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2 CAMPUS MIRROR The Campus Mirror The Students' Ou.'n Publication ‘ Service In Unity’’ THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF F.ditor-in-Chief Beulah Johnson Associate Editor-in-Chief Haloise Walker Editor of News Frankie Smith Associate Editor of News Theodis Weston Special Features Editor Beunice Raiford Asso. Ed. of Special Features Dorothea Boston Exchange Editor Ruth Wilson Sports and Jokes Ella Mae Jones Social Editor Wilhelmena Chapman Music Editor Grace Days Art Editor Harriet Mayle Business Staff Business Manager Jessie Hubbard Secretary Lawana Davis Treasurer Ruby Flanagan Circulation Manager Dorothy Forde Advertising Manager Clara Ivey Faculty Advisor Miss M. Mae Neptune Subscription Rates 75 Cents a Year, 10 cents a Copy, 40 cents a Semester—Postage 2 cents a Copy You XITI February 15, 1937 No. 5 Editorial War, famine, disease and other such calamities that befall the human family tend always to have as aftermath a let down in the general morale. The people of the Ohio and Mississippi valleys, having just experienced the most de structive Hood in the histoi'y of the country, have before them this problem of not giving away to the force that is now driving against them. Each time men face adversity, there are numbers who accept the situation as such with out question but who study the natural causes; then there are others who ask among themselves the reason for ad versity in this world over which they think there exists an impartial control which should be partial—should shelter them, if not others, from every evil. Undoubtedly many of these wretched people made homeless by the flood were already recipients of government relief. Now the federal relief set-up has its responsibility increased enormously. Strong minded men will survive these adversities, and will come back with a new determination and challenge fate with a new hope. The weaker men, who are often blown away by the least gust of ill wind, will crumple up under loss, curse their fate, or turn into criminals and cynics. In spite of the untold suffering that has been experienced during the recent flood, there has been one aspect which we may tend to overlook and that is the commendable response to the suf ferers, not only from the organized Red Cross Society, but from millions of in dividuals in local organizations. This type of response that came whole-heart edly revealed the fact that many people are willing to share what they have, although they live in a capitalistic age. The World War worked havoc with our general morale, the effects of which can still be seen. The recent flood has caused more than ninety-five thousand people to be destitute, a large enough group to have considerable effect posi tively or negatively on our country. It is hoped that the effect will be a posi tive, a constructive one; for an expres sion of world unity was revealed in the gifts and telegrams of sympathy from many millions of friends at home and from foreign countries, including far away China. To all who have suffered loss, sorrow, or shock we beg of you to be of good courage, to be stronger than the weights that tend to pull you down, and to remember that America is a land where every life should be precious and where hearts go with the helping hands. On Carlyle’s Philosophy Leoline Watts, ’37 In times of stress, it is wise to turn to great men of the past, to study their reaction to similar situa tions. Truly to appreciate and understand these men, we must not only know what they thought, but we must also know how they expressed it. In such a light one should aproach the philosophy of Carlyle. Carlyle in his Sartor Besartus reveals his spiritual struggle. It is the spiritual struggle that every thinking man of the past and present has had and every thinking man of the future will have to pass through. Carlyle knew his to be a universal struggle of the ages for he said, “The most, in our time, have to go content with a simple, incomplete enough Suppression of this controversy; to a few some Solution of the last era has become obsolete, and is found un serviceable. For it is man’s nature to change his dialect from century to cen tury; he cannot help it though he would.” What keen insight this shows, for is there not the same problem today? And man still struggles with his problem. When a child, he thinks the world is made for him, but when he becomes a man he thinks himself unimportant. Today the problem is more keenly felt, because we realize more thoroughly the magnanimity of the cosmos. We know of the millions of sounds man cannot hear, and the millions of sights man cannot see, and we decide that the world would have gone on the same, without change of event, if we had nev er been. Our dialect has changed, be cause our knowledge has increased. But the question remains the same, am I part of the eternal reality? To Carlyle the assurance came that he was a part of the eternal reality. That assurance comes today to many men. To still others it does not come, because they are too impatient to wait for it. And the unanswered minds be come warped and distorted and give ex pression to a bitter and cynical philos ophy of life that is abroad today. With the assurance that he was a part of the divine plan, Carlyle was moved to go to work and he began to preach the gospel of work, lie said, “Do the Duty which lies nearest thee . . . Thy second Duty will already have become clearer. . . . an endless significance lies in work . . . doubt of whatever kind may be ended by action alone. . . .” For his philosophy, Carlyle uses clothes as a symbol of institutions and organizations that are the coverings of reality, while space, time and matter are shown as obseurers of spiritual real ity. According to Carlyle human affairs should be led by great men. He felt the misery of the masses and the inade quateness of the government. He be lieved that a nation must have faith to work and a strong government. These things need a hearing today. The evils of his day are the evils of ours. Memorial Service to Mrs. Coleman A memorial service in honor of the late Mrs. Alice B. Coleman was held in Howe Hall on the evening of Feb ruary 4, 1937. Mrs. Coleman, who for nearly fifty years was a trustee and friend of Spelman College, passed in October of 1936. Mrs. Claudia White Harreld, a life long friend of Mrs. Coleman, presided over the service. Stirring remarks were given by Presi dent Florence M. Read, following which tributes from two Spelman graduates and an associate of Mrs. Coleman were given: one by Mrs. Hattie Rutherford Watson, ’07, was read by Jeannette Hubert; one by Miss Josephine Har reld, ’33, was read by Mayme Martin; and a third by Mrs. Orrin R. Judd, vice-president of the Women’s American Baptist Home Mission Society, was read by Beulah Johnson. Then Miss Ethel W. Wagg of the Spelman faculty and staff gave several interesting accounts of her personal acquaintance with Mrs. Coleman. Although the present-day stu dents of Spelman had not the privilege of knowing Mrs. Coleman, as a result of the Memorial Service held in her honor she became a living personality whose life was a personification of good ness. The deep impressions made by her beautiful life will serve as an in spiration to all Spelman students. Thanks The staff appreciates the efforts of the Associate Editor-in-Chief which re sulted in this issue of the Campus Mirror.