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THE WORKER

Crawling, stooping, twisting, bending, Up and down the rows unending; Clawing, scratching, thinning, weeding, Until his hands are almost bleeding; The sun burns down with scorching beam; The sweat runs down in salty streams; And yet at evening homeward weary The workers plod, though tired, still cheery ; Each knows that He, Who made the fieldis, Smiles down on those who earn their meLs. R. P.

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HYMNOLOGY

The long-awaited event is now taking place. As rapidly as the presses can produce them our new Lutheran Hymnals are being distributed throughout the Synodical Conference of North America. This volume is the answer to the prayers of many of the more musically-minded members within our churches. This book is the fulfillment of a desire of our own Dr. Martin Luther who so strongly fostered congregational singing and who himself composed many of our most forceful 'and impressive chorals, A large number of the sacred songs in this volume have their origin in older German chorals. This fact in itself should make us eager to investigate these old German hymns.

Just as Martin Luther is known as the founder of the Lutheran Church, so also he is recognized as the father of evangelical hymnody. Although he did not discover it until he was forty years old, music and poetry were outstanding among his versatile talents. Already in his college days at Magdeburg 'and Eisenach he sang for food and alms.

Ursula Cotta, a well-to-do citizen of Eisenach, took him into her home and trained him in music, which was to be of great assistance in later life. The flute and lute were his favorite instruments.

Luther, in his "Discourse in Praise of Music," gives music the highest and most honorable place. He realized' that music was a gift of Gad and should be used, in spreading evangelical doctrines.

The incentive to the writing of his, first hvmn was the martyrdom of twa youths far Lutheranism.

The prior and two youths, Heinrich Voes and Johannes Esh, of a monastery at Antwerp had refused to surrender their Lutheran faith before the inquisition. The result was that the prior was strangled, and the twa youths were burned at the stake, July 1, 1523. As the flames, licked about them, these martyrs bravely sang a Latin hymn. It was reported to Luther that Voes had said as the fire began, "Behold, blooming roses are strewn around me." This so impressed Luther that he expressed his emotions in, "Ein neues Lied wir heben an." This event marks the springtime of evangelical hymnody.

Of Luther's thirty-six hymns. "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott" is the masterpiece.

This battle hymn of the Reformation has been translated into almost every language and

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esteemed in like manner by ali nationalities.

The beautiful, impressive choral is also Luther's work. M~ny great .n~USIcians have used this hymn as a theme for their compositions.

The date of its appearance is somewhat uncertain. In 1529, the Diet of Speyer had issued the proclamation that Lutheranism be abolished wiped out. The Lutherans here published their famous' protest from which they received their name. It is believed that at this hectic time Luther wrote his famous paraphrase of Psalm 46, which is the fruit of hit; deep and sincere beliefs. This powerful, vigorous hymn brought victory to Gustavus Adolphus. Even the negroes of Africa soon learned this hymn and recognized the ability of the author. It is the true national hymn of Germany.

There were a number of sources from which Luther received material and ideas for new hymns. Many of his hymns were not original but paraphrases of Psalms, or based on Latin, Greek, and German antecedents.

He, however, always improved any reworked hymns and added new power and beauty to them. His hymns resulting from translations and reworkings of Latin hymns are: "Der du bist drei in Einigkeit," "Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland," "Wir glauben all an einen Gott," "Herr Gott, dich loben wir," "Komm Heiliger Geist, Herre Gott," "Gelobet seist du, Jesus Christ," and "Mitten wir im Leben sind."

The sacred German folksong originated in the call, "Kyrie eleison." This phrase, meaning "Lord, have mercy," was sung by the Germans at processions on the way to church, on festivals of saints, pn campaigns of the army, or before a battle. Since the ninth century, ;this Kyrie was sung at the end of a stanza. Luther took several of these "leisons," excluded everything that was not Biblical, and added stanzas to the already existing stanza. From this second source Luther wrote, "Nun bitten wir den heiligen Geist" and "Christ lag in Todesbanden."

From his paraphrase of the Psalms originated Luther's masterpiece, "Ein feste Burg ist unser Gott." His other hymns from Psalms are: "Ach Gott vom Himmel sieh darein," (Ps. 12), "Es wolle Gott uns gnaedig sein,'~ (Ps ..

67), "Waer' Gott nicht mit uns diese Zeit," (Ps. 124) and "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir," 路(Ps. 130). This' last hymn is a pleading cry of despair issued from the depths of agony by one who is concerned about his sins.

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phrasing of certain Bible passages. From Isaiah 6, he wrote "Jesaja, dem Propheten, das geschah." Others are: "Dies sind die heilgen zehn Gebot," from Exodus 20, "Vater unser im Himmelreich," from Matt. 6, "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her," from Luke 2, "Mit Fried' und Freud' fahr' ich dahin," from Luke 2, and "Christ, unser Herr, zum Jordan kam," from Matt. 3. The fourth hymn of this group is one of Luther's most popular hymns. It is a Christmas song concerning the child Jesus and is loved especially by children.

There are also a number of original hymns to Luther's credit; They are: "Nun freut euch, lieben Christeng'mein und ~aszt uns froelich springen," "Erhalt uns, Herr, bei dein m Wort," and "All' Lob und Ehr' solI Gottes sein."

The st of these was for some time thought to be his first hymn. It is based on the personal experience of his freedom from the depths of despair suffered by him in the monastery.

All these hymns by Luther, singing out to the universe the salvation and grace of Jesus Christ. show his simple, childlike faith and ,trust in his Lord and Savior. Such power, vigor, 'and stamina heartened and encouraged the Lutherans in their days of turmoil and distress. These beautiful and blessed hymns of Luther have and shall for time to come aid Lutherans in their hour of trial.

In the sixteenth century it was not out of the ordinary to devise melodies. The name of the arranger, .however, is often given as that of the composer. Luther, as has been stated, reworked German hymns and found melodies for them. His invaluable music adviser was Kantor Johannes Walther. He wrote many tunes and, as stated by a contemporary, "put the spirit of heaven into his melodies."

Some of Luther's original chorals are: "Ein Feste Burg ist unser Gott," "Vom Himmel hoch, da komm' ich her," "Mit Fried' und Freud' ich fahr dahin," "Aus tiefer Not schrei ich zu dir," and "Ghrist lag in Todesbanden." There are also several other choral composers of Luther's time who are of importance, such as, Nikolaus Hermann, Nikolaus Selnecker, and Philipp Nicolai. These men shall be further enlarged upon.

We should remember that congregational singing is the second main factor in the evangelical service. To satisfy the demands, the first hymn book appeared in 1524. The

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"Achtliederbuch" contained only eight hymns, four by Luther, three by Speratus, and one that was anonymous. This book spread swiftly throughout Europe. In the same year the "Erfurt Enchiridion" was published containing twentyfive hymns of which eighteen are Luther's work. This was followed in 1525, by the "Wittenberger Walthershe Chorgesangbuechlein" which contained thirty-seven songs with their melodies. The "Klugsche Gesangbuch" appeared in 1529, containing fifty hymns, twenty-four of which belong to Luther.

Thus we see that Luther's hymns really formed the core about which the hymnal was built. Before his death sixty. collections containing his hymns had been published. During Luther's day the difficulty lay in composing enough hymns to compile a hymnal, but today the difficulty is excluding and selecting hymns in order to use only the best.

The second most famous Wittenberg poet and hymnist was Paul Eber. He studied under both Luther and Melanchthon but proved to absorb more of the characteristics of Melanchthon. This was reflected in his hymns which are peaceful, refreshing, and understanding.

Eber was known as the sweetest singer among the Reformers.

His two best: known hymns are his burial hymn, "Herr Jesu Christ, wahr'r Mensch und Gott," and his penitential hymn, "Wenn wir in hoechsten Noeten sein."

A number of minor hymnists were also produced by Wittenberg.

The close friend of Luther, Justus Jonas, wrote one hymn, "Wo Gott del' Herr nicht bei uns haelt,'" based on Psalm 124. Agricola wrote three hymns of which "Ieh ruf' zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ" is the best. This hymn expresses a beautiful prayer of faith, love, and the hope of a blessed hereafter.

It is the first of the "Ichlieder" of the Reformation.

The first woman hymnist of the Ref'ormation, Elizabeth Cruciger, also appeared in this famous city.

She composed a hymn which at her time was considered the outstanding hymn of Jesus in the evangelical church. It was "Herr Christ, del' einige Gottes Sohn."

Next to Wittenberg, Nuernberg was the center of the religious struggles of the Reformation.

It also produced its hymnist, Lazarus Spengler. In 1534, he wrote a didactic hymn which is still sung today, "Durch Adam's Fall ist ganz verderbt menschlich Natur und Wesen."

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burg contributed each a hymn to the Reformation. Hubert composed the stirring penitential hymn, "Allein zu dir, Herr Jesu Christ, Mein Hoffnung steht auf Erden." Through trials of need and distress Meuslin remained firm in the faith which he expressed in "Mein Hirt ist Gott, der Herre mein." The hymn, indeed, proved to be the most emphatically beautiful way to express one's faith in his Lord. /

A touching story is connected with a hymn written by Johann Hesz, pastor of St. Maria Magdalen Church in Breslau, SiIesia. This pastor, who introduced the Reformation to this region, endured much pain and sorrow as he saw his flock dwindle during the plague of 1527. He himself was soon taken ill and expecting to die, wrote "0 Welt, ieh musz dich lassen." This hymn is a great comfort to persons in similar circumstances today. A fellow pastor of his, Ambrosius Moibus, wrote the hymn, "Ach Vater unser, der du bist."

Luther's writings, spreading to Prussia, made a convert in Paul Speratus who then, in turn, introduced the reformation into that region. His hymns already appeared in the "Achtliederbuch."

His most famous one is the confessional hymn, "Es ist das Heil uns kommen her." This was written in a Moravian prison where he had been placed because of his Lutheran faith. It is based on St. Paul's Epistle to the Romans.' A contemporary of Speratus, Dr. Grauman, wrote the oldest original evangelical hymn of praise, "Nun lob, mein' Seel, den Herren."

In northern Germany a monk, Nikolaus Decius, accepted the Lutheran doctrines and also the position of pastor at Stettin. He had highly developed musical talents and was an excellent harpist. He reworked two hymns of Latin origin and composed for them two beautiful chorals. His hymns are "Allein Gott in der Hoeh' sei Ehr!" from Gloria in Excelsis and "0 Lamm Gottes unschuldig'," a metrical version of Agnus Dei. The latter is the oldest original hymn of the passion of Christ.

Johann Mathesius, a pupil and biographer of Luther, was a pastor in Bohemia. He wrote a number of simple hymns for children of which few are remembered. An example of his work is "Nun schlaf, mein liebes Kindelein."

His fellow-hymnist of Bohemia was Nikolaus Hermann.

This organist and choirmaster wrote 176 songs which he compiled into a song book, "Kinder- und Hauslieder." He

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also wrote several hymns which are in use today. "Lobt Gott, ihr Christen, allzugleich" expresses a joyful, childlike belief in the Christmas story. He also wrote an Easter hymn, "Erschienen ist der herrlich Tag," an evening hymn, "Hinunter ist der Sonne Schein," and a funeral hymn, "Wenn mein Stuendlein vorhanden ist." Hermann always stated that he wrote simply for his congregation, for wanderers, sick, dying, and needy. At this time a hymn which is authorless appeared, "Was mein Gott will, das g'scheh allzeit."

At the Diet of Augsburg in 1555, the Lutheran Reformation became a tolerated religion or received legal recognition. Soon after this. differences and quarrels arose over certain doctrines among the Lutherans which eventually split them into several groups. To add to this, the Jesuits fostered a strong Counter Reformation.

All this influenced the character and nature of the hymns written during this period. They lost. somewhat, their spirit and faith and spoke more of troubles and sorrows.

The greatest of the post-reformation hymnolozists of the sixteenth century was Nikolaus Selnecker. He was born in 1532, at Hersbruck, Germanv and at the age of twelve was organist at the chapel in Kaiserburz at Nuernberg University.

Here he met Melanchthon. He later became the private tutor of Prince Alexander of Saxony who was Calvinistically inclined. Having aroused opposition by his openly professed Lutheranism. he left in 1568, to take the position of professor of theology at Jena and later the same position at Leipzig. Here he lived through many doctrinal controversies but always remained the champion of pure Lutheran doctrine. The Formula of Concord, of 1577, was a direct result of his work. He often sought quiet and comfort from troubles in music and composed 150 songs in genuine church style. In some ways he regained Luther's style of hymnody. Selnecker expressed his daily prayer in the hymn, "Lasz mich dein sein und bleiben." His other famous hymn, "Ach bleib bei uns, Herr Jesu Christ," reflects the fight of his time to retain the pure Word of God. In addition he built up a famous Motett choir in Leipzig later directed by John Sebastian Bach.

Another prolific hymnist of this period is Bartholomaeus Ringwaldt. He was a pastor in Brandenberg and a staunch Lutheran.

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ing. Ringwaldt must also have felt this when he wrote "Es ist gewiszlich an der Zeit." This hymn was sung extensively during the Thirty Years' War. Of his 156 hymns, another that is well known is his penitential hymn "Herr Jesu Christ, du hoechstes Gut." ' Martin Behm was a pastor in Silesia for thirty-six years. He wrote 150 hymns the pearl of which is "0 Jesu Christ, meiri's Lebens Licht, mein Hort, mein Trost, mein Zuversicht."

To the author the passion of Jesus is his comfort in life and death. Other more important hymns are his morning hymn, "Das walt' Gott-Vater und Gott-Sohn," his hymn for Epiphany, "0 Koenig aller Ehren," and "0 heilige Dreif'altigkeit."

His hymns also are a memorial for God and for himself.

In Fraustadt, Posen, a Lutheran pastor was expelled by Sigismund III of Poland. But Valerius Herberger couldn't be driven out. He used two houses for a church and called it "Kripplein Christi" because the first service was held on Christmas eve. Then in the year 1613, a great pestilence struck the city killing 2,135 persons. But he stayed to comfort the sick and bury the dead. His strong faith in God dissolved all fears of temporal danger. He wrote at this time "Valet will ich dir geben." The choral to this hymn was written by Melchior Teschner in the same year. Herberger remained true to faith throughout the terrible years of the Thirty Years' War. There appeared at this time two well-written funeral hymns which are anonymous, "Christus, der ist mein Leben," and "F'reu dich sehr, 0 meine Seele." A pastor in Germany and Hungary, Joachim Magdeburg, also appeared at this time. He wrote but one hymn, "Wer Gott vertraut, hat wohl ge'bout in Himmel und auf Erden."

Philipp Nicolai is a hymnist important enough to be mentioned last and yet not be impaired by that position.

He was a genius both as a composer of poetry and as a composer of music. While he was a pastor at Unna. in Westphalia, a pestilence broke out. Between July. 1597 and Jan., 1598, 1,300 villagers died. In one week 170 died, and in one day thirty graves were dug. This is the setting for his King of Chorals, "Wachet auf, run uns die Stimme." He also composed what is called the Queen of Chorals, "Wie schoen leuchtet der Morgenstern."

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fellow Lutherans. Both his great melodies have been used for other hymns. Strains of both have been used in famous musical masterpieces of both Handel and Mendelssohn.

The hymnody of the sixteenth century certainly had a grand finale in Philipp Nicolai. No hymnist since then has overshadowedthese great Reformers. No other century of hymnody is comparable to the sixteenth century with such men as Luther, Selnecker, Ringwaldt, Herberger, and Nicolai. These men truly saw the opportunity for the glorification of Godand the spreading of the Gospelthrough hymns.

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EDITORIAL

PIONEERS ALL "Go west, young man, go west" was the stirring advice of Horace Greeley to the young American nation. Wilth these words ringing in their ears hundreds and thousands of men left their homes in the East to seek adventure on the new frontier; with these words indelibly written in their hearts, their wives and their sweethearts left old homes to establish new ones in the great American "wilderness"; with these words emblazoned on its young, vibrant soul a whole nation turned its thoughts and attention toward the land of the setting sun. Thus the great movement was inaugurated which sent frontiersman and settler alike over the Appalachian Mountains into the spacious Ohio and Mississippi Valleys; thus a new frontier was continually being established, leaving in its wake scores of small but promising villages; thus, westward the course of empire took its way till Manifest Destiny was fulfilled, till the young, vibrant nation stretched from the roaring Atlantic to the blue Pacific.

The central figure in this great American drama, this drama of courage and perseverance was the pioneer who opened the way into the wilderness. First in order came the pioneer with the rifle who was soon followed by the pioneer with the plow.

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The very mention' of the word "pioneer" makes our blood fairly tingle with excitement and gives new zest to our depressed spirits. A pioneer certainly receives and surely deserves all our admiration and praise. We all exult in the deeds and in the daring of pioneers and we secretly wish we might have shared that glorious life with them.

We see embodied in them those ideas and ideals which are truly a part of all' of us. Their courage, their daring, their love of life, and their love of adventure have a universal appeal.

Leaving behind perhaps a comfortable home, a thriving community, and the company of all their friends and neighbors and taking along only the barest necessities which life on the frontier demanded they set out on a great adventure -an adventure whose end and destiny they could not foreknow. Filled with hope and joyous expectation they trekked over the green Appalachians into the sunny valleys of the Middle West. They set out on a journey fraught with constant danger and very uncertain as to its outcome.

They did not know when hostile savages might strike, they could not tell whether sickness or death would come, they were not sufficiently prepared to withstand the harshness of the wilderness with possible starvation as one of its consequences. But none of these dangers nor all of them combined could dissuade them, could deter them from following where Manifest Destiny was leading. In spite of constant danger and possible death they did not falter nor hesitate, but steadfastly plodded along the narrow trail which was leading them ever onward toward what was to be their new home.

The pioneer, the real trail-blazer, is indeed a colorful figure for us today. Whether his own generation invested him with that glamour, that halo of glory with which we view him, we cannot tell. Perhaps it is only the mellowing effort of history which presents him to us in such a glorious light, but to us, regardless, he is a dynamic figure. Hope was perhaps his outstanding characteristic.

Hope alone could sustain the pioneers through all the trouble and turmoil which was their daily experience from the time they pulled up stakes and struck for the tall timber until they had established a new home. Hope was their constant companion through the toilsome daytime march and through the wearisome watch of the night. Courage, too, was theirs in great abundance. Courage meant bravery, a brave determination to carry through in spite 'Ofknown dangers; courage meant an almost complete absence of fear, although sur-

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rounded on all sides by circumstances which would naturally tend to incite fear. Courage was the criterion of manliness for the pioneers.

Some of the motives which induced these men of destiny to undertake their journey must also be considered.

The land across the mountains was represented to them as being a veritable Paradise; a land of virgin timber, a land havinz a moderate climate, an unheard of fertility of soil. and stocked with inexhaustible resources. These splendid material advantages of the "Middle Border," combined with a peculiar set-up of economic forces, lured men in ever increasing numbers into the great "American basin."

In summing up we may then say that the factors which produced the great western migration were the love of adventure, the hope of greater freedom, the lure of material advantages, and the inevitable result of economic forces.

The characteristics and qualities in the pioneer which we genuinely admire were his hope, his ambition, his courage, and his perseverance.

To us and to every true American the pioneer individually will remain as one of the greatest among the builders of the Union.

Without too seriously disturbing the lofty concept we have of pioneers let us now look at another essential feature of their make-up. Thus far we have dealt only with their praise-worthy qualities, having looked upon them in that light in which we like to look upon them. But there is another side to their make-up, an entirely different angle which we cannot well pass up without comment, for when we consider some of the reasons why many of the pioneers left the East, we come to regard them in a different, a more unfavorable, light. .

Many of the pioneers, it must be admitted, abandoned the Atlantic seaboard simply because they could no longer "face the music." Life there was becoming too complex for them and so they looked to the open West as a wonderful retreat or escape from the more complex conditions that obtained in the East. Like the hermit who severs himself f~om mankind to eke out a living by his lonely self, so these pioneers, too, left "civilization" behind to pitch their tent far from their nearest neighbor. This fact becomes all the more evident w~en ~e remeI?b~r .that the greater part of the westward migration was individual or family migration and not a mass movement of the whole! nation or large sec-

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tions of the nation. Whenever an individual could not adjust himself to his Eastern surroundings, he simply adopted the escapist philosophy and made tracks for the West. If a person was a failure in business or in agriculture in the East, he started life anew out West. When a man could no longer made ends meet east of the Appalachians, he simply put his possessions into a wagon and took his family west of the mountains to seek his fortune there. A good number of the pioneers, moreover, were criminals who had left the East to escape justice, a good many more were simply misfits in any civilization, and some were even anarchists whose schemes had failed and whose lives were consequently in great danger. Others were too shiftless to acquire property or character, and too impatient at the restraint of law, religion, or morality. As Timothy Dwight once said, "Under the pressure of poverty, the fear of a jail, and the consciousness of public contempt they left their native places and betoke themselves to the wilderness." These "pioneers" hardly look like heroes in anyone's eyes. There were, however, still other mercenary reasons for the westward movement, the chief one being the insatiable passion for more land which obsessed some pioneers. Others were moved by the lure of continental trade and still others by the profits of New England traffic to the Pacific. All in all these were quite mercenary reasons for migration and those pioneers who migrated for such reasons certainly do not merit our admiration.

In everything we do we like to pride ourselves with being broad-minded, with taking everything into consideration before passing judgment.

We want to look at a matter from all sides and take all factors into consideration. Let us remember this also when we read, 'Orhear, or think about pioneers.

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On September 3 a new year of school started at D. M. L. C. We miss last year's graduates very much and we know that all readers of the Messenger are interested in knowing where these young teachers are located. This information can be found in another section of this issue, so we'll merely say here that we wish them loads of luck and success in their chosen work and we hope they'll remember us and D. M. L. C. Wedding bells rang on August 20 for Miss Marcella E-hlert and Mr. Floyd Mattek. The bride's father, Pastor Ehlert, performed' the ceremony in the Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church at Eitzen, Minn. The bride attended Luther College for two years. Mr. Mattek graduated from the Normal Department last spring, and the young couple will make their home at Kewaunee, Wis. Another wedding was that of Mr. Clarence Radl and Miss Elsie Schueltpelz at Suring, Wis. Mr. Radl is a graduate of '35. He taught in the Lutheran School at Suring for the past two years where the young couple will make their home.

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a truck at Wisconsin Rapids, Wis. on June 15. Harold graduated from the D. M. L, C. High School Department in 1938. Our deepest sympathy to the parents and the surviving sisters and brother.

Mr. and Mrs. Carl Granpner of Burlington, Wis., are the proud parents of a baby boy, Kenneth Carl, born on September 8. Mrs. Granpner was formerly Gertrude Boock ('33) .

Pastor Larson officiated at the marriage of his daughter Dorothy of Chicago to James Bowman of Chicago at the Lake Hanska Lutheran Church on August 27. The bride is a graduate of the H. S. Department.

Among her attendants were her sister Marjorie (H. S. '39) and' her brother Edward (H. S. '39). The young couple is making its home in Chicago, Illinois.

June 29 marked the wedding day of Mr. Victor Kraemer and Miss Elrerta Wurr. Kraemer is a graduate of H. S. '37.

Congratulations!

Mr. Roland Bode ('40) of Sebawaing, Mich. and Miss Esther Gruendemann (,40) of Gibbon, Minn. announced their engagement in August.

Arnold Wehausen (H. S. '40) of Morton, Minn., left for San Carlos Mission at Fort Apache, Arizona in August.

Here he is going to teach the fifth and sixth grades. We wish Arnold lots of luck in his teaching profession.

We. received word that Dorothy Froehlke and Edgar Duin are to be married on Sept. 20. Edgar is a H. S. graduate and Dorothy has been teaching at New London, Wis. Miss Naomi Birkholz ('39) of Madison, Wis. and Henry Engelhardt ('38) of Wood Lake, Minn. were married at Redwood Falls, Minn. by the bride's father.

Among the attendants were Gwendolyn Birkholz (H. S. '41), Howard Birkholz (H. S. '39) and Gertrude Engelhardt ('41). The couple will make their home at Wood Lake where the groom is a teacher at St. John's Lutheran school.

June 15 marked still another wedding day. Carl Stelljes and Ida Witt spoke their vows on that day. They were married at St. Paul's Church in New Ulm. Both the bride and groom attended College for a few years.

A baby girl arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Art Hinnenthal of Sheridan, Wyoming. Mrs. Hinnenthal (Oliva Stindt) graduated in '36. Congratulations.

Mr. William Kuether ('41) of Sanborn, Minn. surprised us by paying us a visit on Sept. 15.

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EXCHANGE Back again and ready to face the future only to be confronted with last season's literary splashes. The May (remember? flowers in your hair and odes to the tender blade. of grass) issue of the Black and Red takes up "Dogs of War." We read: "A clever trick used by the Riffs against the Spaniards was to dress up a dog in turban and burnoose, make it run along in front of the Riff trenches. The dog looked like a crawling Moor and drew fire, which automatically revealed the position of the enemy machine guns."

Pretty clever, and it certainly should have killed any semblance of conceit in the Moors. The article reads well even for those who can resist cuddling any stray mongrel.

In the same issue we found thirteen four-line fragments dedicated to the Muse. Being agreeable we say Yea and Amen to all including the last. We have observed that the Black and Red has dedicated, in this and other issues, an occasional space to' reminiscence. Very interesting as most of our students know little or nothing of the local color that is embedded in their present environment.

On March 3 of this year the Public Affairs Committee published a pamphlet on "What It Takes to Make Good in College." Naturally we are interested, having spent a. healthy allowance of time and funds here ourselves. The. Professor of Education at the University of New York"

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Samuel L. Hamilton, has summarized in the article the findings of "From School to. College," a study in transition experience made in forty typical men's colleges under the supervision of the Yale University Department of Religious Education. Professor Hamilton concluded that college "success," not referring to grades alone, is chiefly dependent on four characteristics-Purpose, Social Adjustment, Ability to make Divisions and Sensitivity.

Home influence was voted as particularly important.

Those who found that their parents were moderately interested in their affairs, rather than indifferent or oversolicitous, were the best adjusted group in college. The effects of good home adjustment were particularly noticeable in regard to the like or dislike of English as a subject. Narrow reading seemed to go with poor adjustment.

We were interested to note that "frequency of attendance at movies-seven or more times a month-was a sign of poor personality, as was also frequency of indulgence in card games. Continued associations with parents, relatives and friends was a good sign as well as participation in "Bull sessions." Other listed "tips" to success included "that the student : Safeguards his health; Participates varsity team;

in athletics, even if he never makes the

Has occasional 'dates'; Lives on the campus; Studies as many hours daily as are required to finish assignments; Learns how to make and keep a schedule of work, reading, recreation, exercise and rest; Makes his own decisions promptly; Seeks competent advice without becoming overdependent upon it; Keeps track of his money."

The Black and Red Commencement Number delighted us with a few anecdotes from the fabulous career of Paul Bunyan. This is one choice bit of folk-lore we know too little of though it is "utterly American from head to foot."

I can only suggest that you snatch the nearest collection of Bunyan tales and grant yourself a look at P. Knickelbein's "The Real Superman" for the last word on extravaganza.

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The publication "College English" always presents food for thought. The May issue, 1941, holds forth on "Required Freshman English." Condensation here is futile so we will quote only an occasional thought.

In bemoaning the sad condition of graduates of primary and secondary schools in regard to the writing of English the author asserts that the Freshman is in a condition "that makes it necessary for us to begin at the bottom with the students' very conception of what the act of writing it." From another section of the article we quote: "A colleague of mine remarked that many students nowadays have the idea that literature is written in excerpts. They are so stuffed with textbooks and fragmentary readings that it does not dawn on some of them that a chapter is not a book, or that a snippet in an anthology does not represent the design that an author COIiceived and executed entire." The latter brings to mind that you, reader, should. turn an eye to the entire article. In concluding the following was stated and it seemed particularly interesting for our students as future teachers: "But I believe that we shall never meet our full possible success. until the colleges make some united effort to bring order and consistency into the primary and secondary schools in the teaching of language."

We choose to remind you in closing that this is not intended as a condensation; it is merely a suggestion as to good reading at your command.

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Open Forum There is a subject that has been bothering us for quite some time and this is the time and place to take it out and give it an airing. This column belongs to you, if there be some of you who read it, and it is your opportunity to voice your opinion pro or con on any subject which you read in the Open Forum.

We shall jump into the fire and complacently say that the woman's place is in the home and not in the schoolroom.

That sounds easy, doesn't it ? Sure it is an easy matter to discuss the subject, but to see it carried out is another matter.

Looking at the subject from a purely materialistic standpoint, a woman teacher is a poor investment so to speak. It costs the Synod about one thousand dollars (that is a conservative estimate), to send a student through the Normal department alone. It takes about five years' teaching experience before a person is fully qualified and by, that time the average woman teacher is married. The same principle is applicable in the business world. If, for instance, a factory trained all its own mechanics and then after two or three years those men would leave, that plant would not have a reputation for high efficiency.

In most instances a woman teacher receives a smaller salary than a male teacher and a,t the same time she also saves the congregation the maintenance of a teacherage.

A congregation may be saving money, but considering these points, is it operating its school in the most efficient manner?

