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THR RED AND BLACK, FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 17, 1939.
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The Campus Parade
After All tlic
Founded I HO.'l
Published weekly daring school yenir by University of
Onorgla students.
•ntered at the Post Office In AtbfM Georgia, aa Mall Matter
of the Second dan
Jack Reid
Editor
CtTBTIS HAMES
Buainets Manager
Feancis Maddox
Him. IIookss
STANFORD Smith..
Makr up Editor
I.UTH KI.IJC TlVT
O’Donald Mats
J. Llotd Burrell.
jig Hill Editor
Viroinia Bason.. .
Jamich BaimiEs
T. L. Wood
Bill Guntur
Al Wsiu,
Faso Wickham ....
Copy I)c*k Hobby
John McMullen
Krneat Illcka.
Brown, Bill White, Lurry Smith, Lee Hunks,
Joe Itlchmnn, (Juinihy Melton Jr., Phil Kenyan,
squawk about Uncle Roddy’s libel
ous remarks from some of the weak
er element he goes literary on his
readers this week to quote the old
master himself, Omar Kyam, who
said . . . "The moving finger writes,
and having writ moves on—nor all
your piety nor wit shall lure it back
to cancel half a line—nor all your
tears wash out a word of it.” . . .
Those are Unc’s sentiments, so yo’all
"weakies” stop sending in threats.
By Roddy Ratcliff
The Athletic Association will try
again to throw a successful brawl
after the game Saturday . . . after
three flops . . . you’ll have to give
’em credit for trying . . . Warhorse
’GENE TALMADGE put on a show
for the alleged intellects of Phi
Kappa and Demosthenian Wednes
day, saying nothing in particular
about everything in general ... as
usual.
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nrd Morris, Mnrtlm Cooper, Horton Greene, lUlph Williams,
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lum.
Sport* Staff: Thomas If Park. SIro Mohr, Louis Steycrmnn, Allen
Gunus, Iaiurn Duncan.
Woman'n Staff Jeanette Weinstein, assistant society editor; Dot
Daniel. Anne llryd Flror, Cislella House, Susnn Dillingham,
Joan Orr. Marie Klchardann. Wylene Hlgbton, Jenn Parkin
son. Klennor Bushnell, Mi!11li Anne Teusley, Prances Lassiter,
Anne Brooks, Anne 'I’llrasher, Kathleen Scruggs, Charlotte
Adams. Nancy Collier.
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BA HA TRU8SELL and dainty
DAN DUPREE, both local talent, are
I keeping early hours since they have
j no curfew’s . . . while VIRGINIA
I BURMANN goes in for more serious
j romancing and ropes in weakly
J ANDY WILSON and his Sigma Chi
J insignia . . . SAM PARKER, of the
same lodge, was surprised when Tri
| Delt’s BETTY HODGES refused to
accept til- badge . which didn’t
surprise anyone elso . . . KAT’s
ELEANOR MADDOCK left Koppa
Swig’s GEORGE GAINES cold on
the lawn the other night, but we
don’t blame her . . . DAVE ATKIN
SON and Savannah’s lanky CATH
ERINE GLOVER comprise a court
ing couple also . . . MORRIS BRODY
is unhappy 'cause he can’t figure out
our brunette beauty, FRANCES
KARP.
Needed: New Infirmary
(Continued from page 1)
in the infirmary since 1925, despite the fact the enroll
ment at tile University has far more than doubled.
Registration for the 1925-26 school year totaled 1,463,
of which number 1,140 were men niul 323 were women.
Full registration for the current year is 3,428, composed
of 2,182 men and 1,246 women. It is hard to believe
that while the enrollment of the University has almost
Girl of Last Yeur
SALLY "CRISCO” BENSON is
sidetracking OAKMAN ETHRIDGE
to run around with BEN BARNES
and BILL LITTLE . . . what ever
happened to her Harvard man who
was "big cheese” last spring? . .
Scintillating SALLY SANCKEN is
slipping off to Annapolis this week
end to take in the "Deck-swabber’s
Ball" with a sailor named McGregor
. . . Modern Venus JESSIE MC
GREGOR’S big brother.
