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Student Weekly Publication
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The Rice Institute
Engineering
Edition
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VOL. XX.
HOUSTON, TEXAS, FRIDAY, APRIL 2<i, 1935
"5ST-
New Stands On North Side
Of Football Field Will
Be Built During Summer
New Elaborate Press Box and Broadcasting Booth Planned
In New Section That Will Seat 38100 Spectators;
Bids Will Close on May 8th.
Construction of Rice's new north
stands for the football stadium will be-
gin about June according to announce-
ment from the office of William Ward
Watkin, Professor of Architecture.
The new stands are being constructed
to take care of the increase in attend-
ance that was evident at last year's
games. The new steel constructed
John Eastman
Addresses
Engineers
May 3rd Is Set Aside For
Annual Spring Engineer-
ing Social.
By JOHN RAINEY
At the last meeting oi the Engi-
neering Society, H. John Eastman,
president of the Eastman Oil Well
Survey Company, of Los Angeles,
California, and affiliated organizations
in Texas and Oklahoma, talked bn oil
well surveying and directional drill-
ing. Mr. Eastman, though best known
for successfully fighting famous oil
well fires in Texas and California,
.stated that his Are fighting activities
are incidental to his regular business
of oil well surveying and directional
drilling. Putting out oil well fires in
merely one application of the art of
directional drilling. Mr. Eastman gave
a survey of the development of the
technique of oil well surveying and
directional drilling, and outlined meth-
ods now used.
During the business session of the
meeting it was announced that the
Engineer's annual spring dance will
be held at the Kotchetovsky School
of Dancing, on May 3. Instead of a
tacky party as in former years. The
dance will this year be a Sport dance.
The annual banquet and initiation
will take place "in May. The place
of the banquet has not yet been se-
lected.
All the Engineers who have not yet
joined the society should do so im-
mediately, in order that they can be
initiated at the banquet. It will be
impossible for those who are not ini-
tiated this year to become "active
members of the society before year
after next.
The Engineering Society will hold
its regular meeting next Wednesday
night, May 1. -
Catholic Club To
Hold Holy Communion
The Rosarian Club, the Rice Catho-
lic club, will have Holy Communion
at the 9 o'clock mass at Holy Rosary
Church Sunday morning. After Mass,
breakfast will be served in Rosary
Hall. After the breakfast, John
Nickolson will read a paper on "War
and the Church." A very important
business meeting will follow and all
members are urged to attend.
Second Baptist Class
Plans Fishing Party
The members of the Second Baptist
College Class and their friends are
invited to a fishing party Saturday
afternoon. Cars will leave the church
at 2:00 p. m. The girls will provide
picnic lunches and the boys will furn-
ish fruit and soda water. Mr. H. L.
Johnson is in charge of arrangements.
"L'Abbe Constantin," French
Play, Postponed Two Weeks
"L'Abbe Constantin," the French
Little Theatre's production scheduled
for presentation Saturday and Tues-
day has been postpdned until the
middle of May to enable the students
of Houston to finish reading the
abridged classroom edition of the
novel.
Mary Jane Weyrick will have the
leading feminine role and will be sup-
ported by a veteran cast.
stands will be three hundred and six
feet long and will consist of eighteen
rows of seats which will seat thirty-
eight hundred people.'
At the top of the stands there will
be constructed a new press and broad-
casting booths. This part of the stands
will be ninety feet long, will consist of
two rows of tables and will take care
of one hundred pressmen.
The bidders will be given the plans
sometime in the early part of May and
bids will close May 8.
The new section will increase the
capacity of the stadium from the pres-
ent fourteen thousand to sixteen thou-
sand seats. The old press box will be
used by football scouts.
History Profs
Present Papers
To Oklahoma City went Barnes
Lathrop, and Lynn M. Case Thursday
for the Southwest Social Science As-
sociation's annual meeting. The de-
partment of history Friday morning
heard Lynn Case on "The Influence
of the American Civil War on French
Industries other than Cotton." Friday
afternoon Barnes spoke on "The Rec-
ords of the Pew Sugar Plantation on
Bayou Lafourche."
