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devoted to the
BEST INTEREST
OF W. G. C.
VOLUME VIII.
Hart And Roberts Lead
Campaign For Health Unit
Petitions Circulated Urging County
To Organize Health Department
“Prevention of disease pays greater returns than the
cost of maintaining an Ellis Health unit,” declared Pro
fessor Thomas Hart at a meeting of the Carroll County
Ministerial Association Monday, December 2. After his
address, it was moved that the Ministerial Association
go on record as favoring the adoption of the Ellis Health
Law in Carroll County. Resolutions for the Association
are to be drawn up by the Rev. Mr. Richard O. Flinn
Professor L. E. Roberts led one
of the series of discussions advoca
ting the adoption of the law, Tues
day evening, December 3, at the
Center Point community house.
“Putting the Ellis Health Law
into operation would bring pre
ventive medicine to the school chil
dren of the community and cut
down loss of time from school due
to infectious diseases,” stated Mr.
Roberts.
Mr. Hart spoke on the particu
lar problems of health in Carroll
County. Following these discus
sions, petitions were presented and
signed by 90 per cent of those
present. These will be sent to
Honorable W. O. Smitha and
Honorable Willis Smith, state rep
re entatives from Carroll County
to be made into a special bill which
will be presented to the Legisla
ture when it convenes in Janu
ary.
CHRISTMAS PROGRAM
GIVEN AT VESPERS
SUNDAY BY GROUP
“Peace on Earth, Good Will to
Men” was the subject of the
Christmas program presented at
the vesper hour Sunday.
Scripture references from the
several books of*the Old Testa
ment which foretold the birth of
Christ were revived in connection
with the familiar Christmas story
found in Luke.
Rearing and musical solos were
riven by Hubert Vaughn, Glynn
Nations, Grace Erwin, Margaret
Burdette, Elizabeth Leake, Peggy
Farrar, Charles Bell, and Charles
Stowe. Serving as organists were
Eris Hutcheson and Mary Gardner.
Munro Urges Students. To
Assume Social Responsibility
“A Feeling of Responsibility”
was the subject of the chapel ad
dress delivered by Paul Munro,
superintendent of the Columbus
school system at the regular assem
bly hour, Tuesday, December 3.
Mr. Munro emphasized the im
portance of our feeling the re
sponsibility to do something for
the improvement of society.
He pointed out that the work of
Evangeline Booth was a result of
her feeling a responsibility about
the miserable conditions exisiting
hi the slums of London.
He also cited as an example Dr.
Richard Grenfel, known as the
Laborador doctor, who felt his re
sponsibility whil£ on a vacation
in Labrador. This resulted in not
only better hospitalization but also
in helping the inhabitants to live
a more abundant life.
‘‘Progress in professions, in in
dustries and in all walks of life
results from the zeal of men and
women who assume a responsibil
ity to do the job at hand as
thoroughly as possible,” conclud
ed Mr. Munro.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., TUES., DEC. 10, 1940
New Music Teacher
Will Join Faculty
After Christinas
West Georgia College will wel
come Miss Jane Woodruff when
she arrives here January 1 to as
sume her duties as music teacher.
Miss Woodruff, who is from
Greer, S. C., received her A. B.
degree from Lander College at
Greenwood, S. C., and her Bache
lor’s and master’s degree in music
from Northwestern University.
She has taught music in Missis
sippi and South Carolina. At West
Georgia, she will be in charge of
public school music here on the
campus and in the laboratory
schools.
She will also hold voluntary
music appreciation classes seek
ing to bring the music of the great
composers to students here on the
campus.
With the newly-acquired phono
graph and records, it is expected
that Miss Woodruff will arrange
a regular schedule for
tion of certain operas and com
positions by certain composers.
West Georgian Occupies
West Georgian will occupy its
new office quarters on the back
porch of the Academic building as
soon as construction work is com
pleted.
Space formerly occupied by the
college store has been reconstruct
ed and now consists of two rooms.
SHADY HILL TEACHER
INSPECTS COLLEGE
Miss Katherine Taylor, director
of Shady Hill School, at Cambridge,
Mass., visited the campus last
week to observe and criticize West
Georgia’s program in teacher train
ing.
She is head of a practice teach
ing school which operates in much
the same way as does West Geor
gia’s unit.
Miss Taylor met with the edu
cation department, attended faculty
meetings, and talked with teachei
training students in an effort to
aid them through her experience in
this line of work.
She said that she was taken in
with the atmosphere here on West
Georgia’s campus. She comment
ed that there is no sham or cover
ing up here but a respect for peo
ple and a spirit of real education.
To gain further knowledge of
work being done by West Georgia,
she visited laboratory schools and
PRESS FORUM’S NEW
MAGAZINE MAKES
DEBUT SATURDAY
Press Forum’s new, fif
teen-page, mimeographed
magazine recently christen
ed the “Gen Pen,” will make
its formal debut on the
campus Saturday, December
14th.
Cover of this new publication
will be pink with a picture of a
baby in a bundle on it, symboliz
ing anew edition and anew addi
tion.
Gen Pen will contain editorials,
short stories, essays, and original
cartoons.
Winner of the contest for the
best article submitted will not
be notified until the day of publi
cation of the Gen Pen. At this
time, he will be presented with
a $2.50 prize and a complimentary
issue of the magazine. Faculty
members of the English Depart
ment acted as judges.
All students are urged to begin
turning in their contributions now
for future issues. All contribu
tions will be given credit in the
magazine; the best ones will be
published.
Dr. Embree Praises
Work At College
On Annual Visit
FRED YVALE AND MISS
CATHERINE TAYLOR
ALSO VISIT
“Work has been evolving
in a fine way .... I am
more than pleased with de
velopments.” This was the
comment of Dr. Edwin R.
