fUpssfnflpr Vol. 39 SPELMAN SEMINARY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, DECEMBER, 1922. No. 3

The Lord is my Shepherd. Ps. 23.

The Lord is my Shepherd.

I shall not want for rest, for He maketh me to lie down in green pastures: I shall not want for refreshment, for He leadeth me beside the still waters:

I shall not want for forgiveness, for He restoreth my soul: I shall not want for guidance, for He leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for His name’s sake:

I shall not wantfor companionship, yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death,

. Thou art with me: I shall not want for comfort, for Thy rod and Thy staff they comfort me:

I shall not want for sustenance, for Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies:

I shall not want for joy, for Thou anointest my head with oil and my cup runneth over: I shall not want for anything in this life, for surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life:

I shall not want for anything in the life to come, for I shall dwell in the house of the Lord forever.

Arranged by John R. Mott, 2 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

THE GREAT DAY. Since Christmas came, the true measure In Bethlehem the children are nearly all of a man has been that which is, or may Christmas is a lot of trouble. It is very, poor. They have no Christmas stockings be, within him, and come an to oh, very expensive! It is extravagant. It thereby has hang up, and no turkey for dinner. immense is tiring. But it is worth it all—all the appreciation of the value of men. (But sometimes there is halauwa, honey¬ They are “hands” no ed money, all the effort, all the pains; for it longer; they are in¬ pastry; and if they’re very lucky, a dividuals, each with a great roast is the great day in all the year. The Fourth possibility of pigeon stuffed with young wheat.) value. To of July, Washington’s Day, Lincoln’s Day, ignore or neglect them, or fail Some of the boys and girls have to sleep in Memorial Day all stand for patriotism, and doing what we can to benefit them, may in the single-room belt (house) along with be to miss a treasure Labor Day stands for rest, and New Year’s by oversight, and the goats and sheep, and the family donkey. blear our own vision to There are stands for a fresh start, but Christmas by failure discern. perhaps a thousand beits in stands for everything: for the love of Perhaps that is why we make as much Bethlehem; most of them wee white lime¬ as we can of stone affairs with a country and the love of man, for work and everybody at Christmas single window, which is often rest and a fresh start, for the life that is time, and neglecting our ordinary pursuits, margined with blue, in honor of and the life that is to be, for hope, for joy, give gifts where we can, spread feasts the Virgin Mary. where we for civilization. can, give such evidence as we I have seen a good many children in the Moreover, it stands for fulness of life. may that everybody whom we can reach villages of Palestine, but I doubt if any are is to us, so attractive as those of the little town It is no pinched-up festival. The full important and that there is love in our own hearts. stockings and the full stomachs, with five miles from Jerusalem. I remember “Peace on earth, good-will to men” that Christmas which some of us celebrate it, have a good morning coming across a deal of fitness, material tokens though seems a long time coming, but no one need couple of youngsters playing marbles. wait for its universal sway. It has come With dried they are, of matters chiefly spiritual. “It figs! to every one On the is true, ’ ’ says a recent writer, ‘ ‘that Jesus who feels it within him. It way to the church of the Nativity, has been brought to earth, and there it is we Christ offers the example of an absolute passed two or three inns outside of for the taking, and never was a time when which renunciation of much that makes up the kneeling camels chewed complacent reachers out for it seemed so life of the greater proportion of mankind; many. cuds. The church itself was not crowded, but it is done for the sake of the life.” Merry Christmas to all of them, and to but the “cave” underneath the main audi¬ all mankind ! For the sake of the life; that there should torium was hectic with pushing, strident Ediu. S. Martin in The Youth’s be more, not less; that it should be better Companion. people who had come from many places to to live and better worth living, but valu¬ see or to offer incense. There were Bed¬ able and livable in spite of privation, or ouins, with aquiline noses and the keen falcon even at times by dint of it. eyes of desert men; suave Poilus in It was that enormous revaluation of life horizon blue; Ozzies, plumes a-waving:

that came to earth on the first Christmas Italian soldiers, also, with gay feathers in Day that makes that day the most impor¬ their hats; stately, erect Bethlehem women tant in all human history; that makes the CHRISTMAS IN BETHLEHEM. wearing a steeple-like headgear draped over with a white writer just quoted find it reasonable to The little gray leaves of the olive groves shawl, and vivid em¬ aver that history, in the real sense of it, twinkledin the palliddawnlight that Christ¬ broidery of purple and crimson and gold on the only begins with the birth of Christ, since mas morning as I rode into Bethlehem. bosom; drab-uniformed Tommies the people that have not yet claimed It had been raining most of the night; the making cockney comments on the show. There were Christianity have no true history, but a road seemed to flow with mud, and I felt priests, too, Armenian, mere chronicle of ruling dynasties, butch, chilled and gloomy. But after a few min¬ Catholic, Greek; and incessant bowings and eries, and the like. utes of leading my horse down the twist¬ chattings. At one side of the bediz¬ The great knowledge that it belongs to ing, cobbled street, I arrived at the Lu¬ ened cave was a silver star that was the us to acquire is the knowledge of Christ¬ theran pastor’s house, where I was able cause, so it is said, of the Crimean war. One sect of mas; what its spirit is, what it stands for, to get warmed up by his hospitable stove. priests had stolen it from an¬ what was the new idea it brought to earth. He was a solemn but kindly-faced Syrian, other; the diplomats had got to work on it. * * * However that Round that idea our present world re¬ loyal to the Germans (he owed his ed¬ may be, many lives had been lost within the volves. Our civilization is based on it, ucation to them), and obviously aged by cave, in other re¬ moving forward as it accords with it, hes¬ the war. ligious fracases. And on this Christmas itating or receding as it conflicts with it. I wanted a guide who should pom*- out morning, the first since the armistice, at least two British Tommies had to stand on The problem of our politics and of our ec¬ the necessary things in the Church of the onomics is the infusion of the spirit of Nativity. He provided one, his 11-year-old guard with fixed bayonets,—to keep the Greek Christ into the relations of men. Of daughter, the most charming of drago¬ priests from massacring the Ar¬ menian course that is an enormous task. Men mans. Nayeeda had that happy eagerness priests, or vice versa. This, in the cave stable where the Prince of Peace have been working on it for nineteen cen¬ and sympathy which make Syrian children was born! turies, and it seems sometimes as if they so appealing. She insisted on filling one of My guide, Nayeeda, must have sensed how had only begun. There goes on intermin¬ my pockets with Christmas eggs, dyed suffocating, how blasphemous was all this sectarian ably the conflict between “It is good to red and blue, and etched by her own hand pomp, pride and have, to rule, to compel,” and “It may with naive likenesses of the wise men, the ceremony; for, as if to divert me, she call¬ ed be better to forego, to serve, to yield.” star, and the shepherds. Nayeeda had su¬ my attention to the little wax bambino that It is not having or foregoing that is im¬ perior advantages—shoes, for example, lay in a gaudy manger (the “true” one had been carried off to portant; it is that within us that is helped high buttoned ones. German she could Europe years and developed, now by having, and again speak like Arabic, and good English. She before). by going without. That is what is im¬ knew her Christmas hymns and Lutheran “That is the baby!” she said. “The portant—that which is within us. traditions. ignorant—they think it grows a wee bit SPELMAN MESSENGER. 3