The Association Conference lasted
Friday through Saturday. Retiring as-
sociation president, Professor Potts of
S. M. U., gave the welcoming address
and Dean Pound of the Harvard Law
School was the visiting speaker.
Five Students Who Stole
In Attendence The Fan f
At Convention
From, Dallas. Texas, comes the
startling news that somebody stole a
fan dancer's fan. Miss Claudette
Graves of Fort Worth is the lady so
robbed, and a member of an engi-
neering society before which she
danced must be the guilty person.
Well, why doesn't Miss Graves try a
lost ad. Don't they ltnow that the
swiper is watching the lost column in
hope of learning her name and ad-
dress.
Page Ben Rainey. Maybe he could
tell Miss Graves where he hid her
fan.
Walton Greer Presents Paper
Based on Original
Investigations.
By EARL WEAVER
The Rice Institue Electrical Engi-
neering Department is well represented
at the district convention of the Amer-
ican Institute of Electrical Engineers
being held this week in Oklahoma
City. Walter Greer, senior, is pre-
senting his paper in competition with
students from schools in Texas, Ar-
kansas, Missouri, Kansas and New
Mexico. There are twenty-four schools
in this district.
"Errors Inherent in and Corrections
to be Applied to the General Electric
Oscollograph Type PM10-A1" is an
original investigation of the subject,
upon which there has been no pub-
lished material. The convention will
consist of technical discussions based ;
Are Selected From
of the General Electric Company, j Advance French ClaSSeS
Transmission of Direct Current; D 17 li
Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Waters are at- j y raCUIiy.
tending the convention. Other Seniors '
making the trip are William Mau, Ar- Eiko Arai, Earl Barnes, Mary Grain
Pi Delta Phi
Names Eleven
New Members
EngineersBuster Dees Slated As
Give Talk on|jreaturec| Entertainer
Corresponding FoJ. E-B,.pre.Med. Dance
Telephone, Radio, Telegraph,
Telephoto, Teleautograph, Busse Entertainer Will Render Special Numbers During
Television Are Discussed. Supper Intermission; Special Music
Is Arranged.
BY WALTON GREER
One of the most interesting engineer-
ing seminar discussions of the year was
heard last Friday when L. C. Dodd,
John Millington, and Earl Weaver—all
senior students of electrical engineer-
ing—together gave a talk augmented
with demonstrations on "Electrical
Communication". The talk covered
completely the transmission of intel-
ligence in its various forms, such as
encountered in telephone, radio, tele-
graph, telephoto, teleautograph and
television. Problems encountered in
transmitting this intelligence through
different media, such as air, light
waves and ether, were discussed
The curtain will fall on pro-exam j featured by the singing of this' 'JriOht
social season tomorrow night when the entertaining singer.
E. B. L. S.-Pre-Med Linen Formal j Special arrangements have been pro-
takes place at River Oaks Country i cured and the latest tunes will be fe -
Club. The function will begin at ten ; tured throughout the evening by the
p. m. and will last until two a. m. j orchestra. Entertainment will begin at
Elaborate p*?parations have been j t<?n 0-dcck foI. this last clancw o( jhe
made to make this the climax of one
of the most successful > social seasons
that has been enjoyed at Rice iin sev-
eral years.
Music for the occasion will be fur-
nished by Jlmmie Scoft and his or-
chestra" augmented by the enchanting
singing of the nationally famous Buster
Dees, who enjoyed phenorninal suc-
cess for several seasons with Henry
Busse and his orchestra. Presently Mr.
social season with the exception of the
formal dances at graduation.
, , , ' Dees is master of ceremonies fit a local1
Demonstrations included illustrations! dinmfr dub. Villa Rosa, where he has
of wave forms of sounds, shown on the ; wr)rked with such bands as Jinimie
cathode ray oscillograph, the effect of JoVi Ted FioriUli Marshal Van Poole.
