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By Paul Schultz

THE LAST WEEK has again
given us an excellent example of the
strained relations bctWeen the
United States and Japan. Military
susceptibility, which seems more
acute as well as more influential in
Japan than in any other country,
protests the plans of American
aviation enterprise for establishing
air lines over the Pacific. The Jap-
anese press is making a great to—do
about it and an anonymous author-
ity is quoted as alicgmg that “this
project can be regarded as military
preparations in the guise of civilian
enterprise." Color is given to this
charge by the fact that the Amer-
ican navy department has given per-
mits for the experimental planes to
land on the three islands under its
administration, Wake, Midway, and
Guam.

 

OF COURSE, the American public
knows the charges are unfounded,
that in fact the plans for the air
lines over the Pacific are only the
natural expansion of our commer-
cial aviation, which aspires to ex-
tend its services as widely as possi-
ble. Although lines have been
opened to Central and South Amer-
ica, and ii- is expected there will
soon be lines to Europe, Japan is
the only one to conjure up the mil»!
itary bugaboo.

 

EVERY ONE REA'LIZES that
aviation development has military
potentialities everywhere. The only
way to eliminate them is to elim-
inate aviation, or at least to place
such restrictions upon it as would
cripple its natural progress and de~
prive international commerce and
communication of the great facil-
ities possible through this form of
rapid transport. That is a sacrifice
we and other nations interested in
aviation would not consent to make.
There is not the slightest inclination
in the government or people of the
United States to pick a quarrel with
Japan, but the distrust and unrea-
sonable interpretations of normal
American activities which Japanese
leaders and the Japanese press in-
dulge in are a deplorable factor in
the relations of the two peoples,
making friendly and mutually bene»
ficial relations very difficult.

 

THERE IS no conflict between the
major interests of Japan and the
United States that would justify
war, as was pointed out in a previ-
ous discussion. There is no inclina—
tion in the American government or
nation toward war with Japan or
any other country. On the contrary,
there is on our side a full realization
that war between Japan and United
States would be inexcusable folly.
Yet certainly the Japanese press and
government are cultivating toward
us a hostility which is gravely un-
dermining the. prospects of friendly
relations and preparing the way for
a collision sooner or later which can
and should be avoided in the inter-
est of both peoples and of the
world.

 

Public Policy Classes
to Hear Mr. H. T. Hill

Mr. Harvey T. Hill, executive
vice—president of the Chicago Stock
Exchange, will address the class in

‘Public Policy (Social Science 402)
on the operations and activities in-
volved in the purchase and sale of
securities. He will be assisted by
Mr. Woodward, who is also con-
nected with the exchange.

Mr. Hill, who is a graduate of
the University of Pennsylvania, is
an engineer by training. He has
served the Illinois Chamber of Com-
merce as secretary.

A visit to the Chicago Stock Ex-
change to see its actual operation

 

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will later be arranged by the Pub-
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Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois

Tuesday, March 26, “935

 

Holcltlzlss Talks
on Social @rtler

On Tuesday afternoon, March 19,
President Hotchkiss delivered an ad-
dress on “How We Get Along To—
gether" at an assembly of the South
Side Junior College. On Wednesday
the same address was given at the
Wright Junior College and at the
Medill Junior College.

In these addresses Dr. l-lotchkiss
developed some of the difficulties
which individuals and small groups
find in getting along: together in
their every day activities, and ap—
plied the lesson to be drawn from
these difficulties to social, industrial,
national and international affairs.

He pointed out that the abandon-
ment of the democratic method of
getting along together in favor of
turning- the problem over to a dicta-
tor had come chiefly in countries
in which democracy had never be-
come thoroughly established. In spite
of the obvious short-comings of do»
mocracy as practiced in the United
States and of our many unsolved
problems, President Hotchkiss main-
tained that. only through improve-
ments in the democratic method,
rather. than through the substitution
of other methods, can solutions of
these problems be found.

 

Senior Chemicals

Visit Acid Plant

After wandering around the Cal‘
umet region for an hour thirty-five
semor ‘ ' ' ' by
Professors McCormack and Barr,
found that the object of their
search, the Central Chemical Com-
pany, was “right under their nose.”
The company’s plant is located in
Calumet City and manufactures sul»
furic, nilric, and hydrochloric acids,
Sulfuric acid is made by the cham-
ber process, the daily output being
160 tons. The acid is shipped in
steel tank cars; since it is concen-
trated it does not attack the steel.
Hydrochloric acid is produced by
the action of sulfuric acid on sodium
chloride, and gives sodium sulfate
as a lay—product. Much of the suc-
cess of the trip was due to the pres-
ence of a competent guide, who ex-
plained fully the various details of
the processes.

