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Editor in-Chiof Grace Wing
Business Manager Glenn Hogan
Asn'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
Faculty Adviser Uob’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 Bushin, Henrietta Peacock.
Sports Writers: O’Rrear Treadaway, Douglas
Bishop.
Published every three weeks by the students
of West Georgia College.
WHY HONORARY
FRATERNITIES?
By PLEDGER CARMICHAEL
Why do we have honorary societies? If ask
ed that question most people would reply, “to
reward merit,” or “to stimulate activity by
recognition.”
Now I have no quarrel with recognition but
with the system honorary clubs use to reward
merit. The various clubs of the campus pa
rade under such names as ‘the Social Science
club’ or ‘the Science Club’, or ‘the Home Eco
nomics club'. Now if these organizations real
ly represent these branches of the arts or sci
ences why is the membership in them re
stricted to a few academicians?
Is it that if a student doesn’t make an A
in science or two B’s in social science he is
not Interested m these subjects? Does it mean
that he would ve valueless in a club and that
he cannot be compared with his more intel
lectual brothers? If so perhaps a P. S. A.
or a M. Z. A. is not comparable to a non
fraternity man for a nomination by non
fraterniiy men is equal to election on almost
any campus. Does it mean that a student who
meets the entrance requirements and joins the
club does so because of his interest in the
club’s activities? And does it mean that be
cause he is not a Phi Beta Kappa or a Blue
Key that he will not succeed in life. I hardly
think so for I have just finished reading a
biography of Henry W. Grady and he is one
of the many who were not brilliant in college.
He would have ‘made’ no honorary societies,
not even a literary organization, although he
knew the characters in Dickens better than
his classmates, and yet he was most eminent
ly successful in his life. How would Napo
leon and other makers of history felt if they
were excluded from a history club simply
because they did not devour a printed page
in school and ‘shoot a line in class and in
exams?’
Now we come to the heart of this personal
devil of mine and 1 suggest my plan. (Doubt
less it would not work). Let us have our
clubs, they are all right, but change the quali
fications for membership. Let anyone who is
interested in the club join and take part in
its programs and discussions so they will
be prepared to make a better showing in those
all important tests. Now after joining if a
member took an active part in the club let
him be advanced to a more honorable posi
tion in the club regardless of whether he made
that A. However for the deadwood that makes
the high grades, joins the club and promptly
forgets about it until the annual dinner dances
an equally high place could be provided in
the divisions of the club, but I think the i ight
to hold office should be restricted to those
who take an active part in the club. I believe
that a system of this sort would stimulate in
terest in campus clubs and solve that old
problem of non-attending, non-active members
for if a member knew that his rank in the
club could be imprvoed by attendance and a
show of interest on his part I think he would
do so for I don’t believe anyone would like to
be kicked off of a honorary society. (Even
I use the term honorary in the end).
PHILOSOPHY OF LIFE
—COLLEGIATE
College Is the period in life when a person
makes the greatest strides in development as
the Freshman grows to be a graduate and
each class signified another mile-post reached
on die way to ne tne ultimate shape of thi
student’s character.
College life is characterized by situations
and attitudes common to no other period in
life. When is a practical philosophy of hte
more necessary than in trying to live fully
and profitably a career full of moral conilicts
and hrad work? First of all, what does a stu
dent want to get out of his college liie?
Though many older people would undoubtedly
condemn this statement, I think that a good
time is the student’s foremost consideration.
This doesn’t mean a good time in the sense
of living as recklessly as the law allows and in
so doing neglecting all the better things that
college offers. It simply means that a student
is determined to enjoy himself while living
and working among others of his own age.
If the student really can make up his mind
to enjoy his work and really do so he is to
be congratulated. No student can be loyal to
an institution in which he is unhappy and
bored. He has only contempt for it and one
year is usually enough. The idea that break
ing rules is necesary for real enjoyment is not
a general one. Students who practice this
principle are those who deserve to be stopped
in the midst of their good time.
Second, a student needs self-discipline.
