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ROBERT KNOX, Editor-in-Chief
He Wrote One Thing
But Did Another
Arthur Brisbane is dead. Christmas morning at the
of 72 he succumbed to heart failure in his
Fifth Avenue apartment.
Professionally, as all newspapers heralded on
the news of his death, he was a decided success. In
his fifty-three years of newspaper work, he ascended
from a cub status to the highest paid editorial
writer in the country. His by-line appeared in over
•>OO daily metropolitan news organs. His simple
and coincise language reached and affected mil
lions of Americans. His ability to reorganize news
paper staffs was sincerely envied by hundreds of
newspaper managers.
Financially, he was, for a newspaperman, a suc
cess. In addition to reaping over two hundred
fifty thousand dollars a year from Hearst, his real
estate interests in New York, New Jersey, and
Florida yieled him an attractive income. Moreover,
his rare adroitness in the planning of newspapers’
business interests afforded him and his chief figures
no newspaper man would dare dream of.
But his attempts at being a moral philosopher (his
pet desire) were sad failures. In the first place,
his philosophy was not practical. When advising
how to reach a brilliant success, he would leave
out the money element involved in the securing
of any and all types of successes. He seemed to
think that the average American worker, anxious
to advance himself through night schools, correspon
dence courses, hard work, and ambition, was chock
ed-full of money, energy, and ambition, but especial
ly money.
In the second place, a man who does not live
his own philosophy is a weak philosopher. Since
his success was associated with Hearst and there
fore the general degradition of the American press,
Brisbane could not possibly have lived the type of
existence., about which he Stuffed the American
public.
If It's To Be Done, Then
Do A Good Job Of It
Towards the last of November, President Ingram
officially and publically advanced the idea that the
present graduating class should leave some form of
permanent contribution to the college.
The West Georgian has more or less nourished
this notion; and for several weeks prior to the
President’s chapel announcement, the editors had
discussed the merit of the plan, feeling that the
sooner the work got started the better; and feeling
that since this is the first class to ever do much,
the better and more, lasting the contribution.
With the near completion of the new library
which rumor says will be named after the Chancellor
it would be unusually fitting for the Sophomores
to buy and place in the lobby of the building an
oil painting of the Chancellor.
This new building has been named the most
modern in the junior division, and one of the most
modern in the entire system. The Chancellor is
members as the finest and most deserving of the
considered by the majority of students and faculty
system’s officials; and mainly for those two rea
sons, the editors thought the most propei type of
portrait should cost an amount exceeding the trite
“inexpensive.” Of course, no Charles Howard
Christy work would be expected, but certainly all
Sophomores feel that if the portrait is going to re
main with the building and be known as the gift
of the Class of 1937, the said gift should be above
the ordinary class contributions.
A Mere Fifty Miles
Should Not Matter
Through her various civic and philharmonic clubs,
each winter and spring Atlanta brings to Geoi
gia and the South a number of opera an concert
singers, principally from the Metropolitan, anc
famous symphony orchestras.
These yearly programs, known as the All-Star
Concert Series, began Saturday night with a joint
recital featuring Gladys Swarthout and Nino Mar
tini, both famous not only as opera stars, but also
as stars of recent motion picture productions.
Next month the Monte Carlo Ballet de Russe wdl
perform, and Kirsten Flagstad, the Scandanavian
opera singer, will close the series in early May.
Despite the fact that Atlanta is some fifty miles
from Carrollton, each student should try to at
tend at least one of these programs.
01|p lies! (genrgiau
FRANK KELLY, Managing Editor
JC REAMLINES
She; I fainted. They brought me
to. So I fainted again.
He: Why?
She: Well, they brought me two
more.
The boy who wondered why he
flunked history: Solomon had
three hundred wives and seven
hundred porcupines.
Jimmy Westbrook: Let’s sit this
one out; no one will be wiser.
Betty Seagraves: Yoif will.
Carolyn says that she has learn
ed all the answers by running a
round with questionable fellows.
Geo. Vincent: Let’s play “Missis
sippi.”
Esthera Hudson: How do you
play it?
Geo. Vincent: First you take a
sippi; then I take a sippi, and the
first one to Mississippi is a sissy.
A little curve has kept many a
man from going straight.
Forbidden fruit is sweet, I sigh.
Its rosy-hued complexion
Can lure a girl more strong
than I.
But oh, the indigestion!
This Time Last Year
The honorary societies, some
times called fraterntities, had just
made announcements of pledges.
* * *
The superlative contest for the
Chieftain was beginning to be talk
ed about and discussed.
* * *
Miss Downs was conducting a
blass in how to read. The enroll
ment was over sixty. The objec
tives were: concentration, speed of
perception, and memory of facts
obtained.
* * *
An announcement in the West
Georgian told of a scheduled de
bate with Emory University on
“Socialized Medicine.”
* * *
Topic of conversation: “To be or
not to be—broadminded.”
* * *
The college had as its speaker
Dan Brewster, now a member of
the present Freshman class. He
gave report on his attendance at
a religious meeting for the nation’s
youth in Memphis, Tenn.
* * * ,
The telephone booth on the back
porch was being removed. Why?
It was reported to be on fire sev
eral times.
* * *
The campus was eight inches un
der a beautiful white snow. Ev
erybody was getting out their
bathing suits and cameras.
Member of The Georgia Collegiate Press Association 1936
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, Virginia Rainey,
Norman Tant and Esther Rose Zill.
Exchange Editor—Max Beck.
Va. Poindexter: The way to a
man’s heart is through his stomach.
Owen Malcolm: And the w ? ay to
her heart is through a radio.
The trouble is that many a girl
looks swell enough to eat; does
she?