The statement lis often made that a woman teacher is better suited to teach the primary grades than a man is.

We admit that a woman may have, in general, more patience than a man has, but there are many men who have the ability, patience, and qualifications to teach those grades so why not keep a man in a man's occupation?

That, dear reader, is only one slant on the subject. We could set down other arguments in opposition, but this should prove to 'be a bone of contention t.o some discerning reader.

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And so into home stretch with one last semester of Messenger work. The briefness of the column is due, as it; true every fall, to the short time which has elapsed since school began. In fact the only College activity heard of up to this time is the scheduled get-acquainted Sunday which was called off-you guessed it-because of rain. Instead, snapshots of campus life-mostly still life-were shown in the supervised study room, Prof. Voecks presiding at the projection machine.

The picnic of the joint Literary Societies was set for Sept. 17. The new presidents of these two organizations are Walter Vater, Sigma, and Richard Poetter, Rho. The musical groups also elected new directors last spring, and for the Band, Marluts, and Aeolian Chorus, 1941-2 will see Clifford Busse, Raymond Fluegge, and, Charlotte Sauer presiding.

For those interested in the places received by last year's graduates, here they are: Arthur Bade, Owasso. Mich.; Isabelle Fischer, La Crosse, Wis.; Lois Fredrich, Waterloo, Wis.; George Heckmann, Corvuso, Minn.: Bernice Hintz, Eldorado, Wis.; Louise Klinker, Marinette, Wis.; William Kuether, Sanborn, Minn.; Bernice Leinwander, New London, Wis.; Harley Mathweg, Kenosha, Wis.; Floyd Mattek, Kewaunee, Wis.; Wilbert Mueller, Arizona; Ralph Muenkel, Sparta, Wis.; Ruth Priesz, Kenosha, Wis.; Loraine Puttin, Boyd, Minn.; Caroline Rider, West Bend, Wis.; Earl Rolloff, Winona, Minn.; Morton Schroeder, Madison, Wis.; Dolores Schumann, Goodhue, Minn.; Dorathea Toepel, Kimberley, Wis.: Erhardt Wiechmann, Fairmont, Minn.; Ethel Zimmerman, Saginaw, Mich.

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A preview of this year's Lyceum Course shows us that the entertainment will be bf the best. A season ticket, for students or outsiders, can be obtained for sixty cents (60c).

November 13 Edwin A. Rowlands, known as America's Foremost Autograph Collector, will speak on "The Value of a Hobby." Mr. Rowlands was selected as speaker of the year by numerous high schools, colleges, and clubs, and his talk is certain to be interesting.

A vivid lecture-film on Maritime New England. filmed in natural color, will be presented by Dan Stiles on January 13. This feature is described as entertaining and informative.

Many of you have doubtless heard of George Nelidoff', famous Russian baritone, who will make his appearance here January 23. This is what the Chicago Tribune has to say of him: "Nelidoff ... The throbbing baritone of one of the finest Russian singers in the world today." Presented with him will be Melba Rinker, soprano, and Dorothy Jones, concert pianist and accompanist.

We shall see "a vanishing skill reborn before your eyes" February 12 when a group of ceramic craftsmen, the Polomeme Potters, will present their display. These people are truly artists of a kind which is rapidly disappearing from the world.

Holland, with i'ts clean houses and streets, its wooden shoes, windmills, and tulips, has always been an interesting and picturesque study. An opportunity to hear and see more about it is offered us by Roeland Van Cavel in Glimpses of Holland, to be given March 6.

Finally, April 20 brings us one of the favorite childhood classics in a different form, namely, the story of Pinocchio.

This is not a motion picture, but a puppet show, presented by the Ethel Hanley Happy-Go-Lucky Marionettes.

In closing I should like to ask especially the students to cooperate with those who have planned these fine programs, for without the interest of the student-body it would be impossible to present them.

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Greetings Co-eds! So another summer's vacation has flown by and we've all done and accomplished all the many things we had planned-we've read all those books, practiced persistently at piano and organ; and kept up-to-date on all the war reports.

So once again we are back again to settle down to another year at dear old D. M. L. C. It seems good to see all the old familiar faces once more, and this year they're supplemented by a large group of "not so familiar" ones. Hillcrest Hall boasts their addition to be Norma Just, Eleanor Hookstead, Jeanette Ernst, Ramona Nitz, Ann Brukardt, Grace Brukardt, Lois Fuhrmann, and Marianne Schreitmueller, plus a new Baby Grand.

The Annex has also added seven new Co-eds to their troop. They are Gunhild Hartwig, Chloe Fenske, Bernice Munstock, Gena Schumann, Lillian Quandt, Ruth Smith, and Anita Kutz. G. Stoekli holds the iron rod up there this year. The old band room has been transformed into a spacious study room. That means no more parties up there.

Good thing we had ours last year, II Normals.

Words of praise and admiration greeted the newly painted rooms of Bode Hall this September.

Fresh white walls with pale pink or blue ceilings awaited all. Only five of the old gang are back so there is quite a new troop to be initiated to the 90 steps every morning, noon, and night.

The new Bode HaIlers are Elizabeth Tabbert, Lorraine Krach, Doris Schaefer, Artcy Goehring, and Ruth Engelhardt.

Stern is taking Puttin's place this year. Under her wing, Bode HaIlers seem to have settled down to a year of real work which, as one of the Profs commented, is about. time.

It looks as if D. M. L. C. will have to enlarge on Hillcrest Hall. The girls are beginning to outnumber ,the boys. The three newcomers to Seehausens this fall are Chrysta Albrecht, Lois Albrecht, and Sylvia Vogel. Besides those already mentioned, the remain kr of the new Co-eds include.

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Lorraine Scharf, Frances Temple, Carryl Stelljes, Ruth Hoppenstedt, Dorothy Schroeder, Thelma Kunde, Margaret Larson, and Cynthia Redel. Here's hoping no one has been missed.

One would almost think that the old-timers get more homesick than the new ones. That is, judging at least from Alice's fervent desire to get home the week-end of the 13th and 14th. Gould it be that this year, of all three, she could become so homesick for her folks in two weeks?

The "Four Butterflies" burst forth the other night and treated their II Normal classmates to a moonlight wiener roast at the lake. The Co-eds then saw to it that the male members arrived safely at the dorm by nine P. M. Who holds the record now for the prize appetite at Bode Hall? Not mentioning any names, there's one new-timer running one old-timer a close second.

Why do some people blush SQ' when others want to sit with them in History Class? You admit it was a chilly morning anyway, Toody.

What are those muffled. whispering sounds one hears these early mornings?

Could it be that a few 'Ofthe girls are rising before 20 minutes to? Oh well, they're new.

They'll get over that soon enough. ' We all agree that it's very nice when the various administrators get along well with each other. It creates such a wonderful Christian atmosphere.

A few of the new Co-eds catch on Quickly to these Wednesday or Saturday afternoon shags. We wonder if it's all done just to fill up Athletic Charts.

Ask D. S. !

It seems a full moon and a class wiener roast aren't enough excitement in one night for some people. They have to, in addition, go downtown and create more on the way.

Don't they, Marg. ?

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September 3 was the day on which D. M. L. C. opened its doors for another school year. The unofficial count of two hundred fifteen students, most of them with- happy faces and others with beclouded countenances, have taken up their studies here on the hilI. Presenting Walter Vater, the student-body president for the ensuing year. Some may call him the president or Studenten Vater, but to us he will still be known as the "college buck."

Fuchs Heckmann demonstrated a new way of getting out of an upper berth. The first morning when he awoke he looked down at the floor, threw his pillow overboard, took off and with an unerring aim, landed squarely on the bundle of feathers.

It is a novel method, but rather hard on the pillow-case.

This year the piano students have thirteen new pianos on which to practice in the music hall. At present, with such an incentive, all we can do is to sit back and anticipate the results of the budding virtuosos.

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On 'Sunday, September 7, a "get-together" was scheduled, but it was rained out and instead the students were given rain checks to see snapshots of school life projected on a screen in the supervised study room.

A few predictions: Accidents will continue to take the lives of two people daily in Chicago, Minnesota probably won't win the Big Ten championship, and there will be just as many billets-doux passed among the students up here.

Art Bade's successor as the mail shagger is Orville Kempfert, C.M.B., M.L.C., (Custodian of the mail bag and master letter carrier).

This year the students in the dormitory are living under the old .system again with a normalite as a monitor in each room.

Walter Vater had the pleasure of being the first one to be called to "teach" this year.

The draft may alter the lives of seven students by being called upon to "help keep democracy alive."

A bit of satire.

My Daze "I got up this morning and looked out the window and there was the cutest little red squirrel sitting and eating his breakfast.

"I think I'll go down and take a shower. No, on second thought I don't think I shall, the floor is too cold." That is probably the way one gal we all know of would have written her column in her school days.

On one of the first days of school Walter Vater and Orville Kempfert took the fuchses on an orientation hike.

J. Albrecht has quit smoking again.

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Once again the D. M. L. C. sport minded are tearing up the football field. Competitive youths strain every muscle to get in shape. To be sure, most of the material comes from the prep department.

They are out there for the pure love of football. Only two college games have been scheduled and these preps are asking, "Why don't we have scheduled prep games?" Without doubt there is something in what they say. Not more than a half-dozen college boys have appeared for practice. On the other hand, the preps are there in good number. If normalites disregard this sport, the willing and eager preps should have their chance.

Touch football appears to be an ever increasingly popular sport. Enjoyable, fast, and abounding in exercise, this game has won many adherents.

Forty boys turned out and four captains were chosen. Jim Albrecht, Ray Fluegge, Eckhardt Gauger, and Ervin Walz. The four teams were

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selected so evenly that after the first round teams are tied for first place. . . . Thanks Harry McFarland, the boys' horseshoe courts lent shape. The boys seem to appreciate this constant use of the courts,

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of games all to energetic are in excelfact by their

Ping pong, that lively, dexterous, accurate game of speed, has totally captivated some of the young gentlemen.

For example, Paul Nolting challenged everyone to a set until he got his ears pin ned back by Marvin Kunde.

Several college students walked into a drug store on Sunday morning and asked for change for a dime.

"Here you are," said the clerk. "I hope that you enjoy the sermon."

Lorraine Ulrich was explaining to her geography class about the sun and its wonders.

"What I can't understand," said little Jimmy, "is how the sun's light gets here so early in the morning without traveling all night."

"Tell me where is fancy bred."

"In the bakery."

Teacher: Spell the word banana.

Mary: B-a-n-a-n-a-n-a. Teacher, I know how to start it, but I don't know when to stop.

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Love is blind.

Marriage is an institution.

Therefore marriage is an institution for the blind.

Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was born in the log calbin which he helped his father build? For the details ask Charlotte Froehlke.

Andy: It is me.

Prof: Do you really mean to say "It is me"?

Andy: It is not me.

"What system do you use in typing?"

"The Columbus system. I first discover the key, and then I land on it."

Lois Mack: If east is east, and west is west, where is the twain?

Lorna Gerlach: On the twack.

When several girls went down town "Sis?" Birkholz sent along the following list of articles to be brought back: Purple polka dot ink with green stripes.

One button hole.

A pocket full of air and the usual dollar's worth of ten dollar bills.

Lois Albrecht: Would you rather have a bear eat you or a wolf?

Chrysta Albrecht: I'd rather have a bear eat me, of course.

Lois A.: I'd rather have him eat the wolf.

There was the incident of the student in music who read Fr. Chopin as being Father Chopin.

The absent-minded professor coming back to his office and finding the sign "Gone to Lunch Be Back in an Hour" sat to wait for himself to return.

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CONTENTS LITERARY Sports the Super Salesman What is a Liberal Education ?

The Psychology of Chess.

In Apacheland

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God and the Great Outdoors............................................ 9 Our Newspapers 10 EDITORIAL Where Are We Going?

Novels I Like Why I Read the Sports Page Hep-cat or Long-hair Men Are to Be Pitied LIBR路ARY NOTES ALUMNI NOTES

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COLLEGE NOTES CO-ED NOTES LOCALS ATHLETICS JOKES

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SPORTS, THE SUPER-SALESMAN "Give your product a sportsman's endorsement, and you can sell anything" might be a hint given to a young business man. Long have the great manufacturers used the sports medium to sell their goods. Long have we been accustomed to the barrage of advertisements on billboards, display counters, newspapers, magazines, and over the radio giving us the who's who in sports and what they eat, drink, smoke, and wear. These we are told are the best products in America's Rialto. A few years ago an ordinary strong-wristed man picked the most and cleanest corn in the National cornhusking contest. He held the sports spotlight only a short time, yet his name flew over the country assisted by the rising currents of business. Almost immediately the public knew what kind of tractor using which kind of gasoline pulling which kind of wagon whose wheels rotated on which kind of axle grease. The starting gun was a twelve gauge Methuselah in miniature, yet this was now the kind to buy.

Many such a relic of Remington made its way out into the world soon thereafter.

So the products of every manufacturer are sold from razor blades to mattresses.

Page through an average magazine. Soaps, cigarettes, cereals, and clothing all seem to have a sport hero's endorsement.

The sporting world's stamp of approval has more value today than the Seal 'of Acceptance or being approved by Good Housekeeping.

Do you believe that the pictured heroes actually use the products they represent?

A recent headline will make you doubt it some. Bobby Feller refused to sign a cigarette advertisement for $2,000 because he didn't smoke. It was made a headline. Why? Simply because it must have been

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something out of the ordinary to refuse such an offer. It is doubtlessly true that many athletes do use the products they endorse. Many buy regularly as does every other citizen.

Take for example Don Budge, who wears Keds' tennis shoes, or listen to what Mickey Owen of the Dodgers says, "Take it from me! The fellows who eat Wheaties for breakfast really know what a champion breakfast tastes like." From displays in store windows we assume that Whit Wyatt smokes Chesterfields.

Others are also users but not purchasers.

In the Middle West everyone knows or heard of Gus Schroeder, the dirt track champion. Almost everyone also knows what tires he uses. It is a Ward's tire for every wheel.

Most of the racers are equipped with Ward's tires as any prominent driver can secure them as a gift from this company. I have not heard 'Of it, but it can be assumed that some companies even pay people for using their products just for the publicity gained.

There is also the type of advertisement making use of timely sports incidents. A hit is made on the baseball field and immediately the announcer warbles, "You can also make a hit in the matrimonial field by using-" The blank may be filled in with almost anything.

Boxers also come in for publicity when it is stated that Joe or Jack Pugilist packs a mighty wallop. The products using this lingo range from gasoline to candy to So and So's Oven Baked Beans. In all these cases there is no use of the product by the athlete concerned. Many times names are posted to the bottom of any old phrase which might be good advertising for any company. Grantland Rice says, "I've my wife to thank ... for picking a pennant winning cereal!" The only way we know for what cereal he might be speaking is to notice the big box of near by. Further trade is fostered by the use of autographs.

How much sporting goods is sold without an endorsement?

None is the answer. Every bat, every glove or any other sporting goods is sold not so much on quality, but on the sales value of idol worship. Sonja Henie has her name on a fast selling pair of skates. Joe Gordon has his moniker engraved on a bat.

Why should sports be such an attractive means of building up publicity. First of all, the sporting world varies throughout the year. The seasons themselves give every manufacturer some chance to use a sport as a Charlie MeCarthy, Yes, if a hero can't sell the produce a dummy will.

Even fictitious heroes are invented. Popeye might have done his share for spinach, but what hasn't Buck Roger, Jimmie Allen or Jack Armstrong each accomplished for his respective sponsor.

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What would happen if sports were suddenly withdrawn?

Pity the poor draftee.

He already is being bombarded by sign this and sign that. He is being groomed as a stand-in right now; but he will make a poor substitute.

He is no National hero. He will soon be forgotten.

A forgotten man sells no goods. Where else will the advertisement lion turn'? To the farmer?

No, he never was considered a good risk. To the common working man? No, he has no appeal, no umph! To the upper class? No, "Let's soak the rich!"

To movieland? Yes, but only such products as soaps and facial powders benefit very much from this field. A conclusion has been reached. Sports and its heroes are indispensable to the publicity game.

Orville Kempfert '42

WHAT IS A LIBERAL

EDUCAT,ION?

Education today is primarily utilitarian-education for quicker and better methods to obtain the dollar. Yet there is still a demand and a need for a liberal education. Especially great is this need in the ministerial profession. A pastor should be one of the best educated men of the community. He has to deal with men in all stations of life.

Hence he must be able to adapt himself to any situation.

Only a liberally educated man can do this. Furthermore, a pastor must be sufficiently learned to "convince the gainsayers."

The Gospel must not be made to suffer because of personal deficiency, if that deficiency can in any way be overcome.

What then comprises a liberal education?

Knowledge, experience, judgment, and practicability.

Any liberally educated person must know certain fundamental facts.

These facts must be embellished by experience. Then, on the basis of knowledge and experience, judgment must act.

It must be able to discern the good from the evil and be able to apply all that has been learned or experienced to specific practical situations.

What subject matter contains the information necessary for a liberal education?

The fundamental subject of a liberal education is history.

By history, statistics, dates, battles, etc., are not meant. No, history is the story of God's Gospel. No man was ever born and no incident ever occurred which God in His infinite wisdom has not foreseen

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as a part of history. It follows then that the fundamental textbook is the Bible. But, before any education can begin, man must first possess the proper attitude toward the historian. That attitude is fear, for "the fear of the Lord is the beginning of Wisdom." Then, completely conscious of his position toward his Maker, man must begin his educa-. tion by an intensive study of Scripture.

He must follow God's plan from creation to redemption and must realize his position as a chosen saint. After a person has become acquainted with the immediate facts of God's plan, he must study the more hidden angles, and trends, namely the story of those who have forsaken God but still playa part in His plan. In this connection history, as it is commonly known, comes into the foreground.

The birth, fall, and rise of nations must be studied in relation to God's plan. In connection with history, science, music, literature, geography, and language must be studied so that a more complete realization and appreciation of those things which God has permitted the inhabitants of the world to accomnlish can be gained. In other words the fundamental facts necessary for a liberal education consist of a clear picture of what God has done and still does for us.

To develop this knowledge, experience is necessary.

A liberally educated man must also travel and see the beauties of nature. He must investigate factories, mines, works of engineering, etc., so that he can more fully realize how God permits man certain accomplishments so that man can provide for his necessities.

He must see and experience social conditions above and below his status so that he can sympathize with the down-trodden, rejoice with the blessed, and be content with his own conditions. Experience must serve as a practical object lesson, giving life to dead knowledge.

Yet neither knowledge nor experience is of any value unless judgment and practicability are present.

Every incident and situation in life must not be isolated but viewed as a part of history. Thus a broad view of the matter can be obtained and correct judgment will follow. After correct judgment, practical application to one's needs and the needs of others must be effected.

The result of such an education, which is truly liberal and pleasing to God, will be happiness in the fear of the Lord.

Paul Nolting '42

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THE PSYCHOLOGY

OF CHESS

A short time ago a Viennese professor of psychology investigated 500 different games and pastimes in order to determine which one was "best for taking jaded minds away from the stress of modern life."

He found it in chess.

At the same time, however, the "Newsweek" of May 2, 1938, said that the game of chess requires "much too much concentration for the average man" and implied that a great deal of brains was required to play the "Sport of Kings" in telligently.

But is that really true?

What qualities or attributes do you need to play chess? A closley related subject is whether chess is an art or a science.

Quite a few years ago Harry Nelson Pillsbury claimed that the most useful mental quality was concentration-"the ability to isolate himself from the world and live for the events of the board"-and he believed that chess broadened the mind. Patience or the ability to wait was important, as of course was accuracy.

Cleveland, a psychologist and chess student of the early 1900's, said that chess skill is not an index of general intelligence, that the reasoning involved in chess playing is reasoning in very narrow limits, and that a considerable degree 'Of chess skill is possible to one who is mentally deficient in almost everything else.

This conclusion is backed up by the first psycho-technical experiments with chess at the Moscow International Tournament of 1925. It was decided that the great chess players had no better memory than the average man in spite of the fact that Alekline, world's champion, is supposed to be able to recall every game of note in the last 30 years with their moves; that their masterly playing was due to prof'essional knowledge and habit; that they had no greater concentration than the average man. Their dynamic attention was greater; they had developed their understanding of new situations and changes. No special talent was needed for chess, in their opinion, but these investigators did say that "A tendency to abstract, formal, and objective thought in which the general predominates over the particular is essential to success in chess." Synthesis predominated over analysis.

Now for the final question: is chess an art or a science?

From my particular point of view, science means a method-

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ol'ogy, a way of reasoning with regard to the material at hand. That is the outstanding characteristic of science down through the ages: a method of determining facts in different fields. So it is that I hold that we reason in those sections of human endeavor called the arts as well as in specific sciences. We may not be able to reason so well about painting as about chemistry or physics, but that is due to the difficulty of the material with which we are dealing. The same fundamental dependence on facts is present in both.

We cannot reason so adequately in sociology or history as in the so-called physical sciences. In chess, because of the difficulty of the material with which we are dealing, the vast numbers of possible moves and combinations. exactness is not to be achieved except in a limited way. That does not bar the use of reasoning, of scientific reasoning. Chess then does not need to be regarded as an art or a science: it needs to be regarded as a way of dealing with certain problems.

That way involves the use of as good reasoning as possible, and the empirical check or verification is in the carrying out into practice on the chessboard the reasoning used.

V.G.

,IN APACHELAND Wilbert Mueller, one of our D. M. L. C. graduates of last June, is serving as teacher in an Indian Mission in Bylas, Arizona. He wrote and sent to us the following extremely interesting paragraphs on some of his first experiences and impressions of Arizona.

"The little town of Bylas is nestled between two mountain ranges, which automatically implies beautiful sunrises and sunsets. The valley is abundantly covered with mesquite bushes, cacti, and sand. There really is a lot of sand because when it rains here the ground is dry in no time.

One Saturday night it rained harder than I had ever seen before in all my life, yet the next day it was dry and dusty.

On the other hand, the people here do raise crops in the irrigated sections, but their mainstay is cattle. This part of Arizona is just a little way from the hunter's paradise.

Deer, turkeys, quail, etc., are all in easy traveling distance.

Right here at Bylas there are quail, wild doves, and rabbits to raise the old rifle at. Since I am down here I have bought myself a .22 automatic to "pot" around with.

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"We have a very nice, roomy schoolhouse. It comprises two 20x30 classrooms, a kitchen, and a dining room. The other teacher is the Indian interpreter who takes care of the first two grades. School starts at nine o'clock as it does almost everywhere, but it doesn't last S'O long. At 11 :30 we close down operations for dinner, which is served in the dining room. Cooking comes in my line of duty. Of course I don't do too much work myself, there are big girls to do that.

I never dreamed that I would have to be a "Home Ec" teacher. At one o'clock we again put our respective noses to the grindstone.

We close school about three. That gives a person a little time to recuperate for the next day. The pupils are very shy in the schoolroom, but on the playground they are quite free. Their timidity can be explained, in part, by their little use of the English in their speech. Many of them can't speak any English when they come to school.

I like it down here though because there is so much freedom, Not nearly so many conventions, and it's a place where you, can pick up chicken with your fingers and nobody gives it a second thought.

"Back there, all most likely still think that the old Indians believe that when they die they go to the happy hunting ground. Well, they don't. It is exactly the opposite.

When a man dies, he goes to the devil and becomes an evil spirit. Those that are left do everything in their power to protect themselves from it. A group of Indians keeps: watch over the body until it is buried. At one of the funerals some of the women started screaming at the corpse.

Later I found out that they were asking him why he did this; why had he gone to the devil. They believe that he died of his own free will. They are very superstitious about graveyards.

When they leave the graveyard, the nearest relative leaves his clothes at the grave for fear the spirit lingers in it. There are many precautions to keep the ghost where it belongs. An ash circle is made around the grave to divide the two worlds. If a person returns more than four times, the devil will get him too. The second day after the burial all of the deceased's property is burnedhouse, clothes, etc. The rest of the family makes a new camp in a different locale. Even his horse is shot so that he will not come back to ride it. This is all done after sundown because they do not want to offend the sun god. In their traditions there is a man who corresponds to Jesus. He was born of a woman but had no earthly father.

He was a brave warrior and saved his nation from their enemies. Once a year they test their faith in a very interesting ceremony.

Twelve boys and twelve girls go on a snake hunt. They track the rattlers to their dens and dig them out with their

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hands. When they have twenty-four snakes, they call the people together.

They form a holy circle, and the boys and girls pass the snakes around the people's bodies. They make four circles, at the head, chest, hips, and feet, for protection againt sickness. If a person has faith, they will not ha-rm him. Somehow or other it seldom happens that anyone is bitten. The songs that they sing might have had something to do with it. These affairs, however, have not been held for several years.

"Sunday finds something for me to do too-Sunday School and pumping the reed organ. Every other Sunday we go to Safford, closest large town (33 miles), for services.

Rev. Sprengeler is a very good speaker. He can lay down the law like thunder, but the admirable thing about it is the way he brings out the Gospel. The Indians, once they learn about their Savior, do not keep that to themselves but go and tell others about it. Out west here some of them come 80 miles to church and think nothing of it. They are regular attendants too."

GOD AND THE GREAT OUTDOORS It seems that modern Americans do not realize that there is a great outdoors. If they do know this, they don't take time out to explore and appreciate it. The beauties of America, such as its lofty snow-capped mountains, its rolling plains; its dense and beautiful forests are being shunned by many of our people. It seems that the goal for many is not to live a quiet and peaceful life while here on earth, but rather to hear the jingle of silver and the rustle of greenbacks in their pockets. In order to obtain this latter goal they are constantly on the go, hustling in and out of traffic, worrying about the next day (wondering if Hitler is going to come across), and losing all quietude and repose.

To obtain true quietude and repose one must retire into God's nature-the Great Outdoors Sitting beneath a shady weeping willow and watching the quiet ripples of a sylvan stream glide by, one can forget all the worries and tribulations of this world in sole communion with his God. That is true quietude and contentment.

With the defense work going on today the large cities no longer are covered with a blanket of quietness during the

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nocturnal hours, but are filled with the constant humming and droning of machinery. The Great Outdoors is the only place where one can find peace and tranquility.

God has given us a body which we should hold sacred. for He says that our body is the temple of the Holy Ghost.

Because of this we must consider it our duty and a privilege to take the utmost care for the health of our bodies. The inhalation of pure fresh air, the taking of invigorating hikes. and the indulgence in good physical labor-all of which can be obtained in the Great Outdoors-are aids in the building of a healthy body.

When we go out into nature and see the majestic snowcapped mountains, the pinnacled towering pines, the checkerboard grain fields swaying in the breeze, the mighty turbulent falls and rapids of rivers and streams, the abysmal canyons and many other marvels of this universe, we see the triviality and insignificance of man and begin to realize from nature that there is a God. That person who has seen all these wonders and still says in his heart, "There is no God," truly is a fool.

No matter how versatile he is, no mortal man can adequately describe the true beauties of nature. Everyone must go for himself and see the innate beauties of nature, for not every man sees through the same eyes. Christ once said, "Behold the lilies." Do just that-behold them! They are beautiful. So also the rest of God's creation, the Great Outdoors. They all may not be as white and pure as the lily appears, but they all have their own particular beauty.

Since God made all these wonders of nature for man's use and enjoyment we should retire into the sylvan depths and there behold and observe the great handiwork of our Creator. While God through man has built the metropolitan areas He Himself is the direct builder of the Great Outdoors.

Richard Grunze '44

OUR NEWjSP APERS Newspapers today are read only for pastime. People enjoy reading them, because they are easy to read, requiring no memory work or head-work of any kind. I think most Americans know that all they read is not truth, at least as far as paragraphs on politics are concerned.

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The majority grab for the funnies as soon as they take a paper into their hands. Most of these are not worth reading, but then they always seem to attract us most. After we're through with the comic section, we look for the sports page. This page is really the worst nuisance.

A sports writer speaks of the "cosmic punch" of Lou Nova one evening, and the next evening you read that Lou isn't in condition to meet Joe Louis at all. We. therefore, know that these sports writers earn a lot of money for simply writing a column of words. Still the public enjoys reading anything about a hero in sports, even if it's nonsensical.

Our next resort. if we ax", of the weak=r ~px. would most likely be the section illustrating- the latest fashions and Mrs. Roosevelt's "My Day" column. "My Day" isn't more exciting than anybody else's diary. Yet. we're iust inouisitive to see exactlv what the president's wife didn't do.

Then there's Dorothy Dix'R Column. Even men read this so they have something to talk about.

Next we come to several naces of advertisements.

The editors of the naper adorn them with so manv nictures and interesting short descriptions so that we .iust can't miss them. These advertisements often heln us decide what we should bring along home from town the next dav, We know a lot of advertisinv usually lessens the value of t.he material: nevertheless we buy to convince ourselves that it was really worth it.

At last we come to the front nag-e. The war new" is usually too lengthy for the average American to read; therefore he reads the headlines and the first. narazraph.

The American reads only such things in detail which especially interest him.

A murder drawn to our attention by a larjre headline on the front page i'l usuallv read in detail. This zoes to prove that we crave excitement.

This is also shown bv the fact that we read about trials arising out of auto accidents, etc.

