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Published, by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
During the College Year
Vol. IV March 15, 1928 Number 6
MR. ROY AKAGI ADDRESS
ES INTERRACIAL
FORUM
By Minnie Edith Cureton
In an address to the Interracial Forum, which
met in Howe Memorial Chapel Sunday after
noon, March 4, Mr. Roy Akagi, National Sec
retary of the Japanese Student Movement,
briefly discussed some of the forces that are
cementing friendly relations between the United
States and Japan.
“Whether for good or for bad,” said Mr.
Akagi. “the shift of civilization from the Ivast
to the West is gradually making the W r est the
front door to Oriental and Occidental civi
lization and the least is becoming the backway.”
Because of geographical situation—the United
States on one side of the Pacific and Japan on
the other—these countries are being brought in
to close relationship one with the other. Air.
Akagi said that Japanese-American trade is
one of the greatest unifying forces, 94 per cent
of Japanese raw silk being exported to this
country annually.
In spite of the friendly trade relations between
these countries, the immigration problem is
somewhat puzzling to the Japanese. He said
that the discrimination against Japanese im
migrants and the Jolmson-Lodge immigration
bill of 1924, which abrogated the Root-Taka-
liira “gentlemen's agreement” of 1908, express
the opinion of the United States government
that Japanese trade is desirable, but the immi
grants from this country are not desirable mem
bers of the family circle of Amer’ca.
REV. HOWARD THURMAN
AT CHAPEL
"My prayer to God is that your love may
grow more and more in understanding,
knowledge and all manner of insight,” thus
began Rev. Howard Thurman, a graduate
of Morehouse and Oberlin Colleges, and at
present the pastor of Zion Baptist Church of
Oberlin, Ohio, when he spoke to the student
body and faculty at devotional exercises
Tuesday morning, March 13.
A knowledge, continued Mr. Thurman,
that is worthwhile is one that is a guide to
almighty love. A mother’s love for a way
ward boy, for example, is a love that comes
as a result of the mother’s almost perfect
knowledge of the boy.
On Wednesday morning Mr. Thurman con
tinued his discourse on the same subject. He
would have us possess a knowledge that
would enable us to have a, sense for that
which is vital -a something within us that
would aid in determining the counterfeit
from the genuine. It is difficult to determine
this in many of the things that we find in
the world about us; it is still more so when
it comes to things we can’t see. It is done,
however, on the basi«. of simple choices made
from day to day. I hose choices are not to
MARCH
By Ruby L. Brown
March is here and spring is near
And what will Jack Frost do now?—
Poor thing!
On the first of March the wind whirled and
roared around the campus so that one was
saved the trouble of walking to the calendar to
find out what day it was.
“March is fierce, isn’t it?” said Alice to Mary.
“My roommate said that here in Atlanta, if it
comes in like a lion, it goes out like a lamb and
if it comes in like a lamb it goes out like a
lion. I never heard that before. It’s funny.
It sounds just like that ground-hog story to me.”
“Alice, you listen carefully and I shall explain
to you, as best I can, March weather in Atlanta.
We believe in that lamb and lion story just
as we do the ground-hog story. You know that
spring comes during the month, therefore March
is the first spring month, so to speak. If the
first of the month is just as you have seen it,
then the first of spring is going to be favorable,
but if the first of March is like the days you
have in Florida, then don’t put away your win
ter clothes, for you will need them. We believe
that, Alice. No doubt you wonder how March
can go out like a lion without scaring gentle
spring away.
“In March old Mr. Winter seems to be
creeping away and Miss Spring approaching,
but Air. Winter hasn’t gone every time he seems
to be going. Sometimes he gets half way to his
home and comes back to Miss Alarch Thirteen,
saying, ‘Gee, 1 forgot to tell you good-bye.’
That day the wind roars and roars so much that
we can hardly keep warm.
“Finally he leaves again and reaches his
home several miles away. There he opens his
trunks and grips and packs away the little
brown leaves, the snow, the ice, his friend,
Jack Frost, and the like. Just about the time
we think he is settled, we see him rushing back
to another date, saying, just as a traveler would
say, ‘I forgot to take the sleet along and I’ve
come for it.’ That day we bring out our
galoshes, rain coats and umbrellas. A few
days after he departs with the sleet.
“Now the very end of Alarch, here he comes
back, we say. He tries but often his foot slips
off the edge of March and lie is too crippled
to come further. Away he limps then to his
home and settles in his bed.”
“Gee! Mary,” Alice remarked, "that’s a won
derful story. I’m going to tell mother about
March when 1 get home for I'm sure she must
not have heard the story.
“Old Air. Winter had no business trying to
crowd into Miss Spring’s place. I’m going to
always stay in my place, for I see that if 1 do,
everything will probably go on all right."
be made between what is extremely good
and what is extremely bad but between
things which are all seemingly good. There
must be a choice between the good and the
best.
MR. GEORGE COLLINS
SPEAKS ON THE RACE
QUESTION
By P. V. Kimbrough
The Y. W. C. A. has brought before us this
year a number of outstanding persons: Alission-
aries. associate branch workers, national and in
ternational student secretaries.
The Y President and her co-workers aim to
bring before the students such persons as will
help discuss the prevalent religious ideas, the
social conflicts, race relationships and minor,
ever}- day problems which confront students.
For this reason Air. George Collins was secured
to speak on the Race Question to the students
in Laura Spelman Assembly on Sunday eve
ning, February 12. His talk was confined to
the cause and the possible solution of what we
choose to call the race problem, tie said that
prejudice based upon superstitious ideas, in
feriority caused by ignorance and illiteracy of
a race, and segregation, more sectional than na
tional, are all at the bottom of the present day
race conflicts. The possible solution which he
offered and which so many other authorities of
fer is the amalgamation of the races. Of course,
he holds that in this amalgamation the lower
elements of the races are not included.
At the end of his very interesting discussion
on this subject the members of the Y asked
questions of Air. Collins and made the best of
their opportunity for information.
QUARLES LIBRARY IN
NEW QUARTERS
The library will soon be moved into its
nice new quarters in the basement of the
Laura Spelman Rockefeller Hall. It will oc
cupy the rooms formerly used for the “gym”
and the laundry. The reading room will be in
the old laundry room while the book cases
will be in the old gym room. No longer will
the readers be disturbed by the pounding of
heels on a hardwood floor, for there will be
a fine cork floor in the reading room. Sev
eral big windows in the reading room fur
nish an abundance of light. Everything will
be conducive to study, reading for pleasure
and quietude. Great fun will be had in the
moving.
Have You Read These Books?
Copper Sun—Countee Cullen.
Black April—Julia Peterkin.
Of One Blood—Robert Speer.
Abraham Lincoln, Man of God—John Wcs-
eley Hill.
Byron—Albert Brecknock.
Oliver Cromwell—John Drinkwater.
A Friend of Caesar—William Steam Davis.
Dean Briggs—Rollo Walter Brown.
A Donkey Trip Through Spain—Gordon.
Two Vagabonds in a French Village—Gor
don.