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THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXV.

Watrrtown, Wis., April 1921. SrUING.

The last, cold blasts of the wintry wind Arc fleeing to realms unknown, And the Zephyrs soft of spring so kind Now fan sweet flowers unblown. Dull, cold death, which seemed to reign Supreme through the months just passed, Has fled as it seems with groaning and pain Oil the wings of the last winter-blast. Creation has answered the call of the spring, Mankind rejoice与 with glee, and above In the heavens the stars seem to sing Of their great Makers’ power and love. D. H. R.,,22. 1IIS MASTER^S VOICE. F. Knoll,,22. It was an early fall clay, the wind was raw and penetrating; the rays of the sun had little heat, for the sun was far in the west.


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But still there were many wlio came to view the grave of the blind man whom the world had just put aside. On' the grave of his mas­ ter sat a dog, thin from lack of food, that seemed to mourn the loss of his only friend. Because nobody was here to describe the life and praise the deeds of his master, the dog felt himself called upon to speak to those who felt compassion for the death of liis master: “My master was not always blind, I can still remember liow successful lie was and liow very mucli loved by liis fellow-men. But my mother says lie was still more successful and great when he lived in a large city before lie wandered hither years ago. He was a civil engineer in tlie employ of a large concern. Then came an event in his life which caused the writing of this story. His friend had died and left his only son to be educated and cared for by him. My master sent him to college, thinking he would be bet­ ter cared for there than in the home of a bachelor. The postman delivered letters regularly, which my master seemed to enjoy, The lad spent his vacations in the city at the home of his guradian. My mother often wondered if lie had a wonderful mother where he al­ ways stayed. This was before she knew he was an orphan. In a few years he graduated and came to the city to stay for always. Then my mother knew he was an orphan and loved him all the more. He in turn seemed to feel her affections and pelted her very mucli. He never kicked her when he was angry or tired. This son was a bright lad and brought sunshine into the home of the engineer; but he had a failing, one that my master could not cure him of, the craze for dancing. He did not neglect his duties, but by going regularly to dances he became thin and weak, be­ cause of loss of sleep. His guardian could not watch him closely, for he was a business man and did not immediately notice bis ward’s waywardness. Then tlie law robbed the young man of liis favorite pastime by putting a ban on dancing in hotels and cafes. This was an incorrect step on the part of the law and a fatal one to the young man. I say it was an incorrect one on the part of the law, because it stopped dancing in the hotels and not in the clanchalls. The law had a right to stop dances in these places, because they did not have a license, but not because they were indecent. To dance in the hotels a man had to have a partner or friend whom lie brought along to dine with. One could not take a strange girl and dance with her; an act of this kind was absolutely prohibited. On the other hand at the common dance-halls anybody could dance


1 with anybody. Even young girls go alone to these places. They are permitted to operate because they carry a license. But to re­ turn again to my story. This young man would not go to these common dancc-lialls, because a different crowd gathered there, too young for him. Every young man lias some sport or amusement in which he indulges, and if you take this amusement from him, lie is bound to turn to another. This is the nature of youth. This young man took to drinking, a habit far worse than the one he had quit. He always drank to excess. Then came the prohibition law which tried lo rob him of his new folly. I-Ie was embittered and vowed: 'They’ll never take away my liquor, although they took Then he entered upon a new trade, the illicit away my dance! liquor trade. This turn in liis life brought his ruin and the change in the life of my master. The young man was convicted of rumnmning and sentenced to prison. My master was very much af­ fected when he heard the news and he decided to leave the city . Without revealing his identity he sought employment in a cop­ per mine in a small northern town. The man who was once a well-known engineer in a large city was now working in a mine, lie even shouldered the pick and labored with the common under­ ground miners. I-Iis follow-ininers welcomed him and jopened their homes to him, because he was a hard-worker and a man who assisted them whenever possible. The officials at the mine soon noticed his abilities as an en­ gineer and promoted him to the position as assistant engineer of the mine. But he kept, on working hard and soon became first engineer of the mine. Although he was fast coming back to his former station in life, he did not neglect his former fellow-work­ men even though his duties were many. lie was very exact in his work and just this exactness is what won him his new position. Every morning he had to draw a map of the mine indicating every tunnel at the proper depth. According to his drawings tlie tunnels were dug. He had to be careful that one tunnel was not dug directly above another, which would probably cause a cave-in. lie always remembered the miners with whom he once had to dig. And they again were not envious or cold toward him, because he who was once a digger was now an engineer and a boss, but they obeyed his commands, which were always given in a friendly tone, because they knew they could trust him. Then one day, when all was working smoothly, a crash was heard and everyone knew what that meant. One of the tunnels had caved in because of insuffi-


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cient support. There were men entombed, who would suffocate if not removed in due time. Who would venture to rescue the en­ dangered men? All hesitated. Then the engineer offered to go. At their offer many volunteered their assistance. Rescue work was dangerous, since the whole shaft had been weakened by the crash. The work progressed slowly and gas was slowly filling the ho^e, where the entombed men were captives. At length a small open ing was effected and the men were slowly dragged through, ex.hausted and worn. My master went through the aperture to make sure that no one was left behind. Suddenly as he entered the death1 ole an explosion occurred. Overcome he was dragged back through the opening. Once on the surface he was soon revived. He opened his eyes and tried to see, but my master was blind. Horror struck the hearts of his fellow-men and everyone mourned the loss of iv(y master’s sight. He received a large sum of money from the owners of the mine, which gift made it possible for him to live to an oic* age without ever asking for alms. He lived in this northern town until the following spring, when my mother died. Then he cullod me to him and said: “We’ve been here many summers, clear pal, but it’s getting lonesome here all alone, let us wander over the country.” With me as guide we left the town where my master had amassed a fortune, but where he also had lost his sight. We started off for the West. Seldom did we remain in any locality more than a few weeks, and stayed that long only when (lie climate of the region was very refreshing and healthful. It was fall when we reached the Rockies and entered Yellowstone Park. My master decided to remain here a month and then take a train for the South. No matter where we came or where we stayed every­ body treated my master kindly. While we were taking a walk ono clear morning during our stay in the Rockies, after a snowfall dur­ ing the night, I scented a man in distress not far from where we were walking. I began barking, my master knew what I wanted and followed briskly at the end of my chain. There in a snowbank lay a man who had fallen and broken his leg. My master quickly brushed the snow aside and noticed the man was nearly frozen to death. My master though blind was a large man and strong. He put the unlucky stranger on his shoulders and carried him to the lodge, while I broke the trail. After hours of exertion on the part of the doctors who were summoned the man showed signs of re­ vival. For days he lay on his sick-bed hovering between life and death. He had caught cold in his lungs, but the doctors were ever 4-


hopeful. After a few weeks he was able to sit up in his bed. One day he called for my master. But someone had told my master that the invalid wanted to thank and reward him for saving his life. My master was too great a man to take a reward from this Doggie, you should be thankful for sick man, and said to me: saving the-life of this man.” Without notice, before they could re­ ward or thank us for our assistance, my master and I departed from the lodge for the South. We remained in the South until spring, when we began our wanderings anew. Thus we wandered over the country for almost fifteen years. My master felt himself growing old, even I felt the effects of age. One day he took me to himself and said: My wonderful little guide, I feel I am getting old and liave but a short time to live, let us travel across the country to the northern mining town where your mother lies buried now.” I wiped a tear from my eye as lie continued: Why should I not die where I lived most oi' my life and where I made my fortune? Prob­ ably some one there will still remember me and comfort me in my age and then when my time has come, give me a burial as befits a man. Wc left for (he North, where my master died on his arrival in the little mining town. And here lie lies the hero of many a day. I pray you, my liearors, remember this man who, though blind, never complained of his lot, but always thanked the Lord for sav­ ing his lilo, ;iml asked Him to preserve others from a like accident. I ask you lo please put. some flowers on his grave as he would have done for iinother.M ClIiMSTIAMTV, TUI: 1I01M: OF TIIE WORLD TO-DAY. D. Rohda, ’22. The Christian man who to-day is awake to the circumstances and conditions in which he is living must needs look upon the whole existing state of affairs with disgust, while the non-Christian must do so with a keen sense of fear which shades over almost to des­ pair. Both of these men cannot help noticing at one glance the outstanding characteristic of the times—thorough corruption. No matter in which circle of life we look, be it political or social, we plainly see this phantom lurking about. In political spheres are we not and have we not been deceived by those persons whom we thought gems of the nation, men who would sacrifice every personal privilege and liberty for the good


of tlie country? Have we not been misled by the idealistic mottos and maxims of tlie politicians? Surely corruption lies here. Now cast a glance into tlie social life of our country. Does not luxury and vice undisguised strut about here? Luxury permeates society today. Vice is great. Man takes no heed of God’s commands, promises, and threats, but simply goes on in his own sinful and de­ structive way. The common people, the middle and lower classes, are no exception. Crime and ungodliness range wantonly among tlieir ranks; crime wave after crime wave, consisting largely of murders, robberies, and forgeries, sweep our country, and little hope of stemming them have we found thus far. But, does not the future look brighter?” And does the rising generation instill no hope in us? From appearances we can draw little hope. Generation after generation is following more closely the path to rank materialism. The great grand thing to-day, tlie ideal of the times, seems to be the almighty dollar. With this in view the machinery of tlie en­ tire world is run. After this the greater share of mankind seeks. To this our young generation stretches out its hands and follows, believing it to be tlie goal where comfort and solace rests. And to such an end unconsciously many of our influential men encour­ age it. We need but visit the schools and colleges of our country to affirm and corroborate this statement. The majority of schools of tlie nation prepare men and women for the business and industrial world. This is their one aim; towards this one aim everything that it taught must tend. A person does not have to be highly or even moderately highly educated to enter the business world to make money. A course of but six months or a year of good diligent men­ tal labor and study, a fair understanding of the English language, and the ability to speak fluently is all that is necessary. But such a superficial education will be, yes, is bound to be of little value to a country in the end. Such elements taught superficially were also extant in classical times, but they were fought against and sub­ dued by the real teachers of knowledge whenever an opportunity presented itself. Such shallow methods of teaching prove detri­ mental to a people eventually, for they only advocate materialism more strongly and serve to bring up a nation of narrow-minded men and women. Is the present discouraging and the future lowering? Does all seem to be dark and utterly hopeless about us? Not so! A Chris•5 ?


tian knows not hopelessness and despair. He always has a treas­ ure wherefrom he can bring forth new things and old. To-day it is the Christian that has great things to give the world. One of these is HOPE. All is not yet lost. We still have one source of hope when all the world despairs, God’s Word. This is still the light in this dark world to-day, if man would only ac­ cept its teachings as teachings and revelations of God himself through His Son Jesus Christ, our Savior. Through this wonder­ ful means hope could come forth and flood the world. Through it alone can that one thing from which all corruption proceeds, man’s heart, be changed. Through the preaching of and believing in pod’s Word the heart of the adult generation is born anew, and through this same Word the heart of the rising generation should be reared and nur­ tured. Man should make use of such a wonderful means. Man must grasp (he oppoiluiiily of hearing God’s Word and allowing it to work on his heart if he is to be of real benefit to the world. This is the great necessity, and yet, this is the one great thing that is neglected to-day. Mankind seems to be straying tow­ ard indifference in religion and is at the same time, though he notices it. not, straying toward destruction; for we know—and it is history that teaches us so by such towering figures as Babylon, Greece, and Rome—that a nation which has become morally and especially religiously bankrupt is also totally physically bankrupt, and (hat, (hough it stands in outward appearances high and mighty, it stands on the brink and prejudice of utter ruin and destruction. The one way possible for man to avert such ruin is to return and cleave to his God. A petition or admonition of this character, how­ ever, we know to be fruitless if addressed to the world, but it should not be so if addressed to the true Christian world. As we have already seen, it is the Christian people who to-day have true hope. Now it is their duty to further and augment this hope, lest it also become (leadened by this almost universal spirit of indifference. This it can do, as is easily discernible, in two ways: by zealously preaching the Gospel and by maintaining its schools and colleges. No man is likely to deny that the first method is beneficial ami indispensable, but probably some are inclined to think that the second is not altogether necessary. Yet it is posi­ tively so. Preaching is for both the present and the rising generation; teaching, however, is especially for the rising generation.、An edu-


cation in tlie atmosphere of true, sincere Christianity instills and inculates into tlie hearts of its possessors a spirit far different from that bred in circles void of all mention of the Gospel. And this is only natural, for view the great difference between teaching in tlie light of the Word and that lacking all religious touch. Let us consider only a study or two tliat belong to a general education. First science, and here again tlie origin of things. What a world of difference between the beginning of tilings through creation by God and tlie beginning by evolution! Does not the history of creation through God the Almighty stand supreme above that of evolution? Is it not altogether natural that it should elevate a man’s mind by just such a great degree? Is not history, too, more interesting, and have we not seen that it contains more hope when taught in the spirit of the bible; when we know that above it all a mighty and merciful God sits and rules, and that all that hap­ pens, needs must happen for the good and furtherance of his chil­ dren, bought through the blood of His Son? So it matters little wliat branch of learning we take, if it is taught in tlie atmosphere of true Christianity, it needs must implant in the heart of the stu­ dent that spirit whicli tlie world so woefully lacks to-day一tlie spirit of love and religion. We know that the world in general will never accept, such teach­ ing or believe it to be true, but we who feel and see its iruits should acknowledge it our duty and accordingly look to it enthusiastically and diligently that our schools and colleges are well kept up, so tliat it is at all times possible for us to produce those representa­ tives of the human race that alone count in the eyes ol' Ciod and that alone preserve the virtues hope and charity in this world, true Chris­ tian men and women.

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THE SWISS PATRIOT, WILLIAM TELL. Harold Grunwald, ’24. We are indebted to the genius of the German poet Frederich von Schiller lor the beautiful and thrilling story of William Tell. Schiller, being familiar with certain patriotic legends pertaining to the struggle for the independence of Switzerland, wove these in with deeds of real heroes and created thereby a fabric of fancy which for many years was accepted as an historical reality. Critical investigation, however, has proved that at no time there existed such a person as William Tell, but that he was merely a creation


of Schiller’s sources, originated to represent the Swiss heroic pa­ triotism and spirit of freedom. The story of William Tell took place, according to Schiller, about the year 1307. William Tell lived in peace and happiness at Uuerglen, in the canton of Uri, with his wife and children. He was a skillful hunter, and when out on forages with his son. Tell’s bow, owing to his brilliant marksmanship, brought down many a beast. Tell loved his family sincerely, especially, his little son. They lived in contentment, partaking of nature’s food, loving and helping each other. At this time the people of Switzerland, which was then a pro­ vince of Austria, rebelled and elected Tell as one of their chief leaders. William Tell, loved and obeyed by his fellow-men, now determined to help his countrymen faithfully in their struggle for freedom. But for liis deeds—for he incited liis countrymen to use violence in driving the Austrians from the country—he was sus­ pected and persecuted by the Austrians. The Austrian bailiff GessIcr wanted to show liis authority over his subjects and placed in Uio market-i>lace of Altdorf a pole that bore his cap. Everyone passing (ho pole was to bow down before it, thereby showing his submission to his lord. Tell, passing the pole one day, neglected to pay tlio required homage and was therefore arrested. During the trial he tried to excuse his disrespect for the cap on Ihe main ground that he was dull of wit, for he said, * Other­ wise, I should not be called the TALL.” This word then meant a half-witted person or simpleton. Gessler had heard that Tell was a skillful marksman and desired to see him perform in his presence. The bailiff stated to Tell that if he could shoot an apple off his son’s head一for lie thought that this feat could not be accomplished —lie would not demand his life, but only on this one condition. Tell did not hesitate, but accepted the offer; he determined, how­ ever, to have full revenge on Gessler, if he failed in his undertaking. The time for the trial of Tell’s celebrated markmanship was drawing near, and before Tell entered the arena, a place set off for the occasion beneath a large tree, he armed himself with an extra arrow which he concealed beneath his coat. A pack of ar­ rows was now offered Tell from which he was to choose the arrow that was to decide liis fate. Tell hesitated, but after ardently pray­ ing to liis God, and spurred on by his son’s cheerful encouragement, he drew his bowstring to liis shoulder and sent the arrow whizzing


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toward tlie target. Tell’s fervent prayer was heard, for the arrow split the apple in two. The tyrant Gessler was a man who did not keep his promises. The governor praised Tell for liis accuracy, but asked him what he meant by placing an extra arrow beneath his jerkin. Tell at 'first said that this was a hunter’s custom, but when he was accused of Concealing the extria arrow, and when asked, “Why didst thou liide tlie arrow?” the patriot answered in a frank, clear voice, “To Kill thee, if I had harmed my little son.” He was now placed in chains and taken with Gessler to his castle at Kuessnacht there to end his life in a gloomy, desolate tower. To spend the rest of liis days in a forsaken tower, was, how­ ever, not to be his lot. Gessler and his men set sail with their prisoner Tell for their castle at Kuessnacht. While crossing the Lake of Luzerne, a storm suddenly arose, threatening the destruc­ tion of the boat and crew. The mariners, alarmed at the raging tempest, implored Gessler to release Tell so that lie—for he was also an accomplished seaman—might pilot the vessel safely to shore. Gessler finally consented to release tlie patriot, for he feared that he would otherwise have to drown. He also promised to free him from liis bonds, if he would undertake to rescue them out of their distress. Tell gladly undertook to steer the ship safely to shore, and as they were passing a rock, now called “Tell’s Rock” or “Leap,” the Swiss patriot sprang ashore, escaped, and concealed himself in the nearby woods. Tell yearned for vengeance and lurked along tlie road which .Gessler and his party would have to traverse to get to the castle at Kuessnacht. Gessler soon appeared and was hit by Tell’s arrow which mortally wounded him. The fall and death of Gessler was the signal for a general up­ rising. At the gatherings or mass-meetings Tell would be hailed as a hero, and his speech stirred the blood of the Swiss to wage war against the Austrians. Tell with liis countrymen now parti­ cipated in. driving the Austrians from the country and in taking possession of their castles and property. In all these movements Tell was a leading spirit both encouraging and stimulating liis people by his heroic deeds. In the midst of liis renowned deeds this hero of many an encounter had to give liis life in trying to rescue a little boy out of the River Sachen.

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The Black and Red lias once more passed into the hands of a new editorial staff on which devolves the great task of making this the twenty-fifth anniversary volume of the paper a success. We glance back through the twenty-four long years of the Black and Red’s existence, we take up issues of these years long passed and between the lines we read of the editors’ efforts, labors and perserverance. Involuntarily we utter the one word “Suc­ Again we glance into the coming year, into the year of the cess. twenty-fifth volume—the volume entrusted to us—and a feeling of almost fearful anxiety possesses us. We seem to walk with un­ safe, insecure tread; we feel ourselves incompetent, inexperienced —11一


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workmen sent out to accomplish a task demanding skill and adroit­ ness. We hestitate; unconsciously we ask ourselves “Dare we go on?” and tlie words “We must” force themselves out in answer. Yes, we must. On us the task has fallen; on us rests the re­ sponsibility. We are as a man who cannot swim and who has un­ expectedly fallen into the river. We must do our best, just as he does. And is it not possible that we attain some success if we work with, soul and body, mentally and physically with the same vigor with which he does? It is possible, we venture to say—but to labor as the man fighting for life means effort, perserverance, and patience. All will not run smoothly in our work; this we can be almost positive of. We are bound to strike obstacles, circumstances that seem to prohibit access even to the very outskirts of success. But such things dare not discourage us and make us despair. What would have become of tlie man in the stream if he had despaired at every strenuous effort to reach the bank? He would have 】ost against his odds and perished. No, “despair” is a word we dare not know; “perseverance” or “ patience” must take its place. We must persist in our efforts, even though we can see few or no resuits at all. We must hold out just as the man in the water; then every obstacle we overcome will be to us as every nerve-racking stroke that brought him but a few inches closer to land was to liim. Every impediment we eliminate by perserverance in effort will mean a new store of hope for us that will help us on our way toward our goal, success and satisfaction. Let us then take up our new work in good spirits, let us view it from an optimistic viewpoint, encouraged by the example of the man in the stream. Let us, each and every member of the editorial staff, co-operate with every other member of the staff in doing our part toward making the twenty-fiftli volume of the Black and Red what every student and alumnus of Northwestern wishes and ex­ pects it to be, a success. Cooperation is an indispensable requisite. No matter liow as­ siduously and patiently each and every member of the staff works, if he doesn’t work in perfect concordance with his colleague, there is bound to be a jar throughout the entire machinery of the paper, and each jar makes success more difficult. Yet cooperation in respect to the editorial staff is not the only necessity. If the Black and Red is to be truly representative of our institution, it must not be the duty of the staff alone to submit material. Each capable stu—12—


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dent and many more of the alumni than have written in the past should contribute. In this way we should eliminate the possibility of the Black and Red’s becoming a paper expressing the views of a very restricted number of students. The staff of the twenty-fifth volume wishes to thank those stu­ dents who have contributed to the paper during the last year for their assistance, and the subscribers and advertisers for their finan­ cial backing, hoping these things will continue during the new volume. The members of the departing staff who according to custom shall receive the Black and Red gratis, one year for each year of service, are: .3 years Edwin A. Jaster. Wm. P. ITolzliauscn__ •3 years ■2 years Alex II. I-Iillmer_____ 1 year Carl F. Bolle_______ 1 year Theophil F. Uetzmann —R.

THE PASSIONS OF TODAY. The mind of man sways the world; passion sways the mind of man, and lb us It happens that passion often sways the world and shapes ils history. Our great epoch and history-making period of today will be an ever living example of such a time when passion ruled the world and formed its history. One surely does not have to be a pessimist to see that the gen­ eration of today is almost completely dominated and led on to the worst follies by its vilest passions, jealousy, hate, envy! These three base feelings have stunted and all but exterminated the finer ones, such as mercy, love, and charity. Jealousy, hate, and envy have brought the world where it stands today, on the brink of chaos and destruction. Take yourself back one decade in the world’s history. The common man never dreamed that the world was nearing the most bloody, inhuman war it had ever seen, a war that would claim mil­ lions of victims. The finer passions, such as love for one’s fellowman and for the good of the world seemed then to be dominant in the heart of the ordinary man. Yet in the hearts of the great and 一13—


selfish, especially in the hearts of the men whose hands swayed peoples and empires, a great change was being effected—jealousy, hate, and envy like three great demons were subduing the gentler emotions to non-effectiveness. Each country—for the lower classes were deceived to change their sentiments—began to look on its neighbor with jealousy; probably his neighbor was acquiring great trade, probably lie was acquiring riches and dominions! Jealousy turned to hate; hate turned to envy; and envy broke the bubble: war was the result. In a spirit of grossest hate and malice is was carried on. Then the war ended, but not so malice and hate. These two dreaded monsters, when they have once taken hold of the heart of man, seen to become immune to banishment, and death! Behold, here stands the victor, glorying in his triumph, his foot resting: on the neck of his nearly naked opponent, tu.sjgin^ a.t the last remnants of his once fine attire. It is true. Gernmnv is lying in the dust; she has been knocked off her feet, by her ene­ mies and now they, her conquerors, are standin.s: over her rondy to strip her of her last tattered vestment if possible. Surolv slir was our enemy, surely she should be niade to feel her position, but not with such unjust, inhuman methods and devices which her con­ querors are usins:. What terrible evime have thf» Gormnn women and children committed that thev should be robbed of their food, milk and fats, clothins:. etc? Ts it. not enous:h that, they lmvo boon denrived of their wealth and of their dear ones, husbands Jind fathers? Plundering does not befit a brave man. The robbinc: and rifl­ ing our Allies are participatins: and proceeding in should not an­ neal to the true American. Such action can hardly be anything but the product of low moral standing, whose underlyins: principles are malice, hate. a,nd avarice. This last evil is as bad ns either of the other two. Look what it. is doing: today. Encland and France are trying their utmost to annihilate a sreat nation. beoauso she has been defeated in a war. Ts such a reason valid? No. The motive is wrong. The defeated party is made to srive its last few pennies, while the victors try to evade paying their own debts. Greed and avarice, the children of hate and envy, is the motive of such abominable procedure. America should not coincide in opinion in this matter with her 灯eat and good friends Britain and Prance. Why should we bear Germany hate? We clearly see now what we fought for during the war—militarism and autocracy. Ireland bears witness of it


today! America should no longer labor under deception: hate, envey, greed, and malice were the cause of the war and today are prompting our great friends to press the very life-blood from the —R. veins of the German nation.

Since the Ilev. Ilensel, ’08, of Wausau, Wis.,and the Rev. John Brenner of Milwaukee both have declined calls to fill the vacant professorship at Northwestern College, the College Board again met in our dormitory and issued another call, this time to the Rev. E. Ph. Dornfeld, ’04, of Milwaukee, Wis. Mr. Rudolph Schroeder, once upon a time member of the ’21 Class, and now a student of Concordia Seminary, Springfield, 111., spent a few hours about the premises here on Easter Sunday. He has but one more year at the Seminary and declares he enjoys the work there immensely. Walter Meier, ’IS, Paul Albrecht, ex ’17, and Erwin Abelmann, ex,17, were among those who stopped off in Watertown before re­ suming their studies at tlie Theological Seminary in Wauwatosa. Miss Verna Wilde, com. ’19,teacher in the parochial school at Sparta, passed part of her Easter vacation in this city with her friend Adela Dornfeld, com. ’19. On Wednesday evening, April 6th, a pretty wedding took place in Watertown, wlien Miss Margaret Koenig, com. ’18, was united in marriage to Herbert Neumann, a young dairy farmer from Oconomowoc. Rev. Klingmann performed the ceremony. Among the 一15—


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Qlnll峨 Noto A not unexpected large audience had assembled at. our college - auditorium on the evening of March 4, to hear tlie second great musical event of the season. The violin artist of world-wide re­ nown, Fritz Kreisler, who has played before large audiences in all parts of the globe, was received with great pleasure by a crowd which filled the gymnasium to its maximum capacity. The charm, as it seems, of Kreisler’s tones of surpassing beauty and of almost uncanny musical sweetness and quality, kept the listeners’ undi­ vided attention from the time he began until the close of the pro­ gram. The following is the progam he rendered: ——16—


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H. Vieuxtemps D-minor (opus 31) Andante—Adagio religioso Scherzo—Finale marziale ___ J. S. Bach 2. (a) Gavotte in E-major_ Padre Martini (b) Andantino________ ._L. B. Leclair (c) Tambourin, C-major ._J. B. Cartier La Chasse________ _____ Tartln! (e) Variations________ ______ Dvorak 3. (a) Indian Lament____ (b) Chanson Indous (Hindoo Chant from “Sadko”) _ Rimsky-Korsakoff _________ Schubert (c) Moment Musical Chaminade-Kreisler (d) Spanish Serenade Paderewski-Kfeisler (c) Minuet_________ ___ Arr. by Kreisler (f) The Old Refrain. (Viennese Popular Song) Kreisler may indeed be said to stand absolutely in a class by himself. Audiences have repeatedly marveled at his wonderful genius. Modern concert goers usually become impatient when they hear the long concertos of earlier composers, because, in spite of the many attempts, no one, with the exception of a genius has suc­ ceeded in playing them with the right spirit. Kreisler keeps his listeners on the alert with selections extending over a period of thirty to forty-five minutes, simply because he interprets them with the heart and soul of their authors. Long before he began to appear as the virtuoso he is today he realized that people were becoming dissatisfied with the unstirring musical events of today and he decided to mark out a new path for himself. He spent many years in searching the libraries of Italy and Prance for the music of composers long forgotten, who flour­ ished, particularly in Italy, during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. During this time a vast amount of music was written for tlie violin, for this instrument was cultivated to a far greater extent then than it is today. But Kreisler has not limited his scope to old violin music. He has taken many piano pieces, many for­ gotten songs and airs and arranged them for his instrument. As a result of liis research the literature of the violin has been greatly enlarged and all violinists are now playing these unparalleled mel­ odies. Owing to the crowded schedule of Mr. Kreisler it was a difficult

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The Phi Gamma Rho Literary Program of March 5, arranged by master of ceremonies, Dudley Rohda, although somewhat longer than most programs, was arranged in a very interesting manner. Contrasting topics and tlie go.od efforts of the speakers added very much to make it an interesting entertainment. Under the direc­ tion of Pres. Boettcher the orchestra played an opening selection. The progress which the orchestra made since its previous appear­ ances is certainly astonishing. We may expect a very good show­ ing from the orchestra at the annual concert. Herman Cares next told us how Baron von Steuben aided Washington in the Revolu­ tionary War and, even though he was a German, deserves to bo honored by all Americans. The poem “On the Rappahannock'' was then recited by Kuckhahn. It was probably not that he did not have his piece well memorized, but that lie was self-conscious, that nade the prompter’s aid necessary. Then Hilbert Engel delivered lis original speech on “How England got India.” Although those not acquainted with conditions in India at that time could under­ stand but little of it, he must be given due credit for clear enunci­ ation and self-possession. We then listened to I. Boettcher’s “The Soldier’s Reprieve,a story in which a father thanked God wlio.n his accused, but innocent, son was acquitted through the faithful work of a little daughter. After Krenke’s well-spoken German op­ tion a vocal solo by A. Baer relieved the strain of the audience. The rest of the literary work consisted in original speeches and poems and a comedy, “The Inventor” concluded an interesting pro­ gram. Prof. Probst acted as critic for the evening. In order to make the rendering of the joint literary proscram as perfect as possible the date was postponed from Saturday, March 12, to the following Thursday, which allowed more time for a thor­ ough preparation. On March 17, Mr. Hillmer had the following program arranged: 1. The Altar of Genius B. L. King N. W. C. Band. —18—


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The Fatal Pair of France, Louis XVI. and Marie Antoinette— ________________________________________________ Original Dudley Rohda, ’22. Julius Sturm Wic Schocn Leuclitet der Morgen Stern— William Holzliausen,,21. Charles Horn I’ve Been Roaming Vocal Solo, Miss E. Block. __From Shakespeare's Merchant of Venice The Court Scene Cast of Characters. __Arthur Gentz Duke__ .Arnold Brandt Antonio Walter Krenke Bassanio Gustav Krause Gratiano -Herman Cares Salanio _ __ Miss Zeisler Portia __ __ Miss M. Ott Nerissa _ Ascher Alice Glee Club. Original Die Deutsche Spraclic in America______ Christian Albrecht, ’22. .William Cullen Bryant The Prairies, Venus Winter, ’22. Miiiuet-Porpora-Krcisler Violin Solo, Theodore Feisst.

Worthy of special mention is the court-scene taken from “The Merchant of Venice.” The execution was very carefully carried out and showed Ihc results of a great deal of work and practice. The costumes added very much to the true atmosphere of the scene. The program as a whole supplied the finishing touches to the literary work of the societies. Although the literary meetings were discontinued throughout last year, the students readily reached the high standard of for­ mer years.

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the necessary incentive to hold the bag. Gentz seems to have taken hold on second base, without a rival, but we trust that lack of com­ petition will not keep him from always doing his best! Schoenoff second team short stop last year, is trying to hold his short posi­ tion this year against Brandt, Engel, and perhaps Bierwagen, al­ though Bierwagen has been tried out on third base. Siffring is also trying for third base on the team. Although Knoll but shortly ar­ rived from his Easter vacation, yet we are told, that he may try out for third base. The line-up for the outfield is about this: Meier, the manager of the team, seems to have left field quite in his hands. Groth played center field in the Madison game and played it well enough to make us think that he will most likely be Northwestern’s center fielder this year. Sauer, who also played in Madison this spring, Cares, and Knispel are the men interested in right field. The regular team that will ultimately play the most of our games is as yet uncertain, but it will most likely be one chosen from this material. The coach has ample choice! A new system has been worked out by Coach Parisius to in­ sure good attendance at all the practices. When still in the gym­ nasium, each individual was compelled to “check in and out” at the coach's office. Since the teams work outdoors, the captain draws up a list of names each clay of players, who should appear at bat­ ting practice after dinner and the coach asks both, first and second teams to be on the diamond after four. Until now this system has worked well, because it was made known to the players at the be­ ginning, that the final choice of a team would greatly depend on the regularity of each man’s attendance. If a man has not enough initiative to appear on the field every noon and afternoon, if he is trying out for the team, he will also lack the necessary interest and “pep” to help to carry out our games successfully. In a game on Saturday, April 2, the team of N. W. C. defeated a team from town 5-2. The nine from town was made up largely of old Northwestern stars. In this game we could see that the bat­ ting of our men was still rather defective, but we believe that, if the team develops and rids itself of this mistake, poor batting, old Northwestern may again look forward to a prominent place in the conference. For this year the following interesting schedule has been arranged by our manager: Northwestern plays一 University of Wisconsin, April 6, at Madison. —21—


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Exchanges play an important part in the development and im­ provement of a college paper. None of us is sa perfect that there is not room for improvement, and the exchange of friendly criti­ cism leads to the improvement of the various publications as noth­ ing else can. Exchanges give us a look into the inner life at other schools besides offering some very interesting and good reading matter.

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But why is it that so few of us ever wipe tlie dust from the maga­ zines on the exchange rack? Is it because we are prejudiced against them much the same as we are against the books prescribed for home-reading? Nothing but the very best that is produced at each school is published in its paper. Do these carefully prepared art­ icles not promise to be better and more profitable reading matter than many of tlie hastily scribbled short stories and other light literature that is sometimes published in the daily papers? In this department we shall give our unbiased opinion of the outward appearance, contents, etc., of our exchanges and shall, whenever occasion offers, make suggestions for improvement. Any return criticism in this spirit will be appreciated. # * # # NEWBERRY STYLUS. As tlie object of our comment this month we have chosen the January number of the Stylus published at Newberry, S. C. The Stylus is one of our neater and better exchanges. The literary de­ partment containing one poem and six compositions takes up about one half of the magazine, thus making a nicely balanced iniblication. The addition of a “Locals’ column would give us a bet/.or idea of the inner life at your college; otherwise tlie several depart­ ments are well taken care of. We especially enjoyed your “Joke” column. It is above the ordinary. Perhaps it would be better to aave advertisements oil the same page with jokes, although the re­ striction of ads to the lower half of page makes the arrangement not as bad as it might be. Leaving the outer rear cover clear would add to the appearance of your paper. The poem “Climb,” which heads the literary department, ex­ presses a good idea. “Tlie Open Gate” treats a timely subject, tlie Americanization of our foreigners. The writer points out that a common language is indeed an implement, but only ono implement in Amerricanization. Foreigners must be led to adopt our stand­ ards of cleanliness, hygiene, order, and tlie like. Our system of Americanization must offer “tlie acquirement of such an under­ standing of our history, our institutions, our government, our ideals as will give all of our foreign-born so deep an appreciation of and love for our country that they will inevitably wish to become its citizens.” The time is past when we can admit all those who wish to come here regardless of tlieir good or bad qualities. We must make a study of the ideals and achievements of each race so that we can intelligently select as future citizens only such as will be —24—


an asset and not a burden to our country. Unrestricted immigra­ tion has hindered reform in Europe by bringing the discontent of that continent to America, where they found the freedom they wanted instead of forcing them to remain in their own country and work out their own reforms. “Man, the Type, Lives on” reminds us of our duties and op­ portunities in this reconstruction period after the war. “The Fickleness of Woman” narrates the story of two college chums, O’Neal and Abrams, who go out into life together. Both are in love. Abrams learns that someone else has taken his place in the heart of his dearest Rose. To end it all he takes poison just after O’Neal has been called from their place of employment to the bed-side of his sick mother. The story reaches its climax when O’Neal is arrested for the murder of his chum and is spurned by his sweetheart because she believes him guilty. It is afterward proved that Abrams’ death was a case of suicide, and O’Neal is set free. Ilis sweetheart is reconciled, and a happy wedding follows. —The plot is fresh and is quite well carried out. “Woodrow Wilson” is an article exaggerating to a great ex­ tent the good qualities and almost wholly forgetting the weak­ nesses of our late president. We shall not go into details as to this article. Although it is yet much too early to pass an unbiased and final judgment on a man who played such an important part in our public life for the last eight years as Woodrow Wilson, and although we make some allowance for the fact that the author is evidently from the “Solid South,” which was always Democratic,—we feel safe in saying that the “Furor BiograpWcus” has carried the writer too far. We hope to continue receiving the Stylus.

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forted tlie bereaved relatives and friends in a short sermon by as­ suring them that the deceased led a Christian life while among us. Kaelber, Weissgerber, Gruber, Hillemann, Koehler, and Walter Tappe of Medford1 were pallbearers. On Thursday, March 3, all re­ turned from their sad journey. May we cherish lasting remem­ brances of our clear fellow-student and friend. 一Hoping that he could enjoy his tonsilitis more at home than in our sick rooms, Paul Bretzmann, prep, went to his home in Lake Mills on March 12. _ —It appears that bicycling will find great favor with the students of Northwestern this spring. As early as February 27 Thierfeldcr, 23, and young Vadder Boettcher, prep, bicycled to Oconomowoc. —On February 26, Leisten, prep, went to his home in Burnett. While at home I10 fell sick with the chicken pox. —Koerner, prep, visited friends in Milwaukee on March 18. —From March 2-0, Zamzon, prep, was ill at his home in Portage. 一Kreisler’s playing in our gym on March 4, pleased Bauman, ’21,to such an extent that he was in Milwaukee on March 13 to hear Kreisler again. —Martin Zastrow, of Wausau, who attended Northwestern in 1919-1920, visited his old friends and classmates on March 31. —From February 24 to March 10, John Martin, prep, was con­ fined to his home in Ilelenville with the chicken-pox. —Dudley Hohda, ’22,was in Milwaukee on March 14.

Note. —After a short Easter recess the girls are again at their work, healthy and happy. We were glad to see that Amanda Metzdorf, Ella Lewandowski, and Caroline Huber returned after being con­ fined to tlieir homes for several weeks on account of illness. —March 5 we had several visitors, among them Miss H. Zeisler and Miss S. Mittelstaedt of Wisconsin Rapids, and Miss E. Splitgerber and Edna Detert of Waterloo. 一Oil the same day Paula Radloff, unable to bear her homesick­ ness any longer, journeyed to her home in Hustisford. —27—


—March 6, Frieda Zeisler and Louise Thurow took in the sights of our metropolis. —March 7, Magdalene Kinkel returned to her Alma Mater fullyrecovered from a severe case of scarlet fever. —March 18, Miriam Jaeger, Ruth Block, and Margaret Zier took the first train possible, the former for Janesville, and the latter two for Johnson Creek. —Elsie Freitag spent part of her vacation at the home of Paula Radloff in Hustisford, and the rest at the home of Bertha Holzhueter in Hubbleton. —April 5, Arbor Day, some of the energetic co-eds worked veryhard cleaning the Girls’ Room. Others, however, did about as much work as the Juniors.

―How Ingh is up? —Student: I am so hungry that I could eat a rabbit on a run. ―After answering a knock, the Prof, returned with a smile. Student: It must have been a woman. —Prof.: What’s the trouble Knispel? Abel: He is trying to tell us that a barn has only two sides; the outside and the inside. ―Das siebente Buch der Vernagelung ist schon sehr lange gebraucht worden und ist noch so gut wie neu. —28—


—Student (after the Easter recess): I’ve got the biggest blues that ever blew. —Prof.: In einer Stadt ist es sclion verboten, dass die Frauen sich pudern. Jumbo: Watertown hat das Gesetz noch nicht angenommen. Red: And if they do we won’t be able to stand the sight. 一Beans: Why did that chicken cross the street? Sonn: Because she saw me on this side. —M.: What sort of tooth has a square root? 13. Wisdom. —Prof.: Was fehlt dem Bienfang heute morgen? Spuds: Die Bees liaben ihn gefangen. —Beans: Let me use your comb? Wolf: What’s the matter with yours? Beans: I took it to the dentist to have some bridge-work put in. —Dutch K.: Wo nichts ist, da hat der Professor sein Recht verloren. —Prof.: Use the fossilized word “buxom” in a sentence. Speck: The goat bucks ’em. —Judge: 'Vhat’s your name? Accused: Joshua. Judge: Are you the Joshua who made the sun stand still. Accused: No, I am the Joshua who made the moonshine. —Moses: Be careful you don’t drop your cigar in a can of ben­ zine. Bud: Why, is it expensive? Moses: No, it might go out and we with it. Ail Advertisement. For sale, a house by a man with a big front. —Prof.: Wha,t three departments has our government. Tanta: The legislative, judicial and consecutive. —Student I.: Why didn’t you stop those two ladies from fight­ ing in the post office? Student II.: Why should I? The sign says “letter box.” —Kate: Was ist Thiiringen, ein Land der Tieren? —Student I.: It certainly is raining hard and I hope it keeps up. Student II.: Why? Student I.: Then it won’t come down. —29—



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Till,: IR01NY OF FATE. Edgar Iloenecke, ’23. There was an old saying among the tribe: “To whom Al-Rahnian scuds joy, lie also sends grief.” Hamud was to feel the truth of these words bit Icrly and very soon. lie was just raising his lithe body above (lie deep reeds. lie swiftly walked to his canoe, hid in (he rushes. The lagoon was quiet. Here and there a crane rose with a shriek out of the thick vegetation. Now and then a scared beast of the jungle scampered with a rustle through the fallen foli­ age. Hamud’s powerful black arms easily pushed the canoe from the mucky shore, through the swaying rushes, into the limpid water. I-Ie cast a lightning-like flash of the eyes toward the setting sun to determine (he time of day, then the canoe leaped and shot faster and faster toward the southern shore. In another minute the craft glided into a small cove and stopped abruptly at a reed landing. Ilamud leaped out oncl drew the canoe after him to a safe mooring. Although the warriors all greeted him respectfully, when lie passed, yet in many eyes lurked green envy, because of Ilamud's position, power, and prowess. Hamud placed his oars and game into his hut, thoughtfully sat down by his camp-fire, and gazed into the black star-studded night. He thought of Vuda一30—


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He had been at the village of Ahmar Scindda, Vuda’s father, in the afternoon and had obtained from father and daughter the acceptance of liis suit. This made him step lightly and row s\viftly. But Al-Rahman also sends grief. Even now he had sent grief to Hamud. Alimar Scindda had asked him to assemble his tribe in the morning to decide whether they should stand against or flee from the terrible whites, wlio sacked the coast of Africa for slaves. As Hamud sat by his fire, liis brain was busily engaged in seeking for an argument which would convince his waiTiors to move in­ land. He did not believe that there was any chance of their win­ ning a victory over such a foe far superior Xo them in the arts of war. Long he sat by the glowing embers. When these were finally consumed, lie strode to his hut and with thoughts of love and hate, joy and sorrow he retired. Love for Vuda, hate for the whites; joy over the expected happiness with Vuda, and sorrow over the possibility of a disappointment of all his hopes. Before the sun appeared the next morning, Hamud had arisen. His hopes were high. He had had a dream which he accepted as a favorable omen for his plans. He had seen in a far, strange country, under the shades of tall stately palms, a newly-thatched hut, bedecked with large, bright flowers and fresh greens, Vuda and he dwelt in the hut. Close by stood, a smaller hut, and in the door stood Ahmar Scindda. Before the huts flowed a sparkling stream, abundant with fish. For him it was a picture of his future home farther inland, removed from the hated whites. The river was an exact picture of a river about which he had heard from some of the more courageous warriors who had ventured far inland. But he forgot that Al-Rahman also had a wonderful country like this, to which he took the souls of his children when they died. Without realizing it, Hamud had received a prophecy which clearly depicted his fate. He was confident, when the council met, that his opinion would be accepted by his warriors. But he was greatly disappointed. After he had proposed his plan, of immediate flight toward the inland, Mahdi, his rival and sworn enemy, arose with a sarcastic smile on his scarred face. He said: Men and warriors: We have all heard the brave Hamud. He speaks well! We surely shall all follow his dreams and find peace and liappiness, ripening crops, and abundance in the untrodden wilds. His dream says so. Hamud is a brave man: When he meets a wild boar, lie' overcomes nim single-handed; when he, backed by a thousand staunch war一31—


1 riors, hears of ten whites, he runs and bids the thousand also to run. Shall they obey his cowardly bidding?” Malidi was a powerful speaker. Every attempt of Hamud to answer hinV was futile. The tribes were to remain and fight. They fought. One long day they fought. When Ahmar Scindda and Hamud finally submitted in the evening, the hundred whites had in their possession about four hundred of the best mem­ bers of the tribe. Regardless of rank, Ahmar and Hamud were chained together with the rest for the night and with the rest they marched in the morning. Vuda came to Hamud and whispered in his ear: “Have hope, dear Hamud, Al-Rahman sends not grief alone; the end will be the more beautiful!” When they finally reached the sea, Hamud and Ahmar Scindda were placed on one vessel; Vuda on another. During the long trip, the slaves were confined in a black hole, the hold of a collier. They were fifty less when they were put on the block for auction. Since Vuda was a well-built woman, a high price was paid for her. Her owner put her into a cattle-wagon and brought her and a few other blacks over a rough highway to his cotton plantation. The once so happy, so proud daughter of Ahmar Scindda was chained to a grimy, spider-lined wall, and was served with dry crusts and cold water. When, early in the morning, a leathern-faced person with a cat-o’-nine-tails in his dirty hand appeared in the low door­ way and released them from their chains to drive them to their work, Vuda had not slept a wink. The constant stooping and picking fatigued Vuda, and she stood but for a minute and gazed into the east, thinking of Africa and old memories. But the sharp lash of the slave-driver soon brought her back to the plantation and her thoughts to cotton-picking. Year after year passed by in this manner. She picked cotton, worked in, the combing factory and thought of father and husband. Although every slave who was sold from the plantation knew her sad story and spread it, yet it was ten years befor she finally suc­ ceeded in finding out Hamud. The master happened to sell a slave to another planter, and Vuda admonished the slave not to forget her story when he reached the new plantation. Accordingly, the negro told her story to the slaves on the new plantation. While he told it, a tall man stepped close to him and asked him the name of the poor woman. When the man heard the name Vuda pronounced, lie seized the new slave —32—


(mjtt and eagerly devoured all the news he could get about his beloved. He made up his mind to get to her at any cost. One hot morning in January, while the slaves were busily pick­ ing the last of the crop, the master’s coach rolled through the main entrance of the estate. On the box sat a new coachman. The slaves all looked up at the stately bearing of the coachman. Vuda looked, gazed, and then with a wild shriek of joy, heedless of the anger of the cruel slave-driver, she ran and threw herself into Hamud’s open arms. One silent embrace and tlie slave-driver was upon them and tore Vuda from Hamud’s clasp and pushed her toward the field. Hamud was boiling with wrath, but his time to act had not yet come. When Hamud came to Vuda, after the day’s picking was done, she immediately asked him about her father. Hamud told her straiglit-forwardly: “He is dead these four years ” Then he began his story: “When you were taken from me, dear Vuda, your father and I were cast into the stinking hold of a rotten ship. We never saw the light of day, until we reached this shore. Your father and I were sold to the same master, a kind-hearted being. After a few years of happy service, not slavery, your father became sick. He had contracted a cold and pneumonia had set in during the cool winter. The massa moved him to his own home and gavo him all the possible comforts to brighten his last days. When he was (ly­ ing, he told me many things, but his very last words were of you. He’ said to me in a broken voice: ‘Hamud, if ever you should soe my dear Vuda, in this world, tell her that it. was my last wish that she accept the God of her captors. Tell her liow I found him, when­ ever I was in distress, a very present help.,” When Hamud had finished he heard the subdued sighs of grief of the bereaved daugh­ ter. The sighs were sighs of joy. Vuda had learned to trust and love the God of her captors and she now poured out her thanks to Him for having directed her father’s steps so that he, in his old age, accepted the true God. It was a blessed life for Hamud from now on to be so near to the object of his love and he gradually regained his spirit of jovial­ ity. Vuda also bloomed up from the great joy of being with Hamud. but her spirit had been broken and under the curses and lashes of the slave-driver it was gradually sinking. One morning, it was some six months later, Hamud failed to notice Vuda’s usual greeting when he entered the plantation. When the master had alighted at the house, Hamud stood and searched the field for her. Finally he saw her, prostrate on tlie ground and —33—


I the slave-driver bending over her. Without another thought, Hamud charged across the field and was upon the infuriated slavedriver. Hamud took Vuda’s rigid form for dead and with a howl of rage he leaped upon the slave-driver and bore him to the ground. The negroes were attracted by the commotion and rushed to the con­ flict. The whole field became astir with yelling slaves. The master heard the noises from the house and came rushing to the field with two pistols in his hands. He immediately saw that, if he should not free his slave-driver from the gorilla-hug of the coachman, he would be overcome in a short time. He took a pistol and deliber­ ately emptied a barrel at Hamud. Ilamud released his hold on the man and rolled in (lie dust. Vuda and Hamud were dragged into a tool shack near by. Here Vuda opened her eyes and saw Iiamud lying before her, bleeding from below his left shoulder. He raised himself on his elbow and motioned to her. She tried to rise from the floor, but with all the strength she could muster, she only came within reach of his lov­ ing embrace. Thus they were found when their spirits had fled. Hamud’s dream had been realized. Soon Vuda, her father, and he were reunited in that far country, Paradise. Their spirits had found the freedom which (he world denied their bodies. rieiTZEXS BIENEN. C. Albrecht, ’22. Es war an einem sell onen Friihlingstage. Die Sonne warf ihre lebenerweckenden Strahlen iiber Berg und Tal, und kaum war ein Wolklein am I-Iimmel zu sehen. “Junge,” sagte der Vater zu seinem Sohne Fritz, “heute wollen wir die Bienen aus (lem Keller holen. Sie fiililen sicli viel besser, wenn sie wieder ans Licht und in die frische Luft kommen.” Fritz, der schon lange auf diesen Tag gewartet hatte, war sofort damit einverstanden. Heute schien ihm die Mittagspause gar zu lang, die doch sonst so kurz war. Er koimte die Zeit fast nicht ab'varten, bis ihm die Bienen wieder um den Kopf scliwirrten. Endlich kam der Vater. Fritz hatte mittlerweile sclion das Auch Zeitungspapier Flachsstroh vom Kellereingang entfernt. hatte er geholt, denn er wusste wohl, dass der Vater im vorigen Jahre das Flugloch damit verstopft hatte, als er die Bienen aus dem Keller holte. 'Varum, wusste er nicht; aber der Vater wird —34—


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ja seinen Grund dafiir liaben. Der Vater offnete den Keller und kroch hinein. 0 traurige Nachricht! Fiinf Schwiirme waren tot, drei selir leicht, und die febrigen vier nicht viel besser. Ringsherum komite mail Schimmel selien; unten an der Wand waren Streifen, die von Wasser zeugten. “Bei dem Tauwetter im Februar muss Wasser in den Keller gekommen sein. Es war zu feucht. Wir konnen uns freuen, dass iiberliaupt nocli welche am Leben sind,” sagte der Vater bedenklich. “Meine armen Bienen,” fiigte Fritz traurig liinzu; und als der Vater aufs Feld zur Arbeit gegangen war, sammelte er sorgfalltig alle die toten Bienen in eine Kiste und begrub sie heimlich ganz allein im Haine. Unterdessen kamen die anderen Bienen aus den Stocken summend in den Hain geflogen und saugten an den; Knospen, aber Fritz merkte niclits. Er war sclieinbar tief in Gedanken versunken. Was mag er gedacht haben? So sass er lange, den Kopf liangend, bis eine Biene ilim mehrere Mai im Zickzack schwirrend um das Haupt summte. Da sail er sich ein Weilchen um, und eilenden Fusses ging er zu den Bienenstocken. Dies war sein Lieblingsort. Er suchte sich einen Stock und wollte die Frosche toten, die es wagen wiirden, seine Bienen zu fangen. Aber vergeblich lauerte er auf Frosche; es lies sicli keiner sehen, und bald versank er wieder in tiefe Stille, wahrend die Bienen rastlos aus- und einllogen. Pfeilgescliwind flogen die Jalire dahin. Fritz war jetzt sclion zum sechzehnjahrigen Knaben herangewachsen und musste dem Vater auf dem Felde helfen. Diese Arbeit wollte ihm clocli gar nicht gefallen; er musste sich aber fiigen, denn diese Geschiclite spielt sich ab in der Zeit, da der Vater noch etwasi zu sagen hatte in seinem Hause. Als Vater und Sohn eines Tages miteinander im Korn arbeiteten, kamen die kleinen Geschwister aufs Feld gesprungen und jedes wollte das andere ubertonen mit dem Rufe: Die Bienen schwarmen! Die Bienen schwarmen!M Das bedeutete, dass die Feldarbeit liegen bleiben musste, bis die Bienen eingefangen waren. Nun war Fritz Hans im Gliick. Er war der erste, der den Hof erreichte, dann kamen die anderen Kinder der Reihe nah an und zuletzt der Vater. Wo waren die Bienen? Die Mutter stand bei der Scheune und warf ilire Blicke hoch in einen Baum. Dort mussten die Bienen sein. Die ganze Kinderschaar lief zur Mutter und schauten hinauf, wie die Bienen im Kreise flogen und1 sich allmahlich an einen Ast setzten. Immer grosser wurde der schwarze Punkt, bis er endlich lang wie ein Ofenrohr vom Aste lierabhing. —35—

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est in the world. Friendship is the first unveiling of the secret of love. It is the fountain and only motive of mutual relationship in which the heart can speak true. The classic instance of David and Jonathan represents the model of friendship. They met and felt that they belonged to each other. All the troubles and the disorders of their lives were forgotten: David was patient with Saul for liis son’s sake, and Jonathan took upon himself tlie anger of his father to shield his friend. Such friends who will stand at one’s side in life and death are real friends. Christ said, “Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay clown his life ror his friends.” To make friends we must culture friendship, because friendship is a duty and responsibility, and therefore requires and deserves great:care ,thought, and trouble. Trust is the first requisite for making a friend, and faithfulness is the first requisite for keeping him. Golden friendship is no common tiling; it is seldom found in the streets and in the slums, and rarely, if at all, in the grandeur of society. In such soil that tender plant cannot thrive, there it cannot be watered and cultivated. The flame of passion which at first flickered low, but then blazed up into a fire of first love, will soon die down and fade away into the light of common day. Friend­ ship begins with emotion, but if it is to remain, it must become a habit It needs delicate handling and watchful care. We must be ready to serve our friend wherever an opportunity occurs, and in this service we should be loyal. We live and serve for our frieiHls not principally by doing deeds outwardly, but by doing them in­ wardly. They must come from the heart and therefore must be spiritual. There should be fellowship and community in the deep­ est things of the soul. Religion, the truth of the Gospel, should occupy the pinnacle of all spiirtual relations. How can ihe relation­ ship of our hearts be sound and true if our I’aitli, our Iiojr、,and our love for Him differ? Therefore, to culture friendship, love must crown the thoughts and intents of our hearts. From the fountain of love flow many fruits of friendship. First of all there is the satisfaction of the heart. To satisfy the heart, it is impossible to refrain from giving vent to one’s feelings. Bacon says, “A principal fruit of friendship is the ease and discharge of the fulness and swellings of the heart, which passions of all kinds do cause and induce. We know diseases of stoppings and suffoca­ tions are the most dangerous in the body, and it is not much other­ wise in the mind; you may take sarza to open the liver, steel to —37—


I open the spleen, flour of sulphur for the lungs, but no receipt openeth the heart but a true friend, to whom you may import griefs, joys, fears, hopes, suspicions, counsels, and whatsoever lieth upon the heart to oppress it, in a kind of civil shrift o^' confession.” It redoubles joys, and cuts griefs in halves. Every man craves fel­ lowship. In his darkest hours of distress, of painful sorrow, he 】ongs for a sympathizing friend. Even Christ felt the pangs of loneliness in his great agony on the Mount of Olives. There' he found his disciples sleeping peacefully while he was praying and wringing with death, and with a sigh he said, “Could ye not watch with me one liour?” He was human, and felt the lack of sympathy and friendship. Friendship does not only satisfy the heart, but also the mind. “It makes daylight in the understanding out of darkness and confusion of thoughts.” From a friend we receive faithful and wholesome counsel. He will never needlessly hurt, but is always frank and truthful in liis criticism, for he seeks only our welfare. A real friend will naturally elevate the ideals and give strength to the character of his companion. He is the best safeguard against temptation, a strong barrier against evil influences, and a moral standard to prompt us to good. There is nothing so important as the choice of friends; for true happiness does not consist in the multitude of friends, but in the worth and choice. Friends should be chosen for their character, for goodness, for truth and trustworthiness. If they have not these characteristics, they should be rejected; if they have them, we can do nothing else but claim them and love them. A person who wants to be a friend of everybody and foe of none is a weather friend. He takes up every sort of comrade and seeks to be on good terms with everybody. He is as light as the wind and can easily be blown about. Many like him, but few trust him. Now it is not said that we should be extremely sensitive and feel about as if armed with antennae to seek and test our friends whether they are sound or not. Daily attention and deeds of love are the best criterions for truthfulness. Friends should not be chosen for the mere sake of their usefulness nor for worldly advantages, but for spiritual rea­ sons and purposes, because worldly things are temporal, but spiritual things are eternal. Therefore we cannot make friends with those that are of and for the world. If we choose our friends in Christ, we need not fear parting here on earth, nor there inj heaven. Such friendships are the sources of real joy and peace. —38—


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and as strong as ever. It is a dangerous experiment to test affec­ tions, for a brother offended is harder to be won than a strong city. Christ said, “If thy brother shall trespass against thee, go and tell him his fault between tliee and him alone; if he shall hear thee, then hast thou gained thy brother.” If we have won a lost friend we will walk more safely, because of the experience, and more than ever will tremble lest we lose him again. Finally there is the higher friendship. There is a love which passes the love of woman, passes the love of comrades, passes all earthly love, the love of God to the weary, sinful, and mercy-craving man. Without the love and friendship of God all other love and friendship would be but deception. Love Him and keep Him for thy Friend who, when all go away, will not forsake thee, nor suffer thee to perish at the last.

