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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR ®lji'(CantpitsiMtn*ar ‘‘Service in Unity* *’ Editor-in-Chief Mary Alice Dunn Assistant Editor-in-Chtef. Mabel Dockett Editor of News Elsie Edmonson Assistant Editor of News Oteele Nichols Editor of Special Features Ruby Brown Assistant Editor of Special Features Augusta Johnson Editor of Jokes and Sports Edith Tate Social Editor. Maenelle Dixon Editor of High School Section Beautine Hubert BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager ... ... Mary DuBose Secretary of Staff Rubye Sampson T reasurer Minnie Cureton Circulation Manager Annie Hudson Exchange Editor Flora McKinney Advertising Managers Frankye Berry Phyllis Kimbrough Faculty Advisor M. Mae Neptune SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75c Per Year 40c Per Semester 1 0c Per Copy Postage 2c a Copy 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.