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THE MAROON TIGER
ATLANTA UNIVERSITY’S NEW MUSIC
LIBRARY IS OPENED
Formal opening of the music library, which has
been presented to the Atlanta University system
by the Carnegie Corporation, took place on Sun
day afternoon, January 10, in the newly decorat
ed blue room of Laura Spelman Rockefeller
Memorial Building, in which the collection of
books and records, and the reproducing machine
are housed. In the presence of a large gathering
of students and friends of the University, Miss
Florence M. Read, Acting President of Atlanta
University, read a psalm of thanksgiving, and the
group joined in a dedicatory prayer of thanks ap
propriate to the occasion. During the afternoon
representative music from the rich store of
records was played on the reproducing machine.
Opportunity was given to pore over the large col
lection of books and music scores which were on
display.
In all, the collection includes nearly 900 records o f
the greatest music of all time and of all countries,
and several hundred volumes of musical histories,
biographies of musicians, and interpretative mu
sical works, as well as scores of the principal re
corded compositions and program notes on these
numbers. To reproduce the records an electrical
phonographic set has been made, which is es
pecially designed for the use of classes and groups.
It is possible to control the tone of the instru
ment in such a way that the finest shading of mu
sic may be heard distinctly, or to bring out the
full volume of an orchestra or a choir with all the
richness and natural tone quality.
The Carnegie Corporation, which has assembl
ed the collection and created this special repro
ducing device, has placed these sets in 94 colleges
and universities in the United States, Canada,
and other British possessions. This has been
done by this educational foundation as a part of
its program of developing and encouraging a deep
er and wider interest on the part of college stu
dents in the fine arts.
SPEAKER URGES “MILITANT” SUPPORT OF
PEACE PROGRAM
To be a peacemaker, one need not withdraw
from life or retreat from reality; rather, it is the
peacemaker’s duty to face the strong white light
of truth, to meet the situation bravely and inde
pendently, and “to bear the cross”. Thus, Reverend
George Lackland, director of the Wesley Founda
tion of Yale University and pastor of New Hav
en’s First Methodist Church, described the task
of the proponent of peace in the present-day world
in a chapel talk to the students of Spelman Col
lege. Mr. Lackland is making a tour of the South
in the interest of the Emergency Peace Campaign.
Speaking to the text, “Blessed are the peace
makers, for they shall be called the children of
God”, Mr. Lackland said that unfortunately paci
fists are looked down upon as being mere resist
ers or “do nothings”. On the contrary, during the
World War many who declined to kill their fel-
lowmen, gave their lives at the front as Red Cross
workers or as mine sweepers in an effort to clear
the seas of the death-dealing mines.
“We need to put militancy into the peace move
ment’,, Mr. Lackland declared. “It is a lot more
difficult to teach people to live and work togeth
er than it is to teach them to hate one another. We
must sublimate conflict to a higher plane. Sin
cere people will always have differences of opin
ion about important issues, and out of these dif
ferences it is our task to create a synthesis.”
The visitor recommended as a means of gain
ing a well-balanced knowledge of what is going
on in the world today that students should read
three periodicals carefully and regularly; first,
the Sunday edition of the New York Times, which
gives an account of the world’s happenings,
is almost entirely free from bias; then, an inde
pendent journal, such as “The Nation” or “The
New Republic”, which gives the liberal or radical
viewpoint, and finally some conservative invest
ment journal like the “Wall Street Journal”, which
shows what big business is thinking. Then, when
one has read and digested these points of view,
he should think quietly over what he has read,
and form an independent opinion on what is hap
pening about him.
Commenting on the problem of saluting the
flag, and of taking the oath to the Constitution,
Mr. Lackland said he used to be puzzled by reser
vations and questions that arose in his mind. He
did not wish, for example, to give allegiance to
the system of racial inequalities, political graft,
and execessive military expenditures. At last, he
said, his problem was solved by a line from a poem
of Henry van Dyke: “We love our land for what
she is to be”. Thus, he said, we should see in the
American flag a symbol of a country that is to be
free from racial strife, economic disorder, and
militarism.