ARMOUR TECH NEWS»

Tuesday, February 28. l939

 

 

 

 

 

 

BY EUGENE WORCESTER

hos Angeles, Cal. (Special) Feb.
ZSWA China Clipper en route to
Hawaii reported at 11:00 a. m. Paci.
i'lc time, that for an area of at least
ten square miles, and about 500 miles
east of Honolulu, the sea was ex-

periencing an unusually vigorous
imitation, although no wind was
blowing. Evidently some influence

of a subterranean nature was effect—
ine.‘ it. Shoals and reefs were in
(evidence in the sector which is chart~
ed as 2000 leagues deep.

Seattle, Wash. (A.T.N.S.) Feb. 29
”The tanker “Ramona" sailing for
Burma grounded early this
morning,r on reefs reported at 500
miles due cast of Hawaii. The reefs
were rapidly rising, and the ships
hull was already high and dry.
Sounded in 1921, this area of the
ocean is recorded as 11,800 feet deep,
so that evidently some new land is
rising due to a volcanic movement.
The seismograph here recorded a
violent east Pacific shock two days
ago, this probably being indicative
of the unusual occurrence.

Washington, D. C. (P. A.) Feb. 29
——The U. :5. government dispatched
two destroyers to the area of erup.
tion to investigate and if possible
substantiate the reports of a new-
ly rising island.

Toyko (P. U.) Mar. lA—The Jap-
anese imperial navy withdrew five
cruisers from llong Kong area last
evening, and under full steam they
sailed east. It is rumored they are
heading for the new island, named
Falkland, after Capt. Folk of the
Clipper ship who first saw the land.|

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The ships flying between Hawaiil
and mainland report that a full,
island, muddy, but firm is now fullyl
risen from the ocean.

Berlin (Special) Mar. 1—wThc Ger—
man government sent a fleet of ten
warships to the Pacific ocean to cum-
plcte a study of Pacific marine life,l
it was reportcll lrom the foreign oil.
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Tibbol’s Attends

Aurora dongueti

Sponsoring the first banquet of its
kind in this area, the Aurora—Armour
Co-op club held a dinner on Monday,
Feb. 21, at the. Silver Tea Pot in
Aurora. The purpose of the ban-
quet was to bring industrial execu-
tives, educators, and eo-op students
together and present to these men a
complete picture of the operation of
the co-op course at Armour Institute. 1

Bob Schmidt, co-op student and,
co-prcsident of the club, acted asl
chairman and introduced the toast‘.
master, Ben Kallcvik, another stu»,1
dent. The toastmastcr then intro—l
durcd the first speaker, Mr. L. J.
Lease, co»ordinator of the mom
course at Armour. Mr. Lease began 1
his speech by presenting the historyl
of the co—op movement and its intro« .
duction at Armour. He thEn ex—i
plained how students are chosen and ‘
enrolled in the course, how the stu-,
dents compare with the regular day—1
school students in grades, and the:
general attitude of the cesop students
in regard to this type of instruction. ‘

Prof. P. c. Huntly, head of the}
Mechanical Engineering: department,
explained the purpose of each group
of subjects given in the eo~op course
and also the similarity of this course
and the four-year mechanical engi:
neering course. Following:~ this, Dean ‘
C. A. Tibbals elaborated on the school ‘
in general, comparingr various de—
partments of the institution in size,.
grade average, etc. He pointed outl
that the co-ops are somewhat isolat-
ed from the regular students be-
cause of the change in work and
school schedule, but he also urged
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curricular activities duringr their.
school periods. i
Presenting the industrial View,

General Thomas Hammond, presiu
dent of The Whiting Corporation, re- ‘.
lated some of the difficulties encoun-i
tcred in placing co-op students. The ‘
poor conditions in industry in the}
past few years, he said. made it ex-‘
tremely difficult to find jobs for
prospective students, but in spite of
these unavorable conditions, the co-
op course has grown steadily since its
inauguration at Armour. ‘

Following his address, a general
discussion was led by Mr. C. I. Carl-
son, head of the Industrial Arts dc'i

KONG (Sl’fl'lflll Mar. Zs—MUSSOllnl ipartment at East Aurora High School.

announced tonight in a speech to his
cabinet that Italy would assume
ownership of the newly created Falk-
land, in as much as Italy was notl
represented in the Pacific. Mussolini:
renamed the island “Benito“ after
himself.

