Page Two Armour Tech News Student Publication of the ARMOUR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY 3300 Federal St. CHICAGO, Published Weekly During the College Year l937 Member l938 msocialed Collesiole Dress “Entered as second class matter at, the post office at Chicago, Illinois, under the act of March 3, 1879.” $2.00 Per Year EDITORIAL BOARD Editor»in~Chief ........................ Russell Kotal Managing Editor .................. Robert Jafl‘ee Sports Editor ................... . .Howard Coyle News Editor ..................... . .Max Ephraim Copy Editor ........... . ...... . .Thomas Yeakle Business Manager ............... . . .Robert Winblad Faculty Adviser . . Walter Hendricks EDITORIAL Dlu Desk Editur , , , . .. .' ' ‘ ll . (lr .. Ans mm. Sports Editor Amunmonl Ed or Feature Edimr Robert is Columnis arisen. James .mi Smrnfeld. Abe ancm. Copy Renders . .. .. .. .. .. L. Buin, E. Comm. G. 1mm. A. camp N. Levine. 1: Paul... Renormro . . Cipowski, A, Hansen. mun, . Natinchek. F Rob. .1, Silverman. 8mm; Writers L. Sports Reporters F DeMer-y. H. l“ J. Ratm, E. Worcester I“. Anderson. Shapiro. er, S. BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Advertising Mnnmzor Circulniion Manager Circulation Manager “Cw-0m; Circulation Munaflcr’Exchunues . .. Vol. XXI. February 22, 1938 .. Roger Smith No. 2 Goodman Theatre Concert For the third consecutive year the Armour Tech Musical Clubs are preparing for their largest an- nual event—the Goodman Theatre concert. This year's program appears to be even larger, fuller, and more interesting than it has been in the past. Sfuden’rswhodo not participate in extracurricu- lar activities are the ones who do not realize the immense amount of time and energy expended in producing a musical program such as the one our musical clubs are giving us Thursday evening. Two or three special rehearsals are held each week during the period prior to the concert. All glee club selections must be memorized; all instruments of the orchestra must be perfectly coordinated to pro- duce the effects desired. Voices and instruments must be kept in trim. ILLINOIS | l Full Time Personnel Officer? , office. it also has a competent personnel officer to " manage it. The administration sees fit to put their : must suffer from competition with the other ob- ARMOUR TECH NEWS lthe musical clubs is one of service for Armour} ‘Tech. This spirit is enhanced when Tech students and faculty members show appreciation of their efforts by attending the concerts. l l A series of lectures have been started by the ln- ' stitute for the benefit of the senior class. It is the object of these lectures to help the seniors obtain employment after graduation. We feel this is an impor’rant and significant action on the part of the administration It shows that they are aware of the gravity of the presenhday employment situation, and that they plan to help the seniors through it. We highly commend this attitude. It seems, however, that the administration is hardly consistent in their policy on this matter, The most important function of a school in help— ing their graduates obtain employment is through a placement office. Armour does have a placement personnel officer in a registrar's office, where he is easily distracted from his real work; it makes him assistant registrar; and, in order to see that his spare moments are filled, gives him an occasional class to teach. Our personnel officer is thus a very busy man, accomplishing much important work, but we can‘t help but feel that the personnel work ligations. There is considerably more to the placing of graduates than filling requests coming in over the phone. Our would-be employer usually doesn‘t go out of his way to get engineering talent still green behind the ears. He must be educated in the art of ivory hunting. At present he looks for experi- enced help, disregarding the possibility that he may obtain better brains. capable of training in his field, when he hires inexperienced graduates. The educa— tion of employes in this respect requires much field work and campaigning~obviously a full time job for anyone. We therefore, in the interests of the graduating seniors, and alumni as well. urge the administration to return the personnel officer to full time personnel work. It must be recognized, too, that much of the success of a senior in obtaining employment de- pends on himself. In addition to the knowledge and intelligence he is assumed to have, he must also possess an intangible something called per~ sonality. It is perhaps significant that the subject The price of admission for this concert is ex»‘ ceedingly low in consideration of expense encoun» ; tered and the splendid program that Director Con don Erickson has arranged for presentation. Slu- dents should feel fortunate they can take advanv tage of such an opportunity. ; Glee club and orchestra members receive nol The Slipstielr l Cleave to the