Finding that they had time left
after inspecting the central plant,
the chemicals visited a nearby
gelatin plant. The gelatin is made.
from pigskins which are washed,
fat extracted, and processed. This
plant also has a large capacity, ship—
ping most of its ploduet to the Royal

 

. Gelatin Co.

Regular Wednesday afternoon in-
spection trips are being planned for
the future. Trips will :be made to
oil refineries, cornstarch plants, and
soap factories.

Pi Tau Sigma Pledges
Students at Smelter

 

Pi Tau Sigma, honorary mechan—
ical engineering society, held a pledg-
ing in the Truss Club rooms last
Thursday night. E. P. Auler, D. E.
Howell, A. M. Lane, A. H. Rice, and
F. L. Smith were the pledges. Each
of them had ‘been given a problem
to be solved in a week’s time.

W. W. Henning’s talk on “Tor-
sional Vibrations in Automobile
Crankshafts” was chosen as the local:
talk given at the A. S. M. E. meet-
ings this year. He will represent Ar~
mour at the national meeting of the
A. S. M. E. in Chicago, April 29.
Three cash awards of fifty, twenty-
five, and ten dollars will be given for
the best talks at this meeting.

Fischer Will Lecture

on German Scientist

 

Next Thursday at 10:30.31. m...Pro«.

fessor Hanns Fischer will deliver a
lecture on Robert Mayer before the
German club in F Mission. All stu—
dents are invited to attend.

Robert Mayer was one of the first
German scientists to determine the
mechanical equivalent of heat.

 

Cycle Pictures to
Be Taken in. Gym

Athletic Groups Should

Wear Uniforms

 

Group pictures will be taken for,

the 1935 Cycle on Wednesday,
March 27, and Thursday, March 28.
All pictures will be taken in the
gymnasium, except those of the
swimming team, which will the tak-
en at the U. of C. pool. Men are
requested to be dressed 1n regular
suits or athletic award sweaters for
class and organization pictures. For
team groups and individual athletics
pictures, men should wear regular
uniforms. The schedule is as fol-
l ws:

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Wednesday, March 27th

9:00——Junior Class
10:00—A. A. S.
10:15—~Sophomore Class
1] :15-«Frcshman Class
1:15—A. S. M. E.
l:30—-—A. I. E. E.
1:45~W. S. E.
2:00—A. I. Ch. E.
2:15~F. P. E. S.
2:30-Wrestling Squad
2 Ali—Wrestling Team, Individuals
3:00—W r1. es t l 1 n g Tournament

Champs
3:15—Boxing Squad
3:30—Boxing Team, Individuals
3:45—Boxing Tournament Champs
4:45——Swimming Squad at U. of C.
limo—«Swimming Team, Individuals

Thursday, March 213d:

9:00—Campus Club
9:15——Truss Club
92"“ 9"" Club
Shim—Fencing Club
10' .00——Chess Club
10:15—Radio Club
10: 30—Student Publications Advis»

ory Committee
10:40—Armour Players
10:50—Sonior Social Committee
11:00—Junior Social Committee
1] :IO—Frosh-Soph Social Committee

ll :20—Honor A Society

11:30—Indoor Track Squad

11:45—lntcrclass Track Champs,
Freshmen

12:00——lntramural Softball Champs.
Jr. R. E.

12:15——Baskctball Team, Individuals

Men are excused from their classes
only at times they are to be in pic-
turcs. To avoid confusion, they are
asked to be prompt, and to leave the
gym when their groups have been
photographed.

Spring Concert May
Be Given Downtown

 

This year the Armour Tech Musi»
cal Clubs are contemplating: a change
of location for their annual Spring
Concert. In the past, the Spring
Concert has been held in the Armour
Mission together with the Fraternity
Sing. It is quite certain that the fra-
ternities will consent. to hold their
Sing in the new hall, so that the tra-
ditional Fraternity Sine during:
Junior Week will not be lost.

To effect this change, however, it
will be necessary to secure a pledge
of support from a sufficient number
of the students. In the past two
years the Musical Clubs have assisted
the publicity of Armour materially,
and the students are now given an
opportunity to show their apprecia.
tion.

The club officers are now planning
to publicize this concert by are
nouncements at. class metings, and
through the aid of posters placed at
strategic points.

 

 

Sophomores Pledgetl
lily Alpha Chi Sigma

Alpha Chi Sigma, professional
chemical fraternity, announces the
pledging on March 18 of the follow-
ing men: J. Haas, F. Harman, J.
Kahles, W. Schreiber, P. Schultz,
B. Wilhelm.

The fraternity held a snicker on
Wednesday, March 13 at the Beta
Psi house which was well attended
by the alumni members, several of
wh )m are now doing research work
at Armour, as well as the prospec—
tive pledges.

