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VOLUME IV COLLEGE LIBRARY ANNOUNCES PURCHASE OF NEW VOLUMES group includes thirteen VOLUME OF CAMBRIDGE MODERN HISTORY Miss Annie Belle Weaver said Saturday that the new book pur chases by the college were ready for student Tise. She said the list, composed most ly of non-fiction, includes the thir teen volumes of the Cambridge Modern History. This group of standard reference covers universal history the Renaissance to the accession of George V in 1910. The librarian submitted the fol lowing list with comments: American Prosdy —Allen. A book on the technique and method of verse, fiction employed by well known American poets. The Normal Diet and Heathful Living —Sansum, Hare, and Bow den. A discussion on the relation of diet and health by three staff members in a California Clinic. Mathematical Recreation and Essays —Ball. Home Furnishing —Rutt. Sug gestions for those interested in in terior decoration and home eco nomics. The Teaching of Nature Study and the Biological Sciences —Wells. Suggestions for representing na ture study to elimentary grade students. * ' Empire Georgia Today in Pic tures and Paragraphs —Woodward. A photographic depiction of con temporary Georgia. Preface to Peasantry, a Tale of Two Black Belt Counties —Raper. Presents present farm conditions in Macon and Greene Counties, Georgia. Humor of the Old Deep South— Hudson. Folklore, legend, and true tales out of the past of Lousiana, Mississipppi, and Alabama. Essay for College Men —Foers- ter, Manchester, Young. A group of essays’ on subjects dealing with college and education and related subjects. Nutrition and Diet in Health and Disease —McLester. Modern Debating—Nichols. For the benefit of students in Social Science 4, Dr. H. P. Stuckey of the Georgia Experiment Sta (Continued on Back Page) Varied Proposals To Open Big Debating Tournament .. Most worthy opponents can you to tell me why ...? “We chal lenge you to prove . . ” “No one, not even our opponents, will deny that the measures we advocate are sound!” The first annual inter-club de bating tournament on the West Georgia College campus is expected to be marked by a vivid display of wit, sound reasoning, brilliant oratory and a good deal of bull shooting. Out of this mixture of combusti ble and highly tempermental gas Professor L. E. Roberts, adviser of the Debating Club, hopes to un cover new material for the club and for the inter-collegiate debates. I am sure you all will agree . . The debating is limit ed to ametuers, that is, those whc The West Georgian Miss Downs Engages In Teachers Meetings On the eighth and ninth of this month, Miss Dowris, member of the education department and in charge of practice teaching, attend ed a state committee meeting at Athens, Georgia. The committee had as its pur pose to work on the revision of the elementary school curriculum of the state department. Miss Downs said that the commit tee is composed of representative teachers in public schools from all she is not a regular member of over the state, and that although the committee, she was invited to visit and offer her suggestions. Miss Downs spoke Friday at Shorter College in the college audi torium to the Floyd County Teach ers Association. 44 STUDENTS MAKE DEAN’S LIST FOR FALL QUARTER TOTAL NUMBER EXCEEDS SPRING QUARTER BY TWO Dean Gunn said yesterday that forty-four students made the Dean’s list for work during the Fall Quarter. These figures exceed the number making the list during Spring Quarter last year by a margin of two. The Dean’s list is composed of those students having an average of eighty-five or above. They are: Pauline Berry, Wil born Boggs, Virginia Brown, and Pledger Carmichael. Pee Wee Carter, Eva Cauthen, Hettie Chandler, Opal Cowart, Dorothy Dodds, Mabel Duncan, Lois Estes, Ruth Estes, Martha Gladd, and Sara Gladney. Dick Grace, Horton Greene, Shep pard Griffith, Allyn Gunn, Helen Hanes, Elbert Hendrix, Mary Huck aby, and Barbara Justice. Frances McCrary, Marcus Mc- Garity, Ethel McLarin, Annie R. Marchmount, Grace Massengle, Mrs. R. L. Putnam, Lewis Reese, and Abraham Richstone. Mildred Simms, Laura Smith, Kathryn Stephens, Vernelle Thomp son, Elizabeth Strange, and Geo (Continued on Page 4) have not participated in an inter collegiate debate. Pledger Carmichael, who has charge of the turnament, has gone about as daffy as Don Quioxte. “Can you tell me something on the affirmative?” “Where will I find material for this debate?” “Please put my faculty friends on to judge my debate.” A squadron of N. Y. A. Assis tants are being mobolized to chase down faculty members to serve as judges. This may be quite a job, leaders of the squad think. . . We have no money . . . The tournament was started to promote interest and for that pur pose about fifty people are r.i pre paring for the debates. . Honorable Judges, we are sure that you will decide v . .” CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, JAN. 19, 1^37 NINETEEN MU ZETA ALPHA PLEDGES TO BE INITIATED THURSDAY LIST INCLUBGES EIGHT SOPHO MORES AND ELEVEN FRESHMEN. Glenn Hogan, president of Mu Zeta Alpha, said yesterday that nineteen new members would be initiated into the honorary scienti fic society Thursday night. He listed the following students: For biology, Allyn Gunn, Horton Greene, Sara Gladney, Shepard Griffith, Florine Watson, Martha Gladd, Dorothy Dodd, Ralph Mob ley, Elizabeth Strange, and Owen Malcolm. Chemistry students: Marcus Mc- Garity, Kermit Harris, aud Pledger Carmichael. Mathematic students: Pauline Berry, A1 Richstone, Warner Mor gan, Jean Winn, and Jeanelle Lea thers. Annie Ruth Marchmount re ceived her bid through the physi cal science course. These students are eligible for membership because of their in terest and scholastic standing in one of the sciences mentioned above. At the club’s Friday night meet ing, Elbert Hendrix, Opal Cowart, Philip Jones, and J. G. Robertson were appointed to represent Mu Zeta Alpha in the Debating Tourna ment starting tonight. DR. WELLS SPOKE HERE LAST WEEK