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Editor-inChirf Grace Wing
Business Manager —Glenn Hogan
Ass’t. Business Mgr Jewel Strickland
Associate Editor Lucille Portwood
Assistant Editor Aubrey Jones
Managing Editor.. Edwin Rogers
Club Editor Elizabeth Burnham
Sports Editor Jack Smith
Exchange Manager Martha Trimble
Fuculty Adviser Rob’t M. Strozier
Student Adviser Lanier Spence
Reporters: Mayo Royal, Jane Luck, Frank
Kelly, Preston Wright, Elbert Hendrix, Mar
gie Thompson, Rob Richardson, Robert Knox,
Norman Tant, Rosalind Hays, Max Beck, Vir
ginia Colquitt, Bessie Dupree, Sara Shannon.
Feature Writers: Marion Stevens, Blanch
Norton, Grace Rushin, Henrietta Peacock.
Sports Writers: O’Rrear Treadaway, Douglas
Bishop.
Published every three weeks by the students
of West Georgia College.
The Freshman*s Answer
By GRACE WING
Our Freshman have shown themselves cap
able of self-organization and have proved that
they have a good mind of their own and are
fully able to make it up for themselves. Why,
then, must our Freshmen be still considered
in dire need of the advice and experience of
the upper classmen?
Now that our Freshmen have passed the
Rat Court stage, with honor, we might add,
because they were a sporting bunch, they be
gin to think of it as they will administer it to
their successors. “We got ours, and they’ll
get theirs!” they say. They do not say this
with any intention of avenging themselves by
punishing the material of next year, but in
tend rather to carry on the tradition which
the present Sophomore class carried on when
they hazed this year’s crew. They are proud
of the institution of hazing, and mean to
carry it on in an impressive and dignified
manner. If they, too, have been through it,
who has more right to pass it on? They
know the psychology of the post-high school
student .and what he expects on entering col
lege. What right have the Sophomores to
give the Freshman a beating for the good of
his soul when he was guilty of insubordina
tion or disrespect and then when he pre
pares to administer the cure to his under
classmen in return, call him aside and tell
him that it’s morally wrong and unfair?
United We Stand
zlt’s too bad that student politics are always
the means of awakening this spirit of dormi
tory student versus town student. While
’this unfortunate attitude is certainly not as
keenly felt as in preceding years, it still crops
up to inspire ill-feeling and occasionally gives
rise to “crooked politics.”
Why do students feel that these should be
the political parties of the campus instead of
splitting into other parties including members
of both groups? Dormitory students solidify
to keep day students out of office, and day
students are forced to solidify to get a can
didate elected.
Many a capable student has missed suitable
recognition simply because he belonged to the
smaller party. In the same way the campus
has missed having many fine leaders at its
head for the same reason. Our campus is
not large enough to be affected by party plat
forms, so it is the candidate himself who
should be considered. If he has ability, let
him be recognized for it.
Clan spirit accomplishes a great deal. But
clan spirit does not mean day student against
dormitory student, it means both of these
united in one group to obtain the best in
leadership for itself from its own ranks.
We can’t help but wonder what becomes of
the little campus romances that flourish on
their Diet of Discipline here all year. Our
Dean-ess once forewarned that they “flit away
like a soap bubble as soon as school is over.”
Maybe yes, maybe no, but here is a good
chance for either party to check up on its
power. Of course, any courter would indig
nantly deny that either could ever forget the
other, but time is a wrench in the works and
so is the boy friend back home.
The Mob Still Rides
A Resume of a Review
What are the facts about mob violence?
What are the underlying causes of lynchings?
Dr. Arthur Rapier, Research Secretary of the
Commission on Interracial Cooperation, in a
pamphlet entitled “The Mob Still Rides
summarizes the findings of a study of the
lynching record during a five year period
(1931-1935).
Eighty-four lynchings took place over this
period.
Nine of the victims were not accused of
any crime; twenty-five others were accused
only of minor offenses. Only twenty-two
were even accused of rape or attempted
rape, contrary to the general impression that
this is the chief cause of lynching.
