Thursday, April 12,1951
THE BATTALION
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Newcomers Officers
New and retiring officers of the Newcomers Club
are pictured just after the election recently. Front
row, are Mrs. A. B. Currie, retiring vice president ;
Mrs. Horace Blank, retiring president, and Mrs.
Clinton Walker, retiring secretary-treasurer. On
the back row are Mrs. Edward F. Sauer, vice
president-elect; Mrs. M. M. Rotsch, president
elect, and Mrs. W. H. LeRoy, secretary-treasurer-
elect.
Newcomers Plan
Is to Introduce
A&M to Members
With the purpose of helping new
arrivals become acquainted with
'♦the campus, The Newcomers Club
was organized at College Station
| several years ago.
Now, over a hundred-strong in
■ membership and active in social
•and community affairs, the club
takes its place as one of the out
standing city organizations. Until
last fall, membership in the group
;was limited to ladies who had lived
in College Station for two years
-or less. By vote at that time,
membership was extended to third
year members.
This, according to Mrs. Horace
Blank, retiring president of the or
ganization, has been beneficial to
a great many ladies who found it
'impossible to attend meetings when
they were newcomersi but who
really wanted to become a part of
the program.
The College Station organization
Pis one of many scattered over the
S country, but the club here has a
/ larger membership than the clubs
at most colleges. This is due large-
* ly to the size of Texas A&M and
| to the constantly expanding pro-
• gram of the College and the Ex
tension Service.
Club Meets on Wednesday
The Newcomers Club meets on
I the first and third Wednesdays of
I each month in the YMCA. The first
I meeting of the month during the
• past year has been a program
meeting, which has featured a va
riety of talks. The second meeting
i is always a social gathering where
the ladies play bridge and canasta.
At the first social meeting of the
year, Mrs. M. T. Harrington had a
tea at which Newcomer's Club mem
bers were guests of honor and at
which they were presented to the
wives of the College directors and
deans. Once each year the group
sponsors an evening party at which
the husbands arc guests. In May
the year’s programs will close with
a picnic supper for the families of
members.
The first program meeting of
each year is always a get-acquaint
ed session at which the history and
traditions of Texas A&M are told.
The past Fall, Pinky Downs was
speaker for this occasion. After
his talk, a guided tour of 'the cam
pus was conducted for those who
were not yet acquainted with the
campus.
Newcomers members usually go
from that organization to the A&M
Social Club. “Many times,” said
Mrs. Blank, “a lady goes right into
the Social Club, or she keeps up a
membership in both organizations,
but often she feels that she does
not have time for both, so she be
comes a Newcomer and stays, with
us for two years. “Most of the
time,” she added, “active members
of the Newcomers do become mem
bers of the Social Club.”
“The purpose of our organization
is to acquaint our members with
the campus,” Mrs. Blank said, “and
only through inviting and knowing
members who are already establish
ed here can we hope to fulfill our
purpose.”
Other than Mrs. Blank, present
officers of the Newcomers are Mrs.
A. B. Currie, vice president; Mrs.
Clinton Walker-, secretary-treasur
er; Mrs. Ernest Bulow, program
chairman; Mrs. Sam E. Von Rosen
berg, membership chairman; Mrs.
W. Armstrong Pricc v social chair
man; Mrs. Robert Skrabanek, pub
licity chairman; Mrs. Currie, year
book chairman; Mrs. Don Young,
courtesy chairman and Mrs.' D. F.
Leipper, calling chairman.
Elected last week to serve as the
three top officers in the organiza
tion. next year are Mrs. M. M.
Rotsch, president; Mi’s. Edward F.
Sauer, vice president, and Mrs. W.
H. LeRoy, secretary-treasurer.
,000 in March
Monetary Aid Given
Through Loan Fund
By FIG NEWTON
Battalion Staff Writer
Although its finances are us
ually nil around the eighteenth of
every month, the Student Loan De
partment in Goodwin Hall is the
personification of a “soft touch”
when it is “in the chips.”
The four funds presided over by
George Long, lend money to A&M
students with no questions asked.
No interest is charged and the
student is allowed to stipulate his
own date of payment.
