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VOLUME 10
Election Date Set
For Freshmen
Class Officers
Election of President, Vice-Presi
dent, and Secretary-Treasurer of the
Freshman class and President of
Sophomore class has been set for
Monday, November 16, according to
announcement.
Nominations for the campus of
ficers must be submitted to Ralph
Tyson, President of the student body,
by Monday, November 9.
Results of the election will be pub
lished in the next issue of the West
Georgian.
Spanish Club
Organized
"El Circulo espanol” is the name
given to the newly organized Spanish
club. This club was organized by
students who are interested in
Spanish.
The purpose of the club will be
the practice of Spanish and the famil
ization with the customs, culture, and
traditions of Spain and Spanish Ame
rica, and to increase the bond of
friendship between this country and
Spanish-speaking countries.
El Circulo espanol plans the fol
lowing program for the year: Two
meetings to be devoted to the coun
tries of South America; two to be
devoted to Spanish music and songs;
two to be devoted to Spanish conver
sation; two to Spanish games; .and
one to a study of Spanish life and
customs.
Officers of the club are: President,
Stuart Burnette; Vice - President,
Madge Parnell; and Secretary-Treas
urer, Frances Ray.
Meeting will be held the first
Tuesday of each month in Room 20
at 7:00 p. m.
South American
Missionary
Talks In Chapel
"Now our eyes are turned especial
ly toward our great sister republic
to the south,” stated Miss Leona
Glenn, in a chapel address Tuesday.
“We know and understand little
about Brazil and have no idea of
this great ally that we have.”
Miss Glenn, who was a missionary
to Brazil for thirty years, pointed
out to the students the great import
ance of having this large country as
our ally. She also stressed the impor
tance of the great Pan American
Highway that draws closer together
the countries of the two Americas.
This highway, when completed, will
extend from Canada to the lower
part of South America.
Miss Glenn declared that the Bible
j® the foundation of all our liberties.
Gur forefathers brought the Bible
w hen they settled this country and
established schools and churches,
teaching truth from the Bible,” she
stated. "For four hundred years the
Homan Catholic Church had con
trol of all education facilities in
Brazil. The Indians were forced to
be baptized. When the United States
scut workers to Brazil to open
churches, 85 per cent of the people
•here were illiterate.”
DEVOTED TO THE BEST INTEREST OF WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE
West Georgia Students
All Out For Defense
West Georgia College’s contribu
tion to the war effort was emphasiz
ed today in an announcement by
Dean Gunn that more than two-hun
dred students assisted in the harvest
ing of Carroll County’s current crop
of cotton. These students, working
on Saturdays and afternoons, and on
two school holidays, picked approxi
mately 35,000 pounds of cotton. In
addition thirty-five girls collected
7,290 pounds of scrap iron from the
campus and college farm in one af
ternoon.
Other defense activities in which
the college community is participat
ing include knitting and bandage
making under the auspices of the
Red Cross, and the study of First
Aid. All students enrolled in the
college are required, to take the
course jn First Aid. Many young men
are participating in military drill in
conjunction with the local Home
Guard unit of Carrollton. The col
lege physical education program is
stressing physical fitness.
In the laboratory schools, canning
and preserving have been emphasiz
ed and many food products are being
conserved in this area. The college
Home Economics Department is
planning special classes in nutrition
and war-time foods in anticipating
food shortage and high cost of foods.
Men Of Melson Hall Have
Get Acquainted Party
West Georgia boys had an infor
mal "get-acquainted” party in the
dining hall Friday, October 23. The
purpose of the social was to give the
boys a chance to know each other
better.
During the dinner each boy gave
his name and what division of the
armed forces he expected to enter.
A voluntary forum on war condi
tions and enlistments in reserves
started with Dean Gunn as leader.
"Cotton Needs Picking" As Shown
In Film, Records And Songs
By ANOIE LUCK
In chapel last Friday Dr. Smith
and students from the English 101
classes presented a very clever and
expressive account of West Georgia
College’s cotton picking. With all of
its constructive ideas the cotton pick
ing will aid cotton growers for years
to come.
Little Paul Appel was featured on
the film which will give posterity a
chance to see all persons associated
with West Georgia hard at work— or
not hard at work as the case might
have been. Paul’s expressive face
and Mr. Smith’s verbal account of
his activities represent every thought
and action of the pickers. This film
gave many of the students a chance
to see themselves in a movie.
Merrell Wade, the roving report
er, was heard on record interview
ing cotton pickers and various far®”
ers for whom the work was done. AI
of the farmers were deeply gratefu
for the efforts made by the students
and for the assistance rendered
New words with cotton picking
themes had been adopted to several
popular tunes. One of these songs
WEST GEORGIA COLLEGE, GENOLA, GA., NOVEMBER 6, 1942
FRESHMAN-FACULTY DANCE
TONIGHT AT EIGHT-THIRTY
Buy Patriotic
Corsages For
Dance Tonight
Get your patriotic corsages
sometimes during the da*r for
Freshman-Faculty Dance tonight.
These nosegays are made from ten
cent Defense Saving Stamps.
These corsages may be bought
from the following members of
Alpha Psi: Betty Jim Owings,
Annie Mae Phillips, Sara Baker,
Virginia Hemphill, Martha and
Marjorie Bullock.
Cheer Leaders And
Class Colors Selected
Cheer leaders and class colors for
both the Sophomore and Freshman
classes were selected when the stu
dent body was called together for its
first meeting Wednesday, October 28.
