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PAGE TWO EDITORIALS For good state government State government should get things done. Closer to the people and more responsive to their needs than the federal government, it is the best agency for handling education, roads, mental health, and welfare. Yet state’s rights does not mean seccession from the union but rather cooperation within it. If state government holds up its end of the bargain, little federal intervention will be required. One gubernatorial candidate seems to realize this. He also has a record of service that proves he knows how to get things done. For this reason the WEST GEORGIAN endorses ELLIS ARNALL for gov ernor of Georgia. Farsighted leadership and a record of accomplishment and capabili ty is no less important in the state’s second office. This is why the WEST GEORGIAN strongly urges the election of GEORGE T. SMITH as lieutenant governor. Study, study , study! (?) With classes just beginning and professors trying to weed out the less serious students, newcomers may have gotten the impression that they are expected to spend all their time studying. After all, the sole purpose of coming to college is to acquire knowledge. This is only partially true. Social life is important too. Of course those who plan to stay here for very long will have to take a lot of time out of their social life to study, but all is not so black and white. There is a large grey area that combines education with socializa tion-extracurricular activities. These are worthy of a portion of every student’s time. In working in activities such as sports and publications, a student meets people with common interests while acquiring skills that will be useful in later life. Career possibilities can be explored. Freshmen can either continue with activities that interested them in high school or try new fields. Those interested in journalism will be welcomed by the WEST GEORGIAN staff. That's what they're here for While a record number here at West Georgia are just beginning their college career, a smaller group is looking forward to ending theirs this year. Fall quarter is the time when seniors are having their credits assessed and frantically trying to plan a year’s schedule that will enable them to graduate in the spring. This always presents problems, usually in the form of course loads totaling more than 15 hours. Required subjects may even be scheduled at conflicting times making it impossible to take all the necessary courses. Many seniors faced with this situation find them selves coming back extra quarters to finish up. People who have to do this usually develop a persecution complex centered around the faculty. “They just want to keep you here to get more money out of you before they give you your degree,” they think. “They should know that scheduling those courses at the same time would create conflicts.’’ Wait a minute! How should they know? Are department heads sup posed to be mind readers when they plan course schedules three quarters ahead? Actually the faculty has no way of knowing what courses students need unless the students themselves tell them. Seniors hoping to graduate this year who are faced with scheduling difficulties should talk to the department head in their major. It might be possible to reschedule courses, if not for this quarter for winter and spring. This is especially likely if there are several seniors in that major with the same problem. Talk to the faculty - it might help. (Efje Deal droroiatt “Representing Georgia's fastest growing college'' Editor .. Sarah Lee Managing editor Ed Collier News editor Elaine Gossett Asst, news editor Linda Terrell Feature editor Malcolm Fordham Business manager Carole Bradley THE VEST GEORGIAN LITTLE MAN ON CAMPUS FRESHMAN | |~ sel iuLJ£ < 2 '■un*"— ■* ssiom^ THE HEKSKT MeAGUPBMZNTZ." Linda Terrell Civil rights-12 long years and a long way left to go Twelve years ago the Supreme Court handed down its historical school desegregation decision. Georgians reacted, and those “sep arate but equal” facilities granted in the nineteenth century Plessy- Ferguson ruling were hastily started. Three years ago President Ken nedy introduced his sweeping civ il rights bill to Congress. Again Geor- gians reacted. of them, Senator Inch -111 l|k ard B. Russell, V attacked the f bill as commu- "Mm k nistic and un- ,-t* const i t u tional. Every- ** one agreed - “progressives” in cluded -that “you can't legislate morality,” but nobody offered any other means of insuring justice. RECENT DEVELOPMENT Recently, federal school deseg regation guidelines and medicare programs have brought the issue into own local schools and hos pitals. Again a hard core of Georgians have reacted. Arch-segregation ist Lester Maddox faces the pro gressive candidate Ellis Arnall, in the Democratic runoff elec tion, Sept. 28. Civil rights is an old subject. We've heard it argued and ra tionalized so many times that it seems to be an insoluble issue, an issue we would prefer to ignore. But we can't ignore it. We must explore it, dissect it, analyze it, and reach a decision as hon estly and objectively as possible, if