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VOLUME XIJII.
THE UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, FEBRUARY II, 1»38.
Number 12-1 /tOU.
'Suh! Mah Southern Blood Boils’
Four crack spokesmen for the cause of Soul hern Oratory who will
leave the campus of Old Georgia Monday night for the annual north
ern debate tour. Shown al>ovc loosening up their Cracker drawls
for the forensic tilts, they are (left to right) (lam 1). Itorsy ,lr.. At
lanta; Milton Brown, Thomson; ,1. O. Eidson. debating coach; Morris
Abram, Fitzgerald; Harry Baxter, Ashhiim.
—Staff Photo by McNiel.
Varsity Debate Team Leaves
For Northern States Monday
Mark Ethridge
To Open Meet
Of Press Group
llth Annual Georgia Press
Institute to Hear Noted
Journalist Feb. 23
Mark Ethridge, vice-president and
general manager of the Louisville
Courier-Journal and Times, general
ly regarded as one of. the outstand
ing young journalists in the South
and nation, will make the opening
address at the llth annual Georgia
Press Institute, Wednesday evening
Feb. 23.
In addition to his newspaper work
in Washington, New York and other
places, Mr. Ethridge went to Europe
in 1933 on a fellowship to study
political and economic conditions in
Central Europe.
He is the husband of Willie Snow
Ethridge, highlight speaker of the
1937 Institute and author of “As I
Live and Breathe.” They reside with
their three children in Prospect, Ky.
Served Dining War
A former chairman of the Geor
gia Press Institute, Mr. Ethridge is
a native of Meridian, Miss., and has
engaged in newspaper work almost
since boyhood. He served as cor
respondent for newspapers while at
tending the University of Mississippi,
and immediately upon leaving school
joined the staff of the Meridian
Star.
Later he came to Georgia as re
porter on the Columbus Enquirer-
Sun. The outbreak of the World
War found him on the staff of the
Macon Telegraph. He resigned, en
listed in the Navy as a seaman, sec
ond class, and emerged in 1918 as
an ensign.
Returning to newspaper work Mr.
Ethridge served as city editor of the
Telegraph; a year in Washington as
assistant news manager of Consoli
dated Press, and two years in New
York with the New York Sun. He
then became managing and associate
editor of the Macon Telegraph, a po
sition he held until 1933.
Bulletin
Concussion of the brain and a
broken collar bone were sustained
this morning by George Crabb,
Athens, when lie fell from his horse
during a second advanced cavalry
ROTC class.
Crabb hud gone to the picket
line to change horses. Win n he
started back to the drill unit the
horse began to buck and he was
thrown off.
According to members of the
class, Crabb was thrown over the
animal’s head and landed on his
face. He was carried to General
Hospital where he is now under
the rare of l)r. H. I. Reynolds.
And still the Bulldog controversy
rages!
Further light has been cast on
the question of his origin as Geor
gia’s mascot by the man who claims
he first brought the idea to public
attention.
Claimant for the honor is F. J.
Ball, Athens photographer. In the
Pandora of 1922 there is a picture
of a Bulldog standing beneath the
University banner. Its caption reads
“The Georgia Bulldog, originated by
F. J. Ball.”
Many theories have been set forth
to explain the Bulldog’s ascendancy
to the honored position. Some claim
that he W'as installed as early as
1890, while other hold that his reign
dates from a later period.
Mr. Ball places the adoption in
1904, though he names the date of
the official coronation as 1922. His
conception of the Bulldog as mascot
came from two suggestions just be
fore a baseball game with Tech in
1904, he says.
Explaining that the rivalry be
tween the two schools reached un
usual heat even at that time, he said
that someone bemoaned the fact that
Georgia had no mascot while another
compared the appearance of one of
the players to that of a Bulldog.
Abram, Baxter, Brown, Dor
sey Will Meet 9 Institutes
On Annual Tour
Four members of the University
varsity debating team will leave
Monday on a nine-day northern tour
which will take them through 11
states and bring them against the
crack debaters of nine of the na
tion’s leading institutions. Accom
panying the team will be J. O. Eid
son, of the English department,
coach of debating.
Those making the Northern tour
this year are Morris Abram, Fitzger
ald, debate team manager; Harry
S. Baxter, Ashburn; Milton Brown,
Thomson, and Cam D. Dorsey Jr.,
Atlanta.
The 1938 tour, which schedules 10
debates, is one of the most extensive
ever undertaken, and includes such
institutions as the' Universities of
Virginia and Pennsylvania, Colum
bia, Princeton, Johns Hopkins, Win-
throp College, Rutgers University,
College of the City of New York,
and Swarthmore College. Of the 10
schools listed, four, Winthrop, C. C.
N. Y., Rutgers, and Swarthmore,
are scheduled for the first time.