,r , :jcu\''n® ! $® ,<-'ertain frequencies tJac j Stan Staiiley. The dinner hour -in i
thur Wood, John Millington, and Sam Henrietta Daigel, Thomas Hurling, Liu- i reproduction of sound and the atten- t|„, g|j||] ,lt th0 Country Club will be
Worden. abeth Lloyd, Harriet Malloy, Joy Page, j uation effect of long distance telephone i..:!
— H Nevenna Tsanoff, Ray Watkin and i lines on various frequencies. The — _ _
Baptist Student Union * Veunil f files
Intsalls New Officers
■ members of Pi Delta Phi, national hon
i i orary French Society.
—.— ! Initiation and reception of new mem-
The Baptist Student Union officers brrs will be held this afternoon at
riigetice can be transmitted over a beam';
of light, us well as through wires,,
: ether and air Although 1he weather
| conditions ' Were bad for radio I reeep-
German Group
for 1935-36 were installed at the Second j four-thirty in the Cohen House. Hon- j tion the audience heard foreign radio-
Baptist Church, April 20th, at 7:30 p. m. i orary members are Mrs. H. M. Lull and j telephone convti satioiis in scrambled
The officers installed were: CharlesI Mrs. W. A, Paddock. -speech.
Ladner, president; Caroll Karkalits. 1st
vice president; Joy Page, 2nd vice pres-
ident; Floyd Kelly, 3rd vice president:
Mary Lucille Jackson, 4th vice presi-
dent; George Miller, treasurer; Chris
Townes, secretary; Kathlyn Glasson,
publicity; Ai|ecn Gerland, B. T. Rep-
resentative and Reporter; Lerah Sex-
ton, small church representative; Chris-
tine Hall, president of 1st Rice class;
Frances Broadway, president of Y. W.
A.
Relief; Kerr is--president of the local
chapter and Mrs. Mengden is vice-
president. Miss Margaret Elkins is
secretary and Roy Scott is treasurer.
Members of this organization are se-
lected from the advanced French
courses on the basis of excellence in j
French and high scholastic records. i
The advisory board society of the j
society is composed of all members of ;
the French department, headed by Dr. (
Marcel Maraud.
Advanced studentsci (.trmiiii v <n<
tin guests1 of Mr.1 Max iftt-ufi, M urs-
Much interest-' iri die speech was '-dtiy iosi;
shown by the other senior engineering |,jv home
students and at its conclusion all took
part in a lengthy discussion of the vari-
ous phases of communication
it tt V.-\Ho.:- Li:.p„r:y ,.t
Enlett.unnient included ) honogiaph- >|
Esperantists
Will Give
Exhibition
Sanders, Summers, and Lock-
hart Will Extend Welcome
To Language Group.
Upon! the- ,pl ilu Germa-n, :
er;ui|ei';Kar|Br,uhe..1 Rice l.!i.>ututi:- Es -
p«antsits. are to (ui.-riit i) , ,i -I'eOnJ
annual exhibit , :oif Vbr Esperanto lyj-.-
.ti'idfiy . ii'sul; j- Stfturday at ''..ihe-,'
.''J-'fiVustoh'':!Pu.b'lil: :,LUirai.;\\,. ■; w.i: a.":-
Irtoduct-d liy,''li Lockhan assist-
atjji tin- Cn'ujHin de)<amue*it ot the
In-.triutc anri dim tor ,( JJdu'it,.
1 |'i, th> : fl"itafbtt &t.
Debaters Talk
The exposition j's
displays udleetf o, <i
twenty nallioiir. -mid
nji-uide
Eighty Per Cent Of Young Academic
Italy Ardently Supports Fascist Rule
By EDWARD PRICE BELL
Young Academic Italy thinking, rest-
less, wondering about the future.
Eighty per cent., ardent for the
Fascist State, ten per cent., cloudy in
mind and irresolute, ten pjr cent., for
a political and social organization of
enlarged individual liberty.
Virtually 100 per cent., for world
pacification on the basis of the invkd-
ability, so far as practicable, of raTOl,
nationifl; and territorial integrities.
Those are probably as nearly the
lineaments of the young Italian acad-
emic mind of the moment as one can
get.
