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VOLUME XXXVI.
UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA, ATHENS, <JA., APRIL 17, 1081.
NUMBER 38.
Council Signs
To Broadcast
Dance Music
Woodruff Hall Will Be
Decorated; House Parties
Planned for Spring Dances
Committee Names
Site for Building
Early Next Week
Issuing of Court Order
Allows Trustees to Go For
ward With Details
A contract to broadcast by remote
control the music of Johnny Hamp
and his International Orchestra, who
will play for the Spring dances in
May, has been signed by the Pan-
Hellenic council and officials of radio
station WSB.
Woodruff hall is to be decorated
by a professional interior decorator
and the color scheme will be green
and white. In order that the decora
tions will be completely localized,
the soundboard back of the orches
tra platform will be covered by a
display of fraternity crests. A sys
tem of indirect colored lighting will
be used inWoodruff hall for the first
time.
Pnn-HclIcnJc Lcadout
One of the feature events of the
dances will be the Pan-Hellenic lead-
out at which time favors will be
given to all girls who have dates
with Pan-Hellenic representatives.
Dance programs will be issued for
no-break dances. Faculty members
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Definite steps toward the selection
of a site, the style, and plans for
awarding the contract for the pro
posed $150,000 new men's dormi
tory on the UnP'orsity of Georgia
campus will be taken Monday by the
prudenital committee of the Board
of Trustees, Chancellor Charles M.
Snelling announced Friday.
Due to a small legal formality,
plans for the construction of the
new building werd held up tem
porarily until April 15, when a court
order was issued by Judge Blanton
Fortson, of the Clarke County Su
perior Court, permitting the trus
tees to go forward with the details.
Money for the dormitory is to be
taken from the principal of the
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Bulldogs Play
Eight Games
In Nine Days
Major Colley Announces Dales
Six Contests to Be Played For Annual Review front
R.O.T.C. Prepares Vance Calls
For Inspection of 4 «i •
All Military Units Atheism Sign
Of Weakness
Here Next Week; Other
Two Are in Auburn
April 27-30
Co-eds Request
Faculty Changes
Proposed changes in the Consti
tution and rules of the Women's
Student Government association,
which if passed, will allow freshmen
the right to attend dances during the
second term, will be voted on at the
Student Government meeting' next
Wednesday.
These changes have been favorably
passed upon by the student council,
and have received the unofficial ap
proval of Mrs. A:exander Rhodes,
dean of women. A majority vote
of the women students is necessary
to carry them.
New Rules j honorary scholastic fraternity
According to the new rule, any Three members of the university
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Classicists Meet
Here Next Week
Prominent classical educators from
nine southern states will ad
dress the tenth annual southern
meeting of the Classical Association
of the Middle-west and South, to be
held at the University of Georgia
on April 23-24-25.
Six hundred teachers of Latin and
Greek in universities, colleges and
high schools from Alabama, Geor
gia, Florida, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennessee, North Carolina, South
Carolina, and Virginia have been in
vited to attend the meeting.
Potent 0|M'iiing Speaker
H. M. Poteat, professor of Latin
at Wake Forest college, will make
an address on the opening evening
of the meeting. Mr. Poteat spoke
in the university chapel last fall on
the bi-millennium birthday anniver
sary of the Roman poet Virgil. His
address was sponsored by the local
chapter of Phi Beta Kappa, national
Georgia’s battle-scarred Bulldogs
will play six baseball games here
next week in the hardest week of
their Dixie college league season.
Florida’s 'Gators will open the
week's activities here Monday for a
two-game series. The Auburn Tigers
follow Wednesday and Thursday,
and Mercer Bears close the week’s
work here Friday and Saturday.
The Bulldogs will play Auburn in
Auburn Monday and Tuesday, April
27 and 28.
Near Itottom
Near the bottom of the Dixie
league standing, the Bulldogs will
have their chance to climb higher
with the appearance of three league
opponents on Georgia grounds dur
ing the coming week. By defeating
Auburn in two games and breaking
even with Florida and Mercer, the
Bulldogs would draw nearer the top
of the league. Auburn at present
is leading the league.
Somewhat bewildered by their
own “greenness,” the Bulldogs have
won but two of their six games for
a grand average of .333. Green
players and lack of adequate pitch
ing strength have handicapped the
Bulldogs during 'lie first two weeks
of the Dixie league campaigning.
Only Four Veterans
But four veterans of previous cam
paigns are in the Bulldog lineup.
The remainder of the first team
came up from the ranks of last sea-
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Thalians to Sponsor Local Showing
Of Augusta Little Theater League
Tlte Augusta Little Theater Lea
gue will present “The Hero.” by
Gilbert Emery, in Lucy Cobb chapel
Friday night, April 24. The Athens
performance of the Augusta players
is being sponsored by the Thalian
Dramatic club of the University of
Georgia.
by Gilbert Emery that the Augustans
have presented in Athens. Last year
under the sponsorship of the Athens
Little Theater Guild they gave that
author’s well known drama, "Tarn
ish,” which received high praise
from Mrs. Elise Graham, director of
the local cluh. Since four members
The annual inspection of all R. O.
T. C. units at the university will be
held on April 27-30, according to
Major A. T. Colley, professor of mil
itary science and tactics.
The calvary units will be exam
ined on April 27-28 by C. O. Thomas.
Atlanta. The infantry troops will be
Inspected on April 29-30 by Major
Frank Schneider, Albany.
In preparation for this inspection
all the units are busy reviewing their
theoretical and practical work. On
April 14, the fourth monthly after
noon drill was devoted to practicing
for the annual event. The first part
of the afternoon drill wbh given
over to a review, while the second
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University Dance
To Begin Tonight
Withers to Head
Sigma Delta Chi
John B. Withers, Atlanta, Wedncs-
night was elected president of Sigma
Delta Chi, national honorary jour
nalistic fraternity at the University
of Georgia, for the ensuing year.
