Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-11-16
Connauy Professional College Man and Chronic Secretary

ing the percentage Of illiterates increased In
81 counties last year over the year before. Here
they say that there are 10000 voters In Geor-
gia who can not read or write. STATISTICS Ike
that are appalling, and constitute a message
to the college men, the natural leaders in mat
tiers of education and intellectual progress,
that they are not doing all they should. Here
is work for an organization of university men"
THAT is not all the University Club stands for
by any means as he will tell you In fact, 1t
is only one of many functions this task of
modng the educational policy of the State.
To understand of the other very i'm
portant functions you must understand that
Tom Connally is very proud of the fact that
he is a university man-an Emory man,
Georgia man, q Yale man. man who has
been so fortunate as to have been youehsafed
a college education will possess something OF
distinctiyeness of thought of tradition of ideals
that does not belong to the less fortunate per
son of the high school training or of a common
school career. college education he says,
is an achievement. Why not, then, recognize
such attachments as the basis OF q dennlte SO
cial PelatiOnf
'rThe idea of social relations based on uniyer-
sity connection and experience has been appre-
cated and emphasized more by Yale men than
by the graduates of any other American col
lege" Mr.. Connaly said. as it not natural that
Il college career should entitle man to certain
social advantages, just as riches or birth seem
to do? ] think 1t was our own Governor station
who said, upon the occasion of one University
Club gathering, that there Is no aristocracy eX-
cept that of brains and achievement"
When the University Club of Atlanta was or
ganized less than three years ago 1t awoke com
ment everywhere, as If 1t had come to Ill a very
obyious need OF these comments Mr.. Connally
points out this editorial clipping as expressive
of the clubs purposes
"If all the men of this community who have
been through college and who have brought
something from college united in spirit of
sincere loyalty to ideas for which their Una
matters stand, Atlanta will soon awaken to the
supreme importance of things educational. Had
this club been organized a decade ago we should
doubtless have been spared our recent and futile
agitation over teachers salaries"
So II Is very evident to Tom COnnally that
there is a function for college besides that
of making a living and he wants the University
Club Of Atlanta to be means toward the full
ilment of that function.
All this comes Of his being professional col
ege man. Colleges colleges are his study,
Because of his Ill health he has travelled con
siderably since his graduation from college, hav-
ing crossed the Atlantic eight times, and having
sailed In European waters on liners and freight
boats On these jaunts he has gone where he
pleased, from day to day and from within TO
within.
But with oil the haphazard travel, he had
central o. in visits to the great universities
Of the world. He has been through universities
by the scores Christian and Mohammedan as
we'll. Much of his time has been spent at Ok
ford University, England, where he knows