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THE MAROON TIGER
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white mergers and consolidations squeezing the life out
of small Negro firms that attempt to sprout in the field
of business. He beholds a handful of white capitalists
controlling the greater part of the economic resources
of Negro laboring, as well as professional, classes. There
can be no doubt that the picture is at once painful and
discouraging. Hence, in many cases, the Negro rather
than immediately pit himself against a social order of
this repulsive type, often shrinks away from it and uses
the college as an institution within which he may sus
pend the taking over of life’s burdens.
The Negro in schools of higher learning should cease
to regard the college in this light. Rather should he re
gard it as an educational organization whose purposes
are to develop him into a well-rounded character and to
prepare him, vocationally and intellectually, to face life
with zest and determination. Rather should he consider
the college as a place in which he can learn to out-think
the thinkers and out-work the workers. This policy gen
erally assures fruitful results because democratic Amer
ica in spite of her other faults, seldom fails to confer
due honor and credit upon those who “reach the top”
and “deliver the goods.”
To mince the matter, the Negro student should not look
upon college as a resort disconnected from the actual
facts of life or solely as an institution in which he may
ameliorate himself socially. He should regard the col
lege as a place wherein he may develop his personality
to its fullest and learn the essential importance of co
operation, preparation and initiative to the advancement
of the Negro in American society.—H. G.
FROM THE STUDENT’S VIEWPOINT
(This column is a continuation of the one begun by
Mr. H. R. Jerkins, ’30. It shall concern itself primarily
with questions of public interest—national as well as
international—as observed from a student’s viewpoint.All
comments as well as contradictory opinions will be wel
comed by its editor.)
President Hoover made another blunder last week,
and, we daresay, again diminished his chances for re-elec
tion. He vetoed the Bonus Loan Bill only to have Con
gress repass it over his objections. We agree with his
friends who term it “a fine demonstration of his cour
ageous independence,” but veterans who still have vivid
memories of fighting in the Argonne, are not likely to
forget in two years’ time that the President disapproved
of granting them an increased loan, when such an in
crease was sorely needed.
The President also vetoed (and we think rightly so)
the bill providing for U. S. operation of Muscle Shoals.
Is there no other way to curb the ravages of the power
trust except by attempting to crush individual initiative?
Notwithstanding the few needed measures that Congress
did pass, we fail to see why one percent of the power
consumed and the interest of one percent of the popu
lation should consume eighteen months of Congress’s
time. We suggest that “gentlemen” from Alabama and
Tennessee follow the suggestion of the President.
“The New York World, greatest newspaper, voice of
the people, always a friend of the black man, made fa
mous through the years by Joseph Pulitzer, passed into
history, leaving the field clear to the mutterings of Wil
liam Randolph Hearst, and other Big Business Men who
sit behind the editor’s desk.” So reads the editorial sec
tion of The Florida Sentinel, expressing a sentiment that
is felt by many Negroes throughout the country, and one
that should be felt by all. The press must wait quite
awhile, and the Negro also, before there will again ap
pear upon the editorial pages of our papers such liberal-
minded men as Walter Lippmann, Frank Irving Cobb,
and Joseph Pulitzer, Sr.
India Again! A very significant point was brought
to our attention recently, when one student in passing,
asked another, “Is the world safe for democracy?” It
will be remembered that this was the substance of the
battle-cry of the Allies in the World War. But although
they won the war, we are still wondering if they are
living up to the principle for which they fought.
It seems to us that the world will never be safe for
democracy as long as 320,000,000 Indians are governed
without their consent, by a relatively few British “over-
lords.” England boasts of the benefits that India has
derived as a result of her intervention, but any fair-
minded observer will readily conclude, we are sure, that
England has never been known to give, without the ex
pectation of reaping ten times over. She certainly had
that expectation in regard to the colonies, in regard to
Canada, in regard to South Africa, and at present in re
gard to India. If the principle of self-determination
does not hold in regard to India, then it does not hold
in regard to any international dispute; and the World
War was a farce, the fervent speeches of President Wil
son so much filibustering, and the action of the U. S.
Senate, in ratifying the treaty with Germany, a political
sham.—G. W. C., Jr.
EN PASSANT
The Staff of The Maroon Tiger is grateful to the
many students who contributed articles for publication
in this issue. Due to lack of space we are forced to
withhold a few contributions until the printing of the
May number which is slated to be a huge success. If
the student body further cooperates by patronizing our
advertizers, we promise “big things” in the April and
May editions of “The Voice of the Students of More
house College.”
A REMINDER
Look for these articles in the next month’s issue of The
Maroon Tiger—
“Twice-Told Secrets”, a gripping, entertaining, strik
ing realistic story woven around Negro college life in
Atlanta;
“The Atlanta Constitution and the Spectator—A Com
parative Study”, by Geo. W. Crockett, Jr.—an unusual
critical comment on modern journalism as compared
with that of the seventeenth century;
E. 0. Jackson’s “Blind Democracy”, a stirring essay
on student government and other questions that confront
students of Morehouse College; and
“The Influence of the Church on Human Progress”,
a short, but interesting survey on the importance of
Christianity in the development of modern and medieval
society by Robert Edwards.
The greatest thing that could happen to Morehouse
College in these days would be the investment of alumni
interest in such a way that every succeeding student gen
eration would be stimulated, spurred, inspired by the
consciousness that bending over them at the table, in
the classroom were the innumerable spirits of great alum
ni living and dead who had not only passed through these
halls but had given the very substance of their lives f<.
make possible the continuance of this holy place.
—Mordecai Johnson.