Usually. last of all. we read the column." on politics. A politician, of course. reads these first. A writer. in order to remain on the good side. of a politician. has to nrint a lot of untruths.

The writer knows that a politician is the source' of his news. and therefore he writes no news that might harm the politician in any way. By reading the newspaper, we gather that all politicians are quite perfect men.

Newspapers source of truth.

are a great pastime, but not a very good Adelia Falk '42

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December 1941

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WHERE ARE WE GOING? Where will this country be a hundred years from now?

That is a question that has been asked many times by people from both sides of the Atlantic and I believe it has received many different answers. There are many angles or possibilities to consider, but we are going to set forth only a few of them.

America, though one of the youngest nations on the face of the earth, has a higher standard of living than any other country. But are we therefore so much better?

We should be ashamed of the record that we have established for ourselves. Look at an the accidents that occur in our country every year. More people are killed in one year by accidents than all the American soldiers killed in World War 1. Isn't that something to be proud of in a country like this where we have good roads, good cars, and modern conveniences in the average home? I believe one evil of this highly commercialized system of life is that we have too much time on our hands. People are too impulsive; they never look before they leap, and they drive as if they were late for their accidents.

We have the best facilities for education. but are we educated?

Is our sense of right and wrong what it should be? Prominent educators say, "Train our youth and we will curb crime in this country."

The youth is being educated, but the criminals are not diminishing in number.

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One look at the staggering sum that crime costs the American people in a year will answer the question. The money that was spent and the blood that was spilled to enforce the Eighteenth Amendment is another feature in our history that we cannot point to with pride.

The fact that we are training the people mainly in how to amass for themselves a fortune and not giving them a good sound education is another reason they do not "travel on an even keel."

I think we can learn some good lessons from our ancestors in Europe. I do not harbor any love for the English people, but there are one or two qualities in their make-up that Ii do admire. They are not so easily aroused and as a whole they are more stoic. The German is known for his "gemutlichkeit."

That is a trait that is to be envied. If more of us would try to practice it, perhaps we would not have so many early deaths caused by heart trouble.

This summer I had an argument with a man regarding the status of our civilization. He said we are living in an age that is highly enlightened, far ahead of any other peoples. He suggested that we go back into the history of the world. We did, and I showed him that we have produced nothing new that the ancients did not know of. They gave us philosophy, and we haven't been able to improve one bit on that. We have not produced any men who have been able to surpass Demosthenes. We have not made any progress in architecture, painting, or any of the other fine arts.

Anyone who can appreciate modern art has a warped esthetic sense.

The seat of civilization is slowly moving westward. If we are the people chosen to "carry the torch" next, I think we are due for a "housecleaning."

Yes, that is a question that remains to be answered: "Where are we going?"

L. H.

NOVELS I LIKE I'm reading Daphne Du Maurier right now with great anticipation.

It's a story of adventure with a gay, and gallant French gentleman-pirate.

It has dash and sparkle.

Jamaica Inn, by the same author, captivated my fancy for

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a second reading; it stands as my choice of a good nove1.

I like adventure, pirates, Indians, explorations-any act that avoids the cut and dried run-of-the-mill life set up with a fluent pen. Along with that I like an historical background as a salve to my conscience and a prop to my ego. A bit of humor is not amiss provided it is timely, and I do prefer a style of writing that is worth striving after.

I want my novels long enough because my reaction time is slightly under par and I dislike turning the last page just as I find a kindred spirit in the villain. Characters with force of some kind, whether it be good or evil, are 'my choice. Take Quasi Moto in the Hunchback of Notre Dame or Becky Sharp of , Vanity Fair; I can't just say they are my favorites because I can like cowboys, half-breeds, gypsies, in one instance a "sewer rat"-depending on the circumstance.

Would I pick up some insignificant but hair-raising mystery before I'd ponder geography or mathematics?

I certainly would! Would I read said geography or mathematics if I didn't have to write tests?

I should say not! I should like to attend this newly organized school that features the reading of a prescribed number of novels during the school year, and verily I would be content and educated.

I also like biographies.

A biography carries the interest of adventure and still maintains a foothold on the ground.

I err with the majority of mankind in following a yen for the highly imaginative.

A 'biography counteracts the fancies I imbibe in a desirable manner; it complements the fiction as missing teeth do freckles.

At the moment I can recall being particularly taken up with the works of Hugh Walpole at one time. The Cathedral and The Inquisitor had a touch of morbidness that enveloped me. Victor Hugo is a great favorite as is Thackeray with his dry humor. I am on an all-out drive for Dickens; most recent of his works read was Bleak House. I should say that Dickens is fine, but he does wax unduly sentimental among the womenfolk. The Bronte books have thrilled me along with many other readers. Vincent Sheean has been added to my list of best loves after reading San Felice and

Personal History.

For a general summary of likes and dislikes I am at a loss. I can only say that if all other duties were dispensed with for the rest of the year, and I were presented with a goodly supply of reasonably fair novels as my moral obligation I could wish for nothing more.

E. Stern '42

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WHY I READ THE SPORTS SECTION A few years ago as I was standing in a crowded bus, I observed an elderly man wrestling with the pages of the Wisconsin State Journal in 'Order to find some apparently interesting article. Judging from his appearance I surmised he was a retired business man. In most cases such as this one, the mind of the respective person turns to some field of interest.

This man was a sports lover-I could see it immediately!

He read of the latest baseball reports, of the amateur tennis tournaments, scanned the page as a whole rather vaguely, and then began reading the comic section. The superman of the comics replaced the superman of the sports.

Later in the fall of the same year as I stepped into a bus I was again confronted by a widespread newspaper held up as a shield. To me it seemed a very poor time for practicing the wiles of war, but what could one expect when there was a tang of autumn in the air? Any rabid football fan knows that when this occurs football will soon be king.

Yes, the seeming defense-like position of the newspaper proved to be one of guard position-a guard against a triple threat, namely, talkative riders, traditional newspaper borrowers, and staring individuals. The absorbed "triplethreat" reader was closely scanning the opening line-up of the Wisconsin and Minnesota teams. The subject of grid tilts must have proved very interesting for he closed the newspaper only after a lengthy and thorough reading of the sport pages.

Then my surprise came! This gentleman was the very same one I had seen earlier in the season-the bored snorts lover-the apparent blooming comic section devotee. ~Now the mystery was solved-his only previous trouble had been his longing for the news of the varsity eleven. He wanted to read of new lines of attack, not how "Gabby" Hartnett was progressing in baseball; he wanted to read of elusive quarterbacks, not of some insolent southpaw playing with the Cardinals, etc.

This undisputed sway of football, as evidenced by newspapers, newsreels, etc., gives us something to think about other than the same "drilled" routine we are wont to follow.

Why not become an optimist in regard to football? Follow the sports section, follow the "plays," the quarterbacks, and what have you for only one short season of football. The tremendous build-up given this sport should aid you in becoming interested.

The season is short if you prefer brevity -but soon you will, I wager, Iong for a more lengthy season.

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Try it. give your mind a change, provide it with some mental avocation, and also build up a knowledge centering about "pigskins" and "pigskin" heroes. Pessimism is much too prevalent anyway.

Then, one day, "Last game of season to be played at Camp Randall; Record crowd expected." The incident is again similar to the previous ones: the same bus, the same paper, the same world, but a changed football fan. Pigskins have vanished!

Gertrude Stoekli '42

HEP路CAT

OR LONG路HAIR?

If swing music had continued in its well-rutted path, I should have remained mildly indifferent, and this article might never have been written.

The so-called music writers could have gone on for endless ages writing feeble tunes with now and again a good one, like "Night and Day" or "Marquita," which, together with some others, will always remain favorites of mine. The clanking of cow-bells in Glenn Miller's orchestra leaves me cold, and I prefer dead silence to the sickly sweetness of Wayne King's everlasting waltzes and Guy Lombardo's wailing saxophones. I appreciate a well-executed intrument solo in a swing band, and I like an original melody if it is played musically and not with just a lot of noise. The rhythm of boogie-woogie exhilarates mefor a time; no doubt it is because of that oft-cited appeal to the lower instincts in man, which, by the way, you will also find in Ravell's "'Bolero," which is considered a classic.

That is my opinion of swing music. As far as "jive talk" is concerned, I don't think it is much of a menace. It is really nothing more than the adolescent desire to be conspicuous; the unfortunate part is that this jargon is also picked up and retained by the person whose mind remains adolescent regardless of physical growth.

The thing that raises my wrath to the boiling point is what is known as "ragging the classics." Just as I began this paragraph, an orchestra proceeded to play "Dance of the Flutes" from Tschaikowsky's Nutcracker Suite in such a way as to make it practically unrecognizable. It must have been about ten years ago that the song writers came to the end of their originality and began their insufferable plagiarism.

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At first they confined themselves to embellishing the works of the masters by brass obligatos and rumbling drum rhythms.

If Rubinstein could hear his "Melodie in F" or Verdi his "Anvil Chorus" as played by Ben Bernie Dr Gene Krupa, there would probably be a mass murder in short order. Last year, believe it or not, I heard "Stille Nacht" played in waltz-time.

Is it just the thrill 'Ofdoing something that would make an aesthetic person shudder, or is it the defiance of the consciously inferior toward the master?

As if this type of musical mutilation were not enough, swingsters have fallen from the lowest rung in the ladder of my estimation by something even worse. They now cut the theme from a symphony or take the melody of a classic and add lyrics to it. Lyrics? There is nothing lyrical about the words put to these melodies. In this way the "Andante Cantabile" from Tschaikowsky's Fifth Symphony, an exquisitely sad symphonic movement, has become, disgustingly, "Moon Love"! The "Concerto in B Minor" by the same composer, a noble theme with magnificent orchestration, is "Tonight We Love." It seems impossible that anyone should have the temerity to ruin this music by the addition of sickly sentimental words, but obviously someone must like it, or it wouldn't be done.

For some reason Tschaikowsky bears the brunt of this disfigurement.

Perhaps it is the fact that many of his melodies are so beautifully simple. There are other musical numbers, of course, that have been thus altered, such as Debussy's "Reverie," Mozart's "Sonata I," and others.

Where do most of you stand on the subject?

Are you adherents of swing, hop-cats, if you will, to such a degree that you can't see what is going on in the musical world?

Or have you depth enough to realize that the only music worth while, probably known as "long-hair" or "high-brow" to many, is the music that lives? Fifty or a hundred years from now who will remember "From Taps Till Reveille" or care that "Jim Doesn't Ever Send Me Pretty Flowers"?

The 'Onlything we can do about this musical theft is to educate ourselves in real music so that we realize when we hear a classic being "murdered" just what it really is we are hearing.

I still have hopes that some day we will have a course in music appreciation at our college. Until then, tune in something worth while on your radio; if you don't like it now, it is only because you don't know anything about it.

C. I. Sauer

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MEN ARE TO BE PITIED Men are to be pitied! They certainly are! Poor fellow! A rather attractive-looking young woman enters a street car, totters uncertainly on her high heels, smiles at a young man-s-and it works! He gets up, offers his seat to the young lady, and she sits down without a word of thanks.

Rather shocked, he smiles at her nevertheless and attempts to start a conversation with the words, "Fine day, isn't it?"

-"Naw, it's much too cold." (And the conversation is chilled too.)

Another stop! This time it's a middle-aged lady with her arms full of packages. The young men are all too busy reading their newspapers; they don't see her. A middleaged man gives up his seat and receives a simple "thank you." By this time the first young man thinks the man was foolish; he wishes he would have kept his seat. Do you pity him? No, he only gave up that seat in the first place because of the smile, not because he wanted to otherwise.

Poor fellow!

Modern men wonder whether they ought stil! to obeythe laws of chivalry. Women don't appreciate it anyway, and most of them just expect it as a matter of course.

Women are getting more and more independent; they can take care of themselves.

Such excuses are constantlv being given. Instead of being trained early to obey thelaws of chivalry to some extent, young boys and men are being told to pity themselves for the abuses inflicted by women; they are taught to doubt that chivalry has still a place in the modern world.

Oh, the vanity of men! The only reason why many a young man has ever practiced chivalry was just that. They liked to hear a timid "thank you" spoken by a tremulous voice whose owner's dainty fluttering handkerchief was ever ready to drop for some suscentible man to nick up! Ah! He's caught!

See the beautiful blush of an innocent maiden! (As though a blush were really a sign of innocence l) But a man feels pretty proud of himself if he can make a girl blush; it pleases his vanity. Why, he's a conqueror! But it really only makes a slave of him. He's ready to do anything for her if only she'll blush so pretty again. And there is chivalry born! Such a man I can heartily pity-for his vanity's sake.

Loraine Ulrich '42

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We are indebted to Ivan Raddatz, talented Second Normal, for the "cuts" which appear above CO-ED NOTES and LOCALS in this issue of the Messenger.

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LIBRARY NOTES Since the appearance of Library Notes in a previous issue of the Messenger; our library has made modest, yet steady progress. About 125 books have been added since last June. Among these there are some of outstanding importance.

One is The Dictionary of American History by J. T. Adams. It is comprised of five volumes plus an index volume, which makes the finding of desired cross reference material a very easy matter.

The dictionary offers complete and thorough articles on every phase of American History.

Another addition worthy of mention is the four-volume History of the Expansion of Christianity by K. S. Latourette.

These volumes offer fine collateral reading material for members of our church history classes in connection with special reports and topic work. In speaking of church history, we may also mention the latest book by Prof. Lars Qualben, The Lutheran Church in Colonial America. As in his General Church History, Qualben has gathered much valuable material which formerly was to be found only in far and widely scattered places, and was not so easily available.

In connection with history in general we call attention to Ogg, European Governments and Politics, and Munro, The Governments of Europe. Any student of present-day world conditions will do well to get the background presented in these two books.

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Our art course for students in the normal department has been expanded considerably. For this work quite a few new books have been added to the library. Among these the following may be mentioned: Whitford and Lick, Art Appreciation for Children; Bonser and Mossman, Industrial Art for Elementary Schools; Lutz, Drawing Made Easy.

It may also be mentioned that our library purchased the latest edition of the World Book Encyclopedia, which is especially designed for high-school classes. The latest acquisition is the new edition of the "Americana."

The former edition of 1936 with its Year-books has found a new home in the reference shelves of the Girls' Dormitory.

Quite a number of persons not immediately connected with our school, both pastors and teachers, have found occasion to draw on our library for books to be used for private study or study club activity.

We repeat our suggestion of last spring that if any individual or group desires to make use of books that our library has, they are perfectly welcome to ask us. We shall loan these for a reasonable time without any charge except the very low parcel post expense.

E. R. B., Librarian

This being my last chance to write this column, I want to thank all those who have cooperated with me in making this column interesting.

Only then can we make the Alumni Notes interesting and comprehensive when you send us the news; therefore, Alumni, please help your new editor in just that manner.

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Called to our attention at this time was the wedding of Miss Jeannette Reierson ('40) and Pastor Stuart Dorr. The marriage took place July 6 in the Holy Cross Lutheran Church at Madison, Wis. The bride was attended by Miss Loraine Greve (H. S. '38) of Courtland, Minn. Mrs. Dorr had been teaching near Lake Mills. The young couple is now making its home in Forest City.

Next we should like to announce a change in pastorates.

Pastor A. W. Blauert, pastor of the Zion Lutheran Church in Olivia, Minn., and the St. Matthew Lutheran Church in Danube, Minn., for the past fourteen years has accepted a call to the St. Paul's Lutheran Church in Austin, Minn.

Pastor Blauert is a 'graduate of our D. M. L. C. Mr. and Mrs. Gilbert Fischer motored to Hutchinson, Minn., to Fischer's (Hilma Albrecht) father people had been students at our us a visit before returning home.

of Tawas City, Michigan, attend the funeral of Mrs. early in November. Both college and therefore paid

We saw still more familiar faces on October 4 when some of last year's graduates visited us. Among the visitors were William Kuether of Sanborn, Minn., Ralph Muenkel of Sparta, Wis., and Lorraine Puttin of Boyd, Minn.

Pastor and Mrs. P. Koehler announce the engagement of their daughter Margaret to Mr. Horace A. Scheunemann of Kenosha, Wis. Miss Koehler graduated in 1937 and has been teaching in Baraboo, Wis. We have received word of the engagement of Mr. Adair Moldenhauer ('39) who is teaching in North Fond du Lac, Wis., to Miss Margaret Carlovsky also of North Fond du Lac. Still another wedding was that of Miss Ruth Fritz and Mr. Robert Johnson. They were united in marriage by the bride's grandfather, Pastor Fritz, on October 12 at Fairfax, Minn. The couple is making its home in Riverside, California. Mrs. Johnson was a classmate of ours for several years.

Another classmate of ours, Bettie Mae Trettien, left D. M. L. C. to teach the lower four grades in the Lutheran school at West Allis, Wis. We wish Bettie loads of luck as a teacher.

Miss Joyce Stephenson and Mr. John Aufderheide spoke their vows on November 23. The groom attended our school, and the newlyweds will make their home in New DIm. Congratulations!

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We received word that Miss Wilma Schultz and Mr. Leonard Brinkman announced their engagement.

Miss Schultz graduated in 1940 and is now teaching in New London, Wis. Edwin Becker (H. S. '34) has accepted a call as pastor at Milroy, Minn., and Martin Birkholz (H. S. '34) has accepted a call to West Mankato, Minn.

We'll end with the wedding of Miss Hazel Steinberg ('40) and Mr. Victor Schwarz of Truman, Minn., at Fairchild, Wis., during the Thanksgiving vacation.

EXCHANGE This month's flood of new arrivals in the way of college papers was a boon little expected. Along with these came the now familiar Alma Mater representatives bearing signs of changing times. These latter renovations came at a time when 'Our own bit of foolscap was debating as to choice of new ear-marks.

The Concordia Courier, that of Milwaukee, devoted a bit of its Oct. 4 edition to "The New Lutheran Hymnal as a Devotional Book." Since we, as present users and future introducers of this book, should have considerable interest in it an occasional thought from the article is presented.

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rangements and hymns but it is doubtful whether many of us have gone further in the realization of what this hymn book means to us. "The hymn, the foremost part of the hymnal, is not only to be used in church services on Sundays, but should serve as a regular department in daily devotion and prayer. A knowledge of the words will grant opportunity for a deeper and more settled meditation upon the thoughts contained therein. They should be brought to the attention of others without the slightest hesitation.

The Lutheran hymns are a source of great spiritual help to school children especially. If children do not understand from their Bible study the meaning of Christ's work on earth, they will be aided in learning it by the study of those sacred hymns which deal with his work and its manifold benefits.

The liturgy, antiphons, and hymns serve to awaken devotion which is a necessary requirement for receiving lessons of God's word contained in the sermon. The Lutheran Hymnal with its collection of Psalms and prayers may also be used as a devotional book in its own right in both home and school.

The revisions and additions in the Lutheran Hymnal of recent publication, have all been made to provide a more adequate text for general devotional purpose.

From Winfield, Kansas, we have the St. John's Reporter.

An editorial put forth a salient thought entitled "A Monotonous World." The trend lay in this vein: "Man is essentially the same." Under the fire of propaganda few are those who survive. Only the strong lift their shoulders above the smoke to face and meet reality while the average man accepts an apparent fate. "Only the pitiful forms of men remain after propaganda has done its work. Only the shattered remnants of the once mighty minds are left to be marveled and scoffed at in history texts of future generations. Only burnt stumps mark the folly of the age for years to come, for men to storm at, for women to weep at, and for children to laugh at."

Another of the welcome innovations in this our column was the appearance of the Mankato Teachers College Reporter.

It has in its pages a column entitled "Art-Its Way of Life." A unique choice of tidbits, from the panorama of artists' lines is worthy of honorary mention. It will enrich your general education with such information as this: Remember the old tune "chopsticks"?

Well, that tune of unknown origin has inspired such composers as Liszt, Rimsky Korsakow, Borodin, Cui, and Liadov to write elaborate compositions based on the simple theme. The four of the above composers spent nearly a year of their leisure time writing so-called "Paraphrases" on the theme. These Paraphrases are written for two pianos-four hands-and consists of

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one part to be played by the two fingered piano playing novice-and the other part to be played by a skillful pianist who adds the several variations to the basic theme.

These variations are in varied forms, ranging from jig and tarantella to cradle song and dirge. Liszt added other brilliant and unusual variations."

The Concordia Comet is sporting a new "face." Bolstering their "nobody reads the intellectual dry stuff" spirit behind an editorial the staff announces the intention of mak"ing the Comet "more direct" Like the path of bread oven to you-simple, no going out of your wav to get it; all you need do is pay and swallow. It's practically digested. This naturally provides more time for the much desired "studentactivity."

Ah yes-it won't be Ionz now and the student will be the socially active rival of a Fifth Ave. dowager with a constipated intellectual digestive system.

The Black and Red featured "Socrates a Red" in good style. "The philosopher argued that leisure is the best of all possessions. He regarded peace and friendship among the greatest of man's goods. 'A man can always tell the , number of sheep he has, but not the number of friends, so slight a value he puts on them.' ... Happy was Socrates in having a cause, heroic he was in dying for it. The only truly tragic thing about martyrdom is, not that the man dies, but after a while his cause does."

My time is run out; with this issue I relinquish the pen to new hands. May the privacy of this column continue to prove a joy in the future.

Open Forum In response to the topic which was presented for discussion in the last issue of the Messenger ("Why not keep a man in a man's occupation ?") we received the following thoughts in a letter which we are publishing in its entirety.

The writer signed himself simply as "A boy of D. M. L. C." My dear editor: Who was your first teacher?

Think hard! Could it have been a woman-your mother? Who taught you your first words? Who developed those first thoughts?

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taught you those first verses and Bible passages?

Who proved the most loving and kind teacher you ever had? A woman! Then, in those tender days of my first school years, I again had a woman teacher.

She always seemed rather like a second mother.

It is the womanly, motherly hand that can, with its gentle firmness, turn the mind of the young toward the right path. Then, from the fifth grade and up, it is the man who is most suitable to assist the children in becoming set in their faith in Christ and the curricular subjects correlated therewith.

My dear editor, I must ask you to retract that statement that teaching is-"a man's occupation."

Let us give credit where credit is due.

* * * * * To the Editor of the Open Forum: Dear Sir: I hope the faculty reads this column, because I have noticed something at the two literary programs we've had this fall that I should like to bring, with due respect, to their attention, and here it is. Whenever the literary societies are mentioned in the presence of any faculty member, the first comment is "Why don't they give a program once in a while?" I won't discuss that point. because I realize that the societies have been sadly deficient in that line. The point is this. The above question is always asked, but when a program is given,路 how many profesors are interested enough to attend? As a rule there are never more than three or four, and that is a scant third of the faculty.

There are two or three faithful attendants, and their presence is always noticed and appreciated; also I realize that this or that one would at some time like to come and cannot. I am looking forward to the day when the answer to the usual anxious query, "How many profs are here?" brings a pleased look instead of a resigned sigh. Are the professors really so busy that they can't take an evening off once in a great, too great, while to observe the efforts of the students in public speaking?

If someone knows the answer to this question, this column will probably have room to print it in the next issue.

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IS IT BEING QUITE FAIR? All of us connected with D. M. L. C. know that for as far back as even the oldest among us can remember, there have been two vocal organizations in our midst, these being, of

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course, the Marlut Singers and the Aeolian Chorus (Girls' Glee Club). Now, however, we observe a newcomer, namely a mixed octette. This octette seems to have made itself fairly well publicized; for uP to the time of this writing, they are the only ones of the above mentioned groups who have been asked (so it is asserted) to appear for any performance of any sort during the current school year.

Now let us take a look at the situation.

Is the school as a whole profiting or losing by this organization?

The Marlut Singers is the oldest of these groups-they have until recent years maintained a high position among singers in and about the city. Membership was gained only by the possession of a good sinving voice and an interest in good music.

This year the Marlut Singers again have the opportunity of zaining ground toward that position they once maintained.

But an octette was organized, and for some reason or other "yonder grass seemed greener."

Not having time to parteipate in both groups, some of the old members dropped out to join this foreigner, forcing the Marlut Singers to take in some untrained voices, thus lowering the standard of the organization.

If these people are never p,"ivenan ooportunity to sing for the public, interest will decline to a still greater degree; and eventually, if the situation continues, will die out entirely, Is this fair?

The Aeolian Chorus is hit too, although in a slightly different manner.

Enthusiasm in the chorus as a whole has been waning the last years, This fall, for instance. Sunday rehearsals were canceled upon the suggestion of the directress, because there was nothing for which to practice anyhow. Such an attitude on the part of our leaders is particularly inspiring.

So far there have been presented two literary programs.

Surely, one would think that the Aeolian Chorus would qualify for one of them. This would give something for which to practice.

Instead, we find the octette furnishing all the vocal music to date. Again I ask, "Is this fair?"

There is another angle to the case, It is commonly known that when literary programs are in the making, that the critic is to be present at all possible meetings of any committees or rehearsals for the program.

Whether the reason for this procedure is stated in so many words or not, we all know the purpose is to have such meetings properly chaperoned. The same holds good for any other such gettogethers of mixed grouns. Now this octette is a mixed group, and they have their rehearsals or what you will call them. Are they being chaperoned the way all others in our school are? This question needs no answer. But why

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should this group be granted privileges that others can't have? The answer to this certainly cannot be that they are. so essential to our school, that all rules must be broken in order to have them with us? Is this fair?

From all indications, it would seem that there are enough vocal organizations in our institution to provide a :satisfactory outlet for anyone's gusto. There are the concert choir and the large mixed chorus (both of which include nearly all members of the octette), in addition to those previously mentioned. With all these opportunities at hand, why should eight people be allowed to ruin the two purely student organizations in our school? Is it fair?

A Reader

The Christmas season enters softly and whitely; may the blessed Christ-child bring heavenly peace and joy to all of us and God's blessing in the New Year.

* * * * * Scattered through the "humdrumity" of everyday school life are a few incidents worthy of recording in these annals.

We have had two evenings of movies here this fall, and in that connection I should like to turn movie critic for a time. When the college first began to give these moving picture programs, we saw such excellent novels as Oliver Twist, Old Curiosity Shop, Jane Eyre, and others of that kind

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in movie form .. This year the main pictures have been rather inferior in tone. I was told, however. that the last feature-Hard rock Harrigan, I think it was called-was sent by mistake. Nevertheless I hope we can have more of our literary classics soon. I should also like to comment on the movie "shorts" we see every time. These are excellent, especially those of the symphony orchestra and the travel pictures. I hope we shall continue to enjoy them.

All Hallow's Eve had come and gone. and with it the usual festivities.

Thev were again held in the gym. with the resulting zroun of stocking feet and ill-fitting tennis shoes. The Third Normal boys did a noble job of keeping everyone busy and happy.

I have been asked to say a few words about an institution of the college that is seldom heard of by outsiders.

Suffice it to say that it has met for many years, and the other day when I mentioned it. several people asked whether there really was an organization like that; they had never heard of it. To get down to names, it is informally known as the Faculty Ladies and meets once a month at the homes of the professors' wives. Recently the ladies were re-christened, quite innocently, by the small son of one of them. He calls them the "Cacklety Ladies."

Someone should give a bouquet to Orville Kempfert for his initiative and for the time and effort he sacrifices to his Junior Band. He is planning a concert, as I write this, for: the evening of December 8 in which the band will offer a program of marches, waltzes, overtures, and novelty numbers. There are thirty beginners receiving instruction in this organization, and this will be their first appearance this year. The concert will be free to anyone interested in band music.

The other musical groups are progressing as usual.

The Marlut Singers have had a set-back in that their leader, Ray Fluegge, has left to teach in West Salem. Taking over for him is Clifford Busse.

The Aeolian' Chorus has begun practicing Christmas hymns in preparation for its annual evening of caroling.

We also have a new organization, an octette composed of a group of students who are interested in singing mixed choir numbers of their own choosing and principally for their own pleasure. This octette is independent, having nothing to do with and detracting nothing from any other musical group.

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The Senior Band continues its rehearsals under the baton of Clif Busse. At the moment the members are beginning the preparation of their annual play, this year a G. L. Wind production entitled "Wake Up, Folks!"

The Christmas concert will be presented on the evening of December 19. This year the pre-service Christmas music will be played by Betty Schweppe, and Paul Nolting will play an organ solo, Reuter's "Christmas Pastorale."

The accompanists for congregational singing of Christmas hymns are Adelia Falk, Ruth Struss, and Charlotte Sauer. Gertrude Stoekli will accompany the relating of the Christmas story

by Vernon Gerlach.

There are several interesting choir numbers on the program this year. The first of these is a "Weihnachtsresponsorium" by Loewe. A small group of singers at the rear of the Auditorium will sing Latin phrases of the Christmas story, and the choir will respond in German. The Concert Choir will sing two numbers, the second of which, Bach's "Come, Jesu, Come," is a motet for double choir. The regular choir will sing "And the Glory of the Lord" from Handel's Messiah, and a group of four Christmas hymns from the new hymnal will be sung in unison by the choir in order to make them more familiar to the people. The Christmas address will be given by Prof. Carl Schweppe. There will be several more numbers sung by the choir, and the program will close with a recessional.

* * * * * And the glory of the Lord shall be revealed, and all flesh shall see it together: for the mouth of the Lord hath spoken it. Isaiah 40 :5.

