Newspaper Page Text
2
The Campus Mirror
JIIMIIIIIIIIMIIIIIIIIIIIIir
M II 111 M 111 I I II I II 11 III I I I I 11 II I II I I
• II II I I II M I II II I I I I I I I I III | || M I M I II Mill II I II I l
THE QAM PUS TMIRROR
Ernestine G. May. ’34
Lucile Pearson, '35
Margaret Stewart, '35
Dorothy Williams. '36
Carrie Adams, '35
Anita lain, ’36
Jewell Craweord, '3 5
Alena Krby, '34
Annie Motley, '36
Lottie Lyons, '34
Lillian Davis. '35
Johnnie Childress, '36
Frances Brock. ’36
Ruby Flanagan, '36
M. Mae Neptune
Editor-in-Chief
Associate Editor-in-Chief
Editor of Neivs
Associate Editor of News
Editor of Special Features
Associate Editor of Special Features
Social Editor
Editor of Jokes and Sports
BUSINESS STALE
SUBSCRIPTION
75 cents a Year, 10 cents a Copy, 40 cents a
RATES
Semester-
Business Manager
T reasurer
Secretary of Staff
Circulation Manager
Exchange Editor
Advertising Manager
Adviser
-Postage 2 cents a Copy.
VOL. X
JANUARY 15, 1934
NO. 4
. 11 I I II II I I I • I ■ I • 11 M 11 111 I II II I I I I I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I II I II | II II II I 11 I I I • I I II
I II II I > I I I II I
II I I I I I I I I II I I I I I I I II I I I | | I II I I I I I I I I II I
ill i ii i ii ii ii 11 mi ill ii 11 ii in-
1-9-3-4
Happy New Year! These words, when
thought of seriously, are interpreted in vari
ous ways. Each new year probably gives
to nearly every one a fresh start in new in
terests.
People may meet the new year in three
different attitudes. First, there are those
who meet 1934 with new hopes, new courage,
and new ambitions. To them the new year
might seem like a new garment—something
that replaces the old entirely, pushes the
old off the scene altogether. The year starts
out bright and glimmering, just as a new
garment is bright and glimmering, but the
bright hopes soon wear away, if one is not
able to look into the past and profit by
past mistakes and experiences, just as a new
garment soon wears out if there is not an
other garment to step into occasionally.
There are also those persons who are en
tirely indifferent to the new year. Old
years go by, and new years come in, but
they mean nothing whatever to people with
this attitude, for they feel that years may
come and years may go, but they will go on
forever in the same old rut.
Then, there are those who see the new
year come in and are able to posses new
hopes, new courage, and new ambitions and
also to hold on to the past and profit by
their former mistakes and experiences. They
are thus able to enrich their lives by adding
new material to that which they have col
lected during the years gone by.
As this year of 1934 grows older, we may
examine ourselves and see whether we get
new visions, take heart again, sieze our tools
with a fresh grip and cast aside the old as
an old garment, or see whether we are per
fectly indifferent to the new year, or wheth
er we are able to reach out for new hopes,
new courage and new ambitions and con
tinue to profit by our experiences of the
past.
Isleta
Thelma L. McDonald, ’36
Isleta is a Pueblo Indian village nearly
twelve miles south of Albuquerque, New
Mexico. The village is built in a circle and
houses are made of adobe (juried mud bricks
and rectangular in shape). The houses afe
usually two stories and the windows are
small, making the inside of the house rather
dark. Most of the windows are painted
white and long strings of red chili and
dried meat are nailed to the outside wall.
The people may be described as being
clean, industrious, home-loving farmers.
They raise sheep, cattle, ponies and corn.
The Spanish conquerors who brought the
first sheep to the New World gave these
valuable animals to the Pueblo Indians. So
wool came into New Mexico and displaced
the Indian cotton. The wool soon came into
the hands of the Navajo Indians who used
this new material in making the beautiful
Navajo blankets which have never been ex
celled by anyone else. The Navajo blankets
are made by some Indians in the Alvarado
Hotel in Albuquerque and many tourists
may see how the beautiful blankets are wov
en. The highest grade of Navajo blankets
is now very rare. Only a few remain in
the hands of wealthy Pueblo Indians and
Mexicans—and they are valued as being
priceless. Some of the people have adopted
the American dress, but they use the In
dian garbs during their tribal ceremonies.
As one goes through the village, he will
see some interesting things. There is the
village grocery and dry goods store where
the people do their trading. A few of the
inhabitants have small shops where the weav
ing is done. The Pueblos weave handsome
belts which have a different pattern on
either side. Stakes for weaving are driven
into the ground, and one end of the warp
is fastened to the stake, the other end to
a rod held in place by a strap around the
wrist; so lo tighten the warp the weaver
lias only to sit back a little. An oak beating
stick is used for ramming the threads of
tin* weaving tightly together. The woman
weaver sits flat on the ground upon a blan
ket to keep her manta clean for the dress
of a Pueblo woman is neat, handsome and
expensive.
The Pueblo and Navajo Indians are ad
mirable silversmiths, and make all their own
jewelry. They make silver belts, earrings,
bracelets, breast pins, buttons and bridle
ornaments. They make many other little
handy articles of silver, also. The silver
articles of the Indian are well-shaped with
the use of very few tools. A fire is used
like the one of a blacksmith to soften the
metal, so that it can be easily beaten into
shape. The Pueblo smith workers have their
work equipment in a room of their houses
and the Navajo smiths work under a tree
on a flat stone.
The ceremonies of the Pueblos in Isleta
are held frequently from the month of May
through September. Some of the stunts are
bronco riding, hundred yard dashes among
the boys and tribal dances.
Many Navajo Indians have for sale some
of their wares of clay pottery, woven blan-
(Continued on Page 4)
Carols at Grady Hospital
Florence A. Harris
In response to a request from an official of Grady
Hospital in Atlanta to President Read, Professor Har-
reld appointed Florence Harris to train the nurses in
the Colored Division of the hospital for their annual
program of carol singing.
About two weeks before Christmas I began
the work of teaching carols to the nurses of
the colored division of the Grady Hospital
in Atlanta. The nurses practiced until
Christmas Eve when they participated in
the program of an hour of worship for the
nurses.
The nurses choir marched in, singing
“Hark, the Herald Angels Sing.” Rev. J. R.
Henderson of Wheat Street Baptist Church
then took charge of the services assisted by a
Junior Choir led by Wilhelmina Harris. At
the conclusion of his remarks the nurses
choir sang three other numbers, one of which
was ‘‘Silent Night." All lights were out ex
cept the ones on the Christmas tree in the
room and the carol sung in the stillness of
the room produced a beautiful effect.
Christmas morning, the carol singing be
gan at 4:55. Each nurse in the choir carried
a lighted candle and, marching in twos, they
wound slowly through the corridors of the
hospital singing as they marched. In this
way each floor of the hospital was visited.
Pauses were made on each floor in order to
sing additional carols or Christmas spirit
uals. Then the processional returned to its
starting point.
The music brought cheer and brightness
to all the patients of the Colored Ward.
Many of the patients expressed their appre
ciation of the music by joining the carolers.
The whole made an experience not to be
forgotten.