Tuesday, March 10, 1936

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Professor Finnegan ls
President of Group

 

Armour Institute will serve as
host at the second annual meeting
of the Illinois and Indiana section of
the Society for the Promotion of En-
gineering Education, to be held at
the Lawson Y.M.C.A. on Saturday,
April 18.

Present plans for the meeting, ac-
cording to Prof. J. E. Finnegan,
president of the group, call for a
morning session to feature addresses
by Lawrence A. Downs, President of
the Illinois Central System, Prof.
l-lardy Cross of the University of
Illinois, and Dean l’leald of Armour.
At the afternoon session thele will
be group conferences where various
problems connected with engineering
education will be discussed.

Armour Instructors Lead Groups

Of these conferences, the group
on Physics will be under Prof. J. S.
Thompson, the group on Mathe-
matics, under Prof. C. E. Paul, and
the English group will have Prof.
W. Hendricks as a chairman. Mem~
bers of the Armour faculty will take
part in those three groups and the
five others scheduled.

Wives of the members attending
will be entertained by the Armour
Faculty Women’s Club, of which
Mrs. W. E. Hotchkiss is president.
Hearquarters for the ladies will be
at the Chicago Women's Club.

Indiana and Illinois schools which
hold institutional membership in the
S.P.E.E. are Armour, University of
Illinois, Purdue, and Rose Polytech-
nic Institute. It is expected that in-
dividual members of the organiza-
tion, as well as the members on the
faculties of these four schools, will
be present.

Organized Last Year

The S.P.E.E. is a national organ-
ization with a membership of 120
schools and 2,332 individual mem-
bers. It has as its object the pro~
motion of the highest ideals in the
conduct of engineering education
with respect to administration, cur-
riculum, and teaching work and the
maintenance of a high professional
standard among its members. The
Indiana and Illinois section was or-
ganized a year ago largely through
the eflorts of the Armour faculty.
Professor Finnigan is a member of
the national council and is Armour’s
representative to the national organ-
ization.

Because of the notable success of
the first meeting of the section held
last year at Purdue, the event is
looked forward to as an important
event by the Armour Faculty mem-
bers.

SCIENCE NOTES I

By Norton Gerber
Qualitative tests for steels of var‘
ious composition are based on the
type of spark produced by each
metal.

 

The U. S. War Department, at
present, finds that there are 26 raw
materials for which we depend upon
from outside sources either because
we cannot produce them ourselves
or at best cannot produce them in
sufficient volume.

It has been found that methyl
bromide is more elfective in extin-
guishing certain fires than carbon
tetra—chloride. Tests show that one
and six-tenths times as much gas is
produced and that it is six times as.
efi'ectivc as the carbon tetrachloride.

Rhodium and rhenium, two preci—

ous metals, are now finding commer-
cial application in plating. A rhodium
film 0.000, mm. thick is sufficient
to protect silver. It may be plated
from an alumina-nitrite bath in a
one-half minute flash.
Prof. Arthur Haas reported to
the American Physical Society that
his figure for the mass of the uni-
verse is 2 with 55 ciphers after it.
His result was based on theory.

 

An organic dispersing agent is
being used to reduce the porosity of
concrete. This agent, reduces the ex-
tent to which the cement settles
leaving a solution on the surface.

 

 

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(Continued from page one)
Junior Week was concluded on Fri-
day night with a brilliant evening of
festivities. The Glee and Mandolin
Clubs gave a concert in the Assembly
Hall which was decorated with class,
school, and fraternity colors, and
floral decoration. Following this the
sophomores entertained with songs
and cheers. Among the songs were:
"Only Forty—Five Seconds From
State Street”, and the following sung
to the tune of “PollyWolly Doodle".

“I came to a quiz that i thought I
couldn't pass
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the

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So I rode my pony to the head of the
class,
Singing Polly Wolly Doodle all the
day.”

After the concert refreshments

were served, the buildings were
opened for inspection, and a dance
was given for 150 couples in the gym~
nasium.
This was the first of the long line
of highly successful Junior Weeks.
The Junior Week this year, the thir-
tieth of its kind, will be greeted by
a new student body and a vastly
changed faculty, but the spirit and
enthusiasm as evidenced so far will
probably be the same.

 

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By ARNOLD SERWER
(Associated Collegiate Press
Correspondent)

Washington, D. C.-—Besidc being
the capital of the nation, Washing
ton is a city of some 600,000 resi-
dents, with many of the same muni-
cipal problems found in Baltimore,
Philadelphia, New York and Chicago.
But whereas those cities have elec—
tive bodies of their own to manage
their alfairs, Washington is governed
by Congress, a group of men much
more concerned with the business of
the nation as a whole than they are
with the troubles of the capital.

The result is that Washinu‘ton,
economically well off, has more
deaths occurring yearly of prevent-
able diseases, more crime, more traf-
fic accidents, and more of a trall'ic
problem than any city of the same
size in the country, with the excep-
tion of one or two cities whose in-
dustrial population is largely unem-
ployed, causing an abnormal increase
in disease, deaths and crime.