“However,” Long said, “we try
to limit them to 30 days so that
the money may have a better
turnover and may help some
other Aggie.” The funds grow
through the contributions of the
borrowers.
Around $6,000 was loaned in
March. About $35 was donated by
borrowers.
There is a definite lack of
prompt payment,” Long said,
Dr. Skrabanek Writes
Article for Magazine
An article written by Dr. R. L.
Skrabanek, assistant professor of
Rural Sociology, entitled “Cultural
Backgrounds and Farm Practices in
a Czech Community” was published
in the March issue of -the' South
western Social Science Journal.
“which should be avoided so that
other students may receive loans
when they need them instead of
the mid-month, ‘Sorry, we’re broke,
too’ spiel.”
Now, since the addition of the
College Loan Fund in March 1950,
the funds usually total around
$7,000.
The College Loan Fund origin
ated March 15, 1950 when Long,
chief of the Student Loan depart
ment, borrowed $2,500 from the
Fiscal Office to increase the
amount.
A donation of $5 started off
the “Davis Buck Fund” in 1943.
William K. Davis, class of 1916
originated it.
The Ernestine Gabcr Loan Fund
was donated by the B’nai B’rith
Hillel Foundation in 1944. Origin
ally totaling $401.47, it has been
sponsored mainly since that time
by Leo Gaber of Houston.
The Breazeale Loan Fund ori
ginated when W. G. “Breezy”
Breazeale, Class of ’35, employed
by the Dean of Men’s Office, re
quested that the department not
send flowers when his mother died
in 1948, but instead, to take the
intended contribution for flowers
and initiate a student fund in her
memory.
His mother was born two days
before A&M was founded and was
the mother of ta o A&M graduates,
and oue Teasie.
Film Society Plans
‘The Good Earth’
“The Good Earth” starring Luise
Ranier and Paul Muni will be the
eighth offering of thei A&M Film
Society series. It will be shown
Monday night at 7:30 in the YMCA
Chapel.
Having been awarded an Oscar
for the best film of the year when
it originally was issued, “The Good
Earth” is considered one of the
classics in moviemaking of all
times and one of the biggest spec
tacles ever put down on celluloid.
Next in the sertes will be the
original of “The Thin Man” starr
ing William Powell and Myma
Loy.
All film society members are re
minded that if they cannot atfend
the screening, they may turn, their
tickets over to friends, and they,
in turn, may use the ducats for
admission, according to George
Charlton, secretary-treasurer of the
organization.
Ag Invitation
Debate Meet
Slated Friday
The Second Annual A&M
Invitational Debate Tourna
ment will be held here Fri
day and Saturday. The tour
nament is sponsored by the
Aggie Discussion and Debate Club,
which is itself sponsored by the
English Department.
Schools participating will be the
University of Corpus Christi, Allen
Academy, Midwestern University,
Texas Christian University, Sam
Houston State College and A&M.
The question to be debated is
“Resolved* That the Non-Commun
ist Nations Should Form a New In
ternational Organization.” Each
team will debate both sides of the
question.
The tournament will have two
divisions of debate, senior and jun
ior. The senior division will be for
senior college undergraduates, and
the junior division for junior col
lege students and students having
fewer than sixty hours of senior
college credit.
Registration will be from 8-11 a.
m. Friday in the MSC with the
opening Assembly from 11 to 12 a.
m.
First round debates will be held
at 1:30 and 3 tomorrow afternoon
with second round matches sche
duled to start at 7 and 8:30 tomor
row night. Pairings for the de
bates have not as yet been an
nounced.
Quarterfinals will be held Sat
urday morning at 8:30 while semi
finals will begin at 10 a. m.
Final round pairings will bring
the two top teams together at 1
Saturday afternoon.
All debates will take place in
rooms in the MSC. Definite room
assignments will be posted on. the
bulletin board in the lobby of the
MSC.
A trophy will be given to the
winning team but as yet has not
been secured by the Debate Club,
according to Carl Elmquist, spon
sor of the debate team.
A&M will have three teams in
the debate. Two senior division
teams will be composed of Dan
Davis and James Farmer and
Joe Riddle and B. L. Weller.
The junior division team will be
Robert Huffman and John Samuels.
