7. {*5 ..._.~ s- - gracflqfi “movie In e3- , ') v01, Xix. No. 9. Dean Announces Honor Marshals Ushers at Baccalaureate And Graduation In recognition for their outstand- ing scholarship records at Armour, fifteen men have been selected by Dean Heald as honor marshals for the commencement exercises in June. The honors are divided among the classes, the sophomores and ju— niors each being,r represented by six men, while the freshmen have three delegates. The juniors picked are N. K. An— derson, B. W. Gamson, W. M. Kierer, W. R. Marshall, L. B. Parker, and E. F. Wagner. The sophomores whose records made them eligible are G. J. Derrig, M. Ephriam Jr., D. W. Jacobson, E. J. Leutzcnheiser, S. Moculeski, and A. M. Zarem. The freshmen are J. R, Gerhardt, T. B. Hunter, and R. S. Kohn. These men will assist in the di- rection of the class members and their guests at both the baccalaure- ate service and the graduation ex- ercises. Professor Nash, the institute marshal, has charge of the exercises and will be as. sted by Professors Sear and Culvert, associate marshals. Chicago Women’s Club is Play Site The Armour Players will demon- strate their thespian abilities on the evening of May 5 at the Chicago Women's Club theater when they will present the original stage ver- sion of Maxwell Anderson’s “Win— terset." The play, a contemporary work, is written in a natural, flow inc’ foim of English blank verse, Whlfll’l approaches prose in its smoothness. Professional Talent Prof. W. B. Fulghum, director of the Players, has announced that all the parts have been cast from the large group that initially tried out for the roles. Especially..grat- ifying has been the acquirement of experienced female talent to fill the four feminine roles. The young lady taking the lead has had considerable previous professional experience. The tickets will be placed on sale today in the main lobby and will be 75, 50 and 35 cents. Full Length Modern Play The presentation of “Winterset” will mark the first time that Armour has been able to present a full length modern play. This was made pos- sible through the services of Dra- matist Play Service, an organiza— tion whose purpose is to obtain, for college groups, reduced rates on roy- alties which would otherwise be pro- hibitively high. The plot of the play is based on the true Sacco-Vanzetti case in Boston, which caused such a furor years ago. Two foreigners were electrocuted for a payroll murder of which they were innocent. Sub- sequent to the electrocution a liar- vard law professor investigated and disclosed that evidence which would have conclusively proven the men innocent had been suppressed. In short, they became legal victims of an antidoreign mob hysteria which was prevalent at the time. Author Moved by Injustice Motivated by this revelation of gross injustice, Maxwell Anderson wrote “Winterset.” In the play the son of one of the executed men de» termines to definitely clear his name by tracking down and by obtain- ing a confession from the true mur- derers. The scene is laid in a squalid shack where the author has contrived to bring together the son, the judge who passed sentence in the case and who is now a wander— ing derelict bereft of his memory, and the gangsters who committed the murder. The action that ensues is gripping and forceful. “‘Wintcrset’ is a disturbing play, forcing one out of smug and com. placent acceptance of a life that is anything but placid and catalogued," wrote the New York Mirror, Junior informal Set For May .35 Climaxing the activities of Junior Week, the Junior Informal at the Mcdinah Country Club promises to be an outstanding dance of the year. In addition to bringing the frivolous week to a close, this dance is the last “open” social event remaining in the present school year. Departing from customs of pre- vious Junior Weeks, the dance will be an informal affair and will be held on Saturday night, May 15. This is believed to be a preferable night in view of the fact that many students work on Saturday mornings and dur— ing other evenings. The organizations of Art Kassel, Phil Levant, Keith Beecher, Currey Lynn, Lew Diamond, and Charlie Gaylord are among the bands being considered for this affair. The selec— tion of the band will be made by the first of next week. Bids will be out by the end of next week and will be sold by the junior marshals as well as the social committee. The Medinah Country Club fea- tures a large outdoor dancing vcran‘ (la in addition to the indoor ballroom. If the weather man favors the dance with clear skies and a warm evening, the outdoor floor will be used for dancing. With both of these floors, a large dancing space will be pro- vided, promising a popular dance for all students. Moraine in East For Alumni Affair Professor D. P. Moreton left last Thursday for an extended trip through the East on matters pertain- ing to the Armour Engineer and Almmms. He will return April 27 after attending the annual meet— ing of the American Alumni Coun- cil at