ARMOUR TECH NEWS Tuesday, October 5, l937 By A. N. Schmicber SUPREME COURT Justice Hugo L. Black in a brilliantly worded radio address last Friday night refuted all charges 01' personal unfitness hurled at him by political antagonists. Since his appointment to the Supreme Court by President Roosevelt to fill the vacancy created by the resigna- tion of Justice Van Devanter under the recent federal court retirement act, Black has been the center of a protest storm which challenges his right to sit on the highest legal bench in the country because of his affili- ation with the Ku Klux Klan. “I BECAME a member of the Ku Klux Klan about fifteen years ago,” Justice Black said emphatically over the radio, and more emphatically he declared that about eleven years ago he resigned from that organization and has had no further dealings with them. More important, however, were his statements avowing a con~ genial and most understanding atti- tude towards those of the Catholic and Jewish faith and those of the Negro race. ‘Furthcr, he defended himself as having always maintained a liberal outlook upon economic and political events. In strong words he warned against the terrible effects of religious bigotry brought about by those with a political cause, and con- cluded by reiterating his strong per— sonal desire to uphold American ideals and justice. WITH DIGNITY and shrewd po- litical tact Black was able in thir- teen minutes to answer the charges of the past two months. By declin- ing to be drawn into a clarifying statement befm'c the radio address, and by refusing to further consider any implications hurled against him, Black has silenced an issue which may have had violent repercussions. ACTUALLY there was no way of removing him from the Supreme Court Bench by impeachment. Plans were drawn up by a former special assistant U. S Attorney General to challenge Justice Black’s eligibility because he voted for the retirement act under which Justice Van Devan- ter resigned. An old law on the fed. eral statute books provides that no Congressman is eligible to sit on a federal judicial bench if he will bene- fit by any increase in salary provid» ed for those on the federal bench during his term in Congress. It is by this law that the petitioner is challenging Justice Black by show- ing that the retirement act was le- gally an increase in salary because it allowed a Justice to resign at the age of seventy with his federal sal- ary of $20,000 per year to continue until his death. THE SUPREME COURT will prob- ably deny the petition without com» ment. That is as it should be, Jus- tice Black has fully satisfied the American public by both his ast rec- ord and his present declared ideals that he is capable to occupy a post on the Supreme Court. Should a man’s past be held against him even if slightly smirched when that man admits his early error and has taken steps to correct it? Is not a man whose virtue has been scared by the flame of error more likely to profit by his mistakes than the man whose virtue has been untested? JUSTICE HUGO L. BLACK has vindicated himself. The issue should be considered closed. Most wonder- ful of all this delicate issue has been settled by the American method of doing things—by bringing all the facts to the surface and allowing public opinion to make an unbiased decision. If all political issues are concluded in this manner, America may have no need to fear totalitar- ianism in any form: Fascism, Nazi- ism, or Communism. Washington, D. C.—~(ACP)—A new definition of football has appeared. It is a “function essential to gov- ernmental functioning” and appears in the protest of a number of col- leges against the federal admission taxes on sports events. The colleges contend that by this definition, the 10 per cent tax is un~ constitutional. With the football sea» son almost upon him, Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau prepares to take the issue to the Supreme Court. Gleaming in the blazing sun or river rages in its rocky canyon, and far above, leaping from sheer preci- pices, silvery steel spans the yawning gulf. A racketing roargand snarl~ ing down a ribbon of steel an alumi- num bullet powered with a mighty heart of pounding pistons, leashing crashing explosive energy flashes past. Threshing in the merciless crushing grasp of tons of water in an ocean gone mad, a liner pleads for help in shrill stuttering code. The world of today! A world of al- loy steels; of blinding speed; of ter- rific strains, An Engineer’s world! A multitude trusting blindly to trained minds. Minds capable of dealing with the abstract in the rare- fied atmosphere of the mathematics essential to the calculation of intric» ate structures of a specialized world. Theirs not the easy circumlocution of the liberal arts graduate. theirs the grinding drudgery of precision and exactitude. Lives are dependent on their knowledge and their personal integrity. Hirsute Adornment Personal Integrity! An attitude to be cultivator] in an engineer. Reli- ance on himself and faith in his fig- ures. A will to cultivate the novel in face of opposition as the symbolic mustache, may seem humble though it is. Soft living students in the liberal arts colleges are not prone to ex— pose themselvcs to the harsh judg- ment of a malefic world. They feel Mustached Armour Froposed; Plan it as @tticial Engineer 3 Emblem the urge for hirsute adornment but, in the manner to which they are ac— customed, let the issue slide for the convenience of the moment. Be< sides which, in the majority of cases the average arts student would be in- capable of giving a sturdy peach a run for its money. The engineering student, on the other hand, educated to a concrete expression of his imag— ination and will, desires a mustache and attains it. The same enterprise will in later years cause the creation of wonders the layman never even dreams of today. Challenge to Non-Techs Therefore, let it be understood that a mustache, far from being a sign of personal vanity, is a chal» lenge to the non—technical world. A world that falls in with the trend of idle convention rather than make an effort to attain a desired end. The few student engineers, freshmen and blondes excepted) who are constitth tionally incapable may be excused, but the trend should be towards a mustachcd Armour. a sign of unity, a symbol that the wearer is the ar— biter of the world of the future. Those who would take drastic meas- ures with those who have already nurtured a growth into being should pause and consider, for they are traitors to a cause in which deter- mined men are enlisted. Let them first attempt to grow their own lest an unbiased and clear thinking,r world track down their hypocrisy and point out the envy motivating: their deeds. fiempwcs .a; by frcahnmn ties of inlluml (. freshmen are urged by more here at Armour}! 