Page Two Armour Tech News tudent Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY CHICAGO, ILLINOIS Published Weekly During the College Year 1936 Member Iog7 associated Colleoiule Press «@231 Single Copies, 10 Cents Each EDITORIAL BOARD lrith B. Parker, Jnmes D. Shcehun . . aymond A. Brnun William J. Chelgren Albert N. Schrieher idris Thomas Hendricks $2.00 Per Year Co-EilitoI-s-in-Chiel‘ n ma Ed" 1' .. News I r Copy Editor Business Manager . .. ..... Faculty Adviser . EDITORIAL DEPARTMENT ARMOUR TECH NEWS operation never before attempted on a human being—probably not one chance in a hundred of its being successful. The chance was taken and an epochAmakingI operation was performed. A muscle from his left arm was grafted into his heart; and although weakened, he recovered after spending four months in the hospital. Another medical miraclel graces the story of scientific achievement. Restored to health, Mr. Krchmar faced the problem of getting his family ofl" relief. He was able to get a job paying five dollars a week, which was not near enough to support his family. Now he has no job and can see no prospect of e > one. Advertising Mannuer Advertising Assistant Circulation ringer Circulation Assistants R5.I€h_n,H.P.K_‘ -_ g . Vol. XIX. MARCH 2, 1937 No. 3 On behalf of the students and faculty of Armour Tech, we express our deep sympathy to Elmer H. Olson, junior civil engineering stu- dent, on the death of his father last week. Are Engineers Leaders? Is the engineer a leader? Industrial execu- tives at a meeting of the American Society for Management said that engineering graduates could not be used for superintendent work be— cause of their inability to handle men. The fact} that many leaders of industry agree on this point l is a direct blow at engineering education. ‘ In what way does the young graduate fail? Seven fundamental requirements for leadership are will power, knowledge, enthusiasm, self- confidence, energy, responsibility, and courage.‘ Most of these traits are required and are present l in a man who goes through four years of com centrated study. Knowledge and responsibility are the crucial points. The graduate has better education and better training for continued study than other men. His weak point is often a lack of understanding of men, of human nature. To be a leader he must know each man personally—his likes, dis- likes, dominating emotions, and reactions to par— ticular situations. He also must know the more primitive emotions of people as a group. His fault may be in making too exacting require ments of his subordinates, or it may be that his inexperience in the particular work brings dis— respect for him as a leader. Lack of extra- curricular activity while in school may have kept him from cultivating human contacts. With all of his excellent training in other rte—1 spects, a man is unfair to himself and to others unless he carries his knowledge beyond what he needs for personal gain and extends it into the field of human relations. Armour’s social science, course is a good start towards this goal. l l Books in the library on the psychology of leadership are also available. To carry the work further, we suggest that an elective course in the psychology of leadership be instituted at Armour, in the hope that the engineer’s training toward becoming a leader may not be forestalled by inability to handle men. 1 In the face of this situation, we must acknowl— edge as a truism his remark, “Lucky? Well, they. say wealth isn’t everything. I know now that health isn’t either." What is to be done about improving our cul— tural conditions? Such changes are not the product of a year or of a generation. The least that an engineering school can do is to assure r that its students are aware of the problem, and possibly to arouse a desire for studying the social sciences further, by including in the curriculum as much study of modern economic and social problems as is possible. Green Orgy Without doubt Armour students possess the finest technical brains, and the keenest powers of unbiased observation of any engineering school in the vicinity. This is aptly illustrated by their prompt and unfaltering application of their newly acquired technical and engineering principles to the more or less hum-drum routine of daily life. This fact was vividly borne, out by a recent survey conducted by an officially regis- tered observer duly authorized by the statistically inclined Armour Tech News. According to this survey, the data for which was collected over a three—day period, 14.3 times as many freshmen as seniors and juniors com- bined unceremoniously cut across the lawns, or rather what - would - in - all - probability - be ~ lawns - if - the . students - did - not » cut — across - them. An attempt at a logical correla~ tion between the comparatively large number of freshmen concerned and the analysis of the lawn-strolling problem is inevitable. The fresh- men, having but lately learned that the hypothe— nuse of any right triangle is less than the sum of its two adjacent sides and that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points even if separated by grass, trustingly apply their mathematical knowledge and systematically kick the life out of every blade of grass in sight. The upper classmen are not quite