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PAGE TWO (Djc picst Clcorgmn Editor-In-Chief Grace Wing Business Manager--—-----—--Glenn Hogan Assistant Husiness Manager-.-Holman Wood Associate Editor ------—Lucile Portwood Assistant Editor Aubrey Jones Managing Editor Edwin Rogers Club Editor Elizabeth Burnham Sports Editor Jack Smith Exchange Editor-------- Martha r lrimble Faculty Adviser Mr. Strozier Student Advisor -Lanier Spence Published every three weeks by the students of West Georgia College. The West Georgian The editorial staff of the West Georgian wishes to use this issue as an opportunity to present to the student body the principles on which this paper is managed and to justify itself to any students who disapprove its policies. A school paper is supposed to serve the campus which it represents in three capacities; It should present an accurate reflection of life on the campus, represent the school in other places, and to provide an opportunity for stu dent expression. These capacities the West Georgian has always tried to fill. In regard to the first, we have tried to keep our paper a real newspaper, presenting in the best journalistic style of which we are capable articles written by students themselves about the various happenings which occur on the campus and are of interest to the student body. In the second place we regard our paper as worthy of representing West Geor gia College on other campuses and in mak ing inter-collegiate contacts. In providing a means of expressing student opinions we have only to point to the various contributions from non-staff members which every issue of our paper contains to prove our willingness to re ceive articles from outsiders. We consider these unofficial contributions the truest ex pressions of stu thought and the best means of making contacts among the varying opinftrns of the student body. Finally, the staff of the West Georgian has always worked with the idea in mind that we are really managing a paper that belongs not to us but to the student body itself. You have selected us to make this paper for you, and it is for us to give you what you want. It is for you to believe in your staff and to ac cept the result of its efforts at its own value. A Noteworthy Student (All About Warner Morgan) In accordance with the editorial policy of this paper stated in our last issue, we are again presenting a student whose achieve ments warrant the recognition we are hereby awarding him. This student is none other than Warner Morgan, popularly known as the sweetheart of the Boys’ Dormitory—he is Lit tle Brother to every sophomore in the build ing. That’s not all —he has taken the Girls’ Dormitory like Grant took Richmond. Morgan possesses infinite family pride, prov ed by his frequent extolling of his father’s physical prowess. “My Daddy can whoop your Daddy!” At frequent intervals (usually bas ketball games) the melodious strains of the mating call of “Pi-i-ig!” float out on the eve ning air. At the present writing Morgan’s in viting challenge has won no response. Warner’s one redeeming feature is his abil ity to catch-that-look on a piece of paper— witness the Registrar’s classic profile in the office. (Exhibit A) Even his cartoons are recognizable as of the subjects who posed. Exhibits B, C, D, E, F, etc. are the sketches of models without. Although Warner has been on our campus only this quarter, his winning, or shall we say taking, ways have won us all. It is as a compliment to his prominence and sporting dispostion that we dedicate to him the second editorial of this series. Orchids to Miss Ward and all the girls who proved their capability and cooperation in carrying for the victims of the epidemic in the Girl’s Dormitory. ** * * In connection with the editorial submitted by Norman Tant for this issue, we include a quotation from theh Roopville School News: “Those who think they can”t are generally right.” Thinking Shop Just as Socrates banded the youth of his day into that little group wittily dubbed as the “Thinking Shop”, even today some among us perpetuate that thread from which is suspend ed the life of civilizatinon: progressive thought. But they do not need that prag matic old philosopher to question their every solution today, for theirs is the scientific at titude toward truth—a fleeting glimpse ot ultimate perfection. They are idealists, yes— striving toward that fleeing utopia. Their works are not perfection, but are improve ments, reform. Their highest aspiration is reform in think ing. They tell others that the mind has al ways been free to think, that now all can express those thoughts, that the world has a place for each person as an individual. But after such a welcome, how could they refuse to tolerate a response, although it be without the full richness of their own inspiration. Since agitation always preceeds intelligent solution, suppression dampens progress. So