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THE RED AND BLACK. FRIDAY, JANUARY 17. 1947
Seeing Believin'’
By Paul Barnabas
A chill, bitter wind chases the
last clouds from a leaden sky. then
whips across Ag Hill down into San
ford Stadium. It bounces off Me
morial Hall and catches me .as I
struggle bravely, hand over hand,
up the precipitous trail on the side
of the hill.
I am on my way
to my evening re
past and it is rum
ored that tonight
we are to have
stbak. I shout joy
fully as I reach the
crest of Ag Hill
and then break in
to a run in order to
be there before the
steak turns to
frankfurters. This
has appened before,
leaving me very bit
ter about the whole affair.
Speeding down the street past
Soule Hall, I overtake a group of
shy young things. Dodging a vicious
kick aimed at my shins, I manage
to nose them out in the final heat,
winning by a shove. This puts me
twentieth in the line.
Crash! Skid Dejerk comes to a
screeching halt fqur victims ahead
of me. I utter outraged cries and the
hypocrites in the line cover their
ears.
A nice peach which I have been
wanting to date sidles up to me yet
I snarl at her. Truly, I am very up
set.
I progress steadily backward as
more friends meet in the line ahead
of me. There is much discontent
among my fellow sufferers to tho
rear. The mob is becoming aroused.
After a slight argument in which
I receive two blows in the diaphragm
and three rabbit punches from the
«ntrenched forces on the steps. I
make my painful yfet victorious way
Into the serving liite.
It is with tears in my eyes thaf I
watch the last piece of steak fall
onto the tray of Speedy Blasacanca
who, while I was repulsing a flank
ing attack, stole stealthily in front
of me.
I am resigned. I shall embrace my
religion more closely in the future,
I vow..as the steaming pan of frank
furters is dropped in front of my
disappointed palate. I make my way
wearily to the table.
The Agricultural Economics Club,
at its regular meeting Monday night,
decided to hold one of its semi
monthly meetings in the afternoon
as an informal seminar for the mem
bers.
Several projects are under way,
according to James Turner, Alma,
president of the group. Included are
reports by members on proposed de
partmental projects under the Hope-
Flanagan Federal Research Aid en
abling act.
Photo Courtesy “Book.’
Georgia's Possibilities . . .
(Continued from page four)
ters before they are twenty-five
years of age. As farm life becomes
more and more mechanized, fewer
youth will be needed on the farm.
Schools must give consideration to
preparing the migrant rural youth
for urban life.
In conversation a few days ago
with one of Georgia's most succes-
ful business men who came up the
hard way, he said, "This nation is
destined to be the greatest industrial
nation of the world. America will
choose the types of industry she
wishes to engage in and let the rest
of the world have what she does not
want. The South is the natural lo
cution for expunded business and in
dustry, but before we attract very
much new industry to locate here,
we are going to have to revamp our
educational program so that our
youth may have an opportunity to
develop the skills that industry de
mands.” The young educational lead
ership of Georgia must envision
these changes.
There is no single problem con
fronting Georgia today which so
seriously threatens its present and
future as the shortage of qualified
teachers with natural interests and
professional fitness. Georgia today
has need for seven thousand or more
qualified teachers. Too few young
people are interested in becoming
teachers. The chief reason for this
lack of interest is perhaps centered
around economic security.
As one man who has spent more
than fifty years in public school
work, I am convinced that there is
no greater opportunity for service
and no more fascinating work than
that of teaching. The natural love,
esteem, and fellowship existing be
tween pupils and teachers, and the
voiced appreciation In the years that
follow, bring to the teacher a con
viction that after all he has not lived
in vain.
Georgia has gone far in remedy
ing for teachers the unjust economic
treatment of the past. Experienced
teachers with a bachelor's degree
may earn $1800 per year as a mini
mum. Qualified principals of rural
schools may earn up to $3,500 per
year as a minimum. A teacher re
tirement system guarantees to the
individual who makes teaching a
lifetime career an old age of ease
and comfort.
To guarantee satisfactory living
conditions, a program is being de
veloped to provide homes on the
school grounds for principals and
others nearby where teachers may
live with freedom and comfort. The
enactment of federal aid for. edu
cation will provide a minimum sal
ary of $2400 for the qualified teach
er. The challenge of the future will
be to Bee that Georgia’s schools serve
the needs of her citizens.
Five
Pictured above Is Mar)' Hayden,
who will appear in the forth
coming Barter Theatre produc
tion of Will Slinkes|ieare’s famous
comedy, “Much Ado About Noth
ing." The play will be presented
in the Fine Arts Auditorium on
January 24, 8:00 p. m.
Deluge Precipitates,
Bowick Ruminates,
Mermaids Meander
Roddy Ratcliff
m
Persistent Roddy Professes
Title of Gravedigger, Palmist
By Bill Bowick
It Isn't that I don’t like flowers
and green grasH and budding trees
and all the pretty Blgns of nature,
lt'a Just that this Incessant rain, so
conducive to nature's growth, Is not
conducive to this homo saplen with
out web feet.
If It takes all this continuous rain
to grow a green sprig, then let's
either grow everything in hot houses
and live dryly, or give the country
back to the Indiana. Rain-In-The
Face, of the Cherokee Rain-In-The
Faces would, In all probability do a
dance of Joy among the various
puddles left lying about.
Honestly, the rain has made ev
erything so fertile that farmers are
putting bicarbonate of soda on the
earth to keep things from coming up.