Nearly one-fifth of the persons lynched
and threatened by mobs were mental de
fectives. Count indictments have been re
turned in but one lynching in twelve; con
victions in scarcely one in thirty.
There is evidence that peace officers par
ticipate in several lynchings and connived at
many more.
In 17 out of 20 lynchings last year, the
local newspapers justified or implicitly con
doned them.
Doctor Rapier makes several excellent sug
gestions for meeting the problem of mob
formation and mob actions.
Place responsibility for the apprehension
and arrest of lynchers in the hands of state
and federal police; hold the trial outside the
affected area; arrange for state or federal
prosecutors to share the responsibility of the
execution; devise affective means by which
mobs which have been formed can be kept
from lynching.
Raise community standards above the
lynching level and provide responsible em
ployment and community participation for
the sub-strata element of the population.
Discover the conditions out of which mobs
arise, the facts about lynchings, and the role
of peace officers, court officials, and the gen
eral public in these break-downs of law and
order.
The discussion of racial exploitation and its
relations to lynchings should be of particular
interest to the students of Contemporary Geor
gia. Dr. Rapier states: “With most lynchings
occurring in the south and the negro, ‘Ameri
ca’s Tenth Man’ furnishing ninety per cent of
the victims in recent years, one logically looks
to the southern racial situation for the under
lying causes of lynchings.”
Note: A copy of this pamphlet is on re
serve in the college library.
There was a young girl named Lucille
Who used to talk a great deal;
She was listening on day
When she heard someone day,
“Such popularity must be deserved.”
Here’s,to radical Rogers, the Red;
He hasn’t a conservative thought in his head;
He scorns ideas old
Is heedless and bold
Moral: “Fools rush in where angels ” Pope.
Then there is the peddler of Woco Pep,
Hogan, the man with the “big business” rep.
He balances books and still wins a slice,
He’s quite frank in saying he owes it to
dice
Moral: “Necessity is the mother of ” St.
Paul.
Open Forum
Philosophy Of Life
By ELIZABETH MOULTRIE
I believe we should accept all truths that
seem reasonable. I don’t think one should
question everything one sees or hears; but
if you have doubts about some things, always
have an open mind and seek the truth about
them. No scientist today looks upon his con
clusions as final; he realizes that new findings
tomorrow may either augment or overthrow
his theories of today. Science involves a grow
ing dynamic body of truth, and demands an
active, open mind, never content with con
clusions. We should, therefore, respect other
peoples views and opinions, but at the same
time seek proof for our own beliefs.
Moral values are very important to our sue
The West Georgian
cess in life. Our behavior is determined by
either our outer or inner controls. We all
have our ideal standards of right or wrong,
but do we live up to them? I believe one
should do what his conscience tells him. I
think one can act as he desires as long as he
does nothing to harm himself or society.
I think one should appreciate all things and
try to find something good and beautiful in
everything. Studies of human beings, their
actions and beliefs, and, studies of nature help
us to appreciate the world more. I think we
should try to do something for others so that
they will see things that are beautiful.
I believe that every person has some form
of religion. I think we should do everything
we can to help other people, and to serve God.
I believe that we all look beyond materialistic
powers to achieve success. I think we can
have faith in scientific beliefs and still main
tain a faith in God.
Always have a growing Jiving, and chang
ing philosophy of life. Face realities and try
to understand and appreciate them. Be able
to accept new truths that we may be bene
fited and live a richer life by accepting them.
What Is Patriotism?
By NORMAN TANT
Is partiotism rushing off to foreign lands
or waters to get shot full of holes and watch
ing your buddies rot in slimy mud every time
some loud-mouthed representative of Mr. Du-
Pont cries that the country’s honor is at stake?
Is patriotism sitting back and sanctioning by
silence for which the American voter is fam
ous, the spending of seven dollars per capita
for lethal, war making machines? Yearly the
United States government spends this much.
