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VOLUME IX
Technicians Play Friday
As Faculty Entertains With
Season’s Ist Formal Dance
Dance For Students And
Alumni Will Honor
Freshmen Students
West Georgia faculty will enter
tain the students and alumni at
the first formal dance of the year,
Friday evening from 8:15.to 12:00.
Myron Lee and his Technicians
from Atlanta will swing out in
modern swing fashion to supply
the music for the evening.
The festive occasion will be both
girl and boy break, so that every
student may dance.
Student and faculty members of
the Student Activities Committee
will serve as hosts, and it is hop
ed that the student body will at
tend 100 per cent to make this the
biggest social of the year.
Alpha Psi Initiates
Fifty New Members
Fifty new members were ini
tiated into Alpha Psi, the Home
Economics Club, last Thursday
evening in the Rural Arts build
ing.
An impressive program entitled
“Spirits of Home Economics" was
presented by the sophomores. Can
dles of different colors, each
representing a different meaning,
with girls assembled dressed in
evening gowns of corresponding
colors, made up the beautiful can
dle light program.
Those participating in the pro
gram were Valynda Park, Mary
Jenkins, Mary Jo Malcolm, Cath
erine Dailey, Virginia Fuller, Vir
ginia Culpepper, and LaVerne Bed
good.
After the program, the club en
jioyed a social hour consisting of
games and refreshments for the
girls.
The Alpha Psi Club now has
seventy-five members. Plans for
the coming year are underway.
Dr. Charles Clark Urges
Zeta Sigma Pi To Form
Interest In Current Affairs
In a brief talk before the mem
bers of the Zeta Sigma Pi, Na
l .ional Honorary Social Science
/Fraternity, which met last Thurs
day evening, Dr. Charles D. Clark
Purged the members to be actively
pnterested in all current affairs.
I Dr. Clark pointed out that be
| ides the self-satisfaction one gets
lin keeping up with the news,
I there are many other reasons for
I ['blowing the newspapers and opin
lion magazines. He urged toler-
I ance, critical - mindedness, open
| ; udedness, and respect of others’
lopinijons.
I Zeta Sigma Pi plans to have out-
P ; de speakers or student programs
Pt each of the meetings.
R. A. Gives ‘Quest of
fod Through Worship’
1 “The Quest for God Through
Courage” was the theme of Sunday
Alight s vesper service prepared by
c>j.avilla Maney. This was the third
.in the series of programs, follow-
F|ng the quests for God through
| Ivor ship and silence.
L Those presenting the program
' Were June Hart, Cynthia Black, M.
T Fuller, and Savilla Maney.
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., OCTOBER 21, 1941
Fire Damages West
Wing Melson Hall
While men of Melson Hall elect
ed officers last Monday night in
the Academic building, fire of un
determined origin swept the west
wing of their dormitory resulting
in an estimated $346 damage.
The flame was discovered about
6:45 arising from the wooden en
trance shed to the boiler room
immediately behind the end room
of the dormitory. Flames were al
ready enveloping the windows of
the lower end room and beating
against the wall to the top of the
building when Carrollton fire com
panies 1 and 2 arrived. The build
ing was still occupied by several
boys who were desperately strug
gling to remove their clothes from
the burning structure.
Flames in the end room and in
the boiler room were soon extin
guished, but another outbreak was
discovered in the walls of the ad
joining room, which was quelled
by cutting holes in the wall, and
ripping the closet door off. In the
meantime, a curtain had caught fire
in room 212 upstairs evidently
from a spark, but was soon put
out with damage only to the win
dow and wall near the window’.
The windows of the upstairs end
room, 216, were also damaged sev
erely, and the room itself smoked
badly. Damage to the lower end
room, 116, occupied by Leon Cor
bin, Dalton; M. T. Fuller, Clem;
and William Ansley, Whitesburg,
was severe, the windows being al
most demolished. The adjourning
room 214 was damaged somewhat,
but not seriously. Very little per
sonal damage was reported.
Another shed has been construct
ed of tin on the site, and repairs
to the damaged rooms will begin
this week.