 

Isa/eliterger to Spools
or Chicago W S. E.

Dr. George L. Schcrger will de-
liver an address at the next meeting ‘
of the Western Society of Engineers
to be held at the Engincrrinu- Build-
inf,r on Thursday evening, March
28, at 7:30 p. m. Dr. Schcrger will]
discuss the topic “What Is Wrong‘
iwith the World?” To this meeting.
the students of the various engineer-
iing schools in the city, including Ar-l
mour Institute, Northwestern Uni—
lversity, Lewis Institute and Chicago
1 Tech, are being specially imited. Re—
i gaming: the for thcomlru1r meeting,r Mr.
lSettcrberg said, “It would be well
worth while for all students to hear
Dr. Scherger and especially should
the Freshmen make the acquaint-
anccship of this man, who has done
much towards developing the cul-
tural side of man in the city of Chi‘
cago.”

 

 

i“lllomogrophs” Topic
of Math Club’s Talk

Equations that would ordinarily
require four or more dimensional
space for their representation were
shown to be easily charted on two
dimensional papers at the Friday
meeting of the mathematics club
when Mr. William W. Gorsline of
Wright Junior College spoke on
Nomoprraphs.

Instead of using,r two coordinate
axes to graph the values of the un~
knowns of an equation, nomography
uses parallel 01- curved lines which,
in general, arise from an axis per-
pendicular to the set. In reading
values from lhis form of (hurt it is
necessary only to lay a straight edge
‘ELClOSS conesponding values of the
known variables, the unknown being
found at the intenection with the
last line.

 

Promotions Awarded
Two Armour Alumni

 

Two Armour alumni, Leonard
Peterson and Arnold Grasse, were
selected to the post of secretary and
assistant secretary of the Home, In-
surance Company of New York, it
was announced by the board of di-
iectors recently.

Mr. Peterson started his career as
inspector with the Michigan inspec-
tion Bureau. In 1920 he joined the
Home Insurance Company of New
York and ten years later became di—
visional underwriter for the western
d1vision.

Mr. Grasse entered the business as
special agent in the Chicano office
in 1919.

Carpenter Will Tulle
in Mining Engineers

Professor A. H. Carpenter, mem—
ber of the American Institute of
Mining and Metallurgical Engineers,
will address that organization on
April 17 at the Engineers' Club.

This being a non-technical meet~
ing, his topic will be “Historical Go-
ology Applied to the Neighboring
Planets." The planet Mars will be

sed in particular.

 

 

 

 

 

THHS WEEK
Tuesday, March 26 to
Monday, April I

Tuesday
Meeting of Editorial Stafi‘ in
News Office; 12:30.

Orchestra Practice; Assem-
bly Hall; 5:00 P. M.
Thursday
[ German Club; F Mission;
1 10:30 A. M.
Chess Club; 4th Floor

Chopin; 12:20 P. M.
Glee Club; Assembly Hall;

5:00 P. M.
Dr. Schergcr at W. S. E.;
Engineering Bldg.; 7:30 P. M.
Friday

Society meetings; 10:30.

 

 

Wrestling; Wright Jr. Coll.

at Armour; 3:80 P. M.
Entries for Softball Tourney
accepted.

 

 

 

 

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Seniors who 1117'.le class jewelry
have their orders in the
hands 0/ the committee by Friday,
, March 2!) The last onlor will be
sent in at [hot lime.

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All senior 3 cute who expect
to graduate June must see
the Personnel officer before Apnl
1.

All students who are interested
in working on the Armour Cycle
Advertising Sta/l gel in touch
with. R. M. Paulscn, Cycle adver—
Iis lg manager. 20 per cent com-
mission will be allowed on all (Lols.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Report Received on
Physics Examination

 

According to a preliminary report
on the mechanics section of the 11a~
tional physics examination given in
rcventy-eisrl’lt colleges throughout the
country last year, Armour studel’lts
made a mean score of 27, as com-
pared with the national mean of 18
end a national average among engi-
neering- colleges of 20.5.

Approximately 1'75 sophomores (and
some present juniors) in the general
physics course at Armour took the
examination. The test in mechanics
was of the objective type with fifty-
two questions to be answered in an
hour.

01‘ the seventy-eight colleges
whose reports are in, there were only
four schools which ranked higher
than Armour.

These tests are experimental
studies. but seem to have a. real plan
in marking the student.

Morozoll” Elcédd to
loud leech Rifle Club

New officers were elected at the
meeting of the Armour Tech Riilc
club, last Wednesday, March 20. The
men chosen were J. Morozoi’f, presi-
dent; E. Auler, treasurer; and H.
McDaniel, captain-manager. Elec-
ion was practically unanimous. The
men took oilicc immediately after
an informal meeting with the old
officers.