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1Eitt0rial0 SYSTEM. Before the separating of the land and the seas on the third day of creation, system was a thing still unknown in the terres­ trial regions to be; the bulk from which the earth and the seas were made was one void, systemless mass. System came when the lands and seas were separated. Thus we might say; with the be­ ginning of time and the creation of things ‘system,crept into the world and remained there ever since. We to-day can hardly imagine the universe without system. We are so accustomed to the nice regulation of things that the 一41—


thought of a systemless state of affairs in creation hardly occurs to us. Imagine that the world would suddenly take the opposite direc­ tion of rotation every now and then. Would that not be a happy state? Imagine that each of the planets would choose its own course to traverse! Would there not be a continuous colliding, a falling of heavenly bodies into chaos and destruction? Such musings appear quite foolish and improbable to us, but things very like these are happening on a small scale in the world to-day. In any sphere of human activity one wishes to choose, system is an absolute requisite. What is government without system? It ceases to be government and becomes chaotic anarchy. What more in business without system than failure, and bankruptcy? What is learning and teaching without system? Nothing more than a great waste of precious time. And so on and on one might go through the different spheres in life which we know, and find that the re­ sult of the lack of system is failure and the perverting of the end in view. We must have system in everything've undertake, especially in our youth, when 've arc buiMiiis the foundation for our life’s structure. Then is the time to begin. Bend the tree while it is still a sapling. If we do not accustom ourselves to order and systen: now, we shall hardly do so after ten or twenty years, and the re­ sult of negligence in this case we have already seen! We have spent our life and missed our aim. It is positively necessary that we develop a feeling for system right now. A little effort now will save endless trouble and anguish of spirit in the years that are —R. coming. THE KjNOX PEACE RESOLUTION. By a vote of 49 to 23 the United States senate adopted the reso­ lution introduced by Senator Knox of Pennsylvania declaring a technical status of peace to be re-established between the United States and tlie Central Powers. The resolution also impounds all segregated property for the benefit of American claimants against Germany and seeks to safeguard all the rights derived by this country from the treaties of Versailles, St. Germain, and Trianon. The passage of the resolution means much to the United States. The country as such can again trade with .Germany; it has already lost millions of dollars, because of a mere technicality, —42— :


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whereas our colleague and ally, England, has gained a strong foot­ hold in the German market. After peace relations are again resumed we shall be able to exchange much of our stock for some of Germany’s products which are sorely needed in this country. The resolution will remedy labor condition at home to an appreciable extent. But it is not so much the material gain that should make us breathe a sigh of relief. What means most to us in the passing of the resolution is the fact that the Senate has again made use of its legitimate powers which for the last four years were only nom­ inal, yes, almost dormant. Encouraged by Harding the Senate has rent its shackles, and with the exception of the Democratic minority took the first decided step toward the establishment of a status quo ante bellum. We all hope that the Senate will continue its stride and bring this country again on a firm basis. Whether we shall side with our allies on every question concerning the world’s wel­ fare remains yet to be seen. The much-talked-aboul League of Nations has begun the sleep that knows no wakening, and the Ver­ sailles treaty seems to be subject to watchful waiting. What tlie next four years will bring us we do not know. For tlie present, however, we should rejoice that the mind of our Senate is again G. O. K.,,22. travelling in a channel of its own.

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Time—a word known to all, used by all, and yet usually diffi­ cult to define! We say time is that wherein we determine happen­ ings with reference to before and after, beginning and end; but such an abstract definition tells the ordinary man practically noth­ ing. What he wants is in this case something we cannot give him, something concrete. A concrete definition of time is impossible, because time itself is something intangible to man, something of whose positive existence psychologists and philosophers are not yet agreed upon. But why endeavor to blow off the shrouding mists that rest upon something that has always been and probably will always remain dark and obscure to the meagre mind of our mor­ tal race. It is enough if each man has his own personal, subjective conception of what time really is and what it lias to teach. Truly time is a universal teacher who should impart to us in­ valuable teachings. The experience of this wonderful teacher ex—43—


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The Rev. Emil Walther, ’05,of Boylestown, Wis.,spent Fri­ day, April 29, with Pro. Wendland, ’06. The Rev. P. Marohn, ’12, of Rich wood, was seen in our city April IS. Prof. E. Kowalke, ’OS, preached at Oconmowoc, April 10, April 24, and again on May 1. On April 17 Prof. S. Probst, ’09, occupied .the pulpit there. Prof. Schlueter, Dr. Erust and Dr. Otb journeyed to Milwaukee, Sunday, April 17 and attended the bazaar, which was given for the suffering and hungering people in Germany. —44—


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Among the alumni that, besides members of the faculty, were spectators at the Whitewater game, were Dr. T. C. Abelmann, the Rev, Emil Dornfeld, ’97, and the Rev. Max Christian, ’13, of Watertown, the Rev. Frederic Marohn, ’12, of Richwood and Herman Winter, ex ’18, of Fremont, Nebr. The Rev. Ed. Grunwald,,09, of Milwaukee, visited our institu­ tion April 28. He remained to see the baseball game between Milton and Northwestern. The Rev. 0. Kuhlow, ’99, of Waterloo, the Rev. H. K. Moussa, ’00, of Jefferson, the Rev. F. Loeper, ’10,of Whitewater, and the Rev. Ph. Koehler,,09, stopped off at the college, while attending the conference held in St. Mark’s church, April 26-28. The Rev. Koeh­ ler announced the new arrival of a healthy child at his home in Iron Ridge. E. 0. Eckelman, ’97, has contributed an article on the positive element in Jacob Wassermann’s art to the March number of the Pacific Review, published by the University of Washington Press. We have the sad news to report that Bernhardt Mass, com. ’14, of Watertown died suddenly Tuesday, morning, May 3. Oscar Kluck, ex ’18, is now employed as public school teacher in Delavan, Wis. Walter Brinkman, com. ’19, is with the Armour Packing Com­ pany in Racine. He formerly acted as salesman, but is now carv­ ing meat. Minutes of the N. W. C. Alumni Society’s Meeting or commence­ ment day 1920. The meeting was called to order by the president, whereupon the minutes of the preceding meeting were read and accepted as read. The following were accepted as members: Rev. H. Wojalin, Rev. C. Otto, Rev. H. F. Wollf, Louis Hebener, and the graduating class of 1920. Dr. Ott read his annual report. Mr. A. Zeisler and Miss Gertrude Schlueter, acting as auditing committee assured the society that the report was correct. Disbursements: To Dr. Ott for library purposes, $50. To Alum­ ni Fund, $100. Report of the Treasurer:— Receipts 1919-20____ $151.43 On Hand June 19, 1919 320.51 $471.94

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$578.41 Total of Fund June 18, 1920 It was decided to have a reception or smoker on the evening of commencement day. The following classes were represented: ’85, Rev. H. Ebert, Dr. J. H. Ott; ’94, Rev. C. Buenger; ’99,Rev. O. Kulilow; ’00, Rev. H. K. Moussa; ’02, Rev. A. Schultz; ’03,Rev. M. Raasch; ’05, Prof. Ralph Owen: *06,Prof. E. Wendland; ’07, Rev. W. A. Eggert, Rev. F. Stern, Rev. H. Wojalin; ’08, Prof. E. Kowalke, Rev. C. Otto; ’09, Rev. Ph. Koehler, Rev. E. Grunwald, Prof. S. Probst, Rev. W. P. Hass: *11,Prof. E. Sauer; ’12, Rev. W. Pankow; '13 Prof. H. Parisius; ’14. Prof. Otto Henkel; ’15, Prof. C. Bolle, Miss C. Schlueter, Rev. C. Nitz; ’16,Rev. B. Kupfer, Miss G. Schlueter, Rev. A. Westendorf, P. Eickmann;,17, Prof. T. Binhammer; ’18, A. Zeisler, L. Berntlial, H. Lau, H. Schumacher; ’19,丨G. Gieschen; ’20, G. Press, R. Kraemer. Adjournment followed. W. A. Eggert, Secretary.

MEETING OF THE ALUMNI SOCIETY. On Commencement Day, June 1 7th, there will be a busi­ ness meeting of the Alumni Society in the Gymnasium after the base ball game. This being our Fiftieth Commencement, a large attendance of former students is expected. In the evening a smoker will be arranged, to which all former students and their friends are invited. Smoker begins at 8 P. M. in the Gymnasium. H. K. MOUSSA, Pres. —46—


AUS DEM: SEMINAR. —(Verspatet vom Marz.) —Am 5. Marz besuchte uns Herr Kolander aus Watertown und am 15. April Herr Eickmann von derselben Stadt. —Herr Abelmann macht jetzt trips nach Watertown per Ford. Er behauptet, man konne mit ihm billiger fahren als mit der Eisenbahn. —Die erste Klasse hat am 27. April mit den Examina angefangen. —Unser Base-ball team hat mit Concordia College gespielt und ihnen eine Niederlage bereitet. Herr Matzke war als Hilfsmittel mitgegangen. —Gleich nach Ostern versammelte sich der Coetus, und nach vielem Nashdenken. und tiefer Einsicht erwahlte man Hcrrn Lau, weiland aus St. James, zum Praesidium und Herrn Zimmerman n als Vice-praeses. Hierauf legte der Sekretar sein Amt nieder und Herr Schroeder wurde ex cathedra gewahlt. 一Am 13. April hat Herr Lehman ein paar Herren nach Racine mitgenommen, um ihnen die Metropolis zu zeigen. —Herr “Fuchs’ Schroeder musste aus dem Plattdeutschen-Verein austreten, weil er am 19. April einen Casusfehler maclite, worauf sich alle Glieder importen und ihn aussetzten. ―Wahrend dieser Monate besuchten uns Mr. and Mrs. K. Witzeling von Appleton, die Herren Gutzke und Brinkmann, Pastor A. Westendorf, Pastor Ph. Froehlke, Mr. and Mrs. L. Pamperin. ―Herr W. Albrecht hat sich am 22. April einer Operation unterzogen. —Wir leiden sehr unter den neuen Tageslichtssparungsplan. Der Biimmler, Herr Friebe, behauptet seine Uhr will nacht der neuen Zeit laufen, deshalb schlug er vor, dass wir eine Stunde jeden Nachmittag schlafen. Er behauptet, es arbeite gut. —Am 25. April reisten die Herrn Prof. J. P. Koehler und J. Meyer nach Dubuque, Iowa, um einer Konferenz beizuwohnen. —Herr L. Voss, Prases vom Tennis-club, hat nun seine “teams” losgelassen. Soweit hat Herr Sclierf noch nicht gespielt. —Viele Studenten wohnten dem Konzert des Herrn Prof. Ed. Rechlin in der Markus Kirche bei. —Herr P. Albrecht ging am 5. Mai in seinem Ford nach Watertown. 一Herr Prof. Pieper hielt am 3. Mai die Leichenpredigt bei der Beerdigung Frau Pastor Oehlerts, zu Weyauwega. —47—


—Vom 12. bis zum’13. April versammelte sich die Milwaukee Stadtkonferenz. Viele Studenten wohnten derselben bei. 一Der Bachelors Club versammelt sicli am 10. Juni, um einen neuen Prases zu wahlen. Soweit liaben wir nur drei Glieder, wovon zwei jetzt vogelfrei erklart worden sind. —Btliche von uns wolinten clem Konzert des Concordia College bei. Herr Zesiler hatte zwei Tickets. —Die Herren P. Albrecht und W. Lehmann aus Zimmer 51 an der Highland Boulevard haben sicli vor kur zem nach dem Roose­ velt Spital begeben, um sicli einer Operation zu unterziehen. Die 'gute Aufwartung und Pflege seitens der Diakonissen scheint nicht ohne Erfolg gewesen sein, denn beicle I-Ierren sind nun wieder vollig hergestellt und kerngesund. Herr Albrecht fuhlt sich so wohl, class er gedenkt auf einem Fusse Geschichte zu studieren, wahrend Herr Lehmann glaubt bald im Stande zu sein auf der Strassenbahn zu fahren. Auf diese heilsame Resultate wurde auch “unser lieber ‘Scheffel’ aufmerksam und Hess sicli nach iirztlicher Untersuchung raten, auch einer Operation zu unterliegen in ebendemselben Spital. Seine Genesung ging nicht mit solchem ff vor sich, wie die seiner Genossen. Er findet es noch ratsam zu bestimmten Zeiten das Spital zu besuchen der Pflege wegen. Nebenbei studiert Herr Sclieffel fleissig Danisch. Man vermutet, er habe eine danische Mission Im Sinne.

Qkilkgi,现ates The old dinner bell of our refectory sounded a few taps at seventhirty o’clock on the evening of April the ninth, and they were in­ deed taps that brightened the faces of those concerned. They meant the beginning of a joyful evening for the editorial staff of the twenty-fifth volume of the Black and Red and the departing members of the old staff. They assembled in the chapel of the dor­ mitory and from there proceeded in order, the faithful retired mem­ bers taking the lead to the festive room where they were to cele­ brate the annual Black and Red banquet. Little black pages in red uniforms at each plate aided them in finding their designated —48—


1 places and they seated themselves at a table which seemed to unite the new staff members into one cooperative body in work as well as in merriment. The appropriate black and red combination was prominent throughout the decorations, set off by tlie purple and gold representing the class of tlie departing members. The first part of the evening was spent in feasting and jollity. Five sumptuous courses were set before them in great plenty. Mrs. Koeninger, tjie honored hostess, spared no pains in giving them the best to be had and everyone appreciated and expressed their thanks for her hospitality. During the first course many little verses were exchanged and read that were written by some unknown poet, who rhymed a descriptive couplet for each person present. Although everyone was kept quite busy with knives and forks, enough time was still found for social chatting, jesting and laugh­ ing to make the evening a very enjoyable one. About nine-fifteen o’clock a short recess was agreed upon, during which the guests took a stroll in the cool evening breeze. After the recess all again joined in the banquet room. Mr. Rohda, our new editor-in-chief, was then appointed toastmaster of the happy circle. He told them what he expected of his new staff and that cooperation was one of the most necessary assets of the staff successfully to complete the twenty-fifth volume of our college paper. The experienced members who were about to leave their former colleagues, then gave their advice and suggestions for the bettering of the Black and Red, after which those who had just re­ ceived their new positions, in their toasts expressed the promise that they would aid the editor-in-chief to the best of their ability. All voices joined in harmony to sing an “Er lebe lioch” after every toast in honor of tlie speaker. The rest of the evening was devoted to telling stories and interesting experiences until half past the smallest hour in the morning, when the party finally disbanded. A hike of about four miles fitted them for retiring. It is said that this celebration was one of the best in many years and the occasion will long be remembered by all. The warm spring weather in the arly part of April brought with it the day that was long looked forward to. It was with great pleasure that all the students read the sign on the bulletin board, on April fourth, that if there were no indications of rain, Arborday would be celebrated on the following day. The bright sun the next morning looked very promising and —49—


by eight o'clock everyone was hard at work. The preparatory stu­ dents were kept busy with the lawn. The two lowest classes moved their rakes rapidly across the ground and gathered the dry leaves and dead branches in heaps ready for the husky quartaners to re­ move them with wagons. Like magic the dark monotonous cover was changed to the beautiful green spread that nature duly provided. Under Captain Hinnenthal, the freshies and tertianers worked oil the baseball diamond. With this large crew the diamond was put in a perfect shape for the coming season’s games, The sophomore class worked with Dr. Ott, and under his direction pruned the trees of the premises and felled several large trees that were in some way defective or unsightly. They also planted quite a number of elms, including two class trees, which were set on the northern side of lhe campus. The management of the entire work was given over to the class of ’22. While fulfilling their duty as supervisors, they also were the right-hand men of their fellow stu­ dents and pul. in a helping hand wherever possible. After two hours of physical labor, which the students were not accustomed to, every­ one felt the need of a bite to eat. At ten o’clock Mrs. Koeninger had provided a luncheon of sandwiches and lemonade to satisfy the hungry boys. Refreshed and invigorated, all again went to work and by noon the college park was gleaming in its new spring attire. Although Arbor-day was usually a day of recreation for the seniors, they also exerted themselves to some extent. The class tree which they planted last year failed to grow and in its plac<| they put an elm that seemed to be a sturdy tree with the hope thai it might grow and stand as a remembrance of their class in future years. Under the auspices of the Men’s Club of the Trinity Lutheran Church, the four hundredth anniversary of Luther’s heroic stand be­ fore the Diet of Worms, was commemorated at the college audi­ torium on the evening of April the nineteenth. The appreciation of Luther’s work was shown by many Watertown people who attended the celebration. The address by the Rev. Wm. Dallmann of Milwaukee on Luther the Liberator was the center of interest for the evening. He showed us that without Luther's stand at Worms, many American liberties that we have today would be impossible. Luther stood at Worms for liberty of conscience, freedom of thought, civil and religious liberty, and tlie separation of church and state, all those privileges —50—


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1 Walked and Sauer hit the ball through third. Brandt came home. Hinnenthars sacrifice brought Sauer home. Kleinke then hit to center field, but died on bases, because Meier’s fly was caught. In the third our boys scored another run. Brandt again walked. Sauer flied out to left field. Hinnenthal brought Brandt to second on a sacrifice bunt. Kleinke's hit through second gave Brandt the chance to come in for the third run. Meier’s fly was caught and Kleinke died on bases. The Normals held the score tied until the last of the fifth. Then Krenke hit the ball through short. Brandt was out on first. Krenke went down to second. Sauer struck out and Hinnenthal hit the ball over third base. The pitcher threw tlie ball wildly to first and Hin­ nenthal ripped down to second on it. Now Krenke brought in the fourth run. Kleinkes foul was caught by the catcher. Three men down. In the seventh we again scored. Bolle went to first on a grounder to shortstop. Krenke’s loul ball was caught by the man on third. Brandt got safely to first and Bolle to second. Sauer then was hit by a wild pitch and Brandt went to second, Bolle to third. Bases full. Hinnenthal hit tlie ball over third and went to second, forcing Brandi and Bolle in. Kleinke’s hit through second brought Sauer in. Meier hit a nice fly to center field and Hinnenthal came in for the eighth run. Groth flied out to shortstop and Bierwagen tc catcher. The score remained 8-2, although Whitewater was up twice after this. The box score of the game was: Whitewater— AB. R. H.SH.PO. A. E. 4 1 1 0 4 2 0 Damuth, c 4 1 2 0 0 3 1 Olson, p 一 Vail Duser, ss___ 4 0 10 13 3 2 0 0 0 11 0 1 Burton, lb 4 0 1 0 0 0 0 Hassett, rf Anderson, 2b__ 4 0 2 0 2 3 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 0 Palmer, If . 3 0 0 0 2 1 0 Knailans, cf 3 0 0 0 1 1 0 Kadings, 3b

AB. N. W. C — 5 Krenke, c . . 5 Brandt, 3b ■ 5 Sauer, rf Hinnenthal, 2b__.. 4 4 Kleinke, lb 4 Meier, If-----4 Groth, cf-----4 Bierwagen, ss 4 Bolle, p ------

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THE COMENIAN The Cornellian, published at Bethlehem, Pa., has been a regulai and welcome visitor to our exchange table for a long time. Although there is no heading, we think the first three articles are meant to be literary numbers. “The American Flag” is well written and inspires us with pat­ riotism and love of Old Glory. Yes, we all love the Stars and Stripes and will, if need be, follow in the footsteps of our fathers and broth­ ers in sealing our love with life itself. The writer of “The Spanish Bullfight” has evidently made a very careful study of that subject. After reading the article one has a very vivid picture of the national sport of Spain. “From a Student’s Viewpoint” contains some good humor. The scarcity of the ‘‘Almighty Dollar” does exert a powerful influence on the life of dormitory students. A short story would not be out of place in this department. The editorial column contains three well written articles. Your “Joke” column is short but snappy. The poetry confers an agreeable variety to this part of your paper. —54—


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—In February, Chowdy, ’23,suffered from an attack of appendi­ citis, journeyed to his home in Eagleton, Wis. In Chippewa Falls he successfully underwent an operation. His chubby appearance on returning to Northwestern April 10 showed that he by no means fasted at home. 一Chicken pox forced Karl Kionka, prep.,to pass his Easter vaca­ tion in the infirmary. Karl’s walks were restricted to the back yard, where he made a thorough study of the barnyard inhabitants. —Bud Knoll,,22, and ,Gus Krause,,22, found it hard to return to their work after Easter recess, for both of them returned a week late. Even then certain pleasant memories were so vivid in Bud’s mind that he was in Milwaukee again at the end of the week. —Since Easter vacation R. A. Winter, prep., has been occupying his cousin’s position in the bank at Lebanon, Wis. —On the evening of March 26 Butch Meier, ’21; Speck Palmer, ’22; Baer, ’23, and Fickle Fuhlbrigge, prep., quietly assembled at 612 Sixth Street. Mysterious doings! —Vic Thierfelder, ’23, and young Vedder, prep., bicycled to Water­ loo on April 3. As usual, Vic suddenly came into hard contact with the earth while going down a hill. A careful examination showed that his camera and trousers suffered more from the fall than Vic himself. —Dudley Rohda, ’22, was called to Oconomowoc on April 4 by the death of his uncle. —56—


I —Speck, ’22,; Rossin,,22; Engel,,23; Jerry Marquardt, ’23; Pat Falck, ’24; Kaelber, ’24; Kalfahs, ’24; Krueger, ’24; Teut, ’24; Fuhlbrigge, Kolbe, Mueller and Nieman, preps., kept up the spirit of our team with tlieir rooting at the University game in Madison April 5. The trip was made per automobile. —Beans and Wolfgram, preps., visited tlieir parents in Jefferson April 9-10. Beans liad beans on Sunday and did full justice to his motlier’s cooking. —As early as April 2, Schmidt, ’24; Grunwald, ’24; Habeclc, ’24, and even Pat Falck, ’24, jumped into the chilly waters of the Rock River for tlieir first swim. —On April 10 Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Koch of Wauwatosa; Mrs. Hassraan, also of Wauwatosa, and Mrs. Herrmann of Oak Park, 111., paid Bernhard Koch, prep., and the Buenger brothers a visit. —Habeck won a washboard in an eating contest at a Y. P. S. social meeting. Leave it to Virtuoso! —Dammann, prep., passed April 23-24 at his home in Milwaukee. —On April 23 Bernhard Kocli, prep., set out for Wauwatosa on his wheel. Nine hours after starting Koch found himself at Halfway House between Waukesha and Milwaukee, having had three blow­ outs. He traveled the rest of the way in his fathers car. When Koch returned we noticed a new set of tires on his bike. —W. Jaeger, prep., was ill at his home in Coonie from April 16-24. 一On April 16 Tay Uetzmann, ’21, lodged with his relatives in Reesville, Wis. —Lefty Sauer, ’21,stayed at his uncle’s home in Juneau on April 23-24. Scliuft “wliacked” his pie. —Mutt Reimann, *24, finally returned to liis dusty books on April 19, after having overcome a complication of ailments, of which the worst were chickenpox, tonsilitis and “boxingitis.” —Harry Grunwald, *24, entertained his friend Paul Panetti of Fond du Lac on April 23-24. —On April 23 Isaac, ’22; Dudley Rohda, ’22, and Speck, ’22, jour­ neyed to Milwaukee, where Isaac visited his brother Henry, who was in a hospital. Isaac surprised us by returning in a Ford that still runs well, even though it misses occasionally. He had intended to take Dud and Speck back with him, but they lost themselves in Milwaukee and returned early. An infection which followed an injury to a tendon in his leg, —57—


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一^John: What makes you so small, Tom? Tom: I was raised on canned milk and am condensed. —Wally: Did you see the way she smiled at me? Art: That,s nothing; the first time I saw you I laughed. 一Prof.: Where is the Nile River? e: A-h, Germany. G 一Baumann: Do you know what a cowardly tomato is? Pebbles: No; tell me. Baumann: One that hits you and runs. —Student: The only time I am allowed to have an appetite is when I am away from home. —Prof.: Fischer, what is vandalism? Fischer: Wanderlust, in German: I don’t know what it is in English. —Prof.: The left side in Roman augury was the unlucky side; not so today. Art.: To some extent today, too. For instance, people say, if your left ear rings it’s hard luck; if your right ear rings, it’s good luck. Brandt: Y-e-a! How about it if the telephone rings? —Things were divided rather unequally when Noah entered the Ark. The elephant had a trunk, but the fox and the rooster had only a brush and comb between them. —The Newly Hired Man: He told me to feed the cow corn in the ear, but I couldn’t. She kept trying to get it into her mouth. 一Bob (Arbor Day): Come back here and get to work! Pete: Who put a nickle into you? —Specks: I can’t swallow any more, because my Adam’s apple got stuck in my throat. —Heine (at the banquet): Wouldn’t it be terrible if we were to get lockjaw now? —Sam: Did you ever see a dog without a tail? Bo: No; did you? Sam: Oh, yes, a hot dog. 一Prof.: How do you pronounce this name, Stczzys? Arnie: Pronounce it? I’ll have to whistle that. —Let’s all lend a helping hand and fill the joke-box with jokes. I thank you in advance.

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COMMENCEMENT ORATIONS EDUCATION, ITS VALUE TO US. Edwin A. Jaster, ’21, Montello, Wisconsin.

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To-day we are assembled here after having struggled from four­ teen to sixteen years to gain an education to fit us for life. We have drawn on experience and received many a cruel knock, we have listened to teachers and instructors and have tried to as­ similate what they said and later to apply it, we have perused the contents of text-books and sought to understand, we have drawn on the ancients, we have appropriated the learning of the mediaeval luminaries. On our book-shelves the thoughts, deeds, and ideas of every man of worth are assembled, and we need but turn pages to call forth the knowledge of men noted for their wisdom. It may seem that we steal knowledge on every hand, and the more of a Greek conjugation we make off with, the more the instructors encourage our zeal. But when you consider the hours of study and the many trials during the course of a year, and, speaking materially, when you consider the manual labor we do in the summer witli our sun-burned arms, to gain the pecuniary means necessary for further knowledge, you must admit that we pay well for what we have made off with, and no thief would steal against such odds. We may have recourse to every author, we may refer to any writer, we may read the arguments of any orator cased between the covers of our books, but the time spent in mastering this knowledge would, to an ordinary person, seem out of propor­ tion to gain. We graduate from high school, we gain our B. A. at college, and much time has been expended which could have been applied to manual labor, which at least shows tangible results. Now wllat can be said to defend our spending so many years in acquiring knowledge, much of which we may never knowingly use. For instance, if a boy wishes to be a carpenter, an eighth grade education to give him a knowledge of reading and writing would be sufficient, and after he had hit his finger a few times with a hammer and sawed his knee, he would be a full-fledged carpenter, capable of doing his day’s work and be perfectly satisfied. If a boy chooses a business profession, a knowledge of arithmetic and a little commercial law will bring him far in business circles. If a stu­ dent has finished high school, he may teach, because as Seneca writes in his letter, “Men, while teaching, learn.” All is indeed 一62—


William

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Holzhausen, Wisconsin.

Muskego,

“Billy.”

Hobbies: Holding Offices and smok­ ing cigars.

Theophilu8 T. Uctzmann, Wrightstown. Wisconsin. “Tay.”

Hobbies: Trombone scjios; gazing at the fair ones.

Immanuel P. Boettcher, I-Iortonville, Wisconsin. "Va elder.,f Hobbies: Playing organs; shorten­ ing the miles witli cheerful com­ pany.

Arthur A. Arndt. Red Wood, Minnesota. ••Pealy." Hobbies: Sleeping; sponging; sing­ ing solos after bed-time.


[♦卿math ^況也 true; it is remarkable with how little understanding a man may plod’ through life, but he will always be plodding, walking in a trance, only seeing when something brusquely excites his attention. Of the finer things in life he takes no notice, because he has not been taught to observe them, or if he sees them, cannot appreciate them. The art of enjoyment is a closed book to those who have neglected their education. Limiting the bounds of education pre­ maturely in the hope of quick returns, is a bad bargain. The pleasures of education are ours to enjoy, True we must work for these pleasures, but what good on earth is obtained with­ out an effort? It is no pleasure to be handicapped with a sense of deficiency in education. The knowledge we acquire is our own and the product of our own effort. No one can give us learning, we must gain it piece by piece and by individual labor. This is the satisfaction which brings us pleasure. Once we acquire some de­ gree of .education our learning does not conceal itself behind im­ penetrable walls and remain hidden; it issues forth to aid others, but at the same time it does not cease to enrich us. There is a thrill of joy complete, when we see how others assimilate the knowledge we lay before them, and absorb it with their own effort as we did. It is not necessary to be a teacher; with every word we speak we send out the fullness of our knowledge, and the greater our wisdom, acquired through study, the more words we may speak and the deeper will be their sense. We accumulate learning and never cease to accumulate, but from this store we may draw when we wish, and the more we store, the greater will be the pride in the achievement. It is no earthy store which ’twas mine, ’tis his, and has been slave to thousands, but an intellectual store which is all our own and no one can steal the smallest atom of our knowledge or rob us of our pleasures. There is exhilaration in poetry, pleasure in literature, enjoyment in history, gratification in mathematics. Learning is the “open sesame” to this entertain­ ment locked behind the portals of wisdom. The uneducated can­ not penetrate beyond the first gate. We have begun to work our way through the portals of wisdom, to experience the great joy be­ yond. The more we learn, the more we may enjoy our studies. With each conquest we gain laurels, is this not worth our effort? We have spent years, but is not our reward enormous? As food is necessary for the needs of the body, so knowledge is nourishment for the mind. As we must feed the body, so we must —64—


Erwin R. Baumann, Red Wing, Minnesota. “Touchie." Hobbies: J/igging; makiing and passing motions; misogynist; geting an idea.

Hans F. Bierwagen, Dresden, N. Dakota. “Peeps." Hobbies: Winking; tripping in bas­ ketball; staying small.

Carl F. I3olle, Watertown, Wisconsin. “Balls.” Hobbies: Playing piano; canoeing with ?; playing baseball.

Martin L. Buenger, Kenosha, Wisconsin. “Bingo.” Hobbies: Making flying tackles; playing baritone; sleeping; buck­ ing Greek and Hebrew.


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provide for the mind. On one occasion Aristotle was asked how much the educated men were superior to the uneducated, and he exclaimed, “As much as the living are to the dead.” We cannot afford to neglect our intellect; if we do, it wastes away. From youth to old age we must provide for it and never cease. This may seem like a task, but when we supply the mind with the many delicacies found in the learning preserved in books, we experience the joy of the banquet. And then, very rationally, since we have a mind, we must care for it if we wish to amount to any­ thing. If we neglect it, it dies, and where are the qualifications of a man? Hawthorne says, “Education makes the man.” There is the point; we want to be men. We want to go out into the world and con­ quer, not by swinging our arms right and left and knocking over anything with which we come in contact, but by applying our know­ ledge to any difficulty. A goat will butt against a stone wall till he breaks his head, a man will apply the faculties of his brain and either remove the wall with adequate machinery or will go around it. Now there are many problems which offer more re­ sistance than a stone wall, but he who has a good education need not fear. When we are equipped with a well-developed intellect, and that is possible only through years of schooling, we are pre­ pared with the best weapons to journey through life. In praise of knowledge Bacon remarks, “A man is but what he knoweth.M The more we know of sound knowledge, the better men we shall be. Wliat need I say more; is not this sufficient reason lor learning, and for never stopping to learn? We cannot become too educated. Aristole says, “Education is an ornament in prosperity and a refuge in adversity.” A person can judge from outward character­ istics, whether a man is educated or not, but if this test fails, he need but hear the man speak and in the course of the conversation lie will soon know the truth. There is a distinction in education, and the possessor of knowledge need not be ashamed of his possession. It will stand him in good stead, especially in adversity. When he comes into an assemblage, he need not stand back and be afraid of being ridiculed for his ignorance, but he may hold out against the best of them and win laurels which physical force would stand abashed to see. When he is confronted by a problem he may solve it, either by his own faculties of reasoning or by the appli­ cation of the knowledge which he gathered in the course of his —66—


Herman W. Cares, Frankenmuth, Michigan. “Abie.”

Hobbies: Writing letters to Oconomowoc; telling stories.

Edmund Ph. Ebert, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. "Tanta.” Hobbies: Getting meals at his cou­ sin's :drilling; memorizing He­ brew forms and rules.

Alexander R. Ilillmer, Montello, Wisconsin. “Axle,” or “Hemo.” Hobbies: Swinmiing in zero wea­ ther; making speeches; acquiring a library: looking at his guitar.

Edwin A. Jaster, Montello, Wisconsin. "Moses." Hobbies: Bucking Hebrew; anti­ woman suffragist; playing tennis.


instruction. In argument he can battle with any one, while the uneducated needs must quail in their ignorance. With education we may brave all these terrors in life. I quote Tennyson, “Let knowledge grow from more to more, Is this not an incentive for diligent and continual study? The man with an education is never alone. In solitude, in ad­ versity, in sorrow, in doubt, he has at his hand friends and com­ panions, councilors and advisors. In the words of Beaumont and Fletcher, “The place that does contain my books, The best companions, is to me A glorious court, where hourly I converse With the old sages and philosophers; And sometimes, for variety, I confer With kings and emperors, and weigh tlieir counsels; Calling their victories, if unjustly got, Unto a strict account, and, in my fancy, Deface their ill-placed statues.” And again in the works of Whitlock, “Books are for company the best friends, in Doubts Counsellors, in Damps Comforters, Time’s Prospective, the Home Traveller’s Ship or Horse, the Busy Man’s Best Recreation, The Opiate of Idle Weariness, The Mind's best Ordinary, Nature’s garden and the seed-plot of Immortality.” We may converse with Cicero, we may listen to Demosthenes, we may enjoy the company of Goethe and Schiller, of Shakespeare and Milton, of Longfellow and Whittier, and what instructive and in­ teresting companions they are! Who could feel pangs of dullness in their presence? They laugh with us in our joy, they console us in our sorrow. As Bailey expresses it, "Worthy books are not companions—they are solitudes. We lose ourselves in them and all our cares.” Glory enough in education, our efforts are highly rewarded; but to us education means more than just earthly gratification. We place a higher valuation on our knowledge. We, as graduates of Northwestern College have acquired our knowledge to prepare us for the noblest calling on earth, the spreading of the .Gospel of Christ. For this work we cannot acquire too much knowledge. We have spent years. Who can say they have been spent in vain? J We have studied and labored. Who can say to no avail? We must 二. continue to study and labor, but who would not willingly do this g to serve Christ, who, through the Spirit, revealed the knowledge which passeth all understandings; who, through the Spirit, guids us into all truth. —68—


Albert A. Meier, St. James, Minnesota. “Butch.” Hobbies: Hallowe’en pranks; swim­ ming in Silver creek; canoeing.

Erdman P. Pankow, Ixonia, Wisconsin. “Schuft” Hobbies: Looking at the stars from a porch on Ninth Street.

Walderaar P. Sauer, Brillion, Wisconsin. “Lefty." Hobbies: Canoeing; hockey; giving rub-downs; sleeping in the recep­ tion room.

Rudolph J. Sclilueter, Watertown, Wisconsin. “Schlitz.” Hobbies: Presiding and making lemonade at the Y. P. S.; roller­ skating; sighing.


Theophilus C. Yoges, Mindoro, Wisconsin. “Vojees.” Hobbies: »* Say it with flowers”; whacking cigarettes; posing; -wait­ ing for the next shower.

CLASS OFFICERS: William P. Holzhausen. President Theophilus F. Uetzmann__Vice President Immanuel P. Boettcher. .Secy-Treas.

CLASS MOTTO: Endynamoumetlia En Kyrio

CLASS FLOWER: White Rose.

CLASS COLORS: Purple and Gold.


WARUM SOLLEN WIR UNSEItE DEUTSCHE SPRACHE 1SICHT AUFGEBEN? Alexander R. Hillmer, ’21, Montello, Wis. In den machtigen Kampfen der Kirche gegen die papstliche Oberherrschaft und Anmassung wurde die glorreiche Reformation errungen. Aus ernsten tiefbewegten Herzen quoll die Sehnsucht nach freier Predigt reiner Lehre. Die Religion war dem Volke eine Gewissenssache. Und diese bedeutende Zeit bildet die Mutterzeit unserer heutigen deutschen Sprache. Aus solchen ungunstigen Zustanden, mit solchen einfachen Ansatzen beginnt unsere Sprache. Vom Munde Hansens und Gretens genommen, bliilite sie empor zu einer der reichsten Sprachen aller Zeit. An I3eweglichkeit, Schonheit, Geschmeidigkeit ist nur eine, die holier steht, die griechische. Man bedenke, es waren vor Luther schon siebenzehn Bibeliibersetzungen entstanden, zwar alle mehr Oder weniger holzern und unzuverlassig. Und nun sollte Luther es wagen, die Bibel aus einer Sprache, die schon gleichsam tot war, in eine andere zu iibersetzen, die erst gebildet werden musste. Wic vorireflich hat er das vollbracht! Man kann sich liicht genug wundern, 'vie diese deutsche Bibel ein ewiger Quell der Verjungung fiir unsere Sprache ist. Fast alle Ausdrucke, die in der lutherischen Bibel stehen, sind deutsch und trotz der Jahrhunderte, die verflossen sind, lioch immer verstandlich. Und nicht nur yerstandlich. 'Vo unter alien Sprachen haben wir solche Lauterkeit, Klarheit, Reinheit? In den Handen der armsten, ungebildetsten Leute offenbart sie eben solche Verstandlichkeit, wie un­ ter den Gelehrtesten. Man bemliht sich deswegen vergeblich, eine wirkliche Verbesserung zu Stande zu brlngen. Aber niclit nur als Bibelsprache, sondern auch fur die allgemeine Bildung ist die deutsche Sprache ein unermesslicher Schatz. Sprich, damit icli dich kenne, sagt ein alter Philosoph. So ist es noch heute. Durch die Sprache, durch die Schriften eines Volkes lernt man Geschichte, “die Lehrmeisterin der Menscliheit.” Sein geistiges Leben, die Gedanken, die es bewegen, sein Herz und Gemiit erkennen wir aus der Sprache, aus der Literatur. Und gesetzt den Fall, wovor uns Gott in Gnaden behueten 'voile, dasz die deutsche Sprache auch von niemandem mehr gesprochen wiirde, so wiirde sie, wie heute die griechische, dennoch getrieben werden auf —71—


lioheren Lehranstalten. Denn vorwiegend durcli die deutsche Sprache hat die heutige Kultur solche Ilohe erreicht imd ist zu sol­ dier Blute gekommen. Erstens und besonders (lurch die griinaliche Pflege der Wissenscliaften und der Poesie bei Leuten, die ihre Sache liebten und verstanden, dann auch (lurch den Eifer, den sie Wir wollen doch nicht diese in anderen Volkern erweckten. Schatze mit Fussen treten, noch wollen wir cliese frischen Quellen zu den anderen to ten Sprachen reilien. Zu der wahren Bildung aber gehort noch mehr. Und dies ist nicht nur inniglich verbunden mit der Bildung. Es ist vielmehr die Grundlage und das Wesen aller Bildung, namlich die wahre Erkenntnis Gottes. Wir wollen ganz und gar niclit den Eindruck erwecken, als ob nur durcli die deutsche Bibel, Luthers Bibel, der wahre rechte Glaube gelehrt werden konne. Aber welche andere bibel in einer lieutigen Sprache hat so klar und unzweifelhaft den Sinn des inspirierten Wortes ,Gottes wiedergegeben ? Gewaltig in ihrer Einfacnlieit, liberzeugend in ihrer Treniichkeit und Reinheit ist diese Bibel nicht eine (Jebersetzung, sondern eine Verdeutschung. Sie gibt am treffendsten von alien den eigentlichen Urtext wieder und legt die alleinseligmachencie christlicne Lehre in ihrer Reinheit dar. Von ungemeiner Bedeutung fiir wahre Bildung ist ferner Luth­ ers kleiner Katechismus; Luthers, denn seine Feder allein hat ilin hervorgebracht, aber dennoch eine Arbeit der Ganzen Kirche. Manchen Leuten scheint dieses Buch besonders in Hezug auf das sachliche Verstandnis uberaus leicht und eigentlich nur fiir Kin­ der geeignet. Wer sich aber in das Buch hineingearbeitet hat, der wird Luthers Ausspruch wohl wiirdigen konnen, der sagt: ' Ob ich. wohl ein Doctor der heiligen Schrift bin, so kann ich doch nicht sagen, dass ich den Katechismus wisse und konne. Der Katechismus ist der Grundriss der heilsamen Worte vom Glauben und von der Liebe in Christo Jesu, eigentlich fiir die aufgestellt, die durch die vernunftige lautere Milch der evangelischen Lehre J und Wahrheit zur Erkenntnis Christi erzogen werden sollen. Aber !: als Summa aller gottlichen Heilslehre, als eine kurze Zusammenfassung alles dessen, was einem Christen zu wissen notwendig ist, f ist er auch fur einen erwachsenen Christen von Wichtigkeit. Denn j durch die darin enthaltene Lehre ist man im Stande, alien Irrtum zu widerlegen. Nun ist uns noch eine Gabe in der deutschen Sprache zu Teil —72—


worden, fur die wir in aller Demut unserem Gotte danken und durch die wir ihm noch heute lobsingen, das deutsche Kirchenlied. Es ist in der katholischen Kirche nichts als eine teuflische Erfindung des Papstes, dass der Preister und (lie heiligen Chore bei der Messe singen sollen, 'veil die Laien durch ihr Singen die Majestat des dreieinigen Gottes verletzen wiirden. Es ist vielmehr ein Gott wohlgeffilliges Opfer, das die Gemeinde ihm darbringt, wenn sie im Gesange gemeinschaftlich mit ihm redet, ihm client, ihn lobt. Und weil es dem lieben Gotte a n gen eh m ist, hat er auch Manner unter uns erweckt, die voll Glaubens an Jesum Christum uns den wunderbaren Sclialz der Kirchenlied^r gahen. damit wir rlihmen konnten seiner I-Tiinde Werk. Keine Snrache kann auch nur annahernd uns gleich kommen auf dem Gebiete der Kirchenlieder. Sie sind die Begeisteriinp: aller Christen, dps Ziel aller heutigen Dichter und die Verzweiflung aller, die sie zu iibersetzen suchen. Wir s:eben alle zu, dass unsere deutsche Swrache von unermeszlichem Werte ist, und scliiUzen sie auch sehr hoch. Aber wir wobnen in einer Zeit und in einem Lande, wo die Amtsprache ens;lish ist, wo kein Tag ver^eht. ohne class wir in mehrfacher Weise in innige Beruhruni; damit kommen. Und es ware daher ungereimt, die englisclie Sprache vernachlassigen zu wollen. Es ist fast unmoglich ini gewolinlichen Leben. ohne diese Snrache fertig zu 'verden. Auch gibt es in unseren kirchlichen Kreisen viele Leute, die keine and ere Sprache verstehen Oder verstehen wollen, und schon um deretwillen liilissten wir die enslische Snrache fleiszig studieren. Diese Snrache ist an sich schon fleisziges St.udium wert. Die TCulturgeschiclite keines Volkes ist so innie: mit der Geschichte der Sprache verbunden wie die englische. Noch ha ben je so viele fremde Elemente ilircn Einfluss ausgelibt. Sobald aber das Volk sich ungjestort entwickelte, kam es zu einem nationalen Selbstbewustsein, besanftigte die srobe Wirkung: des Fremden und assimilierte das Beste. in deni es das Ungereimte zur Seite schob. Und so besteht das Englische heute, wo es am reinsten eesprochen wird. sehr viel aus ursprun.fflichen ail eelsiichsisch en Worten. obwohl es beleuchtet ist vom Kreuz des Siidens so s;ut wie vom hellen Polarstern und von Millionen von Zungen fallt. Besonders die englische Bibel zeichnet sich aus durch die Einfachheit der Snrache. Will man sehen, wie sein eignes Herz erschaffen ist. so lese man nebst der Bibel die Dramen von Shakespeare. Dieselben Mo­ tive, Liebe, Hoffnuns:, Hass. Neid bewegen das Herz der einzelnen Personen und veranlassen Gegenstromung und Verwirrung der Ge—73—


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eine dem anderen forderlich, wohl aber gelegentlich hinderlich. Wir empfehlen vielmehr ein Lehren in, mit dem anderen und durch das andere, so class beide gemeinsam flir denjenigen der Und war so lernen will, den Weg zur Anschauung bauen. \venn man zum Beispiel in der englischen Sprache lehrt und nicht zur Klarheit des Begriffes kommt, dass dann das Deutsche anwendet, wenn das geliiufiger ist, und umgekehrt. Denn das Wesen eines Dinges lernt man vorzugsweise (lurch Vergleichung. Und so lernt man auch Sprache ini allgemeinen und das Wesen der Sprache durch Vergleichung. Und obwohl man nicht seine Seele andert mit jeder neuen Sprache, so bekommt man doch neue Ansichten und erweltert seinen geistigen Horizont. Darum, da wir weder die eine Sprache noch die andere verlieren konne noch wo lien, wollen wir mit alien Kraften Hand anlegen und diesen gar nicht zweitbesten Weg mit bittendem Herzen, auf Gottes Gnade und Beistand vertrauend, mit allem Eifer gehen.

