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Campus Mirror Published During the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia VOL. XVIII APRIL, 1942 No. 7 JPack arc! an c) Jim Owen Dodson Two omen, here in April, prayed alone And saw again their vision of an altar Built for mind and spirit, flesh and bone. They never turned away; they never said: “This dream is air, let us go hack to our New England spring And cultivate an earth that is not dead; , T , , , . , . .. , "Let dark mothers weep, dark children bleed. This land is barren land. Incapable of seed.” They made their crucifix far more Than ornament; they wrestled with Denial And pinned him to the floor. Owen Dodson, in “The Negro Cara van.” Printed by permission of the author secured, April, 1941. They made defeat an exile: And year by year their vision shed its mist: And still they smiled their Noah smile, Knowing that they had no death to fear. Knowing that their future would he now And all the Aprils we assemble here. Founders Day Address On Saturday, April 11, at 3 p. m.. the Honorable Max Brauer spoke to the large and attentive Founders Day audi ence, which filled Sisters Chapel, on the subject "Totalitarianism versus Democ racy." As a former member of the Prus sian Senate, and ex-mayor of a German town. Mr. Brauer s knowledge and un derstanding of government is far reach ing; as an exile from his own country, now under totalitarian control, and a refugee in a democratic land, he is able to dravs an accurate contrast between to talitarianism and democracy in action. According to Mr. Brauer. at the center of the present world conflict can be found a basic conflict between the two types of government, totalitarianism and democracy. Because the aims of these two types of government are in conflict with each other, one of them must in evitably overcome the other, for totali tarianism *-eeks to overcome the world, while democracy seek*- to give equal op- (Continued on Page 4) A Tribute to the Founders This year marked the sixty-first anni versary of the coming of Miss Packard and Miss Giles to Atlanta to open a school for young Negro women. They were in a situation that might have proved hopeless had they not faced it bravely and with courage. Since their problems were inevitably bound up with the problems of living, money, illness, mistakes, weariness, joy, do you wonder that there w r as plenty of room for de spair. These two women did not de spair; they went on developing their dream and today that dream is an ac tuality. It is not enough that we should pause for a mere day to say a word of com memoration, for nothing we say can con secrate them, hut every one of Spel- man's daughters should reflect teachings and ideals for which Miss Packard and Mis- Gil es so nobly and unselfishly gave their lives. Ridgelv Torrence, Famed American Poet, Discusses Negro Drama at Spelman College Ridgely Torrence, one of the most distinguished of American poets and au thor of “Plays for a Negro Theatre.” the first serious plays to be written for Negroes, visited Spelman College March 9-16 and in the course of his stay lec tured on various occasions and read a number of his poems. He spoke on “Negro Drama to a large audience in Howe Hall and told of his early struggles to produce his plays with all Negro participants, even down to technicians and directors. His task was difficult because there were no ac tors for serious plays at that time in asmuch as only musical comedies or “Uncle Tom shows had parts for Ne groes. rhe race situation, Mr. Torrence de clared, to be a- dramatic a- any situa tion that has ever existed, but the great ( Continued to Page 11