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I _ I .. I , c - , , - c. _ - -·---II -' I I I ii · I Price Three Cents Vol. 38. No. 26 L- CAMBRIDGE, MASS., SATURDAY, JUNE 29, 1918 ·--- I NWAVY SUBSCRIBES HEAVILY ARRaY AVIATORS BEING TRAINED IN TIE TO THIRD LIBERTY LOAN w I w CROIXDE GUERRE MIEN USE OF GAS-3IAS:S AT TECHNOLOGY I IWATER CARNIYAL ON w More Than 18 Million Dollars Invested KILLED INACTIOI in Liberty Bonds. LCHIRLES RIYER BASIN The Navy subscribed more than eigh- teen and a half million dollars to the Various Aquatic Contests to Be Lieut. C. M. Angell Killed in Third Liberty Loan. Aeroplane Accident When Final reports, just compiled, from na- Held Between the Differentt val units in all parts of the world inal- Naval Stations in This Dis- Machine Suddenly Falls From cated that the first estimates of the Height of 5oo Feet Navy's Liberty Loan triumph were ex- trict tremely conservative. The Navy's total in the Third Loan SURPRISES FROM NAVY YARD CAUSE OF ACCIDENT UNKNOWN exceeds by more than four and a half I million dollars the combined Navy totalI Tllree airplanes, two-seaters, passed for the first and second loans. On Saturday afternoon, June 29, a Navy Day will be held on the Charles over this little ruined village at not a Tos date, the bluejackets, officers, and I civilian employees of the Navy have ill front of the Institute. The Harv- very great height. It was mid-after- mobilized for the nation's cause more ard Radio School will have a crew, and noon and just turning sunny after a than thirty-two and a half million fight- contests with other Navy Stations drizzle in the early morning. ing dollars. in this district as ill be held. Lieutenant Cobmmander Nathaniel Planes, as near the front as we are "Let us thrill the world again by our I inspiring response." ur-aed Secretarv Dan- F. Ayer, in charge of the school, has just asi present, hb. e ccased to be a iels at the outset of the campalign on given the crew members as much lib- treat, so this afternoon nobody paid any "" I April 6. erty for practice as is consistent with particular attention to these planes. *fe 2· brZ. The answer that came back to this their school work, with the resuls "i;'gltaerLI*siiWsle"·ji`a" Ther plunged into a low hanging cloud. I ":.·· -` rW ;'*··PIXC62LhPlt(rS'";'* EldB69iPiP-· ' appeal, the answver that came back to that the swift cutter which the men Then suddenly one of them came diving : '.-piiYSEPs ,.,· Sims and Mayo and t o the American will use can be seen plowing alone out of its.lower surface at a steep angle, izj;`*i -·.·., ..*· fighting men on the far-flung, battlefields.- the river as the men limber y:·. :.:t·"·· "·" :F' · .·., up for ;1. and hardly more than 500 feet above the ';··.:- .Ztr: : ;i·x··-,- ii· .\·: ,;""" was not only inspiring, it was over- the big race. ground. At least a dozen C' = . :·· ·: .:· officers saw it wvhelming. It proveed again that for the The entire Rerson*l of the Radio come. Two of them insisted that it was American Navy "our all is not too much, ' falling tail first, but the rest agreed that School is baeking the boat, and when and by its superb example, it helped the the race takes placee-on it made a straight dive. I embattled nation attain a third glorious Navy Day a Dovn it plunged and everybody waited victory for Liberty. big cheering section from that 8chool breathless, to see the aviator right him- Copyright Boston Photo News Oo. is expected to line the railings of the esplanade. self with the little upward flip to which GAS IS SIGNALLED AND MEN START TO PUT ON MASKRS wre have all become accustomed. But Meanwhile, other stations of aie the direction never changed, the plane First Naval District are practisilg The war is brought more closely home to us when we see the men equally hard so that some remarkable dove straight into a soft field, striking performing the gas-mask drill. The gas-mask with a terrible crash, and burying its is one of the most essen- rowing is promised. nose four feet in the ground. tial defensive weapons in modern warfare. Poisonous gases are used Herbert Goldsmith 'i8 Tells of Admiral Wood is personally keenly Pilot and observer were instantly kill- by both the Allies and the Huns, although the idea originated with the interested in the success of the carni- Fine Spirit of Troops val and his enthusiasm is being re- ed, if indeed the pilot wvas not dead be- latter. The use of gas is increasing weekly in offensive movements. I I fore he began to fall. He was Second It has been said that the recent Tueton drive owed its success to favor- layed all along down the line. The 1ift Lieutenant Cyril Matthew Angell, whose The following is a letter from Herbert Naval District is out to make Nanr address on his identification card was able winds which blew the gas over the Allied lines. Goldsmth, '18, telling of his experiences Day one which will take its place given as Chicago, but who is said to have At the U. S. Army School of Mlilitary Aeronautics, as well as in in France. Through the courtesy of his with the biggest holidays in Boston's mother we are able been_.&astudent-at_-Tschnologgy-and.