ON EDUCATION FULTON COUNTY SCHOOL HEAD ADVICE TO FUTURE TEACHERS Dr. Jerry Wells, superintendent of the Fulton County Schools, spoke here last Tuesday at the re gular chapel hour. Dr. Wells’ talk was centered a round the teaching profession. After defining the term “profes sion,” he advised students prepar ing for education work to change their minds if they were consider ing teaching as a means of money making. Supplementing facts with various illustrations from actual life, Dr. Wells said, “The soil, like modern youth, is the most valuable of Geor gia’s material sources. Erosion has been taking away in enormous quantities fertilized land.” For example, he cited, “ it is esti mated that five dollars worth of good soil is washed away down the Chattahoochee river, per hour.” He predicted that fifty years from now, Georgia would be a veritable desert if this condition continued. The proper use of youth as fu ture leaders w r ho will be able to stop such physical tragedies is only gainable through molding charac ter and instilling principles of right with which to guide them. Dr. Wells stated that if the teach ers of tomorrow go about their business from a standpoint of pu blic service and character building rather than from a standpoint of making money, such examples as the washing away of soil could be eradicated with the aid and advice of youth well grounded and educa ted. Debating Tournament Starts Today; Fifty or More To Participate PHI SIGMA ALPHA ELECTS 15 MEMBERS AND FOUR PLEDGES LISTS PROGRAM PLAN FOR WINTER QUARTER President Howard Handley an nounced the election of fifteen key me?W)ers and four pledges as a re sult of last quarter’s work in the social sciences. Requirements for key member ship include in addition to mem bership a total of four B’s. The list is as follows: Evelyn Bal lard, Pledger Carmichael, Opal Coward, Mable Duncan, Howard Handley, and Elbert Hendrix. Marion Huddleston, Phillip Jones, Lewis Reese, Elizabeth Strange, Kathryn Stephens, Nor man Tant, Mozelle Taylor, George Vincent, and Esther Zill. He also announced that bids have been sent to Frank Kelly, Alfred Prince, Virginia Rainey, and Billy Thomas. Regarding the program for this quarter, President Handley listed the following: January 14, a discussion of “The Anet-Bellum South, by J. C. Bon ner. January 28, Norman Tant will speak on “The Southern Heritage” and “The Land of Dixie,” and Eliza beth Strange will discuss the “Hu man Relation of Climate.” February 11, features Helen Hanes speaking on “Georgia’s Agriculture Position; Elbert Hen drix on “The Share-Cropper Tenant Unions,” Marion Huddleston on “Agrianism,” and Pledger Carmi chael on “Effects of Urbanization on Agriculture.” February 25, Owen Malcolm will discuss “Georgia’s Economic Posi tion,” Howard Handley, “Georgia’s Economic Problems,” and Mozelle Taylor will discuss “Regional Plan ning.” On March 11, Mrs. L. E. Roberts will talk on "Contemporary Geor gia.” Course In Contemporary Georgia Upsetting Sophs Although the Social Science 4 Classes have been in session only two weeks, the students enrolled are learing the cold, bare, and almost discouraging facts about their native state. Contemporary Georgia, or Social Science 4, is, like all social science studies, a survey course.- The syllabus in use was written by Dr. Malcolm H. Bryan of the University of Georgia. “The course treats Georgia so totally different from what I had always believed about Georgia,” said one student, “that judging from the true contents, I am not so sure about this idealistic motto of the Georgia Power Company — ‘lt's great to be a Georgian’.” Omitting not one fact, regardless NUMBER SIX' CICEROIANH MEET 4-H CLUB AT 0:40 THIS MORNING Eleven campus organizations will begin the first round debate, leav ing one first round debate to be battled out Wednesday, January 20, between the Ciceronian Liter ary Society and the Four H Club. The debate starts promptly at 9:50 a. m. at Ciceroian’s regular meeting. The question for debate is Re solved: That the General Assembly, of Georgia should enact legislation providing for the common schools a uniform with nine months as a minimum. It was announced that between forty and fifty members of the student body are now preparing debates for the first round. No seeding was done in the tournament because of the fact that none of the participants have debated since coming to West Georgia. Members said that one of the main purposes of the debate is to discover talent; the other is to pro mote an interest in debating a mong the faculty members and students. Mr. Roberts ami Carmichael, tournament directors have decided to secure disinterested men from Carrollton to judge the semi-final and final rounds, mainly to take the burden off the faculty mem bers of deciding for or against some club of which they are faculty advisor. The tournament is the first to be staged on the campus, and members said yesterday that they hoped to make it an annual affair. Mu Zeta Alpha, The Four H Club, The eleven organizations are: Ciceronian Literary Society, Le Cercle Francaise, Men’s Glee Club, Dramatic Club, Alpha Psi, Vol untary Religious Association, Chief tain Staff, Phi Sigma Alpha, and Women’s Glee Club. Those participating and for what organizations are as follows: For the Men’s Glee Club: Dan Brewster and Norman Tant. For the Dramatic Club: Sarah Se (Continued on Back Page) of its truthfulness, Dr. Malcolm’s syllabus is full of statistics which mingled with trifles of economic and social philosophy, fails com pletely to paint a really pretty pic ture of the “Empire State of the South.” Students admit that after a study of some aspects of population, and the materials relating to schools, public health, and wealth and in come, something definitely should be done before conditions become worse—if they can. It is apparent when such ques tions daily shot at Mr. Roberts that the state’s conditions are worrying considerably many of the more serious-minded and less sophisticat ed Sophomores, and that they are (Continued on Back Page)