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America’i Pre-Eminem College Weekly
VOL. XLVII.
THK UNIVERSITY OP GEORGIA, ATHENS, GEORGIA, OCTOBER 2, IMS.
No. 2—ZIOO.
Final Figure
On Enrollment
Is Not Named
Reetl Says, However,
Thai Registration Is
As Expected
By Willis Johnson
Total registration figures will not
be released until tomorrow as the
Board of Regents is waiting to see
“just exactly where the University
stands.’’ There has been consider
able speculation as to how high the
number of students will rise but
nothing has been stated.
T. W. Reed, registrar, did, how
ever, make it known that the figures
are jusf about what was expected
during the summer.
Straggling students have been ap
pearing on the campus every day
until now and some difficulty has
been encountered keeping track of
the totals. No effort has yet been
made to compile the final count. The
figures will be ready some time to
night and will be relayed directly
to Chancellor S. V. Sanford who wili
make the official statement tomor
row.
It was admitted that the student
body has decreased somewhat in
size, especially in those departments
which usually are composed of those
men who come within the draft lim
its. The number of female students
has seen a lighter load as many wo
men have volunteered their services
to war industries. Others have gone
into business enterprises to free men
for armed service.
There has been no slackening in
the rolls of those classes which come
under the military department,
though. Officials there are working
at top speed to find places for the
large number which have applied
for the advanced military training
program.
The law school has been one of
the University departments especial
ly hard hit since students taking its
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Big Dance Ends
Gala Week-End
Pop Meeting Will Be
Staged on Memorial
Lawn Tonight at 7
A big after-the-game dance in the
Navy-loaned Woodruff Hall Saturday
night will climax Georgia's first big
social week-end which gets under
way tonight with a pep meeting 'at
7 o’clock on the Memorial Hall lawn.
Some 10,000 people are expected
to throng the Classic City over the
week-end to witness the two big foot
ball games.
Kublar Kahn and the re-organized
Georgia Bulldogs will make their
campus debut when they furnish the
music for the dance which is spon
sored by the “G” Club and the Inter
fraternity Council. The bund will
feature a complete arrangement ol
new players who were secured after
four weeks of intense search over
the state by Kahn.
The Georgia band, cheerleaders
and Campus Leader Tom Penland
will conduct the pep meeting to
night. Short speeches will be made
by Coach Butts, Captain Frank Sink-
wieh, and Assistant Coach “Ears’’
Whitworth.
The annual shirt tall parade,
scheduled to follow the first pep
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MacArthur Was Right
By BERYL SELLERS, Editor
General Douglas MacArthur told a group of reporters at a re
cent press conference that American newspapers are doing an
excellent job in presenting the news of the present conflict to the
public.
General MacArthur expresses the complete purpose of the
American press—a purpose that stands for liberty and democracy
and those same principles which were echoed by James Gordon
Bennett, Horace Greeley, and other famous editors during the
nineteenth century.
The American press, even before December 7, 1941, asked for a
rearmament program, and following Pearl Harbor and the gallant
stand of American soldiers in the fox holes of Bataan, went “all
the way” to tell the vast American public of just what lies ahead.
The college press, more than any other organization, echoes the
thoughts of young America. During last spring college newspa
pers were carrying editorials asking that students adopt stand
ards of war. The college press was the first, organization to realize
that the American youth needed a rigid training program.
When we entered the war last December, the American news
paperman was ready. Today throughout the world the American
correspondent is fighting with our armies, bringing actual occur-
currences to the American public. On the home front, the press is
every day fighting a battle to preserve democracy anti, liberty.
General MacArthur was right—the press fights on.
r Blachout\ Fistcujfs Mark
Rowdy 'Literary' Meetings
Intensified Cavalry Course
Includes New Garand Rifle
Troop C Is Organized
With Captain John
Taylor as Head
By Gene Patterson
Orchestra Rushing
Ends Quiet-Out’
’Babe’ Florence
Will Leave For
Naval Training
G. E. “Babe” Florence, who for |
the past two years has been in
charge of the University stores, and
was recently appointed assistant di
rector of athletics, has resigned and
will leave for Princeton University t
for preliminary training. Upon com-1
pletion of this course he will be
commissioned as a lieutenant junior
grade in the U. S. Navy.