- a to print it in the history. the Army-cantonments,-in-struction in the use of the gas-mask is being TECH. resident of Brookline. The observer was given. The aim of the drill is to enable the men to don the mask as ex- Over at the Navy Yard Lieutenant George K. W. Emerson of New York, a I enjoyed reading your inteesting let- A. A. Gathemann, who has been da- Second Lieutenant of Artillery. Both peditlonlsly and efficiently as possible. The soldiers must learn to breathe ters from California, the outstanding tailed by Captain William R. Rush, men wvore the Crois de Guerre, won in a through the mask, and to feel at home in it. At the signal the men put facts of which are that you are feeling so Cammandant, to furnish the yard's cou- recent action in the air. on and adiust the masks. Then follows drill including marching at well and having such a good time, which tribution to the program, is going Only two explanations was so good to read that they in them- about the yard distributing enthusiaim of the accident double time. The work is necessarily uncomfortable, but the lives of selves were worth an immediate seem at all plausible. One is that in reply. until all the people there are worked the shelling, a fewr minutes before, dam- man! may depend on its application in the trenches. After these pre- The reason for the delay, however, has up about the carnival. age * as done to the steering apparatus, liminary operations the men are subjected to gas in the gas-chamber. been due to the big German drive of As several of the surprises- March 21, I of the and failed suddenly, while the airplane which you no doubt have Aviators are not exempt from the use of masks, owing to the employ- read about. The drive was so disastrous day are to come out of the Navy Yard, wvas in the clouds. A more probable ment of gas shells in bombing bases, hangars, etc. to the Allied Armies at first that it this fact augurs well for the success 9e11ss is that the aliator himself was Continued on page 3 looked for a while as though we might of the program. wounde~d and either fainted or died at be compelled to evacuate this hospital. One of the activities of Lieutenant the wvheel. Gathemann has consisted in getting I Duringr the last couple of days however, r it looks as though our armies are not out of storage the wherries which are INCREASE OF PIG IRON SUPPLY COMPTOIR NATIONAL only holding fast, but actually retaking to be rowed by Yeowomen in the wom- SHOWN BY SPRING STATISTICS WAR TIME CHANCES ground previously lost. Of course, oulr en's bpat raqe-s. These boats are The following circular was re- losses have been great, but having been now being scraped and varnished and The .tatisties of pig iron production cently received by the TECH con- of well prepared, wve inflicted losses of the made ready. When they take the tell ain amazing story of recovery frZnk Amendments to Constitution cerning the economical reconstruc- water some snappy practice tion of Belgium. Mail should be ad- attacking Huns in mass formation that by the the partial paralysis with which the Technology Club of N. Y. .I are at least three times as great. crews of young women will be held at basic industry was afflicted as -a result dressed to Ithe Comptoir National, the Navy Yard. I 15 rue Louis-le-Grand, Paris. Convoys of wounded are continually of the fuel .crisis and transportation In issuing the present call for a spe- coming in day and night, and as fast Rear Admiral Spencer S. Wood, U. So shortaze last wvinlter. In Januarv the In view of the critical situation cial meeting of the Club for the pur- which will result for Belgium as the hospitals get filled up, evacua- N., today sent a letter to the comman~d- daily overate output of pig iron weas tions of wounded are made to Blio,1:11 ing officers of each of the 15 stations 77.,7M tons; in MIay the daily pose of voting on amendments to the through 'the disasters caused by average the depredation of the enemy, .his withl all of the patients who are able to and schools of this district, informing Ivas no less than 111,175 tons, an in- I Constitution, the Board of Governors removing make the trip, in order to make room them of the decision to have a Navy of over 40 per cent. Only once of tools, raw materials, crease feels obli-ed to offer the folloving state- manufactured products, etc..... we for new influxes of wounded. We are Day on the Charles River Basin Satur- before in the historV of the trade, in ment of explanation. have been led to create, with the Igetting so pressed for bed room that we day afternoon, June 22. He also ordered October 1196, wvas so malch iron pro- have turned our mess hall into a hospital Clhanme of date of annual meeting. cooperation of and under the con- the band of the Navv Yard, Radio duced in a single month. wrard. This weas done this monl~inl~t, and Saturday night trol of the Belgian State, an organ-- School, Aviation School, Commonwealth But even more striking is the fact is one on which the already at this writing in the evening members are more apt to be scattered ization having for object the eco- Pier, Bumpkin Island adn Hingham to Supple is not sufficient it is filled -with wounded. that th~is hutre than on Tuesday, the one proposed. riomical reconstruction of Belgium, provide music. to meet the demand; it is barely more Throu.,h it all the spirit of the troo:ps Talinn office'. entitled TCOMPTOIR NATIONAL The program, which will start at 1:30 than en()u11h to meet the current de- The desirability of is -wonderflll. Tnev come dozen from. substantially a month between election POUR LA REPRISE DE L'ACTIV- is to be as follows: mannls for war nses, witli scant leavings from tte line covered with the dirt- and the taking of office will be apparent ITE ECONOMIQUE EN BEL- Rowing Events-Twenty eight-foot for thoqe industries not engaged directly ,when one thinks that the new officials GIQUJE." (SociWte Cooperative) blood and sweat of battle, and smiling cutters, 10 oars and coxswain, distance or indirectly on war work. And rations This organization, in helping in- After a lenath of time in competent one mile; wvherry race, four oars, one- have this time to become acquainted hands of the staff of Base Hospital N~o. of the non-essentials are likely to Nvith the work. dustry'and trade, by