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ROBERT KNOX, Edit or-in-Chief
Three Weeks They
Won't Forget
The ability to express oneself well; to face an
audience without fear and self-consciousness is
indeed a noble accomplishment. The Debating
Tournament sponsored by the Debating Club has
probably done more in three weeks towards help
ing people attain this worthwhile goal than any
other activity on the campus.
The tournament was started to promote an in
terest in debating and to secure new material for
the Debating Club. These aims have been ac
complished, but more important is the effect the
debates have upon the men and women partici
pating in them. A debate trains one to think
fast, clearly and logically. It trains one to select
the sound principles and discard the unsound ones.
A debater is trained to concentrate on a subject,
and a good one is as capable of debating one side
of the question as the other. Debating gives one
poise, the ability to face a crowd calmly without
forgetting the facts involved.
Twenty-seven people have debated in the tourna
ment up to the semi-finals. Of this number only
four were members of the Debating club; the others
were participating in a debate for the first time
since coming to West Georgia College, yet they
were interested in debating. The tournament has
given them a way for self-expression and it has
enabled them to learn more about the art of de
bating.
The Debating Club is to be heartly commended for
sponsoring these inter-class debates. They have
been run off with a smoothness unattainable ex
cept under the impartial interest of the Debating
Club. The people who participated in the debates
may not now be aware of any improvement in
themselves; however, the experience will repay
them many times in later life.
You Don't Find
It Here
It seems most incredible that an institution with
a student activity program such as the one here
which is trying as hard as it is to bring out the indi
vidual characteristics of individuals should on the
whole overlook as important item as student co
operation and support.
No individual or faculty member is directly
responsible for this oversight. The complete blame
seems to lie entirely with a great number of the
student body whose lack of initiative retards the
progress of other students who are sincerely try
ing to put the College on a more firm footing
through the student activity program.
The backbone of any institution is .its student
body. Without the support and cooperation of its
students, a school is foredoomed a failure. The
backbone of any student organization is the mem
bers. It takes the entire cooperation of an, entire
organization to put across any affair, and a class
leader or a club leader can hardly be expected to
work miracles when he has the whole-hearted co
operation and support of less than half-dozen mem
bers of his organization.
The lack of support and cooperation is here. One
doesn’t have to look far away to find it. Merely,
think of the tournament sponsored by the Debating
Club in which was given the opportunity to scores
of students to develop their various characteristics
as well as to provide for the student body a source
of intelligent discussion of the seven-month school
term. The number of students attending these
debates was appaling.
The same applies with regards to the news
paper. Here one finds even the faculty refusing
to cooperate with the editors when they are out for
news. Here one finds the students anxious to read
only the gossip column.
This college has one of the best-developed stu
dent activity programs in the University System, but
without the complete and definite support of the
student body, without their talent and expressed in
terest and appreciation, the student leaders simply
can not continue their progressive programs which
they have had in effect since the beginning of
the year.
With the coming of the mid-terms next week,
Freshmen are advised once again to cram for dear
life—and the report that goes back home. While
some professors argue that cramming is an inef
ficient system in the end, nine Sophomores out of
ten will tell you that the way they got to be high
and mighty was through cramming.
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FRANK KELLY, Managing Editor
♦ CAMPUS PERSONALITIES ♦
O. N. Todd
This issue of the newspaper
salutes its financial head, (). N.
Todd of Tallapoosa, Georgia who
is also president of the Men’s Glee
Club, the Dramatic Club, member
Chieftain staff and tennis team,
and ex-president of the French
Club.
A native of Anniston, Alabama,
Todd has lived most of his life
in Tallapoosa, and graduated from
the high school there two summers
ago; like here, he was a campus
big-dog, holding such offices: presi
dent of the senior class, managing
editor of the high school newspaper
and membership in Glee Club and
orchestra.
His mother’s people came from
Yorkshire in England; his father’s
the first to arrive in this country,
are Scotch-Irish.
Is a nut over music, and prefers
jazz which he thinks is not so
Freshmen Foolishness
Dear Aunt Penelope:
How I worry; how I fret
Over little things I can’t forget!
Who in the world can this girl
named “Illness” be? Anyway, Miss
Ward must think she’s terribly noi
sey cause all over the dormitory
are little signs, “Please be quiet,
Illness.”
Oh, and dear aunt, why do you
suppose it was our biggest wrest
lers who got hurt in the football
game last Saturday? Could it have
been because they forgot which
spot it was and rather mixed the
two?
Could you tell me just why so
many showers have been going on
lately? There has been showers
of words in the auditorium; show
ers of rain outside; and showers
of plaster in the boys’ dormitory!
Please tell me what I can do
about it, for I want to help so
bad.
Gullibly yours,
Marge.