West Point and will visit Ar- mour alumni in several western cities. Armour Tceh became a member of the American Alumni Council last January. This council contains rcp- rescntatives of alumni organizations of colleges and universities through out the United States. It is di‘ vided into three sections, namely: magazine division, general alumni activiti division, and the alumni fund r ng division. The Institute has registered for the magazine and general alumni activities divisions. Mutual problems of alumni organi- zations will be discussed at the meeting at which the Commanding Officer of \Vest Point is host. The West Point Cadets will present a formal full dress parade for the council members. Following the council meeting Professor Moreton will visit New York where he will confer with Air— mour alumni and officials of Stev— ens Institute, Columbia University, Pratt College, and New York Uni- versity. On his way back he will visit the General Electric Company at Schenectady, New York, and the oil-operative courses at the Univer- sity of Cincinnati in Cincinnati, Ohio. Chemicals ’ Honorary Elects Eight Pledges Three seniors and five juniors were pledged to Phi Lambda Upsilon, na~ tional honorary chemical fraternity, last Thursday evening. J. Brichta, J. A. Haase, and L. Sorkin, seniors, and E. C. Berger, H. J. Bodnar, J. Danek, L. B. Poskouka, and G, Tho— dos, juniors, are the pledges. An examination in chemical Ia- boratory work and a threc~hour comprehensive written examination put the pledges-to—be in the proper humble spirit. Although scholar- ship is the primary requisite, peT‘ sonality and interest in outside af- fairs are also considered in select— ing; men for the fraternity. Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, lllinois ‘ .3. Steam Will Load Electricals’ Society New Officers of the A.I.E.E. elect- ed at a meeting last Friday are Joseph Sodaro, president; George Ives, vice president; Richard Ansel, treasurer; and William Kiefer, sec— retary. Professor E. H. Freeman was reelected counsellor. At the meeting the discussion con— cerned a picnic and future student papers. The picnic is to be held on the Wednesday following Junior Week, May 19, at the Indiana Dunes, Tremont, Indiana. Another social event is to he a night club party to be held at the Knickerbocker Hotel on Thursday, April 22. This affair will be a din~ net-dance at which a floor show will he an added attraction. Special ar— rangements will be made for stage. Armour Mechanicals Host to Conference The Armour student branch of the American Society of Mechani- cal Engineers is part host to the annual student conference at the convention taking; place in the Aller» ton hotel. The delegates to the con— vention made an inspection trip through the Cor-with Plant of the Crane Company yesterday, and are to attend trips this afternoon through the Hawthorne Works of the Western Electric Company, or the Fisk street generating plant of the Electric company. Technical papers by the delegates were delivered in the morning. Upperclasomen Excused The junior and senior members of the mechanical department were excused from their classes to at- tend the proceedings at the conven- tion. At the last meeting of the so‘ ciety held Friday, April l7, in 1hr- automobilc laboratory, Fred Leason ME. ‘37, presented a toll: on “Pub verized Fuels.” Pulverizing Gives Efficiency Citinyr the illustration of efficiency obtained by the utilities company, whose prime operation is burning coal, as opposed to a company where coal consumption is of secondary importance, he pointed out that the utility companies obtained this cf» ficiency by use of pulverized fuel. Of particular interest was the method of protecting the brick walls of the furnace against the enormous heats generated by the fuels. This was obtained by lining the interiors with water pipes, thus keeping tho extreme heat from the furnaccl walls. ball contest, and the tug-of-war will be abandoned in this year’s Junior Week. This was decided at a meet- ing of the junior marshals held last Friday morning. The push ball contest was intro— duced last year in order to allow the seniors and juniors to relive the days of their happy childhood as sophomores and freshmen, when, un- encumbered by the weighty robes of knowledge and dignity, they nap- pily tore the pants off of each other without thought of consequences. The usual interfratemity and inter- departmental baseball games will be held with the attendant enthu- siasm of the respective members who apparently need the slightest provo- cation to leap furiously at any other students who were so misguided as to take up a branch of engineering other than their own. Fresh, Eat Your Spinach The rush, the near apex of a week as crowded with entertaining" features, as the ingenious junior marshals can make it, will be the scene of furious enter-prise as the sophomores, reenferced by various seniors and juniors, indulge in a wild passion for the collection of gunnysacks from the