Newspaper Page Text
2
THE CAMPUS MIRROR
CL h I'Cantp us iMirniv
‘‘Service in
F.ditor-in-Chief
Assistant Ilditor-in-Chief
F.ditor of A civs
Assistant F.ditor of Nezvs
Fditor of Special Features
. lssistant F.ditor of Special
Unity”
Mary Alice Dunn
Mabel Dockett
Elsie Edmonson
Oteele Nichols
Ruby Brown
Features. Augusta Johnson
Fditor of Jokes and Sports Edith Tate
Social Fditor Maenelle Dixon
F.ditor of High School
Section Beautine Hubert
BUSINESS STAFF
Business Manager Mary DuBose
Secretary of Staff Rubye Sampson
Treasurer Minnie Cureton
Circulation Manager Annie Hudson
Fxchange F.ditor Flora McKinney
Advertising Managers . Frankye Berry
Phyllis Kimbrough
Faculty Adviser. . M. Mae Neptune
SUBSCRIPTION RATES
75c Per A ear 40c Per Semester
10c Per Copy
Postage 2c a Copy
OUR CAMPUS
Every year about this time, members of the
campus community stand and admire the beauti
ful trees and grass, as a, stranger would who is
visiting us for the first time. Our campus is
beautiful and is growing more beautiful. A
path across the grass would lessen this beauty.
Whenever you are tempted to cut across the
grass, think of the large sums of money spent
each year for the improvement of the: campus ;
think of this slogan—Give the Grass a Chance.
HARMON EXHIBIT OF FINE
ARTS BY AMERICAN
NEGRO ARTISTS
An Exhibit of Fine Arts by American Negro
Artists will be shown on Spelman campus be
ginning May 1 and extending through May 7.
This exhibit has been arranged in connection
with the \\ illiam E. Harmon Awards for Dis
tinguished Achievement among Negroes as an
outgrowth of the Award in Fine Arts. It is
the third year in which productions of colored
men and women have been shown under these
auspices, and is the second time for the Harmon
Exhibit to be shown at Spelman College. The
collection this year comprises 71 pictures.
SCRIPTURE READING AND RECITA
TION CONTESTS
The winner of the Chamberlain Scripture
Reading prize of fifteen dollars was Mary
Alice Dunn, ’30. The winner for the Lu
cinda Hayes Scripture Recitation prize of
fifteen dollars was Mamie Bvnes, ’32.
CHAPEL ECHOES
THE Y. W. C. A. SPONSORS
PROGRAM FOR IN
DUSTRIAL WEEK
The week of March 17-21 was observed
by the Y. W. C. A. as Industrial Week.
On Monday, Dr. W. W. Alexander, direc
tor of the Interracial Commission, spoke con
cerning some present conditions in industry.
He stressed the need of Labor Unions be
cause organization is the only way to get
what is needed. He also stated that it will
be impossible, on account of racial difficul
ties, to organize the industrial workers of the
South until they realize that the curse of
the laboring white man is also the curse of
the laboring Negro.
On Tuesday, Mr. A. Philip Randolph, edi
tor of the “Black Worker” and president and
organizer of the Brotherhood of Sleeping
Car Porters, spoke on “World Peace and the
Darker Races.” He raised the question, “Why
strife?” since there is room enough in the
world for all of us. Since world harmony
does not exist, we have various problems of
Nationalism and Racialism. He also gave
several methods of securing harmonious in
dustrial relations, but the best method, he
said, is by emphasizing the fact that upon
the shoulders of the worker world progress
rests. The group must work together, and
it is only through education that they will
be brought to understand the necessity of
working together.
On Wednesday Mrs. Amber A. Warburton,
of the Economics Department of Spelman
College, spoke on “Workers’ Education.”
She gave the history of this movement and
also some interesting accomplishments. She
stressed the need of a Labor College in the
South for the benefit of colored industrial
workers, since one of this kind does not, at
present, exist.
Thursday Dr. Edgar Johnson, head of the
School of Economics at Emory University,
spoke on “Some Economic Aspects of the
Labor Problem.” He placed emphasis on
“impersonal forces and institutions that af
fect labor.”
The talk given on Friday by Mr. B. R.
Brazeal, Professor of Economics and Soci
ology of Morehouse College, concluded the
program for the week. His subject was
“What the Student Can Do About It,” mean
ing these existing economic conditions. He
emphasized the fact that many great things
have been accomplished by students. We
should begin preparations now for the part
we are to play, doing well every small task,
building strong bodies, characters and minds,
and, getting rid of the “gimme a break" psy
chology so widespread among our race, go
out and make our own “breaks.”
On April 1, Mr. W. M. Scott, a business
man of Philadelphia, Pa., who is a trustee
of Tuskegee Institute, and a veritable god
father to Miss Amy A. Chadwick’s work
for the Leonard Street Home, in Atlanta,
gave a quaint picture of the old historic
Great Valley Baptist Church, of which he is
MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR
MISS MAY C. HAMILTON
On Sunday morning, April 13, 1930, the .Spel
man community held a memorial service for
Miss May C. Hamilton, a former Bible teacher
who bad been at Spelman from 1910 to 1928.
During this time Miss Hamilton had touched
the lives of many persons on the campus and
outside.
In introducing the program Miss Read spoke
of Miss Hamilton’s love for this campus and
the students and of the talk she gave in 1927,
at the first Thanksgiving service held in Sisters
Chapel. ( Miss Read said, “There was so much
kindliness and such sense of humor in her, that
one’s whole impression of her was of a friendly
person who loved people, who loved good, and
who loved God.”
The program was a series of word portraits
given by representatives of every group with
whom she had lived and worked. The groups
represented by these speakers were the college,
the High School, the Elementary Department,
and Shiloh Baptist Church where she taught a
Sunday School class. Each of the speakers gave
some personal impression of their beloved friend,
and the girls who were in the Sunday School
quartet when Miss Hamilton was superintendent
of the Spelman Sunday School sang two of her
favorite songs, “The Old Rugged Cross,” and
“Out of the Ivory Palaces.”
Miss Clara A. Howard, a first graduate of
Spelman, who had taught and worked with Miss
Hamilton was introduced. She told of experi
ences with the lowliest kind of people, a defi
nite test of her loyalty and devotion to the
neediest ones she could find. Miss Timson of
the faculty and a close friend of Miss Hamil
ton spoke of how she remained active in the
things she loved to do, until the last hours of
her life and of her funeral service held in Nash
ville and at Ripon, Wisconsin. At the latter
service there were many lovely floral tributes
which her nephew,—knowing it would be Miss
Hamilton’s wish—sent to be used at the funeral
of a colored person who had no flowers.
Miss Read announced the May C. Hamilton
Memorial Loan Fund which friends of Miss
Hamilton have started and which is for the
benefit of senior college students.
Mrs, Kemper Harreld of the Spelman Alum
nae pointed to the deep significance of a life
spent in finding and doing not the things usually
counted great but in doing in a great way the
things usually counted least.
a member, and told of the burying ground
where Phyllis Burr, a slave, is buried.
Concerning Miss Burr he said that she
was brought to America on the slave ship
Ganges and sold into slavery to pay for
passage on ship and died at the age of
seventy-five. On the monument erected to
her was this inscription, “Faithful Lhito
Death.”
The pastors of the church take great pride
in showing this monument.
During the week of March 10 to 14, “Dis
cipline” was the subject of the chapel talks.
Miss Read set people thinking by raising
the question, “Why is discipline ever felt to
be punishment instead of help and guid-
(Continued on Page 5)