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VOLUME XIJII.
Number SSI—ZlOtt.
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THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY 4. 1(1:18.
Press Institute
To Hear Chief
Of Constitution
Atlanta Editor to Address
Newspapermen on Prob
lems in Orient
An authority on the Far East,
Francis W. Clarke, executive editor
of thfe Atlanta Constitution, will be
a principal speaker at the Georgia
Press Institute on Feb. 26.
Intimately acquainted with inter
national conditions Mr. Clarke was
a member of a small group of out
standing American newspapermen
sent to the Far East some years ago
by the Carnegie Endowment for In
ternational Peace. He spent six
months in Japan, Korea, Manchuria,
and China.
Has Interviewed Notables
Mr. Clarke has been granted per-
onal interviews by Emperor Kang-
teh, Manchukuo; President Chiang
Kai-shek, China, Prime Minister Hi-
rota, Japan; President Machado,
Cuba; J. W. Atlee, leader of the
King’s opposition in parliament, and
other leading international figures
in politics and economics.
He has been a member of the Con
stitution staff for more than 30
years where he has served in every
news and editorial department. He
first became connected with the Con
stitution as private secretary to the
late Hon. Clark Howell, and this
close relationship continued with his
service as special assistant and head
of the editorial staff for five years
preceding Mr. Howell's death.
Much Experience
Mr. Clarke began his active news
paper work as a political reporter
on the Constitution when he was 22.
He later became state news editor,
night city editor, city editor, tele
graph editor, and managing editor,
and was youngest man to hold each
of these positions in the history of
that paper. He served as managing
editor for 12 years and later as
Washington correspondent.
Among nationally distinguished
journalists who have been previous
ly announced are:
B. C. Forbes, New York, editor
end publisher of Forbes Magazine;
W. W. Loomis, LaGrange, 111., pres
ident of the National Editorial Socie
ty; Gilbert P. Farrar, New York, em
inent designer of typography, and
Bruce McCoy, associate professor in
the Louisiana State University School
of Journalism.
GOP Meeting
Non-fraternity nu n of the Uni-
versity will gather Monday night
at 7:iM) in tlte Chapel in wliat has
been termed “one of the most Iro-
I tort ant G. C). P. meetings of the
year."
Matters of interest to campus
men will be discussed and a num
ber of lenders of the non-frater
nity group will make talks.
Campus leader Perry Hudson,
Hapeville, is arranging the meet
ing.
By Ed Rogers
Football mentors and old-time fans
this week pulled their hair and
thumbed through their sports scrap
books—and still can’t find how nor
when the well-known ferocious ca
nine became mascot for Georgia's
fighting squad.
The origin of the Bulldog as the !
symbol of the spirit of Old Georgia
became the target of widespread
sleuthing and heated argument be
tween an athletic coach and an old-
timer in the Law School, when the
combatants suddenly remembered
the pug-nosed animal didn't even
have official title to be King Kong
of the gridiron.
Robert L. McWhorter, professor
of law, said although the Bulldog
will always reign by divine right,
the football squad should hold a
coronation at the biggest game next
fall for a live beast whlcb would
wear the University colors at eveigr
game thenceforth.
“Back in 1921 Georgia played
Yale and the Bulldog name was
afterwards adopted, but there was
nothing official," Coach H. J. Stage-
man said today. “For two years
Georgia had a basketball team of
University Mascot?
Just how (lid the Bulldog become
the University's mascot, uiul is
it, in reality, the official repre
sentative? While n Red and
Black reporter gathered the facts
In the case, another University
student tried to keep this ferocious
animal altore in check as a staff
photographer snup|M-d the picture.
Delta Phi Eps Win
Intramural Debate
Tournament Again
Pioneer Club Presents Silver
Loving Cup for Second
Successive Time
For the second successive time.
Delta Phi Epsilon sorority was vic
torious in the intramural debate
tournament, defeating the Kappa Al
pha Thetas in the finals held in the
University Chapel Tuesday night.
Saying that Franklin D. Roosevelt
should be re-elected for a third term,
tha affirmative was upheld for the
Delta Phi Epsilons by Minnie Schrei-
her, Brunswick, and Helen Rutkin,
Tampa, Fla. Their opponents were
Joanna Stegeman, Athens, and Ma
rion Ehrhardt, Atlanta.
Pioneer Club, sponsors of the de
bate tournament, presented the sil
ver loving cup to the Delta Phi Ep
silons for the second time. Perma
nent possession of the cup will be
awarded to the team winning for
three successive years.
Institution of these tournaments
was made by the Pioneer Club to
stimulate an interest in debating
among the women on the campus.
Fifteen teams, including 30 girls who
represent sororities and dormitories,
participated in the last tournament
which was divided into three rounds.
Kennon Henderson, Carrollton,
president of the Pioneer Club, pre
sented the cup to the winning team.
She was assisted by Pioneer mem
bers Helen Head, Atlanta; Clara
telle Hooks, Macon, and Elizabeth
Lang, St. Petersburg, Fla
small but scrappy players, called the
Wildcats, and the papers kidded the
squad so much it had to change its
mascot."
