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Page 2 THE GUI LFORDIAN Published weekly by the Henry Clay, Websterian, Zatasian and Philomathean Literary Societies EDITORIAL BOARD H. GRADY McBANE EDITOR-IN-CHIEB' J. SPOT TAYLOR, Jr BUSINES MANAGER ISABEL PANCOAST SECRETARY PROF. MARK BALDERSTON FACULTY ADVISOR MISS ALINE POLK FACULTY ADVISOR MISS KATHERINE SMITH ALUMNI EDITOR REPORTERS S. G. Hodgin Athletics Emrie Teague ' Departmental News W. L. Rudd Y. M. C. A. Hope Motley Y. W. C. A. Sam P. Harris Lectures and Entertainments Josephine Mock Office Notes Isabel Pancoast Campus Notes J. Spot Taylor Jr Henry Clay Notes Fred Winn Websterian Ntoes Ruth Pearson Philomathean Notes Blanche Lindley Zatasian Notes Address all communications to THE GUILFORDIAN, Guilford College, N. C. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, $1.50 PER YEAR N. B.—Those desiring additional copies of the paper may secure them for the sum of ten cents per copy. Entered at the post office in Guilford College, N. C., as second-class mail matter. Member of North Carolina Collegiate Press Association EDITORIAL COMMENT The Guilfordian is now nearing the end of its eighth year of exist ence. For nearly four-fifths of a decade, it has been serving as the medium through which alumni, old students and friends of Guilford have kept in touch with the institution and its activities. How successful it has been in accomplishing this in the best way, we shall not discuss. What success or failures may have come to it, must be attributed to the four literary societies, which are its found ers, and who, with the faculty rep resentives, are responsible for its past history, its present status and future accomplishments. For those society members and faculty representees, who founded the Guilfordian and who placed it upon a firm footing, we have noth ing but the highest praise. What ever may have been the literary con tributions of the societies, to Guil ford. none have equaled this one in importance to the institution. With newspaper work, however, as well as other work there must nec essarily be at least an occasional change, in order to get the most effi ciency. It is quite obvious that a system which was efficient eight yeasr ago, will hardly work effective ly in every detail today. But if the Guilfordian situation is investigated, it will be found that aside from a few changes which have been made in the size and makeup of the paper and in the composition of the news articles, the system is the same as it was in the begin ning. To the average society member, it may seem that the present system is adequate, but to those who are more intimately connected with the work of the Guilfordian it occurs + hat there are changes which ought to be made and which would make a more efficient system. To them it seems that the organization needs F. general shake-up to rid it of some of the glaring defects that exist to day. The purpose of this article is to call attention to some of the chief est of these, with the hope that, with the suggestions of a possible solu tion, the societies may be able to work out some plan for more busi ness-like methods. Only rarely, if ever, does it occur to the majority of the students that publishing The Guilfordian each week calls for quite a bit of work. It d"es not even always occur to all members of the staff. This fact throws an undue amount of respon sibility upon the Editor-in-Chief and Business Manager. The fact that there is no managing editor of The Guilfordian has made it necessary for the Editor-in-Chief to assume many of the duties incumbent upon that office, leaving the remaining ones to faculty advisors. The work of managing editor is so important that very few newspapers are with out it. Another weakness under the pres ent constitution is that no circula tion manager is provided for. The fact is, The Guilfordian does not have a very wide circulation. Less than half the student body receives the paper. Members of the Alumni Association automatically become subscribers when they pay their As sociation fees. A small part of the alumni outside of the association and a few friends of Guilford subscribe. The total number amounts to less than five hundred. Why? Because at the time when the subscription list should be made up, the business manager has his time occupied with the advertising, which happens in The Guilfordian's case to be the chief and surest means of support. It can hardly be expected that the paper will have any appreciable increase in circulation so long as the business manager has a two-man job on his hands. Besides these two defects, there is another which in all probability is the most serious one in the whole system. That is the inefficient and antiquated method of selecting mem bers of the staff. Tile