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The Value Of Education
Just how much is education worth? I’ve often won
dered if it were important enough to keep up the
struggle that it takes to get one and then —I wonder
at myself for wondering, when I realize just how im
portant it is. I suppose that almost everyone here at
school knows what it is to struggle for an education.
I have been doing so ever since I entered high school
so if I keep up the fight I may some day realize
what an education means. (If any of my teachers
were to read this they would laugh, for almost all
of them know the tone of my snore.)
Last week I made application for a job, and half
of the questions on the- application blank were
questions about education: “How many years have
you been in school?” “Are you in school at present?”
and, much to my surprise, “Are you working your
way through school?” There must be something
to it.
A few years ago a friend of mine attempted to
enter the service of the Merchant Marine. The
questions were direct: “Have you a high school
education?” “No, I have only two and one-half
years of high school work.” “I’m very sorry, but
we can’t use you.” “But Sir,” the youth replied,
“What need have I Of a high school education to be
come a deck-hand?” “That is not the question,
young man, but this: there are so many boys that
have a good education, that we can not afford to
take one without it.”
What a high school education meant a few years
back will be what a Jr. College education will
mean in the future. The Jr. College is fast re
placing the high school as a standard for the masses.
The teachers of Georgia with their 1940 dead-line, are
the first to realize that a High School is not suffici
ent. Soon that realization will slip on down to the
people, and Junior Colleges will spring up all over
the country. This will do more to raise this state of
ours from the bottom of the list in education than
will any other thing. We who are in school now
must realize the importance of education, must
realize the importance of the Junior College’s rise,
and, to keep above, the masses, we must fight on and
on to the top in education. —W. B.
Social Affairs
In spite of the brief period of school during sum
mer, West Georgia’s social life has continued un
hampered by its short span of existance; in fact, in
many instances, students have shown a greater
degree of friendliness and desire to occupy them
selves socially than during the regular session—
perhaps this feeling is due to the weather.
However, we can see that among the social affairs
have been a dance, a watermelon cutting, and
numerous other socials that were planned and
enjoyed by the students.
Through the other socials boys and girls were
permitted a more companionable association and
dates became popular; especially among the younger
set.
We hope that the present social policy maintained
here will prevail at the College during the coming
year as it is felt by the writer that the present
system would be more beneficial to the students.
Something New!
At last the long awaited moment has arrived,
and we have the furniture for the new dormitory.
Miss Hughes seems as proud of it as “a hen with
one chick,” but I think that the laurels should go
partly to Miss Ward for the selection of such beauti
ful furniture.
The lobby suite is a blending-—contrast of brown,
wine and deep green. Besides being very attractive
and comfortable, it is extremely well built. The
entire suite is made of hard wood. The seat
and back of each piece is upholstered with remov
able leather-covered cushions. Everything seems to
fit in with the beauty of the new building exceeding
ly well.
The shades are very nice and durable, and the
screens are the best obtainable; so we of West
Georgia can say but one thing in conclusion, “We
are proud of it!”
What About It?
Many students have expressed the desire that the
college bookstore be enlarged so as to carry many
of the articles for which they must continually go
to town. This suggestion requires much considera
tion since the need for such an enlargement has
for sometime been acute.
In relation to the carrying out of such a plan,
the writer merely wished to bring this proposition
before his readers for future thought and reflection.
THE WEST GEORGIAN, CARROLLTON, GEORGIA,. TUESDAY, JULY 20, 1937.
jrCICIEAMILIINCJ
Credit is due to Mr. Harry B.
Free for hts timely greetings each
morning at 6:20 A. M.
By the looks of things, about half
the Boys’ Dormitory is in the dry
cleaning or laundry business.
We wonder which dormitory Mr.
Howell meant last Monday night
when he referred to the “Old
Women’s Building.”
“Only girls free, white, and
TWENTY-ONE may do as they
please!”—the Deans.
What song-bird makes her fel
low students go to the Academic
building when she is in the dormi
tory—or visa versa?
Max: What is the difference be
tween a woman and an unbrella?
Lewis: An umbrella can give
you a little shade and a woman can
give you a little sun.
The grit-slingers are still slingin’
it at us. We sure can take it!
A man—Something that works
hard to support a lady.
Billy Harris: “Say, James, you’re
late getting in. Where’ve you
been?”
James: “I took Lelia to see
“Romeo and Juliet.”
Bill: “You did, huh? How did
you like the kissing in the bal
cony?”
James: “Swell, especially during
the news reel!”
Summer Foot Troubles
By BETTY ANN SEWELL
One might misconstrue the title
of this epistle. Frankly it does
not include any remedies for the
riddance of corns, bunions, or cal
lous places. Notice the title says
SUMMER foot troubles; those kind
that itch—not the kind that mildly
itch but those that furiously, up
riously, maddeningly ITCH. The
adjective “gloriously” might be
used if one happens to be in a
place where the fingernails can be
applied.
However, one may not be in
such a place. In that case only a
few seconds will elapse before a
suitable environment will be creat
ed for such application. It does not
matter if a person’s most cherished
mother-in-law, his employer, or tne
president of his corporation is pre
sent. Nothing comes before that
all consuming passion and desire
>to scratch, and quite before one
becomes aware of it, the skin has
completely disappeared.
Then one sets out or endeavors
pi zal Georgian
Member Associated Collegiate Press
Member Georgia Collegiate Press Association
Contributing Staff
Pauline Pritchard Martha Gladd
William Ruff Billy Harris
Betty Ann Sewell Rachael Hunt
Jack -Stephens Lewis Kilincsworth
Florine Watson Claire McLarty
Cornelia Wricht Ruth Mitchell
Prof. Gordon Watson — Faculty Advisor
®lje West (Georgian
ALAN A. RICHSTONE, Editor-In-Chief
A college class should be like a
woman’s dress —long enough to
cover the subject, but short enough
to be interesting.