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"Stubby" comps do people a world of good in more ways than one. One "little" Bode Haller even succeeded in finding out that a bibliography is not an account of one's life.

One night after use had been made of Bode Hall's new electric community popcorn popper, the following conversation ensued: First co-ed: "Open your mouth and I'll see if I can hit it."

Second co-ed: "Oh no, that's wasteful!"

First co-ed : "Not in this case !"

The nine girls left behind at the Annex over Thanksgiving certainly didn't suffer from want of food. Big boxes with everything from cranberries to turkey and chickens were delivered, and on the eventful day the sumptuous feast was "devoured" by candlelight. The menu consisted of pineapple juice, ritz crackers, turkey, chicken, dressing, cranberries, mashed potatoes and gravy, vegetable salad, jello salad, cake, cookies, pumpkin pie, and a final dash of candy and nuts. Doesn't sound bad, does it? 0.1' aren't you as hungry as I am?

Speaking of Thanksgiving, I'm in favor of this double idea. One week we go home for the turkey, and the next week we celebrate it here with all the trimmings.

Everyone agreed that the "kitchies" certainly did a good job of it.

Three cheers for them.

Episode-Third floor girls in the dorm have had their fun with a stuffed dummy which they have been concealing in out-of-the-way corners and closets to scare the other girls with. We'd say it all has been rather effective too.

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Lorraine W. came back from Thanksgiving vacation all fixed up with a new permanent. Where is the interest at the bottom of this, Lorraine,-here or abroad?

A. K. has learned to know the penalty for being tardy at breakfast three times, and L. K. won't be staying in bed for that extra 20 minutes again either, me thinks. A little change from last year. Those days are gone forever.

What with "Lil" getting her letters from the Wisconsin cheese maker, and A. K. getting her usual correspondence, and Rengstorf hearing- from Alaska, supplemented too by Dorothy Mueller providing all the new jokes with Artcy G. (with her Pauline Strasen humor) helping along, that table in the dining hall should always prove a lively place.

The Hillcrest Hall girls spent Armistice day toting around the scrub pail and rearranging things according to their own taste. Adding the new curtains to all the bright and shiningness, almost makes them content just to sit in and admire everything.

It seems it's not even safe to have cookies, cake, etc., standing around any more. There's a slinky dark thief prowling around these days, much to the anger and disgust of the co-edsof Bode Hall, who "don't think it's a bit funny."

He takes the form of a four-legged creature and can really "make tracks" if put on the run. .

Toody and Marg Lau lately found a toy snake in their bed. I'll let the reader imagine the rest.

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Harold Burow is the modern counterpart of the sixteenth century "Kurrendeschueler" who went about singing for their food. We don't know about his singing, but he has been going about the country in the D. M. L. C. truck, gathering donations for the school. We also have our doubts as to his qualifications for the job of mechanic.

It really is surprising to what lengths some students will go to spend an evening off the campus. In the last few weeks all the windows in the dormitory and the music hall have been washed and some floors scrubbed.

Raymond Fluegge has been sent to teach for the rest of the year at West Salem, Wisconsin, and Vernon Gerlach has been acting as substitute-teacher in Tomah for the last few weeks.

Albrecht has quit smoking again, now for the third time.

Some weeks ago Walter Vater went to Clements and spent the week-end as a "gentleman-farmer" in the Kempfert home. The best way to learn is to gain first-hand experience and that is just what he did. At precisely 5 P. M. with a pail in his right hand and a stool in his left hand and witha look of determination on his face, he walked up to a cow and with a firm tone of voice said, "Move over." The net result was about ten cubic centimeters of milk.

Willie Fuhrmann tried to take a shower with his raincoat.: We wonder how it worked out.

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The Thanksgiving week-end has come and gone again and with it went a general exodus of students to Wisconsin and Minnesota. Most of the boys went home for the holidays, but Gus spent his time at .the "Hall" instead.

Paul Nolting is this year's traveling cantor. He is leading the choir over in the city of Essig.

In October the members of the III Normal class were invited to attend the sessions of the teachers' conference in New Ulm. They went down there en masse and sat among the veteran pedagogues.

Elmer Uhlig is fortunate that he sleeps in a lower berth.

He has the unique habit of reversing from the head to the foot of the bed. Occasionally, in reversing, he ends on the floor.

Richard Poetter is back at school this year again. but he is not the same fellow that we knew last year. Something has been added.

Gilbert Krause. is still the man of many letters.

Occasionally he receives as many as three in one day. Perhaps he has been reading Carnegie.

How absent-minded can profs become? One of our professors came to school wearing an overcoat with its coat hanger still on the garment.

The tenth g-raders in the dorm are well on their wav to an ultimate 100% goal. To date 83% % are "bespectacled."

Signs of the times??

Durinc the still hours of the night several weeks ago the hall lights-the guiding beacons of the dorm-decided to discontinue functioninz. which of course meant a complete blackout for the remainder of the night-and was it dark!

The Fuchses are eagerly awaiting the arrival of their gold and black basketball suits. Aaron Valleskey, by the way, is their trainer.

Archie G. again went to Rochester and returned some time later with what's left of him. If they keen on cuttinv away on him he'll be a good example of existence without substance.

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We hone our successors will reap as much pleasure from their duties as we have from ours .

The old boy knew what he was talking about!

"No man is so foolish as to desire war more than peace, for in peace sons bury their fathers, but in war fathers bury their sons."-Herodotus.

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FOOTBALL With a long clean kick, the "pigskin" is booted from sight until next season. Rather dolefully the boys shook off their football shoes for another completed season. "Parting is such sweet sorrow," and the boys really had enjoyed this season. They had fought each other in many a hard won or lost battle. For lack of scheduled games, the coach divided the boys into two teams, the Reds and the Whites. If you never saw spirit before, you should have watched these games as the boys tore each other apart. They played for enjoyment of a great sport. Incidentally, the Reds came out on top.

The first scheduled game for Luther was with Mankato Teachers College. Mankato appeared with a rather wellbalanced line and backfield. In the first quarter, Mankato, with steady plunges through center, drove across for a touchdown, but failed in a running attempt to make the extra point. During the second period Luther outplayed

1941 FOOTBALL SQUAD Seated: H. Grams, N. Lindloff, G. Greve, R. Temple, G. Krause, D. Becker, M. Spaude, H. Larson. Middle row: Coach Naumann, R. Duin, H. Burow, M. Becker, E. Greve, R. Fluegge, manager, W. Ring, Coach Voecks.

Back row: L. Mueller, N. Heidorn, F. Kieckhaefer, A. Wentzel, D. Engel, R. Moldenhauer, L. Heidorn, L. Heckmann, A. Nordby.

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Mankato, driving her back to her ten-yard line. This quarter of playing was an example of what Luther could' do.

But a poor center spoiled Luther's first and only scoring opportunity.

Both Krause and Grams played good ball, breaking away for several big gains. Mankato scored again in the final quarter and also converted the extra point. The final score was Luther 0, Mankato 13.

On a brisk autumn day a husky Shattuck team invaded Luther's gridiron. They set to work on Luther as though they meant business. I might as well admit it, they used somewhat of a steam-roller effect. Shattuck scored six times during the course of the game and converted two extra points. Luther offered stubborn resistance to a superior team and showed good spirit. During the last quarter shesucceeded in scoring by a pass from Duin to Grams. This lone touchdown for the season still meant much to the D. M. L. C. fans. The boys could say, "At least they didn't whitewash us." Temple, Duin, Grams, and Krause deserve mention in this game. Krause played his last game for D. M. L. C. that day. I think we all agree in saying this farewell, "He is a fine sportsman."

The football lettermen for the season of 1941 are as follows: Krause, lhb; Grams, re : Temple, rhb; D. Becker, 19; G. Greve, It; Duin, fb; Nieno, rt; Lindloff, qb; A. Nordby, ra: Kieckhaefer, Ie; Larson, c; W. Ring, g; Spaude, e; Heckmann, b.

SHORTS The last heard of the touch football teams was the fact that they were all tied for first and last place. This is just to let you know that the boys had a lot of fun and exercise, and that "Jim" Albrecht's team copped the championship . . . . As much as I can deduce from various strange noises and screams, I believe the girls enjoyed volleyball to quite an extent. They are now putting the old basketball through the hoop with irregularity.

We know they'll improve ....

Once again the boys are tumbling. If you don't think it's fun, come out and try it.

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BASKETBALL If you've onceplayed it, you can't resist it. That's basketball, that trial of speed, agility, endurance, and accuracy The boys are out on the floor again with more enthusiasm than ever. Five varsity men from last year are back, raring to go. Incidentally, they're all Second Normals. Two promising Twelfth Graders are Duin and Emkow. With all the boys doing their best, we should have a team worth watching again this year. Remember, students, support your team. They'll give you a run for your money.

The schedule thus far for the 1941-42season is as follows. (Several games will be added to the schedule in the near future.) : BASKETBALL SCHEDULE 1941-42 December 6-Luther vs. Shattuck School,there.

December 9-Luther vs. Bethany Junior College,here.

December 13-Luther vs. Concordia Junior College, here.

December 15-Luther vs. Albert Lea Junior College, there.

December 18-,'Luther vs, Rochester Junior College, there.

January 24-Luther vs. Bethel Junior College,there.

January 29-Luther vs. Austin Junior College,here.

February 4-Luther vs. Shattuck School,here.

February 14-Luther vs. Concordia Junior College, there.

February 19-Luther vs. Worthington Junior College, here.

February 28-Luther vs. Bethel Junior College, here.

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"Have you noticed that most successful men are bald?"

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"Sally always seems to have a sort of a touch-me-not air."

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Have you ever thought about it: Many a "train" of thought is just a string of "empties."

The peculiarly strange thing about blunt people is that they come to the point.

More people are run down by gossip than by automobiles.

Being right occasionally is not enough-a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Dodging work is the hardest work of all and pays the lowest salary.

It's the quick thinkers who become leaders. He who hesitates is bossed.

The man who invented life-savers, made a mint.

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"I dunno."

"What have I on both sides of my nose?"

"Freckles."

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The next day he was found dead before an open dictionary.

We editors must dig and toil Till our fingers are sore, But some poor guy is sure to say, "I've heard that joke before."

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Easter Number Volume XXXII

Number III

March 1942

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By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another. John 13:35.

CONTENTS LITERARY The Dream of an Organist.

Do You Listen ? : Their Contribution to Victory EDITORIALS F'oreword Remember the Army Our Future and Its Foreboding Aspect..

Patriotism ALUMNI NO'TE'S E,XC'HANGE OPE:N FO'RUM COLLE'GE NOTES CO-ED NOTES : LOCA'lJS , , ATH'LETICS : HUMO'R

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THE DREAM OF AN ORGANIST

Oh, the beauty of rough rugged mountains And the pine with its towering height !

In my memory pervades this picture; Oh, so vivid, so exceedingly bright!

In the crags, among peaks, in the Rockies, Near a brook with its babbling voice, Amongst pines that are proud of their stature, All the earth whispers man to rejoice.

Over yonder still nestles that valley; 'Tis a paradise untouched by man; And a haven of rest for the mammals, Who may live and cavort without ban.

On a level of slow rolling grassland, With the wild flowers blooming around, Near a small tinkling falls with its verdure, Stands an organ, almighty in sound.

Now the sun, o'er a peak in the distance, Seemed suspended as fiery disk; As from clouds of mysterious vapor, There 'appeared here a form as of mist.

As the outline took shape in the sunset, As the lines of the figure did clear, There approached to the organ a maiden, S.O graceful-unconscious of fear.

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All the grasses, the flowers,and wild life Seemed to bow and to murmur good-day;路 Then she took her place at the organ, And extended her hands as to play.

All the hills, every tree, every blossom, As in anticipation seemed stayed; On a far distant crag on the skyline, E'en a fleet mountain sheep was arrayed.

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With a turn of her head toward the sunset, Issued music, o'erpowering and sweet; The vibrations and chords of the organ In entirety filled thin retreat.

Oh, the echoes and reverberations!

Oh, the mellowharmonious sounds!

Oh, the soul that this organist possesses!In pure grace and true virtue abounds.

But the sun is now fast disappearing; Now the last rays of light touch her hair; Then the great organ fades to a whisper; All nature is hushed as in prayer.

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Peaceful shadows of night are approaching; Darkness spreads with its soothing repose; Silhouettes of the peaks are now fading; 'Tis one more day of grace at its close.

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DO YOU LISTEN? Music is one of the essentials of our existence-it is our daily companion. We eat, sleep, and talk to music.

Our soldiers march 'Off to war to the strains of patriotic anthems. Our entertainment is not complete without music. The majority of people look upon music as a pleasure, but they do not realize it is one 'Oflife's greatest gifts.

Longfellow said, "Show me the home wherein music dwells, and I shall show you a happy, peaceful, and contented home."

There never will be universal agreement about what music is "great" or "best." Music is the most imaginative of the arts, and therefore only when we have learned to read it with our ears can we be ready to judge it.

You acquire taste through understanding; this proves true in musical tests. Today we believe 'Our country is the most musical one in the world. But a century ago America's taste was almost exclusively popular music. Today we have transplanted the symphonies of old Europe here, and the public has grown to love them. Beethoven's "Fifth" is today the most musical work in the country. Yet 132 years ago it was called "an 'Orgyof vulgar noise."

Of course the radio is greatly responsible for this change in taste. At first the general public shied from the word "classics." But directors started with music that was "good" without being over the heads of the public. Schubert's "Unfinished Symphony" was chosen because it is all melody, Tschaikowsky, because it is three-fourths melody.

Soon the public lost its fear of the classics and came back for more. Beethoven was introduced-the first movement of his "Fifth" and the second movement of his "Seventh."

Thus gradually the musical taste of the public was improved.

Do you know that your radio now brings you, through its three major broadcasting systems, an average of two or more symphonic concerts a day? Fifty years ago one would have considered himself extremely fortunate if he could have heard 'One symphony concert a year. But these fine concerts are lost to most people because their radios pour out nothing but swing music from morning until night.

Why have people not yet risen above the level of enjoying these sounds? Swing seems to be a necessity for these people as a start in their musical life.

Deems Taylor says that they must be allowed to have their "bad" music if they like it; for if they are not allowed

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to have it, they will not listen to anything at all, While the radio is working, there is still hope of luring them into something better than what they think they like.

A worthwhile person roundings. We hope that now will listen to nothing Bach, Beethoven, Wagner,

will in time rise above his surin a few years the thousands who but swing will be clamoring for and Debussy.

The beginner does not acquire taste for music by reading volumes on music appreciation nor by learning countless terms. The first thing to do is listen. Take a symphony over the radio as seriously as one for which you paid good money. You need not dress for it, but at least listen.

Select a comfortable chair, adjust the radio so it won't blast, and relax.

Leave the books and newspapers where they are. You can't read and listen at the same time. If you are a newcomer listening to serious music, don't feel guilty listening to serious music; don't feel guilty if you still prefer Herbert, Kern, or Berlin. In time learn to balance your listening as you would your meals.

To listen you must truly give your whole attention to the music. Follow the melody; listen to the inner voices; allow yourself to be lifted up by the climax.

Only when you are familiar with a piece of music can you truly listen to it. Try to become familiar with a few masterpieces.

If you receive enjoyment from a piece the first time you hear it, you must make an effort to hear it again. Soon it will become a favorite with you, and you will hear something new in it every time you listen to it.

Why do we love music? It is the language of emotions.

It takes us away from our hum-drum existence to realms of romance and fantasy.

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THEIR

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TO VICTORY

Just a war ago when recruits carried "Berlin or Bust," women were playing Women were busy in industry.

Women social welfare work, and efforts made to suffrage were especially strong.

posters reading their part too. were active in promote woman

Again today in this present international conflict it is evident that the weaker sex has definitely adopted this slogan: "Help win the battle at home." The woman of today is conscientiously following the example of her grandmother, active during World War 1, only on a larger scale. Women are being called to serve their country both here and abroad.

The defense industries welcome women in factories.

In the army women work as clerks, nurses, dietitians, dental assistants, etc.

The relation between women and industry is more marked abroad. Spread throughout England. for instance, an army of women in overalls is feeding industrial machines which have been set for months at war-time soeed. These women are already well experienced. Industry has drawn in women who have never worked outside t+eir homes.

Young machine-minded girls have left school to do their part. Women from 18-40 have taken the places of men on heavy presses, conveyors and capstans; and, believe-it-ornot, it has been maintained that on some of these particular jobs women are from 15-25 % more efficient.

Women munitions workers are making less money than they made in World War 1, and they are working harder.

In London's munitions factories they are expected to work through air-raid alarms, and they never refuse. Credit is surely due rhe woman on a night shift, who can sit at her bench and be doing a job which requires a steady hand and intense concentration, ever realizing that in the darkness outside chaos and destruction rule.

However, not only the women in factories are at war.

Others are active in less masculine occupations. The firstaid posts, ambulance units, churches, missions, etc .. are adequately supplied with eager workers who do not fail.

Now that we know what the war means to women abroad, the question will arise: What influence has the war had on the women in America?

As yet, they have not had to endure any real hardships.

They have not been forced to sacrifice this and that, but they are realizing that they too can be of service. Here, as well as abroad, the factories are open to women. Skilled fingers, made so by hours spent

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in sewing and embroidery, are busy in airplane plants.

Here they learn such delicate operations as drilling bearings for airplane instruments which happen to' be no larger than a pin head.

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In vocational schools everywhere women are being taught the light manufacturing techniques for making electrical apparatus and fine instruments. For such handwork the nimble fingers of women are suited. Lay-out work for machine operators, assembling delicate instruments, loading shells, fillingpowder bags and operating very small machines to finish small parts are jobs for which women are in demand.

Women trained in home economics and public health are essential for the huge nutrition and housing programs covering the country. Some 2,500 home demonstrators in defense and army centers throughout the nation are busy helping families with home furnishing, householdbudgeting, food, etc.

The women in the army medical fields are not to be forgotten. The Army Nurse Corps, important also in '17, today consists 'Ofover 8,000.

We realize that everyone plays a role during war.

Yours may not be among those mentioned, but remember the sale and purchase of defense stamps and bonds still remains. Your support here helps make all the 'Otherspos-

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Volume XXXII

No. III

March 1941

THE MESSENGER STAFF Editor

Richard

Business Manager

Poetter

Donald Becker

Assistant

Business

Manager

Assistant

Business Manager

Kenneth

Born

Marvin Becker

Typist

Lillian

Quandt

Alumni Notes

Margaret

Exchange

Ione Huebner

College Notes

Rhoda Schroeder

Co-ed Notes

Helen Sweeney

Locals

Elmer

Athletics Humor

Lau

Bode

Richard Grunze ,

Glen

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FOREWORD

Read the "Messenger" in its entirety. We, the new staff, have compiledyour achievements, your activity, your humor. We have achieved nothing. We only serve. Does your "Messenger" contain something of interest to each and everyone of you? This publication has but one purpose, to establish a bond of unity among our family of readers. This statement contains more than its surface meaning. To accomplish'Sucha bond of unity, we must satisfy all. Do we?

The new staff has diligently attempted to enlarge those columns which we know the readers enjoy the most. The success of our Open Forum becomesapparent in this issue.

This increased participation of our readers indicates to us that you enjoy this opportunity for self-expresssion. We have chosen such articles for our Literary and Editorial Columns as, we thought, would interest you. Our success rests in your hands. Together with your hearty cooperation, we shall attempt to continue to supply our readers with a record of our school activities-that is, the "Messenger."

REMEMBER

THE ARMY

The enrollment of our school has been gradually decreasing this school year. This has been especially noticeable among the boys. Some have had to leave for one rea-

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son or another.

Several left us because they simply did not care for QUI' institution.

These students soon became a passing memory.

We, however, cannot allow ourselves to run the same course in respect to our present depletion, I'm referring you to the three students who recently departed from 'Our midst.

Now all of us know that they were as patriotic as any citizen of this our United States.

However, they, as true young men, were saddened by the parting.

Our words of comfort to these three come from Psalm 46 :7. "The Lord of hosts is with us;' the God of Jacob is our refuge."

May they ever carry these words in their hearts!

Now those three boys are alone in army camps. They have been accustomed to be surrounded with those they know intimately. and now they are completely isolated from those or any other acquaintances.

Place yourself in that same situation.

Shouldn't you like to be thought of now and then?

Now you will probably say to yourself that you think of them every so often.

But how are they to feel confident of that?

For just this purpose Uncle Sam has his postal system.

Think what a comforting and cheering effect an occasional letter would have on McFarland, Vater, and Heller.

Now you may say, "Why should I write?

I never had anything to do with anyone of them."

Just so much the more reason for your writing.

It would have an even more cheering result to have even the ones with whom they were not so well acquainted remember them.

Let's all take up QUI' pens (a pencil will do if you have no pen or ink) and drop one or all of them a few lines. I'm sure they will appreciate it, especially in their first and hardest months of army life.

F.L. N.

OUR FUTURE

AND ,ITS FOREBODING

ASPECT

Our outlook for the future is indeed dismal and foreboding.

One may find its dread premonition in nearly every phase of daily life. This is fostered by every current periodical; headlines in the newspapers and stories in the magazines reflect it more and more as time goes on.

It is a rare occurrence if one hears a, radio program without being reminded to prepare for the future in some way 'Or another.

The obvious cause of these fearful expectations is of course the present world-wide war, the second of its kind in which we are participants. '

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Our fears concerning the future are very well grounded.

This can be proved only too readily by investigating the history 'Ofother wars and their aftermaths.

Up to the day we entered the present war, we had not fully recovered from the effects of World War I, which sadly affected our social, economic, and political life. Thus we pave every reason for our apprehension of what lies ahead, and as human beings we shall have this apprehension; but as Christians we can face the future with a firm heart.

The war has already seemingly produced havoc in the Church by taking workers from her midst and thus hindering her work of spreading the Gospel. From all indications this may continue; and if worse comes to worst. the function of the Church in the educational field in particular will be seriously impeded for the duration of the war.

The young men may not be the only ones to be called from their work in the Church. but the nossib'Iitv is present that young women working in the Church may also be called into our country's service. From 211 appearances thi= would surely bring about a disastrous condition in the Church. It would mean that the Christian training- of the vouth of the Church would be sadly neglected. This condition is to be deplored because the youth of the Church is her lifeblood from which her future leaders are selected. A neg-eneration of this lifeblood resulting from lack of Christian training would consequently cause the Church to be weak in the future when the very opposite should be the ca=e because the Church should be strong to help counteract the bail aftereffects of the war. The future of the Churc': annears accordingly to be very dark when it is viewed in such a light.

On the other hand. however. it is imnossible to fathom God's manifold mysteries, and although He is nunishinz us with this war, He will at the same time so guide the state of affairs that His Church will prove victorious in the end, and the Gospel will continue to be disseminated to tloe uttermost parts of the world. Even though evervthinz may seem to forecast chaos and destruction, God often uses evil so that it brings about a good end. It thus follows that we must implicitly trust in God, let the future bring what it may. "The foundation of the Lord standeth sure having this seal, the Lord knoweth them that are His." (2 Tim. 2 :19.)

We should, 'Ofcourse, prepare for possible coming events in so far as our limited judgment and foresight permit us and thus forestall or diminish any future catastrophe which may befall the Church and her work. Such measures have

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been and should be taken whenever the glory of God and the welfare of our neighbor are involved as is certainly the case at the present time. Nevertheless we should not bother ourselves or worry unduly about the future; however dark and foreboding it may appear: "Take therefore no thought for the morrow: for the morrow shan take thought for the things of itself. Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof."

(Matt. 6 :34.) "In nothing be anxious; but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God." (Ph. 4 :6.) "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge. Selah."

(Ps. 46 :11.)

K.B.

. PATRIOTISM Just what is patriotism?

In times of war and strife we often think patriotism means waving the flag and playing the "Star-Spangled Banner."

Horace, the Roman poet who lived in the first century before the birth of Christ, says, "It is sweet and glorious to die for one's country." Already at this early period we can see that patriotism was no new thing.

The Romans show us that love and devotion to one's country and a spirit of willingness inspiring one to serve his country is a feeling of the heart.

A patriot then is truly a good citizen of our country.

Certainly there can be no better citizen than a Christian who knows that government is "ordained of God." .

To make our country a better place in which to live. we are required to do more than wave flags and sing patriotic songs. As Christians we will make sacrifices without grumbling and will not evade the law nor our duties as a good citizen.

Our Christian Day schools and colleges provide an opportunity for young people to accumulate knowledge which enables them to become better citizens.

A child of God with an intelligent study of the problems of the day gains knowledge which will foster in him a spirit of loyalty towards his country.

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We who are in schooltoday will be the future citizens of tomorrow.

Those who are training to be teachers in Lutheran parochial schools should especially make themselves worthwhile citizens in their particular community.

Thinking of the men and women who have gone before us and helped us make our country what it is today, We should not only reap these treasures but be willing to sow.

Good citizens will back their country and defend it to the utmost so that we may uphold the freedom we enjoy under our Constitution. Let us always be able to say in the words of Samuel F. Smith: My country 'tis of thee, Sweet land of liberty,Of thee I sing.

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I should like tn thank the former editor (If the Alumni Notes for asking' the Alumni to helo the new editor. I could do very little without that cooperation.

Some time azo, Mr. and Mrs. John J. Ehrhardt announced the marriage of their daughter Jean to Mr. Gerhard Mundinger on January 24, 1942. Mr. Mundincer was a graduate from Dr. Martin Luther Colleve in 1930. The present address of the married couple is 1318 Fort Lowell Road, Tucson, Arizona.

A baby ,g'irl.whose name is Carol Mae Felene. was born October 23. 1941. to Mr. and Mrs. Adolph Fehlauer of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Mr. F'ehlauer was also a graduate of 1930.

Mr. Frank Redeker ('31), who had bepn teacper at Fairfax. Minn.. was installed as principal and teacher of St. Paul's Lutheran School at Tomah, Wisconsin.

Basketball games usually attract m=nv of our Alumni.

Among those present this vear were Ravmoni Mueller (,40), Erhardt Wiechmann (,41). William Mussing (H. s. '40), Della Ulrich (H. S. '41). Herbert Schultz (H. S. '41), and Leorda Gieseke (Ex. 1942), besides those who were students here many years ago and probably used to play basketball themselves.

Most of our visitors are those who have been away from school only a few years and miss us so much they must come back every once in a while to reassure themselves.

Whether this is true or not, our late visitors have been Violetta Wichman (H. S. '41), Anita Wiechman (H. S. '41), both of whom have been here several week-ends, Ralph Muenkel ('41), and Roland Bode ('40).

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The draft has taken three of our would-be graduates, Harry McFarland, who would have graduated in 1943, and Lester Heller and Walter Vater. both of whom would have graduated this June .. Their addresses at present are: Private HarTY McFarland, Inf. Rep. Tr. C., Oamp Wolters, Texas, and Private Walter Vater, Company E, 2nd C. W. S. Tr. Bn., Edgewood Arsenal, Maryland. The address of Lester Heller is the same as that of Walter Vater.

Mrs. Edgar Duin. formerly Dororhy Froehlke ('39) spent the week-end of February 14 in New Ulm, visiting her sister Charlotte (Class of '43) and her mother-in-law. Mrs. Alma Duin. Mr. Edgar Duin, a graduate of the High School Department, is now in the Signal Corps, Fort Monmouth, New Jersey.

Mr. Gerhard Rolloff ('37). formerly a "eacher of St. Matthew's Parochial School in Appleton, Wisconsin. has left the teaching profession and is now employed by the Fuhrmann Canning Company in Appleton.

On the morning of January 27, Mr. Henry C. Bode, the father of some of our graduates and the relative of many more, left this world for his Eternal Home in Heaven.

Among his children are two who have lately attended Dr. Martin Luther College and who were also home for the funeral, Roland ('40) and Irma (H. S. '39).

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EXCHANGE Current events seem to be catching up on all these campus-minded students, if we are to judge by other student publications. Picking up the "College Reporter," we find = "the password is 'Give' these days; and time, money, and personal sacrifices are the most welcome gifts." Glancing through other student periodicals, I found Red Cl'OSSdrives and first aid courses being introduced in a large number of colleges, which ought to bestir us to thinking about what we can do. In the January issue of the "Springfielder" appeared an article furnishing food for thought to those of you who may be impressed by the trend of national affairs.

Entitled "Our Part," it includes such thoughts as these to catch your interest: "We can do our share by not giving in to emotional outburst, by keeping a level head, and by not giving voice torumors (for the most part false) that sweep over the land, disrupting the mental peace of our fellow citizens and contributing to a breakdown in public morale.

"We are in this war to win and we can aid that winning not only by doing our part as citizens but also by remembering our obligations as members of a church which stand for loyalty and obedience to those in authority and sending prayers heavenward for a quick and sane victory over those forces which would destroy the free American way of democratic living. Our part is to bend every effort toward making victory sure and through such a victory to restore to our beloved America the blessings of peace."

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Of interest to all you illegible penmen should be the results of the study of handwriting at Concordia Teachers College, River Forest, Illinois.

The "Spectator" reveals an 18 per cent rise in satisfactory handwriting legibility, indicating the success of remedial instruction introduced in December, 1941, to students who scored below 60 rated according to the Ayres Handwriting Scale for the quality of writing.

