Panther, January-February, 1937, page 2

              ~age 2 THE PANTHER January-February, 1987
THE PANTHER CITIZBNSHIP
"Voice of the Students" LITERATURE
_Edited monthly by the studenta of Prairie View College
A eitiaeD has been Jecally defined
as an inhabitant of a city or town,
BXBCUTIV1! STAFF
eJescpeeoc.i &lIlny Oa lle who enjoys ita priviw l.!t;============r============dJ word, tbe eitizen is cme -
EMd&itDorq-iinng-O Ebideift o-r :=============~"·~ - KA clSmlowaan ~wboe ef orl_o at lli sa oeeaiaa1t pIuar pwoiatehs haeioeo rocoi--
Bn~laeeo Manager -..J ward E. Patton me to his statno and ,......._
Treuurer Charles E. White Cltiunobip impl;eo ei'ril bnt DOt
~:.-staff Corine H.. F- -rily politleal ~hta.
A. Rld>ardocm To brine these defiaitiODO bome
BDITOIUAL STAFF and apply tbem In terms meanlnc
Auoa.te Editor I......,.., .. llclliiian 'ful to_ WL I may say: A citizen of
Co-Sporta Editon ___Hobert Thomas, ClartiiiCe Kc:Danieil, o. P. Allen Prairie VIew State CoDece is a
Camp111 Editor lllphonao Jobnaon otodent (mind you I aaid student)
AI~ Editon _ K•rion Jolmaon, _fatberine Wriglot who attondo _oehool here and en-
~=~po:::~tor ~ ~ joya tbe privileca tbe Institution
Literary Editor ,, .. olla SbiJ'ioy has to offer. Citizenship a crant-
Soeiet:r Editor _ delle Meredith ed on these merita of enjo:rinc eer-
Cart6oi:liat Carl w..- tain ~hta offered by tbe eolleg..
Exehance Edltor Annahelle Wooda All puiiOill wbo are witbln tbe
Seienee Editor H•DiliNI Brownlow tarritori&l jurisdiction of ._ state
TYPISTS owe an aUecianee to it. So, ae-
Lilllan Wicglno, 1JODilia Askey, Inah Mae Smitb eordiugl:y, do all of us owe an al-
CIIICULA TION lecianee to Prairie Vie-w State
John--n; Edward Lee, Bame:r Coleman, Tbomao B:rnam CoDece.
REPORTERS Jn~t as ~P may be lost,
Rithatd Kood:r, Ewitt Myers, ThoruweD Powell, Robert Catchmcs, or it may be aequired In tbe ,_
A PllAYBR
Coertesy of H.. w. llaDdle
God, lrin me atreaclh
So that I may
Complete tbe taak
I ohall attempt today.
God, lrin me faith
Alwa.yo to -
Your Iovine hand
Dinetinc me.
God, &i.. me bope
Throacb tbeee darlt -n;ro
Shall eome tbe light
Of better da:yo.
Gi.~e !De eoarace,
Dear God, to IIDile
ADd--come what may­Feel
life worthwhile.
Cari1y Reduo of eitizenobip In tbe United States,
-~Off~lee~~of~The~_:P~an~tb~er~======-====1~02~Acricul~~-~tare~~B-ozi~~ild!Dc~~ so in Prairie View may eitbenahip TAKE TIME TO LIVE
~ be loot or &"''Dired. Citiaelllbip -o--
SCHOLARSHIP
By Bol>art Tayloo-
The ...-iJming of honors at cradu­ation
from one of tbe Engll.oh
univenltles has loq beau aceom­panled
by valuable awards ouch
aa a choice ap,aintment in covern.
mental oervice. In Germ&IIY tbe
Naaia are eqer to talr.e into tbeir
employment young men who have
ciiatincalShed tbemoehea Ia their
studies. It Ia so, we are tolcl, in
all tbe otber c:ountrleo of Europe,
and we may be nre that the zu­IOD
for thla is that leeden realiae
that ael!ool reeordo may be rolled
upon for predictinc' aclrievement
in later life.
It is not 10 Ia Ameriea. Stu­dent&
who wla bonon Ia oor eol-
1- rarely lind - ... immediate
reward hued upon a reeo&'Dition
of tbe value of superior oeholar-
Prlilted. by The Prill~ Deportment of Prairie View State CoUece may be !oat by violatlag any of Often you hear tile Mlemeo.L "I
·C. Bell, Supervisor tbe ruleo and reculatiolll aa laid
1
<Ail't do that; I doll.'t hOYe tilbe •·
abip. A ..._{or aehool record
aDd a repntation for sc:holarahip
are not importaD.t iu the eyes of
Ameriean_ atndeata aDd their par­ents.
