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JANUARY 24, 1947
Comment
and
Opinion
'Rational Sheep’
Foil ow the Leader
We students are a rational group.
YES! We students ARE a rational
group.
Nationally known products are sold
by just such repetition as this. Highly
polished advertising campaigns are
based on the principal of repeating one
sentence or phrase continuously until
the public will eventually believe it and
act accordingly.
Possibly if we students on this cam
pus were continuously bombarded with
a sentence such ns this it would have
the same effect. During the past week
one rational sheep wus asked why the
reeent motorcade to Atlanta was or
ganized. lie Replied that it was because
the other schools in the state were do
ing it. When queried further as to the
stated purpose of the move he replied
that be had forgotten, lie hail known
Tuesday what the campus instigators
had said but by Thursday he had for
gotten.
This is not unusual. Many of us have
done things similar to this time and
again. Many of us have often allowed
others to do our thinking for us. We
have not taken the time and effort to
rationalize problems for ourselves.
In not being a rational individual it
often lends to not being n rational
group. A cause may be a worthy one.
And some action should be taken. Hut
how this action should be taken is an
other question.
If one course is taken it may be more
for the benefit of the leader than for
furthering the cause embodied by the
group.
This particular incident used to illus
trate this article and mnke this type
action more concrete is no longer of
importance. The only point that mat
ters now is how we approach the next
group action on this campus. We must
work toward being student citizens
who can truthfully say We students
are a rational group.
Congestion, Crowding
Gradually Declining
Crowded conditions and overtaxed j
facilities on the campus during the past
year has often led to bottlenecks and
friction points between the administra
tion and students. The spots have been '
easily located and often publicly criti
cized.
When everything is going well there
is a tendency to forget the people who
have made great efforts to improve
these conditions. Seldom do they hear
anything on how they are serving the
students except when something goes
wrong.
The process of organizing schools ali
over the country has been a gradual
process, ns anything on such a large I
scale would be. Here at the University !
the students are now beginning to real
ize some of the improvements that are
being brought about. Laundry service
is usually the first thing attacked but
now we get a letter to the editor ex
pressing gratitude for the good service
rendered now. The registration during
the beginning of the quarter was
handled very efficiently and students
were entered in the University with n
minimum of confusion. Just this week
the housing office has released the news
that congested housing conditions will
be relieved next quarter.
We, the staff of the Red and Hlaek, |
wish to thank and commend the ad- j
ministration for overcoming these and j
many other difficulties springing from
the present educational emergency.
Don’t forget the Infantile paralysis
fund drive this weekend. Last year the
national polio program cost $12,000,-
000. If the progress made in the last J
few years is to be continued this much |
and more must be raised. Help give j
others a fighting chance in life just as
vou have.
Vox Georgiae
Laundry Commended . . .
Kdttor, Ther Red and Hlaek
Dear Sir:
Lbhi quarter we read In thla column
numerous gripes of portions on the slow
ness of service given by the University
Laundry. We should like to have this op
portunity to commend the laundry for the
efficient service given thus far this quar
ter. Let us hope that the laundry continues
this service throughout the quarter.
Sincerely,
Oeo. J. L. Napier
Robert Elector, Jr.
R E. Howell
Entered at the Post Office In Athens. Geor
gia. as Mall Matter of the Second Class.
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Lucius Teasley
Pamela Vaiknti.sk
Ken DeRexnk
Roy Powell
Helen Mourns
Catiikhine Pkitciikti
Roc.eh Simmons
Pat Reese
Jimmy Copeland
Scent Collins
Danny Booos
Sam Huroess
John Hivkkndokf
Midoe Lovell
David Cates
Walter Smith
Abit Massey
Jack Davis
Nick Mobley
Editor
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Sesrs Editor
Woman** Editor
Society Editor
Sports Editor
Feature Editor
Ag Hilt Editor
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Ass't. Husinett Mgr.
Ass't. flusiness Mgr.
Circulation Manager
Staff Cartoonist
Proofreader
Business Stale: Frances Domlney, Eva Lee
Weir. A1 Weatherly, Allan Huvard. Wes
ley Sherman. Eleanor Aderhold.
Ooey Desk: Rufus M. Josey, Irvine E. Mor
ris, Dave Bowers. Nick Mobley. James
M. Hale. Reva Ann Dame. Elmo Hester.
Dick Pipes. George McArthur. Bob Argo.
RcroBTEJt's Stave Jack Levy. Starr Miller.
Jane Brown. Romesa Plamptn. Jackie
Sumner. Ed Jackson. Albert Morris.
James E. Hllley. Fred Hollis, Dudley
Martin. Jos Bryan.
Mud . . . !
Editor, Red and Rlack
University of Georgia
From the deeds of such men as Ellis
Arnalt, Chnrley Trlppl, and Eugene and
Herman Talmudge, Georgia has, In recent j
months, received Its full share of nation
wide publicity, good and bad. Like "that
preacher's boy” Georgia’s misdeeds are
more widely trumpeted abroad than Any
commendable action. With her blatant po
litical voice Georgia plays the gaudy hussy
well and It Is in this role that she appears
today in the nation's headlines.
But let the nation know that there are
two types of men at work In Georgia—
those who deal In Georgia mud and those
who build on Georgia soil. Both types are
well portrayed In the January 20 issue of
Time magazine. Typifying the "dealers''
group are the ten rules for success In
Georgia politics as given by Dan Duke,
outgoing Assistant Attorney General. Of
far more Importance to Georgians Is the
''builder” group ns exemplified by the late
Robert Marlon Strickland, former presi
dent of Atlanta's Trust Co., of Georgia,
and founder of the Strickland Plan to
j bring the benefits of machinery to thous-
I ands of small farmers In Georgia.
