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THE PANTHER
MARCH, 1945
Editor-in-Chief
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VOL. 1
Uulic panther
A Journal of Negro College Life
Published by the Students of Clark College
Atlanta, Ga., March, 1945
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No. 5 <
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Art Editor
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Advisors to Editor.....
Calvin H. Johnson
Faculty Advisors
Cynthia B. Perry ’46
Ora J. Bohannon ’45
Anna M. Rice ’46
Mason Wilkes, II ’47
Marcella C. James ’47
Lolita D. Guinart ’48
Genevieve F. Bynoe ’46
Emma Jefferson ’47
... Jackie Adams ’48
Benjamin Bradford ’46
Ruth Jones ’48
Peeping Tom ’??
Calvin K. Johnson ’47
... Hiram Kendall ’48
Thelma L. Barnhart ’45
Katherine Johnson ’46
Gloria Current ’47
Ora J. Bohannon
George C. Allen
Mrs. S. B. Brookes, Miss C. Posey
Published Monthly
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DEDICATION
The fifth issue of the Panther is dedicated to the faculty of
our institution. We deem it an honor to have such efficient people
over us, to guide us that we might obtain high standards; and
reach the goal of success through their efforts.
It is also dedicated to the girls’ and boys’ basketball teams.
We are proud of the success both teams have made through their
conscientious efforts. It is with pride that we congratulate them.
AN EDITORIAL
Mankind has always been in desperate need of teachers. The
primitive man depended on nature for his guidance. Looking back
to pre-historic times we are well aware of the fact that there
was some teacher. As we come down through the ages we have
such teachers as Aristotle, Socrates and Plato, who exhibited
some of the greatest thoughts and teachings the world has ever
known. The Indian saw God in a cloud or in the wind, and was
rather proud that his soul had in no way been altered by science.
Today, speaking for our race alone, we are an aggressive and a
new people, and educational opportunities are every man’s birth
right. We have come a long way for a disorganized people. We
have been taught to take our rightful place in the leadership of
the world. We have found time for each other, through the com
petent efforts of some. We are ever so grateful to such leaders
and teachers as Booker T. Washington, Frederick Douglass and
George Washington Carver. In our grade and high schools and
colleges, we find thorough and efficient faculties who have an
unfaltering faith in us. Each day because of the obvious guidance
of our teachers we are stepping forward. We are gradually being-
taught to face our own problems squarely. The people who are
endeavoring to give their best that we might gain, are seeing
in many ways their efforts have not been in vain. The well-
prepared teachers are challenging us, the youth of today, to let
the seeds of knowledge they are eagerly planting in us, take root
that we might be of greater srvice to our race than they. In
speaking of our teachers, we are ever mindful of our Supreme
Maker, for without him none of the teachers of yesteryear or
tomorrow would ever be possible.
Our Taxes
By Ruth Taylor
There are a lot more people
paying taxes today than ever
before. And it is supposed to be
very funny to joke about the
subject in a bewailing sort of
way.
I don’t find a joke about taxes
at all humorous. I just don’t
happen to think we should joke
about something that should be
taken seriously.
No, I don’t like a curtailed in
come better than anyone else—
but, somehow, reading the great
mass of reports of conditions
overseas that come to my desk
each day, has made me see this
in a different light.
Taxes are one of the few ways
in which every citizen can par
ticipate in the government.
Taxes are a contribution every
free born man and woman can
given him and her an opportu
nity to earn a living,
make to the freedom which has
Taxes a re an insurance
against slavery. They keep the
brutal heel of the conqueror
from pressing against the neck
of any man or woman in this
country.
Taxes are a tangible expres
sion of our faith in the demo
cratic processes, in equal justice
for all before the law, in the
way of life which is evolving for
the first time on earth equal op
portunity for every man and
woman according to his or her
talents.
Taxes are every citizen’s ob
ligation—laid as fairly as is pos
sible upon every person able and
willing to earn his way. Tax-
shirking and tax dodging aren’t
American. It’s like cheating
yourself—because you, too, are
America.
From My Chapel Seat
Genevieve F. Bynoe
As the unforgettable years
glide endlessly by for Clark Col
lege, so does an endless proces
sion of notable lives leave her
sacred walls to fulfill their tasks
in making for a better world, a
brotherly world.
Of the outstanding alumni
presented this month was Mr.
Edward Simon, president, Na
tional Alumni Association. Mr.
Simon stressed the word, “co
operation,” while speaking to
the senior class on Founders’
Day. He said that by working
together, many goals can be at
tained which will definitely re
veal our gratitude and faith in
the ideals and principles of our
founders. Mr. Robert E. Cure-
ton, another alumnus of Clark
College, vividly discussed the
topic, “Faith in Times Like
These.”