bigger every hind a day from Christmas. But yoke of placid brown oxen. His mind was filled with thoughts of a it does not,” she explained sophisticated- As we strolled back toward Bethlehem, military training and subsequent plans ly. ‘‘It’s not a truly baby, you know.” Nayeeda clutched my arm in the excite¬ brought about his appointment as alter¬ I was glad to be led out of that cave ment of discovery. She pointed at a bit nate to West Point. The white principal and away the no of moss that had from church, matter if sprung as if in eager wel¬ failed and Charles Young, ready by care¬ it were the oldest in Christendom come and the from a cranny in the gray stone wall ful previous study to enter this door of ‘‘authentic site of the our nativity.” We beside path. That moss was glisten¬ opportunity, passed the entrance examina¬ climbed a hill and ran down the other side ing with raindrops, and the dew of Christ¬ tion and was accepted at West Point. By through a over a mas eve. tiny village, rough path to diligence and integrity he won the respect a small barley field. It was the field of the ‘‘Look!” she cried. ‘‘You call it moss. of teachers and students, although he where the But we Bethlehem children Shepherds, shepherdskept watch put it under suffered much discrimination, and the re¬ over their flocks our Christmas trees. by night. (Here, too, We call it Jesus’ spect received was sometimes paid reluct¬ Ruth had bed!” gleaned among the alien corn, antly. He was graduated from West —we could just make out the Moab hills The hillside was dew-pearled in that Point in eighteen hundred eighty-nine, the whence she had come to Christmas Bethlehem, the morning sunshine, and larks third Negro boy to complete the course in Moab hills so obscured by the mists of were on the wing above the Field of the this famous military school. morning that they looked like a fog bank). Shepherds. Just then a flock of goldfinch¬ For a short time Lieutenant Young Behind us were the es aspiring towers of (wild canaries), sun-tinted, sun-heart¬ served with the Ninth Cavalry out west. Bethlehem, and the sound of ever-crow¬ ed, flitted overhead from the olive grove After the death of Lieutenant Alexander, in ing roosters, with now and then a baby’s the Field, up toward Bethlehem. It he became his successor as instructor of cry. seemed that they had come from the Star sciences and tactics at WTlberforce Uni¬ The field was enfolded of the by hillsides ter¬ East, and as they flew, these feath¬ versity. While on duty at Wilberforce raced with gray-brown walls. This soil ered members of the heavenly host scat¬ he was promoted to the rank of first lieu¬ had once been luxuriant with vineyards tered generous hallelujah notes, good tid¬ tenant and assigned to the Seventh Caval¬ and orchards—the frequent cylindrical ings of great joy. They were heralding ry. He remained in this famous regiment watch towers of stone attested to that— what the angels know will come: “Peace for more than a year and then, as Captain, but the Turk had on earth and blightened even fair good will among men.” at his own request he was transferred Bethlehem; and only desultory olive trees Allan A. Hunter in N. Y. Times. back to the Ninth Cavalry. and vines were left. It was a bit desolate, During the Spanish American War, that scene; some off to¬ of the little hills Captain Young was commissioned a Major ward the Dead Sea appeared, that misty by Governor Gushnell of Ohio. The next morning, like heaps of ashes. year the Ninth Battalion was ordered to And then, suddenly, the sun burst out the Philippines where it performed hard through the clouds. The stubble in the service and Major Young was kept busy COLONEL CHARLES YOUNG. Field of the Shepherds glistened like gold: fighting the Philippines and the dreaded the glory of the Lord shone round about. Every man may reach the common level cholera which threatened to wipe out his It rested upon a shepherd lad standiug be¬ but only a gifted few attain to the heights. troup. It was his regiment, the famous side an olive tree whose leaves shimmered One of these inspiring heroes who tow¬ Ninth, which rescued the celebrated Rough in the new sunshine. He was a barefoot, ered above his fellowmen was Colonel Riders with Roosevelt as their Colonel swarthy Arab youngster. He had on noth¬ Charles Young. from utter defeat. After about two years ing more than a faded blue gellabeia (the Outstanding leadership and efficiency, service in the Philippines, Major Young Arab dress that resembles a nightgown) genuine devotion to duty, race and country, returned with his regiment and was sta¬ and a red and yellow headshawl with a and an unconquerable soul speak of this tioned at Presidio, California. Later, he coil of goat’s hair to hold it tight on his man, who, despite the protests of those was appointed Acting Assistant Superin¬ crown. Curled up in his arms was a'tiny who endeavored to block his way, fought tendent of Sequoia National Park. In jet kid with a shining black nose and bravely on and on, and finally conquered, this park, it is the custom to name the bright, happy eyes. gaining the ‘ ‘heights by great men reached giant trees after some giant of history, so, “Quoios mush haikV' (Good, ain’t it?) and kept. ” while serving in this capacity, Major called the boy. Charles Young was born in Maysville* Young named one of these trees for a In his flock were the most amiable lambs Kentucky, in eighteen hundred sixty-four. man whom we all honored and admired ever; their faces half black and half white, When he was but a young boy the family and whose influence can never die, Booker and their fat little tails wriggling with de¬ moved to Ripley, Ohio, where he received T. Washington. light. The sheep mingled democratically his education. His father, Gabriel Young, In nineteen hundred four the War De¬ with the who was a goats. One of these latter, a big veteran of the Civil War, died partment sent Major Young to Haiti as black-bearded in fellow, stood up on his hind eighteen hundred ninety-four. His Military Attache. After four years of legs for more than a minute nibbling at mother, Arminta Young, is still living. service there, he returned to America and the topmost withered leaves of a young When ten years of age Charles began the for a short time was stationed at Fort D, fig tree. A mother sheep bleated, a di¬ study of music and to the surprise of par¬ A. Russel in Cheyenne, Wyoming, until minutive donkey—not much larger than a ents and teacher he progressed rapidly, he and his troups were ordered by President mouse and loaded down with a sack of showing remarkable ability. In eighteen Taft to the Mexican border. The War De¬ grain that nearly bent his back double— hundred eighty-four, he was graduated partment in nineteen twelve sent him to trotted meekly along the path, his legs with honors from Ripley High School. Liberia as Military Attache to build roads After twinkling. A few hundred yards away a this, Charles Young taught for a into the interior and organize a constabu¬ short bare-legged, blue-gowned farmer was time but he soon realized that his lary for that republic. While on duty in tugging at a primitive wooden plow, be¬ place in life was not the professor’s chair. See page 5. 4 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

