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Number 16 X-lll—Vol. XXXII ATLANTA, GEORGIA, TUESDAY AFTERNOON, NOVEMBER 16, 1948 'Front Page Reporters9 Calmly Meet the Dead-line Technique Evolves from Sports Folder into Semi-Weekly Paper During 37 Years of Progress Anniversary Celebrated Wednesday; Tau Beta Pi Tells First Published on Eve of Ga. Game Of Winning Papers By Dave Crane

In Theme Contest Wednesday, November 17, marks the 37th birthday of The Technique. Jim French, vice-president of Tau The campus rag, born in the spirit of the Georgia game, was first published Beta Pi, announced early this week on Friday, November 17, 1911. The Technique, Vol. I, No. 1, passed out at that Gene Damon, a senior C.E. from a giant pep rally on the eve of the Georgia game, played November 18, 1911, Meridian, Miss., has been awarded bore the headline, "GEORGIA, OUR first prize in the bi-annual Tau Beta ANNUAL TRIUMPH." The sub Pi theme contest. Ranking second in Sho' 'Nuff, Was head read, "Our Team Is Fit—It is a field of 58 entrants of last spring Up to the Rooters." was Joe Clemons with his article, Dr. A. J. Walker, head of the Eng entitled, "Engineer—Profession Or Once Hot Stuff lish department, commenting on the Religion." Charles McGinnis' article, first issue of The Technique, stated By George M. Small "Cathode Ray Oscilloscope," was ad that the whole issue, a simple four- judged third by the jury, consisting (Appearing in May 1 issue, 1912) page folder written in the manner of L DramaTech To Presentof Dr. A. J. Walker, Prof. Dice Ander a magazine, was entirely devoted to To scrape up a plum good theme son, and Prof. Glenn Rainey, all of on nifty slang is a pipin of a job the support of the Georgia game. It 9 the English Department. for a subby sub, who is such a cat was not until the following week, 'TheFrontPage Comedy French stated that Damon's win when it comes to mopping up with November 24, that the editors, Albert By Alan Nacht ning article, "Superhighways", will the classy article every day. Blohm and E. A. Turner, made any appear in the first edition of the Engi attempt at an actual newspaper DramaTech will present the famous press comedy "The Front Page" Believe me, he can sit and scratch neer, scheduled for distribution to which supported campus "crusades" on Friday and Saturday evenings, November 19 and 20 at the O'Keefe High every bone out of his mahogany dome, students Monday, November 15. The of any nature. School auditorium. Reserved seat tickets for faculty, students, and students' but before he has cleaned up with a versatile Tau Beta Pi winner will Who Won dates are on sale at the Administration building information desk for sixty cutting he will think that a bunch also have an article in the coming In an attempt to find out the re cents. of clogs have slipped loose, or the issue of the Engineer on the subject gear's out of focus. Then after he sults of the first Technique's admoni Appearing first for a long success of "Building Codes", dealing with has a cracking good 'un, he gets cow- tions for support of the Georgia ful run on Broadway in 1928, "The Ground Forces problems of present day confusion and footed, for it would be like flirting game, the historian may turn to Vol. Front Page" has since been given by misinterpretation of municipal build with the undertaker to shove it at his I, No. 2. In the left-hand column of numerous college and Little Theater ing codes. professor, for he's a bear. Although page 1 of the 4-page weekly was a groups all over the country. Band To Play As a part of the requirements for he might realize that he was kidding, modest story, entitled, "THE GEOR Brown Plays Lead admission to membership in Tau Beta he decides to cut the comedy and not GIA GAME". The sub-head gushed, Playing the leading role of Hildy Here Thursday Pi, initiates are required to submit a play the Rube. So, like many others, "Brilliant Contest, Marked by Sensa Johnson, a reporter who cannot get theme on some engineering subject of tional Playing and Fighting Spirit, Under the sponsorship of the Stu he says that such slang as "Butter- newspaper work out of his blood, is not less than 500 words. These themes Witnessed by Magnificant Crowd." dent Lecture and Concert Committee, m i 1 k s," "greenballs," "low-brow," Kenneth G. Brown. Brown, a third are judged by members of Tau Beta No score was given, leaving it as a the group of soldier-musicians known "Red Nech Booger," "hit the pill," quarter freshman and new member of Pi, the best four being judged by a matter of conjecture as to whether as the Army Ground Forces Band "he swings like a rusty gate," "oh, DramaTech, gained his acting ex jury from the English Department. the score, after all, was the important will play a free concert at. the Tech fudge," is rotten English, and besides perience in the Little Theater Group The winning article is customarily thing. In part, the account read: auditorium-gymnasium, November 18, he had rather "get shot than have a of Gadsden, Alabama. The part of published in the Engineer, and the "The very attitude of the Georgia Thursday night at 8:00 p. m. no eleven" handed to him in an un- the escaped murderer, Earl Williams, winner is awarded a prize of $5.00 by lady like manner. players as they romped on the field is played by Wayne Coloney who can This 90-piece military musical or Tau Beta Pi Association. displayed their confidence of winning be well remembered as the leading ganization includes a 25-voice Soldier's the game. They danced as they ran man in DramaTech's last two pro Chorus, and travels in a convoy of in circles, passing the ball over their ductions, "Petticoat Fever" and "The three buses, five trucks and two Chi Epsilon Initiates 21 Students Requested heads . . . But what a difference in Male Animal." sedans. Chi Epsilon, honorary Civil them and the band of White and Gold Concert programs given by the Melba Huggins plays opposite Ken Engineering fraternity, an To Park Correctly defenders just across the field. AGF Band include selections which nounces the initiation of 21 new Pat Kicks Off Brown in the feminine lead of Peggy The Parking Committee requested range from symphonic arrangements members. Civil Engineering stu "They came out in a jog trot, lined Grant, Hildy's anxious and impatient this week that students be more care such as Von Weber's "Overture to dents ranking in the upper third up and ran through signals. Not a fiancee. Miss Huggins, a graduate of ful about parking on campus. In the Oberon" to novelty arrangements of of their class are eligible for elec word did they utter until the whistle the Georgia Teachers' College, ac parking lots for students, there have familar favorites such as "Turkey tion to membership. Character, below and thy formed a line across quired her stage experience in the been a number of violations of regu In the Straw." The 25-voice Soldiers' scholarship, practicality, and so the field to go down under Pat's kick. dramatic group there. Portraying the lations noted. Men coming to class a fiery prostitute, Mollie Malloy, is Chorus, under the direction of Master ciability are the basic character Right then their fighting spirit mani little late tend to