enabling them half mile; punt race, singles, distafce 12, they are become more meagre rather than more Increase in Resident Dues. For three to purchase :the tools and all neces- given a brand new uniform. one-fourth mile; whale boats, single tennrotls. and go back to line vears the Club workers have been aware sary raw materials, will not only smiling. usulallyr in bank and cosswain, distance one mile; The wvar reconstruct the economical situation as good condition as the dlay then came program is growing rapidly ihat these dues must sometime be raised, wvherry race for women, four oars, one- of Belgium, to France. and Ohe need for war steel even faster, buti have hesitated to brine it about, but will put an end half mile. to the sufferings of the working These Base Hfosp~itals are undoulbtedly+ demands on the trade nuiltiplyino along hopingI that 'by strict economy this I Sailini Events-Cltters and whale classes by enabling great enemies of the Kaiser. since they ith mlr war problems. And: as the coursel might still be avoided. them to start boats, The dues working in the reconstructed shops take men wh~o are often left on the field navy standard rig, distance four r says, "If we are to win this asai proposed will still be lover than in You will certainly realize the for dead or to all appzearanees, made per- miles, twiee around triangular course. war at all. and not to win it is un-: anv1II other club of its standing in the Swvimminy Events, Scratch - Fifty tfldnlalnle. ,e can Main only if we make c great interest you maight have in manentlv unfit for fllrtller serv-ice in flhe city. line, and with marvelous surgical yards, 880 yards, fancy diving, relay the \ lAirican steel industry, with its being eventually a. contractor. and The schedule has been carefully wvork- Everything interests us, as ev- hospital kinowvledU e and practico, ninke race, 10 men on each team, each man to 45 /0(4000 or 50,000,000 tons of steel ced4 out as the minimum on which 'the swim So vards; novice, 50 yards, for ' a year, reach with every ton and erything has to be set up again: hirn into thec man he wva- before lie wva9 Club1 can be run with the present prices metallurgy, materials for construc- woulnde(l, and again capable of inflietin_- men who have never won a prize; tob everrrr llot toward Berlin. Every ton o4 of suPPlips and wages. The younger tion of buildings, leathers, tex- heavy- losses on his hordes and balk the race; for women in the naval service, mt1P helT. If there is no means now XmembersI have been considered in accord- for its helpin-, it is not a surplus ton, a tiles, farming implements, chemical progra~m of file w-orldl conquest. It is 50 yards; fancy diviner, relay race, six anceII with the long-time policy of the products, wood machines, electrical renllv wondlerfull what. is; dlone nowva(lavs on team, 50 yards each. rnIp ton waiting for means to be cclub. and the rates graded accordingly. material, opticalinstrunients, motor in the surmical world "over here." Men pbidetl Whereby it can help, be its The non-resident dues are not pro-I I cars, vans, wagons, oils and greases come in practically shot to pieces, their bte individually ever so little, in the pIposed to be changed. This membership of all kinds, refractory materials, faces an unrecognizable mass of goo, 6 ell fetor-v, the gun plant, the ship- isIs hirgely a patriotic one, loyal to Tech- I etc and after a fewv months' treatment goI An order was recently adopted appro 'rd. i!j railroads in Frallce, il raitlroads. uruologyI and appreciative of wllat titis In order to enable us to p&ce our out with faces that a-re not in the least priating $62,500 as the city's share of In th(> Tnited States, on farms in France CClub is doing for the general (ood. How- orders, please send us by return repulsive, and are often better lookingL proposed repairs on Harvard Bridge, and and Britain, and on farms in the eever,c they Bill have a chance to help us, mail your catalogues, and tariffs 'than-they were before they were hit. appropriating $25,000 for rebuilding Mt. 'nited Stated. Work must be found pandI incidentally themselves, in another in triplicate. Auburn street from Putnam to Bmattle for every ton." Vway shortly to be announced. ) - (Continued 011 page 3) square. L11 1'I -1I 2 THE TECH Saturday, June 2 9 1918 ------.-. - - -. do .- a ""ft I_ . ,| I.. 0 ap - -a ... - i'- COMMUIN.ICATIOW, I'M .3, - ", ..- . I - -- -- ,- , -~-::------1 I - d:.;------" -Editor dl the TECH, ,lass. Inst. of Technology, Boston, Afass. SIMPLEX WIRES AND CABLES f, - Dear Sir: I have noted with a gruat deal of re- A STEEL TAPED CABLE riEstabl-is gret, through a letter which I reteived toda, and throug-b the notice in the REQUIRES NO CONDUIT V -1 11i !"r I iI i. f .II1, I't''1 I ,z ':I ZI i It^ f ! liffff\ h'f1tl i"W 14 1 [ T*1161 f lt TECH of June 22, of the death of How- I ard L. Coburn. IT SAVES TIME AND MONEY Entered as second-class matter, September 16, 1911, at the Post Office a During my time at Technologay, I was SIMPLXWIRE &CABLEt Boston, Mass., under the act of Congress of March 3, 1879. fortunate enough to come in contact Get our booklet MANUFACTURERS with "Pa' and I do not think that a 301 DEVONSHIRE St BOSTON' finer or mlore big-hearted nlan ever lived. CWLA;O SAN FRIANCICO Published twice a week during the college year by students of the MassachuI- r "STEEL TAPED CABLES" setts Institute of Technology. I konow of tile wonderful nelp he gave to me several timzes when I felt I had I -L - I I I - - I-- j MANAGING BOARD to go to somebody_ and unload my troubles. I know that he did the samre Paul C. Leonard '17 ...... Chairman of the Board for a, areat many others and that the Donald D. Way ...... General