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j$p?lmatt ffimuuuu'r On her return trip from California, Miss Helen A. Miss E. 0. Werden, Editor and Publisher Farquhar met in Terre Haute, Ind., Misses Hupp and Landrum, Atlanta, Ga., December, 1922 Mrs. Mack, and Mrs. McFadden (Nee Ella Berry). They spent a happy after¬ noon Published monthly during the school together. Miss Edith Harrison is year, by members of Spelman Seminary. teaching in Woonsocket, Mass. JS@“Terms: 35 cts. per year, in advance; single copies, 5 cts. Miss M. K. Hoare is now Y. W. C. A. Travelers’Aid at Moncton, N. B., Canada. Club rates: Ten copies, one year, $3.00. Mrs. Lucile Hull To introduce the paper we will send it Baumgardner, now en¬ on trial to new subscribers two months. gaged at the Ithaca Conservatory of Mu¬ sic, Subscribers wishing to introduce the spent part of the summer vacation at Messenger to their friends can have spec¬ Chautauqua. imen copies sent free from this office to Miss Florence T. Cams is1 ‘playing Brid¬ any address. get” at home. East Berlin, Conn., going to business school in the evenings, and be¬ Subscribers asking to have the direction coming an expert in playing Go-bang. of a paper changed should be careful to name not only the post-office to which Miss Gertrude Mithoff was married Ju¬ they wish it sent, but also the one to which ly 1, 1922. She is now Mrs. Hallet L. it has been sent. Huckins, 205 Noble St., La Porte, Ind. Letters concerning subscriptions should After a number of years experience be addressed to teaching in a private school for mutes The deaf Spelman Messenger, Sistine Madonna—Raphael in Albany, N. Y., Miss Grace M. Emerson Atlanta, Ga. is at the head of the new department for deaf mutes in the public schools of the Entered at the Post-Office at Atlanta, Ga., same city. Address 115 Manning Blvd. as second class matter. Miss Bertha E. Johnson writes most in¬ Acceptance for mailing at special rate of CHRISTMAS EVERYWHERE. terestingly of her work at the Berkshire Industrial Farm, a school for boys at Ca¬ postage provided for in section 1103, Everywhere, everywhere, Christmas to-night! Act of October 3, 1917. Christmas in lands of the fir-tree and pine, naan, N. Y. Christmas in lands of the palm-tree and vine, Mrs. Paul M. Whitesell (Edith Rickmyre) Christmas where snow peaks stand solemn and The Spelman Messenger is owned and white, is touring with her husband. She wrote controlled by The Spelman Seminary, Christmas where cornfields stand sunny and from 315 W. Genesee St., Lansing, Mich. bright- Her permanent address is 306 No. Market Atlanta, Ga. Christmas wnere children are hopeful and gay, Christmas where old men are patient and gray, St., Johnstown, N. Y. Christmas where peace, like a dove in his flight, Mrs. John Fillinger (Anna Smedley) of SCHOOL OFFICERS. Broods o’er brave men in the thick of the fight; Everywhere, everywhere. Christmas to-night! Elma, Wash., extends a cordial invitation to PRESIDENT, Miss Lucy Hale Tapley. For the Christ-Child who comes is the Master of all; any Spelmanite who visits the Western No palace too great, no cottage too small. Coast. She has a new bungalow with DEAN, Miss Edna E. Lamson. Phillips Brooks. spare rooms and a good garden. Elma is TREASURER, Miss Angie E. Kendall. half way between Seattle, Wash., and SECRETARY, Miss Phern Rockefeller. On Friday evening, Nov. 10, Prof. Law¬ Portland, Oregon. rence Southwick of the Emerson School of Address Miss Charlotte M. Nason, The Parsons DIRECTORY. Oratory gave us a wonderful lecture on School, Essex Falls, N. J. Y. W. C. A.—Pres., MissD. L. Thompson. the late Theodore Roosevelt. He showed A new baby is announced. Miss Mar¬ Y. P. S. C. E.— us how one of our greatest citizens was garet Elizabeth Eleanor Luddy arrived on Supt., Mrs. Belle Hook. November 17 at the home of Mr. and Mrs. truly a self-made man. His life is an in¬ Sunday School—Supt., Miss Hamilton. E. J. Luddy (Miss Eleanor Stevenson), 512 S. S. Teacher Training Work, spiration to do and be our best. Williams St., Hamilton, O. Congratula¬ Supt., Miss W. M. Kurrelmeyer. On Wednesday evening, Nov. 22, the fi¬ tions! nance committee of the Y. W. C. A. pre¬ Miss Eleanor F. Peverly is teaching the OUR PREACHERS. first and second grades at Averill Park, sented their budget and staged a play, N. Y. Miss Peverly’s school is near Troy, Nov. 5. Dr. W. H. Major, City. “Dr. Dollar’s Busy Day,” which caused N. Y.,so she is able to spend her week¬ “ 12. Dr. Russel Brown, “ much merriment and yet was suggestive ends at home. of need “ the of dollars in carrying on the Miss Katheryn McLeod is dean of the 19. Dr. W. S. Wilson, “ work of the society. The characters were Page School for Girls, 4511 Pasadena Ave., “ 26. Dr. W. M. Los Sentell, “ well sustained. Angeles, California. Miss Bessie E. Kubach is supervisor of Dean Lamson spent a few days learning music in the public schools of Wilming¬ Hampton methods in the week ending on ton, O. Nov. 25. Mrs. W. W. Robson (Miss Allene Free¬ Mrs. E. L. Connallyof Atlanta has giv¬ man) is at home at 94 Lenore St., Winni¬ peg, Manitoba. Her sister, Miss Matilda en $10,000 to the Woman’s Missionary and Freeman, makes her home with her. Benevolent Society of the Second Baptist Miss Anna Suter is still at home, 6005 church of this city, to be known as the E. Washington St., Indianapolis, Ind. Mary V. Connally Fund of the Second Miss Bessie M. Cairns is a missionary Baptist Church, Atlanta, Ga. This money at Kongmoon, China. is a part of the dowry received from her Mrs. Myron W. Adams (Cora Hardy) father, the late Governor Jos. E. Brown, is still at Atlanta University, City. when she was married. The gift has been Miss Margaret Aitken is now found at JTnllnro tli? §>tar accepted under the terms outlined. 27 W. 90th St., New York City. SPELMAN MESSENGER. 5

