Vol. xym. No. 7. Am ‘Bacchandle’ I Bids Go Rapidly Advance indications of bid sales point to a sellout of Diana’s Bac- chanale, the dance to be given by the Architects on Friday, No- Vember 13. The tickets, which are selling at $1.50, are going extreme- ly fast: Tickets for this affair may be. purchased from any architect and several of the engineers, in- cluliing Iannsan, Slowiak, Osri and Downing. {Any other students who can sell five bids will receive the sixth free; The dance is to be held at the Diana Court of the Michigan Square Building, located at 540 North Michigan Avenue. This spot is ideal because it is easily accessible due to its central location. The Diana Court is modern in architecture and yet it has old world quiet and charm. Music “for this dance will be furnished by Arthur Wise and his Royal Club‘: orchestra. Death Takes Leader of insurance Rating Jackson V. Parker, founder and manager of the Western Actuarial Bureau in Chicago, dean of fire in- surance rating men in the Midwest, and founder of the present fire pro- tection engineering scholarships at Armour Institute of Technology, died at his home at the age of 63 in Evanston, October 26, following a year‘s illness. Mr. Parker was born in Newport. Minnesota, June 2, 1873. His first insurance experience was obtained with a St. Paul insurance agency. I-lis business career was interrupt- ed when he enlisted in ,thc 13th Minnesota regiment during the Spanish American war and served in the Philippines. Upon his return he was employed as an examiner by the Sun Underv writers Insurance Company. He went with the old Illinois State Board, making rates in Chicago. In 1904 he started working with Mr. -A. F. Dean who was devising the Analy— tic Schedule. Mr. Dean selected Mr. Parker to help in applying gthe schedule as an experiment in I‘llli—| \ nois. Mr. Parker displayed exceptiohal aptitude for the work and was able to show the practicability of the schedule. He continued the work with Mr. Dean until 1907, when he (Continued on page four) All Freshmen Asked To Consult Advisers Faculty advisers to the fresh— men class, a new development in the comprehensive program for en- tering freshmen, were appointed last week by the dean’s office. Each adviser has been given a group of freshmen to whom he will act as individual counsellor. To Discuss Problems Each freshman will be able to discuss his scholastic, social and per- sonal problems in confidence with his adviser. -Tbe function of these advisers is solely to aid the fresh- man in his problems; there will be no disciplinary authority vested in these advisers. A list of the advisers and the freshmen who have been assigned to them has been posted on the holy letin board. Each freshman is re- quested to see his adviser some time this week. The faculty advisers are: C. G. Anderson, S. F. Blbb, W. B. Fulghum, C. 0. Harris, L. G. Lease, R. H. Manley, W. H. Seegrist, S. M. Spears, W. L. Suter, and C. C. Webber. Results of Test Completed The results of the freshman tests which were conducted in September are now almost complete. However, no general results, or comparison of results with other colleges will be available for a few months due to the fact that the test differs in content every year. No publication of the individual scores of the tests will be made, but if any freshman wishes to con- sult with his adviser about his in- dividual test, he may do so. iA.l.E.E. Smoker to Be Held November 6 The first social event of the year for the Armour branch 01’ the A.I.E.E. will be held at the Delta Tau Delta fraternity at 8:00 p. no. No- vember 6. It is reported by the social committee that there will be movies (Mickey Mouse), gambling {with fake money), and smokes for everyone, including those who like good cigars. Refreshments including sandwiches and coffee will be served. “Problems in Television” was the subject of a talk given by Professor Kent at the meeting last Friday. It was pointed out that there is a vast field in television available for elec- trical engineers. The methods of transmitting pic- tures that are in use today were ex— plained together with the advantages and disadvantages of each. The three most common methods that are in use today are the “point by point" sys. tem, the Farnsworth method and the lonoscope. The one big disadvantage of the mechanical (“point by point") system was in its very low efficiency of 08%. It was explained that commercial production of television receivers has been delayed because the public has become too critical since the develop‘ ment of high quality movies. At pres- ent, the cost of production of the re- ceiving equipment is high and it is thought that there would not be a great demand for snob receivers. Town Grading Topic at FIRES. Meeting “Town Grading,” a topic of special interest to fire protection engineers, was the subject discussed by Colonel C. A. Goldsmith of the National Board of Fire Underwriters at a meeting of the F.P.E.S. on Friday, October 30. Colonel