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2 The Campus Mirror Qampus <JMirror ' ‘Service in Unity’’ Editor-in-Chief MABEL DOCKETT Assistant Ilditor-in-Chief AUGUSTA JOHNSON Editor of News OTEELE NICHOLS Assistant Editor of News ALPHA TALLEY Editor of Special Eeatures MAMIE BYNES Assistant Editor of Special Features Jean Taylor Editor of Jokes and Sports EDYTHE TATE Social Editor IDA PRATER BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager MARJORIE STEWART Secretary of Staff ERMATINE HILL Treasurer of Staff MARY DUBOSE Circulation Manager MAUDE PRICE Exchange Editor RACHEL DAVIS Advertising Managers FLORENCE MORRISON Lucia Griffin Faculty Adviser M. MAE NEPTUNE SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75c a Year 40c a Semester 1 0c a Copy Postage 2c a Copy 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 he “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 I 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 Head 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 11)08 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, 'The Third Home, and The Seven Vires. No matter what your special interests aie, you cannot afford to miss this lecture. Book Review The Hoad 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 sitiiation 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 Alan represents the uneasy masses, who arc 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 Alan 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.