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Editorials 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. Features