Goldsmith, who earned his title for service in the World War, is now Assistant Chief Engineer of the National Board. He told of the development of the sched— ule used in town grading since work on the project was first begun in 1904 by a committee of twenty men. Although the war stopped the com— mittee's progress for a time, the schedule was but into effect in 1919. Consider Water Supply The objective of town grading is to put each town or city in its proper relation to other towns in regard to fire protection. The National Board lists ten classes of exterior protec. tion. Factors to be considered in grading a town are adequacy and re- liability of water supply, distribution and manpower of fire departments, pumping capacity available, building laws, fire zoning, and the adequacy of fire alarm systems. The National Board committee has distributed com- plete instructions to the different rat- ing bureaus of the middle west on the subject of water main testing. Salamander Pledges Earlier in the meeting, four men were pledged to Salamander, honor- ary fire protection engineering fra- ternity. Professor J. B. Finnegan, speaking in behalf of the officers and members of Salamander, explained [the qualifications required for mem- bership, and announced the names of the pledges. The three senior pledges are W. M. Gunther, J. F. McCaulay, and E. J. Simek. The junior is L. B. Parker, who holds the highest scholastic average among the junior fire protects. Armour Is Host to Round Table Session Members of the faculties of twenty high schools from Chicago and northern lllinois were guests of Armour Institute Friday evening as the Metropolitan Round Table of the Illinois Industrial Education Associ- ation held its Industrial Arts Round Table Dinner at the Student Union. The dinner was followed by a speech on “New Developments at Armour Institute of Technology," given by Dr. W. E. Hotchkiss. After E. C. Blochs of the Union Special Machine Company had discussed “Educa- tional Problems in Industry," the members visited the various depart- ments of the evening school. Armour Institute of Technology, Chicago, Illinois new DAD’S NIGHT l DEC. 8 AT SADDLE AND SIRLOIN CLUB Feeling that Armour students will support the “Dad’s Night” affair, definite plans are being made for this annual gct‘to— rcther. Led by A. P. Schreiber, publicity director of the school, A.T.S.A. ofl‘icers, Dean I-loald and Mr. Allison, the date, site, and other arrangements have been tentatively set. After considering the chhawk basketball schedule, school leadcrs feel that the Arkansas game will probably serve best to raise the proposed spirited affair to unfor- getablo heights. With their flashy type of hard driving basketball, the tall rangy Arkansans will add the necessary zest to the evening. Date is December 8 Tuesday, December 8, will prob— ably be the date. The place con~ sirlcred most suitable is the Sad- die and Sirloin Club located in the Chicago Stockyards. Present plans call for a banquet for the fathers and sons at 6:30 p.m.; speeches and short talks will follow the ban- quet—and then the basketball game. In order to keep the group to- gether, plans are being; made to have buses carry the crowd to the 108th Engineers Armory at 34th and Wentwortb where the Armour home games are held. As a further innovation, the basketball game will be a double header with a freshman game as a preliminary. Tickets Ready Soon Following their words by action, the A.T.S.A. officers announced that they will have tickets ready for sale next week, To help encourage tick~ of. sales. presidents of social and professional fraternities, class of- ficers, etc. will be asked to cooper- ate with the A.T.S.A. officers. One ticket will cover the cost of two dinners, bus transportation to the Armory, and the basketball game. “Dad’s Night” is by no means rc~ stricted to only students and their parents, but is open to Alumni and faculty members and their sons. Alpha Chi Sigma Has Smoker at Triangle Seventeen students enrolled in chemical engineering were guests of Alpha Psi chapter of Alpha Chi Sig- ma, national professional chemical fraternity, at a smoker held at the Triangle fraternity house last Thurs- day evening. A ping pong tourna- ment, pool, and cards were among the diversions in which the guests and the thirteen members spent an enjoyable evening. As a finale, re- freshments were served and were fol— lowed by a few words by J. A. Haase, VlSlTORS (By E. l‘. Mehrinucrr Dr. Sliinzo Koizuml. Dean H. T. Heuld, and Mr. Toshio Yamamoto Tolkien Educators inspect Armour Probably the best organized alumni in the world are those of Jap- anese colleges—only it’s baseball in— stead of football that the old grads follow. According to Dr. Shinzo Koizumi and his secretary, Mr. Toshio Yamamoto, visiting Armour a week ago Monday, the alumni follow the university baseball teams with more enthusiasm than the American public shows in baseball. Dr. Shinzo, who is president of Keiogijuko Uni- versity of