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PROGRESSING
VOLUMN FIVE
Fifty New Students Slated To Arrive M onday
Dr . Roberts Spoke At Past
Meeting Of Mu Zeta Alpha
Seven Neophites Are
Extended Invitations
Appearing at the monthly Mu
Zeta Alpha meeting on Thursday
evening, January 0, Dr. O. W. Ro
berts, practicing physician in Car
rollton, described to the club the
conditions that confronted the ru
ral doctor when practicing fifty
years ago.
Illustrating his talk, “Medical
Progress,” Dr. Roberts explained
the limited contents of the saddle
bags that doctors once used to car
ry all their equipment. Among
the articles that the bags included
were a tooth extractor, a bandage
roller, a few medicines, and a ton
sil remover, which, he said,” not
only removed the affected tonsils
but everything else in the neigh
borhood.”
Another interesting exhibit that
the doctor displayed was a port
able set of balances for weighing
the crude medicine, and also a
small mortar and pestle with
which he mixed roots, leaves, and
bark to form such medicine as
Hercule’s Strength Powder or Mrs.
Grundy’s Pet Medicine for Kid
ney Trouble.
Excerpts from an old Stake’s
medical book were read by Dr.
Roberts and commented upon. In
almost every disease mentioned in
the book bleeding by leaches was
prescribed. Although in the case
of pneumonia, he admitted that
the doctors in Stoke’s day were
just as successful in their treat
ment as are modern doctors.” One
disease that has not had its mor
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Local Heads And
Georgians Attend
National Meet
Among the four Georgia educa
tors attending the Council on Ru
ral Education in Washington, D.
C., January 2 and 3, were I. S.
Ingram, president of West Geor
gia College, and W. F. Gunn, dean.
Other Georgians attending were
Walter D. Cooking, dean of the
school of education at the Univer
sity of Georgia, and Marvin S.
Pittman, president of the South
Georgia Teachers College, States
boro.
Composed of many nationally
prominent educators, the Council
on Rural Education will guide
the expenditure of $1,000,000 set
apart by the Julius Rosen wald
Fund to build up better teachers
colleges in the south. The council
discussed “two elementary essen
tials of good rural teaching . . .
the three R’s, especially reading,
with a view to building up some
thing more than census illiteracy;
and the education of teachers to
meet the peculiar conditions of ru
ral instruction.”
“When a teacher finds that the
roof on his school leaks and has
leaked for years, he must know
how to repair it or how to get
the community or county to have
it repaired,” says a statement of
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The West Georgian
Deans List Named
For Past Quarter
Twenty-Seven Students
Make High Average
During the fall quarter of 1937,
twenty-seven students made the
Dean’s list, which is an average
of nine and four-tenths per 1 cent
of the student body of the two
hundred eighty-five who received
grades.
The faculty of West Georgia Col
lege had a meeting during the year
and came to the decision that a
student should make an average
of eighty-seven on all his subjects
during the quarter in order to ap
pear on the Dean’s list rather than
use the previous method of includ
ing the highest fifteen per cent of
the student body.
Again Francis Wallis leads the
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Hill-Billies Debate
At 4-H Meeting
The country came to town and
met the city slickers with a start
ling clash of words and fire in a
recent unique debate at the 4-H
Club meeting held Tuesday, Janu
ary 4, on the subject; Resolved,
That city life offers more opportu
nities for leadership than does
country life.
Affirmative side was most ably
upheld by Madam Susam Empty
head from Sky Rocketville (Ger
aldine Mcßrayer) and Professor
Know-it-All from Kingstown (Char
les Goss).
Those who stood up for their
own, their native country, were
Dumb Bunnie Few-Clothes from
Collards Hill (Kermit Harris) and
Sally Morning Glory from Turnip
seed Settlement (Vivian Smith.)
There was no time limit, and
each speaker was allowed the li
berty of saying whatever he de
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The picture above shows an artist’s conception of the new Rural Life Arts
Building under construction at West Georgia College. It will contain labora
tories, workshops and a home demonstration unit. Plans are being prepared
for two other buildings at the college.
THE WEST GEORGIAN, TUESDAY, JANUARY 11, 1938
First Student Chapel
Program Of New
Year Presented
Several Talks And
Discusions Given
The first student chapel of the
New Year took place Tuesday,
January 4, the first Tuesday of
January, with Dick Grace, pres
ident of the student body, presid
ing and two sophomores and one
freshman presenting talks.
The program was opened with
several songs appropriate for the
New Year with Mary Clyde Lang
ford as the student pianist. After
the announcements, Chairman
Grace welcomed the new students
and repeated again the aims of
the student expression programs.
The first speaker to be intro
duced was Arline Phillips, Editor
of the Chieftain, who spoke on
“Blocks.” She compared the build
ing of blocks to the building of
a person’s life and showed how
some try to stack their blocks
one upon the other until they
topple while others start out with
a broad base and work upward.
