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STAFF
JACK WITHKRft Kdltor-ln Ohlcf
AI. SMITH Managing Kdltor
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Harold Martin. _A**oclate Kdltor
.1:11; i • s Cobb Aiooetoti Kdltor
Jnnct Jarnairln Co-ed Kdltor
Tiiim r Biln Now* Dlroetor
Beymoor Hlrseb Now* Mitof
Adolpli KoHonberg-. AhmL New* Kdltor
Itowenn Sullivan Literary Kdltor
Olady* Slmpfcon ..-Society Kdltor
Kd Bartio Futon Kdltor
Norton Sander* Radio Kdltor
Loollo Mitchell ■xehonfo Kdltor
HI’KI'IAI. W It IT Fits
S*m Meyer*. Frank Hawklna, Don McKee,
Oirl Ijevy, Hoy llowen, Joe Vln*on, Nathan
Wolfe, t'harle* Iteynold*. Harold Pnrker,
Shed Car*well, and (Jeorge II. McCutchon
It KFORTKRH
Tom Doaler, Hugh Park, Hunter WilllamH
Irvin Selgel. J It Whelchel, W. A. Cuff.
Robert Reynold*, and Harvey Taylor.
Ill MNK.SK PFIWRTMF.NT
JOK SI’KMK ltu*lni«HN Manager
C. O. linker A**!. Rualne** Manager
Itlll T. Ilrown (Ireulatlon Manager
Frank Lee Flr*t AsHlNtant
Albert Pace .Second AN*l*tant
Dow I w nigfltt* Third Assistant
Politic* Fmling
Politic*- once the controll
ing factor of every student In-
Htltutlon ami club on the cam
pus--are gradually, but *uroly,
losing out on the University of
Georgia campus. Only good can
come from such a fact.
Five years ago a fraternity
rushing enptnin wns not kidding
a freshman when he promised
him during freshman week to
“get him In” such-and-such a
club, or on a certain staff Now
he would need to watch his step
lest the potential pledge call
him dumb.
For with several men of a
fraternity in one club, It was
easy for them to convince the
remainder of the members that
they had a worthy new mem
ber. or if necessary they could
get their man Into the club by
swapping voter;. And so some
body voted for a man that he
didn't even know, because some
one else had assured him of
his own support whenever he
brought up a man's name.
The Pandora and Red and
Rtack staffs were chosen by fra
ternity and campus men of cer
tain parties and outsiders had
no chance of election to major
positions. Dramatic club mem
bers ran around before tryouts
telling other members just how
good some of their freshmen
friends were. Pledges to cer
tain fraternities were told to
wear their pledge pins conspic
uously during tryouts, others
were Instructed io leave theirs
off.
No longer is this the case
in many clubs and organiza
tions. Last season The Red and
Books, Drama, Cinema
The entire development of Chris-1
ianity, from the Crucifixion to the j
present day. Is revealed In a grand
panorama which is Lewis Browne’s j
latest book. “Since Calvary” (Mac
millan). All the Important Incl-
lents and details are Included, but
with so much of Mr. Browne’s cus
tomary brilliance and consideration
bat the book never seems dull or
lengthy. The Interpretation and
analyzation which are skillfully
woven into the story are in all cases
scholarly and rationalistic.
It is this rationalizing quality, so
evident in the discussion of the life
of Jesus and the four Gospels, which
will he especially disturbing to
those of us who might term our
selves Fundamentalists. All of Mr.
Browne's facts are undoubtedly ac
curate and his interpretation is clear
and according to logic—but logic
and reasoning so often reduce to
cold facts all the glamorous little
half-truths which beautify faith and
religion.
Nevertheless "Since Calvary” is In
tensely interesting. Although schol
arly in all its details, the hook is
not a textbook for scholars; It Is
written to enlighten intelligent lay
men. and consequently has acquired
swift moving dramatic quality
which is one of the chief charms of
Mr. Browne’s style. Altogether,
'Since Calvary" Is a worthy culmi
nation to “This Believing World”
and “The Graphic Bible.” "Since
Calvary" will undoubtedly strength
en the position of Lewis Browne In
contemporary literature and In
crease that large following which he
has gained by his learning and his
brilliant style.
• • •
“The Stars In Their Course” (Mac
millan), by Sir James Jeans, is a
hook for those who have no special
knowledge of science. It Is an In
troduction to modern astronomy and
the wonders of the universe as seen
through the giant telescopes of to
day.
