Vol. XXl. No. 6. , Ticketo on Sale for Dahlia Night; Set for March 30 Lake Shore A. C. Site of Second Banquet Tickets are now on sale for Armour Tech’s second annual Dad’s Night. Tickets may be secured from any member of the A.T.S.A. or student representatives. The affair will be held in the Mediterranean Room of the Lake Shore Athletic Club on the eve- ning of March 30. The banquet will begin at 6:30 p.m. with an informal get—together. A roast beef dinner will be served at 7 o’clock. A series of short talks with John J. Schommer as master of core- monies will follow the dinner. Acting president ‘H‘cald will be one of the speakers. Final plans for further en- tertainment havo not been completed, as yet. The evening will be climaxed by a smoker. The principal purpose of the evening is to furnish a suit— able meeting ground for faculty members and students with their dads. Tickets for the banquet are priced at $1.50 per person. Arranged by A. T. S. A. All arrangements for the banquet are being made by the A.T.S.A. The present form of the Armour Tech Student Association is an outgrowth of the old Armour Tech Athletic As— sociation of a few years ago. This change was brought about by the in- creased demand for some governing body which would supervise not only the athletic efforts of- the students, but other extra-curricular activities as well. The governing board consisting: of a president, first and second vice—presi— dents, secretary, treasurer, class rep- resentatives, and five faculty advisers meets at slated intervals to plan such events as the Armour Relays, the Father and Sons’ Banquet, the Ath- letic Banquet, and Open House, and to administrate ideas which tend to make student life at Armour more complete. Pass on All Awards The A.T.S.A. board also passes on all athletic awards received for par- ticipation in interclass and intercol- legiate competition, and serves as a final court of appeals for disputes in intramural sports” Finally, the A.T.S.A. board esti— mates the amount of financial sup» port needed by each club. team or or- ganization on the campus and allots to each eligible group, a portion of the fund collected from each student at Armour as the student activity fee. This board forms a medium through which the differences between the stu- dent body and the Institute can be ironed out and closer relations estab- lished. Glee Club to Be on WES Tonight at 7 P. M. Armour’s Glee Club, under the di- rection of Mr. Erickson, will be heard tonight at 7 pm. over station WLS on a complete half hour radio program. A number of the club’s most popular selections will be pre- sented on the program. The broad- cast may be presented over a nation- wide NBC hookup, it was promised by officials of the station. A musical program will be pre sented by the glee club Thursday, April ‘7, at the Oak Avenue school in La Grange at eight o’clock. The program, which is being promoted by one of Armour Tech’s well known instructors, Mr. J. F. Mangold, will be given for the OalcOgden Parenta Teachers Association. A great deal of publicity has been given the con« cert and a large attendance is ex— pected. After the concert the glee club members are looking forward to the refreshments prepared in the PTA. style. Lindblom high school was the scene of a concert given by the com- Armour institute of Technology, Chicago, liberties '0 dietary. Fresh Plum Dance for April 22 at Lake Shore Athletic Club Amid much debate and argumenta- tion, final plans for the freshman dance are being made. Most of the major issues, such as place, date, price of bid, etc., have already been decided upon. The dance will he held on Fri- day, April 22 at the Lake Shore Ath~ letic Club. The music will be furnish» ed by Charlie Straight and his or— chestra, who will be assisted by Judy Talbot, vocalist. Bids will be one dollar and fifty cents and although the type of bid to be used has not yet been decided upon several are being contemplated by the committee. The committee is headed by H. N. Leave. Sales Personnel Director Will Lecture to Seniors Today .__\____ Mr. M. A. Smith will be introduced to the senior class today at 1:10 in Science Hall as the next speaker on the present employment series. Being director of sales personnel of the U. S. Gypsum (30., Mr. Smith will lecture to the seniors on obtaining em- ployment. The senior class lecture committee in cooperation with the personnel office has made it possible to distrib- ute a complimentary booklet titled, “Preparations for Employment" and written by Howard Davis. of the New York Telephone Co. This booklet will only be distributed to graduating seniors. Chuck Fenskc finishes classic mile, Donn Frary places winning shot, runners at Saturday’s Relay Games. Discover Error in Student Averages; Rice in First Ten A report received from the Regis~ trar’s Ofi'ice revealed a few mistakes in the junior scholarship ratings. Norman Rice with an average of 2.66 and Kovacik with a rating of 2.57 should have been listed among the highest ten. V Errors were discovered in the Pi Tau Sigma and Chi Epsilon lists and the averages of these fraternities have been raised slightly. A.l.Ch.E. to Hear Let—fibre on Toxicology of Solvents Armour Tech’s student branch of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers has been