constitution provides for the election of three members from each of the four lit erary societies, and these with the faculty advisors and the alumni ed itor constitute the Guilfordisn staff. The society members' ideas of a person's ability as a newspaper re porter are bssed largely upon the work which he does in society. This, of course, is not a sufficient basis for forming an opinion as to that person's ability to do newspaper work. We mean by that, that the best debater is not necessarily the best writer of news articles, and that the most popular and likable person may not have the ability to gather news and present it in good news paper style. Whatever we may say or imagine in regard to the selection of these members, most of them are elected without much consideration as to their real ability in newspaper work. As a result the Guilfordian has some good reporters and others who do not care for the work and who are not especially adapted to it. The real question is, Can the situ ation be remedied? The writer thinks that it can. But it is first necessary to know whether the soci eties consider a change necessary or if they are going to continue to be sa' ; sfied with the present state of affairs. Since the societies formulat ed the constitution under which the paper is now being published, and S'nce the paper is still a product of the societies, they alone can change the system under which the work is done. The idea in advocating these KTS GrUILJOEDIAN changes is not to decentralize the societies' control of the Guilfordian. We believe the situation can be re medied without that. As a sugges tion, the societies could elect repre sentatives to confer as to possible solutions of these problems. This body of representatives might invite others to confer with them, possi bly the faculty advisors. And since* Guilford now has a class in journal ism, certainly the department which has charge of this course should be consulted in whatever changes are made, for it seems that in the past, too little attention has been given to those who were particularly good in English, in the election of Guil fordian reporters. We have not advocated these changes with the idea of depriving the societies of any of their powers as long as they assert them effect ively. Neither has it been done mere ly for the sake of a change, but only that the Guilfordian may be made better. Nothing can be done, however, until the attitude of the societies toward these suggestions is known. ALUMNI NEWS The following announcement, of interest to all Guilfordian readers, appeared in a recent issue of the Greensboro Daily News: "Mr. and Mrs. Richard V. Marshal >f Westfield announces the engage ment of their daughter, Miss Bertie Ellen Dix. to Hardy Abram Carroll of Mizpah. The wedding will take place in June." Both Mr. Carroll and Miss Dix are graduates of Guilford, Mr. Car roll of the class of 'l4, and Miss Dix of the class of 'ls. Miss Louise Osborne, on a i*ecent trip north, visited in Woodbury, N. J. at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Wm, Allen, Jr., of the classes of 1899 and 1900. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davis have returned to their home at Deep River. For the past year they have been in Germany, under the auspices of the Friends Service Committee, where they have been assisting in the organization of child feeding centers. Mr. R. W. McCulloch, 'O3. assist ant professor of English at the Uni versity of Maine since 1920, will teach in the summer school of this university during the coming ses sion. Mr. Hugh Moore, 1920, was on the campus last week. Mr. Harris Johnson, 'l4, is teach ing Chemistry in Washington Col lege, Tenn., and is, in addition, director of Athletics in that insti tution. In a recent letter from Mr. Johnson he states that he finds both the work and the place very delight ful. Washington College is the old est seat of learning in the state of Tennessee, having been founded by Samuel Doals of this State while that territory was a part of North Caro lina. On May 11, Mrs. Priscilla Hack ney will be eighty-two years of age. No doubt all of us rejoice that she is still spared to us de spite her more than four score years. We hope everyone who reads this will take the time to send her a word of appreciation and of greet ing upon this day. Tell your friends to do the same and let's give her a copious shower of good wishes. BRANSON WINS CLAY ORATOR'S MEDAL (Continued on page 2* Merrimon gave some musical num bers which were veiy well rendered and enjoyed by all. The judges for the evening were Messrs. E H. Mcßane and Newton Farlowe of Greensboro, and Profess or M?rk Balderston of the Guilford College faculty. Mr. Mcßane award ed the medal. 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