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The Campus Mirror
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Curtis Miller, ’34
On Saturday, March 25th, Tsoo Yi Zia,
a Chinese student from Georgia Wesleyan
College, talked informally to a group in
Morehouse North reception room. Miss Zia
was making a tour of fourteen colleges
during the period of her spring vacation,
under the direction of the National 5’. W.
C. A. Her purpose was to help promote
good will by promoting understanding'
among people of different nations. She
thinks that most of the problems of under
standing now rests with youth and with
their getting right ideas of different peo
ples of the world.
In telling about China she told of edu
cational, social and international interests,
and showed that the Chinese youth is in
terested in practically the same problems
that American students are interested in
and that he goes through the same funda
mental routine to enable him to reach
conclusions.
Miss Zia thinks that the race question
is built on lack of understanding. She,
a Chinese student, attending a white col
lege, and talking with Negro students, felt
that there was no great difference between
them, but that each race judges the other
by its visible characteristics, rather than
by looking beneath and seeing how similar
we are, after all.
Her idea of the race problem was that
it is a thing to be destroyed by destroy
ing prejudice.
'The International Dinner
Eroell Powell, '33
On Friday evening, April 7, at six
o'clock, in Morgan Hall, the international
dinner was held. It is one of the annual
events to which every one looks for new
inspiration and ideas concerning his friends
over the world.
The arrangement of the tables in a hol
low square added to tin 1 comfort and cordi
ality of the occasion and left a convenient
space for some numbers of the program.
At opposite ends of the room were the
two guest tables. At one were seated real
guests and at the other students in in
teresting costumes to represent foreign na
tions and bring greetings from those coun
tries.
The menu was as follows: Swiss steak,
Spanish rice, English pens, Bussian salad,
American biscuits, butter, Neapolitan ice
cream, German crisps and Turkish coffee
or English tea.
The program, which was announced by
Birdie Scott, dressed as Columbia, included
a parade of the nations. Brief greetings
from representatives of many nations. A
speech by Mr. S. IT. Barbieri, a Brazilian
student from Emory University, included an
interesting account of the colonization of
Brazil by Portuguese, of the rule of Portugal
in Brazil and the final abdication of Don
Pedro, the hereditary ruler after which the
country became a free republic. A pretty
Swiss dance was done by Fannie Allen and
Carolyn Lemon. Dr. AY. E. B. DuBois, speak
ing on Germany, presented the present situ
ation of the Hitler government, showing a
series of situations since medieval times
which have been influential in bringing Ger
many to the situation she is now in. Mary
Louise Smith sang a German lullaby. The
foreign students from Africa and from the
A’irgin Islands gave brief greetings. Carol
Blanton played a beautiful medley of na
tional songs. “My Country is the AYorld,”
concluded the program.
Everyone left the dinner feeling that
she had drawn nearer to ideal or to real
good will toward all men.
Educate and Organize for
World Peace
Now is the time to make preparation
for preserving international peace, while
we are more or less at peace, was the es
sence of Mr. Paul Harris ’ speech to a
group of Atlanta University, Spelman and
Morehouse students on April 12th. Air.
Harris, who is a member of a committee
for the prevention of war, is now making
many tours and is visiting various col
leges in order to spread projects to edu
cate the college youth today to the idea
of international peace.
He states that the first thing to accom
plish in attaining this ideal condition and
widespread attitude is to educate for peace
and not for means and thoughts of war.
The second thing to do is to form an or
ganization for peace for the settlement of
disputes; and, thirdly, there must be a
world-wide reduction of armaments.
Mr. Harris believes that if arms are laid
down; then when a people become angry
they cannot quickly begin fighting again
until they have had time to rearm them
selves; and by that time they will probably
feel their wrath cooling down. AYe have
now come to a changed, more evolutionized
civilization; and hence we must act under
a collective system—as an organized soci
ety.
In speaking with various people with
whom he has visited and become acquaint
ed, he says that Einstein believed that 2
per cent of a population can block war for
that people. Mahatma Gandhi said, “Peace
and justice are not to he had by fighting
for success but by spreading truth.”
Mr. Harris believes that one should trans
form what he possesses into something
which every one may use and thus strive
to help society to live together. Then we
will reach our long-cherished ideal, peace.
What? When? Why Column
Edited by Girls in Home Economies
Depart m cut
Courtesy in a School Dinixg Boom
Not for ourselves alone but for the sake
of lessening conflict with others whom we
meet do we do some things which are con
sidered marks of a wellbred member of
society. The do’s and don't's of behavior
entail every sphere in which humanity
moves—in some to a great extent; in others
to a less extent, but in all to an important
extent. One sphere in which every normal
individual moves more regularly than any
other, perhaps, is the dining room, which
affects all of us directly. Disregard of the
slightest of these laws throws the entire force
out of gear. As a result, there are some acts
which we should always do at the right time
and in the right way.
1. AYe should co-operate with the dining
room officials by appearing in the dining
room neither too early nor too late.
2. AYe should take our own place in the
line for service.
3. At best a dining room is noisy; we
should do our part to keep the noise at a
minimum, lest we should sound boisterous.
4. Our dress should be in accord with the
social atmosphere of the dining room.
5. Unpleasant attitudes, particularly
gloomy topics of conversation, should be de
ferred until after one leaves the dining room.
6. Since there is a place for everything,
everything should he in its place. This in
cludes cloaks, books, and trays.
7. Extravagance in the use of food is a
sign of carelessness and we should avoid
such extravagance.
8. The dining room is obviously not a re
ception room and accommodations cannot be
made for individuals to occupy seats for en
tertaining long after the meal is over.
9. AYe should he careful that nothing es
capes our ears, especially the making of
announcements. Dining room notices usually
are important.
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