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THE RED AND BLACK
E!)t fteb anb JHacfe
Official Ornit of tlir AlhlfUr AMorUIl«»n
of tho VnlvmlU of OforrU.
Entered nt tile Tout Office at Attiena, Go.,
im aecnnd elan* mnll matter.
HTAFF
emeu, iiubst Edttor in oiw
JOHN GAI.I.AWAY Manaiflnir Editor
KOITOHIAI. HTAFF
l>nlinlil Moon*. Aaaurlatr Kdltng
JainoH t'ottli — ..Aaaodatc Editor
Turner Hiera Now* Editor
Adolph IloHrnlM-rjt .Aaalatant New* Editor
Barn Thurmond Literary Editor
Geraldine Nor IK Feature Editor
Janet Jarnagln Society Editor
Al Smith .Hporta Editor
Norton Handera Kichange Editor
Kd Itarhain HtafT Manager
Jack Wither*.. staff Manager
Ht'NINF.MH DEPARTMENT
JAMES P. REAMER—. .Itiialneaa Manager
Joe Spence Aaalatant Ilualneaa Manager
Oharlea Jenklna. Circulation Manager
C - o Bator ....Klrat Aaalatant
Rill T. Rrown —Second Aaalatant
It EPO It TO It IA I. HTAFF
Roy llowen, Charlie Ilarla. Seymour
Hlracli, t'arl Levy, Myron McCay, Ram
Myera, Kuelle Mitchell. lion McKee. Joe
Vlnaon. Nathan Wolfe, Frank Hawklna.
(Iinrlea Heynolda. Ilarold Parker. W tl
Folk.
Too Much School
Although it probably has
never occurred to the State leg-
ialature that the University of
Georgia might operate more effi
ciently untler a shorter session,
It appears to The Red and Black
that such Is the true situation.
To open the scholastic year In
September and to close late In
June handicaps both students
and Instructors—students in se
curing summer employment and
members of the faculty In taking
much-needed rests between the
regular session anti the Sum
mer school.
Most southern Institutions
open around October 1 nnd close
the latter part of May. In eight
months they do Just as much
work as Is done at the univer
sity In nine. A majority of uni
versities and colleges through
out the country operate under a
five-day week, and accomplish
just as much as Georgia does
under the slx-dav week system.
It Is all n waste of time and
money. Both the faculty and
students could work together
much more efficiently If time
for readjustment were allowed
between sessions and between
full weeks of classwork. Stu
dents should be allowed four
full months In the summer to
become acquainted with profes
sional practices or to earn funds
for use In the scholastic year.
It has been rumored that uni
verslty officials are working on
a new system which would re
quire that all students having
sufficiently high averages attend
classes only five days a week.
It Is hoped that plans to that
effect will be perfected and put
into operation as soon as possi
ble. because too few holidays,
too long sessions, and too full
weeks certainly do not encour
age greater efficiency.
Efficiency First
In the Bpring scramble for
various student offices around
the Georgia campus, It Is In
evitable that, in a flurry of pop
ularity or concentrated politics,
some individuals shall have the
opportunity of holding several
offices. It Is also inevitable
that the individual, for the sake
of temporal satisfaction or van
ity. will have to exert a great
deal of will power to prevent
himself from grabbing the posi
tions greedily and suffering
for It later, along with his con
stituents.
Kxpertence in university life,
nnd In the professional and so
cial world has taught that di
versification of activities pro
duces nothing approaching effi
ciency. There’s the conflict be
tween the proverbs about “put
ting all the eggs In one basket”
and "doing one thing well but
many not at all.” It’s a matter
of extreme Importance In this
case.
It requires a strong person
ality lo refuse an office when It
is easily obtnlnnhle; that Is. If
It ts desired by the Individual.
Hut many reHponsblllttes create
ill dispositions nnd above all
decrease efficiency. This Is a
day of specialization in college
activities as It Is In professional
life. The campus can be hum
ming with student leaderu who
ure much better qualified for
the positions they hold, If the
politicians will step back and
give the deserving workers an
opportunity to get Into office.
Knelt man to his own field
and professional preparation,
and we will have not only a bet
ter campus but there will be
more fully equipped graduates
from this Institution.
An End to Liafinf;
For ninny years college au
thorities have pondered over
that old problem of college loaf
ing. President Robert M. Hutch
ins of the University of Chicago
feels that he has found at least
a partial solution to this situa
tion.