‘Let’s Keep Americanism’
Jaycee President Says
Earl Staples, Carrollton lawyer
and newly elected State President
of Jayeees, spoke to the students
on the annual Columbus Day pro
gram in chapel, Friday, October 10.
Mr. Staples pointed out, by giv
ing a brief account of Columbus’
life and the hardships he endured
to find America, and by remind
ing the students of the sufferings
and trials their pioneer ancestors
had in making the America of
today, that our freedom is a sacred
heritage which must be maintain
ed and upheld by American youth.
“The great days of America are
not over. Here in our country
we have the last bulwark of demo
cracy. When democracy dies, our
country dies, so, through our ef
forts and attitudes, let us keep
America alive and keep American
ism—the only ’ism’.”
Press Forum Elects Jean
Ay cock Gen-Pen Editor
Press Forum held its first meet
ing Thursday night at 630 to add
new members and discuss plans
for the Gen-Pen, official literary
magazine of the club. A social
will be sponsored by the club in
November, President Betty Gross
man states. Jean Aycock was elect
ed editor of the Gen-Pen for this
year. .
Vice-president and secretary and
treasurer are, Mary Bess Jackson
and Eloise Helton respectively.
Films To Be Shown During
Chapel For Fall Quarter
October 21—“ Finding Your
Life Wprk.”
November 4—“ Coronation of
Pope Pius XII and Coronation
of George VI.”
November 7 “The Bo k of
Books.”
November 11—“ The Cause
and Immediate Effects of the
First World War.”
November 18—“Man Without
a Country.”
November 25 “Early Set
tlers of New England.”
December 9—“ Musical Pro
gram of Three Numbers.”
PLAN FOR WIDER
PARTICIPATION IN
CLUBS IS ADOPTED
Student Activities
Committee To Allow
Frosh To Join Early
For this school year, the Student
Activities Committee has design
ed anew plan for the purpose of
allowing earlier and wider partici
pation of more students in campus
organizations. Each student de
siring to join clubs will be limited
to membership in three organiza
tions. To be eligible to have his
picture with his Organization in
the Chieftain, the student must
have a membership of two con
secutive quarters.
During the present fall quar
ter, all student organizations are
open for membership by petition.
In the following quarters, applica
tions for membership must be in
by the first meeting of the quar
ter. However, in opening the vari
ous clubs to all students the Stu
dent Activities Committee provided
three restricting factors: (1) A
student must withdraw from an or
ganization if he attends less than
sixty•six per cent of the meet
ings per quarter, (2) Refusal to
take part in the activities of the
club will constitute grounds for
the students’ immediate dismis
sal; (3) To hold a club office, a
student must have an average
grade of “C.”
After having enlarged their mem
berships and formulated their
plans, the different campus groups
must present a general program
for the year and definite programs
for the immediate quarter to the
Student Activities Committee. Fin
ancial status must also be reported
to the committee yearly and by
the quarter.
It is hoped xnat tnrough this
plan, freshmen may be allowed
to join an organization at an earl
ier date than before, and learn the
club procedure. Thus the clubs
will not suffer so great a loss from
year to year as older members
leave.
Atlanta To Supply Power
For New N. Y. A. Shops
Electric power for use in the
newly completed N. Y. A. shops
at West Georgia is to be conveyed
from Atlanta, because more than
the allotted amount for Carroll
ton will be needed. This month’s
supply of materials for the shops
has been exhausted, and work has
ceased for the present, but the re
maining N. Y. A. barracks are on
the point of completion. One bar
rack has been in use for three
weeks, and houses forty boys.
Other barracks will accommodate
the same number of boys when
finished, and will be equipped
with telephones.
Sanford Tells Student Body
Of Part Education Will Play
In National Defense Effort j
Chancellor Speaks
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DR. S. V. SANFORD
State Adviser to Direct
Defense Work At WGC
Mrs. Lucile T. Watson, the State
Adviser for Girls’ work, will ar
rive at West Georgia College on
October 16 to help plan the details
of the new Sewing Room project
here.
