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VOLUME IV debating team CLASHED WITH AMERICUS FRIDAY drive started to become MOST ACTIVE CLUB ON CAMPUS The debating teams of West Georgia College met those of Geor gia Southwestern College, Friday evening at 7:30 in the college audi torium. The subject of the debate was resolved: That Georgia should adopt the fifteen mil lad valorem tax limitation amendment. “The question is of vital import ance to every Georgian and the members of the student body should be delgihted at this oppor tunity to hear in intelligent dis cussion of the problem for on the fate of the amendment at the polls on November the third de pends the future of our present system of taxation”, said President Marion Huddleston. Three of the College’s outstand ing inter-collegiate debaters are be ing joined by a new-comer to form the two teams. The W. G. C. affirmative team of Frank Kelly and Horton Greene made the trip to Americus to meet the Southwestern College negative team there Friday. The home team of Glenn Hogan and Marion Huddleston mef the Americus affirmative team in the college auditorium at 7:30 p. m. Hogan and Huddleston, it was told a West Georgian reporter Monday morning, are gifted debaters and everyone interested in debating or in the question being discussed is invited to attend. There will be no admittance charge, announcements said. The debate will be presided over by Robert Jackson, vice president of the club. The Debating club has started a drive to become the most active club on the campus. The club is going forward according to reports, at a rapid rate with the expansion of its program. A bigger schedule has been planned with several de bates already on the list, it was learned. A large amount of very good freshman material is on the campus as well as some good sophomore debaters. Four pledges were accepted to membership in the club at the last meeting. They are: Howard Hand ley, George H. Vincent, Alfred (Continued on Back Page) New Teaching Supervision Installed At West Georgia extensive work will be' DIRECTED BY MISS DOWNS Miss Downs announced Friday afternoon that the State Depart ment of Education is making possi ble an extensive instructive teach ing supervision. Miss Downs has charge of this program at West Georgia. Teachers eligible ,for this super vision are the ones who have taken curricular courses at West Georgia and are prepared to carry out Georgia revised curricular with The West Georgian Thanksgiving Holidays Are Announced * Dean Gunn announces the be ginning of the Thanksgiving re cess to start on Wednesday after noon, November 25, upon comple tion of class exercises. “All classes will be held at their regular time”, said Mr. Gunn. “Any student cutting a class or exercise occurring the two days immediate ly preceding or the two days im mediately following Thanksgiving recess, will be expected to pay a fine of $1.50 for ecah day on which the absence occurred.” PHI SIGMA INITIATES THREE NEW MEMBERS PUBLISHES FIRST ISSUE OF NEWS BULLETIN At the regular meeting last Thursday night three new mem bers were initiated into the Geor gia Alpha Chapter of Phi Sigma Alpha, national honorary social sci ence fraternity. This brings the total o factive members to twenty one. The three new members are: George Vincent, Evelyn Ballard and Mildred Simms. During the initiation the pledges were given a test in social science, with both Mr. Roberts and Mr. Bonner denying that they had ever taught the members, when they saw the grades. The first issue of the news bulle tin was distributed and met with a favorable reception, according to Phi Sigma members. At the next meeting Miss Cowen of the English Dept, will talk to the club on some phase of her trip to Panama and the Carri bean during the summer. President Howard Handley said that this should prove very inter esting, not only to the club mem bers, but to the student body as well, which is invited to attend the meetings of the club. The program for the meeting, following that at which Miss Cowen speaks, will be devoted to coopera tives. An outside speaker will fol low this program as Phi Sigma Al pha continues its policy of one meeting conducted by members followed by an outside speaker at the next meeting. supervisory help from Miss Qowns. One day from each week, Fri days, Miss Downs visits the teach ers under her supervision. At pres en tshe has one at Burwell in Car roll County and two in Buchanan In Haralson County. Miss Downs says that when these schools become aware of the possibility of this program, they wrote expressing desire to receive this aid. The State Department of Educa tion is kept informed of all im provements made in this field by their representatives and instruc tors. # CARROLLTON, GEORGIA. TUESDAY, NOV. 3, 1936 Roosevelt Voted W.G.C. Preference By 203 Margin In Straw Ballot Held Tuesday IF THIS IS TO BE A NEWSPAPER By ROBERT KNOX, Editor The publication of this, the third issue within six weeks, is more than ever convincing of the need of a class in journalism, if its present, idealistic plan of a six-page publication every two-week interval, containing the news of a junior college whose enrollment is three hundred, is to be continued. The editors would like to continue this poljcy which is the first time it has ever been actually carried out more than in one edition. The student body voices a very favor able