J. H. De Boo, W. W. Henninu, and
M. J. Fetter, the previous officers,
spoke to the members, asking that
they make use of the club room—for
card games, informal gatherings and
even suggested that the members eat
their lunches there. New men will
be needed for the team next year,
as most of the present men will be
graduating this June.

 

 

Location Chosen for
luterlwnomry Dance

 

In order to facilitate the partici-
pation of alumni, the interhonorary
council has changed the date of the
in terhonorary dance to Api 1l 27. The
date had been previously set for,
and announced as Friday, April 26.

The change was made to Saturday
with the belief that more alumni
members would be able to be pres~
cut on that night. The dance will be
staged at the Allerton Hotel.

Twelve Mien. fledged
by Athletic Honorary

Twelv-c men were pledged by
Honor “A" last Friday morning at
10:30 in the Tau Beta Pi rooms in
reward for their excellent sports
1ecords.

Joseph Bartusek, Louis Bieg‘ler,
Ken Carroll, William Concolino,
Robert Eshenscn, Eugene Heike,
Robert Hella, Robert Merz, Daniel
Moore, Donald Neal, Robert Schmidt,
and Hermon Sumner were the
athletes who took the pledge.

Chi Epsilon Pledges
Four New Members

Last Tuesday night, Chi Epsilon,

 

honorary civil engineering fraternity,

pledged four men, John Galandak,
John Larson, Theodore Rsmetowski,
and Gordon Zwissler. Pledging: took

iplace in the looms of the Campus

(‘luh.’1‘i1e period of pledging will
probably extend about one month bx-
iore their initiation.

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juniors Lead—All Classes
With Average
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MACE LEADS. SENlURS

Scholastic standings of the mem-
bers of the senior, junior, sophomore,
and freshman classes of the College

 

of Engineering and Architecture
for the first semestm of the 1934-
.35 school year have been released

by the Registrars office.

The average of the entire under-
graduate body, totaling 743 students
for the semester, is 1.59.

The individual class averages are
as follows:

 

The Senior Class

The Junior Class

The Sophomore Class ........ 1.52
The Freshman Class ......... 1.31

Raymond C. Maci, whose average
is 2.85, leads the senior class. He has
led the class of ’35 for the last three

years.

The student with the highest
average in the junior class is Rus-
sell R. Johnson, who has led his
class for three years. In the past

semester, his average was 2.97.

William B. Graupner, with an
average of 2.94, led the sophomore
class. He also was highest in his
freshman year.

In the freshman class there are
five students who hold jointly the
highest average which is 2.88. They
are 13. W. Gamson, W. M. Kiefer,
W. R. Marshall, L. Parker, and E. F.
Wagner.

Departments

(Freshman students not included)

 

 

 

Mechanical Engineering .. . 1.65
Electrical Engineering; 1.72
Civil Engineering 1.65
Chemical Engincefing . 1.74
F'ire Piotection Engineeiing,r . 1.94
Architeciure ............... 1. 42
Engineering,r Science ........ 2.08

Honorary Fraternities
The following groups are ar-
ranged according to the seniority

of their establishment at Armour
Institute.

(Scholastic)
Tau Beta Pi ............... 2.48

 
  

Pi Tau Sigma 2.31
Eta Kappa Nu ..... 2.45
Chi Epsilon ...... .. 2.33
Phi Lambda Upsilon ........ 2.5-1
Salamander ............... 2.45

(Non Scholastic)
Pi Nu Epsilon

Honor Society

 

Sphinx

(Continual on page 3)

Supine liaise Trip

to See Museum

 

Perpetual motion may fool fifty
thousand college students, but to an
Armourite it is as simple as a cubic
equation. Most of the sonhommes
who visited the physics museum of
the University of Chicago found that.
a dark spot. on the wall led to an air
inlet which drove the “delicately
poised movement“ seemingly mov-
ing forever without external propul-
sion.

Arranged by Professor Thompson,
the inspection trip gave the physics
students a chance to try the appara-
tus, much of which was exhibited
at the Century of Progi Among
the most popular exhibits were the
experiment that measured the mass
of the earth and the replica of Pro»
lessor Miichelsen’s apparatus to
measure the velocity of light. An—
[ oxher point at which the engineering
draining of the Armourites showed
to advantage was in the Mae'dohurg
vacuum hemispheres. Although two
eight—horse teams were originally
used to show that the b;:l could
not be pulled apart, the mechanzcal
training of the sophomores enabled
them to show that one team and a
brick well would have resulted in the
same force on the apparatus

 

 

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