Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, lllinois Tuesday, May 26, l936 By S. M, Miner THE MARCH OF the Black Shirts into Addis Ababa was far from the end of the Ethiopian affair. No amount of sidestepping can erase from the record one of the ugliest epi- sodes in recent history or minimize its far reaching: consequences. In Europe it stirs up the glowing em~ bers of an ever smouldering flame, for there is no by-pass around the fact that a nation able to outbluil" Great Britain, override opposition of the continent's leading states and confound military experts rises not only in its own estimation but in the esteem of its neighbors. In Geneva it marks another setback for the League of Nations, an institution which has been persistently used by the great powers as an instrument of national policy and in the present test lost authority because so obviously torn between the conflicting interests of England and France. FOR ITALY, THE victory means the beginning of a period more dif— ficult and long drawn out, than the period of invasion. The real test of her endurance is just beginning. She enters now upon a warfare with no, glory and without the added incen- tivc of universal opposition. ltaly took to aggression claimingr poverty and the necessity of an outlet for her goods and labor. Now she must prove that she is not too poor for the long and costly task of developing that re mote portion of the world which the most powerful and the most unscrup« ulous of nations have passed by. All that the Italians have found in Ethi. opia to date is a country rockier than their own, barren, with numerous ob» stacles both geographical “rd politi- cal, and a people infinitely poorer than themselves. MUSSOLINI ha set himself up a tremendous task. He must prove, to ltaly and to the world, that Ethiopia has a value equal to the price he has (Continued on page three) Fire Protects Elect Brissmim New Heard” Donald N. Brissman, student of the Engineer, was elected dent of the Fire Protection Engi— neering Society for next year at a meeting held Friday, May 22., in room C Mission. The other officers elected were L. B. Parker, vice-president; F. G. Westerman, secretary; and G. J. Svehia, treasurer. The men who are retiring from office are E. R. John— son, president; I. M. Hughes, vice; president; M. B. Stevens, secretary; and C. L. DuScll, treasurer. The report oi the treasurer pre- sented at the meeting showed that the year‘s income and expenses left the accounts still in the black, giving the new officers good footing for the com— ing year. editor presi- hlew Rule Passed at Fraternity Meeting According to a rule passed at the last Interfraternity Council meeting held last Friday in the Tau Beta Pi rooms, the president and treasurer of each fraternity will act as dele— gates to the council. In the past only the president was allowed to act as a representative. Each fraternity will continue to have only one vote in the council. New officers of the council for the ensuing year were elected at the last meeting. Those elected are: president, E. A. Skeppstrom of Phi Kappa Sigma; secretary, A. N. Schricber of Sigma Alpha Mu; treas— urer, W. J. Laise of Delta Tau Delta; and editor of the interfrater- nity handbook, W. A. Chapin of The» ta Xi. Plans for the new edition of the handbook were discussed. The booklet will be published at the opening of the fall semester and may be mailed to all the incoming fresh- men. ssv. reservoir re SPEAK or! JUNE 7 ‘ dreamers UREA rs Graduation Exercises Will Be Held At Mandel Hall gin its final week on Sunday morning, June 7, at 11 o‘clock when the bac— calaureate service will be held at Or- chestra Hall. The baccalaureate sen men is to be delivered by the Rev, Frederick F. Shannon, 1). D. Seniors are requested to assemble not later than 10:15 in order to facilitate dis- tribution of caps and gowns. Imme- diately after the sermon, President and Mrs. Hotchkiss, with members of the Board of Trustees and the faculty, will meet the graduating class and their guests at a reception in the foyer on the second floor of Orches- tra Hall. L. A. Downs to Speak Commencement exercises and the awarding of advanced degrees will take place on Thursday afternoon, June 1], at 4 o’clock in Leon Mandel Assembly Hall, 57th street aml Uni— versity avenue. Mr. Lawrence A. Downs, president of the Illinois Cen— tral Railway Company, has been se- cured to give the commencement ad- dress. Plans, not yet completed, are being made to feature student talent to add color to the graduation cere— mony. Peterson to Distribute Tickets Relatives and friends of the grad- uates are cordially invited to attend both occasions. No tickets are nccv cssai'y for the service at Orchestra Hall, but the limited seating capacity of Mandel Hall requires the issuance of tickets for the graduation. Seniors may obtain their tickets from R. A. Peterson, class president. while fac» l ulty members and candidates for ad- vanced degrees may get tickets in the registrar's office. l i K i i i lllutstanding llflen i that Honor Cycles l Ten outstanding,r seniors were hon. l'orcd last week by receiving: Honor l, Cycles. Those who were selected to re; l ccive these books are: Emil Adamcc, i can; William D. Concolino, ,lr., :Arch., Frank D. Cottcrman, M.E.