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The West Georgian
Official Organ of West Georgia College, Carrollton, <-a.
‘V ~~ Editor-in-(*hief
Earle Newman
Robert M. Ht rosier * *
CONTRIBUTORS:
Mary Lyle Taft <ol,ctt
Mrs. C. C. Capps • *lo,v Grant
Doyce Williamson Doris Weal
Salmon Wood , Mno Risk
Louise Geer Mrs. M\ers
lahmacl Johnson Ftdler Anderson
Elizabeth Holbrook Boris Wiggins M’acie Murphy
ATHLETICS AT W. G. C.
On nil sides around tin* campus wo
hear the cry for the need of new dor
mitories, faculty apartments, more el
ficient equipment, better library, good
roads, and along with all these necoss
ities we also hear a (demand for a lar
ger athletic, department.
The value of a wider field of ath
letic activity has been shown by the
great success of the West Georgia
College baseball team. By putting
this into the school we have gained
more confidence and cooperation from
citizens of Carrollton. Not only have
the people nearby given recognition to
West Georgia, but also the State at
large has come to take note of her
program. Athletics at West Georgia
College has proved very valuable to
the name of the college and therefore,
the students hope to do more for their
ulma mater by giving themselves a
chance for self expression of their love
for West Georgia College in a more
active athletic program as well as in
other fields.
The students think that if other
forms of athletics which are just as
appealing were introduced they would
also gain the whole hearted support of
the loyal supporters of W. G. 0.
The success of the tennis team also
deserves mention when one speaks of
successful organizations on tin* cam
pus. At both the meets, one with
Emory Junior College, and the other
with Alabama Stale Teachers College,
W. G. was highly successful in win
ning every set. This proves that the
students at West Georgia are more
than glad to support any new athletic
project.
This all goes to show that the stu
dent body would like very much to
add another activity to its program--
that of football. There is no activity
on the campus which would arouse
more school spirit or more cooperation
than this game. It is universally ap
pealing both to participants and au
dience. College and football somehow
seem to go hand in hand and if this
sport is not carried too far it will
prove a great asset to W. G. C.
W. G. C. lias the necessary material
for a football team within its present
student body. New equipment can be
obtained very easily, and it has al
ready been shown that West Georgia
College can finance its own athletics.
Taking all this into consideration
the student body wishes to present a
heart felt plea for football at W. G. C.
next year.
Editor’s Note: Since the above edi
torial was written word has been re
ceived on the campus that the North
Georgia College at Dahbvnega, a sister
institution of ours, has decided not to
have intercollegiate football during
the coming year.
CHAPEL PROGRAMS ARE
PROVING INTERESTING
West Georgia College is fortunate
in having many prominent visitors.
Chancellor Philip Weltner of the Uni
versity of Georgia made a visit to the
school recently and spoke at the chapel
hour. Supervisor L. L. Perry of the
State Department of Education spoke
to the student body last week. Mr.
Perry is teaching in the college during
the summer session. Members of the
faculty will contribute to this program
from time to time. Other speakers ex
pected soon are Dr. M. D. Collins, Su
perintendent of schools, Milton L.
Fleetwood, President of the Georgia
Press Association, and President Guy
H. Wells of Milledgeville.
The editor’s attention has been call
ed to President Ingram’s annual report
to Chancellor Weltner. Thin report
contains some very significant state
ments. It states very definitely the
aims and objectives of West Georgia
Collage. The report centers around
the following five items:
1. An adequate physical plant.
2. A program based on the needs of
the area.
3. An organization and faculty.
4. A student body.
5. Sufficient teaching equipment.
As to how well those aims were re
alized, wo quote the following from
this report:
“It may be said that despite the
fact that the ad valorem tax cut in the
spring reduced our expected appropri
ation approximaetly $5,000.00, wo ex
ceeded out anticipated income by over
$2,000.00. Hence the institution was
abide to carry out the financial pro
gram originally planned. Not only
1 hat, but the college carried over sl,-
(182.00 as a surplus. This does not
mean that this surplus was not needed
badly. It indicates the determination
on the part of the authorities of the
local institution and the Board of Re*
gents to live within the income.’’
The physical plant was improved ap
proximately $10,000.00 and the teach
ing equipment bought exceeded $2,-
000.00. While the anticipated income
of SOI,BOO was listed, the actual income
for the year amounted to $63,657.13.
The enrollment came from 37 cou’ntios
and reached 399.
West Georgia College has indeed had
an unusually successful year.
HOODA THOT—"
That Mr. Ingram would give a talk
without pulling his hair or chewing up
a copple of penny pencils.
That Mr. Gunn would stay away for
a whole week.
That M’r. Perry was tempted to build
partitions between each isle during ex
aminations.
That Mr. Howell gave a talk with
out, er-er-er-er, er —woll you guess.
That Mr. Lavender would have a
“new V-8 after “handling the money’’
only about nine months.
That M’r. Strozier would be left in
charge of so many women.
That the car wouldn’t run for Dr.
Boyd when grains of rice were falling
fast and heavy.
That Mr. ITart writes a letter every
day, and it’s not to help Uncle Sam
either.