Out of the student group
came the following speakers:
Thelma Barnhart, during the
week of Lincoln’s birthday, dra
matically orated, “The Call to
Arms” by Frederick Douglas,
and Marcella James, “The Get
tysburg Address,” by Abraham
Lincoln. During Founders Week
the student body was represent
ed by Bernice Miller of the sen
ior class who brought greetings;
Genevieve Bynoe whose topic
was, "The Significance of Plund
ers Day and Its Meaning to the
Clark Student,” and Edward
Smith of the Sophomore class,
interpreted his thoughts on the
importance of Founders Day.
Mi-. Wilson, director of build
ings and grounds, made us
aware of the necessity for pre
serving our resources which are
of two kinds: spiritual and ma
terial. Both are dependent on
each other, and if Clark is to
remain “second to none,” those
resources must be guarded and
preserved continuously.
Speakers brought from other
communities were: Dr. Luther
Porter Jackson, head of the His
tory department at West Vir
ginia State College. Dr. Jackson
pointed out the importance of
students between the eighteen
and twenty, knowing how to use
the poll intelligently.
Dr. Patterson of North Caro
lina and a graduate of Howard
University, emphasized the fol
lowing points:
1. The most difficult thing in
the world, and the greatest
problem is learning how to
think.
2. The mind has some won
derful creations, for in it lies
all the power of scholarly
achievements.
3. There is no such thing as
a Negro without a chance. Any
one who has a mind has a
chance to succeed.
4. Faith, will, imagination, ex
pectation, and physical power
are important in achieving our
future aims.
Honor Roll 1944-45
Ending the first semester of
the school year we find that thir
ty students have made Honor
Roll. They are: Benjamin Brad
ford, Sadie M. Clark, Edith Dat-
ton, Rhoda Dean, Ogust Delaney,
Rosa Eberhardt, Genevieve Fer
guson, Bernice Fields, Lola
Ford, Lolita Guinart, Mae Dora
Harris, Ruth Harris, Fannie
Howard, Dorothy Ingram, Mar
cella Jamse, Effie Johnson, Ep-
pie Johnson, Morrell Johnson,
Theolia Johnson, Nora Mathis,
Katie McKinney, Bernice Mil
ler, Mattye Mosely, Cornelia
Pinkey, Anna M. Rice, Katie
Robinson, Sadie Rutledge, Max
ine Webb, Dorothy Wilkins,
Omogene Williams, Ora Wil
liams.
Those making Honorable Men
tion are: Evangeline Allison,
Marriette Bailey, Marian Baker,
Aquinaldo Barnes. Lena Bar
nette, Willie B. Benning, Anna
Blaylock, Laura Brantley, Inell
Time is Life
Quite a number of us read
the book and most of us saw
the moving picture version of
Margaret Mitchell’s Gone With
the Wind. We remember, it is
hoped, Rhett Butler when he so
aptly said, “Time is life; don’t
waste it.”
Every one of us will argue or
fight when life is challenged or
threatened. Breathes there a
man who is not sharing in the
perpetual struggle for exist
ence? Lives there a real Amer
ican who is not convinced that
our present conflict is necessary
to preserve our American way
of life—our very lives and the
lives of others ? On every hand I
we struggle for life as a drown
ing man snatches at straws in
a feeble effort to survive. De
spite the efforts of numerous
poets to show us the beauties
of death and heaven, there are
really few of us willing to die.
We love life. We want to live.
And yet by supreme irony we
waste time which is wasting the
life for which we so readily
fight and for which we so con
tinuously struggle.
One of our commonest wastes
of time is not as we usually
think, neglecting to do that
which we ought to do. It is rath
er working toward failure. By
failure I do not mean the oppo
site of success, or the absence
of success, for the greatest fail
ure is he who works assiduously
for a goal that he really does
not want. The key to this para
dox is our inability to estimate
values, our inability to know
what is worth while and what is
not. A business man works away
at his desk while he ought to be
outdoors somewhere saving his
life; by and by some fatal dis
ease comes along and removes
him. He worked harder to make
money for his family than to
preserve himself for his family.
More than one man has neglect
ed his wife for his career, only
to find too late that he gained
the shell and lost the kernel.
Nature has put into each soul
a task for some one part of the
world’s work. Better starve do
ing the thing you really want
to do, than to get rich and fat
doing the thing your soul
loathes. No man has a right to
preach when he had rather be
farming or to teach school when
what he most longs for is mak
ing money, or to sell goods when
he feels he ought to write. Life
is too short to keep on treading
the wrong road.
Possibly, of course, you may
be mistaken; you may think you
are an actor when you are real
ly a born farmer. Or as one hu
morist put it, “The writing in
the heavens, G P, nine to one
means “Go Plow” rather than
“Go Preach.” But it is better to
fail at working out that natural
impulse than to be a miserable
success at what your soul
loathes.