freshmen, who, enforced by sundry juniors and seniors, attempt to reciprocate. If Dr. f7. f7; Shannon To Cine Sermon At Baccalaureate With the selection of Dr. F. F. Shannon as the speaker at the bacca- laureate s *vices, and Mandel Hall as the scene or he graduation exercises, plans and arrangements for the 1937 commencement. are nearing conclusion. Dr. Shannon, who gavo the address at last year‘s service, was again se- lected because of his ability and pop- ularity among- Armour men. The services will be held at Orchestra Hall on Sunday night, June 6. The graduation exercises, to be held 'I"hurs(lay afternoon on June 10, will feature a speaker yet to be de- cidcd upon, and music by senior members of the Glee Club and Or- chcstra. Mandel Hall will provide ample room for seniors, their parents, and friends. Each senior will be allowed about five seats for Tickets to the exerci, s tribuLl-d by departments, and en- velopes will be provided so that tick- ets may be included with the an- nouncements. The last date for or— dering; announcements was April 15. The booklets will contain the class roll by departments, the class otTicers and committees, and the honor mar- shals. In addition, a list of speakers and the programs of the commence- ment affairs is included. Professor (1. A. Nash handles the details connected with the graduation cxci‘cmt-s, uctimr in his capacity of ins utc marshal. I-li. . ants are l’ro‘lcssors (iolvcrt and Star, associ- ate marshals, and the student mar- shals who have already bot-n selected. g. (a For Molecular Films Dr. Floyd Van Atta spoke on “Molecular Films” at the Thursday night meet 01' the downtown W.S.E. lie den, ihcd a molecular film as one tenanillionth of an inch thick. A mole» cular film is formed by the union of a fatty acid with the minute amount of calcium salt found in water. Molecular films formed on solids are used in radio tubes. The fine film is combined with one of the rare earths and covers the tungsten filament. It increases the electron output of the tube 10,000 times. Dr. Van Atta believes that by means of a molecular film there is a po. iliiIity of determining the impurities in supposedly pure prod- ucts. Push Ball to Replace Tugmof «War in Junior Week Events fichcdule Yes, seniors, there will be a push‘ the freshmen win, despite their youth and inexperience, they need no longer stiller the indignity of wearing the dashing green caps which had been as compulsory as their modesty allowed. Contesting: the rush for position of primary interest will be the attempted scaling of a twenty foot greased pole. To the senior or junior succeeding in gen— erating the greatest coefficient of friction, spiked shoes barred, will go to the glory of ascension and the valuable prize mounted atop the pole. “When We Were Young—" The usual cry of juniors, seniors, and, to a lesser extent, sophs, ‘These new guys ain’t got the en- terpr'se we had.” followed by lengthy reminiscences of feats of valor against overwhelming: odds. “Remember last year, Joey, when we climbed the peak of Mission and hung a ban- ner out front announcing that sophs were rats? Boy! There we were, forty feet from the ,rzroud, hangin’ to the Sign with one hand, the roof with the other, an’ (loin’ our best to keep off the sophs by an energetic wiggling of our toes." It is not to be recommended that enterprising individuals attempt to reenact t 5 scene, since it is reported that both the foundation of Mission and the class treasuries were severely strained during the ensuing battle. Tuesday, April 20, l9}! physics Authority to Tails More: littlest Friday Armour Awards Civic Assembly Scholarship Kelly selected the recipient of the offered by Armour after a meeting with the and the representatives of other colleges in the Chicago vi- civic assembly scholarship applicants cinity at the (will is of the Board of Education. This is the fifth award of this type which Armour has oil'cred. cunts who have requested their re— ’l‘he winner of the be spectivo college. Armour scholarship award will announced at a later date. lillldfs Hear Talk principles of marine anec were disc S. ocean western division of the Company of North America. istim: marine of the WiOlo 17th century. of individual underwriters. Several Types of Risk for the ship-owner, o owner of the cargo. operator, The owner price, that is, the cost, and freight charges for the art own insurance if he so desires. vcnient form for the exporters. War Risks Important plus ten item beingr Certificates are. conveying all i 74 pcuscs lnti er pro/it." the exporter, per cent, The certificate contains enough unto company to adjust a loss. insurance companies since the world war, caused by a decrease in pre~ income when war r ' could no longer be covered. War risks are important in the present time, and careful under- writing: is necessary for proper dis— tribution of these lines. naium l’i Tau Sigma. Pledges Five Undergraduates Four juniors and one senior were pledged to P1 Tau Sigma, honorary mechanical engineering fraternity, at a meeting held recently in the fro» ternity rooms. The men pledged are: V. J. Jandasck, P. Neuert, J. Pro— chaska, A. N. Sclii'iebcr, and N. F. Simeon. The men were chosen for their high scholastic standings and cxtramur» i-icular activities. The formal initia» tion (late is set for April 21. One of the pied, duties indicates Ythat the pledges will have plenty to 1 do; each had to obtain the si ‘. 