park in almost any Betty Anne Wood, a student at the Sergeant Arthur V. Donofrio, rounds istics requisite for election. fested itself. They stood each man in manner, disregarding yellow lines and Georgia Evening College. Agnes Scott out the programs with such vocal ar his place, his knees and arms work no parking areas. This sort of park is represented by Jenny Wren who rangements as "The Lord is My ing like mad and bellowing forth ing makes it more difficult for other plays a worried reporter's wife, Mrs. Shepherd," semi-classical melodies, Dec. Grads to Take words of encouragement to his part students to place their cars in line Schlosser. and familar college songs. Each pro ner adjacent. properly. gram includes several lively marches Constitution Exam "The whistle sounded, Pat put his Sears Directs and military numbers. All seniors finishing their course Another item brought up by the toe under the ball, and a wonderful "The Front Page" is being directed at the end of the present quarter who committed is the fact that although game had begun. Woodruff caught by Zenas Sears, DramaTech's first do not have credit for a course in the parking lot over by Physics and the ball and raced back with it. He * paid director. Mr. Sears, a graduate NROTC Formal United States Government either by M.E. buildings are filled nearly every came a short distance and was of Johns Hopkins, has done theater transfer credit or by taking Ec. 51, day, the lot across from Rose Bowl thrown. Georgia was still smiling work in Boston and in summer stock. Ec. 322, Ec. 323, or S.S. 102 must Field and the lot behind the Varsity when the ball was snapped for the He is now connected with radio sta Dance Is Saturday take the examination on the United are never full. first play, but it met a stone wall. tion WQXI here in Atlanta. The first formal dance of the 1948- States Constitution. The committee felt that ignorance They lined up again and butted Other members of the cast include 49 school year for the NROTC de of the rules about the diffierent lots against the same immovable defense. Al Boissy as Hildy's hard boiled city tachment of Ga. Tech, highlighting Arrangements have been made with and areas is a major cause for fines. Red and Black smiles changed to editor, Walter Burns; John Sholine the week-end of the Citadel game will the Executive Dean to hold these blank expressions of astonishment . . . as the mayor; and Bill Handbury as be held in the Naval Armoy Satur meetings as follows: "The ball slipped from the arms the sheriff. The news-hungry report day evening, November 20. The music Lecture: Eastern Offers Reservations Time—11:00. of the gray jersey, a Yellow Jacket ers—Wilson, Endicott, Murphy, Mc- of Charlie Sorrels and his orchestra Representatives of Eastern Air Place—Rooms 211, 207, 208A, lit upon the slippery treasure and Cue, Schwartz, Kruger, and Ben- with a colorful floor show will be Lines will be in the Administra buzzed triumphantly away." singer—are played by Bill Crutcher, furnished for the entertainment of Swann Hall. tion building (information desk) Amazing, but Georgia won the Ernest Scheller, Tony Pellegrino, the guests. Date—Thursday, November 18. on Thursday, November 18 from game! Alan Nacht, Joe Sinto, Bruce Jewett, Approximately 250 midshipmen and Examination: 11:30 a. m. to 4:00 p. m. to make and David Cumming. Paul Liberman their dates will attend. Invitations Time—11:00. reservations and help with travel As positive proof that Georgia as gangster Diamond Louie and Joe have also been extended to the Naval Place—Rooms 211, 207, 208A, information for Thanksgiving Tech had a Physics department in DeFrancisci as Pincus, the governor's officers of the Atlanta area and to Swann Hall. and Christmas holiday travel. 1911, Vol. I, No. 3 carried the fol- messenger, complete the cast. the staff of the Tech ROTC. Date—Thursday, December 2. (Continued on Page 8) The Red Cross Needs Blood—Give a Pint Friday Afternoon at the YMCA Tuesday Afternoon, November 16, 1948 THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA Vets Should Secure Records Ga. Tech Glee Club Faculty Bulletin Veterans who have received bene Records to be placed in the file— To Present Concert fits from Veterans Administration only if the file already has been estab ARMY BAND CONCERT—Free tickets for the Army Ground Forces and have been assigned "C" (claims) lished—should include a certified copy Wednesday at Br en au Band concert to be held in the Gymnasium, Thursday, Nov. 18, 8:00 p. m., of the public record of marriage; numbers should place certain public The Georgia Tech Glee Club, under may be obtained by faculty members at the Information Desk, Administra certified copies of previous marriages records in their case folders if they the direction of Walter C. Herbert, tion Building. and copies of court records of divorce think their beneficiaries might be en FACULTY IDENTIFICATION CARDS—Official identification cards for and annulment, copies of birth certi will present a concert at Brenau Col titled to compensation and pension lege on Wednesday evening, Novem all faculty and administrative members will be distributed next week by the benefits after they die. ficates of all children under 18, and a copy of the vet's birth certificate. ber 17. Public Relations Department. These cards may be used for identification^ To establish claims for payments, This is a return engagement re discounts on purchases at various stores, and similar purposes. veterans' widows, children and de The veteran's claim number should quested by the Brenau student body. WOMAN'S CLUB TEA—The Georgia Tech Woman's Club will meet on pendent parents must submit public be written on all papers to insure Prior to the concert, Mr. Herbert and Wednesday, Nov. 17, at 3:00 p. m., at the Tech Y.M.C.A. for tea and a talk documents to VA as proof of de positive and ready identification. the Georgia Tech students will be by Dr. Andrew J. Walker, professor and head of the Department of English. pendency, age and relationship. Dependents of veterans of both guests at a dinner at the college. Fol He will discuss "Georgia Tech Publications." Mrs. Glen N. Sisk will serve If necessary records were filed in World Wars may be entitled to death lowing the concert, there will be a as chairman of the Hostess Committee for the occasion. the veteran's claims folder, his de benefits. Monthly amounts of com pensation and pension vary accord reception for the Glee Club at the CHECK CASHING CHARGE—Effective Nov. 15, the Cashier's Office pendents would be spared the delays home of Dr. Josiah Crudup, president ing to the number and relationship will charge 10 cents for each check cashed by a student or faculty member. involved in obtaining them from other of Brenau College. sources. of the dependents. This regulation requiring a service charge was promulgated by the Board of Regents as an economy move. THE STORY OF GEORGIA TECH—More than four years of loving and heartfelt effort was expended by Dr. M. L. Brittain on this book about Georgia Tech and Georgia. It was published and put on sale last Thursday, his 83rd birthday. Copies of the book may be purchased at $3.35 each in the Georgia Tech College Inn.

