By Albert M. Lam THERE COMES BEFORE upper classmen at this time every year a question for each to decide for him- self. The importance of the decision is momentous, although at this point in the respective career of each of us the matter seams of little con- sequence. Unfortunately, it is rarely possible for the uninitiated to an- ticipate or to visualize the bearing that this seemingly insignificant choice may have upon our future successes. Were we able to feel the experiences of the men who have gone before us, cuts would be an easy task, for the balanceflis tilted far to one side. The problem of af— filiation with our professional so- ciety would present no perplexitcs. It would bear its own solution.’ ALTHOUGH WE ARE denied the privilege of, viewing the future in panorama, there is still open to us a ‘broad avenue of previch. It is our good fortune to occasionally have the opportunity to gain the sound advice of an alumnus who has attained the vantage point we hope will some day be ours. Those alumni who have drawn upon their very valuable time to extend to us a helping hand have been surpris— ingly invariant in their counsel. Each of them has brought to light the same primc requisite. Each has designated the fundamental neces- sity for an engineer to supplement his professional training with a gen- erous endowment of poise, vocal ex- pressability, fraternalism, salesman— ship and diction. By the scale on which the engineer includes these arts in his equipagc, each informant declares, is measured the distance he shall travel along the highway of SUCCESS. IF THESE FACTORS be the key- note of our future, it would seem imperative that the engineering cur— riculum be broadened to include a thorough grounding in their mastery. Logically, the seeming is sound and true. But the scope of engineering is in itself so exacting in its dev mands for knowledge of essential facts as to preclude the possibility of organized class work in personal development. It can but remain the task of the individual to. provide for the future in accordance with his ambitions. There are numerous ways in which we can undertake to at- tain proficiency in any one of the several requisites. However, the ideal method is that which lends it self most readily to the acquisition of finesse in all of the arts in a single fell-swoop. OUR PROFESSIONAL societies serve the ideal demand. They pro- vide us with every means for school- ing ourselves along the needed lines. They give us not alone the chance to hear and to see the display of technique that a finished speaker exhibits, but, as well, they afl'ord us the occasion for our own exercise of talent. An active participation in society functions implies fraterniz— ing with our fellow members, before whom we may present our prepared papers—papers dealing with an idea that we wish to sell. The presenta— tions offer a wealth of experience in preparation, delivery and poise. The friendly criticism that they earn is invaluable and —— peculiarly —— an incentive. Truly, our professional societies are new training grounds. We cannot afford to fail of partici- pation. if... S. Libby to Attend Retrigeration Meet Professor E. S. Libby will leave in two weeks for Atlanta, Georgia, to attend the annual convention of the National Association of Practical Re- frigerating Engineers. He will act in his official capacity as Chairman of the National Education Board. FRESHMEN ELECT BERNARD OSWALD CLASS PRESIDENT Noses Out Percy Comp by Narrow Margin Bernard Oswald was elected president of the freshman class last Friday, polling 62 out of the 119 votes cast for that office. John Bar~ ale, elected secretary, secured the most votes cast for any one office. The election was held between 9:15 a. m. and 1 p. m. in the lolbby of the Main Building, and was in charge of Carl W. Rob and William Buckmnn of the freshman election committee. The freshman ballot for class of- ficers with votes received by each candidate follows: President— Bernard Oswald . . . ..... 62 Percy W. Cump Jr. ...... 57 Vice-Presidenh— Edwin Mitchell . . . . . 72 John A. 'Bobhill ...... 48 Secretary-— John Baralc . . . . ........ 80 Charles I". 'Haigh ........ 40 Treasurer— R. A. Winblad .. 71 Art Schmidt . . . . 43 Social Chairman-— Bolton Anderson ....... . 60 Norman D. Rice . . . . . . . . 32 Carl W. Itch ....... 23 A. T. A. A. Representative— Willard Kruse .......... 78 John Ratto . . . 