BELIEVE IT OR
By ANDY FLOYD
Judging from the way Harry
Dodd and Lowell Hicks sit a
round with Sara Nell Floyd and
Frances Cochran, they are good
enough at loafing for the Atlanta
Police force . . . why did Martha
Jean Harrison go to Athens Jan
uary 14? Could it be Robt. Dickey?
O’Rear has at last found that
Marge was using him for a good
thing . . . Esther Zill, why don’t
you really go home when you
sign out for same?
Robbie Nell Ponder, on which
end are you skating? Don’t be dis
couraged; every skater has her ups
and downs . . . Will Bowen, Mi
tchell, and Chandler stop catching
rides over boys? The bus still
runs, you know . . . the thing Allyn
Gunn dislikes about wrestling is
his end’s drawing near.
Geraldine Mcßrayer has killed
Richstone’s love. He is in mourn-
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Member of The Georgia Collegiate Press Association 1937
Associate Editor—Bob Richardson; Assistant Editor—Owen Malcolm
FEATURE DEPARTMENT: Editor, Betty Ann Sewell; Writers: Bobby Justice,
Hettie Chandler, Emma Ruth Mitchell, Mozelle Taylor, Virginia Rainey, Norman
Tant and Esther Rose Zill.
REPORTING STAFF: Paul Hurt, Raymond Hill, Claire McLarty, Rosalind
Hayes, A. Richstone, Margaret Bowen, C. D. Bailey, Florine Watson and Pledger
Carmichael.
BUSINESS STAFF: Assistant Managers, Glenn Hogan, Weems Boyd, Lewis
B. Reese, Bobby Justice, J. G. Robertson, Virginia Shoffeit, Horton Greene and
Elizabeth Burnham.
Exchange Editor—Max Beck. Faculty Advisor—Robert M. Strozier.
very different from swing music,
and can’t see why the nation has
fallen so hard for swing music.
No opera, but symphony concerts
follow next in musical preference.
Likes to talk about current
events, but not with women, for
he says they don’t like to talk
about current events, especially on
dates.
Intends to go to Asbury Col
lege in Kentucky next year, gra
duate in due time, teach in the
winter months (in Anniston, he
hopes) and be a gospel singer in
the summer time.
Doesn’t care much about shows,
but holds that Robert Taylor and
Kat Hepburn are the stuff in mo
tion picture acting.
If any, spends his spare time
playing tennis in pretty weather,
and at present is fanatically de
(Continued oil Hack Page)
Screen Squints
Sam Goldwyn’s new screen drama
“Beloved Enemy” co-starring Merle
Oberon and Brian Aherne with a
notable supporting cast is showing
at the Carroll this week.
Set against a seething back
ground of 1921 Dublin, with dash
ing excursions into Irish and Eng
lish countrysides, the picture offers
Oberon as Lady Helen Drummond,
and Aherne as a devil-may-care
Irishman with a knack at getting
through slick English fingers.
Helen meets Dennis; they fall
in love yet are sworn enemies. Be
cause of this, they then fall madb
in love. Betrayals of the lad
follow, but the love lives on; ar
towards the end the lovers *
their lives to have a *
together.
The rest is P
Supportr
Morley,
Nive"
ing with his pants at hah
McNew is really going c
with his newly found jen.
Nat Bedgood, why did you
out Rachel’s apple tree when
have 57 varities on our own ca.
pus: I hope the tree doesn’t hav
crab apples.
“Pete” Potts has his fun by telling
his adventures to Neely; he should
change his name to “Phil” Potts
. . .-Slade and Hill are at last hav
ing dates with the Thornton sis
ters. (The mill closes at 10:45).
Horton and Arline have the
sweet . . . ; but still we have
Mozelle . . . Pauline Pullen thought
the smell in the halls after Xmas
was the dead letters in the post
office . . . James Dailey likes
Cantrell because of her broad un
derstanding of boy scouts.
Claire McLarty and Rosliand
(Continued on Back Page)
0. N. TODD, Business Manager
HERE AND THERE
WITH THE EDITOR
By ROBERT KNOX
i \>r Wednesday and Thursday
Genola MGrry- looking pretty healthy for
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VcrU-IxUUIIU. some students, judging
from the heated opinions given by many West
Georgians regarding the outcome of the Alpha Psi
Mu Zeta Alpha debate Tuesday night, with the
scientific organization taking the illative side, and
the home economic members the affirma
tive. What seems to bother the students most (and
especially dyed-in-the-wool Mu Zeta members) is that
although it is a decided credit to the unhonorary
group to defeat an honorary society, the fact that
the affirmative Alpha Psi team used in Tuesday’s
debate the notes and points in fact, the same writ
ten argumentation—that the affirmative Dramatic
Club team used when they lost to the negative
Alpha Psi representatives the week before. It all
sounds complictated, but according to a Dramatic
Club debater (who also represented the Chieftain
Tuesday at chapel) that is the real reason for the
animosity behind the Alpha Psi-Mu Zeta Alpha
struggle in which the former won 2-1.
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