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November 9, 1948. should use these lots to relieve congestion in day, November 22, at 5:30. the other lots. , The meeting was called to order by Presi The motion to pay $6.75 for Class Roster This year, seventy-four invitations Vetoes Temporary' Plans dent Roy Barnes at 9:10 p. m. with 27 mem Posters was taken from the table and passed. to join Tau Beta Pi were^ issued bers present and Marty Goodman, Wayne It was announced that the Student Council Heasley, Nelson Hocking, nd John Ziegler Office would be manned by volunteers start with seventy-three accepting. To be By Bruce Kidd absent. ing tomorrow, November 10, and anyone hav The minutes of the previous meeting were ing any complaints or business is welcome be given an invitation, a scholastic aver read and approved. tween the hours of 9 :00 and 5:00 every week In answer to a letter to the editor about a compromise student union day and until 12:00 noon on Saturday. age in the upper fifth of the senior Walt Patton spoke to the Council on be building in The Technique of October 29, several members of the Student The motion by Ted Carroll for the Student class must be obtained, and in the half of The Engineer and requested that the Council to sponsor the Intercollegiate Bridge Council change its motion of October 26 in Tournament was not carried. junior class those men in the upper Union Building Committee were interviewed. order to do away with all but one regular The motion by Al Boissy that since the IFC eighth will be given invitations. The general opinion of the committee is that a permanent type building faculty advisor and the point average require did such an excellent job of sponsoring the ments of the staff. Bridge Tournament last year that they be could be started very soon if a long but two more, finances and physical Jim williford's motion to rescind the Coun asked to do so again, was passed. range plan for financing it could be cil motion of October 26 concerning the Engi It was announced that the Tech-Georgia plans. Estes Mann, student of the neer was' passed by the necessary two-thirds Student Relations Committee will meet in agreed upon by the student body. committee, reports that at six out majority. Athens next Wednesday, November 17, at TECH STUDENTS! They also believe that a permanent Jim Williford's' motion to rescind the Coun- 4:30 p. m. of the seven schools they visited it placed under the Publications Board with the The motion by Brian Brown to appropriate building could be started about as customary one advisor and that it be recom the money for transportation of this com was necessary for the students to pay mended that the point average requirements mittee was tabled. 10% Discount On All soon as a. temporary one could. Pro a special fee so that there would be ba kept as at present. The motion by Al Boissy to request the fessor Paul M. Heffernan of the De Al Boissy amended the motion so that the Executive Committee to grant a half holiday Watch and Clock Repairs a regular income to finance the con point average requirements for the editor and at Homecoming next year was passed. partment of Architecture, who visited editorial staff be retained. The motion as The motion by Walt Taylor to rescind the struction. In most cases, the students amended was carried. motion of July 6 concerning a part time seven successful union buildings with hemselves voted for the fee and then Estes' Mann gave the Treasurer's Report for secretary was passed. other members of the committee, the month of October. The motion by Brian Brown to hire a part- took it to the Board of Regents to be Gene Damon reported for the Welfare Com time secretary for the Student Council Office THE stated, "I believe it would be a mittee the food items which have been re was passed. authorized. After these schools had duced in price at the Dining Hall. They are With no further business, the meeting ad definite mistake to build a temporary a regular income to put towards the as follows : 60c Rib Steaks now 50c, 35c Swiss journed at 9 :03 p. m. FATHER TIME SHOP steak now 30c, 30c Chicken Stew with dump building at this time. But it would be Respectfully submitted, building, they borrowed enough lings now 25c, 30c Chicken Short Cake now 602 SPRING STREET, N.W. both possible and practical to start on 25c, 40c Roast Beef now 35c, 35c Fried Shrimp Harold W. Kraft, Jr., money to get started. Mann also now 30c, 30c Deviled Crab now 25c, and 35c Secretary. a permanent building as soon as a stated that some similar plan would Shrimp Creole now 30c. plan for financing it could be worked Don Gray reported for the Athletic Com probably have to be used here at Tech mittee that Coach Alexander is now ready to out. abandon his basketball s'eating plan for a because there probably will not be too purely first-come, first-served plan at each "A great deal of progress has al much income from other sources. game. The Council Athletic Committee will formulate the Student Council Plan for seat I P. RUSSELL'S SONS ready been made towards starting the ing, to be brought up at next meeting. building. Part of the land to be used Buildings Varied Travis Brannon reported for the furniture committee prices for furniture to equip the Florists has already been donated by the The committee has found that the Student Council Office, and the suggested prices. Board of Regents for this purpose buildings that they visited varied a two settees, four chairs and several ash trays FLOWERS FOR ALL OCCASIONS and ODK, who is sponsoring the drive great deal in the facilities they of two s'etees, four chairs and several ash trays for approximately $270. The motion was CORSAGES A SPECIALTY for the union building, has already fered. The one that they generally tabled. agree on as the most practical model Bill Carasik reported for the Election Com Special Prices to Students had tests of the ground made to get mittee that student I.D.- Cards must be pre information for the designing of the for a school the size of Tech is at the sented in order to vote in the coming elec WE DELIVER tions. foundation." This land is across Third University of Kentucky. This student Don Kennedy reported for the Parking RAymond 8818 2175 Gordon Road, S.W. union building contains meeting Committee that the students misuse the park Street from Glenn and Towers Dormi ing lots by parking out of place and on yellow tories. rooms, billiard and ping-pong rooms, lines and also the lots behind the Varsity and by Rose Bowl Field are seldom filled. Students *Progress Made' lounge rooms, and information center, With this hurdle crossed there are a ball room, a cafeteria, a snack bar, and a barber shop as well as a few other facilities. A building or a part of a building similar to this one could be started at Tech as soon as a RECORDS definite plan to finance it could be put into effect. No idle talk this, Tyler's is Atlanta's most The committee is going to present completely stocked record store. Rare, hard its report near the end of this quar to find items aplenty, be they long hair, ter. At that time it will make its pop, or jazz. Of course you can get all the recommendations and it will be left latest hits here. Have you seen our new jazz to the student body and the school to catalogue? decide if they want to start a build Tyler's Gramophone Shop, Inc. ing now and what type of building 845 Peachtree Street, N.E. they want.