Girl of the Week
This week we cast our vote for
Mary Lyndon’s MARY JANE GEN
TRY, who can hold her own in any
body’s personality poll . . . besides
that she has looks and sense . . .
what more could one ask for besides
an auto?
The hihulous
Thetas are tossing a house function
tonight, but dancing will probably
run a poor second to other well
known indoor pastimes ... at which
the said boys are also accomplished.
Passing Impressions:
BOBBY HODGSON—too big a guy
for such a small school . . . GEE
GEE KYLE—a fool and his money
are some party . . . JIMMIE MOORE
-a good memory and a tongue hung
in the middle of it . . . GUY HARRIS
—a smart man who hasn’t let a wo
man pin anything on him since he
was a baby . . . FRED WICKHAM—
probably wouldn’t worry what peo
ple think about him if he knew
how seldom they do . . . ROY CHAT
HAM—he’s a good little boy, as far
as good little boys go, and as far as
good boys go, he goes . . . HUGHES
SPALDING—(censored).
Campus Confucius
Uncle Roddy tries his hand at foo-
los-ophy.—The disgusting results:
There's nothing so boresome as a
fifth in a foursome . . . Some people
believe anything you tell them—if
you whisper it . . . Making love is
like making pie; all you need is a
little crust and a lot of apple-sauce.
Radio in Review
By James Bridge*)
triplod, the size of the Infirmary has remained the same.
There are only 22 beds available in the Crnwford W.
Long Infirmary. For the 2,182 men students, there can
be provided 17 beds in an emergency. This Includes
ufcing a room which is ordinarily given over to tuber
culin tests and the like. There is but one private room
for men, the rest of the beds being crowded—jammed
would be the more truthful word—into wards.
For the 1,246 women, there are live beds in the Long
Infirmary and ill additional beds at Coordinate campus,
where another small Infirmary is available.
The slaff of two nurses and one doctor at the main
Infirmary should be Increased. Toilet facilities are dis
gustingly lucking. Medical equipment is at a premium.
As to the condition of the Infirmary, there is actually
a- place in one room whore the side wall and the floor
ure supposed to connect where you can see the ground
below. In every room, the walls are crumbling and the
floor has rotted away utul in foul shupe despite attempts
at repairs.
The Hourd of Regents Is to meet either late this month
or 111 early December. Among its projects marked down
for immediate accomplishment should be the alloting of
funds for a new Infirmary.
To tho Board of Regents and to you especially, Mr.
Robert, 3,428 students are looklug for a remedy of the
University’s greatest need.
Sincerely,
THE EDITOR,
The Red and Black.
Dr. Walter Damrosch, dean of
American music, directs tho Music
Appreciation Hour every Friday af
ternoon at 2 o'clock. In this hour
ho explains the intricacies involved
in producing symphonic orchestra
tions, gives information about fa
mous composers and conducts his
mighty orchestra in several classical
selections. WSB broadcasts the pro
gram.
George Jessel’s Variety Program is
on the air tonight at 9:30 over WSB.
Supporting witty Mr. Jessel, are the
Merry Macs, closest harmonizers in
radio, and Peter Van Steeden's or
chestra.
What's My Name?, one of the best
questionnaire programs in operation
ut present, sports Budd Huiick, of
the Stoopnugle and Budd comedy
team, and Arlene Francis, versatile
feminine co-quizzer. WLW airs the
show twice every Saturday night, at
7 o’clock and 10:30.
Cigar-smoking Ben Bernle and all
the lads, with Lew Lehr, cross-eyed
"ewazy” man of newsreel notoriety,
send a new show through your speak
er Sunday afternoons at 5:30. If
you like “a bit of a tweet tweet, a
twu twa” and monkey talk, you’d
do well to tune in WBT, Charlotte.
Bracing the half-hour with vocals
are the Bailey Sisters.
“Good-Bye, Mr. Chips,” a great
story recently filmed and currently
shown in some parts of the country,
will be dramatized on the Lux Radio
Theater Monday night. Heading the
cast are Lawrence Oliver and Edna
Best. James Hilton, the author, will
be interviewed when the theater
opens at 9 o’clock over WGST and
WBT.
Judy Garland, Deanna Durbin’s
only rival for movie fame, is vocal
ist on Bob Hope’s Variety Show,
heard over WSB at 10 o’clock on
Tuesday nights. Jerry Colonna,
comedian, and Skinny Ennis’ orches
tra fill in between Judy’s thrilling
solos.