Each college entering a team will
be asked to furnish one competent
judge.
‘Atom Bomb Created A Spiritual Revival’
Survivor of Hiroshima Bomb Blast
Relates Experience During Explosion
Lackland AF Base
Named Test Center
Lackland Air Force Base, San
Antonio has been designated as
one of six bases which will be
opened to screen Air Force hopefuls
for reaction to flight conditions,
the Air Force announced this morn
ing.
The tests are used to indicate an
applicant’s aptitude for flying duty,
cither as a pilot, navigator, or
bombardier. It is not designed to
measure intelligence or scholastic
achievement.
Effectively immediately, aviation
cadets who successfully pass the
initial mental and physical examin
ations will I’eport to one of the six
centers for the new series of ad
ditional written examinations and
psychometer testing.
Grants of $10,000
Given Ag Station
A total of $10,000 in grants-in-
aid, has been received by the Tex
as Agricultural Experiment Sta
tion from several concerns.
The grants-in-aid from the Pion
eer Hi-Bred Corn Co., Des Moines,
low-a, total $3,700, Dr. R. D. Lewis,
director of the Experiment Station
announced.
The money will be used specifi
cally in the development of meth
ods of determining differences and
similarities among inbred lines of
chickens.
A kodaslide projector from Roy
A. Brewer of San Antonio has been
received by the Animal Husbandry
Department, Dr. J. C. Miller head
of the department reports.
By JOEL AUSTIN
Battalion City Editor
“The atom bomb created a revi
val—a spiritual revival—for the
people of Hiroshima.” Those w r ere
the words spoken by Kioshi Tani-
moto, pastor of the Methodist
Church of Hiroshima, Japan, at the
time the atom bomb w r as dropped
there Aug. 6, 1945.
Tanimoto spoke before a large
audience at the A&M Methodist
Church last night in conjunction
with a nation-w r ide tour sponsored
by the Saturday Review of Litera
ture in order to raise funds for the
Hiroshima Peach Center which he
helped organize.
The American-educated Japanese
gave a vivid picture of the atom
bombing of Hiroshima, a city of ap
proximately 400,000 population be
fore the explosion.
With his talk, the speaker
showed projected picture slides
of views of the city shortly after
the blast and now. The photo
graphs revealed the millions of
dollars damage done to property
by the bomb, as well as the mass
destruction to human lives and
bodies.
No complete houses were left
standing in Hiroshima, he said. A
town five miles away had buming
cinders and paper dropped on it
from a dark cloud that rolled in
shortly after the bomb exploded.
Practically every building in the
city was at least partially destroy
ed from the bomb which went off
500 yards above the ground. Even
houses on the edge of a river were
pushed off into the water.
Among the more horrifying
lales Tanimoto brought back
from the destructed city was evi
dence by picture of a shadow,
imprinted in a stone stairway, of
a man who was climbing these
steps near the center of the
bomb blast. The victim was dis
integrated.
At another point near the center
of the explosion, a man was board
ing a streetcar when the mysteri
ous flash appeared. During the
aftermath, this individual was
found, still with one foot on the
step of the streetcar, but practi
cally a skeleton where the bomb
had torn the flesh from his bones.
In telling about his own experi
ence during the explosion. Tani
moto said he passed through the
center of town, right by the cen
tral post office (believed to be the
center of the blast), only 30 min
utes before the bomb went off.
He was in the process of evacuat
ing property from his church to a
nearby town. Two miles from Hi
roshima he was caught by the
blinding flash.
Not knowing what it was, or
hearing any noise from the ex
plosion, he ran along the road
for a few yards and fell down,
face to the ground, between two
large rocks. Soon a powerful
gust of wind passed over him
Air Engineer Force
To Be Established
An Aviation Engineer Force
with headquarter’s located in Min
eral Wells, is going to be estab
lished under jurisdiction of the
Air Force Continental Air Com
mand, according to the Depart
ment of the Army.
Some Things Considered
(Continued from Page 2)
the Japanese, and his value to this country
as a commander, of extraordinary military
genius ?