Mr. Florence is a graduate of the
University, and was '■.n outstanding
athlete, making the All-Southeastern
basketball team in 1997. The fol
lowing year he was captain of the
team. A member of Sigma Chi fra
ternity and of four prominent clubs
on the campus. Sphinx. Gridiron. !
Junior Cabinet, and the Glee Club. |
After leaving the University he j
went to Georgia Military College I
where he remained for 13 years as
professor of mathematics and bas
ketball coach. He returned to
Georgia in 1941 to assume direction
of all University stores. His out
standing accomplishment at the
University was the establishment of
Memorial Hall Grill, the popular
student recreation center in Memo
rial Hall.
The “Praise the Lord and Pass
the Ammunition” boys of the Uni
versity’s advanced R. O. T. C. cav
alry unit ate swinging into an ultra-
intensilied military program for the
fall quarter, and with a thorough
study of the Army’s phenomenal new
Garand rifle.
The new time set for drill Is de
signed to fit into the students’ sched
ules with a minimum of time lost.
Due to enlargement of the entire
cavalry unit by arrival of approxi
mately 100 freshmen, a new troop
has been organized, commanded by
Cadet Captain John Taylor and of
ficially designated “C" Troop .
The first advanced cavalry classes
under Capt. C. H. Edwards are un
dergoing an Intensive practical study
in mastering the lntracacles of the
.30 caliber M-l service rifle which
has proved so successful in recent
battles involving American troops.
The present second advanced cav
alry will entrain at Fort Riley after
Christmas, frotn where they will be
taken into the Army as second lieu
tenants and detailed to fighting
forces throughout the world.
New Outfit Will
Make ’em Jump
Despite the fact that they lost two
of their best men to the army this
summer in addition to two more
given up through graduation, the
Bulldog Orchestra has been reor
ganized and will open the new sea
son tomorrow night at Woodruff
Hall, when they play for the “G”
Club dance after the Furman game
in die afternoon.
This dance is one of the four af
fairs for which the Navy Pre-Flight
School lias relinquished Its right, to
Woodruff Hall, scene of all the ma
jor University dances in the past.
Two weeks ago the University
band consisted of four men with no
music. During rush week, these
four men staged a rushing program
of their own. Now they have three
brasses, four reeds, and a three-man
rhythm section.
With time enough for only one
rehearsal, the Bulldogs played for a
sorority rush function that same
week—virtually before tiny had
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Boom! Rail! Geor-gia!
“You make the noise and we'll do the rest," say the abo%e three of the
four l nivendty co-ed cheerleaders. SereaminK. from left to right,
Ann Finley, alternate; Betty Jane Horton, ami Martha Sullivan, with
Katherine Bice who was absent when the shot was made, are in con
dition for the o(>eiiing home game tomorrow. “Is everybody happy?"
First Encounter of
Year I’romises a Hot
Seation for Debates
Pill KAPPA
The lights went out in Phi Kappa
Hull Wednesday night following (lie
entrance of u host of Deuioslheiiiuiis
shouting something about Eugene
Talmadge and Ills membership in
l’lii Kappa. Thus sturted another
rlotuouH season of “literury” work
on tile University campus.
The Phi Kappians, left in the
dark because of u stollen fuse, has
tily voted adjournment and throng
ed across the campiiH to tho meet
ing place of their uge-old rival. A
bout of fisticuffs resulted In the
sucred halls of Dcmosthenlun. Cas
ualties were low, hut Bpirit ran high
and University students looked for
ward to another riotous season of
cut-throat competition between tho
two debuting societies.
An Intramural Debato Tourna
ment for freshmen only was announc
ed as pending by President Bobby
Lipshutz who said that the propos
ed contest will be sponsored by both
Phi Kappa and Demosthenian. “Tho
purpose,” he said, “will be to give
our new men an even hotter chance
at debating than they have had be
fore.”
