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Honoring
Alma Mater
Georgia students this fall will
haw mi opportunity to make a
favorable Impression on thous-
amis ot Georgia citizens, who,
iioed wo remind you, maintain
the oldest state university for
your benefit nnd mine.
Three major football games
will be played in Athens during
the next three months and dur
ing thut time It Is estimated that
approximately 100,000 Geor
gians will visit In Athens, main
ly to see Georgia play football
but also to see Just how college
students at the state univer
sity behuve themselves. The
thousands who attend Athens
games will spread the news to
the folks back home, and The
Red and Black would like to
have the news favorable.
Tills i« your Alma pUutor
Upon you falls the responsibil
ity of keeping your Alma Ma
ter's good name from dragging
in the gutter. It depends upon
you and you alone as to whether
the age-old and cherished tradi
tions of your Alma Mater will
be carried to new heights this
fall, or dragged In the mud like
a common drunk.
It Is not necessary for one to
become inebriated in order to
enjoy a football game. In fact,
a person under the Influence of
liquor often has trouble seeing
the game, and Georgia and her
opponents here this fall will be
worth seeing.
We realize that students are
often blamed for the acts of
out-of-town visitors at football
games. Nevertheless, students
can aid greatly If they walk
only in the paths of virtue dur
ing our football week-ends. The
Red and Rlark takes this op
portunity to ask your forbear
ance.
A Pa rati ox
Georgia is rising, not Phoe-
nlx-llkn from her ashes, but
miraculously from her mold of
a hundred years.
New buildings are mushroom
ing from her every available
site. A new Uw building, in
cluding a library up to date in
every feature is one, a new dor
mitory for men Is another. Be
tween the two prospective edi
fices there stands the Com
merce-Journalism building, new.
modern, beautiful. The Sta
dium and Memorial hall were
reared in the last decade.
Highly commendable and wor
thy of unstinted praise are the
efforts of the men who have
mnde this progress possible.
But—would it be too much to
ask that those magnificent old
structures. Old and New Col
lege, receive the renovation that
they deserve?
Solid, well founded and stur
dy they have stood for an hun
dred years. Could not beauty,
and comfort, and cleanliness be
theirs as well?
Think of Old College under
the visioning brain of an archi
tect who appreciates hor old tra
ditions of service. Cleaning by
sandblast nnd the ndditlon of a
few softening touches would
make her beautiful. New Col
lege, that monstrous gray stone
atrocity what might not he
done with her sturdy walls!
Think of Old College made
livable. Her rooms light, large,
nnd airy. Her floors smooth
nnd polished. Her furnishings
comfortable, inviting the stu
dious. Her plumbing and heat
ing systems modern nnd sani
tary.
But think of her now, with
her huge gray sister, both ugly,
cheerless, rnmshnckle and filthy
Georgia, rising out of her
mold — Georgia triumphant,
modern, alive—school of new
buildings, new Ideals, a new
service to the youth of the land.
But Georgia forgetting the
glory of her tradition. Georgia
permitting to fall into uninhab
itable ruin the buildings around
which her life has centered,
Georgia rising, building, far-
vlslonlng—-but Georgia forget
ting.
When a male student breaks
on another at Brigham-Young
university, the breaker presents
the other male with a ripe yel
low lemon, nnd dances away
with the fair one. says an ex
change. Something could be
said about the fair one dancing
away with a lemon.
School has been in session
nearly a month now and no one
has yet denounced The Red and
Rlark, the Y. M. C. A., or stu
dent politics. Can it be that
Georgia students are losing that
“give 'em hell” spirit?
Books 9 Drama 9 Cinema
(Vnt of his power—must be master
not only of himself, but of those
around him. This is intolerable to
the young man whom he constantly
dominates. John Semple is shy and
sensitive—a young man still seek
ing some firm ground on which to
found his faith.
The book reaches a mighty awe
inspiring climax when the impas
sioned sermon of John Semple starts
the mad stampede to the crude straw
pen confessional (a large straw cov
ered area immediately in front of
Athens, Ga.