Debating the question, Resolv
ed: That the National Labor Rela
tions Board should be empowered
to enforce arbitration of all indus
trial disputes, the Georgia team will
open Feb. 14 with a dual meet
The two ideas connected in his
mind and he drew a Bulldog wear
ing the Georgia colors accompanied
by an appropriate inscription about
Tech. The picture was projected by
means of a lantern slide at the old
Athens Opera House, and “the stu
dents went wild over the idea.”
“Soon after this, Athens business
men began decorating their windows
with pictures of the Bulldog, students
began wearing Bulldog signets on
their arms, and sports writers re
ferred to the teams as the ‘Bull
dogs’,” he explained.
The 1922 Pandora attributed the
origin of the mascot to him despite
the fact that many conflicting theo
ries exist. Mr. Ball was connected
with publishing the Pandora for 21
years.
Commenting on the controversy
which started last week. Ole Tim
er, columnist for the Atlanta Jour
nal, said Sunday that the Bulldog
was probably adopted in 1920 when
the famous team of ’14 was on its
way to meet the University of Vir
ginia.
Professors. alumni, students,
sports writers, and Athens business
men continue to advShce specula
tions on the correct solution of the
problem.
‘No-Sleep' Marathoners
Receive Critical Publicity
Georgia's “no-sleep” marathon
ers today learned the startling-
news that “their brains had
shrunk.”
That is the way results of their
pioneering psychological experi
ment was described in Pathfinder,
national current events weekly, cli
maxing the backfire caused by na
tionwide publicity.
"Is this what students attend
college for” was the caption above
a newspicture enclosed in an irate
letter which the scientists also re
ceived from a "Taxpayer.”
Pandora to Present
’38 Beauty Review
During Next Month
Memories of a wild ride down At
lanta's Peachtree street by last
year’s “Bennett Beauties” while
amazed city traffic watched agape
were roused again today by Pandora
Editor Baxter’s announcement that
the 1938 beauty review will he held
about March 1.
In this, the second annual review
to select the beauty queens for the
University annual, seven women will
again he chosen by judges’ decision
from -an array composed of candi
dates sponsored by each of the fra
ternities and men’s dormitories on
the campus.
And, again this year. Pandora will
co-sponsor with Michael's depart
ment store a spring fashion show,
to be held in conjunction with the
beauty review. Two models will be
selected from each sorority and wo
men's dormitory.
The review and fashion show will
be staged either in Pound Audito
rium, as of last year, or in the Phys
ical Education Building, Baxter
said.
The Georgia Bulldog orchestra
will play during the review and fea
tured in its program will be songs
selected by the sponsoring groups.
Each group's song will be played as
its candidate is presented.
On the Inside
"l!«l" Salisbury- out for a week
with a bad cold, is ready to go
against South Carolina Satur
day night 7
A Year Ago and Now steals sec
ond base- and paces The Cam
pus Parade for popularity
among student readers 4
“No big-time football" insist Phi
Kappa sophomores in annual
wrangle with Demostlienian .2
Bill Benton and Eleanor Strick
land lead for Pi Kappa Phi as
formal pace slows 3
(irant M. Hyde, Wisconsin jour
nalism director, to lecture on
the second tarvel seminar to
Europe 8
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Bulldog Controversy Continues to Rage
As Mascot Holds Honor by Divine Right
GOP Forces Candidates
To Qualify for Elections;
Constitution Is Amended
Acquaintance of Celebrities
Will Speak for Parthenians
James M. Bond, acquaintance of
many celebreties, will speak on "Ec
centricities of Genius” March 9
under the auspices of Parthenian,
women’s honor society now petition
ing Mortar Board.
Bond has managed lecture tours
in this country for European nota
bles including Maurice Maeterlinck,
Blasco Ibanez and John Galsworthy,
and has sponsored public appearances
for Helen Keller, John Mansfield and
numerous other notables.
VRA Will Present
William Elliott Jr.
In Series of Talks
Atlanta Minister to Speak
Sunday Night at First
Methodist Church
Dr. William M. Elliott Jr., pastor
of the Druid Hills Presbyterian
Church, will deliver a series of four
addresses at the University beginning
Sunday under auspices of the Volun
tary Religious Association.
First of his talks in the Religious
Emphasis Series will be given Sun
day night at 8 o’clock at the First
Methodist Church with Dean J. Al
ton Hosch of the Lumpkin Law
School, president of the V. R. A.
board of directors, in charge. The
subject is “Christianity as a Per
sonal Experience.”
“Our Christian Duty,” the second
address, will be delivered Monday
night at 8:15 o’clock in the Univer
sity Chapel. Tuesday morning he
is to speak at 11:30 o’clock In the
Chapel on “Have You Nerve to be
Different?” and Tuesday night at 8
o’clock Chapel service his topic will
be “A Technique for Spiritual
Growth."
