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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.