Tokio also said that while technical, education, and laboratory work is not as far advanced in Japan as in this country, his own university is considering the founding of an en- gineering school. Having visited the Harvard Ter- centennial during the summer, the Japanese educators are now return— ing home, making a number of stops at prominent schools on the way. Asked how the equipment and facil- ities of Armour ranked with those of Massachusetts Institute of Techno— logy, the visitors said that what they remembered best about M.I.T. was its alumni organization and personnel work; at Armour they were especial— ly interested in the laboratories of the mechanical engineering deparfr mcnt, tests on strength of materials being made to show the use of the powerful materials testingP machines. They also visited the other labora- tories and shops of the school. Japanese industry as a competitor with that of America was declared by the doctor to be a strongly over- drawn picture. He stated that an amicable agreement could surely be master alchemist. made for the future. Fresh Plan Armistice llv'ith Supine As Lull. Comes on 6Green flap” Front The officers of the freshman and sophomore classes, for the first time in the history of Armour, have drawn up a tentative set of rules governing the green cap situation. This was disclosed at the meeting of the freshman class held Friday, October 30, in the assembly ball. It is hoped that these rules will help to relieve the natural animosity be- tween the classes. Draw Up Rules The rules of the tentative agree- ment are: (1) The freshmen are willing to Wear their green hats. (2) The freshman are to have an enforcement committee which will endeavor to make unwilling mem- bers of the class of ’40 wear green hats. (3) The freshmen agree not to aid those of the class who ab- solutely refuse to uphold the tra- dition of green caps. (4) Sopho— mores have the absolute right to dcpants a freshman when he has left his green hat at home. (5) Sophomores according to the agree» ment are to request a bare headed freshman to don his green cap be- fore any depantsing takes place. (If a freshman refuses to put on his green cup, or has none at all, the pants come off.) (6) It was agreed that if a freshman forgets to bring his green hat in the morn- ing- be is just out of luck. Freshmen Accept Rules These rules, arranged by the of- ficers of the two classes, were dis cussed and accepted at the fresh- man class meeting. A plan for aiding absent minded frosh who forget their hats was formulated. A collection among the freshmen is to supply the neces- sary fund for purchasing about half a dozen green hats. These hats are then to be deposited in the cloak room where the absent minded freshman can get his protecting head gear. These hats must be re- turned the following day or the frosh who signs out the cap must pay a penalty of one cent per day each day he keeps the green hat overdue. Enforcement Committee Since a small proportion of the class was present at the meeting it was agreed that one-fifth of the class would represent a quorum. The enforcement committee is composed of: C. W. Dell/lent, F. J. Harlicek, W. 1. Miller, J. W. Dun« can, R. A. Rehwaldt, and H. Quan- doe. 13mm wan Hold Dance on Nov. .27 The senior class will hold the first of the class dances on Friday, No— ' vembor 27, the day after Thanksgiw ing, according to Art Dreis, social chairman. Either the Gold Room of the Congress Hotel or the Main Balls room of the Medinab Michigan Ave- nue Club will be the location. Bids for the affair will be sold at $1.50 and soon will be circulated about school. The dance will be in~ formal and will not be a table dance. Negotiations are being made now to secure a well-known and popular or» chestra for the affair. Ar‘l; Dreis, who was appointed social chairman by the Senior Com- mission, has a committee made up of members of the commission. The com- mittee represents all departments and was introduced last year by the class of ’37. Two senior commission meetings were held to make plans for the dance. L. James has been elected com- missioner from the mechanical dc— partment to replace a commissioner who had become ineligible. Show Films of Steel Erection to WS.E. Motion pictures depicting the steps in the erection of the Empire State Building were shown last Friday morning at a meeting of ‘thc W.S.E. Pictures of steel members from roll- ing mill to fabrication plant, and then finally to erecton were shown. Of special interest was the size and complexity of the built up column sec- tions. The steel work for the Empire State Building was completely erected in six months—a record time. After some progress had been made on the job, a rate of practically a story a day was established for erecting the steel framework. Fifty—eight thousand tons of struc- tural steel comprise the framework of the building. Towering 1250 feet in the air, this building is the world’s tallest. Its equivalent height is 120 stories. To