Dear Mama:
The first week is over now and I
feel a little bit more like I was at
home, but I do not sleep very well
yet. Sometimes I wake up in the
morning and think I am home and
then when I find out I am not it
makes me feel lonesome. All the
boys here are nice fellows but they
do not pay much attention to a fresh
man.
All of the freshmen speak to
"God in the Straw Pen” is the
August choice of the Book League
of America. Such a magnificent
"God in the Straw l’en” (Dodd,
Mead, and company) Is a novel which
graphically portrays the stark, bare
lives of the Georgia mountaineers—
the tremendous excitement and pow
er of a religious revival—and the
almost superhuman battle of a young
man for his own soul. John Fort,
having already proved his ability to
deal with mountain life in "Stone
Daugherty," has produced a novel
that is great In all its aspects.
The rude, emotionally - starved
characters of the book have been
treated with sympathy, but with an
unrelenting firmness which gives the
story Its pervading sense of reality
and, incidentally, its human ap
peal. John Fort, wise in his thor
ough understanding of his subject,
has made his novel one of unadorned
simplicity. Through the strength
and power of the plot and through
the uncompromising reality of the
it.vie, “God in the Straw Pen” has
achieved a primitive grandeur.
Revivals have always been a sort
of social and emotional outlet, as
well as a religious one. for members
of Isolated communities. To a lit
tle upland, village in Georgia. In
1SJO, a camp meeting conducted by
Isham Lowe, a great Methodist itin
erant. and big assistant, John Sem-
ule. was not only a religious revival,
but a tremendous event in the life of
• v individual. The entire situa
tion at the opening session of the
camp meeting—even the sermon—j pears on the fall list of McBride and j boys here wear the same kind In the
is clearly and vivIdJy chronicled. I company, is "Some Go Up,” by Sam- winter and summer too. If you
the pulpit so that the congregation, j every | 10{ jy because they told us in
in their frenzy and delirium, would chapel that that wag the old Georgia
not Injure their bodies). spirit, but I have noticed that most
of the upperclassmen just speak to
the people that they are friends
with, except some of the men who
novel is worthy of^the distinction. arg running j or office and they speak
, , I to everybody.
It is extremely Interesting—and i .
. . . . . .. There are lots of girls here but
certainly encouraging—to note the , „
number of Georgia alumni who are I frl ? nd ' y ' S °™ ° f
joln.ng the ranks of authors. Fall j the boys who live ,n New College
lists of publishing houses contain “"<> 01(1 CoI,ege holler at the glr ' 8
two novels written by former Geor- j when tbe y P a8a the dormitories and
gla men. John Fort, who graduated j 1 do not tbink that that la rlght '
from the University of Georgia in When I told one of the boys that
1908, has completed "God In the) it was wrong he said that I was
Straw Pen” (reviewed above) which j crazy, and that the girls made out
has been received throughout the 'ike they did not like it but they did.
country with merited favor. This is Mama, If you don’t mind I don’t
not Mr. Fort’s first contribution to think I will wear my long under
contemporary fiction—he is gaining clothes this winter. You remember
quite a literary reputation for him- you told me to put them on as soon
self. The other novel, which ap-1 as the first of October, but all of the
The psychological interpretation of
such a gathering is also given, but
far enough beneath the surface of
he narrative to be unobtrusive.
But however Interesting this study
of the revival Itself might be, it Is
not this that makes the novel an In-
ensely human production. It is the
ubconsclous antagonism between
the two evangelists. Isham Lowe- -
completely self-possessed and confl
Faculty, Sororities at Northwestern
Fail to Agree on Smoking Regulations
Universities the country over
recently agreed not to broad
cast football games this fall.
A dollar says that Georgia stu
dents "listen in" on a broadcast
of the Yale game tomorrow.
Students go a thousand miles
to see a fooball game. Yet
you can’t find one In a hundred
who would Journey ten miles to
hear a famous American lecture
on the economic depression.
Perhaps it Is because the old
order changeth, giving place to
the new. Then again maybe
they're tired of hearing about
the panic.
Students “raise Cain" because
they can't beat freshmen any
more. Wonder what thrill there
Is In warming a freshman’s
nether extremity?
Northwestern university’s campus
was agog with excitement as sorority
girls failed to come to any agreement
with faculty representatives over
smoking in sorority houses recently.
