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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, JANUARY 21, MMTT
NUMBER 21—Z-109.
Roosevelt Ball j$22.50 Fee Will Be Assessed
W ill Be Given
Next Thursday
I* units From Woodruff Hall
Dance to Help Infantile
Paralysis Victims
University students and Athenians
will unite next Thursday in celebra
tion of the President’s Birthday Ball.
And in the aforesaid, abbreviated
paragraph lies the story of a hu
manitarian observance that annual
ly touches the pity and pocketbooks
of thousands of red-blooded Ameri
cans.
Athens’ bit in the nationwide cele
bration will be accomplished in spa
cious Woodruff Hall from 9 until 1
o’clock, with the Georgia Bulldogs
and a local dancing school supplying
the music and a floor show, respec
tively. Freshman women will be
allowed to break the strictly enforc
ed no-dance-off-*the-coordinate-cam-
pus rule, as is the annual custoai.
Tickets Sell for 50 Cents
The band will be playing . . . the
lads and lassies will be swaying . . .
and sturdy, strong, and sometimes
shapely limbs will be hoppin’ in
rhythmic (?) movement so that dis
torted llimbs of some 600,000 of
America’s infantile paralysis victims
can secure treatment otherwise be
yond hope.
The student body will be called
on, as in the past, to lend its aid
to the birthday ball, and a large
portion of the students will answer
the summons at 60 cents a couple.
The University sale of tickets is un
der the general supervision of Pete
Latimer, Atlanta, president of the
Pan-Hellenic Council. Latimer has
placed tickets at the various fra
ternity houses.
Co-eds, as per custom, will pass
the gate on their escorts’ tickets,
but even the femmes are being call
ed on to do their part to make the
occasion a financial success. Under
the supervision of Cleone Jackson,
Macon, president of the Women’s
Pan-Hellenic group, special birthday
buttons are being sold to co-eds
who desire to lend a helping hand.
Probable Sell-out Indicated
Lee Morris, Athens merchant who
is in charge of ticket sales, has re
ported that the original quota of
1,500 tickets, many of which are stu
dent ducats, will probably be real
ized, and more tickets will have to be
printed. All signs point to the larg
est birthday ball ever held in Ath
ens, and the local contribution to
President Roosevelt’s fund to fight
infantile paralysis should be a large
one.
All Athens civic groups are co
operating to the fullest extent in
preparations for the celebration, and
special committees have been ap
pointed to contact churches, schools,
and various civic and social organiza
tions in the city and throughout
Clarke County and the Tenth Dis
trict.
The date for the dance was orig
inally set for Saturday night of next
week, but previously-scheduled so
cials both that night and Friday
forced the date to be moved to
Thursday.
For Dances i
These 3—Next Fall
SnapiM'd on the steps of tile Pub
lications Building, Marvin Gil
lespie, Bulldog alternate-captain,
Joel Hunt, recently named head
football roach, and Quinton Lump
kin, the new captain, talk over
plans for 10:58.
6 New Men Added
To Debating Team
In Winter Try-outs
Six men were selected in winter
try-outs Wednesday to form, with
the men elected last fall, the varsity
debating team for the year.
The newly-selected men, listed by
Morris B. Abram, Fitzgerald, man
ager of debates, are Don Carter,
Plains; Cam Dorsey Jr., Atlanta;
Newell Edenfield, Eden; James E.
Hacke Jr., Athens; William Marion
Page, Columbus, and Carlisle Tay
lor, Atlanta.
The annual freshman prepared de
bate between Demosthenian and Phi
Kappa Literary Societies will be held
Wednesday in Phi Kappa Hall, to
make the second inter-society con
test of the year.
The sophomore declamation will
be held Feb. 17 to select the winner
of a silver loving cup of the State
Board of Regents, Abram announced.
Entries are taken at the debate of
fice in Demosthenian Hall.
Final Tlipalpr Tryouts
Arp Schpdiilpd Tonight
Final tryout'- - '.or roles in tne
winter production of the Univer
sity Theater will be held tonight
at 7:30 o’clock at the University
Chapel.
‘‘All students except freshmen
women are eligible to try out.
Previous stage experience is not
necessary,” Edward C. Crouse, di
rector of the theater, said today.
i Woodruff Hall
Charge to Cover Maintenance
Cost; Reduced in Fall and
Spring
Use of Woodruff Hall for dances in
the winter quarter will incur a main
tenance charge of $22.50, J, D. Bol
ton, treasurer of the University, told
The Red and Black today. The fee
will be reduced to $15 for functions
occurring in the fall and spring
quarters.
The announcement came after an
administration conference in Presi
dent Harmon W. Caldwell’s office
which included the president, Treas
urer Bolton, and John Broadnax, as
sistant to Director of Athletics W.
O. Payne.
■‘The fee is based on an appor
tionment of the yearly expense of
maintaining the hall for social func
tions and is only sufficient to cover
the cost of heating, lighting, clean
ing the floor, paying janitor and
maid service, and reflnishing and
repainting the floor,” Bolton de
clared.
