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CAMPUS MIRROR
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
Associate Editor of News Lynette Saine
Special Features Marjorie Greene
Asso. Ed. of Special Features Minnie Wood
Sports and Jokes Genevieve Parks
Exchange Editor Beverly Washington
Social Editor Gladys Fordo
Music Editor Ollie Franklin
Art Editor Jenelsie 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
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Vol. XVI. November, 1939 No. 2
Editorial
On November 11. 1939. the scrap of
paper bearing the names of the armistice
signers became of age. On November 11,
1939. women who 21 years ago saw their
husbands return from the front are send
ing their sons to the front to fight in
another major conflict. In time of war
it is the men whose noble deeds are sung
at every fireside, who receive the medals
for their heroic bravery, whose skillful
tactics are recorded in history books
for boys and girls; but it is the women,
the unsung heroes of warfare through
the ages, who fight with their bands and
hearts a losing fight. War-makers with
their charts and figures say that a coun
try has won a war; the women of that
country say that no nation ever wins.
They know. They more than the war-
makers, have felt its effect and results
in weeks of anguish and years of read
justment.
Gilbert Murray in his translation of
Euripides' The Trojan Women pictures a
group of heroic women, soon to be led
captive to a foreign country, who have
felt the horror of war. They were more
miserable than their husbands who had
died in battle, because they had to live
with their grief.
In the Middle Ages during the Cru
sades the women stayed at home, saved
pennies, and ruled the kingdoms, while
their royal sons went to the East for
fame, adventure, and perhaps death.
In the twentieth century, women are
no less heroic in the time of war. Dur
ing the orld War they observed the
so-called "meatless days” and “sugarless
days.” knitted socks for the boys at the
front, rolled bandages at hospitals and
enrolled in Red Cross work. With tears
in their eyes, they sent their sons to the
front and fought for the lists to see if a
loved one was counted among the
Thanksgiving Drive
To contribute to a worthy cause means
little unless we make our contribution
with the conviction of the Apostle Paul
that, “Though 1 give all my goods to
feed the poor, and have not love, it profit
ed! me nothing.”
The Thanksgiving drive, under the
leadership of Miss W. B. Geter, is a
time when the students and faculty may
express, in a material way, their grat
itude for the advantages afforded in this
institution by contributing to funds for
missionaries in Africa and for the At
lanta Community Chest.
NYA Negro Students Win
Honors
Negro students participating in the
National Youth Administration’s Student
Aid program not only keep pace with but
also, in many instances, excel other stu
dents both scholastically and in extra
curricular activities, it was announced
by Mrs. Mary McLeod Bethune, Direc
tor of Negro affairs of the National
Coming
November 16—General Motors Parade
of Pro gress. This unusual exposition will
take place at Ella and Chapel Streets.
It will be conducted by Harry F. Man
ning. who was the demonstrator com
mentator at the New York World’s Fair.
A tabloid preview of the Exposition will
be shown to an all University assembly
in Howe Hall at 11:30 on November 16.
November 24-25—Conference of High
School Principals, called by the State
Department to meet in Sale Hall Chapel,
Morehouse College.
The seniors are presenting a group of
talented faculty members in a stunt
night program on November 18. Also on
the senior calendar is the movie, “Lives
of a Bengal Lancer” to be presented
Wednesday evening. November 22.
wounded or killed.
Warsaw women and women throughout
Poland during the past few months have
shown a loyalty and determination al
most beyond imagination. They fought
beside the men, dug trenches, cooked
their meals and attended to their wounds,
comforted their children, and kept up
their hope in the face of overwhelming
odds. It will be a long time before they
forget the bombed hospitals, the shat
tered houses, the gutted schools, the
piles of wreckage in the beautiful old
market place. For these people the war
is not over in a month or a year. Even
the music of Chopin and Paderewski is
not enough to relieve their grief and
hardship. Several agencies in America
are enlisting funds for the aid of the
Polish people. American women should
heed their call. Their sons of 1918 have
come of age.
Y. W. C. A. News
The ’I sponsored a Race Relations
meeting in the Fire Side Dining Room
on Sunday. November 5. The meeting
was in the form of a panel discussion
and forum in which Dean Bra/.eal of
Morehouse spoke upon “Race Relations
in Industry and Dr. Huggins on “Race
Relations in Social Work.” Miss Irene
Diggs was Resource Person who suc
cinctly summarized the two speakers
addresses. Questions following the dis
cussion showed that the trend of inter
est within the audience was in the direc
tion of labor unions in industry.
The Y observed the twenty-first anni
versary of Armistice Day with a program
at the chapel service on November 10.
Lynette Saine, as principle speaker, gave
a moving and thought inspiring address.
Youth Administration. A survey was tak
en of outstanding Negro institutions to
find to what extent Negro students were
taking advantage of the opportunities
offered them through the NYA. The re
sults were most gratifying and proved
that these students were good invest
ments.
At Kentucky College for Negroes the
survey showed, Louise Comer, assistant
librarian, graduated Magna Cum Laude
in 1939. Hubert Clay. Susa Cunningham.
Margaret Ryan, and William Stovall re
ceived Departmental Honors. At Lincoln
University Harold Holliday, Claudette
Logan. Pauline Combs, Gertrude What
ley. and Ethel Rhodes graduated with
honors. Miss Whatley Magna Cum
Laude, and Miss Rhodes Summa Cum
Laude. All were NYA students.
Three students at Miles Memorial Col
lege, Birmingham, Alabama, graduated
with honors, one of them, Lucile Henry,
also received a key in debating last
year. Barbara Browne of Selma Universi
ty in Alabama won the Tyler Medal for
1939 in the oratorical contest and was
also president of the B.Y.P.U. Lucille
White was President of the Y.W.C.A.
and graduated with the highest honors in
the class.
Margaret Bush of Talladega was held
out by the survey as an outstanding ex
ample of the successful NYA student.
She was chosen by the Julia Derricotte
Memorial Foundation as the recipient of
a scholarship granted to two Negro wom
en undergratuate students to study in
India and other countries of the Orient.
She sailed from New York May 3rd for
Southhampton. Her trip includes Lon
don, Paris, Marseilles, Port Said and
Cairo, Egypt, Colombo, and other points
in Ceylon. China, and Japan. She will
return from Yokohama to San Francisco
in time to finish her school work and
graduate in the spring of 1940.
Spelman College. Atlanta. Georgia,
has its share of successful NYA students.
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