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\V KHT GKO RGIA IS 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 (Continued on Page Four) 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 (Continued on Page Two) 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 (Continued on Page Two) 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 (Continued on Page Two) 1 . .1- • . ~ 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 (Continued on Page Four) 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 continued on Page Four)