Brooklyn Technical High School - Blueprint Yearbook (Brooklyn, NY)

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I finally had to buy another meter, this time a good one. But even this experience did not cure me. It is said that a baby once burnt will avoid fire, but not I. A few weeks later I went out to buy a flash-gun. There is a flash-gun made especially for my camera, and since it 'is reasonably priced, I natu- rally tried to get that first, but none of the camera stores I went to had it in stock. I finally went to a well-known camera store and bought, second-hand, a well-known type of gun. I was delighted with my bargain -until after I had tried to use it. It worked fine-sometimes. I wasted more than half a dozen fiash- bulbs before I finally discarded the gun. The Hnal result was the purchase of a new gun. The price of the first one I chalked up to experience. There are none so deaf as those who will not hear, and there are none so dull as those who will not learn. I was in a camera store, just looking around, when I came across a bargain in enlarging paper. At least I thought then it was a bargain. I should have known better. The paper was plainly labeled seconds, and it cost only about half of what I had been used to paying. I bought a package and took it home to try it. Thank goodness, I didn't buy more! I went through the usual pro- cedure involved in enlarging, and all MY MOTHER'S FACE went well until I put the print into the hypo. When I turned on the white light, I saw that the print had a distinct yellow- ish tint. I figured it might be the fault of one of the chemicals, so I took a piece of paper which I knew to be good and went through the same procedure. Because the result was a good, normal enlargement, I knew that the paper I had bought at a bargain was at fault. This was the final proof needed to convince me that false economy in photography leads only to more expense and disappointment. I have learned from these experiences something that most older people already know! You get only what you pay for and nothing more when you buy some- thing. Of course, there are exceptions to every rule. A man may pay a dollar for an old broken camera and find that he has bought a museum piece, but cases like these are rare. Usually if you pay a dollar, you get a dollar's worth and nothing more. A photographer who wants good results should buy equipment which has been found satisfactory by other photog- raphers. If he buys used equipment, he should buy it in a reputable camera store, and should inspect his prospective pur- chase before buying. If he follows these rules and remembers that one gets noth- ing that he doesn't pay for, he will not go far wrong in buying his equipment. By GEORGE KIRCH, A41 Of all the things I'll ever love, A beautiful tree in a beautiful place, A red, red rose, the coo of a dove, I'll always love my mother's face. A colored leaf is a thing to see, And a thrush's song my heart enthralls. But of all the things I've ever seen, My mother's face is best of all. The sail of a schooner against the sky, Day-dreaming, while looking into space. Following sea gulls across the sky, I always see my m0ther's face. 29

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US... ANNA: I'm frightened, Marie! MARIE: But no! You mustn't be fright- ened, Anna. You mustn't cry. That is not brave, that isn't French. Look- there is a crucifix. Come-let us say our evening prayer. NARRATOR: I was there and I saw it. I saw her lead her frightened brood across the way to where there stood a roadside Calvary, bearing its sad, in- domitable Christ. Strange how the shells will spare just that. I saw so many - There they knelt, poor inno- cents, hands folded and eyes closed. I stole across and stood behind them. MARIE: We must say our prayers. Our Father which art in heaven . . . CHILDREN: Hallowed by thy name . . . MARIE: Thy kingdom come . . . CHILDREN: Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven . . . SOUND: Shell hunting flare hy. MARIE: ftrying lo control Johrj Give us this day our daily bread . . . fPau.re ar Jhe waits for rerponre which doex not come, then repeating urgently, Give us this day I know, I know, prayer Qrohhing Give us this day for-for- ALBERT: Forgive we forgive those our daily bread . . . but we must say the quite openly nowj our daily bread and us our trespasses as who trespass against SOUND: Childrerfr voicer repeating lhe rert of lhe Lord'J Prayer with Alberfr voice leading all of them. Keep low in hachground as NARRATOR: I turned, amazed, to see who spoke the words that they could not. It was the soldier of the shadows. I raised my eyes and looked into the face of Albert, the King. I have no words to tell you what I saw . . . only I thought that while a man's breast held a heart like that, Christ was not-even here-so far away. SOUND: Voirer, with Albert leading, up into lrizfmphanl VOICES: For Thine is the Kingdom, the power, and the glory forever. Amen. MUSIC: Up to crercendo and ont. PENNY WISE, DOLLAR FOOLISH By ROBERT KUDLICH, 711 OBODY is sillier than the amateur photographer who save a few pennies I do not mean to imply that the photographer should avoid all but the most expensive equipment, but he should avoid that equipment which gives inferior results. There is a great deal of good equipment on the market, reasonably priced. But the photographer who buys a cheap, second hand enlarger may have to discard it and buy a new one, a procedure which is 28 obviously a waste of money. Photography is an expensive hobby, and money is pre- cious. For Christmas I received a good cam- era-not the best, but one capable of pro- ducing good results. I immediately went out and bought an exposure meter-not the accurate and expensive photo-electric type, but the cheap and inaccurate ex- tinction type. Then my troubles began. Instead of getting the good, accurately exposed negatives my camera was capable of producing, I got either black, dense negatives or negatives without images.

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MATHEMATICS By HARRY BLUM, 81 C The Human Element in Mathematics in which 1 he humanizes the use of r I HEN I reread Stephen Lea- WK cock's essay, A, B and j ,' - I letters in mathematics, I thought of the uniqueness of mathematical perspective, a subject which can lead to endless speculation. Do you shudder when you see an in- volved math problem? Of course you do. It's a natural reaction. By looking at the peculiar artihciality of math problems, however, you can enjoy your math. The unpredictability of solutions to math problems is really amazing. You start out with any number of men going upstream, downstream, and across the stream, only to find that half of them are going at the rate of a steamboat and the others either aren't moving at all or are rowing backwards. This is only a simple type of problem. You really have trouble when you have hounds chasing hares, or vice-versa-for math makes no claims that its problems are realistic and you have to consider the facts that they have different sized steps, that they take dif- ferent numbers of steps per minute, that they run in several time belts, and last but not least, that railroad trains interrupt them regularly. Even if you had problems like this in England, where fox hunters have right of way over trains, you would still have the chases interrupted for trains. The problems have no consideration for the law. Mathematicians are even worse than lawyers, for lawyers endeavor to get around the law, while mathematicians make problems which break the law. Math problems have not only a claim 30 on unpredictability, but also on impracti- cability. An interesting example is to start off on a work problem. If a man can do a job in four days, two men can do it in two days, four men in a day. Carrying this to an extreme we find that 34,560 men will do the job in a second, or to put it in another way, if everyone in the United States chipped in on the work, the job could be done the instant Congress ap- propriated money for it. The money could then be shared by all the people in the United States for everyone did a little work on it, and at the rate that our government is appropriating, everyone could get about one hundred dollars for that one job. One rush project every month would solve our economic prob- lem. Then you have problems dealing with distance. If two people travel away from each other at varying speeds, you have to spend thirty minutes in order to figure out how far apart they will be after a given length of time, and then it does you no good unless you expect to get a job figuring out Parcel Post rates for a moving mail order house whose cus- tomers live in trailers. Even then it would pay you to put on a few extra cents worth of stamps instead of wasting a half hour. The exchange of money example is a type of problem which stands out in its uselessness. Two people keep giving each other money, and after each exchange they compare their amounts of money. If you want to find out how much money they have, you must figure out some alge- braic equation and solve it. It seems to me that if these two people want to know