-, Harry R. Dollenmaicr, 13.15.; Rodger .G. Knaus, Ell; John O. Larson, ‘C.E.; Howard P. Millevillc, Ch.E.; l Donald .1. Neal, F.P.E.; Raymond A. ! Peterson, F.l-‘.E.; and Roland 0. Warner, E. E. The Honor Cycles were . presented by the Armour Tech Athlet- ic Association in conjunction with the stafi” of the Cycle. Scholastic ability. athletic prowess, and leadership in school activities were the basis of the grading system i by which the men were chosen. The lactual choice of recipients of the Honor Cycles was under the jurisdic- tion of the managing board of the KA. T. A. A. The ten men who re» lceived the Honor Cycles and some of their activities are as follows: Emil Adamec was captain of the baseball team and a member of Hon— or "A". He also actively participated in interclass athletics. William D. Concolino, Jr. was assistant Junior Marshal, captain of the track team, a member of Honor “A", and was active in class athletics and as a class officer. Frank D. Cotterman, (Continued on page 3) l Chemical Fraternity Elects Hesse header Election of officers was held last week by Alpha Chi Sigma, profesn sional chemical fraternity, with the following men being; elected: J. A. Haase, who was reelected master alchemist; L. F. Kacel, vice master alchemist; R. T. Smith, recorder; 17‘. D. Hoffert, treasurer; and W. F. Schreiber, master of ceremonies. This Thursday the combined seniors’ and initiates’ party will be held. The members will have din- ner downtown and then will visit the ever popular stage hit “Three Men on a Horse". 1 l l 1 Senior activity at Armour will th Plane Are Complete for Alumni banquet With reservations rapidly coming in, the annual spring Alumni Ban- quet, which is to be held June 2 at the Medinah Athletic Club, promises to be the largest in recent years. [Most of the trustees as Well as many Armour {graduates have signified their intention of coming. According to Professor Schommor, all program arrangements have been completed. The program will con- sist of an illustrated lecture by Mr. Clarence Muehlbcrgcr of the coro- ner‘s office, an after-dinner talk by James Weber Linn of the University of Chicago and music by the Armour Glee Club, and orchestra. Addresses will be given by the president, Dr. Willard Hotchkiss, and James D. Cunningham, chairman of the board of trustees, while awards will be pre— sented by the institute and by the alumni. Seniors Hear Tables on Personnel Work Further announcements about the graduation ceremonies were the sub— ject of the discussion at the senior class meeting held last Tuesday in Science Hall. At this meeting the members were informed that gradua~ tion ceremonies would take place in Mandel Hall of the University of Chi: capo on the afternoon of June 1]. Following this announcement, the faculty committee on graduation, Pro- fessors 1}. B. Freud, E. H. Freeman, J. C. l’ccblcs, and Dean H. T. Heald, each addressed the class on various phases of personnel work, hints on jolysocklng, and other topiCs relative to graduation. ‘ As a surprising; climax to the meet- : inc, the class president, Raymond A. éPeterson, announced that the class lhad attained distinction in a no i way, the accumulation of a deficit of l forty-one dollars. As a possible means ‘of eliminating this minus quantity, ' Mr. Allison suggested a head tax be limposcd upon each member of the class. Campus Club Elects Three New @llicers Three new oiliccrs were elected by Campus Club members last Thursday. The men elected to office were K. G. Endcrt, president; R. liarwood, vice-l president; and J. A. Kubik, sergeant~ at-arms. The executive secretary, W. Waite, and the recording secretary, B. H. Griesbach, were elected at the beginning: of this semester and will continue to serve for another semes- ter. Social activities of the club are now practically finished, and the mem- bers are hard at work in preparation for final exams. Dianne on June 9 Sponsored by the sophomore class, the final dance of the year will be held on Tuesday, June 9, the, last day of the final examinations. The affair will be held in the Old Hall, located on the south side at 55th street on Kimbark avenue. This location is conveniently reached by driving south on the Outer Drive and then by driv- ing a few blocks west on 55th to Kim- bark avenue. Eddie Woodward and his orchestra, who were so well received at the Sophomore Cotillion last January, will again furnish the music. Al- though all classes are invited to the dance the number of bids is limited to 110; the price is to be $1.25 per couple. Old Hall is a prominent and pop- ular place. for many south side social events. According to Stanley Hcaly, social chairman, this hall is