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(■AMI'US UhCIRROR^ Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia iiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiinMiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiitiiiiiiiiiiiii, |, || n uninuinuniMuiiiimniMiMummmunmiiuiiuiuuuiuniiinmniiiuuiniumnmi umihimhi 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 (Continued on Page 3) 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 (Continued on Page 4)