Such smoking has been banned, but
the sorority faction Is demanding
permission to have a smoking room in
each house.
Miss Jean Van Evera’s opinion
follows:
"One thing ls certain, the girls
will smoke and nothing can stop
them. I do not smoke, coincident
ally. although I am chairman of the
committee petitioning the quadran
gle association, which has Jurisdic
tion over the houses, for permission
to have a smoking room In each
house.
"For that matter, none of the
other five girls on the committee
smokes. We do recognize, however,
that each house ought to have the
right to decide for Itself whether It
shall have a smoking room.
"I am In favor of a smoking room
in every house because I think It
would do away with smoking by
girls on the streets, which so many
people find objectionable. Certainly
it looks woefully cheap and common
to see such a large number of girls
walking on the streets with lighted
j cigarettes, or lingering In a drug
store long after the "coke” has been
drunk so they may smoke.
"It has been argued that smoking
in the houses would encourage non-
uel J. Tupper. Mr. Tupper gradu- don't mind I will send my long ones
ated from the University of Georgia j home and you can cut them down to
in 1926. "Some Go Up” is his first | at Herschel.
novel, and it Is being exceptionally Y our letter came alright and I
well received. Georgia is the scene was g i a(1 to get tt But if you don’t
of action for both of these novels-—I mind I wish you would write the
God in the Straw Pen” being the address on the envelope in pen and
story of a revival in north Georgia, j j n i{ instead of pencil for all of the
and "Some Go Up” being a story of j ma |j i n t.h e other boxes are written
two families In Atlanta. I nen an( j j n ]j,
UOWKNA WILSON St'I.I.IVAN „ _
Tell Daddy that I appresiate very
much him sending the five dollars
when he sold the shote. I bought
me a notebook and a red cap with
the money and I loaned a dollar to
my roommate, but he promised to
pay me back.
Some body stole my red cap while
I was eating supper at the beneary.
smoking girls to smoke.
“If these women who do not smoke
have so little backbone as to be In
fluenced and are such babes that they b,,t 11 waa a lltt,e blt 100 sma11 any ‘
' way. I told the man It was to small
when I tried It on and he said “al-
need guarding, then college Is not |
the place for them.
"It has also been argued that' right ' 1 wlU get you another one ”
smoking rooms In the houses would and he went ln the back and 8tretch '
have no effect on smoking In the ed U wtth hls hands and came back
streets. Both the University of Mis- and told me t0 try 11 on ' 1 knew “
souri and the University of Okla- was tbe aame one but I did not say
homa maintain smoking rooms in
anything for I did not want to make
the houses, and there Is almost no b * m ma d- me being a freshman,
problem at all as far as smoking on I bought me a pair of pajamas
the streets Is concerned. The same which Is the name of the suits to
holds true of Grinnell college In sieep in j told you about.
Iowa. Wellesley college, and Sweet- Is Daddy done gathering his cot-
briar.” i ton yet? He told me he was going
to sell a bale and send me some of
Here at Georgia there is no point the money pretty soon but times are
of contention. The rules forbid s0 hard tell him to send me Just a
smoking. The women smoke. No | little bit. Write me when you are
effort is made to punish them and , soing to have the corn-shucking and
they are wise enough not to smoke 1 will try to come home for It.
in public—that is, in the presence of If you go to the singing at Beaver-
any one in authority. They refrain dam Sunday and Minnie Pearl is
from smoking on the streets or in there with her folks tell her that
automobiles in daytime. I wish she would write me soon, for
They smoke between classes ln
the women’s rooms In the various
buildings, or leave the campus for
a few hasty puffs.
They smoke In their rooms in so
rority houses, and anywhere else in
I have not heard from her. Did her
folks buy the car they was thinking
about when her daddy got his sol
dier's bonus?
I wish you would send me the pic
ture of Minnie Pearl that is in my
the house that they please when the dresser at home. I want to put it
house mothers are not present. on my dresser in my room. My
A fair estimate would reveal that room-mate has got three or four girls
seventy per cent of the co-eds at the pictures bat I do not want bnt one.
(Continued on page 8) Love, LEROY.