“I really think the name started
before 1921," McWhorter contends,
and he says the Georgia squad had
that name when he was in school
hack in 1914.
“I vividly recall the boys would
take a Bulldog to Atlanta all dressed
up in school colors for the game
of the year with Tech," he said.
Morton Hodgson Sr., who played
j in 1898 under “Pop” Warner, re
members the argument which took
place in 1921, but the Athens busi-
I nessman declared the “Bulldog" had
1 become a name for the Georgia team
wnen he himself was mascot in
1890.
Meanwhile, a write-up occupying
the entire first page of the No. 1
issue of The Red and Black in 1893
described a gridiron encounter with
Vanderbilt without mentioning the
pugilistic canine.
Mentors and fans, however, agreed
that the Bulldog is the most fitting
sive mascot for a football squad and
that the name was the most fitting
symbol of their Alma Mater.
Literary Clubs
Name Orators
For Exercises
Societies Choose Joe Prather,
Morris Abram as Aniiiver-
sarians
Joe Prather, Toccoa, and Morris
Abram, Fitzgerald, will be anniver-
sarians of Demostheuian and Phi
Kappa Literary Societies, respective
ly, in the annual anniversarian exer
cises in the University Chapel Feb.
23.
Generally recognized as the high
est speaking honor that a literary
society can bestow, anniversarian
places have been held by many stu
dents who became leading citizens
of the state after graduation One
of the outstanding speakers of the
senior class in each society is usually
chosen for the honor.
Both Are Past President s
Prather, an active member of
Demosthenian for four years, was
president of the society during the
fall quarter. He had previously held
the offices of secretary and vice
president, l’rather is a member of
Scabbard and Blade, Senior Round
Table, Y. M. C. A. Cabinet, Inter
national Relations Club, and is pres
ident of the Jockey Club.
Abram is a past president of Phi
Kappa. He is president of the fresh
man law lass and of the Interna
tional Relations Club, and is a mem
ber of Phi Kappa Phi, O. D. K., and
Pericleans. Abram will speak on the
topic, "Liberalism is not Bankrupt.”
Program Planned
The anniversarian addresses last
year were delivered by Howard Per
ry, Winder, for Phi Kappa, and Wil
liam Cannon, Dalton, for Demos
thenian.
Prather was named at a meeting
of Demosthenian Wednesday night,
while Abram was selected by Phi
Kappa on the previous Wednesday.
Plans are being made for a pro
gram on the night of the exercises
in which the presidents of the two
societies, Charles Kirbo, Bainbridge,
of Demosthenian, and Byron Ma
thews, Atlanta, of Phi Kappa, will
participate.
Greeks Investigate
Proposed Changes
Following the Pan-Hellenic Coun
cil’s motion that the president of the
Council be put on a salary and each
student required to buy a Friday
night (Jance ticket, a committee of
five representatives and H. J. Stege
man, dean of men, has been appoint
ed to investigate the matter.
Representatives comprising the
committee are: Tom Abney, Athens,
treasurer of the Council; James
Curtis, Toccoa; Charles Heflin, Mar-
shallville; Wadsworth McGInty, At
lanta, and Byron Matthews, Atlanta.
The committee will formulate a plan
under which the president will re
ceive a set salary and attend the In
ter-Fraternity convention, with the
University handling the sale of dance
tickets.
The proposal to require all fra
ternity men to buy tickets was made
to insure sufficient funds for orches
tra guarantee.
Awaiting only notification from
the agency which will enable them
to sign a nationally known orchestra,
the Council hopes to obtain either
Hal Kemp or Tommy Dorsey for the
Little Commencement dances which
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Gardener-Poet Completes
4 Years on ‘2-Week' Job
Oscar Winemiller, poetic gard
ener for the campus landscape,
Thursday completed his fourth
year on a "two-weeks” Job and
wondered how it all happened.
"Chancellor Sanford asked me
to take about two weeks to fix up
the campus and I’ve been at it
for the past four years,” he says.
"I've got a lot of work to do yet.
There are about 10,000 box-wood
cuttings that I’m going to plant
along the walks of the main cam
pus."
The overseer composes poems
astride his horse and modestly
admits he recently read some of
his favorite verses before a con
vention of Atlantans assembled
here.
Storm Center
Around the walls of llic Univer
sity Inttnnary, pictured above, lias
raged a steady storm of editorial
comment for the |Miat year. An
other story on Inllrinary conditions
appears on page 2 of this issue of
The Red and Black.
(Quartet Is Featured
As State Musicians
Assemble in Athens
University Fine Arl Depart
ment Entertains Under
Hodgson's Direction
Over 200 Georgia music lovers
were entertained by the University
tine arts department, under tho direc
tion of Hugh Hodgson, at a music
festival Wednesday and Thursday
featuring the world-famouB Stradl-
varius Quartet.