How often do we hear Jome·
tblnc like thla, "1! m:r SOD Ia doing a.._., work, ~t Ia all I deaire,
because, as we all know, it is thoea
with nerace reeorda, not the high
raaklag puplla, who win aueeeao
Ia later life." Ullfortunetel:y, many
BEING ON TIME
out by the administrative body of Com.e ~ t.hiai: of it, what do we
Prairie View. ha"" limo for! We doll.'t hav• thne
A profeaaor waa about to make a speech to a elub a few Dighta "CC· Ally •tudent enrolling in Prairie to 8iudy; our IOcial t.cljriti"" ml<Ot
The Procraa> waa oeheduled to bea'in at 8:00. Sl>me were there. The View State CoDece, peying tbe re- be eorried .,._ We d<>o't have .time
procram began. A fnt mlauteo later a few more ..A.e-tbe - q~ amount of IDOiley for recia- to ao_ to chapel ; ,.. muot p\ n.ady
...,. interrupted. A tew mlauteo ~ a few more -~ tbe tratioa and cKber f- Ia eatitled to f« dioaer_ We don't have &Un4 to
procttm wao interrupted. Apia and acala tbia happened until flaall:y eitiaenobip Ia Prairie View, bDt co to Suncia:r School; ,.. mu.t lake
at 6;26 tbe stn>gcUag·prof- walked out aDd left tbe audie- dumb- wben tbe atudent beeomeo delin- a beaut:y-.. p_
founded. It -..u later ezplained that he had been 110 upset by tbis con- qiJellt, he forfeita his ~t to eiti­llaued
atracglillc in tbet he waa unable to continue. Anyone who has aenabip _Ia Prairie View.
evw ·mad" a- talk ean IIJ'Dlpetbiae with. the profeooor. It is mo.t annoy- The idea that oehoola and eol­.
ing to tr:r to apeak to a mo-rinc ·- Some com.ing aDd some go- leceo ah~ train for eitbeDahip Ia me. ' Howe._, thie condition does not only exiat in club meet:inga. it il ODe that m a measure clepeu.da Up·
in every meeting on tbe campus. We are neTV on time. We alwaya on a theory of the .tate. U tb~
jntetrupt.·- -ethlnlr """7 definite should be done aboDt tbia CODdltioll. iDclnndual exiata for tbe state,
Almoot·i.he same erowd is alwa.yo late. Late, to e1aa1eo, ebapel, meet,- tben there ia no ~oubt but that_ any
iap----but. anv 1o ~ . o:rotem of edu<ation mlllt t.-ala tbe
• ---- lndi-ridual Ia all -:ro that aer....
. CB.ITICISMS! NO!! PRAISBS! YFJJ!! tbe beat intereota of tbat state,
aD( tbat tbe lndlviclual mlllt be
Slaee we aaoume that we attend oehool to learn, wh:r ean't we leern forced to follow it.
geaeralqr, -wllieh w!ll inevitably result into well-rounded inc1maaa1a? So reeentl;,- mueh tboacbt and
-Th...., ia 110 better place to learn -our had habite or cood habits tb&D work ha~ been given to tbe bo:yo
.~ here amonc .., -euellent aarecation of critics. aDd tbe pia be tbe eitiaeu of
--' We lave praise and hate eritieisma. We seek pniae a!>d evade tomorrow. In order to make ef­er!
til:iama. · We encourage prolaen and 011tradse eritiea. We heli""' feettre American idealo Ia tbe
qur'"friiiDdo pniae us aDd our enemies eritieiae ue. Wh:r c:ea't we tarn hMrta and minds of tbe boys and
the leno around and view from a different ancle. Many of u han &iris. eitizenobip tralaing couneo
hanced views bDt too late.· Man:r have clanced through tbe - clif- have been opened in many oehoola
So _ oo..W tbrouch life -... go;
not linnc-We doa't b&,.~ time for
that-but just here, !n 1 wb.irli)QO.!
of immediale .__ One mo­ment
here, oae momeu~ tbent. &bd
we ue cone.
We_ cl011't have limo to etop and
~ and think that '"' .,. here
1D oohool f« the ~ of -ia«
all of the aooc1 ... ..,. from our
daily leoooa., from our teoehoro
from our a.ocia.tes. '
w. ruolo head1oac into cbaamo of
disaster and eolamit:y, into thinp
ohamelul - tiecradinc. beea- ...
doo~ have time lo- 1iaten to the
belplu) adv-ioe of .;..,. elclero wbo
have alnoad:y- trod the palho ,.. .,..
now tzudinc- erently cd just In tim~ Let us tr:r before it'a too late. Believe it and . coiJeceo.
·or DOt; ~ aDd peraoualit:y-poliabinc is 90 - eent of our eollece '! Indirec:tl:y tbia creat plan of Collequeo, let us hesin tbio ....,.