Don’t be hasty; but be true
to yourself. Don’t fight your life
long against your deepest con
victions. Don’t waste time for
“time is life.”
Crawford, Annie Kate Davis,
Brown, Naomi Campbell, Maria
Dorothy Elliott, Ada Freeman,
Evelyn Gibson, Louise Hamm,
Samuel Hatchett, Gladys Haw
kins, Helen Hill, Marie Holsey,
Dorothy Hopkins, Ethel Jarrels,
Calvin Johnson, Martha John
son, Anita Kay, Hiram Kendall,
Agnes Lawrence, Lena Long,
Ruby Maxey, Bertha McAdams,
Constance Moreland, Ruby Moss,
Thelma Barnhart, Cynthia B.
Perry, Janet Prince, Barbara
Robinson, Naomi Rogers, Doro
thy Scruggs, Myrtis Smith, Ed
ward Smyth, Thelma Swanson,
William E. Thompson, Enid
White, Eula Williams, Anne
Wright.
New Students Semester
’45
The opening of the second
semester found twenty-one new
students enrolling in the Clark
family. Eager for knowledge,
Book Review
What the Negro Wants
By R. W. Logan
Wnat the Negro Wants is a
combination of the opinions of
fourteen Negro writers, edited
by Mr. Logan. The fourteen
writers including Mr. Logan
have been allowed to write what
ever they chose, but of course
governed by the real wants of
the Negro. They are what might
be considered the fourteen Ne
groes best able to state the case
m broad, weil-thought-through
manner. They are as follows:
iviary McLeod Bethune, of Be-
thune Cookman College; Ster-
| ling A. Brown, probably best
noted for his The Negro Cara
van, edited in collaboration with
A. P. Davis and V. A. Lee; W.
E. B. DuBois, who taught here
at Atlanta University for over
twenty years; Gordon Blaine
Hancock of Virginia Union Uni
versity; Leslie Pinckney Hill of
the Institute for colored youth
and author of Toussaint L’Ou-
verture; Langston Hughes, au
thor, playwright, poet and fea
ture writer. Rayford Whitting-
ham Logan, authority on Haiti,
Professor of Llistory at Howard
University, and president of Al
pha Phi Alpha Fraternity; Fred
erick Douglas Patterson, presi
dent of Tuskegee Institute; Asa
Phillip Randolph, socialist can
didate for Secretary of State of
New York (1921), president of
the Brotherhood of Pullman Por
ters, and the National March on
Washington Movement; William
S. Townsend, president of the
United Transport Service Em
ployees of America, Secretary of
C. I. 0. Committee to abolish
race discrimination; Charles H.
Wesley, president of Wilberforce
University and author of The
History of Alpha Phi Alpha;
Doxey A. Wilkenson, who joined
the Communist Party in 1943,
is now, Executive Editor of
“People’s Voice” and member of
the National Committee of the
newly organized Communist Po
litical Association; Roy Wilkins,
assistant secretary of the Na
tional Association for the Ad
vancement of Colored People and
editor of the “Crisis.” There
they are, all fourteen, expound
ing wide and wisely upon a com
mon subject from different view
points.
What the Negro Wants, four
teen writers use three hundred
forty-four pages to tell. Yet
some unthinking individuals
pretend to do so with a few
hackneyed phrases like “equal
justice under law,” “equal op
portunity,” “social equality.”
Yes, those are some of the
things the Negro wants, but
phrases like those, merely stat
ed, without a clear understand
ing of what they mean, they are
worthless. It is better to har
bor some doubt and an intense
desire to know; than a lot of
“pseudo knowledge.”
The writers in What the Ne
gro Wants seem to agree upon
one thing and that is that the
equality, the justice, and the op
portunity the Negroes want will
be a long time coming. Mr. Lo
gan states it in mathematical
terms, slavery lasted 240 years,
the Negro has been free eighty
years, one-third of 240; there
fore, he is just one-third citizen
and will need 190 years to square
himself.
Mason Wilkes II.
the following students began
their college career here at
Clark, the institution that is
“Second to None.” Freshmen:
Eva M. Appling, Alverta Black-
well, Susie M. Cleveland, Juli
ette Davenport, Robert L. Da
vis, Annie L. Etheridge, Cather
ine L. Gamble, Ethel V. Hurst,
Margaret Lawrence, Janie M.
Miller, Annie S. Moreland, Hen
ry W. O’Neal, Leola Parham,
Georgia B. Slater, Ellena Tram
mell, Myrtis Watkins. Juniors:
Edward A. Baldridge, Dorothy
E. Jackson, Harriet C. Strong,
Walter S. Taylor.