By Albert M. Lane (Continued from last issue) ’l‘I-IE FLIGHT IN which we find ourselves — the young blood of a nation that must shape itself to en- dure the labor of rebirth-was not unforeseen for us. Frederick W. Taylor took up the battle some thir- ty odd years ago and, with saintly peisevcrance, forced upon engineers a consciousness of their concern with the human element in industry. It is to his glory that the implanted seed has blossomed forth into full flower, but it is not through any contorted vision which he may have held that engineers have shirkcd their responsibilities to favor the de- mands of industrialists that the new knowledge be exploited at the ex- pense of human welfare and eco- nomic stability. The counsel was given, but its implications were dis- dained. At times the sun has not shown so brightly and fleeting glimpses of the haunting specter have been caught. It was at one such period several years ago that the American Engineering Council pointed to the inevitable while de- fining engineering as “ . the science of controlling the force/i and of ulil- izing the materials of nature for the benefit, of man, and th' neetwn therewith." IT IS OUR obligation to recognize the fuller significance of our powers and to shape our course about an even broader concept of engineering influence. We have the responsibil. ity to awaken ourselves to awareness that many of us are endowed with the faculties and all of us are equipped to further curtail the need for human effort in productive ca- pacities. It is imperative that our foresight be keen enough to appreci— ate the consequences of our acts. It is no longer conjecture that increases in mechanized production methods breed disproportionate increases in unemployment. 0n the contrary, it is an established fact. Each such discard of some portion of the total available supply of human effort adds to the complexity of equalizing disbursement of benefits accruing from an advance. Engineering vision must be broad enough to anticipate the forces set up by progress in the field. There must be a full compre- hension of all of the effects of such forces upon economic, social, and political tranquility. FULL RECOGNITION must be taken of the end which the machine (Continued on page 4) Phi Lambda Upsilon Initiates Eight Men Eight men were formally admitted to Phi Lambda Upsilon, honorary chemical engineering fraternity, at the initiation and banquet held at the Pi Kappa Phi house December 18. The new members are N. Balai, H. 0. Bauermeister, N. Gerber, T. M. Gilkison, R. S. Kercher, L. W. Robbie. C. D. Rodriguez, and P. R. Schultz. As a pledge duty these men pre— pared a plate glass fraternity sign in blue and red, the fraternity colors. Pledge Two Men to Scarab Membership 1 11 0n the evening of January 3,1936. Univer51ty, the actives and alumni members of Edfou Temple of Scarab, architec- tural fraternity at Armour, met at the International House to pledge Albert H. Ramp, ’37, and Raymond Kliphardt, '38. Dean Heald and Mr. Emery Stanford Hall were guests at the dinner. After the dinner which was given in honor of the occasion7 Mr. Hall, Fellow of the American Institute of Architects, led a discus sion on the topic “Architectural Edu‘ cation." l... .l. Lease Appointed to Direct Co—op Plan L. J. Lease, vocational director at Thornton Township High School, was recently appointed coordinator of the mechanical engineering cooperative plan. It is his duty to plan a p1'(1< gram of studies with the student, and to make contacts between cm- ployers and students. Mr. Lease graduated from the Uni~ versity of Illinois in 1904, and has worked for Western Electric Com- pany, the Cutler Hammer Company, and has also been with Morton High School. Enez ls Recipient of Harvard Award Will Leave Institute to Continue Studies Professor Herbert Ensz, associate professor of civil engineering, recent- ly received a semester‘s scholarship to Harvard University through the efforts of Dean Heald, and he will leave Armour Institute next semes- ter to study courses under Professor Terzaghi, who is often called the “Father of modern soil mechanics.” Professor Ensz will also stay at Cambridge to attend the Internation- al Conference on Soil Mechanics; and Foundation Engineering from June 22 to June 26, 193’ 6 Professor Terzaghi will preside at the confer— ence which occurs in the year of the two hundredth anniversary of Harvard University. Introduced Course at A. l. T. Professor E1157. has studied soil mechanics since he first came in con— tact with the subject through Ter— zaghi’s book, published in 1925. Ter- zaghi is a Czechoslovakian who con- ducted studies in soil mechanics