4 ,., In order to help “thumbers” keep their appointments in other cities, George Thomas, an instructor at Pennsylvania State college, has writ- ten 3 “Hitch ’Hikers Time Table," which tells the reader the best hours to “flag,” the distances between variv eus cities, and the length of time the journey should take. And what pro- portion ofcars have radios. . . . I; 3'; a One out of every four persons in the United States is school. attending The other three are living. s,» s a “According to “Collegimm” stu- dent-made holidays are faithfully ob— served each year by the Universities of California, Dartmouth, and TM» lame. At California, “skip dug/"~— with no reference to the dance—14's a welcome holiday. On that day stu- dents are advised to cut classes and (lo anylhing else they like. Dartmouth has its annual “old—timer’s day," while Tulane celebrates an “overdue~ books - returned-[memo - questions- uskcdrday.” Ba! Miss Steele, l for- got. . . 1k is ill Washingion. D. C.———(ACP)—One out of every three boys and girls who finished high school last year, will be on a college campus this fall, experts at the federal office of education have figured. From all sections of the country come reports that college en- rollments are reaching new peaks. Better econoinic conditions have been generally credited with the upward swing, and in some instances appli— cations for admission have been re- jected for lack of room. Something new under the Supra walking sprinkling machine used to water the gridiron (It the University of Nebraska. It’s set up at one end of the field at night and by the next morning has traveled the length of the field, propelled by the force of the water. Wonder if they’d take $8.50 for one of fhcm for our new Imam? * . =‘r A shortage of football shoes will iapparently force a large portion of A! the IlluasarhImclts Insiilulr- of 'l'cohnology girl 14 {up}; on: Icpluecd Ill 10d and silver hazing, egg- llrrowiny and other diversions have been abolished. awhile melhods. K idnu, ping, Unslr'ipod Something like our met/Lads (jury. the Gooding College Football Team to play barefooted. The “large portion" being George Blaukley, who stands (5 feet 3 inches barefooted . . . bare- l'ooted because he needs a size ]4 shoe. How about pants? fi 101 The Average Southern College Girl spends $579 a year exclusive of col- ega charges, the largest item of which ($270) is for clothes, a study at Hollins College, Va, reveals. All we pay is six bits for a green cap. It ’5 Ti Because the Hitler government al- lows any German traveler to lake only $4 spending money with him, Christian Otto Winzen came from Germany to the University of De- troit, with just that much cash, al- though his passage and railroad tare had been paid. a. i a An Austin, Texas, boy plans to enter college in September, 1938, at the age of 12. Educators think his speedy advancement is due to his ability to read rapidly and remember What he reads. He can read back. world equally well. a; a: y; History students at Mount Helga/cc College have written a prophesy about whither we are drifting, to be scaled up for (L hundred years. Dr. William A. Calder-'5 work gives the first indication have had that: the sun is “ Very accurate measurement of the sun‘s scientists under par." important, it used by astronomers as a unit for measuring stellar brightness is seems, since the sun is the energy and brightness of more distant bodies.. The moon, on the other hand, was found to be slightly brighter than lmd hitherto been believed. The new photoelectric value for the magnitude of the sun is four—tenths of a magnitude less than the value- accepted as a standard up to now. The moon’s new brightness is eleven- hu‘ndreths of a magnitude more than visual the value generally adopted. Prof. Watchman Speaks on WCFE. Radio Series Heating, Ventilating and Air-Gon— ditioning was discussed by Professor H. L. Nachman, Professor of Therm- odynamics at Armour Tech on the sixth program of the present WCFL radio series on modern engineering problems. The program, sponsored by Armour Institute of Technology and presented through the cooperaw tion of the Adult Education Council of Chicago. was broadcast last Satan day evening from 7:30 to 7:45 o’clock. Professor Nachman defined air—com ditioning as a problem dealing with four factors; namely: one, proper control of temperature; two, proper control of humidity; three, proper con- trol of cleanliness; and four, proper distribution of air in occupied build— ings. These four factors, the former two being directly dependent upon thermodynamics, determine the de- gree of comfort and healthfulness of A.l.Ch.lE. Charts Program; Students Will Participate The first meeting- of the AIChE of this semester was held last Friday, in the Assembly Hall. The pur- pose of this meeting was to give the freshmen and sophomores an in- sight on Chemical Engineering. Pro- fessor McCormack was the speaker. The year’s program is now being formulated and is designed to give the students more chances to par- ticipate in the activities, although there will be several speakers who represent the chemical industries. the air received by building occupants. The age old cry of the perspiring heal: sufferer who laments that it En rollmenrm (Continued from page one) ning division; J. A. Clear, who joins the staff of the engineering drawing department; Dr. R. C. Kintner, a member of the day college chemical engineering staff; and Dr. F. W. God- win, a member of the Research Foundation staff, who will also aug- ment the evening division of the chemical engineering department. In making the announcement of enrollment, Dr. Freud added that ap« proximately 300 students were 611- rolled for freshman college instruc- tion in the evening division, which is noteworthy in that it takes twice as long to obtain a degree in the evening school as in the day school. isn’t the heat but the ’ ' " ,, was supported by Professor Nachmun, who explained that the degree of com- fort experienced by a human being depends upon the rate at which body heat is dissipated. In hot weather the rate at which part of this heat is dissipated by the evaporation of per- spiration from the body depends upon the amount of moisture in the air, which is the humidity. la “out?" copyrighx 1957, onom'r 8c Mirrors Tonncco Co. 0. mm meow“ w are refreshingly standing right next to the most attrac- tive person you ever met, but you don’t know it until you are introduced ., . . until you. get acquainted. And you don’t know how much pleasure a cigarette can give until some- body offers you a Chesterfield. " Certainly this is true: Chesteifields milder. . . they’ve got a: taste that smokers lilac.