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VOL. XV. MARCH. 1 939 No. 6
EDITORIAL
There is something about one’s per
sonality which eludes the photograph
er, which the painter cannot reproduce,
which the sculptor cannot chisel. This
subtle something which every one feels,
but which no one can describe, which
no biographer has ever put down in a
book, has a great deal to do with one’s
success in life.
Magnetic personality is intangible.
This mysterious something, which we
sometimes call individuality, is often
more powerful than the stability which
can be measured, or the qualities that
can be rated. People who possess this
rare quality are frequently ignorant of
the source of their power. They know
they have it, but can not locate or de
scribe it. While it is, like poetry, mu
sic, or art, a gift of nature, born in
one, it can, however, be cultivated to a
certain extent. Much of the charm of
a magnetic personality comes from a
tine, cultivated manner. One must know
exactly what to do and be able to do
just the right thing at the proper time.
Good judgment and common sense are
indispensable to those who are trying
to acquire this magic power. Good taste
is also one of the elements of personal
charm. You can not offend the tastes of
others without hurting their sensibili
ties.
It pays to deserve popularity in the
deeper sense of the term. It doubles
possibilities of success, develops wom
anhood, and builds up character. One
who is popular must strangle selfish
ness, keep back bad tendencies, be po
lite, agreeable and companionable. In
trying not to be unpopular, one is, it
seems to me, on the road to success and
happiness as well.
1 never knew a thoroughly unselfish
person who was not an attractive per
son. No person who is always thinking
of himself, however, and trying to fig
ure out how he can get some advantage
from everybody else will never be at
tractive, nor long be popular. We are
naturally disgusted with people who
are trying to get everything for them
selves and never think of anybody else.
A fine, considerate manner pleases;
a coarse, brutal manner repels. We can
not help being attracted to one who is
always trying to help us,—who gives us
his sympathy, who is always trying to
make us comfortable and to give us
every advantage he can. On the other
hand, we are repelled by people who
are always trying to get something out
of us, who elbow their way in front of
us to get the best seat in a car or hall,
who are always looking for the easiest
chair, or for the choicest bits at the
table, who are always wanting to be
waited on first at the restaurant or ho
tel, regardless of others.
Some individuals seem to be en
dowed from the cradle with personali
ties that need little or no re-educating!
These fortunate people have about
them a certain natural vigor which im
plies to the observer that they—the
well-dispositioned and attractive folks
—are equal to any emergency, that they
have courage and capacity for effort,
that they have no doubt of their own
ability to follow through with what
they undertake, and that they are com
fortable and cheerful and full of the
sense of well-being. Usually these per
sons have a good physical inheritance.
That physical health is a thing of tre
mendous importance in producing the
mental states necessary to an attrac
tive and forceful personality, goes with
out saying.
Nearly all of us need some re-educa
tion. Here is a girl, for instance, with
a plain, homely face. She thinks that
because she is not pretty she is “out”
—out of the running with her men
friends and others, and, therefore,
out of luck. And yet some of the
greatest heart-breakers in history, like
Egypt’s Cleopatra, have been homely
women—with personalities! Beauty is
a lovely thing for a woman to have,
but it is unimportant when compared
with personality (of course, everyone
has a right to his own opinion). Many
a woman tries to make up for the lack
of personality with paint, powder and
clothes, but at the same time neglects
her physical vigor, and does not place
proper emphasis upon her mental atti
tude toward people and toward herself.
She is moving very far from the point.
Getting rid of the inferiority com
plex which is caused by “organic in
feriority" is, therefore, one of the im
portant points of attack for those who
lack confidence in themselves due to
Thoughts in The Blue
Room
Anatol Reeves ’39
Blue Room, with touches of white here
and there,
What ease and quiet you bring me!
You take from my soul the blackness
of night,
W hen weary and tired I come to you.
Reclined in a soft-cushioned seat
Far into another world I retreat,
As Chopin soothes my spirit “blue.”
I realize not that I do weep,
Until warm tears are upon my check.
Art thou the cause? Oh, 'tis Chopin’s
funeral march.
But ah, Chopin, not always do you
make me weep;
For the sweet strains of Nocturne in
F sharp
Transpose me to a world of dreams,
Where flowers at my feet do bid me
smile,
And where there be no cares nor sor
rows,
But where of happiness flow living
steams.
Blue Room, adieu; of thee I take my
leave,
A song in my heart, and my soul at
ease.
Maurice Hindus
Denouncing in a lecture the betrayal
of Czechoslovakia, Maurice Hindus,
noted writer and keen interpreter of in
ternational affairs, declared the Czechs
ar.p still hopeful of regaining much they
have lost in spite of the grim tragedy
they have suffered through the demands
of Adolf Hitler. The speaker was heard
before a large group of students and
faculty of Atlanta University, More
house College, and Spelman College,
February 25, in Howe Memorial Hall.
some physical defect, and who find it
hard to feel friendly and kindly to
ward other people. The basic rule for
getting rid of the feeling of inferiority
consists in accepting one’s limitations
willingly and with no reservations,
yyth complete acquiescence and with-
ouf'resentment.
Of course, it seems to me, along
with such acceptance and the ignoring
of one’s limitations, there should be
wise effort to cultivate exceptional
^strength in other directions to make
A*up for what is lacking.
. Acceptance of “things as they are”
does not mean the adoption of a de-
featest attitude. It means only that
few of us get first choices and that
many of us have to handle second bests.
We should, therefore, resolve to take
a second best and make something out
of it, without fretting over restrictions
and restraints and limitations that can
not be helped; for that’s life—I guess!