The author’s radio talks on stars,
which recently proved so popular in
Fngland, have been used as the
basis for this book. Consequently
It retains an informal conversa
tional style and simple, non-tech-
nical language. The book is illus
trated with fifty photographs and
two sky maps.
• » »
Probably the most interesting man
on the continent today is President
von Hindenburg, of the German Re
public. "The Biography of Presi
dent von Hindenburg” (Macmillan),
by Weterstetten and Watson, rep
resents him not only as a soldier
who understood his duty and pur
sued it relentlessly, but as a states
man whose policy is “everything for
the country and nothing for the
party.”
The last sixteen years of his life
have been filled with gigantic tasks
and achievements. Other generals
in their old age have fought and
won battles, but no other man after
four years of gruelling warfare has
had to conduct the return of a worn
and defeated soldiery into a starving
and revolutionary country—and a
few years later, to face, as Presi
dent, the task of uniting the coun
try and rehabilitating it in the eyes
of the world.
* • •
“The Squaw Man.” the feature
picture to be shown at the Palace
theatre on Saturday, gives several
stars an excellent chance for good
acting. The cast includes Warner
Baxter, Lupe Velez, and Eleanor
Boardman, all of whom turn in very
creditable performances. But the
laurels for the best acting belong to
Lupe Velez, As a young Indian
girl who bestows faithful and un
questioning devotion on a man she
can never understand, Miss Velez
plays a difficult role with appre
ciable success. Good shot: Lupe
Velez giving her little boy a clay
donkey she has made for his birth
day present.
HOWKNA WIL80X SII.I.IVAN
Where Is That Money?
By Gulliver Swift
Journalists Lcsul
The winner of the freshman
psychology test this year is a
candidate for the bachelor of
arts Journalism degree. Not
only Is the individual winner In
this test a journalism student,
but candidates for this degree
as a whole ranked first in the
results.
This Is not the first time that
the Journalism students have
attained this distinction. In
several previous tests at the
University of Georgia, there
have been similar results.
In thin connection, It Is In
teresting to observe that the
percentage of journalism stu
dents making Phi Beta Kappa
and Phi Kappa Phi Is high.
Dr. Allen Sinclair- Will of
Columbia university has observ
ed that there Is a correlation
between an Interest In Journal
ism and mental superiority.
He has observed that students,
upon entering the study of
Journalism, "expand In every
way." He reports that “their
progress In all their studies is
usually accelerated and the
mental maturity progresses far
beyond that of their non-Jour-
nallstlc classmates."
Speaking of the general ed
ucational value of Journalistic
work, the Columbia professor
writes: "The doing of real
newspaper work under proper
conditions Is probably equal to
the best training for the mind
that has evor been devised. I
rate It as distinctly superior to
mathematics for that purpose."
Black and The Pandora broke
away from the old principles
and announced that thereafter
all selections would be made to
staffs only after the candidates
for positions had proved their
merit and really earned their
wuy. Both systems are func
tioning astonishingly well, and
probably will not be abandoned
for the old methods of election.
The Thallan-Blackfriars Dra-
matlr club, u consolidation of
the Thalian Dramatic club and
Bluokfrlars Dramatic club, has
adopted for the first time this
year a system of selection of
new members In which campus
politics will he eliminated al
most entirely. Under the new
plan, provisional members are
named at the first of the school
year. These members must
perform duties and service to
the club during the winter sea
son which will prove their abil
ity and worthiness to become
full-fledged members.
Various tasks will be done by
the provisional members. In ad
dition to actual acting. They
will be required to help with
the scenery, make-up. rehears
als. ticket selling, advertising,
prompting, etc. And then In
the spring, their names will be
voted on. Under such a plan it
is practically impossible for a
person to become a member un
less he really deserves to be
made one. and politics are re
duced to a minimum.
The Red and Black congrat
ulates these organizations and
others which are breaking
away from the unfair system
of election Involving politics.
Such things as fraternity alli
ances should be unheard of
within several years, and every
student will have an equal
chance to make what he se
lects for his goal.
I suppose It’s none of my busi
ness. but how much money did the
Pan-Hellenic council make on the
Homecoming dances here last week
end, and where Is that money?