Manager great kindnesses -which lie wsas always I ---PT$b -s1Bl1l1r818 WTI doing, f or others, wvere done in such a Homer V. Howes '20 ...... Managing Editor quiet. and unassuming wsay, that they -- wvere in miost cis-es known only to "Pa" News Department-Night Editors, C. A. Clarke '21, H. Kourth '21, R. H. The particular and one other. engineer S6mithwick '21; Editorial Staff, G. W Cann '19, K. B. White '20. News Staff I 1). W. Curry '21. Since mraduatinm, and going into bulsiness, I have been able to continue or architect uses r Advertising Department-R. A. Laurent '21. the close friendship formed at Tech- -1 Subscription $1.50 for 53 issues, in advance. .Single copies 3 cents. nologv and perhaps wvit~li more mature Subscriptions within the Boston Postal District or outside the United Saates judgment have been able to appreciate DIXONS must be accompanied by postage at the rate of one cent a copy. Issues mailed to it mnore nea.rlv at its true value. it all other points without extra charge. I know, tha~t there-are many others, t5 ELIDoBDDU W-hilc at the Institllte and later, who -- 7hemastlessdraMwktpncdT" Newvs Offices, Charles River Road Cambridg,e Mass. .News Phones, Cambridge I Feel towards "Pa" as I did and do, and ·; would like to suan,(est to -vou, that 2600; .Tuesday and Friday after 7 p. m., Cambridge 6265. .Business Offices, ii Charles River Road. Bunisess Phone, Cambridge 2600 tllrollgh the TECHI, vou sugfest that Se's sure of its some action lbc taken towards it mle- p -1 Although communications may be published unsigned if so requested, the morial at the Institllte to be kinowvn as name of the -rriter must in every case be submitted to the editor. .Tlhe Tech the "Pa, Cobuiirn Meniorial." H~e vas Ad quality every time l ri assumes no responsibility, however, for the facts as stated nor for the opinions best lknowvn as "Pa,'' and while it is expressed. llot as dianified as Ho-wardc L. Cobourn, 9 17 degrees At alstationers' I The Editor-in-Chief is always responsible for the opinions expressed in the to 1nis friend~s. more elearly tp ifine s Z- ,~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~I e ·1..I editorial columns, and the Managing Editor for the matter which appears in the 4 d 29z.1.z~3~-----·---~=~=I~=====I = =.= _ news columns. I [I ' . I w-ould be -izd to hav~e an expression t.llr of ylour opinion on this matter and Ivill S IN CHARGE THIS ISSUE do any+thing I can to help in bringing c A. I-I. Slnithwick '21 ...... Nighht Editorr this about. ( Sicned.) R. W. Millard1.

S.ATURDAr, JU`TE 29, 1918 PERSONALS

,I'·-'i Formler Lieutemant, Haroid J. McDon- "PA" COBURN. ald '17, Course I. nowv wsith the a-19th : :' I Engineers at Camllp Flemont, Califolnia. lhas just been promoted to captaini He I Nfewer institutions has it been the lot of the students to possess such is one of the youngest, if not the a friend as the men of Technology have known in "Pa" Coburn. ITavin- no official connection with the place and in the last few years of his life residing in Newv York, he nevertheless maintained the closest touch with Institute life. The organizations through which student activity expresses itself wevere thoroughlly k;nowrn and under- I stood by him; much of their strength was due to his wisdom in helping to lay tneir foundations and to maintain them in the face of a rapidly chancing student body. The great source of his strength vas his understanding of the needs of the students as individuals. He knew their work, their life, their professors; and lie could advise them from the point of view of an alumnus living in that professional world for which they were prepar- .ingg themselves. The friendships thus begun lost none of their vitalty when the undergraduates became alumni, though the word alumni Spies Add Lies limits too narrowly the range of his friendships. Indeed, of the needs German agents are everywhere, eager to gather scraps of news of the meen who, for one reason or another had not succeeded in win- about our men, our ships, our munitions. It is still possible to get such ning the ultimate approval of the Faculty, he seemed to have a special p n I information through to Germany, where thousands of these fragments understanding. Not a few of them owe him a debt of lasting grati- CAPTAIIN HAROLD J. McDONALD '177 -often individually harmless-are patiently pieced together into a tude for advice and practical aid given at the right moment as no one whole which spells death to American soldiers and danger to American but he could give it. ycoungest captain in th- U'n;ted Statess homes. regcular army, being, only 23 years oft But while the enemy is most industrious in trying to collect infor- When we became involved in War, it was Technology men to whom age. Captain )IcDonald is the oldestI- his thouthts turned first. He saw no more effective way of serving mation, and his systems elaborate, he is not superhuman-indeed, he is son of MIr. and Mrrs. NT J. I-TcDonald oft often very stupid, and would fail to get what he wants were It not his country than by sustaining them to the utmost in the great work of Cambridge. deliberately handed to him by the carelessness of loyal Americans. . national service to which, as men of scientific training, they had dedi- Do not discuss in public, or with vice in the Expeditionary Force, and other ,cated themselves. He Wrote to them, visited them in the camps; above The funeral of Ernest V. Bowditch '69 pioneer landscape architect, who diedlI setalestroopand and certain to disturb American patriots all, he desired to go to France to act as the Technology representative transport movements, of bits of parents. WTednesday at his home, 336 Adams3 gossip as to our military