fortunate in se— curing the services of Dr. Clarence W. Muehlbcrger, chief coroner’s toxico- logist of Cook County, and alumnus of Armour, as lecturer for their next meeting on Friday, March 25, at 10 :30 in the Physics Lecture Room. His subject will be “Toxicology of Indus- trial Solvents.” After receiving his 13.8. in Chemical Engineering at Armour in 1920, Dr. Muehlberger obtained his MS. and Ph.D. degrees at the University of Wisconsin, and was a. member of the plete musical organization last Fri- day morning. Because of the size of the Lindblom student body, it was necessary to present the concert in two parts. The huge auditorium with its double balconies was packed for both programs by students and faculty members. faculty at that institution until 1930. He was also state toxicologist of Wis» cousin for seven years. In 1930 Dr. Muehlberger became assistant direc— tor of the Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory and assistant professor of toxicology and pharmacology, a posi- tion which he still holds. Junior Close to Elect Marshals This Week Junior Week, traditional at Ar» mour since its origin, has been re— duced from a five day to a three day period starting on Wednesday, May 11. This was announced last Thurs— day noon at the junior class meeting held in the freshman drafting room. The election of assistant Junior Marshals is to be conducted by the individual departments before March 24. The men in charge of the elec- tion are: E. C. Mitchel, M.E.', B. C. Anderson, F.1’.E.; T. Collier, C.E.; W. E. Kruse, Ch.E.; R. Kotal, E.E'.; and an architect who will be chosen later. The head marshal was to be elected from the assistant marshals by the entire class. The preliminary election of head marshal is scheduled for Wednesday, March 30, with a run-off election the next day. Class officers will be ineligible for elec- tion as Junior Marshals. The Junior Formal, it was an~ pounced, lost $175, leaving $606 in the class treasury. Of this, the class will need $100 for the Cycle and about $200 for Junior Week. It will be the problem 01' the Jun— ior Marshals to crowd the events which formerly occupied a week into three days. Open House will, as formerly, be conducted on the first night. The usual Friday night dance will be held on Saturday night in order to get the concert and the A.T. S.A. banquet on the other evenings. Sphinx Pledges Eight Men Sphinx, the honorary literary so- ciety, pledged eight students at their meeting in the Tau Beta Pi rooms last Friday. The pledged men are M. Ephraim, news editr,.R. .laifee, managing editor, C. Reh, desk editor, H. Coylc, sports editor and T. Clark, assistant sports editor Besides these, H, Stchman and B. Bernstrom of the Cycle stall and S. Finnegan of the Armour Engineer were also pledged. while Mold and Flat: head half-mile (Photo by Harkcr and Raymond) Mexican Building Problems Sulbliect of W.S.E. Meeting Mexico’s present construction prob— lems will be the theme of the speaker at the next W.S.E. meeting. Mr. Cummings, of the Dow Construction Co., will address the meeting: next Friday at 10:30 in "B” Mission. Mr. Cummings recently returned from Mexico. He brought with him a series of pictures taken there with which he intends to illustrate his talk. These slides, which have al- ready been shown at M.I.T. and Pur- due, will enuhle the listeners to pic- ture the situations being described, more vividly. Everything but Wines in Lost and Found Bureau Judging from the number of re- quests for misplaced articles, many Armour students are apparently un- aware of the proper place to inquire for them. A search through the lost and found department in the Regi- strar’s Office has revealed textbooks, scarfs, gloves, pens and pencils. Since many students have sought their possessions in the lunch room, book store and cloak room; it is suggested that they try the Registrar’s Office first. Students are also urged, to bring found articles into the Reg- istrar’s office immediately. of the News. ‘ ii rails Bingham, Covington Win Dash, 4.40 Events . for Armour Paced by the victories of Bingham and Covington, Armour scored 18 ‘ 1/3 points to gain fourth place in the college division. This represents the largest number of points made by any team running for A.I.T. in tho Relays since 193i as well as the lofticst position. Armour’s first points were scored in the seventy yard dash. Here Alex Bingham, who qualified second by inches in the fastest heat of the of- ternoon and won his evening heat, pulled an upset when he broke the tape two feet ahead of the favorite, Rikli of North Central. Irlis time of :07.3 is the fastest a Techawk has ever traveled over this distance. After the roar of the crowd had died down, Binfrham was introduced to the spectators by Ted Cavity as the first Armour man to ever win on individual track event in the Armour Relays. It was only the order of events that kept Earl Covington from hav- ing this honor for exactly 75 min- utes after Bingham had crossed the finish line, Armour-’s new crack quar~ ter—miler got off to a fast start and paced the field home in the éollcee 440. In the field events, Armour took an additional three and third points when Elwood vaulted twelve feet to gain a three way tie for first" place among the college men. Platz was second in the 