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PAGE TWO THE HILLSII^E CHRONICLE OCTOBER—1947 Editorials Student Opinion Can They Be Replaced? 'J'he Negro, greatly lacking in educators and desperately in need ol learned men in view of his present day struggle to overcome the bars of hate and prejudice, has in the course of 15 days lost three great leaders . . . Professor W. G. Pearson, Dr. John M. Gandy, and Dr. James Edward Shepard. Professor Pearson, principal of Hillside for fifty years, wms greatly responsible for the “A” rating this school received. His long and event- full life is closely entwined with the progress of the Negro in Durham. Professor Pearson was one of the pioneers who established Durham’s first Negro drug store, the North Carolina Mutual Life Insur ance Company, and the Mechanics and Farm ers Bank. He was one of the organizers and formerly president of the Banker’s Fire Insur ance Company. I'liough he has passed, his achievements will always live as a monument to him. IDr. Gandy, president-emeritus of Virginia State College since his retirement in 1942 was elevated to the presidency of that intitution in 1914 afer his position of professor of ancient languages and pedagogy. The college under his capable and profound leadership experienced a flowering era of pro gressiveness. It grew from little more than an accredited high school to a class “A” college accredited by the Southern Association of Col leges and Secondary Schools and a land grant school ill 1920. Dr. Gandy’s administration was marked by the expansion of the academic and mechanical vtork and vast building and beauti fication iirojects with h'ederal and State Funds. A graduate of Fisk University, he won the Ha man award in 1929 for distinguished serv ice in education. Morgan State College gave him the honorary degree of doctor of pedogogw in 1920, and Howard University awarded him the lionorary doctor of laws degree in 1937, Dr. John M. Gandy was truly one of the great men of our race. Enough cannot be said of Dr. James Edward Shepam as a leader and an educator. Through ■trrs^^^i-'Sixaiic., lie coiuiiiauaecr uie' respect, love, and ac/miration of all who knew him. His name is synonymous with that of North Carolina College, for he virtually built that great institution of learning brick by brick, and .stone by stone. Through his flaming oratory and inexhaus- table supply of vitality many were the battles won for the Negro. In one of his last public appearances Dr. Shep ard gave a heart felt plea for representation of our people on the City Board of Education. Even on that occasion he he stated, “I shall probablj'- never appear before you again, gentle men, but I am pleading with you on this occas ion to grant my people this request.” However at a little past seven on the afternoon _of October sixth, this great man was lost to us. Can he be replaced. Can any of these men be replaced? Who can say ... In them we have lost something great . . . Through them we have found something great. Your Opinion By Marion Dunn There have been several problems that have been discussed in the homes, the lunchroom and in classes. Let’s get the opinion of some students a- round school on a few of them; Meatless Tuesdaj’s and Poultryless Thursdays, and the new comic book named All Negro Comics. Corinne Mabry of 12-1 says: “Mr. Evans (the author of “All Negro Comics”) has shown that Negroes can do a good, job in every field. Every Negro should buj' this comic book in preference lo others in order that it may continue in circulation.” H* Dorothy Hyman, a Junior states: “The All Negro Comic Book is a very good book but it is not as realistic as other comics. But if it is continued to be published, it should be tlie Ne gro buy.” * * Ella Latta of 11-3 says: “It is very interesting and true, and nothing is better than a try. If Mr. Evans con tinues trying he will have a fine comic book.” S: S: H: Elliott Palmer of 10-4 says: “The book is as good as the others but I don’t approve of the price. There should be more true crime stories; people would appreciate them,” It is a good detective comic, but it THE HILLSIDE CHRONICLE Published monthly during the school year by the students of Ilills'ide Parle High School in Thirltam, North Carolina 8192?/ Natliaii Garrett -- Editor-in-Cliief Gadys Taylor Associate Editor Florida Fisher, Adelle Wasliington Exchange Editors Dorothy MeDougald, George Jones Sports Editors Phillip .Tones Business Manager Fredileen Peiidarvis Feature Editor Ivory Lj'ons Humor Editor Hilda Wilson Cop;/ Editor Ivory Lyons —. Adveertising Manager I.indsey Merritt Circidation Manager CIECULATION STAFF: Beulah Cole, Pearl Edwards, Dorothy Hyman, Daisy Armstrong, T. Jones, Lettie Mills. FACULTY AUriSORS: Mrs. IT. S. WilJis—T. M. Davis—Mr. H. A. Alsto'i PERHAPS YOU DIDN’T KNOW EDITOR’S NOTE: Material' for this column is obtained from the Afro-American World Almanac by Ross D. Brown, Augustus Jackson a Philadelphia Negro is said to be the inventor of ice cream, ❖ ^ i]: William Hampton, a Negro of Iin dianapolis, Inch, discovered a process for vulcanizing le.ather with which to make automobile tires. * Lewis Stewart, a Negro of Los Angeles, California, invented a practical re-fillable fuse plug. ❖ ❖ ^ William Burns, a Negro, who is said to have won his place during a strike, was a passenger engineer on one of the fastest trains of the In dianapolis division of th.e Pennsyl vania railroad. ❖ ❖ Blanch K. Bruce, J. C. Napier, W. L, Lyons and AY. T. A^ernon were once Registers of the TTuited States Treasury. Abraham Lincoln issued the Eman cipation Proclamation in 1863, and a co^'ored woman, Charlotte Scout of Ohio, is credited with being the first contributor to a Lincoln monument. After more than twelve thousand books had written by white authors on the life of Lincoln, AYilliam E. Lilly, a Chicago attorney was the first Negro to write a