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VOLUME IV
Dean Gunn Announces
Plans For The Erection of
Practice School Building
Plans Will Be Managed
According To The
Rosenwald Fund
Dean Fred Gunn announced Fri
day that last week he met with the
Board of Trustees of the Tallapoosa
district School and with the pat
rons of the adjucent rural schools,
and discussed with them his plans
for taking over the district school
as a practice school for this college.
Anew building is planned and
will be situated about two miles
out the Bowdon highway.
If they mature as Mr. Gunn
expects, “the plans will be managed
according to the Julius Rosenwald
Fund.” This fund has set aside
one million dollars for the im
provement of rural education.
As to the staff set-up Dean Gunn
said one outstanding member of
the education department will be
selected to take over the Supervi
sion of this new School.
The supervisor, according to the
plans, will have as her assistants
threat of the leading students of
the class specializing in the teach
er-training field.
It was reported that following
these discussions, trustees from
other schools sent requests to the
college authorities wanting similar
projects for their districts.
KNOX AND TODD TO
ATTEND MEETING OF
COLLEGIATE PRESS
FIRST MEETING OF YEAR TO
BE IN ATHENS THE 18TH
Robert Knox and O. N. Todd said
yesterday that they plan to attend
the first meeting of the year of
the Georgia Collegiate Press As
sociation to be held in Athens,
February 18-21.
The Association, composed of
the collegiate journalists of the
state, will hold the conference at
the Henry W. Grady School of
Journalism, the University of Geor
gia.
A program of special interest to
young men and women conected
with college newspapers in Geor
gia is being arranged by Robert E.
Ashmore, Mercer University, presi
dent, and John E. Drewry, director
of the Grady School.
This program will consist of two
round table discussions, one devot
ed to news and editorial problems,
and the other concerned with busi
ness and advertising topics.
Thursday evening there will be
a dinner at which prominent edi
tors, soon to be announced, will
be the speakers.
The GCPA is sponsored by the
Grady School of Journalism and
by the Georgia chapter of Sigma
Delta Chi. The West Georgian be
came affiliated with the Press As
sociation last fall, and this pro
posed nleeting will be the first
which West Georgian members
have attended.
The Association’s second meeting
will be held at Armstrong Junior
College in Savannah in May.
The West Georgian
Bonner Speaks
To Phi Sigma on
The Old South
GIVES BACKGROUND FOR PRO
GRAMS ON CONTEMPORARY
GEORGIA
Mr. J. C. Bonner of the social
science department spoke to Phi
Sigma Alpha last Thursday even
ing. He gave the first talk of
the quarter on the subject of Con
temporary Georgia which the club
members are discussing this quar
ter. His talk furnished a back
ground for the later programs.
He said that slavery was not the
cause of the Civil War, and that
there would have been a war
without slavery. The slaves mere
ly represented a focus point for
the hatred of the north to center.
He said that the real cause of
the war was the two different
civilizations in the nation—socially
and economically, as well as politi
cal.
Mr. Bonner stated that many
southern planters opposed slavery,
pointing out the apalling loss the
south suffered in the loss of her
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Alpha Psi and Phi Sigma
To End Debating Tourney
The first Debating Tournament
will officially close today at cha
pel period with the Phi Sigma
Alpha and the Alpha Psi teams
fighting as this issue of the West
Georgian goes to the press.
The social science debaters are
Pledger Carmichael and Lewis
Reese representing the affirmative;
and Mildred Sims and Margie
Broach representing the negative;
the subject is: Resolved that the
legislature of Georgia should en
act legislation providing for the
common schools of Georgia a uni
form term with nine months as
the minimum.
Debating three times in quick
succession, the Phi Sigma Alphas
entered the finals with a 3-2 de
cision over the Chieftain staff last
Tuesday morning in chapel. At
that time the Chieftain staff was
represented by Mozelle Taylor and
O. N. Todd, affirmative; and with
Carmichael and Reese, the nega
tive.