That M’iss Jenkins would nap in
church.
That Air. Roberts would comb his
hair—for Mrs. Roberts.
That M)iss Cowen would actually
smile .
That Miss Weaver could climb
mountains.
That Miss St. Clair would sing a
solo at the last social.
That Miss Eberliart, Miss Jordan,
Miss Harper, and Miss Carpenter are
just out of Milledgeville.
That Miss Wand forgot to feed her
cats.
That school teachers have no con
trol over their eyes—during examina
tions.
The weather has been so hot for the
past week no one has been able to do
anything but eat peayh ice cream and
cry for cool weather. At least mid
terms are over and we can rest a
while.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
STUDENTS ENJOY
SUMMER SOCIAL
*Th®. factilty and studeilt body of
West Georgia ctillhge enjoyed a re
ception Wednesday evening, June 20,
on the campus, sponsored by Miss Eb
erhart and Miss Jenkimt. The counties
and representatives were:
Miss Leona Ingram, Fulton; Mr. J.
A. Smith, Chattooga; Mr. Ishmael
Johnson, Gordon; Mrs. John Johnson,
Dels alb; Miss Ruth Ballard, Laurens;
Miss Grace Touchstone, Henry; Mr.
Hermit Wood, Haralson; M’iss Frances
Nutt, Spalding; Mrs. Minnie M’undy,
Polk; Miss Willie Cureton, Dade; Mr.
C. B. Knight, Heard; Mr. Carlos Han
iel, Carroll; Miss Louise Geer, Doug
las; A. B. Matthews, Paulding; Mrs.
lfosale, Clayton; M’iss Stevie Harris.
Talbot; Miss Addie Dunn, Catoosa;
Miss (Christine Dupree, Cobb; Floy
Grant, Harris; Ruth Cowen, Bartow;
Seward llix, Murray; Mary Smith, Bar
tow; Mrs. Griggs, Fayette; Mrs. R. B.
Cosby, Troup.
A representative from each county
gave the outstanding facts concerning
that county. Each representative, of
course, thought their county the best
in the state.
Miss Willie Cureton thinks Dade
county is making much progress be
cause they have recently established
their first barber shop in the county.
Those who aro interested in fishing
should visit Chattooga county, as M’r.
Smith told many fish tales.
Miss Leona Ingram, of Fulton coun
ty, asked us to “come up to see her
sometime.”
Miss Christine Dupree, who repre
sented Cobb county, said they had
“everything. ”
There were many valuable facts
brought out about each county. Sew
ard Hix, representing Murray, thought
the most interesting fact was “Sandy
Bottom,” the swimming hole down on
the creek.
Mr. Digram, president of West Geor
gia college, dosed the speeches with a
very interesting talk in behalf of the
faculty and student body of W. G. C.
Then delicious peach cream was serv
ed and happy voices were heard from
all corners of the campus until Miss
Ward rang the bell.
Mr. Lavender likes to hear the pianr>
before breakfast.
Mr. Watson is never late for break*
fast.
Miss Harper likes limericks.
Render Rowe has charm for snakes.
Addio Dunn thinks she is grown.
Hermit Wood goes to bed at 7:30.
Colette spends the week-end in Bre
men.
Hugh Hon'seworth likes the Wall of
Jericho.
Webster Smith never uses his spoon.
Earle Newman takes the cream to
the HENHOUSE after night.
Fuller Anderson doesn’t like music
or reading.
Mr. Roberts is an advisor on matri
mony.
Doyae Williamson likes to take phy
sical ed in the form of walking with
girls.
Barber Woods offers free hair cuts
to ladies.
Miss Eberhart thought W. G. C. a
senior college.
Rev. J. A. Smith is more popular
than any boy on the campus.
All the student body likes salmon
salad.
Summer school is a paradise for
boys with about three girls to a boy.
Some of them seem to be enjoying it
to the fullest.
It is rather a queer but not unusual
sight these evenings to pass the boys’
dormitory and see girls dancing in
side.
West Georgia College
June 5* 1934
My dear mother;
I sure do wish that I could be with
you and pa and all the family today
and go to that singing you was telling
me about in your last letter. Looks
like I wouldn’t get so lonesome here
with the girl in the room with me and
about three hundred other people but
I sure do. The little lady who tells
us when to study and go to bed and be
quiet came up here and talked to me
and T feel better now and I told her I
guess it was hearing all these talks
about your county that made me so
homesick. I wish you and pa would
hitch up real early some Sunday morn
ing and come to see me. If you do be
sure to bring a can of preserves and
some of that grape juice we put up
last year and a little lightbread.
Some of the men here are real nice
to me but I am still true to you know
who but there is one that sits at the
table I do who is real nice about pass
ing me things and it is hard to get
them unless you have long arms so I
am being real nice to him. Every
Wednesday night we have a party on
the front yard and he sits with me
there too. Sometimes it is dewy out
there but. I put my handkerchief down
to sit on. The teacher who tells us
about our health tells us what to do
and we sing and play games and some
of the frisky ones do stunts but I am
remembering what you and pa told me
about being nice up here “where nearly
everybody is a teacher and me a poor
country girl even though I am proud
of and only seventeen years old.
