GEORGIA: Furriners Must Git!

. . . We’s gonna get them aliens,

Their name is naught but mud.

We’s gotta shoot these furriners,

Who ain’t got Georgy blood.

We got to shoot old Gran’ma fust,

I hates to do it, kin’er,

She’s been a good ole Gran’ma, BUT

She ‘uz born in Caroliner.

This neat bit of doggerel by Jack Tarver (Macon Telegraph) passed from mouth to mouth in Georgia last week. But to no avail: Governor Gene Talmadge, who has taken his bounden oath to drive all foreigners* out of the Cracker State, won his first victory and expelled a “foreigner,” Iowa-born Walter Cocking, dean of the College of Education at the University of Georgia. Talmadge charge: that Cocking dared to hope that white and Negro teachers might study together at a graduate school (still in the idea stage) proposed near Athens (Ga.). Ten of the State’s 15 regents, including Lawrence Wood (“Chip”) Robert, ex-secretary of the Democratic National Committee, this week voted to remove Cocking.

*Talmadge’s definition: anybody born outside of Georgia.