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Editorials
HORTON GREENE, Editor-in-Chief
A Worthy Project
Perhaps the greatest influence on student opinion
and thought has been exercised on this campus
by clubs and societies. They have kept continually
active, for the most part, with the cultivation of
the individual student as their aim. Now, how
ever, a campus club has started a program, not
to benefit the students, except indirectly, but to
benefit the county if possible.
Aroused by Dr. Robert’s recent speech before
the club in which he commented on the fact that
Carroll county lacked only the approval of the
Commissioner of Roads before getting the benefits
of the Ellis Health Law, Mu Zeta Alpha, scientific
society, resolved to see what could be done about
it. So far, they felt, the club has made no per
manent contribution to Carroll county and, from
a scientific standpoint, the county needs the law
badly.
By the time that this paper will be published
the proposition will have already been made
by a member of Mu Zeta Alpha before the student
body that West Georgia as a whole declare itself
in favor of the bill and bring all possible pressure
to bear on the county officials. The club has al
ready sent a letter to Mr. Chappell, the County
Commissioner, urging the passage of the law. A
series of programs is also being planned to acquaint
rural areas with the benefits that they would de
rive under the law.
Such a program, even if it were to fail, would
be the best of all possible experience. Then, too,
it will awaken Carroll countians to the fact that
West Georgia is interested in their problems and
is willing to do its best to help them out.
Legal "Coffin Varnish"
The editorial policy of the West Georgian thus
far has been to discuss only those things interest
ing to this campus individually and to leave dis
cussions of national and international affairs to
those who are better prepared -to-comment on them
than we could ever be. However, there has arisen in
the soverign state of Georgia a situation that will
vitally affect all young people, regardless of wheth
er in college or not. None are so capable of hand
ling the problem as the student himself because
it will affect, first and last, the youth of the state.
Liquor has been legalized in Georgia! The other
day the governor signed the bill authorizing the
sale of “hard liquor” fpr the first time in many
year-s in Georgia. This action was the culmination
of the move that started several years ago with the
repeal of the Eighteenth Amendmnt and had an
other- reverberation in the repeal last year of the
“bone dry” law. This law was passed by con
scientious legislators acting in what they thought
were the best interests of the public. For the
most part they are staid, elderly men who have
outlived any temptations that they might have had
in the past. They can not see that by making
liquor legal they are placing an insurmountable
obstacle in the paths of some of our most promising
youths of today.
Quite a few enter this world with the ability
“to take it or leave it alone,” but there are also a
great many who do not have this ability. There
will be danger enough from losing some outstand
ing talents from the Demon Drink as it is, but to
deliberately encourage its usage by our people is
overwhelming! It has alw r ays been known that it
is the enemy of ambition and of purpose. These
two things are the most vital factors in the life
of any student. Without them it is impossible that
he succeed, that he attain any of the high ideals
that we suppose any student sets up for himself.
Drink will destroy both of these and hence should
be the arch-enemy of youth. But our legislators
have failed to reckon with the problems of the stu
dents because they have given the shade of respect
ability to liquor and have thrown Georgia wide open
to its temptations.
There is little that we can do. The state officers
have cast the die, in spite of the fact that in a
solemn referendum last year the citizens of the
state presented a solid front against liquor. Evi
dentally the state administration is more powerful
than the citizens who elected it, but, be that as it
may, we are going to have liquor.
Omar Kayyam expressed it admirably two thou
sand years ago. He was speaking only of wine,
but now the reference concerns the fiery, tissue
consuming “white lightening” and should go doubly
strong especially where the student is concerned.
“The idols I have loved so long
Have done my credit in this world much wrong,
Have drown’d my ideals in a shallow cup,
And sold my reputation for a song.
ullje Hfßt dwirgian
EDWARD STOUT, Managing Editor
SCREAMLIMRS
Dearest Roomies:
Tho’ I've been very sweet about
it my heart is heavy. Here I’m
jus’ lak a lil birdie wid his wings
lyed down. I’m leavin’ by the lite
O’ the moon to stretch my wings.
Plez dont tell Miss Ward ’till my
flight is well begun.
Your uncaged “Ritzie Bird.”
