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The Campus Mirror^ Published during the College Year by the Students of Spelman College, Atlanta, Georgia VOLUME XII JANUARY 1 5, 1 936 No. 4 The Ice Storm—Here lies the cork bark elm that used to stand guard in front of Rockefeller Hall—Not much of a monument inscription, perhaps, but it certainly describes our feelings as cue “view the remains” of our once beautiful trees. The black branches in forlorn heaps on the lawn, the white sore where branches were torn ruthlessly off by tons of frozen rain, the tree trunks left bare without branches, all symbolize our memory of the danger and destruction of the ice storm. Doctor Toyohiko Kagawa Doctor Toyohiko Kagawa, of Japan, an outstanding religious personality, was guest speaker in the Sunday Ves per Service, January 5, 1936. Doctor Kagawa, said President Hope in his introduction, is one of the great est living Christian leaders. He at tended college in Tokyo, theological school in Kobe, Japan, and Princeton University in this country. He spent fourteen years in social work in a slum section of Kobe, Japan. He has been active in bettering social and economic conditions for the Japa nese. Doctor Kagawa has written about fifty books which have been sold in the United States and Japan. He is a prominent leader in the Japanese Labor, and also the Japanese Peasant. Movements. Recently he was appointed to the Imperial Economic Commission of Japan. Through his efforts, the Japanese government has appropri ated two million dollars for a slum clearance program in six large cities of Japan. Doctor Kagawa began his speech with the statement that there have been four great wise men in the world: Buddha, Socrates, Confucius, and Christ. He gave a vivid sketch of the high points in the lives of three of these, omiting Socrates. Buddha was born in India about twenty-five cen turies ago, and two years ago com memoration of his life was made in China. Buddha, when twenty-nine years of age, renounced all worldly petitions. More than fifty years of his life were spent in preaching his gospel. The following incident illus trates the sincerity of his religion. A blacksmith, whose guest Buddha was, served him some bad meat which re sulted in the death of Buddha; but Buddha, in his dying moments, told his disciples not to accuse the black smith but to respect him because his will had been good. Confucius was born in Shantung, China, and lived a long life. At the age of forty-two he was made Minister of Justice. The king of his locality, not liking Confucius because he was just, wished to have him killed, so Confucius had to flee to another part of China. Confucius’ belief was that charity is the best policy to use in ruling any people. Buddhaism is a good religion, teaching that there is an eternal being, while Confucianism teaches political ethics. Jesus, born in Nazareth, lived a com paratively short life and spent of this short life cycle only one year in public preaching. “Though Confucius taught his ethics for thirty years and Buddha spent fif- (Continued on Page 4, Column 3) Poems F. E. Bethea Your brown throat holds a mighty song Which dusts of ages covered long. You, wondering now how it may sound, Hold silent that which would profound. Xo longer hold that soldering thing, Release that doubtful ghost and sing! ! ! To stand upon a mound of earth and see, River and hill and stately branching tree, Where no white cloud obliterates the blue, And keeps my flexuous thoughts from passing through. To kindle on that mound a glowing fire — To stand and stand and stand is my desire! Mrs. E. P. Johnson “Lord let me live from day to day In such a self-forgetful way That even when I kneel to pray. My prayer shall be for others.” This verse seems a perfect expres sion of the spirit of Mrs. E. P. John son, a former student and a friend of Spelman students, who died on January S, 1936, at her home in Atlanta. The early years of Mrs. Johnson’s training were in a country school in Dooly County, near Dillard, Georgia. Country schools were suffering then from a dearth of leaders; consequently when Mr. E. I’. Johnson finished his school work, he went as a missionary into the Dillard section where he met and married Eliza C. Key, who be came to him a helper and a true com panion. In 1886 Mrs. Johnson attended At lanta University, but her husband, who was deeply impressed by the “new girls' school,” had her transfer to Spelman. For a number of years Mrs. John son chaperoned the younger students of Spelman to town on Saturday morn ings to aid them in their shopping, and in the afternoons she took the younger Atlanta University students. Her whole heart and interest went in to whatever she did. During the rush at the opening and closing of the (Continued on Page 4, Column 2)