ML SINK MAGNO VITA LABOHE DEBIT MORTALIBUS. (HOR. SERM. I, 9, 59.) Rudolf Schlueter, ’21,Watertown, Wis. In diesen materialistischen Zeiten scheint es der einzige Wunsch der meisten Menschen zu sein, ohne grosse Arbeit in kurzer Zeit ihr Ziel z« gelangen. Das Ziel der meisten ist, schnell und ohne viel Arbeit Reich turn und dann bequemes Leben sich zu sichern. Um dies /.u erreichen, spekuliert man, denn durch Spekulieren wire! man manchmal in ganz kurzer Zeit ohne Anstrengung reich. Viele glauben, dass man sich geistigen Reich turn ebenso ohne schwere Miihe erwerben kann, versuchen daher, ohne angestrengte Arbeit durch Schule und Kollege zu kommen, und denken nicht daran, dass sie sich nicht flir die Schule, sondern fiirs Leben ausbilden mussen. Es gibt noch viele Beispiele, durch die man zeigen konnte, dass (lie Tendenz heutzutage ist, ohne Miihe und Arbeit etwas zu erlangen. Man vergisst, dass man ohne Arbeit keinen Erfolg haben kann. Der Dichter sagt: Nil sine magno vita labore dedit mortalibus. —75—


Erfolg in dieser Welt setzt Arbeit voraus. Was ist Arbeit? Arbeit ist Anstrengung und Ausdauer. Wenn jemand alle seine Krafte gebrauclit und dabei bleibt, bis das, was er zu verrichten hat, fertig ist, dann arbeitet er. Die rechte Arbeit muss zweckmassig sein. Wollte jemand sich ungeheuer anstrengen, etwas zu tun, das vollig nutzloss ware und wozu er keinen Beruf liatte, so ware die Anstrengung ganz und gar unnutzig und ware nicht zweckmassig. Auch wenn jemand Tag und Nacht arbeiten wollte, ohne eine Minute zu ruhen, so ware das gewiss Arbeit, aber diese Art Arbeit ware unzweckmas­ sig; sie wurde nur die Gesundheit des Betreffenden ruinieren, well die Anstrengung uber seine Krafte geht. Zur rechten Arbeit gehort, dass der Mensch solche Arbeit fiir sich erwahlt, wozu er Neigung und Talent hat. Sonst verschwendet er seine Krafte an Arbeit, die ihm keinen Nutzen bringen kann, wozu er keine Lust hat, wahrend er durch Arbeit, die ihm zusagt, sich selbst und der Menscliheit viel gr5sseren Nutzen bringen konnte. Die rechte Arbeit muss ferner eine solche sein, durcli die der ^rbeitende sich selbst und die Seinen ernahren und kleiden kann. Denn wenn sie dieses nicht erreicht, dann ist sie weder zweckmas­ sig noch lohnend, und das sollte sie doch sein. Man muss aber nicht vergessen, dass mit der Anstrengung und Ausdauer allein nichts gewonnen ist. Obgleich der Staat durcli seine Ordnung der Arbeit Schutz gibt und ihr die Fruclit der Ar­ beit verbiirgt, so ist dies nur das Wenigste, das dazu dient, die Arbeit segensreich zu machen. An Gottes Segen ist alles gelegen, auch die Arbeit und die Friichte derselben. Gott hat dem Menschen die Arbeit geboten und auch dem Arbeiter seinen Lohn versprochen. Alles dies ist notig, um die Arbeit zu rechter, segensreicher Arbeit zu machen. Wenn nun ein Mensch im rechten Sinne arbeitet, so wird er auch etwas erreichen, aber ohne Anstrengung und 1 Ausdauer wird nichts erreiclit. Gesetzt den Fall, ein Landmann besiisse ein grosses, fruchtbares Stuck Land. Wenn er nun sich 」 hinsetzt und das Land betrachtet und bei sich denkt, 'vie gross die j Ernte von diesem Stuck Land sein konnte, bearbeitet aber das Land = nicht, so ist er ein Tor und wird keinen Ertrag von seinem Lande | bekommen. Wenn er aber das Land pfliigt und eggt und zum Beispiel Karpflan zt, setzt sich dann jedoch nieder, um die Ernte zu erwarten, ohne die Kartoffeln anzuhaufen und das Stuck Land —76—


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THE CLOSE OF ANOTHER YEAR. Another school-year has come and gone to take its place among the others already passed, and we stand gazing back over those ten long months of study and effort. “How quickly they have vanished,’,we muse as we stand. “How long they seemed, when we looked ahead last fall, and now they are passed.”一But vain is such meditation! The year has fled and now the question to be ans­ wered is, “What have we accomplished?” Have we absorbed all the possible good from our time? We should have and it is our own grave, fault if we have not. One year in our education means —79—


much; if we have lazed on, neglected to a great extent our work and duty, we have been our own greatest hindrance to success. A year lost through neglect will always be one which we shall shrink from mentioning, always a blemish on our record, but it should not discourage us. A year lost, more so than a year won, should teach and encourage us. If we feel that we have learned not nearly so much, as we might have, we should not become disgusted with our­ selves, but dissatisfied; then and there we should determine to re­ turn next fall with new vim and vigor to a year of real, strenuous effort and labor. Each and every one of us should feel thus, for who is lie that has not wasted time and energy? We leave school in spring, weary and worn, to return next fall with rejuvenated strength in mind and body. Those who are leaving Northwestern to return to its well-worn benches no more, depart with the heartiest blessings for success —R. from all. May they never forget their Alma Mater. DISARMAMENT. Our country is at present engaged in a race, a competition with England and Japan for the supremacy of the waves. Our ship­ building program is requiring millions and billions of dollars an­ nually. Ninty-two per cent of the popular taxes are beinc; devoted to the navy and army. Our great Wisconsin man in the senate has rightly attacked this huge increase of our navy and advocates ■ the Borah plan of; disarmament. Senator La Pollette declares that - the sums expended for armanent are a waste of the people's money, merely a security for the interests of large American firms and profiteers. And is it not entirely against American principles to prepare for war in such a way? One of our reasons, or in fact THE rea­ son for our fighting the world war was to crush Prussian militar一 ism. Our government officials were convinced at the time of our V entry into the war that militarism was detrimental to the world’s peace. And it is. But they beheld the mote in tlie eye of another " country and perceived not the beam in the eye of their own land. We apparently are following Germany’s footsteps. Ninty-two per cent of the collected taxes is more than Germany ever expended in peace for the building of her large and efficient army. Militarism and the mailed fist have never yet won an ultimate and permanent victory. Examples in history are Sparta, Carthage, Spain, Napo­ leon and, last but not least, the German Empire. —80—


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The United States has no aggressive purposes, and we are well enough armed now to ward off an invader. Or do we think that one hundred and ten million people will lie supinely, while a for­ eign foe invades our country? In our short history we have fought and beaten formidable foes, yet we have never spent years and millions of dollars in preparing for war, as we are doing now. It was industry and commerce that made us strong, also for war. America is a nation of no mean influence in the world. We succeeded in ending the Russo-Japanese war in 1905; it was through our intervention that the world war was finally terminated. On any important event of the day, Europe and the world look to see what stand America takes toward that question. It is without doubt possible then for us to bring about a restriction of armament between Japan, England and us. Japan speaks favorably of the Borah resolution. England approves of it. By restricting arma­ ments we not only come into friendly and peaceful relations with other countries, but we can avert another war that must come as the fruits of militarism, a preparation for war. It is with a feel­ ing of rejoicing that we received the news of the unanimous vote in the senate for the naval holiday. No doubt congress will con­ cur, and a conference with England and Japan will very likely be V. W”,22 brought about. THJ: GREATEST KECREATION HALL. When 011 彳.walks up the busy avenues and boulevards of the cities in the evening and sees the masses crowding and bustling . II from theater to theater, from one recreation parlor to the next, a 丨」■: feeling almost of pity is awakened within him, and he is tempted ;:.9 to cry out, “Poor, poor creatures! Here after a day of hard and tedious labor you seek recreation in the hubbub and bustle of the noisy heart of your city. Could you enjoy but a few pleasures of ! the great outside.” . . Truly the middle and lower classes in our large cities are little 丨;« ^ captives in their own homes,, Within the city’s prebetter than cincts they trudge day in, day out, year in, year out, and seldom :;腳 travel beyond its confines. It is, true most of our cities have beau- , tiful large parks which offer all sorts of sport, recreation, and com­ fort to the public, but these things do not strike the taste of t e greater share of the people. They must have something lively an gay; they seek their pleasure in the stuffy, crowded business sec­ tion with its glaring, dazzling lights and its places of gay 30 1 y, —81—


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cafes, movie-houses, dance-halls, candy-parlors, and restaurants. What a great opportunity have the residents of the smaller cities, towns, and villages, and the farmers for real joy and pleas­ ure! They haye all the conveniences for the best sports and mer­ riment at their disposal, in the greatest of all recreation halls, the great outside. What is more pleasing in spring, when the grass, the trees, and the slirubs have put on their most velvety green, than to go out into the woods oil a bright, blue day and lie in the refreshing shade of the maples and hickories, listening to the birds twitter­ ing and the bees humming above? How enticing is the rapid stream, leaping and bounding over the rocks and the logs fallen into its bed! Where is the fisherman who would not sacrifice all the theatres of London and Paris, but to angle one little day in its waters, pulling the shining beauties from the deep, cool depths? And at evening when the toils of the summer’s day are over, how pleasing, how refreshing it is to drift out in a canoe on the ripple­ less sheet of the quiet lake, trying to forget world and all! Such ire the pleasures of spring and summer, and all too transient do .hey seem. But autumn brings new stores. The tables in our pleasurehall are changed, but the joy and sport continue. The setting is changed, but we enjoy the seasoning of variety. The streams and the lakes are chilled, the leaves and the grass are faded, but these circumstances add to the charm of fall. The corn in the shock standing in the field like so many spectre Indian wigwams, and the harvest-moon, lending its soft light, are a great feast for the eye. The cool, clear evenings come, the children bring their spooky jack-o’-lanterns around, and the fond memories of childhood spring up in the minds of us older ones. Ah, who does not enjoy, who does not love nature in autumn!—But soon the chill, cold wind whirls the dry, dead leaves about一and there falls a white cover from above and we see them no more. All is freezing cold out­ side, but the doors of the all-year pleasure-parlor are not locked. Winter, too, with its snow and ice has its pleasures. Who dares say otherwise than, “Blessed and happy is the man who has the opportunity of enjoying himself in nature, man’s great­ est recreation hall. When we who live in our small town and villages fell dissatisfaction drawing us toward the dazzling lights of the city, let us think for a moment and be thankful for being able to live so close to the great out-doors. —R. —82—


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—In June, 1872, the first graduating class left Northwestern with four members. This year the fiftieth class leaves the institution with seventeen members. Only two of the first year’s graduates, Rev. Prof. F. Pieper, St. Louis, Mo., and Rev. E. Pankow, St James, Minn., have survived the intervening forty-nine years. They have been cordially invited to attend the graduation exercises to be held June 17. —The College Board met in. the reference room of the dormitory on May 18 and called Rev. Paul Pieper of Cudahy, Wisconsin, to the new professorship at Northwestern. 一Death darkened the home of Rev. Ed. Sauer, Morton, Minn, when it robbed the loving parents of their eldest daughter. The bereaved have our sincerest sympathy. —The Rev. I-I. Schneider, ’08, of Owosso, Mich., member of the General Mission Hoard, visited a few days at the home of Prof. Probst. Rev. Schneider, Profs. Probst, Westerhaus, and Binnhammer spent May 21 at Lowell, Wis., with Rev. William Eggert. —Rev. G. A. Bergemann, Pres, of the Joint Synod, was present at the Board meeting, May IS. 一Jack La Haine, *20, was seen in Watertown, May 21. 一Miss Martha Wetzel, Ac. ’20,was here the same day. —After the game with Concordia College, Oak Park, 111., Paul Eickmann left for Yorkville, 111., where he visited a former class­ mate, Rev. C. Fuelling, ’16. 一Miss Helen Fischer, Ac.,19, was a spectator at the SeminaryNorthwestern game. May 7. —Mr. Hans Gaebler, ’07,of Watertown, and a learned friend, Prof. Polychronopoulos, until recentiy instructor of Greek at Leland Stanford Jr. University, visited several Greek recitations on May 24. Prof. Polychronopoulos also consulted some books of reference in our library. —C5—


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COLLEGE NOTES. One of the largest audiences ever drawn by Northwestern college concerts heard the short but snappy program of our twenty-first annual concert on the evening of May 6. The cars of people from the surroundings and neighboring towns who attended the event, were parked on both sides of College avenue, the entire length of our premises. By eight o’clock the auditorium was crowded to its seating capacity. The following interesting program was rendered: 1. Orchestra— — Director, Prof. E. Wendland. A. Holzmann (a) March—Uncle Sammy____________ __ G. Luders (b) Prince of Pilsen_________________ 2. Glee Club— Director, Prof. S. Probst. Thompson-Page Come Where the Lilies Bloom_____ 3.* Male Quartette— Dudley Buck Annie Laurie------------------------------First Tenor, A. Arndt; Second Tenor, A. Baer; First Bass, C. Albrecht; Second Bass, I. Boettcher —87—


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WARTIH HG QUARTERLY The Wartburg Quarterly from Wartburg College, Clinton, Iowa is one of the finer appearing and more attractive college publi­ cations. The paper is well planned, the material well arranged, and the finished product arrives in splendid condition. It is a real pleasure to pick up your paper. We would suggest, however, that you put all the advertisements after the reading matter. Your literary department is well represented and balances well with the other departments. “Worms, A Vantage一Point for the Study of Luther’s Life,” is one of the many good articles on Luther that the quadricentennial of the Diet of Worms has brought forth. The writer shows that Luther’s entire life, before April IS, 1521, was in a measure a preparation for his memorable stand at Worms. Luther is of suffi­ cient importance to warrant the study of his life and works at all times, not only at the quadricentennial of the “Turning Point” of his life. The Luther League,” might have been an editorial. It calls attention to the fact that the spirit of the world threatens to gain a firm footing, even in such an organization as the Luther League, whose main object is to further the interest in the study of the Bible, and in church affairs in general. “Fightin’ Jim,” carries out a fresh plot in an interesting way. A crook falls in love with a beautiful waitress and reforms. They are already engaged when he is arrested for one of his former —99—


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The cousins of Heinie I-Ioenecke, ’23,the Misses Ella and Lydia Heuer, members of the St. Stephen’s choir, of Milwaukee, which sang in Watertown on May 8, paid Heinie a visit. They thought Watertown a good place to settle clown, but Heinie does not agree. On May 8, Vadder, ’21,visited an acquaintance in the asylum at Juneau. Krenke, ’22, and Art Gentz, ’22, lodged at the home of Mrs. E. Reuter, in Milwaukee, May 13. They had a good night’s rest, and asked Bierwagen, ’21,to stay with them at the same place the next night, to which Boosie willingly complied. May 14-16. Jaeger, the Nehring brothers, Timmel, Zastrow, preps, of Oconomowoc, and Schoenoff, ’24,Abel, Wallie Ott, Fricke, and Andree, preps, were in Coonie. They played a scrub team in Coonie and won, 25-0. Some time was also pleasantly spent in fishing. The sophomores had class pictures taken and also pictures of their basketball team. Siffring, ’23, and Isaac, ’22, made a trip to Allenton in the latter’! Ford on March 14. In Allenton they met Dad Lehmann, Han: Koch, Ted Hoffmann, Bode, and Rex Albrecht, all from the Semin­ ary. Kate and Isaac returned on May 16,with a large supply of jam, cake, and good “'Vurst.” Bernard Koch, and Dammann, preps, bicycled to Milwaukee three times during May. On May 17,Vic Tliierfelder, ’23, started out from Watertown on his wheel at nine o’clock in the morning, and reached his home in Kenosha at six o'clock in the afternoon. He returned on May 17, after having secured a position for the sum­ mer in the National bank at Kenosha. We do not know whether Cutie Krueger, ’24,entertained his mother and sister, Anna, of Menomonie, or whether he was entertained by them, May 17-20. But notice Cutie’s new cap. Kahrs and Sabrowsky, preps, can tell anyone exactly how far it is to Milwaukee. On May 14, they started out from Watertown on foot at one o’clock, p. m. They found Milwaukee at six o’clock the next morning. A four-mile ride was the only lift that came their way. They traveled most of the night, the rest of it they passed in a haystack. Lester and Maynard Sonn, preps, attended the funeral of a soldier uncle, in Fond du Lac, on May 18. —103—


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The Black and Red is a wonderful paper; The college gets all the fame The printer gets all the money, But the staff gets all the blame. —EX. —Red claims the latest fad. Instead of a dog trailing him at the long end of a rope he has a pigmy man-eating turtle. —The pronunciation of bolsheviki is easy if we consider that the x is silent as the z in fish. —Happy (at the studio): No, the chorus isn’t having its pic­ ture taken to-day, only rehearsing “Smiles.” —Abie: And we had to walk way down here just to have our chorus picture taken! Bud: 0, that’s all right. He won’t take a picture of your voice. —Try this one: The square root of the hypotemmuse is equal to the square of the other two sides, but why is the ocean so close to the shore? —Prof: Man kann aucli etwas in den Mund nehmen ohne es zu essen. Lefty: Gum, zum Beispiel. —Johnson is the most absent minded man I know. This morn­ ing he thought he had left his watch at home, and he proceeded to pull it out of his pocket to see if he had time to go home and get it. —105—


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Could you sit in the shade of the palm of your hand? Or beat on the drum of your ear? 一Dud: What are you eating? Dud: Don’t you know you will get flesh boils from eating that? Fischer: 0,no! We fed it to our dog for some time and we haven’t noticed anything yet. Fischer: Smoked meat. —Bud: What does the Latin word “mare,” mean? Jap: Das Meer. Bud: If mare means Meer, what does weniger mean? —Prof: Wann geschali die erste Schatzung? Chowdy: Da Kaiser Augustus Landpfleger in Syrien war. —Prof: Was sind terrestribus? Red: Erderuderer. 一Prof: Well, who heard that shot? The trees, the whole uni­ verse or perhaps the ears of corn in the corn crib? —Student, retiring; for the day thought he did not need a light, so he groped about in the dark for the corner-post of his bed. He missed it with his hand and hit it with his nose, and remarked, “That’s the first time I knew that my nose is longer than my arm. —Student (reading): It was said of Socrates一 Prof: Any criticisms? Student II.: Yes. lie took the “sock” out of Socrates. 一Tuffy: I like blue, no matter what color it is. —Student: I know what I am talking about, but I don’t know what I mean. i

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Volume XXV.

Watertown, Wis., September 1921

Number 4

WAHTOAKA. (The Tale of a Day Long Gone.) Dudley Rohda, *22. Civilization had penetrated the solid bounds of the vast American wilderness west of the Alleghenies in but few places. Here in the giant wilds the red men still fought, lived, and loved according to their own desires. In the country which we know today as south central Wisconsin, just to the east of the great lake, its eastern boundary, lived tribes of Pottawatomies and Ottowas, with the Menomonies as their northern neighbors. They were unmolested by great wars; the generation that was grow­ ing into manhood had seen but a few light battles. In al­ most perfect peace these natives roamed the wilds. Evening of the first warm spring-day had just settled over the land of the great Pottawaomie chief, Misshawa. A few straggling red rays of the setting sun fell on the dark pines which topped the hill where lay the tepee of Wahtoaka, Misshawa's daughter, and sparkled on their black needles. Twilight was fast stealing over all the land. Under the tall pines and firs, before her wigwam, looking —108—


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Noiselessly the silvery gray canoe glided up the river and Wahtoaka ascended the hill slowly toward her wigwam. There she seated herself before the opening to dream of her treasure love. She trod the shady spots in the forest with him as sole companion in her thoughts; she fed on memories of the past—and little did she suspect the terrible fate of her loved one. He would come no more! 1-Ie had departed forever! Wahtoaka’s rejected lover had carried out his deadly plan, for Owassc had not paddled five miles up the stream before the suitor's deadly arrow had plunged deep into his heart. The demon had overheard the lovers’ talk on the preced­ ing niglit, had heard that Owasse was to leave before sun­ rise the next morning. Accordingly he had stolen up the river and concealed himself in a thicket on the river's banks to wait for his prey. It came, and lie with a malicious, satisfied smile drew his treaclierous bow and sent the deadly arrow whirring into the heart of his enemy. Owasse fell back dead; now his enemy was appeased; now he had blast­ ed Wahtoaka^ hope. When he saw that the chief lay mo­ tionless in his canoe, he took his own and paddled out to him and gazed into the rigid face of his murdered adver­ sary. No one slioukl ever know the chief’s fate. lie towed the cold l'onn of Owasse to the shore, fastened a huge stone to it, and took it in his own canoe to the middle of the stream. He was about to drop il lo ils watery grave, when his eye lighted on the chief's golden armband. It were a shame to allow that lo be lost forever,—still it might lead to liis detection! The gold proved too much for his eye, however, and before he let the body down, he slipped the band from its arm. He would not wear it, lie would keep it in secrecy. With the corpse disposed of, he returned to the shore, burned Owasse’s canoe and scattered the ashes on the stream. The current would tell no tales! Thus Wahtoaka, ignorant of the terrible fate of her lover, lived and hoped on. Autumn was the end of all her dreams and fancies. Then lie would return to take lier to her new home. On summer evenings after the sun had set and the stars were bright above her, she would sit be­ fore her wigwam, listening to the great, tall pines whisper­ ing above her. Their whisper told her that Owasse would soon return. Wahtoaka loved to hear them. But when she saw the canoe of her hated lover outlined against the even­ ing sky, a feeling of uncanny fear shot through her heart. Summer passed and autumn came, and Wahtoaka saw her hopes about to be fulfilled. But she hoped in vain! The -112-


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maize ripened, but her love did not return. Could it be that he had forgotten? No! The pines still whispered their wonted tale and Wahtoaka lived in hope. Fall passed and second summer, Indian summer, came. Then came tidings which killed the very embryo of hope in the heart of Wahtoaka. Two Indians from the northeast country were making their way to the westward. They crossed Missliawa’s dominions and Wahtoaka met them. She questioned them and she learned that Owasse had left his tribe early in summer and had never returned, that Hl3 tribesmen had searched far and wide for him, but all in vain. Wahtoaka’s joys died at that moment. Her dreams and fancies vanished; gloom possessed her heart. He was gone, had disappeared, the only man she had ever loved.一But wliere could lie be? Had the river claimed him victim? No! He was a swimmer. Had the beasts claimed him tlieir prey? Hardly, he was a wary hunter. As Wahtoaka was pondering these things in her heart, a new thought dawned on her—the lone, rejected lover in his canoe! Could he have ended her hopes through treachery? Wahtoaka was ready to believe it. That to her was the one probability. Evening fell oil the country and Wahtoaka sat before her wigwam as usual. All day she had nursed the treasured secret in lier heart. To-night the pines whispered differ­ ently, their swishing to Wahtoaka was now a low song of wailing, and the lapping waves Oil the shore joined in. Evening deepened into night and the night wore on. The full moon rose out of the east to her height in the heavens and Wahtoaka still sat before her wigwam. She had an errand to-niglit and the time was come to do it. Noiselessly she arose, fastened a dagger in lier belt and hastened to her canoe on the shore. The lake was calm. The little ripples sparkled like so many diamonds in the moonlight, as Wahtoaka’s paddle urged lier ligbt skiff on. Her destination lay straight across tlie water, to the tent of her jealous lover. In a few minutes her strong Indian arms had brought her across to the opposite shore. A deathly stillness reigned over the moonlit land before her. Wahtoaka did not stop to pull her canoe on shore; she stepped 011 land and hurried with Indian tread toward the wigwam. The moon led the way. No one was waking in the camp and Wahtoaka pushed the leathern flap aside and entered the tent. There before her, half wrapped in the skin of a buffalo, lay her hated lover. She bent over him, drew her dagger, and —113—


1 raised her hand, ready to plunge the deadly knife,—but some­ thing caught her eye. There in one corner, shimmering in the moonlight, among other trophies, lay a band of gold. Wahtoaka knew that band. She slipped to the side where it lay and took it up. It was Owasse’s. Now she knew that the man who lay at her mercy was the murderer of her love and hope. She stepped once more to the place where he lay, drew her dagger, and bent over him. She had plunged the dagger deep into the sleeping Indian’s heart, had not a sudden feeling come into her own. Would Owasse sanc­ tion such a killing? She felt that he would not; with the golden band on her arm and a feeling of homesick love for her dead hero in her bosom, she slipped out of the wigwam to her canoe. The moon was still high in the heavens. Wahtoaka paddled about on the silvery waves in an attempt to for­ get, but in her heart lay an ache not even time could erase. The dull cold winds of fall now swept through- the woods where Wahtoaka roamed no more. They had lost their beauty for lier, as had everything else. Not even the dry oak leaves shivering in the evening breeze, nor the whispering pines at sunset could entice her from her gloomy wigwam. She chose to stay there and pine. With the golden armband of Owasse about her thin, bony arm and the one he had given her before he left, about her brow, she would sit before the fire in her tepee, beneath the gloomy old pines, feasting on dim memories of the past. At last she refused to eat at all. The clouds that first paled the earth with their flurries of snow, beheld in the wigwam of Wahtoaka a pale, wan figure, a flower faded and withered in the very bloom dt youth. Winter came and the heart of Wahtoaka grew cold as the frozen ground. The aged Misshawa saw her soul flit to the land whither the soul of her lover had taken flight. Under the frosty moon of winter a group of Indians gath­ ered and lowered the body of the heart-broken maiden, en­ cased in a huge strip of bark from the birch, to its cold, frozen grave. 本

To-day a few aged, old pines still stand on the hill over­ looking the lake, on the spot where once stood the wig­ wam of the maiden; and at sunset when a light breeze ripples the water’s calm surface and sets their own needles aquivering, they whisper the tale of Wahtoaka. —114—


融, INDIAN SUMMER. Waldemar Weissgerber, ’24. For a full hour Arthur Folsom had ben peering from tlie cover of the woods into an Indian camp. He knew him­ self well concealed, for his buckskin clothing, which was dyed green, blended with the foliage about him. Neverthe­ less, tlie long-barreled Kentucky rifle never left his hands. Arthur knew tlie ways of the woods too well to let that happen. Now his interest grew with every minute. The hustle and bustle among the Indians was evidence that some event of importance was soon to take place. Many squaws were carrying wood to an open place in the center of the camp, where a row of three posts was placed upright in the ground. Children hurried from every part of the camp to the open square. To Arthur the whole situation was clear. He knew that the open square was to be the scene of grim torture and death. The three posts and the firewood were unmis­ takable signs that several hapless persons we to be tor­ tured and burned at tlie stake. Everything was now in readiness for the burning. Arthur*s attention was suddenly attracted by a hooting and yelling at the farther end of the camp. He saw tlie three prisoners advancing with their hands bound at their backs. In tlie rear and on each, side of them followed a crowd of shrieking and wildly gesticulating women and children, who threw sticks and spat upon their unhappy victims. As tlie crowd drew nearer, Arthur saw that the prisoners were white men, dressed like himself. Two of them were hardy pioneers and Indian fighters, men who knew the cruelty of tlie Indians. As they walked they bore their heads high, looked neither to right nor left, and lieeded not the gibes and taunts of their captors. It was not so with the third captive. His demeanor betrayed ignorance of Indian custom and character. He cast fearful glances about him, winced and shrank away at every blow. It pleased the In­ dians to deride and strike him most. On reaching the square the prisoners were bound to the stakes. Now the men and squaws joined in a war-dance round the captives. With hideous shrieks, brandishing knives, tomahawks, and torches, the impassioned Indians circled about their unhappy victims in a weird dance. For a long time they danced thus. Arthur, who was intently watching the actions of the Indians, suddenly heard a slight rustle behind him. But he heard it too late. —115—


一He felt a heavy hand on his shoulder and heard a voice say, ‘Come, Art, get up. You slept long enough. It’s time for supper.” In a fright Art jumped up, rubbed his eyes, and looked about him for the wigwams of the redmen. All he saw was a large field of corn shocks that strangely re­ sembled Indian wigwams in the hazy dusk of evening.

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There was a day when the men of our land knew little of knowledge and education, when their strength and energy were needed without, on the fields tilling the soil, in the woods clearing the land; when they, our ancestors, prer pared the country for us. They had but little time for school, their lot was labor; a month, and in great many cases only a few weeks was all they could spare during the year for school. Then it was a rare occurrence to find an educated man in the middle and lower class of people. How different now! Where then the sturdy pioneer swung his heavy ax, or plodded behind his plow, there now stand buildings that seem to float the sky with their lofty towers; and within, in the hundreds of rooms sits many an educated offspring of these same rude forefathers. The times have changed! He is the man of liis day, lie is the ideal of most of his fel­ low-men. The world to-day worships at the shrine of its idol, education; that is its all! —117—


Autumn of 1921 is come and the schools, colleges, and universities throughout the Union have thrown open their doors; millions of children, young men, and young women are entering, ready to start on their path toward education and higher learning. Our Alma Mater, too, has thrown wide its portals to welcome a great throng of young men and women who have determined to obtain the one and only profitable edu­ cation—an education under Christian influences. We in­ deed have much to be thankful for to God and our forefath­ ers. It was they who through His grace kept the light of true Christian faith aflame which enlightens and encour­ ages us to enter our Lutheran schools to-day. We rejoice that Northwestern’s enrollment is greater this year than last. Many new students have taken up their studies and most of the older ones have returned to continue. Each one is gradually settling down for a year of earnest, diligent work. The year is now only in the bud and we can expect many a trial and task to ensue. But why be troubled? We should be ready to meet all with a brave and determined mien. We all know or still must learn that success is the fruit of persistence in labor and prayer! Let us all, therefore, put our heart and soul into our work for the year. If temptations invite and entice us to become careless and listless in our duties or which is still worse, to desert our intentions, let us take ourselves in hand, brace up, and despite all, make an attempt again and yet again to reach our goal, always remembering that success —R. only follows persistence. EDITOR’S NOTE.—On account of the resignation of the assistant editor, Mr. Winter, a new appointment was found necessary. Frederick Knoll, ’22,has been appointed to the position. As listed in the “Editorial Staff” of this issue, Gerhard Marquardt’s name stands opposite Athletics and Edgar Hoenecke’s,opposite College Notes. This arrangement does not apply to this issue, Marquardt having written College Notes and Hoenecke, Athletics. Beginning with the October issue there two editors will take over the departments as designated in the ‘Editorial Staff.” WILL BUSINESS CONDITIONS EETUEN TO NORMAL ? Business will not only be normal, but there will be an —118—


^ IrjtXl J era of prosperity; however, before this era looms the people must learn to be more economical. Why are there so many people out of work? One reason is that they are not will­ ing to work for lower wages, another that the manufacturer cannot find a ready market. In the past few years wages were abnormally high, while savings accounts were far too low for the prevalent high-wage wave, The laborer did not save his money against a rainy day, but spent it fool­ ishly and readily for many luxuries; and now that his rainy day is here lie finds great difficulty in dispensing with, these luxuries. From all sides we hear that there is a hard win­ ter ahead for the jobless, but if these people had saved dur­ ing the era of prosperity they would have sufficient to tide them over until the next spring. However, talking about what the people should have done, does not help the situ­ ation any; the next thing to do is to devise some plan to keep the jobless from starving or freezing the coining win­ ter. One plan is to make those who have retained their positions sacrifice some of their money by dividing the jobs, giving everyone a chance to work part of the time, so that all have a little. This is a good plan if the other party agrees, but wliy should lie? Those who are holding their positions are doing so, because they did not strike and kick when labor was scarce, but worked steadily. And now that wages are lower, they are also willing to work; they aro the conscientious kind of people. Probably it would be a good thing to leave the jobless suffer this winter, just to teach them to be more economical, so that when the era of prosperity again looms, they will not spend tlieir money foolishly. This, however,, is a foolisli argument, because as soon as these people have money they will again play the role of the spendthrift—a fool and Ms money are easily parted. It is true that there are people out of work who are willing to work for low wages and who liad worked steadily through the era of high wages. The number of those, liowever, who spent their money foolishly and are wanting now, gresatly exceeds the number of tlie really unfortunate ones, and at the same time the reckless spenders are to blame for the misfortune of the unfortunate ones. We should be glad to give a helping hand to these unfortunate people who are out of work through no fault of their own, but it is hard to sympathize with those wlio would not work when they could and who would not save while they were earning. The one great complaint of the manufacturer is that lie cannot compete with foreign markets, because lie must —119— i乂 ..


pay to high a wage scale. If our manufacturers cannot compete with foreign markets, they will be compelled to close their plants, and the laborers will be out of work. As the laborer is going to be the loser, he must be willing to work for lower wages, so that the manufacturer can find a ready market; as soon as he can do this, prosperity will F. K.,,22. again prevail.

一Rev. Prof. Karl Koehler, ’03, who is now teaching here during Prof. Westerhaus’s leave of absence, spent three months traversing Germany. At Leipzig Ue met Prof. Westerhaus, ’OS, Prof. A. Pieper, ’76, of the Lutheran Seminary at Wauwatosa, Rev. P. Pioper, ’06, and Rev. H. Koch, Ph. D., ’03. Prof. A. Pieper and his son Rev. P. Pieper attended the Allgemeine Evangelische Lutherische Conferenz at Greiz, ^Germany. Prof. Pieper investigated the relief work in Germany, especially those institutions that have been as­ sisted by us. He also obtained information as to the state of the chuvcli outside of the Siichische Freikirche, which is in fellowship with the Synodical Conference. Prof. Pieper reported that in both phases of his investigation he found much misery, but little Lutheranism. Prof. Westerhaus will study at Berlin and will at the same time take Rev. H. Koch’s place, while the latter is on a three months’ leave to this country. Rev. Koch was to accompany Prof. Koehler to the United States, but had con­ siderable difficulty in getting his passport. He intends to leave the early part of September and spend his leave of absence here giving lectures on the conditions in Germany and will in all probability address the student-body of N. W. C. Rev. H. Koch left for Europe in 1911 to study at Leip­ zig, where he specialized in Greek. After obtaining the de­ gree of Ph. D. at the university of Leipzig he accepted a —120—


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congregation at Leipzig and at the same time was a profes­ sor at the new Freikirche Seminary, but was soon called to Berlin, where he is now in charge of a fast growing con­ gregation. 一For ten weeks of the summer vacation Dr. J. H. Ott, *85, journeyed over the Southern States. He spent the greater part of his time in Indiana, the haunts of his youth, in Kentucky and in Tennessee. —The entire class of,21 has entered the Seminary at Wauwatosa, discrediting the rumors that some members of the class would not enroll. —Mr. Albert Dammann, ’95, motored here from Milwau­ kee, Sept. 7th, with, his son Roland, who is a commercial student. —Prof. Parisius, ’13, and family spent two weeks at Ann Arbor, Mich. —Rev. Leonard Koeninger, ’13, of Raymond, S. D” spent three weeks of August at the home of his parents here. 一Prof. Binhammer, ’17,took the economics course at the U. of Mich, during the summer months. 一Prof. E. Heilmann, Ph. D., ’05, teacher of economics at the U..of Minn., visited in Watertown during August. —>Prof.W. Huth, ’81, must have had a wonderful time at Breen Bay, Wis., this summer, since we found him more jolly than ever on our return to college. —Rev. E. Gamm, ’14, Macintosh, S. D., visited at the home of parents here in August. —R. Schlueter, ’21, attended summer school at the U. of Wis., and is now teaching at Bethany College, Mankato, Minn. -Among the visitors who were seen about the College in the early part of September were Rev. John Siegler, ’91, of Johnson, Minn., Rev. J. H. Paustian,,00, of West Salem, Wis., Rev. Leonard Kirst, ’03, of Beaver Dam, Wis., and Rev. Wm. Hartwig, *13, of Kingston, Wis. Rev. Paustian brought his son with him, who has enrolled as a student of the regular course. —After a sojourn at Owosso, Mich., Prof. C. Bolle, ’15, attended the Joint Synod meeting at Milwaukee, Wis. 一Prof. E. Sauer, ’ll, Prof. H. Parisius, *13, and Mr. P. Eickmann, ’16, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, attended the U. of Wis. for six weeks of the summer vacation. —Rev. H. K. Moussa’s, ’00,bachelor days are over. On June 18th he was united in holy matrimony to Miss Della Wetzel of Jefferson, Wis. 一Rev. B. Schlueter, ’00,has accepted a call from the 一121—


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/以 Oshkosh congregation, formerly served by Rev. Dowidat, *99, who has retired. 一On liis trip to the East Prof Probst, ’09, stopped at Lis­ bon, Ohio, for a few days. While there he stayed at the home of Dr. Maxwell. After his stay in Ohio he paid his brother of Pittsburg, Pa., an extended visit. One of the most noteworthy places that he visited while in Pittsburg was the University of Pittsburg. 畫/ —Adam Martin, D. D.,died in his eighty-sixth year at 〆 his home in New Haven, Conn. Educated at Hamilton College, where he was graduated with Phi Beta Kappa stand, in the class of ’58 of which he was the last survivor, and later at Hartwick Theological Seminary, his early years were spent in educational work. He was at one time president of Northwestern College at Watertown, and afterwards was professor of modern lan­ guages at Pennsylvania College, Gettyburg, Pa” for thirty years. He is survived by a widow and one son, Attorney Sanford B. Martin, of New Haven.

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On Wednesday, Sept. 7, the doors of our Alma Mater were again opened for another school year. Many new students have enrolled; so numerous were the new-comers that the music-room had again to be remodeled into a bed­ room. This will, of course, be a bit inconvenient for the musical organizations, since they will have to practice in the gymnasium which is not so convenient to rehearse in as the music room; but rather rehearse in the gym for a while, than force the new-comers to sleep in the halls. There are at present two hundred and twenty-five stu­ dents attending Northwestern of which number eighty-one are collegiates; the remaining hundred and thirty-nine are preps. Let us hope they all will remain until the end of the school-year. One of the very first tilings we heard upon returning from our eleven weeks’ vacation was, that our well beloved —122—


Professor Dr. A. F. Ernst could not, for some time to come, take over tlie classes assigned to him. Only a few days before the opening of school Dr. Ernst was stricken with paralysis and has to the present time been confined to his bed. The news of the Doctor’s illness was received with sorrow by the students, for they always enjoyed his biblical and historical lectures. May God grant him a speedy and entire recovery! • Rev. Prof. Henry W. Schmeling, a prominent member U of the class of 1898, has again returned to Northwestern to fill the vacancy caused by the departure of Prof. William p. Henkel to tlie Lutheran Seminary at Wauwatosa. Rev. Schmeling has been serving the Lutheran congregation at Sparta, Wis” for the past twenty years, this being his first and only pastorate while in the ministry. 氺

Prof. Karl Koehler has taken over the duties of Prof. Gustav Westerhaus who has received a two years’ leave of absence to study history in Germany. Prof. Koehler gradu­ ated from Northwestern with the class of 1903. He finished the seminary and was called by the Lutheran congregation at Kingston, Wis. A few years later he resigned his charge there in order to go abroad. When the war broke out in 1914, however, he was forced to abandon his trip to Europe. During the war he taught at various Lutheran institutions, including the seminaries at New Ulm, Minn., and Sagi­ naw ,Mich. Pour months ago he revived his old plan, and left for Germany, returning but a few days before the open­ ing of school. 尊翁#

Walter Bodamer, ’17, lately graduated from the semi­ nary at Wauwatosa, has taken tlie position as tutor made vacant by Paul Eickmann. • * * * On the thirteenth of September the members of the college orchestra assembled in the chapel to elect officers for the new school-year. Walter Krenke,,22, was elected president, Hugo Schnitker, ’23,vice-president, John Mar­ tin, ’25,secretary, and Herbert Wackerfuss, librarian. ♦

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Our military company is also well under way. Capt. Walter Voigt with the assistance of his lieutenants, Dudley Rohda and Gustav Krause, is already drilling his fifty re­ cruits four times a week. The addition of these fifty re­ cruits will bring the total membership up to about ninety. With this number of adults, well-trained, we can expect some snappy drilling from the company.

FOOTBALL! “Sail into him!”,“Clip him low!”,“Dig”,and other encouraging phrases of their kind only go to show us clear­ ly that the same old live spirit reigns on our 1921 gridiron. This spirit seems to dominate the ideas of some of the boys of last year’s squad to such an extent, that some of them have awaked to an unusual, praiseworthy vivacity. “Football” is the topic of the day. Yes, football! What will come of it this year? We are almost inclined to feel uneasy when we run our finger over the line-up of last season and realize what losses we have suffered. Our vali­ ant captain of last year’s squad Tay Uetzmann, dauntless Sharp, level-headed Hillmer, zealous Holzhausen, experi­ enced quarter-back Hinnenthal, sturdy Meier, fighting Buenger, and fleet Cares—they are all heroes of the past for Northwestern. Even in our midst we have a victim of one of last year’s frays, Manie Uetzmann, recuperating and nursing a sore hip. As soon as he is able, he intends to -124-


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—Once again Northwestern’s halls echo with the happy voices of the returning students, eager to go at their studies with new vim and enthusiastic for everything Northwest­ ern. The complete enrollment this fall totals two hundred and twenty-five. Forty-eight new students received rooms in the dormitory. The following new students entered the collegiate department: Gerhard Schuetze, a former student who discontinued his studies for a year, entered the junior class; Karl Diez, Albert Eggert, Linwood Goetz, Waldemar Rupp, John Wahl, and Winfred Westendorf joined the ranks of the sophomores. The new freshmen are Kenneth Archie, Alfons Engel, Fred Huebner, Alvin Raduenz, and Victor Zi egler. —Several seminary students stopped off liere on their way to Wauwatosa. Alex Hillmer, Immanuel Boettcher, Theophil Voges, and John Hermann were seen at Northwestern. Bingo and Cares came back to Northwestern to have their trousers creased. —Puhlbrigge has, as usual, not yet made his appearance. Come on, Seksliie, someone’s waiting for you. 一We heard that Mutt Reimann, who graduated from the commercial department last year, intends to come back this year, but he has not returned yet. Every time Mutt thinks of studying he decides to stay home another week. 一*Several former students of Northwestern will continue their studies at other schools. Tubby Karsten, who was seen Oil the college premises, will study at Milwaukee Normal. Happy Klein has enrolled in the School of Engineering in Milwaukee. Lester Sonn will not return to Northwestern. Hereafter Lester will blow assembly at the Doctor Martin Luther College in New Ulm, Minn. 一The “Black and Red” will be popular this year, because —127—


many new preps have voiced their intentions of subscrib­ ing to the “Red and Black.” —On September 11th, George Rosenhauer and Hubert Sieker, preps, were hosts to their sisters and several friends from Burlington, Wis. The young people made the trip per automobile. —Gus Krause, ’22,entertained Miss Koepsell, with wkom he worked at the cannery last summer, on Sunday, Sept. 11. Miss Koepsell promised Gus another visit in the near future. _Dudley Rohda, ’22,took Xrenke, ’22,with him to his home in Coonie on September 10th. It’s up to Dud to bring Wallie back again too. —Bud Knoll, ’22,was in Milwaukee September 10th and 11th. Bud put through a big deal there. —Any attacks of homesickness that might liave come over Harold Hess, prep, were dispelled by the appearance of his father, three sisters, and a brotlier-in-law from Allenton, Wisconsin, on Sept. 11th. —Art Gentz, *22, went to his home in Juneau, Wisconsin, September 10th, for something to eat. ―Speck Palmer, ’22,made use of all the speed he has in returning to college, and then he barely arrived in time to get his schedule for the year. —On Sunday, Sept. 11th, Mike I-Iinnenthal paid his bro­ ther Hugo and his many friends at Northwestern a short visit Mike is teaching school at Town Herman, Wisconsin. 一Monnie Uetzmann, ’22,was the guest of his brother Tay at the seminary in Wauwatosa on September 10th. 一September 10th, Waldemar Giesclien, prep, was a visitor in Coonie. In Oconomowoc he also met his mother. —We heard from a reliable source that on Sunday, Sept. 11th, Hermie Kuckhahn, ’22, went west.

(tto-Ei Kilim The morning of September 7th found a large number of girls assembled in the girls’ room. Never before was the room so well filled. Only nineteen of the thirty-three of last year returned, but we counted at least twenty new­ comers. Most of the new students live in this city, but there are also representatives of Columbus, Oconomowoc, and Lebanon. —On coming to the girls’ room Wednesday morning, Sept —12S—


7tli, one of the co-eds made a startling discovery. “Look, look,” she cried. “Why, what’s the matter?” we all asked. Then we looked where she was pointing, and saw it一an electric light! Two days later we already had occasion to use it, to our great delight. R. B., *26.

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—Punch: How do you spell mule? Hiramn: M-l-e. Punch: No. that’s wrong. Hiram: Oh, I forgot you. 一Some girls must think that bobbed hair is a short cut to matrimony. 一Prof.: How is the earth divided? Student: Ah, Lloyd George hasn't decided yet. 一Oscar: Sure I sleep with my dog. Adolf: Don’t you know that isn’t healthy? Oscar: Oh, the dog is used to it now. —She: I do love painting so. He: Yes, and its breaking out all over your face. There is no place like home, (when relatives are far away.) I’m a born musician, I am. I was born with 一Ottto: drums in my ears. Shaggy: Do you know the difference between a cater­ pillar and a flea? Bob: No, what is it? Shaggy: Well, the caterpillar crawls on its own body and the flea isn’t so particular. 一Prof.: What does “borough” mean? Ziemer: A small mule. —Red: What class are you in? Sextaner:' Texa. Where It Belonged. 一Planter: Where are you going! Porter: To fetch some water, sor. Planter: What, in those disreputable trousers? Porter: No sor, in dis ’ere pail. -

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THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXV.

Watertown, Wis” Octoeber 1921

Number 5

THE CITIZENS5 MILITARY TRAINING CAMP. Donald F. Rossin, ’22. This summer the first Citizens’ Military Training Camps were held throughout the United States in each of the nine corps areas. These camps were authorized by the Act of Congress of June 4, 1920, which set forth a plan for a new army consisting of three separate yet coherent parts: The Regular Army, the National Guard, and the Organized Re­ serves. It was to train men for the third part, the Organ­ ized Reserves, that these camps were established. The camps were planned on the famous “Plattsburg” idea. Vol­ unteers from civilian life were to be given a short period of drill during the summer to prepare them for a possible future emergency. Three distinct courses of training were planned: the “Red” or elementary course, qualifying for privates; the “White” or more advanced course, qualifying for non-com­ missioned officers; and finally the “Blue” course, qualify­ ing for commissioned officers in the Organized Reserves. Each course was to occupy about one months training dur­ ing the summer. Thus the graduates of the “Red” course could take the “White” course the following summer. An—131—


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other summer spent in taking the “Blue” course would then qualify the graduates for a commission in tlie Organized Reserves. But since Congress did not appropriate enough money to carry out tlie entire program, only tlie “Red” course could be offered this year. The government fitted out one or more training camps in each of the corps areas, and invited young men between the ages of sixteen and thirty-five years to spend about thirty days of the summer out of doors under the direction of tlie war department, preparing themselves as defenders of their country. The response to this call showed very clearly what our young manhood tliinks of the benefits of military training. Over 40,000 young men volun­ teered to attend the camps. Almost three fourths had to be rejected because tliere was room for only about 11,000. Age, physique, occupation, and place of residence were consid­ ered in. making the selection. The government desired to get physically fit men from all walks of life and, if possible, to select them on a population basis, so that all sections of the country would be represented. The men accepted were called “candidates” because they were in reality aspirants or candidates for positions as non-commissioned and commissioned officers in the Or­ ganized Reserves. The government selected Camp 丨Grant, 111., as the train­ ing camp for the sixth corps area, which embraces Michi­ gan, Wisconsin, and Illinois. Over 4,000 applications were made to this camp but only 1209 could be accepted. It was a varied lot of young men that arrived at Camp Grant on July 21, 1921. There were students, farmers, clerks, laborers, and men from every other walk of life, The majority were young men about eighteen to twentyyears of age. Very few had liad any military training what­ soever. A part of the huge war-time camp had been prepared for the new “rookies.” The sight of the weather-beaten barracks so familiar to their older brothers could not but inspire the hearts of the new arrivals with some of tlie zeal that prevailed there during the war. The officers also made a favorable impression. Each and every one of them was a man and a gentleman. Soon the candidates were dressed in khaki and were in the process of becoming soldiers. • The regular army schedule witli a few modifications was carried out. Reveille at 5:30 a. in., setting-up exer•

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cises, mess, a drill period, and occasionally a lecture on some military subject occupied the forenoon. Six hours of active life in the fresh morning air is enough to give anyone an Cliow” was the most appetite if not a craving for food, popular of all formations. Plenty of plain and well-pre­ pared food was served. For healthful, muscle-building qualities the meals could not have been improved upon. The afternoon’s work was not quite so strenuous. An liour was devoted to mass-athletics, such as push-ball and tug-of-war; and to athletic games. There was also a drill period, very often a demonstration or parade, and always a lecture. It is obvious that one month is much too short a tinie to acquire a practical knowledge of all the varied bran ches of a modern fighting machine. Outfits of “regulars” gave demonstrations in the use of machine-guns, trench-mortars, auto-rifles, hand-grenades, light artillery, tanks, and in pon­ toon-bridge building; finally a colossal sham-battle was ar­ ranged in whicli nearly all the above arms and also aero­ planes were used. These demonstrations brought home as nothing else could the duties of the different arms of the service ancl the necessity for team-work to gain success. The lectures also deserve a special paragraph. Every day the entire body of candidates heard one or more well prepared speeches. Officers of the regular army including John J. Pershing ancl also many prominent citizens ad­ dressed the candidates on citizenship, patriotism, history, ancl modern-warfare. Chaplains, Y. M. C. A., and Red Cross men inspired the men with the desire of keeping themselves morally clean and becoming men of character. Experienced army physicians gave practical advice on personal hygiene, first aid, care of the feet, and also some sound facts on sex. The impressions made by these lectures will live on wherever the candidates may go. The athletic games, demonstrations, and speeches served •to counteract the comparatively monotonous drill periods. The day’s schedule was heavy but at the same time well balanced and interesting. Retreat at 5:45 ended the day’s work. Except on special occasions the time after supper, on Saturday afternoons and Sundays was at the candidate’s own disposal. This was a fine time to clean up one’s equipment and get everything in readiness for the next day’s work. The folks at home also wanted to be remembered with a let­ ter now and then. Rockford, a pretty town about five miles from camp, invited the candidates to enjoy its parks, tlie—133—


atres, and river-outing facilities. The majority, however, preferred to remain in camp and take part in baseball, football, and other sports. The camp library and several service clubs, where one might very profitably spend a quiet hour in reading or writing, and the camp theatre, the “;Liberty,” were open to the candidates. On several evenings the entire Citizens* Military Train­ ing Camp regiment marched eli masse to the theatre to see the different stages in the training of a soldier shown on the screen. In connection with these more or less “dry” pictures the official views of the Thirty-second division in France were shown. Before retiring almost everyone took a refreshing shower-bath. Tattoo sounded at 9:00 and taps at 11:00 p. m. A good night,s rest made for vim and vigor for the next day’s work. By the end of the second week the candidates were fairly proficient in infantry drill and had mastered the fun­ damentals of rifle-marksmanship. The schedule for the third week called for a nine mile hike under full equipment, and a four days’ camp on the rifle-Tange with target practice from the different firing positions. On the range the men were divided into three sections. One section manned the targets in the rifle-pits, while another did the actual shooting. The remaining sec­ tion was detailed to clean up about camp and to do other fatigue duty. Every half day the sections interclianged positions. It was hot everywhere, but hottest in the riflepits. Anyone who has ever been in a rifle-pit knows that there is absolutely no possibility for a refreshing breeze to find its way in. Telephone communication was established between the “firing line” and the pits. “Wake up and mark ninety-four !’’ or “Remark nmety-seven” from the operator made the ssweating men in the pits forget their tiredness and “snap out of their dope.” Throughout the four long days the firing and work in the pits continued. During the stay on the range the meals were served from field-kitchens. Eating from mess-kits was something out of the ordinary, but since the food served was good, no one had any occasion to complain. The candidates also had an opportunity to try their hand, or better their luck, at individual camp-cooking. The men were paired off and, after raw bacon, potatoes, coffee beans, sugar, and bread liad been issued, were instructed to build a fire and prepare their evening meal. You were in “luck” if you did not burn


I㊈n your bacon or upset your coffee—and ‘‘hard luck,, if you did. Some succeeded very well as cooks,—others had a very good appetite for breakfast. The entire 1200 men had their pup-tents pitched in one camp. Mother earth is considerably harder than a soft spring bed; but after a tiring day’s work, one could sleep anywhere, even on the hard ground. The time on the range could not have been more busily or more profitably applied. It was a tired but happy lot of men that on the morn­ ing of the fifth day marched back to barracks and to a real bath, real meals, and a real bed. No one who was there will ever forget those four days spent on the range. The fourth and last week at camp was spent chiefly in parades, reviews, road work, and competitions between com­ panies, platoons, squads, and individuals. One day of the last week deserves special mention: Tuesday, August the sixteenth, Governors’ Day. The gover­ nors of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Illinois had been invited to visit the camp and address the candidates. A regular field day with dashes, long distance runs, jumping, pole-vaulting, shot-putting, javelin throwing, and company competitions in various games was arranged. Those who excelled in the separate events received useful presents. On the same occasion the winners of tlie several drill competitions were awarded their prizes. When August the twentieth came, 1209 young men were glad to get home, but at the same time regretted that there were not two more weeks of camp life to enjoy and benefit by. The associations and friends made, the pleasures en­ joyed, and hardships endured will always be remembered by those who attended. Everyone went home conscious that he was a better citizen and also a better man physically and mentally for having attended the camp. Many of the can­ didates will renew old acquaintances by taking the “White” course next summer. The Citizens’ Military Training Camps mark a new era in our national defence. History shows that a determined enemy can seldom be defeated unless a vast citizen army is called in to decide the issue. It was so in the Revolutionary, Civil, Spanish-American, and Europeans wars. In each of these wars we had time to train our citizen army after war had actually been declared. Who knows whether this will be the case in the next war? It takes men, men, men; not only men, but trained men to carry on a successful war. By giving those who are willing to prepare themselves for their country’s service an opportunity to do so, the Citizens' ~135—


Military Training Camps will train a sufficient number of men without inconveniencing those who have not the time or do not wish to take the training. Although attendance at the camps carries no future service obligation, graduates of the camps will be encouraged to join the Organized Reserves that they may be organized on paper and be available on a moment’s notice. Organ­ ized or not organized, these partially trained men will build up a third line of defence behind the Regular Army and the National Guard that can be called upon to defend our coun­ try m a national emergency.