She urged each one present to re
member this and try to work for
the broad foundation.
M’Nelle Gibson, Sec.-Treas. of the
Freshman Class, gave an interest
ing as well as profitable discus
sion on “Looking Forward.” Look
ing forward into life, into this year
was brought out by the speaker
as well as a list of a few of the
things to look forward for.
The last speaker, Wilburn Boggs,
led an open forum on the subject
“Are all the rules of West Georgia
necessary?” Several students gave
suggestions as to how such rules
as girls catching rides to town,
boys and girls riding in taxis to
gether, and several similar rules,
which they deemed should be
amended unnecessary. As to wheth
er the outcome of this discussion
will be profitable or not is yet to
be seen.
After the open discussion was
brought to a close the chapel was
dismissed by the student body
president.
DRAWING OF BUILDING NOW UNDER CONSTRUCTION
West Qeorgia Participating
In Statewide N. Y. A. Project
Constitution Talks
Presented Today
Roberts Directs
Students Taking Part
A student program is to be given
in chapel Tuesday, January 11,
on the Constitution, under the
direction of Mr. L. E. Roberts,
Social Science Professor, celebrat
ing the one hundred fiftieth anni
versary of Georgia’s ratification of
the Constitution of the United Stat
es.
Those taking part on the pro
gram are as follows: Aubrey Haw
kins, “The Conditions of the Arti
cles of the Confederation which
led to the making of the Constitu
tion,” Henrietta Roberts, “Leading
Characters of the Constitution,”
“Billy Harris, “Georgia’s Part in
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Annual Hindered By
New Pupils Arriving
Arlene Phillips, Editor of the
West Georgia Chieftain states that
the work on the editorial staff is
being delayed somewhat on ac
count of the Vocational Guidance
Students coming in next month.
Dick Grace, business manager,
states that the business staff has
secured approximately one hun
dred dollars worth of ads and ex
pects to reach a three hundred
fifty dollar goal. Marge Bowen,
Marion Lanier and the business
manager plan a trip to Atlanta
on the next open week end. Other
business trips were also planned.
It has been requested by the
business staff that the students in
form their merchants the next
time that they are at home to ex
pect a member of the annual busi
ness staff to solicit advertising
sometime in the near future. This
cooperation of students with home
town merchants is essential.
MAKE 1938
PROSPEROUS
NUMBER SEVEN
Pratical Courses For
Special Students
Fifty new students, twenty boys
and thirty girls, ages 18 through
24, are scheduled to arrive on this
campus Monday, January 17, to
begin courses in practical educa
tion, D. B. Lasseter, state youth
director, announced recently. This
course is under the National Youth
Administration and will include
training in agriculture, trades,
home-making, and elementary edu
cation.
This school is one of seven in
the state that has been selected to
sponsor the N.Y.A. residential work
centers where the five hundred
students included in the program
will spend the next six months.
The other schools selected are:
Georgia Vocational and Trades
School, Monroe; Abraham Baldwin
Agricultural College, Tifton; Geor
gia State College for Women, Mil
ledgeville; Experimental School
sponsored by New College of Col
umbia University, Clarksville; Fort
Valley Normal and Industrial
School, Fort Valley; and Dorches
ter Academy, Liberty County.
The youth assigned to the N.
Y. A. residential projects will be
from low income families and this
project is to aid them in gaining
an education. The need for de
finite training in some vocation
which the boy or girl will not be
able to secure otherwise will be
a primary concern in the selection.
The work centers are established
in conjunction with existing edu
cational institutions which will
assume full responsibility for the
training curriculum. Courses will
be adapted to the individual needs
of the students, emphasis being
placed on the training for jobs and
self-maintaining after the boys and
girls return to their homes. The
students will attend school half a
day and then work half a day on
projects giving them practical ex
perience along the lines of their
special interests. They will rece
ive subsistence and $lO in cash
per month for their half-time work.
Boys at the projects will engage
in various types of construction
work, learning through actual ex
perience such trades as brick lay
ng, carpentry, painting, masonry,
plumbing, sheet metal, and electric
work. They will also engage in
agricultural work on farms operat
ed in conjunction with the pro
jects. Classroom work In elemen
tary education and practical cours
es along the lines of their vocation
al interests will be given them.
Girls will be taught sewing, cook
ing, dietetics, hygene, economical
marketing, home gardening, child
care, and related subjects in home
making. They will also engage in
co-operative enterprises at the pro
jects.
N. Y. A. will continue its regular
program on local projects where
adequate sponsorship is available
and will provide local part-time
jobs for approximately 2,000
youths. The number will be de
creased only by sending additional
youths from inadequate local pro
jects to the residential training
centers. “We will probably in
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