Continuedfrom page 3 work completed, the final goal was reach¬ of robust useful manhood, but the call to Liberia as one of his officers, Captain ed. When he arrived at Legas, his desti¬ higher work came and the soldier respond¬ Brown, who had been sent into Hinter¬ nation, he was again attacked by the ed. land with a detachment of one hundred black water fever and in spite of every ef¬ Among the multitude of beautiful trib¬ men to restore order, was attacked and fort made for his recovery by both English utes to this great man, we find the fol¬ surrounded by over a thousand hostile na¬ andnatives, Colonel Young, farfromhome lowing from The Associated Negro Press. tives. All communications were cut off, and loved ones, expired January eighth, Blow, bugles of Heaven, awaken God's armies. Blast forth the wild notes till the echo resounds! his ammunition was exhausted and the na¬ nineteen hundred twenty-two. Arise, ye archangels, and angels, and seraphs, tives were The closing in upon him. Major English officers stationed at this A comrade-in-arms seeks to enter thy bounds. Young with only one hundred untrained place, the Governor of Liberia and his Blow, bugles of Heaven,a loud reveille— natives started to the rescue. Without staff testified to the high honor in which While we sound— Taps! maps or guides and through sections of Colonel Young was held by uniting in giv¬ the country where civilized man had never ing him a grand military funeral. Such Blow, bugles of Heaven, a hero advances— What deep scars of battle his features deface? trod, he and his band bravely pushed on. was a fitting tribute to this soldier, rec¬ ‘Twas he who endured every slight and foul Though severely wounded and with sever¬ ognized as one of the greatest of his insult al men of his in bad condition, he arrived country and the only man of his race to Defending his manhood, his God and his race. just in time to save Captain Brown and reach the Colonelcy in the Regular Army. Ye great hosts of Heaven; let honor be given This world-weary hero who enters thy ranks! his men. The genius of this great leader of our Blow, bugles! Blow, trumpets! A paean of The Liberian Government race was not limited to his acknowledged military attain¬ praise- “grateful appreciation for the most val¬ ments but developed as well along other While we sound— uable services rendered by Major Young lines. As a musician he became the mas¬ Taps! which will always stand as a monument ter of the piano and violin. Like the cel¬ Blow, bugles of Heaven, God’s armies are march¬ to the Major’s name in the military annals ebrated Harry Lauder, Colonel Young ing ’Twixt corps and divisions are no “color” lines: of the Republic. ’’ The United States took a small piano with him whenever it Their front ranks are filled with the numberless was Adjutant General testified, “It has been possible to do so and with his music millions only with the most careful advisory super¬ cheered the hearts of many soldiers who Earth slighted and bruised with her evil designs. vision of Major Young that peace and or¬ were “facing fearful odds.” He made The legions assemble! O Earth, hear, hear the tremble! der have been maintained on the Liberian a special study of African music and was The mighty Commander shouts, “Vengea j is frontier. an authority on Negro “spirituals.” mine!“ In nineteen hundred fifteen Major Young Among his literary accomplishments is a Blow, bugles of Heaven, a dirge low and sad— was ordered to return to America to defend drama based on the life of the black mili¬ While we sound— Taps! the country on the Mexican border. It tary genius—Toussaint L’Ouverture. Mary S. ’22. was his regiment, the tenth cavalry, which Colonel Young lives also as a poet, breath¬ Clyde, II. [Graduating Essay, May, 1922.] fought that memorable engagement at ing in his verse the truest and highest as¬ Carrizal. After the war he was promoted pirations of the soul of the Negro. NEW LIGHT ON COL. YOUNG’S to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel and Although any brief sketch of the life of DEATH. ordered to report to the Adjutant General this noble man can be but fragmentary, at Columbus, Ohio. it must not close without a word as to his A great deal came to the writer during his When the United States entered the philanthropies which reveal his generous sojourn in Liberia concerning the late Colonel World War, Colonel Young was eager to nature and his large-hearted love for hu¬ Charles Young, Military attache to the American be in the first fight and although he was manity. He was ever on the lookout for Legation at Monrovia. Most of the information recommended by General Pershing as opportunities to aid his fellow-beings in secured sheds a rather sad among those meriting promotion, he was their upward struggle. And with his gifts after-glow on a life which few must have known declared by specialists to be physically un¬ went his heart in loving advice and warm to understand. The man’s soul and fit for further service and sent back to sympathy. Many a youth, striving for energy were filled and con¬ sumed Wilberforce to his previous position, that an education, found in Colonel Young a by his interest in the people of Af¬ of-Commander of Cadets. To test his fit¬ kind benefactor. In some cases he was a rica and one who runs across the path of his activities in the ness the Colonel rode on horseback from good fairy, an unknown friend, as his in¬ great continent must his home in Xenia, Ohio, and presented clination was to conceal from his right feel that Africa has suffered a great loss himself at the Capital. The Secretary of hand what his left hand was doing. His in this Musician-Thinker-Soldier of the War inquired if the Colonel desired to enter very presence was an inspiration, for he great heart and ready sympathy. As in the war as combatant or non-combatant. was endowed with a personality which most similar cases, there were those who The Colonel with a smile clashing his heels was both strong and pleasing. We who misunderstood, even resented, his activi¬ replied, “Combatant, Sir, combatant.” were so favored as to hear his address ties and did as much as possible to disturb an existence so The Secretary assured him that he would two years ago on this platform remember peaceful in its pursuits that was receive prompt consideration, but much his cordial manner, his words of wisdom, it proof against any such outside to Colonel Young’s disappointment, orders and his happy, courageous view of life. interference. One can no to go to the World War were never re¬ He spoke of our melodies and of their reach community of interest ceived. deeper meaning, recognized only by the in Liberia where he has not been; wher¬ Despite the fact that he had before suf¬ Negro himself. Spelman, he said, held a ever there may have been a religious fes¬ fered attacks of the black water fever and large place in his heart and life as his tival or the singing of national songs he despite his supposed ill health, he was sent wife was a Spelman girl, having spent journeyed. It seems, in fact, that the back to Africa where hfe spent two years. three years in the Seminary as Ada Barr. pursuit of this great interest was indirect¬ Last September he received orders to make He called himself a son-in-law; and how ly responsible for the loss of our ranking a special trip down the west and south proud we were to have the claim allowed. officer. coasts of Africa. The trip was made, the His appearance then denoted many years The story comes to us that Colonel Young fi SPELMAN MESSENGER.

