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Editor-In-Chief Edward Stout
Associate Editor Jack Barnwell
Business Manager Joe York
Faculty Advisors: J. C. Bonner, Gor
don Watson, Dr. Mary Eliason
(Staff to be announced after third
issue)
Stamping Out
Syphillis!
The inauguration of the Wasserman
tests for detecting syphillis in West
Georgia College’s physical examinations
in one of the most commendable pro
grams ever launched by any college.
This test practically eliminates the dan
ger of transmitting the dreaded syphi
lis from student to student.
One out of every ten people in the
United States are afflicted by syphilis
in one of its four stages. The insane
asylums, the jails, and the sanitariums
all contain victims of the powerful dis
ease. No one is immune; syphilis may
be caught by the mere handling of some
object which has come in contact with
a victim of syphilis. However, syphilis
can be checked and possibly cured if
the sufferer is placed in the hands of
a competent physician. The border line
of the incurable class is often passed
before the victim realizes his plight,
unless he has been trained to recognize
its symptoms.
The real danger in the spread of the
disease is the carrier, who may be en
tirely ignorant of the fact that he is
a carrier. The Wasserman test benefits
in two ways; it may warn the person
who has syphilis in time, and it reveals
these carriers so that the menace to
people who haven’t the disease can be
coped with.
In Admonition
To Laggards
With mid-term examinations only a
couple of weeks off, a word of admoni
tion would be very much in order. Mid
term examinations have a disturbing
habit of catching students unprepared.
“Oh, for an earlier start,’’ is the student
cry when accumulated work previously
left undone stares laggard scholars face
to face.
The college rule of campusing low
grade students is necessitated all too
often by mere negligence of students
far too capable to be placed in such a
class. The old axiom that “a stitch in
time saves nine’ could well be used as
a means of avoiding such an unpleasant
predicament.
In a recent address to the Georgia
State Teachers College, Dr. S. V. San
ford, Chancellor of the University of
Georgia, said that the three classes of
people who should never go to college
are “those whho have not the character
to bear freedom; those who are lazy,
and those who do not like to study.”
Gone With The Pen —By Edward Stout
Good clean fun is one of the most
admirable things in the world. Nothing
seems to add more zeal and zest to liie.
Hut crude, harmful pranks are just
as bad as clean jokes are good. They
bespeak of ill-mannered and uncouth
perpetrators. Such prankish acts as
blowing light fuses and placing com
mercial sigtis on the campus are defi
nitely not funny and are decidedly
harmful.
Let’s restrict our jokes to innocent
fields and refrain from harming other
people as well us ourselves by crude,
thoughtless attempts at humor.
* * *
The announcement of the instigation
of a FORUM column in our newspaper
has reaped results. However, the
faculty members, and friends of the col
lege Send your signed letter, discussing
any subject, to this newspaper. Our
editorial staff will print your correspon
dence and will give comment as they
see fit.
* * *
Messages received from Miss Katie
Downs, and Mrs. Rhea A. Taylor were
appreciated very much.
Dear Editor, First copy of WesLGeor
gian just received and read completely
. . . Good issue . . . Congratulations to
staff. . . Am so happy to get it . . .
Every item is of deepest interest. Hail
to West Georgia. With all good wish
es, Katie Downs.
Miss Downs, we are glad to have
your reminder that your deepest inter
est is still at West Georgia, while you
are away at Columbia University doing
your graduate study.
Mrs. Taylor writes, . . . “congratula
tions are in order to your staff for the
highly attractive and most interesting
issue . . . many things about the paper
appealed to me . . . “While comment
ing upon an editorial, Mrs. Taylor con
tributed this thought, “Personality, the
key to success —if not developed in one’s
scholastic career may always lie dor
mant.”
* * *
A member of our feature staff con
tributed a wonderful gag for this issue
. . . but she didn’t know it. Something
along the line of “ghost writing,” may
be. Here is how the story goes. . .
New students were at a staff meet
ing filling out application sheets. This
“certain” feminine reporter happened
to be present. And in a stab at “dood
ling,” she filled out one of these sheets.
Unaware of the fact that her master
piece would get into my hands, she
proceeded.
1. Date: “Not too late, I hope.”
2. Name: “Luddy Lumpkins.” Class:
“Greenie-in-between.”
3. Why do you wish to serve on this
Who’s Who Among The Student Body
A REGULAR FEATURE DEDICATED TO OUTSTANDING STUDENTS, WHOSE ABILITIES AND ACHIVE
MENTS HAVE SINGLED THEM OUT FOR SPECIAL NOTICE.
Tom Luck, Business Manager of The Chieftain; President of Deba
ting, Dramatic, and W-Clubs.
When Tom entered W T est Georgia, we
knew he would leave an impression.
He is of the impressive type you know,
persistent, and powerful in his manner,
and the same by his appearance. Six
feet-two (a little over maybe, he re
minds the interviewer) with his blond,
tousled hair and other Germanic fea
tures, our hero (and how he likes tha 1
word) has proven to be a model of
versality. A good grades student, active
extra-curricular man and with good
marks on campus courses, Tom is about
the busiest fellow on the campus.
Yes, we knew Tom would make an
impression. And he seemed to have had
that idea in mind, even from the first
day as a Freshman. His Personnel
Sheet indicates that point. When ask
ed to check tiie activity in which he
was most interested, Tom not only
checked “the” activity, but all activities.
Yes, that is Tom. He worships power,
and handles his glory well, too.
There is something fantastic about
Tom's personality. You first meet him
and say, “He is a great guy.” Then you
THE WEST GEORGIAN
get a pique reaction, bordering on con
ceit, you think. But aftpr you get to
know Thomas, (just plairi Tom, he re
minds me) you will thereafter admit
that he is really a prince.
