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THE MAROON TIGER
73
From Our Exchanges
If “Necessity is the mother of invention” when ap
plied to the Negro youth, has she become sterile or is
she practicing birth control? The above is not true,
is youth asleep or unconscious?
The trend of the educated Negro youth as it appears
to me, is not to concern himself about the things which
vitally affect his entire relation to the world in which
he lives but to take the laissez jaire attitude and be con
tented.
From an editorial in The Hilltop, Howard Univ.
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To come out as an advocate of Utopia college life
is to place one's self in the catagory of the socialist, to
have the taboo of the more conservative or ratified
youth, and to be stamped as a revolutionizer of the
world and human nature. Yet, in the face of it all I
take the stand that co-operation between fraternities
here upon the hill is possible and that the greater part
of inter-group friction can be eliminated by applying
some thought to the situation.—From an editorial in
the Lincoln News, Lincoln University.
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Skink (who is one of the students at Shaw) has an
aversion for undue exertion and it was his custom to
knock the ball over that right field fence so that he
could jog leisurely around the bases. We do not mean
to insinuate that he is lazy, although it is rumored that
he was the first one to have difficulty deciding whether
to stay in bed all morning or to get up early so as to
have a longer day to loaf.
It seems that Skink was waiting table for a short time
during the summer months at a fashionable hotel. One
day a guest said to him, “Waiter, do you serve fish
here?” “Certainly,” replied our boy, “we cater to ev
eryone.”—Shaw University Journal, Shaw University.
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The only contribution the young ladies are making
to the school is the attraction of lounge lizards and lap-
dogs. They resent any innovation that will deprive
them of the men for one minute. The men cannot en
joy their smoking room without ladies coming in the
vicinity and summoning them out. The greatest cri
ticism of the President’s opening address was the pro
posal to create two distinct colleges—one for men and
one for women. A young lady who conducts a column
in our magazine says, in this issue that something is
missing out of Jubilee Hall since the men use the side
door. All of the men who objected to using the side
entrance have gone from the school. —From an editorial
in the Fisk Herald, Fisk University.
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You Cant Eat Your Cake and Have It!
At least this is what some guy in Epworth Hall found
out. Evidently he had several girls to call over the tele
phone and only one nickel with which to do it. In an
attempt to perform this impossible feet, he put the tele
phone out of commission. When the electrician came
to make repairs, he found in the ’phone a nickel with
a string tied to it!!—From The Paineite, Paine College.
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“Before I received my degrees I thought that 1 would
be somebody after I had it. I thought that I would be
admired and respected. I expected to get a position wor
thy of my degree and to live a life of comparative ease.
As it is, I am only another A. B.”—From the Mule’s
Ear, Talladega College.
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Wonders of Marriage
I married a widower who had a son. My mother
visited me, fell in love and married my step-son. Thus
my mother became my daughter-in-law, and my step
son my father, because he was my mother’s husband.
My step-son had a son; he was, of course my brother
and at the same lime my grandchild, because he was
the son of my son. My husband was my grandfather
because he was my father’s father. I was my husband’s
wife and grandchild at the same time, and as the wife of
a person’s grandfather is her grandmother, I was my own
grand mother.—Flora Blackstone. in the Morgan News-
Letter, Morgan College.
ELECTRICITY NEEDS MEN
D. Minor Cokk. A. EE.
It has been well put that Electrical Engineering and
Radio Communication furnish the greatest scientific and
money-making fields of all industries.
Tomorrow morning you will pick up a newspaper
and read news items from all parts of the world some
hours, and some days old, showing that since the in
vention of wireless telegraphy in 1837 present day de
velopments are carrying on.
There are fortunes being made in electrical inventions
and as you get into this wonderful profession new ideas
must constantly come, improvements lurk, and inven
tions are real such as the Frigidaire, the Neon sign,
train safety switch, electric rain, talking movies, elec
tric radio and countless others, the simplest of these
is worth hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many fields may be studied such as electro-plating,
mining, automotive ignition, moving picture projection,
interior wiring, turbine operation, generator mainten
ance, storage battery upkeep, electric cranes and elec
tric elevators.
It pays to know the peculiarities of the electric cir
cuit. The power company sells you current and it is
necessary that you should know the measurement of
your consumption. You use power, flood the room
with light, replace a fuse, snap a switch, but seldom
ever think of the source of current until a storm has
wrought havoc with the system or until fire has razed
the building in which the fuse was renewed.
There is electrical work to be done in every home,
office, store or shop where electricity is used.
A trained man has a position waiting, be he black
or white if he can deliver the goods.
Electricity needs you and eventually will make you
the “Big Pay Man.”
[To be Continued)