Then there w T as the Scotchman
who was so close he got his face
slapped.
Very often a man is found want
ing, but it all depends on what he
wants.
After all her fruitless efforts,
Mary Elizabeth knelt to Mildred
Sims.
Ray Hill: Grady, is it very easy
to kiss Beulah?
Grady Cook; Yeah! Just like fall
ing off a log.
Ray: Where’d you get that black
eye?
Grady: I fell off a log.
Knox: What would you do if
I kissed you?
Mitchell: I’d yell.
Silence. A kiss. More silence.
Knox: “Well?”
Mitchell: “I’m still hoarse from
last night’s date.
Freshmen Foolishness
Dear Aunt Penelope:
I had hoped Santa Claus would
bring me an “explaning machine’
for Christmas, but as he didn’t
I am here again for you to com
fort.
Christmas; must have taught our
students here excellent habits as
the other day about 125 of
our most absent-minded ones had
already gotten into the dining hall
before they remembered they had
n’t washed their hands! It must
have been that or else why did
they all go?
Dear Aunt, the other day in cha
pel President Ingram said that it
would indeed be hard for anyone
to run over the night watchman.
So many students took up the chal
lenge and could they be practic
ing night and day to make an
attempt by roller skates?
Another thing, after our basket
ball game with Alabama State
Teachers College, I at last figured
out why the score looked so pathe
tic. You know how looking at
tall buildings makes your head
swim. Well, don’t you think the
cheering section should have sung
at the finals. “Little Man, You’ve
Had a Dizzy Day?”
Wanting answers, waiting pati
ently, with my worries I remain,
Gullibly 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 E.wd, Lewis
B. Reese, Bobby Justice, J. G. Robert
son, Virginia Shoffeit, Horton Greene,
and Elizabeth Burnham.
Faculty Advisor—Robert M. Stroziev.
O. N. TODD, Business Manager
HERE AND THERE
WITH THE EDITOR
By ROBERT KNOX
During Emory Univer
EUCC and sity’s Centennial Celebra
>-->i \KT r T , \KT tion last month, this
VIT 1 W 1 VV editor, the business mana
ger, and a Freshman staff member went up to
hear Kirk Sutlive, president of the Georgia Press
Association introduce Mark Etheridge, managing
editor of the Louisville Courier Journal, and to at
tend an open forum of newspaper editors. Sutlive
introduced Etheridge, and the ex-Georgian in turn
spoke on “Adjusting the Newspaper to New Condi
tion,” a speech in which he bitterly criticized the
standards and operations of the press today. But
the thrill of the day was yet to come. A north
Georgia editor who knew her well enough to call
her “Peggy,” at the request of the freshman (from
;he editor’s hometown) introduced the trio to
Margaret Mitchell. This editor hasn’t as yet gotten
over the fact that he has met the woman who
created Scarlet O’Hara, Rhett Butler, and Ashley
Wilkes, the woman who wrote a book which
contains more pages than the Sears Roebuck Cata
logue, and a book whose six months of life have
outshined and reaped a greater fortune than did
Hervey Allen’s “Anthony Adverse.”
Believing that the doings
YOU Name of individuals are as an
rpi . important and as an in-
I fllS wIIO teresting source of news
as are the clubs, the societies, and the athletic teams,
the editors are beginning in this the sixth issue a
column under the society head devoted to that
said cause. Although this novelty is wide-spread
in small-town dailies and weeklies, and in county
organs,#and although a noticeably small number
of college publications practice it, the editors hope
that the students will approve it. They are urged
to report personals to either the West Georgian (posA
office, box is number eighteen) or directly po Lois
Wliitner who is in charge of the newspaper's ac
counts of the campus social activities. ( As you
will notice, this issue’s column is concerned with
students and- where they went during , the Christ
mas holidays. Many went home, visited, out-of-town
this past week end, and several attended the
Martini-Swarthout recital in Atlanta Saturday night,
As yet rv6 issue of the
Good Reason West Georgian has been
, , , distributed to the student
tor Muraer body without some stu
dent rudely questioning the editors why the type
of paper used by last year’s staff is not used this
year. Yesterday one Sophomore informed this
editor that he hoped his next West Georgian would
n’t be printed on that “cheap” paper used before
Christmas. There were reasons for the change,
good and definite reasons, but here is a cold fact
which the editors, and especially this one, want
each student to absorb: The West Georgian is printed
oh the best newspaper there is. It is the type
used by the Atlanta and Carrollton publications. It
is A-l newspaper. Now for the reasons. First, a
newspaper shculd be printed on paper prepared
for news print, and not for magazine print. Second,
the advertising plates and pictures were manufac
tured solely for the regular newspaper. Third, the
ink used by Carrollton printers, like the plates, is
prepared for regular newspaper. Fourth, it looks
more like a newspaper; and who on earth wants
their West Georgian printed on that slick stuff
that the Cadet Bugler , and high school publications
employ?
Regardless of the validity
Academic Free- of the charges against Dr.
■f i D^m^o Glenn Frank ’ P resident of
aom ana i University of Wiscon
sin, the despotic and intolerant manner in which the
governor-appointed Board of Regents conducted the
hearing and the attitude of the members give belief
to the contention of the president’s friends who
maintain that the entire proceeding were motivated
by Governor La. Folette who dislikes Dr. Frank
because of politics. Therein lies an issue which
heavily hangs ever all state-supported institutions:
thf question of academic freedom and the ruling
political friends. When the politican is able to
direct through appointees the firing an hiring of
a college president, one cannot help but connect
ihe act very closely to certain European dictators
telling what will be taught, when, to and by whom,
where and for what purpose.
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