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VOLUME XL.
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, EE HR VARY 15, 1035.
M M HER 17.
Dix Will Open
Press Institute
On Wednesday
Pitkin,Mallon,Ripley to Make
Addresses; Round Tables
Feature Program
Opens Press Institute
Dorothy Dix, “Mother to Millions’
through her syndicated advice col
umn, will open the 1935 Georgia
Press institute with an address in
the Physical Education building Wed
nesday night at 8:30. The insti
tute will continue through Saturday,
Feb. 23, and will meet at the Grady
School of Journalism.
John Pasehall, managing editor of
the Atlanta Journal and chairman
of the institute committee, will in
troduce Miss Dix. The general pub
lic is invited to this and all other
speeches of the institute.
Washington Day Address
Dr. Walter B. Pitkin, author of
“Life Begins at Forty” and professor
in the Pulitzer School of Journalism,
Columbia university, will make the
Washington day address before the
Press institute in the University
chapel. He will be introduced by
President S. V. Sanford.
Robert L. (“Believe It or Not”)
Ripley will speak to the editors and
the public Thursday at 10:30 in the
chapel. Herbert Porter, publisher
of the Atlanta Georgian-American,
will introduce him.
The fourth speaker brought to the
University by the Press institute this
year will be Paul Mallon, Washing
ton correspondent and “News Be
hind the News” commentator, who
will speak in the chapel Saturday,
Feb. 23, at 10:30. He will be in
troduced by Clark Howell, editor of
the Atlanta Constitution.
Round Table Talks
Featured with the speakers at
the seventh annual session of the
Georgia Press institute, which opens
Wednesday night with a dinner ten
dered the editors by President S. V.
Sanford at Dawson hall, is a series
of two hour round table discussions.
Three round tables will be held each
day, except Saturday when only two
will meet. Editors of the state will
be given the opportunity to, in this Ichicago.'
way, thrash out problems confront
ing them today. All round tables
Temporary Boycott Declared
By Students on Movie Houses
After One Is Wounded in Riot
Judged by the Worst
Dorothy Dix, who will deliver
the opening address of the Press
institute in the Physical Educa
tion building, Wednesday night
at 8:30.
"Christopher Bean’
Named Winter Play
For Dramatic Club
Cast of Eight Announced by
Director Crouse; March 7-8
Dates
A comedy, the first offered by the
University theater in nearly two
years, will be presented March 7 and
8 as the winter Thalian-Blackfriars
production, it was announced Thurs
day. The play will be “The Late
Christopher Bean," by Sidney How
ard.
The University theater is the first
in the Southeast to present “The
Late Christopher Bean,’ which ran
on Broadway during the sedsons of
1 93 2 and 1983. The play has also
had long runs in Paris, Berlin, and
The cast announced Thursday by
.... ... .Edward C. Crouse, director of the
will meet in the auditorium of the theater i„ c i ud es: Katherine High-
Commerce-Journalism building. ; tower, Cedartown; Jean McFadgen,
Subjects of the round table talks | Albany; Sims Bray Jr., Atlanta; Em-
are as follows: “Editorial Page, Edi-jily Fisher, LaGrange; Celeste Moore,
torials, Policy, Etc. led by W. G. ISharon; D. B. Nicholson Jr., Athens;
Sutlive, Savannah Press; “Features, j William Hammack, Cuthbert, and
Columns, Women’s Page” led by Tom Richard Joel, Athens. Joel is the
Arnold, North Georgia Tribune;
“Make-up and Typography” led by
Edward C. Crouse, assistant profes
sor at the Grady School of Journal
ism; “What’s Wrong with the Geor
gia Press” led by Austin Dean,
Gainesville Eagle; “Local News, Cor
respondents” led by Otis Brumby,
Cobb County Times; “Circulation”
led by A. B. Dennis, Covington
News; "Advertising” led by Henry
Nevil, Dalton Citizen, and “Job
Printing” led by Kirk Sutlive, Black-
shear Times.
A dinner honoring the women
members of the Press association
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only newcomer to the University
stage in the cast, the others hav
ing appeared in previous Thalian-
Blackfriars productions.
“In presenting ‘The Late Chris
topher Bean,’ a comedy, we are con
tinuing our custom of offering dra
matic productions of a widely varied
nature from time to time," said Pro
fessor Crouse in discussing plans for
the new play. “ ’The Late Chris
topher Bean’ is a direct contrast to
‘Berkeley Square,’ presented last fall
by the theater.”
“We believe that ‘The Late Chris
topher Bean’ will be the most enter-
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Infuriated, rioting mobs have been seen before in the South;
healthy students have been known to go primitive after proper
stimulation—but never before lias the city of Athens witnessed
such mob rule as was attempted by a minority of students Tues
day night when they stormed (lie Palace and Strand theaters.