as numerous nor quite as consistent in their efficiency save - a - step — by - cutting - across - the - lawns orgies as the freshmen. This is probably due to the fact that by this time the upper ciassmen have for— gotten all of their freshmen mathematics, and because they prefer doing most of their cutting lBlue lint smart snovril Flay W. Sturmanm sends us an in- dignant letter berating our negli— gence and shaky sources of informa tion. He claims that Wally Suhr did not date up the young lady in question, but that Ray himself will escort her to the Soph Informal. And so—we fire our third snooper this, week. 31‘ :1: Snoop No. 4 checks in with some statistics on the Washington-Lincoln assembly last week. Out of 215 students occupying the balcony, 20 were asleep; and out; of 200 on the main floor, 12 took to snoring. This quota does not include those tucked away under the seats. and behind the balcony pilurs. Popper and Martin made an affectionate sight. )1! ’9: )F The ARX have always bragged about their u‘thdarncd models and so, when we heard that Prof. Spencer was exhibiting several of his models at the Palmer House, we torc over to soul; up (ML cycful. All we found were umplccn nine models of a parabola, an ellipse, a hmwrbolh, and a few more reasons for flanking analytical geometry. The only girl there were a raccoon, coal and gulonhes! Surprise! H4 ’l»' 1|= We hope that Leonard Holmes was not thirsty after his sojourn at the Fountain Room on Thursday evening. 1k ill 1% Schommer must have seen some— thing good at the Blue Fountain Room floor show to tell Freud all about it. ¢l= ’lQ #1 Sign on bulletin board: “Am leav- ing school at five o’clock all Glee Club money must be in my hands by that time." Signed W. F. Schreibcr. (We wonder how much he spent at the La Salle Hotel.) ’14 il= il= I'Icillrrmw: Gosh! it’s kinda lair, isn’t it? Hit; mother: Yes, where did you {/0 after the concert? He'iclmmm: Nowhere! His mother: Nowhere! Then why did it lulcc you two hours to drive home? I—Icldmunn: Well, 1th, I . . . the car want real slow/l T looks harmless, but this fungus destroys poles. So telephone research men wage war on it. In the Bell Telephone Laboratories, they study many woods, concoct many preservatives. ln Missis- sippi, Colorado and, New .lcrsey—where conditions vary widely—they’ve set out whole armies of treated test poles. Their continuous experiments yield many a weird but valuable fact about destructive fungi and, insects. Since the Bell System each year uses over 500,000 poles for replacements and new lines, lengthening pole life is most important. It’s one more way to make telephone service still more dependable. Why not give: the family a ring tonight? Rates to most points are lowest after 7 P. M. and all clay Sunday. in a somewhat different manner. Since 85 per cent of the survey was conducted in front of Chapin Hall, and since 2.31 times as many freshmen as seniors and juniors enter Chapin Hall, the figure 14.3 will have to be, in all fairness, modified to 7.4. However, even this modified ratio shows the trend of one form of student extra-curricular activity. In this survey, two steps on the unsowed por- tions of the turf were tabulated as one step on the gross. M‘Y UNCLE SENT ME A CALABASH PIPE,JUST LIKE youes. AT FIRST i THOUGHT IT WAS A acme AND LOOKED FOR AN INSTRUCTION BOOK WITH 'THE SIX EAsv LESSONS. :IUST WHAT JUDGE, we ‘quT’OF A CALABASI—l pee 15 A BOWL or: 'n-lE AFRICAN BOTTLE GDURD WITH A MEERSCHAUM OR PORCELAN INNER BOWL AND AN AMBER STEM AND WH‘I IS A CALABASH? Since most of the wrongdoing oc- 1 curred where the sidewalk branches off abruptlyl lat 90 degrees, our original assumption that theI‘ Wake Up! World. I misguided action is occasioned by the recent dis- Modern culture is probably superior to that covery of the freshmen that the side of any angle of any other system of civilized life. However, under 90 degrees is less than one, is probably no claim is made that it is the highest at every ‘ correct. point, but that the modern culture has a practical ‘ It must be admitted—get thee behind me, superiority OVEY‘ all other systems of culture. Consciencel—that the statistical data of this To the way of thinking inculcated in modern experiment was fiCtithUS. And it must be ad- men. the ideals which mark former civilizationsl mitted that these hEiDOUS grass~tramplings and are dwarfed by the ideal of this culture—attain. our equally heinous moralizings have helped fill ment of scientific advancement. up quite a bit of newspaper space. But—it’s a This advancement has been phenomenal, espe- good idea! cially in machine technology and chemical science. improvements in technology in manu— facturing on so large a scale naturally require parallel progress in distribution, morals, andI other problems of economics and sociology! There has been progress along these lines, but the rapidity of technical advance has far out- stripped other improvement of culture until now the world faces an apparently permanent unem— ployment problem—the most striking evidence of economic failure. Consider the problem of Joseph Krchmar, middle aged Ohioan. TWO years ago he was suf- YOU'RE TELLING ME! BEFORE I GOT NEXT TO PRINCE. ALEsERm BLAMED WA‘I’ MV TONGUE WAs ALWAVG BITING .' 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