 

London (F. N. S.) Mar. 2~Mr.
Chamberlain. convinced that there is
an island in the Pacific, has announc»l
ed that Britain will take over its own-
ership for the present until it is nec»
cssal y to give it away.

Wash, D. C. (P. A.) Mar. 3—Pres.,
Roosevelt predicted a crisis in the}
Pacific unless a conference might be
called to settle the question of the
ownership of Falkland. Belonging to:
the United States, as it was discov-l
ered by an American, Roosevelt sug‘l
gested an immediate Withdrawal of

 

 

all other powers. Secretary Hull
stated that Falkland falls within the,
jurisdiction of the Monroe doctrinal,
and would make a forty ninth statedV

Falkland, Pacific Ocean, Mar. 4—9,
H. M. S. Chester reported that a Jan-l,
anese cruiser fired on it tonight as iti
passed it on the port bow, The Jap—l
anese captain explained it was a purel

accident, as his gunners were shoot-l ture of cheese. Special emphasis will i Oil by
ing whales and had mistaken theibe placed on the bacteriology andlBusse.

British man 0' war for a sperm whale.

No further explanation has beentKral't is the inventor of a pastsuriz~i<liesel powered and has a pumping

made. i

Washington, I). (3., Mar. 5~Pres.i
Roosevelt succeeded in calling a meet‘l
ing of the powers at the White Housei

Washington, D. C. (Very Special) l
Mar. 12~»The Washington conferencc‘
came to a dramatic close today wheni
it was unanimously decided to des-
troy Falkland, as no agreement to
its ownership could be reached. Brit-l,
ain proposed giving it to Hitler, and
the Philippines to Italy, to maintain
a balance of power. U. S. objected,
and by some very astute manipula~
tion, Hull succeeded in passing the,
Destruction Treaty whereby thel
island will be dug up and dumped1
back into the sea. The cost of de~
straying it will be borne by each gov-
ernment.

The conference
highly succ
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The executives were requested to ask i
the speakers any questions they wish~
ed regarding the course, and respond~ .
ed with many questions. ‘

. ol‘ the time spent at the fire house is

Harrington Speaks to
Members or Theta Xi

 

Philip Harrington, ISLE—‘07, now
city commissioner of subways, was
the guest speaker at the dinner and
smoker held by Theta Xi in the Stu~
dent Union, Wednesday, February
22. The subject of the talk was the
new State Street subway. Mr. Har—
rington in his talk discussed the cost
involved and the problems to be
solved in the construction of 6.4
miles of tunnel through the blue Chi—
cage clay. The contracts for the sub«
way have been let for the construc—
tion of one section of the tube at
a time.

The Alpha Gamma chapter of
’ hcta Xi was the host for the eve—
ning. Theta Xi was the only social
fraternity organized during the Civil
War. The fraternity originally lim-
ited its membership to those major-
ing in the sciences. This restriction
was made because the early chapters
were started in technical schools. A
vote taken in 1932 caused the lim-
itation to be removed. The Armour
chapter was started in 1032.

Other guests included President
Henry Townley Heald, Col. Henry
Waite, and Henry Brinkerhot’f of
the P.W.A. subway commission.

detention Chintz
Addresses WW3

Battalion Chief John Redmond of
the Chicago Fire Department present»
ed a stimulating talk on the “Func-
tions of a Fire Department," to the.
FREE. last Frid'lr. l

 

A fire department’s activity is notl
at all confined to fighting.r fires. Much 1
taken up by drills and cleaning of,
equipment. The routine of the week 1
usually runs as follows: Wednesdaysi
are brass days. that is, the metal-
ware in the firehouse and trucks is}
polished; Saturday, scrub day; andi
every other day except Sunday and
holidays is: drill day. The drill days:
are taken up in practice in the use of}
the pieces of apparatus of the depart— ‘
ment. Speed is the main factor ini
these drills. 1

Chicago has the reputation of pos-
sessing the fastest fire alarm system 1
in the world. The principal reasonl
for this is the highly perfectel tale—i
phone and telegraph system that is‘
installed in the stations. ,

Each station has 16 wires leadingi
to it, the network connecting the en-l

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vtirc city and the fireboxes in eachi