Associated Press reports yesterday and
this morning reveal that the Japanese peo
ple are very much hurt and disturbed bv
MacArthur’s leaving. ^
And we can see Stalin dancing i n the
streets of Moscow. It remains to be seen
how they may be able to benefit by this lat
est command shake-up.
We will watch with interest, too, the af
fect MacArthur’s appearance in this country
will have. If he is the stirring figure he
seems to be, he may rattle loudly the already
shaky foundations of Truman’s support in
this country.
and he could see houses falling
nearby.
The survivor said he set up a
first aid station with what help he
could get. Also he tried to feiry
people across a river running
through the city, but apparently
none were able to receive the help
because of seriousness of their in
juries.
Strange as it may seem, he relat
ed, the people in the city never
heard any sound from the bomb,
but yet residents in towns as far
as 20 miles away heard the loud
report.
“It was a pitiful sight,” he told
Service Projects
Offer Student Jobs
Opportunities for work in ser
vice projects are being offered to
college students this summer.
The projects include institutional
service units, internships in indus-
try, and Friends Service units here
and in several foreign countries.
Internships are offered in labor
unions, work camps, agriculture,
seminars, and institute of interna
tional relations. Three year-i-ound
projects in Mexico are open to ap
plicants at any time during the
year.
Work of the institutional service
units will be carried on in- many
states in the United States and in
Europe, Haiti, and Jamaica this
summer. Volunteers will work in
refugee camps, do rehabilitation
work, and help to rebuild broken
communities in Europe.
Seminars will deal with prob
lems of international cooperation
and peace. Besides the many other
locations for seminars, there ai'e
four in Texas. The service com
mittee is sponsoring six seminars
abroad, three in Europe and one
each in Japan, India, and Pakis
tan.
the group; “Many people were ac
tually disintegrated, others buried
in the debris or killed from the
falling buildings.”
Speaking of the effects of ra-
rio-activity produced by the
bomb, he said many people who
survived the explosion died days
and weeks later. Many outsiders
of Hiroshima who came there
after the explosion seeking rela
tives, touched the radio-active
ashes and also died from their
death dealing effects.
Tanimoto said the bomb created
6000 orphans in Hiroshima.
On August 6 people of the city
now gather at the local cemetery
and pledge that this experience
will never happen again anywhere
on the earth.
The city proper has practically
been rebuilt, he said. He showed
pictures of many new buildings,
as well as architects plans for new
hospitals, schools, and orphanages.
“It was war that created such
bitterness . . . such destruction,”
said this pastor of one of Japan’s
largest Methodist Churches. “The
people wondered at times if Amer
ica was a Christian nation,” he
said, “but soon they realized that
the Americans had dropped the
bomb as a measure to end the loss
of many, many other lives.”
“The people of America,” Ta
nimoto commented, “thought the
Emperor of Japan was to blame
for the death and destruction
in Hiroshima because it was his
fault the war was still in prog
ress.”
The fact is, he explained, the
people highly respected the Em
peror and stood behind him in
whatever he did.
For the first times in their lives,
many of the people saw the Em
peror when he came to the bomb-
ruined city to tell them on Au
gust 15 that, “In order to keep
from further destruction of my
people, I have accepted a surren
der proposal.”
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The people of Japan respect
Gen. Douglas MacArthur very
highly because of the fine way he
treated the Emperor and also
because he endeavored to become
friends with the wartime leader
of the Japanese, said Tanimoto.
But it was the fine behavior of
the American occupation troops
that took the bitterness out of the
people’s hearts and caused them to
accept their conquerors—the first
foreign nation ever to occupy Ja
pan.
“Wherever the Americans went,
they warmed the hearts of their
enemies (the Japanese). They (the
Americans) took away any bitter
ness that might have existed,” the
minister said.
“Since the fighting in Korea
has broken out, the people of
Japan have realized the mean
ing of war and stand behind the
Americans in their efforts to
bring peace to Asia,” Tanimoto
promised. “With your help, Ja
pan can and will be developed
into a fine democratic nation,”
he added.
At the close of the meeting,
a donation was solicited for the
Hiroshima Peace Center which is
building hospitals, schools and or
phanages to take care of the people,
still suffering now nearly six years
after the bomb was exploded.
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