PA GE TWO

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reassessment“ no
remorse cheeses

Having registered some 3,000
students, the Engineering Defense
Training Committee, healed by
Prof. J. I. Yellott, has completed
enrollment for various courses of-
fered under the engineering, sci-
ence, and management defense
training program. At present 40
different courses have been bro-
ken up into approximately 125
sections of from 20 to 50 persons
per section.

Since the beginning of the EDT
program last year, IIT has trained
a greater number of persons than
any other institutions in the na»
tion, with the exception of the
University of Pennsylvania. The
defense training operations in this
district are not confined to the
campuses of Armour and Lewis:
there are large classes operating
in Joliet and Waukegan as well as
on the premises of several of the
larger industries of the Chicago
area.

Within the next few months the
committee expects to launch a
huge safety program to train
about 2,000 men. This program
will be administered by the do»
tense training committee and
given under the joint sponsor-
ship of lilinois institute, the na»
tional committee for the concert
vation of manpower in defense in.
dustries, and the Greater Chicago
Safety Council.

 

 

Gamma There-m
(continued from page one)

Pinsky, business manager; and
Rocco chtefano, secretary.

Since its inception in 1939, Cam
ma Theta has proven itself a very
necessary and important honorary
fraternity. It awards recognition
to those prominent in the field of
dramatics. The prime functions of
this body are to select, supervise,
and sponsor the work of the play.
ers guild.

in addition to electing the above
officers. several important points
were cleared up. It was definitely
decided that there would be a
faculty director this year. For the
last two years, the directors have
been selected from the student
members themselves and their
work has been excellent.

However. the work is a bit too
strenuous for a student still striv-
ing to receive his diploma. Air
other important statement issued
regards the first production which
will be produced during the sec-
ond week of the new semester in
February.

The group will hold another
meeting this Wednesday at five

Capt. Modelin—

(continued irom page one)

nent parts of the a gas mask at
various points of assembly in ad-
dition to the completed product,
was a part of the OPM Small Busi-
ness Men’s Clinic at the Stevens
hotel last month.

Four Types Discussed

Captain Monell explained that
there are four types of masks in
use by the army at the present
time. They are: (1) “training,” is-
sued to selectees and recruits be-
cause of a rather sturdy construc-
tion; (2) “service,” issued to all
divisions which are being equip-
ped for field service; {3) ”dia.
phragm.” issued to men who must
give. omen, since it. is so con‘
structed that the intensity of the
voice is'scarcely diminished and
is clearly audible at the usual
speaking distances: (4) “optical,”
issued to men who must use opti-
cal instruments in line of duty.
The last type has provision for the
installation of specially ground
lenses and is used principally in
the navy.

Outstanding hectares

All the masks. with the excel).
tion or the optical type, are fitted
with plastic eye—pieces instead of
glass. causing a saving of several
dollars per mask by simplifying
construction. The masks are a re»
markable improvement over the
ones used in the World War in
that they have no inconvenient
nose clamps or mouth-insertion
breathing tubes.

The War Department feels that
these masks are the best in the
world at present because they are
the only ones containing soda lime
in addition to charcoal in the can‘
ulster. The soda lime tends to
maintain and increase the life of
the cannister by reactivuting the
charcoal.

load, inspection

Those gas masks are one of the
few complex products that under—
go a one hundred per cent inspec‘
lion. As a result of this close in«
speciion, which includes a reac
tion test under simulated field
conditions, every mask is certain
to have a lifespan of at least six
months under any probable field
conditions.

Captain hionell found llT quite
familiar. as he attended Lewis in-
stitute as a student and instructor
in mathematics and chemistry
from Will to 1938.

o'clock" for the purpose of select-
ing a play. it is hoped that a satis~
factory mystery—comedy might be
discovered, When the play is se-
lected, casting will begin imme-
diately. This will he a good thing
for potential thespians interested
in appearing before the footlights
to bear in mind.

TECHNOLOGY NEWS

TWO PLEDGED TO
SALAMANDER AT
F.P.E.S. MEEITlNG

 

Featuring a film in technicolor
presented by the Cordox Corp,
the REES. meeting, held on the
fourth floor of main, Friday, No-
vember 7, was received with much
enthusiasm.

Opening the meeting, Professor
Finnegan gave a short summary
of the requirements for admission
to Salamander, REE. honorary
society. Robert Creagan, president
of the society, presented pledge
pins to Robert Bechtolt, the only
member from the junior class, and
to Robert Kerney, senior.