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ENGiNEER— ‘
(Continued from page one) i
photos are taken of every page of the;
material to be filed. A projection i
machine used to focus pictures
on a scrson when they are to be read. ‘
The chief advantages are the tret l
lnendous number of publications which i
may be stored in relatively small i
space and their long life. This . ‘
tom, however, is quite expensive. l

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mable nature of the film. Efficient‘
projaction machines are an addi-l
tional, and not inconsiderable CX-i
nense. For these reasons, the use‘
of “Photo-records"
confined to th
l_v endowed l: r

Explain Cheese Pasteurizalion 1

James Leni< Kraft of the Kraftl
Phenix Corporation will present ani
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engineering: of cheese making. Mini,
intr proc . as applied to the cheesei
industry. Bacteria play an indispens-l
able part in the making of cheeses.
Thsil- secretion of enzymes serves to;
change. the chemical structure of the}
cheese and give it its characteristic,
flavor. The bateria are cultivated very ,
carefully, different bacteria beingl

 

[used to instill the various flavors. i article will deal with the architecture

Bacterial cultures are carefully pro-l
tected by the manufacturers as they‘
are extremely valuable. Engineering
plays an important part in the design
and construction of vats, machines,
instruments to regulate temperature
of cheeses, and methods of acidifying
to aid curdling. Mr. Kraft will (la-i
scribe all this in detail. l

Armour Alumnus a Contributor 3

Of interest to architects will he an .
art xhy David Baker entitled “Ner
Architecture of Palestine." D a v i d i
Baker is an Armour grad, Arch ’38,l
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‘sentials of the telegraph and

district into om- unit. A two-way,
radio system is new beingr inst:allcrl.i

Before entering the service a mani
must go through a training period of
one month. During this time the cs—‘
the ;
workings of the various pieces of ap—i
paratus are explained. ,

It was pointed out by Chief Red-l
mond that ventilation is a necessityi
for the successful fighting of a fire.
This ventilation is accomplished by

 

for the firemen in the building. i

In reply to question by Pro»i
lessor Joseph B. Finnegan, Chief
Redmond gave a vivid description of

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has been largely , the Stock Yards fire of May 19, 1934. i trave
1' At the climax of the fin», 120 cm , trays the natural beauty of American
. {zines and 2,700 men were in action. i National Parks and Monuments. Otherl

At one time the engines were pump-
ing a total of 100,000 gallons of wa- ,
ter per minute on the fire.

The land forces are now augment-i
the modern tire boat, Fred

This boat, replacing the
powered Grahme-Stgwart, is .
capacity of 12,000 gallons per min-1

 

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ute. Equipment includes sleeping v,
quarters for an emergency crew, i
which is on board at all time. i

 

of building construction has been re-
quired. Most of the buildings are of
entirely new and modern design. This

and construction of these new pro-
jects.

Last but not least will be “The
Story of Maple Sugar" by E. M. Root,
a lecturer at the State University of
Vermont and county agent of the
farm bureau. The complete process,
from tapping of the trees and boiling
of the sap to the completion of the
finished project, will be described.

Professor Walter Hendricks has
been assisted on this issue by several
new staff members. They are Stephen
P. Finnegan and John J. Ratto, class
of 1939; Sidney A. Keenan and Eu-l,

 

the next one new not due until May, two coveted Beaux Arts prizes. Be— [relic J. Kalnin, class of 1940; Edwinl

due to the extensive dredging opera~
tions necessary.

cause of the greatly increased emigrm 1,

L. Hass, Lionel Naum, and Henry E.

tion of Jews to Palestine, a great deal l “795501. class 01" 1941-

‘ing in Science Hall.

. jects of interest to the entire group.

i arrangements

Student Speaker 1
Series begun by ‘
bernqrd @swuld

“Modern Boilers" was the subject
of Bernard F. Oswald, the student
speaker, who appeared before the
A.S.M.E. meeting last Friday morn-

The rapid strides that have been
made in boiler construction, manu-
facture, and performance during the
period between 1880 and 1930 were
taken into account. Because of the
decline in industrial expansion, no
major developments were made from
1930 to this date. Slides were shown
that pictorially and graphically
illustrated the details of each boiler
model produced by the Combustion
Engineering Company.

