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THE MAROON TIGER
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Gampus GNews
NEGRO LIFE AND HISTORY
DISCUSSED
The students of Morehouse and the other colleges of
Atlanta profited greatly by being able to attend the
numerous meetings of the Association for the study of
Negro Life and History. This program consisted mainly
of a brilliant series of lectures on the various phases
of Negro Life and History.
Some of the high points: —Opening session on Sun
day afternoon, November 13, at which time President
John Hope of the association spoke on “The Study of
the Negro” and was followed by the secretary, Dr. Car
ter G. Woodson, whose topic was “The Negro Misdi
rected.”
There were many who attended the Get-Acquainted
Dinner on Monday evening in Morgan Hall Dining
Room at Spelman, followed by a cultural treat, the
Musicale: An Evening of Negro Music. An extensive
program was presented featuring musical groups from
Morehouse, Spelman, Clark, Morris Brown, Gammon,
Booker T. Washington High School, and Ware Elemen
tary School. A huge chorus and orchestra was formed
by all the school musicians and they sang and played
wonderfully under the directorship of Professor Fred
rick Hall and Kemper Harreld.
Tuesday morning, Morehouse was host to the session,
which due to the tremendous attendance was transferred
to Sister’s Chapel. President Archer presided and pre
sented first, Professor B. W. Doyle of Fisk who spoke
on the question, “Is the Negro Any Better Off Today
Than in 1868?”; and afterwards, Rayford W. Logan
of the association who spoke on “The International Status
of the Negro.” Both lectures were of great educational
value and very well presented.
On Wednesday, at Clark University, Professor J. B.
Blayton, of our economic department, spoke on the
interesting question “Are Negroes in Business, Business
Men.” Mr. C. C. Spaulding, of Durham, North Caro
lina, also spoke at this session.
Various other nice talks of equal interest and value
filled the busy four days program of the association
which will convene in Washington, D. C., next year.
SUN-UP DRAWS AN APPRECIATIVE
AUDIENCE
Lula Volmer’s Sun-up was presented by the Univer
sity Players on Saturday evening, November 19th, be
fore an audience which completely filled the Little The
atre in Rockefeller Hall.
“The scene of the play was in the mountains of west
ern North Carolina, near the city of Asheville. It was
not a comedy, rather, a serious drama of folk-life light
ened occassionally by turns of good wit.”
The stage setting and lighting effects were ingenious
ly created by Wilmer Jennings and gave a perfect back
ground for the cast which performed as a whole in true
late season finesse.
Miss Sammye Fuller as Widow Cagle was superb in
her interpretation of the mountaineer mother; Miss Flor-
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EXCHANGE FROM THE CAMPUS MIRROR
DR. KENYON BUTTERFIELD
E. Lucille Pearson, ’35
Students and friends of Atlanta University and of More
house and Spelman Colleges heard Dr. Kenyon Butter
field, who spoke on “Rural Life as a Challenge to the
World” in Howe Memorial Hall, Friday, December 2,
1932.
Dr. Butterfield presented the Farm Relief Problem as
is exists throughout the world. His travels through In
dia, China, Japan, East Africa and Europe, enable him
to do this with an understanding which brought to his
audience a realization that the farmers of the United
States are not the only sufferers in the present financial
depression. Instead of farm relief being little more
than a political issue in the United States, as it is thought
by many of us to be, it turns out to be a a world situ
ation of depression in the value of the products of the
soil.
Dr. Butterfield brought to us the position of the Amer
ican farmer in his review of the farmer’s place in
America from the time the settlements were made along
the Atlantic seaboard down to the present. He began
with the peaceful life of nearlv two hundred years on
the small farms along the seaboard, included the great
westward movement led mostly by farmers, who con
quered nature, carrying with them the little red school,
the country church and the frontier type of civilization,
while furnishing the cities with food. When the Pa
cific Ocean was reached, the tide of the westward move
ment broke back on itself and the farmer found himself
confronted by the problem of scientific methods and
equipment. This stirring motion picture became a still
picture and we stared at the farmer perplexed as he was
by the scientific methods of planting and harvesting and
the inventions of farm equipment, both of which brought
disaster, because fewer hands could produce what was
needed. Dr. Butterfield considered the economic po
sition of the farmer significant, first because the larger
cities and industries are dependent upon farmers for
food, supplies, and materials; second, because the farm
ers are conservers of wealth, the maintainers of the fer
tility of the soil.
Dr. Ru'rcerfield seemed convinced that the church must
arouse itself to meet the situation, and that the prob
lem is to be solved by individuals of vision, who under
stand scientific procedure. Yet the problem seems to
him to be more than scientific, it is social, religious, and
political. He stated that the need is for a new rural
church, a new teacher in the pulpit, a new thought in
the pews, and a new interest in missionaries.
DIL WILLIAM TRUFANT FOSTER
On November 21, at 4:30 o’clock, Dr. William Tru-
fant Foster, of Newton, Massachusetts, former President
of Reed College, Portland, Oregon, director of Pol
lack Foundation for Economic Research, lecturer and
author of current problems, lectured to the students of
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