we are ever to vote fairly in any election. It clouds all other issues. For a Southerner, that decision is by no means easy. Although most West Georgia College students were in gram mar school when the 1954 de cision was made, we have grown up in the segregated South. We know how segregation works. We know how it affects us. NEVER REFUSED And segregation has never caused white students to be re fused admittance to a public fa cility or forced to sit in the back of a bus. There is nothing so ob jectionable about it. But judging from the demon strations and sit-ins and recent riots by Negroes, the status quo is not so pleasing to him. Negroes have organized. White groups have organized also. Ex treme racists are found on both sides. The battle wages: “you've got the rights I want,” and “you can’t have my rights (because then I won’t have any?)” Black power is pitted against white power. It is all or none. Everyone can’t en joy the same rights. We are prejudiced. We are afraid, but of exactly what we are not quite sure. Just exactly how integration would affect us, we are not sure. But our imagina tion helps out, and our imagina tion “justifies” our prejudice. Organizations like SNCC seem to be respresentative of all Negro thinking. Every man and woman who has grown up in the segregated South feels the prejudice, the desire to protect his “way of life” when threatened. For the Southerner, I it’s all mixed up inside-too con fused and too confusing to be ex plained, but there, affecting atti tudes and reactions. CAUSES VARY The causes and reactions vary from individual to individual. And it is a matter of individiual ethics. We cannot hide behind our par ents, our churches, our race. The decision is a matter for each in dividual, each West Georgia col lege student, his and his alone. It is a matter of trying to un derstand, a matter of putting one self into the place of a Negro sol dier who fights in Viet Nam while his family back home in America must eat only in designated places, sit only in movie bal conies, and ride in the backs of busses. NO EASY TASK It is a matter of forcing oneself, and it is no easy task, to look at life through the eyes of a Negro in the segregated South -a Negro whose greatest expectation from life will probably be a meager liv (Continued on Page Five) SEPTEMBER 23. IMS Ed Collier Responsible voters will pick Arnall In the state of Georgia young people eighteen and above are given the precious right to vote, the right to help choose the path Georgia will travel during the next four years, and the right to select the man who can and will do the most for Georgia. This election year the field has already j M been narrowed ,%> *** by the primary fT voters to Les- - * ter Maddox and y % Ellis Arnall, Mr Mk and by petition to Howard Hollis Callaway. Which man can do the most for Georgia? Atlanta busi nessman Lester Maddox is, to put it mildly, the least qualified of the three, having had no past experience in either local or state government. The second candidate is the suave, multimillionaire con gressman Howard Hollis Calla way, who was elected as a Gold water Republican. Callaway has one of the most outstanding vot ing records ever compiled by any freshman congressman-out standingly negative. He has voted NO on almost every bill brought before the House (he even voted no on the minimum wage law). To this date congressman Callaway has been running on a secret plat form, and this coupled with his refusal to allow any other Repub lican to seek nomination for gov ernor or It. governor has cast a haze of doubt on his candidacy (G. Paul Jones wanted to run for It. governor, but was stopped by Callaway forces). Nevertheless Callaway will be on the ballot for the general elec tion, and chances are he will be running against the third can didate, Ellis Arnall. Ellis Arnall is a successful law yer and businessman, who has the distinction of being the youngest governor in the United States and, according to E. Merton Coulter, the most dynamic governor Geor gia ever had. Today Ellis Arnall is the youngest candidate for gov ernor, not in years perhaps, but in outlook and vision. DEFEATED ‘GRANDADDY’ When Ellis Arnall ran for gov ernor before some people said he could not win, but he did. Not only did he win, but he defeated the “granddaddy of pol itics,’’ Eugene Talmadge. Now Ellis Arnall is running against a segregationist and a pseudo-Re publican, neither of which is the granddaddy of Georgia politics.” Ellis Arnall is the candidate who thinks of the people of Georgia first, he is progressive, dynamic; he is the man who is qualified to lead Georgia into the future. He is a man with sound and “con servative” policies in Georgia fi nancial matters. He is the man who established Georgia teacher retirement benefits, and the man who will raise the teachers sal aries above the national average. Ellis Arnall is a man of action. Georgia needs action, not com plaisant self satisfied govern ment. Responsible and thoughtful young men and women all over the state are selecting Ellis Arnall as the man most likely to lead Georgia forward. Lets go Georgia ELECT ELLIS ARNALL ~ GOVERNOR