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HCJ and a Jerket Disciple A staunch supporter of the Y-J maintains its standards are high, and The Technique would do well to gets its own shirts cleaned. if'Th e South's Liveliest College Newspaper" To the Editor: Since The Technique could not find time to Telephone ATwood 9160—Monday through Friday 1 p. m. to S p. m.—Saturday 10 a. m. to 11 a. m. comment on Dr. Brittain's book, it was evi In your November 5, 1948 Technique, it was Entered at the postoffice in Atlanta as mail matter Published semi>-weekly by the students' of the Georgia dently up to the Yellow Jacket staff to print of the second class. Accepted for mailing at special noted that your associate editor had some Institute of Technology as an expression of student rate of postage provided for in Section 1106, Act of comments to make on the first issue of the some more worthless rubbish. news and opinions only. Letters to the Editor and October 2, 1917, authorized April 3, 1922. signed articles represent the views of their writers Yellow Jacket, alias the Yella Jerket. It seems As I understand the purpose of the publica Subscription rates $1.00 per quarter and not necessarily those of the editor. as though "H. C. J." doesn't appreciate humor, tions at Tech, the Yellow Jacket is a humor especially the jokes found in the latest copy magazine. Does your associate editor suggest of the Yellow Jacket. To him the jokes "reeked that we turn it into a technical magazine? I from age and corn," while to many of the wish to remind him that we already have one AND NOW THE OTHER SIDE students, including yours truly, they were the entitled The Engineer. best jokes that we have seen in a Yellow Furthermore, if your associate editor saw Ninety percent of the cashiers9 counter dealings in check cashing Jacket since we have been on the campus. the show, One Touch of Venus and did not If you will note, there are at least six pages enjoy it, what does he do in his spare time? experience. Secondly, a system to quicken ser At a recent interview with Mr. J. R. An or. the theme, Homecoming, not counting the Hm-m? From the article published in The vice should be installed. If the cashiers will thony, comptroller, we learned that tliere is cover! How can it be said that it was practi Technique it would seem that he either hadn't at least partial justification for the newly in work faster, the lines will move much more cally nonexistant, when out of a possible rapidly. Likewise, the cashiers should adopt gotten any further than the cover of the Yel stigated ten cent service charge for cashing twenty-eight pages, eleven pages were used low Jacket, or that he needs to take a step checks. As shown by an investigation con the attitude that they are performing a duty, completely for ads with at least four other not a favor. There are times when they give in this big dark world and see what life is ducted by graduate industrial engineering stu pages partially covered with ads. This we will all about. dents, over ninety per cent of all business way to their feelings and are not too pleasant. arbitrarily call as thirteen pages devoted to Sincerely yours, going over the counters is the cashing of Granted, we are not always *so charming and advertisements. This leaves less than six checks. This calls for two cashiers. Insurance polite ourselves, but it is hard to be unpleas pages which are devoted to such articles as Duane Franklet. rates are very high. Expenses to maintain ex ant to a smiling young lady. "The Story of Georgia Tech," "A New Course Glad to see the Jerket has at least one press service between the school and bank are It might be better for all concerned if a at Tech" and a "Survey of Inhumanities." disciple.—Ed. high. Maintenance costs on the burglar alarm private concern were called in to handle this / system, which is connected with police head business. Such a concern sent a representa quarters down town, are great. All expenses tive before the student council last year. v One totaled approach $8400 per year. As evidenced of the local banks purchased property adja by a letter shown us, the comptroller's office cent to the school for construction of a branch The Committee Is in a Rut office. The presence of a bank could alleviate was "hauled on the carpet" to explain these Reader Fivel asks Concert Committee to work on more variety expenses and advised to eliminate them. the situation, but apparently it has abandoned With these facts in mind, we believe that the plans. The council should consider inves for its programs in the future. His comment is, 'Enough is enough!' the students can appreciate Mr. Anthony's ac tigation of the possibilities of installing com mercial service. Such would relieve the comp To the Editor: free of charge? Mind you, I am not saying tion. However, at the same time, we feel that that the band is no good, but ENOUGH IS troller of the expense and extra duties of main This is my fourth and final year at Tech. certain steps should be made to improve the ENOUGH. banking service for which we are now pay- taining satisfactory service and would guar I have never bothered to write a letter to the 'ing. First of all, efforts should be made to antee the students of the service they are editor, but since it seems to be in vogue now, If our illustrious committee can't procure maintain an adequate supply of cash. Demands paying for now. I am trying my hand at it. any different entertainment, I would like to can be fairly accurately estimated from past —H.C.J. Two years ago the Student Lecture and offer my services to them as a soft-shoe dancer. Concert Committee announced that the Ground I will provide my own accompaniment on a Forces Band would give a concert in the gym. Kazoo, wrestle all comers no holds barred— I saw, I enjoyed. Again last year the same one fall to a finish, answer all questions per committee came out with the same concert. taining to physics, and perform various tricks I enjoyed the concert of the year before; so I in magic. On top of all this, I will donate THE SURVEYOR'S SYSTEM decided to see the band again. I went, I saw, my services. In return, all I ask is that in the it was fair. Now this year I pick up The future the committee make a better showing % An explanation of the methods used in taking Tech s opinion poll Technique and what do I read? That's one than their present poor performance. through the different dormitories. However, problem you can solve without a slide rule. To the Editor: Sincerely, this system is a flexible one and is adopted Can it be that some one on the committee In his letter published in The Technique of to the requirements of the individual ques is in a rut? Or is it that the band performs Milton Fivel. November 9, 1948, Mr. Tom Green has made tionnaires. Contact is on a personal basis some rather bald statements: "The Techni with the surveyors being distributed and then que's poll is haphazard at best"; "Student taken up some moments later when they have platforms advanced by candidates and reports b,een completed. As the poll progresses from North-South Cleavage in NSA by office holders are beautiful theories, but dormitory to dormitory a running inventory the aspiring candidate who thinks he can be of the number of persons polled in each group A NSA vice-president asks for cooperation in the organization's elected by appealing to the logic of the voter's is kept. These groups have certain pre minds through well-constructed platforms . . . determined limits and the final results are work. Presently there is a split o ver interpretation of policies. and honest purposes is in for a rude shock." tabulated bearing this fact in mind. Two prevailing attitudes exist in NSA to infers that By-Laws I and II are a grand effort Apparently Mr. Green did not read the ex Granted that polls do have their fallacies day on the so-called "North-South" cleavage to delude the Southern schools, or an inade planation in The Technique of October 29, as all humans have their imperfections, let's over its policy, or lack of policy, on discrim quate compromise by the Northern schools. 