at Roberts College, Istanbul, and at Technischc Hochschulv, Vienna, Aus— tria, and in 1925 established at Mas- sachusetts Institute of Technology and Harvard University the first laboratories in this country for the study of the subject. Professor Ensz is the only man in the Chicago area who has a profes- sional knowledge of soil mechanics, and for the last five years has con. ducted graduate courses at Armour. Only this year, hc introduced an un- dergraduate elective course, and he believes that it will, in time, be re- quired in the civil engineering curri- culum of every school in the country. Chairman of Committee At a recent conference of the So— ciety for the Promotion of Engineers ing Education, he was chairman of the committee on soil mechanics. On January 15, 1936, at 7 p. 111., he will address the Western Society of Engi— neers, in their rooms in the Engi- neering Building on the subject of soil mechanics. He will include a short history of the subject besides explaining what it concerns and what it accomplishes. Three Acre Awarded Aflllll. Membership Honorary junior membership awards to the American Society for Metals were made to J. H. Johnson, E. W. Engstrom, and R. S. Kercher at the monthly meeting of the Chi- cago chapter last Thursday evening. These men were chosen for the posi- tions by Professor Carpenter, who has charge of metallurgy at Armour. The University of Illinois, the niversity of Chicago, Northwestern Valparaiso University, and Lewis Institute were also given the same recognition. Not all of these, however, received three ap~ pointments. The meeting, which was held at the Medinah Athletic Club, began at 6:30 p. m. with dinner and enter- tainment. After that Mr. R. Archer, the national president, gave a talk on “Does Research Pay" in which he brought out all of the salient facts concerning modern industrial re- search. 1 Armour institute of Tech nology, Chicago, Illinois Universal @il Products Eomgunny to @rganize Eeseu Universal Oil Products Company, a research organization engaged in developing processes of making gas— oline and other oil byaproducts, is installing a research laboratory at the Institute. The metallurgy lab, “dark room,” and Professor Carpen— ter’s office have been moved to Machinery Hall at the expense of the company to make room for the laboratory. To Lecture Weekly Dr. Vasili Komarewsky, lecturer and chemist, will conduct research work for the company on the cata- lytic reactions of paraffin hydro— carbons. The principal object of the work will be to discover catalytic agents which will aid reactions in cracking crude oil to make gaso- line. He will also work with many gaseous products of little value with the hope of reforming them to gaso~ line. Along with this work, he will give one lecture a week next semes- ter on “Catalysis of Chemical Read tions” which will be optional to senior chemicals and graduate stu. dents. Born in Moscow Dr. Komarewsky was born in Moscow on February 17, 1895. He received the degree of Doctor of Chemistry in 1925 at Moscow Uni— versity. For a time he lectured in the Moscow Academy of Mines and was chief chemist of the State In- stitute for Peat Industry. He was working in Germany and brought to this country by the Uni- versal 011 Products Company. He did research work at Northwestern University and now will work at Ar- mour, preferring the college atmo- sphere to that of the company. The doctor is a member of the German and American chemical societies. He is primarily interested in catalysis but has worked with peat and cellulose. Prizes Will Feature WQYW’S Carol Party Prizes, entertamment and refresh- ments will be the order of the eve- ning at the Armour Tech Radio Club card party to be held in Armour Mission at 8 p. m. on January 17, 1936. Bertram Heine and his new accordion will be a feature of the party. The winner at each table will receive a prize worth the price of admission, and numerous door prizes, made available by several manufae~ turcrs, will be given out. Ticket sales will be limited to 150, tickets being available from any member of the Armour chh Radio Club. l‘hifll NEWS 'l‘d Edllhllfl'l‘ Phil. dbl WAR lllEll’S Are more than 72 readers of the Armour Tech News sufficiently tcrested in world affairs to give their views on war? This question, among others, will be answered by the poll to be conducted by the News through the medium of the war ballot ap» pearing elsewhere in this issue. Ev- ery one, student or other, is eligible to vote, but the ballots" must be placed in the News box in the lobby of the main building before Janu— ary 23. A similar ballot has been submit- ted to the students of the Univer— sity