Two plus two equals four. One
thousand times two and a half makes
2.500, unless our multiplication has
gotten rusty since grammar school
days. Probably a thousand couples
attended the dances here last week
end and at $2.50 a couple that
brought in at least $2,500. Who
got that money and why?
A dollar to a hole in a doughnut
says that the president of the Pan-
Hellenic council could account for
the money. And another dollar says
that nobody on the council knows
anything about the imoney. The
council would be telling the truth if
it admitted knowing nothing about
the money. But the president of
the council knows plenty. Will he
tell the truth and make public an
Itemized statement of the money
taken in. the money paid out, to
whom It was paid and why, and the
balance In hand.
A year or so back nobody cared|
much about where the money went.
The president of Pan-Hellenic got It
—nobody kicked, nobody cared.
But students care now and they
have plenty of reason for caring. |
Times have changed and changed
plenty from the days when every
body smiled at every piece of graft
that took place on the campus.
Once again—how much money did
the Pan-Hellenic council make on
the Homecoming dances and where
is that money?
• • •
Every student on the University
of Georgia campus has the right to
know what is done with the receipts
I of the dances sponsored by the Pan-
Hellenic council. In the first place,
the dances are held In Woodruff
hall, the property of the University
of Georgia, which is In turn the
property of your father and mine,
as tax-payers of the state of Geor
gia. Student activities held In
Woodruff hall hold an interest for
every one on the campus.
Again, fully half of the student
| hody attend Pan-Hellenic dances and
helps make them successful. Stu
dents who attend the dances most
' certainly have a rglht to know just
what happens to othe money they
pay.
Even if you refute all that, there
still remains the fact that the Pan-
Hellenic council is a student organi
zation. Whatever any student or
ganization does with money made by
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Leroy’s Letters
Dear Dad and Mother:
I am sorry that I did not write
to you last week, but I wrote to
Minnie Pearl and told her to tell you
that I was doing fine.
As you probably read In the pa
pers there was a football game here
last week. It was Homecoming
week-end, and all of the alumni, who
are the men who have graduated
from the university in the past,
came back.
There was a great deal of noise,
and people shouting and more auto
mobiles than I ever saw before at
one time. There was also some
whisky drunk, but it was not as
good whisky as Uncle Ed used to
make I don’t believe, because it did
not smell as good, and it made a lot
of the men sick.
It looked like to me though that
it was the alumni who raised more
sand than the students. I also no
ticed that the alumni who look like
they have amounted to the most do
not make themselves as conspicu
ous as the ones who have not done
much since they got out of school
except sell stuff like hardware and
books and things.
It was a very important game and
we beat Vanderbilt, but we had a
very hard time doing it. It was
very hard for me to tell, not know
ing very much about football, who
had the ball and where he was going
with it. It also seemed that some
times it was hard for the Georgia
line to tell who had the ball, for a
lots of times they would grab some
one else while a little man with a
big five on his shirt ran a long way
with it. It also looked several times
that the referee could run with the
ball without being tackled bv any
body. Lots of times he would blow
his whistle, and pick up the ball
and walk back five or six, and one
time fifteen steps in the direction
Georgia had just brought it from.
When he would do this the people
who were for Georgia would holler as
if they were very displeased, but he
did not pay them any attention.
I wish you would tell me If Min
nie Pearl has got her one of those
funny little hats that look like a
man’s hat without any brim, and
kind of turned up on one side with a
feather on the top.
I think that they make the girls
who wear them look very strange,
and I do not like them and I do not
want her to get one. They are very
stylish right now, but I do not think
they will be long.
There were a lot of very pretty
girls over here this week-end. They
came on the fraternity houseparties.
Next year when I have a little bit
of money I am going to have me a
girl come over so I can take her to
the game.
I have been noticing some of the
people over here, and it seems to
be very strange how they do. Down
at Gus'8, which is a soda fountain
next to the campus, you see a great
many boys hanging around, espe
cially the football team, but there
never are any girls. Up at Costa’s,
which is a very large place, where
there are lots of mirrors, there are
always lots of girls and also men,
except the men are a little bit differ
ent from the ones who stay at Gus's.
They do not make as much noise,
and always seem to never have any
thing to do. Down at Moon-Winn’s
there are lots of Normal school
girls and a lots of Athens boys, but
never a great many co-eds, and up
at Patrick's there are always lots
of Hlg hschool students. I think It
is very strange the way they divide
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