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VOLUME XXIX.
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 8, 1IHM.
NUMBER 14.
The Southern Drawl Makes Debut
COLLEGE MEN ESCAPE! MUSGROVE DUSTS
HIGHWAYMAN IN OFF ANTHONY IN
WOODED SPOT RACE FOR ATHLETE
“GOOD ROADS” IS New Model Publication
SUBJECT OF 3-DAY Enters Literary Field
MEET IN ATHENS'
DESPERATE ATTACK WAS
THWARTED BY CUNNING.
AUTO RIDDLED BY BULLETS
BEAUTY CONTEST IS TIED
Students and Professor Outwit
Bandits and Narrowly Miss Ex
termination Sunday Nijiht Near
Winder.
Many Other Honors Juggled By
Electioneering—Pandora Poli
ties Running Rife.
Highway Commission Convenes
in ('lassie City to Discuss Many
Probable Improvements in Road
Construction Throughout State.
HONORED IN CHAPEL
Monthly Magazine Sponsored By
School of Journalism In Its
Initial Issue.
HARGRETT GIVES WELCOME!
Prof. John E. Drewry, of the Uni
versity and of the Athens Banner and
his brother, Harrel, with another
companion in a car, were tired upon
Sunday night while they were pass
ing through a clump of woods just
this side of Winder. The parties
were returning from Griffin where
they had spent the week-end and
just as they entered the wooded spot
of the road a pistol shot rang out,
there was a crash of glass and the
whizz of a bullet. Harrell, the
younger Drewry, was driving and
"stepped on” the gas and the car. a
coach, sped out of danger.
After the party had reached a
distance down the road where safety
from bullets was thought possible
an inspection was made of the dam
age. It was found that a lone bullet
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By >l. I). Sunders.
The latest developments in the
Who’s Who contest bring on more
talk, but we hope no more fights,
for the writer is a law-abiding citi
zen and is easily frightened when a
woman speaks threateningly. The
development to which we refer is
the rising into prominence of
"Mary” Musgrove in the race for
"Best Athlete.” He has left his
nearest competitor, Mark Anthony
.Many
Prominent Engineers
Attendance Here.
in
i Chancellor Pays Tribute the
Greatest Man of Our Age in
Touching Address to a Sorrow
ing Audience Wednesday.
The officers of the Georgia State
Highway Commission are in session
at the College of Agriculture, dis
cussing the subject, “Good Roads,
Their Construction and Mainten
ance.” The convention lasts three
days, beginning Thursday and going
by a number of votes. In an ex-! through Saturday evening.
HED AND BLACK
MUSIC CLUB WHIPS
INTI) FINE SHAPE
End Men Getting Funnier While
Singers Tune Up Vocal Cords
and Players Assume Control
Over Their Instruments.
The University of Georgia Glee
elusive interview, the leading candi
date stated that he attributed his
success in this phase of human en
deavor to the fact that he has really
cared for his body in the way that
Lionel Strongfort, his physical ad
viser, prescribes. He never smokes
5ft cent cigars unless they are given
to him. rarely indulges in laudinum,
morphine or chloroform, eats reg
ularly from morning till night, and
always goes to bed before breakfast.
His formula for perfect health is:
“Sleep only in classes, make your
diet mainly of green persimmons,
shrimp salad and cucumbers on the
cob, conserve your strength by never
taking any exercise except what is
absolutely required in going to and
from meals.”
A truce was declared by tht three
candidates for the beauty honors
last Tuesday. When the special Red
and Black correspondent mustered
courage to crawl out of his hiding
place in the vicinity of Watkinsville
Forest, whence we fled following an
onslaught by the assainettes men
tioned in previous dispatches, we
came upon a washtub supported over
a crackling fire of driftwood on the
hank of the West Oconee. To our
Mr. Felix Hargrett delivered the
welcoming address to the visitors
Thursday morning, and the meeting
proceeded with its purpose of deter
mining the best policies and methods
to adopt to obtain good roads for
the state. All Civil" Engineering stu
dents are excused from their classes
for the week-end to attend the con
ferences. Mr. J. N. Holder, chair
man of the commission delivered an
address on the road problems of the
state.
The meetings are conducted under
the auspices of the Civil Engineering.
Department of the University. Prof.
Strahan, head of the department, is
ex-officio chairman of the convention.
11 is expected that much benefit to
the slate will be derived from these
meetings.
Wednesday afternoon at exactly
the time the funeral services of
Woodrow Wilson were being held in
Washington, the students of the Uni
versity, Lucy Cobb, autl many resi
dents of Athens met in the University
Chapel to pay tribute to the greatest
man of our age.
A male chorus led in the singing
of "Rock of Ages,” after which
Chancellor Barrow paid tribute to
Woodrow Wilson in a short but
touching talk.
"Ib-alli Always Makes Us Slop and
Think”
"Often an individual stops to
think, sometimes a community stops
to think, but when the whole world
stops to think, there must be some
great cause. The world is just be
ginning to realize what they have
lost, in losing this great man, who
was an advocate of peace, love,
friendship, and above all, Clod.”
Woodrow Wilson, born in Stantou,
Va., was educated at Davidson Col-
PROMISES TO BE SOUTH'S
GREATEST PERIODICAL
With a Balanced List of Contents,
The Drawl (lives Precedent to
('ollej'iate Journalism in Dixie.