1948, relating how the polls are conducted. I consider the services which a properly or ination—the feeling that the "compromise" Seven hundred students from all over the agree whole-heartedly that no poll is worth its ganized a*nd conducted poll renders to the (By-Laws I and II) is totally ineffective, and nation cheered ^those laws into existence at salt if not conducted under the proper condi student body. It serves as a sounding board the fear that the NSA will antagonize the the constitutional convention. tions; therefore it was towards this goal of for the majority will, thus indicating the "South" by adopting specific policies and The ultimate goal of NSA, at the same time, perfection that The Technique Surveyor has trend of student opinion. An analysis of these activities. must be made clear to all. In the preamble been striving this quarter. In breaking away opinions then serves as verbal ammunition to When questions of discrimination, segrega to its constitution NSA proclaims its aim from the old post offce style poll, the services aid in the correction of the evil, i.e., the old tion or educational practices arise NSA must "... to guarantee all people, because of their of Dr. J. E. Moore of the Psychology Depart system of campaigning for student offices. face squarely and intelligently both the pro inherent dignity as individuals, equal rights ment have been enlisted and used to great and possibilities for primary, secondary and Shall we destroy this instrument of public gram it has adopted and the problem of benefit. It is he who checks the surveyors for higher education regardless of sex, race, re opinion, Mr. Green, and settle back in our creating a unity of purpose within its ranks. ambiguity and establishes the numbers of ligion, political belief or economic circum rocking chairs for another quarter hoping It must be recognized that discrimination, students to be polled. Similarly Professor Ed stances ..." By-Law I of NSA's constitu that some Utopian method of marshalling pub or whatever the term used, is not a "North- ward Foster of the English Department is tion seeks the "eventual* elimination" of all lic opinion can be conjured up and used with South" issue, but a national problem. Too caled upon from time to time to lend advice forms of discriminatory practices anywhere in success? How about it? many people have evaded the issue, or couched and the steadying hand of experience. the United States. Sincerely, discussions in ambiguous terms, attempting to By virtue of the nature of the question satisfy everyone, and actually satisfying no How About the Individual? naires, the previous polls have been conducted Mack Gregorie. one. When we formulate our national objective Discrimination a Continuing Policy we must therefore ask ourselves whether or It must be understood that discrimination not the practices of educational institutions, TECHNIQUE PLATFORM: is not a practice that can be solved by pat be they quota systems, exclusions, or segre

6. Encouragement of school spirit. solutions for all communities. When an insti gation, defeat the essential purposes of edu 1. Student voice in matters of student interest. 7. Erection of a Student Union Building. cation in a democracy. We must ask ourselves, 2. An appropriate honor system for Ga. Tech. tution imposes quotas upon the admission of S. Better orientation and vocational guidance. The TECHNIQUE will at all times attempt to represent Catholics, Jews or Japanese, or when a state "does this practice violate the 'inherent dig 4. Greater intramural sports program. the best interests of the students in current discussions end legislature directs that Negroes shall be edu nity' of the individual?" Upon our answer to controversies. Promotion of active campus organizations. cated separately from white students, it re this question our over-all course must be Editor Tom Crossley flects the social patterns in the community. guided. Business Manager John Knoeller By-Law II of NSA's constitution states in Returning, then, to the problems within the Managing Editor Joe Torcassi regard to discrimination that "... it shall be organization, just as it is necessary to elim Associate Editor— Howard Johnston the policy of NSA to take action on the nat inate the artificial barriers standing in the ional, regional and local levels, through the way of the fullest educational opportunity News Editor Mack Stacy Advertising Manager— -Myron Levitt corresponding organization of NSA, to imple for all, so it is necessary to eliminate the Asst. News Editor Don Gray Asst. Adv. Mgr. Roger Bostick self-made barriers between many Southern Sports Editor Ralph Day Asst. Adv. Mgr. Jim Burke ment its stated principles, with regard to the Feature Editor Don Usher Collection Manager Dick Fox legal limitations involved." In that by-law and Northern colleges within NSA, which im World Events Editor Bob Cauthorn Asst. Collection Manager Byron Ilolton NSA recognizes the need for local solutions to pedes the full development of its national Surveyor Editor Mack Gregorie Circulation Manager Austin West specific problems. It expects the initiative of program. Asst. Circulation Manager...Marty Goodman Exchange Editor Walt Miller its local agencies to work for the broadening NSA is a NATIONAL student organization, NEWS STAFF: Ted Carroll, Dave Crane, Bascom Merchandising Manager., Fred Wolf Deaver, Haigh Jopling, Homer Pittman. BUSINESS STAFF: James Burke, Joe Breiner. Bob of educational opportunities. It understands and not a treaty between the geographical FEATURE STAFF: Raymond Auger, Dick Burrell, Gibson, Roy Johnson, Jerome Krochmal, Bennet that if local programs are to succeed, active section of the United States. Bill Greene, Larry Kahn, George Littman, Paul Bogul, Jimmie Roberson, Bruce Smith, W. B. Liberman, Henry McCamish, Alan Nacht, Jeff Woosley, John Steedley, Bill Muse, Stanley M. aid and guidance, rather than untoward inter A Baskind, W. H. Cheek, Tom Smith, Garner Hall- —Gene Schwartz, Powell, Hartwell Sims. man. ference, must come from the regional and SPORTS STAFF: Lenny Frieden, Ray Wyngarden, PHOTOGRAPHERS: Karl Anderson, Murray Cleare, Vice-President, Educational Problems, Don Judd, Bert Edleson, Jack Clegg, Bob Gaude, national levels. Bill Cooper. C. J. Crofoot. A halt must be called to that attitude which National Student Association. SMUsiiifsitiifiiiiiiiisiiiitittiiiiifiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiJiiitifiifriitiiiitttiiiiffttiittiiiiiitiiiiiiJiiiiiiiiitisfiiiiinitiiui Sm^lMIIIIIMlllllItlllltlltlllllllirtiririllMIIItlltlJIllltllllllllMTIIIlllMIIItlUtlJllllllllIIIllIltllJtlllllt ISyhAAUSf • 111111B Tuesday Afternoon, November 16, 1948 THE TECHNIQUE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA jtiiiiiiiHiiiiiiiiiiiimiimiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiu Essential Frontier Neglected The Technique WORLD EVENTS We have heard our frontiers spoken of in connection with the Al- leghenies, the Mississippi, and the Rockies. More recently they have been iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii set at the Rhine, the Elbe, or the Danube. We have given much thought to logistics and to plans for defense. the peoples of the world. The South and the K K K We are, even now, heatedly discussing the relative merits of this mountain Imperial Wizard says 'We don't hate anybody but most everybody hates us' range or that river—merits de termined by the strategems of war. By J. P. Blanks me that they would join the Klan in a minute if we The real frontiers for Americans, would just let them in. But our constitution says that and for all mankind too, lie along the This is the second of a series of interviews with out they can't be Klansmen. Therefore most of the Jews vast and untouched regions of the standing personalities involved in important issues of PEARCE'S are prejudiced toward us. They have been persecuted relations between man and man. the day. Dr. Samuel Green, Imperial Wizard and lead so many times in their history that they are always We take pride in the American er of all the Ku Klux Klajis, recently granted this re afraid of every group that won't let them belong— ingenuity which produced the atomic porter an interview in his downtown offices. Dr. Green LUCKY STRIKE afraid this group will persecute them. And then there bomb and the proximity fuse. Our is a practicing medical doctor in addition to being is the Knights of Columbus organization. They won't pride will be justified when that same the leader of the Klan. The following is Dr. Green's let me join their group, either, but it doesn't make ingenuity produces equivalent results direct statement and does not necessarily represent BOWLING me mad. I am not prejudiced because I can't join, on the frontier of relations between the opinion of this reporter or The Technique. In the but they are prejudiced because