Since our efforts along t~is line of ability have been investigated, we should appreelate the good results of these fellow strugglers.

* * * * * The Exchange Column would hardly be comnlete without quoting from the "Black and Red." "Bun Session DeLuxe" caught the eyes of scanners, giving us the dope on what we say "when not before an audience." It may have no definite literary value but perhaps a few snatches may be found sandwiched between your lines of conversation.

Here are examples for our reading pleasure: "Rollin, will you please? Now is the time for all good men to come to the aid of their country. Sit down and study. Ach, I don't know. I can do my Greek in half an hour. Lecture tomorrow because of the cheerleaders from Jefferson. Verdult noch einmal. You're not just shooting a line this time.

Hung my head out of the window. I wouldn't doubt it, but -after all, whose sister is she? This room has a good reputation, and don't spoil it. She's a nice girl. That's the trouble. I'm not getting anything done here. Hurry up, we gotta get there, gee whiz!"

* * * * * Does Chaucerian English appeal to you? dia Comet offers this version of it: "A Familie Tale" Cheofre Gaucer Whan Mama Gillis come from Minnesota And swicheth all hir kids with longe rode (And lightly never hit she them, for sure!

For evil it was aye the beste cure) ; Whan Papa Gillis eek with foule breeth In fifteen bars his fill imbibed hath,

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And spended hath the half his paycheck mone, And finely stumbleth home in morning sonne, And all his children maken melodye, A-pestering their hound, well full of fleye, Than clipt he them a-raisin cain lyk thunder; Than longen they to be the beddes under, Or bettre still to peddle Savings Bondes In ferne halwes, couth in son dry londes, Boot thar they war, all nineteen, clint red-hande.

So scrammed they all, and ran to beat the bande.

Boot kids are kids; and whan you have so many, They'll soon make trooble, whar that be not any; And soon ageyn they filled all the house, A-shouting and a-playing "Shoot a moose."

Pa Gillis was disposed iII to noise, So he bethought himself to spanke his boyes.

But whan he reached the number ten and foure, His brow did sweat, and eek his arm was sore.

He vowed right than, of kids he'd have no more (E'en though he once had hoped to have a score).

And never could he hopen to gat rich, A-feeding nineteen brats as base as sich."

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OPEN FORUM Here's a rather clever piece of observation.

What do you think of it, girls? I imagine that henceforth you won't think much of the first formal step of the scientific method.

Dear Readers: I'm laughing yet!

(Observation maketh a keen man.)

Just as I attend, regularly, Sunday services at the local church so also do the girls of a certain Han not situated on the campus. I give you fair warning.

Maintain control of yourself as you watch what they wear on their heads. They solemnly file in in the same order every Sundav. But watch those hats shift one head to right every Sunday. The occasional Sunday morning that each one's hat comes home to its own head seems to be a morning of dissatisfaction.

Why are women never satisfied with their own clothes? I suppose they're copying the community of goods practiced by the early Christian Church. Why do they wear such "fandangles" anyway?

A Reader

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Dear Editor and Readers: Dormitory life at D. M. L. C. has been quite an experience to the majority of us in many respects.

It is inciting to know and live with many young men and women who have the purpose in mind-to serve the Church. It is in itself educative to hear the differences and likenesses of opinion in many discussions.

It creates fellowship and that Christian unity which is one purpose of our institution.

However, there are obtaeles in the path of this constructive progression.

It is very common these days to be confronted with varieties of factions or cliques in societv. Thev seem to be so wide-spread that even our own institution is confronted with them. It seems that a group of friends, for no definite purpose, assume attitudes which have a general tendency to create certain exotic relationships within our student body.

No doubt, these conditions have long existed. Can we take no measures against this?

Is this not detrimental to the purpose of D. M. L. C.? We do not realize the detrimentality of such small factions until they are gaining a majority.

Not only do these conditions exist within the student body, but they also exist within tho resnective classes. In some instances the distinction that prevails. even in the upper high school classes, is deolorable. Again I ask, what is your opinion concerning this distinction within and between classes? Are we not to practice what we preach?

Is Christian unity taught in vain? â&#x20AC;˘ A Reader Dear Reader: Thanks for the letter.

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But why all the generalities?

Guest Ed

Diplomacy dictates silence. but a natural antipathy toward injustice and the desire to appear in a true light in the eyes of the world demand defense.

I am speaking of a letter entitled "Is It Beine Quite Fair?" which appeared in the Open Forum of December 1941. and in which certain unjustified accusations were brought against an octette which sang at several programs.

I am quite certain that the octette needs little defense in the eves of the students, including "A Reader," but in order that other subscribers to the Messenger may get a clear picture of the situation, I ha ving been particularly attacked both aSI a member of the aforementioned octette and as directress of the Aeolian Chorus, should like to show the fallacies in the letter of the misinformed "Reader."

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I quote from the letter: "As far back as even the oldest among us can remember, there have been two vocalorganizations in our midst." It is unfortunate that the memory cannot reach back as far as two years, for at that time and :(01' years before 'there existed an excellent men's quartet which sang on numerous public occasions. Last year a girls' trio was organized which also provided music for various programs. I do not recall that either of these groups was ever accused of "lowering the standard of the Marlut Singers," or of "causing enthusiasm in the Aeolian Chorus to wane." About 1937 or '38 there even existed a mixed group composedof Marlut Singers and members of the then Girls' Glee Club which rehearsed under a student director and sang at the joint musical concert.

Speaking of members 'Of the octette. the letter continues, "-they are the only ones-who have been asked (so it is asserted) to appear for any performance." They didn't even have to be "fairly well publicized,"as "Reader" puts it.

When a literary committee chairman asked me to provide the music for his program, that is, group singing of several Bach chorales, I was forced to reject the idea of Aeolian Chorus doing the singing because of the virtual impossibility of re-arranging for women's voices the Bach arrangements for mixed voices. which were the only ones available. The octette seemed the perfect solution for the problem, and the chairman agreed. Some time later we were asked to sing at another literary program. I assure you we never asked anyone to let us sing on their program. Perhans it was in our place to refuse to sing unless the Marlut Singers and Aeolian were allowed to sing, too, but that rises rather far above the realms of natural courtesy. Incidentallv, there has been only one program since then, and the Aeolian sang for that.

"An octette was organized.-Not having time to narticipate in both groups, some of the old members dropped out to join this foreigner." This refers to the male singers of the octette, and it is definitelynot true. Two of the members of the octette are also members in good standing of the Marlut Singers. The other two had decided,long before the octette was even thought of, not to rejoin the Singers this year for reasons of their own, which none of us, I think, have a right to inquire into.

Of the Aeolian Chorus' we hear, "Ent'iusiasm in the Chorus as a whole has been waning the last years." I do not know how members of the other organizations are chosen; in the case of the Aeoliana day and hour are chosen on which any girl from the twelfth grade up may be tested

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for membership.

Qualifications are, of COUTse, ability, voice quality, love of music, and so forth. This fall enthusiasm had waned to such an extent that there were about three times as many girls trying out as there were vacancies in the Chorus. Usually three-fourths of those trying out become members.

As for the other attack in that paragraph, namely that against the Aeolian Directress, I prefer not to bring a personal angle into the matter.

I am sorry "A Reader" has not the courage to divulge his name, for I should be only too happy to explain in simple detail- just whv the Aeolian Chorus, by unanimous vote, postponed Sunday rehearsals for several weeks this fall. I am certain that this point, dealing as it does with the business of the Aeolian Chorus exclusively, could be of no interest to anyone else.

Final and complete condemnation is heaped upon the octette because they rehearsed without a chaperone, for "it is commonly known that when literary programs are in the making, that the critic is to be present at all possible meetings and rehearsals."

All 'of us know about these "chaperoned" literary meetings, but that is neither here nor there.

I must confess that I have no argument to offer on this point, merely because the idea never entered the minds of any of the octette. Although I eee from his words "their rehearsals or what they will call them" that "A Reader" may not be able to comprehend it, the octetts met for the single purpose of singing.

Organized because its members love to sing, the octette had and has no intention of shouldering any other musical group out of place. Obviously singing in a small group such as this is not to be compared with singing in the choir.

Blending and applying finesse to eight voices is incomparable to doing the same with over a hundred. Liberty to sing a greater amount of numbers and to reject those the group does not wish to sing, much greater facility in learning, practice and experience with the various technical difficulties that are bound to arise-they are all advantages which, instead of diminishing interest in chorus work, increase that interest by that very difference in appeal.

As far as I know, no one else has been forbidden to form an octette, and, a fact obvious to any unprejudiced reader, this particular one is harming no one. I think I can say, without patting the octette on its collective back, that in a musically-minded school such as we have, it is a pity that a spontaneous musical organization should be buried beneath a heap of petty accusations. I hope that, if the octette is

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causing offense to anyone else, he will come and tell us 'Of his objections personally instead of arousing ill feeling through a public letter.

Directress of Aeolian Chorus Perhaps a statement or two annoys you in the preceding articles. Perhaps your profound ponderings culminate in absolute disagreement with the stated views. Perhaps you feel like blowing off about some subject or 'Other. Don't miss your opportunity. Imagine seeing your production of negative or positive (I haven't noticed any of this) criticism in print! This is your column, reader. You write it, we'll print it.

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Before that time of the year when' "the young man's fancy turns" comes that season which is known as winter in any man's tongue. Winter is always characterized by an abundance of musical and literary activities.

The period of winter activities this year was commenced by the January 13 lyceum number. It was presented by Dan Stiles, who showed pictures on Maritime New E-ngland.

He accompaniedthese pictures on the ship-buildingand fishing industries of New England with a lecture.

On the evening of Sunday, January 18, Prof. Emil D. Backer again presented Gertrude Stoekli of the Normal Department in a piano recital. The following was her program: I

Preamble (From the Sixth ViolinSonata) Sonata Appasionata, Op, 57 Allegro assai I .Andante con moto Allegrorna non troppo

J. S. Bach Beethoven '

II Kreileriana (Eight Fantasy Pieces) Sdiiumann 1. Exceedingly ,' ;; . 2. Moderately slow Intermezzo I Intermezzo II Fourth Part (Slow) 3. Very fast , 4.' Very slow, in singing styI'e'tShort number) 5. Vivaciously 6. Slow and with expression (Short number) 7. Very fast ' 8. Fast, playfully, jokingly

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In Intermezzo in D flat Major, Op, 117 No. 2 Berceuse (Cradle Song), Op. 57 Scherzo in B flat Minor, Op. 31..

Brahms Chopin Chopin

IV Rakoczy March Concert Walz Blue Danube Walz (Concert Arabesque)

Liszt Backer Strauss-Schulz-Evler

A fitting close to "exam week" was made when George Nelidoff', a colorful Russian baritone, presented a program of anything from the classics to tuneful negro spirituals on the evening of Friday, January 23. He was assisted by Dorothy Jones, concert pianist, as accompanist and Gena Sterling, soprano.

On February 13 the Polomeme Poters wen+ through the processes of the making of pottery for us. They also had on exhibition replicas which they themselves had made of museum masterpieces.

On February 15 the D.'M. L. C. Bani presented as their annual play, Wake Up, Folks, by G. L. Wind under the direction of Prof. Janke. The cast follows: Jonah Jenkins, not the most energetic citizen of Beaver Valley James Albrecht Milly Jenkins, his energetic wife Justice Sparks Bessie Pinckney Allie Slater

Artcy Goering

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of the Committee. ~ Myron Hilger for the advancement of Corintha Reier Beaver Valley 路 Elenor Sauer

Lucy Jenkins, a pretty young miss Bob Jenkins, Lucy's brother, a smart "young one"

Helen Sweeney Kenneth Sanville

Bill Jones, only the hired man but ambitious

J. Marley Robinson, from New York City

Donald Born Clifford Busse

On March 5 we had the pleasure of hearing more about Holland-r-its customs, activities, and industries.

The concert choir will present its spring concert on Thursday, March 26. At present they are planning a tour of Southern Wisconsin, unless something interferes.

They will s.ng the following numbers:

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Introit Praise to Thee, 0 Jesu Presentation of Christ in the Temple If Thou Wert Near Come,Jesu, Come (For double choir)

E. D. Backer H. Schuetz J. Eccard J. S. Bach J. S. Bach

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Ein weihnachtlich Kinderlied Christ ist erstanden Der Herr ist mein Hirte Troester, Troester heiszest du Es ist ein koestliches Ding

E. D. Backer E. D. Backer G. Schreck M. Gulbins G. Schumann

III For GodSo Lovedthe World Three Christmas Songs a) As Lately We Watched b) Holy Infant c) In Thee Is Gladness Hosanna Lighten Our Darkness Benediction

F. Reuter C. Black M. Hokanson Bach-Whitehead F. M. Christiansen R. Diggle E. D. Backer

At the present writing the literary socetes are planning to present Mark Twain's immortal Huckleberry Finn under the direction of Prof. Naumann.

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We poor co-eds are having a rather hard time getting this new Central War Time system straight with our usual round of duties. Going to breakfast at 5 :45 in the morning, when it's still just as "pitch black" out as it was at 9 the night before is just too much! Before the unforgettable February 9 it would have taken a wild imagination to foresee ourselves forming chain-gangs in order to find our way to the dining hall for breakfast.

Aber-soO geht es!

By the by and by,-has around the "collar" lately?

anyone noticed a little "mold"

You and "Art" Bade should get together, M. R. I think he, too, would have sacrificed supper for his music.

No excuses-don't lay the blame on the bells.

For the first time in three years Bode Hall knows again what it means to have a "fuchsess" among its family. P. Coller has been welcomed and accepted whole-heartedly by all.

"Spoll" and B. Schweppe are getting a little taste of dormitory life. I haven't heard any complaints yet, but I rather think that by Easter they'll understand more than ever the significance 'Of"Home Sweet Home."

Has Gena quit "hint-ing" our imagination?

around lately, Dr is it just

The IT Normal Class lost a co-member with the departure of Grace Brukhardt.

Her absence might help 'Oneprof, at least, in keeping some things straight.

It seems "copper" has been soughtlately.by 'Onecertain individual. Haste is advised for this substance seems to mix well with the grinder of flour at the present, unless I'm mistaken.

Miss Ingebritson has again turned the tables on us.

And speaking of the dining hall, this war situation with all its rationing hasn't seemed to make our food situation any

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worse. (I suppose it couldn't). Lately we've been feeding on "Aunt Jemima's own specialty" at least once a week, and occasionally even golden brown toast is brought to the front.

Ahhhh!

A certain' Annex Hall girl's heartfelt desire was most rapturously fulfilled at the II Normal farewell party, given in honor of their classmate, the now Pvt. Harry McFarland.

His valentine=.fashioned with his own two hands-was enough to satisfy anyone. The party was given by the II Normal co-eds from Hillcrest Hall, Bode Hall, and Loretta Lutz. The farewell token to Harry was a pipe, with which he promised to try to drive away the Japs. The "hit" of the night was probably, "Found a Peanut."

Depositing one's gum on the table and being on the verge of throwing one's glasses into the waste-paper basket instead of doing just the opposite, certainly can mean only one thing, gell? ' R. Smith seems to have a reputation for giving wonderful speeches in English class. She is said to hold the class spellbound! Keep up the good work, Ruth!

"What has she got that gets them," D. S. would like to know. Even the confirmed ones slip over to the opposite side. Could it be that wicked, come-hither look in her eye, or is her secret plain indifference?

We never thought of the Senior Class as living a very social life, but lately they've been carrying the banner in this line. L. Trettien gave a dinner party for them Feb. 22, and a few months ago they also enjoyed a gathering at her home. Everyone agrees as to the total success of these happy affairs.

A weird, screechy, tuneless melody (???) announces the coming of the school-bus while it is still blocks away.

The explanation is that Margie has a new "sing-a-teena."

Feb. 15 saw three D. IVI.L. C. bovs wearing new. hand made, brown-well-a-a-sca,rfs.?

No. Well they looked like it! Anyway, the girls involved admit that, under the circumstances, the wearing of them was indeed a fine and courageous deed.

The expected touring of the D. M. L. C. Concert Choir is on the tip of everyone's tongue these days, and we are all counting the hours until Easter. I want to wish everyone here a blessed and happy Easter, and even with it, add a silent prayer for a successful tour for the choir.

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The semester exams brought on the usual kicking on the part of a number of students! Of course, they all got "gyped!" The uproar, however, has quieted down, and all the boys are at work again.

After a number of attempts at abstaining from cigarettes, James Albrecht has finally decided that it's of no use trying.

Reveille was heard in the dormitory and the surrounding territories on February 11. The silver-toned trumpet of "Willie" Fuhrmann sounded rather tired so early in the morning. Kenneth Born has now taken the job. The boys of the dormitory seem to be getting accustome-'to it bv now.

Heckmann maintains he didn't hear it the other morning.

On Jan. 30, the Second Normalites had a farewell party for Harry McFarland. Harry, who was inducted into the army, is now at Camp Wolters. Texas. The most interesting event of the evening was the game "Crossing the Delaware." Prof. Backer was the winner, but had to sit out on several games following because of overexertion.

January 30 also marked the farewell party given in honor of Walter Vater and Lester Heller. The party was sponsored by the Third Normal girls. Incidentally, the remaining Third Normal boys were invited also. Vater and Heller are stationed in Maryland at present.

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Jimmy Albrecht has another boil. He does get them in the most inconvenient and uncomfortable places!

"The suspense was greater than the punishment," thought some of the high-schoolers after they received ten days' probation for sneaking out.

Elmer Uhlig was asked to diagram sentences in English class. Under the able misguidance of his classmates, he drew pictures showing the thoughts contained in the sentences.

Roland Bode visited the 8econd Normal harmonv class and verified "Ba's" assertion that modulations are really important to the church organist.

The news of the Second Normalites .g'oingto practice . school was received mildly by evervone =xcent the Second Normals. There seems to be a dissension as to the final result, but only time will tell.

The third floor of the old dorm has b=en evacuated.

Paul NoltinÂŤ has hppn nut into the official "buck's" room, and the remaining inhabitants have taken up their residence in other rooms.

Prof. Sauer gave the freshman class an assignment.

Eldon Pochardt raised his hand and asked, "Do we really have to do that?"

The varsitv basketball team was inv'ted to the home of Coach Voecks for a steak sunper on Feb. 21. The steak was prepared by the coach. and the boys say it was perfect!

Well-we will take their word for it.

Prof. Stindt's thermometer registers ten degrees warmer than the true temperature. He maintains it makes him feel ten degrees warmer on a cold morning.

Attention students! If you don't know anything for your classes, you may be able to hire Elmer Uhlig to give a book report. Just give him a start, and he will be sure to talk to the end of the period.

The winter months are not cold enough t.o stop "Dick" Weindorf and "Willie" Fuhrmann from taking- long hikes.

Do they really take interesting pictures, or is it just a fad to carry a camera whenever you go out?

The lure of good food finally united the twelfth grade.

They were invited to Trettien's for supper and also to spend the evening. To our great surprise the class was almost unanimously represented.

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"Gus" Nolting was walking back to college from a journey. to town. The Bode family automobile passed him without stopping to pick him up. "Gus" asked dejectedly, "What's the matter?

Don't I patronize that place enough?"

-That depends what you mean by "patronize," "Gus." Fred. Nieno is running "Hank" competition with his photography.

Nieno is making class pictures for the twelfth grade.

Art Nordby and Albert Nolting have the chicken pox.

Prof. Sauer forecasts an epidemic among the boys. . "King Kong" Berth has been elected as supervisor of the reading room. He has the great honor of cleaning up the rea~ing room every night.

"Dick" Poetter's haven of rest was discovered by several pigeons. With the twelfth grade students still running loose, the unfortunate birds landed in the pot and were served for supper.

Seven boys, including one III Normalite, four II Normalites and two I Norrnalites, revis ered for induction on Feb. 15. We wish no one bad luck. but we hope that none will pass the test when their turn comes.

Harold Burrow says he still has himself in hand, but we wonder where he goes when he gets "per" all by himself and disappears until the late hours of the night. His new job as inspector of the music hall may have its branches down town, but I doubt whether the business really lasts that long at night.

Donald Engel was seen carrying a box of powder in his pocket the day when the choir picture was taken. If his eye is black on the picture, he should consult authorities on the subject, "How to cover up black eyes."

Robert Moldenhauer bought $.15 worth of tape to repair his $.05 music portfolio the other day.

Charles Ulrich collided head-on with a door that suddenly loomed before him. Probably he too will learn that the administration building is no race track.

A new face has appeared in our midst. Mr. Richard Jungkuntz of Jefferson, Wisconsin. has taken up his residence on third floor as a tutor. He is teaching social science during Prof. Schweppe's absence: .

Either L. Berth is reforming or is being reformed. other morning he had his necktie on for breakfast.

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What can have been wrong with "Snipe" Heidorn and Art Nordby a few weeks ago? They walked out of town, stood on the highway for several hours and then returned to the dormitory. Some say that the boys had intended to hitch hike home for' the week-end.

Dwight Mosher went down town one day to get a hair cut. Later on in the day he went down to get another.

Still not satisfied he 'got another in the evening. He spent $1.15 for the whole thing.

V. Gerlach is teaching at Fairfax.

He will finish his two weeks on Feb. 27. Clifford Busse, who will take over then, is already 'Observing him. .

Paul Nolting is still directing the choir at E-ssig. James Albrecht has been directing the Courtland choir during the absence of "Willie" Gerlach.

Imagine! Coaeh Voecks began taking piano lessons the other day! He maintains he's making fine progress.

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BASKETBALL With the echoes of shrieks and the yells of boys and girls, mostly girls, still lingering behind the bricks of the gym, our basketball quintet has just brought about the exodus of another basketball season. We cannot end this season by placing a cup of victory on our trophy shelf, nor can our boys justly pat one another on the backs, for out of 13 games we won only 4. But this does not mean that they cannot be looked upon with pride by the rest of the student body. Our boys did not gain very many victories by exceeding the points of our opponents, but in quite a few games they obtained a moral victory. The quintet met heavy odds and had to contend with other difficulties.for instance, the lack of cooperation. Another thing is: Was our gym ever packed to its capacity by our students? The answer is, "NO." This is due to our students' lack of cooperation in the sport activities of our college. Cooperation is practically the backbone of any endeavor. So from now on let everybody get out there and give our team moral support by cheering them on to victory. The gentlemen that deserve our hearty applause and congratulations are: "Bob" Temple (captain), "Hen" Grams. "Dick" Poetter, "Etrv" Wah, "Bobby" Duin, E.ckhardt Gauger, and "Jerry" Gutzke.

To start the season, Coach Voecks piloted our sevenpassenger Cadillac to Shattuck Military Academy at Faribault. Our boys entered into the dull gray "castle" with victory on their lips, but made their exit with a 24-2'3 defeat staring them in the face. Our boys exhibited good teamwork, but the Shattuck quintet was too tall for us.

Our conference games started with a victory. Bethany of Mankato journeyed to New DIm only to find a 28-11 defeat chalked up on the scoreboard against them at the end of the game. That game was almost too simple. Our next conference opponent on our home floor was our rival from

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St. Paul, Concordia College. At the end of the first half of the game Concordia was trailing us by 19-11. But in the second half they clamped down on our boys and held them to a 31-24 defeat.

That was a bitter pill to swallow.

On December 15, our boys contested Albert Lea at Albert Lea and returned home with the news of a 43-23 defeat.

On December 18, we battled Rochester on their floor and again returned with a defeat of 40-31. Thus ended the pre-Christmas-vacation half of the season with one victory out of five games.

After the holidays Coach Voecks put the boys to the wheel and got them ready for the second half of the season.

This second half started out with an exh.bition game against the New Ulm Brick & Tile. This game proved to our coach that the boys were again ready to play in conference games, for we trounced the Brick & Tile, 40-19. The next game took the quintet to St. Paul where they bowed to Bethel by the score of 60-43. Soon following this game, we met Austin on our home floor. By this time the Luther "5" and the Luther spectators were thirsting for that nectar called "victory."

As a result of this game the quintet obtained for themselves and furnished their sideline-supporters this thirst-appeasing drink by forcing the Austinites to recognize them as the victors, the scope being 49-47.

On February 4, our tall Shattuck opponents visited us and returned to their "fortress" with a 45-27 win over us.

Ten days later we traveled to St. Paul to play Concordia.

After a hard fought game on the part of both teams; both showing good sportsmanship, Concordia again stepped into the limehght with a win over us of 46-38. This did not daunt our players, for they knew tr.at axiom, "If at first you don't succeed, try, try agam."

Tiley did try at Mankato while playing against Bethany and proved this axiom to be orne by the score of 41-31.

Our next opposition was in the Worth.ng son team.

This game, which was played here, showed us that the Worthington boys were fast sure-shots, and good passers, but QUI' boys made them work very hard to obtain their '-10-48 vic wry over us. Our boys uisplayeu excellent teamwork during tu.s game. un February 8, the final game of the season took place in our gymnasium against Bethel.

The height and the fast attack of her men ar.ied Bether in defeating Luther, 56-39. The s.uaent a.tendance at this game was typical of the kind of school spirit we have at D. M. L. C. 'I'nose of you, who were at that game, saw the large student attendance we DIDN'T have. Those that

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regularly do not attend or do not attend at all, probably say, "Well, why should we attend when our team very seldom winsT" If they do say this, how do they expect our boys to win if there ate very few there to cheer them on to victory?

When our boys get out on the floor and see the large and many gaps of empty places, do you think that that shows them that our whole student body has confidencein them?

NO, it does not. It's about time the students of this school throw their individualisminto the incinerator and let it go .up in the smoke.

Season's Record

Dec. 路6-Luther 23; Dec. 9~Luther 28; Dec. 13-Luther 24; Dec. 15-Luther 23; Dec. 18-Luther 31; Jan. 17-Luther 40; Jan. 24-Luther 43; Jan. 2'9_".Luther49; Feb. 4~Luther 27; Feb. 14-Luther 38; Feb. 16-Luther 41; Feb. 19-Luther 34; Feb. 28-Luther 39;

Shattuck 24, there Bethany 11, here Concordia 31, here Albert Lea 43; there Rochester 40, there N. U. Brick & TIle 19, here .

Bethel 60, there Austin 47, here Shattuck 45, here Concordia 46, there Bethany 31, there Worthington 43, here' Bethel 56, here

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As you of course realize, that is" those that attend our games, we also have a "B" team. This team contains some very promising material for our future varsities. Out of seven games they were victors of seven. The following were the members of the Luther "B" team: Devine, Engel, Kiekhaefer, Larson, Mueller, Priesz, Vallesky, Bauer, and Koch, The coach of this second team was Harold Burow.

The class that came out victorious over the other classes in the competitive class games was the eleventh grade. What the outcome of the tournament will be, I do not know; I am no seer. But if the II Normals do not come out 'Ontop, something is definitely wrong. The members of the II Normal team happened to be members of the varsity.

The noises you've been hearing every Monday and Friday between 3 :05 and 5 :00 are not those of a crew of men sanding the gym floor, but a number of our co-eds also like to participate in basketball. Then there's the two cheerleaders, Donald Becker and Robert Moldenhauer, who practically dislocated parts of their bodies trying to put life into the student spectators. Our thanks to them.

Just as old Man Winter is ushered out by the youthSpring, so baseball ushers out basketball. This statemen t is dull and lifeless. Nevertheless, how about you fellows getting out on that diamond with pep and vigor and tryout for baseball? Give Coach Voecks your fullest cooperation and support and this added to the coaching of Voecks, will show our rivals that we have a real baseball team. And the rest of you students, get out there, breathe in the healthy, balmy, fresh, spring air, and make noise for a good purpose.

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HUMOR A patriot is a man who is always willing to lay down your life for his country.

"So he's a touring fiend, eh? country?"

"Yes, he's a roads scholar."

Knows every road in the

"Oh, how dirty those football players are getting!"

"Well, what do you think we have the scrub team for?"

A tobacco warehouse in a Scottish town caught fire a few weeks ago. There was a large crowd of inhalers.

"Do you know why Hitler changes socks three times a day?"

"N 0, why?" .

"Because he smells defeat."

1st Student: Call the cook."

2nd Student:

"You can't expect me to eat this stuff.

"It's no use; she won't eat it either."

If one fool wears it, it's bad taste; if enough fools wear it, it's style.

He: "What do you think of Shelley? My opinion is that he employstoo many metaphors." \ She: "Decidedly! He ought to give American workmen a chance first."

1st Fuchs: "I slick my hair down with lard."

2nd Fuchs: "Why?" 1st Fuchs: "So that I don't have to get my hair cut.

It's shortening."

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Prof. Levorson: "What's the matter with you today?"

Nordby: "Eyes tired." . Prof. Levorson: "What terrible grammar!"

"I paid fivehundred dollars for my dog."

"What kind?"

"Part Bull and part Collie."

"What part is Bull?"

"The part about paying five hundred dollars for him."

A synonym is a word used when you can't spell the wordyou want.

"Are you getting a commissionin the army?"

"No, straight salary."

Pat: Mike: Pat: Mike:

"Wanta go swimming?"

"I don't swim."

"Wanta go bathing?"

