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S THE Published semi-weekly by Students of Georgia School of Technology X-111—Vol. XXXI ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JANUARY 24, 1948 Number 16 Famed Don Cossacks Here Tomorrow Russian Music to Highlight Kansas U. Plan Varied Program in Gym at 3 Topic of Thurs. By Ted Carroll Tomorrow afternoon at 3 p. m., the Georgia Tech Lecture and Concert Veterans' Talk Committee will offer a concert by the Don Cossack Chorus and Dancers, Serge Jaroff conducting, in the Tech Auditorium as the third highlight of Subsistence Increase the current concert season. This famous singing group has been praised by most of the larger Urged by N. C. V. T. newspapers in both the United States By Don Gray and Canada. Everywhere the Don Constantinople. They were a troop of Many of the veteran's organiza- Cossacks have appeared they have bedraggled, hungry Russian soldiers tions have entered a new phase in received notable acclaim like "Choral who tightened their belts after a their fight to receive increased sub- music's richness like organ harmony. meager supper and stretched out on sistence allowance via a mass mail Impossible to exaggerate beauty of the hard ground of Russia to dream campaign to legislators, according Don Cossack's Chorus," from the of home. Home was a thousand miles to James R. Marable, Tech's repre- Toronto Evening Telegram, *or "The away, the Don River Valley, where sentative to the National Conference Don Cossack Chorus," from the the hero Stenka Razin had led their of Veteran Trainees. voiced, gave a concert before a jam- hard-riding Cossack ancestors roaring When the veterans attending Tech packed house in Carnegie Hall last and laughing through the nomad meet Thursday at 11:00 a.m., January evening. It all made for colorful ex- camps. 29th, it will be their purpose to in- citement, and to say that the gather- Began Singing stigate a similar movement. Lee Re-elected Vet Changing Major ing applauded enthusiastically would Inevitably, being Russian, one of Kansas University Plan be halving the truth," from the New them lifted his voice and sang. Soon In a letter to Tech, the president Field to Notify V. A. York World-Telegram. Similar state- they all joined in, their rich voices of ARMANAV, a Kansas University Yellow Jacket ments of praise have come from such blending in the haunting melancholy veteran's organization, told of the All veteran students, both PL leading newspapers as the New York of a song of home. Forgeting hunger, they swung from the sad melody to program which K.U. had adopted. Business Mgr. 346 and PL 16, who expect to Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Phil- That group had printed two desk- change their type of course for the adelphia Evening Bulletin and many a rollicking ditty, from that to a love size replicas of a postcard. A peti- Fred W. Lee was re-elected business term starting March 24, 1948, others. ballad and from that to a galloping soldier song. tion for increased subsistence was manager of the Yellow Jacket at a should come to the Coordinator of Varied Program attached in the upper left-hand cor- meeting of the Publications Board Veterans Affairs Office, Room Among the six-foot Cossack giants Tuesday afternoon. He had been ap- The program, featuring Russian was a dimutive Cossack officer, Serge ner of the massive "card" with the 1102 Knowles Building, for the music, includes such numbers as "Oh, remaining space filled with veteran's pointed to the post in September to official change of course papers. Jaroff, considered by his enormous This Day" by D. Bortniansky, and brothers to little to be of much use, signatures. Each Kansas Senator was serve until the beginning of this Since a change of course in- from the traditional "Requiem," who had studied to be a choirmaster the recipient of one of these novel quarter when more concrete arrange- volves the approval of Georgia ments could be made. His term ex- "Lord Have Mercy on Us" by A. L. until the war made a soldier of him. petitions. Tech and the Veterans Guidance L-vovsky, "Lord, Save the Pious At the meeting Thursday morning, pires at the end of the Spring term. This night, as on other nights, it oc- Center, all veteran students plan- People" by Tchaikovsky, a cantata of curred to him that others might en- the Tech veterans will also decide Lee has been on the Yellow Jacket ning to change their present Russian Church Music composed by if the other veteran's organizations joy the deep-throated choruses of his staff since it was reactivated last year. course—such as a change from Kastalsky, excerpts from two Russian comrades. He