they can't belong to next week's edition of the Technique will appear the the Klan. You see, I'm not a Catholic and one of the 671 PEACHTREE STREET other side of the story as told by Ralph McGill, Edi Knights of Columbus' rules is that only Catholics Across From Fox Theatre tor of the Atlanta Constitution. belong. And one of our rules is that Catholics can't YELLOW JACKET When my grandfather returned home from the Civil belong. So the Jews and Catholics both hate us. And War, said Dr. Green, he found his wife and daughter then there are the foreign groups—they dislike us, too. alone on their huge plantation in Alabama trying to They can't join, either, because we don't let foreign- Sponsor of Tech's National born people belong. In the big cities they maintain Corner of Hemphill Avenue make enough to eat on; and all of his 1000 slaves had Intercollegiate Champions run off, leaving him a bankrupt man. The country was their old-country customs and languages—more or less and North Avenue changing America, while we try to uphold the Amer overrun with free and ignorant Negroes—trying to run Delicious Hot Dogs 1938-1939-1940 ican way of doing things. So everybody is prejudiced things they had r?ever known about before. Negroes and Sandwiches were elected to all the public offices, for the white toward us while we don't hate anybody. It seems fair Southerners had had their voting privilege disfran- to me that we limit our members if we want to. Our Curb Service fchised, and they were all at the mercy of the "free rule is that only white, gentile, protestant, American niggers," the scalawags, the carpetbaggers, and the born men can belong to the Klan. occupational armies. In a few months Grandfather saw You see in the papers where everybody is fighting his plantation sold for $500 back taxes by a Negro us, and one of the main groups is the Christian front sheriff to a Northern carpetbagger. organizations. But they get most of their money from Soon after that the Ku Klux Klan was organized the big Jews who are pouring many dollars into this HURST in pure self-defense. Something had to be done to fight. One organization called the "Non-Sectarian Anti- protect the white women from the Negroes and to give Nazi-League" is fighting us, and they even have a the white people a chance to be free again. They member in the Klan—but I have a member in their Dance Studios punished the evil Negroes and sometimes the scalawag organization. I know who their member is and all whites. It spread all over the South and did a fine job about him. Sometimes they try to stop us from meet in bring back white supremacy; as the Negroes became ing, but they can't do that because the Constitution Specializing in Ballroom Dancing orderly again, the Klan disbanded. guarantees us the privilege of meeting. WALTZ-FOX TROT-RUMBA-TANGO Then in 1915 some of the Southerners believed that All these people are afraid because they think we • Private Lessons Daily By are going to persecute them—but we don't persecute the Klan was needed again, so it was reorganized by Appointment Col. Simmons. A constitution was drawn up and cer anybody. We just believe in upholding the natural • Evening Classes for Adults tain qualifications for membership were written into order of things which is white supremacy. The Book it. Now this is why so many people hate us today— of Genesis clearly shows that the white man is super • Lady and Gentleman Instructors just because we won't let everybody and anybody join. ior and that God wanted it that way. We don't be • Be My Guest for One Lesson Without We don't hate anybody, but most everybody hates us. lieve that man-made laws can countermand God's laws. Charge Everything in the papers about us is bad; but if You know about B'nai B'rith—it's a big organization, No Obligation, of Course but they won't let me join. They have a certain you go to the bottom of it, there's usually an answer qualification that says a member has to be a Hebrew for it. Now take the Atlanta Journal—you might think PAY AS YOU LEARN to belong to the group. It doesn't make me mad because that it is too big a paper to hold grudges, but it does. GUARANTEED RESULTS I can't join B'nai-B'rith, but it makes the Jews mad The Journal is owned by Jimmie Cox. Cox was the OR YOUR MONEY REFUNDED because they can't join us. And, as a group, they hate governor of Ohio once, and while he was governor the Klansmen in Ohio fought him and beat him every time us, too. We don't hate the Jews. Some of my best REGULAR DANCES TUESDAY, SATURDAY 9 P.M. friends right here in Atlanta are Jews, and we like and he turned around. Now.he hates us and is fighting us. Don't Delay, Call Today respect each other. And some of these Jews have told (Continued on page 8) "Dance With Confidence — Recommended With Pride" VErnon9119 November 16, 1948 Ballroom Available for Rental 59AVi PEACHTREE STREET, N.E. (AT NORTH AVENUE) Dear Students and Faculty: J. Paul Sheedy* Switched to Wildroot Cream-Oil I got so excited over the toys that I forgot Because He Flunked The Finger-Nail Test to give you a few tips on gift selections in my other letter. I know you have your Christmas cards by now, but if you have been putting it off, there's still plenty of beautiful cards left in the College Inn. They have a nice selection of jewelry, electrical appliances, pipes, tobacco, radios, clocks and etc., that would solve your gift

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Tucker converted and of threatening skies, to watch the Jackets drop their second heartbreaker the first half as the play see-sawed Auburn led 14-6. V'ball Circuit in two weeks before an underdog Crimson Tide. up and down the field. During the Jackets Take to Air It was Clay Matthews, Hook, and for Bill Cadenhead to skirt left end first period Bill Bodie, freshman Only three teams remain unde After an exchange of kicks, the Tom Coleman who proved to be the and go over for the first score of the Jacket back, was taken out of the feated after a busy week of In Jackets took to the air, and on two main stumbling blocks to the Crimson game. The PAT was good, and Ala game with a broken collarbone. tramural volleyball play brought the passes crossed into the end zone. Tide by their stellar line play through bama led 7-0. Tiger Cubs Score '48 season near its end. Shorty Berrman, Jacket left-half, out the game. Hook played his usual Hook Intercepts Toward the middle of the third With twelve matches played and hurled this T.D. pass to Pete Feris. fine defensive game, and discouraged The second half opened with the quarter, however, a 60 yard drive seven others decided by forfeit this Again the Jackets failed to convert, the Alabamians from trying more Jackets again kicking off, and Lewis by the Auburn Cubs ended in a touch week, ten of the twenty-one teams and the game ended during a vain than eight passes. Bob Bossoms, who Hook intercepted an aerial from down. Only a few minutes later the ended their regular season. Tech drive. relieved Hook at the backer-up slot Gordon Petttus, running it back Jackets retaliated with a long pass Eleven different squads will be in The Junior Jackets' passing attack also made some fine tackles to stop thirty-four yards to the 'Bama thirty- from quarterback Darrell Crawford volved in the seven matches still to was led by Darrell Crawford who Cadenhead, Welsh, Noonan, and com one to set up Tech's first touchdown. to end John Weigle. The Jackets fail be held this year. completed 7 out of 14. Bill Tucker, pany from making more yardage on Dinky Bowen then carried over in ed to convert and trailed 7-6. Each league has an undefeated the Tiger Cub fullback completed 7 the ground. two plays. Incidentally, Saturday was leader with SAE sewing up the Early in the fourth quarter, a fum out of 15. Tech Kicks pennant in the Gold League by down ble by Joe Salome, Junior Jacket After winning the toss, Tech elected YARDSTICK ing the KA's and the Chi Phi's during quarterback, and a recovery by Au- to • kick off, and Red Patton's kick ALABAMA GA. TECH VOLLEYBALL STANDINGS First Downs 12 bnrn set the Cubs up for their sec the week to finish play with six wins 10 GOLD LEAGUE Won Lost Pet. carried to the Alabama seven yard 8 By Rushing 6 2 By Passing 5 1.000 and no losses. ond tally. Dwight Hitt passed to Bill Sigma Alpha Epsilon... 