P. S. I do love Aunt Sara!
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New school bus theme “Stand
for that Taylor man!”
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What would happen—
If Merlin Goss got sore throat.
If the student body walked into
the dining hall.
Miss Ward lost her “light tread”
talent.
If Dot Bandy quieted down for
two minutes.
If George T got results from his
request to “Look Toward the
camera, Mondell.”
If Shifty (Mr. Roberts) got in a
hurry to say something.
If Jones Drug personnel didn’t
like W. G. C. students.
If Kermit Harris will ever give
another girl the “lucky break.”
If Mr. H. King really got hungry.
Campus Personalities . . .
MILDRED DUX WOODY, President of the Woman’s New Domitory
Mildred Dunwoody was born in
Lafayette, Georgia, December 8,
1919. Being a good, steady girl,
she lived there without once mov
ing away, until she same off to
West Georgia. Her Lafayette
school days were uneventful, with
the exception of her good record
of basketball playing during high
school. She received honorable
mention in the 7th district for
her exceptional playing. She has
kept the athletic record up here
at West Georgia for she played on
the girls tennis team last year and
went to the semi-finals this year.
Her ideal man is not a blond,
a brunette, or a red head; neith
er does he have to be good look
ing. He must not drink. Mildred
said that somehow she had always
imagined herself to be the wife of
a preacher.
This quarter Mildred is teaching
out ait the Rosenwald practice
school. She is “crazy about it”
with the exception of the “unheard
of time’ she had to get up. She
gets up at 6:15, has an early break
fast, goes out and teaches all day
and then comes back to the cam
pus in time for supper and to get
up her lesson plans for the next
day. Her first check was receiv
ed on the day of her interview
and she was thrilled to death.
Dunwoody, who is called by her
last name more often than by her
first, is a Ciceronian member,
Program Chairman of the V. R. A.,
member of Zeta Sigma Pi, secre-
(Dje 3Uest Georgian
MEMBER GEORGIA COLLEGIATE PRESS ASSOCIATION
MEMBER ASSOCIATED COLLEGIATE PRESS
Associate Editor Alan A. Richstone
Assistant Editor Arlene Phillips
Exchange Editor Esthera Hudson
Sports Editor Dick Grace
Feature Editor Marge Bowen
NEWS STAFF:— Warren Jones, Sara
Gladney, Dot Causey, Virginia Dou
glas, Betty Rucker, Francis Wallis,
Llewllyn Hamm, Ira Perry, Virginia
Hamrick, Mary Robinson, Vivian Smith,
James Key, Geraldine Mcßrayer, Dot
Watson and Claude Sims.
SPORTS STAFF:—Dick Grace, R. T.
McNew and Robert Bell.
Are we about to hear that good
ole Martyr statement of Hobby
Justice? McGuire, I loves ’er but
you can have 'er.
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Congratulations Mrs. Moore. And
how does it feel to be an Uncle,
Bill? And did Auntie(s)?? send it
a pretty ‘lil baby-waby hooky
wooky? Oh well if boot-lickin'
works in school no reason why it
shouldn’t elsewhere.
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Daffynitions: (Attention Miss
Preston!)
Rooster —A small car with a
rumble seat.
Taxes —A state in Union.
Dollars—A city in Texas.
Love—the tenth word in a tele
gram.
Kidnaper —a young boy sleeping
Martyr—first degree crime (un
official securing of another’s in
sipid life.)
fun(d) —15 cents and a balcony
seat.
Omen —A co-eds creed.
Stratosphere —the resting place
for the nose of conceited people.
Arms —a means of defense.
tary of the “W Club, vice-presi
dent of the sophomore class, and
president of the womens council
of the new dormitory. Recently
she was elected the “most athletic”
girl at West Georgia.
Aunt Penelope
Dear Marge:
I’m sure you are expecting the
usual letter from your aunt Pene
lope even more than usual as your
mid-term exams are here. I write
again to remind you that mid-term
grades should be a good impres
sion on your teachers so your
grade for the quarter will not be
such a depression on yourself.
A chapel speaker used the simi
le the other day—“as careful.as
a nudist crawling over a barbed
wire fence.” To bring it more
to home it should have been —“as
careful as a speaker on a student
expression chapel program.”