prepara- And do not wait until you catch some at the American University Union. ghost unwillingly he relinquished street, MAilton, ivill be held at the resi- tions, which come into your post on, prputtinegnan b~ohmb upndaedr a fajct~orty this desire on account of the immediate call of business; if it had been dence tomorrow. He was 69 years oldI session. stories, divulges---or seeks--confidential -permitted to him to set his hand to the work it would have been the and wvas the son of William 1. Bowv- Do not permit your friends ini military information, cries for peace, or 'ideal expression of his devotion to Technology. ditch, a, conveyancer. He rvas a directb service to tell you-or write you belittles our efforts to win the war. descendant of Nathaniel Bowditch, au- Sulch a career calls for a memorial which shall be an integral part - facsinsie abou wher they if they are in uniform, to the Department thor of "Bowditch's Navigator," a ree- are, what they are doing and of Justice, Washington. Give all -the ,of the strident life which "Pa" Coburn loved so well. May the time be ognized authority. seeing. details you can, with names of w~itnesses not far distant when a memorial many be begun which shall speak his He wvas graduated with the class oft Do not become a tool of the be at hslim lat hshow teHn othame v cltng spirit to all the sons of Technology. '69 at, Technology. For a time after his Hun by passing on the malicious, scattered information and putting it to graduation AIr. Bowditch engaged inI disheartening rumors which he so wvork- Tlle fact that you made the report railroading in the Wiest. Lter when lie eagerly sows, Remember he asks wl o eoepbi returned to Boston he established offices no better service than to have an iodaozu jurst ais trcuolnyas if youtlfaed ehimy for himself as an engineer. spread lfis lies of disasters to t-Ar solie~r's across No Alan's Land. In your hands and sailors. gross scandals in the Red are tvo powerful weapons wtitt wbich to Tile estates of Cornelius \and~e-',:' Cross, cruelties. neglect and wholesale met Lim-discretion and vigilance. Use Cr0sden Goelet. J. J. Van Allen. E. J. executiioncs-i- mr camps, drunkenness and thffe1S OUTDOOR SPORTS. 3erwlind and the old Lorillard estate at

-New^port stand as a. monulment to -hisI CO., MIfTTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION n-enhis. Ho played a canspicuou s part in 8 JACKSON PIACEw WASHI0NG: ')N. D. C. George Creel, Chairman L The Secretary of State Now that the warm summer evenings have come, the dormitory th-e developnlent of Newport as a sum- -men caEI spend more of their time out of doors, and nearly every even- mieT resort.

ing now taco groups of men can be seen in the dormitorv yard, each .\,r. Boiv-ditech is sllrvil ed by hisi Division of AnsgUitetas Go: Com n-enjoincd a form of outdoor sport and each apparently having a gQood vioAraraaret Lvlon Swvann, daughiter time. One group sill be in their shirt sleeves. Their hair wtill be all of Thomlas L. Swvann, a commander in the Unlite-d States navy, and four child- -ruffled tip and their hands dirty. Tlis group is playing ball. The other re n, Wuilliaml I., who is in the avia- -group is standing around the front steps. They have their straw hats tion corps and b~elieved to be on his -on, and their clothes are neatly pressed and brushed. Individually they vaya to Franlce; Ricllard L., who is j are a pretty slick looking article, but we cannot regard them as a stild,.iin- at the ]Hotchk~iss school inl - ---- __ _ Connectieut, and twvo daughters, Miso Miles E. Langley '12 has recently States. Against this amlount our nor, crowed as much of an ornament for the front steps, for this crowd are Elizabe~th fSwann iBowvditch and Miss wasting their good time shooting pennies, or dimes, according to been married to a Miss Baxter of mal consumption of rye from 3laV 1 to I Sarahl Hictainson Bowvditeb. Brunswick, Maine. Langley is now a, August 1 amounts to 31,000.000 1busleli. whether they fee! rich or not. lieutenant at Camp Devens. If rye flour had been continued on the I- Now this is not intended to be a "goody-goody" editorial. WVe Perry Bush Bryne '19, Theta Xi, en- substitute list our available supply listed in the Navyl about foulr months Ii are not going to say a single word about the morals or ethics of the WHY RYE FLOUR WAS REMLOVED swould not have lasted one month. In matter. That part of the matter is perfectly straightforward, and you ago. He llas just passed the examina- I- tions for Nav al Ensign Scllool and is FROM FROMSBSTITUESUFRBSTITUTAR E LISTsupplyLIST order that for therethe norinal might usesbe even of' ryea lilnited flour, I- know just as much about it as anyibody. We will say this, however; nowv at Harvardl, having entered Juine 18. as for the ball-pIaying crowd, this cereal was taken off the substitute keep at it fellows; you look pretty good I. Numerous inquires have come to the list. to us, even if you are in your shirt sleeves. But as for the crap shoot- The announcement has been made Foood Administration atskillt, whv rye ofI the engagement of Chief Quarter- ,ers, please gao around on the BACK steps at least, and if you are will- flour was removed from the list of sub- All you are..asked to do is to buyr masteri Austin D. Higgins '20, to Mliss stitutes for wheat flour. On Itay 1 it bw ~to be real obliging you might move across the road, say about half IAfary V. L. Ryndlers of North Cohoc- onfly necessary things and tihen loan- was estimated that there remained but not give-your savings to your GOV' ill ever to Beacon Street. ton,I M. Y. Higgins is a member of the,. 16,000,000 bushels of rye in the United Theat Xi Fraternity. Qllllaent to help it figlit your war.