one of the most desirable halls in the city for a dance of this kind. The main floor has a large dance floor sur- rounded by ample lounging space, while a lower floor has a spacious lounge with a radio and three ping: pong: tables. Milwaukee Trip Made by Senior Electricals Milwaukee was the site ol’ an in- spection trip of the senior nit-inbors ol' the department. of electrical entri- nccrinp: last Friday. ()n the all day Visit they inspected the plants oi" Allis—Chalmcr and of Cutler llam- l mcr Companies. Aftci' the day’s busi- lncss was completed, the, famous Mil- ,waukcc lircwci-ics rcccivvd their share 'oi' attention. Wm3l5l l'lolcls Annual Election ol Gillicere I ..... ‘ Election 01' officers took placc, at the WWSE meeting. last Friday, with the following men being chosen for oil’ ‘ )rcsidcnt, P. 1.. (l. Moore; vice-prc. dent, J. G. Stern; ti'oasur~ er, .I. Lopinu; scCrctury, (I. .1. Mc- Carty; student representative, M. l". Jaodtkc. Before the meeting: was turned over to the new officers, H. V. Tal litsch, past treasurer of the W.S.l€., read the financial report for the fiscal year 1935—1936. T. S. Ramotowski, retirimr president, was commended on his work in obtaining prominent speakers for the bimonthly meetings. After the business details of the meetiriy: were taken care, of, the in— coming: oil'iccrs were requested to act as a committee in arranging: for a pic~ nic to be held in l’alos Park about the middle of next week. It is to be a farewell party for the seniors, dur» int: which the sophomore civils will have an opportunity to gel; acquaint~ ed with the upperclassmon in their , department. By J. D. Sheehan With shouts of revolt against the domineering overseers, veterans of ‘38 and '39 on the News stall, an- swered the call to battle upon cries of “help” from Al Schrieber, budding journalist, who was maliciously being depantsed by junior members of the stall behind the closed doors of the managerial board‘s sanctuary. “Shall we let this continue? Must we always be the underdogs? No! Down with the juniors!" Still cries came from within the office and the door was not opened. So Bill Chel- gren gave a heave against the door. Young’s modulus almost didn't hold as the door seemed ready to crack. Then an assignment editor fetched a key and the group of embittered l frosh and sophs poured into the of— fice, bowling over the juniors en- gaged in the traditional rite. The battle soon spread to all parts of the rooms. There was Fred Lea— son down and with his lower parts He felt quite lost when i removed. News Eiggliots Deprived of Points; Loch oil flights Foils liar/“titer Work his dignity was thus besmirched. Next Gerber was taken down by a group and the pants came off after a tussle. The back of Gerber-’9, shirt became decorated with a smashed egg which pledge Max Ephraim was carrying in his shirt pocket. Sid Rabinowitz went down with a bang under the deft jiu- jitsu of three or four blustcring soph- omores. When the whistle blew—«it's a lie both groups were all faggcd oui‘r-v Joe Kubert and Gerber were sittinzr in a corner (by force) wondering what to do. ltabinowitz and Al Schrieber were running- around hunt- ing: for their pants which had been tossed out of a window. From sheer exhaustion, the conquered and con. querors retired to the more subtle bat- tle of getting out a newspaper. But Gerber soon spoiled that when, upon beim: locked in a room by some em— bittered fresh, he played with the fuses and put out the lights for the evening. Your dear paper was com , pleted in the Pi Tau Sigma rooms.‘ Smalls to Sponsor ‘l‘llllllll Sllfifi i .x. llhl llllAl. Ah Alfih. lllAllllh; llllllllbllll blilltlilih lllllllmllllhdlhlllll Students Choose Chaplin Second Vicenpreaiclen’t, The phi/sins laboratory will be closed for the semester Ltftd‘l' F'rt'~ day, May 29. All reports 7mm be 1174. not later than Monday, Juno, first. Mechanic-ale Choose Miner for President 8. M. Miner was elected president of the A.S.M.E. at the annual clcul tion held Friday May 22, in Science Hall. Other oil rs elected at the meeting were: Professor Daniel RoosL-h, honorary chairman, who was unanimously reelected; E. A. Di‘oep,‘~ emucller, vicc‘prcsident; H. L. Ap~ pel, treasurer, and F. l.. Leaf-ion, scc- rctary. Following the election, the four most active members of the club were chosen by vote and each was present- ed with a book. The members chos— en wcrc: R. 0. Patterson, A. M. Lane, A. ll. Rice, and l”, D. Patterson, and the books presented were “Air (lon- ditioning‘ and Engineering", “Biog- raphy of John All’rcd Brashnca “Fan Engineering”, and “The Final» necring Manual", respectively. Other business discussed meeting~ included the pa. mg of the newly—formed by~laws. The meeting- was the final one of the current so» muster. at the i lllroliessor Freud Speaking before the largest assem- bly ol' the year at the A. 1. Ch. FL's last meeting, Dr. B. B. Freud dis— cussed chemical warfare, Dr. Freud is well qualified to speak on the