There is no one in college to really drive a
student to perform his obligations. Unless he
can make himself w r ork he is letting dov\ n
himself as well as those financing his college
career. Education, of course, is still the pri
mary purpose of school life. It is there to be
had, but the student himself is the one to
determine whether or not he is to get his
share.
In school, particularly boarding school, a
person comes in constant contact wtih a larg
er group of people than has ever been his
experiem heretofore. No matter how con
s idem tel;, he may have been treated at home,
or what pecial attention he has been used
to receiving, in college he is one of a very
large group, who are all treated exactly alike.
Other people do not know his peculiarities,
and it is up to him to keep these in the
background and deal unselfishly and cooper
atively wit hothers. With this principle in
mind he can acquire one of the greatest ad
vantages that college life offers —the chance
to win a large number of worthwhile and
lasting friendships. Living in a dormitory re
quires a great amount of tact and an attitude
of give and take.
NEWSPAPER NEEDS IN
LIBRARY
By ROBERT KNOX
When the college’s fourth year officially be
gins next September, it is earnestly hoped by
the staff that the purchasing agent of the
college will have acquired and placed in the
library at the disposal of the student —and
especially the staff —a number of books on the
fundamentals of journalism.
Each year when a newly elected and ap
pointed staff begins work of the first issue of
the paper, very little is known (and at times
the writers wonders if any at all) of the true
determining of news values, of the proper
news writing, of the correct method of re
porting, of editing the copy, of writing head
lines, and of the general make-up.
It is true that the year preceeding the pres
ent staff members ,as reporters, had some ex
perience and training in the technicalities of
newspaper editing and writing, but the ex
perience was so limited that it would be raht
er impossible to foster the publication of a
beter paper during the ensuing year. It is
also true that the faculty and other student ad
visors have rendered priceless service, but
again it is firmly felt that more outside read
ing and studying of the journalistic principles
are necessary.
Therefore, the writer urges that next yeas
there will be books of a journalistic nature in
the library. They are about as expensive as
the regular texts used in the social science,
biological, and physical science survey cours
es, and it looks now r that there are enough of
those to do the students sufficiently for the
time being.
Tiie West Georgian
CRITERIA OF A SUCCESSFUL
MARRIAGE
After research work from various authors
and interviews with prominent married cou
ples, both on the campus and in Carrollton,
we have formulated a list of qualities that
we consider the most important in constitut
ing the successful family. This list is compos
ed of the following factors:
A course in home-making, sound income and
wise spending of funds through the use of a
budget, willingness on the part of all mem
bers of the family to cooperate with each
other respect and confidence for the members,
understanding and good selection of mate;
mutual deep love; community of tastes and
ideals; sex attraction and a feeling of com
radeship. The ability to give and take; fam
ily council and discussion of discipline, per
sonal relationship of the members; considera
tion for each other and ability to face facts.
Strong religious and moral ideals, and amuse
ment for both parents. Attentiveness, division
of work in the home, understanding of social
life, sense of humor, recognition of individual
ity and development of hobbies all make the
marriage bonds stronger.| The lack of jealousy
on the part of all members and the mutual
treatment of in-laws, pride in each other and
good sportsmanship lead toward agreeable
family life.
Therefore a successful family does not de
pend upon material possessions, but personal
relationships. We have concluded after an
extensive studying that it would take quite
a bit of practice to make a successful home.
WEST GEORGIA CARRIES ON
The third successful year of West Georgia
College is coming to a close. Student activities
for the year have forged forward to greater
heights. The student body has lived up to
the forecast made when the larger enrollment
was noted in October. A larger and better
West Georgia has. been the accomplishment of
those who have shared and guided our com
mencement life.
Freedom of thought and expression has been
the opportunity of every student. Not only has
this year developed the leadership of the
Student Body but it has shown the power of
loyalty and cooperative support of the per
sonnel as a whole.
The year began in the confidence, enthus
iasm, and plans for improvement. It closes
with a retrospective look at the achievements
and developments. Criticisms have appeared,
changes have been instituted, new plans are
being formulated.
