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The Campus Mirror
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'Service in Unity’’
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EDITORIAL
Seniors and Jobs
This is the time of year when the college
seniors are mentally distracted over the mat
ter of getting jobs. We had just as well
face the fact that teaching as a “money
making job” will not be the promised land
for many. Mass production in the field of
education has become just as distressing to
those that are depending on their education
for means of support as mass production
in the manufacturing field has put America
in a periodic spasm over unemployment.
This sounds rather vague, but, to analyze it,
you will find that an adequate number of
high schools where college graduates may
teach are springing up much more slowly
than college graduates are produced.
Teaching? High Schools? If this is your
desired goal, you had better change your
plan. The grammar schools, rural schools,
and kindergartens are suffering for lack of
good teachers. But who is willing to bargain
her high-priced education for $45 a month
salary? The college graduate feels that the
citizens of the state are asking too much
of her when they expect her to serve them
by teaching their future citizens at less than
living wage.
The college graduate is willing to give serv
ice, but she intends to be “worthy of her
hire,” and her sense of values and of human
relations has exploded for her the old idea
of service that undervalued both its cost and
its worth. She considers it a form of impo
sition to inflict herself upon people who are
not free to reject service that they have not
funds to pay for.
A certain candidate for the A.B. degree
remarked: “Before I am defeated in my
effort to get a good paying job 1 shall get
an A.M. degree. She may get her A.M.
degree and the present condition might still
slam her in the face.
Teaching? Why, teaching isn’t the only
thing on earth to do. Some of the college
folk can do much in dignifying labor. Edu
cation was never proposed to raise one above
labor. It was never intended to give one a
snobbish attitude toward service.
Seniors everywhere are now perplexed
over the matter of a job. Your job will be
to create a job.
A Home-Coming
President Read has written to all the
alumnae, nearly fifteen hundred, telling them
about the Golden Jubilee and inviting them
to come back home for a few days to tell
of their accomplishments, to catch again
the spirit that has actuated them in their
loyalty and love to their Alma Mater.
Many of the daughters of Spelman do
not know what their sitsers are doing. In
order to acquaint each other of their doings,
there will be an exhibit of the accomplish
ments of the graduates. The college is ask
ing each alumnae to send or to bring in pho
tographs of homes, business places of alum
nae, and of schools where they teach. The
husbands of the graduates are not excluded.
So if their husbands have been founders
and leaders, their sisters would like to know
that.
Any work of art or literature by any
Spelman girl will add to the interest of the
alumnae.
Such an exhibit will thrill with pride the
daughters and granddaughters of an Alma
Mater which for fifty years has made it
possible for Negro women to sound the depth
of education and prove to the world that
Negro women have a definite place in the
making of this nation.
Honored
Dr. Louise Baird Wallace, head of the
Biology Department of Spelman College, has
been elected a fellow of the American Asso
ciation for the Advancement of Science and
is duly enrolled in the list of fellows. This
association was organized in 1848. The com
munication which accompanied the certificate
states that the officers of the organization
feel honored to have Doctor Wallace as a
member of the association.
The Dream That Came True
The Atlanta-Spelman Club presented “The
Dream That Came True” March 13th. This
play, because of economic and sociological
problems presented, made a strong appeal
to the audience. The acting was so effectively
done that the audience saw clearly some as
pects of the present-day situation in the
social order.
Professor J. S. Redding, of Morehouse
College, directed the play. Misses Lillian
Peck and Zollie Martin, under the super
vision of Miss Julia Pate, helped with the
stage management and make-up.
The Atlanta-Spelman Club is doing much
toward raising funds for the Golden Anni
versary of Spelman College and heartily
appreciates the co-operation of the large
audience that attended the performance.
Guglielmo Ferrero
Famous Historian and Philosopher
Another unusual opportunity coming
to Spelman students. This man was
called “the world’s greatest historian”
in 11I08 by Theodore Roosevelt, whose
guest he was. Before that time he had
written The Female Offender, The
Young Europe, and The Militarism.
After visiting and studying in the two
Americas he became a philosopher and
has written Between the Old World and
the New, 'I'lie Third Pome, and The
Seven Vices. No matter what your
special interests are, you cannot afford
to miss this lecture.
Book Review
The Road to Plenty. Authors—William T.
Foster and Waddill Catchings.
This is a realistic presentation of the men
tally employed attacking the present situation
of the physically unemployed. The authors
have uniquely proposed a remedy for the
present economic evils of periodic depression
and increased unemployment.
On a west-bound train out of Boston
a Self-Made-Man and a Bond Salesman
watch from a window a crowd that is listen
ing to an agitator who is snapping fiery
words concerning the workers and the treat
ment they receive. The train stops and a
little Gray Man gets on. He hears the Self-
Made-Man say, “Workers gettin’ on as well
as anyone could expect, I’ll say. No more
than usual amount of unemployment.” The
little Gray Man, who is much concerned,
listens to their conversation until he can no
longer stand the slack remarks made about
a situation that is so distressing, a situation
that needs attention, a situation that is
affecting the entire world.
As the train moves across the continent
a business man, a lawyer, a congressman, a
professor of economics, and a Semi-Silk-
Salesman gather in the smoker at the call
of the little Gray Man and discuss the pres
ent evils of unemployment. Each man tries
to give the cause and remedy of the appall
ing conditions.
It is interesting to see how each of these
men expresses so vividly the thoughts of
each stratum of society. The little Gray Man
represents the uneasy masses, who are eager
to be directed to the Road to Plenty.
The professor tries to give the cause and
remedy in an academic and statistical fash
ion, while the congressman is so in sympathy
with the government that he says very little.
As they ride, the little Gray Man becomes
more furious and pleads for persons to show
him the light.
The business man interestingly gives a
proposed remedy for the present condition
and a way to prevent similar conditions in
the future. The business man gives this rem
edy, while the cynical lawyer and sophisti
cated professor slam question after question
at him. It is a wonder how calmly he han
dles the situation and directs us to the Road
to Plenty.
If this remedy were followed up, America
and the world would be freed of the great
unemployment evil.