slipstick; let. the slapstick fly where it may. Well, the column must be written, 'cause time and tide wait for no mtm. . . . especially limo . . . it doesn’t wait [or any] mail. I'ide Lao . . . it doesn’t wait either. Time and tide, they don’t wait. Espon'ially time and tide, they don’t wall. Time and tide, that is. They don’t wait for anyone. ll: >|= 1;: Here’s the place for a, joke. Funny slug thwl is. . . . Humor . . . I'Itl . . . Norkus: “At last 'l’vo passed Math 10!" The estly?” Norlms: “Don’t be so darned in‘ qulsltive.” Inevitable Sucker : “Hon- 12‘ 3!: 1% You don’t have to laugh, I’m not a professor. (That's what is known as a feeble attempt to save the gag. You never can tell, it takes so little to amuse an engineer.) To heel: with the expense! Give the canary another seed. 1? =ll ’l: The trouble with the honor sys~ tern in this school is that the profs have all the honor and we have all the system. ll: ll: 3!: It’s 1:. little difficult to ii‘iaintain continuity harm! just happened to be [coking lhrmmh a, humorous magazine when the gags name to me out of a clear sky (With modest lowering of the head; “Aw shim/cs, lwarn’l nulh'in' ma’um.”) “Porter, fifty cents fur another pitcher of ice water." "Sorry, sub, but if I takes any mo' ice dud: corpse in the baggage czar ain’t (going to keep." '9‘ 1]: Anal, to and up in a blaze of glory (Phi-01.80 no. 234 cannery shelf AZ—S) —-lhe yraulest contribution chemistry has made to the world, according to the belmighted souls in the other cle- parlments, 1'44 blondas. {Vi-7273* )F ii: ll? This is an authentic honest-to-god contrib, and 8.3 such, should be treat— ed with care, nay, even unto rever— once. of the first lecture is "Human Relations." Graduates, we believe, look too much to immedi- ' ate material benefits for their four years of toil. Too often. they forget how little they really know —expecting their employer to purchase their brains and what little they didn't forget. By this time, they must have realized that they have only renumeration for their tireless efforts except the lscratched the surface in most of their work. What satisfaction they gain in knowing that the concerts , is the answer? Graduate work may serve to make they give are the best they are capable of render- lthe graduate of more value to an employer. Armour ing and that the tedious hours spent in practice l men have not in the past done very much graduate have been worth while. . . . The spirit, then, behind . l lwork. it may prove of value. Oh palm, (leow pupa, some out of the froth. The house is on fire. with yam- bawth. 0h. daughter, d‘wr daughter, that will I not; I’m lllfly’ll’l” in have ’til the water gals h . ”t LOU Come, cease Tuesday, February 22, V938 lStarvlng Actor Saved. by Quiz-balm; lllll llllly Reveals Astounding Facts Dem- Sally, “Bread! Bread! Give me bread,” an ‘ actor wonce cryod, and the curtain came down with a roll. Ah, me. We], Sally, hear I are bak zigin. I yam sow sorry I don”t. rite soon- ner, but I hav ben buzy. And how? Exams and wat knot. I feal so low 1 cud walke under a rug with a top hat an not even make a ripple in it. I were sitting in the libary, the other day, peecel'ul like, wen awl 01‘ a sudden I herd a stewdent eawl out around the corner 01" it to anuther in menacing tones—Quote I WANT YOUR LIFE! DO YOU HEER ME, GIVE ME YOUR LIFE” Withc coald slivvers running up and down my belt, I dashed around the corner, my axe in hand just as the other guy sod—quote, okay okay, but you’ll hav too giv me your Sati‘rdey Evening Post. Unquote. Want Is Nowledge? Hefour the exams I heard a prof. saye to stew~denta= “Study! New!» edge do not filter into your bed by grouper—natural power.” That’s a g'ud slogan; but Will; pussles me. ' 1" m DO we get nowledge? I hav ben unsuccessful] in finding owt. Yew no, Sully, I heard a. cute little poem the other (laye. It seems that Joshua Brush, a traveling man who sailed the briny mayne, was Mr. Brush in England, and Senor Brush in Spain. The Freshman cawled him Monsieur Brush but the Germans was his bone, for they awlways cawled him Herr Brush. Which filled his soul withe payne. Unquuto. Its. gut] wonce in a wile, to brush up on the old wones. Hav Gud Appedito Wel, I hav solved my eating prob» lem (I hav u. god appedite). Mia food buget is 50 a daye, starting tomorrow. I eat a 5 sent yeast cake in the morn- ing. At noon 1 drinke too quartz of water, and sit in a warm spot at nite. Boy, wil I bea filled upl I am now a novelist. Yep. Stoop— brain Bliss, conosieur of pronounding of the fine:- arts, a verbal battleshipe. My book, wich I wil tel yew in in‘ s‘tallments as l rite it, is cawledm Quote—Skool life in Gulch—Kreek val- ley, or “yew only die wonce, Un- quote. It opem at midnite in the garden of beutiful Jullierta McJuice, located in Gulch-Kreek valleynNew Wyoming. Owr hero C. E. Orfy l stiltweyf, is playing: an oboe: an il- woorl wind that nobody ever blous good. Jullietta, the fare, the sweet (her old man raises sugar—or cain any; how), is on the ranch howae bulconei. She, bein’ the county skool teacher, cawls owl. to Orfy—“my sweet, wat tyme is it?