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. As so mo.n;,r ncu members havo coce· ·in to the Sorority thru installation of our neVT. ehc.ptcrs at Gr~t~ lc:,r. Colo. and Alva. Oklc.. . 1. t h~s ncemed bost to cxplal.:tJ. several things in connection vri th the publl.cation of the PHOENIX. Altho our nagazibe is consi~ercd printed matter by the poot office authorities, it is not produced by tho methodns is a book. In the l~ttcr ease typo is set up in lines and para·g ro.phs. them looked in to ·forms that n:ra placed in o. printing press. Proofs are· alw~ys taken. nnd, whenever· crro~s are found it iS posSible to Correct these by'-Gi.lbStituting the proper letters or punctuation. In this ucy it 1s easily possible to get a printed pn~ that is absolutely correct. · The printing of the PHOEITIX is nn entirely different mnttcT . As soon ~s tho Central Office is ready to start on the uork of the mo.gczine, M.iss WaDndn, S ecretar:J. gets v7hct is called· a stencil sheet, which she moistens T:ith c prepared liquid that soft~ns the ric~ pnpe! of ~hich the stencil sheet is made. The next step is to place the : sheet in the typewriter und to throw off the ribbon, so that the ~ype : may hit the softened paper and out right thru it, lenving th~ sheet finnlly like n pieee of lace with the mesh made up of letters. It is possible to hold the sheet to the light and to rend everything that h~s been written. Indeed, Miss Wuxmnn,·cs she does the cuttin~· can rend what she hcs written against the stiff background of the bl~ ! puper. With thio expluno.tion, then, it is poc.sibJle for e"fe-ry one to understand tho.t, uhen once u letter h~s be on out uut, · no chcngecan reo.lly be made. Occc.sionc.lly one mc1y blot out c. word. or c let ter or incorreot punctuation, by covering the part not wanted with c.:. piec8 of paper or with n bit of varnish. ~As :;our r:ationr.l l'reSiden":.: dictutes right to J,iiss Wxman, t).s she s1t6f}i~ t tbe t:mchine. it quito naturally happens thct mistalte~ mny be r:inde. . Your Nntion!ll r:resident*l7ith absolute diotinetnerw. sho :may diotr:te the wrong Pord. because r::ho is thinking :fo.ster than she is talking. !.1iSs Wnxmnn, with · her eyes riveted on the shoot o.nd her· eurs nttempting to crrtch every spoken word, \7hile her finger~ hit the !tnys of the typeV7rit·er \71th just the right- amount of force. may mi{JO n word, nor.' and then just o.;.. she did a moment ago when sba omittcd,at the puint tho.t is starred. the word~--may not di·ota.te ,.- Som·eJcimes, when vre ere in . a great bur:-:::. and that ·often happens r.hen our s:~sistant, I!~s-g :Blomberg. is V7o.Itint; for us, neither your National PresiGient no:r !:Ii~s Waxman bas time to look over th@ stencil. Hhen th.e re l.s opportunity, an effort is nl··· -r: cys made to make such c0rrections ns q!'B possible. _ . "..s . soon ns Misrl Blomberl) receives,; the stencil, r:he lays ~ ~; fnce dovm on an inke·d c-,.linder, and then proceeds to run sheetn thr~.~ the r.1 il).eograph, ,..,hile the "·cylinner is being turned by me~ns .o f a crcnl:. The ink in the · pnd 3tretched over the cylinder ~~ s~ueezed •n·~ o:t' it under ·"~ re("'sure c'n to· the \71'li to chect. Quite n2.tt"--r2lly th-. i~1l: c<:nn j t r.::ct thru the :-: tencil ~hect o::cv.?t vi:: thA mesh of th . l J . , '.:e r s , · ~Jr thru s ooe ~)locos :::.ccidentnlly brol: nn. Lf t cr. t1.":0 ~ hee t r: h .:,ve 'Jcc n :run -~ ~r.~ n :;he •.L..: C~ lin c thny h a ve C0 be Cried ont 0e f JTC t he: '· - ~he
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