was tracing the development of a rather JOHN F. SLATER FUND. running probably into millions. To this strange West Indian religion and had suc¬ 156 COUNTY TRAINING SCHOOLS. end the Missionary Education Movement, ceeded in the Council of Women for Home locating the elements at Fernan¬ Beginning with the Session 1911-12 at Missions, do and the Central Committee for Mission Po, the Spanish possession in South¬ the request of four County Superintend¬ west Africa. It was told by an officer on ents, the Slater Fund aided in establishing Study have united in issuing a series of one of the English ships by which he had County Training Schools in these four graded text-books on race relations, with a number of others recommended for gone down the coast on his last voyage. counties. The plan has met with general sup¬ The characteristic which was so promi¬ approval. plementary work. Most of the missionary nent during his whole life played an im¬ From the first the proposition of the organizations have provided also for the creation in each local portant part in death. Colonel Young, it Slater Board has been to appropriate $500 society of a committee seems, boarded the ship with a severe cold to a year for salaries of teachers on the follow¬ give especial attention to this matter. which had been contracted during his jour¬ It is ing conditions: significant that nearly all the text . books were neying and assisted the ship's doctor in 1. The school property shall belong to prepared by Southerners and treating a native who had been injured. that the executive officers of the Federal the state, county, or district, and the school During this treatment the fellow, who was Council Commission are all Southern men, shall be a part of the public school system. in great pain, struck the Colonel in the 2. There shall be an appropriation for indicating that the South is leading in the chest with his knee; the blow effort to find a precipitated salaries of not less than $750 from public thoroughly Christian basis the illness which was already laying hold for the future relations of the races. funds raised by state, county, or district of him and he was landed in a critical con¬ taxation. dition, never to recover. The little actof 3. The length of the term shall be at WORLD IS FOLLOWING SOUTH¬ kindness was perhaps responsible for the least eight months. LAND’S LEAD. passing of one who was always kindly dis¬ 4. The teaching shall extend through That the plan of conference and cooper¬ posed when duty permitted. the year, eighth with the intention of add¬ ation now It is to be hoped that the work being worked out in the South which ing at least two years as soon as it shall Colonel as a means of solving inter-racial problems Young accomplished in the study be possible to make such extension. is to of native customs will not be withheld and destined lead the world in this field The following facts are interesting: was the statement of Dr. Thomas Jesse that a soon publication of his finding will In 1912, there were 4 schools, 20teachers, be Jones, noted sociologist, before the annual announced; by chance we learned that 77 pupils in high school grades. The sala. meeting on he had collected and arranged a number of the Commission Inter- ries from Public Tax Funds were $3,344; Racial of the West Africa melodies. Every ship Cooperation, in session. Dr Jones, through Slater Board, $2,000; the average on which he has “coasted it” remembers recently returned from a trip to England amount for salaries from Public Funds and a tour of ‘‘The Colonel’s Africa, stated that the Amplified Native Songs.” being $836. The General Education Board In the greatest interest was everywhere express¬ pursuit of our beginnings and the made no contribution. ed in the Commission’s method of dealing beauty of that which has been ours for In were 1922( there 156 schools, 964 with race relations, and that General the centuries, he died. And a little deed teachers, 3,782 pupils in high school grades. of kindness Smuts, of South Africa, on learning about sped him on. Salaries from Public Funds were $401,949;* it immediately took steps to apply the Maynard H. Jackson, in The Florida Sentinel. through Slater Board, $59,750; the aver¬ method to the acute race problem faced age amount for salaries from Public Funds by the British in South Africa. THE JEANES FUND, 1922. $2,577. The General Education Board contributed for buildings and equipment, The Jeanes Fund, for the improvement LOHENGRIN’S BRIDAL CHORUS of Negro Rural Schools, cooperated during $62,000. t In Wagner’s opera, the Bridal Chorus the session ending June 30,1922, with pub¬ -'Total amount, session 1921-22 for all purposes is sung in the bridal chamber when the lic school superintendents in 273 counties* jrom Public Tax Funds $607,911, t'l’he General Education Board is also contributing ladies of the court enter on one side lead¬ in 13 States. to salaries in diminishing amounts for a period of live years, beginning with session 1920-21. ing in Elsa, the bride, and the King and The 275 Supervising Teachersf, paid The amount lor 1921-22 was $62,053. his nobles enter on the other side, leading partly by the counties and partly through in Lohengrin. It is, therefore, customary the Jeanes Fund, visited regularly in CHURCHES TAKING UP INTER¬ at weddings to make the approach of the these counties 7,850 country schools, mak¬ RACIAL PROBLEMS. bride the ing in all 33,921 visits, and raising for the signal for the playing of this beautiful purpose of school improvement $428,528- What many consider the most hopeful piece. The words of the chorus .39. The total amount of salary paid to are as follows: development in the realm of race relations the Supervising Teachers was $207,287.75, Faithful and true, we lead you forth, in America is the fact all the great Protes¬ of which the sum of $114,521.51, was paid Where lovetriumphantshall crown you with joy, tant by the public school authorities and $92,- denominations, with a membership of Star of renown, flower of the earth, 766.24 through the Jeanes Fund. nearly thirty millions, are uniting in the Blest be ye both far from all life’s annoy. The business of these traveling teachers study of the problem with the view of find¬ Champion victorious, go thou before! working under the direction of the county Maid bright and glorious, go thou before! superintendents, is to help and encourage ing a Christian solution. Mirth’s noisy revel you’ve forsaken, the rural teachers; to introduce into the The Federal Council of Churches has ap¬ Tender delights for you now awaken! small country schools simple home indus¬ pointed a Commission on the Church and Fragrant abode enshrine you in bliss, tries ; to give talks and lessons on sanitation Inter-Racial Relations, which is actively Splendor and state in joy you dismiss, cleanliness, etc.; to promote the improve¬ Faithful and true, we lead you forth, at work seeking to promote the cooperation ment of school houses, school grounds; and Where love triumphant shall crown you with joy, to organize clubs for the betterment of the of all church groups in the effort to bring Star of renown, tiow.r of the earth, school and neighborhood. about better conditions. In addition, the Blest be ye both, far from all life’s annoy. Montreal Witness. -'The work in four of these counties was taken question will be studied this year in many over by the State. thousands of missionary groups and study Shirkers get paid what they are worth. fThree of the teachers died in service during the Elbert Hubbard. session. classes, with an aggregate membership SPELMAN MESSENGER. 7