A ripple of disgusted laughter
went over the entire chapel and
audience last Tuesday when the
speaker referred to his audience as
“you children.” After all, dear
Marge, he might have heard of the
epidemic of mumps and measles
going on in all dormitories so don’t
blame him.
Continue your good work of
studying and no matter what you
hear I say again and again don’t
Aunt Penelope.
FEATURE STAFF:— Nelle Clegg,
M’Nelle Gibson, Mary Clyde Lang
ford, Rachel Hunt and Sara Sewell.
BUSINESS STAFF:—Charles Goss,
Marion Lanier, Myric Nutt and Jeff
Slade.
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T“*. I With the permission of
1* irSt all concerned the editors
rni r>- lj of the West Georgian
111© rieia would like to take time
out and indulge a little in the well-known human
fallacy of patting one’s own back.
At !he beginning of the school year it was de
cided to use as anew and very liberal style of
make-up on the school paper. At that time only
a few school papers and one or two commercial
papers were using such an advanced style, and
naturally the step was taken in fear and trembling.
Evidentally it was well liked by the student body
for no complaints have been heard yet. However,
only lately have we seen the true success of the style
that we adopted. Because it is modern, stream
lined, easy-to-read, easy-to-write, and easy-to-set-up,
other editors realized that it is a distinct asset to
a paper. As soon as they saw that a few were
adopting the new style with varying degrees of
success, many gathered their courage and made
the step. The Emory Wheel, the G. S. C. W. Cano
py, and countless others made the change in make
up policy in the middle of the year, while the West
Georgian lias had the satisfaction of starting the
year with such a policy and remaining consistent.
The final culimination of the success of the style
was in the complete change of the Atlanta Journal
from its very attractive make-up to the more
modern.
The sentiment —
“Be not the first by whom the new is tried
Nor yet the last to lay the old aside.”
is very good but we consider it important to
be among the first and the West Georgian certain
ly was among the first school papers in Georgia
to try tiie new style. No matter what other short
comings we may have, at least we have the satis
faction of knowing that we picked one winning
horse.
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111 i 1 avor to the mid-term examina
■ // tions the tendency to dis-
Udmmmg agree with the opinions
of some contemporary editors becomes greater and
greater. The disagreement in question is concrn
ing that wll-known aid to collegiate study—“cram
ming” which the G. S. C. W. editor seems to dis
like so much.
“Clamming” lias been condemned many times
and in many ways yet it invariably crops up again
in the collegiate world. Almost all professors re
fuse to condone it and it is said to be a great
menace to a student’s health yet the basic fact re
mains that “cramming” for a test is highly helpful
to gain a desired mark. Of course, there are those
model students who have time to study all during
a course and probably have little or no need for
extra study; but for the great majority of the un
studied college students the only answer is to
“cram.”
Although educators condemn it, “cramming” has
at last found a champion in psychology. In a little
book written by an anonymous psychology pro
fessor, member of Phi Peta Kappa, called “The Psy
chology of Getting Grades,” the author enthusiasts
cally endorses “cramming” and tells just how to go
about it. It really is a fine art and psychology
encourages its development to those in search of
grades.
Of course, the editor of the Colonnade would
deride the idea of studying for a grade. She would
stand up for understanding of a course and the
fact that “cramming” lends no permanents knowl
edge .Such statements are undoubtedly correct,
but as a recent speaker so aptly expressing we
only learn the subjects that we study in college
after we get out in the world. Then, too, under
standing of a course is granted only to a few and
the next best thing is to “cram.”
Among the necessary evils of this life are grades.
They are no tr ue indicators of knowledge or abiltiy,
yet they have come to be regarded as such. A
“C” pupil is often much more learned than an “A”
pupil yet when the grades go home the students
are ranked in intelligence in just that order.
An “A” should mean no more than a “C”, it does
mean no more than a “C”; but because of the pecu
liar idea that people have about grades a good grade
is to be pr eferred to much understanding.
Mid-terms are almost here. If you have studied
your subjects you are fortunate, but if you haven’t
(like the majority of us) by all means ‘cram” for
after all the grades go home and you are liable
to be thought deficient in brain cells if you fail.
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