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Mildred Safkold, ’39
PRESCRIPTION
Fake 5 drops of good manners
Take 12 oz. of common sense
Fake 10 oz. of consideration
Fake 4 oz. of behavior, and boil it
down to moral, using a little self-
respect and general behavior,
sweeten with manhod and woman
hood Race Pride.
DIRECTIONS:
Take 9 drops 3 times a day before
meals. Use it with prayer. When praying
use common sense; only ask your needs
supplied, leave ofT wants and don't forget
to say
AMEN
Squalling and moaning are not pray
ing.
You can have this prescription filled
at the house of Understanding, next door
to Reason, and it must be taken accord
ing to Directions to get good results.
* * *
“Our LOVE is a tree
Our LOVE is a vine
To shelter.
To twine.”
Music Department
Under the leadership of Mr. Kemper
Harreld with Mrs. N. W. Maise and
Miss Jean Coston as his assistants, the
musical outlook for the year is quite an
optimistic one.
Mr. Willis Laurence James, director
of the Spelman College Glee Club and
Orchestra, is away making a Field re
search of Negro folk songs in the South
th rough a special grant from the Gen
eral Education Board. Miss Jean Cos-
ton, a well-known concert pianist and a
former member of the faculty of How
ard University, is filling the vacancy left
by Mr. James. Miss Coston is a grad
uate of Oberlin College and was a stu
dent in the Juilliard School of Music. All
who heard her splendid renditions of the
Organ Choral Prelude—Nun jreut euch,
lieben Christen, by Bach-Busoni, Noc
turne in D Flat Major, by Chopin, and
Chopin’s Scherzo in B minor, with Rim
sky Korsakov’s The Flight of the Bum
blebee as an encore, will agree that she
is truly an artist; the performance men
tioned above took place in the eight
o’clock chapel service on the morning
of October 3rd.
The chorus and glee clubs give prom
ise of a great year; much new talent has
been discovered, particularly among new
students. The orchestra has its usual
promise and later on in the season will
join the orchestra of the University Sys
tem reaching symphony proportions.
The entire Spelman community is look
ing forward to the piano recital to be
given in Sisters Chapel on October 23 by
Miss Josephine Harreld. who w T as grad-
CAMPUS MIRROR
There Is No Peace
Minnie Wood ’40
Through the centuries man has learn
ed to harness the endless sources of
nature for his own comfort; he has
conquered the waters, both on the sur
face and underseas; he has made use
of the laws of physics so that he can
soar through the air like a bird; he
has developed methods of resistance
which enable him to go thousands of
miles in one day; he has so regulated
his time that his calculations are exact to
the split second; in fact, Man can con
trol everything—except himself.
Man is, today, living in the most glo
rious, the most miraculous and the most
intelligent age he has ever known. He
is also living in the most terrifying and
most dreaded age he has ever experi
enced. All of the miracles of science,
all of the intelligence of the ages, all of
the philosophy of time has been com
bined to form one compound in Man’s
existence—Destruction!
War, that dread scourge of mankind,
stalks through the land gathering for
its prey, the laughing child, the gallant
youth, the robust man, the aged and
infirm. None is safe from its clutches.
All must pay the exorbitant taxes it
exacts, taxes of tears and blood. Each
one must be sacrificed in this horrible
game of chance whose only goal is
power. Power for the few who balance
precariously on the pinnacle while be
neath are others struggling to o’ercome
them and attain for themselves this brief
triumph.
In the last war, “the war to end all
wars,” Man’s heart was fired by an ideal.
In the present war there is no ideal,
there can be none, for the heart of Man
is bereft of ideals. He has only a wonder
and a fear—a wonder that the marvels
which he has wrested from the world
should be turned with deadly accuracy
to the ultimate annihilation of himself
and a fear that this war, far from end
ing all wars, is a war to end all.
In vain he cries for peace. There is
no peace, neither in the world, in the
nation, nor in man’s soul. His mind is
seething with conflicting ideas. Not one
of his old gods, science, philpsophy,
money, power, can pacify his heart. The
one thing which will restore his belief
in himself and in the universal order of
things is a return to the faith of his
fathers, a faith enriched by the harrow
ing experiences of years passed, a faith
the stronger because of its earlier neg
lect. Man has tried the way of aggres
sion, let him now see the way of a fuller,
richer, and more tranquil existence
through trust in the Infinite, which is
God.
uated from Spelman College in 1933 at
the age of eighteen with an English ma
jor, but her musical training in Spel-
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Talladega Conference
Without doubt this year’s southern
conference that was held on the delight
ful Talladega College campus surpassed
all other “Y” conferences. Spelman was
represented by Harriett Townes and by
Georgia Oswell, the president of the
Y. W. C. A. at Spelman for 1939-40.
The discussion leaders and organizers
included Dr. Howard Thurman of How
ard University; Dr. T. Z. Koo of Japan;
Dr. W. H. Smart of Emory University,
Atlanta, Georgia; Mr. Herbert King, Na
tional Secretary of the Y. M. C. A.; Miss
Celestine Smith, National Secretary of
the Y. W. C. A.; Dr. W. Stuart Nelson,
President of Dillard University, New Or
leans, Louisiana; Dr. Buell G. Gallagher
of Talladega College; Mr. Howard Kes-
ter, Mr. A. Wilson, Dean of Lincoln Uni
versity, Pennsylvania, and Mr. Grainger
Browning ’39, Shaw University, student
chairman.
The daily programs consisted of morn
ing worship, a platform presentation of
some phase of the conference theme with
discussions, a period for quiet medita
tion, free period for relaxation, commis
sion group studies, and committee meet
ings; a three-hour recreation period in
the afternoon; a business meeting for
discussing definite campus problems;
evening sessions which were either ad
dresses or panel discussions on some vital
present-day problem. Each day closed
with a fellowship hour which provided
music, relaxing programs, including
games, and a free opportunity for social
contacts.
Details of the conference were so val
uable that the delegates hope to be able
to give to the students who did not at
tend some idea of the work and value of
such a conference.
Alice Hubert, '38
M iss Alice Hubert passed on Sep
tember 14, 1939. She was reared in
Atlanta and after completing her college
work at Spelman had taught one year
at Tifton, Georgia. She will be remem
bered especially for her musical ability
as a pianist and as a member of the
Spelman Glee Club and Orchestra.
SPORTS
Genevieve Parks, ’40
“Mark Time! March! one, two, three,
four—.” At this signal the left feet of
all sports are lifted to begin the march
of the 1939-1940 sports year, while fans
stand on the side-lines and eagerly cheer
each group as it passes by.
With the surging enthusiasm that is
already in evidence there will be more
letters awarded by the Athletic Council
this year than last. Soccer balls seem to
smile at the fact that they are the favor
ites of the season and a feeling of hidden
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