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Page Four THE K E D A X I) BLACK XTfte i\cb anb iBlack Ofti. iaJ Orcaa of the Athletic ton of the l BivenitT of lifortix Entered a: rte Pos: a: Athens. Gt as srr-.ni :1a** at.', matter. BEN HARDY STAFF n R. E HAMILT s • - E\ii*o' J I EDITORIAL \rr > *: r y-rsz Edit*] Pr^r.* M ---S— zi A>> Editc: GrSr Ral . T: rd A**<>ciate Editoi Lari: ■ s Editoi ' - S| rta Edito: I \ ... Jowpii-f Socirtj Editor Charles Ha-dy Sta~ Manager R C. Ba:*' Staff Manager BUSINESS DEPARTMENT Friar M Thompaon Jr ..Business Manager Carl T Sutherland Asst Business Mgr Joe K Hawkins Circulation Manager L. E Gay First Assistant Nelson Gray Second Assistant Oscar Lott Third Assistant REPORTORIAL staff Thomas F. St John. Guy C. Hamilton. Robert L. Sherrod. Wylly Folk. Mary Claire Brannon. Sadie Myers. Roselle Rosenthal. Naomi Henson James Hollingsworth. Tom Hamilton. Rene Stuart. Percy Johnson. J. T. Carlton. William Farrel. Sara Hirsch. R. E. Falligant. Bill Tyus, Marvin Cox. THE STRAW VOTE Usually when a debatable sub ject is discussed a good many inaccuracies and misstatements of fact find their way into the controversy. The two straw ballots on the presidential pos sibilities conducted on the Uni versity of Georgia campus have brought forth examples of in accuracies in the expression of partisan attitudes. We reprint in full in this issue of The Red and Black an edi torial from The Christian In dex. The Red and Black wishes to take issue with The Index on several points in the editorial, as being misstatements of fact. In the first place, we want to make it clear that up to the present time The Red and Black has taken no stand one way or the other on the national political situation.- It has made no effort whatever to influence the opinions of the student body on the possible nominees for president. Also, we wish to call atten tion to the fact that The Independent has not “collab orated with The Red and Black’’ in the first straw ballot. The Red and Black collaborated with The Independent, merely out of courtesy to that publication, in conducting the ballot. The Red and Black, in hold ing the straw vote at the re quest of The Independent, joined with the school papers of some 38 other colleges throughout the United States, which conducted similar ballots in these schools. The Index further states: “Particularly interesting to Georgians will be the fact that the students of our state uni versity planned and promul gated a straw ballot on the pres idential situation and forget all about the fact that Georgia had unanimously nominated Senator Walter P. George for the dem ocratic nomination.” The Red and Black modestly disclaims all credit. The stu dents of the University did not plan and promulgate the ballot: it was planned and promulgated by The Independent. Further more. if the fact that Georgia had nominated Senator Walter F. George was forgotten, it was The Independent which forgot the fact. The name of Senator George was omitted from the ballot furnished The Red and Black by The Independent, and it was not within the province of this paper to change delib erately the ballot which was being voted throughout the country. On the ticket supplied by The Independent there was no provision made for the name of a favorite son. The second ballot was a du plicate of the first, except that Senator George's name was added to the list of Democratic possibilities. This second vote was conducted by The Red and Black, at the suggestion of fac ulty members, to ascertain what strength Senator George would poll on a student vote in compe tition with the candidates named on the first ticket. In this case also The Red and Black made no effort to influence the students in the interest of any one can didate. The Red and Black wants it clearly understood that no mat ter what position it takes in the political situation this paper conducted the two ballots im partially, making no attempt whatever to influence the stu dent vote. Those voting named their choices according to their own preferences. In closing, The Index calls attention to the fact that out of an enrollment of nearly 2.000 only about 350 voted. Yet enough ballots were printed for the entire student body to vote if they so desired. This is deplorable. Students should by all means take more inter est in questions of national im portance. The Independent is to be commended for directing the attention of college students to a comparison of the presi dential possibilities. May we suggest that perhaps the small part of the student body who voted are those who are intellectually active enough to take interest in such mat ters? If among this group of students there are a plurality who prefer Governor Smith to any other candidate, of either national or local prominence, have they not a perfect right to express their opinion? PARENTS' DAY EXCHANGES -BY- JOHN CANDLER, II WELL, WELL! (From The Christian Index) The whole thing has been settled. A1 Smith will, undoubtedly, be nom inated and elected. All who have been bothered about the outcome of In the midst of all the A1 Smith national politics for 1928 may calm AST^R^SKS TH$M$&S ST. JfHN ’’College boys can