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SPELMAN COLLEGE Emancipation Exercises Auspices of Wheatley - Fauset Literary Club, Sisters Chapel, January 2, 1928 Organ Prelude—Kemper Harreld. Scripture and Prayer—Folia Butler. Selection—Morehouse College Quartet. Emancipation Proclamation—Julia Gaines. Organ Interlude—Kemper Harreld. Introduction of Speaker—Dorothy Rob erts. ‘‘The Third Emancipation of the Ameri can Negro”—Mr. Jesse O. Thomas. “Negro National Anthem”—Congregation. The address by Mr. Jesse O. Thomas, field secretary for the Urban League in At lanta, was based on broad training and ex perience, which Mr. Thomas has had in the social problems of the Negro. Leading up to “The Third Emancipation of the American Negro,” he gave a brief summary of the achievement of the race during the first 250 years after their arrival in America. Their coming, he said, present ed the question of how these two races were going to live together here. “Progress,” he said, "is measured by com parison.” The Negro had gone into slav ery with no language and came out speak ing the Anglo-Saxon tongue; he had gone in numbering twenty pagans and had come out four and one-half millions of American citizens ; he had gone in with no religion and came out with the same religion as the white man. The emancipation of 1863 constituted the first emancipation. The second emancipation is the changed attitude toward the Negro's ability to be edu cated. More and more new educational ave nues have been and are being opened to him. The old idea, too, that the Negro should be educated only for utilitarian pur poses is passing away. Under the third emancipatoin he discussed the interracial and geographical relations. No individual can solve these problems alone; it takes the efforts of all races and each person in the race no matter where he is located. He said, “No Negro is secure in New York or Massachusetts until every Ne gro is secure in Mississippi and Alabama." “Collective bargaining in our race, is need ed.” In this third emancipation must come the freeing of ourselves from the double economic standard. One way to do this is to make such contributions to the social, political and economical life that all races and classes of men must recognize our con tribution because it has genuine worth. The challenge comes to the young people of the races to strive to make this third emancipation more and more a thing of reality to every one, every where. Spelman’s Christmas Tree OUR LOYAL CEDAR By Ruby L. Brown I, a little Deodara Cedar, live near the front entrance of Spelman Campus. They say I am beautiful, and there is nothing for me to do but accept the compliment. Some say I am similar to the Cedars of Lebanon. Many, many years ago I was sent to Spel man College from the Hymalaya Mountains. I was homesick for many years after I arrived. I can very well sympathize with a girl who passes me and says: “I wish I could go home.” Each year at Christmas time I have been admired more and more. I have heard the little girls say for many a Christmas, as they passed the spot where I live, “I hope I shall have a tree as upright and as beautiful as that one is. I’ve never seen one like it be fore.” Since the girls are not talking directly to me, I pretend that I don’t hear them. At this Christmas season I feel prouder than I’ve ever felt since I’ve been on Spel man Campus. How could I get homesick now? My limbs are so beautifully deco rated, from the highest one to the lowest, with the lights of Spelman colors—blue and white—that gleam so far at night that even the most ungrateful tree in the world would have to rejoice. The first night I was lighted, I was shocked almost to tears because no such thing had ever happened to me before. Finally, I got over it, when I saw they were trying to make me more beautiful rather than kill me. People passing are immediately attracted to me by the splendor and beauty of my lights. When the street car stops at Spel man’s gate I can see the people within star ing through the windows as if they had nev er seen anything like me before. They haven’t, at least not on this campus where I live, I believe that this year I’ve done what I’ve always wanted to do—helped to make Christmas happy for those about me. I can hear the other trees talk among themselves about my attractive dress. Can it be that they are envious of my beauty? They ought to realize that I’m a little Christ mas tree. EDUCATION PROMOTERS VISIT SPELMAN COLLEGE Wednesday morning, December 14, the whole student body was called to Sisters' Chapel to meet friends of Spelman and pro moters of education in Georgia and the country at large. President Read introduced the visitors and each responded with a few words of admonition and encouragement. The first speaker, Mr. Trevor Arnett, pres ident of Spelman’s Board of Trustees, review'- ed the change of administration recalling the splendid services of Miss Lucy Hale Tapley, now president emeritus of Spel man College, and listing some of the rea sons the Board of Trustees entertained in de ciding to send to us President Read and Dean Carpenter. Responding to this speech President Read said she felt almost as if this were the occasion of her inauguration at Spelman College. Her introduction call ed forth a series of interesting talks from the following persons : M. L. Duggan, State Superintendent of Education for Georgia; H. J. Thorkelson, of New York, Secretary of the General Education Board; Walter B. Hill, State Supervisor of Negro Schools in Georgia; Professor Joseph S. Stewart, of the University of Georgia; L. M. Davrot, of Baton Rouge, a field agent of the General Education Board, and B. C. Caldwell, of Louisiana, assistant director of the Jeanes and Slater funds. These gentlemen brought us much valu able information about facilities and prog ress of Negro education in various parts of the South and North. The fine commenda tion they gave of the personality and service of Spelman graduates was wholesome for college spirit on this campus. Following the assembly, Spelman Home Economics students served luncheon for the visitors in Laura Spelman Hall.