His plan in a nutshell Is this:
the studious person who wishes
to apply himself is permitted to
go ahead as fast as possible and
even receive a degree at the end
of one year If he can do the
four years’ work In that time.
Following the World War an
Inane desire to be “collegiate”
struck the larger American col
leges and universities. As a re
sult the A.B. degree has come
to signify adept drinker, dancer
and bridge player rather than
Hachelor of Liberal Arts. Many
stales have been supporting
magnificent "country clubs for
the educational world" where a
person might go and spend four
years of unstinted luxury.
It is Into such a situation that
President Hutchins has Intro
duced his Ingenious plan. He
has brought about an academic
emancipation which is one of
the most progressive steps yet
taken in the history of American
education. The man who goes
to college to learn something
may now be permitted to do so.
New Oberltn college co-eds
are allowed to smoke In their
dormitory rooms If they have
fire extinguishers In each room.
Maybe a couple of firemen on
each floor would complete mat
ters.
Drama 9 Books, Cinema
Small Talk
Just a few savory morsels from
I he bulky collection of Walter E.
Traprock’s "random collections” are
I compiled and thrust savagely upon
kind Mr. G. P. Putnam's Sons by one
George S. Chappell. This rare col
lection of yarns, yes that’s a fair
word, or better still and more pe
dantic, memoirs, (be they true or
otherwise, that is not the question)
Is bound in red with the following
title In bold gold! lettering: "Dr.
Traprock’s Memory Book or Aged In
the Wood."
It Goes Like This
It so happened that the genealogy
of this Dr. Walter K. Traprock is not
revealed until our author suddenly
bumps up against him In the Nauti
lus club In Papeete. And a nice lit
tle story of their meeting serves to
both introduce the hero and also ex
plain the why of the life-long friend
ship. It happened that Dr. Chappell
was In the Nautilus club and he was
suddenly attracted by a "bronzed,
rugged man wearing the conventional
khaki of the explorer.”
"His piercing eye attracted me,”
ejaculated Dr. Chappell, “and his
ebon lialr, mustache and imperial
held me."
"He spoke. ’English,' I thought.
He spat, hitting a brass target twen
ty feet away. ‘New England.’ I cor
rected.”
"A moment later I had taken a
seat at his table. My callow effront
ery appeared to amuse him.” " 'A
drink?’ he suggested. ‘Thanks—a
Dr. Funk.’ ‘Boy, where did you
learn to drink?’ he asked. ‘At Har
vard,’ I said!'”
Then after the question of Con
necticut came Into the conversa
tion the matter was straightway
cleared up and where and so forth
was learned about the dear doctor’s
birth. His mother was one Elvira
Ethrington, of the Pork Hollow
Ethrington’8, that Elvira Chappell
had been hunting. The shady elope-!
ment of the Squire Obed Ethering-
ton’s daughter with a trooper of no
good repute was elucidated. Enough
is enough about families and that’s
that.
Modern Ulyaees
After many wanderings the young
Ulysses enters Yale at the age of
thirty-three.
‘‘For three years the oldest living
freshman, and they weren’t successive
years .either.” In and out of col-
lego until the Alumni Record comes
through with, * “Traprock, W. E.,
ex-83, S., ex-’85, grad. ’87, Med. cum
congratulation!’.” College was Just
one continual so and so.
A fond professor said of him,
"Traprock is of no class, he belongs
to the ages.”
Ah, my dears, after Yale, more
travel, more adventures and abund
ant memoir material, incidentally
the doctor Is the author of several
ponderous literary endeavors. Some
of his best-sellers are: “Just as
Siam,” (poems); “Around Russia
on Roller-skates;” “Crazy with Ta
hiti" and his Immortal Trilogy.
This Trilogy Is worth mentioning,
in fact It 1s priceless now. "The
Cruise of the Kawa," "My Northern
Exposure" and the last and most
provocative, "Sarah of the Sahara.”
Ad Infinitum
On and on, "hither, thither, by
and yon, fro and to and pro and
con” that is a chant denoting travel.
Getting somewhere in all the pande
monium of anecdotes, fish stories,
travel stories, all kinds of good
stories, but before the end finally
comes Just one more story and it’s a
promise, It’s the last.
During one of Dr. Chappell’s so-
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Maybe you haven’t noticed the new
note of candor In advertising around
Athens but it’s here Just the same.
The word “Painless” in the glaring
sign "Painless Dentist” on a local
business building was rubbed out the
other day.
And somebody has called our at
tention to the big break the local
pressing clubs got week before last
when the military Inspection and Lit
tle Commencement came as close to
gether as a politician’s promises.