Embree, president of Rosen
wald Foundation, when he
visited the West Georgia
campus Wednesday.
Mr. Fred Wells, associate rep
resentative of the Rosenwald foun
dation was on the campus last
week as well as Miss Catherine
Taylor, of Cambridge, Mass., who
serves as Consultant.
Rosenwald Foundation has been
promoting the training of Rural
teachers on the campus for the past
four years. This year West Geor
gia College received donations
amounting to $48,000. Part of this
sum is being used for the enlarge
ment of the library.
Dr. Embree spoke at the regular
monthly faculty meeting, Wednes
day, December 5. Afterwards, he
attended a tea in the R. A. recep
tion room.
Help Wanted
\Y T anted; Some fevej-dheadvd
thinkers and good writers.
It must be fate or something
very near fate anyway that took
away the power behind the
punch of West Georgia’s bi
weekly rag. Edi“or Pinson is
taking a rest cure and Johnnie
Brownlee was overpowered by
a strep throat. Not to be out
done, Collum had to undergo
a tonsil operation. Putting one
and four together you readers
will see that the staff has been
facing great odds lately... That’s
why Nations and “Percy” have
been going around in a daze
and is explanation enough for
the universal use of Kolar-Back
by the entire staff.
Journalism is a great game, if
you don’t weaken. But just a
word of warning: it gets them
all sooner or sooner than that.
New Type Training Adopted
For Third Year Classes
NO CLASSES WILL BE HELD ON
CAMPUS; CIVIC INTEREST URGED
By GLYNN NATIONS
At a meeting Wednesday night, December 4, third
year students, members of the education department
and representatives of the Rosenwald Foundation de
cided to revolutionize present methods of teacher train
ing at West Georgia College and initiate an entirely
new system.
VRA Council Will
Send Deputations
To Carroll Churches
Deputations to various churches
in Carroll County, and the sur
rounding territory are being plan
ned by V. R. A. Council and chair
man for the deputation committee,
Edgar Padgett.
Present plans of the committee
include a series of three programs
to be followed by a recreational
period during which supervised
games and folk dances will be led
by various members of the coun
cil. Completion of detailed plans
will be effected before the end of
the quarter and deputation work
will begin immediately after Christ
mas holidays.
Initial work on the establishment
of a Sunday School at McGibonoy,
one of the laboratory schools, has
begun. Leroy Strain heads this
second project which V. R. A.
Council has started. Regular Sun
day School programs will be spon
sored every Sunday afternoon at
McGibonoy school with council
members and other interested stu
dents serving-as teachers and coun
celors.
Student Committee Will
Assist Health Drive
Students selected from Mu Zeta
Alpha and Zeta Sigma Pi will be
gin a health project under the di
rection of Professors L. E. Roberts
and T. A. Hart beginning next
week and continuing indefinitely.
After this chosen group has stud
ied the health laws and problems
of Georgia, they will make a tour
of Carroll Couny and give talks and
show moving pictures to the stud
ents of the county schools.
Morgan, Huston, Represent
WGC In Debate Tournament
At the Georgia State De
bate Tournament in Mill
edgeville December *7 —8,
Eula Mae Morgan and Till
Huston, representing West
Georgia Debating Club, up
held the affirmative side of
the question, “Resolved:
That the Federal Govern
ment should adopt a Perm
anent Relief Policy.”
Miss Morgan stated her side of
the' question in the opening part
of her speech when she declared,
“We believe that our government
should adopt a plan that will pro
vide relief of some kind —work
relief or what ever kind will fit
the situation —to those people who
need it.”
She further clinched her point
DEVOTED TO THE
BEST INTEREST
OP W. G. C.
NUMBER SEVEN
Dr. Folger, who is in charge of
this project, brought out the idea
back of it when he said, "Why
talk about correct methods to be
used in teaching and then violate
them in our own classes?”
He continued, "Members of the
faculty have been concerned about
giving students opportunities to ex
perience the kind of education that
we say in our classes teachers
should give children in school.”
To enable them to learn really
fundamental methods, a plan was
devised to divide third year stud
ents into groups and to give each
of these groups some pressing
problem to solve on the campus,
in the community, or in the rural
schools. Three or four members
of the faculty will meet with each
group to help it gather facts about
the task it hopes to accomplish and
to help carry out ideas after facts
have been collected.
At certain intervals all mem
bers of the class will meet together
for two hours, discuss individual
projects, and advise each other in
order that all may share in every
undertaking.
No classes will be held for third
year students here on the campus
since all their time will be devoted
_to rousing interest in pertinent
needs of the people of Carroll Coun
ty. Drives against such problems
as insufficient health facilities, de
pletion of soil, poor dental care for
children will make up for their
class periods.
Students will be enabled to work
with people, to solve concerete
problems, besides studying theories
from a text book. "The test of
whether you have learned is how
well you can translate theories into
actual practice,” declared Dr. Fol
ger, commenting on the plan.
He added, “Students must gain a
.source of direction and purpose,
a vital appreciation of not only one
county’s needs but those of every
county. If we can give them that,
they will be able to continue this
(Continued on Page Pour)
by stating, "It is a reflection on
our nation, as a democratic coun
try, for us to have to admit that
we have had such a relief problem
in our midst for so long and-done
so little about it."
Huston averred, "Real needs
which lie at the base of any public
welfare program are due to de
structive forces which were chro
nic in our community life long
before the depression brought them
acutely to our attention.”
"Permanent public work pro
grams would endeavor to solve
this problem by’ taking up the
slack in employment with hand
outs to the needy,” Huston reiter
rated.
Colleges throughout the state
were represented at this meet in
which Huston and Morgan partici
pated.