surely raise hell." said a nice old lady to her in- ex, itement here, it is interesting to themselves. It happened in this way, grand _ (laughter as the A1 Smith see that Georgia is not the only col- The Independent, a national student lab paraded not s0 lon g ago. “But lege agitated over the question. Up publication, collaborated with The Q iannv are those college boys? at Wake Forest they organized an Red and Black, campus newspaper They dpn . t look depraV ed,” added the iAl Smith club, and several Charlotte at the University of Georgia, in a pret : oclous child who had been ministers got het up about it. it straw ballot of the students of that , )rought up a oolle g e town. “My seems, and tried to interfere. The institution last week, with the fol- starg ,„ sa , d Grannv suddenly, “the Tar Heel, progressive journal of lowing results as reported by the Ru Khlxers are at it again . Git tor North Carolina’s seat of culture, com- daily papers: holne and thus another ments courageously: Governor Smith polled 196 votes ( . onver8a tlo n was lost to the world * * 'Those ministers who would thus and Herbert Hoover. 60. Senator j cou ]d have told the nice old lady tyrannize campus thought are worse Heed received 31 votes: Dawes. that Jhe h ood i ums who attempted to than witch-doctors. They possess Walsh and Ritchie. 24. 12 and 10 i imertere w j t j, the A1 Smith parade just enough influence to make their i votes, respectively. j weren’t really Ku Kluxers. * * * extermination a benefit to public wel- Isn’t that marvelous? Particu- fare. The Klan doesn’t wear masks an/ more. * * * The sheeted crowd larly interesting to Georgians will | “One day they drool of brotherly be tbe fa(>t ‘ ba * students of our state ! wfre Just garter-wits out for a good love: the next finds them calling col- »niversity planned and promulgated Ume ,. elebraUng the Y . M. C. A.- lete boys cat-brained' and silly- a s,ra ' v baIlot 011 the Presidential j College successful Easter-egg minded.’ situation and forget all about the! hunt wh , ch had occurred the afte r- "Xow, if these Baptists were set- fact ,hat GeorRia had unanimously noon before . . . . They weren’t ting out to utter truisms, they might nominated Senator "alter F. George j members 0 f the Running Kids; they well remark that college students for tbe democratic nomination. They | were j U st embryonic water-lillies didn’t even include his name on the ; printed list of candidates. That is. are generally cat-brained and silly' minded. But ministers of the gos- earning how to get in the swim. * * * However, it is my firm belief that pel are not sworn servants of mani- " e suggest, very interesting, and it,. f sonleone bad taken a sample of tested truths: they are merely agents of a moralistic philosophy which mil lions have found comforting and to which a fanciful few have ascribed a sort of divinity. Hence, as advo cates of one ethical theory, they pre seems that the faculty must have felt that it would seem a little strange for the students of the state univer sity to be settling national aflairs without any regard whatever to the expressed wishes of the people of sent a clownish exhibition when they Georgia ' and s0 - the facult >' suggest- ' quibble over rival doctrines like ed ,hat the ^Indents have another Catholicism and Protestantism. s,raw ballot - P rint another li8t ° f candidates, include Senator George. “The results of the second vote,” declared the newspaper dispatch, will not be sent to the Independent, “But after all, ministers and col lege students should not cross swords. They are blood brothers in i the great fraternity of ignorance. “In the Wake Forest case espe cially, there seems to be little | cause for ministerial interference, i Will the Baptists of this progressive state deny a college full of young men, some of whom are already of voting age and others of whom are destined for political office, the priv ilege of organizing partisan discus sion groups? All worthwhile forums as its ticket did not include Senator I George.” Now that seems a very I timely course for the collegians to pursue. It is very likely that the Independent, a national university publication, is particularly interest ed in promoting one Mr. Alfred Im manuel Smith, first, no doubt, be cause of his intellectual premiership as constantly illustrated in his blub bering outbreaks about prohibition the benighted boys, a slight scratch beneath the surface of the article would have revealed a dyed-in-the- wool Klansman in the making. * * * Obviously I didn’t take the egg af fair as seriously as the newspapers, since the eggs were thrown indis criminately by a third party com posed of real splutter and yegg men. * * * About as obvious is it that the club appreciated the joke as much as anybody else. * * * Now, my point is this, as proved | by this incident the University stu- j dent body on the whole is a nicely t assorted flock of sheep. * * * If the “Al-for-President club” had waved the right symbols, the sheep would have cheered as they usually do at other affairs, say football games. * * But the anti-Smith yelled Catholic and 100 per cent, and the joke was on the Smithites, forced on