We are told by the psychologists that intelligent people often
are carried away by the fact that their identity is cloaked by a
mob. Despite our learned psychologists, we have been prone to
sneer at this statement. Egotistically enough, we believed that
education was the cure of all such rowdy and ruffian tendencies.
This was before Tuesday night.
“He never thought of the consequences—” always has been the
excuse offered for childish actions. Even this excuse could not be
offered Tuesday night for the students milled and shouted around
the two theaters for two and a half hours. Even the type of
college student that was in tlie Tuesday night mob should have
been able to think clearly after a period of two and a half hours.
The Red and Black has been asked to take a stand. Oar stand
is this:
We condemn the mob action of this minority of students as
ungentlemanly, childish, and disgraceful.
We condemn the Athens police for the use of firearms that
caused the wounding of an innocent bystander. The policemen
were as childish as the 200 students.
Chills of Jove and affection chase themselves up the backbones
of many students when the band plays “Glory, Glory to Old
Georgia.” The love of the University has been bred into stu
dents for over one hundred years.
Little love for the University and for its officials were shown by
the riotous 200 that stormed the theaters Tuesday night. Reper
cussions can be heard throughout the state of reports of commun
ism in our University. The taint of eommunWm or childish
action is repulsive to the majority of Georgia students.
To the citizens of the state of Georgia and the c,ily of Athens,
for those are the people that pay taxes to make this institution
a possibility, The Red and Black lakes upon itself the offering
,nf apologies of the 2500 intelligent students that regret the action
of the 200.
Theater prices in Athens may be too high but mob action, de
struction of property, and jeopardizing of human lives is not the
way to secure reductions. «
Out of the dark went the 200. and 2,500 innocent st udent'- reaped
the disgrace of their wrongful actions, for it. is the worst in us
that is judged, not the best.
Canopy Will Form Scheme
Of Military Ball Decorations
Black and White Colors to Dr. JeTC M. Poillld
Prevail; Bert Loan's Or- D j eg ftl Home Here
chestra Features Dance
"No Compulsory ROTC’, Students Vote;
Red and Black Poll Bares Student View
By nine votes the 457 students
who balloted Wednesday in The Red
and Rlack poll on the campus atti
tude towards preparedness and war
signified that they did not believe
in compulsory military training at
the University.
The response to the first question
(Do you believe in compulsory R.
O. T. C. at the University?) was
233, no; 224, yes.
Lightness of the voting was at
tributed by Managing Editor William
Waddell to the day’s heavy rains and
the fact that there was no polling
place on the Coordinate campus.
“Nevertheless,” he said, “the total
number of votes shows that almost
half the students attending classes
on this campus were interested in
the balloting. This is encouraging.”
Do you believe that the college
system of military training is of
value to the national system of mili
tary defense? The second question
elicited 122 against, and 316 for.
The third question, a league of
nations as a means of international
peace brought out that 276 did not
think so and that 169 favored the
idea.
The vote was three to one in
favor of universal conscription in
time of war. The figures were 113
against and 320 for the proposal.
To the fifth question, to which
there were two parts, the balloting
was: Would you fight (a) if the
United States were invaded? 36, no;
421, yes; (b) if the United States
were the invader: 297, no, and 138,
yes.
Three of the questions in The Red
and Black poll were used in the Lit
erary Digest poll. Some slight devia
tion is shown. In the Digest poll
students voted on the three questions
in the following way:
Fight if the U. S. were invaded,
607, yes; 34, no; fight if the U. 8.
were the invader, 199, yes; 423, no;
universal conscription in time of
war, 534, yes; 103, no. This slight
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A black and white canopy, spread
ing from the east side of the hall
just over the orchestra pit, covering
the entire ceiling, will be the main
scheme of decorations for the Mil
itary ball at which Bert Lown and
his orchestra will play in Woodruff
hall next Friday, Feb. 22. The
dance is sponsored by the University
R. O. T. C. corps.
The canopy will b\ arranged
that black and white will alternate
and spotlights will light an arc down
the white strips, Jasper Dorsey, Ma
rietta, cadet colonel of the unit, said years in behalf of his state.
Decorations are in
Dr. Jere M. Pound, for 50 years
one of the builders of Georgia’s edu
cational structure, died at his home
in Athens shortly after noon last Fri
day.
Dr. Pound became seriously ill
several months ago after taking up
his new duties as president of the
Georgia State Woman's College at
Valdosta. Early last summer his
health had become so impaired that
he was given a leave of absence and
with his family moved his residence
back to Athens where he had spent
so many useful and constructive
Wednesday. Decorations are
charge of Emory Patillo, Decatur,
under the personal direction of Hu
bert B. Owens, associate professor
of landscape architecture.
