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PAGE 2 THE PANTHER MARCH, 1945 Editor-in-Chief Associate Editors.. VOL. 1 Uulic panther A Journal of Negro College Life Published by the Students of Clark College Atlanta, Ga., March, 1945 i No. 5 < STAFF Feature Editor Associate Feature Editor Literary Editor Art Editor Associate Art Editor Exchange Editor Associate Exchange Editor.... Gossip Editor Business Manager Associate Business Manager. Staff Secretary Staff Typists ..... 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 —- • A ^ fi A A A A * ih J 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.