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Editorials
ROBERT KNOX, Editorin-Chiej
They Have Shown
Their Interest
Of the many phases of college life there is one
on this campus which elevates West Georgia to a
plane higher than any of the twelve or thirteen
other junior colleges, state, private, or otherwise —
and which comes almost perfectly to placing the
institution on the level with leading senior colleges
and universities of the state.
That phase is the public affairs lectures which
can in this instance be considered as a part of the
student activities.
Today there arrives on this campus a group of
visitors whom it is a privilege and an honor for
the students to entertain. These men have been
selected to compose the group of speakers for the
Second Annual Public Forum which will officially
begin tonight with a lecture on the South by John
Temple Graves 11, noted lecturer, editor, and econo
mist. They bring to the student body, to the faculty,
and to the countless throngs of visitors the latest
and authorative information and opinions on matter
of state and national and international importance.
They speak with well-founded authoriy on their
respective subjects, and their views and their opin
ions are thoughtfully considered, honored, and ac
cepted.
The student body of this college wished to take
opportunity to assure the visitors of the cordial
welcome awaiting them to examine the campus in
detail, and to gain an insight into the student life.
It is hoped that these visitors will be as sincerely
and as geninuely interested in the students and the
campus as they are in the speakers and what they
have to say.
The West Georgian, its editors, its staff members,
and its readers, also wishes to take this opportunity
to congratulate the Faculty Commitee of Public
Affairs fbr their wise and thorough choices in select
ing the speakers for this Second Forum session.
Their choice does not only mirror their ability to
pick good and famous speakers, but it also proves
their interests in the well-being and development of
the student body and all those concerned. To Mr.
Robert Strozier, Chairman; Dean, W. Fred Gunn;
Miss Katie Downs; Miss Dorothy St. Clair; and Mr.
Wordon Watson go the heartiest congratulations for
the planning of this Second Forum.
And to the committee from the Litmu Club, to the
committee from the Business and Professional
Women’s Club, to the committee from the Civitan
Club, and to the committee from the Lions Club,
all of Carrollton, go the same warm congratulations
and the deepest feelings of appreciation and grati
tude for their interest and services in this Second
Forum.
Like Other Activities,
They Need Support
Important in the general makeup of the student
activities on this campus is the Debating Club. Each
issue of the West Georgian carries some very in
teresting story about either a debate or future plans
for a debate. The coach and members of the club
have worked hard to make a good record for West
Georgia, and the future of West Georgia in inter
collegiate circles. If only the students would work
proportionally hard in attending the debates.
Support lends encouragement to a debating team.
Not only support by voting favorably, but also by
attending the debates themselves. The team admits
that its members perform better when they know
that there is a crowd out there to persuade them,
not merely a handful of people.
Unfortunately the loss is sustained just as much
by the students as by the debate team itself. A de
bate contains much humor, entertainment, and
many educational features. There are not only
those factors in addition to the question debated, but
also the personalities and the philosophies of those
debating are considered and valued by many as
much as are the rebuttals.
When the club members met Emory Junior
College here the Friday night before the beginning
of the Spring Holidays, both teams would have and
could have given a much better account of them
selves (not that they didn’t) had there been a larg-er
audience attending the debate.
UJpat (Georgian
FRANK KELLY, Managing Editor
::: Screamlines :::
Ragman: “Any old clothes? Any
old clothes?”
“No, get away from here, this
is the boys’ dormitory and we’re
quarantined.”
“Any old bottles?”
• * *
Beck: My heart is on fire; my
very soul is aflame.
Gaines: Don’t worry, father will
put it out.
* * *
We point with pride to the
purity of the white space between
our jokes.
* * *
Her: “I think dancing makes a
girl’s feet too big, don’t you?”
Him: “Yeah (Pause).
Her: “I think swimming gives
a girl awfully large shoulders,
don’t you?”
Him: “Yeah (Pause).
Him: “You must ride quite a lot
too.”
* * *
Now as the mistletoe,
Why don’t the ladies fair
Adopt anew and fetching fad,
And wear it in their hair?
* * *
Betty R: Ah me! what a life!
Now we even have hot water in
every room.
Freshmen Foolishness
Dear Aunt Penelope:
As we launched into this new
quarter, my shoulders are bent
more than ever with my worries.
Did you ever realize that if you
pronounce “exam” real slow that
it will sound like “ex-I-am”? And
you know that is exactly how they
affected most people; they make
even the most assuring ones the
meekest!
Recently at the state wrestling
match held here our team dis
played great technique, ability,
and courage. I only wish you
could have been here for our best
man, Forfeit, won the most match
es of all.
I’ve read from some well-known
that spring is a “lazy man’s sea
son.” Could that possibly be the
reason why so many of our up
and coming students are not re
turning this quarter?
I hope you answer so as to clear
up my present minor worries be
fore many more appear.
Gullibly yours,
Marge.
I am very unhappy concerning
the sad state of affairs which plac
es me on the rolls of those restrict
ed ... ah how I must consider this
condition deplorable ... I must
condemn this policy which per
mits me to be constained by the
bonds of capitalism and by the
eleventh commandment: “Thou
shalt not be caught” . . . but, I
must be philosophical and look up-
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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.
Bonner: My father was a great
western politican in his day?
Strozier: What did he run for?
Bonner: The border.
* • *
Visitor: Your husband looks like
a brilliant man. I suppose he
knows everything.
Mrs. L.: Don’t fool yourself. He
does not suspect anything.
• ♦
Cole: I just got a check from
home today.