AMY AND I SAW THE FAIR. Ga. This is a school for mountain people, the capital city of “Our Lady of the and they had done this work under the Snows” when the jolly concoction is ready For some days the morning papers had supervision of Miss Lenna Waite, teacher for eating. His must be the been ablaze with joy of mak¬ programs of doings at of industries there. The novelty lay in ing an Empire sister happy. The Fair and, later, friends came home the utilizing of wild honeysuckle vines for We had a chicken dinner with the Epis¬ with tales of the wonders they had seen basketwork. There were shown trays, a copalians; it was an-accident that we did at The Fair, so one day Amy and I sud¬ tea-wagon, a lamp stand, a muffin stand, not dine with dissenters, for the Method¬ denly decided that we, too, would see The and many smaller pieces of basketry, all ists were serving across the way. We had Fair. So, next day, we went, and see it of which were exceedingly beautiful and a good dinner, and we hope they did. we did. to the uninitiated would readily pass for And now see us starting for home! Each The Fair is an annual event in Atlanta. the conventional cane. Examples of va¬ carries a paper marketing bag (gift of the Primarily, it is to show the products and rious sizes of the vines ready for use were Dixie flour industries of concern) filled with candy floss Georgia; but, year by year, in evidence hanging around the booth. and leaflets of information about heaps of it has widened its scope it has till become Prof, and Mrs. Pease, who were in charge things. Amy has her cabbage under her the Southeastern Exhibition, and one may of this exhibit and justly proud of their arm; I bear a basket of Delicious apples. find displayed there exhibits of many wares, explained that the vines when Both of us are happy. states, and this year there was a beautiful green are stripped of their thin bark by Amy and I saw the Fair, and we want to booth booming Western Canada. means of a split stick and straightened by go again.—'Eva. Amy and I both women being busy and soaking in warm water. With the pres¬ needing to be at home for the afternoon, ent high cost of cane and the practically we started at half past eight in the morn¬ inexhaustible supply of wild honeysuckle A LETTER FROM LIBERIA. ing, getting transfers good for the special vines on the mountains, this should prove Monrovia, Liberia, W. Coast Africa. car running to Lakewood, where The Fair a profitable use for the sweet-scented We are back in Brewerville but about was staged. It was a long ride through Southern climber. “Drop your bucket eight or ten miles from the Lott beautiful streets of the city and on out Carey where you are. ” Mission, which is through an equally beautiful stretch of right in the settlement And here, Amy, being “English, you of Brewerville. Our school is strictly for country, and past the old soldiers’ camp. know, ” added zest to the occasion by giv¬ We had prepared ourselves for the “Have boys, but the people are talking of build¬ ing us a bit of information. ‘ ‘The cu¬ exact fare ready!” and at a few minutes ing a house for the girls. The Campus is rate, ” called by the professor a muffin after nine we passed through the turn¬ very pretty, with banana trees, pineapples stand, she explained was so named be¬ and sweet stiles and were atThe Fair. oranges, golden plums, and a cause it bore the cakes and sandwiches few cocoanut trees around it. Also about “What we want to see is in those three and was always passed by “the curate” a dozen or more mango trees. Now if you buildings,” said Amy. “Yes,” said I, at afternoon teas. Henceforth, it gets were close “we can get on without seeing the Mid¬ by, I would supply you and its original name with us, “the curate.” way or the cattle.” And so we did. mother, andSpelman with some of our de¬ The products of garden, field, and or¬ licious fruits. But solid food is better to We were told that the animal exhibit was on chard display in the Agricultural Build¬ us than these very fine. We were not there; we were fruits, as of course we do ing gave great not learned encouragement that Geor¬ not care much for them. We have already judges in that line, and we had gia will have plenty to eat this winter. not time for everything, so we accepted planted farms of cassava, and sweet pota¬ Indeed, the showing of apples from North toes to aid us in the general verdict. Neither did we see feeding our school; for Georgia made us covetous and entirely Johnny Jones’ Show or the Midgets. meat, God provides fish, and the deer We had disproved the old idea that Georgia was when we are able to get it. Our mission just three buildings to do. Lib¬ too