Particular attention was directed
to the engineering features incor<
porated into a large unit manufact-
ured for the Consolidated Edison
Company of New York, this unit be—
ing' capable of producing: 1,270,000
lbs of steam per hour. Two machines,
a giant forming mill, capable of roll~
ing three inch steel plate into cylin-
drical form without any difficulty,
and an X-ray machine revealing the
condition of the grain structure of
the metal about welded seams, were
shown in pictures and discussed by
the speaker.

At the conclusion of Oswald’s ad-
dress Harry Soukop, vice. president,
announced that live members had ex-
pressed a desire. to speak before the
society at some future date. on sub-

 

Student speakers are introduced in-
stead of having; eminent engineers
address the society in order to aid
in developing: student public speaking
ability. This is in anticipation of
the forthcoming convention of stu-
dent branches to be held in Chicago
at Lewis Institute on April 17th and
18th, where prizes are awarded for
the best paper presented.

“During the past two years, Ar-‘
mou r has won second place each time,"
said Prof. Nachman, “and adequate
preparation is necessary to acquaint
with the difficulties
countered when speaking before a1
large group,"

The symposium on “Steam Power”
proposed by Prof. Nachman will be
postponed until April, in order that
upper classmen may devote their timel
to preparation for the convention}

Max Ephraim suggested that the:
graduating members of the societyl
use the facilities of the Chicago see-‘4

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tion of the A.S.M.E. employment scr~
vice, through which many desirable
positions are available.

A. l. 63h. E. To Hold Smoker l
in Union on March lSrh:

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March 15th has been set as the date l
for the annual smoker of the A. L}
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Ch. E. This year the genial event.

ismred-mmg mu“ 1),. made of (:0n]_ l “hack drafting" or opening holes into ‘ will be held in the pleasing atmos-
pletely fireproof material as required the building: to force out the heated phcre 01' the Student Union, Wllh the
by law because of the highly inflam~ air and provide working conditionslflll l‘OPUlZU‘ Bernard “Sonny" VVOlF-S’

 

man as the guest speaker.

The United States Government, ini

the furtherance of the “Sec America

First” campaign, will provide a

locale movie which vividly por-l
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highlights of the program planned by .
a competent; committee in charge ot‘
include amusements
that are capable of wringing chuckles l
from even the most hardened bunchl
of “Chemicals”; and last, but not
least, Mrs. Thompson has promised
the most delicious of refreshments.
The price of admission has not been
decided, but officers are confident that i
it will not exceed forty cents. i

CONCER'l'~—— .
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bert Hansen who duned in several 1
Russian selections on a banjo and an ;
accordian. A double octctte composed i
of members of the glee club sang l
S‘weci and but) and it was both sweet, i
and low.
The program was brought to a close .
with the orchestra’s presentation ofi
Spanish Serenade by Herbert, and the '
glee club and orchestra singing and
playing: The Ranger's Song from Rio
Rim. 1,
As in the past pictures of the musi-
cal clubs were taken at the close of;
the program and while waiting for}
the photographers to get set up, both i
glee club and orchestra swung into an i
impromtu jam session, thereby giving i
those members of the audience who
remained two concerts for the pricei
of one. i

1 Dres, Geo. Bauman, and Harry Dryer.

icnt organization which was formed
‘ under the direction of Mr. H. P. Dut-

itegyistrelr Asks i
To See healers

Armour Institute’s scholastic wave
advances. Statistics just released.
from the registrar’s office show thatl
at present there are 1065 students)
registered in the various departments. l
Mechanical engineers lead with a total i
of 35].. Of these 150 are freshmen
and four are graduate students. The
Chemical engineering department is
next with a total of 291 students.
This department leads in graduate
students, having a total of sixteen.

Electrical, Civil, Architectural and
Fire Protection engineers follow in
the above order. There are 25

sophomores in the Civil department
and only 24 freshmen. This is the
only department in which there are
more sophomores than freshmen.

Next Juno, according to statistics,
143 students will graduate. Forty
two graduate students will also be
awarded degrees.

Many seniors have not as yet
checked their records. To avoid con-
fusion at a later date, Mr. Kelly sug-
gests that they see him immediately
and check their credits.

SAMTCommittees
Selected; Meet in
Science Mull Friday

Foothill and hill Monkey

Armour‘s newly formed chapter of
the Society for the Advancement of
Management will hold its next meet»
inc; on Friday, March 3, at 10:30 a.
m. in Science l-Iall. Members and
prospective members alike are cord-
ially invited to attend.

