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Page Pour THE RED AND B L A C L fteb anb JBlacts that such an undertaking must begin humbly and progress slowly for a OfflrlaJ Orgun of thr Atlilrtlr AfinorlnlIon of tho (nlvmlty of Ooorsia. Bntered at the I’oet Office at Athena, <la„ oh aeeond claMM mail uinttcr. STAFF THOMAS K. ST. JOHN—.Editor-in-chief tii'Y ('. HAMILTON Managing Editor F.IHTOKIAI. STAFF BCD Hardy John R. Candler Pn-ntlaa Couraon. It. K. Hamilton Holier* I.. Sherrod Wvily folk Iaithrop Mitchell.. Nathan Oana ..Flrat Aaaociatc Editor Second AHHoi-iale Editor Third Aaaoclntc Editor News Editor Spurt* Editor feature Editor Staff Manager -- Staff Manager while. After then. If it proves suc cessful. greater strides can be taken. To begin with, Dr. Reade plans to have a small area in mountainous country equipped with limited ac commodations for a few students who especially desire to do research work during the summer. With this mod est beginning there will be put under way what will probably mean more to the South in the way of scientific advancement than any other one thing ever has. That the South is lagging woefully behind In scientific affairs is obvious without much investigation. The North and West have both forged ahead with great rapidity because, as many will say, of their great wealth; but as a few know that it is because they have far-seeing men who are not content just to read and to admire. They have gone ahead to find out for themselves. HimiNKMN It El* A KTMKNT Frlsr M. Thompson, Jr-Buslness Manager far! T. Sutherland Ahn'I HuhIiichn Manager Hilly Meridian — ..Circulation Manager Joe K. Hawkins _ .first Asalstnnt Edgnr It, Hiount— ..Second Assistant Ik K- 0»y - Third Assistant KKPOKTOKIAI, STAFF Mary Claire Hrannon, Sadie Myers, Itosdle Itoaenllial. Item- Stuart. Naomi Henson. Charles Hardy, James llcdlings worth. Tom Hamilton, tletie Baldwin It C Halts. Nathan liana. Percy Johnson, .1 I Carlton. William farrcl. Snm lllrscli. .1 II Napier, Jr., nnd It. E. Falllgant SIGMA DELTA CHI There was Installed yesterday evening In ceremonies held at the Georgian hotel a chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national journalism fra ternity. This adds one more to the list of many clubs with which this University Is blest. It Is hoped, however, that this Is not to be Just another "club.’’ It is Intended to he the inner circle of the school of journalism and it comes with great hopes In connec tion with the near completion of the Commerce-Journalism building. The school of journalism, through the Quill club, is fortunate In se curing a chapter for the University of Georgia, there being only two other chapters in the South. In the rolls of this fraternity nre found the leaders in American journalism. As an incentive to training jour nalists and as an aid to practicing journalists, this fraternity Is found to be exceptional In qualities of prac ticality, and is, ns many other clubs and fraternities are not, on a work ing basis. The chapter here is ex pected to grow Into the Journalistic axis of the University of Georgia. SCIENCE MOVES FORWARD IN GEORGIA Of especial Interest to the Univer sity ns well as to the state nnd to the South is the announcement by Dr. J. M. Rondo, head of the botany department, of a proposed summer scientific camp. This camp Is to be situated In the mountainous section of north Georgia on account of the abundance of the mnterinl with which to work. The camp is to be for the outdoor sciences and espe cially botany, in a place where nature can be studied firsthand, not only on account of the great number of species there ready for instruction purposes but because the mountains have been selected because they are the natural summer country. Many thousands of people every year go to resorts In our mountains and waste time, but here is the oppor tunity to be In a cool, healthy coun try and to do constructive work also. So it Is natural to expect that such a place will attract teachers from everywhere. Dr. Reade has been back of this project for a good while and has been pushing it forward as fast as he thinks best. It is fully realized What is needed here Ih more per sons witli a love for pure science who do not care for recognition and glory but for knowledge and pro gress. What Mendel lias contributed to the knowledge of heredity was worked out for the pure love and fan of it. Playing at experimenting in his garden was a hobby with this Austrian abbot, yet out of his “play things" came some of the greatest discoveries of fundamental laws that have ever been found. To create just such an atmosphere of undis turbed work-at-play is the object of the summer camp in the mountains. It will provide wonderful opportu nity as well as recreation to those earnest men and women who show themselves capable and qualified to carry on such scientific work. At. first, under the proposed plan, there will he provision for only 25 students and the faculty and staff, with mess-hall and laboratories. For a running water system, purchase of books and scientific equipment, sal aries of faculty and staff, publicity and operation, Dr. Reade estimates that a $15,000 fund for three years’ operation will start the camp na ture school witli “reasonable pros pect of success and usefulness.” Information received by Dr. Reade from many biologists of all parts of fhe