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(Continued 'irom page 1) '·; · .. .;. . one thing, hoWvert that modern sci 6 elice has nlot been able to contend with,I is the damaged spine. Except in rare3 instances, cases of this kind are eitherf partially or totally paralyzed, and oftenI die. AIpathetic instance of this kind oc- C A Cana- Up cuarred here just the other day, Wake dian boy was brought in whose spine atb its base had been slightly touched byr a fragment of shrapnel. In spite of the3 fact that he was paralyzed from theI11 Beek down, his bright and cheerful dis- p03ition created an intense regard for him by every one, that was nlothing less3 Big things are happening at Technology than love- Hiis mother was notified of1 you ought to know about. his misfortune, and she braved the dan- that gers of submarine warfare and came allI the -way from Canada, to England to Subscribe to The Tech and you can read fleet Winl there. He was as happy as aI boy homne from school when we dressedI about these happenings when they happen.i him up to send him over to meet her inL Blihltly. Hardly had wve gotten himL TOay whlen lie suddenly became deliriousi i and sllolted, "Ha, there's one Boche II trot- look,. I nicked another one; hereII Copyright Boston Photo News Co. Esb~~~~~~~~~~~; t~lle comle over the top! My God, theyT MASKS ADJUSTED-GAS MASK DRILL AT TECHNOIOGY U. S& SCHOOL I I ot Ric, I'm groing West," and with that OF MILITARY AERONAUTICS .lie drew his last breath and died. It CHARLES RIVER ROAD, CAMBRIDGE vlas the molst dramatic scene I ever wvit- (Continued from page I.) mask the efficiency of the fighter is re- nessed. The horrors of -as attacks are only duced about 50 percent. The "box re- One can buy almost anything over appreciated when one consid- used by the British, protects llere, but one thing 5-e lack, are goodI partially spirator" ers only their immediate effects. Men the wvearer from all the gases in use es- f(,otihl)ruslies. It is hard to find enough1 six months $3.00 a year who have been subjected to prolonged cept the 'miustard gas" of the Huns; it $1.50 tinle for one's teeth whlile in the army, susceptible to that the Yankees have 11 gassing are much more is understood >e it is essential -when they are brushed pneumonia, tuberculosis and other dis- solved this difficult problem satisfac- at your I arY ---C·--b- *-R-·I-CPA B·-·ba bPL- -·b·--pa··P··--q-··RI m. th41~atit iss done right. Therefore. eases of tile lungs. W.hile wearing a Itorily. iI flirst opportunitv, please send me a halt dozen ProPI'Ylactic tooth lbrulises -%vithd. I .I Ikard bristles '"baby size." Don't (yet LFEDERAL COUNCIL WILL he obtained by virtue of his three years' i,l>,rniolatZLmy asking for baby sized I (:CONTROL ROAD WORK. experience ith the Ne-v York Shlip- -------Itenth brllsles and imagine that I am b~uildingr Company. I~en Akers '20, ------I reiiga young colony over here. The A ll functions of Government agenceie| found his -va;ry into the civil engineering $ · DD" P(') 0,'r A , I a/"' A - .- -- - I -;------~------Ir(].ason for asking for so many of the .relating to streets and highways here-| dep. rtment some way or other and talks I is simply as a preventive meas- river to make lial>5ysize .after aire to be coordinated in a body| of being sent out on the l /M IUl/' to haive a supply on hand until the , alled the United States Highwvays| soundings. Chris Carven '21, is putting VZOs hitterI pArt of 1918 at least,, for we be- Council, composed of one representativel some of MIr. Gracey's theories into prac- Ilie+veI that wsar wvill last ant least this ,each from the War Department, the De-| tice up in the Architectural Department. I lomn.I and the babvr size -makes it easier . partment of Agrriculture, the United| He had some spare timle this afternoon UPOJi I toI fret, around the oral cavity. S-'tates Railroad Administration, the| and spent it in making a tour of inspec- I4 Di;loeksed find four photographs -which W5ar Industries Board, and the Fuell tion of the yard. He made several caus- KZO I41 had tak~en in a nearby town. Tlle boys A dmzinistration. The council wvas formed| tic conlments in the speed of our work 5rit is a pretty (rood likeness. so you prim: rily to prevent delays, financial Iand only the presence of the foreman I PYROXYLIN AND TAR Krilnuse your imagination. You can loss, and ulnce-rtaintv incident to the| saved him from a little impromtu acqilv picture mie nowv as I have shaved method of takling up each highwaly prob-| launchinrl WO ;alo i The fellows have been wvatching the W/zz l4 inva nllstache. lein in its turn withe a separate andi V1.1k I sent vou a hand-carved meerschaum distinct Government agency. This| TECEI for newvs from the other yards .0 27z I Cifarette holder, 1-ielvin, which I pur- council svas constituted at the sug-I and are ready to swap yarnl for yarn PRODUCTS 7 occasion demands. diasedl in Paree. as an expression of my Lestion of the Secretarv of Agriculture_. with, them if the II-,apreciation of your promptness in send- 'lhrouab the Department it will con-| Here's hopingy a certain drool artist fromu aMll iino flhe fulrloughl noney for my leave tinule the close contact already estabe Texas takes the hint and delivers. We specialize in the manufacture of high grade I Yv original intention wvas to tell yours, there. lished,_ both formially by law and in-| Sincerely nou all about myT-waonderfull stay in Pyroxylin, Tar and Benzol Products and years of I formza~lly practice, withl the State| L. B. BARKER. IParis, bult I hiave written so imillil on yns Hi-hwava Commission in each State of| production of these classes of that I weill not llaiv time' experience in the ther sull,jects the Union.| Ito tell voul about it since "call to quar- W,- MNembership of the board follows: chemicals for use in the manufacture of Explosives Wz, ters' ilas; already blowi. So I wvill have GROWING TECHNOLOGY. I 'War Department, Li-eut. Col. WV. D.