EEST YERLORENEB SOHN. Eine Novelle von Edgar Hoenecke, ’23. “Mutterle, mich wundert, dass unser Fritz lieut Abend so still ist. Letztes Mai hat er doch am Abend vor der Jagd so gelarmt, dass Vater ihm Rulie gebieten musste. Und heut Abend kommt der Rudi, und die beiden wollen docli die Gemsjagd morgen noch besprechen. Nun sitzt er da, als ob er eben vom Himmel gefallen ware.** Mariennele sitzt und strickt, sie hat scheinfs garnicht bemerkt, dass Fritz so ruhig auf der Herdbank sitzt. Als Else sie jetzt darauf aufmerksam macht, geht sie gescliwind hmiiber zum Sohne, der da trotzig sitzt und griibelt. Sie legt ihm die zarte, schon tiefgefurchte Hand auf die riesige Schulter, streicht ihm die wallenden blonden Locken und fragt ihm: ‘Tritzchen, sag mir’s. Was ist denn mit dir los? Hast du einen Streit gehabt?” “Ach, nein, Mutterle, es ist nichts, ich fiihle mich niclit ganz wohl, hab mir heut in der heissen Sonne Kopfweh geholt;’’

“Fritz, das ist es ja doch. nicht. Mein grosser Bub wiirde doch nicht wegen einem Bischen Kopfweh den Kopf so hangen lassen? Und morgen ist ja Gemsjagd. Hast wolil ganz und gar yergessen, dass unser Rudi noch heut Abend kommt? Mariannele kennt den lieben Fritz selir wohl. Wenn gitz bedruckt ist, dann ist gewiss etwas nicht in Ordnung. Weng ihm nur nicht etwas Sdilimmes zugestossen ist! -den immer apfelroten Pausbacken, kommt. Jlef,v^er fragt ihn ganz kurzweg, indem er ihm mit seinem Rudi, was macht der Ste?^n Scharfen Blick durchbohrt: .136—


妙这】 “Danke, es geht ihm sehr gut. -Er lasst Ihnen sagen, dass der Muhldamm an einer Stelle schon zu morsh und miirbe ist, um die wilden Bergstrome auszuhalten.” “Schon gut! Ich werd’s nachsehen.” Ohne noch ein Wort zu sagen, dreht sich der gestrenge Fichtholz im Stuhle wieder zum Tisch herum und liest ruhig in seiner lieben Bibel weiter. Der Jagdplan fiir morgen wird schnell erFritz geht, auf den Vorwand hin, dass er Kopfweh ledi: Bett. Rudi unterhalt sich noch ein Weilchen mit hat, den Frauen und dann macht er sich auf den Heimweg. Wie gewohnlich begleitet ihn Else ans Tor. Befriedigt lachelnd sieht die treue Mutter dem Paare nach, wie sie im schleierhaften Mondlicht den Bergpfad unbesorgt hinaufspringen. Es erinnert sie an vergangene Tage, als Fichtholz noch jung, lebensfroh und leichtsinnig war. Aber die Gegenwart ist ihr plotzlich wieder im Sinn. Was ist mit ihrem Fritz? Schlaf, den siissen, starkenden Schlaf, kennt die besorgte Mutter die Nacht nicht. Mude und besorgt bereitet sie Pritzens Rucksack vor, steckt ihm leckere Bissen zu, und als die rechte Zeit kommt, weckt sie ihn. Er scheint frohlicher, hoffnungsvoller zu sein als gestern. Darum schwindet der grosste Teil der Muttersorge, und sie ergiitzt sich an der festen, stattlichen Gestalt ihres einzisen Sohnes. Das Horn wird in die frisphe Morgendammerung geblasen und nach und nach von jeder Richtung kommen die lustigen Jager. Fritz fiihrt den Zug und mit Pfeifen und Jubeln jagt die wilde Gesellshaft in die Berge. Beim Petershiigel holt man Rudi ab und weiter, hoher und hoher gehfs dem Schnee und Eis entgegen. Beim Pilatusbrocken halt der Zug, ehe er den Augen des Dorfes entschwindet. Fritz und Rudi winken der Else noch frolilich zu und dann einer nach dem andern verlieren sie hinter dem Brocken den Blick aufs Dorf. Der Tag vergeht. Mit lautem, triumphierenden Gejodel und Gesang rast die wilde Jagerbande auf windschnellen Skis dem Tale zu. Wie riesige Schaumwellen walzen sich die Nebel des schweren Erdrauchs iiber das stille Tal. Bei Pichtholzens wird man um Fritz gefragt. Niemand weiss, wo er sein mag. Einer meint endlich er sei mit Rudi nach Hause gegangen. Das ist nichts Neues. Fritz kommt gewohnlich nicht gleich nach der Jagd nach Hause. Darum wartet man auch unbesorgt bis zum nachsten Abend. Als er sich dann noch nicht zeigt, wird Fichtholz sturmisch: “Da ist der tolle Kerl schon wieder nicht da. Viel Hilfe hab ich allerdings nicht —137—


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yon dem Burschen. Muss man noch in seinen alten Tagen das Vieh besorgen, und der einzige, starke Sohn bummelt in den Bergen umher. Das muss aber bald aufhoren! Der doch auch im Schweisse meines Angesichts mein' Brot verdient! Der geM mir, sobald er wieder liier ist, mal tuchtig an die Arbeit und verdiente sich mal selbst das tagliche Brot!” Marianele nimmt den Liebling in Schutz. “Fichtholz/* sagt sie ihm, “lass,den Jungen doch sein. Wild und gerade so abenteuerlich warst du auch selbst in deiner Jugend. Der wird sich bald genug niederlassen. Mit der Zeit wird er noch. gerade so brav wie du jetzt auch bist. Er muss sich. nur ’mal ordentlich. austoben.” Obwohl Else ihm auch noch beisteht mit der Ausrede, “Vater, du weisst ja doch auch, dass Fritz ofters schon spat heimgekommen ist. Uebel wird er’s doch niclit meinen. Bis ’ morgen wird er wohl wieder hier sein.” Dennoch ltann der gestrenge Alte es sich niclit ausreden lassen. Immer wie­ der halt er ihnen vor: “Fritz hatte sich beizeiten heimscheren sollen! Damit Punktum!” Sogar der nachste Tag lasst nichts vom Fritz lioren Oder sehen. Weil Mariannele schon so besorgt ist, wird der Knecht zur Hiitte des alten Peter gesandt, um sicli zu erkundigen, warum Fritz denn eigentlich niclit schon heimgekehrt ist. Der Knecht kommt sehr bald wieder zurlick, aber ohne Fritz und ohne viel Nachriclit vom Fritz. Rudi hatte noch mit ihm gesprochen am Scheidewege und er daclite Fritz sei nach Hause gegangen. Der Knecht erzahlt ferner, dass Rudi schon in den Bergen herumsuche nacli irgendeiner Spur von Fritzens Scliicksal. Die dorfische Rettungsmannschaft wird vom Fichtholz sogleich auf die Suche geschickt, um doch endlich gewisse Nachriclit vom Fritz zu erfahren. Jetzt kommt sogar dem stoischen Alten die Sorge um den Sohn. Ohne seinen Zweck erreicht zu haben, kehrt die Mannschaft zuruck. Der Vater ist wie galahmt vor Schmerz. Ihm ist eins klar. Fritz ist gewiss in den pletschern verungliickt. Keinen Laut bringt man mehr aus dem Alten. In sich gekehrt sitzt er den ganzen Tag vor der Tur mit der Bibel auf dem Schoss. In den Psalmen sucht er Trost. Eine Woche wartet man noch, dann veranstaltet der Fichtholz eine traurige Leichenfeier fur den verungliickten Sohn. Das gauze Dorf ist in Tranen iiber d^n Verlust seines besten. Schiitzen und,freudigsten, schonsten Burschen. Aber kaum hat man sich von dem Sclirecken erholt, —138—


alles ist noch in stummer Trauer, da, da kommt auf einmal ein Brief von Fritz an die Else一aus Amerika! Fritz ist also garnicht tot? In Amerika ist er! Da gibtrs aber Nachriclit. Kaum konnen Elses zitternde Hande den Brief offnen. Dann wird gelesen, von Zeile zu Zeile wird der Freudensbrief verschlungen. Laut vorlesen soil sie ihn! Mit dankbaren Blick gen Himmel gerichtet, wartet die schwergepriifle Mutter auf die Nachricht des Sohnes. Kaum fangt Else an vorzulesen, da steht der alte Fichtholz auf, klopft mit der knochigen Faust auf den Tisch and schrei: “Else, sei still! Du liesst mil* den Brief nicht vor! Und von dem Lumpen will ich auch niclits mehr horen! Solch unverscMmte Undankbarkeit! Der kann und soil mir verschollen bleiben auf immer! Und das ihr mich nicht an den unniitzen Liimmel schreibt! Mein Sohn heisst er jedenfalls nicht mehr! Darauf macht euch nur gefasst!” Das war wie bittere Galle auf die Freude beim Empfang des Briefes. Still schluchzt die Mutter an der Tochter Else ist die Hoffnung auf ein Wiedersehen verBrust. schwunden. Marian nele uberwindet die erste Enttiiuschung, und ihr Mutterlierz findet bald Trost, auf irgendeinem Wege den grollenden Vater umzustimmen. Nach einigen Tagen scheint es ihr aber gar vergeblich. Der Vater ist und bleibt einfach knurrig. Da, eines Morgens kommt Fichtholz nach seiner Arbeit ganz wehmiitig gestimmt und bedriickt in die Kueche zur Mariannele. Sie weiss, dass er ihr etwas Trauriges zu erzahlen hat, darum liisst sie ihn ruhig sitzen. Nach einiger Fichtholz, was ist dir denn eigentZeit, fragt sie endlich: lich? Warum bist du so traurig?” Aber Fichtholz will nicht aTsbald mit der Sprache herAch, Maaus. Endlich kann er sich nicht mehr halten: riannele seufzt er, “heut Morgen ist mir die beste Milchkuh im Stalle gestorben'! Eine Kuh, wie die Bunte Liese eine war, kann ich mir auch um keinen Preiss wiederkaufen. Dass es auch gerade die Lieblingskuh sein musste!” Da, endlich war flir Mariannele die rechte Stunde geschlagen. Jetzt nur die Geschichte richtig angefangen und, wenn. sie sich nicht sehr in ihrem teuren Fichtholz tauscht, kann sie ihn. wenn jemals, jetzt zur Milde umstimmen. “Fichtholz,” redet sie ihn an, “sell註mst du dich iiberhaupt garnicht mehr? Da steckt dein einziger Sohn m einem wildfremden Lande in Gefahr zu Grunde zu gehen, und hier stelist du und machst solch. unnotiges Getue iiber eine dumme Kuh! Vergib deinem Solme docli die Scliuld —139—


und lass Else den Brief yorlesen. Schaden wird dir’s freilich nicht!” “Na ja,” murmelt der Alte in den Bart, setzt sicli aber wie eine alte knorrige Biche in seinen Lehnstulil und verzielit keine Miene. Else verliert keine Zeit und liesst mit riihrender Stimme dem stolzen Vater den Brief vor. Sie liesst: Liebe Schwester:— Bin also in Amerika, schon seit mehreren Monaten. Hab dies Land schon satt! Vielleicht sind es aber am meisten die Zustande, in denen ich hier lebe. Die Leute, mit denen man in Beruhrung kommt, sind reclit hoflich, hoflicher als wie zu Hause, hier gibfs keinen Klassenunterscliied und selbst ist der Mann! Will dir auch kurz erzahlen, wie es mir ergangen ist. Als ich in New York ankam, zahlte mein Geld nur wenig mehr als sieben Mark. An die Arbeit musste ich. Und dank meines yielen Jagens und Kletterns in den Bergen konnte ich die schwere Arbeit gut verrichten. Am Hafen wurde ich beim Aus- und Einladen angestellt. Durch meine Mitarbeiter verlockt, geriet ich bald auf die Bummel. Vom Osten zum Westen, Norden zum Siiden, kreuz und quer ubers Land fuhr ich als blinder Passagier auf der Eisenbahn. Neulich fuhr ich und funfzehn Meinesgleichen wieder auf so einem Schnellzuge nacli Chicago, wir kamen eben von Oma­ ha. Kaum waren wir aber an den ersten Dorfern bei Omaha yorbei, muss uns ein lumpiger Wachter gesehen liaben. Bei der nachsten Station wurden. wir so vom Zuge geworfen, dass ich mit Wucht den Bahndamin liinabkollerte. Als ich wieder recht zur Besinnung kam, bemerkte ich, dass ich gegen etwas sehr weiches gerollt war. Sehr bald bemerkte ich, dass es ein menschlicher Korper war, der augenscheinlicli sclion gestorben Oder sonst im Sterben war. Mit Abscheu wandte ich micli weg, aber eine unheimliche Macht zog mich zuriick. Da sah ich, dass der Men sell nocli lebte. Mit meinem wenigen Gelde hab ich ihn im Hospital unterstiitzt. Da kam mir der iGedanke: ‘Fritz,’ dachte ich, ‘wenii du nicht bald umkehrst, wirst du aucli einrnal so verlumpt und verschunden aussehen an Leib unf Seele!’ Sobald Jack sichso weit erliolt hatte, dass icli mit ilim reisen konnte, er erlag namlicli einem Anfall von Malariafieber, nahm ich ihn nach Milwaukee. Hier arbeiten wir nun beide in einer Gerberei. Ich. sehne mich nach der Heimat! Ware ich doch nicht so toricht gewesen, ein solch. gluckliclies Heim zu veracliten! —140—


Grusse die Eltern freundlichst von mir. Auch Rudi. Dich aber griisst besonders Dein treuer Bruder Fritz. Die starre Eiche im Stuhl kann diesen Sturm nicht ertragen. Sobald als Else mit dem Lesen fertig ist, sagt der Vater: “Geh, Else, schreib ihm, er soil heimkommen, und Schick ihm auch das notige Geld.” Da ist die Freude wider obenan. In wenigen Wochen 1st alles wieder beim Alten, nur eins liat sicli verandert. Else wohnt nicht mehr bei den Eltern. Oben in des alten Peters Hutte nimmt sie den Platz ein, den Rudis Mutter durch ihren Tod vor etlichen Jahren offen machte. Fritz ist wie neugeboren. Tagtaglich sieht man ihn hinter dem Pflug Oder bei sonstiger Beschaftigung. Der verlorene Sohn war wieder in des Vaters Armen! LAI50K AND CAPITAL. Gustav Krause, ’22. Many volumes of books have been written on the sub­ ject of labor and capital, but still no one seems to have found a happy solution. A certain element among the la­ boring class lias advanced the argument that labor creates all and therefore is entitled to all, that the surplus value above the bare cost of the material that goes into the articles should be turned over to the hand laborers who made them, and that the whole world should be run solely for the bene­ fit of the laboring class. We know, however, that no article on the market is entirely the product of labor. There are millions of articles used throughout the world that are but partially created by labor. Everyone concedes that labor enters into the mak­ ing of every thing worth while; into some things on a large scale, into others on a very small scale. Labor, however, is not the sole producer of value. Capital in some form is an important requisite of every product. But capital, we are told, is only labor stored up. If capital is only labor stored up, then there was not any­ thing but labor in the first place. This is a foolish argu­ ment. The purpose of labor is to change something, to effect a result upon something. We are told that the raw material that labor works upon really belongs to labor, and, as it belongs to labor, anything that labor does to it is labor’s own product and thus belongs to it. Yet, how could it be一141—


long to labor? Labor did not produce it and therefor can­ not claim that which it did not produce. Labor was as plen­ tiful centuries ago in proportion to the population and tlie development of industry as it is today. But the trees of a hundred years ago which could have furnished wood-pulp for paper were burned because no one knew of a process for making paper from pulp. It was ability and capital that helped labor blaze the way to modem industry. Ability is the genius that explores, invents, devises, and plans for the future. Who will argue that a man of ability is,not entitled to as great if not a greater reward than the ]man who merely listens to him and does what the brain-worker says? But what is that something we call capital, which has so bad a name that men dislike to be called capitalists even though they be honorable men? The most common form of it is that which represents sayings. Saving is merely holding on to the money or profit you have rightly earned. You do not spend it recklessly as others do; you prefer to pinch and skimp; get along without fancy things to eat or wear; wear cotton when others burn their money up for silks; work while others play. These savings are all yours; made at your own. sacrifice. It costs others nothing. Should you not, therefore, be fully entitled to invest your savings to build up an industry, or turn the investment into a business of your own and receive profits on it? Can an industry hope for success without sufficient capital? Was it not ability plus capital that gave America its steel and iron industries, its woolen-mills? Labor should not expect to be paid at a premium when it lacks ability. About a century ago an Irish lad came to America from the linen mills of Ireland. He started a linen, shop in the city of New York that grew to be the most successful drygoods house of its day. He saved liis earnings; used his brain; drew to his organization a staff of Irish, employees that established his reputation and liis fortune. History records his name as Alexander Turney Stewart. Immediately after his death his executor, Henry Hil­ ton, took charge of the big store. The capital was all there; all the labor stayed with it. Stewart’s splendid name still clung to it, and things seemed to go on as before. A few years passed; the capital was growing weaker, the employees were leaving, the store itself was on the verge of bankruptcy. John Wanamaker now bought the Stewart store, strengthened its capital, and again hired the former clerks. He began exactly where Hilton had begun several —142—


years previously—with the same amount of capital and the same roll of clerks. Very soon the great Stewart store turned from failure to a new success. Why? Was not the capital the same as it had been under Hilton? Yes. And the labor? Yes. And the ability? No. Success was pro­ duced only at the time when the ability of Stewart and Wanamaker was applied. It is ability that has made America what it is; this ability, however, is not found as readily as it was a century ago. We Americans have forgotten how to save. May these trying times serve as a lesson. We owe an inexpress­ ible debt of gratitude to the millions of toiling men and women of tlie former clays for their careful saving and thrift. It was because they did without things they might have had, that we have the things we otherwise should be without. Even the brains of Watt, Fulton, Morse, Bell, Howe, Edison, and the hosts of other inventors would have accomplished nothing at all for us, if it had not been for the millions of money and property stored up for use in in­ dustry by the prudent and saving people of the past. There is and always will be a conflict of interest be­ tween employees and employers at some points. It is en­ tirely right that each should strive for its true rights. The desire of labor to better labor conditions is legitimate. But that either should seek to conquer the other is wrong and the height of folly for both. Only through reason and com­ mon sense, by pulling with and not apart from all the rest, P. can labor hope to win its cause.

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©ttortalB TO-DAY^ EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM INEFFICIENT? ―But a few months ago Thomas Edison awakened the world, as it seemed, to a very lamentable fact. The entire country was highly excited; the daily papers printed long lists of questions addressed to college and university stu­ dents of the country, and then brought reports of the in­ ability of these men to answer them. It was surprising how little the average college-man knew and it seemed, therefore, that our educational system was very inadequate. 一Now that the storm of high, excitement has subsided, one has the opportunity to consider the question in a normal state of mind, whether or not Edison proved the inefficiency of to-day’s educational system. We hardly believe lie did. Quite naturally the object of attending any school is to gain knowledge; and if one lias attended school for ten, twelve, or fifteen years, itt may also quite naturally be expected of him that lie be acqu;ainted —144—


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So even though a man like Edison seems to have brand­ ed the mark of inefficiency on the educational system, of our country and seems to have shaken the walls of tlie seats of learning, this impression is wrong and lie has not even, budged the deep laid foundations of sound education.

LUTHER THE GREATEST MAN OF ALL TIMES, Mighty kings and rulers, famous generals and conquerors, engenious statesmen, and diplomats, brilliant orators and poets, deep thinkers and scientists, learned scliolars and theologues, talented artists and musicians, worldrenowned inventors and discoverers, in short, great men, truly great men, who with their high intellectuality and wonderful achievements have brought about change and transformation, wlio have gained the respect and admira­ tion of the whole world, wlio have, particularly, through their creation of great governments, through precious liter­ ature, through beautiful buildings, through enchanting mu­ sical compositions, through useful inventions, conferred up­ on all nations untold benefits一such truly great men the world has produced during the last centuries. But of these none can, despite all their greatness, compare with Martin Luther, the great Reformer. What would Europe, what would America, what would the whole world be to-day, if Luther had never lived? Vassal states of the papacy, slave states of Rome! And in the fullest sense the words of Scrip­ ture would still apply: “Darkness shall cover the world and gross darkness the people!” What, then, did Luther do for the world? What made him such a great man, yes, the greatest man since the days of the Apostles. Not only the Protestant churches in the whole world celebrate his birthday next month and praise God that he sent this pioneer into the world, but also all atheists and unbelievers, who are acquainted with the history of the papacy and our mod­ ern times, must admire and revere him. For Luther is the great reformer, who broke the power of Rome, thereby achieving more than Arminius in the Teutoburg forest, He is the hero of liberty, the deliverer of the world, who gave all nations a new foundation of government and restored to all people their liberties. He is the exemplary man of the people, the rejuvenator of the wholesome customs of his fellow-men and the founder of the German language. He is the founder of the Christian home, the ideal husband, :■

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the true lover of children, a friend of the poor and needy, the widows and orphans, a comforter and adviser of both rich and poor. He is the scholar and promoter of all arts and learning, a friend of nature, a man of high intellectual powers and untiring diligence. But not even all of this gives us a clear impression of Luther’s greatness, nor does it describe the enormous work for the fulfillment of which God called Luther. The Reformation brings with it a far more precious treasure: Luther’s translation of the Bible. Through this enormous task Luther restored to Christianity the pure and simple word of God and brought the Old and New Testament to the - service and comprehension of all sorts and conditions of men. And, not to forget, for the young men, who intend to enter -the ministry, Luther should be an example, a guid­ ing star. His character contains two qualities which are essential in the character of a servant of God: sincerity and fearlessness. Priest and public man as Luther was, there was not a trace, not a line of hypocrisy in his whole being. He blurted out the truth, and the whole truth, as lie saw it, entirely reckless of its consequences to himself and others. He spoke his mind, as he himself once put it, “despite all cardinals, popes, kings and emperors, together with all devils and hell.” That is what made him a reformer from his earliest manhood. In the order of the Augustinians, to which Luther belonged, he soon discovered that smooth cant and false unction had taken the place of real righteous­ ness. When the indulgences crossed his path, it was in­ evitable that he should destroy them or sacrifice liis life in the attempt. In the indulgences and the many abuses connected with them, Luther recognized nothing but a gross fraud prac­ ticed upon the innocent and blind people, the selling of the promise of forgiveness, grace and heaven for a sordid sum of money. On the 31st of October, 1517, lie posted on the castle church of Wittenberg a document setting forth his frank opinion of indulgences and thereby began a revolu­ tion. This act not only portrayed Luther’s sincerity but also liis fearlessness. So habitually fearless was he that throughout his life he never once faltered in the perform­ ance of a duty, even though it meant the loss of his pop­ ularity. It was his habit of courage that fitted him to make liis great stand for conscience at the Diet of Worms. He defied both death and, what is certainly harder, the hostile opinion of the world. There is no better way in which we can commemorate Luther’s birthday, than by sincerely en—147—


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Man is so constructed in mind and body that, presum­ ing he is in a normal state mentally and physically, he does nothing of any import without some end or aim in view. No matter what the undertaking be there must have been some motive that prompted him to act; he must liave had some end in view. We, the editorial staff of the college paper, in cooper­ ation with the collegiate department of our institution go to the trouble of publishing a journal every month. To some of us it may seem almost to be a custom come down to us like some ancient tradition that we become members of the staff and feel ourselves forced to do the work ex­ pected of us, as our predecessors did also; that we labor on with apparently no end in view. If this is the case, our toiling is useless, and we may as well make the start, break the bonds of custom, and end all this useless waste of per­ fectly good energy and valuable time.—But we may have some object in view after all, and if we have, what is it? According to our way of looking at things, one of the two main aims is to establish a band of fellowship among the men who have left our institution as honorable grad­ uates. or under-graduates. These men leave their Alma Mater to take up their life’s work, be it in whatever field it may. Many of them do not get the opportunity to revisit the first haunts of their learning for years, they hear very little of their old school, excepting what they read in the college journal. To them this paper means much. It calls them back to the roomy old halls and to the hard benches of the class-room they left years ago. It tells them that there are young men in their same old rooms, doing the very things they did in days gone by—and they enjoy themselves alone with memories. But still there is another aim toward which our efforts tend. ^ Through our paper we introduce our institution to our friends, neighboring schools and colleges. To them we bring every month a report of the scholarship existing at our college. We bring our best for them to judge from. But a selfish, egoistic, motive might lie at the bottom —148—


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of this intention—conceit! If the staff that edits the col­ lege paper together with their cooperators do so and think that they are thereby giving the world something weighty and deep, something for which it cannot thank them enough, they surely are an arrogant set of conceited young people. A paper that is issued by such a group of characters is bound to create the same impression as do its opinionated authors. The average college student is not mature enough to write articles of such a nature that the world looks on them with awe; that is beyond him, and consequently let us, each and every member of our college paper’s staff erad­ icate every iota of conceit within us, so that lie who reads our work finishes with the opinion that we have worked to the best of our ability一whether the work be good or bad, tliat is left for him to judge. Thus we might sum up in one sentence: the object of our college paper is to create a bond of fellowship among the graduates of our institution and to exhibit the scholar­ ship existing there, without haughtiness and conceit, to our friends, neighboring schools, and colleges. EDITOR’S NOTE:一As stated in the September issue of the Black and Red, all members of the last year’s graduating class had entered the Seminary at Wauwatosa; the Alumni editor reported this on misinformation. Rudolph Schlueter is at present instructor at Bethany Ladies’ College, Man­ kato, Minnesota. Hans Bierwagen is not enrolled with his class either. Rumor lias it that he is now in California.

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—On Wednesday, Sept. 14th, Rev. A. Eickmann, ’06,o/ Dakota, Minn., was on the gridiron and watched the foot­ ball team go through its daily practice. Sunday afternoon, Sept. 18, he preached at the annual mission festival of the St. Mark*s Lutheran Church here. ―Mr. Paul Eickmann, ’17, has given up his studies at the Seminary at Wauwatosa and is now at the University of Michigan preparing himself to teach, natural sciences at Northwestern College. Mr. Eichmann was called by the Board to serve the Synod in this manner, since with the in­ troduction of new courses Dr. Ott cannot be expected to take over all the work. Before leaving for Ann Harbor, Mr. Eickmann visited his friends here Sept 17. Since he is a lover of football and one of our former coaches, he took great delight in watchilig our 1921 squad during practice. 一While in Watertown on business Rev. E. Dornfeld, ’04, of Milwaukee, Wis., visited Ed. Sponliolz, ’25,on Sept. 19. He was here again Oct. 1 ,for the Beloit-Northwestern foot­ ball game, but was compelled to leave before the game was concluded. —We are glad to announce that Prof. Dr. Ernst, wlio has not been able to teach because of a paralytic stroke suffered shortly before the close of the summer recess, is very much improved in, his condition. Although, the function of his left arm is still impaired, he is no longer entirely confined to his bed, but can already move about unassisted. Since it is impossible for Dr. Ernst to come to his class-room to teach, he has an ardent desire to have tlie students come to


his house and receive his instructions, and it is only the strict rules laid down by his doctor that keep our venerable Doctor from taking up at least a part of his work. 一Rev. W. Schumann, ’12, of North Fond du Lac, Wis., has accepted a call to Markesan, Wis. —On Sept. 21, Rev. H. Bergmann, ’80, of Milwaukee, Wis., and Rev. Geo. Bergmann, ’85, president of the Wisconsin Synod, visited Dr. Ernst. Rev. H. Bergmann also spent some time with his nephew, E. Blumenthal. 一Rev. John Abelmann, ’05,Edgar, Wis., visited his mother Mrs. Mary Abelmann and his brother Dr. T. C. Abelmann, ex ’05, both of Watertown, September 23. In the afternoon he was seen on the gridiron while the football team was going through its signals. 一Rev. Ph. Koehler, ’09, of Iron Ridge, Wis., preached at the mission festival of the Trinity English Lutheran Church here Sunday, September 25. 一Waldemar Heidtke, ’20, sojourned here with his former fellow-students for a few hours on September 29. He then returned to the University of Chicago. Mr. Heidtke is now writing a thesis for his M. A. degree and intends to enter the Seminary at Wauwatosa after Christmas. 一Mr. E. Blakewell, *18, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, was called to the bedside of his mother, who has undergone an operation at La Crosse. 一On September 18, Martin Zimmermann, ’18, of Watertown, was ordained after the morning mission service at St. Mark’s Lutheran Church. On Thursday, September 29, Rev. Zimmermann left for .Globe, Arizona, where he is in charge of the Mission among the Whites. 一October found the football team primed for its annual battle with Beloit College, and many lovers of the sport found this date an opportune one to visit their Alma Mater. Among our many backers on the sidelines we discerned Rev. H. K. Moussa. ’00,of Jefferson, Wis., Rev. E. Dornfeld, ’04, of Milwaukee, Wis., Rev. P. Marohn, ’13, of Richwood, Wis., Rev. J. Henning, ’18, of Enterprise, Wis., Charles Kuske, ’18, Luther Voss, ’18, G. Press,,20, K. Timmel, ’20, Arthur Arndt, ’21,E. Baumann, ’21, Im. Boettcher, 21, M. Buenger, ’21,Ed. Jaster, ?21, Alb. Meier,,21, and B. Pankow, *21, all of the Seminary at Wauwatosa. By the expressions on their faces after the game one could tell they were highly pleased with the showing of tlie college team. —151—


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From reports among the students it seems that Dr. Ernst is rapidly recovering liis healtli. His illness has con­ fined him indoors for about eight weeks now. The entire student-body expressed its sincerest hopes that he may have a speedy and complete recovery when they sent him flowers to cheer his sick-room. 氺 # # « The student-body assembled in the dormitory chapel for the purpose of electing a new student-body secretary. Hohda, the secretary for the senior class, wished to be re­ leased from this extra work and his reasons were found valid. R. Marti has accepted the office as secretary. Another meeting was called for the purpose of prac­ ticing some yells. The new yell leaders are Monie Uetzmann, Sliortie Weissgerber, and Rustie Rossin. The hardy support whicli the team received from the side-lines at the Beloit game on the first of October was greatly due to their efforts. We feel that it is our duty to thank the students from the Seminary for their generous support in tlie rooting! 氺眷. # « The Athletic Board, revived last year, is now in full swing. The Board is a committee of six. It must com­ prise three Seniors and two Juniors and the managers of the football or baseball teams. The object of this board is to cooperate with, and to assist the Athletic Director, Prof. Parisius, and to represent the student-body in athletic af­ fairs. Its present members are: Palmer, pres., Rossin, and Brandt, Seniors; and Wacker and Engel, Juniors. Krain is manager of the football squad and attends the meetings of the board. 本

The Northwestern College Band held its first meeting and found that outside of the trombone section the losses sustained were not of great moment. The prospects for the year are good, according to I. Uetzmann, the new president. The directorship, left vacant by the absence of Prof. Westerhaus, will be filled by Prof. E. Wendland. Prof. Wendland directed the orchestra last year and tlie band expects —152—


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to win back its last year’s reputation under him. A new bass horn and a piccolo are the latest acquirements of the band. The band rehearses twice a week in the gymnasium. The officers elected for this year are: I Uetzm^pres.; John List, yice-pres. A. H. Baer, secretary, and Hilmar Krueger, librarian. We all hope that this year also the band will be successful in its ambitions and be a source of constant pride for our Northwestern. The Northwestern College Smoking Society has also be­ gun its 1921 season. On Saturday evening the first of ( tober, A. Fuhlbrigge, W. Krueger, W. Frank, and R. Falk were duly accepted as members of the club. About thirty students have applied for membership. The society had its elections last June with the following result: President, A. Gentz; vice-president, W.. Voigt; secretary, W. Krenke; treasurer, I. Uetzmann; sergeant-at-arms, W. Siffring. The club rooms were moved from the second floor of the old wing to the basement of the right wing of the new dormitory. Although these quarters are less pleasant, the season is expected to furnish amusement and entertainment for the many lonesome hours of the winter. On Wednesday evening, the twenty-eighth of Septem­ ber, the Trinity Sunday School showed the College Film in the gymnasium. This film was taken last Decoration Day and at the closing exercises last June. It shows the life at our college in a way in which no other method could be successful. If it is shown in our Lutheran congregations, it should encourage parents to send their sons more will­ ingly, since they can obtain such a clear picture of collegelife through them. Among other pictures, the slides prepared by Prof. Koehler, of the Theological Seminary, were the most inter­ esting. They showed proposed plans of the new seminary, possible sites, and several new views of the old building. *

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On October 1, Coach Parisius brought his squad of sturdy athletes out upon our gridiron for the first battle of the 1921 football season, against the strong eleven from Be­ loit, which but a week before defeated the Northwestern University of Evanston, 111., by a score of 7 to 0. Although Beloit outweighed our players, our team acted like a group of veterans and battled the opponents to a 0 to 0 standstill. This was a great surprise to all Watertown fans as well as to the visitors from Beloit, who expected to run up a score of at least sixty points before the end of the first half. Northwestern received the kick-off, Huebner our quar­ terback returning the ball ten yards before being downed. Captain Brandt then tried to pierce the Beloit line with but little avail. He then punted and the safety, Radebaugh. who was rather nervous, fumbled and Gentz recovered the ball on the opponent’s thirty yard line. A pretty forward, followed by a succession of line smashes brought us within eight yards of victory. This was our first and best chance for a score, but an incomplete pass on the fourth down put the oval into the hands of our enemy. After this very little can be said about the first quarter, for nothing but punts • —154—


occurred, both lines holding like a stone-wall, not permit­ ting any of the backs to gain over five yards at a time. The second quarter found the two squads battling forty yards from Beloit’s goal, from whence our opponents started their longest and most threatening march through our ter­ ritory. A penalty, several forwards, short line plunges and long end runs netted them fifty yards before they could be held on downs. We were now in a very critical position, only ten yards from our own goal, but a nice punt by Brandt again put the ball in enemy territory. No decisive gains were made during the remainder of the quarter. Between halves the forty rooters who accompanied the Beloit eleven came across the field and rooted before our bleachers. This added new life to the many Northwestern supporters and through their unceasing yells they drove the Beloit group off the field一another disappointment for the visitors. Second half. It was now Beloit’s turn to receive the kick-off which their speedy little left half, Radebaugh, re­ turned thirty yards, dashing through, almost our entire team before being brought to earth. Then followed a short-lived attack, for Kuske intercepted a forward, passed through the entire defense only to be stopped by the last Beloit man. Our backs then tore through the line one after another for large gains, coming within twenty yards of a score only to lose the ball on downs. Beloit punted and Brandt followed suit with a perfect punt, the ball rolling out of bounds on the visitors’ five yard line. A short time later, when Huebner tried a drop-kick the ball again, rolled outside in the very same place. The last quarter was one of passes and long gains. Over sixty yards were gained via the aerial-pass route. Again and again our men broke through to block a forward, until Lehmann finally recovered the ball on an attempted drop-kick and sped down the field for twenty yards. When lie was downed the final whistle blew. In this first game our team showed that it is well able to compete with any team in the conference. With a little more seasoning we may hope to see our name on top or at least very near the top of the list of victors in the standing of the “Little Five” conference. 一155—


The line-up: BELOIT. NORTHWESTERN. •…Addie R. E. Kohli.................... .Dalgren .R. T. Gentz.................... .• Currey R. G.. Lehmann............... .Engells C. .Kuckhahn ............. ..McGraw Niemann............... ...........L. G. Robothem Palmer.................. ...........L. T .…Sims Kuske.................... ...........L. E, Huebner............... ......... Q. B......................McCarthy, Capt. ........Rasabond Brandt, Capt.......... ««••«« U« «•■••• ___Radebaugh Sharp .................... ....... L. H. B........... ............... Algel Siffring................ ...........P. B............... Referee一R. L. Wiley, Madison. Umpir e一H. M. Lamport, Madison. Head Linesman―W. P. Fortune, Madison. Time of quarter一Fifteen minutes. 3 - Q.

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want of a better place, settled down here and there with the reading matter. We think it would be better to put all the advertisements in the rear of the paper. Your paper opens witli several editorials. The first encourages all students to apply themselves to their work with the new energy that the varied environments of the summer vacation have produced. The second invites new students to take part in the various school activities that they may become acquainted and catch the school spirit. “One View” and ^Another View” discuss views on ed­ ucation. The practitioner dwells on the mere acquisition of a large number of facts. The writer correctly points out that sucli an education can lead only to mental and moral confusion because it neglects the soul. The extreme clas­ sicists view is also faulty. It lays too much stress on the old classics. The present tendency is to put aside the clas­ sics for such things as will bring immediate tangible re­ turns. No one can deny that “ceteris paribus” the man who has mastered several languages is better educated than he who has not. “Fata Academica” contains what is usually termed “Locals” or “News.” In one of the items you have “Thurs­ day, September 7.” September 7 was on a Wednesday. “Going Down” is the story of the author’s first visit to a mine. The plot is well carried out. We feel as though we ourselves were actually visiting the mine with the author as guide. The writer of the next article goes rather mucli into de­ tail about the life, works and style of a little known Amer­ ican poet, John Gould Fletcher. “Witli the Collegians” seems to be the humor section. Do you not think that the paragraphs devoted to “A Yel­ low Primrose一A Red-brick School” would fit in better as an editorial? A short column on athletics concludes the paper. We shall pass over the material and give a few sugges­ tions on arrangement and presentation. We think you could impro vq the attractiveness of your paper considerably by dividing the material into definite departments. Stories would then be found in the “Literary” department, as is the case with most college papers. A few cuts as department heads would not be out of place either. You have an Exclia nge and Alumni editor; but where are their departments? college paper can hardly hope for success without taking the alumni into consideration. You have a Co-Ed Department and a Co-Ed Comment Ed—157—


itor; but never a word do we see pertaining to co-eds. You have an Athletic column, but apparently no Athletic Editor. There can be no question but that you have the ability and talent to make your paper a worthy representative of your college. We hope you will receive these comments in the spirit in which they are extended. May the Chimes ever climb upward to perfection.

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—Sept. 8 Alfons Engel, ’25, was host to his sister, Miss Tabea Engel of Elkton, South Dakota. —Leisten, prep, spent September 15 and 16 at liis home in Burnett, Wisconsin. —Fred Huebner, ’25, helped celebrate his brother’s wed­ ding at Ixonia, September 18. Fritz was somewhat weak at school the following day. —September 18, Bienfang, ’25, attended a mission festival in his home town, Jefferson. • —A new painting hangs from the wall over the landing between the second and tjiird floors of the recitation buildinb. It is a reproduction of Raphears great work, the “Sistine Madonna,” and was donated by the class of *21. —We were glad to see the Kauber brothers of Elberta, Alabama, back at Northwestern. They returned on Septem­ ber 19. 一Ah! Fickle Puhlbrigge is with us again since Septem­ ber 21. During vacation Pickle had a twenty-foot fall. Now that he is used to “taking spills,” Fickle is going out for football. —168—


—On September 22, Tappy Sponholz, ’25, entertained Mr. and Mrs. Gustave Jahn, Mrs. ,George Kaul, and Franklin Kaul of Thiensville, Wisconsin. 一Gerhard Schaefer, prep, enjoyed his short visit of two days, September 24-25, at his home in Iron Ridge, Wiscon­ sin, immensely. The ample supply of “chucking” with which he returned explains why. 一Harry Frank, prep, journeyed to his home in Lima Cen­ ter, Wisconsin, on September 24. —September 24-25, Mr. and Mrs. C. Hennrichs of Tomah, Wisconsin, paid their son Marvin, prep, a visit. 一John Martin,’25, invited Schmidt, ’24, and Tubby Nie­ mann, ,25, to pass September 24-25 with him at his home in Helenville. On Saturday afternoon they husked corn, and on Sunday Tubby played baseball with the Helenville nine. Now, why did Helenville lose? 一Eddie Teut, com. ’21, dropped in at Northwestern Sep­ tember 18 to see his old friends and classmates again. Eddie was employed by the Nestle Food Company of Pecatonica, Illinois. On October 4, Teut enrolled as a sophomore. 一H. Streich, prep, spent September 24-25 at his home in Johnson Creek. Those same days Waldemar Gieschen, prep, enjoyed at liis home in Wauwatosa. 一On September 25, Mr. and Mrs. William Maaske, with other members of their family and with a number of rela­ tives, motored from Bristol, Wisconsin, to Watertown to see their son Alfred Maaske, prep. —Slip Hewitt of Chicago enrolled in the freshman class, September 28. The same day Herman Bubolz of Randolph, Wisconsin, enrolled in the sexta class as a regular student. 一The sophomores lost one of their best basketball play­ ers when Paul Schoenoff, com. ’21,did not come back to Northwestern. This year Schoenoff is following a manual training course at Stout Institute in Menomonie, Wisconsin, his home town. 一On September 27, Mr. and Mrs. Otto Wagner of Nor­ folk, Nebraska, stopped off at Watertown to visit Venus Winter, ’22,Lehmann, ’23,and R. C. Winter, prep. —September 25, Mr. and Mrs. T. T. Jacobson and son of Wittenberg, Wisconsin, brought their two younger sons to Northwestern and enrolled them in the preparatory depart­ ment. Incidentally they paid the List brothers a visit. ―Doodle Timmel milked cows in Coonie, September 28. 一Jerry Press, ’20, Butch Meier, ’21, Vadder Boettcher, ’21, Schuft Pankow, ’21, Bingo, *21, Moses Jaster, ’21, and R. A. Winter, com. ‘21, witnessed the Northwestern-Beloit game —159—


here on October 1. One could see that Butch and Bingo hated to remain at the side lines. —Not only tlie girls have lights in their room in the reci­ tation building, for lights have also been installed in the halls and in several classrooms.

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—Monitor: Sally, I wish, you wouldn’t whistle at your work. Sally: I ain’t working,sir, I’m only whistling, 一Prof, in history: Wliy did they do this, Baer? (Baer seemingly dormant.) Speck: Winter isn’t here, don’t go to sleep yet. —Schmidt: How do you spell “Kamerad?” Teut: You don’t spell that, you just yell it. 一Ziemer went hunting and trapped a pair of sausages. Look out, they may be hot dogs. 一Tuffy (speaking about his car): I can beat that cop too. Hewitt (looking at Tuffy’s feet): Ya, if you get out and walk, but that isn’t fair. You’ve got to stay by the bus. 一L: What is the best kind of slipper? II.: I don’t know. I.: Banana peels. —Wiese: Now we’ll have to get our imagination going. Miller: Why, have you a big Greek exam? —Mr. Prang, while harnessing a broncho last Saturday, was kicked just south of his corn crib. —Student to Prof.: Wenn mussen wir “Der Scliwanz von Zwei Stadten** einhandigen? 一He that rises late must trot all the way to chapel. —Krause (In German Comp): Und wenn sich nur dieses Sofa halt (so verhalt) —»Tell me nott in moairnful numbers, English is an empty dream, For the person flunks who slumbers. English is not what it seems.


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BUILDING MATERIAL INCLUDING KELLASTONE BARKER LUMBER AND FUEL CO.

Flowers FOR ALL OCCASIONS

SIUEBE FLORAL COMPANY 404 Main St.

Phone 464-J

Let your Photograph pay your friends a visit. Make the appointment to-day. The photographer in your town

Meyer’s Studio 114 Third Street


In Fall and Winter Overcoats

Suits and Other Men’s Wearing Apparel we will show the largest and most complete line ever carried by us, at prices so low some will sur­ prise you. All the new shades in chalk stripes, Blue and Black, Browns in mixtures, stripes and dark checks. Overcoats and Suits from $22.00 to $45.00 Hats $3.00 to $6.00 Caps from $1.00 to S3.50 A complete line of Fancy Dress Shirts and Flannels. Before looking elsewhere give your time to us and we will convince you that our prices are lower and patterns are the newest in the very latest Fashions as to style and make.

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Chas. Heismann THE PAINT MAN

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Typewriters to Rent Eastman Kodaks

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Huth & Hoyer 204 MAIN ST.

108 Third Street

Phone 6G9-J

Watertown

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Drs. A. & M. Schlueter _ DENTISTS Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street

F. J. Koser Baker THE PLACE WHERE THEY MAKE GOLDEN CRUST BREAD 111 Second Street

Students

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deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check. No matter how small… your account will receive careful attention.

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DYE WORKS 110 2nd Street

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We do CLEANING, DYING, PRESSING, REPAIRING, ALTERATION, PLAITING, BUTTONS and HEMSTITCHING

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W atertown

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If it’s Hardware

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EVERYTHING IN POCKET

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Jeweler

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W. A. Nack Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry in season. Phone 19-W

CUTLERY and RAZORS Examine our line before buying

108-110-112 W. Main St. “The Store of Quality'

WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST 315 Main St., Watertown,Wis.

No. 621 Main St.

Watertown’s Exclusive Shoes Repaired CROCKERY STORE while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE 218 Weat Main Street

AUG. GAMM CROCKERY CO. 400 Main Street


RE. Kosanke, M- D. 109 Hoffmann Bldg, Main Street HOURS: 1 - 4 and 7-8 P. M.

Office Telephone 283~W

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Walter Heil

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We are now located right across the street from the old location Look for the Orange Front 412 Main St” near corner of Fifth

OWEN’S DRUG STORE

City Meat Market J. ADOMAT & L. KLATT, Props.

Fresh, Salted and Smoked Meats Home-Made Sausage—Groceries Where Quality and Price Balance

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Meats and Sausages of all Kinds Watertown

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Phone 25

Kohls-Knaak Co.

GRANT’S

Furniture and. Undertaking

HIGH GRADE

Edison Phonographs and Rugs 607-613 MAIN STREET

CANDIES,and Brick Ice Cream Fruits, Cigars and Cigarettes

Phone Call 1SO-W

Residence Phone 165-J

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Wate_SUnMor Old Hats Made New We Clean, Re-Block and ReShape Felt and Panama 'Hats

Fishing Tackle at IVinkenwerder^ Hdu). Store 207 MAIN STREET

Watertown Creamery Co.

Clarified & Pasteurized 瞧 &Croam Phone 4H1-J

105 Main Street

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We also carry a big line of

Cigars, Cigarettes and Candies 410 Main St.

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Careful Choice

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Chair F. C. KECK & COMPANY

North Fourth Street HERMAN T. NOWACK Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetable and Fruits in season • Telephone 595-J. 111 N. 4th St. Watertown, Wis.

I 10-112 Main Street You will find a complete line of Fruits of all kinds in season at

John E. Heismann CASH GROCER 115 MAIN STREET - TELEPHONE 6

White Palace BARBER SHOP First-Class Work BERT C. FROEMMING 408 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

The Season’s best and most popular Shoe styles are 丨here for your inspection.