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CONTENTS POETS' CORNER CLASS OF 1942 LITERARY Go Ye Into All The World Life And Problems In Kentucky All China To Christ., Light To The Dark Continent; Nature EDITORIAL The Origin Of Species, , Will This Help?

Getting Soft?

Spiritualism .., I Want To Be A Lutheran Teacher

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CLASS OF 1942 CLASS MOTTO Thou shalt guide me with Thy counsel.-Fs.

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CLASS COLORS Blue and White CLASS FLOWER Sweet Pea

CLASS OFF1CERS President Vice President Secretary-Treasurer

PAUL NOLTING F'rontenac, Minn.

Phi Delta Sigma, 2; Football, 2L; Basketball, 2iL; Baseball, 2L; President 'Of Student Body.

Clifford Busse Orville Kempfert Mary Ann Gieseke

HAROLD BUROW Backus, Minn.

Phi Ga.mma Rho, 3; Football, 2L; Baeketba.ll, 2L; Assistant Basketball Coach, 1; Music Hall Inspector; Baseball, 3L, captain,

CLIFF10RD BUSSE Manitowoc, Wis. Phi Gamma Rho, 3; Concert Chorr, 2; Football, 2L; Marlut Singers, 1, djrector ; Band 3, director; Messenger Staff, 3; Athletic Board, 2, president; Olass President.

RUTH DOMMIDR Algoma, Wis. Band, 3.

ADELIA FALK New Dim, Minn.

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ORVI/LLE KEMPFERT Clements,

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GILB,ERT KRAUSE Fond du Laic, Wis. Phi Gamma Rho, 3; Concert Choir, 2; Marlut Singers, 3, president; Football, 3L, ca.ptaln ; Messenger Staff, 3; Baseball 3L.

CHARLOTTE SAUEIR New Ulm, Minn.

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GQ YE INTO ALL THE WORLD

Five "Devils" sway, twist, and leap around a roaring, surging fire to the rhythmic beating tune of the tom-tom. Four gruesome, grotesque head-dresses portray four "big devils" clad each in a mere blanket while a daring "little devil" clad in a scant breechcloth, with an equally hideous head-dress, leaps back and forth through the scorching flames to ward off evil spirits. An aspiring Indian maiden dances gracefully all night in order to obtain recognized womanhood. Ceaselessly, continuously. the chanters monotonously sing to the steady beat of the tom-toms. Reverently, throughout the night, the circle of gazing Indians intently watch their religious ceremony. With the first rays of the rising sun over the high surrounding hills, the actual ceremony begins. After a long night of torturous endurance, the maiden is escorted through a triangle of three tall, slender trees set to face the rising sun, transforming her from maidenhood to womanhood. Are there Indians who still believe in this paganism? This is just one of many ceremonies. What has Christianity accomplished?

To the average person the Indian Mission in Arizona is distant, so distant in fact that there is little or no interest in it. He knows that it is there, that it is supported by the Synod, and that it needs much help to exist.

But that is all he knows, and that is all most people seem to want to know. How much have you done for the sacrificing missionary?

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The Indian Mission in Arizona is old and large. It

was started in 1893long before Arizona was even a state.

Now it covers two complete Indian reservations which are larger than the state of Connecticut. It is still growing, and it has much work to do in the future which can only' be accomplished if you assist this by spreading God's Word.

The first missionary, Pastor Adascheck, came to Peridot in 1893. He came to the San Carlos Indian Reservation. In 1894, Pastor Mayerhoff opened the first mission station on the Fort Apache Indian Reservation, the home of my experience with Indian missions for eighteen years. This reservation consists of about 2,900 Apache Indians.

In January, 1911,Pastor E. Guenther with his young bride arrived in Globe, eighty-five miles south of his destination, as this was as close as the trains came in that time and as they still do now. It,was not until March. however, that he reached East Fork-his destination.

This journey, mainly by twenty-mule wagon trains, took Pastor Guenther two and a half months. Today the journey is not more than a two hour's drive with an automobile.

The mission was started in a humble manner. The mission consisted of a few frame cabins, but some progress has been made.

At first there was no orphanage. For a long time the Mission Board didn't. seem to see the urgent necessity of having one.~As yet there are some who don't know what the orphanage is for nor what it takes to keep it going, and they seem to care less. The orphanage, a very important division of the Indian Mission, was introduced to take care of Indian children who would otherwise die when their parents could not or would not take care of them.

When a child was born crippled, it was immediately killed at birth; or when there were twins born, one was always killed or left out under a tree to die of exposure.

At first such cases had to be watched for, but now after years of untiring work by the missionaries, the Indians bring their babies to the orphanage of their own free will.

At last, in 1921, a homeless baby boy was brought to East Fork, and the orphanage was started. It was not a large building with large rooms and suitable furnishings.

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~Jj~~~~========= nor is it today; it is just the home of one of the mission workers.

Before long there were many babies from two days to three months old, all who would have died in camp.

Now there are over thirty babies who must be cared for.

That first homeless Indian boy, who was the cornerstone of the orphanage, now flies a bomber in the United States Navy Air Corps.

In 192'2 a boarding school was founded. This also had a very humble beginning. This school was supposed to take care of those pupils who were to be future workers of the mission. Because of the lack of equipment in the mission and lack of interest and cooperation among the higher authorities, this has not worked out as well as planned. In this organization at East Fork much is being done, and there is much to do; there is also much being done in other parts of the reservation.

Of 2900 Indians on the reservation, more than 2000 are baptized; over 1500 have been baptized by Pastor Guenther who is pastor at Whiteriver four miles from East Fork.

On the day of dedication of the new church at Whiteriver, one hundred and one Indians were baptized with Chief Alchesay, the tribal chieftain, setting a fine example by receiving the Sacrament first. That was the largest conversion, and that was many years ago, but it was not the last; for on Easter day, 1942, eighteen were baptized.

The number of actual Christians on the large reservation is hard to estimate because many of the Indians live and work beyond direct contact with the missionaries, but all of them have heard the Gospel. Of those baptized the majority would be better Christians if the missionaries had more time and equipment.

There is so much to be done and so few to do it with such little means.

Arthur Alchesay Guenther

LIFE AND PROBLEMS IN KENTUCKY Kentucky is divided into many sections, each different as to population, kind of crops raised, natural resources, and customs of the people. It is the eastern section that I now shall consider.

I was told, while visiting in Kentucky this Easter vacation, about a man who rode horseback five miles 10

across the mountains in order to secure a rattlesnake belt which some witch doctor had recommended as a sure cure for his sick wife. Other forms of superstition and witchcraft are practiced. Many wear chains, human teeth, and fruits of trees such as horse-chestnuts strung about the necks or ankles. Such trinkets are supposed to ward off evil spirits.

Those people who do not work in the mines are occupied in farming. Most farmers ar,e sharecroppers. They live in the landlord's poorly constructed houses, cultivate his land, and use his farm equipment which consists of hoes, plows, and horses. Modern machinery is not seen or heard of in this particular section of the state because the land is too steep to use tractors and the like. When the crop is harvested, the landlord receives a half or two-thirds of what is produced in payment for the use of his house, land, and farm equipment.

The sharecropper is always in debt to the owner because he seldom raises enough products to give his ownâ&#x201A;Źr his share and have enough left for his own use. For this reason the poor farmer is doomed to stay on the one farm the remainder of his life. -Tobacco, sweet potatoes, Irish potatoes, and corn are the chief crops of eastern Kentucky.

Certain days bring much excitement for the mountaineers. Election day is one. In the South there is such a thing as selling one's vote. Many people refuse to vote unless they are paid a certain sum of money. The voters do not necessarily vote for the man who will do the most social good, but they vote for the man who puts up the largest sum of money to gain votes. Nine times out of ten the wrong man is voted into office. .

Education in eastern Kentucky is inferior to that in other sections of the state. There are many, today, who cannot read or write. The schools are few and far apart.

Because of poor roads, transportation to and from school in busses is impossible. Many children, if they attend school at all, must walk on poor roads for a distance of three or four miles. But some who are persistent will get an education in spite of the many disadvantages. In many cases the question of attending school is left entirely up to the children. Parents do not realize the value of an education, so they let the children go their own way. Because some live so far away and many times outside any school district, the law does not investigate such cases to find out who attends school or who does 11

not. It is the state law in Kentucky to have religous training in the public schools. According to this law, any teacher who does not abide therein is subject to be fined, but the law is like very thing else-it is lax. For instance, one teacher I had gave us instructions in dancing during the period which was set aside for devotion. This teacher was soon dismissed not because he failed to have devotion but on account of his moral conduct .. The present teacher has devotion, and dancing is strictly forbidden.

As time goes on, the educational system is being improved. While away on my Ea~t~r vacation, I visited the school I formerly attended and was surprised to find in place of the old, dilapidated, two-room, frame building, a lovely, six-room, brick building. Instead of just reading, writing, and arithmetic being taught, such courses as art, music, woodcraft and home economics had been introduced. The one-legged, easy-going, truant officer had been dismissed, and in his place was an officer who had the welfare of the children at heart. He insisted that all children should attend school, or else they would be sent to a reform school, and there they would be forced to go to school. Parents do not appreciate such improvements.

One father said to me, "If the teachers cannot teach children anything but to saw fancy objects from wood and to wash dishes, I will keep them at home." He further said, "This modern education makes me sick." I saw I could not convince this poor ignorant father, so I remained quiet.

Shortly after I came to the North, one friend in Kentucky, hearing of my homesickness, wrote and tried to ~omfort me by quoting the Apostle Paul when he says in Phil. 4 :11, "For I have learned, in whatsoever state I am, therewith to be content." She ignored the first part of the verse on which the second part hinges; so she thought "state" meant a state in the Union. She wrote thus, "Regardless of what state you are in, whether it be in Wisconsin, Kentucky, or any other state, you should be content, for the Apostle Paul learned to be content." This shows the ignorance of these people. Perhaps some will doubt this statement, but it is absolutely true, and such ignorance exists here in our own United States.

Churches, like schools, are poorly constructed. The religion most prevalent is Pentecostal. People belonging to this church are commonly known as "Holy Rollers", so called because of the manner in which they conduct themselves in services. The ministers are illiterate, but

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they preach just the same. They justify themselves by quoting Ps. 81:10, "Open thy mouth wide, and I will fill it." Here again only part of the verse is quoted, and again the wrong construction is put on the Scripture passage. Almost all Scripture is misinterpreted. From Acts 2 :4, they say speaking in tongues is an evidence of the Holy Spirit. From James 5:14, they obtain the doctrine of divine healing. I could mention many more instances, but I think the ones already mentioned will illustrate my point. This church has no written creed, and as a result, there are many branches of Pentecostals. For instance, one group baptizes in the name of the Lord Jesus. This group now is known as "Jesus Only", while another group baptizes in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, and still another group ignores baptism altogether.

In Prestonsburg, a city a short distance from where my folks live, a religious fanatic murdered his mother and said that in three days he believed she would rise again. In one service I heard that poisonous snakes were brought to the church, and the people were told that if they were bitten, no harm would result, for God would prevent the danger. Many handle live coals of fire and think they will not be burned.

Some branches of Pentecostals practice foot washing. This is done in connection with the celebration of Holy Communion. They observe Holy Communion only once a year, and this usually is on New Year's Eve. I have mentioned but a few of the peculiar practices of the Pentecostal church. There are countless numbers of others, but these already mentioned are the oddest.

There are other churches in eastern Kentucky besides the Pentecostal. The denomination having the largest membership is the Baptist. Next in line is the Methodist and Roman Catholic. Recently the Catholics have gained in membership in this part of the state. Because so many are illiterate, they cannot read the Bible for themselves to know what is true, and they are easily convincedwhen it comes to matters of religion. There is no Lutheran Church near the home of my folks. The nearest one is about two hundred and forty miles away.

Many of the people said they had never heard of a Lutheran church until I told them about it. I believe there is an opportunity for a true Scriptural church to introduce mission work among those poor, illiterate, superstitious people in the Kentucky mountains. Many are not satisfied 13

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they preach just the same. They justify themselves by quoting Ps. 81:10, "Open thy mouth wide, and I fill it." Here again only part of the verse is quoted, and again the wrong construction is put on the Scripture passage. Almost all Scripture is misinterpreted. From Acts 2 :4, they say speaking in tongues is an evidence of the Holy Spirit. From James 5:14, they obtain the doctrine of divine healing. I could mention many more instances, but I think the ones already mentioned will illustrate my point. This church has no written creed, and as a result, there are many branches of Pentecostals. For instance, one group baptizes in the name of the Lord J esus. This group now is known as "Jesus Only", while another group baptizes in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, and still another group ignores baptism altogether.

In Prestonsburg, a city a short distance from where my folks live, a religious fanatic murdered his mother and said that in three days he believed she would rise again. In one service I heard that poisonous snakes were brought to the church, and the people were told that if they were bitten, no harm would result, for God would prevent the danger. Many handle live coals of fire and think they will not be burned.

Some branches of Pentecostals practice foot washing. This is done in connection with the celebration of Holy Communion. They observe Holy Communion only once a year, and this usually is on New Year's Eve. I have mentioned but a few of the peculiar practices of the Pentecostal church. There are countless numbers of others, but these already mentioned are the oddest.

There are other churches in eastern Kentucky besides the Pentecostal. The denomination having the largest membership is the Baptist. Next in line is the Methodist and Roman Catholic. Recently the Catholics have gained in membership in this part of the state. Because so many are illiterate, they cannot read the Bible for themselves to know what is true, and they are easily convincedwhen it comes to matters of religion. There is no Lutheran Church near the home of my folks. The nearest one is about two hundred and forty miles away.

Many of the people said they had never heard of a Lutheran church until I told them about it. I believe there is an opportunity for a true Scriptural church to introduce mission work among those poor, illiterate, superstitious people in the Kentucky mountains. Many are not satisfied

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~Ja~~~~~~ with the present form of religion, They are thirsting for the "Living Water", and would gladly accept the true religion if it was presented to them. The Lutheran Church is the only church that could help these depressed people, and God would bless her In her effort because He blesses all work done in His name, Will the Lutheran Church not answer the call?

Ruth Smith ALL CHIN A TO CHRIST In 1913, together with his wife and four children, Missionary E. L. Arndt arrived in Shanghai on February 25, to begin the work of bringing China to Christ.

He sailed up the mighty Yangtze River to the city of Hankow with its million and more inhabitants. Imagine the coming of a lone missionary to a strange and foreign country in the hot summer. Imagine the trials and the hardships ahead of him and his family in a land of heathenism. Imagine the joy over new converts, new schools, faithful helpers, additional missionaries to help share the burdens, and the fulfillment of God's Word to go into all the world preaching the Gospel to every creature. Imagine too, the disappointments when false Christians, unfaithful helpers, and governmental objections interfered with the fulfillment of God's Word.

This lone missionary opened the field for making China a mission center. Early in 1915 he was joined by Pastor Riedel and his wife. These two missionaries organized five different mission stations, and all of these today are in a flourishing condition. At the 1917 Delegate Synod, the Missouri Synod decided to take over this work as a part of the Foreign Mission of Synod. The Rev. L. Meyer was the first pastor sent out by the Synod, and since that time missionaries have been sent out each year except in 1924.

One of the greatest difficulties confronting a missionary as he enters his work in China is the task of learning the Chinese language. It is known to be one of the most difficult in the world, and it requires years of patient study to use it fluently. In a way it is a simple language, for all words are monosyllabic, and no declensions or conjugations need be learned. It is its simplicity which makes it so difficult. The language has but 400 sounds, representing 120,000 different words. One single 14

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sound is often used to represent from five to twenty different meanings, depending upon its tone or the position of the sentence. One of the first missionaries to China had said that to acquire a proper knowledge of Chinese "is a hard work for men with bodies of brass, lungs of steel, heads of oak, hands of spring-steel, eyes of eagles. and lives of Methuselah." There are very few who master the written language 'So as to be able to write it themselves. Most translators work with the help of qualified Chinese scholars, who put into good Chinese style the thoughts that the foreigner desires.

A strange country in the midst of 400,000,000 people who think, speak, and live differently from the way we do, will naturally present many hinderances to the work of the missionary. Idolatry is rooted deeply into the hearts of the people. The three religions of China are Confucianism, Taoism, and Buddhism, and all three practice idolatry. The burning of "spirit money," coarse yellow paper which signifies a dollar, imitations of "sycee," a sort of silver shoes made of tin-covered paper, or even paper houses, as offerings to their ancestors are examples of idolatrous rites which they observe carefully. Soothsayers and sellers of charms are especially well llatronized.

The fear of ghosts is so universal that it reflects the position of' every house-door. Each will never be exactly opposite the door across the street for fear that the ghosts, which can travel only in straight lines, come over from the neighbor. Now and then a mysterious clang is heard from within a house of tightly closed doors. This is merely a process of "sweeping out the ghosts."

All China is a great gambling den. The sellers of lottery tickets have of late been robbing Hankow of more money than all the robber thieves since the Revolution of 1911. Dishonesty is universal; prostitution is very common; courts of the law are more or less open to bribery; graft is general; suicide is common; and covetousness is almost instinctive.

To convert a people of such corruption is indeed a stupendous task which can only be accomplished through Christ and His Gospel. .

In order to carry out his work of bringing China to Christ under such circumstances, the missionary must first acquaint himself with the language. He uses the radio "to bring Christ's message to many. Some mission-

aries distribute tracts, parts of the Bible, and the 15

church paper, the "Chinese Lutheran Witness." Regular services are held for converted Christians, and a special service, the Waitong service, is held' for the heathen.

House-to-house canvasses cannot be easily undertaken in some sections of China.

Our Chinese Christian day-schools are playing important parts in developing our missions.

About a year ago many of our schools were closed by the government, which passed laws forbidding the teaching of religion in schools. The missionaries continued religious instruction after the closing hour of the public school. After the young Chinese students have completed a six-year course in the elementary schools, they come to "college" at Hankow to prepare for the ministry. Here they are given a semi-classical course in Chinese, English, and German, as well as in mathematics and other branches. Then follows a three-year term at the theological seminary.

{The"Chicago of China" is Hankow, located at the intersection of the Yangtze and the HJan Rivers. The name "Hankow" is formed of two Chinese words, "Han," the name of a river,and "kow," meaning mouth. It is in the very heart of China and is connected with the missionary work done farther inland. The banking for the whole Mission must be taken care of here. All printing must be done in Hankow, and at the present time, the printery is located in the basement rooms of Concordia Seminary. The work is done almost exclusively by students under the guidance of an experienced printer.

Hankow, with its foreign doctors and modern hospitals, is the last resort of the inland workers when home remedies fail. New workers coming to China make their first acquaintance with their work at Hankow. Those with homeward furloughs take leave via Hankow. Household necessities for the missionary, and supplies for the inland homes must be obtained from this city. In short, coming and going, the way of the missionary passes through Hankow.

The missionary work is yet in its initial stages, and the fruit of the laborers thus far may be summarized in the following statistics: nineteen white missionaries, various native workers including two pastors one evangelist, fifteen vicars, seventy-one teachers (m'ale and female), ten. Bible women, three dispensary helpers, twelve vocational workers, and six chapel attendants.

The total of all Christian workers is 120. Twelve organ16

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The San Yuan Li Chapel is a part of the largest mission plant in Hankow. In addition to the chapel, its buildings contain a lower and upper primary school for girls, a lower and upper primary school for boys, the middle school, and the seminary rooms.

The middle school prepares young men for entrance into the seminary, and the girls' boarding school trains teachers and gives preparatory education to Christian girls who wish to become deaconesses, nurses, and doctors.

Of the 440 million Chinese only one person in 165 professes Christianity. We see that there is much room for extensive mission work in this country. We should thank God that He has given us faithful men to carry out His Word, and we should pray for God's continued blessing upon their work so that we may bring all China to Christ. lone E. Huebner LIGHT TO THE HARK CONTINENT For centuries, Africa was hidden in a shroud of darkness; and historians, writers, and others, when mentioning Africa, referred to it as the Dark Continent. Numerous explanations have been offered in an attempt to clarify the meaning of this nickname; yet when looking over these attempts, we find that, in general, the explanations are based upon one specific fact. Africa was a continent that presented extreme difficulties to all attempts of penetration. Explorers, missionaries, and traders found the natural barriers of Africa obstacles that threatened them at all times. The outline of the continent was the first difficulty that presented itself, fc,r it is very regular with practically no deep bays or harbors which could bring large portions of the interior within easy reach of the sea. Moreover, the coastline also gave the picture of utter hostility to the approaches of man. Long sections of the African coastline are bordered by deserts, whereas others are swar-ms, lowlands, and tropical jungles, extremely unhealthful places for white men. Even attempts to penetrate into this unknown country by moving up the large rivers were foiled because most of Africa is a plateau which sends the waters of these rivers hurtling over steep cliffs or

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~~~~~~~~ tumbling down over masses of rock, all of which makes the river useless as a means of travel. Other means of traveling were made extremely difficult by the dense tropical jungles, the diseases and in the north the great Sahara-a huge barrier to ali approaches from the Mediterranean Sea. But the natives themselves cared little for the acquaintance of the white man. Many of them had met or had heard of the white men who would sweep into, burn their villages, and carry many of the inhabitants to the coast to sell them like cattle on the slave markets of the world. The natives were hostile and greatly retarded the efforts' of the white man to open the country.

Yet, despite the conditions that hampered progress, explorers made their way into the heart of Africa, and -with these explorers went the missionaries. We must recognize to the full the virtues and the achievements of the noble missionaries of this pioneer period.

I need but mention Dr. Livingstone to recall to your mind his extensive explorations and his splendid work , of opening the Mrican continent. His work under the direction of the London Missionary Society and later his work with the British government paved the way for others. The early missionaries were undeterred by tropical diseases in days when even the bare facts about their transmission were not known, and tropical hygiene was yet unborn. They were not dismayed by physical hardships or by the very real dangers from savages and hostile negroes, In the unsettled conditions of these early years, they played a vital role. The country was just opening up. Many tribes were still unsubdued, hostile, dangerous.

Arab slavers and equally unscrupulous white traders were eagerly getting what they could from the natives.

There were no central governments, no transportation faster than a string of porters, no hospitals, no safeguards against insidious diseases.

From that early stage up to the present time, despite the organized and settled governments now present in Africa, the missions supply the greater share of the educational institutions and teachers, the medical services, and other arts and means of improvements besides, of course, the spiritual well being of the natives. To realize that Africa is a fertile field for missionary work, a glance at a few statistics will help. Taking the various Protestant Missionary Societies together, we find that

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over seven thousand ordained ministers are in the field and claims of over eight million converts, three and onehalf million communicants are made. The Roman Catholic Missions put much emphasis on their efforts and boast that over eight thousand priests are in the missionfield, and about seven and one-half million natives have been converted. These figures definitely show us that the efforts of our missionaries are not in vain and should encourage us to greater efforts in our church's missionary work.

As I mentioned before, the missionary stations served not only the spiritual welfare of the natives but sometimes the medical and educational as well. The medical missions are known for their first-class accomplishments and indispensable work. A specific example of this is a hospital at Kampala in British East Africa which is run by Dr. Cook. This man and his wife not only served as zealous missionaries but also served with their medical skill. Mrs. Cook trained numerous native girls to act as midwives and nurses. This is but one of the many similar activities carried on among the missionary stations.

Then there is the immense service of the missions to native education. From the early stages of missionary work, schools were started, and now a regular network of schools has spread over the country. In recent years government schools have been springing up, and a Government Education Department set up. With this department the various missionary bodies have been asked to cooperate, and in general great willingness is shown, for the government realizes the value of the missionary schools and asks only the right of inspection and the teaching of certain subjects that are thought to be beneficial to the natives. The missionary schools, of course, concentrate as much as possible on religious training, but secular subjects are also taught. Reading, writing, arithmetic, music (especially songs), science and other subjects are in the curriculum.

The missions exist, firmly rooted, in Africa; they are a part of its system. Not even the most bitter opponent would suggest abolishing them, for their work is necessary for the development of Africa. And as a whole the missionary spirit is a vital thing, productive of much self-sacrificing activity, of much potential good to the world.

Gilbert Krause

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NATURE Here I sit like a king enthroned on the pinnacle of Camel's Back, one-half mile due west of the college. I have left my studies to enter a new college-the nature college of beauty. Far to my right I hear the purr of a motorboat gradually finding its way along the lanes of the Cottonwood River. Intermingled with this I hear the call of the pheasant in the marshes below. With a mellow steadiness the hum of the boat slowly dies away.

Far over the hills of a velvety green, rises to a great height the deep blue of an oncoming shower. It seems as though all the plants of nature wait quietly and expectantly. Children can be seen on the landscape picking wild flowers-blood roots, violets, plum and honeysuckle blossoms, and others. The breeze of the shower grows cooler, degree by degree. Here and there a cock pheasant flies out from his cover as one child wanders on his territory. Through the storm-festered clouds a ray of sunshine now and then peeps forth. Overshrouded with leafy trees I see two valleys which seem to let in the beauty from the southerly and south-easterly directions.

At a point where they meet is a vast park of beauty with a bathing beach and bath house. Now, over the entwining narrow roads I see cars, appearing very small, going to and from the picnic grounds. A canoe has just worked its way around the bend from behind an island.

Slowly, yet stately, it moves on. As I sit so, entranced with beauty, it seems as though the birds sing just to me as the court choir would sing to a king.

Below, to the left, a falcon 'Swoops to wrench some hungry baby bird as his mother is away from her nest seeking food. Ah! She returns; she scolds and fights until victoriously she nestles o'er her brood. Near me on an overbranching limb sits a meadowlark. A fat little rascal is he. The bending bough beneath him thrusts forth its foliage in a deep green hue. Suddenly, as though a spotlight has been turned on, the sun beams forth to light the entire enrapturing view. At my feet a bumble bee finds the sugar well of a tuft of flowers. Far distant at the boat house a maiden clad in red steps forth to enter a canoe. Of course, to my good pleasure the picture is suddenly complete for a lad now mans' the paddle. Several dips and they disappear behind the trees of the island. On a hill to the left it looks as if an enemy of nature tried to enter this vale of wonder. Black and charred, the vegetation lies desolate in form. 'Twas

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minor, but yet a hard fought fire some time ago. Nearly .five or six acres were destroyed; nature shall replace it.

It reminds one of the charred and war-torn world of today.

I, the king, have grown tired of my seat on the throne and now descend to gain a closer view of the spokes of nature's wheel. Ah! A beautiful black butterfly leads me to the pinnacle of another throne-'tis Dog's Back. It must be the queen's throne for it is situated to the lower right of my throne, Camel's Back. But where is my queen? The throne is vacant. Pray, 'tis for you, my lady luck. Soon as thou art able, thou canst seek thy inheritance. It awaits you.

Sadly I descend thy throne. Upon my descent I suddenly turn to look back. The whole scene appears as one large amphitheater. At the north end are the two thrones of the king and queen. On either side are the farreaching bleachers of the rabble. The stage doors of nature enter from the right and left. Now for the show!

First a large choir of birds sings a continuous and harmonious number. This is the background for the action.

Entering the scene is the villain-a hawk. The cock pheasants, like thousands of gladiators, call forth the challenge. A coward is he. He rises into the blue sky and disappears.

Having left the amphitheater some time ago, I now approach and cross the highway. I see the bank of a brooklet beaming with the bluish hue of violets. Here and there violets of bright yellow intermingle with those of blue. Oh! Now to rest a bit! I find the shady side of the brooklet a nook blanketed with velvety grass. An old stump for a pillow, the light of day grew dim. The world with all its nature, cares, and woes drift away. About three minutes later the magic touch of Mr. Fly brings me to life again. I can't protest; for on my tramp about the beautiful hills and vales, many a calm little bunny did I molest in his afternoon nap.

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119. ,ffl. 1ÂŁ. ((. ,fflÂŁssenger The "D. M. L. C. Messenger" is published quarterly during the school year by the students of Dr. Martin Luther College. 'The subscrtmtion pr-ice Is seventy-five cents' per annum. 8ingle copies twenty cents. S'uwmps not w(l_gepted.We requesn payment in advance. "The Messenger" is continued after time of 'su,bslc.ription has expired, unless we are notified to discontinue and all arrears are paid. All business communlcations should be addressed. to Business Manager; all literary contributions to the Editor-in-chief.

Advertrstng rates will be furnished on r~quest. Cont.rl.butdons to our Literary Department are requested from a ll alumni, undergraduates and friends.

The aim of "The Messenger" is to offer such material as will be beneficia'] as well as Interestang to our readers, to keep the alumni in a closer contact with the col.lege, to foster school spirit, and to give the 'students an opportunity in the practice of composition and the expression of their thoughts.

Entered as second class matter at Post Office of New Ulm, Minn.

No. IV

Volume XXXII June 1942 THE

MESSENGER

Editor Business Manager; Assistant Business Manager Assistant Business Manager Typist., Alumni Notes Eocchange , College Notes Co-ed Notes Locals Athletics Humor 22

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Richard Poetter DonaId Becker Kenneth Born Marvin Becker Lillian Quandt Margaret Lau Ione Huebner Rhoda Schroeder Helen Sweeney Ivan Raddatz Richard Grunze Glen Greve

EDITORIAL THE ORIGIN OF SPECIES Mere contemplation of treating such comprehensive material as the above topic would cause many a conscientious objector to quake. Research work in voluminous quantity must precede any attempt at expression in this field of thought. Darwin spent a lifetime of observation, experimentation, calculation, "ponderation," etc., before advancing his universally. scientifically accepted theory of the evolution of man. In drawing his theoretical conclusions, he deduced that all species have a slow yet distinct tendency toward progression.