Alpha Psi followed the P. S. A.
into the final round with a 2-1
victory over Mu Zeta Alpha Tues
day evening. J. G. Robertson and
Elbert Hendrix were Mu Zeta de
baters while Mildred Simms and
Margie Broach led the affirma
tive attach.
A summary of the debates fol
lows:
First Round
French Club—Katherine Gaines
and Fred Hansard—Aff. vs. Men’s
Glee Club—Dan Brewster and Nor
man Tant —Neg. Winner —French
Club—3-0.
Phi Sigma Alpha—Pledger Car
michael and Lewis Reese —Aff. vs.
Women’s Glee Club—Virginia Shof
fitt and Virginia Poindexter—Neg.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 2, 1937
Members of
V.R.A. To Attend
Youth Meet
THEME OF CONFERENCE WILL
BE “CHRISTIAN ACTION ON
. THE CAMPUS”
President Andy Floyd of the
Voluntary Religious Association an
nounced yesterday that nine stu
dents, including himself, and the
faculty advisor, Miss Katie Downs,
will represent West Georgia and
V. 'R. A. at the State-wide
Methodist Student Conference in
Athens.
This conference whose theme
will be ‘Christian Action on the
Campus," begins Thursday Feb.
sth and ends the 7th, and will be
held at the University of Georgia.
Over two hundred students are
expected to attend this conference
which will, according to Floyd,
include representatives from some
thirty colleges located throughout
Georgia.
Those who are anticipating this
trip are: Andy Floyd, Rosalind Hay
es, Betty Ann Sewell, Mildred Dun
woody, Jean Winn, Elizabeth New
some, Nell Clegg, Rachel Hunt, Joe
Hamil,and Jack Huckaby.
Under supervised study the
representatives will endeavor to
discover the Christ-like way of do
ing things on the campuses of mo
dern colleges and universities.
Among the principal speakers
to be present will be Dr. W. T.
Watkins from the Candler School
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Winner —Phi Sigma Alpha—s-0.
Dramatic Club—Nell Clegg and
Sarah Sewell—Aff. vs. Alpha Psi —
Mary Catherine Fitts ind Margie
Broach—Neg. Winner —Alpha Psi
—2-1.
Voluntary Rel. Ass’n Ruth
Steinhiemmer and Lois Whitner —
Neg. vs. Chieftian Staff —Moselle
Taylor and L. E. Witt—Aff. —Win-
ner—Chieftian Staff—2-1.
4-H Club—Andy Floyd and Pau
line Pullen—Aff. vs. Ciceronian
Literary Society —Betty Ann Se
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Sophomoric Minds Irked:
They Gripe- About Chapel Talk As
Co-eds Are Dismissed
Leading uppervtassmen are, it
is more than evident, literally
burning up about the chapel affair
last week when the co-eds were
asked to leave the auditorium dur
ing a talk on syphillis and gonor
rhea by a representative of the
state Department of Public Health.
You may not believe it, but ac
cording to what many of the I
know-it-alls say, they are evidently
progressive, as the majority ex
pressed thoughts that the action
was a sign of “retarding civiliza
tion.”
Here's what they say:
Frank Kelly, the Chieftain’s edi
tor: “Why don’t they wake up;
this is 1937.”
Helen Haines; \ Women’s Council
president: “I was terribly shocked
that such a medieval occurence
“Second Annual Public
Forum To Begin Thursday,
April Ist," Says Strozier
Dr. R.E. Brown
Makes Talk On
Venereal Ills
PUBLIC HEALTH AGENT HERE
LAST TUESDAY; TALKS TO
MEN ONLY
Dr. R. E. Brown, from the Geor
gia Public Health Department in
Atlanta, spoke to the college men
in chapel last Tuesday on venereal
diseases.
Stating facts about syphillis and
gonorrhea, the two which are
causing more trouble than any, he
said that in 1934 a million and half
people were treated for syphillis,
and that over twelve million take
the treatment annually.
At the same time, Dr. Brown said
that in the United States there is
four times as much gonorrhea as
syphillis, and four times as much
syphillis as tuberculosis.