as soon as the first pent-up, no matter how unjustifiable resentment bubbles over under the new release; the light will be seen, as it already has in the “Open Forum”. As Socrates’ school of free thinkers came at a time of war when it was thought that all contrary opinion was in most need oi suppression, so do the vanguards of today buck the wall of the orthodox. The old Thinking Shop, satirized as being a place where one learned the art of proving oneseli right, no matter how wrong, the ones of to day who “solve the problems of the universe in their own minds” are lured to unsolved problems in preference to hand-me-downs ot closed ideas. With them education is a living flame that molds reforms, ideas, inventions, and movement for the spread of this self ex pression. Encouragement is seen in the signs of life taking hold of others, be it only in some instancies an expression of dissastisfac tion. For they themselves are often wrong. Just as time has outmoded the doctrine oi Socrates, they realize that tomorrow will build a superstructure on their ideas; but they will have made their contribution to this evolu tion of thought. Iconoclastists Criticism is an attribute that all college stu dents seem to possess to a high degree. In some instances this is highly desirable, espe cially when notice is called to needed reforms. But —why criticize effects? We should get at the cause—then true reform will be possi ble. There is always need of constructive criticism. Pure iconoclasticism is destructive in purpose and is always loud in expression. None of us have a corner on the truth — why force an idea on others? If we indulge in criticism, let it be of an intelligent type. There is no doubt about it—Spring is cer tainly here. Everywhere we see signs of it. They are not the signs of the tender little flowers springing up here and there on our campus, but the numbers of tender little couples that we see drifting about every afternoon about five o’clock. The front campus- keep walking rule was removed just in time to make it ethical for students to be gin doing this very thing which they scorned when the rules required it. Students are finding it more convenient and much cheaper to court on the campus than on the back row at the Carroll. ** * * The Officer’s Club blossoms forth again with the return of warm weather. Would it in terest that club to know that during its hyberna f ion, another organization has assum ed the responsibility of promoting acquaint ance with parliamentary proceeduro through out the officialdom of the campus. ** * * Recogntion of one sort or another is due the Reinhardt Hiltonian for alluding to our ball team in a sports write-up as the West Georgia Bullfrogs. Surely they knew it was the Braves, whose forwards, they said, “caught passes like football ends.” ** * * Some ambitious student has raised his cry for an arrangement whereby the library could be open for use by students at night. This would certainly be a convenience, but it is wondered if so great a convenience is de served. The West Georgian Open Forum Tariff By LUCILE PORTWOOD Today there is a rising, a hue and cry from big business and the majority of the press of America “Cease reciprocal trade agree ments!” Some of the reasons for such an ac tion are given as: “Embargoism helps the farmer.” “See how embargosim affects the laborers.” The farmers during the past six years have seen their surpluses piled up be cause foreign trade has been crushed under extreme trade barriers. In 1922 agricultural products made 40% of the exports; in 1935 30% of all exports. The farmer should stop supporting embargoism and look after his own interest. Let us see if high tariff helps the laborer. Reduction in world trade leads to reduction in world production —and this to unemployment. “Protect American Labor! The average income of workers in tariff-pro tected industries is $1,109; in unprotected in dustries $1,704. (These figures are from a study of thirty-six typical industries highly protected and of thirty-six typical industries not aided by. the tariff.) American farmers, American labor, and American citizens should realize that they are hurting themselves and enriching the real beneficiaries —big business. Meanwhile the opportunities of American as a whole are reduced. The slump in world trade was be yond all doubt largely caused by raising tariff barriers to almost insurmountable heights. It can be allayed only by skillful negotiations to reduce these barriers to the proper level. Self Confidence By NORMAN TANT To succeed you must have confidence so that you can succeed. If you go into an under taking without confidence in yourself you are licked from the start. Everyone is familar with the fingernail biting, hesitant, fearful little worm of a man that is the favorite subject of the cartoonist. The reason for that little man”s hesitation, etc., is not merely a matter of