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THE MAROON TIGER Page 3 Americans.” Some of our one hundred per cent patriots talk to us about the danger of entangling foreign al liances. “Let us stay out of international affairs,” they say, “and leave Europe alone. Let us attend strictly to our own business.' Is it not our business to help other nations out of distress, although it has been our busi ness for decades to meddle in their affairs and to get all of their resources we can acquire? America boasts of being a land of freedom and op portunity. “America is another word for opportunity,” said one of our Presidents, but is it? Is this a land of freedom and opportunity where one-tenth of its citizens is restricted, segregated and constantly reminded that the color of its skin is a social and economic barrier? Is this a land of fair play when Negroes in the South, and in the North too, are considered inferior, given a bitter treatment of social injustice or occasionally lynched in a swamp or left hanging dead somewhere on the limb of a tree? So well has America blended beautiful oratory about freedom with the eloquent facts of social atrocities until an Americana missionary in a certain Oriental country, after he had finished an address on Christian good-will, was taken aside by a native who said, “You must know that the educated people of this country look upon Christianity as a blood-spilling re- ligion. This is our shameful record. Minding our own busi ness is almost unknown by us. Facing the issue of our own social malady would be an entirely new procedure on our part. There are thousands of Americans ready to diagnose the case of sick Europe and prescribe the needed remedy, to ten million Americans who are will ing to face their own condition with honest doubt and searching misgiving. We do well, therefore, to condemn the racial policies of Hitler and oppose injustice wherever it is found, but it seems to me that it would be far better if we would dedicate ourselves to the serious task of setting our own houses in order first. We should take the beam out of our own eyes first, then we can see clearly to remove the mote from our brothers’ eyes. SHOULD WE HAVE FRESHMAN RULES? W. A. Allen, III. ’37 Of course not! At the beginning of each school year one week is set aside for Freshmen to become acquainted with the rules and regulations of the institution so that the Freshmen may not be ignorant of the government of the college. In spite of this preliminary training the upperclassmen always insist that we should have Fresh man rules. What is the reason that they discuss the ques tion over and over without a final decision? It is true that all students need rules to be governed by, but why should the F reshmen need rules aside from the regular ones. Do the upperclassmen think that the Freshmen are wild and uncultured? If they do, then they are not aware of the truth that Freshmen as well as anyone else can abide by the general laws of the insti tution. The Freshmen have the ability to produce self-con trol and to secure the cheerful acquiescence of the other students by the general rules that are made for the good of the entire student body. The Freshmen know that they are no longer high school students, that the days of childish folly have vanished, that the road before them is stony and that college is the place where a man is on his own merits; then why is the superflous set of rules needed for them? If the Freshmen were not treated like babies by having certain “shalls” and “shall nots”, then they would not act as such. Give the Freshmen a chance to display their man hood. their culture, and their quality of self-control. They will not lake advantage of their freedom. If the upperclassmen can set a good example as law-abiding students, then the Freshmen can not fall below that standard. That example will in itself be the greatest rules that the Freshmen will need. The Freshmen want a democratic student body in that they may have a representative on every commit tee. They want to feel at home, and to do that they rrust have the same showing that the upperclassmen liave. Until everyone is convinced that we do not need Freshman rules, the course in Sociology will not have done its full part. “SO TO BIND EACH SON THE OTHER Welcome Freshmen! Now that Freshman Week is his tory and the tedious business of meeting the great grand upperclassmen has for the most part been disposed of, this verdant field of ninety-three strong should be now well orientated to join into the spirit that promises to give Morehouse College one of its greatest years. The enrollment of the Freshman Class this year exceeds that of last year’s highest enrollment by twenty-eight. From East and from West, from North and South they have come; big ones, little ones, wise Freshmen and Freshmen that are otherwise (There! There!) And what with three parties already given in their honor, two at Morehouse and one at Spelman, the Freshmen should begin to feel a bit of the spirit which bind . . . each son the other"’ the men of Morehouse into the great family that history has proved them to be. The Fresh man Class is geographically distributed as follows: Alabama 1 Michigan 1 Georgia 69 Mississippi 1 Illinois 5 North Carolina .... 6 Indiana .. _. 1 Oklahoma 1 Kentucky 2 Texas 6 SOPHOMORES WELCOME THE FRESHMEN The members of the Sophomore Class wish to welcome every Freshman to Morehouse College. There is a beginning to everything. We were ‘ crabs” one year ago, but we did not allow the thrusts of the upperclassmen to get the better of us. We were quick to. get adjusted to the environment and to display our sev eral abilities. We are attempting now to maintain the standard that we set last year. In you, Freshmen, lie hopes for future Morehouse men. We hope that you will realize the all-important task that is before you. An institution is not only what the founders, the alumni, the trustees and the faculty make it, but, more conspicuously what the students make it. We feel certain that you are going to do your part this year to better conditions and to take advantage of every opportunity that the college has to oiler. (NSFA)—The Institute of Advanced Study at Prince ton. N. J., opened October 2 for its first year of work. The Institute is under the direction of Dr. Abraham Flexner, and includes in its faculty of noted professors, Dr. Albert Einstein.—Princetonian.