6 0 line. Red Noonan took the kick and 0 By Penalties 1 .83? Sigma Chi 5 1 In the White League, undefeated 124 Net Yards Rushing 152 .600 Kappa Alpha 3 2 ran it all the way back to the thirty- 8 Passes Attempted 17 .500 Lambda Chi Alpha with four wins Alpha Tau Omega 2 2 two. Four plays and one first down 5 Passes Completed 11 Phi Delta Theta 2 4 .333 65 Net Yards Passing 164 Save 25% to 50% On .200 and no losses must overcome Theta Chi Phi 1 4 later, Clay Matthews blocked Jack 3 Passes Intercepted By 1 .000 Sigma Nu _ 0 6 Xi and Phi Kappa Tau to secure the 102 Yards Runback Interceptions 34 Furniture! Special Prices Brown's kick and fell on it at the 110 Yards All Kicks Returned 56 WHITE LEAGUE championship. 30.5 Punting Average 31 1.000 Alabama forty-six to give the Jackets 1 Lambda Chi Alpha 4 0 2 Opp. Fumbles Recovered 0 to Prospective .833 Should Lambda Chi slip up, AE Pi Alpha Epsilon Pi 5 1 their first break. 4 Number of Penalties 3 Delta Tau Delta 4 2 .667 with a record of five victories and Married Couples Phi Kappa Tau 2 2 .500 The Engineers were unable to go .400 only one setback is the only team Dinky's birthday, and he really played Tau Kappa Ep3ilon 2 3 through the 'Bama line, and the ball Theta Xi 1 4 .200 with a chance to tie or win the loop his heart out trying to put the Jackets Kappa Sigma — — 0 6 .000 went back to the Tide on downs at lead. on top. Along with Bowen, Southard INDEPENDENT LEAGUE their own forty. After a second ex Artistic Furniture Co. Geechee Club 5 0 1.000 Geechee Club took over undisputed played a good game for the Jackets, .833 change of kicks, Clay Matthews again Towers Dormitory 5 1 leadership of the Independents by setting up their second touchdown 933 West Peachtree YMCA - 3 2 .600 slowed down the Red and White by Wesley Foundation 3 3 .500 whipping both Towers Dorm and the with a pass to the Alabama twenty- ATwood 6233 Pi Kappa Phi - 2 4 .333 blocking another kick, which Lewis NROTC -- 1 4 2.00 Wesley Foundation squads this week. seVen. .000 Hook fell on at the Tech forty-six. Theta Chi — 0 B Towers and Wesley were both unde Alabama's second touchdown, com feated until this week of play. Jacket Fumble ing late in the third period, was the The first big break in the game Only the hot and cold YMCA con straw that broke the camel's back came when Jimmie Petit fumbled Jack You Keep Good Company With PARIS With tenders stand in the way of a perfect for the Engineers. It came as Elliott year for the Geechees, their match Brown's'punt on the Jacket five yard Speed, Tide center, intercepted a line, and Doug Lockridge fell on it Southard aerial on the Tech thirty- • BOTANY SPORT SHIRTS on the 15th will decide the loop win- for the Tide. From here it was easy eight and ran all the way for a touch ner. • WEMBLEY TIES down. Again the conversion was good, and the Jackets trailed 14-6. • CATALINA SWEATERS COX MUSIC SHOP • MARLBORO SHIRTS THE KOTTAGE Latest with the HITS on Decca, CALL US FOR ALL RCA-Victor, Columbia and YOUR TABLE NEEDS • ESQUIRE SOCKS Capitol Regular Meals and We Cater to the Best Fraternities And a Large Selection of California Sport Shirts VOICE AND PIANO At Tech Short Orders RECORDING PARIS Sheet Music • Radio Repairs New York 284 Ponce de Leon 161 Peachtree Street 42 FORSYTH STREET MAin 2378 Super Market Call WAInut 3259-60

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Friday afternoon ATO scored twice flashy jersies sported by eight fra dominating nearly all of the second on passes from Fortson to wheel By Don Judd ternity teams added color to the Sun half after Stetina had sparked Brown over the Phi Delts. Sparkman and day scene. to an early lead. Binns was the of Kirkpatrick scored the winning tallies Pi Kappa Alpha 6 fensive star for the Loafers. What Is School Spirit? while Blemker crossed the ATO goal Kappa Sigma 0 School Spirit. Just whoat does that phrase mean? Certainly the Phi Sigma Kappa 6 after taking a toss from Ferguson. Despite the determined efforts of Tau Kappa Ep 2 On Sunday it was Fortson again only definition a freshman entering Tech could have would be one gotten an impromptu cheering section, the In a defensive battle Friday after who tossed the ATO's to victory. His from High School. Kappa Sigs dropped an important noon the Phi Sigma Kappa team won tosses to Sparkman and Kirkpatrick, We were impressed at the beginning of this quarter by the gigantic White league contest to PiKA, 6-0. out over the TKE's by virtue of a 30 two glue-fingered ends accounted for strides taken toward the development of a cheering section—the strongest Rugged defensive play and uncer yard run by Hahn in the first quarter all the ATO scoring in a 20-6 victory expression of school spirit—but this good impression was soon succeeded by tain officiating featured the clash be of the contest. The TKE safety re over Kappa Alpha. a feeling of dicouragement. The people who could make such a thing tween two squads that entered the sulted when a Phi Sigma Kappa punt succeed, the upper-classmen, looked at the whole affair as though it were game unbeaten. SAE 19—Chi Phi 0 was blocked and covered in the end Chi Phi was the victim of an out some kind of a trick. Sure there's a saying that goes something like "Don't The lone tally came late in the zone. burst of offensive strength shown by volunteer for nothin'." But there's also one that says something about second half when Ludlowe, brilliant Chi Psi 0—Phi Sigma Kappa 0 the Violets Sunday afternoon. The "having faith in your fellow man." PiKA back, held on to Ingman's pass Coming back to play again Sunday SAE squad that had previously When the call was issued for men to sit in the cheering section, the in the end zone. The score was highly afternoon the Phi Sigma Kappa squad scored one TD in four games broke only ones that showed up in any kind of a majority were the freshmen, contested by Kappa Sig defenders who was unable to dent the Chi Psi de loose with Klosterman, Pound, and and they had to be dragged out of their rooms by members of the were draped all over the PiKA re fense as the game ended in a score (Continued on page 8) Ramblin' Reck Club. Now that people have seen how the whole thing ceiver. less tie. works, they are clamoring for seats on the fifty—despite the terrible DTD 6—Lambda Chi Alpha 0 Theta Xi 7—Phi Gamma Delta 0 task of holding up a six ounce piece of Masonife for five minutes. This Delta Tau Delta squeezed by an Theta Xi stood off the determined kind of thing isn't school spirit. improved Lambda Chi defense to thrusts of Phi Gamma Delta in the PIPES TOBACCO score on a pass from Reiser to Strip second half of their Yellow Jacket LIGHTERS Four to One Not Enough ling late in the contest. The tally league game to win, 7-0. The Theta climaxed a sustained effort made by Headquarters Mixture No, 79 Neither is it school spirit when an estimated four thousand students can Xi scoring was done on a pass from DTD's Vanderbleek and Reiser. and Over 100 Other Blends be yelled down by one thousand in their own home stadium. This is exactly Web to Belasco followed by a con Theta Chi Forfeits Smoking Tobacco what happened Saturday when the Jackets went down before an aroused Sigma Nu caught an easy win as Crimson Tide. Not only were we yelled down, but so was the band. At the Theta Chi failed to show for their same time as the band was playing "Ramblin' Reck" and we were supposed scheduled White league encounter. to be sounding off, the Alabamnians decided to give a cheer for their boys— "WHERE THE GANG NROTC 32—Yanks 0 guess who you could hear from the West Stands—right, all you could hear In the biggest offensive show of the was "Fight, Crimson, Fight!' GATHERS" week-end, Navy swamped the hapless Why is it that the only time anyone seems to show any kind of Pipes and Lighters Yanks, 32-0. Navy scored twice on interest in the team is when they're winning? True school spirit is the intercepted parses, once on their own Repaired kind that comes back stronger, when the team is losing. aerial game, and twice more on loose DUFFY'S TAVERN Maybe school spirit comes to you as you grow older, although this balls after a kick. doesn't appear to be the case at any school other than Tech, because it was 0YAL CIGAR CO Loafers 12—Brown Dorm 6 Corner of Third Street and "The Pipe Corner of f/ie South" the only thing we had against the Vols on Homecoming Day. It seems In a battle for the Block loop cellar pretty sad when you have to look to the old grads to support the team, the Loafers sprang out against a sur West Peachtree FORSYTH AT WALTON especially when they really have to dig deep for their tickets, and many prised Brown Dorm team to win 12-6 of them only get back for one game a year.