Modern Equipment Shown

Richard Taylor, president of
F.P.E.S., introduced l—I. fill. Ryer-
son or“ the Cordox Corp. who pre—
sented the film on modern meth-
ods of fire extinguishing with car-
bon dioxide. The film contained
interesting data on the effective-
ness of extinguishing different
types of fires. Fires which can be
most effectively extinguished with
carbon dioxide are those of an oil
and electrical nature. Carbon diox-
ide, being heavier than air, does
not allow oxygen to reach the in-
flammable substance thus quenchw
ing the blaze. The film also show-
ed various field experiments car-
ried on in combating confiagru—
lions.

 

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(continued from page one)

promised to gradually appear on
the daily menu.

Stress is also being placed upon
better coffee, tea and cokes, and
lower milk prices.

The cafeteria committee especi-
ally expressed its appreciation of
the prompt and whole‘hearted co-
operation it has received from Mrs.
Thompson. Appointed at the close
of the boycott by the ITSA, and
consisting of student leaders from
every department of the engineer-
ing college, the committee is as
follows:

Coops. . Bill Werningbaus
Civils Norman Lettvin
Architects ........... Ed Farrell
Chemicals , . ...... Morgan Fitch
Fire lhntects. ...... Bob Bechtolt
Electricals . . . . . . Tom Brown

Pete Zemaitis
All interested students, faculty
members, and office workers are
urgently requested to express any
ideas that they may have on the
improvement of cafeteria food to
the members of this committee
so that the changes urged by it
may be as representative of the
cafeteria patrons as possible.

Mech’ n‘on‘

 

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gympheny mechcstra 1% hitymigirsi fitneiverssry

Now, while Chicago Symphony
Orchestra is celebrating its fifty-
first anniversary, it is the appro-
priate moment to remind Chicago-
ans what they owe to its present
conductor. Like most organiza-
tions of lits kind, the Chicago
Symphony Orchestra has had a
stormy career, and the man most—
ly responsible for keeping the or—
ganization on its course is Dr.
Frederick Stock.

Dr. Stock played viola under
that genius, Theodore Thomas,
and it was under such tutelage
that he gained the fine experience
and inspiration which was to en-
able him to build the Chicago or-
ganization to its present stature.
He watched Thomas stiller under
the insulting barrage of criticism
which emanated from all direc-
tions and in great volubility from

the financial backers of the orches»
ire. down to the editors of news‘
papers, who undoubtedly knew
how to run their papers, but had
about as much aesthetic apprecia-
tion as a sardine. It was under
these circumstances that Dr. Stock
acquired his experience. Theodore
Thomas died a broken old man,
but never did be lower his artistic
standards to placate the influerr
tial hackers, who were interested
solely in financial returns at the
expense of good music.

Dr. Stock was the perfect man
to follow Thomas. Since he took
over, he has almost single hand-
edly raised the standards of Chi-
cago music appreciation and mu-
sicianship from a low point to ‘the
place where Chicago is considered
one of the great music centers of
the world,

This was not an easy task. But
no worthwhile job is easy. Stock,
like Thomas. has found it neces-
sary to be firm in his insistence
that only good music be played.
His unshakable belief that the
people's appreciation of the best
in music should be developed, as
against the belief that the public
should be given what they want
regardless of its quality, has fi-
nally been substantiated through-
out the years. As a result, Dr.
Stock has introduced all of the
finest in music to Chicago.

Yes, Chicago was fortunate in
having such a man as Theodore
Thomas lay the foundation of mu-
sical culture and it was
equally fortunate in having Dr.
Stock pick up where Thomas left

off,

here,

Metal lint-Eeyore blurry
Conducted fly Retinal
For Welding Research

Elmer Ratzel, CE. ’41, is now
research assistant in the new Dies-
el laboratory working on one of
the most interesting projects-«the
study of the behavior of metals
under fatigue. This project, spoil;
sorcd by the Welding Research
Committee of New York, is one of
the few investigations at the In—
stitute sponsored by outside or
ganizations.

An Outstanding Undergrad

Prof. Joseph Marin, chairman of
the committee, stated that Ratzel
had been a great. credit to the
school as an undergraduate. He
was president of Chi Epsilon.
honorary civil el‘igineering fraten
nity, as well as president of the
orchestra. After graduation Rat-
zel was employed by the illinois
Bell Telephone company until he
received this part time assistant-
ship through the $1250 fund set
aside for this project.

Other members of the Welding
Research Committee, besides
Chairman Marin, are Colonel
J enks or the War department and
Prof. Sayre of Union, college.
These men have developed the
fatigue testing machine and if the
experiments should prove success—
in], a whole battery of these ma-
chines will be installed. Prof. Ma-
rin recently attended the Weld-
ing Society convention in Phila-
delphia for the purpose of further
ing the development of these re-
searches.

hl‘om Smasher—m—
(Continued from page one)

in revealing realities, which. would
otherwise have been undiscovered.

