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THE MAROON TIGER Page Twenty-five Editorials Lynchings The curve of Lynching has gone up again. The figures are: 1919 i 83 1920 65 1921 64 1922 61 1923 28 1924 16 1925 18 1926 31 In the years 1900-1919 the lowest number lynch ed in anyone years was forty-eight and the hghest one hundred and eight. The crusade of the N. A. A. C. P., started the awakening of the white South and brought the figures sharply down. In 1926, thirty-one have already been lynched as we go to press.—The “Crisis." Something should be done to stop lynching. If the states won’t protect the lives and property of the people therein the Federal Government should. The slate has no rights when lawlessness, violence and mob action blot out the lives of citizens—The situ ation is becoming more acute, the tension more strained, lynching must be condemned. The state representatives could help, if they would get serious and stop fighting presidential ap pointments on mere political basis; if they would stop advocating National Blue Sunday Laws, and laws of discriminatory nature; if they would stop and think in constructive channels of national and international scope rather than stop progress by eternally filibustering. The legislators should appropriate more money for educational purposes because as long as the ma jority of the voting populace is practically ignorant, conditions will become more alarming. Just Why are We Here? J. K. Mickens, ’27 I think every college student should debate this question with himself in order to find out whether he is really “thinking on his way,” or imbibing the noble and lofty ideals of Morehouse. We are here—no matter who put us here, or how we came here—to fulfill a task. We cannot af ford to go of our own volition, until our duty is discharged. We are here to make Mind master over Matter, Soul of Sense. We may do so by over-ridig obstacles, not by weakly capitulating to them. If obstacles tend to hinder our progress, do not let us sit still, but rather go to work as fast as we can. In action and action alone lies our salvation. But it must be remembered that only a great aim, one which remains valid, .irrespective of our private griefs, is competent, in the critical moments, to put us into action and to sustain us in action. We are here to grasp the Morehouse Spirit— the spirit which has guided Morehouse men through the darkness to the light of happiness and pros perity. Every student here must become saturated with the Morehouse Spirit. I am not asking that you become permeated with the Morehouse Spirit simply because you are inmates of the college, but because of its merit. Every graduate of Morehouse who became wholly saturated with the Morehouse Spirit, is one of the main cogs which helps to turn the wheel of world progress. It is the power which testifies to the unity of our lives with the lives of others, which impels us to regard others as ourselves —this fact comes home to us more forcibly in sor row than in joy. There are two terms of the series of progress which we should always keep before us. The one is the starting point, and the other the final goal. The former is the cave man: the latter is the perfect man. We all know in part, what sort of being the cave man was. We know how poor and mean were the beginnings of humanity on earth. But of the perfect man of whom the cave man was the germ, the first rough draft—our notions are vague. He rises before us in a vision of glory, but his shape is ne bulous. Morehouse exists for just this: it make us more able to define that nebulous shape, to draw sharply and finely, the noble lineaments of that face; it makes us more and more able to see the perfect man—the man that is to be, the perfection of our imperfection. We are here to become religiously developed. For, religion is a wizard; she faces the wreck of worlds and prophesies restoration. She faces a sky, blood-red with sunset colors that deepens into darkness, and prophesies dawn; She faces death and prophecies Life. The infinite from which comes the impulse that leads us to activity, is not the highest Reason, but higher than reason: not the highest Goodness, but higher than goodness. A religion which is to satisfy us, must be a religion of progress. But we must be progressive ourselves, if we are to have faith in progress. We must be constantly developing if we are to have faith in unbounded further development. And es pecially we must be progressing in a moral direc tion. Whatever religion we adopt must be consis tent with the truths with which we have been en riched at the hands of science. It may be ultra- scientific—indeed it must be; but it may not be anti-scientific. If we “think on our way,” and keep busy each hour of the day, we may rest assured that some fine morning we will awake, competent ones of our generation. Begin now, so that the year 1927 will be very beneficial in every constructive avenue of endeavor. The students who are poetically inclined are re quested to write. We are not getting enough to print a real good section.