country show that they want lo study southern plant life, but that a center of biological research is lacking. Tills indicates that the pro posed camp will satisfy a tremendous need to the country at large. Such an undertaking us this one man is endeavoring to put over is one that will make the University known thorughout this country, will rouse the South from scientific stagnation, and will offer our youth the chance to "cultivate Intellectual interest. . . and to have an active hand" in doing original work. This is one thing that all edu cators as well as students ought to be behind. It seems that everyone at the University should want to tell of this camp to outsiders, influential or not, so that the chance for its getting at the philanthropic parties might be increased. To stimulate community interest and action is the hope of those behind this project. For the will of the community will make it go over. So the effort of no one Individual at spreading this Idea will be inconsiderable. One per son's mentioning of this camp might hit the right party and accomplish what much time of campaigning could not do. It is for so worthy a cause that even the most naive and disinterested can not help but recognize the value of this camp nature school. It offers the opportunity for some one to build a permanent monument to himself by helping in the estab lishment of this school. Stone crumbles, but an Institution lives forever. NO POLITICS With the "absent-minded” number of The Cracker which will appear on or about January 15, provided it doesn’t forget to come out, the term of Ben Hardy as editor will be ended, and Jack Renfroe will assume the erstwhile editorial reins of the Uni versity's publication. The present incumbent (not in cumbrance l will at this time com plete a half year of arduous toil and I clever accomplishment, despite the i ^ continuous bickering of Red and j Black writers, and wise crackers in j general. Under his management many cred Romance, Religion and Appetites Are Features of Detroit Meeting (By J. T .Carlton) Romance, religion, sight-seeing, and appetites vied (or first honors among the delegates to Detroit dur ing the Christmas holidays. How ever. as religion and appetites are no unusual concerns in the life of delegate to such conventions, things as romance and sight seeing consumed quite a bit ot time and energy. As everyone knows, or suspects, be rather uncertain, flitting from one to another. It is reported that a boy from Columbia Theological Sem inary, who seemed destined to bacn- elorhood, has become engaged to A girl from a North Carolina institu tion. And he was such a likeable chap, poor soul! The unaimous verdict of the boys and girls who made this trip, Is "Bring on more S. V. M. conven tions!” , , , , i Henry Ford and his product came in itable innovations have been insti-; .. . . .. ... , . for their share of curiosity, althougn tuted, chiefly the new departmental! headings, and a higher standard of j proof-reading, together with the idea i of having a good joke or so on a j page. Seriously, The Cracker has been I the best under this editor since the old days of Joe Kling, et. al. No, not seriously either; for it has been in humor that The Cracker has ex-i celled. i The Red and Black felicitates The Cracker upon having such a compe tent editor. It is a rare thing. Yet it is not such a dark day but some chosen son arises. Jack Renfroe, than whom nobody was better In the 19 26 Cracker poetry contest, Is the editor-elect of this publication now. Although Renfroe has not been given the chance to show his merit in publication work heretofore, no one can say that he’s not compe tent, and in all probability will tickle the ribs of the campus as well as most Cracker editors. He has the sincere best wishes of The Red and Black, and, we might add, a fellow editor’s deepest sym pathy. But the important thing about The Cracker is the method of se lecting the editor. Politics are weed ed out of it by allowing only the staff to vote in the election. It is fair. Other organizations might profit by this example. SPEED IT UP Along with the opening of the second term the old, old fault of late registration has again been pres ent. Before leaving for the Christ mas holidays, students were emphat ically instructed to register for the'-T second term by a certain hour of designated day. Freshmen Hear Dr. Park Speak Dr. R. E. Park spoke to the fresh men in Candler hall Tuesday night on “1928.” Dr. Park announced that he was very well satisfied with the showing the freshmen made du ring the first term, and urged them to continue the good work. He is still planning on having a new dorm itory for freshmen exclusively, and says that his experiment of having a dormitory given entirely over to freshmen is proving satisfactory. He expects the experiment of Candler hall this year will aid him in securing appropriation for a larger and more modern building, i The program next Tuesday evening Detroit is a wonderfully easy city wi „ , )0 in Peabody hall, and will be the disappointment was keen, when the discovery was made that most of the taxis are Buicks. There is no ! doubt, however, that there are plenty I of Fords. The immensity of the fac tory sufficiently proves that the till chariots are not obsolescent. Tlie little city of Windsor, Can ada. is only a scant 400 yards across the Detroit