In discussing the treatment of
these diseases, despite what one
may read in advertisements, only
16 per cent of the cases treated
are successful. The other 84 per
cent, although perhaps improved
at times, are never cured, and of
ten times the patients either die
or become mentally unbalanced.
He stated that there were four
methods of control: first, by edu
cating .he public with talks and
open discussions; second, by news
paper articles (and he mentioned
the reluctance of newspapers in
the last five years of printing mat
ter relating to the diseases); third,
by prophylatics; and fourth, by im
mediate contact following the in
fection.
Among other facts, Dr. Brown
stated that from 50 per cent to
60 per cent of the diseases are
spread innocently, and that 3,987
children died at brith as the babies
of infected mothers in 1935.
‘The state government,” he said,
spends auunally some $130,000.00
for the upkeep of the institution
for the insane at Milledgeville, and
22 per cent of the patients there are
insane because of the diseases.”
should happen here.”
O. N. Todd, general B. M. O. C.:
“It is all so very disgusting. To
solve the problem, it is necessary
that all concerned participate, and
women have it as much as men.”
Andy Floyd, president of V. R.
A.: “That’s no way to go about
a thing so serious; they wouldn’t
do that in Atlanta —where I came
from.”
J. J. Rivers, president of student
body: “All that I can say is that
I really couldn’t believe my own
ears.”
Max Beck, general flunky: “Who
ever heard of such a thing?”
Dot Doster, president of the
Alpha Psi: “Nothing I can say is
of any importance, but it is ap
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Dr. Lejins, of Latvia, to
Speak on Conditions
In Europe
Professor Robert M. Strozier,
chairman of the faculty committee
on public exercises, announced
yesterday that the second Annual
Public Forum will be one day earl
ier this year, starting Thursday
night, April 1, and ‘ continuing
through Saturday night, April 3.
The program, although not defi
nitely complete, said Mr. Strozier,
will include the following three
lecturers:
Dr. Pierre Lejins of Latvia; Dr.
George Raffalovich, a Frenchman
at the present residing in the
South: and Dr. L. M. Smith of the
Birmingham Southern University,
formerly of Soochow University,
Soochow, China.
Dr. Raffalovich, who spoke on
two occasions here last year, will
deliver a lecture on a phase of
“European States of Today” with
reference t othis speaker, Mr. Stro
zier said: “This speaker has in the
past proven to be a very interest
ing character as well as a speak
er, being exceptional in that he
can read both sides of the question
with very few prejudices entering
in.” /
Dr. L. M. Smith who has just
returned from a world tour will
speak on the Chinese-Japanese an
gle today. He spent several years
in the Orient both teaching in the
University of Soochow and study
ing the problems of the far east
with reference to the association
with the civilization in the west.
Dr. Lejins will probably be the
first speaker of the Forum, Mr.
Strozier reported, and his subject
will be “What Europe Thinks a
bout the United States.” The gen
eral theme of his talk will be the
European situation, Facism vs
Democracy; and the specific titles
are: “Problems of the Buffer Sta
tes (between Russia and Ger
many);” “Germany and her East
ern Neighbors (Danzig, Lithuania,
and Poland);” “Baltic States—the
Key t othe European Tangle.”
In addition to these speakers,
Mr. Strozier announced that there
will be at least two more promi
nent scholars who will talk on the
situations in the United States and
the states of South America.
Friday evening, it was reported
that there will be a banquet in the
college hall, but the speaker for
the occasion has not been deter
mined.
The Men’s Glee Club and the Wo
men’s Glee Club will render sev
eral numbers at various timess dur
ing the Forum session.
'< Mr. Strozier said that as last
year the civic clubs of Carrollton
arc giving their support and co
operation to make this Forum an
even greater success than it was
last year. He listed the following:
The Civitans, the Lions Club, the
Lit-Mu, and the Business Won
man’s Club.
Further reports of the Public
Forum will be announced by Mr.
Strozier in later issues of the West
Georgian. He said that he hoped
to have the program completed
within the next fifteen days.
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