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Ol)£ (Tampus irror 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.