of Denver and Purdue Univer» sity during the past few months. The results at the latter institution showed that, out of the 100 ballots returned, only 72 were valid, with in» the remainder obviously duplica— tions. Voting in the poll at Pur- due, including students, faculty, stenog'raphers, and high school stu~ dents, numbered 72, of whom eight were women. The most decisive of the results of the balloting were obtained for the questions concerning dictator“ ships, in which no one approved of a Fascist dictatorship and only two were in favor of Communist rum. Was 1 rcli lull or Armour Fraternities to Hold Dance February 29 On Saturday, February 29, Ar- mour fraternities are to‘ hold a for» mal dinner-dance at the Chicago Beach Hotel. This has been the de- cision of a special social committee 1appointcd by the lnterfralcrnity Council. George Savidis, president of Phi Pi PM and chairman of the com- mittee, stated that he has heard manya fine orchestra in the past few weeks and hopes to engage a real toe-persuasive band. The dinner» dance will be open only to Armour fraternity men and stray Greeks. ASSEMBLY WEN; hlilllfillll A.'l'.A.A. l‘d bl; lllSElllSlih Juniors and Seniors to Meet Before Date is Set Awaiting only meetings junior and senior classes, general assembly will soon he held to consider a revised form for the constitution of the T” c c 11 of the another made to take a vote until ample opportunity has bot-n frivcn to dis- cuss the constitu- tion in class meet— ings. 1). J. Non! Froxh and Sophs Have Approved Before the Christmas holidays, both the freshman and the sopho- more classcs discussed the new form and expressed their satisfaction with it, with the exception that the fresh- men want on record as favoring re- tention of the article 1n the present constitution calling for the appoint— ment of a social chairman whose ap- proval must be secured on the date of all social events. Article Not Observed Although this article is now in force, it has not been observed in recent years. Some confusion was caused last fall when the freshmen scheduled a dance to take place a week before the annual senior in- formal. The revision of the constitution was originally made by Neal but further revisions have been made by a committee composed of R. Johnson, J. 0. Larson, ll. P. Mille- ville, S. M. Miner, l). J. Neal, R. M. Paulsen, R. A. Peterson, and F. X. Popper, The complete revised text of the constitution is given on page 5 in this issue of the News. “@il Fires” in "Topic at Next FIRES. Meeting At the next meeting of the F.P.E.S., to be held Friday, January 24,in B Mission at 10:30, Mr. Charles P. Holmes will present an illustrated lecture “Oil Fires and Their Ex- tinguishing.“ Plans are already being formulatu ed for a smoker to be held at the Lawson Y.M.C.A., sometime early in March. At the meeting of last Friday, Donald M. Wood, of the firm Childs and Wood, gave a talk illustrating the work of the insurance broker by giving an example of the procedure followed in investigating the insur» ance carried by the Kroger Consum- ers Company. Mr. Wood stated that a man to be a successful insurance broker must be well informed in mathematics, mechanics, .‘Jaw, medicine, account- ing, and also possess a knowledge of 1 manufacturing. ”lid l Ellillll Am Eunice lb Era of Steuben Elixir Final arrangements have been made, for the annual Arx Dance to be known this year as the Clmreltc. The dance will be held in the Grand Ballroom of the Steuben Club, on February ’7. Music is to be Furnished by Jimmie Lcltoy and his orchestra, and the bids have been attractively priced at $1.25. A. poster contest has nounced with everyone eligible. been an All dent supply store by noon, Friday. bid and two half bids. Each poster1 is to contain the particulais outlined above. Anyone wishing to earn a free hid may do so by selling five. Interested parties may contact any of the mem- bers of the social committee: It. W. Becker, H. F. Lohmiller, B. Nobler, A. H. Ramp, and E. F. Schmaltz. Welding @roup to Meet at Armour At the next monthly meeting of the Chicago chapter of the American Welding Society, Mr. Jules Muller. head of the metallurgical department of the Central Steel and Wire Co. of Chicago, will talk on “The Metal- lurgy of Welding.” Through the courtesy of Armour Institute, the so~ ciety has arranged to hold its meet- ings in the Assembly Hall of the Mission building, and has invited those students who are interested in the meetings to attend. Meetings are held on the last Fri- day of each month at eight o’clock in the evening. Preceding each meeting Mr. Muller will conduct a 11no~hour class on the metallurgy of