To sound this mind, or any other
segment of Italian feeling and thought,
is far less easy than the like task in
France, England, the United States.
Everyone speaks with marked re-
straint, unless, indeed, the utterance
be wholly non-critical of the regime
which, by common consent, has done
so much for Italy, morally, politically,
materially, in the last fifteen years.
GUARDED CRITICISM
However, the voice of cautious criti-
cism is not quite still in the beautiful
mountain-bound and sea-bound pen-
insula, with its steadily rising sense
of European and world responsibili-
ties, important alike to itself and to
ather nations. Moreover, this voice ap-
pears to be considerably franker than
it used to be; franker, certainly, than
it was a decade ago. Criticism be-
longs to intellectual vigor, especially
young intellectual vigor; and of this
type of vitality Italy clearly has her
full share among the advanced units
of humanity.
PREMIUM ON PATRIOTISM
It is not Impossible to win the con-
fidence of young academic Italians.
Scholarship is curious, enterprising,
receptive, judicial, keen on going
forward from the bad or the good to
the better. Young educated Italians
are like this. Let us listen to one of
them, as fine a young mna, and as fine
a student, perhaps as there is in the
University of Rome:
"We want more education, a wid-
ened culture, in Italy. Many of our
of the prejudices of all peoples' are
narrow. An Italian of today goes out
in the world and learns from other
nationalities, learns their languages,
their characters, their temperaments
and ideas, their customs, their polit-
ical economies. Then this Italian
comes home and desires to dedicate
the knowledge he has gained to the
good of his country. He is received
coldly. His patriotism is supposed to
have suffered dilution. Other coun-
selors are preferred to him. Young
Italian thinkers hope to see the day
when their country no longer will be
impoverished in htis way."
FASCISM FOSTERS NATIONALISM
"Is the attitude you describe pecu-
liarly Fasicst?"
"Fascism certainly has not altered
the situation for the better. It has
been intensely preoccupied, of course,
with self-vindication and with na-
tional reconstruction. It has been re-
making Italy, setting up the nation
morally, improving its political posi-
tion, looking after its security, striv-
ing in a thousand ways to better the
health and the material fortunes of
the people. Possibly, when Italy's
place among the nations is deemed
satisfactory and solid, we shall be
more hospitable toward non-Italian
cultures."
"How do the students stand regard-
ing Fascism?"
"Eighty per.cent., for, ten per cent.,
non-committal, ten per cent., against.
These proportions may be accepted as
approaching as closely to accuracy as
careful estimates can. They are un-
doubtedly not far out. Mussolini, to
be sure, is acquainted thoroughly with
the facts. His dislike of those who
are candidly against him is mild com-
pared v^ith his dislike of those who
do not know where they stand. 'I
can fight an enemy,' he says. 'I have
more difficulty iri' fighting one of
whose enmity even that one himself
is not sure'."
OPPOSITION WITHOUT PROGRAM
"Have the opponents of Fascism any
definite program for the nation?"
"No. They only long for wort per-
ie Mlcitions from Richard Waaler's
pfipii Meistersinger V«hi ^uenvHurft-;".
..r, TJ ... , ,, ... , - l.fieni'ntd !itii,iverri^rji!
Da;- Pyeislied, the Overture ' by the
Milan Orchestra, and. "Church ljfy.mri"
. . . by ;h'e choir ofjiihe Beiljjj State Opeia
At HuntSVlIle &mpan "Die Meister- . ,
ZXL J lUlllOYlilt' • ,;•« . i pared by the Iniyersa fcsper.into
I,singer was, studied in detail by. the -ft :
'-'I 2 ..u. a'SiM' , >m-iat.i<:.n,: '(Jetieva. '-'SwiiwrhiUd.
m. ■ , , , , Gerifflan 400 class and therefore the1
Two Rice debate teams will go to
Huntsville Tuesday. April 30, to de- muM<- immediate interest Au-
bate teams of Sam Houston State I other feature of the evening w.is the
Teachers College on the qiieptiiort: . participation of the guests in Cenncin
included ,'lri the
! exhibit of 'gifts''.neteiy-ii f
pfpiw
•in 1 more1 than
an exhibit
\v
V.«. i
.displjiys will be
jpR
til IfflBSjSfe.j
i' viiiled
prejudice# are narrow; I suspect many sonal freedom. Their sensation under
Fascism is one of spiritual suffocation.