The graduates who receive their diplomas
Thursday carry with them the trust and in
spirations of the institution. In their futui e
fields of endeavor they have the honor of
representing its ideals and principles. The
succeeding class has taken up the challeng
ing spirit that characterizes West Georgia life.
JOURNALISM—A BET
A columnist’s mind is like a sponge which
sops up an enormous bulk of ideas each day
and through some quip peculiar to the writer’s
minds, rehashes, and hatches this same stuff,
colored only by the character of the writer's
past expreience and his ability to make new
mental associations. This exercise, generally
called self-expression, w r ould help anyone’s
thinking.
All journalism, which is essentially the
same as this, would be a good bet for any
dissatisfied young thing wanting to “Go West.”
Going West today is thinking up up anew
angle to his employer’s business that would
create a job for himself. Or it might be con
vincing society that it is in need of reform and
should be willing to pay for his own little pre
scription. One angle that’s good in any case
is writing about these new ideas.
With all this writing being done, some lit
tle “would be—” is likely to decide that he has
a writer’s mind like aforesaid columnist or
even a trait of literary genius. In spite of the
highly advertised opportunities in scientific
fields journalism has a much brighter future.
With the new leisure, what can people do but
read more and what can keep these leisure
timers from becoming mere walking sponges
except by expressing themselves through
more writing.
SCREAMLINES
Love Life of A Germ
By PERRY IVENS
Come, Bacillus, let us wander,
Wander ever hand in hand
Down the capillaries yonder
Down that yonder shady gland.
Myriad microbe relations
Have no claims upon you, dear.
Leave them to their occupations—
You deserve your own career.
Countless cousins will not miss you
Happy in their own disease.
Tripping through the tender tissue
We may work what ills we please.
Or if the wanderlust possess you
I’ll indulnge it, dearest germ.
We shall roam to regions, bless you,
Named by no researcher’s term.
Camping in the mountain muscles,
Bathing in a quiet vein,
Dodging vicious white corpuscles,
Summering at Aix-la-Brain.
Languid in a light gondola
On abdominal canals,
Only fancy shall control a
Pair of perfect poison pals.
Slipping thru the epiglottis,
From the tonsils and the tongue,
We shall travel till the days have
caugh us
When we are no longer young.
Or if your tastes become domestic
We shall seek a quiet home,
Snug and safe from antiseptic
There to breed and not to roam.
In the kingdom of the liver
Where the tawny gall streams flow
We shall park our pathologic fliv
ver
There to build a bungalow.
Or if you like the higher regions
I might venture to suggest,
We could settle with the legion
Who make merry in the chest.
Quick, Bacillus, my infection
Grows too potent to resist.
Quick, here comes your Anti-toxin
Flee with me and answer Yes!
FACULTY NEWS
Miss Dorothy St. Clair, head of
the department of fine arts and
music at West Georgia College, will
return to this campus for the be
ginning of the Summer School ses
sion in June. Miss St. Clair has
since March been studying at the
Peadbody School of Education.
Also to return to the college will
be Mr. L. E. Roberts who is head
of the departments of social sci
ence and economics. Mr. Roberts
has been studying for his doctor’s
degree at Duke University in North
Carolina since January. During
his absence, he was substituted by
his wife who has had much study
and training in the colleges of
Georgia.
LETTERS AWARDED
During intermission at the Fresh
man-Sophomore dance, 27 students
were awarded letters and certifi
cates in recognition of their out
standing prowess in some particu
lar field of intercollegiate athletics.
Basketball —Eidson, Cook, Dri
ver, Shumake, Huggins, Williams,
Stephens, L. Johnson, Hansard, B.
Webb and Bishop.
Baseball—J. L. Webb, Bob Webb,
Damon Webb, W. Kelly, B. John
son, Gilham, Breeden, Sappington,
Huggins, Golden, F. Kelly, Floyd.
Tennis Campbell, Treadaway,
T .Jackson, Foster.
Wrestling—C. Bohannon, R- B a! ‘
ton, J. Lasseter, King, T. Wright.
Jaillett, Sims, Spinks, R. West
brook.
June 4, 1936