Peas are growing oars on their pods,
and corn is coming up with Its silk
plaited into anchors. It’s that wet.
One of the mathematical geniuses
is said to have computed the depth
of rainfall in three months, and pre
dicted that mermaidB would be reg
istrars because of the submersion of
the Academic Building. If the rain
fall continued for five months mer
maids and mermen would be stu
dents. Its that wet.
Only the nickelodeons offer any
satisfaction: "I’ve Got The Sun In
The Morning And The Moon At
Night."
By June Suratt
Oooooooo, a grave digger couldn't
excavate as much dirt us your Ole
Uncle Roddy bus for this week
We’ve learned things that . even a
fortune teller wouldn’t relate
And if you find your moniker here
it's your own misfortune.
Oooooooohf
Speaking for fortune tellers, and
palmists and staff like that there,
MARY ANNE "BROWNIE" BROWN,
West Virginia protege, had her fort
une told one stormy night. ... Or
rather half of It. . . . The soothsayer
wanted two bucks for u full reading
but Brownie hnd only one buck with
her. . . . She purchased half of one. . .
She'B gonna have money, a long
Journey, and a tall dark and hand
some.
Why doesn't everybody Just give
it up as a bad Job and go home?
Whether JOHN SMOOT, one of
Sigma Nu’s White Stars, will muster
enough courage to date "that girl"
over In the beanerie is a (s)moot
question. . . . Oooooooo, ain't your
Unc Roddy on the old foo today?
Unh-hunh, another good question. . .
A coupla years back "SALOME"
WOOTEN was rtylng her hand at
knlttln’ for Britain. ... But for this
year GENE TAYLOR has been sub
stituted. Wooten wooden for anybody
else. What ail'er, Taylor? ....
"BECK," who sounds like a fugi
tive from a Bob Hope program, has
done everything in her power (In
cluding Atomic) to meet a town guy
with the Initials GEORGE
Wreck Beck must be the motto! Or
sumpen. . . .
MARIAN WEST is known as
"CUDDLES" around certain circles,
which Infuriates Roddy no end.
Sounds too much like PUDDLES,
and we’ve had entirely too many of
same recently. . , Diamond, diamond.
Who's got the diamond? "CHARM
MARTIN,” gammy Alpha Gam,
has. . . ,
'Tls said by them what know that
Ixiok IVla^u/.inc Record*
Annuul Sigma Chi Derby
"Higher Education In Athens,
Georgiu" is the title of an Interesting
feature In the January 21 issue of
"I-ook" magazine. Depicting high
lights of, the Annual Sigma Chi Der
by, Look devotes a two and a half
page spread to one of our Univer
sity’s important functions o t tha
year.
Reprints of the urlicle appear be
low.
''Higher Education In Athens, Georgia”
a person can’t do two things at
once. VONNIE WILLIAMS can. Sh.e
| was seen keeping company with the
i PAST ("Goot" STEINER) and the
PRESENT (Ken McCALL) at the
same time. If tHat. ain’t killin’ two
bolds with amour fn their eyes then
'< nothing is. . : . .
Luclous LUCIAN BALLARD and
| Winsome WINBERG are ignoring
conventions and frat pins and aro
h in I n’ It off together despite the
other guy. Il wuz the other guys pin
anyway. WINNIE Is lettin’ the black
roots of her white hair show now.
For Rallurd or worse! !
BETTY TORRY, the cutie who
captivated more hearts on the Geor
gia campus than Errol Flynn did off,
is working now with tho Advertising
Department of Sears Roebuck In Hot
I Lanta And FRANCES CUN-
| NINGHAM ain’t doing bad either. . .
| She’s assistant advertising manager
and feature writer for the Marietta
Daily Journal. . . .on which con
glomeration Gloria "the calls lilies
are blooming again." Chapman Is a
reporter. . . .1 say Dorthys Parker,
Thompson, and Dlx In the making. , .
And look at the fabulous GLORIA
EPPS. Glory, glory to old Epps who’s
Director of Public Relations at the
school of medicine la Augusta. , , .
Why doesn’t everybody else give
It up as a had Job and go home?
Do we hear the jangle of wedding
bells for "TE88" EX LEY and the
indomlnatable BILL WEST. . . and
Is It true that one GENE BRAD
FORD can’t keep the WOLFF away
from the door. ...
FRANCES NORTON AND JIM
MY COSTA aro as close together as
the O and V In love. . . They’re as
steady as the Rock of GIbraltor. . . .
And ELEANOR "TIC” KIMSEY and
HAROLD CROWE are gonna be even
steadier (Sorta like New Years fal
ling on January 1st) 'cause ’tie rum
ored they're gonna be preacher-tied
come June. . .
RUTH BENNETT has taken up
tho manly art of Ju-JItsu or so
'twould seem from the stories she
got out about the lumps on her hoad
last Monday morning. . . Each story
was different tho’, too. . . The truth
of the matter Is that Bennett read
In some Love 8tory magazine where
standing dn one’s hoad will reduce
the hips. . . Tsh, tBh, reduce tho
hips by uddlng poundage to the
head. . ,
ShinnnlgatiB, Ah Hhinnnlgans! And
the way some ATO’s do cut them at
rush functions. Among them CHUCK
Tod LB of the stluve Christ mas
Cards TOOLES, and nts floio mauv
"Don't Be Bitter, Hweet, HAR
RELL. . . .
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