opinion of the paper, and from all indications in fact, every indication —it is apparent that the group wants, rather demands that this organ continue under its present setup. li'Jl H - The syllabus, with its purposes, broad yet pooriy based, (even though the best that could be done under circumstances) has failed to satisfy the training neces sary for reporters and writers to produce articles for publication. They have tried; the editors have tried to help them, but it is not their duty to coach news writers, to write news, to revise news articles, ana to even pro duce the news columns themselves. To edit, to gather the news, and to form the editorial policies take up a greater portion of their time. f th It is the desire of the editors and should be of the students for this paper to be the best in the southern junior college group, even, we might predict, an occasion al attempt to challenge a senior college publication. If this is to be accomplished, a class in newspaper reporting is simply utterly necessary. Last night, the editorial board, in a call meeting, (after revising practically all news-arfcic*Cs, by the way; decided to recommend the following plan to the adm.n fstration. This plan, be it known, is not entirely original, ideas were borrowed in some instances. and There are two professors on the campus who have had tracing in newspaper work: one even has a degree in journalism. There are several schools °f Joun } a * ls “ , Virmt thp state that would be more than glad to thr °mrriend a ist oi books on reporting, and to advise rvn'tdie final setup The staff is composed of students who have' Undoubtedly proved their desire to work on he fhTd nToved their desfres that they want West Georgia and The West Georgian to be a college and a newspape all There’s a class in nwspaper reporting, with two pio fissJrs numerous textbooks, a growing newspaper with press membership, an interested staff, and apparent,y a capable editorial board. administration . „ they want -s*rss ssar? zssttssz “"7, trs* 1 * w“f status of the past three volumes. Freshmen Elections To Be Held This Week It was announced last night that the Freshman Class Officers would be elected this week, beginning possibly with today. Nomniations, according to the faculty announcement, must be turned in by six o’clock tonight. The ballot boxes w ill close at six o’clock Thursday night, and Friday at chapel period the newr ly elected officers for the class w r ill be announced. The candidates and voters will have two and half days in which to campaign and to decide on a candidate. As in the past, J. J. Rivers, presi dent of the student body will be in charge, and all nominations are to (Continued on Page Four) FINAL FIGURES ON UNIVERSITY SYSTEM ENROLLMENT GIVEN N. GA. COLLEGE LEADS JUNIOR DIVISION WITH 336; ATHENS HAS GREATEST NUMBER The final figure on the enroll ment of the University System of Georgia show that almost eleven thousand studentW are enrolled with the University almost three thousand . The figures were taken from the president’s office. In the Junior Division, North Georgia College at Dahionega which has been a college for 64 years reports 356 enrollment, which is the largest in the di (Continued on Back Page) Landon, Browder And Thomas Are Next In Voting STRAW VOTE INDICATES F. D. R IS FAR AHEAD AMONG W. GA. STUDENTS Ballot Figures Sophomores Men Women Roosevelt 40 55 Landon __ 9 7 Browder 2 0 Thomas 2 0 Lemke 1 0 Freshmen Roosevelt 49 95 Landon -10 10 Browder 3 1 Thomas 0 1 Lemke 0 *0 Totals: Roosevelt, 239; Landon, 36; Browder, 6; Thomas 3; Lemke, 1. At the regular chapel hour last Tuesday a straw ballot was held in the auditorium to determine the campus political opinion regarding tho presidential campaign which comes to an end November 4. In this ballot, the Democratic candidate, President Roosevelt, won with a lead over his closest opponent. Governor Alf Landon, by two hundred and three votes. The Communist nominee, Earl Browder, third in popularity and preference, received six votes, three more than the number ack nowledged to the Socialist Party’s Norman Thomas. The sole vote received by the Union Party candidate. Congress man William Lemke, came from a Sophomore boy who voted on the Democratic ticket during the 1932 Hoover-Roosevelt race, according to his ballot. Of the 43 Sophomore boys w T ho favored Roosevelt in 1932, only thirty-nine remained true to the New Deal Leader’s principles Tues day; whereas ,the six men voting for Hoover in the last election, stayed w r ithin the folds of the G. O. P. Also in that race, only one Sophomore man favored Norman Thomas, and this year, as his bal lot read, he will remain with the Socialist Party and its nominee. Two of the Hoover Sophomore men changed to Roosevelt Tues day, while Communist Browder and Socialist Thomas received two votes each from the same group. Voting only on the Democratic and Republican tickets, the group considered the most conservative was the Sophomore women, w'ho cast 54 votes for Roosevelt, and only four for Landon. It w*as re vealed from their ballots that the four voting the Republican ticket favored Roosevelt in 1932. Brow’der, the Communist candi date who is receiving many pro nounced protests from leading Eastern and Southern cities this fall where he has appeared to speak, reaped three votes from the Freshmen boys. Of the same group, (Continued on Back Page) NUMBER 3