| ito call it off lntil the next. letter. I have given us a valuable knowledge in their use in Fuel Administration, C. G. Shef- I I Normaii joins in sending lots of love Uhler; The followina recently appeared as an I War Industries Board, Riebaru field. lo vou all. _ field; editorial in the Boston Herald: the commercial We aim to suit our product I Humphrey; Railroad Administration, i Fondly, The announcenlent that Technology is zo, consumer's need and with this end in view, YX-, G. NV. Kirtley; Departnient of A -ricul- to the HERBERT. forced to begin at once . construction V// Page. These representa- ture, L. W. wolrk to tle extent of $100,000 or more, conduct laboratory experiments on all shipments of tives have selected TLoaanl Waller Pagre ENGLISH PROSECUJTIONS is a vivid reminder of the -way in which Wxr Director of the Office of Public Roads, that splendid institution has given over our products to make certain that the require- FOR FOOD PROFITEERING Department of A"'ricultulre, as chair- its plant, equipment and resources to the E. Pennybacker, C-hief of ments have been satisfied in every respect. man, and J. se rvice of the government in this crisis. In the month of April, 1918, the 'Nfaragement of that office, 9s secretary. While most institutions of higher edu- 0X0, The engineer who specifies Du Pont will be cer- I'VIViI English Ministry of Food instituted The council utilizes the organizations cation, naturally enough find their more than 7,000 prosecutions for food highwava de- ii ,of the forty-eight state numbers depleted by the war, their new- tain of getting a uniform, high quality product I partments with their trained personnel profiteeringu In 6,600 of these convic- est buildin-s little needed and their i t and the profiteers tions were secured and their kinowvled-e -of local condlitions iVI guaranteed to do the work for which it is intended. I- plans for the future clouded with I" I1 fined. and provides a single ag~ency wohere all dloubt, leclnolo ry has risen to its op- e,A highway projects eallino for tgovern- portunity in a manner that points the Some of our Iprincipal products are: action of any eharacter, -whether nillntal wayr for scientific and technical schools YVf, it be a question of finance, of materials, I the country over. Acetic Ether Patent Leather Solutions transportation, or o f ivar necessity, or In its special departments for those Amyl Acetate Pegamoid Aluminum I desirability, may be dealt wvith. The preparing for service. with the colors it VA, Anaesthesia Etheer Paint eooinecil has provided a definite form on YM Wvliel ,applications for relief are to be has enrolled some 2000 young men, and Aniline Oil Pitch 2500 in uniform for daily madle through the respective state higil- it has about Bronzing Liquidss Pontar-Road Tar nilitary exercises. For the use of the wvay departments, and has, sent supplies manf hundreds vho are entering on the Collodion Pontoklene-Tar of the forms to the departments. It em- I w-ork that wvill prepare them for naval YM Dark Creosote Remover pblasizes the great need of conservation aviation work is beginning on a nea sea: Py-ra-lin Enamels of inonev, transportationi, labor, and ma- Dead Oil about $45,- ~~nemor a7 terials bv restricting hi rhwa~y and plane, hangar that will cost Dinitrophenol Refined Aceton Oil | ,, 000, and for the larger drill field that street work to most essential needs. It Ether, U. S. P.- -I9IO Refined Creosote ,= is necessary there is the enlargement of I ranks maintenance of exuistingr streetsi the grounds from Vassar street to Am- Ethyl Acetate Refined Fusel Oil andl hi-rliways first, r econiistrucetion of herst-a happily suggestive combination Flotation Oils Salicylic Acid I)adlvs damagged streets and highwlays of names, by the vay. With this wor.K Iso Amyl AcetaterC. P. Shingle Oil next, andl it places last newv construc- Di in there is also the building of a barracks P. Sodium Acetate z, tion justified only on account of Xvital Iso Amyl Alcohol1C. for some of the student aviators and an 4 I nar or econolnie necessity. Wood and Metal Lacquers Solvent Naphtha addition to the imposing WValker Mle- ors Solvent ThinnersYa Walker would Leather Renovate NEWS FROM BATH IR2ON WORKS niorial. Hlow happy Gen. be at the patriotic uses to wvhich they Leather Substitutte Split Leather Solutions IM/X been putting the imposing struc- Solutions Special Pyroxylin VIZI Rooms Tlle followving communication wvas re- have cently received concerni-n the Tech- ture dedicated to his cherished memory. I Mantle Dips Solutions nolo- delegation at Bath, 11aine. Coming on the heels of its removal Nitre Cake Sulphanilic Acid o The delegation at the Iron W~orks com- across the Charles, all these readjust- Nitrobenzol Waterproof Cement ments and these enlargements bevond pletedl their first week's wsork todav. Parlodion Wood Preservatives M/ John A. Facey '21, J. D. Harvey '°1, its nmost ambitious plans have put a Arc Open to and Edward W. Jack-son '21, are ma. strain on the Tech authorities that chinists; Freddy Britton '20. and Law- Ini-llt well have daunted the adminis- rence Burnham '29, are outside machin- trators of any university. Until a year Du P ont Chemical Works Wm Al I Tech Mren ists, mnost of their work being in the ago Tech had not housed its own stu- haills; Henry B1. -Vasey '20, is in the dents. Nowv it is not only caring for Midge New York, N. Y. ~ " plate shop; George W. Spaul'ding '21, is them in permanent dormitories, but it Equitable B an electrician's helper; Phillip Nellis '2D, suddenly finds itself the host of thou- i NOW in the ma- sands of young men in the government and Irvningc'enison '19, are i Noma-~ ~ ~ chine shop; George Dates 121, Alfred schools that are part of itself and let I Sbaugthnessy '21, and myself are ship- distinct. It is writing the brightest :~~~~~ II A k, - --- - fitter's helpers, althougltg jiist at present chapter in its insuiring history. Inci- P11111 list C tOpen Daily and Sunday we are assembling bulkheads. Henry dentally, more than 2000 Tech men are -I- -. A. Grosseup '20, leads the delegation now in active service, au ama ingly with a bona fide shipfitter's check which large proportion of them being overseas. L _~__ -_II .1I June 29, 1918- .4 - THE TECH1 Saturday. ( .