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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR The Students' Own Publication "Service in Unity” THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF Editor-in-Chief Alma Stone Associate Editors-in-Chief Isolyn Comer Penelope L. Bullock Editors of News Elizabeth Lipford Maude J. Gray Special Features Marjorie Greene Asso. Ed. of Special Features. Minnie Wood Sports and Jokes Genevieve Parks Exchange Editor Beverly Washington Social Editor Gladys Forde Music Editor Ollie Franklin Art Editor Jennelsie Walden Business Staff Business Manager Georgia Oswell Secretary Zenobia White Treasurer Gladys Holloway Advertising Manager Alfred Taylor Circulation Manager Ella Tyree 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 Vol. XVI. October. 1 939 No. 1 Editorial If it were possible to find a hill high enough that we might survey the entire world from its pinnacle, we should see human beings scurrying to and fro seek ing a thing that they never completely find. We should see one with his micro scope, one with a telescope, another with a magistrate’s cap and gavel, one with theories, formulae, or prehistoric fossils, and one gazing deeply into a child’s clear eyes, and we should know that all of them with their many voices are crying. “What, where, how is truth?” There is a legend that Gabriel sent Ithuriel to earth armed with a magic spear wfith which he had only to touch an object to learn its true identity. The first thing that he uncovered was Satan in the form of a toad whispering in the ear of Eve. Truth in its largest sense is universal truth, the thing for which the mathe matician. the philosopher, and the scien tist are seeking. This includes the laws that began to operate at the creation of the world and have only to be discov ered and harnessed, and it includes the beginning and purpose of the universal scheme of things. Another aspect of truth is concerned with interpretations and significances of past events. In this group the historian seeks such things as the true begin nings of language, the true causes of the Peasant Revolt, and the many causes and significances of the Great World War. Men discover most of these, in fact at least, when the lapse of time gives their view perspective. But the truth is there. It remains only to be realized. The most important of these aspects of truth to the man in the street is the truth about himself—the truth he must say or leave unsaid: the facts that he tells others about himself and his rela- CAMPUS MIRROR Mr. Philip M. Davis Dies in Atlanta Following an extended illness of sev eral months, Mr. Philip MacDonald Da vis, Superintendent of Buildings and Grounds for Spelman College since 1924, died at his home on September 12. Mr. Davis was born in Faunsdale, Alabama, and graduated from Morehouse College in 1911, in the same college class with President Mordecai Johnson, and Presi dent John W. Davis of West Virginia State College. After his graduation he became principal of the Slater Public School in Birmingham, Alabama, and held this position until 1920, when he was invited by Dr. John Hope to be come business manager at Morehouse College. In 1924 Mr. Davis resigned this position to become superintendent of Grounds and Buildings at Spelman. In 1922 Mr. Davis was elected president of the National Morehouse Alumni Asso ciation. He was the founder and one time editor of the Morehouse Alumni Quar terly, forerunner of the Morehouse Alurn- tions with other men; the truth that he tells his conscience when he does a little self-survey; the truth that he must face or turn from when some one stimulus says “Tell me the truth.” A loyalty to this type of truth is the thing that makes men of human beings and makes the world a more liveable place. Men who discover great truths and use them for the good of humanity become the tall sons of history that men revere and admire. And those who refuse to face truth when a mighty decision must be made are the Judases and Pilates of mankind. In spite of those who discourage all longing for knowledge, the search for truth continues to hold its fascination. Those who discover a part of it lose their narrow conceit and walk with full hu mility upon that hill where the air is clear and their view unclouded. Dr. Kirhard Hurst Mill Passes Away Spelman College lost one of its most loyal friends when Dr. Richard Hurst Hill, secretary to the president of How ard University, passed away this sum mer. Dr. Hill was a frequent guest at Spelman, his annual visits each being an occasion that the students looked forward to with pleasure. His last visit to the campus in the spring of this year lasted from March 23 through March 26. Dur ing this time he spoke in four chapel services and at prayer meeting. One of his most stirring messages was woven around the words, “And to you, Aaron. Moses shall be God.” His wealth of ex perience and the vast amount of infor mation at his command made him al ways in demand for conferences and talks to organizations and small groups. The ease with which he could be ap proached and his smiling, friendly man ner won him more friends each time that he visited the campus. His death was, indeed, a blow to mem bers of the Spelman community who had come to know and admire him greatly. Coming The Senior Class will present a movie on Thanksgiving Eve. Watch the bulle tin boards for further notices and look forward to an evening of highly delight ful entertainment. nus. During the Morehouse Endowment Campaign which began in 1928. Mr. Davis travelled widely in the interest of the school and his efforts were very suc cessful in helping Morehouse to obtain its goal of $300,000. In spite of his many duties to Spelman and Morehouse College, Mr. Davis found time to serve Friendship Baptist Church as one of its most conscientious mem bers. Among his survivors are Mrs. Madeleine Smith Davis, his wife; three children, Philip MacDonald, Jr., a sen ior at Morehouse, Griffith and Dovie Madeleine, students at the Laboratory School. Hosts of friends of Mr. Davis with his co-workers attest his ability to plan work and different enterprises wisely and bring them to completion in good time; and any of these friends and co-workers could tell of the delightful human side of this man who could see at a flash an important situation which required some special turn of schedule or change of ar rangement and could put this thing through too without upsetting any settled order of business or veering from the straight line of order or good business. The Staff of the Campus Mirror with past staff members w r ish to pay especial honor to Mr. Davis as one of their most loyal supporters and helpers in solving their numerous problems.