size, it is his spirit. Napoleon was an unusually small man and yet he was undoubtedly the most ag gressive man of history. The reason for his success in his field was his confidence in him self. He believed he could do what he set out to do. Size, reputation and the grades you make do not spell success unless you have the aggressive spirit and confidence in yourself. The world has more respect for a failure than it has for a jellyfish. By a failure 1 mean a man that has really tried to do some thing and has failed. By a jellyfish I mean the one who sits around with a sagging under jaw complaining that the world owes him a living. Every man owes the world a life that is a credit to himself and his nation. ’Tis better to have tried and failed than never to have tried at all. Be aggressive— have confidence in yourself and win success with your confidence plus some work. Self confidence without work is worth nothing. Work without self-confidence is worth noth ing. The two combined can lick the world. Some loud food objectors display not only pitiful ignorance on economics, but they are in some instances the last ones cooperate with the thrifty plan on which the admin istration is forced to opperate. ** * * Herbert White said, “Oh why the formality, lets just take turns,” at the little party held at the “henhouse” Friday nite. We congratulate those two couples who sat in the lobby. ** * * For fear that the “Freshies” will fall prey to Emersonian partiotism, a flag has been pro posed that will float without the window of the social science classes. ** * * The Dean of Women’s advice to courting co-eds:: “Don’t waste your time on some lit tle romance that wdll flit away like a soap bubble as soon as school is over!” ** * * As soon as spring holidays are over can didates for baseball will report at a specified day to the gym at 2:30. A shortage of pitchers is keen. Tuesday, March 3, 1936 The Smuggler's Column This column represents the form erly unheard factions and minor ity opinions which have formerly been suppressed. Nothing that is included shall in any way be con strued as necessarily being the editorial policy of this paper or the policy of this college except for its right to be expressed.—The Smug gler. ** * * Liberty Or— The students of West Georgia are at least of average intelli gence or they never would have got through high school. College students should be treated as grown men and women and not as a group of Monks and Nuns who must be kept walking. The best way to develop character is to give them freedom to express them selves. Only encouraged social as sociations wdll give the students that experience so necessary to true education. When a boy, or especially, a girl who is naturally bashful comes to college, under the present system he will leave here practically unchanged. Why not give the students more liberty? The system that should be the model is the University, which though free, with its students, seems to be getting along fairly well. It seems that this college is governed more by the students parents than the students them selves. This might be considered one of the reasons why West Geor gia is not flung across the map as the haven of freedom. In conclusion, we do not like the detective like tactics used upon us. For this is a free country. It’s constitution is founded oil liberty and that is where the United States get their power. ** * * Lest They Remember Not— NOTE —This article (formerly censored) is included at this time in view of the need of a sound, thoughtful, expressed, and intelli gent solution to this problem, lest they remember not when the emergency arises next fall. —The Smuggler. ** * * With the opening of anew term come the bloated breasts and the noses protruding straight upward of the Sophomores who claim they are selected by the All Wise One to take a hand and the leading role in shaping the destiny of a class whom they say to be hope lessly ignorant. This guidance of them is called “hazing”. To their intellectual and moral superiors it is probably better known as “crazing”. The majority of the Freshmen, it is true, enter college totally un informed of college organization and administration. They garner no insight into college life on the first day. They are “green”, but being green the first day does not mean that they are intellectual or mental outlaws, with no capacity to learn and abide by daily ex periences. I ask you, students who are here now, are you so ig norant that you think you can pass your unexcelled wisdom to the innocent Freshmen by the violent means of hazing—or a belt? Or better still, do you need a pair of shears to remove all obstacles on the upper domain, and thereby gain greater impetus to the trans posing of your infallible wisdom and jujdgment? The rules of the common sense seem to delineate the fact that Freshmen have enough troubles without the un (Continued on Page 3)