Opening feature of the two-day
program was a concert Wednesday
afternoon In Memorial Hall by the
Stradivarius Quartet. Instruments
in the quartet include three of the
famed Stradivarius violins and a
cello.
Wednesday night Miss Minna
Hecker, Atlanta, coloratura soprano,
and Mr. Hodgson gave a concert in
the University Chapel. Accompany
ing Miss Hecker was Miss Irene Left-
wich, Atlanta. At the close of this
program guestR were entertained at
a reception in Memorial Hall by the
University and the University Wo
men’s Club. The Women’s Glee Club
sang selections from Bizet’s opera
“Carmen” during the evening.
Two recitals were given by the
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On the Inside
Rage
S|H»-(M-liawk Cllsliain gels the
“low-down" on next year’s
freshman gridiron stars (1
“The Rivals” to be seen at the
Heney-Stovall Theater 8
"Cosmetics must go," yell Irate
IMli Kappans as I'loneers re
fill** their arguments
It. It. rumbh's through rhythm,
and why not? 4
Sigma Nils import Auburn hand
for Georgia formal ...8
Inllrinary issue ImiIIs again as in
adequate rooms prevent segre
gation of contagious diseases.
Students Given
Chance to Pick
Name for Play
UniverHily Theater Offers $5
Prize for New Title to
‘Kind Lady'
By l>on Carter
The “Kind Lady" needs a new
name.
Not the kind lady that sells flow
ers for a dime or tho one who smiles
when you pass her door, but the
"Kind Lady" that Edward C. Crouse
and the University Theater will
present as the theater’s winter quar
ter dramatic production.
Here’s the problem: Selecting a
play this quarter. Director Crouse
decided to present a clevar show by
Edward Chldorov, which ran on
Broadway during the 1934-35 season
under tho title, “Kind Lady.”
That name, however, doesn't
please Director Crouse; neither does
it meet the approval of the cast that
will present the show later in tho
quarter.
Now for the solution: University
students will have the opportunity
i.o submit an original title for the
show, and the person turning in an
acceptable name will be awarded a
crisp, $5 bill for his trouble.
Rules Announced
Rules of the contest are simple:
1. Any person may submit any
title that he chooses provided the
entry Is iu the hands of the "Kind
Ludy” Editor, University Theater, by
next Wednesday, Feb. 9, at midnight.
2. Each student will be limited
to one entry.
3. The University Theater reserves
the right to reject any or all of the
entries.
4. In case of ties, the prize will
be divided.
6. Entries muBt be submitted,
mailed or given to tho "Kind I«idy”
Editor, University Theater, Athens,
or to any member of the Theater
staff. Entries may be mado on an
official entry blank, which appears
in this issue of The Red and Black,
but this is nut required.
The play is a subtle treatment of
an interesting plot which centers
uhout a dignified and aristocratic
middle-aged woman, living quietly
in her London home.
I’lot Kummarizcd
This “kind lady" is gradually
surrounded by a faintly of diabolical
ly clever crooks, who, by means of
ingenious plotting, alienate her fam
ily and friends from her and prac
tically convince the outside world
thut the lady is hopelessly insune.
She herself, too, towards the and.
becomes almost convinced of this
fact. As the exciting mystery
surrounding her life and actions be
comes intensified, the suspense
brooding over the house takes on
dramatic proportions.
How the woman solves her prob
lems provides a climax that will equal
the high points of many other Uni
versity Theater productions of past
years.
Students who wish to make a
closer study of the plot of the play
will find a copy of it on the reserve
shelf of the General Library.
While casting for tha show is al
most complete, announcement of the
cast of characters will not be made
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New 'Life-and-Action' Photo Department
Established by University's f Pacemaker 1
“To present news of the Univer
sity In vivid picture fashion,” The
Red and Black, campus pacemaker
publication, this week installs a
photo news department.
Action shots of University life
which will be interesting to the stu
dent readers will be the objective of
the new department. Managing Ed
itor Don Carter stated in announcing
th<4 installation.
To head the photo staff, Editor-in-
Chief Capers Holmes named Bill
McNiel as picture editor. Assisting
McNiel will be Louis Johnson, The
Red and Black’s present feature
editor.
While the life-and-action theme of
the new picture policy will not make
obsolete posed, portrait photos, they
will be used much less in the future.
This innovation marks the first
time that the campus weekly has had
a department of like nature, and the
staff’s work for the next few weeks
will be in an experimental stage.
Any students with technical know
ledge of photography who would be
interested in work on the photo staff
are invited by the managing editor
to attend staff meetings on Wednes
day nights.
Contained in this week’s issue are
two action snaps on the front page
and a third on page seven—all
taken by the photo staff.
In the future, efforts will be made
to have other pictures of representa
tive activities on the University cam
pus.
"Installation of this department
will add zest and life to The Red
and Black,” Carter said, "and this
is one of the things we have been
striving to accomplish during the
year.”
Mystery of Bulldog as Georgia Mascot
Arouses Much Sleuthing, Heated Debate