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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
7
GLANCES INTO THE LIFE
OF MISS CLARA HOWARD
(Continued from Page 1)
There was no recoiling when the occasion of
the visit was announced. Instead she willingly
and immediately launched upon a series of inter
esting experiences of her busy life, about her
family background and her childhood before she
entered Spelman.
My parents came from Greenville, Ga. There
I was born,” she began. “Nobody is old now,
so I don’t need to tell the year. Father bought
his freedom, learned how to read and write and
mind his own business. He was a carriage
maker, and when the family moved to Atlanta
he ran a shop where the Candler Building is
now. Many Negroes and white men learned the
trade from him.
“My father, mother and grandmother and the
others would rise up in their graves and sit up
straight if they should see children playing on
Sundays now. You see father was the superin
tendent of Friendship Sunday School and also
one of the pioneer deacons of the church. After
Sunday School was over, we children sat on the
pulpit steps of the church until mother and the
rest came for the next service. There was
no going out in the street to buy all-day-
suckers.”
Until Negroes had enough education to teach
in the public schools, Negro schools were taught
by Southern white women, who wished to earn
wages. Because these teachers were often cruel
in their punishments, young children were usual
ly taught by their parents at home. This ac
counts for Miss Howard’s statement. “I learned
to read about the Good Shepherd, sitting on
my father’s knee.” A regular time was set aside
for study in the home, during which time the
elder children heard the lessons of the younger
ones. Their mother stood by to see it well done.
Thus it happened that Miss Howard, who was
taught by her father at home, could read and
write fairly well before entering school.
At nine years of age, her father having died,
■die went to a public school on Bishop Street.
On the first day she was promoted twice. Be-
VESPER SERVICE SUNDAY
NOVEMBER 3
Evelyn Pittman, ’33
High compliments have been paid to the
chorus for their excellent musical program at
Vesper services in Sister’s chapel Sunday, No
vember third. The program for the afternoon
consisted of responsive readings led by Pres
ident Read, spirituals led by Mable Hillman
and other musical numbers. The special feature
of the musical program was the cantata, Gallia,
sung by the Morehouse-Spelman mixed chorus.
Bessie Mayle sang very sweetly the part of the
Princess in the soprano obligato.
In spite of the rainy weather, a large audi
ence heard this delightful program.
“How were your marks?”
“Oh, nothing to be sent home about.”
ing too advanced for the first or second grades,
she passed to the third, where she “got stuck.
When school was out in the afternoon the chil
dren knew to go directly home, for their mother
would be watching for them, or maybe on the
way to meet them. She seemed not as much
concerned about their studies as their deport
ment. “I am not worried about their sense,"
she would say, “but they do know how to be
have. I leave the sense part to the teacher."
Even in the summer time there was no change
from a busy life to one of more leisure. Miss
Howard told of how her mother was sure to
find a summer school for the children to attend.
One particular summer, however, seemed des
tined to bring a real vacation, for the teacher
of the school they attended suddenly died. The
children triumphantly announced the news to
their mother. In reply Mrs. Howard calmly as
sured them that she would find another school;
and she did.
After Miss Howard left the Bishop Street
School, she attended the Stoors School an 1
later Atlanta University. She was there when
two New England ladies came South to begin
a school in the basement of Friendship Church.
In the mornings the mothers went to this school;
in the afternoons the children went there to
children’s meetings, on condition that they had
behaved well at their school. Permission being
thus granted, the children would “break their
necks to go.”
“I fell in love with Miss Giles, one of the
teachers in the basement," said Miss Howard,
“and I wanted to go to that school, but had some
difficulty in changing, for my brother had been
warned by President Ware that the “little school
in the basement wouldn’t last long.” But you see
it has. The school started in 1881. In the fall
of 1881 I became a student there. 1 remember
well when I gave Miss Packard, the principal,
my permit and told her I wished to come to her
school, she smiled and said, “not my school but
the Lord’s school.”
With that this glance ended. 1 he visitors
arose to go, but were detained to meet the do
mestics in this pleasant home; three lively,
frisky pups. All three seemed to love their mis
tress. Who wouldn’t.' She is the same Miss
Howard that the Spelman girls know and love
so dearly.
J. RAMSAY MACDONALD
(Continued from Page 1)
War, are anxious for peace, but keep doing the
things that have been causing war since the time
of the Peace of Westphalia in 1648. Mr. Mac
Donald is making a test of what can be done
for peace between man and man, and between
nation and nation. Elihu Root says of him:
“His aim is to accomplish moral disarmament
and physical disarmament will follow as a matter
of course.” Mr. Root says in substance that
Premier MacDonald’s weapons in the battle he
has entered are frank and open friendship, a
sense of justice which includes justice to others
as well as to oneself; a love of liberty which
means liberty to differ without being hated for
it. He believes that the way for nations to rise
higher and higher in development, in spiritual
powers, in wealth, and in happiness is not by
pulling each other down but by all helping each
other up.
Since President Hoover and Premier Mac
Donald realize that two nations cannot make
the peace of the world, as the result of their
conversations and agreements, a five-power con
ference, composed of representatives of all the
great naval powers will be held next January,
with the hope that agreements will be made be
tween all.
These representatives of Great Britain and
America were open and frank with each other,
and did not watch each other as is the usual way
with diplomats. That is why they were able,
in four days, to reach conclusions that it other
wise would have taken months to achieve. They
reached their conclusions in the light of several
important events—the signing of the Peace Pact
at Paris, the signing at Geneva of the optional
clause by Great Britain and her Dominions, and
the conversations Premier MacDonald and the
American Ambassador, Charles Dawes, have
had, during the past summer, concerning condi
tions of peace. President Hoover and the na
tion’s guest, Premier MacDonald, have now de
clared lasting peace between the United States
of America and Great Britain.
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