THE BATTALION
5
fTT*“ Wha?s the future
zuith a large organi-
^ zation?” 1'hat is what
college men want to know,
first of all. The question is
best av.szvered by the accom
plishments of others with
sitnilar training and like op
portunities. This is otie of a
series of advertisements por
traying the progress at West-
inghouse of college graduates
off the campus some five—
eight—ten years. Write for
booklet reprinting the entire
series.
He went in for instruments—
with a vengeance!
VT/HEN H.
VV P. Sparkes
(Alabama Poly
technic ’ i 7) fin
ished the Engi
neering School
at Westinghouse
he went in for
instrument design. His career
since then has been punctuated
with solid accomplishments.
H. P. SPARKBS
By the end of his fourth year
here he had completed a thesis
for his E. E. and had, at the same
time, embodied the results of
this thesis is an indicating watt
meter — one of the largest in
size ever built up to that day.
Shortly thereafter, because of
his special interest in the instru
ment field, he was dispatched on
an engineering trip abroad, visit
ing and working in England,
Norway, Sweden, Denmark, and
France. Upon his return he
entered commercial work and
was assigned to the Pittsburgh
territory—(including such in
dustrial centers as Cleveland,
Youngstown, Pittsburgh)—as
specialist responsible for the
sales, service, and operation of
watthour meters, instruments,
and relays in this important dis
trict. Here he will be found to
day, acting as intermediary be
tween the sales force on the one
hand and the engineering and
factory departments on the other.
He backs up the salesmen with
a highly specialized knowledge.
He advises with the engineers
and with the factory in the design
and manufacture of apparatus
that is best suited to commercial
requirements.
His own pioneering spirit has
still found field for play, so that
this year he demonstrated to the
A. I. E. E. the first advance in
the method of calibrating watt-
hour meters in thirty years.
Some 16,000,000 tests of watt-
hour meters are made in this
country annually. They cost
about ioc apiece. Sparkes has
devised a practicable method that
chops more than 50% off this
bill—a tidy saving. It eliminates
the human element; it gives
greatly improved accuracy.
Thus his first ten years at
Westinghouse — and not unlike
that of other college men who
bring with them, when they come
here, energy, imagination, and
the groundwork upon which to
build superlative engineering
proficiency.'
Westinghouse
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ELECTRIC JM
HOUSTON CHAMBER OF COM
MERCE VISITS COLLEGE
Three representatives of the Hous
ton Chamber of Commerce paid an
official visit to the Bryan Chamber
of Commerce and A. and M. on March
31. The three men making the visit
were: Mr. R. M. Farrer, former presi
dent of the Houston Chamber, Colonel
Jake Walters, Colonel of the Texas
I National Guard, and Colonel Ike S.
I Ashburn, present general-manager
and secretary of the Houston Cham-
ber. The men were highly pleased with
j the work of the college and with the
! review of the cadet corps, which was
given in their honor. Colonel Ike Ash
burn, who is well remembered on the
campus as the former secretary of
the Ex-Students Association, was glad
to be back at the College again, and
extended his good wishes to the Col
lege.
The last word in closed cars: “Lem-
me out!”
Axioms.
1. Recitation is the science of bluf
fing.
2. Zero added to zero, the result is
flunk.
“There goes another life,” cried the
cat as it crawled out from under the
steam roller.