 

Large Housing Problem

These evils exist because the
government r u l e 5 Washington
through a District Committee of
Congress. Washington gets good
government one year and bad gov-
ernmcnt another year, or no govern-
ment at all, depending on the
amount of interest taken in the
District from time to time by various
members of the District Committee,
or depending on the individual at-
titude of members of that commit~
tee. The citizens can howl from Jan—
uary to January for a decent appro-
priation to fight tuberculosis and a
single man on the committee can
defeat their eiforts by vigorous ac-
tion. Representative Blanton of
Texas, in his dogfights with the local
medical authorities who are asking
for such an appropriation, is an ex.
ample of the autocrat taking advan—
tage of the politician’s dream come
true—a place you can run without
fear of being voted out. For no
Washingtonian can vote, locally or
nationally. He can only petition.

City Needs a Dictator

What this city needs is a first
class muckraker, at Lincoln Steffens,
to once again go back of the city’s
evils to the wherefore. Here there
is not the tieup between politics and
crime, indirectly made possible by
business. Here we have government
by representatives of other parts of
the country—representatives absent
from the city six months in the year.
Does the city need a new courthouse,
or a new jail? Does it need a new
hospital”! Should the pay of city em-
ployees be raised? Congress will de-
cide those matters when it gets back
to town, and when after getting
back to town if it finds the time to
look into them. Steifens, when he
looked into the Washington setup
years ago showed that although run
by Congressmen, persons supposed-

 

 

ARMOUR TECH

 

Somewhere, sometime, although
we do not know why, someone said,
“Time waits for no man." Whoever
he was, he must have had the Juniors
in mind when he said it, for here
it is, just one week before their pro}
et is due, and, at this writing, most
of them are right back where they
started from on their designs. How-
ever there most certainly will be a
fine set of drawings turned in, just
as there always is. Well, the char-
ettc has started, but for Hank LOH-
MlLLER and Charlie SALETTA
there will be a charette within a
eharettc, if you can understand it.
At any rate they are working on thi-
current projet "The Nave of a
Church", and also on the Pencil
Point Competition for a Small House
design, the prize for which is (to
them) a bag of Portland Cement.

Always the ycntlcst of persons, Joc
WAGNER went on the wdrpayth
again just because a. few of the boys
have been, milking some plaster casts
and have neglected to tidy up the
mom they left. In fut-l Joe almost
came lo words with the bays over ”1.0
liltlc mllcr and the rosulPArl
SCHREIBER actually cleaned the
Modeling Room]

This seems like a good time to slip
in a few words and the results of the
Modeling judgment. The problem
was a Stone, not a tombstone but a
Cornerstone. Anyhow, the boys who
are ahead by a Mention are BAG-
NUOLO, A. SCREIBER, CONCO-
LINO, Al RAMP and your favorite
(1’) news-ed.

Anyone would think that when a
person becomes a Senior he should
know better, and just because they
do not know better, the class has
“chipped in” and purchased a cer-
tain book and it is so popular that
it has to be “leased" our lo one
member at a time, and what a oquobw
bit: for itl

W4: shall have to con/inc the rest of
our babble to more glimpses. ..I)m'l.’t
fail to see the [inc group of drawings
and renderings now on. exhibit in the
department. i'l/c know you cannot
miss them, but they are gaool.. .
Charlie PFEF'FE'R, o repealing Life
student was recently heard to sing,
in that class, “So This In Heaven”. . .
Once or twice every semester,
REED’s children, the Sophomores
walk to the Arl Institute from A?“
mour,‘ crazy, isn’t it...Thc Juniors
are still waiting for the phone num-
ber of a certain model that “MAC"
promised them. ”Question: Was Joe
REIM really “halted" by the Sen/mm?
Answers yes and no, we Moon’t been.
able to ascertain which as yet; the
Seniors are so secretive about such,
things. However we almll try to find
out and will have to let you know in
the newt issue of this “my", if, when,
and how, there is one.

TOM TAX.

 

ly superior to city bosses, Washing-
ton had as bad government as one
could find in New York under Crolc—
er of Tammany Hall. Relatively
speaking, keeping in mind that city
governments have improved since
those flambouyant days, Washington
is in the same posxtion as it was,
maybe a good bit lower down, on
the municipal ratings.
Congress Not interested

And so, because Washington has
no votes, it is tossed around merrily
from year to year by Congress. Who-
ever in Congress wants to pay at»
tcntion and. exert efiort in regard to
the city can do it great good or im-
measurable harm. All sorts of things
have been and are suggested by con:
gressmen for the district. A dry
congressman proposes the District
be made dry, by recalling prohibi»
tion for the sole benefit of Washing~
ton. Blanton sticks in a rider to the
District Appropriations bill to the
effect that District teachers are not
to teach or advocate Communism. If
some bigot appears in the House
some day and makes an impassioned
demand that the sidewalks be taken
up at nine o‘clock every night the
only thing that will prevent him from
putting such a bill through will be
not the fondness of congressmen for
the citizenry, but the fact that con-
gressmen are either often out after
that hour, or have their cars parked
on the wrong side of some one—way
street, alongside a fire hyrdant.

NEWS

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