far south to raise good apples. This eral Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. is in “Ricks’ Institute,” and Daniel and I stretch of slopes from the foothills has have been We first made a bee line to the Liberal appointed by our Board to help come into prominence as the rival of all in Arts. There loomed large paintings and this Institution. Oh, we dearly love our America in its apple-producing possibili¬ work as we needlework. After that, we saw much always did in the other missions ties, bearing away first prizes in the great in which we have labored that we cannot remember to locate surely, during our so¬ national contests. And there they were but it was all at The Fair. journ here in Africa. We have one before our eyes, an abundance of the most large building for the boys, and a nice Among the things of interest were Met¬ luscious looking (and tasting) fruit all ropolitan Insurance, Red Cross, Anti- church right on the campus, in which we ready for laying in for Hallowe’en. There, our Tuberculosis, Coca-Cola, Girls’ Club, Boy teach school and conduct Sunday ser¬ too, we met the “Bean man.” “The Scouts, School of Technology, The Oppor¬ vices as well. This school was founded in Lindsay Johnson Winter Bean makes hay 1882 by the “old fathers” of Liberia who tunity School, Long Distance Radio, and blooms while snow falls.” It is the “The Ear of the World,” “How to get labored and died many years ago, but the greatest nitrogen gathering plant known Liberian Baptists are working in co-oper¬ Telephone Service on the Farm at Small to present day agriculture. Just plant it ation with our Lott Carey Convention. Cost,” “Keeping Pace with Georgia’s in September : it will be ready for market We think that God intended for us to be Growth,” Georgia S. S. Association, The in March and April. No cultivation or here, because we are getting along nicely Berry Schools, White Lily Flour (The fertilization needed. Send for seed to little buns were and our boys are anxious to catch every¬ good), The Dixiegram, Mr. Johnson, Rome, Ga., and prove it out. thing as we try to teach them. As soon Eggs, Self-rising Flour, How to Raise am I in my mother’s ‘‘Daughter house, as we Chicks, Hastings’ Seeds, Grant Park But mistress in my own.” possibly can, we shall endeavor to Flowers, Chrysanthemums, displays by Amy and I pressed each other’s hands send you the pictures of the place. Please merchants, printers, and automobile sales¬ as we came in sight of the Canadian ex¬ keep on sending me the Spelman men, all these and many more, all clamor¬ hibit, and we had no reason to regret our Messenger, as it keeps me in touch with ing for “a place in the sun.” birthright. Amy came from the “moth¬ my class-mates and other friends and teachers. Our Of course, the thing nearest our hearts er’s house” and I from the daughter’s. rainy seasons are about got most attention. In the school exhibit So we were a friendly pair to greet the over now, and near the first of November we saw proof of good work being done in head of this fine booth, where was good hot, hot dry season will come for which we will not be the public schools. A fine model of a propaganda for inducing immigration. very proud because you have no idea how country home—house, barn, garden, and The courteous gentleman with whom we very hot and sickly it is. Please field—made by the fourth grade, Lakewood talked came from Ottawa and had lately give our love and best wishes to all friends and Heights School, called forth well-merited been in England near Amy’s home. How Spelman. Flora Z. Malekebu. praise. History charts, vocational charts, our hearts warmed as we talked of things bird and nature books, kindergarten de¬ of the home affairs! We came away not Miss Annie M. Johnson, H. S. ’22, is signs, sand moulding, and the specimens only spiritually, but also materially, rich¬ now taking the H. E. course at Spelman. of household arts, all made us emulous to go er, for Amy proudly bore with her unwrap¬ Miss Verdell E. Stevens, H. S. ’22, is and get others to Every¬ ped the champion red cabbage head of the do likewise. teaching at her home, Valdosta, Ga. where were suggestive ideas. Those who exhibit, a rare thing to find in Georgia, harshly criticise Atlanta schools ought to which she promises to make after her Miss Marguerite Watt, H. S. ’22, is go to The Fair. mother’s recipe into good spiced cabbage teaching at home, Columbus, Ga. In the Arts Building was a unique ex¬ pickle. Would that the donor might sam¬ Miss Mary Anna E. Hunter, H. E. ’22, hibit from Piedmont College, Demarest, ple it when done, but he may be back in is teaching in high school, Athens, Ga. 8 SPELMAN MESSENGER.