At the society‘s meeting last Wed-
ncsday the prom-um and inspection~
trip committees were elected. The pro.-
2ram committee eons.ts of lrvinl:
Footlik, chairman; Norman Rice, Jo-
seph Aberer, and Delano Wesscls.
Members of the inspection-trip com~
mittec are William Mackcy, chain
man; Warren Groundwater, William

The tecrinc‘ con'lmittee reported
its dot in to make, the vice-president
the chairman of the program conr
mittee. The chairmanship of the other
committees is- to be limited to ,i‘ln-
iors and seniors, although committee
membership is not to be otherwise re—
stricted. A reque . was given for ad—
ditional volunteers for comittee mem-
bers.

The Armour branch of the Society
for Advancement of Management con» i
3' ts of student members of the par-

 

 

   

 

ton in 1936. Members of the society
are entitled to its services, which in~
clude the Society Journal and all
other publications, admission to the
technical library, the employment
service admis. on ’to all meetings and
conferences which are held at Ire»
quznt intervals, and inspection trips.
On these trips the. student not only
views the plant operations, but is also
given a discussion of the management
problems with which the plant has

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been confronted. Several of these

.SJfllE. To be Formally
Adopted by Tech mails

Accordingr to present plans, the
Armour student branch of the Amer-
ican lnstltute of Civil Engineers will
be Formally instituted some time in
March. This will make possible the
reorganization of thc W.S.E. into a
general engineering society.

At the present time opinion is
divided on the exact form which the
future. WHSE. should have Almost
all those interested agree that it
should furnish a parent society which
could coordinate the activities ol' the
individual groups. On the question
of havinl,r freshmen and sophomores
as members of the society, opinion is
divided. In an effort to iron out these
(litl’icultics a committee of one junior
and one senior from each depart-
mental society has been appointed.
These men will meet soon and con-
sider arrangements for the future
W.S.E. at Armour.

 

A.l.l:h.E.--
(Continued from page one)

In regard to training of engineers,
Fried submitted the following data:
or 5,000 practicing engineers, 14 per
cent have taken graduate work, 75
per cent have their bachelor’s de-
grc l, 6 per cent have not completed
their college training, 4.3 per cent
have incomplete college work, 0.6
per cent have no college technical
work, and 0.1 per cent have no tech-
nical training.

01’ the graduating engineers, 47.5
per cent go into operational works,
35.4 per cent become connected with
designing and research problems, 5.8
per cent enter the teaching profes»
sion, 4.1. per cent receive general ad—
ministrative or personnel lnanage~
ment positions, 3.1 per cent become
employed by the sales department,
and 3.1 per cent are engaged in con—
struction work.

The upper 10 per cent of the wage
groups showed compensation above
8,000 dollars per year for chemical
and ceramic engineers, these remun-
erations ranging down to the civils,
whose upper 10 per cent received a
wage in excess of 6,100 dollars. The
average engineer begins at 1,500 dol~
lacs a year, at on age of 22. Ten
years later his industrial training has
been completed and he is earning
about 2,400 dollars a year. From
then on his rise is very rapid until
he hits his peak at 60 years of age.

During the period of 1929 to 1934,
only 33 per cent of the engineers
were not continuously employed.
About 16 per cent were unemployed
for the period of one year. However,
the. wane cuts ranged from 28 to 64
per cent. These cuts were for the
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trips will be planned by the student
chapter, and the first of these will
soon he announced.

All members of the society are in-
vited to the meetings ol’ the Chicago
chapter which occur on the third
Tuesday of each month. This summer
the Chicago group is sponsoring a.
national conference on personnel
management problems.

Included as national members of
the society are manufacturing: and
n-lsrcl'landisiner executive-c, industrial
engineers, investigators, and teachers
of management.

 

 

WlTHDUT ANY PREVIOUS SCHOOLJNG,

HERBERT
cultivate,

IlluYEAR OLD CHILD GENlUS.

PHYSICS, CHEMISYRY. MECHANICS
AND TRIGONOMETRY AT
SANTA ANA \lR. COLLEGE!
ALTHOUGH HE ALREADY
HAS PASSED THE ENTRANCE
EXAM TO THE CALlF. INSTITUTE
OF TECHNOLOGY, SULLlVAN
LA 5 TO ENTER OXFORD
UNIVERSITY lN ENGLAND.

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