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Watertown, Wis., November 1921

Number 6

A HUNTER’S THANKSGIVING. D. Rolida, J22. The autumn had been long and beautiful. September lia(l not even wielded the yellow brush on tlie green foliage of summer. October's tliirty-one days had been beautiful, almost every one. The sky was clear with its higli lightblue; the leaves of the maples were now taking on a tint of reel, the elras a tinge of yellow, and the landscape in the distance actually bore the first traces of autumn liaze. To the observer tho landscape in the distance with its red oaks and its painted elms and maples was like a wonderful ar­ tistic painting bathed in the last purple rays of the autumn sun. Such softness of tint was not to be described in words, a mass of color which only fall knows how to paint.—But now October had passed and Noyember with its chilly winds took possession of nature. Its cold breath soon blasted the showy October colors. The red and yellow leaves of the maples were fallen, brown and (lead. The dry leaves of the oaks shivered in tlie wind that whirled the dead leaves below in spiral trains into tlie air. The same cold winds swept —163—


i and waved the long dry grass of the marshes and the reeds of the ponds, where the fall game-birds were resting and bathing on tlieir long journey southward. Wliat a paradise for the hunter were the marshes and ponds with their abun­ dance of canyas-backs, mallards, and teal! The November clay was cold and damp. The misty chill of the last week had taken all the beauty from tlie woods and copses; the bare trees stood out in sharp outline against the solid dark clouds. Nineteen-year old Jack Hamilton was cleaning his double-barreled shot-gun near the back door of his comfortable little home. He was the only male des­ cendant of tlie old Harailtons wlio had come to the Middle West nearly a century ago. Tlie family liad once been very wealthy, but, as the saying went, Jack’s granclfatliei’ had lived a very extravagant life in the city and had dissipated the bulk of his huge fortune. Jack’s father was the only child, and at tlie death of the old Hamilton liis inheritance proved but the meagre sum of four thousand dollars. With this and a fair store of honest ambition and good common sense lie left the city and settled with liis wife on a small farm just outside the village of C., where Jack was born. The father Jack prospered on his few acres, but lie did not live to enjoy the fruits of his labor. Jack and liis mother were left alone on tlieir little homestead, where tlie lmsky son proved an efficient husbandman. November sides looked down on a harvest well stored up in the barns and on fields plowed and ready for the winter grains. The fall labor was completed and Jack might enjoy a few clays of rest. The blood of a sportsman flowed in liis veins. “A day in the marsh, back near the old pond,” went through liis mind: —and just then a flock of ducks flew over liis head. That was enough ! The old shot-gun must come out. of its eornev now, and Jack bounded up stairs to get it. But first tlie barrels must shine, and tlnis it happens that we see him cleaning and oiling tlie old fowling-piece near the back-door of his cottage home. Just before noon, Jack, attired in liis high rubber boots, leather vest, and corduroy cap, and carrying a good store of shells and the old gun, was ready and off for the marsh. The sport of splashing through the reeds and the rushes and the water of the marsh ! The more sport when lie came —164—


on a little duck-boat that some follower of the igun had brought here and had been using for the last few weeks ! When he had arrived at the marsh, only two ducks were to be seen, and before he had a chance to fire on them, they were up and away. Since then not a single stranger had flown overhead or landed in the pond to the right of the rusliy marsh; tlie Hock that Jack liad seen at home had not stopped long at this shallow little pool; they very likely had larger and more secure stopping places spied out on their journey. Until three o’clock Jack kept on pushing the boat before him through tlie rushes, stopping every uo'v and then to stand erect and spy about,, then lying low again wait­ ing for any possible visitors. Another half hour passed — and then the real spoi.t l)ogan. Jack liad been lying crouclied in Hie little one-man boat for fifteen ininutos (t.liev seemed like an hour), when sud­ denly lie sighted a pretty flock of ducks circling directly above tlie pond at his right. They seemed about to sweep down to the water, yet if tliev would not—? Jack was undecided wlietlier to shoot into the /lock on wing or to risk a chance at their landing. Tlieir flight told him pretty clearly that they were about to come down; so he waited. He hardly drew a broath during the next few minutes.— Then, what feast for tlie eye of the hunter ! There diving and swimming before him, some eight rods from tlie little boat, were a flock of mallards not less than ten in number. With Tliauksgiving Day only a week ahead, a picture of a riclily spread table with two big roasted (lucks, the prey of his own gun, sprang up in Jack’s mind. It seemed almost a pity to fire into such a showy array of colored' plumage, but at such a sight, the hunter’s heart knows no pity; lie is after game and just such au opportunity as this. Without the least rustle of a reed or a rush, Jack raised his shot-gun to his shoulder, took good aim, and sent a shower of shot into tlie flock of mallards. With one ac­ cord, upon hearing the shot, tlie flock swept into the air; only two were unable to fly along.. As quick as a flash Jack sent another storm of ball into the fleeing band in the air; two more fell into tlie water. Before lie could reload, how­ ever, the remaining six, one or the other carrying a leaden ball in its feathers or flesh, were away and beyond liis range. —165—


anlt — Jack soon recovered his dead or wounded prey, and to be sure that their suffering was not prolonged, lie extingu­ ished the last spark of life with his ready hunting knife. 一 But the chores must be done; it was time to leave for home; so Jack concealed the duck-boat among tlie dead brown rashes where he had found it and made for home. The after­ noon had clouded the sun with (lark clouds; tlie heavy blueblack strata on the horizon spoke for snow, as did the damp chill of the air. It was but half past four, yet late twilight had already set in. Jack could not possibly reach home be­ fore dark. He knew the ways and byways well, tliougli, and he struck for tlie nearest way to his home. The feast lie enjoyed on the way home with his mallards ! He pictured to himself tlie inside of liis cozy home just after church on Thanksgiving Day. The odor of the basted ducks in the oven mingled with that of freshly baked mince-pies; the tea-kettle steaming and singing on the little cook-stove; the warm kit­ chen and cozy living-room; the windows steamed from the chill outside; mother hurrying about preparing: the gravy and jellies;—all these tilings arranged themselves into a wonderful picture of home! But suddenly Jack’s dreaming stopped — he had slipped on a slimy, old stump below the marshy surface and had fallen ! Mrs. Hamilton waited long and anxiously. Surely Jack must be home at seven; but he was not. The evening chores must be done and Jack never forgot that. At seven o’clock Mrs. Hamilton lierself went to tlie barn and milked tlie four cows, watered tlie team, and fed the liogs. That would take lier mind off Jack; he had possibly stopped in at one of the neighbors and had accepted an invitation to supper; at eight he very likely would be home. But the cuckoo called eight in the lamp-lighted little sitting room, and there was yet no sign of Jack. Fear now gripped Mrs. Hamilton: something must have happened ! She would wait not a minute longer. She slipped on her coat, tied a sliawl about her head and went out into the night. The clouds had broken in some few places and now and then a bright star burned through; the air was chill and a snoAV flake strayed about here and there. The mother was shivering from cold and fear as she hurried on to the nearest neighbor. At tlie Howell farm the living-room was glowing with lamps and ruddy —166—


faces. Hope kindled in Mrs. Hamilton’s heart for probably Jack was among the lmppy crowd and had forgotten for the first time his work and his mother at home. She pushed by the farm dop: that, had romp to p:rcet her with his jumping and harking, and ra])pec] at the front door. Jack hftre?” slie inquired T\ith a nuaking voice. “Jack?” answorofl j\fr. TTowell innuiringlv. we lmTen’f* seen Jack to-(lay.”一 “•Taclc, not lioro?^, slie crnspod. f<Somot.hinff must have happenorl. Yon must lioln mo fiml him. He went hunting at eleven this morniii£r, and lie must ho in the marsh•” Mr. TTowell liolned her info tlio house, and gave her into tlie womens oliarjye,— tlion hocfan tlio Imnt in the marsh. The hoys mul tlio mon wont pacli nnfl all. nearly every one with a. Ian torn. Tliov rnmhod and scourer] the marsh with no snrross. Tliov had crivon np and wero well on their way toward lionio, whon, about twon tv rods from tlie eds:e of the swamr», some ono stmnhlofl — oil .Tnclc. Tie was lyinj? wherfi he fell with a. liolo torn in his shoulder. When he slixmed on the old stmmi lio liarl tried to himself from falling: and had nonVlontnllv (lisclinr<rod his phof-<riin. sending: a round of sliof thronfrh liis slionlflor. He lay there nncon­ scious. his four pinllnnls r>nrtlv mi dor him. Before lie had lost ooiiscioiisnoss. Iioavovot. he had inn stored enough strenerth to turn a bif. to ono sido, so that his faro was not in tlie murky water of tlio marsh. Tlie oxci tern out. one usually finds among a of terror or panir striclvon woirum peryadod the ranks of these liushy fanners: tliev made noise enoii2:h, one would think, to awalcon .Tack, had lie been dead. They carried him to thp nearest farmlimise and called the villasre doctor. T)r. Birlce founrl .Tack Ivinq: ns if dead on a couch. He washed and flrojssod thft wound, aiul Jack p^aflnally be­ came conscious of liis pain. “The chores; my ducks, are they here?” wrero Jack's first words and he receded once more into unconsciousness. His dnclvs "wore well taken care of: his ^\m also. l\rrs. Wirte the larlv of the farmhouse nicely washed the muck from .Tnck's faop and hands and fornicl liim clean, dry clothes. Another hour wore on and Jack ap:ain regained consciousness. <fTt is late. My ducks. I must i?o home” he said. The doctor advispd that he be taken home. Jack, his gun and ducks, Mr. Howell, Mr. Wirte, —167—


and Dr. Birke were soon bounding over the road m Mr. Wirte’s automobile toward tlie Howell farm, whither the rest of the searching party would walk. Four anxious hours had Mrs. Hamilton watched and waited at the Howell farm, without a word of her son. Slie was frantic and hysterical at times — but now when an automobile drove lip to the house and Dr. Birke came in and asked for Mrs. Hamilton, she was more calm and composed than she had been all evening. She knew something luid happened, and as one who has suddenly been robbed by death of a dear friend or relative is fc rcecl in that sad hour to be steadfast and brave, she gatherer] all her heart and conra^ against the worst that, might lmve happened. Not until slie had the conscious Jack at home, asleep in his oavh chamber, did she ^ive vent to her feelings. Jack’s first wish after he liad been taken home and lm(l thanked God for his life, was to realize those pictures he had formed just before he had fallen: mother sliculd clean the ducks and keep them frozen until Thanksgiving; the weather was cold enough to preserve them those few clays. And mother fulfilled his wish. The doctor came the next day: he feared Jack must un­ dergo an operation to remove the shot from liia shoulder, buf. on close examination he found that, lie had removed all but three. It caused Jack much pain to have those tlivee shot removed, for they were lodged deep, but lie was strong and had learned to endure pain. Thanksgiving came and Jarlc was able to be up and about; tlie doctor even allowed him to leave tlie house to c:o to church. A real tlianlvss:ivinj? that was ! The thoughts and prayers of mother and son were one, that of heart-felt thanks to God for sparing Jack’s life. And at home ! It was their first Thankseivinq: alone, but with the .realization of all .Tacl^s pictures it was by far the happiest and Jack was more thankful than ever before.

LUDWIG VAN BEETHOVEN. Rudolph 0. HorlamTis, '24. Ludwag van Beethoven, einer der groessten Koiuponisten —168—


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aller Zeiten, stammte aus einor arnien Musikantenfamilie zu Bonn und Avurde hoeclistwarsclieinlich am 16. Dezember 1770 geboren. Sein Grossvater hatte zuerst hier als Hofmusikus und spaeter als ITofkapellmeister gedient. Sein Vater, der ein Kenner mid Lieblmber der Mnsik war, wirkte als Tenorist in der kurfuerstliclion Kapelle Maximilian Friedrichs zu Bonn. Sell on in seinen vievton Lebensjahre nnisste Beethoven die edle Musika beginneu. Er tat (lies mit Freuden, (lenn es hereitote ihm grosse Frende, die Violine zu spielen. Sein Vater gdb ihm den ersten Unterricht, aber da Beethoven neun Jalire alt war, liatte er alles geiernt, was der Vater ihn lehren konnte. Im Jalire 1779 uebernahm der Tenorist Pfeiffer die ITnterwoisung Beethovens. Von diesem wurde Ludwig mehr in die Mnsik liineingestossen als hineinerzogen, und so wurde er drei Jalire spaeter untor Christian Gottlob Neefe gosetzt. !Necfe untorrichtete ilin in Bachs Musik und gab ihm auch regdmaessigen Kompositionsunterricht,so class Beetlioven schon im Alter von 13 Jaliren drei Klaviersonaten kon丨】)oniert hatte. Im Jalire 17S7 niachte Beethoven eine Reise nach Wien, um (loi.t ^rozart kennon zu lei-nen und seinen Untenicht zu geniessen. Diesen Zweck erreichte er auch, obwolil der Yerkelir mit Mozart nur kurze Zeite dauerte; denn Ludwig erliielt selir bald (lie !Naclu*icht von der schweren Erkrankung seiner Mutter and imisste deswegen wieder nach Bonn zurueckkeliren. Er kam noeli frueh genng nach Bonn, ura die geliebte Bcscliuetzerin seiner Jugond noch lebend zu sehen. Nach ill vein Tode am 17. Juli 17S7 wurde die Sorge der Erzieliung der z'vei juengeren Gescliwister auf ilim gelegt; denn der Vater yergeiulele all sein Geld im Wirtshaiis and wurde schliesslicli wegen seiner Unfaehigkeit yon seiner Stellung abgesetzt. Als Ludwig nun aber Hoforganist wurde und dann aucli noch die Haelfte vom Gehalt seines Yaters zur Erzieliung der Kinder bekara, wurde seine Last ein wenig gemindert. Als Hoforganist erlangte Beetlioven grosses Ansehen in Bonn, und da Haydn im Juli 1792 nach Bonn kam und ilin spielen lioerte, wurde er durch (lessen Gewandtlieit so beeinflusst, dass er Beetlioven erraunterte, nacli Wien zu kommen. Diese Eeise wurde schliesslicli im Herbst desselben —169—


Jahres durch Wirkung des Grafen Waldstein und des Kurfuersten ermoegliclit, da sie ihm Urlaub gabeu and seinen Gelialt als Organist doch weitergehen liessen. Beethoven kain nun gluecklich in Wien an und nahm seinen ersten Unterriclit yon Haydn. Haydn sclieint die Unterweisnng jedocli etwas leicht p:enommen zn liaben; denn es vrird gesagt, dass Schenk nielinnals Beethoven auf Feliler aufmerksain maclite, die Haydn unverbessert gelassen hatte. Deswegen wiirde Beetlioven bald veranlasst, aucli sein Stndien unter Schenk weiterzn f11 ehren, oline (lass er don Unterricht bei Haydn aufgab. Einijro Jalire spnoter roisle TTaydn abei* nacli England. Dios p:al) Beetlioven dann eine Gelegenlieit, sicli einen neuon Lelirer zu waelilen, den er in Aly>reclitsberjrer fand. Waehrend er nun imter Albroclitsberp:or stndierte, he-nachriclitigte man ilm aus Koeln, class seine 100 Dukfiten nach 1794 ausbleiben wuerflon: denn bei cl e Fuersten 'vimlen dort abgesetzt. Obwolil dies resell ah, war es niclit sclnvcr fuer ihn, seinen Lebensmiterlialt zn helvommen. Neben niehreren wolilbezalilten UnterrichtF?.stun(lon flosson ihm aucli die Bestellimgen der Sonaten von Yerlec:ern reichlicli zu, so class er im Jalire 1800 seinem Freunde Weireler scliroihon konnto: ^Meine Compositionen trajren mir viel oin, uml icli kanu sagen, dass ich nielir Bestelhmgen hnbe, als fast mooglich ist, dass ich befrierli<?en kann.,y Im Jalire 1795 trat er in Wien zmn ersten Mai in einem Konzert auf. Im naechsten Jalire maolite er dann seine einzige Konzertreise. Auf dieser Roise licss er sich besonders in Prag, Nuemborfi: nnd Borlin in it jrrossem Erfolir lioeren. Bis zum Jalire 179S trat er noch ooftors nls TGaviei*spieler auf, aber dann zoje: ov si oh immor molir vom ooffentlichen Spielen zunieck, und im Jalire 1814 trat or ;c:anz und 职r vom Konzertleben znrueck, weil sein Gehoor imclilioss, was gerade flier ihn als Mnsiker besondors fnrehtbar und schmerzlich sein musste. Da er sell on im Jalire 1800 diose Kranldioit bomerkte, schfen er yon einer foermlichen Raseroi dos Rclinffens neberkommen wordon zu sein: denn es entstanden zwisolien den Jahren 1800-1.^10 rlie meisten and besten aller seinen Kompositionen. Bis 1801 waren seine Kompositionen zu den sechs Quartetten op. 18 gedruckt. Bis 1810 sclnif er dann —170—


alle fuenf Klavierkonzerto, das Violinkonzert, die ersten seclis Symplionieii, die Streichsquartette bis op. 95, die fuenfzehn Klaviersonaten, fuenf Violiusouaten and die' Oper “Lenore” so'vie die Musik zu “Egmont.” Als er aber in 1809 den Beruf als Kapellmeister des Koenigs Jerome Bonaparte in Kassel bekam, kam auch eine Aendemng seiner aeusseren Lebenslage. Weil er geneigt war, diesem Ruf zu folgen, versucliten (lie Fuersten Lobkowitz inul Linskv zusainmem mit clem Erzlierzog Rudolf, (lie Annahme zu verhiiulern. Deswogen setzen sie Beethoven einen Jahresgolmlt von -1000 Gulden mis, wo fuel* er sicli verpflichten nuissto, in Wien odei* in ciner aiulern oesterreichischen Stadt zu bleibon, was Beethoven auch zu tun versprach. Es danerte aber niclit. lange bis (lie Verpflichtungen clem Erzlierzog selir (lrueckeiul wurden, ganz besondera in spaoteron .Tallinn, als er iminer mohr und mehr (lurch koor])oi*liolie Lei<lon lierab^eflniockt wurdo. Ja (lie Verpflicht.unp^ii wurdon so (Irueckond, (lass er cinmal klagte: “Da ich den Sommer nicht liior zngobracht liabe, so muss ich jetzt dafu6r alio Tage zwei Stnndon Lection geben bei Sr. Kaiserl. IToheit dein Erzlierzog Rudolf. Dies nimmt mich so allem andorn imfaehig bin. Und her, dass ich boinfilio (labei kann ieli niclit. leben von dem was icli einzunelimen liabe, wozn mir meine Fedor hel fen kmm.” In 1810 kam Beotlioven auf den verliaengisvollen Ge(lanken, eigne Wirtschaft zu fuehreii. Bis jetzt hatte er ^rahlzeiton zu oiner Zeit, warm es ihm am besten passte, in einera Wirtshaus genommen. Jetzt wollte er selber Hausherr sein, hatte aber keine Anlage dazu. Er bekuemmerte sich auch nicht daruni, ob jeraand auders im Hatise wolmte, sondern er selling: den Takt laut beim Komponieren, so dass ihm oefter (lie Wohnung gekuendigt wurde. Schliesslich fand or aber in Frau Streiclier eine besorgte, helfende Freund in; (leim sie nalim Aveiiigstous die Sorgen (les nanslialtes von seinen Sclmltern. Wie ei. aber keine Ruecksicht auf die Naclibarn nalun, sclieiut er auch keine Ruecksicht auf seine Diener genommen zu liaben. Er schrieb einmal folgendes an Frau Streiclier: “Die Fraenlein N. ist ganz umgeaendert, seit icli iln* das lialb Dutzend Bueclier an den Kopf geworfen.” Bis jetzt war Beethoven nur vom Adel liocli geschaetzt —171—


worden, aber da er nun, 1S13, ‘/Wellingtons Sieg oder Sclilacht bei Victoria” schrieb, wurde er auch vom grossen Publikum liocli geaclitet. Er selbst erklaerte daes Lied zAvar eine Dummheit mit den Kanoneiisclniessen,dem ICleingewehrfeuer, dem Getose siner Schlacht, aber da es zum ersten Mai im Konzert gegeben wurde, liatte es einen solchen Erfolg, dass es in einem zweiten Konzert wiedorliolt werdeu musste. Im folgenden Jalire erlangte er nun den Gipfel der aeusseren Erfolge durch seine Kantata “Der glorreiclie Augenblick”, die waelirend des Wiener Kongresses vor einera Audi­ torium von Fuersten aufgefuelirt wurde. Gleicli liiernach fing er seine Arbeit an der neunten Syinplionie an, die im Jalire 1819 beendigt Avurde. Obwolil er jetzt (lurch ein Leberleiden selir gequaelt wurcle, hatte er docli noch viele nene Kompositionsplaene. Seine Krankheit wurde aber von nun an immer sclilimmer und schwaechte ihn selir. Im Jalire 1S26 suclite er bei seinera Bruder, der auf dem Lande wolinte, seinen Znstand zu bessern. Aber auch liier wurde es scliliminer anstatt besser. Deswegen kelirte er wieder nacli Wien zurueck, wo er am 2G. Maerz 1827 starb. Beethovens Kompositionen lioennen niclit, wie die vieler anderer Komponisten, gruppiert werden. Jede Sonate, jede Symphonie imd jedes Quartett ist eine Welt fuel* sicli. Er bringt in alien seinen Werken scliarfe Konti\aste her vor, wie titanisches Ringen, welnmitsvolle Entsagung, die lioechste Lust und den tiefsten Sclimerz. Noch heute wird Beetlioyens Musik weit und breit geruelimt and gespielt.

JOYS AND TRIALS OF ONE AUTUMN DAY. Hilmar Krueger, ’25. 、 On the fields the first signs of fall were already showing themselves. The corn liacl been cut, and now stood in shocks. "Next to each shock lay the ears of ye]low corn to be dried in the sunliglit. A thick mist, which the sun’s rays could hardly penetrate, hovered over the fields. Silvery gossamer glistened in tlie sunlight and hung like spider webs on the trees, wliich were clothed in dark red, bronze, and brown. —172—


From under tlie fallen leaves bright yellow pumpkins peeped. The scolding of the wren, the warble of the warbler, the screeching of the catbird, and the morning visits of the robin were no more. The people no longer conversed at the street corners or at the doorsteps, but sought the cosy fireside, and gathered their families around them. Such was the little village of Ivenitli, which lav in a narrow valley at the foot of a huge mountain. It was Saturday morning and the children were free from school. The children, happy for their freedom, fro­ licked about and amused themselves. Some raked and gather­ ed leaves, others carried or liaulod them away to a large pile. Here tlie boys wrestled and tlirew the leaves at each other. The older boys carved faces in the punipkins with which they expected to frighten their brothers and sisters on Hallowe'en. Suddenly they were attracted by an object moving swiftly down tlie winding road toward them. It was a gypsy wfigon. When the gypsies ontorod the village, they began their usual i)racticos. The wouion and cliildren begged at every house, and wlicrever (lioy could stole vegetables and carpets that were outside. The older girls, witli their flowing black hair, and clothed in bright red dresses, told fortunes and sang old war-like gypsy tunes. The older boys remained with tlieir fathers and looked for stray animals which they could steal. So tliey went through tlie village. When tlie band united at tlie other end of the town a dozen cliildren were following. As the children thus dodged and tagged the gypsies George espied a hickory-tree in tlie center of a corn-field. lie was tired of following the gypsies, but longed for liickory-nuts; so lie left his playmates, crawled over the fence, aud cut over tlie corn-field to the tree. But to get the nuts was not easy for him. He could not get them by climbing because they were too high. lie, therefore, tlirew stones and sticks at tlie branches, aud finally filled the bag, which lie had before been filling witli leaves. He now started for home, but came only to the end of tlie corn­ field. Here lie lay down and fell asleep, tired from walking and carrying- the nuts. Meanwhile tlie sun had set and the (lay grown dark. Supper was read}% but George was not tliere. His mother —173—


I called, but received no answer; she inquired at the neighbors, but no one had seen George. Finally the gypsies dawned upon her. They must have taken George along ! The news of George’s disappearance spread like wildfire through the village. Some of the neighbors galloped in tlie direction, in which, the gypsies were supposed to have gone. After an hour’s gallop the men returned, but had found no traces of the kidnappers. During this time George’s brother also disappeared. It was full-moon and the search was begun immediately, but to no avail. The parents were at a loss what to do. In the morning George and liis brother lmcl planned to go to the hickory-tree the next day. The brother, therefore, suspected that George had gone there, and when he heard of his brother’s disappearance he went there. Aided, by the bright moonlight, he came to the tree, but found no one. On his return he noticed something at the edge of the field. He went to it and found his brother, still holding the liickorynuts and resting his head on ears of corn. When they arrived home all the neighbors had gone to bed. Their home was the only house that had light. When they entered, they found their father pacing the floor, tliei1* mother in another room seated at the table and crying. The alarm and dismay of the brothers and tlieir parents was now turned into happiness and comfort. The father received them witli liis accustomed liappy smile. Tlieir mother embraced them with a mother’s tendei' love and now wept for joy. At the glaring fireside little George, with tears rolling down liis clieelts, told liis delighted parents his adventures that day.

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Thanksgiving in America is our national holiday set aside for giving thanks to God for tlie harvest and the other blessings of the year. We all celebrate it, but how many really give thanks? We venture to say the number is in­ deed small. Take the average man for example; when he hears “Tlianksgiyiug Day”,what are the first ideas he as­ sociates with it? Does he tliink of prayer and thanksgiving, or does lie think of a fine roasted fowl with rich cranberry sauce and mashed potatoes, mince pie and other delicate —175—


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LUTHER UND WIR. <cKieY stelie ich ! Icli kann niclit anders ! Gott helfe mir ! Amen.” Ueber vierhundert Jalire sind verflossen, seit. dieses, maechtige, w^eltersclmetterncle Bekenntniss you uuserm deutsclien Glaubenslielden abgelegt wurd^. Als Luthers Kinder muessen \yir ebensobekeimcn、vie Luther. Versncluingen treten an uns lieran, schmeiclieln uns und wollen uns fangen in iliren Netzen. Lasst mis cla wie Lutlier auf dem Grunde der Schrift stelien, und wir Averden die Versuclningen ueberwinden. Lasst uns docli mit clem sehlicliten Moench aus Wittenberg bekennen: “Hier stelie ich Hier ! Auf dem Boden der Heiligen Schrift, des -von Gott eingegebenen Wortes ! Wenn wir et\va durch solclie Yerfuehrerisclien Reden,' wie sie heutzutage stark ira Scliwung sind,ins Wauken geraten, lasset uns (lann suclien in der Schrift, und wir werden finden, dass wir in der Kraft Gottes wie Luther sagen koennen. Stellen wir uns aber mit Luther auf die Schrift,' dann' werden wir auch sagen muessen: <fIcli kann niclit anders !,J —176—


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ters of government. Why bother one’s self with examining each candidate? One is as good as the other. The people of the Middle Ages thought that way too, and looked on their rights with indifference, until their indifference had robbed them of their rights and privileges and had bound them with iron chains to the very soil that they tillerl. Upon religion, the heart and soul of all culture and civilization, the world to-day looks with supreme indifference. No matter where we find it, indifference is a p:reat menace. It is bound to wreak havoc in the end, one way or the other. We already see many a liad effect, about us. Our strikes in raany cases can lie traced bade to it. The men are working for their own pocket, they want tlieir inoney regard­ less of whether they really earn it or not. They demand more without considmns: whethov they earn it or not, and if they do not get their raise they strike. They hnte Hie capitalist! Does not his indiscriminate way of amassing huge fortunes, with inclifforence toward wliat is rijrlit, awaken distrust, and hate? Ts not society oorriiptod hy this same indifferent way of looldncr at many of the inexcusable and immoral scandal cases? Politics! Does not the in­ difference of our people besret corruption in tlie form of sel­ fish, egotistic politicians, elected been use the oloctins*: public hates to think and form correct, opinions, is indifferent and ready to choose this man or that.? The itnsettlor! and stormy conditions ra的ng: all about us are the direct results of the worlds extreme indifference toward religion. aro they not.? In all cases we find indifference, bred of the spirit of care­ lessness, helpins: to work corruption and failure of purpose. Applying the above to the indiviclnnl, — wo nrp all liable to this almost universal spirit, of indifFerenco. Wo become careless, listless; we do our work superficially, we allow onr-selves to become dependent, on hodks or our fellow-111 mi. All these circumstances are begotten of no other sire than in­ difference. And just as surely as this sniiMt, \vroalcs havoc and destruction in the world, it will rlo so with 11s also. It will he a detriment to our propjess. it will sap our cliaracter, and it will spell failure for us. It is never too late. Do your best to shake off indifference now ! —R. * •—178—


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—Througli tlie kindness of Oscar Griebling, }78, of Mil­ waukee, Wis” tlie library lias received some forty books. ―The class of ’19 published the June number of the Black and Red of that year as a memorial of Dr. Ernst’s services of fifty years at this institution. The net proceeds of that number amomited to §101.50, wliich sum the class has turned over to the librarian to be used in the purchase of books be­ fitting tlie occasion. —On October S very many Seminary boys boarded the street-car and licaded for the Milwaukee Normal school grid­ iron to clieer for their Alma Mater in her game with the Normal school. 一Rev. C. Sieker, '90, of Burlington, Wis., visited his son Hubert here on Thursday, October 20. —On Saturday, Oct. 29, Rev. Henry Koch, 594, of Reedsville, Wis., journeyed to AYatertown to pay .his sons, Reinhard and Marcus, a visit. On the same day lie witnessed the La\\Tence-Northwestern football game. This was the first football game Rev. Kocli liad ever seen. ―Rev. Henry Koch, Ph. D., ^09, of Berlin, Germany, who is on a three niontlis, leave to this country, was visiting in Watertown on October 29. ―Among the loyal rooters who braved the inclement weather to cheer for old Northwestern in her annual battle with Lawrence College on October 29 were Rev. H. K. Mous一179—


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sa, ’00, of Jefferson, Wis.,Rev. M. Raascli,’03,Lake Mills, Wis., G. Press, ^0, C. Bolle,,21, E. Boettcher, J21, E. Ebert, ,21, E. Pankow, }21, T. Uetzmann, ’21, all of tlie Seminary at Wauwatosa, G. Steffen ex. J21, of Milwaukee, Wis., A. Schae­ fer, com. ,2(5, of Kenosha, Wis., E. Kalfalis, com. ’21,of Neenali, Wis., R. Hinnentbal, com. ’21,of Allentown, Wis. ―Rev. B. Westendorf, J18, of Florence, S. Dak., and Rev. Bf. Lau, ’18, of Altamont, S. Dak., motored to Epswitcli, S. Dak., where they visited with Rev. W. Meier,’18. —Miss Dorothy Ott, com.,20,traveled through the nor­ thern part of Wisconsin and Michigan by automobile. Miss Ott said she did some shooting while up north, but Iioav close slie came to the target she refused to say. —Belno Lange, ’18,and Edward Blakewell, ^18, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, stopped off here Friday, November 4. They motored here from Milwaukee in Bell’s Ford. —Gerhard Eickmann, com. ^0, of Colesville, Wis., and liudolf Hinnenthal, com. ’21,of Allentown, Wis., attended the annual State Teachers’ Convention in Milwaukee, November 34-5. From Milwaukee they journeyed to Watertown to pay their former fellow-students a visit. —Rev. A. Zeisler,’18, of Milwaukee, Wis., was seen about the college with his fiancee on Sunday, Nov. 6. —After visiting at Waterloo Sunday, Noy. 6, Melvin Croll, ’20, stopped off at Watertown on his return to the Seminary af; Wauwatosa. 一Rev. H. Kulilow, ’99, of Waterloo, Wis., xvas in Water• town on Sunday, !Noy. 6. He preached the evening sermon at the fifth anniversary of Trinity Lutheran church here.

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On Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 19,we were especially honored by the program of the well-known Lutheran bari­ tone and soloist, Mr. A. H. ITolzhausen of Youngstown, Ohio. Whether Mr. Iiolzhaiisen has himself passed some of the monotonous hours of college life or not, we know not, but he certainly showed a wonderful intuition when he offered to sing for the students gratis. His expression, intonation, and delivery were wonderful. !No special number should have extra comment; they were all good. But still we can­ not refrain from calling attention to the masterful repro­ duction of tlie aria “Lord, God of Abraham” from Mendels­ sohn's “Elijah.’,The selection “By the Waters of Minnptonka” is so vivid in om* memories, that even now we can hear the ripples and the whirls of tlie water. The aria “0 Du Mein Holder Abenstorn” from Richard Wagner's “Tannlmeusei.” was faultlessly rendered; the expression in it was excellent. “naideiii.oeslein” touched one’s heart.. Shal]it’s “Eli,Kli” was powerful. Finally, tlie Lord’s Prayer. It was the only selection tlmt could have served as a conclusion of this rich program. The real object of the concert is to inspire our Lutheran Churcli in America with the conscious­ ness that it has some true artists in its numbers. The num­ ber of famous singers, pianists, and artists in other lines is indeed not so small as one might be led to think, because they do not appear very often. Concerts of this kind should be vigorously encouraged ! Perhaps Mr. Ilolzhausen^ program would be of interest to our readers: THE PliOGRAM. I. Aria, “Lonl,God of Abi.aliam” from

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The Lord’s Prayer----------------------------------------We must say a few words about a concert of another one of our Lutheran artists, Mr. E. Reclilin, organist of Im­ manuel Lutheran Church in New York City. Everyone knows that he is considered the country’s best organist and the master Bach interpreter. His program was so arranged that it formed a unit. Had any one part been dropped the im­ pression of the whole would have severely suffered. The concert was given at St. John’s cliurch and was attended by many of the students of the upper classes.

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anh —r* Already we have seen a strong increase in the number of Northwestern^ organists. The College Band was asked to furnish music for the Watertown Fall Fun Festival from tlie twentieth to the twenty-second of Octobor. Since our trombone section was too weak for flic rest, of the hand, the city of Watertown paid Mr. Uetzniann nnd Mi,. Sauer, now of the Seminary, to help them out. Tlie boys (lid their very best and deserve the con^yratulation of tlie city. Our band seemed to be one of the favorite attractions of (lie Fun. The Northwestern College Band already stands high in the estimation of all the cities and towns in tlio neighborhood wherever it has ap­ peared, and added materially to its good reputation during the days of tlie Festival. Finally, we here nnnonnee 'vitli great pleasure that three first-class concerts have l)oon arranged for the 1921-22 sea­ son. All (hroo aro roiulorocl hv artists of nation-wide reliown and world-wide i*ocojj:nition. They are: Alberto Salvi, Harold Bailor, and Anna C«ase. The concert in 1921 is the harp-concert by Alberto Salvi on Novoinher 25. Snlvi is rocojniized as the world’s greatest concert liarpist., a.s tlie ^Wizard of the TTfirp.” It has been said of him that he is on the harp what Kreisler is on the violin. No end of pross comments hare lauded him with every possible adjective to show forth liis j?reat mastery of the instruinont. He has aocomi)lislied tilings on the liarp which were hitherto considered impossible for the instrument. He was born in Venice, tlie son of an Italian harp maker of that city. He is now twenty-eight years of age. Before lie attendod school his father gave the <fBoy Wonder,” as lie was then called for having received the Royal Scholarship Prize, a miniature liarp winch lie himself made for him. Tho first concert in 1922 is the piano concert of Ameri­ ca’s pianist, TTarold Bauer. Born in E叩land, of a family of which every member was musical, Harold Bauer first at­ tracted attention as violinist. While ho was pursuing liis ambitions in Paris, he met Paderewski and was persuaded by him that his greater genius was for the piano. He has travel—183—


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—The first few days of October Alvin G rubor, prep, 、vas a guest at the home of his cousin, Mr. H. W. Shield, principal of the parochial school at Antigo, Wisconsin. 一Blume, prep, suffering from a severe cold and with a sore throat, unfortunately liad to be confined in tlie sick rooms for over a month. At present lie is at his home in Kenosha, trying to effect a complete recovery. A short time after Blume left, Marti, ’22, took up his abode in tlie sick rooms. Marti seeks consolation by applying himself diligently to the memorizing of Hebrew verb forms. —Wilbert Frank, ’25, accomplished no mean bicycle trip, when lie pedaled from Watertown to liis home in Jackson the first part of the month. Later his parents motored to Watertown and spent a day with liim. 一While Karl Koehler, ]n*ep, was visiting relatives and some one else in Columbus, somebody in Watertown was waiting in vain. We wonder liow Koehler explained. ―In tlie first part of October the parents of Norman Sclilavensky, ’25, motored from Kenosha to AVatertown. Because a mere visit did not satisfy liira, they immediately returned to Kenosha with Norman. Sclilavensky tells of a chicken dinner and of sight-seeing in the “old burg.” —Heinie,’23, Wacker, ’23, Falck, '24, Fulilbrigge, }25, and Knuth and Luer were spectators at tlie Nortlnvestera-Mil—192—


waukee Normal game. After the game Heinie hied to a hos­ pital with a palpitating heart. —Ed Neliring and Abie Blumenthal, preps, traveled to Mil­ waukee per bicycle early in October, /ibie’s rear tire caused him considerable trouble, so that he was completely winded, when he readied home. —The first week in October the Rev. C. Voges stopped off at Watertown to be with Ins son Adelbert, prep, for a short time. —One fine Octoboi* (lav Slip ITowitt went duck limiting and tame ducks. They tasted fine, blit were so shot four expensive that Slip can’t buy cartridges to go hunting again for some time. —Dudley Kolida,’22,found it necessary to make a busi­ ness trip to Milwaukee in October. Dud also found time to pay his friends at the seminary a visit. —On October 9, CJi.uiiwald’s parents and uncle, Rev. E. Grunwald, and Dutch Kleinke's parents journeyed from Fond (lu Lac to AVatertown per auto. For the following few days Dutch lunched on dougluiuts at recess. 一The fans tliat (lid not accompany the team to Milwau­ kee witnessed a good game of football on our gridiron between tlio Quartaners and Smoking Room Sticks. The Quartaiiers, wlio hud |)racticcd regularly, defeated the Sticks, 'vho had had no ])i*actice, tlie score being 13 - 7. That the Quartaners wou the first game bv mere luck was proved by the result of the second game Oil the following Saturday, in which the Quartaners received a drubbing to the tune of 20-6. Undoubtedly (he Sticks' victory was clue in great part to Heinie's spirited cheering from the sidelines. ,一In October the freslimen class lost two of its members, in Arthur Mattil and ^rarvin Bienfang, and the sophomore class lost one in Carl Diez. All three discontinued tlieir studies permanently. The Rev. “Wliitie” Schroeder, ex. 722, of Selfridge, N. D., sends his friends at Northwestern his regards. They are gladly reciprocated, Wliitie. y-On the first Sunday in October Alfons Engel, ’25,and Wilbert Frank, J2o, bicycled to Hustisford, where they stayed with Mr. E. Bradtke. Kate Siffi.ing, ’23,and Sieglei•,’25, did the same thing a few weeks later. Kate says, “Good —193—


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Festivities will be greatly enhanced by decorating the home liberally with beautiful fragrant, early winter flowers. Phone or call early to make your selections.

Phone 649-J 104 Main Street

Olympia Here is the economical place to buy candies, ice cream and drinks of better quality tor all oc­ casions, Years of experience have taught us your taste. Our sweets contain the ingredients in correct proportion to tickle your palate.

Pappas & Sallas, Proprietors 201 Main St.

Phone 294,J

Watertown


Dr. FRANK F. SCHLUETER DENTIST Office Phone 156-W

Residence Phone 5 12-J

Watertown

215 Main St.

If it,s Hardware

John G. Knispel

we have it

DEALER IN

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307 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

Wholesale and Retail

ICE Phone Connections Watertown,

Wisconsin

Foot Ball, Basket Ball and all kinds of Sporting Goods at

EMIHING IN. POCKET

Salick’s

D. & F. Kusel Co.

Jeweler

at the Bridge

W. A. Nack Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry in season. Phone 19-W

CUTLERY and RAZORS Examine our line before buying

108-110-112 W. Main St. “丁he Store of Quality**

WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST 315 Main St., Watertown,Wis.

No. 621 Main St.

Watertown’s Exclusive Shoes Repaired CROCKERY STORE while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE 218 West Main Street

AUG. GAMM CROCKERY CO. 400 Main Street


College Atitic Supply Co. ----------FINE----------

Base Ball

Basket Ball Tennis Supplies

Foot Ball

Milwaukee, Wis.

Catalog on request

The Watertown Press

Cor. Second and Market Sts.

Jas. D. Casey Company Pianos and Phonographs on Easy Payment Plan

Records

Rolls 119121 Water St

Watertown, Wis.


Chas- Heismann THE PAINT MAN

The Central Ding Store of Watertown Agents for the

PAINTER AND DECORATOR

Corona Typewriters Typewriters to Rent Eastman Kodaks

Correct Picture Framing

Huth & Hoyer 204 MAIN ST.

108 Third Street

Phone 609-J

Watertown

Your Friends Will Appreciate Your Picture, IF made by

The Denninger Studio Make an appointment NOW it is NONE too early.


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New Fall Goods in All Departments Evsfy dxy witnesses the incoming of new Fall goods in every depirtmsnt, making cKe displays not only more interesting and inviting, but decidedly attractive from the price point of view, in that prices are much lower than they have been in a long time. Visit the store often—come every day if you can! Remember Just that you are under no obligation whatsoever to buy. come and look.

CHAS. FISCHER & SONS CO. United Mercantile Store

Wm. Gorder Co. •i

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Men’s and Boys’ Hats and Caps Boys' Fine Caps, assorted styles, your 58c, 69c, 76c choice, at

Men's Extra Fine Dress Hata, splendid felts and velours, each $2.98 to 4 50

Men’s Fine Dress Caps, several styles, wonderrul values, each 69c, 98c 1.39

Men's Cloth Hats, assorted fancy fabrics, $1.49, 1.98, 2.S8 each

Men’s Fine Dress Hats, the latest shapes and colors, each$1.25 & 1.98

Men'a Far Caps, wonderful values, as$3.98 to 8.90 sorted sizes, each

SHOES FOR MEN Men1* Dress Shoes, Blucher cut, box calf, 2.98 solid leather, pair

Men1* Dress Shoes, Black kid, splendid 3.98 style, pair-

Men’s Drc“ Shoes, Russian calf, English 3.50 and Blucher style, pair

Men's Dress Shoes, new tan Fall shade fancy brocaded, very pretty style, pair______________________ 4.98

Men’s Dress Shoes, new style, rubber 4.98 heels, solid leather, pair Men,* Dreu Shoes, Semi-English last, Russia brown calf, per pair__ 5.90

Men's Onting Shoes, heavy brown leather, nailed and sewed sole, pair—2.49

Men’s Dreis Shoes, Black English gun metal, pair___________ ____ 3.88

Men's Work Shoes, Heavy brown leather, well made, nailed and sewed sole, 2.98 pair

Men、Dress Shoes, Extra wide, kid leather, blutcher cut, cushion sole, pair 5.90

Men's Heavy Work Shoea, Extra good quality, Goodyear welt, pair— 3.50

SUITS NEW MODELS $14.75 to $39.50

MAIN FLOOR OVERCOATS CLASSY STYLES $22.50 to $39.50

SUITS HANDSOME STYLE $24.75 to $39.50


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Choose your next Suit or Ou rcoat carefully—-with dis­ cretion. Look for a garmen^that will give a long term of Siroice, with true fit…a garment that not merely proitlses good appearance, but which assures good appiarancz as long as you wear it. The answer is

Kuppenheimer— GooJ Clothes New Fall Models await you at this store一different ideas in single and double breasters; rare, fine.all.wool fabrics. A correct fit for every build. Prices one-third lower than last yean same high quality standards,

$37.50 and up

Other Splendid Suits and Overcoats §18.50 and up

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Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS Watertown, Wis.

313 Main Street

F. J. Koser Baker THE PLAGE WHERE THEY MAKE GOLD J CRUST BREAD 111 Second Street

Students

Telephone 502-W

I13E BLACK and RED CIGAR NOW LEADS *EM ALL & THE OLD LaFLORA 10 Cents

SCHLUETER BROS. deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check No matter how small your account will receiue careful attention.

Bank of Watertown The Oldest Bank in Watertown

Smoke

WILKOWSKI BROS. High Life Cigar A. WIGGENHORN & SON

JEWELERS


F- E. Kosanke, M. D. Hoffmann Bldg. 109 Main Street HOURS: 1-4 and 7-8 P. M.

Office Telephone 283-W

Res. Telephone !21^W Walter Heil

Henry Schlueter

Schlueter & Heil Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage

Phone 457-W

106 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

We are now located right across the street from the old location Look for the Orange Front 412 Main St, near corner of Fifth

OWEN’S DRUG STORE

City Meat Market J. ADOMAT & L. KLATT, Props.

Fresh, Salted and Smoked Meats Home-Made Sausage—Groceries Where Quality and Price Balance PHONE 107-J

We Deliver


LANE & SHIELDS

Pool II Mi P_ra Ml POPCORN, FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS

CHE酬0 GIR CldEIIK m MCCO LUNCHES AT ALL HOURS For High-Grade Cigars, Cigar­

E. H. Cook, M. D,

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EYE, EAR, NOSE & THROAT

No. 9 Main Street FRUITS AND CANDIES

Spectacles and Eye Glasses Scientifically Fitted Houia 9 to 4

Office. Hertel & Hoffmann Bldg.

WE CAN FIT YOUR FEET PROPERLY WITH A PAIR OF STYLISH GOOD WEARING RUBBERS. AT THE LOW­ EST PRICE.

Meyer’s Shoe Store


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Young Men’s College and High School Clothes The Styles these young men seek are here in abundance; it’s a specialty with us to know the needs of these fellows. Here you’ll see the New Fabrics, the New Styles, the Striking, the Individual Stu任 that isn’t to be seen anywhere else. You’ll like our Service, too; we know what young men want. The Values are building the largest young men's trade in the country.

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Next to Classic Theater

310 Main Street

Classis Sweet Shop H. C. BRANDT, Prop.

The Best of Sweets Ice Cream

Candies

Cigars

A. W- Breithaupt DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC X-Ray used to locate cause of disease. 103 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.


Dr. E. J. Hoermann Dentist Telephone No. 259

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Vogue Cloaners And Dyers

R. C. Budewitz, Proprietor 406 Main St.

Phone 263-J

Where they clean clothes clean

Watertown, Wis.

FIRST-CLASS WORK 一AT-

Sim Block “The Barber” 1 15 Third St.

Watertown

CIGARETTES, CIGARS BOX CANDIES, BULK CANDIES COOKIES, CAKES and QUALITY BAKE SHOP PRODUCTS in fact everything for that LUNCH AT SCHOOL

BENTZIN,S At the Sharp Corner Phone 214


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Ed. Hinzmann BARBER SHOP

QUALITY BAKE SHOP

RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE POSTOFFICE

Place for real Baked Goods

Ed. Warner -'• !>'•

EAST END Barber Shop 602 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

W.D. SproesserCo.

311 Main Street Go to Headquarters for Stationery, Candies, Notions and Fancy Goods. W. F- Gruetzmacher HIGH GRADE

JEWELERS

BUILDING MATERIAL

Pianos and Victor Victrolas

INCLUDING KELLASTONE

III Main St.

Phone No. 259-J

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8IUEBE FLORAL COMPANY 404 Main St.

Phone 464-J

Let your Photograph pay your friends a visit. Make the appointment to-day. The photographer •f in your town

Meyer’s Studio 114 Third Street


JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer im

Meats and Sausages of all Kinds Watertoiun

Phone 25

Wisconsin

Kohls-Ksiaak Co.

GRANT’S

Furniture and Undertaking

HIGH GRADE

Edison Phonographs and Rugs 607.613 MAIN SjREET

Phone Call 1 50-W Rosidonce Phono 1 65-J

CANDIES,and Brick Ice Cream Fruits, Cigars and Cigarettes 407 Main Street GET YOUR

For all kinds of In­ surance see

SieglerS Me Insurance Agoncy Farmers & Citizens Bank Bldg.

W_wnSM_or Old Hats Made New We Clean, Re-Block and ReShape Felt and Panama Hats We also carry a big: line of

Cigars, Cigarettes and Candies 410 Main St.

TOM MAKAS

Fishing Tackle at lVinkcnwerdcrfs Hdw. Store 207 MAIN STREET

Watertown Creamery Co.

Clarified & Pasteurized 瞧&C_ Phone 431-J

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery GEORGE SPYROS, Proprietor

Icegmm, gandks andC丨糾r$ WATERTOWN, WIS.


Watertown’s Leading Furniture Store INSTRUCTOR

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Chas. Moy Laundry North Fourth Street HERMAN T. NOWACK Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetable and Fruits in season. Telephone 595-J. 111 N. 4tK St. Watertown, Wis*

Royal Rest

E28y麵襲 Chair

F. C. KECK & COMPANY I 10-1 12 Main Street You will find a complete line of Fruits of all kinds in season ni

John E. Heismann CASH GROCER TELEPHONE 6 U5 MAIN STREET

White Palace BARBER SHOP First-Class Work BERT C. FROEMMING 408 Main St. Watertown, Wis.

The Season’s best and most popular Shoe styles are here for your inspection.

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RELIABLE FURNITURE UNDERTAKER

AND LICENSED EMBALMER Private Chapel Up-to-D&te Equipment 313 MAIN STREET •:.

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Phone 54

Assistant

Res. •Phone 51-W

A. KAL隱616 Sar?et


Buerger s Meat Market The Home of Good Sausage IVaiertown, IVis.

112 Second Street We Recommend cc

Bostonian

SHOES FOR MEN

BRA_’SELECTRMOP 116 Third Street Phone 59-w

GO TO

Leo Reusch & Son

Geo. Spohn’s

210 West Main Street

For the Latest Styles in Fall 215 Main St. Footwear.

ROBERT DOERR

FELIX LESCH1NGER

Doerr & Leschinger Plumbers Gas Fitting and Sewerage 107 Fifth Street

Watertown, Wis.


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BIG ONE DOLLAR SALE For Four Days, Friday, Saturday, Monday and Tuesday In one dollar bills will begiven away during our one dollar sale on above dates.

$1000 Dollars

Watertown’s

Greatest Bargain Store 106 W. Main Street

Max Wegemann, Manager


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W. I VOLPflNN, Proprietor Haircuts 25c

EXCEPT SATURDAYS HAIRCUTS 35c

Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes 215 North Fourth St

DEALER IN

FINE BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS Please Give Us a Trial We Try to Give Satisfaction 402 Main Street

Mutchler s Grocery Staple and Fancy

First-Class Work

Shave 15c

0. F. KURZWEG

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UTERARY .Poem, Christmas Hope____ In Praise of Books----------Harry Lee’s Christmas Week The City of Mexico Under the Aztecs EDITORIALS On Christmas -Good Reading ALUMNI............................. COLLEGE NOTES............... . ATHLETICS...................... EXCHANGES..................... . LOCALS........................ ...... CO-ED NOTES..................... CAMPUS AND CLASSROOM

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THE BLACK AND RED

Volumu XXV.

Watertown, Wis., December 1921

Number 7

CHRISTMAS HOPE. Glide on thou dead and dark old world, As (lead tliy sons within tlieir hearts! Each one is gone his own dark way, Alas! there is no hope — but death. And yet the grave is dull and damp, Frail Hope could never prosper there Where canker, rot and blight are all. !Nav, lost, lost man, hope lies not here. But is not fame as strong as hope? Our fame will live when we are gone! Be not deceived, fame is not hope, It ends where hope needs must begin. All woe! for hope is flown away, Driven beyond by mortal sin, Won and destroyed onr earthy sphere By Satan, sin, and man’s own heart! ,—199—

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But lo! the east is bright again: A star! Is hope returned once more? From heaven it comes whereto it winged From man, for help from God above. And now the star with dazzling light Spells hope in words of fire on liigli; The Light, the Hope, the Lord, our Christ Is come to save us from tlie grave. V Hie thee, my heart, far to the east, To Bethlehem that liamlet small, Where just beneath the star of hope A new-born babe lies meek and low. This child, my soul, is thy one hope: Through faith lie is thy Savior Who long ago by God was clios’n To be thy Savior-lord, thy Christ. D. H. R. }22.

IN PRAISE OF BOOKS. Waldemar Groth, ’22.

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It was late in the evening. The chilly atmosphere of an autumn night had forced me to seek refuge beside the inviting warmth of tlie blaziug fireplace. And as I cuddled up in the deep, comfortable rocking chair and listeuecl to the wind whistle around the corner of tlie house, I was suddenly brought to tlie realization that tlie (lull wintev months were again approaching and that soon we should have inany a spare hour at our disposal. How can we fill in this spare time to our best advantage? This question was uppermost in my mind, when suddenly gentle sleep weighed my tired eyelids down, steeped my senses in forgetfulness and led me into the fairyland of dreams. And wliat do you ^ink I dreamed? I was standing on a narrow strand between two great oceans—the ocean of Time Past and the ocean of Time to Come. And as I turned to one, looking -—200—


future-ward, I saw notlii ng—nnot even a ripple on the face of the silent, mysterious deep,,which was veiled by an inpenetrable mist. I turned backward to the other sea, look­ ing out across the measureless expanse of Time Past, and, lo! it was covered with sliips. Far on the horizon I saw them rise in fleets which swarmed upon the sea, and in numbers that were greater than I could count they came sailing toward me. An(l wliat a strange cargo tliey carried! They were freighted clown with a heritage of stored wealth. A heritage of gold and silver, of costly silks and rich spices? No, a far more precious cargo: the heritage of knowledge accunuilated by all the watchers and searchers and thinkers and singers of the generations that are dead. They brought , me the story of the forgotten life of mankind, its experience, its learning, its wisdom, its warning, its counsels, its consola­ tions, its songs, its discoveries of beauty and joy. And as the keels of the troasiire-laden sliips grated on the sandy shore and came to a sudden stop, I awoke. What a satis­ factory solution to my problem! For the ships in my dream are those carriers of the commodities of mind which we call Letters and Books. What if there had been no ships to bring us these? What if the great ocean of Time Past rolled as blankly aud blackly behind us as the ocean of Time to Come rolls before us? What if there were no Books? Think of it! Think wliat your state would be in a situation like that! Think what it would be to know nothing, for example, of the way in which American Independence had been won, and the federal republic of the United States constructed; nothing of George Washington; except the little, lialf true and half mistaken, that your fathers could re­ member of what tlieir fathers had repeated of what their fathers had told them! Think what it would be to have nothing but shadowy traditions of、the voyage of Columbus, of the coming: of the Mayflower pilgrims, and of the coloniza­ tion of the New World! Think what it would be to know nothing of the origin of our forefathers, of their customs, of their goyernment and religion! Think what it would be to hqre the whole story of Greece and Rome dropped out of our knowledge, and be unaware that Socrates or Caesar had ever lived! Think wliat it would be to have no line from Homer, no thought from Plato, no message from Isaiah, no Sermon on the Mount, nor any parable from the lips of Jesus! —201—


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Can we imagine a world intellectually famine-smitten like that, a bookless world, and not shrink with horror from the thought of being condemned to it? It would be like living in a friendless world. “But lie that lovetli a book,” says Isaac Barrow, “will never want a true and faithful friend, a wholesome counselor, a cheerful companion, an effectual comforter. By study, by reading, by thinking, one may in­ nocently divert and pleasantly entertain liimself, as in all weathers, so in all fortunes.” He who can select a good book and has a taste for reading, can find a garden of peace in the present tumult of the. world. He can find comfort and con­ solation, refreshment and happiness in his library. For a library is a true fairyland, a very palace of delight, a haven of repose from tlie storms and troubles of the world.

