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PHILO-WITS
By F. A. Haynes
Editor s Note: Mr. Haynes entered Morehouse in the
fall of ’29 as a member of the present Senior class. Un
fortunately. after two years of college work, he was
forced to leave because of financial difficulties.
At present, he is working in his native town. Chatta
nooga but it planning to re-enter Morehouse next fall.
What America reeds >= a s" ,r >d five-cent meal ticket.
Then. too the results; of the election might he iust
another weakness of democracy.
The return of 1 hdit wines and beer won’t affect many
of us. it still takes money to buy the stuff.
Evidently the opposers of reform in education never
freauent proms.
You can convince them that there is a time and place
for everything but study.
TJslike: Studying the art of economizing vet living
beyond our means.
R-o-u-n-d mu«t not be superlatively perfect: it has
failed to keep coin circulating.
The hunger marchers remain exactly that; they arrive
hungry and leave hungrier.
Any poverty-stricken, group is an index to the united
populace.
Put down war as a necessary evil: seemingly, it alone
brings prosperity.
HEAR MY CRY!
Back in 1899, Booker Washington said, “do that which
is best for him (the Negro), regardless of whether the
same thing has been done for another race in exactly
the same way.” Now in 1932, a voice rises and cries,
“do that which is best for me, regardless of whether
the same thing is being done for another race in exactly
the same way.” Were I Caucasian, I would be white
were I Mongolian, I would be yellow; were I purely
Negroid, I would be black. But, I am not white, yellow,
nor black; I am a multi-coloured race, a different sort
of race. I am a race of amalgamated bloods which give
me a strata of colours ranging from black to white. I
am wrecked by my own prejudices and by the preju
dice of other groups. I am blundering in darkness; I
am aspiring for that which is not my own. I am fol
lowing a road that leads to destruction.
“I raise my voice in lugubrious cries to you who
should lead me but you heed not to my cries. I turn
to you in the church and you hear me not; I turn to
you in business and you hear me not; I turn to you in
the school, and even there you do not hear me. I am
like the family who, running from the flood, came to a
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djoice
NEED FOR MODERN RELIGIOUS
LEADERSHIP
By Henry Edward Banks, ’36
The Christian Church is praying for an up-to-da e
ministry, an intelligent, wide-awake leadership. In no
other church is the need for a higher type of ministry
move urgent than the Negro church. Too long have
we allowed oratorical bombast, ecclesiastical clowning,
and theatrical stunts in the pulpit to represent our idea
of promulgating the gospel of the Master. Too long
have we endured the sensational emotionalism of un
prepared preachers, drinking in all they give us, tak
ing everything for granted on the assumption that he
is “the Lord’s anointed.” The school of thought which
this article represents has no patience with this backward,
and antique attitude in religion.
If the Negro ministry is to gain the respect of think
ing men and women today, it must take to heart certain
undeniable facts.
It must realize, first of all, that there is a clear and
unmistakable difference between emotional seriousness
and intellectual frivolity. We have many fine preachers
who with their spirits are burning up with holy zeal
and passion but with their minds are careless, indiffer
ent. and sloppy. What we need is intellectual honesty
as well as spiritual seriousness. We need men in our
pulpit who are accustomed to think as well as feel, and
who are so alive to the supremacy of truth until they are
fearless of any other authority.
The Negro ministry, if it is to be loved and respected,
must take seriously its problems, struggles, and aspira
tions. The greatest ministers in America are men who
are interested in people, their welfare and destiny.
Then, too, every Negro preacher should realize that
no period in the history of the world is more stimulating
and challenging than the age which confronts him now.
In the language of Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick: “There
are great aims to live for, great faiths undergirding life,
and great hopes ahead. I am in love with life because
there is so much to live for.” Unemployment, world
peace based on international good-will and cooperation,
scientific inventions and revelations are some of the big
things that make life stimulating. Every enlightened
and progressive preacher rejoices to have the privilege-
“To be alive in such an age!
With every year a lightning page
Turned in the world’s great wonder-book
Whereon the leaning nations look,
Where men speak strong for brotherhood,
For peace and universal good;
When miracles are everywhere
And every inch of common air
Throbs a tremendous prophecy
Of greater marvels yet to be.”
(NSFA)—According to mid-term reports posted at
the registrar’s office recently, 1460 University of North
Carolina students are failing their work thus far this
quarter. The number of warning marks is recorded
out of a student body of approximately 2800.—Daily
Tar Heel.