“The dances in the winter quarter
will naturally assume a higher cost
in that they will require heating the
building. The fee will be slightly
under that of $25 which is charged
for the use of the Physical Educa
tion building, a smaller and less
commodious hall.”
The schedule of costs for an indi
vidual dance, as outlined by Bolton,
follows:
Lighting $ 4.00
Heating (one ton of coal).... 6.00
Cleaning floor 5.25
Janitor and maid service ... 2.50
Reflnishing and painting
floor 5.00
Total $22.50
In the last two school terms there
has been no charge to students for
the use of Woodruff Hall for dances.
Previous to the 1936-37 year there
was a fee charged which ranged from
$12 to $15.
Nine organizations have dances
scheduled for the winter quarter and
will be affected by the administra
tion announcement. Eight others
have spring quarter dates and will
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Military Ball Plans
Almost Completed
Plans for the annual Military Ball
are being perfected this week under
the direction of Joe Gillespie, Sa
vannah, cadet colonel of the It. O.
T. C. brigade.
The dance will be held Friday
night, March 4, in Woodruff Hall
and will be strictly formal. Spon
soring the affair are the advanced
students in the University R. O. T. C.
unit.
A nationally-known orchestra will
play for the ball, Gillespie said. Com
plete plans will be announced short
ly upon the completion of arrange
ments.
Human Guinea Pigs Fain Would Sleep—
Psychology Analysts Say r Wait a Day
BULLETIN
At 12 o'clock today (Friday)
six University students entered
the last lap of tlieir “no-sleep” ex-
|M-riiiient in good health but with
heavier eyelids its their 7tith hour
without sleep was tolled.
The scientists announced as a
first significant psychological dis
covery tluit the students' reaction
times are varying in "waves" and
are at the same time lower than
normal.
There are six University students
who will welcome with open arms
and half-closed eyes the Friday night
festivities—or just about any other
kind of entertainment that will keep
them awake for one more night.
They are the six human guinea
pigs who have voluntarily submitted
to pioneering experiments by the
psychology department to find the
effects of living 100 hours—since
Tuesday morning—without a wink
of sleep.
The sextet comprises Mary Frances
Wallace, Douglas; Ruth Jimmerson,
Unadilla; Saidee Hodgson, Athens;
Robert W. Schnautz, Rye, N. Y.;
Paul Newman, Athens, and a sixth,
whose name is being withheld.
For four days they have alternately
played cards, drunk black coffee, and
submitted to psychological tests of
this the second experiment by the
department—a similar one was tried
in 1930—on the effects of loss of
sleep. Noon Saturday marks the
test end.
By the second day the student
guinea pigs had lost an average
pound of weight and a fraction of an
inch in height. When asked then
what she thought of going through
the crucial stage of the experiment
today, Wallace replied. “Oh, I hate
to think of it.”
Each day means a physical exam
ination by the University physician,
regular class work, and psychological
tests. Each person is tested for
memory span, color blindness, type
writing speed, aiming ability,' reac
tion time, strength of hand grip,
pateller reflex, ability to keep from
swaying while standing, and the per
imeter test for change in the color
of the eye.
Each member of both advanced
classes of the corps will receive two
tickets, and admission will be by
card only.
A brigade review will be held on
the parade ground the afternoon
preceding the ball in accordance with
usual custom. Sponsors of each of
the advanced students will be pre
sented to the entire corps, includ
ing both cavalry and infantry de
tachments. Following their presen
tation to the troops, the sponsors
and their escorts will be honored as
the brigade passes in review.
On thp Insidp
I’agi'
Georgia's Bulldogs tackle Chat
tanooga in Woodruff Hall
tonight 7
Musical festival planned in Feb
ruary 2
Noted historian to discuss south
ern problems 5
till Omegas to swing in "black
■ad white” ;5
Holmes cracks down on I’an-
Hellenir Council 4
Track prospc-cts fade with dis
missal of Packard (i
llemosthenians condemn legal
ized liquor 5
Roddy parades on 4
Financial Expert
B. C. Forbes, nationally known
financial columnist, was announced
today as one of the featured Press
Institute speakers.
Fraternities Report
Election of Officers;
Initiation, Pledging
Sororities Also Announce Ac
tivities at Beginning of
New Quarter
Election of officers, formal initia
tion of new members, and pledging
services centered the interests of
fraternities and sororities this week
as three groups elected officers and
13 held initiations and pledging.
Lambda Chi Alpha has elected
Max Lindsay, Atlanta, president; 11.
W. Perkerson, Greenville, vice-pres
ident; James Swarts, Van Horn,
Texas, secretary, and Warren
ThruBber, Douglas, treasurer.
William Merritt, Atlanta, has been
named president of Pi Kappa Al
pha. Other officers elected are Rob
ert Teter, Charleston, W. Va., vice-
president; Claude Davidson, La-
Grange, secretary, and Ed Strain,
Dalton, treasurer.
