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Editorials
ROBERT KNOX, Editor-in-chief
And The Activity Program
Is Completed
Among the varied student activities of this
campus there is an apparent need of another agent
which will result profitably not only in the students
concerned but also the College itself. To make the
above statement specific, this college needs in the
curriculum an established, credited, and elective
course in Journalism.
With each graduating class there are several mem
bers who do not continue their work at a senior
college, but who enter the employ of a newspaper;
they go there with no training in journalism, and
therefore have slim chances of rising above the
mechanical departments.
With the beginning of each new College year,
there are the students who lead in the publication
of the newspaper and yearbook; they enter these
activities with only the training received from the
basic courses in English, and are expected to turn
out work pleasing to the student body and meet
ing certain requirements setup by certain press
organizations.
There are several divisions in the University Sys
tem and private institutions that offer a course in
journalism essentially for the above reason, and
they are steady reasons. The West Georgian is not
advocating a program to parallel the regular schools
of journalism but it is certainly advocating a course
in the subject for three reasons: those who enter
newspaper work immediately at graduation; those
who are responsible for the student publications,
and it is universally recognized that journalism is
part of the so-called well rounded education.
The staff of this newspaper pleads with the Ad
ministration of the College to establish such a course
and have the completion of it finished by the first
of the Winter Quarter. Time is plenty; demand is
impatient; and the need is felt.
A Good Beginning That
Had A Bad Ending
Some of the higher minded Sophomores have
perhaps been wondering as to what has become of
the Lyceum Programs, and if we are to continue
having them again this year.
Lyceum Programs, in case some of you Fresh
men don’t know, are addresses given by tutored
foreigners and men of renown in regards to po
litical, educational, and moral conditions abroad
and in distant places of this country.
Last year these events were of general interest
and profit throughout the student body as well as
with many of the citizens of Carrollton. We
found them not only interesting and educational,
but helpful in other ways as well.
Among the personnel of last year’s series, we
especially remember Mr. Sam Shiver of Emory
University who had spent some time studying in
various German universities. Mr. Shiver com
pared the university life in Hitler’s mad-land to
that in the United States, and pointed out what
is accepted in this country is denounced there.
M. George Raffalovitch spoke on the French life
and customs, and the European political situation
with regards to France.
Still later in the season appeared Pierre Poi a
hovshikov who talked on Russia before the Revo
lution and after.
We miss these Lyceum Speakers, and why is it
they haven’t returned?
ET CETRA . . boy’s dorm is built over an
ancient slave cemetery which was once the prop
erty of J. C. Bonner’s great uncle . . . Emory Uni
versity is celebrating its one hundredth anniversary,
and was named after a minister whose surname was
John and who left a library in his will; and so is
Harvard University celebrating its three hundredth
anniversary, and was named after a minister whose
surname was John, and he too willed a library
the first issue of the West Georgian ever to be
published is not dated . . . two W. G. C. alumni
are at Annapolis and West Point, and a third-not-yet
alumnus is working for New London . . . Frank
lin D. Roosevelt while governor of New \ork State
spoke to flie 1929 graduating class at this very
institution in ttyat very up-stairs chapel.
Wfst (Skorgian
FRANK KELLY, Managing Editor
/CREAM LINES
That personal touch is missed
since the girls are no longer allow
ed to hold the boy’s arms. Plee-ze,
Miss Ward!
* • *
The fog noticed in the Boy’s
Dormitory has been accounted
for. The Frosh have just been
introduced to pipes.
** * *
A planetarium has been erected
on the new girl’s dormitory to
further our knowledge of the
heavenly bodies.
* • *
What’s wrong with these sent
ences?
1. Carolyn, Betty R., Frances
and Betty Ann walked quietly to
their places in the theater where
they remained during the entire
show.
2. Mr. Howell dismissed his class
as soon as the bell rang.
3. A group of our boys attended
a dance at Tech Saturday night at
which all caught colds, and attend-
This Time Last Year
The paper and annual had ap
pointed their respective staffs, and
were resolving to work faithfully
to better the two publications over
previous years, just as we are
doing and have done this year.
* * *
A topic on the N. Y. A. read:
“N. Y. A. Projects aid some sixty
eight students”. Although we are
neither for or against at the time
being, who talked against the New
Deal? This year, it’s 82!
* * *
Chancellor Sanford spoke at the
opening of our chapel programs.
Since the chancellor was unable
to attend this year, we were for
tunate to have as guest speakers
the mayor of the City of Carrollton,
and the clergymen of the various
city churches.
* * *
We had no seven til nine p. m.
library privileges. Count your
self lucky, my fellow sufferers of
the class of ’3B.
* * *
The West Georgian in its first is
sue dated October 15 (and this is
issue number two!!) noted third
year enrollment greater than year
before. This time we have a 12%
increase. The local frontiermen
must have heard J. G. calling.
Why is it professors can wear pur
ple ties,
Haphazard haircuts, and coats the
wrong size,
Trousers too short, and color
schemes vile,
Yet bust me in English because of
my style?
pbsi dkorgum
Member of The Georgia Collegiate Press Association 1906
Associate Editor—Bob Richardson
Assistant Editor—Owen Malcolm
FEATURE DEPARTMENT: Editor,
Betty Ann Sewell; Writers: Bobby Jus
tice, Hettie Chandler, Emma Ruth
Mitchell, Mozelle Taylor, Virginrer Rainey,
Norman Tant and Esther Rose Zill.
Exchange Editor—Max Beck.
cd classes promptly on the follow
ing Monday.
4. J. G. was seen peacefully
waltzing up to “Trucking” at a
recent group dancing class.