HARRY LEE,S CHRISTMAS WEEK. Hilbert Engel, ’23.

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rested upon Harry and demanded to know、vhy lie was not working. That night it was decided that Harry must work. For two weeks Harry applied for work, and night after night lie came home hungry and tired with the discouraging news that he could find no employment. This made his stepfather very angry. Although Harry liad tried his best, he was subjected to his father’s cruel words and biting lash, for he believed that Harry tried to evade work. But Harry's mother pleaded with liim. Slie bogged her husband to be patient, that Harry would surely find work on the morrow. Thereupon IlaiTy was sent to bed without supper; but after his father had gone out, liis mother would bring him a bite to eat and console him. Early in December Harry obtained a position in a large department store. He worked from six in the evening until three in the morning, sweeping the rooms and shining the polished brass on the elevators. One night as he was slowly making his wav ho川e, lie saw a figure slip into a (lark nook behind one of the supports of the viaduct which he was about to enter. At the same time lie saw a man enter the opposite side. It was very dark and he seemed to have difficulty in walking. Harry passed the man and had almost come to tlie other end of the viaduct when he heard a tliud, as if a body had fallen, and a cry for help. He wheeled about and ran back to see if the man had accidentally fallen. What he saw made him hesitate. Two men were grappling on the walk. Ilis nerves tingled and although he had been very tired a moment ago, he、vas now wide awake. He Neither was cautiously approacliod the struggling men. aware of his presence. He was already within striking dis­ tance when a gruff voice demanded money and valuables of the elderly man. IlaiTy’s foot disturbed a stone. The assailant faced about, but too late; for Harry leaped, caught the man off his guard, and hurled him to the pavement. The elderly man arose seemingly unhurt by tlie assault and thanked Harry many times. He asked Harry’s name and address and gave his own name as Mr. Johnson. But Harry’s attention was drawn to the man upon the pavement. Had he not heard that gruff voice before? He thought lie had. Imagine his horror and consternation when, upon striking a 一203—


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match, he .belield his stepfather! Mr. Johnson saw liiis eonfiisibn andJ asked3 the cause of it. Harry quickly told him who the man was and begged him not to call the authorities. He- told him of Ms mother; she must not hear of this: she was^ unhappy enough without adding any more grief. Mr. Johnson bade Harry wait. In a short time lie reappeared in a taxi. Hairy was,greatly relieved when he saw Mr. Johnson- step' from the car. Somehow he believed this man could hdp Mm. Both lifted the unconscious body into the car and they sped to the address Harry liad given. But liow were they to acquaint Mrs. Smith with the event? As they neared the house Harry saw a light. His mother was still awake. She was waiting for her husband’s return. Mrs. Smith started, for she heard a car stop before her door. She rushed to the entrance and beheld two men carry­ ing a body into her house. She was on the verge of falling to the floor, when. Harry jumped to her side and eauglit her in Ms arms. He told her that his stepfather had met with an. accident on the way home. They dismissed the driver and bent their combined efforts to reviving Mr. Smith. Soon he regained consciousness and expressed his surprise that he was not in a cell. Harry told him to be quiet and that it was only through the kindness of Mr. Johnson that he was- not there. But when Mrs. Smith heard this, slie burst into tears and begged to know what had happened. Mr. Johnson wished her to wait until morning, but Mr. Smith de­ clined. He wished to confess all and to take his punishment. He asked them to be seated near him, so that lie should not be forced to exert himself, for ho was still very weak. He began by saying that he had taken his last week’s wages from his wife and had lost them at cards. He was penniless and tlirown into the street. He was a Ion汉 way from home, had not a cent for car fare and was forced to walk. While walking he thought of his wife and children. Could he meet Bis wife’s inquiring: eyes? Would there be bread in the morning for his children? Why had he been so foolish and lost all his money at cards? The "men he played with cared nothing for his family. They would not help him. They bad cheated him. Should he go back and demand his money? He liad never thought of liis vice in this way and it drove him to madness. He must have sufficient money —204—


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to feed his family. He had come as far as the viaduct. He saw an elderly man whom he was certain he could force to give him what he wanted. He attacked the man but had been taken unawares and hurled to the ground. His head had struck the hard pavement and that was the last he re­ membered. During his confession his eyes had sought the floor, and now as lie finished his chin rested upon his breast and several large tears rolled down his cheeks. Slowly he raised his head and met his wife’s eyes. One look and she knew that he would never desert his family again. He asked Mr. Johnson what course to take. But this generous old man had already formed his plans. He called Mr. Smith into the adjoining room. There the two remained for almost an hour. Until now Mrs. Smith had controlled her feelings bravely. But now she began to weep. Harry consoled her and encouraged lier to be strong, for in this way she would be a great help in making lier husband a better man. When he came to them, lie came, back a new man. Mr. Johnson told them that all was well and took his leave. Before Harry retired, his stepfather asked him to cancel his present position and remain at home. Two evenings later, this was the evening of Christmas Day, Mr. Johnson called for Mr. Smith and his family. He took them to his home. How surprised they were to find a Christmas tree with candles and trimmings and that the bags with nuts aud candies were for them alone. Mr. John­ son had no children and felt happy just to see them enjoy themselves. While the children played, Mr. Johnson revealed his plans to Mrs. Smith and Harry, for Mr. Smith was already acquainted with them. Both Harry and his stepfather were to be employed by him. They were to move into one of hw houses, which was situated in a more pleasant location. They spent a very enjoyable evening together and before they parted Mr. Johnson gave each member of the family a present. All were very happy as they departed for their house, for truly from this day it was a home. THE CITY OF MEXICO UNDER THE AZTECS. Werner Franzmann, ’24. Among the many tribes who in tlie twelfth century —205—


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wandered southward from the far Northwest were the Aztecs. They came to the Valley of Mexico, wliere they traveled from place to place. After two centuries of wandering they final­ ly settled on the borders of Lake Tesuco, one of the six lakes in this valley. They saw an eagle with a serpent m his talons sitting on a cactus at this place and their oracles interpreted it as a sign of a great future city. They built huts of reeds, partly on the islands of the lake and partly on piles driven into the marshes, for the marshes were buried under water. This was the founding of the Venice of the Ne、v World, for with tlie expansion of the Aztec empire a city was built on this spot that was well qualified to be tlie capital of an empire that extended from the present New Mexico to the Honduras and from the Atlantic to the Pacific. This city was completely surrounded by Lake Tesuco. Villages and cities almost hidden by foliage thrived on its shores. Some of them were even built on piles far out in tlie lake. On account of the scarcity of land the Aztec farmers made floating islands in the lake by loading the sediment from tlie bottom of tlie lake on raft-s of reeds and. other fibrous materials. But tlie famous gardens of tlie nobles on the islands of the lake were tlie pride of Mexico. They con­ tained many plants and fruits, beautiful fountains, and large aviaries. The lake was cut by three causeways or dikes. They were the means of communication with tlie surrounding country. One of them also brought tlie water supply from a neighboring mountain. They were constructed of huge stones, lime and cement. But that tlie causeways might not offer enemies an entrance into the city, they had numerous open­ ings, which were defended by drawbridges. Many streets were crooked and narrow. Others, how­ ever, were wide thoroughfares paved with cement. Tlie prin­ cipal street, lined by the palaces and gardens of the nobles, extended in an unbroken line from one end of the city to the other. Canals, over 'vhich drawbridges were thrown, intersected the streets at numerous intervals. The canals were tlie chief method of trade and industry and consequent­ ly teemed with tlie canoes of the Indians. The Aztecs built tlieir houses of a light brittle stone —206—


and unbaked bricks. These houses, though substantial, were not elegant. They rarely rose to more than one story. On the flat roof were parapets, which made a fortress of each house, and the terraced gardens. The dwellings of the nobles were quaclrangular, having a court in the center, sur­ rounded by porticos of porphyry and jasper. The most im­ posing buildings, however, were the great temples or teocallis. Though similar to the pyramids of Egypt in shape, they differed in this respect, that the pyramids were constructed of solid stone, while the temples were solid masses of earth covered by brick or stone. They were at least one hundred feet square at their base and probably higher than this. The flat top was occupied by the shrines of their numerous gods and the stone slabs for human sacrifice. The Aztecs had several Inindred temples in each important city. One of the most interesting features of tlie city was the great market place. It covered more ground than any simi­ lar place in the Old World. It was sniToiiiicled by porticos, in which were the booths filled with various wares. In one booth was a goldsmith displaying his trinkets, in another a potter recommending his various vases. Here could be seen huge stacks of fine cotton cloth, there all the implements necessary to an Aztec soldier. Not only the products of the Valley of Mexico, but also game and fish from all parts of the empire were sold here. And according to the lowest estimate forty tliousand people visited the market every day. The Aztec kings lived in barbaric splendor. Regard­ less of his rank every petitioner or ambassador had to enter the royal presence with his shoes off. When his suit was answered, he was required to keep his face toward the king while leaving the room. If the king wished to see his people, he was carried about in a litter adorned with precious stones. He bathed frequently and never wore a dress the second time, but ^ave it away to his attendants. For his meals ho had, besides the dishes of the Aztec culinary artists, tlio fruits of the tropic country and fish from the Gulf of Mexico. After he had eaten this rich repast in seclusion, he was en­ tertained by his host of jugglers and dancers. The low palaces of the Aztec kings covered a great extent of ground. Their exterior was often not imposing, bul; — 207— —


fhe rooms had ceilings inlaid with sweet-scented woods, walls covered with fancy draperies, and floors covered with palm-lea^ mats. Around the palace were other buildings oJ! the royal household. There were armories perfectly equip­ ped; aviaries containing all the bird species of the country; collections of wild beasts and birds of prey; and harems with as many wives in its apartments as any Eastern sultan ever There are many doubts concerning the population of the city, but as none of the Conquerors estimate the number of dwellings to be less than sixty thousand, the population can safely be set at three hundred thousand. One can little wonder, therefore, that the Spaniards were filled with dismay as they beheld the city from a mountain-top, and that tliey entered it with depressed spirits.


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i is a factor worthy to be ranked with effort, study, and con­ centration. For just as these three practices; cultivate, build, and broaden the mind, reading does too. It enrichens the mind with many new impressions and ideas, which the possessor may arrange in countless new groups and commutations. But good reading showers benefits not only oji the mind, for it also vivifies and colors the imagination. It is seldom that a person meets with a well-read man who is intolerably di\v. Staleness and a vivid imagination have nothing in common. Yet, occasionally there are people wlio read constantly and still derive no benefits from tlieir efforts. In such case the reading* is not at fault, but the reader; for the choice of books in reading is exactly as important as good reading is iu education. After one lias decided to read something, lie should not grab the first book he can lay his hands on and then sit down and devour it as quickly as possible. Such action is foolish as well as impolitic. Deliberation and inquiry should precede good reading. When one has made up his mind to read lie should make a careful choice of his book. If he is a fairly good judge of literature, he needs only to take up a book, read a paragraph here another there, note the style in which it is written, the choice of words, the thought, and he is quite able to judge whether or not the book is worth while. If he is an inexperienced reader it is well to inquire of some competent authority as to the worth of the book, or if possible, to read some good literary criticism on the work. Careful choice in reading saves both time and energy. In choosing material, we dare not take only books that entertain us, for such books are likely to contain little thought, are likely to be written in second-rate language and to be built up on some highly exciting and improbable plot. Books of this sort are both nubeneficial and detrimental. They develop a poor taste for good novels, kill altogether any inclination or liking for good poetry, foster a melo­ dramatic and emotional spirit, and above all build and encourage a careless spirit. Take up any of the ordinary dime novels or popular short-story magazines on the market; a person of even moderate intellect can read almost any one of them from —211—


cover to cover in the space of an hour or less. The plots are usually so intensely exciting that a person overlooks altogether the author^ style and language and goes on as fast as possible to the next exciting episode. Such is the material that mothers the careless spirit, which in a short time dares not to undertake to read a good novel or above all things a poem which has some underlying thought or idea that effort and intuition must ferret out. Since reading is such an all-important factor in one’s education, as we have seen, we cannot be too careful about our choice of material and tlie manner in 'vliich vre consume and digest it. It is not at all bad policy to choose only those writings which have been accepted by the literary world, especially those which liave stood tlie test of time,avoiding all the mongrel trasli which is flooding our book-market to­ day. —R.


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—Prof. E. Wemllaud,’OG,was host to tlie organist Prof. E. Rechlin, of New York City during liis stay in Watertown. Prof. Rechlin gave an organ recital at St. Jolm’s Ey. Luth. Church here Oct. 27. —Mr. Adolph Valleskej, com., ’05, is now manager of tlie Kielsmeyer Creamery at Manitowoc, Wis. 一Rev. L. ICoeiiin^or, ’13, formerly of Raymond, S. D.,lias accepted a call to North Fond (lu Lac, Wis. Rev. W. Schu­ mann, ’12, who formerly held tlie charge at North Fond du Lac, has accepted a call to Markesan, AVis. —Although it was cold and wet on tlie day of tlie Carroll game, very many rooters accompanied the football team to Waukesha, Wis. Tlie faculty members who also boarded the car with tlie players were, President E. E. Kowalke,’08, Prof. J. H. Ott,’S5; rrof. E. Wendlaud, ^6, and Prof. E. Sauer, ’ll. 一While our boys were lighting the Carroll game at Wau­ kesha Saturday, October 12, Prof. S. Probst, ?09, was witnessing tlve AVisconsin-Michigan football game at Madison, Wis. Acc ording to Prof. Probst, it was a very interesting and hard fought battle, as the 7-7 score indicates. 一Sunday, :November 13,was Rev. John Brenner’s 25th anniversary of his service in the Clnircli. To surprise Rev. Brenner, Prof. J. Meyer of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, a classmate of Rev. Brenner, 'vas called upon to deliver the evening sermon. Key. O. Hagedorn, 791, of Milwaukee, Wis., also delivered an address in honor of Rev. Brenner. From —213—


reports we have it that the anniversary surprise was very successful. ―The Seminary was also well represented at the Carroll game. Luther Voss, ^8, and H. Cares, J21, made the trip to Waukesha in Luther’s Ford. Although twenty other students had planned to walk the distance, only the follow­ ing six completed the hike, E. Blakewell, ’18, C. Kuske, ’18, M. Croll, ’2(5, G. Press, J20, K. Timme], ’20, and M. Buenger, ^l. E. Pankow, "21, T. Uetzmann, ’21,also of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, G. gteffen,ex.,’21,of Milwaukee, and R. Hinnenthal, com., ’21,of Allentown, Wis” also were on the sidelines to root for us. —Eev. A. Matzke, ^8, of Mansfield, Wash., has acquired a new means of locomotion, flo'yever in place of being re­ tired, his Ford must be re-shod every now and then. Accord­ ing to a photograph Rev. Matzke is quite at home in the saddle. —While on her way home from school on November 3, tlie daughter of Prof. E. Berg, ’10,of Saginaw, Mich., was mn over by an automobile driven by a fourteen year old boy. Hex* skull was fractured and she was rushed to a hospital where she died on the operating table. The young man was found guilty, but Prof. Berg did not prosecute. —On November 6 Rev. H. K Moussa,’00,of Jefferson, Wis., delivered an address on “Luther tie Immortal” at a joint meeting of Lutherans in St. Paul, Minn. —Mr. Carlton Hutli of Tacoma, Wash., visited Prof. Probst,’09, here on November 6. —Prof. John Eiselmeier, normal, J82, of the Milwaukee University School, spent his summer vacation in Mexico City studying Spanish. Prof. Eiselmeier has a word of praise for the president of Mexico, who gave those who came for educational purposes free passage from Mexico City to El Paso. —Rev. Leonard Bernthal,’18, of St. Louis, Midi., journey­ ed back to the liaunts of his youth at Ixonia, Wis., where lie was united in lioly wedlock with Miss Esther Kalb, of Ixonia on November 15. 一2H


—Our venerable Prof. Dr. Ernst is steadily improving in his condition. Although it was his left side that was para­ lyzed Dr. Ernst can already use his left leg and hopes that after a little more exercise lie will be able to discard his crutches. The function of liis left arm is still impaired. We were all very glad when we saw that Dr. Ernst was able to sit out on the porch of his home (luring the warm clays this fall. Dr. Ernst has the highest hopes of being able to teach again after the Cliristinas recess.

ALBERTO SALVI,HARPIST—NOVEMBER 25, 1921. It is with real pleasure that we write about this concert The reason is evident to those wlio heanl Salvi play. Let it be our object here to make it as evident as possible to those who did not hear him. One can readily realize that it is a task to translate the language of universal understand­ ing, music, to the language of our tongues. But, clear readers, let your imaginations rise with us into the higher spheres of Salvi’s art ami you will surely get at least a conception of the nature of the harp’s voice. Before we say any more about the nature of the concert itself, we wish to remark that we were surprised that so few of our neighbors took the opportunity of hearing such a genius. We wish that those wlio, for various reasons, failed to liear him would have lieavd him. They would have profit­ ed by it. It is true, the harp is a slightly known instrument and people have their misgivings at going to such a concert. But we found out that the liarp is a most wonderCul repro­ ducer of all music, that it is a worthy rival of all other in­ struments in reproducing it. The news of Salvi’s spell-bound audience has spread like a prairie-fire through the city and surrounding country. Tliere are many who regret that they —215—


have missed the opportunity of hearing that “Wizard of the heard Ssilvi play, we dreamt of eternal peace; we watched tlie liglitning-like rapidity and agility of those skill­ ed fingers, we dreamt we were in a wonderland. Until the evening of the concert, Salvi’s fame was for us an abstract term, we measured it by the fame of other artists. Now SalvPs fame is for us a vivid reality. We will never forget the notes of that concert that threw us into a spell of forget­ fulness of wordly cares and tribulations. It can be said of every selection on the program that it was very good. But we will mention here only a few of his pieces that struck our ears as especially praiseworthy. The selection barcarolle” contained a vivid story of a patient longing love, made far more vivid by SalviJs astound­ ing manipulation of tlie strings. At first like tlie lullaby rippling of tlie frolicsome wavelets of a babbling brooklet, it rose gently through the most beautiful chords the brain could conceive, to a sweet passion, and rested finally in rich harmony in peaceful content. A gripping, fascinating series of rushing runs introduces the Norwegian Ballade.” It takes on form and is wrought} into an exquisite melody of sad craving. The echo answers as in mischievous mockery. It fades away. We hear tlie tumnltnous northern storm-wind combing tlie scattered pines on a lone rocky bluff. There comes a lull in the storm and with the hushed swish of tlie cold night air through its quaking branches tlie sighing pine expresses its longing for peace. The cold nortli answers in sharp rebuke and tlie pine lapses into a last revolting appeal. <rSralse Brillgnte” was a masterful creation of Salyi. It was so sweet, so musical, and so well-rhymed, that it en­ raptured the senses. Queer as it may seem, but truly, words fail to describe that hushed insistent warble and tlie preyading majesty of those sweeping gushes of melody. The ^anse des Sylphes” fell so light, so airy, so musi­ cally sweet from Salvi’s touch, that before one had caught -those chords, tliey playfully eluded one's ear witli captivat­ ing, tinkling, babbling sweetness and yielded to still sweeter ones. A veritable dance of tlie sylphs was tile piece and ponderously buoyant in melody. Dvorak should have heard his immortal Humoresque -216—


I etherealized by Salvi. The charming simplicity of the melody was rendered far more melodious by the soothing note of the harp’s ecstatic lavislmess in harmonious chords. One cannot imagine the rapturous effect of those aching chords of that ^augli with a tear behind it.” They entranced one’s soul. They moved to tears. We never heard applause so great as that which followed. The right hand of Salvi sang the gentle strain of ^Mother Macliree”; the left offered a rich accompaniment. The quaint, prophetic trend of “La Paloma” did not pass by unnoticed. TITE PROGRAM. ______ ZABEL 1. Allegro ffrom C Minor Concerto)—. GRIEG-SALYI 2. To Spring1_____________________ …TEDESCHI 3. Spanish Dance__________________ 4. Barcarolle (from Tales of IToffnian) OFFENBACH-SALVT ____________ SALVI 5. Norwegian Ballade Intermission. ___________ SALVI 亿 Yalse l^rillante___ __________ CHOPIN 7. Fantasie Impromptu ___________ SALVI 8. Italian Serenade___ ___________ POSSE 9. Danse des Sylphes__. …DVORAK-SALVI 10. Humoreske________ _______ TEDESCHI 11. The Music Box____ APTOMMAS-SALVI 12. Tarantelle________ Encores: 1. Sweet, li’l follow: 2. Sextette from Lucia di Lammermoor; 3. Sweet Sixteen; 4. La Paloma; 5. Mother McCree; 6. Gavotte, Louis XTSr.

THE CONDITIONS IN GERMANY TODAY. On Sunday evening, the twenty-seventh of November, thfe Rev. Dr. Henry Koch of Berlin, Germany, addressed about seven hundred Lutherans in onr Gymnasium on the conditions in Germany. He was in (Germany during the World’s War and as pastor he closely viewed the sufferings of the poor classes in Germany during and after the war. He stated that., alt.hoTi.s:li the suffering lias abated a trifle in most parts of Germany, yet the assertion of some of


our American travelers in Germany after tlie war, is incor­ rect, when they claim that the German nation no longer suffers need. If these travelers would investigate more deeply into tlie matter and would observe the life in the narrow streets and alleys of a larger German city, lie claims, they would soon discard their incorrect impression of the situation of Germany to-day. The people with whom these travelers get into contact are to the greater extent warprofiteers, foreigners wlio have plenty, and Jews wlio are still making use of tlie starvation of their countrymen as a source of much wealth. Restricted to a very scant amount of food, the children become consumptive. Parents cannot supply their children with the necessary food without depriving themselves of the means of living. If lielp and mucli help is not rendered the starving poor at once, the race is in danger of dying out. Therefore Rev. Koch makes a personal appeal to all Luther­ ans and friends of the starving multitiKles, that they should send help to alleviate this sufferiug. As to the religious situation of Germany. Altliough the great Reformer, Martin Lutlier, was born in German lands, yet according to Lutliei.’s prophetical words, the Gospel is being taken from his people because of the unbe­ lief of tlieir hearts. Wliere Luther’s praise is sung, it is sung to his Avork of establishing free speech and free thinking and of liberating the German nation from the odious bonds of popery. The professors at the German col­ leges and universities took this as a license to preacli ration­ alism. In tlieir rationalism they refused to believe the story of the Creation, despised Salvation, and made light of the Last Judgment. They freely preacli these unbeliefs from tlieir pulpits in the churches. Thft attendance natural1.Y dwindles and in the old “Staatskii’clie.” the now so-called ‘^Voljjskirclie,” tlie attendance is alarmingly poor. The ^Freikirche,’’ which alraost alone stands firmly by Lutlier’s dogma, was at the beginning of the war a much-despised and derided band of thirty pastors and forty congregations. But the services in these, churches are now always overcrowded. This clearly shows that the people still want to believe in Jesus Christ even in tlieir tribulations. But there is great danger that the false teachings of sectarian organiza­ tions will win over many souls. Therefore we need pastors -218-


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NORTHWESTERN II. 26 - WAYLAND ACADEMY 14. Hats off to Northwestern’s second team. They drove away the old jinx “Defeat” and effected the first football victory for Northwestern in tlii.ee full seasons and also the first victory of the second team over Wayland Academy since 1915. It was the reserves, game through out. But seldom was our goal in danger and when it was our team acted like a group of veterans and held the visitors for downs. They did, however, cross our line twice. ^Neither touchdown was an earned score, for once a penalty put the ball almost on the line, and the other was the result of a fumble. First half. Northwestern received the kickoff and Engel —219—


returned tlie ball to the twenty-yard line. Our backs could not gain and we were forced to punt. On three tries and a penjdty Wayland gained six yards. They attempted a dropkick but failed, and Engel returned the ball thirteen yards. A moment later he skirted left end for twenty-five additional yards. Punts were exchanged and we found the enemy on our three-yard line, but our line was too strong for them and they were thrown for a loss. Now our warriors staged a zig-zag march until they came to the center of the field. Here the whistle ended the session. The short rest again put Wayland on its feet. They immediately held us for downs, then completed a twentyyard pass; but could do no more. They punted. Our team opened up with, new formations and made five first downs in succession and would have gone farther had not a fumble come in the wav. But Ziemer soon intercepted a forward and brought the ball into our possession aj?ain. A long for­ ward-pass, Knoll to Kleinke, put the oval over for second team’s first score. ICleinke kicked wide and tlie score stood 6 - 0 in Northwestern’s favor. On tlie seventh play after the kickoff Knoll scored an­ other touchdown, and also kicked goal. Ziemer returned the next kickoff to Northwestern^ twenty-yard line. The very first play brought the ball into the hands of the visitors when their safety intercepted a pass. Their backs gained very little ground; but two penal­ ties on our side put the ball five yards from 试oal. In a des­ perate attempt the fullback shovecl the ball across. They_ ticked goal, and the half ended 13 - 7 in second team’s favor. .Second half. Wayland received and punted from the thirty-yard line. After six first downs Ziemer smashed through the line for a score. Knoll added another point. Wayland kicked off. Punts wore exchanged and we were again in possession of the ball. Bowmann recovered a fumble and ran to our goal for the Academy’s second touclidown. Goal was kicked. In the fourth and final quarter both teams seemed to weaken, for both were very often forced to pnnt. But toward the end Sharp tore through the line several times for long gains, and finally Ziemer went through center for the last touchdown. Knoll kicked goal. —220—


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NORTHWESTERN 0 - CARROLL 7. Despite the bitter cold weather over one hundred loyal Northwestern rooters journeyed to Waukesha by special car on October 12 to witness our last conference game of the season against Carroll college. Although our team had had no outside practice because of deep snow, it put up a stubborn and unyielding fight throughout the entire game, and all those who witnessed the struggle were well satisfied with their showing. First half. "Northwestern kicked off to Carroll and first 'down was called on Carroirs thirty-yard line. Their backs . one after another made short gains through our line. Then their quarterback perfected a fake play which netted them twenty additional yards. They were penalized, could not —221—


regain the lost ground, and tlie ball went over, On our first play Siffring went through an opening for thirty yards. Here someone fumbled and the ball was again in Cari.oll’s pos­ session. They worked their way across the field until they were only fifteen yards from our goal posts. Here they tried a drop-kick but failed. A fumble again put the ball in Carroll’s hands. After the short rest between quarters our opponents open­ ed their attack only twenty yards from our goal. Fifteen yards were gained on the first play and two more were added on the next. Here our team grew desperate and threw the enemy for a loss. But a moment later Young received a forward from the quarter-back and dropped across the line for the only touchdown of the game. The remainder of tlie quarter tlie ball was kept in mid-Held. As neither team could gain much ground a punting duel between Brandt and Steer resulted. Second half. It was now Nortlnvestern’s chance to re­ ceive the kick-off, which Brandt returned to our twentyyard line. Our backs began to gain both on end runs and line smashes. One could see that they were still determined to win this game. But soon we were held for downs and the ball again went to Carroll. They could not gain and Avere forced to punt. After an exchange of punts the quarter ended. Our men realized the situation and worked their way to the center of the field where a Carroll playei* intercepted a pass and started a drive for our goal. Through fake plays and passes they reached our twenty-yard line, tried a dropkick and failed. Our squad was barely getting under way when another forward was intercepted by the enemy. They were thrown for a loss while attempting a new formation, and when they punted the final wliistle ended the game. The score remained 7 - 0 in Carroirs favor. The lineup: Northwestern Carroll Nowack ___Vanin ale .R. E... Palmer R.T. ______Sparr Kuske___ R. G. __McMurray Kuckhahn G. Christiansen Van Kooy. ______ Cook L. G.. Gentz__ L. T.. ______ Bray Uetzmann .L. E. ______Blunt —222—


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We are well satisiiod with the punctuality of our exchanges. With a few exceptions they are very regular in their appearance. Our many efforts to reestablish comimmication with the Alma Mater, however, have been fruitless. We are still awaiting tlie fall number of the Wartburg Quarterly. A new monthly has arrived at our exchange table. “The Columbia News'7 is published by students of Columbia Grammar School, New York. The quality of the paper and the clear print give the paper a very neat appearance. There is, however, much room for improvement in the arrangement and selection of tlie material. In tlie first place you have no definite departments ex—223—


cept perhaps Literary and Athletics. We suggest that you introduce definite departments and divide the material ac­ cordingly. Exchanges will be necessary to help you improve your paper. A few cuts as department headings would do much to make your paper more attractive. It is our opinion that you devote entirely too much space to anecdotes and humorous articles. A reasonable amount of humor is entirely in place and should be found in every school paper. But when you devote practically half of your space to material of this sort, we say tliat it is being over­ done. A school publication should not emulate “Fliegende Blaetter,J or <<Punch.,) The original liumor that you have is good; but why drag in witticisms from Judge, Life, American Legion Weekly, and others. The first article gives tlie story of the Pilgrims. Tlie style is simple, and the facts are clearly presented. “Climax to the ‘Lady and the Tiger’ ” is really worth while. The plot is well carried out. Tlie story holds the readers interest to the very last. In “The Pilgrimage to Elizabeth” two members of tlie staff and the faculty advisor make a business trip to Eliza­ beth. Many peculiar and amusing incidents occur on tlie trip. The method of presentation is unique. The reader is constantly kept guessing which one of tlie trio wrote the story. The author fittingly clears this up by referring to a foot-note: <ll wrote this article.” The style is unusual; we thoroughly enjoyed the story. We fancy the style in which Athletics is written. It is refreshing to read something on foot-ball without the usual sport-page slang. We welcome the “News” to our exchange list.

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./ Xv(?l made use of the op* .d :h at Milwaukee, to cheer his ' • t !r A s.it f.h /isit. t v > to his liorae in Brownsville, Wis* co' in ’,t 〜 i?or the next week choice morsels of chiv rt ‘ .oerhart of his visit. 、n his .day Pat Falk had to take an unmerciful l)eatin, - l r cr it was found out that it wasn’t Pat’s birth­ day af hIn Wallie Voigt’s case, however; there was no mistake. Abie Blumenthal journeyed to his home early in No­ vember. There he saw his brother, the other Abie, who formerty attended Northwestern and who had served his terra with the marines. Three sisters of the List brothers witnessed the Wayland game on our ^vidiron and had a chat with their brothers. • All three of the Miss Lists attended the teachers’ conference at West Bend. On October 29th Mr. G. Schulz, parochial school teacher ^rir:'

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at Burlington, was entertained by Isaak and Kongs Engel. Later the same two were hosts to Mr. Edward Bradtke, parochial school teacher of Hustisford, and at another time to Mr. S. J. Bergmann, parochial school teacher at Wiscon­ sin Bapids. Karl Koehler took part in a hunting trip near Oshkosh late in October. That reminds us of the time Isaak and Kongs went hunting. They got a rabbit — it died as soon as it saw Isaak. On November 16th Blume, having fully recovered from a severe attack of bronchitis, again opened his dusty books. Bus Kraemer of Madison was here in November to see Slip about a “fire spot.” He saw it, but didn’t get it. Fricke’s sister, Miss Ruth Fricke of Aurora, III., and her friend stopped off with John one day in November. The three pounds of candy which liis^sister left John did not last long in Room 5. Not only has Bud Knoll recently received many cards of congratulations, but he has also made nmnerous trips to Mil­ waukee. We can^ account for those cards—Hooks can. Miss Esther Blank of Aurora, 111., visited her brother Allen about the middle of November. One day in November Mittelstaedt entertained liis sister Miss Adeline Mittelstaedt, parochial school teacher in Wisconsin Bapids. On November 12th two special interurban cars sped to Waukeslia, packed with the football team and with as ex­ cited, hopeful and spirited a crowd of rooters as Northwest* ern has seen in years. All the way to Waukesha lusty cheers and college songs filled the cars. All through the game with Carroll our rooters cheered Northwestern^ cliamj)ions on, even drowning out the yells of the Carroll aggregation. Northwestern^ spirit is invincible Defeat was accepted with a cheer for the Black and Red. Then we had it一school spirit. After tlie Carroll game some of the co-eds made several pounds of candy for tlie team and committed the distribution of it to Fred Huebner. Fred gathered the bunch and they all had a pleasant time eating the sweets. Slip heard the record <fHome, Sweet Home” in tlie smok* —226—


ing Room. He thought it meant him so he went to. his home in Chicago, but only to replenish funds.

Miss Sophie Mittelstaedt of Wisconsin Eapids, and Miss Adelia Siegler of the Milwaukee Normal School were our visitors November 5. Irene Seefeldt and Meta Kaulitz spent Saturday and Sunday, November 5 and 6, in Johnson Creek. Saturday afternoon, November 12, many co-eds witness­ ed the football game between Northwestern and Carroll at Waukesha. Miss Arietta Linderaann of Oconomowoc visited classes with Miriam Jaeger on Saturday, November 12. Tuesday, Noveinber 15, the girl’s gym class was organiz ed under the leadov^hip of Professor Parisius. Almost al the girls have turned out for athletics this year, and we shall l>e able to have several basketball teams. A new game to -be taken up (his year is indoor baseball.

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Hermie (apparently unaware of a storm): What’s leak­ ing up there? Jumbo (reading Hebrew): a, oo, oo, o,. Prof.: Are they all “oo’s” or are you playing owl. 一Prof.: Sind sie schon fertig, Marti? Rub: Ja, Icli bin fertig—mit dem ersten anzufangen. —r-Pat: Do you: remember the battle of Tecumseh where l^ppecanoe was killed? ―Prof.: Wie heisst der Genetiv yon “Mios”? Student: Moses. 一Prof.: Was stelit in Paragraph 200? .Herring—Da stelit viel. 一Prof.: What does C. 0. D. stand for? Student: Call on dad to pay. •―r^Pie]d^>:inch: If'you spend so much time at 茗olf, you ron^kaTe aanything left for a rainy day. Stynoeae:-W«n?t,* eh? You just ought to see how crowded •wiiii^work tbe inside of -my desk is;一*Ex. 一Slip claims that Tuffy takes his watcli down to the rail­ road tracks every *morning in order to start it. .A Co-Edsof Two Worlds. When Liz dines out, she says, with ease: “Oh, won’t you pass the butter, please?” Home, when that stuff she wants to have. She says: 4<Maw, slide across the salve.” . —Ex. Tough Luck. His horse went dead and his mule went lame, And he lost his cow in a poker game; A cyclone came on a winter’s day, And blew the house where he lived away. Then an earthquake came when that was done, And swallowed the ground his barn stood on; Then the tax collector came around, And charged him up with the hole in the ground; Then that night to make it worse, The stork triplets—^and he had no nurse.


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Quality First With moderate prices is what this store is striv­ ing for. We have unusually attractive

Suits and Overcoats at $25.00 it will pay you and be a pleasure for us to show them to you if at all interested. The following are some of the prices in other departments: Collars 20c, 3 for 50c Silk Knit Ties $1.50-1.00-75c Knit Gloves 3 for 1.00 Shirt, $3.00 values, size 14, $1.00 2 shirts with collar $1.00 Sheep lined coats, 20.00,18.00,15.00,10.00 Skating Stocking 1.25 Sweaters 1.00 to 10.00 Caps 2.00, 1.50, 1.00 Ace caps for skating 1.00

Wegemann-Faber-Kaercher Co. Merchant Tailors, Clothiers and Haberdashers Cor. Main and Third Sts.


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312 DEPARTMENT STORES MEN’S AND BOYS,HATS AND CAPS Boys’ Fine Caps, assorted styles, Men’s Extra Fine Dress Hats, splendid felts and velours, each your choice at__58c, 69c, 79c $2.98 to 4.50 at Men’s Fine Dress Caps, several styles, wonderful values, each Men’s Cloth Hats, assorted fancy fabrics, each $1.49, 1.98, 2.98 69c, 98c. 1.39 at Men’s Fine Dress Hats, the latest Men’s Fur Caps, wonderful val­ ues, assorted sizes, shapes and colors, each $1.25 $3.98 to 8.90 each 1.98 and SHOES FOR MEN Men’s Dress Shoes, Blucher cut, box calf, solid leather, pr. 2.98

Men’s Dress Shoes. Black kid, splendid style, pair • 3.98

Men's Dress Shoes, Russian calf, English and Blucher style pair 3.50

Men’s Dress Shoes, new tan Fall shade fancy brocaded, very pretty style, pair 4.98

Men’s Dress Shoes, new style, rub­ ber heels, solid leather, Men’s Outing Shoes, heavy brown pair leather, nailed and sewed sole, 4.98 pair 2,39 Men’s Dress Shoes, Semi-English last, Russia brown calf, per pair 5.90 Men’s Work Shoes, Heavy brown leather, well made, nailed and Men's Dress Shoes, Black English sewed sole, pair 2.98 gun metal, pair 3,98 Men's Dress Shoes, Extra wide, Men’s Heavy Work Shoes, Extra good quality, Goodyear welt, kid leather, blutcher cut cush­ pair---------------------- 3,50 ion sole, pair 5,90 MAIN FLOOR SUITS—NEW MODELS-14.75 to 29.50 OVERCOATS-CLASSY STYLES-/7.50 to 29.75 SUITS—HANDSOME STYLE-24.75 to 29.50


GIFTS

from a Mans Store for a Man

tfJust what I wanted’’ When a man welcomes his Christmas gift from you whith those words, your sense of pleasure and satisfaction will be as complete as his. _ You will find many useful things for a man*8 Christ­ mas at this store—gifts of quality and excellence一 gifts that will win approval at first glance, and in long services.

Appropriate Suggestions: Gloves Neckwear Mufflers Garters Luggage Mackinaws

Pajamas

Silk Shirts Desk Sets Bath Robes House Robes Smoking Jackets

Silver Belt Buckles Traveling Sets Shirt Jewelry Leather Goods Fancy Suspenders Wardrobe Trunks

Choose early, shop in comfort, and avoid the worry the di8ComfoTt and the rush which always attends “last minute" gift purchasing.


Washington Hotel and Restaurant Try our 50c week day Plate Dinners H. W. KRONITZ, Prop.

A Merry Christmas and A Happy New Year Watertown’s

Greatest Bargain Store Max Wegemann, Manager 106 W. Main Street


Buerger’s Meat Market The Home of Good Sausage 112 Second Street We Recommend

Bostonian” SHOES FOR MEN

Leo Reusch & Son 210 West Main Street ROBERT DOERR

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mr腫tricshop 116 Third Street Phone 59-w

Spohn’s Shoes

215

Main St. HAVE YOUR FEET SHOD AT SPOHNfS Where you (Set footwear correctly flitted. Where Style, Quality and Low Prices Prevail. Call our Orthoprary Department for Foot Trouble correction. Consultations FREE,

FELIX LESCH1NGER

Doerr & Leschinger Plumbers Gas Fitting and Sewerage

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Dr. FRANK F. SCHLUETER DENTIST Office Phone 156-W

Residence Phone 5 12-J

Watertown

215 Main St.

If it’s Hardware

John G. Knispel

we have it

DEALER IN

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Pritzlaff Co.

307 Main St.

Watertown, Wis

and all kinds of Sporting Goods at

Salick’s

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CUTLERY and RAZORS Examine our line before buying

D. & F. Kusel Co. 108-110-112 W. Main St. “The Store of Quality’

at the Bridge

W, A. Nack Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry in season. Phone 19-W

ICE Phone Connections

BASKET Dall

Jeweler

Wholesale and Retail

WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST 315 Main St., Watertown,Wis.

No. 621 Main St.

Watertown's Exclusive Shoes Repaired CROCKERY STORE while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE 218 West Main Street

AOG. GAMM CROCKERY CO. 400 Main Street


Ed. Hinzmann BARBER SHOP

QUALITY BAKE SHOP

RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE POSTOFFICE

Place for real Baked Goods

Ed. Warner EAST END Barber Shop

311 Main Street

Go to Headquarters for Stationery, Candies, Notions and Fancy Goods. 602 Main St. Watertown, Wis. W_ F- Gruetzmacher

W.D. SproesserCo.

HIGH GRADE

JEWELERS

BUILDING MATERIAL

Pianos and Victor Victrolas

INCLUDING KELLASTONE

111 Main St.

Phone No. 259-J

BARKER LUMBER AND FUEL CO.

Let your Photograph pay your friends When the outside world is a visit. bleak and chill a few flow­ Make the appointment ers attractively arranged to-day. create summer in the office The photographer or home. in your town

Let us supply you

SM ROHAL COMPANY

40iMainSt

Phone 464rJ

Meyer’s Studio 114 Third Street


JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

Meats and Sausages of all Kinds Watertoron

Phone 25

Wisconsin

Kohls-Knaak Co.

GRANT’S

Furniture and Undertaking

HIGH GRADE

Edison Phonographs and Rugs

607.613 MAIN SI FEET Phone Call 150-W Residence Phone 165-J

CANDIES,and Brick Ice Cream Fruits, Cigars and Cigarettes 407 Main Street GET YOUR

For all kinds of In­ surance see

Siegler&HelnsuranGeAgency Farmers & Citizens 琦ank Bldg.

WatertownShoeShineParlor Old Hats Made New We Clean, Re-Block and ReShape Felt and Panama Hats We also carry a big: line of

Cigars, Cigarettes and Candies 410 Main St.

TOM MAKAS

Fishing Tackle at Win^enwerder's Hdw. Store 207 MAIN STREET

IVaterlown Creamery Co.

Clarified & Pasteurized Milk&Cream Phone 431-J

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery GEORGE SPYROS, Proprietor

IccCrcam, Randies and0iflar$ WATERTOWN, WIS.


Chas. Heismann THE PAINT MAN

The Central Drug Store of Watertown Agents for the

Corona Typewriters

PAINTER AND

Typewriters to Rent

DECORATOR

Eastman Kodaks Correct Picture Framing

Huth & Hoyer 204 MAIN ST.

108 Third Street

Phone 609-J

Watertown

Your Friends Will Appreciate Your Picture, IF made by

The Denninger Studio Make an appointment NOW it is NONE too early.

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Base Ball

Basket Ball Tennis Supplies

Catalog on request

Foot Ball

Milwaukee, Wis.

The Watertown Press QUALITY—SERVICE Cor. Second and Market Sts.

Jas. D. Casey Company Pianos and Phonographs on Easy Payment Plan

Records Rolls 119-121 Water St

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OVERCOAT Style You’ll find it; just what you want—the stylish belted coats or the double-breasted or new Raglans; the big smart ulsters. You don’t have to think about Hart Schaffner & quality. Marx have taken care of that in rich all-wool fabrics and ex­ pert tailoring.

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Hoffmann ■ Kelly Company Your Clothing Store

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Olympia TAKE HOME A BOX OF OUR

Chris加as Candies

they make your friends smile

Pappas & Sallas, Proprietors 2011lauSt

Pkoae 294^1

Watertown

Conveyed to relatives and friends thru lovely mid-winter flowers express finer sentiments and higher ideal than pres ents of questionable value and appreOur display ciation. of plants and flowers never were more choice at this season. Make your selections early. 104 Main Street Phone 649-J

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Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS 313 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

F. J. Koser Baker THE PLACE WHERE THEY MAKE GOLDEN CRUST BREAD 111 Second Street

Students

Telephone 502-W

THE BLACK and RED CIGAR NOW LEADS,EM ALL A THE OLD LaFLORA 10 Cents

SCtUAJETER BROS.

deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check. No matter how small— your account will receive careful attention.

Bank of Watertown The^Oldest.Bank .in Watertown

Smoke

WILKOWSKI BROS. High Life Cigar A. WIGGENHORN & SON

JEWELERS


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Pool Hall and Popcorn fml POPCORN, FRESH ROASTED PEANUTS

CHEWING mf CIGARETTES AND TOBACCO LUNCHES AT ALL HOURS For High-Grade Cigars, Cigar­

E. H. Cook, M. D. Practice Limited to

ettes and Tobaccos try the

UNITED CIGAR STORE No. 9 Main Street FRUITS AND CANDIES

EYE. EAR, NOSE & THROAT Spectacles and Eye Glasses Scientifically Fitted Hours 9 to 4

Office, Hertcl & Hoffmann Bldgr.

Take home a pair of comfy Slippers for Mother We Pay Postage Both Ways if the size is not right.

Meyer’s Shoe Store


Dr. E. J. Hoermann Dentist Telephone No. 259

X-RAY

Watertown, Wi».

Corner First and Main Streets

Vogue

FIRST-CLASS WORK

CiMncrt and Dyers

R. C. Budewitz, Proprietor 406 Main St.

Phone 263-J

Where they clean clothes clean

Sim Block “The Barber” 1 15 Third St.

Watertown

CIGARETTES, CIGARS BOX CANDIES, BULK CANDIES COOKIES, CAKES and QUALITY BAKE SHOP PRODUCTS in fact everything for that LUNCH AT SCHOOL

BENTZIN^S At the Sharp Corner

Phone 214


F. E. Kosanke, M. D. Hoffmann Bldg. 109 Main S^*ee 皮 HOURS: 1 -4 and 7-8 P. M.

Office Telephone 283-W

Res. Telephone 12!~W Walter Heil

Henty ScKlueter

Schlueter & Heil Plumbing, Gas Fitting and Sewerage

Phone 45 7-W

106 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

OWEN,S DRUG STORE 412 Main St., near corner of Fifth

“The Orange Front” Bring in your Kodak Films for Developing and Printing.

City Meat Market J. ADOMAT, Prop.

Fresh, Salted and Smoked Meats Home-Made Sausage―Groceries Where Quality and Price Bala nee PHONE 107-J

We Deliver


W atertown

DYE WORKS 110 2nd Street

Phone 620-J

We da CLEANING, DYING, PRESSING, REPAIRING, ALTERATION, PLAITING, BUTTONS and HEMSTITCHING

Why send your work elsewhere ? Our Prices are the LOWEST, SERVICE & WORKMANSHIP the BEST, and you are sure that your work is in the hand of a reliable concern. A trial order will include you among our permanent customers


Young Men’s College and High School Clothes The Styles these young men seek are here in abund­ ance; it’s a specialty with us to know the needs of these fellows. Here you'll see the New Fabrics, the New Styles, the Striking, the Individual Stuff that isn't to be seen anywhere else. You'll like our The Service, too; we know what young men want. Values are building the largest young men’s trade in the country.

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A Merry Xmas

A Happy New Year Buy your Xmas Candies at the

Classic Sweet Shop H.C. BRANDT, Prop.

A Box of Morse’s Candies will please her Ice Cream

Candies

Cigars

A. W. Breithaupt DOCTOR OF CHIROPRACTIC X-Ray used to locate cause of disease. 103 Main Street

Watertown, Wi».


What a Wonderful Month December Is! Everybody is thinking about somebody else. It is the unselfish month, when we think vastly more about what we shall give than what we receive. And what a pleasure it is to hunt for the things that will delight some friend—choosing the one that will confer the utmost possible satisfaction. Now the time is here when gift decisions must be made, and so many unsolved puzzles are still on most minds. Don't struggle with such problems at home. Come where the multitudes of gift-things are on display, to make the choosing easy and so satisfying. Here are the beautiful things, the useful things—the comforts and luxuries of life, and all those giveable necessaries that make such pleasing gifts. Here all gift problems almost solve themselves.

CHAS. FISCHER & SONS CO. United Mercantile Store

Wm. Gorder Co. Coal, Wood, Coke, Sewer Pipe ---------AND---------

Building Material 608 Main Stree

Telephone 33-1 R


Watertown’s Leading Furniture Store INSTRUCTOR

QDrgatt 讲inno,班。li,ti nnh 盈.nrimutg 射uirtn UI3田aiu &t. Studio Phone 752-W

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HOFFMANN BUILDING

Royal Rest Easy Chair ^

Chas. Moy Laundry

F.C.KECK & COMPANY

North Fourth Street

110-112 Main Street

HERMAN T. NOWACK Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetable and Fruits in season. Telephone 595-J. 111 N. 4th St. Watertown, Wis.

You will find a complete line of Fruits of all kinds in senson at

John E. Heismann CASH GROCER TELEPHONE 6 US MAIN STREET

White Palace BARBER SHOP First-Class Work BERT C. FROEMMING 408 Main St. Watertown, Wis.

Dealer In

RELIABLE FURNITURE UNDERTAKER AND LICENSED EMBALMER Private Chapel Up-to-Date Equipment 313 WAIN STREET

系:r_. S•多,系 Phone 54

Res. ’Phone 51-W

The most appreciated presents are those which give long practical service and afford bodily comfort. Gifts of good footwear are al­ ways gratifying. They never fail to please, A look around this store will help you mij measurably in making up your gift list, now, buy when you’re ready.

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W. L VOLKMfll, Proprietor Shave 15c

Haircuts 25c

O. F. KURZWEG

EXCEPT SATURDAYS HAIRCUTS 35c

DEALER IN

Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes

FINE BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS Please Give Us a Trial We Try to Give Satisfaction

215 North Fourth St

402 Main Street

BITTNER & IEIZLAFF

Mutchler’s Grocery

Drugs

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Groceries

Phone 75-w 413 western Ave.

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Watertown, Wis” January 1922

Number 8

COLLEGE SPIRIT Gustav Krause, ’22 AVhat is the essence of that indefinite word we have ac­ customed ourselves to hear of late, that certain uncertainty: college spirit; what is it? Some months ago、ve read one of our exchange papers in which the editor asks: <cHave you college spii.it?” He goes into details and asks: “Why is it that in every social unit of whatever size, the burden of responsibility falls upon the faithful few?” Why is it that a very small body of men, • very often only a lone man, is responsible for the running of the student organizations? The answer lies close at hand:. lack of college spirit. When the time arrives that officers for the various or­ ganizations are to be nominated and elected, the average student usually asks himself: ^Whom should I nominate? On whom can T depend that he wUl be a good leader?” And the answer seems invariably the same: one of the faithful few\ Then again we find students who believe that “fata


anil immota manent'5 and they, like the man who has not stamina enough to say ‘yes’ 01,‘no’,but must needs throw a coin or pull straws in order to avoid any further responsibility, hap­ hazardly cast their vote in the firm conviction that the fates will decide the issue for them. And they do. It is more than ever due to these people that the literary society, the glee club, the orchestra, or the band of a school at various times is (to nse the slang expression) clown and out. It is this interested disinterestness that dims tlie glow of school life. And again we find these very same people complaining about, the lack of interest here and the great “pull” there. They are only too ready to criticize; but their inethocl betrays them. We all are b,v nature chronic “kickers”; it should not, liowever, bo our creed: “I’m the only one who knows how to run that 01.棼miization.” The sooner we learn the opposite, however bitter tlie experience,tlie better. There is no position in all the wide world which can be occupied on­ ly by one man, neither is (here any greater delusion than the statement, so often heard: “Nobody can run this office bet­ ter than I.” .

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Surely, we will admit that some are less capable of hold­ ing offices than others; that some can more readily grasp the fundamentals which lie at the bottom of a successful management of business affairs in the student-body or stud­ ent-organizations ;that the ^faithful few” can bear a great share of criticism from within the student-body as well as from people without the pale who sincerely believe that- they have a very keen insiglit into student-life in general and 011 that account persist in throwing mud. In the end, however, success will be achieved only when tlie student-body enmasse gives its wliole-hearted, unselfish support to the or­ ganizations it strives to maintain. 'College spirit, to be brief, is team-work; coherence. A true college spirit manifests itself in no particular event or sport. It is a spirit which is determined to fight not until it can fight no longer, but until its opponent cannot. It is not the spirit of the “quitter”, the man who usually boasts about doing all lie can. Have you ever lingered long enough 一231—


to realize what he implied and what he quietly enclosed in his own parenthesis? “It is easy enough to be pleasant When life flows along like a song; But the man worth while Is the man who can smile When everything goes dead wrong.” ^raiiv a promising team of athletes has been ruined by the “quitling” spirit, tlie lack of team-work. A chain is no stronger than its weakest link. But it’s up to every student to keep forging at it, to strengthen it. After tlie chain of college spirit has once grown strong, after it has once enmeslied all who desire to manifest their sincere regard for that wliicli we acclaim Alraa Mater, then it will carry along, even tliough at times with great resistance, all who come within its scope. Tlie true fruits of a true college spirit are not restricted to the campus. They first show themselves in the class­ room, in the keen interest at lectures; it is a spirit which accompanies the individual primarily and utters itself in the various student organizations secondarily. Its ultimate po'ver, however, as a factor in building up a school, reveals itself in the whole-hearted and unselfish support which the undergraduate and the alumnus gives his Alma Mater.