selected from the are sufficient in number to express He served as circulation manager and electrical engineering to mechani- operas, and "Who Knows ?" by Shve- the desires of all veterans, or if it spontaneous singers the most impres- advertising manager for The Engineer cal engineering for the spring doff. sive voices, and welded tenors, bari- will be necessary to consolidate all and held the job of collections man- term—are urged to complete the There will be original arrangements veterans into a group. tones, and bassos into an ensemble. ager for The Technique. necessary papers now, so that of the famous Russian Drinking Before many weeks, he had a chorus The subsistence increase has met there will be 4 A senior in the Industrial Man- no difficulty at regis- Songs and an arrangement of "Amer- much opposition from non-veteran of thirty men who sang with a new agement Department, he will grad- tration time. ica the Beautiful," both devised by S. groups, and the mail received by Con- skill under his direction. Thus was uate in June. Lee's home is in Tampa, F. W. AJAX, Jaroff. born the Don Cossack Chorus. gress is predominately against an Coordinator of Veterans Affairs. Florida. During the war he saw duty On the schedule are included Rus- Became Bulgarian Choir • increase. J. R. Marable, N. C. V. T. with the 102nd Infantry. sian and Ukranian Folk Songs. The Delegate, says, "Only a concentrated They became the choir of the ortho- lovely "Song of Stenka Razin" will (Continued on page 3) dox cathedral of S. Sofia, and to the be presented by the chorus. great church in Bulgaria's capital As the finale, the group will pre- worshippers streamed to hear them Graduates and Co-ops S. A. M. Hears Birn Talk sent their famous and stirring "Don sing the ancient litanies. One of the Cossack Battle Song." congregation, a concert manager, sent Once, such a thing as praise was them on their first tour. Get Withdraw Papers On Russian 'Management' unknown to the Chorus. That was In the twenty-seven years since, All veteran students under back in 1920 when they were gather- they have traveled almost a million Public Law 346 or Public Law Mr. S. A. Birn, former consultant In reference to the Marshall Plan ed around a camp fire in a field near and a half miles, have sung in Eu- 16 who plan to be graduated, for the U. S. State Department, ad- for aiding Western Europe, Mr. Birn rope, Africa, Australia, North and said that it is the only way, and we transfer to another school, with- dressed the Society for the Advance- South America. Since 1939 they have have no choice but to underwrite it, draw from school, or go to work ment of Management last Tuesday at E A. Checks to Go toured the United States annually and devote ourselves to selling the under the co-op system as of the the Chemistry Lecture Hall. Mr. and have sung in every town with a American way. end of this term 20 March, 1948, Birn spoke on the relationship of the Thru Spring Recess population of 50,000. Recently the Mr. Birn also spoke on the present are urged to secure the official international situation to modern Arrangements have been made Cossacks became American citizens labor-management status. He said withdrawal papers now from management methods and said, "The with the Veterans Administration en masse. that both had lost confidence in each Room 102, Knowles Building, and next six months determine whether to continue all Georgia Tech vet- In the summer of 1945 they made other and had widely divergent opin- get them executed as of 20 there will be another war and if it eran students on training duty and (Continued on page 3) ions on the amount of income neces- March, 1948. subsistence continuously from will be fought over New York or sary for a fair profit. 1. Co-operative students will exe- Western Europe." term to term unless the veteran He quoted Representative Clare Student Council Holds cute interruption papers from himself fills out official interrup- In his opening remarks Mr. Birn Booth Luce who said, "The Com- the period 20 March, 1948, un- tion request for the period be- said, "Politics are determined by facts, munists have one good idea which First of Dance Series til 28 June, 1948. tween terms. but managed by politicians." He also we need, and that is that their ideal The Technicians, Tech's student 2. Students to be graduated will These interruption forms may be fill out discontinuance forms. related how when 16 years old he is much more important than petty dance orchestra played the first of a joined in the fight against Commun- hatreds." If we could apply our ideal secured now from Room 102 series of Student Council dances last 3.