The West Georgian. (Carrollton, Ga.) 1933-current, October 15, 1940, Image 1

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Newspaper Page Textdevoted to the bust interest of W. G. C. VOLUME viii. School To Cooperate On National M. Day Approximately twenty-five stu dents and faculty members will be required to register for Selective Service in the United States Army Wednesday, October 16. Registration will be held in the Carrollton High School from 7 a. m. until 9 p. m. or until all appli cants have been signed. The West Georgia College bus will carry those men between the ages of 21 and 35 to the school in Carrollton Wednesday at a time to be designated later. Professor L. E. Roberts urges every person to realize the neces sity of registration. Failure to do so makes one liaWe to a SIO,OOO fine, a five-year jail sentence, or both. President PROP. CULLEN B GOS NELL, Political Science in structor of Emory University, who, as president of the Geor gia Academy of Social Science will preside at the meeting. Saturday Conferences Planned By Faculty Plans for Saturday s tudent faculty conferences have been set up by the faculty of West Geor gia in an effort to bring about a closer relationship between stu dents and faculty members. The purpose is also to let the students present their common problems and seek a solution for them with faculty help and cooperation. Experiment The plan that has been set up will be an experiment by volun teer students and faculty members to gain the students opinion on matters of administration. Student reaction to this project will determine whether or not it will be continued as a regular feature instead of present Satur day classes. Purposes It is hoped that these confer ences will serve three purposes: first, that it will be a means of discussing any situation that might be a source of friction in this school; second, that it will help the students and faculty to work out the objectives of education to gether and third, that it will serve as a means of guidance in common problems and selection of a voca tion. WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUESDAY, OCT. 15, 1940 Roberts To Speak On WSB Program Next Saturday Prof. L. E. Roberts, head of the social science department, is to be interviewed on the “Forward Georgia” program over WSB, Sat urday, October 19, at 12:45 p. m. The program, sponsored by the board of regents, will be con cerned with the place of rural schools in solving Georgia’s social and economic problems. Chieftain Staff Announced By Year Book Editor Students on the 1940-41 CHIEFTAIN STAFF were an nounced this week by J. C. Bonner, adviser and Herbert Babb, editor. They include Johnnie Brownlee, associate editor; Billy Gaines, managing editor; Speer Ramsey, business manager; Betty Grossman, freshman editor; Lawrence Bar ton, sophomore editor; Susie Ramsey, post-graduate editor; Jack Collum, club editor; Ernestine Tankersley, feature editor; Janies Pinion, sports editor; Arnold Loftin, photo graphic editor; Eula Mae Mor gan, Raymond Farr, Jeanne Bradfteld, typist. Assigned to the various staffs are John Folger, Glynn Na tions, Hubert Adair, Edgar Padgett, Leroy Strain, Mary Jenkins, Louise Ray, Ben Payne, Madalynne Register, James Presley, Barbara Max well, Melba Morgan, Russell Green, Iris C. Coleman, Mar garet Burdette, Virginia Lewis, Margaret White, Jane McCain. Ist CARROLL GRIDIRON BATTLE The first football game in Car roll County was played on ground where the Rural Arts building is now located. EZMARALLDA WRITES HOME Have Tooken Fore Bathings, Foots and All And I Ain’t Been Here Nigh Uv 3 Weeks (This is the first in a series of letters Eymarallda will write to her family in the hill coun try.) West Georgia College Dere Maw, I would of rote you a tong time but they was so much fer a gal to be a-doing up here thet I jist ain’t got arroun ter hit. They shore is a heap uv gals up here. And a heap uv of boys tu, as fer as thet is consarned, but I haven’t got arroun te messing with the men-folks much yit. I’ll git me a man afore the yar is up tho. Don t worrer Maw, I’ll not be ary old maid. We hav a great big room where we’uns don’t do nothing but eat, and they don’t even cook in the same room neither. This is the most ellagant place I was ever at. And the things we hav ter eat, why when they brings hit out, hit looks so awful good, but when you try to eat it, hit ain’t near so good as the turnips and sweet taters they you-uns cooks up there arroun Cypress mountings. And the men-folks don’t never set no jug uv skimmings on top uv the Galaxy of Noted Georgians, Prominent Journalist To Attend Academy Meeting Placement Tests Announced By Dr. D. F. Folger Tests given Freshmen upon their entrance to West Georgia College have been graded and. recorded. Names of students who ranked highest in each of the tests are given below. Scores on the psychological or mental tests ranked from 26-155 here at W. G. C., 200 is the per fect score. Medium score was 71 with fifty per cent of the students making above this and fifty per cent below. ’ Placement tests, or aptitude tests, which are given to determine the work each student can be expected to do in college, have been sent to Dr. F. F. Beers, examiner of the University System of Georgia, and graded. John