear before the audience.

The second play, “Dress Reversal"
was an, openly uproarious comedy,
and it disclosed some of the woes of
Plrofessor Hendricks, who directed
\both these comedies. A group of act-
ors are putting on a dress rehearsal,
but alas! The bell won’t ring, the
gun won’t shoot, the lines are not
learned, the cues are missed, the
actors come and go “like ripples in

‘ a stream,” and the woc-bce’one di-

rector, played by Sydney Miner,
,who can take plenty, finally faints
laway after “helpful little Horace"
l is plastered all over the floor by the
butler. Tom Jones in a cutaway
coat and undershirt he wanted to
keep the boiled one cloanflas the
butler, kept up the suspense through.
out the play. We wondered if he
really would reach ten counts.

Budd Sills and Bill Emmerich, who
took the parts of two buxom young
ladies, merited an affirmative an-
swer to the question of Sills, “Ain’t
I something, huh?”

 

Concert Given Last
n .
limolay for KWCJL
Last Friday night the one hundred
members 01' the Armour Tech musi-
cal clubs presented a concert at the
McCoi-mack Y.W.C.A. at Dearborn
and Oak streets, Chicago.
The Glee Club presented many of
those numbers which proved popu-

lar at other engagements. Their
program included: “Dear Land of
Home,” by Sibelius; “Sylvia,” by

Speaks, “Pop Goes the Weasel,” and
a g'nup 01' three negro songs: “Plan—
tation," “Sleep Kentucky Babe,” and
“Swing Along."

The Orchestra presented “Light
Cavalry Overture," “In a Persian
Market,”” and that delightful tone
poem. of Kettclby, “In a Monastery
Garden."

R. Dalton sang “Gypsy Love
Song,” accompanied by G. Ormsby
at the piano and against a back-
ground 01' humming“ by the Glee
Clulb.

ll. Hale gave a tenor solo “At
Dawning." He was accompanied by
piano and violin.

After the concert an informal
dance was held with Del Campo and
‘his orchestra supplying the music.

 

 

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