The Texaco Star Theater, another
swell variety show, offers Frances
Langford, wife of movie he-man Jon
Hall, and Kenny Baker, tenor, as
vocalists. Wednesday night will
find two guests, Elsa Maxwell, cafe-
society figure, and Franchot Tone,
movie actor, ready for a radio adap
tation of "Candlelight,” a Broadway
play of a couple of years ago. It's
on WGST at 9 o’clock.
President Roosevelt will deliver
his Thanksgiving Day message to
America from Warm Spriugs, Ga.,
Thursday night at 8 o’clock through
WSB and an NBC hookup. Also in
cluded in this broadcast will be
songs by children, instrumental num
bers by patients at the Foundation
and community singing by about 300
persons.
Thai Weak Legs May Walk
‘‘^ITRONG legs will run that weak legs may walk”
O ne*t Thursday when the freshman football teams
of Georgia and Georgia Tech play at Grant Field
in Atlanta in their annual benefit for the Scottish Rite
Hospital for Crippled Children.
Entire proceeds of the game are turned over to the
Hospital by the two state universities, making the classic
a 100 per cent charity battle. Approximately $10,600
went to the fine work of the Scottish Rite Hospital last
year, thus providing aid to a great many more unfortu
nate children than otherwise could have been handled.
Ralph McGill, executive editor of the Atlanta Constitu
tion, wrote the following about the game recently:
“There dollars become sound bones and straight;
there checks become straight spines; there your money
becomes new feet and shoes to replace twisted ones that
otherwise would never wear shoes; there your football
tickets become translated into food and surgeons’ knives
and plaster and bandages.
It means that some of those little groups of parents
who come to the hospital with suffering and 4he faint
light of hope on their faces, will some day come back
to receive a child who is whole or enough so he or she
may lead a normal life.
" ‘8trong legs will run that weak legs may walk.'
"And this makes it more than Just a game.”
Looking Back 112 Years
By Larry Smith
In 1827, Adiel Sherwood, Baptist
minister and educator, wrote "The
Gazeteer of the State of Georgia,”
in which he described various aspects
of the state's economic, geographical,
and political life. In the book sev
eral paragraphs are devoted to Geor
gia University, then known as Frank
lin College.
The minister describes the phys
ical plant of the college as two brick
buildings. 120 feet long and 4 5 feet
wide, one being three stories high
and the other four. The buildings
contained rooms for students, a
chapel, a steward’s hall, a room con
taining chemical and philosophical
apparatus. Other buildings included
a library containing 2,000 volumes,
and a building tor a grammar school.
On the faculty, the Rev. Sher
wood said, were the president, a pro
fessor of mathematics and astron
omy, of chemistry and mineralogy,
of rhetoric and moral philosophy, of
natural philosophy and botany. Also,
two tutors were said to be members
of the faculty.
One hundred and twelve years ago
the Senatus Acadeniicus was com
posed of the governor of Georgia, the
president of the Senate, the speaker
of the House, senators of each coun
ty, and certain trustees, Mr. Sher
wood reported.
"In the College there are two lit
erary societies composed of the stu
dents and such honorary members'
as they pleased to elect." he said.
Both had "elegant" buildings and
large libraries.
Funds of the College in 1S27
amounted to $11,500 annually which
was obtained from tuition and divi
dends from bank stock. Mr. Sher
wood tells of two campus publications
but fails to name them.
“Should the college maintain its
present high and well-earned reputa
tion. it docs not require the spirit
of prophecy to foretell that Athens
in a few years will be a large town;
and should the river (Oconee, which
flows near Athens) be made navi
gable, this spot may be a place of
considerable importance in the com
mercial world,” the educator pre
dicted.
—But Don’t Quote Me
Warns the Editor
Una nimous Approval
Of all the editorials we have written this fall, not a
single one has brought as much comment—commend
able comment, that is—as the one last week on the need
of a new Infirmary at the University.
Had there been any doubt in our mind about whether
or not the students and faculty really want a new In
firmary, it would have been erased by the response to
the few paragraphs of last week. One or two interested
people even went out of their way to telephone us their
hearty agreement.