The Sophomores elected the Bul
lock twins, Ralph Tyson, and John
Evans to lead the cheers and the
songs of the upper classmen. Blue
and White were selected for the
Sophomore colors.
The Freshman class elected for their
Cheer Leaders, D. C. Paris, William
Mull, Mary Ruth Camp, and Eliza
beth Westbrook. Blue and Gold were
selected for the class colors.
On November 10, a pep meeting
and bonfire will be held on the soc
cer field. The Freshman-Sophomore
Soccer Tournament will begin the
next day.
was a spiritual entitled “Cotton
Needs Picking.”
The roving reporter concluded the
program with an open forum so that
all persons who had discovered more
effective means of extracting cotton
from the field might bring them to
the group. Several means of provid
ing secondary and even reclining
locomotion down the rows were sug
gested. It was suggested that horti
culture and animal training be used.
Horticulturists could by experiment
bring cotton to grow on trees in large
“bolls” the size of coconuts. These
“bolls” would drop to the ground
and could be easily gathered. One
person went so far as to suggest that
picking—like so many other pleas
ures—should be adolished for the
duration. All who attended this
forum left with the assurance that
the problem of removing cotton from
the field had been solved. It is cer
tainly a shame that so many people
have spent years in vain on this
problem when all that was needed
was merely to expose it to the bril
liant students of West Georgia.
FIRST FORMAL SOCIAL OF YEAR
TO HONOR FRESHMAN CLASS
Highlighting the West Georgia College fall social cal
ender is the Freshman-Faculty Dinner Dance which is
to be given by the faculty tonight at eight-thirty in the
college gymnasium
Communication
Center Established
On College Campus
The Communication Center, locat
ed in the Little Auditorium, is near
ing completion and will soon invite
the entire student body and faculty
to a house-warming. “As soon as
the wall boards arrive,” said Dr.
Kerry Smith in an interview, “the
recording studio can be speedily
completed. Then every one will be
invited to come down and examine
the equipment and the set-up.”
West Georgia is one of the few
fortunate colleges in the United
States with such a communication
center. The Little Auditorium will
serve as headquarters for many kinds
of communication activities. Other
movies, similar to “Shorty”, which
was recently shown at chapel, will be
produced. Other recordings, like the
“Cotton Picking Expedition,” will be
made. War information material on
such subjects by means of posters
and consumer education may be dra
matized by means of posters and
dynamic exhibits. Many types of
of writing will be done: plays, let
ters, news stories, movie scenarios,
and radio programs. The facilities of
the Center will be available to stu
dents, both as individuals and in
organizations, who wish to construct
posters, maps, and charts.
“It is our hope,” said Professor
Smith, “that any student or faculty
member who has a secret ambition
to direct a radio program or to write,
to draw, to paint, or even to learn
how to operate a mimeograph mach
ine will feel welcome.
Mu Zeta Alpha Makes
Plans For The Year
Mu Zeta Alpha, scientific society,
held its first meeting, October 15, to
make plans for the year. Mr. Stewart
Martin, former Mayor of Carrollton,
spoke to the members of the tradi
tions of the club. Mr. Martin was
the first President of this organiza
tion in 1933.
Mr. Howell, organizer of the club,
Dr. Doubles, and Dr. Witcher are
to serve as advisors of this organi
zation. With their help, the mem
bers plan to have programs of prac
tical use and of social benefit to the
students who become members. They
plan to make a trip to Atlanta and
visit the State Health Department.
The Mu Zeta Alpha has asked fif
teen students to become new mem
bers. At the next meeting those
students will be initiated and be
come official members.
Sirriio
■ Preceding the dance is to be a for
mal dinner in the dinning hall. En
tertainment during dinner will be
provided by various members of the
student body.
After dinner, following a brief in
termission, students and faculty will
proceed to the gymnasium where
the gaiety of the evening will be
continued.
The music of the evening will be
furnished by the nation’s number
one orchestra and bands, through
recordings. Several of the best-lik
ed musical hits have been chosen
for the “No-Break’’ dances.
During a crisis such as we are go
ing through today, many adjust
ments must be made to cope with
the changing conditions. West Geor
gia faculty members have done just
this. Imported men is their solu
tion for the scarcity of male stu
dents on our campus. These guests
will be invited from various sections
of the state.
Dr. Harris Speaks
To Student Body
Dr. Pierce Harris, minister of the
First Methodist Church in Atlanta,
spoke to the student body in chapel
Tuesday, October 26.
Dr. Harris stated that we were liv
ing in the midst of another world in
which there is great confusion in the
minds of the people. He compared
the war to a great forest fire and
said that all we could hope for after
the war was a charred and scorched
earth.
“Wars are made by men, fought by
boys, suffered by women, and paid
by posterity,” was one of his inter
esting comments. He said we, the
students, wM*e faced with the task of
going out into the world and we
must have philosophy of life; but
we can not afford to become philoso
phical because we have the task of
straightening out the entanglement
that the world is in today. He em
phasized the importance of remain
ing in college to prepare for the great
problems of living in a post war
world.
Students are invited to design
a letterhead for the Communica
tion Center stationery. The sketch
may include a drawing or it may
consist only of an attractive ar
rangement of the words: Com
munication Center, West Georgia
College, Genola, Georgia. The beet
sketch contributed will be used.
Designs should be turned in to
Miss Henderson by Monday, Nov
ember 20.
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