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HORTON GREENE, Editor-in-chief
Up From Slavery
The Civil War is drawing to a close at last.
One of the marked characteristics of the southern
white man and especially of the unreconstructed
rebel has been their hatred of negroes and their re
fusal to let the negro rise to his just place in society.
It has often been remarked that because it forces
the negro to stay down, the South itself cannot rise,
and that unless the negro be permitted to assume
his place in the South, the white population will re
main ignorant, prejudiced, and bigoted. In other
words we cannot expect to educate the southerner
until we also educate the negro.
Due to the fact that after the war the North pro
tected the negro, took interest in him, and gave
the right to vote, the southern people decided that
the North and the negro were working hand in
hand to secure the ruination of southern aristo
cracy and southern enterprise. Especially were
they forced to this conclusion by the political de
bauches that marked state governments in the
hands of the carpet baggers and their negro stooges.
Because of this the South, as soon as it was able,
put the negro back into slavery, not political but
economic, and made it a rule in society to kick the
negro. That feeling has been handed down from
generation to generation and maintains a strong
existence today. Even the meanest white man con
siders it his duty and privilege to curse any and
all negroes.
In retaliation many times the negro became
“mean,” hard, and embittered; or else they became
resigned to their slavish condition and became shift
■ less, lazy, and good-for-nothing. Neither of these
two conditions is conducive to progress, and these
are two of the reasons why the South is behind
today. These are two of the reasons why the south
has been called “one of the waste spots of the earth.”
There is a solution, however, being worked out
by the despised race itself—a solution so apt and
so appropriate that all true southerners ought to
applaud it with vigor. The foundation of that
solution is being forged in schools like the Tuske
gee Institute, and other colored colleges in the
south. Their aim and the keynote to the future
for the negro was sounded by Booker T. Washing
ton when he said, “We shall prosper in proportion
as we learn to dignify and glorify labor and put
brains and skill into the common occupations of
life.”
The Tuskegee Institute is doing just that. It
teaches its students how to be carpenters, masons,
shoemakers, plumbers, etc., and at the same time
gives them the education to be correct and polite
at all times. As Washington said, “I will let no
man drag me down so low as to make me hate him.
The Institute sees the negro’s future in taking
the laborers job and doing it well. It is striving
to teach its pupils how to be the best laborers in
the world. It is succeeding, and let us hope that
it will. There is no difference between an educat
ed white man and an educated negro.
Gustavus John Orr
The West Georgian is happy to recognize the
work of campus professors and to give the student
fyody an insight into instructor’s accomplishments.
This week we would like to present a review of
Professor Thomas A. Hart’s thesis for his Master
of Arts degree. Mr. Hart incidentally, was the first
student to receive both his Masters degrees in Arts
and in Science from Emory University. A review
of this work has recently appeared in the Georgia
Educational Journal. It is the biography of Gusta
vus John Orr, Georgia’s first school Commissioner.
“That the work of Gustavus John Orr, State
School Commissioner of Georgia, during the critical
reconstruction period from 1872-1887, should have
gone so long without adequate biographical notice
is surprising in view of the permanent and far
reaching influence of his administration upon sub
sequent development of educational philosophy and
practice in Georgia,” says J. Carlton Numan in the
Journal.
When he went into office in 1872 Mr. Orr faced
a large debt that had occurred during the preced
ing corrupt administration. He owed the teachers
8300,000 in back salaries and the people had began to
lose faith in the public education system that had
been established only two years before in 1870.
First he paid the salaries and then he begc n an
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EDWARD STOUT, Managing Editor
SCEEAMLINICS
Will someone satisfy our curo
sity and tell us who Crosspatch is?
Could it possibly be Bobby Bell’s
belle from New Orleans?
“No,” says Red Bryan, “cause
she’s too far away to be Bell’s
girl.”
And they do say that the trip to
Tuskegee was a success in more
ways than one.
—§ —§ —
Extra! Extra!
We take pleasure in dubbing
Pluto McGuire the most fickle boy
on West Georgia campus.
We also take great pleasure in
dubbing Miss Nelle Clegg as the
most bestest student expresser we
own.
Is Bill Ingram trying to become
the second “Sockless” Senator
Jerry Simmons?
Campus Personalities . . .
PAULINE PRICHARD, President 4-H Club
The president of the 4-H Club,
Pauline Pritchard is a mountain
eer, having been born in Stone
Mountain and living there most of
her life. She probably developed
much of her firm character around
that locality. Pauline was born
October 17, 1918.
Since Pauline says that she likes
to do things that no one else does,
she plans to teach next year. She
hopes to get a job in Carroll.coun
ty and plans to teach Home Eco
nomics.
When asked what her ideas
about love were, she thought a
long time, then she said she hardly
knew what to say. Finally, how
ever, she drew up her conclusions
to these facts: that her true-love is
a wonderful thing, and that her
love needs finances to back it up.
She said that she had no “One
AUNT PENELOPE . ..
Dear Marge:
The one purpose of this letter is
to let you know exactly what
points are given for what on West
Georgia’s campus. You are fami
liar, no doubt, with the O. D. K.
(Oh, Daredevil Kiddies) honorary
club. Each candidate must have
gotten by fair or foul means at
least one hundred points. The fol
lowing point system is used:
(1) Member of Dean’s list, 2
points.
(2) Member of Sophomore class
(in good standing), 15 points.
(3) Member of Sophomore class
(no longer able to stand), 5 points.