“ Orly ansers: It is ex- aclley midnite, I can tel by the sun- dial in the garden." ”Silly,” she waifs owt, “how culd yew, yew dum duck?!” “Eazy, he replies, “I hav a flushiite.” Wel that is as far as I hav went. Must; klosc. I’ll think of yew much. As won girl sod too another—quote, “Do yew find men trying?”, the other replyed: “Yes, dear. But yew mustn’t let them," unquote. Yures, Scoophrain Bliss. Nothing; has happened so far to keep me from this column, so here I am again with the latest (‘2) stuff of last week. The most important thing; is the arrival of Mr. Mall after his honey- moouing in Vermont. Next in importance was the Sec— ond Medal Mention that Parks received in the Class “A” judgment and was told what. is not supposed to be done (01- rather what is). Razzing by fel- low seniors. Pitivin, Kliphardt, and Schmnlrz received Mention Com- mendeds. By the way, it was a no- sock judgment. Freehmon are in a guandry as to how to acquaint themselves with the gels in the art school so as to get dates for the Mad-Hatter’s Ball. You tell them how Swanson. Mllwln wants to know what Erick- son did with lho‘ potatoes that came with, that suit of his. Sophs mica notice: Hereafter, please refrain from creating busting figures on our recently decorated walls. Wllh sophomores and juniors how— ing a chm‘elle coming soon, and the need of fl good clef/align, I leave here. ’Tll next. ROS-ART. I DON'T KNOW H-M-M-M. I THINK ' I KNOW WHAT AlLS YOUR TONGUE. By Bob Juflee Nationalism in the Arts EVERY SO OFTEN one hears the «comment that this or that artist; paints in a style borrowed from an-l other country, and therefore is al renegade and is not intellectually honest; or, if the person happens to be an author, his book is judged by self-styled critics as being quite un- like his country's accepted form and therefore is “hardly an honest treat. ment, although well written.” To car- ry the point further, we find even the critics throwing harpoons into eacbi other because their criticisms sound too much like those written by critics of other countries. John Jay Chap—l man, an esteemed “American literary. critic," once remarked that Henry James, another American critic, wrote l criticism which was too much like that of the English. l NATIONALISM, IT SEEMS, has permeated into almost every existant type of activity from lhe arts to politics, from. athletics to personal mannerisms. Examples of these “nationalistic at— titudes" are everywhere. Thomas Craven, in his “Modern Art,” at- tacks American artists who journey Why, he laments, can’t they stay in America and paint as Americans should—why don’t they let their typi‘ cally American style develop. IT HAS BEEN said that Ameri~ cans are energetic, vulgar people. Britishers are stolid and unemotinnal, Frenchmen are vivacious and talka- tive, and so on down the line. From whence came these smug generaliza» tions‘! Is there any truth or fact in them? Is it true that there are defi— nite mental and physical characteris- tics which can be identified with each country, and that the critics are right in maintaining that each country should have its own trademark to identify its product whether it be a symphony or a washing machine? The question of nationalism vs. cosmopolitanism resolves itself into factors of considerably more import than a “end in literary criticism. Wars are waged, battles are won and lost because of this concept. IT IS EVIDENT that there is such a. phenomenon as nationalism being talked about, advocated, written about, painted, composed, and thought. But—actually are the people of a na- tion all alike in their type and gen— eral behavior by reason of being born of parents belonging to that. nation? 01' are the people of one nation all alike by reason of being bred in the culture of that particular nation? 0r, finally, are the people of one nation heterogeneous, corresponding to no general type? The answer is difficult. To the first, it is emphatically no, 'to Paris and return as French artistsq but the second and third are both \ l l l l probably right in part. At birth We are all on a common ground whether white, black, brown, red, or yellow; whether born in a backwoods cabin or Buckingham Pal~ ace. This fact is undisputed by so- ciologists the world over. If this is true, whatever differences there are in racial or national stocks must nec— essarily come about from the environ- ment. in which the person is born. HOW GREAT AN influence en“ vironment has in determining an in- dividual’s type Is difficult to say. It is true, of course, that people of vari- ous countries do differ in many re- spects; basically, however, the people of all countries are alike as far as mentality is concerned. 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