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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 (Continued on Back Page) 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 (Continued on Back Page) 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 (Continued on Back Page) 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 (Continued on Back Page) 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. NUMBER 7