39 A..S.ll/l.li. Members to Make inspection Trip On its first inspection trip of the year, the Armour branch of the A.S.M.E. will visit the Studebaker plant at South Bend, Indiana, on Wednesday, November 6. At the meeting last Friday, E. W. Rietz, General Sales Manager for the Powers Regulator Company and also an Armour graduate, was the prin. ciplc speaker. Mr. Leonard of the parent society was present and ac- quainted the new and prospective members with the advantages that could be derived by being a student member of the society. In his talk, Mr. Rietz discussed two topics, the hiring and training of new men in his company and the methods by which a college graduate could seek employment. He stressed the fact that his company looked for men who were a combination of en- gineer and salesman, and it was to- \an election was held in the lobby \makim,r the class of ’37 the first to | Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, illinois ‘ lililidlii it‘ll Will hill didl‘llll ill“ till“. bill-ill Each Department Will Be Represented in Commissmn BARTUSEK is PRESEDENT With the election of Joseph Bart- usok as president of the class and the adoption of a commission form of government the junior political campaign came to a close last week. At the Friday, October 11, meet- ing {Of the junior class it was pro posed by Paul Reh that the class adopt a commission form of gov— ernment. On Tuesday, October 15 of Main to decide upon the exact form of class government and to choose the final candidates for the junior class presidency. ommilsion Wins: 87-21 One hundred and fourteen votes were cast, of which 87 were for the commission form of government, adopt it. In the election for class president the returns were as fol- lows: Joseph Bartusek ......... 30 Donald Briosman . 23 C. J. McCarthy . . . 16 Paul Moore ....... . . . . . 14 Paul Schultz 32 Joseph Bax-tusek and Paul Schultz by this became candidates for presi- dency. Eartuaek Wins in Final The final election, held on Wed- nesday, October 16, resulted in the election of Joseph Bartusek, the vote being Bar‘tusck—wfil, Schultz-— 39. The commission form of govern' ment as adopted by the junior class provides for a commission composed of two members from each department excepting the Architects and Fire Protects, which are entitled to one member only for each. The secretary and treasurer will be elected by the commission from among its mcmlbers some time soon after it is complete. Any other officers necessary will be appointed by the commission as the need arises. 0f the 188 members of the junior class 115 voted in the primary and 100 in the final. A.1.Ch.E. to Present 1 Extensive Program At last Frilay’s meeting of the wards this aim that the . . new men Beta chapter (.f the American Insti- were trained. The talk was highly tutc of Chemical Engineers, H. P. enli htenin with a h f ' g g m ny elp “1 tips Milleville, chairman of the student to be followed by an engineer in hold- ing and securing a job. Solid Geometry Class Tested in Arithmetic branch, made several announcements which, in conjunction with the pro- gram committee’s report, indicated that he will extend every effort to make the society's meetings of the utmost value and interest to its mem- After Milleville had given a resume in James ll. Moldinscy, All seniors who expect to grad— uate with the class of 1936 must report to Mr. Kelly not later than November lot to check their cred- its. There will be a senior class meet- ing Friday, October 25, at 10:30 in the Assembly Hall. flodnar Elected With a disregard for class politics, the sophomore class chose its officers in a quiet election last Tuesday. The final results of the election revealed the keen competition for each office. Nominations for office were made by means of petitions. The latter It has always been. known that of the history of the A.I.Ch.E. and some of the difficulties Wthl’l- fresh— the founding of the local chapter, R. men expenence in mathematics are M. Paulsen presented the report 01“ d“? to The” 130k of knowledge 0f the program committee. The object arithmetical processes. As an cxper— of the student branch, according to Iment, Iii-fie?” Krathwohl 93"“ la the committee, is to clarify the nature diagnostic arithmetic test to his solid of the chemical engineering profes- geometry. class, and gave the same sion by presenting practicing engi- test to his class in differential aqua. neers as speakers for the chapter. “0“5 for a comparison. A joint meeting of the local branch The mean score in the geometry with the professional Chicago section class was 73.0 with a standard devia— of the Alohfi, is planned far No‘ tion of 17.2, whereas the mean score vember 18. An exhibition in the in the class in differential equations chemical engineering laboratories m. Was 88.6 with a standard deviation gcthcr with the acceptance of an in- of 10.1. It will be interesting to see vitafion‘ extended to Dr. McLaren if the survivors in the 501“ geometry White of the national organization class will be able to raise their mean will enable students to find out from grade fifteen p01" cent as a 1'95““; 0f engineers