Pop: Good! Pay me that five you
owe me.
Cole: Wait until I tell the rest
of the dream.
* •
They say the new professor’s
stock is brains in brains.
He certainly has a peculair look
ing sample case.
* * *
Allen A month ago I was just
crazy about George. But now I
don’t care a thing about him.
Virginia: Yes, isn’t it strange
how changeable men are.
* • *
A man walked into a pool parlor
and said: “I’ll give a dollar to the
laziest man here.”
Man lying on billard table: “Roll
me over buddy, and stick it in my
back bocket.”
Frank Kelley Succeeds
Floyd As V.R.A. Head
Frank Kelly succeeded Aljndy
Floyd who has accepted a position
in Trion, Georgia, as Y. M. C. A.
Coach to the presidency of the
(Voluntary Religious Association
Sunday, officials of the Association
have announced.
Kelly who has served in the
capacity of vice-president this year
says that the Association will fol
low practically the same policies
it followed under Floyd.
“The Association is eagerly look
ing forward to the Religious
Emphasis Week to be held in
May,” Kelly continued, “and great
plans are being laid to make this
a highly successful week.”
He also stated that the officials
of the V. R. A. including Miss
Downs, faculty advisor, believe the
Easter Morning Sunrise Services
to be very successful. Attended
by a large group of students, facu
lty members and friends, the ser
vice was held in the college audi
torium, rather than on the golf
course as first planned. The
change was due to the excessive
chilly weather Sunday morning.
IT MUSES ME
on the matter with the proper
criteria ... in spite of my annoy
ance I must admit that these ty
rannical rules do have their good
points. . . . what these points are,
don’t trouble me, I am weary and
I haven’t brushed up on them late
ly .. . one must probe deep enough
but I am very shallow . . . ah! but
it is a beautiful day out. Restrict
ed, humpf!!
0. N. TODD, Business Manager
HERE AND THERE
WITH THE EDITOR
By ROBERT KNOX
The Female Another Georgia - born
A nr ] author has written a book,
numail and in Sunday-before-
Nature last’s Atlanta Journal
book review section, Frank Daniel had this to say
about “As I Live and Breathe”: Mrs. Etheridge esta
blishes her kinship with all humanity, because she
herself is very human, and because she is able
to make the details of living fascinating to her
fellows . . . she is moved by her husbands hus
bandlintrss, by her children’s childishness and
precosity and individualities, but she is most
amused at herself for being so concerned with it
all.” Willie Snow is really a human woman, and
the wife of this editor’s idol Mark Ethridge. She
was present at the dinner of the Georgia Collegiate
Press Association, and during the dinner, as well
as after, she illustrated this characteristic of hu
maness. The West Georgian representatives had
the opportunity to talk with her, to ask her what
she thought of Communism, “Gone with the Wind,”
birth control, Duke of Kent, shirts, and countless
other human interests.
A Million Bucks, Last fall Virginia’s Wash-
TFnrnm ington and Lee Univer '
A AAt? lUAAA sity received a legacy
And You amounting to approxi
mately one and a half million dollars, willed to the
institution by one R. P. Doremus of New York and
the son of a Virginia woman. Having Resolved to
leave his estate to a Southern institution, Mr.
Doremus visited several schools incognito; and
on the W & L Campus he met a student body whose
courtesy and general intelligence so impressed
the visitor that then and there he decided to leave
the million and half to Washington and Lee. Dur
ing the Public Forum session, it is not likely that a
Mr. Doremus with a million and half bucks to give
away will be here; but it is true that the impression
that you make determined by your attitudes as
well as general intelligence and enthusiasm will
go a long way in making you realize your two-fold
obligation: 1. The success of the Second Public
Forum, and 2. the future of West Georgia. It is
repeated again and again your cooperation and
your attitude, your courtesies and your general as
well as specific reactions to the visitors and speak
ers are not only absolutely necessary but also deter
mine your being either a college student or still
fresh out of high school.
Jo© College, The reactions that this
p^j.+ Tr -.-] inn column received after the
.betty Uo-ea, IUU last edition had been dis .
Per Ct American tributed revealed several
interesting as well as homogenous facts. First, that
the students apparently can’t take a little criticism.
Second, that the students frown at a little criticism.
Third, the students bitterly hate a little criticism.
And fourth, that the students will not tolerate any
amount of any form of criticism. In other words
the students (as well as several faculty members)
are solidly and bitterly anti-criticism. Like under
graduate drinking, that is sad but utterly Ameri
can. As associations are so valued, and as social
ostracism is so fatal, and as college editors are
human, there is only one thing left to do. That is
write about how pretty the co-eds are, how simply
divine the dances are, what a wonderful faculty we
have, what swell student leaders we have, and how
bright the future looks.
A Special To John Temple Graves
Welcome to the ** wid °P en the
vveioume lu me Forum sessions in the
SeCOnd. Garaves Chapel with an address
on the South is extended a special welcome by the
West Georgian and those on the campus interested
in the Press. Undoubtedly Graves is the cream of
modern-day Southern journalism, and his journal
istic progressiveness and purposefulness have to a
certain degree caused many to compare him with
Henry W. Grady. Like Grady, he is intensely in
terested in and watchful over the development and
betterment of the new industrial South, and at the
same time is aware to the fullest extent of the
obligations between the sections of the nation and
especially between the North and the South. Al
though only a college newspaper, the West Georgian
extends to John T. Graves II a special welcome for
a better West Georgian, for a Greater West Geor
gian, and for more progressive journalism.
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