They desire freedom to feel, think,
talk, and write as they see lit."
"And what does Fascism say to
this?"
"That it is subversive of discipline
and hence dangerous to the nation.
Fascism holds that national security,
health, improvement, prosperity, and
a mounting Italian prestige in the
world are more precious things, view-
ed socially, than the vague yearnings
of 'intellectuals' for what they term
'freedom.' Fascism asserts that the
discontented intelligentsia of Italy,
whether they be young or old, have
no ability to look after Italy, nor after
even themselves."
"Have these champions of more lib-
erty no outstanding leader?"
"No. Such leadership would not be
possible in Italy now."
FASCISM ENTRENCHED
"Do you foresee a time when it may
be?"
"I do not. Fascism is entrenched
within a system of self-perpetuation,
skilfully constructed over a period of
half a generation, and embracing much
of the best strength, physical and psy-
chological, in Italy. It is very power-
ful and very solicitous to keep its
power, In this respect, I imagine, it
is not unlike party integrations in all
countries; but such organizations, in
countries of almost unrestricted per-
sonal liberty, are much less formid- j
able in their defensive powers than I
Fascism in Italy," j
SPOILS SYSTEM
"Is it fair to the nation as a whole?"
"I should say no. It is naturally
partial to Fascists, known Fascists,
tried members of the party, and the
families and friends of these. I, for
example, may believe in the Fascists;
may consider them necessary to the
full Bnd rightful assertion of Italianity
in Europe and elsewhere. But, if I
am not a recognized party man, or the
protege of such a person, I am at a
disadvantage, socially and economical-
ly, whithersoever I may go in Italy.
My true-blue Fascism simply is not
established, and I suffer accordingly
(Continued on Page 4)
Resolved, that the nations of the world
should agree to prevent the interna-
tional shipment .'of arms and munitions, i
Tile Rice team, defending the affirma-
tive, will be composed at William
Blanton and Frank Smith. The Rice
team defending the negative will be
composed of Harold ReddiclifTe and
MiHon Blake.
An intra-club radio debate will be
announced soon, and the subject will
be: Resolved, that Congress should
enact u non-contributory old age pen-
s-ion law.
wis:", Espe'"tvntiH!r!-: .jilwfit
Houston.
Included in -h< , \hibi; ■ ■[ will, be
an autographed;;H'c>py./ of Joseph R,
Schfrel s A:' urd '!;< \V .iJa with the
Green Star", .which w:„ personalis-
...., prcst'iitcc! to Kvo by the
there were among those, present City (.author when he w-ivd Hoiutan re-
Treasurer William Bernrieder, Dr. and ; conily. Also the gilts: of the Japanese
games: "Den Dritfen Absehlogen."
"'i ' . : ■ , •, :.! -vi;''' |I '■' ':' I-' 'V:!1 ':']v '
"Katz und Ma;uS,!', "Wortspiele" and,;
"Reizelraten."
Beside^, the advanced Rite: st.udents, ,4'
Mrs. Menten, Mr. and Mrs: A. p Mul-
ler, Mrs. and Miss Ritzen. FAigene
Olx;rle, Henrich Meyer, and Herr
Stubbe of Berlin.