Other officers elected were:
Leighton W. Mitchell, Atlanta, vice-
president; and Luke McCanless, Cnn-
ton, secretary and treasurer.
The outgoing officers of Sigma
Delta Chi, who have served for the
past year, are John T. Carlton, De
catur, president; and Cecil Hurst,
Newnan, vice-president. Mr. Withers
and Mr. Mitchell held the offices of
treasurer and secretary, respectively,
during the past year.
A discussion was held on eligibility
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Student dances, open to all univer
sity students and the general public,
will be sponsored by the University
of Georgia every Friday night dur
ing the school year, H. J. Stegeman,
dean of men, announced today.
The first dance will be held at
Woodruff hall tonight, from 9 until
1 2 o’clock with Loring Gilmore and
his seven-piece Georgia Bulldogs
furnishing the music. Future dances
will also be at Woodruff hull.
Nominal admission prices will be
charged, Dean Stegeman said. To
night's dance will cost one dollar for
each male student. Prices may be
lowered if university officials find
they are uble to cleur expenses at a
lower price.
The dances are a result of the de
sire of university officials to provide
adequate entertainment for students
during week-ends. All co-eds, who
previously have been limited In their
attendance at dances, will be allowed
to attend the Friday night dances
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Famous Pastor Declares
Denial of (soil to Be
lmlieation of Infirmity
“Atheism, the denial of God’s ex
istence, is the most ancient, the most
modern, and the most silly of all the
follies of mankind,” declared Dr.
James l. Vance, eminent Presby
terian divine of Nashville. Tenn., In
the main address of the seventh an
nual Religious Welfare conference
held in Woodruff hall Thursday at
noon.
More than 2,000 people attended
the address, the audience being com
posed of pastors and parents of uni
versity students; the student bodies
of the University of Georgia, Geor
gia State Teachers college, and Lucy
Cobb institute; Athens citizens, and
alumni of the university.
“Is Jcmus God?”
“Is Jesus God?”, was the subject
of a second address by Dr. Vance de
livered in the university chapel
Thursday night before an audience
made smaller because of the depart
ure of the out-of-town visitors.
"It requires neither brains nor ed-
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The visiting players are giving of the cast of la<t y ear ’ 8 P* 8 * are
their local performance as a return included in the cast of “The Hero,’
for the showing staged by the Tha-i tke Athens audience may expect to
bans in Augusta lact Saturday. The see more work of the same caliber
latter’s performance of George Kel- i One °* des ^ organizations of
ley’s Pulitzer prize play, “Craig’s itB kind ln the South > the Augusta
Wife,” was given unqualified praise kittle Theater League has a long
by Augusta critics. A reporter for I record of successful productions be-
The Chronicle stated that the show hind u - Under the direction of Bev-
was in every way superior to any- er * y ^ rown ’ h 88 Krown to a posl-
thlng presented before in that city ** on P rom i nenc;> * n southern dra-
by a college group. matic circles. Mr. Brown, in addi
tion to directing the play to be given
Second I la> Here i n Athens next week, is cast in one
“The Hero” will be the second play 1 of the leading roles.
Worlil Press Congress
Asks Drewry to Atteml
Professor John E. Drewry of the
Henry W. Grady School of Journal
ism, University of Georgia, has been
invited to attend the meeting of the
Press Congress of the World, which
will be held in Mexico City, Mexico,
August 10-14.
Dr. Walter Wtl’iams, president of
the University of Missouri, and for
merly dean of the School of Journal
ism at that institution, is honorary
president of the Congress.
Champion Debaters
To Meet May 22
Demosthenlan and Phi Kappa, the
University of Georgia's two debating
societies, Wednesday night selected
representatives of.their respective so
cieties to participate ln the annual
Champion debate to be held between
the rival clubs in the chapel on the
night of May 22.
The Demosthenlan team will be
composed of Charles Ross, of David
son, N. C.; Richard Montgomery,
Cave Spring; and Myron S. McCay,
I la. Emory F. Robinson, of Och-
loi hnee, was chosen as alternate.
The Phi Kappa representatives
are: Fred Davis, Macon; Jack Fea-
gin, Macon; Clarence Paine, Atlanta:
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Twenty-one Schools to Send Delegates
To Scholastic Dress Convention Here
Twenty-one leading high and pre- j Athens meeting are round-table dls-
paratory schools have announced cussions; addresses; a luncheon,
that they will send delegates to the | given by Sigma Delta Chi; and a
annual convention of the Georgia ; tour of the university campus.
Scholastic Press association to be xhoHe H< .|iools which have already
held at the Henry W. Grady School L, nounced th ,. lr intention of send-
of Journalism, May 8.
The association, which is composed [
of students connected with secondary
ing from four to twenty delegates
are: Nashville, Canton, Eatonton,
Spalding county, Russell county,
school publications, is sponsored by | , IartwcU 0r , ffln CoInme rce, and
Swainsboro high schools; Riverside
tlie School of Journalism at the Uni-
versity of Georgia, and the Georgia
Military academy, at Gainesville;
j Lanier academy, and Miller acad
emy, at Macon; Benedictine school,
chapter of Sigma Delta Chi, national
professional journalistic fraternity.
Judging by report.) from faculty ad-]
visers of the various member papers, . . „ ,, ,, ...
Joseph E. Brown, Commercial, North
more than two hundred representa- :
lives will attend the 1931 convention Avenue Presbyterian. Tech High.
Program Boy’s High, and Girl's High schools
Included on the program of the in Atlanta.