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2 THE CAMPUS MIRROR The Students' Own Publication "SERVICE IN UNITY" THE CAMPUS MIRROR STAFF Editor-in-Chief Elizabeth Lipford Associate Editors-in-Chief Ida Russell Florence Irving Editor of News Eleanor Bell Associate Editor of News Fannie Maxey Editor of Special Features Lydia Brown Associate Editor of Special Features Gwendolyn Harrison Editor of Sports and Jokes Carolyn Taylor Social Editor Evelyn Ebbs Art Editors Austella Walden Alma Vaughn Music Editor Doretha Williams BUSINESS STAFF Business Manager Mabel Emanuel Exchange Editor Lelabelle Freeman Advertising Manager Margaret Aiken Circulation Manager Helen Robinson Secretaries Rae Jamison Marie Lauray Treasurer .. .Helen Nash Faculty Adviser Miss M. Mae Neptune SUBSCRIPTION RATES 75 cents a year, 10 cents a copy, 40 cents a semester—Postage 2 cents a copy Vol. XVIII April, 1942 No. 7 Editorial Why it is that we do not do more things for the pure pleasure of the doing will always he a mystery. What higher incentive could there be than to bring happiness to one’s own court of satis faction? There are hooks we read over and over again. In nearly every instance these books were little read and their authors neglected during their lifetime. Now we look upon many of them as clas sics. I am reminded of two pictures hanging on the same wall. One is by an artist who spent his entire lifetime try ing to improve upon everything he did. The other picture is by an artist who is forever trying to please the “public taste.” Sooner or later observers will tire of the latter work and part with it, but the former will he a continual inspiration, ever suggesting that no task can be done too well. Admiral Peary once admitted that he spent half a lifetime in the discovery of the North Pole largely that he might achieve something that had never be fore been achieved—for the pure plea sure of having done it! Edison worked away—creating and inventing more than is usually allotted to a dozen geniuses— caring nothing for material rewards be yond remuneration sufficient to keep him creating, simply because he loved to create. The greatest poets and writers, as a rule, are extremely modest and retiring —but in their written words they pour themselves out. How little we know of the outward, material life of such writ ers as Montaigne. Bacon. Cervantes or Virgil. Each was a writer of his own life in his own works. These writers. CAMPUS MIRROR Present Psychological Conditions in France and Italy It was the privilege of the students and faculties of the Atlanta University system to hear Count Carlo Sforza, ex iled former minister of Italy and Am bassador to France during the first World War, at a University convocation on Thursday, March 19. Count Sforza has been in America since July. 1940. where he came, accompanied by his family, after a flight from Bordeaux to England. Before the invasion of the low coun tries, Count Sforza and his family left their home near Toulon and the French Riviera to go to Paris. When the Ger mans advanced on Paris, they fled to Bordeaux where they were successful in hoarding a small Dutch trawler which took four days to arrive in a British port. In America Count Sforza is well known for his work as a member of the Comite du Centre European of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and as a visiting professor to many universities. At present he is the leader of the Free Italian movement in the United States. At the convocation Count Sforza spoke on “Present Psychological Conditions in France and Italy.” During the course of his talk, he stated that an incredible amount of stupidity was necessary among the people themselves to put into effect a military regime such as that in Italy. He said that many people, of course, want to know why the Italians do not revolt and overthrow this regime. In an swer to that question he gave three rea sons: first, revolutions are impossible now without tanks, guns, airplanes, and the other instruments of war. The Ital ians do not have access to any such source of supplies. Second, if the Ital ians were to undertake such a revolution the Germans would invade Italy and with their superior forces take over the country. Third, there is constant and almost bitter rivalry between Vichy and Italy to gain the favor of Hitler. Count Sforza added that this is something the existence of which even the commen tators have not guessed. In occupied France there are still about ninety-five per cent of the people who are anti-Nazi, and in unoccupied France there is a proportionately smaller (Continued to Page 3 ) however, each wrote for the pure plea sure of writing something of value. Their hooks were, none of them, “best sellers” of their day. He who works because he loves to work and who puts all that he is into his work can console himself with the fact that he has done his best. The Art Exhibition The Art Exhibition now being shown at Atlanta University is indeed a stim ulating cultural and educational experi ence. The gallery walls are simply ablaze with really remarkable examples of fine creative, artistic, painting. In the more than one hundred pictures hung, there are examples representing nearly all types of painting and many schools. Every picture has some appeal and though all are not universally excellent, still, none are bad. There is some inspi ration for all who look for it on those walls. This is the “First Annual Exhibition of the Work of Negro Artists” to he pre sented by the Atlanta University. The fine prizes, totaling five-hundred dollars, were awarded on Sunday by Dr. Rufus E. Clement. They were as follows: 1. John Hope Purchase Award $250.00 William Carter—for “Still Life” 2. First Atlanta University Purchase Award for Oil Painting $100.00 Frederick C. Flemister—for “The Mourners” 3. Second Atlanta University Purchase Award for Oil Painting $ 75.00 Edward L. Loper—for “Twelfth St. Gardens” 4. First Atlanta University Purchase Award for Water Color $ 50.00 5. Second Atlanta University Purchase Award for Water Color $ 25.00 The prizes were selected by a jury of five, including three prominent artists; Mr. Jean Chariot, internationally fa mous painter of Mexico and France; Mr. Aaron Douglas, professor of Art at Fisk University; Mr. Hale Woodruff, profes sor of Art at Atlanta University. The other members of the jury of selection were Dr. Rufus E. Clement, president of Atlanta University, and Mr. Lewis P. Skidmore, director of the High Museum of Art. Atlanta, Georgia. On Sunday, April 19. the exhibition was formally opened and a very splen did talk was given by Mr. Aaron Doug las. After the lecture there was a short discussion period, tea, and talk. A word of praise must be spoken for Miss Lisle Arduser and her girls who prepared and served the tea. On Sunday. April 26. Dr. Alain Locke spoke to a most appreciative audience on the “Significance of This Show in the Development of Negro Art and the Dis covery of Negro Artists.” Dr. Locke was, as always, both interesting and informa tive. He feels that the present view of Negro Art is very fine and that the work shown in this exhibition gives startling proof of the remarkable progress made in the last twenty-five years and holds out promise of even greater things to come. The gallery is open from nine to twelve-thirty, A. M., and from one-thirty to five P. M. daily except Saturdays. On Sunday it is open from four to six.