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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. 9 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.