I wish you could be here to see how
late these people stay up and study.
They sit out by the hall light that
burns all night and study after it goes
out in their room and that is almost
midnight. Some of them gets up early
to study too because I saw them when
I walked around real soon one morn
ing. They must bo real smart to do
all that. It is a bad thing that all
these can not live in the boy’s house
because the lights are good over there
and never go out. I did not tell you
but the top floor of the boys’ house
is full of girls. I would not like to
live over there because of my sleep
walking but I don’t guess they would
let a sleepwalker live over there. They
say there is a real nice lady over there
who does like our little lady and she
is the mother of the French teacher 1
told you about.
Since I wrote you last I have done
my washing. I didn’t have to do it in
the big pan I brought because there
is a big room here with tubs in it that
we use. There are also ele.ctric iron3
and ironing boards so if you' and pa
come "I will let you take back the big
pan as it is in the way and the two
flat irons I got because I ean’t find
no place to heat them anyway.
Some of the girls who lived here
since last fall are real pretty and nice
to me. They told me it will be differ*
ent next fall as there will be their old
friends back and I can get me a friend
to run about with. These girls all wear
little short socks and showed me where
I could buy them so I am wearing
them now and saving the lisle you
and pa bought me for Sunday as the
socks are cheaper.
Every Friday and Saturday night
the girls can let their fellows come to
see them and T sure do miss you know
who on Saturday especially and wish
the peanut field could let him off long
enough to come up here one day. I
hear the bell ringing that means the
boys have to go and the girls sure do
not like to hear it. In a few minutes
the lights will do like a lamp in a
draft and then they will go out as T
have learned previous as T still have
a sore place on my foot where I stuck
a splinter in its trying to get to bed
in the dark on the first night or two.
I must close and get a little sleep.
Write me all about who you saw at
church Sunday and how are you and
pa and you' know who. I am going to
write him tomorrow.
Tour loving daughter,
Bora
VOX POPULI
West Georgia College
June 12, 1934.
M’y dear mother,
I was so busy getting started to
school that I could not write to you
as I promised when you’ and pa left mo
at this place to go to college and 1
think I will like it fine as soon as 1
can find out where everything is and
all that if I can get acquainted.
This place is so big I can’t hardly
stand it because I get lost evory time
I start anywhere and I don’t know
where lam gping when I start. There
is a loud bell in the Rail of the build
ing we go to school in and one in our
bouse that rings all the time and you
are supposed to do things when it
rings like go from one room to another
go to dinner or get up and I can’t tell
what to do yet but I will learn. Some
of these people must can tell what it
means because they never do have to
stop and ask every time it rings like
T do.
This morning I got up early as we
always do at the house thinking as
how you and pa w'ould already be up
and about for the sun was an hour
gone but when I saw the girl sleeping
in the other bed I remembered where
I -was at. I thought I would get my
clothes on and take a look around when
there was nobody to bump into me
while I got my bearings.
It sure is a pretty place. You and
pa saw T part of it but they say that
the boys live in a house just like ours
except you can’t go out at both ends
of it like we can from ours. Of course
it lias two doors but four of the lady
teachers live in this house at the far
end. At night I can see the prettiest
lamps shining in there and I wish that
you and pa would sell those that are
my two in the parlor and let me get
some pretty ones like they have.
Down behind the building you go to
school in there is the place where w *
eat. It is called the dining hall. We
Rave to go down there when a boy who
works there hits a big piece of iron
with a nail on the front of the dining
hall. Tlie first time I heard it T
thought it was a cow bell and didn’t
pay no attention. Pretty soon the
girl that stays in here with me came
in and said whose table did I sit at
and I said I didn’t sit at no table and
she said I had missed my dinner so I
got my books and went down and sat
on the steps of the place about an hour
bv sun of supper time and studied un
til the boy came out and made that
noise. It sure was hot down there and
the worst smelling place I was ever at.
T looked in a window down under this
dining and saw some of the pupils
and that tall redheaded teacher cutting
on some fish. I think if I had been
cleaning them I would have got out in
the back of the barn so it wouldn’t
have smelt so bad but I guess the
teacher wouldn’t let them because I
know all those women teachers know
something about cooking and how dead
fish smell up a kitchen.
Down behind this place is a place
that looks like a barn that wo go to
and throw balls and run around. The
teaeher said I was the best thrower
but she sure did get mad when I hit
her and didn’t any more see her com
ing. This place is called the Jim
which must be the name of some fa
mous man that went here once but r
wouldn’t like to have a place like
that named for me would you?
I like all my teachers fine. They
are not like Miss Susiebelle was. They
give us long lessons to study and then
stand up and talk the whole time and
T don’t see sow they know if we have
read it do you? Mv lessons are French
which is the way they talk in the place
where the war was and history. They
are all right hut I don’t guess T will
do so well as they are so new to me and
all. The French teacher is a very nice
man and all the girls are in love with
him but he don’t seem to mind and
just talks like Cousin Zeb did when he
had the fever but I am getting where
I can tell what he says because it tells
us in the book. The history teacher
says he has been all the way across the
ocean to Russia and he has a little
moustache that makes him look like
