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The Campus Mirror 7 A Hairbrush Speaks Jewel Crawford, ’35 “Little Master, have you ever wondered from whence I came;” “You are American, of course, as all other brushes are, I guess,” was the sharp reply. “You are just a little wrong; I am not like other brushes you have used. I am not even American. I am French Indo china. You can’t even make brushes in America like me. I am made from pig bristles. “ Why can’t brushes be made from Amer ican pigs’?” the master asked. “Oh well, it is this way; the bristles of American pig's are not good. The pigs must be wild to produce bristles like these of which 1 am made. ’ ’ “ Well, since you seem to be such a unique little article who has traveled a long dis tance to be at my service, explain the de tails of how you were brought to me in the form of a brush.” “Well, it is like this: If you should visit a French Indo-Chinese village early some morning you would see all the inhabitants out, messing around. The men will vanish into the jungle around the village, while the women, children and men, too old to hunt, prepare earthenware and iron ves sels, filling them with chunks of pitch and building fires under them, while the men form an immense semi-circle in order to drive the wild pigs into the village. In this village is a large corral that will hold several hundred wild pigs. Tt is into this place that the men drive the pig's with the assistance of the women and children waving sticks. “The pigs are astonished when they find themselves locked within tin* gates of the corral and being doused with hot pitch. To rid themselves of this pitch they scratch themselves violently, thus tearing out their bristles. “Then women and children pick up the bristles, return them to the pots to be melted where they soon come to the sur face and are skimmed off to be manufac tured into brushes. “Such brushes enable every village woman to buy a calico dress and the men a derby hat.” “Well,” the little master returned, af ter listening attentively for some time to the brush, “you mean more to me than you formerly meant. You are a unique article after all, and it gives me great consolation to know that you will be with me always.” i Olljmtmas (Hmtutgs i West End 10c and 25c Store ^ 824 Gordon St., S.W. (Near Lee) | ‘' Thousands of Necessities at I Your Convenience" Fisk-Morehouse Game William Hamilton, '34 Dame Bad Luck overtook the Maroon Tigers on their last lap. The Fisk boys defeated Morehouse two to nothing (2-0). It seemed as if Morehouse had lost a bit of co-ordination that they had in the Clark and Talladega games. For time after time they had the ball in the Fisk touchdown territory, but they could not carry it over. Morehouse outstripped Fisk in all de partments of the game. But a very good kick on the part of Fisk which placed the ball on the Morehouse one yard line, and the failure of a Morehouse man to get the ball from the goal line on a kick, gave Fisk a safety which won the game. Intramural Football With the end of the varsity football sea son intramural football has started. This is to promote a better interclass spirit, better sportsmanship, and to discover some hidden material for the varsity of next year. The dignified Seniors surrendered some of their dignity and went out on the foot ball field and wallowed the Sophomores from goal to goal, to the tune of 25-0. The Freshmen won a moral victory from the Juniors Tuesday by tying them. The spirit of the game was that Florida flash, Martin Graham, who gave all he had, but could not tally, so the game goes down in history as 0-0. Guilds in 1933 Edwina Westmorland, ’37 The institution of guilds comes from the Middle Ages and takes an important part in modern life. The essential principle of the guild was the banding together of people 1 for mutual help, enjoyment and encouragement. Today we also form guilds for the aid of others, as the Needle Work Guild of America, of which the New York Branch is gathering and making garments for the .300 charitable organizations that they have been aiding. Perhaps the more important guilds that we hear of now, are the Trade Guilds, of which there arc two orders—Merchant guilds and Craft guilds. Then* are also In dustrial guilds. These guilds take care of the workers, that is, the members or guild- brothers. They see that the members have their due lights, correct wages, and work ing hours, that they work under good con ditions and that the people who are over them treat them with fairness and kindness. In fact the many different kinds of guilds play an important part in the life of the world today as they did in the life of the Medieval world. Dictionary Dyspepsia Would that I were a man! 1 would set about renovating this grand old world in a most noble way. 1 would aspire to the Presi dency and immediately upon entering office win the favor of the people by issuing a ban on the dictionary. Every person caught pos sessing such a slave-driver would be immedi ately and most assuredv beheaded. Of all the parapheranalia going to make up institutions of higher learning it is the most demanding. You become attached to it, and soon you become a dictionary addict. You consult Webster about even the smallest matters (knowing in the beginning that he is going to disagree with you), and soon his opinion becomes known to you. You dare not even think, without consulting him first. As likely as not you are struggling with some word like “vallisneriaeerous” (which you can’t pronounce to say nothing of spell ing) and you make a grand rush for the dictionary. Of course, you cannot find the book anywhere and lose much time searching vainly for it until you suddenly remember having thrown it on top of the bookshelf in your last resolve to have unmolested opin ions of your own. You build a somewhat un steady parapet to stand on and after many trials succeed in maintaining your balance long enough to spy the book—way up high— encrusted in dust! There’s nothing to do but get a duster and get busy. When you are finally able to distinguish the book from the dust, you have choked several times and your hands have probably become so en crusted that you dare not touch the book before they are washed and some of the dust encircling the room has cleared away. Well, aren’t you thoroughly disgusted by now? More than likely after you have dragged your precious oracle of knowledge down you will have forgotten what you were going to look up anyway. If you are lucky enough to recall the word, you are never able to find at what end of the alphabet “v” comes—and then the word more than likely isn’t even in the dictionary! It is upon this encroaching parasite that I, in my administration, would first wage war! I would—if necessary- write a dic tionary of my own—a huge, magnificent one, entirely disagreeing with Webster and place it by his side to see him wither and wilt as I have done under his contemptous stare—-that mocker of men! Negro Achievement Week It has become a tradition for the Omega fraternity to observe Negro Achievement Week. The Spelnian Community is grate ful to tin 1 Morehouse chapter for the pro gram rendered. The speaker, Mr. Hurley, of Warren Memorial, struck a note of challenge when lie expressed the opinion that too much emphasis on what has al ready been accomplished may act like poison to the blood; a long way lies be fore us still, and what our fathers have wrought is only a foundation on which we must lay our contribution to the race.