Located in the physics building
on the south campus, the electro-
static generator designed by Dr.
Karine will probably be completed
by next summer. The machine is
housed in a tank eleven feet long
and four and one-half feet in di-
ameter. A pressure of 150 pounds
per square inch is maintained in
order that the entire apparatus
may be built on a smaller scale.

Radio-activity, a forerunner of
atom-smashing was first disclosed
by Becquerel at the end of the 19th
century. In 1919, atoms were first
smashed by radio-active elements.
Results of suggestions to uses of
a greater amount of lower energy
particles in place of radio-active
elements, were first observed in
1932. Since this date, higher vol-
tages have been obtained which
consequently resulted in the ob-
servance of a wide variety of new
nuclear phenomena.

An invitation to attend the meet:
ing has been extended to all per-
sons who desire to absorb more
detailed information on the sub-
ject of atomlsmashing.

’PQP’ CQNCERTS

Tickets for the November 22
“Pop” concert at Orchestra
hall are now available at the co»
op office, 107 Chopin hall. Price:
68 cents each. Elalcs deadline:
Friday, 6 [Ln].

Tickets for the entire B se-
ries extending through April
“142 will continue to be avail-
able at the coop office to stu-
dents and faculty members of
HT.

All seats are reserved and reg-
ularly sell for 83 cents. The con.
certs will be on fiatm‘dny evo-
nings and will feature the Chi-
cago Symphony orchestra.

 

 

NOVEMBER 1 l, 1941

WNWWWW

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Mmle the first
of it . .. .

 

lily Bernard Clicrtow

Well, boys, the secret is out?
Yessir, in bold relief, too. Vicki
Baum tells all, that’s what it
amounts to. Vicki. Baum, writer
of prize-winning stories tells how
she does it. Vicki Baum, the girl
who sank to the bottom when she
tried to swim, and whose hands
froze as she tried to play the harp
on the stage, tells how she not
only overcame all this but rose to
heights of recognition. The meth-
od, relaxation; the secret, how to
relax.

It seems that when. Vicki. was a
small girl she couldn’t succeed in
her swimming or in her music be—
cause she‘ didn’t know how to fol-
low her instructors’ advice and
relax. But one day, while she was
playing in the park, she met an
old man who in one short sentence
gave her the secret of success.
This old man, who Vicki called
“Uncle Pieter”, had been a famous
clown in his youth. Naturally, at
the start of his career he had suf-
fered many broken bones, but
after he picked up the trade
secrets he was able to take the
most breath~'l;aking falls without
so much as a strained ligament.
He was old now and wished to
pass on his legacy so he whispered
to our little Vicki, “Be like an old
sock; an old sock never suffers
broken bones.” It doesn’t look like
much advice when you first read
it, but look again, friends, and.
learn. Not only is the observa‘
tion astute, it is metaphoric per-
fection.

But maybe you don’t even know
what an old sock goes through,
so let’s investigate this together.
First we get an old sock. Where?
Well, today’s Tuesday, so that
makes the pair we have on three
or four days old, depending on
whether we took our bath before
or after supper Saturday. I guess
that’s old enough, a sock and toss
it to the ceiling. If it sticks just
open the window and leave the
room with the knowledge that
your remaining sock is just what
youlve been looking for. Now
take it off, remove the garter, and
drop the sock to the floor. Note
how limply it falls, how it liter-
ally crumples as it hits, setting up
no resistance for the portions of
it that have not yet reached the
ground, No stresses, no strains,
just perfect relaxation.

N ow to get back to that ”Would-
have-been-tense” situation had you
not learned this great “how-lobe-
a-sock" act. You are the head en-
gineer on a new defense plant and
you just finished the only explos-
ion-proof structure in the country.
You’re telling the government man
what a true genius you are for
perfecting such a design when a
workman runs in and tells you
the structure just blew up. Do you
hit the ceiling and stay there like
the first sock? Uh-uh. You col-
lapse like the second one.

There is only one trouble with
this “Uncle Pieter’s Relaxing Tech-
nique". You know how an old
sock smells? Well, my guess is
that when. Pieter gave this advice
to Vicki he was over~relaxed.

 

 

GENERAL FASSEMBLY

Wednesday, November 12,
101110 mm. Speaker to be Bear
Edward A. Evans,
commanding: officer, lllinols
Area, United States Naval Re-
servo.

 

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