Otherwise, where would a man's appendix have popped from, having not had such a troublesome asset several generations ago?

Having spent but a quarter of a life time in serious study, I find that I must limit myself to one field of evolution-the evolution of women's hats. Thorough observation and investigation has led me to produce the statement that all feminine headgear may be segregated into eight distinctly varying types, upon which I shall further elaborate. As you notice, this profound exposition covers numerous ladylike craniums. I hesitate to publish this article for fear of unladylike destructive criticism and probably also destructive rolling pins. But I must take courage as did Darwin.

As you undoubtedly know, designers of women's hats are paid for their ideas, and I don't see how any of them make a living. One fresh spring morning a young designer was making delicious sour-milk pancakes for her "hubby." (Those are my favorite pancakes too.)

While giving them the old one-two flip-flop, one just happened to plaster her neatly on the head. (That's a modern housewife for you). Gasping from the heated surprise she looked into the mirror over the stove. Like a flash in the dark an idea struck that poor twisted mindthere's an idea for a hat. So, ladies, that's how it happens that many of you promenade under pancakes bedecked with what-not.

Nature, unfortunately, has been the source of many ideas, never more distorted than in this field of so-called art. Two types of hats have proceeded therefrom. Have you never gone walking through the woods and admired

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the pretty flowers? They certainly adorn nature, but who ever was inspired to think they would adorn woman?

Walk any "Main Street" today, and you'll see flowers bobbing all around some inverted, some wilted, some half crushed some budding, and most of them looking as if they need a pail of water. Then some brilliant chap had a brainstorm and decided to put the flowers in a flowerpot and sell them to the ladies. He might just as well have thrown in a little mud to keep the flowers growing. Boys, you don't have to bring the best girl flowers anymore; just bring her a flowerpot hat.

Did you ever go fishing with a net on a windy day?

The wind really knotted up your hair. Didn't it? One practical fisherwoman took a piece of old netting and drew it over her hair. Soon the custom spread. I must say that this type of hat is at least not an obstruction to the eyesight in an auditorium. The net-hats have become so popular that I believe most girls even wear them to bed at night.

Xes, I must say, that women have even stooped- to plagiarism, if I could call men's hats literary work. The . remaining three types of womanly upper-story apparel are nothing but poorly imitated duplicates of men's hats.

Especially interesting is the cowboy type with its many variations. One variation makes me think of the cowboy who dropped his hat, and a cow stepped on it. Another looks as though the cowboy had used the hat for target practice. Perhaps you've also noticed a sailor hat blocking your view at one time or another. That originated with the girl who simply couldn't see the sailor boy leave her; so she kept the hat for remembrance and wore it to the movies to annoy other people. Then again you believe you recognize a gentleman ahead and awake with a surprise to have a girlish face peer out at you from beneath a mannish hat. It's one way of getting acquainted, boys.

I have discussed seven of the eight types of women's hats and must confess with deep humiliation that further research is necessary to discover and expound type No.8, of which I am positive there must be some explanation.

Therefore my theory is as yet not complete, but even Darwin had his missing link. I agree with Darwin, in respect to ladies' hats, that all species have a tendency toward progression. So gentlemen everywhere, you know what to expect. Please, ladies, count ten after reading this article, Richard Poetter

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WILL THIS HELP? A band is one of the finest types of musical organizations known to the world. A good band is always able to hold its head high with justifiable pride, even when we speak of such organizations as symphony orchestras and first-class choirs. Just as a symphony orchestra has its type of music, and a sacred choir has its type of music, so too a band has its own music.

What is more stirring, more uplifting than a band marching down the street and playing the strains of a good march? What can compare with a band playing one of the many beautiful overtures which are to be found in every band library? The armed forces of our nation realize the value of band music, for else how could one account for the existence of such outstanding organizations as the Army Band, the Navy Band, and the Marine Band, to say nothing of the hundreds of bands which are found throughout the nation's army camps? In fact, band music is so fine and universally popular that one can hardly find a high school or college of any consequential size which does not have its own band.

Why then must we struggle along with a third-rate band? Why is our band, instead of increasing both in size and in quality from year to year, why, I ask, is our band slowly but surely passing out of existence? Surely it cannot be because our students don't like band music; our students are not that abnormal! Nor can we say that not enough students tryout for band. We have at least forty students participating in our two bands. These forty students are, generally speaking, interested in band work; they are willing to learn, willing to practice, and willing to rehearse together as often as rehearsals are held. That spirit is manifested every September, year after year. Wherein then lies the fault? Why is the band annually a dead organization by the middle of the school year?

There are several factors which contribute to this deplorable state of affairs, but I sincerely believe that first and foremost among them is the lack of cooperation on the part of the faculty. The members of the faculty are interested in band music; they want D. M. L. C. to have a band; they would be just as proud of a fme band as you and I would. They have told us that themselves. We do not ask the faculty for money, even though we are in sore need of instruments. We do not ask it to advertise our band, because we know that a good band

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~}j~~~~======: is its own advertisement. We do not ask it to support us better, for all the members corne to our concerts. The faculty treats us just as it treats any student organization.

But therein lies the point. The band is a student organization. It functions entirely without outside guidance and assistance. Think of what the results would be if the work of our concert choir "were carried on in the same manner. Let forty or fifty students get together and choose a director from their midst. Do you' think for an instant that our choir would ever make a tour such as the one which they made this spring? Now transfer this same situation to the band. Twenty-five or thirty students voluntarily assemble and form a band. They select one of their number as director, and everyone now expects them to produce good music. In my opinion it is well nigh a miracle that the student director gets the results he does. The choir member has been trained in sight singing for three or four years, and then he comes under the direction of an 'expert musician. The band member has perhaps acquired all the knowledge of his instrument by himself; he has had not three or four years of training; and then he is put under the direction of a rank amateur.

'To emphasize the point still more, let us consider the relative tasks of the choir director and the band director. The choir director has four voices, which, generally speaking, sing not more than eight parts. The, band has at least eight "voices" or instruments which play at least twelve parts. The task of directing this latter group is the task of the amateur musician. By the time the band director begins to get the "knack" (not proficiency) of directing a band, he- graduates.

Surely there must be some member of the faculty who enjoys and loves good band music. Surely there must be some member there who has at least as much musical ability as any of us. Surely there must be some member on the faculty who would .be willing to devote three hours a week to save a dying organization.

The Executive Board of the D. M. L. C. Band V. Gerlach, president GETTING

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Are all girls interested in sports? No, it's the same with girls as with boys; only some participate in them.

A few years ago it was quite common thing for most

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of the girls to receive a letter "L" for earning 2500 points by taking: part in some activity or another. However, this situation was changed two years ago when the system of earning points was revised. Most of those letters were earned by hiking. Ten points an hour were allowed for this activity then, but in the new system you don't receive any points for hiking. Now you must earn 2100 points through participation in some other activities for which credit is given. A letter really has more value now.

Since the revision of this system, there have only been one or two letters earned. The best manner in which to' earn these points is to begin as soon as possible when school resumes in the fall. It's true the tennis and horseshoe courts have not been -ready for play in the past, but since our tennis courts have been resurfaced, we hope it will be different in the future. For some it is too late to earn a letter, but for those of you who return next fall, try to start as soon as possible. Maybe then we shall have more girls wearing the letter "L". This especially applies to the high school students. Try to earn your letters while you are still in your high school years because in the Normal Department you don't have nearly as much free time. It's true you have more outside work in the Normal Department, but even though you don't have the time to earn a letter, you could come and join us. You need the exercise for some time anyway just as much as you need relief from your studies. Perhaps the time isn't convenient for some, but if you can't come for all of them, at least join us in one. Others may never have played some of the games, but there is always some one there who will be willing to teach you. The best way to' learn is through practice.

When the time comes for either kittenball, volleyball or basketball, there are always some who sign for the various games and then never participate. Now that isn't the way to be. If you want to play, actually come, but don't always just make a promise and then never fulfill it. This isn't fair to the rest of the team because you were chosen to help them win. If you don't come, some one must substitute for you. That means that it really isn't your team, and unless there are too few players, substituting is not permitted. Why then handicap your team by not cooperating? One thing you can learn by playing in these games with others is cooperation. Why not try it?

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by profiting from the mistakes of others as well as from your own. You may go to class games or to the varsity games and observe the mistakes that are called on the players by officials, but why not learn to play the games as well as watch them?

Gwendolyn Birkholz SPIRITU ALISM

The term spiritualism usually refers to the modern form of the belief in the survival and communication of the spirits of the departed. The history of this religion is an interesting one. It was started in 1848 by two Fox ~ sisters who lived in Hydeville, New York. These girls decided that they wanted a new kind of entertainment.

Their plans were simple. One girl was situated upstairs while the other one remained below. A system of raps and a mysterious moving of objects was decided upon.

One rap would mean "no" and three "yes". In this way the knocker revealed himself in answer to questions as the spirit of a murdered peddler. Whether these girls planned this merely as a form of recreation or as a religious expression is not known. But this was only a beginning. Mediums appeared everywhere, and in a short period of time there were thousands of spiritualists.

Spiritualism spread to England and Europe, and many people received consolation by communing with the dead.

At their meetings mysterious things happened.

Tables, chairs and other objects seemed to float through the air, apparently without physical contact. People would ask questions; and the answers would appear on a slate. Dead people were called upon and in a short time would stand before them.

Investigations were made from time to time but no.. thing was proved. Many people decided that it was fraud.

In 1888 the Seybert Commission sent out committees from the Society for Psychical Research. These committees made a thorough investigation and proved that some of it was fraud. They said telepathy could possibly be the explanation.

This investigation did not put an end to this religious sect. It was prominent for quite a few years. It died down to some extent but is still in practice.

Many years ago a group of spiritualists bought the hill on the east side of the village of Wonewoc. It is located about seventy miles southeast of LaCrosse. On this hill, among the pine trees, they have built up a village of 28

their own. They have built around twenty-five cottages,' a large dining hall, and a church. Besides this many people set up tents for the summer. Their season opens on July 4th and closes on Labor Day. If you walk through the campus during this time, you can see cars with license plates from many states. Some of them come for the entire season, but many of them spend only a week or so at the camp.

The minister who is at the head of this camp is a woman. They have services every afternoon; these services are open to the public. On certain afternoons they have readings which are given by the mediums. These mediums not only read palms and tea leaves, but they are the ones who call upon the dead. They also have campfire meetings in which they sit around the fire and sing hymns, such as "Abide With Me." Not much is known of their doings and beliefs as they keep this to themselves. They do not try to influence or force their religion on anyone.

As Christians we can have nothing to do with their religion. They may have the power to converse with the dead, but if this is so, it is with the help of the devil.

Yes, such false prophets do exist at the present day.

Every true Christian abhors and avoids such heretical deviation from the Scriptures. "Watch and pray, that ye enter not into temptation." (Matt. 26 :41) Margaret Gurgel I WANT TO BE A LUTHERAN

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Quite some time ago one of the classes in the Normal Department had to write a paragraph on the above topic. They were taught that in making such a statement each individual implied that he recognized his aim, had a knowledge of the ways and means of achieving that aim, and possessed the personal confidence that he could carry it out.

We take for granted that most of us in the Normal Department do want to be Lutheran teachers. But do we all really know how we are going to achieve this aim?

Are we using the course offered us in this school to every advantage in order to help us in our efforts? I think that most of us realize that we are not attending this school just for "the fun of college life," for lack of a better means of spending our parents' money, or for the mere sake of a "college education." No-we want to be Lutheran teachers!

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In order to make progress in our school work and obtain some background and proficiency, we have to study and spend time (more time than we sometimes care for) on our books and school material. "How much time is to be spent on such work out side of class?" is the question that sometimes seems to bother so many students. In my opinion, each one of us is, by this time, aware of his own mental ability and of the amount of time and effort necessary before he can achieve the best of which he is capable. If I know that I have the ability to do what is designated as "average" work in the class, will I be satisfied with work that I know, and the teachers say, is only "fair" or "passing?" No, I will want to work until I am again doing my best-in this case the "average" work. It is generally acknowledged that some students have to work harder than others for what they achieve. But since this is up to each individual, why can't we feel free to study as much as we want to? Why are those who study a trifle more than others looked down upon as "grinds" or "bookworms" and condemned as only "studying for the mark" or "cramming for an 'A' T" The minute the fatal word "test" is mentioned by a profes- . sor, the person who looks inside of that particular book on which the test is, is accused of "cramming." In many cases these accusations are unfair Or are perhaps made by individuals who are afraid to do a little studying themselves but want others to neglect work that they consider essential in order to keep the class standard low. Certainly we condemn cramming in the true sense of the word, but, on the other hand, each individual should have the liberty to study and review as much as he personally cares to.

We have, then, the same aim and, while we are here at school, the same opportunity of achieving that aim by applying ourselves diligently to the work before us.

But we differ and have a right to differ in the methods we use and the time we spend in applying ourselves to that work. So let us each say for ourselves, "I want to be a Lutheran school teacher."

Emma Tiefel

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ALUMNI It would be too difficult to mention here all the names of those of the Alumni who helped to make the choir tour the memorable and enjoyable event it was.

We hereby acknowledge your generosity and are grateful for all your endeavors.

A son, Thomas William, was born to Mr. and Mrs. William Arras. The father is a graduate of '34, and the mother, Florence Raddatz, of '37. At present they reside in Bay City, Michigan.

W,e are happy to announce the marriage of Muriel Anderson of White Rock, Minnesota, to Mr. Clemens Weindorf of Goodhue, Minnesota. We wish them Godspeed in their journey through life. , Life comes in many strange mixtures of joy and sadness. To us comes the sad announcement of Ruben Bode's death. April 18, 1942. Ruben was a graduate of the Normal Department of Dr. Martin Luther College in 1939. Funeral services were held April 22, at Trinity Lutheran Church, with Rev. F. Koehler officiating. Other speakers were Prof. Carl Schweppe, the Rev. G. Hoe. necke of Cudahy, and Mr. Sitz, who spoke on behalf of the whole body of teachers. May God comfort those who are grieved at his death and grant us all a happy reunion in heaven.

Jon David made his entrance into the world on Sunday, April 19. He IS the son of Mr. and Mrs. Armin Albrecht, 142'4 S. Outagamie St., Appleton, Wisconsin. Mr. Albrecht is a Normal Department graduate of 1930.

On April 6, Gretchen Mahnke of Milwaukee and the Rev. Arnold Tiefel, who graduated from the High School Department of Dr. Martin Luther College in 1934, were married. We wish them God's blessing and all happiness in the future.

Rev. and Mrs. Karl Gurgel of La Crosse were blessed with a son, Karl Robert, February 24. The father was a graduate of the High School Department in 1933.

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A daughter Judith Pauline, was born March 31 in Greeley, Colorado, to the Rev. and Mrs. Victor Tiefel.

Victor Tiefel graduated from the High School Department of Dr. Martin Luther College in 1930.

Hilda Ulrich (H. S. '35) and Wallace Kurth (H. S. '34) were united in marriage January 4, 1942. Mr. Kurth is Technical Sergeant of the Seventh Armored Supply Division at Camp Polk, Louisiana, and the two live at De Ridder, which is near the camp. May theirs be a happy and God-blessed marriage.

EXCHANGE Pen scratching and brain teasing may be looked back upon as I dip my pen for the last scoops of the school year. Leading you snifflers to the heart of current college publications, lend your eye toward the issue of the "Maroon and White" dated March 6.

"For Def'ense-e-Japanese and German"-the article speaks for itself and should encourage you along scholastic lines for next September.

"Why study an enemy language?" Why study German? These questions we might well ask at a time when men, swept off their feet by distorted notions of patriotism, would seek to discard a weapon very necessary to' the defeat of the enemy, namely his language. Abolition of the enemy language will not help us win the war. To the contrary, there is a desperate need for instruction in the enemy tongue.

Because of the desperate need of Japanese. for defense, eight universities in our country now offer courses in this tongue. The shortage of men able to speak, read, and write German is, of course, not nearly as great as is in Japanese. Our enemies do not fail to teach English to their youth as a means of defense."

* * * * * Your interest is next brought to rest in the March 23 issue of the "Alma Mater.", Opinions and ideas con-

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cerning "The Lyceum" are presented by students of Concordia Seminary, St. Louis, Missouri.

One commentator states: "Most of us agree that everyone of the Lyceum programs this year was very much worth-while. But it is quite another matter when it is discussed whether or not the Lyceum programs are 'going over' as they should as far as finances, attendance, student cooperation and general enthusiasm is concerned."

As a remedy he suggests a "more varied series of programs." Another slant to the subject is presented by thoughts such as these: "If somebody doesn't gather somebody's wits-then our Lyceum will be left with an empty auditorium." His suggestion to save the Lyceum from such a "fate" is by "putting it into motion." To do this he advises a Lyceum course "offering nothing but the best" and guarantees good attendance.

* * * * * An editorial titled "New Teacher Needs Basic Philosophy" features material welcome to our graduates especially. Introduced by the "gpectator" of May 7, questions such as these appear: "What am I going to do when I get my first class.? How am I going to teach the children this or that? What if I have a 'problem child'?"

Digest these questions by reading the remainder of the editorial. "The Lutheran school teacher is especially fortunate by reason of the fact that he has such a source as the Bible on which to base his philosophy of education.

He realizes that the ultimate purpose of all life is eternal salvation, and that all procedures, also in education, must realize this great purpose.

"On the basis of this basic purpose, or philosophy of education, he will then evaluate educational ideas on the nature of the child, of learning, of the curriculum, and of method. He will not be led astray by the radical tendencies of some modern. writers in the field of education, neither will he fall into a, slow process of dry rotting, which ignores all that is new in the field. His will be a balanced view on the basis of his fundamental philosophy. With such a view, accompanied by consecrated and faithful service and the help and guidance of the Holy Spirit, the new teacher will succeed in filling a definite place in the Kingdom of God and in the field of American education. He cannot but succeed, even though at times

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he may be discouraged by the seeming insignificance of his work and its results."

* * * * * Drifting farther into the mold of quotations, guide your vein of thought to a subject of "arguing." In the "Springf'ielder," March, 1942, appears "That's What You -I'hink," presenting the details of minute arguments.

"An 'argument' must not be confused with a 'debate'. There is a great difference. A 'debate' requires the presence- of facts, proof, and logic. Frequently these ingredients are scanty or microscopic; more often they are added after the 'debate' has been lost; but they are present, nevertheless; otherwise the 'debate' will have been an 'argument'. Nothing is as versatile as an argument; it is adaptable to every situation. Arguments come in every color, size, shape, and style.

"Many books have been written on the subject of winning legitimate debates, but on winning arguments there are few. One tells us not to do all the talking and to do it in subdued tones; another tells us not to interrupt the opponent's talk with counter arguments; still another advises us not to assume an argumentative; some one else teaches us to 'bring out the key issue and stick to it,'-all of which are very fine. But one authority, who declares that there is but one and only one way to win an argument, gives us the safest way, and also the surest way. Dale Carnegie says that the only way to win an argument is to avoid one."

* * * * * "An economist, according to one of those lucid government definitions, is a man who knows a great deal about a very little, and who goes on knowing more and more about less and less, until finally he knows practically everything about nothing; "hereas, a professor is a man who knows very little about a great deal and keeps on knowing less and less about more and more until finally he knows practically nothing about every thing."

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OPEN FORUM Co. A 52nd Inf. Tng. Bn. Camp Wolters, Texas Dear folks up on the hill, As the graduating class of 1942 passes around to get their diplomas, there will be two of your number who will not be with you. I am however sure that they will be there in spirit, just as every evening after duty hours their thoughts drift across the miles and flit to and fro for awhile around the campus and take a peep in at you as you are sitting in your rooms, studying.

Those boys had set their hands to the plow just as you folks have, with no intention of turning back. But the Lord in His infinite wisdom saw it more proper to turn them from the manner in which they had planned to serve Him and placed them in a new life for service in a different manner-a much harder place to serve the Lord, even if it is to do no more than lead an exemplary Christian life in a world of men, many of whom have forgotten Christ, if they ever knew Him. But I am sure those boys would not be satisfied with just setting an example. They will try their best to spread the "Good Tidings" that hold such an important place in their hearts and minds. I am very sure of that because I have seen them already starting that good work during the few days spent with them after we had donned our olive drab uniforms.

Their work too will be a much harder task. It is much easier to take fresh young minds and mould from them good Christian characters that can withstand the wiles of Satan's charms. The transformation of the hearts and minds of our buddies, that were not blessed with a Christian background, is quite another story.

Their hearts are not very open to the story of Christ, and their minds do not care to give any time to Him. Church is a thing to make funny cracks about, and they don't want to be the butt of any smart remarks. All in all, it takes a little more than average courage to approach a buddy in the army to tell him of his Savior.

However, as good Christian young men, they will cheerfully shoulder their tasks and carryon their work just the same.

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Besides this most difficult and important work of God. there are many other pleasant tasks that a soldier meets up with in his line of duty. He learns, to care for himself and his living quarters in an orderly manner, .just as his whole life takes on an orderly manner. He is taught military courtesy which is nothing more than the best of courtesy in civilian life applied to military life.

Instead of tipping our hats and saying "hello," we greet our officers with a snappy salute, and he thinks to himself, "There is a soldier," and returns him a snappy salute.

It may interest you to know the origin of the salute which plays such an important place in the life of a soldier. It was originated by the knight in armor who held up his hand as a sign of peace and then proved his peaceful intentions by raising his visor, thus opening to attack, the most vulnerable part of his body. Saluting seems to be a thing about which we are all hesitant at first, but whenever a soldier gets to a place where he likes to salute and is proud to be,able to do so, he knows he is now a good soldier. During World War I, General Pershing asked only two things of the men they sent him. He said, "Send me men who can shoot and salute."

I have fallen down miserably in the former, but I can salute as well and am as proud of my salute as any soldier.

And who wouldn't be proud to be a soldier in this army. The United States of America, in my opinion, has the best army in the world with the most to fight for.

We have the best educated army because our country furnishes the best opportunity for the common man to get an education. We have better morale than any army because in civilian life we all had a personal share in running the government. This gives us a more personal interest in defending that government that we are a part of. Every man from the general down to the basic private has respect tor 0, man's religious convictions, so that you can go to whichever chapel you wish or stay home and sleep on Sunday morning and be unmolested.

That above all is worth fighting for. This same ideal condition in civilian life makes the best setting for the spreading of the Gospel, a freedom which no other nation enjoys to the extent that we do.

But fighting to preserve a nation. where we have that most valuable privilege, is not alone sufficient. You who have in your hands the future destiny of the Luth38

eran Church have a much more important duty in making and preserving America as a Christian nation. If you prove faithful in your tasks, the Lord may see fit to preserve America, so that the teachers of the "Glad Tidings" of the grace of God through Christ Jesus may be able to give the world a much greater freedom than the freedom from oppression and tyranny of dictators.

We may stand or fall in our line of duty, but you dare not fail in yours or else ours is sure to result in failure.

As we left the little family on the hilltop, Professor Schweppe gave us those wonderful words from the fortysixth Psalm, "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge," to take with us as the message from Dr. Martin Luther College to us. They have been such a comfort to me, and I have found that He has been with me even more here, because I have been more faithful in turning to Him in prayer. It has taken the army to bring those words home to me in the full beauty of their meaning. I am sure that if you will take them with you in your tasks, whether you are leaving D. M. L. C. now or continuing there for a while yet, they will lighten the burden of every task. So let it be the motto of all of us in our common task, "The Lord of hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge."

Pvt. Harry McFarland Co. A. 52nd Inf. Tng. Bn. Camp Wolters, Texas.

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Now everyone take a piece of paper and a pencil.

All ready? Let's go.

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D. M. L. C. June 8, 1942 Dear Harry (Les, or Walt), I read your article in the Messenger and thought it was swell. (Do you get the idea, folks on the hill?)

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Dear Readers: I write in answer to an article which appeared in the Easter Number of the Messenger, directed against "a certain Hall not situated on the campus." ....

If one certain somebody went to God's House of Worship with the right purpose in mind, he would find, I am sure, less time to observe the faults of others. Not only does he seem to find time to notice what a certain group of females wears, but also how often a definite article is worn, and exacfly in what order the indicated group of females sits in church.

About the "dissatisfaction" element-I'm not so sure he's right. Why shouldn't a person occasionally be generous or accept another's generosity? The boys aren't altogether free from this themselves .. So all in all, perhaps we ought to pluck the mote from our own eye before we try to reform others!

A member of that "certain Hall not situated on the campus"

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Dear enraged Reader, What must I do to be saved?

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COLLEGE NOTES Hello. folks! Here's your "Old Faithful" again to let you in on a few more of the "goings on" about the campus. .

While the echo of "Hail to Thee, Dear D. M. L. C." was still faintly audible in the distance after the return of fifty students from Wisconsin, the shrill voice of Melba White came to the foreground with the presentation of the joint literary play, "Huckleberry Finn," under the direction of Prof. O. J. Naumann on the evening of April 24. The cast was as follows:

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Huckleberry

Finn, who loves to play pranks

Richard Grunze John Finn, his father Richard Poetter Tom Sawyer, Huck's paL Ervin Walz Aunt Polly, who is so nervous Emma Tiefel Ruth Watson, her sister , lone Huebner Mary Jane, their niece Alice Konetchy Fred Raymond, in love with Ruth Gilbert Krause Clara Woppinger, president of the club __Corintha Reier Amy Woppinger, her younger sister Verna Birkholz Melba White, the colored maid Gwendolyn Birkholz The choir under the direction of Prof. E. D. Backer will present its annual Commencement Concert on June 11. The program which has been arranged follows: Concert

Piano: Chorus:

Choir: Praise to Thee, 0 Jesu H. Schuetz In Thee is Gladness J. S. Bach Presentation of Christ..

J. Eccard Der Herr ist mein Hirte G. Schreck Das ist ein koestliches Ding __G. Schumann Valse in c sharp minor Ruth Engelhardt

F. Chopin

American Songs of the Open Spaces a) Home on the Range arr. Charles Repper b) The Arkansas Traveler __arr. Charles Repper

Organ-Piano: Prelude Organ: Ruth Struss Piano: Adelia Falk Chorus: Piano: Chorus:

Abschied

J. S. Bach

vom Walde (German

Rakoczy March Gertrude

Volkslied) H. Wehe <F. Liszt

Stoekli

a) Pipes of Spring (Valse Bluette) b) The Muffin Man's BeIL c) Roses from the South

R. Drigo R. Baldwin J. Strauss

Arbor Day with its usual blisters and stiff joints passed on its way just as quietly as it came. The sunny weather was supplementary in calling the workers forth as well as the multitudinous cameras. Refreshments of pop and sandwiches were served in the mid-morning hours. During noon hour the band stood by to entertain.

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The annual combined concert of the Aeolian Chorus, the Marlut Singers, and the Junior and Senior Bands was presented on June 5. The following is the program: Junior Band , Orville Kempfert, Ambition Overture Military EscorL Good Fellowship Stop

Director H. Bennett H. Bennett F. O. Griffin H. Bennett

Aeolian Chorus Charlotte Sauer, Directress I

Send Out Thy LighL-------,----------Charles Gounod Prayer for Service Harvey Gaul Die Himmel ruehmen ~-----Ludwig von Beethoven II Morgenwanderung (Opus 18) Hugo Kaun Mother's Lullaby E. H. Sauer Darkey Lullaby (Humoreske) Anton Dvorak An Irish Love Song (Londonderry Air) :..------------arr. Charles Repper The Night Has a Thousand Eyes _ R. Huntington Woodman Taritomba (Italian Folk-song)__arr. Katherine K. Davis Marlut Singers Clifford Busse, Director Beautiful Savior 12th Century The Lord's Prayer Fr. Reuter Erhebet, ihre Thore, das Haupt; F. G. Klauer Long Hast Thou Stood L. Lindeman Peace on Earth J. Sibelius Cornfield Melodies B. C. Gattes College Favorites 1) My Bonnie College Song 2) Massa's in the Cold, Cold CroundBtephen Foster 3) I've Been Working on the Railroad__Levee Song Stout Hearted Men S. Romburg 42

Senior Band Clifford Busse, Director National Emblem (March) Festival Overture Show Boy (March) Old Macdonald (Novelty) Our Director (March) Conqueror Overture Banner of Democracy (March)

E. E. Bagley Otis Taylor Will Huff Paul Yoder F. E. Bigelow K. L. King Al. Hayes .

The marionette production of Carlo Collodi's "Pinocchio" on April 20, took us all back to those immemorable ~lementary school years. We were also given the opportunity to see how a puppet is operated, On the evening of May 15, many of us were given the opportunity to see ourselves in action. The movies which were taken on the choir tour were shown to the student body. These were preceded by the presentation of recordings of parts taken from Shakespeare's wellknown tragedy "Macbeth".