Special music for each service will
be provided by the University music
department.
Dr. Elliott has been pastor at
Druid Hills since 1935. He had
previously been pastor of the Fifth
Avenue Presbyterian Church in
Knoxville, Tenn. After graduating
in 1925 from Park College, Parkvllle,
Mo., Dr. Elliott studied at the Louis
ville Presbyterian Seminary, Louis
ville, Ky., for three years for his
bachelor of divinity degree.
Following graduate work at Edin-
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( Jiuiniwtry Club Offers 825
For Best Student Treatine
A prize of $25 is being offered by
the Chemistry Club to the student
writing the best treatise on “Why 1
Chose Medicine as .\ly Profession.”
The treatise is limited to 2,000
words and is confined to undergradu
ates. The prize will be presented
March 30 at the Crawford W. Long
Day exercises in the Chapel.
Politics to Be Brought Into
Open as Result of Far-
Reaching Measure
Forcing campus politics Into the
open, the G. O. P. organization of
non-fraternity men passed an amend
ment to its constitution Monday
night which will require all candi
dates for campus posts to qualify at
least 30 days before an election.
The amendment, which received
a unanimous vote of more than 200
non-fraternity men who met in the
Chapel, will become effective immed
iately.
Terms of the measure require
candidates for the major posts that
the G. O. P. party controls—campus
leader, president of the senior
class, secretary-treasurer of the sen
ior class, and president of the Ath
letic Association—to publish an
nouncements of their candidacies in
The Red and Black by April 1 of
each year.
■leaders Speak
Candidates for other campus posi
tions, the minor class offices, will be
required to announce their candidacy
to the campus leader 30 days prior
to the election; the campus leader
will then make a public announce
ment in The Red and Black.
The meeting Monday night was
one of a series of meetings of non
fraternity men which has been
planned by Campus Leader Perry
Hudson, Hapeville, for the remaind
er of the year.
Urging non-fraternity men to par
ticipate more widely in extra-curric
ula, activities, several leaders of the
G. O. P. party made brief speeches.
Colbert Hawkins, Monroe, 1936-
3 7 campus leader, was one of the
speakers. Hill Durham, Woodville,
business manager of The Red and
Black, was another and Don Carter,
PlahM, managing editor of the same
publication, also made a short talk.
Robert Judd, Memphis, Tenn., G. O.
P. committeeman, was the fourth
speaker.
Coinniittn 1 Appointed
Pointing out reports of changes
that may be made in the sale of class
rings, Hudson appointed a commit
tee composed of Hawkins, Clark
laines, Hartwell, president of the
senior class, George Dillard, Cusseta,
and Hoyt Haley, Elberton, Ag Hill
leaders, Durham and Carter to work
with him in investigating the situa
tion.
Complete text of the amendment,
as presented by David "Major” Walk
er, Griffin, and passed by the party,
follows:
“No person shall be eligible to
hold office as nominee of the G. O.
P. party unless he has conformed
with the following requirements:
“1. All candidates for campus
leader, president of the senior class,
secretary-treasurer of the senior
class, and president of the Athletic
Association, shall, by April 1, cause
o be printed in The Red and Black,
the announcement of his candidacy
for the office he seeks.
“2. All other candidates for all
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Judges Almost Throtv Out Kind Lady 9
Then Accept It as Title of Theater Play
By Hoyt Ware
She was almost thrown out, the
"Kind Lady.” But the latest reports
(with the third ward yet to be heard
from) say she will definitely be kept.
It looked as though she were out
cold for a while with the University
Theater offering $5 for a better
name. But after considering all the
entries, the contest judges have de
cided to keep “Kind Lady" as the
name of the winter quarter produc
tion.
Meanwhile, the play has gone into
rehearsal under Edward C. Crouse,
director of the theater. It will open
late in this quarter at a date to be
announced in a future issue of The
Red and Black. The cast will be
completed next week.
“Kind Lady" was written by Ed
ward Chidorov and ran on Broadway
during the 1934-35 season. Its ac
tion revolves around a middle-aged
woman, dignified and aristocratic,
who leads a quiet life in London.
The lady falls into (he clutches of
a family of shrewd crooks who, by
ingenious plotting and contriving,
alienate her family and friends from
her and almost convince the outside
world that she is insane.
So clever are the conspirators that
she herself is nearly convinced of
her insanity. How she solves her
problems provides an exciting cli
max, and thereby hangs the tale.
“Kind Lady” is the first of its
particular type of drama to be pre
sented by the University Theater.
Its reception will probably determine
the presentation of future plays of
its type. Its subtlety is its out
standing characteristic.