Plott Brice, Decatur, is new presi
dent of Sigma Chi, while other of
ficers include Bill McNiel, Fairburn,
vice-president; Dean Murphy, Fay
etteville; Warren Portwood, Craw-
fordvtlle; Bill Gunter, Commerce;
Gray Burch, Fayetteville, and Jule
Neal, Rome. *
Initiations and pledging of other
fraternities and sororities are as fol
lows:
Alpha Gamma Delta announces
the following pledges: Catherine
Byers, Savannah; Loraine Langdon,
Columbus; Betty McConnell, Dublin;
Dorothy Moore, Atlanta; Lenu Raw
lings, Sandersville, and Catherine
Watkins, Talbotton.
Alpha Lambda Tau announces
the pledging of the following men:
James Harage, Gunnersville, Ala.;
Inman Hulsey, Portal; Erskine Whit
mire, Dahlonega; Oswald Smith,
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Editor Forbes
To Make Talk
At Press Meet
Publisher autl Author of Fi
nancial Column Will Ad
dress Institute Feb. 24
B. C. Forbes, editor and publisher
of Forbes Magazine and writer of a
daily syndicated tinancial column,
will address the 1938 session of the
Georgia Press Institute Feb. 24 at
the Henry W. Grady School of Jour
nalism.
Internationally known for his ar
ticles and hooks on tinance and bus
iness, Mr. Forbes began his career
at 1 4 as a printer's devil for a weekly
newspaper near his home in Scot
land.
Native of Scotland
Sixth in a family of ten, he was
the son of a country storekeeper and
tailor in Aberdeenshire, Scotland.
Mr. Forbes begun reporting at 17
for $2.50 a week and impressed the
editor so much that he was soon
writing editorials. At this time he
began supplementing his practical
experience at the local college.
In 1901 he went to South Africa
and ufter working on newspapers In
Cape Colony and Natal, he assisted
in the establishment of the Hand
Daily Mail at Johannesburg.
Mr. Forbes decided to try his hand
in the New York newspaper field.
He secured u position on the Jour
nal of Commerce and was assigned
to cover the dry-goods market. He
rose first to the position of assistant
financial editor and eventually to
that of financial editor.
Financial Publication
In 1912, as a result of his work
on both the Journal and the Chron
icle, he became editor of the New
York American. Ho was at this time
the highest paid financial editor in
the United States.
His uinbltion to establish a publi
cation dealing with "people who do
things, and with their doings,” was
realized when he left the American
in 1916 to found Forbes Magazine,
one of the best known business mag
azines in the country.
His syndicated column and nu
merous books soon followed. He Is
the author of “Finance, Business,
and the Business Life,” “Men Who
Are Making America,” "Keys to Suc
cess," "Forbes Epigrams,” “Men
Who Are Making the West," "Auto
motive Giants in America," and "How
to Get the Most Out of Business.”
Drive Ih lb—Mined to Secure
Student Tnhereiiloois Texts
“All students who have not com
pleted tuberculin tests should re
port to the Infirmary immediately.
This Includes new students and those
who did nqt finish the tests last
quarter,” Dr. Loroe Florence, as
sistant University physician, said to
day.
Wassermunn tests will he made at
the Infirmary the entire quarter.
There is a 25 cents fee to cover
postage and test tube costs.
"I strongly advise all students to
have a Wassermann test made as
soon as possible. University stu
dents should fall in line with the
popular campaign combating syph
ilis in the United States," Dr. H. I.
Reynolds, University physician, de
clared.
Hunt Appoints J. V. Sikes Line Mentor
Completing New Football Coaching Staff
Georgia’s coaching jig-saw puzzle
was a complete picture this week
with the appointment of J. V. Sikes,
teammate of Joel Hunt at Texas A.
and M., and present assistant line
coach at the Aggie school, to the
post of line mentor under Head
Coach Hunt.
The 33-year-old Sikes has 10 years
of college football coaching experi
ence behind him and last year led
the Aggie baseball nine to a South
western conference championship.
He was a selection on the All-South
western grid eleven in 1927 and
played in the annual East-West all-
star game on New Year’s day, 1928.
In announcing Sikes' appointment,
Athletic Director W. O. Payne said
there “could only be one other pos
sible addition to the staff'—the
position of assistant freshman coach.
His selection will be left to Hunt.
The athletic director also indicated
that Sikes would he head baseball
coach in addition to his gridiron du
ties.
The entire new Bulldog staff is
expected to be in Athens by Feb. 1,
and spring football practice will
start soon thereafter. Coach Hunt
and his family are to arrive in Ath
ens today, and will establish perman
ent residence. Assistant Coach Wal
lace Butts Is also due today. Elmer
Lampe, the new end coach and next
year’s basketball mentor, and Coach
Sikes are not expected until the end
of the month.