Horton Greene: I’m going nuts.
Bill Allen: Then what will Mc
kibben do?
* * *
Sims: Have some peanuts.
Watson: Thanks.
Sims: Wanna neck?
Watson: No.
Sims: Then give me back my
peanuts.
* * *
Remarks from a Freshman: Es
thera Hudson is the most popular
girl on the campus. She never has
to pay her way in the show. (She
sits in the balcony.)
* * *
One romance that didn’t last —
Frances Spradling and Glynn Shu
make.
One romance that did last —
Frank Kelly and Claire McLarty.
Freshmen Foolishness
Dear Aunt Penelope:
I’m very confused! There are
so many, many confusing things
that I would like explained to me
before I tread this collitch path
further. I feel, dear aunt, that
you’re just the person to whom I
should come. For instance, was I
wrong in believing that zero is
bad, yes, very bad, and that be
low zero should remain a mystery;
that zero being “worst” could not
be “worse”? I am perturbed, for
what do you think was on my re
turned test in Human Biology? A
Minus seven!! Aunt Penelope, I’m
fretted; how on earth can that be?
There’s been so many things to
arise but another thing foremost
at present is that, was I wrong
again in thinking that small gold
rings with pale sets were made for
girls? Why, then, do these big
muscular boys pride themselves in
wearing such things?
Resourcefulness is what I’ve al
ways been taught and Aunt Pene
lope, I bet you were too. After
remembering that, it’s then I won
der why does a college with so
many natural resources about it
does not have a football team when
at every corner a pig skin is con
stantly on hand!
Baffle, baffle; quandary, quan-.
dary; fret, fret; all go to make up
my state of mind, so you must let
■me write some more to shift
my worries to someone else’s
shoulder.
Very gulliby yours,
Marge.
REPORTING STAFF: Paul Hurt,
Raymond Hill, Claire McLarty, Rosalind
Hayes, A. Richstone, Margaret Bowen,
C. D. Bailey, Florine Watson and Pledg
er Carmichael.
BUSINESS STAFF: Assistant Man
agers, Glenn Hogan, Weems Boyd, Lewis
B. Reese, Bobby Justice, J. G. Robert
son, Virginia Shoffeit, Horton Greene,
and Elizabeth Burnhaift.
Faculty Advisor—Robert M. Strorier.
Features
0. N. TODD, Business Manager
HERE AND THERE
WITH THE EDITOR
By ROBERT KNOX
Elsewhere on this page an
P Needed editorial concerned with a
~-r // much needed addition to
ISm the general college curri
culum appears. And not only does the editor think
so, but every member of the staff feels that there
will be nothing definitely correct each time an
article is turned in. Many of the staff are planning
to do newspaper work in the summer, and are
planning to get on college staffs in the senior col
leges next year, and how can even mediocre done?
Also the fact that the West Georgian has a chance
to win honors at Press meets this year makes the
need of such a class the more strongly felt; the
opportunity to put the paper on the map journalistic
ally is here. It is hoped without end that each stu
dent feels the same towards the matter, not par
ticularly for the staff’s personal sake, but also for
the general development and advancement of the
college newspaper. After all, it is their newspaper.
Last week the South’s
Death Takes Not collegiate world of jour-
Att nalism lost one of its most
noiiaay outstanding editors. He
was not only prominent as an outstanding honor
student and a leader, but also as an ever-liked and
capable friend. Joe F. Alexander, the late editor of
Georgia Tech’s Technique and vice-president of the
student council, had proved lime and time again
his ability as a student, his interests in journalism,
and his love for fellow students. This newspaper
takes this opportunity to express the sympathy to his
family, friends, and members of the Technique staff.
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Perhaps similar types of
Fashionable journalism in ordinary life
T 1 ■ are not rare things, but
journalism on a co q e g e campus the
editor thinks it-most unusual when the West Geor
gian can be compared favorably with one of the
South’s best college newspapers, the Emory Uni
versity Wheel. As no member of the staff had
seen a copy of this year’s Wheel, you can
imagine to what surprise the editor was on seeing
a five-column, eight-page, rough paper, x 15”
affair in comparison with the old Wheel which has
been vastly improved, even if it does look like the
West Georgian. Still more surprising is the fact
that the Wheel, like this newspaper, switched its
editorial page from page two to the last page. Thus
the two publications have changed their entire
makeups from one very different style to another,
not knowing that the new fashions would resemble
each other as much as they do.
The exchange department
Misrepresented has been mailed an issue
p. i-fT of the Cadet Bugler, North
Georgia College, Dahlon
ega, which calls itself the South’s leading junior col
lege newspaper. The Bugler, under the fine guid
ance of Thomas Frier, has four pages, no foreign
advertisement, no collegiate press membership, and
is, perhaps, well represented. Nevertheless, the edi
tor, with a bit of unsuspected glee wonders how can
such a paper be so bold as to name itself the south s
leading junior college newspaper? Doubtless, it can
be named Georgia’s leadnig junior college newspaper
(and we wonder at that), but the editor cant
possibly agree with the Bugler’s energetic editor.
The fact that the use of valuable front page space foi
praises concerning the editor’s attainments with re
gard to political promises made last spring while
running for the editorship is too much for this editoi
to digest. All in all, Frier, no harm is meant— just
purely a matter of fair criticism from a standpoint
of journalism.
Senior year journalists of the Henry Grady Schoo.
at University began last year after serving stimulat
ing “interneships” in the phases of journalism iang
ing from work with the stage magazine in New YOl k
City to various newspapers in Georgia, Florida, and
Washington, D. C.