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Page 6 THE MAROON TIGER to win for the Negro his deserved place in the history of the world; and second, that historians were needed to refute the charges of many writers and politicians who are endeavoring to prove that the Negro is inferior by proving that he has done nothing worth while. Mr. James, assistant in the Department of Music and director of the Morehouse College Band, spoke the fol lowing day on the subject, “Negro Work Songs.” Mr. James traced the origin and development of work songs and outlined their connection with the history of the Negro. A musical program of Negro folk music and spirituals, sung by Mrs. Rayford Logan and Mr. James, closed the program. Mrs. Logan’s rendition of “Somebody’s Knock in’ at Your Door” was received enthusiastically. Mr. James scored a hit with the students in his interpretation of “Cabin Boy.” SAMOANS CAN TEACH US HOW TO LIVE Americans and Europeans who devote their lives to the business of making a living have much to learn from the people of the East who are chiefly interested in liv ing beautifully, Edwin R. Embree, president of the Ju lius Rosenwald Fund, told a large assembly of students of Atlanta University, Morehouse and Spelman Colleges, January 19. To illustrate his thesis and point his moral, he described in detail the organization of society in Samoa which he visited last year in a tour of the Pacific. “We here in the Western World work, save, and sac rifice so we may arrive eventually at a worldly heaven which we call success,” Mr. Embree said. “In the East, particularly in the Pacific Islands, success is something that must be achieved every day. Life there is some thing to be lived, and living is the act of expressing one self as fully and beautifully as possible. “The East and the West would benefit if each part could share the wisdom of the other. The East, for in stance, needs our tools. We need its philosophy that life exists here, and the successful man is the one who lives fully every day.” Particularly at this time, Mr. Embree believes, we need to know how “to enjoy life in a meaningful way.” It is no longer necessary for us to worship work as we have been used to doing. Under the New Deal, he pointed out, the Government is compelling us to work shorter hours. As the codes develop, we will work even less and we will face the necessity of deciding how we are to use the leisure that has been imposed on us. In illustrating the elaborate ritual which is followed in the village council of Samoa, Mr. Embree dramatized the event by having the local college presidents, who sat on the platform with him, impersonate the chieftains. DOCTOR DUBOIS LECTURES IN FIVE TEXAS CITIES With the history of the Negro since 1876 as his topic, Dr. W. E. B. Dubois, guest professor of economics and sociology at Atlanta University and the affiliated colleges, and editor of the Crisis, made a series of five addresses in Texas during Negro History Week. The tour was arranged and the lectures were given under the auspices of the Texas Association for the Study of Negro Life and History. The schedule of addresses was as follows: February 12, Prairie View; February 13, Houston; February 14, Beaumont; February 15, Marshall, and February 16, Cor sicana. TEN NEGRO ARTISTS EXHIBIT THEIR WORK AT ATLANTA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Ten nationally known Negro artists have contributed specimens of their work to an all-Negro art exhibit which was held in the Art Exhibit room of the Atlanta Univer sity Library. The show was arranged as a feature of Negro History Week by Hale Woodruff, of the art de partment of Atlanta University in co-operation with the Harmon Foundation of New York City and a number of local collectors who have loaned paintings. Thirty paintings, several drawings and one bronze com prized the exhibit. Among the exhibiting artists were Palmer Hayden, who sent his well-known still-life “Fe tiche et Fleurs,” which won the Rockefeller prize at the Harmon Foundation exhibition in 1933; Aaron Douglas, whose studies for his Fisk University murals were exhib ited; Henry O. Tanner was represented by a drawing; Miss Elizabeth Prophet, whose bronze head entitled “Si lence” is a replica of one now owned by the Rhode Island School of Design; and Hale Woodruff, several of whose Atlanta landscapes were on view. Other exhibitors were Sargent Johnson, William E. Scott, William H. Johnson, John W. Hardwick and James A. Porter. CURTIS STRING QUARTET APPEARS AT SPELMAN COLLEGE The Curtis String Quartet, made up of graduates of the famous Curtis Institute of Music, of Philadelphia, played a program of chamber music in Howe Memorial Hall, Spelman College campus, before an audience of students and local friends of music. The concert was the second in the entertainment series sponsored by the col lege, and marked the first appearance of the quartet in Atlanta. ATLANTA COLLEGES WILL UNITE FOR THE 1934 SUMMER SESSION The 1934 Summer School of Atlanta University will be conducted in conjunction with the six other institu tions of higher learning for Negroes in Atlanta, it was announced following a meeting of the presidents of these institutions. Following the precedent which was estab lished last year, Morehouse College, Spelman College, Clark University, the Atlanta School of Social Work, Morris Brown College, and Gammon Theological Semi nary will be affiliated with Atlanta University in the session which will begin early in June and continue for six weeks. In conjunction with the summer school, an interdenomi national Ministers Institute will be again held, and in accordance with an agreement reached last year, when the first institute was held, the sessions will be conducted on the campus of Gammon Theological Seminary. The Institute will offer ministers and other religious workers an opportunity for further training in their special fields of endeavor. The success of last year’s summer school in which 353 students were enrolled in regular courses, and 75 others participated in the Ministers Institute has led to a repe tition of last year’s program of cooperative effort, Presi dent John Hope of Atlanta University announced fol lowing the meeting of the presidents of the Atlanta col leges at which preliminary plans for the session were agreed upon.