The Southern Drawl, new Univer
sity of Georgia monthly magazine
sponsored by the Henry W. Grady
School of Journalism, has just ap
peared in its initial issue. The pe
riodical is a new venture in the mag
azine world and is designed to have
an especial appeul to the people of
the South. The contents of the mag
azine are so arranged that in each
issue there will be one article of
especial appeal to a particular group,
with the remainder of the reading so
balanced that all will be pleased
with It.
Edited and published by the Henry
W. Grady School of Journalism, both
faculty members and students co-op
erating in the enterprise, the maga
zine comes from the hands of those
who through their training and
natural instincts are best prepared
for the publication of a high class
magazine. Bearing the imprint of
the University of Georgia .it is guar
anteed that the South will be the
audience to which the appeal of the
ORATORICAL CLASSIC
OY NOTED SPEAKERS
lege and Princeton, studied law at
Virginia, practiced for a short while | p Ubllcatlon will he made,
in the state of Virginia, taught at
Johns llopkins, wa* President of
Princeton, and Governor of New Jer
sey, front where he was called to
till the highest honor a nation can
bestow upon mortal man, President
of the United States, where he served
for eight years.
“When war faced us lie thought
for a long time before acting. Who
Club is polishing up their shining consternation, there were seated in
stars in preparation for the annual
tour of the state which is to start on
Feb. 21. Practice during the week I
has been exceptionally good and the I
songsters expect to give a surprise j
to the audience with some of the!
numbers they have in store.
Chubby Allen and Happy Harvey, j
the two famous Georgia end men are
spending all their spare moments j
reading scores of joke books and
talking with humorously inclined j
conversationalists, all preparatory to
it Buxom Bill, Hickey, and Bill of
journalistic fame, all scrubbing duti
fully with a rag which one of the
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Nelson and Jelks to Deliver An
niversarinn Address in Chape
at Early Date.
I else could have managed this great
Those who have seen the new mag
azine agree that it combines the
good features of the majority of the
best magazines hi America, hut is
more effective in thut Its scope Is
limited to a particular area rather
I hail to a wide territory In which
there is such a homogeneous mass of
people, each with a different taBte.
One person, a well known writer,
terms The Southern Drawl a com-
Carl K. Nelson and Freeman Jelks
will face each other in the regular
anniversarian speaking contest which
Is to take place on the twenty-first
will offer of this month in the Chapel. Nelson
will be Introduced by J. H. Freeman;
war as this man did ’ The League j blnatlon Saturday Evening Post and
of Nations though rejected, has giv- American Magazine for the South,
en the world greater hopes for an I
everlasting peace."
The Chancellor ended his talk with
these words: "May peace reign on
The initial number contains a
number of important articles, short
stories, plays, memoirs, poems, dis
cussion of hooks. Illustrations and
furnished for the dances
some gala numbers.
John Tanner, President of the Club j » nd JelkB win be announced by Kd-
announces that the outfit will soon war< * Lawton.
be in perfect shape to hit the road. I Nelson and Jelks are well known
Brooke Johnston, leader of the Glee j by all students and “need no intro-
part of the club states that his men duotlon." Nelson has made more
threaten to extinguish bird life in speaking honors perhaps than any
putting themselves in a witty frame I the sou n, by the comparison they will other man in school, and is an orator
of mind for the performances. All ma )t e with their singing Charlie whose silvery flow of English sweeps,
their friends laughingly exclaim that | Anderson, leader of the Instrumental over the audience like a spring flood
they are succeeding royally in this : dub claims that the instruments and
respect. I their organizers are in better shape
The well known Bull Dog Orches-jthan ever and ready to start the
earth, and may God smile on Wood- humorous matter. I. H Granath. of
row Wilson.” j Atlanta, is the editor-in-chief; W. G.
The audience sang, "Nearer My Johnson, of Thomaston. business
God to Thee," after which a very 1 manager; T. E. Merritt, of Macon,
appropriate prayer was given by Dr. j circulation manager; and E. P. Law-
i Wilkinson, of the First Baptist t ton. of Savannah, assistant editor.
tra and the Georgia Four who have 1 audience swaying. Joe Bennett, the
collected many admirers in Athens trusted Business Manager, says not
by their appearances at the local to worry about that end. So we are
He is known and feared as a debater
and has gleaned the laurels from
more than one contemporary con
testant.
Jelks is also a prominent leader of
various activities. He is best known
theatres and many more throughout all ready for some snappy Georgia aa an actor an( i also as a speaker,
the state by the music they have music. (Continued on Page 8)
church, and while the audience re
mained standing “Taps" was blown.
Dr. S. V. Sanford and John E.
Drewry, teachers of Journalism at
the University, are the advisors of
The Drawl. The Drawl is on sale
The Economics Society will hold
a try-out for the annual Agricultural I at Bie local book stores and news
Club-Economics Society Champion- *tand*.
ship Debate. All rising and building The other members of the staff
Demostheneses and Ciceros are urg
ed to participate, and to come pre
pared on the subject: "Resolved,
That France was justified in their
occupation of the Ruhr District.”
The try-out will be held in the ac
counting room at 8:00 p. m., Feb
ruary 12.
of The Drawl are R. C. Heslop. W. C.
Munday, Jr., I. P. Meyerson, J. T.
Baker, Rosemary Whitaker. May
McNeer, Charlotte Flemister, S. A.
Wilson, R. E. Barfield, D. M. Dorn-
blatt, J. Lucas, J. L. Stanford, Es
ther Lesser, R. F. Donaldson, Harrell
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