Invitations to the dance will be
mailed out Saturday, Hammond
Dean, Monroe, chairman of the in
vitation committee, announced Wed
nesday. Each advanced student of
the R. O. T. C. will be allowed two
tickets beside hiB own door card.
Freshmen women with an 80 aver
age may attend, Mrs. Rhodes has
announced.
When the officers and their dates
line up for the grand march, they
will parade under an arch of sabres,
Dorsey said. This will be a new
feature of the dance.
The Lown band consists of 14
pieces. With the orchestra will be
Peggy Raye, a torch singer well
known to New York night club goers,
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Funeral services were conducted
from the First Methodist church Sat
urday at noon, by Dr. Lester Rum
ble, pastor, assisted by Dr. C. C.
Jarrell, presiding elder of the Ath-
ens-Elberton district, and Dr. John
D. Mell, former president of the
Georgia Baptist convention.
Honor System Campaign
Sponsored by Blue Key
Blue Key, student honorary or
ganization, will initiate a campaign
for the installation of an honor sys
tem at the University, it was de
cided at a meeting of the club Mon
day.
"The honor system is successful
at the Law school,” said Maurice
Steinberg, Augusta, president of Blue
Key. “There is no reason why it
shouldn’t work eventually for the en
tire University.”
Edward Nabors, Innocent On
looker at Disturbance, Shot
As Police Try to Disperse
Egg-throwing Mob
BULLETIN’
Mooting with President S. V.
Sanford, a representative delega
tion from the student body Thurs
day afternoon oloeted a commit
tee of .six which will draw up u
plan for tin- reduction of theater
admission prices in Athens ami pre
sent tlie plan for dismission with
officials of tlie Palace and Strand
theaters.
Those elected to tlie eommitlee
were; De.Noan Stafford, president
of tlie I’an-llellenic council; t’arl
Strong, a leader of tlie movement
to reduce prices; Hudson Moore,
campus leader; Tom A. Dozier,
editor-in-chief of Tlie Red and
Itluck; Nell Johnson, representing
Erunklin college women, and t'c-
leste Smith, representing the t'o-
ordinatc college.
The committee will take no
stand on tlie boycott declared at
a mass meeting Wednesday night,
lint will negotiate for results in
tended to satisfy ImiIIi tlie student
body and theater managements.
Tin* body will meet Monday at I
p. m. in tlie president's office.
Following riots by over two hun
dred University students in front of
the Palace and Strand theaters Tues
day night in which Edward Nabors,
Wlnterville, was shot and wounded,
Georgia students declared
porary boycott on Athens theaters
at a mass meeting in the chapel Wed
nesday night.
Nabors, a junior in tin; Univer
sity, was an Innocent onlooker at the
climax of a night of disturbance by
the rioting students, who demanded
lower prices and more free shows
from the theater management. Police
fired in the air and at the ground
to disperse the mob, after officers
and citizens had been bombarded by
a shower of eggs and coal cinders.
Bullet Ricochets
Nabors, who ran with the flee
ing crowd of rioters, was shot by a
bullet which ricocheted on the pave
ment as he crossed the street at the
corner of College avenue and Clay
ton street. The bullet entered his
right leg, leaving a flesh wound.
He was taken to the Athens Gen
eral hospital and later returned to
the University Infirmary, where his
Injury was not considered serious.
Approximately seven hundred and
fifty students, assembled for a mass
meeting In the chapel Wednesday
night, voted an Immediate and In
definite boycott on both the Palace
and Strand theaters, demanding that
dmissfon prices at the Palace be low
ered to 25 cents. Webb Norman,
Washington, presided at the gather
ing.
Students Hush Show
The Tuesday night disturbance be
gan when a group of students col
lected In front of the Palace in an
alleged attempt to “rush” the show.
Resistance was met In the form of
Athens policemen and an affray fol
lowed In which fists and slugging
weapons were used.
The surging crowd alterated be
tween the Strand theater, where ad
vertising frameworks were torn
down and officers were bombarded
with eggs, and the Palace, where
the final climax was reached.
Officers alleged that the shot
which struck young .Nabors came
from a gun In the hands of one of
the disturbers, but students declar
ed that none of their group was
armed and that the policemen shot
at the ground.
Nabor’s Exclusive Statement
Nabors, In an exclusive statement
to The Red and Black Thursday, de
clared that the direction of the bul
let "indicated that it came from a
pistol fired by the police and not
by a student. His statement in full
is as follows;
"I came down College avenue
about 10 p. m. from the library. See
ing the crowd at the Palace theater,
I went up to see what the exclte-
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