sub- ject since he is considered one of the foremost authorit ,s on chemical waiu i'arc in the country and is. licutcnanb colonel of a chemical warfare regi— ment of three thousand men in the army, Discusses Morality of VVnrfure , Dr. Freud opened his talk with a l discussion of the morality of warfare, land as it turned out, this part, as Well as the rest of Dr. Freud’s speech, was as good an argument for pacif- ]ism as any the most ardcnt pacifists might have uttered, Actual chemical warfare is a fair— ly rcccnt thing; it resulted when the armies of the Allies and Central Pow— ers were deadlocked on the front and a new principle of warfare had to he invented to break the, deadlock. On April 22, 1915, the Germans first used chemical warfare on a large scale. Although poison gases wore outlawed by international law the Germans made use of a legal technicality to excuse their use of it. Six Poison Gases Generally Used Dr. Freud told of the problem which chemists i'accd. There were approximately th .e hundred thou— sand diii‘erent compounds, mostly or- ganic, which were, examined for usc as poison cases. Every one of these was examined, and it was found that only about three thousand had prop- erties which might make them use ful. 0f the three thousand, only thirty were aciually tried out, and from these, twelve were tried on a large scale. Finally, six compounds were selected to do the job. Dr. Freud enumerated the uses of poison gases: they are: to kill or wound the enemy: to harass him; to , screen your own movements; and to Talks to A. l. as. all Chelgren ls Named Secretary As Nearly Four Hundred Votes Are Cast 1:9” nurtures “congresses FOR riser Time In the first election held by the recently created Armour Tech Stu— dont Association last Tuesday morn- ing, C. W. Dunbar, 1". P. E., ‘38, was elected first viceepresident; W. A. Chupin, E. 19., '37, was elected second vice—pi sidcnt; and W. J. Chelgren, E,, ’38, was elected secretary. This was the first election of the as‘ sociation in which men other than athletes were nominated for office. The number of votes cast for the various candidates was as follows: for first vice~presidcnh C. W. Dun- bar, 198, H, J. Bodnar, 131, J. D. Sheehan, 58; for second vice-presi- dent: W. A. Chapin, 153, S. M. Miner, 12/], J. F. Bartusek, 108; for secre- tary: W. J. lhclgren, 152, E. F. Wagner, 130, W. R. Marshall, 107. Basketball Captain In President Eugene A. Heikc, who has served as l'i st vice-president of the A.T.A.A. for the past year, automatically becomes president of the A.T.S.A. This irroup of oil’icers will take up its duties beginning next semester, at which time the A.’l‘.S.A. officially comes into existence. Dunbar was president of his class while in the freshman year, has serv~ ed as class representative to the A.T.A.A. for the past year. and is a major letterman in track. Chopin is business manager of the Cycle of 1936, president ol' Eta Kappa Nu for next year, a member of the orches— tra, and also a member of Sphinx and Tan Beta Pi, honorary fraternities. Chelgren is at present an assign- ment cditor of the Armour 1'6ch News. has recently been selected ad- 'simz manager for the Cycle and has been a class leader in ”irreco- cap” activity. vci' New Rules in Effect Next Year A new constitution was made up this year by D. J. Neal, president of the A.T.A.A., and a constitution com- mittee made up of R. R. Johnson, J. 0. Larson, H. P. Millevillc, S. M. Min- er, R. M. Paulsen, R. A. Peterson, and F. X. Popper. Principal revisions in the constitu- tion were: a change in title to Al‘— mour Tech Student Association; a new statement of the object of the organization; the inclusion of alumni as members; the addition of another student member to the Board of Con- trol; inclusion of the total amount of surplus in the yearly financial state» ment; and the delegation of power of hiring: coaches to the Board of Con- trol. Eight Men Initiated By Literary Secretly Seven juniors and one senior were initiated into Sphinx, honorary lit» crary society, last Tuesday. The): are: H. 0. Bauermcistei‘, W. . . Chapin. (I O. Foi'sbcrg, N. Ger» her, .1. M. Robert, R. ManSficld, S. Rabinowitz. and E. J. Simel'. These men served a pledge-ship under pledirc captain Robert 0. Patterson. The pledges presented on original play, for the entertainment of the society. The play contained a court scene in which n breach-oivproniisc suit was prosecuted. Al the same meeting in which the pledges were initiated, the members of Sphinx, honorary literary society, held an election of oii‘icers for the coming year. The new officers are Norton Gerber. president. and Wii~ i use incendiary methods to destroy his , ‘ property. The types of poison gases | used for casualiiies skin irritants, eye irritants. _ , l lung irritants, l irritants, and 110501 lizmi A. Chopin, secretary—ti‘easurer. while the retiring ofiiccrs are Gordon A. leissler. who was president. and Frank D. COiiEl‘lilall. gradnsii a sec retarytreasurcr.