A SHORT, FULL LIFE. Miss Camilla Weems, Coll. ’12, and one THE RABBI’S STORY. time successful county supervisor here, is It was not by chance that Jesus so often Esther Mae Simpson was born Sept. 15, now doing good service atAllen University, 1896, the eldest of three children born to Columbia, S. C. put His message into the form of a par¬ Mr. and Mrs. Clay Simpson of Americus, Miss Alberta Stephens, H. E. ’22, is able. In no other way can truth be made Ga. She finished public schools of the conducting a dressmaking establishment so vivid, and so personal in its application. city June, 1909, with honor. She entered at her home, No. Birmingham, Ala. Americus Institute October, 1909, finish¬ Could the power of unselfishness to uplift ing May, 1913. She lost her mother May, Miss Viola Branham, H. S. ’22, is taking and bless, and the blight that selfishness the 1910. She joined the Mt. Olive Baptist college course here. casts on the sinner and on those round him, church April, 1913. She entered Spelman Miss Mamie L. Strong, Coll. ’10, is now be more picturesquely taught than in the October, 1913, and finished the teacher studying in Harvard University. old Jewish training course in May, 1916. She taught story that Mr. Jacob A. Riis in the public school of Moultrie,^Ga., for got from a venerable rabbi, and retold in two terms. She began her work at Amer¬ SCIENCE AND THE BIBLE. the Christian Commonwealth? icus Institute October, 1918, and had served A woman who had lain in torment a thou¬ for four consecutive terms. She was a The recent statements of Professor devout Christian and conscientious worker. Batesman in Toronto regarding thechange sand years lifted her face toward heaven She was also Director of the Americus In¬ that has come over the opinions of men of and cried to the Lord to set her free, for stitute B. Y. P. U. She science with evo¬ took her bed Au¬ regard to the theory of she could stand it no longer. And He gust 27, and died Friday night at 9:10, Oc¬ lution has aroused interest again in the looked down and said, “Can you remem¬ tober 27. She was buried from the Mt. question of Science and Religion, and how ber one Olive Baptist church on Sunday, October they are to be reconciled. In comparing the thing you did for a human being 29, at 3 p. m. findings of science with the Biblical record, without reward in your life on earth?” the late Sir William Dawson, for 38 years The woman groaned in bitter anguish, Principal of McGill University, a noted GRADUATES’ CORNER. for she had lived in selfish ease; her neigh¬ geologist, had an immense advantage over the bor had been nothing to her. Mrs. Birdia Haller Bradshaw, T. P. ’20, majority of scientists. In the course of conversation he urged “Was there not one? Think well!” has as her address Route C., Box 54, Jet- that any one who aims to interpret the more, Kans. She has been quite sick but “Once—it was nothing—I gave to a first chapter of Genesis should know some¬ is better now. Her sister, Cora M. Haller, starving man a carrot, and he thanked IF. E. ’22, is teaching in Cincinnati, O. thing of what is there described and the exact meaning in the original of the words me.” Mrs. Eugenia M. Gulley Wade, H. S. ’99, used. “If”he said, “men of science were “Bring Me the carrot; where is it?” renews her subscription to the Messenger also Bible students, and theologians had “It is with kind words for it from 5302 24 th St., long since, Lord,’’she sobbed, more knowledge of science, there would be “and itis lost!” Detroit, Mich. She is still working with the less discussion and more agreement. Visiting Housekeepers’ Association and It is a remarkable fact that the men God “Notso; the witness of the one unself¬ meeting with success. chose to write the Scriptures evidently ish deed of your life could not perish. Go, Miss Susie H. Green, T.P.’20, subscribes knew a great deal more about nature, loved said the Lord to an angel, “find the carrot to the Messenger and changes her address nature more, and looked upon it more as and to 410 W. 9th St., Waynesboro, Ga. the work of God than most modern reli¬ bring it here. ” Mrs. Ida Carswell Wilson, H. S. ’88, has gious writers do. ’ ’ The angel brought the carrot and let it her home at616-33rd Ave., Meridian, Miss. “Is there any real discrepancy between down over the bottomless pit till it was She is doing too many helpful things for science and the book of Genesis?’’ Sir Wil¬ within the woman’s reach. “Cling to it,” liam was asked. church, school, and state to enumerate he said. She did as she was bid, and found here. She reports a visit from Miss Berry “Inmy judgement, none. Imaintainthat, of the Fireside School, Nashville, Tenn., so far as an inspiredrecord can becompared herself rising out of her misery. our Miss Berry of Birmingham, Ala. with what is at best a record we work out Now when the other souls in torment for ourselves, the Mrs. Ramon Hill Williams, H. S. ’12, correspondence between saw her drawn upward, they seized her the two is marvellous. To my mind, the now has three boys and one girl. Her last first hands, her waist, her feet, her garments, son is named Paul Lawrence. She is eager chapter of Genesis, in the way which it has and clung to them with despairing cries, to receive her school paper. anticipated discovery and still holds the ground as something that cannot fair¬ so that there rose out of the pit an ever- Misses Lillian Brewster Walker, Agnes I. ly be cavilled at, is itself a remarkable lengthening chain of writhing, wailing Woodall, Alberta C. Williams, Clara B. proof of the inspiration oftheBible. Those Apple, Lula B. Chapman, and Rosalie J. who attack Genesis either do not under¬ humanity suspended from the frail root. Gentry, H. S. Class of ’22, are all taking stand it or wilfully misrepresent it.” Higher and higher it rose, till it was half H. E. work at Spelman this year. “What is your belief as to the origin of way to heaven, and still its burden grew. Miss Cassie M. Boston, H. S. ’22, is tak¬ man?” he was asked. The woman looked down, and fear and ing a business course at Walker Business “I knownothing about the origin of man anger seized her—fear lest the carrot College, Jacksonville, Fla. except what I am told in the Scriptures Miss Eddie I. J. Brooks, H. S. ’22, is that God created him. I do not know any¬ should break, and anger at the others who pursuing her studies this year at Fisk Uni¬ thing more than that, and Ido notknow any¬ were putting her safety in peril. She versity. body who does. I would say with Lord Kel¬ struggled and beat with her feet upon vin that there is nothing in science that Miss Sarah Williams, Coll. ’22, is teach¬ those below her. reaches the origin of anything at all.” ing in her home school, Moultrie, Ga. Ad¬ “Let dress 501 Third St. Sir William was asked whether his scien¬ go!” she cried. “It is my carrot!” tific investigations had affected his reli¬ The words were hardly out of her mouth Miss Awbrazenda E. Henderson, H. E. gious faith, either strengthening or weak¬ before the carrot ’22, is studying to be a nurse in Kansas broke, and she fell, with ening it. City, Mo. ‘ all the others, back into torment, and the ‘I should not say, ’ ’ he reqlied, * ‘that they MissLucile Wamack, H.E. ’22, is teach¬ have either strengthened or weakened it. pit swallowed them up.—Selected. ing home economics in the public schools, But they have certainly illustrated it. Americus, Ga. There is no need for anything to strengthen Miss Annie Laurie Day, T. P. ’22, is Miss Lillie J. Appling, T. P. ’15, now a man’s beliefin Christ. My study of nature teaching in Roach St. public school, At¬ writes from 224 E. Eagle St., has certainly widened and enlightened my Buffalo, lanta, Ga. N.Y., over the signature Mrs. R. W. Coan. religious faith”. Globe.