880 and chh’s relay team was fourth in that event. The Tech team departed holding: the best score since 1931 when Ar— mour ran up 34 points for a fourth, after having won the meet in ’30 with (“M points. Incidentaly whilc Bingham is credited with being the first Armour man to gain an individ~ ua] track victory, it was back in 1930 that Don Paul won Armour's first individual field event when he heav» ed the shot 46 foot 9 inches for first place. Variety officetures . g .. r in’ Armour Engineer Eminent Men in Engineering Field Contribute Articles A variety of features, all of unusual interest to engineers and engineering students, are included in the third number, for the current year, of the “Armour Engineer and Alumnus,” due to appear shortly. Written by men who are eminently placed in their respective ficlds, these articles are certain to offer a wide appeal to the twenty—five thousand alumni and and student readers of the Armour Engineer. The major contributions are: 1. ”Trans-Oceanic Flying Boats’L— by Joel M. Jacobson, C.E., ’29, staff engineer of the Glenn L. Martin Com- pany, Baltimore. 2. “Radio in Domestic Air Trans~ port” by H. M. I-Iucke, Chief com- munications engineer for United Air Transport Corporation. 3. “Bituminous Coal" by Stuyvesant Peabody, Armour Institute trustee, and president of the Peabody Coal Company. 4. “Commercial Applications of Radio" by Llyod L. Coll, chief engi— neer, of General Electric X-Ray Corporation. 5. “Soot”~by Robert I. Wishnick, president of Continental Carbon Com- pany, Armour alumnus and active in the promotion of the research foundation. 6. “Developing a Man for the Job" ——by Robert N. McMurray, executive secretary of the Psychological Corpo- ration in Chicago. In addition to these main features. other items of interest include “Alumni Notes"; an article on the new boiler being installed; and a dis cussion of the cooperative course in mechanical engineering: offered at Armour. North. Central Gathers 4.3 1-3 for College Trophy Cup lLLlNOlS mass nonoas Chuck Fenskc ran the fastest mile ever run in this country on a clay track and four other meet records fell last Saturday night when the Tenth Annual Armour Teck Relays were staged in the University of Chicago fieldhousc. The fleet Wis] consin nicer covered the distance in 11:08.9. Wisconsin sot three out of the five new records through the. work of I-‘cnskc. Sam Smith in the high hurdles and Milt Parlway in the pole vault. Also a feature of the evening was the fourth consecutive winningr of the high jump event by Charles Bechel of Northern Illinois State Teachers. He set a new meet record of. 6 feet 6 inches for his annual victory in that event. North Central Well-Balanced North Central of Nupci-villc clear— ly demonstrated that she had the most well-balanced team in the col- lege division by winning the college trophy in a romp with 43 1/3 points, twenty more than her closest rival, Wayne. Armour also made a spec- tacular showing with two first places and other scorings for an ‘18 1/3 fourth place in the meet. Wayne, last year’s winner, placed second with 23 points, while Michi- gan State Normal stole third place with 2] points. Illinois took the university high point honors (unoffi- cial) with 341/2. For the sole purpose of allowing; Fonskc to crack 4:10, the special mile event with university entries opened the meet. Chuck Fenske, trailing his teammate, Mehl, for the first half mile, showed a remarkably fast pace in the second four laps, and was able to break the tape and the Relay record in 4208.9. The race was the fastest indoor mile ever run in Chicago and equaled Cunning- ham’s time in the outdoor event. The former mark of 11:14.1 for the mile in tho Armour Relays had been held by Brocksmith of Indiana since 1932. Smith Ties American Record In the 70 yard high hurdles, Sam Smith of Wisconsin showed the rest of his competitors his heels in break- ing the old mark of .:08.7 held by (Continued on page 5) Canon Club Sponsors [informal Dance Apr. 1 With the end of the winter term in sight, the Co-op Club is sparing no effort to make the Co-op Informal a big success. By far the most ambiti- ous project the co-ops have undertak» en, the dance promises to do much to develop sociability between the co-ops and the students of other courses. Many co-ops of the “B” group are ex- pected to attend, and the alternates will have a fine opportunity to get acquainted with each other. Members of the social committee, headed by Bill Anthony, are John Alstromcr, Edward Mock, and Keir neth Olson. These men have lent able assistance, and have given untn‘ingly of their time and effort to complete the dance arrangements. A grand evening of dancing- is promised to those who attend. The grand ballroom of the Graemere Hotel will provide plenty of room for all. and the excellent floor p.0vidcs an ideal surface for dancing. A spacious lounge is accessnhle for any who may wish to “sit out" occasionally. Those who have not heard Mickey Prindl‘s orchestra arc in for a pleas— ant surprise. Curly Vand has been heard frequently with Harold Stoke‘s programs over ‘WGN, and will share the solo numbers with Miss Renee Lee. Bids for this event may be obtained from Co-op Club members. They are also uVuilable in Mr. Lea. ’s office or the Office of the Registrar