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WHAT HAVE YOU
PUT INTO IT?
What does a person expect from life when
he puts nothing into it? Does he really have a
right to expect anything? We’ve learned by
living that life is a "give and take” process.
According to Reverned Claud Hendrick, of
Rome, there are two classes of people. Those
who have conquered life and those whom life
has conquered. Those who have conquered life
are those who have faith. Those without faith
are pessimists.
All of us want to be the best but so many
times we are reminded that we cannot all be
masters. However, because we may never be
a president, we must each remember the signi
ficance of the adage," A chain is as strong as
its weakest link” and live our best so that we
may be justified in expecting the best.
Once the pastor of a small church went to
his place on Sunday morning and when the
collection plate was passed, he dropped in a
half a dollar. When he had completed his
service, and the congregation was leaving, his
small son came up in time to see his father
empty the collection plate, which still held only
the fifty cent piece. I feel that the child gave
us all something to think about when he so
innocently said, "Father if you’d put more
into it, you’d have gotten more out of it.”
—By Bobbie Stepp.
THE IMPORTANCE
OF SPORTS TODAY
In a recent letter from overseas a sailor
wrote, "We are proud of you at home for
carrying on our way of life, for refusing to let
war stop the trend of schooling, religion and
sports.”
Yes, sports is a part and an important part
of our American way of life. In times of peace,
the world recognizes and attempts to forward
all phases of sports and the things for which
they stand.
In times of war they become doubly import
ant. The men who train our youth for the hard
ships of war realize the necessity for a strong
body and a fighting spirit that sports alone
can give. Competitive games and callesthenics
give our battle weary men a release that is be
yond value.
On the home front, schools and colleges are
coming to recognize more and more the signi
ficance of physical Education. National leaders
have requested that through our school every
child be given an opportunity to develop a
strong, clean body. Our leaders also believe
that adequate, continuous, and graded pro
grams of health and physical education in all
grades on through college is essential to na
tional preservation and is a foundation for pro
tective military strength. They say that nothing,
including military training, interfere with or be
substituted for instruction in health and phy
sical education.
Today, we realize the importance of sports
more than any time in the history of our coun
try. To the thinking person it is evident that
as our civilization progresses so will the need
of many forms of athletics.
—By Glenn Crowder.
With the arival and departure of Valentine’s
Day, the editor thought some of the campus
couples might appreciate these inspiring words:
LOVE AND RHYME
When Love and Rhyme were rather young
And somewhat unacquainted,
Rhyme dropped a rough word on Love’s tongue
And scratched it so he fainted.
The rosy cherub could not speak,
He only sighed and stuttered,
As if a brier pierced his cheek
With every word he uttered.
So Reason thus for them decreed:
Since Love’s mishaps debarred him,
Rhyme now must recompense the deed
And do his talking for him.
—William Russell, ’66.
THE WEST GEORGIAN
The West Georgian
WEST GEORGIAN STAFF MEMBERS:
EDITOR-IN-CHIEF g obbie £ obb
ASSOCIATE EDITOR Evelyn Kidd
BUSINESS MANAGER Carolyn Chism
NEWS EDITOR - y ; Jean Hobbs
SPORTS Glenn Crowder and Van Joyner
FEATURE EDITOR Bo ‘ ,b “.J lp S
CIRCULATION MANAGER •- Carl ™oolt
FACULTY ADVISOR Eunice Chute
REPORTERS: Louise Broadrick, Phil Astin, Jack Dempsey,
Dixie Grimsley, Ed Johnson, Kathryn Jordan, Van Joyner,
Eddie Lilly, Rachel McCrea, Oliver Lindsey, Margaret Mar
tin, Jimmy Nally, Clarice Richards, Laura Waldrop, Martha
Wilson, Carl Woolf, and Hugh Moss.
Published Bi-Monthly by the Students of West Georgia
College, Genola, Georgia. Printed by Frank T.
Thomasson, Cairollton, Georgia
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A GREAT OPPORTUNITY
An unusual opportunity is open to colleges and schools today.
The Federal Communications Commission has ruled that a certain
number of channels be left open for new, non-commercial F M
radio stations, to be set up after the war is over. If the schools,
colleges, arid churches do not show the necessary imagination and
leadership to establish these stations, the F C C will turn the chan
nels over to some other group, probably the commercial stations.
A West Georgian who has never studied this subject might
have several questions: What is F M? What could an educational
station do that commercial stations are not already doing? What
does all this have to do with a college student?
To take up these questions in order, F M, for frequency modu
lation, stands for a type of radio service which is so free from
static, so life-like, in short, so superior to the ordinary A M stand
ard, that radio engineers predict a complete change-over to F M
within ten or fifteen years. Quite naturally there will be no changes
until the war is over. As soon as materials are released, however,
there will be many F M units installed, commercial and non-com
mercial alike. For a period of years both F M and A M services
will be available.
Today there are a few more than 900 A M radio stations in
the United States; the wave lengths are already so crowded that
the ordinary radio receiver can not always tune out competing
stations to get clear reception of a single program. F M, because of
technical reasons, will offer the possibility of 3,000 additional
stations, and there will be no possibility of two stations trying to
crowd in on the same wave length. The small, local station may come
into a period of great importance.