-U .~ d I ~ - . - - - - - I. ...; -- -.. I - -- - I------1 -- - rC· ------.. . f I ·I i . - --- · · ~~~ oA - - Lf v;, ~~~- ,11 -7 I h rNiae 'in- eacf room asking- l- t sit .OW -YOR6s-,RM _GH" 'i .if; LETDM FROM figM '.. CB~03e3dmmw VmS A-' a r SUBSTITUTE FOR EGGS guests use ice sparingly. The result has the results of photographic ob- Tbhe food administration in Aichigan been a reduction in the calls for ice wa- Ipon sub- ter, and the bell boys are now feeling servations obtained by- army aviators, credits the Lansing State Journal with Anything that can be used an a of high prices the terrors of war in the reduction of who flew over darkened New York will stitute in these days further the following: good results at the same tips. Ammonia is used in large quanti- be determined the question of and give a precaution Roy E. Carver, of the medieal depart- is a welcome addition in helping ties in making artificial ice and, because darkening the city as time German air raids. 9MNE &WEBSTER ment, one hundred and nineteenth Field to keep down tie high cost of living. of the demand for this important chem- against possible ical in the manufacture of explosives a Electric signs and all lights, except way carrots, according to the Popu- I Artillery, writes in an interesting Boiled It is ex- and lights in dwellings, lar Science Monthly, when properly .shortaae has been created. street lamps of food conditions and the country in pected that other hotels will follow this were out at night by order of Police peo- tredted? form an excelIent substitute saving, MI !M bePAlC ty daopment& France. He says, in part: "The The carrots are example and that a considerable Commissioner Enrigght, at the sugges- food only when they have for eggs in puddings. of ammonia used in the manufacture of War Dep~artment officials, ple here buy until they are tender and tion of the BUY AND SELL secmtle& a food card. If they have no food catd boiled ice for hotels will be effected. it was New York's darkest night in nearly ready to fall apart; then cart and they can't buy. Soldiers are now al- years, not even excepting the I DESIGN steam power stations, hydr. fully drained and mashed and pressed many lowed to buy food in a city. They have "lightless nights" during last winter' I electric developments, trananxisft through a coarse cloth or strainer. FOUJND ARTICLES. to buy what extra food they want in fuel famine. lines, city and interurban railways This pulp is then introduced among gas plants, Industrial plants ancd I camp where there is an extra place pro- The owners of the following articles The main object of the airplane ob- that purpose. Then they can the other ingredients of the pudding vided for made may obtain their property by applying servations, it wvas said, was to show how buy only 8 pence worth at a time. Here and the eggs omitted. Puddings fa- equally as light to the office of the Superintendent of far the lights permitted an aviator CONSTRUCT either from our own den is one place where money will not talk. in this manner are to find strategic as where -eggs are used. Buildings and Powver, Room 3-005, with miliar with the miap sips or from desg9 of other exlgi. my tip and tell the people and as palatable I "Take a complete description of the miffing spots or places where bombs would do neere or architects. food. They don't see why The carrots also impart a rich yellow not to waste things: TWDo sets of drawing instru the greatest damage. as these color to the pudding, so that no one on public utility Vropertdes now, but if they -were placed one copy of "United States as a REPORT can tell whether eggs were used or not. ments; or new project foreign countries are they would real- copy of "Descriptive proposed extenlsons oolpv-ctu~fithe,- emfsak hrdl hrdl rldh World Power;" one Wihen you buy War Sa-vings Stamps ize it then. You see the people are al- one copy the soldiers Geometry;" one notebook;; you do not give your money, you loan MANAGB railway. light, power and lowed only so much so that one copy of can have more. We get good healthy AMMONIA SAVING EFFECTED of "Plane Trigonometry;" it at 4 per cent. compounded quarerly. am cemganioe war bread BY A NVEW YORK HOTEL "Physical Laboratory Experiments;'- Y:ou help your Government, but you stuff to eat here. I like the for Test- do white bread. It is one copy of 'American Society help yourself even more. better than I "Else von something like brown bread and sure is In response to a request by the Food ing Materials;" one copy of bundle of time tables; nourishing. Wve have sugar in our cof- Administration that the use of artificial der Tanne;" one ANE YORK B08TON cniCAG- handle The Government needs your money; I fee and are certainly living high for ice be reduced to a minimum, the Mlajes- one steel protractor; twro pearl ring. you need the stamps. I soldiers."!' tic Hotel of New York City has posted penknives; one silver Signal Corps I I I Headquarters M. I. T.o a' Service Anxiliary 491 Boylston St., Boston niormation Bureau open daily. Workroom open - Tuesday, Wednesday and' = In|_| Thursday from 10 A. At.to' TnLR__m ar 4 P. M. Everyone inter- ested in Technology wel. come, as visitor or worker. CIG0APET Technology Bureaua University Union 8 Rue Richelieu, Paris London Branchl Iondon

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