welding. The first meeting of the society at the Institute was held on December 27 with 1253 present in spite of slushy streets. Some special equip» ment‘ was brought down for demon- strations in the forge shop on the first floor of Machinery Hall. The (Continued on page 4) ANS M E. anal A. l. E. E. l to Hear WOoelworlli On Friday, January 24, the A. S. M. E. and A. I. E. E., in joint meet— ing, will hear a talk “Engineering Work and the Law Course" by Mr. P. B. Woodworth, a Chicago patent attorney. The meeting will be held in Science Hall. Mr. P. B. Juhnke, chief load dis- patcher of the Commonwealth Edi- son Company, was heard by the A. S. M. E. last Friday on the subject “Load Distribution of the Mid-West and of the Chicago Stations in Par— ticular.” Four Men initiated into Civil Honorary J. E. Linden, S. '1‘. Nylon, J. S. Styrsky, seniors, and L. E. Zwissler. junior, were initiated into Chi Ep~ silon, honorary civil engineering fra— ternity, on Saturday, December 28, 1935. Dean Heald, Profeswr Ensz, Professor Stevens, active members, and a few alumni were present at the initiation banquet. Following: the banquet, the party adjourned to the Grand Theater, where they enjoyed “Anything Goes," the popular 0111* posters must be delivered to the stu-‘ The awards will consist of one l'ulll Tuesday, January l4, l936 Ahllldlllill illlllldltl. cross llllliifihlll‘ All Elldlllldll ”llrlllhlhll WE. Ell This Concert is First to be Presented to General Public at Admission Charge; Proceeds to Help Finance Trips SPONSORED BY FACULTY WOMEN’S CLUB After studying for three and one half years under 0. Gordon Erick- son, the Armour Tech Musical Clubs have decided to expand their activ- ities by presenting a public concert at the Goodman Theatre on Friday, February 28, 1936, at 8:30 p. m. The Women's Faculty Club will sponsor this concert, the tickets for which are fifty cents each and are now on sale in the lobby of the main building during the lunch period. All seats are reserved, since they are equally advantageous but it will be neccssary for thosc desiring a group of tickets to purchase them immedb atcly. To Present Other Programs Befmc this concert takes place, the Musical Clubs will present sev- cial oLher p10g1ams, the first of them on January '17 at the McCor- mack Y. W. C. A Two other con- certs, sponsored by the Illinois Cen- tral Railroad and by the National College of Education, will be given in February. The following statement on the public concert at the Goodman was issued by George W. Ormsby, presi- dent of the Musical Clubs: “The most important note of the year to be struck by the Armour Tech Musical Clubs will be the con» cert in the Goodman Theatre Friday, February 28, at 8:30 p. m. This is an entirely new note, never before heard, it being the first time that Armour’s Musical Clubs have ap- peared in any theatre concert in Chicago. Reasons for Concert “The musical clubs have more than one purpose in giving this concert. First, they wish to show to a larger public than ever before, that Armour produces well-rounded men of di- versified interests as well as thor- oughly trained engineers. Through the glee club and orchestra organiza~ tions, both under the skillful baton (Continued on page 4) To Repeal Tulle on Boulder Dam Mr. R. A. Kirkpatrick, a special representative of the Union Pacific Railroad Company, who talked at Armour last February on the prob« lems connected with the construction and location of Boulder Dam, is go~ ing to lecture again on the same sub- ject next Friday at 10:30 in the as- sembly hall. Those who heard his talk last year will remember that concrete was being poured for the huge structure at that time. At pres— ent the dam is nearing completion. In last year's lecture Mr. Kirk patrick told of the terrible flood conditions which the Colorado River brought about annually in the lin- poriol Valley. When, in 1905, an es- pecially disastrous flood occurred, Congress was aroused to investigate the condition. One man spent twelve years in finding the best possible site for the dam, and chose Boulder Canyon. A party of five congress- men visited the site, but saw :1 place which they liked better—Black Conn you, the sides of which were volcanic rock. Although Bouldcr Canyon was composed of granite, the dam was built in Black Canyon because these five. congroswnen recommended it as the dam site. The lecture included the problems of surveying: and preparing the wells of the canyon, the bui of Boulder City. the problems of nour- ing concrete. transporting the g? auntie conduits, turning the riu ' {win its course and 1319 other out?!- Eng: rent stage play. net-“ring details of the prolett.