~- Th~ :aatber would '""'ture to oa:r ~t in a few :roan, tbere eitiaeDibip here is earried out b:rl :rear witb tile 'lrilllnp.. to toke
Will be a. specific: coune to c:rltieue Individuals eharaeter!atlea. tbe Y.W.C.A. and tbe Y.M.C.A., lime to !ia1eD to an thinp whole-
It appears aa thoach tbe aunot method of losing a friend is to Girl Sco-. Boy Seouta, Girl eome and """'-- Le
c:rlticiae. him or- her. Why abould it be? Builclen, Boy Builden and otber _ u~....,. . t us lalte
--Lih- is ~ -pme. Ead> belnc ia a eharac:ter and playa man:r roles. aueh orpnisationo, tbe main pur- time to study our ~more com-
Why don't we play the game fairl:r witb ooe &DOtber? We ean. pose of wbieh la to train up cood plotely, and ..JiR that we muot
Crltieioma e&D be quite 1lll1air at times. Individuals are lacllned leader-a and cood citizens. not' throw aw&y the beauliful op-
. to-diarecerd tbem. Otben have been pROiaed to tbe extent where they In man:r olamentary sehoola and _po.tuajly of le&minc to li more
feel that tbey are-perf~or a while. If eritic:a .,...uld eritieize and eom- ~h oehoola a apeeial coune ia ah ..,
mend feirly and aquarel:r, indiriduals would aeeept ooherl:r and ~ eitioenahip is taught. Hare, we unclaatl:r ·_ _____
fully, we would all p10ve a noich toward perfection. Can we take it..! are taqht both direet:l.7 aDd i:Ddi-
--- reetl:y bow to be good eitizenl, not
A TRmUTB TO OUR GLEE CLUB only of Prairie View, bDt of our
respective towns and eommunitiea
Th• Panther wishes to commend tha colleg. &:lee elnb 011 tbe new to wbieh .,.. w!ll retum some cla:r.
sehool IOilC ereated lut oiiiiUDer. The Colleg. Glee Club, under tbe There are rules of eonduet, prin­direetion
of Profeoaor 0. Andenoa Fuller, has eauoed tbe oehool to II!'- eiplea of Etiquette aDd codes for
~· widel:r recocniaed throach their effeetiw coneerta. The -Glee Uvlnc all witb tbe _.... purpose
Club has performed so auperbly that ito ,...._ han been re- of helping 111 to better oar !iva.
quested over:r where it has performed.
The ..Panther .wWaea the Glee: Club cootiDUOUI success aDd accom­pliahmenta.
So whether we ree..lize it or not.
lhe little thil>p ...., pract1ee n<1r7
--- cla:r are ~ to form tbe babita
G1RL8 AND BOYS' 8A811:BTBALL TEA1l WELL EQUIPPED which w!ll cletemine jut, what kiDd
of citizen we w!ll be. Let 111 atop
It can ... en be sald ·that thla :rear no one can eall Prairie View's now and think of tbeoe w..p . and
·baakethall teem "rag-muJrina." Prairie VIew's biaaketball t.am, both _
"It ia not just u we tab it,
Thie m:rolical world of ours;
Life's field will yield as we
make it
A hon-est of thorm or of
8()NNBT TO A SHIEK
A lot of thinp I've leamed in eol-­lep,
A lot of thinp I've w-1,
Bot why does a O..pper raiae one
foot
WI- abe is beinc JD.ed.
So you d<Xl ~ kDow either;
You're no' to veey wille.
of our oehool 1eadera have absorb­ed
tbia fa.Jae pbiloaoph:r and ac-­eept
tbeee otatemente withoDt pro­teat.
There are not maDY com­mUDitiee
Ia whieh the puhlie aehool
authoriti• are enforeiJtc rigid
atazularde; the requireiDenta mtut
be low -h 10 that nearl:r all
ma:r peas.
It may be that thla lack of ap..
preeiatlon of tbe ~ee llf
soceeea in echool work is another
oDe -of the eoats of our attempeing
to edueate all tbe ehlldren of all
tbe people. BDt ia it an inevitable
eo.t! Can we not baTe UDiv-eraal
education and &t the same time an
appreeiation of oehooil?
It is not too much to aoy that the
attitude •hich our students and
otber eitiaeu talr.e toward aehifle-.
mmt Ia .....-... of rtucly In oehool
aDd coli- oeriouol:y eoncernt1 tbe
'!'elfare of the nation. If we eould
convmee the ,_ people of tbe
en ·&Dd women's, is one of tbe -beet equipped teams Ia tbe counl:l'y. benoefortb do only tboee WDcs
-This reault can ......,. well be attrlbnted to tbe reoeut eaperlmental that will tend to .....a for, cood
-"aetiv,ity fee.. eitbenahip.
111 bet you ca.a.'t even tell me
Wh:r abe allftYI &hula ber e7111-
netion aDd our perenta that oehool
recorda are a roliahla index of later
aelain'ela.rta, would it not haTe a
wboleeome aDd profound e«eet up..
on the entire ac.hool' situation!
Thirty million younc people are in
tbe American oehoole. Surely lt Ia
a matter Of import:ance wh.tber
they work een>eot1:r or eareleoaly,
whether tbe:r believe that it peyo
to otody. If .......,..,.. could be eon­TiDced
tbat a:ood oehool work is im­portant,
there would be a ,.....
spirit In our oehoole. ODt of tbis
woulcl deftlop more reopeet far Jaw
aDd -der aDd better eitiaenobip . . If
tbe American people would but
read tbe evidenee before tbem clail:r
and realise tbo fmpo- llf 'talr.­lnc
aehool work aerioualy, a lot!Jr
atep ..... uld be taken toward tbe
oolntiOD of many important prob-lemo
of clein~. .