themselves how far their their college experience. field extends. ' The chief dilficulties in both classes J. A. Renstrom was chosen assist- were in problems dealing with con- ant treasurer of the local chapter in .crcte numbers, such as dividing thir— an election held at the meeting. teen yards, seven inches by five; and Eightyelght pledge cards were also in problems dealing with percentage, turned in at the close of the meet- such as finding one-half per cent of log by students interested in joining sixteen. the local organization. were checked and the ballot was drawn up by an election committee on the Friday previous to the elec- tion. With the exception of the office of vice-president, there were only two candidates for each position. About twenty per cent of the class failed to vote. The rccord‘oi’ the votes cast for each office is as follows: President: H. Eodnar ............. 88 J. Sheehan ............. 3'7 Vice-President: C. Pricsmeye'r .......... 49 W. O’Brien . . . .......... 40 R. Worcester ........... 31 Secretary: H. Downing ............ 67 W. Chelgrcn ............ 59 Treasurer: W. Schuman 64 C. Nauman . . . . 63 Social Chairman: C.Healy... ..... 75 Cl. Stobor .............. 50 Rifle Club Will Join National Association ’l‘he Armour sharpshootcrs held a meeting last Thursday at the rifle range in Chapin Hall. Plans were made to join the National Rifle Aeso- cia‘tion in order to compete for the Illinois State Championship and to enter competition in collegiate match-i es. The need for organization was dis— cussed and Captain H. I. McDaniel expressed his desire to build the team up both for practice and competition between members as well as for meets with other teams. The Rifle Club has shown a wonderful record in the past having held the Illinois State Cham- pionship in 1931 and 1932. Challenges for matches have come in from the Jefferson City Rifle Club as well as from several others, and tentative plans have been made for matches in the near future. Sophomore President Hurt in Class Tussle H. J. Bodnar, president of the soph- omore class was severely injured dur— ing: an unusually energetic freshman- sophomore brawl last Friday after- noon. He was rushed to the Chi- cago Memorial hospital where phy— sicians revealed, after x-ray exam— inations, that he had not only frac- tured his right elbow, but had also suffered a dislocation of his arm. Dr. J. F. McNamara, who is medical ad- viser at Armour, will take charge of the case. In addition to the usual number of bruised shins, sprained wrists and I other minor injuries conincident with inter—class strife, another serious ac- cident was narrowly averted when an automobile traveling west on Thirty-third street stopped just as it touched the legs of two struggling participants in. the fight. Had it not 1" ‘ the alertness of a near-by studc he warned the driver, on- other accident. would have occurred. By A. N. Schreiber James O. McKinsey, member of the board of trustees and chairman of the Instruction and Research Committee of Armour Institute, has been elected chairman of the board and senior executive officer of Mar— shall Field and Company. Exemplifying the American prin- ciple of determined advancement, Mir. McKinsey rose from a boy on Tuesday, October 22, l935 armor. ram, usury intros Menthol Chairman of Marshall Field dWin-Ailiililidi. idil bill iii llhb'dlllli Five Departments Are Represented by Nine Seniors ARCHITECT ELECTED Recognizing both their scholastic a )overt, stricken farm near Mexico. I V achievements and their breadth of Missouri to a position where he ' interest and general high character, best known merchandising institu- 1ons in the country. He became a . member of the board of trustees at Armour in June, 1935 at the insti- gation of President Hotchkiss. Im— mediately he developed an interest in the school and prepared an an- alysis of the Institute which was now directs one of the largest and Tau Beta Pi, national honorary en- Soph President t gineering fraternity pledged nine seniors yesterday noon, before a gathering of the faculty in the Fac- ulty Club. The men pledged are Donald 0. Graham, .Iohn H. Johnson, John F. Kahles, Victor J. Kropf, Albert M. later used as the basis of a report Lane, Theodore ‘S’ Ramotowski, W95” by the board of trustees. Was School Superintendent At the age of 13, Mr. McKinscy began his education and at nineteen graduated from the Missouri State Teachers' College. At that time he became superintendent of a high school and later continued his edu— cation at the University of Arkan- sas, after working at odd jobs to defray his expenses. Later he came to Chicago and developed an interest in accounting, attending the University of Chicago where he received a. master’s degree. After mastering the conventional