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Volume IX April 1 5, 1933 Number 7
N. A. A. C. P. Treasurer
Visits Spelman
Miss Mary AVInto Ovington, one of the
persons most influential in establishing the
National Association for the Advancement
of Colored People, and treasurer of the asso
ciation, spoke in chapel Monday, April 17th.
Miss Ovington, a woman of Radeliffe Col
lege, has a deep interest in interracial rela
tions as the result of her work for these
years shows. The keynote of the talk given
was that as races we should and must learn
to know white people and give them oppor
tunity to know and understand us—to know
the best in us. She cited a number of highly
beneficial things which intelligent and cul
tured Negroes have been able to do toward
securing greater justice for members of
the race.
One of these was successful legislation
passed in Indiana concerning discriminating
against the Negro on the job, the recom
mendation being made by a Negro. A second
is the case of the Negro in North Carolina
who is trying to gain admission into the
state school of pharmacy by virtue of being
a taxpayer. The case is being defended by
two young Negro lawyers from the Howard
University Law School.
Founders Day Rally and
Decoration of the
T ablets
At 11 :00 o'clock, Tuesday morning, April
11, piecetling the Founder’s Day exercises
at 3:00 o’clock, reports of gifts to the col
lege were made in Howe Memorial Hall.
It was encouraging to find that these gifts
amounted to a grand total of $1,138.55, even
in these difficult times. The amount raised
on the campus was approximately $150 more
than last year.
Specific reports were as follows:
Spelman students: Freshmen, $10.05;
Sophomores, $20.00; Juniors, $13.70; Sen
iors, $18.00. Graduates, including former
students, Spelman Club and Cartersville
Club, $07.05. Spelman College faculty and
staff and employees, $014.75. Southern
donors, $130.00. Northern donors, $226.00.
The bronze tablets in Howe Memorial Hall,
dedicated to Miss Packard and Miss Giles,
wen* decorated in honor of the founders by
two Spelman granddaughters, members of
the class of 1933, Cora Douthard and Jose
phine Uarreld. Lovely wreaths were placed
on the tablets while a group of Spelman
granddaughters sang:
“Founders, to you we bring from each
daughter.
Love, devotion for our Alma Mater,
From your ideals we'll ne’er depart;
You will live in every heart.”
The audience joined in singing the college
song.
Soliloquy of the Grove-
Werden Fountain
Alena Erby
The fountain on the campus awoke one
morning and found herself very sad. Such
problems as how slip would be able to get
a fresh coat of paint this spring, the finan
cial situation of the world at large, the re
turn to 3.2 per cent alcoholic beverages, the
persecution of the Jews in Germany were
all resting heavily on her mind.
The air was becoming scented with the
delicate odors of spring. Soon the campus
would be a symphony of varied hues. In
spite of the thoughts of all this beauty that
was to be, the fountain was still sad. She
would be seven years old this spring. Her
color was all faded; she looked like some
old fountain that might have been supplied
by the Claudian Aquaduet. “I am not so
old," she said, “hut my work has caused me
to be exposed to all kinds of weather. It i>
no wonder the poet said, ‘Let me live in a
house by the side of the road and be a friend
to man.’ To sit day after day unhoused and
be a friend to man, always stationed on the
highway, trying to represent those principles
which Miss Werden and Miss Grove would
have me represent to student generations is
a great pleasure, but a great sacrifice to
one’s self.
“I wonder what the pigeons think of me.
I do not see much of them in winter because
T do not keep water flowing. The world is
so peculiar. However, I shall not worry
about what others think of me, nor about
not getting a new coat of paint this spring.
I have heard that down through the ages
those who have served humanity the most
have received the least in material compen
sation. They have already started advertis
ing beautiful beverage sets to make attrac
tive a drink like beer. A good appearance
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Founder s Day Address
Mr. Willard S. Richardson, A.R., R.D.,
D.C.L., Secretary of the Laura Spelman
Memorial until its consolidation in 1929 with
the Rockefeller Foundation, delivered an in
spiring address on Founder’s Day to mem
bers of Spelman College and the affiliated
institutions and friends of other institutions,
including many churches of Atlanta.
In President Read’s introduction she pre
sented Mr. Richardson as a friend of Spel
man College of long standing who could
bring a personal touch because of his friend
ship with Mrs. Laura Spelman Rockefeller
and her sister. Miss Lucy Spelman, and other
members of the Spelman and the Rockefeller
families.
Mr. Richardson began with the remark
that he was pleased indeed to be called a
friend of Spelman and although this was
his first visit, he showed that through his
associations with early and sincere workers
at Spelman he has been drawn close to our
situation and feels our problems much as
we do.
The first part of Mr. Richardson’s ad
dress was a challenge to youth to put on
the armor of courage—the kind of courage
which is needed to take up the unfinished
tasks of the elders who are constantly re
linquishing their hold on affairs'—the kind
of courage to which J. M. Barrie refers in
his address on courage, given to the students
of St. Andrews College, Scotland.
Along with courage—and even more need
ful, if we must choose between them—there
must be the art of forgetting self in fighting
for a real cause. No player in a game is
lauded when he plays to the gallery—that
is, one who makes every move a conscious
one, wondering what the audience “thinks
of me”. This is true in sports; but it is true
also in the game of life. The speaker gave
as a chief aid in overcoming this selfishness,
the substitution of a real cause dearer than
self. Teacher, minister, laborer, all may
make their cause great; it depends upon the
worth they place on them. Mr. Richardson
made personal reference to a teacher he once
had in mathematics who did such a good job
of teaching that as a student he enjoyed go
ing to class in that traditionally difficult
course as much as he would have enjoyed any
form of outside recreation, even a circus. It
was the teacher that counted.
“I do not think of education in academic
terms,’’ said Mr. Richardson, but rather as a
process leading to tin* ability to reason dear
ly and to judge fairly. He refer ml to the
occasion of a fireside prayer in the home of
Mr. John I). Rockefeller, Sr., in which the
latter used one sentence similar to this; “()
God, give us today the use of our reasoning
power, that we may judge clearly.” This
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