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The Campus Mirror 7 Vf7/ ('urns Miller, ’34 Miss WygaL National "Y" Secretary "With the beginning of the New Year, everything is making a new beginning or refreshing and rekindling the one already made, said Miss Winifred Wygal, the nation al student secretary of the Young Women’s Christian Association, speaking in morning Chapel January 3rd. After suggesting that the New Year is a time when one makes new beginnings, she said that it might he better to remember that each day, each week, each month, is a new beginning—and it is the doing of small things which trains one for success in larger things. At a dinner, Miss Wygal once met a very interesting young man who proved to lie a diamond cutter. From him she learned that of all the diamonds no two are alike, that diamond dust is the only thing which will cut a diamond. The cutter must have a tenderness for the jewel, must have skill in handling it, must possess imagination and discrimination. Other things she learned were: diamond cutters are sons of diamond cutters; that generations of training are given the worker. There are no two individuals alike, Miss Wygal continued. Society, colleges and other institutions are diamond cutters. All of these institutions must lie careful and dis criminating because they do touch a deli cate thing—a life which can not and must not be handled in any but its individual way. No individual, however, should rely too much on the outside forces—as the cutters— but must consider the part a person plays in the shaping of his own life. No individual must forget that he is part of a universe, a nation, a world characterized by change. It is to be hoped that each college student is flexible enough to fit into changes and to create helpful changes. That person is able to change and create a change who has a deep detachment of the soul. One cannot create a change with mere shallowness. Nor can one feel a change except that one allows it to sink into the inner depth. This speech was inspiring and the students hope to have Miss Wygal with them again for a longer visit. Saturday, January 7th, the Young Women’s Christian Association gathered in Laura Spelman Assembly room to enjoy its first meeting of the year. There was evi dence of a spirit of interest. The time was spent in listening to reports from committees such as the one which dis tributed food and clothes at Christmas time, and the other which decorated three Christ mas trees at Grady Hospital. Plans for the budget for the year were made and ways of getting money discussed. Suggestions for a motto were offered and other committees were appointed, including those to have charge of posters and music. Each girl found pleasure iu introducing her neighbor, instead of herself. Toward the end of the meeting, cookies and candy were served. The group gave much evi dence of a more active “Y” on Spelman campus. Student-Faculty Conference Meets in Atlanta Atlanta, Ga.—Assembling 200 students and faculty members from both white and Negro colleges from all parts of the South, the Southern Student-Faculty Conference met in Atlanta December 28-31. This marked the first occasion when white and colored students planned and conducted such a meeting for the consideration of mu tual problems of both local and interna tional import, the theme being. ‘‘The Re- sponsibility of the Forces of Religion in Building the South of Tomorrow". Opening the conference with a critique of the present situation in the South, Dr. W. A. Smart of Emory University called attention to the process of rapid change in which the South now finds itself. “The Southern part of our country is decidedly the most sectionally minded— possibly because we all love the South so dearly”, said Dr. Smart. “At any rate we spend time in eulogizing past conditions. We still think of Southern culture in terms of civilization before the Civil War. We are still too inclined to think of any diver gence from our grandparents ’ ways as a colossal crime. “Many of us feel that the South loses as it departs from the patterns handed down from our grandfathers. We have a hostility toward Wall Street. We are hos tile to change—because the South always has been agricultural there is an assump tion that it always will be. We have a blind worship of a fixed, static social condition,” he continued. “Another serious ailment of the South is her tremendous loss of leadership in the last two generations. There is an utter dearth of leadership. Today there are few voices really challenging us to Christian ity. Our tendency to worship a past civili zation has held us down and kept us from having the leadership that we should have had. Dr. Malcolm 11. Bryan, associate profes sor of economics at the University of Geor gia, addressed the conference on the second day. Referring frequently to tin* recent findings of the Technocrats, Dr. Bryan stated that if the present capitalistic sys tem is to survive, radical changes must be made in its organization, including a sta bilization of the price level, the introduc tion of social insurance, redistribution of wealth, and abolition of recurring periods of depression and their resulting unemploy ment. President H. A. Hunt of Fort Valley Normal and Industrial School spoke to the conference on educational conditions in the South as compared with other parts of the country. He pointed out the economic and moral evils of the dual system of educa tion now existent in the southern state> and of political control of education. Dr. W. W. Alexander of the Commission on Interracial Cooperation described the part played in the pre-war and in the post war period by the seventy per cent of the white population who were non-slave hold ing. Dr. Mordecai Johnson, president of Howard University, Washington, I). ('., closed the conference with an address on “The South of Tomorrow”. “A nation is fortunate that has any community with the possibilities of the South," declared Dr. Johnson. “We are all conscious that the South is on the way to a new career, but it is not sure which way it is going. There is a certain ‘unhooked ness" about the South, like some strong animal that has not yet put its full weight against its burden .... One can already feel that great things are going on there. “There never comes a great national evil without a great spiritual revelation. We have material and intelligence at our dis posal to take care of every human need in America if all grown up people work four hours a day. Submerged white people and black people are doing what they don’t have to do. There must be a change. Our vision is coercive. The duty of black and white young men is to use that power that has been discovered by the devoted men of the past for the physical emancipation of men and women.” Rev. Howard Thurman of Howard Uni versity, in three meditations, led the con ference in its thought of what Christianity has to say to those who would build a new society: the nature of love which begins with the knowledge of the beloved; the primacy of the individual; the immediate presence and power of God. The conference was planned and directed by student and faculty representatives of the white and colored Christian Associa tions. Professor Raymond Paty of Emory l nive sity served as chairman of the exec utive committee. T Office Phone \VA1. 34.12 Residence WA1. 4789 Hours: 8 V) A M. to 1:00 P.M.—2 to 7 P.M. Sundays by Appiintment DR. WM. BURNEY Dentist X-RAY SERVICE 223J Auburn Ave., N.E. -Corner Butler Street +■ PROVANOS West End Pharmacy j RAymond 4 1 46 | Corner Gordon and F.ee } ATI>ANTA, GA. 4- 4- +4~