91‘s. Each high school selects two stu- dents who in their opinion have shown the best citizenship as well as: scholarship, and awards each with a modal. The chosen students indicate their preferences as to course and collcg . The various col- leges then interview those appli- Tln Marine Risks F rly history and fundamental Insur- used at. the F'. P. E. meeting last Friday by Mr. E. S. Mason, marine underwriter of the Insurance Lloylls of London, the oldest ex- insurancc organiza— tion, originated in the coffee house of Edward Lloyd in the latter part Individuals insurance on outgoing: ships and camps. Lloyds is still made up Marine insurance may be written in— sures the value of his ship or cargo, while the operator insures freight charges and anticipated freight charges. Exporters of goods must rlways be able to quote the C. I. F. insurance, es. The importer may also carry his The . “opt-n cargo" policy is the most con-r The valuation of goods insured is taken at the amount of invoice plus the the “imaginary issued by rights of the open policy to the customer. of the policy provisions to enable the l'ureie‘n representative of the insur- 'i. Mason also discussed the in- creasing coverage offered by maiine southern Europe at Famed Scientist to Talk 0n Modern Physics Proftssor Arthur Haas, an interna- tional authority on theoretical phy- sics and recently appointed profes- sor of mathematical physics at Notre Dame University, will speak on “Fundamental Ideas of Modern Physics" next Friday at 10:30 in Science l-lall. He will speak under the auspices oL' the school and all students and faculty members are invited to hear him. Professor in Middle Twenties Pioi'essor Haas is internationally famous Jor his work, and according to Dr. Rufus Oldenburger, is one of the most brilliant expositors in the world in the field of theoretical phy- This is the first of what is anticipated to be a series of ice- tui'cs sponsored by the Institute for students and faculty members wh‘ '11 will present world-famous Sci- 7. In his middle twenties Pro- 1' user Haas had a full professor- ship at the University of Vienna. Last summer he had the honor of being invited to lecture at the Hair— vald ’l'erccntennial. sics. Author of Many Books Professor Haas has written twelve volumes in German on mathematics and physics, several of which have been translated into English. Some of the titles of his works are “Intro- duction to Theoretical Physics,” “Vector Analysis,” and “The World of Atoms.” lie is also the author of numerous papers on relativity and quantum mechanics. His investiga- tions include the increase in the fre- quency of light quanta due to col- lisions with rapidly moving particles, and studies oi‘ motions of electrons in a sphere of positive electricity. He derived fundamental relativity laws l'lom the De Broglie hypothesis of phase waves and studied many 0th or developments in that field. His papers have appeared in “Physikulisches Zei-tschrif’t,’ a Ger- man journal of physics, and the publications of “Akademie der Wis- scnschaften Wein" of Vienna. Personnel Agents fntemiew Seniors 1 Fourteen companies, seeking to en- large their engineering staffs, have interviewed the senior students for prospective positions thus far this semester. Included in this number are such nation-wide concerns as Goodyear Tire and Rubber Com— pany, Bethlehem Steel 00., United States Steel Corporation, Common» wealth Edison Company, and Gen- eral Electric Company. Seniors Submit Applications Seine organizations which inter» viewed the men have sent their per— sonnel managers to Armour to talk to particular students. Many other companies have invited seniors to their ofl'ices for interviews. Among these are the Texas Company, 30‘ seph T. Ryerson and Son, Inc., West- ern Electric Company, United States Rubber Products Company, and the Dclco Radio Division of the Gen- eral Motors Corporation. Each of those concerns has taken seniors’ applications for tentative positions. of the companies which have al- ready hired seniors are Armour and Company, Neiler Rich and Com» pany, and the. Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company. OEers From Other Cities Oli‘ers from organizations outside of the Chicago area include ones from Cleveland, New York. Kokomo. Indianapolis. and Akron. Several companies, includiirs' the Un.,ed States Gypsum Company. have made . iniuresi let all active and professorial mcm—-. .oi‘ placements. appointments for future imcrvi Mr. Setterberg feels that. Elli will see unusual activity in t1 en's. ‘e 1‘ way