In 1933 we spent less than one half billion of
dollars for military purposes. In 1936 the esti
mate is a billion dollars. Who is responsible
for this? We all know that poor Mr. Hearst
daily weeps bitter crocodile tears over the in
adequate military preparedness of the United
States. We know that he condemns the
Japanese and sundry other peoples as being
covetuous of the United States’ vast wealth
and that they are preparing to invade and
take this wealth and yet a half-wit can read
ily see that the United States occupies an
impregnable geographical situation. It is time
that we as an enlightened people get around
to the fact that the government is no babe
in arms in this armament race that is threat
ening to draw all the nations of the world into
perdition. Are George Washington and Thom
as Jefferson, whose names we mention in rev
erence, to blame? Are we adhering to the
principles they laid down?
General Smedley Butler said, “War is hell,”
and I say, “Who wants to go to hell?” But is
going to war being partiotic always? I say
this with due respect to the ones that" went to
war in 1914-19. That war was a catastrophe to
humanity and the men who are. engineering
the next war cheerfully predict that nobody
will survive. Let us look at the ruins after
the next war has ended.
Time: 50 years after the last man has groan
ed in death agony. Place: A battlefield. The
forests have grown up to hide the sin of man
and wild life has resumed its play when one
inquisitive little monkey (who may or may not
possess the characteristics of man, who
knows?) approaches one of the huge cannon
that was cocked and ready to explode when
that great heroic patriot that manned the gun
expired. The exploring fingers of said mon
key find the trigger and the air is rent with
a fearful explosion. The little monkey flees
resolving never to visit the strange machines
surrounded by those bones. That little mon
key has learned the lesson that we failed to
learn in 1918.
Is all this partiotism? Or is the pursuit of
happiness and well being, freedom of consci
ence, speech and press as our sacred constitu
tion guarantees us, being patriotic? Is giving
to our nation the strength of youth, the hope
of youth, being patriotic? The time has come
to choose between war or peace; chaos or hap
piness; economic ruin or industrial freedom; a
gibbering ruin of humanity or a people rising
from a place far below the angles up to the
foothills of God’s throne? Which will be our
choice? The form of our patriotism is going
to decide the issue.
At last we’ve found a name for those fame
thirsty class-sitter-inner-onners who write
their names and monograms all over the desks
for the benefit of posterity. It isn’t a destruc
tive temperament at all, it’s an aid to concen
rtation. They’re doodlers.
Saturday, May 9, 1936
SCREAMLINES
There was a librarian named
Weaver
Who subdues any noisemaker’s
fjpver;
Asa censor she’s swell,
The library’s just—well
Moral: Are you nervous, irritable,
rundown? Try Fleishman’s yeast.
Here’s to S. Ward, B. S.
Who looks after our morals with
zest.
She says if you pet
You’ll live to regret.
Moral: Harken to the Voice of
Experience!
There was a young fellow named
Braswell,
The rules of the game he has
well,
But when sufficiently mad,
He can cuss pretty bad.
Moral: All is not gold that glit
ters.
There was a young man named
Gaines B.
Who at a tender age won his de
gree.
He knows quite a bit
But assumes most of it.
Moral: You just have to take a
Ph. D’s word for it.
Then there is a dean, one Fred
Gunn
Who keeps courting couples on the
run.
Wherever they hide
M. E. is right by their side.
Solution: Carroll Theatre—spe
cial rates to students.
There was a young man named
Strozier
Who was very fond of ambrosia.
One day while partaking
Quite a mess he was making
And a waitress said, “So that’s
what sits at the head of our faculty
table!”
* * *
Kelly said that when he left all
the exictement would be gone; but
he forgot about his younger broth
er.
* * *
A friend of a very bright boy
when asked what the brilliant lad
got in college replied: “He got ev
erything except the academic
porch pillars and the Math profes
sor’s impossible case of dandruff.”
* * *
It seems as if J. G. has deserted
hog-calling for were-wolfing. Be
ware the full moon!
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