Folger, Carrollton, ranked first in this; he was followed by Margaret Shelton, Rome; second, and Edward Rock Turner, Tampa, Florida, third. On the test over the Southeastern Problem and Projects, John Folger made the highest score. Eris Hut chinson, Tallapoosa; was second and Eloise Bryan, Florence, Ala., third. Katherine Brown led in Study Skills; Edward Rock Turner was behind her only two points; and Betty Grossman, Brunskick; was third following Turner by only three points. English scores showed Jack (Continued On Page 3) tabel. Some uv the gals says thet they is right. I never knowed they was so many people which stayed up late of a night neither. When I fust come up here I went ter bed at good dark and they was so much fuss a-gomg on ouside uv my door thet I got up and looked out and Maw, I’ll swear, thet by Jacob I wuz the onlist gal which hed went and hit bed. Hit war tew er three horers afore anybody more went ter bed. I felt right country fied and iggarant agoing ter bed by myself like thet. And asides thet hit were the fust tim I ever did sleep in a bed all by mer self. They wuz always Willie and Lucy Belle and Abner and me in our bed at home and I never did think we wuz a bit too many in ther. Do you member when Willie had the small-pox and the other tew hed to move out and give him room to-sling him arms arroun and jump all up in the aire and holler. Well thet wuz the onliest time I have ever felt so alone and in the wide open spaces afore. We all stays in a great big Mark Etheridge, Prof. Cullen Gosnell, Among Notables To Be Here Mark Etheridge, one of the South’s outstanding journalists and Vice-President and General Manager of The Courier Journal, and Louisville Times, will head the list of notables as the West Georgia campus again be comes the mecca for the members of the Georgia Acad emy of Social Sciences here Friday, October 25th. Dr. Cullen B. Gosnell, of Emory University, President of the Academy, will preside and it is expected that Chancellor S. V. Sanford, of the University System of Georgia, will also be here for the meeting. Guest of Honor MARK ETHRIDGE, general manager of the Courier Journal and Louisville Times, who will speak to the Academy of Sci encos group here October 25. house, which they calls a dormer tory and they is got some room irt em where you don’t do noth ing but wash. And they is some body a-washing in there all uv the time. I have tooken fore bath ings, foots and everything, and ain’t been here much on ther other side uv 3 weeks. Yew know what Paw says about a-washing so much. Well hit ain’t so. I ain’t washed off nary a bit uv skin yit. And I’m a-studing purty hard tur. I a-larning more Englich than any thin else. Hit seems lik they speaks another kind uv talk down here from whut they speaks up arroun the Cypress Mountings, tho and hit is right hard ter larn. My marks in classes is purty good I think. I make right on up in the letters. Fer as I hav got so far wuz a F tho. But that ain’t so bad cause some uv these dumb city gals is still a-making up in. the A’s and B’s, I’ll bet they don’t never git in the big letters like I are in. Git somebody which can rite and send me some knews uv home folks. Lots uv love, Ezmarallda. DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF W. G. C. NUMBER TWO. The Academy meeting held here last year was deemed so success ful that West Georgia was again chosen as the site for the meeting this year. The purpose of the Academy is to meet and discuss problems of a social and public interest. Its membership, which is state\ wide, is composed of lead ing business and professional peo ple. Important Discussion The subject of Mr. Ethridge’s address will be “The South’s Place in the World of the Moment.” Ethridge has had a long career in the newspaper field. He began as a reporter for the MERIDAN STAR in 1913 and since that time has worked on the staffs of the Columbus (Ga.) ENGUIRER SUN, MACON TELEGRAPH, NEW YORK SUN, Consolidated Press, WASHINGTON POST, Richmond, Va., TIMES DISPATCH, and since 193(i has served as vice-president and general manager of the COUR IER JOURNAL AND LOUISVILLE TIMES. Program The program arranged for the visitors is as follows: 7:00 p. m. Dinner in the college dining hall. Members of some student organization will be invited to dine with the visitors. 8:00 p. m. Address by Mark Ethridge in college auditorium with student body invited to attend. There will be no broadcast from the college this year due to in ability to establish broadcasting facilities but Mr. Ethridge will have a recording made of his speech when he arrives in Atlanta by plane on October 25 and his talk will be broadcast as a recording over one of the Atlanta radio sta tions. Buffet Supper Success According to Dietician And Student Opinion “The students acted like vete rans! The whole affair was almost perfect. If all clubs carry on as the Officers’ Club did in serving and if the students continue to conduct themselves as they did, we will have the satisfaction of knowing that West Georgia College is ONE COOPERATIVE UNIT,” stated Miss Doris Grossman, dieti cian, in commenting on the buffet supper served Sunday night. from the student body indicate that this new plan will prove itself more popular than the former "sack system.”