Conversation-' throughout the evening
Was in Gennan
Rice Men Do Important
Research Investigation
Several Rice men are engaged in j Ph. D. this year. He lis working or
doing research work in the Organic common foaming agents a's found i
Chemistry department under the su- natural plants. These agents causi
pervision of Dr. Holmes Richter, head foam in beer and root beer Taggari
of the organic chemistry department. has investigated their structure atic
Donald Gillett, from Welsh, La., is found that they belong to a class o:
doing work on Bone Oils. Mr. Gillett compounds known as the terpines
is engaged in identifying the com- These compounds are used as a sub.st.i-
pounds present as basic constituents in tute for soap on delicate material.'
the oil. This is of interest because one which would be damaged by the harsh
oil is a by-product of local industry er alkaline soaps. They are also usee
and at present is practically wasted, as the foaming agent in a certain typ(
This oil has never been completely an- of fire extinguisher.
alyzed before. The basic compounds Milton Williams is analyzing thi
have been found to be homologues of naphthinic acid fractions of Texas pe-
pyridine, quiniline, and aniline. Sual- troleum. This is important to refiner-
itative and quantitative analyses are ies, since these compounds cause eniul-
being made. sipns of oils.
Carl Kuhn of Galveston is working Dr. Richter is experimenting wit>
on drug synthesis. Mr. Kuhn will ac- the plant, NaHuang. a Chinese plan'
cept a fellowship at :Carnegie Tech. from which ephedrine is extracted
next year. Kuhn's research work at; Ephedrine is .greatly used in eye, eat-
Rice has been mainly concerned with
the heterocyclic barbaturic acid deriv-
atives which are proposed as substi-
tutes for many of the common alkaloids
used as drugs at the present time. This
class of compounds has received in-
tensive study only at the Rice Insti-
tute. An effort is being made to com-
pound drugs which will possess the
properties of alkaloids and hypnotics.
The peculiar advantage of these com-
pounds lies in the fact that they are
not habit-forming. These compounds
will be related to veronal, luminal,
barbital, and amital.
Millard Taggart is a candidate for
nose, and throat surgery; also it is usee
as a substitute for adrenaline in loca"
anesthesia, and in ihe relief of com-
mon colds and asthma. The plant
grows wild in China and Texas; it is
fouild however, that the Texas variety
contains no ephedrine. Investigations
are being carried on to determine the
reason for the absence of the ephedrine.
Dr. Ko Kuci Chen, of the Eli Lilly
Company, has given Dr. Richter several
of the Chinese plants, which are now
being cultivated in Houston. After they
reach an age of one or two years, they
will be analysed for the presence of
ephedrine.
j Esperantists who frequent Houston are
1 to he presentt-d T.heyi are' to in.clfatle
lour hiu- Japanese dolls and a Japan-
ese abacus, lightning oriental ealcur
j iaung machine Used by Japanese and
Chinese to work all numerical calcu-
Illations from addition and subtraction
J Toqtifec 'root and' diifTerent ial caleulus;
j;,;; Nh',.i,;Ij.i'oc(tha'i';. speaker, .ot" the ..tu,-...-,
•• permit*1 and i German languages, has
j sent a special letter of welcome and ,
invitation to the cruiser Karlsruhe
which arrives: in Houston today. The
1 letter of welcome was written in thro*
limguiiges, Esperanto. German, .and
i English The number 1 of EsfwrantistiJ
j on the, German cruiser cannot, be de-
: termined in advance. Mr, Lcick^iarf
said, but he believed that there would
be a large number, for the German
people have been very active in the
Esperanto movement
The exhibit is to i>e open to- the
| public free of charge from 10 a. m. to
|9 p. m today and Saturday ,
Taking part in the direction of the
exhibit is Chas: M Sanders, Rice In-
stitute, official representative of the
.Universal Esperanto, Association in
Houston, and delegate to the 27th Es-
peranto Congress to be held iri, Rome,
j ftal\. in August : J. Frank Summers
; University of Houston, general .sfecre-
i tary of the Houston Esperanto M'ovO-
1 menti and Will II I.ockhart, Rice In-
stitute1.
Frances Broadway Will
| Entertain Baptist Group
A combined old and new R. S. U.
Council meeting will be held at the
home of Frances Broadway, 2017 Brent-
wood Drive, Sunday afternoon at 3:30,
A unique ceremony has been planned.
The old members will explain to the
new ones their duties for next year.
All old and new Council members are-
urged to be present to participate in
tlie services and a great deal of im-
portant business is to lie considered.
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