river, and practically everyone in the Georgia delegation availed himself of the opportunity of visiting a foreign country, and a “wet” one at that. But, contrary to popular belief, Canada is dryer than the United States. A resident of Detroit informed some of the boys that "liquor is just as cheap In Detroit, easier to get, and just as good.” However, this did not affect anyone in the crowd, as no one had a desire to imbibe. in which to get lost. Although there were more than 4,000 students at tending the convention, no resident or business of Detroit seemed to realize it. There were several other conventions going on the same week, and people seemed to be accustomed to lost pedestrians. On the special train from the South were students from Tennessee. Florida, North and South Carolina, Alabama. Kentucky, and Louisiana. The girls from Georgia were by far the best-looking, although it is hard to make a decision. No time was lost in making matches, one Dcy in the University delegation whose initials are J. W. T., was especially outstanding in this department. The honors for the girls go without a challenge to a certain Wesleyan lass. She had her choice of the Southern delegation, but seemed to devoted to the reports from the con ference in Detroit. ture anywhere recorded, 136 de grees,” declared Mr. Tomlinson, "was Y CABINET TO MEET NEXT TUESDAY NIGHT The Y Cabinet will meet next Tues day evening at 7:30 o’clock in the old student council room on the sec ond floor of the Academic building. At this meeting, plans for the second term work will be laid, and reports will be made. All the students who attended the convention say that it was broaden ing both morally and socially. All claim a deeper and more sincere In tent as regards religion and social work for the coming years, and are planning to pass the inspiration they gained at the convention on to the other students on the campus. It would seem a perfectly easy recorded in a 8tate whlchi with one task for the student to urrive at the excepUon hag the mogt advertlsed registrar’s desk by the desired time | cllmate the WO rld—California, in unless there were some obstacle which he himself could not set aside. But as there is no such obstacle, every student should have been on hand to register, so that the office force might leave its work on time. At the beginning of next term all parties concerned should take steps to get the registration through on schedule time, so that the efforts and patience of both faculty and un dergraduates might not be thrown awry. "SOUTH AMERICA IS MISREPRESENTED” SAYS TOMLINSON (Continued from page 1) a large headline above a story which seemed to tell of a revolution. Upon interpretation, the story gave an ac count of the Herrin, Illinois, gang warfare. Climate One of tine chief objections to South America, according to Mr. Tomlinson, is the climate. "Pro fessor Mark Jefferson has found that the thermometer never has gone above 100 degrees in the whole Amazon valley. The average tem perature for the year is S3 degrees during the day and 25 to 35 degrees at night. And the hottest tempera- Death Valley.” Commending President Coolidge who said recently that "There is a grave lack of information among the people of this country in regard to j the people to the south of us.” Mr. Tomlinson characterized the type of representatives sent to the Latin- American countries as deserving democrats and lame duck republi cans. , Venomous reptiles and insects are the only dangers encountered in South America, according to the lec turer, who told how these dangers were being overcome, especially by the production of serums for snake bites. “The serum is shipped all over Brazil and distributed free by the government to all citizens who ask for It.” Mr. Tomlinson expressed the opin ion that South America will be of great importance, both economically and otherwise, to the United States in the future. The lecturer, a native Georgian, has spent much time studying con ditions in South America. He will return for further study after at tending the Pan-American conference in Havana, Cuba, this month. Dr. R. P. Brooks, head of the com merce department introduced Mr. Tomlinson. COMMERCE-JOURNALISM BUILDING TO BE OPENED (Continued from page 1) classes for both the journalism and commerce students had been crowded In. When these departments move out they will leave the Academic building for the study of history, languages, and mathematics almost entirely. The structure is placed a bit away from the other campus buildings and faces away from the street. It is understood that the administration is banning in time to come to construct other buildings which shall face on an Inner court. The new home of the journalism and commerce schools will be a stately structure. With three en trances on the front, one in the mid dle which leads to a small audito rium, and one on each of the wings leading to the classrooms of th,e separate departments, the architect has had a reason for the tall colonial columns which grace each entrance. The center recedes just a little from wings jutting out on each side. It is the embryonic plan of the journalism department to have ed itors from different newspapers all over the state to speak to the journ alism students on various occasions throughout the year thus causing contacts which should prove valuable to the students.