The Debate Tournument is tho
seeond of its kind, following the
successful Intramural Debate Tour
nament sponsored by Phi Kappa thlB
summer. Thirteen different teams,
representing every section of both
fraternity and non-fraternity cam
pus life, took part In tho contAt,
with Kappa Alpha fraternity emerg
ing victorious. Tho subject of that
debate was. "Resolved: That the U.
S Should Draft Labor for tile War
Industries.”
Freshmen were given a chance to
speak In the Wednesday night ses
sion. The question being, “Resolv-
”d: That the U. 8. Should Draft
M'ti IS titul Over Out of College."
Two tickets to any show in town
were offered the freshman present
ing the best debate, but the contest
was interrupted before eompletion by
f he entrance of the Demosthenians.
Members were looking forward to
•he next meeting of the two socle-
Mes with apprehension. Everyone
'(new that something would happen,
but Just what remained to be seen.
DEMOSTHENIAN
Age-old rivalry between the two
campus literary societies, Phi Kappa
and Demosthenian, flared anew last
Wednesday night. A general free-
for-nll resulted as Demosthenian
-epresentatives attempted to intimi
date newcomers to the Phi Kappa
hall
The outbreak occurred when the
Phi Kappa meeting was invaded by
David Flror, Athens, and other mem
bers of the rival society In an at
tempt to cause freshmen gathered
Georgia Meets
Furman Here
Tomorrow at 3
Large Crowd
Is Exported;
Sinkwieli to IMuy
By Itlp Herring
The Georgia Bulldog-Furman Pur
ple Hurricane battle tomorrow af
ternoon at 3 p. m. will only climax
a slam-hang "football holiday” for
the old Classic City.
First dish hot off the gridiron will
be the Naval engagement, tonight.
The Pre-Flight School will take on
Students do not pay HA cents
anil exchange Ills student tick
ets before being admitted to
Georgia football games this fall.
Dean Robert M. Stro/.ier said to
day. The tickets were printed
In error and released before any
action could he taken. All stu
dents are admitted to Univer
sity games in Sanford Stadium
upon presentation »f ticket
books at. tlie west end gate.
tho North Carolina Naval detach
ment in Sanford Stadium at 8:15.
Coach Jim Crowley, from Caro
lina, has one of the finest naval
elevens in the country and the local
talent proved their mettlo last week
when they blanked Penn 14-0. Ex
perts are picking this game as one
of the outstanding pre-flight con
tests. All students will he permitted
to attend and admission will be 55
cents.
Sanford Studium Is dun another
pounding Saturday afternoon as the
Bulldogs make their initial appear
ance In Athens for the 1942 season.
Of course, practically everyono
except Coach Butts is expecting a
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GOP To Hold
Rally In Chapel
The alms and endeavors of the
G. O. P. organization will be ex
plained to all non-fraternity fresh
men by a group of outstanding up
perclassmen in the University Chap
el Monday night at 8 o'clock.
Tom Penland, Blairsville, campus
leader und bead of the non-frater
nity party, will preside, and Col. C.
O. Baker, prominent Athens attor
ney, will deliver the principal ad
dress.
According to Penland, this meet
ing will be followed by another one
during the month and a definite pro
gram will be arranged for the com
ing year. In the past the G. O. P.
has been the most powerful organi
zation on the campus, controlling
all political forces.
Student leaders who will address
the group Include Beryl Sellers,
Fort Gaines, editor of The Red and
Black and vice-campus leader; Eu
gene Hudson, Raleigh, president of
the senior class; John Vickers, Nor
man Park, secretary-treasurer of
the senior class; Kenny Mock, Col
quitt, president of the athletic as
sociation; Jack Royall, Decatur,
president of the Voluntary Religious
there for the first time to leave Phi i Association; Wiley Jones, lakeland.
Kappa and Join the pseudo-literary > business manager of The Red and
group across the way. I Black.
In the process a fuse mysteriously! B®' 1 Harrison, Crawfordville, Dead
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The Newspapers Go All-Out for Victory