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THE MAROON TIGER
Page Seventy-one
and, within an hour’s time, attacks and pene
trates other red blood cells, which process even
tually renders the host anaemic (lack of red cor
puscles) .
At the stage where the poisonous substance
invades the blood-stream, one suffers with severe
chills followed by the fever which is so character
istic of Malaria. The above stages constitute a
complete life-cycle of the parasitic Plasmodium
Malariae. Consequently we see that man may be
contaminated by the bite of an infected Anopheles
female mosquito or a healthy mosquito may be in
fected by biting a malarial man. This process of
infection allows this to be a communicative dis
ease.
It may be interesting to note that there are
about 125 species of mosquitoes known. How
ever, only the female of the group Anopheles are
able to transmit malaria to man. Another class
that is common and often found about us is the
Culex, but they are perfectly harmless to man
and may be easily distinguished from the Ano
pheles, for they have clear wings and the axis of
the body forms a curved line as though the in
sect were hump-backed, while the latter has
brown spots in their wings and present a straight
line when at rest.
Owing to the fact that prevention is always
the scientific method of overcoming disease, I
shall state very briefly the preventatives to be
used. The habitat of this parasite is usually
marshy soil and quiet pools, and it is concluded
that the best time to fight the mosquito is when
it is in the embryonic stage. Here wrigglers
hatch and my be destroyed by pouring oil (kero
sene) on the water which immediately enters into
the breathing tubes of the infant mosquitoes and
asphyxiates them. In addition to this, farms
should be properly drained, all pools should be
kept free from vegetation and stagnant water
water should not be permitted. Also, individuals
should use mosquito nets over beds, screen their
windows, doors and verandas, swat the mosquito
and remove their breeding places. However, if
one is affected with malaria, quinine may be used
as an effective medicinal treatment, but under the
instruction of a good physician.
Fellow-students, to read without reflection is
like eating without digesting. Then, if we love
life, let’s take our cannon, a little science and as
sassinate the mosquitoes and consequently pre
vent the widespread of Malaria.
Qkapel Gnats
Echoes From Negro Emphasis
Week
THE NEGRO IN DRAMA
Francis Moses, ’28
According to Dean Archer there are three fun
damental reasons why the Negro of previous
generations failed in his attempt at drama. These
reasons are as follows: (1) His lack of cultural
maturity; (2) His lack of social prosperity; (3)
Historical controversy.
Out of cultural maturity comes those elevated
and refined elements which sober the minds of
a people and call forth those clam and sincere
reflections of the soul which are necessary for
all great works in the field of literary production.
The Negro of yesterday lived in the midst of
himself. He could not isolate himself from the
making of his race, from its joys, its sorrows,
days of privations and nights of fear. He could
not reflect upon the past. He held before his
eyes a glass through which to obtain a broader
view of the lives of his people, but alas, the glass
was coated. Instead of that which he sought he
saw only the blinding reflection of his own soul,
his own life, his own problems.
Social prosperity gives one courage of heart
and security of position. It carries with it a
certain sense of pride for one’s endeavors, wheth
er they be crowned with victory or prostrated
with defeat. This courage, security, and pride
had not yet arrayed themselves on the side of
the early Negro dramatist. And then there was
the threatening barrier of historical controversy
or, the Negro problem. The earlier Negro writers
were confronted with this racial issue in its most
acute form, and, as a result, their literary labors
to a very great degree were spent in confutation
and refutation of the evils and injustices heaped
upon them and upon their people. DuBois, Grim-
ske, Richardson, and others made bold attempts
to dramatize the life of their race, but in spite
of their highly appreciative contribuitons, Negro
life remains till this day an unwritten drama
worthy of the pen of a Shakespeare or Milton.
But, says the Dean further, those drawbacks
which impeded the progress of the earlier Negro
writers have mellowed with the advent of the
new era of social, economic, and racial better
ment. The Negro of this day and generation has
a heritage and a history—is it the vision that he
awaits ?
* * * *
Miss Crocker very wonderfully and beautifully
contrasted the old and new Negro literarists,—
their works and methods of attack. The older
writers were interested chiefly in dialect; the new
Negro writers strive toward the artistic. The
older Negro writers wrote about the Negro; the
new Negro writes to the Negro.
“I expre.ss the Negro to others,” said the form
er. “I express him to himself,” is the voice of the
latter. To the voice of the one the world listens
with curiosity; to the other with appreciation and
understanding.
* * * *
“Thou shalt not steal.”
“Thou shalt not kill.”
“Thou shalt not commit adultery.”
“Thou shalt not lie.”