(4) Member of Restriction So
ciety, 50 points.
(5) Kicking an instructor, 10
points.
(6) Kicking a professor, 10
points.
(7) Kicking a dean, 50 points.
®lje West Georgian
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Boys say girls are like cigarettes
cause they:
come in packs,
get lit,
hang on your lips,
are an expensive habit,
go out unexpectedly,
and yet: they would “walk a
mile” to get one.
Girls give this defensive answer:
They say girls are like cigarettes
because they:
come wrapped in cellophane,
warm to an adequate match,
give you a lift,
are made from the finest ingre
dients,
and “they satisfy!”
P. S. Even “ducks” are in con
stant demand!
—§—§—
There was a big game in the
boys’ dormitory last night. “It
was strictly a game of Monoply”
with no money tied up in it,” oh
yeh? stated Robert Stevens.
and only” at the present, but the
boy friend closest to her heart
was in Oregon.
Pauline’s favorite teacher, is Mr.
Hart, and her favorite subject
is Home Economics.
The usual hobby of collecting
dogs, any kind of dogs, seems to
be Pauline’s favorite. The fact
remains though, that she has a
particular liking for Club conven
tions. Remember the definition
of a convention? Something that
the citizens rebuild the town after.
Ha! Minor likes are books and
tennis. Her pet dislikes are “slop
pyness” and egotisms. By stating
that a person may do what he
likes, she places herself in the
category of a broad minded person.
Besides being president of the
4-H Club, “Oregon” is also a mem
ber of the Ciceronian and Officers
Club.
(8) Borrowing student activity
money and getting caught, 5
points.
(9) Borrowing student activity
money and not getting caught, 25
points.
(10) Member of student union
poker team, 25 points.
(11) Kissing a girl (or boy) in
the show, 10 points.
(12) Kissing a town student, 25
points.
(13) Boy: Kissing anew dormi
tory girl, minus 25 points. Girl:
kissing an alumni, minus 25
points.
(14) Boy: Kissing Miss Ward,
250 points. Girl: Kissing Mr. Tay
lor, 250 points.
I am sure that you will check
and see if you are eligible, as I
would like to see you participate
in every club possible.
Sincerely,
Aunt Penlope.
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m l It would be splendid if
i ÜbKCCyeC it were possible fro all
•"P li students to take the an
-L CU.KS nual V.R.A. trip to Tus
kegee and see that magnificent negro institution.
Although the editorial columns are not supposed
to be turned into a travelogue, nevertheless the urge
to tell of Tuskegee is too great. One returns from
that campus with a different feeling and a differ
ent attitude regarding the colored race.
To shake hands with a negro is repulsive to a
southerner to say the least. It was extremely re
pulsive for us to think of having to grasp the
hand of one of the despised race and wringing it
with a show of sincerity. But what about shaking
hands with a world famous scientist to whom the
south is looking for new inventions paving the
way to new r economic security. What about a Har
vard graduate, a Doctor from Oxford, a preacher
from Yale? These things are different, and so the
negroes of Tuskegee proved.
We do not want to go on record as negro lovers
because from heredity we are not and will never
be such, but when we saw that beautiful campus,
spotless and clean, when we saw the intelligent look
in the faces of the students, when we conversed
with Dr. Booker T. Washington,, Junior, about the
work of the Institute, a feeling that these were not
members of a destestable race but rather members
of society deserving of a high place could not be
kept down.
We were permitted to examine the whole cam
pus and our examination proved the merit of the
work being done there. We talked to student edi
tors, student plumbers, student shoemakers, every
sort of student, and we came away with the feeling
that with such negroes as these the South might
soon rise to its proper place in the world.
0 1 -I Student support and stu-
OCinOOl dent cooperation seem to
0 . form nine tenth of the
iDpiFlt editorials of the average
collegs newspaper, but there are times when the
editors are absolutely forced to take stands upon
this question. The West Georgian has repeatedly
urged school spirit and student enthusiasm, and the
time is again upon us when it becomes necessary to
w r rite again concerning school spirit.
The other day we held our annual Public Forum,
expressly for our students to gain information and
knowledge concerning the things to be discussed.
Unfortunately, the last two meetings were held on
Friday of an open week end, and although the af
fair was for students, quite a few, including some
prominent campus leaders, were observed wending
their way homeward after their last class.
Think. And let’s try to have more school spirit.
//q IV " Scullions for this week
OCUIIIOnS are affectionately dedicat
ed to the high school seniors who have come up
to West Georgia for an education and who think
that they are heaven sent to enlighten us at meal
time concerning the nativity of one of their friends.
Personally we were of the opinion that all such
songs as the ones in question and also the one con
cerning the acknowledgement of the vocal applause
by rising and taking a bow were supposed to have
been abondoned long ago in our kindergarden days.
Perhaps we are wrong but we also think college is
a place of preparation in order to earn a livlihood
and a place to learn the self-repression that marks
men and women.
extensive program to convince the people that there
was nothing wrong with public education. So con
vincing were his efforts that he soon won the
editorial support of many of the newspapers, and
when in July he made his first report to the Le
gislature that report was so conclusive that it estab
lished the public school system in Georgia for good.
He was elected president of the National Edu
cational Association and brought the Convention
to Atlanta. He was in favor of negro education
and established several teacher-training schools.
Mr. Hart said of him, “His contributions to
Georgia’s rehabilitation, reconstruction, and educa
tion will stand as perpetual monuments to his me-
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