standard size book on the life of Lincoln. In 1932 he wi’ote a book entitled: “Let AH People Go.” i'i Isaac Murphy, Alonzo Clayton, Monk Overton, Soup Perkins, Feliz Carr RoTlie Closton, Annie Hamilton Winkfiled, and AYillie Simms w'ere Negroes and the greatest jockeys that ever lived. : But today Negro jockeys are not permitted to ride in the Kentucky Derby, .Monkey jocks are permitted doesn’t hold you in suspense long enough,” says Vivian Steward of 11-1. ^ ^ ^ Oil the question of “Meatless Tues days and Poultryless Thursdays, Oveta Satterfield, a Junior, says: “I don’t think there should be meatless and poultridess days. People eat more when the days have been set aside. Poultry is eaten mostly on the week ends so Thursday is the wrong day to set aside.” William Moorehead of 11-2 states: “As for as the benefit of starving people it is very benefital to do so.” * ' * $ Bernice Dockery, a senior of 12-1 says: “People should observ^e what President Truman is trying to ac complish, in order that the people in foreign countries may be fed prop erly. ’ ’ * =1= *• Paul Faucette of 12-1 thinks that: “One should sacrifice for the people over seas, so that food shipments may he increased. H? Julia Young, a senior of 12-2 says; “I can do without the poultry on Thursday, but I find it hard to do without meat on Tuesday. But if it helps the people overseas we should be willing to cooperate.” to ride dogs and ponies on many of the great race tracks of America. !]: :1-- C.’liieago Negro, Ralph Metcalfe, tlie world’s greatest runner in 19^5 has broken} or eciualied every stand ard sprinting record in the woind. President Franklin D. Rooseve'.t had luncheon with a Negro, President Edwin Barclay in Alonrovia, Liberia, January, 1943. ^ ^ ^ John Brown the great abolitionist had to kill a free Negro traitor before he started to fight to free the slaves.. Brown was later hanged with a rope- furnished by the State of Kentucky. ^ AA^'iHiam B. Purvis of Philadelphia secured many patents on machinery for making paper bags. He was a Ne gro. S: 4: Mi Hack Johnson was the only heavy weight to win a world’s championship without nose bleed, a black eye, broken hands, or mussed hair. BIOGRAPHICAL BRIEFS By Hilda Wilson One of the greatest Negro educators is Mrs. Alary AlcLeod Bethnne, who Mas born in Alaycsville, South Caro lina on July 10, 1875. She was edu cated at Barber Scotia College, Con cord, North Carolina and the Aloody Bible Institute of Chicago, Illinois. She also attended the State College in Orangeburg, S. C. and Wilberforee University of AVllberforce, Ohio. After teaching school for a while ir South Carolina, Hianes Institute, .Augusta, Georgia, and in Palatka, T-idorida, Airs. Bethnne went to Day tona in 1904 and there started the school of which she is now President. Prom a small school, the Daytona Normal and Industrial Institute merged with Cookman Institute into Bethume-Cookman College a co educational junior college. It has steadily grown from a small rented Cottage to fourteen buildings and a plant appraised at $500,000. Mrs. Bethnne is accredited as the first President and founder of the Southeastern Federation of Colored AVomen, covering fourteen states, and director of the Division of Negro Af fairs of the National Youth Admin istration. Up from the cotton fields Mary McLeod Bethnne came to formal re- (‘Ognition among the fifty most dis tinguished American AAHmen. She is known as an orator, executive and educator. She received the 1935 award of the Spingarn Aledal. FROM THE POET Countee Cullen -was born in New York City, Alarch 30, 1903. He graduated from New York Universi ty in 1925 with an A. B. degree. A year later he took his A. M. at Har- ■ vard University. In the year he finished N. Y. U. he published a volume of poems that placed him at once in the list of A- merican poets. As a boy he had a lively and penetrating curiosity about life which was the chief reason that the body of his poetry constitutes a “criticism of life.” It does this more completely than the work of any oth er of the major Negro poets. Yet Do I Marvel Countee Cullen I doubt not God is good, well mean ing, kind, And aid He stoop to quibble could tell why The little buried mole continues blind, Why flesh that mirrors Him must some day die, Alake plain the reason tortured Tant alus Is baited b.v tlie fickle fruit, declare If iDPTph' brute caprice dornns Sisy^ plius ■' ' ' To struggle up a never-ending stair. Inscrutable His ways are, and im- innne To) eateehisin b.\- a mind too sti-ewn AA^ith petty cares to slightly under stand What awfni brain compels Ilis aw ful hand. Yet do I marvel at this curious thing: To make a poet black, and bid him sing! Let’s Start Now For three years now the Senior Plajq a time honored tradition at Hillside, has been abandoned due to lack of cooperation among the Seniors and to the responsibilities of drama tic coaching, properties, and ticket selling which usually fell on one per son. However since the play is tradi tional and since the proceeds are donated to the school we feel it is well worth another try. If a committee of teachers Avere selected, one to conch, one to super vise ticket selling, and one to gather properties, the possibilities Avoiild be much brighter. Though the students may not be able to aid in coaching, they can cer tainly A'olunteer their talents. Others can sell tickets, gather props and act as ushers. lioAveA’er in order for this plan to Avork Ave must begin NO AY to chose the play, cast it, and credit tickets. If this is done a AA’orth Avhile tradition can be reneAved at Hillside. For Your Meditation Psalm: 90-1:2 Lord, thou hast been onr dAvelling place in all generations. Before the mountains Avere brought forth or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the AvorVl, even from ever lasting to eveFasting, thou a’-t God.
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