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EDITORIAL
Stimulated Gaiety
Each succeeding generation is secretly
afraid it will lose its sense of the youth of
the earth; so it strives to defend itself by
providing make-believe worlds in which
stimulated gaiety may be substituted for
the kind of youth that is full of enthusiasm,
glee, and imagination. Decaying flesh
strives to discover a perpetual spring for
life’s self-renewal. AA> cannot help but look
to youth for the charm and gaiety that per
suade us that living is a pleasure. Yet we
stand afraid to face the fact that our types
of recreation are not the kinds that are the
results of youth’s exuberant energy.
AYe provide the glamorous, enterprising
public recreation houses as means to stimu
late a dying world which has an insatiable
thirst for wealth. Those that do not drink
wines in order to make themselves have the
‘‘spirits” and imaginations that should nor
mally be theirs, have become almost insane
in an effort to abolish the use of wines.
Chritsmas will not be enjoyable to Ameri
cans unless there is a spectacular display of
all that is gaudy, sensual, and flippant.
The flesh takes Christmas and screams for
stimulants.
If you walk down the streets, you see
everything. There is too much fact and not
enough left for the imagination. There
fore there is a lack of appreciation of the
unseen things which can be brought to earth
by the imagination of those who are un
touched by the world of mere materials.
AYe think we are being dealt with cruelly
by the gods because we are experiencing a
period of depression, unemployment, and
suffering. The gods had nothing to do with
it. AA'e did it ourselves. AA'e put all of our
wealth into the building and making of
things for the senses of sight and taste.
AYe are so materialistic that we judge our
beauty, our charm, our youth, our very lift'
in the terms of material worth.
AA’hen we learn to think less of prepos
terous things and curb our insatiable thirst
for those bluffing, unreal stimulants that
are provided only to quench the call of the
flesh, we shall be able to have more joy.
In place of fear of losing the sense of youth,
the succeeding generations will enjoy the
results of spontaneous outbursts of youthful
enthusiasms about natural normal human
interests.
The Community Council
A new venture in cooperation is under way
on the Spelman College campus. A Com
munity Council was recently organized, com
posed of faculty and students in recognition
of the fact that common interests and com
mon purposes govern all members of the col
lege community. There are at present on the
Council, three members of the faculty, four
members from the senior class, three mem
bers from thd junior class and two members
from the sophomore class. A representative
from the freshman class will be added the
second semester. The nine student members
were nominated by the classes and elected by
the general student body.
The organization of the Community Coun
cil marks a significant step in the develop
ment of the College. How much it can ac
complish will depend not only upon the
wisdom of the members, but perhaps even
more on the attitude of all the students to
ward their elected representatives. The
Council is advisory. The aim of the Council
is to promote the welfare of the college
community.
The members of the Community Council
are:
Seniors: AYillie Dobbs, Mabel Dockett,
Florence Morrison, Julia Stanfield.
Juniors: Sammve Fuller, Annie AAYst Lee,
Oteele Nichols.
Sophomores: Rachel Davis, Maude Price.
Faculty: President Florence M. Read, Miss
Ruth 0. Eakin, Airs. Alargaret Nabrit Curry.
The General Chairman is Aliss Eakin and
the Student Chairman is Julia Stanfield.
Visitors on the Campus
November and December have brought to
Spelman College an unusual number of
visitors. A partial list follows:
R. L. Alarquis, the President of North
Texas State Teachers College, Denton, Texas,
was the president of the Association of Col
leges and Secondary Schools of the Southern
States who appointed in 1929 the Committee
to rate Negro colleges.
Arthur D. AATight, Professor of Education
at Dartmouth College and a trustee of the
Jeanes Fund and of the Slater Fund, is
Executive Agent of the Standing Committee
cf Approval of Negro Schools appointed
by the Association of Colleges and Secondary
Schools of the Southern States.
George Foster Peabody, native of Georgia
and resident of Saratago Springs, New York,
is a philanthropist who numbers among his
varied interests Americus Church Institute
for Negroes, Hampton Normal and Agri
cultural Institute, Penn Normal and In
dustrial School, and Fort Valley High and
Industrial School for each of which lie is a
trustee.
Louis R. AYilson has been Librarian of
the University of North Carolina since 1901
and his activities in connection with library
work there include being Kenen Professor
of Library Administration and membership
in the American Library Association.
Joseph J. Rhoads is President of Bishop
College, Marshall, Texas.
George Brock is Professor of Hygiene and
Physical Education at AYest Virginia State
College, Institute, AY. A ,r a.
Thomas Elsa Jones, President of Ei 1:
University, spent a number of years in edu
cational work in Japan and is the author of
Mountain Folk in Japan.
On the evening of December 10th, Howe
Memorial Hall was filled with students and
persons from the city of Atlanta to hear
Captain Sir Hubert AATlkins, native of Aus
tralia, tell of his adventures as an explorer
in both Arctic and Antarctic regions and of
plans for still more thrilling adventures.
Prize Winners
On Friday afternoon, November 21st.
President Read met the students in Howe
Alemorial Hall to make an announcement
that proved to be of interest to both faculty
and students of Spelman College. The an
nouncement Avas that of the prize winners
for essays on “The Essentials of Inter
nationalism”.
In the spring of 1930, nine students on
the campus participated in this essay con
test which was offered by Air. John Mur
ray, Principal of the University College of
the Southwest, Exeter, England. Each
essay Avas read, criticized, and judged Avith
such care and discrimination by Air. Mur-
ray himself that he Avas able to character
ize the type of student Avho Avrote each
essay.
Among the nine contestants, the prizes
and prize winners are as follows:
“Valour and Vision; Poems of the AVar. ’ A
Collected and edited by Jacqueline T. Trot
ter, to Cassandra AlaxAvell.
“An Anthology of Franciscan Poetry
and Prose.” Gathered by Louis Vincent, to
Alabel Dockett.
“The Old English Gardening Books," bv
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, to Alary Belle
Griggs.
A Unique Entertainment
The entertainment given by Rah Mona,
the Premier Illusionist, in Howe Alemorial
Hall at Spelman College, December 13, 1930,
Avas one of unusual merit for its lively but
clean and fine recreational effects. Air.
Greystoke performs his illusions and controls
his beautiful praying, marching and dancing
dogs with a charm of personality that brings
his audience into the happiest exhilaration.
Spelman College Avill be glad to haA'e a re
turn entertainment Avhen it can be arranged.