approach to accounting, he turned his attention to the question of budgeting in business. Shortly af— terward he published his work in a book called ”Budget Control,” which became the standard text for that subject. He soon attracted wide no- tice and was called in to teach at the University of Chicago and at other institutions. Enters Buoineos in Chicago At this time he began develop- ing contacts with large manufactur- ing concerns, and he became a. part— ner in the well known accounting firm of Frazer and Torbct in Chi- cago. Meanwhile his interest in busi- ness management notably in prob— (Continued on page 3) C. A. flannel to Reveal Forecasting Secrets lcy S. Wieting, Otto Zmeskal, and Gordon A. Zwisslcr. Tau Beta Pi, with an active chap~ to!" roll of sixty-eight, has one of the highest reputations of any honorary society, and membership in it is gen- erally regarded as the highest honor an engineering student can achieve. Students eligible are those in the upper quarter, scholastically, of the; senior class, or in the upper eighth of the junior class. No junior has been elected to the local chapter this semester. All of the men elected have been active in school affairs; they include engineering society and class of- ficers, and several men from the musi— cal clubs and the publications. The local chapter of Tau Beta Pi is sponsoring a reunion banquet for alumni members of Illinois Beta, to be held November 15 at the Swedish Club of Chicago. The pledges will begin at once to assist the active members in making arrangements for the banquet. Salamander Pledges Ellesmere and Horn Marshall T. Horn, a senior, and Donald N. Brissman, a junior, were pledged to Salamander, honorary fire protection engineering fraternity, at the meeting of F.P.E.S. last Friday morning. Professor Finnegan ex— plained that in' order to be considered for membership in the fraternity, a senior must have maintained a ninety Will it or will it not rain? To this per cent scholastic average. A junior ever-present question C. A. Donnel, answer at the next meeting of the Junior W. S. E. in the Engineer~ int,r Building on Thursday, October 24. At the W. S. E. meeting held last Thursday, L. 1". Walker of the U. S. Gypsum Company spoke on acous- tics as applied to auditoriums and the quicting of office nioises. He explained the method of determin~ inf; the amount of reverberation and noise in a room and the amount of absorption units required to correct it. In addition he explained the me- chanics of the applause-meter on must have the highest average in his chief meteorologist of the North class in the department, to be con- Central forecasting district. will we Elidel‘ed. The final criterion is a vote sent the methods 01’ determining the of the members of the fraternity. Otto Zrlicslsal Chosen Orchestra President In an election held last Tuesday, Otto chskal was chosen to head the Armour Tech orchestra for the coming year. Other officers elected were A. J. Rehling, secretary, and F. H. Jost, manager. The election of the oilicers of the orchestra com- pleted the selection of all adminis~ trativc positions of the various musi- cal organizations. ,time is necessary to enable the menu} i Work has now started in earnest to prepare for three engagements within the next month. Both the ox" ' chestro. and glee club will appear on the Armistice Day program at A12 mour. Besides this, the two clubs will entertain at the Alumni Bau- quct on the night of November 12. Fred Allen radio program. Chess Club Will Play Round Robin iii/latches With a record registration of twenty-seven mcmfbers, many of them new ones, the Armour Tech Chess Club decided to hold two of- ficial meetings a week at its meeting last Tuesday on the fourth floor, first entrance, .Chapin Hell. The of« ficial meeting days are Tuesday and Friday during the lunch hour,- ob though playing is permitted in any day of the week. Among- the large number who joined the club are several players who are capably filling the vacancies on the chess team. These some players are making the club tour-um merit, of the round-robin type, on . J _ exceptionally keen fight. The prim other departments have emplogen lo cipnl reason for having two official;°f 25 Chemicals. 2% cf 2;? Architects meetings a week is the fact that thisi 10 “f 19 {liffls‘ ““3 13 0; ~_ icsls. Additional men are being pissed irsquemly . Fire Protects Lead Graduate Placement Latest figures from the placement office indicate that prior to the ii: i week of October, sixty-live percent of the class of ’35 had been placed in permanent positions. Ranking first with the largest percentage located are the Fire Protects, who rate 100“}. Second in pemoncsge comes the Electricsls with 20. out of :23. The \. o hiwhsm bars to complete the tournament.‘