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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR December 15, 193 5 The Campus Mirror The Students’ Oivn Publication “Service In Unity" THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF Annie Iconise Motley Editpr-in-Chief Beulah Johnson - Associate Editor-in-Chief Mable Murphy ... Editor of News Frankie Smith Associate Editor of News Anita Lain Editor of Special Features Ilaloise Walker . Assp. Ed. of Special Features Frances Brock Exchange Editor Ella Mae Jones Editor of Sports and Jokes Wehelmina Chapman Social Editor Business Staff Minnie Pinson _ . Business Manager Johnnie Childress Treasurer Raymond Whigman Secretary of Staff Jessie Hubbard Circulation Manager Clara Ivy Advertising Manager M. Mae Neptune ..Faculty Advisor Subscription rates 75 cents a Year, 10 cents a Copy, 40 cents a Semester—Postage 2 cents a Copy Volume XII December 1 5. 1 93 5 No. 3 Editorial To friends, readers, and subscribers, The Campus Mirror wishes a Merry, Merry Christmas; With the Christmas Carols May your hearts be lifted too, May the love that brought the Christ- child down He very real each day to you. Many people seek, in many ways, to be happy at Christmas time, but the one underlying principle which em bodies the secret of the true Christmas spirit is this: “Forget yourself and find happiness in others’ joys,” In all our thinking let us remember Him through whom it has all come about. Let us not forget what He has done for the world; neither let us forget the meaning of His coming. It matters not in how many differing ways we think of the Birth of Jesus, there are still some fundamental truths upon which we all agree. Christmas means a festival of joy—“ Joy to the world the Lord is come.” We shall enter whole-heartedly into the joyful spirit of the day and carry it- forth with us in our daily lives. Christmas is a celebration of peace— “Peace on earth, goodwill to all men.” It comes in the spirit of unselfishness, forgiveness, and good will. Cannot this spirit be perpetuated in the life of each individual? Only the united follow ers of the Prince of Peace can out law war, strife, and envy. Will they never unite? The coming of the Christ-child has been the greatest event in the history of the world. His lowly birth in a man ger in Bethlehem has made more dif ference in the world than all the other things which have happened since the beginning of time. Christ’s coming means love—“God so loved I he world.” It is His love- gift to the world. In the words of Henry Van Dyke, “Are you willing to stoop down and consider the needs and desires of little children; to re member the weakness and loneliness of people who are growing old; to stop asking how much your friends love you, and ask yourself whether you love them enough; to bear in mind the things that your people have to bear in their hearts; to try to understand what those who live in the same house with you really want, without waiting for them to tell you; to make a grave for your ugly thoughts, and a garden for your kindly feelings, with the gate ojien—are you willing to do these things even for a day? Are you wil ling to believe that love is the strong est thing in the world—stronger than hate, stronger than evil, stronger than death—and that the blessed life which began in Bethlehem nineteen hundred years ago is the image and brightness of eternal love? Then you can keep Christmas.” Friendship Helen Smith, ’39 College life is a life of close famili arity. Fellowship is forced upon every student, but it is left to the student to decide how his fellowship shall de velop. Immediately, there falls upon the student the duty of understanding the values and dangers of real friend ship. One might ask himself, who can be my friend ? How does one recognize a friend? What is the feeling between true fi’iends? Friends are discovered rather than made; there are people who are in their own nature friends; only they do not know each other, but certain things like common suffering or hardship, poetry, music and paint ing are like the Freemason’s sign-—• they reveal the initiated to each other. The truest friendship expresses it self persistently in daily life. Real friends find millions of ways of ex pressing their affection or regard. The greatest gift a true friend can give cannot be purchased at any store— It is loyalty, which does not seek to dominate his friends but to help them grow,—that loyalty which rejoices at the success and growth of his friend, and that knows the meaning of speech and silence. The price of getting and keeping friendship is always great. Over the door is written, “Xo Niggardly Soul Need Apply.” Many friends risk their lives for each other to prove the worth one finds in the other. “Greater love Christmas Spirit J. L. Wilkins “Christ, our Lord, is risen today, let every man praise His name.” Xo one ever regarded the twenty- fifth of December with indifference. It is the nativity of our Lord. Despite the curse of wars and the carelessness of the majority of the people, the song of the herald angels, “Glory to God in the highest and on earth peace, good will toward men,” will not, shall not, cannot die.” Christmas is not to lx* taken light ly and carelessly with drunkeness and disgraceful merry making. Peace and music, quiet calmness, joy and giving: these are the glorious motives of the Christmas festal time. I am sure that there is deep significance in the fact that music is far more closely allied with Christianity than with any other faith. When I say music I am refer ring to the lovely carols sung by sweet, solemn, hushed voices and not the loud, rowdy jazz of today. Who can imagine Christmas without music—music from the choirs of hu man toilers chanting their faith in the best in man, and from the forests of spires throughout the world, spires with their lovely bells ringing—ringing —ringing the magnificat from heav en. May we understand from this na tivity, that each day our world is born again. Shall we strive to make it a day of joy, or gloom; of love, or hate; of peace or war? May Christmas live today and every day in our hearts, with an exalted music that comes from nobler, kindlier, thoughts, higher in love for our fellow men and a richer joy in the realization of our endless blessings. Essay in Imitation of Charles Lamb. An Exhibition of Paintings By Hale Woodruff From Sunday, December S, 1935, through Monday, December 23, an ex hibition of paintings in oil and water color, the recent forks of Mr. Hale Woodruff, is opened to the public in the Exhibition Room of the Atlanta University Library. These paintings, about thirty-five in number, and produced for the most part during the last six months, treat Georgia scenes and comprise land scapes, figures and still life. All are invited to attend this exhibi tion. It is open on Sundays from 4:00 to 0:00 P.M., and on week days from 3:00 to 5:00 P.M. has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends.” Those who have faith enough to undertake the adventure of friendship will find in the end the meaning of life.