make sure that the building would be the world’s tallest, the build- ers erected a 200 foot observation tower which tops the building. Actu- ally the building is 85 stories high and measures 1043 feet over the curb. During intermission in showing the reels, P. L. G. Moore, president of the W.S.E., called for discussion on a society smoker. Plans were made to hold a. Monte Carlo type of smoker some time before Christmas. lUnions Form Debate Subject for A. I. Ch. E. Chemical engineers should definite- ly not unionizc if the result of the A.I.Ch.E. debate on the subject last Friday is to be taken as any cri< terion. The decision rendered by Judges Harris, Schaad, and Van Atta was in favor of the negative side by the score of two votes to one. The proposition of the debate was, “Resolved, that Chemical Engineers Should Unionize,” with affirmative taken by Frank Hackman and Paul Schultz, and the negative by Robert Clarke and Herman Bauermoister. After the debate was concluded, the business of giving to the highest freshman chemical an award was brought up; this award was voted to be discontinued last year. A motion to the effect that the award be con- tinued was made, and it was carried by the close vote of twenty to eight- een. The next meeting of the A.l.Ch.E. will be held on Friday, November 13. Mr. Gerstein, an official of the city’s water treatment department, will speak on the recent advances in water treatment. The meeting will probably be held in Science Hall. J. A. Haase «brought up the subject of the coming- joint meeting between Armour’s student branch of A.I.Ch.E. and the senior chapter. By this week all of the junior and senior chemicals will have received their assignments and the actual work for the joint meeting will be well under way. Tuesday, November 3, l936’ hill'iltlil tilt TAR Willi ill llllllbll MASS tlttllbll Presidency Sought By Trio: 05ml, O’Brien, and Chelgren PICKED B§:0MM1TTEE After the heated discussions of last week’s meeting, the juniors will elect class officers this Thursday in the lobby of Main from 9:30 to 2 o’clock. In case of close voting, a run-off election will be held. Candidates for president arc W. J. Chelgrcn, W. P. O’Brien, and S. M. Osri. H. G. Downing, R. M. Faust, W. F. Schlax, and G. Thodos are run" ning for vice-president. Candidates for secretary are R. F. Beardsley, J. Dunne, and W. J. Luise; for treas— urer, C. K. Nauman, H. F. Perlet, and I. Seidenberg. C. W. Dunbar, S. E. Irlealy, and R. E. Worcester are seeking the position of social chair- man. Committee Picks Slates The petition method was thrown overboard in the nomination of of- ficers. An election committee, con- sisting of C. L. Basile, C. W. Dun- bar, W. R. Marshall, G. A. Palka, and I. Scidenberg was appointed at last week’s meeting. Candidates for the offices filed formal intentions of running with the committee and the committee selected the candidates from those applying based upon per- sonal qualifications. Manifesto Interest The unusually large number of candidates indicates that the juniors are definitely taking more interest in class government. Twenty-two can- didates filed notice of desire to be placed on the ballot list. All applica— tions for the offices of president, vice-president, and social chairman were acceptor]. 0f the remaining twelve applicants, six were selected to run for the positions of secretary and treasurer. Concerts to Be Held by the Musical Clubs The Orchestra and Glee club are busy rehearsing for three concerts, the first to be on Armistice Day, No— vember 11, and the others to be on December 11 and 18. Friday, eve— ning, December 18, the members of the musical clubs will gather with their girl friends at the Evanston Country Club for a. Christmas party. The concert will be given in the early evening and dancing will follow. Director 0. Gordon Erickson is holding the musicians in suspense in regard to the engagement of Decem— ber 11. There is much specula- tion about the possibility of having a concert and dance at either the Chicago Normal College on the south side or the National College of Education in Evanston. Dr. T. Poulter Shows Pressure Equipment Methods used in the research lab— oratory for testing strength of ma» terials were presented at the A.S.M.E. meeting last Friday by Dr. T. C. Poulter, director of the Armour Research Foundation. Equipment used in the experiments was. used to demonstrate the method of testing and slides showing the various mechanisms were shown to the students. The equipment was all carefully constructed to withstand tremendous pressures reaching 300,- 000 atmospheres. The materials tested included dif~ ferent types of metals and glass. Comparison of reactions at ordinary conditions and those at high pressure was emphasized. Of particular inter- est was the manner in which hydro- gen penetrated thick metals at ex- tremely high pressures. The testing- of glass was studied very caremlly and pictures of the manner in which the glass broke were shown.