We take off our fast-fading fedora
to the Athens Convention Bureau, or
whoever is responsible, for being a
go-getter but It certainly gets a low
mark on diplomacy. Hero they've
brought the W. C. T. U. and the Elks
conventions to Athens at the same
time. The diplomacy even of a Geor
gia legislator wouldn't have let that
happen.
Which reminds me of another Add
Simile: As out of place as Bishop
Cannon at an Elks’ convention.
Or, as one of what I boastfully re
fer to as my friends, said after watch
ing a couple of stewed Elks cavort
around on the corner, such jocularity
must be observed.
Devotional
A guy we like
Is Ike McFoy;
He never says:
“Ole boy. ole boy, ole boy.”
Well, we guess the world can set
tle back down to work now. The
winners of the Camel cigarette con
test have at last been announced.
Gosh, the suspense was killing!
Commercial Art
Pan-Hellenic Monopoly on University Dances Keeps the Orig
inal Purpose of the Organization.
By Harry Hamper
And another thing that's a little
more than mildly irritating are those
members of the more or less human
race who call everybody "pal.” But
don’t get alarmed, we’re not going
to bust into verse about It; we’ve ex
hausted our poetical inspiration for
today.
By far the biggest and mo3t vin
dictive political organization on the
university campus Is the Pan-Hellenic
council, a commercial organization
dealing In orchestras and dance tick
ets, ballyhooed with the aid of uni
versity prestige and protection, sport
ing and sponsoring fraternity house
I parties, home coming affairs. Tech
week-ends and Little Commence
ments.
As a freshman, I saved and omit
ted usual small purchases more than
a week prior to Little Commence
ment in order to plank down three
slmoleons for a ducat allowing me
! entrance Into Woodruff hall. There
] I mingled with youths exhaling mus
ty (to say the least) breath, danced
with perfumed mamas, and heard a
fairly good orchestra blare forth
"Tiger Rag" and other such Insults
to music lovers. This year I paid
two and two-fifty to attend opening
! dances, homecoming dances. Tech
week-end dances, and paid four
bucks (theoretically) for the Friday-
night dance at Little Commence-
| ment.
Why this dissertation on dances?
What are they? Who Is responsible
for them?
Original Councils
Many years ago. I don’t know
how many, fraternities began to ap
pear on college campuses. The num
bers increased, and problems arose.
1 National fraternities formed an In-
terfraternlty conference. On local
campuses, the fraternities came to
gether In Inter-fraternity councils or
pan-hellenlc councils.
Their objectives were to promote
good feeling between the rivalling
groups, to Initiate reforms which
would be beneficial to all the groups,
to protect the Interests of fraterni
ties as a group, and. incidentally, to
sponsor social occasions at which all
the groups would take part.
Became Gala Affairs
The university dance week-ends
w-ere instituted and became gala
occasions which belles from the |
surrounding countryside anticipated
with delight. Reputable orchestras
were engaged, tickets to the dances
being apportioned so as to eliminate
any possible assessment on each fra-1
ternity.
Recent conditions at Georgia find
the Pan-Hellenic council operating
solely as a social organization, the
officers promoting dances, the meet
ings held for discussion of the "next
big week-end.”
The president of the council Is:
commonly known as the master
graftsman, though all who have serv
ed In that office stontly deny that it 1
ts a money-making proposition.
No Supervision
All ticket sales must be checked
and the week-end financial reports
must be approved by the chairman
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We’re In hopes that the enlight
ened city fathers will suspend the
operation of the traffic lights until
the Spring Is over. Of course It’s
not so bad In the dead winter but
now. what with Spring bringing it’s
crop of rumble-seat-climhers and the
light and airy frocks, how Is mere
mortal going to watch traffic lights,
too?
Old Dobbin hag been fighting a
losing battle for many years now
but had hung on gamely ’til the
other day when the last blow was
struck: Arnold and Abney have re
placed their four-legged landmark
with a new motor delivery wagon.
Wonder If a political scientist
would change his definition of pol
itics after watching some of the boys
on the eve of a campus election.
Charlie Chaplin shouldn’t be so
easily* annoyed because Europeans
have criticized him for various rea
sons. What would he have done if
he could have heard all the remarks
made about hts pie-throwing com
edies?
And now thy're burning newspaper
plants among other things in the
riotous Spanish republic. Maybe it’s
a good thing after all that The Red
and Black Is located in the Classic
' city.