There is no doubt on the part of any of the school’s
over 3,000 students and several hundred faculty mem
bers that a new Infirmary to replace the outdated Craw
ford W. Long establishment is without doubt the Uni
versity’s greatest need.
The Board of Publications this week went on record
as promising its untiring support toward securing a new
Infirmary. Working together the Georgia Arch, the
Georgia Agriculturist, the Pandora, and The Red and
Black constitute a formidable fighting force.
Sigma Delta Chi volunteered its assistance in writing
publicity in behalf of The Red and Black’s campaign.
The support of the state’s daily and weekly newspapers
will be sought, for their influence carries much weight.
If there should be the least doubt in the mind of any
student as to whether or not a new Infirmary is needed,
he would do well to depart from the ordinary and notice
the facts in the editorial elsewhere in today’s paper.
He might also glance at the front-page story in which
student victims of the inadequate Infirmary lend their
support to the drive.
The four-year campaign of The Red and Black must
meet success in the very near future.
Long Live Associates
If we were the type which objects to publicity, then
we would be currently engaged in the formation of a
society for the elimination of associate editors.
However, as we like publicity as well as the next per
son, we'll let the associates live. If it wasn’t for them,
our names would not appear in print any more than the
next fellow.
As it is, we are batting a cool .667 in other publica
tions. The Agriculturist hit us a staggering blow when
it appeared without our name, but the Arch, the good
old Arch, came through a few days later when one of its
associate editors, Douglass Richard, put in a word for us
in his column on the first page.
Now r there comes the Time Sheet, publication of NYA
students, to take up in our behalf. In the lead of his
front-page column—no inside stuff for us—Associate
Editor Joe Lansdell assails our recent sarcastic tid-bit
which, attempting to help clear up the traffic problem
on Herty Drive, suggested among other things the use
of NYA students as traffic cops, as they had little else
to do.
In devoting almost his entire column to u's, Mr. Lans
dell said, among other things; "Despite Mr. Reid’s belief
to the contrary, NYA students already have something
to do . . . Such misguided remarks are resentful, even
though they may be meant in fun.”
In those two sentences, he somewhat crosses himself
up. First, he says it is our belief that NYA students
have nothing to do. Then, he turns right around and all *
but admits it was just meant as a joke. The last bit of
reasoning is correct.
The Safe Move
While on the subject of NYA students, it might be
the wise—and safe—thing to give a paragraph or so
to our opinion of them.
We regard the NYA as one of the most praiseworthy
acts ever accomplished by our government. It enables
thousands of young men and women throughout the
country to attend colleges and universities, something
most of them would be unable to do without the assist
ance.
Still, the money they receive is far from a donation.
At least this is the case at the University. If you are
very well acquainted with any students with NYA jobs,
you will know they are among the hardest workers on
the campus.
True, in some instances, NYA students are assigned to
jobs for which they are not qualified, but that is the
exception rather than the rule. For the most part,
NYA workers are reported as being very satisfactory.
Their scholastic and extra-curriculum achievements are
far above the average.
Congratulations are in order to the NYA students for
the first issue of the Time Sheet. Edited by Thomas B.
Park, this year s paper is superior to that of last year
in every way. Every line of copy—except Mr. Lans-
dell’s aforementioned efforts—are devoted to the activ
ities of N\A students and topics of keen interest to them
Mrs. Dorothy Whitehead, who is in charge of the
NYA. has gone far toward making the University’s
branch one of the most efficient in any college in the
country.
Odds and Ends
A completed student project is the repairing of the
main bulletin board on Franklin campus. It was a good
move by a group of students who prefer to remain un
announced, though why, we don’t know.
As one of many Georgia students who will be sitting
virtually on the goal line at the Tech-Georgia game,
we would like to suggest that officials of both schools
could gain a more friendly feeling on the part of the stu
dent bodies by setting aside decent tickets for every
student. We do not think a student should have to buy
his ticket three months off to get a good seat to watch
his school's team in action.
One of the outstanding events of its kind at the Uni-
versity is the annual Stunt Night, the 1939-40 edition
of which was held Thursday night. The Glee Club de
serves the proverbial orchid for its sponsorship of what
is annually top-flight entertainment.