An educational F M station would be in a position to bring
into a proper unity and balance all the important local interests in
a way that a commercial station can not afford. Commercial stations
are required by the F C C to give a certain portion of their time to
programs concerned with the public interest. Some of these network
programs are magnificent. However, the clear tendency over the
years has been for commercial stations to schedule public interest
programs at times when few people are listening and to give over
the popular hours to highly profitable advertisers. Since educational
stations can not accept commercials, they could resist the temptations
which are too strong for the standard stations today.
Not everyone realizes what a tremendous influence the radio
has already become. Adults spend six times as many hours with the
radio as they do in reading. School children dedicate almost as many
hours to Uncle Don, the Lone Ranger, and other programs as they
devote to the school room. In our rural section of Georgia as high as
80% of the homes have radios while only 5% of them read any
newspaper.
This vast power of the radio will be needed if we are to build
a better world and to prevent a third world war. This is a very com
plex civilization; our very lives are sometimes dependent upon
happenings in far away sections of the globe. The fast-moving events
need reporting and interpreting; otherwise, an uninformed public
will be at the mercy of demagogues.
College students are familiar with the statement, "Let me write
the songs of a nation and I care not who writes its laws.” To bring
this up to date, one should add "the radio scripts, the comic strips,
and the movie scenarios;” these are daily shaping attitudes in a deep
seated way. Today the imaginative and able young men and women
who write the radio scripts for the large commercial advertising
agencies blissfully ignore the roots of our native culture and to a
large extent disregard the spiritual meanings of democracy.
If colleges and universities all over the country should regular
ly operate non-commercial stations with the primary objective of
clarifying and strengthening democratic values, there might rise up
an army of able college men and women who could lead our country
and the world into anew golden age. For these reasons the opportu
nity to set up educational radio stations goes beyond the momentary
relief we w’ould all experience if we could hear good programs with
out nauseating commercials. —G. K. S.
Tuesday, February 20, 1945
Catnpu i ddpotli^li!
CARL MOON
Vice-President of Sophomore Class, Officers’
Club, Business Manager of Choir, Mu Zeta
Alpha, W. Club.
In that beautiful fair city of Atlanta, eighteen
years ago on November 15, at twelve o’clock
noon, a little red-headed baby boy was born to
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Moon. At the age of two
his family moved to Loganville, where they
have made their home for the last sixteen years.
Before Carl entered school, he fell prey to
that very familiar disease, "mumps,” and fell
out of the window right in the midst of it.
Then school days rolled around and boy-like,
he didn’t especially care for books, but he gra
duated from Loganville High in 1943. During
his senior year he was voted the best-all-round
boy of his class. The inquiring reporter then
asked when did he first become interested in
girls? At this, he mischievously grinned and
replied, "When I was two days old.” (Hum,
quite a wolf, eh, girls?)
Hunting is Moon’s delightful hobby. He
likes to talk (especially when he’s not suppose
to) and as for his other fancies, there’s "Janet,”
horse operas, and hillbilly music. Classes, con
ceited people, and gossipers are the things he
abhors.
Our neat, tall, red-headed, blue-eyed boy is
very likeable and his good nature (seldom
found in red-heads) has won him a host of
friends here at West Georgia. His good spirit
of cooperation is most certainly admired. Carl’s
favorites of West are the recklessness found at
Melson Hall and the "women.”
He is expecting to go into the Air Corps after
his West Georgia days. His ambition at present
is to teach agriculture however, there is a
good possibility of it changing to flying.
Our man of the week’s dream girl possesses
the qualities of good looks, personality, cook
ing ability, patience at sewing on buttons, and
she must not be a back seat driver.
Moon here’s wishing you happy hunting and
the best that life has to offer.
MARY PADGETT
Assistant Editor of Chieftain, Secretary and
Treasurer of Sophomore Class, Secretary of
Press Forum, Choir, Zeta Sigma Pi, Officers
Club.
On the blustery, winter night of March 11,
1926, in Oakman, a tiny little babe’s cry was
heard. How proud Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Pad
gett was of their little blue-eyed daughter,
Mary.
Asa child her favorite pastime was making
mud pies and Mary always made sure they
were good and done. She liked to ride horses
all the time and in school she was always be
ing called down for talking so much. Why little
Mary even admitted playing "hookey a few
times. However, finally she managed to pul.
the right strings and received a diploma from
Fairmount High School.
Then Padgett entered that wonderful abode,
which is loved by all —yes, West Georgia, and
here she has made quite a record. We love that
Southern drawl and those sparkling blue eyes
and that bright attitude toward life.
Our typical, attractive, tall blue-eyed blond
is crazy about people and she selects mostly
for her wardrobe tailored clothes. She dislike
hypocrites and also doesn’t especially care f° r
(let’s see how did she put it) "gushing P e °‘
pie. Her hobbies are tennis and reading an
her favorite sport on the campus is West s
library. ,
Mary’s ambition is to be a school teacher an
then—well, your intelligent minds can gues
the rest. He must have an abounding person
ality and plenty of ambition and if possib e,
dark hair and eyes are the preferables, r ei
dream home is to be of the colonial type, c
cated out in the country and up on a hill su
rounded by trees. Sounds good Padgett an
here’s wishing for you all that the heart e
sires.