On the afternoon of May 22' about seventy-five members of the choir gave a program at the New Ulm High school consisting of a few of the numbers which will appear on the Commencement Concert program. They were assisted by Gertrude Stoekli and Ruth Engelhardt, who rendered piano selections.

As I conclude this column for the last time this school year, I breathe a silent prayer for the success of those who must leave the portals of 0'. M. L. C. whether at the call of their country or- to serve the Lord in His Church, Now for all of you-don't forget that you have a date with your "Old Faithful" next fall. I'll be seeing you then, and until then-So long!

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Dear Aunt Clementine: In your last letter you asked me to tell you about the Coeds of D. M. L. C.-to keep you informed about their activities. Perhaps the best way I can do this is by relating various incidents that have happened among us and to us.

I will do my best.

Did you have a taste of the storm the night of May 12th? It really was quite a ferocious one-big blasts of lightning and roaring peals of thunder. Well, confidentially like-because I heard it confidentially too-E. Zindars didn't like the whole affair, and she took refuge under - her blankets-head and all!

Professor Backer-remember from your schooldays ?-announced in the II Normal singing class last period that now each one had sung exercises four times this semester. Issie Weber-having done double-duty-shas come to only one conclusion. She evidently substitutes for herself as well as for Helene Webert.

"It will only lead to bloodshed" and "if I dood it, I get a lickin' " are favorite expressions in everyone's vocabulary these days. Red Skeleton certainly is popular, so Putz?

L. Spaude has proved the "fisherman" in her. If in doubt of the reliability of this statement, see Miss Ingelbritson. She was the first to be honored with the sight of the fish. I wonder who cleaned it.

Arising at 6 a. m. Ascension Day, the II Normal boys treated the girls of the class to a delicious egg fry. They did it up right, serving scrambled as well as fried eggswhich tasted fine if you closed your eyes. I guess someone had heard a rumor about coffee rationing and decided to take advantage of the present sufficiency. Anyway, there was no skimping on the amount of grounds used.

All in all, however, the girls agreed that it was one of the nicest affairs the class has ever had.

Big packages, little packages, envelopes, folders, pamphlets, booklets-someone planning a vacation?-

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building a house ?-getting a general education in 10 easy lessons? No-none of these. Just Gladys getting her daily literature. The latest was a design to be embroidered on a wedding dress!

The Senior girls decided they wanted a little exercise, and, needless to say, they got it. One fine Wednesday afternoon they gathered bicycles and went for a long ride-taking time out for lunch and wading in a stream.

Those of them who had never before known the meaning of the phrase "the morning after" had learned it Thursday. Rengstorf had lumbago in every joint, and N. Mueller went hobbling around as though she were 60 for more than one day after the escapade.

L. Larson, E. Johannes, Trettien, and Rengstorf spent an afternoon in Mankato on Saturday. More than once they almost lost themselves in the metropolis. However, final results were good.

When Professor Schweppe and the board made an inspection of the Annex, they were surprised to find the closets infested with two legged mice. For further details see Bernice and Gunhild.

Hillcrest Hlall seems to suddenly have become interested in the future-especially the matrimonial side. A piece of wedding cake under the pillow does the trick.

The only trouble is that the suspense stretches out over an entire week.

Now, if it is not slighting those who are' not included in the news of the choir tour made over the Easter vacation, I should like to tell you a little, Aunt Clementine, concerning some of the incidents which occurred on this trip.

Every time the Coeds would get together in Schmidty's bus to start out on another day, everyone would contribute her share to the collection of interesting tales, funny occurrences, etc., of the past night. Margie and Violet didn't fare so well on the average. Violet maintaining the only way she ever could keep her feet warm was with the help of her faithful booties. Margie laid the trouble on the last names and decided to trade hers for Roosevelt. Together they cut down Kresge's stock45

buying souvenirs for family and relation. Occasionally, however, a second glance would have made for a better purchase. _In Kenosha, Violet bought a tobacco pouch for a coin purse. Salt and pepper shakers were also found to be missing corks in the bottoms. Oh well, all that's needed is a little experience, and besides, a finger in the bottom would do just as well, Margie says.

In trying to tell her hostess in Burlington the name of another Burlingtonite she had met that evening, a Coed gave the name of Rice. Strange to say, the hostess could not place the person. But is there any wonder? It turned out that the name had been Korn, instead of Rice.

The wifies of Harry and Schmidty also came out ahead as a result of the choir tour. In Milwaukee the drivers bought dresses for their fairer halves. Harry thought it was a good idea to buy them large, for "the wife could take it in and make pleats."

If Retzlaff, Trettien, and Sweeney looked a bit windblown for the Burlington concert, the blame all. belongs to their thrilling buggy ride. :Just to prove, Aunt people think of girls than Temple were delivered to people gasped in surprise, ting girls" -and promptly the table!

Clementine, how much more of boys, when Hebbie and R. their quarters at Juneau, the "Oh, we thought we were getremoved the best napkins from

That's all the news I have for you this time, Auntie.

I'll write you again in September ana tell you all about the new girls, etc.

With love, Your niece, Annabella iP. S. I do hope that everyone has a pleasant summer vacation, and I wish the best of wishes to all of those Coeds who are going out into the Master's vineyard and won't be back with us next year. God be with them.

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Dear "Walt", "Les", and Harry: I believe it is about my turn to write; three months go past just like that. The Boys' Dorm, being such a quiet and solemn place as it is, it really is difficult to find enough to write about. While I'm over to supper I'll try to think of the first victim of discussion.

I didn't have to do much thinking because just 'as I was walking down the hall I heard "Don" Born arguing with his "buck" that he has swept at least twice since the beginning of the year.

Our "man" Kempf came to the conclusion the other night that it doesn't pay to start calling people (inspector) names before they enter the room.

This spring weather seems to be working again. A few nights ago some of the twelfth graders got so thirsty about twelve o'clock that they just had to go down to the spring for a drink.

Bang! and the boiler broke; so the second floor boys had to go up a floor to wash. It really was a task to make all that distance before breakfast.

Remember when you said that cramming doesn't pay? Well; "Andy" maintains, after writing a history exam, that Eureka was in the bathtub with Archimedes when the latter discovered buoyancy.

It took the boys of the special choir about two weeks to recuperate from the choir tour. The professors were very lenient in classes the first day; even Prof.

Bliefernicht excused "Don" Becker for oversleeping.

It seems as though the tour will never be blotted out in the minds of the choir members because they are always talking about the wonderful hosts they had, the good eats and the refreshing Wisconsin "water."

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I imagine you have heard of the new Sunday night rule in the dormitory by this time. The oddest thing is, that it seemingly has changed the schedule of the north end of the campus too. Oh, well, when thou goest I will guo

Do you enjoy the wonderful aromas of spring freshness too? If so, then you can chime in with some of the boys and have the motto "a picnic a day wiII keep the doctor away".

Did you ever think that there would be a shortage of leather? I believe there is, because Hintz's shoes are awfully worn, unless it could be that he hasn't seen the "Schu-man" lately.

We feel very grateful to Wolf for guarding the music hall and dormitory one evening after supper. It seems as though the fear of being bombed has even struck our campus.

You know I never did believe that singing in a choir stretched one's mouth muscles until the other day. It took Nieno to convince me. He was running all over the place looking for his pipe, until some dear friend told him he had it in his mouth. Don't you believe him when he tells you it was a small pipe.

Poor "Poky" was disillusioned again the other day when he found out that people re-ally co.cdn't grow wings ana fly.

We are happy to see that E. Bode and F. Nieno have again returned to their natural size, and have recovered from the mumps.

We are also glad to see that Paul Nolting and Koch are able to be up and around again, after the curious doctors looked in and took out what they wanted . .We even had a farewell to winter this year, but poor long-underwear Adolph had to hang out of the window for three days as the symbol.

You know it is strange how these rules have an effect on a person. Gauger doesn't seem quite as "Scharf" as he used to.

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I bet you don't have the service that Kempf has.

One morning his roommates took it upon themselves to get him out of bed, give him a shower, and see that he got over to breakfast on time.

One beautiful sunny day "Archie" took a stroll to town to get his shoe fixed, but little did he know that he was going to put his dainty little bare toes on display.

You know that Nieno has now acquired attention in a different manner. One day he shaves and doesn't wear a tie; the next day he wears a tie and doesn't shave unless that's the trick in photography.

In the past weeks some boys have been in search of a certain girl's middle name. Well the search has finally ended, and the result is Bruno (Fenske).

Not a thousand years ago a certain "King Kong" was having one of his daily conversations with the mir1'01', and was he surprised when the mirror talked back!

Little did he know that many peering eyes would proclaim the event.

Poetter brushes up on his spelling every evening when Heidorn gives his notes that last check-up. He does admit that the quizzing does him good, and he does like to help boys get along in this world.

As a future doughboy to present doughboys, I doughnut know much more that would be of interest to you. But if you doughboys keep up the good work, we'll supply the. "dough" so that someday we'll all sit down at D. M. L. C. and eat in peace, some doughnuts. Until next September then - With you ever in mind, Doughnut Failus.

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BASEBALL Co-champs!! Luther and Concordia stand arm in arm looking down upon the debris of defeated foes.

Both the Hilltoppers and the Comets lost two games each during the baseball season. The contest which made Luther a co-victor in the Junior College Conference was fought with Concordia on May 23. Behind the steady arm of Ervin Walz, Luther earned a 6-4 victory and proudly passed through the triumphal arch /,.. , ....,rJf3. to co-championship.

Concordia unmasked as the other victor in her win of'8-6 over Bethel, May 27. A team! Spirit l Victory!

This spring those of us who had and took the opportunity to see the Luther team perform on the diamond will have to admit that you saw quite a lively and skillful bunch of ball players. They put all they had into it, following the coach's instructions, and showed us that true cooperation and non-e of this "grandstand stuff" gets a team somewhere. For putting our nerves on a very sharp edge followed by a long and windy sigh of relief, we must give credit to Burow, Grams, Walz, Duin, Engel, Temple, Larson, Krause, Gutzke, Horn, M. Becker, and Moldenhauer.

The Luther nine with their coach's spring tonic fresh in their blood encountered Bethany on Bethany's home diamond on April 22. The results showed it to have been an encounter for Bethany and a push-over for our boys, for the heads-up hurling of Grams and Duin gave them only 2 runs and 3 hits. The strength of our sluggers can be easily determined by our 37 runs and 25 hits.

Burow, Duin, and Gutzke each contributed two homeruns and Grams one. Who says that a pitcher can't hit! Duin, out of seven times at the plate, got seven hits. That was almost a toe-good-to-be-true conference beginner.

Our next game kept us in our own backyard. This time, instead of strolling through a victory garden blossoming with homerun flowers and vegetables- of V's, we

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ran smack into a stone wall. The masonry was built by our non-conference foes from Mankato Teachers' College.

Their pitchers held us to 6 runs and 8 hits, while Grams and Walz allowed them 10 runs and 9 hits. This game produced no heavy hitters on either side.

We next played the honorable, pleasing, not toooverbearing, and hospitable host to the Waldorf nine from Iowa. That was a hard and depressing game to lose. Up to the first half of the ninth they were obediently trailing us 3-1. In the ninth inning we turned into the ideal host by giving them 3 more runs and the game.

The arm used by us was through the courtesy of Grams who gave them 4 runs and 5 hits to our 3 runs and 4 hits -our first conference loss.

But that spring tonic which Coach Voecks had given our boys was still in their blood; for in our third conference game which took place in St. Paul against Concordia College, we came out ahead 11-7. Grams took possesion of the mound and allowed the "Comets" 7 hits. The two opposing pitchers that faced us allowed us 13 hits. That was on May the first. May the second saw the boys in a different locality of St. Paul playing Bethel, another conference rival. Voecks appointed Duin to hurl us to victory. This he did. Thirty men faced Duin, 8 were fanned, 4 tapped out a hit each, and none crossed the plate. Five different times the plate 'was indented by our cleats and 5 different times the Bethel boys saw the ball whizz by them for a safe hit. So far 3 conference wins and 1 loss.

The Hilltoppers didn't want the "loss" column to increase, so in their second bout with Bethany, this time at home, Walz chucked a shutout allowing only one hit and striking out 17 boys. We bombarded with 7 hits and scored 8 runs.

If not already before, then at least by this time the Luther fans realized that we possessed a team with some very good promising players. According to the attendance once in a while one arrives at the idea that some don't realize that that team out there on the diamond playing their heads off is theirs.

It is said that every cloud has a silver lining-that's one side of the story. Somewhere beyond the horizon of a ctear blue sky lie dark and foreboding clouds. Our blue sky of victories was clouded by our foes from Iowa.

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decreased by a trip to Waldorf. This trip (like Minnesota weather) invited those dark and dreary clouds. The Waldorfians forced Voecks to put both' Grams and Duin on the rubber. From both, Waldorf took 12 runs and 11 hits. Our wearied cloud gazers returned home with 11 runs and 9 hits and their second conference loss in their satchels. .

This loss did not taint the veins of our boys with the bitter poison of defeat. If there were any such horrid signs, Voecks administered to them his secret antidote and sent them on our diamond as frisky and spry as a western mustang against Bethel on May 16. Walz ascended the mound and held possession of it showing that if the antidote had been needed it showed its desired effect. Seven men hit off Walz and 2 crossed the plate. Our boys pounded 5 hits off the Bethel hurlers driving in 10 runs and also driving the starting pitcher off the mound. .

The upset of the season was witnessed by the fans when Walz delivered to Coach Voecks a victory of 4-2 over M. T. C.-the first time that our coach has known it to happen. Hats off to Walz and that right arm of his!! Walz put on a wonderful exhibition sending 12 to the bench with the "stick" still on their shoulders and walking only 1. He allowed them only 4 hits to our 5.

That's right, our boys have got what it takes!

Walz was again summoned by Voecks to step into the rubber when we faced Concordia on our home grounds on May 23. This was the decisive game of the season, for if we had lost this game, which we didn't, we would have had to bow to the "Comets" as the conference victors. But our boys have pride and wouldn't think of bowing to Concordia; so when the game ended the score books read 6-4 in our favor.

We also have a number of future up and coming varsity players in our midst. Through the efforts of Don Becker, the baseball manager, four teams wer= formed.

Kehl, G. Greve, Fuhrmann, and D. Born are the captains. Up to now Kehl's swing in' niners and Fuhrmann's sluggers are tie for first place. Since I started this I might also mention that our girls play kittenball. No further comments.

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here participate in this game. All those who have seen the boys' tennis court this spring have noticed a decided change in the court surface. For this much-needed and great improvement we must give well-deserved credit to the court manager, Arthur Guenther. One might read this and let it go at that thinking that it's Guenther's duty. That's right, it's his duty all right, but as far as I can recall I know of no past tennis court manager who put in even a fourth of the time he has put in. No one has given him the credit he deserves-so boys, hats off to "Archie," but be careful, wood ticks are quite prominent now.

This seems to be the time of improvements around here. Our sickly looking and dilapidated horseshoe courts have been improved 1000/0 by Milt Emkow, a member at large of the athletic board.

In closing the year I shall say, "If our dear Uncle hasn't got us by next fall, I hope to see a lot of you guys out on the gridiron."

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HUMOR Dick P.: "Why don't you join the Marines ?"

Dick G.: "Can't; I'm color blind."

Dick P.: "Then join the submarines."

Kempf: "Can you tell me which was Coleridge's last poem?"

Kehl: "Kubla Khan."

Kempf: "Where can I find him?"

Remember the girl in Social Science class who never heard of the Electoral College because they never won a football game?

Walz: "Baseball is just a sideline with me."

Art N.: "I see that's where you're generally sitting."

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Breezy: "Did I tell you the joke about the balcony 7" Willie: "No." Breezy: "It's just as well; it's over your head."

Engel: "Hey, I thought

you and Andy were playing a duet."

Aaron V. "He's still in there; I finished first."

Our History Professor's definition of politics-a of either passing the buck or passing the doe.

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M. Kunde: "He plays a fair game of Pinochle, doesn't he 7" K. Sanville: "Yeah, if you watch him."

Clothes make the man-suits

make the lawyer.

After a long explanation by a certain girl in History class: Prof. Klatt: "I don't get you."

William F. "Neither do I." Prof. Jahnke: "Explain what happens when there is an eclipse of the sun."

Rocky: " A lot of people come out to look at it."

One of our students is so defense minded that he takes corners on two wheels to conserve tires.

"How come you are reducing 7" "Oh, to cut down expanses."

Fuchs: "Do you know how to throw a screwball?"

Andy: "Sure, do you want to wrestle?"

G. Mueller: "Wouldn't it be wonderful if Washington were living today?" G. Hintz: "It sure would. He'd be over 200 years old."

Professor: "When the room settles down we will begin work."

Norm: "Why don't you go home and sleep it off?"

Prof. Voecks: "What were Cleveland's ideas on Civil Service reform?"

Pape : "He did not believe in removing good men from office to put in Democrats."

"I need a lot of horses."

"Why?" "To make me more stable."

"Saddle do now, saddle do."

55

Buy Where You See This Sign

A 500 Store Buying Power

"YOU BUY BETTER -BECAUSEWE BUY BETTER" F. H. RE:TZLAFF HARDWARE

CO.

Over 50 Years of Service

Champion Shoe Shop For the Best Reprairing in Town

Courteous Service

517 Center St.

Royal Maid Ice Cream Store "Make Our Store Your Headquarters"

OLSON BROS. DRUGS Phone 88

WEILANDT & STEGEMAN Contractors and Builders Correspondence Solicited Work Done in Any Section of the Conuuunlty Plans and Spedfi,oations Furnished Estimates Cheerfully Given Office 1100 Center St. Phone 571

Auto Glass Replaced to Order

NEW ULM STEAM LAUNDRY Otto F. Oswald & Sons

Phone No.5 Fo:r Your Dry Cleaning, Laundry or Hat Work We assure you 'prompt and efficient service and invite you to visit our modern up-to-date plant at 107-109 ISO.Minn. St.

Eastman Kodaks and Films - 10% off Films developed and printed with one enlargement free with each ron.

Fountain Pens and School Supplies Phones 1003 - 1004

i}--

HENLE DRUGS REXALL DRUG STORE New DIm, Minnesota

DOUBLE

SECURITY!

This bank offers you Banking Safeguards,

Convenience

and Helpful Service

CITIZENS ST ATE BANK lUember Federal Deposit Insnrance Oorporatlon

New VIm, Minnesota

High Quality

Low Price

J. C. PENNEiY CO. Corner Minn. and 2nd North St. Budget your income and ,stretCJh i,t far Bay cash at Penney's where Bargains are

Phone

For Printing and Supplies

370

KEMSKE PAPER CO. Portable Typewi-ltera

Safes

lUimeograph Stencils and Ink Filing Equipment and Office SuwHes

Towels and Toilet Paper Desks

NEW ULM DAIRY THE HOME OF Pure Dairy Products

Phone 104 Try LEADWAY or DEL HAVEN FOODSDistl'ubuted by

NE,W ULM GROCERY. CO. Wholesale Grocers.

Complete,Line of Footwear for

COLLEGE STUDENTS at popular prices Ball-Band Rubbers and Overshoes

LaFrance Ho'Siery

WICHE:RSKI SHOE STORE NEW ULM Phone 246 .

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SCHUCK'S TAILORS TAILORED TO MEASURE SUITS AND OVERCOATS Cleaning and Pressing All Kinds of Repairing No Deposits-No C. O. D}s 215 N. Minn. St. Phone 498

ROBEnT

FESEINMAIER, INC. HARDWARE NEW ULM, MINN. COMPLIMENTS OF

T. O. STREISSGUTH When in Need of Electrical Supplies and Radios, or Service call on

ULRICH ELECTRIC COMPANY Electric Service at Its Best-Buy with Service Phone 148

HENRY GOEnE STUDIO We Make PHOTOS of Merit Most reliable Studio in Southern Minnesota.

A trial will convince.

Floris Shoe Store X-RAY SHOE FITTING Hand Bags 124 No. Minnesota

Tel. 449

SUITS $19.85

$24.85 :Shirts

AND

OVERCOATS Save 1$5.00 to $9.00 $29.85

Hats

sports

Wear

HUMMEL BROS.

14 No. !1innesota St.

New Ulm, !1inn.

A. C. OCUS BRICK & TILE COMPANY Executive Office and Plant Springfield, Minn.

General Sales Office 906 Foshay Tower Minneapolis

lUANUF ACTURE

Artistic Face Brick Vartous Colors -

Also

-

and complete line of

STRUCTURAL

BUILDING TILE AND COMMON BRICK

WHY IT WILL

PAY YOU TO BUILD WITH FACE BRICK Face brick offers the 'widest eholee of color tones, both in artistic blends and even shades.

Colors and textures burned in becoming lovelier with age. A Face Brick Home offers you less upkeep over a period of years.

Lessened heating cost and greater comfort in winter and summer.

Greater resale value.

Easily finaneed because loan eompanles prefer the known merits of Face Bdck houses.

Our Products Are Sold in the New DIm Territory by

NEW ULM BRICK & TILE. YARDS

INHOFER - RAUSCH BAKERY

• D-LISHUS

PRODUCTS

• Phone 232 The Home of

HART SCHAF'FNER & llIARX SUITS AND OVERCOATS O'DONNELL SHOES-STETSON HATS Complete line of 'Men',sland Boys' Clothes, and Furnishings

FRED

MEINE

CLOTHING

CO.

BANK WITH

FARMERS

& MERCHANTS

STATE

BANK

/

New Ulni, llIinnesota

Friendly Helpful Service at Your Command

Residence Pho'ne 150

Office Phone 260

Dr. F. H. Dubbe, F. A. C. S. NEW ULM,

PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON MINNESOTA

WHEN IN NEED OF FOOTWEAR Be

Sure

and

Call

on

Us

We 'Carry a complete ldne of men's, ladies' and children's shoes We appreciate your business. Our prices are always the lowest, QuaHty considered.

ATHLETIC

SHOES

OUR SPECIALTY

Shoes Pitted Free by X.Ray

P. J. EICHTEtN SHOE STORE New Ulm, Minnesota

F. W. BAUMANN AGENCY REAL ESTATE

AND 路FARM LOANS

PHONE

666 New Ulm, Minn.

Central Block

T. R. Fritsche, M. D., F. A. C. S. Eye, Ear, Nose and Throat GLASSES FITTED New Ulm, Minn.

Fritsche Bldg.

NEW ULM GREENHOUSES FLOWERS FOR EVERY OCCASION We are prepared to fill orders for flowers at all points through the Flo'l"ists Telegraphic Delivery Association.

Phone 45

NEW ULM, MINNESOTA

E. G. LANG, D. D. S. Office Above State Bank of New DIm Res. Phone 1172

Office Phone 472

CHAS. F. JANNI HARNESS DEALER Kwik-Pak Parcel Post Laundry Cases, Trunks" Traveling Bags, Suit Cases, Purses and Other Leather Specialties

PALACE LUNCH H. A. Bergrneier, Prop.

New DIm's Most Popula- Lunch Room Sand wiches- Ice Creamr-lCandy-Soft Drtnks=-Cigar ettas

115 N. Minn. St.

Phone 668

New VIm, Minn.

Service and Satisfaction at the

MODEL BARBER SHOP ALFRED H. KUESTER., Prop.

We Turn a House Into a Home

BUENGER FURNITURE

CO.

Stores: New DIm and Sleepy Eye, Minn.

Distinctive

Funeral

Service

LUMBER QUALITY

QUALITY IN

.

LIKE

In All Things

Is the most Satisfying and Economical at all times

Don't Be Mislead By Price Buy well known

Quality

Materials

from T'e<put!IJbledealers

only

We Invite You to Inspect Our Stock

HENRY

SIMONS LUMBE:R CO. New Ulm, Minn.

Phone 201

PINK'S STORE Caral King, Jr. Dresses

Air-Step Shoes

Munsing and Barbason Loungerie

Swansdown Coats and Suits Friendly Sales People to Help You

WILLIAM J. VON BANK, D.D.S. DENTIST

Fellow International College of Dentists Office Phone 237

Residence Phone New Ulm, Minn.

797

DRS. HAMMEUMEISTER & SAFFERT Physicians and Surgeons Office Over State Bank of New Ulm

SOMSEN, DEMPSEY and SOMSE:N Henry N. Somsen W, H. Dempsey Henry N. Somsen, Jr. ATTORNEYS AT LAW

Minnesota

New DIm, Buy your next Radio at

RETZLAFF

MOTOR COMPANY Exclusive dealer in

PHILCO $9.95

FOR COMPLETE

and up

SERVICE TO ANY RADIO CALL 1000

MUESING Drug Store EXPERT

PRESCRIPTION

SERVICE

ARTCRAFT PHOTO SERVICE We Have It!

Will Get It!

Or It Isn't Made!

Phones 52 - 341

'l1he Student'is Shop ECONOMICAL

IDEAL

Where Old Friends Meet SATISFAOTORY CHEE'RFUL

BE,AUTY

SHOP

Alyce Gieseke Otto - Laura Gieseke, Owners and Opera-tors Above Brey's Grocery Telephone 530

PEHTINENT

A. A. L. STATISTICS (Jan. 1, 1942)

BENEFITS PAID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Over $26,000,000 LEDGER ASSETS

Over $41,000,000

INSURANCE IN FORGE

Over $227,000,000

AID ASSOCIATION FOR LUTHERANS Legal Reserve Life Insurance, EiXclusively fOT Synodical Conference Lutherans

APPLETON, WISCONSIN

The Leader In Its Field!

For Smart, Practical and Inexpensive

COLLE:GE STYLES J. A.

OCHS

& SON

The Bee Hive - New DIm "Where Quality is Not Expensive"

DEER BRAND BEER

AUGUST SCHELL BREWING COMPANY NEW ULM, MINNESOTA

SHAKE CLEANERS and DYERS Phone 756

Pr-essing While You Wait

510 1st No. St.

Eyes Tested

Lenses Ground

Glasses Fitted

and Duplicated

DRS. SCHLEUDER Optometrlsts and Opt.icians NEW ULM,

MINNESOTA

H. J. BAUMANN INSURANCE A'GE:NCY Insurance

Bonds

Hospitalization

Phone 666

• STUDENTS! PATRONIZE YOUR MESSENGER ADVERTISERS

•

See

CRONE BROS. CO. For Young Men's Clothing and Furnishings John W. Graff

Geo. D. Erickson

ERICKSON & GRAFF Attorneys at Law New Ulm, l\Uunesota

Our Best Attention

•

of a banking nature entrusted. to' our care receives our best attention.

We shall be glad ito have 'a rshare of your business.

Everything

Member Federal Deposit Insurance

DANIEL

Corporation

WEBSTER FLOUR

• SOLD AND GUARANTEED

BY LEADING DEALERS EVERYWHERE

EAGLE

ROLLER

MILL

NEW ULM, MINNESOTA

CO.

a

E,IBNER

QUALITY

BAKERY GOODS-ICE

PRODUCTS

CREAM-CANDIES

Whenever you think of an Eibner Product you associate it immediately

with Quality.

After all Quality Goods Taste Better and are Better.

W,e assume the responsibility of giving you the best SERVICE-QUALITY-VALUE.

EIBNER BAKERY

& SON

and ICE CREAM

Phone 128

Established 1883 THE FASTIDIOUS STUDENT will find satisractory

servtcs at

Grundmeyer's Barber-Beauty Shop Air Conditioned Below Tauscheck & Green's Cothing Store

Phone 710

SALET'S DEPARTMENT STORE-NEW

ULM, MINN.

EVERYTHING TO WEAR FOR HIM OR HER WEAR SALET'S FAMOUS FOOTWEAR

Highest Quality and of Course "YOU ALWAYS SAVE AT SALET'S"

QUALITY

CLOTHING

Correct Fitting and Standard Lines

TAUSCHE,CK & GREEN

New UIm, Minn.

Dear College Student:Do you need shoes? Of course you do, and we have just what you want, and at very popular prices too.

Be sure and see us soon!

Yours truly, Phone No. 36

LINDEMANN'S "Your Family Shoe Store"

P. S.-Do'n't

forget to rusk for Student

E,DGENE OLD RELIABLE

Discount.

KOEHLER BARBER

SHOP

Good Satisractor-o Work Guaranteed at all TImes Your Patronage is Appreciated

SCHROE.DER'S MUSIC AND RADIO

20

.s.

Musical Instl'u?tents and Accessories Sheet Musto and Records - Popular and Classical Minn. St. Phone 268

Subscribers -- Attention!

When You Change Your Address Be Sure to Notify the Business Manager The Messenger Is Never Forwarded

By Your Local Postmaster

UNION

HOSPITAL

NEW DLM, MINN. A modern, well-equipped, and fireproof hospital supervised by and staffed with registered nurses.

PHONE No. 404

Brewers

and Bottlers

Since 1864 New DIm, Minnesota

Telephone No.1

Modernizing, Maintaining, Tuning, Repairs, Service, Sales

Reconstruction, Installation Additions, Blowers Chimes, Hwrps

Wicks Pipe

ERNEST 405路409 North Broadway

Organs

C. VOGELPOHL New UIm, Minn.

Delicious Home Made Sausages

City Meat Marl~et Hugo M. Schnobrich-Oscar A. Schnobrich Proprietors New DIm, Minnesota

Quicker Service