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Campus Mirror
Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia
VOL. XVI APRIL, 1940 No. 7
Founders Day Address
“Watch your values” was the chal
lenge of the Founders Day address de
livered by the Rev. Charles L. Seasholes,
Pastor of First Baptist Church of Day-
ton. Ohio.
Watching values is important from a
consumer’s point of view. Esau of the
Biblical story failed to appreciate his
birthright because he failed to watch
his values, and so. as a consumer, gave
up that which was inherently most im
portant for a pitiable mess of pottage.
The foremost problem of the world
i- that growing out of the relation be
tween economic security and liberty. The
choice is economic security or liberty.
It is quite a pitiable situation in which
there is economic security gained at the
loss of freedom. It is a tragedy to have
freedom without security. To gain either
and lose the other is the same as gaining
a mess of pottage by forfeiting a birth
right.
There should be concern for the val
ues of personal development. Attention
was called to the New Testament story
which gives the positive side of watching
values. The story tells of a merchant who
sold all he had to get a pearl which was
great not only as an ornament but great
in price. Some things are of such value
that a person is called to sacrifice all
else to gain them. The best is always
implicated with sacrifice. There must be
sacrifice of the best or for the best. A
warning was given to he on guard to
'-ell all for tile pearl of great price rather
than the birthright for a mess of pot
tage.
"If I read this book. I cannot read that
one.” -aid Buskin. Dr. Seasholes in quot
ing Buskin advocated watching values in
taste. Tastes become ingrained, and to
allow oneself to become used to cheap
taste would be to drive out the best.
In quoting Shakespeare's Polonius,
Dr. Seashole- urged us to watch our val
ue- of friendships because there must
be -aerifiee either of the best or for the
best. “The friends thou hast and their
adoption tried, grapple them to thy soul
with hoops of steel: but do not dull thy
palm with entertainment of each new-
hatched. unfledged comrade" i- the quo
tation which seems to limit friendships
from some -elfish motive. It is not a
Reverend Charles L. Seasholes
matter of cliquishness but of choiceness,
for in choosing friends we take those
that are worthy instead of the unworthy,
or the unworthy for the worthy.
Sacrifice of the best or for the best
is not governed by set rules. Some think
self-denial is the important means of
securing the best. But Dr. Fosdick says
that there is no choice in the matter; we
are always denying one self for another
self. In failing to deny oneself for the
highest, the highest is denied.
Youth stands in a buyer’s market.
It can get anything it wants for the bid
ding. It is a thing to be regretted for
youth to miss the best because it fails
to bid for it.
“I bargain with life for a penny and
life will give me no more . . .”; “Life
is just an employer who will give no
more than the employee asks . . .”: “If
you ask a king’s ransom and earn it with
work that is true, you will find, at the
end of the journey, a king's ransom."
Such are the characteristics of a life
truly lived.
To watch values values of economic
security. liberty, personal development,
taste, morals and friendship, and to dare
to bid for the best will make it possible
for us to obtain the best out of life.
Watch your values!
Seventy-Five Years of
Negro Progress Exposition
Negro business will be given its first
opportunity since the Atlanta and Cot
ton States Exposition of 1890 to exhibit
on any large scale its development and
diversity in the 75 Years of Negro Pro
gress Exhibition to be held in Detroit’s
Mammoth Convention Hall. May 10-19.
It will be a panorama of business, com
merce, industry, and agriculture, em
bracing in addition to the 48 states.
Cuba, the Virgin Islands, Puerto Rico,
and Liberia. The Exposition Committee
has arranged for an all Negro personnel
to take care of the Convention Hall and
concessions during the fair.
George Washington Carver, noted
scientist, will make the largest and most
important contribution which, occupying
700 square feet of floor space, will in
clude a replica of his original labora
tory; and simple experiments will be per
formed by one of his young assistants.
The Founders Day
Exereises
Spelman's birthday celebration has
left a vivid picture with us, and April
the eleventh means much more than just
another day. Her fifty-ninth birthday is
not the winter of life, but a mere water
ing and nourishing of a plant that shall
bear fruit through the centuries.
The Founders Day exercises have
proved that the fruits are and shall he
of many kinds. After the bell in Packard
tower rang at 10:30 A. M. announcing
the beginning of the day’s activities, the
Freshmen in their gay yellow suits set
an excellent pace for the day by moving
with alertness, keeping correct line for
mation, and passing the spirit on to the
white clad Sophomores who continued
the marching tactics with zest. Then both
classes seated themselves on the gra>-
forming a jolly background for the mi
metic exercises which were performed
by the.luniors and Seniors who exhibited
symmetry in activities planned for a
large group. After this the recently or
ganized Tumblers Club showed -kill in
making a box. the horse, and the ground
,-erve a- places for exhibiting many in
teresting bodily positions and perform-
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