Born in Carrollton, 1920 . . . most
athletic and president of honory society
in high school . . . plans to be a “poor
druggist” or a “crooked lawyer” . . .
he blushed and wouldn’t commit himself
on the question of love (at the same
time his scrutinizing eye was giving
some new co-eds the “once-over.”)
When questioned about his forceful
ness, straightforwardness, and formality,
he put his hand to his chin, shook his
head, and muttered, “There are a lot of
things I go about informally.” Note,
by the way, that something on the order
of that crack is the limit of his humor.
First collegiate courses in pulp and
paper technology were offered by th£
University of Maine 25 years ago.
This fall Goucher College will cele
brate the fiftieth anniversary of its
founding.
newspaper staff? Cause l jus’ love
noose-paper editors! (That makes me
feel good, but she continued) —“The
greener the better,” (And that brings
back memories.)
4. What division do you wish to work
in? “Secretarial, if his wife doesn’t
ketek.” (Oh boy, oh boy, this editor
doesn’t have a wife!)
5. List completely all previous ex
perience: “Balcony, behind trees, and in
ante-rooms of auditorium.”
(5. Are you planning to study Jour
nalism? If not, what? “Dittying.”
7. List literary experience: “One love
ly letter . . . one book on ‘How to
Write A Feature in Code in Three
Minutes Flat’.”
8. Average grade in grammar and
composition: “I’m absolutely illiterate.
(But your columnist will vouch for the
fact that she gets around.)
* * *
The gusto of modern collegiate life
has placed me in an essayical, probably
philosophical, mood. I have devoted
much thought along the lines of “Es
caping Costs of Progress.”
The March of Progress has placed an
almost unbearable burden upon the
human organism, especially the human
organism attending college. The march
of progress is depriving college men
and women of forms of life and of en
joyment which the youth knew and
practiced thousands of years ago. It
has obliged everyone to live in a com
plex age. The new duties and obliga
tions which modern life imposes have
given us work for which our nerves
are unprepared. We must live and
act mechanically and think in abstract
terms. We must do all this with a
brain developed and assumed its present
form when life was primitive and sim
ple. Our nervous system is suited to
that primitive existence. It has not
changed since man came to live in the
clamorous, complex environment which
we call modern civilization.
This is why we often feel a
sense of strain. But rebellious though
we may be, idealistically as we some
times long for “the good old days,”
those old days, which by the way, were
not so good in all the features as we
may suppose, will not come back. The
streamlined age, with its
and its discipline, is here to stay. What
then, can we do about it?
We can soften these imperative dis
ciplines periods of relaxation when
we rest our overwrought nerves by
vicarious visits to “the good old days.”
We should maintain islands of primitive
enjoyment in the sea of modern duties.
We should play; we should have our
hobbies, recreation and entertainment.
TUESDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1938
This Collegiate World
lly Associated Collegiate Press
Television was first used as a medium
of classroom instruction by New York
University.
Fritz Reiner, famed orchestra lead
er, is conducting a music appreciation
course at Carnegie Institute of Techno
logy.
With a gift of 82,250,000, Harvard Uni
versity has opened anew graduate
school of public administration.
The first faculty of the University
of Alabama was composed of only five
men.
A University of Georgia fact-finder
lias estimated that students spend 21,000
hours a year standing in lines during
registration periods.
The University of New Mexico has
a special lightning research project.
There are eight naval reserve officers’
training units in U. S. collge and uni
versities.
More than 60,000 students in 38 U. S.
colleges and universities are members
of the Independent Mens Association.
For the first six months of 1938, gifts
to educational institutions declined $58,-
568,188 from the total of a similar period
of last year.
Random Thoughts
In World Affairs
By Jack Barnwell
The music goes ’round and ’round
and so do the figures in the world’s
political spotlight.
The integrity of the great British
Empire and the mighty French Repub
lic, the bulwarks of democracy in Eu
rope, must be preserved, so must their
skins also; so they sell out little demo
cratic brother, Czechoslovakia, to the
big, bad wolf of dictatorships, Herr
Hitler of Germany, in the face of pled
ges and promises to help the Cezchs in
case of invasion. Chamberlain, British
go-between in the deal, receives tre
mendous ovations by crowds in the
streets and crying denounciations by
naval heads in the House of Commons.
After all the cheek kissing by Hitler
and Mussolini, the first thing Hitler does
after invading Austria is to concentrate
troops on the Italian border.
What will come next? Is Mussolini
the key man? Does Daladier wear a
redder night shirt than Stalin?
Well, one thing is certain anyhow; if
Hitler goes back to paper hanging, he
will have enough scraped treaties to
get a start in business.
Let’s Get Athletic
Minded, Please
With prospects at West Georgia for
bigger and better athletic teams this
year, it’s high time the non-combatants
as veil as the prospective warriors of
dear “od! W. G. C.” got athletic mind
ed.
The boys supply the action and the
rooting section the spirit. Heretofoi e,
all students were a part of one grand
rooting section, their pressure depend
ing on the steam acquired, so start early
and stay long.
The boys sweat, strain, and put out
for the school, and they like to know
that the students are behind them, poll
ing for them. The boys seem to P la >
harder and better. It's up to the stu
dents to develop some fine spirit thi*
year, so let’s all get athletic minded.
Columbia University is rostering the
“international point of view” through
a newly organized Council of Intel na
tional Publications.
University of Michigan astronomer*
have taken pictures of calcium ttame*
shooting 600,000 miles above the surface
of the sun.
New York City slums are the labora
tories for a Wagner College couise
train church workers.