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The South and the K K K— 1 were described as "Red", "Dutch", We have large memberships in the North, but up (Continued from Page 1) (Continued from page 5) "Pert", and "Queen"—always in the there we have to operate under cover more because lowing joke: "Said the august but The Constitution did not always dislike us, but it has familiar vein. Some of the slang ex of all the foreign groups fighting us. The Grand Dragon sweet-tempered little professor, as he been their policy for sometime now to criticize us. Some pressions frequently used in 1911 of New York visited me a few years ago, and he was finished reading his class roll, 'I have years ago we had to banish from the Klan a close were: when Georgia won on Sanford surprised at how openly we operated down here. When two hundred and fifty of you fresh relative of a former editor of the Constitution, and Field they "had our nanny"; a team he went back he decided to bring the Klan into the open men on my roll. Two of you, perhaps, he began to fight us. Now the new editor, Ralph McGill, which was defeated was "handed a up there, too. He owned a bonded warehouse and will graduate, if you don't take writes bad things about us sometimes, but I believe sick." lemon"; a BMOC was a "Big dog that Mr. McGill respects me despite what he says operated several big trucks, and when he showed his In support of present-day opinions with a brass collar." in his paper. connection with the Klan, these groups waylaid the in some quarters that The Technique To be a "knobby", in the eyes of No, I can't tell you what the memberhip of the trucks, broke his plate-glass windows and all sorts of other things. Then his customers boycotted him and could serve the functions of the Yel early Technique writers, a student Klan is—that has always been secret. ostracized him until he was forced to quit. After this low Jacket, evidence is seen in Vol. had to be able to dance the Boston, We are quite widespread in our operations, there the Klan went back under cover. I, No. 3 of The Technique that many the Turkey Trot, and the Monkey being only a few states in which we do not operate. jokes were carried by the infant Scramble. When dancing the Monkey journal. In reference to 1911 interest Scramble, students were "tearing and Jobe to keep the Sigma Chi as Sigma Phi Epsilon 12 in sex, Dr. Walker rationalized, lively rags." Bemoaning the lack of Touch Football— Pi Kappa Phi 6 sault moving. color in present-day campus slang, Schaefer led a persistent SPE team "There is another joke about a girl (Continued from Page 7) Dr. Walker said, "I lament the death Delta Sigma Phi 6 to victory over Pi Kappa Phi Sun kissing a boy, but each one of us Fancher all playing well in the SAE knows that girls didn't kiss boys in of the word 'buttermilks'. I now pro Phi Kappa Sigma 0 day by snagging two TD passes to backfield. 1911, so I pass over it as t a pre nounce it dead, as of the first of the In a quick thrust covering about win 12-6. posterous fabrication." war. It flourished and was established Sigma Chi 12—Beta Theta Pi 2 sixty yards, Pedulla tossed to Spraul Pi Kappa Phi countered with a TD Dr. Walker, who has shown a deep as Tech's unique contribution to the A clicking Sigma Chi passing attack for a Delta Sig score in the fourth heave from Anton to Clary for their interest in the growth of The Tech language of slang as early as May 1, snowed the Beta's under 12-2, Sunday quarter. The tally was made possible only score. Gross, rugged guard for nique from a 4-page weekly to a semi- 1912." "Buttermilks" was a term afternoon as Jordan made several by a host of good blockers after the Pi Kappa Phi was the standout lines weekly which, at one time last year, used to refer to "reet-pleat" O'Keefe miraculous catches of tosses by Milam catch. man of the contest. put out 14 pages, said, "The only Junior High School girls. real study I've made of The Techni In speaking of the growth of The Atlanta's Fun Centre • • • que is in words—grammatical struc Technique, which has seen, in 37 VARSITY ture." The English department head, years, its subscription price go from referring to methods of writing on $1.50 to $3.00 a year and its circula THE ROLLERDROME BARBER SHOP the infant Technique, explained, tion increase from 700 to 6,000, Dr. "They were following newspaper Walker stated that The Technique has Make A Date To Skate Service You Will Like standards of their day, which to us constantly improved in its make-up. Join the Happy Crowds Monday Thru Saturday Evenings does not sound like newspaper writ Declared Dr. Walker, "It has con ing at all." sistently worked for the ideals of 7 to 10 P.M. — Saturday Matinee 2:30 to 5 P.M. NEXT DOOR TO the school, representing the best of THE VARSITY Dr. Walker compared the account ALSO AT THE ROLLERDROME TOMMY TRENT Presents of the 1911 Georgia game to the student opinion." classic, Homer's "Iliad". To compare ROUND and SQUARE DANCING O. F. SCALES, Manager Every Friday Evening 10 P.M. to 1 A.M. the early attempts at sports writing to what is now to be seen on The Technique sports page would be like JUNIORS comparing white and black . . . such was the impression gained from Dr. A VOTE FOR AKE THIS CHRIST MAS Walker's historical highlighting. By the second issue, The Technique J. K. (Jim) READ had already begun on a high plane, YOUR FINEST... and the editors had begun supporting Is A Vote For vital campus issues, according to Dr. Walker. In the same issue in which Representative Government a theme on slang—"The Sho' 'Nuff Roper Poll Says I Will Lose Stuff", by George M. Small — ap peared, editors Blohm and Turner at tacked the then prevalent use of poor English. Dr. Walker expressed the opinion that men of 1912 took themselves WGST more seriously than do even veterans of World War II. Said Dr. Walker, 'They were more especially apart, al The Ga. Tech Station most stuffy . . . There has been a general break-up in the pattern of 920 ON YOUR DIAL formal dignity and politeness. They were very responsible sort of people." Highlighting the campus scene in Tops in MBS and Local the early days of The Technique, Dr. Programs Walker stated that one of the most striking differences seen in old Tech niques are the pre-World War I ad vertisements. Of interest are the out PROOFS READY moded "Costumes the Young Man ...worlds most should Wear", 1912 style. The elabo Come in and select the rate wording had a touch of the picture you wish to go in comical. the Year Book before Unique to days when the Tech en November 17. rollment was 700, The Technique, as wanted {pen the organ of student fads, carried references to all professors in the GASPAR-WARE form of nicknames. Coach Alex, var iously called down through the years, 876 WEST PEACHTREE was known as "Pooh-Bah". Students B & R CAFETERIA Serving THE FINEST FOOD THAT MONEY CAN BUY SPECIAL: For Tech Students Only $5.50 Meal Tickets for $5.00

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