A STRUGGLE OF LOVE Dudley Rohda, ’22. Prescott Boulevard blossomed forth in great contrast to the long narrow streets of the city, lined on both sides witli his:h, stiff-lookino: flats; there rolling lawns of velvety green, gaudy here and there with beds of flaming flowers before the roomy mansions of the Avealthy class looked like veritable meadows in comparison to the little spans of grass, burnt brown by the sun, before the smaller homes on the long streets a few blocks away. Chippendale Place, the home of the Shermans, and Balfour Lodge, the home of the Sump—232—


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East, forwarded from Pueblo over Denver, a letter from El­ eanor. It brought news that Mr. Dorsen had suddenly died, and it lacked the burning affection of Lucille’s love-notes. Lester was sorry to hear the sad news, but he soon forgot it, and decided to write Eleanor a card,—for the last time. Lu­ cille should retake her old place in his heart! He heard no more from Eleanor. At last the scenes of Yellowstone Park and Washington had faded away and Mrs. Sherman and her son returned to Chippendale. Balfour Lodge was again the scene of a lux­ urious reception and Lester enjoyed every pleasure of old days. Chippendale Place with its massive, richly furnished halls saw him seldom.—But vacation ended and Lester re­ turned to Harvard for his last year. He was loath to leave Lucille and the Lodge this time,一for no Eleanor coaxed him back to college now. Harvard and college days, once more, blit no Eleanor! But now that Lester was again in the sphere of thought and memory, a struggle that had slumbered for two whole months broke out anew within him. Eleanor came back just to reproacli him with a look of inexpressible sadness from with­ in the depths of her wonderful brown eyes. Lester swayed once more. Lucille or Eleanor? He could nevermore give up Lucille now! Balfour Lodge would forever be barred to him then. Yet, Eleanor and the little colonial cottage, with its old fashioned flowers! One look would harm nothing! It was a cool evening in late October and the moon was full in the heavens when Lester chose to walk near the old • loved spot, just once more. The drawing-room of the Dorsen home was brightly lighted, and there behind the soft curtain at the piano sat the beautiful Eleanor, singing. A breeze brought tlie plaintive tune across the street to Lester's ears. He stopped and gazed into the cozy living-room. Mr. Dorsen’s favorite chair was empty, he could see, and in the rear to the right of Eleanor sat Mrs. Dorsen, near a bright fire of light wood on the grate. The scene and tlie song proved irresistible and unconsciously Lester crossed the street and rapped at the door of the colonial home of the Dorsen^. El­ eanor answered the door and stepped back in surprise, when Lester Sherman pushed his way into the living-room without even a “good-evening.” Not until he sank into the depths —237—


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THOUGHTS ON WINTER Edgar Hoenecke, ’23. Winter is victor! A miglity victor! His sweeping paint­ brush lias shaded every tree, every rock, and every dwelling. Mature has become a sharp silhouette of gigantic propor­ tions against its white background of snow under winters — 238—


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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS. With the dawn of another year the old custom of making resolutions for the new year has again sprung up. What countless numbers of good intentions have been moulded into resolutions either written down or engraved in the mind, and what countless numbers of these good intentions have al*reatly within the first half month of the new year been brok­ en! The idea of making resolutions could possibly be reck­ oned as one of merit, and might actually be of some benefit to the world, if man from nature were not the fickle, weak and inconsistent being lie is in reality. It is an easy thing for man to form good intentions, but to stick close to them, not to deviate in the least from them, is the real task. For example, a man lias resolved to abstain from some habit through the entire new year. He is positive he can do so. A month or two pass, his resolution is constantly before him; gradually it grows from a resolution into a prohibition and the prohibition waxes defiant and finally dares the man to trespass. Then the true nature of man comes to the surface 一240—


lie cannot be balked by a dare—and the new year's resolution falls like a crystal globe, splintered and shattered. Broken resolutions may prove dangerously <lostructive. A resolution once broken proves an acceptable invitation to further transgi'ession and tlie old liabits wliich we were detevminfed to rid ourselves of, return with an appreciable in.crease in indulgence on our part. Resolutions finally have but one good point to theii* credit; they show very vividly liow inconstant, weak, and inconsistent the superior mortal, man, is in most of liis in­ —R tentions and undertakings.

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PHYSICAL CULTURE Physical Culture, a science as old as the very beginning of ancient Greece, lias once more takon root in the civiliza­ tion of oiu* twentieth century. Athletic clubs have been oreanizod throughout our country, institutions l?or physical de­ velopment have been founded, every college of considerable size has acquired a gymnasium of its own and lias entered a course of Athletics into its cmTiculum, aiul nearly every park in all the larger cities affords ample opiiortnnity to the populace for athletic training* of some sort. With the growth of this science comes a promise: the number of the weak and debilitated Avhicli in (lie past has in­ creased incomprehensibly, will possibly in the years to comf decrease to about one half its present size. But with tlift growth of this science, too, comes a warning: let not man­ kind enshrine Physical Culture as a deity tc ]^e worshipped! It may seem absurd and ridiculous that man should over so far, but is it altogether improbable? A man is interested in Pliysical Culture because of tlie pleasure and the benefits to his physical ami mental boing that he derives from his exercises, ;m<l because of t-lip strengthening and developing of the future generation. Such views of this science are wholesome and to man* kind. The old Romans were of like opinion. They 】m(l a sentence, “Mens sana in corpore sano,” and it was correct. A sound mind should be encased in a healthy, strong body! -^St511 a most perfect development of the body brings with —241—


it no betterment or redeeming properties for the inner son】. This is the fact, we nnist ever remember, for it is very easy to become one's own idol, to assume righteousness by virtue oi. one's own perfect self, developed in the slirine of an idol, Physical Culture. We all owe it to our country, to the future generation, iind to ourselves Hmt we keep our bodies well and healthy as far as this lies in 0111* power. Pliysical culture will help us along. Encourage it, yet where you mark even a mere vestige of idolatry, blot it out, it is dangerous! —R.

MOTION PICTURES The invention of the motion picture camera in photog­ raphy is tho fniit of immoiisurable energy- and experiment, Imt it Ims boon l)l;isle(.l l»v the groed of man for gold. Lust for lucre has tnuisfoi.med an art into an imlustry! During the last (locarle the production of good motion pictui.es lias (logoneratod into an iinlustry wliicli to-(l«*iy ranks as the fifth largest, in the markets of the world, and it is no great won­ der. * We loam from reliable statistics noted during the World AVar that tlio intelligence of the average American adult is that of a fourteen year old boy and that of the female adult not quite so This is indeed an alarming disclosure, and tlic moving picture industry is in great part to blame for these uiiliapp.v conditions. Tlie less tlio modern man has to do the better he gets along, the happier he is. Reading? The man of to-day would not waste Ins time in reading! It takes too imu.li time—and it is unneccessiiry: the motion picture house oTfors hi川on the screen all he cares for in the way oT UlcM-ature, witli no effort wliatsoevei* on his part. It were well if tho screen could impart all that the author of tho novels has penned in his valuable volumes, but this is not tho case. ^rere many an author to see the picture of liis book without knowing that it was his, he would hardly recognize it as tlie production of the picture lie had produced on the screen of his fancy. A novel that is given to a motion picture concern to be —242—


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Om. l:i ProlV'ssor l^ir.erilus Dr F W. A. Notz be<1 non (hod l\\(*lvo Imndrcd voluiuos of bonks to our College library. Tli<» ('ollcrdon will 1m» known ns <ho F. W. A. Notz collection nml consists of Greek and Latin classical texts, 1)0()ks on philology, (heolojry and Dcdaijoffy, Judaica and lT<.0)i-aica, and books on art. Rev. A. Z(*isl(*i*, MS, of Milwaukee, AVis., spent two (lays of tin* Clu-ist.inas holidays at fche home of his parents in La Crosse, 'Vis. Professors K. Koehler, ’03, and E. Weiullaiid, ’0G,attend­ ed the St. Olafs Choir concert at ^lilwaukee, ou January 3. Professor H. Schincling, '98, visited at Sparta, Wis., during the Cliristmas holidays. Kev. Walter Gutzkt1, M7, of Powers, Mich., was in Wat­ ertown on January 4. Mr. Paul Albm-ht, '19, of 11k* Seniinar.v of Wauwatosa, lias accepted a call to Whiteriver, Arizona. Mr. Paul Eickmann, ’1(5,of the University of Michigan, spent part of liis Christmas vacation at the home of his bro­ ther-in-law, l?rv. A. Westeiiclorf of Flint, Michigan. Di*. J. II. Ott, '85, visited at Edgerlon and Madisou, "Wis. (luring the Christmas holidays. At Madison lie had the pleasure ol' calling on Senator Robert La Follette. Professor W. Botlomei•,’17, spent the greater share of the Chi-istmas vacation in La Crosse, Wis. Mr. G. Eickmami, com. -20, who is teaching school at —244—


Allenton, Wis., was taken sick with an attack of pneumonia while yisiting at Fond du Lac, Wis., during the Christmixs holidays. Rev. Wm. Malmbe, ex. ?09, of Root Creek, Wis., was boreaved of two of liis dear children, Lydia and Walter. Both died of lockjaw following vaccination as a preventative against the smallpox with which their brother Jonathan was stricken.

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German in Pennsylvania College at Gettysburg. In 1869 he accepted a call to Muchlenberg College at Allentown, Penn­ sylvania as professor of German. At this time he became acquainted with Key. J. Badiug and Rev. R. Adelberg and soon hereafter, in 1872, lie was called to the faculty of Nortli'vestewi. After lie had faithfully and conscientiously served the institution for forty long years lie was compelled to retire from his work in 1(.)12. He lived with liis family iu Milwau­ kee from this time on until his death last December. He is survived by a son and three (laughters. The son, Dr. William Notz, formerly a professor at Northwestern, now occupies a pi.oiiiiiumt position in the government at Washington, D. C. as chief of the Foreign Department of the Federal Ti-adc Commission. After a short funeral service at his late home in Milwau­ kee, the body of the deceased 'vas brought to Watertown. At the funeral service here in St. Mark's churcli his former scholar and late ])Jistor, the Rev. Gausewitz, of Milwaukee, tendered soothing consolation to the mouniers in a sermon which sang: the pmises of Him who makes His servants brave to stand before the world and testify of TIis great redeeming Love.

MILWAUKEE LIEDERKRANZ CONCERT To c-liase away, as it were, the rising clouds of home­ sickness tluit (hroafened to nmke the last days at college miserable for the studeuts, the Milwaukee Liederkvauz offer­ ed its program to be rciulored at the Gymnasiuin, on the last Sunday aftornoon before the Christinas recess. Of course the , homesickness-cure was only an accidental coincidence~~the Liederkrunz was pursuing a higher ideal when they came to Watertown. As we well know the Liederkranz has been busily active in its charity work (luring and after the Great War, laying especial stress on alleviating the sufferings of tlie poor Ger­ man children. Such a work of love is indeed a high ideal. We have heard but lately from the Rev. Koch of Berlin, Ger­ many, liow the helpless children oyer there are innocently suffering the bitter pangs of hunger and starvation for the —246-


petty envies and jealousies of unfeeling statesmen. To help lift this burden from the weak tottering infants the Liederkranz came and turned all proceeds over to their praise­ worthy cause. Although the price of ad mission was an insignificant sum, still the program rendered can be milked next to the other great concerts we heard liere this year. Originally th« program was made up solely of selections by the Liederkranz. Then Miss Gustel Hansen, a Avell-known Gerimm intcM-protor and declaimer, offered her services. To anyone, who had ever heard the Liedevkranz or who lias had the pleasure to sit in Miss Hansen’s company, this program would have been rich enough. But it seems as though more support was intended for the poor children of Germany. For during tlie week pre­ ceding tlie concert Karl Joern returned from a concert-tour in South America. Upon heaving of the ])i-oject of the Liederkranz lie seems to luive been pleased with the idea of aysisting in this noble work, exj)rcssing liis wish to accomjjany the Liederkranz. Since everytliin^ liacl lK;(m pi.camiiigctl 11() decided changes could be made in the and t hoxe additional numbers wore simply to Mii» full i>ro^rain. Thus it happened that the program of tlie Licderkranz was interspersed with selections by the great. (German tenor. The program did not strike ua at nil as a yerv formal affair. Things weut on so smootlilv and congeniall,y that ouc really felt much at home. The tenors ol' the Liederkranz de­ serve high praise. We were surprised at the cii«y grace of their singing. When the director called for a swell the tenors replied as one man. In the most profound pianissimos they sustained their 'tone beautifully and liarmoniously ])iire. can well realize what credit one deserves who so success fully leads such a large chorus. • Miss.Uansen became our friend at once. Her first reci­ tation was a pleadiug cry to the Gcnnun-Ainorivans espec­ ially in our country to fill tlie torn tattcriMl «l'.oe wliich she lia(l drawn from a (juivering, smarting little foot of a stai.vnjg German tot. Later on she read some comical poems in Orermau, which met with unanimous appreciation ainom;' her listeners. " • The tenor solos of Karl Joern! They hardly need our praise. Have we not of late heard tlie remark that without —247—


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fring went through the line for eleven yards, immediately Brandt followed witU another seventeen, then a forward to jSTowaek netted us fifteen more. The next pass was blocked .by a Milton man, but before the ball had touched tlie gi.ouiul Van Kooy had recovered it and added a few more yards to our gain. Huebner then covered thirty-five yai.(ls of the enemy territory and put the ball in such a posU.iou tliat Brandt could carry it over with ease on the next play. Goal was missed. We kicked off. Play was resumecl in the centci* of the field. Milton again found our line too strong and limited over our goal. On the very first play Norllnvesteni WllS penalized for holding. This put us in sucli a position tluit we were forced to punt. After our opponents lmd advanced a few yards they attempted a (lrop-kick which failed. Here Northwestern started its second long drive of tlie game. Tliey advanced the ball to within thirty yurds of the goal only to lose it on ail attempted drop-kick. Milton ] mu ted and it was our ball in midfield. A pass, Brandt (o ITucbiier, cov­ ered thirty-five yards and another to Gentz brought us with­ in five yards of goal. Here the whistle ended the half. Northwestern received at the begimiing of the second half. Oil the first play Milton intercepted n pass, I111 inertiately they were penalized for holding. In the next four downs they could not regain the ground tliey Iiad lost and consequently the ball went over to us. Siffi.ing gi.al)l)ecl the next pass and covered thirty-five yards before hein.i*' downed On tlie following play a Milton man intercepted tlio pasb au(l ran over one half of the field before Vtin Kooy caught him. It was the speed of Van Ivooy that saved ns from liav ing a touchdown scored against us in this game. Here out team seemed to find itself. Three times they threw the ene my for a loss and the fourth down Brandt intercepted a for ward. After several unsuccessful lin^ plmmes Northwestern punted. The Milton safety fumbled the catch which Gentz recovered and took over for om. second score. J^rundl again kicked wide. Milton again received tlie kickoff. Tliev tried hard to advance, but our line was too strong, and tliey had to punt. We had to do tlie same; and when the safety fumbled, it was our ball on their forty-yard line. A twenty-five yard —249—


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champion. Probably by the time you will read this column the title will be cinched by one or the other team; but we do not believe that this will be the case, as all four classes boast of a winning team. The Seniors, under tlie guidance of Ca】)t, Brandi, and Mgr. Palmer, with the assistance of Kuckhalm, Oentz, Voigt, Knoll, Albvedit and Grotli, believe they have a toani fit. to beat all coiners. Otto Henning, captain of Ms class tea川 during- t wo ])revious seasons, has again been elected to pilot tlie ’23 squad. He will pick his quint from the following players: lledlin, H. Engel, Siffi-ing, Lelimaim, Sclinitker and Marquardt.. Mgr. Prenzlow of the Juniors predicts a very ftivorable seaKon for his ch«*ii*ges. In Eddie Tent the Sophomores believe they have the man wlio will lead tlieir cagers to victory. Men wlio are trying out for positions on his team are: Kleinke, Wahl,Oamni, Grunwald, Weissgerber and Schmidt. ITabeck will mark score for the Sophomores. The Freshmen have chosen Fred Iluebner, former Wat­ ertown and later all-state high school guard, to guide their representatives to tlie pennant. A. Engel, Siegler, Fmnzmann, Niemann, Gruendemann, ITalin ami tlie captain will compose tlie Cardinal and White team for this year. As manager they have appointed W. Frank.

ATHLETIC BOARD NOTES The board of Athletics has accepted new official football and baseball “N”s. The new football “!N” is the old black letter (G in. by 6 in.) with a ml border one eighth of an inch wide. To distinguish this letter from the baseball “N” the Board lias accepted the black letter with a red shading on the left edge for the baseball letter. A few changes have been made in awarding the official letter. Football “N”尽 shall be given to all players who have played two conference games or tlie equivalent in time (120 minutes). Under extraordinary circumstances, when a playei* is prevented from playing the required time by circum—251—*


I stances whidi are beyond his control, the board may, upon recoinniendaI ion of the coach, grant the respective player the official letter. Baseball “2s”’s shall be given to all those who have play­ ed four full games, with the exception of the pitcher who must have phiyed tlu-ee games or the equivalent in innings. If a j)lay(*i* is |)i*evon(c(l from playing the requiml time by liis control the boai*d may, upon the rvM*oimm?mhu io?i of 11k* concli, grant (he respective playei. the ori'icijil “N”.

All lolt^rod loolbrJl and hasoball mon may at any time oxclian^t1 their old “l、T’、s i.oi. now ones by sending tho old i(*tlors to liu* oi' the hom'd then functioning. They an* to 111;* lottoi* (hilt is ol'licial at (he time the o]<l k-XM is s(»nr in. The collogo j»ynniawiuin i« now under the control of the liKMiibors oT ( ho Iioai'd of Atlilotics. Anyone wishing anything is (o ask "i(* man in cliai-^c for that iKirticuliir (lay. Kcport of tho ISoci'ctai-y, II. ENGEL. On Saiuiduy, Doc. :>, Coach Pannius once more assemiiis 1 !)*J 1 l oot hall s: jUii(l at 011(* of Watei*town?s wellknown lum*hianonKs for tho nuuual footbull banquet. It was a( (his occasion tliat tho official “Is”’ was awarded to the serving niombors. Tlu* folliiig jj]avers roccivod the disthfetion: Brandt '^2, Uetzmnu '22, Knoll J22, raliner '-2, Kucklialm '22, (Jentz Sil fring ’23,lluebnor '25, Xioniaiui '25, Sliurp, Kuske, Vim Kooy, Kohli and Nowak. Walter SillVmg '2o, fullback of the ^0 mul ’21 seasons, was elected captain ol* tho ld'22 team; at a later meeting T. Kedlin ''2:\ and AV. Weissgorber '24 were elected manager ami assistant rnauagei* mj])ec(ively for the ensuing year.

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moi*e aiirt better articles and stories. The several depart­ ments also can be made more prominent. Durability or last­ ing quality is a valuable asset, to a college publication. When our selloo!-days are over and we are out fighting life's bat­ tles; tlion m .shall often bid momory carry us back to the wonderful days speul at our Alma Mater, then a file of old col lego journals will iiuloed bo a jiriceless treasure. No one would tliink of saving a pai*M,v torn 】mppi. or pani])Jilpt; but one inslinclivoly lias ilio Hi at a neat 川 asazine is too good (o I)p thnnvn away. Tli<» DcconilxM* Star sIiowr that von are cajKiblo of puttiiig out ;i ]>nj)(»r that is truly worMiy of yom* school. Poolr.v sliould build an essentinl ]>art of a college ])apei*. It: is much 11101*(' hoautiful and better adapted to impart deptli of Mian is prose. We believe that every student who ])as jiny ])i-(>ri(*i(»n(*y in \vntinf»; should try his luuul at vei*so. A\'iov ojk* lias writton ])oetry himself, he can more easily midi rslaiul nnd apjurdalo the works of masters like Sliakcsponro, (iootho. Milfoil, and Shelley. Our old l.ri(、川1 The Spectator, Capital University, Co­ lumbus, Ohio, very agm?aM,v sui.pi-isecl us with its unique Deroni 1)(*1* munluM*. 1( i.s d(»voted almost entirely to poetry. All the (h'jKirtnu-ufs excej)t exeluuiges are omitted. Select poems from ])a]Hii*s are collected under the exchange heading. We sluill not pose as a critic of poetry, but shall consider only tho pros^ part of the magazine. The article on student ))oeti*y dearly presents the bene­ fits recoivcMl tlnongh \vi*iting' poetry. The amateui. poet comes to recognize and esteem good poetry and at the same time transmits to others liis foelings and ideas. His writings also tend to inst ill the desire for writing poetry in others. Tho (IcvoIcmI to the biograpliies of the contributors certainly is a valuable addition. One instinctively turns back and rereads the several poems after becoming acquaint­ ed with their authors. The Spectator lias always been one of om* best exclianges. —254—


The day of closing fov Christmas vacation came, the few (lays of freedom from classes, text-books, ami compositions passed by with surprising quickness, and the day of return­ ing was there before we knew it. The change from the hard monotonous life at school to a life of complete relaxation anil freedom at home has given us ambition, determination, and endurance to go at the、yoi*k of the second term with vim. Strengthened in body and refreshed in mind we left om. loved ones, and again took up our abode in the dormitory. We get in the morning, eat, go to classes, study, drill, rehearse jyst as before. Memories of vacation grow dim and fade until we are hardly aware of the fact that we had a vacation. About the middle of December Waldemar Rupp, ’24, broke his nose while playing basketball. The fracture has grown together nicely. Dudley Rolida’s mother and aunt lieard tlie concert ren­ dered by the Liederkranz in our gymnasium, December 18. Only two students, Herman and Albert Kauber, preps, from Alabama, remained here during the Christmas recess. Many students who lived too far away to go home for the short holidays visited with fellow-students or with relatives. Bill Sadis, prep, went home December 10 on account of 一256一


illness. After tlie holidays he returned on time, as Avell as ever. On the day after school closed Tay Uetzmann, ’21,Redlin, ’23,Siffrinj?, '23, Kleinko, ’24,Niemann, ’25,and Vic Voecks, snl). played the tx*am of the Young People’s Society of St. Paul's congregation at Appleton and won, 45-8. The Y. I*. vS. wore noble Iopws, for after the game they entertained llio viclors and served rofreslmionts. Alhorl Jontzscli, ])i*op., sprained liis ankle (luring vaca­ tion and lvhiriH'd u wook late, as flid Loiston, pi^ej). During {lie liolid^vs lOdgni* Nohi-ing, proj), of Oconomowoc visit(m1 Victor \r0(»cks, prop, in Appleton. JOkk likes Ap­ pleton. AIIkm*! ’24, and Kai l Koeliler, prop, have discontimiod t lu»ir ,shi<li(、s K媒(,i.t is working* in Fond (hi Lac, wliilo Kooli!(»r is {illondin^ the Arodfortl liigli school. V<»mis AVinter, has natunilly not returned yet. Aflor (li<k Clirisliiuis rtM*oss Lloyd Schulcl of Jefferson 071(( ml t iio oominrrcial (lciKirtment. ()i. .fan. Ulh IVlor I'rulin, u recent immigTant from Den­ mark, look up lii.s studios in tli(» coimnoroial flepartinent.

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Clearance Sale of Winter Merchandise Suits, Overcoats, Pants, Hosiery, Hats, Caps Sold at greatly reduced prices. Our Stock must be sold before the arrival of new spring goods. Prices so low we will surprise you.

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THE BLACK AND RED

Volume XXV.

Watertown, Wis., February 1922

Number 9

DIE HEBIAT. Venus Winter, ’22. “Well dem, der fern von Eltern und Geschwistern Ein einsame Leben fiihrt! Ihm zehrt der Gram Das niichste Gliick vor seinen Lippen weg, Ihm schwarmen abwarts immer die .Gedanken Nach seines Vaters Hallen, wo die Sonne :Zuerst den Himmel vor ihm aufschloss, wo Sich Mitgeborne spielend fest und fester Mit sanften Banden an einander kniipften: “Kann uns zum Vaterland die Fremde werden?” 1st es moglich, dass einer, der sein Heim Oder sein Vaterland verlassen hat, dasselbe ganzlich vergessen kann? Dringt nicht ein 丨Geftihl der Wehmut in einen der jahrelang in der Feme gelebt, und der dann zuriickkehrt zu dem Schauplatze seiner kostlichen Jugend, zu seiner Heimat? —259—


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Dise Fragen kami nur jemand ordentlich beantworten, der langere Zeit entfernt von seiner Heimat zegebracht hat. Der Mann, der nie in seinem Leben auf Reisen gegangen ist, sondern stets zu Hause bleibt, spiirt eigentlich garniclit die vollste Bedeutung seiner Heimat. Ihn hat niemals die Sehnsuclit nacli Hause gefasst. Der weiss nicht, was Heimweli ist. In der Heimat steht unser Elternhaus, wo wir am besten geflegt wurden und doch am meisten klagten. Wir erfahren nicht, wie gut wir’s da gehabt, bis wir eiiimal in die Feme mussen. Mag das Elternhaus noch so arm und einfach. sein, mag der Ort, wo sicli unsere Jugend zugetragen hat, in einer wohlbevolkerten Landgegend sein, auf den Prairies Oder Gebirgen Oder in den Gassen einer grossen Stadt—das ist das Haus, das Land, in dem wir unsere hochste Preude fanden, das Land der goldnen Jugend—unci ein Mensch, der irgend welcli Gefulil in sich hat, vermag es nicht, dasselbe auf ewig zu vergessen. Wenn einem Manne die Fremde aucli mehr Reichtum, mehr Gluck und viel Zufriedenlieit bescliert, auf einem Besuclie in seiner alien Hei­ mat fuhlt er sicli doch noch viel woliler und glucklicher. Wie sieht man nicht zu Anfang des Scliuljahres die neuen Ankommlinge ins Kollege so stille und betrubt dasitzen, oft mit Tranen in den Augen. Das Heimweh hat sie gepackt. Sie denken an ihre Eltern und Geschwistern. Heimweh ist keine Untugend. Die alten Griechen um Troja sehnten sicli nach ihrer Heimat. Die Heldin Ipliiginia weilte tiiglich am Strande von Tauris und schaute libers Meer, “das Land der Griechen mit der Seele sucliend.” Dalier auch die vielen Gediclite, in der die schone Heimat besungen wird; solche Lieder finden wir besonders in der • deutschen Sprache, aber sie sind auch in der amerikanisclien vorhanden. Sehr wahr singt der eine Dicliter: “there’s 110 place like liome.” Und der andere spricht: Nacli der Heimat moclit ich wieder, Nach. dem teuren Vaterort, Wo man singt die frohen Lieder, 'Wo man spricht ein trautes Wort. Doch mein Schicksal will es nirnmer, Durch die Welt ich wandern muss. Trautes Heim, dein denk ich immer, Trautes Heim, dir gilt mein Gruss. Sei gegriisst in weiter Feme, Teure Heimat, sei gegriisst! —260—


JSOT ACCORDING TO RULES. Frederick A. Hahn, ’25. The clay of clays, Tuesday, July sixteenth, although long in coming, had at last arrived. Our club, the Knights of the Fin, true followers of Izaak Walton, was about to realize its fondest hope, a two weeks’ fishing trip to Cold Lake! The sun had not yet risen when President Aloysius Brandt (A1 for short), Phil Wake, the club orator, on whose father’s land we were going to camp, iGeorge Taylor, and myself had congregated on the railroad platform in the mists and dark­ ness of early morning, loaded with bags and satchels, pots and dishes, and grub and FISHING TACKLE! We caught our train, enjoyed a delightful and interest­ ing ride, and finally arrived at our destination, ‘‘as the crow flies”. After a hearty dinner at the Hopkins Hotel (which was the barber shop, grocery, meat market, and general merchandise store combined), we adjusted our packs and cut across country at a double quick trot. We reached our camping site with no greater mishaps than the breaking of a few dishes, and the chafing of four pairs of weary should­ ers. Through hard labor (we called it fun), we pitched our camp fairly well before nightfall. I shall not describe that first night in the open. Even now I squirm uncomfortably when I recall it. The Knights will never forget it! Most unfortunately, we had forgotten something important, something vital. At any rate, we lived through that night, and before the first grey of dawn, we located the mosquito netting which Phil’s mother had put into his knapsack against his wishes, cut it into four pieces and laid it reverently at the head of four beds. After we had put our camp in order, each of us brought forth his fishing weapons for review, and formidable weap­ ons they were. Piscator himself would have been at a loss to decide who was not the Complete Angler! Such an array of sharp, bristling hooks camouflaged by brilliant, gaudy feathers, and hard, gleaming enamel has never yet been equalled in a hardware window display. We were complete­ ly surrounded by plugs and wigglers, spoons and wobblers, steel poles and bamboo sticks, reels, anti backlash and level winding, free spool and quadruple multiplying, landing nets and gaffs, pickled frogs and preserved worms, sinkers and corks, and hooks and leaders. In short, every delicious mor­ sel devised by ingenious man for the repast of the hungry fish could be found in our dainty and enticing larder. —261— —


Our first task was the choosing of fishing partners. We avoided all dissention by drawing lots; luckily I drew Phil, who, although he had not been up to Cold Lake for two years, knew the holes better than the rest of us. As George and A1 chose the morning and afternoon fishing, we were forced to be content with the evening, because someone had to remain in camp. They pushed off threatening to exhaust the supply of fish, but Phil grinned rather mysteri­ ously, and I remained silent. Throughout the morning and afternoon Phil kept that mysterious, grinning look on his face while we worked silently, banking the tent, unpacking the “vittles”,digging a fire place, and building a rock pier. About four o’clock, as I gazen over the lake, I discov­ ered a dark speck which gradually grew larger, and seemed to be moving directly toward us. Soon we were able to make out George and A1 rowing with the long, steady strokes of victory. Before they had landed, George held in view the reason for their haughty, proud, superior feeling— a string of beauties. Their stringer held four pickerel which I judged to weigh from five to seven pounds each, and eight bass averaging from three to five pounds! I congratulated them on their wonderful catch, at the same time feeling a little downcast and jealous because I knew that we could not equal that string in an evening’s fishing. Phil, how­ ever, grinningly remained silent, and gazed over the lake with a strange .knowing look. We ate a hearty supper consisting of bass, fried pota­ toes, canned peaches, bread and butter, and coffee. After the dishes were cleared away, Phil and I gathered together our tackle and pushed off. It was a beautiful evening. The lieat of the day had given way to the chill of approaching darkness. The sky was a little cloudy, and a light breeze rippled the surface of the water. A lake on an evening such as that can be characterized only in two words—a fislierman’s paradise. I tied a number four spoon hook on my line and trolled it slowly in the dark, placid water behind the boat. Pliil rowed with quiet, even strokes, and both of us remained silent for a few minutes. Gradually I began to realize that Phil was rowing steadily toward the opposite shore, and I glanced at him with an inquiring look. At the same in­ stant, my pole was jerked out of my hands and my click sang out like mad! I quickly regained my pole and began to reel. I had a fish, and a big one! The thrilling fight lasted for over ten minutes, and when I reeled my tired —262—


邀I quarry to the boat, Pliil with a deft sweep of the landing net lifted liim in. He was a beauty of a pickerel; I judged him to weigh about eight pounds. While I was putting him on the stringer, I noticed that we were slowly coming to a stop, and looked up at Phil. Pie quickly signalled silence and whispered: “We’re in Devil’s Bay. Init on that new Superba Wobb­ ler you sent to New York for.” Reluctantly I obeyed his command and replaced my trusty spoon with the shining red and white wobbler. ‘‘Now throw it next to that patch of weeds and shut up!” 1 threw it with a beautiful, long cast, and reeled i. slowly through the dark water which was about eight feet in depth. It reached the boat without a mishap. “Throw it into that light spot over there! Phil comnianded again, pointing toward a mossy, shallow spot about fifty feet from shore. The wobbler sailed through the air without a backlash and landed beyond the chosen spot. It struck the water with a loud splash—then somelhing happened! Immedi­ ately I forgot all about fishing. My pole was requiring my entire attention. 1 was hanging oil for life itself. But gradually I regained both my senses and the control of my pole after the first fright, and 1 faintly heard Phil calling, “Give ’im the slack; keep ’im out of the weeds; don’t let The Devil shake it!” Now for the first time I realized wliat the trouble was. I had hooked something big, something alive, something terrible—a monster pickerel! I saw him now racing madly through the water as a sperm whale plunges in terror to­ ward mid ocean when it feels the cruel barb of the harpoon. Again and again I gave, him the slack, and again and again I reeled up a few feet of line only to lose fifty more as he sped out toward the deep. Luckily my opponent stayed in the open water; he spurned the weeds; this was going to be his fight—a clean fight, fought in the open to the finish. My wrists were stiff, my thumb was bleeding, and my fingers became raw ancl cold from controlling the wet line. Sud­ denly the savage tug ceased. I had lost him! No, lie was still there, for as I began reeling slowly, I felt a dead weight at the end of my line. I reeled and reeled, and as he grad­ ually neared the boat, Pliil rose with tli6 landing net in his eager hands, ready to land him. Immediately the dark form at the end of my line stirred. It slid to the surface, opened its black steel jaws, and with one mighty shake sent my “bookless” wobbler sailing through the air. I rubbed my —263—


strained eyes and looked again一my quarry had vanished. I sat down with, quivering knees, and gazed sadly at the water where that dark form had last appeared. I felt a hand oil my shoulder, and heard Phil’s friendly voice, “Don’t bawl, old boy; you did better than a lot of us. I wanted to give you a taste of real fishing; so I took you for a round with old Devil Dog. He doens’t fight like they do in books; he doesn’t scrap according to rules set down by a Doctor Henshall or a Dixie Carrol; he simply tears you to pieces. Old Devil Dog’s made a fool of every fisherman tliafs hooked him. Clieer up! He’s licked better men than you. lie’s still the ‘king of the raff, the patriarch and ruler of Devil’s Bay.” Somehow, deep down in my heart, I was glad that black old Devil Dog was still master of liis home, the bay. —F. A. II. “EILIPODAS ELIKAS BOUS.”

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Die Zeit ist 450 v. C., der Ort eine Volksschule in Atlien. Hier sitzt an diesem sonnigen Morgen der Herr Professor Aristophanes vor seinen Schulern und liest mit ihnen Hom­ ers Odysee. Im Hintergrunde hallen sich die Aethiopischen Padagogen auf, die ihre jungen I-Ierren zur Schule gebraclit haben, und jetzt auch sogleich als Polizisten der Ordnung und Disziplin in dem Scliulzimmer fungieren. Aber lieute sind sie niclit genotigt, ihres Herren Solme oft zur Ord­ nung zu rufen. Denn, o well! eine schwere Last der Scliande liegt auf ihren sonst so begeisterten Gemutern. I-Iaben sie nicht in der Odyssee von! den “eilipodas elikas 13ous” gelesen ? Und sie, die docli alles wissenden Griechen, liatten ihrem Lehrer keinen befriedigenden Bericht uber diese Bestiae abgeben konnen. Kein Wunder, dass sie jetzt mit niedergebeugten Kopfen sitzen. Kein Wunder, dass sie jetzt alle Sinne anstrengen, 'vie sie doch niiheres iiber diese Rinder erfahren konnen, um diese grosse Scliande wieder auszuloschen. Aber wie denn? Das ist die Frage. Alles ist mauschenstill. “Es wolinen wohl keine Leute in dem Lande der “eilipodas elikas Bous”,sonst konnten wir von ihnen die notige Auskunft erlangen”,sagt ein Bursche und ltlsst seine Finger langsam durch seine langen Haare fahren. “Und Homer lebt leider auch nicht melir”,fiigt ein zweiter pessimistisch hinzu. —264—


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ert. Er wird wohl diese Tiere als blosse Spielzeuge betracliteii ” “Dann haben wir den Triptolemos. Er ist der dummste Bengel in der ganzen Klasse. Wenn er anfangt griechish zu reden, werden sich sogar die “eilipodas elikas Bous” aus dem Staube machen. Dies wird dann den andern beiden Gelegenheit geben zu beobachten, auf welclie Weise diese Rinder ihre Flisse bewegen.,> “Als dritten und letzten haben wir den Philoctetes. Er ist ein sehr schneller Laufer. Er wird mit Leichtigkeit die laufenden Rinder einliolen, damit er sie in ihrem Laufe aus der Nahe beobachten kann. Dieses Komitee wird schon mit grossem Brfolge einen guten Bericht iiber den “eilipodas eli­ kas Bous” zuriickbringen.” Drei Tage sind vergangen. Aber an diesem sonnigen Morgen sitzt nicht unser Herr Professor Aristophanes vor seinen Schiilern und liest mit ihnen Homers Odysee. War um denn nicht? Hier ist die Antwort. Das Komitee ist aus dem Lande der “eilipodas elikas Bous” zurriickgekehrt und gibt an diesem Morgen seinen Bericht vor der Klasse ab. Klearchos, welcher der anerkannte Redner des Komitees ist, steht vor seinen Klassengenossen. Ilim zur Seite stehen Triptolemos und Philoctetes, seine Komiteegenossen. “H6rt, hort,” ruft Klearchos, und beginnt seinen Be­ richt. “Nocli an demselben Tage, da uns der Auftrag, (Oder darf ich sagen, die Ehre), ins- Land der “eilipodas elikas Bous” zu gehen und zu erkunden, 'vie es mit diesen Tieren stande, gegeben wurde, machten wir uns auf den Weg. Mit Speise wohl versehen und mit Waffen voll ausgeriistet, begaben wir uns auf ein Schiff nach Kreta und landeten dort in der Hafenstadt Cydonius. Von dort gingen wir dann ins Inland zu Fuss, und eine halbe Tagesreise brachte uns in die Gegend, wo sich die Rinder aufhielten. Da es schon spat am Abend war, mussten wir bis an den Morgen ausharren. ehe wir uns den Rindern, deren Gegenwart wir schon durcli einen furchtbaren Geruch und durcli lautes Stampfen vernahmen, naherten. Da ich nocli nie in meinem Leben die Gelegenheit hatte, mir ein Stuck Vieh aus der Nalie anzuschauen, war ich wegen meiner Neugierde nieinen Genossen am nachsten Morgen, da wir uns wieder auf den Weg mach­ ten, weit voraus. Was fiir Spielzeuge sind denn das? daclite ich, als ich den* 4*eilipodas elikas Bous” immer naher kam, um mir einmal die Dinge gut anzuscliauen. So eine Frecliheit! werden wohl die Tiere bei sicli gedacht haben, als sie mein priifendes Gaffen mit ebenderselben Miene vergalten. —266—


tvnJt Als aber Triptolemos herankam und ein paar Zeilen aus der Odyssee vortrug, schlugen sie mit den Hinterfussen aus und machten sich mit aller Eile aus dem Staub. Philoctetes aber lief ihnen mit schnellen Fussen nach. Triptolemos und ich setzten uns auf einen grossen Stein, um die Ruckkehr des Philoctetes zu erwarten. Spat am Nachmittag, da schon die Schatten langer wurden, kehrte dieser mit langsamen Schritten zuriick. Ermudet sank er neben uns hin und keuchte: “Die Rinder gehen gerade so, wie uns Homer in seiner Odyssee erziihlt hat.” Klearchos wollte seinen Bericht beendingen, aber vom Jubelgeschrei seiner Klassengenossen wurde er unterbrochen und er, sowohl als aucli Triptolemos und Philoctetes, auf den Schultern tier starken griechischen Jiinglinge aus dem Scliulzimmer getragen. Dass sie noch an dem Tage zur Schule zurruckkamen, ist sehr zu bezweifeln. Ihre Ehre wieder hergestellt, haben sie wohl Feierabend gemacht, wozu der Herr Professor Aristophanes unwillig seine Zustimmung geben musste.

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TRUE PATRIOTISM. Patriotism!一The world has always preached it, and we have just lived through an era—the entire period of the World War~when patrotism was all. Everybody should stand by his country, should invest his hard earned savings in (Government bonds, should slander and hurt the enemy in any way possible; in short, everybody should be a hun­ dred per cent American. And that the country hailed as patriotism—much of it ostentation, pomp, and show. The capitalists gave a small per cent of their millions, the middle working classes were incited through propaganda, or coerced in many cases, to subscribe to the loans of the Government, and many of those who did not glorify the country and curse the enemy were scouted as disloyal and shamefully persecuted.一All, that patriotism might rule, yet the patriotism of our twentieth century, was not that of the two real patriots in the liis—268— —


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is fused in a team, the type of physical endeavor which de­ mands not only coordination between the individual mind and individual body, but also the highest degree of cooper­ ation with the minds and bodies of others. Such a sport as football marks a high development in this direction. The value of concerted efforts, of sacrifice, of team consciousness in all our games and sports will def­ initely affect the character of the youth of the country. On the other hand we have such a sport as golf. This game likewise requires a superlative degree of mental and physical coordination, but it is a solitary pastime in which defeat or victory is decided within the confines of a single body. The physical demands of this game are less severe than foot­ ball, but it requires a mental stamina and moral courage of the most exacting kind. Most adults have heretofore regarded play as something belonging to the leisure classes or children. The people do not always realize that the athletes in college are often the best students and that the college athlete derives as much value from the physical training as lie does from the mental phase of the work. The body is the tool of the mind, and it is in the athlete that the coordination of these factors is most clearly illustrated. It is not our opinion that the athlete is necessarily a man or woman of high mental powers or that athletics should be regarded as an end in itself. However, athletes and athletics occupy a high and rightful place among the best products of our civilization. —F. K.,22.

“What you do, do well,” although a copy-book maxim often quoted, really contains a sound idea. This one little sentence might serve as a proper motto for every man in all his work. No matter how great or how small an under­ taking may be, conscientiousness and thorouglmess should be the outstanding features. It is not the amount of work that counts, but the manner in which it is done; only a small amount of work well done, generally outweighs a great amount done superficially. “Non multa, sed null turn, said the old Roman who knew the truth of this maxim two thousand years ago. It is true that it takes much more time to do a piece of work thoroughly than it does to do it superficially, but in the same proportion fall the benefits. Work performed in 一270—


an unconscientious spirit breeds an attitude of carelessness. The man becomes careless and untidy in his work con­ tinues so and develops the “I-don’t-care” feeling. If lie can­ not do his work himself, he lets it go altogether or has some­ one else do it for him— —he tumbles into the pit of depend­ ence on his fellow-man. The poor dependent creature be­ comes a burden to society and a disgust to himself. He might now be a different man, had he clone his work dili­ gently from his youth.一Let us look at our own little sphere and especially at those who are soon leaving their Alma Mater with their college career behind them: each and every man must confess that he has by no means always done as much as he might have, not always worked as diligently as lie should have. Yet those waste hours and the diligence not applied should teach a lesson now: thoroughness and conscientiousness are bound to strengthen character; they pay in the end.

The health of our esteemed Dr. Ernst, who was stricken with paralysis shortly before the school-term opened last September, has improved to such an extent that he is again able to teach. Since Dr. Ernst is not able to move about very much and is not permitted to leave the house, he teaches his classes there. He has been teaching a class in pedagogy since the beginning of January and is now also teaching the senior class history. M. Buenger, ’21,and H. Cares, ’21,of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, paid tlieir former fellow students here a visit. Cares came here from Delafied, Wis.,where he played bas­ ketball with the American Lutheran Association basketball team against the St. John’s Military Academy team on Sat­ urday, January 14. The following afternoon both young —271—


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SENIORS 19. JUNIORS 42. January 14, marked the opening of the 1922 basketball season at Northwestern. The Seniors challenged the Juni­ ors for the opening game. Already in the very earliest stages of the contest the Juniors took the lead and at the end of the first half the score stood 27 to S, in their favor. The Seniors displayed a better brand of team work in the second half, but were almost helpless before the superb shooting of the winning team. Capt. Henning alone scored eleven baskets for the Green and White. SOPHOMORES 19. FRESHMEN 15. The second game of the afternoon between the “Soplis” and “Freshies” was a somewhat closer contest. Neither side was able to score within the first five minutes of play. At the end of the first half the Freshmen were leading 7 to 5; but after the rest the Sophomores came back strong, scoring shots from all angles and piling up a lead that the .younger team could not overcome. The final score was 19 to 15 in favor of the “Sophs.” 一274— —


SENIORS 19. SOPHOMORES 14. What looked as though it were going to be a very slow game turned out to be a snappy and exciting struggle when the Seniors downed the Sophomores 19 to 14 on January 18. It took the Sophomores fully fifteen minutes before their eye was trained to the basket. Until then the Seniors were leading 6 to 1. While the whistle blew for the inter­ mission the score was tied 8 to 8. An early rally of the Maroon in the second half advanced their mark to 19; but the “Sophs”,although they worked hard, could not raise their score above 14 points. JUiMOKS :n. FJtESHMEN 12. The Juniors still possess an undefeated quint. The Freshmen have also fallen before their hardy attack. In the first half the Junior guards held the “Frosh” to only one field goal: only two were scored against them in the second frame. The final score was 31 to 12 with the Juni­ ors on top. SKMOKS 22. FRESHMEN 11. January 21, 1922. Again the Freshmen went down in defeat. This time the Seniors took the same by a 22 to 1] score. At the end of the half the score stood 10 to 6, ttu Seniors leading. Early in the second half the ^Freshies1 rallied and tied the count; but it only remained thus a short while. The Senior forwards tossed them in in quick suc­ cession and brought their score to 22 against the 11 points of their rivals. JUNIORS 18. SOPHOMORES 20. The second contest of January 21, ended contrary to every expectation. The Sophomores beat the Juniors 20 to 18. At the close of the half the Juniors were at the long end of the rope leading 10 to 6. But before the next ten minutes were over the score was tied. The end of the game saw both teams fighting desperately to land another basket until finally Kleinke garnered the winning basket for the “Soplis”. It was a hotly contested struggle throughout, many fouls being called on both sides. JUNIORS 15. SOPHOMOKES 27. On January 25, the Sophomores duplicated their feat of the Saturday before and again defeated the Junior quint. Already very early in the game the Sophomores took the —275—

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Since the Sophomores had vanquished the Juniors twice in succession and the Seniors had defeated the Sopho­ mores in a previous struggle, everyone looked for an easy win for the Seniors on January 28, when that team took on the Junior squad for a game. No one thought when the half ended and the Seniors were leading 11 to 8 that the Juniors had any chance whatever to win this game. But they did. Barely was the second half under w:、. score was tied. They continued their belated rally and when the final whistle was sounded they had the game well tucked away by a 29 to 19 score. SOPHOMORES 38.

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lineup is practically intact, student interest has also livened, in short, everything points to an unusually successful sea­ son. The chances of winning the league championship are problematical; but at any rate, Northwestern is represented by a team which, barring accidents, will give a good account of itself and which bids fair to finish well near the top in the league standing. Capt. Knoll has the following men, all of whom gained experience last year, at his disposal: • Gentz, Kuckhahn, Krause, Rossin, Albrecht, Groth, Siffring, Wegworth and Schumacher. These men have placed Northwestern’s hockey team among the leaders from the start. Up to date de­ cisive victories have been won over the High School and American Legion teams, two games have been forfeited by the Fliers and Elks, and one game lost to the strong Gon­ dolier team, winners of last season’s cup, by a close margin. The league standing: 4 Northwestern ................. 4 Fliers ............................... 1 4 Gondoliers ....................... Watertown High School 2 3 4 American Legion .......... 0 5 Elks .................................

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by proper education, especially in our schools and colleges, the attitude toward mission service in foreign lands and toward tlie financial support thereof could be improved.The activities of the “Student Volunteer Movement” in this field are also carried out. In “Twenty-Five Years Hence” the author gives li i;:» imagination the reigns and paints the seminary as lie hopes it to be in 1947. The description is so vivid that the pic­ ture seems to be tlial of reality. Your news items are almost too numerous. We sug­ gest that you arrange the material under sub-colums, one for each college represented; this would make the department more “iibersichtlich.” “Hit or Miss” is practically free from that “cold storage1 taste that is so often strongly evident in the humor sections of otlier papers. In conclusion we repeat our second sentence. The December number of the Luther Echo, Luther Sem­ inary, Phalen Park, St. Paul, Minn., contains two articles on Christmas. The first gives an explanation of the origin and development of some of our Christmas customs. The second treats of the adoption and significance of the ever­ green as our Christmas tree. The articles, wliile not final (>(l the subject, make profitable reading. The Echo contains more poetry than is usually found in a college monthly, ^hree pages are devoted to it. Of the several poems “Am Christabend” is perliaps tlie best; the thought is elevated and the rhythm runs along smoothly without a hitch We fancy the exchange editor’s plain and simple lan­ guage. His style however is somewhat verbose. On sev­ eral occasions he uses one or more complete sentences to say a thing that he might have expressed much more forc­ ibly with a single phrase or clause. If anyone is still in doubt or wants special information about the most efficient manner of procedure in killing stu­ dent activities, let him read “Ten Ways to Kill an Organization” on page thirty-one of the Echo. On the whole the Luther Echo impressed us favorably, and we hope to receive it every month. These and other magazines and papers have been put into the exchange rack in the reading room. Almost every number contains ail article or story that is very mucli worth reading. A few hours could hardly be more profitably spent than in acquainting one’s self with the products and spirit of other schools. —278—


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Witli Other Schools. 1. Quite a number of schools are considering the ad­ visability of continuing the “Honor System” in examina­ tions. Augustan a especially is giving the matter careful discussion. 2. Gustavus Adolphus hopes to have its new gymna­ sium completed by spring. It will be one of the most mod­ ern in the northwest. 3. The St. Olaf choir is now homeward bound on its third annual concert tour. We judge from press reports that the expectations based on last year’s success are being fulfilled.

一A number of students discontinued their studies at Northwestern after the Christmas recess. On January 20, Leonhard Zabel, of Weyauwega ,returned to his home. Jan­ uary 29, Fred I-Iuebner, of Ixonia, and Slip Hewitt, of Chi­ cago, left us. Huebner accepted a job in California, while Slip now helps his father, who is a contractor. Alhard Leisten left for his home in Burnett, Wisconsin, on February 1, and the day after Allen Blank, of Aurora, Illinois, returned to his home. —On January 19, Edgar and Clarence Nehring, preps, at­ tended the funeral of their uncle and two weeks later that of their grandmother at Oconomowoc. —27 9— —

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—The Rev. C. J. Fricke of Aurora, Illinois, stopped off at Northwestern on January 25 to see his son, John Fricke. —Martin Buenger, ’21, and Abie Cares, *21, stayed over here one Saturday and Sunday in January. 一The Rev. John Henning, ’18, of Enterprise, Wisconsin, was seen in Watertown the latter part of January. 一Ora Roehl, prep, spent the last Sunday in January at his home in Lake Mills, Wisconsin. —The last part of January and the first part of February the stealthy grippe germ found easy prey in the dormitory. In a surprisingly short time the sick rooms were occupied to capacity with unlucky victims. Many others who fell prey to the grippe had to remain in their rooms in the dor­ mitory.