The purpose of the project is to
train fifty girls for work in a
defense mill. The new sewing
rotum, which is located in the old
N. Y. A. shops building, is to be
operated as nearly like a mill as
possible.
Equipment includes a total of
twenty-two sewing machines, six
teen of which are new ones which
arrived Friday, October 9. Two of
the machines are double-stitchers.
A storage room has also been pro
vided for sewing materials, and
includes at present green and white
poplin and green twiii to be made
into N. Y. A. uniforms.
“Other equipment which we hope
to have includes electric cutters
and a large electric ironer,” Mrs.
Ridley, N. Y. A. sewing instruc
tor, stated.
Student Forum Discusses
‘Youth, National Defense’
Students of West Georgia College
held a round-table discussion on
“Youth and National Defense,” Fri
day at chapel. Eula Mae Morgan,
president of the Debating Club,
presided over the group composed
of Betty Watson, Mary Brown, Al
bert Browning, Franklin Walker,
and Miles Wiley.
These participants emphasized
the fact that students at West Geor
gia College can do much to aid na
tional defense in many ways. It
was pointed out that training in
N. Y. A. shops is invaluable in de
fense construction jobs. More work
concentrated on studies can help
in after-college participation in
community, state and national life,
and occupations. Morale is an all
important issue in the program.
The cooperation of every person
not directly engaged in defense
work will boost the morale of those
in the army and will help our na
tion adopt itself to a war economy.
NUMBER TWO
Character Alone Not
Enough To Win War,
Chancellor Declares
•
"I dont think character will win
the present war,” Dr. S. V. San
ford, Chancellor of the University
System of Georgia told students
and faculty this morning at the
regular chapel period.
Dr. Sanford also explained the
part that education plays in Na
tional Defense, amplifying on the
difference between democratic and
totalitarian form of government.
“I know that freedom cannot be
purchased. I further know that
what is needed is not more ad
vancement in material things, but
a return to spiritual life.”
Chancellor Sanford pointed out
that if we shut out our spiriutal
life we shut out our answer to
spiritual existence.
“The answer to our spiritual
existence is Jesus Christ, the only
original thinker the world has ever
known,” he declared.
Dr. Sanford pointed out ten in
stances in which Christ had phy
sical limitations, but no intellectual
limitations. “Christ knew as much
at the beginning as he did at the
end.”
Every unit in the University Sys
tem of Georgia is being asked what
that unit is doing to aid young
people in meeting the calls in this
National emergency. Dr. Sanford
asked the students and faculty of
West Georgia just what they are
doing to aid National Defense.
Chancellor Sanford is the guest
of the College today. He and Mrs.
Sanford arrived Monday evening
and met informally at Mandeville
Hall the entire faculty. The visit
is a periodic one and while he is
here he is inspecting the laboratory
schools, the physical plant, and
talking of the general policies con
cerning the college.
The college group also welcom
ed Mrs. Sanford. It was Mrs. San
ford who suggested the front ar
rangement of Aycock Hall.
Roy Whitener Named
Melson Hall President
Roy Whitener, Dalton, was elect
ed President of Melson Hall last
Monday night in a close race over
J. Frank Walker, of Sandersville.
Walker was named Vice-President.
Election continued last night for
Secretary and Treasurer and Coun
cilmen, after being interrupted by
a fire at Melson Hall. In a tight
decision, Richard Griffin, Rome,
was named Secretary and Treas
urer. Councilmen elected to sit with
the upper executive committee
were Dennis South, Dalton; George
Huckabee, Bowdon; Herbert Bice,
Greenville; Robert Woodall, Wood
land; and W. G. Putnam, Ranger.
Sitting at the head of the Council
will be Dr. Charles Clark, Melson
Hall supervisor. Proctors Charles
Stowe and Harold Nix will also sit
with the council.
A dormitory council for Melson
Hall is anew experiment, and
it is hoped that through the efforts
of this group, arising and existing
problems of the dormitory will be
worked out in a democratic way.