In such men as Robert Strickland. Geor
gians may Indeed take faith and pride. For
I It is In men who are willing to work at
! the bottom of Georgia's problems that
Georgia finds hope for the future. Let
■ us now take heart and resolve to work
and pray that the efforts of such men may
increase fourfold and that Georgians, by
building from the soil beneath their shoes
may one day come to doff their wool hats
for good and once more residents of this
our state may stand and Say with honest
pride. "It’s Great to Be a Georgian."
Sincerely,
Sam Burgess
Rhyme or Reason
Personal Columns
Add Spice to Life
By Melvyn S. Rifkind
Looking at the newspapers these
days, one is impressed by the futility
of it all. Politics, taxes, conferences,
labor troubles. The same dry hard
facts. If it wasn’t for the comics, things i
would really be hopeless.
But wait, we have a ray of hope. No,
not novels. Few have the time to read
books these hectic days. Besides, wad
ing through .100 pages involves too
much exertion.
This is a positive revelation. A re- ]
turn to the pithy things of life. A re- 1
turn to the average individual and the
problems so common to all of us. We
mean the personal column.
After perusing the current issue of
the Saturday Review of Literature, we
tire convinced that all the ingredients
for enjoyable reading can be found in
the appeals and offers of people who
desire anything from a set of Dickens
to a sympathetic correspondent.
All the drama, comedy, and pathos
in life can he perceived in these simple
messages. For example this gem:
“Is there a professional man of vision
who would correspond with an idealis
tic girl with sense of humor, literary
bent, psychological turn of mind and
cultural interests? Box 769.”
This was followed by an ad selling
Norwegian elkhounds.
Picture if you will the author of this
one:
“Young scientist—cynic and bored,
with sense of humor still flickering,
would like to read letter of sorts, from
female not given to bickering. Box
741-S.”
Poet as well as scientist.
Finally we selected this masterpiece:
“Writer-male, fed up with poseurs
and drips, would correspond with sin
cere Eastern young woman, like him
self on the introvert side, who would
enjoy sympathetic and zestful exchange
of opinion. Box 741-S.”
You don't need to go to the movies
or listen to the radio. Just pick up the
personal column and meet people as I
varied and as interesting as any crea
tion of the most imaginative scenario
or script writer.
You could fiud for sale detective
agencies, risque post cards, rare teas,
old books, offers of correspondence
from Harvard graduates, aged recluses,
self-styled intellectual geniuses, and
lonely nobodies. You will be offered
a job as a literary assistant and asked
to subscribe to any number of maga
zines. You will be asked to take a trip
to Mexico aud told about the fascina
tions of pottery.
In short, if you want to meet real
people and escape this mad world with
its mass movements and confusion, sit
down and partake of the delights of
the personal column. A varied and
tempting bill of fare awaits you.
Georgia’s Possibilities
Georgia Can Grow
Love of Good Order
By B. D. Napier
At the Herty Drive entrance to Franklin Cam
pus one may read the following inscribed words
from the University Charter:
“As it is the distinguishing happiness of free
governments that civil order should he the result
of choice, and not necessity, and the common
wishes of the people become the laws of the land,
their public prosperity and even existence very
much depends upon suitably forming the minds
and morals of the citizens .... It should there
fore be among the first objects of those who wish
well to the national prosperity to encourage and
support the principles of morality and religion
and early to place the youth under the forming
hand of society, that by instruction they may be
moulded to the love of virtue and good order.”
The remarkable document from which these
lines are quoted has the distinction of being the
first and earliest state university charter in Amer
ica ; and yet the profound and permanent and
arresting significance of the Charter is to be
found not so much in its priority and age as in
its very freshness.
Dr. Napier, University chaplain and head
of the religion department, was born in
China; attended American schools at Nank
ing and Shanghai; received his B.A. degree
from Howard College in 1936; was an honor
graduate of the Yale Divinity School in 1939;
and received his Ph.D. degree from Yale in
1944. He came to the University last year
after two years as chaplain at Alfred Uni
versity, N. Y.
In the past few years the principles, the under-
lying philosophy, the techniques of American
higher education have been subjected to the most
critical and penetrating analysis and re-evalua
tion. Not in decades has the movement of re
examination been so thorough and so widespread.
Due of several significant conclusions arrived
•it bv numbers of educators in both private and
state institutions is that the religious factor must
be re-introduced into an educational system which,
for nearly a hundred years, has become increas
ing secularized. And herein lies the freshness,
the contemporary vitality, of the University Char
ter; tor it says, of the founding of this Univer
sity. that ‘ it should be among the first objects
.... to encourage and support the principles
of morality and religion .... that bv instruction
they (students) may be moulded to the love of
virtue find prood order.”
part oi its effort to meet the aims of a re-
examined and re-defined educational program,
and in perfect consonance with its distinguished
charter, the 1 Diversity of Georgia has, in this
academic year, established for the first time in
ns history a department of religion, courses in
which are, of course, on a purely elective basis. It
should be noted that in taking this step the Uni
versity of Georgia joins—and possibly may even
< ip to set the pace—in a movement among both
state and private institutions to meet in this or
some comparable way one of the requirements of
true education in its loftiest conception.
Count, then, among Georgia’s possibilities a per-
s!>tent religious impulse, defined in the Charter
a century and a half ago, and expressed in a
thousand wavs throughout the history of this
state. But count it still a possibility. Look about
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