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Our girls entered into the game with the spirit of fight, and it was this spirit that decided tlie victory for them. The game was very close and fast and intensely exciting. In the first two minutes of the game Elsie shot the first bas­ ket for Northwestern. It was followed closely by another from Frieda. A foul was called oil Northwestern and the Vocational Girls made a point on a free throw. Bertha made one basket on a free throw for Northwestern. The oppos­ ing team shot another basket, making the score 2 to 5 at the end of the first half. The second half began harder than ever. The co-eds fought their way to tlieir basket and succeeded in making a shot, but the visiting team also fouglit, and the game looked doubtful. Bertha then made three points on free throws, while the Vocational Girls made one. For a while the ball was kept on the opposing team’s side, and many shots were tried, but only one proved successful. Splendid work in passing the ball and in dribbling across the floor was done by the co-eds. Their team work proved too much for the opponents, who, nevertheless, did not give up, but fought harder. The Northwestern team worked the ball to their basket, making several good shots, and the game ended with the score 5 to 16. R. B., ’25. —282—


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—Selck: You remind me of an aeroplane. Koch: Why? Selck: You’re no good on earth. —Mike: How cold was it up north when you were there? Traveler: It was so cold that it took me just two weeks to light a match on a grindstone. Mike: How hot was it in the south then? Traveler: There it was so hot that they had to feed the chickens cracked ice to keep them from laying boiled eggs. —Prof.: Was heisst Selbstmord auf English? Karl: To a side. 一A: My brother had 100,000 men under him. B: He must have been a great general. A: No, he was in a balloon. —Prof.: How did you like the concert last evening? Jap: I was in a trance all night. —Slip: I hear prohibition has no effect on you. Art: Go on, those are only boarders’ roomers (rumors). —Prof.: What would you do if you ordered a recruit to march ten paces and he goes twenty-five? Prunz: About face! —283—

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Wh UTERARY Marriage or a Career?. 288 On the Newberry Scandal______ 293 The Mystery of Coral Beach 295 301 Physical Culture................

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Alumni. • .15, 44, 85, 120, 150, 179, 213, 224, 271. 20, 51, 93, 124, 154, 184, 219, 248, 274. Athletics 269. Athletics Campus and Classroom ....................... 28, 59, 105, 129, 161, 197, 227, 257, 283. 5 Christianity, the Hope of the World Today 199. Christmas Hope............................................... 131. Citizen’s Military Training Camps, The.. 205. City of Mexico Under the Aztecs, The... 79. Close of Another Year, The......................... Co-ed Notes....................... 27, 58, 104, 128, 160, 196, 227, 281. College Notes..................... .16, 48, 87, 122, 152, 180, 215, 245. 230. College Spirit ................. 62. Commencement Orations 61. Dedication . 80. Disarmament 11, 41, 79, 117, 144, 175, 209, 240, 268. Editorials... 62. Education, Its Value to Us 264. Eilipodas Elikas Bous .… 136. Ein verlorener Sohn........ 23, 54, 99, 126, 156, 190, 223, 253, 277. Exchanges........ 36. Friendship ___ 34. Fritzens Bienen 210. Good Reading . 81. Great Recreation Hall, The......................... 202. Harry Lee’s Christmas Week..................... 259. Heimat, Die...................................................... His Master’s Voice......................................... 163. Hunter’s Thanksgiving................................. 115. Indian Summer .............................................. 200. In Praise of Books....................................... 30. Irony of Fate, The ....................................... ■172. Joys and Trials of One Autumn Day, The 42. Knox Peace Resolution, The....................... 14>. Labor and Capital ......................................... 26, 56, 102, 127, 158, 192, 225, 255, 279. Locals 168. Ludwig van Beethoven........................... 146. Luther the Greatest Man of All Times 176. Luther und wir............................... .......... 242. Motion Pictures ....................................... 240. New Year’s Resolutions......................... —286—

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THE BLACK AND RED

VOLUMK XXV.

Watertown, Wis., March 1922

Number 10

MARRIAGE OR A CAREER? Waldemar Groth, ’22. “I’ve looked upon my ideal this evening: I’ve seen ac­ tualized what I’ve longed all my life to docapture a great audience, stir it to its utmost depths, and hold it spellbound by the simple magic of eloquent words and transcendent thought. That woman lecturer whom we heard this even­ ing is the incarnation and realization of my fondest ambi­ tion. Hitherto I’ve been in doubt as to my own career; now my course is plain. I’ve chosen my vocation. I can’t alter my decision, and I won’t;’’ she said it defiantly. star has risen and I shall follow its guidance.” “You mean to say you will go upon the platform, Miss Harrisonlie asked, a distinct pallor creeping over his fine features. “That is precisely what I mean,” she averred. ”1 have often thought about it and dreamed about it, and you have —288— — —


seen me on tlie college platform, heard me speak before the literary societies, and know something about my talent as a speaker.” “Yes, you undoubtedly have gifts in that direction,” lie acknowledged, though he could not keep a tone of regret out of his voice. **Well, my decision is made,” she went on, as if to brush away the last shadow of doubt. “From now on I shall bend She every energy I have to the attainment of my object, laughed gaily and tossed her head as if the world were ly­ ing subservient at her feet. What a blithe, defiant little laugh it was! “I’ve chosen my career; how happy and con­ tented I am!” I一I must “Excuse me, Miss Harrison,” lie begged. get to bed early to-niglit, for I have much to do to-morrow. Good-niglit” Heavily Thomas Donaldson stalked down the dimly lighted street toward tlie dormitory. He liad meant to ask Anna Belle Harrison something that evening, but in her ex­ cited mood he knew it would be worse than useless. All the fond hopes of ever possessing her seemed now to be sud­ denly daslied to the ground. For Thomas Donaldson loved Anna Belle Harrison. It was not to be denied. From the first he had admired her, from the day when they had begun tlieir college course to­ gether in the freshman year. What a sweet smiling fresh­ man she was一quite a good deal given to fun. By the time she had reached the junior year she was more sedate and dignified, and ambition already liad gained a secure foot­ hold in her soul. Now they had reached that important period in their lives when in tlie eyes of buoyant and ambitious youth tlie climax of human greatness has veritably been reached一 they had become college seniors. Neither was as young as the major part of tlieir classmates, and although they st?od at the head of the class on account of tlieir greater maturity, they were not as self-conscious and inflated with pride as seniors usually are wont to be. They both had ambitions. Anna Belle Harrison felt that she must do something worth while in the world, must win fame and fortune, in short, must have a career. Thomas Donaldson also liad hopes of his own, and as a lordly senior was conscious of at least two distinct ambitions: one was to be a minister of the —289—


t gospel, the other to win the heart and hand of Anna Belle Harrison. But now this last ambition was blasted; and commence­ ment only two months away. Oh, why had he ever taken Anna Belle to hear one of the greatest woman lecturers of the day! While they sat there, held by the spell of the speaker’s arguments and appeals, lie had noticed the deep flush on his companion’s cheeks and the glow in her deep eyes, while she had bent forward with parted lips and quick­ ened breath. Never before had he seen her so affected by a public performance. On the way home she had given vent to her enthusiasm and had given him to understand that nothing, not even love and marriage, would stand in the way of her career or turn her from her course. All too soon the school-year came to a close. Thomas Donaldson found it difficult to keep his mind on his work. A nameless agony was gnawing at his heart. Only on com­ mencement day, when Anna Belle Harrison delivered her graduating oration was he able to shake off his depression of spirits and listen to her, as she stood there, lithe and graceful, complete mistress of herself and of the situ­ What ation. All. the while he kept saying to himself: magnetism she has! What a rich, mellow voice! Where does she get such power! No, she hasn’t made a mistake in the choice of her profession. But I know only too well what her choice means to me!” The day was over. In the parlor of Anna Belle’s board­ ing house sat Thomas Donaldson and the girl, bidding each other good-by. His face was pale and drawn with the stress of the agony in his heart. “Aren’t you well, old classmate?” she asked at length, half tauntingly, half anxiously. “Your face is almost white.” He sprang to his feet and paced the floor a few moments to relieve his feelings. “Anna Belle!” He stopped suddenly before her and looked down into her startled face. “Do you realize that this is our last hour together at the dear old college? To­ morrow you will go to your home and I to mine. Our homes are over five hundred miles apart.’0 “Yes, I realize that the parting time has come,” she replied. “I shall miss you sorely. I shall remember you all my life, and hope we shall meet sometimes.” “You hope we shall meet sometimes!” he broke out im­ pulsively. *Do you think I want to be remembered and noth—290—


ing more? That I want to meet you sometimes? I want you with me always, Anna Belle.” “Now, Thomas,” she began, and her voice was full of sympathy, €,1 can’t assent to your wishes, I simply cannot.” “Will you tell me why not?” “You know already. I’ve chosen a career; I’m wed­ ded to that.” “Why should a career stand in tlie way of love and marriage?” “Think for a moment, Thomas. Marriage would ab­ sorb one’s time and attention. If I were to marry, when should I have time to cultivate my art? I must give years of undivided attention and study to such a profession as I have chosen. No, Thomas, I tell you, it can’t be! Love is strong, but ambition is stronger now, and I must obey the stronger motive power. My decision is final.” He took her hand/ said good-bye hoarsely and hurried out of the house. “And this ends it all!” lie groaned. “Perhaps I shall never see her face again!” Ten years went by. It inust not be thought that Donaldson’s life was wrecked by his youthful disappointment. That does not often occur. He was now the Rev. Donald­ son, pastor of a large congregation in a well-known metrop­ olis of the Middle States.* But there was an aclie in hi° heart, and at the evening hour lie often sat in his lonely bachelor parlors and went over his friendship with Anna Belle Harrison. One day he was sitting in liis study preparing liis ser­ mon for Sunday when a friend entered, holding a program up in his hand. “See here, Thomas,’*’ the visitor cried. Anna Belle Harrison is booked for a lecture in our Lyceum course next Wednesday night. You’ll want to hear her, won’t you? Why, Thomas, you look almost ghastly. What’s the matter?” “Nothing, nothing,” Thomas answered, controlling his feelings. “Miss Harrison was a classmate of mine at col­ lege, and we were―friends. Naturally I feel a little excited at the prospect of seeing her.” Oh! perhaps you were interested in each other?” “To be honest, we were. But, pshaw! that’s all passed, with other youthful follies.” “You’re going to hear her, I suppose?” “Yes, I think I shall. It will be a treat to listen to an —291—


old classmate, especially since she has acquired so much fame.” On Wednesday night, as the lecture was over, Thomas, with many others, pressed forward to congratulate the speaker, who was known to be very cordial with her audi­ ence. “Thomas Donaldson, my old classmate !** she exclaimed, grasping his hand. 'Why, we haven’t see each other for— for ten years. Oh, it’s good to meet you again!” “You cannot be more pleased than I at this chance meet­ ing/* he ventured to remark. “You will permit me to con­ gratulate you on the success you have won in the lecture field—”

“No, I won’t!” she interrupted in her quick, sprightly way. “I won’t allow you to say anything so commonplace as that. I hear such things every day. Tell me something about yourself.” “I can’t tell you about myself here in the crowd/* he said in a low voice. But if you will permit, Miss Harrison, I shall be glad to accompany you to your hotel where we can talk freely.” “Very well, Thomas. I shall be ready in a few minutes.” As soon as she could withdraw from the crowd with­ out creating remarks, she joined Thomas, and together they walked to the hotel, where, in one of the unoccupied par­ lors, they could have their conversation without being in­ terrupted. ‘Your success has been most grttifying,” Thomas ob­ served, when they had exchanged the brief tales of their successful ambitions. “No doubt your cup of joy is full.” “I can’t say that it is,” she replied after a moment’s silence. “Have you found out, after all, Miss Harrison, that I was right ten years ago, when I said that a woman’s heart, was made for love?” lie ventured to ask. “I’m afraid you were right, Thomas,” she confessed humbly, looking up into his eyes. “Once you declined my suit because of your ambition,” he said. “Will you grant me the boon to-night which you then denied.?’’ “Yes, Thomas, I will. I’m done with fame for its own sake. Perhaps, if I hadn’t had my little fling with ambition, I should never have been quite contented. You see, I had to puncture the bauble of public adulation to find out how —292—


empty and evanescent it was. But, oh, Thomas, my ex­ perience was a risky one,” she murmured. “Why, Anna Belle?” “What if I had lost you, Thomas!”

ON THE NEWBERRY SCANDAL. Hilbert Engel, *23. A resolution of the greatest importance has been shame­ fully accepted by the United States Senate. Yet it is pleas­ ing to note that there was fiery and forceful opposition to the resolution. In the late debate in the Senate, Senator Reed declared, “When the offices of tlie Republic are for sale, the Republic is for sale.” His statement referred to the seating of New­ berry in the Senate. It was money and money alone that put him there. He was elected by the people of Michigan, but an air of fraud hung over the election. Now that the Senate has ratified this fraud, it is not only a Michigan disgrace but also a national disgrace. Only seven of the forty-nine Senators that voted for Newberryism attempted to speak. Of the forty-four that voted against Newberryism, more than half participated in the debate, and it is remarkable that their questions could not be answered. In one sense it was no debate, for the supporters of Newberry made no attempt to answer ques­ tions; they could not verify tlieir statements and tlieir ar­ guments were ridiculous. Their defense consisted of the plea, “He did not know” and an attempt to arouse feeling against Ford. It was proved that almost $200,000 had been spent in electing Newberry. As soon as one hears of this huge amount of money spent in a primary election a suspicion arises in one’s mind. How could so much money be spent in one campaign without the knowledge of the person for whom it is spent. Yet Newberry said that lie knew noth­ ing of what was going on in his behalf. But lie must have known what was being done for him. He knew that men were being hired to promote his interests among the Man ons, Poles, the laboring men, and the soldiers. This has been proved. He also knew that a Michigan state law pro—293— —


1 hibits this practice. Yet he made no inquiry, no protest to his manager. It was claimed that a huge sum of money was necessary to run against Ford. But his supporters must have for­ gotten that Ford had not entered the race until the New­ berry campaign liad been well organized and financed. It was also stated that Ford was defeated because of his posi­ tion in regard to the Versailles Treaty. Yet again thei memory deceived them. The elections had taken place in the early summer of 1918. The armistice was not signed until November eleventh of that year and the treaty at Ver­ sailles had not been heard of. With such and similar fic­ titious arguments Newberry was defended. A speech by the defenders was always welcome. It was remarkable that so few attempted to speak. Yet it is only natural. A certain senator had attempted, and he was forced to take his seat unable to answer the storm of ques­ tions and unable to refute the accusations that were hurled at him. The senator quit. Senator Borah, in one of the greatest speeches ever heard in the Senate, proved that Newberry did know and showed that Newberryism meant death to democracy. No one attempted to deny his words. No one could. He stood for the truth. Yet when the case was brought to a vote in the Senate, the majority voted that Newberry retain his seat. But in the same resolution the Senate declared that the election was dangerous to the perpetuity of a free government. Every member knew this and voted for this clause. Yet they would not vote against Newberry. The Newberry ac­ tion will become a precedent. Other influential men with pecuniary backing will buy their seats outright. All that is necessary, as in the Newberry case, is to say, “I took no part in it whatever.” It will be the rich man’s password. It will be the death of our democracy. Newberry has been exonerated. How, then, dare his friends say that his election was perilous to a free nation? They put a brand of shame upon him. They did so by v# mg for the clause in the resolution stating that the election was dangerous to the perpetuity of a free nation. Let us accept the statement that he did not know at the time. He did know some time ago. Therefore in or­ der to show his sincerity and love for justice, he should have admitted that his election had been wrongfully gained and should have refused to accept his seat, but lie did not do this. —294—

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THE MYSTERY OF CORAL BEACH, E. Hoeneclke, *23. There he was again. Twice before in my early morn­ ing walks to the sea I had seen him. Here he came along in the same old stagger, laboring, as it would seem,, under some wind of adverse conditions and miscarriages in life. A more comical figure I had never seen before or have never seen ever after. He looked like a shipwreck running into shore driven by an unsteadily shifting gale. A friend told me that when he saw the old man lunging around, it gave him the impression of an animate second-hand store suit model. When that heap of clothes passed you, the spasmodical stagger and lurching put you in a constant sweat of agony and suspense, lest the clothes-rack should fall to the ground. But he’d get along and regularly my inquisitive eye followed him to a dilapidated, dismantled, rickety, old railway coach, standing on a grass-overgrown siding. That’s what bothered me during my stay at Coral Beach on the coast of Maine. I had been sent here by my physi­ cian to recuperate from a nervous breakdown. This ciu”•osity of learning what the mystery was that surrounded this old man made me determined not to leave the beach p' the town until I had found out the secret. That was a natural trait in my make-up~I mean this curiosity;—for by profession I was newspaper reporter in my home in New York. Coral Beach, was a failure, both as a commercial center and as a beach. Some wealthy speculator had erected a few showy buildings along tlie seaside, where the break-


ers struck the black rugged promontory, and had named a pitifully small stretch of sandy seashore, strewn here and there with rocks, Coral Beach, to entice prospective vaca­ tioners. From the old Coral Beach Hotel he built a wooden sidewalk in and out among the bowlders. TJtie dressinghouses for bathers were built against a solid wall of rock. For the first few seasons the name attracted great crowds. Many of his enthusiastic friends came out to the beach on the stub line of the railway, of which our siding with the rickety coach formed a part. With imaginations brimful and overflowing with wonderful descriptions and phoiographs of the wonderful bathing-beach with wild explored country on all sides to be explored in unoccupied hous, these vacationers streamed to the Coral Beach with the large rocks. The older generation had pronounced it a failure after the first season, but the younger set con­ tinued coming out for a few seasons until the few acres of “unexplored” country were so thoroughly explored that the owners of this “great tract” of “unclaimed territory” sent their violent protests against them in the form of a few rounds of rock-salt. Queer as it may seem, the salt took the fun out of the explorations and the younger set also abandoned Coral Beach. But one young mail remained. This was the famous Professor Mann ion of the Thomas Thill College in Connec­ ticut. Finally he also disappeared when he was called . the famed Radford University of New York. A little village sprang up from the venture of making Coral Beach a rival of the great resort at Coney Island and when the thing was finally given up, the village took to fishing in place of bathing. The fine buildings were all de­ stroyed by the steady gnawing of the years and the neglect of the owner. The long board walk to the beach was de­ caying.—That’s why Mrs. Smith is unable to walk, she broke her leg when she fell on the walk, my landlady in the vil­ lage told me.一The walk has nothing at all to do with this story, save that it was there and that on account of its de­ cayed condition I became acquainted with the old man of the rickety railway coach. I went out to the sea every morning. In vain I hoped to meet the old gentleman and to. make his acquaintance. I never met him. Then I decided that I must be too late in my walks to meet him. Before the greater part of the vil­ lage was astir I started out on my walk the next day. I had just begun to retrace my steps back to the village —296—


from the beach on the unused rotten walk, when lie ap­ peared from behind a large bowlder that lay in the direct path of the walk. As usual he was all clotlies. A pair oi large shoes, coated with the greyish white salt of the ocean water shuffled along and dragged with them enormous grey trousers. Over all this was hung a faded black-cloth great­ coat that covered everything from the heavy dirty white scarf that tightly encircled the throat and face up to the nose, to the top of tlie trousers’ cuffs which were turned u. habitually to keep them out of the salty water. A heavy brown fur cap that rested with both ear-flaps on the dirty sdarf hid all but a few stray white locks of the old man’s kead. He reeled along, intently following the shield of the fur cap, which pointed directly to the dilapidated coach or the seashore. Now lie was but a few yards from me. Try­ ing to avoid my intruding scrutiny, it seems, the fur cap turned aside and the gaunt figure was sent sprawling to the hard board walk, witli one of tlie great feet in a yawning aperture caused by a missing board. His head was bared to the throat; tlie dirty old white scarf, the brown fur cap, and a bundle of papers, which lie carried under his arm, lay scattered on the sand at his side. I picked him up. I was horrified, I thought I had only picked up tlie heavy black overcoat. But when I set up the stiff overcoat, there stood in it a lank scraggy shape. condition of the poor man’s health was shocking. Why, 1 don’t believe he weighed seventy pounds. No, he didn’t. I’m not a strong man and I was just recuperating from a serious illness. Still I picked him up as I would a bag of flour. While I set him up and regained his cap, scarf, and bundle of papers covered with some geometrical figures, I got a glimpse at his face—-no, rather at liis eyes. I do not remember clearly whether the face was deeply furrowed or • not—but that’s immaterial. I know lie had a noble mouth and nose. No other could match those eyes. You didn't stop to see their color—you just naturally knew they must be steel-grey. . They met mine and mine dropped like a flash to the ground, only to come up again at the ungainly appearance of those clumsy feet. This was repeated until the old man had himself well hidden again. In well-cliosen words he thanked me. for the assistance, and, I believe, a trifle angered at tlie delay, he staggered on at a quicker gait to make up for the time lost. Since I had seen those innocent eyes witli the enigmat—297—


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he converted this energy into static electricity. He claimed that his experiment was practically ready to be given to the world were it not for the trifling problem of converting this static electricity into current electricity. This was the thing that occupied him now. He was about to harness the great amount of wasted energy of the waves. He wished to store this in large storage-batteries and eventually to furnish elec­ tricity to all the cities in the state at a reasonable rate. When he again entered he told me that he expected to become the most famous scientist of the ages, and to sim­ plify matters for the historians, he was writing an autobio­ graphy and an account of all his experiments and figures. The poor old man was still “liarnessing” when I left Coral Beach. Soon after my arrival at the city, before I could reveal my secret to the faculty of Radford University, they received intelligence from a small village, Coral Beach, that their venerable doctor was found dead in a rickety old railway-coach, near the city, with two copper plates in his hands. They found his autobiography in which he explained why lie had left the university—to resume his interrupted researches at the seashore. But his scientific pages were too scientific even for the greatest scientists of the day and they never really learned of his “harnessing” and that he was a monomaniac on the subject of waves. Since my sec­ ret had not been told, I did not divulge anything. He got his page in the history of science as being such a great scientist that not even twelve men, no not one, could delve into the complexities of his evident revelations. His name stood high, and a great prize was set for the man who successfully could lay clear what Mannion liad achieved in electricity and tidal actions and reactions. Perhaps the great scientist achieved what he was out for: to harness the energy of the waves. Perhaps he har­ nessed enough energy of the waves to furnish the necessary amount of voltage to send hini into, eternity. Who shall know? His name stands in books and treatises on science, in histories, and famous inventors’ and research-workers’ lists as the nonpareil!

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PHYSICAL CULTURE: WHE1NT IT IS WRONG, AND WHEN IT IS BIGHT. Waldemar Weissgerber, ’24. Physical culture occupies an important place in Amer­ ica to-day. The greatest factor in the advancement of the thought are the many schools where physical development is taught. The schools of Bernarr Macfadden, Lionel Strongfort, Earle Liederman, Arthur Hyson, Prof. Matysek are only a few of the best known. Next consider what school and college sports have done to advance the physical culture idea. Sports to-day are indispensable at our schools and colleges. Sports call for competition, and competition necessitates living according to the principles of physical culture. Innumerable corporations, clubs, lodges, and societies preach the thought to their members. They have their fully equipped gymnasiums, and they use them. A wealth of books and magazines treat about physical culture. Everyone knows the Physcial Culture magazine edited by Bernarr Macfadden. Physical culture has established itself in every section of the nation and among all its citizens. To a great many it has become a religion, a religion setting man forth as the Supreme Being. And therein lies the harm of physical culture. As soon as it becomes a means of per­ fecting the body to the glory of Man and not to the glory of God, the Creator of the human body, it is wrong. The radical physical culturists of to-day are making physical culture a religion. They advise people who are “d(?wn and out” to turn to physical culture for salvation. They tell you that a man who has neglected himself physi­ cally, mentally, and morally, can pull himself out of the rut by strict living according to the principles of physical cul­ ture. Attaining bodily perfection, becoming “super-men” is the reward they promise to those who become strict physi­ cal culturists. They even go so far as to say: Be well and you will be happy and good.” Isn’t that saying that health is a means unto righteousness, that health is god­ liness? That that is not the case, however, we have ample proof in the Bible. Think of Saul, **a choice young man, and a goodly; and there was not among the children of Israel a goodlier person that lie: from his shoulders and upward he was higher than any of the people.” A superb man was Saul. But what became of him?He disobeyed the Lord’s —301—


commands and was forsaken by the Lord. His wonderful body, his superb physique availed him nothing. Think of David, ‘‘lie was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance and goodly to look to.” But often did David commit gross sins, and what is more, he was incited to commit these gross sins out of admiration for the human body. Think of David’s son Absalom. But in all Israel there was none to be so much praised as Absalom for his beauty: from the sole of his feet even to the crown of liis head there was no blemish in him.” But Absalom was not good. He revolted against his father David, the king of Israel, and drove the Anointed of God from the throne. These examples ought to suffice to show that to be well does not mean to be good. “The Lord seeth not as man seeth; for man looketh on the out­ ward appearance, but the Lord looketh on the heart.” But can physical culture not be justified at all? It cer­ tainly can. The body is a gift of 丨God and He demands the right care of it. When physical culture is a means toward the perfection of the body to the glorifying of the Lord, the Creator, by beautiful, strong bodies, then physical culture is right. “Know ye not that your body is the temple of the Holy Ghost which is in you, which ye have of God, and ye are not your own? For ye are bought with a price: there­ fore glorify God in your body, and in your spirit, which are God’s.” A person who after attaining a splendid body by means of physical culture, thanks and praises the Lord with the words: “Lord, thine is the glory,” has used physical cul­ ture justifiably. Let physical culturists beware of the danger connected with physical culture. Let them remember “wliere your treasure is, there will your heart be also.” Let them above all things ever keep in mind the Lord’s warning: “Cursed be the man that trusteth in man, and maketh flesh his arm, and whose heart departeth from the Lord.”

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THE PASSING OF VOLUME XXV. Volume XXV. of the Black and Red is completed, ready to be bound and to take its place on the shelf with its twen­ ty-four predecessors! And now we, the editorial staff of this volume, may allow ourselves but a little pause to glance back over the ten long months through wliicli we have lab­ ored to bring our paper to as high a standard as was in our power. As we now stand in meditative retrospection, the loss of many an hour of sleep, of many a bitter drop of perspir­ ation comes back to our mind, and we think of the many times that we forced ourselves to get down to some good, honest work for our Black and Red.—But liow do we feel now, as we review the twenty-fifth volume? Surely, we are glad that we have arrived at the last issue of the series. Yet are we perfectly satisfied with ourselves? Hardly perfectly satisfied! We are satisfied in so far that we have gained an experience, that we have learned to —303—


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CONVICTION. Very nearly all the great men of history were men of strong convictions; the y were absolutely certain on their part that they were pursuing the only correct course. Coupled with their conviction was the determination, aspiration, and courage to carry out their ideas despite the contrary opinions of their contempor­ aries. This spirit in them accomplished these things for which they jire famous and left their “footprints on the sands of time.” They were all ardent idealists who strove for their goals with an enthusiasm that no amount of opposition or difficulty could dampen. We must marvel at the enormous amount of effort exerted by these men. They seem to have been endowed with a superhuman endurance and capacity for work. Yet, what gave them the energy and spirit to do the extraordinary ? 1 It was their love, their interest for the thing itself. Even in our own sphere we see the inspiring effect of enthusiasm and interest. We accomplish most in those subjects that interest us. People seldom judge an idealist correctly; they cither brand him “crazy” because his ideas do not coincide with theirs, or if they are partly in sympathy with him, they think him foolish for giving up. a peaceful life for one of constant trouble merely —307—


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Rev. J. Henning, ’18, of Enterprise, Wis., watched the mili­ tary company go through its manuevers in the gymasium on Tuesday, February 7. Rev. Henning was at one time first lieutenant in the company. Mr. H. Radloff, com. ’19,of Hustisford, Wis., was in Wa­ tertown February 8. In the evening he witnessed the basket­ ball ^ame between Hustisford ancl the Watertown guard team. i)rof. H. Wentc,’11,of Saginaw, Mich., has accepted a call to St. John’s College at Winfield, Kansas. Mr, R. Kremer, ’20,and ^Ir. M. Stern, *20, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa stopped off here Sunday evening, February 19, on their way to the Seminary from Columbus, Wis. Rev. W. Motzkus, ’10, of Milwaukee, Wis., visited here with his brother on Tuesday, February 21. Dr. J. II. Ott,’85, made a business trip to Milwaukee, Wis., on Tuesday, February 21. It is rumored that Pres., J. P. Koehler, 77, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa, will be sent to Europe to organize congregations over there that have asked for help. Pres. E. E. Kowalkc, 08, was present at the educational con­ Other ference of the Missouri Synod February 22 and 23. alumni who were present are: Prof. J. P. Koehler, 77, president of the Ev. Lutheran Seminary at Wauwatosa, Prof. E. R. Bliefernicht, ’03,president of Dr. Martin Luther College, New Ulm, Minn., Rev. E. H. Fischer, ’86,of Manbury, Conn., Rev. F. Graeber,’90, of Milwaukee, Wis., Prof O. J. R. Hoenecke, *90, president of the Michigan Lutheran Seminary; Saginag, Mich —310—


Rev. J. Brenner,,93, Milwaukee, Rev. J. Witt, ’94, of Norfolk, Nebr., apd Mr. C. Zorn, ’95, of Cleveland, Ohio. Rev. F. E. Stern,,07, of Watertown, Wis., has moved into his new parsonage. Rev. Stern has been residing in the upper apartments of his church since September. Mr. Theo. Bolle, com. *20, who has a position in a Milwau­ kee office, visited his former schoolmates here Saturday and Sunday, February 25-26. Mr. Bolle plays center on the Amcrican Lutheran Association basketball team of Milwaukee, Wis,. Carl Kuske,’18, of the Seminary at Wauwatosa visited his Alma Mater on February 25-26. When we saw Mr, Kuske Sunday afternoon, the heretofore unknown cause of his frequent visits to Watertown was clear at once.

Ololbg^ Notes Rev. John Westendorf. It is with great grief that we pen these lines to announce the decease of the Rev. John Westendorf. The Rev. Westendorf passed his early youth in Zihvaukee, a small village near Saginaw, Michigan. He received his training for the ministry at old Michigan Lutheran Seminary at Saginaw,. For some years he was pastor in Kalamazoo, Michigan. From here he went to St. Paul’s at Saginaw and faith­ fully served there until his death. Through the many years in which he faithfully served his flock, he became dearly beloved to his congregation. It was under his able leadership that the congregation erected a beautiful new church edifice to replace the old building which was destroyed by fire in 1918. It was always a favorite wish of the deceased to serve his congregation in this new temple at least one year. But according to Divine Wisdom he was permitted to serve in the new edifice but little more than one half that time. On the evening of February 27th, while he was on his way to church from the parsonage to conduct an evening service, he 'vas suddenly stricken. He was taken to the sacristy of the church; and when the seriousness of his condition was as—311—


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Late, later latest! Perhaps the seminary notes could be called the latest news, because they were so very late in arriving. After the Christmas recess the Coetus deliberately elect­ ed E. Tacke to the gubernatorial office. He was informed of his election in the attic where he had taken refuge in one of the trunks. Other officers were E. Blakewell, V. P., Phil. Schroeder, Secretary, Wm. Holzhausen, Treasurer. The snow-king, contrary to expectations, is highly elated over the fact that the snow decided to fall far north of Wau­ watosa. On the memorable evening when the pavements were clothed with an icy sheet, the seminarians skated through the city of Milwaukee. Those who skated down (Grand Ave­ nue had difficulty following* the signals of the traffic-cops, but the only accident reported were two broken Johnson Racer runners. The philosophers of our circle have at last decided that the germ from which the sun evolved was the lightning bug, or scientifically speaking, the lampyridae. Since January Paul Behn and Alvin Wegemann en­ rolled. W. Heidtke also returned to our midst after a year at the U. of Chicago. Er wurde mit der grossen Ehre belastet, als Prasidentin dem Prauenverein zu dienen. Some of the students have decided to exercise the dumb­ bells which have been in disuse for a year. The Strongfort Method is in vogue; Louie Meyer, however, has adopted the Titus Progressive exercises. He is a kind father to htese adopted exercises, since no one has accused him of (mis) using them. During the cold weather the ejaculation of the word “steam” was developed with great acerbity. Th efour alleys have organized a steam quartette which promises to be popular until spring. “Jumper” hupft noch. “Spiit koinmt ihr—doch ihr kommt! —314—


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Fighting hard to stay in the race for the championship honors, the Seniors exerted themselves to the utmost and broke the winning streak of the Sophomores, defeating them 15-5. From the whistle the game was speedy and scrappy. In the first half both teams battled on almost even terms. In the second half the Soph’s effective running combination, Kleinke, Theurer, Teut, seemed to be off color, for Albrecht and Knoll, Senior guards, played havoc with their team­ work, holding them scoreless. Kuckliahn, the Senior’s rangy center, easily was the star of the contest, making points from long distances and almost impossible angles. Theurer played a good game for the losers, scoring all their points by three free throws and one filed goal. 1 The Juniors demonstrated that they are still to be con­ sidered as strong contenders for the title, when they trounced the Freshmen 24-6. The game started out as if it would be a close contest, but ended in the complete rout of the Frosh. —316—

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February 22, Washington’s Birthday, Either the Seniors and Freshmen did not deem it proper to exert themselves on a holiday, or the Juniors aiul Sopliomores were filled with the fighting spirit of George Washington and his colonists. The Juniors completely outclassed the Seniors, winning easily, 24-7 ,while the Sophomores showed the lowly Frosli how the game of basketball is to be played, 32-2. In spite of the lop-sided scores, the games were interesting at every stage. The wonderful floor-work and accurate shooting of Redlin, the Junior’s left forward, easily made him the matinee idol of the day. February 25. The Sophomores settled themselves more permanently in the position of league leaders, when they trimmed the Seniors, their closest rivals, 17-10. Time and again the vic­ tors used Up entire floor for lightning passwork and then scored. Kleinke and Tlieurer were the stellar performers for the Sophs, while Gentz went big for tlie Seniors. The Freshmen have yet to win their first victory. Their attempts to do so at the expense of the Juniors failed, and at the end of the game they found themselves at the short end of a lop-sided score, 42-14. The Standings: Pet. G. P. Won Lost Sophomores 10 8 2 .800 10 4 .600 Seniors …. 6 Juniors .… 10 6 4 .600 Freshman . .000 10 0 10 Final standing of the Preparatory league: Lost G. P. Won Quarta 2 12 10 Tertia 5 12 7 Quinta 12 7 5 Sexta . 12 10 2 Hockey. Prevailing warm and rainy weather, which made skat­ ing impossible for the greater part of February, interfered with play in the city hockey league to the extent that only one scheduled game was played. By virtue of tlieir win over the Gondoliers, on Feb. 21, the Pliers and Northwestern, who on the same day won tlieir game by forfeit from the Elks, are still tied for first place, with tlie Gondoliers rest­ ing in second. —317—


卜伽㈣秘3 In an interesting exhibition game on Feb. 26, North­ western^ puck-chasers defeated a select team from town by a score of 4-0. Baseball. Although winter is yet everywhere very much in evi­ dence, baseball has already taken on a serious aspect at Northwestern. Basketball paraphernalia is being shelved and baseballs, gloves and bats gotten in readiness for the coming season. During the last week in February the van­ guard of baseball candidates already took possession of the spacious gym for its first training, which consisted chiefly In calisthenics and track work. On March 1st Capt. Krenke issued an official call for candidates, to which over 40 eager aspirants for a berth on this year’s Varsity nine responded. Coach Parisius immediately took charge of them and is daily drilling them in the rudiments of base-running, bat­ ting, sliding and other individual phases of the game. Un­ til weather conditions are more favorable, practice is neces­ sarily confined to the gym floor, which affords ample space for playing catch, stopping grounders and infield work on a miniature diamond. Of last year’s team five veterans remain to form a nu­ cleus around which Coach Parisius expects to build another winning aggregation to carry on Northwestern’s fame in the national game. They are: Capt. “Wallie” Krenke, catcher, “Ail” Gentz, 3rd base, “Bud” Knoll, 2nd base, “Dutch” Kleinke, 1st base and W. Groth, center field. Hinnenthal and Bolle, the mainstays of last year’s pitching staff, Bierwagen, who had the highest batting average on the team last year, Meier and Sauer, dependable outfielders, have been lost to the team through graduation. They will be sorely missed. Coach Parisius .however, will be able to pick many able players from among the abundance of promising material, who will compensate for the loss and whom lie can groom for the vacant positions. Even a probable lineup cannot as yet be ascertained at this early stage of the season, for competition among the candidates for the different positions is unusually keen. On the pitching staff, Winter, Jaeger, and Wegwart are daily developing speed in the battery room, with Henning, Niemann, and Lehmann at the receiv­ ing end. Winter pitched great ball for the second team last year and also saw some service with the regulars. In Jaeger, who did such phenomenal pitching in the preparatory league last year, Coach Parisius believes to have a great ‘find”. —318—


He will be given a tryout as will also Wegwart, a speed art­ ist and heavy hitter, who hails from Woodland. With the return of Henning, who was forced to discontinue baseball last year on account of an operation, an important cog has been added to the catching division, and together with Nie­ mann and Lehmann second-team catchers, will strengthen that department considerably. Rossin, captain of last year’s second team, H. Engel, Redlin, Knispel and Siffring are likely candidates for the infield, while Gainm, Voigt, A. En­ gel, Siegler and Wahl are making a strong bid for an out­ field position. All of the other candidates are also assert­ ing themselves. We do not wisli to present either a pessi­ mistic or ail optimistic view of the 1922 season. But with seven veterans still in school and with such an abundance of promising material from last year’s second team, North­ western should put a creditable team in the field. The schedule has not yet been completed and drawn up for publication. The first game, however, is scheduled with the University of Wisconsin at Madison, April 1. Athletic Board Notes. Through a misunderstanding H. Lehmann did not re­ ceive a football “N” at the close of the football season. The board took up the matter and decided to present an “N” to him. It is regretted that he could not partake in the annual football banquet. H. Engel was chosen assistant baseball manager for the coming season. The board requested that the following clause be printed in the Black and Red: Although Mr. Knoll played only fifty-eight minutes in the past football season, the Athletic Boai^d deemed it proper to give him the official “N” because of his faithful work in the past three years and because of the recommendation of Coach Parisius. Sec. H. Engel.

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How much is our education costing, and where does the ne­ cessary money come from? Carroll College wanted to find out. Following the example of the university, it sent out a questionaire. The men spend approximately $60 per month. Board aver­ ages $32, amusements and clothes $10 each. $595 carries the average Carroll man over from September to June. The co-eds spend slightly more for clothes, but economize on amusements; their average yearly expense is $580. Very few Carollites have a regular allowance. The major­ ity write home whenever “financially embarrassed.” Over half of the men and about a third of the women are self-supporting. From an economical standpoint these figures compare fa­ vorably with the digest of the “U” questionairc published in the January Commerce Magazine. The monthly expenses of tliQ university student arc: Men Over $125 $100 125 75 100 Under 75

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Allowances are not common at the university either; father is favored with a long account of laboratory and athletic fees and other expenses whenever the pocket-book shows signs of collapse! “Approximately one fourth of the men and a tenth of the women are working all or a part of their way through school.” The fact that we are a boarding-school part of whose expenscs are met by the synod reduces our expenses to a minimum. Board is $3 per week, and the other expenses connected with the institution arc comparatively low. Board, books, tuition, and other fees in no case amount to more than $200.00 per year. We have no way of arriving- at definite figures; but if one is not too extravagant in dress or amusements, he should be able to subsist quite easily on $300—$350. 幸

With this number the twenty-fifth volume of the Black and Red is complete and herewith becomes history. We regret that financial circumstances compelled ns to discontinue some of our exchanges. Only those publications in whose schools we are most interested or who for special worth arc more desirable could be retained. The “exchange” list of the departing volume numbers six­ teen magazines: Luther Echo; Wartbur钇 Echo; Augustana Mirror; Houghton Star: Spectator; D. M. L. C. Messenger; Wartburs: Quarterly; Goshen College Record: Alma Mater; Luther College Visitor: Commenian : College Chips; Augsburg Echo: Hcmnica; M. H. Aerolith; Newberry Stylus: Blue and Gold; The Campion; Calvin College Chimes. And four weekly papers: The Gustavian Weekly; The Manitou; Messenger; The Augustana Observer; The Carroll Echo. In the name of the departing staff we thank our “exchanges” for the friendly criticism and suggestions they have given us during the past year. We assure our old friends and also the newer additions to our exchange list a warm and hearty welcome from the staff of the coming twenty-sixth volume. The exchange editor’s work is finshed, and he heaves a sigh of relief buti nevertheless reluctantly relinquishes the pen to his successor; reluctantly, because his task has become more and more fascinating with the growing intimacy with other schools and their papers. We bid them good-bye as we would old familiar friends. —322—


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一In February the grippe reaped a harvest in the dormi­ tory. The more serious cases were attended to in tlie sick room. Several victims of the grippe who live in the vicinity of Watertown went to their homes to recuperate. Kleinke, ’24, and Teut, ’24, were ill at their homes a week, the' for­ mer in Fond du Lac, the latter in Burlington. The latter part of February, Schlavensky, ’25, and Wilbert Frank, ’25, went to their homes. Zastrow, and the two Timmel broth­ ers, preps, recovered at their homes in Oconomowoc. Reul, prep, was sick a week at liis home in Helenville. 一On his optician’s orders Albert Jentzscli, prep, journeyed to his home in Medford to rest his eyes. Jentzscli has been home three weeks at this writing. —On the first Saturday in February, Tay Uetzmann, ’21, dropped in on his brothers, Monnie, ’22, and Gerhard, prep, and also on his relatives in Watertown. —Bernhard Koch, ’25,and Blume, prep, spent Washing­ ton^ birthday at their homes in Kenosha and Wauwatosa. —Chuck Ihlenfeldt, prep, made a trip to Milwaukee on February 12th. and had glasses adjusted to his eyes. After Chuck had his glasses, he took in the sights. —323—


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Not紙 Miss Ruth Mansfield was our visitor Saturday, Feb. 11. Margaret Ott, Frieda 'Zeisler, and Louise Thurow spent Feb. 21 and 22 with Paula Radloff in Jefferson, where Paula is now teaching school. Miss Verna Wilde and Miss Adela Dornfeld, two former co-eds, visited the Girls’ Room Saturday, Feb. 25. Miss Leona Seefeldt of Hustisford, Wis., visited classes with her sister, Peb. 28. —R. B.,,25.

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Let Flowers Complete the Easter Festival Flowers of radiant purity, that come up out of the warm, brown earth, are truest symbols of what Easter represents —joy, light, the resurrection of life anew. That is why we suggest them for your home Easter morn­ ing and for Easter Gift Giving.

“Say it with Flowers Stube Floral Co., 404 MAIN STREET TELEPHONE 464-J Go to Headquarters for Stationery, Candies, Notions and Fancy Goods. W. F. Gruetzmacher

l W. SGHNITGER & SON Auto Livery

e Phone 264-W

Best Quality Newest Styles

311 Market St.

Watertown

The Watertown Press

Meyer’s Shoe Store

QUALITY— SERVICE Cor. Second and Market Sts.

Next to Classic Theatre

310 Main Street

Classic Sweet Shop H. C. BRANDT, Prop.

THE BEST OF SWEETS Ice Cream

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JULIUS BAYER Wholesale and Retail Dealer in

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Meats and Sausages of all Kinds Phone 25

Watertown

Wisconsin

Kohls-Knaak Co.

GRANT’S

Furniture and Undertaking

HIGH GRADE

Edison Phonographs and Rugs 607-613 MA.IN STREET

CANDIES,and Bricl^ ^ce Cream Fruits, Cigars and Cigarettes

Phone Call 150-W

Residence Phone 165-J

407 Main Street GET YOUR

For all kinds of In­ surance see

.Sieoler&Kuettie Insurance Agency Farmers & Citizens Bank Bldg.

Phone 431-J

Fishing Tackle at IVinkenwerder's Hdw. Store 207 MAIN STREET

Watertown Creamery Co.

Clarified & Pasteurized Milk & Cream

105 Main Street

The Princess Confectionery

W. D. Sproesser Co. JEWELERS

GEORGE SPYROS, Proprietor

Pianos and Victor Victrolas

Iceeream, &indk$ andCigars 111 Main St. WATERTOWN, WIS.

Phone No. 259-J


^fie Uiouse of^f^lppenheimer Suits and Overcoats AT GREATLY REDUCED PRICES True worth and 100% value in these fine clothes. The kind of fit and style and fabric you like—good ap­ pearance that is a real investment.

'THE BIG CASH STOKE”

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Washington Hotel EUROPEAN Running Water, Rooms $1.25, Restaurant in Connection

Try our 50c week day Plate Dinners H. W. KRONITZ, Prop.


We Aim to Please Intelligent men and women realize that the most perfected store organization will slip up once in a while and fail to render its customery good work. Please know, no expense has been or is being spared to keep the service of this store up to the highest pitch. Should you feel at any time that you are not receiving prompt and courteous attention, you will help us by calling it to our attention. We wint this store, at all times, to be the leader in SERVICE, just as it is a leader in values and quality.

CHAS. FISCHER & SONS CO. At the Bridge

Wm. Gorder Co. Coal, Wood, Coke, Sewer Pipe ---------AND---------

Building Material 608 Main Street

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Wm. Schubert, Prop 604 Main Street

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Dr. FRANK F- SCHLUETER DENTIST Office Phone 156-W

Residence Phone 512-J

Watertown

215 Main St.

If it’s Hardware |

John G. Knispel

we have it

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307 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

and all kinds of Sporting Goods at

Salick’s Jeweler

at the Bridge

W. A. Nack Fresh and Salt Meats, Fish and Poultry in season. Phone I9-W

Wholesale and Retail

ICE Phone Connections Watertown,

Wisconsin

[VEimUG IN POCKET CUTLERY and RAZORS Examine our line before buying

D. & F. Kusel Co. 108-110-112 W. Main St. The Store of Quality'

WM. GEHRKE DRUGGIST 315 Main St, Watertown,Wis.

No. 621 Main St.

Watertown’s Exclusive Shoes Repaired CROCKERY STORE while you wait A. SOHRWEIDE 218 West Main Street

AUG. GAKI4 CROCKERY CO. 400 Main Street


Drs. A. & M. Schlueter DENTISTS 313 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

F. J. Koser Baker THE PLAGE WHERE THEY MAKE GOLDEN CRUST BREAD Telephone 502-W

111 Second Street

Students

THE BLACK and RED CIGAR NOW LEADS 'EM ALL & THE OLD LaFLORA 10 Cents

SCHLUETER BROS. 105 Main

deposit your funds with this bank and make all payments by check. No matter how small--your account will re­ ceive careful attention.

Bank of Watertown The Oldest Bank in Watertown

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WILK0W8KI BROS. High Life Cigar A. WIGGENHORN & SON

JEWELERS

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/12 Second Street We Recommend

“Bostonian” SHOES FOR MEN

Watertown, IVis.

DRAEGER’SELKTRICSHOP 116 Third Street Phone 59-w

Spohn’s Shoes

215

210 West Main Street

Main St. HAVE YOUR FEET SHOD AT SPOHN S Where you fict footwear correctly flitted. Where Stylo, Quality and Low Prices Prevail. Call our Orthoprary Department for Foot Trouble correction. Consultations FREE.

E. H. Cook, M. D.

For High-Grade Cigars, Cigar­

Leo Reusch & Son

Practice Limited lo

EYE. EAR, NOSE & THROAT Spectacles and Eye Glasses Scientifically Fitted Hours 9 to 4

Office, Hcrlel & Hoffmann Bldg.

ROBERT DOERR

ettes and Tobaccos try the

UNITED CIGAR STORE No. 9 Main Street FRUITS AND CANDIES FELIX LESCH1NGER

Doerr & Leschinger Plumbers, Gas Fitting and Sewerage 107 Fifth Street

Watertown, Wis.


ORRA G. HESSE LADY CHIROPRACTOR

Graduate} Phone 408-J

Palmer School X-Ray and Spinography Watertown

No. 9 Main Street

Young Men’s College and High School Clothes The Styles these young men seek are here in abund­ ance; it’s a specialty with us to know the needs of these fellows. Here you’ll see the New Fabrics, the New Styles, the Striking, the Individual Stuff that isn’t to be seen anywhere else. You’ll like our Service, too; we know what young men want. The Values are building the largest young men’s trade in the country.

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Watertown, Wis.

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Hoffmann-Kelly Co” Inc. Custom Tailors Clothing - Furnishings

BENTZ1N,S At the Sharp Corner Phone 214 Retailer of Quality Foods. When you pay a social debt with

OLYMPIAN CANDIES .you get large returns in appreciation. Do you owe some one a box NOW?

Don’t think for hours Say it with flowers.

Phone 649-J

104 Main Street

Pappas & Sallas, Proprietors 201 Main St.

Phone 294-J

Watertown

Let your Photograph pay your friends a visit. Make the appointment to-day. The photographer in your town

Meyer’s Studio 114 Third Street

HIGH GRADE

BUILDING MATERIAL INCLUDING KELLASTONE

BARKER LUMBER AND FUEL CO.


F- E. Kosanke, M. DHoffmann Bldg • 109 Main Street HOURS: 1 - 4 and 7-8 P. M.

Res. Telephone I2I-W

Office Telephone 283~W

OWEN,S DRUG STORE 412 Main St.,

near corner

of Fifth

“The Orange Front” Bring m your Kodak Films for Developing and Printing.

SERVICE BAH SHOP First-Class Work

W. IVOLKMANN, Proprietor Shave 15c

Aug. Iffland & Son Dealers in Staple and Fancy Groceries, Fruits & Vegetables 206 Second Street

PHONE 100

Haircuts 25c

EXCEPT SATURDAYS HAIRCUTS 35c

Candies, Cigars, Cigarettes 215 North Fourth St

There is no gift so personal as a good portrait. Have them made at

The New Studio 115 N. FOURTH STREET

Dahms & Dallman, Props.

BITTNER & IETZLAFF Drugs

Watertown, Wis.

RIDE A BICYCLE m BIKE SHOP

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Now Eat the Best

DOBBRATZ & MUSSFELDT Manufacturers and Packers of SOLD BY Watertown

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^ PAUL H. BEHLKE Kodf HYAL The Corner Druggist 3lld Store

Watertown, Wis. Supplies

Wisconsin

Ed. Hinzmann BARBER SHOP

0. F. KURZWEG DEAkLER IN

RIGHT ACROSS FROM THE POSTOFFICE

FINE BOOTS, SHOES AND RUBBERS Please Give Us a Trial We Try to Give Satisfaction 402 Main Street

Mutchler s Grocery CARRY A FULL LINE OF

Staple and Fancy

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Ed. Warner EAST END Barber Shop

Groceries

Phone 75-w 413 western Ave.

602 Main St.

Watertown, Wis.

PURE SUGAR

Home Made

Candies ICE CREAM and SODAS

200 WEST MAIN OPPOSITE PUBLIC


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Watertown’s Leading Furniture Store

INSTRUCTOR

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Royal

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Res. 318-J

HOFFMANN BUILDING

Chas. Moy

Rest Easy Chair F. C. KECK & COMPANY

North Fourth Street

HERMAN T. NOWACK Dealer in Groceries, Feed and Flour, Vegetable and Fruits in season. Telephone 595-J. I 1 1 N. 4th St. Watertown, Wis.

White Palace ;

BARBER SHOP First-Class Work

BERT C. FROEMMING

You will find a complete line of Fruits of all kinds in season at CASH GROCER IS5 MAIN STREET - TELEPHONE 6

Our Shoes are attract— ively styled and satis­ factory in service.

A. KALIEBE

616 Main Street

Watertown, Wis.

Girard H师e Dairy Dealer in

RELIABLE FURNITURE UNDERTAKER AND LICENSED EMBALMER

Private Chapel Up-to-Date Equipment

Pure Pasturized Milk and Cream

313 MAIN STREET

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各Mbtant Res. •Phone 51-W

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John E. Heismann

Family Shoe Store

408 Main St.

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114 N. Water St Phone 736-W Prompt Delivery

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Clias. Heismann THE PAINT MAN

PAINTER AND DECORATOR

The Central Drug Store of Watertown

Kodaks FILMS and Photo Work

Correct Picture Framing

Huth & Hoyer 204 MAIN ST.

108 Third Street

Phone 609-J

Watertown

How many people can you think of right now who would like to have your photograph, and how long since that last one was made?

The Denninger

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