them, center attention on some individual | and mQre partlcularly ” lr T hIg "wrU- pummelled on them, and splattered man or issue. Surely men of God cannot prate of civil liberties one day and grant them only to anti- ■ Smith movements the next. Let it i tie observed here that in politics a j non-Smith club is simply an anti- l Smith subterfuge.” The fourth annual Religious Welfare conference and Parents’ Day, to be held here Wednes day and Thursday of next week, should receive the unanimous support of the student body. Outstanding among the events making the conference worth while will be several addresses by Dr. S. Parkes Cadman, na tionally prominent divine. Those in charge are to be congratu lated in securing such a capa ble speaker for the event. The gathering of the parents and friends of students at the University on occasions such as this does much to establish a helpful contact between the col lege and the state. The stu dents should demonstrate a spirit of cooperation by making special efforts to get their pa rents and friends to attend, and in extending to the visitors every possible courtesy. Similar to the “Who's Who” elec- Itions made by high schools and col- ; leges strictly for women are the | choices mat^e by students of the j larger colleges. to Gl | s University of Georgia ballot: Seniors in Yale university, accord- xhe enrollment at the university is ing to preferences indicated in the c | ose j 0 two thousand. It will be annual class vote, prefer a Phi Beta > observed that they vo.eu something Kappa key to the earned in m^e three hundred and fifty students, major sports, like Harvard next best to Yale, consider Lindbergh and ings, the majority of which are em- i 011 ,bem - halmed in the records of Tammany ! B ut tbe ar d° r of the club is not Hall; and then, if there is need f 0 r| dam P ened in ,he least - Regardless further reason why the Independent might be interested in Mr. Smith, the fact, perhaps, that he insists that American youth have the right again to put their feet on the rail and blow the foam from the mug would come in for consideration. There is just one other remark that might be made with reference Mussolini the outstanding world fig ures of the day, and Lindbergh the man now living they most admire. They also believe that prohibition has harmed college life, that English is the most valuable subject and psychology the least valuable, and they are opposed to splitting the col lege into smaller units. Seniors in the Sheffield Scientific school voted Lindbergh their favor ite world figure, a major “Y” more desirable than Sigma Xi, and Prince ton their favorite college next to Yale. Their favorite fiction is d’Ar- tagnan; in history, Napoleon; among novels, Tom Jones: among prose au thors, Thomas Hardy: among poems, If; and among poets, Kipling. These were only a few, very few, of the matters on which the seniors declared themselves. * * * Several of the college papers are denouncing the ludicrious misrepre sentation of college life as shown in 1 of the general moronic density of the atmosphere. University men and wo men will express themselves on what ever they choose. Sticks and stones will break their bones but eggs will never hurt them. * * * And when the roll is called at Mehre’s at the next torchlight pa rade when A1 Smith is elected pres ident, none others than these mar tyrs will head the list. » • • On with the dance! * * * • » • After an absence :,of some few weeks Colonel E. G. Pepporius Gid- ley, mogul of the movies, is back greeting his many friends at the Palace, thank you. • * * Somehow the Colonel manages to put the right touch to his handshake, making you feel at home with Clara Bow and Lon Chaney running rampant on the screen. * * * I would advise poli ticians to cultivate his acquaintance and learn his methods. • * • Not tlie headline act for the East and i that the Colonel 1b a politician; O no. est Revue, presented by the Uni-[But a politician with his methods of veisity of Kansas Cosmopolitan club. | approach would go a long wuyB, yea. Eight Hindus, students in the univer- even A1 Smith hero in tho hotbed of sity and members of the club, por- holy fire and homobrow. • • • trayed the conversion of Miss Miller * ♦ ♦ the movies. A petition asking for true dramatization of college life or none at all was signed by the sopho more class of Princeton. * * • A Hindu wedding ceremony—ad vertised as a reproduction of the service that united Nancy Ann Mil ler and' Tukoji Rao Holkar—was and then the marriage ceremonies. Politics is waking on tho campus “This is a serious undertaking and a with the first touch of green to what- reproduction of the actual customs, j ever kind of grass that grows here, not a take-off, Anup Singh Dhillon,; * * * Honest Carl Sutherland scents manager of the act, announced. to have the presidency of next year’s senior class sewed up with a handful of proxies to spare. » • « Pete Ken- Miss Louise Smith has returned ner mopes in the background, unde- from a visit to Montezuma and Al- elded as to whether to beat Carl hany where she was the guest of anyway, or just wait for the people friends for the holiday dancee. Uo speak for themselves. • • *