William Ruff, Paulding County
portegee, says that he “ain’t
heard ‘Screamlines’ holler yet."
Wonder why Wilburn Boggs
visits us so much? Must be some
dark reason—probably a Brown
one.
What dormitory boy got him a
wife over the week end?
The students of Professor Wat
son’s Humanities class wonder to
what pit of what circle of hell in
Dante’s Universe they will go to
at their death.
Mr. Shuttleboard believes that
the only way to master the violin
is to practice a great deal.
Why is it that Dorothy Causey,
the piano wizard of W. G. C.
always turns the radio dial to a
foreign station? (Cuba)
Normal School —A place where
you pay to go to not learn the
things you should know before
the State Board will let you teach
next year. )
Flo and A1 seism to have gotten
summer fever. We hope they get
well soon.
“Oh see the happy Moron
He careth not a da—
I wish I were a Moron,
By Gosh! Perhaps I am.”
to set out for the doctor’s office.
That is a fateful day for upon ar
riving there, the good man im
mediately gives instructions that
the foot, at all costs, must not be
scratched! The only comfort has
been taken away. But wait—the
worst is yerto come. A queer look
ing reddish, blueish medicine is ap
plied to the offending member
and with one long whoop the pati
ent leaps into the air thinking the
end of the world has come, and
that the foot has gone on before
the rest of the body to burn in
the eternal fires.
After the greatest pangs have
gone, the gentle doctor soothes the
patient with kind words and sends
him home to lie on the bed with
an “interesting” book in his hands.
The hands MUST be occupied so
that they will be diverted from the
feet.
Several days must elapse inter
spersed with frequent visits to the
doctor. Finally the foot heals
and the grateful patient enjoys
a week, maybe two weeks, of easy,
graceful locomotion without a sin
gle limp; then the curious malady
strikes again—it’s just one of those
long vicious cycles.
I Think ...
By AL RICHSTONE
rpi Q ii Articles, pamphlets, and
lITO SOUTH many books have been
rp written on the rank and
VJH JLO]p progress of the South to
ward that seemingly distant goal—that of economic
equality with other regions of the country.
Why do farmers do so and so? Why does the bulk
of the Southern population trade with so and
so? ask professors and well-known sociologists
in the South!
For instance, let us take the case where one soci
ologist has had published an article with discourag
ing yet true figures about some appaling conditions
in the South. On the other hand, we may turn to
different articles written by an equally great soci
ologist and what he states therein is the reason for
which many a Southerner, I imagine, gazes in
tently through the newspapers and when he sees
an article containing much optimism, pounces upon
it, clips it and reverently pastes it in an album
adopted especially for the purpose.
The intelligent newspaper reader reads articles
with a speculating and yet not too critical mind;
then, he- determines in his mind a median which
is the result of weighing two extremes and reason
ing further to strengthen his beliefs.
Yet, despite these extremes, we are nevertheless
influenced in our thoughts in realizing true condi
tions as we wander by the hillsides of rural areas and
along roads past Dixie dwellers who care for our
farms.
In spite of all these musings, it is of much en
couragement to the editor (who is really an optimist)
to see so much of discouragement among the “up
and coming generation” in the Southern schools and
colleges: It is a true sign that they are aware of
their conditions and, being such, are anxious to
find a proper remedy for them.
Recently the South has become awakened to the
fact that great opportunities lie within itself: new
land values have been discovered; these shall mean
the true source of anew wealth in Dixie. That
this opportunity be completely realized is the
sincerest wish of this “Damnyankee” editor.
ojli 'KT T This is well demon-
It SJN ©V©F 10 strated by the student
T =*+ o T nam'' body representation at the
J-itsaxii summer school session
here this year. Persons who did not or were un
able to pursue their education in their earlier years
are ridding themselves of their deficiencies at West
Georgia College now.
The average age of the West Georgia summer
school student is 25 years, the ages ranging between
16 and 55 years. Yet young or old we are happy
to see such a willingness on the part of the students
to continue their studies to completion. The ma
jority of the students are teachers studying to
improve their teaching ability through the know
ledge of teaching methods and are therefore to be
congratulated upon their hard work during these
summer months, and for their sincere wish to
better the educational conditions in Georgia rural
schools.
To a much greater extent than ever before are
older persons throughout the country returning to
educational institutions to further their previously
neglected education. They are appreciative of
the value of additional opportunities open to them
by the security of an education.
We Sincerely hope that with this increased know
ledge gained by teachers here this summer they
will be better fitted to understand community and
school problms and better able to solve them
suitably.
0 . o*l T b e science of seeking the
bcience " OOClcll Truth is a companion of
Anri that of applying the Truth
/UIU OUiUULIIiU sensibly. Each has its
purposes, its problems, and its rewards. Truth
can be made useful to humanity.
Furthermore, we might say that of all that know
ledge which has accumulated through the ages, the
most valuable parts were taken and used; those parts
which remained have been recorded, but not used
by Civilization. Pure Science is always in ad
vance of Social Science but as to which is the most
important, we cannot say. One without the other
seems quite unthinkable.
Therefore, the value of seeking the Truth and
that of applying the Truth should be emphasized
to students on this campus who are taking courses
in Science or Sociologic subjects in order that
they may more fully appreciate the value of these
Sciences. . -
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