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THE CAMPUS MIRROR
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‘‘Service in Unity* *’
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GIVING IS SHARING
The giving that fails in sharing numbs
the fine thrill of entering into the joys of
the receiver who cannot give a gift to the
giver. There are some who give to receive
a gift in return; others who give to be much
talked of or to see their names heading the
donors’ list of the Community Chest or a
similar organization. Then there are thought
ful persons who would rather share than
receive. After all, the latter person receives
the greatest return, for his Christmas spirit
reaches around the year, bringing a continu
ous pleasure. Whether or not we have
worldly possessions we can give true happi
ness by sharing our time and our love.
* * *
BROTHERS ALL
A common understanding between people
provides for a link of brotherhood. This
link can only be joined when people are
sympathetic one toward another. During
the last month, in chapel, there have been
representatives from Germany, France, Rus
sia, England, and the Philippine Islands, al
so an American “Globe Trotter.” As a re
sult of their visits, they have broadened our
outlook and deepened our sympathies. Their
interpretations of life are similar to ours,
and they have helped us to know them and
also ourselves better.
PRESIDENT READ ENTER
TAINS
President Read was hostess to successive
groups of the faculty at Reynolds Cottage for
after dinner coffee, during the last weck
of November.
BRIEF VIEWS OF THE
NEWS
Recently, John H. Finley, president of the
National Illiteracy Crusade, announced a $.35,000
gift received by that organization from the
Julius Rosenwald Fund to aid in the campaign
against illiteracy in the United States, par
ticularly in the South.
A special war is now being waged against
illiteracy in the United States. The census of
1920 revealed 5,000,000 persons, over 10 years
of age, who are illiterate. These figures are
appalling, and every effort is being made dur
ing the five months remaining before the 1920
census is taken in May to better this record.
The Julius Rosenwald Fund has made avail
able to the National Advisory Committee on
Education $100,000 to conduct a survey of the
duties of the Federal Government toward edu
cation.
Some 200 visitors from the Cuban Republic
were entertained in Atlanta during the week of
December 2. The occasion of their visit was a
“Good-Will Trip.”
A bill was recently passed in India penalizing
marriage fern girls under fourteen and boys
under sixteen. The passing of this bill provides
for the end of the horrible era of India’s
“Slaves of the Gods,” as Katherine Mayo has
called the child wives. “A healthier and happier
India” is thus forecasted.
Education is seen as a way out for India.
The Indian Statutory Commission has called to
its assistance an Auxiliary Committee on the
Growth of Education in India, with Sir Philip
Hartog as chairman. The committee has now
presented its report, picturing an unsatisfactory
state of affairs and proposes reforms. In the
future, education must be treated as part of the
operation of nation building, instead of being-
allowed to grow along lines of least resistance,
as formerly.
ECHOES FROM PRAYER
WEEK
These echoes are from a series of Chapel
talks given by Mr. Howard Thurman, of the
Spelman and Morehouse faculties, during the
Week of Prayer, November 10-17.
If salt becomes insipid what can make it
salt again: If you have lost your tang
what can give it back to you? What are
the little things you do which increasingly
rob you of your flavor?”
“Do your own thinking but remember that
wisdom was not born with you.”
* * *
After saying goodby to them He went up
the hill. One of the single ways to keep
your own personality flavor is to develop
the fine art of saying good-by. I he first
thing that education teaches us is to stand
alone. Unless we learn to say good-by to
many things which we feel that we ought
to do, we must inevitably say good-by to
our own highest development.
* * =i=
“I myself have never hung around as dead
weight. St. Paul. 1 he present social order
TO STUDY NEGRO LIFE
(We quote the following paragraphs from
on article in “The Womans Self Government
Association News," published at Cornell ( ni-
versity, for December 7, 1929) :
The week of December 8-15 will be observed
as Negro Education Week under the auspices
of the Cornell University Community Associa
tion with the aim to increase the appreciation
of cultural achievements of the Negro in
American life. This will be done by focusing
the attention of students on some of the com
plex problems involved, and creating in general
a better spirit of understanding between the
two races. An extensive program has been ar
ranged for the week which will begin officially
on Sunday with consideration of the subject
by the disqussion groups of the various churches.
One of the most interesting events of the
week will be the concert given by the Jubilee
Singers of the Utica Industrial Institute of
Mississippi at the Willard Straight Theatre on
Monday evening.
A tea is planned for Tuesday afternoon in
honor of Mr. Walter F. White, secretary of
the National Association for the Advancement
of the Colored People, and author of “Flight.”
On Wednesday W. E. B. DuBois, Ph.D.,
Harvard, will lecture. He is the author of
“Expression of the Slave Trade,” “Souls of the
Black Folk,” “Dark Waters,” founder of the
Pan-American Congress and editor of “The
Crisis.”
THANKSGIVING RALLY
By Katie Walker, ’31
It is an old custom for the faculty and
students of Spelman College to make their
annual I hanksgiving offering for Spelman
missionaries in Africa and to the Community
Chest of Atlanta for the Leonard Street Or
phanage.
Following are the contributions by clas
ses :
High School: 9th Grade, $4.05; 10th
Grade, $6.88; 11th Grade, $7.93; 12th Grade,
$13.53.
College: Freshmen, $18.67; Sophomores,
$18.40; Juniors, $7.84; Seniors, $25.00.
Packard Giles Club, $12.00; Faculty, $194.-
50; Grand total $.308.70.
is cluttered up with dead weights. Are you
a dead weight to your friends, accepting
everything, yielding nothing? Are you a
dead weight to your parents, accepting every
thing, scarcely yielding even gratitude? Are
you a dead weight to your college? Are
you a dead weight to God?
* * *
Many new things are happening in the
modern world, having direct bearing on what
the youth sees as he looks at life and re
ligion. Our generation must find a fresh
w a^ of thinking about God. \\ e must find
for ourselves a fresh way of thinking about
Jesus of Nazareth. We must increasingly
identify life and religion. Our lives are al
most completely departmentalized. We must
understand that there is a great moral strug
gle going on in the world as well as in each
of us, and each person must take sides.